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Representatives of the group administering the Walsh Ranch development, including Malcolm Louden, publicly upped the ante at the Nov. 16 board of trustees meeting, offering the district a million dollar donation as well as covering the cost of grading and running utilities to the site they are donating for a new elementary school. AISD superintendent Derek Citty said the offer has been on the table for some time, but was kept private at the request of the Walsh contingent. Jake Wagner, with Republic Property Group, gave a presentation about the first phase of the development, presenting data and information about why the developers of Walsh Ranch believe the next elementary school in Aledo ISD should be built at the Walsh site. Wagner said he expects the model park to be in place by October of 2016 with all the lots being on the ground by February 2017. Wagner referred to the area as creating a possible secondary Metroplex core, eventually containing not only residential property but a diverse mix of commercial, including corporate centers and medical centers. “Walsh as a whole will have upwards of 8.8 million square feet of office, commercial, retail, medical, different uses,” said Wagner. “It will have an assessed value of over six billion dollars.” When completed, Walsh will be slightly larger than Bedford and other small cities and contain approximately 14,000 homes with 30-40 thousand residents. The initial build out will cover an area in between I-20 and I-30 and on the north side of I-30 on the west side of Walsh Ranch Parkway. The section in between the highways, at 350 acres, is designated for commercial space, with the first homes going north of I-30.
The first phase of homes will run from the four hundred thousand mark up into the millions for custom estate lots. Wagner said there will be approximately 500 lots plus about 40 custom estate lots. The site that is being donated for an elementary school is within this first neighborhood, within easy walking distance for children living in the new development. “We feel like it’s critical to have an elementary school when we open the community,” said Wagner. “It’s important to the fabric of our community and everything we are trying to do from an education standpoint.”
The Ripple Effect
Wagner presented a slide show to show growth projections in the district and how heavily the Walsh development, combined with Morningstar, will figure into that growth. Citty asked that the company that created the report get together with the school demographer. A request by The Community News for a copy of Wagner’s presentation was denied on the grounds that it was “very preliminary and fluid and subject to change.” The decision on the new school has been postponed several times while board members continue to gather data. “It’s not an easy decision, no matter how you slice it,” Citty said. “They have been very careful.” Citty said that the north location is certainly most favorable financially but that the numbers from the demographer indicate a south side location would provide the most relief for crowded campuses. “The district has been longtime partners and friends with Mr. Louden,” said Citty. “The Walsh kindness and charity is very important to Aledo ISD. We are well aware that Walsh Ranch is going to be the primary base of our new growth. We don’t want to do anything to harm our relationship, now or ever.”
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Paula Robinson, CEO of the Center of Hope, addresses the Celebration of Hope dinner Friday night, Nov. 13 at New River Fellowship.
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The Ink Spots may have had it right when they recorded “Into each life some rain must fall.” But the storms of life often affect some people more than others.
Several people who have weathered those storms were in the spotlight Friday night, Nov. 13, when the Center of Hope held its annual Celebration of Hope dinner at New River Fellowship. For an organization barely ready to enter its teen years (the COH began in 2003), the Center of Hope has succeeded in combining the efforts of Parker County churches and organizations to provide
much-needed services to those who have been “battered and tossed.” Erica Markley, for example, spoke of how she had been a 17-year meth addict before reaching out to the Center of Hope. Volunteers there prayed with her, helped with food, and gave her the training and encouragement to obtain her GED. She announced at the dinner she is four years clean. Turn to CENTER, page 2A
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Coder Elementary School student Hunter Fay demonstrates his ball-handling skills during a Teams Of Tomorrow presentation at halftime of the Aledo Ladycats’ junior varsity basketball game Tuesday night at the AHS gym.
New program matches up pilots, rescue dogs and new owners.
Aledo athletes commit to colleges on signing day.
Bearcats face a familiar cast of characters in football playoffs.
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Lazy J Ranch Wear brand expanding outside Parker County By Rosealee Hoffman The Community News
Brad Humphries wanted to create something new for himself, and for shoppers. When the pawn company he worked for was sold several years ago, he and his wife Cresha decided to strike out on their own and start a business. She had a background in hairstyling and boutique item sales, and he had a lifetime of retail experience. They combined that with their love of all things western and created Lazy J Ranch Wear, which they located in Willow Park. “I come from a ranch family in Graford,” Brad said. “When we were trying to decide what we wanted to do, starting a western wear store brought everything together.” Brad said while the men’s side is more traditional, the women’s side is very eclectic and combines the classic ranch wear looks with a modern funk. “It’s kind of a boho cowgirl look,” said Cresha. “We take a little of this and a little of that and throw it all together.” The store carries hats, boots and everything in between. A special niche of Lazy J is custom creased hats, which is a rare find in today’s ready to wear collections. “Back in the 70s, you couldn’t find a hat that was already creased,” said Brad. “Nowadays there aren’t many stores where you can have them creased just for you. I thought it was important to be able to do it, and do it right.” In the two years since the store has been open, it has developed a loyal customer base that has began expanding outside of the Willow Park area. Through a fortunate series of coincidences, the Humphries were able to open a second location in the Fort Worth Stockyards last year. While the second location wasn’t in their plans so quickly, Brad said the hard work and long days have been worth it. “I go out to Billy Bob’s and sometimes see 20 or 30 caps with our logo on it,” he said. “Our brand recognition is constantly growing.” According to Brad, he is beginning to ship branded merchandise, featuring the signature Hereford cattle, all over the country and even to Canada. The expansion of his market has called for a shift in technology, and the Humphries are working on retooling the store’s web site to meet increased demand.
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Chris Martin spoke of how he lost his job in the IT field. “I sent out resume after resume after resume for two years,” he said. With lots of time on his hands, he started volunteering at the Center of Hope. After doing some other jobs, he found out they needed help on the computer training side, so he started training with some other staff. Center of Hope has a co-op with Weatherford College. One day a representative of the college asked if he would be interested in teaching at the college. Thus began a part-time association with Weatherford College, which evolved to full time.
would be $4.6 million. She plans to apply for a $920,000 grant, but needs to raise $1.8 million in order to receive it. Grant application deadline is Dec. 1.
The testimonies were a prelude to the big announcement of the evening, the possibility of combining the Center of Hope’s operations into a single location.
The good news is that would get the Center more than half way to their goal.
Paula Robinson, CEO, presented a video showing plans to refurbish the old Kennedy Sausage plant in Weatherford. In many places the building is decrepit, with roofs falling in and showing years of wear. ROSEALEE HOFFMAN/THE COMMUNITY NEWS
Brad and Cresha Humphries
“Right now we only have 1,500 different products on the site, and it doesn’t update automatically when we sell something out of the store. We have to do everything by hand,” Brad said. “When we get done with it, there will be several thousand items, and everything will work together as far as in-store and online inventory.” The Humphries are also hoping to begin carrying some more high end lines that are popular in the area community. Brad has been negotiating with sales reps to bring those items to Lazy J. “When you’re still fairly new, sometimes it’s hard to get taken seriously,” he said. “But we are very serious about this and we want to bring our customers here what we know they wear.” Lazy J Ranch Wear is located at 104 S. Ranch House Road in Willow Park. Store hours are Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sundays from noon-5 p.m. For more information, call 817-441-2311 or visit www.lazyjranchwear.com.
The rehabilitation of the old building would go hand-in-hand with the Center of Hope’s mission of bringing positive change to people’s lives. “The biggest help will be the size,” she told The Community News. Larger classrooms will facilitate teaching, and additional office space is needed as well. In addition, the new facility would provide an area for re-packaging bulk food items the COH receives. While the current facility utilizes a kitchen, the new facility would have a full commercial kitchen that would enable the Center to serve many more meals. The current Center of Hope operates out of an 11,000 square foot facility that houses the food and education operations. The Hope Chest, at another location, occupies 9,000 square feet. The proposed facility would combine all operations in a 36,000 square foot area, which would also house a chapel and dining area. Robinson said the cost of the facility
“They won’t fund until they know your community is on board,” she said.
While she doesn’t want contributions diverted from the work of her organization, Robinson said she has faith enough donors will step up to help. Van Houser, pastor of Northside Baptist Church in Weatherford, spoke earlier in the evening. Houser said what he finds amazing is that 65 churches can come together and do anything. “That is a miracle in itself,” he said. “There comes a time when you can make a significant change in a community by making a significant gift.” Houser said the staff of the Center of Hope had worked under incredible circumstances, and he looked forward to seeing how much more could be accomplished in the new facility. Contributions to the Center of Hope can be sent to: Parker County Center of Hope 629 Palo Pinto Hwy Weatherford, TX 76086. Contributions for the building project should be marked “Capital Campaign.” For more information, call 817-5940266 or visit centerofhopetx.com. See the sidebar on page 3A for more details on the building project.
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Officers with the Willow Park police department safely apprehended a suspect who attempted to run from a traffic stop in the city on Nov. 15. Just before noon that day, officers attempted to stop a pickup on the north service road near Crown Point Road for speeding. The driver, later identified as Lisa Holding Johnson, was traveling 64 miles-per-hour in a 50 mph zone. The truck went through the stop sign at Mikus Road without stopping and continued going the wrong way in the eastbound land of the service road. The vehicle then entered the roadway, took the 180 exit to Hudson Oaks, stopped for a few seconds on the exit ramp and then continued westbound.
“At this time the focus shifts from a traffic offender to possibly an impaired driver, heightening the concerns for the traveling public,” said Willow Park Police Chief Brad Johnson. The Hudson Oaks police department joined the pursuit in their city. The truck continued westbound into Weatherford, running numerous red lights after slowing down. Weatherford police joined as the pursuit traveled around the downtown square and westbound on Palo Pinto Street, averaging 50 miles per hour. At the 1100 block of Palo Pinto, the suspect was blocked by traffic and forced to stop. Johnson was taken into custody without incident and jailed at the Parker County Jail on a felony charge of Evading Arrest or Detention with a Vehicle. She was released on bond Nov. 16.
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Aledo ISD campuses collected soccer balls in honor of Zeb Montgomery, who had a goal of sending the balls to children in Africa. The district’s goal was more than 1,000 soccer balls. As of the morning of Dec. 13, Vandagriff Elementary School staffers estimated that nearly 100 had been donated on their campus alone. Montgomery battled Leukemia and passed away last week.
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When drafting a to-do list for home improvements that can increase home value and appeal, several renovations may be atop homeowners’ lists. While kitchen or bathroom remodels may be popular renovations, homeowners also should consider outdoor lighting schemes that can make homes safer and more alluring. Outdoor lighting serves various purposes. Such lighting can draw attention to more impressive parts of a property. In addition, such lighting can improve security and deter criminals. To get started, homeowners should first examine the exteriors of their homes and make note of existing lighting and where improvements can be made. If you’re not sure where to begin, speak with an electrician or a landscape designer, each of whom can offer suggestions on lighting and which options are the best fit for your particular property. Next, you’ll want to consider efficiency and function. The United States Department of Energy suggests incorporating energy-efficient lighting, including energy-saving LED bulbs or fluorescent lights, into your plans. Timers and other automatic controls can prevent waste by turning lights on only when they are needed. Solar lights can be used as accent lights, further saving energy.
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Word of Thanks This past weekend we eulogized and celebrated the life of our grandson Zeb Montgomery. He was truly an amazing person. The Montgomery family is so very thankful for everything and every way the community of Aledo and the Aledo ISD reached out to Zeb. For the bone marrow drive, for keeping Zeb’s cause public, for the fundraisers, for the visits and practical demonstrations of love and concern, for the ZebStrong video, for honoring and encouraging Zeb at the Aledo High School pep rally, for making him an honorary captain of the Aledo soccer team, for the Aledo High School Brass Ensemble being a part of Zeb’s funeral. To the Church at the Crossing in Aledo for hosting Zeb’s funeral
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Jayci Stubblefield’s dream is going to come true. The fourth grader at McCall Elementary School has been conducting a campaign called Jayci’s Heart to raise money for wheelchair swings at all four elementary campuses, and at the November school board meeting, it was announced the goal had been met. The Aledo Education Foundation partnered with Jayci to raise the money in time for the installation of the swings to coincide with planned renovations on the playground. “It took a collective effort from the community to make this girl’s dream come true,” said McCall principal Jason Beatty. “And her dream was not for her, it was for her best friend. “You talk about a servant’s heart, because it had nothing to do with what she could get. I don’t get many opportunities as an educator to experience this, and it’s great when you have that opportunity.”
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There have been several inquiries about contributing to Zeb’s vision. You can visit this link https://secure-q.net/Donations/ Converge/3078 and do so. Make the donation to Missions Kenya.
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AEF executive director Shawn Callaway showed a video of the girls playing that left many in the room in tears, including foundation president Tricia Carter Haber.
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Zeb was never able to go with his grandpa to the slums of Nairobi, but he wanted to. On Saturday, almost 700 soccer balls were brought and placed on either side of Zeb’s casket. Our family was humbled by this sight. The outpouring of love was palpable to us. Thank you all!
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“I’ve cried so many times over that video that I think maybe I can hold myself together this time,” she said. “I truly do hope that you know when we got this request, we said absolutely, we’re going to go in this full force. We had some amazing people come to the table.” Carter Haber said that in the last stretch, board member Danny Coffman made a presentation and told the group that they were going to be about $12,000 shy of the $40,000 needed for the swings. “So how do you come back to these two faces?” said Carter Haber. “I have 32 new best friends because of this board, because within an hour, they raised over twelve thousand dollars out of everyone’s pocket. “The proudest moment I have in 23 years of volunteering is being part of this board to make this dream come true.” Members of the board presented the girls with a certificate that read simply: “Thank you for making Bearcat nation even better.” District CFO Earl Husfeld said the swings will take approximately six to eight weeks to receive and will be installed at the same time as the new wood fiber surface.
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Rylea Lambert and Jayci Stubblefield share everything but a playground as friends. Jayci’s work changed that with her campaign to raise money for special playground equipment that is now fully-funded.
And then, just like Jayci dreamed, every kid will get their chance to play.
Rosealee Hoffman is an Aledo native and a staff reporter for The Community News.
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On Wednesday I was sitting at the little table outside of Kwik Kar in Aledo waiting for a ride. I looked across FM 1187 and saw some cattle scurrying along the fence, followed by two bona fide cowboys on horses, herding the cattle. The warm sunshine I felt was a welcome change from the morning, which had been quite chilly. On my own side of the street, I watched as a young couple pushed a baby carriage along the sidewalk in front of Kwik Kar, headed south toward the business district. One of the charms of living in Aledo is that you can see all of the contrasts in the city’s motto, “Rich Heritage, Dynamic Future” in a
short five-minute span. I love that we can still see people working cattle from the same vantage point that we can see the suburban lifestyle exemplified by the Parks of Aledo, which, if I were to guess, would have been the origination point of the couple with the baby carriage. As the city and the area changes, I hope we never lose that contrast, holding to the heritage that this community is built on. All of that is always at the top of our minds here at The Community News. We feel strongly that one of the roles of a community newspaper is to help the community shape and maintain its identity. There are plenty of generic communities out there – we don’t want to become one.
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FOOTBALL
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ANALYSIS
Bearcats’ big plays spark easy playoff win
Round two
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playoff bracket
familiar opponent in area playoffs
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By Tony Eierdam The Community News
Last week the state-ranked No. 4 Aledo Bearcats played and defeated Fort Worth Trimble Tech, a team they also faced in the first round last year on their way to another state championship. History repeats itself again when the Bearcats will square off with the Denton High School Broncos, a team Aledo defeated last year in this same round. The 10-1 Bearcats and 9-2 Broncos will tee it up at 7:30 p.m. today (Friday, Nov. 20) at Northwest ISD Stadium in a Class 5A, Division I, Region I area championship game. The winner will advance to the regional quarterfinals and played the winner of the El Paso Del Valle/ Abilene Cooper area game. The Bearcats are coming off a 76-0 win over Trimble Tech in the opening round, while last week Denton slipped past Grapevine, 12-11, in its bi-district playoff contest. Bearcats head coach Steve Wood said his team will not have it as easy as they did last week as the team marches deeper in the playoffs at the Division I level. “It’s playoff time, and we won’t see any easy teams from this point on,” he said. “Denton has a lot of firepower on offense, and last week their defense held the Mustangs to one touchdown. “Denton has a 2,000-yard rusher at tailback and two very good wide receivers. They can chunk the ball around but they are pretty diverse offensively.” Denton needed a Grapevine miss on about a 35-yard field goal attempt late in the game to take the one-point win. Denton opened the scoring by running back the opening kickoff, added another TD in the first quarter and held on for the win. “I thought that game would be more high scoring,” Wood said. “Grapevine got after them defen-
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Aledo senior defensive back Patrick Peek (6) breaks up a pass last week during the Bearcats’ 76-0 win over Trimble Tech in the opening round of the Class 5A, Division I playoffs. The Bearcats will face Denton High School at 7:30 p.m. today (Friday, Nov. 20) in an area playoff game at Northwest ISD Stadium.
sively and Denton had a hard time running the football.”
Broncos Offense The Broncos on offense are led by 205-pound senior running back Xavier Scott, who in 11 games has rushed for 2,284 yards and 25 touchdowns. Denton runs out of a spread offense, but according to Wood also likes to slip into a two-back offense to provide Scott with an extra blocker. Broncos’ quarterback Scott Atkinson has thrown for 2,030 yards while completing 55 percent of his passes. He has thrown for 20 touchdowns and just five interceptions. “They run a power offense and have some big, physical offensive linemen,” Wood said. “They like to run finesse-type of routes where they use motion. When they put Chris Miller (26 receptions, 562 yards) outside – who also plays in the secondary on defense – they usually go to him. They also like to run wheel routes out of the backfield. “The quarterback is the son of the head coach (Kevin Atkinson) and he has been executing their offense well. He is not really a runner but he has a strong arm. He likes to throw a
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Aledo senior running back Caleb Primera (13) breaks free on one of his three touchdown runs last week in a bi-district playoff win. Primera also added a receiving touchdown in the game.
lot of passes with play action.” Wood said to slow down the Broncos’ offense the Bearcats need to “be physical up front” and win the war of the line of scrimmage – to disrupt Scott’s running lanes and put pressure on Atkinson when he drops back to pass. “We have to be sure with our tackling,” Wood said. “Scott does not go down easily. Normally the first guy doesn’t get him, so we need to get a lot of bodies to the ball carrier. They mainly run him between the tackles so we have to be sure about our tackling.”
Denton Defense Denton runs a 3-4 scheme on defense, a defense the Bearcats have seen many times this past season. “They play a lot of kids on defense,” Wood said. “They rotate 15 kids in their front seven. They stay fresh and are really aggressive up front. They are very athletic and skilled in the secondary. They went to the state track meet in sprint relay and I think all of those kids play in the secondary. “We won’t be able to just line up and run past them. Our offensive line will have to be physical
and aggressive and be able to knock them off the ball.” The Bearcats’ offensive line had to do a little shifting and put in an addition when it lost senior tackle Hunter Harris for the season. But Wood inserted junior Seth Strickland at guard as former guard Wes Harris took his brother’s spot at tackle. “Seth has been doing well, but he started earlier in the year when we had an injury on the offensive line,” Wood said. “But Seth has been on the field every game so it is not like he lacked any experience. There hasn’t been much of a drop off.” Wood said there has been no talk around the field house concerning winning back-to-back-to-back state championships. Should Aledo win another state title this year, it would be the first team in Texas high school football history to win back-to-backto-back state championships twice in a span of seven years. “We are just focused on the next game,” he said. “I feel we are jelling offensively and playing sound defense. Our opponents will get better each week, so we have to pick up our game each week. This is the time of the year you need to be playing your best football.”
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VOLLEYBALL
Six-man swan song
w TCA Eagles fall in state
It was good news, bad news for Ladycats in 2015 By Tony Eierdam
semifinals in program’s final sixman game
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Trinity Christian Academy’s season and final game in six-man football ended when TCAF No. 1 Waco Methodist Children’s Home outlasted the Eagles, 98-91, on Nov. 13 in the state semifinals at Avalon High School. “Waco Methodist proved to be worthy of their ranking,” Eagles’ head coach Joe Hamstra said. WMCH wasted no time getting on the board with a 60-yard touchdown pass on their first play from scrimmage. TCA responded with a six-play drive of their own that ended with a 30-yard pass from quarterback Calib Guynes to sophomore wide receiver Nathan Montano. The two teams continued to trade scores (a 34-yard touchdown run by Nathan Chesney; 45-yard touchdown run by Calib Guynes; and a seven-yard reception by Zack Hamstra). Unfortunately, the Eagles were unable to match extra-point kicks and fell behind by 20 points. By halftime, WMCH was able to extend their lead by 27 points, 49-76. The Eagles were not able to slow down the Bulldog offense with their combination of down the field passing along with a bruising run game. In the third quarter, WMCH extended their lead even further by adding another score on their first possession after stopping the Eagles at mid-field. WMCH and TCA traded scores throughout the third quarter. All three third-quarter scores were due to a strong blocking and the running ability of Nathan Chesney (45-yard run; eight-yard run; and a four-yard
It came as no surprise that the Aledo Bearcats had little trouble in a 76-0 win over Fort Worth Trimble Tech on Nov. 12 in a Division I, Region I bi-district playoff game at Chisholm Trail High School. The Bearcats used big plays to reach the end zone, and head coach Steve Wood and Offensive Coordinator Robby Jones made a point to again work on the passing game during the first half. The coaches have no choice but to do so while also not running up the score. That means the Bearcats are relegated to working on the passing game in the first half, knowing the score will be out of hand at halftime. It was, as Aledo was ahead 55-0 at the break. Starting quarterback Dillon Davis completed his first four passes in the first quarter, including a 70-yard bomb to sophomore receiver Hunter Rosson, who is emerging as Davis’ go-to receiver. Although Rosson is also a first-year varsity football player, he is no stranger to varsity as he was the starting shortstop on Aledo’s state-tournament baseball team last year as a freshman. Davis threw TD passes on three consecutive scoring drives spanning the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second period. He finished the game with six completions in nine attempts for 183 yards and three TDs. Aledo also scored on big plays on the ground, thanks in large part to the blocking of a solid offensive line. Senior Caleb Primera continued to find the end zone against the Bulldogs. Primera scored on one of Davis’ three TD passes as he snuck out of the backfield on a “wheel route” for a 30-yard score. He also reached the end zone on runs of 3, 7 and 22 yards.
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Trinity Christian Academy junior Nick Marcantonio (12) stops a Waco Methodist Children’s home ball carrier last week during the Eagles’ 98-91 loss in the TCAF semifinals. It was the final six-man football game for TCA, which will move to the 11-man game in TAPPS beginning in the 2016 season.
run). By the start of the fourth quarter, the Eagles were down 98-69. “The resilience and character of our team would not allow them to quit,” Hamstra said. After a defensive stop and a no-huddle attack, the Eagles cut the lead to 98-77 with a 64-yard TD reception by Wil Houston. TCA’s Zack Hamstra recovered a fumble followed by another offensive TD by Nathan Chesney (44-yard run) which cut the WMCH lead to 98-83 with less than six minutes remaining in the game. After a failed onside kick attempted, the TCA defense kept the Bulldogs out of the end zone on a failed fourth down pass to the end
zone. Five plays later, Wil Houston caught a 30-yard TD pass from Garrett Stevens which cut the lead to 98-91. TCA had one more chance to tie the game after another defensive stop on the next possession. The Eagles got the ball back with 2:11 on the clock, but unfortunately a turnover on the third play of the drive costed TCA an opportunity to tie the game. Next season, the Eagles will no longer be competing in TCAF’’s 6-man football. They will transition to 11-man football and compete in TAPPS. “The football future looks bright for this talent group of student-athletes,” Hamstra said.
It was a good news, bad news season for the 2015 Aledo Ladycats volleyball team. And it was also filled with bad luck. The bad news was an early exit from the playoffs. The Ladycats fell in the area (second) round to Wichita Falls Rider, a team they had beaten in that same round the past two seasons. It was the earliest a Ladycats volleyball team had exited the playoffs since a 2009 loss to The Colony in the opening round. But the good news is there was not a single senior starter on the court in that playoff match. Ladycats’ head coach Kathy Goings started a line up in the playoffs and throughout the year that sported an entire junior front row with sophomores mixed in, a junior setter, a sophomore libero and a sophomore who played “all the way around” but started on the back row. Another feel-good story in 2015 was when Goings won her 600th career game and was honored by school administration, former players, family and friends a week
later at the next home game. Goings won her 600th career match at Cleburne in the middle of District 8-5A play. The Ladycats finished the season with a 38-12 record which included District 8-5A and bi-district championships. But a season-ending injury to junior middle hitter Emily Smith, injuries to top hitter Maddie Goings on and off throughout the year and other personnel losses left the Ladycats shorthanded in almost every match. “I feel like this team has had adversity since Week One,” Goings said. “Emily (Smith) got hurt early in the season and was out for the rest of the season, and that hurt. And we seemed to have a new injury each week. We would get one girl healthy and another would get hurt.” Goings said the good news about the injuries was several players had to move positions, and because of that she feels her players are more well-rounded. Last year, Goings had a set back row and in most of her 20 years as Ladycats head coach she has had two or three defensive specialists to sub in and out. Turn to VBALL, page 8A
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But Goings had to use hitters Maddie Goings, Peyton Lambert, Izzy Gonzalez, Amanda Norman and others to fill in those back row spots when they were rotated off the front row. “Amanda Norman is a good example,” Goings explained. “She had to play outside (left side) when she is really a rightside hitter, and she made the adjustment well. Brecken Roquemore was a right side that we had to move to the middle, and she adjusted. “I did a lot of switching around over the course of the season and the kids accepted those roles and worked hard at them. And several girls, Maddie included, had to play all-theway-around instead of just front row. These experiences will help us next year as a team. “Some have also had to develop defensive skills, and that can only make them better going into next season. Our offseason is going to be mainly focused on defense, because we know if we can’t win in the defensive realm we won’t win tough matches.” Goings looks forward to her returning sophomores – Drew Gates, Gonzalez, Sydney Casey and Sarah Haeussler – who have gained a year of experience on the varsity. Gates, Gonzalez and Casey played on varsity in their freshman years. Another sophomore - Azle
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Despite an early exit from the 2015 playoffs, the prospects for the Aledo Ladycats in 2016 are promising as AHS will return all starters and all but one roster member. The Ladycats lost the services of hitter Emily Smith (12) for most of the ’15 season and will welcome her return next year. Also shown are hitters Sarah Haeussler (7) and Peyton Lambert (4), who will return next season.
transfer Allegra Rivas – started at libero the entire season and was an important part of the team’s defense while also contributing at the service line. With only Maggie Meyer graduating, Goings will have one spot on varsity to fill. She will go into the 2016 season with a roster of seven seniors – many who have not only played three years on varsity but also have state tournament experience from 2014. Goings is looking for one or more of those seven seniors to “step up” and be leaders. “A lot of that does come naturally, but some kids, if you give them a few pointers on how to be a good leader, that helps, also. I would like to see that, and leadership can also come from the (juniors to be) class. “A girl like (sophomore) Drew Gates voices her opinion a lot, and she has a lot of enthusiasm so I would plug her in somewhere on the court when I thought we needed an emotional boost. I will wait and see who
is going to step up and accept the challenge of being a leader on this team.” Looking back on the 2015 non-district season, Goings said despite the ongoing injury bug she saw progress with her players and as a team. Of course, the highlight of the season was a 13-1 record in district where the Ladycats were undisputed district champions. But the championship would not have occurred had the Ladycats not beaten Granbury twice. “Beating Granbury in both district matches was the highlight of the district season,” Goings said. “Our girls came out very confident in the Granbury matches and did what they needed to do to take those matches. “Granbury was the toughest team, but we let our guard down against Burleson Centennial (in the district finale after Aledo had already clinched the 8-5A championship). Turn to VBALL, page 12A
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Four Aledo High School athletes signed letters of intent last week to continue their education and their athletic careers at their respective universities. PHOTOS BY TONY EIERDAM/THE COMMUNITY NEWS
Aledo senior outfielder Kadyn Kirkpatrick signs a scholarship letter of intent to play softball next year at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Okla. Shown with Kadyn are (from left) Callaway Kirkpatrick, Coby Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Kirkpatrick and former Ladycats head softball coach Jeff Lemons.
Aledo senior Katelyn Davis signs a scholarship letter of intent to compete in equestrian next year at Texas A&M University. Shown with Katelyn are (from left) Aledo ISD Athletic Director Tim Buchanan and Chris Davis.
Aledo senior pitcher Cody Bradford signs a scholarship letter of intent to play baseball next year at Baylor University. Shown with Cody are (from left) are James Fisher, Randy Bradford, Barbara Fisher, Debbie Bradford, Jerry Fisher and Bearcats head baseball coach Chad Barry.
Aledo senior catcher Nick Cheema signs a scholarship letter of intent to play baseball next year at Arizona State University. Shown with Nick are (from left) Bethany Cheema, Kristi Cheema and Bearcats head baseball coach Chad Barry.
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the Brewer tournament, which was played Nov. 13-14.
Taking wins of 56-16 over Fossil Hill and 37-16 over Kerr, the Aledo Middle School eighth-grade A team girls won
“This group played well,” Ladycats eighth-grade A team coach Virginia Jefferis said. “They dominated on offense
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and defense.” Taylor Morgan led the Ladycats with 19 points against Fossil Hill, with Daleigh Ellison recording a double double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
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The Ladycats seventh-grade A team defeated Fossil Hill, 45-15, but fell to Kerr, 40-30. Against Fossil Hill, Audrey Lancaster led the Ladycats
with 21 points with Stefani Gabaldon adding seven. “The Ladycats played great for their first game of the year, “ Ladycats seventh-grade A team coach Keegan Roady said.
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Paced by a second-place finish by Nicholas Scheffe, the Trinity Christian Academy Eagles won the Texas Christian Athletic Fellowship state cross country meet on Oct. 31. Scheffe, who ran a time of 18:13, was joined in the Top 10 finishers by teammate Nathan Chesney, who finished eighth overall with a time of 19:37. “It was amazing to see the improvement in our runners throughout the season,” TCA cross country coach Jennifer Mitchell said. “Each of them achieved personal records multiple times and they saved their best runs for the state meet.”
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Members of the Trinity Christian Academy state-championship cross-country team are (from left) Caleb Chesney, Henry Mitchell, Nicholas Scheffe, Jaxon Davis, Andrew Ludwig and Nathan Chesney.
Other TCA competitors finishing in the Top 15 included Andrew Ludwig (12th, 20:17), Jaxon Davis (13th, 20:35) and Caleb Chesney (14th, 20:42).
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The Aledo High School junior varsity fall team tennis squad played in the South Hills Invitational Tournament at McLeland Tennis Courts in Fort Worth on Nov. 12. Carly Siddons won in girls’ A singles, and Lauren Johnson and Emily Hensley paired up to win girls’ A doubles. Tristyn Fambrough won girls’ B singles, while the team of Fambrough/Claire Stagner won girls’ B doubles. In boys’ A doubles, the Aledo team of Kale Clay and Miles Grubbs took first place, and in boys’ A singles Ethan Witkowski placed second. Cal Malynn won boys’ B singles, and in boys’ B doubles Tristyn Trotter and David Vogel took first place.
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Primera has proved to be “Mr. Inside,” taking hand-offs between the tackles and running through big holes and into the secondary. Sophomore running back Donnie Evans is “Mr. Outside.” Evans is the speed back, consistently scoring on long runs. Against Tech, the fleet-footed Evans crossed the goal line on runs of 38 and 52 yards. “Our passing game worked well,” Davis said. “Our receivers are getting off their defenders and running good routes, and our offensive linemen are giving me a lot of time in the pocket. It is a lot of fun to get to throw the ball.” Did the Bearcats improve as a team last week? Head coach Steve Wood feels they did. “I think we got better, and that was what we wanted the kids to do – stay focused and play hard,” Wood said. “We have to play the game the same way no matter who we play. The whole goal was to come here and improve.” With the offense putting up big numbers, sometimes the defense gets ignored. Wood told me after a shut-out win at Granbury that in today’s high school football, “pitching a shutout” isn’t easy. The Bearcats’ Black Shirts held Tech to minus-3 yards of total offense and just two first downs – one because of a penalty. “We have a really good defense,” Wood said. “You have to take your hat off to Trimble Tech, and I don’t want to take anything away from them. But we have a good football team and we play hard, and that’s what we wanted to see.”
Looking ahead
In A mixed doubles, Kelsi Gemeny and Caleb Hurych placed fourth, and in B mixed doubles Zachary Leeper and Hannah Bell finished in first place.
The win advances the Bearcats to the area round where they will face Denton. The early playoff schedule mirrors 2014. The Bearcats defeated Tech and Denton last year en route to a fifth state championship in the past six years. What’s funny is – if you inspect the 5A, D-I bracket – the Bearcats could play the same teams this
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The Aledo Bearcats’ defense has recorded four shutouts this season including last week’s 76-0 win over Fort Worth Trimble Tech in the opening round of the Class 5A, Division I playoffs. Showed in a gang-tackling effort are Aledo defenders Wyatt Harris (25), T.J. Zalar (29), Larry Brown (24) and Will Trawick (11) with Jaxson Fletcher (34) inspecting the play.
year in the playoffs that they faced last year as El Paso Del Valle, Canyon Randall, Tyler John Tyler and Temple are still alive in the D-I bracket. The winner of the Aledo/ Denton game will face the winner of the El Paso Del Valle/Abilene Cooper game. It’s anyone’s guess who will be the winner of the Del Valle/ Cooper game. But if Aledo reaches the fourth round another familiar opponent, Canyon Randall, likely looms as the Bearcats’ opponent should both reach the Region I final. Randall is the only team in Division I, Region I other than Aledo to be listed in the top 20 this season. Randall actually led the Bearcats at halftime in last year’s state quarterfinal game, but in typical Aledo fashion the Bearcats dominated the second half to run away with the contest. The next round – the fifth round - is where the Bearcats may face a real challenge. Last year, many in the Texas high school football world thought the Bearcats’ season would end in Mesquite against a talented Tyler John Tyler squad, and we all remember how that game turned out (a 44-14 Aledo win). JT would like nothing more than a rematch with the ‘Cats, but
Region II is stacked with undefeated No. 7 Mansfield Lake Ridge and No. 14 Longview. However, one of those three teams will be eliminated this week as John Tyler faces Lake Ridge in the area round. The winner could face Longview – a longtime East Texas power – in the fourth round. Looking at the sixth round, once again Temple looms (talk about another school foaming at the mouth for a rematch with Aledo), and the Wildcats have been ranked as high as No. 2 in 5A. Although Denton, Del Valle, Cooper and Randall have fine football teams – and are certainly capable of scoring an upset win - in this reporter’s opinion once again the Bearcats should prevail through the first four rounds. It’s the last two rounds that are up in the air as the final four teams in Class 5A, Division I will all be capable of hoisting a gold football at Houston’s NRG Stadium on Dec. 18. To read the Aledo/Trimble Tech game article originally posted on The Community News’ web site, use this link: www.community-news.com/sports/10481.
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Over the summer when new head coach Fred Jones was hired to be Aledo High School’s new head boys’ basketball coach, he brought something other than his skill and expertise as a coach. He also brought his daughter, Alexus, who would be a senior and play for the AHS girls’ varsity team, which brought a huge smile to Ladycats’ head coach Mike Pinkerton, who welcomed a playmaker to go along with his other experienced guards. Tuesday night in the Ladycats’ 62-40 home win over the Stephenville Honeybees, Pinkerton’s smile continued as he described Jones’ play. The transfer from Flower Mound Marcus wowed the home crowd by scor-
ing a game-high 25 points to give her team their first win of the young season. Guards Cameron Hudleston and Kara Williams combined for 14 points as the three starting guards scored 39 of the Ladycats’ 62 points. “Our guards came to life,” Pinkerton said. “They controlled the ball and made plays, and they executed in areas we have been working on during practice. When Alexus takes control of her game she will do amazing things. “When we were able to take them out of their offense they made some errant passes and we got steals that led to easy baskets. I think when the girls got into a groove the pressure was off of them and they started playing ball.” Pinkerton also got good post play. Senior letterman Rebekah Hissam added six points, and newcomer Chloe Medford led the team with nine rebounds. Freshman Elizabeth Allanach also made her presence known with nine points. Medford added
six points. Pinkerton said his assistant coaches have been doing extra work with the guards and the posts during workouts. “Rebekah had a nice game, and she has worked very hard,” Pinkerton said. “There is a certain time each day when Coach (Staci) Henyon takes the posts to the other gym and they work on solid, fundamental post play for about 20 minutes each day. And Coach (Nikki) Hyles does special work with the guards. “It’s a team effort, and everybody is pitching in and working hard.” Pinkerton is a coach who stresses defense, and he could not have been prouder of his team when asked about holding the Honeybees to such a low point total. “We feel if we can hold an opponent to 40 points or under we have a good chance to win,” Pinkerton said. “I was absolutely pleased with our defense. We were getting in their passing lanes and getting them out of the stuff they like to run. “When we would stop them, they would not have anywhere easy to distribute the ball. That was big for us.” Although the Ladycats at one point in the second quarter held an 11-point lead, the talented Honeybees came back to cut the lead to 30-26 early in the third quarter. But at that point Jones took over.
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Aledo raced out to a seven-point halftime lead and held on to defeat the Brewer Bears, 55-52,
Tuesday night in the season opener for both teams at the Brewer High School gym. It was the first win for new Bearcats head coach Fred Jones in his first season at Aledo. The Bearcats (1-0) were led in scoring by junior 6-4 post Cam Caldwell, who poured in 18 points. Brewer’s Pedro Castro led all scorers with 27 points.
Three other Bearcats – senior guard Dakota Fischer, junior forward Kolin Hess and junior guard Andres Valdez – each reached double figures in scoring. Fischer finished with 14 points while Hess and Valdez each added 10. Also scoring for Aledo were 6-5 senior post Mitch Sights with two points and sophomore forward Noah Arrington with one. Aledo led 15-12 after the first quarter and built a 30-23 lead at the half. Brewer (0-1) outscored the Bearcats 15-11 in the third quarter to cut the lead to 41-38 as the game moved to the fourth period.
She began what would end up as a 10-0 run with a driving layup down the left side. Huddleston followed with a bounce pass in the lane to Allanach, who drained an easy layup. The run continued when Jones connected on three consecutive baskets – the first on a driving layup followed by another layup off a feed from Huddleston. On her third straight basket Jones drove the lane, but Stephenville sagged back quickly in an effort to stop another layup. But Jones stopped quickly and sank a pull-up jumper to extend the lead to 40-26 with 1:23 left in the third period. The Ladycats never looked back. “The girls played hard,” Pinkerton said. “I am so proud of them.” S’ville Aledo
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Aledo – Alexus Jones 25; Cameron Huddleston 10; Elizabeth Allanach 9; Chloe Medford 6; Rebekah Hissam 6; Kara Williams 4; Caden Cunningham 2. Ladycats next 5 Nov. 20-21 – at Brock tournament (TBA) Nov. 24 – at Nolan Catholic (6:30 p.m.) Dec. 1 – Springtown (6:30 p.m.) Dec. 3-5 – at Cowtown Classic (TBA) Dec. 8 – Granbury (6:30 p.m., 8-5A opener)
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Aledo – Cam Caldwell 18; Dakota Fischer 14; Kolin Hess 10; Andres Valdez 10; Mitch Sights 2; Noah Arrington 1. Bearcats next 5 Nov. 21 – Southwest (2 p.m.) Nov. 24 – at Keller Timber Creek (3 p.m.) Dec. 1 – at Birdville (7:30 p.m.) Dec. 3-5 – at Chisholm Trail tournament (TBA) Dec. 8 – at Stephenville (7:30 p.m.)
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District 8-5A’s leader in kills and Offensive MVP Maddie Goings (13) had another special season and will return in 2016 for her senior season. Also shown is two-time 8-5A Setter of the Year, Erin Weiss (17), who will also return in 2016.
“Not that our girls ever gave up fighting in the match at Centennial, but Centennial played well and we had some areas we struggled in. Centennial is a good team that got better as the season went along.” The Ladycats easily swept Fort Worth Trimble Tech in the bi-district (opening round) playoffs. But the Ladycats ran into an emotional buzz saw in Rider, which wiped away two years of frustration in a five-game win over Aledo in the area playoffs. “The girls fought until the very end against Rider,” Goings said. “I really don’t think our younger girls realized that a target was on their back. But when you face a team for a third straight year in the same round of the playoffs the team that has lost the last two matches will be focused and ready. “I feel on that night Rider’s will to move on was bigger than ours, to be honest. The Rider girls knew they were going to have to pull every trick in the book out to beat us, and they did. I think they were playing to win and we were playing not to lose.” Goings said the team will learn from the Rider loss and work harder in the off season. “It was a bad luck season,” Goings said. “It was a growing season, and we know what we have to get better at and we can only go up. Our experience coming back next year will be huge, and most of these girls have state tournament experience. Getting Emily back will be huge next year, and we will just use the off season to get stronger and better.”
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Last year, when McAnally Intermediate School technology teacher Sara Reed was asked by parents how the school was going to get students involved in community activities, she remembered a program she had heard about at a previous school district where she was employed. McAnally does not have a student council, and Reed wanted to start some type of service club instead. That’s when she introduced SWAP – Students With A Purpose – to the school. SWAP is a service club opened to McAnally Intermediate School fifthand sixth-grade students consisting of various sub committees including Student Ambassadors, Library Leaders, Adopt a Teacher, Green Team, News Crew, Shine Patrol and McCat Meteorologists. The purpose of SWAP, Reed said, is to support various service projects both at the McAnally campus and in the community with the end goal “to make things better for all.” SWAP meets once a month by grade level, and also meets in sub committees.
Beginnings Reed started the SWAP group last year. “It was something that I actually found out about 10 years ago when I was working at the Birdville school district,” she said. “They had it as an after-school program, and I remember it vividly because the kids involved with it did all kinds of different service projects. I wanted to start something like that here.” Reed explained that McAnally had never had a student council, “but we just never really wanted to do that. “That,” Reed continued, “is not what (former longtime principal) Mr. Harmon wanted to do and we couldn’t get anybody to start it. “I told everyone that I wanted to do the SWAP program.” Reed contacted the Birdville school district and talked to the person in charge. She was told what they did, and Reed felt it was something that would work at McAnally. “It sounded like a lot of things we already do, like treat the Center of Hope where we collect money for that; we do food can-food drives; coat drives; a lot of different things,” she said. “But with our other programs it’s like somebody comes up with the idea, we do it and it is finished. I wanted something that is on going, and I wanted to see kids get involved. “Student Council involves a lot of extra time on the weekends, and unfortunately I can’t do that. But SWAP is something I can manage. I have other teachers willing to jump on board and help me with it.”
Student Participation SWAP is open to any fifth or sixth grader at McAnally. The students have to turn in an application and they write a short essay telling us why they want to be part of SWAP and what they can offer to the group. “We give them a list of all the different sub-committees they can be a part of so they have kind of a
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For the second year in a row, McAnally Intermediate School will involve students in the SWAP (Students With A Purpose) program, which is sponsored by technology teacher Sara Reed. The purpose of SWAP is to support various service projects, both at the McAnally campus and in the community, with the end goal “to make things better for all.” Shown are a few of the participating students including front row (from left) Natalie Barron, Fallon Fronk, Ryan Germany, Dawson Nash, Parker Pritchard and Carter Whitfield; and (back row) Carter Bryan, Sullivan Hoffman, Audrey Hood, Macie Lowen, Toby McDonald and Cade Pryor.
smaller group,” Reed said. “Last year we had about 70 students and to try and meet and do something with 70 students is really difficult.” Reed said SWAP is divided into small groups – or sub committees – because she wants them to have a smaller group they could be a part of and to do something with a narrower focus. Other McAnally teachers heading committees include Dana Burke, Paula Cox, Rebecca Buchanan, Kelly Daves, Linda Greenwood, Ashley Hill and Michelle Johnson.
In-School Projects “We have things like ‘McCat Meteorologists’ where they find out what the weather is for the day and they actually get on the daily announcements and give a weather forecast,” Reed said. The program also includes “Adopt-a Teacher” where a SWAP student will be assigned to a specific teacher and they will be required to help that teacher. “The student will go to the assigned teacher and help the teacher at least one day a week with certain projects like organizing papers, hanging stuff on the wall or putting work out in the hallway,” Reed said. “Just an extra set of hands for the teacher. “The science teachers are wanting SWAP students to help them set up labs and things of that nature.” Reed explained that SWAP students help in the library, and a subcommittee also spruced up the teacher’s lounge in the “Shine Patrol” committee. “The students re-did the teacher’s cafe,” she said. “They had a small budget where they went in and cleaned the up the teacher’s cafe and decorated it with a Hawaiian theme. “They put all this cool stuff on the walls and they were responsible for
sprucing up the cafe once a week.”
Reaching Out Another SWAP program will be called “Heart In Hands” which is geared toward service projects. But while Reed prefers the SWAP students work in small groups, she wants all to be involved in Heart In Hands. “We will do things like writing notes to children at Cook Children’s Hospital, or we might talk about a particular drive that we want to do and we will do that together as a group,” Reed explained. “There will still be different things that we will do as a group as opposed to what we do in our small sub committees.” SWAP students also help us with McAnally’s canned food drive, and they will collect box tops from certain food items that are worth money (coupons traded for cash) that goes back into the school, and SWAP students will be in charge of that. “The PTO is actually in charge of that, but I can see our committee helping them,” Reed said. “SWAP can evolve into a lot of things. “It’s all about involving students in community and charity projects.”
Air Time Last year’s SWAP group garnered a little national attention. Reed said she saw a program on CBS Sunday Morning that did a human-interest piece about a terminally-ill man in North Carolina. She wanted to use what she saw with her SWAP group. “He is sick,” she said, “but instead of being sick and waiting to die he decided to focus on all the positives he can do. He wants to spread kindness however he can.” Reed explained on the feature piece she saw on the Sunday morn-
ing news program that a man had given $50 to a couple of girls he didn’t know – just gave it to them at a restaurant – and they took the $50 and donated it to a tribe in Africa. Months later the man got an email from a community in Africa telling him thank you for the donation (the girls had put the donation in his name). “What the money did was allow them the funds to be able to have an Ebola celebration because the community was Ebola free and they wanted to have a big celebration,” Reed said. “He called it the butterfly affect because he said you never know what is going to happen when you do something nice for someone how it is going to affect somebody else. “The story touched me and it inspired me to do something similar with SWAP.” Reed said she got a donation for $50, and showed the students the video of the feature and asked the kids if they had $50 what would they do with it. “I had about 15 kids write essays explaining what they would do with $50,” she said. “One of the students submitted an essay and he said ‘If I had $50 I would go buy as many pizzas as I could and I would take them to a homeless shelter in downtown Fort Worth and give them out to as many people as I could and give them bottled water.’ “That evolved into his essay being published in a couple of publications around here, and through maybe social media CBS Sunday Morning found out about it – they put two and two together – and they contacted us and highlighted one picture (of the group) in a follow-up story on the man from North Carolina.”
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Pilots N Paws is calling on Parker County pilots to take flight with a pooch in need. The program connects rescue workers with private aircraft operators who are willing to transport rescued animals to their new homes – and the Parker County Airport was recently the departure location for one of those very rescues. Meet Gribsey: a tiny Chihuahua mix who might weigh five pounds soaking wet. Gribsey was owner-surrendered to a the Mesquite Animal Shelter where many animals are in danger of begin euthanized due to lack of space. Mary Gresham of Brushy Creek Meadows Rescue saved Gribsey from the shelter and found him a loving home – the problem was, that loving home was all the way in Sweetwater, hundreds of miles away. Enter Pilots N Paws, and Cisco resident James Dixon. Dixon volunteered to fly into Parker County Airport, meet volunteers with the pup, load him on a plane and fly him to his new home. “My wife and I, we have six dogs of our own,” said Dixon. “I have a passion for dogs and I love getting them home.” Dixon learned to fly in Cisco in the 1970s while on leave from West Point. He wanted to fly for several years but his mother refused while he was in high school. Once he was in college and paying for his own lessons, his mother didn’t stand in his way, and Dixon spent four weeks every summer and two weeks at Christmas getting his training. In January 1975, Dixon was deployed to Germany with the US Army Field Artillery, and soon got married and had
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Gribsey dons a pilot’s cap in preparation for the flight.
children. Flying quit being a part of Dixon’s life. “I set it aside because of other priorities,” he said. “Then a few years ago, I went on a hunting trip to Alaska, and rode in a bush plane. I thought to myself, it’s time to start flying again. “It’s actually been more fun the second time around.” Dixon has since purchased three planes and flown eight missions taking rescued dogs to their new digs. He is one of a cadre of private pilots that make up the Pilots N Paws crew. The group was founded in 2008 by Debi Boies and pilot Jon Wehrenberg when Wehrenberg agreed to help Debi by flying a doberman from Florida to South Carolina. The trip saved the
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dog’s life, and a transport solution was born. The pair launched www.pilotsnpaws.org, where private pilots can volunteer to provide transport and work with rescue groups. Today the group has reached more than 5,000 pilot volunteers and more than 12,000 animal worker volunteers. The lives of thousands of animals are saved every year.
percent of dogs that enter shelters in the southern part of the country are euthanized. Parker County is among the shelters constantly facing overcrowding and hard decisions. But with many residents owning private planes and a regional airport centrally located, volunteers could help make a difference right here at home.
“Flying animals in need of medical attention, or a new home, speaks volumes about the kindness and generosity exhibited by our pilot volunteers,” said Kate Quinn, Executive Director of Pilots N Paws. “This is a labor of love, and they donate their time, fuel, and planes to save lives.”
Gribsey is the third dog in two years to be flown from Parker County Airport – in 2014, a lab mix and collie mix were rescued from the Parker County Animal Shelter and taken to homes outside of the area through the program.
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Student Jon Minonno has lunch with grandparents James and Jo Alsup. McAnally Intermediate School students celebrated Heritage Day on Tuesday, Nov. 17 as students invited grandparents or special friends to eat lunch. | RIGHT: Shown is a cafeteria full of students, grandparents and special friends.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the animal shelter so close to the airport, Pilots N Paws could provide a lot of help right here in Parker County,â&#x20AC;? said Lee Ann Adams, who works with the group and also with rescue organizations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a very convenient place to fly in and out of.â&#x20AC;? Gribsey recently flew back â&#x20AC;&#x201C; once he got to his new home the owners
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In keeping with the Aledo ISD theme of Paying it Forward this year, Aledo Middle School honored one of its former students in a memorable way. Hunter Corzine was remembered for his love of fishing. He passed away earlier last summer, and would have attended Daniel Ninth Grade Campus this school year. The staff and students at AMS raised money for the Aledo Anglers Club. The club, sponsored by Aledo High School, is one Hunter hoped to be part of once he reached the high-school level. AMS students and staff pitched in $1,450 in Hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honor to the Anglers. Hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, Anglers sponsor Brad McCone and members of the Aledo Anglers were on hand for the check presentation.
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Outlook Coyote Chase Race The 22nd annual Coyote Chase Race will take place Saturday, Nov. 21 at Weatherford College. Both the 5K and 1-mile runs begin at 9 a.m. Preregistration cost for children 12 and under is $15 or $20 on race day. Ages 13 and older can preregister for $20 or $25 on race day. School-aged children are also encouraged to sign up for the School Challenge. The school with the most runners entered will receive a trophy, recognition in the local media and bragging rights for a whole year. Every runner will receive a T-shirt and a goody bag. Plus, the top three runners in each age category will receive a medal, sponsored by First Financial Bank. All kids age 12 and under will receive participation ribbons. All proceeds benefit the WC Foundation. For more information or to register, visit www.coyotechaserace. com.
Student Art Show The Weatherford College student art show runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 29 in Texas Hall of the Alkek Fine Arts Center.
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p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at the Parker County Agricultural Service Center in Weatherford. Safe Sitter is a medically accurate program that teaches boys and girls ages 11 and up how to handle emergencies when caring for children. The class teaches safe child care techniques, behavior management skills and appropriate responses to medical emergencies.
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The cost of the program is $50, which covers materials and lunch. To register for Safe Sitter, call the Parker County Extension office at 817-5986168.
9 to 5 Weatherford College’s much anticipated fall musical “9 to 5,” written by Dolly Parton, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Nov. 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 at the Alkek Fine Arts Center on the WC campus. Admission is free.
AdvoCats Angel Project helps provide a Christmas to area children in need The Aledo Children’s AdvoCats Angel Project 2015 is now underway, and Angel Project volunteers are vital to its success. Angel Project organizes Christmas gifts for qualified Aledo ISD students and siblings who reside in the same home. Last year, 406 children from more than 167 families had a very Merry Christmas because of generous community volunteers. Each year, the Angel Project brings joy to children in the Aledo ISD who otherwise will go without during the holiday season. AdvoCat members and community volunteers give of their time and resources to adopt and provide gifts for children of all ages across the school district. Through the joint effort of the AISD schools and counselors, children in need will be identified and have a blessed holiday season. There are two ways to help: be a shopper and adopt one or more children (child’s wish list is provided) or give a monetary donation to help where needed. To volunteer or make a donation, email Carlynn Messer at angelproject@aledoadvocats.com.
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Horchler Nativities Display Nativities from the Collection of Hilde Horchler will be on display at the Museum of the Americas in Weatherford through Dec. 23. Hilde Horchler and her husband Helmut of Fort Worth are avid collectors of Native American sculpture, pottery, kachinas, and more, but Hilde has a special passion for her Nativities. In keeping with the focus of the museum, this exhibit features her Nativities from Native America, Mexico, and Latin America. Hilde Horchler grew up in rural Germany during the war in a very Catholic family. “Everyone had a live tree at Christmas, decorated with wax candles, and with a single Nativity under the tree. This tradition was not only for Catholics, but Protestants, everybody. The tree was only lighted on Christmas and it was very special,” she remembers. When she and Helmut married they had no Nativity to put under the tree so they made one and her mother gave them a wax baby Jesus. From childhood Christmases to her travels throughout the world, she has always maintained a connection to this tradition. The Horchlers made their first visit to the United States in 1968 to visit family in San Diego. They took a day trip to Tijuana where she was introduced to the work of Teodora Blanco, renowned potter from Sta. Maria Atzompa, Oaxaca, and the richness of Mexican folk art. Her Nativities give a sampling of the great variety of Mexican and Latin American folk art. When the Horchlers traveled
to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1981, she discovered the work of Randy Chitto, Choctaw artist, whose Bear Nativity is featured in this exhibit. Hilde remembers his words. “He told me, ‘you know when I work on them [Nativities, or individual figures] I have to put life in them… they speak to me, give me joy, have personality.’” Most of the Nativities are packed up during the year and brought out for the Christmas season, but the Chitto set stays out in the living room year round. “They are smiling,” she said. There are a number of Nativities by other well-known Native American artists including Linda Askan, Santa Clara, Gary Guttierez, Santa Clara, Ada Suina, Cochiti, Marie Toya, Jemez, and Maria Naranjo, Santa Clara. When asked what she looks for, she responded that she never sets out for anything specific, that her interest develops when
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she sees something unique, with an artist’s personal style, that represents an area, a culture. A favorite in Hilde’s collection is the Texas Nativity because it represents to her everything that is Texas – the windmill, barn, donkey, barbed wire fence, the armadillo, and the Lone Star. Hilde Horchler is an artist, herself, and her style is influenced by the bright colors and shapes of the American Southwest, Many of her paintings hang in their home and provide a dramatic backdrop to her and her husband’s Native American collections and Mexican folk art. This exhibit also includes selected Nativities from the Museum of the Americas collection. Museum of the Americas is located at 216 Fort Worth Hwy. in Weatherford. Admission is free. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 817-341-8668 or visit www.museumoftheamericas. com.
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Community Calendar • www.community-news.com/calendar FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 9 to 5 Weatherford College’s much anticipated fall musical “9 to 5,” written by Dolly Parton, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Nov. 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 at the Alkek Fine Arts Center on the WC campus. Admission is free. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Log Cabin Village Program The East Parker County Genealogy and Historical Society will have its regular monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Doss Heritage and Culture Center in Weatherford. Those needing a ride or carpooling should meet at the Willow Park Brookshire’s at 9:30 a.m. The program will be a presentation of information about the new Log Cabin Village. Dutch treat lunch follows at a local restaurant for those who wish. 9 to 5 Weatherford College’s much anticipated fall musical “9 to 5,” written by Dolly Parton, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Nov. 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 at the Alkek Fine Arts Center on the WC campus. Admission is free. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 9 to 5 Weatherford College’s much anticipated fall musical “9 to 5,” written by Dolly Parton, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Nov. 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22 at the Alkek Fine Arts Center on the WC campus. Admission is free. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23
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Bearcat Bootcamp Bearcat Bootcamp meets Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 a.m. and at least one Sunday per month
at 2 p.m. at the Aledo High School Indoor Practice Facility. Price for the series is $150 for one participant or $250 for two participants. There is a discount available for AISD faculty. To register, go to a scheduled workout 10-15 minutes early with cash or check payable to Bearcat Bootcamp. For more information, visit bearcatbootcamp. org. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Horchler Nativities Display Nativities from the Collection of Hilde Horchler will be on display at the Museum of the Americas in Weatherford through Dec. 23. This exhibit also includes selected Nativities from the Museum of the Americas collection. Museum of the Americas is located at 216 Fort Worth Hwy. in Weatherford. Admission is free. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 817-341-8668 or visit www.museumoftheamericas. com. Safe Sitter Course Texas AgriLife Extension will offer a Safe Sitter course from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at the Parker County Agricultural Service Center in Weatherford. The cost of the program is $50, which covers materials and lunch. To register for Safe Sitter, call the Parker County Extension office at 817-5986168. Leader Dog Program Lions State Leader Dog Chair John Paul Burnett will present a program on how Leader Dogs are trained, how they can be adopted and how to become a puppy raiser. His presentation will be at the Aledo Community Lions Club meeting at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at the Aledo Community Center. For more information, call Bob Carlson
at 817-718-4902. The public is invited. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Student Art Show The Weatherford College student art show runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 29 in Texas Hall of the Alkek Fine Arts Center. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Bearcat Bootcamp Bearcat Bootcamp meets Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 a.m. and at least one Sunday per month at 2 p.m. at the Aledo High School Indoor Practice Facility. Price for the series is $150 for one participant or $250 for two participants. There is a discount available for AISD faculty. To register, go to a scheduled workout 10-15 minutes early with cash or check payable to Bearcat Bootcamp. For more information, visit bearcatbootcamp. org. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 Horchler Nativities Display Nativities from the Collection of Hilde Horchler will be on display at the Museum of the Americas in Weatherford through Dec. 23. This exhibit also includes selected Nativities from the Museum of the Americas collection. Museum of the Americas is located at 216 Fort Worth Hwy. in Weatherford. Admission is free. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 817-341-8668 or visit www.museumoftheamericas. com. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Coffee Bar The Church at the Crossing in Aledo hosts a free Coffee Bar from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday mornings at the church. Donations, which go to missions programs, are accepted.
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Square from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 in downtown Weatherford. The free event features a holiday shopping market, live entertainment, a car show and, of course, Santa Claus! For more information, visit weatherford-chamber. com. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 Bearcat Bootcamp Bearcat Bootcamp meets Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 a.m. and at least one Sunday per month at 2 p.m. at the Aledo High School Indoor Practice Facility. Price for the series is $150 for one participant or $250 for two participants. There is a discount available for AISD faculty. To register, go to a scheduled workout 10-15 min-
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Scouts help place flags on Veterans Day The Rotary Club of Aledo and Aledo Boy Scouts of the Na Ha Nini OA Chapter teamed up to honor our Veterans on Veteran’s Day. Escorted by Reign Vandertuin, a firefighter from Emergency Services District #1, the group raised flags along Aledo Trail. The Order of the Arrow is the Honor Society of the Boy Scouts of America, Celebrating 100 Years of Service. The Brazos Valley Area includes most communities West of Fort Worth, Granbury, and of course, Aledo. In the Order of the Arrow, the same area is known as the Na Ha Nini Chapter. Rotary Club International brings neighbors, friends, business and community leaders together to create a positive and lasting change in our communities around the world.
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Members of the Na Ha Nini OA Chapter teamed up with the Aledo Rotary Club to place flags along Aledo Trail on Veterans Day. Shown are (front row, from left) Issy Powell, Rotary Club of Aledo Sergeant at Arms; Jordan Chapin, Ordeal Member, and Rene Chavez, Chapter Adviser; and (back row) Dennis Robinson, Associate Chapter Adviser; John Miller, Ordeal member; Richard Reynolds, Assistant Chapter Chief; Bradley Robinson, Chapter Chief; Nicholas Chavez, Third Vice Chief of Programs; Curtis Chapin, Associate Chapter Adviser; and Reign Vandertuin, ESD#1 Firefighter.
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As part of their annual United Way of Parker County Campaign, the Dr. Pepper Snapple group out of Aledo volunteered more than 50 hours recently to help the Center of Hope restock and organize its donation warehouse. Along with giving back to the community monetarily, Dr. Pepper Snapple employees participate each year in Action Nation, the corporate philanthropy program. By volunteering at least 50 hours in the community, an additional $1,000 will be awarded to United Way of Parker County to benefit local programs in the areas of Income, Education and Health. Pictured are employees from the Aledo Dr. Pepper Snapple group at the Center of Hope warehouse.
The Aledo Rodeo Team is in 17th place in the overall standings against 84 high schools in the North Texas area. Shown are rodeo team members (standing in front, from left) Johnny King, Makenzi Skipper, Maddie McMurtrey, Shelton Yates, Sammie Sellers, and Karson Canaday and (top) Riley Dean, Kaelee Brown and Garrett Jones. Not pictured are Logan Childs and Rylan Campbell.
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Wagner said there Representativ will be appr oximately administering es of the group 500 lots plus abou the Walsh t 40 custo development, Ranch estate lots. m including Malc Louden, publ olm The site that icly upped is being dona the ante for an at the Nov. ted Coder Elem elem 16 entary Scho meeting, offer board of trustees this first entary school is within ol student sentation at ing the distr neighborhood Hunter Fay halftime of million dolla ict demo , easy with the Aledo a walking dista in r donation Ladycats’ junio nstrates his ball-hand TONY EIERDA nce for child as well as living covering the M/THE COMMU ling skills durin r varsity bask ren in the new NITY NEWS cost of grad etball game g development. ing running utilit Tuesday night a Teams Of Tomorrow ies to the site and pre“We at the AHS feel like it’s are donating gym. critical to for a new elem they have an elem ry school. entary scho enta- we ol when open the com AISD supe mun ity,” said Wagner. “It’s rintendent Citty said the Dere important to the offer has been k fabric of our the table for community on every some time, and thing we but was kept private from an educ are trying to do at the requ est of the ation stand Walsh cont point.” ingent. Wagner pres Jake Wagner, ented a with Repu show to show slide Property Grou growth proje p, gave a prese blic in the ction tion about s district and ntathe how heavidevelopment, first phase of the ly the Walsh deve lopment, compresenting data and bined with Mor information ning about why the devel- ure into that grow star, will figopers of Wals th. h next elementa Ranch believe the that the company Citty asked ry school in that created the report ISD should Aled get together o be with the site. Wagner built at the Walsh school demographer said he expe . model park cts A request by to be in place the The Commun October of by News for a 2016 with copy of Wag ity all the lots prese being on the ner’s ntation was ground by denied on February grounds 2017. the that it was “very liminary and Wagner refer fluid and subje prered to the as creating area change.” ct to a possible secon Metroplex core, eventuall dary The decision taining not y conon the new school has been postp only erty but a diver residential proponed several while board se members cont times cial, including mix of commergather data inue to corporate cente . and medical rs centers. “It’s not an “Walsh as easy decision, a whole will matter how no upwards of have you 8.8 million square feet said. “They have slice it,” Citty of office, comm been ercial, retai very careical, different l, med- ful.” uses,” said Wagner. “It will have Citty said an over six billio assessed value of tion is certa that the north locan dollars.” inly most favorable financially When comp but that the leted, Wals be slightly numbers h will from the larger than demographer Paula Robi Bedford a south and other indicate nson, CEO side location smal of the Cent River Fello would protain approxim l cities and con- vide the most er of Hope wship. , addresses ately 14,000 relief for crow the Celebrati with 30-40 homes campuses. RANDY KECK/T ded on of Hope thousand resid HE COMMUNITY dinner Frida NEWS ents. ◗ The initial build y night, Nov. “The distr 13 at New out will cove an area in betw r time partn ict has been longSeveral peop een I-20 and le who have ers and and on the I-30 Mr. ered those weath- muc nort storms were Louden,” said friends with h-needed servi the west side h side of I-30 on Wals in light the Citty spotces to those Friday nigh . “The h kindness have been “batt t, Nov. 13, Parkway. The of Walsh Ranch very and charity the Center ered and tosse who when section in betw important to of is By Randy Hope held d.” Erica Mar Keck the highways Aledo ISD. its annual Celebration kley, for The Community We , at 350 acres een are well aware of Hope dinn spoke of how News example, that Walsh designated er at New River Fellowshi , is is goin she had been Ranc for commercia meth addi a 17-year p. The Ink Spot l space, our g to be the primary base h with the first ct before For an orga s may have reaching new growth. homes goin of to the right when nizat had it to g north do of I-30. We don’t want they enter its teen ion barely ready there Center of Hope. Volu out anything to life some rain recorded “Into each nteers prayed with years (the harm our relat to began in 2003 must fall.” COH food her, helped ship, now or ionstorm ), But the , with and ever.” s of life often the has succ Center of Hop gave her the affect some e encourag eeded in training and ple more than peo- effor combining ement to obta others. ts of Park the She anno in her GED . unced es and orga er County churchfour years clean at the dinner she is nizations to provide . 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