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Friday, March 12, 2004
The Clifton Record
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Community Coordinators Named
For Annual County-Wide Garage Sale
MERIDIAN — The 12th Bosque County-Wide Garage Sale is set
for Friday and Saturday, April 23-24. Individuals, groups, and busi-
nesses are encouraged to have sales of any kind, whether a ga-
rage, yard, estate, or sidewalk sale. The event is sponsored by the
County Development Committee of the Texas Coopterative Exten-
sion in Bosque County.
There is no charge to register the sale, but donations are ac-
cepted to help cover the cost of out-of-county advertising. Regis-
tering a sale will ensure having it listed in a special tabloid. The
deadline to register is Monday, April 5.
“We will be taking advantage of Texas Press Association adver-
tising which will put our ads in about 500 newspapers throughout
Texas,” said County Extension Agent Donna Edwards.
Bosque County Development Committee Chairman Joyce Ni-
emeier of Cranfills Gap has announced the coordinators for this
year's sale. They include Elaine McPeek of Iredell, 364-2227; Kay
Offutt of Walnut Springs, 797-3721; Teresa Stacey of Morgan, 635-
2106; Lisa Taylor of Kopperl/Lakeside Village. 775-4545; Bobbie
Cheyne of Laguna Park, 622-8310; Janice Merchant of Meridian.
675-6538 or 435-2342; Niemeier, 597-2757; Jean Ann Smith of Clif-
ton. 675-3561; and Debbie Finn of Valley Mills, 934-2679.
Registration forms are available in several locations in the county
and can be obtained through the local coordinators.
“Remember, the more sales listed in a particular community, the
greater the buying traffic, so list your sale with the county-wide
garage sale. Don't depend on someone just seeing your own sign,”
Edwards said.
“Many buyers will not travel an extra five or 10 miles to a garage
sale unless they know that you have something unique that they
what or need. Participants are encouraged to give a good general
list of things they will have for sale,” Edwards continued. “Avoid
using the term ‘miscellaneous* 1 as a description of your items."
Edwards added that the sale can be beneficial to businesses as
well as individuals. As a marketing technique all businesses are
also encouraged to have special promotions or sales that week-
end.
For more information about the sale, contact one of the coordi-
nators above or the Extension Service at (254) 435-2331.
First Security State Bank
Elects Leigh Vice-President
CLIFTON — Chairman Rodney
G. Joy and President/CEO Robert
C. Phillips are pleased to an-
nounce that William Drew Leigh,
Jr. has been elected Vice-Presi-
dent of First Security State Bank.
Leigh currently serves as cash-
ier for the bank and is a member
of the management committee. He
joined the bank three years ago as
the internal auditor.
Leigh is a graduate of Baylor
University with a Bachelor of Busi-
ness Administration degree in fi-
nance. He has completed
advanced studies at the Bank Op-
erations Institute’s oeprations
school and Texas Bankers' Asso-
ciation lending school and is active
in the community.
First Security Staets Bank was
chartered in 1910, and is a $60 mil-
lion asset bank with locations in
Cranfills Gap, Clifton, Whitney,
and Iredell.
William Drew Leigh, Jr.
DNA, Genetics Research Topic Of
March Genealogical Society Meeting
WACO — Max Blankfeld of
FamilyTree DNA will be the guest
speaker at the Monday, March 22
meeting of the Central Texas Ge-
nealogical Society. The meeting,
which begins at 7 p.m., is open to
the public, and will be held in the
downstairs meeting hall of the
Waco-McLennan County Public
Our Little Miss
Easter Pageant
April 10 In Clifton
WHITNEY An “Our Little
Miss” Easter Pageant will be held
at the Clifton Civic Center Saturday,
April 10. Interviews will be held at 2
p.m., with the pageant set to begin
at 3 p.nv
“Our Little Miss" is a scholarship
pageant, and delegates will be ac-
cepted from all surrounding areas.
Titieholders may be eligible to com-
pete in this year's world finals.
For more information, contact
J’Lynn Howie of Virtue Interna-
tional Pageants in Whitney at (254)
694-4006 or by e-mail
(hellogorgeouslli" hotmail.com).
THC Brochure
Highlights
Rodeo’s Roots
AUSTIN — Spring is ProRodeo
Tour time in Texas. It 's a time where
the top cowboys compete for the
national finals, and where Texans
break out their boots, get in their
jeans, and head to the rodeo. It's also
a good time to learn the history be-
hind cowboys, when men roped
calves for necessity, not for sport.
The Texas Historical
Commission's Texas Chisholm Trail
brochure details historic and cultural
sites related to the Texas cattle in-
dustry. To request a free Texas
Chisholm Trail brochure, Visit the
website (www.thc.state.tx.us/travel)
or call toll free 1 - 866-276-6219.
West Shore VFD
Flea Market
This Saturday
LAGUNA PARK — West Shore
Volunteer Fire Department will
host a flea market this Saturday,
March 13, at the fire station. The
sale opens at 8 a.m. at the station,
located on Shore Acres Drive in
Laguna Park.
A variety of vendors will be of-
fering their wares, and spaces are
still available. In case of bad
weather, the booths will be located
inside the fire station.
A concession stand will be in
operation, and proceeds will ben-
efit the department’s truck fund.
For more information or to re-
serve booth space, call (254) 622-
8310.
Early Tax Returns
Reflect More E-Filing
WASHINGTON — The Inter-
nal Revenue Service has an-
nounced that electronic filing
has shown a sharp increase for
this year’s early filers. Through
Feb. 20, overall e-filing reached
29 million returns, an increase
of more than two million, or
eight percent, over the same
period last year. More than 6.6
million taxpayers have e-filed
from their personal computers,
a 23 percent increase
E-filing is fast, safe, and ac-
curate. By choosing to have
their refunds deposited directly
to a bank account, e-filers can
have the money in two weeks or
less.
Gremlins and Ghosts
There are things that happen
in every house that cause the in-
habitants to scratch their heads
and say, “Duhhhh.” Do you ever
wonder who has been playing
those tricks while you are out or
asleep9 How is it that a sock
loses its mate? (The usual con-
sensus is that clothes dryers eat
them). Who hides that note you
left in clear view where you could
find it again easily? Who took the
keys you so carefully returned to
their usual spot? What happened
to that bill you needed to pay?
The one you intentionally left on
top of the mail at the door.
I try to be very careful about
things and rarely lose them. So
it makes me a little crazy when
an item pulls a Houdini on me.
There's usually alogical expla-
nation, but not always. Once,
long ago, I had a lovely, new,
white, ruffled pillowcase go miss-
ing. It was special to me. My
mother had sewn the set of them,
and I cherished it after she
passed away. It was “lost” for
years. I looked everywhere, be-
hind furniture, in folded laundry,
even behind drawers, thinking it
might somehow have been put
away with clothing and slipped
behind and down into a dresser.
It was simply gone forever, or so
I thought. This was one of those
never answered questions that
pop up to hauqt you at odd times
when you least expect them.
Then suddenly, the mystery
was solved. Years after the dis-
appearance, a washing machine
repairman found the pillowcase
between the drum of the washer
and the tub into which the water
drained. The day it disappeared,
it had simply flowed over the top
of a too-full load (which isn’t sup-
posed to happen and is NOT a
good thing) and was subse-
quently washed paper-thin from
the agitation and revolutions of
hundreds of washings over those
years. In places, holes had been
worn. It was a wonder it hadn't
ever settled to the bottom to clog
the drain during all that time, but
it had simply floated and danced
in the Neverland of the washer
interior. The mystery was finally
solved, and I was sorry to see its
condition, but glad to find out
what had happened to it. It was
unfinished business until the ex-
planation had surfaced.
Another time I lost a pair of
prescription sunglasses for two
years. I had absentmindedly
slipped them into a wool suit
jacket pocket instead of return-
ing them to their usual resting
place in my purse. I hung the
jacket up and soon after, as the
weather warmed, I packed it
away in mothballs in my ancient
college trunk. This happened in
Florida. I didn’t even unpack the
jacket the next “winter.” Winter
is a generous and often imagina-
tive term for what passes as that
season in more tropical parts of
the country.
Another year passed before I
opened the trunk, unpacked the
woolies, and aired them out.
Weeks later I finally wore that
particular jacket. I reached into
the pocket and gleefully discov-
ered the glasses. I couldn’t be-
lieve it! Years later, two years
ago, in fact, the same pair of
glasses went missing again, in
the pecan bottom on the ranch.
I fear this time they will not be
Rustic
Ramblings
Gene Ellis. Ed D is a Bosque County resident who
returned to the family farm after years of living in New
Orleans, New York and Florida She is an artist who
holds a doctoral degree from New York University and is
writing a book about the minor catastrophes of life
found, or certainly not intact.
Many cows and much heavy
equipment have passed over the
area in which they were dropped.
I remember saying to myself,
“Don’t hang those glasses on
your turtleneck collar. They will
fall off and you will lose them.”
And I did. (Don't you just hate it
when you are right about things
..like that? I can’t tell you the
times I have warned myself not
to do something, done it anyway
and wished I hadn’t. It must be
a self-fulfilling prophecy issue).
Once I dropped my cell phone
in the same pecan bottom. 1 fig-
ured I would never find it. Luck-
ily, Zack had his phone nearby. I
used his phone to call mine, and
the darn thing rang not 10 yards
away from where I was standing.
Sometimes-you just catch a
break. In such case, I usually
look skyward and offer a silent
and heartfelt thanks, even for
little things, like the glass that
doesn’t break when you drop it.
A student in one of the
classes for which I substitute
shared a lost and found story.
He told me that his pet ferret
takes anything shiny in the
house and hides it. The student
made a box in which the animal
could hide. Periodically,-the
young man raids the box to find
coins, his watch, anything that
the ferret was able to, ah, FER-
RET OUT. (Heh, heh, heh).
Hence the term. I must re-
member to point this out to my
students during the next vo-
cabulary lesson.
The only good thing about
losing an item is the joy one
feels if it turns up, an unex-
pected gift.
It isn’t only disappearances
that make us scratch our
heads. Sometimes things just
happen. How do perfectly
straight, undisturbed pictures
hanging on the wall suddenly
go awry? That one still con-
founds me. I have no logical ex-
planation for it save gravity and
the physics of picture wire.
How does an electric wire at
the windmill pump get un-
plugged? Turns out the cows
occasionally get tangled up
with it. Not easy to do, but pos-
sible. It has happened more
than once.
When I was growing up, my
father always blamed goblins
for the weird things that hap-
pened in our house. But of
course, he was teasing. (Re-
member the story of the elves
that slipped in at night to do the
poor, overworked shoemaker's
work as he slept? I wish I had
some of those).
Zack is a big proponent of the
angel theory of the unexplain-
able. My daughter swears that
when she stays overnight at the
farm, she sees ghosts. She is
an unusually levelheaded
young woman in most other ar-
eas, not given to flights of fancy.
NARFE To Meet Tuesday
CLIFTON — The Bosque County Chapter of the National Asso-
ciation of Retired Federal Employees will meet at 12 noon TYies
day, March 16, for a lunch and meeting. The meeting will be held in
the Clifton Civic Center.
For more information, contact Jim Gibbons at 1254) 675-1928
TPWD Employee Recalls Lost
History With ‘Buffalo Soldiers’
Library, located at 1717 Austin Av-
enue in Waco.
“Genealogy by genetics is the
greatest addition to Genealogy
since the creation of the Family
Tree,” said CTGS Vice-President
Diane Wilson. FamilyTree DNA is
America’s first genealogy driven
DNA testing service.
“Learn more about the service
dedicated to helping genealogists
find lost relatives when the paper
trail ends and the brick wall takes
its place," Wilson continued.
The CTGS is a non-profit organi-
zation. There is no charge to attend
the lecture, but seating is limited.
For more information, contact Wil-
son at (254) 826-3562 or by e-mail
(deewils(u earthlink net), or visit
the website (www.rootsweb.com
-txctgs).
The only explanation 1 can sup
ply is that she dreams these
very vivid things, sleeping a
deeper, different kind of sleep
in the country than in her city
life. I myself have seen things
out of the corner of my eye that
couldn't have been there. But
they usually turn out to be a
cow or cat out the window, play-
ing tricks on my perceptions.
The other night, the commu-
nity water started flowing
freely to the animal troughs all
over the property. This wasn't
discovered until the following
morning. Normally, such an ex-
pensive alternative to well wa-
ter is reserved only for
emergencies. Releasing the
community water has always
required a strong human hand.
One must reach into a hole (usu-
ally covered) in the ground and
forcefully open the valve. I was al-
most ready to buy into something
supernatural when I realized that
my ghost must have only been a
deer coming to drink at the over-
flow of the water tank. The cover
for the hole somehow got pushed
aside. The valve opens when
pushed down Any strong pres-
sure could have done it, even
‘something heavy enough falling
. von it from above. I hope the ani-
, mal didn’t break a leg when he in-
advertently hit it. So another
mystery solved with a reasonable
explanation. As Atticus Finch said
in To Kill a Mockingbird, “It isn't
time to worry yet.” I figure there
will be time enough to worry about
elves, gremlins, ghosts, and an-
gels playing tricks on me when the
deer start pulling the valve UP to
turn the community water OFF
I hope you all have a wonderful
week.
AUSTIN — The gray warehouse
is easily overlooked in between the
industrial buildings just outside of
downtown Austin. Only a tiny Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department seal
on the glass door hints at the library’
of artifacts inside. Step inside, and
you may relearn history.
“Up until 1990,1 didn t know any-
thing about Buffalo Soldiers,” said
Ken Pollard. TPWD outreach coor-
dinator. “A lot of black history fo
cused on slavery, picking cotton,
slaughtering hogs When you hear
about the Buffalo Soldiers, a lot of
folks get excited It's a new story,
and it's an uplifting story ”
With work from volunteers and re
enactors like Pollard, Texans are re
membering the African American
regiments that helped shape the
Texas frontier following the U il
War. American Indians reportedly-
dubbed these troops "Buffalo Sol
diers" in reference to the resem
blance of their curly hair to the hair
of the buffalo, the sacn 1 mane and
their fighting spirit.
The Buffalo Soldiers' living his-
tory program travels across Texas
each year to historic fort sites, ro
deos and schools. The educational
mission has expanded beyond the
Buffalo Soldiers story since TPWD
started the program. Texas youth
learn about their diverse history,
from the all black regiments, the life
of hard w orking frontier women, the
American Indians and Mexicans in
Texas and how the land impacted
the people
Now. the story of the military that
helped shape Texas is becoming bet
ter known. The 76th Legislature des
ignated July “Texas Buffalo Soldiers
Heritage Month." Since its inception
12 years ago. the program has
reached more than 1 million Texans.
It wouldn't have been possible with
out the hours of w’ork from more
than 50 organizations, 600 volun
teers, and a small but dedicated
TPWD team led by Pollard
Pollard and others have worked hard
to create the strong program today Be
cause of recognition from the Legisla
tune, he knows the Buffalo Soldiers will
be a permanent fixture. "After we're
gone, it will live on." he says.
But that doesn't mean he's ready
to call it a day vet there's still a lot
of forgotten Texas history to be re-
membered "I'm still having fun
I'm in no rush."
For more information about the
Buffalo Soldiers program, history,
and more upcoming events, contact
Ken Pollard at (512) 389 8569 or visit
the website (www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
park admin buffalo)
Texas Energy Planning
Council Members Chosen
MIDLAND — Gov. Rick Perry and
Texas Railroad Commission Chair
man Victor Carrillo have announced
the appointment of 22 members to
the Texas Energy Planning Council,
to which Gov. Perry has already-
named Carrillo as chair Last Octo-
ber, Carrillo called for the creation
of a Texas Energy Plan to
, strengthen the Texas energy indus
try and economy, promote renew-
able energy sources and practical
energy conservation, and find ways
to reduce America's dependence on
foreign oil.
"Texas faces a turning point for its
.energy future," Carrillo said. "Texas
must take a leadership role in pro
viding secure, affordable, and envi-
ronmentally sustainable energy-
sources for its citizens The time to
Cell Phone Recycling
Initiative Benefits
Groups’ Fund-Raisers
AUSTIN Keep Texas Beautiful
and EcoPhones, a Texas-based cell
phone recycler, have partnered to
protect Texas' environment from
cellular waste. In this program, any
school or community organization
can earn $3 per used digital cell
phone collected (subject to certain
conditions). EcoPhones will refur-
bish and sell the phones or recycle
them according to EPA regulations.
The program will support fund-
raising drives in many wavs. Upon
registering, groups will be provided
with a brief no-cost no obligation
consultation to determine the level
of support you require. Depending
upon the group's needs, EcoPhones
will provide marketing and promo-
tional materials at no charge.
Last year, more than 1,000 Texas
schools and community groups con
ducted a cell phone recycling fund
raiser to fund a variety of charitable
causes.
For more information contact
Katie Sternberg at Keep Texas
Beautiful at 1-800-CLEAN TX or by-
e-mail (katieioktb.org).
provide leadership and action is
now."
"This Council will bring together
kev legislative members, industry-
representatives from various en-
ergy sectors, and other visionary-
thinkers to formulate a Texas Kin
ergy Plan to guide Texas to a bright
energy future, ” continued Carrillo.
Hamilton County
Extension Clubs
Spring Fling Set
HAMILTON — The Hamilton
County Extension Education
Clubs will host its annual Home
and Garden Spring Fling on Mon-
day. March 22, at St. John Luth
eran Church Family Life Center
located on Highway 22 in
Hamilton.
Last year the event drew at-
tendees from Hamilton, Bosque,
Hill, McLennan, Coryell, and
Erath counties.
Registration will begin at 8:45
a m. and will conclude at approx
2:30 p.m. The cost, w hich includes
lunch, is $6 per person At noon,
lunch only will be available for $6
to the community at large.
There will be a silent auction,
booths of arts and crafts, plant
sales, and door prizes.
The program includes "Night
Vision-Can You See?." "Is It a
French Knife or Is It a Chef's
Knife?,” “Preserving Family
Memories." "Dig This-Seents and
Styles of Herb Decorating." "Col
lectible Crazy: What's In, What's
Out Arid What's This .Junk
Worth?," "Wave Your Flag," and a
style show "On the Square"
Entertainment includes the Pe
can Creek doggers and Zane
Christian.
If you would like to have a booth
at the event, call (254) 386-3529 to
reserve a space.
For more information on the
event, call (254) 386-3919.
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