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BOM made a donation to the Hemphill senior class for their Grad Night event. The Grad Night event provides the students with an alcohol and drug free way to celebrate one last achievement together before they head toward their separate futures. Pictured: Remi Ross, Omarion Smith, Bo Conn, Laken Wilkerson, Kam Arrington, and BOM’s Sydney Chatham.

Sleep Tight, Little Bunny I have a confession to make. Twenty years ago, I was reading our favorite book, Goodnight Moon to my first grandchild, Isabel. Easter was just around the corner and we began talking about the Easter Bunny. I said, “Please, don’t let your mommy paint your toesies orange before the Easter Bunny comes hopping in your room to fill your Easter basket!” Isabel looked up at me with her big hazel eyes and asked “But, why not, Honey?” Whispering I replied, “Because your little toes just might look like baby carrots to the Easter Bunny.” And together we giggled.

In 1946 Daddy moved our family to a rent house on Arcadia Road in Center, Texas. Behind the house was an old chicken house where our “Banty” chickens roosted every night. My brother John and I often crawled on top of it to swing on one of the two high line wires that ran to the house. On this given day, John, my cousin Eddie Jean Watson and I were swinging on the bottom wire when John pulled the top wire together with the bottom one and immediately began shaking and making an unutterable sound. The high electric voltage held him froze to the wires.as he shook erratically as he tried to loose himself. When I grabbed him around the waist, the high voltage literally slammed me down backwards on the tin roof. Quickly jumping back up, I grabbed John again and was shocked down.