Grayson County Conservatives proudly endorse one, recommend three others for Howe city elections
“We feel like the challengers are a change and Howe needs a change,” Joy Roberts, Grayson County Conservatives.
Easter is a good week to fully understand that telling the truth comes with brutal consequences. ***** Farmers are planting this year’s crops. This means large equipment is moving down our roads. This serves as a friendly reminder to please slow down and pay attention. Tractors can’t stop as fast as a car. Everyone is trying to get where they are going but this is still a major farming community and the farmers are working hard. Please be considerate of the combines on the road as they are trying their best to stay out of your way but they have to get from one field to another and can only go so fast. So please slow down. Wave and think, “I love seeing a John Deere driving down the road and living in a small farming community.” - submitted by a local farm family. EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
Easter, 2023 Dawn Sunday will bring to the world the anniversary of the miracle of alltime—the resurrection of Christ from the dead, that the world might know there is everlasting life and that right will one day rule the world. From the pulpits of Howe area churches, the story of the resurrection will be retold in sermons, in cantatas, and in other musical arrangements, each one dedicated anew to a story that has challenged centuries. Only from the pulpits throughout the world and church classrooms does the true significance of the day still live. Outside the churches, Easter has been made a commercial
holiday, a season of festivity, of gay dress and colored eggs. There is nothing in the story of resurrection that calls upon the world to put on its finery to recognize the story back of Easter morning. It’s a story for the most humble man or woman of the streets as well as for the best dressed, but the modern interpretation of Easter, the modern demand of silken gowns and gay bonnets, keeps from the temples where the story is retold, however, unintentionally, those who cannot measure up to the modern conception of the season. Most churches of the world will be filled Sun-
day with millions. Among these will be those who support their churches through the year and there will be those who contribute a little. They expect the story of Christ to be retold throughout the year, but overlook the fact that the future of the church depends upon their support.
Throughout the world today, there is persecution equal in agony if not in severity to the crucifixion. Easter this year finds peoples of earth being pushed aside, contrary to the teachings of the one whose rebirth will be observed Sunday. It finds hatred and distrust among men of all nations. And it finds men who are trying
to assume the role of masters over people’s lives. The lesson of Easter teaches that however far they may carry their control and their persecution, right will eventually rule. Originally published by Bob Walker as ‘Easter, 1968.’
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Volume 60, Edition 47 Former Howe city councilman, Monday, April 3, 2023 fire chief, police officer, municipal HHS Prom King and Queen Howe Hump judge, P&Z member dies Day this week
at Summit Gardens
O.B. Powers did it all in Howe, from first serving as police officer in 1972, fire chief in 1973, municipal judge in 1976, city councilman for several terms, and planning & zoning in 1981 and renovating portions of downtown. On Tuesday morning, March 28, Powers, 79, died after a surgical procedure. “I don’t have any axes to grind over how the city is run. I don’t want to make any promises. I want to do whatever I can do for the people of
O.B. Powers Howe as my ability permits,” said Powers in his first candidacy for city council in March of 1980. Powers made an enormous contribution to (Continued on page 2)
Ayden Burris and Audie Martin were named 2023 Howe High School Prom King and Queen. Photo by Michelle Carney.
Records indicate City of Howe owes VanAlstyne $42,500 in EMS Services from 2019-2021 At Tuesday night’s Howe City Council meeting, Karla McDonald, who is seeking the mayor’s seat, addressed the council with her concerns about a new ambulance agreement with FMR and the City of Howe. McDonald said she had filed an open records request with the City of Van Alstyne that resulted in findings that Howe owes Van Alstyne $42,500 of which $12,500 are for EMS services from October 2019 through September 2020. She says an addition- Howe City Administrator Jeff Stanley (left) addresses the city (Continued on page 3) council at Tuesday’s meeting. Staff photo.
The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce is welcoming all to join them at Summit Gardens Wednesday, April 5 at 8 am for their monthly networking breakfast meeting. This month’s event is sponsored by HIT Exteriors, LLC which is Howe’s hometown roofing company owned by Sergio Garcia. Garcia and his wife Susan also serve on the chamber board. The chamber began this networking breakfast in January and it has grown each month with a great attendance.
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