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VOLUME 26, NUMBER 9
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014
PO BOX 448, VALLEY MILLS, TX. 76689
Police investigate
child sex abuse
Valley Mills Police Chief David
Jimenez received a call of a case of
sexual abuse of a child on Thursday,
May 15. That investigation is
ongoing.
On Thursday, May 22 Chief
Jimemez arrested a 34-year-old male
for non-payment of child support.
On Tuesday, May 27, Police Sgt.
Randy Threlkeld arrested a 37-year-
old male on warrants out of Waco for
robbery, obstruction or retaliation and
evading arrest.
That male was arrested in Misty
Valley Trailer Park and Sgt. Threlkeld
was assisted by Valley Mills Police,
DPS and Bosque County Sheriffs
deputies.
On Sunday, June 1, Valley Mills
Reserve Officer Ellis Register
impounded a vehicle.
Model plane Fun
Fly Day Saturday
The Texas Model Aeronautics
Foundation is holding a Fun Fly Day
Saturday, June 7 from noon to 5 p.m.
at the Valley Mills Airport.
There is no charge for the event and
there will be members present who
can teach anyone to fly.
Feam how to get the model planes
off the ground, into the air and back
on the ground.
For the less adventurous, you can
just watch everyone else fly.
TMAF will furnish all the planes.
All guests are asked to bring lawn
chairs, coolers and sunscreen.
VMISD offers free
meals for children
The Valley Mills Independent
School District will be serving
breakfast and lunch free of charge to
children this summer at the
elementary school cafeteria.
The Summer Food Service meals
will be served Monday through
Friday, June 9-27 with breakfast from
7:30 to 8 a.m. and lunch from 11 a.m.
to noon.
The meals will also be served in
the same schedules Monday through
Friday, July 7-25.
Meals will be provided free of
charge to children regardless of race,
color, national origin, sex, age or
disability.
City under water
conservation plan
The City of Valley Mills has
entered a Stage 1 Water Restrictions
drought contingency plan.
City officials are asking city water
customers to reduce their water usage
by 20 percent from their normal
usage.
City water residents with even
numbered addresses are asked to
water outside only on even numbered
calendar days.
City water residents with odd
numbered addresses are asked to
water outside only on odd numbered
calendar days.
Hand-held hoses may be used on
any day.
Outside watering is allowed only
between the hours of 7 p.m. and 8
a.m.
Attorney resigns after
incumbents lose election
The first meeting of the
Valley Mills City Council
with the new members was
held Tuesday. Above, Mayor
Jerry Pierce presides over the
meeting with City Secretary
Christi Turner, Laurel
Paulson, new members Justin
Owens, Polly Barrett and
Jerry Wittmer and Bill
McKain. At right, Mayor
Pierce hands newly appointed
Mayor Pro Tern Laurel
Paulson the keys to the city
before he leaves for a
conference. (Photos by
Donna Veteto)
Health council hears about school nutrition
By DONNA VETETO
The Valley Mills Student Health
Advisory Council met Thursday, May
29 and heard school cafeteria director
Delma Mann talk about school
nutrition and the direction nutrition
may be headed.
Mann has been cafeteria director for
30-plus years and stepped down this
year to be high school cafeteria
manager.
She remembers the days when the
cafeteria employees cooked food from
scratch and didn't have to watch the
calorie, salt and fat content of food.
Then the government stepped in and
in an effort to reduce the incidence of
childhood obesity, set guidelines that
are strict.
"With the limits on salt and fat that
are imposed on our menus now, we
may have to return to those days of
cooking from scratch," she said.
"There has been quite a few changes
and some are good things."
"The good thing is that kids can now
share their food," Mann said. "Used
to, they would have to take certain
foods on their plate and they couldn't
share if they didn't like something and
another did."
"Up until January, parents could
only bring in food for their child," she
said. "The other thing they're trying
to pass is if a parent brought food that
didn't meet the requirments, we had
to take it away and serve them a
lunch."
"Planning the menus is tough," she
said. "There used to be a minimum
and now there's also a maximum of
things like salt and calories."
"I have a planner that I use and it's
tough to get the menus to come
through," Mann said. "Then I have to
send all my menus to Washington,
D.C. for approval."
There is no frying in the cafeteria
any longer. Texas Education Agency
and the Department of Agriculture
have stopped that. Mann said they
can't even have any oil in the kitchens.
She said that food served to the
students has to have less than 500
calories per meal for elementary
school kids and 600 for the high
school kids.
There can be no more sodium than
400 milligrams.
"The calories are going lower next
year," Mann said. "Next year
everything must be whole grain."
"This year it is 50 percent," she
said. "The problem is that whole grain
pastas just go to mush."
Mann said the elementary and
junior high kids are allowed five
grains a week.
"The breading on steak fingers and
chicken nuggets is counted as a
grain," Mann said. "We have to offer
two fruits a day but the elementary
and junior high kids can only have
one. High school kids can have two."
"They want them to have dark
green vegetables, like broccoli and
asparagus but the kids won't eat that,"
she said. "The requirement is 3/4 cup
per week of red or green vegetables."
She said that when the kids don't
eat what's served, it is thrown away.
She said they have to put fruit and a
vegetable on each plate served.
"They have to have fruit,
vegetables, milk and two grains every
day," she said. "They can only have
one tablespoon of egg or one half of
a sausage and one half of a biscuit
because it goes over the calorie
content."
"Vegetables have to be frozen so
there's less salt," Mann said. "If we
use canned we have to wash
everything."
She said that the meal planners are
trying to get rid of flavored milk and
serve only 1 percent. Flavored milk
is fat free.
Mann said that the guidelines don't
take into account kids from different
areas of the country and the levels of
activity kids engage in.
"Also Mom has only so much
money to take care of the kids," Mann
said. "Hamburger goes farther than
round steak."
Gaye Lynn Seawright said that
when a woman in another town had a
pizza party, she was fined.
Mann said that parties have to have
a reason, such as the Spanish Club
having Mexican food. A party can not
be used just as a reward.
See NUTRITION, Page 2
By DONNA VETETO
The Valley Mills city atttomey, Bob
Hanley, has resigned, Mayor Jerry
Pierce reported at the regular council
meeting Tuesday night.
In a letter, Hanley said that with the
election of new members on the
council, he felt it was time for him to
"move along."
Pierce said that former Mayor John
Shampton would offer legal advice to
the city at no charge until further
arrangements could be made.
In other business, the council
approved, by a secret ballot, to
appoint councilwoman Laurel
Paulson as Mayor Pro Tern during
Tuesday's regular meeting.
Mayor Jerry Pierce said that this
procedure had to be done each year
after elections are held.
He asked the council for
nominations three times, as required
by Parliamentary procedure for the
naming of the Mayor Pro Tern and
councilman Bill McKain nominated
councilman Jerry Wittmer.
Mayor Pierce asked if there were
any other nominations and
councilwoman Polly Barrett
nominated Paulson.
Mayor Pierce asked for a written
vote by secret ballot. City secretary
Christi Turner then read the results
and Paulson was approved by a 3-2
margin.
Mayor Pierce then asked for a
motion to approve the position.
Barrett made the motion, McKain
seconded and that motion passed with
Paulson abstaining.
Council also discussed and
approved moving regular council
meetings from the first Tuesday of the
month to the second Monday.
The agenda item was to change to
that date and move from 7 p.m. to 6
p.m. The reason for that request was
to make it possible for those involved
with the Fire Department to be able
to go to fire meetings and council
meetings.
One guest said 6 p.m. would make
it difficult for those who work out of
town to get to meetings on time.
McKain made the motion to amend
the agenda item to hold council
meetings at 7 p.m. Wittmer seconded
that amendment and council passed
unanimously to change the meeting
to the second Monday at 7 p.m.
In other regular business, council
approved unanimously to allow the
Bradley Cox Tractor Pull, per Jerry
Smith, to be held Saturday, Sept. 6 in
Boy Scout Park, with McKain making
the motion and councilman Justin
Owens seconding.
Rezoning of a portion of property
at 1001 Avenue A from residential R1
to commercial B1 small business was
discussed.
The request was for a small
building to be used as an antique shop
with a sign in the yard.
Mayor Pierce asked for the input
of Bill Wallace, president of the
Zoning and Planning Committe and
Wallace told council that they had
recommended denying the rezoning.
He said they had a meeting, that the
couple had requested the rezoning and
two notices of the Public Hearing on
the matter had been put in the
newspaper.
See COUNCIL, Page 3
JO NELL MEYER of Valley Mills (right) is honored by Sue
Fielden of the Bosque River Valley chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution as a "Woman in American History."
Related story on Page 6.
Planning under way
for July 4 Celebration
GAGE HODGES will play in the
Central Texas All Star game at
Baylor Stadium on Tuesday, June
10. The game starts at 7 p.m.
The Bosque Valley Heritage
Society met Monday night to
continue planning their July 4
Celebration. The celebration will be
held on Friday, July 4 in Santa Fe
Park.
This year's honorees will be the
women in Valley Mills who have
spent many years volunteering for
various causes and with local groups.
Those women include Jo Nell
Meyer, Bettie Veteto, Claudette
Madison, Barbara O'Banion, Ann
Thiele, Alverta Slaughter, Jimmie
Munroe, Kati Barrett, Laurel Paulson,
Joyce Symank, Wanda Harris, Mary
Murphree, Janice Golden, Gaye Lynn
Seawright, Robin Lanmon, Brenda
Schuetz, Nancy Cox, Clova Gibson,
Delma Mann, TJClingerman, Jackie
Smith, Catherine Bearden, Lois
Green, Frances Golden and Stephney
Gaidusek. Others may be added.
The parade will organize at 9 a.m.
at the in-town ball field at Third Street
and Avenue E and line up from
Second Street down Eighth Street.
Street closures begin at 8 a.m.
The Parade begins at 9:30 a.m. and
goes down Avenue E to First Street,
then takes a right onto First Street,
continues to Hwy. 6, follows Hwy. 6
to Sixth and ends in the Santa Fe Park
The Heritage Society plans on
asking the Valley Mills CERT team
to man an Emergency Station in
Council Chambers.
An Art Exhibit will be held in
Council Chambers and anyone can
exhibit their works of art or
photography. Local artist George
Bout well will have a painting in that
exhibit.
The Historic Museum in the Depot
will be open for tours.
The main music attraction this year
is Gypsy Belle, an all girl music group
out of Clifton.
Other attactions for festivities
include Door Prizes, Country Store
Canned and Homebaked Goodies, a
Vendors' Bazaar in the Park, Barbecue
Lunch, Homemade Ice Cream, a
Eagles chosen for all-district baseball
District 12 (1A) Baseball All-District Selections senior shortstop. (Front row) Terrance Barnes,
are (Back row) Brandon Billman, Honorable Second Team sophomore outfielder; Matt
Mention senior; Dylan Mathews, First Team Hodges, Honorable Mention junior; Ryan
junior catcher; Garrett Vannatta, First Team Blackford, Honorable Mention junior and Coy
senior first base; Taylor Benfer, First Team senior Benfer, Honorable Mention freshman. Not
See FESTIVITIES, Page 3 senior pitcher and Gage Hodges, Second Team pictured is Garrett Cox, Newcomer of the Year.
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