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Volume 105, No. 1 Two Sections
THURSDAY, January 5,1995
The West News
Celebrating 105 years serving the West area
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News Digest
VFW Ladies Auxiliary meeting Jan. 11
The West VFW Post 4819 Ladies Auxiliary has scheduled a
meeting for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at the West VFW Club.
Food commodities to be distributed
Food commodities are to be distributed from 10 a.m. to noon
Jan. 10 at the West Senior Center located in the West
Community Center.
Gholson Education Club meeting
The Gholson Community Education Club has scheduled a
meeting for 1 p.m. Jan. 10 in the Gholson Baptist Church
Activity Room. New year books are to be given out.
Bad weather may close Senior Center
With icy weather conditions predicted for today (Thursday)
and Friday, the West Senior Center may close this week due
to bad weather. Center officials said the center will close if the
West schools are closed due to bad weather. Seniors are asked
to listen to the television and radio for information on pos-
sible closure of the schools.
Organ recital planned at West church
Jon Stuber, a doctoral candidate in music at the University
of Texas at Austin will present an organ recital at 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 9 at St. Mary's Catholic Church of the Assumption in
West. Stuber, a student of Dr. Frank Speller, has his B.Mus.
degree from Baylor University and his M.Mus. degree from
the University of Texas at Austin. A prize-winner in the 16th
Annual William C. Hall Pipe Organ Competition in San
Antonio. Stuber has performed with The New Texas Music
Festival, the Austin Lyric Opera, the Techuacana Arts En-
semble and was a recitalist in the 1991 AGO Region VII
Convention. He is currently the Director of Music/Organist
at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Austin where he
provides music for five weekend liturgies in a parish of 2,300
families. His duties include conducting three resident choirs,
a Lenten Men'aChoir and oversees the Advent Recital Series.
Stuber's organ teachers have included Maiy Hall of Longview
and Joyce Jones of Baylor University.
TSTC Blood Drive scheduled
Texas State Technical College and the American Red Cross
are working to increase the blood supply at the Southwest
Region Blood Bank. The drive is scheduled from 9 a.m. - 3
p.m. Jan. 17 in the TSTC Student Center, rooms 136 and 137.
Girl Scouts taking orders for cookies
Area Girl Scouts begin taking orders for Girl Scout cookies
this Friday and are to continue through Jan. 23. The scouts
are selling eight kinds of cookies at a price of $2.50 per box.
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Czech Heritage meeting this Sunday
The McLennan • Hill Chapter of the Czech Heritage Society
of Texas has scheduled a meeting for 2 p.m. this Sunday in
the West Community Center. Mrs. Dorothy Pechal of Temple
is scheduled to be the guest speaker. Her topics will include
items of interest from the 'Older Days' and geneology. Mem-
bers are asked to bring pastries for the social. There will be
door prizes and membership dues may be paid at this time.
The public is invited to attend.
Contribute to the West economy,
Shop in West
Changes explained for cook-off, arts and crafts show...
Fire department cook-off planned for March 17 -18
West Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment members are currently pre-
paring for their Second Annual
Barbecue Cook-ofT and Arts and
Crafts Show planned for March
17 and 18 at the West Fair and
Rodeo Grounds.
Last year's event exceeded all
expectations, as 80 barbecue
cooking teams from across the
state entered and competed for
over $2,500 in prize money. The
meat categories of brisket, pork
ribs and chicken are judged.
Teams can enter in any or all
meat categories, as well as a jack-
pot beans category.
David Vernon, the cook-off
chairman who competes in many
area cook-offs, said, "When we
announced last year that we
would be hostingacook-off,many
of the veteran cookers said we
should expect about 20-25 cook-
ing teams for a first-ever event.
You can imagine our surprise
when we signed in our 80th and
final cooking team."
"For our 1995 cook-off, we ex-
pect an even larger number of
teams. We have almost doubled
our prize money. Each meat cat-
egory will pay $400for first place,
$300 for secorid place, $200 for
third place, $110 for fourth place,
and $100 for fifth place. Tro-
phies will be awarded to the top
teams in each category.”
"Additional prize money in-
cludes $600 to the overall win-
ning team, $150 for the most
attractive area, $150 for show-
manship, and $200 for the far-
thest traveled cookingteam. The
$200 for farthest traveled team
is a great incentive for far away
teams to enter. Last year, we
sent out about 400 invitations to
members of various barbecue
associations and limited our
mailing to about a 125 mile ra-
dius of West. This year we will
send out considerably more invi-
tations to all parts of Texas and
even some to Oklahoma," Vernon
added.
This cook-off is to be sanc-
tioned by the North Texas Area
Cooker’s Association.
Trophy sponsors
West area businesses are
sponsoring all but the Overall
Trophy, which is awarded by
Budweiser, the main sponsor for
the event. Sponsorship fees vary,
with set amounts for first
through fifth places. Sixth
through tenth places are deter-
mined by bids. Vernon reported
that trophy sponsorships quickly
sold out this year.
"We would like to extend a
sincere thank you to each of the
businesses that sponsored a tro-
phy. As a courtesy to last year's
trophy sponsors we went back to
them first when offering spon-
sorships for this year's cook-off.
The trophies quickly sold out.
Due to the time involved, we are
not able to visit every business
and offer this opportunity. How-
ever, due to the fact that we offer
sixth through tenth place on a
bid basis, this allows everyone
the opportunity to participate. If
a business that we didn't have
the opportunity to visit would
like to participate in the trophy
sponsorships of the Third An-
nual Cook-off in 1996, they are
asked to contact a member of the
fire department this year."
This year a special V.I.P. area
will be set up and offer a free
barbecue dinner and beverages
for all trophy sponsors, as well
as key sponsors.
Arts and Crafts Show
Jack Church, cook-off co-chair-
man and Arts and Crafts chair-
man, reported a few changes for
thisyear's Arts and Crafts Show.
"Last year we leased mostly
10 foot by 10 foot spaces to ex-
hibitors in the pavilion area just
west of the Westfest office and in
the amphitheater area. We ini-
tially offered 51 spaces, and they
quickly sold out. We still had
over 35 exhibitors that wanted
to participate, and asked if there
was any way we could accommo-
date them. We expanded that
area to the gravel surfaces adja-
cent to the pavilion, on the sec-
ond level of the amphitheater,
and the asphalt area outside the
covered roof. Although we ex-
plained that these would not be
the most ideal spaces the crafters
still wanted to come and we
ended up leasing 88 spaces."
"One of the biggest problems
we had was a strong south wind
that developed early in the after-
noon. As this wind entered the
lower amphitheater area it be-
gan to swirl and blew over the
displays of many exhibitors in
that area," Church explained.
"To reduce that possibility this
year, we will set up arts and
crafts at the far east area of the
grounds where Westfest holds it
annual Friday night preview
party and dance. This area pro-
vides a single level with a con-
Please turn to page six for more
on cook-off.
Construction
continues in
West in 1995
Construction during the latter part of 1994 could be
considered brisk as the two pictures on the left show
houses in various stages of construction in the city.
The top house is located on Jane Lane while the house
at the bottom is under construction on Northridge
Circle. Another new home is just beginning construc-
tion in the same Northridge Circle area. Hie above
picture shows street work in the Bennett Addition Part
IV residential subdivision in the city's south section.
Work on the city's new wastewater treatment plant is
soon to begin.
Second half of1994 ranged from Westfest to a youth curfew
The last six months of 1994
proved to be just as Aill of news
as the previous six with numer-
ous stories making the headlines.
July
News came that 11-year-old
Dana Hodde won two national
titles competing in the United
States Athletic Track and Field
Youth Nationals in Knoxville,
Tennessee. The West Middle
School seventh grader took first
place in both die shotput and
discus events.
The bell tower at St Martin's
Church in Tours was the site of
repairs during the month. This
was the bell tower's first mqjor
repair since it was constructed
in 1987.
West TV and Appliances Inc.
celebrated its grand openingdur-
The new busi*
of the closed Leroy Bank build-
ing on July 8.
West Independent School Dis-
trict trustees considered pur-
chasing computer equipment for
all three school campuses dur-
ing the board's July 13 meeting.
The following week, the board
voted to purchase over $270,000
in computer equipment for the
school district. School Vision of
Texas, an Austin computer com-
pany, was awarded the contract
with a bid of $237,510.77. The
remainder of the propoeal was
for $31,377.90 in miscellaneous
costs and $1,600 for district net-
work training. A breakdown of
the bid per campus was $70,280
at high school; $110,279 at
middle school; $72,000 at el-
ementary school; and $16,270 at
the administration office.
The West End Transmission
ished seventh in the state tour-
ney. The House of Flowers team
captured second place in the Girls
T-Ball State Tournament in West
with another West team, the
Twins, placing third in the same
tourney. Mid-Tex Vet won the
Freshmen Boys District title and
finished third in the state tour-
nament.
West Community Hospital fin-
ished their season with a perfect
194) record as the won the girls
won the Midget Softball state
championship.
The West Community Grocery
Hi-Junior baseball team won the
state championship for 15-16
year old boys in July. The Cen-
Tex 8eed 8ophomore Beys base-
ball team captured sece&4 place
in the district tournament. The
West Shadowiand Pizzeria Jun-
ior girls softball team took fourth
honors in the state tour-
ing the
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A book signing party for the month. Sykora Family Ford won The West Chamber of Corn-
authors ofThe Leroy Bank Scan- the Freshmen Girls District merce honored Freddie and
dal bode was conducted in front Tournament in Hillsboro and fin- Janice Kaluza as the Citixens-
of-the-Year during their July 28
banquet. Jana Hardwick was
also named the new Miss West.
She was chosen from a field of six
contestants.
August
The 48th Annual West Rodeo
had a successful three nights
with Saturday's performance
described as a record setter. Ro-
deo officials had described
Saturday's crowd as the 'largest
crowd we've ever had." Total at-
tendance for the three nights was
estimated at 7,000. Approxi-
mately 350 cowboys and cow-
girls partiepated in the rodeos
produced by Southern Rodeos of
Orchard, Texas.
Melanie Myttarcik was the
West Lengjborn Club Sweetheart
and reprtwented the Longhorn
Club at the rodeo.
Qn August 19, several area
residents; were pleased to learn
_aHho4UM> High Spaed Rail
Authority voted six to one to ter-
minate the franchise contract
with Texas TQV during their
meeting in Austin. This vote es-
sentially ended TGV andits fran-
chise authority. The DERAIL
group, which opposed Texas
TGV, said the group was happy
with the agreement.
City residents had a special
clean-up day on Aug. 27 as resi-
dents were urged to bring their
unwanted debris and junk to the
containers. This clean-up was to
take place prior to the city's an-
nual Westfest celebration the
following week.
Westfest officials announced
that county music recording art-
ist Radney Foster would be the
featured entertainer at the
festival's annual Preview Party.
West ISO trustees approved a
$ 1.81 tax rate during their Aug.
17 meeting. The new tax rate is
a one cent increase over the pre-
vious year's Texes mi a $50,000
tame in the school district were
to increase $5 over last year.
Tragedy struck near the«WT
of the month as two West El-
ementary School students were
killed in a one vehicle accident
between Ross and Tokio. Four
year-old Maria Victoria Garcia
and ten-year-old Sylvia Garcia
were pronounced dead at 8:45
a.m. on Aug. 30.
September
Westfest 1994 proved to be a
near record-setting event as
42,546people passed through the
gates during annual festival on
Sept. 2, 3 and 4. Friday night's
preview party dres a crowd to-
taling 4,500. Saturday's atten-
dance was 24,500 followed by
13,546 on Saturday. Saturday's
Westfest Parade had approxi-
mately 140 entries. 'Attendance
was up a little from last year.
The weather was excellent and
the people that came stayed
longer.*
Seventeen-year-old Amy
Karlik was crowned the 1994
Miss Westfest from a field of nine
vandalised on Sept 4 as the busi-
ness received $20,000 in dam-
ages.
The West City Council ap-
proved an ordinance during its
Sept 6 meeting which allows po-
lice to enforce a youth curfew in
the city. This youth curfew af-
fects minors under 17-years-old.
The Clothes Canopy opened
for business in West. TTie ladies
apparel store moved into its new
location at204N. Main, formerly
occupied by Lone Star Gas.
Sandra Suggs is the store owner
with Jill Suggs as the manager.
News came that 22-year-old
Chris Kazda of Riessl, a 1990
Abbott High School graduate,
waa in need of a liver traim»iant
after learning that his liver hod
quit functioning At the end of
the month, he received a liver
transplant at
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