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/' for the annual Breakfast with the Easter Bunny promo-
tion. The event starts at 8:30 a.m. at Brookshire’s, continu-
(VJ\ ing until 10:30 a.m.
y^y ; For $2, children get their picture made with the Easter Bunny,
as well as breakfast consisting of a sausage biscuit and
orange juice. Parents can also bring their own
See BUNNY, Page 2
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— Serving Bosque County Since 1895 —
50^ — ONE SECTION...PLUS SUPPLEMENTS CLIFTON, TEXAS 76634 VOL. 105, NO. 31 — WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2000
Early Voting Begins Wednesday In
Various City, School Elections
By David Anderson
CLIFTON RECORD CITY EDITOR
CLIFTON — The ballots are set
in city council and school trustee
races throughout the county. Early
voting begins Wednesday, April 19,
and continues through Tuesday,
May 2.
Applications for a ballot by mail
are now being accepted. Last day
to apply for a ballot by mail (re-
ceived, not postmarked) is Friday,
April 28. Polls will be open Satur-
day, May 6, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., in
all city council and school board
elections.
For more specific information
about specific ballots, contact that
city hall or school office for the race
in question.
Cliftmb
Water Reservoir
Several Area Churches
Plan Special Easter Services
CLIFTON — Several area
churches have slated special
events and worship services in
observance of the Easter season.
Immanuel Lutheran Church in
Clifton will hold Maundy Thurs-
day (April 20) and Good Friday
(April 21) services, both at 7 p.m.
A sunrise service Easter morn-
ing will begin at approximately
6:45 a.m. on Krueger Hill, behind
Goodall-Witcher Hospital. Follow-
ing the service, a pancake break-
fast will be held in the church
fellowship hall, with a 10:30 a.m.
service at the church.
The church is located at 911
West 3rd Street in Clifton. For
more information, contact Pastor
Gregory D. Knippa at (254) 675-
3281.
Holy Angels Catholic Church of
Clifton and Our Lady of
Guadalupe Catholic church of
Morgan have several special wor-
ship services planned, including:
• Thursday, April 20, 7 p.m.,
“Holy Thursday” — A bilingual
Mass will be held at Our Lady of
Guadalupe.
Castor Skrbtrrs
• Friday, April 21, “Good Fri-
day” — The annual Clifton Min-
isterial Alliance service will be
held at Holy Angels at 12 noon,
with participation from area
churches. At 6 p.m., the Liturgy
of the Word will be held at Holy
Angels. An Espanol version of the
Liturgy of the Word will be held
nt Our Lady of Guadalupe at 8
p.m.
• Saturday, April 22, 8:30 p.m.
— An Easter Vigil Mass will be
held at Holy Angels.
• Sunday, April 23 — Easter
Mass services will be held at Holy
Angels at 8:30 a.m. (Espanol) and
10:30 a.m. (English). A 12:30 p.m.
Easter Mass in Espanol will be
held at Our Lady of Guadalupe.
• See EASTER, Page 2
THIS CONCRETE TOWER will serve as the inlet for removing water from the reservoir under construction west of Clifton. The water will be removed
from the lake, transported to a nearby water treatment plant, then piped into the city’s water system for use by local citizens.
Staff Photo By David Anderson
Reservoir, Treatment Plant Could Be
Supplying Clifton’s Water By Mid-Summer
Annual Hamilton-Bosque Small Grain
Tour Slated Wednesday, April 19
MERIDIAN — The annual
Hamilton Bosque Small Grain
Tour is slated Wednesday, April 19,
says Bosque County Extension
Agent David Winkler. The annual
tour will have an added dimension
this year as participants view a
number of both cool and warm sea-
son forages, as well as small grains.
The tour will begin with registra-
tion at Leonard Radde’s farm on
FM 1991 south of Meridian. Follow
ing registration, a number of cool-
season perennial forages will be
featured, including Canadian wild
rye, Texas blue grass, and Virginia
wild rye
The second stop will be at the
farm of Dannv Allen on County
Road 2530, off FM 144 north of Me
ridian Allen's farm will feature a
wheat variety test demonstration
in which several new wheat variet-
ies are featured In addition, many
producers will be interested in
looking at the side bv side compan
son of normal hard red winter
• See AG TOUR. Page 2
WHEAT FIELDS ON TOUR -
Wheat fields at the farm of Danny
Allen will be viewed on the annual
Small Grain Tour slated Wednes-
day. April 19. by the Hamilton and
Bosque County Extension offices
Allen recently was found inspect-
ing one of his various plantings of
wheat
By David Andkrson
CLIFTON RECORD CITY EDITOR
CLIFTON - A project that effec-
tively began with the preliminary
engineering phase in 1996 but ae
tually began many years before
that may come to fruition this sum
mer as the surface water reservoir
being built by the City of Clifton
nears completion The reservoir
and its accompanying treatment
center will be the major source of
potable water for city residents for
the future.
“We think we are within six to
eight weeks of completion,” Mayor
Truman Blum told the Clifton
Chamber of Commerce at its
monthly luncheon last Wednesday
“We hope to have everything in op
eration by mid summer"
Mayor Blum, assisted bv City
Administrator Chad D Nehring
gave Chamber members an over
view of the project from its start t
its current status \ videotape that
accompanied Blum's presentation
chronicled the construction of th
in-stream dam on the Bosque
River, the nearby pump station th.it
will divert water from the river to
the reservoir, and work on the res
ervoir and water treatment plant -
The project is being built so that
future expansion can be under-
taken. The pump station, reservoir,
and treatment plant are all de-
signed for three phases, with phase
one currently being built.
The intake pump station, which
takes water from the river and di
verts it to the reservoir, houses two
200 horsepower pumps, capable of
delivering up to six cubic feet of
water per second The water will be
removed from the small lake cre-
ated by the in stream dam and
placed in a 41 foot-deep wet well
below the pump station Expansion
plans allow for one pump to be
added in phase two and another in
phase three if those phases are
ever undertaken.
The water then travels from the
pump station to the reservoir in a
stretch of pipeline that runs just
under two miles, heading west The
pipe measures 18 inches in diam
eter No upgrade of the pipeline w ill
be needed even it the extra pumps
are added
CLIFTON MAYOR Truman Blum
told the Clifton Chamber of Com-
merce that the surface water reser-
voir project is likely six to eight
weeks from completion.
Staff Photo By David Anderson
The reservoir itself is designed to
hold 500 acre-feet of water in phase
one. If undertaken, phase two
would increase the lake to 1,150
acre-feet, with phase three raising
the capacity to 2,000 acre-feet.
From the reservoir, the water will
be transferred to a treatment plant
and medium-service pump station.
Treatment capacity of the plant
now under construction is one mil-
lion gallons per day The plant can
be increased to two and then three
million gallons per day in the two
other phases.
A 250,000 gallifo storage tank is
installed adjacent to the treatment
center. From there, mediurn-ser
vice pumps will transport the wa
ter into the city’s supply system and
into homes and businesses. Two
700-gallon-per minute pumps being
installed will be capable of deliver
ing up to two million gallons per day
into the city's system. The pump
ing capacity can be increased by
one million gallons bv adding a
third pump in phase tw-o. and an
• See WATER. Back Page
Bosque County, Cities Log Healthy
Sales Tax Rebates Across The Board
Tickets Now On Sale For Conservatory’s
Spring Production Of ‘David’s Mother’
CLIFTON — The award winning
drama. "David’s Mother.” will serve
as the Bosque Conservatory Tim
Building Theatre s spring theatre
production The play will debut with
an opening night dinner theatre
performance May 13. with three ad
ditional performances slated for
May 14.20. and 21
“David s Mother." written by Bob
Randall, is a full length play which
gamed national attention with the
1994 television adaptation starring
Kirsti Alley Playwright Randall is
a Tony award winner
“David s Mother" tells the story
of Sally Goodman, a brass and witty-
single mother who uses humor to
hold at bay a world which has the
legal right to take from her a se-
verely afflicted teenaged son The
play moves rapidly from past to
present as the audience explores
Sally's crumbling marriage to
David's father and her final chance
at happiness with a devoted suitor
The Tin Building Theatre pro
duction of David s Mother is under
the direction of Theatre veteran
Kevin Pans Pans, best known as
an actor in the Tin Building Th*
atre, has also directed three play -
When asked why he chose th -
particular plav. Pans responded.
• See THEATRE. Page 2
Annual Currey Book Review
Scheduled Monday, April 24
CLIFTON — For more than
two decades. Majone Currey has
come to Clifton to present an
April book review Once again,
back by popular demand, the
Conservatory Auxiliary will host
Currey s book review on April 24,
at 7 p.m., in the Tin Building The-
atre
This year Currey will review
“Passionate Nomad” by Jane
Geniesse The book is a biogra-
phy on the life of Freya Stark who
was a prolific British travel writer
(1893-1993) Stark wrote describ
ing the local history and culture
of remote areas throughout the
Middle East where few European
men, and no European women,
had traveled before Many of her
two dozen books are still in print
Stark combined practical
travel tips with entertaining com
mentary on the people, customs
and history of the far-flung places
• See CURREY. Page 2
Bv Dvun Avdfkson
CLIFTON RECORD CITY EDITOR
AUSTIN April sales tax re-
bates for all seven incorporated cit
ies in Bosque County w ere up over
rebates from the same period in
1999. according to a report issued
last Friday by Texas Comptroller
Carole Keeton Rviander In all. the
cities rebates are up 2b. 16 over
1999 with a 22.52 percent gain over
1999 s year to date totals Unincor
porated areas were up 12 06 per
cent for the month, and have logged
a 16 08 percent year to date in-
crease
Statewide. Rviander delivered a
total of $189 8 million in monthly-
sales tax payments to 1.104 Texas
cities and 119 counties, an 11.1 -per
Net Payment
CamparaCle
Percent
2000 Payments 99 Payments
Percent
CUT
This Psriofl
Pmi Prior Yr,
C lunge
Is bate
To Cats
Chanae
CLIFTON
$29 345 31
$23 490 83
24 92%
$124 316 10
$106 816 75
16 38%
CRANFIL1S GAP
S688 36
$506 14
j6 00%
$2 892 44
$2 527 32
14 44%
IREDELL
$427 03
$225 52
89 35%
$1 687 90
$1 457 52
15 80%
MERIDIAN
$7 922 27
$5 849 13
35 44%
$33 470 74
$26 893 46
24 45%
MORGAN
S579 81
$514 83
12 62%
$2 807 94
$2,719 91
3 23%
YAUEY MILLS
$2 782 74
$2 628 88
5 85%
$20 806 73
$11.358 85
8317%
WALNUT SPRINGS
S1 565 25
$1 11397
40 51%
$6 815 49
$5 585 15
22 02%
CITY TOTALS
$43 310 77
$34 329 30
2618%
$192,797 34
$157 358 96
22 52%
BOSQUE COUNTY
S23.033 96
$20,553 60
12 06%
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S
S
s
$86 912 28
16 08%
cent increase over the $170.7 mil-
lion allocated to cities and counties
in April 1999 Sales tax rebates for
the first four months of 2000 are up
8 9 percent, compared to the first
four months of 1999
Rviander sent sales tax rebates
totaling $174 6 million to Texas cit-
ies, 11.3 percent higher than last
April's payments of $156.8 million.
Rebates of $15.1 million to Texas
counties were up nine percent com-
pared to allocations of $13.9 million
• See REBATES. Page 2
— Local Sales, Use, and Economic Development Tax -
April 2000 —
Net Rebate
City s Sales
Economic Dev
Eco Dev
Eco Dev
Eco Dev
To-Date Pet
This Period
Tax Portion
Tax Portion
I
£
1
Portion. 1999
1999 To-Date Change
CLIFTON $29 345.31
$19.563 54
$9 781 77
$41 438 70
$7 830 28
$35 605 58
16 38%
MERIDIAN $7 922.27
$5,281 51
$2.640 76
$11.156 91
$1 949 71
$8.964 49
24 45%
This month's rebates include local sales taxes collected in February and reported in March, Economic development
totals are not from the corporations totals but from,rebate totals supplied by State Comptroller's Office
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