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• Whimsy

  Here’s Why Canned Food Always Comes In A Ribbed Tin
  You might think the ribbed design oncanned food is just a quirky touch
  

• U.S. State Flags Quiz

  
  How well do you know the flags of other states?

• GO’s Sand Bucket, by Georgia Osten

  • Win/Win Situation

    By Georgia Osten It’s been a whirlwind weekend! My daughters treated me to a weekend at Coushatta doing one of the things I love to do. I’m no whiz at gambling, but I sure do give it my all. I took my three LUCKY $100 bills with me, and no, they didn’t come back home with me. As my grandson, Grant, remarked when he called me Monday

• J. Lee Austin, The Good Help Network

  • Good People Doing Great Things

    By J. Lee Austin, MD When our local Meals on Wheels driver and resident guardian angel named Linda needed a vacation, Kim and I volunteered to give her a much-needed break from her weekly mission of delivering food to the folks in need here on the peninsula. During our orientation ride with her to meet the recipients and learn the route, we discovered how

• Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz, by Shannon Williams

  • Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz

    By Shannon Williams “If Plan A fails, remember you still have 25 letters left” I love to make plans, it is almost a disease, as I just have to have a plan for just about everything, and I have to admit that I like to plan. I view myself as being flexible to change those plans, as there are just way too many things that can get in the way of a good plan. The past several

• Boating Safety, by Bob Currie

  • Recreational Boating Safety – History of Navigation

    By Bob Currie, Recreational Boating Safety Specialist U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Station Galveston Flotilla Before the 18th-century development of the marine chronometer by John Harrison and the lunar distance method, dead reckoning was the primary method of determining longitude available to mariners such as Christopher Columbus on his

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