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MOUNT PLEASANT DAILY TRIBUNE
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CITY, NTCC TAX CAP, UTILITY DISTRICT ELECTIONS
Early voting wraps up today
MAY 4,1999
Resident recalls
Paint the Town Purple
will take place next week
starting May 10. The event
is part of Relay For Life of
Titus County’s awareness
campaign and is open to
residents, businesses and
By ANNETTE WHITE
Tribune staff writer
By ANNETTE WHITE
Tribune staff writer
By ANNETTE WHITE
Tribune staff writer
By ANNETTE WHITE
Tribune staff writer
Relay For Life is
scheduled to begin at 10
a.m. on Saturday, May
16, at Caldwell Park in
downtown Mount Pleasant.
For more information
about Relay for Life,
visit www.relayforlife.
org. To get involved
or for any information
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a holiday unless weather
cancellations necessitate a
make-up day.
The first nine school days
of May are taken up with
testing. Students will finish
the school year with an
early release on Thursday,
June 2 — unless snow
or severe weather forces
any school cancellations
throughout the year.
Graduation for the 2015-
2016 will take place on
Friday, June 3.
Sports
Tigers hold
soccer banquet
See Page 8A
Local News
Youth camp
fundraiser
The Northeast Texas
Bikers Church youth will
be hosting a spaghetti
dinner before service on
Thurs. May 7. The cost is
$5 per plate. All proceeds
will benefit the youth as
they raise funds for camp.
Decoration day
at cemetery
Hickory Hill
Decoration Day will be
held Saturday, May 9,
at Hickory Church. The
church is located on CR
4760, offofCR 1735. The
business meeting will
start at 10:30 a.m. with
a potluck luncheon to
follow. If unable to attend,
donations may be sent
to Nancy Roach Dixon
at 3265 CR 4550, Mount
Pleasant, Texas, 75455.
Students return to classes
on Monday, Aug. 24, with
Labor Day providing the
first holiday on Monday,
Sept. 7. The first round of
standardized testing will
occur the week of Oct. 19,
with another round the
week of Dec. 7.
MPISD students, staff
and teachers will enjoy an
entire week off during the
Thanksgiving holiday, from
Nov. 23 and returning to
school on Monday, Nov.
Council.
Mayor Paul Meriwether and
councilmembers Robert Nance
and Erman Hensel have filed
for re-election. Jack Anderson
is running against Hensel for
the Place 2 seat. Meriwether and
Nance are unopposed.
Voters in Titus, Morris and
Camp counties are considering a
proposition called by the NTCC
board to raise the cap on its
property tax rate to 13 cents per
$100 valuation from the current
10 cents. The additional funding,
if approved, would be used to
finance $19.9 million in bonds
30. Christmas holidays
begin with early release
on Friday, Dec. 18 with
students returning to class
on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Teacher
staff development is
scheduled the day before.
Spring break takes place
the week of March 7, with
testing taking place three
days of the previous week,
and three days during the
last week of March. Good
Friday arrives on March
25 next year and will be
Today marks the last day
of early voting for the May 9
municipal election.
Voters can vote for open seats
of both the Tri Specialty Utility
District (Tri-SUD) board and
the city council. They will also be
deciding the fate of the Northeast
Texas Community College’s
proposition to raise the tax cap.
According to the Titus County
Elections office, there have been
190 votes cast for the city election.
There have been 848 votes cast in
regarding Titus County’s
Relay for Life events,
visit www.facebook.com/
RelayForLifeTitus or follow
the group on Instagram @
relayforlifetitus. Questions
may also be emailed to
relayforlifetitus@gmail.
com.
Email awhite@dailytribune. net.
The sixth annual
Art2Light student art exhibit
was hosted on Friday, May
1, at the First Baptist Church
in Mount Pleasant.
Approximately 30
students from the Art2Light
program, ranging from
first grade to ninth grade,
displayed their work for
friends and family.
The program also featured
keynote speaker Mike Schutt
of Mount Pleasant. Schutt is
the director of the Institute
for Christian Legal Studies,
a cooperative ministry of
Trinity Law School and the
Christian Legal Society.
Art2Light, a small
business and ministry
founded by owner and
freelance artist Crystal
Chandler in 2009, is a
children’s art program
with both daytime and
after-school classes. The
instruction ranges from
basic to advanced art, and
helps students gain skills
toward drawing, painting,
Thank our veterans and
military every day!
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cure,” she said.
The event runs from
Sunday, May 10, through
Friday, May 15. Participants
are invited to take pictures
of their decorated buildings
and post them to the
organization’s Facebook
page, www.facebook.com/
RelayForLifeTitus.
Titus, Camp and Morris counties
for NTCC’s proposition, and
276 votes cast for the Tri-SUD
election.
Tri-SUD, the water district
serving Titus County, Morris
County and a small part of
Franklin County, has three at-
large positions available on the
board. There are seven candidates
running for those places.
Two incumbent candidates,
C.W. Forsyth and Keitha Nilsson,
have filed for the positions.
The challengers include Ed
Dotson, Penny Ward, Rodney
Glenn, Eric Hart and Austin
Reynolds.
For the at-large positions, Gann
said, the three candidates with the
most votes will earn the available
board seats.
Gann said the names will
appear on the ballot for both
Titus and Morris County voters,
but he said due to the small
number of Franklin County
residents Tri-SUD serves, voters
will have to vote on a Titus
County or Morris County ballot if
they wish to vote for the Tri-SUD
candidates.
There are currently three open
seats on the Mount Pleasant City
With this school year
entering its final month,
and graduation set for
Friday, June 5, Mount
Pleasant ISD has released
its school calendar for the
coming school year. New
teacher in-service kicks the
action off on Aug. 12-13,
followed by in-service for
all teachers starting Aug. 14
and running through Aug.
21.
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MARCIA DAVIS/Daily Tribune
On May 4, 1999, an EF3 tornado touched down in northern Titus County, demolishing homes and
ultimately killing one resident. One survivor, Margaret Burrows, reflects on the events of that day and
the home that was destroyed.
MARCIA DAVIS/Daily Tribune
Crystal Chandler, center back, is surrounded by her art students last
Friday at First Baptist Church during the Art2Light art show and recognition
ceremony.
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narrowly approved by voters last
November.
The proposition on the ballot
reads: “The levy of maintenance
taxes and bond debt service taxes
at a combined rate not in excess
of 13 cents on each $100 valuation
of the taxable property within
the Northeast Texas Community
College district.”
Early voting ends at 5 p.m.
today and is being held at the
Mount Pleasant Civic Center
and at NTCC. The Daily Tribune
will publish a complete list of
polling places by Friday for voters
wishing to vote on May 9.
decorate your building
purple to honor those who
have fought or are fighting
cancer.”
Moore said she is hoping
the event will bring the
community together.
“We want to show people
that the community is
fighting together to find a
long-time resident of
Bridges Chapel Margaret
Burrows said as she reflects
on the events of that fateful
day. “The weather just felt
weird, but it wasn’t stormy. It
wasn’t dark.”
Burrows was one of many
in the community that lost
her home to the tornado.
“I remember it was
around 1 p.m.,” she said.
“The weather alert came on
CNN and it showed that we
were in the red watch area.
I decided I needed to go
ahead and take the dogs out
before any storms hit.”
Burrows said when she
stepped outside, she noticed
that it was cloudy and grey,
but not stormy. She said she
See Tornado, Pg. 3A
organizations in the county.
“This event was created
to build awareness that
Relay For Life is around
the corner,” Jana Moore,
the chair for Titus County’s
organization, said.
“Whether you’re a business,
a resident or a school,
we want to invite you to
Sixteen years ago Monday
Titus County experienced
devastation, disaster and
death at the hands of an EF3
tornado.
In its wake, the storm
left one woman dead, eight
homes demolished and 20
other homes damaged in
Titus County.
The tornadic storm
touched down in Franklin
County before passing
over Winfield Elementary
school, the West New Hope
community, and eventually
touching down in the
Bridges Chapel community
of northern Titus County.
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sculpting and many other celebration of her students’ on all year, and have become
forms of art. work displays pieces that the a source of pride for both the
Chandler said the annual students have been working See Art, Pg. 3A
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Guzman to
speak here
The Republican Women
of Northeast Texas will host
their 2015 spring luncheon
beginning at noon
Wednesday, May 6, at the
Mount Pleasant Country
Club.
Texas Supreme Court
Justice Eva Guzman will be
the keynote speaker.
For more information or
reservations, call 903-572-
0653.
Jail
Roundup
On Monday morning,
the Titus County Sheriff’s
Office had 89 inmates in
jail: 14 females and 75
males. There was one arrest
for drug-related charges.
Obituaries
• Sallie L. Barrett
• Rev. Lonnie C. Bell, Sr.
• Eloy Chapa, Sr.
• Willie Harold Curlin
• Janice Rose Griffin
See Obituaries page 3A
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