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Big Bank Tools
Community Bank Service
Punt, Pass
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Week 1
scrimmage
highlights
Toledo Bend
Cowboy
Church
Page 13
Lovebugs
Page 14
Tenaha IS Superintendent Scott
Tyner talks to teachers about the pay
increase. (Steve Fountain/Light and
Champion)
Thank a veteran and military person
every day for their service
to our country.
Community...
Viewpoints
Sports........
Classified
•Rosa Cannon
•Sandra Ford
• Leonard Hughes
•Jimmy Matthews
Tenaha
Youth
Center
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The Shelby County
Texas A&M AgriLife Ex-
tension office hosted an
open house and ribbon cut-
ting. Staff Daphne Lovell,
Lane Dunn, Jheri-Lynn
McSwain, and Feleshia
Thompson welcomed the
public as they stopped in
to view the new location on
Nacogdoches Street Using
the former school’s library,
adjacent classroom and
Texas Governor Greg Abbott con-
vened a special session on July 18. In-
cluded in the agenda was Texas school
finance.
During special session the House
came to agreement to accept the Sen-
ate’s changes to House Bill 21. The fi-
Tyson Food’s showed
that it can throw a big
party, as its Family Fun
Day brought more than
2,000 people to Center’s
Portacool Park for an
afternoon of fun for all
ages.
The four-hour event
was originally envisioned
as a Tyson employees’
event, but was soon ex-
panded to invite the com-
munity, as well.
The event kicked off
nearby gym offers prom-
ise the Extension will have
enough room to host its
many programs.
In June, the Extension
office moved its offices
from die annex behind die
county office building on
San Augustine Street The
extension had been in the
annex since 2003, following
its move from the records
building. The annex was
challenging because very
few activities could be done
on site. This forced exten-
nal version will do much less to help
public education. Instead of increasing
the base funding per student across the
state, the Senate’s version will leave
most school districts with no addition-
al funding.
Many Texas school superintendents
and school board trustees had thrown
shortly after 1 p.m. with
the limousine arrival
of performers in Dis-
ney-theme princess cos-
tumes from Cinderella
to Moana - and the infa-
mous Capt Jack Sparrow
sion programs from 4-H to
nutritional and sewing class-
es to find off-site locations.
The extension is now
the caretaker for the gym
and a 12-stall bathroom
building. Both are near the
office. The gym allows the
extension and 4-H to hold
much larger events and
recreation programs on
site. In die future the drive-
way needs to be completed
and a blacktop parking area
created.
See photos page 2.
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By Steve Fountain
Editor and Publisher
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The start of the fall se-
mester isn’t until Monday,
but 35 teachers in the Ten-
aha Independent School
District received a back-
to-school surprise Aug.
22 when Superintendent
Scott Tyner announced
that each would be receiv-
ing a pay raise effective
immediately.
The raises will vary de-
pending on tenure, with
teachers having more
than 20 years receiving
a $500 per year increase,
those with 11 to 19 years
receiving $750 and those
will 10 or less receiving
$870.
The decision was made
by the school board at its
Aug. 21 meeting after the
district received $27,000
from the state in Addition-
al State Aid Above Tax Re-
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Shelby County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office hosted an open house and rib-
bon cutting. (Photo by Susan Watkins/The Light and Champion)
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Shires
part of his plea bargain.
“The Center Police
Department Narcotics Di-
vision has been working
very hard for some time
now putting together cas-
es to effectively deal a se-
ries of death blows to the
drug trafficking that oc-
curs in the City of Center.
As I have said, the drug
epidemic is responsible
for so much of the crime
that goes on in our com-
munity. So far, we have
been very quiet in our
efforts, so as to not alert
the people against whom
we are operating. That
does not mean, however,
that we have not been ef-
ficiently going about our
business, as we have sent
a number of folks who re-
fuse to stop dealing drugs
to prison. The Fields case
is itself a small part of a
larger prosecution effort
that encompasses a num-
ber of Defendants. The
situation can be easily
summed up with the fol-
lowing: We are just getting
started,” Shires said.
duction (ASAATR) funds
that were not counted on
in the 2017-18 budget.
“We built the budget
around the fact that that
money was not there and
Back-to-school surprise:
Tenaha teachers get raise
Cracking down on drug offenders
By Susan Watkins
Staff Writer
Local authorities are
cracking down on the local
drug epidemic and going
after drug
offend-
ers. Mon-
day Judge
Rafferty’s
courtroom
had a case
set for State of Texas v.
Milton Lee Fields. Accord-
ing to Stephen Shires, Dis-
trict Attorney, the charge
was State Jail Felony De-
livery of a Controlled Sub-
stance.
As a state jail felony,
the range of punishment
is 6 months to 24 months
confinement in a State Jail
Facility.
“Fields accepted re-
sponsibility for his actions
and took 24 months (the
maximum) confinement in
a state jail. He had a sec-
ond state jail delivery and
a tampering with a witness
charge that were taken
into consideration as a
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The collection of Disney princesses was a hit on Sunday - as was the tent cooled by Portacool units. (Light and Champion
photo by Steve Fountain)
A fun-for-all at the park!
By Steve Fountain
Editor and Publisher
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