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Hereford BRAND Proudly Serving The High Plains Since 1901
Volume 116 | Number 72 WHAT'S INSIDE
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More room to serve
Police Blotter Page 2
WISE Women helping peers By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
HHS grad part of WT champion team Page 6
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Prepared bags of food stand ready to be delivered in the Hereford Food Pantry’s new location at 900 Lee Ave. Whitefaces named to All District teams Page 9
New location gem for Hereford Food Pantry By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
Herd track teams sweep WF titles Page 10
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To say officials with Hereford Food Pantry are delighted with their new digs is an understatement. City and county officials, along with Pantry board members and volunteers, family, friends and wellwishers came together Friday to officially dedicate the Food Pantry’s new – and permanent – location at 900 Lee Ave. “We love it,” Food Pantry director Bettie Dickson said. “It is so roomy and is so us. It really meets all our needs.” The Lee Avenue site is the third for the Pantry since its creation in 1998. After originally opening its doors at 609 E. Park Ave., the Pantry moved to the courthouse annex building on 3rd Street in 2013. However, that location came into flux when the
county received an offer from Hereford Federal Credit Union to purchase the building late in 2016. Wheels began to turn and action was undertaken to find the Pantry a new home. Thanks to the efforts of the Deaf Smith County Commissioners Court and County Judge D.J. Wagner, a new site was found as a result of the generosity of a local resident. After conversations with Wagner, Joe Ward agreed to donate the former Lee Avenue restaurant run by his late wife, Janie, to the Food Pantry as not only a new but permanent location for the well-used county resource. “The county really helped us get this building,” Hickson said. “They talked with Joe, and he donated it in memory of his late wife. “This place is 40 percent PLEASE SEE PANTRY | 3
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Hereford Food Pantry Board of Directors chairman David Euler gets a bag ready for donation prior to last week’s dedication ceremonies.
The often sensitive issue of breast cancer awareness, prevention and treatment has gotten a boost in Hereford and Deaf Smith County thanks to a new program. WISE (Women Inspiring, Serving and Educating) Women is ready to get the word out after a quintet of local women completed training as breast health advocates and educators. “The purpose is to get people to teach peers about breast health,” said Dee Salinas of Hereford Regional Medical Center (HRMC) and one of the program’s educators. “The key is to learn ways to see the signs of breast issues for prevention and, most importantly, early detection.” A breast cancer survivor, Salinas is joined by HRMC’s Denise Andrews and Martha Rincon, as well as Lala Murillo from the City of Hereford and Casa Del Llano’s Lydia Villanueva, as the five who have completed the training. The program is designed to teach steps to improving and ensuring breast health and making area women aware of ways to reduce the risks of breast cancer. As the program readily admits, the most important of those steps – especially for women over age 40 – is an annual mammogram. However, that has proven easier said than done because many do not have PLEASE SEE WISE | 3
Black family, house center of Hereford history By Carolyn Waters Special to the BRAND
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fifth of a six-part weekly series highlighting individuals and events that have made up the history of Deaf Smith County to lead up to the 50th anniversary of Deaf Smith County Museum on March 26. The series will appear in each Wednesday of the BRAND through March 15.) A business that had its beginnings in 1901 and didn’t close its doors until near the mid-1980s was the E.B. Black Furniture Store. The store occupied the same location at Second and Dewey, later Main, streets during its tenure. Remodeling through the years changed the store’s appearance slightly, but the quality of merchandise and customer service remained
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E.B. Black and family pose on the porch of their Fourth Street house that has become an icon in Hereford and Deaf Smith County.
50Years Deaf Smith County Historical Museum
the same. E.B. Black, who was born in Opelika, Ala., on Oct. 13, 1867, came to Hereford from Johnson County in March 1901. In December of that year, he moved his wife, Carrie English Black, and their family to Hereford to live in a four-room house he had built on Fourth Street. The Black’s children, Jim, Nellie and Elizabeth were born in Cleburne and another son, William, was born after the move to Hereford. An undertaking business was operated in the rear area of the furniture store. Black purchased the first motor driven hearse in the Panhandle. Occasionally undertakers from Amarillo would borrow the hearse when they had “an elaborate” funeral service to conPLEASE SEE MUSEUM | 3
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