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Extra day

Lucky us, because it’s a Leap Year, and people in charge of such things feel a need to align the calendar with the seasons, we get an extra day today. What will you do with your extra day? In Anthony, a town that straddles the Texas-New Mexico state lines in the western tip of Texas near El Paso, and has since 1988 called itself the Leap Capital of the World, it’s time to celebrate–a shindig that continues through Sunday. They claim people come from all over the world. But, then, chambers of commerce are known to claim a lot of things.