A retirement celebration for Doug McClure will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2 at the First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, to celebrate 29 years of dedication to First Baptist Church of Hugo and the city of Hugo. Doug is pictured with wife, Beverly.

There are many sayings about revolutions, but my favorite is simply, “Revolutions are messy.” This seems to sum up the majority of the world’s revolutions, despite who wins or loses. The problem for Americans is that our Revolution was easy compared to most, so we tend to think all revolutions are as easy. If you lined up all the world’s revolutions in order from most radical to least, America would be pretty close to the least radical side.

Pollinators are responsible for about 75% of the food we eat. The European honeybee is the most well known but our native bees are also critically important.