Bubba's Wild Snake Shop Dream Falls Flat
In Ken Brodnax's column Bubba Gravelhauler reveals a grand plan to open a full service snake shop with a rattlesnake den and tourist attractions. He envisions skins into belts boots venom for medicines and a 'Diamondback' roller coaster named 'Slither-Bahn' but is skeptical after the narrator questions the feasibility and recalls Bubba's past fear of snakes.
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Bubba Gravelhauler
Bubba
Ken Brodnax
Freedom.com
Hinson and Rutherford win ECISD board seats
Incumbent Floy Hinson wins Position 6 with 196 votes, 41.2 percent of 476 ballots. Bill Rutherford, Odessa College professor, takes Position 3 with 116 votes, 57.4 percent of 202 ballots, succeeding Allen Strambler who resigned last December. Rutherford plans to learn board dynamics as he steps in, while Hinson thanks opponents Steve Riley and Ken Frasier for stepping up.
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Floy Hinson
Odessa College
Bill Rutherford
Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees
Hinson
Rutherford
Allen Strambler
Hobbs
N.M
Steve Riley
Ken Frasier
Riley
Frasier
ECISD
Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Parade Draws Families and Floats
Spectators line South Grant Avenue for the annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta parade in Odessa. Family members recall bringing Matthew Molinar as the band from Ector County Junior High passes by, while floats, low-rider cars and horses move along the route past Clements and Fall streets.
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Jonathan Ramirez
Ronald McDonald
Grant Avenue
Clements
Fall Street
Ector County
Matthew Molinar
Matthew
Beth Corrales
Clements Street
Mireya Garcia
Maresa Bustillos
Abner Bustillos
Maresa
Abner
Alex Nunez
Yolanda Mendoza
Mendoza
Making Memories
Water board vacancies now filled in Ector County
Three vacant seats on the Ector County Utility District board were filled after 485 voters cast ballots. Bob M. Coffee led with 84 votes, B G Walker 68, and Jack Crider 79, securing the three seats for four-year terms on the no pay board.
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Ector County Utility District Board of Directors
Water District Board
Bob M. Coffee
B.G. “Bo” Walker
Jack Crider
Ector County Utility District
Ector County
Coffee
T.L. Gregory
Stoneham B. Swann
C. Ray Owsley
Love
Louis A. Kincanan
Tom Morris
Bennie Steelman
James W. Haney
Juanita Hamilton
Sherrie J. Harris
Incumbents win county hospital board seats in election
Voters re elected three Ector County Hospital District board members in the joint municipal election Abraham Torres William Hetzler and Mary Thompson held hospital board seats Thompson District 6 winner with 55 67 percent 280 of 503 votes Cowan 41 35 percent 208 votes Thompson nurse and veteran candidate celebrated while opponent Cowan praised the process Hetzler district 4 representative defeated Floyd Hammett 53 40 percent Turnout and further details not provided.
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Ector County Hospital District Board
Abraham Torres
William Hetzler
Mary Thompson
Echd
Boyd Cowan
Equitable Life
Thompson
Cowan
ECHO
Floyd Hammett
Low turnout for Ector County joint elections
Voter participation was only 4 percent in Ector County with 2,202 ballots cast of 66,602 registered voters. District 1 candidate Jimmy Miller blamed the apathy, while officials called the results disappointing though higher than 1997 and 1996.
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Ector County
Wilson
Ector County Independent School District
Ector County Hospital District
Jimmy Miller
District 1
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Darwin Weigel
Odessa
Water Board
Walker
Crider
County Hospital Board
Blackshear Elementary
Miller
Bill Cleaver
Cleaver
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