Chick Fest began in 1986 with special guest “Bo” Pilgrim of Pilgrim Industries and was a spring attraction that continued for several years. There were cooking contests and even a Baby Chick contest. Calab and Courtney McLemore (twins) won as the cutest “Chicks” of the day in ‘86.
The University of Wyoming lists 30 students from Texas on the 2021 spring semester academic Dean’s and Dean’s Freshman Honor Rolls. Daingerfield’s Tyrese Grant is included on that list.
WHEN: Saturday, July 24, 2021, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Every year, it seems like just when the garden is starting to really produce, grasshoppers, beetles, and several other pests show up to start chewing on the leaves, punching holes in or eating the fruit and generally making an unwanted nuisance of themselves. So, what to do? Get out the Sevin or some other toxic pesticide that will kill both the bad along with bees, ladybugs, spiders, birds? Why not, that’s what our parents and grandparents were doing way back when. Shouldn’t there be a better, non-toxic solution that won’t kill the good bugs, even birds, along with the bad? Well, as it turns out, there is!
