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By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
May time for students to hit the outdoors Page 5
Postal Food Drive set for Saturday Page 6 Hereford’s Dodge DeLozier will cap a four-letter athletic year when he takes part in the UIL Class 5A State Track Meet high jump competition Friday in Austin. BRAND/John Carson
Castaneda inks letter to Southwestern Christian Page 7
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Herd throwback last Whiteface standing By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
cherry on the nuts on the whipped cream of DeLozier’s hot fudge sundae of an For all the games, min- athletic year. utes, innings, quarters, sets, Regardless of his qualifymatches, points and whatev- ing for state in track, Deer else that have been played Lozier had already pulled off since August, there is only an athletic rarity this year by one Hereford Whiteface left earning letters in four varsito compete in the 2017-18 ty sports. school year. The ice cream and hot Herd junior Dodge fudge of his sundae DeLozier is the last came on the gridiron Whiteface standing to start the year. as he prepares to In his first season take part in the UIL as full-time starting Class 5A State Track quarterback, DeLoziMeet on Friday in er anchored a resurAustin. gence of Hostile Herd It is ironic that football as the team DeLozier is the final went from back-toDELOZIER member of the Herd back 2-8 seasons to a to compete this year 6-4 year that missed because he is arguably the being 7-3 and having a berth school’s best all-around ath- in the playoffs by a stray 19lete. yard field goal. As specialization in ev“His leadership is really erything has grown ever good,” said Hereford head more important and more football coach, boys athletminute over the past sev- ic director and DeLozier’s eral decades, DeLozier is an father Don. “He is a hard anachronism – a throwback worker who wants team sucto times where his achieve- cess. He is a firm believer in ment, while still rare and team. Those are all strong unique, was more often attributes for a quarterback. seen. “You hear it all the time, However, for most, they but the game slowed down would need to ask their for him this year. He was great-grandparents about it. PLEASE SEE THROWBACK | 6 The state track meet is the
A second-team All-District quarterback, DeLozier hit 81-of-163 passes for 1,287 yards with 8 TDs and 8 interceptions last year, while running for another 437 yards and 7 scores. BRAND/John Carson
When the smoke cleared from Saturday’s elections for the City of Hereford and Hereford Independent School District (HISD), there was no mistaking who the winners were. In one city contested race and two more for HISD, a nearly 10 percent difference between respective opponents was as close as any got. While there were technically six total seats on the block this election cycle – three each in the city and HISD – the HISD District II race saw trustees award the seat to David Fanning by acclimation after he faced not opposition. While the same lack of opposition greeted Hereford City Commission Place 2 incumbent Angie Alonzo and Place 4 incumbent Linda Cumpton, legal requirements mandated their races appear on the city’s ballot because there was opposition for the Place 6 atlarge seat. Although the Place 5 seat of Cathy Bunch was not technically up for this cycle, as one of the city’s two at-large seat, opposition for either puts both on the election day line. In short, there was a three-person race between Bunch, Place 6 incumbent Rocky Bhakta and challenger Randall Herr for the two at-large (Places 5, 6) seats. With contested seats for Districts I and VI also on the HISD ballot, a majority of the very light voter turnout cast their ballots during the election’s week-long early voting period. A total of just 116 voters took part in the HISD election with only 16 casting ballots on elecPLEASE SEE ELECTION | 3
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By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor
When calendars turn to May, an excitement starts to build throughout school classrooms across the country. Teachers are winding down the year’s lessons, and students are winding up for the looming summer vacation. In short, the final month of a school year is always a somewhat hectic time for any school, any place. All that usual endof-the-year hoopla is cranked up several notches this year at Tierra Blanca Elementary School (TBES). The end of the month will not bring the end to
just another school year at TBES, it will bring an end to TBES. The school will be closed when the 2017-18 school year ends to undergo a $4 million, yearlong renovation. It will re-open to start the 2019-20 year, but not as TBES, but as Hereford Independent School District’s (HISD) new home for early childhood development and its pre-K and Head Start programs. Subsequently, heaped on the annual rollercoaster the end of a school year brings, faculty and staff at TBES are also dealing with packing up classrooms for PLEASE SEE TBES | 3
Tierra Blanca Elementary School faculty members get the lowdown on the proper way to pack up their classrooms during a meeting May 1 with James Hughes of Rentacrate, which will be handling the move. BRAND/John Carson
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