Wellington Leader (Newspaper) - November 12, 1998, Wellington, Texas SOUTHWEST 14 Volume For tears to County 79095 November 50 Cents Number 18 Skyrockets looking for Lynx Friday at Canyon rockets have a tot to be thankful for this year and that is the top three teams are advancing in the after their stunning loss last Friday night at Highland Park they are faced with a difficult the 100 Spearman The Lynx topped District 52A by going undefeated in district They have given opponents more than they can handle with an explosive offense led by senior Michael 5 foot 185 pound running back who has scored as many as seven touchdowns a game and averages 182 yards and 22 points per Ranchers roundtable to cover issues Ranchers are invited to attend a Ranchers Discussion being held 16 at 12 noon in Robersons Ted district extension livestock specialist will be on hand to discuss winter nutrition for and stocker herds as we come out of the Other topics of discussion may include open late quality vaccinations and The meeting will be an informal open discussion in order to give interested producers the opportunity to ask In the past these meetings have been very educational with information being For more information contact the county extension office at 806 BPW Club holds annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser The Welling ton BPW Club members will hold their annual spaghetti dinner on 1998 in the Bum Handley Community The event will be held from to 1 for a cost of for adults and for children 12 and The traditional spaghetti dinner will be complimented with a beverage with pic for There will be lake outs and home delivery available for those who need this For those that need dinner call Toni Cummings at Monies raised in this annual fundraiser will be used toward a senior the Christmas Blessing Fund and numerous other community services undertaken by the BPW Library observes Childrens Book Barbaras Badens sixth grade donor students will present a program at worth Public Library on 16 at 7 in honor Book Childrens Book Week will he observed 16 through The program will highlight activities their study o Mark like Skyrocket senior Larry Valles is an allstar kick Last year he put spectators on the edge of their seats and then on thier feet as he returned kicks for more than 800 scored 31 touchdowns and 215 Hes not an up the middle but hes capable of He favors the outside corner where Skyrocket Shawn Turrentine and Courtney Dickson will be ready and waiting for The remaining offense is really strong and according to Doran 6 foot 280 pound senior will be tough to get by at offensive tackle and at defensive tackle as he big gaps for Lusby and others to sail The offensive engineer is quarterback Aaron a 6 175 pound junior who started last year for the In the Lynx backfield includes Aaron fullback Carlos Hernandez along with Not to go unnoticed is 200 pound guard Clancy Vanderberg at offensive guard and nose guard and Quentin 6 220 pound Both are very according to eight year Lynx Head Coach Ric The Skyrockets are healthy and are looking for their first playoff victory since Coach Blair Brown told the Leader Wednesday morning that Spearman is in for a better game than they Were not going to give them if were playing good Brown Theyve Spearman cancelled their upcoming basketball games for the next two which sounds like they arent worried about Brown Were thinking a lot different about the Brown Cotton For the past few weeks Collingsworth County producers Have been in find out of the fields gathering their crops in between According to this years cotton harvest is said to be over Halfway harvested and with decent farmers should finish up sometime this Over bales tagged Collingsworth Countys two gins had tagged in bales of the 1998 cotton crop Wednesday November with a over half of it being ginned in the favorable weather conditions prior to the front that hovered the county throughout the Recent showers had hampered harvesting warmer weather this week allowed harvesting to resume in most Ray Coop Gin said producers are maybe half through the harvest with those toward the east anticipating a Grades have been consistent since the beginning of the gin managers and in the yields are making what growers had just not much according to Jack Feagley at Fanners Coop The grades have been but the wet Weather will hurt the Feagley Few farmers are selling but ginners reported the price of cotton is holding about the same at an average of 65 to 69 Jack Feagley of Fanners Coop Gin said the futures were up with groups of cotton He also estimated being half way through this seasons cotton He reported that compared to last year at this we are down considerably as far as the amount of which is no Its been a tough Feagley Feagley also said the cost is holding theres just less cotton than last 4500 tagged so far at Farmers Ray Hightower of Coop in Dodson said most of their customers were receiving decent Were on the downhill side on harvesting irrigated said Coop has tagged bales and Hightower says thats about bales less than Continued on Page 6 Our plan is to give them the players and the coaching Brown said the Skyrockets have senior Joe ORear and Rand Munn back for the playoff game against Both have been out due to it wont be but both teams are going in it to win and advance into the Skyrocket fans are encouraged to support the team by attending the game Friday Kickoff is set at Canyon High School Football in the southwest part of town next to Canyon High Spearman playoffs The playoff pep rally will be held at Friday in the After school buses will run at 3 Advance game tickets are on sale at the WISD business office on the elementary The tickets are for for All tickets at the gate are The game will begin at Friday night at the Canyon High School football Board discusses commons area The Wellington Independent School District Board of Education met in regular session 9 at Gary called the meeting to order and opened the public hearing on the Academic Excellence Indicator System report and campus improvement The hearing was closed with no response from the No one appeared for open A motion was made by Gary Killian to go into closed session at to discuss personnel and to confer with employees of the school Member Betsy Lemons arrived at The board came out of closed session at Minutes of the regular meeting on October 12 were presented and Carl Taylor gave an explanation of statistical information contained in the 1997 98 Academic Excellence Indicator System report and each principal reported on the 199899 improvement plan for their A motion was made to approve the report and The motion Diane textbook recommended that the following teachers be appointed to the 199899 textbook selection In elementary the teachers are Bertha Lennie Jeanne Shirley and Patti Brown junior high teachers arc Dee Ann Marsha Chisum and Holly Wynn high school teacher is Duane A motion was made and carried Richard Sims was appointed by acclamation as the school representative on the Appraisal District Board for a two year term beginning January A motion was made to adopt and FOD LOCAL Student Discipline and the motion carried Discussion was held on the possibility of building a commons area for high school The Zephyr Foundation has donated for the Students over the last couple of years have raised approximately for the High School Principal Danny Continued on Page 2 New hospital equipment can be viewed during open house Excel Imaging will host an open house for Collingsworth General Hospital from 2 to 4 on 15 for the public to view the new XRay and equipment We are really excited about this addition and have already experienced the need for in our said Beth hospital It has taken us longer than anticipated to get everything installed but we feel it was well worth she The Hospital Helping Hands Auxiliary has recently purchased for the hospital four four a set of chair scales and a leaf Their work to help in the improvement and the betterment of the hospital is The Auxiliary is presently selling chances on a 25 color TV with the winning ticket being drawn during the open 4 Winners of Festival of Trees announced by Public Library While the weather outside is come to the Collingsworth Public Library where the Festival of Trees is said Marilyn chairman of the annual The Library Is proud to announce the winners of the 1998 Festival of The for the Best of Stow was given 10 the Wellington High School An dais for their trie The of the Dancing Tail nee was also as being the with the winning of the award for Choice Employees of the Community Bank were named winners of the Most Inspiring Tret award with the tree they decorated entitled Listen to Your The Wellington State Bank chose as their theme The Texas Night Before Christinas and were Winners of the Community Spirit award for The judges would like all of the to know that every nee the theme of their chosen book md cash ne U a work Hi Library The 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