Payton Kane Wins Turkey Jamboree at Bob Wills Gym
Payton Kane, 17, of Dodson won top honors at the Turkey Jamboree in Turkey Texas with a set mixing classic and contemporary country. Dewayne Pettier from Guthrie impressed, Jimmy Burson and Friends delivered high energy Swing, and the Turkey Gems closed the show. The April event at Bob Wills Gym offered free admission with prizes and refreshments, with a May 7 show announced.
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Bob Wills Gymnasium
Turkey
Payton Kane
Dodson
Amarillo
Payton
Wellington High School
Branson
Arlington
Gem Theater
Dewayne Pettier
Guthrie
Jimmy Burson
Turkey Gems
Gems
Collingsworth County Museum Lacks President After Longtime Leader Dies
Mrs. Willie Faye Howard Patrick, president of the Collingsworth County Museum board since 1989, died Sunday April 3 2005 in Amarillo. Her tenure saw space expansion with Pruden Building and Sullivan Buildings repurposed for exhibits, a Panhandle Museum Resource Sharing Consortium partnership, HELP program participation, and ongoing fundraising including wagon wheel quilt support and an endowment. The museum’s current exhibit Out of the Nest: Artists Birdhouses shows, with El Caballo The Horse in Mexican Folk Art arriving October 2005 as the final four year program exhibit.
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Collingsworth County Museum
Willie Faye Howard Patrick
Amarillo
Patrick
Panhandle Center For Nonprofit Management
Priscilla Sullivan
Sullivan Hardware and Furniture
Wellington State Bank
Pruden Drug
Oren Rogers
Pruden
Sullivan
Panhandle
Texas Association of Museums and Exhibitsusa
Wellington
Eastern Texas Panhandle museum preserves heritage through donations
The Amarillo Area Foundation backed by two generous donors supports the museum as it seeks to preserve local heritage and arts. The board’s March meeting addressed ongoing fundraising, with memorials from the Neeleys, Squyreds, and Stallings, and new docent June Blair welcomes visitors while the Birdhouses exhibit travels. Acquisitions include items from John and Debbie Scott, Joan Coleman, and Peggy Neeley, plus a 1920 Quail store ledger donated via the Las Cruces connection.
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Amarillo
Patrick
Texas Panhandle
Opportunity Center
Frank Coleman
Jack
Peggy Neeley
Clifton Bradford
Fred
Betty Squyred
Billy Neeley
David
Bettye Baumgardner
Harry
Doris Stallings
Clarence Black
Jerry
Della Lewis
John
Debbie Scott
Joan Coleman
Jean Redourck
Las Cruces
Collingsworth Historical Commission
Loretta Wright
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Rick Suddeth
Benny Brown
Lucy Dean
Henry Baker
Gary Johnson
Destiny Peters
Shamrock
Destiny
Joe and
Barbara Peters
Samnerwood Jr. High
Joe Ryan O’rear
Meagan ‘Brewer
West Ave
Words of Life
Cellular
Sondra Daniel
God
Abraham
Joshua
Canaan
Judges
Ruth
Israel
Samuel
Saul
Babylon
Ezra
Esther
Isaiah
Malachi
Keco 96
Rick Popejoy
Bowie Street Church of Christ
PO Box
Texas
Bowie St
Church of Christ
The
Wellington Leader
Children’s & Ladies
Carole Cochran
Trinity Fellowship Church
Ft. Worth Street
Mary Coleman
Sumnerwood
Happy
Sheriff’s Office
God Bless
the Chadwick Family
Charles, April
Clayton
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