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CC Meats Team wins national title
The Clarendon College Meats Judging Team brought home the national championship after placing first in the 2019 Cargill High Plains Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest in Friona.
At the awards presentation in Hereford Sunday night, Clarendon College had the highest placing team with team members Paige Perryman as the 4th high individual; Arliss Corliss, 5th high; Patrick Sharp, 6th high; and Conner Mikkelson, 7th high.
Additionally, Clarendon’s Jake Gillespie was high individual alternate, Matthew White was 2nd High individual alternate, Koby White was 3rd high alternate, Rance Smith was 5th high alternate, and Abby Reed was 9th high alternate.
Earlier last week, the CC Livestock Judging Team competed in Kansas City and placed 17th out of 25 total teams and 19 complete teams.
Members of the livestock traveling team are Eliza Lazenby, Holly Perez, Shelby Burlile, Sadie Arnold, Bailee McKay, Payton Havens, Nathan Shadle, Luke Willard, and Will Boyd.
Broncos slam Booker
After a week off, the Clarendon Broncos came on strong against the Booker Kiowas and sent them packing at 64-0 in Bronco Stadium last Friday night.
The win gave the Broncos a spot in the post-season play, which will begin the second week of November.
The Broncos racked up 283 yards on the ground and posted 354 total yards on the night. Lamarcus Penigar was four of nine passing for 71 yards in the air.
The Broncos’ ground game was spot on with Sylvester Ballard leading the Broncos on the ground with 161 yards on 14 carries. He averaged 11.5 yards per carry and rushed for two touchdowns. Jmaury Davis had three carries for 55 yards and found the end zone once. Jordan Herndon carried three times for 15 yards, and Jordan Evans had one carry for nine yards.
Rhett Caison scooted 42 yards for the night with one touchdown, and Josh Dunn gained two yards on four carries.
Collin Butler grabbed two passes for 56 yards and one touchdown, and Jamal Butler had one catch for 13 yards and one TD.
“I thought our kids played well on both sides of the ball,” head coach Clint Conkin said. “We also had several guys making tackles.”
Jordan Herndon had 10 tackles and a caused fumble, and Henry Dushay had five tackles. Collin Butler had four tackles and a fumble recovery, and Penigar grabbed an interception and had three tackles. Nate Lee made and interception and took it into the end zone for six and posted two tackles, while Davis had three tackles and one interception.
The Broncos will travel to Gruver on Friday.
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King meets with local constituents
State Rep. Ken King (R-Canadian) gave a recap of the last legislative session and listened to the concerns of Donley County residents during a stop in Clarendon last Thursday, October 10.
Speaking at the Clarendon College Bairfield Activity Center, Rep. King said his most important job at this point is the redistricting that will follow the 2020 US Census.
“Currently you need a population of about 160,000 to make a state house district,” King said. “That will change to 200,000. One rural East Texas district, and one rural West District will be lost.”
King doesn’t thing his district will be eliminated, but he emphasized the importance of redistricting to the people of this area.
King highlighted accomplishments of the last Legislature, which he said were a balanced budget and public education reforms that gave more money to teachers and more money to address the mental health of students.
“There’s never enough money in public education, but House Bill 3 was a good start,” King said.
Another highlight, King said, was Melissa’s Law, which improves the sentencing statute for sexual predators. King said the bill was authored by a district attorney here in House District 88. A bill that also came from this area was HB 2604, which expanded some grant opportunities for volunteer fire departments.
“The best legislation is always that which is brought up by a constituent, so please continue to participate,” King said.
Looking ahead to the 2021 legislative session, King said the state sales tax would be on the table. Adding a penny to the sales levy would do more for public education than anything else the state could do, he said.
King also hopes to look at health insurance options for retired teachers in the next session and consider appraisal reform to treat poorer rural counties differently than richer urban counties.
Clarendon ISD Interim Superintendent Mike Jackson thanked King for his support in getting a 13th check for retired teachers but urged him to support a cost of living increase for those retirees.
Clarendon College President Robert Riza thanked the representative for his dedication and his availability work for the interests of community colleges. King noted that, while there are a lot of lawyers and insurance salesmen serving as legislators, he is the only one who works in the oil and gas business.
Donley County Judge John Howard asked King about the possibility of economically disadvantaged counties being able to keep a higher percentage of fines that go to the state.
King, referring to his earlier remarks, encouraged the judge to put a formal proposal together that could be carried as a bill in the next session.
“I’d much rather work on your agenda than mine,” King said.
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