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BackAlley Theatre in Grand Cane will open up its 18th season with the Classic Band bringing back the tunes everyone will love. The show runs Sept. 6-8 and continues Sept. 13-15 at the theatre.

Get ready to rock with the band’s favorites.

Terry Sparks began the band a number of years ago with family members. She sings wonderful Patsy Cline songs and played the famous country star in the play “Always…Patsy Cline.” She retired from Christus Schumpert Hospital as a registered nurse. She lives in the Holly community and also serves on the BackAlley Board of Directors.

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The Mansfield Lions Club invited Robert Powell as their speaker at the regular meeting on July 24. Powell shared about his recent trip to Israel and Jordan via PowerPoint presentation with photos and a brief description of laces shown in the presentation.

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“Your Successful Farm Business” is one of Joel Salatin’s latest books.

One of my favorite writers on anything farming has to be Joel Salatin. Joel’s books are chock full of information. Quite often he adds a humorous note – just consider the title of one of his books, “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs,” and you will understand what I mean.

In his latest book, “Your Successful Farm Business,” Joel gives you a little over three hundred pages of down-to-earth information from Working Landscapes (Chapter One), through Elclectic Awareness, Living Frugally, a Can Do Entrepreneurial Spirit and all the way to New Opportunities that can help make your farm more profitable. These are all things that any size farm can do – from just an acre or two all the way up to 100 or more acres.

Mansfield Main Library is displaying James Tyler’s “Eagles in Flight” collection. Tyler has been collecting these eagles and many more for 30 years. He also has pictures, lighters, knives and many other items with eagles on it.

“The eagle represents a majestic ideal that we are all able to soar to any height to achieve our goals and can take pride in accomplishing them,” Tyler said. He also said that being a Veteran, this is his way of showing pride in our country and those who have served and are still serving to protect our freedoms and rights.

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A few years ago, students approached Allison Davidson Carpenter and asked for her help with a project they were working on that videos people’s responses to three questions: Do you believe in God, why or why not? Do you believe the Bible is true, why or why not? Do you believe Christianity is the one true religion, why or why not? Carpenter was unable to answer them.

“You think you can answer those, but I realized pretty quickly that I could not articulate answers except maybe sentences using the word faith, but nothing really beyond that and it was really disturbing to me because I’d been a Christian for 34 years,” Carpenter said. “Whenever they turned the video camera on, I thought no, just turn the video camera off and I promised them that I would take those questions and really ponder them and learn how to answer them well.”

Gospel Greats continues its run this Thursday, Friday and Saturday July 12-14 at BackAlley Theatre in Grand Cane. Pictured are last week's performers Dale Watkins on banjo, William Grayson on dobro, Wayne Reynolds on guitar, Jennefer Grayson, Beverly Watkins, Tracy Miller, Cody Robbins on vocals and Margie Watkins on bass. Not pictured is Jimmy Price on guitar. Don't miss this evening of wonderful gospel music. Call 461- 0202 for reservations. Curtain is 7 p.m.

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