Santa “Bookgirl” Kumpina has been traveling through neighborhoods in Holliday and Lakeside City the previous weeks working as a sales representative for Southwestern Advantage. Southwestern Advantage is an entrepreneurial for university students where they can learn transferable life skills and pursue a deb free education.

Registration for the 24-county area fundraising program Texoma Gives is open for Archer County non-profits through the end of the year. Texoma Gives is an area fundraiser, on Sept.

When Jesus taught and preached, He loved to tell parables. In teaching us as to who is our neighbor in this Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Jesus wants us to realize that anyone and everyone close by and in need is our neighbor and we are all called to be good Samaritans with no discrimination against persons of any nation, race, creed, color, age or gender. That is an obvious and simple interpretation of this parable. However, it is of interest what the earliest Church fathers thought of this parable of Jesus. Here we find that they introduce a beautiful twist in it. Though the parables are fictional, they saw in the person of the good Samaritan, Jesus Himself. As they read it, it was the human race that was waylaid by sin. Sin had stripped us all of our dignity as human beings. It had robbed us, taking from us the grace of God. It had attacked us so severely that we were like that man half dead by the side of the road, unable to pick ourselves up. But it was by the “blood of His Cross” and bearing His neighbors sufferings (us) in His own body, being Himself stripped and beaten and left for dead – that He saved us from the bonds and chains of sin and death and reconciled us to God and to one another.

Holliday Track and Field Coach Glenn Griffin was given his state championship ring from UIL Director Dr. Susan Elza at the Texas Girls Coaches Assocation banquet on Monday, July 11, in Arlington. Courtesy photo

The Wichita Falls Area CattleWomen, which is an organization of women who are involved in or support the beef industry, will award $750 scholarships for the fall semester. Applicants must meet the following qualifications: 1.

The Holliday City Council talked about the use of American Rescue Plan Act funds during its meeting Monday, July 11. Mayor Allen Moore said one of the possible uses for the funds could be to renovate the front office at city hall which could cost them around $50,000.

Archer County Tax Assessor Collectoe Office located in the Courthouse Annex will close at noon for lunch and reopen at 1p.m. July 19 Meet & Greet with Angels Care Home Health Complimentary hot dogs and watermelon 11a.m.

The Windthorst ISD school board voted to raise the cost of cafeteria lunches to $3 during its board meeting on Monday, July 11. Because of help from the Texas Department of Agriculture during the pandemic, the district has been able to offer all students free meals for the past two school years.

A chance meeting in San Marcos at Cheatham Street Warehouse twenty years ago spawned a musical collaboration resulting in a recording session at the Royal Theater late in June. Joey Pogue, focusing on singing and songwriting after his retirement, called on his old acquaintance Levi Mullen to produce his project.