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Achievement in Educa-tion Award; she has taught in public schools for 32 years and 29 of those years in Mc-Gregor . . . Pre-K plan was ap-proved by the school board on a modified full day program . . . The Crawford Sun was purchased 50 years ago by Thomas and Bonnie Mooney, owners and publishers of The McGregor Mirror . . . Dustin Engelbrecht, a former gradu-ate of Crawford High School, was honored by Cedar Park Regional Medical Center with the Daisy Award . . . Twenty-two earned a trip to state from the McGregor Summer track program . . . Bulldogs picked sixth in Texas Football maga-zine . . . Faith Leigh Judy, first grandchild of Kenneth and Marilyn Judy and daughter of Captain Andrew and First Lieutenant Catarina Judy was born . . . Both the McGregor High School and 8th grade bands advanced to the state level with their recordings . . . Dawsen Holly and Zane Mach, of Crawford, both competed in the USA Track

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Crawford Lady Pirates win State

and Field National Junior Olympic 2000 meter steeple chase in California . . . Obitu-aries included Lydia Mae Pat-terson, Mary Mendez, Bill Velten, Harold Lehrmann. . .

AUGUST 2019—McGregor students were

set to report on Aug. 14 for the first day of classes . . . Proposed tax rate was in line with where the city had been for the past 20 years, accord-ing to Mayor Jimmy Hering; the proposed tax rate would cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 an addi-tional $7.40 from last year’s amount . . . Congressman Bill Flores spoke at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the McGregor High School Com-mons . . . Bulldog prospects hit the ground running on Aug. 5 for the first day of two a day workouts . . . Crawford Pirates two a day workouts also started on Aug. 5 with between 45 and 50 athletes expected to show up . . . The third McGregor natural stone

marker was placed in front of Ferguson Distribution Cen-ter . . . Safety Awareness was the topic of the McGregor Chamber of Commerce’s Greatest Small Town lun-cheon . . . Let’s Dance Mc-Gregor made their first trip to New York City where they toured for six days . . . A to-tal of 56 Bulldogs showed up for the first day of practice . . . Golf Coach Jason Parsons received his State Champion-ship ring at the annual Hall of Honor Ceremony where it highlighted current State Champions in all sports; the girls were set to receive their rings at halftime of the Mc-Gregor-Clifton football game . . . Golden Flames earned two Sweepstakes Awards; mem-bers include Yailin Espinoza, Kamrie Dagley, Jordan Chan-dler, Gaby Valdez, Vanessa Simmons, Jasmine Simmons, Ashley Mercado, Kathryn Miller, Aaliyah Webb, Carina Kocienski. . . Top perform-ers at the State Summer Track meet from McGregor were Abigal Smith, 3rd in the 8U high jump; Audrey Lillard, 4th in the shot put and 5th in the discus in 16U girls; Chase Lillard, 27th in shot put in 12U boys; Bailey Macedo, 16th in shot put in 12U girls; Jase Taylor, 20th in shot put in 10U boys; Makenzie Ham-ilton, 27th in 800 meters and 21st in 1600 meters in 12U girls; Jessika Valdez, 8th in 1600 meters and 21st in 800 meters; Sebastian Valdez, 16th in 1600 meters in 16U boys; Kolt Seward, and Bri-ley Seward placed 4th and 5th in the high jump in 8U boys and 10U girls; Caleb Chan-dler, 8th in high jump in 8U boys; Briley Seward, 17th in long jump; Megan Ray, 24th in long jump in 10U girls; Megan Ray, Presley Parker, Kristi Taylor, Addison May-field placed 6th in 4x400 relay in 10U girls . . . Local farmer Jimmy Scheele reported that the local corn crop was ex-cellent with his first load of corn producing a 60-pound yield . . . McGregor Schools TEA rating improved from a C to a high B which was good news for the district . . . Two McGregor teachers re-ceived special honors; Kris Bumsted received the award for Educators Credit Union Teacher of the Month and KXXV Student Choice Award recipient; Celeste Fisk won the VFW Teacher of the Year Award . . . Congressman Bill Flores congratulated the state champion girls golf team, which includes Abby De Je-sus, Maggie Parmer, Kiley Coats, Bella Valdez and Paige Gilstrap . . . Crawford First United Methodists returned from Mission Project in Azle, Texas . . . Cristen Leigh Nel-son and Stephen Michael Simcox were united in mar-riage . . . Rhett Revolution named TFNB Charity Cham-pion; the announcement was made at Ridgewood Country Club . . . Kululu Atsiaya, a re-cipient of Christmas Shoebox, shared his experience at Col-lege Avenue Baptist Church

. . . City council adopted the 2019-2020 budget and ratified a property tax increase. . . Fer-guson Inc. made a $2500 do-nation to the McGregor Food Pantry; the representative told Kevin Houchin that the contribution came from the corporate office because they were so impressed with the lo-cal food drive . . . Supt. James Lenamon reported an increase of 92 students . . . Obituaries included Patrick Spence, Er-win Blum, Anderson Thomp-son, Louis Morgan, Joe Mor-gan . . .

SEPTEMBER 2019—Kristen Koch named as

new executive director of McGregor ISD Education Foundation . . . Terry Sloan authored a book on leadership entitled, “Be Everywhere, Do Everything--A beginner’s guide to leadership” . . . Mc-Gregor’s 4-H officers were named; they include Jacob Singer, 1st vice president; J. L. Singer, president; Kirst-en Galle, treasurer; Mabry Miller, health and safety of-ficer; Gracelynn Singer, par-liamentarian; Emily Velin, reporter; Kyndall Houchin, 2nd vice president; Alyssa Bottoms, community service chairman; Ali Denson, secre-tary . . . Bulldogs started off season with win over Marlin 42-28 . . . Both the varsity and junior varsity volleyball girls won games against Holland . . . Pirates defeated Tolar Rat-tlers in first game of season . . . Rotary District Governor Jim Henry attended the local Rotary Club meeting and had his picture made with the of-ficers; Officers include Terry Arp. director; Leann Bow-doin, secretary; Terry Sloan, president; Kyle Paschall, treasurer and president-elect; Jim Lilley, membership chair-man; John Shultz, immediate past president; Walter Brink-man, sergeant at arms . . . The County substation office, previously located across the street from McGregor City Hall, was relocated to 415 A. North Johnson Drive in the old Extraco Bank building . . . City council appointed board members to various boards; Bonnie Mullens and Donnell Pollard were reap-pointed to the Planning and Zoning Commission and Jim Lilley was appointed as an alternate to the commission; Other members of the Plan-ning and Zoning Commis-sion include David Lillard, Pat Richardson, Joe Franks, and alternate Danny Benitez; Dylan Gee was reappointed on the Zoning Board of Ad-justments. Other members are Jeff Burgess, Ella Kelley, Gene Taylor and Alternate Chad Saylors; George Eghotz, who had previously served as an alternate on the Building and Standards Commission was appointed along with Don Bohne; Other members include Bernice Danforth, Linda Thomas, and Alternate Erik Benitez; Kevin Houchin, Frank Leos, and Brandon Young were reappointed on McGregor Economic Devel-

SETH KOHLSCHEEN WON THE SHW CLASS IN DIVI-SION 3 AT THE BOYS STATE POWER LIFTING MEET

opment Corporation Board; Other board members are An-drew Henderson, Sr., Tony Ocampo, and Ottis Foster; Marci Paschall, Joe Diaz, and Monyene Carnes were reappointed on McGregor’s Historic Commission; Other members are Watson Arnold and Terry Sloan; Members of the Advisory Committee for the Exchange are Mayor Jim-my Hering, Kevin Houchin, Van Smith, John Sneed, Ray Dietzman . . . ‘Dogs explode past Bosqueville 56-14 . . . McGregor’s cross country teams won all divisions at the Crawford meet . . . Crawford defeats ranked Clifton Cubs 16-12 . . . Natalie Aviles was crowned Miss McGregor at the Founders Day Pageant; Cordelia Sloan was crowned Miss Teen, and Layla Goff was crowned Miss Little Miss . . . City of McGregor’s sales tax allocation was up 11.20 percent in September . . . Bulldog Booster officers were elected; they are Brandi Chandler, Casie Williams, Bonnie Shaeffer, Board Presi-dent Robbie Jo Allison, Shane Lorenz, and Amy McCauley . . . Bulldogs lose to Rogers Eagles 53-20 . . . Local cross country meet raises $7000 for Project Graduation . . . Pirates whip Rice Bulldogs 28-7 . . . Mary Warrington celebrat-ed her 100th birthday . . . A special ring ceremony was held during halftime of the McGregor-Clifton football game presenting the State Championship golf rings to members of the girls team . . . Founders Day was a huge success . . . McGregor was defeated by Clifton 28-22 . . . Pirates stung by Holland Hor-nets 27-7 . . . MHS classes of 1965, 1974 and 2000 held reunions on Founders Day weekend . . . Obituaries in-cluded Robert Brooks, David Zacharias, John McClure,

Margie Thomas, Sandy Woo-ten, Billie Hinton, Ferne Mor-ris, Floyd Norton . . .

OCTOBER 2019—Crawford Community

Center and Therapeutic Rid-ing Center shared in the $26,000 donations to 15 non-profit organizations from Op-eration Roundup of the Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative . . . Rev. Stephen Ramsdell named as interim pastor of First United Methodist Church . . . Senior Jennifer Torres was crowned McGregor High School homecoming queen . . . Bulldogs edge Maypearl 2017 for first district win . . . Corbin Garakani was named Hero of the Week and Xavier Delgado was named Student of the Week . . . Dinah Mills named as new Chamber Exec-utive Director . . . McGregor cross country teams sweeped the competition at the district meet; both the varsity boys and girls advanced to the Re-gional meet at Huntsville . . . City council voted to expand the Central Business district on Main Street . . . McGregor was up 28.55 percent in Oc-tober for the sales tax alloca-tion payment . . . West edges Bulldogs in offensive show-down 31-28 . . . Both junior high football teams defeated West . . . Pirates defeated Val-ley Mills 21-12 to get off to a 1-0 district start . . Brylee Reineke was named Hero of the Week and Luan Haxhi-jaj was named Student of the Week . . . Rebekah Watkins was crowned queen at the Oglesby homecoming . . . Rocket Federal Credit Union celebrated its 65th anniversary in October; a customer appre-ciation day was held during business hours on Oct. 29 . . . McGregor police and Coryell Ambulance service answered three wrecks including one fa-

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