March 7, 2013 Spring Break starts this weekend and for a whole week you have your kids at home. Now the panic sets in! What do you do with them? Well we just happen to have a few ideas for you here. Some are close to home, some involve a little travel but not too much, most are inexpensive.
March 6, 2013 Every year it's been the same routine, I'm running around getting everything ready to go on a summer vacation. This time I decided to put together a 'Preparing for Summer Vacation' checklist. I'm always forgetting something, my razor, an mp3 recorder, sunglasses, camera, medicines and even a spare tire (yes, a spare tire). Several years ago I took my spare tire in to have it checked prior to vacation. I forgot to go pick it up before leaving town, can you guess what happened on I-45 just outside of Houston? Four hours and several hundred dollars later we were back on the road again. So here's my list I hope it helps.
March 6, 2013 Abilene is well known for having several churches, so it's no surprise that another church has opened in the Key City. However, this new church has a big twist as Southern Hills Church of Christ will now be holding 'Bar Church' services.
March 5, 2013 If you're looking for places to Easter Egg Hunt this Easter in Abilene, I have good news and bad news.
First the bad news, the city-wide Easter Egg Hunt at Oscar Rose Park will not happen this year because according to one of the events organizers, New Hope Church Pastor Michael Chandler, said "I don't believe we were being very evangelical by simply hosting the egg hunt. We saw many people and we were never able to minister to them."
Now for the good news.
March 5, 2013 Relay for Life is coming up next month so it's time to get your team together and start raising money for the American Cancer Society. This is an incredible event that I was a part of, for the first time, last year. I plan on making the 'survivor' lap again this year.
March 5, 2013 The NFL football season may be over, but that doesn't mean football in Abilene is done. Armed with a new name, and new look, Abilene's professional indoor football team, the Abilene Bombers, kick off the season this Saturday.
March 5, 2013 This is Bella, a yellow-lab mix that should have been named 'Lucky, because she's had a rough go at life. She is an owner turn in, only because her previous owner didn't know how to train her to keep from jumping up on them whenever they were outside with her. That is the only reason Bella was surrendered to the Abilene Animal Shelter, where her time has run out. This is her last chance as you'll see by the fact that she is also discounted to only $20. While other dogs go for $70 and more. Please go check Bella out because these are her last few days of life, unless you save her.
March 4, 2013 I was watching our local news yesterday and saw this story about our enlisted military personnel and their pets. What happens to Fido when our nations defenders are deployed to the other side of the earth? While in the past many of our nations service men and women would either send their pets to their parents or other family members, if that is an option. In most cases the enlisted personnel would surrender their pets to local animal shelters. Until now, Dogs On Deployment is a national non-profit that provides service members with an online database of individuals and/or families who are willing to welcome a Dog On Deployment into their home for the length of their owner's deployment.
March 4, 2013 If you've gotten in trouble with the popo recently, and may have a warrant for your arrest, then read on bad boy/girl cause The Great Texas Warrant Roundup is going on now. So, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
March 3, 2013 Larry Joe Taylor's (LJT) self titled 25th Annual Texas Music Festival is coming to the Melody Mountain Ranch April 23rd through April 27th. The Melody Mountain Ranch has become a hot spot for Texas Music and the springboard for many a Texas Music artist's career. Texas music lovers have another common love, chili. How the two ever got hitched up we may never know, but one thing is for certain you will find both at Larry Joe Taylor's big shindig this April in Stephenville Texas.
March 2, 2013 Who says 13 is an unlucky number? The 13th Annual KEAN 105 St. Jude Radiothon, Feb. 28th and March 1st was successful in raising over $35,500 for the kids of St. Jude. For two days and a total of 26 hours Shay in the Midday Hill, Super Dave Wheaton and I put on a radiothon sharing the our stories, and those of the families that have been helped by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The children that are helped by St. Jude come from all over, but many are from right here in West Texas.
March 1, 2013 Hunter Hutchinson has always loved music and he comes by it naturally, his dad the late Chuck Hutchinson loved music too, as you'll be able to see in the music video, Chuck loved strumming a guitar. So recently, son Hunter wrote and recorded several songs and when Hunter visited KEAN he shared one song in particular about his dad, "The Man Who Believes in Me" from Hunters new Texas Music album titled "Texas Too." Now Hunter has completed a music video in honor of his dad. Chuck Hutchinson was the owner of the American Classifieds and what I remember most is his infectious smile and strong hand shake.
