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BIG BUCK YOUTH WINNER Cody Simmons of Bedford, Texas, was the youngest hunter to bring in an animal to be scored in Star Feed & Seed’s 2019–20 Big Buck Contest. Star Feed has a donor who is dedicated to youth in hunting and donates a jacket each year to the youngest hunter to bring in an animal to be scored. Simmons won the Youngest Hunter monogrammed jacket this year. Two days shy of his 13th birthday in early December 2019, Simmons was 12 years old when he killed a 10-point buck that scored 133.625, in Kent County.

“I decided to run because at the very least I could get on the debate stage” to promote a platform based on blue-collar values, immigration control, and infrastructure improvements, said Matt McArthur of Spur at a meet-and-greet event hosted by his campaign staff February 17 at the Spur Senior Center.

Although temperatures are still too low to grow spring crops in the garden, crops can be grown under the protection of a hoop house. Even with freezing nights, plants can be grown to maturity in a hoop house, where external energy is not required to keep plants warm even when nights fall below freezing. Raising crops in hoop houses is an easy way to extend the growing season, and they are simple to construct.