Hospital board honors Corky Bowen at appreciation dinner
Wellington community gathers Friday night March 23 at Cherokee Inn for an appreciation dinner honoring Corky Bowen longtime hospital board secretary. Perry Foster presided with board members Yates Parker Robert Owens L B Bratten Loretta Wright and Willie Faye Patrick. Bratten retires and is thanked for clinic remodeling efforts. Bowen active in Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service Hospital Auxiliary and Red Cross blood program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hug
Corky" Bowen
Cherokee Inn
Perry Foster
Yates Parker
Robert Owens
L.B. Bratten
Loretta Wright
Willie Faye Patrick
Bowen
Foster
Corky
Reneva
Patrick
Wellington
Collingsworth
Areca
Collingsworth General Hospital
Red Cross
Sheer transfers to Sherman SCS
J D Sheer, with almost 33 years in the United States Soil Conservation Service, moves from Wellington to the Sherman SCS office effective March 26. Since arriving in 1976 he helped build 2,500,000 feet of terraces and walked 473 miles of constructed features alongside major irrigation growth in Collingsworth County. Vernon Brister will replace him. water quality becomes a forthcoming focus for the nineties.
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J.D. Sheer
Wellington
Soil Conservation Service
United States Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Sherman
Sheer
Crosbyton
Collingsworth
Tommy Powell
Powell
Vernon Brister
Elections filing wraps up with scattered races set
Filing for elections ends in five of six races with Saturday May 5 as the decision day. Only Wellington Independent School District boards show opposition with four candidates vying for two seats. Collingsworth General Hospital directors field remains open, part of two county wide ballots alongside the Collingsworth Underground Water Conservation District.
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Wellington Independent School District Board of Trustees
Collingsworth General Hospital Board of Directors
Collingsworth Underground Water Conservation District
Absentee voting opens April 2 for party runoff
Absentee voting begins Monday April 2 for the April 10 Democratic Party Primary runoff. Final day is Friday April 6 with in office voting at county clerk Karen Coleman's office during normal hours. Voters may also request mail ballots. ineligible if previously voted in another party primary.
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Karen Coleman
Lennie Sims
Wellington students win district UIL meet honors
District 16 2 AA UIL results list Wellington High School participants in events at Memphis High School on March 23 with finalists advancing to regional in Abilene on April 21. Medals awarded March 26 to top finishers including Debora Barton Frederic Schmidt and Scott Covey among others.
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Wellington High School
Memphis High School
Abilene
Debora Barton
Marla Keller
Frederic Schmidt
Chris Hopper
Melinda Ornelas
Tony Reynolds
Connie Hernandez
Darren Kumar
Julie Wilkins
Scott Covey
Jennifer Floyd
Mike Maxwell
Joie Campbell
Melissa Meal
Mindi Watts
Charity Gray
Chasity Gray
Ashley Spillman
Lisa Baker
Sharon
Michael Lee
UIL
Wellington Kiwanis Junior High Track Meet Set in Wellington
Dozen athletic teams from Clarendon Merit Memphis Chil Dress Hedley Nazareth join Wellington Saturday March 31 for the first annual Kiwanis Junior High meet at Wellington High School. Field events start 9 a.m. and running events at 1 p.m. with heats and final standings.
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Wellington
Wellington Kiwanis Club
Wellington High School
Powell Field
Dick Pendleton
Pendleton
Rocket Relays
Civic Club
Wellington Independent School
Ter
Carl Taylor
Clarendon
Merit
Memphis
Childress
Hedley
Nazareth
Greenbelt FFA Judging Contest Set For April 3
The Greenbelt District FFA judging contest will be held in Wellington on Tuesday April 3 with about twenty schools entering in land judging plant identification and range and pasture contests. The event, sponsored by the Salt Fork Soil and Water Conservation District, advances qualifiers to the Area I contest in Lubbock. Contestants will judge four sites in lands and range and pasture and the plant identification will be indoors at Marian Airpark. Awards will follow with a hamburger supper served by district directors.
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Wellington
Lubbock
Salt Fork
Tommy Powell
Soil Conservation Service
Earl Patterson
Gary Killian
Dan Howard
Jim
Cabbell
Harald
SCS
Sumnerwood
Childress
Paducah
Spur
Mathey Cours
Matador
Patton
Springs
Valles
Turkey
Quitagued
Claude
Memphis
Lakeview
Hedley
Clarendon
Vic Beun
Silverten
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Hospital Board
Corky Bowen
Wayne Cudd
Daniel D'Arcy
Carter Holcomb
Rosemary
Willie Faye
Robert Patrick
Loretta
Lynn Wright
Lyman Daniel
Michael Mazzie
Mazzie
Daniel
Sherman Scs
WISD
John Scott
Kirby Campbell
Dodson City
Olan Farris
Julian Castillo
Steve Kane
Tommy Hightower
H.M. Riddle
Ray Hight
Veena Tabor
Valerie White
Jerry Lewis
David Vassey
Larry Waters
Larry Howard
Joe Knoll
City of Wellington
Lyndon Crelia
Willie
Gragson
Gary Brewer
Crelia
Brewer
Lorene Jenkins
Didson
Quail
Harold Scott
Jim Cabbell
Water District
Kiwanis
Bob Allen
Mark Keys
The
Rocket Booster Club
Kiwanis Club
Act Virties
Greenbelt
FFA
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