The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006 Page: 62 of 110
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THE CLIFTON RECORD — BOSQUE COUNTY, U.S.A.
FRIDAY, JUNE 23,2006
WRITING HISTORY — Members of the
Clifton and Meridian City Councils, along
with city department heads, were at the
Clifton intake structure on the Bosque
River on April 19, for the historic signing
of the water pipeline agreement between
the two cities. On hand were (seated, from
left) Clifton Mayor W. Leon Smith. Con-
gressman Chet Edwards. Meridian Mayor
Clark Vandergriff, (standing, from left)
Kelly Ross. Truman Blum, Phil Robertson,
Joann Gloff, Jim Burch. J.W. Thiele, Jerry
Golden, Robbie Urbanovsky, Damon
Patterson. Mervin "Fuzz” Spitzer, Jess
Taylor. Debbie Kibbler, Steve Rosenbury,
Pat Dillon. Bobby Pollard. Tanya Ramer,
Tony Reid, Barbara Bevins. Juanita Miller,
Marie Garland. Art Rodriguez, and Mike
Walker. — Staff Photo By Deborah Mathews
Texas Yes! Program Names Clifton
‘Hardworking Community Shining Star’
AUSTIN — The Texas Department of
Agriculture recognized the City of Clifton
for its rural development efforts at a cer-
emony on Tuesday, April 4. marking the
third year of the Texas Yes! program's
special recognition of the hardest work-
ing rural communities in the Lone Star
State.
Clifton was one of only five rural com-
munities selected and honored as a Shin-
ing Star in the annual Texas Yes!
Hardworking Rural Community Award
Program. Sixteen finalists competed for
the honor.
Launched in 2003, TDA’s Texas Yes!
program is designed to market and pro-
mote rural Texas as well as educate the
public about all that rural Texas has to
offer. The Texas Yes! Hardworking Rural
Community Program annually shines a
spotlight on rural Texas communities
working hard to boost tourism, job growth,
leadership mentoring, community devel-
opment, and other economic opportuni-
ties.
Clifton’s accomplishments included $1
million in grants made by the City of Clif-
ton Economic Development Corporation
to various businesses and organizations.
These grants allowed for improvements
at the Bosque Conservatory of Fine Arts,
and helped improve the expansion of util-
ity lines for expanding businesses, such
as a major grocery story and a new hotel.
In the past eight months Clifton has
seen a dramatic increase in downtown
buildings being purchased and restored,
new businesses opening, new homes be-
ing built, and the medical community ex-
panding and investing in the town. In the
next two years Clifton’s hospital and medi-
cal clinic and the Clifton Lutheran Sunset
Home will be investing approximately $20
million in new construction, including
grants from the CEDC to aid those
projects as well.
“Even though Main Street applied for
the award, the award is one for the whole
community. Without all the efforts of the
entire City of Clifton, this award would not
have been possible,” said Clifton Main
Street Project Manager Damaris Neelley,
who was on hand to accept the award
along with Julie Conley, a long-term di-
rector and current advisor to the Main
Street Program, as well as a local busi-
ness owner.
TWenty-five rural communities received
honors at the ceremony, including 11
other communities recognized as final-
ists to compete for the Shining Star
awards and nine recognized as a group
with an Honorable Mention Award of
Merit. All of the finalists received an indi-
: • vidua! award presented by Combs; Eaeh
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Julie Conley and Damaris Neelley
accept the ‘Shining Star’ award.
of the five Shining Stars received an addi-
tional award.
“Each year, the bar is raised by the in-
credible efforts of all these communities,”
Combs said. “The Shining Stars represent
the best of the best. They deserve a spe-
cial spotlight to showcase their hard work”
The Shining Star awards, announced
at the ceremony, were presented to
Aspermont, Athens, Center, Clifton, and
Perryton. The other finalists included
Beeville, Bellville, Brewster County, Com-
merce, Gladewater, Groesbeck, Munday,
Quitaque, Round Top, and Tye. Port Stock-
ton, also a finalist, was singled out as the
first recipient of the Susan Combs Trail-
blazer Hall of Fame Award for scoring at
the top the past three years.
Communities receiving an Honorable
Mention Award of Merit included El
Campo, Hebbronville, Henrietta, Ladonia,
Quitman, Pittsburg, Rockdale, Spearman
and Whitewright.
Texas Yes! is a broad-based member-
ship program open to rural communities,
Texas businesses with locations in rural
Texas and individuals, organizations and
associations that support and promote
rural Texas. There is no cost to join.
The Hardworking Rural Community Pro-
gram is open to all Texas Yes! Community
Members. Applications are completed by
the communities and cover a range of top-
ics including planning and success in eco-
nomic development, tourism, regional
partnering, volunteerism, collaboration,
leveraging resources and measuring im-
pacts.
An advisory board representing lead-
ers in business, tourism and education
reviews and scores the applications re-
ceived. The communities scoring the high-
est are honored as Shining Stars.
To read about all of the hardworking
rural communities or for more informa-
tion on Texas Yes!, including membership
application details and benefits, visit
www.TexasYes.org or call (866) 4TEX-
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Hill College Offers Classes In Clifton
CLIFTON—Hill College has begun an expansion into Clifton and this summer is
offering classes at Clifton High School. The college hopes to expand on its offerings
locally, to be determined by demand.
Among the types of classes currently being offered and planned, as regular classes
nealogy, Intermediate Computers, and Microsoft Word.
Fbr more information about any of these courses, contact the Hill College office in
Clifton at (254) 675-6611 or call the Admission office in Hillsboro at (254) 582-7591.
Expanded Hill College Nursing
Center In Operation In Clifton
CLIFTON — The Hill
College Clifton Extension
Center School of Voca-
tional Nursing is at home
in its new facility located
at 413 Sunset Drive on the
Clifton Lutheran Sunset
Home campus. The school
has had a campus in op-
eration in Clifton for many
years, located at 202 North
Avenue R. In 2002, officials
with the college were of-
fered the Sunset Drive site
by the CLSH Board of Di-
rectors. School officials,
working closely with the
Chamber, CLSH, and sev-
eral area agencies, had
been seeking a site to ex-
pand the services offered
since 2001.
Classes and programs
being offered at the new
campus this summer in-
clude day and night Voca-
tional Nursing Programs,
General Psychology, and a
Pre-Licensed Vocational
Nurse pharmacology
class.
Before partnering with
Hill College in 1993,
Goodall-Witcher Health-
care Foundation taught
Hill College Nursing Center Opens In Clifton
nurses in order to meet its
own needs in a vocational
nursing program, but the
students were not able to
receive college credit for
the courses.
Last year, the Clifton
Lutheran Sunset Home
agreed to let Hill College
utilize the building located
at 413 Sunset Drive to
furnished and equipped
through an Incumbent
Worker Grant secured
from Heart of Texas
Workforce Development
Board with the help of
Navarro, McLennan, and
Hill Colleges.
The grant also allo-
cated scholarships for
students who are em-
house its nursing program ployed by Bosque County
for as long as the college healthcare facilities to
wished. continue their education in
The newer, much larger healthcare fields,
facility includes class-
rooms, computer/library
room, a distance learning
center, offices, and a skills
.lab, most,of.which were
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For more information
about the Clifton Exten-
sion Center, contact the
college in Hillsboro at
(234) 582-2555.
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