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Georgia Caraway

First let me tell our readers of the Howe Enterprise that Howe Mercantile wishes you the best as we struggle through this challenge of COVID19. We made a very hard decision to close for a few weeks to see if things get better. We sterilized our counters and bathrooms, but we want to do our part with “social distancing and isolating.”

In the meanwhile, enjoy family time and support small businesses as much as you can. Since they have had to close their dining rooms, support our local restaurants by calling in take-out meals. And add a little extra tip to help their wait staff. Think about sending a check to your hairdresser, nail tech, and barber and restaurants even if you can’t get to them.

Buy gift certificates to use later. They need the income now. Call them and use your credit/debit card to buy those gift certificates and ask them to mail them or hold them for you. It will feel like you are having a “free” meal when they reopen their dining rooms.

Shop online if the business offers that option. We are looking at online possibilities for Howe Mercantile and how we can have safe pick up.

Buy local produce and food. Costco, Sam’s, Wal Mart, and Target are doing a booming business, but the Howe Dollar General, and Diamonds and Brahms in Van Alstyne can provide food items too. It may be a bit more expensive but we need to support them as much as possible. If you find a Farmers Market open in your community, buy their fresh produce. Consider a donation to your local small business or charity. Animal shelters need dog food now more than ever. So, when you buy food for Fido, buy some extra for your local shelter. Or end them a check. Think of Divine Equine when you think of places to give a little extra money. Charities are still going to have to pay rent and utilities. Take water or some goodies out to your waste management folks and mailman when they come by. They have to continue working for you. Think if your garbage was not picked up weekly. We would not only be in a crisis with the virus but other health issues.

It is a great time to plant a garden and landscape. After all you are home!! Go to Green Acres in Van Alstyne and Go Gardenland in Sherman. Shop local!!

If you have a spare computer or printer, contact your local school or library. There are students who cannot afford to buy a computer and continue their school work. You don’t have to give it to them, you can just loan it. And don’t forget toner and paper.

Help your elderly neighbors with shopping, food prep, and paying bills if needed. Send cards of encouragement. They are even more isolated than ever.

I called Gabriela’s and Abby’s today and bought gift certificates. I live in Denton, but Howe is my hometown.

We can get through this together. Sending love to all and wishes for good health.

Georgia Caraway and her partners at Howe Mercantile hope you will come by 107-109 East Haning to shop and visit. Three new dealers joined the Mercantile. Come see their new offerings. SHOP LOCAL. WE CAN SHOW YOU HOWE.

said he had never heard of a coach being renewed at the same school after not being renewed the year before.

A year ago, the district chose not to renew his contract leaving Jehling in limbo. Most coaches when their contract is not renewed scurry to find a new job and a new 2-year contract with a new school. But “Coach J”, as he is referred to by his players, decided to stick it out with Howe instead of jumping ship. Howe Head Coach Bill Jehling consoles Bryce Krantz at home versus Commerce in 2018.

During the first football season, Howe started 3-0 in 2018 but lost seven in a row. After the fourth game of the season, the teachers and administrators were all in combat over a disciplinary situation that they felt wasn’t congruent with what other students were undertaking in other extracurricular activities. In short, the band program and band parents were concerned about Jehling’s discipline standards due to their perception of band students suffering one punishment as football players suffered a different punishment for the same rules unfollowed. The erosion of trust and morale at the high school campus led to Howe not renewing the contract of Jehling in February 2019.

Bill Jehling and Hunter Brussow after the final game of the 2019 season.

team dinner that someone hosted, and he was always the one who believed in us when nobody else did.”

Jehling, in a text after the board meeting, said, “I want to be a Howe Bulldog for the rest of my life!”

Jehling was hired with a combined 8-31 record with at Hamshire-Fannett and Cushing in South Texas. Since being at Howe, the ‘Dogs have gone 6-14 while being one of the smallest 3A-Division I teams in the state.

Each year, Jehling has to go out and find players to come out for football that otherwise would not. Other programs in Howe’s district are not having to recruit from the band and basketball programs. But he now has the remarkable Brussow story to tell to each recruit within the school.

In Texas, high school football coaches are often graded by their record on the field. But in Howe, the grades on the field are weighted less than the grades off the field. During the football season and during the Pride of Howe’s Marching Band competition on their journey to state, Jehling led his football team to sit in the stands in their jerseys to support the band just as the band supports them on Friday nights.

Jehling has also led his players to funerals of those that are significant to their athletic family. “He addressed all of the concerns I asked of him to,” said Superintendent Kevin Wilson. “He showed his commitment to our kids and our program. He did everything I asked him to do so I want to honor my commitment. He wants to be here and he’s committed to our kids so I appreciate that.”

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But as the dust settled and those that were in conflict communicated personally, they realized there were misinformation and disinformation that led to a snowball effect of uncertainty within the staff. By the time skies were clear, Jehling’s biggest critics became his biggest advocates. To make the made-for -TV movie plot any juicier, one of the band’s finest members in Hunter Brussow came out for the football team for his senior year for the first time in years and of course – just as movies go –Brussow was a terror on the field and earned first-team all-district in an unbelievable plot that could very well have helped save Jehling’s career in Howe.

“Coach J was always the most motivated person whether it was in the weight room, film room, or on the field,” said Brussow. “Coach J always connected with the players and he was at every

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our April meeting. It’ll be a bottom-line number and we can decide to move forward or delay, or just say no,” said Wilson who indicated the fees from the architect came in much lower than he anticipated.

In personnel, the board approved the extension of the contracts for Assistant Superintendent Darla Williams, the Principals Clarissia Doty, Clay Wilson, and Phil Kempson, and Directors Julie Snapp, Angie Liss, Bill Jehling, Melissa Atchisson, and Brett Williams. All extensions are the typical one-year annual extension with the exception of Jehling who received a new 2-year contract.