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www.TribNow.com 144th Year • No. 44 Mount Pleasant, Texas Wednesday, May 2, 2018 75¢
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Heroes For A Day Services scheduled Saturday for MPHS student, 16
By TRACY [email protected]
A Mount Pleasant High School student has died from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident last Wednesday on North Edwards Avenue in front of the high school.
Celebration of Life Services are scheduled Saturday for Suzanna Grigsby, 16.
Grigsby was flown to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler follow-ing the accident and was put on a ventilator but was unable to recover.
Two oth-er students also involved in the accident, Shamour Hines, 17, and Ashley Blalock, 18, were taken to Titus Regional Medical Center for minor injuries sustained in the accident.
Grigsby was a passen-ger in a 2005 Chevrolet Corvette that came into collision with 2008 Jeep Wrangler the evening of Wednesday, April 25.
The collision is still being investigated by local law enforcement officers as well as a Texas De-partment of Public Safety Crash Reconstruction Team.
Grigsby, a member of the Mount Pleasant High School Tiger Dolls and Raeven Dance Factory, is survived by her parents, Lance and Jennifer Grigs-by and Rachel and Cody Matkin; her grandparents, Michelle Lawler, Dave Elliott, Jackie Grigsby and spouse Jerry Stacks, Bobby Matkin, Dianne and Gregg McNeal, and Tommy and Clara Searcy; her sister, Helena Smith and Lainey and Michael Sharp; and three brothers, Andrew Matkin, Bran-don Matkin and Triston McClain.
Celebration of Life Ser-vices will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at First Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant. Bates-Cooper-Sloan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
By BRUCE [email protected]
Cinco de Mayo in Mount Pleasant falls on a Saturday this year, and Mother Nature is even trying to cooperate and make the weather as amenable as can be for the more than 6,500 people expected to enjoy the festivities.
The forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies and a high of around 80 degrees.
Those conditions will also of-fer a nice environment for the 60 or so students from area schools
who are taking on an ambitious project at the downtown festival — they’ll be operating lemonade stands.
It’s no coincidence that 10 such stands will be scattered around the festival grounds and in front of local businesses Sat-urday. It’s all part of the effort aimed at teaching the youths of Titus County the basics of start-ing your own business.
“We would like to encourage the community to go out and buy lemonade from these young en-trepreneurs,” said Katie Stedman,
president and CEO of the Titus County Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring “Lemonade Day” in conjunction with Cindo
de Mayo. “They are the future business leaders of Mount Pleas-
See LEMONADE page 2
OBITUARIESSusanna Brooke Grigsby
Mary Caroline WhiteRobert ‘Bobby’ Powell
Allie Fae Watkins
Robert Dwayne DurleyDianna Lynn ThompsonMateo Saucedo Medina
Adolphus Gaston
SAFE-T’s 5th Annual Superhero 5K & Fun Run brings light to the darkness of domestic violence and abuse
By TRACY [email protected]
More than 100 local “superheroes” showed up on the campus of Northeast Texas Commu-nity College Saturday to participate in SAFE-T’s 5th Annual Superhero 5K & Fun Run.
The event was free to the public and was put on by local sponsors to help spread awareness
about domestic violence and sexual assault.“The reason why we went with the super-
hero theme is because people who’ve gone through domestic violence or sexual assault, a lot of times they are afraid or they can’t com-municate what’s going on in their lives,” said Ryan Shriver, executive director of SAFE-T. “So for someone or a group of people to be able to stand up and talk about this, that makes
them heroes.”Participants were encouraged to wear their
favorite superhero attire, and local sponsors provided free T-shirts, water and snacks for the runners. Moises Netro won first place overall with a time of 16:47; Geovanni Cal-deron came in second at 18:10, and Joshua
Young “superheroes” burst off the Fun Run starting line during SAFE-T’s 5th Annual Superhero 5K & Fun Run.TRIBUNE PHOTO BY TRACY FARR
Cinco de Mayo’s ‘Lemonade Day’ helps Titus County students learn how to become entrepreneurs
VIP tickets for Saturday’s La Maquinaria Norteña concert are still available.MOUNT PLEASANT-TITUS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SuzannaGrigsby
See SAFE-T page 2
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Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas, SAFE-T, is a non-profit organization that provides confidential help to vic-tims of domestic violence and sexual assault. SAFE-T serves eight counties in Northeast Texas: Camp, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, Red River and Titus.
“On average, 1 in 5 fam-ilies go through domestic violence and sexual assault in Texas, and people don’t talk about it because it’s ta-boo, and that’s what we’re trying to turn around,” said Shriver. “As long as it hides in the dark, it’s going to spread. As long as we are able to communicate this, and take it out of the dark and bring it into the light, that’s the only way we’re going to be able to combat this issue.”
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ant, and we want them to know from a very young age that this community is behind them and believes in their success.”
Mount Pleasant is one of about 60 U.S. cities in-volved the Lemonade Day project, which began as a novel way to introduce future business leaders to the fundamentals of en-trepreneurship.
Lemonade Day was founded in Houston in 2007 by Michael and Lisa Holthouse as a non-profit organization dedicated to introducing children to the business and financial skills that are the key in-gredients of entrepreneur-ship.
“By learning these skills early in life, children will be better prepared to be successful, financially healthy adults,” states the “Who We Are” blurb at https://lemonadeday.org.
“Through our fun, hands-on program kids K-5 are empowered to start their very own business — a lemonade stand —and experience the feeling of earning real money, us-ing 100% of their profit to spend, save and share based on their own goals.”
This year students from Mount Pleasant, Hart’s Bluff and Chapel Hill ISDs join fellow youths in more than 60 other U.S. cities operating their own lem-onade stands. Over the past 10 years, the program has served more than one million kids through en-trepreneur programs.
The Mount Pleasant/Titus County Chamber of Commerce sponsors Lemonade Day locally, but they get a lot of help from the “presenting sponsors,” a list that this year includes Brookshire’s , Stephenson’s Dirt Con-
ArrestsApril 23
Miranda Kirkpatrick, 26, possession of a con-trolled substance.
Thomas J. Smith, 38, assault by contact, assault of a public servant, resist-ing arrest, taking a weapon from an officer.
April 24Logan Wayne Murrell,
25, possession of a dan-gerous drug, forgery of a financial instrument.
April 25Joey Paul Chapman,
37, assault with a deadly weapon.
Chloe McKenzie, 19, graffiti.
Edvardo Antonio Ro-driguez, 28, prohibited substance/item in a cor-rection facility.
April 26Jose Angel Becerra, 24,
driving while intoxicated.Luis Alberto Garcia, 21,
theft.Jeremy Jerome Johnson,
38, possession of a con-trolled substance, assault causing bodily injury.
Derrick Parnell Lee, 53, assault causing bodily in-jury.
Tamarra Mischelle Pina, 31, possession of a controlled substance.
Hector Adrian Vega, 20, minor consumption, drug paraphernalia, no drivers license.
April 27Miguel Angel Caceras,
24, possession of a con-trolled substance, posses-sion of a firearm by a felon.
Jacquelyn Cook, 52, sanction order.
Rachel Martinez Da-vila, 53, theft, no drivers license, in possession of drug paraphernalia.
Juan Beltran Hernan-dez, 28, mvr expired, fail-ure to appear.
Lora Marie Newman, 41, theft, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Salvador Orozco-Fuen-tes, 35, duty on striking unattended vehicle.
Moyces Tierrablanca, 23, driving while intoxicat-ed/open container.
April 28Gerald Wayne Fur-
low Jr., 53, forgery, violate promise to appear.
Silverio Sandoval-Men-dez, 36, driving while in-toxicated.
Carlene Warren, 28, fraud destroy/removal/concealment writing.
April 29Christopher Carter, 23,
possession, evading arrest, failure to identify
Josean Rodriguez Co-lon, 28, expired drivers license, operating vehicle where prohibited, leaving scene of accident.
Jordan Daniel Miller, 25, speeding, DWLI, ex-pired license plate, violate promise to appear.
Richard Jay Parrish, 49, assault family violence.
April 30Tracy McCall Basey, 51,
assault by contact.David Glenn Morrison,
48, assault, possession of marijuana and drug para-phernalia.
Jayvondous Jerome Nixon, 38, possession of marijuana.
Juan Tapia-Rios, 32, dis-regard stop sign, no drivers license, failure to appear.
James Logan Wittebort, 26, possession of firearm by felon, possession of control substance.
May 1Bobby Ladon Hall, 56,
possession of controlled substance, drug parapher-nalia.
Ocie Alza Lewis, 63, possession of controlled substance.
Phillip Brian Perry, 46, open container, driving on wrong side of road, posses-sion of marijuana.
Karla Patricia Trujil-lo, 32, possession of con-trolled substance, drug paraphernalia.
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Jarrad Warren Jones and Mandy Selene Mc-Corstin, April 23
Nicholas Lee Stiefer and Jessica Rene Hunt, April 25
Alfredo Castro and San-juanita Yessenia Ramirez, April 25
Lemonade Continued from page 1
tracting, Emily Ramon/Farmer’s Insurance
and the Chamber’s Ed-ucation Committee.
These sponsors do more than just help provide fi-nancial backing and mor-al support. They will also visit the various stands to offer critiques, with priz-es being awarded in such categories as best tasting lemonade and best stand. One in particular will be selected for a special en-trepreneur prize and then entered into a contest with other winners from across the U.S. for national con-sideration.
The experience can tru-ly pay off in a big way. St-edman said one previous participant in the Mount Pleasant Lemonade Day took the concept to its log-ical conclusion, opening a business in Austin and marketing a line of lem-onade products successful enough to not only make it onto the television show Shark Tank but also wran-gle a $10 million deal with Whole Foods.
“That’s only one person, of course,” said Stedman. “Not everyone will be a big success, but Lemonade Day does help us empow-er today’s youth to be to-morrow’s entrepreneurs.”
Stedman said the stu-dents treat their stands like a business, so they will set their own hours, but she expects most will probably be open from noon to 4 p.m. She said the lemonade stands will be located in front of the following businesses:
• Herschel’s• Dairy Queen• Nardello’s• Miss Behavin• Divine Diva’s• Mill’s Flowers• Jo’s• Lowe’s• Brookshire’s • Super 1
More information about the Titus County Lemon-ade Day can be found on-line at: https://lemonade-day.org/mount-pleasant
By BRUCE [email protected]
Lemonade Day is only one small part of the planned Cinco de Mayo festivities this Saturday in Mount Pleasant, said Elizabeth Hansen, direc-tor of first impressions for the Mount Pleasant-Titus County Chamberof Com-merce.
The annual downtown festival is free to the public and will take place starting at 12 noon Saturday, with the festivities continuing until midnight.
Hansen said VIP tick-ets for the headlining concert, La Maquinaria Norteña, are still available for a limited time at multi-ple locations.
“The $25 ticket will you get you the best view of the concert and a chance to meet the band,” Hansen said.
The VIP tickets can be purchased at the following locations:
• Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce
• Brookshire’s Mt. Pleasant
• Super One Foods• Super Bueno• Pollo BuenoBrookshire’s and Super
One Foods are also pre-senting sponsors for Cinco de Mayo this year, noted Katie Stedman, president and chief executive officer for the Chamber.
Free concerts will be presented throughout the day, Hansen said, and food vendors will line the streets to keep appetites sated in between carnival rides and exhibits.
Also on the schedule Saturday:
•Little Miss Cinco de Mayo Pageant
• Cinco de Mayo Beau-ty Pageant
• Cinco de Mayo 5K and 1K Fun Run
• 5-A-Side Soccer Tour-nament.
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From Staff Reports
Elections for places on the Mount Pleasant City Council and the Titus County Hospital District Board Of Managers will be decided on Saturday, May 5.
Three people are run-ning in contested elections for the Place 4 City Coun-cil seat, and two people are vying for a manager
at large position with the governing board of Titus County Regional Medical Center.
Other names may ap-pear on the ballots for oth-er seats, but those are for positions that drew only one candidate and were thus uncontested.
In the City Council election, Place 4 incum-bent Tim Dale is being challenged by two candi-dates, Adeel Latif and Jack
Anderson.In the hospital election,
Tony Rundles and Keena Robertson Zarcone are both seeking the manag-er-at-large post.
Early voting in the races came to a close May 1. Vot-ing Saturday will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mount Pleasant Civic Cen-ter, 1800 N. Jefferson Ave.
City council, hospital races to be decided Saturday
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Susanna Brooke Grigsby – ‘Pete’
Sunday, April 29, 2018, our Heavenly Father called Pete to trade in her earthly dance shoes for the per-fect dance floor awaiting in Heaven.
Always goofy and a joy to those around her, Suzanna couldn’t help but to give first to others whether it was din-ner she shared at the table with her brothers, a friend in need of makeup, or a home-less person on the streets of New York City. In her giving ways and spiritual maturity, she had the forethought to be an organ donor, and she will now be able to give life to others that she will never meet.
Suzanna was a member of MPHS Tiger Dolls and Raeven Dance Factory. She is survived by her boyfriend Trent John-son; Parents, Lance & Jennifer Grigsby and Rachel & Cody Matkin; Grandparents, Michelle Lawler, Dave Elliott, Jack-ie Grigsby & spouse Jerry Stacks, Bobby Matkin, Dianne & Gregg McNeal, Tommy & Clara Searcy and Honorary Grandmother, Judy Smith; Sister, Helena Smith and Lainey & Michael Sharp; Brothers, Andrew Matkin, Brandon Mat-kin, and Triston McClain.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents Terry Grigsby and Harry Lawler.
Visitation will be held from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Saturday, May 5, 2018 at First Baptist Church in Mt Pleasant, TX. Cel-ebration of Life Services will be held at 2:00 PM following visitation with Dr. Clint Davis and Bro Larry Green offici-ating. Funeral services are under the direction of Bates-Cooper-Sloan Funeral Home. The family has requested a private burial to follow afterwards.
Pallbearers will be Casey Cross, Randall McMinn, Jason Price, Roy Stoval, Chet Zachry and Rich Harmsen.
Memorial Donations can be made to The Ranch Ministry.Online registry is available at batescoopersloanfuneral-
home.com
Mary Caroline WhiteMary Caroline White passed away on April 26, 2018 in
Tyler, Texas. She was born on February 18, 1930 in Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania to Arthur J. Watts and Isabel Key Watts.
Mary was of the Baptist faith. She was a United States Army Nurse.
She is survived by her son, Bruce White and his fiancée Connie Dove; a son and daughter-in-law, Paul and Abby White; a daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and Robert Cope-land; 6 grandchildren; and 9 great-grandchildren.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Harold White, and her parents.
A visitation was held for Mary on Sunday, April 29, 2018, at Bates-Cooper-Sloan Funeral Home from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. A funeral was held Monday, April 30, 2018, at the funer-al home at 2:00 PM with burial following at Bridges Chapel Cemetery.
Robert ‘Bobby’ PowellServices for Robert “Bobby” Powell, 74, of Cornett will be
held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 28, 2018, at Cornett Cem-etery under the direction of Reeder-Davis Funeral Home in Hughes Springs.
Mr. Powell was born May 22, 1943, and passed away April
27, 2018. An online guestbook may be signed at www.reed-er-davis.com.
Allie Fae WatkinsAllie Fae Watkins, 92, of Cookville Tx passed away on
April 29, 2018 in Ft. Worth Tx. She was born on January 15, 1926 in Cookville Tx to William and Jeffie Ragland Pate.
She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy in Cookville Tx.
She is survived by her daughter Rita Eason & husband Hoppy of Cleburne Tx; sons Shelly Watkins, Dale Watkins & Joel Watkins of Cookville Tx; grandchildren Julia Hucke-ba & husband Charley of Mt. Vernon Tx, Bobbie Stewart & husband Steven of Mt. Pleasant Tx, Shonda Johnston & hus-band Michael of Godley Tx, Kris Sanches & wife Dorice of Leander Tx, James Taylor & wife Brandy of Blum Tx, Chase Watkins of Cookville Tx & Lanis Watkins of Rapid City South Dakota; great grandchildren Zoe, Julissa, Ryleigh, Annamarie, Samuel, Kamron, Olivia, Alexis & Hunter
She is also survived by numerous loving nieces, nephews & cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband Lewis Leon Watkins; brothers and sisters Bobby Pate, Pickle Pate, Mar-lene Lobil, Gladys Nicholson, Laverne Pate & son-in-law James Taylor
Visitation will be held from 1:00pm to 2:00pm Wednes-day, May 2, 2018 at the Church of God of Prophecy in Cookville, Tx with services to follow at 2:00pm.
Dianna Lynn ThompsonDianna Lynn Thomp-
son, age 62 of Mt. Pleasant, passed away on Monday April 30, 2018 in Mt. Pleas-ant, TX. Visitation will be held from 6-8 P.M. Wednes-day May 2, 2018, at Curry Welborn Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held on Thursday May 3, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at the funeral home, interment will follow at Gladewater Cemetery. She was born on December 8, 1955 to Author and Charleen Tinker. She is survived by her husband Jimmy Thompson of Mt. Pleasant; stepson and wife Brandon Thompson and Serena Thomp-son of Mt. Pleasant; stepson and wife Dusty Thompson and Jamie Thompson of Oklahoma, step grandchildren; Maddy Thompson of Mt. Pleasant TX., and Isiah Thompson of Ar-kansas; Sister and Brother-in-law Nelda and Dean Kinzel of Washington State, and Louise and Harold Broch of Ala-bama; Sisters-in-laws Joyce Porter of Bogett, TX and Kelley Scott of Mt. Pleasant. She is preceded in death by her father and mother Author and Charleen Tinker and step granddaughter Jas-mine Thompson.
Robert Dwayne Durley
Funeral services for Rob-ert Dwayne Durley, 67, a resident of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, will be Saturday,
May 5, 2018, at 11:00 A.M. at the Pine Bluff First Baptist Church, 406 Fulton Street, Pittsburg, Texas with Pastor E.A. Ballard, officiating. Burial will follow in Cedar Grove Cem-etery, Pittsburg, Texas, under the direction of Tumey Mor-tuary, Mt. Pleasant. Mr. Durley died Friday, April 27, 2018, in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. He was born in Pittsburg, Texas on May 30, 1950 to Joe Peoples and Mildred Durley.
There will be no viewing at the funeral home or any for-mal visitation with the family. The final and only viewing will be from 10:00 am to 11:00am at the church on Satur-day, May 5, 2018. Online condolences can be left at www.tumeymortuary.com
Mateo Saucedo MedinaMateo Saucedo Medina, age 70, of Mt. Pleasant, Texas,
died Saturday April 28, 2018, in Dallas, Texas. Services are pending with J.C. White Funeral & Cremation Services of Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Online condolences may be left at www.jcwhitefd.com.
Adolphus GastonAdolphus Gaston, 61, a resident of Longview and for-
merly of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, died Monday, April 30, 2018. Services are pending with Tumey Mortuary, Mt. Pleasant.www.jcwhitefd.com.
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“You keeping that old trash can?” asked someone as we disassembled the household my parents spent 62 years putting together.
“You mean this little black trash can with the poodle holding a parasol painted on it?” I asked. “Reminds me of Mom. I was just a kid the day I went with her to get this at the S&H Green Stamp store.”
Memories are a facet of harboring everything from old cars to related remnants of life past. The garage housing my trio of old cars is adorned with reminders of an era cel-ebrating the same one the cars represent, the one during which I grew up. There’s the standard complement of au-tomotive signs hawking cars and products long gone but not forgotten. But there are also a few recalling snippets of everyday life that have un-ceremoniously slipped into extinction.
Things like trading stamps.
Once a boon to generations of families, they were dealt a blow from a changing retail economy ushered in by big-box stores and finished off by the Internet.
They began almost 100 years earlier when merchants in the 1890s reportedly de-vised trading stamps as a bo-nus enticing customers to pay cash instead of carrying credit with the store (also common-place many years ago).
Gas stations followed suit about 20 years later, with chain supermarkets on board by the 1920s.
S&H Green stamps were the most popular brand, with names like Blue Chip, Gold Bond, Plaid and others employing the connotation of value and “something for free.”
Filled books of stamps were originally taken in trade for merchandise in the store giv-ing away the stamps. In 1896,
Green Stamps became the first to offer them to different types of merchants and could be exchanged at a redemption center for household items, furniture, jewelry, toys, and many other items.
Traveling from Mount Pleasant to the Green Stamp redemption center on South High Street in Longview with Mom and Granny was a Big Deal. The expectation was that Mom might have enough leftover for something fun. That seldom happened, I sus-pect because she already had her books budgeted toward household needs before mak-ing the trip.
A little budgeting today might be in order among collectors seeking an original sign identifying the brand of stamp a merchant offered for doing business with them. Inquiring about the price of one S&H Green Stamp sign at a car swap meet down close
to Houston a few years ago bordered on requiring a dose of oxygen for me to recover and continue the quest. The search continued for a cou-ple of years before happening upon one priced within my budget in an antique shop in Jefferson.
A companion for it was adopted last weekend from a car swap meet in Fort Worth when a blue and yellow sign bearing “Blue Chip Stamps,” almost covered up by other items, caught my eye.
“Blue Chip Stamps” was a competitor to S&H Green Stamps, but research yielded little history about them.
They did have cool looking signs, however. A deal was made for this one, and it was added to my garage wall col-lection.
I thought about jokingly asking the vendor if he gave trading stamps with a pur-chase until that other old stamp memory crossed my mind. The one about Mom making me lick them to stick in the books.
— Contact Leon Aldridge at [email protected]. Aldridge columns are ar-chived at leonaldridge.com
Abbott urges local officials to apply for Harvey funds
AUSTIN — Mayors, county judges and emer-gency management of-ficials in communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey received letters last week from Gov. Greg Abbott urging them to take advantage of available funding.
Some $500 million in funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Hazard Miti-gation Grant Program are available now, Abbott
said. These funds are in addition to the more than $10 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds approved by Con-gress and awarded to Tex-as earlier this year.
“The hazard mitiga-tion funds available today can provide immediate relief and resiliency to your community,” Ab-bott wrote. “As of today, the Texas Department of Emergency Management has received only sev-en complete applications from the entire region im-pacted by Hurricane Har-vey. That means hundreds of millions of dollars that are available to Texas com-munities today are not be-ing put to use.”
Abbott reminded the officials that local govern-
ments would not be obli-gated to pay the typical 25 percent local cost share for hazard mitigation grants and that $600 million of additional hazard miti-gation funds will become available in four months.
Hazard mitigation funds can be used for purposes such as:
— Buyouts and eleva-tions of flood-prone prop-erties;
— Drainage and reser-voir projects that elimi-nate future flooding;
— Projects to lessen the frequency or severity of flooding;
— Flood risk reduction projects such as dams, re-tention basins, levees and flood walls; and
— Large-scale channel-ing of waterways.
Chiefs support proposalThe Texas Railroad
Commission on April 26 joined the Texas Com-mission on Environmen-tal Quality and the Public Utility Commission of Texas in submitting com-ments on a U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agen-cy proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan adopted under the Obama admin-istration in 2015.
A letter signed by the executive directors of the three state agencies sup-ports the EPA’s proposed repeal of “Carbon Pollu-tion Emission Guidelines for Existing Electric Utility Generating Units,” known as the Clean Power Plan.
On April 27, Gov. Ab-bott, Lt. Gov. Dan Pat-rick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a joint letter to the EPA praising its intentiopn to repeal the plan. They said it “failed to produce evi-dence of greenhouse gas-es dangerous enough to necessitate federal regula-tion.”
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Mt. Pleasant Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s invite women to build up
their communities during 2018 NATIONAL
Women Build WeekSeeking volunteers
to help paint our house under construction.
Mt. Pleasant Habitat for Humanity will gather FIFTY VOLUNTEERS to help build homes in Mt. Pleasant as part of National Women Build Week.
Now in its 11th year, National Women Build Week, an initiative created by Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s, has brought together more than 117,000 all-women construction volunteers to build or repair more than 4,500 homes. This year, Lowe’s donated nearly $2 million to Habitat for Humanity to support the 2018 National Women Build Week, which is set to take place in 300 communities nationwide.
Saturday • May 5Registration is at 8:30 a.m.
903 E. 9th St. • Mt. Pleasant(parking available on 906 & 910 E. 9th St. in vacant lots next to the construction site)
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CASA of Titus, Camp and Morris Counties welcomes new volunteers (from left to right) Sissi Watts, Jodi Burton, Angelica Higueros, Barbara Lindley and Kyle Gray. The new CASA volunteer advocates took an oath on Wednesday April 25, before the Camp County Judge, Honorable Judge Loughmiller. The new CASA Advocates are now sworn in and have accepted their duties as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) Volunteer. Won’t you join us and be a part of a caring group of Volunteers that work to ensure all children placed in the foster care system, due to abuse and neglect, can have the safe, stable and nurturing environments they need to thrive? CASA volunteers speak up for a child in court so that youngster’s voice can be heard as the youth is going through the foster care system. CASA volunteers are citizens in our community, just like you, that want to make a difference in children’s lives while they are removed from their families and placed in foster care. If you want to make a difference in a child’s life, contact Michelle Cobern by calling 903-767-3679 or by visiting http://becomeacasa.org
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Mount Pleasant Public Library is accepting book donations for the upcom-ing Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale, which will be held May 31-June 2. Please bring books, CDs, magazines or DVDs that are in good condition and drop them off at the li-brary, located at 601 North Madison St. (across from City Hall).
May 3The Argo Baptist Church is observing National Day of Prayer at the church located at 141 CR 3360 at noon. This year’s theme is “Pray For America: Making every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace.” More info is available at www.nationaldayofprayer.org
May 5The East New Hope Cemetery Decoration Day will be held on Saturday, May 5. The meeting will begin with a covered dish luncheon at 12 noon in the Church Fellowship Hall, fol-lowed by a short business meeting. All those plan-ning to attend are asked to bring a covered dish of your favorite food. For those who will be unable to attend, donations may be mailed to the following address: East New Hope Cemetery FoundationP.O. Box 81Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455
A meeting will be held Saturday, May 5, at 10:30 a.m. at the Damascus Missionary Baptist Church fellowship hall. Donations can be made to Chuck Hinson, Secretary-Treasur-er, at 2301 Deanna Ave., Mt. Pleasant 75455. For more information contact Dickey Crooks, president, at 903-563-0296.
May 6A Dedicatory Service will be held May 6, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. at Mount Olive Baptist Church, 131 S. O’Tyson St. in Mt. Pleas-ant. All area churches are invited to join Mt. Olive Baptist Church for a week of Dedication Observance on April 30-May 4 at 7:30 nightly as well as the Dedi-catory Service.
The Tranquil Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 2018. The meeting will be held at the Tranquil Cemetery, located approximately 3 miles north of U.S. Hwy. 67 on CR 1070. There will be a short business meet-ing followed by a guest speaker. Anyone interest-ed in the preservation of the cemetery is invited to attend. For additional information or to make donations, contact James Maxton, 1963 CR 4330, Omaha, TX 75571. Deco-rating of graves may be done before or after the meeting.
May 8American Legion Post 210 will meet Tuesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at the Mount Pleasant Catfish King. All area veterans and Legionnaires are invited to attend.
May 10The Northeast Texas Community College Adult Education program will hold its General Education Development (GED) commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 10, 2018, at 7 p.m. at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. All students who have completed the NTCC GED program during the past year will be honored. Families and friends of graduates are invited to attend. A brief reception will be held in the Whatley Center foyer after the commencement ceremony.
May 12Cooper’s Chapel Deco-ration Day will be held Saturday, May 12, begin-ning at 10:30 a.m. with a business meeting, fol-lowed by gospel singing in the Cooper’s Chapel Church. Afterward enjoy fellowship and a covered dish luncheon on the grounds. Donations to the building fund may be sent to Beth Wilhite, Trea-surer, at 2772 CR 3250, Mt. Pleasant, TX, 75455.
The annual Monticello Woodman of the World (W.O.W.) Cemetery
Meeting and Decoration Day will be held Saturday, May 12, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Blodgett Church of Christ Fellow-ship Building located on County Road 2850 next to Tri-Lakes VFD. A pot-luck lunch will follow the meeting.
Gladewater Cemetery, located off the Harts Bluff Road (Farm Road 1402) in Mount Pleasant, will hold its annual Decora-tion Day Saturday, May 12, 2018. There will be a business meeting at 11:00 a.m. in the church followed by lunch in the Fellowship Hall. Everyone is encouraged to attend the business meeting. Donations to keep the cemetery maintained may be dropped off at the cemetery on Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12, or they can be mailed to 4321 Farm Road 1402, Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455.
Hickory Hill Decoration will be held Saturday May 12, 2018, at Hickory Church, located off of County Road 1735 on County Road 4760 in Titus County. The busi-ness meeting will start at 10:30 a.m. with a pot luck luncheon to follow. If you are unable to attend, donations may be sent to Nancy Roach Dixon, 3265 CR 4550, Mt. Pleasant. Texas 75455. Thank you in advance for your dona-tions.
The Old Union Cemetery Decoration Day will be May 12. We will have a short business meeting followed by a covered dish lunch. Donations may be sent to Mildred Rainey, PO Box 931, Mt. Pleasant, TX 75456.
May 13Seventh-day Adventist Church, 302 Lakewood Drive, hosts celebrity chef Mark Anthony for a free dinner and a message on Sunday, May 13, at 3:00 p.m. Seating is limited, so come early. More details are available by calling 903-572-7556 or online at www.ChefMarkAnthony.com
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Sophmore Caleb Thompson lays down a bunt.
PHOTOS BY JOHN WHITTEN
Tiger seniors Max Burrows, Seth Barnes, Juan “Sticks” Ottino, Alex Zaldivar, and Harrison Russell go out with a bang.
Caleb Bristow picks up the win for the Tigers on the mound. Senior Juan Ottino and assistant Coach Cody Russell celebrate after the game.
Tigers top Greenville on Senior NightBy CODY MORRIS
It was Senior Night last Friday in Mount Pleas-ant as the Tigers took on Greenville in their final district contest. Mount Pleasant made sure it was a fun night by taking the win, 6 - 1.
The Tigers got an im-mediate lift in the home first inning when Noah Bristow slammed a solo homerun to give Mount Pleasant a 1 - 0 lead.
The Tigers struck again with a four-run inning in the third. Tyler Luck, Alex Zaldivar, and Peter Noah all contributed to the big inning accounting for four RBIs collectively.
Bristow also went five and two-thirds innings on the mound for Mount Pleasant allowing only one run on five Greenville hits and striking out five. Fellow Tiger hurler, Stix Ottino took over on the mound and pitched one and one-third innings in relief to earn the save.
Mount Pleasant man-aged to make six hits in the game count. Luck and Logan Dunn each came through with two hits for the Tigers.
Chapel Hill Coach Matt Garrett honored as one of state’s top golf coachesChapel Hill Coach Matt Garrett has received word
that he will be honored in front of his peers at both the Boys and the Girls Coaching Schools this summer for being one of the top golf coaches in the state.
Both the Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA) and the Texas Girls Coaches Association (TGCA) sent information to Garrett this week of the honor.
“This is a milestone achievement,” wrote Texas Girls Coaches Association Executive Director Sam Tipton in the letter to Garrett. “This recognition before your peers is very deserving.”
Matt Garrett has coached golf for 11 of his 28 years in public schools. In the first 10 years Coach Garrett accu-mulated 300 points coaching girls golf. Unlike basket-ball, where coaches are honored at 300 wins as a varsity head coach, golf goes on a point system that is based on district championships, players/teams that advance to the regional and state rounds, along with any cham-pionships associated with those rounds.
To offer a quick illustration of what Coach Garrett has accomplished in his first 10 years of coaching golf, it would be like a varsity basketball coach having 30-win seasons for 10 years in a row. Most golf coaches go two-thirds of their careers in hopes of getting to the required 300 points to be honored.
“It is really more of a tribute to the kids I have coached and how much they are willing to listen, learn and prac-tice than it is to me,” said Coach Garrett. “I have been honored through the years to get to work with fine young athletes who have excelled.
“It is also a tribute to the golf course here at Mount Pleasant, and to the willingness to promote youth golf at our high school,” he added.
Since Coach Garrett has been at Chapel Hill, the boys golf team has advanced to regionals every year, and one or two members of the boys golf teams have finished among the top three medalists in district each year.
The girls golf team has won district every year and
has advanced a team of players to the state meet twice. Last year and this year, the girls golf team has had one of their golfers win the regional tournament meet as well.
Since coming to Chapel Hill three years ago, Coach Garrett has also founded the East Texas Junior Golf Tour. This is a summer Youth Golf Tour that plays at area courses each Monday and Thursday, finishing with a 36-hole Tour Championship that is by invitation only. The Junior Golf Tour has both boys and girls divisions and is separated by age groups: High School, Junior High, and 11 & Under.
“This is a great opportunity for our youth and youths in the area to play in a competitive setting on area cours-es throughout the summer,” Coach Garrett said.
The summer tour has seen players from Greenville to Paris to Tyler to Texarkana that play on the East Texas Junior Golf Tour. They play at area golf courses all over East Texas, centered around Mount Pleasant. Anyone who has a youth golfer that could be interested in play-ing this tour can visit the website to learn more infor-mation at: http://www.texasjuniorgolf.myfreesites.net
By the way, Coach Garrett could also hit 600 wins this season in basketball — we will just have to wait and see!
— Story courtesy of Chapel Hill ISD
Chapel Hill Coach Matt Garrett with his THSCA Certificate and his Official TGCA Letter. The documents mean that Garrett will be recognized this summer before his peers for outstanding achievement as a boys and girls golf coach.
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Rivercrest Lady Rebels claim bi-district championshipBy GREG D. RUSSELL
The Rivercrest Lady Reb-els got a late start at North-east Texas Community College last Thursday night, but scoring six runs in the sixth inning helped them to win the 2018 Bi-District Championship by a score of 9-4 over Maud.
After a long Mt. Vernon vs. Hooks game and an injury requiring attention from paramedics, the first pitch was thrown a little after 9 p.m. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fourth inning, when Russell and Conway scored, putting the Rebels up 2-0.
In the top of the fifth,
three of four batters grounded out for Maud before Rushing scored putting the Lady Rebels up 3-0. The Lady Rebels gave up 2 runs in the sixth inning, and then the bats came alive.
Womack, Bishop, Ward, Rushing, Lichtenwalter and Walton all scored, mak-ing the score 9-2. Maud finished their scoring in the 7th by adding 2 runs, which brought the final to 9-4.
The Lady Rebels had 10 hits in the game. Womack, Rushing and Russell each had two hits. Walton and Bishop had an RBI apiece, and Womack had two
RBIs. Russell pitched the 7, allowing 4 runs, 8 hits, 3 strike outs and one walk.
The Lady Rebels will play for the Area Champion-ship this week in Hughes
Spring. It will be a two-out-of-three series with Overton (16-5, 8-3 district)
starting Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday at 6 p.m., then noon Saturday if needed.
The Rivercrest Lady Rebels are taking on Overton this week in a best two out of three series for the area championship.
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The Lady Tiger softball players are all smiles after claiming the Bi-district crown and advancing in the playoffs.
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Lady Tigers advance in softball playoffsBy JEREMY TARRANT
The Mount Pleasant Lady Tigers swept Mesquite Po-teet in the Bi-District round of the Class 5A softball playoffs in the best of three series at Bullard Brook Hill School. Mount Pleasant (22-8) won game one, 3-0 and game two, 5-1.
The Lady Tigers shut out Poteet in game one behind a dominating pitching performance from Junior Averie Ayers. Ayers went the distance inside the circle, pitching the 7-inning shutout. She allowed only three baserun-ners in the game, giving up three hits and struck out 13 Poteet hitters.
MP jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the second, as junior Pinky Green connected for a solo blast over the left field fence. The Lady Tigers added two insurance runs in the top of the sixth inning, pushing the score to 3-0. MP loaded the bases with a walk by Blakely Cheek and back-to-back singles by Ayers and Jordan Dick-erson. Kamille Gill drew a one-out RBI walk to score Cheek and push the score to 2-0. Ayers scored the third run, as Green reached on a Poteet error.
Mount Pleasant claimed the Bi-District title with a 5-1 win in game two. MP once again used great pitching and timely hitting, as they did in game one. Freshman
BreAsia Hargrave took to the circle in game two for the Lady Tigers. She picked up the win, allowing one unearned run on two hits, while striking out four and walking one in five innings of work. Ayers pitched the final two innings, surrendering one hit and fanning four in the two-inning save.
The Lady Tigers jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the home first, as Cheek walked and scored on RBI double by Carson Zachry. Poteet tied the game with their only run of the series in the fourth inning on a hit and two Mount Pleasant miscues.
The Lady Tigers would regain a lead they would not give up in the home half of the fifth as they scored four runs. Cheek doubled to start the inning. Dickerson and Gill drew walks in the frame to load the bases. Cheek scored on a wild pitch, pushing the score to 2-1. Green cleared the bases with her second homerun of the series, belting a three-run blast to give Mount Pleasant the fi-nal 5-1 advantage.
The Lady Tigers advance to the Area round to face Prosper in a best of three series, Game one is scheduled for Thursday, May 3 at Rockwall HS at 7:00 pm. Game two will be Friday, May 4 at Texas A&M – Commerce at 7:00 pm and if needed. game three – Saturday May 5 at TAMU-Commerce at 1:00 pm.
Tera Beth Rozell will soon compete in the Texas High School Rodeo Association State Finals in Abilene.
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Local barrel racer earns spot in state finals
From staff reports
Pittsburg resident and sophomore at Chapel Hill High School, Tera Beth Rozell, knows a little about rodeo and barrel racing specifically. The local teenager recently qualified to participate in the barrel racing event at the Texas High School Rodeo Association State Finals in Abilene June 9 -16 this year.
Contestants compete in rodeos throughout the year in one of 10 regions across the state. At the last rodeo of regional competition, the top 10 competitors in each event are announced. These contestants then represent their region at the THSRA state finals.
The state finals rodeo is an annual, week-long event where students across Texas and surrounding states come and compete. Numerous awards, scholarships and the opportunity to represent Texas at the Nation-al High School Finals Rodeo held each July are up for grabs.
Stone rocks at Junior PGA
Last weekend, Jackson Stone of Harts Bluff, took first place at the Metro Division of the Junior PGA tournament. Jackson has been practicing with the Mount Pleasant Junior High School players every day after school before heading out to the course with his coach and father, Dr. Edgar Zambrano. It seems to be paying off. Out of 24 13-14-year-old boys, Jack-son shot a 76 to win the tournament.
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The Chapel Hill Girls Golf Team finished the regional tournament in sixth place. Pictured are Coach Matt Garrett with team members Mason Garrett, Makenzi Edwards, Katelyn Baker, Katy Kidwell and Hallie Hall.
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Chapel Hill golfer Mason Garrett repeats as regional championSophomore sets sights on medalling at state tournament
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Chapel Hill girls golfer Mason Gar-rett continued her dominating play on the links this past week, winning the regional title by four strokes to give her back-to-back District and Region-al Championships.
Mason shot a two-day, 36-hole total of 164 (80, 84) at Oak Hurst Golf Club in Bullard to claim the victory. She also won the regional title last year as a freshman, advancing to the state meet to finish eighth overall. This year, she is trying to play her way to a top-three medal as a sophomore.
Mason held a two-shot lead after the first day, then put in another solid round to push her lead to four shots.
But Lindsey Bullard from Callisburg would not go away, and at one point cut Mason’s lead to even with three holes to play. But on the final three holes — which were some of the more difficult ones of the layout at Oak Hurst Golf Club — Bullard went double-bogey, bogey, bogey to finish four shots back.
“I am excited to get to go back to the state meet again,” said Mason Garrett.
“The plan this time is to win it all!”
she added enthusiastically.The Chapel Hill Girls Golf Team —
which in addition to Mason Garrett includes Katy Kidwell, Hallie Hall, Katelyn Baker and Makenzi Edwards — finished the Regional Tournament in sixth place, 33 shots out of third place for the chance to advance to the state meet.
The state golf tournament willl be played May 21-22 at Greyrock Golf Club in Austin.
Mason Garrett prepares to hit an approach shot. The Chapel Hill sophomore won the regional golf championship last week by four strokes.
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Chapel Hill Golf Coach Matt Garrett and Girls Regional Champion Mason Garrett.
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Tyson Foods es un empleador de igualdad de oportunidades. Todos los solici-tantes calificados serán considerados independientemente de su raza, origen natural, color, religión, edad, sexo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, incapacidad, o estatus de veterano.
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LANDSCAPER / YARD PERSONIn search of candidate with landscape gardening knowledge and related equipment experience.
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CYPRESS BANK is seeking a highly motivated indi-vidual to serve as Debit Card Manag-er at our Pittsburg office. Essential duties include; manage all deb-it card activity, including debit card compromises and developing procedures. Job requirements: 2-3 years debit card experience with 1-3 years super-vising experience; good verbal and written commu-nication skills; strong customer service skills; good working knowl-edge of Word and Excel. Apply at 120 S Greer Blvd in Pittsburg or mail resume to Cypress Bank, Attention: Sheri Russell, PO Box 849, Pitts-burg, Texas 75686. Cypress Bank is an Equal Opportu-nity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disability.
Hiring experienced cook and waitress. Apply in person. Big Earl’s, 2999 Hwy 11W, Pitts-burg.
Titus County Tax Office is seeking a full time deputy clerk. Applicants should have com-puter experience, 10 key calculator, checkup and balance work daily, answer multiple phone calls and provide excellent customer ser-vice. Resumes or applications may be e-mailed to [email protected] or brought to the office located at 110 S Madison Avenue, Mt Pleas-ant, Texas.
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Page 12 • TribNow.com May 2, 2018PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTSNortheast Texas Unidos hosts ‘Dia Del Niño’ celebration
Dellwood Park was the place to be Saturday, as local families and businesses celebrated Children’s Day, bet-ter known as Día del Niño.
Día del Niño has been observed throughout Mexico since 1925 and is a time to honor children. The Mount Pleasant event, put on by Northeast Texas Unidos with the help of local sponsors, featured games, music, danc-ing, bouncy castles, free food, cotton candy, a talent show and much more.
“We were amazed at the amount of the community that came,” said Suzie Castillo, Unidos’ community out-reach director. She said so many more people came to the free event than they expected that they ran out of food and had to make a quick dash to Brookshire’s to restock. “We wanted to make it free so the kids could come and have a good time, and we loved that the busi-nesses supported us.”
During the event, Unidos also hosted a baby Diapers & Wipes Drive in support of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Titus, Camp and Morris Coun-ties.
NETX Unidos is a volunteer-run, non-profit organi-zation dedicated to giving a voice to the Northeast Texas Latino community. Their goal is to advance education, healthcare rights, civil rights and economic possibilities for local Latinos.
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