February 2023

Eating healthy and reducing food waste

Interest rates, utility bills and food prices have skyrocketed lately, making it more difficult for consumers to make ends meet. With grocery prices at an all-time high, it’s more important now than ever to make wise choices at the supermarket in order to put healthy meals on the table, stay within budget and reduce food waste. Household food waste represents about 44% of all food waste generated in the United States.

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Cross- curricular creativity brings language arts and creative arts together

Taking learning to the next level can be a challenge. Finding new ways to teach basic lessons can be equally difficult. However, when several Denison ISD teachers, on two different campuses, teaching three completely different subjects, came together on a project to help teach third grade students understand the importance of creativity in their writing, that’s when the magic happened.

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Texas History Minute: Jesse H. Jones, more on his rise in Texas

Success in business is often a combination of timing, determination, and imagination. One Houston businessman, Jesse H. Jones, had all these qualities and an innate sense of enterprise to build a fortune that changed the landscape of Texas’s biggest city. Jones became a giant in Houston business circles, leading what became some of the state’s largest and most influential companies. While Jones became one of the most important businessmen in Texas, he also became one of a handful of Texans to ever serve in a presidential cabinet.

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Denison man gets 30 years for continuous abuse of a child

Leon Wesley Haratyk, 38, of Denison, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for continuous sexual abuse of a child this week. A news release from the Grayson County District Attorney’s office said the crime is considered “super aggravated” and there is no parole or good time conduct awarded, which will mean that Haratyk will have to serve all of the 30 years in prison.

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