Olney Enterprise (Newspaper) - August 13, 1998, Olney, Texas NINETYONE 33 TEXAS AUGUST 501 News in Brief Radio station to have news about schools With the start of school right around the and the unpredictability of Texas parents of school chil dren in Olney are reminded that some times bad weather causes school to be closed or classes to be In the event that parents are asked not to call the the administration or school tune in at to Gra ham radio station 1330 AM or FM for the latest in school closing or class delay infor Circumstances which might war rant closing the school could include hazardous driving ex tremely low or an epi demic which involves a large number Hot streak is finally broken After a streak of 29 consecutive days with the temperature topping the century the weather finally cooled off a little last August the high tem in the area was recorded as 90 which was the first time since July 6 that it did not top the 100 degree The first rainfall in the area in sev eral weeks was also registered Au gust 4 when inches This summers hot weather and drought has resulted in 56 days of 100degree or more including five days in 17 days in 28 days in and six days in August so Boosters kick off year with talks by coaches SPEAKING OF OLNEY By Wilbur Callaway The 27th annual One Arm Dove Hunt is just under a month away September and Jack Bishop tells me the response this year is go ing to be very good once Letters of invitation were sent out to one arm hunters several weeks and Jack says many of them have already answered with plans to come to Olney and enjoy the Ive never been around here for a one arm dove hunt having moved to Olney less than a year but 1 am really looking forward to Im hoping an old friend and hunt ing buddy of Ralph Briggs of will be able to make it again this Ralph and I did a lot of deer and dove hunting together back in the 1970s when I lived in Austin and then and always enjoyed be ing I was constantly amazed how well Ralph could shoot a deer rifle or shot gun with only one I havent seen Ralph in close to 20 but I noticed his name among those who attended the one arm dove hunt in Olney a couple of years Whats the solution to getting cool when the temperature continues to be over 100 degrees on a regular basis one way is to leave Texas and go to Colorado for a few Wanda and I enjoyed a short vaca tion last week in the Colorado Springs where the temperature ranged See 5 Weather TTS V 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rain Hi Lo 90 71 91 72 93 66 97 73 101 73 103 74 105 75 By Wilbur Callaway Editor The Olney Athletic Booster Club held its first meeting of the new school year last Friday night in the high school fieldhouse and elected a slate of Robert Manninger was chosen as the new club president after serving last year as the Donna Hinson was elected as the and Bruce Autry as the while Paula Philipp was reelected as the club Others who received nominations for an office were Randa Betts and Outgoing treasurer Desley Altmiller reported that the booster club has about in its but owes over in unpaid which will leave a balance of between and to start off the The first fundraiser for the club this fall will be a hamburger day August at the first scrim mage game at Cub Stadium against The scrimmage was originally scheduled for August but was moved up a Admission to the scrimmage will be a container of detergent liquid color guard which will be used to wash football uniforms during the That will be the only opportunity to see the Cubs in action at home until September since the second scrim mage is at Paradise and the first three games of the season are away from home with the Cubs going to Aspermont and Coach Kent Jackson said he was not too pleased with the early but Thats just the way it worked out this When we fi nally do get to come home and play The Olney High School Cheerleaders were busy dishing out homemade ice cream last Friday night in the high school fieldhouse as a large crowd showed up for the organizational meeting of the athletic booster Photo by Wilbur for the first time against Millsap Sep tember it will be homecoming in more ways than The club decided to meet again Monday at in the Anyone interested in supporting ath in the Olney ISD is invited to attend and get involved with the Coach Jackson reported that he has about 55 boys out for the football team this and that the Cubs have been working hard since opening fall drills last He noted that football baseball coach Terry Chumbley is the last remaining member of his origi nal coaching staff which started at OHS four years He We are all working to gether to try and make a positive difference in the lives of our young If we are able to win games along the that just makes it that much Coach Patsy who will be heading up the Lady Cubs cross country team again this said some of the girls had already been running as a group on Thursday and will soon be getting into training full Were picked to win the district again this and I think our girls will rise to the Coach Knowlton We are in a new regional at UTA this which may be a little but we hope to do well there and advance to the state meet in Round Rock in We have an allstate girl returning Marcie and four re gional performers from last so we are excited about our Our first meet will be Labor Day See Booster 2 water discussed By Wilbur Callaway Editor Taxes and water were the main top ics on the agenda for the Olney City Council as it met Monday night in the city hall for a brief City Administrator Jack Northrup said two public hearings were held to open the with no public in put noted in either They were concerning Community Development Block Grant funds and the citys appropriations budget for During the regular the coun cil approved the tax certification from the Young County Appraisal District for appraisal Northrup said the total value is with total exemptions of and zero frozen val That means the city of Olney has a total taxable value of Northrup pointed The values are up a but not much from last he The council voted on a proposed city tax rate of per valua which is exactly the same as last Sixth grades welcome due Olney Junior High School will host a welcome day for sixth grade stu dents Thursday Sixth grade students and their par ents are welcome to pick up student schedules just inside the main en trance of the starting at There will be a day for meeting teachers and seeing class The for students will begin at The classes will be first second third fourth 2 fifth sixth and seventh pe Principal Thomas Little said all stu dents are welcomed back to school for the fall and reminded them that classes start at 8 sharp Mon We are looking to a happy and wonderful school See you he but will have a public hearing at 6 August 31 in the city hall before adopting the budget for next Northrup said 100 percent collec tion of city taxes would be but since collection rates usually range from 90 to 95 the city will actually collect around Getting into a discussion about wa ter and the continued drought and hot the councils consensus was to really stress the need for watering by city residents in order to conserve This means residents who have ad dresses with even numbers should only do outside watering on even num bered and those with odd num bered addresses should water only on odd numbered If we dont get coop on it is very possible that the city council will have to impose mandatory water rationing Northrup He I strongly encourage any one who wonders why we are asking residents to cut down on water usage to take a drive out to Lake Cooper and See Water 6 an employee of the City of checks out a new valve which was installed early this week at basin at the citys water treatment plant at Lake The valve is used to drain and clean the and he said it was a job to replace While the basin was two other basins had to take up the and residents were asked not to do any outside watering Monday and Photo by Wilbur Callaway New faces being seen around the Olney ISO campuses this fall will at the elementary top left to front Julie fourth grade Sherrie principal and Sheree first grade teachers aide and back Vicki art Sue fifth grade and Kim second In the top at the high will front left to Robin special education and Kenneth assistant band director and back Eric assistant coach and geometry Darren girls basketball coach and worly history and boys basketball coach and world Photos by Wilbur Callaway School to start Monday Approximately 874 students are expected to show up Monday for the first day of school in the Olney Classes will start at 8 Enrollment figures early this week revealed that 397 students are anticipated at the elementary 222 at the junior high and 255 at the high All of those figures are subject to as some students may not report for the start of while others may come in and register The breakdown by grade levels includes 43 64 74 and 74 freshmen at the high 74 eighth 79 seventh and 69 sixth graders at the junior high 66 fifth 71 fourth 56 third 56 second 70 first 41 in 32 in and seven in early Welcome Express rolling The Olney Commerces new Welcome Express dor is Wanda who moved to Olney from Wills Point in East Texas a few months She is the wife of Wilbur the general of The Olney Callaway worked for the Texas Department of Human Services in Austin and Canton for 27 years prior to her retirement last The Welcome Express was cre ated as a means of welcoming new residents who are settling in It consists of a packet of discount and small gifts advertising businesses which are members of the chamber of The packet is put together and per sonally delivered to new residents of Chamber members or businesses are encouraged to take advantage of this personal approach to advertising their It is free to any cham ber member by simply calling the chamber office at or Callaway at She asks that if you know of any new residents who are moving into Olney to contact her as soon as pos sible with information about Any business which is not a mem ber of the chamber of commerce can use the Welcome Express service by joining the It is very inexpensive to be a chamber and this is a way to provide a unique avenue of business Chamber office hours are 9 lo 5 Monday through If you need more drop by and talk to chamber School board sets meeting The Olney ISD Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Mon day in the administration office with a lengthy agenda as school gets un derway again that Items on the agenda include Welcome ap prove July 20 and August 3 board approve July open property approve North Texas Partnership approve min utes of Big Four CoOp meeting of June and stu dent and parent student code of conduct for prove payment of high school annual approve appraisal approve substitute teachers ap prove salary adjustments for 11 and 12month and approve proposed executive session and action on executive session if
