April 22, 2008 10:06 am
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Bob Wright:
As you are aware, I recently went through a life-threatening experience. The doctors said that I should not have survived, but by the Grace of God, I am still here to tell about it.
I did not realize how many friends I had until this happened. I was told after making my recovery that many of the churches here in Mexia and surrounding area had also placed me on their prayer lists. Don’t tell me that prayer doesn’t work.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank my family, my Church family and all the many other people who took time to pray for me. I pray that God will bless each and every one of you beyond measure.
I figured that God wasn’t through with me and the devil didn’t want me. I’m gonna’ keep writing songs and singing praises to Him until He calls me home. Once again, thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Joe Teel
Mexio, Tx. 76667
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A Wortham resident’s two cents
Before you become too enamored with the title let say I did it merely to get your attention for it will be more like my dollars worth.
This is not about city government or the solvency of a town’s financial resource, but rather about civic pride with no agenda and what I call the mystique of the Wortham DNA.
Be very careful in reading this because this Wortham DNA is contagious as I only recently caught it and it was not a lab test that made it evident, but rather my newly acquired peripheral vision rather then tunnel when looking at my neighbors and community in general. Ok call it civic pride or lack thereof if that makes you more comfortable.
In my case there was a catalyst that started the change and it was my needing something to do in retirement and offering to build Wortham a new and more exciting web site. A site I might add filled with the standard information, but an exciting focus on the Wortham history and the pioneer spirit that built this community originally.
Those of you who know me remember me as either the chef at Baylor University, Freestone Country Club, or old oaks. In kitchen vernacular we have a saying, if you cannot stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Well where this Wortham DNA is concerned, if growth and change make you uncomfortable then “get a life”.
Part of city government is the EDC or economic Development Corporation and as the name implies its business is about growth and change. Presently their energized focus is to build a City park using a government agencies matching funds grant scenario. The city of Groesbeck recently finalized their park venture without the taking sides’ trench war that has evolved in Wortham. The war is over park or repair of street pot holes and quite frankly pot hole suffers one has nothing to do with the other. There is federal money available to build city parks, match grant fund money for towns that will get off their duff, roll their sleeves up and go to work. There is no federal money available to repair streets and if your tax base is small town America then you must pursue other innovative measures to repair those pot holes.
Let me relate to you a concerned Wortham citizen’s solution and he will go unnamed to keep him out of the responses that I am sure will follow. He said his street has pot holes as well and he would be willing to knock on all his street neighbors’ doors asking for help in purchasing the needed material and then the city supplying the labor. For those of you who still do not understand let me put it on a more personal note. A resident needs a driveway and garage in the worst way, but he also needs a new pick up truck and can afford neither. His mom gives him the money for the truck but not the garage or driveway. Now neighbors may well look with a jaundiced eye at the new truck parked unevenly on the bad driveway, but money was available for the truck, but not the driveway. Catch my drift. In building this web site and interviewing these remaining living legends for pictures and stories I caught the Wortham DNA.
The site presently resides at http://design1.hypermart.net.
It is a work in progress and will eventually be hosted on worthamtx.com where the present unexciting web site resides. For those of you who want to take some pot shots at me via e-mail please feel free at Wortham_tx@yahoo.com.
Allen Meyers
Wortham, Texas
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