Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 2007 Page: 1 of 8
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Bringing You News Of Your Hometown Since 1907
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VOLUME 103 NUMBER 09
USPS NO. 171-340.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007
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Chamber of Commerce.
Copies of the map and a
listing for each location will be
distributed by the chamber. The
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Saturday morning to dispense
free coffee as well as the maps.
This edition also carries a
copy of the map and the sale
listings.
City-wide garage sales are
sponsored each spring and fall’
by the Chamber of Commerce in
an effort to attract a wider
audience to local sales locations.
The Fall Garage Sale is held
■ at Pandora's 'Box. Items
■ suggested are collections of
■ memorabilia and historical paper
K items-newspapers, books,
■ magazines, postcards, etc. Old
|, / toys and collections of decorative
items are also good.
Items will be displayed in
display cases or on tables and
should be identified with your
name. In order to plan for the
space needed for displays,
organizers are asked to call and
give an idea of your items.
Actual items are not needed
until Wednesday, Oct. 10 and
may be delivered to Carolyn
Gilbert at Pandora’s Box at that
time.
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have on the plaque, the address
you’ would like to have the
Dedication and Lighting
Ceremony invitation sent, and a ■
check to the Pump Jack Capital
Association, 506 W. Summit,
Electra, Texas 76360. Wording
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limited to about five lines.
City Wide Garage Sale
Scheduled On Saturday
Thirteen sales are listed on
the map for the annual City-
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The four-foot tall angels Miss You, We Love You, etc.
will be displayed on the lawn From Your Family, ’ Your
behind State National Bank. An Children, etc.(a long list of
initial donation of $105 will names can’t be accepted, just
an angel m honor or whatever will fit on one or two
lines, if both parents have died,
you can have both of their
names on the same plaque on
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Example: In Loving
Memory (or Honor) of Name,
Kyra Olson
Kyra Olson
each plaque should be Fund Opened ’
In Electra
Kyra Lynne Olson, 3 year
old daughter of Jeremy and
Alicia (Thompson) Olson and the
little sister of Loryn Hopper of
Electra was diagnosed with
Rhabdomyosarcoma RMS ( A
cancerous tumor of the soft
• tissue) on September 10, 2007.
The tumor is attached to Kyra’s
sinus' on the right side of her
face
Kyra is now undergoing
Chemotherapy treatments at
Cooks Children’s Medical Center
in Fort Worth. These treatments
will continue for approximately
six to twelve months or longer.
On October 8, 2007 she will
begin her six week treatments of
radiation along with
chemotherapy.
A checking account has been
set up for Kyra at State National
Bank to help her family with
expenses during this lengthly
stay at Cook’s Childrens’
Medical Center and Ronald
McDonald House in Fort Worth
Memorial Angels On Sale
By Pump Jack Association
Low Cost
Food Available
Centennial Celebration on Low-cost food now is
Saturday, October 13 may available for everyone through
contact Allen Robb at Electra the Angel Food Ministries
Food Market or Carolyn Gilbert program of the First Christian
Pandora’s 'Box. Items See Food, Page Three
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Planned Monday
may be infected and transmit the
virus to others, even though they
haven’t yet gotten sick.
Electra Memorial Hospital
urges everyone to be immunized
in order to protect themselves
and others. *
Each year thereafter there
will be a $20 fee to display the
angel. This fund will help defray one angel). Another plaque may
*lie cost of maintenance and be purchased for other persons
storage. * you want to honor. Purchasers
Memorial Angel Dedication may have up to three plaques on
and Lighting Ceremony will be one angel, with each extra
held at 8 p.m. on Nov.24 after plaque costing $10.00.
the Holiday of Lights Christmas
Parade.
Names on those for whom
an angel has been designated
will be read, and also listed in
the newspaper.
For more information or to
reserve an angel contact Carolyn
Adams, 495-2407 or 632-5041,
or e-mail at haca5@aol.com
To order an angel please
and the organization include what you would like to 7
ROAD WORK — City crews teamed up with county workers this week in
resurfacing a block of West Bryan Avenue. City officials said the work was done under an
existing agreement with the county.
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GIVING THE Dink Robb Memorial Christmas Village
adjacent to the Chamber of Commerce a face lift in time
for the centennial and the upcoming holidays is an ongoing
project. Reba Madera, left, and Claudia Mink apply a new
coat of paint to the white picket fence which is part of the
display.
MORE PAINT is applied by Carole Bourland, left, and
Virginia Byars, right, as part of the volunteer work going
on at the Dink Robb Memorial Christmas Village. Entrance
to the village is now accessible to everyone with a new ramp
in place. Olan Bourland, Jim Madera, Curtis Warner and a
number of other volunteers are working on the project.
Send Off Rally
Planned Friday
At the conclusion Of the pep .
rally, high school students will be
play Southwest Christian, dismissed.' Buses will run their
there will be a send off pep rally, routes at 3 p.m.
High school students will
gather at the Field House at 2:45
p m to hold the rally Students
from other schools will not be
bussed to the event
F" Centennial
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Planned
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historical items that they would
like to have displayed during the
Celebration on
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already Thursday, Oct. 4, at the Electra
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The Pump Jack Capital
Association and the Electra Fire
Department have teamed
together to create a display of
lighted Memorial Angels, such
as the one seen during the reserve an angel in honor or
Christmas season just off memory on a designated person.
A good opportunity to bring Highway 287 at Lake Gordon,
items to be placed in the Time
Capsule at State National Bank
has been extended to everyone
during the Homecoming
Activities next weekend
A special invitation has been
extended especially to those
I coming in from out of town. 2007
I during Homecoming to place Ay muslcians are welconu
I their items that will be limited to wouW hke t0 cxtencj a
I what will fit in a long manila special inVitation for all Electra
residents to come and support
this organization as it benefits
Meals-On- Wheels.
A meal of spaghetti, meat
sauce, salad and garlic bread will
be served at 6 p m.
A good turn out was had last
month <
hopes to do even better this
month.
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n Chamber Manager Sherry
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> listed include a wide variety of
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■0^ ‘ -'^4gara8e sa'e enthusiasts to take
advantage of this opportunity to
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envelope and bring to the lobby
^tatc National Bank.
To those who wish to mail
their items may do so to Carolyn
Adams at 506 W. Summit,
Electra, Texas 76360.
Nurses from Electra Home
Health will be holding a flue
shot clinic at their office located
at 113 W. Cleveland (next to
Goldsmith’s Drug) beginning
Monday, Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. until 4
p.m.
Flu shots will be available
through Nov. 2. The shots are
$35 but are covered by
Medicare and most private
insurance companies.
Officials say today’s flue
vaccine cannot give you the flu.
Those who contact the flu
within two weeks of getting a Retired
immunization were i „
infected at the time the shot was Annie Powell Senior Citizens
received. Center.
They continued to say a The meeting will begin at
little known fact is that a person 6:30 p.m.
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Driving directions to their
football stadium arc posted on
the district’s website
222.clcctraisd.net.
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