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Mineola’s Hometown newspaper since 1876 November 6, 2013 Vol. 138 No. 45 Three Sections 50 cents “We’re where you are!” Kacey Musgraves up for 6 CMAs tonight Page 3A Mineola woman’s creativity wins at ET Fair Page 4A Alba-Golden Honor Rolls Page 4A Out & About • The Pilot Club will host their annual Al- zheimer Memorial Walk on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Mineola Civic Center. • The Veterans Day Parade will be held Saturday, beginning at 11:11 a.m. followed by a ceremony immediately afterwards at the gazebo. • Also on Saturday the Fourth Annual Great American Peanut Buer Festival starts at 9 a.m. in Grand Saline and The Tenth Annual Christmas in the park is scheduled for Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Winnsboro Civic Center at the City Park in Winnsboro. • The Alba-Golden Veterans Day events will be held on Monday at the school library at 8 a.m. with the staff serving veterans break- fast and the program beginning in the school cafetorium at 8:30 a.m. The Mineola Veterans Day Program begins at 9 a.m. at the high school cafeteria. All area vet- erans are welcome and encouraged to aend the ceremonies. Mother trying to make good from nightmare ROAD WARRIORS See TRISTA, Page 3A Parade Saturday to honor veterans By DORIS NEWMAN The Monitor Staff On Nov. 11 last year, when Trista Byron left her daughter, niece and boyfriend at home to run to the store for some meat for dinner, she was a 19-year-old single mother who never thought child abuse could happen to her baby. But that notion was forever shaered when she returned home to find what appeared to her to be her lifeless six- month old in the arms of her boyfriend. She said she had been gone for less than an hour and was geing out of her car and her boyfriend, Mikeal Reeves, met her at the door of the house, holding her daughter, Taelynn. “I had left to go get hamburger meat to cook dinner and when I got home, he opened the door and said he had dropped her,” she said. She saw her daughter’s ear was bruised and her head was swollen. “She looked dead to me when I first saw her,” she said. Her words came much faster. “I freaked out, I didn’t think she was alive. I wanted 911 there.” But she said Reeves wanted her to take Tae- lynn to the hospital by car. And, she said he told her when she called 911 to tell them she had been there when it happened. “That’s how I knew,” she said. The baby was taken to East Texas Medical Center Hospital in Quit- man and then child and mother were taken by One hundred eighty-five riders took part in this year’s Mineola Metric Century, one of the events that occurred on Saturday. The event is a fundraiser for the East Texas Food Bank and APET. Riders chose routes ranging from 14- to 63-miles long through the East Texas scenery. (Photo by Doris Newman) A year later, Taelynn Byron is an impish 18-month- old. Her mom, Trista, wants to turn their night- mare into something positive. She will sell tee shirts, with proceeds going to the Rainbow Room, this weekend at Walmart to increase awareness of child abuse and she will ask the buyers to wear them Monday. (Photo by Josh Land) Mikeal Reeves, 23, is wanted on three felony warrants for failure to appear in court in Wood County where he is facing three charges of injury to a child. He was indicted in March. By DORIS NEWMAN The Monitor Staff The Mineola City Council spent the laer part of last Monday’s regular Oc- tober meeting behind closed doors. During the meeting the council went behind closed doors at 6:27 p.m. meet- ing with the city aorney, Blake Arm- strong, as well as Mercy Rushing, economic development director, and Lynda Rauscher, community develop- ment director. Armstrong left the meet- ing after about the first hour and a half. The agenda stated the session was held regarding contemplated litigation and to deliberate economic develop- ment negotiations. After more than two hours meeting behind doors, the coun- cil reconvened, took no action and ad- journed. During the regular portion of the meeting the council approved several items discussed in the previous work- shop. Those included accepting the selement offered by Haws Roofing’s insurance company for reimbursement of museum damages. Jack Jones, Ward 2 alderman, made it known he didn’t like doing so, but fighting the maer would have ended up costing the city more than it could have gained. The council unanimously approved a bid from Tiffany Smith for tax struck off property. The property was previously owned by William and Mariea Reed on Inwood Street. Smith bought it for $2,500. Entries are still being sought for the annual Mineola Veterans Day Parade. The parade will be on Saturday and begin at 11: 11 a.m. down East Broad to Lankford Street and back to the gazebo at Johnson and Commerce Streets. One hundred dollar cash awards will be given for the best float and band- music entries, as well as a category for miscellaneous entries. The parade theme is “All gave some, some gave all.” A ceremony will take place at the gazebo afterwards. For more information, contact John Lambert with the Marine Corps League, 903-569-6481; Ed Hooten with the American Legion at 903-530-7004 and Bob Corder with the VFW at 903-850- 8777. Entry forms are also available at the Mineola Monitor office. Entry forms need to be returned by Nov. 6 to Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary, Post Office Box 914, Mineola, Texas, 75773. The parade will be held, rain or shine and line-up will start at 10 a.m. By DORIS NEWMAN The Monitor Staff At 16 years old Robert Ray tried to enlist in the Marines during World War II. When he turned 17 he succeeded in joining the Army and began what would become the ride of a lifetime. The action led to his visiting nearly every country in Europe, being shot down and walking out of the Austrian Alps for 22 nights. More than 70 years later Ray, who lives in Crow east of Mineola, shared his story. He is 88, and has put his memories into a journal for his granddaughters. Ray said when he tried to join the Ma- rines at 16, “They said no, go home, grow up a lile bit.” But after graduating with the Mineola High School class of 1942, he was laying in bed one Sunday morning listening to the radio. “They said Roosevelt said 17 year olds could join with their parents’ con- sent.” The next Monday morning he and his dad went to the post office in Tyler. When they got there, his dad questioned him if he was sure he wanted to go on. “I said `sure.’” There, among other things, he was given a physical examination and told he would be notified. Within about a week he was notified to be in Dallas. There he and other recruits were put on a train. “That was the only time I ever had Council takes no action after executive session LIVING HISTORY World War II pilot shares experiences COLORFUL CUTIES Mineola’s downtown Halloween celebration brought waves of children to town for trick or treating and was supported by merchants, civic club and churches. See more photos, 8A. Robert Ray See COUNCIL, Page 8A See VETERAN, Page 5A

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Mineola’s Hometown newspaper since 1876November 6, 2013

Vol. 138 • No. 45 • Three Sections• 50 cents “We’re where you are!”

Kacey Musgravesup for 6 CMAs tonight

Page 3A

Mineola woman’screativity wins at ET Fair

Page 4A

Alba-GoldenHonor Rolls

Page 4A

Out & About• The Pilot Club will

host their annual Al-zheimer Memorial Walk on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Mineola Civic Center.

• The Veterans Day Parade will be held Saturday, beginning at 11:11 a.m. followed by a ceremony immediately afterwards at the gazebo.

• Also on Saturday the Fourth Annual Great American Peanut Butter Festival starts at 9 a.m. in Grand Saline and The Tenth Annual Christmas in the park is scheduled for Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Winnsboro Civic Center at the City Park in Winnsboro.

• The Alba-Golden Veterans Day events will be held on Monday at the school library at 8 a.m. with the staff

serving veterans break-fast and the program beginning in the school cafetorium at 8:30 a.m. The Mineola Veterans Day Program begins at 9 a.m. at the high school cafeteria. All area vet-erans are welcome and encouraged to attend the ceremonies.

Mother trying to make good from nightmare

ROAD WARRIORS

See TRISTA, Page 3A

Parade Saturdayto honor veterans

By DORIS NEWMANThe Monitor Staff

On Nov. 11 last year, when Trista Byron left her daughter, niece and boyfriend at home to run to the store for some meat for dinner, she was a 19-year-old single mother who never thought child abuse could happen to her baby. But that notion was forever shattered when she returned home to find what appeared to her to be her lifeless six-month old in the arms of her boyfriend.

She said she had been gone for less than an hour and was getting out of her car and her boyfriend, Mikeal Reeves, met her at the door of the house, holding her daughter, Taelynn. “I had left to go get hamburger meat to cook dinner and when I got home, he opened the door and said he had dropped her,” she said. She saw her daughter’s ear was bruised and her head was swollen.

“She looked dead to me when I first saw her,” she said. Her words came

much faster. “I freaked out, I didn’t think she was alive. I wanted 911 there.”

But she said Reeves wanted her to take Tae-lynn to the hospital by car. And, she said he told her when she called 911 to tell them she had been there when it happened. “That’s how I knew,” she said.

The baby was taken to East Texas Medical Center Hospital in Quit-man and then child and mother were taken by

One hundred eighty-five riders took part in this year’s Mineola Metric Century, one of the events that occurred on Saturday. The event is a fundraiser for the East Texas Food Bank and APET. Riders chose routes ranging from 14- to 63-miles long through the East Texas scenery. (Photo by Doris Newman)

A year later, Taelynn Byron is an impish 18-month-old. Her mom, Trista, wants to turn their night-mare into something positive. She will sell tee shirts, with proceeds going to the Rainbow Room, this weekend at Walmart to increase awareness of child abuse and she will ask the buyers to wear them Monday. (Photo by Josh Land)

Mikeal Reeves, 23, is wanted on three felony warrants for failure to appear in court in Wood County where he is facing three charges of injury to a child. He was indicted in March.

By DORIS NEWMANThe Monitor Staff

The Mineola City Council spent the latter part of last Monday’s regular Oc-tober meeting behind closed doors.

During the meeting the council went behind closed doors at 6:27 p.m. meet-ing with the city attorney, Blake Arm-strong, as well as Mercy Rushing, economic development director, and Lynda Rauscher, community develop-ment director. Armstrong left the meet-

ing after about the first hour and a half.The agenda stated the session was

held regarding contemplated litigation and to deliberate economic develop-ment negotiations. After more than two hours meeting behind doors, the coun-cil reconvened, took no action and ad-journed.

During the regular portion of the meeting the council approved several items discussed in the previous work-shop. Those included accepting the settlement offered by Haws Roofing’s

insurance company for reimbursement of museum damages. Jack Jones, Ward 2 alderman, made it known he didn’t like doing so, but fighting the matter would have ended up costing the city more than it could have gained.

The council unanimously approved a bid from Tiffany Smith for tax struck off property. The property was previously owned by William and Marietta Reed on Inwood Street. Smith bought it for $2,500.

Entries are still being sought for the annual Mineola Veterans Day Parade.

The parade will be on Saturday and begin at 11: 11 a.m. down East Broad to Lankford Street and back to the gazebo at Johnson and Commerce Streets.

One hundred dollar cash awards will be given for the best float and band-music entries, as well as a category for miscellaneous entries.

The parade theme is “All gave some, some gave all.” A ceremony will take place at the gazebo afterwards.

For more information, contact John Lambert with the Marine Corps League, 903-569-6481; Ed Hooten with the American Legion at 903-530-7004 and Bob Corder with the VFW at 903-850-8777. Entry forms are also available at the Mineola Monitor office. Entry forms need to be returned by Nov. 6 to Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary, Post Office Box 914, Mineola, Texas, 75773.

The parade will be held, rain or shine and line-up will start at 10 a.m.

By DORIS NEWMANThe Monitor Staff

At 16 years old Robert Ray tried to enlist in the Marines during World War II. When he turned 17 he succeeded in joining the Army and began what would become the

ride of a lifetime.The action led to his

visiting nearly every country in Europe, being shot down and walking out of the Austrian Alps for 22 nights. More than 70 years later Ray, who lives in Crow east of Mineola, shared his

story. He is 88, and has put his memories into a journal for his granddaughters.

Ray said when he tried to join the Ma-rines at 16, “They said no, go home, grow up a little bit.”

But after graduating with the Mineola High School class of 1942, he was laying in bed one Sunday morning listening to the radio. “They said Roosevelt said 17 year olds could join with their parents’ con-sent.” The next Monday morning he and his dad went to the post office in Tyler. When they got there, his dad questioned him if he was sure he wanted to go on. “I said `sure.’”

There, among other things, he was given a physical examination and told he would be notified. Within about a week he was notified to be in Dallas.

There he and other recruits were put on a train. “That was the only time I ever had

Council takes no action after executive sessionLIVING HISTORY

World War II pilotshares experiences

COLORFUL CUTIES

Mineola’s downtown Halloween celebration brought waves of children to town for trick or treating and was supported by merchants, civic club and churches. See more photos, 8A.

Robert Ray

See COUNCIL, Page 8A

See VETERAN, Page 5A

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Mineola Monitor

November 6, 2013

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This lists REGULARLY scheduled meetings and is a community service. Please furnish information to Editor Doris Newman. Organizations are responsible for notification of changes. ALBA CITY COUNCIL 1st Mon., 7 p.m., City Hall.ALBA-GOLDEN SCHOOL BOARD 2nd Mon., 7 p.m., Admin. Bldg., 768-2472.ALBA-GOLDEN YOUTH FOUNDATION, 2nd Tues., elementary gym, 7 p.m. All welcome.ALBA LADIES CLUB 4th Thurs., 6:30 p.m., Alba Community Center. 765-2573 ALBA LIBRARY BOARD 3rd Mon., 6:30 p.m. City Hall, Carey Carpenter 768-2141.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - Sun. & Mon. 7 p.m., Fri. 8 p.m., Women’s Group Mon. 11 a.m.; St. Dunstans Episcopal Church.AL ANON - Thursday 7:30 pm; St. Dunstans Episcopal Church.ALZHEIMER SUPPORT GROUP (spons. by Pilot Club) 1st Tues., noon, Ranchero, Betty Curbow 569-5237. AMERICAN LEGION POST 296 and Auxiliary 4th Mon. 6:30 p.m. Highway 80 east three miles. All are invited.BOY SCOUT TROOP #385 - Tues. 7 p.m., First United Methodist Educational Bldg., Scoutmaster Chris Jennings, 903.569.3531.BROWNIES, MINEOLA TROOP #3604 & DAISIES, No. 2905, 4:30-5:45 p.m. 2nd, 4th Weds., Crystal Arcand sponsor, Broad Street Church of Christ, 440 W. Broad, 903-569-2046BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRY FOOD PANTRY Humble Baptist, Tues. 1-4 p.m.DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Daughters of the American Revolution: 1st Sat (except June, July, Aug, Dec) noon, Harvest Acres Baptist Church, 460 NW Loop 564, Mineola. Regent Charlene Rapp, 903-881-8511. DELPHIAN LITERARY CLUB 1st Weds., Christine Creswell, presi-dent, 569-6794; Clarice Pendley, VP, 569-3586.DRUG AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS Friday 7 p.m. Seventh Day Adventist Church, Ronny Polley 768-2992.DUPLICATE BRIDGE ACBL games Weds. & Fri. 10:30 a.m., Mason-ic Lodge, Shirley Matthews 882-1335.FANNIE MARCHMAN GARDEN CLUB 3rd Weds., September - May, Mineola Civic Center, 9:30 a.m. Visitors welcome. Charla Martin, president, 903-638-6389FRIENDS OF THE MINEOLA MEMORIAL LIBRARY - 1st Weds. 1 p.m., Mineola Library, Mitzi Pearce , 903-569-5561. GIRL SCOUTS, MINEOLA TROOP #3, 1st, 3rd Weds., 4:30-5:45 p.m. Sponsor Lesa Sanders, Broad Street Church of Christ, 903-569-2046.HAINESVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. - 2nd & 4th Thurs. 7 p.m., Firehouse downtown Hainesville.IRIS GARDEN CLUB-GOLDEN, 1st Mon. Sept.-May, Golden United Methodist Church. Sherry Lindsey, 903-765-3000, or Ann Medlin, 903-765-2216. KIWANIS CLUB Tues. noon, Mineola Civic Center Dogwood Room. Johnny Johnson, president; Sam Curry, treasurer; Becky Moore, secretary.LAKE COUNTRY REPUBLICANS 4th Tues. 6 p.m. Quitman Library 202 E. Goode St. LAKE COUNTRY RV TRAVELERS, of Good Sam Int’l. Monthly, RV parks w/in 150 m. radius. 903-569-3677 or 3069.LAKE COUNTRY SYMPHONIC BAND, Mon. 7-9 p.m., Broad St. Church of Christ Annex, Mike Holbrook, Director 903-569-2300.

LAKE HOLBROOK ASSOC., 1st Sat. in Feb., May, Aug and Nov., Harold Simmons Community Center, 5:30 p.m. directors, 6 p.m. all members and guests welcome. 903-569-0223LIONS CLUB 2nd & 4th Thurs. Noon, Ranchero Country Buffet, Tammy Lovett, President; Jackie Bowling, Sec./Treas.MINEOLA BAND BOOSTERS, 2nd Tues. at 7 p.m. in high school band hall. All parents invited. Renea Sneed president.MINEOLA MARINE CORPS LEAGUE (Toys for Tots), 3rd Tues., 7 p.m., American Legion Hall. 903-569-6481, commandant.MINEOLA SCHOOL BOARD 3rd Mon., Admin. Bldg., Loop 564, 7 p.m.MINEOLA CITY COUNCIL Meets 4th Monday, 6 p.m., City Hall, Council Workshop the previous Thursday 5:30 p.m. Public welcome. Call City Hall for changes in Nov. and Dec. because of holidays.MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB Last Mon. High school lobby, 6 p.m.MINEOLA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ADVISORY BOARD 3rd Tues. 4 p.m., city hall. Linda Rauscher 569-6944. Public invited.MINEOLA MASONIC LODGE: 2nd Thurs., dinner @ 6:30 p.m.-meeting @ 7:30 p.m. All Masons invited. Call 569-2608.MLOTA LINE DANCE GUILD Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. & Friday, 9:30 a.m. Guild Coordinator, Bea NippMLOTA FIBER/CRAFT ART GUILD Wed. & Thurs 10 am & 1:30 pm, business meeting 4th Thurs, 9:30 am. Guild Coordinator Vera Fingerle.MLOTA QUILT GUILD, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Thurs. 9:30 am; Business meeting 1st Thurs. Guild Coordinator Nancy Gibson.MLOTA PAINTERS GUILD Weds. 10 am; business meeting 4th Mon. Guild Coordinator Richard Napier.MLOTA PHOTOGRAPHY GUILD 2nd Tues. 6:30 p.m. Coordinator Patsy Sharp.MLOTA SCULPTURE GUILD Tues. 1 p.m. Business meeting 1st Tues. Guild Coordinator, Sheila Wyze.MINEOLA REBEKAH LODGE 1st & 3rd Tues. 11 a.m. 106 S. Line St. All Rebekahs welcome, 569-2776.MINEOLA SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER, 308 University, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Carol Cassity manager, 903-569-3073; Dominoes & other games. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH quarterly, 2-3 p.m, Ministries Center.NORTHEAST TEXAS PARATROOPERS ASSOC. 3rd Saturday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at the Ranchero in Mineola.OPEN HEART MINISTRY 3rd Fri., 7 p.m. Mineola Civic Center.OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS, Tuesdays 5:30 p.m., St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church. 569-9223, 569-1760.PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL of Mineola Elementary, 1st Tues. 8:15 a.m., elementary library, Pres. Amanda Medina.PILOT CLUB 2nd & 4th Tues., 6 p.m. President Marcia Bush, Secretary Mitzi Pearce. 569-5621.

REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF WOOD COUNTY - Third Monday, 11:30 a.m., Texas Tea Room, Quitman. Janie LeBlanc, president, 903-383-2121.ROTARY CLUB Monday noon, Dogwood Room, Mineola Civic Center. Pres. Jim Albritton; Sec. Todd Karch. STROKE SURVIVORS & APHASIA CLUB of East Texas 4th Weds. 6-7 p.m. First Baptist Church Quitman, Pat Miller 903-878-2392.TEXAS INMATE FAMILIES ASSOC., 2nd Tues. 6:30-8 p.m. First Christian Church Tyler, Broadway & Loop, Judy 903-839-2349. TJC ADULT BASIC EDUCATION/GED PREPARATION CLASSES. First Methodist Church Education Bldg. Covenant Classroom. Mon., Wed., Thurs. 9 a.m.-noon. Instructor: DeAnn Sutton 569-9162. Classes are freeTOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL, Garden Valley chapter, Thursdays on Mercy Ships property, 5:30-6:30 p.m. 903-882-0887.TOPS GROUP 8-11 a.m. Thurs., Harvest Acres Baptist Church, NW Loop 564, Brenda Thompson, 569-1240 or Sue Clower 569-2415.UPPER SABINE VALLEY SOLID WASTE DISTRICT Quarterly 3rd Mon., 5:30 p.m., Commissioners Courtroom, County Courthouse. Open to the public.UTU AUXILIARY MORNING STAR LODGE #851 3rd Mon. (except July & Aug.) 11:30 a.m., in homes, Dorothy Arrington, sec.-treas.VFW Ladies Auxiliary #7523 President Vicki Bocz. Meet 3rd Sun., 1 p.m. Currently recruiting new members. Special events posted on marquee. 569-2228.VFW POST #7523: Doug Melvin, Meeting 3rd Wed., 6 p.m. Karaoke every Friday 8 p.m. 569-2228.WOOD COUNTY AGGIE MOMS 1st. Mon., 7 p.m., The Quitman Library, 202 E. Goode, Kristi Bridges 903-967-7599.WOOD COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT Quarterly 3rd Thurs. 8 a.m., appraisal district office. Open to the public.WOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT every other Fri., Commissioners Court, Quitman, 10 a.m. 763-2716.WOOD COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS now meeting every other month (ODD months), W.C. Justice Center courtroom 7-8 p.m. Captain Jack Newman, 569-6294, WOOD COUNTY DEMOCRAT CLUB Fourth Thurs., Addie McFarland Center, 708 S. Stone St, Mineola. 6 p.m. social-meal, 6:45 meeting. Info at woodcountydemocrats.com or 903-975-4134.WOOD COUNTY 4-H HORSE CLUB Business meeting, Mon. 2 p.m, Wood County Extension Office.WOOD COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOC. 3rd Mon. (Except Dec., June, July & Aug), 7 p.m. Quitman library, Shamburger Community Room. 967-2458, Dorothy HarbinWOOD COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. IMMUNIZATION CLINIC, Mon, Tues., Wed. 9-11 a.m. & 1-3 p.m., 3rd Mon. 1-6 p.m. Public Health Depart. offices, 213 W. Bermuda, Quitman, 763-5406.WOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT 2nd Mon. 7 p.m., hospital conference room in Quitman. Public invited.WOOD COUNTY RETIRED SCHOOL PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION Meets the 3rd Monday, Sept. – Dec. & Feb. – April, 2 p.m., Quit-man Public Library; May meeting, 4:30 p.m. at Holly Brook Baptist Church in Hawkins. (No Jan. meeting). All retired school personnel are invited to attend.WOOD COUNTY TEA PARTY, 1st Monday, 7 p.m. Quitman Library.

Oh, wow! Guess what is new at the Mineola Memo-rial Library? Well, we finally have our Early Literacy Station from AWE thanks to a grant from Dollar General. I have been eyeballing and dreaming about this addition for three years and it is finally a reality.

This Early Literacy Station has a touch screen and lots of new games. These games cov-er reading, writing, math, sci-ence, and music. There are two headphones so two friends can play together. Sessions are lim-ited to 20 minutes. We chose not to have a printer for this station (my own children were prolific printers and I have observed that they are not the only ones). This Early Literacy Station is geared for children in primary and elementary school. It complements the other two educational game stations that we have.

Oct. 31 was Library Snapshot

Day. This is a day where we pay special attention to why people are visiting the library. Here is what that Thursday looked like in the Mineola Me-morial Library:

107 people visited our li-brary, 79 people used the inter-net, 121 items were borrowed, 48 reference questions were asked and answered, 3 people had guitar lessons, 11 people studied English as a Second Language, 54 visits were made to the website www.mineolali-brary.com

Not bad for a rainy morning followed by a gorgeous Hal-loween afternoon and evening.

There will be a used book sale at our Annex on Saturday, Nov. 16. The Annex is at 1721 N. Pacific in Mineola. There will be hardbacks and paper-backs and some audio and video available. The sales help the library purchase more ma-terials for our patrons.

Just a reminder of all the ac-tivities we have available at the library, although none will be held Thanksgiving week:

After school for 1st to 5th grade, Tuesdays 4 p.m;

Preschool story time for ages 2-5 with a parent, Wednesdays 11:15;

Citizenship, Wednesdays 4 p.m.;

Guitar Thursday afternoons;ESL classes Thursdays 6 to 8

p.m.; GED prep classes, Fridays 10

a.m. tonoon; Computer Questions and

Answers, Saturday, Nov. 16 9:30 a.m. followed by War-gamers at noon, Genealogy Room.

East Texas Library Friends will meet at Nov. 16, 2 p.m., to discuss the book “Night Road” by Kristin Hannah, in the Mer-edith Room.

Crochet will be Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. and Nov. 23 at 10 a.m.

Quilt blocks meet on Nov. 2 at noon and again Nov. 23 at noon.

And yes, we will be open the Friday and Saturday af-ter Thanksgiving if you need a quiet place to go after tak-ing advantage of all the after-Thanksgiving sales.

The Library received the fol-lowing memorial donations:

For Ray Williams from Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Norris, and from Bill and Shirlene Knight; for T. D. McClenney from Bill and Shirlene Knight; for Molly Pit-kin from Rebecca Fasulo, Larry and Jane Barlow, Shirley Chad-wick, Betty Groepper, Rosemary Bell, Mrs. Lou Choate, and Dan and Carolyn Metcalf; for Cla-rice Evans from the Exploration Dept at Lake Ronel Oil Company, Southcliff Baptist Church Sunday School class, The Twentieth Cen-tury Club, Janelle Silney, Rich-ard and Jerry Wilson, and Bill and Shirlene Knight.

The Caring & Sharing ra-dio auction will be from 8 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Nov. 16.

Those who want to par-ticipate can tune into KMOO 99.9FM and make a bid. “Don’t forget that this is the primary fund-raiser for Car-ing & Sharing,” said Ann Alotto, chairman of the radio auction.

Some of the big items that will be up for auction this are are:

7 nights in a beautiful 2-bedroom condo located beachfront in Panama City Beach, Florida;

4 premium Cowboy tickets for a 2014 season game plus $100 spending money;

A morning duck hunt with Texas Wetlands Guide Ser-vice;

2 hour broadcast on KMOO from your location;

Authenticated Nolan Ryan autographed baseball and

Everything from propane heaters to bicycles.

All the items for auction have been generously do-nated by businesses and in-dividuals in the area. And, Alotto said, “The C&S vol-unteers sincerely appreciate this.”

Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for nearly 63 million Americans will increase 1.5 percent in 2014, the Social Security Admin-istration announced last week.

The 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment will be-gin with benefits that more than 57 million Social Se-curity beneficiaries receive in January 2014. Increased payments to more than 8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on December 31, 2013.

Some other changes that take effect in January of each year are based on the increase in average wag-

es. Based on that increase, the maximum amount of earnings subject to the So-cial Security tax (taxable maximum) will increase to $117,000 from $113,700. Of the estimated 165 million workers who will pay So-cial Security taxes in 2014, about 10 million will pay higher taxes as a result of the increase in the taxable maximum.

Information about Medi-care changes for 2014 is available at www.Medicare.gov.

The Social Security Act provides for how the COLA is calculated. To read more, please visit socialsecurity.gov/cola.

Social Security to see1.5 percent increase

Big donations line upfor a radio auction

Grant funds Early Literacy Station

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Musgraves attending tonight’s CMAs

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Alexia Delapaz has been chosen by the Mineola Middle School Staff as the Student of the Week

Alexia is thirteen years old and an 8th grader at Mineola Middle School. She is the daughter of Mary Santiago. She has a sister, Desiray, who attends Mineola Primary School in the Head Start Program.

Alexia is on the All “A” Honor Roll at the Middle School. She is involved in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Student Council, AVID, and National Junior Honor Society.

She also participates as a Middle School cheerleader, plays sports, attends church activities, and doing missionary work.

In the future, Alexia plans on attending Harding Christian University and becoming a math teacher.

Alexia’s teachers say that she is an example of hard work, great attitude, and perseverance. Her smile is contagious and she is always giving 100%. Alexia is truly a star student.

Careflight to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas.

Taelynn had bled inside her head and suffered brain damage on the left side, multiple skull fractures, bleeding inside her eyes and three broken ribs.

She was sedated and made comfortable, but no surgeries were done. She was hos-pitalized a week and Reeves, of Lindale, was ultimately charged with two counts of injury to a child in Taelynn’s case. He was indicted in March.

Afterwards, Trista said what was ear-lier believed to have been a fall involving her three-year-old niece who was staying with them at the time was also believed to be abuse, adding another injury-to-a-child charge.

The doctors could not tell Trista what the brain damage would cause. They have to wait and see if Taelynn reaches typical milestones. She just had her hearing tested, and she failed the test. That will mean a trip back to Children’s to determine if the hearing loss is a result of the abuse. That is something that will be a regular part of her life, her mom said. But, she smiles as she reports Taelynn is healthy, walking, talking, “knows her ABCs,” colors and is counting.

“And I think that’s really good for an 18 month old so I’m really thankful.” Further, “I’m extremely blessed that she survived. Most babies don’t. They get abused, they have lasting damage, they can’t talk, they can’t walk.

“That’s why I wanted to give back be-cause I’m very blessed she made it out. But there are kids who don’t make it out of abuse and I want to be able to give some-thing to them,” she said. “So I want to stand against child abuse. I want to be able to make a difference.”

She cautions other single mothers not to let the same situation happen. She and Reeves had known each other five or six months and were living together, though she said they had just broken up the week before the incident. “It was a fast relation-ship,” she said, and added, “too fast.”

“My daughter didn’t have a dad and I wanted a family and I settled too fast.”

Working a job (up until recently two) and going to school, the young woman has now thrown her efforts into raising money for the Rainbow Room in Quitman. The room is a place where children who are taken into foster care can get all the day-to-day necessities they don’t leave home with and hopefully a few of the things that aren’t necessities.

Trista’s efforts are broad. An account has been established at Bank Texas for Wood County Child Abuse Awareness. She is also placing collection jars telling their sto-ry in Alba, Mineola and Quitman. She is having tee shirts printed and will sell them for $15 at Walmart on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The date is significant, because she will ask everyone to wear those shirts on Monday, Nov. 11 – the first anniversary of the horrible event.

Trista said she feels that if she can stand up against child abuse and also help the Rainbow Room, “then I feel like what I’ve been put through, the reason is to make a difference.”

She acknowledged that what she and Taelynn had been through was extremely difficult, the depth of which may have been evidenced by the tears that welled in her eyes. She offers one more word of cau-tion.

“Just be careful who you bring your chil-dren around. You can’t trust anyone these days. I’d give anything to go back to see the signs so I could protect her from it.

“I really didn’t know much about child abuse – how it’s out there until this hap-pened to us. I never thought it could hap-pen to my baby either.”

Today (Wednesday) Mineola and Golden residents can watch two of their own taking part in one of the biggest events in the country music industry.

The Country Music Association Awards are Wednesday and Kacey Musgraves, a Golden resident and Mineola High School graduate, has been nominated for six awards. She has two nominations under Song of the Year (for the songwriters), as well as Female Vocalist of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Single of the Year.

She is the first New Artist nominee

to ever have so many nominations. She’s tied with Carrie Underwood with the highest number of nomina-tions.

Musgraves is also set to perform her newest release “Follow Your Arrow.”

She’ll be accompanied on the red carpet by her grandmother, Barbara Musgraves of Mineola. The arrivals will be televised starting at 6 p.m. tonight on both CMT and GAC net-works.

The CMAs will be televised at 7 p.m. on ABC.

Barbara, a veteran Mineola volun-teer, admits she is excited and shopped

particularly hard for comfortable shoes for a long time of standing. At one of the last awards shows, Kacey was accompanied by her dad, Craig.

Not only can Mineola and Golden people root for their hometown girl on tonight’s program, they can look forward to seeing her on “Austin City Limits.” The episode will be taped Nov. 25, but time of airing is unknown at this point.

“Nanna” Musgraves left for Nash-ville Tuesday morning, riding with a group that included the station man-ager, Pat Stacy, and his wife, Stepha-nie, from KLTV.

A structure fire in Chaney Point RV Park in Alba destroyed an uninhabited property on Nov. 1 around noon.

Firefighters from Quitman, Mineola and Alba were on scene to fight the blaze, which consumed an unoccupied trailer home surrounded by pine trees.

According to Wood County Fire Marshal Randy Selman, the fire began when a tree that had fallen on the roof of the residence caught fire, which caused the trailer to cave in.

Firefighters worked to remove the tree from the property after the blaze was extinguished about an hour later, and be-gan to sift through the debris in order to determine the cause of the fire.

Selman said he was informed the trailer’s owner had aban-doned the property some time ago, and was now living in Kansas.

No adjacent properties were destroyed, and no injuries or fatalities occurred.

The cause of the fire was still under investigation at the Monitor’s press time.

The 34th Annual Hain-seville Fire Department Stew and Auction is com-ing up this Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

The department re-cently received an ISO rate improvement after evaluators with the In-surance Service Office made a site visit in Au-gust and determined a classification reduction was in order.

Hainseville Fire De-partment received a split rating of 5/10 for the dis-trict indicating that all properties within five road miles of either sta-tion receive the lower rat-ing classification. Prop-erties that are greater than five road miles do not receive the reduced rating according to Fire Chief Charles Clanton.

The Department’s pre-vious rating was a 8B/10 split rating but due to the placement of a fast attack engine at a secondary station the majority of the district’s properties re-

ceived the new 5 rating.Rural fire departments

have a challenge in get-ting these types of reduc-tions due to little or no fire hydrant coverage the water systems in certain areas are not typically evaluated by ISO.

The water distribu-tion is a key component in rate reduction criteria for municipal depart-ments and in the rural areas the ability to move via tankers is evaluated by ISO as an alternative to hydrants according to Clanton.

In addition to water transporting capability the average response of firefighters and the train-ing received by these firefighters is evaluated along with the dispatch-ing of calls.

Hainseville Fire De-partment purchased a used 3000 gallon pump-er-tanker two years ago which played a vital role in the rate reduction sur-vey Clanton said.

Kacey Musgraves performed for many from her hometown during the Texas State Fair recently. Tonight she’ll perform for TV viewers nationwide watching the 47th Annual CMA Awards taking place in Nashville. (Photo by Doris Newman)

Hainesville VFD stew,auction 5:30 Saturday

Fire destroys unoccupied Alba mobile homeThe cause of this mobile home fire in Alba is still under investigation.

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10th – Kaylee Bizzell, Mary Bowers, Kristen Brickey, Catara Carter, Halee Daniel, Heidi Gas-kill, Claire Gildewell, Ra-chel Hays, Jake Kindle, Caitlin Lennon, Carter Lennon, Brennan Mar-gos, Karlie Melton, Blake Reynolds, Erin Roberts, Christian Steck;

Ninth – Evan Galyeah, Jenna Hawkins, Harleen Kaur, Clayton Lennon, Nicole Little, Abigail Mitchell, Cody Palk, An-thony Williams;

All A/B12th –Jessika Barnhart,

Eric Benedict, Courtney Bolt, Colten Bowdoin, Melani Butler, Joseph Cockrum, Connor Curts, Cannon Dean, Brian Fitzgerald, Kasie Hart, Elizabeth Hernandez, Haley Kovic, Corlie Len-non, Coby Raymond, Steven Sanders, Avery Spurger, Lacy Swoape, Korie Tackett, Tyler Trus-sell, Zachary Tucker, No-lan Whitaker, Morgan Wood;

11th – Valente Abrego, Macie Arrington, Josie Bohannan, Kendra Day, Brianna Denton, Am-ber Feezor, Jacob Hays, Cody Melton, Miranda Rae, Joseline Rios, Juan

Rios, James Spurgeon, Joseph Thomas, Charles Thompson, Reagan Wig-ington, Ryan WIlcoxson;

10th – Mellisa Bandy, Jeffrey Barnhart, Erika Camacho, Nicole Camer-on, Emily Crittenden, Lo-gan Culp, Zoey Fitzger-ald, Toby Harle, Kristen Harpold, Joshua Hass, Chritiania Hennedssey, Jocelyn Hockett, Coliin Kelbe, Christopher Kel-lis, Oscar Martinez, Jonathan Morales, Kyle Morrow, Daniel Osborn, Gracie Peacock, Jesse Poisel, Ana Ramirez, Sidney Ruelas, Destin Schwab, Rilee Smith, Catherine Spurgeon, An-gela Storey, Brad Tackett, Jose Valenzuela, William Wallace, Lindsey Wil-liams, Dalton Wright;

Ninth – Jessica Allen, Reygan Arrington, Wil-liam Benishek, Hunter Bohannan, Bethany Car-son, Francisco Cerrito, Justin Cockrum, Saman-tha Cortes, Morgan Cur-tis, Caleigh Dawson, Kaili Hammond, Tonya Mc-Cormack, Logan McGa-hee, Logan Miller, Gra-cie Pendergrass, Colton Raymond, Zackery Ray-mond, Frederick Reeves, Joel Rinlee, Brady Rolen, Victoria Sheehan, Briana Weissert, Jagger Weis-sert, Jaggar Wright and Shelby Wright.

Middle SchoolAll As

Eighth grade –Frederick Arenas, Sarah Boykin, Hannah Ellis, Shane-A Gallimore, Jacqueline Gonzalez, Aspen How-ard, Luke Kindle, Nicho-las Murray, Tessa Sasser, Vanessa Spurgeon, Bryn-na Whatley;

Seventh grade – Dylan Arenas, Virginia Carson, Thomas Hammond, An-gela Rios, Kaden West;

Sixth grade – Joseph Ayers, Nayeli Camacho, Jacob Dailey, Talon How-ard, Caleb Moya;

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Seventh grade – Des-tiny Baker, Gabriel Bar-nett, Madison Bizzell, Johnnie Bowers, Dalton Brandon, Stormi Britton, Lauren Crump, Ramsey Curtis, Brian Delgadillo, Jakob Dominguez, Ja-coby Harle, Madison Hawkins, Alexis John-son, Elijah McGahee, Thomas Mitchell, Clau-dia Morre, Sarah Mor-row, Macie Pendergrass, Mason Ragsdale, Antho-ny Ramirez, Ashlyn Rog-ers, Timothy Sullivan, Prciosa Villeda, Adam Warren, Avry Wood;

Sixth grade – Jordin Barhnhart, Eddie Caffey, Jon-Michael Chadwick, Laynie Culp, Mason Fitzgerald, Carolyn Johnson, Zachary Kelis, Jennah Latham, Kaya Mcaninch, Ann Pend-ergrass, Braden Reyn-olds, Christiana Roberts, Mather Rogers, Cory Whatley, Meagan Wil-liams and Morgann Wil-liams.

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Fifth grade – Isabella Crawford, Beth Critten-den, Morgan Dorner, Cameron Galyean, Abi-gail Hallman, Delvan Jones, Meritt McGahee, Reese Michaels, Bree Al-lie Rolen, Nathan Sowell, Rylee Wilcoxson, Caden Wiser;

Fourth grade – Ken-leigh Aguirre, Cassidi Burris, Michael Gaskill, Shawn Gaskill, James Hallman, Natalie Jones, Koby Kleam, Jade Kruse, Austin Martin, Julia Mor-row, Dylan O’Quinn, Diego Osornio-Rios, Ford Tannebaum, Jack Tannebaum, Grace Teel, Lindsey Terry;

Third grade – Kylie Kleam, Zachery Spurger, Cade Stovall, Sofia Tan-nebaum, Levi Thomp-son;

Second grade – Easton Campbell, Kenley Carr, Hailey Crutchfield, Drake Duplechain, Ire-lynn Felty, Marissa Rojo, Madison Steuck, Luke Sutton, Hudson Wright;

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Allen, Dakota Anglin, Boedy Baker, Jose Cama-cho, Jacob Cameron, Joshua Cameron, Jes-sica Gaines, Kayli Covey, Sarah Crampton, Jonah Day, Breanna Gallimore, Aaron Graham, Thomas Hooton, Rejinia Hyatt, Savannah Jackson, Trent Jennings, Kylie Kennedy, Dameion Luellen, Seth McAninch, Daylan Mc-Cormick, Sage Mizer, Czhela Moya, Ari Nivi-son;

Fourth grade – Skylar Allen, Mykhala Altis, Oliver Barnes, Jayden Barnhart, Dakota Bean, Lakota Box, Jace Boykin, Madisyn Bryant, Andres Camacho, Sara Cross, Matthew Currie, Jacol-by Curtis, Elijah Davis, Kason Gaby, Conner Gibson, Hannah Gurley Savannah Gulrey, Sofia Lopez, Leeann McKee, Tamara Nipp, Angelica Ortega, Paislee Pender-grass;

Third grade – Alexis Allen, Mia Backer, Jac-quelyn Bruce, Crimson Bryant, Walter Camp-bell, Allani Davis, Carlee Dooley, Shyann Gaines, Allison Hooton, Cacie Lennon, Landry Lew-ers, Justice Lopez, Sam-uel Louderman, Rileigh Lowery, Connor Mason, Braylon Moffett, Eli Nivi-son, David Osornio, Trey Pendergrass, Dawson Pendergrass, Tyler Perez;

Second grade – Ryl-lie Anglin, Nayeli Aus-mus, Payden Bohannan, Logan Clanton, Helen Crampton, Payton Dick-inson, Kirstin Fish, Char-lie Gagliano, Jake Hall-man, Alexander Hass, Aiden Haynes, Asyha Hill, Kirsty Jackson, Jas-mine Jones, Jett Kruse, Stevie Larmer, Audrey Martin, Sarah Moore, Paisley Newland, Lucas Nicholson, Payton Oli-ver, Taylor Robinson and Kalli Trimble.

At the recent East Texas State Fair on Sept. 27-29, Carol Patterson of Mineola was awarded a best of show ribbon, along with two blue ribbons for her en-tries into the Horticulture Show.

According to Patterson, “We got a letter from the Tyler Garden Club inviting the Mineola Garden club to participate so I started getting creative.”

She won with a toaster, pink adding machine and a portable typewriter containing succulent plants.

Of all of her creations for the fair she is, “Probably the most proud of the typewriter which won the Best of Show at the fair. I just packed the dirt in it and put succulents in them and they grew.”

“I’m a junk gardener and I had bought the type-writer and 1950’s bright pink adding machine a few years ago and got inspired.” Patterson added, “If you throw it away, and it holds dirt I’ll garden in it. I have washing machine tubs, horse tubs, wheelbar-rows and other things I use.”

Not only does she enter contests, but she is an ac-tive gardener at home as well. Patterson said, “I do spend a lot of time in my garden, unless it’s too hot or too cold. I love to garden and should be out there right now actually.”

“My husband stacked three red wagons up at our house, varying in size. We drilled holes in them and filled them with dirt begonias and it’s beautiful.”

Patterson is a member of the Fannie Marchman Garden Club and encourages Mineola community members to attend meetings on the third Wednesday of the month at 9:30 a.m. at the Dogwood Room of the Mineola Civic Center.

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Pullman sleepers of all the trains I went on,” he said. “And next morning we woke up in San An-tonio.”

His training occurred at bases in Tulsa, Enid and Altus Oklaho-ma, Fort Worth, Nebraska and Colorado. His fi rst aircraft to fl y was a PT 19 Fairchild with “ six cylinder, invert, inline engine.” It was something of a wonder to him. He was also trained on a BT15, AT17, B52 and B24s.

He has some fond and some not so fond memories of his training. When he fi rst reported to the classifi cation center in San Antonio he met a man, Wes Wil-son, who had served in the Army before, “and he knew when to miss all the walking and every-thing. We’d hide in the room where the boilers were, and then we’d go to the PX and drink a malt. I missed all the long hikes and stuff . He kinda took me un-der his wing.”

While there, the Army classi-fi ed Ray for pilot training. He’d been promised he could be a fi ghter pilot but his superiors changed their minds. “They said no, you’re gonna be a prett y good size boy. You need to fl y a bomber.”

While the teen was learning about weapons of war, he was also learning about matt ers of the heart.

“I met a girl in Tulsa, Oklaho-ma,” he began hesitantly. “Oh, I paid her too much att ention” and as a result, he failed a weath-er class. As a result, the Army held him over four weeks which he spent doing “a ton” of paper-work in an offi ce. After that he graduated and moved on.

In Enid they fl ew BT15s, made by Vultee Aircraft Company and known as the “Vultee vibrator. It was an all metal plane, but it did vibrate around a whole lot.”

One morning at that base, their fl ight instructor told Ray and his three other students he wasn’t going to be there that day. He told them to get an airplane and fl y for about an hour. But Ray didn’t get to go fl ying. He got out to his airplane, and it had a mechanical problem. The next morning the instructor came in grinning. “He said `well, I see you didn’t get an airplane.’ I said `no sir, I didn’t.’ He said `you bett er be glad you didn’t.’”

While their instructor was off , the students had decided to meet over a lake “and do a litt le rat racin’.” It happened that the instructor had been at that same lake duck hunting. “He said the fi rst pass they made over there

was all right. Said the ducks fl ew overhead. He got one or two.

But that wasn’t the case after all the other passes and the ducks never came back. So he made the other students put on their para-chutes and drag them around for about an hour. “`Ray and I are gonna go fl y,’” he told them.

Ray’s fi rst impression fl ying the B52 wasn’t a good one. “We took off . It struggled and stag-gered in to the air and I thought my Lord what have I gott en in to. But I fi nally got used to that I guess.”

Priot to shipping out they were sent by train to Newport News, Virginia where troop, passenger trains and others took the side rails to let gasoline tank cars pass. “We were sitt ing on a siding there in West Virginia one day. A boy come up to the train there out of the woods. And wanted to know if anyone wanted to buy any white lightning whiskey.” He said with a slight grin, “He sold several quart jars of that.”

They stayed there several days and “then what did they do? All that fl ight training and they put us on a ship.” They were put on a “liberty boat,” part of an 84-ship convoy - destination still unknown to them.

His portion of the convoy went to the Rock of Gibraltar, “passage to the Mediterranean Sea,” stopped at Oran, North Af-rica, took a great deal of fuel on the ship and “wound up” in the Bay of Naples.

“We cranked up there, pulled anchor and went around the toe and heel of Italy up to the 15th Air Force Air Base head-quarters in Bari, Italy.” They got there but then, “we had to turn around and go all the way back to Naples. The Germans had gone down there and bombed that port and sunk a ship there in

the mouth of the harbor and we couldn’t go in.”

“I think we got back to Naples at 2 o’clock in the morning. It was dark and wet, I had two bags of luggage.” They docked and a big crane took their luggage and “dumped that whole mess right there on the fl oor. I tried to fi nd mine and I couldn’t.” He fi nally did, after most of the others had found nearly all theirs.

They were assigned their tent and row. “And I got out there and got on a cot, and it sank down in the mud. I couldn’t do anything about it. I didn’t pull any clothes off , didn’t pull shoes off or anything.” He huddled on the cot with the two blankets they’d been issued. “And I like to froze to death.”

Finally, he and the others found, “I guess you’d say confi s-cated,” some boards and fl oored their tent. The next night, with his overcoat, blankets and all of his other things on top of him, “I slept fairly comfortable.”

“That was where I was intro-duced to war time stuff .” He saw children, 7 and 8 years old, who were eating out of the soldiers’ garbage barrels. “It made me a litt le sick at fi rst but I fi nally got hardened to that.”

Assigned to the 464th group, 777th squadron, their air base at Pantanella, Italy, had two paral-lel runways. No cross runways. “Didn’t make any diff erence which way the wind was from,” said the WWII pilot. “You took off into what litt le bit of wind you could. ”

He believes he and his crew were out on their sixth mis-sion when they developed en-gine trouble. “I lost one engine. I couldn’t keep up climbing, going towards the target so I turned back. The propeller ran away, couldn’t do a thing to it… It was minus 56 degrees … and the oil had congealed in the pro-peller domes.

“ I called the navigator and asked him to direct me to the lowest point of the Alp Moun-tains. He said well the lowest point is 11,000 feet and you are already down to nine.

“Well we got out of that plane. I went down on the catwalk and the bomb bay there and I thought me and the co-pilot were the last two. I motioned for him to jump out and he shook his head uh uh. Course there was a whole lot of noise. I reached for him to

shove him and he dodged me and shoved me out” and he lost a shoe in the process.

“I opened my chute, turned around, looked at the plane and two more chutes come open. The co-pilot, and there was some-body hid in the back. He was the tail gunner,” whose name was Francis Cooke.

“I kept hearing stuff whizzin’ by me. And I could hear the rifl e reports about a mile away. Course they were shooting at me on the way down in my para-chute. “

He pulled in his chute. “I got the crest of the mountain be-tween me and them and then I let the chute open up again and I hit the ground.” He thought he’d hidden the chute prett y well, “but I walked off from it and that thing was gleamin’ like a new diamond, white stuff showin’ like all get out.” About that time two men ran up on either side of him and yelled something he couldn’t understand.

They took him to a fast run-ning river, put him in a boat and “covered me up with an ole stinky tarpaulin and they paddled and steered down that stream I know for two miles at least.”

They got out on the oppo-site bank, carried him and the boat into the woods where they stayed for hours. All that time he’d had nothing to drink. “And I was thirsty. I fi nally got it across to them that I wanted a drink.” So they sent a child to get him something to drink.

“He came back with a glass of clear liquid, and I turned it up and that was the hott est white lightning I’d ever had in my mouth.”

By the third day he was re-united with all of his crew, ex-cept for the tailgunner, Francis Cook, who was captured by the Germans.

That night he met “an old gen-tleman who’d been here in the United States” working who’d saved enough money to return to his homeland and get his fam-ily, but was caught during the war and couldn’t get out. “Any-how, he came in and he told me what was goin’ on.”

The third night they left and started walking out. Ray said there would have been a C47 sent to pick them up, but the weather was bad and they nev-er came in. So they had to start walking at night.

“And we walked 22 nights, I guess it was. Nobody had a bath, a shave, a toothbrush, nothing. I don’t remember nobody start-ing to stink but I know we did. We got used to that all being to-gether.” They walked out of the Austrian Alps; he thinks they crossed Croatia. And during that time they’d had no real meal.

Finally they they got to a free port, Zara, where many others had also convened. “I can’t even fi nd that on the map now, “he said. “Musta changed names.” There were all sorts of diff er-ent nationalities and uniforms there, “Germans and the whole bunch” at the port.

They had $50 in their escape kits and bought a ham. It was small, and there were 8 of them. “That was the fi rst real meal we had had…. I had lost 20 some odd pounds coming back across

there.” They lost weight but gained bedbugs.

They went to a debriefi ng sta-tion “And the fi rst thing that they did was take everything that we had on, shoes and the whole bunch, took everything off and they burned it. And then we got in a hot shower, stayed in there for what thought was long enough. Started out, they said `nope you go back.’ We used GI soap and then we came out. We were issued new shoes, uni-forms – the whole bit.”

They went to debriefi ng and told them what they could. He had met somebody who had done the same thing he had who was going home and he thought “surely” he was going home. “I said I thought we were going home but they said no, we’ve changed policy now. Saddle up, you’re going again.”

When he fi rst went overseas they were told they had to fl y 35 missions. “When I had about 29 of ‘em in and countin’ the rest of them on my fi ngers, they said well this has got easier. Said you’re going to 50 now.”

He also ended up sustaining an eye injury when an aircraft engine caught fi re during takeoff on another mission – for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.

The war ended before he could reach his 50 missions. They fl ew 41 missions all over Europe including Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Ger-many and northern Italy. The teenage boys’ service as a WWII pilot was vastly diff erent from his rural childhood in so many ways. “The fi rst plane they put us in was a Fairchild PT 19. The only thing I’d been on before that was a Ford tractor. ”

Ray, who was the youngest on his crew, tried to stay in the mili-tary but “they said no, we’ve got pilots coming out of our ears.” Shortly after discharge he went to Braniff and Delta Airlines to try to get a job as a pilot or co-pilot, but they told the 19 year old he was too young.

“I’d had all of that time in the war and aircraft. Didn’t even have a driver’s license. Too young to vote,” when he went in, he said, and laughed.

But he did have one thing to come home to. When he had left, “litt le Opal Counts” lived about 200 yards away. He was at the Gulf station one day and “some-body walked up the shoulder of the highway. Had on a pair of white shorts, had on shoes. Got up where I could see her and I said `well, looky here. The litt le Counts girl has grown up.’ First thing I said when she walked up on the porch was, “You still love me like you used to? She said `sure.’” They started dat-ing shortly after that and dated about a year until they married. Sixty-seven years later, she says the grew up together.

Fortunately the East Texas teenage boy learned well enough to fl y scores of missions and come back home all in one piece and is now 88 years old. He re-sides in a house with a porch, while not like being in a B24, that has a beautiful view above the treetops where one can see for miles. You wonder what he’s thinking when he gazes off into that distance.

VeteranFrom page 1A

Robert Ray has written a journal of his experiences in the European Theater in World War II. On the cover is a photo of the fresh-faced teenager who joined the Army at 17 with his parents’ permission (see photo inset). Ray describes the photo on the back of his journal as, “me, after all the wear and tear.”

The letter of appreciation and a photo of his crew that helped him get through flying missions over Europe during service in the Army Air Force hang in a place of honor.

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Wood County Sheriff’s Department activities for the past week included:

Oct. 30 – A woman reported her granddaughter’s husband broke the sliding glass door on her camper on Highway 154 during an argument.

Oct. 29 – A burglary was reported at the Alba-Golden Schools. Video captured two white males rummaging through an office in the high school. Approximately $60 and two pocket knives were sto-len from the high school office. The elementary was also broken in to and some money was taken from a classroom and several items were moved around. Two boys were later arrested in connection and all property returned to the school.

A resident of Private Road 7621 reported a 100 foot spool of copper wire and jumper cables missing from his shed.

Oct. 28 – The caretaker of property on County Road 3600 reported the residence had been broken into since he checked it the previous night. Entry was possibly through a side door. Three TVS and two Blu-ray players were taken.

The theft of a 16-foot Kearney utility trailer, valued at $2,300, was reported from a location on Farm-to-Market 2088. It was reported to have been taken dur-ing a two-hour timeframe.

Someone reported the theft of welding leads off the back of his truck on Highway 69. A 100 foot exten-sion cord was also missing from the location.

Oct. 27 – A deputy arrested Clifton Ashton Wade, 24, Grand Saline for assault causing bodily injury/family violence at a home on CR 2444 where he had answered a call to a disturbance in progress. Wit-nesses backed up the victim’s story she was assaulted by her brother following an argument that escalated. The suspect had damaged her car, several neighbors’ yards and a brick mailbox enclosure before leaving the scene. Additional charges of criminal mischief over $1,500, under $20,000 were later filed.

A deputy arrested Susan Gayle Rowland, 41, Pen-sacola, Florida, for public intoxication following a disturbance call to a residence on CR 3441. The com-plainant said the woman woke her up beating on her back door. The deputy found the rain-soaked Row-land sitting on the complainant’s back porch and she admitted to him she had been consuming alcohol and had eaten half a mushroom and had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes.

Oct. 26 – A burglary of a shop on CR 1941 was re-ported. Entry was made by removing several screws from a piece of sheet metal. Multiple items of fish-ing equipment as well as a DeWalt Sawzall, a MIG welder and a cordless hammer drill were taken.

Oct. 25 – A woman reported the lock on a rental storage unit had been removed and several items taken.

There was a burglary of a house on FM 515 where entry was gained through French doors that weren’t completely secured. A 32-inch Emerson flat screen TV and some jewelry were missing.

A deputy answered a disturbance in progress call on FM 1647. The victim said his son had come home drunk and got angry because there was nothing for him to eat for dinner. He said the son pushed him into a glass hutch, causing it to break. The deputy arrested Dylan Reed Richison, 31, Winnsboro, for as-sault by contact.

Oct. 24 – There was a report of a woman breaking into a house being used for storage on CR 1903, but nothing appeared to be missing. A back door was damaged and a witness saw a white woman who had lived there previously enter the house and rum-mage through items.

A burglary of a truck was reported on PR 7850 where a fence had been cut to gain access into a maintenance yard. Various hand tools were missing from the backseat.

A Polaris 250 four-wheeler was reported missing from property on PR 7850. It was stolen from behind a building, out in the open.

A deputy arrested Sterlin Lee Farley, 22, Alba for injury to an elderly person with intent to do bodily injury. The sheriff’s office had received a call about a family disturbance where a woman said she had been physically assaulted by her grandson. The sus-pect was found behind the victim’s residence. Farley said he had gotten upset because his grandmother wouldn’t let him use the car. Deputy Josh O’Grady learned the woman had to go a neighbor’s house to call 911 because Farley had taken the telephone away from her.

A man reported a 2006 25 horsepower Mercury outboard motor was stolen from his aluminum boat in the past two weeks on PR 5815. The motor is val-ued at $4,000.

Mineola police reports for the past week included:

Oct. 30 – A theft of a shot-gun was reported from a resident in the 200 block of West McDonald Street. No forced entry was noted on the residence.

Harassment was report-ed in the 400 block of Syca-more Street. The person reported they were being harassed by text. During the investigation, it was found both people were texting each other. They were both warned not to be texting each other.

An employee at East Texas Burger Company reported her purse was stolen.

A bicycle was found in the ditch at Bowdoin and Line Streets.

A Newsom Street resi-dent reported receiving several hang up calls and they thought they saw someone outside. Offi-cers checked the area and weren’t able to find any-one.

At 11:44 p.m. there was a report of a suspicious person at the civic center. Officers found the person was picking up cans. They were informed the park closed at 10 p.m.

Oct. 29 – There was an anonymous call about a foul odor coming from a backyard on Graham Street. It was found to be coming from horse ma-nure.

At 5:44 p.m. there was a report of a car in the high school parking lot that was damaged. It appeared to have been keyed with a sharp object on the tailgate and down both side of the pickup.

At 9:11 p.m. staff at Walmart report a woman had walked out of the store with a shopping cart full of stolen items. Police Captain Joyce Box said the woman took off run-ning, leaving the shop-ping cart, and jumped a fence on the north side of Lake Brenda. They found her after a Lake Brenda resident walked outside of his home and reported a woman sitting in his car. Police were called and ar-rested Kaylee Beth Wade, 20, who had been smoking a cigarette in the man’s car. She was charged with fel-ony organized retail theft. They also reported finding ½ gram of methamphet-amine, marijuana and two different kinds of pills in her purse. She was also charged with possession of a controlled substance un-der one gram, possession

of marijuana under two ounces and two counts of possession of a controlled substance under 28 grams for the pills.

Oct. 28 – Police served a warrant in the 100 block of North Pacific Street, ar-resting Michael Goodwin Cade on failure to appear warrant out of Mineola Municipal Court.

There was a report of someone breaking into a vacant house to steal wa-ter and electricity in the 400 block of South Johnson Street. A report was for-warded to investigators.

Personnel at Blade’s Hair Salon reported a burglary. No sign of forced entry was found but things inside had been gone through and an ID tag was missing.

A bicycle was found on Boundry Street. It was tak-en to the Mineola Police Department to be stored.

At 6:13 p.m. officers re-sponded to a disturbance at the Community Care Center on Mimosa. A family member of a resi-dent was attempting to remove medicine from the building, when an em-ployee approached them and advised them of the procedures for removing medication. The employee was assaulted during the confrontation. The fam-ily member was issued a criminal trespass warn-ing from the home and no charges were filed.

Three people were re-ported as arguing with each other in the front yard of a home in the 500 block of West Kilpatrick Street. White paint was tossed in the road during the argu-ment.

At 7:47 p.m. there was a report of a woman in a ditch near Front and South Streets screaming for help. Officers responded and found she had been drink-ing and took her in to the police station for public in-toxication, but before she was booked in, she began other problems and an am-bulance was called and she was taken to the East Texas Medical Center Hospital in Quitman for treatment.

Oct. 27 – At 1:33 p.m. there was a report of a man passed out in a yard in the 500 block of South Street. An officer responded and found that was the man’s yard and he went inside his home where he was to stay for the rest of the eve-ning.

A panic alarm sounded at a resident in the 600 block of Wren Street. The

homeowner said someone had been messing with her outside screens and asked for extra patrol in the area.

A hit and run was re-ported to have occurred in the Walmart parking lot after a car owner came out of the store and noticed minor damage to their ve-hicle.

There was a report of a woman wearing a black leather jacket near the movie theater trying to break into buildings. Offi-cers weren’t able to locate the woman, and watched for her for the rest of the night.

A woman asked for a check on the welfare of her sister. She said her sis-ter called her, but didn’t make sense and when she tried to call her back, she wouldn’t answer the phone. Officers checked on her and she was fine and she was at home with her family.

There was a report of a window being broken at a Landers Street residence.

At 11:22 p.m. a man called, concerned because his grandmother had called him and said she was lost. She was traveling to Tyler from out of state, and she told him she was in Mineola. Officers were able to reach the woman by phone and she was fine, and wasn’t in Mineola but still out of state.

Oct. 26 – Personnel at Murphy Oil reported a man paid for a can of snuff and took three more. A clerk said he had given her enough money, but she mistaken handed him too much back. She real-ized her mistake, and tried to get him to pay her for the two other cans but he walked away.

There was a disturbance call in the 1400 block of Kenny Street. Phillip Alan Gravely, 53, was arrested

for assault family violence. He was charged with as-saulting her sister, who did have visible injury.

Two bicycles were found in a driveway on Molly Lane and taken to the po-lice station.

Oct. 25 – There was a re-port of two metal detectors and a digging tool stolen from an unlocked truck parked in the 400 block of West McDonald Street.

Oct. 24 – A Kings Lane resident reported their “Pray for America” sign was stolen from their yard.

A bicycle was stolen from the backyard of a Kilpatrick Street residence overnight.

Police arrested Kevin Howard, 44, of Delaware, for public intoxication. They had received a call a drunk was on the Lone Star Coach bus at the train station and was to catch the Amtrak train. The bus driver said he had been disruptive and belligerent on the bus.

At 6:18 p.m. there was a report of a reckless driver on Highway 80. Officers located and stopped the vehicle and checked on the occupants inside. They weren’t intoxicated and everything was okay.

Police responded to a disturbance at Mineola Motor Lodge at 8:57 p.m. when officers arrived they found it was only people arguing and the parties agreed to separate for the night.

At 10:11 p.m. a man went to the police station to report a missing per-son. He was concerned for his driver who was to be making a delivery out of state. A message was sent out to other agencies look-ing for the vehicle, and the man called back the next day to say the driver had returned back to the busi-ness.

Fire ReportMineola Fire Depart-

ment reports for the past week were:

Oct. 29 – At 5:43 p.m. there was a call for as-sistance on Wren Street where a vehicle fell on a person. The fire depart-ment removed the person and they were flown to a hospital.

Oct. 28 – the department worked a vehicle accident in the 2100 block of North Pacific Street at 4:24 p.m. There were no injuries.

There was also a request for medical assist at 9:14 a.m. on Nuss Drive.

Oct. 26 – Mineola assist-ed Quitman Fire Depart-ment with a house fire at 3:30 p.m.

Oct. 25 – the department went to FM 2422 at 12:47 p.m. on a medical assist. At 8:03 p.m. there was a re-port of a power line down on Private Road 6882.

Oct. 24 – There was a re-port of a gas leak on North Line Street at 10:07 p.m.

Three Tyler doctors were among 36 who were disciplined by the Texas Medical Board during its Oct. 18 meeting.

The disciplinary actions ranged from quality of care violations to suspension of licenses. Mineola had no doctors on the list.

The TMB found the medical re-cords of Dr. R. Anton Lester, III,

D.O. were inadequate with the treatment of one patient and he ad-mitted to prescribing in his name to provide medications to his pa-tients.

As a result, Lester is required to have his practice monitored by an-other physician for 12 monitoring cycles. He must complete at least 16 hours of CME in one year and can’t

prescribe, dispense, administer or authorize controlled substances or dangerous drugs to himself or in his name for use by patients.

Lester is required to maintain a log, separate from patient records, of every sample of controlled sub-stances or dangerous drugs provid-ed to patients and will have to pay

State medical board disciplines three Tyler doctors

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ObituariesJAMES MCKENZIE

1932-2013QUITMAN-Funeral services for James Dorsey

McKenzie, 81, Quitman, were 5 with Rev. Fred Mor-row offi ciating.

Mr. McKenzie died Novem-ber 2, 2013, in Tyler.

He was born January 18, 1932, in Alba to the late James and Flossie McKenzie.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his stepmother, Mildred McKen-zie and a daughter, Rosemary McKenzie.

Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Wilda McKenzie, Quitman; sons, Matt and Rodney McKenzie, both of Quitman and two granddaughters.

DENNIS RAY BOHANNAN1958-2013

ALBA-Services for Dennis Ray Bohannan, 54, Alba, were held November 2 at Cott onwood Assembly of God Church, Alba, with Nick Kerry offi ciating.

Burial was in Golden City Cemetery, Alba.

Mr. Bohannan died October 29, 2013, at his residence.

He was born November 5, 1958, in Gladewater to Beacher and Hazel Bohannan and lived all his life in the Alba-Golden area. He was a member of Open Door Church, Alba.

He was preceded in death by his father, B.D. Bohannan and brother, Benny Bohannan.

Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Bohannan, Alba; mother, Hazel Bohannan, Alba; son, Dennis Ray Bohannan, Jr., Golden; daughters, Mary Pearce, Lone Oak and Clara Gilliam, Alba; brothers, Danny, Gary and Randy Bohannan, all of Alba; sisters, San-dra Thompson, Alba, Sharon Miller, Oklahoma and Lynda Wilburn, Alba and six grandchildren.

Union Pacific gang #22-33, led by foreman Darrin Jones conducts work with his track men Dennis Cude, Willie Porter, Quick and Rick Green. This work, which started in Edgewood, will conclude in Longview in the middle of November. (Photo by Josh Land)

As part of a Veterans Day promotion on Monday, customers who go in for a haircut at any local or U.S. Great Clips salon will receive a free haircut card to give to an active-inactive-retired military member of any branch. There is a limit of one card per customer.

Military members can also go in on Veterans Day for a free haircut card to use any day before the end of the year.

Tyler has two Great Clips salons located on High-lands Lane and Troup Highway and there is one in Whitehouse on Highway 110.

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Name: Beth BellI have lived in: Houston, Waco, Lubbock and Mineola.I am in Mineola because: I got married in April and my husband’s job brought him to East Texas. We are so excited to be starting our life here together.Family: My husband – Will BellOccupation: I am a teacher at Mineola High School. Go Yellowjackets!One of the best and funniest things about my job is: The students! They are wonderful to work with and keep me laughing every day.My favorite place to vacation is: Caye Caulker, Belize. The people are friendly and the scenery is absolutely breathtaking.I spend most of my time off : reading, working out and watching movies.When I have the chance to do something I en-joy, I: take a trip. I have been to Cayman Islands, Cozumel, Belize, Moscow, St. Petersburg and all 50 states.One thing I would change about Mineola is: the number of trains that come through.Two words that describe me are: funny and hard-working.The book I read that made the biggest diff er-ence in my life is: “Stuck” by Anneli Rufus. It’s about making a choice to try something diff erent.My favorite TV show is: “How I Met Your Mother.”My favorite junk food is: Frito chips and home-made guacamole.My favorite healthy snack is: kale and banana smoothies.People would be surprised if they knew that I: speak Russian.My favorite quote is: “Do or do not there is no try.”

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The Board found Greg-ory Scott Terrell, M.D, was arrested on July 31 for diversion of con-trolled substances for an-other person’s use. Con-sequently, Terrell entered into an Agreed Order of Suspension, suspending his Texas medical license until such time as he ap-pears before the Board and provides clear and convincing evidence that he is competent to safely practice medicine.

The Board found Ran-dall Gordon Craig, M.D., pled guilty to and was convicted of a misde-meanor for failing to fi le a tax return. Craig volun-tarily and permanently surrendered his Texas medical license. He re-quested that the surren-der of his medical license be accepted in lieu of further disciplinary pro-ceedings.

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HURST -- Mary Emma Mize Owens, 99,passed away on November 3, 2013. A celebration of Life will be held at 10:00 am Saturday, November 9, 2013 at Lucas Funeral Home. Interment will follow at 2:00 p.m. at Roselawn Cemetery, 5396 Hwy 37, Mineola, TX. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to The First United

Methodist Church, Hurst in Mary’s honor.Mrs. Owens was born March 15, 1914 in Golden, TX to John William and Lucy Florence Mize. She grew up in Golden TX, the fourth of nine children. She married William Curtis Owens in 1941, and subsequently they lived in Mineola, TX, Ozona, TX, and San Angelo, TX before moving to Hurst 43 years ago. She taught in the public schools throughout her life, retiring from teaching in Hurst. She was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church and a lifelong Methodist. After her retirement she was active as a Volunteer in Action within Hurst, Hurst Senior Citizen’s Center and working with Meals on Wheels well into her mid 90’s. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, William Curtis Owens in 1987 and five brothers and two sisters.Survivors include her son, Edwin Owens and wife Barbara of Alexandria VA; sister, Anna Mozelle Hackford of Colorado Springs, CO; grandchildren, William Alan and Nina Owens, John Walter Owens, Angela Rhea Moss all of San Antonio; Melanie and Michael Pita of Houston and Jessica and Andy Lien of Indianapolis, IN plus seven great-grandchildren, Gregory Moss, Austin Owens, Allison Owens, Abigail Pita, William Pita, Zachary Noah Lien and Annabelle Lien.

John A. Wyze, 68, of Mineola, died October 30 in a Tyler hospital after a long illness. He was born September 1, 1945 in Garden City, Kansas to the late Maynard E. “Buck” and Cleta “Babe” Wyze.He worked as a Drilling Superintendent-Manager all over the world in East and West

Africa, Burma, Indonesia, Oman, Columbia, Trinidad, Poland and Great Britain. He made many

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Besides his parents, John is preceded in death by two brothers.He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Shelia, of Mineola, TX, a son, John and his wife Donna of Cokato, MN, a daughter, Teresa and husband Steve Seright of Bozeman, MT and 5 grandchildren.Visitation was held at the Beaty Funeral Home and a graveside service was conducted by Dr. Mark Neeley in the Cedars Memorial Cemetery on November 5. The local Masonic Lodge also presented a ceremony.

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The council also voted to waive the building permit fee for a Christian Men’s Association project on Miller Street. The men built a large handicapped ramp on a home there.

Other actions previously discussed that were approved were:

*closing of Commerce Street on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for Veterans Day Parade;

*recognizing a man, Brian Cluff, as an honorary citizen. While visiting a friend here, Cluff

had done volunteer work on Na-tureFest;

*appointment of Rushing to the Wood County Industrial Commission;

*placing insurance money for the animal shelter damage into the budget for repairs to the building;

*final payment for work on a storage tank;

*amending the budget to in-clude money found in energy savings;

*final payment on the North-west Loop water and sewer line extensions;

*renaming Mineola Develop-ment, Inc. to Mineola Economic Development Corporation and

*authorizing the city adminis-trator to apply for a state coop-erative buying program.

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The Mineola Yellowjackets fell to the Athens Hornets Friday night 55-20 to fall to 4-5 overall and 1-3 in district play.

Before the game seniors, parents and other loved ones were recognized from the football and volleyball teams, cheer-leading squad and band.

The game started with Mineola receiv-ing the opening kick. After an offside penalty gave Mineola a first down and five Rhett Self ran for four yards. Mine-ola converted their second first down of the possession when Jeremiah Craw-ford hit Blake Whitney for an 11-yard gain taking the ball to the 43 yard line.

However, Mineola wasn’t able to move the chains again as on fourth down John Goldthorn punted the ball to Athens where they took over on their own 21.

Led by a strong running game, Athens went 79 yards in 12 plays capped off with a 15-yard touchdown run by Devin Hall. The extra point gave the Hornets a 7-0 lead with 5:26 left in the first.

Athens kicked to Mineola where they took over on their own 34 after Self’s re-turn. Mineola responded with a ground game of their own led by Self, Tino Elias and Crawford. Self ran twice for 18 yards, Crawford added a 21-yard scam-per, followed by positive yardage by Elias before Self took it from eight yards out and found the end zone. The extra point was blocked making the score 7-6 with 3:06 left in the quarter.

The Hornets wouldn’t take long to re-spond as Willie Tinajero’s kick went to

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Mineola stalled on their next posses-sion after short gains and an incomple-tion forced Crawford to punt the ball back to the Hornets.

After a few short gains of their own, Athens scored again. This time it was Logan Fuller from 47 yards out making the score 21-6 with only 22 seconds left in the first.

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BY JOSH LANDThe Monitor Staff

The Mineola Lady Jacket Volleyball team closed out the season with a loss to state ranked Van in straight sets (25-15, 25-16 and 25-15) last Tuesday evening.

After a couple of unforced errors put Mineola in a hole 3-0, senior Monica Sha-fer killed a ball to get the Lady Jackets on the board 3-1.

Both teams returned points with Lau-ren Almuete leading the way with a tip and a block for a point making the score 5-3 in favor of the Lady Vandals.

Kaela Brewington got a kill and Sister Green served a point making the score 11-7 before Mineola Head Coach Kerry Van Cleave called a timeout.

Van’s Rebekah Rogers went on a serv-ing spree scoring five straight points to make the score 17-9 before she served a ball out of play.

Annie Crenshaw served strong for the Lady Jackets, and Green had a great timed tip to get the score closer at 17-12.

Ultimately, Van was just too strong as they closed out the first set 25-15.

The second set opened with a kill from Almuete giving Mineola their only lead

of the set at 1-0.Then the Lady Vandals took control

when Ashlin Lovett served nine straight points making the score 10-1 forcing Van Cleave to call a timeout.

However, Mineola would come back with some strong serving of their own when Brewington served five straight with Almuete tipping a ball for a point in the process to get the score to 10-7.

Mineola would score a couple of points, led by a nifty tip by Green to make the score 17-10.

The Lady Jackets wouldn’t give up as Jorie Sauer served four straight points to get the score closer 20-15.

Van’s Morgan Wilkerson served four straight before Van closed out the second set 25-16.

Wilkerson opened up the third set serv-ing four more to start, giving the Lady Vandals the lead early.

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Senior Rhett Self barrels his way to an eight-yard touchdown run against Athens Friday evening on Senior Night. AT RIGHT: Jeremiah Crawford scampers for first-down yardage during action against the Hornets Friday evening. (Photos by Josh Land) See BOYS, Page 2B

Lauren Almuete and Jorie Sauer jump up in an attempt to block a Van kill as teammate Sister Greens looks for a return during last Tuesday’s match against Van. (Photo by Josh Land)

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These two kitten sisters are tabby mixes and are about three months old. They are looking for a new home and are warm, friendly and full of fun. Please check with the Mineola Animal Shelter if you are thinking of getting a new pet.

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Yellowjackets took over with decent field position at the 37 after a fair catch by Casey Gilbreath.

Self ran for three yards on first down which ended first quarter action with the score 21-6 in fa-vor of the visitors.

On second down Crawford ran for a short gain, followed by an off-side call on Athens which gave Mineola a third and two.

On a bizarre play Craw-ford’s pass was tipped and caught by Elias who ran the ball 28 yards and a first down at the Athens 37 yard line.

After a few positive runs by Self and Elias, Crawford hit Gilbreath for a 25-yard touchdown on second and nine mak-ing the score 21-13 with 8:40 left in the second.

Athens took over on their own 33 yard line and kept the ball on the ground most of the pos-session. The running game lured the Yellow-jacket defense into a mis-take as Anthony Sanders threw a play action pass to Chris Jefferson from 25 yards out to give Ath-ens seven more points making the score 28-13 with 5:41 in the half.

Mineola had time and did their best to put more points on the board. It looked like Mineola was going to give Athens the ball back as Crawford went back to punt on fourth and 11.

A play that looked un-

fortunate for Mineola in the beginning, resulted in a first down. The snap was high and went over Crawford’s head. He went back and retrieved the ball and scrambled before he found Kourt-land Sinches resulting in a 20 yard gain.

Self ran over a few Athens players for three yards and Elias gained seven for a first down for the Yellowjackets. How-ever, Mineola wasn’t able to convert and move the chains.

Mineola called time-out on third and fourth down but the drive end-ed with an incompletion from Crawford turning the ball over and giving Athens possession again.

Athens almost got the ball in scoring position but a great play by Elias broke a pass up and fi-nally Athens ran the time out of the first half with

the score still 28-13.Athens received the

ball to start the second half and took over on their own 31 yard line. Athens converted two first downs before setting up a first and goal from the eight. On second down Fuller took the ball into the end zone and the lead was widened with the score 35-13 with 10:20 left in the third.

Mineola took over on their own 20 yard line and Crawford ran for six yards. Elias ran for sever-al yards before an Athens player was flagged for a personal foul facemask resulting in first down for the Yellowjackets.

After a three-yard run by Self, and a three-yard pass from Crawford to Whitney put Mineola in a third and short, Elias was stripped and fum-bled the ball which was recovered by Athens on the Mineola 46.

Elias, Sinches, and Brandon Melo came up with huge stops on de-fense resulting in the Hornets having to go for it on fourth down and goal where they punched the ball into the end zone again giving Athens a bigger lead at 42-13 with 5:39 left in the third.

Mineola took over and on first down Athens was flagged for a pass inter-ference call as Gilbreath was tackled before the ball got there, moving the chains.

Mineola was flagged for an illegal shift and Crawford ran for six yards putting the down and distance at fourth and six. Mineola needed more points so they went for it and Crawford hit Whitney for a first down taking the ball to the Ath-ens 36 yard line.

However, two plays later Crawford’s pass was intercepted by an Athens defender giving possession back to Ath-ens.

The Yellowjacket de-fense would hold strong forcing a three and out led by Shane Burge and Matt Smith forcing the Hornets to punt for the first time giving the ball back to Mineola on their own 48.

Mineola was flagged

for a holding call on first down. Crawford did his best to move the chains with gains of seven and 11 yards but the Yellow-jackets couldn’t convert on fourth down as Ath-ens took over on their own 48. The third quar-ter ended with the score 42-13.

After a first down run by Fuller, he took the next run from 19 yards out into the end zone giving Athens the lead with the score 49-13 with 11:07 left in the contest.

Mineola was put into an uncomfortable po-sition as they needed points and in a hurry as time was ticking. On a third down play Craw-ford tried to hit a receiv-er but the ball was inter-cepted giving the ball back to Athens.

Athens went 55 yards in five plays capped off by Hall’s three-yard touchdown run giv-ing the Hornets a 55-13 lead after a missed extra point.

Mineola wouldn’t give up on the game as they went 61 yards in eight plays the last of which was a pass from Craw-ford to Gilbreath from 25 yards out and the ex-tra point made the score 55-20 with 2:39 left in the contest.

Athens came back onto the field on offense for the final time of the game and ran the clock out after seven consecu-tive runs ended the game with the score 55-20.

Mineola looks to bounce back as they close out the regular season Friday when they travel to Mabank to battle the Panthers at 7:30 p.m. in hopes to make it to the playoffs.

Head Coach Joe Dren-non said, “I am pretty sure our team will be up for the game as they have been the last few weeks. I am hoping our town will come and support these young men as they go to Mabank to get that play-off spot. This group of guys are truly amazing. They continue to work and play extremely hard and that is why they are in the position they are in going into our final regu-lar season game.”

The Alba-Golden Panthers lost to the Edgewood Bulldogs Friday night 33-14 to fall to 3-2 in district play.

The Panthers are still jockeying for their position in the playoffs, as other teams in the district play out the rest of the season.

Against Edgewood, Alba-Golden accumulated 241 total yards of offense and were on the verge of taking a 12-8 lead in at halftime before two costly turnovers resulted in scores for the Bulldogs making the score 26-6 at the half.

The Panthers scored a safety to make the score 26-8 after their defense pushed Edgewood into poor field position.

Alba-Golden scored a touchdown and got the two-point conversion to make it a 26-14 contest be-fore Edgewood scored the final points making the score 33-14 in favor of the Bulldogs.

Next up, the Panthers host Clarksville at 7:30 p.m. for Senior Night to close out the regular season.

Head Football Coach Gary Schultz said, “We are young and I hope we learn from that experience cause we need to be strong going forward into the last game with Clarksville and on into the playoffs.”

Mineola’s Historic Se-lect Theater is supporting their employee and senior football player, Rhett Self, by hosting a fundraiser. Self has been selected to be on the North Central Football Team competing in Australia next summer through Down Under Sports.

There will be a special showing of the movie “Quigley Down Under,” starring Tom Selleck, on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The box office and doors will open at 1:30 p.m. and all tickets will be $5 with proceeds go-ing to Self for application toward his trip.

Mineola’s Historic Theater is holding a fundraiser for Rhett Self in hopes of assisting him to get to a competition next summer in Australia. (Photo by Doris Newman)

Select Theater fundraiserapproaching for local athlete

Winnsboro’s 10th AnnualCHRISTMAS IN THE PARK

Saturday, November 9th, 2013Free Admission and Free Parking From 9:00 am to 3:30 p.m

Holiday Bazaar Highlights:Christmas Crafts Holiday Gift ItemsCrafted Decorations Bake Sale

Prepared Holiday Foods Stew by the Quart

Tickets available for special drawings, including hand-made quilt and other items.

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Adults $6 / Kids $3Winnsboro Civic Center

At the City Park Wheeler Drive

Just Follow the signs

All proceeds benefit the participating churches and ministries.For More Information: 903.342.5446

Cash or Checks Only

Two more claim cash in pick winnersWith just one week left in the Pick the Winner

contest we have two new winners in this week’s contest.

Several contestants came within two of the big prize and Reta Myers takes first place by picking closest to the actual score. Myers will receive $20 in Football Bucks.

Second place goes to Steve King who also missed two, but was a little off the actual score. King will receive $10 in Football Bucks.

It’s not too late to enter for the final game of the season and your chance to win up to $100 in Football Bucks that may be spent with any of the participating merchants. Just fill out the entry form and get it to the Monitor office by 5 p.m. on Friday, or if mailing make sure the postmark is Friday.

Casey Gilbreath pulls in his second touchdown catch of the evening for the final points of the contest against the Athens Hornets.

Alba-Golden fifth grader Mor-gan Dorner is pictured filling the “Veggie Dip in Bread Bowls” that the group prepared at a re-cent 4-H Food-Nutrition project meeting. AT LEFT: “All Smiles Apple Lips” was a nutritious snack prepared at the recent 4-H Food-Nutrition workshop as shown here by Alba-Golden third grade student Mia Backer. The 4-H’ers learned the importance of eating enough fruits and veg-etables as they studied MyPlate in preparation for the County 4-H Food Show this month.

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The grand prize winner of the APET Pet Portrait Contest was awarded to Cheryl Stephenson who was presented a painting by local artist Cathy Peg-ues for her effort.

Pegues presented the painting at the Golden Sweet Potato Festival re-cently.

A majority of APET’s funding comes from personal donations and from their Doggone Good Stuff Thrift Shop, located on South Pacific Street which just un-derwent a houseclean-ing, upgrade and grand opening.

The thrift shop is open Thursday through Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To anyone who look-ing to adopt an animal - APET’s Animal Center is full of dogs and cats for

adoption. The animal center is in constant need of donations including laundry products, clay litter, old blankets, tow-els and paper products.

The center is open

Tuesday through Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Call 903-569-2332 for more information or if you would like to volun-teer.

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APET Pet Portrait winner announced

FREEDOM IS Not FREE- anonymous

Monday, November 11th is Veteran’s Day and a wonderful opportunity to express your appreciation

to our veterans. They have sacrificed so much to ensure that we can live in “America, The Beautiful”!

We need the veteran’s name, rank, branch, years of service and a short sentiment along with any

picture you would like to include to: Vicki Duke at the Mineola Monitor

(903) 569-2442 or [email protected].

You can also drop them by the Monitor office at 715 Mimosa during regular business hours.

The cost is only $5

Ten first cousins, descendants of Thomas and Georgia Landers of Newsome, Texas and seven of their spouses met for lunch in Mineola at Jalapeno Tree on Thursday, Oct. 3. Afterward everyone met at the home of Bob and Peggy Arbuckle for dessert and an afternoon of visiting. Pictured from left to right are Lee and Mickey Landers of Leesburg, Bob and Peggy Pritchett Arbuckle of Mineola, Lavada Pritchett Grady of Quinlan, Geneva Landers of New Boston, Larry (seated) and Linda Pritchett Peters of Irving, David and Reba Hood of Crosby, Billy Paul Hood of Kilgore, John (seated) and Janet Gibson Stephens of Texarkana, Otis and Opal Pritchett of Avery, Robert and Melanie Pritchett of Midlothian. (Courtesy photo)

Cathy Pegues presents a painting of Cheryl Stephenson’s photo re-cently, the overall winner of the APET SPCA pet photo contest. (Cour-tesy photo)

The Mineola Civic Center is planning the offi-cial kick off of the Yuletide events and decorat-ing has already begun for the Christmas Gala to be held on Thursday, Dec. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Civic Center. The theme of this year’s music fundraiser being “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

Hors d’oeuvres will be served from 6 to 7 p.m. immediately followed by dinner including cheeseburgers, French fries and ice cream sun-daes for dessert.

Dancing is from 8-10 p.m. and everyone is en-couraged to go and dress up in period appropri-ate costumes or just dress for dancing, according to event planners.

Admissions for dinner will be $15 and a table of six can be reserved for $75 or a table for eight for $100.

Call the civic center office at 903-569-6115 for more information or to make reservations.

Thursday, Nov. 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the First United Method-ist Church Ministries Center on Newsom Street and Humble Baptist Church on East McDonald Street will be the locations of the Community Thanksgiving Lunch.

Donations of turkeys, cakes, pies and money to purchase other items, along with volunteers are needed, ac-

cording to event planners. Donations of cooked turkeys need to be taken on Wednesday, Nov. 27 with pies and cakes either Wednesday or Thursday.

The volunteers expect to serve 450 meals, and volunteers are asked to be at the First United Methodist Church Ministries Center on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. or call 903-279-6969 or 903-569-1028.

Mineola Civic CenterHoliday Bash planned

Community Thanksgiving Lunch approaching

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GirlsFrom page 1B

point to narrow the deficit to two.Crenshaw served two straight

points making the score 9-6 in favor of Van, and Sauer came up with a great tip for a point cutting the Lady Vandal lead to two.

With the score 11-7, Van’s Lesley King served eight straight points to open their lead to 19-7 before her serve went long giving a point to Mineola.

Sauer served two straight points to make the score 21-11, and Crenshaw and Shafer had kills for the Lady Jackets to get within seven before the season closed with the Van taking the second set 25-15.

Van Cleave said, “I saw improve-ments throughout the season in indi-viduals and the team. We are losing two seniors and they will be missed but only losing two leaves us some depth as far as varsity experience goes and that will prove to be a positive.”

She added, “These girls aren’t fin-ished, I think we will see great things from them next season.”

Annie Crenshaw crushes a ball back for a point as Lauren Almuete looks for a return on the play. RIGHT: Kaela Brewington returns a ball over a set of Van defenders during action last Tuesday night. (Photos by Josh Land)

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Saturday was bursting with activity in Mineola with the day full of Iron Horse Fest activities, the Mineola Metric Century bike ride and the Dance Dimen-sions 5K Fun Run. The wind kept things stirred up, but a crowd seemed to enjoy the quality entertain-ment, arts and crafts and variety of foods and drinks available. See more photos, page 4C.

Nathan Steadham becomes airborne during a demonstra-tion of bike stunts on Johnson Street at the Iron Horse Fest Saturday. Donations were accepted to help with improve-ments of the local skatepark.

The wind was almost ever present Saturday and it kept vendors working to keep their tents and tarps standing.

One boy appeared to be having a very good time on one of the rides in town with the carnival Saturday.

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Miscellaneous

Garage Sales

Multi-family garage sale; Nov 8-9;at Priddy’s Place. corner of Hwy 17 & FM 779, Cotton-wood Community. Look for signs (903)765-2699

Hainesville Baptist Church is having a church wide garage sale corner of 49 and 778 Satur-day November 9 from 7-3.

CR2258 Dogwood Ridge north of KMOO,left on CR2260, Sat 8am-2pm, cloths, tools, furni-ture, toys.

Garage Sale: 618 Lance Rd., Quitman. Friday- Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Antiques, kitchen/household items, round oak table, upright freezer, medi-cal electric recliner, clothing, frames, tarps, and more!

SALE IN BARN - Rain or Shine Friday & Saturday, Nov. 8th & 9th, 8am - 5pm Exercise Equip-ment, Tools, Clothing, Jewelry, Furniture, Collectibles Lots of great stuff! 293 CR 2768, drive up to blue barn.

Look for those Great Dealsin the Classifieds!

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AttawayTree CAre

TrimmingRemovalHaul AwayQuality WorkLow Prices

(903) 569-6633

FOR RENTFormer

Gormani’s restaurant

Roughly 2,500 sq.ft.Located in the Dogwood Plaza

405 S. Hart Street in Quitman

Call 903-850-8295for more information

The Heritage Nursing Home is now accepting applications for:

Full Time CNAsCMAs ~ weekends

LVNs-PRNPlease no phone calls. Apply in person at:

The Heritage Nursing Home1026 E. Goode St.,Quitman, TX

$106 month Buys Landfor RV-MH-House!

Pier, boat ramp, pool, gated entry at Lake Fork.

Call 903-878-7265

Spring Clean UpLeaf Mulching & Removal

Mowing, Edging, Shrubs, & TrimmingClean Outs- Garages, Apartments,

Residences, Commercial PropertyHay For Sale

903-520-5779 • 903-967-2004

Fun, energetic stylist wanted at

Stylistique Hair Salon. Clientele preferred but

not necessary.

Call Brandy @ 569-6545 or apply

at 122 S. Johnson St, Mineola.

Public Notice

AT&T Mobility is proposing to construct a 190’ self support telecommunications tower and associated compound near CR 2332 approximately 1/4 mile north of CR 2260, Mineola, TX. Any interested party may file comments with Environmen-tex at 6060 N. Central Expwy #560, Dallas, TX 75206 or fax 214.367.3861 on the impact of the proposed action on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeol-ogy, engineering or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Reg-ister of Historic Places under National Historic Preservation Act Section 106.

Interested persons may review the project application pending with the Federal Communica-tions Commission (FCC) at www.fcc.gov/asr/applications by entering Form 854 File No. A0862642. Interested persons may comment or raise environ-mental impact concerns about the proposed action by filing a Request for Environmental Review with the FCC. The FCC strongly encourages all interested parties to make such filings online, following the in-structions found at www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest. Paper filings can be sent to: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washing-ton, DC 20554. All comments or filings regarding environ-mental impact concerns must be received on or before December 6, 2013.

Real estate

House for Rent

Home for Rent: 416 Patten: 3BR/1BAQ, kitchen, living room. Call 903-569-6923

House for rent, 507 Land-ers. 3BR/2BA, carpet, CH/A, (903)593-8892

2BR, 1 1/2BA, Kitchen, den, liv-ing room, dinning room, double carport. New paint, blinds, floor-ing. Very clean. Storage building and greenhouse. Good area in Mineola. $700/month; $500/deposit, w/references (903)569-2852 or (903)569-6826

Lease 316 West Kilpatrick, Mineola. $575, 705 Jeanell, Quitman. $525, references re-quired, no pets, 903-763-4870, 903-569-8974 before 8pm

1, 2, & 3 Bedroom Houses and Office Spaces. M & M Property Mgmt. 903-569-9881

Mobile Home for Rent

PARTIALLY FURNISHED MOBILE HOMES. Mobile home lots available. Venable Rentals. 903-569-5443 1/22/14

Homes for Sale

3BR/2BA; rent to own or to purchase; 517 Hogg. (903)512-4222

Mobile Homes for Sale

RENT TO OWN 3/2 home for only 499 month. Small down payment.RBI 36579 (903) 524-2050. USED double 3/2 2 living area fireplace 17,900. 2/1 only 2500. 5/3 only 48,900. RBI 36579 903 524 2050.

BRAND NEW 3/2 double wide with entertainment center only 359 mnth.10%dn 240mnts wac RBI 36579 (903) 524-2050 se habla espanol

Open Season on 3BR/2BA. Limited edition SI Pad with Miss Kay’s Kitchen Collection, No payments til 2014 and your chance to win a Free 42” HDTV! 903-595-1371

Homes Set Up on Land, up to 12-85 acres. 12 to pick from. EZ Financing! Call now for more information. 903-595-1414

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Ready to Move In. 4BR/2BA home with dream kitchen, fireplace, walk-in closets, large front and back covered decks on a beautiful lot with access to stocked fishing pond. Must See! 903-595-1371

We Need Trades. Top $$$ paid with free appraisal. Possible -0- down, move in special with no payments til 2014. 903-595-1414

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Clayton Homes of Tyler.comRBI-33093

Acreage for Sale

3 Acres fenced, water, septic tank and electric. Will finance 6 miles east of Mineola on Hwy 80 north side. (903)521-4222

For Sale: 15 Acres northeast of Golden. 1 1/2 miles on CR 2360. Owner will finance. (903)521-4222

Commerical property for rent

For rent 2500 sq. ft upstairs loft with beautiful view of downtown for business or studio. (903)569-0127

Employment

Employment

NOW TAKING APPLICATIONS: Outgoing, Responsible, Self-Mo-tivated BRANCH MANAGER for a Fast paced finance company in Mineola. Reliable Transporta-tion, Valid Drivers License, and Excellent Customer Service Skills required. Collections/Loan experience preferred. Stable Employment with competitive pay, benefits and excellent work environment. Email Resume and Salary Requirements to [email protected] or fax to 325-658-1533

Immediate Opening. Now hiring for local driver posi-tion. Must have CDL W/Haz Mat and Tanker. Must have a clean MVR. Experience helpful. Weekly pay + benefits. Please send resume to Driver Needed PO Box 217 Emory Texas 75440 or call 903-473-2857.

Cooks position available, weekend double shifts. Apply in person to Wood Memorial Nurs-ing Home, Hwy 69 N, Mineola.

My Credit Union located in Mineola Tx. is accepting applica-tions for a outgoing community oriented person to train as an assistant manager trainee. Duties primarily credit union operations but also include community sponsorship involve-ment. Banking experience a plus, but not required. Will train banking @ entry level. Competi-tive wages and benefits. Email attached resume’ to [email protected]

Jobs Wanted

Former Marine with dog offering outside security (903)497-0417

Drivers WantedCDL Not Required-

Will TrainGood driving record

requiredMust be dependableApply in person at

Wyatt’s Towing120 N. US Hwy 69

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Robert Charles Lamb, age 87, died Friday, Nov.2, 2012 at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community,Manhattan, KS where he had resided the past three years.He was born Nov. 12, 1924 at Macksville, KS, the son ofFred W. and Cora (Hockett)Lamb. He was a veteran ofWWII serving in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942-46. In1957 he received his Bachelor’s from Friends University,his Master of Divinity in 1960 from Asbury Seminary,Wilmore,KY, his Master of Pastoral Counseling in 1961from Boston University, Boston, MA, and his Doctor ofMinistry in 1990 from Southern Methodist University,Dallas, TX. Robert was a retired counselor and ministerwith his last full time pastorate at Collinsville CommunityChurch, Collinsville, OK.

He married Jean Hall in 1943. To this union was born threechildren, Judi, Lea and Brent. In 1988 he married MarilynGuest Hudson. He was preceded in death by Marilyn, anda brother, Bryce Lamb.

Survivors include Judi Lamb Boland, Lawton, OK, LeaWestervelt, Manhattan, KS and Brent Lamb, Lawrence,KS, 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.

A Memorial Service will be 3PM, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012at the Grace United Methodist Church, Macksville KS. InLieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the MacksvilleHigh School Alumni Association in care of Minnis Chapel,P.O. Box 34, St. John, 67576.

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Glenda Carroll Herring, age 67, died Monday,October 29, 2012 in Tyler, Texas. She was bornon Thursday, July 26, 1945 in Dallas, Texas tothe late Edward and Maxine Templin. She wasa homemaker and a member of First Assembly ofGod in Mineola, Texas.

She is preceded in death by her husband, TedHerring who died on January 7, 2011.

She is survived by three sons, Bobby Herring andwife Allison, Rodney Herring and wife Lynda andJason Herring and wife Jodi; three daughters, CarriStokes and husband Ben, Kristi Salisbury and SamJohnson and Terri Bowling and husband Matt; twobrothers, Paul Templin and Edward Templin; andfourteen grandchildren, Kristen Herring, KarenHerring, Morgan Herring, Taylor Herring,ShelbyHerring, Brandon Salisbury, Jordan Salisbury,Ashlyn Stokes, Cassidy Hortman, Caleb Hortman,Kaci Bowling, Kori Bowling, Kenzie Bowling andKylee Bowling.

Visitation was held at Beaty Funeral Home inMineola on Thursday, November 1, 2012 from 6-8PM.

Services for Ms. Herring were held at BeatyFuneral Home Memorial Chapel on Friday,November 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM with Rev. DavidJohnson officiating.

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The Three Kiwanis Men are smiling after winning $250 in Iron Horse Fest Chili Cook-off for the second year in a row. From left they are Ron Calkins, Ron Wilson and Larry Jones. City National Bank won second and the Bank Challenge. (Courtesy photo)

AT RIGHT: The number of toys these girls have accrued at the Iron Horse festival may have been proportionate to the amount of fun they had.

A group of bikers top a hill on County Road 2724 during the Mineola Metric Century bike ride Saturday. After they returned to the finish line at the Mineola Civic Center they were treated to a red beans and rice meal.

RIGHT: The Kiwanis Men cooks won the chili cook-off this year with the City National Bank team win-ning the banking division. Among the entries this year were two from the Mineola High School Culinary Arts class. One of their students, Ismael Medina, (black jacket with white stripe on sleeves) is serving up a bowl to a visitor.

Michael Murphy pulls off a bench with a successful stunt during a dem-onstration Saturday.

A vendor who sells conserves at local festivals offers a taste of one of their original creations.

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