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Volume #53, Edition #9
Monday, July 20, 2015
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STATE CHAMPIONS
Howe's That by Monte Walker
Baseball players are superstitious and that does Times have certainly changed in Howe. I had a not just happen at the major special delivery last league level. The Saturday of some historic quirkiness of ballplayers Howe items that were happens even at the 14donated to the chamber. year-old level. A plastic toy Some of those items dog that hung on the Howe included some drill team boots, a 45-year-old Howe dugout fence all year, youth baseball jersey, some traveled with them to the state tournament in 1975 football cushion bleacher seats and a whole Lonview and "hung with mess of Howe Enterprise them" even to the final newspapers from the 1980s. pitch when the Howe boys In the August, 1987 edition, clinched the championship. the front page feature was a mobile trailer set up on the On the field, there was service road at the anything but quirkiness as intersection of Collins Freeway and Haning Streets the 'Dogs scored 68 runs and the headline stated that and gave up only 19. For the chamber was using the those mathematicians in the trailer to lure a doctor to reading audience, that town. equates to 4.12 miles of base running by those that For some strange reason scored in the six games in unbeknownst to me, a doctor the state tournament.. never arrived in Howe to take the offer of having his office on cinder blocks.
The 14U Howe Bulldogs just after winning the state championship. Photo by Jana Hughes The 14U coaches were the game and every day tournament by bombarding Adam Riggs, Kent Akins since. Fannin County 19-0 and and James Duffee and Head then easily cruising past Coach Riggs says that being "They put a lot of work in to Tri-Cities 17-2 in four state champions hasn't even it and the boys made it inning games which saved sunk in even as late as happen." said Riggs. their ace pitchers for later Friday afternoon. He says in the tournament. that there were tears after The Howe boys started the continued on Page #3
KHB to publish part two of Howe cookbook
I applaud the effort of the former chamber to even try something - anything to lure businesses to town. The mid-80's were a trying time here economically and a transition period for the city. I wonder if our economic development director would take such an idea to the council today? Hmmmmm. No. http://www.ebby.com/agents_offices/find_agent/info/sherylbentley
It was decided in this month's Keep it became a successful fundraiser for the Howe Beautiful board meeting that the organization at that time. In the beginning, group, in order to raise some much the cookbook was to be more about needed funds for their non-profit cooking, but it eventually led to family group, would follow up the Howe stories that the chamber felt needed to be Historical Cookbook with a part two included. edition. This new updated edition will feature some The 1991 publication was a product of of the old recipes from the more known the Howe Chamber of Commerce and citizens from the older book, but this one continued on Page #10
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