We were out having drinks earlier this week at a prominent location and while there a group of people were enjoying themselves and the next thing I heard in the conversation is let’s go eat and what did they ask, “Where are we going?”
The Lady Rams volleyball team brought home a victory last Friday night when they met with Brownwood for the second time this season and stamped their ticket into the playoffs. The Lady Rams defeated the Lady Lions 3 sets to 1, with scores of 25-19, 25-19, and 25-16. The Lady Rams only losing set was the second set with a score of 2125. Junior Libero Isavel Ramirez led the Lady Rams with 17 digs on the night, while sophomore Aryan Perez led with 9 kills, closely followed by senior Marlee Lawhon with 7 kills and fellow sophomore Caylee Cloud with 6.
The Great Depression is now remembered by a precious few, and foggily if that. Still, it remains a ready backdrop in conversations when accounts of deprivation abound.
IRVING — Shelley Jeoffroy, a fifthgrade math teacher at Otis Brown Elementary in Irving ISD, is the 2023 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year. Jeoffroy’s parents, Ray and Madge Patterson (both graduates of Mineral Wells High School) are retired educators living in Palo Pinto, Madge’s hometown.
My nurse practitioner friend Susan Potter and I journeyed to Texas Tech to obtain a DNP (doctor of nursing practice). It was a life and practice-changing experience. The course called Epigenetics of chronic disease taught that the determinants of health are 10% healthcare, 20% genes, and 70% lifestyle and our environment! Epigenetics is how our environment and lifestyle turn our genes on and off and affects our health.
MINERAL WELLS — Lurking in the shadows of the Baker Hotel is Haunted Hill House, a creepy 3,800-square-foot Victorian home built before the Civil War said to be inhabited by ghosts of yesteryear not quite ready for the grave.
I love haunted houses. I get nervous, scared and excited all at the same time.
MINERAL WELLS — Due to Mineral Wells ISD being on a four-day week schedule, the annual Veterans Day of Remembrance program will be held on Nov. 10 at Ram Stadium.
MINERAL WELLS — Two days before an annual fundraiser he helped coordinate, American Legion Post 75 Poker Run ride director, Jason Nesmith, crashed his motorcycle and landed on the surgeon’s table.
