Gardening phenomenon
      A tomato plant came up in a flower bed where I had not planted any tomatoes this year. It spread out about six feet and began to produce a delicious tomato slightly smaller than a golf ball. This was in early spring, and it provided tomatoes all spring and summer. It was still producing until the ...
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Willing to help a stranger in need
      It's always nice to know there are still people in this world willing to help when there is a family in need. As we were traveling from Stephenville to Austin the day before Thanksgiving, we stopped at the Lampasas Sonic for lunch. What a drag it is when you get ready to leave and your truck does...
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Consider joining the Boy Scouts
      Open letter to the boys of Lampasas: My name is Alex McCatherine, and I am a Boy Scout. I would like to invite any boy who has finished the fifth grade to join the Boy Scouts of America. I have been in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for a long time, and I have learned many things that are necessar...
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