{"id":41382,"date":"2020-02-24T21:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41382"},"modified":"2020-02-24T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:51:59","slug":"now-a-good-word-for-a-good-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41382","title":{"rendered":"Now &#8230; a good word for a good deed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=animalrescue%20%23CollinCounty%20%23Farmersville&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/little-piggie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41383\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/little-piggie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/little-piggie.jpg 160w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/little-piggie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all gloom and doom, anger and angst out there in this contentious election season.<\/p>\n<p>I came upon a wonderful example of community generosity while working on a story for a local weekly newspaper here in Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>It came from a gentleman who contributed $21,000 to an animal rescue outfit based in Farmersville. Dell James owns a McKinney tax company. He kicked in a five-figure donation to Shutt&#8217;er Down Ranch, which cares for injured, neglected or abandoned animals &#8212; ranging from emus, to donkeys, pigs, horses, cattle, goats, sheep.<\/p>\n<p>The ranch is looking to acquire a mobile veterinary clinic that would provide spay and neuter service for animals, along with vaccinations. Ranch officials tell me the clinic will cost around 100 grand; so James&#8217; contribution will go a long way toward making that clinic a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Dell James, a Farmersville native, wants to help the organization, so he contributed the money and then sponsored a professional basketball game in Frisco featuring the Texas Legends and South Bay Lakers &#8212; minor-league clubs affiliated, respectively, with the Dallas Mavericks and the LA Lakers of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>I want to offer a salute to Dell James for the contribution he delivered to Shutt&#8217;er Down Ranch and to the ranch for the good work it does to provide some old-fashioned TLC to God&#8217;s creatures.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=animalrescue%20%23CollinCounty%20%23Farmersville&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not all gloom and doom, anger and angst out there in this contentious election season. I came upon a wonderful example of community generosity while working on a story for a local weekly newspaper here in Collin County. It came from a gentleman who contributed $21,000 to an animal rescue outfit based in Farmersville. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now &#8230; a good word for a good deed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9235,1063,5484],"class_list":["post-41382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-animal-rescue","tag-collin-county","tag-election-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41384,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382\/revisions\/41384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}