Today's News

In addition to performing for visitors in Disney World’s Epcot Center last Friday night, two singers from Harrison County’s High School Choir made it through auditions to perform solo at the American Idol experience at Hollywood Studios Park on Saturday.
The HCHS Choir escaped the oncoming winter weather when they left for Orlando on Wednesday afternoon. The timing could not have been better, Michelle Hassall, choir director, said.
The high school choir took 30 singers to participate in the Disney Candlelight Processional at Epcot Center.

BREAKFAST
ST. EDWARD SCHOOL
MONDAY: Sausage biscuit or cereal, toast, fruit or juice choice, choice of milk.
TUESDAY: French toast sticks with syrup or cereal, toast, yogurt, fruit or juice choice, choice of milk.
WEDNESDAY: Breakfast pizza or cereal, toast, yogurt, fruit or juice choice, choice of milk.
THURSDAY: Christmas waffles with syrup or cereal, toast, yogurt, fruit or juice choice, choice of milk.
FRIDAY: No School.

ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

By Mike Barres
Here we are between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving really applies to both.
In Psalm 100, the psalmist reminds us to “Enter his gates with Thanksgiving in our hearts.” In 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Paul says, “In everything give thanks.”
Thankfulness helps us to see life in a brighter light. We often focus on our problems and what we “don’t” have. If we were to make a list, of all that we do have, for which we should be thankful, life would appear a lot better to us.

Recently, a local church pastor stopped by the newsroom to talk about depression — his.
He had just come through a second bout of it and thought it was important to tell people that Christians and Christian pastors are not immune to it.
It’s not a character thing; it’s a chemical, brain thing, he said.
He called his depression a “dark night of the soul.” It made him tired and unable to eat, doubtful of God’s love for him, although not God’s existence.