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Highway 69 drainage
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Crews have begun installing an underground drainage system under the low
areas of U.S. Highway 69 near the Y in Rusk. Under-drains will be installed
first, which will continue through June and possibly into July, depending on
the weather. Final resurfacing operations will be completed in the fall.
Wells honor students told
Wells High School presented
diplomaste 24seniorsin gradu-
ation festivities May 30.
Leah Nguyen was named
valedictorian with a grade
point average of 97.37 and
Beverly Oldham, salutatorian
with a grade point average of
95.14.
Thewelcomewasextendedby
Miss Nguyen, class president.
The invocation andbenediction
were offeredby Corey Seymore.
and Tara Greenville.
Scholarships and awards
were presented to 11 stu-
dents.
Miss Nguyen received the
Texa s Education Agency Honor
Graduate award; the Cherokee
(ownly Democratic Women's
scholarship of $750; TLL
Temple scholarship of $2,000;
Voice of Democracy, $200
Miss Oldham received
$500 from the Wells Masonic
Leah Nguyen, Beverly Oldham
Lodge
Megan Bobbin received
$250 Wells ÁTPE scholarship;
$1,000 from the Cherokee
County Deer Association:
SI.000 from I'oresl Baptist
Church
Miss Greenville received
$200 fcom the Wells 1-11: $250
from Jamye Crawford Memo-
rial; $1,000 from the Overhead
Door Company: $1,000 Boon
Teaching award; $1,000 from
the Forest Baptist Church;
$500 from the Pineywoods
Wells Youth Sports: $500
Wells High School Scholastic
Achievement: $350Wells Youth
Basketball; $1,000 Ola and
Cecil Goodman Memorial
Mr. Seymore received $500
Wells Pohce Department Un-
paid Officers; $2,000 Piney-
wood Transportation Club;
$500 E.E. and Myrtle Alexan-
der Memorial; $500Pineywood
WellsYouth Sports; $350Wells
Youth Baseketball: $2,000J. W.
andBessie Sessions Memorial,
Meagan Totin received $500
Jamye Crawford Memorial .
Lacy Moore, $250Jamye Craw-
ford Memorial , Jima Seymore
received $2.000 TLL Temple
Ashton Bash received $500
from the Cherokee County
Electric Cooperative, Kayla
Harris. $1.000 Forest Baptist
Church; $1,000 Wells Perfect
Attendance, Carl Yarbrough
$500 PFC Johnie Richardson
Memorial.
Alto High School graduates
receive $90,000 in scholarships
Alto High School graduating
seniors were awarded approxi-
mately $90,000in scholarships
during commencement exer-
cises May 31.
Scholarships awarded in-
cluded:
Clayton Scott, state vale-
dictorian tuition; Kilgore
College athletic scholarship.
$2.000; Kilgore College aca-
demic scholarship, $4,910; Jay
Nita Holcomb Silbey, $200;
Cherokee County Electric,
$1,000; Athletic Boosters Club,
$1,000; ATPE, $200; Terrell
Lodge, $200; United Method-
ist Women, $300 and KTBB
Scholastic All Star, $1,000.
Lance Low, United Method-
ist Women, $300; Fort Worth
Southwestern Exposition and
Livestock Show, $1,000; Chero-
kee County Stock Show and
Exposition, $1,000; Audry
Owens memorial agricultural,
$1,000; Cherokee County Elec-
tricCoop, $1,000; SamHouston
State Univer sity l)ep artment of
Agricultural and Industrial Sci-
ences. $1,000; Heritage Land
Bank, $2,500; San Antonio
Livestock Exposition. $10,000;
Athletic Boosters Club, $¡500:
and Duphchain, $500
Chander Skinner, Nakeshia
Green, $250 and Alto Trail Rid-
ers, $250
Marcues Blanchard,
Nakeshia Green, $250
Ka'Stacion Skinner, Alto
Trail Riders. $250
Emily Parker, earlygraduate
Angelina College, $i,250
Tarlandus Mitchell, N avarro
College. $31,600
SharenzaGreen, Duphchain,
$500; Nakeshia Green. $250
Jacobo Guevara, Duphchain,
$500
Sandra Perez, Duphchain,
$500
Danielle Williams. Duph-
chain, $500
Trevor Hagerty, Athletic
Boosters, $500; Lions, $500;
Warner Bailey, $500
Devon Patten, Edge-Hassell,
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A boom crane delivers wet concrete for a new parking lot at Texas National
Bank on Main Street in Rusk. The bank is adding 1,200 square feet of offices
and storage to their current building as well as a parking lot designed to hold
40 cars behind the building. The total cost of the construction is $250,000.
The project should be finished by the end of August.
Texas reading jubilee
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Norma Foster, librarian at the Stella Hill Library in Alto, stands beside a mural
by Corin Kerkpatrick promoting the Texas Summer Reading Program. The
reading program takes place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9 a.m.
this summer.
River of Life graduates
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Members of the third graduating class of the River of Life School of Ministry
in Rusk, received diplomas May 17. Class members include Bryon Taylor,
Sheneigne Cummings, Debra Walker, Andi Hudgens, Joseph Lyles, Cindy
Haney and Terri Sue Taylor.
$1,000
Jorge Heredia, Leo Hicks,
$500
Mark Landrum, SFA Excel-
lence, $3,000
Michael Parker, Jay me
Crawford memorial $500
I x'xi Sessions. TJC. $400plus
books; Athletic Boosters $500
Camille Simmons, Cherokee
County Electric Coop, $1,000;
Area Brotherhood, X250: Ath-
leticBoosters, $500; Alto Thurs-
day Study Club, $500; Booker T.
Washington Alumni, $500
Brooke Poole. Baylor Uni-
versity, $8,000; Leo Hicks
Creosol ing Co., $1,000; Booker
T. Washington Alumni, $500;
Lions Club, $500
Matthew Barnes. FFA/
Ford Built Tough, $1,000;
Jerry Smith memorial, $1,000;
United Methodist Women,
$1,000; Nakeshia Green, $250,
Clinton Dover, TJC--Dean's
Scholarship, $1,000; Royal
Arch Masons. $500, Athletic
Boosters, $500
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Whitehead, Marie. Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 159, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 18, 2008, newspaper, June 18, 2008; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152839/m1/15/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.