Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 141, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 2015 Page: 1 of 8
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Rolling out
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Finally, motorists have
clear shot on south side
Centers running short on blood
By MARCIA DAVIS
• Neoma Sue Pierce
• Sixto Vasquez
By MARCIA DAVIS
Managing editor
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At its fundraiser on
Saturday the Cookville
Volunteer Fire Department
will be celebrating 25 years
of providing volunteer
first responder services to
residents of Cookville and,
in the last few years, also to
surrounding areas.
The annual fundraiser
provides the majority of
the costs of running the
department, including fuel
and maintenance for fire
trucks, pumps and other
equipment, according to a
CVFD spokesperson. Grants
from FEMA and the Texas
Forest Service in the last
eight years have reportedly
provided a $200,000 pumper
truck affectionately referred
to as “Big Blue” and $87,000
in bunker gear.
Support from Titus
County pays for basic
monthly expenses and,
recently, provided $25,000
for the purchase of a badly
needed new brush truck,
according to a department
spokesperson.
Looking back on the first
25 years, members say that
the remarkable thing about
the Cookville Volunteer Fire
Department has been the
support of the community,
MARCIA DAVIS/Daily Tribune
Blood donor Freda Kyles is prepped by a Carter BloodCare tech Thursday
as Carter BloodCare Superintendent Sean Rollins stands by.
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Thank our veterans and
military every day!
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The Adult Education
Department at Northeast
Texas Community
College will offer free
General Education
Development (GED)
classes at various
locations beginning in
March.
All students must
enroll in an orientation
session before beginning
classes.
In Mount Pleasant, the
orientation sessions are
offered from 8:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., March 17-
19, at the Community
Resource Center, 105 N.
Riddle. Evening sessions
are scheduled from 5-8
p.m. at the same Mount
Pleasant location for
March 17, 19, 24 and 26.
Call 903-434-8340.
In Pittsburg, the
orientation sessions
are scheduled from 4-6
p.m., March 16-18, at the
Hanson-Sewell Center,
237 College Street. Call
903-434-8252 or 903-
434-8394.
In Naples, the
orientation sessions are
scheduled from 4:30-
7:30 p.m., March 16, 17,
23 and 24, at the Naples
Civic Center, 412 W.L.
Doc Dodson Blvd/Hwy
Anyone who brought
old newspapers to the
Daily Tribune office last
month to be displayed
can retrieve their
newspapers from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. from the
Tribune office, Monday
through Friday.
Jail
Roundup
67 West. Call 903-897-
2935.
In Mount Vernon, the
orientation sessions are
scheduled for March
17, 18, 24 and 25 at the
Franklin County Library,
downtown. Call 903-
537-4916 to reserve an
orientation packet.
In Winnsboro, the
orientation sessions are
scheduled from 4:30
p.m. to 8:30 p.m., March
16-18 at the Winnsboro
High School, A-Hall.
Call 903-342-3641.
Time to pick
up old papers
Volunteer blood donors
caught the Carter BloodCare
bus at Titus Regional
Medical Center, Thursday.
The bus was parked in the
back drive of the hospital
Thursday to receive blood
donations.
By mid-morning,
according to Sean
Rollins, Carter BloodCare
superintendent, seven
donors had given blood.
He said that was a little
lower, normally, than the
average, by that time in the
morning.
Charlotte Jordan from
Mount Vernon had driven
in to give her blood. She
said she was a regular blood
donor and had gotten an
appointment to come in
Thursday.
Freda Kyles, a TRMC
operating room tech in
the labor and delivery
department, had taken a
work break to come in.
She said she understood
firsthand how important
blood donations are to
patients.
The Carter BloodCare
bus is scheduled to be onsite
from 1-6 p.m. this Saturday
at the Cookville Volunteer
Fire Department fundraiser
at the Cookville Fire Station,
814 CR 4045.
Linda Goelzer,
spokesperson for Carter
BloodCare, said Carter
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ABOVE: Crews were
out in force Wednesday
afternoon adhering
temporary striping on
South Jefferson Ave.
LEFT: Workers began
picking up some of the
barrels on Thursday.
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On Thursday, the
Titus County Sheriff ”s
Office had 100 inmates:
17 females and 83 males.
There were four arrests:
one for revocation
of probation, one for
release of surety, one for
criminal nonsupport and
one for violation of a
protective order.
Obituaries
is implementing a
recruitment program in
the community. McCollum
said the message is “We
need you, your time and
your commitment to some
training.” Not everyone
has to drive a truck, cut
someone out of a wrecked
automobile or rush into
burning buildings, he said;
other volunteers are needed
to operate pumps, write
grants and maintain current
reporting to the state and
federal agencies.
He said members of
the CVFD Auxiliary are
sometimes needed to
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for completion, but Mark
Heidaker, with PTTP told
commissioners Monday
he didn’t see how that
deadline was going to be
met.
Fields said Thursday, “I
do appreciate them. James
Construction said last
Monday they would do
this and they did.”
Email: mdavis@tribnow.
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as evidenced by successful
fundraisers and volunteers
who have stepped forward
when needed.
Scott Harris is the current
Cookville VFD chief. He has
been with the department
for three years, and this is
his first year as fire chief.
Former and longtime fire
chief Wesley McCollum
said the success of the
department in the next
25 years will depend on
the unselfish and patriotic
volunteers who will keep
the Cookville Volunteer
Fire Department alive and
moving forward.”
Cookville VFD currently
BloodCare do not have a
huge stockpile of blood. It
is usually a two- or three-
day supply. Given this, even
one day of zero collections
affects our operations. It
means we must reach out
to other blood centers to
receive the necessary blood
for patients to supplement
our own supply.”
“There is an ongoing need
for blood types that are
negative Rh (O-, A-, B- and
AB-). These types present
in a smaller percentage of
the population than do the
See Blood, Pg. 3A
BloodCare is the primary
supplier of blood and
transfusion services for
community hospitals in
North, Central and East
Texas.
She said that 37 percent of
people are eligible to donate
blood but less than 4 percent
actually do so.
“It is important that the
community blood supply
mirrors the locale where
potential patients live,”
according to Goelzer. “A
variety of blood donors
helps ensure that the right
blood match is available for
the right patient, even when
a rare type is needed.”
Goelzer said the recent
extremes in weather
have affected the blood
collections.
“The recent ice and snow
prevented us from collecting
blood on Feb. 23, and March
4-5, and delayed our start to
operations on subsequent
days afterwards,” she said.
“Our collections were about
half as much as usual on
those days.”
She said, “It is important
to also note that blood
centers like Carter
On the south end
of Jefferson Avenue
Wednesday, drivers finally
saw the parting of the
barrels.
It took a good-weather
day, without rain or
snow, and an army of
construction crews and
equipment to push open
the south end Wednesday
afternoon, which runs in
front of Walmart toward
the airport.
The brigade of barrels
that, for months, have
blocked off lanes along
that stretch of roadway -
one of the busiest in the
city - were finally pushed
to the shoulders. Crews
began picking them up
Thursday, and by that
evening there were no
barrels in sight.
James Construction
Group had rallied their
forces of workers and
equipment Wednesday
to complete that section
of the project enough to
apply temporary striping.
“That was the army we
wanted,” Titus County
Judge Brian Lee said.
Commissioner Mike
Fields said he was out with
the crews Wednesday.
“I didn’t know if they
would get through,” he
said. “I was there — out
there. It’s nice to finally
have that done.”
“The crews will have to
come back to put down
permanent paint, since
this striping is temporary,”
Fields said.
Fields said, “We all
knew the manpower wasn’t
there, and for us to get
things accomplished, we
had to have more people.
That’s what happened
Wednesday. It makes a
difference.”
Fields said if the
project could have been
finished on schedule last
September, the county
would have saved $600,000
to $700,000.
“The delays have been
expensive. We just didn’t
have manpower here to get
everything done,” Fields
said.
James Construction
Group has been under
fire from commissioners
for delays and do-overs
that have contributed to
the extension of the Titus
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sign off on the completed
project.
Bond repayments began
this month.
Charles Poole, vice
president of James
Construction Group, told
commissioners Monday,
he would be taking on the
project and bring more
men and equipment to step
up the progress.
County pass-through loop PTTP Transportation,
project’s timeframe beyond managers of the project,
scheduled completion. have set a June 1 deadline
The delays have resulted
in the county having
to dip into the county
purse to begin hefty bond
repayments on the project
until Texas Department
of Transportation
reimbursement payments
can begin. The primary
reimbursements will
not begin until six
months after the project’s
completion and TxDOT’s
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