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Page 4 ★ Joshua Star ★ Thursday, September 29, 2011
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-1 EDITORIALS!-
Kudos go to the
Owls’ home crowd
The issue: This past week was homecoming, the
time each year when former classes gather to relive
old tim es.
We say : What appeared to be a near-capacity
home crowd at Friday’s football game was a wel-
comed sight.
It appears as if there will be at least one lasting
memory from Friday’s homecoming football game.
Long after the result is forgotten, this year’s team will
remember playing in front of its largest crowd of the
season.
In fact, one resident shared with us Saturday how a
player and a coach turned to the crowd the night before
and asked for noise, down 24-21 and with the ball late
in the fourth quarter. The crowd responded, this person
recalled. With no embellishment, it got raucous.
That wouldn’t be newsworthy in many communities,
but it is worth a mention in Joshua.
A common coffee shop discussion is the performance
of the football team during the past two years - they
haven’t won. But, former students saw Friday night that
this group is trying. They are doing the things to get
better - and they are getting better.
And, coaches and players saw something that may
also have come as a surprise. There are many people in
the community who want a winning football program.
Fans didn’t leave at halftime after the homecoming king
and queen were crowned and, with the team down 21-7,
they stuck around and made a difference.
More of that is what players need to see. There should
have been blue and white streamers and flags on every
business along State Highway 174 this past week.
Windows should have been painted. That’s what is sup-
posed to happen in one-high school towns.
Progress is being made on the field, and Friday of-
fered a glimpse that the team will be supported if it can
win. But, the best of programs don’t have to win to get
that support. They win because they are supported.
In a town where it popular to say “there’s nothing to
do,” folks should turn out on Friday night. The Owls
play at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Granbury and return home
to face Burleson at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7.
Proof is JISD is top
education value
The issue: The state of the Joshua ISD in ledger
books and in the classroom is strong, based on sev-
eral measurements.
W e say: With each release of a new report, data
says what most already knew. The JISD is a great
educational value.
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs became the lat-
est in a long list of “experts” that have all come to the
same conclusion - by any measurement the Joshua
ISD is performing well.
The comptroller released her Financial Alloca-
tion Study for Texas (FAST) ratings last week and
the Joshua ISD rated four stars, sharing the highest
rank given to a Johnson County district with the
Keene ISD. But, where Keene’s spending is aver-
age, Joshua’s is low - and that’s a good thing in the
analysis.
There have been other accolades, such as the district
being rated by the Texas Education Agency among
the county’s best based upon academic testing. The
district also received a superior financial acountability
rating from the TEA.
In a story printed in the Sept. 15 edition of the Josh-
ua Star, Dan Steblay, owner of Best Homes and an
area developer, noted that selling homes in the JISD is
easier because of the performance of the JISD.
Maybe the district isn’t perfect. But, by and large,
the JISD is the place to be if you have school-aged
children, and almost every rating says its a better edu-
cational value than anywhere else in Johnson County.
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DEVOTIONAL
What’s in a name?...Everything
The Cleveland Browns
moved to Baltimore in 1996,
and they had to change the
name of their team. Cleve-
land’s new team was going
to keep the Browns name
- which I think is way, way
down there when it comes
to football team names.
Are you kidding me? The
Browns? The name doesn’t
strike terror in my heart
or tell me anything about
Cleveland. It’s just ridicu-
lous.
The Cowboys, now there’s
a name fit for Texas. The
49ers is a great name for a
team from San Francisco,
but what the heck are the
Browns?
Anyway, there had been
problems with names of
teams in this town before.
For the two seasons before
that, Baltimore was home to
a Canadian Football League
team. As disgraceful as that
is for an American city to
host a Canadian football
team - something akin to
an Iraqi museum of po-
litical history being put in
downtown Fort Worth - it
gets even worse. They were
called the Colts, that is be-
fore being sued by the NFL
and changing their name to
the Stallions.
Silly Canadians didn’t
Troy
Brewer
Fresh from
the Brewer
think the NFL would mind
them having a team called
the Colts, and I guess they
didn’t consult Rocky Balboa
before calling themselves
the Stallions.
When Baltimore finally
got another NFL franchise,
they booted the Stallions
back to Montreal and they
renamed their French Cana-
dian team ‘The Alouettes.”
In my opinion, this is just as
ridiculous because everyone
knows allouette is french for
“I surrender.”
A little further south of
the border - not much but
a little - Baltimore wanted
a name that would suit their
great city. So, they named
them the Ravens.
The Baltimore Ravens
are not named after birds
of prey or a terrible scene
from a Hitchcock movie,
but a poem. Edgar Allen Poe
hung out in Baltimore in the
1830s and while Crockett
was firing off rounds at Gen.
Santa Anna from inside The
Alamo, Poe was writing a
poem about a supernatu-
ral bird. That’s right, the
Baltimore Ravens football
team is named after a stink-
ing poem! Is nothing sacred
anymore? It’s things like
this that convince me Jesus
is coming back soon.
Forgive me for my rant. I
am actually just having fun
and spicing up my column a
little. The Ravens is as good
of a name as any, I guess.
It’s just interesting to me
how things come together.
In the Bible and in God’s
kingdom, there is a lot that
goes into a name. A name
is a really big deal. It tends
to be a prophetic term for
identity, and in the kingdom
identity is everything. Who
you are, or I should say, how
you’re willing to live up to
who you are, unlocks heav-
ens treasures and positions
you under open windows of
heaven. Living up to a name
can make you crazy or make
you blessed and the He-
brews know that.
J abez, for example, is a
name that means Pain. The
guy made famous for his
prayer which caught God’s
attention (IChronicals
4:9-10) was somebody who
didn’t want to live up to his
name. He wanted to be a
blessing instead of a pain
maker and God granted his
prayer. He refused to be
who people had named him.
I want to encourage you
to not live up to stupid
names. Be careful who you
let name you in this life. You
are going to be named and
labeled as things you are
not. You will be misidenti-
fied and outright called
terrible things at some point
or another, but that’s not
your identity. J abez proves
you don’t have to live up to
a terrible name.
God knows who you really
are and not according to
your history but your des-
tiny. Let him name you, and
by His grace, live up to it.
...I will also give him
a white stone with a
new name written on it,
known only to him who
receives it.
- Revelation 2:17(NIV)
Troy Brewer is the se-
nior pastor of Open Door
Church in Joshua. Contact
him through www.open-
door exp erien ce. com.
LETTERS FROM READERS
Resident notes JPD compassion in tough time
I would like to share a
letter with the readers of
the Joshua Star.
This was sent to me by a
gentleman who was in-
volved in an unfortunate
circumstance, and he has
allowed me to share it with
you.
I believe it shows what
an outstanding police
department we have, and
one which the citizens of
Joshua rely on every day.
Mayor Joe M. Hollarn
Joshua
Dear Mayor Hollarn,
This message is to ex-
press my feelings about my
arrest and of the conduct of
the Joshua police officers
that executed my arrest.
On Sept. 18, at about 5:50
p.m., I was was stopped by
J oshua police officer Danny
Keeton and another officer.
The probably cause for
the stop was for expired
inspection (August of 2011)
which was because of my
lack of attention to detail
on the expiration date.
After running my name,
the officer found that my
license was invalid due
to an SR22.1 showed the
officers via my iPhone that
my funds have been paid
and that I had obtained an
SR22, but Austin must not
have put it in the system
yet.
That being said, the
part that means the most
to me is that at the time
of the stop my 3-year-old
daughter was with me. As
any father knows, it is a
horrible feeling to think
of your child seeing you in
handcuffs.
The officers showed great
compassion to my daughter
and I by first understand-
ing my situation and keep-
ing me calm in front of my
baby, second by allowing
me to call a friend to pick
up my baby and car and
most importantly by letting
me play with her like noth-
ing was wrong until my
friend arrived to get her.
They waited until my baby
girl was out of sight before
placing me in handcuffs.
The officers talked to my
baby girl and treated me
like a person and not just
another guy going to jail.
They showed great compas-
sion and great dedication
to their duty to uphold the
law. It is my feeling that
their dash-cam film would
serve as a great example
of how officers can truly
protect and serve.
These officers bring great
credit to themselves, the
Joshua Police Department
and to the law enforcement
community as a whole.
I thank you for your time
and hope that my gratitude
may be extended to these
outstanding officers.
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The Joshua Star reserves the right to edit all letters.
Letters deemed libelous, slanderous, unclear or other-
wise unacceptable will not be published.
Thank-you expressions singling out individuals or or-
ganizations will not be published. Poetry is unacceptable
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