The SDN Friday Night Football Scoreboard Sweetwater 44 Hermleigh 38 Wylie 27 Veribest 6 Snyder 29 Motley County 28 Birdville 7 Westbrook 54 Robert Lee 26 Brownwood 13 Big Spring 29 Highland 8 Ira 34 Alvarado 16 Hereford 19 Garden City 54 Vol. 67 No. 121 Weekend, Sept. 19-20, 2015 24 Pages • $1.25 Home of Snyder trustees to Lisa Hartzog discuss search firms The Snyder ISD board of trustees will meet Monday to review the three superintendent search firms they met with on Tuesday and select one for the district’s search. The board interviewed Griggs & Associates, Texas Association of School Boards and Leasor Crass. Trustees also will also receive an update on $117,426 for switch and wireless upgrades at Snyder High School and Snyder Junior High School. It is possible the district will be reimbursed through E-rate, which is a federal program funded by fees collected by tele- communications companies. The board approved the upgrades in March. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the administration building Jerry Don Smith boardroom and is open to the public. U.S. Army 1964-67 Today’s Veteran sponsored by Chamber board to review Nix’s Auto & Tire Service 1510 25th Street 573-3567 SDN Photo/Shirley A. Gorman HOT fund requests Snyder High School 2015 homecoming queen nominees are (l-r) Shanice Cobb, Bailey Garcia, Chloee James, Megan Leatherwood and Alyssa Martini. The Snyder Chamber of Com- The board will vote on those re- WEATHER merce board of directors will quests Monday. discuss hotel occupancy tax They were Cogdell Memo- (HOT) fund requests, including rial Hospital Foundation’s Oct. 3 SHS to celebrate homecoming next week voting on those that were tabled gala ($2,500), the Scurry County Snyder High School will celebrate homecom- lot. The parade will begin at 2 p.m., travel down last month, during Monday’s Museum’s Magic of Christmas ing next week. College Ave. to the downtown square and end meeting. on Dec. 4 ($2,600); Big Coun- Organizers are focusing on the parade and on the First Baptist Church parking lot. Three new HOT fund requests try Christmas Ball on Dec. 12, want more entries this year. A pep rally will follow on the westside park- will be heard on Monday. ($4,000) and Western Texas Col- “We want to do better than 2014 when four ing lot of the Scurry County Courthouse. Elyndabeth Toland is request- lege’s Nov. 19-21 Women Bas- floats were in the parade,” organizer Barbara “We are not using the gazebo area because ing $2,500 for a December event ketball Classic ($6,230). at Heritage Village. Also on Monday, the board Kaylee-ann Ivey Leatherwood said. “We want everybody, in- there isn’t enough room,” Leatherwood said. cluding current and former students and future The band, color guard, choir, cheerleaders Zane Sterling will request will appoint a nominating com- Friday’s high: 96 degrees Tigers and cheerleaders to enter the parade.” and Gold Line dance team will perform during $2,500 for A Deceitful Day in mittee to replace the two board 66 degrees Friday’s low: There is no fee but participants are asked to the pep rally. Deception, Sterling’s original members whose terms expire 7 a.m. reading today: 66 play that will run Nov. 6-8 at the in December. They are Michael degrees fill out entry forms at the high school office so Homecoming queen nominees will be intro- organizers can determine a “head count.” duced during the pep rally. They are Shanice Ritz Community Theatre. Rodriguez and Merle Taylor. Precipitation: 0.01 of an Josh Ortegon, events coordi- Board members will also be inch However, Leatherwood encouraged people to Cobb, Bailey Garcia, Chloee James, Megan line up in the parade even if they do not register. Leatherwood and Alyssa Martini. nator, will ask for $5,000 for the given an update on the White 2015 precipitation: 24.24 Oct. 2-3 White Buffalo Days, Buffalo Bikefest trademark is- inches All Snyder schools will have an early release The 2015 queen will be crowned during half- time on Friday. time of Friday’s football game between Snyder which will be held on the down- sue. Parade entries will begin lining up at 1 p.m. and Midland Greenwood. The game is sched- town square. Chamber officials are looking ODAY S UOTE Friday on the Snyder Shopping Center parking uled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Four requests were tabled last to rebrand the annual bike rally T ’ Q month due to a lack of a quorum. with a new name. What a man does defiles him, not what is done by oth- ers. - William G. Golding Man ordered to Hall of Honor welcomes three Snyder standouts prison following By Larry McCarty Holt recalled a football game LOTTERY SDN Sports Editor at San Angelo during his fresh- Friday’s Results conviction man season. Mega Millions A Snyder man is headed Three former standout ath- “We had only 15 players and 17-34-35-51-65 MB: 7 to state jail after a pair of letes and the recipient of the trailed 42-0 at halftime to Edi- Megaplier: 3 convictions in District Judge Lifetime Achievement Award son,” he said. “We were expect- Ernie B. Armstrong’s court- credited community support for ing a stern talk from the coach Cash Five room. their success during Friday’s at halftime, but he stood up and 6-23-28-30-31 Sabino Lara, 41, entered induction into the Snyder ISD said ‘We are going to pray for guilty pleas to a state-jail Athletic Hall of Honor at Martha rain.’ We went out for the third Pick 3 Morning felony charge of theft and Ann Woman’s Club. quarter and rain started to fall 4-7-5 Sum It Up: 16 a state-jail felony charge of Kenneth “Mickey” McGrew, heavily. They called the game Pick 3 Day delivery of a controlled sub- a standout football and track because they didn’t want us to 3-3-3 Sum It Up: 9 stance. athlete, David Holt, who played tear up the field because another On the theft conviction, football and baseball, and Mike game was scheduled to be played Pick 3 Evening McWilliams, a five-sport ath- the next night.” 4-3-8 Sum It Up: 15 Lara was given a one-year sentence and ordered to pay lete, were inducted. Holt remembered a game at Pick 3 Night a $1,500 fine, $2,500 in resti- Gary Bouher, who worked Big Spring and another halftime 4-0-2 Sum It Up: 6 tution and $909 in court and in maintenance for the Snyder talk. attorney fees. athletic department for 18 years, “Coach (Speedy) Moffett Daily 4 Morning On October 8, 2014 he received the Lifetime Achieve- asked coach (Mule) Kyzer to 9-6-5-8 Sum It Up: 28 SDN Photo/Larry McCarty attempted to steal a utility ment Award. Bouher worked for Kenneth “Mickey” McGrew talked with childhood friend Beth McDaniel draw up Big Spring’s defense Daily 4 Day trailer from his victim. Western Texas College before after the induction of the 2015 Snyder Athletic Hall of Honor class on on the board,” he said. “Coach 4-7-9-1 Sum It Up: 21 He was also given a one- joining the Snyder staff. Friday at Martha Ann Woman’s Club. Moffett then said ‘Our problem Daily 4 Evening year sentence on the delivery McGrew said it was an honor is that they have 13 players on 3-8-1-2 Sum It Up: 14 charge, and ordered to pay a to play for Snyder. the best teams in Snyder history road games.” defense.’” “It was my honor to put on McWilliams earned letters Daily 4 Night $1,500 fine, $180 in restitu- during his sophomore season. Holt played on Snyder’s 1965 the black and gold and look in football, basketball, tennis, 6-1-3-8 Sum It Up: 18 tion and $969 in court and The Tigers were 10-0 in 1956 state baseball tournament team attorney fees. into the stands to see so many and lost in the final minute to that lost in the state tournament baseball and track and field. He On May 19, Lara delivered people from Snyder in the stadi- Graham in the playoffs. semifinals to Nolan Ryan and also said the community was ASK US less than a gram of metham- ums,” said McGrew, a 1959 SHS “I don’t like losing and that Alvin. why he and others are now suc- graduate. “I was also honored to cessful. Q. — Where can a person phetamine to Lorenzo Ar- was the first loss in my playing “This is a tremendous honor play with great teammates and “I appreciate the community register for the White Buffalo redondo, according to court career since the seventh grade,” and the 50th anniversary of my for great coaches. I played next and not just for what they did for Stampede? documents. McGrew said. “I always saluted senior year in high school,” Holt to one of the best friends on the me growing up, but when I re- A. — College on the Square. The sentences will be Snyder fans for supporting us, said. “I was fortunate to have served concurrently. line — Bill Rinehart.” win or lose. They would not be great teachers. We had coaches turned from pharmacy school,” McGrew played for one of just at the home games, but the who were a great influence.” See Hall, Page 10A INDEX Classifieds..................6A-9A WTC renovations to include alternate work Save Second Base Fest set for Sept.