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Howe's That We were surprised last week with a phone call from the Press Club of Dallas telling us that the Howe Enterprise is in the finals for the Hugh Aynesworth Award for an article we published about the tornado in 2016. The article was not so much about the tornado as it was the amazing community in which we live. We will dress fancy for an awards banquet at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas on Nov. 30 to see if we are the winners in the "Weekly Newspaper" category. The other publication is from Brownwood, Texas. Should we win the award, we will have to give a two-minute speech in front of amazing journalists from all over the State of Texas. I am anything but a trained journalist, so there will be some nerves involved that evening.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Howe Enterprise named finalist for Hugh Aynesworth Award by Press Club of Dallas
The Howe Enterprise was informed on Wednesday that an article published in 2016 was a finalist for the Hugh Aynesworth Award from the Press Club of
Dallas. The article was entitled, “EF1 tornado; EF5 community”, written in Volume 53, Edition 50, Continued on page 2
'Pride of Howe' finishes third in Class 3A in first competition
I can't help but think about my Papaw and how proud he'd be of this recognition. It was 10 years ago this month that we lost him to cancer. He's smiling down for sure. We will report the local news and keep our focus on what is important and relevant to you. While we are online-only due to the best way to reach you, we are NOT in the business of irresponsible and misleading headlines to make you click on something only meant to stir your emotions and make you, our loyal reader, eventually mistrust us. It is our belief that today’s mega news organizations are now in business for financial gain with disregard to ethics, morals, or decency. We consider ourselves servants to our community, not money. 2017 HoweEnterprise.com Readership
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The Howe High School Marching Band, 'Pride of Howe', competed at the NETEX Marching Contest at Texas A&M Commerce. There were 22 bands in attendance with over half of those being of 4A and 5A classifications. Howe finished number 10 overall. Competition rules state that 10 bands advance to finals but four of those spots were reserved for the classification winners, so although Howe finished with a much higher score than the Class 1A and 2A winners, those schools were able to compete in the finals in the 10th spot). "We got wonderful comments and feedback which will help us know what we're doing right and where we can improve," said Band Director Angie Liss. " My goal in competing at this contest was to get a good run on a turf field in a contest setting
so that we could get those 'first contest jitters' out and work out some of the kinks of staging our show." Every school that finished ahead of Howe, even those in Class 3A, were much larger schools than HHS. The scored were very tight with only a couple of points separating fourth through tenth place. "With all the bigger schools there I didn't necessarily expect to make finals but when we got so close, I really wish we could have gotten that second run in the finals because I know and the kids know we could have done some things better," said Liss. The Pride of Howe will go to work this week to improve on what was a very good performance and compete next Saturday, Oct. 7 in Aubrey at 2:15
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Dogs lose to Caddo Mills; prepare for a new chase
New Howe quarterback Chase Harvey runs through the Caddo Mills Foxes defense on Friday night. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise The Howe Bulldogs it was Mikey Hymel who improve each time they play made the transition from and were very close to offensive guard to slot winning their first game of back. This time it was the season on Friday night. Chase Harvey, who made Howe Head Coach Zack the extremely seldom move Hudson made more changes from offensive guard to to the offense trying to find quarterback. While the new the right combination of signal-caller had an players in positions. For the impressive performance and second time this season, re-energized the Bulldogs, Howe has moved an Howe (0-5) was unable to offensive lineman to the hold off the Caddo Mills backfield. Two weeks ago, Continued on page 4
Howe Middle School Principal asks parents for help with crowded campus Howe Middle School Principal Clay Wilson is seeing the traffic effects of the overcrowded campuses of the Howe Elementary and Howe Middle School. This week, he sent a memo home to parents pleading to help keep the students safe on the block that is seeing an estimated 50 more vehicles at drop-off and pick-up times. Wilson's reminder was to:
1) Drivers, please stay off cell phones, 2) Parents walking with students, please observe the crosswalks and staff facilitating traffic and 3) Do not park on or near the half circle on the east side of the HMS building. Please pull up past the driveway. Traffic gets congested near the flag pole if students are picked up near that area.
Keep Howe Beautiful hosting garage sale The Keep Howe Beautiful organization will be hosting a community-wide garage sale on Saturday, Oct. 14 at Memorial Park. The sale will take place from 8 am -
1 pm and those wanting to set up vendor spaces can purchase one for $10 each by contacting KHB President Curt Beckemeyer at 214-514-4065