There’s something good here . . .
We hear enough bad news on TV. This column is meant to spotlight the positive things in our lives. Recognize the good around you. Share a smile. Speak a kind word. It might be your turn to need encouragement one day.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The disease has impacted both my mother and me. We’ve lived to tell the tale, but neither of us welcome another up close and personal encounter.

It was finally my treat. On Monday, Sept. 27 I had the pleasure of meeting the newly-famed milkshake maker Mabel Wheat of Cooper.

With the winter weather predicted again for this area, I decided to make a special video dedicated to the most recent sweet February snowfall in Sulphur Springs.

Gaby Camacho McAddo, a graduate of Yantis High School, is a hero to a lot of Haitians, but most especially to one five-year-old little boy named Monley, who was trapped under the rubble of his home for nine days in Port-au-Prince.

There is something good here especially around the holiday season from a celebration of lights that brought community and school together, to the Lion’s Club second annual Christmas light parade, a Main Street aglow with sights and sounds of the holidays and even our very own North Pole complete with some of the best hot chocolate made.

I just wanted to take a minute to remember the date 9/11. Do you remember where you were when those towers fell?