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By Jerry Morgan, Editor

PROMONTORY PARK -- A family outing on Proctor Lake turned tragic around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, June 17, when a small raft overturned, suddenly throwing its occupants into the lake waters.

Sharon Hawkins, 43, of Stephenville, and a 7-year-old female relative were in the small raft. The girl managed to swim to safety. Hawkins did not.

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By Jerry Morgan, Editor

COMANCHE – Three members of the Commissioners Court gathered for a special called meeting on Monday, June 19, to consider the Emergency Burn Ban declared by the County Judge less than one week earlier.

Judge James Arthur and Commissioners Garry Steele and Chris Biggs were present at the meeting. Commissioner Bobby Schuman was unable to attend the meeting and one position on the Court is temporarily vacant.  >>Full Story<<

By Laura Kestner, Associate Editor

Mattie Newton celebrated her 100th birthday this week, surrounded by family and friends.

Several days prior to her celebration, Mrs. Newton said she didn’t have a sure-fire answer for everyone to live to be 100, but she did know that she personally “ate lots of vegetables” and “never smoked.” She’s also a firm believer in the benefits of hard work. Relatives say she mowed her yard with a push mower until she was well into her 90s.  >>Full Story<<

Community Rehab Project 2006 was held during the week of June 11 – 16. Over 400 local and not-so-local volunteers, ranging in age from 12 to 80, completed renovations including painting, roofing, siding, windows and more on 24 homes during the week.

Volunteers came from Comanche County, several Texas cities, and as far away as the State of Washington. The materials used in the projects came from provided donations and registration fees paid by the volunteers.

Hot weather ruled the week, but the volunteers worked diligently at their assigned tasks. By the end of the day Friday, only two homes had small amounts of work left to do. Each evening, Worship time was provided by Five Stone Canvas and Kelvin Kelley.

This brings the number of volunteers involved in Community Rehab Project since its inception seven years ago to over 1,300 and the number of homes renovated to 86.

As amazing as it is to compare the “before” and “after” photos of the homes, it fails in comparison to the knowledge that many of the young people involved expressed a life long change in the way they viewed others after spending the week involved in the Project.

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