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LOCAL EVENTS May 8 Get Into Gardening Texas A&M-Texarkana University Center 6 pm May 10 Inspired! Texarkana Chamber of Commerce Women’s Conference Texas High Performing Arts Center, 8:30 am-12 pm May 12 Downtown Live Downtown Texarkana, 5-9 pm May 13 Dragon Boat Race Festival Bringle Lake East, 9 am-5 pm May 14 Mother’s Day May 16 Infant Safety and CPR Training Pathway Resource Center, 6:30-7:30 pm
May 5-7, May 12-14 Pippin Texarkana College Every Saturday of May Texarkana Farmers Market Downtown Texarkana, 7 am-12 pm May 6 Community Unity Day for students 9-12 am Four States Fairgrounds, 11 am-3 pm May 6 Friends of 1st Choice PRC Walk 4 Life Spring Lake Park, 7:30 am May 6 Twice as Fine Texarkana Wine Festival Spring Lake Park, 11 am-7 pm May 8
May 20 #BeLikeCJ Walk of Love Downtown Front Street, 7:30 am May 21 Tough Kookie Cancer Support Group Meeting Oak Street Baptist Church, 4 pm May 29 Memorial Day Service Hillcrest Memorial Park, 2 pm
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Kiki McClure I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney
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introduced me to a little phrase known as “fake it ’til you make it,” a statement that I have carried with me since 2014, the first time I heard it in her classroom. I did not realize how often I would apply this phrase, meant for my professional life, to my personal life. Most of us see the highlights on social media, everyone’s best moments, not understanding that almost everyone is just faking it! The person with 200 million followers on Instagram feels just as lost as you do, just faking it, taking things day by day. We are all the same, no better than
Every Tuesday Night Karaoke at Whiskey River, 8 pm May 20 Blues, Booze, and BBQ 67 Landing, 2 pm May 27 Dusty Rose Band The Dapper, 8:30 pm
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her unwaveringly kind, beautiful heart for me and the kids who were not as lucky as
I, was at the forefront of every move she made as an educator. I watched her bleed compassion, patience, and understanding for those she knew needed to hear they were so much more than their current circumstances. To this day, Mrs. Walker still talks to those students, the ones she poured her heart into in high school. I want to think she is fully aware of her profound impact on some of her kids, as that would make the ups and downs of her profession, which isn’t always sunshine and rainbows, worth it for her. All I can hope to do in this life as well is to make an impact on people for the better. I had Mrs. Walker as a teacher the year I started my first job at Starbucks. She taught us all about the art of job interviews and
anyone else. Remember, as Mrs. Walker would say, “Bailey, you can’t call your classmates peasants.” Nine years later, I have never utilized a teacher’s wisdom as much as I have Jenny Walker’s. I am forever grateful to her. Although she no longer teaches in a high school, Jenny still serves as an educator. As Executive Director of the Literacy Council of Bowie and Miller Counties, she leads a team of faculty, staff, and volunteers who help men and women meet academic and workforce goals to better provide for themselves and their families, and I know her impact will continue to be life changing for everyone she touches. So, from me and so many others, thank you Mrs. Walker… Sincerely, King Bailey.
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