Ignorance and ignoring, The latter far greater in sin. BOBBY WALTER LEWELLEN www.countryboyjustme.com.

By JEFF WICK The Fayette County Record I don’t think a lot of kids set up lemonade stands anymore. So when I passed one Monday in a Giddings neighborhood while out delivering newspapers to racks and post offices, I made sure to stop to support the endeavor.

C APITAL Highlights After public outcry, a physical border wall through Big Bend National Park appears to be on hold, The Texas Tribune reported. In February, the Trump administration waived more than two dozen environmental laws in order to clear the way for a 150-milelong wall through West Texas, including Big Bend and the adjoining state park.

Easter morning I was wrestling with the question posed by one of our young ones who wanted to know what Jesus said after he was raised from the tomb. How do we explain to young ones that we don’t have any record of what Jesus said the moment he was raised? This was going through my head when one of our young girls raised her hand and said excitedly, “Oh, I know what he said! I know what he said!”

On Apr. 14, 1865, five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, a 26 year old member of the “first family of the American stage” murdered Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

To make money, every rancher should know four words: Graze, Move, Rest and Repeat. Simple instructions that are not hard to follow. With good rainfall, these four words will yield ample grass to graze.

This is the latest in a series of columns from new Fayette County resident Julia Thiessen, who grew up in Russia. Easter is the main holiday in the Russian Orthodox Church as it is in the Catholic/Protestant belief.

Elephant migration patterns have been studied by animal researchers for many years now, and one interesting finding is that the migrations often take a herd past the remains of elephants who died in years past. The encounter of the living elephants with the bones or carcass of dead elephants is a poignant one, full of mourning-like behaviors: touching the remains; picking up bones and seeming to caress them; ritual-like circling around the site, faces outward, as though to shield them from outsiders. Even secreting a tears-like liquid from glands around their eyes has been observed, as though they were crying. . .

This year, in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence, our columns are devoted to the rights and freedoms at the heart of our nation’s founding. Immigration is among the most enduring and complex of those themes.

La Grange ISD is proposing a $90 million dollar bond to build and renovate facilities across the district. The vote is set for May 2. If passed, some of the money will pay for a multipurpose facility for electives and extracurriculars. Two groups set to benefit from the facility are the Mighty Leopard Band and the Leopardette drill team.