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New civic center plan unveiled

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

Back to School project underway Page 2

Zebra mussels invade Texas lakes Page 5

Large crowd enjoys Founder’s Day fest Page 8

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HEREFORD HISTORY 20 years ago • July 19, 1998

“Happy 100th birthday, dear Hereford” Hereford residents, past and present, celebrate this city’s centennial, complete with a birthday cake.

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If things go according to plans, the City of Hereford will have a new civic/community center within two years.

Plans for a new center were revealed during Monday’s regular meeting of the Hereford City Commission.

“We are exploring and probably going to build a new civic center adjacent to Amarillo College on 15th Street,” Hereford City Manager Rick Hanna said. “The current community center is aging and obsolete.”

Hanna has quietly been working on the project for almost a year, and architect Greg Billman presented a preliminary design and floorplan to commissioners Monday.

The almost 24,000-square foot facility is earmarked for land between the current Hereford Amarillo College (AC) campus and Department of Public Safety building on West 15th Street.

“I have met with Hanna and [Hereford Mayor] Tom Simons to discuss the vision and needs of a new center,” Billman said. “It made sense to put it where the city is growing.

“Amarillo College has a parcel of land it won’t be using for a while, so we focused on that site.”

Nearly 25 percent

An artist’s rendering of a proposed new civic/community center in Hereford would incorporate elements of the town’s agricultural and historical heritage in its design and appearance, including a corrugated tin-looking roofing material and entrance resembling a barn.

Contributed photo larger than the current 18,000-square foot community center, the proposed center will feature two large meeting areas, four smaller meeting rooms, kitchens, a scullery, office space for Hereford Economic Development Corporation (HEDC) and an outdoor courtyard space with a fireplace and elevated stage.

The larger meeting rooms

are designated as a ballroom and banquet room – each having its own kitchen – with the ballroom capable of seating 150-175.

The banquet room has a maximum capacity of 450 and can also be divided into three separate rooms.

“We wanted to create spaces to reach out to the region for use,” Billman said. “The theme of the

building plays into the agricultural and historical heritage of Hereford.”

The building’s exterior will have a roofing material that closely resembles the corrugated tin historically used for roofing in the area, while the entrance will be constructed to resemble a barn.

A main corridor – wide enough for event booths

Swap eases issues in Precinct 4

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HISD ‘can handle’ a deficit budget

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

It may not have been exactly what he wanted, but Deaf Smith County Precinct 4 Commissioner Dale Artho will take it.

Artho and fellow Commissioner Mike Brumley worked a swap earlier this month for a Precinct 3 motor grader with one from Precinct 4 that was more used.

The move eased some contention over graders and will allow the county to proceed with plans to replace its entire grader fleet of 12 during the next three years.

The trade sends a Precinct 4 grader with 4,800 hours of usage to Precinct 3 in exchange for one with 2,800 usage hours that was earmarked for trade-in this year.

The traded Precinct 4 grader will now be used as a Precinct 3 tradein, while the 2,800-hour grader will become part of the Precinct 4 fleet of three graders.

“It just makes senses to get rid of older machines for ones with fewer hours,” Artho said. “We have almost 40 percent more miles of road in Precinct 4 than the other precincts.

Doing that much work with three machines is a load.

“We want to do the most and best we can with taxpayer money. We don’t want to raise taxes.”

The grader issue came to a head during the June 26 commissioners court meeting when Brumley sought to open bids on selling two graders that are being replaced this year.

and wired for Internet accessibility – will feature sky lights in addition to electric lights and have high windows, which Billman said would allow the facility to emit a type of glow for after-dark events.

“It’s really pretty cool,” Hanna said. “It is almost twice as big as the current

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In the key of G Grammy Award-winning country artist and native Texan Larry Gatlin was greeted by an appreciative sellout crowd at the 39th annual King’s Manor Founder’s Day event Saturday at the HISD Administration Building. Gatlin was a winner with the audience with his folksy tales of growing up in Texas, writing top-selling music and meeting fellow artists. He performed familiar hits, some new material, Gospel songs, and had high praise for the cause of raising funds for King’s Manor Benevolence Grant efforts.

Photo by Jim Steiert

As the budget season starts to heat up for Hereford Independent School District (HISD), there are two large question marks looming over the process – whether a spending plan will start out in the red and what affect a special session of the Texas Legislature could have on that plan.

With its fiscal year running from Sept. 1-Aug. 31, the HISD Board of Trustees got its first look at potential budget figures during a called meeting on June 19.

The issue of a deficit budget became a point of discussion a week later during the board’s June 26 regular meeting when approving an across-the-board raise for school employees.

“It is not wise to adopt a deficit budget,” HISD Business Manager Rusty Ingram said June 26, “but we are in a position that we can.

“We will probably have a deficit 2016-17 budget when the year is complete, but we had a surplus in 2015-16 to offset that.”

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Mass of Christian burial for Connie Marie Castañeda-Lee, 41, of Kyle, will be celebrated Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 11 a.m. at Iglesia de San Jose with the Rev. John Valdez serving as celebrant. Interment will be in St. Anthony’s Catholic Cemetery under the direction of Parkside Chapel Funeral Home of Hereford. A prayer vigil will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 19 at Iglesia de San Jose.

Mrs. Castañeda-Lee passed away Friday, July 14, 2017.

Connie Marie Castañeda was born Sept. 7, 1975

in Hereford, to Jesus H. Castañeda Sr. and Consuelo González Castañeda.

She attended Hereford schools and graduated from Hereford High School in 1994. Connie graduated from Amarillo College and worked for Continental Airlines, U.S. Airways and American Airlines for 15 years. She loved to travel, but most of all loved spending time with her family.

Mourning her loss are Joseph Boyles of Kyle; daughter Cassandra Hurtado and husband John of Goldsboro, N.C.; sons Joshua Rendon and Johnathan Lee, both of Kyle; brothers Ernest Castañeda and wife Lee Ann of Springfield, Mo., Rick Castañeda, Jesus Castañeda Jr., and Edward Castañeda, all of Hereford; sisters Gloria Garcia, Linda Castañeda, Carmen Castañeda-Nuñez and husband Ramón, and Christine Castañeda, all of Hereford; and granddaughter Calleia Hurtado of Goldsboro, N.C. The family suggests memorials in Mrs. CastañedaLee’s name be made to Hereditary Angioedema Association USHAEA, P.O. Box 271561, Littleton, CO, 80127.

SWAP:

“Having machines down add up to roads not getting done as the needs arise and FROM PAGE 1 are there. The biggest thing In a subsequent move to for us is efficiency.”

With Precinct 4 stretching lease new graders, Brumley requested two, while Artho from the boundary of Potter, said all three in Precinct 4 Randall and Deaf Smith counneeded to be replaced be- ties to the New Mexico border cause of excessive hours of and back into Hereford, there are not only more roads, Arusage.

As part of the county’s tho pointed out, there is also more pavement. three-year plan to Brumley, who underoverhaul its grader stood Artho’s points fleet, two graders per concerning graders on precinct are to be reJune 26, was glad the placed each year with trade could be made Precinct 3 and 4 each because the issue was set to get a pair of not one that pitted new ones in 2016. precinct against preHowever, Artho cinct because everynoted during the June ARTHO thing was coming out 26 meeting that all of the same pot. three of his graders “[The trade] just made were in need of replacement because of usage hours rang- sense,” he said. “It’s all couning from 4,100-4,800. None ty property. It just made betof the other precincts had ter sense to swap and get the graders with more than 3,000 older machines gone. It is a common-sense use of county hours of use.

“Getting the less-used property.

“There might be some cost machine [from Precinct 3] is really a reliability issue,” difference [for Precinct 3] in Artho said. “We have had so trading a more-used machine, many issues with our graders but it all comes from the same breaking down because of the budget. The best thing is it usage. Most of the problems allows us to move forward are with computers and sen- with the grader-replacement sors, which are things we can- process and get two new machines for Precincts 3 and 4.” not repair ourselves.

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Back to School project started From Staff Reports

The Kiwanis Club of Hereford has started its 2017 Back to School project to aid Hereford Independent School District’s (HISD) youger students when the 2017-18 school year begins on Monday, Aug. 21.

The project centers on providing backpacks filled with school supplies to disadvantaged students at all five HISD elementary schools – Aikman, Bluebonnet, Northwest, Tierra Blanca and West Central – as well as pre-K and kindergarten students at Stanton Learning Center.

“The ultimate goal of this project is to allow these children the opportunity to enter school on an equal basis with their peers,” Kiwanian Greg Reinart said. “Thus, this

Mondays • Food Pantry, Mon & Fri, 12 p.m.

- 4 p.m., Betty DIckson, 806-3460134 • Rotary Club, noon, Sugarland Mall Grill • Deaf Smith County Historical Museum regular hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, and only by appointment on Sunday • Troop 50 Boy Scouts, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Northwest Elementary.

All boys ages 11-18 are invited to participate. Call 289-5354 for information.

• Al-Anon Group, 7 p.m. at Fellowship of Believers Church, 245 Kingwood, for more information call 364-6045 or 676-7662.

• Hereford Retired School Employees Association meeting will be at 12 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center.

• Masonic Lodge, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Hall.

• Hereford Study Club meets at the Hereford Senior Citizens Center at 2 p.m.

• Hereford Senior Citizen Center Activities: 8 - noon, Quilting; 8 - 8:45, Pool Exercise Class (women); 9-9:45, P. Ex. class (women); 10-10:45, P. Ex. class (men); 11:11:45, P. Ex. class (women) 1-1:45, P. Ex. Class (men) • Prairie Acres Activities: 9:30, Discussion; 11:40, Background Music; 2, Bible Study/Spanish; 3, Caption This; 7:30, Bingo.

Tuesdays • Deaf Smith County Crime Stoppers Board of Directors, 6 p.m., Hereford Police Department rec room • AA meeting, 8 p.m. Hereford Community Center, 100 Ave. C. For more information call 570-4648

helps increase their selfesteem.”

The project seeks $50 sponsorships or donations that will provide a backpack stocked with supplies. The supplies will match those on a respective school’s supply list for the upcoming school year.

Backpacks will be distributed to the six HISD schools, and school officials will dole them out to the students in most

need.

“Any and all donations are greatly appreciated,” Reinart said. The Back to School project is currently underway with donations and sponsorships being accepted through Aug. 10.

Kiwanians will deliver the backpacks and supplies to the schools on Aug. 17.

For additional information or to become a backpack sponsor, contact Reinart at 806-683-5750.

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N. Hwy 385 • 806-364-2160 Sundays • NA meeting, 8 p.m., at Hereford Community Center, 100 Ave. C. For more information call 570-4648.

• Prairie Acres Activities: 10, Movie & Snacks; 11:30, Background music; 4, Tenth St. Church of Christ; 7:30, Dominoes

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• Support Group for TBI Caregivers meeting at 7 p.m. For information call 806-364-1892 or email: dgproctor@gmail.com • Order of the Eastern Star, 7 p.m.

Masonic Hall • Pilot Club 7 a.m. King’s Manor Lamar Room • American Legion Post 192 monthly meeting at 7 p.m.

• Alpha Alpha Preceptor chapter of Beta Sigma Phi meeting at 7 p.m.

•Xi Epsilon Alpha chapter of Beta Sigma Phi meeting at 7 p.m.

• Hereford Senior Citizen Center Activities: 8 - noon, Quilting; 8 - 8:45, Pool Exercise Class (women); 9-9:45, P. Ex. class (women); 10-10:30, Floor Exercise • Prairie Acres Activities: 8:30, Beauty Shop; 11:40, Background Music; 2, Manicures for our ladies & men; 7:30, Watercoloring Wednesdays • Lions Club, noon, Hereford Community Center • Bippus Extension Education Club, 2 p.m.

• NA meeting, 8 p.m., at Hereford Community Center, 100 Ave. C. For more information call 570-4648 • Hereford Senior Citizen’s Association Board Meeting at 9 a.m.

• Hereford Senior Citizen Center Activities: 8 - noon, Quilting; 8 - 8:45, Pool Exercise Class (women); 9-9:45, P. Ex. class (women); 10-10:45, P. Ex. class (men); 11:11:45, P. Ex. class (women) 1-1:45, P. Ex. Class (men).

• Prairie Acres Activities: 9:15, Zumba Gold Chair; 10, Discussion; 11:30, Chicken Soup for the Soul; 3, Bible Study; 7:30, Movie Night.

Thursdays • Hereford Toastmasters, 6:30 a.m., Amarillo College.

• Kiwanis Club, noon, Hereford Community Center.

• Hereford Day Care Center Board of Directors, noon, Hereford Country Club.

• Merry Mixers Square Dance Club, 7 p.m., Hereford Community Center.

• AA meeting, 8 p.m., Hereford Community Center, 100 Ave. C. For

more information call 570-4648.

• Los Ciboleros Chapter NSDAR, 2 p.m.

• Hereford Senior Citizen Center Activities: 8 - noon, Quilting; 8 - 8:45, Pool Exercise Class (women); 9-9:45, P. Ex. class (women); 10-10:30, Floor Exercise; 10:30-1:00 • Prairie Acres Activities: 9:15, Whoga; 10, Discussion; 11:30, Poems; 3, Bean Bag Toss; 7:30, Stained Glass Painting.

Fridays • Food Pantry, Mon & Fri, 12 p.m.

- 4 p.m., Betty DIckson, 806-3460134 • Hereford Senior Citizen Center Activities: 8 - noon, Quilting; 8 - 8:45, Pool Exercise Class (women); 9-9:45, P. Ex. class (women); 10-10:45, P. Ex class (men); 11-11:45, P. EX class (women); 1-1:45 P. Ex. class (men); 10-1, Hereford Nursing and Rehab Health Check • Prairie Acres Activities: 9:15 Zumba Gold Chair; 10, Discussion; 11:30 Guidepost; 3, Decorating Bottles; 7:30, Movie Night.

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News tion budget to increased SHARS revenue to savings between retirees FROM PAGE 1 and rehires and a 100 of daily attendance by percent tax collection 50 students, decline in – that would eliminate free and reduced lunch any deficits and put the participation, an atten- budget $198,617 in the dance payment from black.

With trustees approvcounty wind entities, $600,000 in state SHARS ing a 1 percent raise funding and a property for district employees tax collection rate of 99 on June 26, the budget would move back percent. into the red by However, his some $95,000. estimated 2017In deciding on 18 expenditures the raise – a com– based on the promise from the 2016-17 plan – 1.5 percent that were just shy of Ingram recom$33.4 million that mended – trustees would leave the raised issues with district $646,383 INGRAM giving raises while in the red. passing a potential His figures also showed additional costs deficit budget and also of $60,000 that could looking to potentially increase that deficit to float another bond issue after two failed attempts $706,383.

However, Ingram’s ini- since 2015.

One of the biggest tial numbers revealed areas of adjustments and sticking points concernsavings – ranging from ing raises is what decithe absorbing of sev- sion the legislature will eral positions to reduc- make on teacher raises tions in the transporta- during its 30-day special Crossword solution from page 2

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I’m comfortable adopting a deficit budget until things get worked out. We’re conservative with our spending, and we have a fund balance to where we can do it.

Rusty Ingram HISD Business Manager session, which opens Tuesday.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been seeking a $1,000 raise for all teachers that was ignored during the regular legislative session earlier this year, but will be tackled in the special session.

The unknown for Ingram, HISD and all state districts is exactly how the raise will be structured.

The foremost dilemma is the state would most probably require districts give the $1,000 raises without providing additional funding.

That would then leave

districts scrambling on how the state mandate would be worded in that whether the raise would be an additional $1,000 to what is currently paid or if the $1,000 would take into account any raise a local district may have already approved.

That alone could push the HISD budget further into the red.

While admitting deficit budgets were not a good practice to enter into, Ingram and HISD Superintendent Sheri Blankenship were both confident the deficit would ultimately be minimal or nonexistent by year end

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because of the district’s hole, the fund balance of frugal spending patterns. more than $11 million in“I’m comfortable cludes a state-recadopting a defiommended three cit budget until months of operatthings get worked ing expenses with out,” Ingram said. some $2.5 million “We’re conserleft over, which Invative with our gram said could be spending, and we utilized to offset a have a fund baldeficit budget. ance to where we “If you OK a defican do it. cit budget, we will BLANKENSHIP “The fund balattempt to spend ance could also an actual balanced handle the $1,000 [state] budget,” Blankenship mandate.” said to trustees. “That is A bit of an ace in the the goal.”

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There, They’re, Their During singer/minstrel Larry Gatlin’s recent visit to Hereford, he reflected on the invaluable lessons he learned from the unsung heroes in our midst— English teachers. Gatlin gave due credit to public school faculty for having a greater influence on his education than any professor at the university level. The singer proved his acumen by an impressive recitation in Old English of the first 26 lines of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Over the course of time, some homework assignments prove to be more relevant than others.

I wholly endorse Gatlin’s praise of those individuals, mainly women, who dedicate their lives in the classroom to the thankless task of hammering the standards of language arts into the knobby heads of countless students. Lord knows, it’s not a task for the lazy or faint-hearted, especially ALL IN in an age of communicaKerrie Womble Steiert tion by emojis and LOLs. (And right this minute, I need an English teacher to instruct me on the plural form of “emoji.”)

When I graduated from Hereford High School in the early 1970s, there were few opportunities for disabled students to advance their education. At that time, West Texas State University had one building— the new library— that was accessible by wheelchair. Most college and university campuses of that era were vertically-designed with a profusion of stairs, meaning no ramps or elevators.

For myself, in the pre-ADA world, a high school education had to suffice. Although I regret that I never achieved the benefits of a college degree, I am deeply grateful for the caliber of education I received as a mainstreamed student within Hereford Independent School District. I owe a debt I cannot repay to local schoolteachers.

I single out English teachers for their invaluable contributions because literacy is tantamount to academic and professional success. I had exceptional math and science teachers as well, but those disciplines simply weren’t my strong suit.

Poor beleaguered Mrs. Legg and Coach Privett struggled through two years of Algebra trying to convince me that letters of the alphabet did indeed belong alongside numbers.

Upon approach, the language arts, with their mystifying clauses, cases and compound predicates, can seem like a scary jungle of convoluted terms and rules. It’s easy to get lost in the dense woods of participles, tenses and interrogatives. Because there is so much content to master, these fundamental lessons must begin in elementary school, laying an essential foundation for reading and writing.

In the fifth grade, I had the unusual experience of having my aunt, Ethel Womble, as my teacher. To this day, I compare all public school teachers to her, nepotism notwithstanding. True to her calling, “Miss Womble” mastered the balance between high expectation while fostering a love of learning. As proof of her commitment, she taught herself to write equally well with both hands on the chalkboards that were utilized every day. She laid the groundwork for language arts: Understanding the parts of speech, the fundamentals of grammar, conjugation of verbs, capitalization and punctuation.

We learned the peculiar, unforgiving laws of prepositions: 1. Never to dangle one at the end of a sentence, and 2. “The rat ran [preposition] the barn” served as the defining test.

At junior high school, Inez Welch cemented the rules of English with a nononsense, old-school approach to language arts. For me, she was Aunt Ethel 2.0 and gave her pubescent students the grammatical tools to communicate the spoken and written word with some degree of prowess.

At Hereford High School, Betty Mercer and Margaret Bell, who was also my kindergarten and junior high teacher, continued the high-quality English instruction begun by their peers. They challenged us to digest and parse the meaning of literature, such as Wuthering Heights, Lord of the Flies and Romeo and Juliet. Sadly, the average American only reads classic literature at the bidding of a stern, tenacious English teacher.

If you were fortunate to attend Hereford schools, you undoubtedly have your list of favorite teachers who went above and beyond the call of duty. This is, by no means, a complete list, but among HISD’s legendary elementary and English teachers are: Gladys Setliff, Caudie Ola Brown, Leta Kaul, Colleen Billingsley, Geraldine Hodges, Dink Todd, Pat Montgomery, Kay Claypool, Ruby Mulkey, Martha Tipps, Dorothy Brink, Elizabeth Garner, Shirley Carlson, Bera Boyd, Mary Hale, Cindy Rogers, Mary Lou Knox, Bea Barrett, Terry Kosub, Brenda Reinauer, Mary Robinson and Cherie Zinck.

So here’s to language arts teachers, in recognition of their dedication, with gratitude for always being there for the sake of their students, they’re the heroes of all our stories. If that homophone-rich sentence holds meaning for you, thank an English teacher.

Wednesday July 19, 2017

Lawmakers receive marching orders for special session

Tales of Deaf Smith County “All of us, whether we know it or not, are creatures of the age we live in.”

Gene Shelburne

was offered to the prisoners. They were contracted to neighboring farmers, especially for vegetable cultivation and harvesting, where they worked eight By the end of World War II, there hours a day. were over 500 prisoner of war camps This response for field work was containing more than 425,000 German, somewhat overwhelming as the prisItalian and Japanese prisoners, with the oners cherished their hours of daily majority of these being German, in the freedom from the camp, and they were United States. These camps were scat- paid – 10 cents per hour. tered all over the country, but mostly in Other contacts between the commuthe South because of the higher expense nity and the camp were made through of heating barracks in other areas. the Red Cross office, which at the time Some of Deaf Smith County’s citizens was under the guidance of Mrs. Dyalfound cause for concern when they thia Bradly. Mrs. Harold Close Sr. was learned in the months following the her “right hand man” in the handling attack on Pearl Harbor that a prisoner of emergency messages and other busiof war camp with a capacity of 5,000, ness of the organization.

There was an interchange in which was twice the size of the social life through service Hereford’s population, would personnel being asked into be constructed nearby. local homes for meals, young In the Sept. 27, 1942 issue servicemen dating local girls of the Amarillo Daily News and dances held at the officers’ appeared the statement, “Although buildings will not be club. There were also activities set up as permanent strucat the newly organized USO tures, every precaution will where locals often served as be taken to make the prison hosts and hostesses. camp escape proof.”

The prisoner of war camp did Carolyn Waters The article added, “The prove to be beneficial to the camp, covering one section of community not only through land, will be surrounded by two high the labor provided by the prisoners fences with guard towers spaced at and labor provided for citizens who intervals. Between the two fences will worked at the camp, but also through be a no-man’s land which will be kept the friendships built between the resifloodlighted at night, A heavy electric dents of the area and the soldiers who current will go through the inside fence served at the camp. and machine guns will be kept in each Many servicemen, including Grant guard tower.”

Hanna, Wayland Smith, Lester Daub, Bill The total cost of the camp was $2 mil- Phillips and Jimmy Mercer, returned to lion, and it was the second largest in the area after the war to become permathe nation with a capacity of 5,000 men. nent residents.

The first prisoners, who were Italian, Some, but not near all, of the citiarrived by train at Summerfield in early zens employed at the camp and who April 1943 and were marched 8 miles remained in the area after the war past idle fields of war-rationed Panhan- were A.J. Schroeter, Mrs. J.M. Posey, dle farmers to the camp.

Nora Jean Russell, Seletta Robinson, The concern about the camp being in Guy Lawrence, Brucie Rose, Mrs. A.O. the area soon changed due to the arrival Thompson, Rachel Ireland, Eb Martin, of American soldiers who would man Worth Covington, Tandy Legg and Fred the camp. This also opened the way for Bell. the need of locals to work as civilians Next week we will include some area at the camp, and many were eventually residents’ memories of the POW camp employed there. and the disposition of the camp buildThe existence of the camp proved ings after the war. beneficial also due to farm labor provided by the prisoners. In accordance “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to with the Geneva Convention, farm work change.”Anonymous

AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott on July 10 issued a formal proclamation for the special session that began Tuesday, directing the Texas Legislature to extend expiration dates for the Texas Medical Board and other state boards that regulate psychologists, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors and social workers.

Abbott said he plans to issue a supplemental proclamation further directing lawmakers to pass another list of items he previously announced. The areas of legislation would: — Reform laws governing ad valorem property taxes; — Increase average salary and benefits of Texas teachers; STATE — Establish a statewide comCAPITAL mission to study and recommend improvements to the HIGHLIGHTS current public school finance Ed Sterling system; — Preempt local regulation of the use of hand-held mobile communication devices while driving; and — Deal with the use of multi-occupancy showers, locker rooms, restrooms and changing rooms (also known as the “bathroom” bill).

On July 13, Gov. Abbott applauded Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the Senate, for holding a press conference to express his support for the special session agenda.

“My office,” Abbott said, “has been working with lawmakers in both the Senate and House these past six weeks, and if these items do not get passed, it will be for lack of will, not for lack of time.”

One of the ideas laid out by Patrick is a tiered salary increase schedule for active and retired teachers. Patrick suggested that pay increases would rely on the reallocation of funding by local school districts, because the state already spends 53 percent of its budget on public education.

The Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities reacted to Patrick’s suggestion, saying, “If state leaders are really concerned about property taxes, they should increase the state’s share of public school funding.”

Abbott to seek 2nd term With sights trained on the 2018 general election, Gov. Abbott announced his candidacy for a second term as the state’s chief executive on July 14 in San Antonio. His current term expires in January 2019.

In January, Lt. Gov. Patrick announced he would seek a second term at his current post. Mike Collier, a Houston businessman and a Democrat, announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor on March 2. In 2014, Collier challenged incumbent Glenn Hegar in the race for state comptroller, receiving 37 percent of the vote to Hegar’s 58 percent.

Revenue is distributed Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on July 12 announced his office would send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts almost $680 million in local sales tax allocations for the month of July, an amount 9 percent more than in July 2016.

The cities of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, Midland and Odessa saw noticeable increases in sales tax allocations, Hegar said.

Paxton praises decision Attorney General Ken Paxton on July 7 lauded a federal court decision to dismiss a complaint lodged by three University of Texas at Austin faculty members regarding Senate Bill 11, the state’s 2015 law that allows firearms to be carried on campus.

In their lawsuit, Paxton said, plaintiffs claimed the law would stifle class discussion in their courses.

The U.S. District Court of the Western District of Texas granted Paxton’s motion to dismiss the case. “The fact that a small group of professors dislike a law and speculate about a ‘chilling effect’ is hardly a valid basis to set the law aside,” Paxton said.

Agency names finalist The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on July 12 named Bryan attorney Adrian Bentley Nettles as the lone finalist to serve as the agency’s executive director.

Nettles, if confirmed by the state Senate, would succeed Sherry Cook, who retired in late May. In April, Cook and other agency officials underwent robust questioning by the House Committee on General Investigating and Ethics, after news of their out-of-state travel and meetings expenses was made public.

“This selection is the first step in restoring the public’s trust and making TABC a model of public service, transparency, and accountability,” said TABC Chair Kevin J. Lilly.

Trump names Combs President Donald Trump on July 10 announced his intent to nominate Susan Combs as assistant secretary of the Office of Policy, Management and Budget in the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Combs, who owns and operates a ranch in Brewster County, served as Texas comptroller from 2007-15, commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture from 1999-2007 and as a state representative from 1993-96.

(Ed Sterling is director of member services for the Texas Press Association and can be reached at edsterling@texaspress.com.)

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Zebra mussels could invade High Plains reservoirs

By Jim Steiert Contributing Writer

Zebra mussels that have invaded reservoirs in North and East Texas, and the pristine Guadalupe River Basin, have fisheries managers in the High Plains concerned. An official with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s inland fisheries division told members of the Panhandle Texas Master Naturalist chapter that zebra mussels could impact rocky canyon lakes that are prime sport fisheries in the High Plains.

“The inland fisheries division is spending nearly all of its budget fighting invasive species,” said John Clayton, assistant district supervisor for the Amarillo District Inland Fisheries office of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department at Canyon. “ Lake Alan Henry, near Justiceburg, is second only to Lake Fork as a premiere bass fishery in Texas. This outstanding sport fishery, and Lake Meredith, north of Amarillo at Fritch, are prime candidates for invasion by zebra mussels. They are rocky canyon lakes favored by zebra mussels.”

Rapidly reproducing zebra mussels, originally from Eurasia, can have serious economic, environmental and recreational impacts on Texas reservoirs and rivers.

“Zebra mussels cover shoreline rocks and litter beaches with treacherously sharp shells, clog public-water supply intakes, such as those at both Lake Alan Henry and Lake Meredith, and damage boats and motors left in infested waters,” said Brian Van Zee Inland Fisheries West Texas regional director for TPWD. Van Zee worked in the Canyon office for several years before moving to his present post in Waco, and knows High Plains lakes intimately. He’s responsible for coordinating the Tex-

as statewide fish-stocking plan and fisheries management and research in the central and western portions of Texas.

Named Fisheries Biologist of the Year in 2015 by the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Van Zee has been at the forefront of efforts to contain zebra mussels in Texas.

Since zebra mussels were first found in Texas in 2009, 10 lakes in four river basins are now classified as infested with an established, reproducing population – Belton, Bridgeport, Dean Gilbert at Sherman, Eagle Mountain, Lewisville, Randell, Ray Roberts, Stillhouse Hollow, Texoma and the prime fishery at Canyon Lake at Austin. The Canyon Lake discovery in June was quickly followed with positively identified zebra mussels for the first time in Lake Travis in the Colorado River Basin in Central Texas.

The Guadalupe River and reservoirs downstream of Canyon Lake are now at risk of invasion as zebra mussel larvae disperse downstream, including Lake Dunlap, Lake McQueeney, Lake Placid, Meadow Lake, Lake Gonzales, and Lake Wood, Van Zee laments.

“Three state-listed threatened freshwater mussels found in the Guadalupe River basin could now be negatively impacted, including the Texas Pimpleback, the Golden Orb and the Texas Fatmucket. Zebra mussels can colonize on the shells of native mussels, and reach a density that essentially smothers the native mussels,” Van Zee said.

Once zebra mussels reach a reproducing population level in reservoirs there’s little to be done. For TPWD fisheries folks, it’s mostly a vigilance game.

Van Zee said educating the public and local marinas to prevent zebra mussels from spreading further to nearby

mussels, dead or alive. Boaters are required to drain all water from their boat and onboard receptacles before leaving or approaching a body of fresh water in order to prevent the transfer of zebra mussels.

The requirement to drain applies to all types and sizes of boats whether powered or not: personal watercraft, sailboats, kayaks/canoes or any other vessel used on public waters.

The nightmare scenario for fisheries managers in the High Plains is zebra mussels being transported here from an infested area of the state, or elsewhere.

An alarming possibility is that anglers could travel to Lake Alan Henry’s trophy bass waters with zebra mussels attached to their craft and introduce them to one of the High Plains region’s rare angling jewels.

“Boaters’ actions are vital to prevent zebra mussels from spreading to any new river basins,” said Van Zee. “Cleaning, draining and drying are simple steps boaters can take to prevent infestations,” said Monica McGarrity, TPWD Aquatic Invasive Species team lead. “With more than 1,500 boat ramps in Texas we can’t be everywhere, so we have to rely on boaters, marinas and concerned citizens to help in this fight. A boat can take a ready-made colony of zebra mussels to another lake at any time – so preventing the spread within these newly infested basins is still really important. If a boat has been on a lake that is infested with zebra mussels, or if it has been in another state that has quagga mussels, that are literally knocking on our door, it can spread the infestation.”

Zebra mussels aren’t all that large, but they’re a huge invading problem for Texas lakes, particularly rocky canyon reservoirs, and there’s concern they could reach reservoirs like Lake Meredith and Lake Alan Henry in the Plains. They can be moved from lake to lake by hitching a ride on boat motors and propellers of craft left in infested lakes.

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lakes is vital.

“Public awareness helps the effort to prevent zebra mussels from spreading,” Van Zee said. “This is a battle we

cannot give up on – the cost of these infestations is large and affects so many people.

We have to keep up the fight and try to inform the public as

Jim Steiert is an award winning member of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and a Certified Texas Master Naturalist.

much as possible about how they can protect their lakes from invasive species.”

In Texas, it is unlawful to possess or transport zebra

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Have you ever known any “bad boys” – either personally or by reputation? Drop in at Fellowship of Believers on Sunday, July 23 to hear Pastor Danny Mize talk about “The Bad Boys of John 13.” He will deal with Peter and Judas in that lesson. Our Scripture reading will come from 1 John 1:7 - 2:2.

Singing will be led by Peggy Mize, with Cindy Cassels providing piano accompaniment. We will sing “Stand Up and Bless the Lord” “The Battle Belongs to the Lord” and “Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer.”

Does that sound interesting? Then plan to join us at Fellowship of Believers – 245 N. Kingwood. Fellowship and refreshments will be available by 10:00 a.m. and the worship service will begin at 10:30 a.m.

Communion will be served to all who wish to partake.

You can find out more about our friendly group on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/FOBchurchHereford/

Dawn Community 806-258-7330

First Baptist Church 5th & Main Street 806-364-0696 www.fbchereford.com

Frio Baptist Church 7 miles S. on FM 1055 806-276-5380

Genesis Church 1 mile N. on Hwy 385 806-364-1217 www.genesischurch.com

Good News Church 621 E. 15th 806-364-5239

Assembly Of God Calvary Family Church 137 Avenue G 806-364-5686

Victory Family Worship Center 606 E 15th St 806-364-0305 www.thevictory.tv

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Iglesia Vida 603 E. Park Avenue 806-346-7054 All services in Español.

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Iglesia Bautista Fundamental 100 South Ironwood 806-364-1844

Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida

Avenue Baptist

201 Country Club Drive 806-364-2209

130 N 25 Mile Ave. 806-364-1564

Mount Sinai Baptist 302 Knight Street

New Life Restoration Center 15th & Whittier 806-364-8866

Palo Duro Baptist 5704 FM 809, Wilderado 806-426-3470

Summerfield Baptist 605 Walnut St., Summerfield 806-357-2535

St. Thomas Episcopal Church 601 W Park Ave. 806-364-0146

InterDenominational Fellowship of Believers 245 N. Kingwood St. 806-364-0359

Jehovah Witness Jehovah Witnesses 111 Avenue H 806-364-5763

Latter Day Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 500 Country Club Drive 806-364-1288

Lutheran Immanuel Lutheran Church

Westway Baptist P.O. Box 178, Rural Rt. 4 806-364-5092

Catholic La Iglesia De San Jose 13th & Brevard 806-364-5053

St. Anthony’s Catholic 115 N. 25 Mile Ave. 806-364-6150

Church Of Christ 15th Street Church of Christ 15th & Blackfoot 806-364-1581

Central Church of Christ 148 Sunset 806-364-1606

La Iglesia De Christo 334 Avenue E 806-364-6401

Park Avenue Church of Christ 703 W Park Ave. 806-364-6094

Nazarene Family Church invites you to help us #ServeHereford, Wednesday – Saturday, July 26-29. For 4 days, our church –children, youth and adults, will be doing various service projects around town. Projects like light construction or repairs for elderly, single moms or needy, clean up, painting, visiting shut-ins, mowing and praying with people.

Pastor Ted Taylor is challenging our church and community to take a day or afternoon off to help #ServeHereford. There will be projects for all ages and all skills. We will begin each day at 8:30 am for prayer and direction in the church sanctuary, then work until 4 pm. At 6 pm, we will meet at Dameron Park for a picnic then have an outdoor tent service to share the good things God is doing.

On Saturday night, “Movie in the Park” with the fabulous new Christian movie – The Shack. It is a movie showing how God meets us where we are hurting and reveals Himself in love and acceptance.

Pastor Ted will be preaching on having the mission heart of God. He’s the God who chases after us and goes after the lost, the last, and the least. Come join us this Sunday at 8:30 and 10:30 am for our worship service and get involved in #ServeHereford. It’s for the whole family!

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First Presbyterian 610 Lee St. 806-364-2471

711 W Park Ave. 806-364-6127

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401 W Park Ave. 806-364-0373

1204 Moreman St. 806-341-0315

First United Methodist 501 N. Main St 806-364-0770 www.herefordmethodist.com

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700 Avenue K 806-364-1892

Western Heritage Christian Church

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Iglesia Methodista San Pablo

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Nazarene Church of the Nazarene La Plata & Ironwood 806-364-8303

Iglesia Del Nazareno 340 Avenue H

Non Denominational Barn Church 3948 FM 1057 806-289-5706

Christian Assembly 1206 S Main St. 806-364-5882

Living Stones Church 802 Avenue K 806-282-1138

Son Rise 502 Mabel St.

Faith Mission Church of God in Christ 806-307-309

Without Walls Praise Center 802 Avenue K 806-360-2830 Spanish & Bi-langual Services

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Gatlin wows Founder’s Day crowd; auction totals light

By Jim Steiert Contributing Writer

Hereford city officials – clockwise from bottom left, Commissioner Linda Cumpton, City Manager Rick Hanna, Mayor Tom Simons, Commission Marcos Castro, Commissioner Charlie Kerr and Commissioner Jose Garza – get a closer look at the new civic center’s floorplan. BRAND/John Carson

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facility, and will ultimately cost half as much to heat and cool.

“We tried to match the exterior to Amarillo College to a degree, but also have a historic Hereford theme.”

In addition to the outdoor courtyard – which is between the ballroom and banquet room – the design includes exterior, landscaped space that can be used for events.

A commons is designed to separate the AC and center parking lots and will include underground electrical wiring.

“We looked for opportunities for exterior spaces,” Billman said. “The synergy created with Amarillo College could really generate things not done in town before.

“The greenspace is open to a variety of events, plus it creates a nice buffer. You

don’t have those opportunities now. The feel of the entire complex will be very open, but organized.”

Hanna added the $6.7 million cost of the proposed facility will come from a combination of city and HEDC financing while making a point city taxpayers would not incur any of the costs.

Officials specifically planned and designed the facility to tie into the Amarillo College campus.

In addition to exterior design elements that ties into the college, the design includes a link between the college and facility parking lots to help ease parking problems at AC while providing sufficient parking for large center events.

The center design includes a covered drop-off and pick-up area and 252 parking spaces.

“Amarillo College could make good use of it, as well,” Simons said. “It is important they can make use of it. It would really help

them.

“I think there are enough good things in it for AC to agree to sell the land to us.

It will complement AC in appearance and give it a bigger presence.”

Hanna said the AC Board of Regents has been presented with the idea in an information work session, but has not formally addressed it while awaiting specific plans and an artist’s rendering of the facility.

He does plan to proceed with that aspect as soon as possible in hopes of securing the site, which is currently owned by AC. “I think their reaction will be favorable,” Hanna said.

“Although I wasn’t at the meeting where they first looked at it, I have heard there was no opposition to the idea.”

Should the land acquisition come about, Hanna added it would be 18-24 months for the new civic center to be built and open.

The interior of the proposed facility includes a 450-seat banquet room, 150-175-seat ballroom, outdoor courtyard with stage, smaller meetings rooms and office space.

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Overview of the new 24,000-square foot Hereford Civic Center would be constructed on land adjacent to the Hereford Amarillo College campus and Department of Public Safety building on West 15th Street.

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A huge crowd of roughly 500 enjoyed good food and great entertainment from a Grammy-winning artist while raising funds for Benevolent Care at the 39th annual King’s Manor Founders Day Barbecue and Auction July 15 at the HISD Administration Building. The community gathering raises funds to benefit Benevolent Care at King’s Manor to assist residents who may have exhausted their savings, in order that they may continue to live at the facility.

According to the Founders Preliminary Cash Report issued Monday, sponsor donations, ticket sales and live and silent auction proceeds brought in a grand total of $57,827. Those numbers were tallied before expenses associated with the event are paid.

While a sizable crowd was on hand, live auction proceeds came up on the light side at $22,160, with an additional $1,992 realized from the silent auction. Sponsored table proceeds amounted to $28,000, and event ticket sales added $5,675.

Top grossing item in the live auction was a helicopter feral hog hunt for two with Cedar Ridge Aviation of Knox City, TX that brought a winning bid of $4,000 from B.J. Gililland.

A float fly fishing trip for two on the Gunnison River with Dragonfly Anglers of Crested Butte, Colorado was purchased by James Bagley for $3,750.

Dr. John Gregg of Hereford was the winning bidder on the Magnolia Market at the Silos road trip for four, purchasing the outing that includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the Waco business for $2,700.

A vintage John Deere 4020 diesel kids’ pedal tractor prompted spirited bidding and brought a winning purchase price of $2,300 from Brice and Debbie Tabor of Hereford. Mrs. Nancy Josserand purchased a vintage red pedal fire engine with ladders and hose reel for $1,400.

Brooklyn Golden, 15-yearold auctioneering whiz kid from the Plainview area, and her Dad, Clay, handled the sale of everything from the pedal tractors and trips to fine jewelry and a custom sand box.

Grammy Award winning country artist Larry Gatlin was introduced by his friend and former college roommate at the University

Deaf Smith County Sheriff J. Dale Butler donned headband and camo to highlight the helicopter feral hog hunt for two that was one of the featured auction items during the 39th annual King’s Manor Founders Day barbecue and auction. hoto by Jim Steiert of Houston, Steve Hodges, of Hereford, who spoke eloquently about the paths they have taken since those college days, and the difference Larry’s wife, Janis and his own wife, Sharon, have made in their lives.

Gatlin entertained with a mixture of humorous and inspiring stories of his career, famed musical artists he has known and worked with, and observations on life that punctuated performances of a number of the hit songs

he has written through the years including Houston, All the Gold in California, and Broken Lady. Gatlin praised teachers, and the nursing home industry personnel who daily address the needs of the elderly.

He focused many of his stories on his experiences and the inspiration he has drawn from music greats including Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand.

King’s Manor Executive Director Shelly Moss sports fly fishing attire during the auction portion Founders Day festivities Saturday at the HISD Administration Building.

Photo by Jim Steiert

Grammy Award-winning country artist Larry Gatlin, left, provided the entertainment, 15-yearold Brooklyn Golden wowed the huge crowd with her auctioneering skills, and Steve Hodges of Hereford, right, helped to convince Gatlin, his former college roommate, to come to Hereford to perform for the 39th annual King’s Manor Founder’s Day Barbeque. Photo by Jim Steiert

COMING UP BETWEEN THE LINES Monday, July 24 Herd Tennis Camp 3rd-6th graders – 9-10 a.m.

6-8th graders – 10 a.m.-noon 9th-12th graders – 9 a.m.-noon HHS Tennis Courts

Tuesday, July 25 Herd Tennis Camp 3rd-6th graders – 9-10 a.m.

6-8th graders – 10 a.m.-noon 9th-12th graders – 9 a.m.-noon HHS Tennis Courts

Wednesday, July 26 Herd Tennis Camp 3rd-6th graders – 9-10 a.m.

6-8th graders – 10 a.m.-noon 9th-12th graders – 9 a.m.-noon HHS Tennis Courts

Friday, July 27 Herd Tennis Camp 3rd-6th graders – 9-10 a.m.

6-8th graders – 10 a.m.-noon 9th-12th graders – 9 a.m.-noon HHS Tennis Courts

Monday, July 31 Herd Football Camp 3rd-9th graders – 9 a.m.-noon Whiteface Stadium

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