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BIG SATURDAY NIGHT
TRACTOR PULL CROWD. This is what the new tractor pull arena
looked like Saturday night of the Festival as all of the stands,
including the new higher stands in the middle on the left, were
packed. There were dual pulling tracks in use. Late in the
evening a four year old girl from Eastland fell from somewhere
in the stands. She was careflighted to Cooks Children Hospital.
Initial reports indicated her injuries were not life
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Commissioners Enact
Alcohol and Drug Testing Policy Changes
Property Tax Rates Discussed
By JERRY MORGAN, Reporter
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COMANCHE -- Another longwinded meeting
punctuated with two breaks managed to occupy Monday morning in the
County Courtroom as the Commissioners Court dealt with a fairly long
agenda, but made few decisions of significance.
A minor revision to the county's
personnel policy on drug testing was perhaps the action of greatest
interest.
Judge James Arthur joined the meeting
around a quarter hour late and conducted the remainder, after
Commissioner Jimmy Dale Johnson had opened the meeting.
Commissioners Corky Underwood, Kenneth Feist and Sherman Sides
completed the full membership in attendance.
Other county officials present and
participating at various times during the meeting included County
Clerk Ruby Lesley, County Auditor Joey Boswell, County Tax Assessor
Gay Green, Deputy County Treasurer Sue Brown, County Attorney Craig
Willingham, County Sheriff Jeff Lambert, Emergency Services
Coordinator Ray Helberg and his and the Commissioners' assistant,
Trish Grimshaw.
The first item of business was a
presentation by Kevin Burch on behalf of the Comanche Volunteer Fire
Department. He was requesting financial aid for the outfitting of a
new rescue truck.
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Successful 95th Annual P&M
Festival Wraps Up
By LAURA KESTNER, Editor
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From the crowning of the Festival
Queen, and all her junior counterparts, on Tuesday, to the crowning
of Miss DeLeon, late Saturday night, the 95th annual DeLeon Peach
and Melon Festival was filled with fun and excitement.
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CEREMONIAL MELON
SLICING. Bobby Winkles, the 2009 Peach and Melon Festival
chairman, and Megan Williams, the new P&M Festival Queen, are
shown slicing a melon during the free watermelon give-a-way
downtown Saturday, August 8, during the last day of the
Festival. |
“Everything went really well,” said
Jaye Golden festival committee secretary. “There were more people
out there than I’ve seen in awhile.”
Golden said she believes local
participation contributed a great deal to this year’s event.
“We’ve seen more De Leon people out
here,” she said. “And it’s not just more people attending the
events, we’ve had more local help as well.”
In addition to the pageants, festival
goers enjoyed tractor pulls, parade, concerts, dances, a carnival, a
peach dessert contest, melon (and other fruit) auction and a
“Peaches at Sunset” celebration, where peach tea, peach ice cream
and peach cobbler were dispensed free (after the parade) courtesy of
De Leon’s First Baptist Church.
Linda Levens, executive director of the
DeLeon Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the Golden Saturday
activities, said that chamber officials were thrilled with the
participation.
“We had a total of 53 booths,” Levens
said, “it was just incredible. And I went around and spoke with each
individual vendor, and all but three of them were happy with how the
day went.”
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New Game Room Opens in DeLeon
By LAURA KESTNER,
Editor
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NEW GAME ROOM. Jack
Akard, owner of Jack’d, a new game room downtown. |
Jack Akard, owner of the new downtown
game room “Jack’d”, originally had a different location in mind for
his business -- in another town. But Akard, a Lubbock native and
former Comanche resident, said he saw a need in DeLeon.
“I’ve lived here in DeLeon for about a
year and a half now,” Akard said, “but before that I had lived in
Comanche since 1971. I thought for a while about putting a game room
in over there, but one evening when I drove through here, I noticed
that across from Freddie’s there were probably 15 to 20 kids
standing there. And right across the street, there were five or six
more. As I went down the street, I noticed another five or six
across from Rollies. Then, down there where that old grocery store
is, as you turn onto Sipe Springs Rd., there was another five or six
kids. And they were just all standing around talking. They need a
place to go, where they can all hang out together and play games.”
Opening a game room seemed like a
logical solution to Akard -- for the young people of DeLeon and for
himself.
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MISS
DELEON 2009. Kendra Howard, left, was named Miss DeLeon late
Saturday night at the Festival stage as the 2009 Peach and Melon
Festival wrapped up. Kendra is pictured here with JordynStelter,
last year’s Miss DeLeon. |
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WATERMELON SEED SPITTERS. When all the seeds had landed and
been measured late Saturday afternoon, these nine individuals
won trophies. In the front row from the left, ages 0-10, are:
EathanTayer, 10, DeLeon, 36’2”, Kara Strength, 9, Dickinson TX,
23’1”, and Justin Ballenger, 10, DeLeon, 22’9”. Middle row, ages
11-20: Nikki Tidwell, Fort Worth, 44’, Shawn Jettie, Fort Worth,
40’, and Enrique Castaneda, Moore OK, 39’1”. Back row, 21 and
up, Mark Cottrell, Houston, 47’2”, Stacy Smith, DeLeon, 42’10”,
and Clyd Douglas, Fort Worth, 42’3”. |
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