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Volume #54, Edition #20
Howe's That
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Monday, October 3, 2016
The circus is coming to town Longtime Howe coach faces this Friday night toughest battle - cancer
If any of you have driven by the former First Christian Church building lately, you may have noticed Boyd Dunn and his crew working on a porch on the north side. Boyd is contributing his labor and expertise to beautify this building. They've been working in the heat and have just about completed the steps and ramp. They will now move their efforts indoors to construct new walls and such. If you'd like to thank Boyd for his dedication - stop by and tell him. Better yet, he is a big The scene from the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus fan of IBC Root Beer. I in October of 2014. keep the antique Dr. Pepper machine downtown stocked for him. Culpepper & Merriweather end of Davis Street. is putting on another circus With the beloved Bulldogs in Howe and are again This event serves as a off this week, it made for doing it as a fundraiser for great fundraiser for the one of those rare weeks to Keep Howe Beautiful. The program that beautifies finish most of the publication midweek and same circus was here in Howe. A portion of your have somewhat of a 2014 and it will once again ticket cost stays in Howe weekend off. Whoo hoo! be held on the grounds of to make the city a prettier the future site of Jones Park place to live. One of the most widely details on page 11 east of downtown at the east read books of all time is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Written in 1788 by Edward Gibbon, it sets forth five basic reasons On October 8, 2016, the why that great civilization Howe Area Chamber of withered and died. They were: Commerce will host a Howe Bulldogs Silver Spike The undermining of the Parade. This will serve as dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis the makeup to the for human society. Community Pep Rally that was cancelled in August due Higher and higher taxes, the spending of public to rain. There is no charge money for free bread. for any float in the parade. The mad craze for pleasure; The theme is “Silver Spike” sports becoming every year which is the trophy given to more exciting, more brutal, the winner in the rivalry and more immoral. game of Howe vs. Van The building of great Alstyne. This will be the armaments when the real enemy is within - the decay 54th meeting between Howe of individual responsibility. and Van Alstyne since 1935. The decay of religion.
Howe Lady Bulldogs Head Coach Derek Lands in 2015 at Whitewright. Photo by Michelle Carney Howe Lady Bulldogs Basketball Head Coach Derek Lands is one of the winningest coaches in the State of Texas. According to Jack Walker, of the Van Alstyne Leader, he has racked up 352 of them. But the coach is facing a tougher battle now with an opponent that he can't draw a pick and roll against. The
49-year-old coach has colorectal cancer. Lands began treatment with a procedure on Monday, September 19 which kept him in the hospital for nearly a week. But just a few days later, the tall soft-spoken coach was already back at continued on page 2
Community "Silver Spike Parade" this Saturday
Howe's That, February 19, 1970 by Bob Walker. Help Wanted: Man to manage accounting department, in charge of 20 girls. Must like figures.
The parade will begin on Beatrice Street by the Howe Middle School and be led by the Howe Police Department and followed by the Howe Fire Department.
a The route will go from HMS through downtown and back to HMS. We are wanting every fall activity to be
represented (just as in the Additional floats will be community pep rally). added at the front of the Floats need to line up in the following order at 5:15 pm. continued on page 8
