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A tractor-trailer carrying 42,000 bottles of apple and cranberry juice overturned about 10 p.m. Thursday at Loop 12, which intersects with Interstate 30. The driver, who was not injured, apparently took the curve going too fast and lost control.
When wrecker crews stood the trailer back up, the side wall tore off and loosed the juice all over the highway. At 7 a.m. the cleanup continued, although all lanes had opened before dawn. Even so, traffic is backed up while drivers take a peek at the scene.
And here's a great little story that made the news today. Smack dab in the middle of north Dallas sits this small pristine church and cemetery.Â
The grassland that surrounds this country church has never been farmed, making it virgin land. This would have also doubled as the schoolhouse for the children of that community. Brings back memories. When I was just a child, I attended church at a small country location that looked almost the same as this one.
The picturesque cemetery and church sit like a time capsule on Frankford Road on a twelve-acre site, untouched by time. A tiny praire town once occupied the location....now long gone aside from the cemetery and church. And here's the hilarious footnote to that story. Frankford, Texas made the national news a couple of years ago when cartoonish Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada asserted it was a hotbed of Islamic insurrection where sharia law was being practiced. Only problem, there is NO Frankford, Texas, just the remnants of the church and cemetery. No doubt she must have been visiting with Michele Bachmann, who also has a problem with geography!
In other news this morning a Dallas County jury Thursday convicted an ex-priest of trying to hire a hit man to kill an individual who had filed charges against him for sexual assault while holding the man, a youth at the time, hostage at gunpoint. I'm sure the prison population will be more than happy to see this guy arrive. They so love child molesters there!!! Whatever his fate, it won't be bad enough.
And how 'bout them Rangers! Their bats are on fire right now! Kenzie informed me (she's the resident Rangers fanatic in our family) Wednesday when I picked her up from school that her favorite player, Nelson Cruz, had hit a grand slam earlier this week. And last week white hot slugger Josh Hamilton joined an elite group when he smashed four homers in one game. Texas currently sits atop the American League West with a 24-14 record.
Before I close, I just have to give a shout-out to my favorite NBA team, the OKC Thunder, who are currently up 2-0 on the LA Lakers in the semi-finals of the NBA playoffs! I realize they are not a Dallas team, but sometimes ya' gotta' do what ya' gotta' do!!
That's it from Dallas this Friday....See you next week with more of the news that may never make the national news.!
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