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First National Bank of Hereford Member FDIC

HEREFORD TEXAS

“Because every community has a story to tell.”

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Jim Bob Solsbery Jim Bob Solsbery is a humorous Keynote Speaker with over 25 years of experience.

He uses humor to connect with people and open minds. He believes when we look at things through the lens of humor, we can see ourselves, others, and life’s challenges more objectively.

Jim Bob has a background in education and is a former teacher and coach. He is presently Executive Director for the Center for Teacher Effectiveness, working with educators all across the United States.

Jim Bob also enjoys being an advocate for agriculture, farmers and ranchers. He speaks at several agriculture events each year, telling folks in agriculture to believe in the importance of what they do and provide for this nation. He is also a former Executive Director for the Farm Service Agency – USDA. Jim Bob is a graduate of Texas A & M University and a Vietnam veteran. He is married to retired educator, Jan, and lives in San Angelo, Texas.

Hats off to our

Gold Sponsors

The Chamber wishes to express our most sincere thanks to these businesses for being Gold Sponsors for this year’s banquet. Their kindness and generosity help make our success possible.

Mike & Anna Solomon, First Financial Bank, Farm Bureau Insurance, Xcel Energy, Parsons Steak House, First Bank Southwest, Deaf Smith Electric Co-op, First National Bank, Hereford Texas Federal Credit Union, Hereford Lions Club, Amarillo College, Rabern Rentals, Mendez & Mullins Funeral Home, Deaf Smith Comfort Air, Happy State Bank, Hereford Regional Medical Center, Atmos Energy, Whiteface Ford, Merrick Pet Care, Bar-G Feedyard, Caviness Beef Packers, Hereford Independent School District, Arrowhead Mills, Moss Grain, Hilltop Event Center, Nutri-Feed, INC., Hereford Brand

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2019 Chamber Officers

Tim Laws President

Zack Smith Vice President

Ruben Coronado Secretary

Audie Sciumbato Past President

The Irreplaceables

By Kerrie Womble Steiert

In our everyday lives, there are those unique, indispensable folks who keep us on track, who slay our dragons with one hand while repotting our African violets with the other. And they do it all with a cheerful smile on their faces. They’re the virtuous individuals who take care of us without fail, without an agenda beyond giving us their best. And they’re always there when we need them most.

I once worked for a man who often reminded his employees that any one of his staff could easily be replaced at a moment’s notice. His mantra: No one is indispensable. You can imagine the lackluster morale of his workers and the high turnover rate of his staff.

I think he was wrong. Perhaps we would have been more inspired by this advice: “Do your job so well that you become irreplaceable. The delivery of your personal best will make you invaluable to

me and my business.” When you feel personal worth, it’s natural to share it with the people you serve.

Each of us has a short list of certain individuals whose skills and experience are invaluable, the ones we simply cannot function without. I’m not referring to your family or close friends although most of them—hopefully— belong in that category. The irreplaceable ones are the crucial go-to people who always know exactly what to do to make your life run smoothly. They go above and beyond what’s required, not for personal profit, but because they hold themselves to a higher standard, and because they genuinely care.

They’ve earned our trust.

The top three on my list of irreplaceables are our family doctor, my hairdresser and the plumber. The potential retirement of any one of these unsung heroes makes me hyperventilate.

In your world, it may be the farmhand, who stays in the

field long after sundown to get the crop harvested. The mechanic who recognizes that your car engine’s funny noise is easily remedied with new spark plugs. The veterinarian who saves your son’s show calf, the barber whose super power is taming your stubborn cowlick.

Maybe it’s the therapist or minister or neighbor, whose expressions of concern are the kindness you needed to keep going. The lady who faithfully cleans your house, restoring order out of chaos. The office manager who holds the keys to your sanity and is the intrepid guardian of your two hundred passwords. The florist whose showstopper bouquets are exactly what you envisioned for your daughter’s wedding.

Your child’s math tutor or Tball coach who’s dedicated to helping every youngster reaching their potential. The silver-haired gardener who gladly shares his knowledge of which plants will attract hummingbirds.

As we journey through life, our needs evolve along with everything else. A preschooler’s list of irreplaceables might include the guy who drives the ice cream truck, the library lady who always picks the best books and, most critical, their blanky.

(Note: Irreplaceables are not always people.) As parents of an over-achieving teenager, we came to rely on the local 4-H leader, the high school speech teacher and the pizza delivery guy. When I was caring for my aging parents, my sanity depended on the hospice nurse, the gerontologist and anyone who could give me a temporary reason to laugh.

They’re the gatekeepers.

The troubleshooters. The vampire killers.

Their support comes in so many forms. Sometimes it’s just salt-of-the-earth gumption or uncanny organizational skills or years of hands-on experience. It can be lifting the load that’s too heavy for your shoulders. Or shoving

you on down the road when you’re afraid to face the risk.

Sometimes it’s a simple matter of being fully present in your moment of crisis.

Each of us is gifted, and lacking, in unique ways. The talented artist can’t remember to pay the light bill. A stellar bookkeeper has no clue how to comfort a grieving neighbor. The inspiring pastor is bumfuzzled by any electronic device. The computer geek can’t create a landscape painting if his very life is imperiled.

It’s a beautiful design, how we need each other, how we can lean in to our dependable friends, neighbors and co-workers, how every day blesses us with opportunities to complete one another. Looking back, each of us owes a debt of gratitude to those good souls, who make it possible to meet the rising road ahead. For those who attend us, day-in and dayout, with infinite grace and generosity of spirit—they’re irreplaceable.

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Honor Roll of Past Chamber Presidents 1929-30 T.E. Seigler 1930-31 John Slaton 1932-33 W. Dameron 1934 A.O. Thompson 1935 B.H. Hopkins 1936 Jesse Stanford 1938 A.H. Streun 1939 Miles Robertson 1940 D.H. Alexander 1941 W.E. Dameron 1942 R.L. Thompson 1943-44 H.A. Close 1945-46 Wayne Evans 1947 Homer Brumley 1948 F. Hardwick 1949 Henry Sears 1950 O.L. Bybee 1951 Bruce Wooddell 1952 J.R.Allison 1953 Paul Harvey 1954 Tom Alderson

1955 Ralph Hastings 1956 T. Douglas 1957 Dr. A.T. Mims 1958 Marcus Latham 1959 J.R. Johnson 1960-61 C. P. Norton 1962 Clint Formby 1963 M.Tannahill 1964 Austin Rose Jr. 1965 Wayne Thomas 1966 Raymond White 1967 Neil Cooper 1968-69 E. Langley 1970 Virgil Marsh 1971 Charles Hoover 1972 Melvin Jayroe 1973 Jim Conkwright 1974 Roy Faubion 1975 R.W.Eades 1976 Donald Hicks 1977 J. Shollenbarger

Richard R.C. Hoelscher Attorney at Law

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1978 O.G. Nieman 1979-80 Ken Rogers 1981 Tom Burdett 1982 Bill Johnson 1983 Bob Sims 1984 Bobby Owens 1985 Rex Easterwood 1986 Bill Harris 1987 Mike Bowles 1988 Larry Malamen 1989 Rocky Lee 1990 Doug Josserand 1991 Pat Robbins 1992 C. Greenawalt 1993 Lewis McDaniel 1994 Wes Fisher 1995 Wes Klett 1996 T. Weemes 1997 Wade Easley 1998 Sid Shaw 1999 Chris Leonard

2000 Sam Metcalf 2001 Dennis Artho 2002 Wallace Hill 2003 Eddie Morton 2004 Sharon Johnson 2005 Sean Smith 2006 Danny Harshey 2007 Karen Smith 2008 Mitch Reeve 2009 Mike Solomon 2010 D.J. Wagner 2011 Jerry O’ Connor 2012 Ceciley Sehi 2013 Kent Jackson 2014 Brenda Fuentes 2015 Jay Stevens 2016 Lindsay Chandler 2017 Sharon Hodges 2018 Audie Sciumbato

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Outgoing Directors

Adriana Fernandez

Becky Bridwell

Phillip Kahlich

Sharon Hodges

David Wagner, Citizen of Year, with Lions president Tim Laws

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Deaf Smith County Chamber of Commerce Director’s Term

Class of 2019 Tim Laws Chris Matthews Ruben Coronado Mack Nielsen

Class of 2020 Joe Cabezuela Eva Mullins Rocky Bhakta Zack Smith

Class of 2021 Jeff Barnhart Josh Lucio Dee Salinas Lewis Richburg

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Proud to be small town

By Jim Steiert Contributing Writer

Some label the rural heartland “small town.” Hereford, Texas, population roughly 15,000, would come under that heading, I suppose, though it seemed big city for a kid from Hart, Texas, population 577 back when I first moved here .

There is a faction that holds small town America in uppity contempt these days.

On the other hand, maybe they ought to be envious that they don’t live in a bighearted place like this one.

It’s okay to be small town. I don’t know that we have to apologize for being from a place where you can walk into the post office and fellows still hold the doors open for the ladies, or help when somebody’s carrying a bulky package.

You can even be serenaded by chiming church bells as you cross Main Street. Many patrons call one another by name and ask after the well-being of family. At the “service” counter, where you will have to stand in line, folks may make light hearted comments about all of those ‘‘This Window Closed’’ placards and clerks long accustomed to all of this—may comment on how they enjoy taking your money, anyway.

None of this is too serious. The same clerks who peddle pricey forever stamps will go to the trouble of handing you out a parcel that can’t wait until Monday, even if it’s about closing time on Friday, or on Saturday morning, if you beat on the door and beg, or look through your lockbox to the back of the Post Office and holler.

They do it not because they have to, but because this is small town, you’re neighbors, and everybody gets in a pickle once in a while.

We don’t apologize for neighbors looking out for neighbors. If you’re a really small town probably everybody’s on the volunteer fire department, and more than a few are volunteer emergency medical personnel. You’re too far from “big city” to

count on them for help.

Volunteers run the stock show, weekend baseball, volleyball, basketball, football programs for kids 4-H, FFA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, PTO at the schools, Food Pantry, Friends of the Library, and County Historical Association.

Don’t apologize because you can call the local sheriff and his deputies, the police chief, game warden, J.P., highway patrolmen, county judge, county commissioners, county clerk, tax assessor, district judge, school board, city commission, probably even the dog catcher—by their first names—and not necessarily because you are in trouble. Local government and law enforcement work better serving known faces than strangers.

We shouldn’t apologize for low-key news in the local paper, stories about the girls who do hair down at the beauty parlor, maintain the grounds at the historic house owned by the county, the local sole saver at the boot shop, or that we call our volunteer firemen/neighbors heroes in bold headlines and radio newscasts when they rescue somebody from a burning building, or a couple of our hometown student nurses resuscitate a traffic accident victim and save their life.

It may be a small town/ country thing, but it’s also OK to feel a lump in your throat and a well of pride in your chest when folks still get together to harvest a neighbor’s crop when they are down with illness, to help with cleanup, and get life going again after a fire or a weather disaster. I’ve seen folks come from miles away with their own tractors and equipment to help fight a grass fire or to save most of a wheat crop when a lightning strike torched a near-inferno. Nobody told them to come, to bring tractors and plows and water tanks, to face risk. They just saw the smoke, knew what a neighbor stood to lose, and came hell-for-leather.

“Rush hour” in small

town really creates a traffic jam down at the Highway 60 and Park Avenue intersection across from Pak-A-Sak. It lasts all of ten minutes. We won’t apologize for that, nor for having dirt and grease under our fingernails; for being able to see spectacular risings and settings of the sun morning and evening; for being able to lie in the cool grass of the back yard of a summer evening and stare up at the stars; for witnessing nature’s still-wild side that holds that some things must die that others may live, and that everything that we eat really doesn’t just magically appear at the grocery.

Certainly, small town folk should make no apology for sharing their gardens, produce of their fruit trees, output of their kitchen ovens, for having the big hearts to cook dinners of comfort food and lay out a feed on church tables and clean up afterwards as a ministry to a grieving family.

Neighbors give endlessly to untold good causes, bestowing time and talent and money so that the local nursing home stays open, the kids at school have playground equipment, the community gets the new ambulance it sorely needs, folks down on their luck get a little help with bills at Christmas.

I’m not sorry to live amidst small town atmosphere where you can walk up to someone’s door and knock, or call them on the phone at night and get permission to hunt on their farm or ranch. All that neighbors of this sort require of you is that you look out for the livestock and irrigation equipment and close all of the gates behind you.

No apology needed for coming from places where we look out for and root for one another’s kids all through school, and keep up with them long after they’ve graduated.

We are the sort of folk hereabouts who are not too worldly or sophisticated, I suppose. We are just small town...Really proud of that.

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Chamber Hall of Fame Award The Deaf Smith County Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame Award is designed to honor someone who has served the chamber for a long period of time and who has demonstrated leadership, commitment and dedication to the goals and ideals of the chamber.

The honor is not restricted to gender and does not reflect one single service.

It does consider all areas of service and indicates an individual’s hard work and community pride.

The hall induction and recognition of the honoree is held at the annual chamber banquet. Awardees are presented a plaque recognizing their induction.

The chamber executive committee selects the annual honoree based on their overall worthiness and contributions made to the chamber.

Nominees are accepted from businesses or individuals for the award, and committee members may consider recommendations prior to their selection meeting.

Additional criteria for award consideration is that the nominee must be a chamber member or employed by a chamber member business.

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We are The Team With the Biggest Hearts, Best Preparation, Deepest Passion, Strongest Togetherness, And Will to Succeed!

Mike and Eva Mullins Owners/Funeral Directors

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Citizen of the Year Recipients 2017 David Wagner

1999 Earl Stagner

1981 Lynton Allred

1963 Mrs. Earl Springer

2016 Sid Shaw

1998 Carolyn Waters

1980 Doug Manning

1962 Dr. Lena Edwards

2015 Tom Simons

1997 Beverly Harder

1979 Jim Conkwright

1961 James Witherspoon

2014 Steve Hodges

1996 Lester Wagner

1978 Helen Rose

1960 Faye Plank

2013 Jerry O’ Connor

1995 Dr. Milton Adams

1977 Dr. A.T. Mims

1959 Wayne Lawrence

2012 Charles & Wanda Hoover

1994 Bob Josserand

1976 Carl McCaslin

1958 Don Zimmerman

2011 Don Cumpton

1993 Shirley Garrison

1975 Jimmie Allred

1957 Argen Draper

2010 Butch White

1992 Betty Henson

1974 Raymond White

1956 Della Stagner

2009 Mike Mauldin

1991 Larry Wartes

1973 A.J. Schroeter

1955 D.C. Kinsey

2008 Bill Walden

1990 Caudie Ola Brown

1972 Jewel Smith

1954 Earl Phillips

2007 Dr. Howard Johnson

1989 Speedy Nieman

1971 Rev. Russell Wingert

1953 S.O. Wilson

2006 Weldon Knabe

1988 Margie Daniels

1970 Hugh Clearman

1952 Fr. Raymond Gillis

2005 Duffy McBrayer

1987 Bill Devers

1969 Earnest Langley

1951 Henry Sears

2004 Johnny Trotter

1986 Gene Brock

1968 Ray Cowsert

1950 Lyle Blanton

2003 L.J. Clark

1985 George Warner

1967 John D. Pittman

1959 L.B. Barnett

2002 Steve & Joyce Stevens

1984 Bobby Owen

1966 Ed Skypala

1948 W.E. Dameron

2001 Mike Harris

1983 Bud Eades

1965 Rev. Don Davidson

1947 Dub Reeves

2000 Herschel Black

1982 Rocky Lee

1964 Clint Formby

1946 Wayne Evans

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Hall of Fame Recipients 2017 Lindsay Chandler 2016 Robert de la Cruz 2015 Teresa Garth 2014 Terry Caviness 2013 Cody Chandler 2012 Jerry O’Connor 2011 Carolyn Waters 2010 Temple Abney 2009 Mitch Reeve 2008 Karen Smith 2007 Joe Wallace 2006 Charlene Sanders 2005 Anna Solomon 2004 Amy Schumacher 2003 Mark Andrews 2002 Jimmy Bell 2001 Don T. Martin

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Hereford: A great place to live, work, and play....

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First National Bank of Hereford & Friona DIRECTORS

Chris Cabbiness, Director Wade O. Easley, Director Scott Hall, Director Barry Josserand, Director R. Scott Keeling, Director

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This is what it’s all about at Stevens 5-Star!

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Hall of Fame Recipient

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Proud Chamber Member

Lindsay Chandler 2017 Hall of Fame Awardee

Welcome to the Family!

We don’t look at you as a customer, we look at you as an owner!

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Hereford Texas Federal Credit Union has been providing financial services to individuals, families and businesses within our community since 1936. We are, and always will be first and foremost committed to our members. Putting people first is not just a philosophy, it’s a way of life and the way we conduct business.

We are a full service financial cooperative. Come by and let us show you all the services we have to offer. With everything from Savings and Share Checking, Loans, CDs, IRAs, ATMs, and Online and Mobile Banking complete with Bill Pay, you have everything you need in financial services.

We look forward to providing you quality customer service along with all the financial products and services you need.

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