Wellington Leader (Newspaper) - June 2, 2005, Wellington, Texas 10 pages plus insert Volume For Ninetyfive Years a Builder in County Collingsworth Texas 79095 June 50 Cents Number 48 Breast Cancer Screening The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center Comprehensive Breast Center will conduct a Breast Cancer Screening Clinic at Collingsworth 1013 15th in Wellington on June Breast cancer affects one in eight The key to winning the battle against cancer is early detection by having an annual breast mammogram and performing a breast self exam each is available through the Texas Depart ment of Health for Texas residents who qualify for All exams are done by appointment Call 806 3561905 or 1 8003774673 for more in formation or to schedule an Opp Center summer session The Opportunity Center will be having their summer Enrollment will be June 6 at 9 at the Op Center ages kin through 8th Center flower project The Opportunity Center students will be planting flowers in the courtyard of the hospital this If anyone would like to donate money to help pay for the please call Amy Henard at VBS The Wellington First Baptist Church is starting up a Ramblin Road On this exciting road trip kids will experience thrilling Bible sto energizing and fun The Ramblin Road Trip will hit the road June 4th at noon with a parade and hot dog cook out and The road trip begins June 6 through June 9 at the First Baptist Church located at 1106 15th Hours will be AM to Age to attend is 4 thru 5th grade and is will go on the grade you have com For more information 806 or email You can Michelle John Nikki John Ulrey home on leave from Iraq Maintenance Supervisor in charge of the KVR recovery trucks John Ulrey of the 21 142nd Infantry Battalion traveled half way across the world in or der to come home for leave from active We got to land in its a beautiful very Its great that they make us come Ulrey arrived in Wellington May He will spend fifteen family and friends before return ing to Dallas on June 12th to re port John Ulrey talks of his daily job and its In case anything happens on the KVR I send the recovery trucks out to go escort All I do is make sure their gun trucks The transition from home town USA to walking the streets of Biblical times can be a shock to Its been fairly We do have our bad days and our good but most of them are The implement of the govern ment in Iraq has shown a change in the As we come through the towns you can see some people do like it that Ameri cans are there and theyre thank ing They have American flags that they are So are happy that we have come in there and are helping Its going to take time for them to adapt to a new government in stead of having a dictator always running Its going to take a little bit of time to but you can see the progress that they are mak The majority of the Iraqi people are helping the US military Approximately 100 gathered at the annual Memorial Day service held on the courthouse Members of the Glynn Moore Post led the ceremony with the help of local Boy Scouts and Girls work towards a better way of life for their You still got your ones that all theyre worry ing about is how theyre going to Continued on page 2 3rd Annual Community Garage S June 4 Pick up maps at and Wellington Florist or look under garage sales in the Classified section of the Wellington Leader on page Amy Henard named director of Opportunity Center Fire department members respond to a call during the emergency management drill last pictures on page Emergency Management holds tornado drill On May 2005 residents of Wellington experi a full scale natural hazard mock Monday evening the National Weather Service of Amarillo is sued a severe thunderstorm watch and tornado watch for the East ern Texas The Emergency Management County Judge John notified all emergency teams of possible severe weather for Collingsworth the National Weather Service issued a severe thunder storm warning for Collingsworth Movement of the storm was SE at 25 miles per Judge John James ordered the courthouse to be opened for the public if needed The Emergency Operations Center EOC was activated at the The Wellington Wellington Volunteer Fire local Red Cross Colling sworth General Park View and Wellington Care Center were put on alert of the possible The Sheriffs office dispatched officers to watch the storm com ing from the and paged out the Wellington Volunteer Fire De for additional units to watch the storm coming in the Shortly the National Weather Service of Amarillo is sued a Tornado Warning for the SE Texas including the cities of Wellington and Movement was SE at 25 miles per the storm was now lo between Quail and The Sheriffs office set off the sirens across Wellington and no fire units to go around sounding their A deputy reported a funnel cloud at First and Haskell fire units reported that a tornado had touched town at 6th and The tornado moved back up into the clouds and began moving as reported by a fire Major damage was reported by a deputy at 6th Street and Bowie to 10th and DPS in Childress was notified Continued on page 6 Amy wife of Rex was recently named the director of the Wellington Oppor The Wellington Shelter Work shop is leasing the building to the Opportunity Center for the sum mer Grades run by Ruby will be housed at the Grades 35 will be run by Beverly Odom in the current OC The Junior High program will be located in the Wellington In dependent School District ISS building under the direction of McKenna The summer program will be gin June and will run through July They will meet Monday through 10 am to 3 Registration will be June beginning at 9 am at the Wellington Opportunity Center on the If you are unable to register your child during the hours of reg on June 6 you can call Amy Henard at 806 447 2197 to schedule a Amy Henards hour of busi ness will Mon day through Amy Henard Amy moved recently to the Wellington community from Dal She worked for the Fort Worth Independent School District from 1997 to Amy also worked in the evenings with the Success Evening High I think it is such a great pro commented Amy on the Wellington Opportunity Amy and her husband Rex have a Rileigh Eliza The Opportunity Center would like to thank everyone for their support of the flower The project helped fund the summer