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Bulldogs will have former NFLdrafted Wilson celebrates 20 quarterback Todd Hammel on staff years at Howe ISD

If anyone knows what it takes to get to the next level, it’s former Arena Football League star quarterback Todd Hammel and the Howe Bulldogs have hired him as the quarterbacks coach to work with the Dogs’ young freshman and sophomore quarterbacks that are vying for the starting position.

Anthony Lowder was recently named 2nd Team All-Texomaland.

CORPORATE RADIO KILLED THE RADIO STAR—Corporate radio has stung the local market as AlphaMedia has gone virtually all syndicate which means local radio has been lost on KMKT, KLAK, and KMAD. This flies directly in the face of former owner of the three radio stations Bill Harrison who preached local, local, local. As a young radio executive that worked for Harrison 20 years ago before he sold to NextMedia, this will impact the market forever. We were told recently by the radio management that they would still carry Sherman, Denison, and McKinney football for many years. But when they release all of their local talent, this brings all of that into question.

Hammel comes from Howe from Sherman where he was a year ago.

He was on the same staff with Howe Head Coach Andrew Harvey years ago at Fossil Ridge. Harvey says he’s very lucky to have been able to hire him.

Hammel graduated from Durant High School in Durant, Oklahoma, and was a four-sport letterman in football, basketball, baseball, and track.

As a junior, he helped

It was 20 years ago on June 17, Howe Middle School Principal Clay Wilson was approved by the Board of Trustees of Howe ISD to take on that role. Since then, he’s been one of the cornerstones of administrators for the school and has been a humble, humorous, and a positive influence on countless students during their most awkward years of life.

Todd Hammel. Staff photo.

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Volume 62, Edition 8 Playing 12 games is the Monday, July 1, 2024 goal for the 2024 Dogs Bubble Bash rounds out summer June of fun at the library This article has been updated to reflect that the Splash Bash information was incorrect and removed.

The Howe Community Library concluded their June events on Monday, the library hosted a Bubble Bash where kids got to play in an enormous amount of bubbles in the parking lot.

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where soon thereafter began a student-teaching job at West Junior High

lead his football team to the 1983–84 Class 3–A State Championship. He also helped lead the Lions in basketball to a District Championship.

Hammel graduated from Durant High School in 1985.

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Wilson, originally of Ponca City, Oklahoma, graduated from the University of Oklahoma

Clay Wilson and wife Alicia. Courtesy photo.

Knox Bounds (5) and Braden Ulmer (4) are set to carry the load in 2024. Photo by Michelle Carney.

New Howe Bulldogs head football coach Andrew Harvey makes no bones about it. The goal for the 2024 season is to win a playoff game.

“I keep telling them we need to play 12 games,” said Harvey. “That hasn’t happened in a long time here. I feel like we have the talent to do that so

Throughout the summer, kids have had the chance to attend a Touch-aTruck, see live animals, and take a bubble bath.

The summer reading challenge continues through July 31 where prizes will be drawn on Kids had a bubble blast on Monday at the final August 8 with grand priz- June event at the Howe Community Library.

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that should be the ultimate goal. Anything else from there is icing on the cake.”

Harvey, while taking over as a firsttime head coach for Lance Bryan, is in year three of the system as he came with Bryan from Sanger before the 2022 season. He says not a lot is going to change except that they are going to be a lot better at a lot of positions.

While big changes are not on the horizon, there are some smaller day-to-day changes. For instance, he’s enticing players to get to summer workouts by restricting their game night “drips” if they are no shows for the summer.

“We call it “earn your drip” pointing to arm bands, visors, arm sleeves, leg sleeves. If they want to wear that, then they need to be showing up to summer workouts,” said Harvey. “It’s not a good look when guys are wearing all the “drips” but you never see him in the summer. Kids want to wear cool stuff, so this is just to incentivize them.”

For those that want to be a captain, they have to show up to at least 75 percent of summer workouts. Harvey said that will not be an issue because the guys he thought would be captains, leaders of the senior class, are showing up.

The implementation of these incentivizing programs is apparently working

because Harvey said their numbers of athletes showing up are greater than what they’ve had in the past.

Scheme wise, the Bulldogs will run different coverages on defense due to the hiring of new defensive coordinator Stan Holland who came from the state champion Anna Coyotes. He says the offense will not change at all with the returning offensive coordinator Justin Graham.

“We’ll be able to do a little bit more in the passing game because of personnel. Sophomore Rylan Strong is penciled in as the quarterback but is getting pushed by freshman Deacon Bender. Those two will have quite the tutor to work with as former professional quarterback Todd Hammil has been hired as the quarterbacks coach.

“He set a million records at Stephen F. Austin and got drafted in the NFL and played in the AFL (Arena Football League) for 12 years. I’m extremely lucky to get him.”

Brian Roland has been hired from Blue Ridge and will take over as the defensive line coach. Harvey hopes he can give some insight into the district opponent which is one of the teams they’ll need to beat in order to make the playoffs.

“He’s a hundred percent a kid magnet.

He brought over his son and his son’s a good athlete so that’s a big help too,” said Harvey.

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During the summer workouts, the Dogs have been working on competitive drills where points are awarded.

Obviously, attendance is a large component of the point structure, but points are awarded to team competitions. Harvey also has them do what he calls perfect sprints where everyone is up on the line immediately and then running full speed and could include variations of touching the line with either their right or left hand.

“They determine how much conditioning they do, essentially,” said Harvey. “They’re competing to do less conditioning. If they’re locked in and doing everything right, then conditioning is going to take five minutes. But if they’re not locked in and going through the motions, they’re going to do a bit more conditioning. That’s kind of how games work. If you’re not locked in from the get-go, you’re going to get behind the eight ball and do more to catch up. You expend more energy when you’re trying to catch up in a game than if you’re in the game or leading in the game.”

Harvey feels like Strong at quarterback makes them a better team and they will try and get the ball in Braden Ulmer’s hands as much as possible.

“He’s that dude. We’re going to put him in whatever spot we can to get him the ball,” said Harvey. “He’s ob-

Head Coach Andrew Harvey talks with players on Tuesday.

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viously a great receiver, but he’s also a great running back. He finds holes and you just want to get that guy the ball in space.”

Ulmer is being looked at as a safety although he’s played linebacker for the last two seasons. Harvey also expects to rely heavily on Charlie Vera, Charlie Turner, Dillon Patterson, Charles Fuhr, Garrett Rodgers, and Malachi Dailey.

Howe’s first official game will be at Boyd on August 30. If they can play 12 games, that will take them a week shy of Thanksgiving.

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Clay Wilson and daughter Mia and wife Alicia when he was recently awarded by the Lone Star State Counselor Association. Courtesy photo.

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in Norman. His first official teaching job was at Kemp ISD in 1996 after attending a job fair and meeting the superintendent. In 2000, the 26-yearold Wilson became the assistant principal at Mabank ISD while working on his master’s degree.

“I got out of teaching quicker than I had planned to, but the career ladder began,” said Wilson.

The trip back to Oklahoma took over two hours just to get through Dallas and he and wife Alicia, who also worked for both Kemp and Mabank,

wanted to move north of the metroplex. On his way to Trenton for an interview, he stopped in Howe to drop off his resume to thenSuperintendent Randy Hancock. After a visit with Melissa Evans who had a mutual connection with an elementary school counselor in Oklahoma, he was able to get an interview with Howe. Jill Farris and Stephanie Hawkins were a part of the selection committee. Wilson, who often has a stern face which plays well with a middle school principal, was asked whether or not he had a sense of humor. Anyone that knows him understands how comical that (Continued on page 5)

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Howe Middle School Principal Clay Wilson upon turning 50.

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question is today.

“People that know me well know that I have a sense of humor. People that don’t know me real well know that I can be kind of standoffish. A lot of times, when I’m at work, I’m serious.

But when I really let loose, I can be worse than a middle school kid,” said Wilson. “When they asked that, I thought that was kind of funny. I was like, ‘Yeah, I can be pretty stupid at times. I’ll drive around on a Vespa Scooter.’”

Wilson said he got a good vibe from Howe and felt as if Hancock was a good mentor for his first two years before leaving. He’s also had a great relationship with Kevin Wilson who

became superintendent upon Hancock’s departure. Since then, if Howe ISD had a surname, it very well could be Wilson - Clay Wilson, Alicia Wilson, Kevin Wilson, Stacey Wilson, etc.

Though not related, Clay Wilson sometimes jokes that they are.

“He’s always quick to say we’re not related, but I always talk about our great-great grandpa Ernest Wilson, the bootlegger from Minnesota that he doesn’t claim.”

Clay Wilson, after his third year as middle school principal, moved to assistant superintendent. It was a natural progression.

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parents,” said Wilson. “I didn’t want to do that job for a long time and make a career out of it. My plan at the time was to leave and go be a superintendent and start hopping around Texas and start moving up. And after five or six years of doing that, we didn’t have any interest in doing that. We liked it here; our family was rooted here.”

When their kids were of school age, Wilson’s wife Alicia returned to teaching and has been a longtime elementary school teacher at Howe ISD. Clay Wilson moved back to the middle school principal role where he says he could lead and have direct influence on a campus and what kids do in the classroom. It also gave him a chance to see his kids on a day-to-day basis.

“It was cool to get to see them in their daily routine, but it was also hard because there are times as a parent you want to act and react and in that position you can’t,” said Wilson. “You have to be able to act as a principal and not as a parent and I think I did pretty well at that. My kids are great kids, but none of us are perfect. Some of the boys had one issue or another and the teachers commented back to me that they appreciated how I handled that as a parent-principal-administrator.”

When Shannon Lands retired from coaching, Wilson stepped in and coached the last four games of the eighth-grade girls basketball team where he got to coach his daughter Mia. He coached her in youth sports and thought that he’d never get a chance to do that again and thought that was a special surprising moment for him.

His son Eli while in sixth grade ran to him at 7:45 am in a panic that he’d left his homework assignment at home.

Wilson told him that he lived half a mile from there and half a mile back, so you have 15 minutes to run and get it.

“He ran about an 8-minute mile so that’s one of the benefits of living in the community,” said Wilson.

Since arriving in 2004, Wilson has seen a growing school district that is much more diverse than it was 20

The Clay Wilson family in 2018.

Courtesy photo. years ago. The Hispanic numbers, like many surrounding school districts, have increased.

“I would say the biggest thing culturally is the people before smartphones as opposed to people after smartphones,” said Wilson. “That’s true for kids and adults and for me and anyone else. I think we’ve lost some of that interpersonal communication, problemsolving with some of the cell phone screen time that we all fight with. But the kids are the same. You’re dealing with the same silly things that I’ve been dealing with for 20 years except now it can get worse because of social media and that makes it more difficult.

Wilson says he doesn’t have another 20 years in him to do the same routine he’s been doing at Howe Middle School. Being a superintendent is still in the back of his mind, but also sees the positive impacts being made locally with the expansion of Texas Instruments and GlobiWafers.

“This has been a really good place for me, and my family and we like the area,” said Wilson. “What I’ve always said is that Alicia and I are not from Howe, but our kids are, and this is home to them, and this is where they’re comfortable and this is where their memories are, so it’s become our home. We’ve lived here as much as we’ve lived anywhere else.”

The First Baptist Church has also played a role in Howe becoming their home saying that there’s been a lot of people pour into their kids through the church, community, and school.

Air Evac spent three days last week with Howe Fire and EMS training on helicopter and landing zone safety. Air Evan depends on local partners on the ground to establish a safe landing zone and keep everyone out of harms way. When local rescue units have to call Air Evac to transport a patient, the scene can be a hectic environment and the guys and girls on the ground are multitasking by handling traffic, patient care, and sometimes they are even fighting a fire. Courtesy photo.

FBC Howe youth attend Six Flags

The young people of First Baptist Church recently took a summer trip to Six Flags Over Texas. Courtesy photo.

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Two Howe athletes land All-Texomaland honors

Jacob Campbell

Jaycie Grisham

Two recently graduated Howe Bulldogs, after being named MVPs in their sport at Howe High School, were named All-Texomaland by the Herald Democrat. Howe basketball sensation Jacob Campbell and powerlifting record-setter Jaycie Grisham both were honored.

dogs have gone on since then to become back-to-back-to back bi-district champions with Campbell running point guard.

Campbell’s 1,674 points while at Howe for four varsity seasons trails only Dwayne Emmons’ 1,790 from 1995-1998 in Howe history. Before Campbell arrived on varsity, the last time Howe had won a playoff basketball game was prior to his birth. Howe beat Godley in the 2004-05 state tournament and went winless until a 2021 win over Prairiland, 58-32. The Bull-

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Grisham was this year’s state champion in powerlifting. Grisham is a 4-time regional qualifier and 3-time state qualifier who finished with the silver medal in last year’s event.

At regionals, she was named Outstanding Squat Light Platform and Outstanding Bench Light Platform.

In March, she set the regional squat record at 375 pounds in Bells and also set the regional bench record with her final lift of 235 pounds.

Howe Hump Day Wednesday—sponsored

by SherylYowell of Coldwell Banker Realty

The monthly Howe Hump Day by the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosted by Sheryl Yowell of Coldwell Banker Realty Wednesday at Summit Gardens at 8 am. Each month, the local chamber invites all members and prospective members to attend a

breakfast where businesses have an opportunity to mix and mingle and give a 30 second plug for their business to all members in the audience.

The networking breakfast takes place on the first Wednesday of each month.

The Trump-Biden debate woke up America to a sleeping giant Editorial—The world watched Thursday as the United States [P]resident Joe Biden seemed weak, confused, and lost. It’s evident that having Biden in that role is a national security threat.

Talking heads at MSNBC, the Democratic Party’s engine, called for him to step down to allow another candidate to face Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States.

Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election after much controversy

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with ballots being counted in the middle of the night until he moved ahead of Trump in swing states. Biden supposedly recorded the most votes in the history of the world on that November night in 2020. Evidence of the fraud that took place were never seen in a courtroom as cases were dismissed due to “standing” in most situations.

If Biden doesn’t step down, the 25th Amendment could come in to play causing more national concern.

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He then played college football for the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks. As a senior, he helped lead his team to a 9–1 –1 regular season record, the No. 3 ranking in final Division I-AA poll, and a berth in the 1989 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game. Hammel was named to the first team All-Conference pick and the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year. He finished his college career with 8,631 passing yards and 65 touchdowns. He left Stephen F. Austin as the school's all-time leader in passing attempts, completions, yards, touchdowns, and total yardage.

After college, he was drafted in the 12th round of the 1990 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1991, he played for the New York/New Jersey Knights in the World League of American Football before playing with a dozen Arena League teams including the Dallas Texans where he was an allstar. He arena career finished with 442 passing touchdowns and 28,022 yards.

But interesting family ties has him the great-grandson of Oklahoma Indian Chief Quana Parker and a member of the Comanche tribe. He is a distant cousin of former University of Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford.

Hammel’s grandparents live in Indiahoma near Lawton.

“It’s a great heritage and I love learning about my past and that Comanche heritage,” said Hammel who only recently found out he was related to Bradford.

Hammel has never coached below the 5A and 6A level said he’s looking forward to the change. Now that he’s a Howe Bulldog, his focus is not on throwing touchdowns, but producing

kids who can do so. He likes what he sees so far.

“I see a lot of potential right here.

These guys are really excited about being out here; they work together hard, and I see the comradery as a small unit that I haven’t seen in big ball,” said Hammel.

He believes Rylan Strong will be the starting quarterback and is excited to work with a sophomore that has potential to grow into the position.

“I’m going to work him hard and I see a lot of potential in him,” said Hammel. “We’re going to grow him and see what happens the rest of the year.

Being a sophomore is a plus and he’s a great athlete so he’s a dual threat. You don’t see a lot of those at this level. He can dominate once he gets to learn the ropes and get a little work on him.”

Hammel never thought he’d play 8man arena league football, but a former coach of his asked him to give it a try. In 1992, he signed with the Dallas Texans and ended up staying for 17 years around the arena game.

John Guandolo to speak to Texoma Patriots tonight At tonight’s Texoma Patriots meeting, the topic will be “Understanding the Threat” featuring speaker John Guandolo. The event will take place at the Grayson County Courthouse Activities Room at 100 W. Houston St. in Sherman.

Many are unaware of the hostile forces who want to intentionally destroy freedom in our local communities. Guandolo simply wants to educate and train those to live free and prosperous to raise families as the people choose.

If you are a citizen, leader, police officer, teacher, pastor, businessman, or anyone else who is concerned about America’s future, the Texoma Patriots invite you to attend this meeting on July 1. Get educated and trained on what is going on and how you can help fortify your community.

Understanding The Threat (UTT) is

the only organization in America empowering citizens with tools to identify hostile forces that want to intentionally destroy our freedom locally. It fights to defend liberty and empower citizens to engage these threats at all levels.

Guandolo has years of unique experience helping local, state, and federal leaders identify and deal with real local threats. He spends most of his time sharing ways we (citizens and local leaders) can shore up our counties.

Americans must speak bold truth about real threats to their communities and should not tolerate any leader who fails to do this basic duty.

Everyone is welcome. There is no charge to attend, but we will be taking up a ‘Love Offering’ to help cover the speaker honorarium. John will have several of his books and DVDs available for purchase.

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Crazy conspiracy theories by the Howe Enterprise—Globalism Originally published in the Howe Enterprise, May 30, 2022 Globalism and “The Great Reset” are popular terms and discussions today for those who permeate their minds in real world issues not found on Netflix or Hulu. But the globalist ideology is far from new and is deep-rooted in our country’s battle for our own sovereignty and or own nationalist views. The collapse of the British empire was an orderly process in which one colony at a time was released after negotiations which saw the nations continue the economic relations in exchange for a limited self-rule. India is a notable example of this along with, grab your socks, America. The British didn’t surrender unconditionally after the Battle of Yorktown. American was still in negotiations for two years. Their troops remained in our country until the treaty was signed in 1783. The loss of colonies ended very successfully for Britain who retained economic control while not having to burden themselves with the cost of policing these nations.

When American won our independence, it was merely an empty victory.

As soon as the Treaty of Paris was signed, the British began their counterattack by dumping cheap manufactured goods into America, so low that it was cheaper than what Americans could produce. Prior to the American Revolution, manufacturing was forbidden by law in the United States. After the Revolution, a few manufacturers existed, but those were destroyed by the artificially underpriced goods in our market. With this, the British

reestablished their colonial monopoly on manufacturing in the US which was the very thing that sparked the war. This caused massive economic strife in America and sparked the Shay’s Rebellion in Massachusetts.

The US founding fathers saw that the Articles of Confederation did not permit us to impose tariffs to prevent artificially underpriced dumping of goods.

This led to the Constitution that addressed and imposed actions to protect ourselves from the trade war by Britain. With the new Constitution and a new President in George Washington, he made a statement at his inauguration of wearing a suit of home-spun cloth made in Hartford, Connecticut.

This was a statement to show that America would not stand for Britain’s manufacturing monopoly.

The British continued for decades to attack America to bring them to heel.

But there was no bigger blow to America than the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. The League of Nations was brought about by the global ruling class and eventually led to the United Nations and the “New World Order” as they’ve coined it.

The British had been unsuccessful in attempts to break up the US with the War of 1812 and the Civil War which was brewed up by the British. In the 1890s, they changed their strategy of trying to destroy the US or break it up into pieces. They accepted the US as a major empire and used them to fight their wars for them. It was implemented primarily through the Woodrow

Wilson administration. Wilson, a southerner, grew up in Augusta, Georgia and witnessed the Civil War through his own eyes. While the northern states had begun to sever themselves from the British in manufacturing and self-sufficiency, the South had been controlled by the British through cotton trade. Wilson was sympathetic to the Confederate cause and filled his White House with Confederates. His closest advisor was Colonel Edward Mandell House whose father was British. House always turns up in nefarious writings who is presented as a globalist and a British agent.

Wilson and his Confederates in Washington felt as if the British were an ally and never gave up their dream that the South would rise again.

Wilson is credited as the mastermind of the League of Nations, but the British pressure groups had been pushing for 15 to 20 years. A letter from Foreign Secretary of Britain Sir Edward Grey in 1915 to Colonel House proposed this idea of the League of Nations, but wanted it not to come from England, but be the brainchild of America. House and Sir William Wiseman, a British Intelligence Agent surrounded Wilson as a nest of spies and coerced him to bring about this idea.

In reading Congressional Testimony from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, many of the expert witnesses expressly warned that the League of Nations was a British plot whose true purpose was to draw the US back into the British

Empire. This testimony largely is the reason the US Senate rejected the League of Nations.

The Irish Americans were knowledgeable of the British Empire and their economic and financial workings.

Many of those who testified were involved in the Irish Independence Movement. Irish American intellectuals have been at the forefront of warning Americans of the hidden dangers of British globalism. Irish-born Matthew Carey, an associate of Ben Franklin was one of the first US economists to call for a unique American system of economics to oppose the British global monopoly system. His son Henry Carey became Abraham Lincoln’s top economic advisor. Henry Carey warned Lincoln that the true facts of the war was British manipulation. Not too many years ago, American historian Carroll Quigley, an Irish American, wrote about the British’s hidden affairs in his book Tragedy and Hope and Anglo-American Establishment.

With the US never joining the League of Nations, it collapsed and was eventually replaced by the United Nations that still exists today. The UN serves today as the globalist power which now has a specialized agency called the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO is on the verge of taking control over 195 countries including the US with ultimate control over sovereignty in the name of pandemic mandates. Let’s see what happens.

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

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

2023-24 Local taxation

City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Karla McDonald City Council: Michael Hill, Sarah Myrick, Billie Ingram, Shawn Tyler, Ricky Price.

City Administrator: Monte Walker City Secretary: Michelle Hewitt Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk:/Permit Clerk: Amy Bond (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Benjamin Fuhr Howe Fire Department/EMS 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903-813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman City Council meets third Tuesday at 100 E. O’Connell St. at 6 pm.

State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

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Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed

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

$0.53 $1.05 $0.31 $0.15 $2.04

Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation 903-532-6080 Howetexas.org EDC Director: Monte Walker Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org

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Texas History Minute Many historical figures make an impact in multiple fields. For Dr. Roland Vela, an intense curiosity about the world as well as a drive to Ken Bridges serve others became the defining characteristics of his life. He spent a decades-long career making important discoveries in science and helping to make his community a better place for all.

Gerard Roland Vela was born in Eagle Pass in September 1927. While he was still young, the family moved to San Antonio. As a youngster, he was a voracious reader and sold newspapers.

He later recounted how people swarmed around him to get the latest news after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Like many young men of his generation, he was anxious to volunteer and to defend the country. At the age of 15, he volunteered for the Texas State Guard. In 1944, he was still 17 and still too young to enlist. However, he convinced his parents to sign the necessary release forms so he could sign up for the navy. He formally enlisted in June 1945. He was assigned to the naval base at Seal Beach, California, where he worked on a tugboat. Vela earned his GED while in the service. He was honorably discharged in July 1946, still just 18 years old. Vela returned to San Antonio and noted in a 2007 interview that he tried to finish high school with a number of other returning young veterans. However, it was hard for a worldly navy veteran with salty stories from the service to fit in with students who were still young teenagers. He was kicked out for behavioral issues. Wanting to continue his education, he enrolled at San Antonio College. He was initially on academic probation, but within a semester, he was on the honor roll.

In 1948, he earned his associates degree and transferred to the University of Texas. After taking a course in bacteriology, he decided to choose it as his major. He worked a series of jobs to support himself, including caddy, mechanic, and hospital orderly. He completed his bachelors degree in bacteriology with a minor in chemistry in 1950. He completed his masters degree in one year, a pace that left him studying and working from 7 AM to midnight every day, he recalled.

He met a nursing student, Emma Codina, while at UT. The two married in 1953. The couple would have four children together. After finishing his masters degree, Vela worked as a chemist in San Antonio.

Vela soon returned to graduate school and completed his doctorate in microbiology in 1963.

In 1965, North Texas State University (later the University of North Texas) hired him as a microbiology professor, and he moved to Denton. The small

university was mostly known for its teaching and music programs, but Vela and his colleagues worked to expand its reputation for scientific research.

Vela quickly earned respect from his colleagues at the university and throughout the field. He secured a number of research grants to work with NASA, the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation on a number of research projects. In 1975, colleagues elected him to the prestigious American Academy of Microbiology. In 1985, the university promoted him to associate dean. Through his research, he discovered a new species of bacteria. It was named after him, given the scientific name of Paenibacillus velai. It is a type of bacteria found to help adjust nitrogen levels in the soil. The research of Vela and others showed that this particular species of bacteria could have many uses in the food and pharmaceutical industries. As it is not a diseasecausing type of bacteria, it is considered safe for any lab use, making it relatively easy for scientists to study.

Vela was in high demand from colleagues. He regularly traveled to deliver lectures and served as a visiting professor at universities across the United States and around the globe. He supervised dozens of graduate students, helping them complete their degrees and shaping the future leaders of the profession. He wrote two respected books on microbiology, including Applied Food Microbiology (1997).

Aside from his research in the lab, Vela was well-known for a multitude of other interests. He was fascinated by history and wrote two books on historical figures, including Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and Spanish Viceroy Bernardo de Galvez. He enjoyed participating in historical reenactments, particularly re-enacting battles from the American Revolution.

For years, he led a group called the Denton Forum, a group of local intellectuals from many different walks of life who would periodically gather to discuss important questions of science, philosophy, and ethics. He became a fixture in the Denton community through the years, helping with programs to help minority students improve their academic performance at the middle-school and high school levels to prepare them for college. He served on the local airport advisory board, worked with a host of local charities, and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Municipal Power Agency. He became the first Latino elected to the Denton City Council, serving two full terms.

By the time he retired from UNT in 2000, he had published four books and 75 scientific articles that had appeared in the leading scientific journals. He donated his extensive library of books, articles, bacteria slides, and research materials to the university. In 2000, he was listed by Latino Monthly as one of the top Texas Latino scientists of the twentieth century. Vela passed away in January 2021 at the age of 93, widely respected among scientists and the Denton community.

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Free will and the enemy within Receiving personal revelations of God’s Logos and Rhema word throughout our lives is critical to say the least.

To be satisfied with a general Dr. Billy Holland knowledge of a few Bible stories is not what God had in mind for the victorious overcomer.

Studying and rightly dividing the word is hard work and was intended to be practiced as a daily requirement for spiritual nourishment and development. To renew our mind and conscience is our responsibility that all the powers and influences of hell are trying to stop. But brother, I work all day and need my evenings to relax and do what I want. We know what the flesh wants justify but also what God demands.

This is not an easy message, but that does not mean it’s bad or untrue. This is a conversation about spiritual warfare and how our carnal nature is only as dead as we want it to be. The picture of baptism within the miraculous gift of salvation is an outward illustration of an inward re-creation and allows us to see that the “old man” or old nature has died and that we are raised up (resurrected) into a brand new life in Christ. The old way of thinking and feeling no longer controls us, right?

Not exactly. The old nature might be buried in the grave, but our free will can dig him up whenever we want.

When we are born again, we are given a new spiritual identity but we do not automatically turn into an obedient robot for God that spends every second in prayer and worship. Yes, the goal for every Christian is to learn how to live in the awareness of God’s presence, but it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Since our success as a dedicated soldier for the Lord is directly associated with our free will to do what God says, why are we not more advanced by now? It’s no one's fault but our own.

We decide how close we will walk with God. Satan tempts us but does not make us carnal. We sin out of our own urges to rebel against our Lord. We are servants to whom we obey and too often it’s ourselves.

One thing that God’s word is not and

that’s comfortable. It’s easy to mistake physical relaxation for spiritual peace.

We can be content in knowing that God’s presence is with us, but this is not the same as being happy living however we want. When a Christian is not experiencing spiritual resistance and does not discern the devil is launching an attack, they are probably asleep at the wheel. The realm of darkness knows who is on the front lines obeying God, and who has taken off their armor and are asleep on the couch. When a Christian falls away into complacency and is satisfied to go no further with Christ, they are in desperate need of the fires of revival and rededication to Jesus.

Many in the church select the passages that promise His benefits while skipping over the ones that demand obedience and sacrifice. Of course, everyone wants to live a life of pleasure while avoiding demonic warfare, but often the context involves God working with His faithful warriors in combat not supporting fearful spectators. There is a world of difference between relationship and religion. The young drink milk from the bottle and play in the baby pool, but after years of playing church, it's time to grow up. We deceive ourselves if we use denial to avoid accountability. God is waiting for many who claim to follow Him to realize they are now responsible for swimming into the deeper waters of spiritual maturity and understanding what it means to surrender their will to Him. Only God knows the genuine from the impostors. How long will He allow a Christian to intentionally remain a carnal infant? One thing we do know is that we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit when we are born again, which leads us to consider that not only can we be as close to God as we desire, but we decide how much of the character and nature of Christ is evident in our lives. What is our conclusion? There has always been an epidemic of lukewarm carnal Christians (I Corinthians 3) who seek heaven and a life of blessings, but have no plans to invest personal cost. Keeping their distance from God on purpose fearing what He requires.

Dr. Holland is a Christian minister, chaplain, and author. Read more about the Christian life at billyhollandministries.com.

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First Baptist Church Dorchester Zach Poling, pastor 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Worship service Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Evening Service Summit View Church Brett and Deb Hetrick, pastors

Community Bible Fellowship Jeremy Moore, pastor

Howe Methodist Church of Howe JB Bryant, minister

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

810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Tuesday: 8:30am - 1:00pm WeeCare Daycare (Registration needed) 9:30am - Women's Bible Study 6:30pm - Boy Scouts Wednesday: 9:00am - Wednesday Workers 6:00pm - 1st and 3rd Wednesdays Family Night Thursday: 8:30am - 1:00pm - WeeCare Daycare (Registration needed) Saturday: 9:00am-12:00pm - Feed My Sheep (1st & 3rd Sat. of each month) Sunday: 8:30am - Coffee and Donuts 9:00am - Sunday School 10:00am - Worship Service 3:00pm Cub Scouts

First Baptist Church Howe Roger Tidwell, pastor 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-5325504 Wednesday 5:30 pm—Free Meal 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service 6:00 pm—Potluck Fellowship and Bible Study

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 Howe Church of Christ Aaron Alsbrook, minister 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

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,

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