always hover over this graduating class and will be a topic of discussion at every reunion as time goes

by. But Fri-day Night Lights was all about their moment for a class that once thought they would not

get a ceremony. As it turned out, it was picture perfect.

The Howe High School Class of 2020 finally had their day in the sun, or un-der the lights under a gor-geous setting sun as it turned out. The 2020 seniors have had so many accomplish-ments over their 13 years in Howe that they should be defined by all of those milestones. However, the cloud of COVID-19 will

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The Class of 2020 social distance from their caps as the first ever graduation at Bulldog Stadium was picture perfect. To the right is Jade Cox celebrating her moment. (More pictures on page 7). Photos by Michelle Carney.

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The Annual Howe Athletic Ban-quet was originally scheduled for early May, but COVID-19, the great disrupter, forced Howe Ath-letic Director Bill Jehling to come up with a different solution. It was his wife Amy actually who came up with the idea of a “virtu-al” awards ceremony and Coach J, as he’s known, approached us here at the Howe Enterprise to see if we’d be able to produce a muscled up version of the Howe Bulldogs Coaches Show that we present each week during football season. The outcome was a good one, albeit the circumstances. Although there’s nothing like seeing the student-athletes stand-ing with their award and the flash of the camera by Michelle Car-ney. But it was the second best thing in this three months of “second best things.” But one big ‘first’ best thing is the annual Norman Dickey Award which is given to the most outstanding male and female ath-lete. This year’s winners were Jenna Honore and Caiden Har-mon. Coach Steve Simmons pre-sented the award for the late Mr. Dickey as it was presented by Monte Walker a year ago in the first year without the legendary Howe Bulldog former coach and administrator. Jehling announced Jonathan “JC” Helpenstell as the Football MVP for the 2019 season. “JC has been a 3-year starter for us and has been an outstanding individual,” said Jehling about the starting linebacker and offen-sive lineman. “He did a great job of being a true leader of this foot-ball team.” The Offensive Co-MVPs were Jalen Thornton and Jarron Ing. The Defensive Co-MVPs were Layton Elvington and Steven Waldrip. Hunter Brussow and Colton Thurman shared the honor of the new “Big Dog Award” which was given for what Jehling says is being a Howe Bulldog is all about. In volleyball, Coach Meghan Li-tchfield recognized all of the team members, all district per-formers and named Ally Harvey as the MVP of the Lady Bull-dogs. Coach Shawn Martin also intro-duced the cross country team and named Jake Fabacher the Boys MVP and Marissa Agee as the Girls MVP. The Howe Lady Bulldogs basket-ball team was highly documented in the video production with highlights. Coach Derek Lands listed off team members, and all awards for players which were many. The fact that all team

members made All-Academic All-District was one of Lands’ sa-lutes. “These seniors won 92 games in their high school career and that’s pretty good when you consider who we played,” said Lands who later named senior Jenna Honore as the overall team MVP. Lands was also named the Dean Weese Award Winner from Tex-as Association of Basketball Coaches. Bulldogs Basketball Head Coach Mike Segleski recapped the sea-son and thanked his players for their efforts. The boys basketball program also had each player re-ceiving Academic All-District. After giving a recap of the sea-son, he named Caiden Harmon as the Boys Basketball MVP. Powerlifting Coach Billy McCor-mack raved about freshman Ad-am Russell and his achievements in his weight class. He also spoke highly of Jenna Clark, who is also a cheerleader. After a re-view of the season, he named the Girls MVP as Jalen Huff and the Boys MVP as Will Fleming. Softball Coach John Edwards was the first coach to discuss the effects of COVID-19 and the out-come that had on his program. With the season just underway and the Lady Bulldogs with a 7-3 record, they had to call it a sea-son. He spoke of each starter and named some bright spots for the future before naming Cassidy Anderson as the Softball MVP

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Caiden Harmon Norman Dickey Award.

Jenna Honore Norman Dickey Award.

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for the 2020 season. Howe Baseball Coach Ryan Mo-reau also discussed the shortened season in regret, but was high on praise for his players. His first award was the “Team Award” which Moreau announced as Kol-be Lappin. “He was a leader and a team-first guy who gave up his original po-sition,” said Moreau. The Baseball MVP went to Lay-ton Elvington. The track season was cut short and Head Coach Segleski said they most likely would have sent 15 athletes between the boys and girls to the regional meet. He listed each track athlete, thanked them all, then announced the Boys MVP as Colton Thur-

(Continued from page 2) man. The Girls MVP was shared by Kasie Segleski and Jamie Tay-lor. Although the girls golf program only had two practices and no competition, Coach Lands named two MVPs based on previous par-ticipation which were Molly Wil-son and Kristen Harris. Coach Jehling then returned to recognize the boys and girls ten-nis program. They only were able to make it to one tournament. He gave a list of the team partici-pants which he said was unusual because five of the tennis players were offensive linemen. The Boys Tennis MVP was Hunter Brussow and the Girls MVP was Holly Cavender. Leon Thornhill continued the Dickey Thornhill Memorial Scholarship Award and those were announced as Ally Harvey and Colton Thurman.

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Jake Fabacher Boys Cross Country MVP

Marissa Agee Girls Cross Country MVP

JC Helpenstell Football MVP

Ally Harvey Volleyball MVP

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Jenna Honore Girls Basketball MVP

Caiden Harmon Boys Basketball MVP

Jaylynn Huff Girls Powerlifting MVP

Will Fleming Boys Powerlifting MVP

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Cassidy Anderson Softball MVP

Layton Elvington Baseball MVP

Colton Thurman Boys Track MVP

Jamie Taylor Girls Track Co-MVP

Kasie Segleski Girls Track Co-MVP

Molly Wilson Girls Golf Co-MVP

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Kriston Harris Girls Golf Co-MVP

Hunter Brussow Boys Tennis MVP

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Holly Cavender Girls Tennis MVP

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Submitted by Melissa Atchison, Librarian, Howe Community Li-brary. Howe Community Library's Sum-mer Reading Program starts next week. It's mostly virtual; see de-tails in the flyer below. For the storytime and activities part, you need to register your kiddos and pick up a supplies packet each week. Call HCL at (903)745-4050. Our supplies are limited to

the first 100, but we still have a few spots left. For the reading part, either call us or get the Reader Zone app and follow the instructions on the flyer. Lots of weekly prizes are up for grabs. Each week you meet your weekly reading goal, your name gets in a drawing for the grand prize of a Kindle Fire -- one for each age group, so adults need to be read-ing, too!

from the library. However, we will ask you for money to replace the items you have that aren’t re-turned. We’d just like to see these books and videos brought back to the library so that others can borrow them. So, in the spirit of looking for something good in an otherwise pretty bad situation, we’re hoping that many of our lost library books will come home. Our Book Return box is available 24/7/365 outside the library. If you’re embarrassed to return your borrowed books or videos, you can do it under cover of darkness. We promise not to tell.

All three Howe 14U teams came out of the COVID-19 shutdown with full rosters to continue the season. One of those teams began at midnight Saturday night/Sunday morning to become the first team in Texas to reassume their season. With two local television stations onsite, Berg Bjorn’s toss to Mahlon Walker at exactly mid-night became the first official throw after the lift by Texas Gov-ernor Gregg Abbott. Interviewed by KXII-TV, Howe first baseman Kolin Murphy said, “I was excited, but because base-ball is my favorite sport and I real-ly enjoy that we’re getting to play more.”

Howe third baseman Jesse Port-man told KTEN-TV that it felt amazing to get to get back out on the baseball field. Howe 14U Coach Monte Walker remembered back to the 1990 football season when Howe Bull-dogs Head Football Coach Joey McQueen had the Bulldogs be-come the first team in Texas to begin the season with a midnight practice. “He said then that he wanted us to be first—be first to start and the last to finish,” said Walker. The team will scrimmage Blue Ridge on Thursday at 7 pm at Bi-centennial Park’s North Field in Howe.

Submitted by Melissa Atchison, Librarian, Howe Community Li-brary. Lots of people are spending more time at home these days than they usually do. For many, this means deep cleaning. Howe Community Library has lots and lots (and LOTS) of over-due library books that have been borrowed by our city patrons. We’re hoping that all this spring cleaning will result in finding li-brary books that have been for-gotten, misplaced, lost, or just haven’t seen the light of day in a long time. We don’t charge fines or late fees for overdue items checked out

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Berg Bjorn faces Landon Throm in the first practice after the shutdown. The Howe 14u team took the field just after midnight May 31 as baseball was able to resume on that day.

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By John Solomon JustTheNews.com President Trump de-clared Sunday that he will designate the rad-ical liberal group An-tifa as a terrorist or-ganization after a week of violent riots across the country. "The United States of America will be des-ignating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organiza-tion," the president announced in a mid-day tweet. The president's an-nouncement came af-ter another night of rioting across the

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“The reports we're receiving is that this is Antifa. They're cross-ing state lines," O'Brien said. "And we've seen this happen before. We saw it in Portland. We saw it in Seattle. We saw it in Berkeley. So, look, we'll keep our eyes open for any-one else that wants to take advantage of the situation, whether it's domestic or foreign. “But right now I think the president and At-

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By Daniel Payne JustTheNews.com Twitter this week slapped a warn-ing label on some of Donald Trump's tweets for the first time, cautioning users that the presi-dent's "series of claims about po-tential voter fraud" were "unsubstantiated," citing "CNN, Washington Post and others" for authority. "Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud," Twitter declared. In an accompanying "What you need to know" list, the social media gi-ant added that "fact checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud." In fact, there have been numerous cases of mail-in voter fraud scat-tered widely across the country over the past four years, evidence that the absentee ballot system is open to at least some voter manip-ulation, even as many experts and pundits continue to insist other-wise. According to data compiled by the Heritage Foundation, there have been around three dozen criminal convictions for absentee ballot fraud over the past four years, and those cases are but a small subset of over 200 convictions for vari-ous types of voter fraud the con-servative organization says have occurred since 2016. In one case from 2016, Indiana police officer Lowell Colen was convicted of absentee ballot fraud in an attempt to help his father win a city coun-cil election. Colen eventually pled guilty to four felony counts of vot-er fraud, with prosecutors claim-ing he filled out false registrations and forged numerous signatures. In 2018, authorities arrested Flori-da man Bret Warren after they determined he had stolen five ab-sentee ballots and fraudulently voted with them. Warren eventu-ally pled no contest to two charges of false swearing in connection with voting. Last year, former Gordon, Alabama mayor Elbert Melton was convicted of absentee ballot fraud in a mayoral race he won by just 16 votes. In 2018, New Mexico authorities indicted Laura Seeds on 13 counts of voter fraud related to her hus-band's 2016 mayoral race. Seeds was eventually convicted in part for illegally possessing two absen-tee voter ballots; her husband Robert won the race by two votes. Thousands of deceased regis-trants, double registrations Absen-tee ballot fraud is just one method of exploiting flaws in the system to perpetrate voting fraud. In some cases, for instance, dead voters have been found to have cast votes in numerous elections, as a local CBS report found in Colora-do several years ago. The same phenomenon was discovered in

Chicago as well. The potential for posthumous voter fraud may be more acute in some states than others. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a voting watchdog group, sent a notification letter to New Jersey's Division of Elec-tions this week informing the state that it had found a total of nearly 12,000 "deceased individuals with an active registration in the State of New Jersey." Roughly half of those, the foundation said, had died eight or more years ago. Me-dia reports have revealed that nu-merous deceased residents of New Jersey have in the past received vote-by-mail notices. The Public Interest Legal Founda-tion also told New Jersey it found "830 potentially duplicated regis-trations across state lines with ap-parent voting credits assigned by election officials in each state for the 2018 General Election." The foundation recently sent similar letters to Virginia and New Mexi-co. Cash-for-ballot fraud, 'joke' tampering Recently, some voter fraud cases have made headlines. Last week, a Democratic party official in Phila-delphia pled guilty to a voter-fraud-for-cash scheme there. Do-menick DeMuro, a Democratic ward chairman in that city, admit-ted that he had "fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear," the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's Office said. DeMuro allegedly had a network of clients who paid him signifi-cant sums of money to rig elec-tions. A mail carrier in Pendleton Coun-ty, West Virginia, meanwhile, re-cently admitted to investigators that he altered mail-in voting bal-lot documents. The U.S. Attor-ney's Office of the Northern Dis-trict of West Virginia said in a press release yesterday that it was charging Thomas Cooper, a work-er with the U.S. Postal Service, with "attempted election fraud." An affidavit supplied by that of-fice to Just the News states that last month the Pendleton County Clerk received several absentee mail-in ballot requests "in which the voter’s party-ballot request appeared to have been altered by use of a black-ink pen." On five of the requests, "it appeared that the voters ballot choice was changed from Democrat to Republican West Virginia Attorney General Investigator Bennie Cogar was assigned to investigate the case, he said in the affidavit, leading both Cogar and U.S. Postal In-spector Todd Phillips to Tommy Cooper, a mail carrier for Pend-leton County. "During the inter-

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PERSONAL SERVICES & CARE Servpro of Sherman/Denison PO Box 1851 Sherman TX 75091 ervproshermandenison.com/ 903-893-7166 belin-da.servpro8117@gmail.com PHOTOGRAPHY Melissa Millsap Photography melissa.millsapphotography @gmail.com PLUMBING Skinner Plumbing Supply 200 S. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 (903) 532-0034 skinnersupply@yahoo.com Torque Plumbing 102 S. Collins Frwy Howe TX 75459 (972) 658-1515 torquemayes@yahoo.com PUBLIC UTILITIES Atmos Energy 5111 Blue Flame Rd. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.atmosenergy.com/ 1-888-286-6700 (Main) 1-866-322-8667 Natural Gas Emergency Jan.Rugg@atmosenergy.com Billy’s Trash Service 800 S. Andrews Sherman TX 75090 903-814-9070 jeffstanley@cableone.net

Michael Taylor – Keller Wil-liams Realty P.O. Box 575 Howe TX 75459 mtaylor@kw.com RESTAURANTS El Patio Escondido Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 495 W. Van Alstyne Pkwy, P.O. Box 637 Van Alstyne TX 75495 elpatioescondido.com 903-482-5538 williampacheco519@yahoo.com Abby’s Restaurant 110 E. Haning St Howe TX 75459 abbys-restaurant.com/ 903-487-8860 abbysrestaurant@yahoo.com Palio’s Pizza Cafe 303 W. Haning St. Howe TX 75459 https://www.palioshowe.com/ 903-532-0390 paliospizza@att.net ROOFING HIT Exteriors, LLC Howe, TX 75459 972-977-1523 sergio@hitexteriors.com STORAGE Howe Mini-Storage 609 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-7867 amanda.garner@howecpa.com

TOWING Adams Automotive & Towing 85 Redden Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 adamsautotow.com 903-482-5784 Pristine Towing & Roadside Assistance 135 Hodgins Rd. P.O. Box 1672 Van Alstyne TX 75495 (903) 814-8064 VIDEO Summit Media Service PO.O. Box 1197 Howe, TX 75459 www.summitmediaservice.com 214-843-1495

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Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Darren Foster – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfbins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 32707/darrenfoster 903-436-2470 dfoster@txfb-ins.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Loretta Anderson – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfb -ins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 23242/lorettaanderson 903-819-1041 landerson@txfb-ins.com Aflac Agent Chyna Vincent 1671 Taylor Rd Dorchester TX 75459 940-641-1714 chynakv@live.com INTERNET TekWav 223 N. Walnut St. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.tekwav.com 903-375-9787 jj@tekwav.com LEADERSHIP The Iku Organization http://theikuorganization.org/ 214-392-6218 soga.aralola@gmail.com NON-PROFIT Goodwill Industries of North-east Texas 2206 E. Lamar St. Sherman, TX 75090 goodwillnorthtexas.org spierce@goodwillnorthtexas.org

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service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to

telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency

situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-

water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The sys-

tem is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It

then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an

answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action

on the part of the recipient. Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed

to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be

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City Hall

116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571

Mayor: Bill French

City Administrator: Joe Shephard

City Secretary: Joy Stevens

Utility Billing and Municipal Court

116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571

Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts

Court Clerk: Kerri Cheatham

(After hours night drop available)

Public Works

317 S. Hughes St.

Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips

Code Enforcement

317 S. Hughes St.

Code Enforcement Officer: Bert

Dowlen

Howe Fire Department

118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency)

Fire Chief: Robert Maniet

Howe Police Department

700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971

(non-emergency) Dispatch 903-

813-4411

Police Chief: Carl Hudman

Police Sergeant: Keith Milks

Economic Development

101 E. Haning St. 903-532-6080

EDC Director: Monte Walker

City Council meets third Tuesday at

700 W. Haning St. at 6 pm.

Planning & Zoning

Commission

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Howe Community Facilities

Development Corporation

Meets as needed

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website www.cityofhowe.org

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Grayson -Collin Electric Cooperative, Inc. P.O. Box 548 Van Alstyne TX 75495 www.grayson-collin.coop 903-482-7100 mmcginnis@gcec.net Cavender Home Theater DISH 6202 Texoma Parkway Sherman TX 75090 http://www.cavendertv.com/ 903-892-3499 chris@cavenderht.com REAL ESTATE Bill French Properties 315 N Travis Suite B-3 Sherman TX 75090 billfrenchproperties.com 903-893-BILL (2455) bill@billfrenchproperties.com Sheryl Bentley, Ebby Halliday REALTORS 3445 FM 1417 N Sherman TX 75092 http://www.ebby.com/agents_ offices/find_agent/info/ sherylbentley (903) 821-7653 sherylbentley@ebby.com The Uselton Group 382 Eagle Point Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 theuseltongroup.com 469-525-7281 kim@theuseltongroup.com Vincent Realty Group 324 Meadows Estate St., P.O. Box 756 Tom Bean TX 75489 vincentrealtygroup.com/ 903-870-8528 benvincent@cableone.net

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She published dozens of academic articles and became a respected authority on spectroscopy, the study of chemicals, their composition, and their interactions by analyzing their light patterns. In 1972, Good became the first woman appointed to the respected American Chemical Society. The university honored her by naming her the Boyd Professor of Chemistry in 1974, the highest honor the university had to offer and the first woman to receive the honor. She steadily gained attention outside the university. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter named her as the first woman to head the National Science Foundation. In 1981, she accepted a position as vice-president of technology at Signal Research Center where she and her team researched the potential consumer applications of the newly emerging Global Positioning System. By 1987, her fellow chemists named her president of the American Chemical Society. And in 1991, she was named to the presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology by President George H. W. Bush. With yet another change in administration, she was still in high demand. President Bill Clinton named Good as Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology in 1993. While in the Clinton administration, she encouraged more cooperation between colleges, business, and government for pursuing new technology. She was also part of the initiative encouraging the development of hybrid fuel technology for automobiles to reduce reliance on oil. At the age of 66 in 1997, she returned to Arkansas and accepted a new position as a chemistry professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She was soon named Founding Dean of the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, helping to oversee construction of a new $35 million research and classroom building on the UALR campus. Good received the Priestley Medal in 1997 from the American Chemical Society, the first woman so honored. She also received the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation in 2004 in recognition of her work and leadership. Good retired in 2011. She continued to receive many honors in her retirement as one of the first twelve women inducted in the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in Little Rock in 2015. She continues to stay active and advises, “Do the best you can with what’s available… be willing to take a chance.”

Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridg-es@gmail.com.

The twentieth century in the United States was marked by incredible progress in science, transforming a nation of farmers

spending their lives working with their animals and the strength in their hands into a technological powerhouse where electricity, computers, instantaneous communications, and high-tech machinery are indispensable to every facet of life. These achievements were due to the work of men and women in numerous fields. It was also in the last century that women were able to make significant contributions to science in large numbers for the first time. One of those pioneers in scientific research and leadership was chemist Mary L. Good. Her story began in Grapevine, then a tiny farming community just northeast of Fort Worth. She was born Mary Lowe in 1931, one of four children to a husband-and-wife team of educators. Since education was the family business, its importance was never lost on her as her parents encouraged her to study and eventually go to college. In 1942, at the age of 11, her father, John Lowe, accepted a job as a school principal in Kirby, a small community west of Arkadelphia. After a few years, the family moved again to Willisville in neighboring Nevada County. As a youngster, she set up her own photo development lab in her home, with no experience and no one to teach her. “I’ve never been afraid to do new things,” she said in an interview. After she graduated high school, she enrolled at what is now the University of Central Arkansas with hopes of becoming a teacher like her parents. She soon discovered chemistry, a subject her poor, rural high school did not have the resources to offer, and quickly changed her major. She graduated with a degree in chemistry at the age of 19 in 1950. She then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Arkansas where she married fellow graduate student and lab partner Billy Good in 1952. She earned a masters degree in 1953. At the time, she began researching the use of radioactive iodine in the use of treating thyroid conditions. While completing her doctorate at the University of Arkansas, she accepted a position as a chemistry professor and director of the radiochemistry lab, working with radioactive substances, at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She received her doctorate in 1955. In 1958, she and her husband were both offered positions as chemistry professors at LSU-New Orleans.

promising earlier in the week. Our high school admin-istration, senior sponsors, and staff worked diligently to plan, coordinate and set up the event, and I think it went about as well as it could have under the circum-stances. I regret that our Seniors missed out on all of their spring activi-ties, but I appreciate the Junior Class for sponsoring the Senior Parade. I thought it was well at-tended by the community, and I want thank everyone who came out and lined the streets to show support for our kids. They defi-nitely appreciated it. And thank you to the Howe Athletic Booster Club, Band Boosters, and FFA Booster Club for providing the Senior banners at the stadi-um. They were a big hit. And finally, I want to thank Monte Walker and Michelle Carney for documenting all of these events with pictures and videos. It will ensure that these memories will endure for many years. All of this has served as yet an-other reminder about the strong community spirit that defines Howe, Texas. I am fortunate to be able to call it my home. Kevin Wilson

Dear Howe ISD Community, To say this school year has been a challenge would be a huge under-statement. We would not have been able to complete/endure/survive the last nine weeks with-out the help from supportive par-ents, determined students, and dedicated staff. I know that the at-home instruction was a hardship for many families, and I want to thank everyone for juggling their work schedules and “teacher du-ties” to make it all happen. It tru-ly took a village this year. I also want to thank everyone for their patience and flexibility as we con-stantly modified our schedules and procedures in response to the ever-evolving situation. I am thankful that we were able to hold a traditional graduation cere-mony, and I appreciate every-one’s cooperation in complying with our social-distancing guide-lines. It is unfortunate that we had to limit seating, but I believe our staff did a wonderful job in recording the ceremony, and it is available to view from our web-site if you have not had an oppor-tunity to see it (Click here). Our seniors did an outstanding job considering that they were not able to practice, and God provid-ed a beautiful evening when the weather forecast was less than

Texas History Minute

Ken Bridges

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By John Solomon JustTheNews.com Attorney General William P. Barr said Sunday that activists who have instigated rioting across the country will be treated as domestic terrorists under federal law. "Federal law enforcement actions will be di-rected at apprehending and charging the violent radical agitators who have hijacked peaceful protest and are engaged in violations of federal law," Barr said in a statement, adding that the investigations will be handled by the Justice Department's existing network of 56 region-al FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces. "The violence instigated and carried out by An-tifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly," he added. The attorney general's statement came after an-other night of rioting across the country over the death of an African-American man at the hands of Minneapolis police last Monday. Cit-ies across the country were consumed Saturday night and Sunday morning by clashes between protesters and police and countless fires and other criminal acts ranging from looting and theft to assault on officers and the use of incen-diary devises. Earlier, President Trump said the radical liberal group Antifa would be declared a terrorist or-ganization. Barr beckoned local authorities to increase their enforcement efforts to stop the violence, like Minneapolis did by imposing curfews and sum-moning a significant presence of the National Guard. "It is time to stop watching the violence and to confront and stop it. The continued violence and destruction of property endangers the lives and livelihoods of others, and interferes with the rights of peaceful protestors, as well as all other citizens," he said. "It is the responsibility of state and local leaders to ensure that adequate law enforcement re-sources, including the National Guard where necessary, are deployed on the streets to reestablish law and order. We saw this finally happen in Minneapolis last night, and it worked," he said. Barr also offered support to those protesting peacefully over the tragic death in Minneapolis, saying the current violence "undercuts the ur-gent work that needs to be done – through con-structive engagement between affected commu-nities and law enforcement leaders – to address legitimate grievances. Preventing reconcilia-tion and driving us apart is the goal of these radical groups, and we cannot let them suc-ceed."

Local items of interest Barr says feds will treat instigators of riots as domestic terrorists under federal law

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Local church calendar First United Methodist Church of Howe 810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Zack 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts Howe Church of Christ 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service New Beginning Fellowship 910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church

spiritually lethargic state and is convinced they are approved and acceptable in the sight of God. In verses 15-19 God declares, “I know thy works, that thou art nei-ther cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you might be rich; and white raiment, that you might be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve that you might see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chas-ten: be zealous therefore, and re-pent.” To say the least, this is a sobering warning for all who pro-claim to be followers of Jesus. Deception is common and as we were saying before, this can easi-ly happen when we are not con-stantly devoted and focused on God. The true Christian life is not about fulfilling our own plans and then squeezing Jesus in if we have some extra time. This is re-ferred to as, “broad way thinking” which allows carnality to influ-ence and manage our priorities. In reality, our relationship with God is about abandoning our life, lay-ing down our will, and rising eve-ry morning singing, “I surrender all, all to thee my blessed Savior, I surrender all.” Sadly, many have never realized what this means and most have no intention of learning. John the Apostle said in chapter three and verse 30, “He (God) must increase, but I must decrease.” Why did he say that? He was trying to explain that our old nature is filled with a strong love for pleasure and our heart only has one throne. We cannot be filled with God if we are al-ready filled with everything else. Those who hide behind the mask of denial, have willingly con-vinced themselves they can have their cake and eat it too. This is a lie from the dark side. We cannot serve God and our carnality at the same time. If we fail to control our thoughts, our thoughts will not hesitate to control us. Read more at billyhollandminis-tries.com

If our mind is filled with a world of thoughts that are contrary or even dis-honorable to God, how can there be room for us to con-centrate on His goodness,

peace, and hope? When Mary was about to give birth and there was no room in the Inn, God was also allowing us to see that many people in this world have no room in their life for Jesus. Their heart and mind is filled with car-nality, selfishness, arrogance, and negative influences. This is why the enemy of our soul has created many obstacles and diversions for the purpose of redirecting our attention away from our Lord. Secular reading material, video games, movies, cell phones, and television are only a few distrac-tions that can be snare traps which can replace and redirect our mental and spiritual focus away from Christ. Having a disci-plined mind for God is a key to living a victorious spiritual life. When we talk about our love for the Lord, there are plenty of ways to prove we are not just cluttering the air with empty words. The call to take up our cross and fol-low Christ, has everything to do with our level of devotion to Him. When a person falls in love with someone, this is all they think about. Why? Because what-ever captures our heart has also captivated our mind. If Jesus has been invited to sit on the throne of our heart, we are sitting at His feet intently waiting for Him to speak and always ready to re-spond and obey His voice. Our desire to please Him is a direct result of our love for Him. Within this personal and intimate rela-tionship is the reverential fear and awe of who He is. This re-spect of His holiness is the begin-ning of wisdom and causes us to be humble and grateful for His presence. Until sin convicts and wounds our heart to the point of weeping, we have not understood the full meaning of spiritual transfor-mation. The term lukewarm is mentioned in Revelation chapter three and the passage in context is generally talking about a per-son who is drifting along in a

Dr. Billy

Holland

Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

The victorious spiritual life A Christian Fellowship 150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333 Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ag-es) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr.) Community Bible Fellowship 415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 - 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service First Baptist Church Dorches-ter 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M. Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship First Baptist Church Howe 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-532-5504 Tuesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday 5:30 pm - Kids Choir 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30 am - Kids Church 10:30am - Worship Service

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Hey Taylor - I just started giving my kids (8 and 10) a weekly allowance. I want them to have the freedom to spend it as they

choose, but I’d love if they used the money wisely. Any tips for teaching/tricking them into making good financial choices? - Dave Hey Dave - The line between teaching and tricking gets blurred at times, doesn’t it? In some cases, you might have to get crafty if you want to keep your kids from spending every dollar on candy. That said, I find children can learn to appreciate money when you offer some good context. Here are a few tactics that I’ve seen work. 1. Show how patience pays off. Grab a calendar and sit down with your kids. Do the math to find out how long they would have to wait to save enough up for a certain toy. When that’s figured out, it’s just a matter of checking off days until the allowance money has built up sufficiently. Most kids find a little excitement in marking the calendar every evening in anticipation of an event (like counting down for Christmas), and the whole process will be a great illustration of the value of saving. Show firsthand what it means to keep your money until you can get what you want, and that lesson will hopefully stick with your kids for years to come. 2. Teach them to plan ahead. If your kids don’t have a savings goal, they won’t be inspired to spend wisely. Then, when something comes along that they absolutely have to have, the

money won’t be around with which to buy it. Explain the importance of keeping their eyes on the prize, setting lofty goals and working hard to get what they want. 3. Help them appreciate what they have. In addition to reminding myself how lucky I am, I try to make sure my kids are aware of their good fortune. If your children get an allowance, they’re pretty blessed, and it’s important they understand that. Granted, it can be very hard to make a child see how good life is when something’s just gone wrong, but money can actually provide a good vehicle for explaining these concepts. If you can make your children feel lucky to have any money at all, it’s more likely they’ll hold onto it and treat it with respect. If you can get that lesson taught early, your kids should be in great shape going forward. Teaching your kids about money can be very rewarding. There will be times when your patience gets tested, but it’s all worth it in the end. Best of luck!

Teaching your children about money

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In 1972, a Stanford University psychologist conducted a study in which young children, individually, were offered either a small but immediate

reward (a marshmallow or a pretzel) or a doubled reward if they were able to wait for fifteen minutes. In follow-up studies, researchers found that children who were able to postpone gratification experienced better life outcomes as measured by such things as SAT scores, academic achievement, and body mass index. I have long maintained that well-done research in the so-called social sciences does nothing but confirm common sense, and it certainly seems commonsensical that impulsivity and difficulty delaying gratification have a negative impact on life outcomes. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, as it is known, bears significantly on childrearing attitudes and approaches. Simply, teaching a naturally impulse-driven child to exercise restraint greatly increases the child’s chances of success. In previous columns I have extolled the parenting virtues of “Vitamin N,” referring to the two-letter word that the mental health community began demonizing in the late 1960s, claiming it induced all manner of psychological problems. Supposedly, said vitamin was part and parcel of “shame-based” parenting (which refers to childrearing that activates a child’s conscience). Even today, despite commonsense and a body of research akin to the Stanford study, I continue to hear of parents and preschools that adhere to a “no no” policy. I have been so bold and psychologically incorrect to say that children should hear “no” at least five times more than they hear “yes.” That proportion

approximates what they are going to experience post-emancipation as they learn to navigate real world contingencies. The earlier in life a person adjusts his expectations to reality, the better. Because children are impulsive and instant gratification oriented by nature (as opposed to those traits being the result of chemical imbalances and other pseudo-scientific fictions), learning restraint involves psychic pain, which children express in tantrums and various forms of petulance. Teaching restraint, therefore, requires that parents also be able to tolerate pain. Having raised two children and assisted in the raising of seven grands, I can attest that there are few things more painful to endure than the prolonged shrieking of a young child. And so, it is ironic to note that those parents who are better able to restrain the impulse to end said shrieking by giving in are more likely to raise children who can tolerate delay of gratification and achieve life success. Endowing restraint requires restraint. Teaching endurance requires endurance. Take it from an expert on the subject, when all is said and done, life success is not a matter of money, prestige, honors, and the like. It is a matter of personal contentment, a sense of serenity that no outside influence can disturb. Contentment is life’s brass ring. Enabling a child to eventually, much later in life, grasp it requires daily doses of Vitamin N, the greatest and most painful of gifts. Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, parentguru.com.

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John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology. In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

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