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Vol. 138 - No. 51-1 Section, 12 Pages
Mount Vernon, Franklin County, Texas July 19, 2012
Home Page: www.mt-vernon.com Periodical 50 cents
SPORTS
AND SCHOOL
NEWS
Meagan Wardrup snags
a pop fly during the All
Star Darling’s State
Tournament.
Page 12A.
INSIDE
H.H. “Cotton” Miller
receives Golden
Trowel Award.
Page 2A.
Sixteen vie for Rodeo
Royalty titles.
Page 3A.
Saltillo FFA members
receive Lone Star Award.
Page 6A.
Adult children are
a good thing
By Susan Reeves
I had several instances over
the past couple of weeks to be
thankful that I now have adult
children. My husband, John,
and I have been extra busy at
the office in recent weeks. He
has been working double hard
to get all our wireless custom-
ers converted over to the new
fiber optic system. I have
been working to try and keep
any extra
work off of
his plate. I
have actu-
ally had the
opportu-
nity to use
the “good”
camera and
the big lens
at a few sporting events.
While we have been busy,
our adult children have been
holding down the fort at home.
I have to brag on them a
little. They have been cleaning
house, buying groceries, cook-
ing dinner, and holding down
part time jobs. How did I get
to be this lucky?! I know this
nirvana will not last forever,
so I am going to continue to
enjoy it as long as I can.
The best reason for being
happy to have grown children
was made apparent to me this
past Saturday. I made the trek
to Commerce to watch the
All-Star Darlings softball team
compete at their State Tourna-
ment. The Darlings are 7 and
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Cash Mob coming
to Mount Vernon
The first in a series of Cash
Mob events has been planned
for today, Thursday, July 19.
The event is being sponsored
by the Mount Vernon Main
Street Alliance.
This first event is set from
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at
Mount Vernon Floral - Flow-
ers by the Party Barn. The
store is located on the south-
east corner of the square
at the corner of Main and
Houston streets.
According to Carolyn
Teague, Main Street Coordi-
nator, the concept is simple:
members of a community
come together to shop in
a locally-owned establish-
ment to support the area
economy.
“To participate, meet at
the designated store at the
designated time, spend $20,
and have fun,” Ms. Teague
said.
- Susan Reeves ’12
Early voting for Runoff
Primaries begins Monday
In-person early voting for
the July 31 Runoff Primary
elections begins Monday,
July 23 and continues through
Friday, July 27. The Runnoff
Primary has a shortened period
for early voting in person.
Voters are eligible to vote in
the election if they were regis-
tered to vote 30 days prior to
the election (by July 2 since the
30th day was on a weekend)
even if they did not vote in the
General Primary elections.
Magic
More than 130 students and adults at-
tended the magic show performed by
Darrell Miller on Thursday, July 12 as
a part of the Franklin County Library’s
Optic Photo by Marie Dacus
Summer Enrichment Program. During
the show, Magician Darrell Miller leaned
over and pulled coins from the ear of audi-
ence member Vernon Pennington.
Sewerline location to be
moved, delays project slightly
If they voted in one party’s
primary in May and/or signed
a petition for a candidate of a
particular political party, they
must vote in that same party’s
runnoff election.
The Franklin County Clerk’s
office has received 61 Repub-
lican requests for by mail bal-
lots as of Tuesday. Of those
requests received, 27 were
returned. No requests have
been made by Democrats.
A ballot request form can
be picked up or requested by
phone by calling 903-537-
2342. The completed by mail
ballot request form should be
mailed to Franklin County
Elections Dept., Attn: Betty
Crane, P.O. Box 1047, Mount
Vernon, Tex. 75457.
The last day for registered
Franklin County voters to
request a ballot by mail is
Tuesday, July 24. Completed
requests must be received by
the coordinator’s office and not
just postmarked by that date.
Republican voters will have
four nominee races on their
Runoff Election ballot. The
Republican nominees for U.S.
Senate will be decided between
Ted Cruz and David Dewhurst
and Railroad Commissioner
between Warren Chisum and
Christi Craddick.
Republican voters will vir-
tually decide the winner in the
bid for an unexpired term for a
second Railroad Commission-
er seat between Greg Parker
and Barry Smitherman and for
Justice, Supreme Court, Place
4 between John Devine and
David Medina, since there are
no Democrat candidates for
those offices on the November
General Election ballot.
In addition, Republican
voters will provide confidence
voting for party precinct chair-
men in some precincts. If no
one files to have their name
placed on the ballot and no one
files as a write-in candidate,
the race is omitted from the
ballot in those precincts.
One nomination is to be
determined in the Democratic
Party Runoff Primary. The
Democratic nominee for the
U.S. Senate seat will be de-
cided between Paul Sadler and
Grady Yarbrough.
- Lillie Bnsh-Reves ’12
Tribute set for
veterans of Korea
Franklin County’s Veteran
Service Officer Steve Austin
announced plans for a tribute
to those who served in the Ko-
rean War. The ceremony will
be at 1 p.m. Friday, July 27 on
the downtown plaza.
He is wanting those who
have served in that conflict
to be recognized, attend the
ceremony, and help place the
ceremonial service flags for
each of the branches of ser-
vice that day. Mr. Austin can
be reached at 9903-577-6763
or by e-mail at franklinvso@
hotmail.com.
Volunteers are needed that
morning to place the poles,
attach and raise each of the
United States memorial flags.
These special flags, each rep-
resenting a deceased Ameri-
can veteran, are placed on the
downtown plaza for special
ceremonies such as this and
six other major holidays dur-
ing the year.
Volunteers will gather at
7 a.m. to raise the flags and
again at 4 p.m. to lower, fold
and store the flags. Those
interested in volunteering
should call 903-537-3087.
The location of the west end
of the planned 1-30 sewer line
was approved to be moved by
the Mount Vernon City Coun-
cil at their meeting last week.
The change will delay the start
of the project and increase the
cost, according to City Man-
ager Eddie Turner.
The proposed location of the
line did not mesh with property
owner T om Ramsay’s planned
45 foot wide street. Although
the future street will still cross
the new sewer line, it is further
back on the property. It will
then follow an easement from
the Sonic Drive-In develop-
ers, who own the northeast
comer lot at the 1-30 Hwy. 37
intersection.
The City of Mount Vernon
filed an easement for the sewer
line with the local county
clerk’s office. However, Mr.
Ramsay produced a document-
ed easement dated about two
years ago for his future street
to serve property to the east of
the Sonic and Alco stores.
The council approved the
relocation of the line, but stipu-
lated that a written agreement
with Mr. Ramsay about the
crossing of the two easements
be reached before proceed-
ing with surveys and other
paperwork on the sewer line
project.
Mr. Turner told the council
that moving the line would
be handled as a change with
the contractor. The cost of the
move was not known, since it
would be done on an hourly ba-
sis by the construction crew.
In other matters, the council
took the following action:
- Set budget workshops at
5:30 p.m. July 17 and 19;
-Approved an alcohol per-
mit for the Wine in the Pines;
- Ordered publication of
issuance of Certificates of Ob-
ligation, in the amount of $3.8
million for sewer upgrades;
- Adopted an updated in-
vestment policy and sign or-
dinance; and
- Approved $15,000 Exist-
ing Business Structure match-
ing grant to Hamrick Land
Services and Briscoe Land
Services (Councilman Briscoe
recused himself).
- Lillie Bnsh-Reves ’12
Farmers Market now
Monday thru Saturday
The Franklin County
Farmers Market is expand-
ing. The market will be open
Monday through Saturday
from 8 a.m. until vendors
are sold out. The weekday
market vendors will be on
the west side of the plaza in
order to take advantage of
morning shade.
Willie Bane, Farmers
Market Committee Chair-
man for the Franklin County
Chamber of Commerce, ap-
proached the Mount Vernon
City Council at their meeting
last week. The council had no
objection to the expansion.
Mr. Bane explained that
most people with extra pro-
duce from their gardens could
not wait a full week before
selling the goods. “When
their vegetables are growing
they are ready now, not next
Saturday.” emphasized Mr.
Bane.
This is the third year for
the Farmers Market to op-
erate on Saturdays March
through the end of Novem-
ber. The number of vendors
has steadily grown over that
time.
“ We hope this will help
both farmers and buyers,”
said Mr. Bane.
- Lillie Bnsh-Reves ’12
CodeRed can find lost
children, senior citizens
The newly implemented
CodeRed warning system pro-
vides more than just weather
information.
The CodeRed system has
a history of helping to locate
missing children and elderly
individuals with Alzheimer’s
and similar disorders. The
General Notification includes
alerts to incidents such as
missing children, missing el-
derly, road closing, wildfires,
water supply problems, road
closures, escaped prisoners
and similar warnings.
Franklin County Emergen-
cy Management Coordinator,
Gerry Allen, is encourag-
ing Franklin County citizens
to sign up the free CodeRed
Warning System if they have
not yet done so.
The warning system has
both severe weather and gen-
eral notification alerts and cit-
izens can chose which alerts
they wish to receive. The
Weather Notification includes
severe thunderstorms, flash
floods and tornadoes.
“I’ve been receiving a great
deal of feedback from the pub-
lic indicating that the weather
warnings are working very
well, but we still have many
citizens who have not taken
the opportunity to sign up for
this very important service,”
Mr. Allen said.
The CodeRed system is
tied to the National Weather
Service, so that as soon as a
severe weather warning is is-
sued by the National Weather
Service, the CodeRed system
begins notifying people in the
path of the severe weather.
By only notifying those
households in the path of
storms, the system is designed
to overcome the problem of
people receiving so many
warnings not related to their
location that they stop paying
attention to the alerts.
Allen cautions, “If you
receive an alert, you know
that you are in the path of the
storm or that something that
could affect your location is
occurring.”
A mobile application for
smart phones known as the
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