The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce announced last week that they will have their annual Christmas parade on Dec. 12 starting at 4:30 pm. This will once again allow for the Highway 5 Band to perform in all three Christmas parades on Dec. 12. The Anna parade starts at noon, and Van Alstyne will start at 2 pm. That allows time for the entire three-city-communities to spend the day watching parades.
The Howe Chamber is still in its infancy stages after regrouping and reorganizing late last year. Keep Howe Beautiful actually sponsored the Christmas parade in 2014, but the chamber has taken over those responsibilities which allows for Keep Howe Beautiful to focus on the things in which they were established to do.
The chamber will have no fee to enter a float in the parade, but some parameters must be met in order to enter. No theme has been announced just yet. In 2014, the parade theme was entitled “It’s A Beautiful Town” – inspired by the legendary film, “It’s a Beautiful Life.”
Information regarding registration for floats and routes will be released shortly by the chamber. Assumed route is the same as 2014 with a trip through downtown.
On October 1 at 3pm, Howe will feature a farmers market located on the property of Salvage Junky at 200 S. Denny St. The market will take place every other Thursday in the beginning unless demand requires for more days.
Wesson Farms and Salvage Junky have committed to work together through this fall. Time will tell if the partnership continues in 2016. “This growing season is just a couple of months.” said Salvage Junky owner Debbie Wallis.
“They’re in it full-time and they say that all day doesn’t really pay off so they wanted to do it from 3pm to 6pm. I figure we can test the market that way and hope it does good.”
Wesson Farms is part of a co-op of local farmers that follow the same growing practices. They say this allows them to offer a wider variety of quality, locally grown produce for their customers to enjoy.
Wesson’s products include a vast variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as pickles, honey, pecans and more. They offer a full line of bath and skincare products that include soaps, lotions, bath balms, scrubs but no word whether those products will be available in Howe.
“They have this one truck called the veggie truck and I hope they bring that.” said Wallis. “I can’t wait to see them when they come out.”
In conjunction to the farmers market, Wallis says that Udderly Rustic will be on-site as well with their soaps that are made with raw milk from their own goat herds. Their soaps are rustic and incorporate a little color to the natural beauty of the goats milk.
Also at Salvage Junky during those hours will be Mama Suzy’s Sweets and Eats. Mama Suzy will bring her breads, pies and lots of sweet treats on the days of the farmers market.
Wallis also said that she will be holding a pumpkin patch during the month of October at her location. 500 pumpkins are on their way to her location and she will begin sales of those on October 6.
“We’ll have to unload the truck and get them all set up.” said Wallis. “What I’m hoping for is sales for pumpkins and to set up a picture prop to have family pictures made. Everyone loves to have their pictures made with pumpkins. I’m going to invite the preschool and the daycare to come over for a field trip.”
Wallis says that he hopes the community takes to the farmers market because of the need of fresh produce in Howe. Without a grocery store, she thinks it will be very popular.
“I told them that there was no competition.” said Wallis. “If people will support them, they’ll probably be back for the spring.”
Typically, farmers markets are a seasonal business starting around May and ending in October or November.
“If smaller vendors want to get involved and want to be involved every Thursday, we’ll be open for that.” said Wallis.
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Sep 30 – At approximately 5:10 pm, Howe Police Officers arrested a 28-year-old Howe man at his residence in the 700 block of N. Collins Freeway on a warrant for Aggravated Assault. The warrant was the result of an investigation into an altercation at the residence a day earlier in which the suspect assaulted an 18-year-old Tom Bean man. The victim in the case required medical treatment to close a gash to the top of his head. Other individuals may be facing charges for making a false report to a peace officer.
Photo courtesy of Howe Police Department
Sep 26 – At approximately 11:53p, Howe Police Officer David Morris arrested a 52-year-old Sherman man for DWI after stopping him on Hwy 75. The stop was a result of a motorist complaint of a reckless driver. The suspect failed a sobriety test and was taken to a nearby hospital for a consensual blood draw. He was then taken to the Grayson County Jail.
Sep 26 – At approximately 2:25 am, Howe Police Officer Keith Milks arrested a 27-year-old Farmersville man for DWI after stopping him on Van Alstyne Parkway and US 75. The stop occurred after the officer saw the man driving erratically. After failing a sobriety test, the man was taken to a nearby hospital for a blood draw, and subsequently taken to the Grayson County Jail.
Howe (4-0) is ranked #8 in the state in Class 3A, Div II (MaxPreps). Pottsboro (4-0) is ranked #1 in the state in Class 3A, Div I (MaxPreps).
Howe’s offense is scoring 39.25 points per game, which is better than any Howe team has ever finished. The closest is 1998’s Bulldogs, who finished the season at 33.83.
Howe’s defense is giving up 7.00 points per game in 2015 which is the best since 1991 (6.91). The defense right now is on pace to rank 9th in school history for points allowed per game.
Howe is outscoring their opponents by 32.25 points per game in 2015. That is on pace to be the best in school history ahead of the 1940 Howe Bulldogs who outscored their opponents by an average of 27.2 points per contest.
Pottsboro’s offense and defense are even more impressive by scoring 186 points (46.5 points per game) and allowing 22 points (5.5 points per game). They are outscoring their opponents by an average score of 41. They say this is their best team they’ve ever had in Pottsboro.
Pottsboro hasn’t lost a district game since 2010, when Howe beat them, 20-13 at Bulldog Stadium.
The Bulldogs are 4-0 for the first time since 2010.
Howe is 10-16-1 vs. Pottsboro since the first game played back on 11/3/1972. Pottsboro has won 4 in a row and 7 of the last 8 meetings. The last time the Bulldogs won at Pottsboro was on 10/14/1988, 21-14. Howe has since gone 0-4 in the 27 years since 1988. Howe is 4-8-1 in Pottsboro overall.
Prior to Matt Poe becoming the Cardinals’ head coach, Howe and Pottsboro were nearly identical vs. each other. Before Poe, Pottsboro led the series 10-9-1 with Howe outscoring Pottsboro, 294-293. Since Poe, Pottsboro is 4-0 and have outscored Howe, 262-79.
