There is much excitement over the opening of the new athletic facility in Warren, as there should be. It is a new basketball gymnasium and much more. The District will showcase this by hosting the upcoming regional basketball finals this Spring and that, within itself, is also exciting. I see from Facebook posts, there is…
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Pastime: Recalling the brother and sister reading duo(s)
Oddly enough, it was a reply from a friend, whom I daily rode the yellow school bus with up on Highway 15 to East Side Elementary that came up with this Pastime. Jo Ann Castleberry Pyle, now an El Dorado businesswoman, came up with a mention about these reading primer subjects, “Alice and Jerry and…
Pastime: The Corral’s amazing Frito-Chili-Pie(Yes, Right There Made In The Bag of Golden Fried Corn Chips)
A recent column about Mary Lou Martin’s fantastic chili dogs at Lumberjack football games got me thinking and somewhat challenged by the younger generation discussing the merits between Wayne’s Confectionary and The Corral. Wasn’t Wayne’s and The Corral about the same, one younger generation questioner probed? No. I quickly stated. The two restaurants were not…
Pastime: Those FFA little paper popcorn bags of heaven
With the start of Lumberjack football comes that unique salty scented memory of freshly popped popcorn. Just inside the southeast gate at old O. O. Axley Field, on the home stand side, is where the scent of this Pastime memory begins and I can smell it every time I step inside any football stadium. That…