Leading Off (8/4/11)

Drought Reveals Cemetery. This great drought we have going on has caused the Richland-Chambers Reservoir to decrease by five feet. This has revealed two graves from the 19th century. I like people who are self-aware. So I appreciate the outlook of Bruce McManus, chairman of the Navarro County Historical Society Commission. “It’s not one of the great finds of history, but it’s important to us on a local level,” he says.

Emotional Sisters Kicked Off Flight. Ricci Wheatley started crying as soon as she and her sister boarded a flight to come home to Dallas to say goodbye to their dying father. She grabbed the arm of a flight attendant and said she was a nervous flier and needed a drink. The flight attendant didn’t oblige. And the sisters later heard the flight attendants talking about the situation. The sisters were then kicked off the flight and rescheduled for the next day. They made it just in time to say goodbye to their father. And I believe the moral of the story here is you can’t judge a book by its cover. Or you shouldn’t judge others. Or when you assume, well, you get it.

Try Out To Be a Clown. You have one day to prepare for possibly the most important auditions of your life. That’s right, you can become part of the Greatest Show on Earth with the Ringling Bros. So. Good luck. And leave the makeup behind.

2 comments

  1. It might be worthwhile to point out that Dallas’ Lone Star Circus School has already been successfully feeding talent into Cirque de Soliel (sp?) and will probably now be sending its people to Ringling Brothers. Fanny Kerwich was with Ringling Brothers for years. D Magazine did a story on her last year.

    @ 7:41 am on August 4, 2011
  2. @ 8:10 am on August 4, 2011

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