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Dear Editor: All I wanted was peace of mind within my living space. No drugs being bought, sold, handed off out of the windows of my neighbor’s apartment nor in the parking lot in broad daylight, no off-color verbal threats and clean-living spaces; just to name a few.

In our country, there are entire families who will suffer through a severe issue that eventually severs family relationships for many years. Eventually, someone might tentatively extend an olive branch, and another will cautiously reach out to accept it.

October 4: The Resource Connection is hosting its grand opening Wednesday, Oct. 4 from 11 a.m.

September 16: The City of Terrell, in partnership with the Terrell Chamber of Commerce will host their second annual Terrell Mural Walk from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

September 9: Kaufman County Community United, in partnership with Terrell ISD, are providing GED classes in Spanish on the second Saturday of every month beginning Sept. 9.

jackwelch1975@gmail.com Records are continuously being broken. All sports each year have new records recorded.

Slogan t-shirts are my preferred method of communication – I’m a walking bumper sticker. I have t-shirts from my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Antonio ( Mi Tierra), several from my church (Kitchen Crew, Kid’s Ministries, Health Fair…), and many others from places I’ve visited (Washington, D.C., Puerto Vallarta, NYC, South Beach…). As I’ve written, I used to design t-shirts for the Christian Youth market, and just recently created a new design ( Forget Me Remember Jesus ).

It’s not exactly a terrific ego-booster to forever be ‘the belly,’ the body part that doesn’t clear the fence last, but still, you’re not the tip end of the nose that always goes first, either.

Many times, coaches are only focused on winning and forget how to treat others. As coaches, we forget the players we work with are a prize possession of their parents.

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