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Volume #54, Edition #42
Howe's That The Howe Hall of Honor has become the kickoff to the rejuvenated Founders Day Festival weekend. Starting with the initial class in 2015 of a slew of members, the public voted Norman Dickey and Steve Simmons to the hall a year ago. As you can see, there are a number of welldeserved nominees up for the 2017 honor. Livestock shows see families spend a lot of money on raising animals and sometimes frustrations are met with triumphant moments. But even if the triumphant moments don't exist during the immediate ending of the show, the time spent and the memories created seem to overshadow the amount of money spent. And that's how the local livestock show has become a generational event with fathers and sons, fathers and daughters and every which way you can spell out. One remarkable young daughter from Howe decided to do something special, very special. Mati Abner organized an event for special needs kids to show animals at Loy Lake. "The way I saw it was how can I leave an impact on my community before I graduate." Abner told us. "It was approved by the Texoma Livestock Show Board in October and in January they set a date and a time. Since then I worked non stop to make this happen. I contacted high school special education programs in Grayson County to participate. Mrs. Blum, my Ag teacher, helped me contact the Ag teachers in the county to get student volunteers. I ended up with 62 participants from Howe, Sherman, Denison, Whitesboro and Van Alstyne. I also had over 100 student volunteers. The excitement on some of these kids faces was priceless. I have never seen so many smiles in one day. It was amazing. This is soemthing they will remember for forever."
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Monday, March 6, 2017
Voting has started for the 2017 class of the Howe Hall of Honor
Gilstrap
Skipworth
Norman
Thornhill
Chisum
Taylor
Blue skies and big hearts the story of the 60th Loy Lake event
Walker
Ake
Showing with a Heart gave the opportunity for special needs kids to team up with the FFA kids to show various animals. Photo by Tyler Danner.
The Texoma Exposition and Livestock Show at Loy Lake is not just a place to show animals. It's a legacy. Under the steel frames and metal roofs come generations of families that Stockton have passed on the love of animals from one to The Howe Chamber of The chamber will induct two another. One of the most special moments took place Commerce had taken living and two deceased nominations for the 3rd individuals into the Hall of in this 60th annual event. The brainchild of Howe's Annual Howe Hall of Honor Honor which currently class since January. On includes Jabez Haning, W.P. Mati Abner, special needs Wednesday, voting Thompson, A.M. Ferguson, kids were able to show animals this year while officially began and will go Mame Roberts, Charles teamed with local FFA kids. through March 17. Thompson, Arthur Boyle, continued on page 2 "With knowing that other counties have this event, it was something I wanted to bring to Grayson County." said Abner."
Lady Bulldogs take golf title
(A full story on this event will be in next week's edition.) Thanks to the unusually warm weather, Loy Lake was packed all week long as around 1,000 entries and over 600 exhibitors on site. This year's coordinator Bob Massey to the Herald Democrat that this was a record breaking year in many ways. "We had the L-R: Charlsey Carter, Molly Wilson, Meredith Ross most swine that we've had in a number of years, if not and Anna Counts. Submitted photo ever and the end number on the sale was a little more The Howe Lady Bulldogs while teammate Petyton than $525,000. I think on placed first recently with a Groves was fourth with a our best year, we brought in combined team score of 100. Meredith Ross finished $468,000." 406. Howe's Charley at 103, Anna Counts shot a Carter won the individual 114 and freshman Molly But as each year, not all title by shooting an 89 Wilson finished with a 121. animals get trophies and
there are winners and losers which brings tears of joy and tears of frustrations. Not knowing which is more invested, time or money, both come with high emotions. A large overall swine class this year also saw a large Howe swine class. Abner finished first with her grand breed White OPB and Megan Bearden finished with a sub-place one finish as well. Spencer Akins finished with second place Exotic steer category while Kindle Catching placed third in the same category. Kyler Anderson showed a reserve breed champion Charolais heifer in class five. Those placing for Howe were: Swine - Abner, Bearden, Camryn Boatman, Mikayla Doty, Tanner Hartsfield, Brennan Ross, Taylor Hartsfield, Bethan Van Deren, Sara Echols, Josh Van Deren, Seith Seibold, Jordan Griffin, Jentrie Doty, Mason Bearden, and Autumn Hobbs. Steer - Akins, Catching, Presley Shockey, Lauren Catching, Erin Catching, Zack Braswell, and Garrett Grigg.
