Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013 Page: 2 of 6
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Cooper Review - Page 2A
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Sheriff's Blotter
By the Delta County Sheriffs Office
From April 19, 2013 - April 25, 2013, the
Delta County Sheriff’s Office handled 45 calls
for service, 514 telephone calls, and 47 9-1-1
calls. Deputies made eight (8) arrests andfiled
six (6) offense/incident reports. DPS made
three (3) arrests, and one (1) arrest was made
by the Game Warden. Of the 45 calls for ser-
vice, deputies were dispatched to the follow-
ing:
Precinct 1-4 calls, Precinct 2-8 calls, Precinct
3-4 calls, Precinct 4-2 calls, City of Cooper
- 27 calls.
Arrests:
1 - Bond forfeiture/possession C/S PG 1 < 1G
1 - Capias instanter - DWI 3rd or more
1 - Capias pro fine
2 - Driving while license invalid
2 - Driving without a license
1 - DWI
1 - DWI 2nd
1 - Failure to identify - fugitive from justice
1 - Falsification of emergency telephone call
1 - Theft of property > $1500 <$20K
Offense/Incidents reports:
1 - Burglary of habitation
1 - Injury to a child
2 - Theft
1 - Theft > $1500 <$20K
1 - Theft of service
Citations Issued
3 - Speeding
If anyone has information about any felony
criminal offenses occurring in Delta County
please contact the Lake Country Crime Stop-
pers Tip Line at (903) 885-2020. Information
leading to the arrest of individual(s) involved in
the offenses may result with cash for tips.
Commissioners Court recognizes Firefighters
By Cindy Roller
Editor
Delta County Judge Herb
Brookshire read a resolution for
week of May 4dl recognizing
International Firefighters
Week. He acknowledged the
six volunteer departments of
Delta County. (See photo on
Front Page.)
It was agreed the Election
Precincts will remain the same.
Judge Brookshire is researching
in order to locate funds to help
pay a part-time maintenance
worker for the Courthouse.
Reports from Tax Assessor-
Collector Dawn Stewart,
County and District Clerk Jane
Jones, County Attorney Jay
Garrett (by Louise Stone) and
Treasurer Bonnie Hobbs were
heard.
Delta County Sheriff Ricky
Smith updated the Court with
additional changes to the Jail
noting moving the Department
of Public Safety offices to the
Jail building. There will be
$1,500 of unused DPS funds
to go towards the construction
costs.
Bob Egert of Ben Franklin
and County Road 3080
resident spoke during public
participation.
“In honor of firefighters
week, we need to make sure
County Roads are open in case
of emergencies,” said Bob
Egert on the condition of CR
3080 and 3075. “We just want
to do what is right and legal
according to the Transportation
Code, Water Code and the
Annual Road Report.”
Egert requested the County
Annual Road Report be
corrected noting it was reported
CR 3080 in good condition,
when in fact, it was not.
Further into Monday
morning’s meeting, Judge
Brookshire addressed the
County Road issues and the
Annual Road Report. The
Transportation Code states
each Commissioner will
present a report to the Court
during the ninth month of the
year. It must detail the closures,
repairs needed and condition in
order to determine the budget.
A unanimous vote is required
to close a road (and a road has
to be out of use for three years
in order to be considered for
closure).
Judge Brookshire stated the
first notation of CR 3080 was
in the July 12, 2004 minutes.
During this first entry it was
never approved to be altered
or closed. A recent meeting
between the Judge, Jim Harris
and Commissioner Wayne
Poole resolved to return CR
3080 to its original state with
42-foot right of way by Labor
Day of 2013. The Court
agreed to allow the road to be
closed until this construction
is completed when it will
open to the public once again.
Commissioner Poole also
expressed concern for the water
drainage issues that might arise
after re-opening.
In addressing CR 3075,
Poole reported Harris will be
removing the trees to match
the 2006 Road Inventory Book
and make it a legal report.
Judge Brookshire expressed
the need to bring the roads into
compliance.
The Court will meet again on
Monday, May 13 at 9 a.m.
alendar o /vents
May
Enloe Hobby Club will be
hosting their Annual Bake Sale
on Friday, May 3 at 10 a.m. in
front of First National Bank on
the Square in Cooper.
* * *
On Saturday, May 4, at 10
a.m., First Baptist Church
Cooper will host a financial
planning program for long term
healthcare and VA benefits.
The community is invited.
Admission is free.
* * *
The annual Mt. Joy
Homecoming will be held
on Sunday, May 5th, at the
tabernacle in Mt. Joy. A
covered dish lunch will be
shared at noon. All persons
interested in sharing memories
of this community are welcome
and urged to attend.
* * *
Melissa Millard from
Cooper Home Health will
present the program at the Texas
AgriLIFE Extension Service
Program on Monday, May 6,
at 2 p.m. at the Delta County
Civic Center. Following the
regular program, the ladies will
host a baby shower for County
Extension Agent Lindsey
Yeager. Helen Park will be the
hostess for the program. For
additional information, please
contact the Extension Office at
903-395-4400 Ext. 230.
***
Band Booster Meeting on
Tuesday, May 7 at 6 p.m. at
the Band Hall. Please attend
and participate in the Band
Booster Executive Committee
Voting, Final Preparations for
the Spring Concert and several
other important agenda items to
discuss. Also there is an End-
of-the-Year Band Booster After
Meeting Party, so please do not
miss this!
* * *
"Step into the Past" Folk
Festival in Hopkins County
Heritage Park located at 416
N. Jackson Street in Sulphur
Springs on Saturday, May 11,
2013 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"Riders on the Orphan Train"
will be held at the Church
of the Nazarene, located at
1300 League Street in Sulphur
Springs on Saturday, May 18 at
5 p.m. Tickets for adults are $10
and children 12 years and under
at $5. Presented by Hopkins
County Historical Society and
Hopkins County Genealogical
Society.
* * *
Mother’s Day Services on
Sunday, May 12 at Calvary Bap-
tist Church on State Highway
24 in Cooper. Sunday School at
9:45 a.m. and Morning Worship
at 10:50 a.m. All mothers rec-
ognized. To contact the church
call 903-395-2727.
* * *
Antique Car Show and
Swap Meet in Pecan Gap on
Saturday, May 18, 2013. Ven-
dors call W.D. Cheney for spac-
es at 903-227-5188. There will
be old cars and more. Country
cooking by the Ladies Club and
The Fish Place open at noon
along with Dewey Dogs.
* * *
East Delta Baptist Church
cordially invites you to our
Activity Building Dedica-
tion Service. Sunday, May
19, 2013. Worship Service at
10:45 a.m. in Church Sanctu-
ary, Activity Building Dedica-
tion Service at 1:30. All mem-
bers of The East Delta Baptist
Church look forward to seeing
you come and take part of this
glorious event.
June & Later
The Cooper Class of 1983
is having their 30 year class re-
union the weekend of June 22,
2013. If you have not been con-
tacted and are interested in at-
tending, please contact Dowan-
na Jaco at 903-458-2808, by
email at Cam pbel lj aco @y a-
hoo.com, or join our Facebook
Group “Class of 1983 Cooper
High School” for details.
* * *
Cooper High School Class
of 1963, yes it has been 50
years since we graduated???
It’s time to get together for our
50th Class Reunion. We are
planning one the weekend of
Oct 4th & 5th. The 4th will be
Cooper’s Homecoming game.
Please send your name, e-mail
address, home address or phone
number to judyzbarranch@
gmail.com, in the subject please
put Class of 63 and we will be
getting in touch with you with
all the details. We want this to
be a fun time, so don’t delay.
Thanks, Judy Thomas Stewart
few
fouitui
Telephone: 903-395-2175
Owners - Jim and Sally Butler
Publisher - Jim Butler ~
Jimb@Coopeireview. com
Editor - Cindy Roller -
CRoller@Coopeireview.com
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On The River
With ET
MARATHON
This week as a tribute to the victims of the
Boston Marathon I will give some information
in general about marathons. A true marathon
is twenty six miles, 385 yards, the distance a
Greek messenger ran from a battlefield near the
town of Marathon to Athens, Greece in August
or September, 490 B.C. The Persians fought
with Athenians in one of history’s most lopsided
battles. Athens had only 11,000 men but de-
feated Persia’s 100,000. The Athenians, wearing
armor and carrying short spears, slaughtered the
Persians who were armed with bows and many
only wore loin cloths. The Athenians lost only
192 men to Persia’s 6400. As the Persians raced
back to their ships many took the wrong trail
and drowned in swamps.
The Athenians were afraid the Persians
would sail around and attack Athens before the
army could march the twenty six miles overland.
The best runner, Pheidippides (some sources
say Phillipides), was given the task of running
the entire way and warning the city of Athens.
They were to hold the city at all costs until the
Greek army arrived. Pheidippidies ran all the
way, raced into the senate building, made his
announcement, and fell over dead. Pheidippides
was further immortalized in Robert Browning’s
poem, Pheidippides. Over time, dissention has
developed about when the run occurred. Some
sources say the run was made before the battle
to ask for more soldiers. Nevertheless, time has
not changed the distance of twenty six miles
from Marathon to Athens and over five hundred
marathons are held worldwide each year as they
try to see if they are as good as Pheidippides, the
first marathoner. Would modem runners have a
little more adrenaline if they knew thousands of
lives were in the balance?
The first marathon (after the real one) was
run in March, 1896 and was won by Charilaos
Vasilakos in three hours and eighteen minutes.
That run was the qualifying race for the upcom-
ing Olympics held in Athens in 1896. The fifth
place finisher in the qualifying trials, Spyros
Louis, won the Olympic marathon with a time
of two hours, fifty eight minutes. Today, the
men’s world record is held by Kenya’s Patrick
Makau with a time of 2:03.38 and was run in
the Berlin Marathon in September, 2011. World
record time for women is 2:15.25 by Paula Rad-
cliffe of the United Kingdom.
Five of the world’s largest marathons, Berlin,
Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City
are run as a series and have a $500,000 prize to
the winning man and woman. In 2006, Runner's
World Magazine selected the world’s top ten
marathons which included the above five plus
Amsterdam, Honolulu, Paris, Rotterdam, and
Stockholm. In 2011 there were approximately
518,000 marathon finishers in the U.S. Mara-
thoners in training usually cover about a hun-
dred miles a week. Hours before a marathon
a runner loads up on carbohydrates which are
easily converted to energy. The problem is you
can’t hold more that about twenty miles worth
of these high energy foods. The twenty mile
mark is often referred to as “the wall” and your
body has to switch to fat for fuel but that takes
a little longer.
The oldest man to finish a marathon is Fauja
Singh from England who ran one in about eight
hours at age one hundred in the Toronto Mara-
thon. Oldest woman to complete a marathon is
Gladys Burrill, 92, from England in the Hono-
lulu Marathon. All the top ten men marathoners
are from Kenya or Ethiopia with times in the
2:03-2:04 range. The top ten women are from
a wider variety of countries such as the United
Kingdom, Russia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Japan, Ger-
many, and the United States. Now doesn’t that
make you want to get out and do some road
work?
Where to go department: A few years ago
Jean and I went to south Louisiana to the world’s
largest crawfish festival at Breaux Bridge near
Lafayette and enjoyed food, people watching,
and Cajun/Zydeco music. For a guaranteed
good time attend this year’s annual festival
May 4-6. For more information go to bbcraw-
fest.com Cooking and eating contests, carnival,
much more.
For over thirty five years Jean and I have
watched birds at our feeders but this year we
have seen our first pair of blue grosbeaks. The
beautiful blue male could only be confused with
the smaller eastern blue bird which has a rusty
red belly and the smaller indigo bunting which
does not have the blue grosbeak’s brown shoul-
der stripes. Hopefully these birds will nest in
our woods and we can see them many times this
spring and summer. They winter in Mexico and
summer over most of the southern U.S. The pair
in our yard feed in a plate of sunflower seeds
hanging about five feet above the ground.
A man told his doctor he was having trou-
ble with his hearing. The doctor asked him to
describe the symptoms and the man answered,
“Well, Homer is fat and yellow. Marge has blue
hair______”
Why yawning is contagious: You yawn to
equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This
pressure change outside your eardrum unbal-
ances other people’s ear pressure so they must
yawn to equalize their air.
Some people think to be a great photographer
you must have a very, very expensive camera.
A photographer was invited to a couple’s home
for supper then to show his portfolio of beauti-
ful pictures. The woman really bragged on the
pictures and said he must have a very expensive
camera. The photographer grinned and said,
“That was a wonderful supper. You must have
very expensive pans.”
A salesman stopped at a farmer’s house and
noticed chickens running twice as fast as any he
had ever seen. He asked the farmer why they
were so fast and the farmer said it was because
he had developed a special breed with three
legs. The salesman asked him how they tasted
and the farmer answered, “I don’t know. I ain’t
been able to catch one yet.”
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Two New Bridges to be constructed
A preconstruction meeting
was held last Friday with the
contractor, representatives
from Delta County and Texas
Department of Transportation
(TxDOT) representatives
to coordinate construction
of two new bridges on CR
2145 and CR 2032 in Delta
County. TxDOT awarded the
construction contract to J. M.
Yanez Construction of Sulphur
Springs for $296,611.43.
The project will take about
eight months to complete
and consists of replacing the
existing bridges over Branch
of Johns Creek and Honey
Creek with longer 24’-wide
bridges.
TxDOT plans the
construction of the new bridges
in a single phase which will
necessitate the closure of each
road temporarily while the
old bridges are removed and
replaced. Once the new bridges
are in service, the roadways
will be reopened for travel. It
is very important, both for the
safety of the traveling public
and the workers on site, that
vehicles do not travel within the
work zone when the roadways
are closed.
Access to adjacent properties
will be maintained throughout
the duration of contract work.
TxDOT has worked closely
with Delta County throughout
the planning and design process
and will continue to do so
during construction.
The contractor will begin
setting signs and bringing in
equipment on May 1st. Safety
is a priority in these work zones
and TxDOT urges the traveling
public to observe warning signs
during the construction of this
project. It is TxDOT’s mission
to work with others to provide
safe and reliable transportation
solutions for Texas.
Lamar E ectric Awards Scholarships
Lamar Electric Cooperative
has announced the six
$1,000.00 scholarship winners
that were drawn at the Co-op
Annual Meeting on Saturday,
April 6th. The winners are
Amanda Poland, Shelby
Down s, Keaton Raney, Chelcee
Conrad of North Lamar High
School, James Horne of
Clarksville High School, and
William Clark McKenzie of
Chisum High School.
The six winners can use their
scholarship at any accredited
university, college, junior
college, technical school,
or any other post-secondary
educational institution of their
choice.
Amanda is the daughter of
Bemadine Morgan of Reno,
Shelby is the daughter of Steven
and Stacy Hill of Sumner,
Keaton is the son of Steve and
Wendy Raney of the Faught
Community, Chelcee is the
daughter of Johnny and Whitnee
Young of Sumner, James is the
son of John and Sherry Home
of the Dimple Community, and
William is the son of Curtis and
Shirley McKenzie of the Forrest
Hill Community.
According to Lamar Electric
General Manager Jerry
Williams, “The money used
for these scholarships is from
unclaimed deposits or refunds
from our members.” Williams
also stated “The law allows
Lamar Electric to use a portion
of these funds for schol arships
otherwise the money is turned
over to the state.”
Each member can still file a
claim with the state of Texas
for unclaimed checks.
Lamar Electric Director
of Communications, Dena
Beason said, “Lamar Electric
has provided more than
$38,000 in scholarships to
students in our community
since 1999.” Beason continued
“We are proud that Lamar
Electric can help these students
achieve their educational
goals and we encourage every
co-op member to take this
opportunity to submit the
name of your son or daughter
next year.”
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