The Dallas Arboretum celebrates the 30th anniversary of Dallas Blooms, the largest floral festival in the Southwest with the theme "Birds in Paradise." Pictured here in front of the 13-foot peacock topiaries are Carolyn Olson, Dallas Blooms co-chair; Dave Forehand, vice president of gardens and guest services for the Dallas Arboretum; and Gillian Breidenbach, Senior Vice President and North Texas Market Manager of Bank of America, Dallas Blooms’ Presenting Sponsor.

The March meeting of the Lamar County Texas Genealogical Society, will be held Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. Jim Larson will present the program on his new book, I Survived the Holocaust, a true story of a survivor.

The Red River Photo Club will be meeting next Tuesday evening, March 11, at 6:30 p.m. at the Creative Arts Center located at 200 West Fifth Street.

The Grayson College Visual Arts Department is calling for artists, designers, and seamstresses to create and show art clothing and accessories out of trash and recycled material for the first “Trashion” show, a runway style trash fashion show, in conjunction with the 2014 Texoma Earth Day Festival in Sherman. The trash fashion show will be held at the Sherman Municipal grounds, 405 N. Rusk in Sherman, Texas on Saturday, April 26. In addition to area artists and designers fashions and assessories by GC Visual Arts design students will also be featured in the runway show. Grayson College Cosmetology students will be working as the make-up artists for the models. photo by Allen Rich

Thursday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m., the Creative Arts Center welcomes Paris author and historian Skipper Steely. The second in the center's Lecture Series, Steely has a wealth of experience in the publishing business. Search on Amazon.com for Steely's work and you'll find over a dozen titles he has either written himself or co-authored with others.

(L-R) Ruth, Don and Phil Blevins. On March 3, 1976, Don and Ruth Blevins opened Hickory Bar-B-Que at the same location they are still at, 208 E. Sam Rayburn Dr. in Bonham, Texas.

Open to the public
Breakfast served 7:00-9:00 a.m.
Lunch served 11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Salad bar each weekday
Grill is open for burgers
Baked potatoes on request if ordered ahead of time

The Bonham Senior Citizens Center is open to ALL seniors aged 60 and older. It also delivers the Meals on Wheels lunches for this area. Meals are served at the Center on Mondays-Fridays, 11:30 A.M.-12:00 Noon.

Wouldn't you like to have a lush, beautiful veggie garden that requires less water, and you don't need to own a tiller? Come to Sweetwater Farm Greenhouse in Denison this Saturday and learn about the Back to Eden deep mulch, no-till, vegetable gardening method.

Community volunteers have been busy making plans for building a playground at Powder Creek Park March 12-16. Volunteer registration is now open online at www.powdercreekplay.org. In addition to skilled and unskilled labor, volunteers are needed to check-in workers, provide child care for kids 9 and under, prepare and serve food and drinks to the workers, and complete artistic projects too.

While we technically lose one hour of sleep March 9, our clocks push forward and make for an easier time change. Even though we lose an hour, our clocks will read 7 instead of 6 when we wake up on Sunday morning, and as any parent knows, making it to 7:00 is sometimes a really big deal. Lori Strong, Certified Child Sleep Consultant by The Family Sleep Institute and Founder of Strong Little Sleepers in Austin, Texas, shares five sleep tips to help your family deal with this time change.

McKinney Repertory Theatre with Chiropractic Wellness Center of McKinney and Just for Kids Dentistry presents the 8th Annual McKinney Has Talent!

The Telling Our Stories program at Austin College is sponsoring a contest for autobiographical stories. The deadline for entries is March 15, 2014. Cash prizes totaling $225 will be awarded, as well as certificates of merit.

The Honey Grove Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet will be held March 29, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. in the Honey Grove Elementary School Cafeteria located 1202 N. 17th Street.