Museum barbecue Saturday at Ellison Park Wellington
Collingsworth County Museum will hold its annual barbecue fundraiser on Saturday June 19 1999 at Ellison Park Wellington. Serving begins at 6 p.m. Adult tickets are 6 50 and 3 for children under twelve. Local chef Charlie Oren will cook the meat with menu by museum board members. The meal includes meat beans potatoes slaw apricots pickles onions and iced tea. Willie Faye Patrick museum board president invites attendance and entertainment.
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Collingsworth County Museum
Ellison Park
Wellington
Charlie Oren
Museum Board
Willie Faye Patrick
New Beginning for First Christian Church Dedication
The First Christian Church in Wellington dedicated its newly built facility after 17 months of reconstruction begun after a 1927 structure burned. World Mission Builders, led by Ed Thomas, funded and facilitated the project with volunteer workers. Special music and plaques honored church elders Powell and Carson as the congregation celebrated the service led by Roy Barringer.
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Haskell Street
New First Christian Church
Wayne Duhon
Marlene Duhon
Ruth Ruffner
World Mission Builders
Ed Thomas
George Ruff
Yvonne Powers
Myrl Powers
First Christian Church
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
Roy Barringer
Bowie and
9Th Street
National Guard Armory
Bailey
Tommy Powell
First Christian
John Carson
Everett Stevens
Powell
Third World
Mission Builders
U.S
Wellington
World Mission Builder
Spence Moore
Jon and
Cheryl Forrest
Fellowship Hall
Juneteenth in History and the Booker T. Washington Reunion
Clara Brown notes the Wellington Juneteenth celebration begins June 18 with a Booker T. Washington reunion. The 1865 arrival of General Granger in Galveston proclaimed Texas under U S authority and freed slaves, marking the origin of Juneteenth observed as Emancipation Day on June 19 in Texas since 1980.
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Wellington
Booker T. Washington
Texas
Abraham Lincoln
Gordon Granger
Galveston
Lone Star
Private applicator training and testing in Wellington
Private applicator training and testing will be held at 8 a.m. Thursday, June 24, 1999, in the jury room of the Collingsworth County Courthouse. The session is sponsored by the Collingsworth County Extension office and will be conducted by a TDA representative. Eligible producers include those without any private applicator certificate or license and those who will supervise pesticide applications, with old Grandfather certificates remaining valid under specific conditions.
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Collingsworth County
Wellington
TDA
Commissioners appoint Deputy as new Sheriff in Collingsworth
In a June meeting the Collingsworth County Commission accepted Sheriff Dale Tarver's resignation after 8 1/2 years. Chief Deputy Rusty Lee and former deputy Mike Pena were considered for Tarver's term. the appointment was to come from within the department. Tarver praised local law enforcement and thanked churches for jail outreach.
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Lee
Dale Tarver
Commissioners Court
Jim
Tank) Forrester
Forrester
Tarver
Collingsworth County
Collingworth County
Dale Dunlap
Dale
Laura Eigenmann
Rusty Lee
Mike Pena
Pena
John Rainey
Sheriff's Office
The
T.L
Roach
Childress
Sherriff
Texas Army National Guard
Department
Justice of the Peace
Earl Jones
J.P
Sherriff Tarver
Jodi
Souder Accepts Trustee Position on Wellington School Board
The Wellington ISD Board met June 14 in regular session. Michael Souder was appointed to fill the trustee vacancy caused by Gary Killian’s resignation. The oath was administered, and the board discussed personnel in closed session.
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Wellington Isd Board of Education
Joe Baumgardner
Danny West
Betsy Lemons
Michael Souder
Gary Killian
Dian Souder
Jim
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Soil Conservation
Thomas
Clara Brown
Souder
Cabbell
Mitzie Killian
Diane O'Rear
Wellington State Bank
Jim Cabbell
Kristen Spillman
Lauren Gostwell
Karen Chavez
Chrissa Wall
Plainview
Jaime Grange
Sanford Fritch
LaShawn Lewis
Springlake Earth
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