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The Power of Using the RIGHT Network!!! Have you ever had a medical emergency…gone to the closest hospital and then been shocked by the excessive bills you received?!? This is because doctors and hospitals can charge five to seven times what the medicare fee schedule allows if they are not held accountable to a network! If you have an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) network, you HAVE to stay in network or your plan does NOT pay- except in an emergency! Even on a PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) network, the plan pays more in network then it will out of network. BUT there is another side to this...if you are OUT of network, that doctor or hospital can and will charge whatever they want to charge! (YIKES!) I’ve seen a lot of examples of this… Not too long ago, I met with a couple that had a plan that did not participate in a network, this means the ENTIRE balance that the hospital charged them, somewhere in the $120,000 range, had to be negotiated (hopefully) AFTER the fact! It had been somewhere around a year and a half before the hospital finally lowered the bill a little so it could be paid! With an insurance plan that uses a network and then making sure to use that network when you go to the doctor or hospital, you will see that in-network allowed price...for significant savings! I also helped a couple review their group plan, we found a disclaimer on their network search that stated: “this plan does not allow access to the network at any acute care hospitals.” Wait, do what?!? So…absolutely NO hospital is in the network? They were in disbelief- Not good. As an example, my husband recently had an outpatient specialist visit- In his Explanation of Benefits it showed that they billed $142.00. However, just by being an in-network provider, the actual bill that we received from that provider was $78.37. This is almost half of the total charge discounted without the consumer doing anything but showing a card. Again, the power of the RIGHT network! So, how can you protect you and your family? 1. Have a plan with a network and make sure that the doctors, hospitals and labs you use are in that network. 2. Know ahead of time what urgent care facilities and/or emergency facility you have in your network near your home or work. 3. If you need a surgery, MAKE sure you do not just go where the doctor says to go! They are not verifying your network- this is up to you. Did you know many doctors have partnership in ambulatory surgical facilities- so naturally they send you to their facilities! VERIFY the facility is IN your network. 4. In an emergency that is life threatening, bills should be in-network at least until you are stable enough to transport to an in-network hospital. VERIFY they bill in-network prices when you receive your statements. If it is not, you must request this change be made5. f you go to an in-network facility and a doctor on call or specialist bills you out of network prices- do not accept the first price they give you! Call the billing office and make them aware that you had no control of what doctor was on call at your in-network facility. 6. Make sure the lab work you have done at a doctor’s office can be sent to an in-network lab. I’ve seen a bill go from $680.00 to $57.00 with network repricing! Questions about your coverage? The power is in knowing that you are using the RIGHT network. So, make an educated decision- Please contact us at (469) 536-9080 for a complimentary coverage review…we are here to help!

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April 2019

VOL 1, Issue 2 Published By 4CMEDIAGROUP, LLC

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Gunter Bass FISHING For the 4th year in a row, GHS Bass Fishing team is on their way to the Regional Tournament on April 13. Last year they won this tournament so they are hoping for a repeat! Austin Gaines & Grant Gilbert Chandler Wade & Cooper Wade Grant McClure & Boone Self Caden Sansone & Bleize Parker Jacob Merrill & Jacob Parish 8

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It's time to begin preparation for the 2019-20 Athletic season! All athletes must complete and submit the Athletic Paperwork annually in order for the student to participate in athletic activities. This may be done online or you may print the packet. This must be done by Friday, May 3rd. Incoming 7th, 9th, and 11th grade athletes are required to have an updated physical form. Also any new student to the district must have a physical to participate in athletics. The athletic physicals are scheduled for April 24, 2019. Please print the paperwork and have it ready for the physician on that day along with your payment. Both of these forms may be found at this link: https://www.gunterisd.org/Page/413

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SCHOOL ZONE GMS Band received 1’s at UIL Competition and walked away with the highest score of the day! Outstanding job!!

National Author & Speaker Robb Holladay visited our middle and high school students to discuss the dangers of vaping. In conjunction with several other schools in the area, we were able to bring Mr. Holladay to the area to deliver this important message. Holladay had an energetic presentation in which the students found themselves laughing and actively participating in the discussion all while learning valuable lessons along the way. He even added a few magic tricks to engage the students. Holladay’s presentation “Vaping: What’s in the Mist” covered why students are vaping and the health risks associated with e-cigarettes. He also touched on the use of marijuana and the costs associated with both addictions. Mr. Holladay also met with the commun ty later in the evening to help them understand what their children are facing. He shared the pressures from friends, social media and advertising. He guided them in ways to help their children avoid the pressures and also gave them ideas to help their children get help if they are already addicted to nicotine. Thank you, Mr. Holladay, for bringing such an important message to our students. The middle school students were very active during Escape the Vape Week researching, creating and learning about the dangers of vaping.

The 7th grade continues their work to raise money to preserve the 1913 Grayson County map. If you would like to donate to their cause, please contact Mrs. Rodarmer at the middle school or reach out to OurGunter for information.

This group of students spent time throughout the year preparing academically in their chosen category to compete academically against other students in our district. It’s not a spectator sport, but it is intense! Congratulations to all of these students on your accomplishments. Gunter Floral team rocked 4th place at West Texas TAMU. We are super proud of these ladies! They increased their individual scores and team score by 400 points!! Hard work pays off!!

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Gunter Elementary School Muffins with Mom Monday, April 15 - 6:45am - 7:45am Information can be found on the GES website.

APRIL 2019 GISD CAMPUS CALENDARs GUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL April 2 April 8 April 15 April 23

Pre-K/Kindergarten Round Up 4:00pm GIFT Reception 6:30pm Muffins With Mom 6:45am Book Fair Begins GISD School Board Meeting 6:00pm

GUNTER HIGH SCHOOL April 5

HS Band to Pottsboro

April 8

GIFT Reception 6:30pm

April 9

EOC English I

Ribbon Cutting @ Strength and Conditioning

April 10

District Track Prelims @ Ponder

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EOC English II

District Track Finals @ Ponder

April 12

Regional UIL Meet

April 13

Regional UIL Meet

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GUNTER MIDDLE SCHOOL April 3 April 8 April 9 April 10 April 23 April 25 April 26 April 29

Spring Pictures 8:00am GIFT Reception 6:30pm STAAR Testing 5th/7th/8th STAAR Testing 5th/8th GISD School Board Meeting 5th/6th Choir Contest in Royce City MS Band Peak Performance MS Band to Hurricane Harbor

April 15

Night of the ARTS 6:30pm

April 17

Band UIL Contest/Sight Reading @ Pottsboro HS

April 18

Texoma Blood Drive 8:00am - 4:00pm

Band UIL Contest/Sight Reading @ Pottsboro HS

April 23

GISD School Board Meeting

April 26

Regional Track Meet @ Whitehouse HS

April 27

Regional Track Meet @ Whitehouse HS

State FFA Contest

FFA Alumni Auction @ GHS 6:00pm

April 30

Special Olympics Track Meet @ Gunter

NHS Induction 6:00pm

April 19 & 22 Bad Weather Days Schedules subject to change, please check website and/or social media for updates www.gunterisd.org/calendars

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B a r b e d Wi re Wa r s

By: Juanita Hazelton

Scott Jordan in his book, Jot Gunter November 14, 1845 – July 18, 1907, recounts information about Grayson County resident Henry Sanborn and his influence on bringing barbed wire to Texas. In 1875, Sanborn became the Texas sales agent for Joseph Glidden’s newly patented invention. When Glidden and his partner Judson Warner shipped the first carloads of barbed wire to Texas, farmers and ranchers were involved in controversy over preservation of open range vs closed protection of fields. The Online Handbook of Texas History says, “Sanborn took up ranching to promote the use of barbed wire. He purchased a 2,000-acre ranch west of Sherman in Grayson County in 1876. Over the years, this ranch grew to be 10,300 acres.” Sanborn’s 10,000-acre ranch was an attempt to prove barbed wire could be successfully used in fencing large acreages. Jot Gunter and Ben Munson used barbed wire provided by Sanborn. “Col. Jot Gunter, I.S. Kimberlin, and the Yarboroughs… were among the first men in the county to fence the land and locate ranches.” A Sanborn Ranch historical marker in Grayson County can be found at SH 56 between Whitesboro and Southmayd. The text of the marker can be accessed at http://www.co.grayson. tx.us/upload/common/Historical/Markers/. According to Neilson Rogers in his book Grayson Sample of barbed wires. County, Where the West (Photos courtesy of Juanita Hazelton) Began, Sanborn partnered with Glidden in 1881 at their 250,000 acre Frying Pan Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, with 120 miles of barbed wire. Rogers says, “The fencing of such a large area was unprecedented. Sanborn brought his superintendent from his Grayson County ranch and placed him in charge of building the fence. An order of special extra-heavy Glidden barbed wire was shipped to the closest railroad terminal which was 250 miles away. Posts were cut and hauled by bull team from the Palo Duro Canyon which was forty miles away. The cost of the fence was $39,000.” One of the largest fencing operations in Texas was the XIT Ranch in West Texas, where 300 fence builders enclosed 476,000 acres with barbed wire fencing purchased from Sanborn. 12

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At his Grayson County horse ranch, Sanborn is credited with improving the cowhorse by crossing thoroughbreds with mustangs. He exhibited race horses each fall in Dallas. The land on which the Cotton Bowl and the State Fair of Texas is held was donated by Sanborn to the City of Dallas. Walter Prescott Webb in his book, The Texas Rangers, a Century of Frontier Defense, tells us fencing was well under way in Texas by 1880, and “practically complete by 1890.” Many men unwilling to believe free range was over began a fence-cutters war. In Texas the trouble became so acute that Governor John Ireland called a special session of the legislature in 1884 to make fence cutting a felony. Texas Rangers were called in wherever fence-cutting was prevalent. Scott Jordan quotes from J. Frank Dobie about an incident told by Miss Lillian Gunter of Cooke County. Jot Gunter sent for a Mr. Wright who worked for him in Amarillo country. Gunter told him “the fence-cutters are cutting my fences all to pieces, and I can’t get nobody here to stop them. I’ve sent for you.” Walter Prescott Webb quoted John Nance Garner, then a young county judge in Uvalde County, “I write at the request of several of the most prominent citizens of this county to inform you of violations of the law in this county and to ask your assistance.” He goes on to describe a four-wire fence cut between every post, three times, even though it was rebuilt. “What we want is about three good Rangers to come here and catch the law breakers. They can catch them within a week or ten days.” Webb quotes from a petition to the governor, signed by a group of women in Waller County: “This combination of lawless men is so strong that the sheriff of Waller County has failed to give us protection… They cut our fences and threaten us with death if we dare to repair them. They have overawed the officers of the law who fear to incur their enmity. They have fired shots into the houses of our good citizens at night in the attempt to assassinate them or to overawe them.”

One of the rangers sent to deal with the problem was Ira Aten. He was able to infiltrate the fence cutting gang in Brown county and report them to authorities. Later he proposed planting dynamite along fences, so the cutters would set it off when they cut the fence. Webb tells that Austin authorities were alarmed and ordered him not to proceed. Webb says, “There is no record that bombs were ever set in Texas, but there is a tradition that Ira Aten’s ‘boom racket’ had much influence in putting fear into the hearts of fence-cutters and in stamping out the illegal use of the nippers.” Many kinds of barbed wire besides those produced by Glidden were made. Ellis Barrier, long time resident of Gunter, Texas, makes collectibles of different types of barbed wire. His plaques appear in many businesses, including the Gunter Library. Chances are, if you see a plaque in the shape of Texas, with several types of barbed wire identified on it, you will be looking at one of Mr. Barrier’s creations.

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We live in an area that is prone to severe weather. Tornados can occur at any time of the year, however, spring time is when the weather can be the most unpredictable. Now is the time to make sure you have a plan for severe weather. Prepare your family members for the possibility of severe weather. Tell them where to seek appropriate shelter as soon as they are aware of an approaching storm. Practice your emergency plan for every type of severe weather. Show family members where the emergency supplies are stored, and make sure they know how to turn off the water, gas, and electricity in your home. Often by the time we are aware of an approaching storm, we have little if any time to prepare for it. But we do know that when spring arrives, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and floods are real possibilities. Keep an emergency kit on hand and include the following items:

Sketch of Sanborn’s Ranch from Neilson Rogers’ book, “Grayson County, Where the West Began”

Photograph of the Texas Historical Commission marker for Sanborn Ranch in Whitesboro, Texas. Text: Established in late 1870s by H.B. Sanborn, one of the major promoters of barbed wire. Ranch was first large area in Texas to be fenced with barbed wire.

Information for this article was taken from Scott Jordan’s book Jot Gunter, November 14, 1845-July 18, 1907, from Walter Prescott Webb’s book The Texas Rangers, a Century of Frontier Defense, The Online Handbook of Texas, Grayson County, Where the West Began by Neilson Rogers, and Harold Preece’s book LoneStar Man, Ira Aten, Last of the Old Texas Rangers.

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A battery-operated flashlight A battery-operated NOAA Weather Radio Extra batteries Extra clothes and shoes A first aid kit Medication 3-5 days of water and nonperishable food Personal hygiene items Blanket

Outdoor warning sirens are designed to alert people who are outdoors to take immediate cover. The sirens are NOT designed to alert those indoors. If you live close to a siren, you many hear it in your home, but you need to use other means to stay aware of changing weather conditions. The city encourages you to sign up for the Code Red emergency alert system. Code Red weather warnings (and other city emergencies) will notify your phone number of choice in the event of severe weather. To Sign Up go to: https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/4622ACCE628A

Take the surprise factor out of severe weather and prepare yourself and your family.

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The Gunter Library and Museum has been a part of the Gunter community for sixteen years. We are a 501 c3 non profit Library with volunteers who give their time and talents to serve our area’s business, academic, imagination, and reading needs. Visit us 110 S. Hwy 289 (next to the donut shop) and take advantage of our services • • • • •

Books in print/audio/e-books/DVDs Storytime, STEAM, and kids Summer Reading programs Book Club Free wifi and computer access with printer and fax services Visit our museum and featuring artifacts, picture, and stories about the history of Gunter

We are always in need of community members to support and serve at the library in various ways, such as: • Volunteer your time and assist community members as they use the library • Serve on the Friends of the Library board assisting in fundraising efforts • Join our Board of Directors to assist efforts to ensure library volunteers operate within the policies, procedures and the by-laws that support the Library’s purpose.

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April 2

April 2019 Gunter Library Calendar of Events 10:30 am

Story Time

April 4

4:00 pm

STEM

April 7-13

National Library Week – Online Trivia Game with a chance to win a Kindle Fire

April 8

Registration begins for Window Decorating Contest

April 9

10:30 am

Story Time

April 11

4:00 pm

STEM

6:00 pm

Library Board of Directors Meeting – open to the public

April 16

10:30 am

Story Time – Annual Easter Egg Hunt

April 18

4:00 pm

STEM

April 23

10:30 am

Story Time

April 25

4:00 pm

STEM

7:00 pm

Book Club – discussing Wool by Hugh Howey

Stay current on all library events and activities by visiting us at www.gunterlibrary.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Thank You To Our Sponsors Gunter Library & Museum 110 S. Hwy 289 (next to the donut shop)

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