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Special Education in Burleson makes strides

Burleson ISD is mak-ing strides yet again, this time with its spe-cial education program, which recently scored a 100 percent compliance indicator with the state.

Dr. Lucretia Gartrell, executive director of spe-cial services, has worked for the district since 2005. She took the role as executive director in 2014. Gartrell said she is very proud of the strides BISD has made in spe-

cial education.“One of the core val-

ues of the district is that we have high expecta-tions for our students,” Gartrell said. “I have not been in a district that has embraced all stu-dents to the level that Burleson does.”

In fact, last year the homecoming roy-alty from both Centen-nial High School and Burleson High School had students with dis-abilities in its court. Gartrell said she even has parents that chose

to move to Burleson be-cause of the quality of its special education pro-gram.

“All parents want a quality education for their children, but the parents of students with disabilities also want their children to be seen as individuals,” Gartrell said.

BISD Superintendent Dr. Bret Jimerson only had good things to say about the work the spe-cial education depart-ment is doing.

“I’m extremely proud

of the great work our Special Services depart-ment is doing for our kids,” Jimerson said. “The success of our stu-dents and the appreci-ation we hear from par-ents is a testament to our dedicated staff and the support from our school board.”

At a recent school board meeting, Kathleen Beckham, mother of six BISD students, some of whom have disabilities and receive services, spoke praises of the spe-cial education program.

“I’m here because I want to thank you,” Beckham said to the school board. “Every-thing about Burleson is so positive. Things in Texas may be bigger, but things in Burleson are better.”

Unfortunately, in oth-er independent school districts in Texas, this hasn’t been the case. In 2017, the Of ce of Spe-cial Education Programs found that Texas ISDs, starting in 2004, took measures to speci cal-ly decrease the number

of students identi ed as children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Educa-tion Act to 8.5 percent or below.

“When the Depart-ment of Education came to Texas following the removal of that 8.5 per-cent cap, they did a fairly broad parent satisfaction survey,” Gartrell said. “Parents could voice their concerns and have a conversation face-to-face. That information was then shared with us,

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EDUCATION | CELEBRATION

Tripp, left, and Julia Swafford, right, students at Hajek Eementary School celebrated the 100th day of school with fun t-shirts. See more photos on Page 7A.COURTESY PHOTO

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$3,210 riased for family who lost everything to fi re

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People wait in 2-mile line for OpenDoor food bank

A local church holds a biweekly food bank that offers high quality food without extensive paperwork or IDs.

The OpenDoor Food Bank and OpenDoor c=Church started as a bit of an accident, according to pastor Troy Brewer’s website. Tim Bragg became head of the food bank last month.

“This is my passion,” Bragg said. “What OpenDoor did for me is they removed the stone from me so I could hear the Lord. It got me back to where I needed to be, and I want the people who come through here to have the hope that I had that OpenDoor gave to me. That’s what I’m trying to do.”

One of the fundamental character-istics of the food bank is its inclusiv-ity. No proof of residency or nances are required to receive food.

“We do not shame anyone who comes to us for food,” Brewer said. “We don’t make them prove they need it by providing nancial infor-mation. I haven’t met anyone who

doesn’t need food. And for those who say that it’s irresponsible to give food away with no strings attached, I say this: They can’t steal from us because we’re giving it away.”

Brewer said he tells the volunteers to treat everyone like they paid $200 to be there.

“If someone has a really nice car, that doesn’t mean anything,” Brew-er said. “We don’t know how much longer that car will be theirs or if it’s even their car. We don’t judge who needs food and who doesn’t. Jesus says to offer help to anyone who asks, and we do.”

Terri Stocks heard about the food bank from a neighbor and has been visiting the food bank for about three years.

“I have 27 prescriptions,” Stocks said. “My husband works, so we make a little bit too much money to help out with the medical bills, so things run tight. This helps so much.”

According to volunteer Patty Thel-en-Hall, another unique trait of the food bank that draws people in is that they don’t just feed people physically;

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The Johnson family lost their house and everything they owned to a fi re on Jan. 28. COURTESY PHOTO

Some names have been changed or with-held to protect the iden-tities of the individuals.*

Any other day, James* would have got-ten in trouble for staying up until 4 a.m. playing video games, but in this case, he saved his fami-ly’s lives.

On the night of Jan. 28, Carmen Johnson was woken by James, saying he smelled smoke. A re had started in the at-tic and was spreading quickly.

“We got out with the clothes on our backs,” Johnson said. “We didn’t have coats or even shoes

on. We are truly blessed we are alive.”

Sadly, the house that Johnson shared with her husband and son James was completely de-stroyed. Johnson added that after 34 years, their mortgage was going to be paid in full come May.

Though the family has homeowners insur-ance and expects to be back in a newly-built home in six months, there were things the family needed now, like clothes, cookware, bed-ding and school supplies. That’s when the commu-nity stepped in to help.

“Just random strang-ers have been help-ing us,” Johnson said. “With God’s will and the kind-hearted people,

they are doing so many things for us.”

It started the morn-ing after the re, with neighbors dropping off pre-made meals. A local church donated money to the family. Families started dropping off do-nated clothing for James at the REALM at Kerr Middle School, where he attends. A Go Fund Me was also started, in which $3,210 was raised by 44 people in just nine days.

The family has faced other hard times in the past year. In October, Dennis Johnson, Car-men Johnson’s husband, was laid off from his em-ployer of 30 years. Then, in November, Dennis’


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DONALD GERALD JACKSON

Donald Gerald Jack-son, age 69, of Burleson, Texas, passed away at Huguley Hospital on Monday, Jan. 29, 2018.

In lieu of owers, donations can be made to one of the follow-ing: American Bible Society, Harvest As-sembly Mission Fund, or Union Gospel Mis-sion of Tarrant County.

Born in Los Angeles, Don attended Burleson schools and UT Arling-ton, where he studied Physical Chemistry. While a graduate stu-dent, he married his wife, Marie. They were married for 46 years.

For 41 years, Don worked as a Material Engineer at General Dy-namics/Lockheed Martin. His ingenuity, level-head-ed dedication, and care-ful planning made him a trusted colleague to all with whom he interacted.

Don was a loving husband and father, a stalwart friend, and a generous volunteer. Called by God to serve, Don taught Sunday School and served as an elder or deacon at the churches he called home.

Survivors include his wife, Marie; his son, Christopher Jackson and wife, Lynda-Jo; daughter, Robin Jackson; moth-er, Ruth Jackson; sister, Debbie Mauney and hus-band, Rex; and sister-in-law, Karen Jackson.

Laurel Land Funer-al Home, in Fort Worth, handled the arrange-ments. 817-293-1350

DENNIS MICHAEL CASE

Dennis Michael Case, 69, of Joshua, passed away Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.

Services will be sched-uled at a later date.

In lieu of owers, please make donations to Meals on Wheels of Johnson County, 106 E. Kilpatrick St., Cle-burne, Texas 76031.

Dennis was born June 4, 1948, in Denver, Colo., to Walter and Ann (Burns) Case. A won-derful husband, father, and grandfather, Den-nis was devoted to his family. Dennis was very involved with his grand-children and their sports activities. He loved rid-ing his John Deere trac-tor and spending time on his property, as well as restoring old cars.

Survivors include his wife, Trudie Case, of Joshua; son, Greg Case and wife, Cherie; daugh-ters, Dyana Buncik and husband, Stephen, of Crowley, Lexy Case, of Joshua, and Calley Le and husband, Andre, of Burleson; seven grand-children; brothers, Mark Case, Thomas Case, and James Case; sis-ters, Gail Ann Davidson and Mary Jo Duncan; numerous nieces, neph-ews, extended family members; and friends.

Mountain Valley Fu-neral Home, in Joshua, is handling the arrange-ments. 817-426-3200

HOWARD HARMON CARVAJAL

Howard Harmon Car-vajal, 84, of Burleson, Texas, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018.

Memorial services are 3:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, at Joshua Bap-tist Church, 3231 S.W. Wilshire Blvd., Joshua, Texas. Rev. Gene Wolfen-barger and Dr. Jimmie Nelson will of ciate.

Howard was born in El Paso, Texas, to Howard Harmon and Katherine Margaret Goodloe Carva-jal, Sr. He graduated from Austin High School in El Paso. Howard continued his education in Counsel-ing & Guidance Institute at Texas Tech, Lubbock, and the University of Tex-as in Austin. He furthered his education at Texas Western College (UTEP), El Paso, Texas. Howard was a teacher, coach, and counselor at Austin High School, El Paso. Howard’s education led him to be-coming a Professor, Divi-sion of Psychology and Spe-cial Education, at Emporia State University, Emporia Kansas. He served on the faculty senate for 16 years, and as president of the fac-ulty, 1991-92. He conduct-ed numerous workshops related to psychological testing, evaluated stu-dents for districts which did not have school psy-chologists, as well as stu-dents identi ed as learn-ing disabled. He was well known to academicians across the country through his psychological research which produced scores of articles and presentations. His research has been cit-ed in numerous psycho-logical testing textbooks.

His incredible activ-ities as a scholar could not be gauged by his hu-

mility. To honor him and his many contributions, the Division of Psycholo-gy and Special Education established the Howard Carvajal Undergraduate Psychology Scholarship. Howard was also honored by Phi Alpha Theta (Na-tional Honor Society in History), Psi Chi (Nation-al Honor Society in Psy-chology), and Recipient of College of Education, Out-standing Teaching Award, Recipient of College of Education Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award, and Induction into Nation-al Teachers Hall of Fame “for accomplishments as life-changing educator”.

Howard served as President of the Emporia, Kansas, Baseball Club in 1983-84 and worked in the American Legion Baseball Program 1981-84. He was instrumental in the imple-mentation and sanction of the baseball program at Emporia High School.

Life-long Southern Baptist, and a certi ed Southern Baptist Semi-nary Extension Teacher, Howard loved and served Jesus. He taught Sunday School classes, served as music director, and inter-im pastor for many church-es in Kansas. Howard was currently a member of Joshua Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Shirley Carvajal; daughter, Carolyn Miller and husband, Gary; sons, Paul Carvajal and wife, Alana, and Steve Car-vajal and wife, Heather; grandchildren, Perry Part-low and wife, Candace, Brooklyn, Paige, Madi-son, Easton, Chase, and Kooper Carvajal, Ben and Dan Miller, and Christine Filippelli; great-grand-children, Ariana and Ju-lian Partlow, Audrey and Charles Miller, Lucy Filip-pelli, Harvi Miller; broth-er, Bruce Carvahal and partner, Kathy Sawyer; nieces and nephew, Kris-tine Moore and husband, Justin, and their children, Lindsay and Mason, and Sanford Carvajal and wife, Jen, and their son, Connor.

Lucas and Blessing Fu-neral Home, in Burleson, is handling the arrange-ments. 817-295-9000

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mom discovered she had stage four colon cancer and is currently in the hospital.

“It’s been a rough year,” Johnson said. “But Lord willing, it will get better.”

Cheryl Essex, dean of the REALM at Kerr, said young James has taken the re in stride.

“The image of the devastation on the Go Fund Me site took my breath away,” Essex said. “He’s an easy go-ing kid, you could tell he was sad, but he said, ‘I usually get in trouble

for playing games late at night, but in this case, it was a good thing.’”

Students found out quickly what had hap-pened to James’ house, but Essex said his friends at the REALM have been by his side the whole time.

“The support is all around him,” Essex said. “This is kind of a home away from home for a lot of our kids, and the par-ents, I think, rely on us.”

Essex instructed the REALM students to be caring towards James while he deals with this

tragedy in his young life. “We’re getting on

with our lives,” Essex said. “They’re kids, we want them to be kids. He’s doing well.”

James’ teacher also said she expects the boy to recover from this sud-den, sharp turn in life.

“James is a resilient student and we know he will be able to bounce back and we are making sure that happens,” she said.

This is the third house re that has hap-pened to a student this school year, Essex said.

“The REALM at Kerr is like a family and when a tragedy occurs we see our students and par-ents reach out in such a healing, supportive, way,” Essex said. “Our school district and com-munity is evidence that a growing, progressive town can still retain it’s small-town heart.”

If you would like to donate to the family, do-nations are being taken at the REALM at Kerr, or you may visit https://www.gofundme.com/car-men-and-dennis-house-needs.

The Johnson family’s home quickly went up in fl ames after a fi re started in the attic. COURTESY PHOTO

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Ribbon holders from BISD Show Team at County from left to right…Shelby Akin-Davis, Harley Yates, Jeffery Shaver, Jacob Chapman, Brooke Chapman, Emily Hall, Cierra Caughron and Dayton Allen. COURTESY PHOTO/MANDY CHAPMAN

During the week of Jan. 8 through 13 stu-dents from Burleson High School and Burleson Centennial High School competed in Johnson County Live-stock Show, where 13

students placed in the sale of champions out of 1,993 entries made by 744 FFA students.

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Funds were secured for these students through Burleson’s Buy-

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Team would like to thank you for your sup-port in 2018 and look forward to your contin-ued backing in 2019. To become a member of the Burleson Buyers Pool, please contact Donyelle Allen at [email protected].

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I used to think life was pretty simple. Learn to ride a bike

without killing yourself; dodge the bullies in school; find some-thing you don’t mind

doing every day for 40 years that keeps peanut butter in the pantry; buy a car that runs; get a home with-out raccoons.

A simple plan for a simple man—and ex-cept for one adolescent NDSE (Near Death Schwinn Experience) and the raccoons, I’ve been quite successful at following my life’s blueprint.

There has been one hitch, however, that has drastically altered my worldview along the way. I got married. (Get it? hitch, mar-ried…) Don’t get me wrong. As far as female types go, she’s a good one; this I’ve learned in our two decades together. This I’ve also learned: Life is com-plicated. Women know this, and it is their life’s mission to teach this to men. Men who have been married as long as I have know this, too.

Don’t believe me? I’ll give you an example. The bed. Yes, the hum-ble domestic bed. Now, you (you being uned-ucated men) wouldn’t think there would be any measurable amount of pontification or undue stress in-volved in the purchase and upkeep of one’s

sleeping spot, would you? Find comfy bed, buy comfy bed, change sheets once a season or so. Ha ha, I say.

Ah, innocent ones, I was once under this misapprehension. When I was a young man, unfettered by responsi-bilities such as family, home maintenance, regular hygiene, and any income to speak of, my bed was a mattress. I moved often then, and after several third-floor apartment experiences, I viewed such items as box springs, frame and headboard as unnec-essary accoutrements. Extremely heavy, unnecessary accoutre-ments.

I mean, who needs box springs when you have a floor? And ex-cept for easy access for nightcrawlers, I found my simple mattress bed to be quite comfort-able. I didn’t know it at the time, but this was also tres fashionable. I discovered years after my bachelorhood that I had been sleeping on a futon. Futons became all the rage about the time that hippies grew old, got jobs and real-ized they had dispos-able income. The futon wasn’t any different from the $5 mattress hippies were sleep-ing on in college, but by calling it a futon, retailers could jack up the price to, oh, $1,200. That’s called capital-ism. The word “futon,” by the way, comes from the Japanese. Rough-ly translated, “futon” means “slob too lazy for real bed.”

Anyhow, my in-auspicious, perhaps austere sleeping ar-

rangements came to a screeching halt about three minutes after co-habitation (or marriage if this is a family pub-lication). And this was when the bell rang for one of my first lessons in the complexities of life. Shopping for just the right bed, as prob-lematic as that was, was only the beginning. Here are some words actually spoken in our myriad bed-hunting outings (many of these words I had never heard before, serious-ly): Is that headboard real teak? That’s not brown ochre, that’s raw umber. (And I thought it was brown, silly me.) Do you prefer negative edge or iron scrolling? I think we have to go with a California Queen.

Although I got an immediate mental image of RuPaul, I was informed that Califor-nia Queen had some-thing to do with mat-tress size.

Once we final-ly found the perfect California teak-ochre-negative-edge bed, I naively presumed that our quest was over. Ha ha, she said. Take out pencil and paper, ye men who are about to marry: There are approximately 3,102 accessories for a bed. I am not joking! Are you ready? There’s the duvet, there’s a duvet donut, a duvet cover, the coverlet, the dust ruffle, the mattress topper, mattress pad, mattress pad cover, bed skirt (you want scal-loped, pintucked, tai-lored, or hemstitched?), heated throws, Sherpa throws, pleated shams,

layered shams, bed blouse, fitted flats, flat-ted fits, the matelasse bedspread, the bamper skiffle, the skuffler layover, the Berkshire topper, the tiered voile eyelet perimeter skirt-ing, box spring overlay, the husband backrest, toss pillows, slouch-back, sheet smoothers, and, of course, the oyster-brushed up-holstered headboard façade.

I didn’t even know oysters could brush. And don’t get me start-ed about thread count, sister.

Then there’s upkeep. Still have your pencils, men? Note: You’ll have to change the sheets at least once a week, whether they’re dirty or not. This includes pillowcases and the odd sock hiding in the cov-ers. Also, the mattress will be flipped and turned every month; I think this is a feng shui thing.

I know it sounds grueling, guys, but you’ll get the hang of it. Heck, I think I even know the differ-ence between umber and ochre now. One’s browner than the oth-er. Now, if we can just do something about the raccoons.

Roger White, who graduated from Burleson High School about the time box springs were invented, is a freelance writer liv-ing with his lovely wife, two precocious daugh-ters, a pleasantly obese daschund, and a cat in rehab for Epstein Barr Syndrome. For further adventures, visit old-spouse.wordpress.com.

ROGER WHITE

Take heed, young men, of California queens and layered shamsThis past week, I attended a funeral of sadness

and celebration. Her name was Betty Graves, and she stepped off of an unsuspected curb.

Betty taught for 33 years here in Burleson and left a huge void in her accomplished life. She was married to a kind and jovial gentleman for over 60 years by the name of Carroll Graves. Betty Graves wanted her funeral to be a celebration of her life. That would be an easy task, although tissues were going up and down the aisles.

I hope that you experience such a fond farewell. I went to the visitation to pay humble respect as we were in the same high school. I as a student and Mrs. Graves as an award-winning educator. The next day, I was able to attend the service con-ducted by her son-in-law Pastor Steve Beckwith at Oak Grove Baptist Church. The large facility was packed with friends of Carroll and Betty and many people paying a nal salute, for the time-being. You see friends, I believe a funeral can be a fond hello to Heaven and a mourning goodbye to those on hand.

After the service, even in cold weather, many cars with their lights on followed the gracious lady to the grave. I was in my 1995 pick-up with some hay for my cows toward the rear. My lights were on as well as the many cars behind me. What touched my sensitive heart, among many things, was all the cars facing our direction were pulling over, stopping, and turning their lights on. I doubt that those people even knew my special friend Betty Graves.

I loved each and everyone for that random act of kindness. Two Fort Worth police of cers led the way and blocked the traf c for us. Here it comes friends, being a Vietnam-era veteran, I had a physical exchange with a police of cer as we were pulling in to the Burleson Memorial resting site. He dismounted his beautiful motorcycle (with several lights ashing) and gave me a nal sa-lute. I saluted him back and thanked him for his kind courtesy. It is a true blessing that we have so many friends in Burleson, even some we do not know! Amen?

As many of us might have a loss in 2018, take the time to pay your respect and give that one “Final Salute.” You will be better because of it, as well as their family and friends.

Brother Hank [email protected] at 8 a.m. on

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Annie Faye: Other than the early retail stores, Cattle Barn and

Thomas Conveyor, what oth-er com-panies employed locals?

John: That is a good

question. I hadn’t given it much thought. In James L. Haley’s book Burleson Century, there is a chapter on the transformation of Burleson from a farm-ing community into an urban community. During the 1940’s and 1950’s many of the lo-cals sought employment in the surrounding com-munities. Many moved to where the jobs were. Burleson business and civic leaders responded by starting new busi-nesses to provide jobs to those that wanted to live and work in Burleson.

Dick Thomas is one of my “go-to’s” when I need to know something about the “good old days” in Burleson. Dick, son of Jack Taylor, told me that his uncle Winston

Taylor partnered with Harold Warren and Harry Rand and creat-ed a firm to organize a broiler processing plant in Burleson. (As a side note, all three of these men have a street bear-ing their family name, and Jack Taylor has an elementary school named in his honor. Thomas Street, which is north of Mound Elementary, bears the name of Dick Thomas.)

Mr. Haley describes the broiler processing plant thusly, “One of the most hopeful en-terprises was a broiler processing plant that employed 30 people. It opened in January 1949, dressing over 15,000 chickens for market every week, but with double that capacity and the ambi-tion to encourage local chicken farmers to deliver enough chickens to keep them busy. To manage the operation, the firm brought in Stacy Calvin, plant superintendent of a similar operation in Corsicana. He arrived with his wife of two years, Vera.” (As a side note, Stacy and Vera became very influential

in Burleson. He served on the B.I.S.D. school board, and she served Burleson on the city council and as mayor.)

Back to Dick Thom-as. He told me that his uncle Winston hired him and others to come in the evening and clean up the mess made by the employees after they had killed and processed 3,000 chickens that day. They made sure all the feathers were in one barrel, all the blood was in another barrel and the chickens feet, heads and entrails were in another. After they had packed up the gory stuff and set it outside, they would hose down the plant to make it ready for the next day’s delivery of live chick-ens for processing. A rendering plant would remove the barrels each night. Armour and Company would pick up the processed chick-ens, take them to Fort Worth and package them as Armour Star Chickens and sell to meat markets. Proba-bly some of them were sold to Taylor’s Big Four meat market in Burleson. Such is the

circle of life.Dick also explained

the processing to me. The firm would deliver chicken feed and baby chicks, which were brought to Burleson by train, free of charge to the chicken farmers, who would then house them in special chicken houses. Nine weeks later, the farmers would deliver the grown chickens back to the firm where the farmer was paid for the grown chickens less than the cost of the chicks and feed. It seems like a win-win arrangement for the farmer and processor unless the chicken died during the nine weeks.

The assembly line from the live chicken hanging by its feet on a conveyor belt to a chicken ready for the skillet was a sight to see and can best be de-scribed by Dick Thom-as. I am sure it would be similar to processing hogs and cows for the family table.

John Duke Smith is a local history buff. Ask him a question at [email protected]

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Seniors and father/daughter and mother/son pairs are invited to celebrate Valentine’s Day with some dancing at the senior center and the BRiCk next week.

The senior center dance is set for Feb. 9 from 7-9:30 p.m. The cost is $5 per person. The father/daughter and mother/son dance is set for Feb. 10 from 4-6:30 p.m. and 6:30-9:00 p.m. Tickets are $16 per cou-ple if purchased before the event and $25 per couple day of.

“Usually we have the little ones at the rst dance, but the structure is the same for both,” BRiCk Recreation Man-ager Jessica Mack said. “We do the same thing playing games, eating dinner and taking pho-tos.”

Mack said one of her favorite parts of the dance is being able to see father/daughter and mother/son pairs that come every year grow up through their pho-tos from the event. Her favorite story out of her eight years involved with the event came from last year.

“There was a dad in the military who was about to leave for a year-long tour,” Mack said. “They were able to come to the event, hangout and have fun with each other. He was in his uniform and she was all dressed up. It was a re-ally special night.”

The same woman responsible for start-ing the BRiCk’s annual dance is in charge of the senior center’s dance, according to Mack. The woman behind it all is Paula Benjamin, senior center/special events su-

pervisor.Benjamin said the

senior center’s dance brings in a crowd of around 80 to 100 people per year with an average age of 70 to 80.

“They really get into swinging their partners or a little bit of dip-ping,” Benjamin said. “And honey, they move around better than I do.”

The dance includes music from 92nd Road-house Band, free pic-tures, corsages for the women and contests for best dressed, most red worn and cutest couple.

“I had a couple last year come as cupid and a Valentine fairy or some-thing like that,” Benja-min said. “They were so cute. He had a bow and arrow and all that, so it’s hard to pick what my favorite is.”

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A young girl dances with her father at the 2017 father/daughter Valentine’s Day dance at the BRiCk. COURTESY PHOTO

and we did not receive any indication of paren-tal concerns expressed through the survey or through the attendance of the face-to-face meet-ings.”

The total number of students enrolled in special education in Burleson ISD is 1,045, or 8.57 percent, as of Feb. 2.

However, that num-ber doesn’t include the percentage of students with dyslexia, which the TEA does not consider a learning disorder.

“If you factor in the students we serve that have dyslexia, it’s more like 11.9 percent,” Gar-trell said. “In Burleson, we have a system in place where I am con -dent that decisions are made as to whether or not a student has dyslex-ia, or further character-istics of a learning dis-ability.”

Parents who have a child who has auditory

or visual impairments are able to take advan-tage of special educa-tion services from birth, according to Gartrell. Moreover, children are eligible to receive special education services on the day they turn three. However, when a stu-dent enters school and a disability is suspect-ed, staff have 45 days to conduct tests and evalu-ations.

“When you determine that a child has a disabil-ity, districts are required to have what’s called a continuum of supports,” Gartrell said. “It can’t be a one size ts all pro-gram. It has to be indi-vidually support driven.”

When a student is determined to have a disability, an admission, review and dismissal meeting is held that in-cludes a campus or dis-trict administrator, par-ent, general education teacher and special edu-

cation teacher. It is then determined what kind of specialized instruction would be bene cial to the student.

“Specialized instruc-tion can include vision services, auditory ser-vices, adapted physical education, speech ser-vices or instructional services,” Gartrell said.

However, sometimes students with “low-in-cidence disabilities,” meaning disabilities that do not occur as frequent-ly in the population at large, are removed from their home campus and put in a centralized pro-gram with targeted cur-riculum, Gartrell said. These kinds of disabili-ties include autism.

The district has had an autism specialist on staff since 2003. Gartrell initially got her start with the district in 2005 as a contracted autism specialist.

“We currently still

have an autism special-ist, but the need has greatly increased since 2005,” Gartrell said. “We have a very well-trained autism evaluation team. When a student is sus-pected to have autism, we start with a really quality assessment. We also have a social skills instructional specialist who not only works with kids with autism, but a lot of times that social communication piece is one of the areas that is impaired.”

The district also has an occupational thera-pist who works closely with students who have sensory needs. Parents can also take advan-tage of in-home train-ing when a student and parent needs assistance transitioning skills from the school environment into the home and com-munity.

About one in 68 chil-dren has been diagnosed

with autism, according to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Pre-vention. Autism occurs in all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups. The disorder is also four-and-a-half times more common among boys than girls.

“A lot of times for stu-dents with autism, you have to work on things that are more social in nature, such as working through the ability to sit in a restaurant which al-lows the family to go out and have a family meal,” said Gartrell. “You’ve got to work on desensitizing that stimulating envi-ronment that a restau-rant sometimes brings.”

While some school districts choose not to hire rst-year teachers for special education, BISD embraces those new teachers and pro-vides them with the tools they need to succeed as educators.

“We’ve all been rst-year teachers,” Gartrell said. “We try to pair our rst-year teachers with a mentor and a low-in-cidence disability coach. We also provide collab-orative teaching andprovide the professional development that they need. It’s kind of like rst-year teacher boot camp, because in special education, not only are you being taught all of the district initiatives, but then you are also taught state standards and how to collect data and report progress to parents. So they have a double learning curve, and we try to provide as much support as possi-ble.”

As Burleson and the district grow, Gartrell said maintaining the small town personality and establishing rela-tionships with parents is a priority.

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Above all, Gartrell’s favorite part of her job is seeing kids with disabili-ties graduate.

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SENIOR VALENTINE DANCE

9-9:30 p.m., Feb. 9 at the Senior Activity Center, 216 SW Johnson Ave. Burleson, TX.

The Valentine dance features live entertainment from the 92nd Roadhouse Band, free pictures and corsages for the ladies. Prizes will be awarded for the cutest couple, the reddest worn outfi t and of course for the dance contest.

FATHER/DAUGHTER & MOTHER/SON VALENTINE DANCE

4-6:30 p.m. or 6:30 - 9:30 p.m., Feb. 10 at the BRiCk, 550 NW Summercrest Blvd., Burleson, TX.

Dance with your daughter, or son, as the City’s recreation and lifelong learning department

hosts the annual Father/Daughter & Mother/Son Valentine Dance at the BRiCk. The fun includes pictures, corsages, dinner, dancing, and games.

BURLESON AREA RETIRED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION MEET

Meet, Greet, and Eat at 1:30 followed by the program at 2:00 pm., Feb. 12 at the Burleson Senior Citizen Center. The Kerr Middle School Choir will perform for us. This will be an enjoyable program for all.

VALENTINE DANCE

Country Western Larry Light and the Pure Country Band 6:30-9 p.m. Open Bar. Burleson Event Center (Formerly SPJST) 1150 S.

Burleson Blvd $10 at door. Questionsl 817 915 7824.

SPORTS HALL OF FAME LUNCHEON

Tickets for the Burleson ISD Sports Hall of Fame are cur-rently on-sale through Feb. 16. The luncheon is set for noon on March at the Burleson High School’s cafeteria.

Hall of Fame inductees are Burleson cross country and track star Katie Hoaldridge, Burleson baseball and football standout Brian Myrow and the 1929 Burleson’s boys basket-ball team.Tickets for the induction luncheon on sale at Citizens National Bank, First National Bank, and Independent Bank. The price is $25. There will be no tickets sold at the door.

MIGRATORY BIRD

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP

6-7:30 p.m., Feb. 22, City of Burleson Service Center, 725 SE John Jones.

The public is invited to at-tend an Educational Workshop hosted by the City of Burleson Neighborhood Services De-partment regarding the egrets/herons that nested in local neighborhoods. Adam Henry a Wildlife Biologist from the Texas Wildlife Services Program (a co-operative between Texas A&M University, AgriLife Extension Service and the USDA) will be presenting information on the migratory birds.

FAFSA FIESTA

Any BISD parent that needs help with Fafsa. 6-8 p.m. March 27, at BHS Cafeteria.

OPEN REHEARSALS

The Texas Tradition Chorus, an all womens four part a capella chorus, welcomes ladies who love to sing.

Rehearsals are Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. at Burleson First Baptist Church, 317 West Ellison St., Chapel Entrance.

For more information, call Rhonda Barker, 682-556-5612.

JOHNSON COUNTY CRIME STOPPER MEETINGS

Meet at the Joshua Police Dept. the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 12 p.m.

BURLESON AMERICAN LEGION MEETINGS

Post 235 meets at the Burleson Police Dept. the 2nd

Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.

BURLESON LIONSCLUB MEETINGS

Burleson Lions meet on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 11:45 a.m., 590 NE McAlister Rd., Burleson. Guest are welcome to join the meetings. Burleson Lions provide a guest speaker and lunch. For more information, contact Bob Russell: [email protected] or Greg French: [email protected].

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Burleson ISD is mak-ing a name for itself by being ahead of the curve with choice schools.

The district offers four elementary schools of choice, one choice middle school, one choice middle school program and one choice high school among other various, unique op-tions for traditional high school students.

“The new and innova-tive education choices of-fered in Burleson ISD are important as they help children discover their passion while receiving a rigorous education,” said Superintendent Bret Jimerson, Ph.D. of educa-tion in educational lead-ership. “When students and parents are invested in the curriculum deci-sion and topics are rele-vant, we nd it easier to increase the level of rigor.

In doing so, we see an in-crease in student achieve-ment and engagement.”

Parents and students are surveyed to see which choice schools should be added to the district.

“The responses helped us increase the choices we offer at elementary and middle schools, in ad-dition to CTE, dual cred-it and other advanced course offerings at our high schools.”

To Jimerson’s knowl-edge, there is no other school in Texas that cur-rently offers a program like REALM. Principal of Kerr Middle School and Dean of the REALM Cheryl Essex said having schools of choice is im-portant because it gives an opportunity for inno-vation.

“In the REALM, we are nding that stu-dents take ownership in their school,” Essex said. “Through surveys, par-

ents and students com-municate investment and support. Multiple parents have reported that their children now like attend-ing school.”

Jimerson said that when the district opened STEAM Middle School three years ago, they were one of the rst dis-tricts in the area to infuse graphic arts with STEM.

“Everything educators in Burleson are doing is focused on boosting stu-dents’ academic achieve-ment, and the best way to inspire learning is through relevance,” Jim-erson said.

STEAM Middle School student Matthew Swar-ingen said he chose to go to a school of choice for more of a challenge and more freedom.

“I love it,” Swaringen said. “It is amazing. I feel I really get to know my teachers more than I would at my zone cam-

pus.”Fellow STEAM Mid-

dle School student Mag-gie Prewitt chose a school of choice for similar rea-sons, including the stu-dent population size, opportunities to work in collaboration areas and better connections with the teachers.

“I get to collaborate with the of ce, and I am connected with everyone that attends this school,” Prewitt said. “I love the freedom.”

Burleson Collegiate High School Principal Rexanne Higgins said that schools of choice are important to offer stu-dents the opportunity to pursue their interests earlier and customize their school experience. Students are able to earn their associate de-gree alongside their high school diploma.

“My students enjoy the academic rigor of our

campus and the small learning community that feels like a family,” Hig-gins said.

One of these students is 10th grader Brian Ken-nerson, who wants to be a vet.

“This requires a lot of college, and BCHS gives me the opportunity to get ahead on this school-ing,” Kennerson said. “I like the teachers, meet-ing new people and the chances I wouldn’t have been able to get at a tra-ditional school.”

Academy of Leader-ship and Technology at Mound Elementary Prin-cipal Marla Bennett said that schools of choice are important for students in the district, because children are born with unique talents, personal drive and gifts.

“Schools of choice al-low students an oppor-tunity to learn in an en-vironment that meets

these unique personal characteristics and inter-ests,” Bennett said. “Thisopportunity gives parentsand students the power to choose what is bets for their child educational-ly.”

Fourth grader AcelynHeldt said she chose to go to a school of choice tolearn about technologymore, which will help her be a sales manager whenshe grows up.

“I have learned abouttechnology here,” Heldtsaid. “It has also helpedme be a leader in my own family with my young-er brother. We are moreable to come up with a solution if we have a dis-agreement.”

To explore schools ofchoice, the second annu-al School Choice Night is 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Feb. 15 at Centennial High School. For moreinformation, visit www.burlesonisd.net.


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N u m e r o u s Burleson-area residents earned diplomas or ac-ademic recognition at colleges and universities from coast to coast. The educational institutions and recipients include:

Baylor University, where ve Burleson res-idents were among 863 graduates during fall commencement exercis-es Dec. 16 in the Ferrell Center on the Baylor campus.

The graduates are Madison Rose Arthur, Bachelor of Business Ad-ministration, Entrepre-neurship and Corporate Innovation; Taylor Lynn Barksdale, Bachelor of Business Administra-tion, Accounting; Thomas Patrick Eisner, Bache-lor of Arts, Political Sci-ence; Timothy Reginald Hughes Jr., Bachelor of Science, Biology, and Heather Nichole Smith, Master of Science, Com-munication Sciences and Disorders.

Baylor University is a private Christian uni-versity and a nationally ranked research insti-tution. The University provides a vibrant cam-pus community for more than 17,000 students. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes stu-dents from all 50 states and more than 80 coun-tries.

More than 86 percent of Baylor graduates nd a job or start graduate school within 90 days of graduation.

More recently at Bay-lor, more than 4,240 stu-dents were named to the Dean’s Academic Honor Roll for the 2017 fall se-mester. Students hon-ored on the Dean’s List are Baylor undergrad-uates with a minimum grade-point average of 3.7, while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester hours.

Burleson residents earning Dean’s List are: Emily Kathryn Blacka-by, College of Arts and

Sciences; Bailey R. Faub-ion, Hankamer School of Business; Linda Joan Fleischer, School of Mu-sic; Tara Lynn Gilbert, College of Arts and Sci-ences; Nathaniel Allen Hamilton, College of Arts and Sciences; Emily Rose Jackson, Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences; Krishna K. Jayaswal, College of Arts and Sciences, and Abigail Lynn Jennings, School of Education.

At South Dakota School of Mines & Tech-nology in Rapid City, South Dakota, Justin McAdoo of Crowley, who is majoring in Comput-er Engineering, was one of nearly 700 students named to the Dean’s List for the 2017 fall semes-ter.

In order to merit a spot on the Dean’s List, students must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher for the se-mester. Full-time stu-dents must have earned a minimum of 12 credit hours that term, while part-time students must have earned between three and 11 credit hours that term.

Founded in 1885, the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is a science and engineer-ing research university with an enrollment of 2,778 students with a student-to-faculty ratio of 15:1. The SD School of Mines placement rate for graduates is 96 percent, with an average starting salary of $63,000.

At Temple College in Temple, Tonya Coe was named to the Vice Pres-ident’s Honor List. To earn that honor, a stu-dent must take at least nine semester credit hours and earn at least a 3.5 grade point average.

At Harding Univer-sity in Searcy, Arkan-sas, Brady Jackson, a sophomore Bible and family ministry major from Burleson, is among more than 1,400 Hard-ing students included on the dean’s list for grades achieved during the fall 2017 semester.

The dean’s list is pub-lished each semester honoring those who have

achieved high scholar-ship. To be eligible, a stu-dent must be carrying 12 or more hours with a 3.65 or higher grade-point av-erage and no incompletes.

Harding University is a private Christian uni-versity and is the largest private university in the state. Harding’s student body is made up of stu-dents representing 50 states and 54 nations and territories.

At the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., Katie Rebrovich of Burleson has been named to the Dean’s List for earning Highest Honors for the fall 2017 semester. Re-brovich is majoring in Mathematics.Students named to the Dean’s List at the University of New Hampshire are students who have earned recog-nition through their su-perior scholastic perfor-mance during a semester enrolled in a full-time course load (12 or more graded credits). High-est honors are awarded to students who earn a semester grade point average of 3.85 or bet-ter out of a possible 4.0. Students with a 3.65 to 3.84 average are awarded high honors and students whose grade point aver-age is 3.5 through 3.64 are awarded honors.

The University of New Hampshire has more than 16,000 students from all 50 states and 71 countries.

At McMurry Univer-sity in Abilene, Raekwon Anderson of Burleson, was one of 27 McMur-ry scholar-athletes who have been named to the American Southwest Conference 2017 Fall All-Academic Team hon-or roll. The honorees were selected from the ASC sports of men’s and wom-en’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, foot-ball, and volleyball.

To be eligible for ASC All-Academic honors, student-athletes must be classi ed academically as a sophomore, junior, se-nior or graduate student during the competition season and have been in attendance and complet-ed at least one academic

year (two consecutive se-mesters) at their institu-tion. They must also have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA) as certi ed at the conclusion of the academic semester in which the ASC sport championship is held.

The McMurry Ath-letics Department is committed to the en-hancement of the educa-tional experiences of its student-athletes within the established Christian Liberal Arts tradition of the university. McMurry University was founded in 1923 as a United Meth-odist institution, and en-rolls more than 1,000 stu-dents and has an average class size of 16.

At Samford Universi-ty in Birmingham, Ala-bama, Reagan M Smith of Burleson, was named to the fall 2017 Dean’s List at Samford. Smith is a Senior Economics (BA) major.To qualify for the dean’s list, a stu-dent must have earned a minimum 3.5 grade point average out of a possible 4.0 while attempting at least 12 credit hours of coursework. Dean’s List is the highest academic recognition given by the school at the end of each semester.

Samford, founded in 1841, is the 87th old-est institution of higher education in the Unit-ed States. U.S. News & World Report ranks Sam-ford 3rd among regional universities in the South, and Samford is recog-nized as the top-ranked university in the state of Alabama in national rankings published by Forbes Inc, The Econo-mist and The Wall Street Journal. Samford enrolls 5,509 students from 45 states and 30 countries.

At Austin College in Sherman, Nicole Garrow, a graduate of Joshua High School and the daughter of Christianne and James Garrow, has been named to the Dean’s List for Fall Term 2017. The Dean’s List recognizes the top 20 percent of students tak-ing a minimum of three graded, full-credit cours-es. For Fall Term 2017, the Dean’s List recogniz-es 243 individuals.

At the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Erika Kirstin Pope of Burleson was named to the President’s List for fall 2017. A total of 12,594 students enrolled during the 2017 fall semester at UA were named to the Dean’s List with an ac-ademic record of 3.5 or above or the President’s List with an academ-ic record of 4.0 (all A’s). The UA Dean’s and Pres-ident’s lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate stu-dents or undergraduate students who take less than a full course load.

The University of Al-abama, the state’s oldest and largest public insti-tution of higher educa-tion, is a student-cen-tered research university that draws the best and brightest to an academic community committed to providing a premier un-dergraduate and gradu-ate education.

At the University of Oklahoma in Norman, students from 46 states are among candidates for degrees this fall on the Norman campus, includ-ing Hannah G. Rodriguez of Burleson with a BA in Journalism, and Kamer-on L. Woolfolk of Crowley with a Bachelors of Business Administra-tion.

Also at OU, students from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., are listed on the Norman campus honor roll for the fall 2017 semester.

In most colleges, stu-dents must earn a min-imum 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale to be included on the honor roll. Students in the Col-lege of Architecture are recognized with a 3.3 or better, and students in the College of Engineer-ing are recognized with a 3.0 or better.

Honor roll students from Burleson who are enrolled full time in at least 12 credit hours are Maitlyn Victoria Brucks, Michael Richard Dar-mon, Brandon Lee Erick-son, Tyler J. Erickson and Hannah G. Rodriguez.

Bryan Alexander Capps earned a 4.0 (A)

grade-point average toearn recognition on thePresident Honor Roll.

At Oklahoma CityUniversity, Kyle Copp ofBurleson has been namedto the Fall 2017 Dean’sHonor Roll.

Dean’s Honor Rollstatus is awarded to stu-dents who successfullycomplete a minimum of12 credit hours and main-tain a grade point aver-age of 3.5 or higher.

Founded in 1904,Oklahoma City Universi-ty is a non-pro t, compre-hensive, private UnitedMethodist university thatis consistently rankedamong the best in its cat-egory. OCU students pur-sue academic excellencethrough a rigorous liberalarts & sciences core cur-riculum that focuses ontheir intellectual, moraland spiritual develop-ment.

At Ouachita BaptistUniversity in Arkadel-phia, Ark., approximately400 students were namedto its Fall 2017 Dean’sList including AshlynneTurner of Burleson andLoyrie Gray of Keene.

To be named to theDean’s List, a studentmust compile at least a3.5 grade point averageand be classi ed as afull-time student, with aminimum of 12 academichours.

Ouachita Baptist Uni-versity, a private Chris-tian liberal arts universi-ty, is ranked among “BestNational Liberal ArtsColleges” by U.S. News &World Report and among“America’s Top Colleges”by Forbes magazine.Serving since 1886 as aChrist-centered learningcommunity, Ouachitahas a current enrollmentof 1,517 students fromnearly 30 states and 30nations.

Also at Ouachita Bap-tist University, nearly350 students have beennamed to its Fall 2017President’s List, includ-ing Meagan Woodard ofAlvarado.

To be named to thePresident’s List, a stu-dent must compile a 4.0grade point average andbe classi ed as a full-timestudent, with a minimumof 12 academic hours.

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Burleson-area residents earn college diplomas and academic honors

HILLSBORO—Hill College has released the names of students who quali ed for the Presi-dent’s and Dean’s list for the 2017 fall semester.

The purpose of the Hill College President’s List is to honor and rec-ognize students who achieve academic ex-cellence by making the highest grade point av-erage possible, 4.0, while enrolled as a full-time student in at least 12 se-mester hours.

At the end of each semester, Hill College compiles the Dean’s List of the highest ranking students. In order to make the Dean’s List, a student must complete at least 12 semester hours during the semester and earn a grade point aver-age of 3.5 in all courses attempted during the se-mester. Students listed on the President’s List are also on the Dean’s List.

President’s List Abbott- Zane Cooper Alvarado- Daniel Car-

rizales, Angel Durbin,

Alyssa Jackson, Joshua Land, Samuel Moelling, Paul Perci eld, Bryce Roberts, Angela Trow-bridge

Arlington- Blaine Moore, Preston Westphal

Austin- Nigel Macias Blum- Emily Brew-

er, Jacob Curlee, Landon Swindell

Bullard- Baylee Tay-lor

Burleson- Cassandra Adair, Aaron Barrow, Angelica Bialczak, Kolbie Blanchard, Christopher Bonar, Ashley Castillo, Gabrielle Castro, Chase Cochran, Alex Farnan, Kiah Fischer, Brianna Frias, Andrew Goodman, Holly Halcomb, Brianna Holland, Robert Johnson, Madison Korb, Garrett Lambert, Linda Loredo, Madison Mahan, Alexis Marley, Krystal McCal-lum, Madalynn Medina, Daria Mendez, Lexis Moreno, Luke Overfelt, Hannah Ownby, Jordan Pennington, Alissa Pla-nas, Margaret Raines, Emily Schlotzhauer, Ty-ler Szafranski, Harleigh Thompson, Kather-ine Vernon, Brookelyn Wilkinson, Samantha

Williams Bynum- Ethan Aw-

trey, Rachel Robertson Cedar Hill- Noah

Blakely Cleburne- Regina

Allen, Annette Arriaga, Audra Baldwin, Jayden Bryeans, Claudia Car-nevali, Lydia Collazo, Gabriel Conceicao, Ser-gio De La Rosa Garcia, Mayra Dominguez, Fran-ces Edwards, Chayce Floyd, Breanna Gustin, John Hathaway, Bran-don Heintz, Daniel Her-nandez, Aaron Jones, Ryan Kimberlin, Dylan Lamb, Mason Mcdonald, Jessi Mcdonough, Son-ja Morris, Chelsea Na-tion, Timothy Nazworth, Blanca Reyes, Fabian Romo, Garrett Rose, Pe-dro Rubio, Shenayah Stan eld, Harold Stow-ell, Kennedy Styron, Katherine Teague, Rosie Turrubiates, Kassandra Vargas, Karrie Wallace, Brady Wise

Clifton- Brazos McPeek

Conroe- Andrea Rive-ra

Coppell- Marco Navarro Sanchez

Corsicana- Zachary

Perritt Crowley- Robyn An-

derson, Paige Bridges, Brandi Sypert, Molly Taylor

Cypress- Ashley Pry-or

Flatonia- Easton Migl Forest Hill- Kayla

Lemons Fort Worth- Caitlyn

Karlin, Hayden Redmon Garland- Kelsey

Crouse Glen Rose- Ethan

Duhon, Alec Fraley, Ryan Gray, Cesar Herrera

Godley- Alisha Bai-ley, Mindy Hightower, Lindsay Stembridge

Granbury- Holly Jackson, Noah Moore

Grandview- Hannah Basham, Gary Burdine, Thomas Downs, Jason Hardin, Theron Hughes, Chelsea Meredith, Mon-tana O’Banion, Sarah Shaw

Hillsboro- Milos Blagojevic, January Boman, Braulio Casta-neda, Soni Chaudhary, Alfonso Estrada, Vilgot Larsson, Javier Medina, Haylee Meeks, Isamar Monroy, Yesenia Mon-roy, Ashley Muyambo, Billie Owens, Alejandro

Perez, Lindsi Price, Ja-cob Rendon, Christian Rivera, Gerardo Rivera, Austin Rodriguez, Ju-lian Rubio Blanco, Alexis Ward, Benjamin Wilson

Houston- Shengwei Hu

Itasca- Charles Bonds, Isabella Botello, Douglas Williams

Jewett- Brianna Sit-ton

Joshua- Mason Fors-berg, Daniel Illingworth, Taylor Klein, Drew Mcwilliams, Brooke Muncy, Kristi Rowan, Melissa Thomas, Jessica Thornton

Katy- Katherine Reid Keene- Sierra An-

derson, Madison Jobe, Stephen Moore, William Richardson, Gerardo Vil-lalobos

Kopperl- Elaina Au-dette

League City- Justin Hamilton

Longview- Juan Gar-cia

Mabank- Maci Ray, McKenzie Ray

Malone- Brandee In-grum

Maypearl- Laura Be-ment

McKinney- Zachary

Wilson Meridian- Chantelle

Chenault Mexia- Shaniqua

Harbert Midlothian- Cameron

Lang Milford- Collette

West Pantego- Rylee With-

erspoon Plano- Grant Bruce Rainbow- Halston Li-

ford Rio Vista- Madison

Dickerson, Desiree Kane, Debra Prine, KathrynStone, Holly Tillman

Rosenberg- Miranda Stephens

San Antonio- Madi-son LeJeune

Southlake- Kyle Faith

Stephenville- Jenni-fer Christianson

Venus- Jayson Dele-on, Amey Duarte, Gabri-ella Quiroz, Daniel Ruiz, Kalie Whitehall

Waco- Hannah Bu-ford, Jacob Elkins, Desti-ny Salazar

Waxahachie- Alex-is Buchanan, Robert Teague

Weatherford- Alicyn Hendryx

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West- Sara Kunkel Whitney- Destini

Bradshaw, Gracie Dan-iels, Danielle Dreher, Caitlyn Moore, Maribel Orosco, Angelique Pena, Janet Rials, Wendall Robertson, Nicholas So-lis, Robert Sweitzer, Ash-ley Worthy

Breese, Ill.- Nicholas Hogue

Durant, Okla.- Cierra Doyal

Tucson, Ariz.- Allison McKibbin

Dean’s List Abbott- Brent Mynar Alvarado- Bran-

dy Brown, Bailey Den-nis, Cameron Dvorcek, Avery Hutson, Grant Klare, Amy Laude, Eliz-abeth Manry, Kathleen Metcalf, Christiana Mo-elling, Mitchell Petty, Craig Ratcliff, Modesto Rico Moreno, Elexis Vel-asquez

Burleson- Peyton Allen, Kacey Baker, Mykenna Baker, Paolo Bigiarini, Katelyn Blair, Kalei Bradberry, Skylar Carter, Wendy Clements, Jordan Daniels, Tristen

Deleon, Haley Doyle, Scott Elizondo, Rebekah Gore, Meredith Harwell, Matalin Harwell, Eliz-abeth Hommel, Alejan-dra Huerta, Lawerence Mares, Chase Marley, Kaitlyn Martin, Carson Masteller, Kaitlyn Mc-Donald, Daniel Mead-ows, Madison Montgom-ery, Kaylee Mullendore, Shyloh Napoleon, Mea-gan Obregon, Dusty Reid, Richard Rio, Julys-sa Saenz, Jennifer Shaw, Mariah Shelton, Lexi Ta-mayo, Kyle Thompson, Julia Tucker, Kayleigh Wallace, Austyn Wright

Bynum- Praise Hop-son, Sharolyn Waller

Canyon Lake- Ramiro Tarango

Cleburne- Kenneth Bodine, Oscar De La Rosa Garza Ibarra, Lyric Ferry, Jose Flores, Jay-cee Gaida, Faith Garza, Lauren Gonzalez, Bryce Gossett, Sarah Hart, Cin-dy Loeak, Priya Mathew, Everett Mcclure, Landon Mccoy, Icee Miller, Carla Moon, Skylar Moon, Gar-rett Moore, Kassandra

Navarro, Stacy Norman, Thomas Oldham, Taffy Padilla, Julie Padilla, Adam Reynaga, Cody Rogers, Michaela Sedivy, Jacob Smalley, Lacey Terry, Denishia Tijerina, Charles Turk, Claudia Velez, Caitlin Verville, Tyler Waldrop, Reygan Warren, April Zielinski

Conroe- Craig Keuchel

Covington- Rebecca Ramirez

Crowley- Kailee Har-ris, Elisabeth Rutledge

Dallas- Yvonne Mam-hende

Donie- Stevey Payne Edgewood- Haley

Willmon Elm Mott- Kaylyn

Miller Ennis- Taylor Daniell Fair eld- Laney New-

man Fort Worth- Arhian-

na Sims-Jackson Frisco- Chandler

Odwyer Glen Rose- Emory

Glover Godley- Misty High-

tower, Cole Kinkead, Al-lison Plunk

Granbury- Amanda Holtzinger

Grandview- George Fraire, Diann Hocken-bury, Jessica Prater, Holly Strevey, Rachael Williamson

Grapeland- Jeron Hobson

Harker Heights- Nicholas Dean

Hillsboro- Luke Cronan, Julissa Cruz, Ed-ward Dakwa, Dean Frew, Mario Fuentes, Gerardo Gonzalez Rangel, Angel Griggs, Rose Hernandez Lora, Jeniffer Ledesma, Abigail Mupandawana, Matthew Padgett, Thom-as Pearson, Christopher Ramirez, Olivia Rees

Houston- Dariana Recarte

Hubbard- Kevin Crump

Hudson Oaks- Chris-topher Galusha

Huffman- Tessa Harding

Itasca- Gabrielle Bell, Jacquelynn Holden, Lindsay Miles, Stephen Montes, Chrystal San-chez

Joshua- Logan Bar-

nett, Joseph Bruce, Desti-ny Deaton, Kayla Espar-za, Katherine Ethridge, Courtney Fletcher, Laura Hudson, William Manning, Edward Rodri-guez, Christina Sobotka, Colton Weidman, Eliza-beth Woodyard

Keene- Laren Gil-let-Tom, Caleb Hanna, Hensley Mulina

Keller- Carson Carter Killeen- Garet Doug-

las La Vernia- Morgan

Burns Lancaster- Latijera

Thomas Lorena- Callan

Holmes Madisonville- Alexia

Leveston Magnolia- Warren

Wall Mertens- Raymond

Dolifka, Felicia Thomp-son

Morgan- Rachel Gar-rett

Mount Calm- Raven Chapman

North Richland Hills- Andrew Mooty

Pilot Point- Bryce Briggs

Rio Vista- Joshua Jones, Michael Kane, Stephanie Little, Sara Nelson, Denny Rosado, Haley Wylie

Rockport- Erika Cer-vantez

Rosenberg- Larissa Eversole

Temple- Carli Holekamp, Nathan Vail

Terrell- Carlie Conaway

Venus- Allen Pack, Nicholas Serrano, Kacey Virgil, Alena Washington

Waco- Colleen Jones, Morgan Mcgough

Walnut Springs- Car-los Ramirez, Hawa Zack-ey

West- Trenton Upt-more

Whitney- Crystal Beacom, Kimberly Hill-man, Chandler Rochelle

Woodway- Charles Baley

Evergreen, Colo.- Dane Kapande

Flushing, N.Y.- Mi-chael Coletta

Magnolia, Ark.- Colin Hall

Omaha, Ill.- Madison Johnson

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they also get fed spiritu-ally.

“They come here for more than just food,” Thelen-Hall said. “We of-fer a lot of love, and the love of Jesus. We lead people to salvation. Be-cause we have the love of Jesus in us, we share it unconditionally. The peo-ple coming here get that.”

Taylor Murphy has been volunteering for about a year. Rather than hand out food, her favorite part is praying

over people.“We all just love to

be the hands and feet of Jesus,” Murphy said. “We’re trying to show people light.”

It doesn’t take dedi-cation from only the vol-unteers to make the food bank run smoothly. Cars start lining up for the Saturday morning event around dinner time the Friday night before.

By the time things get going Saturday morning, there are typically al-

ready 50 cars lined up. While the cars are wait-ing outside, the morning kicks off with a celebra-tion led by Bragg.

“We’re not in the food business; we’re in the Je-sus business,” Bragg said. “We need to thank the Lord for what He’s given us, so we set the atmo-sphere and invite Him in here. We don’t celebrate the food; we celebrate the eternal things that mat-ter. That’s what this whole thing is about: Jesus.”

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People wait in groups at the OpenDoor food bank in Joshua. BURLESON STAR/BROOKE BOREN

Cars wait in a two-mile long line at the OpenDoor food bacnk on Saturday, Feb.3.BURLESON STAR/BETHANN COLDIRON

TARRANT WOMEN’S HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP, P.A.

Beginning February 13, 2018, Adrianne Deem will begin seeing patients on Tuesdays in our Burleson offi ce, 2760 S. W. Wilshire Blvd Suite 100 Burleson, TX 76028. Dr. Deem will be in our Fort Worth offi ce on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Dr. Drew Rainer will begin seeing patients on Tuesdays in our Lake Worth offi ce, 6076 Azle Ave, Suite 400, Lake Worth 76135, beginning February 6, 2018. Dr. Rainer will be in our Fort Worth offi ce on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Tarrant Women’s Health Physicians look forward to continuing your Gynecologic and Obstetrical care at our three locations.

The Fort Worth offi ce in the Plaza of Harris Southwest Hospital (6100 Harris Parkway #140) is open Monday through Friday 8:00am-4:30pm and is accepting new patients. The Lake Worth offi ce, 6076 Azle Ave. #400, is open Tuesday through Friday and accepting new patients. Our Burleson offi ce, 2760 S.W. Wilshire Blvd #100, is accepting new patients and open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:30a.m.- 4:30p.m. with Dr. Adrianne Deem or Dr. Stacy Butler. Should you need to seek medical care please visit our offi ces in Fort Worth, Burleson, and Lake Worth.

Burleson2760 S.W. Wilshire BlvdSuite 100Burleson, TX 76028Phone: 817-782-8160

Fort Worth6100 Harris Pkwy.Suite 140Fort Worth, TX 76132Phone: 817-346-5336

Lake Worth6076 Azle AveSuite 400Lake Worth, TX 76135Phone: 817-238-9020

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Wings of Hope has success at Chisholm Challenge

While the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo has been around since 1896, many people don’t know that there is a spe-cial horse show that takes place right before the leg-endary stock show. The Chisholm Challenge is an invitation-only show for riders with disabilities to show off their horseman-ship to the public.

Wings of Hope, a ther-apeutic riding center based in Egan, had 14 riders and 10 horses at-tend the Chisholm Chal-lenge this year, some for the rst time.

Allison Gross, the de-velopment director for Wings of Hope, said the show is a great experi-ence for riders who may not be able to show in a typical horse show.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our riders to showcase their skills, independence and part-nership with their hors-es,” Gross said.

However, this isn’t the type of show where every-one who shows up gets a prize. Riders work hard to reach the goal of show-ing at the Chisholm Chal-lenge, which is a national three-day show for riders with disabilities.

“While the show has an amazing amount of a positive atmosphere, on the ip side it’s not like you just show up and get a medal,” said Gross. “You have to earn your way here and earn that invitation. So it’s a big

deal to be a part of it.”The Chisholm Chal-

lenge was one of the rst to have showman-ship classes for its par-ticipants, who may be in wheelchairs, Gross said. At any other horse show, those who enter a showmanship class walk alongside their horse.

“This really stands out visually to a lot of peo-ple, because at any other show it wouldn’t be al-lowed,” Gross said. “But when you are at a show where all the riders have some sort of disability, there are alterations and tweaks to each class.”

This doesn’t mean that the patterns for the classes are any easier. The practice and labor that the participants put in prior to the show are the same as able-bodied riders. There is even an American Quarter Horse Association portion of the show, which is an inter-national breed and show-ing association.

“The great thing about the Chisholm Challenge is that it’s very inclusive but also keeps everyone safe,” Gross said.

Wings of Hope is one of 880 Professional As-sociation of Therapeutic Horsemanship certi ed facilities, and each in-structor is also a PATH certi ed professional. A facility cannot become PATH certi ed over-night. There are rigorous quali cations that a facil-ity must meet to become a member.

Gross said 60 percent of their clients have two

or more medical diag-noses that bene t from equine-assisted therapy. Riders start as young asthree and the oldest cli-ents are in their 70s.

“We currently have 81 clients who come to us weekly,” Gross said.“They come from every part of Johnson County,but some also drive fromDallas and all over the metroplex.”

Some of the medical diagnoses that bene- t from equine-assisted therapy are spina bi da,cerebral palsy, autism, cognitive disorders andPTSD. Other diagnosesthat bene t from thera-py are stroke victims andthose who have traumat-ic brain injuries. More-over, in 2009, Wings ofHope started a programcalled Operation Hoof-beat, which serves mili-tary members.

“Everything we do isindividualized to the cli-ent,” Gross said. “The gait and rhythm of a horsewalking can help build up the core muscles in a person, and brushing the horse helps with ne mo-tor skills. The emotional and cognitive bene ts ofjust having that connec-tion with a horse is veryhealing.”

It’s that place of hope and healing where Wingsof Hope is born, andGross hopes that in the future the center will be able to help more people.

“We have stayed trueto our mission of helping those with any sort of dis-ability, and we will con-tinue to do that.”


Leighton and Sunny brought home a blue ribbon and buckle. COURTESY PHOTO/WINGS OF HOPE

Lorenzo riding Chocolate with the assistance of his volunteer, Olin. COURTESY PHOTO/WINGS OF HOPE

John, Operation Hoofbeat rider, posts the colors on Asti at the Chisholm Challenge.COURTESY PHOTO/WINGS OF HOPE

Charlie Brown is one of 18 therapy horses that Wings of Hope houses at it’s facility in Cleburne. COURTESY PHOTO/WINGS OF HOPEA SAGORA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY

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PRAISE TEMPLE2915 S. I-35W817-295-0525

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VICTORY FAMILY CHURCH455 NW. John Jones Dr.817-447-2667

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BOULEVARD BAPTIST315 N. Burleson Blvd (I-35)817-295-4342

CANA BAPTIST2309 E. Renfro817-295-3891

CROSSROADS BAPTIST116 N. Clark817-295-2191

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CROSSTIMBER BAPTIST2560 FM 731817-447-0051

FIRST BAPTIST317W. Ellison at Johnson817-295-2221

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I-35 CHURCH OF CHRIST4343 S. I-35W, 2 mi so of 917817-295-7277

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With the chance to kill two birds with one stone, Burleson’s boys basket-ball team didn’t let the opportunity get away.

The Elks started fast Friday night at arch-ri-val Centennial and didn’t leave the Spartans much breathing room as they fi nished off a sweep of the series this season with a 62-50 District 9-5A victo-ry.

The win, coupled with Arlington Seguin’s vic-tory over Cleburne, gave the Elks (21-6, 10-1) their fi rst district title since 1967. The Elks have won their last three meetings with Centennial. The loss was the Spartans (13-13, 5-6) fourth straight in district play.

“I’m really proud of my guys because they work through adversi-ty,” Burleson coach Joey Martin said. “I’m so hard on them about being per-fect on everything and for three-fourths of the game, I thought they played to perfection. I really enjoyed that our kids were able to play

in a tough environment like this. They executed our game plan tonight. I thought they played great defense. They were unselfi sh. If we do that, we have a chance to win a lot more games.”

Burleson over-whelmed the Spartans in the fi rst quarter, getting out to an 11-0 lead behind eight of senior Jaylen Johnson’s game-high 27 points.

“We had intensity to-

night and it felt really great,” Johnson said. “I felt we needed to jump out and get a big lead so that we can play com-fortable at the end. It feels good to beat them twice in a season be-

cause there is a big ri-valry between the two schools. We got them in football and now we got them in basketball so we have something to keep our heads up about.”

The Elks led 34-26 at

halftime and Centennialwas able to close to with-in 24-28 on an AnthonyHunter basket to open the second half. That was as close as the Spartanswould get as Burlesonwent on a 10-2 run to ex-pand its lead to 44-31.

“Coach Carroll does a good job with his kids,” Joey Martin said of Cen-tennial coach Jeff Car-roll. “He’s got a young group of kids that are talented.”

Hunter, who fi n-ished with a game-high18 points, scored eight fourth-quarter points during a 17-13 fi nal quarter run by the Spar-tans. Zach Bolf tallied 12 points for the Spartansand Corbin Franco added nine points.

Sam Martin, who scored 12 points, was the only other Elk scoring in double fi gures. Dalton Lane fi nished with ninepoints.

Burleson 62, Centennial 50Burleson ........ 21 13 15 13 - 62Centennial ..... 11 15 7 17 - 50Burleson (21-6,10-1):: Jaylen Johnson

27, Sam Martin 12, Dalton Lane 9, Josiah Sneed 5, C.J. Anderson 4, Raymond Lynch4, Levi Porter 2.Centennial (13-13, 5-6): Anthony Hunter

18, Zach Bolf 12, Corbin Franco 9, K.J.Walker 5, Caleb Werner 3, Zane Elliott 2, Josh Brown 1.

The fi rst time Cen-tennial and Burleson squared off in District 9-5A girls basketball play, the Lady Elks put up a fi ght losing 45-39.

None of that fi ght was present Friday night as the Lady Spartans snapped a two-game dis-trict losing streak with a 58-27 district home win over Burleson.

Centennial coach Val-erie Wootan was pleased with her team’s win con-sidering they were short three players in Kertisa

Amos, Abbi Williamsm and Jolie Johnson.

“I just told them that was probably one of the best team games they have played all season, it might have been the best,” Wootan said. “I just felt like so many different people stepped up tonight. This game tonight was what we needed because we have been in a funk lately. We needed a little bit of energy and excitement and we got that tonight. That’s a good thing as we get ready for the playoffs.”

The Lady Spartans

(22-10, 11-3) closed out district play Tuesday night with a 43-41 win at Granbury to fi nish tied with Arlington Seguin for second place. The teams fl ipped Wednesday for the second and third seed from the district. No re-sult for the fl ip was avail-able at press time.

Friday’s game was also the last home contest for senior guard Kayleigh Benson, who scored 10 points. Kayleigh is the second Benson to play for the program. Her sister Megan graduated from

Centennial junior Zack Eagle won’t be alone at the UIL Class 5A State swimming and diving championships this season.

Joining Eagle at state this year will be freshman diver Har-li Woolsey. Eagle, who won a bronze medal last year at state in the 100-yard butterfly, will be making his third trip to state.

The pair qualified for state over the week-end at the Class 5A Re-gion II championships in Mansfield.

The winner and sec-ond place finisher qual-ified for state.

The UIL Class 5A state swimming and diving championships will take place Feb. 16-17 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center on the campus University of Texas in

Austin.In the team stand-

ings, the Spartans scored 88 points to fin-ish 10th and the Lady Spartans were 17th with 40 points.

“We swam really

well,” Centennial coach Jeremy Martin said. “The kids were really motivated in what they wanted to achieve and made it happen.”

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Elks down Spartans, claim 9-5A titleBOYS BASKETBALL | BURLESON 62, CENTENNIAL 50

Burleson’s Sam Martin cuts past Centennial’s Zach Bolf, left. and Corbin Franco, right, during the Elks’ District 9-5A title- clinching victory over Centennial Friday night. BURLESON STAR/RICKY MOORE

Burleson’s Miller, Young headed to state

SWIMMING | CLASS 5A REGION II CHAMPIONSHIPS SWIMMING AND DIVING | CLASS 5A REGION II CHAMPIONSHIPS

Centennial’s Eagle, Woolsey are state bound

Burleson’s Aaliyah Young gets a hug from Chandler Glenn after Young qualifed for the UIL Class 5A Swimming and Diving Championships. Glenn was Burleson’s fi rst state swimming qualifi er in 2015. BURLESON STAR/CORALEE FLUG

It was a banner day for Burleson’s swimming program at the Class 5A Region II Swimming and Diving Championships Friday and Saturday in Mansfi eld.

Sophomore Aaliyah Young became the fi rst

female athlete from Burleson to qualify for the state meet and junior James Miller became the second Elk to qualify for the state meet. Chandler Glenn qualifi ed for the state meet in 2015.

The UIL Class 5A State Swimming and Diving Championships will take place Feb. 16-

17 at the Lee and Joe Ja-mail Texas Swim Center on the campus Universi-ty of Texas in Austin.

The Lady Elks fi n-ished sixth in the over-all standings with 102 points while the Elks placed eighth with 114 points.

Centennial junior Zack Eagle is headed back to the UIL5A Class 5A Swimming and Diving Championships for thethird consecutive year. BURLESON STAR/SASHA EAGLE

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Centennial’s Trystan Clark fi ghts for control of the ball against Burleson’s Kiersten Harris (left) and Kate Renner (right) during the Lady Spartans’ District 9-5A win Friday night.

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DISTRICT 9-5A GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGSTEAM W LCrowley 13 1Arlington Seguin 11 3Centennial 11 3Everman 8 6Granbruy 5 9Burleson 4 10Cleburne 4 10Joshua 1 13

Friday’s Results Tuesday’s ResultsCentennial 58, Burleson 27 Cleburne 52, Burleson 40Crowley 75, Joshua 18 Centennial 43, Granbury 41Everman 52, Granbury 29 Crowley 58, Seguin 46Seguin 71, Cleburne 33 Everman 55, Joshua 28

STANDINGS

BURLESON VARSITY

FRIDAYBoys basketball at Arlington Seguin, 6:30 p.m.Girls soccer at Cleburne, 6 p.m.Boys soccer at Cleburne, 7:45 p.m.

TUESDAYBoys basketball vs. Crowley, 6:30 p.m.Girls soccer vs. Arlington Seguin, 6 p.m.Boys soccer vs. Arlington Seguin, 7:45 p.m.Softball vs. Arlington Martin, 6 p.m.

THURSDAYSoftball at Bryan-College Station Tournament, TBA

FEBRUARY 16Girls soccer at Crowley, 6 p.m.Boys soccer at Crowley, 7:45 p.m.Softball at Bryan-College Station Tournament, TBASwimming at State Class 5A Championships, TBA

FEBRUARY 17Softball at Bryan-College Station Tournament, TBASwimming at State Class 5A Championships, TBA

CENTENNIAL VARSITY

FRIDAYBoys basketball vs. Joshua, 6:30 p.m.Girls soccer vs. Granbury, 6 p.m.Boys soccer vs. Granbury, 7:45 p.m.

SATURDAYBoys basketball at Everman, 6:30 p.m.Girls soccer at Joshua, 6 p.m.Boys soccer at Joshua, 7:45 p.m.Softball vs. Fort Worth South Hills, 7 p.m.

THURSDAYSoftball at Mansfi eld Tournament, TBA

FEBRUARY 16Girls soccer vs. Everman, 6 p.m.Boys soccer vs. Everman, 7:45 p.m.Softball at Mansfi eld Tournament, TBASwimming at State Class 5A Championships, TBA

FEBRUARY 17Softball at Mansfi eld Tournament, TBA Swimming at State Class 5A Championships, TBA

FEBRUARY 19Boys golf at Centennial Tournament at Hidden Creek Golf Club, 8 a.m.Girls golf at Centennial Tournament at Hidden Creek Golf Club, 8 a.m.

DISTRICT 9-5A BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGSTEAM W LBurleson 11 1Crowley 7 5Cleburne 6 6Centennial 6 6Everman 5 6Granbury 5 7Seguin 5 7Joshua 2 9

Friday’s Results Tuesday’s ResultsBurleson 62, Centennial 50 Burleson 54, Cleburne 45Granbury 72, Everman 52 Centennial 66, Granbury 63 OTSeguin 79, Cleburne 68 Crowley 67, Seguin 53Crowley 72, Joshua 52 Everman at Joshua, NA

Friday’s Schedule Tuesday’s ScheduleJoshua at Centennial, 6:30 p.m. Crowley at Burleson, 6:30 p.m.Burleson at Seguin, 6:30 p.m. Centennial at Everman, 6:30 p.m.Granbury at Cleburne, 6:30 p.m. Seguin at Granbury, 6:30 p.m.Everman at Crowley, 6:30 p.m. Cleburne at Joshua, 6:30 p.m.

Competing Thursday at the Cleburne Invita-tional #2, Burleson’s pow-erlifting team won the ti-tle over Centennial.

The Elks tallied 50 points to take fi rst-place and Centennial fi nished with 47 points.

The Elks won three weight classes. Eric Sa-mayoa fi nished fi rst at 114 pounds with a com-bined weight of 715

pounds. T.C. Nivens won the 148-pound class with a total weight of 815 pounds. Jordan Mauntel was fi rst at 242 pounds with a combined weight of 1,390 pounds.

Burleson used fi ve second-place showings to outdistance the competi-tion in the overall stand-ings. Finishing second for the Elks were: Noah Finch (132-pound class, 830 combined pounds), Ethan McBrayer (132, 705), Trenton Blew (181, 870), Ryan Patino (198,

930) and Caleb Banks (220, 1,020).

Also competing for the Elks were: Isaiah Amador (fourth place, 165-pound class, 670 combined pounds), Chandler Pog-gensee (fourth, 220, 910) and Chris Perkins (fi fth, 220, 910),

Centennial brought home fi ve fi rst-place fi n-ishers. The Spartans coming in fi rst were: Ti-tus Newsom (123-pound class, 690 combined pounds), Hunter Ford (132, 875), Eric Ortega

(198, 1,145), Mykel Park-er (165, 940) and ZachScarbrough (220, 1,110).

Dayton Totz finishedsecond at 123 poundswith a combined weightof 670 pounds. Plac-ing third at the meetwere Andrew Silver(132-pound class, 745combined pounds) andJeremy Berstler (148,575). Ryan Walz wasfifth in the 198-poundclass (765 combinedpounds) and MarshallWilliams placed sixth(198, 645).

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Impact Athletic Training Center fi nished the 2017 season with fi ve gymnasts being placed on the 2017 America’s Top 100 Gym-nasts list. This list includes the top 100 scores in the Unit-ed States for each level of gymnastics (levels 1-10) on each apparatus (fl oor exer-cise, balance beam, uneven bars and vault.) Impact gym-nasts who made the list are: Burleson resident Sydney Orsak (Level 6 fl oor), Mikay-la Butler, Weatherford (Level 5 vault and fl oor), Sophie Cohen, Aledo (Level 4 bars and fl oor), Grace Edwards, Aledo (Level 7 vault) and Whitley Eppes, Aledo (Level 4 fl oor). Shown are, from left, Grace Edwards, Sydney Or-sak, Sophie Cohen, Whitley Eppes, Mikayla Butler.

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Redistricting leaves questionsUIL | BIENNIAL REALIGNMENT AND REDISTRCTING

The contingent from the Burleson ISD was left scratching their collective heads after Thursday’s biennial realignment and redistricting announce-ment.

The main problem for Burleson ISD athletic director Phil Anderson, Burleson football coach Gary McElroy and Cen-tennial football coach Kyle Geller was the placement of the Elks and Spartans’ football teams in a nine-team district.

Burleson and Centen-nial will be in District 5-5A Division II with Ale-do, Arlington Seguin, Cle-burne, Everman, Joshua, Midlothian, and Waco University.

“I think it is a great competitive district,” Geller said. “Everyone is chasing Aledo obviously. It’s going to be very com-petitive top to bottom. I thought it was awkward that the UIL would put us in a nine-team district and then put Fort Worth in a seven-team district. I don’t know where the log-ic is in that deal but that’s out of my hands. I don’t make those decisions so I can’t worry about them.”

Being in a nine-team district means the Elks and Spartans will play only two-non district games and will also have an open week during dis-trict play. In non-district play, Burleson is slated to face Fort Worth YLMA and Denton Braswell. Centennial is playing Denison and Corsicana in non-district competition.

District 5-5A is in Region II and will face District 6-5A in the fi rst round of the playoffs. That district features Dallas ISD schools Ad-

amson, Conrad, Jeffer-son, Kimball, Seagoville, South Oak Cliff, Spruce and Red Oak.

Schools in Class 5A are divided into Division I and Division II for foot-ball only.

The UIL also an-nounced basketball and volleyball district’s for the 2018-19 and 2019-2020 school years.

Burleson and Centen-

nial in will be in District 5-5A in Region I for bas-ketball and volleyball. The schools will be paired with Seguin, Crowley, Ev-erman, Mansfi eld Legacy and Mansfi eld Timber-view.

“I think it is very odd,” McElroy said. “I really don’t understand the log-ic behind having a differ-ent district for the other sports. The whole deal

with splitting footballwas you would be alignedagainst schools with thesimilar enrollment toyou. I really don’t under-stand. I need someone toexplain it to me. I don’tknow why all the basket-ball and volleyball dis-tricts are different thanfootball. Basketball andvolleyball deserve to bepaired of with schools ofsimilar enrollment. I re-ally don’t understand thewhole concept behind it.”

That district will faceDistrict 6-5A in the open-ing round of the playoffs.In that district are eightFort Worth ISD schools:Arlington Heights, Car-ter-Riverside, EasternHills, North Side, Poly-technic, South Hills,Southwest and O.D. Wy-att.

The UIL will releasenew district alignmentsfor all other sports no lat-er than March 16. Thosedistricts could differ fromthe already announcedbasketball and volleyballdistrticts.

There could still bechanges in the districtalignments. Schools canappeal to the UIL tochange districts. Schoolsthat want to change dis-tricts need a unanimousvote from both the districtexecutive committees towhich they have beenassigned to and from theDEC of the district thatthey wish to be assigned.

A possible scenariocould have Everman ap-pealing to move to Dis-trict 4-5A Division II.That district includes sixFort Worth ISD schools(Carter-Riverside, East-ern Hills, North Side,Polytechnic, Southwestand O.D. Wyatt) and Jus-tin Northwest.


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Soccer teams sweep Friday night play

SOCCER | FRIDAY NIGHT ROUNDUP

In a battle of defend-ing district champions, Burleson’s boys soccer team got the best of Ev-erman Friday night with a 1-0 victory at J.E. Marr Stadium.

With less than fi ve minutes to play, Fred-dy Hernandez scored the game winner for Burleson (8-2-2, 3-0-0, 9 points) off an assist from Edgar Lopez.

Spartansdown Seguin

Centennial’s boys soc-cer team turned its big-gest offensive showing of the season with an 8-0 district home win Friday over Arlington Seguin.

The Spartans (1-1-1 in district, four points) scored fi ve times in the fi rst 18 minutes of the game.

“Everything we shot was on target,” Centenni-al coach Brian Boydston said.

Alex Moreno and Corin Seale each scored twice. Moreno had an assist. Also scoring for Centennial were Casey Wright, Nick Scarpel-lo, Bidauri Trujillo and Mason McBeath. Akwasi Agyei, Wright, Scarpello,

and McBeath each regis-tered assists.

Lady Elkshammer Everman

Thirty seconds into

Friday’s game, Burleson’s Maycie Massingill scored off an assist from Lauren Jordan.

It was the only goal of the fi rst half for the Lady Elks (10-3-1, 2-0-1, six points) but they lit up the scoreboard in the second half on the way to a 7-0 district win at Ev-erman.

“Everman did a good job the rest of the half stacking the back and their keeper played a role in keeping them 1-0 at the half,” Burleson coach Erin Poyner said. “We made adjustments at half-time to get around their defensive numbers.”

Massingill scored 30 seconds into the second half with the assist going to Shea Moore. Massin-gill fi nished with a hat-

trick. Gracie Spradleyscored twice while BaileyBerry and Faith Strube each scored. Strube fi n-ished with three assists. Also picking up assists were Jordan Walker andJeweliet Argueta.

Lady Spartansdown Seguin

Centennial’s girls soc-cer team won its second straight District 9-5A game Friday as the Lady Spartans topped Arling-ton Seguin, 4-0.

The Lady Spartans (5-3-2, 2-0-1, six points) split their goals between halves.

Mackenzie South-all opened the scoringoff an assist from Mad-die Pewitt. The second goal came from ApoloniaWright with the assist going to Avery Shutter.

In the second half, Casie Watson picked up the assist on a goal by Hannah Walker and Southall notched an un-assisted goal.


Eagle won a pair of events at regionals. He took first in the 200 freestyle in a school-re-cord time of one min-ute, 43.36 seconds. In the 100 butterfly, Eagle won in a time of 51.37.

“It actually felt a lit-tle normal,” said Eagle, who admitted he didn’t get proper rest before the regional meet this season. “I didn’t expect (to qualify for state) be-cause that isn’t a good attitude to have but it felt like it was de-served. I put in a lot of work this season to get back to state.”

Woolsey made his-tory twice as the first Lady Spartan to qual-ify for state and she is the first Centennial girls student-athlete to qualify for state in two sports. Woolsey ran with Lady Spartans’ cross country team that finished third at state this season.

Woolsey, Centenni-al’s first diver, scored 288.80 points to win the diving title.

“I was so happy (to be going to state),” Woolsey said. “I was so proud getting to stand on the podium and get-ting to go to state in a sport that I was final-ly able to compete for a school. I don’t think

anything could top be-ing able to go to state as a team for the first time (in cross country). I don’t think anything could top that but it was a close second.”

Also in boys compe-tition, junior Matthew May placed 19th in the 500 freestyle in a time of 5:56.26 and finished 22nd in the 50 freestyle in a time of 25.30.

The team of Ea-gles, freshman Parker Hancock, junior Ras Bumgardner and May

finished seventh in the 200 freestyle relay in a time of 1:36.62. In the 400 freestyle relay, the team of Eagle, senior Beau Brown, freshman Parker Hancock and May placed ninth in a time of 3:40.89. The team of Brown, seniors Collin Ray and Matthew Farley and Bumgardner finished 14th in a time of 2:03.97. In the

In girls action, junior Taylor English placed 11th in the 100 back-stroke in a school-re-cord time of 1:08.09 and finished 20th in the 50 freestyle in a time of 28.28. In the 200 free-style, freshman Jadyn Martin was 18th in a time of 2:18.79.

The Lady Spartans team of sophomore Elaina Chasteen, Mar-tin, English and junior Abbie Qualls placed ninth in the 400 free-style relay in a school-re-cord time of 4:13.31. In the 200 freestyle relay, the team of Chasteen, Qualls, English and Martin finished 10th in a school-record time of 1:52.47. The team of Martin, Qualls, junior Ashlee Sliddell and Chasteen placed 16th in the 200 medley relay in a time of 2:19.25.

Centennial diver Harli Wool-sey qualifed or the UIL Class 5A State Swimming and Di-viing Championships.

BURLESON STAR/SASHA EAGLE

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FROM PAGE 1B

“I am completely in awe of how well my swim-mers did on Saturday,” Burleson coach Heidi Martin said. “All of them pushed hard and basically left everything in the pool. I knew going in that both James and Aaliyah were ready and could both qual-ify for state. Aaliyah com-pletely knocked her swim out of the park, and James had second place solidly in his hands even by the end of the fi rst 50.”

Young qualifi ed for state in the 100-yard free-style after fi nishing sec-ond in a school-record time of 54.48 seconds.

Young admitted qualify-ing for state in the 100 free-style came as a shock to her. Coach Martin suggested she start swimming the 100 freestyle and things came together for her.

At the end of the race, Young didn’t know she had qualifi ed for state. The top two competitors at regionals qualify for state.

“I thought I had got-ten third and I was kind of disappointed,” Young said. “Then I looked at the board and saw that I had fi nished second and it just

got crazy. It was a moment where I thought ‘wow I just did that’”

In the 500 freestyle, Young placed eighth in a time of 6:03.47.

In the 100-yard back-stroke, Miller fi nished second in a school-record time of 55.03 to qualify for state.

Miller said he knew go-ing into the fi nals that “the third place guy was real close but I fi gured I could probably pull through.”

“I looked up at the board and saw I fi nished second and I was excit-ed,” Miller said. “My fi rst thought was that I pulled through for my team again. It was a good feel-ing.”

Miller placed seventh in the 100 butterfl y in a time of 56.00 and soph-omore Ethan Brown fi n-ished ninth in a time of 56.74.

In girls competition, ju-nior Amelia Flug fi nished sixth in the 100 butterfl y in a school-record time of 1:04.48 and placed eighth in the 100 backstroke in a time of 1:06.50.

In the 200 freestyle relay, the team of Flug,

freshman Kendall Kirk,sophomore Vegas Jan-kowski and Young placedeighth in a time of 1:52.52.The same team fi nished10th in the 200 medleyrelay in a time of 2:07.39.In the 400 freestyle relay,the team of junior LexiMelia, Kirk, Jankowskiand freshman Jolie Don-ald placed 11th in a timeof 4:27.71.

For the boys, seniorPayton Brown fi nishedfi fth in the 100 breast-stroke in a time of 1:05.70.Sophomore Ethan Brownplaced 11th in the 200individual medley in aschool-record time of2:12.66. In the 500 free-style, freshman JacobCoursey fi nished 10th ina school-record time of5:29.02. Sophomore Gabri-el was 14th in the 50 free-style in a time of 23.97.

In the 200 medley relay,the team of Miller, PaytonBrown, Ethan Brown andBustillos placed fourth ina time of 1:45.07.

The team of seniorJack Hotchkiss, junior IsaGaloob, senior Sam Koughand Bustillos fi nishedninth in the 200 freestylerelay in a time of 1:36.61.

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FROM PAGE 1B

Burleson junior James Miller qualifi ed for the UIL Class 5A State Swimming and DiviingChampionships in the 100-yard butterfl y. BURLESON STAR/CORALEE FLUG

Centennial in 2015.“When I talk about

Kayleigh it’s hard not to talk about her without not talking about Me-gan,” Wootan said. “First, we had Megan and then we had Kayleigh and Kayleigh just fi lled in where Megan left off. She is a solid player

with great character and somebody I can count on to do the right thing. She works her tail off daily and is such a consistent presence in our program. Needless to say, we are going to miss her a lot.”

Benson connected on a three-pointer in the fi rst quarter and scored sev-

en points that quarter as the Lady Spartans took a 14-8 lead. Centennial then clamped down on the Lady Elks defensive-ly, limiting them to three second-quarter points to extend its lead to 31-11 at halftime.

The Lady Spartans added 13 points in the

third quarter to push their advantage to 44-16. Burleson played better in the fourth quarter, scor-ing 11 points to Centen-nial’s 13 points.

Centennial’s Trys-tan Clark and Ady Mize shared high-point hon-ors with 11 points each. Maleigha Landers paced

Burleson with six points and Caitlyn Kirkham added fi ve points.

The loss dropped Burleson (14-16, 4-9) into sixth place in 9-5A.

“I thought we played very fl at and uninspired basketball tonight,” Burleson coach Curtis Enis said. “We were late

on defensive rotations and offensively our pass-ing was awful tonight.”

Centennial 58, Burleson 27Burleson .......... 8 3 5 11 - 27Centennial ..... 14 17 13 14 - 58Burleson (14-16, 4-9): Maleigha Landers

6, Caitlyn Kirkham 5, Sarah Reid 4, Kier-sten Harris 2, Madison McCall 2, Carlen Payne 2.Centennial (12-10, 10-3): Trystan Clark

11, Ady Mize 11, Kayleigh Benson 10, Ne’Khyria Rogers 10, Zassmine Birdwell 8, Toni Howard 7, Kayannah Moore 1

NOTE: Centennial was slated to play at Burleson Wednesday night as inclement weather forced the postponement of Tues-day’s 9-5A games. No results for the games was available at press time. See www.burlesonstar.net for full results.

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FROM PAGE 1B

Centennial’s boys bas-ketball team needed a win badly Tuesday night at Granbury.

The Spartans did just that, topping the Pirates, 66-63, in overtime to end a four-game District 9-5A losing streak.

“Our biggest plays were on defense tonight,” Centennial coach Jeff Car-roll said. “Zane Elliot took three charges tonight. After giving up 38 points in the fi rst half, we held them to 19 in the second half. I was really proud of how our guys battled back to get the win.”

The win moved the Spartans (14-13, 6-6) into a tie for third place with Cleburne and possibly Ev-erman. Centennial hosts Joshua Friday and plays at Everman Tuesday to end district play.

Centennial’s K.J. Walker scored four of his team-high 19 points in overtime as the Spartans jumped out to a quick lead in the extra frame and went on for the win. Teammate Anthony Hunt-er also scored 19 points in the win. Zach Bolf fi nished with 10 points.

The Spartans trailed 48-43 after three quar-ters then used a 14-6 run to take a 57-54 lead late. Granbury’s Cade Dud-ley three-pointer tied the game late at 57-57 to send the game into overtime. Dudley fi nished with 19 points and Michael Horne scored 16 points.

Elks win 11th straight 9-5A game

With the District 9-5A title in hand, Burleson’s boys basketball team

treated its home fans to a 54-45 win over Cleburne Tuesday night.

The win was the 11th straight for the Elks (22-6, 11-1) in district play. Burleson plays at Arling-ton Seguin Friday and hosts Crowley Tuesday to end district play.

It’s going to be tough the rest of the way for us,” Burleson coach Joey Mar-tin said. “I was happy to see them face some adversity. Coach White did a good job of preparing his guys. They had a chance to beat us and I think that is going to help us down the road.”

Cleburne (20-11), which fell into a tie for second place with Centen-nial, tied the game three times in the third quar-ter and held one lead but Burleson’s Sam Martin hit a 3 at the buzzer to give the Elks a 37-35 lead go-ing into the fourth quarter.

The Yellow Jackets held the lead three times in the fi rst four minutes of the fourth. Their last lead came at 44-42 with 4:40 to play.

From there, the Elks went on a 10-1 run to win the game. Down the stretch, Dalton Lane scored his lone points from the fi eld and Burleson went 6-for-6 from the free throw line.

Jaylon Johnson scored a game-high 16 points for the Elks and Sam Martin fi nished with 12 points.

Cleburne was led in scoring by Chris Arthurs’ 14 points. Addison Wal-lace tallied 12 points and Kyler Jones tossed in 10 points.

Lady Elks loseon senior night

Dreams of sending its senior class off with a win faded in the second

half Friday as Burleson’s girls basketball team couldn’t score in the third quarter and fell to Cleburne, 52-40, in both team’s fi nal District 9-5A game.

The game was the last for senior post Sar-ah Reid and senior guard Carlen Payne. Reid scored nine points and Payne tallied one point. The pair started at Burleson when Curtis Enis took over the Lady Elks’ program.

“I’m really proud of them and their growth through these four years,” Enis said. “They both moved to varsity as sopho-mores and each year they have gotten better and bet-ter and better. The team really wanted to send this senior class out by making the playoffs but we came up a little short there. Sar-ah and Carlen have shown a level of commitment and were good leaders to the younger kids this season. I’ve been really proud of them and, all-in-all, I wish them the best of luck as they head off to college. I hate to see them go.”

Burleson (14-17, 4-10) ended up tied with Cle-burne for sixth place in the district.

Behind 11 of Maleigha Landers team-high 12 points, Burleson held a 30-28 lead at halftime.

The Lady Elks didn’t score in the third quar-ter as Cleburne scored 15 points to take a 43-30 lead into the fourth quarter.

Caitlyn Kirkham’s basket with 4:14 to play in the game was the Lady Elks fi rst of the sec-ond half.

Cleburne’s Caitlyn Cron led all scorers with 24 points and Jayla John-son tallied 17 points.

Spartans move into tie for third place

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The Planning & Zoning Com-mission for the City of Crow-ley, Texas, will hold a public hearing on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, 7:00 p.m. at 201 E. Main, Crowley, Texas, for the following items: *CASE ZCA 18-001 To hold a public hearing and make a recommendation to the city council on an ordinance to amend the district regulations, permitted uses, and design standards of Division 22, “City of Crowley Downtown Overlay District” of Chapter 106 “Zon-ing” of the Crowley code of ordinances. *CASE ZCA 18-002 To hold a public hearing and make a recommendation to the city council on an ordinance to amend Section 106-3 “De ni-tions” and Section 106-801 “Permitted use table” of Chap-ter 106 “Zoning” of the Crowley code of ordinances to add a de nition for ice vending facil-ity, freestanding and to add this use to the permitted use table.The City of Crowley City Coun-cil will conduct a second public hearing and consider the rec-ommendation for the above items on Thursday, March 1, 2018, at 201 E. Main at 7:00 p.m.Interested persons are encour-aged to attend the public hear-ing to offer public comments or provide written comments prior to the meeting to the Community Development Of- ce, 201 E. Main St., Crowley, Texas 76036. Crowley City Hall is wheelchair accessible, and accessible parking spaces are available. Requests for accommodations must be made 48 hours prior to this meeting. Please contact the City Secretary’s Of ce at (817) 297-2201 ext. 4000, for further information.

Feb. 8 - Crowley P & Z Hearings

NOTICE OF SALENotice is hereby given that a public sale will be held at Mini U Storage (Formerly All Star Self Storage), 786 E. FM 1187, Crowley, TX 76036 on February 23, 2018 at 11:00 AM to satisfy a landlord’s lien on the property stored at the ad-dress above in the units listed pursuant to Texas Property Code, Chapter 59. Tenants notated the inventories listed at the time of rental. Landlord makes no representation or warranty that the units contain said inventories.*Allison, Carlton: 0604- Misc. Household*Hasty, Stephen: 0015- Misc. Household, Personal Effects*Stafford, Cody: 0109- Misc. Household*Janzen, Hope: 0702- Misc. Household, Personal Effects

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Feb. 8 - Burl. Case 03-018

State of Texas

413TH DISTRICT COURTJOHNSON COUNTY, TEXASDISTRICT CLERK:DAVID R. LLOYDGUINN JUSTICE CENTERP.O. BOX 495CLEBURNE, TEXAS 76033

ATTORNEY FOR PLAIN-TIFF:JOSEPH M. VACEK4004 BELT LINE ROADSUITE 100ADDISON, TEXAS 75001-4320

====================CITATION - PUBLICATION

- CIVIL====================(PLAINTIFF’S ORIGINAL

PETITION)CAUSE NO.

DC-C201600653

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:

“You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not le a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of forty-two (42) days after the date of issuance of this citation

and petition, a default judg-ment may be taken against you.”

TO:THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OF FRANCES G. ROBERTSON, DECEASED5200 COUNTY ROAD 703ALVARADO, TEXAS 76009

DEFENDANT - GREETINGS:

You are hereby commanded to appear by ling a written answer to the Plaintiff’s Peti-tion at or before 10:00 a.m. of the Monday next after the expiration of forty-two (42) days after the date of issuance of this citation, the same be-ing Monday, the 19TH day of FEBRUARY, 2018, before the Honorable 413TH DISTRICT COURT of Johnson County, Texas, at the Guinn Justice Center of said County, to an-swer said petition liked on the 13TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2016, in this case, numbered DC-C201600653, on the dock-et of said court, and styled:

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. VS. KIM GOODIN ROB-

ERTSON, BEVERLY JEAN ROSSON WOLFGRAM,

DELORES SUE ROBINSON, DEBORAH ROBERTSON,

WENDY ROBERTSON, AND THE UNKNOWN HEIRS

AT LAW OF FRANCES G. ROBERTSON, DECEASED, IN RE: 5200 CNTY RD 703, ALVARADO, TEXAS 76009

SUMMARY OF SUIT FOR CITATION BY

PUBLICATION

You are hereby notified that suit has been brought by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., its successors and assigns, as plaintiff against Kim Goodin Robertson, Beverly Jean Rosson Wolfgram, Delores Sue Robinson, Deborah Robertson, Wendy Robert-son, and the Unknown Heirs at Law of Frances G. Robert-son, Deceased, and any other person claiming any right, title, interest or possession in and to the property commonly known as 5200 Cnty. Rd. 703, Alvarado, Texas 76009, and legally described as:

TRACT I:

ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITU-ATED IN THE COUNTY OF JOHNSON, STATE OF TEX-AS, BEING A PART OF THE SETH MORRIS SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO. 536, BE-ING ALL OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, CONTAIN-ING A CALLED 1.1 ACRE, CONVEYED BY W. P. SHUL-ER, ET UX TO JOE E. SHUL-ER, ET UX BY DEED DATED FEBRUARY 15, 1973 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 599, PAGE 497, DEED RE-CORDS JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS AND BEING A POR-TION OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, CON-TAINING A CALLED4.787 ACRES, CONVEYED BY W. P. SHULER, ET UX TO JOE E. SHULER, ET UX BY DEED DATED JANUARY 31, 1979 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 786, PAGE 477, DEED RECORDS, JOHN-SON COUNTY, TEXAS, BE-ING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS AS FOL-LOWS. ALL BEARINGS BE-ING CORRELATED TO THE SOUTH LINE OF COUNTY ROAD NO. 703 (EAST).

BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN RECOVERED IN THE SOUTH LINE OF COUNTY ROAD NO. 703 FOR A COR-NER, SAID CORNER BEING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 1.1 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE EAST, WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF COUNTY ROAD NO. 703 AND THE NORTH LINE OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 1.1 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 191.75 FEET TO AN IRON PIN SET FOR A CORNER, SAID CORNER BEING THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID 1.1 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE SOUTH 00 DE-GREES, 03 MINUTES AND 19 SECONDS EAST (CALLED SOUTH), WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHUL-ER CALLED 1.1 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 250.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIN RECOVERED FOR A CORNER, SAID CORNER BEING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID 1.1 ACRE TRACT AND THE NORTH-EAST CORNER OF THE JOE E SHULER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE SOUTH 00 DE-GREES, 07 MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS WEST (CALLED SOUTH), WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE JOE E SHUL-ER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 858.85 FEET TO AN IRON PIN SET FOR A CORNER;

THENCE SOUTH 89 DE-GREES, 52 MINUTES AND 20 SECONDS WEST, A DIS-TANCE OF 190.75 FEET TO AN IRON PIN SET FOR A CORNER, SAID CORNER BEING IN THE WEST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE NORTH 00 DE-GREES, 04 MINUTES AND 21 SECONDS EAST (CALLED NORTH), WITH THE WEST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHUL-ER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 859.43 FEET TO AN IRON PIN RECOVERED FOR A CORNER, SAID CORNER BEING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID. 4.787 ACRE TRACT AND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 1.1 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE NORTH 00 DE-GREES, 05 MINUTES AND 25 SECONDS WEST, WITH THE WEST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 1.1 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 249.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING CONTAIN-ING 4.069 ACRES MORE OR LESS (CALLED NORTH, 250.00 FEET AND CONTAIN-ING 4.887 ACRES).

TRACT II:

ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITU-ATED IN THE COUNTY OF JOHNSON, STATE OF TEXAS, BEING A PART OF THE SETH MORRIS SUR-VEY, ABSTRACT NO. 536, BEING A PORTION OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, CONTAINING A CALLED 4.787 ACRES, CONVEYED BY W.P. SHULER, ET UX TO JOE E. SHULER, ET UX BY DEED DATED JANUARY 31, 1979 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 786, PAGE 477, DEED RECORDS, JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BE-ING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS AS FOL-LOWS. ALL BEARINGS BE-ING CORRELATED TO THE SOUTH LINE OF COUNTY ROAD NO. 703 (EAST).

BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN SET IN THE WEST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT FOR A CORNER, SAID COR-NER BEING SOUTH 00 DE-GREES, 04 MINUTES AND 21 SECONDS WEST, (CALLED

SOUTH) A DISTANCE OF 859.43 FEET FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID 4.787 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE NORTH 89 DE-GREES, 52 MINUTES AND 20 SECONDS EAST, A DIS-TANCE OF 190.75 FEET TO AN IRON PIN SET FOR A CORNER, SAID COR-NER BEING IN THE EAST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHUL-ER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE SOUTH 00 DE-GREES, 07 MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS WEST (CALLED SOUTH), WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHUL-ER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 219.27 FEET TO AN IRON PIN RECOVERED FOR A CORNER, SAID CORNER BEING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID 4.787 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE SOUTH 84 DE-GREES, 36 MINUTES AND 12 SECONDS WEST , WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF THE JOE E. SHULER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 191.43 FEET (CALLED SOUTH 84 DEGREES AND 50 MINUTES WEST, A DIS-TANCE OF 192.53 FEET) TO AN IRON PIN RECOVERED FOR A CORNER, SAID COR-NER BEING THE SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF SAID 4.787 ACRE TRACT;

THENCE NORTH 00 DE-GREES, 04 MINUTES AND 21 SECONDS EAST (CALLED NORTH), WITH THE WEST LINE OF THE JOE E. SHUL-ER CALLED 4.787 ACRE TRACT, A DISTANCE OF 237.70 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING AND CON-TAINING 1.0 ACRE, MORE OR LESS.

Plaintiff’s petition is styled Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Kim Goodin Robertson, Beverly Jean Rosson Wolf-gram, Delores Sue Robin-son, Deborah Robertson, Wendy Robertson, and the Unknown Heirs at Law of Frances G. Robertson, De-ceased. The Plaintiff seeks to enforce its home equity lien against and assert superior title to the above-described property.

The of cer executing this writ shall promptly serve the same according to the requirements of law, and the mandates thereof, and make due return as the law directs.

Issued and given under my hand and seal of said Court at of ce in Cleburne, Texas ON THIS THE 3RD DAY OF JANUARY, 2018.

DAVID R. LLOYD - DIS-TRICT CLERK

413TH DISTRICT COURTJOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS

/s/Shelly Rodriguez,Deputy

Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 1, 8 - Robertson

Notice to CreditorsNotice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Administration for the Estate of Ray Lynn West a.k.a. Ray L. West, Deceased, were issued on January 25, 2018, in Docket No. CC-P201722842, pending in County Court at Law 1 of Johnson County, Texas, to:

Angela Westc/o

Martin A. Rechnitzer, Esq.Law Of ce of

Martin A. Rechnitzer, PC388 S.W. Johnson Ave.Burleson, Texas 76028

All persons having claims against this estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner

prescribed by law. All personshaving claims should addressthem in care of the representa-tive at the address stated above.DATED the 31st day of Janu-

ary, 2018.Feb. 8 - West Estate

STATE OF TEXASCOUNTY OF JOHNSONCOUNTY COURT AT LAW 2IN THE ESTATE OF GARYWAYNE BRIGGS, DECEASEDCC-P201822920

CITATION BY PUBLICATION

TO THE UNKNOWN HEIRSTO THE ESTATE OF GARYWAY N E B R I G G S , D E -CEASED: On 02/01/2018, Margie JanBriggs led an Application toDetermine Heirship in CauseNo. CC-P201822920 in theCounty Court at Law 2 ofJohnson County, Texas. Said Application to Deter-mine Heirship may be heardand acted upon by said courtafter 10 o’clock a.m. on the rstMonday next after the expira-tion of ten days from the dateof publication of this citation. All unknown heirs in saidestate are hereby cited to ap-pear before said court by linga written answer stating theirinterest in said estate shouldthey desire to do so. Given under my handand seal of of ce in JohnsonCounty, Texas, on 2/2/2018.

BECKY IVEY, ClerkCounty Court at Law 2Guinn Justice Center,

Suite 407204 S. Buffalo Ave.

P.0. Box 662Cleburne, Texas 76033

/s/Amy HallDeputy

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Following are calls re-ported by the Burleson Fire Department Jan.29-Feb. 4. In order to retain anonymity, speci c street addresses are removed.

Monday, Jan. 2912:45 a.m. – 1100 block Blue Sky Lane, assist invalid2:43 a.m. – 600 block Prairie Timber Road, gas leak, natural of LPG3:36 a.m. – 400 block Hudson Lane, medical assist3:52 a.m. – 500 block SW Thomas Street, dis-patched but canceled en route8:37 a.m. – 2400 block S Burleson Blvd, medical assist10:15 a.m. – 500 block NW King Street, medical assist11:27 a.m. – 1000 block Miles Ave, EMS call1:45 p.m. – 800 block SW Alsbury Blvd, EMS call3:46 p.m. – 300 block Springwillow Road, medi-cal assist5:03 p.m. – 800 block Ash Street, passenger vehicle re6:26 p.m. – 2900 block Greenway Drive, EMS call

7:03 p.m., – 2600 block S Burleson Blvd, medical assist9:02 p.m. – 100 block NE Haskew Street, dis-patched but canceled en route10:25 p.m. – 300 block Elk Drive, medical assist

Tuesday, Jan. 309:52 a.m. – 1000 block Stockton Drive, medical assist1:58 p.m. – 3500 block SW Wilshire Blvd, dis-patched but canceled en route2:00 p.m. – 200 block NW Wintercrest Road, medi-cal assist2:54 p.m. – 700 block N Burleson Blvd, medical assist3:24 p.m. – 200 block SE John Jones Drive, EMS call3:32 p.m. – 500 block southbound I-35W, medi-cal assist4:34 p.m. – 300 block Candlelite Court, medical assist10:16 p.m. – 700 block NE Alsbury Blvd, medi-cal assist10:34 p.m. – 500 block Surrey Lane, medical assist11:48 p.m. – 2700 block

Pinnacle Drive, EMS call

Wednesday, Jan. 3112:54 a.m. – 1000 block Monticello Drive, medical assist8:04 a.m. – 900 block northbound I-35W, motor vehicle accident8:13 a.m. – 600 block Plum Drive, medical assist8:22 a.m. – 1600 block southbound I-35W, motor vehicle accident8:33 a.m. – 700 block NW Ann Lois Lane, medical assist8:50 a.m. – 7300 block FM 1902, building re11:19 a.m. – 1300 block Broadmoor Drive, assist invalid1:26 p.m. – 1400 block Hurst Road, dispatched but canceled en route1:32 p.m. – 3100 block Shoreline Drive, unau-thorized burning4:48 p.m. – 300 block Elk Drive, EMS call5:45 p.m. – 300 block NW Lorna Street, EMS call7:29 p.m. – 600 block Brett’s Way, medical assist

Thursday, Feb. 112:57 a.m. – 500 block SW Thomas Street, medi-

cal assist6:45 a.m. – 900 block Brighton Way, medical assist8:36 a.m. – 600 block Green Mountain Road, emergency medical ser-vice12:37 p.m. – 2900 block Shoreline Drive, alarm system activation1:38 p.m. – 1100 block N Burleson Blvd, medical assist6:37 p.m. – 500 block SW Wilshire Blvd, dumpster or other outside item9:25 p.m. – 700 block Nicole Drive, person in distress

Friday, Feb. 25:45 a.m. – 1900 S Burleson Blvd, medical assist7:01 a.m. – 100 block McKinley Drive, medical assist7:50 a.m. – 1000 block Morgan Drive, medical assist10:40 a.m. – 100 block SW Wilshire Blvd, medi-cal assist5:40 p.m. – 12000 block South Freeway, no inci-dent found upon arrival6:48 p.m. – 2700 block El-mwood Drive, no incident found upon arrival

7:17 p.m. – 1000 block Remington Circle, EMS call8:06 p.m. – 1900 block Cindy Court, EMS call

Saturday, Feb. 31:16 a.m. – 300 block SW Dian Street, EMS call6:31 a.m. – 600 block NE Alsbury Blvd, medical assist10:09 a.m. – 600 block Cedar Ridge Lane, medi-cal assist12:52 p.m. – 600 block Maple Avenue, dis-patched but canceled en route12:58 p.m. – 300 block Madison Street, smoke detector activation1:13 p.m. – 900 block SW Wilshire Blvd, EMS call5:18 p.m. – 100 block NW John Jones Drive, EMS call5:47 p.m. – 700 block Rand Court, EMS call7:02 p.m. – 2500 block Glenn Ranch Drive, EMS call7:09 p.m. – 300 block northbound I-35W, motor vehicle accident7:45 p.m. – N Burleson Blvd and McAllister, mo-tor vehicle accident8:07 p.m. – S Burleson Blvd and W Bethesda,

motor vehicle accident

Sunday, Feb. 41:47 a.m. – 2100 block West FM 917, EMS call4:06 a.m. – 100 block NW John Jones Drive, medi-cal assist4:33 a.m. – 300 block NW Jayellen Ave, good intent call7:15 a.m. – 700 block Hampshire Drive, EMS call11:16 a.m. – 600 block NE Alsbury Blvd, medi-cal assist11:36 a.m. – 100 block NW John Jones Drive, medical assist1:53 p.m. – 200 block NE Cindy Lane, assist invalid2:38 p.m. – 300 block NW Suzanne Terrance, assist invalid3:10 p.m. – 600 block Peach Lane, dispatched but canceled en route4:50 p.m. – 1000 block Palo Oaks Drive, grass re7:05 p.m. – 500 block Plum Drive, grass re8:10 p.m. – 300 block NW Suzanne Terrace, medi-cal assist11:15 p.m. – 500 block SE Gardens Blvd, dispatched but canceled en route

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Following are calls reported by the Burleson Police Department Jan. 29-Feb. 4. This report is presented as a reminder to always lock your vehi-cles and home, and to re-port any suspicious activ-ity to the Burleson Police Department at 911.

Monday, Jan. 2912:00 a.m. – 700 block SW Hillside Drive, war-rant arrest5:30 a.m. – 200 block NE Wilshire Blvd, burglary of a building with forced entry10:35 a.m. – 800 block Blue Ridge Drive, posses-sion of marijuana10:21 a.m. – 2300 block S Burleson Blvd, criminal mischief valued between $2,500-$30,00010:39 a.m. – 800 block Mesquite Drive, fraudu-lent use of possession of identifying information11:20 a.m. – 100 block Elk Drive, theft of property valued between $100-$7501:58 p.m. – 900 block SW Wilshire Blvd, theft (shoplifting) valued less than $1004:20 p.m. – 200 block SW Wilshire Blvd, theft of property valued between $750-$2,5008:28 p.m. – 100 block NE Haskew Street, assault of a family or house-hold member to impede breathing or circulation

Tuesday, Jan. 30

9:56 a.m. – 300 block NW Renfro Street, theft of property valued between $750-$2,50010:00 a.m. – 800 block NE Alsbury Blvd, theft of property valued between $100-$75010:38 a.m. – 500 block NE McAlister Road, theft of property valued between $750-$2,5005:55 p.m. – 1400 block Windy Meadows Drive, burglary of habitation, unlawful entry with no force

Wednesday, Jan. 3112:00 a.m. – 2800 block SW Wilshire Blvd, assist outside agency with war-rant arrest10:04 a.m. – 100 block Elk Drive, assault to cause bodily injury12:00 p.m. – 100 block NE Michael Drive, ha-rassment other than by threat2:27 p.m. – 200 block NE Taylor Street, violation of a bond, protective order two times within 12 months3:27 p.m. – 1000 block Cimmaron Court, unau-thorized use of a motor vehicle5:17 p.m. – 1100 block N Burleson Blvd, theft of property (shoplifting) valued between $100-$750

Thursday, Feb. 19:54 a.m. – 200 block NE Murphy Road, theft of less than $100 from a

motor vehicle11:56 a.m. – 1300 block Catherine Lane, fraudu-lent use of possession of identifying information12:27 p.m. – 900 block N Burleson Blvd, theft of property valued between $30K-$150K1:26 p.m. – 1300 block Catherine Lane, fraudu-lent use or possession of identifying information2:43 p.m. – 900 block SW Wilshire Blvd, theft of property (shoplifting) valued between $100-$7503:50 p.m. – 900 block SW Wilshire Blvd, theft of property (shoplifting) valued between $100-$7504:16 p.m. – 200 block NW John Jones Drive, theft of property (shoplifting) valued between $100-$750

Friday, Feb. 212:14 a.m. – 1100 block Litch eld Lane, assault with offensive contact8:48 a.m. – 2100 block S Burleson Blvd, burglary of a vehicle2:43 p.m. – 800 block S Burleson Blvd, posses-sion of marijuana5:27 p.m. – 200 block SW Alsbury Blvd, fraudulent use or possession of iden-tifying information

Saturday, Feb. 34:50 a.m. – 100 block St. Elias Drive, burglary of a building, attempt only with forcible entry

1:07 p.m. – 900 block SW Wilshire Blvd, assault with offensive contact7:09 p.m. – 2600 block S Burleson Blvd, forgery of a government instru-ment, money or security10:23 p.m. – 300 block southbound I-35W, driving while intoxicated with open container of alcohol10:26 p.m. – 900 block SW Wilshire Blvd, theft (shoplifting) valued less than $10011:37 p.m. – 2600 block S Burleson Blvd, driving while intoxicated

Sunday, Feb. 412:59 a.m. – 1100 block N Burleson Blvd, pos-session of a controlled substance11:26 a.m. – 100 block John Jones Drive, assault, family violence with offensive contact8:08 p.m. – 1000 block SW Wilshire Blvd, pos-session of a controlled substance11:48 p.m. – 500 block SE Gardens Blvd, as-sault to cause bodily in-jury to a family member

Following are arrests made between Jan. 29-Feb. 4 by the Burleson Police Department and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Of ce, which are indicated in italics.

Monday, Jan. 291:54 a.m. – Timothy Kelly

Flores of Alvarado, pos-session of drug parapher-nalia10:28 a.m. – Christian Risbeck, possession of drug paraphernalia11:24 a.m. – Kaylon Wayne Johnston of Alvarado, resist arrest, search or transport1:58 p.m. – Thomas Schuette, theft (shop-lifting) valued less than $1003:10 p.m. – Aurelio Rocha of Cleburne, driving with an invalid driver’s license with no proof of liability insurance4:40 p.m. – James Robert Woodard of Cleburne, assault to cause bodily injury to a family mem-ber with previous family violence conviction10:25 p.m. – Orlando Lopez of Joshua, assault to cause bodily injury to a family member10:50 p.m. – Angela Dee Romero of Cleburne, possession of a controlled substance11:08 p.m. – Charles Robert Hamilton of Cle-burne, driving with an invalid driver’s license with no proof of liability insurance

Tuesday, Jan. 3012:00 a.m. – Carl Lu-cas Fears of Cleburne, possession of a controlled substance1:52 a.m. – Johnathan Wayne McClain of Cle-burne, public intoxication8:06 a.m. – Alicia Rebec-

ca Gutierrez of Keene, failure to appear (in court), bail jumping10:02 a.m. – Jessica Mar-ion Brunson of Burleson, assault of a public servant11:16 a.m. – Jacob Rob-ert Fredrick of Joshua, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon11:25 a.m. – Jason James Cardona of Burleson, driving while intoxicated12:00 p.m. – Dako-ta Cheyenne Jones of Cleburne, possession of marijuana, less than 2 ounces12:25 p.m. – Derek James Hunt Jr of Cleburne, criminal trespass2:25 p.m. – Elizabeth Marie Ables of Burleson, possession of a controlled substance4:41 p.m. – Justin Ryan Hunter of Cleburne, theft of a rearm4:47 p.m. – Mozelle June Jackson of Burleson, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon5:36 p.m. – Patrick Lee Menchaca of Cleburne, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon 9:55 p.m. – Ronald Paul Williams of Cleburne, manufacture and deliv-ery of a controlled sub-stance

Wednesday, Jan. 3112:19 a.m. – David Na-than Courtney of Cle-

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burne, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance3:31 a.m. – Jeremy Paul Davis of Alvarado, fraud-ulent use or possession of identifying information5:07 a.m. – Michael Ed-ward Lamon of Cleburne, possession of a controlled substance9:16 a.m. – Terry Glen Sigler II of Cleburne, violation of bond, protec-tive order9:39 a.m. – Rusty Don Dickerson of Cleburne, possession of a controlled substance10:20 a.m. – Ashley Ann Hoffer of Keene, burglary of a habitation, engage in criminal activity2:19 p.m. – Betty Kay Hines of Alvarado, theft of service valued between $20-$5002:55 p.m. – Jason Doyle Hines of Alvarado, no driver’s license7:23 p.m. – Maclain Young, on warrant from Burnet County Sher-iff’s Of ce for failure to appear8:22 p.m. – Israel Angel Rangel of Joshua, driv-ing with an invalid driv-er’s license with previous

conviction or suspension10:23 p.m. – Taylor Haster, assault of a family member to impede breathing

Thursday, Feb. 15:37 a.m. – Jerome Dea-mont Brown of Cleburne, possession of marijuana8:20 a.m. – Abram Ortiz of Burleson, driving while intoxicated8:56 a.m. – Ronald Ber-nard Smith II of Cle-burne, driving with an invalid driver’s license 9:40 a.m. – Kellyn Leanne Johnson of Burleson, endangering a child10:49 a.m. – Raven Tres Sakal of Cleburne, theft of service valued between $100-$7502:20 p.m. – Stephanny Ann Mosley of Cleburne, credit or debit card abuse2:28 p.m. – Bryan Christian McCulley of Burleson, assault to cause bodily injury to a family member3:12 p.m. – Derek James Hunt Jr of Cleburne, criminal trespass3:30 p.m. – Shelley Laine Hughes of Burleson, possession of a controlled

substance4:41 p.m. – Alberto Her-man Silva of Cleburne, no driver’s license5:40 p.m. – Stevie Renee Pair of Burleson, public intoxication6:14 p.m. – Travis Hughes, violation of bond or protective order6:22 p.m. – Dana Faye McKenzie of Cleburne, parole hold

Friday, Feb. 21:42 a.m. – Michaela Kay Fountaine of Cleburne, operate unregistered mo-tor vehicle2:49 a.m. – Michael Anthony Patterson of Cleburne, possession of marijuana, less than 2 ounces11:24 a.m. – Wendy Rennee Rubio of Alvara-do, sex offenders duty to register annually for life2:24 p.m. – Kristin Rene Cooper of Cleburne, possession of a controlled substance5:49 p.m. – Mitchell Conner Gring of Joshua, possession of marijuana, less than 2 ounces6:16 p.m. – Alejandro Alex Espinoza of Al-varado, consumption of

alcohol by a minor6:25 p.m. – Franklin Aristeo Ferralez of Cle-burne, driving with an invalid driver’s license6:40 p.m. – Cody Lee Gonzales of Alvarado, public intoxication8:29 p.m. – Chad Austin Murphy of Joshua, driv-ing while intoxicated10:15 p.m. – Rawan Awni Ibrahim of Cleburne, pos-session of marijuana10:18 p.m. – Stephen Wayne Roegelein of Cleburne, possession of marijuana, less than 2 ounces11:20 p.m. – Michael Wayne Rutledge of Alvarado, no driver’s license

Saturday, Feb. 31:58 a.m. – Orrie Dayn Vaughn of Cleburne, manufacture and deliv-ery of a controlled sub-stance1:55 p.m. – Amanda Ann Camacho of Cleburne, failure to identify as a fugitive from justice6:27 p.m. – Gavin Tyler Patterson of Cleburne, driving with an invalid driver’s license 6:47 p.m. – Bradley Dale

Whitehead of Alvarado, tamper with government record7:09 p.m. – Patrick Mitoko, forgery of a government instrument, security or money8:47 p.m. – Elih Gene Carlisle of Alvarado, expired motor vehicle reg-istration, license plate10:23 p.m. – Jose Men-doza-Ramirez, driving while intoxicated with an open container of alcohol11:20 p.m. – Michael Archer Page of Cleburne, possession of marijuana, less than 2 ounces11:37 p.m. – Roman Rodriguez of Cleburne, driving while intoxicated11:57 p.m. – Michael Gene Leifeste of Cle-burne, possession of a controlled substance

Sunday, Feb. 43:53 a.m. – Heather Nicole Curenton of Burleson, assault to cause bodily injury to a family member12:38 p.m. – Melissa Garcia, assault, family violence with offensive contact3:43 p.m. – Don Earl Hutto of Cleburne, no

liability insurance4:46 p.m. – Alvin Dwight Battle Jr of Cleburne, driving with an invalid driver’s license without insurance4:53 p.m. – John Christo-pher Maher of Cleburne, driving with an invalid driver’s license with previous conviction or suspension5:15 p.m. – Ricky Wayne Veal of Cleburne, posses-sion of marijuana, less than 2 ounces8:08 p.m. – Christopher Jones, possession of a controlled substance8:39 p.m. – Francie Etheridge, failure to appear (in court)8:47 p.m. – Elih Gene Carlisle of Burleson, failure to identify, giving false, ctitious informa-tion8:47 p.m. – Elih Gene Carlisle of Burleson, theft of property valued between $100-$75011:15 p.m. – Jason Mat-thew Blue of Cleburne, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon11:48 p.m. – Stevie Pair, assault to cause bodily injury to a family mem-ber

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COUNTY | 4-H

Left to right- Dusty Harbin - Godley, Gabby Shultz - Godley, Alyssa Clark - Burleson, Aiden Mewherter - Godley, Addison Reed - Burleson, Becca Kennedy - Godley, Rylee Harbin - Godley COURTESY PHOTO

Johnson County 4-H brings home ribbons from AubreyJohnson County 4-H horse judging team had a good day at the Aubrey horse judging contest. The team of Becca Kennedy, Gabby Shul-tz, Dusty Harbin and Aiden Mewherter placed 1st. Becca was 1st in the individual high

point. Gabby was 3rd and Aiden was 4th. The team of Allysa Clark, Addison Reed and Rylee Harbin was 3rd hi-point team with Rylee being 5th hi-point individual. This is the same result as they had at Montgom-ery County a couple of weeks earlier, according to Coach Ed Bader.


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