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Bug Tussle Trek tours North Texas
It was a parade of vintage vehicles rolling into historic downtown Honey Grove Saturday as over 100 antique and classic automobiles that comprised the 42nd annual Bug Tussle Trek stopped by "the sweetest town in Texas" for lunch during their annual tour of North Texas.
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Ebby Halliday keynotes Oak Cliff Chamber program at Methodist Dallas
Dallas civic leader and real estate legend Ebby Halliday (center) is flanked by some of the special guests at an Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce luncheon program she keynoted Aug. 26 at Methodist Dallas Medical Center: Methodist Health System Foundation Board Member Warren Rutherford, Methodist Health System Board Member Danell Lichtenwalter, Methodist Dallas Medical Center President Michael A. Mayo, Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, and Oak Cliff Chamber President Bob Stimson. In her remarks, the soon-to-be centenarian discussed everything from looking forward to the upcoming Super Bowl in North Texas to national politics.
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September is National Preparedness Month; are you ready?
Beginning Sept. 1, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will launch its National Preparedness Month Campaign, which will run through the entire month. Coalition members are encouraged to share preparedness information with their members, customers, employees, and communities and to spearhead activities that encourage specific steps for individual, neighborhood, and community preparedness. photo by Allen Rich
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Denise Stephens named Photographer of the Month by Friends of Hagerman
My Green Alien Dragonfly by Denise Stephens
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A&M-C Planetarium to showcase ‘Natural Selection’ beginning Sept. 3
The Texas A&M University-Commerce planetarium will be featuring “Natural Selection,” a show about scientific discoveries, theories and scenery through the eyes of Charles Darwin, beginning Friday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m.
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On this day -- September 1
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds. The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is an advanced, long range, Mach 3+[1] strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works as a Black project. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu by its crews, referring to an Okinawan species of pit viper.[2] Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the design's innovative concepts. A defensive feature of the aircraft was its high speed and operating altitude, whereby, if a surface-to-air missile launch were detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate. The first flight of an SR-71 took place on 22 December 1964, at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The United States Air Force Strategic Air Command had SR-71 Blackbirds in service from 1966 through 1991. The SR-71 also holds the "Speed Over a Recognized Course" record for flying from New York to London distance 5,645 kilometres (3,508 mi), 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h), and an elapsed time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds, set on 1 September 1974 while flown by U.S. Air Force Pilot Maj. James V. Sullivan and Maj. Noel F. Widdifield, reconnaissance systems officer (RSO).[67] This equates to an average velocity of about Mach 2.68, including deceleration for in-flight refueling. Peak speeds during this flight were probably closer to the declassified top speed of Mach 3.2+. For comparison, the best commercial Concorde flight time was 2 hours 52 minutes, and the Boeing 747 averages 6 hours 15 minutes.
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North Texas Wildlife Seminar slated Sept. 10
A wildlife seminar will be held on September 10, 2010 at the Weisz Ranch located north of Lannius 4.7 miles on CR 2645. There will be signs (Conservation Event) posted at HWY 82 and FM 1396 to direct traffic to the ranch. The seminar will begin at 8:30am and end about 2:30pm.
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Sixth-Annual Home Hospice Golf Tournament set Oct. 2 at Stone Creek County Club
(L-R) Ronnie Cole, Tommy Gibbs and Mark Tooley who are part of the Golf Committee. The Sixth-Annual Home Hospice Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, October 2 at Stone Creek County Club in Sherman. A four-person scramble shot-gun start will begin at 8:30 a.m. The proceeds of this tournament will benefit the programs of Home Hospice of Grayson, Cooke and Fannin Counties, a non-profit 501 (c)3 organization, which was started in 1985.
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Plan now to winterize your lawn
It’s hard to believe, but we are approaching the fall season. Have you decided what type of fertilizer you are going to use on your lawn? Have you taken a soil sample to determine what nutrients are deficient in your soil?
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On this day -- August 31
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe. The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (since 1945: Gliwice, Poland) on the eve of World War II in Europe. This provocation was the best-known of several actions in Operation Himmler, a Nazi Germany SS project. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland. Just a few days earlier, on 22 August, Adolph Hitler had told his generals, "I shall give a propaganda reason for starting the war; whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth." On the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources vary on the content of the message). The Germans' goal was to make the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish saboteurs. To make the attack seem more convincing, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a German Silesian known for sympathizing with the Poles, who had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo. Honiok was dressed to look like a saboteur; then killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene, so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the attack to the police and press.
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