Game Day: Lady Cat Volleyball in Greenville; Team Tennis Indoors at Texarkana
Lady Cats Have Important District Volleyball Game at Greenville Tuesday Night
The Lady Cats’ volleyball team hopes to continue its success in the second half of district play as they play an important match at Greenville Tuesday night (October 16). Both teams are 3-4 in district play. They are in a three way tie for third place with Royse City. After a 1-4 start for the Lady Cats in the first half of district play, they won a pair of home games last week to start the second half. The Lady Cats are 27-11 for the season. The Lady Lions come in with a season record of 21-13. When the two teams played back on September 28 in Sulphur Springs, the Lady Lions won a decisive fifth set, 15-7 to take the match, 3-2. Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Justin Maness said it would be nice to win at Greenville although he acknowledged that it would be tough to do there. He said a win would put the Lady Cats in the mix for a good seed for the playoffs. Coach Maness said the Lady Cats need to get their minds right and play the best they can. He said if the Lady Cats win, it would be a huge turnaround in district play. The freshman and JV Lady Cats’ teams play Greenville beginning at 5 p.m. The Lady Cats and Lady Lions’ varsity teams get underway in Greenville at around 6:30 p.m.
Wildcats Team Tennis in Bi-District Play Against Whitehouse Tuesday
The Wildcats’ team tennis squad is playing in a bi-district playoff match against Whitehouse on this Tuesday (October 16) game day. The match was originally scheduled for tennis courts at Van at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. With all of the rain, the teams were able to schedule the match at indoor courts in Texarkana at Texas High. The Wildcats last played an opponent back on September 18 against Texas High at the Wildcat Tennis Center. The Wildcats are the number three seed in District 15-5A. Whitehouse is the runner up in District 16-5A. The winner of the bi-district match will play Kaufman Friday.
Man Dies from Wound as Law Enforcement Now Awaits Autopsy Report in Apparent Murder/Suicide
The body of Stephen Roy Wyatt, 60, of Sulphur Springs has been sent to the medical examiner’s office in Dallas Tuesday afternoon, according to Sulphur Springs Chief of Police Jay Sanders. Sanders said Wyatt was removed from life support around 10 a.m. Monday. His death follows an incident at his home Sunday that preliminary investigation shows a murder/suicide. However, no official ruling will be made until after the autopsy.
Laura Wyatt, 39, was found dead in their home the victim of an apparent gun shot and her husband, Wyatt, was found wounded from an apparent gunshot to the head. Local law enforcement and Texas Ranger John Vance now await the autopsy report to conclude the incident into the incident that occurred Sunday at the Wyatt home on Rockdale Road.
Sulphur Springs Police were dispatched to the 900 block of Rockdale Road Sunday, October 14, 2018 when witnesses heard arguing between a male and female inside a house at that location. Gun shots were also heard. The end result inside the house was one dead and one wounded during the disturbance. The Wyatt was transported to CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital ER by Hopkins County EMS. Witnesses told police they heard the arguing and then a gun shot. Several more gun shots followed the first. First officers on the scene called for the special response team made up of SWAT and EMS personnel. Once inside the house, the officers found the female dead from apparent gunshots and the male wounded by apparent gunshots, according to Chief Sanders.
Wyatt had been arrested in September for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon when he was accused of striking his wife in the head with the bottom of a pistol and chased her around with the gun. During the investigation at the scene, Wyatt told Sulphur Springs Police that he wanted to commit suicide. He was transported to the local hospital by EMS while in police custody at that time. He was out of jail on bond when the incident occurred Sunday.
J-B Weld Co. Acquires FiberFix
MARIETTA, GA October 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — J-B Weld Co., the leader in epoxy and small package consumer DIY adhesives, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the FiberFix® brand of products from Spark Innovation, LLC. FiberFix is the world’s leading brand of pre-impregnated repair wraps, super strong repair tapes, specialty adhesive and patches sold under the FiberFix®, Heat Wrap™, Rigid Patch™, Flex Patch™ and 10X Tape™ brand names.
“We’re excited and pleased to add the FiberFix family of products to our portfolio” stated Chip Hanson — Chairman and C.E.O. of J-B Weld. “Since their market launch in 2012, and successful debut on ABC’s reality show, ‘Shark Tank’, Reed Quinn, Eric Child and the FiberFix team have grown an innovative new category of products and business that we will continue to develop and grow through our larger customer base, additional channel breadth and category-building marketing efforts.”
Eric Child, C.E.O. of Spark Innovation, “FiberFix first appeared on Shark Tank in 2013, and within five years, has grown into a full family of products available in over 20,000 retail locations around the world. We believe J-B Weld is the perfect company to lead Fiber Fix repair solutions to incredible long-term success.” “We’re very proud of J-B Weld’s 50-year heritage, with continued sales growth driven by American-made quality and innovation, Hanson continued. “We’re continuing to strategically invest to expand our company and brand in multiple ways as evidenced by this acquisition, a national advertising campaign that was developed by TBWA\Chiat\Day New York, with media executed by Hawthorne Direct of Los Angeles that features actor and professional craftsman, Nick Offerman, and our facilities expansion and new state-ofthe-art manufacturing and distribution facility in Sulphur Springs, Texas, where the company was founded in 1969.”
About J-B Weld Company: J-B Weld is an employee-owned company founded in Sulphur Springs, Texas. J-B Weld® is America’s preferred brand of epoxy adhesive and repair products that are distributed across the U.S. at more than 50,000 retail locations, including Home Depot, Walmart, O’Reilly’s Auto Parts, Lowe’s, AutoZone, ACE, Advance Auto Parts, True Value and Amazon. J-B Weld is also found in leading retailers across Canada, Mexico, and more than 30 other countries around the world as we continue to grow and develop the “World’s Strongest Bond™” though our loyal brand fans, retail partners, employees and the communities served by J-B Weld. J-B Weld was supported in this transaction by Caltius Capital Management and Sawaya Partners.
About Spark Innovation, LLC: Spark Innovation is a consumer product holding company and innovation incubator based in American Fork, Utah. Spark provides venture capital and operating assistance to develop emerging consumer product brands. A frequent partner of ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ series, current Spark Innovation brand holdings include ScreenMend™, Wall Doctor™, Illumibowl™ and CoverGrip™.
FM 71 Near Cooper Lake Closed Due to Flooding; Flood Watch Continues Tuesday
Hopkins County and parts of Northeast Texas area remains under a flood watch until 7 p.m. today. Widespread rain will continue today which may lead to additional flooding. FM 71 at the Sulphur River is near Cooper Lake is closed due to flooding.
Other roads in the Paris District for TxDOT closed includes FM 100 near Telephone, Texas in Fannin County and in Hunt County: FM 36 South of I-30, and FM 1565 South of State Highway 276 and Union Valley.
PJC-Sulphur Springs: Humor in Speech Class
PJC-Sulphur Springs Center Speech Instructor Paul May brings smiles to the faces of students in his class as he reviews a lesson in speech. For information about educational opportunities at the PJC-Sulphur Springs campus call 903-885-1232.
New Coach for Lady Cat Basketball is Ready for First Official Practice Day Wednesday
New Lady Cats Basketball Coach Brittney Tisdell says she is ready for the first official practice day of the season on Wednesday (October 17). She says it’s been a long off season.
Coach Tisdell replaced former Lady Cats Coach Jeff Chapman, who left to become girls’ athletic coordinator and head girls’ basketball coach at Paris. Coach Tisdell is the daughter of the Paris boys’ head basketball coach Billy Mack Steed. Coach Tisdell says she was raised in gyms and on buses. She was also a player. Coach Tisdell’s first coaching job was as an assistant at Cooper. She was also an assistant coach at Paris for three years. Her first head coaching job was at Mildred, near Corsicana, for the past two seasons. Coach Tisdell says they won only five games the year before she joined them. She says they made it to a tournament championship game and won 16 games last season. Coach Tisdale says she told Volleyball Coach Justin Maness she hopes he has a great season this year but she admits she can’t wait until volleyball players are able to join the basketball program.
She says she has five seniors available for practice Wednesday. Coach Tisdell says she also has a good group of freshmen. She says she got to know some of the players this summer during open gym sessions. Coach Tisdell says she also watched some of them in a Saturday tournament game this summer. She says she is still looking for scrimmage opportunities this season.
The Lady Cats are scheduled to open the regular season at home against Emory Rains on Saturday, November 10.
UIL Regional Band Contest Moved to SSHS Multipurpose Building Tuesday; Wildcat Band Performs at 8:15 a.m.
Sulphur Springs High School’s Multipurpose Building will be the site of the UIL Regional Band Contest on Tuesday (October 16). The event was moved from Mount Plesant due to concerns about inclement weather. The Wildcats will perform at 8:15 a.m. Wildcats’ Marching Band Director Spencer Emmert calls this year the year of the gully washer with almost constant rain recently.
Out of all the football game Friday nights and contests, the Wildcats’ band has only had one occasion when they were not rained on. Emmert says everyone is having to deal with it. He says the Wildcats contest last Saturday (October 13) at Mount Pleasant was canceled due to the weather. After Saturday’s cancellation, Emmert says the band had a great rehearsal inside the multipurpose building and got better. He says when he was at Winnsboro three years ago, bands had to move an Area UIL Contest to a multipurpose building in Carthage.
Emmert says there are some issues with playing indoors such as reverberation or echoing. However a band may benefit from resonance, which can actually make them sound better. Emmert says judges end up right on top of you in an indoor facility. He says judges are used to being up in stands where they can observe a band as a collective ensemble. Emmert says indoors and close, judges have to focus on individual members, making their performance more important.
One benefit to an indoor site is that the Wildcats Band will be able to utilize its’ grid tarp, considered a key part of the band’s show and concept. They have only been able to use it once. That was at the first home game at Prim Stadium.
Electrical Outage Affects 1,058 Oncor Customers Monday; Expected Restoration Time 4 p.m.
According to Oncor about 1,058 customers are without electrical power in the Sulphur Springs area. The primary area of outage is along South Broadway (reports of outage on west side of South Broadway) and along State Highway 11 in the Martin Springs area.
Oncor expects electrical power to be restored to the outage area around 4 p.m.
Candlelight Vigil Planned for Victims of Domestic Violence Moved to The ROC Due to Weather
The Safe-T Crisis Center of Sulphur Springs’ Outreach plans a Candlelight Vigil on Tuesday October 16, 2018 at 6:30pm in The ROC,
at 115 Putman Street. The event was previously planned to be conducted at Celebration Plaza. The purpose of the Vigil is to honor the silent voices and those who have lost their lives to domestic violence. Speakers will include Hopkins County Attorney Dusty Hyde Rabe, and domestic violence survivor Gala Lawrence. In case of rain, an alternate location will be The Roc at 115 Putman Street.
Ragan Dennis, Outreach Coordinator for Safe-T Crisis Center reminds us that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and encourages everyone to attend the Vigil. Domestic violence affects people of every age, gender and nationality. The Safe-T Crisis Center is a non-profit organization serving eight NE Texas counties, offering assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The Sulphur Springs Crisis Center is located at 613 Gilmer Street, inside the CANHelp office complex. The Safe-T Crisis Headquarters and Shelter in Mt. Pleasant was established there in 1995. Persons who wish to report domestic violence/sexual assault at a Safe-T location can expect confidentiality and capable, caring representatives. You can reach Safe-T by phone at 903-439-0325.
