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Issue 136 Volume 41 Delta County's Hometown Newspaper 50 cents
Elementary children learn about
fire safety and prevention
Donald Wilson explains the parts of a fire truck and what they do to a group of elementary students during their fire safety and
prevention demonstration.
Firefighters from the Cooper Fire Department spent Thurs-
day morning at the new Cooper Elementary School teaching
the children of our community about the importance of fire
safety.
Mike Copeland donned his “Fire Pup” costume to the thrill
of all the students. Sam Rackley let them see what our emer-
gency vehicle is for, Donald Wilson showed what all the parts
of a fire truck do, and Joe Martello displayed how the various
parts of a fireman’s outfit serve to protect them.
Librarian Cindy Davis , has been educating students about
the importance of knowing how to react when a fire occurs.
Students were involved in the celebration with a coloring con-
test for the younger students and a fire safety poster contest for
the older ones.
The theme of this year’s fire prevention is “Smoke Alarms:
A Sound You Can Live With!”
Cooper drops in sales tax collections
By Kimberly Palmer
Staff Writer
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said Wednesday, October
5, state sales tax collections totaled $1.57 billion in September,
up 6.8 percent compared to a year ago.
The City of Cooper’s sales tax rebate for September 2010
shows a decrease over the same month in 2009 with $5,244.25
in collections. During the same taxing period last year
$5,528.01 was collected which shows a decrease of 5.13% in
collections. Payments year to date for Cooper are $ 65,356.37
which is only down .58% compared to last year at this same
time with $64,975.96 in collections.
“This increase is significantly larger than recent month-
ly gains which have been in the 0 to 2 percent range,” said
Combs. “Sales tax increases were posted across almost all
sectors including oil and gas, construction, manufacturing,
wholesale trade, retail trade and restaurants.”
Combs will send local governments $443.5 million in
monthly sales tax allocations, a 6 percent increase compared
to a year ago. So far this calendar year, local sales tax alloca-
tions are still down 1.3 percent compared to the same period
in 2009.
Combs will distribute monthly sales tax allocations of
$300.1 million to Texas cities, up 6.1 percent compared to last
October. So far this calendar year, city sales tax allocations
are running 1 percent lower than the same time last year. Tex-
as counties will receive sales tax allocations of $26.9 million,
up 5.6 percent compared to a year ago. For the calendar-year-
to-date county sales tax allocations are down 3.8 percent. The
state and local sales tax figures represent sales that occurred
in August.
The Comptroller’s November local sales tax allocation will
be made on Monday, November 15.
The City of Pecan Gap sales tax rebate for September 2010
also showed a decrease of 14.48% over the same month in
2009 with $ 203.22 in collections. During the same taxing pe-
riod last year, $237.65 was collected. Year to date sales tax col-
lections total $3,259.40 which is down 11.66% over the same
time period in 2009 where $3,689.70 had been collected.
17th Annual Chiggerfest this weekend
Chiggerfest begins with music on the
square on Friday Night, October 15 pro-
vided by Royce Slough from 7 to 10
p.m. so put on your bobby socks & pen-
ny loafers, and come ‘rock & roll’. You
can dance the night away, or tailgate and
enjoy the music!
New this year will be The Cooper
High School Band entertaining at 8:30
prior to opening ceremonies. A new lo-
cation for the Arts & Crafts Exhibit is
the Fellowship Hall at First Methodist
Church. The following are categories
for entries: Quilts (machine and hand
quilted); Arts (amateur photography,
painting, drawing, sculpting); and Crafts
(scrapbooking, woodworking, jewelry
making, metal work, and a new catego-
ry this year ... Going Green). The idea
here is to take something old and turn it
into something new.
There will be an ‘old fashioned cake
walk’ beginning at 10 a.m. on the street
in front of Jalapeno’s. Cakes donated by
some of the best cooks in Delta County
are being donated for this event! As an
added ‘plus,’ some of the winning cakes
may have a gift card attached.
There’s more!!! The Royal White Ti-
gers are making their first appearance at
Chiggerfest. You may have seen these
animals on Animal Planet, or you may
have seen them at the 2009 Delta County
Fair -but now - you get to see them ‘up
close & personal’. This awesome animal
exhibit will be located in another ‘new’
this year ... an expanded Kids Zone just
off the NW corner of the square.
This year’s Chiggerfest promises to be
one of the biggest and best!
Spookiest town-
in Texas
The City of Cooper will
once again be transformed
into the spookiest town in
Texas on October 30th. when
the Delta County Chamber
of Commerce and downtown
businesses will transform the
Cooper Square into a treat for
all the little ghosts and gob-
lins.
“With Halloween on a Sun-
day we decided to move trunk
or treat to Saturday. We expect
the Spookiest town in Texas
to be bigger than ever,” said
Roger Palmer, chairman of
the event. “The last few years
we’ve had such a fantastic re-
sponse from the downtown
business community,” Palm-
er added “We hope we’ll get
a lot of cars participating in
the trunk or treat. It’s really
a chance to give the kids the
opportunity to trick or treat in
a safe environment.”
The trunk or treat cars can
be set up at 4:30 p.m. and
the festivities will begin at
5 and end at 6:00 with con-
test awards being presented
at 6. There will $25.00 prizes
for best costume for kids 0-8,
kids 9-12, and teens 13-18.
Once again we’ll have a
pumpkin-carving contest.
Entrants just need to bring
their carved pumpkin to en-
ter, $25.00 prizes will be
awarded to kids 5-8, kids 9-
12, teens 13-18
There will be a $50.00 prize
to the spookiest business, a
$50.00 prize for the best Fall
Harvest window and a $50.00
prize for the best-decorated
trunk.
There will be lots of fun,
treats galore, and no tricks at
all on the square in Cooper,
Texas, the spookiest town in
Texas.
Homecoming
parade on Tuesday
The Cooper Homecoming
game will be played on Fri-
day, October 22 against the
Como-Pickton Eagles in Bull-
dog Stadium at 7:30. To kick
off Homecoming week, there
will be a Homecoming parade
on Tuesday, October 19 and
line-up will begin at 6:00 and
the parade will start at 6:30.
The community Homecom-
ing Pep Rally will be held at
the stadium following the pa-
rade on Tuesday night. The
school homecoming pep rally
will be held Friday afternoon
at the high school. Home-
coming festivities kick-off at
7:00 p.m. on Friday, October
22, with the crowning of the
2010 Homecoming queen.
To celebrate Homecoming
Spirit Week students are en-
couraged to show their school
spirit and participate in dress
up days. Monday, October
18 is Make the Eagles Walk
the Plank—Dress like a pi-
rate day; Tuesday, October
19 is Celebrity Day—Dress
like your favorite celebrity;
Wednesday, October 20 is
Outsmart the Eagles—Dress
like a geek day; Thursday,
October 21 is Team up on the
Eagles—get as many people
as possible to dress alike and
Friday, October 22 is Maroon
Out—Dress up in maroon—
the more maroon, the better.
Look in next week’s Cooper
Review for more information
on the Homecoming queen
nominees and court.
Breast cancer
awareness luncheon
Texas AgriLife Extension
Service and the Delta Fam-
ily Consumer Science Study
Club will be sponsoring The
Power of a Healthy Wom-
an: Breast Cancer Awareness
Luncheon on Thursday, Oc-
tober 21st from 12 noon until
1:30 p.m. at the Delta Coun-
try Club located on Highway
1529 North in Cooper.
The luncheon will feature
breast wellness topics from
top specialists, informative
booths and door prizes. Guest
speakers will include Christ
Tobin, R.N., M.S.N., C.F.N.P.
from Texas Oncology and a
local cancer survivor.
The lunch menu will be a
deluxe chicken salad, brocco-
li salad, fruit salad and straw-
berry cake with pink icing.
Tickets are $7 in advance
and $10 at the door. Tickets
may be purchased at Texas
AgriLife Extension Office in
the Delta County Courthouse
and from Delta FCS Study
Club members. There is lim-
ited seating so advance ticket
purchases are encouraged.
For more information, con-
tact Lou Ann Rollins, Fam-
ily Consumer Science Agent,
at 903-395-4400 Ext. 230 or
903-537-4017 or email her at
larollins@ag.tamu. edu.
Weather
Sunny skies. High 77F. Winds N
at 5 to 10 mph.
Chiggerfest
Schedule of Events
see page 6
Cooper Lake Dam Report
October 12, 2010
Normal Elevation 440.00
Current Elevation 433.85
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