I am now finishing up my second week at the Wynne Progress, and I have way too many stories sitting on the back burner until I have time to get to them.

It has been an interesting two weeks so far. I have been mainly focusing on Wynne and Cross County schools since both districts are in the process of ending their school years and I began my Poinsett beat yesterday. For this beat, I have to make a circle and go to the city halls in Harrisburg, Trumann, Marked Tree and Earle.

I’ve already found interesting landmarks on the way that I am looking forward to stopping at in the future.

The most interesting news to come my way since I began has been the switch of assignments for Debbie Stepp. Stepp is the current head coach for volleyball and softball. She was the assistant coach when I was on the team, and my sister’s head coach when she played. In all, this is her seventh season coaching softball, which includes the recently won title of 5A state champions.

However, as of last week, she will now become the head boys and girls cross country coach and track coach. Interesting.

Besides work, I was able to have Wednesday off to make up for overtime hours and I spent the day taking Cindy to Memphis to take her ultra sound registration test. She passed with a 82 according to her preliminary score. So keep your fingers crossed that the score doesn’t change (except to go up ).

It was a fun trip and we ended the day celebrating my DZ lil sis’ 21st birthday with her. Cindy and I treated her to dinner at the Brickhouse with several of Whit’s other friends.

Tonight, I will finally be renewing my umpire career. Dad brought home my uniform last night, so my first game to referee is tonight at 6!