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It’s time to head back to school!

CONTENTS 5 Senior Class Two moms work toward their bachelor’s degrees while one dad goes back to school as a volunteer.

10 Meet your neighbor Bentwater artist Gini Morelock Bosco brings people to life with oil paints and canvas.

On The Cover Six fun things with a grandchild 22 Grandmother Kim Brungardt entertains granddaughter Selah Vaughn.

12 Calendar of events

17 Where in the Hood?

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14 Thrown by a gorilla Pecan resident Don Lade has traveled to all 50 states and all seven continents.

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It happens every year. Summer ends, and it’s time to get back into the rhythm of the fall season. Hood County public school classes start Monday, Aug. 25. Classrooms and hair styles were a little different in 1947 when this Granbury High School biology class photo was taken.

20 Super Fan Three generations of Wileys have played football for the Granbury Pirates, starting with 1962 Granbury High School grad Billy Wiley.

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he blonde girl walked tentatively to the front doors of the school.

She resisted the urge to turn and run.

The summer tan on her legs stopped abruptly at stark white feet revealed by summer sandals.

Math was going to be so hard, she just knew it. Why did she have to take it anyway?

What if she didn’t fit in with the other students? What if the teachers were mean?

Summoning all her courage, Tammy Gomez - a middle-aged mother of two whose feet were white, not from pool shoes, but from mowing 92 lawns a week - walked through the doors of Weatherford College.

New ‘boy’ at school The new boy was just trying to fit in when he admired the artistry of students who mixed their food into strange concoctions during lunchtime at Nettie Baccus Elementary School.

The lunch ladies quickly informed the newcomer that he shouldn’t be egging on such behavior.

It was the only time the boy got in

Tambrilyn King not only has to get her two teenaged sons ready to go back to school - she has to get herself ready as well. King is taking a full load of courses at Tarleton State University, where she is majoring in social work.

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trouble on his first day at the school. He’d had a great time playing dodgeball in the gym and befriending kids who got stuck on the monkey bars at recess.

The third-grade teacher had even picked him to read aloud to the class from a book about the history of Hood County.

For Craig Raupe, a 33-year-old father of two who works at a cinderblock manufacturing plant, the day he spent at Nettie Baccus was the best day ever.

Breaking the mold Used to be, “back to school” conjured up images of kids, No. 2 pencils and lunch boxes with likenesses of superheroes and Disney princesses.

The phrase meant that stay-at-home moms who had spent the summer juggling swim lessons and juice boxes would shift gears to focus on Room Mom duties.

But times have changed and so has the meaning of “back to school.”

Adults with jobs and grown - or nearly grown - children are heading back to the classroom as students. And school volunteers are just as likely to wear aftershave as perfume.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, almost half of today’s college students are considered “non-traditional” - over the age of 25, with paying jobs (usually full time) and dependants.

Twenty-five percent of the nation’s 17.6 million undergraduates are over 30, according to the Center. Over the next five years, those over-30 numbers are projected to increase by another 23 percent.

While stereotypes regarding the average college student continue to change and evolve, so, too, do demographics involving the support system behind our public schools.

The National Center for Fathering’s WATCH D.O.G.S. program grew from one school in Springdale, Arkansas, in 1998 to a national program involving hundreds of thousands of fathers and father figures. It drew the attention of NBC’s “Today Show.”

The acronym stands for Dads of Great Students. The program provides children with male role models, while also helping to increase security and reduce bullying.

“It was a blast,” Raupe said of his experience serving as the “guinea pig” who

Despite a work schedule that involves mowing 92 lawns a week and driving a school bus twice a day, Tammy Gomez attends classes at Weatherford College’s Granbury campus with an upbeat attitude. launched the program at Nettie Baccus.

All in the family Tambrilyn King has a lot to do before school starts. For one thing, she needs to take her sons, Brendan, 16, and Jordan, 15, shopping for school clothes.

Both boys are students at Granbury High School. King also has another son, Dillion Coplin, who is 21.

Also on King’s to-do list is registering herself for at least 12 credit hours at Tarleton State University, where the 45-yearold is majoring in social work.

King started a housecleaning business when she first went back to school, taking courses at Weatherford College. What started as a way to help support her family while taking college classes has grown into an actual business. It’s called Tambrilyn’s House Cleaning.

Though house cleaning pays the bills, King wants to earn a bachelor’s degree in social work and then work with the home-

less or those struggling with substance abuse.

Last spring, she interned at the Hood County Senior Center, working with the Meals on Wheels program.

She loved it, but decided to rest up over the summer.

“I was at the point that I was overwhelmed. There were so many outside assignments, plus an internship, school hours and juggling work because my family depends on me to work,” King said.

Asked what “back to school” means to her, King said: “Mainly, I need to mentally prepare for things to start back up because it’s real fast paced, and it’s real important to me to keep up my grades.

“I’ll have to get my books and get my classes picked out. And I’ll have to get back on a schedule of going to bed early at night.”

The right stuff For Gomez, walking through the doors at Weatherford College’s Granbury campus was the hardest part.

“I didn’t know if I was smart enough (to succeed in college). I didn’t know if I could do it with my schedule. I didn’t know what to expect. The math was absolutely terrifying,” says Gomez.

She handled the math by working with a tutor.

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Like King, Gomez is her own boss.

However, that doesn’t make things any easier. She and her husband, David, run a landscaping company and an insecticide company. They live in Glen Rose, but all of their customers are in Hood County.

Gomez also drives a school bus for the Glen Rose ISD every morning and afternoon, sometimes making a couple of round trips a day to and from Granbury.

“I do get tired. I’m usually in bed by 8:45, but I get up early, too. I usually write my papers and do laundry on Sunday,” she said.

At times, Gomez’s 25-year-old son, Joshua, has proofread her papers.

Daughter Ashlyn, 23, lives in California with her husband and baby daughter, Kinsleigh.

Gomez said she has always done things backwards, so going to college at this stage in life is par for the course.

After finishing at Weatherford, she will go to Tarleton. She has not yet decided whether to get a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, with a minor in social services, or vice versa.

What she does know, however, is that she wants to go into juvenile probation work.

Part of the reason Gomez is pursuing a college degree is because she wants to be able to support herself in the event anything ever happens to her husband.

“I think every woman should be able to take care of herself,” she said.

“Every woman should be able to take care of her family.”

Doggone fun As Raupe’s son, Carl, and daughter, Claire, prepare to start fifth and second grade, respectively, Raupe is preparing to don his WATCH D.O.G.S. T-shirt and head back to class as well.

Raupe’s wife, Hillary, who works in the office at Baccus, said that Principal Leslie Tewell’s idea to bring the national program to Granbury has been a hit with both dads and students. At least 15 dads have signed up, she said.

“The last couple of weeks (of school), I had three dads a week up there,” Hillary said.

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At Nettie Baccus Elementary School, it’s back-to-school time for dads as well as kids.

Craig Raupe (top row, left) became the school’s first volunteer for Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students). The national organization helps increase safety on school campuses.

Other dads pictured are Brent Wilson (top row, right); Brandon Guinn (left, blue shirt); school board member Mark Jackson (center) and Randy Myrick (far right).

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Style Gini works primarily in oil, but has worked with charcoal and pastels.

She refers to her work as a “traditional painterly style that takes you into their existence, like reading a good book, making a connection between past and present, and capturing a single moment forever.”

Her models Gini is always looking for potential models. She uses family, friends and strangers.

Once she was in a small store on Monhegan Island in Maine and she saw an old fisherman with what she calls “the right face” and snapped a photo of him.

“Sometimes I just see somebody with the right face and ask them if I could paint their portrait or take a photo of them.”

Two portraits that were recently accepted into national shows were of volunteer models from a Monday morning modeling group of the Lake Granbury Art Association. Q –Nancy Pricer

“Sharing a Laugh.” Gini captured a common site at Pam’s Too in Acton. “Frog” (David Keller), who owns the restaurant with his wife Maxine, frequently tells jokes and shares his quick wit with customers. This piece was selected for the American Women Artists’ national show.

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Gini Morelock Bosco sits in her favorite chair in her studio. It was her grandfather’s chair. Although he died when she was 4 years old, she was inspired to be an artist by a painting he had done.

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The mild-mannered man, who stands 6-4, also survived being picked up and thrown by a mountain gorilla in the Virunga Mountains near Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.

Lade was one of six tourists who went on a coveted gorilla trek about eight years ago. The Rwandan tracker leading the group had taken them to see a band of gorillas.

The gorillas were rambunctious. Lade was the only one who had not been slapped in the leg or bitten by one of them.

Lade had just said to the others he hoped one of them would touch him so he could go back home and tell others that he had been touched by one too.

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Don Lade was able to get close enough to photograph this silverback (adult male) gorilla while on a gorilla trek in the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda. grown gorilla reached up and grabbed me kind of between the shoulder blades and threw me about 10 feet in the air,” he said. “I mean just like a rag doll.”

Luckily, he landed in a pile of wet vegetation cushioning his landing.

But then off to his left about 10 or 12 feet he saw a large silverback (adult male) gorilla lying down on its belly with its chin characteristically propped up on its knuckles.

“He was looking right where I landed, and all I could think of was to get back with my group, and I was up and over there in a hurry,” he said. “I thought he might have been thinking I was tormenting the young gorilla, but he didn’t. He just laid there.

“I’m 81 now, so I was already too old for them to be throwing me around for sure,” he laughed. “But I can say a gorilla threw me in the wild of Africa now.”

Rwanda is not the only place he’s been.

The former biology teacher has been to all 50 states in the U.S. and all seven continents in the world.

He’s been scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef and touched a giant crab, snorkeled off the coast of Costa Rica, flown over the Nazca Lines in Peru, seen giant tortoises in the Galápagos Islands, and toured on a Russian icebreaker. His travel experience rivals many and always fascinated his great

nephew, Taylor.

Lade, who now has bad circulation mostly in one leg and foot he attributes from standing in the classroom for years, wears compression socks.

Sometimes he only puts one on the bad leg and regular socks on both legs.

He relates an amusing story that happened when Taylor was in the fourth grade.

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4 Jim Burks Firefighters Memorial Park, located next to the U.S. Veterans Museum at 601 Thorp Springs Road. This statue of a firefighter and the park were dedicated on March 7, 2007 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Granbury VFD. They honor firefighters everywhere and memorialize Jim Burks, a 20-year veteran of the Granbury VFD who died in November 1999.

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Three generations of the Wiley family have played football for the Granbury Pirates, starting with Billy (center), a 1962 graduate. His son Steve (right) graduated in 1982, and grandson Kelby graduated in 2012.

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illy Wiley played a variety of sports, including football, for the Granbury Pirates before they were a powerhouse football team of the 1960s. He’s remained a fan for more than five decades.

Through his family’s business, Wiley Funeral Home, he sponsors Powerhouse Pete, the inflated tunnel the Pirates run through before football games. He also partially sponsors a similar tunnel for the Tolar Rattlers. Wiley also helps provide traveling golf shirts for Granbury and Tolar football players on game days.

And 15 scholarships are sponsored annually for GHS athletes through Wiley.

The 70-year-old has never been one to hold back his thoughts, including holding forth on a number of topics:

SUPER FAN What goes around comes around - but it did take a long time to come around.

On The Upcoming Pirates Football Season It’s going to be a challenge with some of the players they’ve had leave and the district they’re moving into, but we’ll still be cheering for them.

On His Greatest Memory As A Pirates Fan The 1966 football team (state runnersup) was something else, but I didn’t get to go to the playoffs. I was working.

On His Beloved Pirates Going 33 Years Without Making Playoffs

On The Best Football Coach In Pirates History

Back in those days we expected to lose, but we also didn’t have facilities like these kids have now. I just don’t let things like that bother me. It’s like life. You pick yourself up and go again, hoping for better things.

There have been several coaches who had good qualities. Coach (Fred) Weir was special. Biff (Peterson), (Mike) Lebby, they were good coaches who got a lot out of the guys, and coach (Scotty) Pugh has something good going.

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On The Best Athlete In Pirates History

Well, if you go to state, you’ve got to be good, and there were several you could choose off that (1966) team. Jia (Perkins) was pretty incredible also. She was just as good as a freshman as she was when she was a senior.

On His Other Favorite Team, The Cowboys Several years ago my aunt and uncle lived near Oxnard (Cowboys training camp). We’d go to training camp, and that was always fun. If they make it to the playoffs, I’m proud of them. If not, I don’t let that bother me, just like the Pirates.

On Whether He Will Ever Stop Going To Games I can’t imagine that time ever coming. If you’re a fan, you go. Q –Rick Mauch

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prime | family Kim Brungardt (left) draws an outline for her granddaughter Selah Vaughn to paint. Kim likes to help her paint sometimes, as well as find other activities they can do together. Activities like this have created a powerful bond between the two.

fun things with a grandchild TEXT BY NANCY PRICER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARY VINSON

“I did it, I did it, Mimi!” shouted 4-year-old Selah Vaughn as she cracked a couple of eggs into a bowl to make cornbread.

“You sure did,” beamed her loving grandmother, Kim Brungardt.

The grand duo, grandmother and granddaughter, both of Granbury, frequently do fun things together such as cook, read and make homemade play dough.

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she shares with her husband, Troy Brungardt.

Kim and Troy have created a private sanctuary in their backyard on Old Granbury Road. It’s full of color, flowers and whimsical decorations. It’s also full of fun for their animated granddaughter Selah.

1. Paint on canvass One of Selah’s favorite things to do is to sit in her child-sized plastic pink Adirondack chair. A canvas rests on an easel, and a paint palette sits nearby on a child’s table.

Kim finds the 16-inch by 13-inch canvasses at a craft store where she also bought a small easel. She keeps various

colors of acrylic paint on hand and has a plastic white artists’ palette with shallow indentions for the paint that Selah uses.

“I draw the outline of the flowers on the canvas for her, and she just paints away,” Kim said.

“It’s fun to watch her. Sometimes we paint it together.”

2. Make stepping stones Troy mixes the concrete and pours it into a frame that he made out of 2 by 2s screwed together.

He lays the frame on top of an outdoor glass table because concrete won’t stick to glass. A plywood bottom could be added to the frame. Other forms could be used

such as old cake pans, plastic plant saucers or disposable aluminum pans.

“A $2 bag of Quick-crete will make three stepping stones,” Kim said.

Kim buys beads and other colorful things for Selah to put in the stepping stones. “You can even add a hand print or a footprint,” she said.

They simply loosen the screws in the frame to release the stone after drying overnight.

3. Paint rocks Painting rocks can be fun for all ages and is free as long as you have access to some smooth river rocks and some acrylic paint.

“Finding the rocks is really another fun activity, like a scavenger hunt,” Kim said.

“We find rocks in the yard, driveway or the park.”

Selah has learned to take into consideration the shape of the rock and what the shape resembles.

“She’s picked up a round one and said it looked like a ladybug so she painted a ladybug on it,” Kim said. “Once she found one that was shaped like a pickle so she painted it green with black spots.”

4. Paint water cans “Selah likes to help me water the flow-

ers,” Kim said.

Kim makes it more fun by letting Selah decorate her own little watering cans purchased at a dollar-type store.

“The watering cans were cheap to buy,” she said. “I just spray-painted them different colors and let her paint whatever she wanted on them (with acrylic paint).”

5. Cooking/baking Kim said Selah likes to cook and bake everything, but she does have a favorite.

“If you ask her what she wants to make today, she’ll say ‘cupcakes!’”

Whatever and whenever Selah’s cooking, she proudly puts on her “special” apron and pink chef’s hat Kim and Troy keep at their home.

6. Read Kim has a large bookshelf in the kitchen with a comfortable reading chair where she sits with Selah on her lap and reads to her. It’s a handy place to have in the hub of a home. Sometimes Selah reads to Kim. Dr. Seuss books were Selah’s first literary love, but that changed when she was 2. “She outgrew those small sentences that she could read back to us,” Kim said.

“She wanted something more challenging that we had to read to her, and she follows along with the pictures.” Q

Selah Vaughn proudly shows off her newly finished artistic creation. Her grandmother, Kim Brungardt, provided the supplies she needed to succeed.

Kim Brungardt (left) and her granddaughter Selah Vaughn, 4, enjoy reading as one of several bonding activities. As they read books, they talk about the messages and the pictures. Humor sometimes erupts.

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Love Food TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY

BY NANCY PRICER

Larry Rupp (left) takes a break and fills a plate with treats created by Friday night tennis buddies. The cake pictured was a hit and is featured below.

Kahlua Bundt Cake

by Jeannie Rupp

Play and eat.

1 box butter golden cake mix 1 package instant chocolate pudding 1/2 cup Kahlua 4 large eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup oil 3/4 cup water

Eat and play.

That’s what they love to do on Friday nights when they can.

A dozen or so friends get together to play tennis at the deCordova Bend Estates Country Club tennis courts.

Their fee to play is food, and it’s not just chips and dip. On any given Friday they could have slow cookers, casseroles, cakes, cookies or fruit, and they always have fun.

Vickie Pidgeon started the group about four years ago after playing with her daughter Brandy who was a sophomore in high school.

Scores and who wins are secondary.

“The social aspect is the best part,” said Pidgeon.

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Glaze 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar 4 tablespoons Kahlua

STARTING YOUNG: Wendy Richards, who will be 2 in September, is one of the youngest members of the Friday night tennis group.

Butter bundt pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine cake mix and the rest of the ingredients.

Mix until just blended. Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake for 40 minutes until wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean. Allow cake to cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Invert cake onto serving platter.

In a small bowl, whisk together Kahlua and powdered sugar. Consistency may be adjusted by adding more Kahlua or powdered sugar. Pour glaze over cake or dust cake with powdered sugar.

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Cash Williamson, 4, donned his rain boots for some puddle splashing. Photo by Melissa Williamson.

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Courtney Anderson, 2, at the Port Aransas beach on the Texas coast. She excitedly shows her parents the seashell she found. Photo submitted by Kevin and Kathy Anderson.

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Kyle Muenzberg on the 4th of July came across this flag (in background) near the Lake Granbury dam and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist a photo with his matching swim trunks. Photo submitted

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