Bearden, Dickey and Simmons selected for Hall of Honor

The results are in from the online voting and hand ballot voting for the 2016 Class of the Howe Hall of Honor Announced at the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce Members Dinner on Thursday night were Jimmy Bearden, Norman Dickey and Steve Simmons who attained the most votes from the community

Dickey was the highest overall vote-getter with 152 Steve Simmons tallied 94 and Jimmy Bearden totaled 87 Just missing the top three was Jean Norman with (69), J J Chisum (66) and Lowell Thompson (62) 25 community members cast their ballot for Glen Hestand while Fred Holcomb, Sr and Otis

Lamb each had 16

Jimmy Bearden was a longtime Howe ISD school board member as well as serving as Youth Baseball Commissioner and coach He was a volunteer fireman as his father before him Mr Bearden was i a S of Magni-Fab, labor and mate local projects directional sig Yard of the M backstops for benches for du continued on Page #2

Howe's oldest churches host commu ty aste p og a s

for eggs in the community Easter egg hunt held by the First United Methodist Church.

It was a special weekend as Howe paused for the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ The First United Methodist Church of Howe held their annual Community Easter Egg Hunt and Picnic at Howe High School on Saturday On Sunday, the First Baptist Church of Howe held their second annual Community Worship Service at Howe High School

4,000 eggs were placed on the west lawn of Howe High School on Ponderosa Road and Denny Street It didn't take long for the lawn to be completely cleaned by a hundred or more kids

On Sunday, FBC Howe's 25-year veteran pastor Roger Tidwell spoke a traditional Easter service message about the difference in Christianity from other religions Tidwell at one point said that Christianity is not so much a religion as it is a relationship with Jesus His message was clear targeted that Christianity is the only religion that sees life after death whereas all others end with death

The Sunday service at Howe High School was broadcast live with video feed and the replay can be found on the "Broadcast Howe" page at HoweEnterprise com

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Howe schools in 1964 He took a football program that was on the verge of collapsing due to the lack of willing participants and grew it to a District, Bi-District and Regional Champion team just six years later. After 12 years as head coach of the Howe Bulldogs, he holds the most most wins of any football coach in school history with 51 After spending time as a coach, math teacher, counselor, interim principal, interim superintendent, and three-time interim athletic director, Dickey retired from the school district in 1996 In addition to his accomplishments, Dickey spent countless hours mowing Bulldog Stadium, working on the scoreboard, running the clock, officiating junior high games, keeping the stats and everything in between.

Steve Simmons came to Howe in 1987 as a coach for Howe ISD His motivating nature has inspired a couple of thousand kids and adults to be highly motivated, truly dedicated as well as rough and tough Perhaps no one in Howe's history has held so much pride and love for their community and the children of Howe He has served as the elementary physical education instructor for Howe ISD for nearly 30 years As well as his work with children, he's also been a varsity football, powerlifting and baseball coach and junior varsity basketball coach As a longtime in Howe, his faith is unquenchable It is only a matter of time before something in this town is named Steve Simmons something

Simmons was the speaker at the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce Members Dinner on Thursday night in Downtown Howe