The Train Collectors Association will host the Lone Star Division Train Show & Meet in McKinney September 7, 10:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., at Collin County Central Park Campus. The public is invited. The Train Show & Meet will feature operating layouts on display, as well as a special layout for children to operate.

Join us on Saturday, August 31 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum for our very first Munzee event! What is Munzee you might ask yourself? Munzee is the next generation in global scavenger hunt games. Track down QR codes hidden in the real world and capture them for points. Whether you are a casual player, an avid explorer, or a hardcore competition enthusiast, Munzee helps you rediscover the world around you.

There's a new biography of P.T. Barnum, and as I read a review of the book it brought to mind an unforgettable memory from my early childhood. When I was about five years old, I was taken to the Barnum and Bailey three-ring circus in Waco, and it certainly seemed to me to live up to its billing as "The Greatest Show on Earth." My mother saved some of the promotional literature that identified the origin of the circus with P. T. Barnum. Some years later, after we had acquired a set of encyclopedias, I looked up the entry for Barnum and read about his fabulous career back in the 19th century. Undoubtedly his greatest hit was General Tom Thumb.

Home Hospice of Grayson County is pleased to announce our next Support Group starting on September 3, 2019. We are pleased to offer this new session on Tuesdays starting September 3 and continuing through October 22. Those attending for the 8-week period will receive a book and journal that will be used throughout the series. They will meet evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The group will meet in the Home Hospice Office at 505 W. Center Street in Sherman, Texas.

School is back in session for my fourth grader, and he’s decided this year that he wants to pack lunch for the first time. Any tips on how to make sure his packed lunch is safe and healthy?

2018 – death of John McCain, American politician and military officer. John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and military officer, who served as a United States senator from Arizona from January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama. McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and received a commission in the United States Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he almost died in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. During the war, he sustained wounds that left him with lifelong physical disabilities.