Friday May 20th 2022

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• RECENT HEADLINES

  • Chamber Awards Hometown Heroes
  • Watermelon Crawl
  • PSP Baseball Season Ends
  • KEEP BOLIVAR BEAUTIFUL – Recognized as Gold Star Affiliate
  • The Bolivar Point Lighthouse

• DAILY PICTURE, crystalbeach.com

  
  
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• Whimsy

  When California Went to War Over Eggs
  As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over another substance of a similar hue: the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony.
  

• GO’s Sand Bucket, by Georgia Osten

  • Mother’s Day 2022

    By Georgia Osten As usual, my Mother’s Day was spent at the Texas Crab Festival. I think we’ve been managing the Festival since 2013, wow! My oldest daughter and my son-in-law got into town on Friday night to help us out. We already had two sisters-in-law, a brother-in-law and a nephew in the house, I think since Thursday. The house was bulging,

• Morning Glories, by Brenda Cannon Henley

  • The ministry of encouragement

    By Brenda Cannon Henley The need for encouragement can come from a myriad of reasons. What makes one person depressed, despondent, and discouraged may not affect another person in the same manner. A second person might have learned to shake it off, laugh about it, or simply keep on going through or around the issue. The same is true for

• James ‘Old Hat’ Chambless

  • The Love Remains

    By James Chambless (AKA Old Hat) I took a cute photo of my grandchildren one evening this week. Let’s face it. Every photo of grandchildren is cute! But this one was kind of super cute. That next morning, I had a little free time at work and so I decided to share the joy. Joy is for sharing. I texted it to my bride, of course. Then to the mommy and daddy of the cute kids. Then I sent it

• Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz, by Shannon Williams

  • Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz

    By Shannon Williams People, they can ruin your day or make your day and even though we should not let them affect us that way, it happens. Last week was really not so good. I had an incident on one of my sites and it was not just any site it was my home site and the staff who has been with me for years. It was not good and it was messy and it was a

• Boating Safety, by Bob Currie

  • Recreational Boating Safety – Operating a Personal Watercraft

    By Bob Currie, Recreational Boating Safety Specialist U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Station Galveston Flotilla The Auxiliary’s vessel examiners perform safety checks on all types of recreational boats, including personal watercraft, also known as jet skis. The US Coast Guard Vessel Safety Check (VSC) has several requirements and recommendations specifically for

• Humor

  • Be Nice

    I was in a long McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the young lady behind me leaned on her horn because I was taking too long to place my order. Take the high road, I thought to myself. So when I got to the first window I paid for her order along with my own. The cashier must have told her what I’d done because as we moved up she leaned out her window and waved to me and mouthed “Thank you.”, obviously embarrassed that I had repaid her rudeness with kindness. When I got to the second window I showed them both receipts and took her food too. Now she has to go back to the end of the line to start all over. Don’t honk your horn at old people.

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• Coastal Barrier Info

  • GLO, Army Corps Release Coastal Barrier Plan
  • Problems and unanswered question with the US Army Corps’ Coastal Barrier Alternative:
  • IKE DIKE Alternative