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It’s a good day to skip work and head out to the ballpark. It’s opening day in Arlington. ***** Sometimes baseball imitates life. Sometimes your biggest fans say the most awful things to you and boo you from the bleachers. ***** We liked the 1974 front page format so much last week that we thought we’d do it again. If only gas was the same price as 1974. ***** I agreed to purchase a mid-size tractor from our pastor last week. It all started when he came to the house and knocked on the door and I didn’t answer. He left a note that had written “Revelations 3:20.” When I found it, I sent him an email that just said, “Genesis 3:10.”

Revelation 3:20 begins "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Genesis 3:10 reads, "I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid, for I was naked."

Some of that is true. ***** It’s the holiest week in the Christian faith. Palm Sunday was yesterday, and Good Friday is coming. Before our next edition we’ll have Easter services all over the country on Sunday.

Christ is risen.

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

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Mark Your Calendar, pg. 4 Bulldogs Baseball, pg. 5 City Sales tax up 31.59%, pg. 6 KHB Yard of the Month, pg. 7 SHES Top Dogs, pg. 7 XYZ, pg. 7 Lady Bulldogs Softball, pg. 8 Track Results, pg. 9 Hot Jobs, pg. 12 Parenting, Texas History, pg. 13 Christian, pg. 14 Patriot Pony, pg. 15-16

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Toby Soechting For the first time in over 24 years, the Howe Church of Christ has a new minister. Toby Soechting has decided to retire due to several factors including age, health, and a desire to possibly move closer to grandkids. His successor is Aaron S. Alsbrook who is now officially the new minister as Soechting stepped down officially at the end of March.

“You never retire from the Lord’s work, but my circumstances in life made me feel like it was time to make the next step for both the Howe congregation and for my

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Farmers Insurance Agent Juan Encizo moved into 403 W. Haning Street in April 2019 but last month received word that he could move into an office in downtown Celina. Encizo, who resides in Celina, says it was a great opportunity for his family to be able to work and live in the same community.

“The people of Howe are amazing, and we thank them for welcoming us,” said Encizo.

Howe pitcher Austin Haley threw a complete game no-hitter on Friday. (Recap on page 5).

Photo by Michelle Carney.

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He is Risen!

Easter is a joyful celebration of a promise...a promise fulfilled when Jesus rose from the dead, just as He said He would...and a promise of life everlasting for those who believe in His Name. May the blessings of this Easter Season abide with you and yours. Easter Sunday is April 17, 2022.

Grayson County Precinct 1 recently installed automated warning signs on Luella Road on each side of Choctaw Creek.

During the heavy storms Monday night, they activated as expected when water went over the road. Apparently the flashing lights still didn’t get someone’s attention.

Unfortunately, someone still drove through the high water and had to be rescued.

Community Bible Fellowship hosting community EasterEgg Hunt Hot Dogs and Easter Eggs always go together.

Proof shows by Community Bible Fellowship, at 415 S. Collins Freeway in Howe, hosting a community Easter Egg Hunt on Wednesday, April 13 at 6:30 pm.

All ages are invited. Hot dogs will be served.

Howe Chamber of Commerce members’ luncheon set The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a members’ luncheon on Tuesday, April 19 at noon at Summit Gardens. All chamber members and prospective chamber members are welcomed to attend. Lunch will be provided by Knife & Whisk and seats are limited to two per organization. Limited seating requires reservation here.

Ashley Anderson It’s been over 20 years since Howe had a girls varsity basketball coach not named Derek Lands.

Kathy Meng was the head coach from 20002002. 36-year-old Ashley Anderson (132 varsity head coaching wins) was announced as the replacement for Lands who announced his retirement. She was an assistant for Lands this season but has a wealth of head coaching experience in North Texas. Anderson becomes the seventh female head basketball coach for Howe since World War II behind Glenda Allen (1967

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Local church Easter schedules First Baptist Church of Howe, 9:15 am Bible Fellowship, 10:30 am Worship Service, 100 E. Davis St. First United Methodist Church of Howe, 9:00 am Sunday School, 10:00 am Worship, 810 N. Denny St. Howe Church of Christ, 9:00 am Bible Classes, 10 am Worship, 1205 N. Hwy 75.

Community Bible Fellowship, 10:30 am Worship Service, 415 S. Collins Fwy. Summit View Church, 10:30 am Worship Service, 910 S. Denny St.

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family,” said Soechting.

Two years ago, just before the COVID lockdowns, Soechting, now 66-yearsold, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He sought answers after experiencing trembling and an occasional lack of recall. Parkinson's disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. Symptoms start gradually, sometimes starting with a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand. Tremors are common, but the disorder also commonly causes stiffness or slowing of movement. At present his symptoms are mild, and well managed with medication and high impact exercise.

After his diagnosis, he informed the congregation then that he was beginning to think about retirement and just how quickly life goes by. With grandchildren in Tennessee, Soechting’s desire to not miss out on those experiences grew him closer to consideration of he and his wife Debbie moving from Howe to the “Volunteer State.”

Trying to do what is best for the church, he has continued his work until the right situation presented itself.

Alsbrook, who was reared at Howe Church of Christ became the answer to the situation as he has begun his ministry.

The COVID situation has taken a toll on ministers and churches in general as in the initial stages, congregations were split around the country on whether they should be meeting in person or strictly online. The stress of managing the situation has brought on a lot of retirements from those in leadership. But Soechting says, while things around the country are changing quickly, he’s leaving on his terms and has been comforted continually from

Toby Soechting during Vacation Bible School in June 2018. Staff photo. the elders that he could serve in his capacity as long as he wanted.

“While we love all the youth in the congregation, Deb and I don’t have children in the local congregation anymore and haven’t in a long time,” said Soechting. “Aaron does and that will be good for our youth program as well.”

Soechting didn’t rule out ministry again someday as he said he would likely preach somewhere in Tennessee should they decide to move there.

Wife Debbie will retire in June and decisions about moving will follow according to Soechting, “When the time is right.”

Soechting is a native of Big Spring, Texas and moved to Howe with his family in 1967. He married the former Deborah Thompson of Sherman and they have now been married for nearly

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48 years. They have two sons, Dustin, and Preston, both of which attended Howe schools at various times over the years. Preston is a graduate of Howe High School.

Soechting has appeared on the Annual Lubbock Lectureship, the Fort Worth Lectureship, and the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver Lectures. He has done mission work in Jamaica, London, England, Ghana, and West Africa.

He also has an annual mission trip to Takoradi, Ghana, for the conducting of the Annual Takoradi Preacher’s fourday seminar with more than 200 preachers and church leaders from Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia. Soechting also works with the West Coast School Of Preaching, a school in Takoradi Ghana that both he and the Howe congregation have been heavily involved with for the past 26 years.

Howe has also been a place that Soechting has served. He was the president of the Lion’s Club in Howe, member of the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce, Cubmaster for the local Cub Scouts, and a Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer.

Former Howe High School Principal L.H. Linker may have never envisioned a day when Howe High School graduate Toby Soechting would be the minister of the Church of Christ in Howe. It was one fateful day that Soechting was called to the principal’s office where he was told to leave his books in the office and not return until after he got a haircut. Soechting left the school but did not immediately return with a haircut. That was in 1972, now 50 years later, so much has changed.

Those changes began when Soechting was baptized into the body of Christ in 1987 and today, the much-loved hair is gone.

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After graduating high school in 1973, he studied psychology at Grayson County College and the University of North Texas, but needing a paycheck, Soechting went to work with his dad for Kentucky Fried Chicken for 16 years starting as an hourly employee and ending up the District Training Manager over Dallas and Fort Worth.

The company was purchased by Heublein Inc. which was a large manufacturer of alcoholic beverages in the United States, followed by R.J. Reyn-

olds Tobacco Company. Soechting said the company functions could get a bit out of hand. He told himself, ‘If I’m not careful, I can mess up my life here.’ Finally, a memo went out from R.J. Reynolds which propagandized that smoking wasn’t bad for individuals. With that, it became apparent to Soechting that he wasn’t working for the people that he wanted to. He then came back from Dallas to work with his dad who had retired from KFC and had just opened Doc's Battery Service in Sherman.

It was a funeral for Mrs. Polly Holcomb that changed Soechting’s life.

That’s where he began to seek truths and find himself immersed in scripture. The following day after her funeral, he started attending services and in due time he obeyed the Gospel on a Wednesday night where his former high school principal L.H. Linker was by his side. The night Soechting was baptized, Mr. Linker turned to him and said, ‘Toby, I’ve always loved you.

Even though we always had disagreements, you always showed me respect.’ Soechting told him that if truth be known, he always loved him as well.

With experience in public speaking from his days at KFC, Soechting said that becoming a minister was more of a command or obligation to God to preach the Gospel, rather than a calling.

“I didn’t intend to be the best preacher the world had ever seen. I just wanted to do the best that I could for the Lord’s sake,” said Soechting in a 2014 Howe Enterprise interview.

He asked the Howe Church of Christ to support him while he was in school at Brown Trail School of Preaching in Bedford, TX. The Howe church of Christ obliged for two years until he graduated in 1993. According to Soechting, while still living in Howe he crammed four years of Bible education into two and drove 138 miles round trip every day.

After graduation, he went to central Texas wanting to preach full-time and went to Laguna Park near Lake Whitney. Soechting also preached in Leonard and Haleyville, Alabama and nearly settled in Alabama because the family loved it so much. However, in

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April *Howe Athletic Booster Club Meeting, April 11—6 pm at HHS Lecture Hall, 200 Ponderosa *Keep Howe Beautiful Meeting, April 11—6 pm, at Summit Gardens, 100 E. O’Connell St. *Bulldogs Baseball vs. Bells at home, April 12 *Lady Bulldogs Softball vs. Blue Ridge (Senior Night), April 12 *Community Easter Egg Hunt, April 13—6:30 pm at Community Bible Fellowship, 415 S. Collins Fwy. *HS District Track Meet at Pottsboro, April 13-14 *XYZ FBC Howe Meeting, April 14—10:30 am, 100 E. Davis St. *Bulldogs Baseball at Bells, April 15 *Lady Bulldogs Softball at Bells *Howe ISD Board of Trustees Meeting, April 18—6 pm at HISD Admin office, 105 W. Tutt. *Howe Area Chamber of Commerce Members’ Luncheon, April 19—noon at Summit Gardens, 100 E. O’Connell. *Howe City Council Meeting, April 19—6 pm at Community Center, 700 W. Tutt St. *Howe Area Chamber of Commerce Board Meeting, April 20, 6 pm at Summit Gardens, 100 E. O’Connell St. *Local Political Subdivisions Joint General and Special Elections: Early Voting April 25-30, May 2-3. *The 8th Annual Bulldog Run, April 30, at Charles R. Thompson Gym, 315 Roberts St. *Keep Howe Beautiful Freedom Rock Silent Auction, April 30—6:30 pm at Summit Gardens, 100 E. O’Connell St. May *Howe PTO Mom & Son Date Night, May 4 at HIS/HMS Cafeteria, 315 Roberts St. *Election Day May 7 at Howe Community Center, 700 W. Haning St. *Howe Hall of Honor & Awards Ceremony, May 13—6:30 pm at Summit Gardens, 100 E. O’Connell St.

-68), Joanne Spradling (1978-79), Carol Heuman (1979-1981), Elesha Whitsell (1996-98), and Susan McGraw.

(1998-2000). If Anderson can reach the playoffs with Howe, she’ll be the first female head coach for Howe to do so.

Anderson is originally of Trenton, Texas where she went kindergarten through graduation. She was point guard for the Lady Tigers and was a shooting guard at LeTourneau University in Longview. She was injured and stayed there for two years before transferring to Tarleton State to obtain her degree.

She began coaching her younger sister’s youth teams and found that coaching was what she wanted to do as a career.

“All through college, I would sit on any bench that would let me,” said Anderson. “It’s pretty much all I’ve ever wanted to do.”

With one class remaining at Tarleton before graduating, Anderson was able to skip student teaching and was hired by hometown Trenton as an aid until graduation when she became full-time teacher and assistant coach. She became the head softball coach in 2007.

Dodd City called her and asked if she would interview for the head volleyball and head basketball job which she couldn’t turn down.

Anderson began with Dodd City in 2008. They were rebuilding their program and wanted a young coach to head their program. Anderson stayed until Christmas of 2013 when she was diagnosed with leukemia. After a stem cell transplant, she was forced to halt her career as she stayed at M.D. Anderson Hospital for four months and took a year off of coaching or teaching.

“It was a tough time in life,” said Anderson who was released to go back to work a full year after the diagnosis.

Against doctor’s recommendation, she continued to stay in the field of coaching. She was hired at Bonham and worked in the middle school to see

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Bulldogs split series with Blue Ridge

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Howe’s Austin Haley not only threw a no-hitter, but also hit a runscoring triple against Blue Ridge on Friday. Photo by Michelle Carney.

What a Friday night it was for junior Austin Haley who threw a complete game no-hitter and flicked an RBI triple to help lead the Bulldogs to a 2game sweep of the Blue Ridge Tigers.

Howe (7-10, 3-5) split the series during the week as it began with a 3-2 heartbreaking loss that could come back to cost Howe in seeding for playoffs.

Starting pitcher Carson Daniels got two quick outs on Tuesday before back-to-back-to-back walks which scored on a double to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead. Daniels settled down nicely, and Howe scored two runs in the third inning on a double by Haley that scored Parker Pecina and an unearned run scoring Haley.

Howe had a chance to tie the game in the top of the seventh when Luke Lopez tripled and Pecina was hit by a pitch bringing up the team’s leading hitter in Haley. However, a ground out to third ended the game.

On Friday, Haley faced one batter over

the minimum as he sat down 21 of the 22 batters he faced. Haley struck out 14 batters while allowing no hits and no walks. Blue Ridge number nine hitter Gelvin reached on an error otherwise it would have been a perfect game.

The Dogs came away with a 2-0 win thanks to Haley helping himself out at the plate with a run-scoring triple in the third plating Pecina, who walked in front of him.

Blue Ridge pitching was outstanding allowing only four hits in total. Kaleb McNutt, Ryan Hough, and Luke Catching each singled to go along with Haley’s triple.

Howe will host Bells on Tuesday and travel there on Friday. Bells is sitting in a 3-way tie for second with Pottsboro and Whitewright. Howe is two games out of the playoff hunt. A sweep of Bells would bring them even at 5-5 each in district play.

District 11-3A Standings

Gunter 8-0 Bells 5-3 Pottsboro 5-3 Whitewright 5-3 Blue Ridge 4-4 Howe 3-5 Leonard 2-6 Bonham 0-8

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City of Howe sales tax up 31.59 percent over the same period in 2021 Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last week he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $866.5 million in local sales tax allocations for April, 27.9 percent more than in April 2021.

These allocations are based on sales made in February by businesses that report tax monthly.

In Howe, the figure came to $38,045.32 which is an increase of 31.59 percent over the same period a

year ago. For the year, Howe is ahead of the 2021 pace by 14.11 percent with a cumulative total of $176,137.69 compared to $154,351.43 a year ago.

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Total 2022

Sherman Denison aGainesville Celina Anna Melissa Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro Howe Whitewright Leonard Southmayd Collinsville Tioga Bells Tom Bean Oak Ridge Savoy Ector Dorchester

$1,961,625.26 $674,552.16 $566,355.18 $417,811.37 $416,043.59 $327,633.59 $249,003.98 $196,671.40 $119,463.11 $99,041.01 $56,484.27 $38,045.32 $37,525.41 $31,351.85 $26,462.53 $25,200.85 $19,069.96 $18,529.36 $13,361.78 $8,117.85 $5,324.83 $2,555.07 $936.64

Sherman Denison Gainesville Celina Anna Melissa Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro Whitewright Howe Leonard Collinsville Southmayd Bells Tioga Tom Bean Oak Ridge Savoy Ector Dorchester

$9,200,991.31 $3,332,588.47 $2,797,314.29 $2,252,654.71 $1,886,774.16 $1,679,480.74 $1,082,958.10 $881,369.71 $587,219.92 $523,109.43 $267,987.96 $182,750.78 $176,137.69 $150,424.65 $119,722.68 $118,706.81 $91,836.94 $90,808.10 $49,588.63 $39,969.51 $24,043.60 $11,694.02 $4,093.75

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Keep Howe Beautiful Yard of the Month

510 N Denny St., Howe, Texas. Courtesy photo.

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XYZ to meet

XYZ of First Baptist Church Howe will meet this Thursday, April 14 at 10:30 a.m. in the newly painted Fellowship Hall. Come see it and enjoy our program, Todd Estes, who will share information with us about wills,

trusts, estates, etc. with questions to follow.

Ham will be provided plus whatever everyone brings so our meal will be yummy. Add the fun fellowship we have and it’ll be a delightful morning.

So Happy Easter and see you there.

Summit Hill Elementary Top Dogs

Second grade—Leah Thompson, Gabriel Pineda, Silas Garibay, Paxton Murphy.

Kindergarten—Vera Hansel, Jeremy Freeman, Logyn Vawter, Rhettley Fletcher, Ailin Rodriguez.

First grade—Mia Ayala, Emelia Douglas, Titan Pewenofkit, Gage Edwards, Jake Armstrong.

Pre-K—Adam Harrison.

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Lady Bulldogs get win over Bonham, lose to Gunter

Ryleigh Craven jumps for joy after the final pitch of a 5-3 win on Tuesday night at home. Photo by Alexa Brunner.

The Howe Lady Bulldogs (5-16-1) pulled off a dramatic win on Tuesday night at home against Bonham.

Ryleigh Craven produced eight strikeouts of Lady Warriors hitters, but none were more dramatic than the final one in the top of the seventh inning that sealed the 5-3 win to give Howe their fifth win and their third in six contests.

In the top of the seventh, Howe needed just three outs for the win. Craven, who had pitched the entire game got Paizley Vaught to pop out to shortstop Kamry Snapp. Cameron Pearson then lined out back to Craven. Things got sketchy when Alayna Laisy walked to bring up Reyleigh Shockley to represent the tying run. But Craven needed only three pitches to sit down Shockley for the win.

At the plate, Chloe Scoggins let Howe with two hits including a 3-run double in the first inning. Freshman Kennadi Barrett also collected two hist on the night and scored two runs. Overall, Howe had eight hits and two walks.

Howe vs. Bonham Howe at Gunter Craven went all seven innings, allowing five hits. All three runs were earned as Howe committed only one error. She walked three and struck out eight.

On Friday, the Howe girls traveled to Gunter to take on a very tough Lady Tigers team. Howe lost 16-1 and were allowed only two hits throughout the contest. Craven and Josee McCullar each had singles. McCullar scored the lone Lady Bulldogs run.

Railyn Murphy started on the rubber and went three innings, allowing nine earned runs on 13 hits. She walked two and struck out one. She was relieved by Craven who pitched the final inning, allowing three earned runs on four hits. She struck out one.

District 11-3A Standings xGunter 10-0 Whitewright 8-2 Pottsboro 7-3 Bells 6-4 Bonham 4-6 Howe 3-7 Blue Ridge 1-9 Leonard 1-9 x-playoff berth

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Howe seventh grade boys take second place in District Track Meet The Howe seventh graders took second to Bonham in the District Track Meet held at Pottsboro last week.

They totaled 147 overall points. The seventh grade girls finished fourth with a total of 40 while the eighth grade girls took third with a total of 127.The eighth grade boys placed fourth overall with 91 points.

First place winners—Eight grade girls 100 M Hurdles Holly Howard, 19.690 300 M Hurdles Jaedyn Jones, 54.212 Discus Tori Williams, 69’-2” First place winners—Eighth grade boys 100 M Dash Knox Bounds, 12.377 Triple Jum Knox Bounds, 35’-10”

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First place winners—Eighth grade boys 100 M Dash Knox Bounds, 12.67 200 M Dash Knox Bounds, 26.34 Long Jump Knox Bounds, 16’-11” Triple Jump Knox Bounds, 36’-3.5” First place winners—Seventh grade boys 100 M Dash Riken Cross, 13.318 400 M Dash Parker Bryan, 58.631 300 M Hurdles Riken Cross, 49.681 4x100 M Relay Bryce Pieper, Parker Bryan, Rylan Strong, Riken Cross, 50.586 4x400 M Relay Rylan Strong, Caden Allen, Bryce Pieper, Parker Bryan, 4:09.08

High School track results The Howe Lady Bulldogs varsity track team finished fourth in the Howe Relays with a total of 52 points while the boys varsity finished sixth with a total of 28 points.

Results: Lady Bulldogs varsity 400 M Dash 6th, Mackenzie Krueger, 1:15.52 800 M Run 5th, Aryssa Krueger, 2:45.91 1600 M Run 6th, Sidney Conejo, 7:10.93 100 M Hurdles 5th, Mattie Helpenstell, 20.97 7th, Harlee Shue, 21.06 4x100 M Relay 3rd, Landery Sanders, Kendall Griffin, Teagan Stubblefield, , 53.89 4x200 M Relay 3rd, LaShay Thornton, Teagan Stubblefield, Aryssa Krueger, Kendall Griffin, 1:55.46 4x400 M Relay 2nd, Kendall Griffin, Teagan Stubblefield, Aryssa Krueger, Mackenzie

Krueger,, 4:31.50 Results: Bulldogs varsity 100 M Dash 5th, Jacob Janek, 11.56 800 M Run 5th, Jacob Campbell, 2:23.52 1600 M Run 5th, Jacob Campbell, 5:37.15 110 M Hurdles 2nd, Matthew Acevedo, 22.11 300 M Hurdles 5th, Matthew Acevedo, 57.58 4x100 M Relay 4th, Gabriel Davila, Antwone Rattler, Kaden Dunn, Jacob Janek, 47.72 4x200 M Relay 5th, Kaden Dunn, Gabriel Davila, Jacob Janek, Ryan Hough 1:42.28

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The seventh grade winning 4x400 meter relay team of (L-R) Caden Allen, Parker Bryan, Rylan Strong, and Bryce Pieper. Courtesy photo.

Toby Soechting has ministered in Ghana many times over the course of his career. Courtesy photo.

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1999, he received a phone call from the Howe Church of Christ asking him if he’d consider moving back.

With his parents still living and his wife Deborah’s dad from Sherman still living, they decided to come home and take care of them and enjoy the rest of their parents’ days.

The Howe eighth grade girls took second place in the 4x400 meter relay.

Pictured are (L-R) Addison Bond, Jaedyn Jones, Holly Howard, and Haley White. Courtesy photo.

Soechting says that former Howe Church of Christ Minister Andy Kizer was like a brother in the flesh as well as a brother in Christ and was a great

inspiration for him. He also credits former Minister Johnny Ramsey of Sherman for inspiring him.

“He was a walking Bible and the last 24 hours of his life, he just quoted scripture,” Soechting said.

Mr. Linker would be proud of the minister he has become. The rebellious teenager who finally retrieved those high school textbooks long ago, has been a man preaching the Word of God with a haircut his principal would approve of.

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Goodwill Industries of Northeast Texas 2206 E. Lamar St. Sherman, TX 75090 goodwillnorthtexas.org spierce@goodwillnorthtexas.org

NURSE C.E.R.T.S. 505 Castlegate St. Howe, TX 75459 90.-821-3392 loavamccarthy@msn.com DEBBY EDWARDS/PINK ZEBRA 1403 S. Travis St. Sherman, TX 75090 debbyedwards2@gmail.com 903-820-8914 HEATING/AIR CONDITIONING Baker A/C & Heating, Inc. 215 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-6225 bakerac.mark@yahoo.com HOUSING Bainbrook Apartments 511 S. Collins Fwy Howe, TX 75459 (469) 712-4082 bainbrook75459.com Pradera Manufactured Home Park 709 N. Collins Freeway Howe TX 75459 http://praderamhp.com (903) 532-0014 pradera@havenparkmgmt.com M&M Properties 901 N. Denny St Howe TX 75459 903-815-8355 mariecurtis16@gmail.com.

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

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United Way of Grayson County 713 E. Brockett P.O. Box 1112 Sherman, Texas 75091 903.893.1920 PHOTOGRAPHY Illuminated by Lanay Lanay Rentrom 972-215-9886 lanay@illuminatedbylanay.com PLUMBING Brother Plumber 708 Maple St. Howe, TX 75459 469-968-4487 trent@brotherplumber.com http://Brotherplumber.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 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

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 WELDING Robertson Welding Service 1716 Baker Rd. C Sherman, TX 75090 903-328-6588 carobertson1975@yahoo.com

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

6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 % $0.55 $1.33 $0.34 $0.17 $2.39 $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)

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

Howe Fire Department 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet

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

Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Police Sergeant: Keith Milks

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

Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Benjamin Fuhr

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

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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how she could handle the workload. A year later, she took a job at Celeste as an assistant and stayed for two years before feeling comfortable to run a program again as a head coach.

“When I had that kind of bug, then I knew,” said Anderson who is now fully recovered and has to do follow-ups every two years.

After the two years as an assistant at Celeste, she became a head coach again in Lindsay where she stayed for a year before going back to Celeste where they offered her the head basketball and girls coordinator position in 2018. She guided the Blue Devils three rounds deep in the playoffs that season before losing to eventual state champion Martin Mill.

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Snapp to season-ending injuries which changed the dynamic of the team during the season. But that forced Howe to go with younger players such as LaShay Thornton and Presley Shockey which she feels will benefit the program immediately and sped up the process of gathering experience for younger players.

“Those kids got so much more time on the court than what they would have otherwise,” said Anderson. “I also think we have some younger JV kids that put in a lot of work and bought into some things. We’re hoping some of those can step up and fill some roles.”

In her first head coaching position at Dodd City, her team won 10 games the first year, but were forced to start four freshmen the following year. But her third year saw Dodd City go three rounds deep.

But Anderson continues to get calls from former schools, and she returned to her hometown of Trenton in 2019 to become the head volleyball coach and assistant basketball coach under her former high school coach. When he stepped down, Anderson took over as head basketball coach for the 2020-21 season.

“Every year after that, we made the playoffs and went two or three rounds deep,” said Anderson. “My fourth year there, we started winning district championships and I don’t think they’ve lost a district championship since.”

When Anderson was hired as an assistant at Howe for this season, Lands was as excited and spouted her talents and abilities to anyone that would listen. Now that Lands has announced his retirement, it feels like a plan has been in place for nearly a year or so.

Anderson also had playoff experience with Lindsay when they knocked off number one seeded Muenster in the first round. At Celeste, she guided the Lady Blue Devils to three rounds deep in the playoffs before the Martins Mill loss.

“We had some discussions, but I was just excited to be in this program,” said Anderson who has worked with Lands in the Lone Star Hoops Camps for many years during the summers in Howe. “I’ve known Coach Lands since, basically, I was born. One of my best friends is his niece. Our journeys through sickness have really bonded us through the year,” said Anderson.

“Getting to come over here and just be a part of what he already had going. I was okay with just being an assistant or whatever the future held because I wanted to be here.”

“I’ve been fortunate throughout my career. We’ve had kids that bought in, and we were able to have success,” said Anderson.

Anderson is the head girls track coach right now and is also an assistant in volleyball.

Looking back on the 2021-22 season, Anderson says that it was unfortunate to lose Trinity Williams and Avery

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She says she’s very passionate and intense at times on the court. She’s told the players that they may not have seen the “real Coach Anderson” yet.

If it weren’t for that one class she had remaining at Tarleton before graduating, she might be coaching somewhere there instead of landing a job at Trenton.

“If I’d have gotten sick out there, it would have been a lot harder for me,” said Anderson. “God has a plan for everything through this craziness of my life and I’m excited to be here.”

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Texas History Minute Texas has been home to many imaginative scientists, artists, and writers. Because of their dreams and determination, they changed how Ken Bridges people saw the world. One Texas writer in particular, Gene Roddenberry, created one of the most successful science fiction stories today, Star Trek.

Born Eugene Wesley Roddenberry in El Paso in 1921, he was the eldest child in a Southern Baptist family. In 1923, his father accepted a position at the Los Angeles Police Department, and the family left Texas for California.

As a child, Roddenberry was very imaginative. He loved reading science fiction and had fair grades in school.

He considered following in his father’s footsteps and began taking criminal justice courses when he later enrolled at Los Angeles City College.

However, the approach of World War II shifted his focus.

Increasingly interesting in aviation, he began taking flight lessons through the military’s Civilian Pilot Training Program. He earned his pilots license and enlisted in the Army Air Corps less than two weeks after Pearl Harbor. He became a B-17 bomber pilot with the Thirteenth Air Force, based out of Hawaii. He earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and rose to the rank of captain.

After the war, Roddenberry worked for Pan Am Airways as an international pilot. In 1947, his Lockheed L-049 crashed in Syria. He suffered two broken ribs in the crash. As the plane caught fire, he worked to pull as many injured passengers from the wreckage as he could. Fifteen passengers died, but he saved many others, and led the survivors through the desert to find help. He flew for Pan Am for another year before resigning to pursue his dreams of being a writer.

Success did not come easily. Having difficulty earning a living to support his wife and young children, he joined the LAPD in 1949. Using his police experience, he soon became a technical advisor for the early drama Mr. District Attorney, for which he also wrote the occasional episode. He later worked as a writer for Highway Patrol. He was also selling scripts for popular westerns as well. He was doing so well that he resigned from the police force in 1956.

In 1958, he started writing for the popular westerns Bat Masterson and Have Gun – Will Travel. He won an award from the Writer’s Guild of America for an episode of the latter that year. Roddenberry tried to develop several different television series, but he had difficulty selling any to the networks. In 1963, NBC picked up his series The Lieutenant, a drama about the lives of Marines starring Gary Lockwood and Robert Vaughan that

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ran for only one season.

Roddenberry began developing a new science fiction series in 1964 that ultimately became Star Trek. Networks were hesitant, but Roddenberry pitched it as a futuristic western based on a starship. CBS rejected the series outright, but NBC was interested. The pilot episode that emerged, The Menagerie, starring Jeff Hunter as Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, and Roddenberry’s future wife, Majel Barrett, did not impress the network. Executives feared the theme of aliens, ESP, and an interracial crew would not sit well with audiences. However, they enjoyed the concept of the program and ordered it revamped.

Roddenberry complied, keeping Nimoy and bringing in William Shatner to play Captain James T. Kirk. The second pilot aired in 1966, and the program immediately developed a steady following of fans. Roddenberry kept the show focused on morality plays and allegories of the current events of the 1960s. Overall, he based the series on his idea of a utopian future for humanity, one where war, poverty, crime, and disease had ended and all races worked together as equals. This hopeful view of the future attracted many fans looking for an escape from the chaotic and violent events of the decade. However, ratings were low; and Roddenberry often clashed with network executives. The series was nearly cancelled in 1968, but a letter-writing campaign allowed Star Trek to proceed to a third season.

After the series was cancelled in 1969, Roddenberry’s personal life was a mess. His marriage had fallen apart, and he had several affairs. He ultimately divorced and remarried. He tried to develop several other science fiction series and movies but none was ever particularly successful.

Star Trek’s popularity continued to grow after its cancellation. In 1976, NASA invited the cast to the unveiling of the space shuttle prototype, called Enterprise as the result of a writing campaign. By the late 1970s, he entered discussions to revive Star Trek as a television series, but the unexpected success of Star Wars in 1977 led studio executives to push for a movie version instead.

The Star Trek movie premiered in 1979. Three more movies followed in the 1980s, leading to an updated version of the series with a new cast, Star Trek: The Next Generation, in 1987.

Several more series would emerge in the following decades.

He died of a heart attack at his doctor’s office in Los Angeles in 1991. As a final salute to the science fiction pioneer, a portion of his ashes were flown aboard a flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1992. Though many of his other works have been largely forgotten, Star Trek has become a billiondollar franchise from TV shows, merchandising, and movies.

Living with children Psychologist, author, and professor Russell Barkley, widely regarded as one of America’s leading ADHD experts, used to be John Rosemond (and may, for all I know, still be) fond of ridiculing me in his public presentations, claiming that I believe television causes ADHD. Of course, I never said any such thing. I maintained, and still do, that spending three to five hours a day—the average for American children—watching television negatively affects brain development. That doesn’t fit the official narrative concerning ADHD; therefore, Russell Barkley mocks me. (It is significant to note that Barkley reportedly is or was on the payroll of several pharmaceutical companies.)

Around 1980, I proposed that the constant “flicker” of a television screen can disable a child’s ability to sustain focus on an unchanging visual field (e.g., a book), which is why, pretelevision, ADHD symptoms were rare. Since, as research verifies, a short attention span is associated with impulsivity, a child who spends a disproportionate amount of time in front of a flicker-box is at increased risk of behavior problems.

Apparently, Barkley would get lots of laughs from his audiences with his mockery, which included disingenuously using my name and the word “Scientology” in the same sentence.

Never mind that solid research has found that consuming television at the rate typical of the average American child is highly associated with certain diagnostic features of ADHD (precisely what I proposed around 1980).

Screen-based media have proliferated over the past twenty years or so and their ubiquity in the lives of children is looking more and more problematic.

In recent weeks, for example, the media has been abuzz with stories of socalled “Tik-Tok brain,” which researchers are saying is a verifiable neurological condition induced in teenagers—girls, primarily—who are obses-

sive consumers of the popular social media site.

So, screen-based media can instill measurable changes to the stilldeveloping (i.e., vulnerable) brains of children and teens, changes that lead to problematic behaviors. When I first proposed my hilarious theory, televisions were the only screens in children’s lives (if one doesn’t count Etch A Sketch). Now, and even from early ages, children have smart phones, personal computers, tablets, and video games. And they still sit, mesmerized, in front of the flicker-box for around twenty-five hours a week, which is 1300 hours per year, which is more than 5000 hours before they come to grade one.

Women who taught grades one through three in the early-to-mid1950s, before television became a fixture in the American home, have unanimously told me that “we didn’t have this problem,” meaning ADHD, which is why one teacher could successfully control a first-grade class of as many as 95 children back then. No, I’m not kidding. Allentown, PA, mid-1950s.

One doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to put the facts together. First, researchers have discovered that screenbased devices can induce measurable changes to the vulnerable brains of children and teens. Second, prior to the near-universal appearance of television in the home, ADHD symptoms were a rarity in the American classroom.

Third, as screen-based devices become increasingly common in the lives of children, so do mental health problems.

Conclusion: As much as possible, keep kids away from screen-based devices.

Brilliant!

Family psychologist John Rosemond: parentguru.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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Being accountable for our spiritual sensitivity I remember the day we brought Teddy our English Bulldog puppy into our home. The breeder told us he was eight weeks old but after receiving Dr. Billy Holland his papers, we noticed he was actually only six weeks old at the time. He was a healthy little bruiser and we would laugh at his stumbling and being uncoordinated, but now we realize it was because he was such a baby. My wife and I would sit on the porch in the evenings and watch him explore around in the front yard. He was so happy as he would jump and roll in the grass and investigate his new surroundings but when he would hear a loud commotion like a noisy car passing by, it would scare him and he would come running to us. After a while, he gradually became more used to the traffic sounds and the lawn mowers, and eventually it did not bother him.

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Laura were married, there were two separate beds in the bedroom. Back then, even the idea of a married couple in the same bed was socially taboo, and that was only fifty years ago. The old westerns like Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger were not about killing, but were hardly anything more than jumping off a horse and punching someone in the nose. When I was a kid, we would watch programs like, Bonanza, Lawrence Welk, and the Wonderful World of Disney. We were not exposed to extreme violence, witchcraft, and the constant sex scenes as we are today. So, what happened to our cultures modesty? The days of blushing and embarrassment are gone as the shock factor has caused many minds and hearts to become calloused.

This is exactly what the enemy wanted so the masses would lose their spiritual sensitivity to God’s voice. As the entertainment industry continues to push the limits of sorcery and debauchery, those who indulge are being tempted to dwell on dark thoughts that are ungodly instead of what is lovely and just. If we are not careful, even the children of God can become numb to corruption, deviance, and wickedness, very much like the frog who sits in the pan of water on the stove and hardly notices he is being boiled alive. If we absorb and accept small amounts of impurities here and there, before long we will not be offended or insulted about anything. Sadly, we might even begin to enjoy it.

We hear about those who live close to railroad tracks or airports and how they are sensitive to the sounds at first, but eventually get used to them. I collect old clocks and when people come in they ask how we can stand all of these chimes and gongs, but we do not even notice them. It’s one thing to get used to sights and sounds that do not hinder our spiritual lives, but it’s dangerous to let our guards down when it comes to accepting things that are contrary to God’s standard of sanctification. Our new-born spirit is sensitive to what we see and hear and what a challenge it is to protect our mind. As Christians, we have a responsibility to guard our hearts from the negativity and darkness of this world that is trying to pull us away from God’s presence. Unfortunately, many individuals including church members are convinced there is no harm from absorbing a constant barrage of negative television shows, movies, and social media. It’s a shame the era of innocence is now only a memory. A lifestyle of purity is now considered fanatical and old-fashioned and not respected any more.

It’s no secret that most people, do not want to hear about self-discipline, repentance, or messages that contain topics about how changing the way we think will change the way we live. In man’s carnal defense, his emotions consider this intrusion as meddling and no one’s business, including the one who created him. These uncomfortable and rebellious attitudes are God’s way of convicting us of our guilt. It’s His way of getting our attention that we are doing something wrong, but often our emotions love it too much to stop. We all face this daily battle because our fallen nature is opposed to virtuous living and always willing to fight for its independence. One of the greatest failures for anyone including Christians is to ignore the reverential fear of God and His demand to live holy.

I remember the old Dick Van Dyke Show where, even though Rob and

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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 903-5325504 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 24:6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:

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EXCLUSIVE: DEMOCRATS IMPLICATED — Georgia ballot traffickers were using Democrat officials’ offices as stopping points during ballot drop runs

By Jim Hoft The Gateway Pundit EDITOR’S NOTE—This section is reserved as an editorial and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

“If the current administration is in power much longer, canned food, a generator, water, and ammunition will be your best investment.” Edward D. Jones, 4/20/2021 ***** "This is not a war of the Ukrainian people. It is not the Ukrainian people who are persecuting their Russian brothers, but a puppet government supported by neo-Nazi military militias. A corrupt government, desired by the globalist cabal, which today finds itself with a cocaine-addicted President, a former actor and dancer who hides billions in tax havens while the Ukrainian population is among the poorest in Europe" - Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano ***** Example of how election fraud numbers shook out via absentee ballots in November 2020: City of Birmingham, AL - absentee stats 2012 Romney 3,343 Obama 3,476 Result D+1.93% 2016 Trump 2,978 Clinton 3,984 Result D+13.85% 2020 Trump 6,520 Biden 28,226 Result D+62.90% The increase of 24,242 mail votes comes with Biden making a gain of 25,304 votes over Clinton's 2016 total in Jefferson County overall. ***** Nancy Pelosi, Barrack Obama, Merrick Garland, Hillary Clinton, CIA Director William Burns, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, Adam Schiff, Jen Psaki have all recently tested positive for COVID-19. Seems somewhat odd timing.

In late January film producer Dinesh D’Souza released the trailer for his upcoming movie “2000 Mules.” True the Vote has been working with Dinesh D’Souza to create this bombshell movie that uses footage and tracking data they obtained of ballot boxes in key states across America used to steal the election in 2020.

In early January The Gateway Pundit reported to our readers that our organization agreed to hand over exclusive video from a major battleground state to True the Vote for their ballot trafficking investigation in the 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit shared never before seen ballot dropbox surveillance video, 24 Terabytes of footage, with the election integrity group in their ongoing investigation.

Special thanks to Patty McMurray at 100 Percent Fed Up for her assistance in this agreement.

The investigation is ongoing. The movie is set for a spring release. That brings us to today. On Sunday Turning Point USA Founder and President Charlie Kirk was in St. Louis and joined Joe Hoft from The Gateway Pundit and Real Talk 93.3 to discuss the 2020 election and related topics.

During the interview, Charlie Kirk says he spent time with Dinesh D’Souza the producer of “2000 Mules.” Charlie then dropped this bomb.

Charlie Kirk: You have the surveillance video that Dinesh is using in his upcoming movie where people are coming out of the car with piles of ballots. Illegal. You cannot do that in Georgia. Stuffing them into ballot boxes funded by Mark Zuckerberg… Coming night after night after night, the same guys. They’re

wearing latex gloves on camera, after they put the ballots in the drop boxes they take off the latex gloves because they don’t want fingerprints on the ballots and they take pictures of every ballot. And you’ll see this video footage. I had a six -hour meeting with Dinesh D’Souza and I saw all the evidence for myself. I was really skeptical at first and we dove into it. And I was blown away at how the sophisticated technology they used to be able to track these people using cellphone technology because your cellphone is letting off a ping every 3 to 5 seconds. You can go buy those pings off of certain geographic areas… They saw that some of these mules would visit these drop boxes every night. And then go to Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and then go back to the drop boxes.

Joe Hoft’s video interview with Charlie Kirk is here.

This is a huge development that implicates the Democrat Party directly and Stacey Abrams in particular in the ballot trafficking operations in the state of Georgia.

We later confirmed from a second source that a second Democrat office in the state of Georgia was also used as a stop for the dozens of ballot traffickers in the state.

Later this afternoon we reached out to True the Vote founder and president Catherine Engelbrecht who is spearheading this investigation.

Catherine told us, “We cannot confirm anything about organization names right now by advice of counsel. But we can confirm that two of the addresses were among a data set of those we reviewed.”

Catherine also said there are a number of investigations taking place right now.

From the 45th President of the United States What the Fake News Media doesn't tell you, and they are doing everything within their power to force prosecutors throughout the Country to do a terrible injustice to our Nation and its people, is that a low- life attorney named Mark Pomerantz, who is a "Never Trumper" and a Hillary Clinton sycophant (together with his wife), left a Never Trumper, Crooked Hillary law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, with two young associates who were also Never Trumpers, in order to go into the District Attorney's office to unjustly prosecute a man named Donald J. Trump, who also just happens to be the 45th President of the United States, and is leading in every poll to be the 47th. The Fake News also didn't reveal the fact that this is virtually unprecedented for private lawyers to take an unpaid leave of absence from an opposing party law firm in order to prosecute anyone, let alone a former President. They also didn't tell you that a principal leader of the firm is Robert Schumer, the brother of Chuck Schumer, that the firm is a Never Trumper firm and works for the Democrat Party, that for lawyers to go into the New York City's District Attorney's office to prosecute an opponent is unprecedented in NYC history because the District Attorney's office has hundreds of lawyers already working there, and that a number of Assistant District Attorneys refused to work on the (Continued on page 16)

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By Emily Crane, Miranda Devine, Steven Nelson and Bruce Golding New York Post Here’s a dozen times Joe Biden played a role in son Hunter’s business dealings 1. Hunter Biden got his dad to write a recommendation letter to Brown University for the son of a powerful Chinese business associate, Jonathan Li. 2. Hunter Biden also arranged for his dad to write a letter to Georgetown University — Hunter’s alma mater — on behalf of Li’s daughter.

3. Hunter Biden acknowledged in a 2019 New Yorker magazine article that he and his dad once discussed Hunter’s job on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, which paid him as much as $83,333 a month when Joe Biden was vice president under President Barack -Obama.

4. In December 2013, Hunter and his daughter, Finnegan Biden, traveled to China on Air Force Two with then-Vice President Joe Biden during an official, six-day trip to Asia. Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials — and also met with Li in the lobby of the hotel where the American delegation was staying.

5. In a 2019 text message to his daughter Naomi, Hunter Biden bitterly wrote, “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.” He added, “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, -unlike Pop [Joe],

I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

6. As vice president, Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer in April 2014, around the same time that Archer joined the Burisma board and shortly before Hunter Biden did. A photo that surfaced more than five years later reportedly shows Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Archer posing with golf clubs on a course in the Hamptons in August 2014.

7. Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma exec and adviser to its board, sent Hunter Biden an April 17, 2015, e-mail that said, “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

8. One day earlier, Joe Biden attended a dinner at Washington DC’s Cafe Milano with some of his son’s business associates from Ukraine, Russia and -Kazakhstan including Kazakhstani banking oligarch Kenes “Kenges” Rakishev and Karim Massimov, a former prime minister of Kazakhstan.

9. Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski revealed in October 2020 that he spoke with Joe Biden in May 2017 after being introduced by Hunter, who reportedly described Bobulinski as “the one who’s helping us with the business we’re doing with the Chinese.”

According to Bobulinski — who has identified Joe Biden as “the big guy” with a 10 percent share in (Continued on page 16)

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Michigan jury acquits two men, deadlock on two others in trial for plot to kidnap Whitmer JustTheNews.com Afederal jury in Michigan on Friday found two men not guilty on charges of plotting to kidnap Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and a mistrial was declared for the two other defendants.

The jury’s verdicts against Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were read in the federal court in Grand Rapids.

Jurors said they couldn’t agree on verdicts again the two other defendants, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. Fox, Croft and Harris faced additional charges.

The two most serious charges, kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to

use explosives, both carry potential life sentences.

Jurors said earlier Friday afternoon they had reached decisions on "several" of the 10 charges against the defendants but were deadlocked on other charges.

Prosecutors contended they attempted to kidnap Whitmer because they were angry about her overreaching COVID-19 health-safety mandates.

The jurors' decision came on the fifth day of their deliberations, according to the Associated Press.

Defendants Caserta, Fox, Croft and Harris each faced one main charge of kidnapping conspiracy.

The nine other charges — related to explosives

and a firearm — were divided among Fox with two, Croft with three and Harris with four.

During the trial, prosecutors provided testimony from undercover agents, an informant and two men who pleaded guilty to the alleged plot, the Associated Press also reports.

Jurors also were presented with secretly recorded conversations and social media posts that also served as evidence of the alleged plot.

Defense lawyers said such a conspiracy was in fact a creation of government agents who were embedded in the group and manipulated their clients, according to the wire service.

Support grows among Republicans for naming a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden

By John Solomon JustTheNews.com Nearly 100 House Republicans are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden's foreign business deals, saying they had the hallmarks of an influence peddling scandal.

The letter led by Reps.

Tom Rice (R-S.C.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), the chair of the House GOP Study Committee, comes as the U.S. attorney in Delaware enters his third year investigating Hunter Biden's taxes, foreign lobbying and money movements.

In all, 95 House GOP members signed the letter.

"It is increasingly clear that Hunter Biden took advantage of his father's position as Vice President to develop business relationships with clients in Ukraine, China, and Kazakhstan," the lawmakers wrote. "Hunter

Biden likely facilitated lobbying for foreign entities through third-party channels without registering for the Foreign Agents Registration Act. "It appears that Hunter Biden used his position as son of then-Vice President Biden to gain wealth and influence in foreign countries, using questionably sourced money to pay tax liabilities, and lobbying on behalf of foreign entities without proceeding through the proper channels."

You can read the letter here: File 7C16C544994FB6C42 D626018ED1EF96A.lett er-to-ag-garland-rehunter-biden.pdf The House Republicans said they were concerned DOJ "has an actual conflict of interest and certainly has the appearance of a conflict of interest that could prevent a fair and impartial investigation of his activities."

"We believe that in the case of Hunter Biden a special counsel must be appointed to preserve the integrity of this investigation and any subsequent prosecution. A special counsel would also ensure there is no bias in the investigation or undue influence from the White House," the lawmakers added.

A Trump holdover, U.S. Attorney David Weiss, has been leading the probe since late 2018 and was allowed by Garland to continue when other Trump appointees were asked to resign last year.

While support for a special counsel has been growing, some Republicans like Sen. Ron Johnson argue it isn't necessary and would only further delay an already slow moving investigation.

"I won't have any faith in him," Johnson said of a special counsel.

EXPLOSIVE New Surveillance Footage of Ballot Drop Boxes

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a planned deal with CEFC China Energy — the former vice president told him, “Keep an eye on my son and brother and look out for my family.”

10. E-mails show that in September 2017, Hunter Biden asked for a new sign and additional keys to an office he was renting in Washington DC. The sign was to say, “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC-US)” and the keys were for his father, stepmother Jill Biden, uncle James Biden and a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.

11. In 2015, then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted a group of his son’s Mexican business associates at the vice president’s official residence and posed for a photo with Hunter Biden and a group of possible business partners, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.

12. In 2016, e-mails indicate that Hunter Biden messaged Velasco’s son from Air Force Two, which was en route to Mexico for an official visit. Hunter complained to the younger Velasco that he hadn’t received reciprocal business favors after “I have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the F’ing White House and the Vice President’s house and the inauguration.” ***** It’s the 2-year anniversary of the documentary Out of the Shadows. The documentary lifts the mask on how the mainstream media and Hollywood manipulated and controlled the masses by spreading propaganda throughout their content.

The goals of the film is to wake up the general public by shedding light on how we all have been lied to and brainwashed by a hidden enemy. ***** RFK Jr. demonstrates in great depth why the COVID jab is the most deadly vaccine in history "The younger you are, the more likely you'll get myocarditis, which is what's killing people

from heart attacks. 50 percent of the people who get myocarditis, according to historical data, will be dead or require a heart transplant within five years... 1 in 2,700 boys will get myocarditis from this vaccine." ***** Trump spoke at another "Save America" rally, this time in North Carolina.

He called the shovel a shovel in relation to the southern border, or lack thereof: "This is an invasion, just like in Western Europe!"

At one point, the crowd erupted into shouts of "We love Trump."

"Our children are being indoctrinated, our values are being desecrated, our heritage is being destroyed, and our country is being humiliated by a president who has no idea what is going on!"

Trump said he plans to repeal every last Covid19 mandate and pass a law prohibiting employers from firing workers for lack of a vaccine.

"We must ensure that every election can be fully and quickly verified."

He also vowed to "demand justice for the prisoners on January 6 and full protection of their civil rights, as was done with Antifa, Black Lives Matter, who killed people all over our country." ***** World Economic Forum Advisor Yuval Noah Harari explained how the next industrial revolution will create a class of "meaningless, worthless" people: "This time the product will be the person himself. In fact, we are learning to produce body and mind."

"The problem (with the lower classes) is boredom and what to do with them. How can they find the meaning of life if they are essentially meaningless and worthless?" ***** As the battle between Florida and The Walt Disney Co. executives continues to rage

on, a longtime employee of Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando is speaking out, sharing how he and the majority of his fellow cast members are “ashamed to work for this company.”

The employee, a custodial cast member of 35 years for Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park, spoke to The Epoch Times under the condition of anonymity for the fear of being fired. ***** Moderna recalls 764,900 COVID-19 vaccine doses after contamination is found. ***** The number of athletes fainting and dying is something that society has never seen before.

"The average age of players who have cardiac arrest is only 23 years old. How many 23-yearold athletes fainted and suffered a heart attack before this year? Do you know at least one 23-year -old who has had a heart attack? Almost 800 athletes, young, fit people in the prime of life, fall unconscious on the playing field. In fact, 500 percent more footballers die from heart attacks in the EU now than a year ago." ***** Arizona AG reports 'serious vulnerabilities' in Maricopa Co. 'raise questions' about 2020 election ***** Days after becoming Twitter 's largest shareholder, Elon Musk publicly muses: 'Is Twitter dying?'

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