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Howe Bulldogs give back for the holidays

Howe Enterprise releases year-end slideshow, “2021 Rewind through the lens of the Howe Enterprise”

The Howe Bulldogs broadcast crew, Studio42,

The Howe Bulldogs high school basketball players

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Bulldogs’ broadcast crew lands Class 5AII State title game

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Lady Bulldogs fly into district play with a win over Leonard and loss to Whitewright So while the ISD is interviewing prospective football coaches, let’s all clean up our yards, decorate our houses, act like we love and agree on our school colors, brag about our rich winning history (albeit mainly in the 1930s, 40s, and 80s), and let’s agree to all wear just one of our 47 different Bulldog logos to create the image that we have pride and tradition. ***** For about three weeks, my broadcast crew (Studio42) has been the home radio voice of the South Oak Cliff Golden Bears. We traveled to The Star in Frisco, Shotwell Stadium in Abilene, and on Saturday we got to do the Class 5A-II State Championship game.

The story of the 2021 South Oak Cliff Golden Bears will have to be told in a movie one day. It was very cool to be a part of that.

There will be a parade Tuesday for the team who is Dallas ISD’s first champion since 1958. Great story.

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Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.

Howe sophomore guard Kendall Griffin (12) is fouled on a layup.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

Injuries have changed the scope of the Lady Bulldogs season with 4-year varsity rostered Trinity Williams will apparently miss the remainder of the season due to a knee injury. Sophomore guard Kendall Griffin picked up the slack and

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Letters to Santa—Mrs. Wilson pg 2, Mrs. Johnson pg. 7, Mrs. Riley pg. 8, Mrs. Burge pg. 10, Mrs. Winters pg. 11, Mrs. Brockelman pg. 12 Hot Jobs, pg. 15 Texas History, pg. 16 Christian, pg. 17 Parenting pg. 18 Patriot Pony, pg. 19-20 Past front pages, pg. 21-28

scored 16 points to lead the Howe Lady Bulldogs (5-11) to a district opening 57-45 win. Howe raced out to a 15-7 lead after the first thanks to three combined 3-pointers

by Reese Smith, Griffin, and Emery Snapp.

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Former Howe ISD Board of Trustee member announces candidacy for County Judge The candidacy of Bruce Dawsey for Grayson County Judge was announced Monday standing in front of the Kidd Key Auditorium in Sherman. Dawsey is currently the assistant chief for the Sherman Police Department.

He’s been a law enforcement officer for 35 years beginning as a military police officer. He was a school board member at Howe for nine years and is currently on the city council at Van Alstyne.

“Bruce is a man of integrity. He has a history of public service,” said Shawn Teamann as he introduced Dawsey on Monday. “He has been on the right side of the law his entire adult life.”

Dawsey will be challenging sitting Grayson County Judge Bill Magers who has held

that seat since being elected in 2014.

“Now’s a time for change in Grayson County,” said Dawsey.

“Throughout my life, I’ve served our great county either through the military or police service. Just like you, I’m a hard worker, and just like you, I believe in my values, and just like you, I believe in American exceptionalism, and just like you, I understand the concepts of right and wrong.”

Dawsey said he would run a positive and clean campaign, however, there are certain things the public should know about.

“I do not believe that government-elected officials should get rich while serving the public,” said Dawsey who went on to say he didn’t believe in backdoor deals or secret handshakes that tax-

Bruce Dawsey payers are unaware of.

“I plan to rebrand Grayson County with transparency and honesty,” said Dawsey. “I will never embarrass the judicial office.”

Primary elections will be on March 1, 2022, and Election Day is November 8, 2022.

Current County Judge Bill Magers is seeking a third term. He was elected in 2014 and ran unopposed in 2018. He had previously served two terms as Sherman mayor.

One individual can cultivate a new sense of community pride and tradition There was once a time in the 1940s where Howe was looked at Members of the Howe community at the as the model of how BBQ fundraising dinner at Summit Garto build community dens on Friday night. Staff photo. pride. It was Mame Roberts who was Howe Volunteer Fire The Howe Area challenged by a Department. A Glock Chamber of Com43 was also raffled off snarky Dallas newsmerce hosted a fundman to turn the small and drawn for at the raising dinner Friday (Continued on page 11) town dump into night to benefit the “Prettiest Little Town

in Texas.” That happened and Howe was read about all over the country in Readers Digest and Roberts was even named “Woman of the Day” on the Eleanor Roosevelt radio program.

All it took was a spark from one indi-

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The Denison Yellow Jackets as they began their winning culture in the 1980s. Courtesy photo.

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vidual to make a healthy difference and lead people to greater things.

Whether it’s fair or not is a debate for another time, but your town’s Friday night football team represents the identity of your town.

We can take towns in our backyard in Grayson County and make great examples of this.

Back in 1983, Denison was floating along trying to get by in football as your run-of-the-mill program. They struggled to a 3-8 season, but a realignment to Class 4A made them one of the largest schools in that classification. Pairing that enrollment advantage with a talented roster meant that the Jackets could compete on a level playing field. Except that the playing field was not level at all. Denison held all the advantages in every game and ended up with a perfect 16-0 state championship season. Since that date, Denison has continued to position themselves as a blue-collar football town with a tradition as deep as the middle of Lake Texoma.

They have not changed their helmet logo since, they have not changed their helmet color since.

They have rarely changed the shade of gold, much less debate their school colors. Let’s just say the Dollar General in Denison isn’t getting the spirit wear colors wrong.

Does it take winning a state championship to grow this culture? No, but it does help. Let’s

take the recent culture change in Gunter that has taken place since the arrival of Athletic Director Jake Fieszel. People in Gunter wear their spirit wear all over North Texas. One can hardly buy a can of green beans at Albertsons without seeing the interlocking GT somewhere on isle four. The same has recently taken place at Bells where the block B is everywhere throughout Texoma.

Gunter and Bells once were whipping boys of Howe prior to 2000, but that has changed dramatically.

Yes, one might wonder what would have happened to Gunter’s great pride and tradition should they have been settled as one of the smallest schools in Class 3A-I as Howe was. But Van Alstyne went to Class 4A recently and are still competing at a high level.

Pottsboro is competing at a high level in Class 3A-I. What those towns have is consistency, tradition, and pride—and generally it has come in that order. Once upon a time, small schools would try and land an exceptional upcoming young head football coach and try and milk his talents for five years or so before he went off to try and become the next Todd Dodge at a large school. But what we have learned in our own backyard is that you can hire an exceptional upcoming young head coach and if he’s granted the opportunity to build and cultivate a program, there’s a good chance he will stay.

In example, Mikeal Miller has been the head coach at Van

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Former Howe Head Coach Zack Hudson leads a community bonfire pep rally before a playoff game in 2015.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Alstyne since 2009. Gunter’s Fieszel has been there since 2007—the year some of his high school players were born. Pottsboro’s Matt Poe, who began as head coach with the Cardinals in 2006, has thoroughly changed them from an average at best program to a perennial powerhouse.

Don’t look now, but Dale West is doing the exact same thing in Bells. Those four coaches are a combined 30-2 versus Howe since 2007. Miller at Van Alstyne is 7-0 versus Howe. Poe at Pottsboro is 13-1 versus Howe. Fieszel is 8-1 against Howe.

Envy is a sin, but to the Howe guy who wants desperately to build this community into more than what it is takes a look around at other nearby communities and sees what could have been. Since Matt Poe was hired in Pottsboro, the Bulldogs are about to hire their sixth head coach during that same span. Howe has even had five different offensive philosophies in the last five years with five different offensive coordinators. They’ve also had three different defensive coordinators in the last five years. The Gunters, Van Alstynes, and Pottsboros understand that the success of a program is cultivated in the junior high with consistency. One message and one system for them to learn and perfect is essential, yet Howe’s middle school program has been mostly neglected over

the past 15 years, which is evident on Friday nights.

Consistency in head coaches bring consistency in messaging.

Even the changing of the helmet logo seems small, but when it changes every year or two, it creates a sense of instability. It creates the sense of the revolving door and no consistency, therefore, no tradition. Sherman, for example, who would kill to be like Denison in terms of Friday night respect, aren't as successful, and they have the rotating door where they can’t determine whether they wear maroon helmets or white helmets. As one person put it, Sherman wants to be Highland Park, but doesn’t have the money or the tradition or the success.

The culture of the community plays a large role into this equation. Gunter, Van Alstyne, and Pottsboro ISDs each have a large number of single-family homeowners, whereas Howe ISD has a lot of renters. This adds to the problem of community investment where the single-family homeowner is generally vested into their hometown. Generally, the renter sees their town as a temporary place to send their kids to school until something else comes along. This is the biggest difference between the towns and their sense of community pride.

Howe’s number of rental oppor-

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A fan of Howe’s Teagan Stubblefield for the Lady Bulldogs shows her enthusiasm. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Landery Sanders heated up in the second quarter by draining three 3 -pointers of her own for nine of her 13 points on the evening.

Teagan Stubblefield also drained a 3-bomb and Howe took a commanding 35-16 lead into the half.

Leonard regrouped and stormed out of the gate in the third by outpacing Howe 17-4 during the frame. But the Lady Bulldogs got back on track in the fourth quarter with Griffin scoring 11 of her 16 in the frame including five foul shots.

Griffin’s 16 points led Howe while Sanders followed with 13.

Other scorers were Stubblefield (9), Smith (6), Snapp (5), Matalee Stewart (4), Presley Shockey (2), Rilee Burris (2).

On Friday, Howe dropped a close

one to Whitewright, 49-44 as the Lady Tigers overcame a 35-29 deficit entering the fourth period.

The Howe girls found themselves tied with a 9-9 score at the end of the first. But they outpaced the Lady Tigers in the second by a bucket to take a 21-19 lead into the locker room. The Lady Bulldogs appeared to be gliding to their second win in as many games as they stretched the lead to 35-25 heading into the fourth.

But a dominating performance by Whitewright saw them put a 20spot on the board in the final stanza and kept Howe to only nine points for the 49-44 win.

Howe was led by Griffin’s 15 points and Sanders’ nine points.

Other scorers were Stubblefield (8), Stewart (6), Snapp (4), and Smith (2). Snapp pulled down seven rebounds.

Howe will travel to Pottsboro on Tuesday for their third district matchup.

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tunities has increased greatly since the 1980s which is also the last time the Dogs had a decadelong stretch of being a year-inyear-out contender to win each Friday night.

Can one man fix it? The quick answer is no. But then again, you can look in our own backyard and see the shadows of Miller, Fieszel, and Poe. The new coach needs to be bought in for the long haul and not just a 2-year stint while enjoying 3A-II. He has to first create an identity and then cultivate it and grow it consistently. The new coach is going to have to have help from the ISD to market the message. Howe ISD is great at a lot of things, but unfortunately marketing is not one of them. The ISD probably doesn’t see the need or the importance of marketing, but their efforts affect the entire town. You can’t have tradition when you have an identity crisis. The people of Howe, whether renters or homeowners need to buy in to the school colors for what they are. The school needs to celebrate one logo instead of a dozen different ones.

Recently the school has done a good job by taking the Texas logo with the Bulldog and branding it at the stadium and on the gym doors. Now the ISD needs to only brand that one. The team also has had the same jersey look for

several years. It would be best to keep that, build upon it, and don’t change just because luck or superstition.

Just like Mame Roberts in the 1940s, it can take one person to become the spark for the community and carry the torch. Hopefully the school gets this hire right and 40 years from now, an article is written about how Howe was floating along until a realignment which brought “Coach X” who turned the ship and made Howe somewhere people were proud to live, proud to send their kids to school, and proud to wear the black and white to Albertsons and walk isle four like they owned it.

Mame Roberts, Howe’s original community cultivator.

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

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Mrs. Burge’s Third Grade Letters to Santa

Bulldogs’ broadcast crew lands Class 5A-II State title game

Members of Studio42 at AT&T Stadium on Saturday. Left to right: Justin White, Carson Grogan, Blake Burnett, and Monte Walker.

The Howe Bulldogs broadcast crew, Studio42, were contracted

by Texas Sports Productions to broadcast South Oak Cliff’s historical run through the playoffs.

The crew was able to broadcast

the Class 5A-II state championship game on Saturday from AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Three of the crew members are Howe High School graduates.

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BBQ Dinner for HFD

Members of the Howe Fire Department serve brisket plates.

Staff photo.

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end of the night. This event was initially planned for Dec. 11 after the Christmas Parade, but a “Meet Santa” event at Summit Gardens pushed back the dinner to last Friday.

Nearly $2,000 was raised for the department in a span of around an hour. The dinner began at 5:30 pm with online orders for dine-in or take-out. Before the night began, the chamber had already received 23 take-out orders.

The event had several sponsors including Walmart who donated $250 worth of briskets. Don’s Smokehouse also contributed top shelf briskets. Guns N More donated the Glock 43 and their owner and chamber board member Jared Coffey made home-

made potato salad and beans.

Board member Tom Defrange smoked the nine briskets overnight on Thursday which were delivered to Summit Gardens on Friday afternoon just before the event.

The Howe Fire Department contributed containers, rolls, and drinks. They also served the food behind the scenes.

“All in all, it was a great night for the first time we’ve tried this,” said Chamber President Monte Walker. “We ended up with around $1,500 plus what money was placed in the donation jar and it was a substantial amount.”

Howe Fire Chief Robert Maniet thanked the chamber and the community for coming out to support the event.

Tom Defrange stayed up all Thursday night/Friday morning smoking nine briskets for the event. Staff photo.

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Howe Bulldogs give back for the holidays

The Howe Bulldogs high school basketball players teamed up to help the Children’s Hunger Fund last week. The young men packed food which will be distributed in the US and around the world.

More than ten percent of the world population lives in extreme poverty (less than $1.90 per day).

Most lack access to one or more basic human needs: sufficient food, safe drinking water, or adequate shelter.

Combatting poverty and food insecurity demands more than simple charity. While nutritious food provides temporary relief of physical hunger, the life-giving truth of the gospel provides eternal hope and relief from spiritual poverty.

A Food Pak is a box of nonperishable food that can provide meals for a family facing food insecurity. The food is provided by generous donors and corporate

partners and packed by volunteers into Food Paks.

Food Paks are then distributed to pastors and volunteers from local

churches who are trained in gospel-centered relational mercy ministry. The food is then delivered directly to the homes of children and families in need in their

community. This unique style of home delivery allows for relationships to form between the family and the local church who is serving them.

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City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra highspeed 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 boil-water 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

2021-22 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 College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)

$0.55 $1.33 $0.34 $0.17 $2.39

City of Howe Budget

$4,038,045

Cityofhowe.org City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Jeff Stanley City Secretary: Joy Stevens Assistant City Secretary: Kerri Cheatham Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Gina Jones (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: Benjamin Fuhr 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 100 E. O’Connell 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

2021-22 City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill WATER RATES Base (Minimum) Rate: $28.51 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $7.82 p/ 1,000 gal. for 1,001-4,000 gallons $8.77 p/ 1,000 gal. for 4,001-20,000 gallons $9.76 p/ 1,000 gal. for 20,001-45,000 gallons $10.40 p/ 1,000 gal. for all consumption over 45,000 gallons CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES Deposit: $150.00 Service Charge: $10.00 Connection: $20.00 Reconnect: $50.00 Tap Fees: (3/4” – 1”) = $900.00 (2” – 6”) = $1,500.00 Impact Fee: N/A New Meter Installations: 3/4” = $2,060.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 1” = $2,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 2” = $4,475.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 4” = $4,550.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 6” = $6,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) Hydrant Meter Deposit: $2,000.00 SEWER RATES & TAP FEES Base (Minimum) Rate: $35.28 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $5.51 p/ 1,000 gallons Tap Fee: $900.00 Impact Fee: N/A OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS WATER RATES Base (Minimum) Rate: $42.76 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $11.74 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 4,000 gallons $13.16 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $14.65 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $15.59 p/ 1,000 gal. for all over 45,000 gallons CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES **SAME AS INSIDE CITY LIMITS** SEWER RATES N/A

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Peggy’s Porch For people who want free clothing, Peggy’s Porch is usually open every Saturday from 9-11 a.m. Donations of clean used clothing is sorted, sized, and hung. Customers are allowed to come in, wearing a mask, for 15

"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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minutes to fill their bags. However, it will be closed this Sat. Dec. 25 for Christmas, and also for New Year’s Day, Jan 1, 2022. So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And we’ll see you Sat. Jan. 8, 2022 at 9:00.

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Texas History Minute Many great cities have risen or fallen in the United States.

Some have prospered and grown to become huge Ken Bridges metropolises while others never came into focus or just faded away. In many cases, the future success of these cities was the result of the work of one individual leading a community. In the case of John Neely Bryan, he was responsible for the success of two remarkable cities: Van Buren, Arkansas, and Dallas, Texas.

Bryan was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on Christmas Eve, 1810. His parents sent him to a local military academy for his education, and he became a lawyer by 1833. Not content with the life of a lawyer, he left to explore the growing west.

He arrived at the nascent community of Philip’s Landing on the Arkansas River in 1833 where Bryan made a respectable living trading with the Cherokees on the border of what is now Oklahoma, then known as the Indian Territory. The position of the community on an important river near the army camp at Ft. Smith and the neighboring tribes put the town in a good position. Bryan led the effort to organize the disparate community into a thriving port city. He redesigned the community, carefully laying out street paths, neighborhoods, and ports and renamed it Van Buren after Vice-President Martin Van Buren.

The plan greatly aided the community’s stability and economy and provided it a sound path forward.

Though Van Buren was growing thanks to Bryan’s plans, he was not content to stay in Arkansas.

After a brief trip to Texas, Bryan had decided to resettle there. In 1841, he left Arkansas and bought a plot of land just on the north end of the Trinity River in North Texas. He convinced other settlers into the area to come together to create a new community, one that was eventually called Dallas, after Vice-President George M. Dallas.

Bryan was energetic in promoting the community and providing the services the city needed. He operated a ferry across the Trinity River, ran a dry goods store, and even served as the postmaster for the city. After Texas became a state, he lobbied the state legislature for the creation of Dallas County in 1846.

When news of gold in California reached Dallas in 1849, Bryan was one of thousands of people electrified by the news and joined the throngs heading west. And like many, his dreams in California did not work out as well as he had hoped. In 1850, he returned to Texas.

After his return, he continued to be active in local politics and the business community. Dallas County voters were deciding which community would become the county seat. Bryan went

across the county to campaign for his city. Dallas narrowly won over the neighboring communities of Cedar Springs just to the north and Oak Cliff on the south side of the Trinity River. Both communities were later absorbed

by Dallas. Bryan donated a portion of his land for the site of a new county courthouse.

In 1855, Bryan got into an argument with another man over his wife. He shot the man. Fearing he would be arrested, he fled Texas into the Indian Territory and lived with the Creek tribe for a time.

The man he shot recovered, but Bryan was in no hurry to return to Texas. He spent the next few years traveling back to California and the Colorado Territory in hopes of striking it rich in the mine fields. In 1860, he returned to Dallas.

When the Civil War erupted, Bryan, now past 50, joined a Confederate cavalry unit. His became ill and was discharged in late 1862.

He came back to Dallas and served on the board of directors for a small private school in the city and raised funds for victims of a deadly flood that swept the area in 1866. In 1872, he helped complete the first iron bridge across the Trinity River and successfully lobbied corporate officials to bring a railroad to Dallas.

The bridge effectively put his ferry out of business, but the bridge and the railroad made the city an important center of commerce.

While Dallas was beginning to prosper, its founder found the op-

posite fortune. Though he was in his mid-60s, Bryan’s health was deteriorating rapidly by the mid1870s. His mental state was collapsing in the process. Whether it was a form of dementia or trauma or some other malady that had been progressing for an extended period, no one could say; and there were no doctors in Dallas who could treat it. His son had to undertake the difficult process of having him declared insane by the courts. The courts agreed in 1877, and his son had him shipped to the state mental hospital in Austin. John Neely Bryan died at the hospital six months later.

The two cities he helped give birth grew in the decades after his death. Van Buren, though it never gained near the stature of Dallas, continued to serve as an important trade city on the Arkansas River and has grown to 23,000 residents and is an important hub for western Arkansas. Dallas itself boasts a population of more than one million residents and is one of the largest cities in the nation. Bryan’s cabin has been reconstructed in downtown Dallas as a historical marker, and an elementary school is named for him.

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The earthly parents of the Son of God

This is the time of year when we display our nativity sets and it’s common to see depictions on the front of Christmas cards that Dr. Billy have Mary and Holland Joseph in a stable with the baby Jesus who is lying in a feeding trough commonly referred to as a manger.

The word nativity comes from the Latin term, which simply means born. Technically, we’ve all experienced a nativity, but in today’s world, the term is primarily used in connection with the birth of Jesus Christ the Redeemer. We also hear the word incarnation at this time of year and within the Christian faith, this is referring to the Son of God and how He willingly came down from heaven and took on the human form of a man to save us from our sin. He is Emmanuel which means “God with us” as His mission was to rescue and restore us and because of His sacrifice we can now have an eternal relationship with Him. There are several interesting details about the earthly parents of Jesus and of course, His mother Mary becoming pregnant with Him while still being a virgin is a great place to begin. Our heavenly Father sent His Son Jesus to earth, but as we know, Christ also had an earthly dad by the name of Joseph. History reveals it was common in those days for an older man to be engaged to a younger woman and many scholars are convinced that Mary was much younger than Joseph, probably being in her early teens. Being betrothed means the couple was to be celibate until they were married. However, when Joseph discovered she was pregnant, he did not want to publicly disgrace her but rather decided to just privately cancel the marriage. We can only imagine the agony and disappointment he was feeling as he realized she had been unfaithful. As he was making plans to deal with the situation, an angel appeared to him in a dream saying, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the

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name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” Matthew 1:20-21.

We know that Mary is adored and rightfully so, but we must consider this was also a huge step of faith for Joseph and he is seldom given the respect he deserves.

There is not much information given about Joseph except that he was a carpenter and an honest man who upheld the law. We notice he was present when Jesus was found teaching in the temple at 12-years-old, but it’s presumed he had passed away when Christ was crucified as Jesus asked John from the cross to take care of His mother.

We’ve all seen the images of Mary riding a donkey into Bethlehem as the scriptures reveal they were on their way to register with the tax collectors. When they arrived, Mary immediately needed to find a place to deliver the baby as Luke chapter two describes the scene. “And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be taxed with Mary his promised wife, being great with child. And so, it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Imagine a young girl being approached by the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and given a mission that would shape the course of human history. Humbly submitting to give birth to the Savior of the world?

So, why did The Almighty choose her for the task of raising the Son of God? Because He knew she would hold strong in her faith.

And what about those today who still declare they have no room for Jesus or the individuals who only celebrate the most significant event of all time during the Christmas season? He is still patiently waiting. Never before or since have the heavens declared the glory of God with more hope and excitement than when the Lamb of God was born and willingly gave His life as a ransom for all who would believe in Him. Read more about the Christian life at billyhollandministries.com

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 Stephen 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 Summit View Church 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

Luke 1:30-31 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.

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Howe Enterprise releases year-end slideshow, “2021 Rewind through the lens of the Howe Enterprise”

Each year, the Howe Enterprise compiles photos taken during the year and produces a slideshow.

These photos are placed to music and shows the story of our community from beginning to end.

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thank Michelle Carney, Alexa Brunner, Michelle Walker, Carla Burnett, and many others that contributed.

The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/eOwLwvXeV88

Living with children Q: Whenever, and I most definitely mean every single time— I ask my sixyear-old daughter to do something, she beJohn comes very disRosemond respectful. She stomps her foot, yells at me that I make her do “everything,” mutters disrespectful remarks under her breath (which I usually hear), and so on.

If I just allow her to vent, she gets over it fairly quickly and does what I’ve told her to do. She doesn’t act this way toward my husband, and he thinks I should punish her for the disrespect.

What do you think?

A: On one hand, you should be grateful that in the final analysis your daughter obeys. On the other, you don’t want to give her the impression that “venting” at instructions from adult authority figures is okay. The general rule of thumb: bad behavior, ignored, tends to worsen. There’s a chance, in other words, that if you tolerate your daughter’s displays of pique and simply let them run their course they will eventually escalate into belligerent defiance.

That cascade may never happen, but as, I think, Albert Einstein first articulated in his theory of relativity, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A technique I call “Three Strikes, You’re Out!” is an effective approach to impulsive impertinence of the sort you describe. The technique is easy for a six-year-old to understand and simple to enforce.

On any given day, you call a “strike” every time you give your daughter an instruction and she

begins to vent her feeling of being downtrodden and deserving of much sympathy. When you call a strike, she spends a certain amount of time in a chair in a relatively isolated area of the house.

Use a timer to mark the time so that you don’t have to deal with the second most annoying question in the universe: “Can I come out now?” (The most annoying being “Are we there yet?”)

The first vent of the day results in fifteen minutes in the “venting chair.” (You can call it anything you want, even the “bananarama chair.”) The second vent of the day earns thirty minutes in the chair, and the third results in confinement to her room for the remainder of the day along with early bedtime. Assuming you’re consistent in calling strikes when they are due, two weeks is all it should take to convince the Princess of Petulance to control her little outbursts.

Do not be deceived, however. You can bring this under control in a week or two, but you must stand ready to enforce for the next six months, at least. With a child this age, a behavioral snowball that only took a week or two to roll downhill usually takes several months to put back in cold storage.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, parent guru.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.

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OSHA delays compliance and enforcement dates for reinstated vaccine or test mandate

By Resist The Mainstream Staff EDITOR’S NOTE—This section is reserved as an editorial and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

In 2002, Pfizer agreed to pay $49 million to settle allegations that the pharmaceutical company defrauded the federal government and 40 states by overcharging its cholesterol drug Lipitor. https://web.archive.org/ web/20210223140005/ https:// www.nytimes.com/2002/1 0/29/business/pfizer-topay-49-million-in-fraudcase.html ▪️In 2004, Pfizer agreed to plead guilty to two felonies and paid $430 million in fines to settle charges that it fraudulently promoted the drug Neurontin for unauthorized use.

▪️2008: "Experts concluded that Pfizer manipulated research" by delaying the publication of negative studies, distorted negative data to present them in a more positive light, and controlled the flow of clinical trial data. https://web.archive.org/ web/20210520230550/ https:// www.nytimes.com/2008/1 0/08/health/ research/08drug.html ▪️In 2009, Pfizer paid $750 million to settle 35,000 complaints that its drug Rezulin caused 63 deaths and thousands of cases of liver failure. As a result, the drug Rezulin was completely withdrawn. https://www.latimes.com/ archives/la-xpm-2001-dec22-mn-17267-story.html ▪️In 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Pfizer Inc. of violating the Corrupt Practices Abroad Act (FCPA WIKI) when its subsidiaries bribed doctors and other medical professionals from governments.

***** As crime in the US continues to rise, California residents have decided to leave their cars parked with the trunk open in a desperate attempt to keep robbers from breaking windows and damaging their property.

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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) on Saturday announced a six-day grace period beyond the Jan. 4 deadline for compliance with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, saying that it would not issue citations to give employers more time to adjust.

OSHA said in a Dec. 18 statement that it would not be issuing citations to businesses for noncompliance with any requirements of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for private companies employing 100 or more people until Jan. 10. It will also not issue any citations for noncompliance with the mandate’s testing requirements until Feb. 9.

The announcement comes a day after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th District in Cincinnati ruled that the private employer mandate could proceed, reversing a previous court decision that blocked the measure in the face of legal challenges by 27 Republican-led states, conservative groups, business associations, and some individual firms.

“OSHA is gratified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard.

OSHA can now once again implement this vital workplace health standard, which will protect the health of workers by mitigating the spread of the unprecedented virus in the workplace,” the agency said.

The agency said it was providing the grace period to “account for any uncertainty created by the stay” and that it would “work closely with the regulated community to provide compliance assistance.”

The OSHA rule applies to some 84 million U.S. workers who would be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or wear masks and be tested weekly.

The rule threatens fines of up to $13,600 per violation, with a potential additional $13,600 fine for each day that an employer does not abate the violation. For willful, or serious, violations OSHA could issue a fine of up to $136,000.

The 6th District’s ruling to dissolve the stay on the OSHA rule was criticized

by Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who said in a statement that she would move to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block it.

“The Sixth Circuit’s decision is extremely disappointing for Arkansans because it will force them to get the shot or lose their jobs,” she said.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who chairs the Republican Attorneys General Association, also expressed disappointment in the ruling.

“We are confident the mandate can be stopped,” he wrote on Twitter, adding: “We will go immediately to the Supreme Court—the highest court in the land—to fight this unconstitutional and illegal mandate. The law must be followed and federal abuse of power stopped.”

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World awakening and silent war FDA Strengthens Warning Over Severe Condition Linked to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID -19 Vaccine

By Resist the Mainstream Staff U.S. drug regulators this week formally strengthened a warning to Americans regarding a severe condition linked to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Blood clots and low blood platelet levels, known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), are now listed as a contradiction, or a medical reason for somebody not to get the shot.

“Do not administer” the vaccine to individuals with a history of the set of conditions following the vaccine or any other adenovirus-vectored COVID19 vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says in an updated fact sheet (pdf) for health care providers administering vaccines.

TTS has been reported in “a wide range of individuals 18 years and older” since administration of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine began earlier this year, regulators say.

The highest reporting rate, approximately 1 case per 100,000 doses administered, has occurred in women aged 30 to 49.

About 15 percent of the TTS cases have been fatal.

“Currently available

evidence supports a causal relationship between TTS and the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine,” the FDA says in its updated fact sheets. Janssen is a subsidiary of J&J. J&J did not respond to a request for comment.

In the spring, U.S. health officials recommended a nationwide pause in administration of the vaccine due to TTS cases appearing among people who had gotten it.

The pause was lifted in April.

The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said at the time that officials were confident the vaccine was safe and effective in preventing COVID19.

The FDA said that the available data showed the known and potential benefits outweigh its known and potential risks.

Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer, said when the pause was lifted that the company would work with health authorities worldwide “to educate health care professionals and the public to ensure this very rare event can be identified early and treated effectively.”

More recently, a Mayo Clinic study found J&J vaccine recipients had a higher risk of blood clots.

Three COVID-19 vaccines are available for use in the United States. J&J’s is by far

the least used. Just 17.2 million doses have been administered as of Dec. 15, compared to 185.8 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine and 283 million doses of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine.

A Mayo Clinic study in November found J&J vaccine recipients had a higher risk of blood clots when compared to recipients of the other two shots.

Currently, there are no restrictions in place on administration of the J&J jab.

The two contraindications, TTS and severe allergic reaction, typically only apply once a person has suffered an adverse event.

The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is meeting Thursday to hear presentations from the CDC on J&J’s vaccine.

This is an excerpt from The Epoch Times.

Sweden Sees Increase In Microchips Inserted In Hands for COVID-19 Passports *****

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 14, 2021 The World Economic Forum is simulating a global cyberattack that could lead to a "great reset."

"The World Economic Forum (WEF) which represents the Western financial elites, played a key role in the launching of the

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How PCR tests caused the fake Whooping Cough Pandemic of 2006

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

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across the state, especially in major cities such as San Francisco and Oakland.

Drivers are in danger even on the road, in traffic, as more and more criminals begin to attack cars standing in traffic jams to quickly break windows and take something valuable.

These are the fruits of the Democrats' work.

The inability of officials to maintain order leads to chaos. ***** A CNN employee was indicted Friday on three counts of using an interstate shopping facility to abuse underage girls."

The key point here is "creating interstate commerce" because it allows CNN, Google and other media giants to be systematically screened for child abuse.

Another sign that the White Hats put an end to media fraud is the fact that actor Jussi Smollett was convicted of staging a racially motivated crime.

This is evidence that Antifa's attempts to foment a race war in the United States, funded by the Chinese Communist Party, are coming to an end. ***** New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's net worth rose to $25 million in December 2021, compared with a net worth of just $800,000 last November.

Maybe it's because of the connection with Pfizer? Otherwise, why would she say: "This vaccination program will not have an end point (...) we need them to come back, or we have to go to them."

The epidemic that wasn’t: In 2006, doctors used PCR testing to cause mass hysteria over a “whooping cough” outbreak that didn’t even exist It flew under most people’s radar at the time, but 15 years ago there was an alleged whooping cough epidemic that the medical industry warned was a major threat.

The only problem is that it did not actually exist, having been the product of false PCR testing.

The same fraudulent tests being used today to identify the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid19) were also used in 2006 to pinpoint a fake whooping cough epidemic that scared a whole lot of health care workers into panicking, taking pharmaceutical drugs and getting injected with vaccines (sound familiar?).

The New York Times reported that nearly 1,000 health care workers at a hospital in Lebanon, N.H., tested “positive” using the PCR tests, resulting in them being furloughed from work. They were administered antibiotics and injected with chemicals, only to have the whole thing be blown open as a hoax eight months later. “… health care workers were dumbfounded to receive an email message from the hospital administration informing them that the whole thing was a false alarm,” the Times reported in 2007 about the embarrassing incident.

“Not a single case of whooping cough was confirmed with the definitive test, growing the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, in the laboratory. Instead, it appears the health care workers probably were afflicted with ordinary respiratory diseases like the common cold.”

PCR Test Inventor

Said It Should Never Be Used To Try To Identify Disease How could it be that people were mistakenly diagnosed with whooping cough when all they really had was the common cold? The answer is simple: PCR tests are not accurate and their results can easily be manipulated to push a narrative.

The only thing PCR tests do is magnify DNA particles in a sample until they become visible. Depending on how they are calibrated, they can pick up almost anything – even things that do not exist.

“The magnification in PCR is measured by the number of cycles needed to make the DNA visible. Known as the Cycle Threshold (Ct) or Quantification Cycle (Cq) number, the higher the number of cycles the lower the amount of DNA in the sample,” explains the Brownstone Institute.

“To convert Cq numbers into doses they have to be calibrated against the Cq numbers of standard doses. If they aren’t, they can easily be blown out of proportion and appear more significant than they actually are.”

An analogy for this might be a car advertisement in which the company used a scale model for the vehicle photo. After applying the right lenses, lighting and other touchups, that model is made to look like a full-size vehicle and consumers are none the wiser.

The only way to truly know whether the vehicle in the photo is a small model or the real thing would be to put something else alongside it for a comparison of scale.

“Just like a coin standing next to a toy car proves it’s not a real one, and a shoe next to a molehill shows it’s not a mountain, the Cq of a

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March 11, 2020 lockdown, which was conducive to a Worldwide process of economic and social chaos.

And now what they are saying is that another devastating Worldwide economic and social crisis is likely to occur in the wake of the so-called Covid-19 pandemic.” ***** "22,060 cases of eye diseases were registered as adverse reactions to injections of the Covid-19 vaccine, 461 of them - complete blindness.

Now "fact checkers" together with the authorities are trying to hide this data and declare it unreliable.

Their argument is that "just because someone reports an event after vaccination doesn't necessarily mean it happened because of the vaccine."

Also, as of December 8, on December 21, the MHRA received 652 reports of stroke due to Pfizer mRNA injection, which is currently the main booster injection administered to Britons.

These reports include 14 reports of subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is an extremely rare type of stroke, 48 reports of cerebral hemorrhage, 55 reports of ischemic stroke, and 414 reports of cerebral circulatory disorders.

Unfortunately, these 652 registered strokes resulted in 47 deaths."

Source. ***** A small study of seven Covid-19 cases in South Africa shows that Omicron can break through booster standard dose next to the Cq of a sample shows how big the dose really is,” is how Brownstone puts it.

Another thing to consider is the fact that Kary Mullis, the man who created the PCR test and won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry back in 1993, warned against using it to

vaccine vaccinations, one of the scientists involved in the study said on Thursday Reuters ***** The parent company of Facebook Meta said that the Israeli firm Black Cube used fake names posing as students, human rights activists and TV producers to arrange calls to its targets and obtain personal email addresses. ***** The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the federal mandate to vaccinate some healthcare workers across the country. ***** Authorities investigating the fatal shooting of Alec Baldwin on set have requested a search warrant to obtain the actor's mobile phone. ***** Fauci says that not all Covid-19 tests detect omicron, adding even more confusion to the holiday season. ***** The US accuses Chinese technology firms, research institutes of using biotechnologies, creating "weapons to control the brain" ABC News ***** North Korea prohibits laughing for 11 days in connection with the 10th anniversary of the death of the father of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il. ***** Several vaccinated BuzzFeed employees were found to have Covid-19 after a holiday party in New York, despite the requirements regarding masks and the use of vaccination passports for entry. ***** The US has blacklisted eight Chinese comlook for disease.

“PCR is a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something,” he said. “It allows you to take a very miniscule amount of anything and make it measurable and then talk about it like it’s important.”

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panies, including DJI, the world's largest manufacturer of commercial drones, for helping to monitor Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. ***** Biden administration health officials are privately warning test manufacturers and laboratories that demand for Covid-19 tests could double or even triple over the next two months due to a sharp increase in Omicron cases nationwide. ***** The Covid-19 vaccine may become mandatory in France, President Macron said. ***** Omicron-the coronavirus strain is spreading at an extremely high rate. The number of cases of infection doubles every two to three days. This was stated by the special envoy of the World Health Organization for Covid-19, David Nabarro, on the Sky News channel. ***** NATO calls on Russia to urgently deescalate the conflict on the border with Ukraine. ***** The US FDA has allowed to receive abortion pills by mail on a permanent basis, canceling the requirements for issuance at the clinic. ***** British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is accused of attending another party in violation of the blocking rules, just days after he warned Britons about increasing fines for violating social distancing rules in May. ***** Europe is facing a difficult winter, as disruptions in the operation of a nuclear power plant in France have put the continent's energy market at a turning point Bloomberg ***** The State Duma of Russia approves the use of vaccine passports (QR codes) with a result of 329-87 votes in the first reading.

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