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MARIE WHITEHEAD herald@mediactr.com
Welcome - we are back. Thanks to new friend Roy Lenard White of Wells for sharing his view from Wells the past two weeks. It was a nice respite for your writer, which we hope to repeat. During this interim, we have moved several steps closer to graduation for all the seniors. Athletes have wrapped up one of the most successful seasons of play in several years. Congratulations to everyone who managed to finish in the win column.

Rusk plunges ahead with plans to open its city swimming pool. A formal opening will follow the more immediate soft opening June 2. But prior to this event, the chamber-sponsored, Memorial weekend, Fair on the Square will entertain thousands of locals and visitors for a town-wide reunion. Reunion is the key word for the next three months. Some have already started. Elmer Kennedy caught up with about two dozen Rusk exes for a get together last weekend in the Metroplex. One of the seldom seen attendees was Travis Roten, son of the late Marvin and Alta Mae Roten. Ike Frazier and a bunch of his generation got an early start with celebrating at Emerald Bay last week. If you are a graduate of Rusk High School, your name may be on the list of ex-student files. But is your current address on file? It would help you to remain in touch by getting this info to Mary Madden or Donnie Woodard. It would help if I had their addresses to pass on...but I don't. Lazy me. Send it to me. I will get it to them. How's that? I am willing to help.

Boxes Creek club members include from left front: Butch Holcomb, Doris Hassell, Carol Dilliard, Bobbie Campbell, Alice Todd, Wanda Goleman and Linda Dagle; back row from left are Linda Hassell, Beth Sheridan, Betty Young, Sue Liles, Elisa McDonald and Peggy Hugghins.

Another solo visitor, with his beautiful wife, was Jim Persons Jim is up to his hip boots in support of a Veterans Park at Arlington through a foundation. This project will honor veterans from World War I through the present. I admire their organization's plans. Phase I is flag poles, lighting and planting; phase II is the memorial sculpture; phase III is water feature and the pavers and phase IV is a memorial colonade. Future plans call for fountains, pond development and additional landscaping. If you have veterans and wish to honor them at Arlington, Jim will be happy to hear from you. Small note aside. He left here and stopped in Jacksonville to visit with Katie Gillespie. The next day, a former employee of his dad, Bob Persons, came to visit Katie. She was overjoyed. These women have been longtime friends.

A group of special people gathered recently at the Heritage Center on Henderson Street for a tour of the museum. This info and photo were made possible with the help of a favorite citizen, Glen Miller, not the band...Matthews-Miller fame. The club is named Boxes Creek Garden Club. Yes, there is a Boxes Creek named for a family with the Box surname who had quite an impact on the early history of this area. This is a great field trip for all ages, especially folks old enough to yearn for the history surrounding us. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

New hours for the museum are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.

For more information, contact Kevin Stingley at (903) 683-5643 for more information or visit the museum's website at www. hccc-museum.org.

How is the community's health? For Sara Summers it is great. She and daughters with her niece plan to attend her grandson's wedding in South Dakota next month. Lots of excitement. It is good to report that Stan Nolley is going forward, slowly, working part-time, following surgery for a tumor on the brain. His mom, Bobbie, remains positive but cautious.

A quick closing thought for your meditation: "Looking back over the road we've traveled, we sometimes see our angels more clearly than ever." (Is that supposed to make us feel better about all those birthdays?

Keep smiling.