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Hello readers, I have heard many of you loud and clear and I want you all to know a redesign for the Leisure Page will be coming soon. You may have noticed a new puzzle has taken the place of our cooking recipes. Our writer has retired, leaving us with a void.

“There’s a Memphis on the Mississippi and a Memphis on the Nile. But the Memphis on the Red beats ‘em all by a mile.” That’s John Ballew’s favorite phrase.

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Hello readers, I have heard many of you loud and clear and I want you all to know a redesign for the Leisure Page will be coming soon. You may have noticed a new puzzle has taken the place of our cooking recipes. Our writer has retired, leaving us with a void.

When Kenneth Phillips was in his mid 40s he lost all of his fingers and toes due to frostbite. This was not in the arctic or some other frigid place. It was in San Angelo, Texas. He faced years of hospitalization and depression then one day decided he was tired of inactivity and feeling sad. He applied for several jobs but when they saw his hands they didn’t hire him (even though a sign in the window read hiring now). He finally got a job at Dollar General and later worked as a cashier at McDonalds for six years. Last year he started a company doing mowing and edging. He named his company ALL THUMBS LAWN CARE. He told me how he got into this situation.

Jayson Woodward was postmaster in Terlingua at a time when people didn’t bother locking their doors because everybody knew everybody in the small community. She lived next door to the post office. One afternoon when she returned home from a shopping trip an intruder was in her house. He captured her, took her outside, tied her hands and blindfolded her and held her captive for fourteen hours. She was tortured and criminally assaulted.