The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 98, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 2000 Page: 2 of 14
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Friday, Dec. 8, 2000
• ABATEMENTS
Continued From Page One
a county tax abatement policy re-
lated to economic development, the
court unanimously approved a
resolution indicating its intent to
participate in such a policy.
“I think this is a must for eco-
nomic development in this county,”
said Judge Conrad. A policy has al-
ready been written to be reviewed
and discussed by the commission-
ers at a future meeting.
In addition to abatements for
new businesses coming to Bosque
County, the policy will also provide
for abatements to existing busi-
nesses for infrastructure improve-
ments or employee increases.
Abatements will be granted at the
discretion of the court, with several
levels of abatements available de-
pending on the improvements or
employee additions.
“This will not only help in attract-
ing new industries, but it will en-
courage retention and expansion of
existing businesses,” Judge Con-
rad explained.
Miscellany
In other action, the court ap-
proved payment of claims, salaries,
and wages against county and pre-
cinct funds ind approved a pair of
line item transfers.
The starting time of he next
meeting of the court, set for Mon-
day Dec. 11, was changed to 1 p.m.
Judge Conrad noted he will be un-
available for a court session that
morning. A Thursday, Dec. 28,
meeting is also scheduled, starting
at 9 a m. Each meeting will be held
in the Bosque County Courthouse
in Meridian.
• TRYOUTS
Continued From Page One
The comedy has Morelli coming
in late, through a hilarious series
of mishaps, and being given a
double dose of tranquilizers. After
Morelli is believed dead, an aspir-
ing singer is urged to go on stage
in his place. Morelli comes to and
gets into his other costume, and
now, two Othellos are running
around in costume.
The debut performance will be
Saturday, Feb. 17, with a dinner the-
atre. Dinner theatre tickets are $20.
Performances are also scheduled
for Sundays, Feb. 18 and 25, at 2
p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m.
Reserved seating for these perfor-
mances will be $6, with $7 admis-
sion at the door.
Tickets may be purchased at the
Tin Building Theatre box office
from 2 to 6 p.m., weekdays. Reser-
vations may be made by calling the
theatre at (254) 675-2278.
For information on other activi-
ties at the Bosque Conservatory,
contact the Conservatory office at
(254) 675-3720.
• NEW CD
Continued From Page One
minutes one day sitting in front of
the TV," Peterson said. Some of the
songs may have
taken 10 minutes
to write, others
took hours
“I started writ-
ing ‘When I See
You Without Me'
at about 3 o'clock
one morning
when I was going
through a bad
time in my life,
and didn't finish it Peterson
til dawn." said
Peterson. “You just write when the
feeling to write comes. If you don’t,
you may lose a song.”
Although the CD has yet to find
airtime on local stations, Peterson
said that both radio stations and
juke boxes are offering the music
in Iowa and other northern states.
“It s a cut throat market, and
since I recorded this on my own.
and don’t have a known label on
it, some stations are simply not
even listening to it," Peterson
said
Peterson has been approached
by Emerald Records of Nashville,
and is considering signing with
them, or with another label But
at this time, he is happy with the
response he's getting to the first
release
Along with Peterson on the CD
are some of the top musicians in
the business, including Johnnie
Gimble’s back-up singers C arrie
Malone and Amy Williams Rick
Trevino's acoustic guitar player
Rodney Pyeatt. and Don Crider
on fiddle frent Kuklies. formerly
of TNN Primetime Country, stood
in on steel guitar bringing the
strong sound of country to the
CD.
"What is most gratifying is that
everyone who has heard the CD
has something to say about each
of the different songs,” Peterson
said ‘Some people like one song,
others like one of the other songs;
so I'm getting feedback on the
whole album, not just one song
It makes me feel like I did a good
job."
The CD. entitled simply
“Tucker.” is for sale at B J.'s
Western Wear in Clifton.
• BOWHUNTERS
Continued From Page One
bers on its roll, with another 72
who are interested in joining,
but who are waiting to see if a
permanent range can set up for
area use.
For more information, con-
tact Jones at 675-7702.
• ST. NICHOLAS
Continued From Page One
that as a youth, he made Christian
pilgrimage to Palestine and Egypt,
was impris-
oned during
the persecu-
tions of the Ro-
man emperor,
Diocletian, but
released under
Constantine.
Legend says
he attended
the Council of
Nicea in 325
AD, and many
miracles are
attributed to him:
Dec. 6 is still observed in Europe
as the Feast of St. Nicholas, the an-
niversary of his death, and is con-
sidered a special holiday. In
Germany Switzerland, Holland,
and Belgium, men in bishop’s caps
and robes of bright red and white
visit children, asking them about
their prayers, urging them to be
good, and give them gifts.
It is also said that each Decem-
ber, during special feast days for
the Christ child, the bishop would
go out at night and place gold in the
wooden shoes at the doors of poor
children for them to find the next
morning.
Dutch immigrants brought the
Christmas custom of “the visit of St.
Nicholas" to America. The Santa
Claus traditions in America come
from this early beginning. The
Dutch “Sinterklaas” was the name
for St. Nicholas.
“Everyone is invited to attend the
special Christmas season presen-
tation at Zion United Church,” said
Rev. Charles Rice., pastor.
• ONE MAN SHOW
Continued From Page One
disciples.” Since that is the mission
of First United
Methodist
Church, it in-
vited the Rev.
Winter to come
and share his
ministry in
Clifton.
Rev. Winter
lives in Fort
Worth with his
wife, Laura, and
their three chil-
dren. His is a --
general evangelist and is a pub-
lished author with many articles
and scripts to his credit. A devo-
tional book, “If There Is No God,"
will be released by River Oak Pub
lishing Co., of Tulsa, Okla
“The Sunday morning presenta-
tion is open to the public and every-
one is welcome to attend." said Rev.
Marvin Moore of First United
Methodist Church. A free-will offer-
ing will be received following Rev.
Winter's presentation.
The church is located at 303
South Ave. E, in Clifton.
• IMMANUEL
Continued From Page One
"The community is invited to
share in this proclaiming of the
wonderful season of Christmas,"
said Rev, Knippa in inviting all to
attend these special worship ser
vices
Immanuel is a member of the
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
LC MS church congregations are
Gospel-centered. Word and Sacra
ment based communities of faith
The church is located at 911 West
3rd Street in Clifton For more in
formation, contact Pastor Knippa
at (254) 675-3281 (office) or675-2459
(home), or via e mail (Immanuel
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To Santa Is Friday, Dec. 15 j
CLIFTON — In order to make
sure that Santa gets all his let-
ters in a timely fashion prior to
the Christmas sleigh ride, the
deadline to submit Letters to
Santa will be Friday, Dec. 15.
The letters will run in the an-
nual Christmas issue of T®k
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CLENG PEERSON STORYTELLER — Niels Bentsen offered visitors the
history of Cleng Peerson, the “Father of Norwegian Immigration to
America,” at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church on Saturday during the an-
nual Norwegian Country Christmas Tour. staff jhoto ey carol uouiton
Clifton VFD Called Out On Three
Controlled Burns In November
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Call (254) 435-2331 or after hours, call the 800 number.
CLIFTON - “If the landown-
ers would notify the Sheriff’s
Department of controlled
burns, the entire community
would benefit,” said a spokes-
man for the Clifton Volunteer
Fire Department.
During November, the Clifton
VFD responded to three fires,
only to find out that they were
controlled burns. The costs of
every run of the department
adds up in man-hours, equip-
ment costs, and in the end, cost
to the taxpayers in running the
department.
The three “controlled burn”
calls the department responded
to in November included one on
County Road 4290, on Nov. 1;
one on FM 182, on Nov. 11; and
one on County Road 4145, on
• CRASH
Continued From Page One
tang community.
The search was called off at ap-
proximately 9:45 p.m., after finding
no trace of an airplane or a meteor.
Jenkins noted that there had
been no confirmation from Waco,
Fort Hood, Dallas-Forth Worth Air-
ports, or from the National Weather
Service of any airplanes or weather
balloons going down.
Jenkins also said that from every-
one he had talked to, that no one
had reported a smoke trail from the .
sighting.
“If it was a plane on fire, normally
there would be a smoke trail,”
Jenkins added.
One last sighting of a possible
flare being sent up was checked out
at approximately 8:30 p.m., about
four miles north of Clifton, but
again, the search turned up noth-
ing.
If any other reports come in dur-
ing the night or in the daylight
hours on Thursday the search will
continue.
One family, who claims to have
seen the airplane catch fire and go
down, took photos of the incident.
The film has been turned over to
Thf. Clifton Rkcord for developing.
If the film shows a plane on fire, it
is hoped it will be helpful in identi
tying the area w'here the plane may
have gone dowm to better lead the
search in the right direction.
Nov. 13.
Other calls the department
responded to during November
included:
Nov. 9 — Auto wreck at 511
South Ave. J.
Nov. 12 — An activated fire
alarm at 100 South Ave. B, re-
sulted in a false alarm.
N ov. 22 — Automobile wreck
on South Highway 6.
Nov. 22 — Possible house
fire at 813 South Ave. N.
N o v. 26 — Automobile wreck
on FM 708 involving one vehicle.
Nov. 30 — Possible automo-
bile fire at Highway 6 and 219.
In closing the month’s report,
the department urges everyone
who plans a controlled burn to
first notify the Sheriff’s Depart-
ment at 435-2363 to eliminate
any of the Bosque County fire
departments from wasting pre-
cious time, money, and effort in
responding to a controlled burn.
The Legend of St. Nicholas
This Sunday Evening, December 10, 2000
7:00 p.m.
In The Sanctuary of Zion United Church
(Womack Community on Hwy. 219 Just Outside Clifton)
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THE LITTLE VAMPIRE
Jonathan Lipnicki proves
he is one of the best child actors
around in this family film based
on characters from Angela
Sommer-Bodenburg s popular
children's books
“The Little Vampire”
successfully subverts
traditional representations of
the undead, presenting the
story of a family of vampires
that want to become humans,
not bite them
Lipnicki plays Tony, a
young boy wrto has just moved
from San Diego to a remote
village In Scotland Tony finds it
hard to adapt to life in a new
school and new country,
especially when teased by
classmates about his
obsession with vampires
Negtected by his busy parents,
all the boy really wants is
someone to play with He is
happy when he is visited one
night by Rudoph, a lonely
vampire boy Rudolph
introduces Tony to his family,
who are hunting for halt of a lost
magical amulet, which they
need to perform a ritual that will
make them human again
Tony agrees to help them
The scriptwriters have
successfully combined their
experience working on
children s movies to create this
delightful tale of curses, secret
passages, and magical
amulets The fantastic
costumes are the work of
Academy award-winning
designer Jim Acheson and
special effects include flying
cows, and some imaginative
sets
This is a New Line release
rated PG for some mild pent
Running time is 91 minutes
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