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© 2014 The
Weekly News of Cooke County
Volume 11, Number 20
Cooke County, Texas
October 15, 2014
The LARGEST and MOST READ Newspaper in Cooke County!
County employees to get King
half-price ﬂu vaccinations Topics
by Keith G. King
By Keith G. King
The Weekly News
GAINESVILLE – The Cooke
County Commissioners Court
unanimously approved to pay onehalf of the cost for employees to
receive a ﬂu vaccination during the
Monday meeting.
Employees will need to receive
the ﬂu vaccination at the onsite clinic Friday (Oct. 17) at the
Cooke County Courthouse or at
the Cooke County Justice Center.
The cost for the shot is $20 and
the county will pay $10 for each
employee who wants the ﬂu vaccination.
Commissioners approved the
meeting schedule for ﬁscal year
2015 for Commissioners Court.
The approved schedule will be at
10 a.m. on the second and fourth
Monday of each month in the
Cooke County Courthouse. The
commissioners voted 5-0 for the
2015 schedule.
The 2015 Indigent Defense
Grant Program application was approved by a 5-0 vote. The amount
of the grants will be determined by
the number of counties that apply.
Commissioners approved the
resolution for funding of the Tri
County Senior Nutrition Project, doing business as Meals On
Wheels of Texoma by a 5-0 vote.
The vote was for a resolution of
the money already budgeted in the
2014-2015 budget for Meals On
Wheels.
The 2015 Workers Compensation Alliance Election was denied
by commissioners by a 5-0 vote.
According to Cooke County
HR Director Elizabeth Huchton,
the alliance consists of a network
of doctors a worker can be told to
see, but she said that there were no
doctors in the network that were
close to Cooke County.
Commissioners also approved
adding Workers Compensation
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Antique Car Show – Depot Day Festival goers braved cool and damp weather to attend the 28th
annual event in downtown Gainesville Saturday. One of the attractions was the annual Gainesville
Antique and Classic Car Club’s annual Depot Day Car Show. The festival featured live entertainment, arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, children’s attractions and a western shoot out on the
antique brick streets. Deport Day began 28 years ago to honor the acquisition of the 1902 Santa
Fe Depot.
(The Weekly News Photo)
Early voting for Nov. 4
election starts Monday
By Keith G. King
The Weekly News
COOKE COUNTY – Early voting for the Nov. 4 General Election begins Monday (Oct. 20) and
will continue to 5 p.m. Oct. 31.
Early voting will be from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday in the
Cooke County Courthouse Annex
at 112 S. Dixon St., in Gainesville
across the street from the Cooke
County Courthouse.
Cooke County voters will vote
for candidates vying for national,
state and local positions and one
proposed Texas Constitutional
Amendment.
The General Election will be
held at polling locations throughout Cooke County from 7 a.m. to
7 p.m. Nov. 4.
Candidate races voters will decide follow.
National
United States Senator – John
Cornyn, Rep.; David M. Alameel,
Dem.; Rebecca Paddock, Lib.;
Two die in I-35 Frontage
Road head-on collision
GAINESVILLE – Two are dead following a head-on collision on the
I-35 Frontage Road in the 4300 block of I-35 Sunday.
According to Gainesville Police Department Public Information Ofﬁcer Belva McClinton, a Chevrolet Tahoe was traveling southbound on
the I-35 Frontage Road and attempted to take the entrance to southbound I-35 when it was hit head-on by a Nissan Altima that failed to
yield the right-of-way.
McClinton said that there were a total of seven passengers in both
cars – one was dead at the scene and four were air lifted to Metroplex
hospitals.
Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Jason Brinkley said that Jesus Lopez
Ramirez, 57, of New Home, Texas died at the scene and was transported
to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Oﬃcer for an autopsy. He was
the driver of the Altima.
McClinton reported Monday that another passenger Altima, a 33-yearold male, was air lifted to the Medical Center of Plano, where he died
from his injuries. His name was not released at press time awaiting notiﬁcation of family.
The Altima had four occupants and the Tahoe had three.
The accident happened at approximately 2 p.m. Sunday.
or Emily “Spicybrown” Sanchez,
Grn.
United States Representatives,
District 13 – Mac Thornberry,
Rep.; Mike Minter, Dem.; Emily
Pivoda, Lib.; or Don Cook, Grn.
State
Texas Governor – Greg Abbott,
Rep.; Wendy R. Davis, Dem.;
Kathie Glass, Lib.; or Brandon
Parmer, Grn.
Lieutenant Governor – Dan
Patrick, Rep.; Leticia Van de Putte,
Dem.; Robert D. Butler, Lib.; or
Chandrakantha Courtney, Grn.
Attorney General – Ken Paxton,
Rep.; Sam Houston, Dem.; Jamie
Balagia, Lib.; or Jamar Osborne,
Grn.
Comptroller of Public Accounts
– Glenn Hegar, Rep.; Mike Collier, Dem.; Ben Sanders, Lib.; or
Deb Shafto, Grn.
Commissioner of the General
Land Oﬃce – George P. Bush,
Rep.; John Cook, Dem.; Justin
Knight, Lib.; or Valerie Alessi,
Grn.
Commissioner of Agriculture
– Sid Miller, Rep.; Jim Hogan,
Dem.; David “Rocky” Palmquist,
Lib.; or Kenneth Kendrick, Grn.
Railroad Commissioner – Ryan
Sitton, Rep.; Steve Brown, Dem.;
Mark A. Miller, Lib.; or Martina
Salinas, Grn.
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court – Nathan Hecht, Rep.; William Moody, Dem.; or Tom Oxford, Lib.
Justice of the Supreme Court
Place 6 (unexpired term) – Jeﬀ
Brown, Rep.; Lawrence Edward
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Gainesville man dies
in one-vehicle accident
GAINESVILLE – Raul Esparza, 23, of Gainesville died Oct. 7 in a latenight one-car accident at the intersection of North Taylor Street and
Scott Street in Gainesville.
According to Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Jason Brinkley, Esparza
was driving a GMC pickup when he lost control of his vehicle and his a
power pole.
Brinkley said that his truck severed the pole from the ground and then
landed on the passenger side several yards away.
Esparza was killed on impact.
Brinkley said that his body was transported to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Oﬃce for an autopsy.
Pink Out Night at Gainesville
High School as part of Breast
Cancer Awareness Month is set
for Oct. 24 at GHS.
The public is invited to attend
the GHS Lady Leopard volleyball game at 5 p.m. and the GHS
Leopard football game at 7:30
p.m. Oct. 24 and everyone is encouraged to wear pink.
Pink Out T-shirts are available
at a cost of $10 and $12 for sizes
2-XL and larger. Proceeds will be
given to the Cooke County Relay
For Life and the Jim and Joanie
Hatcher Charitable Foundation.
The T-shirts are available in
black or pink and in sizes ranging from Youth Small to 4-XL. Tshirt orders will be accepted until
Wednesday (Oct.15). A T-shirt
order form is available at www.
gainesvilleisd.org and click on
the link.
The event is sponsored by the
Gainesville Athletic Booster Club.
For more information, call Rae
Ann Gerken at 940.634.2048 or
email to jrgerken53@sbcglobal.
net or email Mari Copeland at
mcopeland@gainesvilleisd.org.
The Booster Club also is organizing a victory line for the football players to run through Oct.
24 at the start of the game. Organizers hope the victory line will
be ﬁlled with cancer survivors
from the community.
One way you can help families coping with Hypothalamic
Hamartomas (HH) is plan to eat
a Fuzzy’s Taco Shop from 5 to 9
p.m. Oct. 22 in Gainesville.
Fuzzy’s will donate a portion of
the proceeds from the evening’s
sales to the non-proﬁt Hope for
HH.
Those participating will join
the muddy team of M-o-o-ving
Thru’ The Mud With Landon to
help raise awareness and funds
for Hope for HH.
The 2014 Share the Warmth
Coat Drive will continue to Nov.
7 with donation drop oﬀs at
Knight Furniture in Gainesville
and Sherman.
The annual drive is sponsored
by 93.1 KMKT, Mad Rock
102.5, 97.5 KLAK, Texas Laundry & Dry Cleaning, Texoma
Council of Governments and
KXII News and presented by
Vyve Broadband.
Donations of new or gently
used coats for kids of all ages,
teenagers and adults are being accepted. The coats will be cleaned
and distributed to area agencies,
including Cooke County Boys
& Girls Clubs, Abigail’s Arms,
North Texas Youth Connection
and the Salvation Army of Grayson County.
Last year’s drive collected more
than 2,500 coats that were presented to thousands of kids and
adults in need throughout North
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October 15, 2014
Federal judge strikes down
Texas Voter ID law Oct. 9
Decision’s impact on early voting Monday not known at press time
By Keith G. King
The Weekly News
COOKE COUNTY –
Texas voters may not be
required to present photo
identiﬁcation to vote in
the Nov. 4 election after
U.S. District Court Judge
Nelva Gonzales Ramos
struck down the Texas law
late Oct. 9.
Gonzales Ramos said
that the requirement for
all voters to show photo
identiﬁcation before cast-
ing a ballot amounted to a
“poll tax” designed to suppress voter turnout among
minorities.
Gonzales Ramos wrote in
the opinion that “There has
been a clear and disturbing
pattern of discrimination
in the name of combating
voter fraud in Texas.” Gonzales Ramos added that
Texas has not demonstrated that this type of fraud
was widespread.
Gonzales Ramos said
that the evidence showed
the proponents of the law
“were motivated, at the
very least in part, because
of and not merely in spite
of the voter ID law’s detrimental eﬀects on the
African-American and Hispanic electorate.”
The timing could spare
an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters from providing one of
the seven types of accepted
photo identiﬁcation forms
to cast a ballot.
Texas Attorney General
Early voting for Nov. 4
election starts Monday
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Meyers, Dem.; or Mark
Ash, Lib.
Justice of the Supreme
Court Place 7 – Jeﬀ Boyd,
Rep.; Gina Benavides,
Dem.; Don Fulton, Lib.; or
Charles Waterbury, Grn.
Justice of the Supreme
Court Place 8 – Phil Johnson, Rep.; R.S. Roberto
Koelsch, Lib.; or Jim Chisolm, Grn.
Judge of the Court of
Criminal Appeals Place 3
– Bert Richardson, Rep.;
John Granberg, Dem.; or
Mark W. Bennett, Lib.
Judge of the Court of
Criminal Appeals Place 4 –
Kevin Patrick Yeary, Rep.;
Quanah Parker, Lib.; or Judith Sanders-Castro, Grn.
Judge of the Court of
Criminal Appeals Place
9 – David Newell, Rep.;
William Bryan Strange,
III, Lib.; or George Joseph
Altgelt, Grn.
State Senator District
30 – Craig Estes, Rep.; or
Cory Lane, Lib.
State Representative District 68 – Drew Springer,
Rep.
Justice of the Second
Court of Appeals District
Place 2 – Bill Meier, Rep.
Justice of the Second
Court of Appeals District
Place 7 – Lee Gabriel,
Rep.
County
Cooke County Judge –
Jason Brinkley, Rep.
Cooke County Court at
Law Judge – John H. Morris, Rep.
Cooke County District
Clerk – Susan Hughes,
Rep.
Cooke County Clerk –
Rebecca Lawson, Rep.
Cooke County Treasurer
– Patty Brennan, Rep.
Cooke County Surveyor
– Write-in, no declared
Greg Abbott said Friday
that his oﬃce would appeal
the decision by the Corpus
Christ Federal Judge.
And with early voting
set to begin Monday, the
Texas law was handed another setback last week as
the United State Supreme
Court set aside a Wisconsin voter ID law.
A 6-3 decision on the
emergency order for the
Wisconsin case was amidst
the objections of the high
court’s three biggest conservatives – Samuel Alito,
Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
According to Cooke
County Tax Assessor Collector Billy Jean Knight, as
of press time no word had
been received from the Texas Secretary of State’s oﬃce
about how to proceed with
the early voting that starts
Monday.
Knight suggests that
Cooke County voters take
their voter registration card
that is orange and white
and a photo identiﬁcation
in the event that a deci-
sion has not been made by
then.
For more information,
contact Knight’s oﬃce at
940.668.5452.
The Weekly News will
continue to bring you upto-date developments as
they happen.
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candidate.
Precinct 2 Commissioner – B.C. Lemons, Rep.
Precinct 4 Commissioners – Leon Klement, Rep.
Precinct 1 Justice of the
Peace – Dorthy Lewis,
Rep.
Precinct 4 Justice of the
Peace – Carroll L. Johnson,
Rep.
Write-In
The declared write-in
candidate for the oﬃce of
Cooke County Surveyor is
Delbert West.
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Area obituaries
David
Raymond Bass
Services
David Raymond Bass,
69, of The Colony died
Oct. 6 at his residence.
A Memorial Service was
held Oct. 9 at the MeadorClement-Keel Chapel with
the Rev. Larry Eberhart
oﬃciating. Arrangements
were under the direction of
the Meador-Clement-Keel
Funeral Home of Gainesville.
History
David Raymond Bass
was born Dec. 16, 1944
in Frederick, Okla., to
E.M. and Bea Taylor Bass.
He married Patrice Roake
March 2, 1985 in GainesCallisburg United
Methodist Church
We invite you to attend
Sunday school at 10 am and
worship at 11 each Sunday
morning. We are located
northeast of Gainesville in a
quaint, quiet and beautiful
setting. Just minutes from
anywhere in Gainesville, it
is well worth the drive to
visit with us and experience
God’s presence in the lives
and talents of this loving
and dynamic congregation.
We are located at 123 Oscar
Cole Street. For additional
information, please call the
pastor at 903-819-2776 or
just plan on stopping by to
join us this Sunday.
ville.
David Raymond Bass
was a veteran of the United
States Navy. He was employed by Bell Helicopter
as a fabricator.
Survivors
David Raymond Bass is
survived by his wife, Patrice Bass of The Colony;
daughter and son-in-law,
Jennifer and Mitch Eberhart of Haslet; son and
daughter-in-law, Kendall
and Tasha Bass of Gainesville; son, Brian Bass of
Dalhart; sister and brother-in-law, Bunny and Jim
Angus of Daphne; grandchildren, Shelby, Chelsea,
Harley, Jesse, Claudia, Jayton, Cole, Ayden, Izzy and
Keleigh; and sister-in-law
and spouse, Pam and Steve
Emschoﬀ of Collinsville.
He was preceded in
death by his parents, E.M.
and Bea Bass.
Flora Delores
Mitchell Smith
Services
Flora Delores Mitchell
Smith, 93, of Georgetown
died Sept. 19 in Georgetown.
A graveside service was
held Oct. 13 at Fairview
Cemetery in Gainesville
with her great-nephew Pas-
tor Jay Gibson oﬃciating.
Arrangements were under
the direction of the Geo.
J. Carroll & Son Funeral
Home of Gainesville.
History
Flora Delores Mitchell
Smith was born Aug. 25,
1921 in Gainesville to Walter and Icisphene Mitchell. She married Frank C.
Smith, Jr., April 3, 1945 in
Gainesville.
Together they were active
in many Gainesville community activities. She was
a member of the First Baptist Church in Georgetown
and a past Worthy Matron
of the Order of the Eastern
Star. During the years she
lived in Georgetown, she
formed many close friendships.
She began her adult
work as a nurse for Dr.
Herbert Locke and then
for Dr. William F. Powell. After moving to Garland in 1966, she began
a career at Preston State
Bank. In 1995 she moved
to Georgetown to be near
her family and worked for
Sun City Texas and Scott
& White Pharmacy.
Survivors
Flora Delores Mitchell
Smith is survived by her
daughter and son-in-law,
Peggy and Mike Miller; grandchildren, John
“Chris,” James “Brad,” and
Jacob “Andy;” ﬁve greatgrandchildren; nieces and
nephews, Kay, Mara, June,
Lynda, Delores, Terri,
Gary and Jimmy; and several great-nieces and great-
nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Frank C. Smith; parents;
siblings, Melvin Mitchell,
Freeman Mitchell, J.D.
Mitchell, Novella Bewley
and Velma Prestige; and
niece, Nita Faye Bewley
Stigler.
Julie
Anna Hacker
Services
Julie Anna Hacker, 45,
of Muenster died Oct. 7.
Mass of Christian Burial
was held Oct. 11 at Sacred
Heart Catholic Church
with the Rev. Ken Robinson celebrating. Burial was
in Sacred Heart Cemetery.
Arrangements were under
the direction of the Scott
Funeral Home of Muenster.
History
Julie Anna Hacker was a
1987 graduate of Muenster
High School and earned a
drafting degree from North
Central Texas College in
1989.
She lived with her husband Jean in her childhood
home north of Muenster.
She was the caregiver for
her mother, Florence until
her death in 2010.
She was employed by Peterbilt Motors of Denton
for more than 15 years.
She held many gatherings in her home and
enjoyed being outdoors,
riding the countryside
looking for deer, ﬁshing,
camping at the lake and
taking long walks. She was
an avid sports fan of the
Texas Rangers and Dallas
Cowboys.
Survivors
Julie Anna Hacker is survived by her husband, Jean
Holder of Muenster; brothers and sisters-in-law, Kevin and Glenda Hacker of
Ponder, Patrick and Kathy
Hacker of Gainesville and
Allin and Karen Hacker
of Gainesville; daughter
and son-in-law, Jessica and
Cody Rico of Muenster;
son, Christopher Holder of
Mississippi; grandson, Kyler Rico of Muenster; and
several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her parents, Paul
William and Florence
Heddy Hacker; and nephew, Kasey Hacker.
Donations
Contributions may be
made to The Make A Wish
Foundation.
Martha
Ellen Diskin
Services
Martha Ellen Diskin, 69,
of Gainesville died Oct. 9
at her residence surrounded by her loved ones.
Services were held Oct.
13 at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church.
Arrangements
were under the direction of
the Geo. J. Carroll & Son
Funeral Home of Gainesville.
History
Martha Ellen Diskin was
born March 9, 1945 in
Springﬁeld, Mo., to Bob
and Laura Hughes.
She graduated from
Texas Woman’s University
in 1995 and worked as an
occupational therapist in
Sherman for 10 years.
Survivors
Martha Ellen Diskin is
survived by her husband,
Tom of Gainesville; brothers and sisters-in-law, Jim
and Jan Hughes of Colorado Springs and Byron
and Debbie Hughes of
Colorado Springs; sister,
Jolene Anderson of Emporia, Kan.; daughters and
sons-in-law, Christine and
Terry Qualls of McKinney
and Laura and Todd Caskey of Honolulu, Hawaii;
daughter, Patricia Diskin
of Gainesville; grandchildren and spouses, Kara and
Michael Brittain, Todd and
Kelly Caskey and Alexandria Qualls; and several
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her mother, Laura
Ann Everly Hughes; father,
Bob Hughes; and sister,
Myra Hale.
Donations
Contributions
may
be made to Home Hospice of Grayson County,
Cooke County and Fannin
County; the Lung Cancer
Research Foundation; or
to St. Mary’s Restoration
Fund.
Texas Workforce Commission announced
the Veteran and Industry Partnership (VIP)
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AUSTIN – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)
announced last week the
launch of the Veteran and
Industry Partnership (VIP),
an initiative to create jobs
for veterans and supply a
skilled and ready workforce
for the state’s most highdemand industries: petrochemical, advanced manufacturing and information
technology.
TWC has designated $4.3
million from the state’s Skills
Development Fund to establish the initiative, which
brings together industry associations, local Workforce
Solutions partners and community colleges to develop
training in key industry occupations for veterans.
“VIP recognizes the exceptional skills that veterans
bring to the workforce and
strives to connect them with
jobs in expanding industries,” TWC Chairman Andres Alcantar said. “We are
proud to partner with these
community colleges and
Texas employers to train and
place our heroes in high-demand occupations.”
Local workforce development boards have partnered
with industry leaders and 17
colleges throughout Texas to
identify high-demand workforce needs in local areas and
develop expedited training
programs for veterans as part
of the VIP initiative. Shortterm certiﬁcate attainment
and
industry-recognized
credentials will be included
in all three industry training
initiatives.
“The training developed
by VIP will give veterans
credit for their years of
training and experience in
the military, and emphasize
the need for immediate job
placement after completion,” TWC Commissioner
Representing Labor Ronny
Congleton said.
Among the beneﬁts of hiring veterans, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit allows
employers to receive up to a
$9,600 tax credit on federal
business income or payroll
tax beneﬁts when they hire
a qualifying veteran.
All eligible U.S. veterans
will have the opportunity
to participate in VIP. Funds
have been allocated to eligible colleges on a regional basis, based on veteran population and available industry
jobs.
“The Texas Chemical
Council is proud to collaborate with TWC and our
workforce and education
partners to help develop curricula to meet the workforce
needs of Texas’ petrochemical employers and help our
returning veterans transitioning into civilian life,”
Texas Chemical Council
President and CEO Hector
Rivero said.
The Veterans and Industry
Partnership Petrochemical
Industry initiative will train
veterans for high-demand
occupations in the petrochemical industry. Colleges
participating in this program include: Alvin Community College in Alvin,
Del Mar College in Corpus
Christi, Lee College in Baytown, Lone Star College in
Houston, Houston Community College in Houston,
San Jacinto College in Pasadena and Victoria College in
Victoria.
“Texas’ growing manufacturing industry is the
perfect place for many Texas
military veterans to launch
their civilian careers,” Texas
Association of Manufacturers President Tony Bennett
said.
The Veterans and Industry Partnership Advanced
Manufacturing
Industry
initiative will train veterans
for high-demand occupations in the fabrication industry. Colleges participating in this program include:
Alamo Colleges in San
Antonio, Collin College in
Plano, Dallas County Community College District in
Dallas, Navarro College in
Corsicana, North Central
Texas College in Gainesville
and Tarrant County Community College District in
Fort Worth.
The Veteran and Industry Partnership Information Technology initiative
will train veterans in highdemand occupations in
the computing industry.
Colleges participating in
this program include: Austin Community College
in Austin, Central Texas
College in Killeen, El Paso
Community College in El
Paso and Temple College in
Temple.
For more information on
this program, visit www.texasworkforce.org/skills, and
for information about workforce programs visit www.
texasworkforce.org/veterans.
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October 15, 2014
Opinions
Mark Shields
Truly right from the start
By Mark Shields
In September 2002, before
the Bush administration
got its green light from
a supine Congress and a
full six months before the
United States would actually invade Iraq, he wrote
in The Washington Post,
confronting directly the
“neoconservatives that began beating the war drums
on Iraq before the dust had
even settled on the World
Trade Center” and wisely
warning that “the issue before us is not simply whether the United States should
end the regime of Saddam
Hussein, but whether we
as a nation are prepared to
physically occupy territory
in the Middle East for the
next 30 to 50 years.” The
former Marine – who in
Vietnam combat earned the
Navy Cross, a Silver Star,
two Bronze Stars and two
Purple Hearts and to this
day carries shrapnel in one
kidney and at the base of
his skull – warned his readers: “In Japan, American
occupation forces quickly
became 50,000 friends. In
Iraq, they would quickly
become 50,000 terrorist
targets.”
That is what Jim Webb
– who had been, under
President Ronald Reagan,
the ﬁrst Naval Academy
graduate to serve as secretary of the Navy and who
would win election, as an
anti-war Democrat, to the
U.S. Senate from Virginia
and along the way author
10 books – prophetically
wrote more than 12 years
ago.
Two decades earlier, as a
journalist for PBS’ “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,”
he had won an Emmy for
his October 1983 coverage of a Marine platoon
in Lebanon. The platoon’s
mission was unclear, but
it was clearly dangerous.
(This was just one month
before the Beirut barracks
bombing by terrorists,
which killed 220 Marines.)
This is how Webb closed
his report: “These men are
trusting their very lives to
the wisdom of our leaders.
Our government’s obligation to them, which was
too frequently betrayed
in Vietnam, is to proceed
with a clarity of purpose
that matches their own
trust and commitment.”
Webb once recalled being
in Lebanon with “a Marine
outpost where the platoon
was taking ﬁre from a Druze outpost because there
was a Lebanese army position co-located with the
Marines.” He continued:
“And then some unknown
militia started joining in
just because it was Beirut.
Then the Syrians came up
over one ridge and were
ﬁring 25 millimeters down
into it. And a young Marine turned around to me
and said, ‘Sir, never get
involved in a ﬁve-sided
argument.’” Webb added:
“a ﬁve-sided argument
that has been going on for
2,000 years.” What that
young Marine said in 1983
is as true today as it was
then.
Webb is thinking about
another ﬁght with long
odds, seeking the 2016
Democratic presidential
nomination. He has none
of Hillary Clinton’s enormous strengths – sky-high
poll numbers, important
endorsements, deep ﬁnancial support and a historymaking gender story. Webb
is anything but a natural
candidate. He can inspire
loyalty and admiration but
little excitement. He is not
good at the grip-and-grin
or the personal chitchat
of working a room full of
strangers. Webb is an economic populist who has
taken on Wall Street and
has been lousy at raising
money. To call him a dark
horse may be an overstatement.
But make no mistake
about it: On the central
foreign policy and national
security decisions our coun-
try has confronted over the
past 31 years, nobody in
public life – nobody – has
been so thoughtful, so fearless or so right as Jim Webb.
And if, by the fall of 2015,
the Middle East has, sadly,
turned into another costly,
deadly and divisive quagmire for the United States,
would some Democrats in
Iowa be ready to support a
genuine combat hero who
has had the wisdom and
the guts to oppose war?
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Mark Shields and read his
past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page
at www.creators.com.
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Can America ﬁght a
thirty years’ war?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“The power to declare war,
including the power of
judging the causes of war,
is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.”
With this citation from
Madison, Cong. Walter
Jones is calling for a debate
and decision on whether
America should go to war
in Syria and Iraq, when
Congress reconvenes after
Nov. 4.
Last week’s events make
Jones’ request a national
imperative.
For former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says we
are heading into a “30-year
war” against the Islamic
State and the emerging
threats in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.
He faults Obama for not
bombing Syria when Assad
crossed his “red line” and
used chemical weapons.
U.S. credibility was damaged, says Panetta. “There’s
a little question mark to, is
the United States going to
stick this out?” This new
war is the opportunity “to
repair the damage.”
Yet consider the man
Panetta wants to lead the
United States into a war to
restore America’s credibility.
The president’s “most
conspicuous weakness” is
“a frustrating reticence to
engage his opponents and
rally support for his cause,”
says Panetta. Too often, he
“relies on the logic of a law
professor rather than the
passion of a leader.” He
“avoids the battle, complains, and misses opportunities.”
But with Hamlet as your
commander in chief, why
would you start a war?
And consider our allies in
this new war.
Joe Biden has been forced
to apologize to Turkey and
the United Arab Emirates
for saying at Harvard that
both had been providing
huge infusions of money
and weapons to the ISIS
terrorists who have beheaded Americans.
But what was Joe guilty
of, other than blurting out
the truth?
The terrorists of ISIS are
today closing in on the Syrian-Kurdish city of Kobani
on the Turkish border, having overrun scores of villages. A hundred thousand
Syrian Kurds have ﬂed into
Turkey.
Yet though ISIS warriors
are visible right across the
border, and Turkey has
the second largest army in
NATO, with 3,500 tanks
and 1,000 aircraft, the
Turks are sitting on their
hands, awaiting what may
be a massacre.
Why? David Stockman
quotes Turkish President
Erdogan this weekend: “For
us, ISIL and the (Kurdish)
PKK are the same.”
Erdogan is saying a plague
on both their houses. To Istanbul, the PKK are terrorists, as are the ISIS ﬁghters
the PKK is trying to keep
from overrunning Kobani.
The United States, too,
designates both the Islamic
State and the PKK as terrorist organizations.
Which terrorist organization do we want to win this
battle?
Who do we want to win
the war between ISIS and
the al-Qaida-linked alNusra front on one side,
and Assad’s regime, which
Obama and John Kerry
wanted to bomb in August
of 2013?
Whose side are we on in
Lebanon?
This weekend, al-Qaida’s
Syrian wing, Jabhat alNusra, lost 16 jihadists in
an incursion into the Bekaa Valley. Who defended
Lebanon and fought the
terrorist intruders?
Hezbollah, which we
have declared a terrorist organization.
Whose side are we on in
the Hezbollah vs. al-Qaida
war?
In Yemen last week, alQaida in the Arabian Peninsula, whom the United
States has been attacking
for years, sent a suicide
bomber in an explosivesladen car into a hospital
used by Houthi rebels, who
have taken over the capital
of Sanaa.
Are the Houthis America’s allies?
Probably not, as they
have plastered Sanaa with
their slogans, “Death to
America, death to Israel, a
curse on the Jews, and victory to Islam.”
The Houthis ﬁghting
al-Qaida, like Hezbollah
ﬁghting al-Qaida, are Shia,
supported by Iran, which
is on our side against ISIS
in Syria and on our side
against the Islamic State in
Iraq.
But to Bibi Netanyahu,
speaking at the U.N. last
week, Iran is the great enemy: “[T]o defeat ISIS and
leave Iran as a threshold
nuclear power would be to
win the battle and lose the
war.”
Hence, the neocon war
drums have begun to beat
for U.S. strikes on Iran
if negotiations on Iran’s
nuclear program conclude
Nov. 24, with no deal satisfactory to the United
States.
But no matter how olfactory its regime, why start a
war with an Iran that is a
de facto, and perhaps indispensable, ally in preventing
ISIS from establishing its
caliphate in Damascus and
Baghdad?
Since 1980, writes Andrew Bacevich, the United
States has invaded, occupied or bombed 14 nations
in the Greater Middle East
Current U.S. Debt
$17,868,425,594,890.37
Debt
watch
The estimated population of the United States is 319,201,368
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $55,978.54. The National
Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.43 billion per
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– Iran, Libya, Lebanon,
Kuwait, Iraq, Somalia,
Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo,
Yemen, Pakistan and now
Syria.
The cost: Tens of thousands of U.S. dead and
wounded, trillions of dollars lost, hundreds of thousands of Muslim dead and
wounded, millions of refugees, Christians foremost
among them. And for
what?
Are we better oﬀ now
than we were 30 years ago,
with the Middle East today
on ﬁre with civil, sectarian,
tribal and terrorist wars?
Congress should vote no
on any new Thirty Years’
War.
Privately, Barack Obama
would probably be grateful.
Patrick J. Buchanan is
the author of the new book
“The Greatest Comeback:
How Richard Nixon Rose
From Defeat to Create the
New Majority.” To ﬁnd out
more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by
other Creators writers and
cartoonists, visit the Creators Web page at www.
creators.com.
Copyright 2014 Creators.
Com
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Gainesville approves GEDC’s
sale of land at California, I-35
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By Keith G. King
The Weekly News
GAINESVILLE – The
Gainesville City Council unanimously approved
the sale of land owned by
Gainesville Economic Development
Corporation
(GEDC) during the Oct. 7
meeting.
The council authorized the
GEDC Board of Directors
to enter into a contract to
sell the property at I-35 and
West California Street, formerly known as the Gainesville water shop property, to
Rib Crib for $900,000.
The contract will stipulate
that Rib Crib can develop
the property with up to
three restaurants.
The property extends from
West California Street to the
current Chili’s Restaurant
on the I-35 Frontage Road.
According to Gainesville
City Manager Barry Sullivan, the land can only be
used for restaurants.
Council members voted
7-0 to approve an ordinance
to designate one-way traﬃc
only for the 300 and 400
block of Red River Street
with the traﬃc ﬂow to the
north to aid with the trafﬁc ﬂow around the planned
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cooke
County in the 400 block of
North Denton Street.
The city staﬀ and the
Gainesville Police Department recommended the
change to beneﬁt the drop
of and pick up of children at
the new facility and for the
residents of the area.
The council also approved
a change in the speed limit
on FM 1202 that is inside
the Gainesville city limits.
The change, recommended
by the Texas Department of
Transportation, will change
the speed limit to 55 milesper-hour from mile post
Star of North Texas Award – Gainesville Mayor Jim Goldsworthy, right, presents
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son, Greg Hart who worked with Brad Meeks to successfully organize the first “History Alive Weekend” in Gainesville that was held in September.
(The Weekly News Photo)
2.182 to mile post 2.426
and then from 40 miles-perhour from mile post 2.426
to mile post 2.843.
Council members unanimously approved a request
of SES Holdings, LLC/B-29
Properties, LLC for partial
assignment of the existing
tax abatement agreement
because of the re-assignment
of the property from Mesa
Real Estate Partners to ARC,
LLC.
Sullivan said that the reassignment of the abatement
does not extend the time or
change the agreement and
that the original agreement
included transferability.
The property is located
in Reinvestment Zone 15
and entities involved in the
abatement are Gainesville,
North Central Texas College, North Texas Medical
Center and Cooke County.
The council approved an
agreement with the Cooke
County District Attorney’s
Oﬃce for the disposition of
Gainesville Police Department asset seizures and forfeiture items.
The previous agreement
gave 40 percent of the forfeiture items to the county
and 60 percent to the city.
The approved agreement
will be 30 percent of the forfeiture items to the county
and 70 percent to the city.
And seized automobiles will
be a ﬂat rate of $300 to the
county and the remainder to
the city.
Gainesville Mayor Jim
Goldsworthy presented the
Star of North Texas award to
Brad Meeks and Greg Hart
for their eﬀorts to organize the ﬁrst “History Alive
Weekend” in Gainesville
that was held in September.
Meeks and Hart also have
created a local Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) chapter based
in Gainesville.
Goldsworthy presented
a certiﬁcate and a Star of
North Texas medallion to
Meeks and Greg Hart’s father, David Hart who was
present to accept the award.
No action was taken
about items discussed in an
executive session that lasted
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United Way campaign
Blitz Days set in October
COOKE COUNTY – The
Cooke County United
Way will hold Blitz Days in
Gainesville, Muenster and
Valley View during October.
The Muenster Blitz Day
will be from 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 16)
and will be headquartered in
front of the Muenster State
Bank. The bank will oﬀer
free hotdogs.
The Valley View Blitz
Day will begin at 3 p.m.
Oct. 23 on the town square.
At 5 p.m., the Valley View
Chamber of Commerce will
hold a mixer and the public
is invited.
The Gainesville Blitz Day
will be Oct. 24 and will be
headquartered at the United
Way oﬃce at Main Street
and Rusk Street. Prosperity
Bank will oﬀer free hot dogs
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
across Main Street from the
United Way oﬃce.
The goal of the Blitz Days
is to wrap up the remaining uncollected pledges and
contributions for the 2015
campaign that will end in
November.
Businesses are asked to
have their campaign envelope ready and join in the
spirit of community. Donations also can be made by
stopping by one of the Blitz
Day headquarters.
“There’s a lot that the
community doesn’t know
or understand about United
Way,” Executive Director
Angie Hare said. “Our voice
needs to be clear. We are a
strong community partner.
We are the only one common goal that can be shared
by everyone in this community working for the overall
good of Cooke County.”
“The 2015 campaign goal
has been set at $435,000,”
Cooke County United Way
President Dr. Billy Roessler
said. “This is the largest goal
ever established. We have
re-structured our funding
program. United Way is
now focusing on three key
areas – Health, improving
people’s health; Education,
helping others achieve their
potential; and Income, promoting ﬁnancial stability
and independence.
“We have also initiated
a new Community Impact
program which we feel will
better address the needs and
provide better guidelines for
Cooke County United Way,”
Roessler said. “Reaching the
campaign goal will address
the ﬁnancial obligations
made by United Way to our
partner agencies. But now
funds coming in above and
beyond the campaign goal
will now go into a Community Impact Pool and allow
United Way to expand its
reach into the community.
… The more we go over the
goal, the more we will be
able to do.”
“This campaign year celebrates our 60th anniversary,”
United Way Vice President
and allocations chair John
Walterscheid said. “Sixty
years trusted in the community and 60 years experienced success. All without
any grants, state or federal
help, Cooke County United
Way is 100 percent dependent on the contributions
from the generous people of
this community.
“… The new Community
Impact Program will allow
us to focus more on looking
and identifying the needs
and how United Way can invest funds to create positive
change,” Walterscheid said.
“Another area of focus will
help us in identifying gaps
in service, unmet needs and
undeserved needs. Wouldn’t
it be great if we could someday do away with some of
the organizations?
“We have to ﬁnd the root
of the issue and ﬁnd a way to
change the outcome,” Walterscheid said. “Of course,
we always want to see the organizations thrive that promote our youth such as the
Muenster Youth County and
the Cooke County Youth
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Boys & Girls Club or Camp
Sweeney, respond to crisis
as Red Cross and be able to
help people in need of senior services and services for
the handicap.”
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– Approved monthly bills,
payroll and related expenses.
– Approved a donation of
$20.95 to the Cooke County Library from anonymous
donors.
– Approved Sheriﬀ’s Ofﬁce bonds for J. Beck and B.
Williams.
– Approved an indigent
cremation.
– Approved cell phone allowance for Deputies Jeﬀery
Lambert, Michael Krebs and
Justin Patterson.
– Approved cell phone allowance for IT Technician
Deeann Black.
– Approved the salvage
of a non-working time-date
stamp machine from the
Sheriﬀ’s Oﬃce.
– Approved the agreement
between Cooke County
EMS and Southern Oklahoma Technology Center for
student clinical experience.
– Approved the maintenance agreement between
Cooke County and Otis
Elevator for maintenance
on courthouse elevator beginning Nov. 1 to Oct. 30,
2015 with four optional
one-year renewals.
– Approved the salvage
of nine non-working digital
cameras, two non-working
digital tape recorders, ﬁve
non-working radio chargers
and one non-working hand
held radio from the Sheriﬀ’s
Oﬃce.
– Approved accepting the
CoServ Charitable Foundation Grant to the Sheriﬀ’s
Oﬃce of $11,612 to buy
bullet proof vests.
– Approved the cancela-
coverage for election workers and jurors by a 4-1 vote.
The coverage will cost an
additional $300 per year to
include the election workers
and jurors.
Precinct 1 Commissioner Gary Hollowell voted
against the addition to the
coverage, saying that the
election workers and jurors
are already covered under
the county’s general liability
coverage.
Cooke County EMS Director Kevin Grant provided
commissioners with the bids
received for a new billing
vendor for the EMS.
Grant
recommended
Emergicon of Dallas as the
vendor who received the
most points in the bidding
process.
Commissioners approved
Emergicon by a 5-0 vote.
Commissioners approved
the Cooke County Treasurer’s report. Included
the report was the aﬃdavit stating the county had
$26,200,491.74 cash on
hand and investments.
The Commissioners Court
unanimously approved two
proclamations during the
meeting.
Commissioners
proclaimed Oct. 12 to Oct. 18
as Texas Extension Education Week and also as Order
of the Eastern Star Week.
Commissioners approved
the following consent items
by a 5-0 vote.
– Approved ﬁscal year
2014 and 2015 budget
amendments.
tion of the maintenance
agreement between Cooke
County and Eastman Park
Micrographics, Inc., for
maintenance of the microﬁche in the District Clerk’s
Oﬃce.
– Approved accepting
an insurance settlement of
$2,935 on 2013 Chevrolet
Tahoe from the Sheriﬀ’s Ofﬁce that was damaged.
– Approved renewal of vehicle liability, vehicle physical damage coverage and
general liability coverage
through the Texas Association of Counties.
– Approved the service
agreement between EMS
and Physio Control for service support on Lucas Monitors beginning Nov. 1 and
ending Oct. 31, 2015.
– Received and ﬁled for
record the executed ﬁscal
year 2014 audit engagement
letters for CSCD and Juvenile Probation with Pattillo,
Brown and Hill.
– Approved the salvage
of a non-working shredder
from the Sheriﬀ’s Oﬃce.
– Received and ﬁled for
record the quarterly internal
audit of the District Attorney’s Oﬃce and Precinct 4
Constable.
– Approved contracts
with Woodbine Water Supply for the installation of a
waterline on CR 2115 and
CR 217.
– Approved a contract
with Mountain Springs Water Supply for the installation of a waterline on CR
265 and CR 232.
– Approved a contract
with Targa Intrastate Pipe-
line, LLC, for the installation of a gas pipeline on CR
362.
– Approved a court payment card processing participation agreement with
Tyler Technologies for the
County Clerk’s Oﬃce and
the District Clerk’s Oﬃce.
– Approved accepting a
donation of $5,532.85 to
the Cooke County Library
from the John and Sandy
Schmitz family for the library’s “1, 2, 3 the Story is
Coming to Me” literacy outreach initiative.
– Approved appointing
Katherine Paxton and Laura Gilbreath to the Cooke
County Child Welfare
Board.
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GAINESVILLE – A new
CodeRED Mobile Alert
app will allow the City of
Gainesville to provide public safety alerts to mobile
phone users.
The app is a free download
for iPhone and Android users and will allow city and
county residents, as well as
those traveling through the
area to receive community
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to help inform the community and visitors about
important information that
my impact their safety.
“The app works similarly
to our current CodeRED
system,” Sieger said. “If you
have the app downloaded
and are in the aﬀected area
of the alert, a notiﬁcation
will be sent through the app
to alert you of the issue.”
Residents who have enrolled for the CodeRED system will continue to receive
voice calls, text messages and
emails.
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Quick Draw Contest – These gunslingers compete
to see who can hit the mark during the annual Depot
Day festival in downtown Gainesville Saturday. The
annual event featured an antique car show, several
Marriage license requests received
GAINESVILLE – The following marriage license applications were received by
the Cooke County Clerk’s
Oﬃce.
Mark C. Floerke, 53,
Gainesville and Cinda L.
Kinyon, 54, Gainesville.
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David C. Smith, 44,
Norman, Okla., and Tammy R. Ramsey, 45, Norman, Okla.
Christopher C. Nguyen,
20, Gainesville and Brianna
R. James, 21, Gainesville.
Charles W. Woolverton, 31, Gainesville and
Victoria D. Johnson, 32,
Gainesville.
Gregory J. Pace, 39,
Ringling, Okla., and
Stephanie L. Butler, 41,
Ringling, Okla.
Quinton R. Rosson, 22,
Gainesville and Brittany
D. Pierce, 22, Gainesville.
Tommy L. Spence, 60,
Kingston, Okla., and Patricia J. Moore, 62, Sadler.
Eric S. Schlee, 30, Hennepin, Ill., and Kathryn A.
Russell, 31, Grayslake, Ill.
Wilmer M. Hernandez
Aquino, 36, Red Oak and
Isabel M. Bustamante, 34,
Nocona.
Benjamin M. Hatton,
29, Collinsville and Kristin
M. Molsbee, 31, Collinsville.
Wesley O. Fanning, 38,
Valley View and Cayla R.
Smothermon, 23, Valley
View.
Juan J. Perez Carranza,
21, Gainesville and Juanita
Huerta Saenz, 20, Gainesville.
Adrian Martin Delgadillo, 21, Gainesville and Zuri
F. Molina, 23, Gainesville.
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Watson concert set in Bowie
BOWIE – Gene Watson is set to take the stage at the
Bowie Community Center Oct. 25 in a one-night concert in Bowie.
The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the concert begins
at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale and reserved seating is $45.
The VIP tickets are $60 and include a meet and greet
with Watson.
For ticket information, call 940.872.3785 or email
Lydia Evans at levans@cityofbowietx.com.
Considered to be one of the ﬁnest pure-country singers of his generation, Watson oﬀers one of the best traditional country shows in the business. His voice captivates audiences and keeps fans coming back.
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Gainesville Police reports
GAINESVILLE – The following incidents were reported to the Gainesville
Police Department.
Joseph Melugin reported
debit card abuse of the elderly in the 800 block of
East Highway 82.
Walmart Supercenter reported two incidents of organized retail theft of more
than or equal to $500 but
less than $1,500 in the
1800 block of Lawrence
Street.
Laura Hellman reported
the theft of property more
than or equal to $1,500
but less than $20,000 in
the 700 block of Cunningham Street.
City of Gainesville reported criminal mischief
in the 200 block of South
Taylor Street.
Amanda Phillips reported the theft of property
more than or equal to $50
but less than $500 in the
2600 block of East Highway 82.
Claudine Barnett re-
ported the theft of property more than or equal to
$50 but less than $500 in
the 500 block of Hannah
Street.
Texas Department of
Transportation reported
damage to a ﬁxture/landscape in the 2100 block of
North I-35.
Paula Dhane reported a
theft less than $50 in the
2100 block of North I-35.
Ronald Manuel reported
criminal mischief more
than or equal to $50 but
Sheriﬀ logs
incident reports
GAINESVILLE – The
following incidents were
reported to the Cooke
County Sheriﬀ’s Oﬃce.
State of Texas reported
money laundering more
than or equal to $1,500
but less than $20,000 in
the 300 block of CR. 451.
Michael Wade McCain
of Whitesboro reported the
burglary of a habitation in
the 300 block of Navajo
Trail in Cooke County.
Tim Douglas Schiederjan of Gainesville reported
missing mail in the 300
block of CR 451.
Mark Stephen Wascom
of Gainesville reported the
Sentences
issued
for felony
indictments
burglary of a habitation in
the 400 block of FM 371.
Cynthia Noah Clayton
of Gainesville reported
identity theft in the 800
block of 902.
Jimmy Lee Petty of Valley View reported the burglary of a habitation in the
30 block of Wilson Court.
Richard Taylor Hostetler
of Gainesville reported
the theft of property more
than or equal to $500 but
less than $1,500 in the 200
block of CR 111.
Kaycee Danielle Fomby
of Gainesville reported the
fraudulent use of identifying information at the intersection of CR 401 and
CR 451.
Arrest log
Randy Allan Clover, 25,
no driver’s license.
Austin Chase Atchley,
less than $500 in the 2600
block of East Highway 82.
John Jenkins reported
criminal trespass in the
300 block of Fair Avenue.
Walmart
Supercenter
reported organized retail
theft more than or equal
to $50 but less than $500
in the 1800 block of Lawrence Street.
Walmart
Supercenter
reported organized retail
theft less than $50 in the
1800 block of Lawrence
Street.
Arrest log
Haleigh Nicole Honeycutt, 18, organized retail
theft.
Stewart Blake Smiley, 41,
driving while intoxicated
with a child younger than
15 years old.
Joshua Dewayne Shidler,
25, misdemeanor warrant.
Daniel James Baker, 26,
organized retail theft.
Chyanne Dakota Barker,
20, organized retail theft.
Stephany Nicole Robles,
18, misdemeanor warrant.
Jose Eduardo Garcia, 24,
misdemeanor warrant.
Brian Correy Leask, 17,
arson.
Loran Clair McConnell,
26, organized retail theft.
Andrew Bryan Muller,
53, possession of marijuana, possession of drug
paraphernalia, public intoxication.
Joni Starr Skiles, 41,
criminal trespass.
Alfonso M. Victorio, 20,
organized retail theft.
Edgar Alberto Collazo,
27, public intoxication.
Terrell Lynn Davis, 56,
public intoxication.
Dewayne Frederick Henderson, 34, public intoxication.
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23, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Jonathan Snively, 31, resisting arrest, public intoxication, criminal mischief.
Richard Wayne Lockhart, 22, warrant.
John J. Grayson, II, 52,
warrant.
Bryce Scott Bennett, 35,
warrant.
James Joseph Haggar, 64,
possession of a controlled
substance.
Jenifer Dyan Hess, 42,
possession of a controlled
substance.
Ricky Harris Porter, 58,
driving with invalid license.
Charlie Joe Pankratz, 26,
possession of drug paraphernalia.
Chad Holland Kilcrease,
31, warrant.
GAINESVILLE – The following sentences were issued for felony indictments
and ﬁled in the 235th District Court.
Christopher
Lewis
Lloyd, 40, pleaded guilty
to the third degree felony
oﬀense of assault on a family/house member by impeding breath or circulation Jan. 8, 2013 and was
sentenced to ﬁve years in
a state facility and court
costs.
Christopher
Lewis
Lloyd, 40, pleaded guilty
to the third degree felony
oﬀense of possession of a
controlled substance more
than or equal to 1 gram but
less than 4 grams Dec. 15,
2013 and was sentenced to
ﬁve years in a state facility
and court costs.
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Four free programs are
planned at the Johnson
Branch of Lake Ray Roberts.
Intro to Bird Watching
will be held from 5:30 to
6:30 p.m. Friday (Oct. 17)
at Pavilion 1. You will learn
about the basics of bird
watching, binoculars, ﬁeld
guides and what to do once
you are in the ﬁeld. And a
short bird watching hike is
included. You are welcome
to bring your own binoculars and ﬁeld guides if you
have them.
Flying Feathered Friends
will be held from 8 to 9:30
a.m. Saturday (Oct. 18) at
Pavilion 1. You will take a
hike and look and listen for
birds in the area. All levels
of bird watchers are welcome. The short hike will
be on cement and unpaved
trails and will be a little
more than one mile. Binoculars, sturdy shoes and
water are recommended.
Vanishing Prairie Guided
Hike will be from 10 to 11
a.m. Saturday at Pavilion 1.
This will be a guided bird
and tree hike on the Van-
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ishing Prairie Trail starting
at Picnic Pavilion 1.
Fishing with a Ranger
will be from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Saturday at the Kid Fish
Pond. Learn the basics of
ﬁshing with a ranger. You
can bring your own pole
or loaner poles and tackle
are available at no cost. You
can bring your own bait –
canned corn and alreadycooked hot dogs work. The
pond is stocked with channel catﬁsh and other types
of ﬁsh.
All programs are free,
but there is a $7 entrance
fee to the park for anyone
13 years old or older. For
more information, call
940.637.2294.
The North Texas Medical Center Auxiliary will
hold its annual Jewelry and
Accessory Sale Thursday
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(Oct. 16) and Friday (Oct.
17) in the NTMC Board
Room in Gainesville.
The sales will be held
from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursday and from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Friday.
Selections start at $6 and
include jewelry, purses,
clothing and accessories for
men and women.
Proceeds will help the
NTMC Auxiliary continue
its mission to buy equipment for the hospital and
to fund scholarships for
high school seniors.
For more information, call Kristi Rigsby at
940.612.8607.
The Gainesville Masonic
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Lodge No. 210 AF&AM
will present its service
awards during the meeting
at 7:30 p.m. Monday (Oct.
20) at the Masonic Lodge
in Gainesville.
The meal will begin at
6:30 p.m.
This is an open meeting
and the public is welcome
to attend.
District Court cases
ﬁled and decided
GAINESVILLE – The following cases and decisions
were ﬁled in the 235th District Court.
Cases ﬁled
Amanda Lei Reiter vs.
Todd Allen Reiter – divorce.
John Hall Mathews vs.
Catherine Rose Mathews –
divorce.
State of Texas vs. Amanda Lynn Cofer – judgment
NISI on forfeiture of bond.
State of Texas vs. Nicholas
Eugene Bousquet – judgment NISI on forfeiture of
bond.
State of Texas vs. Tia Marie Bradley – judgment NISI
on forfeiture of bond.
Re: Javier Perez – petition
for occupational license.
State of Texas vs. Savanah
Laurel Chadick – judgment
NISI on forfeiture of bond.
Jimmy Allen Pruitt vs. Eileen Beth Pruitt – divorce.
Brian Todd Powell vs. Ju
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Cases decided
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Gainesville
permits
requests
GAINESVILLE – The following permit requests
were received by the City of
Gainesville.
Radio Hill Road Development, LLC – Certiﬁcate of
Occupancy at 3406 Columbus.
M&M Used & New Tires
– Certiﬁcate of Occupancy
at 3109 E. Hwy. 82.
M.L. Harvill – construction permit at 1402 Lynwood.
David Moore – fence permit at 806 S. Denton St.
Alberto Hernandez – fence
permit at 916 N. Commerce
St.
Michaele Ann Bryson –
fence permit and ﬂatwork
permit at 12 Dove Lane.
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shoes,
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electronics, xbox games,
etc.
Friday/17th,
Saturday/18th from 8am???. 1919 Tulane, Gainesville.
10/15
Saturday, October 18th
and Sunday, October,
19th. Multi-family garage
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Knabe named Muenster
Emergency Management
Coordinator at Oct. 6 meeting
MUENSTER
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The
Muenster City Council approved appointing a new
Emergency Management
Coordinator for the city
during the Oct. 6 meeting,
according to the unoﬃcial
minutes.
Former Muenster Volunteer Fire Chief Herbie
Knabe was appointed as
the new Muenster Emergency Management Coordinator.
Knabe was recommended for the position and it
was suggested that no one
else locally would be more
qualiﬁed because of his
years of experience with
the Volunteer Fire Department.
A pay raise was approved
for Muenster’s City Judge
Dorthy Lewis.
Lewis has served as the
Muenster City Judge for 14
years. Her starting salary
was $200 per month and
had never been increased.
Lewis asked for an increase
to $400 per month, which
is the salary paid by the
City of Lindsay for a municipal judge.
Muenster Police Chief
Tom Barr reported to aldermen that $400 was in
line with what other small
cities are paying judges.
The 90-day period for a
decision about parking on
Main Street ended and no
word was received by aldermen from any of the busi-
nesses in the aﬀected portion.
Aldermen agreed that
the Fire Department must
have access to the alley by
the Klement Building in
case of a ﬁre. It was agreed
that the alley would remain
fenced, but that vehicles
must not be allowed to
park in front of the gate at
any time. The ﬁre department will cut the lock in
the event of a ﬁre.
When the new brewery
begins operations, the lot
will be used for parking
and the alley will remain
open at all times.
The city will stripe parking spaces for the ﬁrst three
blocks of Main Street south
of Highway 82.
The Sacred Heart Parish
requested that aldermen
designate all parking in
front of the soon-to-bebuilt oﬃce building as parallel parking only. The area
includes the south side of
East Sixth Street between
Oak Street and Walnut
Street.
Sacred Heart owns the
entire area except for the
property at Sixth Street
and Oak Street, and that
owner, Janet Barnhill, has
no objections to the Parish’s request. Sacred Heart
will put out the signs and
paint the parking spots.
Muenster Fire Chief Bert
Walterscheid
requested
that the ﬁre department be
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Council agenda for department updates for aldermen.
Barr reported about the
September activity of the
Muenster Police Department. Oﬃcers responded
to 92 calls, had ﬁve incident/oﬀense reports, made
two arrests, had one accident investigation, issued
66 citations and logged
697 hours on duty.
Barr said that Muenster
Police Department now
has a Facebook page that
will be used to list pertinent information for citizens. Criminal activity also
will be included to inform
the citizens and ask for
their help.
Investigator Laura Brock
will oversee the Facebook
page. Anyone with questions or with things to
contribute may call Brock
at 940.736.3420.
Barr also announced the
addition of another volunteer reserve oﬃcer Thomas
Bishop. He has more than
20 years experience in law
enforcement.
Muenster Administrator
Stan Endres updated aldermen about current city
projects and activities.
Included in his report
were the inclusion of the
new rates for water, sewer
and garbage removal in
the current bills that were
mailed out.
Alderman Jewel Otto
has been working with
some local business owners
and has ordered Christmas
banners that will be put
on the decorative street
lights on Main Street and
Highway 82. The banners
will replace the Christmas
wreaths that have been
used for the past 15 years.
The cost is approximately
$3,600 and the funds will
come from the hotel-motel
account that has approximately $8,000.
Aaron Klement has
agreed to serve on the
Muenster Park Board,
replacing his late father,
Claude Klement.
A new police vehicle has
been delivered and the radio, video camera, siren
and lights have been installed.
The city was scheduled
to spray for mosquitoes
Oct. 14.
The September bills totaled $208,975.97 and
were approved by aldermen.
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Cooke County Electric Charitable
Foundation Assists Community
The Cooke County Electric Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce its initial distribution of funds. A $10,000 donation was made
to Montague County Carpenter Shop, along with $4639.81 to CASA
of North Texas and $2000 to the Bettie M. Luke Muenster Public Library
These organizations meet the criteria and exemplify the mission statement of
CCECF to accumulate and disburse funds to individuals and organizations for
public safety, health, self-suf¿ciency, basic human needs and the cultural environment, CCECF is honored to have the opportunity to assist in the funding of
these programs.
CCECF was formed as a catalyst to distribute funds generated from the Cooke
County Electric Cooperative Association Operation Round Up program. The
collected “rounded up” pennies from member-owners’ monthly bills are used to
assist members in the CCECA service area.
CCECF is a nonpro¿t organization. An independent board of directors made
up of your community leaders governs CCECF and oversees the distribution of
funds. The board members offer their time and resources free of charge.
For more information about the co-op and charitable foundation, visit cceca.
com. Go to noconacarpentershop.com, casant.org and muensterlibrary.com for
details on the organizations receiving grants.
MONTAGUE COUNTY CARPENTER
SHOP, also known as the Nocona Senior
Center, is a forty year old organization that
administers the Meals on Wheels Program
in Nocona, Texas and provides services
and activities for community seniors. The
program began when a group of Nocona
residents saw a need to feed the elderly
and disabled who were unable to do so for
themselves. The monies donated by the
Cooke County Electric Charitable Foundation along with donations from the Priddy
Foundation and Ben E. Keith to the carpenter shop and through various fundraisers, will be used for a complete renovation
of the outdated kitchen area. This will bring
the kitchen into compliance with current
healthcare standards, as well as increase
the ef¿ciency in the preparation of meals
for the Meals on Wheels program. The
design and planning of this project is being
conducted by students of The University of
Texas at Arlington School of Architecture
as part of a real life learning program. The
construction of this kitchen remodel is set
to begin the week after Christmas.
CASA OF NORTH TEXAS operates
the only court advocacy program service
abused and neglected children in foster
care in Cooke County. As evidenced by
the many cases in the media of lost and
underserved children in the child welfare
system, CASA meets a desperate need
for the care of children in State Protective
Custody. CASA provides training of Volunteer Advocates who look out for the best
interest of these most vulnerable children.
CASA volunteers focus on investigation
and monitoring of each child’s situation
while in protective custody and report the
child’s status and needs to the District
Judge throughout their case. The generous donation to CASA from the Cooke
County Electric Charitable Foundation will
be used to fund the training of additional
volunteers, which will assure that children
will have a CASA volunteer assigned to
their case front he ¿rst day they enter
foster care.
BETTIE M. LUKE MUENSTER PUBLIC
LIBRARY provides free access to information in a peaceful environment of lifelong
learning. Located in Muenster, Texas, the
mission of the Muenster Public Library is
to provide access to informational, educational and recreational library services to
everyone living in or visiting the Muenster
community. The CCECF Operation Round
UP donation of funds will be used for
the project entitled “Library Collection
Enhancement”. This project will increase
and enhance our library collection in the
areas of CD Audio books, adult non¿ction
computer and technology related books,
children’s easy picture and chapter books
and junior and young adult books.
TOP: CASA Board Members assist with RafÀe
Ticket sales at the 2013
CCECA Charitable Golf
Tournament.
RIGHT: Prepared meals
are served daily at the
Montague County Carpenter’s Shop.
LEFT: Donna Culpepper with the Montague County Carpenter’ Shop prepares for the days lunch meal.
BELOW: Muenster Library Director
Stephanie Wright assists Cindy Wolf
with book check out.