Emhouse News

By Janet Jacobs Daily Sun Kitt Stevens has purchased the skating rink, formerly Xtreme Skate, at 303 S. Seventh St., and is renovating it to open within the next month.

The Black Hills Cemetery Association currently has cookbooks for sale at $20. Over 300 recipes were collected from several generations of cooks that have ties with Black Hills.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. Through May 17 Warehouse Living Arts Center Theatre's Corsicana Children's Company, 119 W. Sixth Ave., will present "Cinderella Wore Combat Boots," adapted by Jerry Chase, at 7 p.m. May 15-16 and at 2:30 p.m. May 17.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. May 11 Woodmen of the World Lodge 5 will have its meeting and potluck meal at 6 p.m. at Liberty Hall.

May 2 Dresden Cemetery Association will hold its annual "first Saturday" meeting.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. April 26 Pattison Cemetery Association will meet at 2 p.m. at Emhouse Community Center.

Entries were up this year in the breeding rabbit division according to chairman Rose Marie Goff.

Jake Adair left the Youth Expo Wednesday night disappointed. And proud. While he was upset he did not win the 51st annual Navarro County Youth Exposition's swine competition, he couldn't have been prouder of the person who did, little sister Amy Adair, a 15-year-old freshman at Blooming Grove.

Grand champion in the senior division of the Creative Arts competition at Navarro County Youth Exposition went to Tyler Kimbriel of Dawson FFA for his large wooden table entry.

Trenton Herod won grand champion in lambs for the second year in a row Tuesday at the 2009 Navarro County Youth Expo.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. March 19 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Corsicana YMCA rear addition.

Billy Joe Shaver, the man Willie Nelson has said "may be the best songwriter alive today," will retrace the path he took as a poor, share-cropping boy riding loads of cotton into Corsicana in the 1940s, when he is honored as the Grand Marshal of the 2009 Derrick Days Parade on Derrick Days Saturday, April 25.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. March 19 Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas will host a "Workforce Center Orientation" at 10 a.m. and a job search workshop on "Resume Preparation" at 10 a.m. at its office, 720 N. Beaton St.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. March 17 Kerens Masonic Lodge will have a stated meeting at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served ...

Love Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, 400 N. Benton St., where David E. Wilson is pastor and Sharron D. Wilson is minister, will observe family and friends day March 15.

By Janet Jacobs Daily Sun Navarro County will receive $10.2 million in road projects, part of the federal stimulus plan to put money into local efforts and generate jobs.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. Feb.

For a complete listing of local beat items, view the Daily Sun online newspaper, www.corsicanadailysun.com. Feb.

By Janet Jacobs Daily Sun The threat of ice storms and below-freezing weather was enough to cancel some Tuesday night events, and send folks shopping late Tuesday afternoon in Corsicana.

Jan. 24 Hat Brand Rodeo to be held at the Navarro County Exposition Center will have bull rides, bareback, saddle bronc, tied downs, calf roping, break-away roping, barrel racing, open team roping, steer ...