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DPS trains at CCISD for active shooter

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DPS Trooper Kelly Hill gives instructions to officers before a scenario starts at the school, settin g up the situation and offering last minute coaching before the course starts. Enterprise Photos / Roger Estlack

It was an unsettling scene at Clarendon CISD. Outside were about a dozen vehicles from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Inside were a dozen or more armed people with live rounds being fired.

Fortunately, this was just a training exercise the week of July 18. Everyone present was either a law enforcement officer or an official observer, and the live rounds were soap bullets – non-lethal but still attention-getting if they strike someone.

The Solo Officer Response Deployment (SORD) training course taught by the DPS is designed to equip a single off-duty officer in plain clothes with the skills and mindset on how to neutralize an active shooter in a variety of settings, including a school, according to DPS spokesperson Sgt. Cindy Barkley.

Officers were trained in both classroom work and active scenarios, including live-fire range scenarios. Observers included District Judge Stuart Messer, Justices of the Peace Pat White and Sarah Hatley, and Enterprise publisher Roger Estlack.

Everyone present during the training donned protective gear and were able to experience some simulation of the stress associated with an active shooter situation.

Upon completion of the SORD training, law enforcement officers receive 16 hours of Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) credit as well as a certificate.

To date, the DPS has completed three courses at Clarendon ISD which included officers from DPS and the Armstrong County Sheriff’s Office, Barkley reported.
The courses were taught by DPS officers who have been certified to teach Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) through Texas State University.

Lions in service

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Clarendon Lions Club members collected and purchased backpacks and school supplies for the District 2-T1 Summer Service Celebration and then helped sort and prepare those supplies in Amarillo on July 29. District Lions together collected and prepared supplies for about 100 kids in the Amarillo area through the Vessel of Hope & Humanity. Shown here are (standing) Guy Maggi, DG Roger Estlack, Lion Ashlee Estlack, Lion Anndria Newhouse, Lion Angela Blaise, Josh Blaise, Lion Corey Blaise, (kneeling) Ben Estlack, Mason Allred, Morgan Mills, Ella Estlack, Matthew Newhouse, and Monroe Newhouse. Enterprise Photo

Norma Raye Taylor-Hall

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Norma Raye Taylor-Hall was born in Levelland to Arthur Raymond Taylor and Essie Mae McDonald-Bushert on August 29, 1950. She passed away peacefully on July 31, 2022 at the age of 71.

Norma Raye Taylor-Hall

Family directed memorial services will be held on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. in the Howardwick Baptist Church with Randy Schraider officiating.
Cremation and arrangements are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

She travelled the state as a result of her father being in the oil business. She eventually settled in Fort Worth with her mother after her father passed away when she was only nine years old. After pursuing a career in the hotel industry like her mother she met and instantly fell in love with Larry Dale Hall of Azle in 1978 and married on Valentine’s Day 1979.

She had a nurturing spirit to all and many called her mother. She and Larry served several years in maternity homes in Texas and Arizona ministering and being loving house parents to many young women. Many lives were changed by her Christ-like love and unwavering kindness.

She was a highly skilled artist in both pencil and paint. Although she would insist that she wasn’t that was just her genuinely humble self.

She was preceded in death by her father Arthur Raymond Taylor, mother Essie Mae McDonald-Bushert; two daughters and a stepbrother.

She is survived by her husband Larry Dale Hall of Clarendon, son Britton Hall and wife Tiffany of Borger, and three very loved grandchildren.

Carolyn Sue Ward Shults

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Carolyn Sue Ward Shults, 72, of Clarendon, passed away on July 28, 2022, in her home surrounded by loved ones.

Carolyn Sue Ward Shults

Services were held at Robertson Saints’ Roost Chapel in Clarendon on Tuesday, August 02, 2022.

Arrangements are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors in Clarendon.

Carolyn was born on June 19, 1950, to Albert and Celeste Ward in Memphis.

After graduating from Estelline High School in 1968, she dedicated her life to being a fantastic and wonderful mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and friend.

Carolyn was passionate about family. When she wasn’t filling her home with warmth and kindness, she was cooking her family’s favorite foods, sewing, crocheting, and fishing. We will miss her greatly.

She was predeceased by her parents, her sister Shirley Foster, and her grandson Zachary Chapman.

She is survived by her children, Cindy Shults and husband Lonnie, Jennifer Floyd and husband Tony, Kristi Shults and husband Andy, Michael Shults and wife Marie, Dawna Hearon, and Robin McCullough and husband Jake, her siblings, Marie Davis, Willie Mae Maddox, Henrietta Montgomery, and Albert Ward, Jr., as well as many grand- and great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends.

The family requests donations be sent to the Shriners Hospital, St. Jude Children Research Hospital, and the National MS Society in lieu of flowers.

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