Howe PTO announces two events for students and parents

The Howe PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) had such a great turnout a year ago for their first Daddy-Daughter Dance that they felt they'd not only do it again, but expand it This year's event, entitled "Boots & Bling", will be opened up to not only dads, but grandpas, uncles, or any fatherfigure to be their escort

The event will take place on April 6 at 6 pm at the Howe Middle School Cafeteria The cost is $15 per couple and $5 for each additional child

They are also hosting a "Buddies & BBQ" event for moms and sons. That event will take place on April 13 from 6 pm to 8 pm Last year's event was held on the grounds of Howe Elementary School

For more information, please check out the Howe PTO Facebook page

The Howe PTO provides teacher grants that sponsor needs in the classroom, provide scholarships to seniors, support group

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Continued from page 3 what was needed, the supply house, along with Mayes, provided a new bathtub, sink, faucet for the elderly man's house

"Larry spent every night for about a week over there and even built him a new floor and rebuilt the whole bathroom," said Sunny

Sunny says that they feel as if you do things for people, it will always reward you in the end.

The visibility of being on US Highway 75 is already rewarding as they were approached by a pharmaceutical company in Denison that saw their sign and asked for a bid

"We have people walking in wanting supplies, we have people walking in wanting jobs, we have people walk in needing a job done," said Sunny Mayes "It's not a whole lot of Howe people yet, but our main reason for coming here was it was the perfect location We do a lot of Dallas, Prosper, McKinney work "

Growing at a rapid rate, Torque Plumbing just went incorporated and their seven employees are now officially W-2 workers which significantly changed the game as business owners

"It's kind of hard because we're just small country people," said Sunny Mayes who's from Van Alstyne and Larry from Anna

Garney Construction is the company that handled the project for the North Texas Municipal Water District's storage reservoirs which included 253,500 linear feet of steel pipe through hand mined tunnels Currently, they are working on a large water supply for Leonard, Texas and a pump station in McKinney

"We do residential every day so we balance it out," said Mayes. "Larry doesn't like to tell anyone no It keeps him working until midnight a lot of times "

The Girls Next Door came about by Sunny Mayes recruiting Leslie Medesitt to operate the business Mayes went and found re-purposed dressers and fixtures

"Larry's mom came in and basically redid that whole area and that took about a month," said Mayes

In August, the Girls Next Door opened and Modesitt says it's still slow right now, but said she's bringing in a lot of her regulars from her previous location in Anna and Van Alstyne She says most of her clients are from McKinney and the Melissa area Leanne Watson also has joined Modesitt and has brought her clientele from Gunter where she had a previous location

"We knew coming over here that it was going to be slow at first because there's already a salon here," said Modesitt

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The measure of success was immediate for the Mayes' business as in their first week, they were asked to build a Chick-Fil-A With Larry's reputation as a commercial plumber, he signed a non-compete clause with his previous company But when Larry resigned from his previous employer who did the work for Chick-Fil-A, they could no longer handle the jobs, therefore, Larry landed the ChickFil-A businesses

Since that initial job, they've worked on other restaurants and large water supply companies

"So far he's been awarded five of the 17 buildings that Garney (Construction) has," said Sunny Mayes

She says that one of the strangest haircut requests happened recently when she was called by a high school client who needed immediate attention due a coach informing one of his athletes that he needed a haircut Modesitt was called to the school to cut Mason Riggs' hair in the coaches office

"Mason is one my kids and I've been doing his hair for years He's always pushed that line as far as he can and that one day he had to make a decision," said Modesitt with a smile "It was definitely a first time to cut a kid's hair in a coaches office "

The building they're in has room to grow and both businesses say they're ready for that

Howe Elementary Top Dogs

Fourth Grade - Asia Lawhorn, Charles Thomas, Samaire Moss, Jackson

Teel, Alyssa Russell

Third Grade - Natalee Thorpe, Maite Perez, Hannah Ingram

First Grade - Hailee Bell, Denzel Diaz, Yovannie Frias, Zoey Stout

Kindergarten - Ireland McBride, Kendra Oliva, Asgli Vicente, Taylor Peavy, Bennie Westdyke

Howe Bulldogs Baseball schedule

April 2

April 5

April 9

April 12

April 16

April 19

April 23 at Bells Van Alstyne Lindsay at Leonard Bonham

Whitewright at Blue Ridge

Howe Lady Bulldogs Softball Schedule

April 2

April 5

April 9

April 12

April 15 at Bells Van Alstyne Burkburnett at Leonard Bonham Whitewright 5:00/7:00 5:00/7:00 5:00/7:00 5:00/7:00 5:00/7:00 5:00/7:00

Howe High School Track

April 4, District 10-3A Meet at Van Alstyne Prelims and Field Events

April 11, District 10-3A Running Finals

April 18, Area Track Meet at Van Alstyne

April 26-27, Region 2-3A Meet at Whitehouse

May 10-11, 3A State Meet at Austin

Howe Middle School Track

Apri 1, District 10-3A Meet at Van Alstyne