Good Start for The Edge Monday During an Unusual Week
An unusual, week five of The Edge conditioning program got off to a good start Monday, July 8, according to Wildcats Football Offensive Coordinator Matt Young.
After 4th of July week, Monday’s attendance at The Edge continued right where it has been with 60 showing up. Coach Young said only two or three players did not show up out of the top 25 varsity football players. He said that was one of their best attendance days since the first week in June.
The Edge will now have a two day hiatus Tuesday and Wednesday. Coach Young said the UIL mandated the days off so that coaches may attend meetings of the Texas Girls Coaches Association. On those dead days, athletic facilities will be closed.
The Edge will resume Thursday with the second and last day this week. The Edge concludes with a full four-day week, Monday through Thursday, next week.
Coach Young said he wasn’t concerned with Edge athletes missing a couple of days and he added he hopes they have fun. He said he is more concerned with a three-week layoff for varsity and JV football players between the end of The Edge and the start of football practice.
Coach Young is encouraging players to plan to lift weights together and go running together during the break. He said he can see the progress athletes who have attended The Edge from the beginning are making.
Coach Young said the group really handled gasser drills well Monday. He said athletes are looking good and feeling good and he said he is seeing more guys taking shirts off or wearing sleeveless shirts.
Coach Young said the Wildcats will have a lot of juniors on the roster this season and he said athletes undergo a lot of body changes between their sophomore and junior years. He said those attending The Edge are building confidence and self-esteem as well as their physical ability.
54th Annual Ladonia Rodeo and Frontier Days ticket give away
The 54th Annual Ladonia Rodeo and Frontier Days is to be hosted on Friday and Saturday, July 12th and 13th. The event will be located at the Eastman Area in Ladonia, Tx starting at 8:30 on both dates. The Ladonia Rodeo will feature nine events total, everywhere from team roping and steer wrestling to bronc and bull riding. There will also be a dance after the event on Saturday night featuring Grant Gilbert.
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Student Accident Insurance, Budget, TASB Delegates Top July 8 SSISD Board Meeting
School Health Advisory Committee composition, student accident insurance coverage and conference delegates are among the items Sulphur Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees will be asked to consider approving during their regular monthly meeting tonight, July 8.
The trustees too are scheduled to hold a budget work session during the 6 p.m. meeting. At the regular June meeting, SSISD Business Manager Sherry McGraw presented trustees with a first draft of the budget, based on spring numbers. The district has received a couple of different templates and at that point were still assessing how to fulfill and the impact of House Bill 3. Certified tax values will not be available until July 24-25. All of those factors, plus staff changes as employees leave, retire and are reassigned during summer months will impact the budget. Trustees during a special meeting last Monday approved a new teacher pay scale, that includes raises, per HB 3.
Trustees amended the 2018-19 budget during the June meeting to reflect a $304,310 increase in expenditures from the general fund balance, $145,640 for costs associated with district restructuring of campuses by grade levels, $19,573 for the house project the career and technology students have been working on the last two years, $95,499 for athletic upgrades and $43,598 in additional expenses incurred when the boys played in the state basketball tournament in the spring semester. However, the district received $24,206 in donated revenue to help with costs associated with the state basketball tourney, bringing the total district cost to $19,392 for the tourney and $280,104 overall in additional expenses over the originally budgeted amount. That puts the overall budget at $38,004,465 for 2018-19.
McGraw is expected to present updated information, including the approved salary scale, figured conservatively until certified tax values are in.
The business manager too is expected to present information during tonight’s meeting and a recommendation for student accident insurance coverage for the 2019-2020 school year.
Veronica Arnold is scheduled to present information on the district’s School Health Advisory Committee activities and plans during the meeting, then later present for board consideration a recommended SHAC member list for 2019-2020.
Assistant Superintendent Josh Williams will provide for discussion Texas Association of School Boards Localized Manual Update 113. Typically, the school board receives the recommended policy changes at one meeting, then is asked at a future meeting to approve it, with any changes recommended by local officials. Often, this includes changes required by legislators which have to be adopted, but does sometimes include a few optional items districts are given some discretion over.
Williams also is scheduled to review the district employee handbook for 2019-2020.
Trustees will also be asked to select a delegate and alternate to attend the 2019 Texas Association of School Boards Delegate Assembly scheduled Saturday, Sept. 21, in Dallas.
An executive session is planned for any real estate or personnel items presented for board approval since the last meeting. Trustees have held five extra meetings since April in an effort to try to fill as many teacher and staff openings as possible before the new school year starts.
SSISD Board of Trustees meets regularly at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month in the Board Room of SSISD Administration Building, 631 Connally St.
Connally Street Water Main Installation Complete; Drainage Improvements, Contract Work Planned
Work to rebuild Connally Street progresses, with a contractor hired to excavate, stabilize and pave the street following the next phase of construction.
With water main installation complete, city crews in the last week began connecting residences to the new water main. Sulphur Springs’ Construction Division is scheduled to construct the drainage improvements and a contractor has been selected to perform excavation, stabilization and concrete pavement work on Connally Street.
The city received four bids for the paving, excavating and stabilizing of the street that were all relatively close, although all bids were $60,000 to $70,000 higher than anticipated; 5W Concrete’s bid of $703,508.52 was the lowest, and therefore recommended by Community Development Director Tory Niewiadomski.
City Manager Marc Maxwell notes 5W Contracting was also the contractor on the Bill Bradford Road paving and work.
The upcoming work on Connally Street will be separate from the Cross Town Trails work, to be done later. This will only be for the street and sidewall on one side of the street. The sidewalk on the other side of the street will be part of the Cross Town Trails, according to Niewiadomski.
Sludge Composting
Sulphur Springs City Council also recently passed a resolution authorizing another company for sludge composting at the city’s wastewater treatment plan.
The city manager was authorized during the July council meeting to contract on-site treatment of sludge at Sulphur Springs Wastewater Treatment plant, to replace the contract that was previously performing on-site disposal.
The council met in executive session prior to the start of the regular July meeting to discuss the matter. The city’s contract with Texas Microbial Applications has been terminated. Bryant Brothers has been approved as the new contractor for composting of sludge, according to Maxwell.
Sulphur Springs Woman Turns Self In Sunday To Serve State Jail Sentence
July 8, 2019 – Ashlei Nichole Thomas, 35, of Sulphur Springs turned herself in at the sheriff’s office and was escorted at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 7, by Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Chaney into the county jail to serve time for abandoning or endangering a child-criminal neglect, according to arrest reports.
She was slated to appear at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, for a trial before the court on a motion to proceed on the charge. The offense was alleged to have occurred April 28, 2018, according to court records. Thomas was jailed on an indictment for abandoning or endangering a child-criminal negligence May 31. She spent one night in jail Dec. 20, 2018, and another May 24 for violating probation on the charge.
She turned herself in July 7 to serve time on a 16-day state jail sentence, punishment on the charge.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
1 Man Arrested At ER On Parole Charge, Another Turned Self In On Warrant
Two men were jailed over the weekend on felony warrants. A 55-year-old Sulphur Springs man was taken into custody at the hospital and the other turned himself in, according to arrest reports.
Sulphur Springs Police Officer Chad Norris reportedly came into contact with Eddie Charles Evans, 55, of Sulphur Springs at 12:08 a.m. Monday, July 8, at the CHRISTUS Mother Francis Hospital emergency room. Aware the man was wanted, the officer confirmed the outstanding parole warrant and placed him into handcuffs, according to arrest reports. He was booked into the county jail for violation of parole, according to jail reports.
Evan Louis Cossette, 39, of Yantis reportedly turned himself in at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, July 7, to Hopkins County Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Russell for violation of probation, which he was on for possession of 1 gram or more but less thanb 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance, according to arrest reports.
Methamphetamine Allegedly Concealed In Man’s Mouth, Inside Woman’s Body
A pair from Florence, Texas was arrested at 11:50 p.m. Sunday after being found with methamphetamine during a traffic stop, and of trying to conceal bags of contraband in the woman’s body and mans’ mouth.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Burdick reported first becoming aware of the pair after noticing the license plate light on a Ford Mustang was out Sunday night, July 7. So, he stopped the vehicle on the south service road at FM 3389 overpass at 10:47 p.m.
While talking with the driver, identified in arrest reports as 38-year-old Charles Adam Dunaway, and passenger, reported to be 41-year-old Kristal Nacole Byrne, Burdick noted they exhibited nervous behavior. Neither could sit still and both began moving around in the car, so he asked and obtained permission to search the vehicle, he deputy alleged in arrest reports.
HCSO Sgt. Scott Davis arrived shortly thereafter to assist Burdick with the search. Burdick allegedly located a green tube containing a crystal-like substance he believed to be methamphetamine, while Davis located a glass vial and plastic bag which each contained suspected methamphetamine as well. Consequently, both Byrne and Dunaway were taken into custody for possession of a controlled substance, according to arrest reports.
The pair was released to corrections officers at the jail while Burdick completed arrest reports. Burdick alleged the male appeared to have something in his mouth, so he asked the jail staff to take him to the dressing room to investigate what was in his mouth.
Burdick reported hearing yelling coming from the dress-out room and went to investigate. Jail staff alleged seeing a plastic bag in Dunaway’s mouth. A short time later, the man was reported to have thrown up a bag. The man allegedly told the deputy he swallowed an empty bag with no contraband in it.
When the deputy talked to Byrne, she allegedly told him she had stored two plastic bags with meth in them inside of her body; the man then allegedly got the bags and put them into his mouth.
As a result, both Byrn and Dunaway were charged with possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair it.
Both remained in the county jail Monday morning. Byrne’s bond was set at $10,000 on the tampering with evidence charge and $5,000 on the controlled substance charge, according to jail reports.
WINNERS: Two Tickets to the Easy Rider 50th Anniversary Event July 14 or 17, 2019
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Restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Easy Rider returns to cinemas for a special 50th Anniversary event!
A film that Time Magazine hails as “one of the ten most important pictures of the decade” experience the real, uncensored ’60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex, and armchair politics. In the role that catapulted him to stardom, Jack Nicholson portrays an alcoholic attorney who hooks up with two part-time, drug-dealing motorcyclists (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) in search of their “American Dream”. Heading from California to New Orleans, they sample the highs and lows of America the beautiful in a stoned-out quest for life’s true meaning. Nominated for an Academy Award(r) (1969) for Best Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern), Easy Rider continues to touch a chord with audiences everywhere.
The event will feature an exclusive introduction from Peter Fonda!
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Old Saltillo Cemetery Association Plans Memorial Day,Business Meeting July 21
Members of the Board of Directors of the Old Saltillo Cemetery Association have been making plans
for the 2019 Memorial Day Program/Annual Business Meeting. As tradition, the program will be held
on the third Sunday, July 21 st from 10:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon at the beautifully renovated and air-
conditioned Old Saltillo United Methodist Church, located on 664 CR 3357, directly across the road
from the cemetery. The program will begin with congregational singing let by Mike Briley and
accompanied by pianists, Lisa Lowry. Rev. Stephen Cotten will give the invocation. A patriotic
recognition of the veterans will be led by Lucas Dennis with all of the youth in attendance assisting.
Next, greetings will be made by Lou Briley Daniel. After that, the Annual Business Meeting will be
held which consists of a report on the activities taken and work performed for the care of the
cemetery during the past year, a financial report, and the election of three members for three-year
terms to the Board of Directors.
Each year, a special memorial tribute to those interred in the Old Saltillo Cemetery in the preceding
twelve months is conducted. Scripture will be read by members of the O’Hara family and special
music by will be presented by Steve Conley. This year, Kelli McAfee Traver, assisted by Ginny Agee
Doyle, and their daughters will make the presentation to recognize the loved ones that have been
interred in the Old Saltillo Cemetery this past year. Members of the family of each person buried in
the cemetery during this past year are encouraged to attend and participate in the honoring of their
loved one.
Mr. John Sellers will be the guest speaker. Mr. Sellers is a gifted speaker and noted historian. At the
present time, he is serving as President of the Hopkins County Genealogical Society. He has many
interesting stories and will make a special presentation concerning the Old Saltillo Cemetery.
After the benediction given by Mrs. Connie McGill, lunch will be served in the air-conditioned Kirby
Memorial Center. For those who still prefer Memorial Day lunch outdoors, space is available under
the shade of the church’s large oak trees.
Everyone is asked to bring the usual full meal with ample portions to be shared with others. The food
will be arranged in buffet style with cups, plates, napkins, eating utensils, and water and iced tea
being furnished.
Time will be provided at lunch and later during the afternoon for visiting – renewing old acquaintances
and making new friends. Please bring lawn chairs and card tables so that you can enjoy the lunch
and fellowship after the service. Please make plans to attend the service to be held on the Third
Sunday in July.
Members of the Board of Directors of the Old Saltillo Cemetery Association are Randy Agee, Ryan
Agee, Lou Briley Daniel, Vivian Dennis-Monzingo, Nat Paul Gibbs, Kathy Whitten Patterson, Johnny
McAfee, Kennith Patrick, and Lucas Dennis.
