Graduation warns graduates to stand up and grow up
Paper’n Ink by Lynn Brisendine reprints David V. Chartrand’s Olathe Daily News piece urging graduates heading to college to resist campus relativism, stay true to family values, and take responsibility. It warns of independence, dorm life, and the emotional moment of separation, urging perseverance and self-identity.
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Food For Thought
David V. Chartrand
Olathe, Kansas Daily News
Walker reflects on his first Texas Legislature session
Brownfield News interviews Representative Gary Walker about the 140 day 74th session. He discusses committee assignments on Natural Resources and Agricultural Livestock, the long final stretch, the high bill count and pass rate, the difficult process from introduction to law, and his own four carried bills with three succeeding in the House. A Corpus Christi senator filibustered 21 hours on the last day.
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Gary Walker
Texas
Brownfield News
Walker
Pete Laney
Plainview
Agricultural & Live
Austin American- Statesman
House
Senate
City Council Eyes Replacing O Daniel in Brownfield
Brownfield City Council will meet Thursday at City Hall to discuss replacing former Councilman Pat O Daniel who resigned May 25 for personal reasons after winning a May 6 unopposed term. The Ambulance Board vacancy also to be addressed with no set terms for replacement.
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Brownfield City Council
City Hall
Pat O'Daniel
O'Daniel
Brownfield News
Dick Fletcher
Brownfield police promote two officers to CID roles
Corporal David Cox moves from CID to Sergeant while Robyn Nicholson becomes Corporal and fills Cox’s CID investigator post. Chief Bill Avera calls promotion vital. Cox, a 1986 Brownfield High School grad, has seven years with BPD and TCLEOSE credentials. Nicholson, the department’s first female CID entrant in two decades, joined in 1993 and is a 1989 Blackford High School grad with an AS in Applied Science and TCLEOSE certification. Nicholson attended an Identification Officers School in Austin after promotion.
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Brownfield Police Department
Robyn Nicholson
David Cox
Bill Avera
Nicholson
Cox
Department
CID
Mitch Ward
BPD
Brownfield
Brownfield High School
South Plains College
Wayland Baptist University
Lubbock
Texas Commission of Law Enforcement Standards and Education
Tcleose
Brownfield Volunteer Fire Department
Blackford High School
Hartford City
Ind
South Plains
SPC
Austin
Brownfield Chamber to Dedicate New Community Message Center
The Brownfield Chamber of Commerce invites the public to the unveiling and dedication of a new electronic Community Message Center at Windmill Park on Thursday at 10 a.m. The sign will promote City of Brownfield and Terry County events, display time and temperature, and run 24 hours daily.
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Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Windmill Park
Lubbock Highway
East Hill Street
Chamber of Commerce
Lubbock Road
Cheryl Arrington
Brownfield
Terry County
Chamber
Annual Brownfield Rodeo Set at Terry County Arena
The Terry County Rodeo Arena hosts the annual Brownfield Rodeo Thursday through Saturday co sponsored by the Terry County Sheriff's Posse and Brownfield Chamber of Commerce. Events include saddlebron c riding bareback bull riding calf roping barrel racing team roping and breakaway roping with a Novice Division and a junior barrel race for kids under 12. Each night features a $100 bounty bull and a parade Saturday starting at Anderson Grain Corp and ending at the courthouse with riding clubs. A post rodeo dance with Clarence Nieman and the Midnight Cowboys follows each evening.
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Terry County
Terry County Sheriff's Posse
Brownfield Chamber of Commerce
Texas
New Mexico
Anderson Grain Corporation
North Fifth
Ross
Fifth
Hill
Lubbock Rangers
West Texas Raiders
Lubbock
Lamb County Sheriff's Posse
Howard County Sheriff's Posse
Hockley County Sheriff's Posse
Dawson County Sheriff's Posse
Lubbock Saddle Club
Clarence Nieman
Midnight Cowboys
C-T Rodeo Company of
Name In The News A Good Neighbor
Pastor Pat Riley of Calvary Baptist Church in Brownfield discusses his 5 1/2 year stay in West Texas, ministry since 15 years, Army service, and roots in Brownwood. He leads services at 9 and 11 each Sunday, oversees an FM radio station launched in April under the American Family Radio Network to promote Christian values, and notes community reception.
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Brownfield
Pat Riley
New York Knicks
Calvary Baptist Church
Riley
Brownwood
West Texas
U.S
Germany
Calvary
American Family Radio Network
Tupelo, Miss
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Corpus Christi
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City Council
EmergiCare, Inc
Brownfield Regional Medical Center
Doug Ryburn
Leon Pope
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Second Sweet
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