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Wednesday, Wood County April 12, 2017 Vol. 2 No. 15 Two Sections MONITOR 50 cents www.woodcountymonitor.com Athletes win trophies, hearts on special day Over 100 athletes competed for special recognition at a state-sanc- tioned Special Olympics meet at the Quitman High School track fi eld on Friday. Athletes hailed from Como-Pickton, Mabank and Sulphur Springs ISDs, as well as from Hopkins, Upshur and Wood Counties. The Quitman event was sponsored by Pilot Club of Quitman, with a host of volunteers from the surrounding area, included the Quitman Anchor Club. During the opening ceremony, all cheered for the athletes as they pa- DOWNTOWN LIMO-SCENE raded around the track with music, fl ag waving, cheering clowns and many encouraging bystanders. Competitors displayed determina- Smiles, marquee tion, courage, and high spirits in their individual quests for medals. But as important, there were new friend- light up the night See OLYMPICS, Page 7A for Mineola prom By DORIS NEWMAN [email protected] An idea that occurred years ago was carried through with months of planning and days and hours of work when the red carpet was rolled out in downtown Saturday for the 2017 Mineola High School Prom. The event saw 187 tickets sold and steady transports via limousines and antique cars from the First Baptist Church Student Center to the front door of Select Theater. The home- All elements of the Select Theater marquee were put in working order as it bears the town theater was transformed with the stage theme of what the prom committee hoped to accomplish with this year’s event. TOP: Brian being rebuilt to accommodate the weight of Lyke arrives at prom in signature style waving to the “paparazzi” after rolling down the dancers. Members of the Kiwanis Club were dark-tinted limousine window. The prom committee made arrangements for the prom-go- helped by 11th and 12th grade students in con- ers to be delivered to the red carpet in front of Select Theater in either a vintage car or limo. It was all excitement and smiles as this Upshur structing platforms to serve as “terraces” on Downtown sparkled even more than usual with the prom decorations Saturday evening. See Crew team member finished the 1600 meter relay related photos, Page 10A. (Monitor photos by Doris Newman) See PROM, Page 6A race. (Monitor photo by Larry Tucker) The Junior Historians Alba Council ponders placed a wreath at the Veterans Memorial Thursday honoring the personnel, again centennial of the nation’s entry into World War I. By TOMMY ANDERSON The Mineola casualty [email protected] list includes George M. Abney, Adolphus Gaspard What appeared to be a rather short Busby, James Madison agenda took the Alba City Council two Carroll, Luckett White hours to work through last Monday, April Cochran, David Claud 6. A large portion of that time was spent Harry, Cody Bill Johnson, rehashing items that have appeared on Harry Strickland and the agenda in the past, and some will be Benjamin Earnest Veitch. on the agenda again in the future as no The eight doughboys were defi nitive decisions were made on them killed in action in France in the meeting. or died from injuries One of those items is the revision of received in France. The the personnel policy which has been the Junior Historians are Seth source of council conversation for many Hudgins, Aaron Stanford, months. The council did make a bit of Dalton Harris, Austin Witt progress on the topic Monday night as and Cameron Sorenson. they had a copy of the Sulphur Springs The group is planning a Memorial Day ceremony, personnel manual to review. “Remembering the Great Alderman Preston “Sonny” Hass com- War,” at noon, May 29 at mented, “This is based on Sulphur Springs St. Dunstan’s Episcopal and a lot of it does not fl y for us. There Church. (Photo courtesy are things in this that will never apply to Jim Phillips) See PERSONNEL, Page 5A This Week in Your Robotic milking machine Neighborhood changes Waldos’ way of life • The Wood County Junior Livestock By DORIS NEWMAN And now that owner NaRi- Show will be Thursday through Satur- [email protected] sa Waldo, and her son Trenton, day at the Jack Cross Pavilion at Winns- have dedicated a very large in- boro City Park. Events start at 1 p.m. Former slaves wandered vestment to a robotic milking Thursday, 8 a.m. Friday and the buyers’ looking for the land of milk machine (the fi rst in the state stew is at noon and auction at 1 p.m. and honey for 40 years. But for of Texas) and the building that Saturday. those who have found Waldo houses it, their Guernsey cows’ • On Friday the Mineola Lady Jack- Way Dairy Farm and its milk – ets will host Quitman’s Lady Bulldogs who needs honey? See WALDO, Page 4A starting at 5:30 p.m. The Quitman Bull- The computerization of the milking process allows milk to be analyzed and if any dogs will host the Mineola Yellowjack- problems are detected, provides information on what needs to be done for the indi- ets starting at 11 a.m. on Friday. vidual cow. (Monitor photo by Doris Newman) Church Directory .............................8A Obituaries ......................................9A Classifieds ................................. 4-5B Opinion ..........................................2A Sports Inside Community Calendar.......................2A Police/Fire Reports ........................5A Mineola boys track Commissioners approve www.facebook.com/WoodCountyMonitor Meals on Wheels ............................9A Sports ..................................Section B claims fi rst place title Sanderson Farms abatement 2A Wood County Monitor • Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Tucker’s Turf By Larry Tucker For me it started in the late 1950s with The next big music Redding and Jerry Butler. In college it The southern rock of the Allman Broth- a small transistor radio underneath my moment for me was became increasingly more hard rock. I ers, Lynard Skynard, the Outlaws, Molly pillow after bedtime. Up to then most of when I saw and heard took a job parking cars at Dallas’ Memo- Hatchet and Mountain gave me hope in a the music I was around was older hymns the Beatles on Ed rial Auditorium where I got to experience new era of rock. and southern gospel. My dad would Sullivan. I really liked concerts with Alice Cooper, The Who, Today, I listen to all kinds of music serve as the interim song leader at Bruton the Beatles and their Wishbone Ash, Humble Pie, Grand Funk and have a special place for heavy metal Road Baptist Church every time we had brand of rock music, Railroad, the Moody Blues, Credence acts I have seen in recent years such as a music leader leave and do it until the but it was another Clearwater Revival, Led Zepplin (three Godsmack, Shinedown, Papa Roach, church “called” a full-timer. “Onward British group that times) and the early Eagles. Black Sabbath, Megadeath and Motley Christian Soldiers” was about as rowdy really got me pumped Woodstock came along and my music Crue. One thing I noticed about the metal as we ever got at my independent funda- LARRY TUCKER up before my football turned to 10 Years After, Carlos Santana, crowd is that anyone is welcome. You mental church three times a week and games as a Fred F. Florence Gladiator Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Joan see all walks of life from nerds to bikers; twice a year at revival time when Bro. in the fall of 1965. It was the rag tag and Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jeff erson Airplane from hippies to rednecks; from handi- Lester Rolloff or Bro. Arthur Dimsdale rowdy rocking Mick Jagger and the and Sly and the Family Stone. It was a capped to jock and may other diff erent would come for a week-long revival. Rolling Stones blasting “I Can’t Get No time of peace and love along with pro- kinds of people. Heavy metal is a genre The fi rst time I heard rock n’ roll which Satisfaction.” It was also a Stones tune testing against racism and a really nasty which is all inclusive. I remember was when my Aunt Albi- in the fall of 1966, “Time is On My Side” war. The music in my life has gott en me na Stedry had me listen to some Elvis which gave me hope my girl would come In the 1970s I embraced more hard rock through a lot of rough times including 20 Presley songs such as “Hound Dog,” back to me after leaving me for another and a thing called Progressive Country, a years of addictions when music was one “Jailhouse Rock” and “Love Me Tender.” red head. Texas Music hybrid where cowboys and of my few realities. I even sat through the “Love Me Tender” By this time I was also entrenched in hippies could party together and live in My wife and I spend several evenings movie at the Majestic Theater in down- Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother and the Hold- peace. each week listening to old rock songs, town Dallas. ing Company with lead vocals by Janis Willie Nelson became my hero in the Texas Music, and even Gordon Lightfoot. But things changed for me when I start- Joplin and the moody and reclusive Jim mid 1970s and his “Phases and Stages” And each time we listen for any amount ed listening to KLIF the Mighty 1190, top Morrison and the Doors. The summer I album got me through my fi rst divorce. I of time, a song will always come on 40 radio with Gordon McClendon. I fell spent flat on my back after my first spinal soon discovered Waylon Jennings, B.W.