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Texas Spur Country Roundup

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Set some Sunday soup to simmer

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I love to hear a pot simmering on the stovetop; it’s comforting to me. I even turn off the noise around me just to hear it, particularly if I’m standing over the cutting board preparing the rest of the meal, or doing something else in the kitchen. Try it sometime—it’s truly therapeutic.

Suggestions for a successful pollinator garden

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Pollinators in the garden are good on many levels. Flittering butterflies, buzzing bees, whirring hummingbirds bring hours of enjoyment for gardeners. They are absolutely essential for most of the food we consume—fruit like plums, peaches, apples; vegetables like watermelon, cantaloupe, squash or pumpkins.

Spur library awarded $5K from Tocker

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We are excited to share that the Spur library has been approved for a $5,000 grant from the Tocker Foundation. The grant is for adding books, audiobooks and DVDs to the library’s collection. The Tocker Foundation is based in Austin, Texas, and is dedicated to the growth and quality of rural libraries. We are extremely appreciative of this opportunity to enhance the library’s collection of adult fiction and nonfiction and children’s fiction and nonfiction books and audiobooks and the library’s DVD collection.

Crossview Festival of Tables

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CrossView Christian Camp, based in Dickens, Texas, held its annual Festival of Tables event March 20 at the Turkey Church of Christ. The fund-raiser benefits CrossView’s Summer Camp Program, which primarily targets at-risk, troubled, and traumatized children from low-income households, according to camp director Kassi Appleton. Activities included entertainment, a silent auction, a catered lunch and door prizes.

CAT CHAT

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CAT CHAT On a sunny spring day in Quitaque last weekend, eighteen-month-old Wyatt Nash of Dallas enjoyed a sidewalk stroll with his parents, who were back in the region visiting with friends. Wyatt made a feline friend through the window. Caprock Canyons State Park reported day passes sold out throughout the spring break week, though crowds were laidback and the week largely uneventful once severe weather had passed through, according to park superintendent Donald Beard.

SMHD now offering Covid-19 vaccines to 18+ in Spur, Jayton, Aspermont clinics

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On Friday 15 people—four of them schoolteachers—were administered the Johnson and Johnson, one dose, Covid-19 vaccine at the Spur Rural Health Clinic.

Local trooper saves lives from fiery crash

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“I’ve had close scrapes and things like that, but never one that was on fire,” said Texas Highway Patrol officer Jerry Schmidt of Spur.

Spur runs away with relays

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WINNING WAYS At Friday’s Golden Spur track meet in Spur, the Spur boys and girls high school track teams scores totaled almost double the points of the next closest team, and each won first place. For complete details, see page 5.