Kerens News

July 6 City of Blooming Grove will holds its monthly city council meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Blooming Grove City Hall, 200 S. Fordyce St.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. July 7 Corsicana Chapter No.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. July 4 Blooming Grove Fourth of July parade will be held at 11 a.m. in downtown Blooming Grove.

There will be plenty of opportunities to celebrate July 4th Saturday in Navarro County.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. July 2 Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3366, located at Veterans Drive off West State Highway 31, will have its regular monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. of all members in good standing.

Love Chapel Baptist Church, 400 N. Benton St., will celebrate the fifth appreciation service for its pastor and wife, David and Sharron D. Wilson, who have been faithful and dedicated to the work of the ministry at Love Chapel Church.

June 26 Blooming Grove Elementary PTO's deadline for ordering school supply packets will be June 26.

Despite a decline in the national economy, the Navarro Central Appraisal District has set values higher than last year in most areas.

Some months ago, Abraham Salum faced a couple of moderately serious problems. Business slipped, first of all, as the recession began to squeeze diners - an issue that he might deal with to some extent if he addressed the second concern.

By Bob Belcher Daily Sun Longtime banker, business leader and community volunteer Gary D. Brown passed away Sunday morning at the age of 72, following a courageous battle with cancer.

Through June 19 Warehouse Living Arts Center Theatre, 119 W. Sixth Ave., will present "Dearly Beloved" at 7:30 p.m. June 16, 18-19. "Dearly Beloved" by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten is a hilarious comedy about a wedding with a "Gone With the Wind" theme.

A Navarro County jury deliberated an hour and 10 minutes before returning a guilty verdict Thursday on Herman Price Gullatt, Jr., for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, according to District Attorney Lowell Thompson.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. June 9 Home Rebekah Lodge No.

The action-packed comedy "Marriage is Murder" by Nick Hall will be featured as this year's 3rd Annual VOICE Kerens Summer FUNdraiser June 26 and 27 at the Legion Hut in Kerens The play stars David Ross as Paul Butler and Gina Dieterichs as Polly Butler.

Andrew Bullard was welcomed as the new tennis professional for the Mertz Tennis Center on Sunday with a reception held in his honor.

Masons from Kerens, Navarro County and state Masonic dignitaries gathered Saturday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Relief Lodge No.

By Bob Belcher Daily Sun A lengthy session of the Navarro County Grand Jury Thursday found 76 indictments handed down against 64 individuals.

MY FELLOW columnist Jim a oePappya Moore added an interesting footnote to my May 20 column about the actress Butterfly McQueen, made famous and most remembered for her role as a oePrissy,a personal slave of Scarlett Oa Hara in Gone with the Wind.

Frost ISD gets loss prevention grant The Frost Independent School District has been awarded a loss prevention grant of $3,000 from the Texas Association of School Board's Risk Management Fund.

Woodland Memorial Park was the location of a second Memorial Day ceremony Monday afternoon, with about two dozen folks gathered under the gazebo near the north side of the cemetery to honor those lost while serving in America's armed forces.