The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1994 Page: 2 of 24
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JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1963
HE IGNORANCE OF ONE VOTER in a democracy
impairs the security of all.
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JL this month at the Canadian Independent
School District administrative offices. The result
is a newly-enlarged board room with public seat-
ing available. The more remarkable result is a
new air of accessibility and openness, which we
believe should encourage public participation,
and increase public confidence in the board’s
work.
Last week’s board meeting on the whole
seemed to strike a rather optimistic note. Super-
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by laurie ezzell brown
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CONGRESSMAN.
I am homesick, you see. Homesick for a place which has not
been home for years. Homesick for the brook behind my house,
for the wild strawberries and the raspberry bushes which stained
my jeans and lips red.
And I miss that garden. I miss the order of things...the rows
of vegetables, the patches of herbs, the planting and the harvest.
Oh, and especially the harvest.
That’s what set me off this week. Columnist Kimberly Burk in
the Canyon News wrote about lying in bed at night and “listening
for the soft, tinny-sounding pop that meant the quart jars of green
beans were sealing as they should.” She compared it to
music...the final note of that exquisite symphony coming as the
last jar intoned.
Her words evoked fragrant memories of baskets of apples—
sorted according to their particular qualities, for jelly, jam, cider
or apple butter. A cacophony of scents wafted through our
autumn kitchen, as apple and allspice mingled with basil and
thyme, which hung drying from the ceiling.
My son and his friends snacked on sugar peas, snapped fresh
from the pod, and tiny, tender carrots with garden still clinging
to their roots. We grew the first organic garden on the road. All
the veterans told us it couldn’t be done, then drove slowly by each
Sunday afternoon to check on the progress in our flourishing,
chemical-free, open 24-hours-a-day garden grocery.
The racoons quickly became our partners in this venture. We
learned to grow twice as much com as we thought we could eat,
and lay awake nights listening to their feast. They sounded so
human that it wouldn’t have surprised me to hear music and
dancing, wine glasses tinkling, hushed conversation.
RECORD
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BEN EZZELL Editor and Publisher
1948-1993
NANCY EZZELL Editor and Publisher
LAURIE EZZELL BROWN
Co-Editor
Photographer
TINA STOCK
Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945 at the Rost Office at Canadian, Texas
under the act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Nancy M. Ezzell.
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OUR GARDENING EDITOR John Atlee—whose column falls
prey to the natural but brutal process of thinning out all too
frequently—called Wednesday morning with an urgent alert for
amateur horticulturists. His greeting? “I think I’ve found the
solution for squash bugs,” he said, by way of hello.
During my Maine years, I gardened...fervently...in a manner
akin to praying. So I understand John’s sense of necessity. I
appreciate his tendency to go directly to the heart of the matter,
much like a tap root in search of water. After all, we have the
whole winter long to attend to formalities like “hello.” But this
J is the growing season.
I remember the revelatory zeal with which I once announced
a cure for slugs, having discovered that those darkly insidious
pests had a weakness for brewskis—not unlike some of my
gardening friends. So great was their penchant for spirits, in fact,
that they would immerse themselves in the sheer pleasure of a
shallow bowl of beer, smiling slimily as they sipped obsessively
and slipped below the sudsy surface.
To this day, I do not know whether to attribute their deaths
to intoxication or drowning, but it was a serendipitous departure
for all concerned.
intendent Marcum announced that, according to
his preliminary calculations, there would be no
school tax increase in the coming fiscal year.
That will be welcome news to taxpayers, who
should direct their appreciation to Supt. Marcum
and the staff and teachers of each school.
With the state demanding a hefty portion of
the school taxes raised in this district in order to
equalize education spending, some careful plan-
ning and management have been necessary to
maintain that tax rate. Sacrifices have been
made across-the-board and, according to Supt.
Marcum, will not adversely affect the excellent
educational opportunities provided to our stu-
dents.
An indication of that continued dedication to
learning comes from another decision reached by
the board at Tuesday night’s meeting. An alter-
native school proposal—carefully researched,
compassionately constructed and impressively
presented by Jackie Jenkins and Sherri Shoaf—
earned a unanimous vote of confidence from the
board which agreed to fund the project.
The Trails program specifically targets the
needs of students who have failed to flourish in
the traditional school setting...students who
have for years either fallen through the cracks or
are holding on by their fingertips. It will also
benefit some adult learners who for one reason
or another were unable to complete their public
school careers.
It is obvious that the benefits of a good educa-
tion are long-term and far-reaching—both to the l
student and to society as a whole. The costs of a
failed education far outweigh those of a success-
ful one.
We commend this decision of the board, and
the work of Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs. Shoaf, and we
welcome the sun shining in on the school board '
meetings.
W REPUBLICANS HAME
A SIMPLE ONE-STEP
PLAN THAT GUARANTEES
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RECORD
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL CO., TEXAS
THURSDAY 21 JULY 1994
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 21, 1994, newspaper, July 21, 1994; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285854/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.