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This week in the Canyon…

Thursday, March 4:
    American Legion Bingo, 7 pm at the Legion Hall, Refreshments at 6: 30 pm

Sunday, March 7:
    Carne Guisada Dinner, 11-2 at St. Raymond Church Hall

Monday March 8:
    Commissioners Court, 10 am at Courthouse
    LISD Board of Trustees, 6:30 at the Cafeteria
    City Council, 7 pm at the City Hall
    Dulcimer practice, 6:30 pm at LUMC

Tuesday, March 9:
    Great Decisions Meeting, 11:30 am at the Library
    Garden Club, 2 pm at the Heritage House
    LFVD Practice Meeting, 7 pm at the Fire Station
    Eastern Star Meeting, 7:30 at the Lodge

Thursday, March 11:
    Lions Club Business Meeting, 7 pm at the Legion Hall

Around the Canyon

The Bingo night has not been too well attended during the cold months of this winter but maybe if people knew that the Progressive Bingo was up to $250 and 59 calls, there might be a larger crowd this month.

In the election on Tuesday, Diane Rogers and Brian Shackelford won their races and VickyCantrell and Mairi Grey will have to have a run-off election for County Treasurer.

Library News

The Library has an interesting collection of Teddy Bears on display at this time. They are on loan from Sally Brezinski.

The Library is considering classes in different crafts to be held at the library. Some mentioned are knitting, crocheting, scrap-booking, card-making, canning, specialty cooking, preserving. If you would be interested in taking such a class for a small fee, ask at the library for a sign-up sheet. If there is anything else that you would like to have a class in, call it to the librarian’s attention

The Rockin Grannies will have a Carne Guisida Dinner on March 7. Price will be $6.00 a plate. It will be held at the St. Raymond Church Hall from 11-2

Mark Your Calendar

The FOL is planning their third annual St. Paddy;s Day Bash. The menu will be a Rueben Casserole made with corn beef and sauerkraut and Swiss cheese and rye bread, Potatoes O’Brian and O’Shaunnessy Cabbage salad. The price will be $8.00 a plate and will include a drink and dessert. The evening will begin at 6:30 and there will be a program of Irish music.

Weekly Church Times and Events

Church in the Valley, Spanish worship service at 6 PM on Saturday
Church in the Valley, worship at 10:45 AM and 6 PM on Sunday
+CITV pot luck supper and Bible study 7pm each 2nd and 4th Friday
First Baptist Church, worship at 11 AM and 6 PM on Sunday
Frio Canyon Baptist Church, worship at 11 AM and 6 PM on Sunday
+Frio Canyon Baptist Church “Triple L” (games) at 9:30 AM each Tuesday
+Frio Canyon Baptist Church Prayer Meeting and Bible Study at 7 pm each Wednesday
Leakey Church of Christ, worship at 10:45 am and 6 pm on Sunday
Leakey United Methodist Church, worship at 11 AM Sunday
+Leakey Methodist Bible Study meets at 7:15 PM each Wednesday.
New Beginnings Church, worship at 10:30 AM and 6 PM on Sunday
St. Raymond Catholic Church, Mass at 5:30 pm on Saturday.
+St. Raymond Catholic prayer group meets at 10 am each Monday.
+St Raymond Catholic Faith Sharing, meeting at 7 pm on Thursdays.
Trinity Fellowship, worship at 10:45 AM on Sunday

Birthdays:

Mar 3 Dylan Maples- W. B. Patterson
Mar 4 Barbara Arthur- Jacklyn Lockhart
Mar 5 Roman De Leon-Carol Ann Kolb-Janet Wells
Mar 6 Vicki Macha-Kayla Vincent
Mar 7 Haley Bates-Tray Gass-Jaynell Glass- Travis Magers-Paul Whitney
Mar 8 Bill Head
Mar 9 Ray Mann-Sonya White

Humor

ROPING A DEER Continued

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various
large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in
there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.
Did you know that deer bite?! They do!

I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ... I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer
bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.

The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was
ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.

That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal--like a horse--strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery wouldnot work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason
I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.

I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds.

All these events are true so help me God...

An Educated Rancher