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SANDERSON – The annual
fun fest known as Halloween, or “Fall Fest ‘09” as this year’s planners are
referring to it, will be tomorrow, Oct. 31, at Fair Hall and the Terrell
County Courthouse. It all starts with a
costume judging contest at Fair Hall starting at 1 p.m. Judges will pick the
scariest, funniest, most original costumes in several age groups. It ends with the
annual “trick or treat” by the littlest spooks going door to door seeking
goodies. Sheriff Clint McDonald
said those taking part in that activity should start at the Sheriff’s office
where kids can get reflective bags and “starter candy.” The reflective tape on
the bags should make them more visible to motorists but McDonald also cautioned
drivers to be extra alert. “Look out for the kids
because they won’t be watching out for you,” he said. Costumes will be
judged for children between infant and three years old, Pre-Kindergarten
through first grade, second through fifth, sixth through eight and high
school and a relatively new adult category. Some adults in recent
years have dressed up with as much enthusiasm and originality as their
children. After the judging,
which organizers promise will be quick, the ghosts, goblins, pirates and
other assorted characters will line up for a parade to the Courthouse Square
for the other activities. Vendors will be able
to set up at the Courthouse or the Fair Hall for activities both places. The Chamber of
Commerce will offer a picture booth at Fair Hall offering a color 3X5
portrait for $5. The Chamber also
judged a coloring contest, selecting winners from each grade. Winners of the contest
will be displayed at the Fair Hall the day of the festival. There will a Haunted
House at the hall and there will be a “Spook Hop,” an alcohol free dance with
DJ James Poe from 9 p.m. till 1 a.m. Admission will be $3
per spook – $4 if parents join their progeny. Chances will be sold
for a fall door prize. Tickets will be sold for the games and are also good
for the dance. Other games at both
venues include a ring toss for Project Graduation, a duck pond, a jail and
one “lucky” contestant will kiss a goat. Jars have been placed
in the office of all three school campuses and people can vote for one of
five they would most like to see pucker up. Rosella Bilano, Tami Carrasco, Mark Dominguez, Superintendent
Gary Hamilton and County Judge Leo Smith will compete to raise the most money
and the “winner” will get to kiss the goat of choice with proceeds benefiting
the sophomore class. Anyone wanting to set
up a booth should be at the courthouse between 11 a.m. and 12 noon tomorrow. Look up either Mike Sanchez or Eagles run top races
at Balmorhea BALMORHEA – The Sanderson Cross
Country team continued to show everyone else how it’s done Wednesday, taking
first place for both high school boys and girls teams and bringing home
individual first place medals in three of the four categories. Travis Roberts paced
his high school boys team to first place among 32
contestants by crossing the line first at Brother William was
right behind in second place and Shawn Stegall came
in third. Chris Marquez placed
sixth, Joseph Hopkins was 11th and Darren Seidel placed 16th. Noemi Nuńez
placed second among 37 high school girls to pace her team to first place.
Jessica Garza was fourth, Vicky Busch placed eighth, Danielle Fisher was
ninth, Brianna Johnson placed 14th and Angelina Hopkins came in 23rd. Abby Carrasco racked
up a first place among 33 junior high school girls. Grace Jahn
was second, Cassie Woosley came in 13th, Mikayla Baker was 25th, Brianna Lozano came in 26th and
Megan Seidel was 33rd. Luis Garza came in
first among 26 junior high school boys and Joey Carrasco was 13th. All high school cross
country runners will advance to the Regional meet Nov. 7. It will be at Mae West
Park in Powers was the oldest
racer in the annual road race. The number on his 1970 yellow Chevrolet El
Camino always displayed his age. A memorial service was
being planned but no date had been set at press time. The News Leader will
make every effort to have a full obituary in the Nov. 6 edition. SANDERSON – A company
in a far-away city provides an entry-level employee in Sanderson and the
county have struggled for years to get a dose of “economic development,” something
to lift the local economy out of the doldrums. Officials here are
looking at a grant to provide a new “broadband” connection to the outside
world that could result in new jobs for area residents. The Terrell County TeleCommunity grant of 2000 provided a new broadband
connection with “T-1” lines and computers in the schools, Courthouse,
library, Community Building and the But Gregg Fessler of the Strategic Planning Team for the Frontier program, said the system envisioned by the grant would
offer many orders of magnitude over the T-1 line. “If a T-1 line is like
a garden hose, we are talking about a 24-inch water main,” he said. Big Bend Telephone
offers digital subscriber line, known as DSL, to subscribers and the company
plans to upgrade that service. But Fessler said what is envisioned would be much faster. “If you blink, the
picture will be up,” he said. “It’s that fast.” The new line would not
be in competition with Fessler said the purpose of
the grant is to provide service to the “underserved and the un- served.” It
is part of the federal economic recovery program and is designed to create
jobs in the community. With high-speed
internet, he said, a company could locate people in Sanderson to provide
services on the Internet such as taking on-line orders for products. Bill Smith, who served
as technology director for Terrell County ISD during
the TeleCommunity era, said the biggest problem was
that the grant provided equipment but did not sustain it. “We got hung out to
dry,” he said. “The TCTC is still in place but
there is no funding to keep it going.” Fessler said “self-sustainability”
is a key in the grant program. “We can create a
funding stream under this, a kind of reseller piece,” he said. “It can bring
industry into the county and create jobs.” He cited an old
Chinese proverb that you can provide someone with a fish and feed him for a
day. Or you can teach him to fish and feed him for life. “The point is to get
us out of a welfare state,” he said. “This can create work-at-home jobs.” Fessler said a high-speed
broadband connection could also help in other areas including law enforcement
and medicine. For example, he said,
a doctor in “The potential is
astronomical,” County Judge Leo Smith said. Barney Welch, director
of homeland security for the Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission, said
no dollar amount has been determined for the grant, which would be
administered through the Region 18 Education Service Center. It would be part of a
$7.2 billion federal program through the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce. It’s been decreed by
Congress in its infinite wisdom. Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday
Morning, Nov. 1. You get back that hour you lost last spring after “trick or
treating” Saturday night. Set your clock back one hour. At 2 a.m., it will really
be 1 a.m. Got it? Dr. Jean Clottes of Clottes is editor of the
International Newsletter on Rock Art and director of collections at Éditions du SeuilIs
and la maison des roches,
both in Some rock art goes
back more than 10,000 years but that is not the most important aspect, he
said. “Is being old important?”
he asked. Dutch impressionist Vincent Van Gogh “is not more important than a
modern artist at all,” he said. “It is the quality of the art that matters.” Clottes said the They include the number
of sites, they exhibit artistic expertise, are “reasonably-well preserved”
and researchers can reconstruct a story from them. “The fossil record
shows bones but rock art preserves the bones and the flesh,” he said. “The
art here is very good and you have a good story.” He showed samples of
rock art around the world but he said, compared to Also speaking was Dr.
Carolyn Boyd of Comstock, executive director of SHUMLA,
an archeological research and educational non profit based in Comstock. SHUMLA stands for Studying
Human Use of Materials Land & Art. “In 1996, while I was
studying the White Shaman site, I learned it was far from graffiti,” she
said. “It documents the birth the sun, the worth of peyote and the
establishment of the seasons.” She said people of the
early Use of peyote goes
back about 5,000 years. It is a hallucinogenic cactus and was used in native
American rituals for hundreds of years. Boyd spoke
specifically about a panel in White Shaman, a site near the confluence of the
“How was it preserved
for so long?” Boyd asked. “That is something Sherwin Williams would like to
know.” She said the paint
used a lot of minerals but it also used animal fat. “Why would they use an
important food source for their rock art?” she asked. She said either they
were “really dumb” or the rock art was important to them. She interpreted a
panel in White Shaman and related it to the beliefs of the Huichol tribe of The Huichol were in no way related to the natives in the The panel seems to
tell of an annual pilgrimage from their ancestral home in the “west” to the
east and At There are five “anthropomorphs” – representatives of the human form –
moving in single file and uniformly spaced on the panel, she said. The single file and
the number five are both important to the Huichol
theology. “All of this is
exciting when you start to put it together,” Boyd said “The story was
important because it saved the only man in the flood and saved humanity.
Right below on of the figures in the painting is a man in a canoe.” The paining, then, is
a creation story, she said. The art is a communal sacrifice so the children
could survive. That could indicate
how important the rock art was to the artists who created it. SANDERSON – The skies
over It was all part of Red
Ribbon Week, a time to call attention to drug and alcohol awareness for kids.
Students wrote their
names on red paper attached to a balloon that also contained a phone number
that could be called to track the location of the balloon when it came to
Earth, who knows when or where. The students went out
to the back of the school and lined up. The balloons were to
indicate the start of red ribbon week and the need for kids to be drug free. The students were
asked how many of them were drug free and all raised
their hands. The students then
raised their balloons and counted, “One, two, three”
and released them. Not all of the pesky
red balloons wanted their freedom, however. Some of them only wanted to rest
on the ground. The teachers then
instructed their students to go out into the playground so the wind could
carry them off. Laughter ensued and
the children finally got all the balloons into the air. Away the wind carried
their tagged balloons to far away places. If a balloon floats
into your yard call the number on the tag so that little child knows where it
landed. SANDERSON – If this is
Halloween, it must mean the Christmas Holiday season is at hand. Trick or treaters will be out in force tomorrow night after a day
of activities on the Courthouse Lawn and at Fair Hall. Next comes Veteran’s
Day on Nov. 11, which commemorates the end of World War I, the “war to end
all wars.” Terrell County ISD always presents a Veteran’s Day program in the High
School Auditorium. Plans were not
finalized for the program at press time but Superintendent Gary Hamilton said
the school plans “something different this year.” Next up is the Christmas
Bazaar and Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at the “Vendors are
encouraged to reserve a booth space early,” Culture Club spokesman Christine
Hinkle said. “Rental fees are $10 and $15 for a corner. Tables are provided
and space is limited.” Call Hinkle at
432/345-2977 or Nancy Henderson at 432/ 345-2268 or cell 830/719-1881 to
reserve a booth space. Thanksgiving is the
next week and the ISD is back with its annual
observance in the High School Cafeteria, honoring the senior citizens of the
community on Monday, Nov. 23. The Thanksgiving meal
for students is the Friday before, Nov. 20, and Then comes the annual
“Lighting of the Windmill” at The Chamber of
Commerce plans to provide hot chocolate, cider and cookies and guests will
sing Christmas Carols at the Pavilion. The windmill behind
the Pavilion will be decorated with Christmas lights, which will be
illuminated for the first time, officially kicking off holiday season. The next weekend will
have two events, the Christmas on The Chamber has
decided to schedule the Christmas on Businesses will be
open from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, offering refreshments, music and other greetings
of the season. Santa Claus will start
the event with a parade down He will then set up
shop at Sanderson Bank, finding out who’s been naughty and nice. There will be one large
drawing the morning after the open house. People can visit whichever businesses
they like and fill out a form at each. The more businesses
they visit, the more chances they will have to win
the prize, which has not yet been determined. Each business is responsible
for its own promotion, offering its choice of attractions. The Hunter’s Feast is
normally at the St. James Hall and typically feeds more than 350 hunters and
other guests. Raffle tickets are
offered and prizes run from hunting gear, guns and other paraphernalia to a
grand prize, typically a trailer, ATV or other big dollar prize. Christmas will be on
Friday this year. Between now and then, anyone who can’t find something to do
just isn’t paying attention. By MARK
GLOVER Contributing
Editor WASHINGTON, DC –
“Alpha Troops, you are not anonymous anymore,” President Barack
Obama said last week at the White House as he
presented the Presidential Unit Citation to a group of US soldiers who fought
with “extraordinary heroism” in the Viet Nam War 39 years ago. Known as the
“Anonymous Battle,” it was fought near the Cambodian border and brought to
the President’s attention by a book of the same name written three years ago
by Cibolo Creek Ranch owner and Houston Industrialist, John Poindexter. Poindexter was also
the 25- year-old captain of Alpha Troop that led his men into battle on that
fateful March day in 1970. “It was spring moving
into the rainy season. Hot – jungle so thick you could hardly see through
it,” Poindexter recalled. “The radio crackled. Bits and pieces from Charlie
Company.” But Poindexter’s mind was elsewhere. The
night before three of his men died when a mortar round exploded in the mortar
tube at their night defense position. The accident also injured six others. But the radio message
got through. Charley Company was in trouble. Stumbling on a huge
underground Viet Cong bunker complex and outnumbered four to one with ammunition
running low, it was Poindexter who gave the command to risk the lives of his
Alpha Troop to save the lives of Charley Company. “These men
sacrificed,” President Obama said. Gunships flew overhead.
Machine guns and rifles smoked the sweltering morning air in close combat. The gunships could do little through the thick jungle canopy.
It was ground warfare. Poindexter’s troops of
225 men, six Sheridan Tanks and 14 armored assault vehicles thrashed across
three miles of jungle, smashing through bamboo and underbrush to assist their
comrades. “Coming into the
combat zone, I remember the acrid taste of gunfire, the clouds of smoke,
discharging ordinances and the smell of crushed jungle vegetation,”
Poindexter said, recalling the tang of battle. His command vehicle
was hit by a grenade. He blacked out and came to about an hour later. With a neck pierced
with shrapnel and a shattered left hand, he went on to lead young men with
only a few weeks in the jungle to stained veterans hardened by the smack of
combat, through a long day of war horror. “Why sacrifice?” Obama asked. “Because we have a sacred
obligation.” By dusk, Poindexter
ordered a withdrawal. Helicopters landed in the clearings surrounding the
battlefield and picked up the dead and bleeding as the Viet Cong continued to
fire. “This is not the story
of a battle that changed the course of war, never had a name like Tet or Wei or Kason. It never made the papers back home, but like
countless battles known and unknown it’s a proud chapter in the story of the
American soldier,” Obama said. “It’s the story, as
one Charlie Company member called, ‘a miracle.’” The toll that day on
both sides of the battleground totaled more than 150 casualties. After the battle,
Poindexter solicited the Army brass for metals of honor for his men. But
their service was overlooked until last week at the White House. There, at the
invitation of President Obama, more than 100 men
from the Black Horse Regiment of the US Army, 11th Armored Combat Calvary,
1st Squadron, Troop Alpha were finally recognized. “We stand in the stead of a whole generation
who would’ve on another day, in another place, confronted with the same
challenge, done the same as we did,” Poindexter said. The Presidential Unit
Citation is the highest honor the nation can bestow on a military unit. It
has been awarded 127 times since 1940. For more information see http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/us/01vietnam.html,
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/10/20/HP/A/24506/Pres+Obama+Honors+Presidential+Unit+Citation+Recipients.aspx
or pick up a copy of John Poindexter’s book, “The Anonymous Battle.” SANDERSON – The
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday voted to endorse plans for an “exploratory
committee” to study possible restoration of the Sanderson Depot, to use the
chamber’s non-profit bank account for tax-free donations and to name Sharon
Wolfe as official spokes-person for the project. Wolfe can name other
members of the committee, whether or not they are members of the chamber. She said so many
people have been involved in the depot project, the railroad told her it
needs “one person” to deal with. The Friends of the
Historical Society earlier endorsed the plan. The chamber motion
noted the “historical significance” of the depot and that Sanderson would not
be here but for the railroad that came through the area in the 1880s. The depot, one of the
first structures in town, was built in 1882. Wolfe said the group
will investigate what it will take to move the depot and restore it, perhaps
as a railroad museum. It could also be used for offices for the chamber and
other activities. She stressed the
project will be funded by private interests, perhaps including the Great
American Stations foundation and Preservation Texas among others. She said she has
received “verbal commitments” for land near the depot to move it to and a
Union Pacific Railroad official said the company has agreed not to demolish
the structure until next year if restoration efforts fail. The Sanderson Economic
Development Association got a $478,000 grant from the Texas Department of
Transportation that would have restored the depot but it was turned down by Wolfe said she was
assured the railroad would not require the restoration committee to remediate
any contaminants in the ground but a basement would have to be leveled when
the building is removed. Any environmental
hazards in the building would have to be remediated,
she said. Wolfe said getting the
building onto another site would be the first step and renovation could take
place over time. DRYDEN – A perimeter
fence eight feet high with two feet of barbed wire on top could be one of the
first improvements to come at the Megan Caffall and Kari Campbell from the Aviation Division of
the Texas Department of Transportation met with the board and County Judge
Leo Smith last Thursday at the airport here. The county has
completed a project to get the airport into “compliance” with rules of the
Federal Aviation Administration and TxDOT and is
now looking at improvements. The board had
recommended a six-foot fence with two strands of barbed wire to keep deer and
other animals out but Caffall said she has seen
“smaller” deer in central Texas “sail right over” a six-foot fence. She recommended an
eight-foot fence with two feet of barbed wire on top. Animals on a runway
can pose a safety hazard to aircraft. Caffall laid out projects in
an “immediate” need period – zero to five years – that could be funded by an
annual 50 percent Routine Airport Improvement Grant. The county qualifies
for a maximum of $50,000 per year and Smith said he is committed to the
county matching that with $50,000 of county funds every year “as long as I’m
here.” The fencing project
will probably take two years to complete. Caffall said item one for
RAMP funding is pavement preservation, which should be done every five years
or so. Airport Manager C.D.
Curry said the surface is still in good shape and resurfacing will probably
not be necessary for several years more. Caffall said RAMP money can
also be used for auto parking, medium intensity lighting and “cosmetic”
improvements for the terminal building. Smith said he had just
received a report from architect Justin Gilmore of Southwest Architects,
Inc., of Campbell, who handles
the RAMP program, said money can be used for improvements to terminal buildings. “We don’t buy light bulbs
but it includes basically everything except consumables,” she said. “Something we would
like to see happen as soon as possible is an expansion of the apron pavement
so we can accommodate some new hangars,” Malone Mitchell indicated an interest in
providing a hangar. He and Scott Mitchell were welcomed as the newest members
of the board, an advisory body that makes recommendations to county
commissioners on aviation-related issues. Malone Mitchell also
asked about the possibility of an instrument landing system. Caffall said it usually takes
a minimum of $200,000 to prepare for an ILS but
“we’ll look into it. Everyone is going GPS [global positioning system] now.” She said
medium-intensity lighting is a prerequisite to an ILS
and An ILS
could cost about $500,000, she said. “A runway extension is probably not in the
cards because of competition for resources elsewhere,” she said. The airport’s
long-range priority list includes an extension of Runway 13-31 to handle
heavier corporate jet aircraft. Caffall said the rotating beacons has to be on all-night because a pilot in trouble
needs to be able to locate the airport at night. Curry said he had
gotten dispensation earlier to turn it off except when an aircraft is
approaching and can turn it on with his airplane radio. But Caffall said rules now require it to be on from “dusk
till dawn” every night. And rancher Smith said when the
Texas Forest Service was here for a range fire on Smith said he would
like to see about burying a water line so the county doesn’t have to string
3,000 feet of fire hose to the aerial tankers. But he said the Forest
Services saved 1.15 hours each way by not having to go back to SANDERSON – A series
of break-ins at county ranches continued this week as the nature of illegal aliens changes. Nine Mexican nationals
were arrested in August and remain in Terrell County jail charged with burglaries
in the area of Ranch Roads 2400 and 2886 but other ranches as far north as
Independence Creek have reported break-ins. Sheriff Clint McDonald
said border enforcement has resulted in a change in the nature of people coming
across the border from “The border has been
manipulated for years by the drug cartels,” he said. “Now the border is
tightening up.” The tighter
enforcement results in a “funnel” effect, sending a lot of the criminal
activity to less-populated areas like Many of the burglaries
have been in hunter’s cabins and the number of burglaries reported recently
may be because hunters are returning for hunting season. “The migrant workers
would walk across the county,” McDonald said. “Ranchers would leave food and
water out for them and many of them cleaned up. “They would walk back
and forth every year and many people knew them,” he said. “That is changing.” The criminal element
smuggling drugs will take a shipment to a highway and then walk back, burglarizing
and trashing places as they go, McDonald said. They steal more than
food and water, he said. They will take items they can sell when they get
back to “If we could tell the
hunters one thing, it’s don’t leave weapons in the camp,” he said. “We might
find that a resident has gotten shot.” He said no one has
been reported shot by the burglars but it’s always a possibility. “There is no reason
for a person to leave a rifle or any firearm,” he said. McDonald said “no
part” of the county has been unaffected by burglars. “With 2,300 square
miles, it’s like finding a needle in a hay stack,” he said. ALPINE – The Sul Ross State University Music Department will present a
Bach’s Lunch recital at noon today, Oct. 30, in the Studio Theater in the The program will
feature faculty performing classical chamber pieces along with the the new Sul Ross Mariachi
Ensemble “Lobos Del Desierto.” The audience is
invited to bring box lunches to enjoy during the free recital. For more information,
contact Erin Lippard at 432/837-8222 or elippard@sulross.edu. It’s all over but the
voting. Next Tuesday, Nov. 3, voters will go to the polls around the state to
voice their opinions on 11 amendments to the state Constitution. Enacted in 1876, the
Texas State Constitution has been amended more than 400 times. Proposed amendments to
the Constitution must pass by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state
legislature to be considered on the ballot.
There are 11
amendments approved for consideration by the 81st Legislature and require a
majority vote to amend the constitution. The official ballot
language for the Nov. 3 election includes Proposition 1, which would
authorize “the financing, including through tax increment financing, of the
acquisition by municipalities and counties of buffer areas or open spaces
adjacent to a military installation for the prevention of encroachment or for
the construction of roadways, utilities, or other infrastructure to protect
or promote the mission of the military installation.” Proposition 2 would
allow the legislature to “provide for the ad valorem
taxation of a residence homestead solely on the basis of the property’s value
as a residence homestead.” Proposition 3 would
provide for “uniform standards and procedures for the appraisal of property
for ad valorem tax purposes.” Proposition 4 would
establish the “national research university fund to enable emerging research
universities in this state to achieve national prominence as major research
universities and transferring the balance of the higher education fund to the
national research university fund.” Proposition 5 would
allow the legislature “to authorize a single board of equalization for two or
more adjoining appraisal entities that elect to provide for consolidated
equalizations.” Proposition 6 would
authorize the “Veterans' Land Board to issue general obligation bonds in
amounts equal to or less than amounts previously authorized.” Proposition 7 is an
amendment that would “allow an officer or enlisted member of the Texas State
Guard or other state militia or military force to hold other civil offices.” Proposition 8 would
authorize the state “contribute money, property, and other resources for the
establishment, maintenance and operation of veterans hospitals in this
state.” Proposition 9 would
“protect the right of the public, individually and collectively, to access
and use the public beaches bordering the seaward shore of the Proposition 10 would
“provide that elected members of the governing boards of emergency services
districts may serve terms not to exceed four years.” And Proposition 11
would “prohibit the taking, damaging, or destroying of private property for
public use unless the action is for the ownership, use, and enjoyment of the
property by the State, a political subdivision of the State, the public at
large, or entities granted the power of eminent domain under law or for the
elimination of urban blight on a particular parcel of property, but not for
certain economic development or enhancement of tax revenue purposes, and to
limit the legislature’s authority to grant the power of eminent domain to an
entity.” The bond issue is
simply to allow TCISD to keep more of your tax
dollars at home. Under the state’s
so-called “Robin Hood” finance scheme, we have to send about 82 cents of
every tax dollar collected for
“maintenance and operations” to another school district. But buying some items
with “voter approved bonds” exempts that money from the provision, allowing a
tax dollar to be used for a dollar’s worth of whatever the district needs to
buy. Polls will be open
Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Terrell County Courthouse. All four county
precincts will vote in the same place in an election “consolidated” by the
county commissioners because there are no district-specific issues on the
ballot. About 2:30 Friday
morning, a Border Patrol agent traveling back to Alpine noticed vehicle
lights on a ranch road 13 miles west of here. They pulled over a
vehicle on Highway 90 and found it contained 1,581 pounds of marijuana with a
street value of $1,265,336. The F-350 pickup was
driven by a The bust followed one
Thursday morning in which a US Customs and Border Protection helicopter from
the Alpine Air and Marine Branch found four men trying to hide in a field
about four miles northeast of here. Border Patrol agents
assisted by a Border Patrol K-9 team arrested the four, all citizens of A search of the area
where the four were hiding resulted in the discovery of three sugar sacks
with 133 pounds of pot with a street value of more than $107,000. The smugglers, the drugs and the vehicle were
turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration in both cases. SANDERSON – The Eagle
football season is coming to an end with its final regular season game scheduled
next week, Nov. 6 here. Attention turns next
to basketball and Eagle schedule for this year has been release. High school varsity
basketball games begin Nov. 11 when the Lady Eagles host Comstock at 5:30
p.m. The ladies will then play Big Bend at The varsity boys will
face their first challenge when both boys and girls varsity play the Fort There is another 6:30
p.m. game for the varsity high school boys and girls Nov. 20 in McCamey. Sanderson junior
varsity basketball games kick off in Comstock against the Comstock girls at 4
p.m. on Nov. 10. The Fort Davis Indians
girls and boys teams play the Eagles in Junior high action
gets under way with the Buena Vista Tournament Nov. 12 and 14 for boys and
girls. Tip off times will be announced. A full schedule will
be published in the News Leader as soon as space permits. |
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