Archives for March 2014

 Hedley will be the site of the only boards holding elections this May after the filing period closed for candidates last Friday, February 28.

The Hedley Independent School District will elect three members of its Board of Trustees. Incumbent Ted Wright will be joined on the ballot by Troy Monroe, Michelle McCann, and Holly McCleskey. Two other incumbents – Tonja Ruthardt and Karen Watt – are not running.

Hedley Mayor Leon Ward is unopposed for re-election, but there will be a three-person race for two seats on the Board of Aldermen. Challenger Diana Postma will join Aldermen Lonnie Roby and Carrie Butler on the ballot.

Elections for the City of Hedley and Hedley ISD are scheduled for May 10.

Five other local governments will be canceling their elections for this spring as candidates for each of those boards are unopposed.

The City of Clarendon will, however, get a new face on its board. With three seats available this spring, Aldermen Beverly Burrow and Larry Jeffers both signed up for re-election, but Alderman Will Thompson is not seeking another term in office. John Lockhart will take Thompson’s seat on the board.

Howardwick will lose two current aldermen, but they will be replaced by two former mayors, H.L. Baird and Sam Grider, who joined incumbent Alderman Robert Brewster in signing up for three available seats. Aldermen Gene Rogers and Corrine Longan did not seek re-election.

It will just be familiar faces on the Clarendon College Board of Regents where incumbents Dr. John Howard, Dr. Bill Sansing, and Jack Moreman were the only ones to sign up for office.

The Donley County Hospital Board will also have no changes as incumbent Directors Jan Farris, Jeannie Owens, Mark C. White, and Lori Howard are set to return.

There will also be no changes on the Clarendon ISD Board of Trustees where incumbents Weldon Sears and Reneé Betts were the only ones to file.

The Clarendon Board of Aldermen are expected to consider bids on a street curbing and paving project next month after they approved the scope of the project last Tuesday, February 25.

City engineer Clayton Scales reviewed plans for the project, and the board discussed curb placements and street widths. Officials will likely place bid notices for the project next week with bids tentatively being due back to City Hall by April 1 for board consideration on April 8.

The project calls for city employees will do the base work on the streets and for a contractor to perform the curbing and double-pass chip seal on most of the designated streets.

Clarendon voters approved a $700,000 bond issue for the project in May 2012, but the project was delayed after city leaders decided to replace water lines under most of the affected streets.

The project will include Sixth Street from Koogle to Goodnight Street; Third Street from Allen to Bugbee Avenue; Allen Street, from Third to Fifth; Sims Street from Third to Fourth (west side of Bronco Stadium); Carhart Street, from Sixth to Hwy. 287; and Wood Avenue.

The project also calls for seal coating Clarendon Avenue from Bugbee to its west end (along the south side of the Clarendon College campus) and Regent Avenue from US 287 to Clarendon Ave. (which winds up the middle of the CC campus by the Bulldog Gym).

In other city business last week: Aldermen listened to a presentation from Mica Owens-Weary of First Southwest Company regarding utilizing municipal investment pools as a financial alternative to traditional bank certificates of deposit but took no action on the presentation; voted to renew the Minor Curfew Ordinance; and approved a proposal to separate the animal control and code compliance job descriptions and make code compliance a contract position for the time being.

The Clarendon College athletic department announced last week that 94 student-athletes earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll recognition for the fall 2013 semester.
To make the Honor Roll, athletes must achieve a 3.0 grade-point average for the semester. The 94 athletes represent more than 40 percent of the school’s student-athlete population of over 200. This is the first year for the College to recognize students with this honor.
“We are proud of the individuals on the AD honor roll,” Clarendon College Athletic Director Brad Vanden Boogaard said. “It takes a lot of self-discipline and motivation to accomplish success in the classroom and compete for one of our programs.”
Eleven student-athletes achieved perfect 4.0 GPAs for the fall semester: women’s basketball players Sydney Parker (Snyder) and Clarissa Elizondo (Brownfield); volleyball players Paige Chambers (Gatesville) and Megan Chambers (Gatesville) ; softball player Korynna Lara (Allen); baseball players Thomas O’Brien (Austin) and Pablo Puerta (Barcelona, VE); rodeo team member Reese Clark (Morse); judging team members Connor McKowen (Clarendon) and Sara Peraza (Vai, AZ); and ranch horse team member Braiden Obermier (Henrietta).
“I am extremely proud of the success of our student-athletes in the classroom,” CC President Dr. Robert Riza said. “These notable accomplishments are an indication that our student-athletes are committed to academic excellence at Clarendon College.”
The individual sport breakdown for student-athletes that were named to the Director of Athletics Honor Roll for the fall is:
Women’s Basketball: Delany Burney (Amarillo), Amber Dubois (San Angelo), Jose Espinal (Knox City), Nicole Guthrie (Canadian), Allison Hancock (O’Donell), Jaylee Mays (Hardesty, OK), Danni Pisano (Australia), Esther Van Dijk (Hartley), Jae Carrasco (Amarillo), and Anissa Reyna (Lockney).
Men’s Basketball: Christian O’Neal (Lubbock) and Wyatt Sippy (Canyon).
Volleyball: Heather Brandenburg (Garland) , Rachel Heide (Apple Valley, CA), Penny Holdren (Snyder), and Stephanie Shears (Los Fresnos).
Cross Country: Tyler Biddle (Tuscola), Jared Hawthorne (Canyon), Walker Loyd (Stephenville), Ricardo Plancarte-Coria (Houston), Alberto Sandoval (Ft. Worth), Riley Wilson (Anahuac), and Isela Sandoval (Ft. Worth).
Golf: Austin Quiet (Cedar Park) and Houston Moore (Alvarado).
Softball: Whitney Lane (Amarillo), Hailey Forbes (Canyon), Paige Lafferty (Leander), Musu Ifopo (El Paso), Marissa Dominguez (Moreno Valley, CA), Cassidy Brumaghin (Denver, CO), Cearra Dulaney (Keller), Karina Juarez (Andrews), Abby Galarza (Lubbock), Cassie Kraft (Greenwood), and Briana Weigel (Lubbock).
Baseball: Jose Agosto (Gurabo, PR), Hayden Bach (Cleburne), Brian Epstein (Houston), Brandon Hillier (Toronto, ON), Devin Perez (Tulsa, OK), Nathan Menchaca (Burleson), Tyler Sanders (Houston), Victor Torres (San Antonio), Christian Zuniga (McAllen), Ryan Backus (Amarillo), Miguel Cintron (Guyama, PR), Sammy David (Guyama, PR), Paul Garcia (Plano), Alex Steadman (Arlington), and Brandon Turner (Arlington).
Rodeo: William Carpenter (Calhoun, GA), Cooper Kirkpatrick (Artesia, NM), and Tyler Taber (Collinsville, OK).
Judging: Austin Adams (Hedley), John Atteberry (Blue Ridge), Jonathan Carruth (League City), Christine Haddix (Ft. Worth), Lane Harrington (Frost), Jessica Humphrey (Okeechobee, FL), Kolbie Jordan (Amado, AZ), Haley Kinney (Santa Fe, TX), John Pigg (Clarendon), Joseph Purkins (Lavon), MaKayla Red (Sunray), Shannon Reeves (Munday), Kiersten Scott (Scott City, KS), Jared Timms (Lazbuddie), Courtney Wingate (Myakka City, FL), Haylee Bidegain (San Simon, AZ), Ben Raulston (Blum), Sabra Barnett (Clovis, NM), Morgan Boyer (Wallisville), Hailey Dimitroff (Ft. Sumner, NM), Kacy Drummond (Reserve, NM), Scotta Faulkenberry (Stephenville), Clayton Goodwin (Sunray), Travis Metzger (Estancia, NM), Cody Shannon (Royse City, TX), and Derick Shurr (Central Point, OR).
Ranch Horse: Kory Bateman (Spur), Flint Brownlee (Wayside), and Daly Welch (Electra).