58.8 Howe Enterprise July 6, 2020

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Volume 58, Edition 8

Monday, July 6, 2020

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The final Independence Day? By Monte Walker, Editorial

Anthony Lowder

There’s been some outstanding competition between two Howe 14U teams this summer. The Howe team coached by Kent Lowder has won both contests now against the one coached by yours truly. The Lowder team has the league’s most dangerous 14U hitter in Cooper Jones who has hit multiple homers this year including a grand slam at Bells. So in the first game, we used the rules to bypass Cooper and walked him all three times. On Thursday night, we walked him two out of the three times and the one time we pitched to him he was hit by a pitch (assuredly unintentional). But the story of the two games really shouldn’t be the intentional walks to Jones, but the dominating pitching by Anthony (Continued on page 15)

EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an opinion column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

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Last week’s edition celebrated its 750th publication produced by the Walker family. My grandfather Bob Walker, who is less than 100 publications ahead of me now, operated the Howe Enterprise from his Libertarian small government, anti-tax belief system that could be found occasionally in the Howe’s That column with a quirky witty twist. The Libertarian in him was far different than the Liberals that exist today that hate the President of the United States. This publication, when not owned by the Walkers, was owned by the Rideout family who were staunch con-

servatives. Therefore, the Howe Enterprise has virtually, in its entire existence, had some sort of Ron Paul/ Rand Paul feel to it coming through the opinion sections of non-local fervor. Being in the news publication business, facts have always been the raison dêtre, but in 2020, facts and truth have never been more savage. Since I took over the publication in 2014, we have been fortunate enough to win the Press Club of Dallas’ Hugh Aynesworth Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 2017 and 2018. This prestigious award ironically came from perhaps one of the largest of all mockingbirds while

Wowzy Folks Governor Abbott establishes statewide face covering requirement, issues proclamation to limit gatherings

The movie poster from Escape from New York.

we deliberately doth protest too much against the mockingbirds. But what does any of this have to do with the title “The Final Independence Day?” Well, mob rule has invaded journalism; statues depicting the history of a country and its founding fathers have fallen; the defunding of police departments have taken place, and now, which as in Venezuela, volleys the marination process that serves as a precursor to the fall of a nation. “Oh, Monte, you’re so dramatic,” one might claim. That might very well be true at times. I do enjoy the 57-yard trebled touchdown call. But let us look at this whole situation from the view of the contrail planes. Since 2020 began,

an election year by chance, the US has seen a raging pandemic rooted from China moments after a trade renegotiation with the superpower country. The pandemic shut down our entire US economy thanks to the global leaders of the World Health Organization and their financial billionaires such as Bill and Melinda Gates. Gates once predicted such a pandemic and even held a ‘what-if” coronavirus outbreak exercise just months before the, you guessed it, coronavirus outbreak ignited in Wuhan, China. If that is not strange enough, we can look at the United Nations Agenda 21 sustainable development (remember that term) plan adopted in 1992 which is (Continued on page 2)

Grayson County COVID-19 Big Tex of the State Fair of Texas depicted wearing a surgical mask.

On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued yet another executive order on the coronavirus outbreak.

Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order requiring all Texans to wear a face covering over the nose and mouth in (Continued on page 6)

Total cases Total recovered cases Active cases Recovery rate Total tests Negative test percentage Positive test percentage Deaths

July 5 633 576 52 99% 7,336 91.4% 8.6% 5

June 5 372 312 58 99% 4,599 91.9% 8.1% 2

Statistics from Grayson County Office of Emergency Management

Chamber of Commerce donates $2,000 to Memorial Park project

Beginning a garden

Howe Community Library hosting family trivia night

Summer Bash cancelled, Hall of Honor again

By Donna Nesbit, Grayson County Master Gardener

Join us for a general knowledge trivia

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