Bandsman of the Week

This week’s Bandsman of the Week is Kaitlyn Fuhr. She began in the band program in fifth grade and says it’s fun and she loves it.

As part of the Leadership Team, she says she’s the teacher’s “mini -me” and helps other students with questions that they may have.

The show this year is train themed and she says it’s going differently than what they had originally prepared for. She says she hopes they can get “to that place we don’t talk about.” said Fuhr.

She’s also a part of the volleyball team and snapped a district losing streak against Whitewright a couple of weeks ago. She says the win was awesome and was much needed. She says that it has brought the team together.

Fuhr is also involved with softball

Kaitlyn Fuhr

and National Honor Society. Her favorite teacher is Mrs. Angie Liss who she says is like a mom-figure to her.

Howe FFA hosting Texas Hold ‘em tournament fundraiser

The Howe FFA Booster Club is hosting their annual Texas Hold ‘Em Fundraiser with tournament dates beginning October 9. The entry fee is $50 with 50 percent payouts plus gift cards to all players at the final table.

There will be a total of five tournaments, the first four tournaments will decide the winners for the final table in May 2022. The first and second place finishers in the first four tournaments will be in the final tournament where cash and prizes will be awarded to all eight players. Each tournament will begin at 6 pm with contestants asked to arrive 15 to 30 minutes prior to start time to get signed in and positions drawn for the tournament.

The entry fee is $50 per person with an “Additional Chips Buy’s” available for all players that wish to participate. Contestants can only place first or second once to reserve their spot at the final table. Entry fees can be paid by cash/check or credit card. All players must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

Concessions will be available at each tournament and food, or drinks will not be allowed from the outside.

Tournament dates are as follows:

October 9, 2021 November 13, 2021 March 26, 2022 April 16, 2022 May 14, 2022

In the small market television news media, anchors rotate as quickly as the loss of flavor from a stick of Juicy Fruit gum. That makes Miller’s 33-year stint with KXII even more impressive. His payment for his loyalty to KXII and Gray Television was a feeble handshake, presumably in gloves and mask.

Miller was not the only employee shown the door by Gray Television (parent company of KXII) as Evening News Anchor Dan Thomas found himself no longer employed at the company.

Thomas started his career in Oklahoma City as an Associate Producer but quickly moved on to reporting and anchoring. He’s an Oklahoma City native and spent much of his youth working at his family’s appliance store in Edmond, OK where he learned the value of a hard day’s work. He’s an Oklahoma State University alumnus.

The Howe Enterprise reached out to all parties for a statement regarding the dismissal of the employees and received no response. To our knowledge, we are the only news outlet providing information on this story. Although, on KXII and KTEN websites, you can find out where to get the vaccine or booster shot.

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manently disabled. CDC Director Rochelle Walenski admitted recently that the vaccine cannot prevent transmission of COVID19.

Miller’s passion for meteorology in college where he graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in meteorology and a minor in geography. His on-air work earned him the American Meteorologist Society’s AMS Sealed Approval.

Co-workers past and present say his passion and positivity about his work are some of his best traits.

“His cheerful attitude in the morning is very infectious,” said former KXII Morning Anchor Lauren Smith in a 2018 tribute to Miller. “Not everyone is cheerful when they have to wake up at 3 am and have to go into work. He definitely has a great attitude that is contagious and helps our crew and everyone in Texoma wake up in the morning.” Former KXII News Anchor Alan Crone said that in the nearly 12 years of working with Miller, he never heard him grumble or complain about anything.

Other colleagues say that Miller is the same type of person inperson as what people see on television—kind, helpful, and trying to make everyone’s job easier.

Showing the longevity of Tom Miller at KXII is a photo of

KMKT-FM’s Zac Grantham as

a child and as an adult. Courtesy photo. Dan Thomas—former Evening News Anchor at KXII. KXII photo.

Xadrian Nance (15) of Winnsboro scores on a 12-yard pass from

Kyler Finney late in the first half. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Howe vs. Winnsboro

up a total of 612 yards on the night which is the most any Howe team has ever allowed an opponent. The previous high was a 608 -yard performance by the Van Alstyne Panthers in 2008 under then-Howe Head Coach Stony Coffman. The 70 points allowed to Winnsboro is not the most in school history as Van Alstyne and Waskom each scored 71 against the Dogs in 1992 and 2014, respectively. It is the second time in the last seven games played that Howe has allowed 70 points. Mineola scored that total at Howe a year ago.

Friday night was also the first time Howe had not reached the 300-yard mark of total offense as they fell short at 277. Turnovers contributed heavily to the shaved numbers as Howe fumbled four times by four different ball carriers and one interception was thrown in the early portion of the fourth quarter.

The bright spot for Howe in the first half was a 34-yard field goal by senior placekicker Daniel Del Angel to give the Dogs their only points heading into the locker room. In the second half, Howe finally reached the endzone when Howe’s quarterback hit Cooper Jones for a 14-yard touchdown. Near the end of the game, Howe’s Kaleb McNutt, who came in at quarterback for the injured firstteam quarterback launched a high heave down the middle of the

Broadcast of the game

field where receiver Ethan Lopez turned his body and made a great catch and raced the final yards needed for the 59-yard score. The receptions by Jones and Lopez were their first receiving touchdowns of the season.

Winnsboro moved to 3-2 on the season with a district record of 11. They lost a nail-biter the previous week to Mineola, 36-35. Friday night, they cut through the Bulldogs defense like a hot knife through warm butter as they were led on the ground by a running back tandem of senior Crayton Klika who amassed 146 yards on eight carries and two touchdowns and junior Jacob Russell who tallied 162 yards on six carries and two touchdowns. Sophomore quarterback Kyler Finney threw for three touchdowns to three different receivers on the night as he finished 13-of-18 for 233 yards through the air.

Winnsboro raced out to an early 7 -0 lead after a Klika 30-yard score. Russell went 44 yards on their next possession to make it 14-0. Howe had a great opportunity after the Del Angel field goal which left the score at 14-3. Finney fumbled which fell into the lap of linebacker Carson Daniels and Howe was in business at midfield. A score on that posses(Continued on page 5)

Howe’s new run-through tunnel flipped the breaker at the begin-

ning of the game at the new Red Raider Stadium. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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sion would have made it a 4-point game. However, a fumble on the first play set up a Finney to Will Wilcox 13-yard touchdown which swing the game to a 13-point lead at 20-7 which Howe would never be able to recover from.

The Red Raiders’ next possession ended on a Finney to Xadrian Nance 12-yard touchdown pass. Logan Baker capped off a 2-point conversion to give the “Rugged Red” a 28-3 lead. Finney would add one more scoring strike before the half—this one to Hayden Deaton for 19 yards to give Winnsboro a 35-3 halftime score.

In the second half, Howe’s quarterback suffered numerous hard hits and at one point had to leave the game and was spelled by McNutt. But the half opened with a Klika 14-yard scoring scamper which upped the lead to 42-3 ending a 2-play, 53-yard drive.

Bryce Crosby recovered a Red Raider fumble and returned it to the Winnsboro 8 yard line which set up the 14-yard touchdown pass to Jones. That narrowed the gap to 42-10 with 5:44 left in the third.

But Winnsboro answered back immediately as backup quarterback Rey Soto raced 35 yards for the score to make it 49-10.

With Howe’s starting quarterback out of the game, a turnover feast ensued with Winnsboro’s Angel Hernandez picking off a pass. Howe’s Luis Gonzalez caused a Winnsboro fumble; however, Howe gave it right back to them on a fumble.

With the Red Raiders pinned back at their own 6 yard line, the speedy Russell found the corner and churned 94 yards for the longest touchdown at the new stadium—a record that may last a while. With the score at 56-10, mass substitutions on both sides of the ball took place and Howe’s backup running back was stripped of the ball which was taken directly to the endzone to make it 63-10 with 6:26 left in the game.

On the final meaningful drive by Howe, McNutt launched a prayer of a throw to Lopez who leaped, turned, and scored to make it 6317 with 3:51 left.

Winnsboro with backups in place, scored on a 20-yard run by Cole Graves to round out the scoring at 70-17.

Howe was led in passing by their starting quarterback who was 14of-31 for 159 yards and a touchdown. McNutt was 1-of-3 for 59 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Carson Daniels led Howe ballcarriers with 41 yards on 15 carries. Antwone Rattler carried once for 28 yards. Cooper Jones led the Dogs with eight catches for 101 receiving yards. Daniels had four catches for 37 yards. Lopez caught two balls for 65 and a touchdown and Ryan Hough caught one pass for 15 yards.

Defensively, Howe is allowing 502 yards per game which is 109 yards per game more than a year ago which was worst in the program’s history.

Howe will travel to Emory Rains (1-3, 0-2) Friday night. The Wildcats lost to Mount Vernon in the district opener, 56-21 and were blanked by Pottsboro Friday night, 45-0.