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Eric Allison, an employee of Pla ISD has recently received the Superintendent's Service Award He has been employed since 200 as the Manager of the Motor Poo Operations He is a 2000 gradua of Howe High School and a 200 graduate of Brookhaven College Eric and wife Samantha have th children Truitt 6, Bennett 4 and Ellyn 9 months Truitt is in first grade and Samantha is the PTA President Eric is the son of Stev and Sherry Allison and the grandson of Marion and Nelda Allison and Ray Bledsoe

Commercial Property For Sale

FOUR BUILDINGS ON TWO AND A HALF ACRES OF STATE CERTIFIED CLEAN LAND). APPROXIMATELY ONE ACRE OF THE PROPERTY IS CONCRETE INCLUDES AN OFFICE, WAREHOUSE, TWO-BAY SHOP, AND CONCRETE SHOP with GARAGE. ALL BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN RESTORED, ALL ELECTRIC AND PLUMBING CHECKED BY LICENSED TECHNICIANS.

405 S HUGHES ST HOWE TEXAS

Peggy's Porch needs

Peggy's Porch is requesting blue painters tape for labeling sizes, wide packing tape for sealing boxes, sacks for shoppers to fill, large trash bags. Peggy's porch is open Saturdays from 9-11. Donations for clothing accepted. Please no non clothing items due to limited storage. Items can be dropped off at City Hall.

Local Church Calendar

pm – Potluck Meal pm – Worship Service pm – Jr & Sr High Youth

Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) am – Worship Service am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr)

Community Bible Fellowship

Monday 7:00 pm - Luella home group Bible Study

Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Childrens's Ministry

7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study

Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service

7:00 pm - Howe home group Bible Study

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

We do not have to look very far to find someone that needs a miracle

There are lots of people who are suffering some type of crisis with everything from health problems, their children, and grieving over a loss, to finances, marriage issues and addictions When we see and hear about difficulties, we become sympathetic, but how often do we consider that God may have brought these individuals to our attention so that we can not only pray but to intervene and help meet their needs? Instead of just discussing the situation and having pity, maybe we are their miracle and the answer to their prayers

We can remain the spectator like always or with God’s power we can become a participator and an agent of change!

Remember the times you have been discouraged or in trouble and you cried out for God to please send somebody to help? If someone responded, you knew they were a Godsend, right? If no one came, we assumed they were too busy or maybe just did not want to take the time or money to become involved I believe our reactions toward others reveal more about us than we care to think about. It seems that most people are convinced this life is their own to do whatever they want and I can understand this point of view for a non-Christian However, for those who are followers of Jesus Christ, the Bible clearly explains our way of thinking is to radically change

Monday, August 7, 2017

Are we a spectator or a participator?

from only concentrating about ourselves to obeying God as our highest priority This renewing of our mind will produce generosity and compassion as we develop a willingness to become more like Christ in His attributes and character I Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s ” When we accept the covenant of salvation, we are letting go of our selfish independence in order to become sensitive to God and the needs of others

The Bible refers to those who are God’s children as instruments and vessels of honor The idea of being used by the Master of the universe is a privilege and something that should not be taken lightly. For those who are serious about becoming a disciple for Christ, we can learn how to listen for His voice and develop our spiritual awareness He may be guiding and preparing us to present a Bible scripture with a friend at work or maybe to share our heart in a letter to a loved one that we are concerned about There are so many opportunities all around us where we could bring encouragement I know there are times in my life where I could have used someone’s kindness It feels good to know that someone cares enough to make an intentional effort to bless us as we all desire to feel loved and respected There is a passage in Galatians chapter six that talks about our deeds being like seeds and that we all reap according to what we sow Applying this spiritual principal to our life, we can see how important it is to reach out to others in the same way we would like them to care about us. If you need a miracle, become someone’s miracle, if you desire to have more friends, go out of your way to be friendly, and if you want to be loved, ask God to help you learn how to love He can connect us but our responsibility is to make ourselves available Jesus told a parable in Luke chapter ten about a man who was attacked by thieves and was left beside the road nearly dead. Two different men passed by (one of them a minister) and yet both ignored him Then a Samaritan man found him and literally saved his life The good Samaritan became the wounded man’s miracle and presents the question that is worthy of consideration; are we the one who passes by or the one who becomes involved?

Dr Holland lives in Central Kentucky where he is a Christian minister and author of, “A lifestyle of Worship ” Learn more at: billyhollandministries com

Learn about antiques and collectibles with Dr. Georgia Caraway

Company of Portland, Oregon and distributed through their sales office in New York City

Trained as an artist at the Julian School in Chicago and the Chase School in New York City, Mrs Woods put her love of history and her interest in the Native American tribal culture to create her dolls She spent time on several reservations to learn more about their lifestyle and culture She painted Indian portraits on leather that were sold to tourists in Portland son, G B Woods continued the business into the 1930s These dolls come in varied sizes with some measuring as tall as one foot

Dr Georgia Caraway, and her friends, opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning in April 2015 Store hours are Wednesday through Saturday noon until 8 p m Come see the two new vendors in the shop, Smitten and Kay’s Kreations In the next two weeks Yvette will be adding aromatherapy and essential oils to the Mercantile And we are negotiating with a maker of pure goat soap to be offered in the shop for sale Georgia, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, has written five Denton history books and hopes her next book will be the history of Howe If anyone has photos that she can copy, please bring them to Howe Mercantile

Downtown Howe has two gift and antique shops Howe Mercantile and Stark Farms Gifts SHOP LOCAL We can show you Howe!

The most famous of the souvenir Indian dolls made between the 1920s and 1940s were the Skookum Indian dolls made by the Arrow Novelty Company in New York City. These were favorites among traveling Americans to bring home as a remembrance of their trip West

The first doll heads were made of dried apples Due to the short life of apples the heads were later made of composition and then plastic Native American blankets were wrapped around frames leaving very little body to be seen Many were marked with a paper label that reads “Skookum Bully Good Indian ” The papoose in the photo has a sweet celluloid face The wool covering is tied with sweet grass Sometimes the dolls were stuffed with grass as well

A doll that is similar to the Skookum, but not seen as much in the collector market, are the Indian dolls of Mary Frances Woods Woods’ dolls were first introduced h T F i i N Y k Ci

Dolls by Mary Frances Woods have an eerily realistic and living quality about their faces Her early dolls had painted leather faces with weathered luminous skin and piercing beady black eyes Later dolls had molded mask faces created from light brown crepe paper over plaster The texture of the paper gave the effect of the seemingly weathered look that the earlier leather-faced dolls had The eye sockets were shaded with brown and the cheeks were airbrushed with red coloring. Facial details such as nostrils, eyebrows, eyeliner, and lines around the mouth area were handpainted The pupils of the eyes were made with stickpins with black beaded heads The white part of the eye set off the black pupil effectively

The blankets folded around the Woods’ dolls are similar to the blankets around the Skookums figures It gives the impression of the dolls’ arms being folded under the blanket Wooden feet are nailed onto a one-half-inch dowel section for ankles Feet and ankles are fastened to a wooden disk that has been set into a cardboard tube This cardboard tube forms the body up to the waist The upper body is formed of cloth and stuffed with fine sawdust The back of the head is made of stuffed cloth as well The wigs appear to be made of h h i

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Region 10 Teachers of the Year

Kim Duncan of Howe Elementary and Michelle Davidson of Howe Middle School were honored at the Region 10 Teacher of the Year Luncheon Thursday in Garland. They are pictured with their principals Clay Wilson and Charissia Doty

Dr Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail.com.

H Bentley Glass was at one time one of the most famous scientists in the nation His life was a journey that began with missionary parents and a Texas education Glass traveled the world, wrote volumes of books, made important scientific discoveries, and in the 1950s and 1960s, helped the entire nation start thinking about science and the ethics of the latest discoveries.

His parents, both devout Baptists, were from Texas and went to China to serve as missionaries Glass was born in Yeshien, in eastern China, in 1906 Because of his parent’s work serving the spiritual and physical needs of the people of China, he spent most of his childhood there

When it was time to start college, Glass moved to Texas He enrolled at Decatur Baptist College in Decatur before transferring to Baylor University in Waco After earning a bachelors degree in biology, he taught school briefly in the small town of Timpson in East Texas He returned to Baylor to complete a masters degree in biology before enrolling at the University of Texas where he earned his doctorate in genetics in 1932

He went to Berlin for a few years to conduct research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, where he was disturbed by the purge of Jews from academic and research positions as Nazi rule took root He left Germany quickly and worked briefly as a researcher in Missouri before beginning teaching at Stephens College in central Missouri Before long, he accepted a position at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland