The new DISD sports park that will accomodate new facilities and fields for Bobbies softball, Bobcats baseball, and DHS tennis is well underway after a few challenges with weather. New dugouts, bleachers, announcers stands, great tennis courts and parking lots will make attending games and meets a lot of fun.

Pet owners often form close bonds with their animal companions. Owners of feathered friends might be pleased to learn that this relationship is reciprocal, as birds can form strong bonds with their owners and other non-human members of their household.

"Momma, their mobile doesn't have enough planets." So proclaimed the precocious 10-year-old youngster to her mother, with whom I was visiting here at Rhoads Memorial Library. I chimed in, "Yes it does.

I try to not say what I always think, but at times I think that rule needs to be modified. I have read numerous posts and heard a variety of points of view regarding the quarantine, but I am going to voice something as a mother, friend, or aunt that is touched by COVID-19.

"For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him." (Colossians 1:16)

Nazareth senior Kagan Pillars has signed with Clarendon College to rodeo beginning the Fall semester. The Clarendon College Rodeo team competes in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association and is ranked among the top.

Dimmitt High School theater students competed in One Act Play and received alternate by one point. The UIL One-Act Play contest is a competition where similarly sized Texas schools present an 18 to 40 minute play The One-Act Play Contest, founded in 1927, is the largest high school play production contest or play festival in the world. More than 14,000 Texas high school students in more than 1,200 plays participate in 300 plus contests, which take place from the beginning of March through the three-day, 40-production State Meet One-Act Play Contest.

Xcel Energy is dedicating this week to celebrating its essential frontline workers who have kept the lights on for customers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. During this challenging time more than 6,000 Xcel Energy employees have continued doing their essential work in service centers, power generating plants and in the field without missing a beat.