The Olney City Council recognized Municipal Clerks Week during its April 27 meeting, formally honoring the work of city staff responsible for recordkeeping, elections, and day-to-day administrative functions.
Natural disasters happen and communities see the destruction immediately. Homes, businesses, stores, schools are damaged, flooded, or just gone. The power lines are down, neighborhoods are left with debris and in some cases parts of other people’s properties are found in your front yard where the family car once parked. Long after roads are cleared and buildings are rebuilt another form of damage remains. This is the unseen psychological impact on survivors.
A season of endings and beginnings will define the moment when Olney and Newcastle seniors step across the graduation stage. In that brief walk, they carry years of memories, friendships, and lessons, but they also step into a future that is wide open. Graduation is more than a ceremony; it is a turning point where familiar routines will give way to new possibilities and adventures, and these graduates will begin to shape their lives and reflect on their hopes, values, and ambitions.
“For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,” Romans 9:3 NASBS
When four year old Ivy wakes up in the morning, her very first thought is, “Mama!” She opens her eyes and hits the trail looking for me. I hear her little feet running through the house, and if it’s early, like it is most days, she runs to my side of the bed, flings her blankie over the top of me, and climbs in. When I get out of bed, she immediately jumps down and follows me telling me that I’m her best friend. I’ve been the center of all my kids’ universes at different times on this journey of motherhood for the past 21 years. It’s always a precious time.
213 E. Main St.
PO Box 577
Olney, Texas 76374
Phone: (940) 564-5558
Fax: (940) 564-3992