Navajo wins Check out Commander Hammon the funny remembers tournament pages anniversaries SPORTS s 4 COMICS s 5 NEWS s 10 Issue 186, Volume 118 Breaking news at altustimes.com Thursday, September 21, 2017 s 50¢ Hispanic heritage hailed Ryan Lewis | Altus Times Mayor Jack Smiley signs a proclamation for Hispanic Heritage Month. From left: Nora Villarreal, Anahi Gutierrez, Mary Esparza, Chad Wiginton, Freddie Perez, Delia Flores Montes, Tiffany Williams, Robert Rodriguez, Seferina Pena, Teresa Ortiz, and Ana Gutierrez. Boy with autism finds comfort Kick off fall with cookoff By Katrina Goforth which would be the winner.
[email protected] In the spirit of the larger com- in going fishing munity competition, the judges Nothing starts off the fall for NBC represented both the By Kelly Bostian season in Altus like the annual Altus community and Altus Tulsa World Cotton Pickin’ Chili Cookoff Air Force Base, as the Cotton hosted by Main Street Altus in Pickin’ Chili Cookoff relies on TULSA — Three inches of fish flesh, no more October. community members to judge than two eyes and a wiggle on the end of a fishing In anticipation of the event, the best chili. line holds a world of emotion for a child, especially cooks all over Jackson County Though it was a difficult deci- Sterling Snider. prepare their favorite recipes sion for the four guest judges, He calls fish “bah-pay!” and he says it with and gather their ingredients for with multiple re-samplings, the gusto. No one knows where the word came from, the chance to win the coveted winner was finally determined but everyone who knows Sterling knows exactly first place title in chili, bar- to be Elizabeth Marcha.