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...almost daily, often to consult with them about the fine points of her routine. She says they have supported her twirling since she began at age nine; her mother even sewed her earliest costumes. Liles’ father used to drive her across the state to twirling competitions in Waco and Arlington. Liles fondly recalls how her father made traveling to a competition seven or eight hours away into a fun family excursion.But those days are now over. “Here in Texas it seems to be a dying art,” said Liles, who makes a living...
...investment can be made without affecting personal wealth. But even with the best of intentions, nonprofits have a high failure rate: only one-third survive beyond five years, says Stan Madden, director of the Center for Nonprofit Studies at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas...
...Born in Houston on Nov. 28, 1967, her parents moved quickly to Mexia, a small town of some 6,000 that lies just 40 miles east of Waco in the heart of Texas. Three weeks before her second birthday, her parents were divorced. She dropped out of school by eighth grade and at 17 married Billy Wayne Smith, the 16-year-old fry cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. The fried chicken drive-in is still there and Billy still lives in Mexia. He was one of the 50 mourners at a memorial service last fall...
...every one. We needed more, or I was going to have to freak out big time.We searched far and wide, wide and far, from Wapiti, Wyo. to Janesville, Wis.—and could not find the BAWLS we needed to survive.But then we found our Mecca—Waco, Texas—the BAWLS bottling factory itself. I can’t tell you the end to this story, but let’s just say, now, I am 1/10th Spiderman.Literally.To conclude, I am really quite smitten with BAWLS. It does so much to help its community, its friends...
Tomlinson started his own football education in Waco, Texas, at 9 and later became a student at Emmitt Smith's running-back camp. "You knew he had that 'it,'" remembers Smith. LT even started sleeping with a football and didn't stop until his junior year of college at Texas Christian University, where he led the nation in rushing in consecutive years. "The ball would lie in his arms like a girlfriend," says Tomlinson's younger brother LaVar, 24. "And I can never remember that ball being on the floor." He who fails to fumble in slumber won't cough...