Thank you to everyone who has donated their time and made donations to help me towards my kidney/ pancreas transplant. I want to Thank Todd and Mandy Kinnamon for having the fish fry.

Paul and Nila Dowlearn-Owners of Wichita Valley Nursery. Paul’s recent books, “The Lazy Man’s Garden” and “Touch the Earth” are available at the Nursery, 5314 S.W. Pkwy, Wichita Fall, Texas.

The Sheriff’s Office received 119 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there are 33 inmates with eight being female in the Archer County Jail.

Dr. Ken Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor.

The Archer City Salvation Army Angel Tree will be at the Archer Public Library this Christmas season starting on Monday, November 22nd. The Angel Tree program provides new clothing and toys to local children in need. Donors simply choose an Angel and shop for their Angel's Christmas wish list.

During my first pastorate, a group from the church I pastored would go to a local nursing home on the first Monday of every month and sing gospel songs with the residents. There were specific songs that they always chose for us to sing and one of those songs was “God Will Take Care of You.” I’m sure the song was chosen for the reassuring message that it brought to them in the final years of their lives. Maybe today, you need to be reassured of God’s provision for you, also. Consider the comforting message of the song written by Civilia D. Martin: “Be not dismayed whate’er betide, God will take care of you; Beneath his wings of love abide, God will take care of you.”

Thank you to Donna Haile for her donations in memory of Virginia Cox and Aquilla Brake. “Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.” So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Follett’s nerve-racking drama of international tension.

Texas universities have produced many interesting political figures. Perhaps one of the most unusual journeys was that of University of Texas graduate Fernando Belaunde. Belaunde earned a Texas architectural license, became a noted architect, and was twice elected president of Peru, surviving a military coup in the process.