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Volume #53, Edition #29
Howe's That
Monday, December 7, 2015
"Victory Town" parade set for Saturday
by Monte Walker
This Saturday Howe will celebrate Christmas with the annual parade. For the It's always nice to have a good neighbor. This week second year in a row, the the antiquated copier route will make a trip machine in the downtown through the downtown HDA office needed a toner stretch on Haning Street. transformation and I, for Prior to 2014, the parade one, was highly unable to would bypass downtown figure out how to manipulate via Denny Street to Haning the first generation machine. After I summoned help from Street, but the one block venture off of the path a fellow city co-worker, I creates the special felt a little better because community atmosphere. two people could then not figure out the contraption. "I've lived here for 50 years Here I am, the grandson of a and it was the first time I printer. I watched him spin remember a parade through the wheels and master those downtown." said Joyce machines effortlessly and Park in December of 2014. administer perfection to ink. I can't even change the toner. But after nearly losing my cool and wanting to toss the thing in the landfill, I called on Todd Creekmore who is, by the way, Mr. Copier in this town and has a downtown business full of copiers and that's, um, what he does for a living.
"I feel like we're a real town now." The parade will start with a lineup of floats at the Howe Middle School parking lot. The route will be from Beatrice Street to Duke Street to Denny Street to Davis Street to Hughes Street to Haning Street down to King Street and back to the Howe Middle School campus.
Candy canes and lollipops have been placed
no charge to enter and those The Howe Area Chamber of interested in signing up can Commerce is preparing the do so by visiting howechamber.com and parade and organizing the floats. So far 15 floats have navigating to the bottom of been registered and there is the page.
For the spectators in the downtown area, the Church of Christ will serve cookies while hot chocolate will be available from a vendor. The downtown retail continued on Page #4
#14 ranked Lady Bulldogs come back vs. Muenster It was announced last Monday that the Lady Bulldogs of Howe (then 60) had moved up to #14 in the Class 3A rankings by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. On Tuesday, they found themselves trailing to #8 ranked Muenster (then 3-0) from Class 2A.
Todd came over and gave me a quick lesson on what to do and what not to do. He cleaned up the giant mess that I'd made and helped me out just as my Papaw would have done to anyone that asked. His ad is at the bottom of page 12 - Advantage Business Machines
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Peyton Streetman - Photo by Michelle Carney
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by resiliency and for teams as good as the Lady Bulldogs, resiliency is rarely ever tested. But on this night, the girls from Howe stood up and fought their way back into the game by staying even with a 12-12 tie in the third period and completely dominating in the final period by exploding for 26 points to finish out the dramatic comefrom-behind one-point win, 60-59.
The traveling Lady Hornets immediately jumped out to a 19-10 lead after the first period. All they did in the second period was extend It wasn't the best performance by their advantage to a commanding 34- the Howe girls, but it was a chance 22 halftime lead over the Howe girls. to become battle-tested before entering the heart of their season. Character is often build and tested continued on Page #3
Bulldog basketball, page 2 Howe FFA places 3rd in state, page 3 Downtown Howe decorated, page 5 Is God still blessing America?, page 6 Community calender, page 7 2nd grade Letters to Santa, page 9
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