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Decorated floats, dance groups, community organizations, antique cars, school clubs, and more will be marching through Downtown Mesquite for the annual Rodeo Parade, starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 2, 2022. This year’s theme is Real. Texas. Rodeo. and marks the parade’s 64th anniversary. Businesses and local organizations are all invited to be part of this fun-filled tradition.

Bats are beginning to become active in some southern parts of the state, and while cold fronts could reduce activity, it is a good time for the public to be aware of the benefits and risks associated with Texas species.

Propaganda: dissemination of information – facts, arguments, half-truths, or lies – to influence public opinion. I know politics are important, but that’s not what this is about. Politics, at any level, make my stomach turn. What I want to talk about today is how propagandized the world has become and on how many levels. For instance, 30 years ago, in order to influence public opinion, and per this definition qualify as propaganda, a person had to go to great lengths. We threw the term “grass roots effort” around quite a bit in the late 80s. Someone else had to champion your cause, spread the word in an internetless world, play the role of your hype man. Nowadays, you just have to be ostentatious enough to attract enough social media followers to start a movement. Advertising is free. This is great, they said. Be your own hype man, they said. But, no one remembered to agree to use our powers for good instead of evil. The waters, they are muddy.

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When Laci (Bradshaw) Roberts was a student at Forney High School years ago, she knew she enjoyed the theater arts program, and it was clear that she had an artistic knack for creating various things. Fast forward twenty years and Roberts now has a resumé that includes working as a wardrobe assistant and Head of Wardrobe for twelve years on the road with various tours of theatrical productions, including The King and I, Miss Saigon, and Beauty and the Beast. Most recently, though, she wrapped up her work on the hit Paramount+ series, 1883.

Two North Forney High School band students recently auditioned and were selected for the The Lonestar Youth Winds (LSYW) ensemble. Valory Justice and Dawson Welch, senior percussionists in the North Forney High School Pride of Falcon Nation Band, are leaders in the group in musicianship and character.

February is in the rearview now and March has arrived…that means that the Fourth Annual Casino Night for the Forney Education Foundation is happening soon! This year the event, presented by Gallagher Construction and Huckabee, will happen at the new Kaufman Civic Center on April 2, 2022. The tickets will go on sale on March 7, 2022. If you go to the website, you will be able to buy tickets there and the best advice is don’t delay as this event has always sold out. And this year’s event is going to be very special as the Teachers of the Year for Forney ISD will be announced as well as the District Teachers of the Year!

The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) will temporarily change the disinfectant in its water treatment process from March 1 through March 29, 2022. The annual, routine change is necessary to maintain the regional system and yearround water quality for the more than two million customers NTMWD serves in a 10-county region in North Texas in a 2,200-square-mile service area. NTMWD provides a capacity of more than 876 million gallons of treated water per day through more than 610 miles of transmission pipelines.

Last month, local business Wrap Experts welcomed a different kind of customer. While their usual clientele involves vehicles on four wheels, or more, this North Profit Row business had a unique opportunity to create and install a vinyl wrap for a helicopter at the beginning of February! Wrap Experts is located in a Sealy & Company property, and Property Manager Howell Jones commented of the helicopter landing, “Just another sign of the changing times in Forney! Use to be helicopters flew over us. Now they land and do commerce!”

Crandall ISD recently upgraded playing fields for both baseball and softball, along with adding a multipurpose practice field. The surfaces will provide new practice areas for more than 1,000 – and growing students involved with CISD athletics, cheer, fine arts, JROTC and other district programs. The fields can also assist with high school class scheduling and create potential revenue during springtime sports— and CISD wants families and community members to experience the upgrades firsthand.

On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 6 p.m. we invite you to join us on campus for Fall 2022 Kindergarten Round- Up. An attendance zone map is available at www. forneyisd.net/attendancezones. If you have trouble locating your address, please complete the form https://bit.ly/kindercampusfind with your contact and home address, and our team will reach out to you.

Three area high school students will be headed to Washington D.C. this summer after winning spots to the Governmentin-Action Youth Tour. The trip, sponsored by Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative, includes nine days of educational opportunities, meetings with legislators, museum and government tours and events with more than 1,500 other students from around the country.

Air Traffic Controlman 2nd Class Cameron Martin, a native of Forney, Texas, assigned to Tactical Air Control Squadron (TACRON) 11, stands watch aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) in support of Noble Fusion, Feb. 7, 2022. Noble Fusion demonstrates that Navy and Marine Corps forward-deployed stand-in naval expeditionary forces can rapidly aggregate Marine Expeditionary Unit/Amphibious Ready Group teams at sea, along with a carrier strike group, as well as other joint force elements and allies, in order to conduct lethal sea-denial operations, seize key maritime terrain, guarantee freedom of movement, and create advantage for U.S. partner and allied forces. Naval Expeditionary forces conduct training throughout the year, in the Indo-Pacific, to maintain readiness. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Wesley Richardson)