Dove season is here

It’s dove season. The hunters are back. Welcome to Woodson.

Don’t shoot my Aoudad. She’s wearing an orange collar and hanging out with my goats and my three chickens and my daughter’s heifer… none of them are dove, so please don’t shoot.

Mayor Mathiews proclaimed, “The dog days of summer are here. That’s all.”

Pray for rain.

Come enjoy a volleyball game. High school girls are at home on Sept. 8 and play at 10 a.m. On Sept. 11 they play at 6 p.m. Then off to Strawn on Sept. 15 at 10 a.m.

If you’re up for a Cowboy game, they are home on the Sept. 7 and 14, and off to Newcastle on Sept. 21. Speaking of the games, the “5th Quarter” after the game will be held at the Woodson Church of Christ on the day of the games. It is at the First Christian Church in Woodson.

The junior high volleyball season kicked off on Sept. 4 at Abilene Christian High School in Abilene. Next up is Ranger, Newcastle and the Hawley Tournament.

The junior high football season begins here on Sept. 14 , against Trent, followed by Newcastle here on Sept. 20.

Pray for rain.

The West Texas Fair and Rodeo begins in September and many Woodson ISD students will be exhibiting animals. Claire Ellis shows a heifer on Sept. 8 and dairy goats the next day. Market goats are on the following day.

Call the school if you have a 3-year-old – Pre-K student, who would like to be an escort for the coronation, call the school at 940-345-6521 by Sept. 21.

Are you on the pie list?

I will find out where and when parade entries are due.

The Booster Club will have homemade chili at the carnival.

Snakes are moving.

Pray for rain.

The Woodson Grocery has gone to its school hours and closes at 4 p.m. on weekdays, except Wednesday, when it is open for supper. The burgers were good.

Please continue prayers for June and Arliss, Lee Cannon, Alene, Vicki Carruthers, Minerva Whitfield, Otis Hibbitts, Kay and Teddy Clark, Bruce and Keron Kinyon, Jeanie Stoker, Novella Gilbreath, Pam Allen, Mae and Keith Boyd, Dee and Carolyn Tate, Arie Herring, Jean Brockman, Alex and Marilyn Dickie, Barbara and LB Atkinson, Bill Thompson, Linda Dean, Modelle Ellis, Don Kuykendall, David Baxley, Baby Jarett, “Aunt Lola,” and Charlene and Odell Kite.

Please pray for the safe return of Kelcey Cruiser from his deployment.

Please pray for our school, educators, students, community, county, all military and our nation.

Keep praying for rain.

The next fifth Sunday is Sept. 30, and the Fifth Sunday Gospel Singing will be at the First Baptist Church of Throckmorton at 6 p.m. A nice way to slow down after homecoming.

Randy Sullivan, did ya catch anything in New York?

Three weeks of school down.

Good luck, dovies. Good luck hunters.

Pray for rain.

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