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FOR UP-TO-DATE COVID-19 INFORMATION GO TO FARMERSVILLETIMES.COM The Farmersville Times • Farmersville, Texas, Thursday, August 20, 2020 Serving Farmersville and East Collin County Since 1885 • 2 Sections, 10 Pages $1.00 New Main Street Manager hired By John Kanelis [email protected] Kevin Casey is the new manager of Farmersville’s Main Street program, according to City Manager Ben White, who said that Casey began his new job on Monday. Casey currently lives in Fris- Kevin Casey co but is moving soon to Terrell. He succeeds Dana Mingo, the most recent Main Street area,” White said. “He talks manager. Mingo resigned directly to people and I really several months ago because like his demeanor in dealing of health concerns. Former with downtown development.” Mayor Randy Rice, who left In addition to real estate de- office in May, had been fillingvelopment, Casey worked as in until White could find a - per a custom builder for the last manent manager. 21 years and was the owner Casey will be paid $62,500 of Emerald Safety Guns and annually, said White. Ammo from 2005 to 2014. White said Casey has served According to White, Casey Tom Charles/The Farmersville Times as a captain with the Richland grew up in Canton and his Hills Fire Department but add- family was involved in eco- ed that fire officials often get nomic development in that involved in other things. In East Texas community. this case, Casey’s other pas- The city manager said he sion, White said, is commer- is excited to have Casey on Heads up! cial real estate development. board to help advance the That is what attracted White’s Farmersville Main Street pro- attention to the new Main gram, which recently earned Jenson McTee goes up for an assist against Prairiland in a Friday, Aug. 14 contest at home. Story, photos in Street Manager’s application. accreditation from the federal Sports. “He is real strong in that Main Street organization. NEWS YOU NEED Cleanup event at Bain- New restaurant Honaker House Friday The Codes of Compassion a labor of love group will host a cleanup event Friday, Aug. 21 at the historic becuing. ‘this place was great, this place Bain-Honaker House. The By Jackson King Pressley didn’t begin his was whatever,’ I thought, ‘wait cleanup starts at 7 a.m. Friday [email protected] career as a restaurant owner. a minute, that’s something that at 108 College St. Anyone will- Instead, he worked as a FedEx I can get into.’” ing to work is welcome to at- In what was once a beloved driver for 18 years with a side Searching for a cost effec- tend. candy factory in the heart of passion as a pit master who tive way to test his barbecue, Farmersville, the aroma of could smoke meat as well as Pressley started attending the cooked barbecue exits the front any of the top-rated restaurants Dallas Farmers Market in a Couple charged in door of the recently opened in the area. food truck, where his barbecue infant death Wood and Time Smokehouse. “[While I was a driver,] I sold really well. For the owner, Charles always cooked for catering,” “A lot of people loved it, A couple that lives south of Pressley, the business is the Pressley said. “Seeing the bar- saying my barbecue was better Jackson King/The Farmersville Times Princeton was arrested Satur- result of a long journey fol- becue shows and the maga- than Pecan Lodge,” Pressley Charles Pressley is the owner of Wood and Time Smoke- day, Aug. 8, in connection with lowing his labor of love… bar- zines praising people, saying, house located at 101 Candy St. in downtown. the unreported death of an infant. See pg 2A. IN THIS ISSUE Local student works wheat harvest 100 years of women’s Classifieds................ 3B By Joe Reavis Obituaries............... 3A [email protected] right to vote Opinion.................... 4A Learning how to work better Police.Blotter........... 2A with others and getting to see a By Morgan Howard sent it to the then-48 states for Sports ...................... 1B good part of the middle United [email protected] ratification. Texas approved it States were just a couple of on June 28, 1919 – the ninth the benefits of a job landed by In just over two months, state to do so, and the first in Contact us at: Wylie East High School se- about 9.3 million Texas wom- the south. 972-784-6397 or nior student Ethan Myers as a en will have the option to vote It took a little more than a [email protected] member of a custom combin- in the presidential election. year for the necessary three- www.farmersvilletimes.com ing crew. It’s a process that hundreds fourths of states to ratify it. Myers traveled three of thousands Texans take for Tennessee became the 36th months from May until August granted, but for women, the state to do so on Aug. 18, on wheat harvest, an experi- process of merely making it 1920. Lake Lavon Levels ence that took him from Texas to the polls was a hard-fought Although Texas had a his- to Montana. process. tory of striking down early Normal – 492 “Everyone should go on Tuesday, Aug. 18 marked proposals to let women vote, 489.88 ft harvest at least once,” the the centennial of women gain- the state – and Dallas in par- as of 8/18/20 17-year-old declared. “I got to ing the right to vote. On that ticular – was a hotbed of suf- see a different way of life from day in 1920, Secretary of State fragette activity. Lake Jim Chapman Normal 440 – Wylie.” Bainbridge Colby ratified the The Woman’s Christian Current 438.25 ft The WEHS student admits 19th amendment to the U.S. Temperance Union formed a Source: US Army Corps of Engineers that he had little farming ex- Constitution. Texas chapter in 1888 and be- perience before taking the job The amendment states that came the state’s first group to with Gary Frank Harvesting “the right of citizens of the endorse suffrage. Five years Volume 134 of Scott City, Kan. With some United States to vote shall not later in 1893, the Texas Equal 1-on-1 training, he spent the be denied or abridged by the Rights Association and Texas Courtesy photo Issue 38 summer pulling a grain bin be- United States or by any State Woman’s Press Association © Copyright 2020. All Rights Reserved. hind a tractor and maintaining Local student Ethan Myers traveled three months from on account of sex. Congress were both formed in Dallas on C&S Media Publications harvesting equipment. May until August on wheat harvest. shall have power to enforce May 10. In October, the latter Meyers is the son of Amy this article by appropriate leg- began holding conventions at and Greg Myers and moved to sophomore student at WEHS. las-Fort Worth and its suburbs. islation.” the State Fair. Wylie with his family when he Working the wheat harvest The senior student noted, Both Congress and the And it was thanks to them, was a seventh grade student. is not a common job for youth Senate had approved it dur- Younger brother Kaden is a in an urban area such as Dal- See JOB page 5A ing their 1919 session, which See 19TH page 5A 2A Thursday, August 20, 2020 LOCAL • POLICE BLOTTER 972-784-6397 | The Farmersville Times Couple charged in Free bikes for local youth From Staff Reports tion for you. [email protected] We will have bikes available infant death for those who cannot afford the A local college student is exchange item. Please be sure to donating fifty lightly used- bi register ensuring proper sizes are From Staff Reports the baby was with a woman in cycles to low income youth available. [email protected] Dallas and when officers went who are residents of Farm- Bicycle selections will be in to question the woman they ersville and Merit. The event order of registration and pickup A couple that lives south of learned that the couple asked will be held Saturday, Aug. times are listed according to bi- Princeton was arrested Satur- her to say that her own baby 22 from 8 a.m. to noon in the cycle sizes at check out. They are day, Aug. 8, in connection with was the Grabowski baby. back parking lot of the Farm- as follows: the unreported death of an in- The couple made a statement ersville Dairy Queen. The or- 20” girl pick up time 8 a.m. fant. to investigators af- ganizers request an exchange 20” boy pick up time 8:30 a.m. The couple, ter their arrest that (if possible) for one of the 18” girl pick up time 9 a.m. 42-year-old Roland they awoke on July following items to be used to 18” boy pick up time 9:30 a.m. Grabowski and 29 to find their fix the next set of bicycles for 16” girl pick up time 10 a.m. 41-year-old Donna 1-week-old baby, exchange. 16” boy pick up time 10:30 a.m. Grabowski, face Micah, deceased in 12.5” girl pick up time 11 a.m. charges of aban- their bed and that Items needed are: • 26 X 1.75 - 2.25 Inner Tube sure the proper sizes are avail- 12.5” boy pick up time 11:30 donment/endanger- the failed to notify • New or lightly used bicycle Children must be present at able.

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