Category: Howe News Bulletin

Howe Class of 2015 graduate, Kendall Nelms, will be competing this weekend for the title of Miss Texas.  Nelms, who was named Miss Lake Worth earlier in the year put her square in the running for Miss Texas.

The schedule begins on Saturday with a fashion show at Northpark Center in Dallas.  Preliminaries will take place from Tuesday through Thursday before Miss Texas is crowned on Saturday night, July 4.

The Howe Enterprise would like to send best wishes to Nelms on her opportunity of becoming Miss Texas.

 

 

 

The City of Howe has experienced a water main leak. While water service should continue to City of Howe water customers without interruption, the city requests voluntary water conservation measures immediately to insure water service continues for everyone. These conservation measures should include no vehicle washing, limiting clothes and dishwasher use to essential purposes and limiting water use in support of health and hygiene only for the next 24 hours. This request for water conservation measures will expire at 10 AM tomorrow,Tuesday, June 23.

 

Posted to the “Know Howe” page at howetexas.org today was a promotional video that has been created by the Howe Development Alliance to help recruit businesses and developers to Howe.  The video was compiled by Heritage Preservation Studios and put together from footage mostly shot on Founders Day weekend.

HDA intends to use this video to send to major commercial real estate investors.

 

UPDATE:  POWER HAS BEEN RESTORED IN VAN ALSTYNE, HOWE AND ANNA.

According to a report from KXII, Van Alstyne Police are on the scene of a fatality accident this morning.  It happened at SB Hwy 75 between Farmington & FM 121. The police chief confirms that one person has died. Careflight may land on the highway. The highway will be shut down north of F-M 121.

 

The Howe Ex-Students Association is providing a website for alumni to update their contact information so that information about the 2015 All-School Reunion can be distributed.  Those wanting to eat at the luncheon on Sept. 19 will need to purchase a $10 ticket in advance, therefore, the association will need to contact those individuals. The reunion committee has selected McAlister’s Deli and the meal will include a sandwich, chips, cookies and a tea. In coming weeks, ex-students will be able to make their ticket purchases for the lunch and the Saturday night concert featuring Beatles cover band Hard Night’s Day.

By clicking the link below, there is a drop-down box stating whether you do or do not wish to have your contact information published in the Howe Ex-Students Directory.

http://howehsalumni.wufoo.com/forms/m7x3k1/

For general questions regarding the reunion, please email howehsalumni@gmail.com

According to the Grayson County Scanner, northbound US  75 from Howe through Denison, a vehicle has lost some metal and possibly nails on the highway.  Numerous cars have flat tires.

Please take precaution and slow down. Sherman and Denison are experiencing numerous wrecks thought to be attributed to the road hazard coupled with the bad weather.

 

With the resignation of Dennis Bozeman from the Howe City Council last month, that left a seat open for Mayor Jeff Stanley to appoint.  The council members unanimously voted to support the mayor’s choice of Darren Foster.  Foster will be sworn in at the next council meeting.

Bozeman resigned his seat after two terms due to family health issues out of state.

Full story in Monday’s Howe Enterprise.

Back in the fall of 1994, Patty Wiggins started a non-profit preschool called “Wee Care” owned and operated by The First United Methodist Church of Howe. Twenty years later, the preschool is going strong and coming up on 21 years.

The first year, they had three classes with 20 students enrolled. Those students varied from 18 months through five-years-old. At the present time, they have five classes and average 38 students each school year.

The preschool was opened as an outreach ministry to the children and parents of The First United Methodist Church and the surrounding communities.

“The purpose of our preschool was and is to give our children the finest early childhood education possible and to direct attention to the children’s faith through value education.” said Patty Wiggins.

Wee Care has been under the direction of six different directors in the 20 years. Wiggins was the first director and stayed ten years, which is the longest tenured. She was followed by Carolyn Wallace, Jennie Bullard, Elisha Robertson, Kelly Weatherly and now Tiffany Murphy is entering her second year. Murphy has served as a teacher and substitute in previous years. This fall will be her fourth year overall at Wee Care.

“It’s all based on a Christian curriculum, but it’s part of a Texas standardized curriculum.” said Murphy. “They are actually learning what they would be learning in a regular preschool.”

This fall, Wee Care will be state regulated for the first time in a while. Murphy will be going to a class in July to get her certificates.

Regular church members pay $90 per month, while non-church members pay $110 per month. They discount for siblings and have a $65 non-refundable registration fee.

“Right now we have 26 paid and pre-registered for the school year which is more than we’ve ever had pre-registered.” said Murphy. “We can take up to 52. The max for toddlers is nine and we had that last year but it was a bit much.”

Four teachers and one aid will staff the organization along with Murphy. The operation starts on the first Tuesday in September and is a Tuesday and Thursday schedule from 8:15am to 1:15pm. The summer break starts on the second week of May just before Memorial Day.

 

The ‘junk market’ is hot thanks to cable television shows that gear towards the ability to ‘pick’ from places such as salvage yards that are thought to hold rusted piles of unusable items. However, local picker Debbie Wallis has found a niche in North Texas and had made a business out of junk in Howe for two years. Her business named Salvage Junky has done well in the local Howe Market.

While Wallis has homed in downtown Howe for the two years of her operation, she has moved to the more spacious location at 200 S. Denny Street. The location, across from First Baptist Church gives her more options such as the idea of starting a farmers market on her site. She is currently seeking those that want to participate in a community farmers market.

“I like the amount of traffic on Hwy 5 and I like still being close to the four-way stop (at Haning and Denny Streets).” said Wallis.

It took two years for Denison to get their farmers market started, but Wallis thinks that Howe could possibly get that done much quicker.

The Wallis family has completely renovated the building, which used to house Advantage Business Machines before they moved into the historic Chisum building. They’ve painted inside and out and have installed a rustic tin ceiling.

Wallis says that they have a current special going on that will save customers 20 percent if they wear their ‘Gone Junkin’ shirts.

Wallis travels to trade shows frequently and will be in Granbury, Texas next Friday and Saturday and will be closed due to that. She does several road shows each year including ‘Junk Hippy’, ‘Old Glory’ in Colorado and ‘Loot.’

“I’m preparing for Roundtop and if that works out I’ll do that show twice a year in the spring and the fall.” said Wallis.

Salvage Junky’s hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10am – 6pm and Saturdays from 9am – noon.