Town & Country Ranks the Families

Town & Country magazine started a new annual list ranking American families into the following categories:

  • Most Inspiring -Late Gov Ann Richards family makes the list as do the Mannings.
  • Most Generous – No surprise the Gates come in number one and you’ll see a picture of Mineral Wells resident Alice Walton.  Oh, and that darn Jones family of Dallas that doesn’t know how to fire its General Manager is on the list.
  • Most Enduring –  Huh, I thought Rockefeller was just the name of a building for a sitcom I liked.
  • Most Creative – This is where The Dude makes an appearance as well as a cast member of ‘Parks and Rec’.
  • Most Powerful – No question the Bush family is tops on this list.

I was surprised the Perot, Romney, and Osmond family didn’t make it on any list.  There probably should have been a separate category for sports families, with the Hicks family grabbing top honors for destroying sports franchises.

 

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(RE)Building an Icon: Shaping Big Tex’s Face

Published on Apr 9, 2013
In just 171 days, gates will open to the State Fair of Texas®. Reconstruction continues on the Fair’s official host, Big Tex. Tex was destroyed in an electrical fire on the final Friday of the 2012 season. Here’s a sneak peek into what it takes to re-create Big Tex’s lovable face.

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Police help 87-year old women with dementia finish run for cancer

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ODESSA/OLNEY-Lena Mae Beasley is an extraordinary woman.

The 87-year old has dementia, but that didn’t keep her from leaving her nursing home in Olney, Texas last week for a Fun Run for cancer.

It was her late husband’s birthday and a chance for her to honor her son, Jimmy Don Beasley. He’s been battling cancer at M.D. Anderson Hospital. 

The pictures say it all. With a white jacket and walker in hand, Beasley made her way across the town. And it was all to honor her son’s fight against cancer. Her niece lives right here in Odessa.

“It was her determination because he was able to walk again,” said Linda Beasley Harrison, Beasley’s niece. “That she was determined to do this relay for life…that’s the kind of person she is. If she’s 87 and she could do that, then by golly I ought to be doing more than I’m doing.”

The family says Beasley has always been athletic–her son is a retired Texas high school football coach and she has two grandsons who coach as well.

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Dairy Queen has a surprisingly interesting Wikipedia page

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We took a family trip to our local DQ yesterday evening and I discovered you can now get a Blizzard in a cone.  I decided to give it a try, but was disappointed because my cone was stale.   While there a few questions about DQ came up so I decided to check out their Wikipedia page and found some interesting stuff, especially since I think of it as such a Texas institution.

  • The first Dairy Queen store opened in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.
  • The company’s corporate offices are located in Edina, Minnesota.
  • The state with the most Dairy Queen restaurants is Texas.
  • It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
  • The first store in Canada opened in Estevan, Saskatchewan, in 1953.
  • In 1987, DQ bought the Orange Julius chain.
  •  The busiest store in the US is in Rosedale, Maryland.
  • The largest DQ in the world was built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • The busiest DQ in the world is located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

 

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