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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1997
Page
15
County Extension Agent outlines flea risks and control methods for homes and pets. Fleas are tiny jumping insects that bite and can transmit disease. Treat indoors and outdoors, vacuum thoroughly, use labeled insecticides, and consult a veterinarian or pest control service for effective products and timing.
The 15th annual Area I FFA Leadership Conference will be held on the Clarendon College campus June 23 to 25. State FFA Officers and District Presidents will attend along with area vocational agriculture teachers from Amarillo to Lubbock. For details contact Jerry Hawkins at 1-800-687-9737.
Educational programs by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service serve people of all ages and backgrounds without regard to socio-economic level race color sex religion handicap or national origin.
The 4-H Horse Project begins Tuesday May 27 at 7 p.m. at the VFW Arena in Wellington. A Coggins test will be administered to all horses involved in club events on that date. For more information contact the county extension office.
Donley County 4-H sponsors booth space on the Clarendon Courthouse lawn for July 4 Saints Roost celebration. Spaces cost 20 dollars with proceeds to the Donley County 4-H Club. For details contact Becky Jackson at 806-874-2141. local Wellington call.
Wellington Junior Golf announces a new season with six summer tournaments at Memphis Vernon Roaring Springs Wichita Falls Paducah and Wellington. Players age 9 and under 10 13 and 14 and over compete. GTGA membership is 20 with 5 per tournament. First event June 5 at Vernon and Wellington hosts June 30. Contact Shannon West at 447-2170 after 5 pm.
The 1997 eighth grade class celebrated with a Hawaii themed luau on May 16 in the Don and Peggy Allred home backyard. Students arrived through a flower arch enjoyed punch and snacks before photos, with decorated tables, a hay edged dance floor, leis, memory books, and a class presentation led by Nikki Sims and Tanner Jeffrey. Class president Kendra Allred welcomed guests, while Jamie Strickland led the invocation and memories were read by Erin Lemons and Deidre Ingram. escorts included Melody Cantu and others. faculty and parents helped decorate.
Forty three eighth grade students and sponsors visited Republic Gypsum Plant near Duke Oklahoma and Quartz Mountain Park Altus Oklahoma for an educational tour. They learned gypsum wallboard production and plant operations, toured a conveyor system and dryers, and observed shipping by rail and truck. Lunch and recreation at Quartz Mountain followed with go carts bumper cars water slide and miniature golf amid positive remarks from park owner.
The saying notes education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern yet hard to enslave. It also claims eye adaptation to contact lenses requires weeks, roughly one week per year of glasses worn.
Wellington Independent School District sponsors a free lunch program for children 18 and under. From June 2 to June 27 the Wellington School Cafeteria will offer meals weekdays 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. No fee or registration required. Contact Saundra James or Judy Thomas for more information. Discrimination guidelines and complaint contacts are provided for eligibility and equal access.
Eric Waters of Sumnerwood joined 30 others in Clarendon College’s Ranch and Feedlot Operations Program graduation held April 25, 1997 in the Horned Sisters Fine Arts Auditorium. Speaker Gene Bruce of Rolling Plains Production Credit Association highlighted the program’s 1974 origin and its field heavy curriculum. Waters is son of Larry and Mary Waters of Samnorwood.
Karen J Maddox Hookstra, former Wellington resident now of Erick, received an education degree at Southwestern Oklahoma State University Sayre during the 54th Spring Convocation on May 9 1997. The ceremony honored eighty nine graduates including Hookstra, wife of Kerry Hookstra pastor of Erick First Christian Church.
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