Volume #1, Issue #4
Monday, April 7, 2014
Abby's Restaurant Open in Howe
Howe's That ? The Howe Police Department has stated that they will soon start posting the names of persons with arrests warrants on Facebook and social media outlets. The HPD polled their Facebook followers for some feedback and the majority were in favor for it as long as those with warrants were notified in advance or had made numerous attempts to reach the person with the warrant. One youngster was notably in favor if they especially would post his teachers names. Also, my wife is upset because she was hoping for a "Dear Abby-like" column. One of our sons was seeking a column from our dog "Nellie Cruz" called "What's That Smell?"
HISD SHAC 5K and Fun Run, Health Fair and Silent Auction This Saturday This coming Saturday, April 12, a large gathering of people will meet in front of Charles R. Thompson Gymnasium at the Howe Middle School for the annual Howe ISD SHAC 5K, Fun Run, Health Fair and Silent Auction. The festivities start at 8:30 a.m. and will go through 11 a.m. Chapter 28.004 of the Texas Education Code requires every independent school district to have a School Health Advisory Council (SHAC). A SHAC is a group of representatives from the community within the school
district they serve. More than half of the SHAC members must be parents of students enrolled in the district and who are not employed by the district. Additionally, SHACs must meet at least four times per year, contain a minimum of five members, report directly to the school board at least once annually, and appoint a parent as a chair or co-chair. The Fun Run (which is actually a walk or run event) will be a one mile journey that begins outside Continued on Page #4
Central Howe has a new home-style cooking restaurant by way of Central America. Lillian Avila learned English at age 13 by studying two hours a day, five days a week for three years. She was born in Honduras and arrived in McKinney, Texas in 1986 and attended schools at McKinney ISD. After school, she wasn’t immediately an entrepreneur. She worked at several fast food locations and even cleaned houses. However in 2005, Avila became an employer, instead of an employee. She opened up her first restaurant in Pilot Point, The Steak House. The restaurant eventually outgrew the original 10 tables and moved into the Pilot Point shopping center. Looking to move from the Pilot Point area, she was targeting Howe back in 2012. She bought some equipment from the catfish restaurant in Howe when it closed but missed the opportunity to lease the location. At that time, the restaurant Wyomings had been thriving in downtown Howe before closing (due to a desire for the owner to move to New York) and it also was taken by a BBQ owner before she could secure that lease. She looked at another location across Haning Street downtown, but it didn’t work out. So she settled on Tioga in the historic part of town and opened up her new restaurant named Abby’s (which was named Continued on Page #2