59.52 Howe Enterprise May 9, 2022

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Doty receives most votes for school board election, Shadden also retains seat, Dailey defeats Upton for final seat The City of Howe will be spraying for mosquitoes on June 21 between the hours of 9 pm and 4 am. ***** Gas hit $4.09 Saturday in Howe. That reminded us that we needed to vote that day. As one fuel distributor said, “elections have consequences.”

That is true, but stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. ***** Nick Upton may have come up short in his bid for school board, but he will be named the 2021 Norma J. Wallace Citizen of the Year Friday at the Hall of Honor. Brent Brunner will be named the Jean Norman Volunteer of the Year. Guns N More will be awarded the Business of the Year and the Friends of the Library will receive the Volunteer Organization of the Year.

Tickets will be $15 at the door and coffee and cookies will be served by Keep Howe Beautiful.

Tickets can also be purchased online at this link. ***** Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. - Mark Twain. ***** The Howe Parent Teachers Organization (PTO) announced on social media that they do not have enough board members for the 2022-2023 school year and will have to dissolve the organization if they can’t get volunteers.

Volunteers are hard to come by these days.

Speaking of, one of the absolute saddest days have come for Howe sports. The Lopez twins are officially done with sports. And yes, we love (Continued on page 6) EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

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

Voter turnout in Grayson County was 9.28 percent which is surprisingly low considering what has taken place over the last two years. But in Howe, the turnout was slightly up from 481 total ballots cast in 2021 to 544 this year. The City of Howe did not hold an election as former City Administrator Joe Shephard filed for the vacated council position of Georgia Richardson, who stepped down after seven consecutive terms. His term will begin at the end of this month.

INSIDE National Honor Society, pg. 2 Four to be inducted Friday, pg. 4 Mark Your Calendar, pg. 6 Legal Notice, pg. 6 Founders Day vendor map, pg. 9 City of Howe info, pg. 11 Hot Jobs, pg. 12 History/Parenting, pg. 13 Christian, pg. 14 Patriot Pony, pg. 15-16 Past front pages, pg. 17-24

Howe summer sports camps info released Michael Doty

The Howe ISD Board of Trustees election resulted in Michael Doty receiving the highest tally of votes with 194 overall.

He led in absentee voting with 17, early voting with 90, and election day (Continued on page 3)

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Tamela Shadden

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Founders Day weekend kicks of Friday with Howe Hall of Honor, festival Saturday

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*Baseball Camp— June 2022 at HHS Baseball Field. *Softball Camp—June 20-23 at HHS Softball Field. *Hoops Camp—June 27 -30 at HHS Gymnasium. *Volleyball Camp—July 18-20 at HHS Gymnasium. *Football Camp—July 25-28 at Bulldog Stadium.

Bulldogs swept in two games by 20th ranked Prairiland

The scene from last year’s Founders Day Festival in Downtown Howe. Staff photo.

The 36th Annual Founders Day Festival is Saturday from 2 pm—8 pm and will feature Justin Pickard and the Thunderbird Winos on stage beginning at 5:30 pm. The event is hosted by the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce and is sponsored by 903 Brewers.

This year’s event will feature wine-tasting, a hot dog eating contest, a dunking booth, kid train, food, cold 903 drinks, shopping, and more.

The festivities kick off Friday night at Summit Gardens when the chamber will honor their Norma J. Wallace Citizen of the Year, Jean Norman Volunteer of the Year, Business of the Year, and Volunteer Organization of the Year. Also that night, Roger Tidwell, Dale and Lana Rideout, and Shawn “Moondog” Fountain will be inducted into the Howe Hall of Honor Class of 2022.

Tickets for the awards ceremony are $15 and can be found here.

Howe senior Parker Pecina gets a fist bump walking off the field during game one at Paris Chisum. Howe lost 1-0, and 7-1 in game two to Prairiland.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

It took nearly as long to drive to Paris as it did to watch game one which finished in an hour and a half. Prairiland lefthander Caleb Jameson and howe righthander Austin Haley’s game one pitcher’s duel was an instant classic that will be remembered for decades.

It’s sometimes hard to understand the impact of

such as game while in progress. Only upon reflection can one begin to understand and comprehend the brilliance and rarity of a game such as the 1-0 win by the Patriots.

Jameson, who has hit 93 miles per hour with his fastball, has a long future ahead of him beyond the

2022 high school playoffs. Howe catcher Ryan Hough got the lone hit off of him and it was a “seeing-eye” groundball through the hole between first and second.

Jameson pitched all seven innings, allowed one hit, walked two and struck out 11. The only threat Howe made was (Continued on page 7)

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New members and officers for National Honor Society

New National Honor Society Officers are (L-R) Korie Bouse—treasurer, Audie Martin—secretary, Teagan Stubblefield—president, Ryan Hough— vice president, and Jentrie Doty—historian. Staff photo.

On Monday, a new crop of National Honor Society members were inducted in the to Charles R. Thompson Chapter in Howe.

Mitchell, Autumn Owens, Payton Stapleton, Matalee Stewart, Riley Troxtell, Mahlon Walker, and Kara Wimbish.

The new members are Catelyn Armstrong, Yair Ayala, Samantha Becker, Kaylyn Bryant, Jacob Campbell, Carson Daniels, Caden Garner, Kendall Griffin, Kayley Laubhan, Lucas

National Junior Honor Society members inducted were Eric Dailey, Addison Donoho, Kennedy Garner, Andronica Morris, Dillon Patterson, Caris Riley, Brooklyn Upton, and Felix Vazquez.

Jack and Texanna Norman celebrated for 56 years as Bible Fellowship Teachers New National Honor Society members. Staff photo.

New National Honor Society Officers are (L-R) Ryan Hough, Lily Yglesias, Eli Wilson, Trinity Williams, and Teagan Stubblefield.

Jack and Texanna Norman with their family as they were recently recognized

by First Baptist Church of Howe for their 56 years of faithful service as Bible Fellowship Teachers. They served from 1965 through 2021. Courtesy photo.

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Election

Nick Upton

Crystal Lawson

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the Texas public school system and has lived in the Howe ISD School District for four years.

with 87.

Tamela Shadden retained her seat on the school board with 173 total votes which came from 15 absentee, 79 early voting, and 79 election day votes.

Crystal Lawson was the lone challenger to Doty and Shadden received 83 total votes with the most (38) coming on election her.

The unexpired term of Josh Vincent that has been held by Greg Akins on a temporary basis was won by Jeff Dailey. He received a total of 139 votes which came from 10 absentee, 62 early voting, and 67 on election day. Nick Upton received a total of 84 votes with his most (41) coming in early voting.

Of the 544 total ballots cast, 234 came on election day. Early voting totals tallied 246 and there were 64 absentee ballots. A year ago, only six ballots came in by mail.

Overall, in the county, there were only 90 ballots cast early by mail a year ago in this election, whereas there were 909 absentee ballots cast this year.

Doty and Shadden were originally first voted to serve their first term in 2018.

Shadden, a retired teacher in the district received the most votes back in 2018. After 32 years of teaching in Howe, she retired in 2016. While teaching, she was a mentor to other teachers and served on the Howe ISD Campus and District Improvement Committees. She and her husband Scott have three children who attended Howe Schools from kindergarten through graduation.

Doty’s vote total is the most in recent years. In his career, he’s been in various finance managerial roles at many companies since graduating college.

These range from small companies with 300 employees with $20 million in annual revenues to ones with over 100,000 employees with over $10 billion in revenues.

Doty has served as treasurer for the Howe Athletic Booster Club, Howe Band Boosters, and Howe PTA. He’s also volunteered with Howe Youth Softball, Howe Youth Basketball, and is the Leadership Chair at the First United Methodist Church.

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Dailey is a U.S. Army veteran and still serves as an Army Reserve. He’s a former high school science teacher in

The practice of following with whatever “mandate” is handed down from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, school board races all over the country have been heated with debates. With the school children being forced to wear masks for the majority of the 2020-2021 school year, Dailey’s answer on the questionnaire by the Howe Enterprise stated, “I believe the CDC recommendations for public schools may be useful as a general guideline for the school district to consider, but I do not support following CDC recommendations as an absolute standard for health decision of Howe ISD students and district employees. The reason I believe this is because the CDC recommendations are wrongly based on one size fits all approach and ignore the rights of parents and individuals to make personal health decisions. This was the case during the COVID-19 pandemic when the CDC recommended what I believe were extreme and unnecessary measures for public schools, particularly, the continuous closure of schools and virtual learning only, shutting down athletic events and other extracurricular activities, no student-to-student and student-to-teacher/ coach social interaction, and around the clock face masking and social distancing. For those school districts that chose to follow this guidance to an absolute standard, there was significant decline in both academic progress and the overall well-being of children. The Howe ISD school board took the correct approach during the early stages of the pandemic when they took the CDC recommendations into consideration, and then decided that what was best for the community and best for the students was to promptly return to the traditional face-to-face classroom setting.

Doty had a similar response, saying, “Health and safety of our local staff, teachers and students is one of the top priorities within the district. While discussing guidelines for our students and employees, many aspects come into play such as local area outbreaks. The CDC guidelines should be considered, but not as an absolute standard.”

On this topic, Shadden stated that she agreed with the Howe ISD’s decision during that time to follow the CDC guidelines. Upton said he felt by following the CDC guidelines, it kept the ISD from full shutdowns or drastic (Continued on page 8)

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Four to be inducted into the Howe Hall of Honor Friday

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce announced will host their Howe Hall of Honor would this Friday, May 13, 2022, at 6 pm at Summit Gardens.

They inductees for the Class of 2022 will be Roger Tidwell, Dale Rideout, Lana Rideout, and Shawn “Moondog” Fountain.

The Chamber will also announce the 2021 Norma J. Wallace Citizen of the Year, Jean Norman Volunteer of the Year, Business of the Year, and Volunteer Organization of the Year.

ROGER TIDWELL Tidwell has served as the First Baptist Church pastor for 30 years as he arrived in the spring of 1992.

Before arriving in Howe, Tidwell was pastoring a little church in Elroy, Texas near the Austin area. Looking to grow as his family, he contacted the Director of Missions in Austin who had previously pastored in Whitewright, Sherman, and Denison. He informed Tidwell that First Baptist Church in Howe was looking for a pastor and even wrote a letter of recommendation for him. After the going through the interview process and being heard by the committee, the rest is history.

Tidwell’s voice has been heard by thousands across North Texas as he has served as “The Voice of Bulldog Stadium” on Friday nights in the fall.

He began working with Leon Thornhill in 1997 in that role.

Tidwell, known for his quick wit and self-depreciating humor, has used that ability to disarm some would-be disgruntled church members. It is quite difficult to be upset at someone who might joke about themselves in the very subject someone might take issue with. Tidwell has perfected that art and has taken which on average is a two year pastorship into a 30-year legacy at one church. Meanwhile, helping make an everlasting difference in the lives of so many in the community.

DALE AND LANA RIDEOUT Dale Rideout brought his family to Howe in 1972 in order for him to accept the pastorship at The Howe Church of Christ. After that position, he found a career at Anderson-Clayton in Sherman, Texas. But he and his family always remained a staple in Howe.

Originally of Michigan and a student at Michigan Christian University, then a

move to Texas to attend Abilene Christian University, he met the love of his life—Lana. Together they formed a bond that would eventually earmark the history of Howe, Texas spanning into five decades.

Lana Rideout took a position as editor with the Howe Enterprise newspaper in 1977. After a pending sale of the Enterprise from Jim Echols to Jim Denney, owner of the Van Alstyne Leader, Dale purchased the publication for his wife as a team of publisher and editor. Together, they published 1,888 editions from January 5, 1978, through March 6, 2014.

Dale was a part of getting the Howe Chamber of Commerce reestablished in 1972. He was Precinct Chairman for the Republican Party for several years and also has served as Election Judge.

Dale and Lana Rideout each were members of the Howe Volunteer Fire Department at one time. Dale was elected to the city council for two terms and was currently placed back on the council a few years ago. He sat on the advisory board for drawing up a 10-year plan for The City of Howe.. If you tried to appeal your taxes on your home several years ago, you probably talked to Dale at some point. In his spare time, he helped with Boy Scouts for many years. Most recently upon retirement, he dresses as Santa Claus during the holidays to meet with children all over the area.

The soft-spoken Lana Rideout is the only two-time winner of the “Norma J. Wallace Citizen of the Year.” She received it in 1987 and again in 1998 by the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce. She implanted herself knee deep into the local business community. She was instrumental with the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce volunteering many hours and even serving as chamber president. She was a crucial member of the formation of the Howe Public Library, now Howe Community Library. She served on the Friends of the Library board until her death. Lana also helped form the Howe Historical Society and helped with a restoration project of what is now Summit Gardens.

During a time in the 1980s when Howe businesses were leaving town, the Rideouts took the survivor’s mentality. They not only survived “Yankee jokes” recessions, the downfall of print media, and the uprising of on-line media.

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Together, they made quite the team in Howe, Texas and literally captured the spirit of the town.

SHAWN “MOONDOG” FOUNTAIN Perhaps no other Bulldog fan has been revered so mightily in Howe, Texas.

Shawn “Moondog” Fountain was a 1997 graduate of Howe High School and became their most loyal fan. He has assisted on the sidelines at many football games, basketball games, or any Bulldog sporting event that needed extra help. He often led the fans in cheers and livened up the crowd by twirling towels and pumping fists. He was known to show some of his dance moves (such as the sprinkler) at a Howe pep rally or football game.

Many of the coaches and school staff remained dear friends to Shawn and treated him as a member of their families.

As one of the most notable residents of Howe, Shawn could be seen riding his orange scooter around town. He attended regular meetings at the Howe Fire Department and was proud to be treated as an honorary fireman. He enjoyed the camaraderie shared by the Howe firefighters and valued their friendship. He worked at Palio’s Pizza Café where he greeted friends with a warm welcome.

The Howe Hall of Honor was established in 2015 by the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce. The members include: 2015 Jabez Haning, W.P. Thompson, A.M. Ferguson, Mame Roberts, Charles R. Thompson, Arthur Boyle, Tony Brinkley, L.B. Kirby, Norma Wallace, Ray Bledsoe, Carrie Waller, Elmer Schenk.

2016 Norman Dickey, Jimmy Bearden, Steve Simmons.

2017 Donal Gilstrap, Jean Norman, J.J. Chisum, Bob Walker.

2018 Bob Williams, Harold Taylor, Norman Bennett, Tommy Skipworth.

2019 Bobby Sollis, Donna Jarma, Lowell Thompson, Marion Allison.

2020 Billy Joe Wheeler, Dug Wortham, Sam Haigis, Pat Stewart.

2021 Leon Thornhill 2022 Roger Tidwell, Dale Rideout, Lana Rideout, and Shawn Fountain.

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Legal Notice Sell out of warehouse contents: To satisfy landlords’ lien at Howe Mini Storage; 511 N. Denny (Hwy 5); Howe, TX on Saturday – May 21, 2022 at 10am Furniture, Appliances, Tools, Toys & Misc Household Goods Tenants: Stephanie Taylor #4, Gayle Skipworth #27, Marc Bond #29, Tanyon Sisemore #44, April Camacho #46, Shaqueena Thornton #48, Gayle Skipworth #66, Taya Boatman #69, Gayle Skipworth #84, Cecilia Troxtell #103, Terry Luster #123, Sandra Sharp #145, Helen Bailey #151, Sandra Sharp #152, William March #180, Joann Beaty #205, Henry Noble #206, Heather Higgins #212.

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the Lopez twins, but their mom Mary Beth will be a devastating loss to the Howe athletics volunteer base. We’ve joked to her and Sergio that they need to adopt a third grader, sixth grader, and ninth grader just to hang around and keep doing what they do. The conversation didn’t go very far.

But a big thank you to all the senior sports parents for all they’ve done over the years in volunteer work. Being involved in the Howe Athletic Booster Club goes a long way to help these kids in Howe. ***** The high road is not always the easy road, but it’s the right road.

May *Howe Athletic Booster Club Meeting, May 9—6 pm at Howe High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd. *Election Day May 7 at Howe Community Center, 700 W. Haning St. *Day of Champions for Summit Hill Elementary, May 13—9 am at Bulldog Stadium, 607 N. Hughes St. *Howe Hall of Honor & Awards Ceremony, May 13—6:30 pm at Summit Gardens, 100 E. O’Connell St. *36th Annual Howe Founders Day Festival, May 14—2 pm—8 pm in Downtown Howe on E. Haning St. *Howe Athletic Sports Banquet, May 15 at 5 pm at High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd. *Howe FFA Banquet, May 17 at 6 pm at Howe High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd. *Band Banquet, May 19 at 6:30 pm at Howe High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd. *Day of Champions for Intermediate School, May 20—9 am at Bulldog Stadium, 607 N. Hughes St. *HHS Baccalaureate, May 22 at 7 pm at First Baptist Church of Howe at 100 E. Davis St. *HHS Ribbon-cutting, May 25 at 9 am at Howe High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd. *HHS Graduation, May 28 at 2 pm at Howe High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd.

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Bulldogs

Senior Luke Catching leaves the field during game one.

Photo by Michelle Carney.

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in the sixth inning, when Jameson walked Luke Lopez and Parker Pecina in back-to-back plate appearances with Howe’s leading hitter Austin Haley coming to the plate. However, Jameson was able to get Haley to pop up to second to end the threat.

“Austin pitched his tail off. He was throwing lots of strikes and was throwing everything for strikes,” said Howe Head Coach Cody Nitson. “Then Prairiland’s Caleb Jameson was everything that he had been predicted to be.”

As good as Jameson was on the mound, Haley went toe-to-toe throughout the game as he pitched all six innings allowing a run on five hits while walking one and striking out 10.

Both pitchers held their opponent scoreless through the first four and a half innings. Walks always come back to haunt pitchers and Haley’s lone walk of the game eventually became the game-winning run. Patriot shortstop Blake Lewis led off the bottom of the fifth with the free pass and was later driven home by Jameson on a flair down the left field line that barely stayed inside the turf “chalk.” A batter later, Haley got Brooks Morrison to pop up to end the inning, but in a game where the first run likely wins the game, the damage was done.

With three outs to go in the top of the seventh, Jameson smelled blood and struck out Carson Daniels, got Cooper Jones on a grounder to first, and struck out Kaleb McNutt to end the game.

There were only 10 baserunners combined for both teams during the con-

Prairiland Head Coach Chris Peacock said both pitchers threw fantastic, and it was a clean game defensively.

“It was a rough day for the hitters; a lot of strikeouts on both sides,” said Peacock.

The game took only an hour and a half to complete.

Game two featured Howe senior Parker Pecina and Prairiland senior Blake Lewis on the mound. The game shifted from Paris to Princeton and the game was moved up from 4 pm to a 1 pm start.

Pecina rolled pitched out of trouble in the first inning as the Patriots landed three consecutive hitters on base with two outs. Pecina walked Jameson, Morrison, and Jacob Veale before getting left-handed hitter Gage Bankhead to ground out to Luke Catching at second base to end the inning and leave the bases loaded.

The teams were not able to wear spikes on the turf in Princeton and that (Continued on page 8)

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Election

School Board members from the 2021-22 school year. Left to right, front row: Janie Finney, Tamela Shadden, and Lisa Tibbetts. Back row: Michael Doty, Josh Vincent (resigned during term), and Clint Catching. Jeff Dailey will take the seat of Vincent and be sworn in later in the month. Staff photo.

Lawson said the CDC’s guidelines should be used as such and not as regulations.

for our small community. I absolutely think we should have a set of standards and guidelines in place, and that we should look at the trends and forecasts in terms of what is the RIGHT health decisions for our students and employees, but do I believe that the CDC guidelines are the absolute standard for health decisions? Not necessarily.”

“I believe that the CDC guidelines are just that, guidelines, they are not regulations. There is always a delicate balance on what is recommended by the federal government and what is right

Dailey will join a Howe ISD Board of Trustees that currently sits Board President Clint Catching, Janie Finney, Charles Haley, Lisa Tibbets, along with Doty and Shadden.

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likely played a factor in the game.

Prairiland’s Lewis was slipping with nearly every pitch on the mound and could not get dialed in early. This helped Luke Lopez lead off the first with a walk. Pecina sacrificed him to second base and Haley brought him home on a single to give Howe a 1-0 lead.

But Lewis, who changed shoes three different times trying to find ones that helped him not slip on the mound, shut down the Bulldogs for the remainder of the game. Howe was held to four hits on the afternoon which came from Luke Lopez, Haley, McNutt, and Ethan Lopez.

Pecina stranded one runner in the second inning, but trouble arose in the third inning. Braydon Nichols led off with a single but was erased by a fielder’s choice grounder to short by Jameson. Pecina hit Morrison to put runners at first and second with one out where Veal smashed a liner in the left-center alley for a 2-run triple to turn the game around and give Prairiland a 2-1 lead.

Veal would later score on a sacrifice fly by Bankhead.

With a 3-1 lead, Lewis was still trying to find the right pair of shoes and walked Haley and Daniels but got Hough to ground out to first to end the inning.

Once Lewis found the right pair of shoes, he was nearly untouchable as from the fourth inning on, he allowed

only two baserunners.

In the top of the fifth inning, Nichols led off the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second by Jameson.

Back-to-back-to-back singles by Morrison, Veal, and Bankhead helped lead to a 4-run inning. Ty Hostetler’s 2-run double all but knocked Pecina out of the game.

Pecina lasted five innings, allowing seven earned runs on nine hits. He struck out three, walked one and hit a batter.

Matt Hayes, who was scheduled to pitch game three if it got there, came in and pitched the final two innings. He allowed a single and a walk and allowed no runs while facing eight hitters.

The Bulldogs finished the season with an 11-14 record and improved greatly from a year ago. It was the first time Howe had reached the post season in baseball since the 2018 season.

Howe will graduate Luke Lopez, Ethan Lopez, Parker Pecina, Luke Catching, and Kaleb McNutt. They will return five members to the starting lineup in Haley, Daniels, Hough, Jones, and Garren Lankford. Starting pitchers returning will be Haley, Daniels, and Hayes.

Both games were broadcast live at HoweEnterprise.com and the replay can be found at https:// howeenterprise.com/studio42/.

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Bees take over Mailbox on Farmington

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On Saturday, a bee hive made their home at on a Farmington Road mailbox.

They were only there for a few hours. Perhaps they learned they were committing a federal offense. Submitted photos.

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Kathy McGarry, Mayo Agency 215 S Ray Roberts Pkwy, P.O. Box 519 Tioga TX 76271 940-437-2378 kathy.mayoagency@gmail.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Darren Foster – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfbins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 32707/darrenfoster 903-436-2470 dfoster@txfb-ins.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Loretta Anderson – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfb -ins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 23242/lorettaanderson 903-819-1041 landerson@txfb-ins.com Aflac Agent Chyna Vincent 1671 Taylor Rd Dorchester TX 75459 940-641-1714 chynakv@live.com INTERNET TekWav 223 N. Walnut St. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.tekwav.com 903-375-9787 jj@tekwav.com LEADERSHIP The Iku Organization http://theikuorganization.org/ 214-392-6218 soga.aralola@gmail.com

REAL ESTATE Bill French Properties 315 N Travis Suite B-3 Sherman TX 75090 billfrenchproperties.com 903-893-BILL (2455) bill@billfrenchproperties.com Sheryl Bentley, REMAX REALTORS (903) 821-7653 yourrealtorsheryl@gmail.com Michael Taylor – Keller Williams Realty P.O. Box 575 Howe TX 75459 mtaylor@kw.com The Llama Realty Group Dana Thornhill 204 Tate Circle Sherman, TX 75090 903-821-6890 llamarealtygroup@gmail.com RESTAURANTS El Patio Escondido Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 495 W. Van Alstyne Pkwy, P.O. Box 637 Van Alstyne TX 75495 elpatioescondido.com 903-482-5538 williampacheco519@yahoo.com Palio’s Pizza Cafe 303 W. Haning St. Howe TX 75459 https://www.palioshowe.com/ 903-532-0390 paliospizza@att.net ROOFING

NON-PROFIT Goodwill Industries of Northeast Texas 2206 E. Lamar St. Sherman, TX 75090 goodwillnorthtexas.org spierce@goodwillnorthtexas.org United Way of Grayson County 713 E. Brockett P.O. Box 1112 Sherman, Texas 75091 903.893.1920 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

Economic Development 100 E. O’Connell St. 903-532-6080 EDC Director: Monte Walker

OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS

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

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

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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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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This position requires a Bachelor's Degree, and a minimum of 4 years of related experience.

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Texas History Minute Success sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Those intrepid souls willing to take a chance are the ones who change Ken Bridges the course of their own lives and sometimes their own communities. Sarah Cockrell, an early Dallas settler, was one of those figures, who went from living in a tent on the Trinity River to becoming one of the most powerful business owners in Dallas.

She was born Sarah Horton into a large Virginia farming family in 1819.

Few details are known about her early life, but she moved with her family to Texas in 1844. She married Alexander Cockrell in 1847.

Alexander Cockrell was a Kentucky native who arrived in Missouri with his family when he was still young. At the age of 14, he left home, lived with the Cherokees for a time, and picked up a few trades along the way.

After the two married, the Cockrells moved to the Dallas area. But what would become Dallas was only a small town of only about 800 people nestled along the Trinity River. Most of the county was largely farmland or unsettled. The staked a claim just west of what is now Dallas and operated a ferry service across the Trinity River, living for months in a tent near the riverbank. They bought an additional patch of land that included portions of Dallas in 1853 and moved into town.

The Cockrells established a brickmaking business and began branching out quickly, moving into construction and other enterprises. Before long, they had also acquired a sawmill and a flour mill. Cockrell never learned to read or write. However, he trusted his wife’s judgment, and the two worked closely together to build a successful series of businesses. Sarah Cockrell was literate and was an effective bookkeeper, handling all their finances on their move upward. Dallas was emerging as an important center for agricultural distribution and processing, and the Cockrells were determined to put themselves in the middle of it.

By 1854, they had acquired a charter to complete a wooden toll bridge across the Trinity River, crossing on their own land. They also built rental houses and business space for the many people coming to Dallas. In 1858, they completed a new hotel, which added to their holdings.

Tragedy struck in 1858 when Alexander Cockrell was shot and killed by the city marshal. With her husband

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murdered and with four young children to care for, Sarah Cockrell was not about to let the business they had built together fall apart. The situation grew even worse when a massive fire wrecked much of Dallas in 1860. The ravages of the Civil War made it even more difficult to operate her businesses. Nevertheless, she became determined to turn their holdings into an empire. For the next tree decades, she relentlessly bought, sold, and traded properties to increase her family’s fortunes.

Women at that time were never expected to become involved in business at all. Cockrell was not going to let the social conventions of the time dictate how she would provide for herself and her children.

She built another hotel and bought several more flour mills. She continued to buy property across the area.

She ran the Dallas Bridge Company, which in 1870 pulled together enough investors to construct one of her most significant projects – a new iron toll bridge across the Trinity River, replacing the now lost wooden bridge. Construction was completed in 1872.

The new bridge connected Dallas first to the growing community of Oak Cliff on the south side of the river and to all the roads heading south to Houston and Austin and to Fort Worth to the west. The new bridge helped Dallas expand its economic reach for distribution of agricultural and industrial products as well as banking and other financial ventures. This put it in a major position to capitalize on the coming oil boom at the beginning of the twentieth century and helped it later absorb Oak Cliff entirely.

She was known to be kind and generous. She co-founded the First Methodist Church in Dallas and donated a considerable amount of money for its construction. She also gave to many local charities.

By 1885, she completed a five-story office building, one of the tallest in the city at that point. By 1890, Cockrell was one of the most powerful and most respected business figures in Dallas, a city now past 38,000 residents.

She ultimately owned a quarter of the properties in downtown Dallas as well as land in Cleburne, Mineral Wells, and Houston. By the end of her life, she had become the first millionaire in Dallas and one of the first in Texas.

With a fortune well past $30 million in modern dollars, Cockrell had surpassed the most astute and able business minds in the state. In a city known for its millionaires and titans of industry, Sarah Cockrell had beaten them all. She died in 1892.

Living with children Q: We see my husband's 9year-old son every other weekend and two weeks in the summer. He has major issues in John Rosemond school with both behavior and doing his work. He's well behaved when he's with us, but his mother lets him get away with a lot. Also, she thinks teachers should punish for school problems and she should punish for home problems (but she doesn't). We have planned a trip to Disney World and have told Charlie that if he doesn't do his schoolwork between now and then, we will not give him spending money for the trip.

He did his work for a week, then stopped. Now we're second-guessing our decision. What do you think?

A: My general rule is that when divorced parents do not agree on disciplinary matters, the non-custodial parent (NCP) should not discipline for misbehaviors/problems that only occur while the child is in the care of the custodial parent (CP). The rationale is practical, not psychological: In a situation of this sort, punishment meted out by the NCP is not likely to have any lasting positive effect and may cause the child to begin resisting visitation.

The CP may also seize the opportunity to "score" with the child by compensating for, and thus effectively neutralizing, the NCP's discipline. Under the circumstances, the original problem may well worsen.

Let's say you follow through with your original plan and give Charlie no spending money at Disney World.

When he returns to his mother's, she makes it up to him by taking him on a relatively lavish shopping spree. Ultimately, Charlie is rewarded for not doing well in school. Then, with his mother's subtle (or not so subtle) en-

couragement, he begins resisting visitation. Suddenly, despite the undeniable fact that you have Charlie's best interests at heart, you are the villain in an unfolding soap opera that has the potential of spiraling quickly downward.

In the end, Charlie is the loser, big time.

So, when you arrive at Disney World, just give Charlie a reasonable amount of money to use as frivolously as he chooses. Don't even say, "We've changed our minds." Just give it to him. Do all you can to create a family experience that will forever stand out in Charlie's memories of his childhood.

Disney World, after all, is not the place to make an issue of things that have happened in the Real World.

When divorced parents agree on childrearing matters, then I encourage a “tag team” approach to discipline. It should be limited to major behavior or school performance problems and only be employed upon request of the parent in whose "territory" the problem occurred or is occurring. In the above example, if Charlie's mom had requested of her ex- that he follow through with certain consequences when Charlie fails to do his work in school, it would be appropriate for him to do so (but it is also his right to refuse). As do all children in all family situations, Charlie needs to hear the same message from every significant adult in his life. But again, I wouldn't deliver the message at Disney World.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: parentguru.com, johnrosemond. 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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Developing an effective prayer life Prayer is a familiar word that we hear every day and is usually associated with something being wrong and needing to be fixed. I receive emails Dr. Billy Holland and texts on a regular basis from those who are having a crisis and call on me to pray for them and I certainly do. For Christians, being in agreement with the prayers of others is a blessing and responsibility as the power of God is increased and multiplied. For those who are not familiar with talking to God, it’s common for them to call others who they believe can plead with the Lord on their behalf.

It’s an honor for people to ask someone to pray as they trust this person knows God, but the truth is that everyone has the opportunity to be as close to God as they desire. This is not the most popular statement but nonetheless true. Prayer was never intended to be a last resort option that is used in an emergency like calling the fire department. The miracle of Christ being crucified and resurrecting from the dead, restored the broken relationship between God and mankind that happened when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. God gave His Son so that we could be saved and communicate with Him. To begin, we must pray for a desire to pray, for if we are not interested in praying it will not happen. Everyone does what they want and prayer will never become a habit until we become determined to make it a lifestyle. Designate a time and a place. When we become serious about spending quiet time talking and listening to God, our life becomes more focused, filled with meaning, peace, purpose, and confidence. We do not arrange our prayer time around our life, we must be determined to arrange our life around our time with Him. Learn all you can about self-discipline. When you make a decision about the best time and place to pray – stick to it! This will be much more of a personal challenge than you ever dreamed. Remember, the enemy will do all that he can to discourage, distract and prevent you from advancing in your relationship

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with God. Open your Bible and ask Him to reveal His word. Prayer is not always closing our eyes and just asking for things. It’s a time of sharing our deepest thoughts with God and this includes giving Him an opportunity to respond. Listen intently and write it down. Silence is golden in His presence. Prayer has no substitute. Many have thought that attending church or listening to Christian music is our “quota” of spiritual nourishment.

These are good but not enough. We can do all these things and actually grow distant from the Lord if we are not spending personal quiet time with Him. Prayer is our lifeline to His throne and the fountain of our joy.

Prayer is progressive. When we decide to enter into this deeper walk with God we will comprehend the true meaning of praying without ceasing. The beauty and ultimate goal of daily meditation is developing a constant awareness of His presence. This is where we grow stronger in our spiritual wisdom and discernment.

Begin a prayer journal. The word of our testimony is a wonderful way to keep track of our burdens, petitions, and victories. What a faith-builder when we make a record of answered prayers and how the Lord manifested a miracle when the situation seemed impossible. Also, study about the armor of God. The Christian life is a battle and make sure you do not step into the front line unarmed. It’s no secret that the devil and His demons are not threatened with lukewarm religion, but they target anyone that makes a decision to pray. Our words contain power.

Silent prayers are fine but praying out loud is even better. Confessing and decreeing God’s word is being in agreement with His will. He has promised in Isaiah 57:19 that He would create the fruit of our lips and in Matthew 18:18-20 Jesus speaks about the authoritative power of binding, loosing, and agreeing in faith with His desires.

Prayer and obedience are powerful weapons. Yes, we have a nature to worry, be afraid, to wring our hands and speak negative, but this has never helped anyone, it only makes things worse. If we invest the same amount of time praying that we do worrying, we would see more of God’s will being done on earth as it is in heaven.

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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

Micah 7:18-19 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. 19 You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

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Biden’s bread line crisis? Anatomy of the American baby formula shortage

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

The movie “2000 Mules” came out last week. It was quite the eye-opener and jawdropper. We would invite those from all walks of life to take a look at this film because no matter who you are and what side of the isle you may be on, this is damning evidence. I don’t ever want to hear again that there is ‘no evidence of widespread fraud.’ This was a well-oiled heist of an election pulled off by some of the smartest criminals to ever walk the face of the earth.

They were successful in not only stealing the 2020 Presidential Election, but also even more successful at covering it up by using the media to shut down voices of opposition.

Who knows if anything will ever be done about it, but at some point the people that are supposed to be in charge of this country are going to have to wake up and take it back over.

This country was not founded by tea-sipping Oligarchs. This country was founded by rebellious men that were willing to through the tea in the water and stand up for themselves. Unfortunately, their descendants have become weak and docile.

Maybe record-setting inflation would wake everyone up? Maybe if everyone’s property tax went through the roof and their gas prices became unaffordable?

Maybe if they had rolling blackouts in energy?

Maybe if there was a food shortage? Maybe if they were told by the government what they could and couldn’t say?

What would Jefferson and his constituents say about all this?

At the outset of his presidency, Joe Biden promised competence by a bigger, better government. A few days ago, one of his loyal allies exposed a gross incompetence by federal officials on Biden’s watch that defied that promise and inflamed a baby formula shortage now panicking parents nationwide.

Rep. Rose DeLauro, DConn., a reliable liberal ally, unveiled documents showing the Biden Food and Drug Administration was alerted by a whistleblower last fall about potential contamination issues at the Abbott Nutrition baby formula factory in Michigan and failed for months to act aggressively.

“The FDA reacted far too slowly to this report,” DeLauro said in releasing a letter to the Health and Human Services inspector general demanding an immediate investigation to an incident that has led to babies being sickened and dying and a belated recall that has emptied shelves of formula nationwide.

The congresswoman, the chairwoman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, laid out a four-month-long trail of federal bumbles and stumbles: the report came in Oct. 20, the whistleblower didn’t even get interviewed for

two months, the plant didn’t get inspected until Jan. 31 and the recall didn’t get issued until Feb. 17.

“Why did the FDA not spring into action?” she implored during a congressional hearing. “Why did it take four months to pull this formula off store shelves? How many infants were fed contaminated formula during this time, by parents who trusted that the formula they were buying was safe? How many additional illnesses and deaths were there due to FDA’s slow response?”

Now the bureaucratic stumbling has escalated into a national crisis, as video of bare shelves and panicked parents harken in America some of the same fears and images as the bread lines and rationing that befell the Soviet Union in the early 1990s just before its collapse.

The problems began even before the recall as inflation, labor shortages and supply chain slowdowns began putting pressure on the baby food staple last fall.

In November, baby formula was already substantially more expensive and supply shortages had already risen to 11%. By the first week of April, the shortages had soared to 31%, and last week the number stood at a stunning 40%, according to statistics kept by Datasembly.

The escalating shortages have prompted major stores such as Target, CVS and Walgreens to ration supplies with purchase limits.

"This is a shocking number that you don't see for other categories," Datasembly CEO Ben Reich told CBS MoneyWatch on Friday.

The crisis has both political and personal consequences.

Many millennial and Gen Z child-bearing parents were part of the coalition that propelled Biden to his election win.

And some parents are now facing life-anddeath consequences, especially for children with rare digestive disorders.

"If this doesn’t get fixed soon, I don’t know how my son will survive," Phoebe Carter, whose 5year-old son suffers from a rare digestive and immune system disease, told Politico on Saturday.

"I just can’t stress that enough."

The poor and working class – whom Biden promised hope in his inaugural speech – are also disproportionately affected. A food bank in Seattle was so desperate to get some baby formula it recently held an emergency drive.

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U.S. senator says Biden administration disinformation board likely illegal

By Bethany Blankley JustTheNews.com Sen. Bill Hagerty, RTenn., says the creation of a board within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with combating "disinformation" is likely illegal.

Creating the board and hiring its new director without Congressional authorization violates several federal laws, Hagerty, R-Tenn., said.

Knowingly and willfully violating one of them carries a $5,000 fine and up to two years in prison, he adds.

Hagerty sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying his “actions merit review by Congress, both as a general matter, as well as under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) and because the actions may be in violation of provisions of the Antideficiency Act.” He told Mayorkas that “you will comply with the requirements” of the CRA when it comes to the creation of DHS’ disinformation board because the law requires “any agency action that falls within the definition of a ‘rule’ must be submitted to Congress for review before it can take effect.”

Creating the board and hiring its new director, Nina Jankowicz, “may also be a direct violation of provisions of the Antideficiency Act,” Hagerty wrote. The law prohibits “making or authorizing an expenditure from, or creating or authorizing an obligation under, any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available in the appropriation or fund unless authorized by law.”

Federal funding available for the board and for Jankowicz’s salary “is ‘none,’” he said, because “Congress explicitly defunded it, just weeks ago.”

Citing a section of the fiscal 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Act, Hagerty said the law “specifically prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from using any funds provided by Congress to carry out Section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which means it defunded any action to ‘allocate or reallocate functions among the officers of the Department of Homeland Security or to establish, consolidate, or alter organizational units within the Department of Homeland Security.’”

Hagerty also put Mayorkas on notice, writing: “As you know, an officer or employee, including you, who violates the Antideficiency Act ‘shall be subject to appropriate administrative discipline,’ and, for willful violations, faces a criminal fine, imprisonment, or both.”

A federal employee who willfully violates the Antideficiency Act “shall be subject to appropriate administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant, suspension from duty without pay or removal from office.” A federal employee who “knowingly and willfully” violates it “shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.”

After receiving a wide range of criticism about the DHS’s disinformation board, Mayorkas hit the television circuit last weekend and testified before the Senate on Wednesday. DHS also published a fact sheet about its disinformation initiative, calling it an internal working group.

Initially, Mayorkas said DHS had been talking with secretaries of state and the new board’s focus would be on the upcoming midterm elections. But the fact sheet states its focus is on “disinformation spread by foreign states such as (Continued on page 16)

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Fromthe45th Presidentofthe UnitedStates

Texas opens probe into whether state lawyers’ group aiding illegal immigration

By John Solomon “Specifically, the comTexas Bar Foundation, Everyone knows the wis- JustTheNews.com plaints indicate the Texas said Friday the group has dom embodied in the Bar Foundation provides made more than $24 milsaying “those who canOpening a new front on grants to organizations lion charitable donations not remember the past the war against illegal that support, fund, and over the last half-century, are condemned to repeat immigration, Texas Atencourage illegal immidoes not use tax dollars, it.” The WSJ’s May 2, torney General Ken Pax- gration. The complaints has done nothing wrong 2022 editorial argues that ton has launched a probe allege this is an improper and will cooperate with we should ignore the into whether the state bar use of charitable funds the probe, blatant fraud that took is misappropriating char- such that funds are diplace in Wisconsin in the itable funds to aid the verted from their intend- "The Foundation is exNovember 2020 election massive migrant crisis at ed purpose,” the letter tremely disappointed to as detailed by former the border. added. learn that AG Paxton has Wisconsin Supreme decided to use taxpayer Court Justice Michael Paxton said evidence he Paxton demanded the bar dollars on a fruitless exGableman in his 136 received from Rep. Troy turn over to his investiga- ercise,” Dawson said in a page Preliminary Report Nehls, a Republican con- tors evidence that instatement, “Had AG Paxissued on March 1, 2022. gressman from Texas, cludes documentation ton taken the time to To ignore the fraud that and other complainants showing: come and speak with us Justice Gableman contin- gave him probable cause rather than issue a press ues to uncover is to allow to open the investigation *All grants to immigrarelease, I am confident that fraud to be repeated. into the Texas Bar Foun- tion-related charitable that he would have found Justice Gableman’s Redation. programs and organizano wrongdoing on the port revealed many illetions for the past 10 part of the Foundation. gal and unethical acts “Unfortunately, at the years; including Zuckerberg very time that our state is “Nevertheless, the Founfunded election bribery, facing an unprecedented *The monitoring, report- dation is happy to coopillegal ballot drop boxes, border crisis and our ing and accountability erate and provide the and obstruction of evibrave men and women requirements for use of AG's office with docudence gathering. Gableare serving Texas in Op- those funds awarded to ments and information man also revealed that eration Lone Star, it apsuch organizations; relevant to the investigathe Wisconsin Election pears that the liberal State tion,” he added.

Commission shared acBar’s handpicked cronies *the Foundation’s final cess to Wisconsin’s reg- are misusing charitable accounting and reporting In an interview with John istration system with funds to make the situafrom the grantee organiSolomon Reports podZuckerberg funded lefttion even worse,” Paxton zations reflecting how cast on Friday, Nels said wing activists, disregard- said Friday. the funds were specifical- the insure border that is ed Wisconsin law so that ly utilized; now being crossed by tens of thousands of “I will not let this illegal more than 200,000 illenursing home residents behavior continue any *Board and/or commitgal migrants a month is could be exploited for further. Thank you to tee meeting minutes dis- likely to become a drivtheir votes, and illegally Congressman Nehls and cussing the awarding, ing force in the mid-term encouraged Wisconsin other concerned citizens monitoring, reporting elections and lead to a voters declare themfor bringing this to my and accounting of any significant rebuke of selves “indefinitely con- attention,” he added. such programs and/or Democrats starting with fined” under Wisconsin grantee organizations.

President Joe Biden. law, thereby avoiding In a letter to Texas Bar Wisconsin’s voter ID Foundation, Paxton said *Names of appointees "Go ahead sleepy Joe, requirements. These ishe had received informade to the Texas Bar continue down this sues are far from mation that the group, the Foundation by the curpath,” Nehls said. “And “ghosts” as the editorial charitable arm of the rent State Bar of Texas there will be that tsunami board claims. Here is state lawyers’ bar, “is President Sylvia Borunda in 2022.. The American a link to the Report so knowingly giving donaFirth. You can read the people don't agree with that people can see it for tions to entities that enfull letter here. what's taking place at our themselves. I encourage courage, participate in, southern border, and the everyone to read it. The and fund illegal immigra- Alistair Dawson, the 100,000 lives that are lost fact that the WSJ editori- tion at the Texas-Mexico Chairman-Elect of the each year because of fenal board came out with border. tanyl." this hit piece the day after the nationwide premier of True the Vote’s movie, 2000 Mules, which proves a massive illegal ballot harvesting operation took place in the 2020 election— especially in key battleground counties like Milwaukee County—is also curious. Voters know that unless we fix what hapEXPLOSIVE New Surveillance Footage of Ballot Drop Boxes pened in 2020, those who stole the 2020 election will try to do it again in 2022. Ignorance is not bliss. Sky high inflation, threats of World War III, and the invasion across our borders are a direct consequence of the stolen 2020 election. What happened in 2020 can never be allowed to happen again!

Baby formula shortage (Continued from page 15)

work, said the baby formula crisis follows a pattern of other economic failures by the Biden administration.

“The only thing the Biden administration seems to be efficient at is burying their heads in the sand,” he said. “These are the same bureaucrats that told us for months that inflation was only transitory and would resolve itself. Then they tried to tell small business owners that their supply chain issues had been resolved even though we could all see cargo ships backed up for miles at several ports nationwide. ”Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that they have failed to protect even the most innocent Americans from their incompetence,” he added.

The shortages are also raising fears that parents might be tempted to concoct their own formulas or water down current store-bought formulas to stretch supplies, two actions experts say are

fraught with danger.

The FDA strongly urges parents not to make their own formulas, saying contamination and inadequate nutrients in homebrewed formulas can lead to everything from "severe nutritional imbalances to food-borne illnesses, both of which can be life-threatening."

"Making things at home off of a Google recipe is potentially very dangerous for your baby," Dr. Stephen Lauer, a pediatrician with the University of Kansas Health System, told WDAF TV station this week.

Meanwhile, parents are desperately pleading for help on social media.

"If the MSM can talk about the toilet paper shortage ever hour, they should be talking about the baby formula shortage at least. ...We ended finding the Amazon brand online but not everyone is so lucky to be able to feed that. Please share. This is every store!" Danielle Miller tweeted with a picture of an empty shelve of formula.

Disinformation Board (Continued from page 15)

in ‘disinformation for profit.’”

Russia, China, and Iran, or other adversaries such as transnational criminal organizations and human smuggling organizations.

Such malicious actors often spread disinformation to exploit vulnerable individuals and the American public, including during national emergencies.”

Twenty attorneys general demanded that Mayorkas immediately shut down DHS’ disinformation board, or working group, regardless of what it’s called, arguing it’s unconstitutional, illegal and un-American. If he doesn’t, they said they will take legal action.

Mayorkas defended the Jankowicz selection despite numerous claims she’s made that have been proven to be false, while she labeled many Americans exercising their free speech as “disinformation launderers,” even labeling Loudon County, Virginia, parents who opposed curriculum being taught to their children as “disinformers’ engaged

Hagerty gave Mayorkas until May 16 to submit to Congress the rules and policies the DHS disinformation board would implement. He also instructed Mayorkas to submit a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, President Joe Biden, Congress, and Comptroller General of the United States that includes specific information about “the violation if it has indeed occurred.”

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