SSHS Regional UIL Results
Sulphur Springs placed 3rd overall at the regional meet with 165 points. Competitors in five events are advancing to the state meet.
Computer Science
Brayden Fisher-3rd
Editorial Writing
Natalie Cruz-3rd
Literary Criticism
Lydia Burleson-1st
Chloe Ross-2nd
Carissa Carter-3rd
Jesse Allen-4th
Poetry Interpretation
Jaci Reed-4th
Celeste Leeds-Lalibetre-7th
Prose Interpretation
Jacy Ashford-5th
Ready Writing
Lydia Burleson-4th
Tori Mattison-5th
Social Studies
Andrew Foster-3rd
Christian Corona-6th
Owen Lee & Nathan Braddy-1st (Team)
Spelling & Vocabulary
Lydia Burleson-1st
Chase Charleton-3rd
Mandy Eckhardt-6th
Emily Johnson-7th
SSHS UIL District Results
Results from SSHS UIL competitiors:
Accounting
Gilliam Thomas-5th
Felipe Alba-6th
Accounting Team
Roldolfo Perez & Caleb Yanez-2nd
Computer Applications
Dino Saldivar-4th
Daisy Weis-5th
Juan Guzman-6th
Cross Examination Debate
Dakota Soles & Daisy Weis-3rd
Current Issues and Events
Christian Diaz Deleon-1st
Editorial Writing
Natalie Cruz-2nd
Julie Benoist-6th
Headline Writing
Natalie Cruz-5th
Informative Speaking
Corban Philo-2nd
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Noah Hammons-1st
Corban Philo-6th
Literary Criticism
Lydia Burleson-1st
Jesse Allen-2nd
Chloe Ross-4th
Carissa Carter-5th
News Writing
Julie Benoist-5th
Persuasive Speaking
Noah Hammons-2nd
Poetry Interpretation
Jaci Reed-1st
Celeste Leeds-Laliberte-2nd
Aley Owens-4th
Prose Interpretation
Jacy Ashford-2nd
Cassidy Winborn-6th
Ready Writing
Lydia Burleson-1st
Tori Mattison-2nd
Social Studies
Christian Corona-1st
Andrew Foster, Owen Lee, Nathan Brady-2nd
Spelling & Vocabulary
Lydia Burleson-1st
Chase Charleton-2nd
Mandy Eckhardt-3rd
Emily Johnson-4th
PJC-Sulphur Springs Offers Workforce Development Classes in Health Occupations
Several workforce development classes in health occupations are being offered at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center during the next several weeks.
The first course being made available through continuing education is a Basic Life Support class for health care providers. This course teaches lifesaving skills of respiratory and cardiac emergencies and will be offered on Thursday, April 27 from 4 to 9 p.m.
Anyone interested in becoming a Pharmacy Technician should sign up for this comprehensive course that prepares students to enter the pharmacy field and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) exam. The class will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. from May 15 through July 12.
A Nurse Aide class will be offered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays from May 30 through June 16. The class offers preparation for entry level nursing assistants.
A Medication Aide course is being offered to instruct in the preparation and administration of designated medications by non-licensed Nursing personnel employed in licensed health care agencies, including the responsibilities associated with such administration. Classes will be held from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Thursday from June 26 through August 24.
These courses will be held at the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center campus. For more information and to enroll, call 903-885-1232 or go by the campus located at 1137 Loop 301 East in Sulphur Springs.
SSISD Elementary Academic UIL Competition Results
SSISD’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students participated in an Elementary Academic UIL competition on Saturday, March 4th, 2017. The contest was hosted by Parkway Elementary School in Longview, Texas. The team was represented by 115 students, 33 coaches, and five campus coordinators. Students competed in 27 events ranging from number sense to storytelling. The SSISD team earned first place standing overall defeating both Pine Tree ISD and Hallsville ISD.
Results for 2nd grade:
Music Memory
Tray Smith-1st
Kaylie Resendiz-6th
Music Memory Team
Aylaen Burell, Kaylie Resendiz, Addyson Nickerson, Sicily Potter, Tray Smith, Madysen Gilbert – 1st
Creative Writing
Samantha Rogers-2nd
Jessica Reed-4th
Kylie Vaughn-6th
Chess Puzzle
Colton Isonhood & Uriah Lee-3rd (tied)
Chess Puzzle Team
Adrian Salas, Colton Isonhood, Eric Li,Uriah Lee-1st
Story Telling
Savanna Darrow-2nd
Keely Mont-3rd
Results for 3rd grade:
Music Memory
Cason Wells & Nathan Bilyeu-2nd (tied)
Julia Garcia-Ricker-4th
Music Memory Team
Cason Wells, Sarah Wallis, Cara Batterton, Ava Jones, Julia Garcia-Ricker, Nathan Bilyeu-1st
Ready Writing
Claire Monk-2nd
Cara Batterton-3rd
Amerson Boles-4th
Chess Puzzle
Nathan Bilyeu-4th
Chess Puzzle Team
Nathan Bilyeu, luke White, Amber Elliot, Isaac Stanley-2nd
Spelling
Brooks Burgin-2nd
Gage Gideon-3rd
Sam Sheffield-5th
Abigail Bautista-6th
Spelling Team
Brooks Burgin, Gage Gideon, Sam Sheffield, Abigail Bautista-1st
Story Telling
Rachel Law-1st
Lilly Bankston-4th
Results for 4th grade
Music Memory
Gavin Sills-1st
Graham Mayo-2nd
Braylen Savage-3rd
Alexis Nickerson-5th
Ty Holt-6th
Music Memory Team
Gavin Sills, Graham Mayo, Braylen Savage, Alexis Nickerson, Ty Holy, Jayden McDonald-1st
Spelling
Andrew Richey-2nd
Justin Debase-4th
Spelling Team
Andrew Richey, Justin Debase, Keelie Phillips, Aspen Mayhew-2nd
Art
Ty Holt,-1st
Laney Bankston-2nd
Sadie Barnett-3rd
Jacquelina Banda-4th
Justin Wilson-6th
Art Team
Ty Holt, LAney Bankston, Sadie Barnett, Jacquelina banda, Justin Wilson, Autumn Horton-1st
Number Sense
Barrett Thesing-4th
Number Sense Team
Cristobal Torres, Giovsnni Hernandez, Aspen Mayhew, Barreyy Thesing-3rd
Chess Puzzle
Barrett Thesing-2nd
Brody Emmert-3rd
Chess Puzzle Team
Brody Emmert, Barrett Thesing, Levi Barnes, Gage Williams-1st
Ready Writing
Alexis Villarino-1st
Reese Malone-2nd
Mackenzie Posey-6th
Oral Reading
Madeleine Posey-5th
Results for 5th grade:
Art
Kylah Latham-2nd
Juan Santacruz-5th
Jacie Harrington-6th
Art Team
Kylah Latham, Maddie Bailey, Madison Sperry, Tomi Pirtle, Jacie Harrington, Juan Santacruz-2nd
Listening
Kate Monk-1st
Camilia Hidalgo-3rd
Listening Team
Kate Monk, Joselin Garcia, Camilia Hidalgo, Laura Batista-2nd
Dictionary Skills Team
Daphne Vales, Katie Henderson, Tomi Pirtle, Jolie Sweat-3rd
Chess Puzzle
Ethan Roach-2nd
Tyler Lee-6th
Chess Puzzle Team
Ethan Roach, Tyler Lee, Matthew Archer, Michael Voyles-2nd
Number Sense
Angel Mills-6th
Number Sense Team
Angel Mills, Tracey Shackleford, Jacquie Monroy, Loga McCain-3rd
Music Memory
Cohen Elliot-1st
Mary Taylor-2nd
Emerson Penny-4th
Ian Mallard-5th
Music Memory Team
Cohen Elliot, Mary Taylor, Emerson Penny, Ian Mallard-1st
Oral Reading
Austin Chaney-1st
Carter Charleton-2nd
Annalissa Tanton-4th
Dylan Shumate-5th
Maps, Graphs, and Charts
Coen Bell-1st
Landon Burkett-6th
Maps, Graphs, Charts Team
Coen Bell, Jayden Arledge, Alec Wright, Landon Burkett-2nd
Spelling
Kami White-3rd
Caroline Prickette-4th
Juan Garcia-6th
Spelling Team
Kami White, Caroline Prickette, Juan Garcia, Ty Robinson-1st
Ready Writing
Maddie Sprague-4th
Social Studies
Garret Robinson-5th
Coen Bell-6th
Social Studies Team
Caroline Prickette, Caitlin Libby, Garrettt Robinson, Coen Bell-2nd
New “ReachOut” Program This Friday at Como United Methodist Church
The Hopkins County Community Chest’s new program “ReachOut” will be at Como United Methodist Church this Friday from noon to 3pm.
SSISD Personnel Changes Made Monday
A number of personnel changes were made by the Sulphur Springs ISD Board Monday night during their April meeting. Professional employment contracts were approved, as recommended, for the 2017-2018 school year.
Retirement
Cindy Welch Fine Arts Clerical Aide High School 05/31/17
Resignations
Jamie Hale SpEd Aide ECLC 05/31/17
Sonya Smith Campus Secretary ECLC 06/15/17
Rebecca Woods Head Start Secretary ECLC 06/15/17
Rebecca Shirley Grade 1 Teacher Lamar 05/31/17
Amanda Salters Grade 1 Bilingual Teacher Travis 05/31/17
Jack Brandon Science Teacher Middle School 05/31/17
Sarah Frazier Math Teacher Middle School 04/05/17
Macy Hurley PE Teacher/Girls Coach Middle School 05/31/17
Chelby Murray SpEd Aide Middle School 05/31/17
Morgan Taylor Math Teacher Middle School 05/31/17
Brad Abell HSTE Teacher/Asst. Trainer High School 05/31/17
Jennifer Carter HSTE Teacher High School 05/31/17
Nancy Reese Family & Consumer Sci Teacher High School 05/31/17
Breanna Richey English Teacher High School 05/31/17
Gina Wilder Computer Programming Teacher High School 05/31/17
Stephanie Cowden SpEd Aide Connections 04/13/17
New Personnel
Sheryl Carnes LSSP Intern Special Services
Tiffany Kral Grade 3 Teacher SS Elementary
Alexsa Baylus English Teacher Middle School
Lynn Haberstroh Math Teacher Middle School
Dustin Lawson Math Teacher Middle School
Sara Price PE/Girls Coach Middle School
Ryan Watts Science Teacher Middle School
Amber Norris Academic Specialist High School
Brynn Smith HSTE Teacher High School
Personnel Change New position/campus Former position/campus
Sara Tanton Maintenance Sec/Administration Campus Secretary/Bowie
Whitney Helfferich Kindergarten/ECLC Grade 3/SS Elementary
Pam Scott Head Start Sec/ECLC Campus Secretary/Travis
Rachel Kistler Academic Spec./Bowie Literacy Support/Bowie
Ana Ramirez Academic Spec./Travis Grade 2 Bilingual/Travis
NCL Offers Heavily Discounted Mediterranean Cruise
NCL Offers Heavily Discounted Mediterranean Cruise
In my constant quest to find interesting and cheap cruise deals, I ran across a heavily discounted Mediterranean Cruise offered by NCL for October 2017. As always, the prices and deals I find are short lived and if you think you would like to take advantage of the savings you should act quickly. Inside cabin rates start at only $599/pp and Suites on some sailings are priced beginning at $899/pp. Airfare is not included in these rates and some port charges and taxes will apply. These are some of the lowest prices for a Mediterranean Cruise we have seen this year. Extra discounts and incentives are available for these sailings so email here if interested: [email protected]
Norweigan Epic cruising from Barcelona, Spain on a 7-day Mediterranean sails out on Sundays this October. The best dates for savings are October 8, 15, 22, & 29. The NCL Epic will visit the following ports:
Marseille, France – The country’s second largest city (after Paris)
Cannes, France – Home to the famous film festival
Florence / Pisa (Livorno), Italy – Travel inland to see Leaning Tower of Pisa
Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy – Historic 2,500 year old capital city
Palma de Mallorca, Spain – large island port off coast of Spain
With only one sea day in the 7 day cruise, this is an active itinerary with the ship staying in port until early evening each day.
We have been finding some moderate airfare to Spain from U.S. lately as well, making this a fantastic deal to visit the Mediterranean this year. American Airlines AAdvantage members that hold enough miles in their account can fly round-trip from DFW-BCN (connecting through Miami) for as little as 77,500 miles for each passenger.
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Central Baptist Church Plans Good Friday Service
Pastor Bruce Stinson and Worship Pastor Steven Bailey are inviting the community to a unique service at Central Baptist Church detailing Jesus’ life during Easter Week. The non-formal service will especially focus on “Good Friday” and events surrounding Jesus’ death. It is set for Friday April 14 at 7pm. The hour-long service will include music, Communion and scripture reading.The entire community is invited back again on Sunday April 16 for Easter Sunday services at Central Baptist Church to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. The church is located at 840 Connally Street, across from Buford Park in Sulphur Springs.
Pastor Stinson also hosts the program “Central Minute” heard during morning and noon-time programming on KSST.
WORSHIP PASTOR STEVEN BAILEY, PASTOR BRUCE STINSON
Aviation History: Douglas C-124 Globemaster II
Aviation History: Douglas C-124 Globemaster II
The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II evolved from the earlier Douglas C-74. Many referred to the large aircraft as “Old Shakey”. The first flight by a C-124 took place on 27 November 1949. The first operational aircraft were delivered in May 1950, and production ran through May 1955 (204 C-124As and 243 C-124Cs). The improved C-124C featured more-powerful engines, as well as wingtip-mounted combustion heaters that provided cabin heating and wing and tail surface deicing, and an APS-42 weather radar in a distinctive nose “thimble.” These latter improvements were eventually retrofitted to the C-124As.
To facilitate cargo handling, the C-124 featured “clamshell” loading doors and hydraulic ramps in the nose and an elevator under the aft fuselage with electric overhead cranes (each with a capacity of 16,000 pounds) which could traverse the entire length of the 77 foot long cargo compartment. The C-124 was capable of carrying 68,500 lbs. of cargo. It could transport such bulky cargo as tanks, field guns, bulldozers and trucks without disassembly. It could also be converted into a transport capable of carrying 200 fully-equipped soldiers or 127 litter patients and their attendants in its double-decked cabin.
These airplanes went on to provide a much-needed airlift capability in the Korean War, as it was the only aircraft that could carry many of the Army’s vehicles. It also performed many other missions such as airlift support in the Far East and Southeast Asia; resupply missions to Antarctica, refugee evacuation, disaster relief, and mercy flights. Although very reliable, the C-124s were slow (97 hours flight time from Travis AFB, Calif., to Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam, and back).
Used in conjunction with Douglas C-133 Cargomasters, the C-124 Globemasters remained in service until 1970 with the Military Airlift Command and 1974 with the Alaskan Air Command along with the Air National Guard and Reserves.
With the introduction of the C-141 Starlifter into active service, most C-124 planes were transferred to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard by 1970. The first ANG unit to receive the C-124C was the last Air Force unit to retire their aircraft in September of 1974.
Ling-Temco-Vought/LTV Electrosystems/E-Systems in Greenville, Texas performed IRAN/PARC, extensive structural repair, replacement of R4360-20W engines with R4360-63A engines, and rework of the front spar and wing leading edge on 415 C-124 aircraft in 1963 through 1965 with a complete functional check flight of each aircraft after work performed.
The C-124 had a crawlway in each of the wings leading edges, commonly called the tunnel. Access was from the “P” compartment in the lower part of the fuselage at a point between the two wing roots and contained the doors leading into the wings.
On test flights the LTV/E-Systems Company Flight Mechanics performed the tunnel checks. We would crawl out to the rear of each of the 4 engines, drop the door to the accessory section and check for leaks, other defects or damage. Here we connected our headset to the aircraft intercom system and made contact with the Flight Engineer.
On one test flight we were at about 8,000 feet headed from Majors Field, Greenville, Tx to Gregg County Airport, Longview, Tx to perform a check of the ILS Glideslope and it was time for a tunnel check. I had just made my way out the right wing to the right wheel well, crawled over the two main tires and was squatted on the catwalk, forward and between the two right main landing gear tires behind #3 engine. Just as I was reaching for the intercom connection, there was a sudden, loud powerful jerking movement in the landing gear. I jumped and dropped my company badge holder out of my shirt pocket down on the closed landing gear doors. The Co-Pilot realized he had failed to put the gear handle in the up position before I entered the wing and when the 3000 psi hydraulic pressure hit the up side of the landing gear retraction cylinder, it rapidly lifted the landing gear a couple of inches up off the uplock which is normal.
I tried every way to reach my badge, even hanging down from the catwalk as far as I could, but just could not get to it. I finished checking #3 & #4 engines and crawled back to the “P” compartment. I watched out the window and when the landing gear was lowered for the ILS pass I saw my badge come out and fall to a field below. The company badge had a return address on it but no one ever returned it.
The included information comes from local Sulphur Springs resident Tony Hughes. Mr Hughes worked on, performed engine run up, pre-flight/post flight and flew as an aircraft mechanic observer on FCF’s (functional check flight) at the Greenville, Tx. plant, formerly known as TEMCO. The Greenville plant started as Temco (Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Co.) then changed to Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc. in 1960, then Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. in 1961. The company then changed it’s name to LTV Electrosystems, Inc. in 1965, then E-Systems, Inc. in 1972. A merger changed the name to Raytheon E-Systems in 1995, and now the company has been managed by L-3 Communications since 2002.
Como-Pickton Buses To Run Two Hours Late; Flooded County Roads
Due to flooded roadways, Como-Pickton school busses will run two hours later than their regular daily schedule Tuesday, April 11, 2017
