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Celebrate Safely

Celebrate Safely

By • on July 12, 2011

ENNIS, TX — Fireworks are loud, beautiful and exciting. They are a part of many Independence Day celebrations, and it is very important to remember that as beautiful and amazing as fireworks are, they can also be extremely dangerous. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were two deaths and nearly 9,000 emergency room

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A Man Can Dream

A Man Can Dream

By • on June 29, 2011

ENNIS, TX – Henry Odlozil has always loved airplanes. Born and reared in Ennis, he remembers spending lots of his spare time building model airplanes and dreaming of the day when he would be the pilot of his own aircraft. In a young man’s mind it may have seemed like forever, when in reality

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Living in the Moment

Living in the Moment

By • on May 30, 2011

ENNIS, TX — Last year around this same time, Sam and Kathy Harrell and Steve and Suzie Betik had just returned from from their first trip to Hospital Punta Pacifica, a John Hopkins’ affiliate, in Panama City, Panama. While there, Sam and Steve underwent their first round of stem cell treatments

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Memories with Meaning

Memories with Meaning

By • on April 26, 2011

ENNIS, TX — Kathleen Prachyl took her first trip to the Czech Republic in 1996 with a tour group that originated in Ennis. “That first trip included three generations,” she remembered, “my mom, Elaine Gallagher, my two daughters, Stephanie and Jessica, and me.” Her second trip with the

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Cool Kids, Beads and Healthy Hearts

Cool Kids, Beads and Healthy Hearts

By • on February 28, 2011

ENNIS, TX — Healthy hearts are the main focus for teacher Deliah Lewis’ Physical Education (PE) classes all year round. “We work on healthy hearts all the time, starting in the first weeks of the school year,” she explained. “A healthy heart is important. The younger they are when they

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Iron Sharpening Iron

Iron Sharpening Iron

By • on February 1, 2011

ENNIS, TX — Ravi Dubose and Curtis Tekell, Ennis High School seniors, have been friends since attending Austin Elementary School. They have run track and played football together, and hope it will not all end next year when they attend college. “We would really like to go to the same school,

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Coincidences and Contentment

Coincidences and Contentment

By • on January 3, 2011

ENNIS, TX — Her mother said it best, “I took my daughter to the first grade at Austin Elementary School, and she’s still there!” Indeed, Ennis teacher, Donna Monreal, attended the elementary school as a little girl and now has been teaching at that same school for 30 years. It even gets better.

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Students Support Helping Hands of Ennis

Students Support Helping Hands of Ennis

By • on November 5, 2010

ENNIS, TX — Lummus and Miller student council members went trick-or-treating for canned goods on October 28, 2010. Altogether, the students were able to raise 988.1 pounds of food for Helping Hands of Ennis. Members

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From Generation to Generation

From Generation to Generation

By • on November 1, 2010

ENNIS, TX — Cindy Gerich has a passion for quilting that has lasted a lifetime. In fact, she likes quilting so much that she and her friend, Jackie Muehlstein, started a group called Bluebonnet Patches Quilting Guild of Ennis in 1985. As she and charter members, Helen Ritchey and Bettye Moore,

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Recovering Hope

Recovering Hope

By • on October 3, 2010

ENNIS, TX — Reading is the foundation for all the learning we do in school. Have you ever wondered what happens to children who have trouble learning to read? Do they fall hopelessly behind? Do they ever catch up? Are they doomed? If they are in the Ennis Independent School District (EISD), they go

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