Hare Estate Auction on Saturday July 27 at Talco
Home, property and possessions of Jr. and Martha Hare will be sold in Estate Sale and Auction on Saturday July 27,2019 at 9am by SRS Auction Services, 903-439-9013, srsauction.com
Three Age Groups of Dixie Softball Players Coming to Sulphur Springs For World Series Next Week
For the first time since 2006, Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County are hosting the Dixie Softball World Series at Coleman Park, Aug. 2-7.
The previous one featured one age group only. This time, three-age groups (9-10 year old Angels, 11-12 year old Pony Tails and 16-18 year old Debs) will be competing at the same time.
Joey Martin, president of the Hopkins County Girls Softball Association, is coordinating the big event. He says his group pitched Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County to Dixie officials, who liked what they heard.
Twenty-nine teams are coming to town. Host Hopkins County has a team in each age group. There is a Coldspring, Texas team of Debs, and Mount Vernon, Franklin County teams in Angels and Pony Tails. The rest of the teams come from Dixie softball states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Virginia.
Martin says all the teams will attend an Opening Ceremony Dinner at the Civic Center on Friday, Aug. 2, and then will go downtown to watch A League of Their Own on the Plaza.
Games begin Saturday, Aug. 3 at Coleman Park. All six fields will be in use Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4 at the Park.
Martin says his group is still seeking sponsors and volunteers. Those interest may contact Martin at 903 348-4728. There is also a Hopkins County Girls Softball Association Facebook page and website.
There will be an admission fee to attend games and day passes will be available to purchase. All parking lots at Coleman Park can be used. Little shuttle vehicles will be available to take fans to the fields.
Martin says the six-day event will have a big economic impact on the city and county. Martin says all hotels in Sulphur Springs are booked during the event, and some teams will stay in Mount Vernon and Greenville hotels. Martin says the teams’ fans will be buying gas, eating at restaurants and making stops at places like Wal-Mart, Brookshire’s and Walgreens.
Band Drum Line Camps Lead Into Start of Summer Band Next Week
Jeffrey Garza, the Wildcats’ Marching Band percussion instructor, says the drum line is the heart in the center of any musical group. He says if they are not right, it means trouble for the entire band.
To get percussion players on the same page in time for the start of summer band next week, Garza has been holding drum line camp last week and this week, July 22-26.
Last week, he worked with the front ensemble including keyboards. He says that group features lots of incoming freshmen.
This week, Garza is working with the veteran filled batterie featuring players of marching snares, quads and bass drums. They are working outside as well as inside the band hall.
Garza says this fall’s band show features the drum line in a big way. He says the students seem to be enjoying the music of the show called “It’s a Wonderful World.”
Last year’s show had a lot of modern music in it. This year’s has a different mix including classical and Louis Armstrong jazz.
After a business day Monday evening mostly about paperwork and forms, the band will hit the field for the first sessions of summer band at 8 a.m. next Tuesday.
Meet Bob Haydon: Local Author, Artist and Musician
On the KSST Good Morning Show on July 24, 2019, Enola Gay’s guest was musician Robert Haydon who shared highlights of some of his music adventures to the bluegrass tunes he presented on his 1956 Mastertone banjo.
Robert Haydon was born in Maryland and his family moved to Highland Park in Dallas, Texas in 1957 when Bob was 13 years old. Newly enrolled at Saint Mark’s Catholic School, and with no real friends yet, he made the acquaintance of another young guitar player, a kid named Steve Miller, and during the next three years, these youngsters along with drummer Baron Cass, took Dallas by storm as The Marksmen Combo. Their music was upbeat, dance-able fun for teens. Through 1958 they played school functions, birthday parties and even a National Cheerleaders Convention held on the campus of SMU. That opened doors for more gigs, and soon they were being booked for sorority and fraternity events and a teen event booked by the downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus store. From 1959 through 1961, the group expanded to five pieces and one of the new band members was classmate Boz Skaggs. These were years of songwriting, travel and high excitement, also of exploring styles and tastes in music as well as learning to manage the money they were making. At the end of a busy summer season in 1961, both Steve Miller and Boz Skaggs were hired by a new band and left Texas for Wisconsin. Meantime, Bob stayed in Dallas and formed The Marksmen II. His original song ‘Suzanne’, made it to #3 on the rock and roll charts in March of 1964, and that summer was spent opening for the Beach Boys during their Texas concert tour. Those were heady times and fondly remembered. A professional musician, Bob also forged ahead with his education and earned a degree in Art while continuing appearances around North Texas. In 1998, he produced a bluegrass album “Collage” and his old friend Steve Miller shared in the recording of that popular album.
Bob became a resident of Winnsboro in 2018 and quickly acclimated to the music scene there and in surrounding towns. He has also recently published three books, a memoir called ‘Kensington’, a murder mystery called ‘The Panhandle Murders’ and it’s sequel, ‘Tunnels and Caves’. All his books are available on Amazon and Kindle. In his spare time, Bob continues working on numerous art projects and has some work in galleries in Sulphur Springs and nearby cities. You can catch Bob at the Reilly Springs Jamboree on September 21 and at the Chili Cookoff in Heritage Park in Sulphur Springs during October 2019.
3 Jailed On Local Warrants
Three Sulphur Springs residents were taken into custody Tuesday by local officers on warrants, including two women arrested by police at the municipal court on misdemeanor warrants and a man held in another county’s jail on a felony Hopkins County warrant.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Steve Shing traveled to San Patricio County Jail and took Dylan Lee Reed, 22, of Sulphur Springs into custody at 3:36 p.m. Tuesday, July 23. Shing transported Reed to Hopkins County, where he was booked early Wednesday morning, on a warrant for violation of probation, which he was on for possession of a controlled substance, according to arrest reports. Reed was also noted in jail reports to be wanted in Wood County for driving while intoxicated. He was held in Hopkins County jail on the local charge Wednesday morning, July 24; bond on the Wood County charge was set at $10,000, according to jail reports.
Sulphur Springs Police Lt. Pat Leber took a 31-year-old Sulphur Springs woman into custody at 3:28 p.m. July 23 at the Municipal Court on an outstanding speeding warrant. She was released from jail later July 23 on the charge, according to jail reports.
Leber also took a 34-year-old Sulphur Springs woman into custody at 2:52 p.m. July 23 at the Municipal Court on two theft warrants, according to arrest reports. She remained in the county jail Wednesday morning, July 24, according to jail reports.
Pesticide Private Applicator License Training
| Pesticide Private Applicator License Training August 14, 2019 |
| A private pesticide applicator is someone who uses or supervises the use of restricted-use or state-limited-use pesticides or regulated herbicides to produce an agricultural commodity on personally owned property, rented property, property owned by his or her employer, property under his or her general control, or the property of another person if applied without compensation, other than the trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities. STEPS TO BECOMING A PRIVATE PESTICIDE APPLICATOR Step 1: Attend a Private Pesticide Applicator training session FIRST: Contact your county Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office- Hopkins County at 903-885-3443 for training opportunities. Step 2: Upon completion of the training, a Training Verification form (D-1411) will be provided to the applicant. Applicants should keep the yellow copy for their records. The white copy (original) should be mailed to TDA with the Private Pesticide Applicator license application form( PA-400P). Step 3: The applicant needs to obtain a hard copy of the Private Pesticide Applicator license application form (PA-400P) from TDA. (Website:www.TexasAgriculture.gov or Phone: 1-800-835-5832 or 512-463-7622). Step 4: Submit the completed Private Pesticide Applicator application form, license fee of $100, and the white(original) copy of the Training Verification form to TDA for processing. Step 5: When the license application is accepted, TDA will send the applicant a letter in the mail with their account number. This account number is the number the applicator will use to register and schedule the private applicator exam with PSI Step 6: Applicants can go to PSIexams.com or call 1-800-733-9267 to schedule an exam at one of 22 locations around the state. The private applicator will pay $64 per exam. If the applicant fails the first attempt, there is a 24 hour waiting period to take a repeat exam. PSI will provide a confirmation number and testing location information. Step 7: Upon completion of the exam, the center will provide test results immediately. A passing grade is 70%. Step 8: PSI will send exam scores to TDA daily. If all licensing criteria are met, TDA will issue the license. Important: If an applicant has any questions about licensing or categories, please contact TDA at 1-800-835-5832or 512-463-7622. |
Update: Two Women Stopped In Cumby In Stolen Vehicle
Brittany Rennea White 
Misha Michelle Price
Two women were arrested Tuesday afternoon at the rest stop just off Interstate 30 in Cumby for unauthorized use of the vehicle they were traveling, a Mazda that’d been reported to Oklahoma City authorities as stolen. One of the woman also was found to be wanted in Montgomery County for theft as well. The 6-month-old in the car with them, determined to be the child of one of the women, was placed into the custody of Child Protective Services, according to sheriff’s reports.
Hunt County Officer Kenneth Peters, while working routine patrol on Interstate 30, reportedly got a hit using a license plate reader on the car, designating it as having been stolen. Peters continued to follow the car, alerting Hopkins County officers as the vehicle was nearing that area. The eastbound car stopped at the rest stop in Cumby and parked. Peters and a Cumby police unit approached the car, with Hopkins County sheriff’s officers soon arriving to assist, according to Hopkins County Sheriff’s Investigator Dennis Findley.
The officers reported there were two females and an infant in the car. The vehicle was confirmed to have been reported by an individual to Oklahoma City authorities as stolen. A weapon was reported to have been in the vehicle when it was stolen. Officials reported finding a small gun in the vehicle at the roadside, according to the investigator.
The driver, identified as 27-year-old Brittany Rennea White, was taken into custody at 4:40 p.m. by Sgt. Kelly Wiser and day shift patrol deputies, while the passenger, identified in arrest reports as 25-year-old Misha Michelle Price of Oklahoma City, was taken into custody by Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Brantley. Both women were transported to the jail for further investigation and later charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, according to arrest reports.
HCSO Investigator Dennis Findley transported the infant to the sheriff’s office, where the child was released into the custody of Child Protective Services personnel, who launched their own investigation to determine whether one of the women in the car was in fact the mother of the child as she claimed. The woman was later found to be the mother of the child. CPS took custody of the child, according to sheriff’s officials.
The vehicle was taken to the sheriff’s office by a HCSO investigator, where it was more thoroughly searched by sheriff’s officers. A small amount of a substance believed to be methamphetamine was located in the vehicle. The vehicle’s owner was contacted; it’s being held until the owner can arrive from Oklahoma to claim it.
White also was discovered to be wanted in Montgomery County for theft. The Montgomery County warrant was also added to her charge.
Both White and Price remained in Hopkins County jail Wednesday morning, July 24. Bond was set at $5,000 on the unauthorized use of a vehicle charge, according to jail reports.
No charges had been filed at that time regarding the weapon and controlled substance allegedly found in the vehicle, but the investigation is ongoing and additional charges could be filed at a later time, according to investigators.
2019 Wildcat Truck
A Special ‘Thank You’ to Jay Hodge Chevrolet for providing SS Athletics with the 2019 ‘Wildcat Truck’!
‘We are excited to team up with Jay Hodge Chevrolet this year. The Wildcat Truck provides us with transportation to various events, including pulling the football trailer to games. In return we hope to be a positive representation and marketing tool for Jay Hodge Chevrolet.’ – Coach Greg Owens
Sulphur Springs Public Library Last Summer Announcement For the Kids
The end of the 2019 summer reading program is near. We will have a costume contest during our last Story time Tuesday July 30 at 10:00am; kids should dress up as either a mermaid or a Pirate. Mandy Fiock Photography will be here for photos with Ariel for A $5 donation to Shining Star Productions. Photos will be held at 9:30- 10:00 am, (before story time) and again at 10:30- 11 am. Wednesday July 31th will be the LAST DAY to turn in reading logs.
