Howe FFA places at State Fair Lady Bulldogs take down S&S

e Lady Bulldogs took S&S Lady Rams in four uesday night in S&S.

Rams took the first set 25-16, however, Howe rallied to win set two by a score of 25-9.

Every Howe FFA pig placed at the 2015 State Fair of Texas Livestock Show at the historic Fair Grounds in Dallas.

Zach Braswell placed 2nd with his Chester swine Bethany Van Deren finished 4th with her Berkshire, Mati Abner finished 6th with her Dark Cross and Joshua Van Deren finished 6th with his Chester

The third set was a nail-biter with the Lady Bulldogs coming out on top 25-23.

The final set was won by Howe, 25-12 to give the Howe girls the overall win, 3-1.

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Students of the Month

were outgrowing their space and needed to expand

The initial plan was to move in around late April, but a few snags kept dragging the interior renovation out The building, formerly knows as Thompson's Hardward and then Designer Cuts, has been completely gutted and then constructed with numerous offices and cubicles The cubicles were made from the original bead board ceiling wood

The hardwood floors have been refinished and evidence of the old hardware store still exists with the measurements still marked on the floor

The sale of the building took place in late February of this year when Paris Palacios and M.E. Curtis sold it to the Defrange family.

With the newest business now open in downtown, it means that every possible building in the historic district is occupied This just after nearly all of them were empty 18 months ago Downtown spaces are now full

Howe Elementary Teacher of the Month

Candace West was named September Teacher of the Month for the Howe Elementary School. She's originally from Lone Oak, Texas where she was a 2007 graduate.

Six years ago, she married Dale West, who is also employed by the district and is the offensive coordinator for the varsity football team They have a daughter named Rylee West, who is age four

"Howe is an amazing place and I absolutely love it here" said West "I love my job and everyone I work with "

Top Dogs

Fourth

Marshal

Nicole Garcia, Triston Williams, Rian Cox, William Fuhr Second grade: Vincent Castellanos, Elias Roberts, Hayden Brunner, Baylie Marr First grade: Rowan Fair, -Elizabeth McLaughlin, Lucas Murphy, Mason Sutherland Kindergarten: Salome Uriostegui, Kalynne Wilson, Jaden Strunc, Caris Riley

Howe Community Library Events

The Middle School's Scholastic Bookfair is open for business Come on by and browse through lots of new titles. Really cool pens and erasers too! Hours: Sat - 9-12, Mon-Fri - 8:00-5:30 at the Howe Community Library. There's also a link to our online shopping site. http://bookfairs scholastic com/homepage/howemiddleschool2

The Friends of the Library are sponsoring FREE beginner computer classes to be offered during September and October at the Howe Community Library These classes are geared for those “scared” or “uncomfortable” with using computers – so no skills needed! Class size will be limited so please call the library at 903-532-3350 to reserve a spot.

Location: Howe Community Library (the library is attached to the Middle School and is located across the parking lot from the elem. playground Look for “Community Library” on the side of the building)

Old church helps restart Howe Enterprise; Howe Enterprise helps restart old church

by

Walker

It's funny how God takes us on a path of trials and tribulations, prunes us and rewards us and all to His glory. The "Save the Church" committee hits home to me and is a priority to me because my life was changed in that church No, I didn't grow up in that church and never even had been in there (to my knowledge) prior to 2013 I've never known anything other than FBC Howe (other than that one trip to the OLD First United Methodist Church dungeon nursery as a toddler scary place!) It's a wild story and I thought that, without a football game to write about, I could fill some spaces with this work of God's plan

Back in 2013, I was approached by a city councilman to startup the Keep Howe Beautiful program This coming off of my polite letter to please clean up our ballfields off of the off-ramp which is the first glimpse of Howe to our northern neighbors, but I digress effort this was going to take. By the time I left, I was overwhelmed. Not only was it a daunting task, but I was overcome when I found a complete set of Howe Enterprise newspapers from the first edition in 1963 through 1980 A family friend, Wanda and Moe Moses, had saved every edition and donated them to the Howe Historical Society Also in there were some 1930s and 40s Howe Messenger newspapers With my late grandfather owning the Howe paper from 1966-1974, I could read all of his work and what his life was like week-to-week I took the old newspapers, which somehow were in incredibly great shape, and secured them away from the cats and mice of that old building I took them home and started scanning them and wondering what it would be like to have a Howe Enterprise again for our own city But then, I went back to work at my job with the intentions of scanning the complete set "some day"

Upon starting up Keep Howe Beautiful with the help of some great leaders, I found myself with the idea of restoring the old First Christian Church I got the key from the city to take a look at the damage and see what kind of continued on Page #10

Fast forward to February of 2014 and I lost my job that I had been at for seven years - a great paying job, but I felt I had more to offer than driving around and changing pumptoppers. But when I was let go, I

You know something special happened in Howe when the Herald Democrat and KTEN-TV were lurking around the friendly confines of the hospitable hilltop

Wesson Farms invaded Howe's Salvage Junky to display their fresh vegetables and fruits at the 200 S. Denny location Also present was Mama Suzy's Sweets and Eats as well as Udderly Rustic Each of the vendors said that they would be back. The farmers market is scheduled to be at the location every other Thursday from 3pm to 6pm The next occurrence will tke place on Oct 15

J.R. Wesson of Wesson Farms was on-hand for the first day of the partnership "We try to do everything as organically as possible with organic practices " said Wesson. "We try to do everything local and on a good year, we grow everything ourselves This year I co-oped with other local farmers to have the selection that we have "

Wesson says that they keep everything within 100-150 mile range

Kimberly Hamric of Udderly Rustic said that she was impressed with the turnout of the first day Her hottest item of the day were her eggs and lavender soap

Suzy Sauls of Mama Suzy's said that her pecan pies and jalapeno cheddar beer bread went quickly

"I thought it went great " said Debbie Wallis, owner of Salvage Junky "We had a lot of traffic and people leaving with bags of fruits and vegetables "