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The oldest business in West - established in 1889
Volume 110, No. 49 - One Section
Thursday, December 7,2^00
West, Texas
News Digest
Ministerial Alliance plans carol singing
The West Area Ministerial Alliance is having its annual Christ-
mas carol singing at 6 p.m. this Sunday in the First Baptist
Church at West. Choirs from various churches are to present a
special number and the congregation is to sing carols. The
public is invited to come and share in the joy of the season.
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West ISD trustees to meet Dec. 13
The West Independent School District Board of Trustees have
scheduled their monthly meeting for 6:30 p.m. Dec. 13 in the
West ISD's administration building at 801 N. Reagan Street.
The meeting is to also include a public hearing for the 1999-
2000 AEIS (Academic Excellence Indicator System). The meet-
ing and hearing are open to the public.
AARP offers driving course in West
Accident prevention measures are one of the most covered
topics with participants of the 55 ALIVE/Mature Driving
Course presented by the American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP). The eight hour classroom course focuses on
the compensation for physical and conceptual skills related to
drivers 50 years or older. Jack Felts will present the class with
many important defensive driving tips at the West Community
Center from 12:30-4 p.m. Dec. 11-12. Those interested in taking
the course may contact Felts at 826-3155 or Mrs. Shirley
Dulock at 826-4115 to learn more about this class and how to
get signed up. The class will have a limited enrollment number.
The cost is $10 and upon completion of the course, Felts
reported, the participants are to receive a 10 percent reduction
on their car insurance premiums.
VFW, Ladies Auxiliary plan Party
West VFW Post 4819 and its Ladies Auxiliary have scheduled
their Christmas Party on Dec. 13 and everyone is to bring a
covered dish. There will be door prizes.
Blood drive nets 12 gallons
The American Red Cross collected 96 units (12 gallons) of blood
during two blood drives last week in West. The Nov. 28 West
High School drive, sponsored by the WHS Key Club, netted 36
units and the West Kiwanis Club drive last Thursday collected
60 units from 72 volunteers. Gallon donors honored were John
Rauschhuber, 16 gallons, and Mike James, eight gallons.
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Purple Heart Chapter's Family Day
All Purple Heart Chapter members and their wives are invited
to attend a Family Day on Saturday beginning at 11:30 a.m. in
the Czech American Restaurant I in West. There was no
meeting on Dec. 6.
St. Mary's has Fall raffle
St. Mary's is currently selling Fall raffle tickets at $100 each.
There will be 15 prizes in all with the top prize a 2001 Ford
Ranger. The drawing is set for this Sunday and the tickets may
be purchased at St. Mary's School or St. Mary's Church of the
Assumption rectory or from any St. Mary's School Board
member.
Athletic Club fund-raiser planned
The West Athletic Booster Club is planning to sell barbecue
ribs and whole briskets on Jan. 5, 6 and 7. The barbecue is
cooked by Dennis Kolar, David Vernon, Dale Sembera and
Cody Dragoo and is on sale for $ 13 for a rack of ribs and $25 per
brisket. Advance orders can be placed with Coach Rick Wolf at
826-7515, Dennis Kolar at 826-3715, Tina Kolar at 826-4226 or
by contacting any athlete or booster club member. The orders
will be available for pick up at Dameron's City Service Station
from 6-9 p.m. Jan. 5,9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Jan. 6 or from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Jan. 7.
Ag Boosters schedule raffle
The West Area Ag Boosters are currently selling raffle tickets
to give away a 16 ft. utility trailer, $500 travel gift certificate
from Sandy's Getaway Travel, 10 ft. by 5 ft. utility trailer and
a $200 gift certificate. Winners are to be announced on April 19.
For ticket information, call 826-4685, 826-4209 or 826-3296.
The Ag Boosters appreciate everyone's support.
Felts honored...
West Mayor Russ Willsey (left) presented Jack Felts with two awards last
Friday night during the West Chamber of Commerce's annual Christmas
Program in the West High School auditorium. Felts was honored for his
volunteer work in organizing the chamber's annual Christmas perfor-
mance. Numerous area residents attended this year's Christmas produc-
tion, which was the first in the new high school auditorium.
West Police Chief James Lawhorn and Johnny Recek stand among the numerous bicycles that will be given away in
conjunction with the "Bicycle Christmas" program in the city.
West program to give bicycles
to needy children at Christmas
Applications available at West City Hall and local churches
The number of West needy
youngsters having to do without
bicycles under their Christmas
trees this year may be drasti-
cally reduced if the West Police
Department along with others
organizations and individuals
have anything to do with it.
Dubbed "A Bicycle Christ-
mas", the West Police Depart-
ment and West Kiwanis Club
are presenting a first-ever pro-
gram which is designed to pro-
vide free bicycles for needy chil-
dren in the city just in time for
Christmas.
West Police Chief James
Lawhorn said there are bicycles
available in all sizes rangitigfrom
small 12 and a half inch bikes
with training wheels to as big as
26 inch bicycles. "We started col-
lecting the bicycles in July with
this in mind. It turned out we
had access to a lot of bikes and
thought this would be a good
project."
Many of the bicycles were
missing parts or needing some
type of repair and to fix them up,
the West Police enlisted the help
of West resident Johnny Recek
who served as a kind of Santa's
helper in this case. "He fixes them
up and sees that they are in good
shape," Lawhorn explained.
Recek, who has been fixing
and selling bicycles since the,
1960s, agreed to volunteer his
work in this effort. "I'm having a
ball," he said Tuesday, "1 really
enjoy it."
.Though some of the bicycles
are almost new, others came to
him in various stages of disar-
ray. "Some needed seats, some
peddles, others tires," he said in
explaining that he has "always
loved to work on bicycles" and
getting the parts to fit on the
bicycles "is the fun part of it."
"I had to take some completely
apart," he said while pointing to
the shiny finished products rest-
ingin the upstairs section of West
City Hall. Many looked new. "A
lot of them are used, but they are
good bicycles. I had to paint some,
but for the kids not able to have
one, it will be good. Mechanically
they are all sound."
"He (Recek) has done a great
job on them," the police chief
said. "We couldn't have done it
without him."
The program workers are still
accepting used bicycles or tri-
cycles and people wishing to do
this may bring them by West
City Hall. Recek said he is cur-
rently in need of more training
wheels for the smaller bicycles.
Police Chief Lawhorn hopes
the Bicycle Christmas in West
will become an annual event. He
said that along with gettingsome
of the bicycles from the Kiwanis
Club this year, some came from
Wal-Mart (possibly missing a
peddle or seat) and Lacy-
Lakeview while others came
through individual donations.
Parents of needy West chil-
dren wishing to get a bicycle this
Christmas may fill out applica-
tions at any of the local churches
or West City Hall with the dead-
line for filling out applications
set for Dec. 15. Lawhorn said the
applicants must show proof of
residency and child's informa-
tion. The police chief added they
plan to work through the West
Area Ministerial Alliance in the
distribution phase of the pro-
gram.
West Trade Days
begin Saturday
The Old West Trade Days has
scheduled its third showing in
the city set for this Saturday and
Sunday as organizers continue
preparations for this event in
the Lorch Building iji downtown
West.
The admission price is $2 for
adults and $1 for senior citizens
and youngsters age 14-17. The
price of admission is good for
both days. A coupon for free ad-
mission to the Trade Days is in
this issue of The West News.
The trade days are to be open
from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturday
and from noon - 5 p.m. Sunday.
For youngsters, Santa Claus
is scheduled to be at the event
from 11 a.m. - noon Saturday
and children can have their pic-
tures taken with him.
A children's area is also
planned at the trade days and
door prizes are to be given away.
Anyone attending may register
for the prizes and those register-
ing for the drawing need not be
present to win.
Booth spaces are still avail-
able for vendors wishing to sell
arts and crafts, antiques, farm-
ers market items along with
other items. Those wishing to
rent booth spaces are asked to
contact Bennett at 826-7300 or
826-7344.
Food concessions will also be
available at the event. Free park-
ing is available on both sides of
Main Street in front of the build-
ing.
This month, vendors are ex-
pected to have many Christmas
items available for area shop-
pers. The items range from hand-
made outdoor furniture, yard
woodcrafts, birdhouses to Christ-
mas gifts, ornaments, various
homemade breads, flea market
items and antiques.
Christmas Parade
this Saturday
in Elm Mott
A Christmas Parade, spon-
sored by the Elm Mott United
Methodist Church, is Scheduled
for 10:30 a.m. this Saturday in
Elm Mott.
The parade is to line up at
Geneva Hall at 9:30 a.m. and
will end at Linden Hall. The top
three floats are to win awards.
There will be a fish fry and bake
sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Elm Mott United Methodist
Church.
The fish fry is $6 per plate and
includes fried catfish, french
fries, cole slaw, beans,
hushpuppies and tea. For more
information, contact Daniel
Phillipsat 757-1061 or829-1450.
Donations continue for West Kiwanis Toy Drive
West Trade Days
Saturday & Sunday
Lorch Building
, The West Kiwanis Club's an-
nual toy drive picked up speed
this week as various toys and
monetary contributions were
made to the club's Christmas
project.
"Its been going well," Toy
Drive chairman Ellen Bordelon
said Tuesday when discussing
the drive for new and unwrapped
toys. Within the past week she
reported a $300 gift certificate
donation from the HiMerest Medi-
cal Center Ladies Auxiliary in
West to go along with a $1,438
donation from the West Rest
Haven residents.
The Rest Haven residents
combined the proceeds they made
from an October Spaghetti din-
ner, a November Bake Sale and
Craft Sale and a December raffle
in their donation to the toy drive.
"We are just thrilled that they
are part of this (toy drive),"
Bordelon said. "We now have well
over $2,100 worth of toys and
money donated toward the drive
and we couldn't have done it with-
out them."
West Rest Haven Resident
Council members Marie Hester,
president 2000; Esther Malina,
president 2001; and Edwin
Vrana, 2001 vice president; were
in attendance at Wednesday's
Kiwanis Club meeting for a for-
mal presentation of the donation
to the toy drive.
Kathy Brown of the West Rest
Haven said the nursing home
facility's Resident Council de-
cided to donate the fund-raisers'
proceeds to the toy drive "to help
the needy children of West. They
want to still be involved in help-
ing the community. Just because
they live in a nursing home, it
does not mean that life stops
here. They are still very much
active in the community."
The Kiwanis Club plans to
distribute these toys to needy
West ISD children and parents
of the children are asked to come
by the West Community Center
between 9 a.m. and noon Dec. 16
to pick up toys for their children.
The West Brownie Troop 7478
announced this week that the
toys they are collecting in their
drive will be distributed to the
Kiwanis Toy Drive as will toys
collected by the West High
School.
People wishing to donate toys
to them may bring them to the
West Elementary School, West
High School or First United
Methodist Church in West
through Dec. 15.
Those wishing to donate toys
to the West Brownie Troop or for
pick up of toys, call Donna
Watkins at 822-1052.
In addition, Bordelon said
Waco radio station KWOW FM
103.3 is to give a remote broad-
cast from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. this
Saturday at the West Trade Days
and will be collecting toys for the
West Kiwanis Drive during that
time. Those donating toys there
during this time are scheduled
to receive a free $40 gift certifi-
cate from 1-800-FLOWERS.
Area residents wishing to
make donations to the Kiwanis
Toy Drive may give the toys to
a ny Kiwa nis member or they may
be dropped off at the Edward
Jones office at 209 E. Oak St.,
Suite B in West between 8:30
a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday. For more infor-
mation, call Ellen Bordelon at
826-3677.
Marie Hester, president of the West Rest Haven's Resident Council, is pictured
with West Kiwanis Club Toy Drive Chairman Ellen Bordelon. The Rest Haven
residents raised over S1,400 for the toy drive.
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