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Vehicle professionals are big Porcupine fans

The Lube Center, locally owned and operated, has served Springtown – and Porcupine fans- since 1995. SHS grad Brandon Conway bought the business in 2004 and continues to offer top

Good N.E.W.S. is just that for many

Terry Bartlett has been with Good N.E.W.S. a long time – 19 years, in fact.

She has seen the once-prolific, multi-state organization dwindle to just one – here.

But that one is making a huge difference.

A LONG HISTORY

Originally, Bartlett said, the concept – officially Living at Home/Block Nurse Program – began in Minnesota.

In Texas, the first program arrived in the Morningside area of Fort Worth, covering six square miles.

‘It’s been a pleasure’

The only principal the new Reno Elementary School has ever known has retired. After a total of 42 years in education – 19 of them at Reno Elementary – Traunsa Reeves is filled with gratitude to the community and the Spring-town ISD, of which Reno Elementary is a part. “Springtown is a very good district to work for,” she says.

“They’ve always cared for their staff – even when financial times were hard.”

Reeves says that the caring community, both in Reno and Springtown, is truly special and that “there are definitely some good things about small districts.”

Cattle drive kicks off Parker County annual Frontier Days

There were boots, and chaps, and cowboy hats, and even a few spurs at the First Annual “Bringin’ in the Herd” Trail Drive the morning of June 8.

The trail drive was the kick-off event of Frontier Days – a week-long celebration of all things western, sponsored by the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse.

The drive began in Millsap, and riders travelled 10.5 miles to the Sheriff’s Posse Grounds, where the group dined on sliced brisket and cobbler.

For the annual Professional

Corrections

Two corrections need to be made from the May 23 Epigraph.

First, in the National Honor Society induction photo, Shanna Teague was misidentified as Shanna Johnson.

Secondly, Daniel Cozzone was omitted from the graduation special section.

Here is his SHS information:

Daniel is the son of Dino and Connie Cozzone of Springtown. He was in culinary arts. His favorite teacher was Mrs. Davis, and his favorite subject was culinary. After graduation, Daniel plans to attend El Centro Culinary College.

The Epigraph regrets the errors.

Springtown P&Z OKs 3 projects

“I’m just glad we’ve all learned to say ‘extraterritorial jurisdiction.’ I’m somewhat proud of that.”

So joked Springtown Planning and Zoning Commission chair Lavohn McGlothing, as the commission considered three separate properties in ETJ areas.

The group unanimously approved to recommend two items to the city council.

One was a plat of four lots of 1.99 acres each in the Young-Holmes Addition.

The entire plat size is 8.007 acres; one home already exists on the property.

PD chief: Reno needs new vehicles

In a workshop meeting of the Reno City Council June 10, there was widespread agreement that the current police fleet of patrol cars was in need of updating.

Discussion focused on how to best upgrade the vehicles.

But before that, Council member Kerry Jenkins read a letter she had received from Brenda Emmert, the current mayor pro tem of Sunray, Texas.

In the letter, Emmert wrote that Chief Tim Holzschuh had been the police chief in Sunray for seven months in 2014 until family obligations called him away.

Looking for a VBS around here?

Here’s a list of local Vacation Bible Schools this summer:

LIGHTHOUSE HARBOR CHURCH

June 15, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 1960 Long Circle, Azle

AZLE CHURCH OF CHRIST

June 17-19 6-8:30 p.m. 336 Northwest Parkway

FUMC BOYD

“To Mars and Beyond” June 17-20 6-8:30 p.m. 540 S. Allen St.

VICTORY CHRISTIAN CENTER

“Mega Sports Camp” June 17-21 6:30-8 p.m. 737 Boyd Rd.

FBC LAKESIDE

June 23-27 6-8 p.m. 8801 Jacksboro Hwy Fort Worth

School food program ongoing here in town

The Springtown ISD Summer Feeding program continues through the end of the month. Two meals are served Monday-Friday at Springtown Middle Schoiol, 500 Pojo Drive. Breakfast is served 7:30-8:35 a.m. Lunch is available 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. All meals are free for those 18 and under. The program ends June 26.

Larger capacity safe house sought for those abused locally

“Why doesn’t she leave?”

Sally Daniels, executive director of Future, Hope & Healing Center, said that’s a question she gets asked all the time.

Obeying her “passion,” Daniels has decades of work – as well as multiple academic degrees – working with women and children who suffer domestic abuse.

Whenever it’s discovered what she does, Daniels has a ready answer for the “why doesn’t she leave?” query.

“Why does society allow it to happen?”

RED FLAGS