20 years ago…
June 1, 2006
FISHER NAMED DISTRICT VI FFA AREA OFFICER CANDIDATE
At a District VI FFA meeting held March 21 in Honey Grove, S&S FFA member Allison Fisher was elected to represent District VI as their Area Officer Candidate.
The election process consisted of a test over the FFA and agriculture in general, a written exercise, an interview and a popularity vote.
Fisher had to take the test and interview in Krum the morning after her grandfather Ronnie Melton died as a result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. She gave her election speech at the Area V Convention (held on May 9 in Mansfield) the day after his funeral and in that speech, she talked about taking chances, how hard she would work and how challenges would not get her down.
LOCAL YOUTH ONE OF 19 PUBLISHED IN ‘RISING STAR: YOUNG TEXAN TALES’
Whitesboro Intermediate School student Alexis Phelps recently became one of only 19 fifth graders from across the state lucky enough to be featured in the recently released “Rising Star: Young Texan Tales 2006.”
Nine selections of either stories, poems or artwork from Whitesboro students in grades three-five were submitted to the College of Education and Texas State University. All of those lined up against hundreds of other entries that are eventually whittled down to the final group to be included in the annual statewide book.
Those nine students were chosen in a campus-wide contest. All of the first through third place selections were published in the campus Rising Star book and the first place entries were also submitted for the statewide contest, which found Phelps’ story being chosen.
The story is entitled “Ghost Woman,” a mystery according to the young aspiring author, who says she wants to be a movie director or author when she grows up. Phelps says her inspiration for the book came from her grandmother, who tells a lot of ghost stories.
30 years ago…
May 30, 1996
NEW FIRE TRUCK DELIVERED TO CITY
The Whitesboro Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) took delivery of a new truck on Thursday, May 16. The vehicle, a 1995 five-man cab, four-door freightliner, is capable of pumping 1,250 gallons of water per minute and has a 750 gallon holding tank. The truck, designed to meet certain specifications set forth by the local VFD, took approximately four months to manufacture, at a cost of $169,995.00.
The City of Whitesboro has a lease/purchase agreement with Signet Leasing Company over a ten year time period for the payment of the vehicle.
The Whitesboro volunteer unit presented the request before the city council for consideration approximately six months ago. The request was accepted, approved, and the vote passed. The addition of the new pumper truck will affect the local key rate system established by the Texas State Board of Insurance. This rate is based on a number of criteria including fire equipment, amount of hose, water system, number of members of the fire department and more.
The new truck is in the process of being serviced and should be ready for use within two weeks.
W’BORO ELEM STUDENT COMPLETES FIVE SCHOOL YEARS WITHOUT ABSENCES
Chad Kennedy, Whitesboro Elementary School 4th grade student, earned a special award last week during the school’s annual awards assembly. The nine-year-old was recognized for having had perfect attendance during the past five years of school. Ever since he entered school as a kindergartener, Chad has not missed a single day of school.
Chad is the son of Randy and Kathy Kennedy, 725 Park Place Avenue, Whitesboro. His mother, a kindergarten teacher in the Tioga ISD, said Chad has not always been noted as a healthy child. She stated that he was sick much of the first year of his life and had numerous infections.
“As a baby, he was sick a lot,” she said.
However, once Chad started school, he seemed to grow healthier, and had his five year run of perfect attendance. Along the way, he has experienced the usual childhood illnesses, however, these bouts always seemed to coincide with school vacations.
For instance, he had the chicken pox during Christmas vacation when he was in kindergarten. This year in the 4th grade, Chad was sick during the first week of Christmas vacation again.
“I do not send him to school when he is sick,” his mother smiled. “It has just worked out that he has been able to attend without being really ill ever since kindergarten.”
When asked about his aspirations to continue his attendance record as he enters 5th grade and moves onto the Middle School campus, Chad replied, “It would be neat to do it all 13 years.”
40 years ago…
May 29, 1986
TANDY NAMED BANK SENIOR V-P
William M. Tandy has been named senior vice-president of Security National Bank, according to SNB president Dale Cook.
Tandy comes to SNB from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Dallas, where he was a commercial loan officer in charge of commercial loan workouts, management team for bank closings and project research and system development.
He also worked for Penquite and Associates, Inc., Hurst, as a senior vice-president in charge of credit training and administration, asset liability micro computer modeling and marketing and product development.
Tandy’s 13 years of banking experience also includes work with the Montana Bancsystem, Inc., Billings, MT, and was assistant vice-president at the First National Montana Bank, cashier at Montana Bank of Butte, auditor at Montana Bank of South Missoula and assistant auditor at Montana Bancsystem.
SALE OF EMS STILL PENDING CONTRACT OK
The City of Whitesboro and Medical Plaza Hospital came a step closer to concluding a deal to sell the city’s ambulance service to the hospital Tuesday night in a session called to work out problems in the contract of sale.
Sale of the ambulance service will actually be made, if the city and AMI (owners of Medical Plaza Hospital) conclude the deal, to Texas North Health Services, Inc. TNHS will be a subsidiary company of AMI. AMI representative Bill Routon told the council the reason for the formation of a new company to purchase the ambulance service was to “enable us to segregate the ambulance service from hospital services.”
Routon said the separation would also make collection of medicaid and medicare fees for ambulance use easier since they would not be billed with hospital services.
Much of Tuesday night’s discussion of the terms of the sale centered around the use of city police and fire dispatchers to dispatch ambulances after the service is sold. The city is willing, if not anxious, for their dispatchers to perform the service for TNHS, but is concerned about what liability might be incurred should dispatchers make errors. Several councilmen stated that the convenience to area residents of the city’s 911 emergency phone service would be worth having city dispatchers also dispatch the ambulances.
The TNHS representatives told the council that as far as their company was concerned, the liability of dispatchers would end after the ambulance crew had been notified of a call. Dispatchers, however, would be expected to help in dispatching other emergency services, notifying back up crews, assisting with maintaining radio contact with hospitals if necessary, etc.