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KHB support
By Becky Hogenson, executive director of Keep Howe Beautiful
We would like to thank you for being a supporter of Keep Howe Beautiful over the years. Although our organization is small, we've been able to undertake different projects in our town. This past year was busy our projects and events included hosting the 2nd Annual Chili Cook-off in conjunction with Howe-lloween night, Fall-Sweep trash off day, booth at Founder's Day, maintaining the welcome to Howe sign bed in front of QuickChek, and watering and weeding the bed in front of Gabriella's restaurant.
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Our biggest project has been construction of the garden and beds surrounding Summit Gardens Event & Venue Center. The garden is about 2/3 finished - more shrubs to add, shade/sun plants around the Historical Marker, finish installing the landscape edging, adding benches & birdbaths, and spreading lots and lots of mulch. There have been many hours put into this project with the help of our members and neighborhood friends. And the garden is already being used..... I saw footprints beneath one of the benches from someone "sitting and relaxing". Our hope is the garden will complement the beautifully restored church and honor the memory of Mame Roberts. The garden is for all to enjoy!
Our new year of 2020 holds more projects to undertake. We would like to help improve Memorial Park and begin construction of a "Monarch Garden" around the gazebo (near the new Summit Elementary School). And of course, continue "Trash-Off" events and maintain the beds at Quick Chek and Gabriella's.
To help with these endeavors, please consider renewing your membership in Keep Howe Beautiful. Your membership dues are used to support these projects that benefit our community. We are always looking for volunteers and have several spots available on our board. Monthly board meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at 6:00 pm at the Economic Development office (the building downtown with the awesome word mural). The volunteering of your time would be more than appreciated! But we also welcome members that want to be donation only and will appreciate your moral support. Attached is a membership form. There are 4 levels of membership: Individual ($15/yr), Family ($25/yr), Business ($25/ yr), and Lifetime ($250). Mail the forms to:
Keep Howe Beautiful PO Box 528 Howe, TX 75459
Or you can renew/join or make a donation using our new Square/ weebly website at my-site-108547103348.square.site
Thank you for your support of KHB. This is a great little town and we are glad to be a part of it.
Keep Howe Beautiful recently cleaned up the rose bushes around the “Welcome to Howe” sign in front of the post office.
Molly Wilson’s (20) defense against Rains’ leading scorer Chanlee Oakes in the third period gave Howe room to grow the lead. Photo by Michelle Carney.
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his Lady Bulldogs to back-toback wins in the area championship round. A year ago, Howe knocked off Alba-Golden for the area title while Friday night, Emory Rains became the victim of Howe’s basketball program as Howe won, 59-34.
Howe’s inside-out game and a suffocating defense saw them storm out of the game Friday in Greenville and advance to a 20-9 lead after the first period. Howe hasn’t been challenged in the first period so far in 2020 and was expected a fight from Rains to open. But instead of a punch to the throat, the Lady Bulldogs escaped with only their hair slightly pulled.
Sierra Copeland, the 6’2 junior is averaging a double-double on the season (double digits in points and double digits in rebounds) with 14.5 points per game and 10.3 rebounds per game. She did a lot of the damage against Rains as she accounted for 17 points and eight rebounds.
But with Howe, that is only a portion of the story as the field general Jenna Honore was dynamic in shutting down her opponent Leo Terry who is their second-leading scorer on the team. Terry finished with 12 points including a banked 3pointer. Rains tried to run their offense through Terry but were unable to.
Meanwhile, Molly Wilson wiped out any chance of it becoming more than a 2-man game from Rains as she shutout her opponent Jaylee Sims. When Ally Harvey got in foul trouble, it was Wilson who was asked to guard Rains’ leading scorer Chanlee Oakes and used her defensive skills to suffocate Oakes and allow the Lady Bulldogs to outscore Rains 13-9 in the third period. Wilson had perhaps the highlight moment of the evening when she drew a charge under the basket against Oakes.
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of time,” said Lands after the game. “If Ally would have picked up her fourth (foul), she’d have been a non-factor until the middle of the fourth. And here again, there’s Molly. She does a lot of stuff that no one notices and she did a great job on 12.”
Wilson said after the game that she’ll do whatever her coach asks her to do. “I have to step up in that situation and I’ll do what I need to do,” said Wilson.
Howe had a combined 30 points from the “Twin Towers” of Copeland and Harvey, but the Lady Bulldogs can score from any direction as Cassidy Anderson drained and flushed two 3-pointers en route to her six points. Honore drove the bucket and scored 10 points while Trinity Williams came off the bench to score 10.
Williams, a sophomore, was able to get valuable playoff experience as Copeland and Harvey each got
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National Honor Society community service hours provided by Loki
At the monthly Howe ISD Board of Trustees meeting, Superintendent Kevin Wilson told the board that Howe’s enrollment for the end of the year was 1,269 students and holding steady with enrollment.
Wilson accepted the resignation of custodian Thelma Alvarez who accepted a similar position elsewhere. They are seeking to replace her. He also noted that the district is seeking a special education aid at Summit Hill Elementary.
The upcoming election in May was discussed with candidates Clint Catching, Charles Haley, Lisa Tibbets, and Jeff Dailey seeking two positions.
The first 2020-2021 budget workshop was tentatively scheduled for April’s board meeting. Wilson said they would look at the revenue and begin the process from there.
He gave a renovation update on Howe High School which was a floor plan of the current library which would become the main office. The architect will draw it up and put it out to bid which would not be ready until April’s board meeting. At that time, the board will decide whether to move forward or postpone the project. The office would be significantly expanded and would give space to an additional counselor and assistant principal at a later time.
He updated the Howe ISD board on the Superintendent TEA’s high Kevin Wilson priority House Bill 3, Reading Academies and Teacher Incentive Allotments. All of the teachers from Kindergarten through third grade will go through a mandatory reading academy which will cost the district $3,000 per teacher which totals $30,000 for each of the next three years. Wilson said that Howe ISD would partner with Region 10 for the training. Any new teacher will have to have a special certification to teach reading.
The Teacher Incentive Allotment is an opportunity for teachers to make more money based on performance. A teacher could reach master, exemplary, or recognized status which funds them from $3,000 to $32,000 per year based on three factors which are level, socioeconomic, and a rural school designation. A master teacher in Howe could gain up to $32,000 in salary.
This year’s living nominees are Dale Rideout, Linda Wall, Pat Stewart, and Sam Haigis. The deceased nominees are Lana Rideout, Billy Joe Wheeler, Duglas Wortham, and Wyline Poole.
Dale Rideout is currently serving a city council position and is a past chamber president. He’s also been on the planning and zoning commission as well as owned and published the Howe Enterprise/Texoma Enterprise for the longest tenure of any owner. He is a member of Boy Scouts of America, the Lions Club, Rotary Club, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Howe Friends of the Library, Howe Chamber of Commerce,
Linda Wall was named the 1997 Norma J. Wallace Citizen of the Year and is Howe's megavolunteer. She served in many capacities for the Howe Chamber of Commerce, First United Methodist Church, Cub Scout Den Leader. She was very active in PTA and helped push forward a plan to start a band program at Howe ISD. Wall was also a leader of the Friends of the Library and has led the charge for Peggy's Porch for many years.
Pat Stewart has been associated with the Howe ISD in numerous roles including teacher and school board member for nearly 50 years. She began teaching in Howe in the 1965-66 school year until 2001- 02. She then became the first female school board member in 2003 and served in that capacity until 2014.
Sam Haigis is most known for his long tenure on the city council, but he also served as a scout leader and helped with the formation of the Howe Band Boosters which was the founding block of the Pride of Howe Marching Band. Haigis has served as Mayor Pro Tem for the majority of his time on the city council. served as a board member for many years. Rideout was also a founding member of the Howe Community Library and the Howe Historical Society.
Billy Joe Wheeler was a school board member and a city councilman who also owned Downtown Howe real estate for a number of years. He partnered with other community leaders to help build Bicentennial Park which contains three baseball fields along Highway 75. Wheeler was a strong advocate of family life in the church as he served as a member of the First Baptist Church of Howe for over 60 years.
Dug Wortham is a former mayor of Howe. He taught in the Howe ISD for six years and had served as a counselor for the Grayson County School Superintendent’s Office. His civic endeavors included the Texoma Regional Planning Commission, Grayson County Mental Health and Retardation Board, The Grayson County Volunteer Fire Fighters Association, Little League baseball, and the Texoma Livestock Exposition.
Wyline Pool was employed by Howe ISD for 31 years. She came to Howe in 1945 where she was a classroom teacher for six years before becoming principal for 21 years. She was a member of the Texas State Teachers Association and served as vicepresident and president of the Grayson County unit of TSTA and one year as secretary of District TSTA. She is the daughter of W.P. Wheeler who was Howe Superintendent for 11 years.
Previous inductees:
Class of 2015
Jabez Haning, W.P. Thompson, A.M. Ferguson, Mame Roberts, Charles R. Thompson, Arthur Boyle, Tony Brinkley, L.B. Kirby Norma Wallace, Ray Bledsoe, Carrie Waller, Elmer Schenk.
Class of 2016
Norman Dickey, Jimmy Bearden, Steve Simmons.
Lana Rideout was a 2-time Norma J. Wallace Citizen of the Year recipient with one coming in two separate decades (1987, 1998). She captured the history of Howe from the late 1970s through 2013 as the editor of the Howe Enterprise/Texoma Enterprise. She was a longtime advocate of the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce and Class of 2017 Donal Gilstrap, Jean Norman, J.J. Chisum, Bob Walker.
Class of 2018
Bob Williams, Tommy Skipworth, Norman Bennett, Harold Taylor.
Class of 2019
Bobby Sollis, Donna Jarma, Lowell Thompson, Marion Allison.
The chamber will also announce the Business of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, and Volunteer Organization of the Year.
