The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010 Page: 3 of 12
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www.StarLocalNews.com — Thursday, December 23,2010 — The Colony Courier-Leader — Page 3A
Before and after
1 . PHOTOS COURTESY CITY OF THE COLONY
Local Girl Scout Stephanie Aceves recently spearheaded a project to revamp the playground equipment at Wilcox Park on Wilcox Drive. A once-modest playground above left now
features more swingsand new equipment.
JROTC donates canned
goods to local food pantry
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Results, beginning with the hardest
course, are as follows:
The Colony High School JROTC cadets Hunter Prater placed third on the red
collected over 700 canned good/non-per- course;
ishable food items to donate to The Genesis Trigueros placed second on
Storehouse. The Storehouse is a food the green course;
pantry and affiliate agency of the North Dallas Boudreaux placed third on the
Texas Food Bank located at South Colony brown course; and.
Boulevard and Paige Road, and serves Raymond Hamilton placed second on
residents of The Colony and surrounding the yellow course.
communities. The second Orienteering meet was the
In other JROTC news, the Orienteering Samuell-Crawford O-Meet. Results, begin-
team recently competed in two orienteer- ning with the hardest course, are as fol-
ing meets. The first was the Red River lows:
- o L _ SUBMITTED PHOTO Ramble 0-Meet at Texoma. It’s a two-day Prater placed second on the red
The Colony High School JROTC cadets collected over 700 canned good/non-per- 0-Meet and is one of the tougher meets course;
ishable food items to donate to The Storehouse. The Storehouse is a food pantry that the cadets participate in. Four cadets Trigueros placed second on the green
and affiliate agency of the North Texas Food Bank located at South Colony medaled, with quite a few finishing just course; and,
Boulevard and Paige Road, and serves residents of The Colony and surrounding out of medal contention in fourth and fifth Kaylan Ramsey place second on the
communities, place. green course.
‘Christmas' is _ - - follows a time-honored tradi-
not a dirty word Letter to the Editor ____________^S^ thus
I need to say something: point). I shall savor the
CHRISTMAS. notations or what it repre- to purchase and I heard a Christmas. This provoked a Christmas cookies that my
This PC-sensitive, rules- sents. Lately, I’ve heard lady say to her young child in disapproving look from my daughter’s stepmother usual-
oriented, incurable go-by- Holiday cookies, Holiday a loud and rounded way: “We daughter who said the ly bakes for us. I’m still work-
the-book person that I am shopping, Holiday stress, still need to get some HOLI- woman might have been ing on my Christmas shop-
will continue to use this Holiday deals. Holiday par- DAY cards," with a heavy offended. I replied that I am ping. On Christmas Eve, I
word liberally. It’s not a dirty ties. Holiday lists, Holiday emphasis on the word intensely offended by this will visit a friend’s church to
word. cards. Holiday tree, Holiday Holiday. My holidayed-out ridiculous evasion of a per- listen to Christmas music. On
Although I harbor no dis- decorations, holiday ... what- self lost some percentage of fectly legitimate word. that note... Merry Christmas!
dain, per se, for the word ever. control and I heard myself So, I sent my Christmas
Holiday, I’m saturated with My saturation point utter in a somewhat raised cards recently, using my
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Mann, Rick. The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010, newspaper, December 23, 2010; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1622129/m1/3/?q=green+energy: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Colony Public Library.