T RI C OUNTY L EADER VOL. 24, NO. 52 WHITEHOUSE • TROUP • LAKE TYLER • ARP THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012 14 PAGES 50 CENTS Bulletin Board ........... 2A Living Out Loud......... 2A Business Review ...... 6A Churches................... 4A Classified Ads ........... 5B Community ........ 3, 5-8A Meals on Wheels ...... 5A Opinion...................... 2A Obits .......................... 3A Sports..................... 1-6B Index Thought for Today FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS CMYK + + + + See JACKSON, Page 7 Barbara Jackson: A teacher affecting eternity “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank Your hometown newspaper ... T RI C OUNTY L EADER Leader Staff Photo/Suzanne Loudamy BY DON TREUL Editor Troup girls at state powerlifting meet Friday, March 16 See Sports, Page 6B Roundup: Time to scrap your crap! Former WISD teacher Barbara Jackson teaches people to teach others. BY SUZANNE LOUDAMY Reporter Educators, staff honored at Arp, Troup, Whitehouse Whitehouse ISD approves staff contract renewals BY SUZANNE LOUDAMY Reporter Following executive session dur- ing last week’s Whitehouse ISD board meeting, trustees approved the renew- al of contracts for professional employ- ees for the 2012-2013 school year. Also, Wanda Honeycutt was approved as a Special Education Math teacher. Donations to the district that were accepted by the board include $1,024.50 from the Dugout Club to the Athletic Activity Fund for general supplies. The Diamond Club donated $438.84 to the Athletic Activity Fund for hotel expenses for the girls’ softball tournament. The First Ladies Booster Club contributed $950 for costumes. Whitehouse Band Booster Club donat- ed $6,827.62 for band travel expenses. Margaret Higgs donated a Buesher Baritone Saxophone valued at $1,500 through Denny Whitley. Keep White- house Beautiful donated $200 to Cain Elementary for campus beautiÀcation. In other business, the board granted authority to the superintendent to de- termine the project delivery/contract award method and to negotiate and approve contracts with vendors for per- formance of construction/repair/main- tenance projects. They also authorized the superintendent to execute an offer and price sheet for electricity service for the district. In curriculum matters, approval was given of instructional materials al- lotment and TEKS certiÀcation for the next school year. Trustees also approved the offer made by Texas Education Commis- sioner Robert Scott to defer implemen- tation, for one year, the new 15 percent rule concerning a student’s end-of- course grade. The rule Assistant Superinten- Leader Staff Photo/Suzanne Loudamy Scouts from Den 1 Pack 359 of Whitehouse presented the colors during the March Whitehouse ISD board of trustees meeting. Carrying the flag is Nick Rinehart followed by David Nichols and Yanis Sid Mohand. See CONTRACT, Page 3 The Whitehouse Large Item Roundup ( also known as Clean Whitehouse Day ) is fast approaching, and the weather is perfect to go through your house and look for those broken, outdated and replaced items such as appliances, furniture, outdoor furni- ture and grills, mattress- es and toys, according to Courtesy Photo/Angela Klein Kurt Bateman stands in front of some of the items dropped off at the 2011 Large Item Roundup. See ROUNDUP, Page 3 Barbara Jackson of Whitehouse has been at the head of the class for many years. Her students have ranged from age six all the way to students in their 50s. From matching to methodology, Jackson teaches the whole student and sends them out the door, ready for whatever comes next. Growing up, Jackson talked only of being a nurse. “My daddy made me be a candy striper,” Jackson said. “It was enough to let me know nursing was not what I wanted to do.” Jackson says she be- came a teacher because of a wonderful teacher she had. “We moved to Texas from Cincinnati, Ohio, midterm of my sixth grade year,” she said. “If that was not enough culture shock, somewhere in there I fell behind in math.” When she reached high school she encountered a teacher that would change her life forever. Tommy Tomlinson, who was Jackson’s plane geometry teacher at John Tyler High School, told her one day that she was way too smart to be making the grades she was making. And with some tutoring, Area residents were indicted in recent Smith County court action. In the Smith County 7th Judicial District Court on March 1, the grand jury indicted the following: James McCrary, 55, who lives in the 17000 block of County Road 2142 in Troup, was in- dicted for forgery alleg- edly committed Jan. 28, 2010. He was arrested Dec. 24, 2011, and bond was set at $25,000. In the Smith County 241st Judicial District Court on Feb. 23, the grand jury indicted the following: Grand jury indicts area residents Zachary Patterson, 31, who lives in the 500 block of Partridge Lane in Whitehouse, was in- dicted for theft allegedly committed from May 2010 through April 11, 2011. He was arrested April 11 and bond was See JURY, Page 7 Scores of educators and staff have at least 20 years experience in the Arp, Troup and Whitehouse school districts. In honor of their service to the stu- dents and communities, they include: Arp Independent School District Kelly Ford, 23 (years); Donnie Brown, 21; Sandra Chesshir, 34; Ran- dy Copeland, 26; Bertha Duncan, 30; Bettty Dwire, 20; Kathleen Fain, 27; Ernie Haire, 22; Margaret Hamilton, 23; Tammy Harris, 22; Dale Irwin, 20; Shirley Irwin, 44; Mae Johnson, 20; Connie Joiner, 30; Theresa Jones, 20; Sherri Kain, 21; Brian Keith, 27; Sha- See HONORED, Page 7
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TRI COUNTY LEADERVOL. 24, NO. 52 WHITEHOUSE • TROUP • LAKE TYLER • ARP THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 201214 PAGES 50 CENTS
Following executive session dur-ing last week’s Whitehouse ISD board meeting, trustees approved the renew-al of contracts for professional employ-ees for the 2012-2013 school year. Also, Wanda Honeycutt was approved as a Special Education Math teacher.
Donations to the district that were accepted by the board include $1,024.50 from the Dugout Club to the Athletic Activity Fund for general supplies. The Diamond Club donated $438.84 to the Athletic Activity Fund for hotel expenses for the girls’ softball tournament. The First Ladies Booster Club contributed $950 for costumes. Whitehouse Band Booster Club donat-ed $6,827.62 for band travel expenses. Margaret Higgs donated a Buesher Baritone Saxophone valued at $1,500 through Denny Whitley. Keep White-
house Beautiful donated $200 to Cain Elementary for campus beauti cation.
In other business, the board granted authority to the superintendent to de-termine the project delivery/contract award method and to negotiate and approve contracts with vendors for per-formance of construction/repair/main-tenance projects. They also authorized the superintendent to execute an offer and price sheet for electricity service for the district.
In curriculum matters, approval was given of instructional materials al-lotment and TEKS certi cation for the next school year.
Trustees also approved the offer made by Texas Education Commis-sioner Robert Scott to defer implemen-tation, for one year, the new 15 percent rule concerning a student’s end-of-course grade.
The rule Assistant Superinten-
Leader Staff Photo/Suzanne Loudamy
Scouts from Den 1 Pack 359 of Whitehouse presented the colors during the March Whitehouse ISD board of trustees meeting. Carrying the fl ag is Nick Rinehart followed by David Nichols and Yanis Sid Mohand.See CONTRACT, Page 3
The Whitehouse Large Item Roundup ( also known as Clean Whitehouse Day ) is fast approaching, and the
weather is perfect to go through your house and look for those broken, outdated and replaced items such as appliances,
furniture, outdoor furni-ture and grills, mattress-es and toys, according to
Courtesy Photo/Angela Klein
Kurt Bateman stands in front of some of the items dropped off at the 2011 Large Item Roundup.
See ROUNDUP, Page 3
Barbara Jackson of Whitehouse has been at the head of the class for many years. Her students have ranged from age six all the way to students in their 50s. From matching to methodology, Jackson teaches the whole student and sends them out the door, ready for whatever comes next.
Growing up, Jackson talked only of being a nurse.
“My daddy made me be a candy striper,” Jackson said. “It was enough to let me know nursing was not what I wanted to do.”
Jackson says she be-
came a teacher because of a wonderful teacher she had.
“We moved to Texas from Cincinnati, Ohio, midterm of my sixth grade year,” she said. “If that was not enough culture shock, somewhere in there I fell behind in math.”
When she reached high school she encountered a teacher that would change her life forever. Tommy Tomlinson, who was Jackson’s plane geometry teacher at John Tyler High School, told her one day that she was way too smart to be making the grades she was making. And with some tutoring,
Area residents were indicted in recent Smith County court action.
In the Smith County 7th Judicial District Court on March 1, the grand jury indicted the following:
James McCrary, 55, who lives in the 17000 block of County Road
2142 in Troup, was in-dicted for forgery alleg-edly committed Jan. 28, 2010. He was arrested Dec. 24, 2011, and bond was set at $25,000.
In the Smith County 241st Judicial District Court on Feb. 23, the grand jury indicted the following:
Grand jury indicts area residentsZachary Patterson,
31, who lives in the 500 block of Partridge Lane in Whitehouse, was in-dicted for theft allegedly committed from May 2010 through April 11, 2011. He was arrested April 11 and bond was
See JURY, Page 7
Scores of educators and staff have at least 20 years experience in the Arp, Troup and Whitehouse school districts.
In honor of their service to the stu-dents and communities, they include:
Arp Independent School DistrictKelly Ford, 23 (years); Donnie
A couple of days ago, I postedto Facebook about how I’d playedmy husband some motivationalmusic while he got ready for work.As he pulled on his bullet proofvest and gun belt and strapped onhis handcuffs and flashlight, I ser-enaded him (well, youtube did any-way!) with Salt N Pepa’s “What aMan,” the theme song to the TVshow COPS and Bonnie Tyler’s80s hit “I Need a Hero.” Larry leftthe house grinning, feeling loved and pumped up to do hisjob. One of my friends commented about my song choices.I told her that I had to give honor where honor is due.
You see, over the years, my sweetie has held lots ofjobs. Ultimately every one of them has been a service toothers. I swear this man must be made of something prettyspecial. When we met in 1992, he was in college. He was avolunteer firefighter on the weekends while attendingschool to get his criminal justice degree and his paramediccertification. He had a dream of one day attending semi-nary to become a preacher as well. Over the course of thelast 20 years, he has spent a lot of time in the back of anambulance, driving a patrol car and perfecting his skills as
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BULLETIN BOARD Living Out Loud“Wake the neighbors! Get the word
out! Come on, crank up the music,climb a mountain and shout! This islife we’ve been given, made to belived out … so live out loud.”
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to say hello to a special avid reader,Rose Cleaveland.
Her daughter, Alice Kissel, tells methat Rose’s Thursday is not completewithout reading our little LOL columnhere.
It is a privilege and an honor to knowthat Ms. Rose in a part of my LOL fol-lowing. God bless you darlin’!
+++What do you call those sales in the
neighborhoods? Yard sale? Junk sale?Sidewalk sale? I call them garage sales,no matter where the stuff for sale isplaced.
I don’t think in all of the garagesales I’ve had in my life I’ve ever actu-ally held one in the garage. My garageis always too cluttered with other stuffand people keep asking, “Is this forsale? Is that for sale?” Of course I al-ready have a sign on those things hang-ing on the wall NOT FOR SALE. Butthey have to ask anyway!
I’m getting ready for a garage saleat my house on Saturday. There aresigns to make, tables to ready, itemsto tag and final decisions to make.
You know we cleaned out the stor-age building behind the house andeven emptied the rented storagespace. What didn’t go in the trash is inmy house, UGH, and on my backporch.
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Regional expressionsStanding in line for a movie a few
days ago, I overheard a middle-agedman tell a friend, “Lord, I’ve been busierthan a bee in a tar bucket.”
Having written a couple of books onEast Texas expressions, I thought Iknew them all, but the bee in the tarbucket was new.
But, then again, East Texans havealways been inventive when it comesto expressing themselves.
My wife often chides me about calling our refrigeratoran “ice box.”
But it’s an expression I find hard to drop. Growing up inDiboll in the early forties, we had in the kitchen a tall box-like enclosure where my mom kept perishables such asmeats, eggs and cheese.
To keep the box cool, an ice truck made its rounds aroundDiboll on a regular basis, leaving a block of ice in the box.Since he was a trusted delivery man, he walked throughthe kitchen door on the back porch and dumped the ice inthe “ice box.”
I am not sure, but I think this was one of those servicesprovided without charge by Southern Pine Lumber Company.
But woe be unto the kid in the house who forgot tohang the “ice card” on the front porch. The card had dif-ferent amounts and the ice man delivered the amount atthe top of the card. If the card wasn’t present, we likelywent without ice until my father went to the ice house andpicked up a block.
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an investigator. In 2005, he graduated from seminary andwas hired by a local church where he served for 4 1/2years as a pastor. He’s been back in the law enforcementfield for the past couple of years. One day when the kidsare grown and moved out, we may go back into full timeministry, but until then, we are just taking things one dayat a time, serving where God has placed us for this seasonof life.
Sometimes I look at my husband and just sigh. He isamazing! People don’t really understand what goes on inthe life of a giver like him. There isn’t a moment of the daywhen he isn’t focused on someone else. Whether he is athome helping with one of the kids, lending a hand withour son’s Scout group, investigating a case at work, or pray-ing with someone over the phone, he is perpetually find-ing a way to serve.
So yes, I played him a few songs to build him up on theway out the door as he headed in to work. But it’s the leastI could do for this man who I am so very proud of. Whenyou are lucky enough to be married to a guy like this,you’ve gotta give honor where honor is due!
(Contact Liz Reeves by Blog atliz-ourblessedfamily.blogspot.com or by e-mail at
East Texas expressions seem to be making a comeback.I recently heard a man say that his wife “has a biscuit in theoven,” referring to the fact that she was pregnant.
Other expressions dealing with biscuits include these:• “Burn the biscuits and feed the devil.”• “If you drop a biscuit, you’ll likely marry a poor man.”• “If you take the last biscuit on the plate, you’ll marry
the cook.”• “Those biscuits are so big that it only takes nine to
make a dozen.”The best delicacy in many rural households was ‘nanner
puddin’ which, of course, is banana pudding.Some people who come to East Texas have difficulty
understanding our way of speaking.A few years, ago, while we were having guests for din-
ner, my wife instructed me to “run to the store” and pickup a loaf of bread. One of our guests looked at me andasked, “Instead of running to the store, why don’t youdrive your car?”
“I’m fixin’ to go” or “I’m fixin’ to do that” is another ex-pression some people don’t understand.”
Here are a few other popular expressions: “I’m so brokeI can’t buy dust.”
“To tame a mule, bite him on the ear.”“He’s so lazy he won’t hit a lick at a snake.””If your nose itches, you will kiss a fool.””He’ll charge hell with a bucket of water.”(Bob Bowman of Lufkin is the author of more than 50
books about East Texas history and folklore. He can bereached at bob-bowman.com)
Vietnam Vets meetVietnam Veterans of America will meet on Thurs-
day, March 15 at Traditions at 7 p.m. All veterans arewelcome.
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful meetsKeep Whitehouse Beautiful will meet Monday,
March 19 at noon at the Whitehouse YMCA, 301 TerrySt. The public is invited.
Library hours and activitiesRegular library hours for the Whitehouse Commu-
nity Library are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri-day noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Storytime is Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Contact thelibrary at 903-839-2949 for more information.
Regular hours for the Cameron-J. Jarvis Troup Mu-nicipal Library are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 1-5p.m., Thursday 3-7 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Call the library at 903-842-3101 for more information.
WH Recycle Center openBeginning March 1, the Whitehouse Recycle Cen-
ter will change their hours. New hours will be Wednes-days from 7-10 a.m. and 3:30-4:30 p.m. and the firstSaturday of the month ONLY from 8 a.m. to noon. Untilthen hours of operation are on Wednesdays from 7-10a.m. and 3:30-5 p.m. as well as the first and third Satur-day 8 a.m. to noon. Bring your recyclable paper, news-paper, cardboard, plastic, aluminum cans and tin cans.The Recycle Center is located on Railroad Avenue.
Troup Recycle Center openTroup now has a self-service recycling receptacle.
Bring your recyclable paper, newspaper, cardboard, plas-tic, aluminum and tin cans to the Allied Waste Recyclingbin placed across from the downtown fire station at thecorner of W. Bradford and N. Georgia.
TASCA offers many activitiesWhether your interest is dance, exercise, card or
domino games or even scrapbooking, the Tyler AreaSenior Citizens Association is the place for you. Dropin at 10495 CR 2167 (Jim Russell Rd) in Whitehouse orcall Billie at 903-871-3217 for more details.
FBC Troup holds garage saleFirst Baptist Church of Troup is having a church
wide garage sale. Saturday, March 17, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.Proceeds go to summer youth camp.
WHS horticulture holds plant saleBeautiful flowering bedding plants as well as healthy
vegetable plants go up for sale on Monday, March 19 inthe greenhouse at Whitehouse High School. ContactCraig Dornak at 903-839-5572 for best times to shop.
WH Athletic Boosters meetThe Whitehouse Athletic Booster Club will meet
Monday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in the WHS commons area.
Troup trustees to meetTroup ISD trustees meet Tuesday, March 20 at 6
p.m. at the Troup ISD Administration Office at 201 N.Carolina.
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I have every-thing from furni-ture from the1940s to Rain-bow Bright andPatty O’Greendolls from the1980s. I havesheets and blan-kets, an old patioset that I’ve hung
on to for much too long. I even havetwo lighted metal palm trees. Yes, youread right. Lighted metal palm trees.They were half price when I boughtthem! And they looked really goodthat first year we had them up.
And then there are the clothes. Ihave clothes that go back to a size Ihaven’t fit in for 10 years or more. Butyou never know when 50 poundsmight just fall off of me and I’ll want towear them again. Right...got a life-sizepicture of that really happening!
I almost forgot the entire line of cardand gift store closeout items. Myfriend closed her store several yearsago and still has some great stuff leftthat she would love for you to takehome.
The classified ad reads 8 a.m. to 2p.m. So explain to me why there willbe a hoard of folks trolling up and downKarla Drive at 7 a.m. If Macy’s doesn’topen until 10 a.m. do you typically sitin the parking lot for a full hour beforethey unlock the doors?
If you are a regular garage saler inthe Whitehouse area, you may seesome things that you have seen be-fore when you come by my garage sale
on Saturday. As I continue to sortthrough things I’ve discovered thatsome of the items are things I’vepicked up at other garage sales. Sosome of this stuff may be on its thirdor fourth life!
I think the best story I have from agarage sale is the four wooden foldingchairs I have with VFW stenciled onthe back.
A neighbor at the end of our streetwas having a sale a few years back andI spotted these chairs. I’m a chair nutand folding chairs are always good tohave when lots of folks come over. SoI’m talking to him and trying to makea deal. By the way, I rarely pay theprice marked. I’m a wheeler dealer!Anyway, when he found out I was aresident of Karla Drive, he came downon the price a bit just to be a goodneighbor. And he told me the storyof how he got them.
When Mr. Gamble passed away, an-other Karla Drive neighbor, his fam-ily had an estate sale and he pur-chased them. I was at that sale, boughta couple of things myself, but I guesshe had already bought the chairs be-cause I would have remembered see-ing them.
But the chairs still reside on KarlaDrive and are used quite often whencompany comes.
The fun all begins on Saturday.Come by and let’s make a deal!
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please send it to me atreporter@tricounty leader.com or call903-839-2353.
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John Thomas Melton
CONTRACT Continued from Page 1
dent Richard Peacock was referring to as he discussed the matter with the board is part of a system implemented by the Texas Legisla-ture that requires end-of-course exams that would count as 15 per-cent of a student’s nal grade. This is to begin with this year’s fresh-man class. However, the Texas Legislature recently sent a letter to
Scott stating he had the authority to offer the de-ferment. In turn, Scott noti ed Texas school districts they had the option of postponing the 15 percent rule until the 2012-2013 school year.
The ling deadline for Places 4 and 5 on the WISD board of trustees closed at 5 p.m. on Mon-day, March 5. Wade Weathers was the only one to le for his cur-
rent place on the board. Jason Wade, incum-
bent in Place 4, chose not to run again.
“I’ve been in the po-sition for nine years,” Wade said. “It is time to move on.”
Gregory Hood was the only taker for Place 4.
With no opponents, during the April meet-ing, the board will likely cancel the May election.
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Christopher Knight shared with the audience and board members how he and fellow team members at Cain Elementary won several awards during the recent East Texas State Fair Academic Rodeo. Knight received the highest individual score in Mathletics.
John Thomas Melton was born on May 24, 1931 in Troup to Ray-ford and Lorene Rucker Melton. He departed this life on Monday, March 5, 2012. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, brother James Melton and sisters Louise Um-land and Helen Under-wood.
An informal memo-rial was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10 at Winfree Baptist Church, 19525 Highway 62 S, Bridge City. Relatives and friends were also in-vited to attend the Celebration of Tommy’s life at the Orange Boating Club, 2206 Du Pont Drive at 6 p.m. that evening.
Survivors include his wife Bettye Melton of Orange; daughters Linda Melton of Lumberton, Kathy Melton of Deer Park, and Sandy Melton of Waimanalo, HI; grandchildren Athena Melton of San Marcos and Kai Melton-Kitigawa of Waimanalo; many nieces, nephews, cousins, and a large loving extended family. Called Honey, Daddy, Grandpa, Tom, Tommy or John, he will be greatly missed by everyone who knew, loved and respected him.
Tom graduated from Troup High School in 1949, joined the Navy and was honorably dis-charged in 1953 after service during the Korean War. He went to work at the Union Carbide plant in Victoria where he met and in November, 1956, married the love of his life, Bettye Lee Davis.
They moved to Orange when he was hired at the newly opened Firestone Plant, where he start-ed as an operator and retired from a Supervisory position in 1983. Tom served on the Firestone Credit Union Board of Directors for 20 years.
He later earned his Broker’s License, and then worked for the US Post Of ce as a rural mail car-rier until retirement in 2001. Tommy was an ace bridge and poker player and was also a numbers whiz, helping and advising his family and others on nancial matters.
John/Tommy never met a stranger, and was loved by all who knew him. In 1980 when he, Bet-tye, Sandy and Doug Winfrey were lost in a boat in the bayou for three days, his many Firestone, Boat Club, Credit Union, and other friends put their lives on hold to search for him.
He was considered “Lucky”, and won many Ca-sino and other prizes, even a Wheel of Fortune trip to Hawaii and $50,000. He was a gener-ous tipper and always shared his winnings with grateful family and friends.
Tommy was a good friend to all. He will be es-pecially remembered, loved and appreciated for his kind, giving nature and loving spirit. He was a wonderful gardener, sharing his roses and veg-gies with friends and neighbors, and cooking for family and guests.
His wife, daughters, and grandchildren were blessed with the most wonderful husband, father, and grandfather in the world and never once doubted his love for them.
If you are moved to remember Tom in some way, we know he would be pleased if you would consider making an extra donation to your favor-ite charity.
During the period from Monday, March 5, to Sunday, March 11, the Whitehouse Police De-partment responded to 67 calls.
+++On Monday, March 5,
of cers responded to 16 calls including:
PUBLIC SERVICE, 300 blk of Shahan, Re-porting person had ques-tions about his small dog being attacked by German shepherd. Of- cers located and cited
owner for CODE VO-LIATION.
DISTURBANCE, 400 blk E. Main, Reporting person advised distur-bance. Of cer cited sub-ject for assault by con-tact.
DISORDERLY CON-DUCT of a Juvenile, Whitehouse High School, 901 E. Main- of cers on location cited juvenile.
TRAFFIC AC-C I D E N T - M I N O R , Hummingbird and E. Main, no injuries. +++
On Tuesday, March 6, of cers responded to 7 calls including:
ASSIST ANOTHER AGENCY, SCSO, 300 blk of Rainbow- requested assistance with case in-vestigation.
THEFT, 100 E Main (CVS), items taken of -cers took information for report.
ASSIST ANOTHER AGENCY, SCSO, 400 blk E. Main- requested assistance with case in-vestigation.
ASSIST ANOTHER AGENCY, New Sum-mer eld PD, 200 blk Les-lie- requested assistance in attempt to serve war-rants.
+++On Wednesday, March
7, of cers responded to 6 calls including:
MISSING PERSON/
RUNAWAY, Reported from AIMS center – of- cer obtained info for
report and child was re-turned home unharmed.
PUBLIC SERVICE, 100 BLK WHIPPOR-WILL, Reporting person had questions about pos-sible harassment. Of cer answered questions.
TRAFFIC ACCI-DENT-MINOR, 600 Blk HWY 110S, no injuries.
+++On Thursday, March
8, of cers responded to 7 calls including:
STOLEN VEHICLE, 400 blk Amanda Crt, re-covered in Tyler – same day.
SUSPICIOUS PROP-ERY CONDITIONS, 1200 BLK HWY 110N, vehicle parked, interior light on. All ok – vehicle unoccupied and secure.
FUNERAL ESCORT, through city to White-house Cemetery.
911 HANG UP, 200 blk Amanda Crt – Of -cers checked out, discov-ered was phone trouble.
+++On Friday, March 9,
of cers responded to 10 calls including:
PUBLIC SERVICE, 101 Bascom, person came in to lobby requested to speak to an of cer about civil issues and crimi-nal trespass. Of cer an-swered questions.
A C C I D E N T - P R I -VATE PROPERTY-100 blk Hagan Rd, vehicle rolled downhill into emp-ty eld. No Damage, no injuries.
PUBLIC SERVICE, 1700 Sapphire Cay, Person advised his mo-torcycle was recovered by the previous owner and refused to return due to payment. Of cer answered questions, re-ferred him to JP3, due to civil issue.
MIP TOBACCO, AL-
COHOL, ATTEMPT TO POSSESS MARIJAUNA, 901 E. MAIN- Of cer cit-ed one in possession.
ASSIST OTHER AGENCY, 400 blk HWY 110N, WHPD assisted Tyler PD in a hit and run in Tyler. Of cers took subject in to custody.
+++On Saturday, March
10, of cers responded to 12 calls including:
PUBLIC SERVICE, 101 Bascom, Called PD, had questions about his juvenile son living in Whitehouse with his mother, that is now be-coming uncontrollable. Of cer answered ques-tions.
911 HANGUP – 100 blk Crestview was an ac-cidental dial.
ASSIST ANOTHER AGENCY-911 HANGUP, 10100 blk Wooded Way, Of cers checked out, was juvenile playing on phone, juveniles educat-ed about 911.
RECKLESS DRIVER- HWY 110n CITYLIM-ITS, advised light tan blazer at high rate of speed, caller could not provide license plate. Of- cers searched, failed to
locate.+++
On Sunday, March 11, of cers responded to 9 calls including:
UNATTENDED VE-HICLE, E. Main/CR 2133, Orange Mustang in ditch, secured and not oc-cupied. Of cer obtained register owner info to make contact.
TRAFFIC ACCI-DENT, 800 blk 110S, no injuries, one cited.
PUBLIC SERVICE-WELFARE CONCERN, 100 blk Nunn, Of cer checked out all ok.
ASSIST MOTORIST, 700 blk 110N, vehicle broke down, of cer towed vehicle for owner.
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Cornerstone Church of the Assemblies of God
Tom Saali, Pastor9107 Paluxy, Tyler
903-561-2086First Assembly of God
WhitehouseMichael Fleming, Pastor
502 HWY 110 S 903-839-2356
First Assembly of God- Troup
Tracy Wright, Pastor606 E. Bryant •903-842-4566
Grace Chapel Assembly Mike Davis, Pastor
17269 US-69 S. Tyler903-839-7806
BAPTIST
Antioch Baptist ChurchRev. Kenneth Johnson
903-839-3013Blackjack Baptist Church
Clint Covington, Pastor18214 TX HWY 110
903-842-2226Community Baptist Church
Allen Emerson, PastorHwy 64 @ CR 2607
903-839-7629First Baptist Church- Mixon
Joe Ballard, Pastor 4975 FM 177 E. Troup
903-842-3776First Baptist Church- Troup
Dr. Paul Saylors, Pastor935 Hwy. 135 903-842-3091
First Baptist Church-Whitehouse
Dr. Ray Davis, Pastor801 E Main • 903-839-3333Gateway Baptist Church
Rick Sydnor, Sr. Pastor 1205 HWY 110 S
903-839-7171Greater New Faith Baptist
Rev. Richard WilliamsHill Creek Baptist ChurchHWY 110 S • 903-581-2171Lake Tyler Baptist Church
Sherman Mayfield, Pastor13230 Old Omen Rd.
903-839-4527Liberty Baptist ChurchRev. Willie Nobles, Pastor
HWY 135 • 903-859-5911Little Zion Baptist Church
Rev. Lennon BrownBascom Rd.
903-839-2894Mixon Missionary Baptist
Lester Foreman, PastorHWY 177 - Mixon
Mt. Carmel Baptist ChurchBennie Portwood, Pastor
10519 FM 344 E 903-839-2606
Mt. Elem Baptist ChurchRev. Richard Robinson, Pastor
18991 HWY 110 S903-839-2672
Mt. Rose Baptist ChurchRev. Fredrick Pierce, Pastor
Troup • 842-4862Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Rev. Paul Robinson, Sr., PastorHWY 346 • 839-2951
CHURCH DIRECTORY
BAPTIST
New Emmaus Baptist Bro. Micheal Manis,
FM 856 •TroupNew Hope Conglee Baptist
Rev. Ernest Dews, Jr., PastorCR 2152 • Troup
New St. Matthew Baptist Rev. E.L. Lockett, Pastor
14589 HWY 110 SNew Testament Baptist
Pastor, Jim SellersBarbee Road - Whitehouse
Omen Missinary Baptist Church
Rev. Kenith Cline, Pastor17912 CR 285 • Arp
Pleasant Hill BaptistPastor Bobby Bressman
13590 HWY 110 S903-561-0445
Salem Primitive BaptistBob Bolden, Pastor
Hwy. 15 - Troup Union Grove Baptist
Jim Norman, Pastor20548 F M 15 903-842-2590
West Duval Baptist ChurchBro. Roland Chamberlin105 S Alma • 842-3744
New Canaan BaptistSteven Lynch, Pastor
18760 CR 2138 903-839-2556
LUTHERAN
Trinity Lutheran ChurchArt Hill, Pastor
2001 Hunter, Tyler 593-1526
CATHOLIC
Prince of PeaceFather Ariel Cortes
903 E. Main - 903-871-3230
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Church of Christ- TroupJim Heath, Minister
412 W Duval 903-842-4219
Sadler Street Church of Christ - Troup
Bill Freeze, Minister22454 CR 2156903-842-3300
Sinclair Church of Christ
Ralph Kinnel, MinisterHwy. 135 S., Arp
903-842-2424New Summerfield Church of Christ
Daniel Morgan, Pastor155 CR 4507 903-726-2131Whitehouse
Church of ChristJay Lockhart, Minister
201 HWY 110 S 903-839-2388
CHURCH OF GOD
Deliverance Tabernacle Church of God in ChristElder Robert Davis -Pastor
21273 Hwy 135903-842-4610
Mary’s Memorial Church of God in Christ
Rev. Robert E. Lee, Pastor205 W. McKay • 903-842-4961
Southpoint Church of God
Gaylon Taylor, PastorRhones Quarter Road
903-581-8466Whitehouse Church
of God in ChristRev. Noel Caldwell, Pastor18118 CR 214 - 839-0662Carpenter’s Fellowship
Dan Branch, Pastor306 Hwy. 110 S. 903-839-2406
METHODIST
Bascom United Methodist
Bob Waldman, PastorFM 848 • 903-566-1676
Edom United Methodist Church
Pastor, Russell HallFM279/314• Edom
903-852-7179 Henry’s Chapel
United Methodist ChurchDavid Goodwin, Pastor4539 FM 13 E • Troup
903- 842-4200United Methodist
Church TroupMike Cline, Pastor
202 E Duval • 903-842-3320Walnut Grove
United Methodist ChurchMike Cline, Pastor
FM 344Whitehouse United Methodist Church
Rev. Matt Thomas, Pastor405 W Main • 903-839-2173
NAZARENE
Martin’s Chapel Church of the Nazarene
579 CR 4610 • TroupRev. John Davis, Pastor
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
Bible Wesleyan ChurchDennis Cable, Pastor
104 Hagan Rd. Whitehouse903-839-7039
Calvary FellowshipRandal Brown, Pastor
101 Glenda • Whitehouse
903-839-3211Lighthouse of Prayer
MinistriesWillie Lacy, Jr., Pastor210 Duval St. • Troup
903-842-4805Christian Faith
Fellowship ChurchRev. Beverly Thompson, Pastor
18424 FM Rd. 756903-839-1430
Community ChurchRev. J. M. Kriel
122 W Duval • TroupHope of Glory Apostolic
Elder M. L. WilliamsonHwy 135 N • TroupJoy Street Ministry
Steven OakesJoy Street • Troup
903-539-0936Tyler Metro Church
Jerry Phelps, Pastor14196 Hwy 110 S
903-561-0253Voice of
DeliveranceRev. Joe Pittman, Pastor
102 Judy • Whitehouse WildernessTabernacle
W.D. Baird, Pastor22103 CR 2151 903-842-2215
PRESBYTERIAN
Concord Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Rev. Duane Dougherty, Pastor244 CR 4705 - Troup
903-842-4745First Presbyterian TroupRev. Doug Blanton, Pastor
201 S Carolina
www.opopcc.orgFather Ariel Cortes
Prince of Peace Catholic Church903 E. Main St., Whitehouse, Texas
903-871-3230
Call or visit our website for Mass timesand other information.
Whitehouse Church of ChristJay Lockhart, Minister
201 HWY 110 S • 903-839-2388
Do You Love Virtue More Than You Fear Punishment?An ancient poet has remarked that good men avoid sin from a love of virtue while evil men avoid sin from a fear of punishment. Psychologists who study moral development tell us that the early stages of moral development are largely about avoiding punishment, but that as children grow older they usually develop an appreciation for virtue and moral principles. If you do the right thing only because you fear being punished if you don’t, you are at best acting like a child, and at worst, morally depraved. If you do the right thing because you have a sincere love of virtue, then you have achieved a higher stage of moral development. On the spiritual plane, the difference is between someone who does what is good out of sheer adherence to moral or religious precepts, acting primarily from a fear of hell ire, damnation, or similar punishment, rather than from a love of God and his fellow man. We should cultivate irst and foremost a love of God, and secondly a love of our fellow man. The rest will fall naturally into place.
“Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your entiremind.’ This is the irst and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22: 37-40
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SUDOKU SOLUTION
STUDENTS OF THE WEEKHOLLOWAY SIXTH GRADE CAMPUS
MICHAEL LEKAYLA HENNESY
Courtesy Photo/Deanna DavisThe Whitehouse High School First Ladies Drill Team received 20 awards during the Gussie Nell Davis Competition at Kilgore College Feb. 25.
Meals on Wheels
Weekly MenuMarch 15-22
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118 Railroad Ave.Whitehouse, Texas
903-839-6958
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102 S. GeorgiaTroup, Texas903-842-3101
************Thu (15): Oven fried chicken, black-eyed peas, glazed carrots, cornbread, brownieFri (16): Western pork patty, red kidney beans, hot pineapple tidbits, wheat breadMon (19): Meatballs with gravy, egg noo-dles, broccoli, wheat bread, butter pecan cookieTue (20): Sliced ham, fi eld peas, mixed veg-etables, Texas bread, mandarin orangesWed (21): Chicken and dumplings, chuck-wagon corn, pear cobbler, wheat breadThu (22): Sliced turkey breast, turkey gra-vy, Hawaiian baked beans, baby glazed carrots, Texas bread, seasonal fruit
James Ray of White-house will gather with family and friends on May 5 as they celebrate his accomplishment in being named an Eagle Scout.
Ray began scouting 10 years ago as a young Ti-ger Cub and has stayed a part of the program through this ultimate honor. He is a member of Troop 359 that meets at Whitehouse United Methodist Church. He is the son of Charles and Valencia Ray and the grandson of the late J.W. Rumbelow, Jr. and Josephine Marino Rum-below, Chrystelle Rush-ing Ray of Klondike and the late Jimmie Edd Ray.
In school, 16-year-old Ray is a member of the National Honor Soci-ety, Health Occupations Students of America, Soldiers for Jesus, Bent Knee prayer group and plays varsity soccer.
For his Eagle Scout project, this Whitehouse High School junior con-structed 10 new picnic tables for the White-house City Park with
Working with James Ray were (back row), Rusty Jacks, David Wright, Patrick Ray, Earl Drott, James Ray, John Wright and Charles Ray; (front row). Ryan Jacks, Troy Hayden, Coleman Patterson and Brannon Beaton.
Courtesy Photo/Valencia Ray
James Ray of Whitehouse achieves Eagle Scout rank
Helping James Ray on the project were Troy Hayden, Brannon Beaton, John Wright, Coleman Patterson and David Wright.
Courtesy Photo/Valencia Ray
the help of fellow scouts and generous donors.
Ray said the proj-ect was a success only because of all the help with donations and man-power he received.
“I want to especially thank Steve Jackson for the lumber and Tony and Terri Warren with the tubing bending,” Ray said. “And thanks to all the friends and family who pitched in with the $1,700 in dona-tions.”
JAMES RAY
First Ladies awards —
Elle Harvell of White-house, a history graduate student at The University of Texas at Tyler, was recog-nized at a professional con-ference for her outstanding research, Dr. Donna Dick-erson, interim provost for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies, said.
Harvell received “Best Graduate Paper” honors at the Texas A&M His-tory Graduate Conference, which was sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta and the Texas A&M History Grad-uate Student Association.
The conference featured more than 50 papers pre-sented by graduate and doctoral students from across the state and region including UT Austin, Bay-lor University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, University of North Texas and Oklaho-ma State University.
In her award-winning paper, Between Fires: Pro-Southern Cooperationists in Saline County, Missouri,
During the Civil War, Har-vell explored the struggles encountered by Confeder-ate sympathizing citizens in central Missouri in the face of overt Union con-trol. The work is based on a chapter of her thesis.
She will graduate in De-cember and plans to pur-sue a Ph.D. in history at
the University of Missouri, continuing her research on irregular warfare during the Civil War.
Harvell is a member of the UT Tyler Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Chi honor societies.
As an undergraduate, she held several positions in Gamma Phi Beta.
Harvell honored at History Graduate Conference
June Pendergrass is the February Teacher of the Month for Mozelle Brown Elementary. Mrs. Pendergrass teaches 4th grade Language Arts and has been an employee of Whitehouse ISD for 13 years. Thank you, Mrs. Pendergrass, for helping students foster their love of reading and for helping them to be strong writers.
Brown T.O.M. —
Courtesy Photo
Kayla Hennesey - Dur-ing the school day Kayla enjoys science the most. After school she likes to spend time with her friends.
Michael Le - Michael spends his time after school studying and reading. He enjoys math class the most.
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903-842-3411
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Parents: Pat and Terri Van SchuyverInstrument: trumpetBand honors: Jazz band, All Region, 1st division Solo and Ensemble, Squad LeaderSchool activities/honors: HOSA, HOSA secretary, NHS
Parents: Lee Warren and Jennifer GabrielInstrument: trumpetBand honors: Solo and Ensemble
Cain Surveying was honored as the Whitehouse Chamber of Commerce Busi-ness of the Month for March. Kristin Miles and Don Green, representing the Chamber, were on hand to congratulate Robert Wedgeworth and Jim Cain.Cain opened the offi ce in Whitehouse in 2008 where he and his crews offer boundary, oilfi eld and construction surveying. The offi ce is located at 315 Hwy. 110 South and they can be reached at 903-839-1104.
Leader Staff Photo/Suzanne Loudamy
Chamber Business of the Month —
Tyler’s Beauty and the Beast Bicycle Tour will mark the 24th anniver-sary with the March 24 event.
This year the proceeds bene t the Texas Wound-ed Warrior to raise awareness, honor, and empower the wounded armed service members returning from combat.
Come out and enjoy the “beauty” of East Tex-as while enduring the challenge of “the beast.” Ride distances range from 12.5 to 67 miles.
Early registration can be made online or by mail and should be post marked by March 17. Event Day Registration will begin at 6:30 a.m. at KE Bushman’s Winery and Celebration Center in Bullard.
See the website for more information www.tbcbnb.com or contact Race Director Michael Lewis at [email protected]
Beauty and the Beast scheduled
Business ReviewTo feature your Business in
the Business Review callKristin Miles at 903-839-2353 or
before long Tomlinson found the “math link” that was missing from her chain and Jackson was back on the learning track.
“He would not settle for less than what he knew I could do.”
Jackson said that move would set her on a course to becoming a teacher. And not just any teacher. She had seen, rst hand, the difference
that a teacher can make in the life of a child.
Hundreds of children have come through the capable hands of Jack-son’s rst grade class Whitehouse Elementary and then Cain Elemen-tary. For 17 years Jack-son opened her arms, her heart and her classroom to future doctors, plumb-ers, teachers, artists and parents.
She never stopped learning.
“The day Gus Cain wheeled a computer into my classroom I didn’t even know where to turn it on,” Jackson said. “There I was with six-year-olds who knew more about a computer than I did. I knew it was time to go back to school myself.”
Once she had complet-ed six hours of computer classes, Jackson noticed a statement at the bot-tom of her transcript. It said “no degree sought.” Not liking the looks of that statement it was then that Jackson decid-ed to continue her efforts in the education eld and she began her quest for a Master’s degree in Edu-cational Administration.
“When I got to the
end of my courses, I real-ized that I did not want to become a principal,” Jackson said. “I sat down with Dr. Sherman and told him what was on my mind.”
His suggestion was for her to apply at the uni-versity and teach teach-ers. What better way to impact teaching. That was her goal with this ex-tended education. It was now time to be a mentor. And mentor she did.
In January 1993, Jackson went to work for the University of Texas at Tyler. Her title reads: Coordinator of School Re-lations, Senior lecturer in Education.
“I teach people to teach,” Jackson says. “They can have the best lesson plan in the world but can’t teach it if the class is out of control.”
Classroom manage-ment and teaching skills are her specialty.
“I want my students to be a ‘kid’ teacher rst and then a ‘math’ teacher. It’s about teaching the whole child, not just teaching a subject.”
Jackson has also been tutoring students as they prepare to take their cer-ti cation exams.
“That certi cation test does separate the men from the boys,” Jack-son said. “It is not easy and should not be taken lightly.”
Early in her career she got the opportunity to help a young man she had known for many years, in the Whitehouse community.
“I had watched him coach boys and I knew he had a coach’s heart,”
she said. “He was having trouble with the certi ca-tion test.”
In time, this young man made that leap with the support of his mentor and he went on to teach and coach.
While an opportunity that didn’t pan out as she had planned took Jackson down the road to further her education and even reroute her ca-reer from the littlest to the college learners, she says she knows it was in God’s hands all along.
“I have always prayed that God give me the students who need me,” Jackson said. “And he still does.”
Jackson said she has seen many Whitehouse students come through the teacher education program at UT Tyler and she has even had a couple of her rst grade students come through her classes in the past few years.
The work is gratifying, the pay is good and the hours are great, but Bar-bara Jackson thinks it is time to put her books on the shelf and focus more of her time on herself and her family. There is talk of retirement in May.
She has taught a little history and made a lot of history for students of all ages. Barbara Jackson, you are one in a million! Thank you for your de-votion to the students of all ages, whose lives you have touched and who will go on to touch even more lives.
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his in uence stops.” – Henry Adams
Troup Independent School District Lea Etta Hudson, custodian at HS, 20; Pamela
Jenkinson, aide at ES, 20; Katherine Badger, teaches 8th grade algebra, 22; Marcella Hamilton, MS library aide, 28; Ava Johnson , MS principal, 26; Melanie Johnson, ES Asst Principal, 24; Christine Reid, teach-es kindergarten, 22; Janet Singletary, ES Reading Recovery teacher, 32; Dewayne Brown, Executive Di-rector of Support Services (transportation, cafeteria and maintenance, 27; and Shannon Capps, Executive Director of Technology and Library Services, 22.
Whitehouse Independent School District20 to 24 years:Susan Benson, Support Staff Cain Elementary
School; Anna Boney, Teacher Whitehouse Junior High School; Roberta Cadenhead, Teacher Higgins Elementary School; Melanie Causey, Teacher Hol-loway Sixth Grade School; Jean Chennault, Teacher Higgins Elementary School; Sharee Condry, Teach-er Whitehouse Junior High School; Marilyn Davis, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Becka Gee, Teach-er Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Lora Hall, Teacher Aim Center; Gay Harvey, Teacher Brown El-ementary School; Wendy Howard, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Teresa G. Hughes, Teach-er Whitehouse High School; Beverly Kelly, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Lisa Kendall, Teacher Whitehouse High School; Sharon Mullins, Support Staff Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Jay North-cutt, Whitehouse High School; Kathy Nunn, Teacher District-Wide; Cynthia Phillips, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Kathy Psencik, Teacher Higgins Elementary School; Melissa Qualls, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Jeraldine Rasco, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Barbara Richards, Support Staff Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Lisa Robertson, Teacher Higgins Elementary School; Gerard Scheuber, Teacher Stanton-Smith El-ementary School; Patricia Smith, Support Staff Ad-ministration; Mary Stokes, Teacher Holloway Sixth
Grade School; Cynthia Swinney, Teacher Higgins El-ementary School; Sandra Terry, Diagnostician White-house Junior High School; Angela Tucker, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Angela Vrba, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Denton Whitley, Teacher White-house High School; Curtis Williams Jr., Administra-tor Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Karen Wynn, Support Staff Whitehouse Junior High School; and Thomas Young, Teacher Whitehouse High. School.
25 to 29 years:Judy Boggs, Support Staff Stanton-Smith Elemen-
tary School; Nancy Boone, Teacher Higgins Elemen-tary School; Janet Brunt, Support Staff Whitehouse Junior High School; Gayle Burrow, Support Staff Brown Elementary School; Rebecca Carroll, Teacher Whitehouse Junior High School; Douglas DuPree, Teacher Whitehouse High School; Brenda Glover, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Vickie Godsey, Administrator Transportation; Laurie Guth-rie, Teacher Holloway Sixth Grade School; Sandra Hill, Support Staff District-Wide; Cynthia Hogenmill-er, Support Staff Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Teresa B. Hughes, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Sonja Johnston, Instructional Consultant District-Wide; Nora Lambright, Support Staff Higgins Ele-mentary School; Linda Lane, Teacher District-Wide; Thomas Luce, Administrator Higgins Elementary School; Geetha Ramarathnam, Teacher Higgins El-ementary School; Sylvia Reel, Teacher Aim Center; Tonya Reynolds, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Patricia Richard, Administrator Aim Cen-ter; Robyn Seal, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Joy Sheppard, Teacher Higgins Elementary School; Angela Thomas, Teacher Whitehouse High School; Lou Ann Wagstaff, Support Staff Whitehouse High School; Karen Youngblood, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School.
30 or more years:Rebecca Ables, Teacher Higgins Elementary
School; Evance Anderson, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Cathy Dintelman, Teacher Brown Elemen-tary School; Gatha Dodson, Support Staff White-house High School; Marian Greeney, Teacher Cain Elementary School; Jerri Horn, Teacher Stanton-Smith Elementary School; Betty Lough, Administra-tor Administration; James O’Bannon, Administrator Transportation; Doris Pitts, Administrator Adminis-tration; Pamela Stainback, Support Staff Whitehouse Junior High School.
set at $1,500.Taylor Holt, 19, who
lives in the 6600 block of County Road 344 be-tween Whitehouse and Bullard, was indicted for criminal mischief alleg-edly committed June 23, 2011. She was arrested July 20 and bond was set at $15,000.
In the Smith County 241st Judicial District Court on Feb. 16, the grand jury indicted the following:
Jose Sandoval, 37, who lives in the 500 block of Willingham in Whitehouse was indicted for aggravated sexual as-sault of a child allegedly
committed Jan. 11, 2011. He was arrested Dec. 27, 2011, and bond was set at $500,000.
A Henderson County grand jury indicted Mi-chael Fredrick Johnson Jr., of Whitehouse, for assault on a public ser-vant.
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The Whitehouse High School chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America at-tended the Region 3 Con-ference, held in Waco last month. The chapter mem-bers were among 1,000 delegates attending the two-day conference.
Chef Deidre Stewart, WHS Culinary Arts teach-er, led her students to the following honors: Jamikell Burns placed second in Mystery Basket; Ty Ben-son placed rst in Inte-rior Design; Stormy Ously placed second in Food In-novations (JR); Amber Bennett, Dylan Humphrey, Cristina Gonzalez received second in Culinary Art; Taylor Allen, Colin Mears, Adrienne Anderson was third in Culinary Arts; Krystal Blubaugh placed rst in Occupational Spe-
ci c Serving Up Success; Atlanta Plaza placed rst in Serving Up Success and Isreal Alexander placed second in Serving Up Suc-cess.
Teams of student chefs from 29 schools in the DFW area were slicing and dicing their way through an all day competition in Arlington on Feb. 7.
The students are hop-ing they have the winning recipe to go on to state and national competitions.
The team from White-house High School likes their chances.
“We’ve been gearing up for this all year,” says Deidre Stewart, culinary teacher at Whitehouse High. “All the cooking shows on the Food Net-work have made cooking cool. Who knows? Any of these students could go on to be the next Rachel Ray or Emeril Lagasse.”
The event provides at-tendees with a view of the pressures involved in the very competitive, high-stakes world of top-level restaurants. Contestants are judged and either ad-vanced or dropped based on the judges’ take on the taste, presentation and creativity of the dishes they prepare.
It’s not just a battle in the kitchen. The teams will also match up against each other as owners, managers and concept developers.
Management Competi-tion Teams developed a
Courtesy Photo/Leanne Jamison
FCCLA attend Region 3 Conference
Whitehouse FCCLA students are State bound in Dal-las April 11-14, including back row, Colin Mears, Dylan Humphrey, Ty Benson, Jamikell Burns, Isreal Alexan-der and Stormy Ousley; front row, Krystal Blubaugh, Adrienne Anderson, Taylor Allen, Cristina Gonzalez and Atlanta Plaza. Not pictured is Amber Bennett.
proposal for an original restaurant concept ac-cording to the demograph-ics they’ve been given for “ProStartVille”. They then delivered a verbal and written presentation and applied critical thinking
skills to the challenges that owners and managers face in day-to-day opera-tions.
Under the leadership of Chef Deidre Stewart, WHS Culinary Arts students nished in the top ten.
In the middle of competition were (left to right), Cristi-na Gonzalez, Jamikell Burns and Dylan Humphrey.
Courtesy Photo/Leanne Jamison
At the conference were Kayla Burkett, Taylor Allen, Amber Bennett, Chef Deidre Stewart, Jamikell Burns, Cristina Gonzalez and Dylan Humphrey.
Courtesy Photo/Leanne Jamison
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A small koy pond is easy to install and makes a great water feature in any garden.
In May of 2011, a Lex-ington, Kentucky, wom-an was struck by a fall-ing tree limb and died. According to a local news report, the woman was holding a ladder for her husband as he tried to trim a tree branch caught in a power line. The large limb fell, spinning her around and knocking her face- rst into the ground. The county coroner ruled the death accidental, list-ing the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.
“This tragic story is, unfortunately, not an isolated incident,” says Tchukki Andersen, Board Certi ed Master Arborist, Certi ed Tree Safety Professional and staff ar-borist for the Tree Care Industry Association. “There are many stories in the news media each year depicting the sad details of homeowners getting severely injured or killed by attempting to manage large tree limbs on their own. Tree work, while appearing fairly straightforward and sim-ple, is actually extremely complicated and techni-cal. There is so much to understand about remov-ing live or hanging tree branches, and it is not at all like cutting up re-wood on the ground.”
Quali ed tree profes-sionals are trained to look for and take special precautions against:
• Trees or branches with decay, cracks or un-balanced weight
• Working near over-head electrical wires and other conductors
• Preventing falls from trees they are work-ing in
• Removing portions of or entire trees without causing bodily harm, to themselves or others, or property damage
Do-it-yourself hom-eowners have been hurt trying to cut their own trees in the following ways:
Extension laddersOops! If your ladder
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Trees, saws, ladders don’t mix
branch, do not make the mistake of setting it on something such as on overturned trash barrel to get the reach you need. Find a sturdy ladder that will reach at least 5 feet beyond the branch you lean it on. When a large branch is cut from a tree, the loss of the weight will cause the rest of the limb to suddenly lurch up. Many unaware home-owners have been severe-ly injured, some fatally, when the ladder they are standing on falls out from under the branch they are cutting. The biggest danger is taking too big or too unwieldy of a piece at one time. Cut the limb in small pieces. (for assistance, visit tree-caretips.org to nd a pro-fessional arborist)
Improper tools Oops! Are you going to
borrow your brother-in-law’s chain saw? Do you know the last time that tool was properly sharp-ened or maintained? A dull chain forces you to use too much pres-sure, causing you to lose control. This can lead to numerous problems, many of them potentially resulting in a hospital visit for emergency treat-ment of deep lacerations to your body. Ander-sen notes, “Use properly maintained equipment
and the right size saw for the job.” (for assistance, visit treecaretips.org to nd a professional ar-
borist)Lack of knowledge
of tree mechanics Oops! It can’t be done
with just one cut. This is where those lacking ex-perience in cutting live limbs from trees get hurt almost every time. Trees are mechanically com-plex organisms that need to be cut in a certain way to remove pieces safely. Cutting off a large sec-tion of limb to save time will usually cause the branch to fall before the cut is nished. The cut end will often tear into the branch all the way back to the trunk. This action can cause damage to the tree (and to you) as it swings out of control, usually onto the ladder you are standing on – or the person holding the ladder. Therefore, it is always recommended to remove a large limb in sections. (for assistance, visit treecaretips.org to nd a professional ar-
borist)If you are at all un-
certain about what could happen by attempting your own tree work, con-tact a quali ed tree care professional for help.
Find a professionalA professional ar-
borist can determine the best way to accomplish the task at hand, and has the experience and proper equipment to do the job. And they may just prevent an injury or even save a life in do-ing so. Contact the Tree Care Industry Associa-tion (TCIA), a public and professional resource on trees and arboriculture since 1938. It has more than 2,000 member com-panies who recognize stringent safety and per-formance standards and who are required to carry liability insurance. TCIA has the nation’s only Accreditation program that helps consumers nd tree care companies
that have been inspected and accredited based on: adherence to industry standards for quality and safety; maintenance of trained, professional staff; and dedication to ethics and quality in business practices. An easy way to nd a tree care service provider in your area is to use the “Locate Your Local TCIA Member Companies” program. You can use this service by calling 1-800-733-2622 or by do-ing a ZIP Code search on treecaretips.org.
Information provided by the Tree Care Industry Association.
A large tree beautifully frames a golden fi eld located between Arp and Troup.
Are you looking for a way to spruce up your home but don’t want to spend a bundle?
Consider your light bulbs and xtures. Lighting can go a long way in creat-ing ambiance in a home, and is often cheaper than painting. Plus, it’s more functional than unneces-sary knick-knacks clutter-ing your living spaces.
Here are some lighting tips to create a welcoming atmosphere in your home:
• First impressions count. Make your guests feel at home by using ood-lights, which provide il-lumination across a wide area. And consider add-ing a light bulb dimming switch, which allows you to illuminate the entry but creates a lower level of light to help visitors adapt to sudden changes in light levels when coming in from outside. Floodlights can also create added drama in hallways, kitchens and guest rooms.
• Add color. Looking for a subtle shift in the color of your living spaces? Light bulbs are available in a va-riety of color temperatures, from warm, soft white to cool, natural daylight. Each changes the look and feel of a room.
You can lter out dull yellow rays produced by standard incandescent bulbs with CFL or halogen lights. Or use a special in-candescent light, such as GE’s Reveal bulb, to make colors “pop,” bringing out the vibrant colors and tex-tures of fabrics and furni-ture that would typically go unnoticed.
• Cozy up in the kitch-en. Often a main gathering place, the kitchen should be well lit for both cooking and
Lighting tips to create home ambiance
entertaining. Create a cozy look using recessed down-lights that also offer a well-lit work surface for creating those gourmet meals. Place them 6 to 8 feet apart for even illumination.
• Let the dining room glitter, not glare. To achieve a welcoming ambience in the dining room, keep your chandelier dimmed. For extra sparkle, consider installing small recessed downlights on either side of the chandelier.
If your dining room table, china cabinet or x-tures incorporate dull ma-terials such as wood, pew-ter or wrought iron, coated Reveal bulbs offer a softer illumination that brings out the textures of these materials. And they’re of-fered in candelabra, globe and other shapes tting for decorative applications.
• Enhance brick and
stone. Many of today’s home replaces incorporate stone
and brick walls that can be highlighted with a wall-washing technique called “grazing” to showcase their great color and texture. Place recessed directional xtures 6 to 8 inches away
from the wall and 12 to 30 inches apart for a dramatic visual effect.
If you’re unsure how any of these ideas will look in your home, check out the free “mood cam” app from GE, available on the iPhone. You can snap pic-tures of your interior living spaces and then approxi-mate the look of different lighting options.
More lighting tips can be found at www.gelight-ing.com .
With the proper light-ing, you can change your house into a home.
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PAGE 1B WHITEHOUSE TROUP ARP THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
SPORTSSPORTS
BY DON TREULEditor
Greenhouse Offensive MVP, Cover, Adkins on First Team
BY DON TREULEditor
Whitehouse 6-2 senior guard Correy Davis (No. 3), was named to the Second Team District 14-4A roster.
Leader Photo/Jim Jackson
District honors —
Latrice Greenhouse was named the District 21-2A Offensive Player of the Year after she led Arp and the district in scoring for the 2011-2012 basketball season.
Greenhouse is a senior for the Lady Tigers.
Cheney Cover, a soph-omore, and senior Shelby Adkins of Troup were named to the District 21-2A First Team. Garner-ing Second Team honor were Lauren Little eld, a senior, of Arp and se-nior Keraveon Rodgers of Troup.
Also for Troup, Wykins Caldwell and Taylor Martin received Honor-able Mention.
Troup’s Cover, Rod-gers, Charisma McCo-wen, Martin, Paeton Nolan, Gaberielle Sewell and Britney Wallace also were named to the Aca-demic All-District Team.
Sarah Bulard, a se-nior from Frankston was named the District Most Valuable Player. Mallory Ford, a Sabine senior, was named the Defen-sive Player of the Year. Sabine sophomore Haley Stuart was named New-comer of the Year and Frankston’s Christi Cok-er was selected as Coach of the Year.
The District 21-2A First Team roster also included senior Aubry Okray and sophomore Sara Buckner from West Rusk; Jordan Baker, Kyle Baker and Sierra Wiseman, all juniors from Sabine; senior Ch-antel Laningham and sophomore Jamece Gul-ley from Winona; Tracie Clewis, a junior from
Elkhart; and Frankston players Rachel Brumley (senior), Cassidee Bru-ton (senior) and Chasity Cooper (sophomore).
In addition to Little- eld and Rodgers, the
Second Team included
Ann York (junior) and Brittany Terry (sopho-more) from Sabine; Bethany Machiavello (junior) and Kia Bolton (junior) from Winona; Ashton McDonald (se-nior), Bree Hill (senior)
and Mallory Winkler (junior) from Frankston; Alicia Lipscomb (junior) from Elkhart; and Taylor Thomas (senior), Malorie Herron (junior) and Tier-ney Reddic (sophomore) from West Rusk.
KERAVEON RODGERSSecond Team
CHENEY COVERFirst Team
LAUREN LITTLEFIELDSecond Team
SHELBY ADKINSFirst Team
Leader Photos/Alan Luce
Latrice Greenhouse (No. 2) led Arp in scoring during the 2011-2012 basketball season. She was named as the District 21-2A Offensive Player of the Year.
Ghene ties course record at Holly Lake
MJ (Mujtaba) Ghene torched the eld at the Holly Lake Golf Course in Hawkins last week.
Ghene red a 67 for 18 holes to captured top medalist honors. He led Troup to the team title with a score of 299. The Troup junior var-sity team actually placed second with a 376 and Harmony was third at 380. Dainger eld placed fourth at 440.
Ghene’s 67 also tied the course record. Aus-tin Chambers led a trio of Troup golfers who nished among the top
medalists. He carded a 76 while Will Langston and JK Hamilton each posted a 78 for the course. John Dobbs was fth for the squad with an 81.
In the varsity girls di-vision, Kala Lindsey re-corded a 115 to lead the Lady Tigers to second place in the team stand-ings with a 477. Harmo-ny won the team title at 463.
Also for the Lady Ti-gers, Barbara Womack and Cheyenne Cover
nearly matched each oth-er with respective scores of 118 and 119. Brianna Wilkie red a 125 and Marlee Ward carded a 136 for Troup.
Travis Young paced the Troup JV squad with an 88 for the 18-hole course. Brady Lynn re-corded a 91; Cody John-ston posted a 94; Tanner Hopson red a 103; and Trase Weeks nished with a 117. In medalist play, Josh Hammonds recorded a 115 and Colby Vance posted a 126.
Varsity Boys MJ Ghene ................. 67Austin Chambers ..... 76Will Langston ........... 78JK Hamilton .............. 78John Dobbs .............. 81
Junior Varsity BoysTravis Young ............ 88Brady Lynn ............... 91Cody Johnson .......... 94Tanner Hopson ...... 103Trase Weeks ........... 117
The Lady Tigers de-feated Cushing, Tatum and Union Hill in tourna-ment action March 8 and 10.
Troup 9, Cushing 0A six-run second in-
ning broke open a close game for the Lady Tigers, who posted a 9-0 shutout over Cushing in the Troup Tournament they hosted Thursday and Saturday, March 8 and 10. Lee Ann Lloyd ripped a triple and posted two RBIs to pace the offense.
Also for Troup, Betha-ny Mason belted two dou-bles and Shelby Adkins smacked a double. Aman-da Trahan slugged a dou-
ble and nished with two RBIs in the contest.
Lloyd was the start-ing pitcher and she stuck out two and did not allow a walk. She yielded on hit. In relief, Josee Ross fanned one batter and did not give up a hit or a walk.
Troup 4, Tatum 3The Lady Tigers had to
stave off a rally to hold on for a 4-3 victory over Tat-um. Troup scored three runs in the second frame to start the scoring but the Lady Eagles plated a run in the bottom of the inning to cut the lead to 3-1. Troup earned back the run in the top of the third inning, but Tatum scored one in the bot-tom of the frame. After
the Lady Eagles held the Lady Tigers scoreless in the top of the fourth and nal inning, Tatum ral-
lied for two runs to cut the Troup lead to 4-3. The Lady Tigers were able to get the nal out to pre-serve the victory.
Miranda Flora, Kate-lyn Standley and Lloyd each belted a double and recorded an RBI.
Ross pitched all four innings and she allowed two walks and ve hits. She also struck out four.
Troup 4, Union Hill 2
In a shortened game, Troup edged Union Hill 4-2. Taylor Martin led the offense with a double and an RBI. Flora also re-corded an RBI and Mason
had a single for the Lady Tigers.
Lloyd and Ross com-bined for one walk and one strikeout. Union Hill also collected two hits.
Troup 16, Arp 1In their district opener
with Arp, the Lady Tigers jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the rst inning and broke the contest wide open with ve more runs in the second frame. Arp scored a run in the fth stanza but the Troup Lady Tigers added seven more runs in the sixth and nal inning.
Standley was unstop-pable with four hits and four RBIs, including a triple in the game. Flora recorded two hits, includ-ing a double, and she had
Lady Tigers dominate softball tourney
an RBI. Mason drove in two
runs and had one hit for Troup, and Adkins, Mar-tin and Lloyd each col-lected two hits and an
RBI. Ross was on the mound
for Troup and she allowed three walks and two hits. She also struck out eight batters.
Troup went 3-0 in the tournament they hosted last week.
Leader Photo/Alan Luce
Tri County Leader2B • March 15, 2012
Courtesy Photo/Rita Salinas
ArpBoys Baseball: Tigers at Winona at 4:30/6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20; host West Rusk at 4:30/6:30 p.m. Friday, March 23.Girls Softball: Lady Tigers at Winona at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 20; host West Rusk at 6 p.m. Friday, March 23.
TroupBoys Baseball: Tigers host Winona at 4:30/6:30 p.m. Friday, March 16; at west Rusk at 4:30/6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20. Girls Softball: Lady Tigers at West Rusk at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 20.Track: Troup at Doug Jordan Relays in Rusk Thursday, March 22.
WhitehouseBoys Soccer: Wildcats host Athens at 5:30/7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20.Girls Soccer: Ladycats at Athens at 5:30/7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20.Boys Baseball: Wildcats at Nacogdoches at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 16; host Malakoff at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 17; at John Tyler at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20.Girls Softball: Ladycats host Hallsville at 4:40/6 p.m. Friday, March 16; at Nacogdoches at 4:40/6 p.m. Tuesday, March 20.Golf: Wildcats at Lindale Wednesday, March 28; Ladycats at Lindale Tuesday, March 27.
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Leader Staff Photos/Alan Luce
BY DON TREULEditor
Thursday scrambles will start Thursday, March 15, at the Hilltop Country Club in Troup.
Also, a two-man scramble is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18.
Hilltop County Club will host the Tyler Ju-
nior College Tournament Monday, May 14. The Pete McCarty Memorial Tournament is scheduled for Saturday and Sun-day, June 2 and 3, and the club will host the NT-PGA Junior Tournament Thursday, June 7.
The Troup High school
Rotary Tournament is slated for June 16, the Carlisle Alumni Tour-nament will be June 22, and the club champion-ship is scheduled for July 14-15.
For more information, call the clubhouse at (903) 842-3516.
In their district base-ball opener with Arp, the Troup Tigers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the rst inning. After four score-less innings, Arp cut the lead to 3-2 in the top of the sixth inning.
Troup broke open a close game with three more runs in the top of the seventh frame and had to throttle an Arp rally in the bottom of the inning to seal the 6-4 vic-tory.
Troup posted 11 hits, but only two went for ex-tra bases. Arp recorded three hits.
Ryan Powell was on the mound for Troup. In six innings, he yield-ed three hits and three walks. He also struck out nine. Seth Gibson did not allow a walk and he struck out two for the save.
Kyle Copeland pitched for Arp. He walked one and struck out eight.
At the plate for Troup,
The Whitehouse boys soccer team defeated Chapel Hill 3-1 in over-time.
Whitehouse got on the board mid-way through the rst half on a goal by Alvaro Lopez. Chapel Hill tied the game up with 10 minutes remaining. The Wildcats and the Bull-dogs were unable to score
in the nal minutes of regulation and the game went to overtime.
Whitehouse domi-nated the overtime pe-riod by scoring two quick goals. Both goals were scored by Destin Wilkins and were assisted by Andrew Stevenson. The victory guarantees the Wildcats a district 31-4A
playoff spot. The Wild-cats will be back in ac-tion Tuesday, March 20, in a key district game against Athens.
The Whitehouse JV also defeated Chapel Hill 2-1. Both goals were scored by Mohammed Memon.
Chris Clemons con-tributed to this article.
Leader Photo/Jim Jackson
Whitehouse defeated Marshall to open District 14-4A softball last week, and will next see action when they host Hallsville at 4:30/6 p.m. Friday, March 16.
Ladycats corral Marshall Lady Mavericks in softball
The Ladycats scored the winning run in the bottom of the third inning and added a few insurance runs to post a 9-4 victory over Marshall in the Dis-trict 14-4A softball opener last week.
Kelsie Fairbanks was the starting pitcher for Whitehouse and she pitched a complete game. She struck out ve and did not issue a walk.
After a scoreless rst inning, the Lady Mavericks posted the rst run of the game on the strength of a pair of singles and aggressive base running to make the score 1-0.
Whitehouse answered in the bottom of the frame when Courtney Carter sin-gled to left and scored when Autumn Crymes belted a double to center.
In the bottom of the third inning, Whitehouse scored again when Kel-sie Fairbanks singled to get on base. Erica Jordan followed and smashed a two-run home run to give the Ladycats third rst lead. Carter singled again and was replaced on base by pinch-runner Kelly Keller.
Keller quickly advanced to third
base on consecutive Marshall errors committed from hits by Crymes and Micah Gray to load the bases. Keller scored on a passed ball and Megan Har-ris singled to short to score Crymes and push the lead to 5-1 in the favor of the Ladycats.
In the top of the fourth stanza, Kay-lee Hedricks singled and stole second base. She scored on a Jordan double to center.
The Marshall bats came to life in the sixth inning and the Lady Maver-icks were able to put three more runs on the board to cut the Whitehouse lead to 6-4.
Whitehouse came out swinging in the bottom of the stanza. Morgan Downs led off the inning with a solo homerun to center. Jordan walked and moved to third on a Shelby Galloway double to right. Jordan and Galloway both scored on Carter’s third hit of the night, a tri-ple to the gap in left center.
The Whitehouse defense came out and backed up Fairbanks to hold the score at 9-4.
Wildcats clinch playoff spot with win over Bulldogs
Powell, Copeland battle for rst baseball win in district
Kody Welch and Austin Chambers each had two hits in four at-bats, in-cluding a double and two RBIs apiece. Powell also smacked a double and had one RBI.
Rusty Pierce and Zach Yancey each ripped a double and posted an
RBI for Arp. Chase Carl-isle also had a good game at the plate.
Troup moved to 1-0 in district play while Arp fell to 0-1. The two squads will meet again Friday, March 30.
Leader Photo/Jim Jackson
The Whitehouse Wildcats defeated Chapel Hill 3-1 in overtime in varsity soc-cer and clinched a spot in the state playoffs.
BY DON TREULEditor
Troup..3 0 0 0 0 0 3 -6Arp......0 0 0 0 0 2 2 -4
Troup defeated Arp to start district play with a win.
Hilltop Country Club to start Thursday Scrambles
2012 Wildcats Soccer ScheduleDate Opponent Place TimeMarch 20 Athens Home 5:30/7:00March 23 Kemp (Varsity only) Home 6:00
2012 Ladycat Soccer ScheduleDate Opponent Site TimeMar. 20 Athens Away 5:30/7:00Mar. 23 Chapel Hill Home 5:30/7:00
2012 Arp Softball ScheduleDate Opponent Site TimeMarch 15 Frankston* Home 11:00March 20 Winona* Away 6:00March 23 West Rusk* Home 6:00March 27 Sabine* Away 6:00March 30 Troup* Away 6:00April 3 White Oak* Away 6:00April 5 Elkhart* Home 6:00April 10 Frankston* Away 6:00April 13 Winona* Home 6:00April 17 West Rusk* Away 6:00April 20 Sabine* Home 6:00
2012 Arp Baseball ScheduleDate Opponent Site TimeMarch 16 Frankston* Home 4:30/6:30March 20 Winona* Away 4:30/6:30March 23 West Rusk* Home 4:30/6:30March 27 Sabine* Away 4:30/6:30March 30 Troup* Away 4:30/6:30April 2 Brook Hill Away 4:30April 6 Elkhart* Home 4:30/6:30April 10 Frankston* Away 4:30/6:30April 13 Winona* Home 4:30/6:30April 17 West Rusk* Away 4:30/6:30April 20 Sabine* Home 4:30/6:30*District Game
Tri County Leader4B • March 15, 2012
Courtesy Photos/Leanne Jamison
Whitehouse students attend HOSA conferenceThe Health Occupa-
tions Students of Amer-ica, (HOSA) from White-house High School, attended and competed in the Area III Leader-ship Conference held at Sache High School Feb. 9-10.
There were more than 720 students at-tending this event from the East Texas and Dal-las Area.
Thirty-nine students from Whitehouse HOSA competed in a variety of health related events and 24 of those placed in the top ve in their event.
Eighteen students have advanced to the state conference which will be held March 29-31 at the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio.
HOSA is a national student organization endorsed by the U.S. Department of Educa-tion and the Health Science Education Divi-sion of ACTE. HOSA’s two-fold mission is to promote career oppor-tunities in the health care industry and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. HOSA’s goal is to encourage all health occupations instructors and students to join and be actively involved.
James Ray placed third in Medical Spelling.
Kim Carpio placed third in Dental Terminology.
Leena Asad was third in Pharmacology and she was the recipient of $500 scholarship from Texas HOSA. The team of (left to right), Madison Horn, Ghina Siddiqui, Kelsey Mundt and
Ronnie Alford placed fi rst in Health Education.
The team of Robby Bennett, James Cannon and Conner Morris placed second in Biomedical Debate.
Ashley Cole and Jessa Segaya placed fi rst in Career Health Display.
Emily Stephenson placed first in Medical Assist-ing.
Saib Kazmi, Bridgette Fail, Fariba Ahmed and Jessica Hernandez placed second in Creative Problem Solving.
Chance Hughes placed second in Pathophysiol-ogy.
A knightly visit —
Leader Staff Photo/Kristin Miles
Dustin Stephens (right), a Four Winds Faire performer, took time out to regale the life of a knight with Brett, left, and Ryan Miles.
March 15, 2012 • 5BTri County Leader
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