GTE Accelerates Dodson Center Upgrades in Texas
GTE announced in May 1997 it will modernize the Dodson telephone switching center to deliver faster, more reliable digital service and new options. The upgrade is part of a statewide plan to bring digital service to Texas customers by year end 1997, accelerating from earlier timelines with an investment exceeding 37 million dollars. During 1996, the company averaged continuous progress toward the accelerated schedule.
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GTE
Dodson Telephone
Texas
Danny Ferguson
Brownfield
Texas/New Mexico
Irving
Math Carnival to Highlight TAAS Review at Wellington JH
The sixth to eighth grade Honors Math classes host the first Math Carnival at Wellington Junior High on Friday December 13 from 9 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. in the Little Gym. Thirteen TAAS objectives are represented with 30 problems each, and attendees earn tickets by answering questions at each booth.
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Wellington Junior High School
WIHS
Hedley Students Present Christmas Program December 12
Hedley schools host Christmas program in the school cafeteria with the elementary show at 6 30 p m and the secondary program starting about 7 45 p m after a short intermission. Students have practiced for weeks and performed for senior citizens at lunch this week.
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Hedley
Reading Barbara Bartlett Wilson Rawls in class
Students in Barbara Bartlett’s gifted seventh grade English studied Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls set in the Cherokee Nation and Ozark foothills. They researched primates and circus history, viewed Jane Goodall material, and produced language arts projects and a Jacen Lemons ballad displayed in the Collingsworth Library.
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Barbara Bartlett Wilson Rawl
WJH
Rawl
Cherokee Nation
Oklahoma Bottoms
Ozark Foothills
Jay Berry
Willy
Jane Goodall
National Geographic
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Berry Twins
Collingsworth
Barbara Bartlett
Rachel Blackledge
Josh Buttel
Jermaine Cantu
Cole Cummings
Crystal Gonzales
Angie Granadoz
Jeremy Hamby
Colby Howard
Meagan Huntress
Colin Johnson
Jacen Lemons
Jade Moody
Rachel Reeves
Mikki Sain
McKenna Sims
Latoya Thomas
Noe Trejo
Alicia Ward
Lauren White
Gary Lemons
Tom Sawyer in Sixth Grade at Wellington Junior High
Sixth grade students at Wellington Junior High explored Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain presenting plots of danger and pranks in St. Petersburg Missouri. They researched the Mississippi River and Twain while publishing booklets and displaying them at Collingsworth Library. A Tom Sawyer Picnic at Pioneer Park featured reenactments and students performed lines and the We're Goin Fishing song during library week.
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Barbara Bartlett
Wellington
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
St. Petersburg
Tom
Collingsworth Library
Pioneer Park
Collingsworth County
Home Delivered Meals Menu Week of December
The schedule lists meals for December 16 through December 20 featuring daily entrees such as ham with sides, fish portions, chicken and dressing, meatloaf, and white beans with ham. Each meal includes sides like vegetables, fruit or dessert, roll, oleo and milk.
Bodine announces birth of Cory Lane Bodine
Cody Dwayne Bodine announces the birth of his baby brother Cory Lane Bodine born Tuesday December 3 1996 at Northwest Texas Hospital Amarillo weighing six pounds six and three fourths ounces Parents Steven and Brandi Bodine Grandparents Donnie Patsy Barnett Don and Carol Bodine Great grandmothers Rhuia Norman Cordie Bodine and Mattie Garner all of Wellington and Shamrock respectively
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Cody Dwayne Bodine
Cory Lane
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
Steven and
Brandi Bodine
Donnie
Patsy Barnett
Don
Carol Bodine
Wellington
Rhuia Norman
Cordie Bodine
Mattie Garner
Shamrock
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Dodson
Jayeee Hannris & Family
John
Joan
Velma Rainey
Judy
Kim James
Nikki James Christy
Randy James
Amy
Jeff James
Penny
Eddie Wheeler
Alison Wheeler
Rickie Cook
Et al
Ozark Mountain Hills
Wilson Rawls
Jay
Daisy
Rowdy
Tare
Guy
Rea Eae Peay Ben
Ion
Mie
Umea
Colonial Manor I
Versa
Hollis
Colonial Manor II
West Versa
Oklahoma
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