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SWAU senior Daniel Perez leads by example at school, church

STORY BY Nicole Luna

aniel Perez walks across the Southwestern Adventist University campus with a smile on his face. “Hey Danny!” people say as he walks by and he greets all of them. On May 10, Perez walked across the stage and accepted his diploma. He is heading to South Korea to teach conversational English for a year. “Yes, I’m really excited. Nervous but I’m excited,” the senior class president said while he cleaned a restroom mirror for the last time. Perez was part of the janitorial staff at SWAU’s campus services for two years, which helped him pay for college. His last day was the week before graduation. Perez has worked hard by helping students learn English; cleaning and maintaining SWAU’s campuses; going door to door telling people about God, sometimes being rejected; becoming a youth pastor at a local church; and just being involved in a multitude of activities. While the stress doesn’t show, there were certainly times that Perez doubted himself and wasn’t sure if he was on the right path.

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Southwestern Adventist University’s Daniel Perez recently graduated and has plans to travel the world. During his time at SWAU, he said he’s learned how to be a good leader, friend and worker.

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The Valley, the Ministry, the Change

Perez is from The Valley, an area in the southernmost tip of South Texas. He was born in McAllen and raised by his single mother and two older brothers in Weslaco. He attended Valley Grande Adventist Academy where he participated in many activities and was student pastor for two years. “The cool thing about it was that it opened doors for ministry,” Perez said. “I was able to visit nursing homes and visit hospitals. It helped me branch out.” Growing up, Perez said, ministry was always a big part of his life. As he did his duties as student pastor at the academy, he said his teachers, friends and family kept telling him that he was going to be a pastor, which he didn’t like. “I didn’t like how people were just deciding what I needed to be in my life,” he said. An avid reader and lover of literature, he decided he was going to be an English teacher. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in community college with the intentions of becoming a teacher. However, ministry continued to be in the back of his mind. “I suppose I did what I wanted but I prayed about it all the time,” he said. He continued to go to school, did his work and even taught a class but something still didn’t feel right. “I kept praying, ‘God is this what you want me to do?’ because I felt like I was rebelling and just doing what I wanted to do and going away from what God wanted me to do,” Perez said. Finally he realized that if he needed to be a pastor he would have to study theology and to do that he would have to go to a good Christian university specifically for Adventists. But he knew he couldn’t afford it. “Then lo and behold one of [SWAU’s] recruiters came down and spoke to me and said they had scholarships available to me if I wanted to study theology,” he said. “So then I thought, ‘If a door opens I must go through it.’ So I took the opportunity and jumped on the wagon and in about a week I was here.” Once he was at the university more trials came along.

God’s trials

“It’s been interesting and you know there are still times when you question yourself like, ‘Is this truly what God has called me 8

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to do?’ But then you get reaffirmed once again, you get this inclination,” he said. “But you still have those moments.” Perez said there were certain times when his faith was tested. While going door to door to sell Christian reading material and pray with people, Perez had two learning experiences. The first was at a tattoo parlor. As well as going to residents’ homes, he made visits to businesses. As Perez entered the parlor he noticed a woman who had tattoos all over her body sitting at the counter. He introduced himself and explained why he was there. She was welcoming to him and after talking to her a bit he found out she actually used to go to church a lot but stopped going because she said she couldn’t handle the amount of judgment because of her tattoos. “That sparked something in me because walking in there I’m like, ‘You know, who’s going to want to buy Christian books from me in this place?’” Perez said. “But if you skip a door you skip a blessing.” He said that he felt remorseful when she opened up to him because if he would have seen her anywhere else he might have judged her himself. “That was something I needed to learn, to not judge,” he said. While in Arizona with a group during the summer Perez learned another lesson. “People would actually slam the door in my face. [Selling door to door] gives you thicker skin but sometimes it gets to be too much where you pray your soul out, ‘God. I need this,’ and it just doesn’t come,” he said. Every person had a small radio with them to announce when they made a sale. Many kept announcing their sales, while Perez hardly made any. “I began to wonder where was my blessing and I kind of felt like I was being let down or that I was letting God down,” he said. After getting a door slammed in his face again, Perez decided to try one more house before ending the day. “I go next door and there was a very kind lady sweet as can be and she politely declined purchas-

Daniel is a strong leader for the senior class and the entire campus. He really sets a great example because he takes the initiative.

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ing any books but we prayed together, hugged and after she closed the door I broke down,” he said. He said he’s not sure why he broke down but he thinks the kindness got to him. After seeking some guidance from the group’s leader he told her, “I don’t understand. I feel like I gave 110 percent but where’s God’s percent.” The group leader then explained to him that he can’t always get what he wants. “She told me that God wants me to reach those people and that I’m not the only who has to make a decision. Part of the decision comes from the other side of the door and you don’t want to be influenced by that but rather I have to be the one who influenced them,” he said. He said that was a huge revelation to him because he needed to learn that it wasn’t about him but the other people and helping planting that seed.

Patience and work

Through his time SWAU, Perez has worked a variety of jobs. When he first started, he worked for the music department

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Daniel Perez, left, worked closely with Southwestern Adventist University President Kenneth Shaw, center, and Student Association President Austen Powell to organize events on and off campus for students.

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helping professors organize sheet music and other duties. But for the last two years he’s been helping foreign students improve their English, as well as helping the campus remain clean. “School isn’t free for us, of course I have two jobs,” he said. As an ESL tutor he sat with students and conversed with them, helping them study grammar, pronunciation, idioms and so on. “The awesome thing about all this is that I have a chance to meet people from all over,” he said. He said some of the students used to play tricks on him. Perez is a patient guy and doesn’t get upset easily. “They would say they’ve been trying to test my patience,” he said. “And I had no idea. I mean I noticed silly things they would do but I laughed it off and continued with the study. But I had no idea.” As a janitor he recycled, vacuumed, cleaned restrooms and did some manual labor. He said it was perhaps one of his favorite jobs. “Sometimes it’s quite hard for myself to sit in one place and breaking a sweat is healthy, so I find it a blessing to have this job.”

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Last year Perez was elected senior class president, a leadership role he didn’t expect. “It’s been a real adventure learning procedures, organizing events, running meetings,

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attending committees, sending class surveys and so forth,” he said. “Though I cannot stress enough how much the officers helped throughout the year.” Perez and his fellow officers organized a senior retreat at Lake Whitney Ranch. “This was a big milestone for us because it had been a long while since any class had done such a thing,” he said. “Once the weekend was over, all was a success. Many of our classmates made new friends, gained memories to cherish and an all-out fun time.” Apart from being president, Perez was highly involved in many activities on campus like being in plays, band and on the acrobatic team. “Daniel is a strong leader for the senior class and the entire campus,” SWAU President Kenneth Shaw said. “He really sets a great example because he takes the initiative. We’re sad to see him go but know he’s going to represent himself and Southwestern very well.”

Daniel the youth pastor

Perez was part of the student pastoring program and his assigned church is the Hispanic Adventist Church of Alvarado. While his official title is student pastor, the church calls him the youth pastor. His task is to observe, assist and learn from the pastor and leaders. “The church has really grown on me as a family,” he said.

Pastor Alex Dominguez said every year they have a student serve for them but in Perez’s case it has been especially special to have him. “One can see when someone has a gift to lead and Daniel has it,” Dominguez said. “He loves to serve and I look at his face he’s always so happy to serve. He’s always so enthusiastic to help in anything we ask him too.” Perez assists the church by supporting the various departments within the church. He helps give Bible lessons to youth ages 18-21 and 22-35. He also provides support during sermons. He visits hospital patients and makes house calls to people who are discouraged, providing messages of hope. “He has accepted this calling and I’m so happy to have seen him grow,” Dominguez said. “I’m very impressed by his talent and we’re going to miss him when leaves for Korea but we know he is doing God’s calling.”

Doubt and inspiration

There have been times when Perez question whether he was a good fit to go into ministry, he said. For instance, not being to make enough while selling door to door or almost failing a crucial class. But he said God always uplifted him and showed him that this is what he is supposed to be doing. “Praise God, throughout my life I grew

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During his time at Southwestern Adventist University, Daniel Perez held a variety of jobs such as an English as a Second Language tutor and janitor. As an active student, Perez also partook in a lot of organizations and activities like acting in plays, band, student council, acrobatic team and more.

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up in the church and I’ve learned to be influenced by positive things,” he said. “So when I see people in need or those people that aren’t going through the right process I try to find my way in and get my foot in to make sure they know their life is headed in the right direction.” He also said his mom has been a strong influence in his life and has helped him overcome certain issues. “In our lives we all go through our ordeals and we all deal with it differently and through my mom she was always hands-on, always takes life as it comes and keeps pushing for-

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ward,” Perez said. “And that’s what I’ve learned, to keep pushing forward. “The most I can do is be sympathetic towards that person but I can’t really feel their pain and the most I can do is be a helping hand to lift someone up and that’s all I can do and I think that’s what my mom has been for me.”

Graduation and future

As senior class president, Perez gave a speech during graduation. He spoke about his gratitude for the faculty and staff, family and a shoutout to the moms. Finally, he spoke about

leaving SWAU and building his own house. “There comes a time when a child must grow and must venture to build his own house,” he told his fellow classmates. “We will now leave our home Southwestern to progress in building our own household. My only hope is that we dedicate that work to the carpenter himself, Christ. But you know something interesting about progress. Progress is something that will not stop.” Perez has made it certain that he won’t stop. He won’t stop working. He won’t stop engaging with people. He won’t stop spreading the word of God. He will progress.

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CLOWN Bob Phillips brings joy to sick children

STORY AND PHOTOS BY Jessica Pounds

ob Phillips takes a yellow balloon out of his bag, fills it with air and begins twisting it into different bubbles. He adds a black balloon and soon the two together begin to take shape. And then, the yellow balloon deflates. “You’d think after 29 years of being a clown I’d have the hang of this by now,” Phillips joked. “But if you can guess what I

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make, you get to keep it.” A second attempt of carefully and precisely inflating and adjusting the balloons is a success; it is clearly visible he has made a Cleburne Yellow Jacket balloon animal. “I usually make them look friendly for the kids, but this one I’ll give a mean expression,” he said. The Cleburne resident doesn’t make his living as a joke-telling, balloon-making, trick-performing clown, but does it for the purpose of bringing smiles to children who are in the hospital. With more than 500 hours of volunteer time spent entertaining children at hospitals across Texas, Phillips said the kids he meets will always carry a place in his heart. “What I have always tried to do — and plan to continue doing — is to bring a moment of joy to a patient, their family, and the staff of the facility in which I’m volunteering,” Phillips said.

Bob Phillips of Cleburne spends his free time volunteering as a clown at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne. Photo by Jessica Pounds

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Phillips said every so often people will ask if he was the class clown in school, but said he was far from it. “I was the exact opposite,” Phillips said. “Playing the trumpet in the marching

band and jazz band in high school and college was the most extroverted thing I ever did. “I did take public speaking while in school, though, but my only forays into acting were as part of the chorus once or twice.”

Phillips, who was studying to be a minister at Stephen F. Austin State University, said the idea of becoming a clown was planted into his mind while attending a special lecture. “In 1986 I was in Berkley, Calif., for a week of continuing education called ‘Humor in the Bible,’” he said. “We spent one workshop session on an introduction to clowning.” Phillips said when the school offered the students the opportunity to take a week-long class about clown acting, he

What I have always tried to do — and plan to continue doing — is to bring a moment of joy to a patient, their family, and the staff of the facility in which I’m volunteering. — Bob Phillips decided to delve into it. “The school offered an entire week of clowning,” Phillips said. “It was there that Chester was born, as I became aware that I had this inside of me wanting to get out.”

Chester the Jester

“My first appearance as a clown was sometime in 1988,” he said. Phillips recalled how his character has changed throughout his years of clowning as he found his niche. “I originally developed the character of C.P. Beauregard, Esq. as a comic whiteface clown, and went through many different costume changes until pretty much settling on the outfit I use now,” Phillips said. Mr. B, he sometimes was referred to as, evolved into Chester the Jester when his wife bought him a souvenir while on a trip. “Several years ago, my wife gave me a Jester’s hat with brightly colored pompoms on it that she found in New Orleans,” he said. “Of course, I had to have a new shirt, collar, and shoes to go with that hat.” A few years later, Phillips began volunteering as a hospital clown. 16

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Hector

Phillips served in all areas throughout the hospitals until one day he met a patient at Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple that made him feel compelled to focus on healing the hearts of children. “One day I had been on the pediatrics ward and was about to go down to the first floor to visit another part of the hospital,” Phillips said. “A nurse came up to me at the door of the elevator with a baby held in the crook of her arm — tiny, helpless, but resting quietly — and his IV pole, no bigger than that pole, in her other hand. We began talking about the boy and both of us fought back the tears.” Phillips said for some reason the nurse suddenly said he should come with her to see another baby. “I said OK, not knowing what I was getting myself into at this point,” Phillips said. “She took me into the neonatal intensive care unit where I was promptly shown how to scrub my hands and don

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Bob Phillips, dressed up as Chester the Jester, entertains children during the annual Cleburne Chamber of Commerce Business Expo.

surgical gloves, gown and mask. “When I was ready, the nurse took me over to an incubating isolate where a fragile little one clung desperately to life.” Phillips said he remembers how eye-

opening the moment was. “No baby should have to have this many tubes and wires and sensors attached to him,” Phillips said. “I prayed for him and put an autographed sticker on his pil-

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low where his mother could see it when she returned.” Phillips said the nurse then took him to see Hector, a baby born too sick to go home. “His mom and dad were there and through my broken Spanish and their few words of English we communicated,” Phillips said. “A bilingual nurse told them why I was dressed as a ‘payaso loco’ [crazy clown].” Hector’s parents asked if they could take a picture of Chester the Jester holding

Hector. “I took him in my arms, and a moment later they had a permanent memory to send to their family,” Phillips said. When it was time to leave Hector and his family, Phillips said the feeling of sadness became overwhelming. “Fortunately, the ride down to the main floor was unaccompanied, giving me time for silence and prayer,” Phillips said. “Thank you God, for all healthy children, bless these precious ones and those who wait upon them.”

“He just goes in and chit chats with them and has little jokes he tells and gets them to laughing. Even if a child is grumpy he can usually evoke a laugh out of them. I think the adults get a kick out of him, too.” — Sherry Cummings 18

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Phillips said he visited Hector until he was well enough to go home. “I followed Hector’s progress from afar until he was transferred to the pediatrics intensive care unit,” Phillips said. “I could go in there anytime and could see him or his mom. “Finally, Hector went to a regular hospital room and then two years after we had our picture taken together, he was breathing well enough on his own to actually go home for the first time. “In the days ahead I missed that little guy but it was a kind of missing which warms your heart and gives you hope for all the other Hectors and their families.” Phillips said growing to know Hector filled him with a new purpose for clowning. “I started an alley [known in the clown business as an area where clowns gather to perform] at Metroplex Hospital in Killeen,

Texas, and have been active in area hospitals everywhere I’ve lived since then.” His wife, Carol Phillips, said everywhere he’s been since he learned how to be a clown, he’s been doing ministry. “There was a little boy at the hospital who was quite ill and his grandfather was with him,” Carol Phillips said. “So I asked Bob if he would go out to the hospital as a clown and he did. While he was there the grandfather passed away and Bob [served as a pallbearer] as a clown.”

Serious business

Bob Phillips remains a member in good standing of the World Clown Association, Clowns of America, The Texas Clowns Association and Cow Town Clowns of Hurst. One of Bob Phillips’ favorite clown accessories is an air pump he uses to blow up balloon animals. “The pump was originally owned by a clown down in San Antonio and after he passed away his wife donated this for a raf-

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Bob Phillips started dressing up as a clown in 1988 after taking a week-long class about clowning.

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glad you got it ... I put in 80 tickets for it.’ I got it with one ticket.” Clown teachers he said have been important to his development include Leon “Buttons” McBride, “Frosty” Little, Tricia “Pricilla Mooseburger” Manuel, Jim Howle, Joe “Doc Geezer” Barney and others. Tricia Manuel said she has known Bob Phillips for a long time. “Bob is dedicated to expanding his knowledge of the craft of clowning and bringing joy to others,” Manuel said. “He is always willing to help others and bring a smile to the face of people young and old who need it most.”

Clowning around Cleburne

Bob Phillips, who now lives in Cleburne, visits children at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne. “One of the things I can’t do there is make balloon animals because they have latex in them and some people are allergic to that,” Bob Phillips said. “And sometimes a child will bite the balloon and pop it and it startles them and sometimes it can go down their throat. “Emergency room people do not like it

when a parent comes in and says they swallowed a balloon. You can’t see red balloons swallowed into a pink colored throat. It’s very much a health problem.” Sherry Cummings, president of the hospital volunteer program, said Bob Phillips makes a big impact on the kids in the hospital. “A lot of children are a little timid of clowns,” Cummings said. “He’s very gentle with them, laid back and cautious. If he can sense that they may be scared he will walk away and let them come to him. They are usually following him around at the end of the day.” “He just goes in and chit chats with them and has little jokes he tells and gets them to laughing. Even if a child is grumpy he can usually evoke a laugh out of them. I think the adults get a kick out of him, too.” Bob Phillips said he would like to spend all of his time serving in the hospital. “Even though I am now retired from pastoral ministry, I seem to be so busy with other churchrelated activities and hobbies that part-time clowning is the norm for me,” Bob Phillips said. “I wish I could find a hospital that would let me serve as part of the pastoral care staff.”

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Cleburne senior Bree Gossett, left, and sophomore Lexi Harris are a powerful powerlifting pair. The sisters each won state in their division this year.

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Sisters in arms Cleburne sisters dominate high school powerlifting scene

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inning a high school state championship At the Class 5A state meet this year, Gossett, who lifted in Texas no matter the sport is a rare in the 148 class, had a total lift of 940 pounds, which was feat. Doing so alongside your sister 100 pounds more than the second-place finisher. She had makes it an even more rare accomplishlifts of 370 pounds in the squat, 185 pounds in the bench ment, and much more sweeter. press and 385 pounds in the dead lift. That’s what Cleburne’s Bree Gossett and Lexi Harris Harris, who was a state champion as a freshman in 2014, accomplished at the Class 4A state powerliftcame in second place this year in the 220+ ing meet in 2014. Both Gossett and Harris division, just missing out on another state won state titles in their respective weight title in a bit of controversy. Her total lift divisions. And this year, the dynamic duo came in at 1,190 pounds. She bench pressed returned to the state meet where Gossett, a 280 pounds, squatted 450 pounds and dead senior, wrapped up her career as a back-tolifted 460 pounds. She was going for the back state champion, while Harris, a sopholead with a 505-pound deadlift, which more, finished second. would’ve been the state record, but she During her first two years as a freshman received two red lights and one green light and sophomore, Gossett qualified for the for the lift, which disqualified that attempt. state meet where she placed second each Cleburne Powerlifting Coach Blaze — Cleburne Coach Pendleton year. With back-to-back state titles, she ends said they felt like she got a couher storied powerlifting career with two state ple of unfavorable calls in her lift. Blaze Pendleton runner-ups and two state titles. “She did very good and came very close “It means a lot,” Gossett said. “It’s someto winning her second state championship,” thing different that most high school athletes don’t experihe said. “We all felt that Lexi should have been the state ence. It also means a lot because not many athletic programs champion again this year. We felt we got some bad calls that here in Cleburne have gone to state recently, and to go to ultimately cost her that title of state champion, but to us state and get first twice and second twice — to get first and the people who were there at the meet, we all know that twice as an upperclassman and second twice as an underLexi is the strongest girl in 5A and second place at state is classman — it all means a lot.” still an amazing feat.”

“I absolutely have not been around two lifters like them.”

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Both Gossett and Harris also own regional records in all three events and the total lift. While the experience of competing at a state event and winning a title is plenty thrilling and memorable enough, doing so with your sister is something both lifters said they will remember. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always remember going to state and being a duo together at all of our meets,â&#x20AC;? Harris said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means a lot because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably spend a lot of time together because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a senior and will be going off to college. This year has been the last time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to compete together.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a double shot for us both to win state,â&#x20AC;? Gossett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll cherish forever winning state with my sister last year. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been fun. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a family affair-type thing. My dad was a big powerlifter and my mom helps out. And Lexi does it, too, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a fun thing with our family.â&#x20AC;? Powerlifting is definitely a family affair. Their father, Freddie Harris, has an outstanding track record in the powerlifting world himself as he set state records in the 1980s and won several events. And their mother, Samantha Gossett, is at every meet and practice supporting along the way. Both Bree Gossett and Lexi Harris said their accomplishments, which includes several state and national championships outside of high school competition, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be possible without the help of their parents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means a lot for my parents to always be there for us helping us do this,â&#x20AC;? Gossett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes a lot of teamwork to reach the goals weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten and how far weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents helped me get to where I want to be,â&#x20AC;? Harris said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were a big support system and they always gave us a lot of encouragement.â&#x20AC;?

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Bree Gossett, left, and Lexi Harris have put in uncountable hours training and working out as each have reached the pinnacle of high school powerlifting.

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Freddie Harris said he’s proud of what his daughters have accomplished. “It’s amazing to have two daughters win state together,” he said. “We’ve spent a lot of time working over the years. They’ve done real well the last couple of years. I’m proud of them and what they’re doing.” Pendleton has only been the Lady Jackets powerlifting coach for one year, but it took less time than that for him to realize he was working with two special athletes. “I absolutely have not been around two lifters like them,” Pendleton said. “I think people who aren’t around powerlifting a lot, they don’t understand how special it is and what they’ve accomplished. Any time you’re a state champion in anything, it doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese checkers, it’s amazing. For them to do what they’ve done is extremely rare. I haven’t been around an athlete who’s competed at the levels they have reached consistently in anything. “Bree was never complacent from her freshman year to sophomore to junior to senior year. Every year she worked harder and harder and got better and better. She just kept working hard. She knew that she wanted to not just be there but she wanted to win it. When she won it her junior year, she wanted to win it again and not be satisfied. It says a lot about her work ethic and shows the type of athlete and competitor she is. She’s definitely earned everything she’s won.” Gossett said her plans after high school graduation are to attend Hill College in Hillsboro for two years to earn her

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Cleburne’s Lexi Harris won a state powerlifting title as a freshman and finished second as a sophomore on a controversial technicality on one of her lifts.

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In her freshman and sophomore years, Bree Gossett was the state runner-up. In her junior and senior years, she captured state championships. She also owns several regional records.

registered nurse license then move to Sam Houston State University to major in kinesiology and lift collegiately. As for Lexi Harris, she has plenty left to strive for during her final two years of high school competition. “Lexi’s going to put herself in position to do something that nobody’s done, not even her sister,” Pendleton said. “We’d have to look in the record books to see if anybody’s won three state titles in four years. Their parents do a really good job of keeping them motivated and keeping them going. We expect Lexi to keep working and keep improving her totals. I know she will because of how hard she works. “We want her to go back and win it next year, but we also want her to keep enjoying it, too. As much as they work out and lift outside of high school competition, we want them to keep enjoying it and having fun.” Lexi Harris, who hopes to compete at the collegiate level at Texas Tech or Texas A&M, said she hopes to follow in the footsteps of her sister by winning back-to-back state championships in her junior and senior years. “My goals the next two years are to go back and win state again both years,” she said. “I want to set personal bests and improve each year.” Her father agreed. “I think she has a great chance of winning again,” he said. “She works real hard and she’s dedicated to what she’s doing. I think she has a good chance of winning back-to-back the next two years just like Bree.”

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Safety while using GPS; apps for drivers

oday’s drivers rely heavily on their phones for things such as GPS, but it is important to be safe while driving. While there are no hard statistics on the number of people who own GPSdevices, thousands of people have either a GPSdevice that comes pre-equipped in a car that they purchased or a standalone device that was bought after the fact. These devices come pre-loaded with maps that work with satellites in space. The GPS receiver figures out the distance to each and uses this information to deduce the location of the device in a process called trilateration. Paper maps are nearly obsolete thanks to smartphones. While they can be convenient, there are several safety tips to keep in mind. r Place the GPS device or your phone where it won’t obstruct your vision or take your eyes off of the road for a good deal of time. r Don’t treat the GPS as if it is infallible. Even with map updates and other accessories, a GPS can still make mistakes. Use common sense, especially where it would seem the GPS is guiding you in the wrong way. r Do not play with the controls while operating the car. If you need to adjust something on the GPS, do so only after pulling over to a safe area. r Have a general idea where you are going so you’ll know if the GPS is potentially guiding you in the wrong direction and can maneuver in advance. Smartphones are a convenient tool that few people can now imagine living without. Smartphone-toting moms and dads know they always have a camera on hand to take quick snaps of their youngsters, while foodies rely on their phones to find nearby restaurants or read reviews of eateries while out on the town. But drivers also can benefit from smartphones thanks to the following apps. r Waze: Commuters who download Waze to their smartphones may wonder

how they ever navigated their daily treks to the office without this useful app, which allows drivers to share realtime traffic and road information with their fellow motorists. Drivers can use Waze to save time and gas money and make their commutes less stressful. Drivers who use

affordable filling stations along their driving routes. You can even enter your city, ZIP code or postal code to find the cheapest gas in their vicinity. r AAA Mobile: AAA members can use the AAA Mobile app to access AAA services on their smartphones. Such services include trip planning, member discounts and roadside assistance. The app also includes a mobile version of the motor club's popular TripTik Travel Planner, which makes it easy for smartphone users to find club-approved hotels, restaurants and attractions. Drivers can even create and share trip

Waze can actively report accidents and find the least expensive gas prices posted by fellow drivers in their community. r GasBuddy: While fuel prices dipped in late 2014 and have stayed low this year, today's drivers are still conditioned to find the most affordable gas prices around. The GasBuddy app makes it easy to do just that, as users can share gas prices in their community, which fellow drivers can then peruse to find the most

itineraries between their desktop and mobile devices. r Insurance: Nearly every auto insurance provider now offers its own mobile app to policy holders. Such apps may allow drivers to pay their bills, view their insurance identification cards, peruse their policies, arrange for roadside assistance and report claims among other things. These apps put your auto insurance provider at your fingertips and can make it much easier to manage your policy.

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Summer concert series to feature 3 bands

ummer is around the corner bringing with it seven free concerts to Market Square. The Market Square concert series, sponsored by Marshall Young Insurance, now entering its third year, offers a mix of musical genres while attracting several thousand residents and tourists to downtown Cleburne. All three of this year’s shows begin at 7:30 p.m. as the opening bands hit the stage followed by the headliners at 9 p.m. The series kicks off June 27 with Satisfaction, the International Rolling Stones Show, billed as a tribute to the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. Fifteen years on and 2,500 plus performances later, Satisfaction have played cities from Las Vegas to Moscow and been billed one of the best tribute shows in the world by Rolling Stone magazine, 50 years of Rolling Stones’ hits the band now brings to Cleburne. “Those who can’t get no satisfaction need to come to Market

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Satisfaction, the International Rolling Stones Show, kicks off the summer concert series on June 27 at Market Square. Two more concerts are planned.

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Square for the Rolling Stonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tribute band,â&#x20AC;? Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain joked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re glad to be back with a lot of great music and a little bit of something for everybody both through our Market Square concert series and the great shows Layland has planned.â&#x20AC;? July 25 brings Texas country artist William Clark Green. Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third album, the recently released â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rose Queen,â&#x20AC;? ranges from Cajun flair to introspective lyrics. The first single from the album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s About Time,â&#x20AC;? earned Williams his first top 10 on Texas radio. The follow up, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She Likes the Beatles,â&#x20AC;? topped both the Texas Music Chart and the Texas Regional Radio Report. Little Texas hits the Market Square stage on

Aug. 29. Billed as part of the Young Country movement of the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, the band combines the sounds and attitudes of modern rock and traditional country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so thrilled to offer our third year of free concerts in downtown Cleburne,â&#x20AC;? Cleburne Chamber of Commerce President Cathy Marchel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first two years went great, everyone had a lot of fun and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to more of the same this summer. These shows bring a mix of great music for all ages and a night of fun for Cleburne residents and out-of-town visitors.â&#x20AC;? Marchel urged residents and visitors to bring their lawn chair, coolers and friends noting that food vendors will also be on site.

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Chamber, Plaza present 'Shakespeare in the Park'

et thee to a nunnery, or at least to Byron Stewart Park. Shakespeare in the Park heads Cleburne’s way this summer courtesy a partnership between Plaza Theatre Co. and the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce. Two performances of “Hamlet” mark the first of what officials from both organizations said they hope to see grow into an annual tradition. “Hamlet” stages at dusk July 17-18. Advance tickets cost $7 for adults and $5 for children and senior citizens. Tickets purchased the night of the shows cost $10 for adults and $7 for children and seniors. Advance tickets may be purchased at www.cleburneshakes.org, by calling Plaza at 817-202-0600 or the chamber at 817-645-2455. A concert by Cleburne country musician Randy Rogers and a dream by Plaza Artistic Director JaceSon Barrus combined to bring the Bard to Byron Stewart. Rogers joined other area musicians to stage a benefit concert in

the park shortly after tornadoes swept through Cleburne in 2013. City leaders said the event’s success exceeded expectations and clued them into one of Cleburne’s untapped resources. “After that concert we realized we have this perfect venue that we’d never really considered before that’s perfect for community events and a great way to attract people to Cleburne from the Metroplex,” Cleburne Chamber President Cathy Marchel said. “It just made sense to find more ways to make use of the park because, for one thing, we can hold a lot of people out there and there’s space for a ton of possibilities.” Barrus said Rogers’ concert inspired him as well. “It’s always been my dream, even before that, to stage Shakespeare outdoors,” Barrus said. “So I went to [Director of Operations Aaron Siler] expecting him to say, ‘OK, you’re crazy.’ But he said ‘Let’s do it,’ and here we are.” Barrus and company approached

the chamber with the idea of presenting the event in tandem and were pleased to encounter equal excitement on the city’s part. Barrus said he’s acted in and/or staged outdoor summer productions before, but never Shakespeare. “It’s a leap of faith on our part,” Barrus said. “This first year is sort of see if it works, see if there’s interest. But, the people we’ve talked to so far have been excited and it’s definitely something we hope becomes a tradition.” Marchel said that’s her hope as well. “I mean what a perfect place for it,” Marchel said. “You have the trees, the atmosphere out there. Bring your friends and family with your ice chest and lawn chairs and enjoy Shakespeare under the stars.” It had to be “Hamlet” the first time out, Barrus said. “Actually, the dream I had about doing this was of doing “Hamlet,” Barrus said. “And from a personal standpoint it’s one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, one I’ve always

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been completely enamored with. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just great drama and the themes remain relevant and continue to resonate into today.â&#x20AC;? Should the July shows garner interest and attendance Plaza will return to the park in summer 2016, Barrus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do different shows, but it will always be Shakespeare,â&#x20AC;? Barrus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen Shakespeare in the Park productions in Dallas, wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t here when they used to do them in Fort Worth. But this is exciting for us and brings something unique to Cleburne that, as far as I know, hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been attempted here before.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamletâ&#x20AC;? will stage in the same area where the Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concert was held. Plaza will rent a stage for this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shows. Plans are under consideration, however, to raise funds to build a permanent stage at the site, Barrus and Marchel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be for Plaza per se,â&#x20AC;? Barrus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be any and all different events.â&#x20AC;? Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain said he attended several Shakespeare in the Park productions in Fort Worth years ago and is thrilled to see the tradition revived in Cleburne. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Byron Stewart is the perfect place to host many great things for our residents and visitors and to have the quality of Shakespeare on stage out there is a great addition,â&#x20AC;? Cain said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And while Shakespeare once said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Men of few words are the best men,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; those who bring us Shakespeare are even better.â&#x20AC;?

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lthough gracious and whip smart, Cleburne resident Sandy Sims becomes reticent to a fault when the focus shifts her way. “She’s pretty modest, never one to get out in front,” Johnson County Judge Roger Harmon said. “But you can bet in the background she’s working hard to make sure it gets done.” While she’s no fan of tooting her own horn, Sims lights up when the subject changes to local history and, especially, the history of the Johnson County Courthouse. Sims serves with the Johnson County Historical Commission, which in turn, among other projects, oversees operation of the Johnson County Courthouse Museum, located on the historic courthouse’s first floor. Even there, that modesty again, Sims’ role in the museum differs depending on whom is asked. “Oh it’s, it’s just clerk,” Sims said when asked her title. Fellow JCHC member of museum volunteer Wilma Reed begged to differ. “We call her the director of the museum,” Reed said. “So that puts her in charge. Now, of course, she works closely with the committee on operation and display decisions.” Proper job title incertitude aside, Sims’ ties to the museum fit like a glove given that she often refers to the courthouse as her second home, which, in many respects, it is.

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Riffing on the famous Texas slogan, Sims wasn’t born in Cleburne, but she got here as fast as she could. Even at that, she already had ties to the city through her paternal grandparents and her father, J.T. Epperson Jr. “Dad was president of his class [at Cleburne High School] in ’32,” Sims said. Sims’ father and mother, Katherine Epperson, lived in Wichita Falls when Sims, their only child, was born, but moved to Cleburne when she was 5. “Mom and dad decided to move here,” Sims said. “Dad’s parents and uncles and other relatives were here.” The county courthouse would soon

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become as familiar to Sims as her childhood home on Anglin Street. Her father initially worked for an auto parts store, followed by a stint with Buckner Construction. “Then [County Judge Penn Jackson] appointed him as county auditor,” Sims said. “Mom had always worked and worked for the county clerk’s office from the very beginning when they first moved here. She worked her way up. You know how you start off as a clerk then she became chief deputy. Then when [the former county clerk] hit the middle of his term and resigned, the commissioners court appointed her as county clerk to fill out the rest of his term. And then she retired

because that was right at the end of her time.” Sims attended J.N. Long Elementary School then Fulton Middle School and then Cleburne High School. CHS at that time occupied the building now known as the Guinn Justice Center, which houses most of the county’s courts and several other county offices. Though she couldn’t have known it at the time, Sims would later play an instrumental role in the transformation of that building from a high school into a justice center. The Johnson County Courthouse sits roughly midpoint between the school and her former home, Sims said. “So yes, everyday I’d walk to the courthouse after school, do my homework and after that just sort of play around the courthouse,” Sims said. “After mom and dad got off work we’d all go home together.” Youthful, carefree days, Sims said. “Oh yes,” Sims said. “I knew almost everybody in every office. I even remember the spittoons around the courthouse where the men would hang over and ... “Christmas was always a wonderful time at the courthouse. Everyone would put tables out in the hallways from their offices and there would always be lots of food and time for people to just go around and visit one another. All of downtown really, especially the square. Each of the stores would put up decorations in their windows, and there were a lot of businesses downtown then. It was a very active, viable area.” Those memories, Sims said, are why she holds the courthouse and local history so dear today. “Oh and the movie theaters,” Sims said. “The Yale, the Esquire and the Palace.

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items that were really old and I started making files and keeping all that old stuff,” Sims said. “The judge didn’t really need or want them, but I was interested in it. One time I found a paper that had my mother’s handwriting. Oh, that was special.”

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Among the reference library in the Johnson County Courthouse Museum is one listing liquor license applications from the days when Cleburne had saloons.

Actually the Palace was a little before I started going to the movies. But my grandfather, my daddy’s father, J.T. Epperson Sr., he was a councilman for [Cleburne] for many years. But he loved to go to the movies and I went with him a lot.” Sims said it broke her heart a bit to see the Esquire Theater demolished about 10 years ago. Cleburne city officials briefly entertained the idea of using the old theater for a performing arts center but later decided to build the center onto the existing Cleburne Conference Center instead. “I’d always hoped there was some way that old theater could’ve been used for [the performing arts center] or some other use,” Sims said. “But it had burned somewhere along the way and they said it was structurally where it couldn’t be used. “But oh, the insides of that theater were just remarkable because they had the fluorescent flowers on the walls, that art deco look that you don’t see much anymore.” One summer during high school, Sims’ mother hired her to type old county clerk office records. “Which they probably couldn’t do nowadays,” Sims said. “But I had a lot of fun seeing how fast I could type without making a mistake. Of course, if you made a mistake back then there were all those copies you had to erase and change.” Sims said she had no idea at the time she would one day work full time at the courthouse. Nor did she have any particular interest in history. 44

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“Not nearly as much as I did later,” Sims said. “I took all the history classes in school and did all that, but ...”

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Sims’ passion for history came later. First came marriage to James Sims who, like Sims’ father, also served as senior class president at CHS. Several relocations followed before the couple and their three children landed in Houston for eight years. “Well...” Sims said when asked how she liked Houston. “It was just a big city although our neighborhood was close. We knew all our neighbors and the kids all played together but it was, I wanted to get out of there.” The family returned to Cleburne and Sims got a job at the courthouse, first in the district clerk’s office and later in the county judge’s office. Sims worked as an administrative assistant for county judges Joe Durham and Roger Harmon before retiring in 2010. “Sandy, from the very beginning, was always involved going the extra mile to make sure everything that needed to be done was accomplished,” Harmon said. “Just always open to help anybody. You need help, she goes at it 120 percent. When she worked for me and now with the museum and really everything she’s involved with she goes well above what needs to be done.” Returning to the courthouse, Sims said, felt like coming home, a homecoming that awakened her interest in local history. “It started, when I was working for Judge Durham, my first judge, I kept running into

Sims worked in the courthouse for nearly 20 years, spending the majority of her time as an assistant to Durham and Harmon. By 2000 it became obvious that something needed to be done about the Johnson County Courthouse, which by that time housed three district courts in addition to other county offices. “The courthouse by that time was just unbelievably congested,” Sims said. “We had people with desks sitting in hallways within separate departments of the office spaces. You have to remember the courthouse was built and designed in 1912 when the county only had one [district court].” More space was needed. But where? “We kind of looked at the [old downtown Cleburne Post Office], but it wasn’t large enough,” Sims said. “That’s such a beautiful old building that I worried about it being torn down and not being there. But when the city bought it later for city hall, it was just perfect.” Commissioners dismissed the thought of building anew given the costs construction and land purchase would entail. Which left the old CHS building, CISD having moved the high school to newer digs in the late ’70s. The former high school building functioned as a middle school for a time and was later used for Hill College classes but was, by 2000, vacant. “The court called in [architect Alan Magee] and recessed and the commissioners and elected officials and all of us walked over to the old high school and looked around at everything to decide if the building would work,” Sims said. “Was it structurally sound? Trying to determine where all the offices could go and things like that. After a lot of testing Alan came back and told commissioners it could work.” The move to the now dubbed Guinn Justice Center represented another home coming of sorts for Sims. “I was excited about that project because I felt like I wanted that building to be saved and used,” Sims said. “I had a connection there as well having gone to high school there and so wanted to see it survive and continue to be useful to the community.” Sims served on the committee overseeing the renovation of the old high school build-

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ing, the intention even then being not to abandon the Johnson County Courthouse but to free up space by moving most of the courts and several other offices to the Guinn. In a nod to history, the basement of the Guinn houses a small museum dedicated to CHS, including the original doors from the old high school’s house system — Sims was in Addams House — a tradition CISD abandoned when the high school relocated to its current home, an abandoned tradition Sims, Reed and others color unfortunate. “CISD donated a lot of the items displayed there now,” Sims said. “We didn’t want the houses and the history to get lost so we saved all those things.”

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A state grant in 2005 allowed for renovation of the Johnson County Courthouse and Harmon once again tapped Sims to assist. “[Former County Commissioner Troy Thompson] and I served as liaisons between the commissioners and the architects,” Sims said. “We attended their meetings in the trailer office set up by the courthouse each week and reported back to commissioners.” Returning the courthouse to its 1912 state yielded several surprises along the way. “Like with the paint,” Sims said. “They hired a wonderful man who came in and meticulously took one layer of paint off at a time to determine the original colors,” Sims said. “I was really interested in that and would come over when he was here and he’d say, ‘No Sandy, we’re not down to the bottom yet.’ Then finally I got a call, ‘You can come see it. We’ve found it.’” The original wall coloring, a mix of light mantis and sea foam green startled county officials initially. “It was like, ‘Oh Dear!’” Sims laughed. “‘What are we going to do with that?’” “But the colors compliment the stained glass in the rotunda so we’ve, grown to appreciate it.” Sims never ventured up the not entirely secure looking ladder inside the courthouse’s iconic tower that stretches to the clockwork’s room. She did, however, enjoy the opportunity to stand atop the tower’s dome. “Oh my!” Sims said. “I did climb the scaffolding put up outside the tower all the way up to the dome and had someone take a picture of me up there. It was a little scary, but oh what a wonderful view once you got up there.” Sims, around the same time, joined the Johnson County Historical Commission, a group that, as far as Sims and Reed know, dates back to at least the 1960s. The commissioners court, having temporarily decamped to the Guinn, returned to the

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um were Wilma Reed, Pat Dexheimer and Vivian Wright as well as Dorothy Schwartz and Mary Norris, who is deceased now,” Sims said. “Then Sandra and James Neeley joined and Andy Asberry and our newest member, Mary Robinson. Linda Burt Wallace was a

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Johnson County Courthouse once renovations completed in 2008. Commissioners began meeting in the space formerly occupied by the 249th District Court the room vastly improved thanks to the removal of the unsightly hanging ceiling unwisely installed somewhere between 1912 and 2005. The courthouse room commissioners used before the renovation now houses the Johnson County Courthouse Museum, which is overseen by the JCHC. “Commissioners met in what’s the museum now,” Sims said. “But when my daddy was county auditor they met in the county judge’s office, which is where Judge Harmon still has his office. In fact, I have an old picture of the court meeting in those offices from back in those days.” In addition to historical documents and items Sims set aside during her time with Judge Durham, the renovation turned up more items. “During the renovation the builders found lots of things as they went through, things up in the attic and clock tower and other places,” Sims said. “They found the old wooden packing crate used to ship the [court’s tower clocks] and old books. One is a record of liquor licenses from when Cleburne had saloons. They told us, ‘We’re finding all this old stuff that maybe you’d like to preserve.’” Which, about a year after the courthouse reopened, resulted in the creation of the Johnson County Courthouse Museum, a free museum staffed by Sims and fellow JCHC volunteers. Sims, after she retired from the county, began volunteering for the museum. “The people who really started this muse-

Carlton who served as the county’s historian, and the contents of the courthouse’s 1912 time capsule, which was opened in 2012. The current exhibit covers famous Johnson County trials and pays tribute to Homer Wicker, one of the county’s first court report-

So yes, everyday I’d walk to the courthouse after school, do my homework and after that just sort of play around the courthouse. After mom and dad got off work we’d all go home together. former member and she was instrumental in a lot of our exhibits and ideas. “We’re open 10 a.m. to noon Wednesdays and Thursdays. We hope to be open through the week at some point but, to be able to do that, we’d like to see more people come to our JCHC meetings, which are open to the public, and join us.” The museum, Reed and others stress, is not just Johnson County or Cleburne centric. “We have areas covering every city in the county,” Reed said. “And we often receive donations from people throughout the county.” In addition to the museum’s permanent collection and resource materials, special exhibits have covered famous Johnson County musicians, the collection of the late Jack

— Sandy Sims ers. Wallace helped organize one of the museum’s most popular exhibits, an overview of the railroad’s role in shaping Johnson County’s history. As if overseeing the Johnson County Courthouse Museum weren’t enough, Sims recently became involved in historical and renovation efforts at her church, the Church of the Holy Comforter. “We found the original rose window, which was over the alter and hand painted,” Sims said. “[Former Layland Museum Director Julie Baker] goes there too and she and I have been working on exhibits to get some of the old things out where people can enjoy them and organizing fundraisers to restore the organ.”

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The Cleburne church, which dates to 1871, has housed in its current building since 1893 but parishioners early on met in the courthouse, Sims said. Johnson County’s earlier courthouse, which burned down in 1912, occupied the same space as the current courthouse. Sims characterized her continued involvement with the courthouse as a homecoming of memories. “I’ve certainly enjoyed all the years I’ve spent here,” Sims said. “Even now I think of mom and dad when I go into the rooms where they used to work and remember how I’d sit and visit with them all those years ago. “And I think it’s something that with

this museum, the Layland, the high school displays in the Guinn, the Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum and now the new Gone With the Wind Museum we have all these wonderful places in Cleburne.” It’s both vital and an adventure, Sims said of her zeal for history. “I feel we learn from history,” Sims said. “And if we don’t preserve it there’s no guide for us to the present. “It is fun too. It’s like an Easter egg hung because you’ll be looking for something and when you find it, it’s just so exciting to be able to share it. It’s like a puzzle too. You don’t get all the pieces but when you get something it leads you to something else to look for. That’s exciting.”

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