Year XIV.
DID YOU KNOW?
2026 will be the 14th year in a row as the largest zero waste sporting event in North America.
This means all materials are either recycled, composted, donated or turned into energy.
Just another way we're driving sustainability at the @wmphoenixopen.
I hope I'm wrong.
But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.
Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.
But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.
Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight.
But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.
I hope I'm wrong.
Galveston policeman William Menard Thomas circa 1900. He was born in Galveston on October 8, 1867. His parents, John and Eliiza Thomas, had been slaves, owned by Galveston’s founder, Michel B. Menard.
In 1900, William and his family lived through the Great Storm that destroyed Galveston. The hurricane caused extensive damage to their church, Avenue L Baptist Church (2614 Avenue L), the oldest African American Baptist church in the state of Texas. William was one the members of the congregation who replaced the churches’ stain glass windows. The window with his name remains to this very day.
William became a Galveston police officer in 1918 and by 1922, he held the rank of Sergeant. He and his wife, Mattie, lived in Galveston all of their lives. They raised nine children ---- seven sons and two daughters. William died in Houston in 1941.
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