SPENDING FRENZY

Great American Clean-Up

Keep Howe Beautiful will host a trash clean-up event on Saturday, March 23 starting a 9:00 am. The green group will meet at the Economic Development Building (101 E. Haning St.) in downtown Howe. They are inviting everyone to help. They are requesting volunteers to please wear appropriate shoes, gloves, and grabbers if you have them. KHB will also have some supplies available in the office. Please help Keep Howe Beautiful.

The First United Methodist Church will have their Easter Egg Hunt at their church this year instead of the high school.

Being in the "newspaper" business for the last five years has been interesting. Before this venture, I would watch every Texas Rangers game and attend many of them in person. But unless they start playing in Howe, it just ain't happening. Thankfully they're not very good, so I don't feel so bad. But I know that after five years of being overloaded by everything-Howe, I know what I knew -that this is a fantastic place to live and raise a family. Have we always got everything right? Heck no, but we truly do try. And we hurt when we get it wrong. People here are understanding for the most part. Thanks for sifting through five years of typos.

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Howe High School sophomore Marissa Agee traveled to New York over spring break to compete in the 800 meters at the 2019 USATF Hershey Youth Indoor Championship.

Agee, who recently set the HHS girls 800 meter record with a time of 2:20.13 eclipsed that time in New York with a fifth-place time of 2:19.17 in the 17-18 page 6

A reflection of five years in the news business

by Monte Walker

Five years ago this week I was pondering my next career. I wanted desperately to do something worthwhile so that I could make a difference in my community. I watched restaurants come in and out of downtown and with my advertising/marketing background I thought I could help our local businesses market to the people of our community at a very low cost so we could have our own local thriving business economy. Thanks to my dad’s encouraging words, I took a risk and started a weekly news publication.

Our first edition was March 17, 2014.

into the unfamiliar world of Associated Press style and learn a completely different form that which I had learned. Also, there’s the whole self-employed situation that was eyeopening. Thankfully, the

Only knowing MLA style writing from high school and college, I had to delve page 2

It was pretty easy to spot a couple of Fridays ago as travelers of Highway 5 approached the historic downtown Howe district about 6 pm to find every parking space filled and the restaurants overflowing. In that situation, a westbound turn on Haning Street brought a lump to the throat hoping that Palio's Pizza Cafe wasn't a complete ghost town. To the delight of those who care about the local economy, the local pizzeria was also hustling

The very next morning, those waiting in line at the Exxon to get gas could look across the street at the local donut shop and see cars parked all over the lot and a window line down to nearly King Street.

The signs of the abundant spending going on locally can not only be seen by the traffic at the local eateries but also in the Texas State Comptroller's Office who sent Howe a record share $40,064 for the month. It

Wind is partly why the Pride of Howe Marching Band is one of the best in Texas each year. However, early Wednesday morning high winds took the band trailer and rolled it across the high school grounds before coming to a stop on trailer was recently repaired, but the good news is that some expensive band drums and horns were removed from the trailer because of the repairs. patrol damaged fitting tribute been fifty since SGT Burchfield, Whitewright gave his life Vietnam, but after all these

Theater, Sonic of Howe, Baker AC/Heating, Scoggins Funeral Home, Loretta Anderson, Howe Family Dentistry, Abby’s, Southwest Auction, Independent Bank, El Patio, Micah Belden, and GCEC Other early advertisers such as The School Zone really helped launch this thing and they are the reason Howe gets to have their kids covered Please consider them and all of our advertisers for your local business

I also need to thank Michelle Carney, Keri Harvey, Loretta, and my wife for all the photos and again to my wife for the understanding the mounds of hours covering Howe kids while balancing spending time with my own And thanks to mom and dad for always supporting me and sharing each week’s publication I’ve learned that when I screw up, everyone knows it and you have to laugh at yourself It hasn’t always been fun, but it’s been very worthwhile and that’s all I asked for

It all came about suddenly, to be honest In fact, as a believer in the Lord's plan, it all began a year prior in 2013 when I took the Haning Street exit from Sherman and saw the Bi-Centennial ballparks overrun with grass and presumably snakes Being someone who has pride in my community and trying to promote Howe and knowing my kids were going to play on that field, I raced up to City Hall to make my sentiments known to the city administrator whom I had never met. Apparently, he took my name down as I received a call a week later from City Councilman Bill French who urged me to form

Continued from page 1 museum with work done by Jean Norman and her Howe Historical Society Many historical items were still in the building, but the items were being threatened due to conditions inside the old church To my surprise were boxes full of Howe Enterprise newspapers and many copies of the Howe Messenger newspapers And the fact that it was a full set of my grandfather’s publication, it was suddenly worth unknown amounts to me My “papaw” Bob Walker owned and operated the Enterprise from 1966 to 1974 N D Moses had saved every edition from the inception of the Enterprise through 1981 (with the exception of 1979 which are still unknown) It was like a final gift from Wanda and Moe Moses who never once failed to send me a birthday card from the time I was born until the time of their death By being able to obtain a grant from the Texas Digital Newspaper program, they all were scanned and saved online – even the old Howe Messengers And now everyone can be able to see them page 3 income it could generate. I approached my mom and dad who cautiously seemed optimistic. I got the idea that dad actually was a bit inspired and told me, “if anyone could make it work, it would be you.” He even gave me a draw on my inheritance to get started for the first couple of months.

During the Keep Howe Beautiful board meetings, I remember discussing with the mayor and with Postmaster LeAndra Beckemeyer that we needed our own hometown news publication Everyone agreed, but I was unaware that Lana Rideout had continued to update the Texoma Enterprise website And if anyone else was aware, they didn’t bring it up When the opportunity came about for a new career, I was storing those old Howe Enterprise newspapers in my home office and reading through the years and years of history and my papaw’s work.

Before diving head first, I consulted my old boss Bill Harrison from my radio days. He made a small fortune in advertising in North Texas and I respected his opinion greatly when it came to business sense because he’s been there, done that and took home all the trophies. After meeting him at Chilis in Carrollton, he told me it was innovative, different, and probably would have a great chance at succeeding if worked correctly. He told me, “if anyone could make it work – it would be you.” high-profile people around town and that got a lot of eyeballs on it. Dale Rideout appeared in that video to give his blessing which was so very important to me. It was then that he told me that Lana was still updating the Texoma Enterprise site which made me feel a little disheartened. I certainly didn’t want to compete with them. But he assured me that all was well and to move forward and was proud of me.

I hit the streets selling ads and was overwhelmed at the local support. Chris Cavender was one of the biggest supporters (and still is) in the early days. Mark Hemperley also stands out as someone who fully supported me and my idea. Kathleen Todd was also so inspiring as well as Mickey Horton and Anna Anderson. While trying