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Trustees approve payment settlement

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

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A “verbal agreement” on a settlement has been reached between the Hereford Independent School District (HISD) Board of Trustees and Hereford Wind over a disputed payment, how-

ever, details of that agreement are still unknown.

Trustees approved a settlement agreement following a closed session to consult with board attorney Fred Flowers of Underwood

KNIGHT

Law Firm in Hereford.

The closed session consultation was the first item of business on the agenda for Monday’s called meeting of the board.

After the board approved a me-

ticulously worded motion on “an agreement to settle the appeal of a final determination of Limited Tax Agreement Impact Study for fiscal year 2016-17,” a short break was taken to allow board president Kevin Knight to sign the agreement document.

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HEREFORD HISTORY Three Hereford FFA officers, Ben Subiett, vice president; Jarad Johnson, reporter; and Ian Isaacson, accompanied by instructor John Massey, attended the annual FFA convention in Fort Worth.

Putting some body English into it, 5-under champion Cali Blessing makes a throw during Saturday’s Diggin’ the Kids Dummy Roping finals at the 23rd Spicer Memorial Roping.

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The future of a proposed new civic center in Hereford now rests in the hands of the Amarillo College (AC) Board of Regents.

Plans for a new $6.7 million, 25,000-square foot civic/community center were unveiled during the July 17 meeting of the Hereford City Commission.

While city officials announced city taxpayers would bear none of the costs for constructing the facility, there was still a hurdle to clear before plans could be set in motion.

The proposed location of the new center – between the Department of Public Safety building and Amarillo College on West 15th Street – is on land currently owned by Amarillo College, which the HANNA city must purchase.

Any sale of the property must be approved by the AC Board of Regents.

Although the AC board had discussed the matter as a non-agenda, information item earlier this summer, no formal action has been taken pending its perusal of building specifications and floorplan.

After the city commission approved moving forward with the new center, Hereford City Manager Rick Hanna delivered those plans to the AC board.

“They have them,” he said. “We have done all we can for now. We’re just awaiting an appraisal on the property.

“I don’t think making a pitch to the board will be necessary, and we haven’t planned one. We have heard no pushback from the regents.”

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Gripping it in Hereford

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

INDEX Public Record............2 News............................3 Opinion........................4 Community...................5 Outdoors....................6 Classifieds..................7 Religion.......................8 Sports.........................9 Spicer Gripp...........9-10

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During that break, HISD Business Manager Rusty Ingram referred questions on the amount of the settlement payment to Knight.

Knight, meanwhile, remained tightlipped concerning details of the

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Jim Bob Messer of Fat Guys Grilling with Texas Feed Fat carves up his prime rib for Saturday’s cook-off competition. BRAND/John Carson

When the dust finally settled Sunday, more than 400 competitors had tossed the rope in search of $350,000 in prize money at the 23rd annual Spicer Gripp Memorial Roping.

The four-day event concluded Sunday at Spicer Gripp Memorial Arena with short-gos to decide champions in four events, as well as a pair of calf roping matches and scholarship junior match before closing with the Open to the World Knot Tying.

However, professionals were not the only ones to be part of one of the largest non-sanctioned roping events in the country as the four days also included a golf tournament, barbeque cook-off, children’s roping contest, a pair of dances, challenge matches and daily vendors.

The periphery events kicked off Friday with the Beef Capital of the World Golf Scramble at John Pitman Golf Course.

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Russell Elsie comes out of the saddle to tie his catch and complete his run during Saturday’s Calf Roping. BRAND/John Carson

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Aug. 2 Tyler Dewayne Brummett, 22, arrested on two outstanding city criminal warrants and an outstanding misdemeanor warrant.

Aug. 3 Michael Eric Ainslie, 35, arrested for assault, theft and making terroristic threats.

Aug. 4 Gariel Antonio Kelley, 18, arrested on an outstanding felony warrant.

Martin Reynoso, 23, arrested on two outstanding misdemeanor warrants.

Hernandez Lucio, 24, arrested for possession or delivery of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication.

Aug. 5 Efrain Jurado Mendoza, 63, arrested on an outstanding city criminal warrant.

Sergio Javier Acosta, 25, arrested on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant.

Aug. 6 Connier Spears, 55, arrested for no driver’s license.

Joe Don Martin, 30, arrested for driving while licensed suspended/invalid.

Aug. 8 Justin Jacob Martinez, 18, arrested for theft of a firearm.

Anthony Rivas, 21, arrested for a second-or-more offense of driving while license suspended.

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Aug. 3 Francisco Guzman, 55, arrested for an enhanced charge of driving while license invalid.

Aug. 6 Dustyn Ruddock, 24, arrested for possession of a controlled substance.

Marc Trevizo, 25, arrested for possession of a controlled substance.

Jonathan Zaragoza, 31, arrested for criminal non-support.

Marisela Montoya, 20, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon and possession of less than 1 gram of a controlled substance.

Aug. 7 Natividad Martinez, 43, arrested for burglary of a building and theft more than $100-less than $750.

Reports

Hereford Police Department July 30 Attempted burglary of a vehicle was reported in the 600 block of Avenue F. An incident report was taken in the 200 block of North Lee Avenue.

Theft was reported in the 400 block of Avenue F. July 31 An incident report was taken in the 300 block of West Second Street.

A runaway was reported in the 100 block of North Ranger Drive.

Aug. 1 Forgery was reported in the 400 block of North 25 Mile Avenue.

Theft was reported in the 100 block of West Park Avenue.

Theft was reported in the 900 block of South Main Street.

Aug. 2 Burglary of a habitation was reported in the 500 block of Irving Street.

Assault by strangulation

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was reported in the 100 block of Veterans Road.

Theft was reported in the 200 block of Northwest Drive.

Aug. 3 An incident report was taken in the 900 block of Irving Street.

Criminal mischief was reported in the 500 block of East 15th Street.

An incident report was taken in the 400 block of Witherspoon.

in the 700 block of Seminole Street.

Citation was issued for minor in consumption of alcoholic beverages in the 500 block of Star Street.

Assault was reported in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue.

Aug. 7 Theft was reported in the 100 block of Beach Street.

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July 31 Criminal mischief more than $100-less than $750.

Aug. 3 Indecency with a child was reported to deputies.

Aug. 6 Burglary of a motor vehicle was reported to deputies.

Aug. 7 Deputies assisted Department of Public Safety officers.

Aug. An incident report was taken in the 400 block of Paloma Lane.

Aug. 5 Sexual assault was reported in the 200 block of Fir Street.

Aug. 6 Minors in consumption of alcoholic beverages was reported and citations issued

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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 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.

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• 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

• 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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HISD:

Before taking formal action to sell land to the city for a proposed new civic center in Hereford, the Amarillo College Board of Regents wanted to examine renderings and floorplans of the facility.

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It would not hinder our growth. It would add to it. It is an excellent opportunity for us. I am definitely excited about this.

ments, AC can only sell land to another government entity and the land must be purchased at its appraised value.

Daniel Esquivel Exactly when AC regents Amarillo College Hereford campus director will take action on the proposal is not known, however, it is not believed to ing and logically will need growth. It would add to it. be something to which they the land there,” he said. It is an excellent opportuniare adverse, according to “That’s why they ty for us. I am defiMichael Kitten, a non-voting want to see the plans nitely excited about regent representing the Her- and footprint. this.” eford AC campus.

“Even if the land is The city’s proposal Kitten was in attendance sold, the college has is for the new center at the meeting earlier the ample acreage to the to be liberally used summer when regents were south and behind the

by AC with designs first presented the idea of current building for even going so far as the new civic center. expansion. Parking to tie in with design “There was a short discus- is the biggest issue of the current AC sion, and it was positive,” now and immediatebuilding.

ESQUIVEL Kitten said. “They wanted to ly going forward.”

Esquivel, who is see a layout and know what Along those lines, familiar with the its footprint would be. the plans are being met center’s floorplan, said the “The Hereford campus with enthusiasm by college could use the cencould use the parkAC Hereford cam- ter for class space, lectures, ing. If it was build pus director Daniel seminars and even larger today, it would be Esquivel. functions. used.”

Last week, Esquivel He expects regents to forA logical stumbling was “excited and in- mally address the matter by block to the project terested” over the the end of the month. is AC selling properprospect of creating Once the AC board signs ty when school offia new partnership off on the project, the next cials have repeatedly through the facility step would be formal acquitouted the college’s with the city. sition of the property by the KITTEN growth – both overall “It would be very city. and in Hereford. advantageous to Once the land is purWhile that might be a po- us,” Esquivel said. “It would chased, Hanna said, it tential problem, Kitten was provide us more parking for should take 18-24 months quick to point out it was not our students. We’re growing for construction before something that would be an and running out of room. the new center would be effective deal breaker.

“It would not hinder our opened.

“Amarillo College is grow-

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MICHELLE E. ROBINSON, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that Original Letters Testamentary upon the Estate of MICHELLE E. ROBINSON were issued to DAVID B. ROBINSON, as Independent Executor on the 31st day of July, 2017, in Cause No. PR-2017-05478, Estate of MICHELLE E. ROBINSON, deceased, pending in the County Court of Deaf Smith County, Texas.

All persons having claims against said estate, which is currently being administered in Deaf Smith County, Texas, are hereby required to present the same to said Independent Executor at the address given below, before suit upon same is barred by the Statute of Limitations, before such estate is closed, and within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

The residence of the Independent Executor is 305 Cherokee Drive, Hereford, Texas 79045. The attorney for the estate is R. C. Hoelscher, Attorney at Law, whose address is: P.O. Box 1775 (304 West Third) Hereford, Texas 79045 SIGNED this 31st day of July, 2017.

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the state uses property values to determine state funding allocations.

What Ingram has called “a blip” in FROM PAGE 1 those determinations has the state settlement – including the payment comptroller’s office using year-old property values in school funding amount.

“We have a verbal agreement,” he formulas.

For HISD, Hereford Wind’s full propsaid. “We are waiting on a signed agreement [before revealing further erty valuation of $250 million was included in determining 2016-17 funddetails].

“Until we get that, I cannot talk ing, while the wind entity was only taxed on $30 million per its valuation about [the settlement].”

With trustee approval of the settle- agreement with the district.

The increased property valuation ment, the ball now rests in the court of Hereford Wind concerning its final- used by the state moved HISD out of a special funding formula and ization. into a general funding formula, An exact timetable for when which ultimately cost HISD $2.3 Hereford Wind officials will admillion in state dollars. dress the matter is not known, Hereford Wind figured its but indications are a decision is January payment based on the expected within the next three special funding formula to be weeks. $1.5 million.

“I suspect we should have The two sides have been in their answer before our Aug. negotiations to rectify the prob28 board meeting,” Knight said.

INGRAM lem since the payment was due.

Knight also declined to reIngram budgeted a $2.5 milspond to questions concerning how the board – and he personally lion payment for lost state funding – felt about the details of the settle- into HISD’s 2016-17 spending plan.

That has since been lessened to $2.3 ment agreement.

“What I have already said is all I will million as the fiscal year played out.

While officials declined to specify say until they (Hereford Wind) sign,” he said. “Once they sign it, the details the payment amount in the settleand payment amount will be made ment, Ingram gave some indication that it will not be what was budgeted. public record.”

During a subsequent budget workHISD and Hereford Wind have been at odds over a payment due Jan. 1 shop Monday, Ingram was explaining that is part of the Limited Appraised to trustees the budgeting process and Valuation Agreement between the how Chapter 313 agreements – under which the Hereford Wind valuation two.

The payment obligates Hereford agreement falls – must be taken into Wind to make up any reductions in consideration when budgeting.

“That bit me this year,” he said. state funding to HISD that the wind “I figured about $2.3 million (the entity’s property value may create.

The sticking point of the disagree- amount determined as Hereford ment has been over the payment Wind’s payment), and it looks like we amount that resulted from the way will come up short of that.”

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that, on August 7, 2017, letters testamentary upon the Estate of Lucy E. Serna, Deceased were issued by the County Court of Deaf Smith County, Texas, to Linda Sherri Serna, as Independent Executor. The mailing address of Linda Sherri Serna is 111 Nueces, Hereford, Texas 79045. All persons having claims against said estate are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

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OPINION

Wednesday August 9, 2017

Licensed to Practice The secret to a lasting marriage? Don’t die and don’t get a divorce.

More than forty years ago, a Panhandle farmboy and I were licensed to practice matrimony, with practice being the operative word. Perhaps there should have been a PowerPoint, competency test or, at the very least, training wheels. But no, we made our noble promises before God and man and stumbled into our grand adventure as wide-eyed husband and wife with no clue what we were doing or how to keep our little train on the track.

Practice may not lead to a perfect partnership, but given enough time, it does wear down the rough edges. Like parALL IN enting, marriage is one Kerrie Womble Steiert of life’s experiences for which the key participants are woefully and completely unprepared. After the rice is thrown (killing the foolish birds that ate it) and the honeymoon wanes (as all moons will), it gets real, real sudden.

Despite how long a couple has dated, you never truly know someone until you’re daily sharing a bathroom, a mortgage, a church pew and the television remote. With the devil in the details, a partner’s quirky habits can be maddening. The Mrs. is a nitpicker, a bit of a packrat and doesn’t make the bed. The Mr. leaves a trail of paper in his wake, steals the covers and forgets to put the milk back in the fridge. Invariably, the spendthrift weds the penny-pincher, the night owl marries a morning person and the dreamer falls for the pragmatist.

The reality of matrimony rests in the shared commitment to go through “better or worse” together. So easily vowed, yet so challenging to fulfill. The better part’s a snap, but is only half of the equation. Side by side, you’ll also have to endure the worse days too.

The Friday when the job was lost and they took back the company car. The sleepless nights walking the floor with a colicky baby. The dreadful Christmas when the stomach flu struck the whole fam-damily. When the dog died. The weekend the basement flooded. The day the doctor delivered his grim diagnosis.

You go through it all together: the losses, the funerals, the worries, the heartache, the misunderstandings.

Like alien beings, the man from Mars and the woman from Venus face a steep learning curve: How to live together in harmony, blending two separate, independent lives into one. Wives and husbands may be members of the same species, but there are impasses where that appears to be their only common trait.

It’s a sobering realization when you can’t get mad and go home after a fight because, honey, you’re both already there.

As any driver on the interstate can relate, some vehicles yield and merge seamlessly while others careen toward a spectacular car crash of unbending wills.

In retrospect, the early day quarrels seem trivial on the surface, however they’re a proving ground, establishing boundaries and teaching how to respect your partner in spite of differences. But after enduring the wallpaper wars of 1983, the great spending rebellion and inevitable in-law skirmishes, you do learn the wisdom of choosing which battles are worth waging.

Of course, our differences are what draw us together and ideally, keep us bonded to one another. The reward lies in learning to appreciate—and letting your weak side lean into—their strengths. Holding on to each other in spite of the changing tides, sanctifying your spouse when they slip-up, apologizing when you’re wrong and forgiving when you were right. You’ll never get through it as a happy twosome without ample patience, a hearty sense of humor and God kept at the center of it all.

By His grace, the union of hearts through matrimony creates life, growth and change. It propels us to move forward, expanding our horizons while deepening our roots. Families thrive and depend on good marriages to introduce new traits, strengthen our potential, challenge our perceptions, shake up old traditions, bring fresh hope and secure the future.

Throughout adolescence, we’re conditioned to dream of, hope for, the Cinderella wedding and happily ever after. But unlike a cartoon, the real-life version of marriage is a living, growing affinity in daily need of prayer, care and devotion.

It’s happiness that’s earned. It’s finding balance and rhythm in our walk together. It’s a zany, messy, preposterous notion that young sweethearts can stay in love forever, and live as one for as long as both hearts still beat for the other.

It’s fidelity as unbroken as the wedding rings we wear. It’s slow dances in familiar arms, soft whispers in the dark, his hand instinctively reaching for yours, even after 40 years.

This matrimony thing is no fairy tale.

It’s so much better.

House passes bills to ease rising costs for retired teachers

Parkview Negro School operated in Deaf Smith County from 1953-63.

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Tales of Deaf Smith County “If we don’t tell our story, we will be defined by our critics.” Anonymous

Other schools in the district were Dawn Elementary School and Parkview Negro School.

In January 1955, the opening of the The number of teachers at each camnew high school was being celebrated by pus were Shirley, 18; Dawn, 3; Central students and faculty alike. Before break- 18; Junior High 19; High School 24; fifth ing for the Christmas vacation, grade 9; and Parkview 1. The books and supplies had been faculty served 2,132 students. moved into the new building.

The local operating budget The new high school confor the year was $640,967. Of tained 70,000 square feet that 4.13 percent was for adand was built at the cost of ministration; 6.72 percent for $10.92 per square foot, which new equipment and improveincluded the architect’s fee. ments; 7.26 percent for transThe building was designed to portation; 8.66 percent for accommodate 600 students operating and maintenance; and built so that it could be 10.81 for interest and bond reexpanded as the need arose. tirement; and 62.42 percent for Carolyn Waters The auditorium could seat instruction.

1,003 and 1,000 fans could be “Facts you should know” seated in the gym. information included in the brochure Junior high students, who had been stated that the size of the district was housed in former POW camp barracks 705 square miles; the 1954 valuation north of the 1926 high school building, was $24,879,905; there were approxipromptly moved into the vacated build- mately 3,000 taxpayers; buses traveled ing, and fifth-graders began a temporary 256,138 miles on 18 routes; there were occupation of the barracks.

101 faculty members; and the average In a brochure provided for the com- teacher had 14 years of experience and munity, then-Superintendent George received a $3,556 annual salary of which L. Graham’s message to the patrons of $2,995.80 was take-home pay.

Hereford Public Schools stated: Other “facts” were each child’s bill to “In preparing this brochure, we have the taxpayer for one day of education kept in mind the instructional program, was only $1.34 for the 175-day school the school philosophy, the housing and session or 24 cents per school hour; the mulitudious problems confronting there were more than three times as the board of education and the schools. many students in first grade as there “We are all proud of the rapid growth was in 12th grade. of our community. Our school populaHereford High School, at the time, was tion is almost three times what it was a member of the Southern Association 10 years ago. However, we must not of Colleges and Secondary Schools. This lose sight of the fact that more students accrediting association demanded high means more teachers, more buses, more standards from its members and entiequipment, more classrooms and more tled graduates to enroll in any member of the many things necessary for a good college without entrance exams. educational program.

Some 20 years later there were 5,619 “If we have faith in the future, we students enrolled from pre-K to grade must continue to invest in the youth of 12 and there were 599 employees with today.”

362 of those being certified teachers.

At the time, Howard Gault was serving There were 27 bus routes, and 1,585 as president of the school board, and students were transported by bus each Fred Baird was financial secretary. Other school day. board members were H.H. Miller, Mrs. Since 1975, school enrollment has Earl Plank, Ira Scott, Robert Wagoner, fluctuated, school buildings have been Lisle Woodford and Don Zimmerman. built, remodeled and repurposed and Other administrators serving the more unfunded state and federal manschool included Miss Della Stagner, who dates imposed. had the title of coordinator which would Yet, Superintendent Graham’s words be titled curriculum director today. Prin- continue to hold true – “If we have faith cipals at the various campuses were in our future, we must continue to inDon T. Martin, high school; D.C. Martin, vest in the youth of today.”

Central Elementary; L.C. Thomas, fifth grade; O.D.Lowry, Shirley Elementary; “Who you are is more important than and W.C. Quattlebaum, junior high. what you do.” Simon Bailey

AUSTIN – The Texas House on Aug. 1 approved House Bill 20, legislation appropriating $212.7 million from the “rainy day” reserve fund to help defray rising health-care costs for retired school employees.

Primary authors of HB 20 include Trent Ashby, R-Lufkin; Drew Darby, RSan Angelo; Gary VanDeaver, R-New Boston; John Zerwas, R-Katy; and Donna Howard, D-Austin.

The House also approved HB 80, legislation that through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas would make a one-time cost-of-living adjustment to the retirement benefits paid to certain retirees, disability STATE retirees and survivors. To be CAPITAL eligible for the increase, the annuitant must have retired HIGHLIGHTS between Aug. 31, 2004 and Ed Sterling Aug. 31, 2015.

Primary authors of HB 80 include Rep. Darby, Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City; Rene Oliveira, D-Brownsville; and Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen.

Speaker Joe Straus, who presides over the House, applauded the action, saying: “Since the end of the regular session, House members across the state have heard from retirees who are concerned about some significant increases in premiums and deductibles. Based on the feedback we’ve heard back home, the House cast an overwhelming vote (Aug. 1) to help retired teachers who are facing very steep increases in their monthly expenses.”

In other news, the House passed HB 25, which would appropriate $34 million from the state’s $11 billion rainy day fund and $45 million in federal funds for fiscal year 2018, plus another $36 million from the rainy day fund and $48.3 million in federal funds for fiscal year 2019 to the Health and Human Services Commission for Medicaid acute care therapy services.

Primary authors of HB 25 include Sarah Davis, R-Houston; Walter “Four” Price, R-Amarillo; Rep. Guerra; Rep. Darby; and Matt Krause, RFort Worth.

These and all House bills, however, must be approved by the Senate in order to move forward to the governor’s desk for final consideration.

Former governor dies Mark White, who served as governor of Texas from 1983-87, died Aug. 5 at age 77. He was the last living Democrat to have held the post.

White also served as Texas Attorney General from 1979-83, and as Texas Secretary of State from 1973-77.

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered flags statewide to be lowered to half-staff in honor of Gov. White.

“Mark White cared deeply about Texas, and he devoted his life to making our state even better, particularly when it came to educating our children,” Abbott said.

While White served as governor, the Texas Legislature passed the “no-pass, no-play” law affecting secondary school athletes. Lawmakers also passed a tax to fund teacher pay raises.

Plans are for White’s body to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Burial will be in the state cemetery.

Tax revenue increases Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Aug. 1 announced that state sales tax revenue totaled $2.56 billion in July, 7.9 percent more than in July 2016.

Sales tax receipts from all major economic sectors were up compared to last year and total sales tax revenue for the three months ending in July 2017 is up 7.3 percent compared to the same period a year ago, Hegar said.

“The most notable increases were from oiland gas-related industries, as spending on well development continues to rebound. Despite the recent uptick, sales tax revenue remains in line with recent estimates from my office,” he added.

Railroad funding arrives The U.S. Department of Transportation on Aug. 3 announced the Texas Department of Transportation has received a $7 million federal grant to help rebuild the Presidio-Ojinaga, Mexico, International Rail Bridge and 72 miles of track on the state-owned South Orient Rail Line that runs from the border to near Coleman.

Texas Transportation Commission Chairman Tryon Lewis hailed the “FASTLANE” grant as a critical investment in the West Texas oil and gas industry.

“Cross-border trade is the lifeblood of many communities in my district,” commented U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-San Antonio, whose congressional district includes the affected area. “As one of five border crossings between Texas and Mexico, these repairs are vital to Texas’ economy,” he added.

Hurricane briefing is held Gov. Abbott on Aug. 4 announced that he joined President Donald Trump, heads of federal agencies and other governors from across the country via teleconference for a 2017 White House Hurricane Briefing.

“Texas is in a constant state of hurricane preparedness and the safety of Texans is our top priority,” Abbott said.

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

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Community Eggen Drive fills Food Pantry shelves and coffers

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About 700 pounds of dry and canned foods and $2,390 in cash derived from donations were presented to the Hereford Food Pantry at the conclusion of the Jane Eggen Memorial Food Drive that was conducted throughout the month of July.

First United Methodist Church of Hereford recently sponsored the month-long food drive in memory of long-time food pantry board member, Jane Eggen. The drive was organized by her Sunday School class and friends. Jane was a member of Wesley UMC

for many years before transferring to FUMC when Wesley was closed in June of 2016.

“Jane Eggen served the community and was especially fond of the Hereford Food Pantry where she volunteered and served on the board until her death,” said Kevin Bushart, pastor of FUMC Hereford.

Among food items collected were jelly, sugar, flour, boxed macaroni and cheese, pasta, rice, cereal, and cooking oil.

“Jane Eggen came to FUMC Hereford about a year ago and quickly became an active member of FUMC Hereford and made friends with everyone she met. Jane’s

Members of the late Jane Eggen’s First United Methodist Church Sunday school class – seated from left, Wilma and L.J. Clark; standing from left, Michael and Julie Carlson, Robin Musick, Bettie Dickson of the Hereford Food Pantry, John and Susan Perrin, Deb Smith and Margaret Carnahan – helped conduct a July-long food drive to benefit the Food Pantry in her honor.

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sudden death in May was a shock to all who knew her. Jane’s friends mourn the loss of her radiant personality and her servant’s heart. Jane lived her faith, so to know her was an opportunity to see a glimpse of Jesus working in her life to serve others,” said John Perrin, a leader of the Sunday School class meeting in Ward Parlor at FUMC. “To honor the memory and spirit of Jane Eggen, her Sunday school class and “Friends of Jane” conducted this food drive to benefit the Hereford Food Pantry, where she served as a loyal volunteer and leader for many years,” Perrin added.

4-H bake sale set for Friday Members of the 4-H Food & Fun Club will be staging a bake sale on Friday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the lobby of First Financial Bank as a community service project.

All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Hereford Food Pantry.

A minimum of two or three 4-H’ers at a time will need to work the table, as well as at least one adult to assist.

Contact project leader Tamara Mimms or the 4-H office for additional information and to sign up.

Baked goods needed for the sale include brownies individually wrapped or bagged by the dozen; bagged caramel popcorn; cookies of all kind individually wrapped or bagged by the dozen; individually wrapped cupcakes; 9x13 cakes in a disposable pan; wrapped quick breads; Rice Krispie treats individually wrapped or bagged by the dozen; cinnamon rolls wrapped in pans; or any favorite treat that would be a good seller.

Half of the National Junior Angus Show champion intermediate team sales unit call Hereford home as Cutter Pohlman, second from left, and Colter Pohlman, right, made their presence felt in the competition.

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Sheep, goat tag order deadline Sheep and goat tags for 2017-18 stock shows need to be ordered by Friday, Aug. 18. To order, contact the Extension office.

Cost is $20 per tag. Registration forms

Deaf Smith County 4-H News will also be required for submission by Aug. 18.

Banquet set for end of month The annual Achievement Banquet has been scheduled for noon, Sunday, Aug. 27.

Summer Workshops Amalia Mata will be leading a cooking workshop, Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 1416.

Scheduled activities will be from 10 a.m.-noon on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 14-15 and from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 16.

Call 364-3573 to pre-register.

Photography Workshop slated The District 4-H Photography Workshop will be Saturday, Sept. 16, from 1-4 p.m. at the Potter County Extension office.

Registration on 4-H Connect will be limited to the first 45 who enroll. Photos will be taken at the Tri-State Fair.

Pohlmans earn national honors From Staff Reports

Hereford’s moniker of Beef Capital of the World proved true last month as local brothers Cutter and Colter Pohlman made their presence felt at the 2017 National Junior Angus Show (NJAS) in Des Moines, Iowa.

During the July 14 awards ceremony, the siblings finished among the NJAS’s top three in the country in a pair of team competitions and one individual competition.

The Pohlmans made up half of the Texas Junior team that ended in

Texas Angus members – from left, Bayler Smith of Kirbyville, Hereford’s Colter Pohlman, Kilye Winge of Sicco and Windthorst’s Brenden Humpert – finished second in junior division Quiz Bowl competition.

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ing out the team were Brayden DeBorde of Bardwell and Lubbock’s Dylan Denny.

Colter Pohlman and teammates Bayler Smith of Kirbyville, Cisco’s Kilye Winge and Brenden Humpert of Windthorst took second in the junior division Quiz Bowl.

Indiv idually, Cutter Pohlman came in third i n the i ntermed iate Skillathon competition, which was won by Zach McCall of Greenville, Va. Eva Hinrichsen of Westmoreland, Kan., finished second.

Members of the Deaf Smith County Food & Fun 4-H Club – from left, Avery Detten, Rachael Detten, Jack Detten, Ari McNeely, Anika McNeely and Macie Mimms – are in the kitchen whipping up tasty bites for an upcoming bake sale to benefit Hereford Food Pantry. A variety of pastries and homemade snacks will be sold from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Friday in the lobby of First Financial Bank.

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The top three National Junior Angus Show intermediate Skillathon finishers included, from left, winner Zach McCall of Virginia, Eva Hinrichsen of Kansas in second and Hereford’s Cutter Pohlman taking third.

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Outdoors

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A dust bowl gloaming

By Jim Steiert Contributing Writer

Back in October of 2012, Timothy Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of The Worst Hard Time, made speaking appearances in Canyon and Amarillo. In the book and through the spoken word, he offered an excellent examination of the Dust Bowl and how it touched our own portion of the Great Plains. He observed from the perspective of unheralded historians who lived the Dust Bowl here, and admitted that the people and natural features of the Southern Great Plains—mostly unknown and uncared-about by the rest of America—worked their magic on him.

Egan, a third generation resident of the Northwest, acknowledged that he came to the Plains unsure what he would find as he tracked the Dust Bowl, one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in history.

Of course, he referred to the unflattering description from an outsider that we here in the High Plains have heard many, many times. Explorer Stephen H. Long called this region “the Great Sahara, that must forever remain uninhabited. ” But Egan took this prejudicial phrasing in another direction, emphasizing that Long actually said that this region would be “uninhabitable by a population dependent on agriculture.”

While researching his resounding Dust Bowl chronicle, Egan came to respect the people, and yes, the majesty of the Plains that can richly compensate for enduring the rough days.

“Prairie dawns and sunsets are magical. There’s just something about the Plains.

And, I never tasted peach cobbler any better anywhere in my life than Plains men cooked for me in a Dutch oven in the ground,” Egan said.

Egan, without hesitation, addressed a question as to whether the Dust Bowl with its fear-inducing blizzards of black soil, and its decade of drought, had caused people of the Plains to wonder if they were being punished for turning the native grass wrong side up, and even to question if there was a God. Egan, appreciative of the trauma of this horrendous environmental disaster, offered an understanding, perceptive answer that indeed, some did question, and even give up—but many others on the Plains held on, helped one another, and reached a deeper faith.

Egan’s words kept coming back to me that fall, particularly on evenings as I followed behind our two Labrador retrievers that I let loose for romps in a harvested blackeyed pea field a few miles from town. One particular evening, the dogs, amped on autumn, galloped ahead. I was just picking up the two-note calls of longbilled curlews that had to be somewhere out in this field when Blue and Blanca rousted a flock of them into flight. The curlews, mildly disturbed but unready to be displaced, made a big circle, and settled well beyond the dogs. I lifted the dog whistle dangling from a lanyard around my neck to my lips and gave the bird busters a couple of comeback tweets.

They loped in, blasted past and thundered on to the next adventure.

Unperturbed, the curlews kept singing us their lovely

crisp fall evening serenade.

I mused on what a great feeding field that place would be for sandhill cranes. A goodly amount of blackeyes were left by the combine, and pairs of pod-laden unharvested rows straddled sprinkler tracks. I thought about Pat Childress down at O’Donnell, who used to plant a few acres of blackeyes just for the cranes.

As if on cue, in the distance came that “trumpet call of evolution” ably described by the great naturalist Aldo Leopold, the prehistoric bugling gurgle of sandhill cranes crossing the face of the western sky. Cranes had come to me in this very field against the rise of a full moon only the previous fall, close-by where I was standing in gawking awe. On this evening, they were a little farther off and traveling a bit earlier in the day, but present yet again all the same, testimonial on the wing to the faithful turning of time and seasons, and that compass in their heads that tells them when and where to fly.

Elongated strings of cranes threaded the western sky against vivid splashes of mauve and magenta, azure and streaks of darker blue— and a flaming tangerine orb with ocher on the edges emblazoning it all there on the great canvas.

By the time we reached the far side of the field and turned back toward the pickup, the colorful splashing of the sunset sky was in full riot, fingers of multi-hued light reaching from the horizon where the sun was slipping down into the deepening indigo of the higher sky.

Another late-to-roost flight of cranes trilled across the sunset cinemascope.

Had sprinkler irrigation been available in the 1930s it might have staved off some of the dust of those days of environmental disaster, but still, modern irrigation walkers aren’t immune to the clouds of wind-stirred soil that can form on the Southern Great Plains.

Photo by Jim Steiert Crunching across the field in the waning gloaming to the fading calls of cranes, I had my own question. Even knowing that the Plains sky can blacken with blowing dust, how could anyone see what is wondrously wrought across the sky on a fall evening, realize the magnificence of the creatures that have made the ancient exodus to the Plains

from time unknown, and not know that God is in them?

We shared water at the pickup. The Labs gave me appreciative—even understanding—smiles.

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

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We invite you to join us Sunday, August 13, for a “dose of encouragement.” The message by our friend and guest speaker, Bob Mink, will be “The Kiss of Encouragement” – drawing lessons from Acts 4, 9, 11 & 15. (Can you figure out which Bible character he will be talking about?)

Hymns we plan to sing together include: “Sunshine In My Soul” “Footsteps of Jesus” and “O To Be Like Thee.”

Cindy Cassels will provide the piano accompaniment.

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. Fellowship of Believers is located at 245 N. Kingwood. Come join us – or leave a message at 364-0359 if you need more information.

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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.

Baptist

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

A true love story from the Book of Ruth is Pastor Ted’s Sermon Series. It has all the drama, tragedy, mystery and hope found in any love story. Join us Sunday as Pastor unpacks this 4 Chapter dynamite book.

Kids, you are invited to joint Pastor Tracy Ricenbaw for another fun Kid’s Church where kids get to worship on their own level.

Sunday August 13th, at 5 pm, we will join Nazarene Churches from the Panhandle for music and games at our picnic at Washington Street Campus of the Amarillo College.

Coming next week, is our Youth Conxtion Luau on Wednesday, August 16th at 7pm with great luau games, food and awards. Parents are welcome.

Also on Thursday, August 17, we will feed the Jr. High and High School Teachers an appreciation lunch at the Hereford High School library.

Pastor Ted invites you to join us for any of our great Bible Studies and activities.

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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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Wednesday August 9, 2017

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Playoffs highlight SG golf scramble From Staff Reports

Officials had to go to the scorecards in all three flights Friday to determine top finishers in the annual Spicer Gripp Beef Capital of the World Golf Scramble at John Pitman Golf Course.

Of the top-four finishes in the tournament’s three flights that featured 84 golfers divvied into 21 four-person teams, scorecard playoffs decided eight of the 12 total final places.

The top of the lead Spicer Flight was pretty cut and dried as the quartet of Jason Foerster, Kenneth Ruiz, Kim Wright and Robert de la Cruz chased a front-nine 28 with a backside 29 for a 57 to win by three strokes.

The team of Colby Marsh, John Robinson, Nancy Nash and Greg Nash posted a 60 (29-31) to take second before the first of the playoffs took place.

After firing a tournament-low 27 on the front nine to take the lead, Shannon Ridgeway, N.D. Kelso, Steve Lewis and Max Moss stumbled some coming in with a 34 to finish in a tie with Conner Allen, Clint Savoini, Kade Matthews and Buck Taylor (30-31) at 61.

The back-nine woes proved the difference to allow Allen. Savoini, Matthews and Taylor to claim third in the playoff and push Ridgeway, Kelso, Lewis and Moss to fourth.

All four top spots in the Gripp Flight were decided

in playoff after a quartet of teams finished the round at 62.

Aaron White, Chris Cabbiness, Jerry Smith and Kurt Kiehne (30-32) came out first on the cards with Mike Cabbiness, Patty Cabbiness, Gary Patterson and Rocky Bhakta (29-33) finishing second.

The team of Galen Chandler, Brad Cottrell, Travis Eldridge and Bradley Miller (29-33) penciled the right score at the right time on the card to take third as Barrett Weishaar, Mike Polonski, Harry Sims and Sonny Nikkel came in fourth.

The foursome of Cody Marsh, Danny Harshey, Jim Sandoval and Lorraine Sandoval made a front-nine lead stand to capture the Roper Flight at 65 (30-35).

Tiffi West, Robert Powell, John Gregg and Myron Grantham (32-34) won a playoff for a second-place tie at 66 in that flight over Jeff Dameral, Patsy Hoffman, Sinky Scott and Rhea Scott (33-33).

The team of Keith Bridwell, Kris Bridwell, Jeff Shelton and Gary Ruckman took fourth at 67 (34-33).

The event featured a pair of long drive contests with Savoini winning the men’s only competition at No. 2 and Tyler Stidham knocking it the farthest at No. 11.

Three closest to the pin contests were included that saw Cody Marsh win at No. 6, Jeff Shelton put it in tight at No. 9 and Sherry McKean take the women’s only contest at No. 14.

Unable to hold onto their lead in Open Team Roping heading into Sunday’s short-go, Bubba Buckaloo and Trey Yates eventually finished third with a total time of 49.49 seconds.

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Ivy, Hawkins nab Gripp’s top payday

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

Rallying in Sunday’s short-go, the tandem of Lane Ivy and Buddy Hawkins walked off with the biggest checks of the 23rd annual Spicer Gripp Memorial Roping.

Compiling a total time of 46.13 seconds, Ivy and Hawkins won the Open Team Roping title and accompanying $45,400 in prize money ($22,700 each).

Josh and Jonathan Torres posted the best time Sunday to eventually finish second at 46.97 and pocket $16,900 each.

Leaders coming into the shortgo, Bubba Buckaloo and Trey

John Pitman Golf Course, Friday, Aug. 4 28-29 – 57 29-31 – 60 30-31–61* 27-34–61* 29-32 – 61 30-31 – 61

Gripp Flight A.White-C.Cabbiness-J.Smith-K.Kiehne M.Cabbiness-P.Cabbiness-G.Patterson-R.Bhatka G.Chandler-B.Cottrell-T.Eldridge-B.Miller B.Weishaar-M.Polonski-H.Sims-S.Nikkel C.Sims-J.Wood-A.Thorne-L.Mueggenborg P.Kahlich-A.Hart-M.Mauldin-S.McKean T.Stidham-K.Bunch-L.Coats-D.Stewart K.Smith-M.Snelson-M.Moss-W.Eldridge

30-32–62* 29-33–62* 29-33–62* 31-31 – 62 30-33 – 63 31-33 – 64 31-33 – 64 29-35 – 64

Roper Flight Co.Marsh-D.Harshey-J.Sandoval-L.Sandoval T.West-R.Powell-J.Gregg-M.Grantham J.Dameral-P.Hoffman-S.Scott-R.Scott Ke.Bridwell-Kr.Bridwell-J.Shelton-G.Ruckman G.Batterman-D.Leverett-E.Nino-R.Lopez C.Betzen-E.Betzen-S.Friemel-A.Friemel D.Bhakta-T.Head-W.Snelson-H.Carolton

30-35 – 65 32-34–66* 33-33 – 66 34-33 – 67 32-36 – 68 35-36 – 71 36-36 – 72

*won scorecard playoff Long drive No. 2 (men only) – Clint Savoini Long drive No. 11 – Tyler Stidham Closest to pin No. 6 – Cody Marsh Closest to pin No. 9 – Jeff Shelton Closest to pin No. 14 (ladies only) – Sherry McKean

tional $1,000 each for the event’s fastest time.

Brazile and Smith were second in the first-go at 6.48 seconds to pocket $1,000.

The Torres brothers added to their winnings by a total of $2,000 for recording the fastest Sunday time (6.97).

A total of 48 teams took part in the event, which placed as the third-smallest among the professional events at Spicer Gripp.

Ladies Breakaway Roping had the most entrants with 76, followed by Steer Roping (60), ProAm Team Roping (59), Open Team Roping (48), Calf Roping (47) and Senior Steer Roping (29).

World champ takes Gripp

Spicer Gripp Beef Capital of the World Golf Scramble Spicer Flight J.Foerster-K.Ruiz-K.Wright-R.delaCruz Cl.Marsh-J.Robinson-N.Nash-G.Nash C.Allen-C.Savoini-K.Matthews-B.Taylor S.Ridgeway-N.D.Kelso-S.Lewis-M.Moss C.Johns-D.Davis-S.Olson-L.Brorman J.Stevens-J.Tevelde-R.Miller-K.Kellogg

Yates dropped to third with a total time of 49.49 to win $11,100 each.

Rounding out the top five were Trevor Brazile and Patrick Smith in fourth (50.58, $5,300 each) and Shane Phillip and Caleb Anderson in fifth (52.94, $2,000 each).

Although the event only paid the top-two finishers in the firstgo – where other events paid the top four for two or three rounds – Open Team Roping was Spicer Gripp’s richest event with a total purse of $126,000.

Cody Snow and Wesley Thorp each took home $2,000 for winning the first-go in 5.93 seconds, which also earned them an addi-

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

With Spicer Gripp Memorial Roping attracting some of the roping world’s best to Hereford, Cale Smidt showed why he is the reigning world champion by running away with Calf Roping championship.

Posting the second-lowest time of the competition to win Saturday morning’s third-go in 8.75, Smidt also placed second in the firstgo and second in Sunday’s short-go to post a 37.31 total time and claim the $9,200 winner’s check by PLEASE SEE CALF | 10

A third-place, short-go showing Sunday helped Cole Baily finish in the overall money at fourth for this year’s Spicer Gripp Calf Roping event.

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COMING UP BETWEEN THE LINES Wednesday, Aug. 9 Tennis Varsity at Vernon, TBA

Thursday, Aug. 10 Tennis Varsity vs. Saginaw in Fort Worth, 8:30 a.m.

Volleyball Varsity at Mansfield Rotary Tournament, TBA

Friday, Aug. 11 Tennis Varsity vs. Eaton in Fort Worth, 9 a.m.

Varsity vs. Northwest in Fort Worth, 2 p.m.

Volleyball Varsity at Mansfield Rotary Tournament, TBA Freshmen in Hereford JV Tournament, TBA JV in Hereford JV Tournament, TBA

Saturday, Aug. 12 Tennis Varsity vs. Chisholm Trail in Fort Worth, 9 a.m.

Varsity vs. Boswell in Fort Worth, 2 p.m.

Volleyball Varsity at Mansfield Rotary Tournament, TBA Freshmen in Hereford JV Tournament, TBA JV in Hereford JV Tournament, TBA

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Gasperson maintains big lead, seizes Steer title

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

Taking a commanding lead through Friday’s first three rounds, Will Gasperson did not give the competition a chance in Sunday’s short-go to win the 23rd Spicer Gripp Steer Roping championship.

Setting the pace from the outset, Gasperson built a 7-plus second lead and effectively had to do little more than snare his steer Sunday to take home the event’s $10,910 top prize.

Gasperson won the first-go in 10.83 for a $5,400 check and nailed the coffin shut Sunday by placing fourth in the short-go (13.92) for another $680.

A winning time in Sunday’s short-go of 11.29 not only landed Quay Howard a $2,730 check, it allowed him to climb from fourth to second in average at 58.12 and take home $8,180.

Tony Reina (60.74) finished third for $5,450, while Corey Ross posted a total time of 62.22 to take fourth and $2,730.

Following Gasperson in the first-go by almost half-a-second was James Evans, whose time of 11.30 earned him $4,090.

Ross (11.91) came in third for $2,730, and Brent Lewis took fourth in 12.42 for a $1,360 check.

Shay Good and Kelly Casebolt each posted an 11.29 in the second-go to split first- and second-

Building a big lead through three rounds, Will Gasperson kept the pressure up Sunday with a fourth in the short-go to win Steer Roping and its $10,910 top prize.

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place money and take home $4,775 each.

C.A. Lauer clocked in at 12.03 for third and $2,730, while Howard (12.26) placed fourth for $1,360.

The third-go produced the best overall times in the event with Scott Snedecor being the only to crack the 10-second mark with a winning time of 9.44. Garrett Hale was second at 10.14 followed

by Jason Evans (10.39) and J.R. Magdeburg (10.61).

Sporting the secondlargest field in the overall event with 60 competitors – tied with Thursday’s 15-under Junior JFR qualifier – the Steer Roping handed out the second-largest total purse at $75,000.

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Leading coming into Sunday’s short-go, Rylea Fabrizio lines up her throw en route to winning the round and claiming the Breakaway championship.

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Fabrizio Breakaway no fluke

By John Carson BRAND Managing Editor

Holding the top spot after two rounds of Ladies Breakaway, Rylea Fabrizio proved the standing was justified as she put a stranglehold on the position to win the Breakaway competition Sunday at the 23rd annual Spicer Gripp Memorial Roping.

After using a secondplace finish in the secondgo to take the lead among the 12 qualifiers for Sunday’s short-go, Fabrizio posted a time of 3.71 seconds Sunday to win the final round and take the overall title with a com-

bined time of 11.15 on three head.

The average win also came with a $5,550 payday.

A third-place finish Sunday in 4.46 propelled Laren Bane up a spot as she was event runner-up in 12.50 to earn $4,595.

LaRae Smith used a second-place, short-go time of 4.10 to take third in 12.96 for $3,640 with Lydia Coe (16.03) finishing fourth to claim a $2,680 prize.

Coming in a distant fifth was Jordan Jo Fabrizio at 23.90 for $1,720, while Teddi Winslow was sixth in 24.22 to nab $955.

The two best times of

the competition and four of the top six, came in the first-go where Alex Fault won in 3.05 to just edge Darcy Good (3.07).

Jordan Jo Frabizio finished third with a 3.33, and Paige Russell came in fourth at 3.61.

Bane (3.32) and Rylea Fabrizio (3.41) took the top two spots in the second-go with Emily Lynas placing third with a 3.80, and Kenna Sullivan rounding out the top finishers in fourth at 3.85.

The Ladies Breakaway had the largest field at this year’s Spicer Gripp Memorial Roping with 76 entrants.

World champion Caleb Smidt won a go and was second in two others to take the Calf Roping championship by more than 6.6 seconds.

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more than 6.6 seconds.

Cade Swor, who did not place among the top four in any round, kept his times close enough to the top and snagged his calf Sunday to finish second with a 43.97 and pocket $6,900.

On the strength of a shortgo win at 9.32, Trenton Smith finished third in 44.23 for $4,600, while Cole Baily used a third-place, short-go time of 10.81 to vault into the aver-

age money for fourth ($2,300) with a time of 45.87.

The best time of the event came in the first-go as Cimarron Boardman put up an 8.56 for first.

Trailing the second-place Smidt were Shane Slack (11.19) and Rob Mathis ((11.32).

The second-go featured the fastest times among top finishers, as well as four of the overall event’s fastest seven times.

One of only four to come in under 9 seconds, Treg Schaack just barely edged

Ryan Thibodeaux with an 8.94 to Thirbodeaux’s 8.98 to win.

Trevor Brazile came in third at 9.20 with Marcos Costa not far behind in fourth with a 9.38.

Trailing Smidt in the thirdgo were Shank Edwards in 9.44, Conner Hanna in 9.51 and Brazile in 10.3.

The event – the secondsmallest among the professional events with 47 competitors – paid $4,400 for first in each go, $3,300 for second, $2,200 for third and $1,100 for fourth with a $62,000 total purse.

four-person teams to tee it up and raise more than $2,500 for Spicer Gripp Youth Foundation Scholarships.

Things were popping all over the grounds Saturday as the day opened with the preliminaries of the Diggin’ the Kids Dummy Roping contest in the barn area, while the air became filled with the aroma of cooking meats as grill teams lit their fires for the Beef Capital of the World Barbeque Cook-off.

The Kids Dummy Roping preliminaries pared the field down to three age-group champions, who stepped into the spotlight in the arena for the finals following three gos Saturday morning for Calf Roping.

Cali Blessing, winner of the 5-under division, hung with her older, male opposition before being eliminated after two throws to set up a showdown between 6-9-yearold winner Colston Atcitty of Utah and 9-11 winner Tate Thompson of Amarillo.

The competition was hot and heavy with neither letting up until Atcitty hooked just one horn. Thompson calmly found his mark and snatched the rope tight to win the championship and first-prize saddle.

Amateurs had a chance to pair up with the pros in the Pro-Am Team Roping following the children’s event.

Three rounds highlighted the Pro-Am as the lowest six times on three head took home prize money and hardware with separate pro and amateur headers and heelers nabbing the top spots.

The winning amateur header time of 24.38 was recorded

by Johnny Trotter and pro heeler Kollin Van Ahn with pro header Jake Barnes and Ken Plocek nabbing the amateur heeler top spot in 27.77.

Finishing second was amateur header Larry Coast and pro heeler Junior Nugueira in 24.42, and pro header Trevor Brazile and amateur heeler Chuck Senter in 31.16.

Sam Stephens and pro John Paul Lucero (25.6) just nipped Madison Haley and Von Ahn (25.7) for third, while pro Colby Lovell and Ryan Birkenfield were third in 34.6 over Barnes and Curt Conett.

Fifth place went to amateur header Adrian Maex and pro Jaytin McCright in a time of 26.88 with pro David Kay and Sutton Senter joining forces for heeling fifth at 41.24.

Amateur Carter Robinson teamed up with Ty Arnold for sixth in 29.20, while pro Kaleb Driggers and Milton Purcells closed out the heeler placing.

By finishing in the top six, pros won $1,000, $750, $600, $450, $300 and $200, respectively, while the amateurs took home a saddle, buckle, spurs, bits, breast collar or money clip for a first-sixth finish.

Saturday’s competition in and out of the arena culminated with cook-off awards being doled out for Best Steak (Tipsy Gipsy BBQ), Best Ribs (South Fork), Best Brisket

Amarillo’s Tate Thompson pulls the rope tight on the winning throw Saturday in the Diggin’ the Kids Dummy Roping contest.

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The grand championship for the cook-off went to Crist Fuel with Texas Feed Fat placing second and Caviness Meat Packers taking third.

Sunday, Timber Moore posted the best time on eight head to pocket $10,000 in a challenge calf roping match, while Quade Hiatt picked up a $1,000 check for winning a junior calf roping challenge

on six head.

Kellen Johnson and Hayden Cape bested four other twosomes to nab $1,000 scholarships each in a Junior NJR team event.

In the Open to the World Knot Tying, the team of Billy Good and Jesse Valdez were the big winners – capturing the second-go for $500 and average for $2,500. Chance Kelton and Jason Thomas also took home $500 for winning the first-go.

Colston Atcitty of Utah, the 6-9-year-old champ, rings one up during the dummy final showdown Saturday. BRAND/John Carson