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On Thursday, October 5, 2017, Howe Police Lieutenant Michael Hill and Officers Morris and Stone arrested 21-year-old Melissa resident Bryce Woodall for Burglary of a habitation, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, and Public Intoxication.

Woodall broke into a home on Tutt Street at approximately 5:00 am Thursday morning. The homeowner heard the commotion and confronted Woodall. He assaulted the homeowner with a baseball bat, then ran from the scene. He was later located walking down State Hwy 5. Inside the backpack, he was carrying contained items taken from the home on Tutt Street. He was found to be intoxicated. Woodall was arrested and into the Grayson County Jail.

Woodall was arrested with a stolen bicycle and the police are trying to get it to its rightful owner.

From this week’s Howe Enterprise

The Howe Bulldogs improve each time they play and were very close to winning their first game of the season on Friday night.  Howe Head Coach Zack Hudson made more changes to the offense trying to find the right combination of players in positions. For the second time this season, Howe has moved an offensive lineman to the backfield. Two weeks ago, it was Mikey Hymel who made the transition from offensive guard to slot back. This time it was Chase Harvey, who made the extremely seldom move from offensive guard to quarterback. While the new signal-caller had an impressive performance and re-energized the Bulldogs, Howe (0-5) was unable to hold off the Caddo Mills Foxes’ (3-2) fourth-quarter surge to come back and shock Howe, 17-14.

Harvey completed 11 of 16 passes for 171 yards and a touchdown to cousin Ty Harvey. The Harvey-to-Harvey connection was good for three big plays and the Ty Harvey finished with six catches for 129 yards. Caddo Mills won the coin-toss and elected to receive to start the game, but quickly went three-and-out due to a great defensive stand. Howe’s first possession was impressive by moving the ball 51 yards on 11 plays and taking 4:51 off the clock, but it ended on a turnover on downs at the Caddo Mills 27 yard line after a miscommunication between the new quarterback and a new receiver. While Howe’s offense was learning on the fly, the defense was holding Caddo Mills to the minimum amount of plays.

The ‘dogs next possession took only five plays to go 42 yards which most of it came on a 36- yard pass from Harvey to Harvey.  Only four plays later, Chase
Harvey sneaked in from the one yard line and Howe took the first lead of the night, 7-0 after Calley Vick’s PAT.

The Howe defense again forced a quick punt before getting the ball back at their own 25 yard line. Howe took 5:36 off the second quarter clock and went 75 yards on 10 plays. The scoring strike was again the big play of Harvey to Harvey for 31 yards. Vick’s PAT was again successful and Howe led, 14-0 with 5:36 left before the half.

Caddo Mills finally created some offensive momentum on the next series. Foxes’ running back Payton Hammond started to stretch the field by running laterally down the line and turning the corner for an average of eight yards per carry on the drive. He would eventually catch 20-yard touchdown pass from Cade Hayden to cut the Howe lead in half at 14-7 with 4:36 left in the second quarter. The 5-play, 70-yard drive gave Caddo Mills was the ignition to the Foxes offense for the evening.

Howe’s next possession ended in a punt, but the Foxes had a chance to score just before the half with 2:21 remaining. Howe’s defense came up with great plays to force a turnover on downs to end the half.

While the Bulldogs controlled the ball and clock for the most part in the first half of the game, the Foxes turned the table in the second half and Howe’s defense spent most of the time on the field in the third and fourth quarters.

The first two possessions of the second half ended in punts, before Howe put together a 9-play drive which started at their own 29 yard line. Harvey to Harvey for 37 yards gave Howe a first-and-goal from the three yard line, but a bad center-to-quarterback exchange and a tipped screen pass mistakenly ruled a lateral pushed Howe back to the 19. A sack ended the drive which appeared to be a lock for a touchdown that would have made it difficult for Caddo Mills to comeback. Instead, Howe remained ahead at 14-7.

The Foxes’ next possession was an impressive one in which they ran 11 plays and 72 yards to tie the game at 14. Caddo Mills kept the Bulldogs defense on the field for four minutes. Ty Harvey had a chance for an interception, but the ball sailed through his hands. That kept the drive alive and Hayden ran in the tying score around the left edge from the 12 yard line with 10:05 left in the third.

The game changed on the ensuing kickoff when the Foxes elected for an onside kick. The kick sailed out of bounds which would have given Howe the ball, however, the officials said they called an official timeout before the kick which meant the Foxes were allowed to kick again which they were able to recover. That gave them a short field where they only had to drive 26 yards on 10 plays to kick the go-ahead 30-yard field goal by Cullen Brown. Caddo Mills led for the first time, 17-14 with 5:08 left.

Each of the teams had to punt before Howe made a last attempt to win the game with 2:28 left in the game. Chase Harvey led the ‘dogs down the field from their own 22 yard line to near midfield.  One more attempt at a big-play Harvey to Harvey connection ended in an interception with 1:20 remaining in the game.

Howe finished with 96 rushing yards and 171 passing yards. Caddo Mills had 62 passing yards and 121 rushing yards. Howe was lead by Andrew Griffin with 14 carries and 53 yards. Chase Harvey added 15 carries for 31 yards. Mikey Hymel added three catches for 27 yards.

It’s the first time Howe has been 0-5 since 2005, a season that ended with a 1-9 record. The Bulldogs get a much-needed bye week before starting district play at Pottsboro on Oct. 13.

Published in this week’s Howe Enterprise:

On Sept. 22 at 9 am, I walked into the Howe High School gym, for our homecoming pep rally. When I walked into the gym I was touched deep in my heart by an incredible, wonderful, and blessed experience. Every Howe Bulldog in Howe ISD from kindergarten to the senior class along with teachers, administrators, and friends had on a t-shirt bearing my name. Howe ironic, because my heart bears all of their names. My heart gears the names of all my
Bulldogs from 1987-2017. Some were in high school and middle school when I first arrived. My other Bulldogs being members of my famed 36 divisions. All marching through the halls of the Howe Elementary and P.E. program, all marching into Bulldog history and all marching right into my heart.

I don’t know how Pam Kirby was able to organize the event without me knowing. Even my wife Doreen was a soldier of the secret. The pep rally was an awesome event. The cheerleaders, band, athletes, coaches, faculty, administration, employees, family, friends, and all the Howe Bulldogs truly took the flame to the very top.

I would like to thank Pam Kirby for her incredible effort to organize this most incredible pep rally and most meaningful event in my life. I also want to thank my Bulldog cheerleaders for a spectacular portrait of Howe Bulldog history, tradition and love, painted by my own Howe Bulldog,
Jordan Streetman. Thank you, Jordan.

I also thank you for the beautiful flowers that you gave to my beautiful wife, Doreen.  I would like to thank Monte Walker for the introduction to have such a talented Bulldog to provide that

I would like to thank Monte Walker for the introduction to have such a talented Bulldog to provide that introduction was very meaningful. I would also like to thank our wonderful sponsors, Sonic of Howe, Howe ISD, Howe PTA, TLD Design Consulting, Southwest Auction, Texas Farm Bureau – Loretta Anderson, Frantz Group, Howe Family Dentistry, Edward Jones, Griffin Farms, Provider Business Partners, Attorney Micah Belden, Cavender Motors, Howe Athletic Booster Club, and Tom and Debbie Watt.  They provided over 1000 t-shirts.  They also presented me with an amazing watch. Which is inscribed with many special words. The most meaningful word being the word that went from being my title to being my name, Coach.

Above all, to the entire Bulldog Nation and my beloved 36 divisions – I want to thank you for the pride that we have, the joy we share and an entering of love.

Dallas, TX, Oct. 2, 2017 – Seventeen news organizations and their reporters, photographers, and editors were named today as finalists in the first Hugh Aynesworth Excellence in Journalism awards sponsored by the Press Club of Dallas.

The awards, which honor Texas journalists’ work completed in 2016, will be presented at a Nov. 30 dinner at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. The event, which is open to the public, is scheduled to be hosted by WFAA TV sports anchor Dale Hansen. The awards are named for veteran reporter and long-time press club member Hugh Aynesworth, four times a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

The 17 finalists represent news reporting from throughout Texas in seven news organization categories: daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, television, radio, digital news sites and photography/video. Winners and finalists will be announced for work done in investigative reporting, feature reporting, spot news photography and feature photography.

“These finalists represent some of the best work in journalism throughout the state of Texas in 2016,” said press club president Cary Broussard. “It confirms that, despite financial challenges and intensified scrutiny from the public, journalism is an essential and necessary part of a free society.”

The finalists run the gamut from large newspapers and television stations such as the Austin American Statesman and the Dallas Morning News and KXAS TV in Dallas and KSAT TV in San Antonio to weekly newspapers like Howe Enterprise and Brownsville Progress Times.

“We’re really impressed that such a diverse group of journalists entered the first-time competition,” Broussard said. “I think it’s fair to say that journalism is alive and well in Texas.”

Broussard thanked award dinner co-chairs Jo Ann Holt-Caussey and Barry Hoffman for their work. Holt-Caussey is a veteran Dallas editor and reporter whose body of work was recognized by the Press Club of Dallas with a 2016 North Texas Legends Award. She has been an active press club member since 1982. Hoffman, a Dallas native, was a reporter and editor in the Northeast for almost 50 years, both in broadcast journalism and newspapers. He is a past president of the New York State Associated Press Association.     

Judges for the Aynesworth Awards are from the Northeast and West Coast and had no association with any of the news organizations or individuals who entered the contest.

They include Jean Patman, who directed Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign coverage for the Long Island newspaper Newsday; Tim Smart, executive editor of US News and World Report; Stephani Shelton and Andrew Fisher, veteran reporters and writers for CBS and NBC television news operations; Ed Tobias, former assistant managing editor of Associated Press Radio in Washington, DC.; and Robert Rodriguez, photo editor of the US headquarters of The Daily Mail in New York City.  A complete list of judges is available at the Press Club of Dallas website – http://pressclubdallas.com/ — under the heading “Aynesworth Awards.”

There are a limited number of tickets to the Thursday, Nov. 30 awards dinner. The cost is $50 and includes food and beverage. The tickets go on sale Oct. 5, and those interested in buying them can do so also under the heading “Aynesworth Awards” at the press club website.

Here is a list of finalists for reporting and photography in 2016:

Investigative Reporting

Daily newspapers

The Austin American-Statesman Investigates team, Oct. 21, 2016
“Silent majority: Texas’ booming Hispanic population deeply underrepresented in local politics”

Miles Moffeit and Sue Ambrose, the Dallas Morning News, Dec. 2, 2016
“Bled Dry: How a hospital died under the care of a Texas doctor”

Television
FOX4 KDFW Dallas/Ft. Worth
“Broken System Fails Abused Animals” May 16 and 17, 2016 
Reporter – Lori Brown; Investigative Producer – Vicki Chen

NBC5/KXAS TV DFW
Reporter – Scott Friedman; investigative producer – Eva Parks; photographer – Peter Hull; law enforcement expert – Don Peritz
“Big Buses, Bigger Problems,” first reporting in a continuing series aired Oct. 4, 2016

KSAT 12 San Antonio
Investigative Reporter – Myra Arthur; Investigative Producer – Dillon Collier; Investigative Photojournalist/Editor – Josh Saunders
“When Moments Matter” aired Nov. 10, 2016

Radio
KERA, Dallas
Reporter: Lauren Silverman,
“Pastoral Medicine Credentials Raise Questions In Texas” April 6, 2016

KERA, KUHF,
Reporters: Stella Chavez, KERA; Laura Isensee, KUHF
“Latino Superintendents Lead School Districts In Texas’ Eight Largest Cities”, Sept. 20, 2016

Magazines

The Advocate Media Magazine, Oak Cliff
Reporter: Keri Mitchell
“Why do so many suburban students attend Dallas ISD’s top magnet schools?”
Nov. 18, 2016

Fort Worth Magazine
Reporter – Sean Chaffin
“Tarrant County Cold Cases Await Evidence, Witnesses”  December Issue 2016

Digital news site
The Arlington Voice
Reporter – Mike McGee
“City, mum on alleged police quota system, refusing document releases”
July 21, 2016

Feature Writing

Daily Newspapers

Phil Jankowski, Austin American-Statesman
“A Rambler’s Life”   Dec. 1, 2016

Weekly Newspapers

Brownsville Progress Times
Reporter: Jose De Leon III
“Samaritans donate new abode to Mission octogenarian,” Dec. 9, 2016

Howe Enterprise
Reporter – Monte Walker
“EF1 Tornado; EF5 Community” May 2, 2016

Radio

KSTX San Antonio Public Radio
Reporter David Martin Davies
“Lessons Learned from a night in the Bexar County jail” Oct. 21, 2016

KSTX, San Antonio Public Radio
Reporter Paul Flahive
“Ease In Anti-Overdose Drug Access Leads To More Lives Saved” June 24, 2016

Newspaper Photography

Spot News
Robert Moore, Dallas Voice, July 7, 2016
“Dallas police officer showing stress from mass shooting”

Feature photography
Jay Janner, Austin American-Statesman
“South by Southwest Music Festival photo essay” Oct. 1, 2016

The Howe Enterprise was informed on Wednesday that an article published in 2016 was a  finalist for the Hugh Aynesworth Award from the Press Club of Dallas.  The article was entitled, “EF1 tornado; EF5 community”, written in Volume 53, Edition 50, May 5, 2016, after the twister ripped through Howe late on a Tuesday spring night.

The article was submitted in March of 2017 and has made it to the final two in the “Weekly Newspaper” category with a South Texas weekly publication.  An awards dinner will be held on Nov. 30 at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas where winners will be announced for each category.  Those categories include:

• Daily newspapers – 3 circulation groups
• Television stations – 3 market areas
• Radio stations – 3 market areas
• Weekly newspapers
• Magazines
• Digital news sites

EF1 tornado; EF5 community

On Tuesday night as Howe was getting ready for bed, smartphone apps started buzzing for local residents to take shelter immediately. Howe has not seen a destructive tornado in 45 years when a northwestern traveling twister destroyed homes in Howe on March 12, 1971.

This Texas tornado was on a different course than its 45-year-old predecessor, traveling northeast at 95- 100 miles per hour and was classified as an EF1. An EF1 tornado is considered a weak tornado, but don’t tell that to the Calhoun family on Ponderosa Rd, or the Clements family, or Linda Rae on Stark Lane. Between 1950 and 2014 in the United States, 222 people have been killed by EF1 tornadoes, and 21 have been killed by EF0 tornadoes. Even the weakest tornado can kill, but fortunately for Howe there were no fatalities.

Gene Marshall, a truck driver making his way through Howe had his truck parked across from Howe High School. The tornado picked up his truck and threw it across the road which pinned him inside. Marshall said he only had time to sit and pray. Before the storm hit, he took a ‘Zapruder shot’ of the EF1 that would later take out his truck and so many houses.

Howe High School was damaged enough to have A/C units blasted from the top of the buildings which created holes above the gymnasium and other areas. This caused Howe ISD to cancel school for Wednesday and Thursday. To go along with the damage to the structures, power was out from Tuesday night until approximately 7 pm on Wednesday evening.

The heaviest damaged areas were the Tapia home on Smith Road just west of Summit Hill and on Stark Lane in northeast Howe.

“When mother nature comes, you can’t do anything. When it comes, it comes and you can’t do anything about it,” Jose Tapia told CBS 11.

Maria Tapia was hospitalized with a back injury just after the tornado struck the home but was cleaning up the property the following morning. Her sons Marcos and Antonio were scared Tuesday after the storm but were enlightened to tell the story of how they saved their six puppies that were under a woodpile.

Terry and Terri Calhoun’s home was also one of the worst. “All of a sudden you heard the pop pop pop and then the suction started and my husband grabbed me,” said Terri Calhoun.to ABC News in Dallas. ”

Local television, DFW television and even national TV crews were in Howe to cover the story. What they found was that the story wasn’t so much the destructive damage of the tornado, but the love and support from the community members that helped those that were in need.

Immediately after it was announced that Howe had suffered significant damage, the Howe Church of Christ became a “command post” and donated items started to pour into the church. Howe Church of Christ Pastor Toby Soechting said that as of 8:00 am Wednesday morning there had been no real need for shelter for local families. However, emergency relief and work crews had been at the building since early that morning and continued to use the church building for various matters (meals for crews, communication, etc).

While the local Church of Christ was preparing for the worst, the community was giving their best. Howe ISD Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Zack Hudson had his athletes and many other students on Stark Lane cleaning up the debris from homes. Arriving at 7:30 am, Hudson found seven or eight Howe students helping people that they didn’t know.

“It’s a sad situation. You see some of these people that you go to church with and you work with – it’s a sad situation,” said Hudson on NBC News of Dallas.  “We went house to house – about 30 of us at a time with chainsaws and trailers and tried to put some normality back into their lives.”

Four individuals were taken to a nearby hospital including one driver with serious injuries after a tree uprooted and landed on her car.

Volunteer workers, such as Howe Bulldog junior football player Mike Helpenstell, continued to help on Stark Lane. “This is my
hometown. I’d do anything I can to keep it together.”

Even middle schoolers such as Tate Harvey was on-site working to help those in need. “I think it’s important for people to come out and help the community,” said Harvey to KXII.

Some people think that you can’t do as much in small towns – as much as other big towns can do – but we’ve really seen our small town come together and we’ve shown you ‘Howe’ we do it,” said Catherine Honaker to KXII.

Howe Superintendent Kevin Wilson also told the local TV station that it’s a testament to the Howe community and that the locals have each other’s back.

Speaking of back, the backbone of the entire situation were the local churches and the Howe Church of Christ in particular. FBC Howe canceled Wednesday night services and took their group to help clean up and provided Gatorade for workers.  New Beginning Fellowship worked with FUMC to coordinate deliveries of food and drinks and supplies to the work area. Kings Trail Cowboy Church set up a “General Store” area near the middle of the disaster area on Stark Lane. The shuttle crews of were delivering sandwiches, water and everything that workers and tornado victims might need. The majority of the items came from the Howe Church of Christ who had ladies working full staff trying to prepare meals and take in donated items. Over 200 and maybe even 300 sack lunches were made both Wednesday and Thursday. A representative from the church said that people from all over the area came to see what was needed to provide the meals. Individuals came from Van Alstyne, Tom Bean, Sherman, and elsewhere. Some of the people from out of town even stayed and helped make the lunches. Of course, the church had no power on Wednesday as did the rest of the city, so Pastor Wallace Rains of New Beginning Fellowship brought a generator to the church across town so that the work could get done. The deliveries were organized by Danny Watson and Darrin Savage.

People brought enough food and the ladies made enough sandwiches that they had too many left over and ended up taking them to the crisis center.

During the relief efforts, many businesses stepped up and offered to help. Lowes donated boxes of tarps for the houses, boards, lumber, hammers, nails, etc. Magni-Fab delivered four dozen work gloves. Douglass Distributing brought a truckload of Subway sandwiches and gas cards for the generators. Walmart sent two volunteers door-to-door to get a list of immediate needs in which they delivered. Walmart delivered chainsaws, 2-cycle oil for chainsaws, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, soap, towels, wash cloths and sheets. Tyson Foods is making a contribution along with Walmart to a fundraiser that is in the works for the immediate future. Abby’s Restaurant will have an $8 spaghetti dinner that will go towards relief efforts on May 11 from 5 pm – 8 pm. T-shirts can also be purchased as a fundraiser. FUMC has set up an account that will house the tornado relief funds.

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Hugh Aynesworth has been a journalist for almost 70 years, plying his trade in newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting.

He is perhaps best known, as the title of his book says, as a Witness to History, because Aynesworth is the only person known to have witnessed all three events between Nov. 22 and Nov. 24, 1963 – the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater, and the fatal shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby beneath Dallas Police Headquarters.

Aynesworth’s diligent and tireless efforts to determine whether there was any truth to all the conspiracy rumors behind the JFK assassination established him as an authority on this unique and tragic moment in American history.

In fact, the first editor of Texas Monthly, William Broyles, described Aynesworth as “one of the most respected authorities on the assassination of John F. Kennedy”.

Aynesworth, who has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting, has also written books about serial killers Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas.

He is an active member of the Dallas Press Club and still writes freelance articles, often for the Dallas Morning News, his employer on that fateful 1963 November afternoon.

On September 22, 2017 at 9:52 pm, a Howe police officer saw a silver Chevy Cobalt without a tag light traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 75 at Farmington. The officer initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle and spoke with the driver 24-year-old Tyler Wade Hamilton of Durant and passenger 26-year-old Marcos Torres Martinez of Durant. The officer conducted a consensual search of the vehicle where cocaine was found in the passenger seat. The officer located 17.6 Grams of cocaine on the ground by Martinez’ feet.   Officers said the cocaine was stepped on and looked like someone had tried to destroy it by scooting It across the ground.  Both subjects were checked through Grayson County dispatch who advised that Hamilton (driver) had a JP-2 Warrant. Martinzes (passenger) was arrested for PCS PG1 > 4g < 200g and Tampering with Evidence. Hamilton was arrested for the warrant.