Dr. Susan Thomas, Executive Director of Texoma Council of Governments (TCOG) announced today the All That Jazz Caregiver Gala. The black tie dinner and dance will be held on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn Denison/Sherman Texoma Event Center, 5015 South US Hwy 75, Denison, Texas.

Last November, First Presbyterian Church of Bonham hosted Bonham’s first ever Spirit of Giving Community Christmas Party. Church members donated new and gently used items which were given away, free of charge, to those in attendance. Approximately 325 men, women, and children were served during the event, and both volunteers and guests were richly blessed. The church already has plans to hold the second annual Spirit of Giving on Saturday, November 21, 2015, and would like to invite other churches, organizations, and families in Bonham to join in this unique event.

Red River Regional Hospital held a farewell party for CEO, David Conejo and CCO, William Keifer on Thursday, February 26, with members of the community and many of the employees in attendance. (L-R) Judy Conejo, David Conejo and William Keifer)

This is an artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object -- a city-sized icy relic left over from the birth of our solar system. The sun, more than 4.1 billion miles (6.7 billion kilometers) away, shines as a bright star embedded in the glow of the zodiacal dust cloud. Jupiter and Neptune are visible as orange and blue "stars" to the right of the sun. image credit: JHUAPL/SwRI

Air Force Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesdal stands in front of a U-2 at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 9, 2015. Tengesdal is the only black female U-2 pilot in history. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Bobby Cummings

1902 – birth of John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate. John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), widely attributed to be part of the American literary canon, is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece. In the first 75 years since it was published, it sold 14 million copies. The Grapes of Wrath is set in the Great Depression and describes a family of sharecroppers, the Joads, who were driven from their land due to the dust storms of the Dust Bowl. The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some critics found it too sympathetic to the workers' plight and too critical of capitalism but it found quite a large audience in the working class. It won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction (novels) and was adapted as a film starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford.