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Several years ago when all of my children were small, I hired a sweet woman in town to help me get my house ready for a Christmas party. She wanted to come over and look at the house before deciding how much this job was worth to her. And something about that thought just completely freaked me out. I cleaned and decorated and desperately led her away from the closed laundry room door: “Oh, that’s just the laundry room. You won’t have to worry about anything in there.” When she rang the doorbell, I was so tempted to say, “Oh, hello, I had forgotten you were coming. Why, yes, our house always looks like no children live here.”

Olney Junior High competed in the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association meet in Olney on Nov 11. Olney placed third out of the competitors teams from Wylie (5A), Sweetwater (4A), Seymour and Petrolia (2A), and Newcastle (1A).

Olney Junior High student Laney Kimbro is on a mission to brighten children’s holidays with a new book of their very own. This sixth grade student is running a book drive for the OVFD annual Toys For Tots program and she is hoping to get as many books into the hands of children this Christmas as possible.