Morgan Wheatly

The third annual Chance Mark Jones Roar ‘N Run 5K is a week away, and there is still time for runners to sign up for the event.

The Clarendon Lions Club is hosting the event on Saturday, April 11, to coincide with Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Runners and sponsors can still sign up for the event but may not be guaranteed to receive a t-shirt after this week.

Race registrations will close April 9. Registration costs $25.

The year’s race will start and end on the Clarendon College campus and will run through the city, around Prospect Park, and past several historic structures, including the Donley County Courthouse, the First United Methodist Church, and the S.W. Lowe House.

The race will begin at 9 a.m. next Saturday at the college. Race registrations are available at the Clarendon Visitor Center at the Mulkey Theatre, at the Enterprise, or online at http://bit.ly/1C4J1m2.

Proceeds will go towards the many charitable activities of the Clarendon Lions Club, which includes eyeglasses for local school kids, Christmas baskets for local families, hosting the local office of The Bridge – Children’s Advocacy Center, local scholarships, continued park improvements, and monetary support for other local charities.

For more information, contact Lion Ashlee Estlack at ashlee.estlack@clarendoncollege.edu or 806-874-4808 or 806-662-4687 or Lion Roger Estlack at tourism@cityofclarendontx.com or 806-874-2259.

The Clarendon Board of Aldermen appointed election judges for the upcoming May election during the city’s regular meeting March 26.

Bunny Owens will serve as the election judge, and Wilma Lindley will the alternate judge.

Election day is May 9. Mayor Larry Hicks is unopposed for re-election, and three men are running for two places on the board. Aldermen Doug Kidd and Sandy Skelton are joined on the ballot by Britton Hall.

In other business at last Thursday’s meeting, aldermen listened to a proposal from HD Supply regarding their electronic water meters. This was the fourth such proposal the city has seen in recent months as it considers installing a modern water metering system that would be more accurate and reduce labor costs.

The board approved a contract with Will Jordan to serve as the city’s code enforcement officer for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Aldermen also approved three motions aimed at separating the departments of code compliance and animal control and clearly defining job descriptions associated with those departments.

The board again took up the topic of a citywide clean up, and Administrator David Dockery presented cost estimates that the sanitation department might incur with such an event. He said hauling a 40-yard roll-off box to the Memphis landfill would cost the city about $600 per box with a clean-up generating five or six boxes. Alderman Kidd said it would be worth the money to get the town cleaned up, and other board members agreed.

Dockery will bring more information and suggestions for a clean-up to the next meeting. Aldermen Kidd and Beverly Burrow were asked to help with the proposal, and editor Roger Estlack was asked to find information about past clean-ups.

The 2015 Health Fair will be on Thursday, April 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Bairfield Activity Center at Clarendon College.

Northwest Health Care System will be paying for the processing of tests for cholesterol- LDL/HDL and triglycerides but you must provide your mailing address and must be fasting for accurate results.

The paramedics of Donley County Hospital District will be drawing the blood for these tests. Free medical testing will be available in the following areas: blood pressure, pulse, oxygen, glucose/blood sugar, balance, glaucoma, cholesterol- LDL/HDL, STDs and PSAs. A new service this year will be a thyroid test.

Additional services and information may be available at the fair.

Health fairs are excellent ways to offer screenings for some health problems like diabetes and high blood pressure. Catching them early can help reduce the risks for costly complications. Both diabetes and high blood pressure can go undetected for up to ten years. Health fairs can also raise awareness of issues like preventing heat exhaustion, heat stroke and even skin cancer.

Preventing or delaying the onset of chronic health problems can produce significant savings for many insured employee groups. Thanks to all the generous sponsors, these services will be offered at no cost to the public.

The fair is being sponsored by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Clarendon Family Medical Center, Northwest Health Care System, Mike’s Pharmacy, Pilgrim Bank, Clarendon College, Donley County Memorial VFW Post #7782 Ladies Auxiliary and Roadrunner Home Care.

Donations for the health fair are still being accepted at the Extension Office to help with the expense and keeping it a free event for the attendees.

For more information about the 2015 Health Fair, contact the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service at 874-2141.

Clarendon High School UIL academic competitors had a field day at district competition this past week at Clarendon College, winning a large number of medals and a number of team championships.

The Number Sense team, Current Issues team, Spelling team, Science team, and Social Studies team all placed first, and the Math team and Literary Criticism team both came in second.

Individual district champions included Sarah Williams in Lincoln-Douglas debate, Taylor Overstreet in Poetry Interpretation, Kendra Davis in Headline Writing, Riley Shadle in Number Sense, Caleb Cobb in both Current Issues and Social Studies, Xavier Neal in Spelling and Vocabulary, Chesson Sims in both overall Science and Chemistry, and Cedrick McCampbell in Biology.

Others who placed were: Leslie Coxey – 3rd place Lincoln-Douglas Debate; Allyson Grahn – 6th place Poetry; Tate Parker – 3rd place Prose; Jessie Taylor – 4th place Prose; Maddi Carr – 5th place Prose; Caleb Cobb – 3rd place Informative Speaking; Philip Monds – 2nd place Computer Applications; Justin Cristopher – 4th place Computer Applications; Kendra Davis – 2nd place Ready Writing; Emilie Thompson – 5th place Literary Criticism; Chance Lockhart – 2nd place Number Sense, 4th place Calculator Apps and 6th place Mathematics; Cire Jauregui – 6th place Number Sense and 2nd place Mathematics; Andy Davis – 6th place Current Issues; Abby Johnson – 3rd place Spelling; Cedrick McCampbell – 2nd place Science; Hannah Howard – 3rd place Science; Steven Johnson – 4th place Science; Aubryanna Powell – 5th place Science; and Cooper Bilbrey – 6th place Social Studies.

Students and sponsors now prepare for regional competition at Odessa College April 24-25. Clarendon High School will take twenty four students to the meet who qualified for the next level of competition.