FRIDAY, $1.00 FEBRUARY 14, 2020 VOLUME 113 doublemountainchronicle.com DoubleDouble MountainMountain NUMBER 24* CHRONICLECCHRONICLEReporting the News for Fisher & Stonewall CountiesE COMMUNITY Gordon Pippin CALENDAR is sponsored by seeks re-election T WAS NOW UN of Fisher County I S F ! Precinct 1 www.ffin.com Feb. 14th HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! BASKETBALL • Aspermont vs All Saints Episcopal (HOME) 5pm JVB, VB Everleigh Hurt from Hobbs, Texas perfected her snow angels during last Wednesday's Snow Day BY JEFF HURT Feb. 15th With snowfall ranging from 10 inches through Wednesday, resulting in more Roby United around Roby and Rotan to as much as than a foot of accumulation in most Methodist Men's 18 inches reported in the Peacock area, areas. Breakfast 8am - motorists avoided the roads, businesses Many businesses closed their doors Good Food & Good called off workdays, schools closed, and Wednesday and Thursday, as TxDOT Fellowship! Bring a kids—and many parents—bundled up discouraged motorists from traveling Gordon Pippin is announcing his for the outdoors and took advantage of to the heavy amounts of snow and Friend! candidacy for re-election as Precinct 1 the rare snowfall that blanketed the ice buildup on roadways. Rotan High Commissioner and is seeking your vote in Double Mountain Region last week. School Freshman, Jordon Daniel, Feb. 17th the March 3 Primary Election. After dropping inches of snow over reinforced the travel warning during Commissioner Pippin began serving Jane Cansino, the Great Basin and Rockies, a series his report for KTXS News Weather, former State Fisher County as a road-hand when he of storms moved into the area last saying “Please stay off the roads, or Republican was 16-years-old, operating equipment Tuesday, leaving little more than a thin you could go slippin.” Daniel also in the summer months while attending layer of ice on the roadways and slush encouraged everyone to stay inside and Executive McCaulley High School. After graduation, in the fields. Temperatures dropped into drink hot coco. Committeewoman he went to work full-time, working for the the 20s as second storm stretching from Even the weekly issue of the Double for 16 years, and county for most of the next decade. Texas to Missouri moved into the area Mountain Chronicle was a day late currently the “I've had the fortunate opportunity to late Tuesday night, bringing the first getting to newsstands due to the Regional Chairman work with a lot of knowledgeable people in measurable snowfall of the year. inclement weather and road conditions for the Gina Parker Fisher County over the years,” said Pippin. While many schools had planned between printer and publisher. So the for Texas Court of He started a business of his own in 1995 on a 10 a.m. start time, as the snow staff of the Chronicle teamed up with Criminal Appeals, where he learned the value of balancing continued to fall through the night, Comprehensive Land Management to hard work and finances. He ran for office Place 3, will be districts opted to use available snow- sponsor a snowman-building contest on in Fisher County in 2004 and he successfully won the race days and closed campuses for the near Facebook. 9:45-10:45 a.m. at against the incumbent almost 16 years ago. future. The snow fell almost nonstop Kids and adults alike trudged... “We have improved the roads in my the Fisher County (SEE SNOW DAY ON PAGE 3) precinct dramatically, and the county courthouse. finances as a whole are better than they have been in years,” said Pippin. Aspermont ISD During his years of service, Pippin School Board has earned the respect of his fellow Meeting 6pm commissioners and continues to be New superintendent for invested in the future of Fisher County. “It's difficult to make major changes in Feb. 18th government in a single term or even two. It takes time, and you have to keep working Stonewall County roads EARLY VOTING on it every year.” BY JEFF HURT BEGINS! As 2020 marks the end of his fourth term in office, Pippin is asking for your After a little less It is anticipated Hoy to excavate the area The Rolling Plains vote to earn a fifth term serving as Fisher than 45 minutes behind will continue working to install a roughly Cotton Growers, Inc. County Precinct 1 Commissioner. After 16 closed doors Monday, alongside Morrow during 32,000-pound tank car to (RPCG) will hold their years, he still loves being a commissioner, the Stonewall County the transition and will serve as a bridge. annual meeting at the getting to help people and keeping things Commissioners hired a be providing regular The bridge served Big Country Hall on the moving forward, inside and outside of the new foreman to oversee reports to the court. as not only a way for grounds of the Taylor courtroom. the county’s road and It was also reported motorists to cross the County Expo Center at Pippin enjoys meeting with the people of bridge department. that the repair work ravine carved by the 9am. Cotton producers, Fisher County, listening to their concerns, The court voted done to County Road washout but would landowners, agribusi- their opinions, and having the chance to unanimously in favor of 460 was completed and allow water to flow ness professionals, local serve them. In his message to the voters of hiring Jackie Morrow holding up nicely against beneath, hopefully elected officials and Fisher County, Pippin said: to replace former road the recent snowmelt and preventing future other interested par- “I will continue to listen to you, because superintendent Don rainfall. washout situations. ties are encouraged to it is you that put me here, and it is you that Nail, who resigned some The road had been While there was some attend. Please visit the I serve. I will always bring to the court the months ago. significantly damaged concern if the plan would RPCG website www. opinions of the voters. I have a voice for the The court recently last May after storms work from a practical rpcotton.org for more people in my precinct, and I will continue appointed Commissioner dumped around five standpoint, recent water information. to use that voice for the improvement of David Hoy as interim inches of rain during a flow brought about from Precinct 1 and Fisher County as a whole. I supervisor until a full- single evening, washing melting snow and the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ask for your vote in the upcoming election time replacement could out the road, which subsequent rainfall so that I can continue to do the work I’ve be hired. He has been remained impassable is proving the plan is started.” evaluating roads and for months. Over the working sufficiently. making assessments course of the summer, Paid Political Ad Paid for by Gordon Pippin for Precinct 1 Commissioner of work to be done in the county worked with the upcoming months. private contractors Re-Elect PRESTON MARTIN FISHER COUNTY PRECINCT 3 COMMISSIONER "Vote for my Grandpa!" Braxton - Paid for by Preston Martin for Precinct 3 Commissioner PAGE 2 FEBRUARY 14, 2020 WWW.DOUBLEMOUNTAINCHRONICLE.COM COMMUNITY CALENDAR (Continued from page 1) Feb. 18th WWW.DOUbeLMOUNTAINCHRONICLE.COM BASKETBALL 114 E. SAMMY BAUGH OR • Aspermont vs All PO DRAWER A, Saints Episcopal ROTAN, TEXAS 79546 TELepHONE 325.735.2562 (HOME) 5pm JVB, FAX 325.735.2230 VB Patricia Hurt BASEBALL Publisher • Rotan vs [email protected] Stanton (HOME) 4pm - Jeff Hurt Scrimmage Editor [email protected] Aspermont City Patricia Porter Council Meeting Business 6pm at City Hall Manager business@dmchronicle. 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