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WATER NEEDED
The Joshua Fire Department
is asking for donations of bottled
water. Firefighters use the water
when responding to fires and
other calls. To make a donation,
call 817-558-4141 or email fire-
chief@cityofjoshuatx.us.
FREE JISD LUNCHES
The Healthy Kids summer lunch
program in the Joshua ISD will be-
gin Monday.
Free lunches will be available to
all area children age 18 or young-
er. Healthy Kids is sponsored by
the JISD child nutrition department.
Over the course of the summer,
children will enjoy a variety of hot,
baked entrees and sandwiches,
along with fruits and vegetables.
Joshua High School's Ninth
Grade Campus cafeteria will serve
the free meals at noon each Mon-
day through Thursday, from June
11-28 and July 9-26. Anyone
participating is asked to use the
designated door behind the Ninth
Grade Campus, opening into the
cafeteria. Enter the drive where the
school buses load and unload dur-
ing the school year.
For information, go to the JISD
website or call Melta Sprinkles at
817-202-2515.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Meals-on-Wheels needs sum-
mer volunteers to deliver noon-time
meals in Burleson and surrounding
areas.Call Christina at 817-558-
2840 for information or go to www.
servingthechildrenofyesterday.org
QUILT GUILD
The Johnson County Quilt
Guild is seeking new members.
The club meets on the fourth Mon-
day of each month from 6:30-9
p.m. at the Cowboy Church,
iocated north of City Hall on
Main Street in Joshua. Contact
-\~ Fran Snay at 817-295-4649 or
bagrags2@aol.com.
CASINO NIGHT
A "Helping Hands for Kids in
Crisis" casino night will take place
at 7:30 p.m. June 30 at Mountain
Valley Country Club to benefit the
Rainbow Room. Call 817-917-
3558 for tickets or information.
MEMBERS NEEDED
The Texas Tradition Chorus
will present its annual show in
October and is in need of singers.
Anyone interested is encouraged
to audition immediately in order
to learn the show's music.
The TTC is an all-ladies per-
formance group that performs at
various community events. They
sing all types of music, including
blues, jazz, pop, rock, patriotic
and ballads. Members come from
Johnson and Tarrant county com-
munities.
The chorus meets for rehearsal
from 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays at First
Baptist Church of Burleson, 317
W. Ellison St. There are no dues or
fees and participants need not be
able to read music. Call president
Becca Miller at 817-645-5232 or
Bonnie Gary at 817-688-7709,
or visit www.texastraditionchorus.
org.
SUBMISSIONS
Items of community interest
will be considered for publica-
tion in this area of the news-
paper. The Joshua Star publishes
Thursday. Items of the qreatest
timeliness and newsworthiness
will be published. Submit infor-
mation to joshuastar@thestar-
group.com by noon Tuesday.
INSIDE
Thursday,June 7, 2012
Volume 42, Number 10
10 pages in 1 section, plus inserts
City Page.......................2
Around Town..................3
Viewpoints......................4
Education.......................6
Classifieds....................7-8
Sports.............................9
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O U A U
LAW ENFORCEMENT
WILDFIRES
JOSHUA STAR/BRIAN PORTER
Bailey Sanders, a third baseman for Ouachita Baptist University, makes contact with a pitch in
Saturday's Law Enforcement Personnel Benefit Fund softball tournament at Joshua's City Park.
She helped the Joshua Police Department's team to a return trip to the tournament champion-
ship game. See related photos on Page 10.
Fires in Johnson Co.
were intentionally set
Sheriffs office back on hunt for
arsonist in area
By BRIAN PORTER
joshuastar@thestargroup.com
It is unclear whether last sum-
mer’s arsonist has struck again,
in the same area, in a similar
way.
“Is this the same guy?,” J ohn-
son County Sheriffs Det. Steve
Shaw responded when asked
Monday. “I don’t know how
many times I’ve been asked that
today.”
In the early morning hours
Monday, the Johnson County
Sheriffs Office was alerted to
several fires burning in the area
of County Road 915 and County
Road 913-A It is an area be-
tween Godley and Joshua, al-
most to a pinpoint where inten-
tionally set fires that burned last
summer are believed to have
been started by an arsonist. One
of those is believed to be the
largest fire that has been battled
in the history of the J oshua Fire
Department.
At about 2:30 a.m. Monday,
the sheriffs office was alerted to
about 4-6 fires believed to be in-
tentionally set on vacant prop-
erty. A1 of the fires were set less
than a mile FROM PAGE 1A
apart, Shaw said, and in turn
may have sparked other grass
fires.
“The vehicle doesn’t match
See FIRES | Page 5A
COURTS
Charges lack
substance,
Matthews
attorney say
By BRIAN PORTER
joshuastar@thestargroup.com
CLEBURNE - Fort Worth attor-
ney Tim Evans found fault Friday
with each of nine grand jury felony
indictments facing his client, for-
mer Johnson County Precinct 2
Commissioner John Winchester
Matthews, but a trial will proceed.
There’s no substance to the in-
dictments and they should be
quashed, he argued in the 18th
District Court at the Guinn Justice
Center.
“All of these offenses arose from
the same period of time as a prod-
uct of John Matthews being in of-
fice,” prosecuting attorney Paul
Hable countered.
District Judge John Neill has
ruled the indictments will stand
and a trial, which could call a large
majority of elected J ohnson Coun-
ty officials to the witness stand,
will commence Sept. 10.
Matthews was indicted Dec. 15
by a grand jury on counts of abuse
of position, falsifying records and
theft. He faces six counts of tam-
pering with a government record,
two counts of abuse of official ca-
pacity and one count of theft of
$ l,500-$20,000 by a public ser-
vant.
Evans, who appeared on the
2011 Super Lawyers list of top 100
attorneys in Dallas-Fort Worth,
gave some clarity to a litany of fil-
ings he has made in the case.
He summed up his issue with
See MATTHEWS | Page 5A
JOSHUA STAR/BRIAN PORTER
From left, Tucker Beard, Tiffany Barnett, Hannah Barbee, Mitchell Baker and Jordan Castleberry celebrate at the conclu-
sion of commencement exercises Thursday at Owl Stadium.
JOSHUA ISD
Grads urged to live life,work hard
JOSHUA STAR/COURTESY PHOTO
Tristen Payne, left, is congratulated by
her father, Richard Payne, upon her
graduation last week with the class of
2012.
By BRIAN PORTER
joshuastar@thestargroup.com
It’s a warm day in late May. The
school year is winding down, as is Ray
Dane’s tenure as superintendent of the
Joshua ISD.
His desk is clean. He was always or-
ganized, but always had a long to-do
list that filled his desk with paperwork.
Dane acknowledges he’s delegating a
lot of his work to staff and especially to
Fran Marek, who will take on Dane’s
job in mid-June.
Dane announced in February that
he was stepping down to care for his
mother. The retirement will give him
more time to do just that, as well as to
spend more time with his wife, the op-
portunity to read the many books he’s
collected over the years, to spend time
at his place on Lake Texoma, to volun-
teer and to play the piano.
His wife, for one, is relieved at his
pending departure, he noted.
‘Tt’s been difficult to get away. Even
when I was away, I really wasn’t away
because I needed to be reached,” he
said.
But by his own admission, Dane’s
departure is bittersweet. There are no
plans in his future to become gainfully
employed once again.
There’s wisdom in Monty Python
and living in the moment, Krizia Ovan-
do explained Thursday in her valedic-
tory address to the class of 2012.
‘Don’t be discouraged,” she said,
“and as Monty Python always says,
Look on the bright side of life.’”
And for something completely differ-
ent, she called on her fellow graduates
to strive for their best.
“This is just one chapter in our lives,”
See GRADUATES | Page 5
PEOPLE
Mother s cancer fight focused on living the moment
By MIKALA COLEMAN
joshuastar@thestargroup.com
Misty Garnand, 33, discov-
ered recently that she has a
very rare and terminal form
of cancer. She fights it, not
for hope of survival, but to
create happy memories for
her two children, Kevin, 6,
and Lexi, 9.
She is fighting a type of
cancer that only four other
known people in the United
States have, according to her
friend, Stacey Smith, who
has helped lead an effort to
raise funding for Misty and
her husband, Andrew. The
money collected will assist
the family in going on vaca-
tion and for the children after
their mother’s life is taken by
the disease.
The cancer is the most ag-
gressive form known.
It has spread to Garnand’s
sternum, bones and in her
liver. The cancer started in
her endocrine system, and
it’s most severe in her liver,
she said, already at a Stage 4.
“Her type of cancer has no
cure,” Smith said. “No hope
for survival. So she is fight-
ing for memories. She wants
to do everything she can to
make good memories for her
kids. She goes through pain
and still gets up for them.”
Caddo Grove Elementary
School principal Kathryn
Cockerham taught Garnand
in kindergarten. Smith at-
tended school with Garnand.
She has spent her lifetime in
Joshua.
It’s only been one month
since Garnand found out that
she has cancer. She went to
the doctor for a regular check
up and no cancer was de-
tected in her body, so when
she started feeling sick and
developed stomach pain,
she dismissed it. Eventually,
she went to the doctor again,
thinking she was perfectly
fine, and learned of her ter-
minal cancer.
“In a month’s time, Misty
has gone through a huge pro-
cess and treatment,” Smith
said. “Normally people have
lots of time to process this.
When she first found that
she had cancer, she was in-
consolable. She went through
denial, anger, fear, all these
things that people normally
See MOTHER | Page 5A
JOSHUA STAR/COURTESY PHOTO
Misty Garnand, 33, is fighting a terminal cancer diagnosis for
time with her family. Shown are her husband, Andrew, and chil-
dren, Kevin, 6, ana Lexi, 9.
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