58.13 Howe Enterprise August 10, 2020

INSIDE

Hana’s Café and Market now open for business

Howe ISD staff prepares for most unusual school year

Howe ISD releases stadium ticket HMS Back to School, pg. 4 information for NBF new pastors, pg. 6 sporting events Ice Cream Social—sort of, pg. 7

The long-awaited opening of Hana’s Café

Most teachers would much rather be in the

Per UIL guidelines, attendance at all

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City of Howe says they have paid $907,000 to Sherman for wastewater since February 2019

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It’s football time in Texas

52-year-old joint sewer contract with Sherman has been a stink bomb for Howe It’s always frustrating this time of year when the Dollar General begins to display their Howe Bulldogs spirit wear in that has the wrong school colors. But nothing can top the crazy year of 2020 when they even got the team wrong.

You can now get your black and red Chilhowie Warriors spirit wear at Dollar General. At least they are consistent with getting the colors wrong. Since the Howe High School Cheerleaders sell official spirit wear, someone needs to look into the actions of cheerleading coach Pam Kirby and see if she “coerced” Dollar General into displaying the Virginia school. Nonetheless, we love our hometown discount store, but it’s always nice to purchase your spirit paraphernalia from the cheerleaders or the booster club. Plus, they usually have the right town, mascot, and school colors. ***** President Trump signed an executive order over the weekend that defers payroll taxes until the end of the year. It will save the average person about $1,200 over four months beginning in September. The order also included an extension of federally enhanced unemployment benefits that will require states to chip in 25 percent of the $400-perindividual bump. It’s an election year by the way.

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

KXII-TV ran a story last week that claimed the City of Howe owes the City of Sherman $300,000 after not paying their sewage bill for 15 months. Howe City Administrator Joe Shephard denied that accusation with the following statement to the Howe Enterprise, “A recent news broadcast would lead the listener to believe Howe has not paid the sewer bill from Sherman for over 15 months. The facts are, from February 2019 through July 2020 the citizens of Howe have paid Sherman $907,047. Sherman charges us for not only sewage, but for rainwater that enters the system. This is one reason your water/sewer bill is so high. The huge amount we, the citizens of Howe, pay Sherman is almost one-third (1/3) of the City’s total annu-

al $3.3 million budget.”

Shephard told KXII that the rates only go up every time it rains. That’s because in Howe, like all other cities, the rainwater seeps into the same pipe as all the sewage, and all of that goes to Sherman to be treated. The City of Howe pays on the amount going through the pipe.

“So, we’re billed per gallon, that runs through this meter,” Shephard said to KXII. “So, when it doesn’t rain, our normal bill is about $30,000 but when we get big rain, it could go up to $80,000, $90,000 to $100,000 and that is what puts us behind.”

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Lady Bulldogs lifting hopes for volleyball season

Senior receiver Jordan Jones. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe Bulldogs officially hit the field on Monday for “2-a-days” and it didn’t take long for the Dogs to get going. In the old days, the first few practices were designated mostly for conditioning, but with the UIL now allowing summer workouts, coaches can focus on X’s and O’s from day one.

“It’s like Christmas in August for me. I couldn’t sleep,” said Howe Head Coach Bill Jehling on Monday. “I know it’s a different year with everything going on, but just being able to get them out here in a football atmosphere, in a football mood—football zone is

huge. It’s the best time of year all around.”

Howe’s returning 1,000yard rusher Jalen Thornton said that it was excited to be back on the field and credited the coaches for the preparation throughout the summer heading into camp.

Jehling said he could see the effects of not having a full off-season with school not returning after spring break. He said the players are not at full speed and need to improve on quickness but was excited about the team offensively as he said they are ahead of where they were last year at this time.

Grayson County COVID-19 a Senior Gracie Lankford doing squats during the first day of workouts on Monday. Photo by Michelle Carney.

New Howe High School Volleyball Coach Erin Lopez says her goal for the volleyball program is to see improvement from year

to year and is expecting good things from a roster returning nine seniors.

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July 9 82 7 708 619 7,695 90.8% 9.2%

Active cases Deaths Total 2020 cases Total recovered cases* Total tests Negative test percentage Positive test percentage *Total recovered cases do not Statistics from Grayson County include active cases Office of Emergency Management

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decisions frighten the death out of community leaders. Before marrying a decision with long term effects, every plausible defection must be reasonably calculated in that decision. To fix a short-term problem, do you make a long-term decision that could set back a community 50 years? The joint sewer contract with the City of Sherman will go down as one of the most disastrous decisions in the history of this community.

Some say it was only the beginning of a 4-year period of head scratching decisions by former city council members.

According to a 1968 Howe Enterprise edition, the City of Howe was initially approached by the City of Sherman during the time Sherman was trying to obtain a grant to enhance the sewer treatment plant on FM 1417. For Sherman to qualify for the grant, they needed Howe's population to qualify. In the original 1968 agreement, Sherman provided Howe citizens wastewater treatment at a maximum of $0.14 per 1,000 gallons. In March of 1986, Howe was paying a flat rate of $487.50 per month, or $0.60 cents per customer.

According to the original 1968 contract, Howe was limited to 250,000 gallons per day. Due to rain infiltration, Sherman maintained that the levels of infiltration were as high as 600,000 gallons and in March of 1986 filed suit against Howe for breach of contract.

Sherman cited expansion in both cities from 1968 to 1986 along with the Clean Water Act of 1972 for the need to improve their sewer system.

At the time of the lawsuit, Sherman was in the middle of an $18.5 million expense updating their facility.

Former Howe City Administrator Dick Britton told the Howe Enterprise in March of 1986, "Sherman's suit is based on distorted fact and is no more than a devious attempt to weasel out of our longstanding agreement."

Britton noted then that Howe offered Sherman to increase its monthly fee by $500 per year for four years, making their annual payments jump from $6,000 to $25,000 per year. Sherman, he said, refused to consider the offer, instead wanting $60,000 to $70,000 annually from Howe.

Howe hired John Hill, a Sherman attorney, to represent the City of Howe in the case and soon afterward, Jerry Kirby resigned his seat as Mayor of Howe leaving MayorPro-Tem Marion Allison in the seat until an election. Ray Bledsoe was eventually elected mayor in April of 1987. City Administrator Dick Britton soon left.

Howe had filed a countersuit on October 10, 1986 stating, among other things, that the contract was part of a series of agreements which give Howe part ownership of the sewer treatment plant. Howe also sought damages if the contract was declared void.

"I sat in that courtroom for five days

when Sherman sued us," said Bledsoe in a 2016 interview. "The judge got up and said, 'I'm going to dismiss the jury. He said, 'that contract is not worth the paper it's printed on' (referring to the 1968 contract). The judge instructed Howe to pay Sherman for sewer and for Sherman to not discontinue service and for each city to come to an agreement. Bledsoe stated that he worked with Sherman's David Gattis and Howe would pay Sherman $3,000 per month on a temporary basis.

As we fast forward 30 plus years, Then-Howe Mayor Jeff Stanley told the city council in the August 2016 council meeting, "Our normal bill from Sherman is a little over $22,000 (per month) and recently they have been $60,000. This month should be closer to normal, but we haven't had many of those in the last couple of years (due to the amount of rain).

Although the city adjusted the wastewater contract services budget expense from $310,400 in 2016 to $550,000 in 2018, they did not pass the bill on to the citizens. The adjustment would result in an increase of roughly $10-$15 per household.

"We're not asking for an increase from the citizens," City Administrator Joe Shephard told the council the same night. "We're just using funds from other places to cover that.

We're not increasing the rates."

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“We’re transitioning right now and going through a lot of changes,” said Lopez. “We have a lot of seniors, so we have some good experienced players.”

Lopez comes from Savoy High School where she was head volleyball and basketball coach there. She is a former Van Alstyne Panther and graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 2012.

She will also be the assistant basketball and assistant softball coach in Howe.

New Lady Bulldogs Varsity Volleyball Head Coach Erin Lopez.

She has only been with the girls for three days officially, but she says the girls are working hard learning a new system which she says has initiated big changes from a year ago.

and think they are all great leaders so far. I have only been with them for three days. We mix them all up and try and make the freshmen comfortable and I think they have done a really good job with that.

“They’re adapting and they’re working hard for me,” said Lopez. “We have nine seniors

Lopez says the girls are adapting the standards set in place for COVID-19.

Howe High School track athlete Marissa Agee (third from left) and her Track Dynamite relay team won the gold medal at the AAU Junior Olympic Track & Field games in Florida in the 15-16/17-18 year-old combined 4x800m relay. Courtesy photo.

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The best news for Howe citizens is that the city is currently in the stages of working with Tomlin Investments to create a wastewater treatment facility to move away from the Sherman agreement. Howe's future home

development and commercial development growth depend a lot on how much capacity the current infrastructure can handle before a new necessary plant can be in place. The facility is designated for location at Blythe Road near US Highway 75.

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Howe Middle School Back to School Events Revised Supply Lists: Visit the HISD web site for revised supply lists for both Remote and OnCampus Instruction. Look on the white pop up when you first visit the HISD web page.

August 14 6th Grade Orientation Howe MS Cafeteria: 1 adult with each student with masks.

We will provide information, introduce some of our staff and release students to put supplies in their lockers. Report to cafeteria.

Park in gym parking lot. 3 sessions and online information available: 8:30 (students last name A-I) 9:45 (students last name J-Q) 11:00 (students last name R-Z) August 17 iPad pick up at the HMS Cafeteria: Student and one parent only w/ mask. iPad insurance is $40. If at all possible please attend by these times based on your last name.

Students all Grades A-F

9:00-10:30 Students all Grades G-L 10:30-12:00 .Students all Grades M-R 1:00-2:30 Students all Grades S-Z 2:30-4:00 August 17 HMS Meet the Teacher Night: One parent / adult per student with masks. No siblings please. Attend by last names.

Enter through the cafeteria to pick up schedule.

Students all Grades A-I 5:30-6:15 Students all Grades J-Q 6:15-7:00 Students all Grades R-Z 7:00-7:45 August 19 First Day of School for both Remote and On-Campus Instruction

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Hana’s Café and Market now open for business in downtown Howe

Alex and Phoebe Heng working behind the counter during the first week.

Staff photo.

The long-awaited opening of Hana’s Café Market, a Chinese restaurant, took place two Saturdays ago. The results from the first week were overwhelming said owner Earng Heng. It was 75 percent take-out and 25 percent dine-in during the first week for the family-owned and operated business.

While school is out, you can find Heng’s son Alex, daughter Phoebe, and wife Huana, and brotherin-law Zelin.

“It’s been great. I’m surprised,” said Earn Heng on the first week of business. “A lot of people from out of town are coming here also.”

Heng said the favorite dish by far is the orange chicken along with the fried rice.

The café is located at 105 S. Denny St. where Stark Lane Gifts was located previously. Prior to that, it was owned by Jack Leavenworth as an apartment. The building was originally constructed as a cabinet shop.

“When the property came open, I thought I could do something with it and there wasn’t a Chinese restaurant, so I thought it would be a good idea. My wife is a great cook so I thought, ‘let’s see what she can do with a restaurant.’”

The Heng family also owns a Chinese pastry company in Garland where they distribute all along the state and up and down the east coast. That business was established in 1987 and is operat(Continued on page 15)

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Husband and wife team up as lead pastors for New Beginning Fellowship Howe’s New Beginning Fellowship church located at 910 S. Denny Street in Howe has a new pastor. Recently, Wallace Rains stepped down after a long tenure as pastor and his associate pastor Brett Hetrick has been assigned to lead the congregation along with his wife Deb. New Beginning Fellowship is of the Assemblies of God denomination.

Hetrick is a licensed professional counselor and a marriage and family therapist to go along with his pastoral work. He graduated from Texas Woman’s University with his master’s degree in 2004.

He received his training to be a pastor at Christ of the Nations in South Dallas in 1991 and has been involved in ministry for many years, although this will be his first official position of lead pastor.

Hetrick is from a little town in southwestern Wyoming called Big Piney which is known as the ice box of the nation due to its more consecutive below-zero temperature days than anywhere in the lower 48 states.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming in social science with a minor in psychology. With an

Deb and Brett Hetrick

opportunity to attend graduate school, he was given a scholarship at Texas Woman’s University.

“I had to kind of deal with the name of the college, being a male,” said Hetrick. “But I got a good education there.”

In Wyoming, he grew up changing oil and fixing tires at a local gas station at the age of 13. He continued working there until high school when he went to work in the oil fields until 1988 when he moved to Texas.

Not all pastors grow up in the church and Hetrick says it was a life-changing event that brought him to God. (Continued on page 10)

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Chamber and Cavender Home Theater teaming up for drive-by ice cream social...distancing

Cavender Home Theater found a creative way to continue their annual ice cream social. The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce will have a drive-by ice cream social located on O'Connell Street near Downtown Howe next to Summit Gardens. The event will feature

packaged ice cream including Blue Bell cups, drumsticks, fudge pops, Snickers ice cream bars, and more.

It will begin at 6:30 on Tuesday, August 25, 2020.

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Howe ISD staff prepares for most unusual school year

Howe ISD teachers receive technology training to provide high quality instruction to remote learners for the upcoming school year.

Most teachers would much rather be in the classroom with their students, but in the upcoming unusual year of education, teachers are already preparing for a different kind of year. Last week, they spent training sessions at Summit Hill Elementary learning how to educate their students through online instruction. As of now, about 85 percent of students will be in attendance at school while 15 percent will be staying home and learning through online instruction.

Bryan Brandon, the director of technology at Howe ISD has had a very busy summer trying to work out the bugs and prepare for a much different fall than the makeshift situation that COVID-19 forced upon the district last spring.

“Unlike the spring, remote learners will engage in online activities and assignments on a daily basis,” said Brandon. “Paper packets will not be sent home, all assignments will be accessed and submitted through the Canvas learning management system.”

Canvas is a learning management system often used by universities.

It allows for teachers to post content and assignments in a single location for both their in-person and remote learners. In addition, the ISD purchased document cameras for every classroom that are able to record and upload classroom lessons directly to Canvas, thus closing any divide in instruc-

tional quality between online and traditional learners. The content and instruction in any classroom will be the same as those taking the class online.

Brandon says the IT Department developed targeted professional development for their teachers and instructional staff to train them specifically on how to get the most out of online learning management system. This included teaching staff how to record and upload video lessons, transforming traditional assignments into digital content, and more.

“The IT Department has worked diligently this summer to ensure student devices are ready for the new school year,” said Brandon.

“On Wednesday, over 300 devices were deployed to high school students, and later this month we will be deploying the remaining 600plus (devices) to our middle and intermediate school students. Additionally, we are working with TEA on Operation Connectivity to purchase additional iPads to expand our 1:1 program so that every student in grades PreK - 12 will have a mobile device and access to internet at home if needed.”

While the 2020-2021 school year will be most likely be the most difficult year since the first graduating class 112 years ago, Howe ISD and their technology department have prepared their staff for the rigorous challenges that lay ahead.

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Howe ISD releases stadium ticket information for sporting events Varsity Football •

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Per UIL guidelines, attendance at all athletic events will be limited to 50% capacity, which for us is about 525 seats on the home side.

Considering that we have a number of fans stand along the fence, we will sell a maximum of 550 tickets.

All tickets will be sold prior to the games. There will be no tickets sold at the gate.

Tickets may be purchased at the Howe High School office, and ticket sales will end at noon on Fridays.

All tickets will be $5 – adults and students.

A maximum of 4 tickets will be available to families of players, band members and cheerleaders on Mondays and Tuesdays. Tickets will go on sale to the general public and students on Wednesday.

Participants can purchase additional tickets for family members on Wednesday.

Reserved seating will be available and may be expanded into the adjacent sections if necessary to accommodate social distancing requirements. Preference will be given to past reserve seating holders and parents of HS players, band and cheerleaders. Contact Heidi Debner at 903.745.4406 or debner.heidi@howeisd.net to reserve your seats.

Reserved seats are $25 per seat for the season. However, please note – you are still required to purchase a ticket for each game.

Everyone must have a ticket to enter the stadium - including reserved seating, district pass, and senior citizen pass holders.

Tickets for away games will also be pre-sale only. The same purchasing protocols will apply for home and away games, but limits may be adjusted up or down based on stadium seating capacities.

Only adults will be allowed to stand along the fence. Students/ children will be required to sit in the stands.

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Tickets for all sub-varsity football games will be sold at the gate as usual. However, the 50% capacity and social distancing guidelines will still be in effect.

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Per UIL guidelines, attendance at all athletic events will be limited to 50% capacity.

For high school non-district games, tickets will be sold at the gate as usual.

For high school and middle school District 11AAA games, all tickets will be sold prior to the games. There will be no tickets sold at the gate.

More detailed protocol for district game ticket sales will be detailed in the near future.

The Howe Ex-Students Association met on Saturday morning to discuss the upcoming Howe All-School Reunion which takes place every five years. Due to the pandemic and the uncertainty of availability of school property use, the group decided to cancel the event and move it to homecoming 2021.

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“I was injured in an oil field explosion when I was almost 20 and it nearly took my life,” said Hetrick. “It started a cascading of events to where I became very interested in things of eternal value because I dodged a bullet. I should have died.”

He said the God kept bringing people into his life and at the age of 23, he became a Christian.

“I was a different character,” said Hetrick. “I worked in the oil field during the day and I worked as a bouncer at a bar at night. And then God got ahold of me and people thought that maybe I’d slipped a gear mentally because I was just as committed to my new relationship with God as I was to the life that I once led. A lot of people didn’t comprehend that. It was a true conversion.”

He became involved in youth ministry shortly after becoming a Christian at the Christian Life Center in Marbleton, Wyoming.

He then moved to Texas in 1988 to attend bible college where he graduated in 1991.

His wife Deb also serves as pastor at New Beginning Fellowship in Howe. The two grew up in the same town of Big Piney but did not connect until both were in Texas years later.

“She was raised in the church and even in the little tiny town, she knew of me, but she didn’t know me, which was to my advantage,” said Hetrick.

Deb was working for Mobil Oil in Dallas. When he transferred here for school, he contacted her, and they actually met for the first time here in Texas although coming from the same small town.

“It was one of those deals where you couldn’t just put these two types of people together unless there was divine intervention,” said Hetrick.

They were married after he graduation from bible school in December of 1991.

Brett Hetrick has been an associate pastor and youth pastor and a

men’s leader in churches. He admits that this first position of being a lead pastor is both exciting and scary all at the same time.

“We’ve been in the pastorate now for seven weeks,” said Hetrick.

“Pastor Wallace’s last week was June 8 and we started the following Sunday.”

The Hetrick’s are not strangers to Howe. They’ve been here since November of 2018. With Wallace Rains being a bi-vocational pastor, he needed help and Hetrick was willing to help.

“I was perfectly happy sharing the pulpit with him and helping him out to make it successful because we’re both bi-vocational,” said Hetrick. “I worked with him for a year and a half and he finally told me that he thought it was time for him to step down.”

Hetrick said he knew due to him being bi-vocational, he wouldn’t be able to handle the church alone so his wife, who had obtained all of her credentials through the Assemblies of God, allowed for the same paradigm with two pastors, but instead of it being Hetrick and Rains, it’s Hetrick and Hetrick.

He says his visions for the church are large but stated that the unprecedented situation of COVID19 has halted some of those plans.

“We would like to have a robust children’s ministry and youth ministry and men’s ministry and women’s ministry, but it takes people to do that,” said Hetrick.

“It takes being able to assemble to be able to do that. We have to follow the guidelines of our legislatures and the governor as well as senior church leadership as to what is the most prudent thing to do to keep everyone safe. So, it’s really a difficult time taking over a church and trying to build something when you’ve got one hand tied behind your back.”

He says that his church is a congregation that likes to be together and people are getting acculturated to keeping their distance.

“We as humans don’t function well in isolation,” said Hetrick.

“We function best when we have the companionship of others.”

"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living.

We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts

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Ed Meacham, State Farm 2624 Loy Lake Rd., Suite B Sherman TX 75090 https://www.statefarm.com/ agent/US/TX/Sherman/EdMeacham-3TGY5753JAK 903-892-3923 ed@mredinsurance.com

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COVET Homegrown 6007 Farmington Rd. Howe, TX 75459 469-879-9190

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Kathy McGarry, Mayo Agency 215 S Ray Roberts Pkwy, P.O. Box 519 Tioga TX 76271 940-437-2378 kathy.mayoagency@gmail.com

Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Darren Foster – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfbins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 32707/darrenfoster 903-436-2470 dfoster@txfb-ins.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Loretta Anderson – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfb -ins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 23242/lorettaanderson 903-819-1041 landerson@txfb-ins.com Aflac Agent Chyna Vincent 1671 Taylor Rd Dorchester TX 75459 940-641-1714 chynakv@live.com INTERNET TekWav 223 N. Walnut St. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.tekwav.com 903-375-9787 jj@tekwav.com LEADERSHIP The Iku Organization http://theikuorganization.org/ 214-392-6218 soga.aralola@gmail.com NON-PROFIT Goodwill Industries of Northeast Texas 2206 E. Lamar St. Sherman, TX 75090 goodwillnorthtexas.org spierce@goodwillnorthtexas.org

PERSONAL SERVICES & CARE Servpro of Sherman/Denison PO Box 1851 Sherman TX 75091 ervproshermandenison.com/ 903-893-7166 belinda.servpro8117@gmail.com PHOTOGRAPHY Melissa Millsap Photography melissa.millsapphotography @gmail.com PLUMBING Skinner Plumbing Supply 200 S. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 (903) 532-0034 skinnersupply@yahoo.com Torque Plumbing 102 S. Collins Frwy Howe TX 75459 (972) 658-1515 torquemayes@yahoo.com PUBLIC UTILITIES Atmos Energy 5111 Blue Flame Rd. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.atmosenergy.com/ 1-888-286-6700 (Main) 1-866-322-8667 Natural Gas Emergency Jan.Rugg@atmosenergy.com Billy’s Trash Service 800 S. Andrews Sherman TX 75090 903-814-9070 jeffstanley@cableone.net

Grayson -Collin Electric Cooperative, Inc. P.O. Box 548 Van Alstyne TX 75495 www.grayson-collin.coop 903-482-7100 mmcginnis@gcec.net Cavender Home Theater DISH 6202 Texoma Parkway Sherman TX 75090 http://www.cavendertv.com/ 903-892-3499 chris@cavenderht.com REAL ESTATE Bill French Properties 315 N Travis Suite B-3 Sherman TX 75090 billfrenchproperties.com 903-893-BILL (2455) bill@billfrenchproperties.com Sheryl Bentley, Ebby Halliday REALTORS 3445 FM 1417 N Sherman TX 75092 http://www.ebby.com/agents_ offices/find_agent/info/ sherylbentley (903) 821-7653 sherylbentley@ebby.com The Uselton Group 382 Eagle Point Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 theuseltongroup.com 469-525-7281 kim@theuseltongroup.com Vincent Realty Group 324 Meadows Estate St., P.O. Box 756 Tom Bean TX 75489 vincentrealtygroup.com/ 903-870-8528 benvincent@cableone.net

City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boilwater notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient. Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be resumed.

The following information is required to add a telephone number into the "CodeRED" database: first and last name; address (physical address, no P.O. boxes); city; state; Zip Code; and primary phone number. The system works with cellular phones but requires a valid street address. When entering information, please fill out all of the screens because the newest data entered will replace the old data. Sign up by visiting http:// www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/oem.cred

2019-20 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 %

City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson County Junior College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)

$0.57 $1.43 $0.42 $0.17 $2.59

City of Howe Budget

$3,788,977

Michael Taylor – Keller Williams Realty P.O. Box 575 Howe TX 75459 mtaylor@kw.com RESTAURANTS El Patio Escondido Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 495 W. Van Alstyne Pkwy, P.O. Box 637 Van Alstyne TX 75495 elpatioescondido.com 903-482-5538 williampacheco519@yahoo.com Abby’s Restaurant 110 E. Haning St Howe TX 75459 abbys-restaurant.com/ 903-487-8860 abbysrestaurant@yahoo.com Palio’s Pizza Cafe 303 W. Haning St. Howe TX 75459 https://www.palioshowe.com/ 903-532-0390 paliospizza@att.net ROOFING HIT Exteriors, LLC Howe, TX 75459 972-977-1523 sergio@hitexteriors.com STORAGE Howe Mini-Storage 609 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-7867 amanda.garner@howecpa.com

TOWING Adams Automotive & Towing 85 Redden Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 adamsautotow.com 903-482-5784 Pristine Towing & Roadside Assistance 135 Hodgins Rd. P.O. Box 1672 Van Alstyne TX 75495 (903) 814-8064 VIDEO Summit Media Service PO.O. Box 1197 Howe, TX 75459 www.summitmediaservice.co m 214-843-1495

Cityofhowe.org City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Joe Shephard City Secretary: Joy Stevens Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Kerri Cheatham (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Bert Dowlen Howe Fire Department 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Police Sergeant: Keith Milks Economic Development 101 E. Haning St. 903-532-6080 EDC Director: Monte Walker City Council meets third Tuesday at 700 W. Haning St. at 6 pm.

Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org

2020 City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill $27.15 $7.45 $8.35 $9.30 $9.90 $33.60 $5.25 $13.35 $1.10 $27.15 $33.60 $13.35 $1.10 $75.20 $56.95 $54.60 $13.35 $1.10 $126.00 $98.70 $80.85 $13.35 $1.10 $194.00

WATER Base per 1,000 next 4,000 per 1,000 next 20,000 per 1,000 next 20,000 per 1,000 all over 45,000 SEWER Base per additional metered 1,000 gallons TRASH (solid waste) Base Tax MINIMUM BILL Water Sewer Trash Tax Total 5,000 gallons usage Water Sewer Trash Tax Total 10,000 gallons usage Water Sewer Trash Tax Total

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Texas History Minute Diseases have swept across communities and nations for all of recorded history.

In the midst of the devastation, Ken Bridges panic erupts.

Always, there are those dedicated men and women working to relieve suffering and find a cure. Doctors and scientists often face challenges from those gripped with fear or superstition as they move to expand the reach of medicine. Dr. Paul Ehrlich was one of those great figures in medicine, who cured several diseases and greatly increased the understanding of the workings of the immune system.

Paul Ehrlich was born in Germany in 1854. His father and grandfather had both been innkeepers and liquor distillers.

The younger Ehrlich earned his medical degree in 1878.

Inspired by his cousin, Dr. Karl Weigert, himself a famous physician, he began his early medical career studying staining processes for bacteria and animal cells so they could be more readily identified and cataloged.

His worked earned him an appointment as professor at the University of Berlin.

In 1890, he was appointed as a researcher at the Institute of Infectious Diseases. In 1893, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept across Berlin. Ehrlich and his colleague, Dr. Emil Behring, had been working to develop serums to cure diphtheria and tetanus, both fatal illnesses. Though their work was showing great promise, authorities were fearful to allow them to administer their cure.

After demonstrating the science behind it, they were eventually able to move ahead. The patients were cured, and the epidemic ended.

Ehrlich had to combat those who did not understand the science behind his ideas or how medicine even worked. Behring and Ehrlich had effectively developed the cure for two horrible diseases, but Ehrlich had to overcome the prejudices against his Jewish heritage and the uneducated critics who had never done the hours of work in a lab that he had done. Behring himself won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901.

Ehrlich continued to study the immune system and developed many important insights into how the body fought disease and how immunity was gained to keep the body from getting the same illness again. He came to believe in the idea of the “magic bullet” in medicine, that is, creating a

chemical that would target only a specific type of germ or a specific type of tumor. Through this work, he helped develop the theoretical basis of chemotherapy, one of the most important tools in treating cancer.

One of his discoveries was a new chemical for staining bacteria so they could be studied under the microscope. Methylene blue, named because it turned certain bacteria blue, offered a major advance in the study of microbes.

Additionally, it stained nerve cells blue also, allowing scientists to study the nervous system more closely.

For his work with immunology, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908. Even with this honor, Ehrlich was determined to explore new fields of medicine.

Syphilis was a deadly disease and devastating social problem at the turn of the century. Though some people balked at his attempt to cure a sexually transmitted disease, Ehrlich pointed out how innocent spouses were often infected and how the disease was even transmitted to newborns during birth. With his fellow researchers, he conducted hundreds of experiments to find the key to neutralizing the deadly pathogen. By 1911, they had the answer. Salvarsan was a substance based on arsenic, but it was chemically balanced in a way that killed the syphilis bacteria without harming the patient. It was the first effective treatment for syphilis. It was later discovered that salvarsan effectively treated African sleeping sickness, a deadly disease caused by a parasite.

Even with this breakthrough, he was still attacked as reckless and his treatments as dangerous. In the end, science proved that Ehrlich was correct.

Ehrlich died of a heart attack in 1915 at age 61. Several streets in Germany were named for him as well as a crater on the Moon. In 1940, a movie based on his life, Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, premiered, which starred Edward G. Robinson, a popular actor known mostly for his portrayal of gangsters up to that point.

Because of Ehrlich’s Jewish ancestry, officials in Nazi Germany banned the movie.

Nevertheless, Ehrlich’s work continued to gain respect around the world. After World War II, Ehrlich was featured on the 200 Mark bank note in Germany. The Institute of Infectious Diseases was renamed for him as well.

And the most important legacy of Ehrlich is millions of people with lives of hope and good health with his work in curing four deadly diseases.

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Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail.com. © 2020 The Howe Enterprise

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There is no condemnation for being transparent I realize that church leaders must be real with their feelings because if the “human factor” did not come through our personaliDr. Billy ties, we would Holland all seem very robotic. But at the same time, many feel pressure to be excited and happy all the time because they want to keep everyone pumped up, and fear if they do not demonstrate a positive image they will appear weak and discouraging. Learning how to be “real” is like walking an emotional tight wire, and as fellow Christians we need to remember that we all live in human housing. The role of a spiritual leader is not easy and deserves more prayer and less criticism. I recall when I was younger, I was invited to attend a meeting of pastors that were discussing the trials and challenges of ministry, and instead of being compassionate, I was disappointed because they were not wearing their superhero capes. I listened as these warriors shared their burdens and worries and questions about church growth and how to get people to catch their vision. As they talked about problems with everything from excessive debt to people being unfaithful, I sensed a heaviness of negativity and defeat. When it was over, I left with a feeling of hopelessness for the local church. I was not encouraged, inspired, or built up in any way, yet here I was surrounded by those who fight on the front line and are filled with God’s power and faith. I felt there had been a mistake because I thought I was going to a celebration of spiritual victory with the generals, but instead was sitting in on a religious pity party. I was thinking to myself, everyone knows there are problems in the churches, but pastors are supposed to have the answers. What I failed to realize was that Elijah’s also need places to vent their frustrations and weaknesses and a safe environment with those who understand what they are going through.

Local assemblies have teachers, counselors, associate pastors, administrators, singers, musicians, superintendents, elders, and deacons, and these helpers are support staff. Of course, Christ is the

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head of the church, but He appoints the head pastor to relay His messages and to have a burden for all the sheep. May we remember that the head pastor also wears the brightest bullseye. It’s true, the office of a head pastor is to know God’s direction for the assembly and lead the warriors into the battle, but what I personally failed to realize in that meeting was that God’s messengers give their lives to help others.

These individuals were letting down their guard in front of me.

They felt secure with each other and used this time as a place of refreshing and refuge away from the war zone, to share their wounds, experiences, and open their hearts. I was not discerning what was happening and was secretly judging too harshly. These are the laborers who get up in the middle of the night and kneel on cold hospital floors praying for the sick. They hold people’s hands who are passing on to the next life. They counsel and try to help when people make a huge mess of their lives and they feel compelled to go inside the prisons to preach the kingdom message.

They carry the concerns that only God knows because many people have shared their deepest secrets with them and trust them to keep it confidential.

While none of us, including pastors, are to dwell in a world disappointments and worries, let us also remember that it’s okay to be honest with the ones we trust and who care for our souls. It’s alright for overcomers to be concerned, but we must also learn to leave our anxieties and fears at the cross as they are very heavy and can hinder our joy and peace. As servants of the Most High, spiritual leaders feel the same pain and heartache that everyone does and there is no condemnation for being transparent. For all of God’s children, it’s critical that we learn how to encourage ourselves and to know that God is the source of our strength. Overcomers learn that qualities like fortitude, perseverance, and patience are formed in times of great difficulty. “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed” II Corinthians 4:8-9.

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Local church calendar A Christian Fellowship 150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333 Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr.)

Community Bible Fellowship 415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 - 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service First Baptist Church Dorchester 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M. Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship First Baptist Church Howe 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903532-5504 Tuesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday 5:30 pm - Kids Choir 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30 am - Kids Church 10:30am - Worship Service

First United Methodist Church of Howe 810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Zack 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts Howe Church of Christ 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service New Beginning Fellowship 910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

Verse of the week Genesis 4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

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Ways to teach your kids about money during quarantine Hi Taylor: I’ve been trying to be productive with all this extra time I’m spending with my kids.

Taylor They’re pretty young, 7 and 9, Kovar but I’m wondering if there are lessons about money I can try to teach them? - Julie Hey Julie: I don’t think it’s ever too early to start teaching kids about money. A lot of what you teach won’t stick, but it’s all foundational stuff at this point and absolutely worth the effort. Here are a few simple ways you can get started.

Just talk about it. A big part of kids learning to talk is just speaking with them consistently.

The same can be said when you start teaching them about money.

As you pay for something with a credit card, talk about how that process works. Explain why certain items go on sale and then talk about how great it is to pay less for something. Don’t worry about stuff sailing over their heads, because it’s all part of a process.

Make saving fun. Collect all your pennies in a jar and go get ice cream when you have a few dollars. Roll quarters together to show what $10 looks like. Make a chart with goals so every purchase feels like an accomplishment.

When we get exhausted by life, we tend to buy toys and video games with haste to provide that instant gratification. If you can make the build-up to the buying enjoyable, you teach a good lesson while spending less in the

long run.

Explain income. At seven and nine, your children are entering the phase where these lessons will actually sink in. After you tell them how money works, explain how you got the money in the first place. Don’t shy away from talking about salaries and earnings. At some point you’ll have to talk about why some families make more or less than others, so don’t hesitate to touch on the subject early. If you’re open and honest about these topics, it will make all the money issues easier to discuss. You’ll get less pushback on allowances and vacation spending and the budgeting you do will start to have some context in your kids’ eyes.

I take a lot of pride in trying to teach my kids about money, even though sometimes it feels like I’m explaining quantum theory. Keep at it and try to make the process as fun as you can. Thanks for writing!

Legal Disclaimer: Information presented is for educational purposes only and is not an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and, unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Be sure to first consult with a qualified financial adviser and/or tax professional before implementing any strategy discussed herein. To submit a question to be answered in this column, please send it via email to Question@GoFarWithKovar.com or via USPS to Taylor Kovar, 415 S 1st St, Suite 300, Lufkin, TX 75901.

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ed by Heng’s parents and siblings.

His son Alex is a junior at Lakeview High School in Garland and his daughter Phoebe is attending the School of Arts in Chicago.

Other than the popular Orange Chicken with fried rice, the menu also includes Beef Teriyaki, Pork Egg Rolls, Veggie Egg Rolls, Fried & Steamed Dumplings, Wonton Noodle Soup, Beef Noodle, Fried Noodle, Spring Rolls, Pork buns, and Edamame.

The Fried Rice meal comes with options of shrimp, chicken, combo, or veggie. The Teriyaki also has the option of chicken instead of beef. The Orange Chicken can also have shrimp instead of chicken.

The Fried Noodles can come with either shrimp, chicken, combo or

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veggie as well.

Also, another favorite has been the Thai tea which most Texans would refer to as an orange sweet tea.

Heng purchased the building in February of 2019 and began work on the building mostly himself for the 15-month period. With the other business in place, he would come up mainly on Sundays to work.

Living with children Q: Our nineyear-old has just learned he is not going back to school on schedule in the fall. Instead, he will be doing John distance Rosemond learning by computer and home instruction. We had to do this for the last six weeks of the last school term and he did not like it at all. Up until now, he has loved school and been a great student. To homeschool him, I had to take a leave of absence from my job, but I’m just not suited to it it seems. Our family can squeak by without a second income, so that’s not the primary issue, but I feel like we’re caught between a rock and a hard place.

It looks like I have to quit my job and my son is very upset that he won’t be going back to school. He cries about it, isn’t sleeping well some nights, and is beginning to develop some obedience issues.

Do you have any ideas for me?

A: Over the last several months, I’ve been bombarded by folks who are describing similar problems. I’ll tell you what I’ve told them but keep in mind, a one -size-fits-all answer does not exist.

According to parent reports, children’s reactions to the closing of schools have ranged from apathy to making the best of it.

No doubt about it, significant numbers of children are experiencing mental health issues including depression, anxiety, and various forms of acting out. That is understandable given that for many kids, no school combined with no after-school sports means virtual isolation at home.

Unfortunately, that often translates into over-exposure to screen-based devices that have been shown to have negative effects on both mood and behavior. I cannot be more adamant: Do not allow your child to fill his time with video games, unsupervised time on the computer, and the like. Help him connect face-to-face with other

children and free play activities.

Let’s begin this problem-solving exercise by asking: Does the shuttering of schools in your state extend to all forms of private education as well? If not, and since your income is discretionary, then consider sending your son to a private school.

As for you not being suited to homeschooling, consider that the public-school curricula in question were not designed for that purpose. Public schools are attempting to shoehorn a classroom-based education model into homeschooling. That is not a valid means of assessing one’s “suitability” – whether parent or child – for homeschooling. Get in touch with your local homeschool coordinator. Ask her to recommend a curriculum and find out what sorts of homeschool options are available in your area.

There well may be one that fits both you and your son. The “university model,” for example, combines group instruction and home-based instruction. That might allow you to work part-time while providing your son with a good amount of needed socializing.

Finally, see if you can find a retired teacher in your area whom you can hire to homeschool in your stead. You might even be able to form a small homeschool group with children of other parents who are in the same boat.

This will pass, but just as COVID -19 is permanently altering the way people work, it is going to alter the “look” of education in America. It may well be time to shake things up a bit anyway.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, p arentguru.com.

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology. In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

“I work for my kids and I work for my wife,” said Heng.

The Heng family wanted to thank Howe for the warm welcome and the steady opening week of business.

They are on Facebook at Hana’s Café and Market and their phone number is 903-532-0529. They are giving a 10 percent discount to students and teachers with I.D.

The menu at Hana’s Café and Market at 105 Denny Street in Howe.

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