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A large crowd gather Monday, Memorial Day, to honor Allen’s servicemen and women. The ceremony was held at 11:00 a.m. at the cemetery and this year’s speaker, Wayne Layell, did an outstanding job. 1st Sgt. Layell served in the U.S. Marine Corp, retiring in 1991 following 23 years of service for his country that included two tours in Vietnam.
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Join the Allen Masonic Lodge for breakfast Saturday, June 3rd, from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m., at the Lodge on West Broadway. The breakfast fund-raisers are held the first Saturday of each month with a menu of sausage, biscuits, gravy, scrambled eggs, hash browns and coffee.
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The 17th annual Allen High School Academic Awards Program was held Thursday evening, May 11th. Students in grades 9 through 12 were recognized for their academic achievement and scholarly accomplishments.
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We just observed Memorial Day — a time we honor all veterans who served our nation. In many cases these men and women paid with their lives to preserve something we Americans have always held dear. Freedom. Now we know that in some of our liberal WOKE school systems the causes and reasons these wars were fought are brought into question. The very fact that an evil man rose to power in the 1930s and captured a democracy called Germany and directed that country’s political and military power to a goal to fulfill his own sick dream of fascism has become distorted.
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I recently read an obit that included a link that enabled mourners to send Sympathy Flowers. I followed the link to a website full of lovely floral arrangements with names like:
Read morelistening in to other folks’ conversations. My mother always told me not to do that but then she would ask me what they said. Our first number was 778, then FRQ-778, then 379-778, then 405-379-778.
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