Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 2007 Page: 1 of 8
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Bringing You News Of Your Hometown Since 1907
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USPS NO. 171-340- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
(• VOLUME 103 NUMBER 08
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Electric Rate Increase
Begins Here Oct. 1
School Trustees Evaluate
Campus Plans In Recent Meet
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Home Tour
Tickets
Available
Parade Offers
Cash Prizes
Entries for the Centennial
Homecoming Parade are now
STREET REPAIR — City crews work to prepare the street in the 500 block of West
Bryan for a new surface. County crews joined city workers Wednesday in re-surfacing the
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ELECTRA, TEXAS
Under the new rates
residential and residential all-
electric customers have a
service charge rate increase
from $11 to $13.00 with no
change in the first 600 kHz
rate of .094757, and a penny
increase in usage over 600
kwh from .0500 to .0600.
SWRE has announced
a rate increase from $ 11.99 to
12.99 per meter, which is
included in the new rate for
residents.
as an option for City Hall. A
$30,000 bid from Rickey
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develop
to meet the
needs of the cities involved.
For more information contact
Ed Kieren, chairman of the
steering committee.
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Tennis
Scramble
Planned
A tennis sen mble honoring ’
former tennis coach Elizabeth
Sachse will be held Friday and
Saturday, Oct. 12 and 13, during
the Centennial Homecoming.
Presentation to Mrs. Sachse and
a ceremony to name tiie courts
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50 YEAR AWARDS: District Deputy Grand Master Edward Pate, left, presented 50
year awards to Edgar Eakin, top photo and Carlos Byars during a ceremony Saturday at the
Electra Masonic Lodge 1067. Eakin and Byars were decorated with their pins by their wives,
Georgia Eakin and Virginia Byars. The ceremony was directed by Ricky Parker, master of
the lodge.
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Level II B board
opportunities and
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means 16 players playing for 90
minutes.
There is a $5 entry fee to
cover costs of balls and bottled
water for all players. Fee may be
paid at registration.
For more information contact
Ann Lee Brackeen at
lbrackeen@lubbockisd.org, or
Helen Brackeen Hickman, at
hhick583@bellsouth.net. Pre-
registration is encouraged but
not required.
a.m.
5:30 on Friday, and 2:30 until All interested persons are
5:30 on Saturday, at the junior invited to attend the meeting.
high tennis courts. North Texas Enterprise
Players will be playing
doubles. Those entering my
request a doubles partner or be
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Tickets for Main
Electra’s Centennial Tour of
garage-sale Historic Homes arc now
available through the Main Street be judging the entries.
: The parade will line-up at
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9 Residential electric
S customers will be paying at
■ least two dollars more a month
■ beginning Oct. 1.
£5- City commissioners
B approved third and final
■ reading of an ordinance
5 increasing electric rates when
■ they met in regular session on
H Tuesday at 5 p.m.
■ The new rate schedule
U will bring an additional
S $170,000 in revenue to the
m City.
items to be offered. Cost is
$10.00.
Chamber Manager Sherry
Strange said noon Friday,. Sept.
28, is the deadline for
submitting entries for the map.
She noted the city-wide fall
garage sale is an annual event
sponsored by the chamber, and
provides an opportunity for
local citizens to attract a wider
audience of
enthusiasts.
The map and listings will be Office at 102 N. Waggoner Five " —~ .....
featured in next week s edition historic Electra homes will be fairgrounds on Cleveland
of this newspaper. <
downtown
ceremony.
Playing is scheduled from 9 the
i. until 12 noon and 1 p.m. to Chamber of Commerce.
All interested persons
Steering committee for the
in her honor will be during the 1 North Central Texas Enterprise
p.m. downtown Saturday Corporation Project will meet
Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. in
club room of EJectra
Olson for the building was
rejected.
Commissioners heard
a plea from Dick Cranford
asking for the building to be
sold as a retail business. Mrs.
Cranford owns the Antique
Emporium and will use the
building in that venture. It was
reported that Olson had
planned to use the building for
automobile storage.
Place One
Commissioner Curtis Warner
said retail use of the building
would mean more sales tax
and ad valorem tax for the
City, and repairs planned by
Mrs. Cranford would add to
the City’s economy.
His motion to accept
the lower bid was seconded by
Place Four Commissioner Jim
Madera. Place Two
Commissioner Olan Bourland
conducted Jjie meeting in the
absences of Mayor Glen
Branch and Mayor Pro Tern
Bill Davis.
Commissioners also
heard a proposal from Stuart
See RATES, Page Two
General service charge
rates remain the same while
large commercial users will
see an increase in kwh.
In other business on
Tuesday night commissioners
tabled a decision on bringing
City Hall into compliance with
Texas Accessibility Standards.
On Sept. 11
commissioners agreed to bring
the current City Hall into
compliance at an approximate
cost of $335,000.
Tuesday
Administrator
Giesbrecht said
presented at the last meeting
had been changed and
presented new numbers re-
opening discussion of options
for City Hall renovation.
USDA officials have
told city officials that City
Hall must be in compliance
before the remaining $1.1
million from the water project
may be utilized.
Options before the
commissioners are renovating
City Hall, moving it to another
building or building a new
structure.
Action taken by
commissioners Tuesday night
in accepting a $10,000 bid
from Janice Cranford for the
building at 220 and 222 West
Cleveland known as The
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Enterprise Zone Meet
Scheduled Sept. 27
Corporation is a join economic
development project for the
cities of Iowa Park and Electra
seeking to
entrepreneurship
City-Wide
Garage Sale
Set Oct. 6
Fall City-Wide Garage Sale
will be sponsored Saturday, Oct.
6 by the Electra Chamber of
Commerce.
The chamber will provide a
map of the sales and listings of Market removed that building being accepted by the Electra
Chamber of Commerce.
There is no charge for
entering the parade, however
only those who register will be
included in judging.
Categories for this year’s
parade include commercial,
non-commercial and under 18.
Prizes of $100 for first and $50
for second place will be
awarded in each division.
A panel of five judges will
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opened on Centennial Saturday, Avenue at the eastern edge of
October 13, 2007 from 3 to 5:30 Qty, continue on Cleveland
p.m. with tour profits going to west to Highway 25 (Bailey),
defray costs of the weekend-long tum south, pass Electra
Centennial celebration Tickets Healthcare Center and end at the
junior high school.
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Evaluations of 2006-07
campus and district plans were
presented • when trustees of
Electra Independent School
District met on Monday, Sept.
17.
Plans for the coming year
were reviewed and approved.
Approval was given to change
the regular October meeting
from the 15th to the 22nd.
Approval for an
release day for
■fet. A
conferences on Oct. 9 was hst.
given. Students will be Supt. Gary Nightingale
dismissed at 1 p.m. Each reported current enrollment at
campus is developing plans for 527 students, and presented a
the afternoon meetings with legislative update and reviewed
parents. Level II B board training
Each principal presented a opportunities and discussed
wish list of improvements lor convention arrangements.
his or her campus, and Brooke
Clark, Kathy Detmer, Kristi ShOO
Holmes Patsy Minderman,
Mona Reis and Edna Tallej
were added to the guest teacher
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Bandsmen Qualify
paired at random. Four courts For Area Contest
Jay Gillean, trombone, and school. Others were AAA.
Zach Iwanicki, tenor saxophone, Jay and Zach both competed
members of the Tiger Jazz against 11 other students. Five
Band, have qualified for area judges ranked Jay as first and
competition. three judges ranked Zach as
A recorded audition will be first.
sent to the area auditions. They Director Kenneth Gilbreath
will both perform with the said, "This is a really exciting
region jazz band in Saginaw on accomplishment for both
Now. 17. students and they both have
Of all the schools in worked very hard on their own
attendance, EHS was the only A t0 achieve this honor.”
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Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 2007, newspaper, September 27, 2007; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1238167/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Electra Public Library.