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Stayton brothers Phillip and Tim Wade are creating a animated short of “Winter Village” which they hope will lead to a full length feature film. By Mary Owen Passionate about filmmaking, two Stayton b… Access […]
Thurman Smith is one lucky dog!
“That’s what they called me when I came close to being bombed out of the air,” said Smith, a 90-year-old veteran of three wars with the U.S. Army Air Corps, which became the U.S. Air Force after World War II.
Smith, who has lived in Lyons for the past 35 years, still has plenty of stories to tell about his fighting days, his love of horses and his childhood on his family’s northeast Texas farm.
Although a graduate of the public school system, CeAnne Kosel advocates heartily for home schooling. “I feel that home education offers so many more benefits to the individual student,” said the Stayton mom of two boys, Patrick, 6, and Linus, 7, both adopted from Russia.