Keene Star (Keene, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 2012 Page: 1 of 10
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Thursday
April 12, 2012
Seventy-five cents
Email the Keene Star at:
keenestar@thestargroup.com
Classic car
show Sunday
The Adventist Rodders
Club of North Texas will host
its Show-n-Shine Classic Car
Show from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sunday at the Texas Adven-
tist Conference office at U.S.
Highway 67 and Interstate
35W. Admission is free.
Registration begins at 8
a.m. Entry fee is $25 per car
plus five cans of canned food.
The fee includes one event
T-shirt.
There will be trophies,
food, live music with a DJ.
Proceeds benefit the Grand-
viewCommunity Food Bank.
To inquire further, contact
817-658-2686.
City clean-up
is April 16-18
The semiannual city-wide
clean-up will be Monday,
April 16, through Wednesday,
April 18.
Place articles to be picked
up at the curb on your regu-
larly scheduled garbage day.
Items not picked up in-
clude tires, oil, refrigerators,
air conditioners not red
tagged (freon has to be re-
moved) and paint that is not
dry. If the lid is left off the can
of paint and the paint is dry,
it will be picked up, but leave
the lid off the can.
Retirees meet
April 19
The Retirees Fellowship
will hold its monthly meet-
ing at 5:30 p.m. Thursday,
April 19, at the Keene Senior
Citizens Center, 207 E. First.
This organization is open to
all community retirees who
can attend.
The dinner will be a pot-
luck with a "spring enchant-
ment" theme.
The Keene High School
Charger Choir, directed by
Irene Dennison Herr, will
present a variety of songs.
For information, contact
Betty Taylor at 817-790-2077
or Dottie Robinson at 817-
556-3199.
Stroke group
meets April 24
Stroke Hopes, the John-
son County stroke support
group, will meet at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24, at the
American Red Cross, 201 N.
Main in Cleburne.
Karla Roupe, speech
therapist with Huguley Me-
morial Medical Center, is the
guest speaker.
There is no fee to attend.
Call Lisa Ortner at 817-426-
2200 for information.
U.S. flags for
Old Betsy
Two U.S. flags have been
purchased to fly along Old
Betsy Road on holidays and
special occasions by Rick and
T'resa Weaver in memory of
Gilbert Weaver and in honor
of Steven Weaver, both of the
U.S. Navy.
Flags can be purchased
for $75 in memory of a loved
one or to honor a family
member, friend or someone
else. More than 220 flags
have been purchased.
The Keene Chamber of
Commerce administers the
flag fund, purchases the flags
and ground sleeves and or-
ganizes the installation cer-
emonies. The chamber also
removes the flags, secures
and stores them.
To purchase a flag or con-
tribute to the fund, contact
the Keene Chamber of Com-
merce office at 817-556-
2995.
District track
Chargers and Lady
Chargers run in District
15-2A track meet today
in Rio Vista
Page 2
Recognized
Keene resident Frank
Chacon recognized for
five years of service to
Johnson County
Page 3
DARCY FORCE
Special to the Keene Star
Alumni from coast to coast will be
in Keene today through Sunday for
the annual Southwestern Adventist
University homecoming weekend.
Events such as guest speakers, a
tour of the Metroplex, special mu-
sical performances, the traditional
Sunday morning pancake breakfast,
and a classic car show will provide
the alumni with plenty of opportuni-
ties for fun and fellowship.
Festivities begin with the annual
Alumni Homecoming Banquet at
6:30 p.m. today in the Committee of
100 Cafteria.
Honors presented at the banquet
include the Alumnus of the Year,
Joshua Samaneigo, (class of 1997);
Alumna of the Year, Michelle Pauly
Long, ‘87; and Alumni Volunteers of
the Year, Joan Lemke Ortner, ‘62 and
Martin Read, ‘62.
Additionally, entering the Alumni
Hall of Fame are Marvin Ponder, ‘62,
Marti Connell Schneider, ‘62, Betty
Willham Trevino, ‘62, and Hubert
Watkins, ‘52.
All of the honorees still have close
ties to the local community. Sa-
maniego has taught at the Keene
Adventist Elementary School for the
last four years. Long hails from Cle-
burne, works for Mission Hospice,
and has a student at Chisholm Trail
Academy in Keene. Ortner has long
been a resident of Keene, a local busi-
ness owner, and a volunteer with
the Johnson County chapter of the
American Red Cross since 2000. Her
daughter, Lisa Ortner, was the recipi-
Windgardner Phillips
ent of the Alumna of the Year in 2011.
Read, son of local artist Sleepy Read,
is an artist and entertainer in his own
right. After 20 years living and work-
ing on the East Coast, he is currently
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Southwestern alums return to Keene
Josh Samaneigo, Michelle Long, Joan Ortner and Martin Read and
others to be honored at tonight’s annual Alumni Banquet
RESURRECTION PAGEANT DRAWS 5f000
Under blue skies and
using new venues, the
seventh annual Resurrection
Pageant was performed at
six different times Saturday
on the campus of
Southwestern Adventist
University.
Scenes tell the story of
the triumphal entry, the
Lord's Supper, Gethsemane,
the Sanhedrin trial, Pilate's
trial, the Via Dolorsa and the
Crucifixion.
More than 5,000 people
attended the six performanc-
es, pageant founder and
Keene Adventist Church se-
nior pastor Mic Thurber said.
"We've received good re-
sponse on the new route and
venues," Thurber said. "More
people could see much bet-
ter." At right, Alfredo Fuentes
of Collegegdale, Tenn., one
of two actors who portrayed
Jesus, carries a cross along
the Via Dolorsa. More photos
from the pageant are on
pages 6 and 10.
JERRY POHER/KEENE STAR
■ IN MEMORIAM
Sports editor
Eskridge dies
Mike Es-
kridge, the
popular 11-
year sports
editor of the
Burleson
Star, sister
newspaper
of the Keene
Star, died at
11:59 p.m.
Tuesday at
Community
Hospice of Texas in Burleson.
Eskridge, 49, was trans-
ferred there from Harris
Methodist Hospital in Fort
Worth Tuesday.
He entered Harris Feb.
20 after suffering a stoke at
his home in Alvarado, where
he was found unresponsive
by Johnson County sheriffs
deputies. Co-workers became
concerned after Eskridge
failed to show at work and
called Sheriff Bob Alford.
Eskridge was a graduate of
Arlington Bowie High School
and the University of Texas
at Arlington. He began at the
Burleson Star on March 29,
2001.
Eskridge’s father, Ben, said
the family thanks the com-
munity for “their outpouring
of support.”
Funeral arrangements are
pending at Moore Funeral
Home, 4216 S. Bowen Road
in Arlington.
Eskridge
Ride 2 Recovery returns to Keene Saturday, April 21
PAUL GNADT/KEENE STAR
About 180 bicyclists who are wounded military veterans roll into Keene last April 2 during the
Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challange. The fourth annual R2R is scheduled to arrive in Keene aoout
9 a.m. Saturday, April 21, according to Texas R2R chairperson Marty Peters.
Ceremony and breakfast scheduled
for 8:30 a.m. at Callicott Student Park
PAUL GNADT
keenestar@thestargroup. com
More than 200 bicyclists
who are wounded military
veterans of wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan will ride through
Keene between 9-10 a.m. Sat-
urday, April 21, as part of the
fourth Road 2 Recovery Tex-
as Challenge.
The Johnson County seg-
ment — which includes a
fundraising dinner at the Cle-
burne Conference Center and
an overnight stay at the Com-
fort Inn, Days Inn and La
Quinta Inn in Cleburne April
20 —will conclude when the
riders travel south to north
on Old Betsy Road through
Keene and stop for breakfast
at Callicott Student Park.
The riders are scheduled
to leave Cleburne at 8:30
a.m. and are expected to be
in Keene 30 minutes to one
hour later, said Marty Pe-
ters, vice president of the
American Legion Auxiliary of
Texas, one of the sponsoring
groups for the Texas ride. Pe-
ters is co-coordinator for the
R2R in Keene and Cleburne.
“We love Keene and look
forward to riding through
again,” R2R executive direc-
tor John Wordin told Peters.
The American Legion Aux-
iliary is the national sponsor
of R2R, Peters said. The ride
will end a couple of hours af-
ter passing through Keene at
Rangers Ballpark in Arling-
ton.
While in Keene, the rid-
ers will be served breakfast
provided by area Pathfinder
clubs at Callicott. The break-
fast was a highlight of last
year’s R2R in Johnson Coun-
ty, Wordin said.
There will also be a brief
ceremony involving local
elected officials and the firing
of a military cannon.
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Gnadt, Paul. Keene Star (Keene, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 2012, newspaper, April 12, 2012; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth804079/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.