Author: Howe Enterprise

Howe City Administrator Joe Shephard secured a $187,000 Community Development Block Grant in 2015 that is now paying off for the city.  The improved focus area is Bean Street, Travis Street, Jones Street, Neal Street, parts of Young Street and parts of College Street. In total, the project calls for 121,000 square feet of road improvements. Today, crews began working on Travis Street.

This city’s matching portion of the grant is nearly $30,000.  Shephard told the city council back in February of 2015 that the city budgeted $50,000 for street repair and that the matching funds would come from that balance.

The factors in acquiring the grant were average household income in the area and conditions of the streets.  That section of Howe met the criteria needed to qualify for the grant.

Located in a storage shed next to the old two-story Chisum home on Duke Street in Howe is a group of students from Kingdom Country Academy that produced a robot that finished first in a competition of 42 public and private schools.  In the video, the robot turns on the irrigation system, plants seeds (golf balls) and picks corn while placing the corn in production.

Look for a full story about these impressive students  in this week’s Howe Enterprise.

Cody Davis, of the St. Louis Rams is again on the NFL’s Pro Bowl ballot for Special Teams.  His parents Cindy (Boatman, 1978) and David Davis ( 1975) both graduated from Howe High School. You can help Davis make a trip to the Pro B0wl by going to
NFL.com/probowlvote and clicking on ST for Special Teams and find Cody Davis
for the Rams, click on his name, then a green check mark comes up, go to the
bottom of that page and click submit, it will then take you to another page, roll up to top
which will thank you for your vote and ask if you want to vote again.  The Davis family would appreciate your vote.

Cody Davis is not from Howe, Texas, but both of his parents Howe parents raised him in Stephenville where he attended Stephenville High School.  He was named an Associated Press Class 4A Second-team All-state selection, and was voted the District 8-4A Defensive MVP after a senior season. He was inducted into the Stephenville High School Hall of Fame on September 26, 2014.

Davis played collegiate ball at Texas Tech. As a senior in 2012, Davis was a 1st Team Capital One Academic All-American and was a Second-team All-Big 12 selection for the second consecutive season after making 84 solo tackles and 101 total tackles. He finished his Texas Tech career with 49 starts, including 22 consecutive starts at safety.

Davis was signed as an undrafted free agent by the St. Louis Rams on April 27, 2013 after not being drafted in the 2013 NFL Draft.