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THIS WEEK2 The time has come for city offi cials to act on alcohol sales.4 What’s past is prologue in terms of the weather for 2014.5 The Hedley Lady Owls win a “Hoot Out” against the girls from Silverton.6 And the Broncos beat the boys from Ascension.All this and much more as The Enterprise

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Cities to consider rules on alcohol

Two months after Donley County voters approved the sale of alcoholic beverages, local businesses are still waiting for city governments to take action on the subject.

Voters authorized the sale of all alcoholic beverages, including mixed drinks, on November 5, but the cities of Clarendon and Hedley have not yet adopted rules governing such sales. That may change soon, however.

Clarendon offi cials will meet with representatives of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on Friday afternoon, January 10, at 3:00 to discuss what the city can do and what other cities have done.

City Hall says no action will be taken at Friday’s meeting, but the item is scheduled to be on the agenda for the regular board meeting next Tuesday, January 14, at 7 p.m., and action may or may not be taken at that time.

Four establishments in Clarendon – Lowe’s Family Center, Allsup’s, and both CEFCO conve-nience stores – have already pub-lished legal notices of their intent to apply for alcohol permits, but those applications have not gone forward, pending action by the board of alder-men.

The Hedley Board of Aldermen is also planning to meet this Thurs-day, January 9, and the governance of alcohol sales in that city is on the agenda but for discussion only.

Alcohol sales in the City of Howardwick were already legal prior to the November election.

New ambulance is in county’s future

The Donley County Hospital District is accepting proposals for a new ambulance this week in an effort to keep reliable equipment available for emergencies.

Administrator Anna Howard said Tuesday that the district is hoping to get into a rotation system that will keep local ambu-lances under warranty.

“When you get to 100,000 miles you lose the warranty on the engine, and we have one truck at 85,657 miles and another at 94,321 miles,” Howard said.

The hospital district board is considering replacing a 2010 model ambulance and will con-sider proposals on January 21.

The district’s Associated Ambulance Authority currently operates three licensed ambu-lances and is considering licens-ing a fourth unit that is currently unlicensed. That unit is an older 4x4 model that Howard says is worth more than what anyone has offered the district for it and could still prove valuable in providing service to some rural locations in the county.

Clerk’s offi ce to be closed next week

The Donley County Clerk’s offi ce will be closed next week, January 13-17, for the installation of new carpet. Regular hours will resume on Monday, January 20.

Those interested in serving on local boards can start picking up applications next week as seven local governments prepare for elections.

The Donley County Hospital Board, which oversees indigent care and the local ambulance service, has four positions up for election this year. The two-year terms are elected at-large in Donley County, but candi-dates must sign up for a specifi c place. Those seats are currently held by Jan Farris – Place 4, Jeannie Owens – Place 5, Mark C. White –

Place 6, and Lori Howard – Place 7.The Clarendon College District has

three six-year terms available on the Board of Regents, and the positions are also elected at-large in Donley County. Those seats are held by Dr. John Howard, Dr. Bill Sansing, and Jack Moreman.

Clarendon ISD has two at-large positions available on the Board of Trustees for three-year terms, and Reneé Betts and Weldon Sears are the incumbents.

Hedley ISD has three at-large positions

on its Board of Trustees, and those are also three-year terms elected at-large. Those seats are currently held by Ted Wright, Karen Watt, and Tonja Ruthardt.

Three seats on the Clarendon Board of Aldermen are up this spring. Those are two-year terms elected at-large in the city. Will Thompson is fi nishing one of those terms, and Beverly Burrow and Larry Jeffers hold the other two positions, having been elected to serve out unexpired terms in a special election last November.

The City of Hedley has three positions available on the May ballot. The two-year, at-large terms of Mayor Leon Ward and Alder-men Lonnie Roby and Carrie Butler are up this year.

In Howardwick, the terms of Gene Rogers, Cory Longan, and Robert Brewster on the Board of Aldermen are expiring. Those are two-year terms elected at-large.

Filing for these positions begins January 29 and runs through February 28. Elections will be held May 10.

Local kids will show livestock Saturday

The 2014 Donley County Junior Livestock Show will be held Saturday, January 11, at 9:00 a.m. at the Donley County Activity Center.

The show will also feature Pee Wee Showmanship Lamb, Pig and Goat Shows for all kids second grade and under. The Pee Wee lamb show will be immediately following the Junior Show followed by the goats, heifers, steers and pigs. Animals will be provided by the 4-H and area FFA Chapter members.

Virginia Patten will have the concession stand open to the public on Friday from 5-8 and all day Sat-urday with tacos, chili, Frito pie, and breakfast burrito and lots more.

The Buyers’ Meal is Saturday evening at 6:00 with the Livestock Sale immediately following.

The following youth will be showing livestock at the show. An asterisk denotes kids showing for both Clarendon FFA and Donley County 4H.

Hedley FFA: Kati Adams, Christopher Cabler, Cody Cabler, Zach Chapman,, Christopher Gon-zalez, Tristen Harper, Tyler Harper, Arden Haught, Lane Hinton, Makinzie Hinton, Gilbert Norberg Hjelmar, McKayla Johnson, Clay King, Kallie Lindsey, Kyle Lind-sey, Kadee Lockeby, Christian Lucero, Casey McCleskey, Cooper McCleskey, Kaylaneth Mendoza, Caylor Monroe, Collin Monroe, Kylie Monroe, Klaiton Moore, Jake Owens, Misit Scott, and Wyatt Wheatly.

Donley County 4H: Ethan Bab-cock, Dalton Benson, Jade Benson,

Mike Skinner holds a decades-old aerial photograph of the land near Spearman that three genera-tions of his family had farmed. TEXAS TRIBUNE PHOTO / STEPHEN SPILLMAN

Donley County 4H member Malerie Simpson with her lamb project will be one of more than 60 local youth featured in this weekend’s annual junior livestock show. COURTESY PHOTO / DONLEY COUNTY EXTENSION

Veterans services to be here Tuesday

A representative of the Veter-ans Administration will be avail-able from 10:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. on the parking lot of Lowe’s gro-cery store on January 14, 2014. The representative will answer any questions or concerns that a Veteran may have according to Doug Lowe, Donley County Vet-erans Service Offi cer.

By Corrie MacLaggan & Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune

SPEARMAN — Inside Mike Skinner’s house in this town in the northern part of the Texas Panhandle is a cage with fi nches and parakeets — the only livestock he has left, he says, smiling, now that he has sold the family farm.

“My grandfather told me that the only way to stop farming is to die,” Skinner, 67, said.

Last spring he sold the land where he, his brother, his parents and his grandparents had grown wheat and grain sorghum. The farm holds decades of memories: the creepy feeling as a preschool child of reach-ing his hand under hens to grab eggs, the sound of his grandmother play-ing Woody Guthrie songs on the piano. But his family members have died, he has no children, and farming now seems unpredictable and lonely.

Skinner is like a growing number of Texans who are leaving the land because of opportunities in urban areas, a spike in land prices and concerns about risky weather patterns fueled by a blockbuster drought that continues to plague much of the state. The agricultural workforce is also aging.

“A lot of these guys, their kids have chosen not to come back and farm, and so they don’t really have

anybody to leave the land to,” said DeDe Jones, an economist at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Exten-sion Center at Amarillo.

Small and midsize farms and ranches in Texas — those under 2,000 acres — have been declining at a rate of 250,000 acres a year, accord-ing to the Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources. From 1997 to 2007, the institute estimates, Texas lost about 1.5 million acres of agricultural land and is expected to lose a million more by 2020.

And while Texas as a whole is growing rapidly, the 96 counties that lost population from 2010 to 2012 are mostly in heavily agricultural West Texas and the Panhandle, the Offi ce of the State Demographer said.

In other areas, urban growth is taking over.

“The scariest thing is what’s happening to the blacklands; that’s the land that’s being built out,” Billy Howe, the state legislative director for the Texas Farm Bureau, said, referring to cropland that lines Inter-state 35, around which the swelling metropolitan areas of Austin, Dallas and San Antonio are clustered.

A century ago, Williamson County, north of Austin, was a top cotton producer. “It’s nothing but houses now, for the most part,”

Howe said. Darren Hudson, a professor of

agricultural economics at Texas Tech University, said a decline in popula-tion did not always mean less farm-ing. Technological advances have allowed many farms and ranches in the Panhandle to expand, he said, while maintaining production levels

with fewer workers. When land is sold there, “it

doesn’t go away,” Hudson said. “Their neighbor gobbles it up, and it gets bigger.”

Prices for agricultural land in Texas have risen signifi cantly, another incentive to those who are considering selling.

But the risks of running an agri-cultural business have also increased. A tractor or combine can now cost $300,000, meaning an operation must be larger than in years past to justify such a cost, Jones, the A&M economist, said.

“The stakes are just a lot

Seven local governments preparing for May elections

Small farms fading away across Texas as trend continues

Irrigation meeting set for January 16

The annual High Plains Irri-gation Conference will be held Jan. 16 in the Regency Room of the Amarillo Civic Center at 401 S. Buchanan St.

The program, hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas Agricul-tural Irrigation Association, will address a wide variety of topics of interest to the general public, as well as to agricultural producers, landowners, crop consultants and irrigation professionals.

A concurrent trade show also will provide opportunities for attendees to see new products and technologies, and to visit with experts from industry, non-profi t organizations and agencies.

Registration will be onsite only, beginning at 8 a.m., with the program starting at 8:30 a.m. The

For more conference information, go to the Texas Agricultural Irrigation Asso-ciation website, http://taia.org/HPIC_2014.html. Questions can be directed to Porter at [email protected].

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See “Farms” on page 5.





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THIS WEEK2 Fred gets back in action and says government makes the rich get richer.4 Local students graduate from West Texas A&M University.7 The Lady Broncos sit on top of the District Championship hunt.8 And the CC Meats Team notches another victory.All this and much more as The Enterprise

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Clarendon College has opened its Amarillo cosmetology center with its fi rst group of students this month and will start a second group next month, according to information presented to the Board of Regents’ meeting last Thursday, January 16.

CC President Robert Riza said he appreciated Vice President Raymond Jaramillo’s work on the Amarillo center, and board member Jerry Woodard praised the efforts of college employees, specifi cally Gary Ferguson and John Havens, who worked hard to remodel the building for the Amarillo center.

Final fall enrollment numbers won’t be available until next week, but Jaramillo estimated 40 students would start the semester in Amarillo.

In other business, regents acknowl-edged the resignation of Dr. Pat Wester-

gaard as Dean of Instruction and ratifi ed the appointment of Brad Vanden Boogaard as athletic director. Vanden Boogaard has been serving in an interim capacity the past few months, and Riza praised him for the work he had done and recommended removing “interim” from that title.

Regents considered and approved a $4,657 proposal from 1-800-Plumber to increase the capacity of sewer and water lines in a handicapped bathroom located in the Harned Sisters Fine Arts Center.

In his president’s report, Riza said senior staff are working on a strategic plan that will take the college three years into the future and preparations are being made to get ready for CC’s upcoming accreditation visit. Employ-ees are also being surveyed for college planning purposes.

The Clarendon Board of Alder-men began the process of fi nding common ground on regulation of alcohol sales during their regular meeting last Tuesday, January 14.

About a dozen citizens attended the meeting as Clarendon Economic Development & Tourism Director Chandra Eggemeyer addressed the board in public comments.

Eggemeyer said last sum-mer’s infl ux of pipeline workers to Clarendon bolstered the local economy and buffered the negative effects of losing visitors to the dwin-dling Lake Greenbelt.

“The decrease in lake traffi c has not hurt us yet,” Eggemeyer told the board. “Only the Lord can make it rain, but we do have some tools available to us to help our economy.”

Eggemeyer said the alcohol election on November 5 was already producing positive results with prop-erties being cleaned up and put up for sale, businesses making invest-ments, and a sense of optimism about the future. She then encour-aged the board to act on the alcohol sales issue and said the sales and business activity would result in a bigger impact than the permit fees will.

“The sooner we can fi nalize the details, the sooner we can realize the activity,” she said.

Later in the meeting, the board took up discussion of the issue with Alderman Sandy Skelton asking for quick action.

“We have merchants waiting. Why hold them up? Why can’t we grandfather existing businesses?” Skelton asked.

City Secretary Machiel Covey said the city needed to have its ordi-nance in place before any permits were signed.

Mayor Larry Hicks brought up the City of Claude’s ordinance, which he said simply prohibits sales in residential zones, but Alderman Will Thompson preferred limiting sales to properties on US 287 and SH 70. Alderman Larry Jeffers also said he would not vote for any rules that would allow sales near a church.

Aldermen generally agreed that they would allow sales on US 287 and the Central Business District but within that area restrict sales within 300 feet of a church or school.

The board also agreed that they would measure distances from front door to front door rather than by property lines and that they would allow businesses to apply for vari-ances.

City offi cials said the proposed rules would allow for sales at busi-nesses that have already expressed interests in getting alcohol per-mits, specifi cally Allsup’s, CEFCO, Lowe’s Family Center, JD Steak Out, and Bar H BBQ & More; but it would give protection to churches downtown and on the highway.

Board members also generally agreed that they wanted to prohibit public consumption of alcohol at city owned parks and ballparks and on property owned by Clarendon ISD.

No action was taken last week, but city offi cials were planning to draft an ordinance based on these discussions and present it to the board at its next regular meeting on January 28.

City experiences brief power outage

Electric power service to Clarendon and nearby commu-nities was disrupted briefl y last Tuesday, January 14.

AEP/Southwestern Elec-tric Power Co. spokesman Tony Barley said the outage was due to maintenance that needed be per-formed by Xcel Energy north of Jericho.

Xcel, which interconnects with AEP/SWEPCO, found a transmission breaker that was low on gas and if the breaker tripped, they would not be able to close it back without a prolonged outage. It was determined that the best course of action was to take a short outage to allow Xcel to re-charge their breaker.

Barley said SWEPCO nor-mally has an alternate back-up feed from the east from Childress, but it had been taken off-line Monday for routine maintenance.

The outage lasted about 15 minutes and affected Hedley, Clarendon, Lelia Lake, and How-ardwick.

“We tried to call as many critical customers as we could in the short time window that we had,” Barley said. “SWEPCO is sorry for any inconvenience that this outage may have caused our customers.”

2013 property taxes are due in January

The Donley Appraisal Dis-trict is reminding those who have not paid their 2013 taxes that those taxes are due this month.

Statements were mailed last Tuesday to taxpayers still owing 2013 taxes.

Taxes not paid on or before January 31 will incur penalty and interest of 7 percent if paid in February. The amount increases each month thereafter until the tax is paid. Accounts unpaid on July 1 will incur an additional 20 per-cent collection penalty in addition to the regular penalty and inter-est of 18 percent. Texas state law prescribes the penalty and interest amounts.

Delinquent notices will be mailed in May to those who still owe 2013 tax at that time. Partial payments will be accepted.

Taxes are payable to the Donley Appraisal District, PO Box 1220, Clarendon TX 79226.

A fried cat is being blamed for a grass fi re that threatened a resi-dence in Howardwick’s 600 block of Borger Street last week.

Fire Chief Joe Hall said the blaze that was reported at 7:01 p.m. last Friday, January 17, was caused after a cat crawled on top of an electrical transformer and burned through all nine of its lives before hitting the ground as fl aming ball of fur and igniting the dry grass.

A quick-thinking neighbor

began smacking the fi re with a snow shovel and thereby averted any greater disaster.

Three units and six fi re-men responded from Howardwick assisted by one unit and two fi re-men from Clarendon. The fi re was completely extinguished in about an hour.

An area more than 400 square feet was burned, but no damage was done to the residence or nearby out-buildings.

Donley County is currently under a burn ban during Red Flag Warning days, and local offi cials are warning residents to use extreme caution to avoid outdoor fi res that could lead to wildfi res. Keeping grass and brush cleared is one key to preventing disaster during these dry conditions.

“If you have grass more than three inches tall, get it down,” Hall said. “We are in prime condition for wildfi res.”

Ag conference to be held January 30

Texas Agrilife Extension will be hosting the South East Panhan-dle Ag Conference on Thursday, January 30, at 8:00 a.m. with reg-istration in Memphis at the Kathy Fowler insurance Building.

Producers will receive fi ve pesticide applicator license CEUs at this training. Topics will include weed management, cotton and peanut management, and insect management. The conference should conclude around 2:00 p.m.

There will be a $15 charge for the meeting payable at the door. For more information please contact Leonard Haynes at 806- 282-7680.

Clarendon Aldermen debated curbing plans for streets slated to be paved this year during their regular meeting last Tuesday, January 14.

City voters in May of 2012 approved a bond election that autho-rized $700,000 for street improve-ments, but the project was delayed when the board of aldermen later authorized an additional $700,000 in tax revenue notes to replace water and sewer lines under the targeted

streets.At last week’s meeting, Mayor

Larry Hicks and city engineer Clayton Scales of KSA Engineers presented aldermen with plans for curbing for the street project. As pre-sented, the project would narrow the streets down to 32 feet wide and use mostly “rollover” curbs to defi ne the streets.

Scales said about eight feet of existing street in some areas would

be left between the rollover curb and existing curbs. Hicks said that pave-ment would be left as intact as pos-sible to let people continue to park there and that the city would repave that area at a later time.

Alderman Sandy Skelton balked at the idea of narrowing streets and focused his attention on Third Street leading up to the First Baptist Church.

“I want to please the citizens,”

Skelton said. “I think Third needs to be as wide as it is between Koogle and Allen streets. I want to keep that width with the curbs.”

Hicks said wider streets will increase the cost of the project but said the decision was up to the board.

Alderman Doug Kidd also said he did not like the idea of narrow-ing the streets, and Alderman Larry Jeffers, regarding the plan for “roll-over” curb on most of Third Street,

said he couldn’t imagine that those property owners would not want a full curb and gutter.

Asked if he knew of any other cities that had narrowed streets with rollover curbing and left old paving behind the curb, Scales said he had not seen this done before.

Skelton also raised concern that new paving on Sixth Street near the ballparks would not withstand fl ood-

Here, kitty, kitty... BzzzzzzzztCat electrocutes self, ignites grass fi re

Tall, dry grass was the perfect fuel when a cat-astrophe occurred at Howardwick last week. COURTESY PHOTO / JOE HALL

City drafting rules on alcohol sales

Curbing plan at center of city street project debate

Going upClarendon College’s Hershell Grant, a sophomore from Washington, DC, goes up for two during the Bulldogs’ game against Frank Phillips College last Thursday. CC fell to the Plainsmen by three points, 75-78. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK

Job well doneHowardwick Alderman Corrine Longan and Mayor Mike Rowland congratulate former city secretary Dianna Knight during a reception last week marking her retirement after serving the city for 23 years. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK

CC now offering Amarillo class

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Local boards still signing up candidates

Candidates continue to line up for this spring as sign-ups for seven boards continues.

Incumbent Ted Wright and challengers Troy Monroe and Michelle McCann have signed up to run for three positions on the Hedley ISD Board of Trustees. The other two posts are currently held by Karen Watt and Tonja Ruthardt.

The Donley County Hospital Board has four positions up for elec-tion this year. Those seats are cur-rently held by Jan Farris – Place 4, Jeannie Owens – Place 5, Mark C. White – Place 6, and Lori Howard – Place 7. All four incumbents have signed up to run again.

The Clarendon College Dis-trict has three seats available on the Board of Regents, and the positions are held by Dr. John Howard, Dr. Bill Sansing, and Jack Moreman. Howard and Moreman have signed up.

Alderman Beverly Burrow has signed up to seek a full term on the Clarendon Board of Aldermen. Two other terms up this year are held by Aldermen Will Thompson and Larry Jeffers.

H.L. Baird is running for the city board in Howardwick where three positions are open. Those seats are currently held by Gene Rogers, Cory Longan, and Robert Brewster.

The City of Hedley has three positions available on the May ballot. The terms of Mayor Leon Ward and Aldermen Lonnie Roby and Carrie Butler are up this year. Mayor Ward is running for reelection, and Diana Postma has fi led for the board.

Clarendon ISD has two posi-tions up this year, held by Reneé Betts and Weldon Sears. At press time, Sears is the only one to have fi led.

Filing for local positions runs through February 28. Elections will be held May 10.

Farm Bill food-stamp cuts won’t affect Texas

Panhandle PBS to present candidates

With the March 4 Texas Pri-mary Elections fast approaching, Panhandle PBS will televise three forums in February in which can-didates running in the Republican Primary will respond to questions from local print and broadcast media.

There are no Democratic candidates in the high profi le primary races for both the Dis-trict 31 Texas Senate and Potter County Judge. The winner of the 13th Congressional District Republican Primary will face a Democratic challenger in the November General Election. The fi rst two forums are on Thursday, Feb. 13. First, at 8 p.m., Panhandle PBS will present Republican Primary candidates seeking to represent the 13th Con-gressional District: Pam Barlow, Elaine Hays and Mac Thornberry. Then at 8:30 p.m., Republican Primary candidates for Texas State Senate District 31 will be featured: Mike Canon and Kel Seliger.

Finally on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 4 p.m., a forum will air featuring Republican Primary candidates for Potter County Judge.

Early primary voting to start next Tuesday

Republican candidates for county offi ce sounded off during a public forum last week as voters pre-pare for the start of early voting next Tuesday, February 18.

Voters heard from all unop-posed candidates fi rst before the fl oor was turned over to candidates who are facing opposition with each of them given seven minutes to speak. With their statements and questions from those in attendance, most of the evening was given over to the four men running for county judge.

Randy Bond was the fi rst candidate for judge to speak, call-ing himself a common man and a humble man. Bond, who is Donley County’s chief deputy, said he went to law enforcement after being raised

in Wheeler by his grandparents and said he had promised his grandfather he would always treat people the way he wanted to be treated.

“I’ve dedicated my life to be a servant of the people and do the best I can to help people,” Bond said. “Your kids are my kids. I want to be your judge for the simple fact that I want to serve Donley County.”

Bond cited his career in law enforcement as being a good back-ground for county judge; and during questions and answers, said he hopes to “think outside the box” to bring new ideas to the county.

“I won’t make you any promise that I can’t keep,” Bond said.

Dr. John Howard took the fl oor next and discussed his love for Donley County and the quality of life that drew him and his wife here. He talked about his current and past ser-vice to his country and his commu-

nity and also discussed his business experience, particularly in starting a medical clinic here with three people and now employing 15.

Howard said his military back-ground would assist him with the role the judge plays in cases of disasters in dealing with homeland security, and he said his law degree and being a member of the bar in Texas would be an asset in handling the legal and judicial duties of county judge.

“I would pledge to be impar-tial and fair,” Howard said. “I would bring my business experience and education to the table.”

During questions and answers, Howard said serving as county judge would not negatively impact his medical clinic, noting that he has a great deal of experience in managing his time and once took 26 college hours in two schools while seeing patients.

“I will be a full time judge and a part time doctor,” he said, noting that he would still see patients before 9 a.m., in the evenings, on Saturdays, or on holidays. Howard also plans to retire from the military this fall, which he says will also give him more time.

Gary Campbell was the next to speak. The retired environmental engineer and realtor talked about growing up in Donley County before pursuing his professional career and ultimately coming home to retire.

Campbell serves as Clarendon’s representative on the Greenbelt Water Authority board and said he believes there are confl icts between entities that are caused because dif-ferent groups won’t share with each other.

“If we shared equipment and personnel, we could save hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Campbell

said.Campbell said he wants to do

more with assets like US 287 and the college do develop the county and said he wants “total transparency” in county government.

Pressed for details during ques-tions and answers, Campbell said he sees backhoes at the city, county, and college and wonders why the entities can’t share two or three backhoes. As another example, he said “county roads don’t need work unless it rains,” and county employees there-fore don’t have anything to do while the city has to hire extra help.

Campbell also faced criticism from some members of the audience as a member of the water authority board and had to defend Greenbelt’s purchase of groundwater from the City of Clarendon.

Jack Craft rounded out the

By Sandy AnderbergThe 2014-2016 realignment

and reclassifi cation was released a week ago and several changes have been made for football and basket-ball.

Clarendon is currently 1A, but will move to 2A with the new align-ment because all six man schools will be considered 1A and all other classes will be moved up one number. New to the realignment this year is the implementation of a new Class 6A for the larger schools that are currently 5A.

“This was a very big year for the new realignment,” Jack said. “The UIL has added a 6A and basi-cally bumped everybody up a class. The 1A’s will all be six man foot-ball schools with enrollment of less than 104.9 unless they opt to play 11-man football.”

Jack feels the realignment will suit the Broncos and Lady Broncos.

“We will now be in the 2A clas-sifi cation in all sports and Division II in football,” he said. “This will help us in football with our enroll-ment dropping in the 125 range for

high school. We will now be playing schools that have enrollment closer to ours in football and that should be a big plus for us.”

Jack noted that Clarendon’s new football district (Region I-Dis-trict 3) will consist of Clarendon, Crosbyton, Lockney, Memphis, Quanah, and Ralls. Crosbyton will be the farthest for the Broncos to travel in football at 115 miles and Ralls will be 110 miles.

The new basketball align-ment (Region I-District 2) will consist of Clarendon, Memphis,

Quanah, Shamrock, Wellington, and Wheeler. “I believe we will be very competitive in both new districts,” Jack said. “We will fi nd out our new spring sport districts later in March when the UIL releases them.”

The Texas UIL realigns dis-tricts and regions every two years according to student enrollment in each reporting high school and also to incorporate new schools.

“The adding of a class 6A really all boils down to the six man size schools having their own clas-sifi cation,” Jack said.

Local GOP candidates sound off in forum

Clarendon faces new districts after UIL action

Sound adviceClarendon Lady Bronco coach Molly Weatherred takes advantage of a time out during last week’s seeding game with Panhandle. The ladies are moving on in the playoffs this week. For complete details, see our coverage inside this week. PHOTO BY MELODY HYSINGER

God & MeClarendon Cub Scouts Daniel Estlack, Henry Bivens, Nathan Estlack, and Benjamin Estlack received their God & Me Awards during a ceremony at the First United Methodist Church Sunday. The boys are shown here with Pastor Lloyd Stice. ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Two blood drives to be held next week

Coffee Memorial Blood Center will hold two blood drives in Donley County this month.

The fi rst drive will be held Tuesday, February 18, from 2:00 to 7:00 pm at the Clarendon Col-lege Bairfi eld Activity Center, and the second drive will be held at the Hedley High School Library on Wednesday, February 12, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Every eligible donor who presents to donate will receive a free t-shirt.

Photo ID or Donor Card Required. Must be at least 17 years old to donate.

For appointments, call 331-8800 or 1-877-574-8800.

Deadline nearing for state tuition plan

AUSTIN – Texas Comptrol-ler Susan Combs reminds Texas families to enroll their children in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund and avoid future increases in tuition and required fees at Texas public colleges and universities. The current enrollment period for the state’s prepaid college tuition program ends Feb. 28.

The Texas Tuition Prom-ise Fund allows participants to lock in the cost of undergraduate tuition and required fees at Texas public colleges and universities based on current prices.

Under the plan, families can prepay tuition and required fees for a four-year degree, two years of community college or just a few semesters at Texas public col-leges and universities by purchas-ing tuition units.

Enrollment in the program at 2013-14 prices will close Feb. 28. Plan information, current prices, enrollment forms and more are available online at www.Tuition-Promise.org.

By Corrie MacLaggan, The Texas Tribune

The massive farm bill that Pres-ident Obama is signed Friday cuts $8.6 billion in food-stamp benefi ts over a decade, but Texas recipients won’t be affected.

That’s because the cuts target programs in about 15 states that increase food-stamp benefi ts — for-mally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — to offset the cost of heat-ing recipients’ homes. Texas is not among these so-called “heat and eat” states.

“The farm bill’s change to those rules shouldn’t affect people get-ting SNAP in Texas,” said Stephanie Goodman, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services

Commission. About 3.3 million Texans received food-stamp benefi ts last month.

US Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., a co-author of the farm bill, says on her website that the legisla-tion “closes a loophole being used by some states to artifi cially infl ate benefi ts for a small number of recipi-ents.”

But Celia Cole, CEO of the Texas Food Bank Network, said it’s not a loophole.

The cuts, Cole said, are “just Congress’ way of fi nding a chunk of change to cut out of SNAP at the expense of a lot of really poor Amer-icans.” The cuts will affect 850,000 families, she said.

The 15 states expected to be affected are California, Connecticut,

Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. In addition, Wash-ington, D.C., is affected, and New Hampshire also may be, though its program works slightly differently from those of the other states on the list.

Food-stamp benefi ts across the country, including in Texas, were cut in November with the expira-tion of 2009 stimulus dollars that paid for a SNAP increase. The aver-age monthly family benefi t in Texas dropped $18 to $267 in November when the stimulus ended, according to the state Health and Human Ser-vices Commission.

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Christian breakfast to be held Thursday

The United Christians Breakfast will be held this Thurs-day, May 15, at the First United Methodist Church at 7 a.m.

Serving begins at 7 a.m., and everyone is welcome to attend. This will be the last breakfast for the season, and Rev. Lloyd Stice will deliver the message.

By Sandy AnderbergThree Clarendon High School

athletes earned the right to compete in the State Track Meet in Austin last weekend, and they all represented their school and community well, fi nishing in the top ten of their events.

Charles Mason is the fi fth best long jumper in the state as he went a distance of 21’5¼” on his second attempt. Track coach Johnny Nino had a lot of praise for the junior’s comeback.

“I was very proud of what he accomplished this year and what he did at the meet this past weekend,” Nino said. “He pulled his hamstring in the fi rst meet of the year and didn’t jump again until district.”

Mason jumped over twenty-two feet earlier in the season that earned him the right to participate in the state meet.

Abby Johnson ran the 400-meter dash and fi nished seventh with a time of 1:01.74. The fi rst place time was just over fi fty-eight seconds. Johnson is also a junior and will be back to try again next year.

Senior Sarah Luttrell has proved herself as a great sprinter throughout her high school career and competed in the 100-meter dash a state. Luttrell fi nished a respectable eighth place in that event with a time of 12.85. The winning time posted was 11.51.

Both Lady Broncos had a stellar year running track and competed in several other races, including relays. Luttrell has been instrumental in the Lady Broncos’ success the last four years and will be greatly missed next year. Coach Alton Gaines realizes the impact both of these athletics have had on the track program.

“I’m so proud of these two young ladies,” Gaines said. “Just to be a part of the best nine in the state in your event in division 1A is big time.”

Early vote in runoff starts on Monday

Donley County voters will go back to the polls soon to make a fi nal decision on who will be the Republi-can nominee for County Judge.

Randy Bond and John Howard were the top two vote getters for that position during the March primary, but neither man got more than 50 percent of the total vote in that four-person race.

Early voting by personal appearance will begin Monday, May 19, at the Donley County Court-house Annex and continue through Friday, May 23. The Republican Runoff Election will be held Tues-day, May 27.

Voters who cast ballots in the Republican primary may vote in the runoff. Voters who did not vote at all in the primary election may also vote, but voters who cast ballots in the Democratic primary cannot vote in the Republican runoff.

The winner of the Republican runoff is facing no opposition in the November General Election and will succeed County Judge Jack Hall, who is retiring at the end of his term.

Several statewide races are also on the runoff ballot, and a Voters Guide for those positions is now available to the public online at the League of Women Voters of Texas website, www.lwvtexas.org. The nonpartisan Guide includes candi-dates in several contested statewide races and their answers to questions posed by the League.

Voters can also go to www.VOTE411.org for the Voters Guide information. By entering their address, voters can review the answers of candidates they can vote on as well as any ballot initiatives specifi c to that address.

Statewide runoff races include Democrat candidates for U.S. Senate, Republican candidates for lieutenant governor, Republican can-didates for Texas attorney general, Democrat and Republican candi-dates for commissioner of agricul-ture, and Republican candidates for railroad commissioner.

There are also candidates for the State Board of Education but not for the position from the Panhandle district, which is not up for election this year.

Postma, McCann fall in Hedley votes

Hedley citizens selected three school board members and two city aldermen during elec-tions last Saturday.

Mayor Leon Ward was unop-posed and received 33 votes, and Aldermen Carrie Butler and Lonnie Roby were returned to offi ce with 28 and 23 votes respectively. Challenger Diana Postma received seven votes.

Hedley School Trustee Ted Wright was re-elected with 47 votes, and he will be joined on the board by Holly McCleskey, who also had 47 votes, and Troy Monroe, who received 38 votes. Challenger Michelle McCann received 19 votes.

HISD will install trustees during their next meeting on May 19, and City Hall says its offi cials will be installed May 22.

Hedley High School has named Kristen Nicole Liner and Bailey Brook Wood as the top students for the Class of 2014, and both will be recognized during graduation ceremonies May 31.

Liner, the granddaughter of Chris and Teresa Liner, is the Valedictorian of the Class of 2014. Kristen has an average of 95.76. She has attended Hedley School for 12 years. She has participated in

One Act Play, track and tennis for two years.

Liner was a Cheerleader her junior year, and she was a class offi cer for three years. She has also been a member of the social studies UIL team which has made it to regionals the past three years and she is a member of the National Honor Society. Kristen plans to attend Baylor University and major in pre-med.

Wood is the Salutatorian

and is the daughter of Ty Wood and Patrice Wood. Bailey has an average of 95.08. She has been active in basketball all four years of high school, where she received many awards such as Academic All District, All District honors, and has been asked to attend two all-star games this summer.

Wood was also active in FFA, being on many different teams all four years of school.

She was also active in Tennis for four years and advanced to the regional meet her sophomore and senior years. She was involved in One Act Play for two years, and National Honor Society for two years. Bailey has also served as one of the 2013-2014 Lions Club Sweethearts. After high school, Bailey plans to attend West Texas A&M University to pursue a career in Nursing.

By Melissa A. GriswoldIt was the early part of the

roaring ‘20s when a commercial artist by the name of Henry M. Christianson rolled into Clarendon, Texas, and set up his sign painting shop, Commercial Art Works.

Christianson, a native of Chicago, moved to Lubbock after serving his country in WWI and then to the Panhandle of Texas during the building boom of the mid to late 20’s. He produced the typical signage for the community – diner menus, shop signs, and the like.

His specialty was theatrical curtains for schools and public

auditoriums. These curtains, which usually served as the main backdrops for the stage, contained a beautiful picture surrounded by advertisements from the local merchants of the community. He is known to have painted curtains for buildings in Clarendon, Groom, Lefors, Pampa, Silverton, and Shamrock. It is unknown if any of his curtains survived but one lone painting made its way to The Panhandle -Plains Historical Museum in 1999.

“Cow-boy Girl and Horse” hung in White’s Feed Store in Clarendon for 50 years before it was donated

to the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. The painting attracted the attention of Michael R. Grauer, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Art and Western Heritage, who began looking for an opportunity to display the piece.

Christianson’s painting was chosen to be a part PPHM’s “Madonnas of the Prairie: Depictions of Women in the American West” exhibition. Using paintings from artists such as Clarendon native H.D. Bugbee, W. Herbert Dunton, Ben Carlton Mead, W.H.D. Koerner, Remington Schuyler, P.V.E. Ivory,

and many others from across the nation, the exhibition examines how artists portrayed the varying roles of women in the American West. This exhibition, which is a part of the museum’s 2014 series on Women of the West, is on display in the Foran Family Art Galleries and will continue through August 2014.

Christianson’s life was short lived. On January 24, 1930, while eating lunch at a Clarendon diner, he received a phone call from his business partner and landlady, Mrs. Helen Bates. He went back to the boarding house where he was shot three times by Mrs. Bates. A

statement was not made as to why she killed him, but she was convicted of his murder and sentenced to fi ve years in the state penitentiary. She was later declared insane and lived the rest of her life in the state mental institutions.

Christianson, age 41, was active in the local American Legion. They made the arrangements for his funeral and saw that a tombstone was placed on his grave. He was buried in the Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.

While researching Christianson’s life, two more paintings were discovered. They

The fi rst full month of alcohol sales are included in Clarendon’s sales tax revenue for this month after Texas Comptroller Susan Combs delivered May allocations last week.

Compared to last year, the city is down 7.12 percent at $39,429.81 this month, but, as local retailers remember, 2013 was an unusual year with an infl ux of pipeline workers to Clarendon, which sent sales soaring. As a result, last year’s

May allocation was a 23.43 percent jump over the same period in 2012.

This year’s May fi gure is up 14.6 percent over what Clarendon received for the same period two years ago.

May sales tax allocations represent monthly sales made in March as well as January, February and March sales by businesses that report taxes quarterly. Package sales of alcohol began in Clarendon on February 20. Sales in local restau-

rants began March 18.Clarendon sales tax fi gures are

up for the calendar year-to-date by 1.5 percent at $161,163.66.

In Hedley, sales tax fi gures are up 11.87 percent at $838.71 this month and up 12.93 percent for the year at $3,576.46.

Howardwick sales tax revenue is down 0.64 percent at $1,293.07 for May and down 2.66 percent to $5,879.60 for the year-to-date.

Combs said that state sales tax

revenue in April was $2.27 billion, up 5.6 percent compared to April 2013.

“Growth in sales tax revenue was spurred by increases in the tele-communications sector and services sector,” Combs said.

“Increased business spending in the wholesale trade sector also contributed to the latest monthly gain. This marks 49 consecutive months of growth in sales tax col-lections.”

City’s sales tax down for month, up for year

CHS athletes in top ten at state

Kristen Liner Bailey Wood

Hedley names Liner, Wood as top seniors of 2014

Canyon museum to display work of late Clarendon artist

Top Photo: Charles Mason in the long jump in Austin. Left Photo: Sarah Luttrell runs the 100-meter dash. Right Photo: Abby Johnson runs the 400-meter dash. ENTERPRISE PHOTOS / TRAVIS HARSCH

Sign-ups underway for Trash to Treasures

Spring cleaning is in the air, and area residents are asked to mark their calendars for the ninth annual Trash to Treasures Garage Sale Event on Saturday, June 7, 2014.

The countywide garage sale is supported by local and regional advertising, and local sales pay a small fee to be part of the promo-tion and to be on the offi cial Trash to Treasures map.

Sign-ups are underway until Friday, May 30, at the ENTERPRISE. Call 874-2259 or come by for more information.

Block Party to be held next Saturday

The second annual Mulkey Block Party will be held Memo-rial Day weekend on Saturday, May 24, and there is still time for sponsors and vendors to sign up.

“Insuffi cient Funds,” the band that was so popular at the fi rst block party, will be back on stage to entertain for the evening. Steve Hall and Jesse Lincycomb, both of Howardwick, will provide the opening musical entertain-ment starting about 6 p.m., and a live auction benefi ting the Mulkey Theatre Project will also be held.

Booth spaces will be offered for food vendors and activities with booth fees set at $50. Booth spaces will be available to both non-profi t and for-profi t groups.

A car show will be held again, and kids movies will be shown in the theatre.

For more information on the Mulkey Block Party, to rent booth space, or to sign on as a sponsor, contact Chandra Eggemeyer at the Clarendon Visitor Center at 806-874-2421.

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Howard defeats Bond

Dr. John Howard is set to be the next judge of Donley County following Tuesday’s Republican runoff election.

Howard received 58.9 per-cent of the vote over Donley County Chief Deputy Randy Bond. The fi nal tally was 412 for Howard and 288 for Bond.

The candidates survived a four-man primary election on March 4, which also featured Jack Craft and Gary Campbell. More than 900 people voted in that elec-tion, which was forced resulted in a runoff after no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote.

An even 700 people cast bal-lots in the Republican runoff, but interestingly Howard and Bond both improved their March vote totals by nearly equal numbers. Howard received 59 more votes than he did in March. Bond’s total went up by 58 from the last elec-tion.

Early voting totals closely predicted the fi nal margin of vic-tory with Howard securing 62.7 percent of early ballots, 235-140.

With no Democratic oppo-nent for November’s General Election, Howard is set to succeed County Judge Jack Hall, who is retiring at the end of his current term after more than 17 years in offi ce.

Howard currently serves as the chairman of the Clarendon College Board of Regents, and he will have to resign that position sometime before his term as judge begins in January.

State plans three shot clinics here

The Texas Department of State Health Services will hold three Immunization Clinics in Clarendon during the month of June.

Clinics will be held June 5, 12, and 19 at the TDSHS offi ce at Five Medical Drive from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. with the fi rst 15 clients being seen each time.

All clinic times subject to change or cancellation due to weather conditions or unforeseen scheduling confl icts.

Thornberry speaks on national security

WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday at the Heritage Foundation, Congressman Mac Thornberry, Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Com-mittee, delivered a major address on America’s national security outlook, as well as the lessons learned in the 100 years since the start of World War 1.

On the same day Presi-dent Barack Obama defended his approach to foreign policy at West Point, Rep. Thornberry (R-Clarendon) discussed the importance of America’s leader-ship in the world and explain why he believes this Administration allows short term political tactics to take precedence over protecting longer term strategic interests.

Kids’ College classes at Clarendon College will get under-way next Monday.

More than 25 courses will be offered in the months of June, July, and August for kids ages 4-15.

“We have a wide variety of classes for kids and teens this summer, and we’ve set the schedule up so that even kids who go on vaca-tion can still hopefully attend a por-tion of the offerings,” CC Marketing Coordinator Ashlee Estlack said.

“We enjoy offering Kids’ College as a way for kids to learn in a fun envi-ronment right here at home.”

This year’s courses feature pop-ular returners from last year includ-ing Ballet, Let’s Have a Tea Party, Erupt a Volcano, and Pinkalicious. New to this year’s schedule are It’s a Gas, Egg Drop Challenge, Elas-tic Band Bracelets, Baseball Camp, Kids Cooking and much more!

“We are also excited to offer several camps as part of Kids’ Col-

lege,” Estlack said. “This year we have Cowboy

Camp, which was very popular last year, returning and we have added Baseball, Cheerleading and Judging Camps to the schedule.”

The College is also hosting a free event as part of Kids’ College this year - storyteller, Bernadette Nason will perform on Thursday, August 7.

Nason is an award-winning actress, storyteller, writer and stand-

up comedienne who is touring the US with traditional stories adapted from the folklore of cultures from all over the world.

This event is funded by the Texas Commission on the Arts to bring live performance to rural Texas libraries.

Kids ages 4 & up are invited and the storytelling will start at 10 am in the Vera Dial Dickey Library on the College campus.

Students can be registered up

until 3:00 p.m. the day before any class starts. The fi rst classes start Monday, June 2, and the last course will end the week of August 15.

For more information on Kids’ College, stop by the Student Ser-vices offi ce in the Instructional Center or visit online at www.clar-endoncollege.edu/kidscollege.pdf. Anyone with questions can also con-tact Estlack at 806-874-4808.

The college is open Monday to Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Kids’ College classes begin on Monday at CC

Mulkey draws crowd

Fair weather greeted hundreds of supporters of the Mulkey Theatre Saturday evening when Clarendon held its second annual Mulkey Block Party.

The event was hosted by the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation and an advisory com-mittee and marked the completion of the fi rst interior renovations to the 1946 movie house. While last year’s celebration featured the com-plete refurbishment of the building’s façade, this year’s party showcased the building’s lobby, concession area, restrooms, and ticket booth.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday, fi gures were not complete for how much the event raised to continue Phase Two Interior Reno-vations, but the Block Party was widely hailed as a success by those in attendance who enjoyed the fun, music, food, dancing, and booths on Kearney Street.

The event was bookended by much needed rain on Friday and Sunday, which dropped nearly two inches of moisture on Clarendon. The potential of more rain the day of the event caused organizers to relo-cate the main stage from the north end of Kearney Street to below the Mulkey marquee, which provided the perfect backdrop for the event.

Several kids’ activities were available as well as food booths, and a temporary screen and projector allowed cartoons to be shown inside the theatre with popcorn and drinks available at the concession area. It was the fi rst movies on a big screen in the Mulkey in nearly 30 years and

Deadline near for citywide garage sale

The sign-up period for the ninth annual “Trash To Treasures” garage sale event will end this Friday, and this year’s sale will be Saturday, June 7.

Garage sales in Hedley, How-ardwick, and the surrounding area are also welcome to sign up for the big day.

Residents who wish to partici-pate in this year’s “Trash To Trea-sures” are asked to come by the ENTERPRISE before 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30, to sign up.

For just $25, each household will get a 50-word advertisement in the Big-E Classifi eds and the exclu-sive “Trash To Treasures” garage sale signs. In addition, the ENTER-PRISE will print a city map the week of the event indicating the location of each sale and will promote the city-wide garage sale in area newspapers and with local radio ads.

Sign-up fees cover the cost of area advertising to reach more people and have better attendance if we have a larger number of sales.

For more information, call the ENTERPRISE at 874-2259.

Insuffi cient Funds plays under the neon during the second annual Mulkey Block Party last Saturday night. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK

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Never forgetVFW Post Commander Nathan Floyd (left) with George Hall delivers the keynote address at Monday’s Memorial Day Service at the Donley County Courthouse. Dozens of people stood in the gentle rain to remember those who have laid down their lives for the sake of freedom. An earlier service in Hedley, hosted by the American Legion, was also well attended. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK

Books open next week for rodeo

The Clarendon Outdoor Entertainment Association will open the books for the 137th annual Saints Roost Celebration Ranch Rodeo next Monday, June 2, at 6 p.m.

The Junior Ranch Rodeo will be held Thursday, July 3; and the entry fee is $125 per team.

The Ranch Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 4 and 5; and the entry for that com-petition is $800 per team.

To sign up, interested parties need to call Alex McAnear at 874-2184.

This year’s parade and bar-becue will be held on Friday, July 4, and the ENTERPRISE will have more information as it becomes available.

Cattle conference set in Wichita Falls

In an effort to bring new research and technology based on the current drought conditions in Texas and Oklahoma to produc-ers, the Cattle Trails Wheat and Stocker Cattle Conference will be held July 29 in Wichita Falls.

The conference will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Multi-Pur-pose Event Center, 1000 5th St., Wichita Falls. Registration is $25 per person and includes a noon meal.

Producers are encouraged to preregister by contacting their local AgriLife Extension county agent or by contacting Allison Ha at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Vernon at 940-552-9941, ext. 225.





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Local seminar to focus on farm bill

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be pro-viding an extensive farm bill educational program in Donley County on July 10 at 1:30 p.m. in the Courson Ranch Operations Center at Clarendon College.

While sign-up for the new farm bill program is still months away, the educational process to help producers understand the complexity of the new legisla-tion, including new programs and options, is increasing in the High Plains, said Dr. Steve Amosson, AgriLife Extension economist.

“Our AgriLife Extension county agents are currently attending educational seminars to become more familiar with gen-eral farm program provisions,” Amosson said. “They also are learning about decision-aid soft-ware, which will be available at a later date to assist with producer sign-up decisions.”

The meeting will last about two hours and will explain gen-eral farm program provisions and provide a decision-aid demonstra-tion. The meetings are free and will offer instruction from Amos-son or risk management specialist DeDE Jones, as well as the AgriL-ife Extension agriculture and nat-ural resources county agents.

For more information con-tact Leonard Haynes 874-2141

Beautiful, calm weather greeted a patriotic crowd gathered on the Courthouse Square last Friday, July 4, for the 137th annual Saints’ Roost Celebration.

The Kids’ Parade started the day with the youngsters peddling or driving from Third Street down Sully Street in front of the Courthouse. In the 1-4 age group, Braxton Gribble was fi rst, Chloe Newton was second, and Justus McAnear was third. Kyn-dall Shields won the 5-8 age group with Lindley Hill second and Addi-son Mooring third. The 9 and up age group was won by Alexia Ralston, Jayde Gribble was second, and McKaden Lax was third.

The annual Craft Fair drew a big crowd to the courthouse square with an impressive number of ven-dors; and the Chamber of Commerce recognized several pioneer citizens during the Old Settlers gathering. The following honorees received t-shirts from the Chamber: Steve Reynolds, Don Smith, Jewel Judd, Mary White and Floy Smith.

The Al Morrah Shrine Club served 750 plates of barbecue, up signifi cantly from 543 last year. A portion of the proceeds from the annual barbecue are used in conjunc-tion with the Khiva Shrine Temple in Amarillo to help pay for the trans-portation of kids to the Shriners’

burns and crippled children’s hospi-tals.

That afternoon, the Western Parade delighted kids of all ages as fl oats, riding units, emergency vehi-cles, and other entries wound their way from the baseball fi elds through downtown. The Donley County 4-H Club took fi rst place among all parade entries, the Brumley Ranch was second, and the Clarendon Girl Scouts’ were third.

Several organizations held fun-draisers during the celebration. The winners of the Lions Club Cow Patty Bingo were Jim Owens and Adenia Baird, $250 each, and Cobette Riza and Randy Crump, $50 each. Heather

King won the John Deere riding lawn mower given by the Junior Livestock Association in support of the Donley County Activity Center. Walter Warner was the winner of the St. Mary’s Catholic Women Quilt Drawing. Rene Chandler won the lawnmowing from the Howardwick Fire Department, and Jay Hall won the department’s fi reworks draw-ing. The winners of the Courthouse Lighting Committee Penny Raffl e were Bunk Skelton, $100.00 and Joey Lee and S.E. Grider, $50 each.

The Clarendon Outdoor Enter-tainment Association hosted a Junior Ranch Rodeo on July Third and an open Ranch Rodeo on July 4 and 5.

Results of those events are listed in a separate article in this week’s edi-tion.

Henson’s annual Turtle Race was held Saturday afternoon. There were altogether 261 participants, which was an increase from the 206 terrapin handlers last year. The win-ners were Mason Jackson for the 0-4 division, Aiden Word for the 5-8 division, Chasady Lowe for the 9-14 division, and Debbie Thompson for the adult division. Each child divi-sion winner received a coin bag full of gold dollars. The adult division brought in $275, which was divided in half between the winner and the Donley County Child Welfare board.

Fair weather greets annual July Fourth celebration

Join the Friends of Donley CountyFISH FRY BENEFITTING

Laura HommelJULY 19, 2014 • 5:30 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M.

DONLEY COUNTY ACTIVITY CENTER

$10 A Plate/Donations WelcomeFor more information, call Leonard Haynes at

806.282.7680.

Cookout to be held for Starnes family

First Baptist Church of Clarendon will host a cookout for the Tony Starnes family on Saturday, July 12, 6:00 p.m., at the Ministry Center.

Please join us in expressing appreciation for their many years of involvement in our community and best wishes as they move to the Dallas area.

Please RSVP by Friday, July 11, at 874-3833 or 683-3383.

State to hold shot Clinics in Clarendon

The Texas Department of State Health Services will hold Immunization Clinics in Clarendon this month on July 10, 17, and 24.

The clinics will be held at the TDSHS offi ce at Five Medi-cal Drive with the fi rst 15 clients being seen from from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.

All clinic times subject to change or cancellation in case of extenuating circumstances.

Ready for playThe Clarendon Lions Club cut the ribbon to the new playground equiment Thursday, July 3, 2014, at Prospect Park. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / TARA HOGAN

Wilson Cattle Four-peats at Ranch Rodeo

Cowboys from Wilson Cattle made a four-peat performance as they took top honors for the fourth year in a row during the Clarendon Outdoor Entertainment Association’s annual Ranch Rodeo last Friday and Saturday.

Wilson Cattle’s scores beat out 29 other local and regional teams as working cowboys put their skills to the test as part of the 137th annual Saints’ Roost Celebration. The team was made up of Rody Wilson, Tyler Rice, Jody Satterfi eld, Jason Thomas, and Jesse Valdez.

The Crutch Ranch team fi nished second with Cody Heck, Jarryd Burris, Hegen Lamb, and Chad Smith, and the Huddleston Ranch was third this year with the team of Willie McClesky, Colby McClesky, Clayton McClesky, Heath McClesky, and Casey McClesky.

The Top Hand for the rodeo was awarded to Brady Clark, and the Top Horse award was won by Chance McAnear.

This year’s attendance for the two-day ranch rodeo was 1,436 and Thursday’s junior rodeo was 369.

The Junior Ranch Rodeo was won by Rockin’ JM with the team of Casey McClesky, Cooper McClesky, Brody Rankin, John David Chatfi eld, and Jake Baca. The second place team was Bar H Ranch with the team of Brody Rankin, True Lacina, Quade Hiatt, Cutter McLain, and Garrett Fry. Wild Bunch was third in the junior rodeo with a team of Kade McClesky, Casey McClesky, Ryan McClesky, Brianna McClesky, Kayla McClesky.

Top Hand winner for the Junior Ranch Rodeo was Brody Rankin, and Casey McClesky rode the Top Horse.

Junior Calf, Donkey, and Steer Riding and Mutton Bustin’ were held all three nights. Overall Mutton Bustin’ champion for the three nights was Cooper McClesky. Overall Calf Riding Champion was Cutter Seay, the Overall Donkey Rider was Reatta McLean, and Steer Riding champion was Jake Baca.

Nightly winners of the junior events were as follows:

July 3 – Calf Scramble – Cooper McClesky, Alice McAnear, and Ashley Yankee; Mutton Bustin’ – Heston Seay; Calf Riding – Cutter Seay; Donley Riding – Jake Baca; and Steer Riding – Jake Baca.

July 4 – Calf Scramble – Jade Benson, Tierra McKorkle, and Bogan Rankin; Mutton Bustin’ –

See ‘Rodeo’ on page 8.

Cedar Stevenson presents the American fl ag at the COEA Ranch Rodeo held this past weekend. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / MORGAN WHEATLY

The Clarendon Bronco Cheerleaders showed their pride during this years Annual Western Parade. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / MORGAN WHEATLY

Haughton Bivens peddles his bike during the Kids’ Parade Friday. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / MORGAN WHEATLY

Kelby Brownlee competes in the mutton bustin’ competition before the Clarendon Ranch Rodeo. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / MORGAN WHEATLY





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CC library to host storyteller Thursday

The Vera Dial Dickey Library at Clarendon College will present “Summertime Tales” with storyteller Bernadette Nason on Thursday, August 7, at 10:00 a.m.

Award-winning, awfully English actress/storyteller/writer/stand-up comedienne, Bernadette Nason, tours the US with won-derful traditional stories, adapted from the folklore of cultures from all over the world...and she’s coming to Clarendon.

Close off your Summer Reading Program, “FIZZ, BOOM READ!” by coming to the library for an exciting, inter-active, hilar-ious program of Summertime Tales. Perfect for all ages but rec-ommended for age 4 and up.

This program is funded by the Texas Commission on the Arts to bring live performance to rural Texas libraries.

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise

Despair turned to joy last week when a local family’s pet was rescued from a well hole after 27 hours.

The 15-year-old Yorkie named Sophie began an ordinary day last Wednesday, July 30, with her owner Jim Whitlock, putting out feed on the old Reynolds place fi ve miles south of Clarendon on the JA Ranch Road.

That was at 10 a.m.; and when Whitlock got ready to leave, Sophie was nowhere to be found.

“She was always with me and usually stuck close to me,” Whitlock said. “When I couldn’t fi nd her, I thought she might have chased a rabbit.”

The search was on with Whitlock and his wife, Sue, joined by Troy Ritter and Tye and Cortney Jackson diligently looking for Sophie.

Finding her was imperative. This was more than a dog to the Whitlocks. This was their family.

“We lost a daughter in 1960 to a drunk driver,” Whitlock said. “So we don’t have any kids or grandkids. We just have our animals.”

And Sophie, along with her sister, had been Whitlock family members for eleven years.

As the search wore on more than half a mile away, Sue Whitlock convinced her husband that there was no way Sophie had wandered that far off.

“We went back to the windmill, and as I got to the other side of it, I saw that hole. A shiver went up my spine,” he said.

The hole was 15 feet deep, nine to 10 inches in diameter at the opening but narrowing to about four inches at the bottom.

“I thought ‘surely not,’ but I hollered her name, and she barked from the bottom of hole.”

As the Whitlocks’ hearts sank, they were joined by other friends and neighbors over the next several hours – R.J. Kemp, John Morrow, Tanner Morris, Kelly and Linda Hill, Kelly and Vicki Tunnell, and others – as numerous methods were tried to pull Sophie from the well.

Morrow put a camera down the hole that showed it was wallowed at the bottom, and that Sophie was off to one side.

“We were trying to get a noose on her,” Whitlock said. “We got her front legs in, but we couldn’t get her through the small part of the hole.”

Next, they devised a hook that successfully snared Sophie’s collar and brought her up in the hole. But about fi ve feet up, the collar slipped off, and she fell back to the bottom.

The Whitlocks, joined by Mrs. Tunnell, turned to prayer to guide the rescuers.

“I prayed out loud, and she would come over and we would pray some more,” Whitlock said.

But at 2:30 Thursday morning, Whitlock decided it was time to stop for the night.

“I called it off,” he said. “Sophie was tired. We were all tired. We needed to rest.”

Sophie remained on everyone’s minds throughout the night, and Morrow had a realization that would prove the key to saving her life. Nooses and catches were too risky and

might harm the dog, but Morrow knew what needed to be done.

“John called me the next morning and said we were going to save her just like that girl in the well,” Whitlock said.

In 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell down a 22-foot well near Midland. Rescuers ultimately saved her by digging a parallel hole to the well and then tunneling to her. Morrow felt the same method would work with Sophie, and he brought his backhoe to the site and began to dig.

Ten feet was the limit of his equipment, so Chris Schollenbarger joined the effort with a trackhoe that could continue to get the last fi ve feet. Then the tunnel was dug to get to Sophie.

At fi rst she would stick her head up but not come out. Then Kelly Hill was able to get her out and relief fl ooded their emotions.

“I bawled like a baby,” Whitlock said. “I just love her.”

The Whitlocks are forever grateful to the people who rescued their loved one. For her part, Sophie is safe, healthy, and happy. But now she stays not more than about three feet from her owner’s side.

“We got her back through a bunch of great people and prayer. A lot of good people showed up and no money was exchanged,” Whitlock said. “We owe a big thanks to everyone who helped.”

Morrow urges everyone remember the need and responsibility to plug, cap, or seal, abandoned well holes to prevent tragedies.

Regents consider FY ’15 budget

Clarendon College Regents began work on a $9.1 million projected budget for fi scal year 2015 during a called meeting last Thursday, July 31.

The budget is forecast to be less than the current expenses, and CC President Robert Riza said the administration’s num-bers are based on statewide pro-jections of no growth in college enrollments.

“The new norm is zero and down for enrollment,” Dr. Riza said, noting that the plentiful availability of jobs in the econ-omy makes it hard to recruit stu-dents for college.

College offi cials plan to adopt an ad valorem rate in the Clarendon College District, which covers all of Donley County, set at $0.220802 per $100 valuation, which is lower than the current tax rate of $0.222732. However, due to higher property values, the lower rate will actually bring in about $31,000 in increased rev-enue.

The proposed rate is eight percent higher than the effective rate of $0.204447, the rate which would bring in the exact same revenue as last year.

Regent Tex Selvidge spoke in favor of adopting the proposed rate, noting that it was better to raise taxes a little when times are good than to get behind and have to raise them a lot. Other board members also agreed with Sel-vidge.

CC won’t be looking at any tuition increases, and Riza said state appropriations will remain unchanged. The college is expect-ing to receive about $100,000 more from the fi ve-cent tax in Gray County due to higher values there.

The 2015 budget will be condensed compared to the cur-rent budget, Riza said, and it will be easier to track expenses and related programs.

Thursday’s workshop did not include any information about the college’s auxiliary budget, which covers expenses for ath-letics, the bookstore, and cafete-ria operations. Regents will hold a public hearing and continue budget talks on August 14 and are set to adopt a tax rate that day as well.

In other college business, Riza gave Regents their fi rst look at the administration’s strategic plan being developed for 2014-2017, labeled “One College...One Vision.”

When fi nished, the plan will take the college through its upcoming reaccreditation process and also has goals to redesign and increase student services, imple-ment a district-wide master plan, strengthen college-community relations, and identify programs for expansion.

Regents also met in closed session to discuss personnel, but no action was taken following the closed session.

Student Council to host Fish Camp

The Clarendon High School Student Council is inviting all freshmen and new students to attend Fish Camp next Monday, August 11. Students will meet at the CHS Auditorium at 7 p.m. to play games, tour the school, and have snacks.

Sales tax holiday is this weekend

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reminds shoppers the annual sales tax holiday is sched-uled for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 8 -10.

The law exempts most cloth-ing, footwear, school supplies, and backpacks priced under $100 from sales tax, which could save shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend during the weekend.

Lists of apparel and school supplies that may be purchased tax free can be found on the Comptroller’s website at www.TexasTaxHoliday.org.

This year, shoppers will save an estimated $82.7 million in state and local sales taxes during the Sales Tax Holiday.

The tax holiday weekend has been an annual event since 1999.

School supplies to be distributed Friday

Three local groups have teamed up to ensure that no kid goes without the tools they need to succeed this school year.

The The Lila Kate Monroe Memorial Fund, the First United Methodist Church and Christ’s Kids Ministries will offer free basic school supplies on Friday, August 22, at the Christ’s Kids Ministry Center, 416 S. Kearney, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Jim Whitlock holds his beloved pet, Sophie, Tuesday morning (top photo) after the Yorkie spent 27 harrowing hours in a 15-foot well hole last week. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK & COURTESY PHOTOS / JOHN MORROW

Shot clinics to be held during August

The Texas Department of State Health Services will hold three Immunization Clinics in Clarendon August 7, 14, and 21 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the TDSHS offi ce at Five Medical Drive with the fi rst 15 clients being seen.

Saving Sophie

Back to basicsClarendon ISD Athletic

Director Gary Jack directs plays Tues-

day morning as the Clarendon Broncos began working out

for the 2014 football season. The Broncos will scrimmage Bovina here next Friday, August 15, and the regular season

begins August 29.ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK





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Downtown bat tests positive for rabies

Clarendon City Hall reports that a bat captured in the 100 block of S. Sully Street on August 19 has tested positive for rabies.

The bat was found on the sidewalk at City Hall by the city’s code enforcement offi cer and sub-mitted for testing.

This is the second bat to test positive for rabies in the down-town area. In April, another bat was found in the 100 block of S. Kearney Street.

City offi cials say these cases are reminders as to why all resi-dents should have their pets vac-cinated as required by law. Dogs and cats in the city are required to have a city tag showing proof of rabies vaccination.

If anyone sees a bat - or any other animal - exhibiting signs of rabies, contact City Hall at 874-3438 during regular busi-ness hours or the Donley County Sheriff’s Offi ce after hours at 874-3533.

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise“Jesus loves you.” It’s a simple

message, but it’s one that is best delivered with actions rather than words.

Christ’s Kids Ministry brings that message to dozens of chil-dren weekly, and over the summer months it fed those kids’ bodies as well as their souls, delivering 135 sack lunches fi ve days a week… an estimated 7,500 meals since May.

“We just want to be a bless-ing and show kids that Jesus loves them,” says Steve Carter, who heads up the ministry with his wife, Janet.

As they deliver meals across Clarendon and in Lelia Lake without regard to any income guidelines, Steve, Janet, and their helpers repeat that simple message, “Jesus loves you,” and now kids come running to their delivery vans and give them the message fi rst.

Some kids are economically disadvantaged. Some are home alone during the day. Christ’s Kids doesn’t look at those circumstances. All that matters is that a kid needs food, and the mission is to serve.

Every meal includes fruit, a drink, a cookie, and something hot such as a burger or corn dog. The Carters say they see God working every day in the ministry, whether it’s in the form of donations from across the community or in always having the right amount of food to go around. Some days there is food left over, other days supply equals demand, and then other days are more special.

“We’ve had days when we packed exactly 135 meals but had 140 kids to serve… and the meals are there,” Janet Carter said. “It’s a God thing.”

They also see the devotion of

the local community, which has come through with all the money over the years to the extent that Christ’s Kids has never sought state or federal assistance.

At the start of each summer, the ministry puts a notice in the paper and sends information home with students in the school. The sack lunch program is open to kids 15 years old and younger.

“We kind of fi gure at 16 you’re old enough to get some kind of job, and we also just have to have a cutoff point somewhere,” Carter said.

The ministry buys much of its food from the High Plains Food Bank and also has a food pantry to help people when needed.

The ministry itself began as “Ted’s Kids” 14 years ago by Ted Shaller and David Dickinson and became known as Christ’s Kids nine years ago. The summer lunch pro-gram began fi ve years ago.

The ministry was housed in three different churches and for a time in the Clarendon Lions Hall before the former Panhandle Com-munity Services building became available on Kearney Street. Then about a year ago, the PCS building came up for sale.

“The PCS board offered it to us, but we said there was no way we could afford it, and they told us to just make an offer,” Steve Carter recalls. “We prayed about it and came up with the fi gure of $3 per square foot as all we could come up with. We offered $15,000, and they took it.”

Christ’s Kids ministers to about 40 kids on Wednesdays and Sundays, and owning their building has allowed them to make the facil-ity available to any Christian-based

King to serve on interim committee

Texas Speaker Joe Straus announced that he has appointed Rep. Ken King (R-Canadian) to the Select Interim Committee to Study Ethics Laws. Rep. King will serve alongside Rep. Nevarez of Eagle Pass and Austin attor-ney Ross Fischer, as well as Rep. Sarah Davis of Houston who will co-chair the committee.

The committee was created last year by the passage of Senate Bill 1773. Its purpose is to review laws and regulations related to ethics, such as those focused on campaign fi nance, lobbying and personal fi nance disclosures. The other four members of the com-mittee, are appointed by the Lieu-tenant Governor.

Rep. King said, “These issues are of the utmost impor-tance to ensure the system is fair and transparent.”

Museum hosts Quanah Parker photo exhibit

The Saints’ Roost Museum invites the public to view “The Cyn-thia Ann & Quanah Parker Exhibit: A Woman of Two Worlds and A Man in Two Worlds,” a traveling exhibit of rarely seen photos.

The photo exhibit, on loan from the Texas Lakes Trail Region, will be on display through Sep-tember at the Museum, which is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Much can be learned from the dramatic story of these two cou-rageous individuals. In 1836, a Comanche raiding party took Cyn-thia Ann from her family. Over the following years, she became a wife to a Comanche chief and mother to their children, including Quanah. After Cynthia Ann was taken back by Texas Rangers, Quanah became one of the most important Comanche leaders both in war and peace.

The photo exhibit tells this story of the lives of these two per-sons caught between two differ-ent worlds. The Lakes Trail Region views this traveling exhibit as a way to educate visitors about their lives.

The presentation of the Cyn-thia Ann and Quanah Parker photo exhibit at the Saints’ Roost Museum was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affi liate of the National Endow-ment for the Humanities.

Seliger planning town hall meeting

State Senator Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo) is kicking off his annual tour of Senate District 31, conducting town hall meetings in preparation for the 84th Texas Legislature that convenes in Janu-ary.

The senator will be in Clarendon on Friday, September 12, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the Bairfi eld Activity Center.

“The town hall meetings will be very important in helping develop legislation and address-ing concerns of West Texas. I look forward to beginning the process,” said Seliger.

State to hold shot clinics in Clarendon

The Texas Department of State Health Services will hold three Immunization Clinics in Clarendon during the month of September.

Clinics will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the TDSHS offi ce at Five Medical Drive on September 4, 11, and 18.

Interested parties have until September 1, 2014, to submit comments on the proposed rules for state water plan funding through the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) and State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas (SWIRFT).

Stakeholders interested in providing input on the draft rules can send written comments to [email protected]; to our General Counsel at P.O. Box 13231, Austin, TX 78711-3231; or through the online comment form at http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/.

The proposed rules are also available online.

The comment period opened July 11, 2014, when the draft rules were published in the Texas Register. Since then, the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has held three work sessions in San Antonio, San Angelo, and Fort Worth. The work sessions provided opportunities for the public to hear updates on the rule-making process and to comment before the Board. The TWDB encourages the public to continue participating in the rule development process by submitting comments before the September 1, 2014, deadline. The fi nal version of the rules is scheduled to be published in December 2014.

Smith gets ten years for attack

An Amarillo man was sen-tenced to ten years in prison last Thursday, August 21, for his role in attacking a local woman last year.

Tyler Lee Smith entered a plea of guilty when the 100th Judicial District Court met in Childress. He was convicted for the second degree felony offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sen-tenced to 10 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

“This defendant used a knife during an attack on his own girl-friend causing her serious injuries which almost took her life,” said District Attorney Luke Inman. “Due to the use of the knife in this offense, he will have to complete at least fi ve years of his sentence before becom-ing parole eligible.”

The crime occurred in the early hours of November 3, 2013, when 17-year-old Shantel Harris was severely beaten and stabbed in the neck in Clarendon’s North Ward park while walking home from a birthday party. She later identifi ed her attackers as Smith and Devonte Hardaway of Clarendon.

“Domestic violence, like this case, is taken seriously by law enforcement in the 100th Judicial District and this offi ce,” said Inman. “We recently hosted a domestic vio-lence seminar for law enforcement in Wellington that emphasized going forward with domestic assault cases, even when you don’t have the sup-port of the victim like we lacked in this case.”

Smith, age 20 of Amarillo, was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on May 14, 2014. The trial had been scheduled for August 26 in Donley County.

Inman prosecuted the case for the State of Texas with the Honor-able Judge Stuart Messer presiding.

Pursuant to the plea Smith is required to pay $398 in court costs and a $2,000 fi ne.

Hardaway accepted a plea agreement earlier this year.

group. Carter started with Christ’s

Kids nine years ago. In July, he retired from his job and now leads the ministry full time, which has allowed its mission to be expanded to include an adult Bible study to reach the kids’ parents.

The summer sack lunch program wrapped up last Friday with kids going back to school this week. Now Christ’s Kids shifts gears and works with the Snack Pack 4 Kids program to send extra food home with students that are identifi ed by the school.

Support for the program cuts across all denominations, and the ministry has ten regular adult volunteers and is often joined by others seeking to serve, including missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Carter doesn’t see the need for the mission diminishing and says it’s hard to stop something once it’s started.

“We’re there every day,” he said. “There are a lot of hurting people. The Lord led us to kids a long time ago, and we’ll do it as long as we can.”

Parker

The Love of JesusChrist’s Kids spreads faith through action

Don Butler and Steve Carter wrap pizza burgers for the the Christ’s Kids sack lunch program last Thursday. ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Water plan public comment period closing September 1

Day OneClarendon’s Aubrey Stidham and her dad, Matthew, unpack her Kindergarten supplies on the fi rst day of school Monday. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / ROGER ESTLACK





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By Roger Estlack & Tara Allred, Clarendon Enterprise

If actions speak louder than words, then the actions of the women at Howardwick Bap-tist Church speak volumes about Christian love and compassion as well as the power of prayer.

The ladies, who want no personal rec-ognition, learn through the church about indi-viduals who have special needs, are facing problems, or are battling illnesses. Then someone volunteers to knit a prayer blanket or afghan for that person in need.

Pastor Dave Stout says that over the years more than 300 of these afghans have been prepared for people in need… people like former Howardwick mayor Nancy Davis as she continues her personal battle with cancer and cannot express her thanks enough for what she’s been given

“You can lay there at night and just feel every prayer,” Davis said.

Perhaps that’s because not only is the blanket an expression of love, but it is also a symbol of prayer. As part of this quiet ministry, the woman making the afghan says a prayer for the intended recipient at the end of each crocheted row before starting the next one.

A supply of yarn is kept at the church for the ladies, and donations of yarn are always welcome, Stout says.

The pastor says he doesn’t know just when the ministry started, but he knows that afghans from the women of Howardwick have been shipped all over the United States and to some foreign countries.

For more information or to donate yarn to the ministry, contact Pastor Dave Stout at 231-8344.

Applications can be made for Angel Tree

Angel Tree applications are now available at the Burton Memorial Library in downtown Clarendon.

Kids ages 12 and under, who might not otherwise have Christ-mas, are eligible for this program. The application period will close December 1, 2014.

For more information, con-tact Janet Carter at 806-874-2007.

Beef seminar to be Tuesday

The Donley County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will host a beef cattle seminar next Tues-day, November 18, starting with a noon meal and concluding around 2 p.m. at the Donley County Activity Center.

Extension Beef Cattle Special-ist Dr. Ted McCollum will pres-ent topics addressing new industry requirements that will directly affect beef producers, nutritional require-ments and health factors that produc-ers need to utilize to take advantage of the higher price markets we are currently experiencing.

Dr. Guy Ellis with Merck animal health will speak on adding value to your calves.

There will be a $10 registration fee for participants. To RSVP or for more information or special needs, contact Leonard Haynes at 806-874 2141 or 806-282-7680.

This meeting is sponsored by Texas A&M AgriLife and Merck animal health.

Interest free ‘cash’ available for 2014

Holiday shopping at home is easy and affordable again as the Donley County State Bank and the Clarendon Chamber of Com-merce have teamed up to provide zero-percent interest “Christmas Cash” loans for the 18th season.

As in the past, anyone can make application for a loan up to $3,000 interest free with the Donley County State Bank. Six-teen local businesses are par-ticipating in the Christmas Cash program this year.

The program has proven popular in the past with many consumers and is seen as way to encourage folks to shop at home.

Once a Christmas Cash loan has been approved, the borrower will be issued Christmas Cash Dollars, which may be spent like US currency toward new pur-chases at all of the participating businesses.

Christmas Cash must be spent by December 31, 2014.

As of Tuesday morning, participating Christmas Cash merchants this year are: Ronna’s Creations, Stavehagen Video, Henson’s, Every Nook & Cranny, Straight Off The Ranch, The Clarendon Enterprise, Mike’s Pharmacy, and Lowe’s Family Center and Ace Hardware. To sign your business up, call the Cham-ber offi ce at 874-2421.

Courthouse lighting to be held Nov. 29

Volunteers have spent sev-eral hours wrapping trees at the Donley County Courthouse in preparation for a big lighting cer-emony this month.

The Christmas Lighting Cel-ebration will be held Saturday, November 29, on the courthouse square. Santa will show up at 5 p.m., and the lights will be turned on at 6 p.m.

Caroling will be led by Charles Clinton, and refreshments following the event will be served by the Clarendon Lions Club in the Lions Hall.

By Roger Estlack, Clarendon EnterpriseDonley County Commissioner

Dan Sawyer was re-elected by Pre-cinct 4 voters last week in the only real contested local race of the November 4 General Election.

The Republican incumbent defeated his Democratic challenger, Rick Rattan, by a margin of 133 to 89.

Precinct 1 and 2 voters formally elected Republican Pam Johnston Mason to succeed the late Demo-cratic incumbent, Connie Havens, for justice of the peace, 420 to 85.

Havens passed away in September, but her name remained on the ballot.

A total of 947 total ballots were cast in last week’s election, and several unopposed local races were before the voters, including County Judge-elect (R), County Clerk Fay Vargas (D), County Treasurer Wanda Smith (R), Pct. 2 Commissioner-elect Daniel Ford (R), and Pct. 3&4 Justice of the Peace Denise Bertrand (R).

Clarendon native Mac Thorn-berry was easily re-elected to his District 13 seat in the United States

House of Representatives. Local voters preferred Thornberry by a wide margin over his Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Party oppo-nents. The congressman received 87.14 percent of the home vote with Mike Minter (D) getting 9.86 per-cent, Emily Pivoda (L) getting 2.25 percent, and Don Cook (G) getting 0.75 percent.

State Sen. Kel Seliger (R) and State Rep. Ken King (R) were also easily re-elected to their seats with each getting more than 90 percent of the local vote.

Donley County joined most of the rest of Texas in preferring Repub-lican Greg Abbott as the state’s next governor with 802 votes compared to 119 for Democrat Wendy Davis, 17 for Libertarian Kathie Glass, and three for the Green Party’s Brandon Parmer.

Local voters helped re-elect US Senator John Cornyn with 800 votes compared to 94 for David Alameel (D), 23 for Rebecca Paddock (L), eight for Emily “Spicybrown” San-chez, and one write-in vote.

Republican Dan Patrick will be

the state’s next lieutenant governor thanks in part to 795 votes he picked up locally compared to 102 for Leti-cia Van de Putte (D), 26 for Robert Butler (L), and three for Chan-drakantha Courtney (G).

Republican candidates were the choice all the way down the ballot in contested statewide and area races. In fact, 358 Donley County voters marked straight Republican ballots.

Donley County Commissioners are expected to canvass the election this week. New terms begin January 1.

Clarendonsales tax revenue increases

Clarendon’s sales tax revenue this month posted its fi rst positive growth over 2013 since the March allocation from Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’ offi ce.

The city showed increased sales tax receipts the fi rst three months of 2014 until April, at which time monthly fi gures had to compete with numbers from 2013 when an infl ux of pipeline workers drove sales to unusually high levels.

The November allocation reported last week shows Clarendon receiving $42,786.39 this month, up 12.35 percent over the same period in 2013. Looking at the two-year record, the city’s allocation this period is up 25.7 percent compared to November 2012 when revenue was $34,037.

Clarendon’s year-to-date fi gure is still off 3.29 percent at $366,991.99 compared to 2013, but the city is up 18.98 percent compared to this same point in 2012 when the total was $308,446.79.

Hedley is up 1.58 percent this month at $848.92 and is also up 5.84 percent for the year-to-date at $6,673.69.

Howardwick dropped 13.84 percent for November at $1,237.37, and down for the year 21.53 percent at $12,529.82.

Across the state, Combs said that sales tax revenue in October was $2.41 billion, up 12.9 percent com-pared to October 2013.

“Strong growth in sales tax receipts was apparent across all major economic sectors,” Combs said.

The sales tax fi gures repre-sent September sales reported by monthly tax fi lers and July, August and September sales reported by quarterly fi lers.

Volunteers sought for Thanksgiving

Plans are being made for the annual Community Thanksgiv-ing Dinner to be held Thursday, November 27.

Donations of time and sup-port are needed to make this free meal happen again. Volunteers are needed to cook turkeys and des-serts as well as to serve the meal.

Donations may be made in advance at the Pilgrim Bank or at the door the day of the event. For more information, contact Janet Carter at 806-874-2007.

Sawyer defeats Rattan in race for Pct. 4 commissioner

Pastor Dave Stout with Nancy Davis’ prayer blanket. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / TARA ALLRED

Howardwick church provides comfort of prayer through handmade blankets

Proper saluteCub Scout Steven Mills salutes the American fl ag during Veterans Day services in Hedley Tuesday morning. Several services were held in Donley County this week to honor the sacrifi ces of those who have served in America’s armed forces. ENTERPRISE PHOTO / KARI LINDSEY

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January 2, 2014Fire sends man to hospital

A mid-day structure fire severely injured a Donley County man Decem-ber 17.

Clarendon Fire Chief Jeremy Powell said volunteer firemen were paged about 1:23 p.m. that day to a report of smoke northwest of the city.

Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn got the victim to safety while several rounds of ammunition were exploding inside the structure. Firemen found the structure fully engulfed, and the blaze also started a grassfire that burned 20 to 30 acres, Powell said.

January 9, 2014Cities consider alcohol rules

Two months after Donley County voters approved the sale of alcoholic beverages, local businesses are still waiting for city governments to take action on the subject.

Voters authorized the sale of all alcoholic beverages, including mixed drinks, on November 5, 2013, but the cities of Clarendon and Hedley have not yet adopted rules governing such sales. That may change soon, however.

Clarendon officials will meet with representatives of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on Friday after-noon, January 10, at 3:00 to discuss what the city can do and what other cities have done.

January 16, 2014Committee forming to plan decorations for courthouse

Local volunteers are being sought to make plans for decorating the Donley County Courthouse for Christmas this year.

The county commissioners’ court last month appointed Justice of the Peace Denise Bertrand to recruit and organize a volunteer committee to deco-rate the lawn in 2014 and forward. And the hope is that the lawn will be lit in a manner to give the respect and dignity the historic courthouse deserves.

January 16, 2014Stock show nets $55k

Koyt Tucek and Kati Adams exhibited the top animals in the Beef Division during the annual Donley County Junior Livestock Show last Sat-urday, January 11, at the Donley County Activity Center.

Tucek showed the Grand Cham-pion Steer, and Adams had the Grand Champion Heifer.

January 23, 2014CC offering Amarillo class

Clarendon College has opened its Amarillo cosmetology center with its first group of students this month and will start a second group next month, according to information presented to the Board of Regents’ meeting last Thursday, January 16.

January 23, 2014Curbing plan at center of city street project debate

Clarendon Aldermen debated curbing plans for streets slated to be paved this year during their regular meeting last Tuesday, January 14.

City voters in May of 2012 approved a bond election that autho-rized $700,000 for street improvements, but the project was delayed when the board of aldermen later authorized an additional $700,000 in tax revenue notes to replace water and sewer lines under the targeted streets.

At last week’s meeting, Mayor Larry Hicks and city engineer Clayton Scales of KSA Engineers presented aldermen with plans for curbing for the street project. As presented, the proj-ect would narrow the streets down to 32 feet wide and use mostly “rollover” curbs to define the streets.

January 30, 2014Fire damages rural home

Several personal possessions and a family dog was lost during a house fire on County Road W this week.

Clarendon Fire Chief Jeremy Powell said his department was paged to the fire Monday, January 27, at 10:41 a.m. and were on the scene by 10:55. The home which is owned by Jim Mitchell was being rented by Joel Layton.

Powell said a female and child were inside the residence when the home caught fire and were unable to suppress the fire and were forced to evacuate and call 911.

February 6, 2014City okays rules governing alcohol sales

City Hall has signed five applica-tions for alcohol sales permits follow-ing last Tuesday’s passage of an alcohol ordinance by the Board of Aldermen.

Mayor Pro-tem Will Thompson presided in the absence of Mayor Larry Hicks as Ordinance 426 was unani-mously approved by the board after questions over distances and measuring were addressed with the city attorney.

The law allows for alcohol sales along US 287 within the city, along State Hwy. 70 from US 287 to the north city limit, and in the Central Business District. Sales are prohibited within 300 feet of the main house of worship of a church, a public or private school, and licensed daycare or child care facilities. Variances may be applied for.

Most measurements will be done from front door to front door in straight lines along street fronts, but measure-ments from schools will be done in a straight line from property line to prop-erty line.

February 13, 2014GOP candidates sound off

Republican candidates for county office sounded off during a public

forum last week as voters prepare for the start of early voting next Tuesday, February 18.

Voters heard from all unop-posed candidates first before the floor was turned over to candidates who are facing opposition with each of them given seven minutes to speak. With their statements and questions from those in attendance, most of the evening was given over to the four men running for county judge.

Most of the evening was given over to the four candidates for county judge – Randy Bond, Gary Campbell, Jack Craft, and John Howard.

February 20, 2014Hardaway accepts plea deal on assault

A man accused of attacking a Clarendon woman has been sentenced to prison after accepting a plea agree-ment in district court last Monday, Feb-ruary 10.

Devonte Deshun Hardaway was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in the Institutional Division of Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the second degree felony offense of aggra-vated assault with a deadly weapon.

According to published reports, a 17-year-old woman was severely beaten and stabbed early Sunday morning, November 3. Sheriff Butch Blackburn said the woman, identified by social media sources as Shantel Harris, was walking home from a birthday party when she was attacked in a vacant lot near the North Ward Park and beaten and stabbed in the neck.

February 27, 2014Beer now available at stores

The natural drought still lingers, but Clarendon long “dry” spell came to an end last Thursday, February 13, with the first package sales of beer since 1902.

More than three months after Donley County voters approved a local option to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages, Budweiser trucks rolled up to Allsup’s convenience store and Lowe’s Family Center to stock coolers that had been running in anticipation for weeks.

Allsup’s sold the first beer in the city to Billy Curry and Danny Nugent at 11:25 Thursday morning, and sales since then have been brisk, the store says.

March 6, 2014City finalizes street project

The Clarendon Board of Alder-men are expected to consider bids on a street curbing and paving project next month after they approved the scope of the project last Tuesday, February 25.

City engineer Clayton Scales reviewed plans for the project, and the board discussed curb placements and street widths. Officials will likely place bid notices for the project next week with bids tentatively being due back to

City Hall by April 1 for board consider-ation on April 8.

The project will include Sixth Street from Koogle to Goodnight Street; Third Street from Allen to Bugbee Avenue; Allen Street, from Third to Fifth; Sims Street from Third to Fourth (west side of Bronco Stadium); Carhart Street, from Sixth to Hwy. 287; and Wood Avenue.

March 6, 2014Runoff election for Howard, Bond

The four-way race for Donley County Judge came down to Dr. John Howard and Randy Bond after no can-didate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the Republican Primary Tuesday.

Howard and Bond will square off in a May 27 runoff election, and the winner will have no Democratic oppo-sition in November.

Howard was the top vote getter with 353 but only got 40.4 percent of the total votes. Bond was second with 230 followed by Jack Craft with 152 and Gary Campbell with 138.

In the race for the Republican nomination for Precinct 2 County Com-missioner, Daniel Ford was the clear winner and avoided a runoff with 178 votes compared to 96 for Mitchell Martin and 26 for John Grady.

March 13, 2014Clarendon EDC awards 17th storefront grant

A local business’ renovation more than six months in the making has been capped off with new doors paid for in part by a grant from the Clarendon Eco-nomic Development Corporation.

Robertson Funeral Directors at 212 S. Sully received $1,627.50 as the 17th award under the CEDC’s popular Façade Grant Program, and this mark’s the programs first award that is not on Kearney Street.

Chuck Robertson said the CEDC money specifically helped pay for the purchase and installation of custom-made doors for the funeral home as well as some glass work. The business has also repainted its awning and exterior as part of a complete remodeling.

March 20, 2014CEDC working with museum to expand hours

The Saints’ Roost Museum is now open for business five days a week thanks to a new partnership between the Museum and the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation.

Madeline Black began working March 1 at the Museum on, which can now be visited Tuesday through Satur-day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“We want to welcome Madeleine Black to our team and look forward to working with her,” said Museum Presi-dent Derlene Graham. “We look for-ward to working with CEDC to make improvements and make our commu-

nity proud.”

March 20, 2014Mulkey Project moving forward

The Clarendon Economic Devel-opment Corporation embarked on Phase 2 of the Mulkey Project this week, authorizing Pioneer General Contractors to proceed with the first interior renovations of the theatre.

Phase 2 work will focus on restor-ing the 1946 building’s lobby, ticket booth, and restrooms and is expected to cost a maximum of $148,515.

Funding for this work will come from the Clarendon Hotel Occupancy Tax fund, CEDC funds, and funds donated privately to the Clarendon Community Fund.

March 27, 2014City to welcome 2,000 visitors Saturday

Clarendon will be bustling with people this weekend when the annual Clarendon College Invitational Judging Contest is held Saturday.

The contest doubles the town’s population and regularly attracts around 2,000 high school FFA students and 4-H students from around Texas and nearby states and as of Tuesday afternoon more than 1,663 students had pre-registered, which is higher than last year at this point. This number doesn’t include the hundreds of parents and coaches who accompany the students to the contest.

According to the 2010 US Census, Clarendon has a population of 2,026.

April 3, 2014City hikes trash rates in face of rising costs

Garbage rates in the City of Clarendon will be going up eight per-cent as the city tries to keep up with rising costs of the service, and water rates may be going up soon also.

At their regular meeting last Tues-day, the Board of Aldermen approved the trash increase, which City Hall says will amount to about $1.39 per month for most residential customers.

City leaders also began consider-ation of raising and restructuring water rates last week.

Greenbelt Water Authority Gen-eral Manager Bobbie Kidd told alder-men that the wholesale cost the city pays for water has gone up several times since Clarendon last adjusted rates in 2009. And, Kidd said, at that point the city did not raise rates but only lowered the base usage from 5,000 gallons to 2,000 gallons.

April 10, 2014Remains positively identified, new charges filed

Bryan Police this afternoon con-firmed that two bodies recovered from an arson in that city are indeed those of former Clarendon residents Noel Devin and her father, Dr. Thomas Mac Devin.

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April 17, 2014Clarendon ISD preparing for tornado safety

After several trial runs, Clarendon public school students had their fi rst unannounced tornado drill Tuesday morning, taking advantage of improved shelter facilities.

In less than seven minutes, 350 students from Pre-Kindergarten through junior high as well as teachers and other school personnel were safely ensconced in an area under the school cafeteria and library known by alumni as “the bomb shelter.”

Meanwhile, 125 high school stu-dents and other personnel got to safety in the high school basement in about three minutes.

Clarendon ISD Superintendent Monty Hysinger said the shelter provides ample room for students to get situated by class and for teachers to take roll.

April 17, 2014Dinner to support CC judgers going ‘down under’

The Clarendon College Meats Judging Team has had three members qualify to attend a global competition in Australia this summer.

Scotta Faulkenberry, Cody Shan-non, and Morgan Boyer, along with their coach Tate Corliss, will take part in the Australian Intercollegiate Meat Judging (ICMJ) Contest in Armidale, New South Wales, for two weeks in July.

The students were invited to this competition due to their membership on the Academic All-American First Team for the “A” division. Of the 5 students on this team, 3 will represent Clarendon College.

April 17, 2014Jones 5K raises funds for playground

A new playground is on the horizon for Clarendon’s Prospect Park following the success of last Saturday’s second annual Chance Mark Jones Memorial 5K.

The Clarendon Lions Club hosted the event and announced that they had secured the $33,000 needed to purchase and install the new equipment.

Plans call for a bed of woodchips to be installed for safety around the new playground, but a grant application is pending that, if awarded, would pay for a more permanent and safer rubberized surface.

April 24, 2014CC signs deal with wind farm for $800k

A wind energy company will pay Clarendon College more than $800,000 in direct payments and other contribu-tions in lieu of property taxes.

CC Regents approved the deal with Cielo Land & Cattle, doing business as Salt Fork Wind, during their regular meeting Thursday, April 17. The pro-posed wind farm will be located along Interstate 40 in the northwestern corner of Donley County.

CC President Robert Riza said the company had agreed to pay $800,000 cash in equal payments over a ten-year period. In addition, Cielo will cover any legal fees associated with the agreement and provide scholarships to CC students.

April 24, 2014District convention recognizes local Lions

The Clarendon Lions Club received high honors Saturday when fellow Lions from all over the Texas Panhandle con-gregated here for the District 2-T1 Con-vention.

District Governor Ryan Hodge presented the Lions Legacy award to the Clarendon club for its dedication to Lionism, community service, and help given to put on this year’s convention.

DG Hodge noted that this is only the second time that the award had been given to an entire club.

April 31, 2014Family affair at State Meet

Cousins Sarah Luttrell and Abby Johnson are headed to the state track meet with recent accomplishments in the Regional Track Meet held in Levelland.

Luttrell competed and qualifi ed in the 100-meter dash and Johnson qualifi ed in the 400-meter dash. Bronco Charles Mason earned a wildcard spot in the long jump and qualifi ed for the state meet.

April 31, 2014H’wick pair nabbed for burglary

Two Howardwick residents were in the Donley County Jail for burglarizing the Sandell Drive-In as the Enterprise went to press Tuesday.

Sheriff Butch Blackburn said Brenda Blevins and Jeffrey Wyrick were arrested Monday, April 28, for Posses-sion of Stolen Property after offi cers executed a search warrant at their home at 258 Palacia Drive in Howardwick.

April 31, 2014Chamber honors Carters, Hall

The Clarendon Chamber of Com-merce honored Steve and Janet Carter as its Man and Woman of the Year for 2013 during an awards dinner last Thursday, April 24, at the Bairfi eld Activity Center.

Ten people were honored by the Chamber, including the Carters and Donley County Judge Jack Hall, who received the Chamber’s highest honor, the Saints’ Roost Award.

May 8, 2014CHS names top students

Clarendon High School this week announced that Deborah Howard and Darbe Woodard are the top students of the Class of 2013.

Howard is this year’s Valedictorian with a GPA of 98.00. Deborah is the daughter of Bruce and Gwynne Howard. Woodard is this year’s Salutatorian, and she is the daughter of Bobby Woodard and Amy Rowell. Darbe has a GPA of 96.38.

May 15, 2014HHS names top students

Hedley High School has named Kristen Nicole Liner and Bailey Brook Wood as the top students for the Class of 2014, and both will be recognized during graduation ceremonies May 31.

Liner, the granddaughter of Chris and Teresa Liner, is the Valedictorian of the Class of 2014. Kristen has an average of 95.76. Wood is the Salutatorian and is the daughter of Ty Wood and Patrice Wood and has an average of 95.08.

May 15, 2014CHS athletes in top ten at state

Three Clarendon High School ath-letes earned the right to compete in the State Track Meet in Austin last weekend, and they all represented their school and community well, fi nishing in the top ten of their events.

Charles Mason is the fi fth best long jumper in the state as he went a distance

of 21’5¼” on his second attempt. Abby Johnson ran the 400-meter dash and fi nished seventh with a time of 1:01.74. Senior Sarah Luttrell fi nished a respect-able eighth place in that event with a time of 12.85. The winning time posted was 11.51.

May 22, 2014City aldermen discuss truck purchases

Clarendon city aldermen approved purchasing two new pickups during their regular meeting last Tuesday, May 13.

The purchase of the Ford pick-ups for $21,500 was approved on a 4-1 vote, with Alderman Doug Kidd voting against the measure. Kidd later said he would have preferred to wait until the new budget year for any more major pur-chases.

Alderman Larry Jeffers voted for the measure but said in the future he would prefer to see bid notices put in the local paper for the sake of transpar-ency, whether it is legally required or not. According to state law, cities don’t have to give publish a bid notice if the purchase is less than $50,000.

May 29, 2014Howard defeats Bond

Dr. John Howard is set to be the next judge of Donley County following Tuesday’s Republican runoff election.

Howard received 58.9 percent of the vote over Donley County Chief Deputy Randy Bond. The fi nal tally was 412 for Howard and 288 for Bond.

With no Democratic opponent for November’s General Election, Howard is set to succeed County Judge Jack Hall, who is retiring at the end of his current term after more than 17 years in offi ce.

May 29, 2014Mulkey draws crowd

Fair weather greeted hundreds of supporters of the Mulkey Theatre Sat-urday evening when Clarendon held its second annual Mulkey Block Party.

Several kids’ activities were avail-able as well as food booths, and a tem-porary screen and projector allowed cartoons to be shown inside the theatre with popcorn and drinks available at the concession area. It was the fi rst movies on a big screen in the Mulkey in nearly 30 years and the fi rst time the smell of fresh popcorn wafted through the lobby since 1986.

June 5, 2014City turns focus to street job

City workers this week began work on the long-awaited paving plan that was approved by voters in 2012. Work began on Sixth Street, in keeping with what city aldermen were told last Tuesday that the order of work would be Sixth, Parks, Carhart, Jackson, and Third streets.

The city expects the job to take 120 days during the months of June, July, August, and September.

June 12, 2014CEDC to help fund survey of CC impact

The Clarendon Economic Devel-opment Corporation will provide half the funding needed to conduct a study of the economic impact of Clarendon Col-lege following Monday’s meeting of the CEDC board.

CC President Robert Riza said the study, conducted by the private fi rm EMSI, will look at value the college has to its eight-county service area and to Clarendon in particular by examining payroll, purchasing, student spending, and other factors such as event hosting. The survey will also gather information to see what workforce skills are needed in the area.

The CC study will cost $9,900, and the CEDC will provide $4,950 for the information.

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December 24 Christmas Eve

December 25 Christmas Day

December 30 Lady Owls & Owls v Chillicothe • 1 p.m. • Chillicothe

January 2 Lady Broncos & Broncos v Fritch • 2 & 3:30 p.m. • Fritch

January 5 Lady Bulldogs v Connors State College• 2 p.m. • Dawg House

January 6 Lady Broncos & Broncos v White Deer • JV 4 & 5 p.m. • Varsity 6:30 & 8 p.m. • Clarendon

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January 9 Lady Broncos v Quanah • JV 5 p.m. • Varsity 6:30 p.m. • Clarendon

Lady Owls & Owls v Lefors • 6:30 p.m. • Hedley

January 10 Lady Bulldogs & Bulldogs v Howard College • 2 & 4 p.m. • Dawg House

January 12 Lady Bulldogs & Bulldogs v South Plains College • 5:45 & 7:45 p.m. • Dawg House

January 13 Broncos v Ascension Academy • JV 6 p.m. • Varsity 7:30 p.m. • Amarillo

Lady Broncos v Wheeler • JV 5 p.m. • Varsity 6:30 p.m. • Wheeler

Lady Owls & Owls v Silverton • 6:30 p.m. • Silverton

January 16 Lady Broncos & Broncos v Memphis • JV 4 & 5 p.m. • Varsity 6:30 & 8 p.m. • Clarendon

Lady Owls & Owls v Groom • 6:30 p.m. • Hedley

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January 20 Lady Broncos & Broncos v Shamrock • JV 4 & 5 p.m. • Varsity 6:30 & 8 p.m. • Clarendon

Lady Owls & Owls v McLean • 6:30 p.m. • Hedley

January 23 Lady Broncos & Broncos v Wellington • JV 4 & 5 p.m. • Varsity 6:30 & 8 p.m. • Wellington

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June 19, 2014Robertson honored for 50 years on CC board

Clarendon College Regent Delbert Robertson was honored for more than 50 years of service during the annual Community College Association of Texas Trustees meeting in San Antonio recently.

Robertson was appointed to fi ll an unexpired term in 1962 at the age of 28 and was later elected to his own full term in 1964. A half of century of service is rare on any board and more so on com-munity college boards.

June 19, 2014City to adopt new water rate structure

In their regularly scheduled meet-ing on June 10, 2014, the Clarendon Board of Aldermen began consideration of a new water rate structure designed to bring in more revenue and encour-age conservation while protecting small water users from higher rates.

The overall philosophy of the rate increase is “Use More Pay More.” The proposed rate increase will create a pro-jected surplus of $21,000, but 34 percent of water customers (303 accounts) who use only the base 2,000 gallons or less would see no increase in their water bills. The next largest segment, 23 percent of customers (207 accounts) who use 3,000 to 5,000 gallons, would see only a slight increase.

June 26, 2014CC launches RN program

The fi rst LVN to ADN bridge cohort at Clarendon College started classes Monday morning in Pampa. Dr. Robert Riza, president of CC, welcomed the students and shared his excitement about this being the fi rst class in the new ADN program at CC.

Twenty students from all around the Panhandle make up this fi rst cohort. After successful completion of their courses next summer, these students will sit for the RN exam.

June 26, 2014Church celebrates centennial

The Clarendon Church of Christ will celebrate its 100th anniversary this Sunday with a special service.

Members of the Church of Christ began worshipping in 1914 in Clarendon, Texas. The small number grew to 14 members in 1917 and worshipped in the T.M. Little home at the end of Carhart Street. The present congregation is very active in teaching through the World Bible School and in helping the Navajo nation teach their people the Bible.

July 3, 2014CISD inks appraisal limitation deal with wind farm

Clarendon ISD is the latest local entity to sign an agreement hoping to benefi t from a proposed wind farm in northwestern Donley County.

Superintendent Monty Hysinger said the project under development by Cielo Wind Energy, doing business as Salt Fork Wind, LLC, will be valued at between $120 million and $140 mil-lion for the portion that lies in the local school district, but the agreement will limit the appraised value of the project at $5 million.

Clarendon schools would still levy its ad valorem tax on the $5 million, gen-erating $58,500 in new revenue for the district. In addition, Salt Fork would pay the district directly $100 per student per year, a deal worth $40,000 to $45,000 annually.

July 3, 2014Two hospitalized after accident here

Three local people were injured – two seriously – during a car accident on US 287 in Clarendon Saturday evening, June 26.

According to records of the Donley County Sheriff’s Offi ce, Gina Canon was

driving a 2014 Chrysler when she rear-ended a 2003 Toyota Sequoia driven by Dude Cornell and carrying Ruth Han-cock at about 7:41 p.m.

The report by Deputy Mike Spier says that Cornell, age 86, was eastbound in the lefthand lane of US 287 near the intersection of US 70 South when Canon, age 34, did not swerve in time and hit the slowed vehicle.

July 10, 2014Wilson Cattle Four-peats at Ranch Rodeo

Cowboys from Wilson Cattle made a four-peat performance as they took top honors for the fourth year in a row during the Clarendon Outdoor Entertainment Association’s annual Ranch Rodeo last Friday and Saturday.

Wilson Cattle’s scores beat out 29 other local and regional teams as work-ing cowboys put their skills to the test as part of the 137th annual Saints’ Roost Celebration. The team was made up of Rody Wilson, Tyler Rice, Jody Satter-fi eld, Jason Thomas, and Jesse Valdez.

The Top Hand for the rodeo was awarded to Brady Clark, and the Top Horse award was won by Chance McA-near.

This year’s attendance for the two-day ranch rodeo was 1,436 and Thurs-day’s junior rodeo was 369.

July 10, 2014Fair weather greets annual July Fourth celebration

Beautiful, calm weather greeted a patriotic crowd gathered on the Court-house Square last Friday, July 4, for the 137th annual Saints’ Roost Celebration.

The annual Craft Fair drew a big crowd to the courthouse square with an impressive number of vendors; and the Chamber of Commerce recognized several pioneer citizens during the Old Settlers gathering. The following honor-ees received t-shirts from the Chamber: Steve Reynolds, Don Smith, Jewel Judd, Mary White and Floy Smith.

The Al Morrah Shrine Club served 750 plates of barbecue, up signifi cantly from 543 last year. A portion of the pro-ceeds from the annual barbecue are used in conjunction with the Khiva Shrine Temple in Amarillo to help pay for the transportation of kids to the Shriners’ burns and crippled children’s hospitals.

July 18, 2014Three CC athletes earn national awards

Three Clarendon College athletes were among 1,800 student-athletes from across the nation named to the NJCAA Academic Student-Athlete Awards list released recently.

Clarissa Elizondo (women’s bas-ketball) received the NJCAA Award for Superior Academic Achievement for a GPA between 3.80-3.99.

Ryan Backus (baseball) and Bran-don Turner (baseball) received the NJCAA Award for Exemplary Academic Achievement for GPAs between 3.60-3.79.

July 18, 2014Traffi c stop leads to 3 drug arrests

Three people were arrested Tues-day, July 1, after a traffi c stop led to the discovery of more than a pound of hero-ine.

According to arrest reports at the Donley County Sheriff’s Offi ce, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Darrin Bridges stopped a black 2005 Jeep Liberty for speeding west of Clarendon on US 287 near mile marker 166 and observed “several indicators of criminal activity.”

Trooper Bridges arrested Alyssa Hodges, age 28, of Clarendon; David Andrew Vinson, age 38, of Clarendon; and Rosa Maria Garcia, age 37, of Cali-fornia. All three were charged with Pos-session of a Controlled Substance greater than 400 grams and booked into the Donley County Jail.

July 18, 2014CEDC awards 18th grant for storefront improvement

A longtime Clarendon restaurant is sporting a bright new look thanks in part to help from the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation.

JD SteakOut received $2,000 under the CEDC’s Façade Grant Program, which helped cover the cost of painting the business at the intersection of US 287 and Jefferson.

Restaurant owners Jesus and Dora Hernandez have been doing business in Clarendon for 17 years, but they found that their current location wasn’t getting the attention of travelers. A change to an orange and green color scheme fi xed that problem.

July 24, 2014Enterprise wins national, regional press awards

The Clarendon Enterprise has been recognized on both the national and regional levels this month for its work on open government issues, column writing, and editorials.

The local newspaper was recently notifi ed that it has received a third place award and two honorable mentions from the National Newspaper Association, awards that will be presented during the NNA conference this October in San Antonio.

The Enterprise won third place for Best Editorial Page among daily and non-daily papers of circulations less than 6,000 for entries from April 18 and 25, 2013. Those pages featured editori-als written by Roger Estlack focused on open government, columns by Fred Gray on child abuse and local elections, and letters written by Chris Moore and Tom Stauder.

Estlack’s editorial on the open records and the Hedley school board received an Honorable Mention among daily and non-daily papers for circula-tions less than 3,000; and the Enter-prise also earned an Honorable Mention among papers of all sizes for Freedom of Information efforts regarding open records and open meetings issues with Hedley ISD and the City of Clarendon.

July 31, 2014City moves to regulate gaming businesses

The City of Clarendon moved to regulate gaming businesses last Tuesday, although none are currently operating locally.

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CHURCH OF CHRIST300 S. CARHART • 874-2495 • MINISTER: CHRIS MOORESUN. BIBLE CLASS 9:30 A.M. • SUN. SERVICE: 10:30 A.M.

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CHURCH OF NAZARENE209 S. HAWLEY • 874-2321 • PASTOR: BILL HODGESSUN. SCHOOL: 9:30 A.M. • SUN SERVICE: 10:30 A.M.

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liner games started months ago, and the only known gaming establishment in town has since closed.

Ordinance 435 as approved July 22 will require gaming businesses to have a permit, and eight-liner machines would also be subject to initial and annual fees.

August 12, 2014Storm hammers Howardwick

Howardwick residents were bat-tered by high winds Saturday evening, August 9, resulting in thousands of dol-lars in property damage.

No human injuries have been reported. Trees in the community took the biggest toll with some limbs and trunks of approximately ten-inch diam-eters being snapped, although many were already weakened due to persistent drought and disease.

Two mobile homes were destroyed near Haskell and Columbia, and the resi-dence of Billy and Lois Woods suffered heavy damage at the corner Haskell and Pampa. A the couple’s wood structure carport was collapsed onto their vehicles, and their two-car carport that covered their boat and was anchored in concrete was ripped from its location and came to rest in a nearby fi eld about a quarter of a mile away.

August 21, 2014Students receive gift from CC

Students in Donley County received a gift last week when Clarendon College announced plans to scholarship dual credit classes and cap tuition on regular classes.

CC President Robert Riza revealed the plan during the regular meeting of the Board of Regents on August 14 and said it was a way for the college to give back to the people of Donley County.

Under the plan, tuition charges would be capped at 12 hours per semes-ter for Donley County residents, allow-ing students to take additional classes at no extra charge.

August 28, 2014Smith gets ten years for attack

An Amarillo man was sentenced to ten years in prison last Thursday, August 21, for his role in attacking a local woman last year.

Tyler Lee Smith entered a plea of guilty when the 100th Judicial Dis-trict Court met in Childress. He was convicted for the second degree felony offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 10 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

The crime occurred in the early hours of November 3, 2013, when 17-year-old Shantel Harris was severely beaten and stabbed in the neck in Clar-endon’s North Ward park while walking home from a birthday party. She later identifi ed her attackers as Smith and Devonte Hardaway of Clarendon.

Sept 4, 2014No action on alcohol variance

The city’s fi rst variance request under its alcohol zoning rules resulted in no action being taken by the Clarendon Board of Aldermen last Tuesday, August 26.

Patricia Krichhoff, representing Grumpy’s Pizza, addressed the board in public comments and said they have received no negative comments from the public since posting their notice of intent to apply for an alcohol permit back in May.

Grumpy’s Pizza hopes to open in October in the former Howell’s Chili House building next to the Donley County VFW Post on the southeast corner of US 287 and Faker Street. How-ever, rules adopted by the city earlier this year prohibit the sale of alcohol within 300 feet of a church. Grumpy’s, the city says, is 8.5 feet too close to the Agapé Church located on the southwest corner of the same intersection, when the dis-tance from front door to front door is measured by state guidelines.

Sept 4, 2014Funnel cloud sends students to shelters

A sudden weather shift gave Clarendon residents a fright last Thurs-day, August 28, and sent people scram-bling for shelter.

A tornado was the last thing on people’s minds when shortly before 3 p.m. a funnel cloud was reported on the ground west of the city.

Clarendon ISD Athletic Director was on the football fi eld when he spotted rotation in clouds and contacted Super-intendent Monty Hysinger who ordered students to take cover before any alerts or offi cial warnings were issued.

“It took us about fi ve minutes to get everyone to shelter,” Hysinger said. “It worked great.”

September 11, 2014Chamber names Campbell as manager

The new manager of the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce has a familiar face and is no stranger to the job she’s been hired to do.

Former Chamber president Bonnie Campbell formally stepped into her new title last Tuesday, September 2, and is keeping regular hours inside the Clarendon Visitor Center at the Mulkey Theatre.

September 18, 2014City restores funding to Chamber

The Clarendon Chamber of Com-merce got a boost last Tuesday, Sep-tember 9, when the City of Clarendon restored funding to the organization.

For many years the Chamber had received 25 percent of the city’s Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) revenues, but in 2011 the city raised bookkeeping con-cerns and ultimately pulled the funding until the organization could reorganize.

Since then, the Chamber has moved into the Clarendon Visitor Center at the Mulkey Theatre to share offi ce space with the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation, rebuilt its reputation, adopted new bylaws, and last month hired its former president, Bonnie Campbell, as Chamber Manager.

September 25Bridge to cut ribbon on local offi ce

The Bridge will host a ribbon cut-ting for the newest satellite offi ce in Clarendon on Tuesday, September 30, at 10 a.m. at 111 W. 4th (next to the Post Offi ce).

“Child abuse prevention is a com-munity responsibility. Ending the cycle of abuse requires involvement, interven-tion and knowledge”, says April Leming, Executive Director of The Bridge.

The Clarendon location of The Bridge will primarily serve the com-munities of Carson, Donley, Childress, Collingsworth and Hall counties.

October 2, 2014C Bar C sweeps cookoff

No cookoff ever had better weather than when the Saints’ Roost Museum held its 20th annual Col. Charles Good-night Chuckwagon Cookoff last Satur-day, September 27.

C Bar C won Overall Wagon & Cooking and Overall Cooking by plac-ing in every single food category, includ-ing fi rst place Beans, fi rst place Dessert, third place Potatoes, third place Meat, and fourth place Bread.

October 16, 2014Former aldermen settle with mayor out of court

Legal action against Clarendon Mayor Larry Hicks was resolved out of court this week when the city’s chief executive fulfi lled terms of a settlement crafted at a court-ordered mediation last Thursday, October 9.

Three former members of the Board of Aldermen – Debbie Roberts-Hillis, Jesus Hernandez, and Tommy N. Hill – sued Hicks last November, listing several complaints against the mayor and requesting the district court remove him from offi ce.

Eleven months after the suit was fi led, the terms of mediation came down to one issue – the installation of an exte-rior elevator on the front of City Hall in 2012. The plaintiffs initially claimed the lift was installed without board approval. They later produced a report from A Home Elevator, Inc., that the elevator was basically obsolete and would be very costly to make operational.

The plaintiffs in mediation last week agreed to drop all action if Hicks would call a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen and recommend the elevator be removed. Hicks agreed, and a called meeting was held Monday afternoon.

October 16, 2014Fire damage costs $1.5 million

A diesel-fueled fi re caused more than $1.5 million worth of damage to a road construction plant west of Clarendon last Wednesday, October 8.

The Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department and Donley County EMS were dispatched at 11:53 to the reported diesel fuel tank fi re at the J. Lee Milligan Plant on FM 2362 just south of US 287. Five trucks and nine fi remen responded.

Firemen discovered an 8,500-gallon diesel tank was leaking and a large ground fi re was heating the tank. The same tank in a different compart-ment contained 11,000 gallons of burner oil, and the fi re was also affecting several drums of oil, a 300-gallon diesel tank, a 300-gallon propane tank, and a tank of liquid asphalt heated to 350°F. A large electrical generator was also in the vicin-ity.

October 23, 2014City aldermen look at signs and crosses

The Clarendon Board of Aldermen last week took its fi rst offi cial look at religious markers that have been turn-

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The discussion about 40 or more ten-foot crosses and more than a dozen four-foot by eight-foot religious signs was brought to the table at the October 14 city meeting by Alderman Sandy Skelton.

Skelton said that was not propos-ing anything be done about the signs and crosses that are existing but that rules should be considered for the future. He also said he thinks most residents would agree that too many signs within the city limits with the same message is exces-sive and takes away from the attractive-ness of the city.

October 30, 2014Hysinger to lead Dumas ISD

Clarendon ISD Superintendent Monty Hysinger was named the lone fi nalist to be the next superintendent at Dumas by the Dumas ISD Board last night.

Hysinger, who is in his 16th year at Clarendon, told the Enterprise today that the move is a good opportunity for him but that moving will be bittersweet.

“It won’t be easy leaving Clarendon,” Hysinger said. “The staff here are like family. I feel like the district is in good shape, and we’ll just need to fi nd a good person to take it and lead it.”

Dumas must wait 21 days to before formally hiring Hysinger. That’s expected to happen on November 19.

November 6, 2014Red River Inn undergoing $400k makeover

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River Inn will soon have a new look inside and out as hotel owner Steve Hall carries out a $400,000 renovation of the facility.

“It’s necessary to this business to stay fresh and new and give the con-sumer what they deserve,” Hall said. “The consumer today is also a lot more discerning now than in the past.”

Planning for the renovation began in the middle of 2013, and much of the interior has been renovated since that time.

November 6, 2014City enacts new garage sale permit ordinance

Garage sales in the city limits will now require a permit following the meet-ing of the Clarendon Board of Aldermen last Tuesday, October 28.

In drafting Ordinance 439, alder-men rejected requiring any fees to be collected for a permit and also struck requirements that would have limited the hours of operation of a garage sale.

November 13, 2014Sawyer defeats Rattan

Donley County Commissioner Dan Sawyer was re-elected by Precinct 4 voters last week in the only real con-tested local race of the November 4 Gen-eral Election.

The Republican incumbent defeated his Democratic challenger, Rick Rattan, by a margin of 133 to 89.

Precinct 1 and 2 voters formally elected Republican Pam Johnston Mason to succeed the late Democratic incum-bent, Connie Havens, for justice of the peace, 420 to 85. Havens passed away

in September, but her name remained on the ballot.

November 20CEDC approved Phase Three work on Mulkey Project

Phase Three work on the Mulkey Theatre project is expected to get under-way next month following a called meeting of the Clarendon Economic Development Corp. Board Monday, November 17.

Phase Three, will focus on fi nish-ing out the Clarendon Visitor Center offi ce in the former Mulkey barber shop and development of a handicapped accessible bathroom in the vestibule of the theatre.

Workers will also put a new ceiling in the Visitor Center offi ce, install central heating and cooling, and also put new lights in the offi ce.

The cost for Phase 3 is expected to be $76,763 with funds coming from the sales tax and Hotel Occupancy Tax rev-enue administered by the CEDC board.

November 19, 2014Thornberry named armed services chair

Congressman Mac Thornberry of Clarendon has been chosen to chair the House Armed Services Committee for the 114th Congress. Thornberry is the fi rst Texan – Republican or Democrat – ever selected to lead the Committee or its predecessors.

Thornberry was selected to serve as Chairman by the Steering Committee of the House Republican Conference. The entire House Republican Conference ratifi ed his selection this morning.

November 20Woman faces two felonies

A Clarendon woman is facing felony charges from a June 26 accident that resulted in the death of a longtime local businessman.

Gina Canon was arrested last Friday, November 14, and charged with intoxicated manslaughter, a second degree felony, after medical experts agreed that C.W. “Dude” Cornell died from injuries he sustained in the acci-dent.

Canon also was charged with intoxicated assault, a third degree felony, because Cornell’s passenger, Ruth Han-cock, was also injured.

Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn said Canon was arraigned by County Judge Jack Hall on Friday with a total bond set at $60,000. She was released from jail after posting bond Sat-urday.

November 27, 2014CISD names Lemons as interim superintendent

Former Bushland superintendent John Lemons will take the helm of the Clarendon Independent School District on an interim basis when Monty Hys-inger leaves for Dumas in January.

CISD Trustees hired Lemons last Thursday, November 20, after meeting with him in closed session for about an hour. Lemons will also assist the district with its search for a new superintendent for a fee of $4,000. Hysinger is leaving the position after 16 years.

December 4, 2014Firemen fi ght H’wick blazes

Several homes were threatened Friday afternoon, November 28, when a grassfi re raged through a portion of the Howardwick community.

Fire Chief Joe Hall said the cause of the fi re near Dawn and Bell remains under investigation but the damage to property was extensive.

Three boat docks were destroyed, and fourth one was damaged by the fi re, which spread across fi ve properties and endangered six homes.

Another fi re was reported at How-ardwick Monday in the 500 block of Nocona Hills. Hall said a fi re started in the attic of a residence where a stovepipe goes through the ceiling.

December 11Public chimes in on CISD superintendent search

At least 15 applicants have already applied to be the next superintendent of the Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District, according to information presented a public forum Monday night.

Sixteen people attended the meet-ing intended to gather public feedback in the school’s search for a new superinten-dent. The audience included six school employees, one school board member, fi ve parents of kids in school, and two students.

Interim Superintendent John Lemons conducted the meeting and discussed web-based surveys of school employees and the public that are being conducted to gather input on what the district should look for in its next super-intendent.

Lemons encouraged people to take the survey at www.clarendonisd.net.

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CLAUDE RESIDENTIAL2323 SQ FT BRICK - open den/kitchen - built in appliances - beautiful wood cabi-nets - built in desk - Murphy bed in den - very large living/ dining room - 2 & 1/2 baths(one private with master bedroom) - large utility room - abundant storage - at-tached 2-car garage - central h/a - chain link fenced b/yard - effi ciency apartment built over large concrete cellar - good location at 307 Western for $135,000. Reduced to $98,000.00 TO SETTLE ESTATE.

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710 S. Goodnight: 3 Bedroom/2 Bath w/ garage apartment $59,900.00. With full price offer, the seller will give a $4,000.00 allowance.

Brick house at 1112 West 8th in Clarendon. 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Detached garage with studio apartment, carport, fenced backyard.Needs some TLC. Price reduc-tion $40,000.

For Lease or SaleBeautifully restored and totally renovated commercial offi ce building.Brick with 1500 sq. ft. and a 750 sq. ft. basement New wiring, plumbing, wood fl oors, windows and central heat/air. Two bathrooms and one is a handicap accessible bathroom Several offi ces and a conference room. Handicap rampREADY TO MOVE IN AND SET UP YOUR BUSINESS.Owner will entertain reasonable offers. REDUCTION OF $10,000.00 FROM $175,000.00 TO $165,000.00.

Leased Lot #123 Howardwick Mobile Home 2040 sq. ft. 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Huge sun room, Two car metal shed, 1 Car carport, Storage building, Kitchen appliances included, Golf Cart included.Price $50,000.00

303 Adamson, Hedley, Texas Brick, 1877 sq.ft., 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Attached garage, Carport, 6 lots, Water well, Two storage buildings, and Large deck. DRASTIC REDUCTION OF $5,000.00. NEW PRICE $85,000.00

Updated cottage 420 S. Sully, Clarendon Two bedrooms, one bath, attached one-car garage. Price: $40,000.00

Charming cabin in the woods 249 Palacio Dr., Howardwick, Texas. Two Bedrooms, one bath, mature landscape, fully furnished. Price: $57,000.00.

Great Cottage at the Lake Greenbelt 210 Tying Dr.Two Bedroom,two bath, fi nished basement, wonderfully landscaped fenced yard, vegetable garden, covered patio, and two-car carport. Price: $69,900.00.

218 N. Sully: Newly remodeled, 3 bedroom, 1 large bath, detached garage, workshop, metal built 2 car carport, quiet neighborhood. Perfectly priced: $40,000.00.

New on the Market: Hitchin Post HWY 70 N. 11.65 acres Prime Commercial Property Unbelievably low price: $200,000.00 Call Linda for additional details.

702 S. Gorst: Remodeled, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, detached garage, and storm Cellar. Sits on 6 fenced lots. Priced at the amazing price of $70,000.00.

2455 Sq. Ft. Home for Sale: 514 S. 7th in Memphis.3 Bedrooms,2 Baths,two liv-ing spaces, country sized kitchen, and two Car Garage. Price $68,000.00.

LAKE PARADISE: 3/4 Acre of land. Totally renovated home with 3 Bedrooms,2 Baths, 3 car garage, 2 carports, 2 storage buildings,and above ground pool and wrap around deck.219 Dawn in Howardwick. Amazing price $175,000.00.

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HOME AND 50 ACRES: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, above ground cellar, and wind-mill with Storage tank. Price: $250,000.00

270 ACRES GRASSLAND: Good Fences, welded cattle pens, and submersible water well. $1100.00 per acre. Price: $297,000.00

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CLARENDON CISD will hold a public hearing for discussion of the school district’s 2013-2014 Texas Academic Performance Report on Monday, January 15th, 2015, at 7:00 P.M. in the Administration and Technology Building located at 416 South Allen Street, Clarendon, Texas. In addition to the TAPR reports, the dis-trict will discuss: PEIMS Financial Standards Reports, Campus Performance Objectives, a report of any violent criminal incidents that might have occurred during the 2013-2014 school year, and information received from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) for Clarendon High School. This hear-ing will be combined with the regularly sched-uled meeting of the local Board of Trustees. All interested parties are encouraged to attend.

THE CITY OF HEDLEY is accepting sealed bids for the building located at 101 1st Street until 3:00 p.m. January 6, 2015. The bids will be opened and read aloud at the City Council meeting January 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Sealed bids can be dropped off at City Hall 109 Main Street or mailed to City of Hedley PO Box 185, Hedley, TX 79237. Only bids in a sealed envelope marked “sealed bid” will be accepted. The city reserves the right to deny any or all bids. For more information contact Hedley City Hall 806-856-5241.

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