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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1996
Page
1
The First United Methodist Church will be open noon to 10 p.m. on Tuesday December 24 for family communion. Pastor Steve Alrey urged families to attend and receive communion together.
Collingsworth Public Library will close Saturday December 21 through Wednesday January 1. Reopening Thursday January 2 with hours 9 30 a m to 5 30 p m, and same hours Friday January 3.
To defray travel and medical costs, accounts in the name of Bill Lowe are opened at Wellington State Bank and Community State Bank. Any employee of either bank may accept donations.
Santa will visit Bartlett's Ace Hardware on Thursday December 12 from 6 to 8 PM to greet customers. Oran Sain will be available for photos. A 1.00 donation benefits Children’s Miracle Network with a chance to win a 13 inch remote control TV and other prizes in an 8 PM drawing.
The Wellington Independent School District presents a Sunday concert at the high school auditorium with the Sixth Grade Band directing selections such as Up On The Housetop Jingle Bells Rudolph and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The Seventh Grade and High School bands perform staples including Canadian Brass Noel Angels We Have Heard On High Winteree and Silver Bells.
Miss America Shawritel Smith will greet customers at Community Bank on December 19, 1996, with refreshments served. She speaks December 18 at Wellington High School on School-to-Work, a platform tied to her Miss America tenure and scholarship funding exceeding 75,000 dollars.
The 1996 Holiday Tour of Homes runs 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 15, with five houses open including Beatrice Thomas, John and Doris Nash, Joey and Genarah Manuel, Larry and Jeannie Adams, and Bob and Mary Jones. Tickets are $5 at the Collingsworth County Museum or day of tour. Carroll's Flowers Gifts and Antiques and Wellington Florist and Gifts host the event for public convenience.
The University of Texas at Austin awarded posthumously a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering to Frederic Clinton Schmidt at the December 8, 1996 graduation. Schmidt, who died May 23, 1996, had completed all coursework except the senior design project and worked as a Cooperative Engineering Intern at Applied Materials in Austin.
Members and guests of Glynn Moore Post 6439 gathered Saturday December 7 1996 to honor veterans who died in past wars. Speakers recalled Pearl Harbor day and its impact on families and freedom. Jack Winslett a former Air Force major spoke of the cost of freedom and the losses at Pearl Harbor with figures of wounded and dead. Continued on Page 10.
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