WEST NEWS UPDATE

We have had some excitement lately with the First Lady of Texas being here to help us celebrate out induction into the Main Street City's of Texas. They will contribute some money which I think the city will match to renovate the main Street of West, which coincidentally is Main Street. They also choose a building that represents West to have a painting done of it, and it's the Old Corner Drug Store. Which hasn't changed all that much. Well, I don't think Kirk sells .5cent cigars any more and there is only one front door instead of two for the main entrance and they have added a side door that opens out to Oak Street. They will be remolding the main street to look like it did say 100 years ago...Which will be pretty cool..I'd like to see them put out more benches an plants too.
The sad news is, ole Freddy Shaw is retiring after 32 years with the phone company. He was never just your average telephone guy. He's rescued cats from trees, tennis shoes off wires, or trimmed some trees for you. Once he got a call to a house for repair and found a lady all upset because her husband had bought her a new car and she wouldn't drive it because she was afraid it wouldn't drive like her old car. So Freddy got in the car and drove it up and down her drive way assuring her that it was just like the old car and would be fine for her to drive.
Once when he was at my old house working on the wires(every time it would rain the phone would quit working, he finally replaced every wire on the outside for me.) and I gave him a glass of tea, which started us talking about teas in general and then I said something about my grandma used to make tea with a weed that grew wild out in the fields and he said his mom used to make him wild tea also..He said he saw it growing out on some of the old roads he would drive on to repair jobs and would bring me some the next time he found some. Well, you know people say that kind of stuff all the time...but I'll be damn if about 3 months later here comes Freddy with a huge handful of wild tea weed, so I fixed up a jar and we had a nice cold glass of wild tea. He does a lot of work at the Bold Springs Baptist Church and most of his friends call him either Deacon Shaw or Brother Freddy. Let me be the first to tell you ..this is a gentleman...and a gentle man. Everybody needs a Freddy Shaw in their life.
St. Mary's is having their annual drive through Stations of the Cross this Sunday. West KJZT is sponsoring a bake sale from 10a.m.-1 p.m. at St Mary's cafeteria. SPJST Youth Club is scheduled to meet from 1-3 p.m Sunday at Lone Star Hall. Each child needs to bring 12 eggs for a Easter Egg Hunt. KJT, KJXT is having a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m.-10 a.m. Sunday at St Mary's cafeteria. the price of the breakfast is free-will donation. Everyone is asked to be generous as all proceeds from this will go to help defray education expenses for Father Anthony Odiong, who will be continuing his education this summer at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio.
The Boy Scouts are still collecting aluminum cans, Goddess knows what they do with the money. They have been collecting them for 30 plus years and I have never once read about what the spend the money on. Smokes and beer, knowing these Czech kids.
Last week we had 3 deaths and about 8 births, so that was a nice balance for us. This week no deaths, and one birth. Luke Michael Lednicky weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches long. The Mynarcik family's are having a reunion at the K.C. grounds. Meat, utensils, tea and coffee will be provided, and those attending are asked to bring veggies, salads, or desserts.
Renee Gremminger and Thomas Gillette exchanged vows on February 21. They will be honeymooning in Jamaica, which is a popular spot for honeymoons here in West. I'd hate to say it's because of the ganga, but who knows.
Jessica Russell, a FFA member from Abbott(Willie Nelson's home town, 9 miles away) exhibited the grand champion Hampshire Barrow in the Junior Barrow Show at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. Nice pig Jessica.
They are still looking for meteorites and offering big money for them.
Lady Trojans split with China Spring and Hillsboro in softball. We have a kick ass softball team every year.
West Trojans are 1-1 in District. Three West Trojan power lifters placed at the regional meet.Tommy placed third in the 114 pound division by lifting 340 pounds in the squat category and 320 in the dead lift for a total of 825 pounds. Tyler Klander and Chase Marak placed 4th and 5th. The West High School Dazzler Dance Team completed in the Heart of Texas Classic Dance Competition and brought home 5 awards including the sweepstakes trophy and the Gussie Neil Davis Award, as well as the Judges Award for Pom, Best Overall Precision and Best Overall Presentation.
West Food Mart has shoulder roast on sale for $1.99 a pound. Community Grocery has Catfish fillets on sale for $3.29 a pound.
If your interested in some land you can get 134 acres, nice elevations, scenic view overlooking creek, pasture land with hay field, large tank, road frontage on 2 sides for $2,500 an acre. There is a very nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath on 10 acres with great floor plan, beautiful kitchen, extra garage or shop with unfinished loft, small pond, coastal and paved road frontage in West for $235,000. If your looking for a LVN/RN job, we have plenty. Between the assisted living home they just opened up and the West Rest Haven (or as we call it ..The Old Farts Home)...they are always looking for help. Or you can buy a nice 1991 Infiniti convertible for $1,495. Jill Blaha will be hosting the PBS music show Texas Music Cafe. A similar to Austin's City Limits. Except with bands no one has ever heard of..
Babs and I went to town today to terrorize the locals. We were harassing each other at Community Grocery, forcing Patsy to tell us 'Now you girls behave.'.....We stopped at Family Dollar to check out the rakes($5) and talked to Jennifer who was whining because I hadn't baked her anything for a while. Told her since it has been a little cooler at night I'd bake her a pecan pie..She said 'oh I'd love a piece...' and Babs said no..she doesn't do pieces she does whole pies...' Jennifer was jumping up and down and fanning her face, saying 'oh I'm going to cry'...So now I have 2 pies to make for tomorrow..Can't bake one and not make one for ole Babs. Which reminds me..The other morning the phone rings at about 6:30 a.m. and I'm thinking 'there better be blood involved'...and it was Babs. She says 'get up we have to be in Dallas by 9 a.m.' I'm thinking 'we?'...She has been having a little problem with her eye that she had the surgery on and the Dr. made her an apt. at Desoto, which is about 50 miles from here. So she drives and won't let me sing the blue bonnet song and got tired of me going 'baaaaacon, baaaaaaacon' every 20 minutes or so. She gets her eyes checked (after a nice cholesterol laden breakfast burrito at Sonic's) and they of course dilate her eyes and she gets a clean bill of health and we head back to West. I'm not good at driving other people's cars..I drive a small Mazda truck with standard transmission. She has a SUV the size of Nevada and it's an automatic. I kept stomping on the non existent clutch and shifting all the time. Plus she's happy with the results and is chipper and chatty...I'm steering the Queen II and freaking out and she's giving me directions and alerting me to every lane change, and construction sign...Yes, terrific, I'm glad you can fucking see Babs, but I can see too...I came home ate, fed Annie and fell asleep in my new $25 recliner for 4 hours. I don't travel well anymore.

Going to take Annie back to Dr. Tom tomorrow. Hope he will say she's well enough not to have to be seen 2-3 times a week anymore..She's more mobile than she has been, but still has no control over her bowels, plus her tail just droops...she can't hold it up...that's sad...Welp folks...it's time for me to fix my eggplant lasagna for dinner and then watch the saddest night on TV....last showing of ER....feck...I'm really going to miss that show. Was hoping someone would pick it up and keep it going. Guess not..Damn..what will I do now on Thursday night at 9 p.m. central time?...I know I'm not watching that buttroy Leno. I'd rather have my nose picked by Edward Scissorhands. Fuck me I'll never fly a kite again.