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THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 17, 2005
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Suspect
arrested for
residential
burglary
According to Sheriff
Newton Johnson, on
February 7,2005, the Sheriff’s
Department received a report
of a residential burglary on
CR 2033. Sgt. Phillip BAker
responded to the scene and
began the initial investigation.
The homeowner reported that
several items were taken
fromthe residence including a
television, DVD’s and a
camera.
Chief Deputy Kent
Shaffer learned through
further investigation that a
relative living across the street
from the burglary had seen a
vehcile and some suspicious
people at the time of the
burglary.
The vehicle seen at the
crime scene was very unique
and rare. On February 8,
2005, Chief Deputy Shaffer
located the suspect’s vehicle
parked at a residence on San
Augustine St. in Center.
Chief Deputy Shaffer,
along with Deputy Frankie
Adams, went to the residence
and located and identified the
driver of the suspect’s vehicle.
Some of the stolen
property was recovered from
the residence on San
Augustine St. and the
remaining property was
recovered at other locations.
All items that were reported
stolen have been recovered.
According to Sheriff
Johnson, one arrest has been
made at this time and other
arrests are pending at this
time. Melanie Dawn Poag has
been arrested and charged
with burglary of a habitation
and bond was set at
$10,000.00.
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OLD SPANISH
TRAIL RIDE, INC.
Riders will be camping in
SoSo Park in Timpson Sat.
Feb. 19,2005.Will leave Sun-
day morning for Nacogdo-
ches.
BARREL RACERS FOR
CHRIST
Held first Thurs. of every
month thru Nov., Books
open 5pm., exhibitions at 5-
7, classes start at 8 pm. Sat.
races - books will open at
10 am. exhibitions at 10:30 -
1, Special music & devotion
will be held at each day. 8
and under - $5 entry; Youth
4D barrels- $10 entry fee;
Open 5D barrels - $20 en-
try; Open 4D poles - $20
entry. Lufkin-Dan Brent
Arena
(drj esus@iamavip .net)
SOUTHERN GOSPEL
CONCERT
Sunday - Feb. 20 at Pitser-
Garrison Civic Center in
Lufkin at 3 pm. $10 per
ticket. Featuring Randy
Miller as Emcee; The
Blackwoods and the Speers
to sing.
SINGING
Caledonia Methodist Church
will host the Glory Bound
Singers from Corsicana
Feb. 26 at 6:30 p.m. Cov-
ered dish meal to follow.
COFC MEETING
Timpson Chamber of Com-
merce will meet at 5 p.m at
the Chamber Office on
Bremond. Members urged to
attend.
SERVING AT THE TENAHA STONE SOUP FEAST— (left to right) Rachel Parker,
Polly Coleman, Amber Christian, April McCormic, and Cory Mitchell.
Photo by Clark Partin
Tenaha’s Stone Soup
feast sends a message
By Clark Partin
There is an ancient legend
often told of three young sol-
diers returning home after
war. The young men were
weary and hungry in search
of food and shelter for the
night. As they entered a small
country village, children were
drawn inside their cottages
and doors were bolted. Natu-
rally, the villagers were fright-
ened of strangers, but more-
over, the people had endured
a war. They had little them-
selves. They were surviving
from their crops, food was
scarce and they didn’t want
to give what little they had to
strangers. After several at-
tempts at knocking on doors
and receiving nothing, the
young soldiers devised a plan.
Securing a large pot and build-
ing a fire, the soldiers filled the
pot with water and dropped in
a “stone”, promising to feed
the villagers with their “stone
soup”. With peaked interest,
the townsmen began to gather
around the boiling pot. Tast-
ing the “Stone water”, one
soldier suggested the soup
would taste better with some
carrots. A few chopped car-
rots were tossed into the pot.
Then potatoes were men-
tioned. Before long all the
community ;members had in-
dividually donated something
to the boiling feast.. An entire
village as well as the hungry
soldiers enjoyed a fine meal.
Individually, no one person
could have succeeded in feed-
ing an entire community. Col-
lectively and cooperatively
working together an entire vil-
lage was fed.
This is indeed the message
of Stone Soup- a community
working together for the com-
mon good, helping one an-
other. The Tenaha members
of the Shelby County Junior
Chamber of Commerce
hosted the annual “Stone
Soup” feast, Sunday, February
13 in the Tenaha High School
cafeteria. Elementary, Middle,
and high school students had
collected 1,297 cans of vari-
ous vegetables to help in mak-
ing the famous soup. The JCC
members had met Saturday
and mixed the vegetables into
a palatable concoction. On
Sunday, the JCC students,
along with Tenaha Beta Stu-
dents, and volunteers from
Center’s JCC’s served over
100 persons soup, cornbread,
and homemade desserts.
Once again, the event was a
huge success, as the total do-
nations to date is $1,384.00.
The money collected will be
used in assisting senior citi-
zens within the area with phar-
macy and utility bills. The
canned goods will be given to
families within the area. The
success of this event is due to
the cooperative work or our
Tenaha students, their parents,
the teachers and staff, area
churches, businesses, news-
paper, radio stations, and the
fine young members of the S
C JCC Junior Chamber of
Commerce in Tenaha and
Center. A big thank you to all
for a job well done.
TIMPSON ISD RECEIVES CHECKS— Superintendent
Dr. Leland Moore, Board member Jerry Hammers, and
Accounting office personnel Janie Rains hold up the
checks received Tuesday. Photo by Nancy Alexander
Santa Claus returned
to Timpson ISD in
February with checks
Timpson ISD has recently
been enjoying the benefits of
financial relief instead of be-
ing stretched to the limit as it
was not too long ago. There
has been a lot of improvement
in the school’s financial struc-
ture and with the latest sale
of the WADA (Weighted Av-
erage Daily Attendance) to
the Carthage ISD, this 2A
District can stand up and
wave it’s solvent colors
proudly.
Timpson ISD Superinten-
dent Dr. Leland Moore
worked with Carthage ISD
Superintendent Reba Allison
and the Carthage Board of
Directors on the sale of
WADA and with all the de-
tails finalized and arranged,
Timpson ISD has received
two checks totaling
$2,443,077.00. From these
funds, Timpson will net
$400,000.00 from the contract
and TEA will be reimbursed
$900,000 at the appropriate
time. The money will be used
in operations and investments
will be made which will draw
interest. Dr. Moore stated that
this is a good business deal.
This is the second time that
Dr. Moore has arranged for
the Weighted Average Daily
Attendance to be sold to an-
other school. Previously a con-
tract was made with Austin
ISD which was an immense
benefit to the school’s then se-
rious financial problems.
Timpson ISD has shown a tre-
mendous improvement in fi-
nances and procedures to
record keeping have been pro-
fessionally upgraded.
Dr. Moore expressed that
Timpson ISD is very fortunate
to be a partner with Carthage
Independent School District.
“For God sent not
His Son into the world
to condemn the world;
but that the world
through Him might be
saved.”
John 3: 11
Timpson City Council
hears request from C of C
By Florence Reeh
The regular meeting of the
Timpson Chamber of Com-
merce was held Tuesday, Feb.
15 at City Hall with Mayor
Pro-tem Ronnie Wolfe called
the meeting to order. Mayor
Douglas McDonald was ab-
sent due to hospitalization with
flu. Councilman Elmer Ray
Roberts opened the meeting
with prayer.
Old business approved was
the minutes of Jan. meeting, fi-
nancial statement and ac-
counts payable.
Chamber of Commerce
President Don Burrows ad-
dressed the council on behalf
of the chamber concerning the
use of SoSo Park for the cir-
cus which is due in Timpson
Thursday, April 2. The council
approved the request. Presi-
dent Burrows also cited the
condition of the lot on Bremond
Street where a building col-
lapsed ten month ago that the
owners have not cleaned up.
He stated that they had sold the
bricks and a bulldozer had dis-
rupted a gas line that caused a
major gas leak several weeks
ago. It was noted that soon the
weather would cause a prob-
lem with the cleanup process.
City Secretary Theresa
Crawford advised the council
that the owners had sent a let-
ter stating intentions to clean
the rubble up soon. The city
council will take this cleanup
under advisement.
It was requested by the
chamber president that the
Frontier Day celebration set
for July 2,2005 be held on the
Square instead of SoSo Park
since many citizens have ex-
pressed it would be better
held there. Most cited that
handicapped could not get
around in SoSo Park. The
council approved the move.
Next, the chamber presi-
dent brought up the matter of
placing new trash barrels in
the city and commemorative
bricks in the park. These
were tabled for further study.
The Alliance for 1-69
Texas invoice from Center for
a plan to represent Timpson
and Tenaha in an alliance
which was tabled until an-
other meeting. A letter from
a citizen concerning help with
payment of a 72,000 gallon
water bill he received. The
council did not approve pay-
ment.
Complaints had been re-
ceived concerning parking on
Bear Drive due to a Veteri-
nary Clinic being located
there.
New business included the
approval of Donna Lee at-
tending a 12 -hour Regional
Clerk’s Conference in Dallas
on March 8th and 9th and
Municipal Judge attending a
school for Magistrate Duties
in Galveston March 30th and
31st.
Thursday, Feb. 17th at 11
a.m., a meeting with contrac-
tors of the water/sewer grant
will be held.
Tenaha ISD Supt.
Weeks retires
By Clark Partin
The Regular Scheduled
Meeting of the Tenaha ISD
Board of Trustees met at
5:30pm on Tuesday, February
15. The meeting was called
to order by board president,
Bo Morris. Mike Ogden gave
the opening prayer and all
members were present, ex-
cept Chip Roberson, who was
out of town on business. Dur-
ing Public Comment section
of the meeting, Martha Nease
spoke in behalf of Supt.
Charles Weeks, Fran Partin
sent her thanks to the board,
Mr. Weeks, and Ms. Tannery
for their support in the Stone
Soup Feast that was held on
this past Sunday.Also Vicki
Jernigan spoke on behalf of
improvements needed on the
softball and baseball fields.
Minutes of the last meet-
ing were discussed and a
couple of changes were
needed and the board ap-
proved these changes along
with the rest of the minutes
as presented. Next on the
agenda was the payment of
the monthly bills. After dis-
cussing several of the bills,
Mike Ogden made a motion
to pay the bills and it was sec-
onded by Robert Barton. All
members were in agreement
to pay all the bills that were
presented. Mr. Weeks re-
ported on the District Funds.
After discussing this item, the
board agreed to approve leav-
ing the funds in the certificate
of deposit, less any money
needed to meet the district’s
expenditures. The board dis-
cussed the waiver for start-
ing school on August 15,2005.
Surveys had been sent out to
parents and most of the par-
ents liked starting school at
this time. The board voted to
approve in sending this waiver
to Austin. Next on the agenda
was the rescheduling of the
March school board meeting.
The meeting had been set dur-
ing the Tenaha Spring Break
and the board voted to re-
schedule the meeting to
March 22, 2005. The board
had advertised in the papers
for the mowing of the prop-
erty on highway 96. There
was only one response re-
ceived from this announce-
ment, so an agreement will be
written up with Roland Cross
and it will expire on Decem-
ber 31,2005.
The Tenaha District Im-
provement Plan for 2004-2005
was presented to the board.
After some discussion, the
board voted to approve the
plan as presented. Several
new substitute teachers were
voted on and added to the sub-
stitute list for Tenaha ISD Mr.
Weeks recommended that the
board adopt all textbooks
which are up for adoption in
order to provide flexibility for
book choices and sign the Lo-
cal Board of Trustees Certifi-
cation indicating the district’s
wishes. The board voted and
approved this recommenda-
tion. David Fallin gave the
board some information about
some possible help in getting
lights for the baseball field and
softball field. He stated that a
letter needed to be sent and
Mr. Weeks said that he would
call and check to see what all
was needed in this draft letter
from the school. Schools that
have had this done lately, the
cost has been between
$45,000-$65,000.
Plato Learning System was
discussed and the program is
already in use. This program
is designed to help students
improve on their TAKS ex-
ams and also help in their
other courses. “Credit Recov
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