Best and Worst of 1986 Sports in Wellman Area
A year end recap highlights top and unusual moments from 1986 in Wellman and surrounding schools. Notable figures include Mark Johnson, Shannon Bond, Tony Timmons, Jo hn Klattenhoff, Clint Roe, Tabby Moorhead, and coaches from Brownfield Union and Wellman. Highlights cover football and basketball games, standout plays, comebacks, and coaching pep talk reactions.
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Wellman
Mark Johnson
Loop
Borden County
Shannon Bond
Brownfield
Roosevelt
Tony Timmons
Johnson
Denny Givens
David Pendergrass
Coyote
Clint Roe
Cooper
Tabby Moorhead
WHS JV
Wink
Levelland
Tina Casper
Jo Willis
Tina
Union Girls
Steve Howard
Union
Lady Wildcats
Lady Leopards
Education As I See It in Brownfield Middle School
A Brownfield Middle School scene shows sixth graders learning about information distortion. Mrs Adams uses a gossip exercise where a story is whispered from student to student to illustrate how accuracy changes with each retelling.
Christmas Lights Reflect Hope in Brownfield Neighborhoods
A holiday tour of Brownfield reveals varied decorations from simple incandescent strands to full Technicolor displays. Despite 13.3 percent unemployment, residents celebrate with festive cheer, Santa sightings, and neighborhood rivalry for the best display. Mrs Adams and students find lessons in learning through engaging activities and role play, while teachers mix methods to reach all learners.
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Adams
Peebles' Choice reflects on 1987 anniversaries and a light year ahead
A humorous columnist dismisses grand wisdom for year end and highlights 1987 anniversaries including the Constitutional Convention 200nd, War of 1812, Shiloh and Antietam battles, Alaska purchase, Titanic sinking, Lindbergh flight, FDR election, Amelia Earhart disappearance, John Glenn orbit, Beatles records, Cuban missile crisis, and ends with a child’s heroic quote about a boy who saved her choking.
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Texas Aggies
Cotton Bowl
Kadhfy
England
Shiloh
Antietam
Alaska
Russia
Lindberg
New York City
Paris
St. Louis
F.D.R
Amelia Earhart
John Glenn
Massachusetts
Tree theft hurts West Texas letter writer
Dear Editor, for nine years I have grown trees in West Texas with much care. On Wednesday night a thief cut down one Afganistan Pine, a costly setback. I would have given a Christmas tree to the thief if needed and hope the tree still brings joy to someone. I live about five miles on the Levelland road and want a pretty, livable place.
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West
Texas
Afganistan
Levelland Road
Help locating Duggan family kin from Abernathy and Brownfield
A reader seeks relatives of J H Duggan and his wife from Abernathy in the 1940s who owned a farm at Brownfield. They had four daughters Peachie married to Buck Yochuch Susie Edna and Vanita, and a son whose name is unknown. The note recalls service members at Lubbock Air Force Base between 1942 and 1945 and asks readers to help locate family members. Contact J C McFall Route 6 Box 492 B Anniston AL 36201 or 205-237-6156.
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J.H
Hobart
Izara) Duggan
Abernathy
Brownfield
Duggans
Peachie
H.B
Buck) Yochuch
Susie
Edna
Vanita
J.C. McFall
Anniston, al
Santa Claus and Texas History Converge in Lager Beha l ichkeit to Comfort
Talk of Texas traces Santa legends from Holland to Germany and Sweden, noting Dutch settlers arrival after Germans and the evolution of a German settlement near the Guadalupe River. The 1854 Lager Behahl ichkeit name became English Comfort as pronunciation eased. California?
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Santa St. Nicholas
Texas
Holland
Santa Claus
Sweden
Clement Clarke Moore
Santa
Guadalupe River
Kendall County
Camp Comfort
Comfort
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Slaten
Jason Bednarz
Joey Biggerstaff
Biggerstaff
John Klattenhoff
Eagle
Paul Evans
Santos Moreles
Slaton
Eunice
N.M
New
Snow White
East Texas
LWS
TOR
Brownfield Middle School
Kelly
Kelly Sinclair
Peebles
By Garry Peebles
Lubbock Air Force Base
Talk of
Jack Maguire
St. Nicholas
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