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GISD Reports Enrollment Up; Approves Partnership with CityBy Delania RaneyTh e Weekly News

GAINESVILLE – Enrollment continues to increase at Gaines-ville Independent School District according to Superintendent Dr. Des Stewart. Stewart presented a report on GISD enrollment and attendance numbers during the March 25, 2019 regular GISD board meeting in the administra-tion building on South Morris Street. “Th ese are numbers that we ac-tively track month in and month out because we want to defi nitely ensure our students fi t within the envelopes of our school build-ings,” he said. Stuart reported enrollment is 94 students above this time last year but is likely to a drop a bit. “Th is is that time of year where we start to see a change,” Stewart said. “And it’s defi nitely a down-ward change. You know, people are moving for whatever rea-sons… but again, we’re still well above our projected enrollment for the ’18-’19 school year.” He also addressed attendance issues. “On the attendance side, we’ve also seen a slight dip in our at-tendance,” he said. “At this point last year, we were at about 95.2 percent. Th is year, we’re at about 94.2 percent so about 1 point diff erential between this year and last year.” He noted fl u and other season-al illnesses had a negative impact on both student and staff atten-dance. Stewart also noted the board will change the date for the May 20 school board meeting to Tues-day, May 21. Monday, May 20 is an unused bad weather day. No classes will be held that day. Corey Fickes of Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson, LLP

presented a report on delinquent tax collection for the district. Th e report spanned a period from July 2018 to December 2018. “Th e great news is that your top ten tax payers have all paid,” Fickes said. In addition, Fickes noted the fi rm has recovered $230,959 in delinquent taxes for the district. Real property makes up the bulk of GISD’s tax base at $255,328. Business personal property is at $83,390 and min-eral interests account for $19,204 according to Jan. 7, 2019 data from the Cooke County Ap-praisal District. Th e board also heard an update on GISD construction projects. Th e agriculture facility is un-dergoing some fi nal, minor fi xes, according to James Beers, direc-tor of architecture with Eikon Consulting. Leaks have been sealed at the multipurpose facility, he said. Th e board also unanimously approved a slate of action items including a resolution extend-ing depository contract for funds with First State Bank for an addi-tional two years and a Memoran-dum of Understanding (MOU) between GISD and the city of Gainesville for use of the junior high gym facilities. Stewart said the MOU is a partnership which will allow Gainesville Parks and Recreation to use the athletic facility for adult league games. “Now before we even came to the table I wanted to make one thing [certain] with the city that our students take precedent over those facilities as well as the school so that in the event we had school events or school ath-letic events which we’re looking at expanding our middle school athletic events into the summer months that those individuals

have fi rst priority,” Stewart said. Th e adult league athletic events

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KingAroundTown

by Grice King

Yep the dreaded day is here. Teenager. Dane our oldest is offi cially 13. For anyone who knows Dane, it is very appropri-ate that his birthday is on April 1st (April Fool’s Day). We had his party a bit before his birth-day so we could do it on the weekend and then this morning (Monday April 1) before school I gave him a shout to come to the table we had made him an-

other special cake aside from the one at his party the day be-fore. “Really?!?!” He was so ex-cited. “Dane, this cake is made with special sprinkles that smell good, you might have to get up close to smell them,” I said. So, without fail he gets his face re-ally close to the cake. Seeing as how it was April Fool’s Day, I naturally gently assisted his face right into the cake. Yes, a nose covered with white frosting! He started laughing so hard and that smile was worth a million dollars. Th ink we made his day. Happy Birthday Dane, we love you and welcome to the teenage world.

Here is some of what’s hap-pening around town this week.

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Th ere is a Benefi t Fundraiser for Sarah Cunningham and Family on Sunday, April 14 at Whiskey River in Oak Ridge from 1:00 to 7:00 pm. Cost of the BBQ Sandwich meal is a donation of any size. Th ere will be auctions and raffl es. Tom McElvain and Cody Joe Pope will be performing. Auc-tioneer will be Myers Jackson from DIY’s show Texas Flip and Move.

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Texas Department of State Health Services, 1714 Justice Center Blvd, Suite A is host-ing an Immunization Clinic.

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NTMC Board Discusses Large Funds TransferBy Delania RaneyTh e Weekly News

GAINESVILLE – Members of the Gainesville Hospital District Board scrutinized, at the Mon-day, March 25 regular meeting, expenditures which have taken a nearly $8 million fund balance to close to $5 million. “In December, we had nearly $8 million $400,000 in the dis-trict operating budget account,” Board member Ken Arterbury said. “At the end of February, we were down to $5.5 million. How did we spend almost $3 million in two months?” Th e answer is apparently linked to cash receivables and a $1.2 million draw from the district to fund payroll during the CHC transition and other expenses. Board of Directors President Andy Anderson said Community Hospital Corporation was within its rights to use district funds for expenses. “Contractually, when we leased this, we agreed as a board, maybe it was 7-2, but we agreed, the majority of the board, up to $3 million that CHC could draw

from us,” Anderson said. “Re-member…. Th ey didn’t come

in here with an infusion of capi-tal…. Th ey took over the hos-

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EVENT SCHEDULEWednesday, April 10 – Recipients and their guests travel from DFW International Airport to Gaines-ville via motorcade on I-35. Th e public is encour-aged to welcome the recipients from overpasses along the motorcade route. Arrival is generally in the late afternoon but the exact time may vary due to traffi c conditions.

Friday, April 12, 10 a.m. – Tree dedication cer-emony at the Home Grown Heroes Walking Trail. Directions: Enter on Main Street between Lindsay and Denison Streets or access the trail’s midway points at Garnett and Taylor Streets. Th e trail is ac-cessible to the disabled at Howeth and Moss streets.

Saturday, April 13, 10 a.m. – Annual MOH pa-rade. Th e parade route begins at the Santa Fe De-pot off California Street and continues to Braums. A book signing is planned for 1 to 3 p.m. Satur-day at the Gainesville Civic Center at 311 South Weaver Street.

Note: Tickets are no longer available for the Patriot Dinner scheduled for Th ursday, April 11 and the Medal of Honor banquet set for Friday, April 12.

Home and Garden Lifestyle Expo - Guests and exhibitors were on hand Sat-urday, March 30 and Sunday March 31 for Gainesville Parks & Recreation’s Home & Garden Lifestyle Expo at the Gainesville Civic Center. The event featured products and services for home and landscape needs along with food trucks and bounce houses. (The Weekly News Photos)

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GAINESVILLE - Regents of the North Central Texas Community College Dis-trict met Monday, March 25, 2019 kicking off a long list of recognitions and achievements including

honoring Van Hedrick who was inducted into the North Texas Junior College Ath-letic Conference (NTJCAC) Hall of Fame. Hedrick is the Athletic Director and Head Softball Coach for NCTC. He has been the only head softball coach in the 20-year history of the NCTC program and has over 810 wins, mak-ing him the winningest ac-tive junior college coach in Texas. His teams have won two NTJCAC Champion-ships, three NJCAA Region V North Championships, and have advanced to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament three times in a span of nine years. Regents also recognized the North Central Texas Small Business Develop-ment Center (SBDC) for being named SBDC of the Year by the North Texas SBDC Network for the 2017-2018 fi scal year. Eighteen student athletes

were recognized for being named to the NTJCAC Academic All-Conference Team, for maintaining a GPA of 3.25 or higher. Ath-letes recognized were: Base-ball players Spencer Bloom,

Chandler Currey, and Nick Tamez, Rodeo Team mem-bers Julie Donovan and Lucy Gordon, Softball players Madison Blair, Kacee Dellis, Ashley Hedrick, Faith Hol-lingsworth, Chelsea Lud-deke, Madisyn Hargroves, and Ashley Schaefer, Tennis players Laura Rincon-Arias, Yashleen Kheterpal, and Nathalie Wetherington, and Volleyball players Meredith McPeek, Hattie Murray, Lena Srdanov. Licensed Vocational Nursing Faculty members were recognized for the pro-grams 100% pass rate on the Texas Board of Nursing State Licensure Exam for the 2017-18 class. Members of the Black History Month Commit-tee were also recognized for their hard work on the Black History programs held last month. Finally, NCTC Chancel-lor Dr. Brent Wallace and the regents recognized the

NCTC Stock Horse Team, including captain Cailyn Simonis, who will compete at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Show. Regents approved con-tract renewals for all full-time instructors for the 2019 – 2020 school year and adopted the 2019 - 2020 Academic Catalog. An Associate of Applied Science and Certifi cate in Accounting were approved by regents, and NCTC will begin off ering this new de-gree in Fall 2019. Regents also approved the off ering of Optional Practical Training (OPT) for international students. NCTC currently has 47 full-time international stu-dents on F1 visas and with this visa students can only have jobs on campuses while they are enrolled. Th e OPT is an extended visa that is granted to students once they have completed their degree and allows them to work in the United States for one year in a job that is directly related to their degree. Currently, domes-tic students can participate in internships and extern-ships, which allow them to gain valuable industry experience and on-the-job training in their fi elds. “Is-suing OPT statuses gives international students a pathway into the workforce in the communities that we serve,” said Director of Ad-missions Operations Jenni-fer Beal. Th e regents approved an increase to tuition and fees, eff ective Fall 2019 through Spring 2021. Th ere was a $9 per Semester Credit Hour (SCH) increase in the Gen-eral Use Fee for all students and a $10/SCH increase for Out-of-District Fees for students residing outside of Cooke County. Th is brings tuition rates for In-District to $100 per SCH, for the Graham ISD Branch Cam-pus to $120 per SCH, for In-State to $190 per SCH, and Out-of-State to $295 per SCH. Th e cost of the residence hall meal plan rates was also

increased by regents Mon-day night from $2,261 per semester to $2,361. With the new dining facilities on the Gainesville campus, resi-dents now receive 17 meals per week. New testing fees for the TSI placement exam were also approved. Th e full TSI test is $35 and $15 for each partial section. Non-NCTC students wishing to take the TSI will pay $40 for the full test. Th ese prices go into ef-fect May 1, 2019. Th e election for May 4 was cancelled by the board with the certifi cation of three unopposed candidates. Matt Chalmers, Christy Morris, and Erica Sullivan will remain in their seats. Finally, regents moved the April Board Meeting to April 22, 2019. All regents were present for Monday’s meeting and no executive session was called.

NCTC Coach Hedrick Named to Hall of Fame

Hedrick Named to Hall of Fame - NCTC Chancellor Dr. Brent Wallace (right) presents a certifi cate inducting NCTC Athletic Director and Head Softball Coach Van Hedrick (left) into the NTJCAC Hall of Fame at Monday night’s Board of Regents Meeting. (Courtesy Photos)

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Curtis R. Mayhood

Services Curtis R. Mayhood, age 64, after a short illness passed away at St. Th omas Hospital in Nashville, Ten-nessee on March 20, 2019. No public services are planned.History A long time resident of Moss Lake, then moved when he found another slice of heaven in 2007. For the past 30 years he was a pool table mechanic and before that a restaurant owner (Pan’s Vineyard) in Denton, Texas. A proud graduate of the University of Oregon with a degree in Industrial Recreation. Survivors He is preceded in death by his mother Harriett Mayhood and sister Mary Jo (Ciccarelli). He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Karen Mayhood (Barnes); father, Robert Mayhood; brother, Greg Mayhood and wife Laurie, and brother-in-law John Ciccarelli. Also his mother-in-law Ruby Barnes, sister-in-law Deb-bie and husband John Stich, and his brother-in-law Jim Barnes. Nieces Kel-lie Howerton (Mayhood),

Heidi Mayhood and fi ancé Nick Jackson, Megan (Cic-carelli) and husband Nick Runion, Heather (Stich) and husband Russell Mc-Cown, Briar (Stich) and husband Ricky Johnson and nephew Eric Cicca-relli. Curt loved life, his fam-ily and friends and will be deeply missed by all. Th e family would also like to express considerable thanks to the caregivers from Saint Th omas West for their kindness and compassion.Donations Th ere will not be public services, but condolences may be made to: Saint Th omas Health Founda-tion, 4220 Harding Road, Nashville, TN 37205. https://www.sthealth.com/How-to-Help/Give/How-Can-I-Give/Make-a-Gift-Today.

James ReynoldJohns, Jr.

Services James Reynold Johns, Jr. of Tioga, TX passed away on March 27, 2019 at the age of 66. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM Sat-urday, March 30, 2019 at the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home with Rev. Jonathan Reichman offi -ciating. Burial will follow in the Tioga Cemetery. A visitation will be held the hour prior to the service beginning at 10:00 AM.History He was born on De-

cember 25, 1952 to Grace Dibble Johns and James Reynold Johns in Oneon-ta, New York. Jim and his wife Janet were married in 1979 and just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Th ey are the proud parents of their daughter Cody Anne. Jim was an avid amateur radio operator for over 50 years. His extra class call sign is KA0IQT. He thoroughly enjoyed a long career using his electrical engineering degrees and MBA to build and man-age high speed telecom-munications projects. Jim was an active volunteer contributor to the AM-SAT ARISSat 1 satellite project working primarily on the Software Defi ned Radio (SDX) module and a member of the AMSAT FOX satellite project work-ing on the satellite space-frame simulator. Jim is a registered profes-sional engineer (in Colo-rado) with over 40 years of experience in electronic systems design/deploy-ment and program/project management. He has been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for 42 years and currently holds the membership grade of Senior Member of IEEE. In the past, Jim served on the ANSI X3T9.5 Stan-dards Committee devel-oping the standards for CDDI (copper PMD), Station Management (SMT) and FDDI II (Iso-chronous communication over FDDI). Jim loved the outdoors and spent many vacations camping with his family. He will be remembered as a kind and loving husband and father who had a pas-sion for technology. He enjoyed many volunteer activities that needed his special engineering skills. In his spare time, Jim loved mentoring students in ro-botics. Survivors Jim is survived by his lov-ing wife Janet and daugh-ter Cody Anne. He is also survived by two brothers, Th omas Johns and Martin Johns. You may sign the online registry at www.geojcarroll.com.

Barbara Ann Dennis

Services Barbara Ann Dennis en-tered heaven on March 20, 2019 at the age of 82. Funeral was held on Sun-day, March 24, 2019 at the Montague County Cow-boy Church and she was laid to rest at Mountain Park Cemetery in Saint Jo. History She was born December 16, 1936 in Dallas, TX to Herschell Christi Wyatt & Maggie Beatrice Bush. Raised in Hebron, TX and attended school through the 8th grade in Lewisville, TX. She accepted the Lord and was baptized in her early 20s together with her sons Robert & Ricky. In 1960 she met Charles Den-nis at a rodeo in Lewisville. Th ey were married on Au-gust 5, 1962. Th ey moved to Saint Jo in 1967. She began working as a clerk at the Post Offi ce in 1968 and would retire as the Post Master in the early 1990s. She served as a Member of the Saint Jo Chamber of Commerce in the 1970s and was the Secretary of the Saint Jo Riding Club throughout the 80-90s. She joined the fellowship of the Montague County Cowboy Church nearly 10 years ago. Survivors Barbara is survived by her husband of 56 years Charles Dennis of Saint Jo, Sister Claudia Wood of Bowie, Brother Harold

Wyatt and wife Jean of Greenville, Sons Robert Newton and wife Mary of Nocona, Harper (Skipper) Dennis and wife Debbie of Saint Jo, Brady Dennis and wife Karen of Valley View, daughter Kathy Dennis of Saint Jo, 10 grandchildren, and 13 great grandchil-dren. Preceded in death by her parents Herschell & Maggie Wyatt, Sister Pauline Robertson and Son Ricky Newton.

Juanell McCabe

ServicesJuanell McCabe, 92,

passed away on Sunday, March 24th in Medical City of Denton. Visitation will be Wednesday, March 27, 2019, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at the funeral home. Memorial Service will be 2:00 PM, Th urs-day, March 28, 2019, at the Meador Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Hollis Parsons offi ciating. History Juanell was born in Gainesville, TX on August 14, 1926 to Alvah Albert and Ida Mae Graham. She was the youngest of 12 chil-dren. She graduated from Gainesville High School in 1944. On March 16, 1946 she married Bob McCabe. Th ey had two daughters Marsha and Suzy. Juanell was a homemaker until 1962 when she went

to work at National Sup-ply. She was secretary of the Industrial Engineering department. She retired on November 30th after serv-ing 24 years. She and Bob opened Nell’s Mini Donuts in the Gainesville shopping center and also had another loca-tion in Fort Worth, TX. Bob and Juanell had many friends and were known locally by their ball-room dancing.Survivors She is survived by her daughters, Marsha Ke-athley and husband Tim of Fort Worth; Suzy Kl-ement and husband John of Gainesville. Four grandsons Derek Keathley and wife Ricki, Jason Keathley, Ryan and Casey Klement. Four great-grandchildren, Wes-ley Keathley, Julia, Chelsea and Emily Klement. Many nieces, nephews and cous-ins. She was preceded in death by her husband Bob in 2006, her parents, broth-ers Roy Clarence “Buster”, Alonzo and Bill Graham, sisters Dora Shaw, Peggy Fischer, Hazel Nowell, Maudie Smith and Vera who died at birth, half-brother Ollie and half-sister Emma. Juanell lived alone until the age of 91. After she fell and broke her hip she moved Pecan Tree Nursing Home. Th e family would like to acknowledge the staff there and thank them for their care.


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By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary Gen-eral Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message: Th e roster of NATO membership is closed. For good. Th e United States will not hand out any more war

guarantees to fi ght Russia to secure borders deep in East-ern Europe, when our own southern border is bleeding profusely. And no one needs to hear this message more than Stol-tenberg. In Tblisi, Georgia, on March 25, Stoltenberg de-clared to the world: “Th e 29 allies have clearly stated that Georgia will become a member of NATO.” As for Moscow’s objection to Georgia joining NATO, Stoltenberg gave Vladimir Putin the wet mitten across the face: “We are not accepting that Russia, or any other power, can decide what (NATO) members can do.” Yet what would it mean for Georgia to be brought into NATO?

Th e U.S. would immedi-ately be ensnared in a con-fl ict with Russia that calls to mind the 1938 and 1939 clashes over the Sudetenland and Danzig that led straight to World War II. In 2008, thinking it had U.S. backing, Georgia rashly ordered its army into South Ossetia, a tiny province that had broken away years be-fore. In that Georgian invasion, Russian peacekeepers were killed and Putin responded by sending the Russian army into South Ossetia to throw the Georgians out. Th en he invaded Georgia itself. “We are all Georgians now!” roared uber-interven-tionist John McCain. But George W. Bush, by now a wiser man, did nothing. Had Georgia been a

NATO nation in 2008, the U.S. could have been on the brink of war with Rus-sia over the disputed and minuscule enclave of South Ossetia, which few Ameri-cans had ever heard of. Why would we bring Georgia into NATO now, when Tblisi still claims the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkha-zia, both of which Moscow controls and defends? Are we not in enough quarrels already that could lead to new wars -- with Iran in the Gulf, China in the South China Sea, North Ko-rea, Russia in the Baltic and Black Sea, Venezuela in our own hemisphere -- in addi-tion to Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia where we are already fi ght-ing?

Among neocon and GOP interventionists, there has also long been a vocal constituency for bringing Ukraine into NATO. Indeed, changes in the GOP platform in Cleve-land on U.S. policy toward Ukraine, it was said, were evidence of Trumpian collu-sion with the Kremlin. But bringing Ukraine into NATO would be an even greater manifestation of madness than bringing in Georgia. Russia has annexed Crimea. She has supported pro-Russian rebels in the Donbass who seceded when the elected president they backed was ousted in the Kiev coup fi ve years ago. Kiev’s recent attempt to enter the Sea of Azov by sail-ing without formal notifi ca-tion under the Putin-built Kerch Strait Bridge between Russia and Crimea, proved a debacle. Ukrainian sailors are still being held. No matter how supportive we are of Ukraine, we can-not commit this country to go to war with Russia over its territorial integrity. No Cold War president from Truman to George H. W. Bush would have dreamed of doing such a thing. Bush I thought Ukraine should remain tied to Russia and the Ukrainian independence movement was born of “sui-cidal nationalism.” Trump has rightly de-manded that Europeans start paying their fair share of the cost of NATO. But a graver question than the money involved are the risks involved. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 13 nations: the Czech Repub-lic, Slovakia, Poland, Hun-gary, the Baltic states of Es-

tonia, Lithuania and Latvia, and six Balkan countries -- Bulgaria, Rumania, Slo-venia, Croatia, Albania and Montenegro. Also attending the NATO gathering in Tblisi a week ago were Sweden, Finland and Azerbaijan. Are these three also candidates for U.S. war guarantees? Th e larger NATO be-comes, the further east it moves, the greater the prob-ability of a military clash that could lead to World War III. Yet none of the nations admitted to NATO in two decades was ever regarded as worth a war with Russia by any Cold War U.S. presi-dent. When did insuring the sovereignty and borders of these nations suddenly be-come vital interests of the United States? And if they are not vital interests, why are we com-mitted to go to war with a nuclear-armed Russia over them, when avoidance of such a war was the highest priority of our eight Cold War presidents? Putin’s Russia, once hope-ful about a new relationship under Trump, appears to be giving up on the Americans and shifting toward China. Last week, 100 Russian troops arrived in Caracas. Whereupon, Th e Wall Street Journal lost it: Get them out of our “backyard.” Th e Monroe Doctrine demands it. Yet, who has been moving into Russia’s front yard for 20 years? As the Scotsman wrote, the greatest gift the gods can give us is to see ourselves as others see us. Copyright 2019 Creators.Com.

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Editor’s note – Letters to the Editor refl ect only the opinion of the author and not that of Th e Weekly News of Cooke County. Facts contained in Letters to the Editor are claims of the author only. Th e (...) denotes areas that have been edited.

To the Editor,

Th e Sr. Roberta Hesse’s Mission Appeal was held to raise funds to educate the young African Sisters who belong to the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur. Because of the generos-ity of many people in our wonderful community these holy women will now be able to provide educa-tion, health care services, evangelization and minis-try to many poor and un-derprivileged people on the other side of the globe. Th is was no small eff ort, but together many gracious people united to make the fundraiser possible and successful! We acknowledge and thank our local organiza-tions: Muenster Knights of Columbus, Muenster Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, Muenster Jaycee’s, VFW Post 6205, Heritage Park, and Catholic Life Insurance for their great support, be it monetary donations or through vol-

unteerism. We recognize and ex-tend appreciation to those that donated food and drinks for our cause: Hess Meat Co., Fischer’s Meat Market, Th e Smokehouse, Dieter Brothers Restau-rant and Th e Neu Ranch House. We appreciate these who truly have hearts of a vol-unteer—Tic Block and Adam Arendt, Don Met-zler, Justin and Katie Gil-leland, Scott Cooper, Ice Cattle Co., Gary Dank-esreiter and Matt Bezner, for making the delicious barbeque and beans and organizing the meal. We thank also Gayle Bevers, Emily Fuhrmann and Liz Hartman. Our Live Auction was made possible and success-ful by those who kindly gave of their time and tal-ents: Chism Cain, Mitch Creed, Donna Endres, Betty Ann Flusche, Bert Walterscheid, Tim Schnei-der, Dan Bezner, Ben Bin-del, Billy Bayer and Adam Arendt. We thank Justin Walterscheid, Leslie Eddle-man, Angie Tempel, Don-na Biffl e and Lisa Schilling for helping with the Silent Auction. Th ank you to Ammie Hennigan, instrumental in acquiring many donations and helping with the raffl e and auctions! We recognize our ap-preciation also to Colby Richey and Clay Knabe,

the Muenster High School Cheerleaders and students, and Mark Neu for their volunteer services. Last but not least we take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt gratitude for the overwhelming support of all those not mentioned here, but who participated in the success of this mis-sion appeal through do-nations of auction items, generous giving, and vol-unteering.

May God Bless each and every one of you!

Sincerely,

Th e Family ofSr. Roberta Hesse

To the Editor,

It is with great Pride and Honor to let the citizens of Cooke County know the Gainesville Lions appreci-ate reaching out into the community and strength-ening their mission state-ment ‘WE SERVE’. Each year the Lions hold their annual Chick-en and Italian Spaghetti Dinner, which is their big project to raise funds to purchase eye exams and eyeglasses for students in the local school within Cooke County. Th is being said, mem-

bers of the Lions Club wish to thank businesses, individuals that either pur-chased tickets, or donated an item for the silent auc-tion table or the country store we appreciate it and the event was a big success thanks to you. Special thanks to First Baptist Church for al-lowing us the use of the Activity Center, Sharon Dill for her assistance and Pastor Jeff Langley for his support, Th anks to Scott Henry for having seating and tables in place. We can’t begin thanking the community enough for the support that is given to our projects when it comes to benefi ting our school children. As a Club, we really work together in service, yet if it were not for the many individuals or busi-nesses helping to reach our projects. our Pride would be nothing. I would like to send ap-preciation thanks out to Joanie Wyrick;, Tang Nel-son (Chicken Express); Cooke County 4-H Youth; Lions Susan, Cindy, Sha-ron Steubing, Mary Pear-son, Katy Smith and other members of the Lions Club

Th anks !

Kanita MaxwellLions Club Secretary and Program Chairperson

Letters to the Editor...

By Mark Shields

Long before he would become America’s 65th secretary of state, Colin Powell was a young Army offi cer who served two combat tours in Vietnam. Th ere, Lt. Powell held in his arms a young Ameri-can soldier whose body had been blown apart -- and whose life would, in a few hours, be ended -- by a land mine. Colin Powell

understood the respon-sibility and the pain of comforting the dying, and of then writing a personal letter to the parents of the soldier whose remains would be coming home in a pine box, because pow-erful and important men in Washington had de-termined it was necessary for young Americans to fi ght and to die in the rice paddies of Vietnam in or-der to stop international communism. From such painful, per-sonal experiences would come, a quarter-century later, when he was serv-ing as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff un-der President George H.W. Bush, the “Powell doctrine,” which argued that the United States should only as a last re-sort, and only after all

other nonviolent options had been tried, send our men and women into combat. Powell insisted that before such action, our vital national security interest be threatened by the identifi ed adversary, and that we take action only when the U.S. forc-es were overwhelmingly disproportionate to the forces of the adversary; and only after the mission was fully understood by and strongly supported by the American public; and only when the U.S. mission had real interna-tional backing. Finally, before any such an ac-tion was launched, there had to be a coherent and agreed-upon exit strategy for the U.S. troops. Th e Powell doctrine was accepted and followed in the fi rst Gulf War after

Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces had invaded their oil-wealthy neighbor Ku-wait. Republican Presi-dent George H.W. Bush, with Democrats in con-trol of the Congress, won House and Senate support as well as the backing of the United Nations Secu-rity Council for military action to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. Th e United States also created a coalition of 39 nations and persuaded Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kuwait and Japan to pay 81 percent of the costs of $61 billion. Th e United States deployed 540,000 troops; the war lasted less than three months; 383 Americans died. Th at was 1991. Sadly, in 2001, when the U.S. was attacked on Sept. 11 and another Bush was in the White House and Colin

Powell was secretary of state, the United States ig-nored the Powell doctrine. Th e cost of having done that is evident everywhere around us: As of this writing, some 18 bloody years later, 6,989 Ameri-can families have buried a son, father, brother, hus-band, wife, daughter, sis-ter or mother who died in Iraq or Afghanistan. An America that had taught for centuries that “war demands equality of sac-rifi ce” forgot that value and instead asked no sac-rifi ce of the privileged and the prosperous. Instead of the traditional American response of tax increases to pay for the cost of the wars, tax cuts of more than $6 billion -- over-whelmingly skewed, more than 65 percent of them to the richest Americans

-- have been the signature of these wars that required no home-front rationing, or even required civilians to pay attention to the fi ghting and the dying of their fello! w Americans. Forget any new, big-ger Fourth of July parade or empty “thank you for your service” lip service. Let’s be honest with one another: Th e Powell doc-trine is dead, and we Americans (most of us, anyway), have shown our-selves unwilling, as we once were, “to pay any price, to bear any burden, to meet any hardship ... to assure the survival of liberty.”

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COOKE COUNTY – Th e following incidents were re-ported to the Cooke Coun-ty Sheriff ’s Offi ce. Evading arrest/detention was reported in the 1400 block of West Highway 82. Obstruction or retalia-tion was reported in the 300 block of County Road 451. Unlawful possession of a fi rearm by felon was report-ed at I-35 and the 498 mile marker. Driving while intoxicat-ed/open alcohol container was reported at FM 2071 and East FM 922. Criminal mischief less than $750 was reported in the 700 block of North Pe-can Creek Trail. Possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram was reported at East High-way 82 and FM 678. Arrest Log Juan Manuel Arriaga, 40, driving while license invalid with previous conviction/suspension and without fi -nancial responsibility. Larry Dwight Wheeler, 56, possession of drug para-phernalia. John Randall Epperson, 53, possession of drug para-phernalia. Lyndall Michael Littke, 48, driving while license invalid, failure to maintain fi nancial responsibility. Franchois Jovan Johnson, 41, driving while license in-valid with previous convic-tion (bond enhancement). Sandra Albineda Luna, 36, driving while license invalid-Cooke County war-rant. Kyle Schylur Maxon, 25, driving while license inval-id/capias pro fi ne. Bethany Lynn Pierce, 27, sale to minor-alcohol. Dene Alexander Rijroek, 18, evading arrest detention with vehicle, evading arrest detention, possession of drug paraphernalia. Charles Jerome Bowman,

52, unlawful possession of fi rearm by felon, obstruc-tion/retaliation.

Jeff rey Keith Skaggs, pa-role violation, manufacture delivery of controlled sub-

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COOKE COUNTY – Th e following cases were fi led and decided in the 235th District Court.

Cases Filed Gainesville Independent School District vs. Carl R. Osborne, also known as Carl Roderick Osborne, tax case. Era Independent School District vs. Eva Sears, AKA Eva Lewis Sears et al, tax case. Cooke County et al vs. Kelly Hutson, tax case. Cooke County et al vs. Ada Grace Hendricks and

Jerry Keith Hendricks, tax case. Angela Suzanne Nock-tonick vs. Gregory Todd Nocktonick, divorce. Steven James Morgan vs. Brittni Sky Morgan, di-vorce. State of Texas vs. Jose Martinez, civil case related to criminal matter. State of Texas vs. Yamin Alizadeh, civil case related to criminal matter.

Cases Decided Regina Griffi n vs. Jesse John Griffi n, non-suited or dismissed by plaintiff , di-

vorce. Cooke County et al vs. Leo Phillips and Sarah Phil-lips, non-suited or dismissed by plaintiff , tax case. Debra Lynn Russell vs. David Lee Russell, agreed judgement, divorce. Rebecca R. Frazier vs. Mid West Hotel Lodging doing business as Gaines-ville Holiday Inn Express, non-suited or dismissed by plaintiff , injury, damage. State of Texas vs. Jose Martinez, agreed judge-ment, civil case related to criminal matter.

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GAINESVILLE - Th is week, the Cooke County Library joins libraries of all types in celebrating the many ways libraries build strong communities by providing critical resourc-es, programs and expertise. April 7-13, 2019 is Na-tional Library Week, an an-nual celebration of the life-changing work of libraries, librarians and library workers play in transform-ing lives and communities. Libraries are at the heart of their cities, towns, schools and campuses. Th ey have public spaces where peo-ple of all backgrounds can come together and con-nect. Cooke County Library helps lead the community by teaching a variety of children’s classes, computer classes for adults, eDevice

instruction on the library’s digital resources, par-ticipating in community outreach through the “1, 2, 3 the Story is Coming to Me” literacy initiative and teaching enrichment classes at local schools and the Boys & Girls Club of Cooke County. Th ese are just a few ways the Library strengthens our commu-nity and its residents. Library programs en-courage community mem-bers to meet to discuss civic issues, work together using new technologies like 3D printing or learn along-side one another in a variety of classes. Library staff also partner with other civic and service organizations to actively engage with the people they serve, always striving to make sure their community’s core needs

are being met. “Libraries are corner-stones of democracy, pro-moting the free exchange of information and ideas for all,” said Jennifer Johnson-Spence, Direc-tor. “Th ey also foster civic engagement by keeping people informed and aware of community events and issues.” First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance spon-sored by the American Li-brary Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. For more information, visit the Cooke County Library at 200 S. Weaver Street in Gainesville, call 940-668-5530 or see the library’s Web site at https://cookecountylibrary.org/.

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GAINESVILLE - On April 6, 2019 the Rebecca Crockett Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, in Cooke County, will be hosting a Painting Workshop as a fundraising event for their Good Citizen Schol-arship Fund. Th e work-shop starts 10:00 and will run until about 12:00, but allow yourself a little extra time so you won’t be rushed to fi nish. Th e cost per person is $45.00,

which includes all sup-plies and a light lunch Adults only, please. Th e April 6, 2019 workshop will be held at the Ma-sonic Lodge in Era, TX, which is located at the in-tersection of HWY 51 and Hwy 922. For reserva-tions, and more informa-tion, call: 214-415-3594 or 940-736-9792. You can also email: [email protected] for reservations. Space is very limited, so

you must reserve your seat in advance. Th e painting for the April 6 workshop will be a Geranium and Hummingbird theme, on a 16”x20” canvas. 100% of the workshop fees go directly to the Good Citi-zen Scholarship Fund, and will benefi t students in our local community. No painting or art expe-rience is necessary; we’ll teach you as we go along, and you’ll take home a beautiful canvas!

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MUENSTER -- Muenster Independent School District Board of Trustees met for its regular meeting March 6. Th e board reviewed and ap-proved minutes of the Feb. 13, 2019 regular meeting a TAPR hearing Feb. 13. Students receiving recog-nitions included Debra Sick-ing & Emma Walterscheid, County Spelling Bee; Chris Hightower, Amy Binder & 2018-19 Girls’ Basketball Team.. All of the Lady Hor-nets received all-academic state recognition. Technology director Jeff Presnall presented infor-mation about the district’s technology programs. Two temporary wireless access points have been added. At least ten more wireless access points should be installed be-fore the next school year, he said. More teachers are uti-lizing Chromebooks in their classroom and more students are using wireless devices and accessing web sites with a high concentration of video, graphics, and sound.

Muenster Elementary School Principal Lou Heers said in her report current el-ementary school enrollment is at 282 students. Last year’s enrollment was 278. February Highlights in-clude Emma Walterscheid, 6th grader competed at the Cooke County Spelling Bee at the Gainesville Adminis-tration Building; Secondary Principal John York reported current enroll-ment on the junior high and high school campuses is 219 students. Upcoming events includ-ed the district UIL speaking competition set for April 5 in Era. He also noted FCCLA members competed in Re-gion II Star Events in Waco. Twelve girls competed in six teams at the event. Eight girls qualifi ed for the state compe-tition being held in Dallas the fi rst weekend of April. FFA - National FFA week was celebrated February 16 – 23, he said. Th e FFA pro-vided teachers and staff with an appreciation breakfast

and ended the week with a petting zoo. State TMSCA was held over Spring Break for high school participants. Seven students qualifi ed, with six making the trip to San Antonio. Th e board voted to cancel its May 4, 2019 school board election for Place 1 which is currently held by Darren Bindel and Place 2 currently held by Mel Walterscheid due to unopposed candi-dates. Th e board voted to accept a $42,505 bid from Southern Bleacher Company for visitor bleachers. Next the board, in compli-ance with state law, adopted a prevailing wage schedule to be used for its turf project. According to information re-leased by MISD, contractors must adhere to the minimum pay based on the schedule. Self noted he is working on a proposal to seek bids for cleaning companies who provide custodial and main-tenance services along with grounds care. Kim Walters-cheid has requested March

be the review month of re-cord for the facilities mainte-nance company. Board members also ac-cepted the Muenster ISD an-nual performance report and discussed the district’s plan for its dyslexia program. Th e board members also voted unanimously to ap-prove the procurement pro-cedures manual and code of conduct for child nutrition services and the 2019-2020 Pre-K tuition prices as pre-sented. No action was taken fol-lowing an executive session.

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Scholarships AvailableGAINESVILLE - Cooke County Republican Wom-en have funded two $500 scholarships at North Cen-tral Texas College for the Fall 2019 Semester. Th e application period for the Cooke County Re-publican Women’s Pat Peale Memorial Scholarships started March 1. Appli-cants must apply through the NCTC Foundation by April 15, and can fi nd in-formation on the Founda-tion website, www.nctc.edu/external-affairs/schol-arships/index.html. Th e Pat Peale scholarship criteria includes that Appli-cant must 1) be a Republi-can woman (membership in the club is not required); 2) be a citizen of Cooke

County, 3) submit a resume including Republican and Community Involvement, 4) demonstrate fi nancial need, and 5) be a full time or part time student. Th is is the fi rst time CCRW has awarded two scholarships, partly as a re-sult of the successful Live Large fundraiser held last September. Profi ts from the event were designated for scholarships and other club literacy and Americanism projects. Th e scholarships honor the late Pat Peale, a dedicated supporter, volun-teer, leader and mentor of the Republican Party and CCRW. Membership in CCRW is open to any woman who be-lieves in the ideals and goals

of the Republican Party, is a citizen of the United States and is a registered voter. An-nual dues are $25, which includes membership in the local club, the Texas Federa-tion of Republican Women and the National Federa-tion of Republican Women. Men are welcome to join as Associate Members for $15 annually. Th e next meeting will be Th ursday, April 4, at 7 pm, at the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall. Guests are welcome. Follow Cooke County Republican Women on Facebook for information about upcom-ing programs and meetings. Information about CCRW can also be found at www.cookegop.com/ccrw.

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Hosts Easter Egg ScrambleDENISON - Th e Eisenhow-er Birthplace State Historic Site will host its annual Eas-ter Egg Scramble and Roll on Saturday, April 13, 2019, from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the site in Denison. Geared towards children ages 12 and under, guests will enjoy age-appro-priate Easter Egg hunts at 2:30 p.m., followed by craft-ing, sack races, and the Easter Egg Roll. Th is free event cel-ebrates the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll that Dwight D. Eisenhower re-vived during his two terms as the nation’s 34th President.

Easter Egg rolling on the White House lawn began in 1878 under the Rutherford B. Hayes administration, and continued yearly until World War l, when national food rationing protocols viewed the roll as wasteful. Revived during the Roaring Twenties and the Great De-pression, rationing during World War II once again put a stop to the egg-vent. Reno-vations to the White House during the Truman adminis-tration also broke the tradi-tion, but by the time Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower became president in 1952, the White

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Requests ReceivedCOOKE COUNTY – Th e following applications for marriage were received by the Cooke County Clerk’s offi ce. Christopher Michael Reynolds, 44, Valley View and Jessica Brooke Hamner, 37, Valley View.

Charles Dale Payne, 74, Ardmore, Okla. and Patsie Sue Anthony, 74, Ardmore. Jacob Ray Staneart, 23, Gainesville and Jordan Rose Fleitman, 25, Lindsay. Daamon Coy Ball, 47, Yukon, Okla. and Cindy Sue Allen, 46, Yukon.

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Felony IndictmentsCOOKE COUNTY – Th e following sentences were is-sued for felony indictments and fi led in the 235th Dis-trict Court. Dusty Wayne Belcher, 39, pleaded guilty to the March 28, 2018 fi rst de-gree felony off ense of ag-gravated assault against a public servant and was sen-tenced to 5 years probation deferred, a $4,000 fi ne and court costs. Joel Alan Martin, 49, pleaded guilty to the March 5, 2018 third degree felony off ense of possession of a controlled substance less than 4 grams and was sen-tenced to 4 years confi ne-ment in a state jail facility, a $1,500 fi ne plus restitu-tion and court costs. Mar-tin also pleaded guilty to the March 5, 2018 third degree felony off ense of unlawful possession of a fi rearm by a felon and was

sentenced to 4 years in a state jail facility, a $1,500 fi ne and court costs. Jennifer Mays, 56, plead-ed guilty to the April 23, 2018 state jail felony of-fense of possession of a con-trolled substance less than 1 gram and was sentenced to 2 months, 24 days confi ne-ment in a state jail facility

plus restitution and court costs. Matthew Justin Pena, 23, pleaded guilty to the Jan. 15, 2019 state jail felony of-fense of possession of a con-trolled substance less than 1 gram and was sentenced to 2 months, 7 days confi nement in a state jail facility plus res-titution and court costs.

GAINESVILLE – Gaines-ville Police Department received the following inci-dent reports. Joyce J. Woolfolk report-ed credit card or debit card abuse in the 400 block of Lindsay Street. Kaitlyn M. Rodriguez reported theft of property less than $2,500 in the 900 block of East Highway 82. Matthew R. Colwell re-ported duty on striking unattended vehicle in the 1800 block of Th rockmor-ton Street. Rusty M. Kimmell re-ported burglary of a vehicle in the 1500 block of Broad-way. SPN Well Service re-ported theft of property less than $150,000 in the 3300 block of North I-35. Found keys were report-ed in the 2000 block of Wheeler Creek Drive. Found property reported in the 2000 block of North I-35. Alison K. Lewis reported fraudulent use of identify-ing information. Dollar General Store re-ported theft of property less than $1,500. Caz Capital Partners I, LLC reported found prop-erty in the 1700 block of Justice Center Boulevard. Maria C. Peralta reported criminal mischief less than $750 in the 1100 block of North Morris Street. Rondal R. Scrogum re-ported theft of property less than $750 in the 600 block of North Morris Street. Forgery was reported in the 5100 block of East Highway 82. Ruth E. Domel reported a hit and run incident in the 600 block of North I-35. James Lewis reported theft of a motor vehicle.

Arrest Log Kirby L. McAfee, 53, public intoxication with three prior convictions.

Michael B. Hobbs, 40, warrant arrest. Dominic V. Barree, 21, municipal warrant arrest. Tressa E. Jones, 22, theft of property less than $750, possession of marijuana less than 2 ounces. Jared D. Jarrett, 25, driv-ing while intoxicated. Venetta M. Poe, 27, war-rant arrest. Mario A. Duran, 18, pos-session of marijuana less than 2 ounces. Brian A. Bishop, 37, felo-ny warrants. Shawn S. Bryant, 31, possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram, possession of marijuana. Andrew S. DeJesus, 34, possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram,

unlawful carrying weapon. Preicilla R. Ruiz, 31, pos-session of a controlled sub-stance less than 1 gram. David Fabela, 22, posses-sion of marijuana less than 2 ounces. Michael J. Lopez, 41, driving while intoxicated (second). Kevin I. Ruiz, 26, posses-sion of marijuana less than 2 ounces. Undisclosed 16-year-old male, possession of mari-juana less than 2 ounces. Granville R. Mitchell, 25, public intoxication. Natoshya R. Pitts, 29, manufacture delivery of a controlled substance less than 4 grams, possession of a controlled substance less than 28 grams, posses-

sion of marijuana less than 2 ounces, prohibited sub-stance/item in correctional/civil commitment facility, tamper/fabricate physical evidence with intent to im-pair. Ricky R. Ramos, 39, pos-session of a controlled sub-stance less than 4 grams, possession of drug para-phernalia. Dandy D. Dimas, 38, possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram. Christopher L. Godwin, 36, municipal warrants. Haley H. McKinley 23, possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram, public intoxication. Patrick D. Vaughan, 44, driving while intoxicated (second).

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recreation department pro-vided an $8,000 payment to GISD for fl oor mainte-nance. “Th at $8,000 is going to

go to preserving the life of the gym fl oors,” he said. Th e board also unani-mously approved GISD 2019-2020 contracted ser-

vices with Education Service Center Region 11. Finally, the board unani-mously approved a consent agenda which included Minutes of the regular February 25, 2029 meeting. Monthly bill list. Financial statement. Budget amendments. Investment report. Instructional materials al-lotment and TEKS certifi ca-tion, 2019-2020. Tim Sicking with Quasar Energy Services donation of $7,500 to special services. Campus spotlight was on Lee Intermediate School.

NCTC Hosts MOH Character DevelopmentProgram, Unveils Panel to Honor Texas Recipient GAINESVILLE – A group of local educators includ-ing teachers, administrators and ROTC instructors at-tended a Medal of Honor Character Development Program Th ursday, March 28 at North Central Texas

College. NCTC English instruc-tor Gabrielle Fletcher hosted and facilitated the training. She said she’s been

involved with the program for the past three or four years after attending classes at Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. “I use these resources in my classes at NCTC and believe that it is crucial

that we teach these values to grades Kindergarten through 12 and beyond,” she said. She noted the 26 par-

ticipants were from across North Texas and came from as far away as Killeen. A highlight of the pro-gram was the unveiling of a plaque to honor MOH recipient Capt. Stephen Lo-gan Bennett. Bennett was

a United States Air Force pilot from Palestine, Texas who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Hon-or for his actions during the

Vietnam War. Bennett’s daughter An-gela Bennett-Engele was on hand for the unveiling.“… I cannot thank Gabri-elle Fletcher and all of those involved at NCTC Gaines-ville, for the surprise un-veiling of my Dad’s plaque, which will be added to their absolutely beautiful me-morial for Texas Medal of Honor recipients,” Bennett-Engele said via social me-dia. “It is very impressive, beautiful, educational, and just perfect. For them to include my Dad is so very sweet of them. So nice.” She said she realized early on her father had made the ultimate sacrifi ce for his country. “Since I was little, I knew my Dad was a hero to our country,” she noted in the post. “I knew he had given his life for the continuation of 51 others. I knew there were some 3,500 other brave individuals who he had been placed in the same company of. All of them

brave. All of them of good moral character. All of them with a love for something greater than themselves.” Th e panel is part of a Medal of Honor display at the North Central Texas Library. Th e original ex-hibit was in Midland and is a tribute to native Texan MOH recipients. Th e memorial and ac-companying exhibits are maintained by the Ground Forces Detachment of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), based in Gaines-ville. Th e memorial will be available to the public at the NCTC Library while a permanent home for the memorial, educational pro-grams, and a living history space is established, accord-ing to an NCTC news re-lease. Gainesville has a long as-

sociation with the Medal of Honor organization. It is also the site of an MOH Host City program which, each April, honors visiting MOH recipients with ac-tivities including a banquet, visits to area schools and a parade. Medal of Honor Host City events begin Wednes-day, April 10 with a motor-cade for arriving MOH re-cipients. A tree dedication is planned for 10 a.m. Friday, April 12 at the Homegrown Heroes Walking Trail and the annual MOH parade is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sat-urday, April 13 in down-town Gainesville. Th ese events are free and are open to the public. For information on the MOH Host City events visit https://medalof-honorhostcity.com/

North Texas SHRM

Annual ConferenceDENTON - North Texas SHRM is gearing up for its Annual Conference sched-uled for Th ursday and Fri-day, May 16 and 17 at the Embassy Suites Hotel by Hilton Denton Conference Center. Th e two-day confer-ence off ers 14 SHRM and HRCI recertifi cation cred-its, with 6 of those being strategic! Attendees may register for one or both days; Th urs-day’s presentations will be benefi cial for not only HR professionals, but also for business owners or manag-ers at any level. Th e con-

ference off ers an excellent speaker line-up including a few familiar faces to the SHRM community: Mike Coff ey, President of Im-perative Bulletproof Back-ground Checks, who is also the conference’s Diamond Sponsor, Bruce Waller, VP of Corporate Relocation for Armstrong Relocation and North Texas SHRM chapter’s district director, Kristine Conway and many more. Over the course of two days, we’ll cover hot topics such as discussing criminal history with ap-plicants, servant leadership,

gender equity, leading with-out a title and many more! Register by May 1 for a $75 early-bird discount and a chance to win a $100 gift card. Th ere is also a group discount (Register 3 people, and get the 4th one free)! You may register and pay online, and see a complete line-up of speakers and their topics at www.ntxshrm.org. Each year, North Texas SHRM hosts this conference to raise money for scholar-ships for students majoring in human resources, and for professionals pursuing an HR certifi cation.



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Host Local Blood DriveGAINESVILLE - Th ere remains a wide gap be-tween the number of eligi-ble blood donors in north, central and east Texas and the number of them who actually give blood. At any given time, about 37 percent of the population qualifi es to give blood and less than four percent is do-ing so. Surgeries and other treatments requiring trans-fusion therapy do not take a pause because of the sea-sonality of the holidays. Six hundred to 800 hospital patients daily will receive a transfusion. Many will re-ceive more than one unit of blood or blood products. North Texas Medical Center is hosting a blood drive from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, at 1900 Hospital Blvd. in the NTMC class-rooms. For more informa-tion or to schedule an ap-pointment time, contact

Kristi Rigsby at 940-612-8607. Th ere is no substitute for human blood. Indi-vidual qualities in a per-son’s blood produce a unique donation, even if the blood type is the same as another’s. A wide di-versity of blood donors is also necessary to maintain a safe and suffi cient blood supply that mirrors the population of potential patients in a hospital ser-vice area. If each eligible blood donor gave two or three times a year, there would seldom be a short-age of available blood or of specifi c blood types. Cart-er BloodCare prefers to see 1,000 blood donors a day to keep pace with de-mand. Volunteer commu-nity blood donors make these life-saving gifts pos-sible. One pint of whole blood can help at least three individuals because

the blood is divided into the components of red cells, platelets and plasma. Other specialty treatments can be produced from the blood, as requested by physicians. Remember to eat a nu-tritious meal and drink plenty of water one to two hours before giving blood. All donors must weigh at least 110 pounds, feel well on the day of donation, and present a government-issued photo ID each time they give blood. Potential blood donors may volunteer beginning at age 16 with paren-tal consent; 17-year-olds may give independently and there is no upper age limit for donating blood. For more information on donor eligibility and to make an appointment, call 1-800-366-2834 or visit carterbloodcare.org. About Carter BloodCare

Carter BloodCare is a community based, non-profi t blood center that provides life-saving trans-fusion resources to more than 200 medical facili-ties in 50-plus counties of north, central and east Texas. Th e 501(c)(3) or-ganization is one of the largest blood programs in Texas, delivering more than 300,000 blood prod-ucts annually to meet pa-tients’ treatment require-ments. Carter BloodCare’s services include collection, processing, specialized laboratory testing, storage and distribution of blood and blood products. Th e center is accredited by the AABB, including a labora-tory with accreditation for molecular testing of red cell antigens. It is licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is a member of America’s Blood Centers.

Local Leaders: Gainesville on Economic UpswingGAINESVILLE - Com-munity and industry leaders received good eco-nomic news Tuesday dur-ing a summit held at the Gainesville Civic Center. One of the factors in Gainesville’s recent eco-nomic growth is the ex-pansion of manufactur-ing groups which bring additional jobs and tax revenue, according to of-fi cials. “Th is is really an amaz-ing group of people that live here,” Gainesville Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Arleene Loyd said. “It makes a diff er-ence when we bring cli-ents here and they sit down.” One of the companies which has expanded re-cently in Cooke County is Trident Process Systems which engineers, designs and fabricates compo-nents used in the energy industry. “Trident Industries started in 2014 here,” Loyd said. She noted Tri-dent began with nine em-ployees. Th e EDC com-mitted to provide $4,000 for every new employee hired who earned more than $17 an hour. Th e company now has approx-imately 120 employees. Th e organization is based in what was once the Alan Ritchey, Inc. building on Interstate 35, Trident president Phil Neelley said. Trident is a major play-er in the gas and oil in-dustry. “We currently estimate we have about a 10 per-cent share in the Perm-ian Basin,” Neelley said. “Th at’s where 90 percent of our business is, prob-ably 95.” Th e company complet-ed a 12,000 square foot expansion on its manu-facturing facility and ex-

panded its yard capacity to hold more large equip-ment. Construction on a new offi ce began in Feb-ruary and is expected to be completed by the end of the year, he said, add-ing “Our annual growth rate since we started is about 191 percent since 2014.” Matching jobs with Cooke County residents is a top priority, Neelley said. “It’s very important to us to hire someone who wants to be in Cooke County and stay in Cooke County,” he said. “We work on a regular basis with a manufac-turing consortium and we work with the high school here in Gainesville and we also work with any other high school on welding students [who] are interested. I was talk-ing to Era, for sure, and Gainesville’s kind of a big one. We probably had six or seven Gainesville High School students work with us over the summer and two of those are full-time employees now.” Th e average employee salary is fairly high, Neel-ley noted. N o n - m a n a g e m e n t workers average $66,000 per year. Welders earn approximately $72,000 annually, he said, adding this salary includes sig-nifi cant overtime. “Th ese workers are working at least 50 hours a week and sometimes more,” he said. Housing is also a ma-jor factor in economic health, Loyd said. She said the city demonstrat-ed keen insight when it set its sites on the Liberty Lofts apartment commu-nity at 400 South Culber-son Street. Lee Ramsey and Bran-don Martino, manag-ing partners with Orison

Holdings discussed the Liberty Lofts projects from its beginning, not-ing they met some obsta-cles in the development phase. Th e community is now at 99 percent occu-pancy. Styled as an upscale de-velopment, the Liberty Lofts is similar to projects in downtown Denton and are intended to help sat-isfy the need for housing as the DFW population continues to reach into outlying communities. Martino said he fi rst considered building apart-ments in Gainesville while scouting locations for oth-er projects in the city. “We believed in it,”

Martino said. “Th e city be-lieved in it” he said of the $20 million project. Mar-tino admitted there were times early in the project’s history when even he won-dered if he’d made a mis-take. “Our lease up time was June 2016 to January 2019… Everything else we’d touched, the minute we were fi nished, it leased up immediately. We had a smaller city. Th e growth is coming. It was leasing up but there were some-times along the way we went okay, wait a minute. Did we make a mistake? But we believed in it and it continued to fi ll up and today it’s 99 percent leased.”

Hospitals are another piece of the economic puzzle. Th omas Sledge Chief Executive Offi cer of North Texas Medical Cen-ter discussed the facility’s diffi culties and what he considers its emergence to better things. Th e hos-pital entered a lease agree-ment with Community Hospital Corporation of Plano Dec. 1, 2018. Sledge said the transi-tion has been uneventful and things are going well for the facility which fi led for Chapter 9 bankruptcy Jan. 17, 2017. According to an elec-tronic data presentation, among the improved

numbers are emergency department visits up 12.9 percent; admits up 38.1 percent and total imagin-ing procedures up 16.6 percent. Th e hospital is also ex-pected to implement pric-ing protocol which will off er patients the lowest possible costs for certain procedures including MRIs. Dr. Des Stewart super-intendent of Gainesville Independent School Dis-trict rounded out a com-plement of guest speak-ers. He discussed enroll-ment on the district’s six campuses, student activi-ties and organizations.



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from day one. All they had to work on was the ac-counts receivable, chang-ing the contracts and all that. Th ey actually did pretty good only having to take two draws from us so far. We’ve got to re-member something. We are in the health care busi-ness, to support the lease. Th e more that they make, the more that we’ll be able to share in that. So we’re trying to help them make something. Th at’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to help them be suc-cessful.” Mosman indicated his concerns about the funds. “And we’re gonna run out of money helping,”

Mosman said. “It’s available funds that we agreed to make avail-able,” board member Shane Lee said. “Th is is a process that’s moving for-ward every day.” Hospital Board mem-bers Jeff Isbell and Em-ily Lewis reported on a meeting of the new board which includes physicians, two hospital district board members and other profes-sionals. Th e board also discussed the loss of some doctors from a clinic. “I think it’s more im-portant that there’s a lack of physicians in this com-munity, the board needs to come together to help support physician recruit-ment in this community,”

Anderson said. CEO Tom Sledge ad-dressed changes at the hos-pital’s rural health clinic. “Th e recent situation with the changes in the providers at the rural health clinic was, if you would, a domino eff ect. We had some local provid-ers who were at the urgent care center who decided they were going to go out on their own…. Th at left a void at the urgent care center so the urgent care center waved some big cash, they waved a big number at our provid-ers, two of them specifi -cally, and said Hey we’re gonna pay you this and so both of them came to us and we said love to re-tain you as long as we can

be good stewards of your money, of the county’s money and the district’s money, that’s what this all boils to. Th en we’ll match that, we’ll make a match-ing off er, dollar for dol-lar kind of thing but you know, what was off ered to a couple of those folks more on the salary side… so when you look at some-thing, I want to be a good steward of our resources so I’m not going to make a crazy off er to retain some-body that wanted to leave. In the meantime, we still have a couple of providers there. We have two at the time who were out on ma-ternity leave but we have some great people who [stepped in] PRN, which is parttime. We have al-ready hired a young lady who’s already started there and we’re targeting… I’d say we’ve got more nurse practitioner resumes than we know what to do with. Th e board has also re-ceived word of an Internal Revenue Service audit for 2007 series bonds.

Anderson said the IRS is seeking some documenta-tion regarding compliance with federal tax require-ments, adding [BKD] Chris Janning and [attor-ney] Kevin Reed are aware of the situation. “[Reed] said this is not unusual,” Anderson said. “What they do is they pick up some and do audits on [them] so I just wanted to keep you apprised of that… but don’t anticipate, obviously, anything com-ing from it.” Th e board also discussed requests for banking servic-es. Sealed bids are expected to be opened during the board’s July meeting, An-derson said. Board members also voted to the table action to amend the 2018-2019 fi s-cal budget for the district. Anderson said postpon-ing action is necessary due to changes including the addition of Chief Financial Offi cer Shelle Diehm. Th e district is also sched-uled to hold an election May 4. Board members

approved a joint polling agreement with the city of Gainesville, Gainesville In-dependent School District and North Central Texas College. In addition, they voted unanimously to approve a notice of election and to approve some voting site changes for certain pre-cincts. Voting for Precinct 28 which has 110 registered voters was moved to the Gainesville Civic Cen-ter from Callisburg High School. Next the board approved a polling loca-tion at Callisburg Elemen-tary School for Lake Kiowa voters in Precincts 22 and 8 and a polling location change for Gainesville Hospital District voters in Precinct 14. Th ese vot-ers will be able to vote at the Era Community Cen-ter. Voters in Precinct 19 which includes a portion of Lindsay will vote at Con-rad Hall in Lindsay rather than at Era Community Center as they have in pre-vious years.

County Roads Getting

Major RenovationsCOOKE COUNTY – Heavy equipment has al-ready started moving on a $4.5 million contract to fi x US 82 and FM 372 over the next fi ve months. A TxDOT contractor will do the multi-phase work at three diff erent locations from Denton. A crew began milling out pavement failures on US 82 through Muenster this week. Once the old pavement is removed, the contractor will fi x the problems that are caus-ing the road to buckle, pothole, or deteriorate in the fi rst place. Th e high-way will be patched and prepared for a new over-lay of hotmix asphalt to be applied this summer. Th e work will wrap up with new thermoplastic striping and new raised refl ective pavement

markers. Th e same type of work will be applied to FM 372 (Grand Ave.) in Gainesville from US 82 to Anthony Street. In addition, to West-bound US 82 from the Grayson County line to Fair Avenue. During every portion of this work, motor-ists will need to pay a lot of attention to traf-fi c control. Lanes will be closed in some areas while Muenster will have to utilize the continuous center turn lane through town as a regular lane of traffi c at times. Th e lane closures are expected to happen during daylight hours so that roadways can be opened up at night. Th e contractor is ex-pected to fi nish the entire

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