INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup dried rice vermicelli 8 rice paper wrappers, dried 16 shrimp, cooked 16 basil leaves 16 basil leaves 1/4 cup cilantro leaves 1 cup lettuce leaves, chopped 1/4 cup mint leaves 1 carrot, grated 1 tablespoon lime zest, grated PREPARATION: Place wrapper into hot water until pliable. With moist hands, place wrapper on damp tea towel.

“I’m hunkering down,” Rebecca told me. I know what she means.

The CHS Theatre Department will perform Spoon River: Set Free on Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Texas Crown, with back-to-back shows at 6 pm and 7:30 pm. The one-act play is based on the novel, Spoon River Anthology, written by Edgar Lee Masters and adapted by Mistie Walser, who is also directing the performance. Christy White is the assistant director. In Masters’ original collection of postmortem autobiographical epitaphs, 244 former citizens of fictional Spoon River, Illinois, tell the truth about their lives—with the honesty that no fear of consequences enables. Masters shattered the myth of small-town America as the example of American virtue. Tickets can be purchased from a cast or crew member: $10/adult and $5/student. With reduced seating, no at-door tickets will be available. Masks and social distancing will be required for those who attend.

The seventh-grade Wildcats are on a roll now, having won all three games in district for a 3-2, 3-0 record. Their latest victim were the Dimmitt Bobcats, who received a 42-0 thrashing by the Wildcats here at home last Thursday.