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Bringing You News Of Your Hometown Since 1907
Plectra Star-News
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USPS NO. 171-340
(VOLUME 103 NUMBER 32
THURSDAY, MARCH 19,2009
ELECTRA, TEXAS
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Spring Cleanup Days Set
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READY FOR SPRING — A lone duck swims at the Fairgrounds Pond Tuesday place
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■ All District Team Named
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Samantha Nason - Sophomore
Little League Meet
Set For March 18
Classes
Resume
Monday
Chili
Cook-Off
Slated
will offer a
Cancellation
commemorate the dav.
Also,
Carlos
the
sale
out
for
resume
Others from Electraon
the academic all district
team included Kylee Hail
and Ashley Pierce, juniors;
Kendall Soendker,
sophomore, and Vanessa
Gilmore, freshman.
The chamber office will
open at 7 a.m. on garage
sale day with free coffee
and maps.
Benefit
Set For
Life Relay
The Angel of Hope team
ISD
on
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Topic will be Identity
Theft, which has been
the fastest
Samantha finished the
season with a 13.1 points
per game average, and
averaged 3.0 steals, 6.9
rebounds, and 2.4 assists
per game. She was also
selected as a member of the
academic al academic all
year old children to hunt.
One thousand filled
eggs have arrived at the
chamber in anticipation of
the event. Ms Stockton said
bunnies up to 18 inches are
being accepted along with
the wrapped candy eggs and
filled plastic eggs along
• with small wrapped items to
use as filler for plastic eggs
Monetary donations are also
being accepted to purchase
needed items.
Darwin Stroud of Firs
Assembly of God Church
will lead a devotional, and
Artie Woods and his crime
fighting sidekick, McGruff,
will also be present.
Youngsters may begin
registering for prizes staring
at 9:30 a.m.. at the park on
the day of the hunt.
EARP Meet
Scheduled
A meeting of Electra
Area Retired Persons will
at 6 p.m. on
Easter Egg Hunt
Support Sought
Survey
Underway
By City
area
throughout the
Nava,
Curtis
Warner, Leah Vestal, Pat
McAlister, Jackie Roebuck,
C E Crow, Kathy Rodgers,
was
district
Hannah
Lewis, senior, was selected
as an honorable mention
player.
bring needed moisture, but more is expected this weekend. Spring arrives on Friday, °f clean-up debris.
March 20. C' * *
Starting On April 25
Saturday, April 25, at the free coiicv
Chamber of Commerce for begins
f
$
Committee
Meeting
To Be Held
A meeting of the newly
appointed Planning and
Zoning Committee of the
City of Electra will be held
on Thursday, March 19, at 6
p.m. at City Hall
Committee officers will
be named and a summary of
the State of Texas Zoning
Requirements including the
need for a Comprehensive
Plan is on the agenda.
City Administrator
Steve Giesbrecht will give
an update on the
comprehensive plan as well
as a draft on a zoning
ordinance.
district team.
Hannah finished the
season with an 11.9points
per game average and 6.4
rebounds per game. She was
also a member of the
; academic all district team.
Jfel
KyLee Hail - Junior
Thirty-Four registered Gayle Lane,
for the Oklahoma Blood Also, Keshia
Institute Blood Drive held Carlos Byars,
here.
They included Willie
Gentry, Rosalee Hodges,
Debbie Dunaway, Carolyn Lis Crow, Arden Warner,
Dickey, Pam Ward, Chuck
Crow, Jeanette Kimbrew,
Ashley Ward, Kun Bryant,
Kaylee Robey, W D Wall,
Rodney Melton, S Kelley,
Classes
students will
which has been Monday March 23 following
live described as the fastest 1,16 annnai Spring Break
growing criminal activity in Holiday..
Hannah Lewis - Senior
the Chamber of Commerce
Cost is $25 00 and due
at the time of sign up
First year players will
need to bring their birth
certificates
Ages for playing include
5-6, T-ball 7-8; Machine
Pitch and after is minor
here
April 4,
Chamber
Spring Break for the
students began on Monday
March 16 thru Friday,
March 20.
Blood Drive Attracts
34 Donors Tuesday
is the
in
wide egg hunt will be held
m City Park, however
Dinsmore Elementary
School is the alternate
location in case of
inclement weather.
The park will
areas designated for two
years and under; three and
four year olds, five and six
year olds, seven and eight
year olds, and nine and 10
Electra Chamber of
Commerce continues to
accept donations of stuffed
bunnies, individually
wrapped candy eggs and
filled and/or filler items for
plastic eggs for the annual
Egg Hunt to be staged on
Saturday, April 11, at 10
a.m. in City Park.
Hunt Chairman Mary
City of Electra
conducting acitizen survey.
Suivey forms were
mailed to residents and are
die back by March 31.
The surveys may be
returned to City Hall,
Electra Public Library, or
Senior Citizens Center.
A newsletter
accompanying the survey
forms urged citizens to
respond by saying, "The
City is trying to better
understand what
important fo you.”
t
Annual Pump
Association Chili Cook Off
will be held on Saturday,
April 4, behind the police
department, 111 E.
Cleveland.
The event is CASE be held
sanctioned with turn in of Thursday, March 19, at the
Chili Grind only at 2p.m. A Annie Powell Senior
jackpot beans and salsa Citizens Center.
competition ^ill be held. A pot-luck dinner will
Also featured will be a be served followed by a
desert contest and a local special program by Dean
chili division. Nelson of Chase Bank in
Electra Car Club will Wichita Falls,
conduct a remote controlled
car race.
There will be
entertainment throughout
the day and the Post Office America directly affecting
.. .I. _rr__ - special Stamp over 9,000,000 people.
The public is invited to
attend.
Carol Bourland, Sandy
Thomas, Robert Huffstutler,
Jim Fleming, Richard W
Cranford, Stephen Lalk,
Don Seale, Janet Ford,
Dewayne Alexander, Lynn
Crow
Chamber Plans City
Garage Sale April 4
Annual Spring City- this newspaper may contact
Wide Garage Sale will be the local chamber office. A
sponsored
Saturday,
Electra
Commerce.
Chamber Manager
Sherry Strange said this
week the Iowa Park
Chamber of Commerce will
be advertising a city-wide
garage sale for the same day
in Iowa Park.
"Our city-wide garage
sales were begun several
years ago m an effort to
attract a wider area of
bargain seekers to our local
sales,” said Mrs. Strange.
"The announcement of a
similar event in a city as
close as Iowa Park means
double the number of for the Relay for Life will be
garage sale enthusiasts having a garage/bake sale on
checking out the area April 4th starting at 8 a.m.
sales.” The sale will be located
Residents wishing to at the comer of Front Street
list their sales on the and Highway 25.
chamber garage sale map Anyone wanting to
which will be published in donate can contact Vicky
Switzler at 636-2695 or
Keshia Nava at 839-1803.
Donations will be gladly
picked up
All money raised will go
to the American Cancer
Society.
Two Electra High
School Lady Tigers were
named to the District 3A,
All District Basketball
Team for 2009-09, and
several received Academic
All District honors.
Samantha
Nason,sophomore
first team all
selection, and
Spring arrives on
Friday, March 20, and a
city-wide cleanup has been
scheduled to begin on
Saturday, Afcril 25.
The week long event
will begin April 25 m the
downtown area and
continue
week.
Mam Street Electra will
set a large roll-off container
in the 200 block of North
Waggoner Street for
businesses to use on the
opening day, and the
container will remain in
: throughout the
enjoying the warm temperatures. Forecast rainfall over the past weekend failed to tollowing week for disposal
City-wide cleanup has Ann Stockton said the city-
long been a tradition m
Electra to welcome the
amval of spring. Mayor
Glen Branch is expected to
sign a proclamation for the
cleanup.
Downtown volunteers
will meet at 9 a.m. on
on $10 fee is charged to
by include the listing and the
of maP-
Deadline for including a
listing and location on the
map is Friday, March 27, at
11:30 a.m. at the chamber
office.
• F
A Little League baseball from 8 am to 12 noon at
meeting will be held at 7
p m Wednesday, March 18
at the Mayors Office in
Electra
Those interested in
returning their registration
forms may continue to do so
at the Electra Chamber of
Commerce or in the office at
Dinsmore Elementary league.
School For more information
Signs ups are available contact Glen Branch at
Monday through Friday 495-2485
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