Category: Howe News Bulletin

With the back and forth finger-pointing that’s going on between CableOne and KXII, a local Howe graduate Chris Cavender, who owns Cavender Home Theater, seems to be one of the few winners in the deal.  Cavender is seeing a jump in DISH Network sales since the announcement came out about CableOne no longer carrying the local channel.

Cavender is a local DISH Network retailer that provides the same service and same cost as the big company.  The only difference is that Cavender’s customers are supporting local small business by calling him instead of an 800 number.  However, Cavender wants people to not get upset and just order anything.

“Those situations never work out as well for the customers in my opinion. We want to take care of these people. They are our friends, our neighbors, our school mates and family. I really mean that.” said Cavender.  “The problem I usually hear about with unhappy DISH customers stems from a poor installation. The majority of ads you see are not from local dealers but from regional marketers that use contract installers to handle the installs. Those guys are always in a hurry to get to the next job and are never around to answer questions or fix problems. Order local from local people and get local service. Sounds simple but most people do not know that it makes a difference who you order from and it is your choice.

DirecTv and DISH are both reputable companies. And both are very large.
What we do as a DISH retailer is make sure our customers understand what they will be getting, answer any questions or concerns and supply installation with our local installers that care about their customers. We have a local show room that people can come to for a face to face experience and can see how it all works. Come in and grab the remote and see for yourself just how cool the DISH system is to use.

Tv contracts and occasional outages are unfortunate but do happen to every provider in the pay TV industry. CableOne has a recent history of giving up on trying to settle issues with programmers. Last March they took off 15 channels from ViaCom such as TV Land, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, BET, and many more. They never put them back on. It is rumored that a similar situation is brewing between CableOne and NBC Universal. DISH has negotiated settlements this year with CBS, Turner, CNN, and many more. DISH is negotiating now with Fox News, not to be confused with the Fox Broadcast Network. All our local channels are intact. We will have the Cowboys playoff game for sure.”

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This morning at 3:00 am in the construction area at FM 902 and Hwy 75, a car started a chain reaction resulting in five vehicles in a wreck including Van Alstyne’s Fire’s Medic 141 Ambulance who was transporting a patient at the time. Howe Fire and Van Alstyne Fire shutdown Hwy 75 for three hours. Five individuals were transported to local hospitals and Howe and Van Alstyne PD took two into custody on scene.

photos courtesy of Howe Fire Department

Howe Fire Department was responding to a hay bale fire in Van Alstyne went one of their own fleet caught on fire just south of town on Hwy 5.  The 1999 Ford F-350 driven by fire fighter Steven Cortinas.

“I heard a loud pop.” said Cortinas.  “I pulled over to see what was going on because I saw smoke.  A UPS driver pulled over and told me the bottom was on fire.  The next thing we know, the belts and everything on the bottom was on fire.”

No injuries were reported.  The vehicle was a V-10 five-speed and had been a part of the fleet since 1999.

Full story in Monday’s Howe Enterprise.

The attached file is a public notice by The City of Howe for notice of deadline to file applications for place on ballot.

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