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An old Greek proverb has it that “a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

Let’s Talk About… Dogs in the city

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Last week, this beautiful Husky turned up, lost and bewildered, on Poston Road.

Letter to Editor

Dear Editor

Let’s Talk About… Campers, RVs & such

When I returned to Hamilton in 2017, I brought along a fifth-wheel camper as a place to keep my stuff and as a home for my 17-yearold “White Kat.” I parked it next to my parents’ house and immediately had it hooked up to electricity, water and sewer. Little did I know that I had violated several city ordinances, however unintentionally.

First of all, my parents’ electrical service had to be upgraded to support the addition of the RV, and I didn’t get an electrical permit.

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“I wish I could hug you, but there’s a car in the way,” my sweet bonus-granddaughter said from the Storm’s drive-thru window Thursday afternoon.

It made my day. A hug would have been nice, but the love was there, and it felt good.

I’ve had some pretty down days lately, not the kind of holiday I would have preferred, not the kind anyone could have predicted pre-pandemic, but with many beautiful moments in spite of COVID in my home and the loss of my precious mom.

WALKING WITH GOD

“After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixtyfive years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Gen. 5:22-24).

Letters to the editor

Dear Editor,

A short time ago I wrote about herd immunity. Since then things have become worse. The only bright outlook are the new vaccines becoming available.

Currently, there are single days where we have lost to COVID more Americans than Pearl Harbor or 9/11. In times past we would have already declared war on some nation with those losses.

This week in Texas history

Father not son deserves place in Texas history

Erasmos Sequin took his seat in the Mexican constitutional assembly on Dec. 11, 1823 as the one deputy from the province of Texas.

Stephen F. Austin could not have made a better friend in 1821 than the patriarch of the Seguin clan. Sent by the governor to welcome Moses Austin back to Texas, Erasmos met instead the young foreigner who hoped to pick up where his dead dad had left off.

Let’s Talk About: Household garbage

Whether it is called trash, garbage, solid waste or refuse, it is smelly and unsightly, attracts insects, rodents and wildlife, may be poisonous, flammable or explosive and contributes to the spread of disease.

Because of the threat to public health, its disposal is strictly regulated by law, and it represents a continual challenge to city and county governments.

Gone are the days of having a burn barrel, dumping everything that didn’t burn into a pit, and then covering that pit and digging another one. That’s how my grandparents did it on their farm outside Hamilton.

Letter to the editor

Dear Editor,

I’m writing this with the hope that I can get some folks that have had the Covid virus, to write to you about their experience. Perhaps that will get the “non-believers” and I’m not talking about religion, to maybe rethink what they are doing/thinking.

I have had family members and friends that had gotten it. It knocked them down for about 2 weeks, but nothing like what we’re seeing and hearing in other parts of the state/country.