Spent a delightful day Friday with my friend, Remelle, picking two buckets of big, fat juicy plums. We then turned them into the most delicious jelly. I had not made any for more than 20 years and counted on my friend to make it right. And she did! KIM B. McKINNEY

I have never been a gardener. This makes me feel like a misfit in my family.

AMARILLO—Rick Treon’s thriller Let the Guilty Pay has been named a finalist for the 2021 Silver Falchion Award for Best Suspense Novel by literary organization Killer Nashville. “I am blown away by this nomination,” said Treon, an Amarillo resident and former editor of the Amarillo Globe-News.

Canadians have never lacked having generous spirits. A recent example is through the First Baptist Church’s food and clothing bank, dubbed “Love Center Mission.” Chairman Katie Hathaway explained that the mission was first thought up a couple years ago by their former pastor, Matthew McCurley. The church family ran with the program, and they opened the mission in August 2019.