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Thursday, January 20,2005
Covering southern Fannin County and the surrounding area
P.O. Box 1108 Leonard, Texas 75452
903.587.3303 • Editor@LeonardOnline.net • www.LeonardOnline.net
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Sonic rolling into Leonard this spring
By Beth Anderson
Assistant Editor
Gene Gumphrey owns 21 of
the slushy-making, banana-split
a Banderson@LeonardOnline.net wielding, number-two-with-extra-
pickles-no-onions restaurants in the
They can taste the Cherry area. His latest restaurants include
Limeade already, one in Melissa, and one in Prosper.
If a sure sign of progress He also owns the Celina and Gunter
is attracting the attention of a locations. He’s the North Texas
restaurant franchise, then Leonard partner of Mason, Harrison, Jarrard
can count itself smack-dab on the Enterprises of Oklahoma City,
cusp of it, now that the long-awaited An employee of Gumphrey said
-and even longer rumored - Sonic Monday that her boss started with
Drive-In will open its doors this four stores in Denton, and soon
spring. . began adding more.
Headline, huddle |
The Leonard High School Fellowship of |
Christian Athletes Huddle has been selected
as the KCBI and Greater Dallas/Fort Worth
Huddle of the Week for the week of Jan, |
28. Area FCA Representative Mike Noack •
informed huddle members they will be B
featured on KCBI at 7:40 a.m. and 4:40 p.m.
on Friday, Jan. 28. Noack interviewed local
FCA recruiter Ashley Inge and recorded a
greeting from the Leonard huddle, which will
be aired on that Friday also. A picture of the
% huddle will be featured on KCBI’s web site
that week. "Congratulations to the Leonard
High School FCA," sponsor Becky Kegans
said, "for their commitment to the FCA
purpose: ‘To present to athletes and coaches
and all whom they influence, the challenge
and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ
FP as Savior and Lord, serving Him in their
relationships and in the
fellowship of the church.’”
Area food bank
changes name
Since 1993., the largest food
bank in Fannin County has been
known as Bonham Community
Ministries, Inc. "The Board of
Directors is pleased to announce
the change of our name to Fannin
County Community Ministries,
Inc.,” stated Ministries President
Vicki Hutchins. “We have been
serving those in crisis situations
from throughout the county for the
last 11 years. The Board felt our
name should reflect the clientele
we serve."
“Business will continue as
. usual,” stated Hutchins. "We will be
open Monday through Friday from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., (except Federal
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scheduled to be at the location on
“I decided that Leonard was the
U.S. 69 this week. "We’re getting perfect location for our next store,”
bids on dirt work,” he said. “But he added.
I think we want to get started next The newest Leonard businessman
week.We still have to drain that also said that he is proud of the fact
pond there and fill it in, too.”that each of his stores is a part of the
Gumphrey said that the restaurant community they are in.
L in Melissa is what brought him to “We want to be a part of this
Leonard. community, too," he said, adding
“We openedthe store in Melissa,” that his manager will be moving
America’s.
Drive-In
Rainy days
bring blues
to city plant
By Beth Anderson
Assistant Editor
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“We’ve really been going he said, “and Igot acquainted with to the area.
gangbusters ever since,” she said. Jim Butler. He told me I ought "I have a nice young man that
Gumphrey said Monday to come out to Leonard and look will be my managing partner for
afternoon that the contractor was around." Continued on Page 12
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Fun
Tiger Power
The Tigers won first place at the
Collinsville Power lifting meet Jan.
15. A glass trophy will be added to the
Leonard High School trophy cases,
and several team members took home
medals. The Tigerettes won fourth
place in the girl’s division of the weight
lifting meet. Team members are (front
row, from left) Rocky Hernandez,
Farrah Turcuit, Charmaine Ross,
Kelsie Franklin, (back row) Lionel
Bayiha, Michael Atkison, KailKrider,
Ross McEachern, Carl Hudgins, and
Nathan Dawson (not pictured, David
Wilcox).
Bethany Russell staff photo
And the rain, rain, rain came
some big big, big problems for
the City of Leonard workers,
City Administrator Butch
Henderson told the City council
last Tuesday night. <
Because of heavy rains
recently the wastewater
treatment plant has flooded
twice The city is permitted to
/ move through 800,000 gallons
a day. During the rain, that
number jumped to nearly 3
million one day, and stayed
over the permitted range for
of disciplinary action from
TCEO.be a
m ■Counei' Sommime
PlacherhN or depends on their
mood that dny. Wenderion
said..
“That is the largest amount
of water we vehiadat that sewer
plant," he added. it was all than
rain in one concentrated time.
Mayor Bill Voss added that
the facithat there - more runoff
than in years past because of
construction compounded the
problem There are less open
fields to absorb that," he said.
" In addition to the plant,
the city also was forced to pay
=
budgeted for, but Henderson
said he thinks he can recover
that money from the savings on
the sewer plant..
"We have some left over
from the loan money," he said.
“There’s somewhere around
$110,000 left over, and the only
stipulation is that it must be on.
sewer work - and this would
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eight-inch main was not up to
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LISD hears report on finances
■ $545,000 ... Monthly operating expenses covered in the valuations go up, you also see higher was also in the minority to actually
, • tiers district’s fund balance, which is well delinquent taxes, the auditor said, make money with its Food Service
0 within the two months the Texas The auditor also pointed out that program.
.55 cents ... How Education Agency requires, even with a raised property tax rate, . LaFavers said that he would like
much of every dollar goes It costs about $545,000 to run the the district still has one of the lowest the board to begin thinking about
: , : .. . district for one month, tax rates in the area. The report ,
tn classroom instruction.long-range planning in several
; to clasroOME iris true nun. The breakdown of how each called the improvement in revenue 6
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also delineated in the report, which
explained that 55 cents of every dollar
By Beth Anderson spent in LISD went for. classroom
Assistant Editor instruction. The state benchmark is
h Banderson@LeonardOnline.net 5 1 cents. Of every dollar the district
gets in revenue, 18 cents is from
The Leonard Independent property taxes, while the rest comes
School District isn’t sitting as pretty, from state and federal sources. •
financially, as it was a few years ago, / LISD bucked a trend when it
but is still doing OK, its auditors told comes to rising valuations and
the Board of Trustees last Thursday delinquent taxes as well. In 2003,
night. , delinquent taxes went down by
• The report presented by the $9,000 from 2002‘s $59,000. The
auditors showed that the district assessed valuations went up in 2003.
has about two and a half months of "And usually, when you see those
Beth Anderson staff photos
School Board recognition
School Board members, left, were treated to a dinner hosted
by the Leonard High School Beta Club and Student Council
in thanks for their volunteer service on the Board of Trustees.
See related story inside. Superintendent Larry LaFavers,
above, visits with Junior High/Intermediate Principal Vernon
Richardson, left, and LISD Police Chief and new Technology
Director Jerome Edwards, just before the board meeting
Thursday.
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