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C Bar C team wins third straight title
It was déjà vu all over again when the C Bar C Ranch won the 22nd annual Col. Charles Goodnight Chuckwagon Cookoff last Saturday, September 24.
The wagon team members from Hartley bested 13 other teams to claim their third consecutive championship from the Saints’ Roost Museum, placing in four out of five cooking categories on their way to taking first place for Overall Cooking and the champion bean pot for best Overall Wagon & Cooking.
C Bar C Ranch has earned five championship titles at the Clarendon cookoff and is the only team to win three titles in a row from the cookoff.
Officials with the Saints’ Roost Museum, which sponsors the event, said they fed about 750 people at the cookoff, compared to about 615 people last year.
The C Bar C placed first in Meat, second in Beans and Bread, and third in Potatoes.
The ninth annual Junior Cookoff the day before the big event drew eight contestants, who were paired with experienced wagon teams to prepare potatoes for the cooks’ dinner Friday night. Millie McAnear from Clarendon won first place and was teamed with the Trapdrag Wagon from Pampa.
Kami Duncan of Clarendon was second, working with the Honey-Do-Spoiler Wagon from Pampa; and Mycah Woodard, also from Clarendon, was third and worked with the Crosstimbers Ranch from Mustang, Okla.
Other junior participants included Boe and Coy Boedeker of Lockney
Following the Junior Cookoff, 215 people enjoyed a delicious steak dinner Friday night on the museum grounds, compared to 214 the year before. The invitation-only event was held exclusively for Chuckwagon teams and members of the Museum and their families as well as 76 members of the Goodnight family.
The trade show was held throughout the day Saturday, and live entertainment was provided. Relatives of Chuckwagon inventor Charles Goodnight also were present for their annual reunion.
The 14 wagons served a menu of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits, beans, and cobbler. Prizes totaling $3,250 were paid out to the winners.
Complete results were:
Overall Wagon & Cooking: 1) C Bar C Ranch.
Overall Cooking: 1) C Bar C, 2) Cross Wagon of Vega, 3) Honey-Do-Spoiler of Pampa, and 4) Crosstimbers Ranch of Mustang, Okla.
Best Wagon & Camp: 1) Crosstimbers, 2) C4B Chuckwagon of Amarillo, 3) J Bar D Ranch of Amarillo, and 4) T-Half Circle Wagon of Silverton.
Best Meat: 1) C Bar C, 2) T-Half Circle, 3) Honey-Do-Spoiler, and 4) Crosstimbers.
Best Beans: 1) Cross Wagon, 2) C Bar C, 3) Crosstimbers, and 4) Block Y Chuckwagon of Ozona.
Best Potatoes: 1) Palo Duro Cowboy Church of Tulia, 2) Honey-Do-Spoiler, 3) C Bar C, and 4) Mountain Trails Chuckwagon of Rye, Colo.
Best Bread: 1) Mountain Trails, 2) C Bar C, 3) J Bar D, and 4) Cross Wagon.
Best Dessert: 1) Block Y, 2) Trapdrag, 3) Honey-Do-Spoiler, and 4) T-Half Circle.
Total Alloy & Cast Products., Inc. of Memphis, formerly Pearce Foundry West, again made the commemorative cast iron bean pot taken home by the winning team.
City okays 2% trash rate hike
The Clarendon City Council authorized high garbage rates during their regular meeting last Thursday, September 22.
The two percent increase is expected to bring in $7,190 in added revenue for the city.
City Hall said officials were able to avoid a previously predicted larger rate increase by moving one employee from sanitation to public works.
The increase, for most residential accounts, will go up from the current $21.34 to $21.77.
In other city business, aldermen appointed Nathan Floyd to fill the vacant council seat created earlier last month when Sandy Skelton was appointed to finish the term of Mayor Larry Hicks. Floyd will serve the remainder of Skelton’s term as alderman, which expires in May.
Alderman Larry Jeffers was elected as the city’s mayor pro-tem.
The council discussed ongoing negotiations to transfer ownership of McClellan Field and the city’s interest in the softball field to Clarendon ISD. Aldermen expressed their desire for the city to retain the right to get the properties back if the school does not use them for ballfields.
The council considered engineering proposals for a Community Development Block Grant application, and selected KSA Engineers for that job.
An updated solid waste contract with the City of Pampa was approved as presented.
Foster & Lambert were approved to perform the city’s audit for fiscal year 2015-2016.
The council also agreed to proceed with the condemnation process on two properties with code compliance issues – the former Ruby Bromley home at Carhart Street and Wood Avenue and the Mays property in the 500 block of S. Sully Street. City Hall says the next step will be to conduct public hearings on the properties.v
Editorial: Let Gary debate Hillary, Donald
The first presidential debate of 2016 is now history, and it appears almost certain that the United States is in heap big trouble. Unless, of course, people wake up and take this country back.
Businessman Donald Trump is a bombastic firebrand with a questionable grasp on the issues and apparently no concrete plans for much of anything. He has made some major flip flops on important issues and has put forth some proposals that are totally counter to the Republican ideals he’s supposed to represent.
His redeeming qualities are that he’s rich, he’s not afraid to step on anyone’s toes, and he has little or no use for the political establishment that has made a wreck of this country.
This all means that Trump is just infinitesimally a better choice that his Democratic opponent, a former first lady turned senator turned Secretary of State now making her second run at the White House. Hillary Clinton is, to be kind, a pathological liar who is corrupt, arrogant, angry, and above the law. Clinton wants bigger government, more regulations, more rules on business, and for the rich to “pay their fair share”… whoever “the rich” are.
The secretary’s best attribute, for many, is that she isn’t Donald Trump.
Most people on both sides of the aisle, if they are honest, will tell you that they wish there was someone else to vote for but they plan to hold their nose and vote for one because he or she isn’t the other.
There is another option. You don’t have to vote for Trump or Clinton. You have another choice., and that person is Gov. Gary Johnson.
The Libertarian candidate is polling higher than Ross Perot was in the 1992 election, but due to the rules of the “non-partisan” (and yet run by Republicans and Democrats) Commission on Presidential Debates, the former governor of New Mexico has been excluded from the national stage.
Johnson polls high with young people and with active duty military people. He’s a two-term former Republican governor from a strongly Democratic state, which demonstrates his ability to work with people with different views.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a presidential candidate who could do more than hurl personal insults or work to force their will on other people?
Our problems today have been created by our two-party system, but Johnson offers a fresh approach. He offers the chance to have a president who will govern from the position that We the People should be afforded the most liberty possible.
That will surely freak out some conservatives who want everyone to fit perfectly into their morality cookie cutter as well as some liberals who want the government to regulate and control the economy. But I think it’s safe to say that most people want the government to just leave them the hell alone. And that’s what Gary Johnson stands for… leaving people the hell alone. Get the government, as much as is reasonably possible, out of our daily lives so that we can live up to the best potential that our God given talents will allow.
Do I agree with every position that Gov. Johnson has taken? No, I don’t. And that’s okay. We don’t have to agree on everything, but we agree on the big things… free markets, personal liberty, and limited government.
If either Donald or Hillary are elected, the partisan divide will only deepen in America. And I’m not sure how much further we can divide before this nation gets finally torn asunder.
Johnson offers a third choice, and I dare say it’s a better choice. We’ve tried a Clinton before, and Trump represents the worst of the conservative stereotypes. Let’s at least look at something else before casting a vote.
At the very least, America deserves to hear what Gary Johnson has to say. And the only people who can make that happen is the Commission on Presidential Debates. They have denied him that right once. Let us hope they can be persuaded to join the next two debates. He’s on the ballot in all 50 states, and he has earned the right to be heard. And then the People can listen and decide for themselves the fate of this Union.
Meanwhile…
Your humble editor is waiting patiently for the hand-wringers and the nannies to call for imposing waiting periods or perhaps background checks for purchases of pressure cookers.
This comes after a terrorist earlier this month killed people in New York with a bomb made from a pressure cooker. He didn’t use a gun, so we’ve been spared the onslaught of demands for more gun regulations, but the anti-gunners have not yet clamored for measures to keep us safe from pressure cookers. The suspect behind the bombing has, however, been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.
I personally have been quite leery of these weapons ever since the lid blew off my Memaw’s pressure cooker about 30 years ago and sent frijoles all over her kitchen and sent my cousin’s wife and I running for our lives. I’m here to tell you these things are dangerous and scary and ought to at least be used only by people who are properly licensed.
Of course, I don’t know what we do about it. Even if you get some new rules in place, there are already a lot of pressure cookers out there in houses all over America. And this guy – the madman that he is – probably did not go buy his at a reputable dealer like Bed Bath & Beyond or Henson’s. No, you can bet your beans that this guy got his pressure cooker at some back alley garage sale where the serial numbers had been scratched off.
Local woman sentenced in district court
A Donley County case was among the pleas heard by the District Court when it met in Childress last Monday, September 19.
District Attorney Luke Inman prosecuted the cases for the State of Texas, with the Honorable Judge Stuart Messer presiding.
Lucinda Jean Hearn, 35, from Clarendon, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to six years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ for the third degree felony offense of forgery against elderly individual.
On May 20, 2013, Hearn originally pled to the charges from the December 18, 2012, offense in Donley County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on September 15, 2016, alleging six violations of community supervision.
Hearn is also required to pay $473 in court costs to Donley County, a $1,500 fine, and $945 restitution.
Hearn was also convicted for the third degree felony offense of credit card abuse against an elderly individual and sentenced to six years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ.
Hearn, was arrested in Donley County for the offense that took place on June 29, 2016. Hearn plead to an information filed by the State on September 14, 2016.
Pursuant to the plea agreement, Hearn is required to pay $418.95 restitution and $488 court costs.
Kenneth Omake Woolson, 22, from Childress, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to 27 years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ for the first degree felony offense of possession of a controlled substance.
On April 28, 2016, Woolson originally pleaded to the charges from the November 28, 2015, offense in Childress County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on September 14, 2016, alleging four violations of community supervision.
Woolson is also required to pay $329 in court costs to Childress County, a $5,000 fine, and $180 restitution.
Ella Danyce Roland was placed on probation for a period of four years for the second degree felony offense of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Roland pleaded guilty and was placed on deferred adjudication for the offense.
Roland, 41, from Wellington, was arrested in Childress County for the offense that took place on September 28, 2015 by Childress Police Officer Jerrald Johnson. Roland was indicted by a Childress County Grand Jury on June 21, 2016.
Pursuant to the plea agreement, Roland is required to pay a $500 fine, $269 in court costs, and successfully complete 300 hours of community service. If Roland violates probation, she could face up to 20 years in the Institutional Division of the TDCJ.
Ronald Ray Drew, 21, from Childress, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to 16 months in the State Jail Division of TDCJ for the state jail felony offense of burglary of a building.
On September 9, 2013, Drew originally pleaded to the charges from the May 28, 2013, offense in Childress County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on August 11, 2016, alleging 13 violations of community supervision.
Drew is also required to pay $385.50 in court costs to Childress County, a $1,000 fine, and $7,183 restitution.
Yvette Trevino, 25, from Wellington, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to 16 months in the State Jail Division of TDCJ for the state jail felony offense of possession of marihuana.
On October 1, 2015, Trevino originally pleaded to the charges from the February 1, 2014, offense in Childress County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on August 11, 2016, alleging 13 violations of community supervision.
Trevino is also required to pay $329 in court costs to Childress County, a $1,000 fine, and $180 restitution.
Pete Pedro Salinas, 37 from Childress, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Revoke and was sentenced to 6 months in the Childress County Jail for the class A misdemeanor offense of assault family violence.
On January 12, 2015, Salinas originally pleaded to the charges from the July 16, 2014, offense in Childress County. The State filed the amended motion to revoke on August 24, 2016, alleging seven violations of community supervision.
Salinas is also required to pay $400.50 in court costs to Childress County and a $1,000 fine.
Eric Lee Rodriguez, 32, from Wellington, pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to six years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ for the third degree felony offense of tampering with evidence.
On August 8, 2013, Rodriguez originally pleaded to the charges from the July 3, 2013, offense in Hall County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on August 3, 2016, alleging four violations of community supervision.
Rodriguez is also required to pay $376 in court costs to Hall County.
Rodriguez also pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to six years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ for the third degree felony offense of possession of a controlled substance.
On August 8, 2013, Rodriguez originally pleaded to the charges from the July 9, 2013, offense in Collingsworth County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on August 4, 2016, alleging eight violations of community supervision.
Rodriguez is also required to pay $376 in court costs to Collingsworth County, $2,000 fine, and $280 restitution.
Billy Bob Blair was convicted for the third degree felony offense of driving while intoxicated 3rd or more and sentenced to three years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ.
Blair, 57, from Shamrock, was arrested in Collingsworth County for the offense that took place on July 9, 2016, after being arrested by Collingsworth County Deputy Billy Doss. Blair was indicted by a Collingsworth County Grand Jury on September 12, 2016.
Pursuant to the plea agreement, Blair is required to pay $60 restitution and $376 court costs.
Reyes Herrera pleaded true to allegations listed in the State’s Motion to Adjudicate and was sentenced to 16 months in the State Jail Division of TDCJ for the state jail felony offense of possession of a controlled substance.
On November 5, 2014, Herrera originally pleaded to the charges from the October 15, 2014, offense in Collingsworth County. The State filed the motion to adjudicate on July 21, 2015, alleging six violations of community supervision.
Herrera is also required to pay $376 in court costs to Collingsworth County, $250 fine, and $180 restitution.
Harvest Time
Broncos stampede over Booker
By Sandy Anderberg
With their district season looming, the Clarendon Broncos are riding high on the positive momentum they have established in their pre-district schedule.
Making a solid statement in their first six games, the Broncos are in control of their game and district season. According to head coach Gary Jack, no team has gotten a 5-0 start since around 1992. Their 61-0 blowout against Booker has set the tempo and given the Broncos the confidence they need going into the second and most important half of their season.
Up by 35 points after the first eight minutes, the Broncos were able to coast to a big Homecoming win in Bronco Stadium Friday night before a huge crowd of supporters.
Quarterback Damarjae Cortez was unstoppable as he threw for 176 yards going six for seven and knocking down five touchdowns in the first quarter of play. Cortez threw a 41-yard strike to Andy Davis early in the game for the first six with Clay Koetting adding the kick. Keandre Cortez scored next on a 48-yard pass from D. Cortez, and Bryce Grahn caught the D. Cortez pass for two on the conversion. Bear Smith and Jacob Jeffers posted the next two touchdowns on a 37 and 20 yard pass respectively with Koetting adding the kick. K. Cortez struck again when he grabbed a 35-yard pass from D. Cortez to end the first quarter scoring frenzy.
“Damarjae had a great game for us,” Jack said. “He threw five touchdown passes in the first quarter and also took the ball in from 75 yards out on the first play of the third quarter. He had a big night.”
Koetting scored from six yards out in the second quarter and D. Cortez took it in for the bonus. D. Cortez added the next score on a 75-yard run and Ryan McCleskey added a 10-yard run in the third. McCleskey got the call again in the fourth and took it in from 27 yards out for the last Bronco score.
The Broncos offense went crazy racking up 471 yards with 289 of them on the ground. The Kiowas were helpless in any effort to stop the strength of the Bronco offense.
“Our offensive line did a great job blocking for us,” Jack said. “And we’ve got guys doing a great job catching the ball because of it. Seth Greer, Taylon Knorpp, Isaac Dunham, Justin Christopher, Nick Shadle, Marshal Johnson, and Jacob Jeffers all did a great job. Our offense really clicked.”
Booker struggled offensively and only mustered 28 total yards in the game.
“Our defense is playing well,” Jack said. “Dalton Benson and Nick Shadle each had 10 tackles, Daquawne Oliver, Jacob Jeffers, and Bear Smith each had seven, and Caton Grahn had six. A lot of guys got a lot of playing time and up and down the board, we did well. Our defense capitalized on mistakes from their offense.”
The Broncos will be off this Friday night, but in two weeks, they will begin district play. According to Jack, the district schedule will be a tough one, but he feels the Broncos are ready.
“It was a good homecoming win for us. There were lots of positives and we’re pretty excited. We are definitely playing well right now. We are getting better in all phases.”
The Broncos travel to Lockney Friday, Oct. 1, with a 7 p.m. kickoff.
David Eugene Moreman
David Eugene Moreman died on the evening of Monday, September 12, 2016. He passed away at Warren Memorial Hospital with his wife, daughter, and son-in-law by his side. Born and raised in Hedley, David was the son of Ray and Oleta (Mann) Moreman on May 22, 1943.
David received his B.S., M.S., and D.V.M. from Texas A&M. He served two years active duty at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where he was a course director and had special duty at The White House. Following a year in veterinary practice in Texas, David and his wife, Evelyn, settled in Front Royal, where they established Warren County Veterinary Clinic, and later Cedarville Veterinary Clinic. David was active in organized veterinary medicine at the local and state levels, and for six years was an adjunct faculty member of the VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.
In his community, David served as Chair of Lord Fairfax Community College Board and the Warren County Planning Commission, as well as president of both Wayside Foundation for the Arts and Samuels Public Library. As a member of Calvary Episcopal Church, David was a vestryman, Junior Warden, and Chair of the Memorial Endowment Trust.
David became a Front Royal Rotarian in 1986, serving as Club President in 1997-1998 and District Governor in 2004-2005. In addition, David was active in numerous Rotary projects including Youth Exchange, Youth Leadership, PolioPlus, and various other international service projects.
David is survived by his wife of 47 years, Evelyn, as well as his daughter Jennifer and her husband Kevin of Front Royal. David’s brother Jack and wife Fredi Jo reside in Clarendon.
Along with his parents, David was preceded in death by his sister Joan Whitmore of Harrison, Arkansas.
A memorial service was held at on Saturday, September 24, at Calvary Episcopal Church in Front Royal. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Rotary Club of Front Royal.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to The Rotary Foundation and Calvary Episcopal Church.
Jerry Don Blair
Jerry Don Blair, 70, went to the Lord on in September 17, 2016.
Graveside services were held on September 21, 2016.
Jerry is survived by his adopted son, Daniel MacKay, his special friend, Kim MacKay, and her Aunt Marie Jackson, all of whom he loved dearly. Daniel was the light of his life since the day he was born.
He is also survived by sisters Doris Braaten of Billing, Montana, Judy Morris of Clarendon, Sandy McConnell of Rush Springs, Oklahoma, Betty McGuire of Fort Worth, Wanell Marshall of Brownsville, and Mary Blacksher of Wellington. Bill Blair of Shamrock and Dan Blair of Irving are his surviving brothers. He is also survived by multiple nieces and nephews, including a very special niece, Natalie Holland of Amarillo.
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