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MIDWEEK EDITION Local registered sex offenders are listed in All Around <strong>Wise</strong>. See page 12.<br />
VOLUME 133 - NO. 85 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012 DECATUR, TEXAS 34 PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS PLUS INSERTS 75¢<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
Ross,<br />
Teague face<br />
new theft<br />
charges<br />
By KRISTEN TRIBE<br />
RHOME<br />
Playing<br />
together<br />
Suspended Precinct<br />
4 <strong>County</strong> Commissioner<br />
Terry Ross turned<br />
himself in at the <strong>Wise</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s Office<br />
Monday after a warrant<br />
was issued for his<br />
arrest Oct. 18.<br />
ROSS<br />
Ross is charged with<br />
theft of $500 to $1,500<br />
by a public servant for<br />
allegedly building three<br />
grubbing plows, two for<br />
personal use. The plows<br />
were built with material<br />
belonging to the<br />
county, on county time TEAGUE<br />
by county employees,<br />
according to the arrest warrant affidavit<br />
filed in <strong>County</strong> Court-at-Law No. 1.<br />
Ross posted a $10,000 bond Mon-<br />
Continued on page 3A<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
Nearly<br />
1,000 vote<br />
on first day<br />
By BRIAN KNOX<br />
Presidential<br />
election years<br />
early voting<br />
day one stats<br />
2000 — 311<br />
2004 — 602<br />
2008 — 682<br />
2012 — 985<br />
An early voting record was smashed<br />
Monday in <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
According to Elections Administrator<br />
Lannie Noble,<br />
985 people cast<br />
ballots on the first<br />
day of early voting<br />
for the Nov. 6 general<br />
election, setting<br />
a first-day record.<br />
The previous<br />
record was 682 set<br />
four years ago.<br />
“It was way more than I expected,”<br />
Noble said Tuesday.<br />
A big reason for the higher vote total<br />
might be having more than one early<br />
Continued on page 2A<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photos by Joe Duty • Buy reprints at wcmessenger.com/reprints<br />
LASTING IMPRESSION — Wheelchair tracks leave their mark on a baseball field at Kenny Renshaw Park in<br />
Decatur, where <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Special Needs Baseball league hosts its games every Saturday beginning at<br />
9 a.m. Although suitable, a dirt field is not ideal for wheelchair-bound participants and their buddies who<br />
push them around the field. Like the tire tracks, volunteers such as the Jones family of Rhome leave their<br />
mark on the players they interact with through the league.<br />
Family volunteers with special<br />
needs baseball league<br />
By ERIKA PEDROZA<br />
It’s a family affair for those<br />
involved in the <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Special Needs Baseball<br />
league.<br />
Throngs of aunts, uncles, cousins<br />
and grandmas join moms<br />
and dads in supporting their<br />
loved ones at bat or on the field.<br />
But for the Jones family of<br />
Rhome, it’s a different kind of<br />
attachment. The family doesn’t<br />
have a loved one on the field,<br />
but parents Mark and Lori and<br />
their sons Brett, 17, and Ethan,<br />
12, regularly volunteer for the<br />
league together.<br />
“You go out there thinking<br />
you’re going to help those kids,<br />
but you find that they are helping<br />
you, too,” Mark said. “When<br />
you’re out there, you’re not<br />
thinking of all of the problems<br />
you have at home. You’re out<br />
there to help that kid or that<br />
adult, and you forget about all<br />
of the other problems.”<br />
His wife added: “It’s probably<br />
the one time I’m not looking at<br />
Continued on page 7A<br />
BLESSED MOMENTS — <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Special Needs Baseball volunteer Lori<br />
Jones of Rhome and her buddy, Josh Dodd, pump up before a game Saturday.<br />
POSTHUMOUS<br />
PRESENTATION<br />
— Roy Young’s<br />
familiar cowboy<br />
hat lies behind<br />
his 2012 Citizen<br />
of the Year award<br />
at Saturday’s<br />
Chamber auction.<br />
Young, who died<br />
in September,<br />
was the first<br />
posthumous<br />
honoree in the 44-<br />
year history of the<br />
award.<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo by<br />
Joe Duty<br />
• Buy reprints at<br />
wcmessenger.com/<br />
reprints<br />
Chamber raises $48K, honors Young<br />
By BOB BUCKEL<br />
DECATUR<br />
On a night when the Decatur<br />
Chamber of Commerce paused to<br />
honor a Citizen of the Year posthumously<br />
for the first time in its<br />
history, it also ate well, had a lot of<br />
fun and raised a healthy amount<br />
of cash for itself and several other<br />
good causes in the community.<br />
And that’s something Roy Young<br />
would have wholeheartedly supported.<br />
Young, who died on Sept. 14 at<br />
the age of 49 after a sudden illness,<br />
was named the 2012 Citizen<br />
of the Year at Saturday’s “Eighter<br />
From Decatur Downs” — the<br />
21st Annual Decatur Chamber<br />
of Commerce Auction and Dinner.<br />
The event, held at the Civic<br />
Center, drew a healthy and generous<br />
crowd and brought in over<br />
$48,000 through live and silent<br />
auctions, raffles and other fundraisers.<br />
The 44th Citizen of the Year<br />
award was presented by Brian<br />
Stephens of Stephens, Bastian &<br />
Cartwright Insurance, sponsors of<br />
the award. Young’s sisters, Debra<br />
Walker of Decatur, Barbara Ashcraft<br />
of Waco and Linda Young of<br />
Fort Worth, were on hand to re-<br />
Continued on page 5A<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong><br />
P.O. Box 149<br />
115 South Trinity<br />
Decatur, Texas 76234<br />
www.wcmessenger.com<br />
INDEX<br />
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . .4A<br />
Obituaries . . . . . . . . .6A<br />
Sports . . . . . . . . . . .12A<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> Business . . . . .11A<br />
HALLOWEEN EVENTS<br />
Little trick or treaters<br />
can collect candy<br />
across <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> this<br />
weekend at a variety<br />
of events leading up<br />
to Halloween next<br />
Wednesday. See page<br />
2A.<br />
TOOTING THEIR<br />
HORN<br />
Decatur and<br />
Bridgeport high<br />
school bands<br />
earned top scores<br />
and will advance<br />
to Area this<br />
weekend. See<br />
page 7A.<br />
WEATHER
2A WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
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Keep physically active.<br />
Research suggests<br />
that increased<br />
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even when begun<br />
later in life, reduces<br />
overall breast-cancer<br />
risk by at least 10<br />
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is moderate exercise<br />
like a 30-minute<br />
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a week<br />
to get<br />
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effect.<br />
Roy J. Eaton<br />
President & Publisher<br />
P.O. Box 149<br />
115 S. Trinity<br />
Decatur, TX 76234<br />
940-627-5987<br />
Fax 940-627-1004<br />
www.wcmessenger.com<br />
news@wcmessenger.com<br />
Mark Jordan<br />
Vice President/General Manager<br />
Kelly Guess<br />
Advertising Sales<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo by Joe Duty • Buy reprints at wcmessenger.com/reprints<br />
HALLOWEEN SURPRISE — Bridgeport pre-K student Omar Slieman peers through the eye of a jack-o-lantern at the Black Creek Pumpkin Patch in Decatur<br />
last Thursday. Angela Flores patiently waits her turn to peek inside the hollow fruit.<br />
Andrew May<br />
Graphic Arts<br />
Jimmy Alford<br />
Editorial<br />
The <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong><br />
invites readers to bring<br />
their ghouls and goblins by<br />
the office Halloween night<br />
to have their photo taken by<br />
Joe Duty.<br />
He’ll be set up 7 to 9 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 31, at 115<br />
S. Trinity in Decatur.<br />
Traditional trick or treating<br />
will be held in towns<br />
around the county that<br />
night, but there are a variety<br />
of Halloween and fallthemed<br />
events starting this<br />
weekend.<br />
Check out the events listed<br />
below to guarantee optimal<br />
candy collection.<br />
TRUNK OR TREAT — First<br />
United Methodist Church<br />
Decatur will host a Trunk or<br />
Treat 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct.<br />
27. All are welcome.<br />
FALL FEST — The Paradise<br />
PTO Fall Fest is 5:30 to 9<br />
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at<br />
Paradise Elementary School.<br />
There will be food, games,<br />
bingo, hayrides and a silent<br />
auction.<br />
WILD WEST EVENT — <strong>Wise</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Cowboy Church<br />
is hosting Wild West Fall<br />
Nearly 1,000 ...<br />
Continued from page 1A<br />
Fest 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday,<br />
Oct. 27. The church is at<br />
2070 Old Denton Road,<br />
just off U.S. 380 about<br />
one-and-a-half miles east<br />
of Decatur. There will be<br />
a cowboy/cowgirl rodeo<br />
clown costume contest,<br />
games, races, face painting,<br />
food, a cake walk and silent<br />
auction. No scary costumes<br />
are allowed.<br />
FALL FESTIVAL — The Hills<br />
Nursing and Rehabilitation in<br />
Decatur, 201 E. Thompson,<br />
will hold a Fall Festival 2<br />
to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct.<br />
27. The event will feature<br />
games, prizes, booths,<br />
bounce houses and trickor-treating.<br />
Wear your<br />
costume.<br />
HAUNTED HOUSE — Alvord<br />
Project Graduation Class<br />
of 2013 Haunted House is<br />
6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday,<br />
Oct. 27, and 6:30 to 10 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the<br />
old Alvord Middle School,<br />
behind Alvord Express.<br />
Admission is $5.<br />
HAUNTED MAZE — The Get<br />
Lost maze in Greenwood will<br />
be haunted this weekend<br />
and two nights next week.<br />
voting location for the first time in a presidential<br />
election. Previously, early voting had always<br />
taken place in Decatur, but locations in<br />
Bridgeport and Rhome were added this year.<br />
On Monday, 633 votes were cast at the Decatur<br />
Civic Center, 189 at Rhome City Hall<br />
and 163 at the Bridgeport Law Enforcement<br />
Center.<br />
“I expected around 500 (at the Decatur Civic<br />
Center) and about 100 each in Rhome and<br />
Bridgeport for a total of about 700,” Noble said.<br />
Each location exceeded expectations, but<br />
Noble said there were no long lines, adding<br />
that no location reported more than a 3- or<br />
4-minute wait to vote.<br />
Early voting continues 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday<br />
through Friday through Nov. 2 at the<br />
Decatur Civic Center, 2010 W. U.S. 380; the<br />
Bridgeport Law Enforcement Center, 1000<br />
Thompson St.; and Rhome City Hall, 105 1st<br />
St.<br />
These locations will have extended hours of<br />
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, and the Decatur<br />
Wal-Mart will host early voting 9 a.m. to<br />
6 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 27.<br />
<br />
Email Brian at bknox@wcmessenger.com.<br />
HALLOWEEN EVENTS<br />
Hours are 5 p.m. to midnight<br />
Friday, Oct. 26, 3 p.m. to 1<br />
a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, 6<br />
p.m. to midnight Tuesday,<br />
Oct. 30, and 6 p.m. to<br />
midnight Wednesday, Oct.<br />
31. Admission is $10. Kids<br />
age 5 and under are free.<br />
The last ticket is sold 30<br />
minutes before closing. Go<br />
11 miles north of Decatur on<br />
Farm Road 51, just past the<br />
Farm Road 1204 turn off.<br />
FALL FESTIVAL AT CARE —<br />
The 2nd Annual Fall Festival<br />
at the Center for Animal<br />
Research and Education<br />
(CARE) in Bridgeport is Oct.<br />
27 and 28 and Nov. 3 and 4.<br />
Tours will start at noon and<br />
3 p.m. each day. Visitors<br />
are invited to come out an<br />
hour earlier to participate<br />
in games, arts and crafts,<br />
refreshments and treats<br />
and a raffle. During the tour,<br />
visitors will be able to give<br />
presents and treats to the<br />
animals. The center asks for<br />
a $20 donation for adults<br />
and $10 for children under<br />
12. Raffle tickets are $5<br />
each. For more information,<br />
visit www.bigcatcare.org.<br />
COSTUME PARADE — “Suit<br />
Up and Say Boo” costume<br />
parade and trick or treating<br />
is Wednesday, Oct. 31,<br />
down Halsell Street in<br />
Bridgeport. Participants<br />
will meet at the Duckwall’s<br />
parking lot at 5 p.m. For<br />
more information, call (940)<br />
683-3400.<br />
INDOOR ACTIVITY —<br />
Governor’s Ridge Retirement<br />
and Assisted Living will host<br />
an indoor fall festival 6 to 8<br />
p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, at<br />
300 E. Deveraux in Decatur.<br />
Attendants are encouraged<br />
to wear costumes. There will<br />
be food, games, candy and<br />
prizes.<br />
FALL FEST — First Baptist<br />
Church of Chico will<br />
host a Fall Fest for all<br />
community children 6 to<br />
9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.<br />
31. The free, safe event<br />
will be in the north parking<br />
lot of the church and will<br />
include Trunk or Treat, face<br />
painting, ring toss, a bounce<br />
house, cupcake walk and<br />
hot dogs.<br />
TRUNK OR TREAT —<br />
First Methodist Church<br />
of Bridgeport will host a<br />
Trunk or Treat 5 to 7 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the<br />
Bridgeport Middle School<br />
parking lot. There will<br />
be trick or treating, face<br />
painting, games, a cake<br />
walk, hay ride and bounce<br />
house.<br />
FALL FUN — First Baptist<br />
Bridgeport will host a Family<br />
Fun Fall Fest 6:30 to 8<br />
p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31,<br />
in the Family Life Center.<br />
Attendants are asked to<br />
wear their costumes. There<br />
will be games, prizes, candy,<br />
food and drinks. For more<br />
information, call (940)<br />
683-4037 or visit www.<br />
fbscbridgeport.com.<br />
GAMES AND MORE — First<br />
Baptist Church of Decatur<br />
will host Truck or Treat 6<br />
to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.<br />
31. There will be hayrides,<br />
games, prizes, hot dogs and<br />
of course, candy.<br />
HALLOWEEN PARTY —<br />
Elementary-aged children<br />
are invited to the Decatur<br />
Public Library’s Children’s<br />
Halloween Party at 4 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 31. Come<br />
in costume for stories,<br />
activities, and trick or<br />
treating. Call the library at<br />
(940) 393-0290 for more<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo by Joe Duty • Buy reprints at wcmessenger.com/reprints<br />
VOTE HERE, OR HERE OR HERE — With three early voting locations available for the first time in a<br />
presidential election, a first-day record was set Monday, according to <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Elections Administrator<br />
Lannie Noble.<br />
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COUNTY<br />
CLERK<br />
RECORDS<br />
Marriage Licenses<br />
filed Sept. 1 to Sept. 30,<br />
2012<br />
Laramie James Huddleston<br />
of Decatur and Menda Brooke<br />
Johnson of Oklahoma City<br />
Rodney Joel Isbell and Rita<br />
Carol Ridout, both of Rhome<br />
Librado Luevanos and Elvira<br />
De La Garza, both of Paradise<br />
Kristopher Eugene Biediger<br />
and Hannah Barnes, both of Alvord<br />
Alexei Smith and Kristen<br />
Danyel Laxto, both of Decatur<br />
Brian Thomas Whatley of Alvord<br />
and Katie Lee Montford of<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Evan Brody Hughes and Megan<br />
Leigh Bosworth, both of<br />
Decatur<br />
Travis Michael Stoker and<br />
Teah Elizabeth Martin, both of<br />
Paradise<br />
Jered Paul Hodgkins of Boyd<br />
and Jinna Jean Wright of College<br />
Station<br />
Zachary Allen Lewis and<br />
Amanda Dawn Caraway, both of<br />
Chico<br />
Joshua Blake Carter and Alexa<br />
Rache Meadows, both of<br />
Paradise<br />
Christopher Michael Gaspard<br />
of Spring and Tuffany Renea<br />
Mings of Deer Park<br />
John Pettit Franklin and Carole<br />
Joyce Slack, both of Rhome<br />
Steven Howard Trammell and<br />
Judy Carol Bruster, both of Paradise<br />
Hunter Ray Lamaster of Decatur<br />
and Heather Wayne Harris of<br />
Rhome<br />
Bradley Glen Timothy Carroll<br />
of Roan Mountain, Tenn., and<br />
Catherine Gonzalez Chazarreta<br />
of Newark<br />
Rickey Eugene Peterson of<br />
Fort Worth and Carolina Preston<br />
of Marysville, Wash.<br />
Rene Arellano of Decatur and<br />
Maria de Lourdes Martinez of<br />
Bridgeport<br />
David Handley Bowen of Chico<br />
and Dawn Rae Dorsey of Minden,<br />
Nev.<br />
Donald David Sanders of Sunset<br />
and Linda Freeman Bailey of<br />
Runaway Bay<br />
Timothy Dewayne Hand and<br />
Debbie Estelle Hand, both of Decatur<br />
Taylor Lane Walker and Ava<br />
Shanea Mathews Bryant, both<br />
of Alvord<br />
Matthew Ryan Hughes and<br />
Jordan Blair Liggett, both of<br />
Rhome<br />
Omar Martinez-Garcia and<br />
Maria D. Amador Sandoval, both<br />
of Bridgeport<br />
Trent Douglas Mills and Alyssa<br />
Jaennine McLaughlin, both of<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Harold Lamar Thompson and<br />
Reashia Ann Moody, both of Decatur<br />
Charles Allen Barnett of Paradise<br />
and Joyce Carolyn Wammack<br />
of Bella Vista, Ark.<br />
Tye Preston Ray and Wendi<br />
Marie Hurta, both of Chico<br />
Jimmy Tyle Rhine and Emily<br />
Lynn Lang, both of Runaway Bay<br />
William Travis Singleton of<br />
New Fairview and Megan Leah<br />
McLerran, of Granbury<br />
James David May Jr. of Decatur<br />
and Kari Gail Apeland of<br />
Denton<br />
Kelly Ray Workman and Cheyenne<br />
Nicole Mears, both of Chico<br />
Cody Mark Morganthaler of<br />
Rhome and Claudette Nicole<br />
Mears of Chico<br />
Dylan James Davis of Haslet<br />
and Jaylen Danielle Arthur of<br />
Justin<br />
Juan Francisco Dominguez<br />
Aranda of Decatur and Martha<br />
Hane Fox of Alvord<br />
Luis Enrique Rodriguez and<br />
Rachel Ann Milligan, both of Decatur<br />
Justin Patrick Stanton and<br />
Ashley Danielle Marie Burr, both<br />
of Rhome<br />
Moises Torres Torres and<br />
Juana Torres Rangel, both of Decatur<br />
Ross, Teague ...<br />
Continued from page 1A<br />
day and was released. His former<br />
foreman, Roy Teague, was arrested<br />
Friday on the same charge, which<br />
is a state jail felony. Teague was<br />
released Saturday after posting<br />
$10,000 bond.<br />
If convicted, Ross and Teague<br />
could face 180 days to two years in<br />
jail and a fine not to exceed $10,000.<br />
Both were already awaiting trial on<br />
previous felony charges stemming<br />
from similar incidents involving<br />
county property and employees.<br />
“What are they going to indict<br />
him for next? Allegedly stealing paper<br />
clips?” said Ross’ attorney Barry<br />
Green in an email to the <strong>Messenger</strong>.<br />
According to the arrest warrant<br />
affidavit, Ross brought his fatherin-law’s<br />
grubbing plow to the Precinct<br />
4 barn in December 2011 and<br />
used it as a pattern to build three<br />
new grubbing plows.<br />
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
One new plow was left at the<br />
barn, but Ross allegedly gave one<br />
of the new plows to his fatherin-law,<br />
Billy Joe Shepherd, in exchange<br />
for providing the pattern.<br />
On Aug. 28, District Attorney Investigator<br />
Wes Wallace confiscated<br />
the plow at the county barn but did<br />
not find the third plow.<br />
On Sept. 4, Wallace interviewed<br />
Teague, who confirmed that the<br />
three plows were built at the Precinct<br />
4 barn with material belonging<br />
to the county and by county<br />
employees on county time. He said<br />
he took home one of the plows.<br />
“Teague stated that the plow he<br />
took home was on his property in<br />
a ‘junk pile’ because it didn’t work<br />
the way it should have,” the affidavit<br />
says.<br />
Wallace also interviewed Joe Michael<br />
Shepherd, son of Billy Joe<br />
Shepherd. The younger Shepherd<br />
told the same story — that in exchange<br />
for using his father’s grubbing<br />
plow as a pattern, Ross built<br />
his father a new plow.<br />
The affidavit says Wallace<br />
showed Joe Shepherd a picture of<br />
the grubbing plow from the Precinct<br />
4 barn, and “Joe Shepherd<br />
advised that it looked like the<br />
same plow that his father, Billy<br />
Shepherd, had been storing on his<br />
property.”<br />
According to the affidavit, Joe<br />
Shepherd did say that sometime<br />
during the last three months, the<br />
grubbing plow had disappeared.<br />
At Wallace’s request, Elite Metal<br />
Fabrications in Newark estimated<br />
the cost to build a plow similar to<br />
those built in the Precinct 4 barn<br />
would be $850, which includes materials<br />
and labor.<br />
Wallace discovered the information<br />
about the grubbing plows<br />
while working on another investigation,<br />
in which Ross is accused of<br />
3A<br />
theft by a public servant and abuse<br />
of official capacity.<br />
He was indicted on those charges<br />
in May and was temporarily suspended<br />
in August. His trial in that<br />
case was scheduled to start next<br />
week but has now been pushed<br />
back to January.<br />
This is the second theft charge<br />
on Teague in as many months. He<br />
was arrested Sept. 4 and charged<br />
with theft of more than $500 and<br />
less than $1,500 by a public servant,<br />
which stemmed from the alleged<br />
sale of a scrapped pneumatic<br />
roller. He retired from the county<br />
July 21.<br />
When Wallace learned of the allegations<br />
regarding the grubbing<br />
plows, he notified Texas Ranger<br />
James Hicks, who filed both arrest<br />
warrants last week.<br />
<br />
Email Kristen at ktribe@wcmessenger.com.<br />
Pressing matter: Commissioners<br />
purchase equipment for EMS<br />
By KRISTEN TRIBE<br />
<strong>County</strong> commissioners<br />
last week approved the purchase<br />
of five compression<br />
units, one each for the Emergency<br />
Medical Services ambulances.<br />
The units will be purchased<br />
from Physio-Control<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
for $58,033.75.<br />
EMS Administrator<br />
Charles Dillard said the machines<br />
perform automatic,<br />
continuous chest compressions<br />
on patients.<br />
“You get a constant rhythm<br />
and a much better consistency<br />
for compressions,” he said.<br />
Plus, it’s safer while transporting<br />
patients because<br />
paramedics “don’t have to<br />
drive down the road and try<br />
to do that at the same time.”<br />
Dillard said they have<br />
used compression units for<br />
several years, but new ones<br />
were needed.<br />
“The old ones still worked,<br />
but they’ve changed their<br />
technology,” Dillard said.<br />
“Now you can plug these in<br />
or they run on battery power.”<br />
He said they can also be<br />
carried into the hospital<br />
from the ambulance and<br />
used in the emergency room<br />
or cath lab.<br />
Dillard had money in his<br />
budget for the purchase.<br />
In other business, commissioners<br />
accepted an $800 donation<br />
on behalf of the Public<br />
Works and Parks Fund<br />
from the Alvord Cemetery<br />
Association.<br />
<br />
Email Kristen at ktribe@<br />
wcmessenger.com.<br />
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4A WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
OPINION<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
NISD has earned the voters’ trust<br />
Each election cycle, we<br />
are treated to a new set of<br />
“promises” by candidates.<br />
And then, usually four years<br />
later, the candidate and his<br />
or her opponent debate how<br />
well those promises have<br />
been kept.<br />
The promise-keeping success<br />
rate is usually nothing<br />
to brag about.<br />
Promises can also be made<br />
by school districts when it<br />
comes to bond issues. For<br />
instance, back in 2001, the<br />
Northwest Independent<br />
School District proposed<br />
a bond package with two<br />
propositions: the first was<br />
$162.7 million for campus<br />
renovations, additions and<br />
purchase of land for future<br />
school sites and the second<br />
was $19.5 million for a new<br />
stadium. Trustees at the<br />
time promised taxpayers<br />
that the debt service portion<br />
of the school tax rate would<br />
not exceed 33.5 cents per<br />
$100 valuation. The bond issue<br />
passed.<br />
Four-and-a-half years<br />
later, when it came time for<br />
the school district to put<br />
forth another bond issue,<br />
the promise had been kept.<br />
In fact, the tax rate had<br />
dropped by a penny-and-ahalf<br />
in the interim.<br />
The 2005 bond issue was<br />
for $224 million, with 80<br />
percent of the bond package<br />
going toward building five<br />
new campuses including<br />
three elementary schools,<br />
one middle school and one<br />
high school. Once again,<br />
trustees made the promise<br />
that the tax rate would not<br />
exceed 33.5 cents. The bond<br />
issue passed, and the promise<br />
was kept.<br />
In 2008, voters were<br />
asked to approve a $260<br />
million bond package for the<br />
construction of eight new<br />
schools, facility improvements,<br />
land purchases for<br />
future schools and new educational<br />
programs. Once<br />
again, the school pledged<br />
to keep the tax rate at 33.5<br />
cents or lower. The bond issue<br />
passed, and the promise<br />
was kept.<br />
Now it is 2012. Eleven<br />
years after making a promise<br />
to keep the debt service<br />
portion of the tax rate at<br />
33.5 cents, that’s where it<br />
remains. For those keeping<br />
score, that’s nearly threequarters<br />
of a billion dollars<br />
— yes billion, with a “b” —<br />
in projects funded without<br />
an increase in the debt service<br />
portion of the tax rate.<br />
Along the way, the school<br />
district has also worked to<br />
be as efficient as possible in<br />
order to save money where<br />
it could. Some of those savings<br />
turned into extra projects,<br />
such as construction<br />
of Northwest High School’s<br />
indoor practice facility and<br />
additions to Justin Elementary<br />
and Gene Pike Middle<br />
School as part of the 2001<br />
bond package.<br />
Now the district is asking<br />
voters to approve a $255<br />
million bond package that<br />
will include construction of<br />
a new high school and middle<br />
school, a building addition<br />
at Nance Elementary,<br />
improvements to numerous<br />
schools and technology upgrades<br />
district-wide. In order<br />
to fund these projects,<br />
the district is proposing a<br />
7.75-cent increase in the<br />
tax rate, to 41.25 cents. For<br />
the owner of a home valued<br />
at $100,000, the estimated<br />
impact would be $6.46 a<br />
month, or $77.50 annually.<br />
It’s hard to ask voters to<br />
approve a tax rate increase,<br />
especially as economic conditions<br />
continue to struggle<br />
to return to pre-recession<br />
levels. But in Northwest’s<br />
case, growth dictates it.<br />
The school district is one<br />
of the fastest-growing in<br />
the state — second only to<br />
Frisco. In the past 10 years,<br />
enrollment growth has<br />
ranged from 8 to 19 percent<br />
per year. Since 2002, district<br />
enrollment has nearly tripled<br />
— from 6,200 to nearly<br />
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YOUR VIEWS<br />
SQUARE TALK<br />
People, found on the Decatur Square,<br />
share their thoughts.<br />
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU<br />
HEARD THAT BIG TEX HAD<br />
BURST INTO FLAMES, AND<br />
WHAT DID IT MEAN TO YOU?<br />
“I was at work. One of my<br />
clients told me. I just ... I<br />
thought that was pretty sad<br />
because I know he’s been<br />
around. I remember him as a<br />
kid.”<br />
— Evette Motley-Pack, 35,<br />
of Rhome<br />
“I was down in the basement<br />
of the courthouse. It’s just<br />
one of those things that<br />
happens. It didn’t make me<br />
sad.”<br />
— Jesse Hollingsworth, 67,<br />
of Chico<br />
Lots on<br />
the line in<br />
election<br />
The time to vote in the<br />
presidential election is<br />
upon us. Citizens, please<br />
take the time to seriously<br />
consider what is at<br />
stake in this election, for<br />
this year the stakes are<br />
very serious.<br />
This is more than the<br />
usual partisan election;<br />
this election is about the<br />
future of each of us. It is<br />
about the future of our<br />
children and grandchildren.<br />
It is emphatically<br />
about the direction this<br />
country will take in the<br />
“I was at our church. We were<br />
preparing for a chuckwagon<br />
dinner, a banquet for the kids. I<br />
heard about it from some of the<br />
other people talking about it. I<br />
thought it was terrible. I think<br />
it’s kind of sad.”<br />
— Donna Geeslin, 53, of Chico<br />
“I guess I’m out of the loop.<br />
I haven’t heard that Big Tex<br />
burst into flames. I guess that<br />
was just here recently? ...<br />
Well, I guess when I heard it I<br />
was on the Square answering<br />
this question. That’s wild. We<br />
showed cattle at the State Fair<br />
for years, but that’s wild.<br />
— Mike Moyers, 55, of Bridgeport<br />
YOUR VIEWS<br />
next years.<br />
Currently, the federal<br />
government is spending<br />
$50,000 per second<br />
more than it takes in!<br />
This cannot be ignored;<br />
it must be addressed.<br />
Along with greatly<br />
increased debt, the past<br />
four years have seen<br />
creeping socialism and<br />
eroding constitutional<br />
rights.<br />
I believe this is still a<br />
Christian nation, and if<br />
every Christian would<br />
vote for the candidate<br />
whose party platform<br />
most closely represents<br />
Biblical values, we could<br />
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OUR VIEWS<br />
Decatur’s regulations could<br />
use a lot more ‘user-friendly’<br />
By ROY EATON<br />
A word of unsolicited advice<br />
for the Decatur Planning<br />
and Zoning Subcommittee<br />
members who are<br />
now doing a new 161-page<br />
zoning ordinance for the<br />
city. Be very careful of the<br />
danger of unintended consequences.<br />
In today’s political climate<br />
there is a popular uprising<br />
against layer after layer of<br />
government regulations.<br />
That is a huge danger for<br />
those studying these proposed<br />
regulations.<br />
New regulations are not<br />
the intention of Decatur<br />
Planning Director Dedra<br />
Ragland. In a memorandum<br />
to the subcommittee, Ragland<br />
said the goal is to make<br />
the document more “user<br />
friendly” and to “increase<br />
the ease of navigation” for<br />
those who must work with<br />
it.<br />
It’s important to note that<br />
this document does not pertain<br />
to the city’s building<br />
codes, an often baffling set of<br />
rules enforced by Ragland’s<br />
department through the<br />
EATON<br />
city’s building<br />
inspectors.<br />
In addition,<br />
Ragland also<br />
oversees the<br />
city’s food<br />
inspectors,<br />
whose job it is<br />
to inspect restaurants<br />
and grocery stores<br />
for compliance on sanitation<br />
issues. Those inspectors<br />
also occasionally show up at<br />
public functions to make<br />
sure the barbecue and or<br />
hamburgers are cooked to<br />
perfection.<br />
Justified or not, Decatur<br />
has the reputation of being<br />
a hard place to do business.<br />
In an interesting twist,<br />
the “big box” retailers who<br />
come to town seem to have<br />
no problem with the local<br />
regulations, but local business<br />
and homeowners become<br />
very upset with what<br />
they consider the confusing<br />
maze of regulations.<br />
It’s important to remember<br />
that the Decatur City<br />
Council has adopted a version<br />
of a national building<br />
code that is used by cities<br />
all over the nation. It is also<br />
used by the city of Bridgeport<br />
and perhaps other<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> cities as well.<br />
That being the case, why<br />
does Decatur have the reputation<br />
of being “hard to do<br />
business with” and Bridgeport<br />
does not? Beats me,<br />
but perhaps some attitudes<br />
need work along with the<br />
zoning ordinance.<br />
Ragland said in her<br />
memo to the subcommittee<br />
that the document they<br />
are studying is a “complete<br />
re-write of most of the ordinance,<br />
rather than updating<br />
individual sections.”<br />
That sounds like a good<br />
idea — clean up the whole<br />
mess at one time, not just<br />
piecemeal. Even the definitions<br />
section has been updated<br />
and reorganized to be<br />
more “user-friendly.”<br />
Apparently also on the<br />
table is an effort by Main<br />
Street Director Frieda Haley<br />
to develop new building<br />
and design standards for<br />
the downtown historic area.<br />
The impetus for that was a<br />
debate over the color of yellow<br />
paint on a downtown<br />
building. The property owner<br />
voluntarily repainted<br />
the building, but Haley said<br />
she needed an ordinance to<br />
protect the historic district.<br />
If something like that<br />
comes into the current ordinance<br />
somewhere, that’s<br />
one thing. But the last thing<br />
we need is another sanctioning<br />
body, other than<br />
the Planning and Zoning<br />
Commission or the Zoning<br />
Board of Adjustment, with<br />
its finger in the pie when<br />
business owners are trying<br />
to get something done with<br />
their buildings.<br />
I hope the Decatur City<br />
Council will take time to<br />
study the proposed re-write<br />
of the zoning ordinance<br />
once the subcommittee<br />
and P&Z are finished with<br />
it. The tradition of saying<br />
“the P&Z approved it, so we<br />
should also” is not sufficient<br />
for such a wide-ranging “redo”<br />
of how land is used and<br />
private property is regulated<br />
in Decatur.<br />
<br />
Roy Eaton is publisher of<br />
the <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong>.<br />
Email him at reaton@wcmessenger.com.
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ceive the award on behalf of<br />
his family.<br />
Young, a Decatur native<br />
who went to work at James<br />
Wood Motors in 1986, fresh<br />
out of Tarleton State University,<br />
was serving as general<br />
sales manager for the<br />
Decatur dealership at the<br />
time of his death. He was<br />
honored for his work in organizing<br />
WC Challenger<br />
Charities, which has staged<br />
the J.W. Hart Professional<br />
Bull Riders Challenge at<br />
the Sheriff’s Posse Arena<br />
since 2004.<br />
That event has raised<br />
nearly $400,000 to benefit<br />
local organizations, including<br />
$224,000 to the United<br />
Way of <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong>. Saturday<br />
night’s festivities<br />
brought a little more to that<br />
cause, as the PBR donated a<br />
gift package to the Chamber<br />
auction that went for more<br />
than $3,000, which was split<br />
between the Chamber and<br />
Challenger Charities.<br />
The package includes a<br />
set of tickets for every night<br />
of the 2013 finals in Las Vegas,<br />
as well as lunch with<br />
J.W. Hart, one of the PBR’s<br />
founding members and a<br />
room for the stay throughout<br />
the finals at the MGM<br />
Grand Hotel, a leather coat<br />
with the PBR logo, and tickets<br />
for the PBR Challenger<br />
Event held every year in Decatur,<br />
along with a pass to<br />
a pre-event party with the<br />
bull riders.<br />
But Young also worked<br />
tirelessly for a variety of<br />
other causes, including the<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Youth Fair. He<br />
was president of the fair’s<br />
Champions and Blue Ribbon<br />
Club — another organization<br />
he helped create — at<br />
the time of his death.<br />
His wife, Donna Sue, and<br />
daughter Emily could not be<br />
on hand for the award presentation.<br />
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REMEMBERING ROY — Roy Young’s sisters (from left) Debra Walker of Decatur, Linda Young<br />
of Fort Worth and Barbara Ashcraft of Waco accept the 2012 Citizen of the Year award on<br />
behalf of his family at Saturday’s Decatur Chamber of Commerce banquet. Chamber Executive<br />
Director Misty Hudson and President Lisa Caraway (back) helped present the award.<br />
Auction bigger<br />
than last year<br />
Misty Hudson, executive<br />
director for the Chamber,<br />
said the live auction, conducted<br />
by Danny Whitehead<br />
of Weatherford, brought in a<br />
little over $33,000 — roughly<br />
$10,000 more than last<br />
year’s auction. When the totals<br />
from the silent auction<br />
and raffles are added in, the<br />
Chamber’s total take for the<br />
night tops $48,000, Hudson<br />
said.<br />
Lisa Caraway, Chamber<br />
president, said it was a<br />
“great event.”<br />
“With the economy<br />
the way it is, we’re very<br />
pleased,” she said. “We did a<br />
few things differently than<br />
we’ve done in the past —<br />
the photo booth, the area<br />
of baked goods that did really<br />
well. Then in the live<br />
auction, we had additional<br />
items added throughout the<br />
night, as generous people<br />
were willing to offer items,<br />
and we auctioned them<br />
and brought in additional<br />
funds.”<br />
One example was the two<br />
dozen Denny Deady cinnamon<br />
rolls.<br />
The rolls were originally<br />
purchased by James Wood<br />
and North Texas Bank,<br />
who split them up. Andrew<br />
Rottner donated the bank’s<br />
dozen back to be auctioned<br />
off again, with the proceeds<br />
to go toward the “Battle<br />
of Big Sandy” canned food<br />
drive, which will ultimately<br />
benefit the <strong>Wise</strong> Area Relief<br />
Mission (WARM).<br />
In the ensuing auction,<br />
Thomas and Terri Houchin<br />
paid $2,000 for half of the<br />
rolls and Brian Stephens of<br />
Stephens, Bastian & Cartwright<br />
bought the other<br />
half-dozen for $2,000. They<br />
wrote checks directly to the<br />
PTOs for the canned food<br />
drive, Hudson said.<br />
That money, along with<br />
sponsorships and table<br />
sales is not counted in the<br />
$48,000 total, Hudson said.<br />
The table and sponsorship<br />
money usually goes to pay<br />
for the Civic Center rental,<br />
food, beverages, the photo<br />
booth, race video rental, silent<br />
auction items and other<br />
miscellaneous costs of putting<br />
on the event.<br />
Counting baked goods,<br />
there were about 180 items<br />
in the silent auction, spread<br />
through three rooms in<br />
the Civic Center. Bidding<br />
opened at 5:30 in advance<br />
of the dinner and closed in<br />
stages throughout the evening.<br />
By the time it was over,<br />
most of the items brought<br />
more than their listed value.<br />
Caraway commended<br />
those in attendance for their<br />
generosity.<br />
“Anytime an event like<br />
this does well, it’s an indication<br />
not only of the generosity<br />
of our community, but an<br />
indication that the economy<br />
here is starting to recover,”<br />
she said. “We’re very fortunate<br />
here compared to many<br />
places.”<br />
The Chamber uses the<br />
funds raised through the<br />
annual event to fund its<br />
day-to-day operations, promote<br />
tourism, business development<br />
and economic<br />
growth. They also sponsor<br />
scholarships for Decatur<br />
High School graduates.<br />
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Carey Williams served as<br />
master of ceremonies, and<br />
numerous volunteers helped<br />
with door prize drawings<br />
and organizing the horse<br />
racing event, the raffle, silent<br />
and live auctions and a<br />
Kentucky Derby ladies’ hat<br />
contest.<br />
Live auction items included<br />
ticket packages for the<br />
Cowboys-Redskins football<br />
game Nov. 22 and University<br />
of Texas-Iowa State game<br />
on Nov. 10. Bidders also paid<br />
a premium for ads in the<br />
Chamber’s 2013 business<br />
guide and the <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
<strong>Messenger</strong>’s “All Around<br />
<strong>Wise</strong>” section. There were<br />
dining experiences including<br />
a steak dinner for 25, a<br />
cowboy breakfast for 25, a<br />
fish fry for 50, a barbecue<br />
for 50, an evening (including<br />
dinner) at the Decatur<br />
Fire House and of course,<br />
the Denny Deady cinnamon<br />
rolls.<br />
Also auctioned were jewelry,<br />
lawn equipment, a rifle,<br />
a Decatur High School autographed<br />
football and trips to<br />
tour plantations in Natchitoches,<br />
La., to the Winstar<br />
World Casino, and the Professional<br />
Bull Riding finals<br />
in Las Vegas. There was<br />
even a private night for 8 at<br />
Corinna’s Boutique.<br />
<br />
Email Bob at bbuckel@wcmessenger.com.<br />
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take this country back.<br />
Then we could begin to<br />
work on the problems<br />
facing this country — the<br />
economy, foreign policy,<br />
etc. — instead of watching<br />
the mighty country our<br />
founding fathers envisioned<br />
slip away.<br />
Take the time to vote in<br />
this election for the Republican<br />
nominees, Romney<br />
and Ryan. Everything<br />
is on the line.<br />
Jonna and<br />
Jack Pigg<br />
King<br />
represents<br />
district well<br />
State Rep. Phil King has<br />
5A<br />
18,000 for the current semester.<br />
Enrollment is expected<br />
to grow by another<br />
5,800 students in the next<br />
five years.<br />
In addition to planning<br />
for student growth, current<br />
facilities must also be<br />
maintained.<br />
Specifically for <strong>Wise</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> schools, Prairie<br />
View Elementary, Seven<br />
Hills Elementary and Chisholm<br />
Trail Middle School<br />
would receive technology<br />
updates and improved<br />
safety and security features<br />
such as updated camera<br />
systems. Seven Hills<br />
would also get a new roof,<br />
and Chisholm Trail would<br />
receive flooring, HVAC<br />
and a new roof. Northwest<br />
High School would see the<br />
same security and technology<br />
upgrades as well<br />
as flooring and HVAC replacements.<br />
And the new<br />
high school would help relieve<br />
crowding at NHS.<br />
Over the last decadeplus,<br />
Northwest ISD has<br />
shown it knows how to<br />
spend taxpayer money efficiently<br />
and wisely and has<br />
a firm grasp on student<br />
growth projections. Voters<br />
in turn have shown a willingness<br />
to support these<br />
much-needed projects.<br />
The projects included<br />
in the current bond package<br />
are needed to handle<br />
growth, maintain current<br />
facilities and enhance programs.<br />
That need, coupled<br />
with the district’s success<br />
rate at keeping its promise<br />
to taxpayers, leads us to<br />
recommend a “for” vote for<br />
the Northwest ISD bond<br />
issue.<br />
YOUR VIEWS<br />
Continued from page 4A<br />
represented our community’s<br />
values in Austin extremely<br />
well, and we need to<br />
re-elect him this November.<br />
Phil has been a tireless<br />
fighter for responsible government<br />
spending, lower<br />
taxes and regulations, and<br />
conservative family values<br />
since his first day in office.<br />
He knows that Texas is a<br />
model for the rest of the<br />
country because we have<br />
stuck to the ground rock<br />
principles that our forefathers<br />
laid out in the U.S.<br />
Constitution.<br />
We must have true conservative<br />
leaders in Austin<br />
like Phil King to keep Texas<br />
going strong. Please join me<br />
in supporting Phil at the<br />
polls.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Bettye Parker<br />
Runaway Bay<br />
Here today...<br />
GONE tomorrow.<br />
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DECATUR<br />
Paving project draws rain on day one<br />
By BOB BUCKEL<br />
The city of Decatur’s big<br />
paving project on Hale,<br />
Miller and Church streets<br />
has been on the books to<br />
start Monday, Oct. 22, for<br />
months.<br />
So naturally, it rained<br />
that day.<br />
Public Works Director<br />
Earl Smith reported to the<br />
City Council at their meeting<br />
Monday evening that<br />
the project was pared back<br />
on Monday due to the rain<br />
— but about half of it still<br />
went down and the rest was<br />
due for quick installation<br />
over the next few days.<br />
“We cut our hot-mix order<br />
back, but we still got<br />
all the way down Hale and<br />
Miller, and we lack about<br />
two blocks coming back,”<br />
he said. “I drove it, and it<br />
drives good.”<br />
Smith’s report also included<br />
a big shout-out to<br />
his crew for their work repairing<br />
a leak in the city’s<br />
raw-water line from Lake<br />
Bridgeport on Sept. 20. The<br />
leak occurred at 5:15 in the<br />
evening, after city employees<br />
had already worked a<br />
10-hour day, he said. Nevertheless,<br />
they worked all<br />
night to excavate and replace<br />
the leaking section of<br />
the line.<br />
The city had enough reserves<br />
that customers never<br />
noticed the break.<br />
“The Police Department<br />
came out and did some public<br />
safety for us because it<br />
was right on 380,” Smith<br />
said. “One side of the line<br />
had to be excavated by hand<br />
because there’s a fiber-optic<br />
cable running right beside<br />
this line. It was too close to<br />
get the bucket in.<br />
“Catastrophe averted,” he<br />
said.<br />
Planning Director Dedra<br />
D. Ragland updated the<br />
council on her department’s<br />
activity for August and<br />
September, which she said<br />
were “pretty slow” months.<br />
In August the city issued<br />
71 permits, collecting<br />
$9,162 in fees for a total<br />
of $266,784 worth of work.<br />
In September, only 56 permits<br />
were issued, drawing<br />
a total of $6,963 in fees for<br />
$280,023 worth of value<br />
added to the tax roll.<br />
Those reports, delivered<br />
in the workshop portion of<br />
the council meeting, were<br />
the highlight of a short<br />
agenda. Once the regular<br />
meeting was convened, the<br />
council:<br />
appointed Cecil Le-<br />
Mond to the Planning &<br />
Zoning Commission for a<br />
two-year term to expire in<br />
October of 2014;<br />
voted to skip their Nov.<br />
12 meeting, since it falls on<br />
the Veterans’ Day holiday,<br />
and just handle the entire<br />
month on Nov. 26, a Monday;<br />
accepted the city’s quarterly<br />
investment report; and<br />
held an executive session<br />
to go through the formal<br />
evaluation process for<br />
City Manager Brett Shannon,<br />
an annual exercise.<br />
<br />
Email Bob at bbuckel@wcmessenger.com.<br />
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6A WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
AREA DEATHS AND FUNERALS<br />
Mary Martha Chrismon,<br />
89, of Sunset, died Sunday,<br />
Oct. 21, 2012, in Decatur.<br />
Funeral was Oct. 23 at<br />
Coker-Hawkins Funeral<br />
Home with Rick Ross officiating.<br />
Burial was at Oaklawn<br />
Cemetery.<br />
Pallbearers included Jonathon<br />
Horton, Sam Major,<br />
Phil Major, Johnny Jeter,<br />
Scott Chrismon and Darryl<br />
Miller.<br />
Mary was born Dec. 19,<br />
1922, in Doyle, Okla., to<br />
Lonnie Guy and Molly (Jolley)<br />
Kennedy. She married<br />
Vearl Chrismon April 17,<br />
1941, in Anadarko, Okla.<br />
A homemaker, Mary was a<br />
ember of the Decatur Garen<br />
Club and the Decatur<br />
hurch of Christ.<br />
Survivors include her<br />
Mary Martha Chrismon<br />
1922-2012<br />
CHRISMON<br />
daughter, Mary Lee Vardas<br />
and husband, Steve, of<br />
Sunset; son Kenny Vearl<br />
Chrismon and wife, Shelly,<br />
of Lakeside City; grandchildren<br />
Lesa Major and husband,<br />
Phil, of Decatur, Kevin<br />
Vardas and wife, Melissa,<br />
of Denton, Crystal Horton<br />
and husband, Jonathon, of<br />
Sunset, Scott Chrismon and<br />
wife, Marci, of Dallas and<br />
Stacey Hughes and husband,<br />
Cameron, of Killeen;<br />
great-grandchildren Sam,<br />
Breanna, Jakob, Isaac, Nathon,<br />
Hap, Cooper, Jack and<br />
Theo; and brother Lloyd<br />
Kennedy and wife, Mary, of<br />
North Richland Hills; other<br />
family members and a host<br />
of friends.<br />
Mary was preceded in<br />
death by her parents; her<br />
husband; sisters Pansy<br />
Chrismon, Bonnie Miller<br />
and Molly Ann Dennis; and<br />
brothers Virgil and Floyd<br />
Kennedy.<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong>,<br />
October 24, 2012<br />
Rumor based on past event<br />
By ERIKA PEDROZA<br />
A rumor of a planned<br />
shooting at Northwest High<br />
School that spun ‘out of control’<br />
Tuesday was based on<br />
a false-alarm incident the<br />
week before.<br />
Last Monday, Oct. 15,<br />
district officials and law<br />
enforcement personnel investigated<br />
a comment made<br />
by a student and determined<br />
there was no truth<br />
to what was said, according<br />
to Northwest ISD Director<br />
of Communications Lesley<br />
Weaver.<br />
“It was a poor choice of<br />
words used by the student,”<br />
she said.<br />
The matter was addressed<br />
but was not made public.<br />
“Had there been meat to<br />
the threat, then we definitely<br />
would have taken the appropriate<br />
actions whether<br />
it was a lockdown or phone<br />
call to parents,” Weaver said.<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
College to<br />
host jazz<br />
concert<br />
The Weatherford College<br />
Jazz Band and the Texas<br />
Connection will give a free<br />
concert 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,<br />
Nov. 6, at the Weatherford<br />
College <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> campus.<br />
The Texas Connection<br />
will feature drummer and<br />
Weatherford College <strong>Wise</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Dean and drummer<br />
Duane Durrett and<br />
guest artist saxophonist<br />
Mack Goldsbury. Vocalist<br />
Victor Cager will headline<br />
the group.<br />
Goldsbury is a two-time<br />
Grammy Award-nominated<br />
artist, having logged<br />
session time with the likes<br />
of Stevie Wonder and Tony<br />
Bennett.<br />
Cager, one of the most<br />
respected vocalists in the<br />
Dallas/Fort Worth area, is<br />
featured on a recent album<br />
of local jazz heavyweights<br />
entitled “The Dallas Jazz<br />
Orchestra presents Victor<br />
Cager.”<br />
Cager and the Texas<br />
Connection recently entertained<br />
at WCWC’s Red<br />
Carpet Gala.<br />
For more information,<br />
call (940) 627-2690 or<br />
email Durrett at ddurrett@<br />
wc.edu.<br />
NORTHWEST<br />
“But it was determined that<br />
it was a very poor choice of<br />
words that alarmed people.<br />
“We don’t want to alarm<br />
people every time someone<br />
uses poor judgement<br />
in the words they express,”<br />
she added. “We don’t take<br />
threats lightly. They aren’t<br />
tolerated. But it’s just like<br />
airport security. You can’t<br />
get away with saying ‘gun’<br />
while going through security<br />
— but do they shut down<br />
the airport every time someone<br />
says the word?”<br />
Although unsubstantiated,<br />
the rumor ‘got completely<br />
out of control’ Tuesday,<br />
prompting a schoolwide<br />
announcement and call to<br />
parents that day.<br />
“Through investigation,<br />
authorities determined it<br />
was the threat made last<br />
week,” Weaver said. “There<br />
was no threat today. It was<br />
a rumor that got out of control.<br />
We are very confident<br />
there is no legitimacy to the<br />
threat.”<br />
The student who made<br />
the comment has not been<br />
on campus since the threat<br />
was brought to the attention<br />
of authorities last week.<br />
“We definitely want kids<br />
to be aware of the seriousness<br />
of the issue,” Weaver<br />
said. “They can’t make a<br />
joke about it. It is not tolerated.”<br />
District officials request<br />
the cooperation of parents<br />
and students in thwarting<br />
the rumor.<br />
“Parents and social media<br />
played a huge role in<br />
keeping this rumor going,”<br />
Weaver said. “We ask for<br />
their help in not creating<br />
panic and mass hysteria. If<br />
their child was ever in danger,<br />
we’d be the first to let<br />
them know.”<br />
<br />
Email Erika at epedroza@<br />
wcmessenger.com.<br />
Davidson to chair<br />
Civic Center board<br />
DECATUR<br />
Decatur City Councilman<br />
Jay Davidson has<br />
been elected chairman of<br />
the Decatur Civic Center<br />
Advisory Board and former<br />
Mayor Joe Lambert<br />
was named vice chairman.<br />
Civic Center Director<br />
Lori Sherwood told<br />
the board that several<br />
improvements had been<br />
made to the Civic Center<br />
including the refinishing<br />
of the driveway structures<br />
on the east and<br />
west side and new landscaping<br />
throughout the<br />
Civic Center grounds.<br />
She also said she hoped<br />
to have the new audio/<br />
video equipment installed<br />
in time for an almost<br />
sold-out Christmas<br />
party season in December.<br />
The Civic Center is<br />
also planning Easter and<br />
Mothers Day brunches<br />
next spring.<br />
Laura Bernice Burress,<br />
89, formerly of Decatur, died<br />
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in<br />
Grapevine.<br />
Funeral is 10:30 a.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 24, at Coker-Hawkins<br />
Funeral Home<br />
in Decatur. Burial will be at<br />
Oaklawn Cemetery.<br />
Laura was born in <strong>Wise</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> to Frank and Eva<br />
(Sexton) Clay. She married<br />
Neil Burress and was<br />
a homemaker. Her husband<br />
preceded her in death<br />
Nov. 17, 1983. Laura was<br />
also preceded in death by<br />
her parents, a granddaughter,<br />
Christie Thornton; six<br />
brothers and four sisters.<br />
During World War II,<br />
HEAD<br />
Corrections<br />
The Bridgeport City<br />
Council Oct. 16 awarded a<br />
bid for the city’s external<br />
annual financial audit for<br />
fiscal year 2012 and 2013<br />
to Rutledge Crain and<br />
Co., not Auldridge Griffin<br />
PC as stated in a story in<br />
the Oct. 20 edition of the<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong>.<br />
The contract is three<br />
years less than what staff<br />
recommended, as council<br />
wished to refrain from<br />
entering into long-term<br />
agreements that would<br />
lock in its sucessors.<br />
PBR rider Ben Jones,<br />
who lives in Boyd, should<br />
have been included in<br />
the Oct. 20 <strong>Messenger</strong><br />
story, “Local riders to<br />
storm PBR finals.” Jones,<br />
an Australian native, is<br />
ranked No. 16 and will<br />
also be competing in the<br />
2012 PBR Built Ford<br />
Tough World Finals that<br />
start this week in Las Vegas.<br />
Laura Bernice Burress<br />
1923-2012<br />
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Laura worked as secretary<br />
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Hoover. She was a member<br />
of the First Baptist Church<br />
of Decatur.<br />
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BURRESS<br />
Sandra Head<br />
1935-2012<br />
She is survived by her<br />
daughter, Sandra Walburg<br />
and husband, James, of<br />
Southlake; grandchildren<br />
James Thornton and wife,<br />
Kerrie, of Decatur and Lauren,<br />
Alissa, Chloe and Jared<br />
Walburg, all of Southlake;<br />
great-granddaughter Dylan<br />
Thornton of Decatur; numerous<br />
nieces, nephews and<br />
a host of friends.<br />
Expressions of sympathy<br />
may be made to the Humane<br />
Society of North Texas, 1840<br />
E. Lancaster, Fort Worth, TX<br />
76103.<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong>,<br />
October 24, 2012<br />
Sandra Head, 77, died<br />
Oct. 6, 2012, at her home in<br />
Yuma, Ariz.<br />
Funeral was Oct. 8 at Desert<br />
Valley Mortuary Chapel<br />
in Yuma, with Chaplain Joe<br />
Avila of Hospice Compassus<br />
officiating. Burial was<br />
at the Yuma Pioneer Cemetery.<br />
Sandra was born Aug. 12,<br />
1935, in Decatur. She was a<br />
homemaker and was married<br />
for 57 years to Leon<br />
Head.<br />
She is survived by her<br />
husband; daughter Kari<br />
E. Skiles and husband,<br />
Richard L. Skiles; three<br />
grandsons and seven greatgrandchildren.<br />
She was<br />
preceded in death by her<br />
son, Lenden G. Head, at age<br />
19.<br />
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my watch. You’re excited about going<br />
— piling up and picking people up.”<br />
Fellow church member and WC-<br />
SNB Board President Jeri Kay Kao<br />
recruited Brett to help occasionally<br />
in the league about four years ago.<br />
“She asked me to help with Zach<br />
(her son), then I was thrown in with<br />
other people,” the Decatur High<br />
School junior said. “It was different<br />
at first, but you kind of loosen up<br />
after the first couple of weeks when<br />
you get to know everybody. And now<br />
I love it.<br />
“Those of us who can play sports<br />
kind of take it for granted,” he continued.<br />
“But when you see them out<br />
there having so much fun, it opens<br />
up your eyes to a whole different<br />
view. I’d rather be playing games<br />
with them than with friends like<br />
me.”<br />
That enthusiasm drew the interest<br />
of his parents and brother.<br />
“You see one doing it, and you see<br />
what fun they’re having,” Mark said.<br />
“Then you’ve got two going, then<br />
three. It’s turned into a family outing<br />
for us. Once you go, you’re kind<br />
of hooked. You get over the fear you<br />
have of not knowing anybody, not<br />
knowing what to do. But you go out<br />
there and find a place to plug in.<br />
Once you get out there and get started,<br />
you’ll have more fun there than<br />
anywhere else.”<br />
And the same high levels of excitement<br />
echo among all four members<br />
of the family.<br />
“That’s probably one of the reasons<br />
I enjoy it so much,” Lori said.<br />
“My boys like it. I don’t have to force<br />
them to do community service. They<br />
love it. They’re just as excited as I<br />
am.”<br />
Their youngest son, Ethan, interjected,<br />
“I hurry to get ready on Saturday<br />
morning to go.”<br />
“It’s the only time you get up early,<br />
and we’re not dragging you out of<br />
bed,” Mom quipped back.<br />
Dad added: “That’s one thing —<br />
we can’t get the kids to do anything<br />
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HIGH FIVE — Ethan Jones, 12, of Rhome congratulates David Ross as<br />
he crosses home plate in a <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Special Needs Baseball game<br />
Saturday. As a volunteer, Ethan acts as DJ and catcher, even dancing<br />
behind home plate.<br />
around the house, but they will get<br />
out there and help with that, even<br />
the ‘pick up’ part after. Once you get<br />
home, good luck trying to get them to<br />
do anything.”<br />
Ethan doesn’t deny it.<br />
“Every weekend, I don’t want to<br />
do anything but go there and spend<br />
the whole weekend playing baseball<br />
with them,” the Chisholm Trail<br />
Middle School seventh grader said.<br />
“I love it.”<br />
Different roles<br />
Volunteer roles in this league differ<br />
from typical responsibilities.<br />
While Ethan may spend some<br />
time “as the DJ,” he also helps as<br />
catcher on the field — an animated,<br />
dancing catcher at that.<br />
“That’s what I love about these<br />
games,” Lori said. “It’s all about having<br />
fun. A couple of weeks ago, one<br />
of our volunteers, Michael, was in a<br />
dancing mood. He just started dancing<br />
on the pitcher’s mound. One of<br />
our players over on the sideline was<br />
watching intently and kind of dancing.<br />
I grabbed his hand and said,<br />
‘Let’s do a dance war.’<br />
“And they did — right there, on the<br />
pitcher’s mound, in the middle of the<br />
game. It was fantastic; it was fun.”<br />
The parents and older brother<br />
buddy with a player and guide their<br />
moves around the field.<br />
“Some of them need for you to<br />
physically bat for them,” Lori said.<br />
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
“But we try to get at least a hand on<br />
the bat, and we’ll bat for them. Some<br />
can do it on their own so you just<br />
stand and cheer and watch out for<br />
the bat. We also run the bases with<br />
them or, if they’re wheelchair-bound,<br />
we’ll push their wheelchair. Everybody<br />
bats twice, and everybody gets<br />
to go to the outfield.”<br />
The differing needs may intimidate<br />
some potential volunteers. But<br />
the family assures everyone that it’s<br />
possible to get past those doubts.<br />
“Some people are afraid because<br />
they can’t communicate with the<br />
kids. But it’s OK. You learn. They<br />
Another way to help...<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Special Needs Baseball League is<br />
hosting a ZUMBA Fitness Dance for the Field’s<br />
Halloween fundraiser 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct.<br />
27, at the Decatur Multipurpose Building, behind<br />
McCarroll Middle School at 1201 Thompson St.<br />
The event is hosted by Zumba instructor Simon<br />
Kao, and there will be costume judging with cash<br />
prizes, raffles, T-shirts and more. Tickets are $12<br />
at the door or $10 in advance from any player,<br />
from Small Town Graphics in Bridgeport or by calling<br />
Jeri Kay at (940) 577-1848.<br />
All funds raised will go to build a Miracle League<br />
baseball field to accommodate all players.<br />
may not be able to speak, but they<br />
communicate with you with smiles,<br />
holding your hand or hugging you,”<br />
Lori said. “They’re just like us. They<br />
just want to play. After a while, you<br />
don’t even see the disability. You just<br />
stop and think, ‘Oh, I don’t ever want<br />
to forget that smile. Or that excitement.’”<br />
Mark added: “You get over the<br />
fear that you have. You’re afraid to<br />
help some of these kids because you<br />
don’t know how to hold them, you’re<br />
afraid you’re going to do something<br />
wrong. If you see someone having a<br />
hard time, people come over and give<br />
them a hand.”<br />
Unlike typical baseball, there are<br />
no assigned fielding positions, and<br />
the ball being pitched and hit isn’t<br />
the only ball in play. Players take to<br />
the field wherever they find a spot<br />
and toss around several baseballs.<br />
7A<br />
“If your buddy is able to, they’ll<br />
pick up the ball themselves and<br />
throw it back. Or we’ll pick it up and<br />
put it in their hands and have the<br />
activity of feeling the ball, talking<br />
to them about the ball and helping<br />
them move, some motor skills stuff,”<br />
Lori said.<br />
The family also acknowledges that<br />
part of their jobs is to give the parents<br />
a break.<br />
“They are so energetic,” Lori said.<br />
“You really have to keep an eye on<br />
them. But they are so much fun.<br />
They are loving being out there,<br />
which makes you love being out<br />
there with them.”<br />
League organizers,<br />
grateful for any kind of<br />
support, do not require<br />
volunteers to show up<br />
every week.<br />
“You aren’t expected to<br />
be there every weekend<br />
or even all day,” Mark<br />
said. “You do what you<br />
can when you can. But<br />
you’ll find that you want<br />
to be out there as much<br />
as possible. You get out<br />
there, everybody’s having<br />
a good time — cutting<br />
up, acting goofy and enjoying<br />
it. It’s a lot of laughs, and you make<br />
some good friendships. You want to<br />
be a part of that as much as possible.”<br />
Brett concurred.<br />
“It’s the best way to start your<br />
weekend off,” he said. “You have all<br />
the kids there so excited, and it’s like<br />
God is shining through every single<br />
one of them. It’s like God’s right<br />
there having fun with them, laughing<br />
with them. It’s amazing. I love it.”<br />
Lori added: “It’s their time out.<br />
That’s what I love about it. Everyone’s<br />
on the same field, everybody’s<br />
winning. They have a blast. It’s just<br />
the best.<br />
“This is baseball.”<br />
To volunteer, call Kao at (940)577-<br />
1848.<br />
<br />
Email Erika at epedroza@wcmessenger.com.<br />
Decatur, Bridgeport bands headed to Area contest<br />
By BOB BUCKEL<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
If you’re a 3A band program in<br />
this part of Texas, you’re in the<br />
toughest region in the state.<br />
That’s not just hype. Two years<br />
ago, the last time 3A bands could<br />
compete all the way to the state<br />
level, five of the top 10 bands at<br />
state came from this region, including<br />
Argyle, the 3A state champion.<br />
So it’s no surprise that all nine<br />
class 3A bands in last Saturday’s<br />
UIL Region 2 Marching Contest in<br />
Denton earned top ratings. Decatur<br />
and Bridgeport High School bands<br />
both took straight 1s from the three<br />
judges in Saturday’s contest.<br />
In 2A competition, Alvord and<br />
Paradise both earned 1s while<br />
Boyd took a 3. That afternoon when<br />
the 5A bands marched, Northwest<br />
earned straight 1s.<br />
Bridgeport marched 63 students<br />
at 12:15 while Decatur took the<br />
field with 90 at 12:45. Both will<br />
take part in the Area round this<br />
Saturday at Denton’s Collins Stadium,<br />
with Bridgeport marching at<br />
11 and Decatur to perform at 1:15.<br />
The top 10 bands will make the finals,<br />
and four from that group will<br />
qualify for State Marching Contest,<br />
to be held Nov. 5-6 in the Alamodome<br />
in San Antonio.<br />
DHS band director Eric McNiel<br />
said being in this region raises the<br />
bar for everyone.<br />
“It’s amazing,” he said. “It drives<br />
us to push our kids harder, to make<br />
it better.”<br />
McNiel, who has been in Decatur<br />
for 10 years but is in his first year<br />
at the helm of the DHS program,<br />
said his philosophy is a little different<br />
from some.<br />
“We’re really there to entertain<br />
the crowd,” he said. “I don’t care<br />
what the judges think of our show.<br />
I want our kids to be successful,<br />
but if we can get the crowd on their<br />
feet, then we’ve done our job.”<br />
The Decatur band got straight<br />
1s at region — top grades from all<br />
three judges.<br />
“It was a pretty fun day for our<br />
kiddos,” McNiel said.<br />
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MARCHING IN TIME — Decatur’s High School marching band and Bridgeport’s High School marching band each take to the field in competition in<br />
Denton Saturday.<br />
Decatur’s show is called “Nightscape”<br />
and starts with a tune<br />
called “Dusk” about the sun going<br />
down. With the second number,<br />
it “gets a little crazy” as the band<br />
plays “Into the Night” — which is<br />
basically about bad dreams but is<br />
“pretty cool, actually.”<br />
The third tune was composed<br />
in honor of Shane Eichthaler, a<br />
DHS student and trumpet player<br />
who died along with his mom in a<br />
car accident during Thanksgiving<br />
break in 2007.<br />
“It’s called ‘The Shimmering<br />
Light,’ and it’s about the dawn of<br />
a new day,” McNiel said. “It starts<br />
out with a trumpet solo. It’s kind of<br />
the sad part of our show, but then<br />
the rest of it is about hope.”<br />
The DHS band doesn’t use props<br />
or fancy choreography. They just<br />
work to march and play very well.<br />
“We’re going to open up our sound<br />
this weekend at the Area marching<br />
contest and let it rip,” McNiel said.<br />
“In a contest three weeks ago, the<br />
judges’ comments said we were too<br />
aggressive, so we backed off. Last<br />
week, the judges said we were not<br />
aggressive enough. So we’re just<br />
going to open it up.”<br />
Bridgeport High School band<br />
director Hughlen White said his<br />
band, too, focuses on playing clean<br />
and marching well. The theme of<br />
their show is “Beowulf” — a literary<br />
hero from the Middle Ages.<br />
“We came up with it last year<br />
right after marching contest,”<br />
White said. “Since we’re one-to-one<br />
with Macbooks now, I asked the<br />
kids to email me 10 ideas for shows<br />
next year. I got several hundred<br />
ideas.”<br />
Over about six weeks, White, his<br />
staff and the kids boiled them down<br />
and decided they wanted to do<br />
something that represented a hero.<br />
“It was going to be a ninja,<br />
a knight, some kind of warrior<br />
theme,” he said. “Somebody said<br />
what about Beowulf? The juniors<br />
study it first thing their senior<br />
year. So the process started in October.”<br />
The band commissioned music by<br />
composer Barry Hurt, a former Texas<br />
high school band director who<br />
understands UIL marching shows.<br />
“He’s very accommodating to our<br />
kids, our instrumentation and ranges,”<br />
White said. “We put some visual<br />
things in, a few body movements,<br />
and made sure they fit with the<br />
show. We try to let our playing and<br />
our marching do most of the talking<br />
for us. We use one microphone for a<br />
piccolo solo, and that’s it.”<br />
White says he and his staff try to<br />
keep a healthy perspective on state<br />
competitions.<br />
“It’s a lot like athletics,” he said.<br />
“You rarely see a program get good<br />
overnight. There’s a formula, and<br />
once you figure that out and how<br />
to match your kids to it, you start<br />
to make the right moves. You get<br />
closer and closer every year. You<br />
climb the ladder.”<br />
White is in his fifth year in<br />
Bridgeport.<br />
Alvord, Paradise earn<br />
‘ones and done’<br />
With no competition this year beyond<br />
regional, the area’s 2A bands<br />
can heave a sigh of relief and focus<br />
on halftime entertainment.<br />
Alvord’s band earned two 1s and<br />
a 2 at Region, for an overall 1, while<br />
Paradise earned three 1s.<br />
Second-year director Barry Janicula<br />
said this was the first time<br />
the 35-member Alvord band had<br />
received a 1 at the varsity level.<br />
“I am especially proud of these<br />
students,” he said. “They had a<br />
wonderful show and it’s so exciting<br />
to see the band program headed in<br />
the right direction. The band has<br />
put in a lot of hard work, and I’m<br />
glad the students had a positive,<br />
enriching experience.”<br />
The Bulldog Band’s show was<br />
called “Mayan 2012” and featured<br />
musical selections from “Carmina<br />
Burana,” “Mars,” the “New World<br />
Symphony” and the film “Avatar.”<br />
The band this year also featured<br />
a colorguard program for the first<br />
time, with Karen St. Valentine<br />
helping run that.<br />
Janicula is in his second year in<br />
Alvord ISD.<br />
Bill Altz, band director at Paradise<br />
High School, said his band<br />
“did our best show” for the contest.<br />
The seven-minute performance<br />
featured the music of Green Day,<br />
starting with a piece called “Holiday”<br />
then a piece called “21 Guns.”<br />
The third song was Bruno Mars’<br />
“Runaway Baby.”<br />
“We didn’t have sets or any of<br />
that stuff,” he said. “We march and<br />
play. The judges thought we played<br />
and marched well.”<br />
Paradise marched 66 students,<br />
making it one of the bigger 2A<br />
bands. Altz is in his eighth year<br />
at the school, assisted throughout<br />
that time by Dwight Hardin.<br />
“The judges said it was a ‘very<br />
musical performance’” he said.<br />
“That was my favorite comment.<br />
They liked that we played with<br />
some expression and dynamics.”<br />
Boyd’s rating was 2-3-3 for an<br />
overall 3, with 30 students marching.<br />
Billy Hazard is the director.<br />
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8A WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
CROSS COUNTRY<br />
KEEPING<br />
PACE —<br />
Paradise’s<br />
Makayla<br />
Neighbors<br />
makes her<br />
way through<br />
the course<br />
Monday.<br />
Neighbors<br />
finished 11th<br />
overall.<br />
Paradise runs<br />
over competition<br />
at Alvord<br />
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STRONG FINISH — Alvord’s Savannah Williams and Paradise’s Bailey Sides and Ashley Sparks<br />
make their way to toward the finish line during the district cross-country meet Monday. Both teams<br />
advanced to the regional meet.<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
It turned out to be a treendous<br />
day for the Paraise<br />
Lady Panthers. Paraise<br />
captured the district<br />
ross country meet with 36<br />
oints at Alvord Monday.<br />
hey also took the JV girls<br />
nd 8th grade girls diviions.<br />
The Alvord Lady Bulldogs<br />
dvanced to the regional<br />
eet after finishing third<br />
ith 60 points. Millsap took<br />
he second spot with 39.<br />
oyd placed fifth with 128<br />
oints.<br />
Millsap’s Haley Younger<br />
ook the overall individual<br />
itle in a time of 12:42.<br />
“It’s very exciting,” Paraise<br />
coach Eddie Fortenberry<br />
said. “It’s nice to turn<br />
things around and have<br />
success. They have put in a<br />
lot of hard work and dedication.”<br />
Paradise took six of the<br />
top 11 spots. Bailey Sides<br />
led the way in fifth with a<br />
time of 12:42. Ashley Sparks<br />
placed sixth in 13:16. Emily<br />
Corbin took seventh in<br />
13:20. Kaylee McConnel finished<br />
eighth with a time of<br />
13:22.<br />
Emily Brinson crossed the<br />
line as Paradise’s fifth runner<br />
in 10th with a time of<br />
13:24.<br />
Makala Neighbors ran<br />
13:34 for 11th and Aliyah<br />
Read took 20th in 14:30.<br />
Alvord was without two of<br />
their top runners, but still<br />
The Boyd Yellowjackets advanced to the<br />
regional cross country meet with a third<br />
place finish at the district meet Monday<br />
at Alvord.<br />
Boyd picked up 70 points while first<br />
place Brock had 50. Peaster placed second<br />
with 51.<br />
Paradise took fourth with 77 points and<br />
Alvord was seventh with 171.<br />
David Buchanon of Peaster won the individual<br />
title with a time of 17:58.<br />
Marco Martinez led the Yellowjackets<br />
advanced.<br />
“We were just hoping to<br />
get in,” Alvord coach Curtis<br />
Enis said. “We’ll get both<br />
our runners back soon and<br />
then we can gear up for regionals.”<br />
Clara Breashears led<br />
the way for Alvord with a<br />
Yellowjackets advance<br />
in third place with a time of 18:09. Aaron<br />
Hammett was ninth with a time of 19:10.<br />
Blake Rhumann took 13th in 19:43. Josh<br />
Singleton placed 22nd in 20:32.<br />
Cameron Hammett was Boyd’s fifth runner<br />
in 23rd with a time of 20:33.<br />
Eric Esquivel finished 31st in 21:36.<br />
Isaac Vang ran 22:39 for 39th.<br />
Paradise was led by Chance Dial in 11th<br />
with a time of 19:33. Landry Norwood was<br />
12th in 19:37. Jarrett Holt placed 17th in<br />
20:03. Colby Dial took 18th in 20:05.<br />
fourth place finish in 13:08.<br />
Ariel Rogers was ninth in<br />
13:24. Savannah Williams<br />
captured 14th in 13:59 and<br />
Marissa Schedcik was close<br />
behind in 15th with a time<br />
of 14:10.<br />
Lauren Hart was Alvord’s<br />
fifth runner in 18th with a<br />
time of 14:25. Cory Schlomach<br />
placed 29th in 15:13. Sarah<br />
Nichols took 36th in 15:32.<br />
Boyd was led by Jessica<br />
Colbert in 17th in 14:14.<br />
Courtney Sanders captured<br />
26th in 15:02, Abby Fagan<br />
27th in 15:09 and Heather<br />
Beauregard in 28th with a<br />
J.D. Pearson was the Panthers fifth runner<br />
in 20:18 good for 19th. Sam Robinson<br />
was 20th in 20:20 and Zack Fletcher 24th<br />
in 20:48.<br />
Alvord was led by Logan Watkins in<br />
27th with a time of 21:18. Andrew Nichols<br />
placed 28th in 21:28. Nick Shea took 35th<br />
in 22:05. Kory Maag ran 22:51 for 40th.<br />
Heath Walker was Alvord’s fifth runner<br />
in 41st with a time of 23:04. Cody Peterson<br />
finished 42nd in 23:49 and Cody Newby<br />
44th in 25:47.<br />
time of 15:10.<br />
Jade Moore was Boyd’s<br />
fifth runner in 30th with a<br />
time of 15:16.<br />
Lizeth Uribe ran 15:21<br />
good for 33rd. Michaela<br />
Kling placed 39th in 16:20.<br />
The regional meet will be<br />
held Nov. 3 in Arlington.<br />
MOVING ON — The Boyd Yellowjacket team of Blake Rhuman, Marco Martinez, Eric Esquivel,<br />
Aaron Hammett, Josh Singleton, Isaac Vang and Cameron Hammett placed third.<br />
MAKING<br />
HER WAY<br />
— Alvord’s<br />
Clara<br />
Breashears<br />
helped<br />
the Lady<br />
Bulldogs<br />
to a third<br />
place finish<br />
Monday.<br />
Breashears<br />
placed<br />
fourth<br />
individually.<br />
SIMPLY THE BEST — The Paradise Lady Panther team of Aliyah Read, Makayla Neighbors,<br />
Bailey Sides, Ashley Sparks, Kaylee McConnell, Emily Brinson and Emily Corbin took home<br />
the team title Monday.<br />
WINNING SMILES — Team members from Millsap, Paradise and Alvord receive their medals<br />
after the district cross-country meet Monday.
FOOTBALL<br />
Grudge match<br />
turns playoff<br />
maker, breaker<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
9A<br />
The Battle of Big Sandy<br />
or 2012 has turned into a<br />
ght for both teams’ playoff<br />
ives. With only a few games<br />
eft, each is desperate for a<br />
in to prolong their season.<br />
Bridgeport (2-5, 0-1)<br />
osts the Decatur Eagles<br />
3-5, 0-2) Friday. Kickoff is<br />
cheduled for 7:30 p.m.<br />
The Bulls may go in with<br />
slight advantage in the<br />
ross-county rivalry after<br />
aving an extra week to<br />
repare and with one more<br />
ame left on the schedule<br />
han Decatur.<br />
“It went good and we<br />
eeded the rest,” Bridgeort<br />
coach Danny Henson<br />
aid about the bye week.<br />
It was nice to take care of<br />
ome nagging injuries and<br />
et energized.”<br />
Bull running back Gabe<br />
uerta has been hobbled<br />
y an ankle injury since<br />
he Princeton game and<br />
was limited two weeks ago<br />
against Krum. According to<br />
Henson, Huerta is getting<br />
closer to full speed.<br />
Decatur has injury probems<br />
of their own. Jared<br />
urdon suffered a concusion<br />
last week, and Max<br />
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cause it’s so time consuming.<br />
It’s the same guidelines as<br />
players as far as no-pass noplay.<br />
I need them to be good<br />
communicators. As they get<br />
older in the program they<br />
will gain more responsibilities.”<br />
Before they gain those responsibilities<br />
they have to<br />
get their feet wet, with a lot<br />
of on-the-fly situations.<br />
“The first time Coach<br />
Newsom told me to cover up<br />
a cut I had no idea what to<br />
do,” Bridgeport trainer Taylor<br />
Reynolds said. “Things<br />
are a lot easier now. It’s a lot<br />
different than just handing<br />
out water.”<br />
Although a lot of the students<br />
are not quite sure<br />
what they are getting into,<br />
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Last Meeting: Decatur won<br />
30-16<br />
Decatur: Harris Rating 207<br />
Notable: The Eagles need<br />
a win to keep their playoff<br />
hopes alive.<br />
Bridgeport: Harris Rating 197<br />
Notable: Bridgeport’s defense<br />
ranks the worst in the county,<br />
giving up 412 yards per game.<br />
Harris line: Decatur by 10<br />
Junkert is out for the season<br />
with a high ankle<br />
sprain.<br />
Running back Levi Rust<br />
is still questionable after<br />
sitting out last week<br />
against Krum.<br />
Despite the rash of injuries,<br />
the rivalry should be<br />
even more heated with so<br />
many playoff implications<br />
on the line.<br />
“We want to approach it<br />
like any other game,” Decatur<br />
coach Kyle Story said.<br />
“Everybody wants to beat<br />
their rival, but we don’t<br />
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UPENDED — Decatur running back Hunter Aragon and the rest of the Eagles will be looking for a win against rival Bridgeport<br />
to keep their playoff hopes alive.<br />
want to get too hyped up.<br />
It’s still football, and it’s<br />
fun to be a part of.”<br />
Henson says it’s an enjoyable<br />
week for everyone.<br />
“It’s a good rivalry that<br />
we look forward to each<br />
year,” Henson said.<br />
Not only will the winner<br />
of this year’s game have<br />
“I thought it was going to<br />
be more standing out here<br />
and having a good time,” Decatur<br />
senior Marissa Martinez<br />
said. “You do have a<br />
good time, but you also have<br />
to work. You have to be interested<br />
in the players and<br />
know what each of them<br />
needs to be in this class.<br />
“It’s amazing. I wouldn’t<br />
trade it for anything. It’s an<br />
experience that not everybody<br />
gets.”<br />
The experiences the students<br />
share on a daily basis<br />
create a bond between<br />
fellow trainers and players<br />
that can’t be denied.<br />
“It’s such a family bond,”<br />
Bridgeport’s Sarah Lingo<br />
said. “We really know the<br />
players and each other.”<br />
When high school is over<br />
most students in the program<br />
turn their training experiences<br />
into a career.<br />
Newsom has seen numerous<br />
former students become<br />
physician assistants, nurses,<br />
athletic trainers and<br />
physical therapists.<br />
Current student trainers<br />
at Bridgeport and Decatur<br />
are thinking about following<br />
the same paths.<br />
“It’s going to turn into a<br />
career,” Lingo said. “I want<br />
to be a physical therapist or<br />
athletic trainer.”<br />
Escobar is also a trainer<br />
at <strong>Wise</strong> Regional Health<br />
System, which gives his students<br />
the opportunity to observe<br />
from that angle.<br />
“It’s fun knowing you get<br />
to help a football player or<br />
any athlete in the smallest<br />
way,” Martinez said. “I<br />
think I will follow this career.<br />
Coach Escobar has fun<br />
while he’s at work, and I<br />
want to have a job where I<br />
can have fun.”<br />
Trainers from both programs<br />
understand that it’s<br />
a year worth of bragging<br />
rights, they look to also be<br />
in line for a spot in the postseason.<br />
The loser of Friday’s game<br />
will have a very difficult<br />
time making the playoffs.<br />
“We definitely have to win<br />
the last two games, or we<br />
are playing for pride,” Story<br />
not just for them; they have<br />
to be in it for the athlete, too.<br />
A lot of the Friday nights<br />
that many high school kids<br />
crave are given up to help<br />
student-athletes.<br />
“I want the students, parents,<br />
athletes and coaches<br />
truly recognize that we are<br />
in it for them,” Newsom<br />
said. “No matter what sport<br />
they are playing or who they<br />
are playing for we are here<br />
to take care of them. If a<br />
player from another team<br />
gets hurt we are just as willing<br />
to help them as anybody<br />
else.”<br />
No matter who wins or<br />
loses Friday, both of these<br />
staffs will be able to take<br />
something with them that<br />
will last a lifetime.<br />
Now that’s something<br />
worth remembering.<br />
said.<br />
Decatur knows they will<br />
have their hands full with<br />
Bridgeport’s versatile attack.<br />
“Their spread is tough to<br />
defend, and Huerta is an<br />
exceptional running back,”<br />
Story said. “They make it<br />
very tough on your defense.”<br />
Henson knows his defense<br />
will have a tough test,<br />
too.<br />
“They [Decatur] are good<br />
offensively, and they have a<br />
multi-threat quarterback,”<br />
Henson said. “They outgained<br />
Krum. They just had<br />
some costly mistakes and<br />
turnovers.”<br />
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10A WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Yellowjackets hunt for playoff spot<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
After a week off, the Boyd<br />
Yellowjackets are ready to get<br />
back on track and stay in contention<br />
for a playoff spot.<br />
A loss to Callisburg knocked<br />
Boyd out of the top spot in the<br />
District 5-2A Division I standings,<br />
but they still find themselves<br />
in great shape with<br />
three games to play.<br />
Boyd (4-3, 2-1) hosts the<br />
Ponder Lions (2-6, 0-4) Friday<br />
at Yellowjacket Stadium.<br />
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.<br />
“They changed their offense<br />
after their bye week,” Boyd<br />
coach Brandon Hopkins said<br />
about Callisburg. “They came<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
out in an unbalanced wishbone<br />
set, which they hadn’t<br />
run all year.”<br />
The move paid off for the<br />
Wildcats and Boyd headed<br />
into the bye week to prepare<br />
for Ponder with a loss.<br />
“We worked on some fundamentals<br />
and started getting<br />
ready for Ponder,” Hopkins<br />
said. “Also it gave us a chance<br />
to get some guys healthy.”<br />
One of those players was<br />
running back Fino Cardona<br />
who suffered a hip pointer<br />
during the Callisburg game.<br />
Cardona’s absence forced<br />
Boyd to go to the air much<br />
more than usual.<br />
Cardona leads <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
in rushing with 1,095<br />
yards and 19 touchdowns.<br />
Ponder is coming off a 43-<br />
41, double-overtime loss to<br />
Callisburg, who beat Boyd<br />
48-46. The Lions have also<br />
dropped district games to Pilot<br />
Point, Bowie and Whitesboro.<br />
“Their quarterback is big,<br />
strong and can chunk it,”<br />
Hopkins said.<br />
Boyd can’t allow another<br />
setback if they want to stay<br />
near the top of the playoff<br />
race.<br />
“We need to win two of the<br />
next three to give us a good<br />
chance for the playoffs,” Hopkins<br />
said. “We just have to<br />
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Boyd: Harris Rating 203<br />
Notable: The Yellowjackets<br />
are running for 215 yards per<br />
game.<br />
Ponder: Harris Rating 185<br />
Notable: The Lions lost in double-overtime<br />
to Callisburg last<br />
week, 43-41.<br />
Harris line: Boyd by 21<br />
take care of business, because<br />
anybody can beat anybody in<br />
this district.”<br />
WEEK SEVEN AREA LEADERS<br />
Rushing<br />
Rushing Yards TD<br />
Fino Cardona, Boyd 150 1,095 19<br />
Gabe Huerta, Bridgeport 129 866 11<br />
Levi Rust, Decatur 113 620 5<br />
Dakota Chavis, Northwest 118 581 6<br />
Joe Randall, Alvord 71 561 6<br />
Grayson Muehlstein, 92 519 5<br />
Decatur<br />
Dylan Hightower, Chico 42 470 5<br />
Passing<br />
Comp. Att. Int. Yds. TD<br />
Hunter York, Chico 140 212 5 1,819 23<br />
Grayson Muehlstein, 80 152 8 1,176 13<br />
Decatur<br />
Draze Lawliss, Northwest 74 128 4 1,050 10<br />
Tanner Valentine, Paradise 82 254 11 913 8<br />
Blake McDonald, Boyd 52 90 4 764 7<br />
Trey Cook, Bridgeport 60 113 8 553 3<br />
Hunter Gantt, Bridgeport 17 36 2 256 3<br />
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HOLDING ON — Alvord’s Benni Browne holds on for a tackle.<br />
District win ...<br />
Continued from page 12A<br />
job and missing blocking assignments.<br />
We finally settled down in the second<br />
half.”<br />
Despite the lopsided score, the Bulldogs<br />
had a nice game on the ground accumulating<br />
251 yards. Joe Randall and<br />
Casen Baker combined for 187 of that.<br />
Quarterback Cassidy Patterson had<br />
some nice passes after Jordan Locklear<br />
moved to tight end.<br />
Jacksboro is riding a five-game winning<br />
streak. They have district wins<br />
over City View and Henrietta. Their<br />
Texans focus ...<br />
ontinued from page 12A<br />
early,” Northwest coach<br />
Bill Patterson said. “We<br />
had some chances early<br />
and couldn’t connect.<br />
Southlake doesn’t get a lot<br />
of credit for their defense,<br />
but it is really good.”<br />
Patterson said the Texans<br />
moved on quickly from<br />
the Southlake setback and<br />
started turning all their<br />
attention to Timber Creek<br />
early Saturday morning.<br />
“We’ve got to win this<br />
game to keep control of our<br />
own destiny,” Patterson<br />
said.<br />
Northwest will have the<br />
task of trying to slow a<br />
very potent Falcon rushing<br />
attack.<br />
Cale Davis leads Timber<br />
Creek in rushing with 555<br />
yards and two other backs<br />
have more than 300. The<br />
team averages 185 on the<br />
ground.<br />
“They run the ball very<br />
well,” Patterson said. “We<br />
have to be solid up front<br />
defensively.”<br />
The Falcons have dropped<br />
league games to Southlake<br />
Carroll and Keller Central.<br />
They defeated Haltom, and<br />
their latest victory was a<br />
Chico’s postseason ...<br />
Continued from page 12A<br />
the easier start to the district<br />
schedule, already getting<br />
wins against Trenton<br />
and Blue Ridge.<br />
“They [Collinsville] are<br />
a good football team,” Chico<br />
coach Stephen Carter<br />
said. “We match-up pretty<br />
well with them. It should<br />
be a good game.”<br />
The Pirates are led by<br />
dual-threat quarterback<br />
John Lewis. He has already<br />
rushed for 1,080<br />
yards this season and<br />
thrown for 448.<br />
Chico has the hard part<br />
of their district schedule<br />
only loss came to Eastland in week one.<br />
The Tigers are averaging 34 points per<br />
game.<br />
“They have good size and good speed,”<br />
Enis said about Jacksboro. “They will<br />
spread it out and throw it all over the<br />
yard.”<br />
Enis just wants his troops to ride the<br />
momentum they built in the second half<br />
against Holliday.<br />
“We just need to do what we are<br />
coached to do,” Enis said. “We just aren’t<br />
taking things from practice to the game.<br />
We finally started turning that around<br />
in the second half against Holliday.”<br />
behind them with two of<br />
the more difficult teams,<br />
Lindsay and Valley View<br />
out of the way. Even<br />
though both games were<br />
losses, the Dragon still<br />
control their own destiny.<br />
Carter says his kids understand<br />
the magnitude of<br />
this game, and they need<br />
to get rid of some mistakes<br />
if they are going to be successful.<br />
“We’ve got to eliminate<br />
penalties,” Carter said.<br />
“We moved the ball, but<br />
we didn’t capitalize. We<br />
need more consistency on<br />
offense and to finish off<br />
drives.”<br />
20-6 thumping of Richland.<br />
A win by the Texans<br />
would allow them to keep<br />
Not too ...<br />
Continued from page 12A<br />
Callisburg’s potent rushing attack<br />
is led by quarterback Clay McKenzie,<br />
who has already rushed for 1,051<br />
yards this season. Running back Dakota<br />
Tinney has rushed for 435.<br />
The Wildcats are one of four teams<br />
in District 5-2A Division I with only<br />
one loss heading into week eight.<br />
The others are Whitesboro, Boyd<br />
and Pilot Point.<br />
Paradise will have to get their offense<br />
back on track after committing<br />
four turnovers and only managing<br />
162 total yards against Pilot Point.<br />
Defensively the Panthers had<br />
trouble stopping the run against the<br />
Bearcats, allowing 254 yards on the<br />
ground.<br />
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Paradise: Harris Rating 178<br />
Notable: The Panthers only had 73 rushing<br />
yards against Pilot Point last week.<br />
Callisburg: Harris Rating 203<br />
Notable: The Wildcats have won their<br />
last two games against Boyd and Ponder<br />
by a combined four points.<br />
Harris line: Callisburg by 28<br />
control of their own destiny<br />
for second place in District<br />
4-5A.<br />
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DECATUR<br />
Receiving<br />
Rec Yards TD<br />
Matt Carter, Chico 42 615 7<br />
Dylan Hightower, Chico 26 508 6<br />
Cain Lowe, Decatur 26 424 5<br />
Blake Arrington, Bridgeport 26 376 4<br />
Cole Meador, Boyd 20 319 2<br />
Dylan Stubbe, Northwest 18 317 2<br />
Chris Gilmore, Chico 19 292 4<br />
Emmanuel Moore,<br />
Northwest<br />
25 283 3<br />
Rushing Offense<br />
Team<br />
Yards/Avg.<br />
Decatur 255<br />
Boyd 215<br />
Alvord 170<br />
Northwest 168<br />
Bridgeport 166<br />
Chico 151<br />
Paradise 96<br />
Passing Offense<br />
Team<br />
Yards/Avg.<br />
Chico 305<br />
Decatur 156<br />
Northwest 150<br />
Boyd 137<br />
Paradise 130<br />
Bridgeport 116<br />
Alvord 37<br />
Total Offense<br />
Team<br />
Yards/Avg.<br />
Chico 456<br />
Decatur 411<br />
Boyd 353<br />
Northwest 318<br />
Bridgeport 282<br />
Paradise 230<br />
Alvord 225<br />
Rushing Defense<br />
Team<br />
Yards/Avg.<br />
Northwest 136<br />
Chico 190<br />
Decatur 205<br />
Alvord 234<br />
Bridgeport 257<br />
Boyd 265<br />
Paradise 263<br />
Passing Defense<br />
Team<br />
Yards/Avg.<br />
Chico 58<br />
Boyd 90<br />
Paradise 105<br />
Alvord 126<br />
Northwest 129<br />
Bridgeport 155<br />
Decatur 160<br />
Total Defense<br />
Team<br />
Yards/Avg.<br />
Chico 248<br />
Northwest 266<br />
Boyd 329<br />
Alvord 368<br />
Decatur 370<br />
Paradise 385<br />
Bridgeport 412<br />
ROTTNER CORBETT KNOX GREENE EVANS<br />
North Texas Bank Sports Editor Editorial Pilot Point Editor Editorial<br />
Decatur at Bridgeport Decatur Bridgeport Decatur Decatur Bridgeport<br />
Ponder at Boyd Boyd Boyd Boyd Boyd Boyd<br />
Paradise at Callisburg Callisburg Callisburg Callisburg Callisburg Callisburg<br />
Alvord at Jacksboro Jacksboro Jacksboro Jacksboro Jacksboro Jacksboro<br />
Collinsville at Chico Collinsville Chico Chico Collinsville Collinsville<br />
Timbercreek at Northwest Northwest Northwest Northwest Northwest Northwest<br />
Texas Tech at Kansas St. Kansas St. Kansas St. Kansas St. Kansas St. Kansas St.<br />
TCU at Oklahoma St. OSU TCU OSU TCU OSU<br />
Notre Dame at Oklahoma Notre Dame Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma<br />
Texas A&M at Auburn Texas A&M Texas A&M Auburn Texas A&M Auburn<br />
Mississippi St. at Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama<br />
NY Giants at Dallas Dallas NY Giants NY Giants NY Giants NY Giants<br />
WEEK 10-2 12-0 9-3 11-1 8-4<br />
OVERALL 67-28 78-17 60-35 73-22 68-27<br />
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12A WISE COUNTY MESSENGER, Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
SPORTS<br />
Texans focus on<br />
Timber Creek<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
The Northwest Texans’<br />
district winning streak<br />
ended at three games last<br />
week, but they are anxious<br />
to start a new one.<br />
Timber Creek (2-5, 2-2)<br />
travels to Northwest (5-<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
2, 3-1) Friday. Kickoff is<br />
scheduled for 7:30 p.m.<br />
Northwest is licking<br />
their wounds after a 45-0<br />
loss to Southlake, the defending<br />
5A state champion.<br />
“We got overwhelmed<br />
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Timber Creek (2-5, 2-2) at<br />
Northwest (5-2, 3-1)<br />
7:30 p.m.<br />
at Northwest ISD Stadium<br />
Northwest: Harris Rating 220<br />
Notable: Northwest is only allowing<br />
18 points per game.<br />
Timber Creek: Harris Rating<br />
200<br />
Notable: The Falcons’ only<br />
two victories have come during<br />
district play.<br />
Harris line: Northwest by 20<br />
Chico’s postseason<br />
rides on Pirates’ defeat<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
After two straight losses<br />
to begin the district schedule,<br />
the Chico Dragons find<br />
themselves in a must-win<br />
situation the final three<br />
weeks. The Dragons’ push<br />
to the postseason needs to<br />
begin with a win against<br />
Collinsville.<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
Chico (4-3, 0-2) hosts the<br />
Pirates (6-1, 2-0) Friday.<br />
Kickoff is slated for 7:30<br />
p.m.<br />
After dropping their first<br />
game of the season to Sacred<br />
Heart, the Pirates are<br />
riding a six-game winning<br />
streak. They also received<br />
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at Dragon Stadium<br />
Chico: Harris Rating 169<br />
Notable: The Dragons lead the<br />
county in offense with 439<br />
yards per game.<br />
Collinsville: Harris rating 189<br />
Notable: The Pirates are putting<br />
up 35 points per game.<br />
Harris line: Collinsville by 14<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
District<br />
win search<br />
continues<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
The Alvord Bulldogs<br />
could not overcome a dreadful<br />
first quarter last week<br />
against Holliday. Alvord<br />
still in search of their first<br />
district win, will have another<br />
difficult opponent this<br />
week.<br />
Alvord, (1-6, 0-2) takes on<br />
the Jacksboro Tigers (6-1,<br />
2-0) Friday at Tiger Stadium.<br />
Kickoff is scheduled for<br />
7:30 p.m.<br />
“Holliday came out ready<br />
to go, and we came out sluggish,”<br />
Alvord coach Curtis<br />
Enis said. “We weren’t lining<br />
up right, not doing our<br />
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Alvord: Harris Rating 170<br />
Notable: The Bulldogs rushed<br />
for 240 yards in their loss to<br />
Holliday.<br />
Jacksboro: Harris Rating: 199<br />
Notable: The Tiger’s lone loss<br />
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Harris line: Jacksboro by 35<br />
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FOOTBALL<br />
Trainers keep teams together<br />
for Battle of Big Sandy game<br />
FUN AT WORK —<br />
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Gabi Buchanan,<br />
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Hacker, Dakota<br />
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the Bridgeport<br />
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Maycee Fryhover,<br />
Emily Harveson,<br />
Megan Duke,<br />
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FOOTBALL<br />
Not too<br />
late for<br />
district run<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
The Paradise Panthers<br />
are still in search of their<br />
first victory after another<br />
setback to Pilot Point last<br />
week. With three games remaining<br />
the Panthers have<br />
time to make some noise<br />
down the stretch of the district<br />
race.<br />
Paradise (0-7, 0-3) travels<br />
to Callisburg (6-1, 2-1)<br />
Friday. Kickoff is slated for<br />
7:30 p.m.<br />
The two teams have been<br />
heading in opposite directions<br />
the last couple of<br />
weeks. After opening district<br />
with a 20-7 loss to Pilot<br />
Point, the Wildcats have two<br />
straight victories over Boyd<br />
and Ponder.<br />
Continued on page 10A<br />
By CLAY CORBETT<br />
At the bottom of most<br />
football rosters is a<br />
list of names that are<br />
often overlooked.<br />
They are glanced at<br />
and then forgotten in the pages of<br />
the yearly football program, and<br />
the importance they provide to<br />
football teams is never really understood.<br />
This week when the<br />
Battle of Big Sandy<br />
takes place in Bridgeport,<br />
two of the area’s<br />
most prolific training<br />
staffs will take the<br />
field with their respective<br />
teams.<br />
See game<br />
preview:<br />
Page 9A<br />
They will be the first ones to arrive<br />
— and the last ones to leave.<br />
Hours before kickoff they will be<br />
gathering all the necessary supplies<br />
to get them through the<br />
three-hour battle on the field and<br />
then putting it all up after the dust<br />
clears.<br />
“It’s a lot to ask from a high<br />
school kid,” Decatur head trainer<br />
Fernando Escobar said about the<br />
commitment it takes to be a student<br />
trainer. “They do all the hard<br />
work. They set up the field, the<br />
water during practice and games.<br />
They set up the equipment I need<br />
during the games. Without them<br />
my job would be twice as hard.”<br />
Any student has the opportunity<br />
to be a trainer, but being a member<br />
of a training staff is not for everyone.<br />
Just like players, they are held<br />
to a certain level of responsibilities.<br />
Grades must be kept up, and<br />
practice must be attended daily.<br />
Most students are unable to<br />
work because of the time commitment<br />
it takes to be on staff.<br />
“I look for kids that are responsible<br />
and that will be here every<br />
day,” Bridgeport head trainer Billy<br />
Newsom said. “It’s very hard for<br />
them to have an outside job be-<br />
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Entertainment<br />
Fans deduce that this<br />
Cross is a Perry bad fit<br />
There’s plenty of grumbling<br />
about the latest casting<br />
of brainy detective<br />
“Alex Cross” from James<br />
Patterson’s best-selling series.<br />
While two of the tomes<br />
have been made into movies<br />
— “Kiss the Girls”<br />
(1997) and “Along Came a<br />
Spider” (2001) both starring<br />
Morgan Freeman —<br />
Patterson devotees will tell<br />
you when they read the<br />
books, they imagine Denzel<br />
Washington.<br />
Freeman was acceptable,<br />
but this new incarnation<br />
starring Tyler Perry<br />
is highly frowned upon. Of<br />
course, this isn’t the first<br />
time in history that filmgoers<br />
have bemoaned Hollywood’s<br />
casting choices.<br />
About the film<br />
Perry, best known for his<br />
cross-dressing role as Madea<br />
in a series of successful<br />
plays and movies, isn’t<br />
being treated too well as<br />
Cross. (Even though the<br />
matinee attendees with<br />
the Movie Man numbered<br />
far more than he expected.)<br />
It’s the biggest hubbub<br />
since Tom Cruise was chosen<br />
for the lead in “Interview<br />
with the Vampire”<br />
(1994, a 6); he proved them<br />
wrong. Or maybe since<br />
Tom Hanks got the professorial<br />
lead in “The Da<br />
Vinci Code” (2006, a 5). The<br />
Movie Man had no problem<br />
with either actor.<br />
Cinema history is full of<br />
casting decisions that have<br />
made people scratch their<br />
heads. Most agree that<br />
there’s one colossal boo-boo<br />
that stands above the others.<br />
But, before that one,<br />
here are a few others that<br />
raised some eyebrows critically<br />
and with the general<br />
viewing public.<br />
Denise Richards, who<br />
as Woody Allen might<br />
say, “can’t write her name<br />
in the dirt with a stick,”<br />
played a (barely clad) nuclear<br />
scientist in the James<br />
Bond movie “The World Is<br />
not Enough” (1999, a 7).<br />
Sophia Coppola would go<br />
on to acclaim as directing,<br />
but her distracting turn as<br />
a Corleone in “Godfather:<br />
Part III” (1990) is about all<br />
everyone remembers from<br />
the movie.<br />
It was pretty tough to go<br />
with Sylvester Stallone as<br />
a country singer in “Rhinestone”<br />
(1984); he’s such a<br />
mumbler, he’d make a better<br />
modern-day Bob Dylan.<br />
In the superhero realm,<br />
many thought Ben Affleck<br />
was the wrong choice for<br />
“Daredevil” (2003, a 5).<br />
Could there be a weirder<br />
match for Buddha than Keanu<br />
Reeves? It happened in<br />
1993’s “Little Buddha.” He<br />
wasn’t the ideal Jonathan<br />
the GOLD<br />
STANDARD<br />
in Classifieds<br />
Every Weekend<br />
and Midweek.<br />
And only in<br />
Harker in “Bram Stoker’s<br />
Dracula” (1992) either.<br />
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”<br />
(1961) is beloved by many<br />
— not only Audrey Hepburn<br />
fans — but Mickey<br />
Rooney’s amped up stereotypical<br />
mimicking of a Japanese<br />
man is awful. Even<br />
though it came out only<br />
15 years after WWII when<br />
society was still far from<br />
being politically correct,<br />
Rooney’s buck-teeth, round<br />
glasses and ridiculous<br />
speech patterns make all<br />
of today’s viewers wince.<br />
The all-time bad runner-up<br />
must be Edgar G.<br />
Robinson as a Hebrew in<br />
the classic “The Ten Commandments”<br />
(1956). The<br />
mobster-ish delivery of,<br />
“Where’s yer God now, Moses?”<br />
is now enshrined in<br />
cinematic history.<br />
However, none of these<br />
misfires can match the<br />
casting in 1956 of “The<br />
Conqueror” that had John<br />
Wayne playing Genghis<br />
Kahn. Nobody bought that<br />
from the great cowboy.<br />
The plot (big ol’ spoilers)<br />
Detective Cross (Perry)<br />
is also a doctor who is adept<br />
in ratiocination (there,<br />
the Movie Man gave you<br />
a new word), aka logical<br />
reasoning a la Sherlock<br />
Holmes. Perry and his<br />
childhood pal Tommy (Edward<br />
Burns) work with<br />
Burns’ secret lover Monica<br />
(Rachel Nichols) as a team<br />
that solves crimes in Detroit.<br />
There’s a madman on<br />
the loose, Picasso (Matthew<br />
Fox). After two murders<br />
that include gruesome<br />
torture, the team deduces<br />
that Fox is working up a<br />
company’s hierarchy to<br />
get to the No. 1 man, Leon<br />
(Jean Reno).<br />
Fox also knows that the<br />
trio of do-gooders is on his<br />
trail. He kills Nichols and<br />
Perry’s wife. That makes<br />
the cop buddies very angry.<br />
Against the wishes of his<br />
live-in mama (Cicely Tyson),<br />
Perry heads out for<br />
revenge. The taunting elusive<br />
Fox appears to have<br />
won until Perry and Burns<br />
corner him. There’s quite<br />
the battle, and Fox is finally<br />
subdued.<br />
But then comes the<br />
hanging thread that keeps<br />
bugging the good doctor/<br />
detective. And when he figures<br />
it out, he delivers a<br />
substantial, if long range,<br />
payback.<br />
What works<br />
The Movie Man isn’t a<br />
Perry hater, and he’s not<br />
horrible in this. Scenes he<br />
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His action skills…<br />
not so much.<br />
Fox makes an impression<br />
as a crazy, bad guy; you<br />
believe he could be so evil.<br />
Starring: Tyler<br />
Perry, Matthew<br />
Fox, Edward<br />
Burns<br />
Directed by:<br />
Rob Cohen<br />
Rated PG-13:<br />
for violence,<br />
torture, sensuality,<br />
language,<br />
unintentional<br />
laughs<br />
SATURDAY<br />
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It’s a long way from “Lost.”<br />
Burns, while far distanced<br />
from the potential<br />
many thought he had back<br />
in his indie debut, “The<br />
Brothers McMullen” (which<br />
he also directed and wrote),<br />
is an amiable and appropriate<br />
sidekick.<br />
There’s a pretty tense<br />
scene by director Rob Cohen<br />
(best known for the original<br />
“The Fast and the Furious”<br />
back in 2001) where Fox<br />
has his rifle sights trained<br />
at a restaurant on both Perry<br />
and his wife. It’s just a<br />
decision to decide when to<br />
pull the trigger.<br />
Best scene<br />
Fox has calmly finished<br />
a hit, taken a cab back to<br />
his car, and is leaving the<br />
scene, apparently getting<br />
away with his nefarious<br />
deed. His invincibility and<br />
elusiveness have been well<br />
established. As he exits<br />
the parking garage, out of<br />
nowhere his vehicle is violently<br />
T-boned by Perry and<br />
Burns’ car. It’s loud and<br />
sudden and fits the idea<br />
that it takes something big<br />
to stop Fox’s monster.<br />
What doesn’t work<br />
Fox’s acting is one of the<br />
most over-the-top pieces in<br />
recent history. He lost a ton<br />
of weight, is bone thin with<br />
gross, jutting veins popping<br />
out all over his body. He<br />
glares wide-eyed constantly,<br />
and it’s hard to not laugh<br />
sometimes.<br />
There is no real feel between<br />
the characters here.<br />
Perry and Burns achieve a<br />
little, but none of Perry’s<br />
family impresses (which<br />
makes his wife’s death not<br />
that big a deal), and the<br />
scenes with his daughter<br />
after the funeral are Hallmark<br />
TV stuff.<br />
There’s a bunch of cornball<br />
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Watching the-not-exactly-svelte<br />
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while brandishing a gun is<br />
also unintentionally funny.<br />
He’s just not a macho<br />
man.<br />
“Alex Cross” was produced<br />
in part by author<br />
Patterson so he must<br />
be OK with some of it.<br />
But the movie is dank<br />
and dull; it’s anything<br />
but a potential series.<br />
A couple of scenes<br />
seem to be added simply<br />
to pad out the film<br />
— Fox’s early mixed<br />
martial arts fight that’s<br />
apparently some sort of<br />
sexy pick-up move (but<br />
it’s ridiculous) and the<br />
opening sequence where<br />
the crime fighting trio<br />
make a very goofy arrest.<br />
The rating<br />
This is a very hard PG-<br />
13. There’s some graphic<br />
torture, a scene of sensuality<br />
that pushes it, and some<br />
tough-guy bad language.<br />
It’s rated right, but it’s<br />
pretty rough.<br />
Summing up<br />
The Movie Man is not<br />
as bummed as many with<br />
“Alex Cross”; he hasn’t read<br />
the books. But as a movie,<br />
it’s flat and completely forgettable.<br />
Expect to see Madea<br />
before Dr. Cross again.<br />
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Community Focus<br />
Absolute certainty<br />
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This past Sunday I missed<br />
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Because I was scheduled<br />
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a new term for the ailment<br />
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Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER 7<br />
Community Focus<br />
FAITH BRIEFS<br />
AUTUMN TEA — St. John’s<br />
Catholic Church Parish<br />
Life Ministries will host an<br />
Autumn Tea 1 to 3 p.m.<br />
Thursday, Oct. 25, at the<br />
church, 1801 Irvin St., in<br />
Bridgeport. RSVP to (940)<br />
683-2059 or (940) 389-<br />
1194. All are welcome.<br />
GOSPEL SINGING — The<br />
District Gospel Singing<br />
Convention is 6 p.m.<br />
Friday, Oct. 26, and 10<br />
a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at<br />
the First United Methodist<br />
Church in Decatur. This<br />
is a non-denominational,<br />
old-fashioned shape<br />
note singing where all<br />
are welcome. For more<br />
information, call Blake Boyd<br />
at (817) 874-1937.<br />
FALL PANCAKES — Morris<br />
ALVORD<br />
OUTH BASKETBALL<br />
Registration is under way<br />
or Alvord Youth Basketball,<br />
rades one through six.<br />
orms are available at the<br />
junior high and elementary<br />
offices. Deadline is Friday,<br />
Oct. 26. For information,<br />
contact Charlotte at (940)<br />
389-5441 or alvordsports@<br />
hotmail.com.<br />
HAUNTED HOUSE — Alvord<br />
Project Graduation Class<br />
of 2013 Haunted House is<br />
6:30 to 11 p.m. Saturday,<br />
Oct. 27, and 6:30 to 10 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the<br />
old Alvord Middle School,<br />
behind Alvord Express.<br />
Admission is $5.<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
FALL FESTIVAL AT CARE —<br />
The 2nd Annual Fall Festival<br />
at the Center for Animal<br />
Research and Education<br />
(CARE) is Oct. 27 and 28<br />
and Nov. 3 and 4. Tours will<br />
start at noon and 3 p.m.<br />
each day. Visitors are invited<br />
to come out an hour earlier<br />
to participate in games, arts<br />
and crafts, refreshments,<br />
treats and a raffle. During<br />
the tour, visitors will be able<br />
to give presents and treats<br />
to the animals. The center<br />
asks for a $20 donation for<br />
adults and $10 for children<br />
under 12. Raffle tickets<br />
are $5 each. For more<br />
information, visit www.<br />
bigcatcare.org.<br />
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL — A<br />
candlelight vigil in honor<br />
of domestic violence<br />
victims and survivors is 7<br />
p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, at<br />
Harwood Park in Bridgeport.<br />
The event is hosted by <strong>Wise</strong><br />
Hope Shelter and Crisis<br />
Center. Candles will be<br />
provided, and attendees are<br />
encouraged to wear purple.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(940) 626-4585.<br />
COSTUME PARADE — Suit<br />
Up and Say Boo costume<br />
parade and trick or treating<br />
Absolute certainty ...<br />
Continued from page 6<br />
holds the world together.<br />
God does that.<br />
There are also uncertainties<br />
that are not so obvious.<br />
James 4:13-15 says, “Now<br />
listen, you who say, ’Today<br />
or tomorrow we will go to<br />
this or that city, spend a<br />
year there, carry on business<br />
and make money.’ Why,<br />
you do not even know what<br />
will happen tomorrow. What<br />
is your life? You are a mist<br />
Memorial United Methodist<br />
Church of Chico will have<br />
a fall bazaar and pancake<br />
breakfast starting at 7<br />
a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27.<br />
The bazaar includes crafts,<br />
gift baskets, homemade<br />
baked goods and a<br />
giveaway of a 39-inch flat<br />
screen television. Cost of<br />
the breakfast, cooked by<br />
the Chico Dough Boys, is<br />
$5 for adults and $3 for<br />
children 10 and under. The<br />
church is located at 302 S.<br />
Weatherford St.<br />
TRUNK OR TREAT — First<br />
United Methodist Church<br />
Decatur will host a Trunk or<br />
Treat 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct.<br />
27. All are welcome.<br />
FALL FEST — First Baptist<br />
Church of Chico will<br />
that appears for a little<br />
while and then vanishes.<br />
Instead, you ought to say, ‘If<br />
it is the Lord’s will, we will<br />
live and do this or that.’”<br />
There is nothing wrong<br />
with making plans. But<br />
what do you do when the<br />
life you planned doesn’t<br />
happen?<br />
The answer is the same.<br />
Trust God. Your life matters<br />
to Him.<br />
You can be certain about<br />
that.<br />
host a Fall Fest for all<br />
community children 6 to<br />
9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.<br />
31. The free, safe event<br />
will be in the north parking<br />
lot of the church and will<br />
include Trunk or Treat, face<br />
painting, ring toss, a bounce<br />
house, cupcake walk and<br />
hot dogs.<br />
TRUNK OR TREAT — First<br />
United Methodist Church<br />
of Bridgeport will host a<br />
Trunk or Treat 5 to 7 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the<br />
Bridgeport Middle School<br />
parking lot. There will<br />
be trick or treating, face<br />
painting, games, a cake<br />
walk, hay ride and bounce<br />
house.<br />
FALL FEST — First Baptist<br />
Bridgeport will host a Family<br />
NEWS BRIEFS<br />
is Wednesday, Oct. 31, down<br />
Halsell Street. Participants<br />
will meet at the Duckwall’s<br />
parking lot at 5 p.m. For<br />
more information, call (940)<br />
683-3400.<br />
HOLIDAY BAZAAR — North<br />
Texas Community Hospital<br />
Auxiliary’s Holiday Bazaar<br />
and Fundraiser is 9 a.m. to<br />
4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in<br />
the hospital lobby. Proceeds<br />
benefit the scholarship fund.<br />
Merchants interested in a<br />
booth may call Marti Hines<br />
at (940)626-9455.<br />
BENEFIT ACCOUNT —<br />
Donations to a benefit<br />
account for Kayla Morrow<br />
Nichols, 41, of Bridgeport<br />
can be made at any First<br />
Financial Bank. Nichols has<br />
been in a coma since Aug.<br />
5.<br />
CHICO<br />
SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS —<br />
Chico Spirit of Christmas<br />
applications are available at<br />
Chico Elementary and First<br />
State Bank in Chico. They<br />
must be returned by Nov. 2.<br />
DECATUR<br />
GOLF TOURNAMENT<br />
— The 3rd Annual DHS Golf<br />
Booster Club Tournament<br />
is Saturday, Oct. 27, at The<br />
Resort Golf Club at Eagle<br />
Mountain Lake. Registration<br />
is at 10 a.m., and the<br />
tournament begins at 1 p.m.<br />
Cost to enter the four-person<br />
scramble is $320, which<br />
includes lunch, goody bags<br />
and door prizes. The event<br />
benefits the Decatur High<br />
School boys and girls golf<br />
teams. For more information,<br />
call Andrew Rottner at (817)<br />
980-8131 or Steve Jones at<br />
(940) 399-9465.<br />
FALL FESTIVAL —<br />
Governor’s Ridge Retirement<br />
and Assisted Living will host<br />
an indoor fall festival 6 to 8<br />
p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, at<br />
300 E. Deveraux in Decatur.<br />
Attendants are encouraged<br />
to wear costumes. There will<br />
be food, games, candy and<br />
prizes.<br />
VACCINES FOR CHILDREN<br />
— The Texas Department<br />
of State Health Services<br />
(TDSHS) is having a<br />
vaccination clinic 9:30<br />
to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 3<br />
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at<br />
the First United Methodist<br />
Church fellowship hall,<br />
104 S. Miller, in Decatur. A<br />
parent must be present and<br />
have the child’s shot record<br />
with them. Payment is on a<br />
sliding fee scale. For more<br />
information, call the TDSHS<br />
office in Gainesville at (940)<br />
665-6397.<br />
Fun Fall Fest 6:30 to 8<br />
p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31,<br />
in the Family Life Center.<br />
Attendants are asked to<br />
wear their costumes. There<br />
will be games, prizes, candy,<br />
food and drinks. For more<br />
information, call (940)<br />
683-4037 or visit www.<br />
fbcbridgeport.com.<br />
FAMILY CRUSADE — Bethel<br />
Baptist Church in Alvord<br />
will host a family crusade<br />
with 2Talk42 ventriloquism,<br />
puppetry and drama<br />
ministries 6:30 p.m. Sunday<br />
Nov. 4, and 7 p.m. Monday<br />
through Wednesday, Nov.<br />
5-7. The free event at 133<br />
CR 2673 includes nightly<br />
prizes and songs. For more<br />
information, call (940) 427-<br />
2522.<br />
PARADISE<br />
FALL FEST — The Paradise<br />
PTO Fall Fest is 5:30 to 9<br />
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at<br />
Paradise Elementary School.<br />
There will be food, games,<br />
bingo, hayrides and a silent<br />
auction.<br />
CHAMBER MEETING<br />
— The Paradise Chamber<br />
of Commerce will have<br />
its board meeting at noon<br />
Thursday, Oct. 25, at the<br />
Bridgeport Country Club.<br />
All members are asked to<br />
attend.<br />
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THANKSGIVING DINNER<br />
— The First United<br />
Methodist Church of<br />
Bridgeport will host its<br />
Thanksgiving dinner 5 to<br />
8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7,<br />
at Bridgeport High School,<br />
in the Commons. Advance<br />
tickets are $7 for adults<br />
and $4 for children ages 5<br />
to 10. Tickets can also be<br />
purchased at the door for<br />
$8 and $5, respectively.<br />
Kids age 4 and younger eat<br />
free. Meals are available<br />
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8 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Youth & Education<br />
HONOR ROLLS<br />
Boyd Elementary School<br />
First Six Weeks<br />
A Honor Roll<br />
Second grade — Kayla<br />
Adams, Carly Barton, Darius<br />
Brooks, Kasi Bunch,<br />
Prestyn Cearley, Breana<br />
Clark, Chase Eustace, Eben<br />
Flack, Leif Fullbright, Cora<br />
Hardy, Ava Harris, Aubrey<br />
Haynes, Jonathan Joy, Hannah<br />
Levingston, Lane Medlock,<br />
Karsyn Myers, Dustin<br />
Polone, William Smith, Wyatt<br />
Spivey, Dalen Taff, Kegan<br />
Trundle, Kati Vess and<br />
Stetson Wilson.<br />
Third grade — Marco<br />
Baeza, Kiersten Blake,<br />
Madison Bowen, Cy Ferguson,<br />
Kylie Lacaze, Rendyn<br />
Lamance, Dalton Medlock,<br />
Mason Montez, Dane Myers,<br />
Noah Richardson, Sethian<br />
Sanchez, Reagan Shepherd,<br />
Ethan Stump, Macie Troxell,<br />
Tristan Warnell and<br />
Austin Young.<br />
A/B Honor Roll<br />
Second grade — Kylie<br />
Anderson, Andres Arellano,<br />
Sheleah Bagwell, Ashton<br />
Beadle, Lewis Bright,<br />
Garyn Bullard, Case Ferguson,<br />
Enoch Frame, Cyrus<br />
Gaither, Lizeth Garcia, Cadin<br />
Graham, Caitlyn Hardy,<br />
Slade Henke, Rebecca<br />
Hurst, RayAnn Johnnene,<br />
Bailee Lane, Aidan Lemasters,<br />
Preston Long, Naideline<br />
Lopez-Ramirez, Delta<br />
Martin, Sarah Mayhue,<br />
Giovanni Moore, Michelle<br />
Muro, Josephine Naranjo,<br />
Jesse Nelson, Michael<br />
Nelson, Renata Nunes<br />
Da Rosa, Matthew Reid,<br />
Hayden Rosier, Emma<br />
Samuels, Kailey Santos,<br />
Grayson Taff and Brandon<br />
Weatherway.<br />
Third grade — Edwin<br />
Alcivar, Iethan Bagwell,<br />
Steven Bernard, McCain<br />
Cantrell, Kalee Davis,<br />
Paola Duran, Ally Evans,<br />
Aaron Fite, Nina Flack,<br />
Callan Furgerson, Tiffany<br />
Galttana, Ogden Garcia,<br />
Haley Gaught, Autumn<br />
Hays, Kylie Hays, Amaya<br />
Hopkins, Valiant Horton,<br />
Christopher Kacala, Emylie<br />
Luttrell, Jacob Lytle,<br />
Ashtyn Orr, Makynzie<br />
Pappajohn, Giselle Patiño,<br />
Brayden Pennington, Benjamen<br />
Petty, Jacye Rasbury,<br />
Yasmin Silva, Makenzie<br />
Styles, Ryder Totty,<br />
Jordan Troutman, Brian<br />
Wade, Annastasia Williams<br />
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Boyd Intermediate<br />
School<br />
First Six Weeks<br />
A Honor Roll<br />
Fourth grade — Carli<br />
Anderson, Regan Barber,<br />
Melanie Byrd, Cayden<br />
Cates, Jacob Hill, Dillon Inman,<br />
Cian Lane, Jesse Long,<br />
Veronica Perry, Hayden<br />
Stone and Naida Uribe.<br />
Fifth grade — Alex Bracey,<br />
Emma Clark, Jessica<br />
Crohan, Isaac Day, Nelly<br />
Duran, Zion Estes, Katie<br />
Holmes, Dejai Love, Marti<br />
Luttrell, Rebeca Rodriguez<br />
and Dalton Westray.<br />
Sixth grade — Aubrey<br />
Cates-Parr, Melissa Crenshaw,<br />
Mandy Crooks, Austin<br />
Eustace, Bailey Gaught,<br />
Jasmine Hammett, Abby<br />
Hays, Maile Hopkins, Ashley<br />
Kosman, Tristan LeMasters,<br />
Carson Lira, Randal<br />
Long, William Lumpkin,<br />
John McCurdy, Austin<br />
Moles, Connor Richardson,<br />
Kody Risenhoover, Blake<br />
Rodgers, Jordan Salmon,<br />
Meagan Terry and Ashlyn<br />
Williams.<br />
A/B Honor Roll<br />
Fourth grade — Andrea<br />
Acosta, Darien Adams,<br />
D’Laynee Allison, Hector<br />
Almanza-Ortiz, Mathew<br />
Andrews, Benjamin Blosser,<br />
Grace Brojanowski, Joshua<br />
Burgess, Destini Chafer, Kearstin<br />
Criz, Paulo de Oliveira,<br />
Rustyn Ellis, Hayden<br />
Etter, McKenzie Eustace,<br />
Matthew Ford, Kevin Gutierrez,<br />
Sierrah Hazelmyer,<br />
Brendon Herring, Braedon<br />
Hopkins, Mycalia Loya, Ty<br />
Lumpkin, Logan McCormick,<br />
Ana Gomez, Jessica<br />
Hatley, Paden Nations, Jessie<br />
Nelson, Railey Pegues,<br />
J.T. Ray, John Raynor, Emily<br />
Romero, Quinn Samuels,<br />
Continued on page 9<br />
UNINTENDED<br />
CONSEQUENCES<br />
According to the latest government report, more than one-third (37.1%)<br />
of U.S. pregnancies are unintended and slightly higher than the rate<br />
(36.5%) of unintended pregnancies in 1982. These statistics show that<br />
not much has changed, which is very unfortunate because unintended<br />
pregnancies are related to social, economic, and health consequences<br />
for both mothers and their children. Women who become pregnant<br />
unintentionally are more likely to delay prenatal care, smoke, and not<br />
breast-feed, and their children are more likely to experience poorer<br />
health during childhood. With these and other outcomes in mind,<br />
women are strongly encouraged to make conscious decisions related<br />
to their sexual and childbearing responsibilities. Pregnancy and<br />
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Whether you’re pregnant for the first time or are expecting the latest<br />
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P.S. Unintended pregnancies include those that are both unwanted and<br />
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Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER 9<br />
Youth & Education<br />
HONOR ROLLS<br />
Boyd Middle School<br />
First Six Weeks<br />
A Honor Roll<br />
Seventh grade — Cheynne<br />
Burch, Abigail Crohan,<br />
ristin Rasbury, Thomas<br />
ilson and Wyatt Walker.<br />
Eighth grade — Elizaeth<br />
Bryans, Jennifer Byrd,<br />
eyton Gittings, Claudia<br />
ira, Brenden Prentice, Sarah<br />
Terry and Taylor Wetsel.<br />
A/B Honor Roll<br />
Seventh grade — David<br />
Anderson, Joaquin Angel,<br />
Kali Bunch, Nolan Clark,<br />
Lee Crohan, Cheyenne Dodson,<br />
Hailey Dorsett, Jacob<br />
Faust, Gabriel Gauna, Nash<br />
Goldberg, James Hines,<br />
Randall Kelton, Cody Lawson,<br />
Tina Le, Trevor Lester,<br />
Justin McCarmack, Macey<br />
McCune, Kyelynn Miller,<br />
Cruz Montes, Dawson<br />
Moore, James Moran, Tyler<br />
Noel, Robert Ransom, Sara<br />
Renfro, Kaylee Rutledge,<br />
Leonel Salas-Montelongo,<br />
Shelby Stone, Marc Trammel<br />
and Alejandro Vazquez.<br />
Eighth grade — Hector<br />
Alcivar, Willie Bean, Gregory<br />
Brown, Hannah Cherryhomes,<br />
Dalton Cooper, Dee<br />
Elkins, Jesus Gonzalez, Taylor<br />
Hensley, Perry Hicks, Reece<br />
Jordan, Robert Loucks,<br />
Brittany Madrid, Brianna<br />
Martin, Jeremy McBride,<br />
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Abby Donahue, Hunter<br />
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Hammons, Dylan Hester,<br />
Adamari Huerta, Macey<br />
Jones, Eli King, Christopher<br />
Lopez, Cody Lowe,<br />
Ariel Martinez, Rylee Matthews,<br />
Jace Mattison, Nathan<br />
Moreno, Caroline Mosley,<br />
Tatum Murphey, Candy<br />
Nieto, Erin Penny, Celeste<br />
Perez, Brendon Rice, Mackenzie<br />
Richards, Jakson Rodgers,<br />
Nelly Rodriguez, Aaron<br />
Rushing, Devin Sherman,<br />
Meredith Shults, James<br />
Taylor, Zoe Tenhet, Zane<br />
Thrasher, Fosten Wade, Levi<br />
Walters, Gavin Wendt, Leah<br />
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Blaylock, Kylie Buckner,<br />
Jimi Caldera, Cole Cavasos,<br />
Haley Chance, Hailey<br />
Copen, Jaden Coston, Madeline<br />
Cox, Nathaniel Davie,<br />
Camryn Evans, Ethan<br />
Hines, Hunter Huggins,<br />
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Kaydence Ooten, Piper<br />
Ough, Dylan Padron, Kaylee<br />
Peterson, Brady Quarles,<br />
Ryan Roudon, Ethan Sternadel,<br />
Jule Tenhet, Caden<br />
Thomas and Carson Wicker.<br />
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Ashmore, Kamri Bronniman,<br />
Mason Clark, Hayden<br />
Copen, Sarah Culpepper,<br />
Chris DuBois, Emma Duvall,<br />
Lindsay Gogniat, Tyler<br />
Hammer, Sam Hopper, Clarissa<br />
Martinez, Aiden Matthews,<br />
Sela Ochoa, Meagan<br />
Penny, Maebry Petty, Tanner<br />
Scroggins, Reid Terrell,<br />
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Lira, Victoria McElhaney,<br />
Katelyn Rhoades,<br />
Spencer Rodgers, Anglina<br />
Sprague, Sterling Taylor,<br />
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Rayner Lee, Adam Leon,<br />
Devon Mancilla, Carie<br />
Meek and J. J. Watson.<br />
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Allsup, Landen Brazier,<br />
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Abigail Escobedo,<br />
Iker Garcia, Kyndale Gilmore,<br />
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Sara Little, Omar<br />
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Nicholas Harper, Cassidy<br />
Hartsock, Brady Hastings,<br />
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Carpenter, Ryan Charlton,<br />
Clayton Christian, Belle Edgar,<br />
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Continued from page 8<br />
Kyndal Scroggins, Andrez<br />
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Daniel Stone, Clayton Tucker,<br />
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10 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Community Focus<br />
Thinking beyond pumpkin pie<br />
By TANYA DAVIS<br />
It’s fall and thoughts turn<br />
o pumpkins and Hallowen<br />
jack-o-lanterns. Young<br />
hildren can enjoy creating<br />
jack-o-lanterns by drawing<br />
the eyes and mouth on<br />
the pumpkin with markers,<br />
then the pumpkin is still<br />
safe for eating later.<br />
We usually think of using<br />
the pumpkin for pie,<br />
but there are many other<br />
recipes with pumpkin that<br />
are great this time of year<br />
and also serve as an excellent<br />
source of nutrients. The<br />
bright orange color of pumpkin<br />
is a dead giveaway that<br />
pumpkin is loaded with an<br />
i m p o r t a n t<br />
antioxidant,<br />
beta-carotene,<br />
that<br />
offers protection<br />
against<br />
heart disease.<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> In order<br />
Notes for to prepare<br />
Consumers<br />
the pumpkin<br />
for use in<br />
recipes, first<br />
work on a clean surface. Before<br />
cutting, wash the outer<br />
surface of the pumpkin thoroughly<br />
with cool tap water<br />
to remove any surface dirt<br />
that could be transferred to<br />
the inside of the pumpkin<br />
during cutting.<br />
Start by removing the<br />
stem with a sharp knife.<br />
Next, cut in half. In any case,<br />
remove the stem, scoop out<br />
the seeds and scrape away<br />
all of the stringy mass. It’s<br />
a messy job, but it will pay<br />
off. The pumpkin should be<br />
cooked in one of three ways<br />
— boiled, baked in an oven<br />
or cooked in a microwave.<br />
To boil/steam: Cut the<br />
pumpkin into rather large<br />
chunks. Rinse in cold water.<br />
Place pieces in a large pot<br />
with about a cup of water.<br />
The water does not need to<br />
cover the pumpkin pieces.<br />
Cover the pot and boil 20 to<br />
30 minutes or until tender,<br />
or steam 10 to 12 minutes.<br />
Check for doneness by poking<br />
with a fork. Drain the<br />
cooked pumpkin in a colander.<br />
To bake in the oven: Cut<br />
the pumpkin in half, scraping<br />
away stringy mass and<br />
seeds. Rinse under cold<br />
water. Place pumpkin, cut<br />
side down on a large cookie<br />
sheet. Bake at 350 degrees<br />
for one hour or until fork<br />
tender.<br />
To cook in the microwave:<br />
Cut the pumpkin in half,<br />
place cut side down on a<br />
microwave safe plate or<br />
tray. Microwave on high for<br />
15 minutes, check for doneness.<br />
If necessary, continue<br />
cooking at 1-2 minute intervals<br />
until fork tender.<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Complete the Sudoku grid so that each row,<br />
each column, and each 3 by 3 box contains<br />
the numbers 1 through 9. Numbers cannot<br />
be duplicated in a row or a column.<br />
PFC.CHRISTOPHER TATE<br />
MILITARY BRIEFS<br />
BOOT CAMP GRADUATE<br />
Pfc. Christopher Tate, 19,<br />
son of Chris and Jody Carter<br />
of Decatur, graduated from<br />
United States Marine Corps<br />
boot camp Oct. 5 at its<br />
recruit depot in San Diego,<br />
Calif.<br />
Tate completed 13 weeks<br />
of intensive basic training<br />
as one of 83 recruits in the<br />
Hotel Company Training<br />
Platoon 2165. He served<br />
as platoon squad leader<br />
and was one of six men<br />
meritously promoted to<br />
private first class within his<br />
platoon.<br />
Following 10 days home on<br />
leave, he will report to Camp<br />
Pendleton for one month of<br />
military combat training then<br />
attend Military Occupation<br />
Specialty School.<br />
Tate is a 2011 graduate of<br />
Decatur High School.<br />
ANDREWS COMPLETES AIR<br />
FORCE BASIC TRAINING<br />
Airman Melana J. Andrews<br />
graduated from basic<br />
military training with honors<br />
at Lackland Air Force Base<br />
in San Antonio.<br />
Andrews completed<br />
an intensive, eight-week<br />
program that included<br />
training in military discipline<br />
and studies, U.S. Air Force<br />
core values, physical fitness<br />
and basic welfare warfare<br />
principles and skills.<br />
Airmen who complete<br />
basic training earn four<br />
credit hours toward an<br />
associates in applied<br />
science degree through the<br />
Community College of the<br />
Air Force.<br />
Andrews is the daughter of<br />
Crystal Smith of Axtrell and<br />
Jeff Andrews of Decatur, She<br />
is a 2010 graduate of Axtell<br />
High School.<br />
NEWS BRIEFS<br />
Continued from page 7<br />
CHAMBER LUNCH — The<br />
Paradise Chamber of<br />
Commerce luncheon is<br />
noon, Thursday, Nov. 5, at<br />
Paradise City Hall. Sheriff<br />
David Walker will speak.<br />
RHOME<br />
FOOD DRIVE — South<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> Spirit of Christmas<br />
volunteers are collecting<br />
canned goods for needy<br />
families. Items can be<br />
dropped off at the Rhome<br />
City Hall and the Wells<br />
Fargo and Woodhaven<br />
banks in Rhome.<br />
SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS<br />
— Applications are now<br />
available at the Rhome<br />
City Hall, 105 W. First<br />
St., for South <strong>Wise</strong> Spirit<br />
of Christmas donations.<br />
Applications are due Nov.<br />
12. The South <strong>Wise</strong> Spirit<br />
of Christmas program<br />
buys Christmas toys for<br />
disadvantaged children in<br />
the Rhome, Aurora and New<br />
Fairview areas along with<br />
the entire 76078 zip code.<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br />
— The <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Historical Society meets<br />
noon Thursday, Oct. 25, at<br />
the <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Heritage<br />
Museum. Penny Nixon<br />
with Texas Parks and<br />
Wildlife will speak on how<br />
to recognize antiquities in<br />
RANDYWILLIAMS<br />
items of nature.<br />
CALENDARS FOR<br />
SALE — <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Special Needs Baseball<br />
representatives will sell<br />
2013 (16-month) calendars<br />
10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday,<br />
Oct. 26, at Citibank in<br />
Decatur. The calendars<br />
feature artwork from local<br />
special needs individuals,<br />
Continued on page 11<br />
Halloween Fun!<br />
Pumpkin Carving/Decorating<br />
at Cottondale Grocery,<br />
Sunday, Oct. 28<br />
Starting at 5 p.m. Wear your costume<br />
and join the fun<br />
Bar-B-Q • Treats • Prizes<br />
Bring your pumpkin or buy one here • Cash prizes for kids under 12<br />
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Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER 11<br />
Youth & Education<br />
Submitted photo<br />
OUTSTANDING TEACHER — Northwest High School<br />
government teacher Charles Cooper (second from right) was<br />
presented a plaque and $5,000 cash award for receiving the<br />
2012 Outstanding Teaching of Humanities Award. Pictured<br />
(left to right) are Joy Ann Havran, Humanities Texas board<br />
member; Liz James, coordinator of educational programs at<br />
Humanities Texas; Chandler Cochran, field representative<br />
for Sen. Jane Nelson; Cooper; and Jason Childress, NHS<br />
principal.<br />
NEWS BRIEFS<br />
Continued from page 10<br />
and all funds raised will<br />
go to build a Miracle<br />
League baseball field to<br />
accommodate all players<br />
regardless of disability.<br />
ZUMBA FUNDRAISER<br />
— <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Special<br />
Needs Baseball is hosting a<br />
zumba fitness Dance for the<br />
Field Halloween fundraiser<br />
5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct.<br />
27, at the Decatur ISD<br />
Multipurpose Building,<br />
1201 W. Thompson St. The<br />
event is hosted by zumba<br />
instructor Simon Kao, and<br />
there will be a costume<br />
judging with cash prizes,<br />
raffles, T-shirts and more.<br />
Tickets are $12 at the door,<br />
$10 in advance. For more<br />
information, call (940)<br />
577-1848. All funds raised<br />
will go to build a Miracle<br />
League baseball field to<br />
accommodate all players<br />
regardless of disability.<br />
HABITAT ORIENTATION —<br />
Trinity Habitat for Humanity<br />
will have homeowner<br />
orientation 10 a.m.<br />
Saturday, Nov. 3, at the<br />
First United Methodist<br />
Church in Bridgeport, 608<br />
17th St. Those interested in<br />
building and owning a home<br />
through the organization<br />
are welcome to attend the<br />
meeting. For information,<br />
visit www.trinityhabitat.<br />
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ext. 116.<br />
NORTHWEST ISD<br />
SCHOOL DEDICATION<br />
— The Northwest<br />
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Michael Bull<br />
US Hwy. 287 South • Decatur, Texas • 940-627-1101
12 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Crime Stoppers of <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> and <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s Office<br />
want you to be aware<br />
WHERE SEX<br />
OFFENDERS<br />
RESIDE IN<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
WE NEED YOUR HELP!<br />
Sergeant Harlon Wright is the Sex Offender Registrar countywide. If you<br />
know of any information that has changed regarding any <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Sex Offender, or if you have any questions regarding a particular Sex<br />
Offender, please contact 940-627-5971, ext. 239, or email<br />
wrighth@sheriff.co.wise.tx.us<br />
ALVORD<br />
Brought to you by:<br />
Crime Stoppers of<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
and<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Sheriff’s Office<br />
David Walker, Sheriff<br />
All <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sex Offenders are listed<br />
(except for those who are currently<br />
incarcerated or who are prohibited by law from<br />
being listed). For a complete list, go to www.<br />
sheriff.co.wise.tx.us. The information provided<br />
is true and correct as of Wednesday, Oct. 24,<br />
2012.<br />
AZLE<br />
Christopher<br />
Michael<br />
Green<br />
1157 West<br />
Bypass US<br />
Hwy 287,<br />
Room #208,<br />
Alvord<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 6,<br />
Female<br />
Terry Lee<br />
McElroy<br />
413 PR 2698,<br />
Alvord<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim Age 9,<br />
Female<br />
Terry Mack<br />
Pearson<br />
251<br />
Rollingwood<br />
Rd., Alvord<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim Age 5,<br />
Female<br />
James<br />
Michael<br />
Goodale<br />
507 School<br />
Oaks Rd.,<br />
Alvord<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault,<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
with a Child<br />
(Out of State<br />
- Maine) •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Thomas Roy<br />
Fowler<br />
507 School<br />
Oaks Rd.,<br />
Alvord<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victim age 4,<br />
Female<br />
Jody Dan<br />
Freeman<br />
410 N. FM<br />
1655, Alvord<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
19, Female<br />
Robert Jo<br />
Fischer<br />
7616 Briar Rd,<br />
Azle<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
4 and 9, Male<br />
and Female<br />
AZLE<br />
BOYD<br />
Kenneth<br />
Michael Riggs<br />
143 PR 4862,<br />
Azle<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child<br />
(Solicitation<br />
to Commit) •<br />
Victim age 15,<br />
Female<br />
Willard<br />
Norwood<br />
299 CR 4896,<br />
Azle<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
51, Female<br />
Ryli Dawn<br />
Richardson<br />
1815 CR<br />
4698, Boyd<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child by<br />
Exposure X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
15, Male<br />
Roger Dale<br />
Smith<br />
8114 FM 51<br />
South, Boyd<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
13, Female<br />
Troy Eugene<br />
Gregston<br />
2019 FM<br />
2048, Boyd<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
David Wayne<br />
Bohannan<br />
390 CR 4591,<br />
Boyd<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
27, Female<br />
Franklin Allan<br />
Hatten<br />
201 Brighton<br />
Oaks Dr., Boyd<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact X3<br />
• Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victims ages 8,<br />
9, 9, 9, Male<br />
BOYD<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
William<br />
Edward<br />
Leclair<br />
2471 E. Hwy.<br />
114, Lot #55,<br />
Boyd<br />
Unlawful Sex<br />
Intercourse<br />
(Out of State,<br />
DE) • Victim<br />
age 13,<br />
Female<br />
Dennis Neal<br />
Jaynes<br />
160 CR 4692,<br />
Boyd<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Christina<br />
Marie<br />
Massengill<br />
1123 CR<br />
4764, Boyd<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 6,<br />
Female<br />
Cody Ray<br />
Spicer<br />
10530 S. FM<br />
730, Boyd<br />
Sexual Act with<br />
Child Under<br />
16/Military X2<br />
• Victims ages<br />
15, Female<br />
David Wayne<br />
Thorn<br />
2471 E. Hwy.<br />
114, Boyd<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
29, Female<br />
Julio Angelo<br />
Ortega<br />
1542 Cuba<br />
Rd., Bridgeport<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age 6,<br />
Female<br />
Daniel Eugene<br />
Abney<br />
1446 CR<br />
3424,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
Tommy Carl<br />
Pendergrass<br />
156 CR 3203,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Female<br />
Dickie Jay<br />
Read<br />
1024 CR<br />
3225,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Male<br />
Emilio G.<br />
Rodriguez<br />
1708 Cates<br />
St., Bridgeport<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Female<br />
Galelama<br />
Julian Butcher<br />
III<br />
135 PR 1512,<br />
Lot # 9,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault,<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victims ages<br />
13 and 16,<br />
Female<br />
Michael Ray<br />
Wall<br />
2525<br />
Hwy. 101,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
(Out of State<br />
Conviction) •<br />
Victim age 11,<br />
Female<br />
Mark Allen<br />
Cooke<br />
196 CR 3203,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 2,<br />
Male<br />
David Richard<br />
Horn<br />
203 Bartlett<br />
Ct., Runaway<br />
Bay<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
CHICO<br />
James Luther<br />
Hill<br />
1504 Irvin St.,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Female<br />
Russell Alan<br />
Bonham<br />
247 Lake St.<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child,<br />
Attempted •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Steven Dale<br />
Chavez<br />
264 CR 2630,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
Bobby Ray<br />
Winebrinner<br />
522 Lakewood<br />
Cr., Bridgeport<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 11,<br />
Female<br />
Stanton Clay<br />
McVey<br />
3352 S.<br />
Hwy. 101,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Female<br />
Harold Ray<br />
Davis<br />
124 PR 3209,<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Exposure X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
6 and 11 •<br />
Female<br />
Rickie Lynn<br />
Fisher<br />
2644 FM<br />
2127, Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
CHICO<br />
Dale Joseph<br />
Kimpton<br />
307 CR 1750,<br />
Chico<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
Weldon<br />
Eugene<br />
Wheatley<br />
815 CR 1860,<br />
Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child<br />
X2 • Victims<br />
ages 10 and<br />
8 • Male and<br />
Female<br />
William Floyd<br />
Bensley<br />
1638 FM<br />
2127, Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Female<br />
Warren Ray<br />
Sosa<br />
1026 FM<br />
2952, Chico<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Female<br />
Raymond Troy<br />
Tiller<br />
939 N. Hwy.<br />
101, Chico<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Female<br />
Darrell Wesley<br />
Mercier<br />
1638 FM<br />
2217, Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age 6,<br />
Female<br />
Caroline<br />
Marie Bilyeu<br />
2384 FM<br />
2265, Chico<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
4, Female<br />
CHICO<br />
William Keith<br />
Begley<br />
131 PR 1774,<br />
Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Kidnapping,<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
27, Female<br />
Johnny Milton<br />
Monroe<br />
2016 N. Hwy.<br />
101, Chico<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
29, Female<br />
Ronald<br />
Eugene<br />
McMurley<br />
468 CR 1637,<br />
Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
12, Female<br />
James<br />
Matthew<br />
McGaha<br />
1300 CR<br />
1550, Chico<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
James Carl<br />
Stachan Jr.<br />
1373 CR<br />
1560, Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age 3,<br />
Male<br />
Brian Lee<br />
Bartoo<br />
3862 FM<br />
1810, Chico<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
James Edward<br />
Woods<br />
107 W.<br />
Kentucky St.,<br />
#B, Chico<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victom age 6,<br />
Male<br />
CHICO<br />
DECATUR<br />
Travis Tyler<br />
Bigham<br />
724 CR 1749,<br />
Chico<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Female<br />
William<br />
Robert Bell<br />
1373 CR<br />
1560 Chico<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Female<br />
Terry Lee<br />
Chester<br />
354 CR 4196,<br />
Decatur<br />
Online<br />
Solicitation of<br />
a Minor, Sexual<br />
Contact<br />
Tomas Lee<br />
Bosque<br />
201 Hwy. 287,<br />
Room #29,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
Max Harlon<br />
Reeves<br />
183 CR 4219,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Female<br />
Jimmy David<br />
Brazile<br />
160 CR 3051,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
X3 • Victims<br />
ages 16,<br />
Female<br />
Roger Martin<br />
Lockard<br />
564 CR 4004,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
X11 • Victims<br />
ages 11,<br />
Female
Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER 13<br />
DECATUR<br />
Kelly Jean<br />
Young<br />
(Bramlett)<br />
2808 S.<br />
Garland,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
X2 • Victims<br />
ages 10 and<br />
3, Female<br />
Ronald Wayne<br />
Stalkup<br />
609<br />
Valleyridge Ct.,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Tommy Glenn<br />
Cave<br />
8525 N. FM<br />
51, Decatur<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
Terry Olan<br />
Eakman<br />
359 CR 4470,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
14, Female<br />
Robert Kyle<br />
Holt<br />
7342 N. FM<br />
51, Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child<br />
(Out of State<br />
Conviction -<br />
CO) • Victim<br />
age 15,<br />
Female<br />
Daniel Patrick<br />
Gragg<br />
901 N.<br />
Washburn,<br />
Decatur<br />
Possession/<br />
Promotion<br />
of Child<br />
Pornography •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Larry Dan<br />
Green<br />
297 Lonetree<br />
Ln, Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
(Attempt to<br />
Commit) •<br />
Victim age 17,<br />
Female<br />
DECATUR<br />
DECATUR<br />
Bobby Ray<br />
Vega<br />
170 Clover Ln,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 15,<br />
Female<br />
Danny R. Sims<br />
1849 CR<br />
4127, Decatur<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Male<br />
Richard<br />
Ronnie Spears<br />
269 CR 1111,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 11,<br />
Female<br />
Joshua Scott<br />
Gripp<br />
3101 S. Murvil<br />
St., Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
HASLET<br />
Patrick Wayne<br />
Lee<br />
1350 Hwy. N.<br />
287 #120,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
X3 • Victims<br />
ages 15,<br />
Female<br />
Steve Lee<br />
William<br />
178<br />
Ponderview,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
(Out of State<br />
Convition - OH)<br />
• Victim age<br />
12, Female<br />
Harley Lloyd<br />
Bowles Sr.<br />
348 PR 2356,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact X3 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
14, Female<br />
NEWARK<br />
NEWARK<br />
Jill Veronica<br />
Thomas<br />
538 CR 3250,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Male<br />
Jeffery<br />
Michael<br />
Oldenburg<br />
1417 Hidden<br />
Spring,<br />
Decatur<br />
(Out of State<br />
Conviction -<br />
MN) • Victim<br />
age 16,<br />
Female<br />
Cecil Wayne<br />
Dawson<br />
1613 Old<br />
Denton Hwy.,<br />
Decatur<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victim age 3,<br />
Female<br />
Mark Dewayne<br />
Jackson<br />
809 CR 2650,<br />
Decatur<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
Mark Allen<br />
Talley<br />
150 Lexington<br />
Cr., Haslet<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Assault X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
11, Female<br />
Wesley<br />
Raymond<br />
Hearn<br />
449 CR 4841,<br />
Haslet<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
Eric Phillips<br />
Rivers<br />
269 Marshal<br />
Dr., Newark<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
17, Female<br />
Toney Vaughn<br />
Biggers<br />
522 Petit St.,<br />
Newark<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
11 and 13,<br />
Female<br />
Billy Don<br />
Applewhite<br />
835 Rogers<br />
Rd., Newark<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Michael<br />
Christopher<br />
Young<br />
209 CR 4852,<br />
Newark<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Female<br />
Joe Bob<br />
Carpenter<br />
360 CR 4859,<br />
Newark<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Rickey Don<br />
Jones<br />
507 McCaine<br />
St., Newark<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 15,<br />
Female<br />
Justin Frank<br />
Meredith<br />
402 Country<br />
Living, Newark<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
(Solicitation to<br />
Commit)<br />
Ronnie R.<br />
Wright<br />
162 CR 4849,<br />
Newark<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Assault •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
NEWARK<br />
George Leslie<br />
Sanderson<br />
208 PR 4840,<br />
Newark<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
3 and 4, Male<br />
and Female<br />
Ricky Wayne<br />
Hentschel<br />
275 CR 4874<br />
Newark<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
(Out of State<br />
Conviction -<br />
CA) • Victim<br />
age 14,<br />
Female<br />
William<br />
Robert<br />
Peterson<br />
533 <strong>Wise</strong> St.,<br />
Newark<br />
Child<br />
Pornography<br />
(Federal)<br />
Allen Ray<br />
Suckla II<br />
145 CR 4858,<br />
Newark<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
26, Female<br />
Harold Wayne<br />
Huffman<br />
120 FM 718,<br />
Newark<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
13, Female<br />
Rodney Dale<br />
Murrell<br />
528 <strong>Wise</strong> St.,<br />
Newark<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Female<br />
Brian Keith<br />
Richardson<br />
492 CR 4853,<br />
Newark<br />
Rape of a<br />
Child (Out of<br />
State - WA) •<br />
Victim age 5,<br />
Female<br />
NEWARK<br />
PARADISE<br />
James<br />
Kenneth<br />
Battle<br />
242 Dodge<br />
City Tr., Newark<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
X6 • Victims<br />
ages 16,<br />
Female<br />
Randy Ray<br />
Copeland<br />
143 CR 4849,<br />
Newark<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
22, Female<br />
Jerry Lynn<br />
Parnell<br />
105 CR 4845,<br />
Newark<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victim age 5,<br />
Female<br />
Ruben James<br />
Broussard<br />
138 PR 3393,<br />
Paradise<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 15,<br />
Female<br />
James Kelly<br />
Wilson<br />
366 CR 3661,<br />
Paradise<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 11,<br />
Female<br />
Ronnie Dale<br />
Johnson<br />
1108 CR<br />
3525,<br />
Paradise<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
(Attempt to<br />
Commit) •<br />
Victims ages<br />
4 and 33,<br />
Female<br />
David Alan<br />
Pugh<br />
413 CR 3547,<br />
Paradise<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age 6,<br />
Female<br />
PARADISE<br />
POOLVILLE<br />
Rusty Dwain<br />
Byrd<br />
681 Stonegate<br />
Dr., Paradise<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 8,<br />
Female<br />
Daniel Ray<br />
Anderson<br />
985 CR 3341,<br />
Paradise<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
16, Female<br />
Mark Robert<br />
Johnson<br />
319 CR 3799,<br />
Paradise<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
15, Female<br />
Justice Taylor<br />
Rottman<br />
999 CR 3340,<br />
Paradise<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
12, Male<br />
Ronald Dean<br />
Russell Jr.<br />
711 CR 3390,<br />
Paradise<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Male<br />
Wayne Curtis<br />
Frantz<br />
1107 Spring<br />
Valley Rd.,<br />
Paradise<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Assault X3 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
16, Female<br />
Gary Don King<br />
700 Division<br />
Ln., Poolville<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
16, Male<br />
POOLVILLE<br />
RHOME<br />
April Michelle<br />
Simmons<br />
10081 Hwy<br />
199 W.,<br />
Poolville<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Assault X2 •<br />
Victims ages 5<br />
and 9, Male<br />
Vickie Ann<br />
Worth<br />
9807 Hwy.<br />
199 W.,<br />
Poolville<br />
Sexual<br />
Perform Child/<br />
Produce/<br />
Direct/<br />
Promote •<br />
Victim age 15,<br />
Female<br />
Dale Morris<br />
Hightower<br />
9807 Hwy.<br />
199 W.,<br />
Poolville<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
15, Female<br />
Anse Jay<br />
Hinton Jr.<br />
264 Happy<br />
Trail, Rhome<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 10,<br />
Female<br />
Jay Lee Ross<br />
103 Private Ln,<br />
Rhome<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Female<br />
James Dwight<br />
Cato<br />
153 Layfi eld<br />
Ln., Rhome<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child X2 •<br />
Victims ages 8<br />
and 12, Male<br />
Donald Wayne<br />
Hyatt<br />
103 Cemetery<br />
Rd., Rhome<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 4,<br />
Female<br />
RHOME<br />
Donald<br />
Harrison<br />
Winter<br />
114 Old Base<br />
Rd, 137 PR<br />
4443, Aurora<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age 2,<br />
Male<br />
James Holland<br />
Dyer<br />
167 Lange<br />
Way, Rhome<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
(Out of State<br />
Conviction -<br />
WI) • Victim<br />
age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Gerald Wayne<br />
Moore<br />
204 PR 4440,<br />
Rhome<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 3,<br />
Female<br />
James Oliver<br />
Mello III<br />
804 Old Base<br />
Rd, Rhome<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 7,<br />
Female<br />
Tylene Chelsi<br />
Green<br />
413 Skyview,<br />
Rhome<br />
Assault of a<br />
Child, Sexual<br />
Contact X2 •<br />
Victims ages<br />
14, Female<br />
Billy Jack<br />
Parham<br />
238 PR 4433,<br />
Rhome<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
41, Male<br />
Bruce<br />
Raymond<br />
Colston<br />
149 Happy<br />
Trail, Rhome<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child<br />
by Exposure •<br />
Victims ages 3<br />
and 5, Male<br />
RHOME<br />
SPRINGTOWN<br />
Luke John<br />
Holuby<br />
296 PR 4732,<br />
Rhome<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
12, Female<br />
Marvin Wayne<br />
Idell<br />
1103<br />
Daytonna Dr.,<br />
Rhome<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age 9,<br />
Female<br />
Charles Allen<br />
Rampley<br />
115 Judge Ct.,<br />
Rhome<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Female<br />
Stewart<br />
Michael<br />
Townley<br />
682 Chisholm<br />
Hills Dr.,<br />
Rhome<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victims ages<br />
12 and 31,<br />
Female<br />
Robert Wright<br />
Kelley II<br />
392 PR 3762,<br />
Springtown<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 14,<br />
Female<br />
Ronald Wayne<br />
Mize<br />
292 Apache<br />
Tr., Springtown<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 13,<br />
Female<br />
Joe Lee<br />
Wortham Jr.<br />
508 Big<br />
Salty Ln.,<br />
Springtown<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 11,<br />
Female<br />
SPRINGTOWN<br />
SUNSET<br />
Christopher<br />
Wayne<br />
Robinson<br />
184 CR 3672,<br />
Springtown<br />
Indecency with<br />
a Child, Sexual<br />
Contact •<br />
Victim age 12,<br />
Female<br />
Martin<br />
Edmund<br />
Abendschein<br />
116 Table Salt<br />
Ct., Springtown<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 9,<br />
Female<br />
Selzo Loandro<br />
Nuncio<br />
114 PR 4797,<br />
Springtown<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
of a Child •<br />
Victim age 16,<br />
Female<br />
Roger Dale<br />
Brown<br />
330 Wild<br />
Hill Oak Dr.,<br />
Springtown<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
X2 • Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age<br />
13, Female<br />
Zackary<br />
Wayne Harlow<br />
1695 Agnes<br />
N., Springtown<br />
Sexual Abuse<br />
of a Child,<br />
Continuous,<br />
Victim under<br />
11 • Victim age<br />
11, Female<br />
Phillip Ralph<br />
Pepper<br />
118 PR 3806,<br />
Springtown<br />
Aggravated<br />
Sexual Assault<br />
• Victim age<br />
13, Female<br />
James Ray<br />
Haire<br />
302 CR 1697,<br />
Sunset<br />
Indecency<br />
with a Child,<br />
Sexual Contact<br />
• Victim age 9,<br />
Female
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102 W. Cates St. - Old nursing home on Westside of Bridgeport. Lots of opportunities in this building.<br />
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144 Nottingham Circle – Nice 3/2 home in Bridgeport. $115,000<br />
1105 Hovey – Looking to put your business with Hwy frontage, then this building is for you. $125,000<br />
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$300/DEPOSIT<br />
2/1 apartment in Chico.<br />
$600/month. No pets. Call<br />
(940)644-2713 or (817)929-1930.<br />
$659/month, 2-bedroom, 850<br />
square feet, $250/deposit. Meadow<br />
Ridge Apartments, 959 West 7th<br />
Street, Justin, TX. (940)648-3241.<br />
Pets OK.<br />
Cabins & efficiency apartments for<br />
rent, including some as low as<br />
$500/month w/all bills paid. Boyd<br />
area. Excellent location.<br />
(940)433-3133.<br />
Preferred Properties<br />
940-627-1990<br />
1814 S. FM 51 • Decatur<br />
Each office is independently owned and operated.<br />
Great country 3/2 home with wide open spaces on 14+ acres!! Plenty of room for an arena<br />
or just horses and cows!! Home has tall spacious ceilings, open concept, hand crafted custom<br />
kitchen cabinets and nice open kitchen. Come see! $179,000 Call Rhonda<br />
Beautiful custom home! 4/2/2 freshly painted on 2 acre lot with WBFP, split bedrooms, office,<br />
covered patio, ornamental fence. $209,900 Call Marilyn<br />
Lots of potential in this one! Unfinished metal siding & metal roof 3/3 with 2 living acres, large<br />
utility and pantry, covered porches, oversized 4 car covered parking all on 4.536 fenced and cross<br />
fenced acres. $110,000 Call Marilyn<br />
5.884 acres in Paradise - Level land with 460 feet road frontage on Main Street. City water, well<br />
and septic on site. $87,500 Call Marilyn<br />
12.7 acres of beautiful improved pasture, fenced and cross fenced with stock tank.<br />
$78,900 Call Marilyn<br />
Afisherman’sparadise!Extremely nice 2/2/2 Austin Stone with metal roof, waterfront home on<br />
Amon Carter Lake with boat house & electric lift. Call Marilyn<br />
Great location and ideal set up for a home based business. Lovely 2/2 with 2 living areas and<br />
large island kitchen. On the business side of the property you will find an office/shop/garage and<br />
half bath. Set on 2 beautifully fenced and landscaped acres. Beautiful pond view from the<br />
covered rear patio. $249,500 Call Marilyn<br />
Have Buyers - Need Sellers!!<br />
OPPORTUNITY<br />
www.remax-preferredproperties-decatur-tx-us.com<br />
Eagles Ridge<br />
Terrace Apartments<br />
1500 S. State St.<br />
Decatur<br />
940-627-5438<br />
Rental Assistance Available<br />
Rents Based on Income<br />
On-site Laundry<br />
Quality, Affordable Living<br />
tdd#8007352989<br />
BRIDGEWOOD<br />
Executive Suites<br />
Bridgeport, TX<br />
FALL SPECIAL!<br />
$100 off first month on 12 month lease.<br />
2 Bedrooms Available<br />
Call Marilyn Gokey<br />
940-536-9346<br />
www.BridgewoodExecutiveSuites.com<br />
Beautiful brand new apartments for<br />
lease, Boyd. 2 & 3-bedroom available.<br />
Close to schools, shopping.<br />
Granite counter tops, hardwood<br />
cabinets, backyards and more.<br />
1-year lease, security deposit, background/credit<br />
check required.<br />
(940)433-8830.<br />
Efficiency, $130/week. 1-bedroom,<br />
$170/week. All bills paid.<br />
(817)975-2431.<br />
Business property<br />
2largecommercialbuildings.8,000<br />
&11,000squarefeet.Boydarea.<br />
(940)433-3133.<br />
2,000 +/- square foot office or professional<br />
building for lease. 1107<br />
8th Street, Bridgeport. $850/month.<br />
Call Corey, (940)683-4048.<br />
5,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING,<br />
new, off Highway 380, west of Decatur.<br />
Also,<br />
10 ACRES WITH 3 BUILDINGS,<br />
office, dock, shop, off Highway<br />
1655. (4,500 sq. ft. total). For lease.<br />
(940)644-1984, (940)626-9373.<br />
This institution is an equal<br />
opportunity provider/employer<br />
Condos, town homes<br />
3-bedroom, 2-bath condo, Runaway<br />
Bay. Completely remodeled bathrooms,<br />
kitchen & deck, new stainless<br />
appliances. Available immediately.<br />
$850/month, $500/deposit.<br />
(940)393-2623.<br />
Duplexes<br />
Beautiful brand new apartments for<br />
lease, Boyd. 2 & 3-bedroom available.<br />
Close to schools, shopping.<br />
Granite counter tops, hardwood<br />
cabinets, backyards and more.<br />
1-year lease, security deposit, background/credit<br />
check required.<br />
(940)433-8830.<br />
Homes<br />
2-BEDROOM, 2-BATH<br />
1-car garage, brick, CH/A. Decatur<br />
city limits. Available immediately.<br />
(940)627-6553.<br />
3-bedroom, 2-bath house in Runaway<br />
Bay. Available Oct. 15.<br />
$800/month, $600/deposit. No<br />
smoking, no pets. References required.<br />
(940)390-7002.<br />
3-bedroom, 2-bath, in Chico.<br />
$700/month, $700/deposit. Call<br />
Kevin, (719)660-5992.<br />
Sales • Leasing • Property Management<br />
Angela Fowler/Broker - 940.210.2150<br />
Christine Vroom - Realtor - 817.368.0623<br />
12775 Bus. Hwy 287 N. Fort Worth, TX 76179<br />
All real estate advertising in this<br />
newspaper is subject to the Fair<br />
Housing Act which makes it illegal<br />
to advertise “any preference, limitation<br />
or discrimination based on<br />
race, color, religion, sex, handicap,<br />
familial status or national origin,<br />
or an intention, to make any such<br />
preference, limitation or discrimination.”<br />
Familial status includes children<br />
under the age of 18 living with<br />
parents or legal custodians, pregnant<br />
women and people securing custody<br />
of children under 18.<br />
Sue Ann Denton, Inc.<br />
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE:<br />
Decatur<br />
1606 W. Bus. 380<br />
940-627-3080<br />
Boyd, Hilltop Village, 3-bedroom,<br />
2-bath house. $900 & $925/month.<br />
Donna, (940)389-1615.<br />
CANNON PROPERTY MGMT.<br />
Decatur: 3/1, barn & 15-acres.<br />
2/1 on 2 acres, $875/month.<br />
3/2/1, $775/month.<br />
Bridgeport: 2/2, $700/month.<br />
3/1 in country, $845/month.<br />
(940)368-1811.<br />
CAROUSEL PROPERTIES<br />
Runaway Bay, 3/2, appliances,<br />
washer/dryer connections, CH/A,<br />
$850-$950/month, $1,000/deposit.<br />
Cuba Road, 2/1, appliances, no<br />
cats, $600/month, $750/deposit.<br />
(940)539-0738.<br />
DECATUR, FOR RENT 3/2/2<br />
1,600 square foot, brick home. Nice<br />
quiet area, close to Rann and Middle<br />
School. Appliances, new interior,<br />
wood, tile, carpet, fireplace,<br />
washer/dryer connections. Covered<br />
patio, yard fenced. Lawn care provided.<br />
Application and references.<br />
No smoking, no pets. $1,100/month,<br />
$800/deposit. (940)627-7475.<br />
For lease, Decatur: 3/2/2, approx.<br />
1,700 sq. ft., large garage, granite<br />
counter tops, stainless steel appliances,<br />
completely remodeled. No<br />
smoking. $1,300 month, $1,000 deposit.<br />
Fenced horse lot available.<br />
(940)393-3525 or (940)393-1276.<br />
See photos at:<br />
bit.ly/glenluproperties<br />
For rent in Chico, 2-bedroom,<br />
1.5-bath. $750/motnh, $500/deposit.<br />
(940)389-6842.<br />
This newspaper will not knowingly<br />
accept any advertising for<br />
real estate which is in violation of<br />
the law. Our readers are hereby<br />
informed that all dwellings advertised<br />
in this newspaper are available<br />
on an equal opportunity basis. To<br />
complain of discrimination call<br />
HUD toll-free at<br />
1-800-669-9777. The<br />
toll-free telephone<br />
number for the<br />
hearing impaired is<br />
1-800-927-9275.<br />
Rhome<br />
817-638-5100<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s#1 Real Estate Company<br />
(per MLS statistical data)<br />
www.century21sueanndenton.com<br />
EQUAL HOUSING<br />
OPPORTUNITY<br />
Bridgeport<br />
192 W. Hwy. 380<br />
940-683-3080<br />
•JanaBearden•JayConquest•RebeccaDavis<br />
•JoeyDuncan•SueAnnDenton•CindyGrommesh•BobGrommesh•KimHolt<br />
•SteveJones•AngieKasner•JaneKasner•RobertMeek•SueMeek<br />
•SandyOnks•TonyaShaffer•KayStanfield•BettySutton•AngieUselton<br />
Runaway Bay- Just reduced! Bridwell Lane is a Weir<br />
Custom Home located in a secluded, wooded area of<br />
the Hidden Cove addition of RAB. 3 BR’s down and 1<br />
BR up with its own bath. Master has sitting area. 12’<br />
ceilings with crown molding in the living room with a<br />
soaring rock fireplace.<br />
Decatur- Just reduced! Nice two story brick home<br />
in quiet subdivision. The home offers 2 living areas.<br />
Upstairs living area could be game room or 4th<br />
bedroom. Large back yard with above ground pool<br />
and nice deck. Large room off of living for formal<br />
dining or study.<br />
Alvord- Comfortable starter home on large corner lot with mature trees. This 2 bedroom and 1.5 bath home<br />
features wood siding, carpet and tile floors with central heat and air. Large fenced backyard perfect for small<br />
children or pets.<br />
Boyd- 2bedroom1.5brickstarterhomeonlargefencedlot.Eatinkitchenwithlotsofcabinetspace.<br />
Convenient location for quick access to Hwy 114.<br />
Runaway Bay- Just listed! This custom brick home is located on a quiet circle just off the 16th fairway. It<br />
features an open living, dining and kitchen concept with a fireplace. Split bedrooms with vaulted ceilings, and a<br />
large master suite. The master bath has separate shower and garden tub along with twin vanities and his and<br />
hers walk in closets.<br />
Runaway Bay- Just listed! BEAUTIFUL LOCATION for this roomy 3 bedroom 2 bath brick home in the heart<br />
of Runaway Bay. Mature trees surround the home and adjoining extra golf course lot leading to the 17th fairway.<br />
The man of the house will enjoy the wonderful shop and extra storage for toys. The house has storage as well,<br />
plus extra space for crafts, office or extra bedroom, fairly new HVAC and a new roof.<br />
Waterfront Lake Bridgeport- Great neighborhood with deep water on the North end of beautiful Lake<br />
Bridgeport. 2 story lake home with large balcony, custom cabinets, concrete drive and boat ramp. Floating dock<br />
with hydro-hoist lift for boat, cable crank down swim steps and fish cleaning station.<br />
Alvord- Just listed! In Alvord ISD 1.77 acres in great location. Has been a mobile home park previously with 7<br />
sites. Would be a great RV facility or could be residential. Come take a look!<br />
Beautiful Lake Bridgeport, Runaway Bay, North Star Pointe, Moonlight Bay, Sunset Bay, Silver Lakes,<br />
Bridgeport Airport Estates, Lake House Estates- Alargevarietyoflakelotsandwaterfrontlotsavailable.Callour<br />
office first!<br />
BIGGER • BOLDER • SMARTER<br />
OPPORTUNITY
WISECOUNTYMESSENGER<br />
16 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Hospital<br />
EMPLOYMENT<br />
FOR RENT, 2-BEDROOM,<br />
1-bath, CH/A, carport. 3 miles west<br />
of Decatur. References required.<br />
(940)627-5485.<br />
FOR RENT, CHICO<br />
3-bedroom, 1-bath, 2-car garage.<br />
No pets, no smoking. $750/month,<br />
$750/deposit. (817)578-3931.<br />
LAKEFRONT HOME<br />
,600 square feet, very clean, all<br />
lectric, 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath, firelace,<br />
appliances. Deposit & lease.<br />
995/month. Runaway Bay, 108<br />
ort-O-Call. (817)312-0421.<br />
unaway Bay, 3/2/2 brick home,<br />
enced backyard, WBFP, all applinces.<br />
References, $1,000/month,<br />
500/deposit. (940)393-2623.<br />
Mobile Homes<br />
0creditcheck.2,3&4-bedroom<br />
homes, $550-$1,500/month, for<br />
sale/rent. Owner finance land/home<br />
packages, 1.5-4 acres. Ponder ISD,<br />
pets OK. (940)648-5263,<br />
www.ponderei.com.<br />
2-bedroom, 2-bath single wide, Azle<br />
ISD. $600/month. (817)281-4311 or<br />
(817)422-3023.<br />
ouble wide on 1 acre, Pleasant<br />
iew area. 3-bedroom, 2-bath.<br />
650/month, $300/deposit.<br />
940)682-5662.<br />
FOR SALE OR LEASE<br />
Large mobile, 4-bedroom, 2-bath on<br />
2 acres, w/carport & deck.<br />
$850/month, $500/deposit; or<br />
$85,000. (817)897-6026, leave<br />
message.<br />
Roommate wanted<br />
Bedroom for rent/roommate. 3-bedroom<br />
house on 4 acres in Alvord. 1<br />
horse and/or dog negotiable.<br />
$350/month. Call Larry,<br />
(817)480-3952.<br />
Storage Buildings<br />
DECATUR SELF STORAGE<br />
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CHOICE STORAGE IN WISE<br />
COUNTY<br />
Free lock with rental of unit<br />
•Wesellboxesandmovingsupplies<br />
•Climatecontrolledunitsavailable<br />
•U-HaulDealer-Trucks,Trailers,etc.<br />
Ask about our special!<br />
1100 E. Bus. 380 • Decatur<br />
940-627-6434<br />
Toll Free: 877-718-8875<br />
2011-2012<br />
www.decaturselfstorage.net<br />
OILFIELD SERVICE<br />
IS HIRING A TOTER TRUCK DRIVER<br />
Toter/Skid Truck Driver<br />
Minimum Hauling Mobile 2 yrs. Home experience & Skid required.<br />
Houses<br />
Moving mobile Decatur,<br />
homes TX location<br />
in the oil field.<br />
Competitive pay based on experience/full benefits<br />
Competitive salary & benefits.<br />
Apply within - 1865 FM 2264 • Decatur, TX 76234<br />
Call Office<br />
940-626-2274<br />
Call Mickey at<br />
Employment information<br />
!!ATTENTION!!<br />
Advertising under this classification<br />
is normally not a bona fide<br />
opportunity. Typically, companies<br />
advertising here offer information<br />
about potential employment.<br />
Some are selling this information.<br />
We suggest that our<br />
readers thoroughly investigate<br />
these advertisers before investing<br />
any money.<br />
Now Hiring: companies desperately<br />
need employees to assemble products<br />
at home. No selling, any hours.<br />
$500 weekly potential. Info.<br />
(985)646-1700, Dept. TX-3278.<br />
Childcare<br />
Full-time staff needed. Apply in person,<br />
Little Angels Day Care, 1403<br />
Hovey Street, Bridgeport.<br />
Now hiring teachers for MASH before<br />
and after school. Where:<br />
Rhome/Newark area. When: Fall<br />
school year, 2012. Hours: Mon.-Fri.,<br />
2-6:30p.m. Must be 21 years of age.<br />
Clear background check & good<br />
driving record. Call (817)366-5865,<br />
Claudia.<br />
Food service<br />
Now hiring experienced bartenders,<br />
waitstaff and security for new bar in<br />
Decatur. Crazy Horse Saloon, 1982<br />
E. Highway 380, Decatur.<br />
(940)390-8921 and leave a message.<br />
Medical/Dental<br />
NOW HIRING<br />
RN, LVN,<br />
Speech<br />
Therapist<br />
Apply in Person<br />
1845 S. FM 51, Decatur<br />
FIRST to raise the standard from<br />
Ordinary to Extraordinary<br />
www.first-texas.com<br />
Medical Clinic in Decatur looking to<br />
hire a part-time receptionist for<br />
nights and weekends. Previous<br />
medical receptionist experience preferred.<br />
Bilingual a plus. Please send<br />
resume with wage requirements to:<br />
monisalmazan1@yahoo.com;<br />
or fax to (940)627-7464.<br />
Medical front office position available.<br />
Experience preferred. Must<br />
be computer literate. Send resume<br />
to P.O. BOX 503, Boyd, TX 76023;<br />
or call (940)433-5122.<br />
KLEMENT CHRYSLER-JEEP-DODGE-RAM<br />
VEHICLE PREP<br />
5-Day Work Week • Paid Holidays & Vacation<br />
AUTO DETAILING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED<br />
Apply in Person at<br />
500 N. Hwy. 287, Decatur<br />
Equal Opportunity Employer<br />
—<br />
Registered Nurses needed in<br />
ICU*Med/Surg*CVICU*L&D*Surgery<br />
ICU, Dialysis, L&D, Radiology<br />
Dialysis*Cath Lab Director<br />
Pharmacy, CVICU, PeriOp Edu., Recovery<br />
Bariatrics—Dietitian<br />
Emergency, Med/Surg & Wound Care<br />
HIMS—Assistant Director<br />
Cath Lab—RCIS*Director—RN Openings for required<br />
HBO Tech, MLTs, Staff Pharmacist,<br />
Please LVNs, Contract visit our Manager,CPhT, website for a complete CRT/RRT<br />
Director listing of Wound career Care opportunities!<br />
(RN or PT),<br />
PT & OT Coordinators, Phlebotomist<br />
2000 S. FM 51 Decatur, TX 76234<br />
2000 S. FM www.wiseregional.com<br />
51 • Decatur, TX 76234<br />
A NOT FOR PROFIT HOSPITAL<br />
Anotforprofithospital<br />
www.wiseregional.com<br />
EOE<br />
EOE Job Job - Job Line Line: 940-626-2525<br />
“WeAreLooking<br />
forYOU!”<br />
The<br />
Hills<br />
NURSING &<br />
REHABILITATION<br />
RN<br />
PRN WEEKENDS<br />
LVN CNAs<br />
APPLY IN PERSON AT<br />
201 E. THOMPSON, DECATUR<br />
or FAX RESUME<br />
to940-627-3937 EEO/M/F/D/W<br />
Now hiring for the following position:<br />
• CNA<br />
2 -10 p.m.<br />
with $600 sign on bonus<br />
Apply In Person At<br />
701 West Bennett Rd., DECATUR or call<br />
940-626-2800<br />
EEO M/F/D/V<br />
Experienced dental assistant/back<br />
office, minimum 2-years experience<br />
w/Dentrix required. Front desk person,<br />
will train, bilingual preferred.<br />
Good work ethic, reliable. Fax resume,<br />
(940)627-8402.<br />
Senior Care Health<br />
& Rehabilitation Center<br />
Now hiring for the following positions:<br />
CNA<br />
-SIGNONBONUS $ 1,000<br />
• FULL TIME<br />
MEDICATION AIDE<br />
LVN • RN<br />
-SIGNONBONUS $ 2,000<br />
• FULL TIME<br />
DISHWASHER<br />
Apply in person at 2108 15th St. • Bridgeport<br />
940-683-5023<br />
EEO-M/F/D/V<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
CDM Resource Management, LLC<br />
is seeking an experienced warehouseman<br />
in the Bridgeport, Texas<br />
area. Position is responsible for receipt,<br />
staging, delivery, and stocking<br />
of parts. Competitive salary and<br />
benefits. Must be dependable,<br />
self-motivated, and have a great attitude.<br />
Apply and upload your resume<br />
at: www.energytransfer.com.<br />
EOE.<br />
Full-time position for auto<br />
detailer/porter with ability to obtain<br />
state inspection license. Current<br />
state inspection license a plus.<br />
9a.m.-7p.m., Mon.-Sat. Send resume<br />
to:<br />
applications2job@yahoo.com.<br />
LaQuinta Inn & Suites, Decatur, is<br />
now hiring for front desk. Apply in<br />
person at 1405 S. Highway 287, Decatur,<br />
TX 76234.<br />
LaQuinta Inn & Suites, Decatur, is<br />
now hiring for telephone sales.<br />
1-year experience needed. Apply in<br />
person at 1405 S. Highway 287, Decatur,<br />
TX 76234.<br />
NOW HIRING<br />
Assistant Manager and other positions<br />
listed on our website. Apply at<br />
Market Place in Decatur or<br />
www.marketplacegrocery.com.<br />
Opening for delivery driver, customer<br />
service rep, warehouse.<br />
Full-time, part-time. Apply in person<br />
Tues.-Sat., Easy Rent, 909 W. Business<br />
380, next to Taco Casa, Decatur.<br />
Part-time rest area attendant,<br />
$7.25/hour. Call (214)701-5547.<br />
Highway 287 North, Decatur. Must<br />
pass background & drug screen.<br />
WESTERN<br />
TRANSPORTATION<br />
Local Transportation Company Seeking<br />
OFFICE PERSON<br />
self-motivated, computer skills required,<br />
good character, DOT compliance issue<br />
experience a plus<br />
To Apply call 940-627-2956<br />
ask for Larry or Jeff<br />
or email resume to larry@sandfordoil.com<br />
The City of Runaway Bay is accepting<br />
applications for the position<br />
of Public Works Crewman. Duties<br />
include various tasks in the maintenance<br />
of city parks, facilities, green<br />
spaces and other city owned properties,<br />
installation and repair of water<br />
lines, repairs of valves and fire<br />
hydrants, water taps, meter reads,<br />
and fulfillment of work orders under<br />
the direction of the Public Works Director.<br />
There is strenuous physical work<br />
outdoors and some after hour work.<br />
The candidate will need to be able<br />
to respond to emergency situations<br />
and be able to work rotational call<br />
schedules. This position requires<br />
the ability to communicate with the<br />
public and other employees in a<br />
courteous and professional manner.<br />
Applications may be picked up at<br />
City Hall, 101 Runaway Bay Drive,<br />
Runaway Bay, Texas 76426. Runaway<br />
Bay is an Equal Opportunity<br />
Employer.<br />
Office<br />
Busy doctor's office seeking<br />
full-time receptionist. Applicants can<br />
apply at 1903 Doctor's Hospital<br />
Drive, Suite 35, Bridgeport, Texas;<br />
or fax resume to (940-)683-0038.<br />
Must be bi-lingual. No exceptions.<br />
Car lot seeking Title Clerk/Collections/Office<br />
Assistant. Computer<br />
skills and clean driving record. Pass<br />
drug screen, background check.<br />
(940)683-1999.<br />
DATCU has positions available!<br />
Tellers, Branch Manager, Insurance<br />
Agent, Mortgage Loan Consultant.<br />
Apply online at: www.DATCU.org.<br />
EOE.<br />
EAGLE AGGREGATE HIRING<br />
CLASS A CDL DRIVERS<br />
Positions available for End Dump & Live Bottom<br />
Aggregate Drivers. Most Trucks are 2012’s.<br />
Great Settlement Checks.<br />
Experience preferred<br />
Call Jack @ 469-400-4971<br />
If assistance is needed for applying online, call 940-567-2272<br />
CUSTOMER SERVICE<br />
SPECIALIST<br />
ENERGY Worldnet, Inc., a fast<br />
growing Decatur based technology<br />
and training company with clients<br />
throughout North America, seeks a<br />
full-time Customer Support Specialist.<br />
A successful candidate must<br />
possess excellent written and oral<br />
communication and computer skills<br />
(web based programs, MS Office),<br />
and must be a team player with<br />
great problem solving and people<br />
skills. Salary, bonus plan, insurance,<br />
matching 401k, paid<br />
vacation/holidays. Qualified applicants<br />
should fax resumes to<br />
1-866-402-8322 or email:<br />
careers@energyworldnet.com.<br />
First Baptist Church of Bridgeport,<br />
TX is taking resumes for part-time<br />
receptionist & production assistant,<br />
Mon.-Fri., 8a.m.-noon. Experience<br />
in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office,<br />
Publisher & Excel. Email resume to:<br />
Dr. David Burrows at<br />
dburrows@fbcbridgeport.com.<br />
Retail/Sales<br />
$17/HOUR<br />
Denton <strong>County</strong> manufacturing outlet<br />
accepting applications for customer<br />
relations representatives. Company<br />
offers paid vacation, benefits &<br />
sign-on bonus. Call The Human Resources<br />
Department on Sun.,<br />
11a.m.-4p.m.; Mon., Tues., Wed.,<br />
9a.m. to 5p.m. at (469)252-3200.<br />
Hibbett Sports is hiring in Decatur,<br />
TX. Assistant Manager, part-time retail<br />
sales. Drug test, criminal/credit<br />
check. Apply at:<br />
www.hibbettjobs.com.<br />
Looking for just<br />
the right job?<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong> Classifieds Online<br />
www.messenger.com/class<br />
C&D Production Specialists Co., Inc.<br />
HIRING TRANSPORT DRIVERS<br />
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY Transport 2 Years Verifiable Driving<br />
Drivers Experience, Clean<br />
Needed<br />
MVR and<br />
COMPETITIVE BENEFITS AND EXCELLENT PAY Transport Background, Class A Drivers License + Tanker Needed<br />
Endorsement<br />
www.cdprod.net<br />
22<br />
and age 22 or older. Locations in Cleburne,<br />
Accepting resumes for employment in or near 22<br />
years<br />
the years<br />
minimum<br />
minimum<br />
age;<br />
Weatherford, Bridgeport, age; Justin and Jacksboro.<br />
Decatur, <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> area 2 years verifiable • Excellent Medical, driving Dental and experience;<br />
Vision Insurance<br />
Experienced Oilfield LEASE PRODUCTION OPERATORS<br />
Job Description:<br />
Operation, surveillance, and troubleshooting oilfield surface equipment. This includes<br />
validating and inputting production and injection data, minor maintenance, testing and<br />
proving new production equipment, hydro testing lines and equipment. Some flow back<br />
experience would be helpful.<br />
You must be a team leader with good communication, interpersonal skills, strong safety<br />
leader with knowledge of production surface equipment and applications.<br />
• Competent in computer programs applicable to his/her daily work processes (Microsoft<br />
programs excel<br />
Applicants must live in the Decatur, <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> area or be willing to relocate.<br />
Please mail resumes to<br />
2336 Gravel Dr.<br />
Fort Worth, Texas 76118<br />
or email ethomas@cdprod.net or cdixon@cdprod.net, jlittle@cdprod.net<br />
PLEASE e-mail Fax: resumes 817-595-0768 to ethomas@cdprod.net<br />
22 years minimum age;<br />
2 years verifiable driving experience;<br />
• Drive locally only - 12-hour shifts<br />
Class<br />
Class<br />
A CDL;<br />
CDL; • Company-Paid Life Insurance<br />
• Matching 401(k)<br />
We 2 years<br />
We<br />
pay<br />
pay<br />
you verifiable<br />
you<br />
for<br />
for<br />
your driving<br />
• Night your<br />
experience experience;<br />
Shift Differential experience<br />
Employee<br />
• Night Shift Bonus Annually<br />
Employee<br />
and<br />
and<br />
Family<br />
• Safety Family<br />
health<br />
Bucks Annually health<br />
insurance<br />
Class A CDL;<br />
insurance<br />
Night • Paid Vacations and Paid Holidays<br />
Night<br />
shift<br />
shift<br />
premium<br />
premium<br />
• Quarterly Driver Bonuses<br />
Night We pay<br />
• Driver Referral Bonuses<br />
Night<br />
shift you<br />
shift<br />
bonus for your experience<br />
bonus<br />
• Free Wellness Fair for Employees Annually<br />
Must be willing to travel<br />
Employee • $25/month Gym Reimbursement paid Quarterly<br />
Cleburneand Cleburne<br />
area: Family<br />
area:<br />
817.925.5154 health insurance<br />
817.925.5154<br />
Scott<br />
ScottIf interested please call<br />
Night shift premium<br />
Contact 940.393.5525 Danny<br />
or 817.925.5154 Jon<br />
EOE<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Bridgeport<br />
area:<br />
area:<br />
940.393.5525<br />
940.393.5525<br />
Kirby<br />
Kirby<br />
SEEKING CDL DRIVERS<br />
CLASS A AND B<br />
&TRANSPORTDRIVERS<br />
• Competitive pay plus overtime<br />
• Paid insurance<br />
• 401(k) plan<br />
• Paid holidays<br />
• Paid vacation<br />
• Safety bonuses<br />
940-627-1005
ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 17<br />
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FARM AND RANCH PETS<br />
Valu-Rite has openings for full-time<br />
and part-time employment. Please<br />
apply in person at 709 W.W. Ray<br />
Circle, Bridgeport.<br />
Trades<br />
HIRING<br />
MAINTENANCE<br />
TECHNICIAN<br />
for manufacturing plant.<br />
Need heavy mechanical<br />
aptitude with electrical control<br />
experience and stable work<br />
history. Pay $12.10 - $16.40<br />
per hour depending on skills<br />
and experience.<br />
Apply at<br />
www.entegris.com<br />
For an exciting career<br />
in private sector<br />
corrections, consider<br />
the industry leader:<br />
CORRECTIONS<br />
CORPORATION OF AMERICA<br />
is seeking applicants for the<br />
following positions at its Bridgeport<br />
Pre-Parole Transfer Facility:<br />
• Correctional Officer<br />
• Academic Instructor<br />
(Bachelors Degree Required)<br />
Excellent Benefits Package<br />
Full-time:<br />
Health, Dental and Vision Insurance<br />
Life Insurance. • 401(k) Retirement Plans<br />
Stock Options • Personal & Sick Leave<br />
Paid Holidays • Service/Employee<br />
Recognition Programs. Career<br />
Advancement Opportunities<br />
Apply online at:<br />
www.cca.com<br />
940-683-2162<br />
CCA is an equal opportunity employer<br />
M/F/D/V-Drug Free Environment<br />
Blues Inspection<br />
Services<br />
NOW HIRING<br />
General Laborer<br />
Apply at<br />
109 Lake Road, Bridgeport<br />
CDL driver needed hauling frac<br />
sand. Must be able to handle being<br />
out of town for 2-weeks at a time.<br />
25% of gross. Call Robert,<br />
(940)683-5547.<br />
CDL drivers needed, Forestburg.<br />
Must be 23-years of age & pass<br />
pre-employment drug screen. Call<br />
Jeff, (940)745-1559.<br />
Concrete company looking for finishers<br />
and laborers. Must have valid<br />
drivers license and transportation to<br />
Rhome/Justin area. (817)909-8890.<br />
Custodian needed at Chico High<br />
School. Contact Maryalin Bridges,<br />
(940)644-2228. Pick up application:<br />
Chico Administration Building, 1102<br />
Park Road.<br />
Driver needed for pneumatic tanker.<br />
2-years verifiable OTR experience<br />
required. Insurance available. Peterbilt<br />
379’s available. Will train to<br />
load/unload pneumatic trailers. Must<br />
be willing to stay out 2-weeks. Hauling<br />
Fort Worth to West Texas.<br />
$1,000-$2,000/week. Must have<br />
Class A CDL. 24/7 dispatch.<br />
(940)433-2519, (817)939-2025.<br />
BRYANT<br />
BUCKET WORKS<br />
W<br />
• OSHA TRAINE<br />
• INSURED<br />
• SAFETY 1 ST<br />
• OSHA TRAINED<br />
• INSURED TRAVIS BRYA<br />
• SAFETY 1 ST<br />
817 585 04<br />
TRAVIS BRYANT<br />
WWW.BRYANTBUCKETWORKS.COM<br />
CELL 817-585-0442<br />
TRAVISBRYANT77@GMAIL.COM<br />
Drivers: Make $63,000/year or<br />
more. $1,200 orientation completion<br />
bonus & $1,000 driver referral bonus!<br />
CDL-A OTR experience required.<br />
Call now, 1(888)769-0830.<br />
Experienced heavy equipment operator<br />
needed for <strong>Wise</strong>/Denton<br />
county area. Competitive pay with<br />
benefits. (817)309-0107.<br />
Experienced welding machine mechanic<br />
for Lincoln Ranger 250.<br />
Rhome area. Please call<br />
(817)319-5904.<br />
Hiring CDL drivers. Tanker endorsement<br />
and end dump. (940)389-2579<br />
or (940)427-4953.<br />
Lonestar Ranch & Outdoors is now<br />
hiring Class-A CDL drivers, tanker<br />
endorsement required. Inquire at<br />
(817)995-5024 for benefits & info.<br />
Now hiring Class A CDL drivers with<br />
2-years experience. Oilfield/environmental/construction<br />
transportation.<br />
Paid weekly, insurance, Aflac,<br />
paid vacations and much more. Call<br />
Daniel, (800)448-6323.<br />
Now hiring journeymen electricians<br />
with commercial experience.<br />
(940)389-5588.<br />
NOW HIRING truck driver, full-time,<br />
Class A or B CDL required, experienced<br />
driver only. Hauling in <strong>Wise</strong><br />
and surrounding counties. Apply @<br />
Cox Ready Mix, 872 S. Highway<br />
101, Chico.<br />
Process Engineer, MS Chemical<br />
Engineering. Ability to perform fractional<br />
distillation, column and refrigerants<br />
separation. Job location:<br />
Rhome, TX. Apply with Diversified<br />
Pure Chem, LLC; 11050 South US<br />
Highway 287, Rhome, TX 76078.<br />
ROUTE DRIVER<br />
Karl Klement Properties is seeking a<br />
Route Driver for vending services.<br />
Must be dependable with a good<br />
driving record &agreatattitude.Apply<br />
in person to Jodi Dusek at 605<br />
N. Business Highway 287,Suite<br />
102, Decatur, TX.<br />
Truck drivers needed, Class A-CDL<br />
with tanker endorsement. Must have<br />
truck driving experience, tank truck<br />
experience preferred. Call<br />
(940)736-0758, 8a.m.-5p.m.,<br />
Mon.-Fri.<br />
WATER TRUCK DRIVER<br />
needed. Class A or B CDL.<br />
$12/hour, time & 1/2 over 40 hours.<br />
Home every night. Call Jim,<br />
(903)851-9132.<br />
SERVIC<br />
Childcare<br />
IN HOME DAYCARE<br />
Christian mother seeking children in<br />
my Alvord home. Immediate spots<br />
open. Call for more information.<br />
(940)594-8913.<br />
Business<br />
SERVICES<br />
BOOKKEEPING<br />
Focus on running your<br />
business. We can take<br />
care of your bookkeeping<br />
needs. Available<br />
remotely, or your office.<br />
(817)719-5642.<br />
BRUCE’S HOUSE LEVELING<br />
Foundation repair, sheetrock, tape<br />
&beddingrepair.Allworkguaranteed!<br />
Free estimates. 30 years experience.<br />
(817)690-2429.<br />
CINDERELLA’S CAB SERVICE<br />
Drop off, pick up or will wait. Airport<br />
shuttle. Will deliver groceries/pharmacy<br />
items. Senior citizen discount.<br />
(940)389-3903.<br />
JOE TUCKER DRYWALL<br />
& INSULATION<br />
(940)389-0029<br />
Sheetrock ✣ Texture ✣ Insulation.<br />
New construction, remodeling,<br />
add-ons, spray foam & attic insulation.<br />
(940)389-0029.<br />
S&S PAINTING<br />
Interior & exterior. Paint & stain<br />
cabinets. Dry wall patches. Free estimates.<br />
Call Brenda Dugan,<br />
(940)389-0845.<br />
Phases<br />
HAIR SALON<br />
Men’s • Women’s • Children’s Cuts<br />
Colors • Foils • Perms & Facial Wax<br />
New, rustic salon with spacious stations,<br />
in business since 2007 is looking for a<br />
stylist with established clientele.<br />
Hwy 114 West of Boyd<br />
940-433-3255<br />
IF YOU NEED A LIFT PLEASE CALL<br />
• Christmas Lighting<br />
• Pole Light Maintenance and Install<br />
• Tree Trimming<br />
• Banner Install<br />
• Tree Removal<br />
• Sign Maintenance<br />
• Security Lighting<br />
• Tree Lighting<br />
• Flag Pole Install<br />
FREE QUOTES<br />
• Childcare<br />
• Adult/Elderly Care<br />
• Business<br />
• Housecleaning<br />
• Let Me Fix It<br />
• Miscellaneous<br />
• Tutoring<br />
Located: Boyd TX<br />
Housecleaning<br />
AVANT CLEANING SERVICE<br />
If you don’t have time to clean, WE<br />
DO! Windows, commercial/residential,<br />
car detailing, carpet cleaning,<br />
upholstery. Bonded/insured.<br />
(940)799-7720.<br />
LOCAL CLEANING SERVICE<br />
Commercial, residential, bonded/insured.<br />
Make ready, 1-time or repeat.<br />
We clean what others miss.<br />
penny<strong>Wise</strong> Cleaning Service,<br />
(940)210-5450.<br />
TOP NOTCH<br />
Quality, affordable, residential<br />
cleaning. Serving <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> and<br />
surrounding areas. Licensed, insured,<br />
free estimates and references<br />
available. (940)273-9310.<br />
Let me fix it<br />
ALL HOME IMPROVEMENT<br />
Holiday discounts. New construction.<br />
Paint, drywall, kitchens, baths,<br />
siding, decks, framing, additions.<br />
Great rates. Robert,<br />
(940)600-0434.<br />
ALL TYPES HOME REPAIR<br />
&remodeling.Honest,reliable,experienced.<br />
Call Carlton,<br />
(682)229-0168.<br />
HOME CONSTRUCTION<br />
Home built, room additions. Repair,<br />
garages, decks, remodels. All Types<br />
construction. Quality & honest work.<br />
40-years experience.<br />
Dale, (940)453-5733;<br />
Ronnie, (903)624-9737;<br />
Larry, (817)717-0464.<br />
HOME LEVELING SOLUTIONS<br />
Pier/beam homes, mobile homes,<br />
small buildings, beams, columns,<br />
crack repair, masonry repair.<br />
(940)399-9616.<br />
PRO CONSTRUCTION SERVICES<br />
(940)577-4135. Remodeling,<br />
interior & exterior<br />
painting, drywall,<br />
cabinets, trim, tile,<br />
handyman jobs. Quality<br />
work done right.<br />
pro-construction-services.com.<br />
REMODELING & REPAIRS<br />
for your home & rental properties.<br />
Call Barry, (940)389-4943.<br />
FARM AND RANCH<br />
FARM A<br />
RANC<br />
Farm Equipment<br />
1985 MASSEY FERGUSON<br />
245 tractor and 6ft. brush hog. Less<br />
than 600 hours. Garage kept.<br />
$6,000. 817-888-5039.<br />
JUST IN<br />
Diamond C 16’ utility trailer, $1,799.<br />
PJ 25’ gooseneck, $5,850. Diamond<br />
C32’gooseneck,$9,399.CallSherman,<br />
(940)627-5451.<br />
Fencing<br />
• Farm Equipment • Fencing<br />
• Lawn & Garden • Livestock<br />
• Livestock Care/Training<br />
• Livestock Lost & Found<br />
• Livestock Stud Service<br />
• Livestock Supplies<br />
• Miscellaneous • Mowing<br />
• Pasture & Feed • Poultry<br />
3D FARM & RANCH SERVICES<br />
All types fencing, metal buildings,<br />
carports, custom gates, entrances,<br />
cattle guards, mobile & shop welding,<br />
general clean-up, skid steer<br />
work. YOU NAME IT, WE DO IT!!<br />
Credit cards accepted.<br />
(940)210-1242.<br />
AAA FENCE<br />
20 years experience. Privacy, chain<br />
link & field fencing. Concrete curbing.<br />
(940)249-4128.<br />
AFFORDABLE FENCING<br />
All types, including chain<br />
link, wood privacy, vinyl,<br />
farm fencing. Installation<br />
or repair. (940)626-9290.<br />
www.affordablefencing.net<br />
AL SALINAS FENCING<br />
All types fencing. Braces, gates,<br />
cattle guards, livestock shelters,<br />
carports, pre-made braces.<br />
(940)577-0878.<br />
BOBBY’S FENCE<br />
All types fencing. Free estimates.<br />
Over 25-years experience.<br />
(817)444-3213.<br />
Lawn and garden<br />
Time for Tree Trimming, Leaves,<br />
Yard & Flower Bed Clean Up<br />
LAWN MOWING<br />
Weekly, monthly or one time. Decatur<br />
area. Call for estimates. Leave<br />
message, (940)393-6464.<br />
SS LAWN CARE<br />
Full lawn care service. Mowing,<br />
landscaping, tree trimming, fertilization,<br />
flower beds and more. References<br />
available. 10-years experience.<br />
Commercial/residential. Call<br />
Shane for free estimate.<br />
(940)210-9444.<br />
TREES TRIMMED & REMOVED<br />
39 years in business, insured. All<br />
major credit cards accepted.<br />
(817)444-0861, Teater.<br />
We buy pecans. Frsh Produce Market,<br />
Decatur. (940)627-7598.<br />
Livestock<br />
ALL NATURAL BEEF<br />
No antibiotics or hormones. Whole,<br />
half, quarter or smaller packages to<br />
suit your needs. (940)210-9614.<br />
BUY, SELL & TRADE<br />
All classes of horses, ponies,<br />
sheep, goats, cattle & trailers.<br />
(940)224-1470, (940)644-5956.<br />
COME AND SEE THE MULE MAN!<br />
Good selection of working mules.<br />
Cattle, hogs, coon hunting, pack<br />
mules, trail rides. (940)393-2728.<br />
FULL- BLOOD BOER GOATS<br />
Nannies & 3 billies. (940)210-5786.<br />
LLAMAS<br />
weanlings (6-months-old), adults,<br />
bred females, guardians & pet quality.<br />
We provide training & support<br />
for new owners. (940)433-5897.<br />
MINIATURE HORSES<br />
Geldings, mares & studs. All gentle.<br />
$100 & up. (940)210-5786.<br />
Livestock care/training<br />
HORSE BOARDING<br />
Pasture and/or full care. Use of covered<br />
arena. Springtown area.<br />
(817)247-5034.<br />
RED RIVER HORSE-<br />
SHOEING<br />
25-years experience,<br />
certified. Reasonable<br />
rates. <strong>Wise</strong> & surrounding<br />
counties. Steve Sewell,<br />
(940)366-1485.<br />
Mowing<br />
ACREAGE MOWING<br />
Tractor services. Plowing, seeding,<br />
aerating, tilling, fertilizing available.<br />
Tommy, (940)482-6578.<br />
Pasture and feed<br />
CUSTOM ROUND/SQUARE<br />
baling , mowing, plowing,<br />
grain drill, trees<br />
trimmed, gardens<br />
tilled. Hay hauling and<br />
hay for sale. Call<br />
(940)393-9616, (940)683-3148.<br />
SKID STEER SERVICE<br />
• Road Grading<br />
• Final Grades<br />
• Pads<br />
• Land & Lot Clearing<br />
• Home Improvements, etc.<br />
Logan Park<br />
940-393-6622<br />
71428<br />
A.C.A.M. Inc.<br />
PRECISION MACHINE SERVICES<br />
Largest machine capablilities in <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
No job too big or too small<br />
4 and 5 Axis Machining Centers<br />
Large Lathe Capabilities<br />
Oil Field Fabrication and Emergency Repairs<br />
940.433.2652<br />
Tony Wendling, Owner<br />
tonywendling@earthlink.net<br />
903 S. ALLEN, BOYD TX 76023<br />
HAY<br />
Horse & Cow Quality<br />
50 years of actual service<br />
in Hay Sales.Try us and<br />
see if our prices can be beat!<br />
Thank you,<br />
Danny Taylor<br />
940-389-3068<br />
Charles H. Taylor<br />
940-393-2728<br />
LONESOME DOVE FEED<br />
Authorized Bryant dealer, great feed<br />
at low prices! Round bales for sale.<br />
Located 1231 CR4380, Decatur.<br />
(940)389-2945.<br />
✭COASTAL HAY✭<br />
Large round bales, heavily fertilized<br />
&herbicided.NearAlvord,willload.<br />
(940)872-2197.<br />
ROUND & SQUARE BALES<br />
Coastal, wheat, coastal/rye mix. Delivery<br />
available. Call for pricing.<br />
(940)841-2150.<br />
WANT TO LEASE PASTURE<br />
for cattle & hay. Small or large acreage.<br />
Call for details. (940)389-8004.<br />
Pets<br />
PETS<br />
PETS<br />
• Pets<br />
• Pets Lost & Found<br />
• Pet Care/Training<br />
• Pet Stud Services<br />
!!ATTENTION!!<br />
We suggest that our readers thoroughly<br />
investigate any advertiser<br />
before investing any money.<br />
FRENCH MASTIFF<br />
pups. AKC registered, champion<br />
bloodlines. (817)877-7101.<br />
POODLES FROM PARADISE<br />
Registered. 2 apricot toy, male puppies.<br />
Email for pics/prices:<br />
poodlesfromparadise@gmail.com;<br />
or call (940)393-5834 for details.<br />
REGISTERED POODLES<br />
Ready to go Oct. 19, taking deposits<br />
now. 4 males, 2 females, some rare<br />
colors. (817)636-2826.<br />
Fence Pipe and Supplies<br />
2 3 /8 -2 7 /8 -3 1 /2 -4 1 /2 -5 1 /2<br />
Square & Rectangle Tubing<br />
C-Purlin<br />
Domed Caps and Springs<br />
All Types of Steel<br />
Authorized Dealer<br />
Flusche Enterprises, Inc.<br />
940-759-2203 Muenster, TX<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong><br />
Classifieds:<br />
The<br />
GOLD<br />
Standard<br />
in<br />
CLASSIFIEDS<br />
Classified GOLD<br />
CALL 940-627-5987 FOR<br />
MORE INFORMATION<br />
SUBSCRIBE:<br />
$37 IN-COUNTY<br />
$25 DIGITAL<br />
Pets lost and found<br />
Lost: adult male, 6-year-old Weimaraner,<br />
silver/gray, docked tail,<br />
answers to Wally, micro-chipped.<br />
Last seen Sat., Oct. 20, Runaway<br />
Bay. (940)210-0490.<br />
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE<br />
MERCHAN<br />
FOR SA<br />
Furniture<br />
Save on Aarons lease returns.<br />
Sanitized queen-size mattress and<br />
foundation, $119. 5-piece bedroom<br />
from $329. Laptops from $289.<br />
Lamp pairs from $29. Sofa and love<br />
seat, both for $349. TVs, appliances,<br />
recliners and more. Cash,<br />
credit card, debit card or check.<br />
Limited quantiies. Aarons, 1300<br />
Highway 51 South, Decatur, next to<br />
Dollar General. (940)627-5043, ask<br />
for Miles.<br />
We buy & sell USED OFFICE FUR-<br />
NITURE, 1117 Halsell Street,<br />
Downtown Bridgeport. Delivery, installation<br />
available. Call<br />
(940)683-4911 for more information.<br />
Garage sales<br />
• Appliances<br />
• Clothing/Jewelry<br />
• Furniture<br />
• Garage Sales<br />
• Firewood<br />
• Miscellaneous<br />
• Auctions<br />
!!ATTENTION!!<br />
Garage sale ads must be called in<br />
BEFORE NOON MONDAY to run in<br />
the All Around <strong>Wise</strong>/Wednesday<br />
edition. As of Oct. 1, 2012, all classifieds<br />
are in All Around <strong>Wise</strong>. We<br />
do not run garage sales the weekend<br />
before the sale.<br />
Boyd, 7291 S. FM 730 (2 miles<br />
north of Boyd Post Office), Sat.<br />
only, Oct. 27. Watch for signs, lots<br />
of stuff.<br />
Boyd, CR4581, 2 miles west off<br />
Highway 114, Fri.-Sat., Oct. 26-27.<br />
Multi-family sale, furniture, appliances,<br />
housewares, clothes, linens,<br />
books.<br />
Bridgeport, 8 Shady Creek Lane.<br />
Sat., Oct. 27, 8a.m.-5p.m. Yard<br />
sale, household items, clothing,<br />
books, exercise equipment.<br />
Decatur, 605 S. Trenchard,<br />
Fri.-Sat., Oct. 26-27, 8a.m.-noon.<br />
Vintage pottery & glassware, household<br />
items, miscellaneous items, no<br />
clothes.<br />
$20 for<br />
20 Words<br />
Weekend and<br />
All Around <strong>Wise</strong><br />
Only $1/word over 20 words
18 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Youth & Education<br />
FLOWER<br />
POWER<br />
SPIRIT —<br />
McCarroll<br />
Middle<br />
School<br />
sixth grader<br />
Ashlee<br />
Hudson<br />
pickets<br />
as part of<br />
a hippiethemed<br />
float in the<br />
Decatur<br />
homecoming<br />
parade<br />
Friday. Go<br />
to wcmess.<br />
com/parade<br />
for a video<br />
compiled by<br />
our Youth<br />
Spoken<br />
reporter,<br />
Madeline<br />
Peña.<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo<br />
by Joe Duty<br />
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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE<br />
Club celebrates National<br />
Respiratory Care Week<br />
This week is National Respiratory<br />
Care Week, and students at Weatherford<br />
College will observe the annual<br />
event sponsored by the American<br />
Association for Respiratory Care<br />
(AARC), which focuses on the work<br />
of respiratory therapists (RTs) and<br />
the importance of lung health.<br />
“People who are lucky enough to<br />
take breathing for granted may never<br />
have heard of a ‘respiratory therapist,’”<br />
said Christel Brenner, WC<br />
respiratory clinical coordinator in a<br />
college press release. “But for those<br />
with asthma, chronic obstructive<br />
pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis<br />
and other conditions, ‘RTs,’ as they<br />
are known for short, are the key to<br />
breathing easier.<br />
“National Respiratory Care Week<br />
is a great time for everyone to learn<br />
more about these vital health care<br />
professionals.”<br />
Respiratory therapists work in<br />
hospitals, long-term care facilities,<br />
home care settings and doctors’ offices<br />
to assist physicians in caring for<br />
their patients with pulmonary problems.<br />
They manage ventilators in<br />
the intensive care unit, perform the<br />
pulmonary function tests that are<br />
used to diagnose lung disease, and<br />
deliver respiratory care throughout<br />
hospitals and in the emergency department.<br />
RTs also spend time educating<br />
chronic lung disease patients about<br />
their conditions and the medications<br />
used to treat them so they will be<br />
better able to stay at home and out<br />
of the hospital, and they work in pulmonary<br />
rehabilitation programs to<br />
help people regain some of their lost<br />
functioning.<br />
The Respiratory Care Club secondyear<br />
students will host an information<br />
table 8 a.m. to noon in the Doss<br />
Center lobby on the main campus in<br />
Weatherford to celebrate National<br />
Respiratory Care Week.<br />
“We would like to invite everyone<br />
to come by and learn about respiratory<br />
therapy and lung disease,” said<br />
Brenner.<br />
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TRANSPORTATION<br />
NOTICES<br />
Decatur, 172 Heritage Parkway<br />
West, off FM 2264, Fri.-Sat., Oct.<br />
26-27, 8a.m.-2p.m. Inside sale,<br />
tools, glassware, child’s Radio Flyer<br />
horse, knickknacks, miscellaneous<br />
items.<br />
Decatur, 3109 S. College Ave.,<br />
Fri.-Sat., Oct. 26-27, starts 8a.m.<br />
Multi-family, clothes, entertainment<br />
stand, speakers, much more.<br />
Decatur, 332 Emma Call Court,<br />
Fri.-Sat., Oct. 26-27, 8a.m.-4p.m.<br />
Garage sale, lots of furniture.<br />
Decatur, 340 Greathouse Village,<br />
Fri., Oct. 26, 7:30a.m.-1p.m. Lots of<br />
stuff, priced to sell!<br />
ATTENTION GARAGE<br />
SALE ADVERTISERS:<br />
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Rhome, 2022 FM 407, Thur.-Sat.,<br />
Oct. 25-27, 8a.m.-4p.m. Multi-family<br />
yard sale, clothes, household items,<br />
maintenance items, furniture,<br />
glass/crystal, tools.<br />
Firewood<br />
SPLIT FIREWOOD<br />
$75/full load. Your truck, I load.<br />
Credit cards accepted.<br />
(817)444-0861, (817)690-4011.<br />
Musical<br />
Need drum set for praise team at local<br />
church. Please donate or sell to<br />
us cheap! God will bless!<br />
(940)389-5375.<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
FOR SALE: 5 GAS HEATERS<br />
(2 Dearborn) Set up for propane.<br />
$100/$150. (817)489-2514.<br />
LIMITED EDITION MARTIN<br />
COWBOY III GUITAR<br />
#299 of 750, with case. Price has<br />
been reduced. Call (940)872-9556<br />
or see at Harris Music Center, 111<br />
W. Main, Decatur.<br />
PECANS - NEW CROP<br />
$3.50 lb. unshelled, $9.00 lb.<br />
shelled. Partridge Pecans.<br />
(940)627-1484, (940)393-5903.<br />
ESTATE AUCTION<br />
Sunday, October 28 • 1:04 pm<br />
490 South Johnson Loop • Montague, TX<br />
Selling for the Dickie Durham Estate<br />
Directions: From Montague, take Hwy FM 455 towards Forestburg. Go approx 4.1 miles & turn<br />
on South Johnson Loop. Go approx 8/10ths of a mile. Auction site on right side of road and will be<br />
second home on right. *Preview will be any time after 8 a.m. Sunday. DO NOT enter til Sunday.<br />
This is a HUGE AMOUNT OF TOOLS & SHOP ITEMS-just name it & it’s here.<br />
A very good auction & a few items are ‘95 Flagstaff Pop Up Camper, ‘78 5th<br />
wheel camper, Dixon Zero Turn Riding Mower, Dayton AC Arc Shop Welder,<br />
Magnum XR7 Power Painter, Chicago Mig-100 Welder, all kinds of hand tools,<br />
wrenches, crescents, screwdrivers, sprayers, band saws, all kinds of saws,<br />
Dewalt Planer, Router Table w/router, power tools, nuts & bolts & bins, 6.5 hp<br />
60 gal. Campbell Hausfeld Air Compressor, shop table, hitches, vises, ladders,<br />
oak desk, dining furn., & MUCH MORE. Every drawer & corner is covered with<br />
good useable merchandise. This is one of the best tool auctions we have sold.<br />
For pictures & complete list go to: www.spikesauction.com<br />
Or contact Auctioneer:<br />
Gabe Spikes TX# 10293 • 940-872-5180 or 940-872-3613<br />
Huge Double Estate Auction<br />
Hometown Auction Service<br />
2770 W. US Hwy 380<br />
Runaway Bay, TX 76426<br />
10 AM • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27<br />
Russell and Paula Eagleton of Azle, TX have commissioned Hometown Auction Service<br />
to sell at auction both the estate of Russell's Parents and the majority of Russell's Tools,<br />
Hunting Equipment, and other Outdoor Items. Since an accident has left Russell<br />
paralyzed he no longer is able to use these things and wishes for others to be able to get<br />
some use out of them. Items from this auction will include Super Sweet approx. 1700<br />
Square Foot Double Wide House where Russell’s Mom and Dad lived. This house is being<br />
sold to be moved. It is in very nice condition and comes with Central Heat and Air Unit,<br />
a carport, a shed, and 2 porches. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large kitchen, and both a<br />
living room and dining room. The Reserve on this house is $17,500.00 and Must be<br />
Moved off the property at Buyer’s Expense. Call Judy if you would like to see it ahead of time. This<br />
auction also includes but is not limited to: Guns, Including Custom Deer Rifle in 30-06 Zastova<br />
Yugolslavia, Custom Deer Rifle, Savage Model 110 30-06, Old St. Louis Arms Double Barrel<br />
Percussion Shotgun, Savage 24S-E 22 over 410, Spanish 45 Cal. Black Powder Kentucky Long<br />
Rifl e, Old Philadelphia Derringer black powder, Daisy Pellet Gun, Ammo, Gun Cabinets, Very<br />
Large Safe, Knives, Antique Salesman's Knife Roll, Lots of Tools, Generator, Welder, Cutting<br />
Torch, Air Compressor, Bovine Seaman Collection System, 4 Wheeler, Furniture such as Recliner,<br />
Leather Sofa, Chair and Ottoman, Dining Table and Chairs, Dinette Set, Bedroom Suite,<br />
Fine Glass, Appliances, Vintage Pyrex Bowls and Cookware, Nice Pots & Pans, Books, Records,<br />
Metal Cabinets, Everyday Useful Items, Everything you can imagine and some you can’t.<br />
10% Buyer’s premium. All items sold “Where is, as is.”<br />
NO BUYER’S PREMIUM ON ITEMS OVER $2,500.00.<br />
Items may be previewed Friday October 26, 2012 from 8 to 4.<br />
Food Catered by KT's Cafe of Alvord Texas.<br />
Judy Norred TX Lic. #16795<br />
Cell: 817-995-3873<br />
http://www.hometownauctionservice.com<br />
POOL TABLE<br />
Almost new 8 foot Brunswick pool<br />
table with hardwood, protective table<br />
top & vinyl cover and all playing<br />
accessories. Less than 1-year-old,<br />
rarely used. Cost new $3,000; bargain<br />
at $1,750. Call Mark Jordan at<br />
the <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong>,<br />
(940)627-5987 or mjordan@wcmessenger.com<br />
for more information.<br />
287 SELF STORAGE<br />
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE<br />
Pursuant of Chapter 59, Texas Property Code,<br />
public sale to satisfy landlord’s lien to be held at<br />
287 Self Storage, 13340 Hwy 287, Haslet, Texas<br />
817-439-1900.<br />
The sale will begin at 10 am on November 6.<br />
Property will be sold to the highest bidder. Seller reserves<br />
the right to reject any bid. Sale will consist<br />
of furniture, misc. household, appliances, tools and misc.<br />
belonging to the following persons:<br />
Paul Steffen, Raymond Bryant<br />
Notice of Public Auction<br />
TEXAS AUCTIONEER – Luther Davis<br />
Texas License # TX8325<br />
Boyd Mini Storage, Pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, will conduct<br />
apublicsaleofthecontentsoftheunitslistedbelowtosatisfydelinquentaccounts<br />
(Landlord’s Lien). The sales will be conducted at Boyd Mini Storage,<br />
675 E Hwy. 114 Boyd, TX 76023 on<br />
Friday, November 2 • Auction will begin at 10 am.<br />
All sales are final. Boyd Mini Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids. Payment is<br />
accepted in the form of CASH ONLY from the highest bidder. Deposit of $50 per unit<br />
is required until the unit is clean. Buyers must remove all of the contents from the premises and<br />
units must be swept clean with no damages by 12 pm Saturday, November 3. Merchandise may<br />
only be removed during business hours from 9 am ‘til 6 pm.<br />
Della Lowe:<br />
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE<br />
Of property to satisfy Section 59 landlord’s lien.<br />
Rex C. McIntire:<br />
Donald or P.J. Pratt:<br />
(Cash or Cerifi ed Funds Only).<br />
Thursday, November 8 at 10 am<br />
5952 E. Hwy 114 Rhome, TX 76078<br />
At Precious Space Storage 940-683-5897<br />
1982 3/4 ton Ford pickup, needs<br />
work, $400. 16 foot flatbed trailer,<br />
$400. Concrete deer, $75. Antique,<br />
cast iron, wood burning stove, $300.<br />
1947 maytag, antique cook stove<br />
w/warming drawer, $500. 70+ year<br />
old, handmade oak dining table, 3<br />
leaves, $300. Pecan dining set w/6<br />
chairs, $300. 4 small working TVs,<br />
$25/each. (940)393-2859.<br />
Property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash only. $50.00 cleaning deposit<br />
is required for each unit purchased. Seller reserves right to withdraw property<br />
to sale. Come early to get signed in.<br />
Property includes contents space of following tenants:<br />
Maricela Hurtado -Yard tools, smoker, wicker furniture, office furniture, Little Tykes<br />
race car bed, other furniture and boxes of misc.<br />
Tara N. Foster - Leather jacket, jewelry box, stroller, household items.<br />
Victor R. Lugo - Bikes, desk chair, mattress, boxes of misc.<br />
Josh J Adams - TV, area rugs, clothes, chair, mattresses, misc. items.<br />
James M Kilpatrick - Furniture, desk, cabinet, chair, mini fridge, household items.<br />
Randall A Edwards - Refrigerator, mattresses, table chairs, head board, foot board,<br />
leather love seat, hair dressing station, chest, household items.<br />
Vicki R. Fowler - Mattresses, furniture, misc. boxes, household items.<br />
Auction to be conducted by, Judy Norred TX Lic# 16795 of<br />
Hometown Auction Service, Runaway Bay, TX Telephone # 817-995-3873.<br />
Electronics; stereo equipment; collectibles;<br />
Christmas items; toys; painting and power tools;<br />
home furnishings<br />
Wooden drawers; glider chair & footrest; bed<br />
frame; kitchen island w/ utensils; TV’s; couch<br />
Multiple wall paintings; 3 wooden dressers/drawers;<br />
antique bed; antique vanity & mirror; chair;<br />
Christmas items; vinyl records; corner shelf;<br />
books<br />
ALL UNITS CONTAIN OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS!<br />
ALL SALES ARE FINAL<br />
Cars<br />
Bishop’s<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> Car<br />
& Truck Co.<br />
1110 Hovey St. Bridgeport<br />
940-683-1999<br />
BAD CREDIT OK<br />
BUY HERE<br />
PAY HERE<br />
WWW.WISECARANDTRUCK.NET<br />
I’LL BUY THOSE YARD CARS<br />
as well as your good used cars.<br />
Arvin, (817)925-8768.<br />
DEPENDABLE CARS & TRUCKS<br />
$3,500 or less. We finance!<br />
Cowgirl Auto<br />
Sales, 804 Business<br />
Highway 287, Decatur,<br />
TX; (940)626-0070.<br />
Let’s do business! www.cowgirlautosales.com.<br />
107 S. Hwy 287 • Decatur, TX 76234<br />
940-626-8000 • 940-626-8003<br />
No Credit Check<br />
Bad Credit - No Credit<br />
No Problem<br />
Hassle Free Financing<br />
Report to Credit Bureau<br />
Many Clean & Reliable<br />
Cars, Trucks, SUVs in<br />
Inventory.<br />
Come By and See Us!<br />
Trade Ins Welcome!<br />
940-626-8000<br />
www.bmgautosales.com<br />
www.bmgautogroup.com<br />
bmgauto1@yahoo.com<br />
Recreational vehicles<br />
1995 JEEP CHEROKEE<br />
4-wheel-drive, 4-liter HO, 3” lift,<br />
3110.5 Maxxis, roof rack, grill guard,<br />
Banks header. $3,500.<br />
(940)393-6582.<br />
2004 HONDA SHADOW AERO<br />
(VT750C), WINDSHIELD, BACK-<br />
REST, CRASH BARS, AND LUG-<br />
GAGE RACK ADDED! Inspired by<br />
both the Shadow A.C.E. 750 Deluxe<br />
and Shadow Spirit 750, this classic<br />
machine features incomparable<br />
retro styling, shaft drive; a low, 26”<br />
seat height, 50 MPG, and best of<br />
all, full-sized looks and performance<br />
without the full-sized price. Maroon,<br />
7,095 miles. $4,000.<br />
(940)393-8663.<br />
2007 38’ travel trailer, bumper pull.<br />
Very nice. Washer/dryer, 2 ACs,<br />
heater, stereo system & many more<br />
extras. (940)389-0092.<br />
Legal notices<br />
NOTICE<br />
Notice is hereby given that, acting<br />
under and pursuant to the Ordinances<br />
of the City of Boyd, Texas,<br />
on the 17th day of October, 2012,<br />
Devon Energy Production Company,<br />
L.P. filed with the Gas Inspector<br />
of the City of Boyd, an application<br />
to drill, complete and operate<br />
wells for gas upon property located<br />
at in the Phillip Barton Survey, A-92,<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong>, Boyd, Texas, more<br />
particularly shown of record in Volume<br />
146, Page 163, Lease Records<br />
of <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong>, Texas, or per Tax<br />
Tract Number R000002207, <strong>Wise</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>, Texas.<br />
Bids & Proposals<br />
NOTICE TO VENDORS<br />
INVITATION TO BID<br />
CSP# 10302012-1<br />
Pogue Construction Company will<br />
receive subcontractor proposals for<br />
the New Elementary School #17 at<br />
1512 Bray Central Drive, Suite 300,<br />
McKinney, TX 75069. Pogue Construction<br />
is acting as a Construction<br />
Manager at Risk for the Northwest<br />
Independent School District for:<br />
New Elementary School #17 containing:<br />
• All trades.<br />
Before October 30, 2012 @<br />
11:00 a.m., Pogue Construction<br />
Company shall receive the proposals<br />
at Pogue Construction's office,<br />
and shall open all proposals at<br />
11:00 a.m., October 30, 2012.<br />
Drawings, specifications, and proposal<br />
forms may be obtained beginning<br />
October 12, 2012 from K&M<br />
Reproduction, 9076 Forest Lane,<br />
Dallas, TX 75243, 214/369-4333. A<br />
total deposit of $150 will be required<br />
to obtain one set of drawings and<br />
one project manual. Deposit checks<br />
will be returned if the Proposal<br />
Documents are returned to the construction<br />
manager's office in good<br />
condition, within ten (10) days after<br />
the Proposal opening.<br />
Pogue Construction reserves the<br />
right to reject any/or all proposals<br />
and to accept any proposal or combination<br />
of proposals deemed most<br />
advantageous to the Northwest Independent<br />
School District and to<br />
waive any informalities in bidding.<br />
Questions concerning the project<br />
may be directed to Pogue Construction<br />
at (972) 529-9401.<br />
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Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER 19<br />
YOU’LL FIND THE BEST VALUES EVERY DAY AT<br />
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GREAT DEALS IN OCTOBER!<br />
HUGE SAVINGS ON JEEPS!<br />
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20 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012<br />
Homecoming 2012<br />
(817) 479-9909<br />
ROYAL FAMILY<br />
— Decatur<br />
High School<br />
seniors Gunnar<br />
(far left) and<br />
Macky Dailey<br />
(second from<br />
right) were<br />
crowned<br />
Decatur High<br />
School’s<br />
homecoming<br />
king and<br />
queen during<br />
halftime of<br />
Friday’s game.<br />
They are<br />
pictured with<br />
their parents<br />
Tracy and Gary<br />
Dailey.<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo<br />
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Decatur, Texas, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ALL AROUND WISE • A PART OF THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER 21<br />
Outdoors<br />
Squirrels can wreak<br />
havoc in the treetops<br />
CROSSWORD SOLUTION<br />
By NEIL SPERRY<br />
Dear Neil: Have you<br />
ever seen cedar elm bark<br />
scratched and peeled in<br />
strings? Two branches have<br />
died, apparently because of<br />
the loss of bark. There appear<br />
to be large areas up<br />
in the tree where the bark<br />
is gone. What might have<br />
caused that kind of damage?<br />
It sounds like squirrel<br />
damage. They’re notorious<br />
for peeling bark and killing<br />
branches, most notably<br />
in pecans and live oaks,<br />
but you’ll see<br />
their damage<br />
in other<br />
species as<br />
well. You’ll<br />
see 3-foot areas<br />
high up<br />
Gardener’s in live oaks<br />
and pecans,<br />
Mailbag<br />
where all of<br />
the leaves<br />
suddenly turn brown in the<br />
summer. On closer inspection,<br />
usually with binoculars,<br />
you can see that the<br />
bark has been stripped as<br />
the rodents sharpened their<br />
teeth. Some larger beetles<br />
will also do modest amounts<br />
of bark scoring, but they’re<br />
certainly not my prime suspects.<br />
I would suggest you<br />
hire a certified arborist to<br />
look at the issue on-site.<br />
Dear Neil: Is it normal<br />
for moss rose plants to quit<br />
flowering this early?<br />
Yes. They bloom reliably<br />
for several months, but<br />
they thrive in the heat. As<br />
temperatures begin to drop<br />
in early to mid-fall, their<br />
flower production sinks. It’s<br />
time to pull them and replace<br />
them with pansies or<br />
other winter color.<br />
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day, and I noticed a stub left<br />
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It extends out from the<br />
trunk by probably 2 inches,<br />
and the original branch<br />
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Outdoors<br />
Squirrels can ...<br />
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has turned very black and<br />
cracked. Should I recut that<br />
branch a little closer to the<br />
trunk for him?<br />
Yes. If the blackened old<br />
limb extends beyond the roll<br />
of new bark that the plant<br />
is producing to cover the<br />
wound, cut it back to the<br />
edge of that roll. That will<br />
shorten the time it will take<br />
the plant to swell the new<br />
bark out and over the remnants.<br />
I would not cut back<br />
far enough that you were<br />
cutting into green wood.<br />
Dear Neil: Our townhouse<br />
commons board decided to<br />
do extensive relandscaping<br />
by removing topsoil and the<br />
grass that had died during<br />
the drought. They also did a<br />
lot of trimming of the trees,<br />
saying it would help the new<br />
grass and plants grow more<br />
vigorously. My concern is<br />
whether this is the best time<br />
to be exposing the bare soil<br />
and do the rest of this work.<br />
Fall is the best time for<br />
landscaping. Trees and<br />
shrubs planted in the fall<br />
will have six extra months<br />
to get good root systems<br />
established compared to<br />
spring plantings. As for<br />
whether exposing bare soil<br />
at this point might or might<br />
not have been a good idea,<br />
that rests completely with<br />
whether they planted sod or<br />
seeded a cool-season grass<br />
in the interim week or so<br />
since you sent your question.<br />
You should be fine.<br />
Dear Neil: What is this<br />
absolutely stunning groundcover<br />
I saw at a shopping<br />
center recently? It’s not just<br />
an annual, is it? (Photo enclosed)<br />
That’s purpleheart (Setcreasea<br />
pallida). It’s a sister<br />
to the tropical hanging<br />
basket plants known as<br />
wandering Jews. Purpleheart<br />
is winter-hardy in<br />
most winters, but it does die<br />
down to the ground with the<br />
first freeze. Its electric, midlavender/purple<br />
color just<br />
gets more intense as the<br />
fall weather cools. It’s also<br />
quite tolerant of heat and<br />
drought. Nice plant.<br />
Dear Neil: I saw your<br />
recent reference to twig girdlers.<br />
I’ve attached a photo<br />
of a tree in our front yard.<br />
Is the damage you see of the<br />
nasty twig girdler?<br />
For others, let me describe<br />
what the photo shows. It’s<br />
a close photo of the trunk<br />
of a tree that appears to be<br />
10 or 12 inches in diameter.<br />
Equal-sized branches fork<br />
apart at a 40-degree angle,<br />
and one is encircled by a<br />
ring of dark bark that would<br />
appear to be at the juncture<br />
of the two limbs. This<br />
is completely different from<br />
the damage done by twig<br />
girdlers. That large beetle<br />
attacks branches up to onehalf-inch<br />
in diameter. This<br />
is some type of seepage coming<br />
from within the branch,<br />
and you definitely want to<br />
have a certified arborist look<br />
at this tree as soon as possible.<br />
It probably will be nothing<br />
of concern, but you need<br />
to know that to be sure.<br />
Dear Neil: I have a large<br />
splitleaf philodendron (not<br />
the climbing type). I’ve had<br />
it for several years, but now<br />
I’m wondering if I can get it<br />
into the house for the winter.<br />
It’s probably 6 feet across.<br />
Can it be trimmed?<br />
No. If you start removing<br />
healthy leaves, you’ll really<br />
set it back, plus it will<br />
be leggy and unsightly as it<br />
tries to regrow next spring.<br />
I have a large one that is<br />
probably 30 years old. I put<br />
it on a plant dolly and wheel<br />
it into my greenhouse for<br />
the winter. At that point,<br />
I insert three fairly heavy<br />
(1-inch) stakes into the pot,<br />
and I use soft rope to pull<br />
the plant up into a tight vase<br />
shape. You might be able to<br />
do something akin to that,<br />
just more attractive, for the<br />
winter. Or, put it on casters<br />
and wheel it into and out of<br />
the garage as the weather<br />
changes. If it’s Philodendron<br />
selloum, it can take a light<br />
frost (to 31 or 32 degrees)<br />
without damage. However, I<br />
don’t take that chance. Good<br />
luck.<br />
<br />
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