The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 2012 Page: 1 of 10
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Vandals break into
senior center, steal
food, cash
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Judge updates
historical groups
on courthouse plan
... Page 6
Ladies roll on thru
district ranks, boys
open with Alvord
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I andals take food from senior center
Stealing from those
who need it most
— Photo by Linda Mesler
Mrs. Beverly Stephens of Saint Jo holds up one of the 100-year-old caly roofing tiles
which was originally used to roof the Montague County Courthouse in 1912. On the left
is one of the replacement tiles purchased decades later from the same manufacturer to
make temoorary repairs to the roof.
By Tracy R. Mesler
Several hundred dollars
in damage and between 50
and 75 pounds of meat and
food was stolen from The
Carpenter's Shop Senior
Citizens Center sometime
Monday night.
When the cooks arrived
to work Tuesday at the
Senior Center - which pro-
vides meals and recreational
services for the community's
senior citizens - they found
the window to the kitchen
broken and a variety of dam-
age to the center.
'"They broke in through
the window, for some reason
crawled through the ceiling
into the office and stole a lit-
tle bit of cash and a bunch of
food," said Sandra DeMoss,
one of the employees at the
center.
"They took 30 pounds of
hamburger meat that had
been donated to us during
the summer," detailed Board
President Ella Williams, one
of several directors who
responded to the alarm and
came to begin the clean up.
"They also took a stack of
hamburger patties, some
enchiladas and bread as well
as other things."
"Fortunately we've fig-
ured out how we're going to
serve lunch today, mean-
while one of the directors is
checking on the repairs,"
Mrs. Williams said.
The Senior Center had
just completed its major fund
raiser of the year Saturday
night. Fortunately, with
banks closed on Monday,
none of the proceeds from
that event had been stored at
the Senior Center over the
weekend so those funds were
not lost.
Besides the window,
which was broken by a
thrown cinder block, there
was damage to ceiling tiles
and in the office.
"They had to be fairly
small to fit through that win-
dow without cutting them-
selves," Mrs. Williams
observed.
The Senior Center oper-
ates on donations and pro-
ceeds from fund raisers such
as dances, holiday meals and
Building assailant . . .
events like Saturday's
"Music for Meals" which
raised funds for the Meals on
Wheels program which pro-
vides meals to approximate-
ly 45 shut-ins daily.
The board now faces the
fact they will have to pay for
the deductible portion on the
repairs plus replace the food
items which were stolen.
Police Chief Kent
Holcomb and Sgt. Matt
Poole were already working
on trying to find leads as to
who the food burglars were.
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— Photo by Ella Williams
A broken cinder block explains how vandals broke into
The Carpenter's Shop Senior Citizens Center Monday
night stealing meet, enchilads, bread and a small amount
of cash while causing hundreds of dollars in damage.
Precinct 2 gets go-head to find new barn
By Tracy R. Mesler
MONTAGUE - The
county commissioner's court
gave Pet. 2 Comm. James
Gamblin permission
Monday to iron out the
details for purchasing as
much as five acres of land on
U.S. Hwy. 287 for a new
yard for his precinct barn.
Gamblin advised the
court that his current facility,
located on S.H. 59 just south
of the railroad tracks in
Bowie, is undersized and
landlocked.
In fact Gamblin laughed,
chiding at the undersized
'barn' in the precinct yard,
"If I want to pull an engine
out of grader I'll have to bor-
row one of your barns to do
it."
Additionally, where
Precinct 2 stores its rock,
sand and other loose materi-
als actually belongs to the
Texas Department of
Transportation, not
Montague County.
Gamblin has located a
site on US 287 between SH
59 and FR 174 which can be
purchased for $10,000 an
acre. "We're waiting on the
survey to be completed," the
commissioner advised the
court. He also is waiting on
terms of the short-term loan
from the county's depository
bank, Legend Bank, before
knowing all the details for
the project.
What the commissioner
was needing to know was if
he had the court's approval
to proceed with ironing out
the details. The seller is pay-
ing for the survey.
Gamblin referred to the
location as "the long term
solution" for his precinct
barn, not something he
would begin using immedi-
ately. He first needs to pay
for the property as well as
the improvements while still
addressing road and bridge
needs of a precinct being hit
by high volumes of heavy
truck traffic associated with
the development of the
Barnett Shale.
The court readily passed a
motion to authorize him to in
iron out the details and bring
the proposal back to the
court for formal approval.
The commissioner's court
approved a resolution, pre-
sented by The Amity Club of
Bowie, to declare October as
Domestic Violence
Awareness Month. Club
President Linda Mesler of
Nocona and State Second
Vice-president Patti Poe of
Montague presented the
request to the court.
The commissioners
Stop domestic vjolsnce
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— Photo by Tracy Mesler
County Judge Tommie Sappington of Nocona signs a resolution adopted by the Montague County Commissioners
Court Monday proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Amity Club of Bowie, represented
by presidnet Linda Meslet, left, of Nocona and TFWC State Vice-president Patti Poe of Montague, rerquested the
court to pass the resolution. Purple, as represented by purple ribbons, is the color for Domestic Violence Awareness.
approved a bond for County
Election Administrator
Brandi Shipman.
The county renewed the
contract with the State
Department Health Services
Vital Statistics Unit allowing
the county clerk's office to
issue abstracts of birth. Chief
Deputy Clerk Glynnis
— See "County" Page 4
hopper
retrieved,
feds begin
their exam
By Tracy R. Mesler
A group of volunteers
spearheaded by Nocona City
Manager Lynn Henley
slipped off to Lake Nocona
late Wednesday afternoon
and raised the sunken heli-
copter belonging to Derrin
Fenoglio.
According to Game
Warden Chase McAninch,
who has handled the prelimi-
nary investigation, the
wrecked aircraft, a Robinson
R44, is now "in possession
of the NTSB" and securely
stored in the county's
impound yard pending the
arrival of investigators. The
National Transportation
Safety Board investigates all
aircraft, train and bus acci-
dents.
Meanwhile on Tuesday
investigators for the Federal
Aviation Administration,
which handles the licensing
of aircraft and pilots, arrived
in Nocona to begin their pre-
liminary investigation.
According to Mayor
Robert Fenoglio city offi-
cials went about quietly
retrieving the fallen aircraft
— See " Chopper" Page 5
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 2012, newspaper, October 11, 2012; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439450/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.