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Celebrating Armstrong County

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019VOLUME 130, NUMBER 8

The community of Claude is chang-ing and thriving!

Our little town has grown so much in the past five years with adding new businesses, making the square a place for people to WANT to stop and en-joy, and a community that families are moving to in the hopes of becoming a future MUSTANG with a sense of pride and fellow-ship! With all of that being said, a group of communi-ty members have come to-gether to think through the most important aspect of our community- our chil-dren!

If you are a resident of Claude, you know that the heart of the town is located at the kids’ baseball field and park. Spring is spent with kids and parents gath-ering around the baseball field and parents taking their children to the park to enjoy time outside. How-ever, our park needs help. Our park needs you!

A committee has been created to start think-ing through updating our local park. Committee members include the fol-

lowing: Stephanie Ash-worth--Committee Chair; Sara Honea; Shenee Bich-sel; Brianna Conrad; Kail-ee Lewis; Rachel Sanders; and Kendra Sherrill.

So where are we in our process? “We have done a lot of research and pricing,” shared Stephanie Ashworth. “Before you ap-ply for grants or anything, you have to know what you want and how much it’s going to cost. We have been doing a lot pre-plan-ning. We want to develop one cohesive plan mov-ing forward.” As a group, we have identified and mapped out phases within the improvement Plan.

Step One: New park equipment- main structure.

Step Two: Swings and additional play equipment for different ages (think-ing through children under 5). This includes updating what is already in place and/or purchasing new if need be.

Step Three: Future sidewalk and walking area.

Our next step is acquir-ing a piece of playground equipment that will be the main centerpiece for the playground area of Carroll Park. The playground area is north of the little league baseball field.

We have been talking with the City of Claude employees and there is a fund setup that is specif-ically allocated for this purchase and the growth of the public park-Carroll Park account. To help get us off to a good start, The Claude Treasure Chest made a sizeable donation of $2,000. “We were so excited and blessed to re-ceive the Treasure Chest’s donation,” said Ashworth. “Their continued dedica-tion to giving back to the community is truly to be admired. This gift will very soon be a tangible gift that the whole community can enjoy.”

However, with buying new equipment the amount of money that is needed is still lacking. We hope to get our community mem-bers help with future fund-raisers and donations. Any donation can be sent to the City of Claude- Carroll Park (Memo: New Park Equipment). Fundraising projects will be shared with the community SOON!

I know people have asked questions about what we are going to do in the future to keep the park safe and well-maintained. Ashworth says, “We have been in touch with the

Sheriff’s Office about our safety concerns. Part of our pre-plan-ning has in-cluded quotes for better light-ing which will make it harder for vandals to hide and in-crease safety. There is also a plan for a tall-er fence that would lock. We don’t want the park to become a safe haven for bad behavior.” The committee also realizes the importance of valuing the money, time, and invest-ments the com-munity has and will continue to make over the course of the park project.

Stay tuned to the newspa-per and/or reach out to the Park Committee members for information to come! We are excited to get the ball rolling and start moving forward with cre-ating a beautiful, fun place for our children to play!

We appreciate any and all feedback from our community in regards to the Carroll Park Improve-ment Plan. Please reach out to Stephanie Ashworth at sashworth1024@gmail.com. She will be sharing

all information with com-mittee members to listen to all feedback in order to create a place that our entire community can be proud of!

BY THE CLAUDE PARKS COMMITTEE & CHRISTIANA MUSTION

Donations to the ParkGet the Project Rolling

Carroll Park is the community epicenter for fun and events such as the annual Community Easter Egg Hunt in addition to being a regu-lar play hangout. photo courtesy of Stephanie Ashworth

Chester Butler, 77, of Claude died Sunday, Feb-ruary 17, 2019.

Graveside services will be at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 21, 2019, at Claude Cemetery. Memorial services will fol-low at 11:00 a.m., at First Baptist Church Chapel in Amarillo with Dr. How-ard K. Batson officiating. Arrangements are by Box-well Brothers Funeral Di-rectors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.

Chester was born July 29, 1941, in Borger to Glenn and Mae Butler. He married Shirley June Haney on February 23, 1962, in Claude. Chester was a member and deacon at First Baptist Church in

Amarillo.Chester was a

member of Armstrong County 4-H and served on the Claude Ceme-tery Board for many years. He also served many years in the Claude Fire Depart-ment. He was a farm-er, rancher, auctioneer, sold headstones for Osgood, and owner of West Texas Therapeu-tic.

He was preceded in death by his parents;

and daughter, Shana But-ler.

Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Shirley June Butler, of the home; a daughter, Shelly Allen and husband Pat, of Canyon; a son, Kyle Butler and wife Desha, of Claude; and four grandchildren, Tiffany and Tyler Allen, and Addison and Breleigh Butler.

The family suggests memorials to Claude Fire Department.

1941 - 2019

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Emily Gene Taylor Heckman, 85, of Claude passed away on Thursday, February 14, 2019 in Am-arillo.

Services will be held on Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the Claude United Methodist Church. Rev. Dan Carter will be officiating. Burial will follow at the Good-night Cemetery.

Emily Taylor Heck-man was born in Lov-ington, New Mexico on January 30, 1934 to Luke and Bertie May Taylor. She was blessed to have four children, Vickie Jo Bailey, Buster Kirkland (married to Pam), Janie Burkhalter (married to Rick) and Mike Kirkland. In 1981 Emily married the love of her life Ray Heck-man. They moved south of Claude where they built a house and lived there near the Palo Duro Canyon for many years. Their new blended family now in-cluded Ray’s children Pat Arnold, Randy Heckman, and Sherri Shipman (mar-ried to Emil). Together they loved this blended family and were bless-ed with sixteen grand-children and twenty-five great-grandchildren.

Emily was raised by a 4th generation ranch family in Lea County New Mexico. After graduating from Lovington she attend-ed and graduated Cum Laude with a BBA in Computer Science from New Mexico State University. Upon graduation in 1970 she and her four children then relocated to Pan-handle, TX where she was employed by Pan-tex as a Systems Ana-

lyst until her retirement. She was very active

in the community as a faithful member of the Claude United Methodist Church, teaching, serving and encouraging the shut-ins. Emily was an accom-plished painter and served several offices in the Amarillo Fine Arts. She also served her beloved community by delivering Meals on Wheels, vol-unteering at the Treasure Chest and the Armstrong Co. Museum, as well as various other community activities.

Emily’s husband Ray Heckman preceded her in death. Emily Gene Heck-man went to be with her beloved Savior and Friend Jesus Christ on Valentine’s Day.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests that do-nations be sent to the First United Methodist Church in Claude.

To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Emily Gene Heckman please visit our Sympathy Store.

1934 - 2019

Emily Heckman, 85Obituaries

COMMUNITY CALENDARARMSTRONG COUNTY MUSEUM (ACM) AND THE CHARLES GOODNIGHT HISTOR-ICAL CENTER (GHC) WELCOME VISITORS. ACM is open Tues.-Sat., 12-4pm, and is located at 120 N. Trice St., Claude. GHC is open Tues.-Sat., 10-5pm and is located at 4989 Co. Rd. 25 in Goodnight, TX, just south off of Hwy 287. Plan a visit soon. For more information, call 806-944-5591 or 806-226-2187 or see the website www.CharlesGoodnight.org.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR ARMSTRONG COUNTY MUSEUM MEETING - Tues. Feb. 26, 7 p.m, Board RoomSPRING BREAK/NO SCHOOL - Mon. Mar. 11th thru Fri. Mar. 15th, ALL DAY, Claude Independent School District/WEE SchoolCOMMISSIONERS COURT - Mon. Mar. 11th, 9:00 a.m., Armstrong County CourthouseCLAUDE CITY COUNCIL - Mon. Mar. 11th, 5:30 p.m., City HallCISD EARLY DISMISSAL - Thurs. Apr. 18th, Claude Independent School District, Don’t forget to pickup your kids! CISD NO SCHOOL - Fri. Apr. 19th, ALL DAY, Claude Independent School District, *Unless we have a snow dayEASTER - Sun. Apr. 21st, ALL DAYCLAUDE CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE - Sat. May 4th, 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Maps will be located around townMOTHER’S DAY - Sun. May 12th, ALL DAY, Let mom know how much you love and appreciate her!CISD EARLY DISMISSAL - Thurs. May 23rd, Claude Independent School District, Don’t forget to pickup your kids! CHS GRADUATION - Fri. May 24th, Claude Inde-pendent School District

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BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIESFebruary 23rdCarolyn LoweJohn MoffettCarrie Moore

Shawn Hatfield

February 24thJeremiah HughesJames RobinsonOwen Stephens

February 25thHarold LehnickTessa Morrow

Adalyn Eddleman

February 26thAngela Ashworth

McKenna ShippArlys Welch

M/M Gary HarclerodeM/M Rhett Hubbard

February 27thTaylor BeadlesTravis LuttrellBrooks Myers

February 28thBlair Hubbard

Dee OlesJanice Ripple

February 29th

Western art from well-know artists is now on exhibit at the Art Gal-lery of Armstrong County Museum (ACM), 120 N. Trice St., in Claude. The art pieces are framed and ready for sale as well as reminiscent viewing.

Reata Gallery owned and operated by Vicki Sprouse of Canyon has provided this quality west-ern art show. Some of the artists represented are Bill Owen, Wayne Baize, Dino Cornay, Robert “Shoofly“ Shufelt, Terri Kelly Moyer, Tim Cox and more. Vicki says she “values the joy that many of the paintings

bring to those who view them or purchase them. Sometimes a painting will remind the viewer of a childhood or family mem-ory, or one of their favorite buckskins.”

You can also find Reata Gallery art pieces at The Right Angle frame shop in Amarillo at 4123 West 34th. In addition, the website displays various pieces www.ReataGallery.com and contact informa-tion.

The appealing west-ern art will be on display and for sale at ACM Art Gallery through April. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 12-4pm. Come by and enjoy the art and visit the local Muse-um.

SUBMITTED BYKAY HENARDCHAIR, ARMSTRONG CO MUSEUMBOARD OF DIRECTORS

Western ArtExhibit at the

Armstrong County Museum

PUBLIC NOTICEArmstrong County

Commissioners Court will open sealed bids at 9:00 a.m., Monday, March 4, 2019, for a DSHS Staging Area Building. For more information and/or specifications, please contact

Emergency Management Coordinator, Nathan McKee at

254-317-8034.ARMSTRONG COUNTY

COMMISSIONERS COURT

The Claude ISD PTO recently bought two weather proof boxes as well as new sports balls, sand toys, and chalk for the playground. The stu-dents in K-6th grade have loved having these addi-tions at recess time. We so appreciate the continued support of the the PTO and

everything that they do for the school. If any commu-nity members would like to donate sports balls (bas-ketballs, footballs, tennis balls, volleyballs, soccer balls), gently used baseball gloves, sand toys or side-walk chalk, the students at Claude Elementary would welcome more! Donations can be made in the elemen-tary office.

SUBMITTED BYJESSIE BEVILL, COUNSELORCLAUDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Thank You, PTO!

Lady Stangs Fallto Nazarethin Play-Off

The Claude Lady Mustangs advanced to the playoffs. The playoffs are very difficult, and if a team loses, their basketball sea-son is over.

To start their trip to state, the Lady ‘Stangs faced the Higgins Coyotes. They played on February 12, 2019 at West Texas High School.

Shiloh Heck was the leader in points. She scored twenty-two points. Lanie Stapp had fourteen points. Aubrie Brannon had ten.

The Lady ‘Stangs had a slow start with a first quarter score of 12-12 points. Wanting to pull ahead, the Stangs managed to twenty points in the second quarter, as well as keep Higgins to only scor-ing three points.

After half time, each quarter gave Higgins elev-en more points. However, the Lady Mustangs scores eight in the third and six-teen in the fourth. There-fore, the Lady Mustangs won, 56-37.

After defeating the

Higgin Coyotes, Claude had to play Nazareth for the Area title. However, Claude fell just a tad short.

The Lady ‘Stangs came out with a fire, lead-ing in the first quarter with a score of 10-7. They fell short of the victory with a score in Nazareth’s favor, 58-21.

The Lady Mustangs had a great basketball sea-son. They improved great-ly and learned to work as a team. Their season is over, but the players are still in our community working to serve others.

BY ALYSSA HIGGSSTUDENT REPORTER

The digital age has given new generations of parents something extra to worry about:

How much screen time is too much?

Physicians, teachers and psychologists gener-ally agree that spending inordinate amounts of time immersed in computers, smartphones or social me-dia can negatively impact a child’s developing mind and body. A screen time study published recently in JAMA Pediatrics found a link between excessive screen time and later de-velopment milestones.

Other studies have associated digital overuse with teen depression, and the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidelines suggesting dai-ly limits on screen time for different age groups.

“It’s the responsibility of the parents to get con-trol of this and guide their children, from a young age, on the positives and negatives of screen time,” says Christine Kyriakakos Martin (www.youvegot-thisparenting.com), an early education expert and author of You’ve Got This! Keys To Effective Parent-ing For The Early Years.

“Parents can often think it’s acceptable for a young child to spend a couple hours with an iPad,

but the type of education the iPad game is provid-ing isn’t always the type of learning most needed at that stage.”

Martin has sugges-tions for how parents can manage screen time and decrease a child’s risk for screen-related health or de-velopmental problems:

Distinguish screen time from play time. Play is a fundamental learn-ing tool for young chil-dren, but parents, Martin says, should not think of screens as toys for play time. “When screen time is limited and separated from other types of play, parents show their children the im-portance of setting bound-aries, using their imagina-tions, and being active.”

Get involved. Parents who engage with their children about on-screen activities can help them increase their communica-tion skills and teach them how to navigate digital media. “Parents can talk with their children about the videos they watch and games they play like they would discuss characters and plotlines in a book,” Martin says. “When there is parental engagement like this, a child’s vocab-ulary and literacy skills develop and family com-munication gets stronger.”

Make mealtimes

screen-free. “Eliminate screens from the meal ta-ble, including when you’re out at a restaurant,” Mar-tin says. “While it can be tempting to pack the iPads to have some adult con-versation while you’re out to eat, doing this doesn’t teach your children about manners, properly engag-ing in conversation, or being mindful of other pa-trons.”

Set a good example. It will be harder for a child to disengage from screens if his or her parents are consistently looking down at their own phones or tab-lets. “Remember,” Martin says, “your children learn from your example. If they see you spending a lot of time with your face in front of a screen, they’ll also want to use technol-ogy at the same time. Try your best to save your time on social media for your lunch break, during nap time, or after your children have gone to bed.”

“Learning how to use screens, verbally commu-nicate or socially interact will have a positive im-pact on language skills, relationships and over-all health,” Martin says. “Spending time with their parents, learning through play is what young chil-dren need and want.”

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WEEK OF DECEMBER 2

Jaycee Morris Mrs. Minkley, PreK

Dakota Frost Mrs. Burns, Kindergarten

Ambrie Gardner Mrs. Grange, 2nd Grade

Dylan Sims Mrs. Grange, 2nd Grade

Cecil ia Renteria Mrs. Bevill, Kindergarten

Saturday, December 10th 2:00—4:00 p.m.

We invite you to come and play games, decorate cookies, have some great fun,

and win some prizes

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Zack Owens

Claude senior Zack Owens is this week's spotlight. Zack proudly claims he has lived in Claude for 18 years. His favorite color is ocean blue, favorite class is English, and his favorite teacher is Mrs. Maxfield. When it comes to food, Zack keeps it simple. He loves "a good ole' chicken fried steak." Growing up Zack loved to watch Tom and Jerry, and his favorite team is "The Claude Mustangs!" After graduation, Zack is planning on attending Texas Tech University. Where he will be majoring in business with a marketing minor. Dancing is a big part of Zack's life, and his favorite thing to do in his free time is "Go dancing with his friends and family." While attending Claude High School, Zack has played football, basketball, baseball, track and cross country. He was also involved with FFA, FCA, and Student Council. If Zack was stranded on a deserted island, he would feel prepared as long as he had a rocking chair, a Don Edwards album, and a dancing partner. His role model in life is his father, Cody Owens, who taught him many things, including dancing. He has loved living in Claude. Zack states that the best thing about living in Claude is "the hospitality that everybody shows you no matter what the circumstances." Zack is a fine, hard working young man who understands the importance of family. He is mature beyond his years, and I am sure Claude is going to be proud of what he accomplishes with his life.

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Goodnight Community Thanksgiving Dinner

The Goodnight Com-munity hosted their an-nual Thanksgiving Din-ner on Saturday evening, November 19th. Every-one in attendance had a wonderful time and en-joyed some delicious food.

McKay Wilkerson

The Senior Spotlight was created to celebrate the graduating stu-dents of Claude High School and today is one the best; McKay Wilker-son. McKay and her family have lived in Claude for the past nine years. McKay loves her English class, Mrs. Shelley Thornton, spaghetti, and the Texas Rangers.

After graduating McKay plans to attend Amarillo College, then onto West Texas A&M. She plans getting her degree in computer information systems. While attending Claude High School McKay has been involved in band, softball, cheerleading, student council, FFA and yearbook. Out of all the memories McKay has made her favorite is “getting the sweep-stakes trophy and getting to go to state for our brass ensemble.

In her free time McKay likes to hang out with friends and listen to music. For her role model McKay stated that her Aunt Perri is hers. “She always was happy and that pushes me to be a better person.” McKay will miss “Her best friends” after graduating. McKay has been a constant source of leadership and pride during her days as a Claude Mustang. She is surely going on to do amazing things.

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MASON EADSMrs. Minkley’s, 2nd GrHe is a great example for

his table.

VALERIA VEGAMrs. Minkley’s, 2nd GrShe is a rockstar inside of

the classroom and out.

REMINGTON CROWELLMrs. Moffett’s, 3rd GrHe always offers to help

students when I am busy with other kids.

H.J. BEBOUTMrs. Moffett’s, 3rd Gr

She picks up trash at lunch and always uses

good manners.

WEEK OFFEBRUARY 22, 2018

STARSTUDENTS

Big changes are in store not only for Claude but for the current home of Graphic Ink. Todd Peden and the Graphic Ink crew are hard at work bringing the people of Armstrong County something new--Pendelton’s.

Pendelton’s will be an

old fashioned soda foun-tain and ice cream par-lor. Everyone in town is excited and can’t wait to taste the treats. The open-ing is set for Saturday, March 9th. More news in next week’s edition of The Claude News.

Coming Soon:Pendelton’s Ice Cream Parlor

PALO DURO NURSING HOME Claude, Texas. Positions Available: Eve-ning Dishwasher 3-8 pm and Relief Cook. For more information call 806-226-5121.

JOB OPPORTUNITY PALO DURO NURSING HOME Claude, TX 79019We are looking for an in-dividual responsible for planning and directing a program of diversified ac-tivities, mental and physi-cal stimulation, and create an invigorating social at-

mosphere for residents in a long term care nursing home. POSITION: AC-TIVITIES DIRECTOR – Certification preferred, but not required. Please send resume to: Bjackson@paloduronursing.com Call: 806/226-5121

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