Archives for December 2010

The 2011 Donley County Junior Livestock Show will be held on January 8, 2011, at the Donley County Activity Center one mile north on Highway 70.

The schedule of events will include weigh- and check-in starting at 3 p.m. on January 7, and the show will start at 8:30 a.m. on January 8 followed with a buyers’ appreciation meal at 6 p.m. The livestock project auction will follow the meal.

For more information, contact Larry Gray, Livestock Chairman, at 874-2095 or 806-930-1842 or Leonard Haynes, CEA, at 806-282-7680.

The Texas Department of State Health Services will hold an immunization clinic in Clarendon January 6 at the TDSHS office at Five Medical Drive.

The clinic will be hope from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1 to 3 p.m., and the first ten clients will be seen each time. All clinic times are subject to change or cancellation due to weather conditions or scheduling conflicts. Please bring copy of children’s shot records to receive immunizations.

The Clarendon Enterprise Year In Review edition will be available on stands Tuesday, December 28.

We would like to take this time to express our appreciation to all our readers and advertisers who have supported us throughout the last year. Your friendship and trust is very dear to us, and we hope to continue to serve your interests even better in 2011. May God bless each of you, and have a safe and happy New Year.

Roger & Ashlee Estlack, Anndria Newhouse, Julie Shields, Ashlyn Tubbs

The City of Clarendon last week took its first steps to addressing what have been two major complaints among its citizens for several years – streets and water quality.

During their regular meeting last Tuesday, city aldermen approved purchasing an Asphalt Zipper for $73,000 that will grind up pothole filled streets to form a smooth, solid base that can later be seal coated.

City Administrator Lambert Little had been directed to find the used device after he discussed the idea with the board during a planning session last month.

“I’m 100 percent sold that this is the only way we’re going to be able to do anything, and we might as well get with it,” Little told the board.

Aldermen approved the purchase and directed Little to check into financing options.

Little also discussed a proposal to replace an aging steel water line under four blocks of East Fourth Street between Jackson and Carhart, which city officials believe is the primary cause of discolored water in the south east part of the city. The project is expected to cost between $20,000 and $25,000, and the city can utilize pipe it already has on hand. Aldermen unanimously approved this project.

In other city business, the board approved allowing the Adult Probation Department use of municipal property at Fifth and Kearney as the location for a garden. People in the new “horticulture therapy” program will mow the city property at that location in exchange for water for the garden, and half of the produce from the garden will go to charity.

The board also took action on the following items: Re-appointed Stephen Hall, Alderman Ann Huey, Terry Noble, and Roger Estlack to the board of the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation and ratified the county’s appointment of Bob White and Andy Wheatly to the airport advisory board.

The 100th Judicial District Court heard two pleas which resulted in two convictions when the court met in Clarendon last Wednesday, December 15.

Mattie Fields pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate Guilt of Defendant and was convicted and sentenced to 12 months in the State Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

On March 5, 2007, Fields originally pleaded guilty to the state jail felony offense of forgery that occurred on July 16, 2006, in Donley County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on June 4, 2009, alleging three violations of community supervision.

Fields was sentenced to 12 months in the TDCJ. Fields is also required to pay $348 in court costs to Donley County, $198.07 restitution, and a $1,000 fine.

Jesse Wayne Christopher was convicted and sentenced to five years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

On October 6, 2003, Christopher pleaded guilty to the second degree felony offense of aggravated assault of a public servant that occurred on November 9, 2002, in Donley County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on October 5, 2010, alleging three violations of community supervision.

Christopher pleaded true and was sentenced to five years in the TDCJ. He will pay $343 court costs to Donley County and a $1,500 fine.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon) was nominated last week by Speaker-designate John Boehner to serve as the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in the 112th Congress. He will also serve as the Chairman of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities subcommittee.

The Speaker-designate also asked Thornberry to lead an initiative on cybersecurity, which will focus Congress’s efforts to combat the growing national security and economic threat. Cybersecurity is an issue of increasing importance in the wake of a number of high-profile breeches of both public and private cyber networks.

“I am honored to serve as Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in the 112th Congress and to lead cybersecurity initiatives in the House,” said Thornberry.
Boehner praised the local congressman’s record.

“Mac Thornberry is a real leader in our Conference on national security,” Boehner said. “His record on both the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees has shown him to be both an innovator and strategic thinker. I am backing him to be the next Vice Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, a role that will provide Mac with new responsibilities and opportunities to advance the security of our nation.”

The Armed Services committee is responsible for general defense policy, ongoing military operations, the organization and reform of the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, counter-drug programs, acquisition and industrial base policy, technology transfer and export controls, joint interoperability, the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, Department of Energy nonproliferation programs, and detainee affairs and policy.