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Johnson County’s three district judges in the law library of the Guinn Justice Center in Cleburne. From left are 249th District Court Judge Wayne Bridewell, 413th District Court Judge Bill Bosworth and 18th District Court Judge John Neill.

ifferent paths led them to the law and the bench, but all three Johnson County district judges remain resolute delivering justice impartially and fairly in Johnson County. Three district courts serve Johnson County. Judge John Neill rides the bench in the 18th District Court. Judge Wayne Bridewell serves as judge for the 249th District Court and Judge Bill Bosworth oversees the 413th District Court. The numbers, Bridewell explained, represent the order in which the Texas Legislature created the courts. Therefore, Johnson County’s oldest court is the 18th while the 413th is its most recent. The numbers don’t fall sequentially given that the Legislature created

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district courts in other parts of Texas between the establishment of the 18th to the 249th and so on. Bridewell and Neill also hold concurrent jurisdiction over the district courts in neighboring Somervell County, a dual role Johnson and Somervell County District Attorney Dale Hanna also exercises. “The creation of a new district court is based on population, really the increase in new dockets, cases,” Bosworth said. “There’s nothing automatic about it though, the county has to actively request a new court. It doesn’t just kick in at some given population level. The 18th was in the first batch, from when Texas became a state or close to it. I don’t remember how many were in that

first group then the 249th sometime in the ’70s I believe and the 413th last. When you get population growth and the number of cases per judge increases to the point they think a new court is called for the county can ask the [local state representative], who was Arlene Wohlgemuth at the time of the creation of the 413th, to help in creating a new court, because courts are created by an act of legislation.”

District judges, though they are assigned to a court in a given county, are paid and employed by the state. Johnson County, or whichever given county the court sits in, pays for the judge’s staff and maintenance and operation of the county’s court buildings. All three Johnson County district courts exercise general jurisdiction, Bridewell said. Community Life

“That means we hear felony criminal cases, civil cases domestic relations or family law cases, which include adoptions, divorces and things of that kind,” Bridewell said. “Basically any type of case a district court maintains jurisdiction over.” Which is quite a lot although some matters, such as bankruptcy and patent law remain the jurisdiction of federal courts while others, such as probate and juvenile matters, are generally handled by county courts at law. County courts at law, Johnson County has two, share jurisdiction with the district courts in civil cases, which basically involve one party suing another for damages, usually monetary, up to a certain dollar, or amount in controversy, amount. They

also share jurisdiction in family law matters. The general jurisdiction character of Johnson County’s courts suits Neill just fine. “Take Tarrant or Dallas counties,” Neill said. “Because they’re so much larger than us and have so many courts a lot of their courts are specialized, dealing with only one type case, area of law, which makes sense. With 18 or whatever courts they have in Tarrant County if wouldn’t make sense for all of them to be general jurisdiction courts. “But I prefer general jurisdiction where we see a cross section of cases. I can’t imagine just doing family law, or whatever, all day everyday. There would be an advantage in helping

“It was hard having a number of good clients and having built up a practice over the years and then all the sudden having to tell them I’m going to be a judge and not able to help them anymore. It’s kind of like a doctor who retires. — 413th District Court Judge Bill Bosworth

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you focus in and specialize on that specific area of law I suppose, but as far as making the job interesting.”

The call of the law

None of the three judges, interestingly enough, considered becoming an attorney in their younger days. “I wanted to be a kid when I was a kid,” Bosworth said when asked what the younger version of himself wanted to be when he grew up. “I just stayed outside and had fun.” Neill’s early ambitions were, perhaps, a bit more considered. “Train engineer I guess,” Neill responded to the same question. “I was fascinated with trains as a kid. Always had a train under my bed, my dad made a platform on wheels so I could roll it out.” Others apparently thought the law might be a good fit for Bridewell before he realized it himself. “I remember when I was a boy, 5 or 6 probably, my Aunt Clara in Dallas encouraged me to go to law school and later, when I was a senior at Glen Rose High School, my ag teacher talked to me one day and encouraged me to think about being an attorney.”

Bridewell, 66, nonetheless. graduated GRHS in 1967 and continued on to Tarleton State University where he majored in government and minored in history. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and, during my first couple of years, thought about several things,” Bridewell said. A chance stop by the student union building one day to listen to a Stephenville attorney proved instrumental. “I found his talk interesting and started checking into going to law school and becoming an attorney,” Bridewell said. “The more I learned about the law the more interested I became in it.” Bridewell went on to graduate from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1973. “Doesn’t seem that long ago,” Bridewell joked. “But it’s been a number of years.” Bosworth, 52, graduated from Cleburne High School in 1981 and went on to receive a degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Unsure of what to do upon graduation, Bosworth said he consulted with several movers and shakers in town, including banker Lowell “Stretch” Smith, who told Bosworth to consider becoming a bank examiner. “Stretch told me a bank examiner is a

good way to learn about business because you go from bank to bank and examine loans made to businesses and how they’re structured and how the businesses work.” Bosworth, who worked as an examiner during the savings and loan crisis days and the beginnings of bank consolidations, said he was never really that interested in being a banker. “When I was a bank examiner I realized nothing much could get done until they called the lawyers in to solve the problems,” Bosworth said. “I also saw a lot of bankers in their 40s and 50s, upper half of their careers, who had worked 20, 30 years for a bank and, there’s a merger or consolidation, and their job is eliminated. That’s when I decided I didn’t want to be dependent on a large organization so to speak. I figured a lawyer’s a lot like a plumber or electrician. It’s a problem solver. You hang out your shingle and help people with their problems.” Bosworth graduated form St. Mary’s University School of Law in 1991. Neill, 55, graduated from Burleson High School and earned a history degree from Baylor University in 1982. Neill worked as a runner at a law firm while pursuing a masters in history at UT.

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“One of the attorneys there asked what I planned to do with a masters degree in history that I couldn’t do with a bachelors,” Neill said. “I said, ‘I don’t know,’ and he said, ‘Well, why don’t you consider going to law school?’” He did, and graduated from St. Mary’s Law in 1986.

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Bridewell worked in private practice for a short time before becoming an assistant attorney for the county’s district and county attorneys. “In law school they had a saying that the law’s a jealous mistress because of the long hours attorneys work,” Bridewell joked. “Law school was very challenging but it seemed the more I learned about the law the more I liked it. To me, being an attorney and later a judge is something that’s interesting.” Bosworth worked in private practice from 1991 to 2003 and was appointed to the newly created 413th District Court that same year by then Gov. Rick Perry. A Republican, as all three judges are, Bosworth ran for his first full term in 2004 and has been elected for three four-year terms since. Bosworth said he hopes to remain a judge for as long as people see fit to elect him. Rules prohibit judges from practicing while on the bench, however, something Bosworth said he misses at times.

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said. “It’s kind of like a doctor who retires. You know, what are his patients going to do type thing?” Bridewell, who began his seventh term on Jan. 1, said he prefers his role in public office as a judge, both on the 249th Dis-

“I found his talk interesting and started checking into going to law school and becoming an attorney. The more I learned about the law the more interested I became in it.”

— 249th District Court Judge Wayne Bridewell trict Court and as county judge, and his earlier stints as an assistant prosecutor. Then Gov. George Bush appointed Neill to the 18th District Court in 1998 after Senior District Judge C.C. “Kit” Cooke retired. Now in his fifth full term, Neill said he hopes to return to private practice one day. “There are days I prefer being a judge and there are days I look forward to going back into private practice,” Neill joked. “There are some days I think about it all day. “Being a judge can be a lonely job because you’re isolated. When you become a judge you have to isolate yourself from a lot of former friends because a lot of them were attorneys you knew from before. You don’t want to be seen on Facebook hanging out

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with them, vacationing with them and things like that after you become a judge.” Rules of ethics also prohibit judges from talking about specific cases or even memorable or funny courtroom experiences. “I can’t get into which cases are the most memorable for me, I just can’t” Bosworth said. “But it’s a fair question so let me give you an answer as to why. “A case might be memorable to me for a number of different reasons but that case is still going to be very sensitive and serious to the people involved in it. For the people in those cases the memories are still sore to them either on one side or the other so, by law and ethically, we can’t comment on specific cases.” Neill allowed one memory of a young man in another courtroom that he heard about who failed a drug test. “They take them [in the back rooms] for the UA tests and, well he failed,” Neill said. “So he runs back into the courtroom, past the bench and the council tables. Out in the audience was an attorney who had played rugby in college and he just body blocks the kid, knocks him across the room and then, of course, the bailiffs arrested him. “Actually I wish I would have kept a diary of the daily stuff that happens.” Judges may not be able to talk specifics, but they still have opinions, Bosworth said. “One of the hardest things for people to

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understand is that every human being has opinions and things that bother them or don’t bother them,” Bosworth said. “So judges have opinions too. But, we’re trained and sworn by law to put those

opinions aside. “You see what I’m saying? The trial is on the facts that are presented. So I may be for or against a particular issue on a personal basis but the rules don’t even

“Sometimes I don’t agree with it, but the law is what it is and that’s what we took an oath to follow.” — 18th District Court Judge John Neill allow me to tell you what my personal preferences are. I’ve got to follow the rules and not let you know what my personal preference is. And I put my personal preferences aside and decide the question of law in front of me. You have to impose the rule of law as it’s written without regard to your personal preference if that makes any sense.” It is not always easy. “You know, witnesses are characters and Texas is full of, there are a lot of funny people in Texas,” Bosworth said. “You put them on the stand and they bring with them everything they are. “We try to maintain decorum and be serious in court but there are some things that are said sometimes that, they’re just funny. You try to bite your tongue and not laugh but there are times in almost

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Johnson County is served by three district courts, all of which are housed in the Guinn Justice Center in Cleburne, which formerly served as the old Cleburne High School. From left are 249th District Court Judge Wayne Bridewell, 413th District Court Judge Bill Bosworth and 18th District Court Judge John Neill.

any trial when something funny happens.” Being that judges, like police officers, often deal with people in horrible situations it can also be hard to maintain one’s faith in humanity, all three said. “I think the thing of that is, it’s important for a judge to be involved in his community and involved in what’s going on,” Bridewell said. “As a judge sometimes we see people in one of the most difficult times of their lives and I think it’s important that we keep things in perspective and realize that, hopefully, people learn form their mistakes and get their lives back on track after that.” But even at that it’s still hard, Bos-

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worth said. “I’ve had trials, without talking about what they were, where I haven’t slept for a couple of weeks after,” Bosworth said. “It’s disappointing sometimes, no matter who did it or if someone did it, the amount of harm that people can do to each other and it’s hard to understand sometimes. You have people in a situation, it’s not good, not comfortable, not right and we’re trying to sort out in a courtroom how to resolve it. But many times the situation’s bad for everyone. It’s bad for the person accused of doing it. It’s bad for the ones who claim it was done to them.” Working in a smaller county, as op-

posed to say Johnson or Tarrant counties, the judges often run into their former “customers” while out and about town. “On a weekly basis it feels like,” Neill joked. “I usually dread those conversations, the ones that start off with, ‘You did my divorce.’ “I also have dozens of notes though, people thanking me for putting their kid in [drug rehab] or jail saying that probably saved his life but also the other extreme, ‘How dare you do that to my baby.’” Adoptions temper the ugly side of life judges often deal with, Bosworth and Neill said. “It’s a very informal proceeding,” Bosworth said. “Still very serious, but you can have it arranged so the hard work is done at an earlier hearing so, when you have the kids there, it’ more or less a recording of the documents and a celebration of the adoption. That way you can have the kids up on the bench. They can bang the gavel and, that part’s easy.” Neill agreed. “Adoptions are a blessing and that’s why I set those for about 4 p.m.,” Neill said. “I want to end my day on a high note.”

It works

Controversy over high profile verdicts aside, the American justice system remains the greatest in the world, Neill said. “Our system in Johnson County works just like it’s supposed to,” Neill said. “I can’t really comment on verdicts in California or elsewhere. You can’t really, unless you actually sat in on a case from the beginning

to the end and heard all the evidence, make a decision on whether a verdict was right or wrong based on news reports, which give a condensed version. That’s part of the problem, social media these days. Everyone has an opinion, but unless you actually sit in on a case from day 1 to the end I don’t know how you can make a comment of whether it was right or wrong.” Hanna agreed. “Johnson and Somervell counties are fortunate to have three quality judges who bring a wealth of experience,” Hanna said. “Our office maintains an excellent relationship with all three and I couldn’t be more pleased.”

Other duties

Being a judge involves more than just sitting on the bench. The district judges appoint the county auditor and retain supervisory control over the county budget, Bosworth said. They also form part of the committee that appoints the county’s purchasing agent and adult probation director as well as the juvenile probation director. Bosworth serves as the local administrative judge, a position Neill and Bridewell have also held.

“It means the other two elected me to be sort of the point man on local administrative decisions,” Bosworth said. “Supervising the law library, meeting with the county judge on budget matters, things like that.” A current project involves the county’s transition from a paper to paperless system in regards to court filings and other documents. “The Supreme Court of Texas mandated several years ago that the courts change to a digital or paperless system,” Bridewell said. The court instituted the change in stages and this year marked the transition year for counties the size of Johnson County. Cooke joked that such innovations represent a big change from his days on the bench. “The three judges now do a good job of staying on top of changing technology,” Cooke said. “I remember when we had mechanical, not electric, typewriters, no Internet or faxes and no national database for fingerprints. People think DNA’s been around a long time, but it hasn’t. I tried the first DNA case in Texas.”

The big picture

It’s all about serving the county, all three judges said. “The role of a judge, as Solomon said, we want to have the discernment to make wise, just decisions,” Bridewell said. It’s important to remember the people involved, Bosworth said. “I start with the idea that everybody is somebody and deserves to be treated with dignity and that every case is important to the people involved,” Bosworth said. Neill elaborated. “My job is to follow the law,” Neill said. “To listen to the evidence and to apply that evidence to the law and render a decision based on that. It’s not to make the law or change the law. “Sometimes I don’t agree with it, but the law is what it is and that’s what we took an oath to follow.” It’s a job at times lonely, depressing, humorous, heartbreaking and confounding, all three said. “Actually, we lead pretty boring lives,” Neill said. “I kind of think all judges do to a point. “But, we have a front seat to a great show. We do, and that keeps it interesting.”

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Don Newbury and his wife, Brenda, pose in front of a train in Old Town Burleson.

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ew people can say that they doctoral research at the University have done it all. Not many of Notre Dame. can say that they were a jour“I have had a great many nalist, teacher, college president experiences in my life and I am and popcorn maker all in one life. happy to say that they all have to Burleson’s Don Newbury is not do with teaching,” Newbury said. most people. “I have never advocated that my In the past 50 years of his life students should ever look up to me and career, Newbury has had an as someone more important than impact on the written word and them, but instead someone who is young people all over with his love there to help them in life.” of sharing popcorn for the masses. Newbury often took his stu“Popcorn is a great leveling dents parasailing on Lake Brownagent,” Newbury wood as the Howard said. “Not many peo“popcorn “All the students Payne’s ple would imagine president.” knew when they saw a college president He advocates the making popcorn for the porch light that notion that they all the students in his ought to be looking the president was down at him when university. It really helps to show them popping popcorn and having fun and they I am just a normal always go as far they were invited to can person.” in life as they want. come and have a talk.” Newbury was “I would turn the born at his parents — Don Newbury porch light on every house in Early and night twice a week graduated from Early High School and start up my movie theater popbefore attending Howard Payne corn popper,” Newbury said. “All University. the students knew when they saw Newbury was president of How- the porch light that the president ard Payne University in Brownwas popping popcorn and they were wood from 1986-97 and Western invited to come and have a talk.” Texas College from 1980-85. Howard Payne has an 11:1 He graduated from Howard student-to-faculty ratio, makPayne with a Bachelor of Arts deing it a smaller institution of gree in journalism and received a higher education than the larger master’s degree from the University public schools in the state, such of Texas at Austin and a PhD from as University of Texas and Texas the University of North Texas. A&M University, which have 21:1 Newbury also conducted poststudent-to-faculty ratios. Community Life

“I have never advocated that my students should ever look up to me as someone more important than them, but instead someone who is there to help them in life.” — Don Newbury

“I never have liked the attitude of most college presidents that seek to have students be as far from them as possible,” Newbury said. “I wanted them to feel like they could call me Don and give me a high five on their way to class.” Newbury’s experience as a college president began first at Western Texas College in Snyder, after he was invited to speak at a faculty luncheon and was liked so much by all that they offered him the job. “You will never find someone as kind as Don Newbury,” said Dr. Harry Krenek, former WTC director of instruction. “I have know Don for over 50 years and he has never changed since the first time we met.” Krenek was a Howard Payne transfer from the University of Texas during Newbury’s time as an undergraduate. Krenek met Newbury at a funeral home Christmas party and they became fast friends. “I remember one time Don came over to my parent’s house and he confused the toothpaste with the shaving cream,” Krenek said. “We all had a great laugh about it, not to mention he smelled like mint for a week.” Newbury said he has always been able to laugh at himself for his random adventures in life that didn’t always work out the way he planned. “Sometimes you just got to accept mistakes and go on with life,” Newbury said. “There are far too many people that are unforgiving in this world and can’t move on from their problems.” Krenek said that Newbury was the one who most influenced him to work in higher education. “Don was always an educator, even while being a journalist. He liked to teach people how to write and how to connect with people,” Krenek said. “He brought that with him as the president of WTC and eventually Howard Payne.” In total of his 40 years in higher education, Newbury spent 17 of them as a president. He started out as a professor and an educator at Tarrant County Junior College in the late ’60s.

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Don and Brenda Newbury moved to Burleson about eight years ago for retirement and are active participants in the Burleson community.

“I was one of the first people hired to be an administrator for the new Tarrant County College,” Newbury said. “I helped get things started as one of the student development staffers.” Newbury stayed at TCC for several years, teaching classes in journalism and developing student leadership programs for students that normally would not have gone to college. Newbury is a journalist by training and continues to write as a syndicated columnist called “The Idle American” for eight years in almost 150 newspapers, including the Times-Review. He got his start at the local paper in Brownwood when he was young. “When you first meet Don, you can tell he has an aura of happiness about him,” Community Life Managing Editor Dale Gosser said. “He’s always smiling and has a story to tell. It’s like when someone says a person lights up a room. Don has that capability. It doesn’t

hurt that he always brings a bag of popcorn with him. “Don is a genuine person and what you see is what you get. He is down to earth and that is probably one of his best qualities. He doesn’t place himself above anyone else.” Cheryl Posey of the Grizzly Detail in White Settlement uses his articles to appeal to an older generation of readers that seek wisdom and stories that they can relate to. “He is just such a wonderful man and provides humor to people everywhere,” Posey said. “Every time I see him in person he always lights up the room and makes everything seem so easy.” As a speaker, Newbury has often been described as someone akin to Will Rogers or Paul Harvey. His humorous banter and plain spoken style are part of his way as he calls it “leveling the playing field.” “People don’t want to be lectured at,” Newbury said. “They

want to laugh and learn about what you have to say, they want to be inspired and entertained not forced to take notes.”

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that are full of humor, wit and solid devotion to people and ideas. His first book “When the Porch Light’s On ... Stories of People, Popcorn and Parasails” was well received and is in its second edition. “I enjoy writing books now because I have a lot more time on my hands,” Newbury said. “There is just so much to share and talk about that I think many people will benefit from what I have to say.” Newbury said that the best blessing in his life came when he met his wife, formerly

Brenda Pack. “Brenda is the light of my life and she has blessed me with three lovely daughters,” Newbury said. “She also has kept me honest and helped me in my career numerous times.” Brenda Newbury said she has enjoyed her life with him. “Don has always had his heart out for students, I definitely didn’t mind having all those students come up to see him for some free popcorn,” Brenda Newbury said. “We

have been married for almost 50 years and he still is the man I knew when we were young and fell in love. “Being married to a life-long educator has always kept things exciting and there is never a dull moment with him.” All of Newbury’s daughters — all of whom have been public school teachers — Julie Choate of Burleson, Jana Penney of Tyler and Jeanie McDaniel of Burleson. They also have six grandchildren, reside in Burleson and enjoy a life of retirement together.

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Books on the go Wide variety of services available for audiobooks

love reading. I have a really bad habit of starting a book and staying up all night until I can finish it. But there are sometimes it’s not good to be reading, like when I’m driving to work. So that’s when I pull out audiobooks so I don’t have to miss a thing. Back when audiobooks first became popular Audible was the only company in the game. They’re still hot on the scene but more companies have also come on board. Here’s a look at some of the more popular ones.

Audible

Audible boasts over 180,000 to choose from. Audible offers a free 30-day trial with a $14.95 a month membership. The drawback to Audible is that you are only allowed one book a month for that fee. You are, however, able to exchange it if you don’t like it. You also have access to “forehands member-only discounts and sales,” according to their website. Also if you cancel your membership you get to keep the books you’ve purchased. If you’re like me though, there aren’t many books I read more than once. They offer apps for iOS, Android and Windows smartphones, as well as Kindles. You can also listen on your Mac or PC. PROS: Large selection of the newest books as they are released. CONS: Membership fee only includes one book a month. 26

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Scribd

My personal favorite book rental program recently announced audiobooks. Scribd offers a free 30-day trial with a $8.99 monthly membership. That gives you access to over 30,000 audiobooks, as well as their e-book library. The positive thing about Scribd is that you can have unlimited downloads, reading as much as you want in that month. They do not, however, have the latest and biggest name releases. Apps are available for iOS, Android, Nook and Kindle. You can also read online using your Mac or PC. PROS: Low monthly fee with unlimited access. CONS: Newest titles not available as quickly.

LibriVox

On a different wavelength, LibriVox is a free public domain for audiobooks. Volunteers read and record chapters of books no longer under copyright and upload them for free use. Practically, this means they record books published before 1923, according to the website. Books are

recorded in all languages. “You do not need any prior experience to volunteer for LibriVox, nor do you need to audition or send us samples,” according to the website. “All you need is your voice, some free software, your computer and maybe an inexpensive microphone.” PROS: Free books, unlimited downloads. CONS: Only older books, and some are not complete books.

OverDrive

OverDrive is a sharing program among libraries across the nation. To check out a book, you need a local library card or student ID. Like the others, apps are available for iOS, Windows, Kindle, Nook, Kobo and Android, as well as Macs. PROS: Wide variety of books available with large array of libraries participating at no cost. CONS: Must have a library card or student ID to download books.

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If you’re not looking for a monthly fee or just want a one-time read, eBooks can be downloaded from many places. iOS devices have iBooks, Kindle devices have Amazon Bookstore and Android devices have Play Books. This is a great way to get the newest books released, and you can find almost any book you want. PROS: Large selection of the latest books. CONS: Pay different prices on every book.

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Cleburne Smith Middle School Coach Alicia Johnson and her father have logged countless miles together

unning, especially long distances, is something many people avoid doing in their daily lives. Many people find the closest parking spot at the grocery store. When a football or basketball player makes a mistake in practice, often times coaches punish that player by making him run. But for Alicia Johnson and her father, Gary Wylie, running long distances is something the two have come to cherish together. The father-daughter pair have competed in numerous

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marathons, half marathons, 5Ks and 10Ks over the past five years. Just within the last several months, the duo ran in the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 26, the New York City Marathon on Nov. 2 and the Phoenix Marathon on Feb. 28, among many others. Johnson, a coach at Smith Middle School in Cleburne, has a brief prior history of running after competing with the Joshua cross country team for two years during high school. But for her father, it was something

that occurred as a result of recovering from back surgery. “My dad had a pinched nerve and they wound up having to do surgery because nothing was helping it,” Johnson said. “To help in his recovery, he would walk a couple miles around the neighborhood. And eventually he did it two times a day and then three times a day. One day, he decided he was going to run to see how far he could get. And he’d never really been a runner, so it was kind of a big deal.

“I had never ran a marathon, but after he told me he started running, I said, ‘Lets do a 10K.’ He went out and ran six miles to see if he could do it, and said he could, so we started with that. Then I did a half marathon and he watched me, then he joined by running a half marathon — and the next thing you know, we’re doing full marathons together all over.” From that point on, Johnson and Wylie have traveled across the country together spending time doing something they both love. “I plan all of our runs, so any time I call him, he’s always like, ‘Where are we running next,’” Johnson said. While they enjoy running, they take it serious and put in hard work and, often times, long hours when needed. In one day recently, they ran in the Avengers Super Heroes Half Marathon at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., at 5:30 a.m., then drove five hours to run in the Rock and Roll Half Marathon in Las Vegas at 4:30 p.m. the same day. And they managed to make it back home in time for work Monday morning. “It was a busy day but it was an amazing experience,” Johnson said. The “amazing experience” is a common theme for Johnson and Wylie, who enjoy the travel and sight-seeing as well as the running. But the most

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Alicia Johnson and father Gary Wylie have competed in numerous races over the past five years. Here, they ran in the Disney World Marathon together. They have traveled all across the United States running in events together.

important part about their travels to marathons and races is the time spent together. “We both like the traveling aspect of it,” Johnson said. “We started out just doing a lot of marathons in Texas. Then I told my mom I was going to ask dad to go to a

Disney World run, and she didn’t think he would. But he did and we went from there. Now, we run everywhere and rarely in Texas. We’ll find somewhere to run and we’ll book a flight and go. We just enjoy running. It’s our time together.

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Alicia Johnson and Gary Wylie competed in the Rock N Roll Relay Marathon in San Antonio and placed third out of 187 co-ed teams. Their age gap was one of the largest in the co-ed division.

“For me, running is a freedom. But my favorite part about running is I run with my dad. I’m a huge daddy’s girl and always have been. To share this with my father, it really means the world. There will be a day when I won’t be able to run with him again if he gets too old or maybe I’ll get hurt and won’t be able to run. So we take advantage of all the time we have together.” Johnson added she couldn’t be more proud of her father for how far he’s come over the past five years. “It’s amazing I get to do this with my father,” she said. “He’s 63 right now. I hope I can still be running when I’m his age. He’s had five knee surgeries and he runs amazing. He comes in at great times for his age and his condition. I really look up to him and really hope I can do what he does at his age.” While they have already accomplished a great deal, they still have their sights set on future goals. Johnson’s best time in a marathon was

the Williams Route 66 in Tulsa, Okla., which she ran it in three hours and 34 minutes, which qualified her for the Boston Marathon. She missed out on running in the Boston Marathon, her No. 1 goal, because of an ultra-competitive field, which forced the qualifying times to be even more competitive. They want to complete the World Marathon Majors, which includes the most prestigious marathons across the world in London, Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago, New York and Boston. Another goal they have is to complete the 50-state challenge by competing in an event in all 50 states. Johnson said she also hopes to run in the Antarctica Marathon, but it has a 3-year waiting list. Their next big event, however, was the Paris Marathon in April. “We’re looking forward to going and experiencing Paris on foot,” she said. “We signed up for the 5K breakfast run on April 11. You end that run at the

Eiffel Tower and eat a traditional French breakfast. Then we’ll run the marathon, 26 miles around Paris, so we’ll see all the sights — Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and all the main landmarks that everyone wants to see. It’s going to be the run of a lifetime.” While running 26.2 miles seems impossible to many, Johnson said she loves pushing herself to the max. “I like to push my limits and see where I can go and how far I can run,” she said. “I’ve run in three ultra-marathons. I just like to see how far I can go. I like to achieve the impossible. The longest I’ve run at one time is 50 miles. I hope to do a 100-mile run one day, but that’s a completely different training regimen. Right now, I’m focused on qualifying for Boston again.” And with the help and encouragement of her father, she will most certainly reach that goal as the duo continues to expand the boundaries together.

“I like to push my limits and see where I can go and how far I can run.” — Alicia Johnson

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Cleburne chamber accepting applications for Leadership Cleburne 2015-16

he Cleburne Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for the 2015-16 Leadership Cleburne class soon. Persons interested in being a participant in the series of programs can request an application at the chamber of commerce office, 1511 W. Henderson St., or by calling 817-645-2455. Leadership Cleburne is a series of in-depth programs that cover such topics as state government, county government and the criminal justice system, quality of life, medical facilities and services, education, city government and economic development. A different topic will be covered each month on the second Wednesday, starting Sept. 9 and subsequent sessions running through May 2016.

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Tully Janszen finds passion in the outdoors and shares it with viewers around the nation

ully Janszen is doing what he loves and is passionate about bringing along an audience with him. Janszen lives in Kopperl with his wife, Tara, and two daughters. About four years ago, he started a TV show called “Lonestar Outdoors TV” with the help of local Cleburne sponsors in which he and his friends and colleagues bring cameras on hunting and fishing trips. The show is in its second season on the Sportsman Channel. The premise of the show — which Janszen hosts — is to educate and entertain people about hunting and fishing. It is now called “LoneStar Outdoors.” Through the show he has been able to take veterans and children with illnesses who have an interest in hunting. Janszen said he is so proud of the work they’ve done in the past three years and hopes it continues to grow.

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Love of the outdoors began at a young age Janszen grew up in Keller and spent a lot of time outdoors. “My family had a weekend place up in Wise County outside of Bridgeport so that’s where I started getting my love for the outdoors, hunting and fishing,” he said. “I was about 8 or 9 years old when my parents bought that place and we had a few cows as well so it’s always kind of been in my blood since an early age — being around animals and wildlife — so I knew going into college kind of what I wanted to do.” Janszen said he wanted to attend Texas A&M University to do something in agriculture or wildlife, but at the time he also wanted to play for a good football team. At Keller High School, he played football and wanted to pursue that in college. “I wanted to play on a team that would have the potential of

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Janszen has attention deficit disorder and said he gets bored quickly and his mind is always on different things. After graduating in 2007, Janszen tried the corporate world for three months and said that was enough for him, he wasn’t happy.

ment. “I finally sat down with my dad one day and I told him I wasn’t happy with what I’m doing,” he said. “I’ve tried this spreading out and gone in different directions but my passion is here on the ranch and as long as God

The program has been around since the 1950s and it’s one of the most prestigious ranch management programs. “It was one of the funnest and hardest things that I ever had to do because that is where you really learn time management,”

“My family had a weekend place up in Wise County outside of Bridgeport so that’s where I started getting my love for the outdoors, hunting and fishing.” — Tully Janszen

Finding a new love

“I worked for an independent insurance company in Austin and I just couldn’t ... I was sitting behind a computer all day, I was talking to angry people about why their insurance policies weren’t making any money,” he said. “It was a big learning curve for me and I was expected to know these answers right off the bat and I just got fed up with it after a little while.” While working for the company, he was still doing what he did in college — leaving Friday to spend the weekend at his family’s ranch Cross J Ranch, between Cleburne and Meridian, working. Every time he returned to Austin he said he sat back and thought, “Why am I doing what I was doing in college and I’m not happy with the job that I’m currently at when I can move back home and be happy with what I’m doing there?” Janszen said his father had a lot to do with his decision to go into ranch manage-

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has given me the ability to work right here then that’s what I want to do. I don’t care how much I get paid, this is what I enjoy doing.” Janszen said his father didn’t have anything negative to say, just that as long as he was happy with what he was doing. “You know, he said to me, ‘If you’re passionate and you love [working on the ranch] then my only recommendation is do the best you can,’” Janszen said. The conversation with his father was the turning point for Janszen, who took the next step of making a career out of managing a ranch, cattle operation, wildlife and everything that goes into it.

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After speaking with a few people about his choices, Janszen decided to enter the Texas Christian University ranch management program.

he said. It was a nine-month program. Janszen started in August 2009 and graduated in May 2010. “It’s like six hours shy of a master’s program. We were in class from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. One week’s worth of work of a general normal TCU student would be six hours, we were doing anywhere around 9-12 hours of a single class,” he said. “On top of working on other projects and going to five week long field trips, it was very, very strenuous but it was also awesome because it was what I wanted to learn how to do.”

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After Janszen graduated and received his certificate, he went back to his family’s ranch, Cross J Ranch, and began to work. He reviewed and analyzed the operations

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and where he saw potential and setting a goal in the direction of where he wanted to take the ranch’s cattle operation and it’s deer hunting. Management is a big thing for Janszen. In his position as ranch and wildlife manager, it is his job to better the herd — whether it’s cattle or deer — by taking out a certain number — the inferior one — of animals to control the herd population. By doing that Janszen said the bigger deer mature and get to their fullest potential. “Seeing that and being able to do that is probably the driving factor for me in my hunting and it goes hand-in-hand with fishing as well,” he said.

The TV show

After completing the ranch management program and heading back to the ranch, Janszen had a couple different men who were trying to conduct TV shows visit the ranch. Janszen became acquainted with one of the camera guys, who later contacted him and suggested he start a TV show. “I mean, I was like, ‘I guess.’ I didn’t know much about the business but he said he would handle all the business and I could speak to people and try to gain sponsors,” Janszen said. Once they had a few sponsors, they got a camera, built a website and just started filming. They began filming in fall 2010. In December 2010, Janszen caught a business partner lying to him. “He was taking what little sponsorships we had and turning around and using it for personal business and so I had to cut him loose because it was my head on the line, my name was on the line,” he said. That was a pivotal moment for Janszen because he had to either give up or learn from the mistakes and continue on. He went back to his father and discussed the issue. “I had a long conversation with my dad about it and I got a vision for the show and what I wanted to be,” he said. “I wanted to learn from this and build from it.” So, he and the crew continued filming, taking cameras on every hunting and fishing expedition. The crew travels around Texas hunting on different ranches they partner with throughout the state. They’ve also travelled outside of the state to places like Kansas and Illinois. Janszen said his goal for the show is to become one of the top shows in Texas. “The thing I wanted for the show was to No. 1 educate people and No. 2 show them a good time. So I’ve tried to incorporate that into the show whether we were hunting or fishing,” he said. “I don’t necessarily call my show a hunting or fishing show — we try to do both — and I try to give people a good idea and a good perspective that I’m a guy just like them doing the same thing.” On online forums viewers like the show and remember Janszen from his football days at UT. On texasbowhunter.com, one commenter said Janszen is “just like one us when it comes to hunting. Down to Earth and has passion for the outdoors. I really look forward to seeing all his shows.” Others call the show a winner and informative. From top: Tully Janszen and his crew on a goose and duck hunt in Kansas. Tully Janszen celebrates his capture of geese and ducks. Tully Janszen is filmed for his show “Lonestar Outdoors” in West Texas. Tully and Tara Janszen fly fishing in Colorado. Courtesy photos

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Janszen and his crew sent in the show and were able to get it to air on the Sportsman Channel in their first year. “We had a really good founding, premiere year,” he said. “We averaged about 180,000 monthly views, which on a national perspective, the Sportsman Channel is in about 80 million homes so that is a low-end scale but when it’s your first show coming from me who doesn’t know jack about TV or marketing, I was proud. Any kind of air time I was able to get on a national level, that’s something to be proud of.” From then on Janszen said they were able to build a foundation and he knew he had to continue. He and the crew have been shooting for three years and their second year is airing now. He also said he’d like to venture into Youtube because he knows there is a market there. He also likes that he can quickly upload episodes onto the site, giving viewers a more current look at what they’re doing. Sponsors for the show include Lone Star Ranch and Outdoors, Jeff England Motors co. and Fun N’ Sun Boating Center

in Cleburne. In the show, Janszen and the crew use their sponsors’ equipment for their adventures. “I’ve been able to meet some neat people along the way, not only local sponsors but regional and national sponsors,” he said. “Without their help and support I wouldn’t be where I am now.” One of the first investors of the show was Robby Cook with Lone Star Ranch and Outdoors store in Cleburne. “Tully reaches an audience that matches our customer base,” Cook said. “We consider ourselves to be a rural lifestyle store and that’s the type person that watches his show. He said he knew he could trust Janszen because of who is father was. Janszen’s father, Mike Janszen, passed away about two years ago from cancer. “If you knew his father, Mike Janszen was a great man and Tully’s following in his footsteps,” Cook said.

Favorite moments filming

Janszen said the coolest episodes he has done was when he invited children with lifethreatening illnesses to hunt with him and his crew through a nonprofit, Texas Hunt for

the Cure. The organization is dedicated to serving children and young adults who are facing a life-threatening or terminal illness who also have a desire to go hunting and fishing. “It was great to partner with them and take the kids out of the hospital and take them hunting. It’s just something to get them out of the hospital and get their mind out of what they’re having to go through every day,” Janszen said. Another memorable episode was one of the first ones from the first season that was a military tribute hunt. “We hosted a contest on Facebook and people submitted letters about veterans or those on active duty that they thought deserved the experience of a free hunting trip,” he said. Janszen and his staff read through all the letters and selected the top and let their Facebook followers select the winner. The winner was actually a veteran Janszen attended the ranch management program with at TCU. “We took him down to South Texas for a hunting trip and he was able to kill a big deer, so it was pretty cool,” he said. “It was a really neat experience to be able to that with him, just a way to give back to our service men and women.”

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Misconceptions about hunting

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Tully and Tara Janszen with their dog Duke as they finish a day of duck hunting.

Janszen’s most exciting trip he said would have to be when he and the crew went to Venice, Texas, to go red fishing. “That had to be the most exciting and just pure fun I’ve ever had just catching 35-inch Bull Reds,” he said. “It was an absolute blast.” Janszen said he tells people he is passionate

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about hunting but he’s obsessed with fishing. “While hunting and fishing do go hand-inhand the difference No. 1 is the water and the second is the challenge of being able to fish,” he said. “Hunting and fishing coincide similarly but fishing has the added challenge in the not knowing what’s underneath the water.”

The biggest misconceptions people have of hunters, Janszen said, is that they’re murderers. “I think that’s the biggest freaking joke I’ve ever seen,” he said. “I mean people are so fake and sit behind their phones or computer screens and they see pictures and they watch liberal media and they don’t see the whole truth but it’s people who live in the concrete jungle — city people — and they have no idea what really happens.” Janszen said the hunting and fishing industry generates more revenue in the country than a majority of any other business. He said he doesn’t understand how people who have never experienced being out of the city and the outdoors can judge people who do hunt. He said he doesn’t feel bad for killing animals but he does have respect for them. “God created them with some unbelievable senses as their defense mechanism so when I have the ability to harvest an animal it’s a much found respect for that animal and it’s a feeling and an emotion that I get that’s hard to explain,” he said. “It’s a respect for the animal and emotional rollercoaster that we as hunters experience.

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That’s what people need to realize is that we don’t go out there to just kill.” Janszen said he tries to stay out of the arguments as much as he can because having a TV show and being under enough scrutiny he doesn’t want to give into those kinds of arguments especially on Facebook.

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Janszen and his wife, Tara, who is vice president of the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce, have been married for three years. Together they have a 2-year old daughter, Tinley, and they recently welcomed their newest daughter, Tatum, in February. “Oh it’s been a whirlwind,” Janszen said. “There’s a lot of stress that goes on with anything but it’s a fun challenge and I always enjoy challenges.” Tara Janszen said her husband is the most optimistic person she knows and he always sees the good in people and situations first. “He is very passionate about the things he loves and that can pretty much be categorized into his faith, family/friends, and the outdoors,” she said. “Knowing God and making him known is what he builds our family’s foundation around.” She said his passion for the outdoors is something that she loves and hates about him. “I hate it because I don’t understand how anyone can hunt and fish as much as he does but I also love his passion for the outdoors because that is what keeps him going and he is willing to share his passion with others, including me,” she said. Over the last few years, Tara Janszen said her husband has taken on more responsibilities on the ranch and is determined to make it

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Tully Janszen and his wife, Tara, have been married for just over three years and together they have a 2-year-old daughter Tinley and they recently welcomed their newest daughter Tatum in February.

a successful working cattle ranch. She said he also maintains a strict management plan for the wildlife on the ranch. “I think it’s great that the TV show has been an outlet for him to share his personal management practices and tactics for managing wildlife,” she said. “He enjoys learning from others on what they do with their cattle or wildlife and he also enjoys sharing his experiences.” She said the TV show was a dream of his that was made into a reality. “He hit many road blocks along the way but through a lot of hard work and perseverance he’s aired two seasons of ‘LoneStar Outdoors’ on na-

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