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It’s time to head back to school!

So long summer! Sixth-graders from North Central Texas Acad-emy are back in school after summer break .

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On The Cover5 Senior ClassTwo moms work toward their bachelor’s degrees

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10 Meet your neighborBentwater artist Gini Morelock Bosco brings people

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12 Calendar of eventsFall is a busy time in Hood County. Check out these

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14 Thrown by a gorillaPecan resident Don Lade has traveled to all 50

states and all seven continents.

17 Where in the Hood?You’ve seen them before. Try remembering where.

20 Super FanThree generations of Wileys have played football for the Granbury Pirates, starting with 1962 Gran-bury High School grad Billy Wiley.

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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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The blonde girl walked tenta-tively 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 teach-ers were mean?

Summoning all her courage, Tam-my 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 schoolThe new boy was just trying to fit

in when he admired the artistry of students who mixed their food into strange concoctions during lunch-time at Nettie Baccus Elementary School.

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

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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 manufac-turing plant, the day he spent at Nettie Bac-cus was the best day ever.

Breaking the moldUsed 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 volun-teers 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-tra-ditional” - 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, ac-cording to the Center. Over the next five years, those over-30 numbers are project-ed to increase by another 23 percent.

While stereotypes regarding the average college student continue to change and evolve, so, too, do demographics involv-ing 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 ex-perience serving as the “guinea pig” who

launched the program at Nettie Baccus.

All in the familyTambrilyn 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 Tar-leton State University, where the 45-year-old is majoring in social work.

King started a housecleaning business when she first went back to school, tak-ing 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 sub-stance 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 over-whelmed. There were so many out-side assignments, plus an intern-ship, 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 stuffFor Gomez, walking through the

doors at Weatherford College’s Gran-bury 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.

Despite a work schedule that involves mowing 92 lawns a week and driving a school bus twice a day, Tam-my Gomez attends classes at Weatherford College’s Granbury campus with an upbeat attitude.


Like King, Gomez is her own boss. However, that doesn’t make things any easier. She and her husband, Da-vid, 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 Cali-fornia with her husband and baby daughter, Kinsleigh.

Gomez said she has always done things backwards, so going to col-lege 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 mi-nor in social services, or vice versa. What she does know, however, is that she wants to go into juvenile proba-tion work.

Part of the reason Gomez is pursu-ing 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 funAs Raupe’s son, Carl, and daugh-

ter, 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 Princi-pal Leslie Tewell’s idea to bring the national program to Granbury has been a hit with both dads and stu-dents. 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.

“It’s been wonderful seeing the dads being able to find a nitch to come in and be superheroes for a day and spend an entire day, not just with their own kids, but with the entire student body. It makes a big impact.”

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School, it’s back-to-school

time for dads as well as kids.

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teer for Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads

of Great Students). The nation-

al organization helps increase

safety on school campuses.

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Wilson (top row, right); Bran-

don Guinn (left, blue shirt);

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Jackson (center) and Randy

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Pecan Plantation resident Don Lade is a three-time cancer survivor.

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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.

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“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 goril-la threw me in the wild of Africa now.”

Rwanda is not the only place he’s been.

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“Taylor was always the first one to see my slides of my trips. He’d see what I was seeing in Africa, the elephants, lions and wildebeests by the thousands.

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Billy 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 To-lar football players on game days.

And 15 scholarships are sponsored an-nually 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:

On His Beloved Pirates Going 33 Years Without Making Playoffs

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 your-self up and go again, hoping for better things.

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

On The Upcoming Pirates Football SeasonIt’s going to be a challenge with some of

the players they’ve had leave and the dis-trict they’re moving into, but we’ll still be cheering for them.

On His Greatest Memory As A Pirates FanThe 1966 football team (state runners-

up) was something else, but I didn’t get to go to the playoffs. I was working.

On The Best Football Coach In Pirates History

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 some-thing good going.

On The Best Athlete In Pirates HistoryWell, 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 CowboysSeveral 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 play-

offs, 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.

–Rick Mauch

SUPER FAN

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

COURTESY


Physicians and specialtiesfor the whole gang.

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817-573-DOCS

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INTERNAL MEDICINE

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1310B Paluxy Rd. 817-579-3906Corey Mark, M.D.

PAIN MANAGEMENT

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PULMONOLOGY

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RHEUMATOLOGY

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Lakeside Physicians accepts most insurance. Ask about services your insurance plan may cover at no cost to you.

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Make an online appointment request at LakesidePhysicians.com.

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TEXT BY NANCY PRICERPHOTOGRAPHY 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 grand-daughter, both of Granbury, frequently do fun things together such as cook, read and make homemade play dough.

But they seem to have the most fun be-ing creative, something that comes natu-rally to Kim and is apparent in the home

she shares with her husband, Troy Brun-gardt.

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

1. Paint on canvassOne of Selah’s favorite things to do is to

sit in her child-sized plastic pink Adiron-dack 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 can-vasses 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 stonesTroy 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

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. Ac-tivities like this have created a powerful bond between the two.

fun things with a grandchild


such as old cake pans, plastic plant sau-cers 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 rocksPainting 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 consider-ation 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 pur-chased at a dollar-type store.

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

5. Cooking/bakingKim 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 cook-

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

6. ReadKim 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 liter-ary 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 challeng-ing that we had to read to her, and she fol-lows along with the pictures.”

Selah Vaughn proudly shows off her newly finished artis-tic 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 sev-eral bonding activities. As they read books, they talk about the messages and the pictures. Hu-mor sometimes erupts.


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TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHYBY NANCY PRICER

Play and eat.

Eat and play.That’s what they love to do on Fri-

day 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 second-ary.

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

Love Food Kahlua Bundt Cake

by Jeannie Rupp

1 box butter golden cake mix1 package instant chocolate pudding1/2 cup Kahlua4 large eggs1/2 cup sugar1 cup oil3/4 cup water

Glaze1 1/2 cup powdered sugar4 tablespoons Kahlua

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 insert-ed 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 sug-ar. Consistency may be adjusted by adding more Kahlua or powdered sugar. Pour glaze over cake or dust cake with pow-dered sugar.

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.

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


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an active adult community that offers casual, elegant retirement living.

Our residents may enjoy quiet solitude in our beautiful courtyards

featuring walking paths, patios, shade trees, a lush

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There are many fun-filled days with different activites for our

residents should they choose to participate. We offer newly renovated

Assisted Living apartments and Enhanced Assisted Living for

those who need extra special attention and secured care from our

knowledgeable and professional licensed nursing staff. Our residents can choose from our freshly

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Come by for a complimentary lunch and tour.

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FUNSummertime

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

Courtney Anderson, 2, at the Port Aran-sas beach on the Texas coast. She excit-edly shows her parents the seashell she found. Photo submitted by Kevin and Kathy Anderson.

Kyle Muenzberg on the 4th of July came across this flag (in background) near the Lake Granbury dam and couldn’t resist a photo with his matching swim trunks. Photo submitted by Melissa Muenzberg.

Coming up...Take your camera with you this fall and snap some

good photos of fall fun or beauty for our November 29 issue of Prime. From football games, to nature hikes, events on the square, the season is chock-full of photo ops. And we want to see them!

Include the full names of the people in your photo, the town or development where you live and where

the photo was taken. We also need to know who took the picture. The best photos will be published.

Upload your photos by Nov. 3 at hcnews.com/pages/submit or simply scan the QR code (at left) with your smartphone.

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