Church, Spiritual

Harvest, Christmas, and Joy (Isa 9:1-7)

cb1By: Curtis Baker

Another harvest season is drawing to a close here in West Texas. While this year may not compare to the bumper crop that took place in 2010, I think everyone is grateful to have what we did in light of the brutal summers of the last two years. There is no doubt that our land is parched and dry to an extreme that many of us have never seen; and yet, when the harvest comes in at the end of the year, there is still a since of satisfaction and joy that another year’s work has been accomplished. Maybe things are not as great as they could have been, but it certainly could have been far worse. And there is always optimism for the year to come.

In thinking about the joy of harvest along with the Christmas season it brings to mind one of the most famous Christmas passages in our Bible. You probably have it memorized because it is sung every year in Handel’s Messiah, but the passage I am speaking about is from Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

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Slaton ISD, Sports

Tigers Basketball Tournament This Week

I have attached a copy of the schedule for this weeks tournament. It was scheduled to make up games lost due to weather. Our staff did a great job coordinating this tournament on very short notice.

There will not be  a girls division in this tourney. We could not get enough girls teams willing to come on such short notice. The Tigerettes will continue to practice and play their regular schedule.

Thanks,   Chris Smith  Assistant Superintendent  Slaton ISD
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Events, Organizations

TONIGHT -Harvey House Documentary – Ch 5 PBS 8 PM

hgsTHE HARVEY GIRLS: OPPORTUNITY BOUND will air on KTTZ-T V Channel 5 Monday, December 9th at 8pm.

Sponsored to you by: Slaton Chamber of Commerce
“Get a Closer Look at the Women Behind Fred Harvey’s Empire in THE HARVEY GIRLS”

America’s tales about taming the Wild West rarely include women. But in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, more than 100,000 pioneering young women left home to work as waitresses in restaurants located on train platforms along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. The American Public Television-distributed program THE HARVEY GIRLS: OPPORTUNITY BOUND airing on public television stations nationwide beginning November 1, 2013, explores the lives, experiences, and contributions of the women who worked for the Fred Harvey restaurant empire in its earliest days.

The Harvey House restaurant chain was started by Leavenworth, Kansas entrepreneur Fred Harvey.  Harvey left his native England at the age of 15 and found work in New York’s growing restaurant industry.  As the Civil War was brewing, he began working with the railroads, achieving more senior positions as he moved west. Despite his seniority, Harvey never forgot his restaurant roots and, recognizing the poor quality of food for rail travelers, decided to do something about it.  In 1870, Harvey started a company designed to serve travelers throughout the Southwestern U.S. good food at reasonable prices in clean, elegant restaurants. The women who worked for these restaurants — the Harvey Girls — later became icons, themselves, playing an important role in World War II and helping to transform society’s view of women’s work.

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