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Vol. Ill No. 24 The Grandview Tribune (Johnson County) Texas, February 17, 2006
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L to R Courtney Roeber, Paige Roeber, Christina
Thompson, Cari McEwan, Haylee Boston, and Kendall
Clendennen.
Wcvc had a good week here
at the nursing home, cver thing
seems to be going well, the fram-
ing has started and the rafters are
up. it looks like they are right on
schedule.
Our trip to Fossil Rim is still
planned for the 24th of Februar .
We w ill need some voluntcers to
go along w ith us. so if \ ou would
like to go please let Tausha or
Brenda know.
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Special thanks to the Youth
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for the actin ilics afterward.
The activ ity department had a
Baked Potato sale on Friday and
we would like to thank everone
who bought potatoes. We'll do it
again soon.
The Family Council Meeting
will be held on Friday. Fcbruary
17th. Please come, bring a covered
dish and join us for lunch and the
meeting to follow.
We welcome Mrs.Anne Stark.
Mrs. Nora Ingle and Mr. John
Beaumont to our family Come by
and \ isit w hen \ on can. we ll be
glad to see \ ou.
Until next time this is Brenda
Thomas and Tausha Miller from
the Grand icw Nursing Home.
brave actions that saved her mother’s life to partici-
pate in a childhood rite of passage and ride her bicy-
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Lara Davis competed in the Lions Club District Drug
Awareness Speech last month. Lara was up against 7
other contestants and did very well. The Speech con-
test is open to Junior and Seniors with the District
winner receiving $1000 scholarship and the State win-
ner another $1000 scholarship. Lara will be receiving
a $250 gift from the Grandview Lions Club and we are
looking forward to sponsoring Lara again next year.
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really enjoyed the last few weeks. Our next meeting
is Februaury 21, 2006. We will be having guest speak-
er Brenda Edwards to give us lots of information and
history on the town of Grandview, and surrounding
areas.
Anyone interested in helping out or registering your
daughter for Girl Scouts, give Julie Roeber a call 817-
866-3913
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Grandview Animal Control Officer
Stewart would like to thank everyone for
their donations and their endless kind-
ness for helping to obtain the supplies
needed to benefit the animals. Thank
you also to Action Auto of Grandview for
their cash donation.
The shelter is still in need of towels, bed-
ding and laundry soap. If you could help
with any of these items, please contact
Officer Stewart at 817-866-3399.
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By: Candie Beck-Adams Reonna Carter sits with her mother Suzie Hewitt and
tells her story of how she saved her mother’s life.
Most four year old girls mother and little Reonna.
are concerned with dolls, car- “She’s my guardian angel”
toons and getting their first says Suzie. " “Nobody can
bicycle. The amount of matu- believe I'm alive and I made
rity we expect from a child it through such a terrible acci-
this age is minimal, but little dent and I don't think if it had- —
Reonna Carter showed a level n’t been for Reonna that I - $ gm
of maturity and grace under would have". 4 m Mfl
pressure that would rival most Reonna has taken on some of —-6
adults. In June of 2005, she the household duties by doing di S
and her mother were running dishes, cleaning, answering •*
errands that included a trip to the phone and helps to care for .
Itasca, which was not out of her mother by giving Suzie -
the ordinary for them but the her medications and" assists "me
events of that day would lead her in turning over and setting
to extraordinary actions and a into her wheelchair. Reonna gM
memory that they will never has turned five now, but has •
forget.' taken on the responsibilities A
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errands, Reonna and her moth- only be explained'as remark- w
er Suzie started home from able. She does get hel
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road, skidding down a steep and has moved in and taken
embankment,"hitting the rail- care of Suzie and her family
way tracks and two trees since Suzie came home in Grandview Elementary students participate in
best consmingsnesssaa when hero embersaysuziecalLhehas Valentine's Day festivities. There were cards and
she woke, she checked on given up even thing to help treats for all and the students decorated sacks to
Reonna who suffered cuts and fake care of us. "We are 44-
bruises. She told the little girl blessed to have her". Put their Valentine S in.
that she would have to climb Reonna will be honored by
up the embankment to the the American Legion
road and get help because she Auxiliary Unit 522 (Lak.
couldn't get out of the car. Whitney) with their “Child
Reonna and Suzie would later Hero” ' award and unit
find out that as a result of the President Linda Arellano says
accident, Suzie's legs were she couldn't think of a better
paralyzed. . recipient. “That little girl is
With a sense of urgency amazing. She did what she
and having glass biting into had to "do to make sure her
the cuts on her hands, feet and mother got the help she need-
legs. little Reonna attempted ed and did more than anyone
to climb the embankment, would expect from such a
She fell back the first time and small child. She is a true hero
rolled down the hill into a bed and we are very pleased that
of fire ants. Despite the pain we could honor her in this
she was in, she scratched and way". Meanwhile Suzie still
clawed her way up to the road- has physical therapy everyday
side where she then waved her and keeps a positive spirit,
arms over her head and caught "I'm a fighter”, she says 'and I
the attention of her cousin have a family to care for, so I k
who had been traveling with know that whatever God’s 2
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behind them. The medics and care of'. It seems that the fl
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Smith hospital in Fort Worth, one that cannot be crushed by m
Reonna was taken by ambu- tragedy. Their story speaks -
lance as her injuries were less volumes about the unwavering
severe. and amazing nature of the
Suzie spent 84 days in the human spirit and Grandview is
hospital with a punctured lung fortunate to have both Suzie H
and her sixth to eighth verte- and Reonna to count among
bra broken before returning the many other incredible res"
home under the care of her idents of this town.
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Beck-Adams, Candie. The Grandview Tribune (Grandview, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 2006, newspaper, February 17, 2006; Grandview, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1473391/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grandview Public Library.