The Monitor (Mabank, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 17, 2013 Page: 4 of 16
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Page 4A • The Monitor - Sunday, November 17, 2013
Fall fest fills bowls of heart-warming stew
Monitor Photo/Pearl Cantrell
ABOVE: Members of the First
Presbyterian Church in
Mabank served up bowls of
piping hot stew and
corn bread on Election Day,
Nov. 5, during its fall festival.
Specialty items, crafts and
desserts were also available
for purchase. The annual
stew luncheon is a long-held
tradition of the church
membership. AT LEFT:
Janice Robertson (right) wins
the quilt raffled off at the First
Presbyterian Church Fall
Festival. Members recruited
The Monitor editor Pearl
Cantrell to draw the winning
name Nov. 5. BELOW: About
200 lunches were served on
Nov. 5 during the fall festival.
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Fire
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undetermined,” said city
manager Lonny Cluck.
On hand at the scene
were Canton, South Van
Zandt, Van, Grand Saline,
Wills Point and Fruitvale
fire departments and the
American Red Cross.
“We really want to thank
all the responding agencies
who assisted on this fire,”
Cluck said.
“On behalf of the city of
Canton, I do not have the
words to express what a
remarkable job the first
responders did in the pro-
tection of human life and
personal property. These
responders came from all
over the county and
handled this impossible
task with a level of cour-
age and professionalism
that could not be sur-
passed. This group was
well prepared and well
trained.”
“This entire operation
was orchestrated with an
unbelievable amount of
cooperation from each
department. Chief Bud
Sanford’s ability to adjust
to the situation as sce-
narios changed was com-
mendable. Canton’s fire-
fighters are an outstanding
group,” Cluck said.
Susan Mattassa, owner
of the Buffalo Girls Hotel,
was on The Mountain
when the fire broke out.
“I was awakened by a
knock at my door, and I
smelled the smoke,” she
said. “I then saw the fire
and it was a feeling of sheer
panic. There was a huge
glow and embers flying
around everywhere. It
seemed like the fire was
swallowing up everything
on the mountain. It was a
time of grief and sadness.
There were firefighters and
emergency response ve-
hicles everywhere. If not
for them, I think the fire
would have consumed ev-
erything. I am so grateful
to all of the fire depart-
ments for saving what they
could.”
Fire chief Sanford said
when he first assessed the
fire, he knew that it could
only go beyond a certain
limit or everything would
have been lost.
“When I first arrived at
the scene, I did what we
call a 360 view,” he said.
“We drive around the
perimeter and then we
draw lines to where the fire
cannot pass. The fire was
beyond the height of the
trees and kept continuing
to grow. We placed our
firefighters where they
needed to be and the fire
did not reach beyond our
lines. They did an excellent
job at combating the fire.
The only problem we had
was getting water up the
hill. There is not a fire plug
on every corner like there
is in a city. But, the fire was
contained.”
By 11 a.m., the fire was
out, with only a few wisps
of smoke wafting up from
the charred remains. The
damaged area was central
to the mountain, with
buildings toward the front,
sides and back undam-
aged.
The middle section of the
complex looked like a
bumed-out crater. Several
structures were completely
burned down, and others
severely damaged. Ob-
jects that were once for
sale littered the ground;
beads from necklaces
were warped and melted,
sheets of tin lay in heaps
and Christmas decorations
and lights lay scattered
throughout the area.
Monitor Photo/Britne Reeves
Firefighters walk down from “The Mountain” after
battling the massive fire that decimated areas of the
market.
Can you spell...?
KHS drama department presents musical: “The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”
Monitor Staff Reports
KEMP-The Kemp
High School Drama De-
partment wants to know if
people who live in the Ce-
dar Creek Lake area are
Smarter Than A Fifth
Grader by testing their
ability to spell H-I-L-A-
R-I-O-U-S!
Students will present the
Tony Award Winning mu-
sical: The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling
Bee, produced through
special arrangements with
Music Theater Interna-
tional.
Performance times
are set for Thursday-Sun-
day, Nov. 21-24, with a
dinner theater perfor-
mance set for 6 p.m. Sat-
urday, Nov. 23 for $ 10. All
other performances start at
7 p.m. with a Sunday mati-
nee at 2 p.m. for the final
showing. The $8/$5
(adults/student) tickets are
available at the door or
from a drama club mem-
ber. This is one show you
won’t want to miss!
It’s an uproarious tale of
six adolescent overachiev-
ing outsiders who vie for
the spelling championship
of a lifetime. The quirky,
yet charming casts of un-
likely heroes consider the
Traffic
stop turns
up drugs
By Pearl Cantrell
Monitor Staff Writer
PAYNE SPRINGS-
Payne Springs Police re-
port three arrests follow-
ing a traffic stop Wednes-
day for a dark headlight.
Two suspects had out-
standing warrants.
During a routine search
of the vehicle, police un-
covered 3.7 grams of sus-
pected methamphetamine,
a number of glass pipes
used in smoking the con-
trolled substance, a quan-
tity of marijuana and nu-
merous small bags con-
taining a white crystal-like
substance believed to be
meth. Donavan Hampton,
28 of Mabank, Charles
Barnes, 56 of Quinlan, and
Joseph Grubbs, 26 of
Mabank were taken into
custody.
The traffic stop occurred
at the intersection of State
Highway 198 and Cedar
Drive at 6:25 p.m. All three
were charged with Pos-
session of a Controlled
Substance, 1-4 grams,
Penalty Group 1. The
charge is a third-degree
felony, punishable with a
fine not to exceed $ 10,000
and confinement of not less
than 2 years and not to
exceed 10 years.
Hampton and Grubbs
were wanted on parole
violations as well. Officers
Sam Commino and
Charles Stegall noticed
one ofthe headlights out on
the vehicle and initiated the
stop. The crystal like sub-
stance was sent to a drug
lab for analysis.
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spelling bee as the oppor-
tunity to stand out while fit-
ting in at the same time.
They are overseen by
equally quirky adults who
barely escaped childhood
themselves. Together they
learn at the ambiguous
Putnam Valley Middle
School that winning isn’t
everything and that losing
doesn’t make you a loser.
Rebecca Feldman con-
ceived the long one-act
musical comedy with mu-
sic and lyrics by William
Finn, a book by Rachel
Sheinkin and additional
material by Jay Reiss.
An unusual aspect of the
show is that four real au-
dience members are in-
vited on stage to compete
in the spelling bee along-
side the six young charac-
ters. During the 2005 Tony
Awards, former presiden-
tial candidate A1 Sharpton
competed. Another amus-
ing aspect of the show is
that the offici al pronouncer,
usually an improvizational
comedian, provides ridicu-
lous usage-in-a-sentence
examples when asked to
use words in a sentence.
For instance, for the word
“palaestra,” he says,
“Euripides said, ‘What
happens at the palaestra
stays at the palaestra. ’” At
some shows, adult-only
audiences (over age 16)
are invited for “Parent-
Teacher Conferences,”
also known as “adult night
at the Bee.”
The 2005 Broadway
production earned good
reviews and box-office
success and was nomi-
nated for six Tony Awards,
winning two, including
Best Book. The show has
spawned various other
productions in the U.S.
The Kemp High School
production features chore-
ography by dance stu-
dents.
Correction
In the Nov. 10 is-
sue of The Monitor,
a story identified
counci 1 woman
Shelley Ellis as being
on the Tool City
Council committee
that recommended
the hiring of new po-
lice chief Rickey
Feist. She was not on
that committee, coun-
cilman Donny Daniels
was the third member
on the committee.
The Monitor re-
grets the error.
Monitor Photo/Pearl Cantrell
The Seven Points Post Office invites customers to
bring in photographs of their loved ones serving
overseas in the military, along with their name, rank
and mailing address, so patrons may send them
holiday greetings or a word of encouragement.
Pictured is just a portion of the wall with pictures of
servicemen and women on display across from the
front counter.
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from the USO Show, the VFW produced earlier in the
year.
Post Office clerk Carolyn Dollgener reminds patrons
hoping international packages arrive in time for Christ-
mas to ship in the next couple of days.
“We always know, the Christmas shipping season has
arrived when we get the boxes from the VFW,”
Dollgener said.
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