VOLUME 34 NUMBER 20 Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Published by Centerville News, Inc. © 2013 Centerville, Texas 75833 John 6:40-3:16 USPS #555230 50¢

The Bible explains how you can become a Christian.

All have sinned (Romans 3:23)Sin brings spiritual death

(Romans 6:23)CHRIST died for your sins

(Romans 5:8)Call upon CHRIST

(Romans 10:13)Ask HIM to forgive your sins and invite HIM into your life

as your personal Savior.Now, claim HIS promise

(Romans 10:13)Rev. Ballard White

Little Doc’s ScribblesBy: Denise Easterling, D.V.M.

Sheriff Ellis to hold Town Hall Meeting

Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis will be holding a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 6:00 pm at the Marquez Community Center.

Back to School DanceAugust 16th

There will be a Back to School Dance on Friday, Au-gust 16th from the end of the Football game to midnight. Grades 7-12 are welcome and cost is $5.00 per person. Snacks and drinks are pro-vided.

CHS Junior Class Meeting Aug. 12th

There will be a Junior Class Meeting on Monday, August 12, 2013 at 6:00 pm in the High School Library. All Junior Class parents are urged to attend as we discuss plans for prom for the upcom-ing school year. ALL SPORTS ADS AND MONEY MUST BE TURNED IN AT THIS TIME for the football/volley-ball sports program.

Frederick Douglass Alumni All-Class

Reunion Aug. 17thThe Frederick Douglass

Class of 1963 celebrates 50th Anniversary! Join the Fred-erick Douglass Alumni Asso-ciation for the Annual “All-Class” Reunion on Saturday, August 17, 2013. Activities include: Picnic from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm (food, fun & fel-lowship), Business Meeting at 2:15 pm, Banquet at 7:30 pm with Speaker Christine Smith-Steward, graduate of Doug-lass, Sunday Morning - Wrap-up Meeting Time TBA.

Diane Polk Johnson, Goree Johnson, President

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School Supply Listsfor Cannon & Wood

Mrs. Cannon’s 8th Grade U.S. History School Supply List: 1 - 1” 3-ring Binder; Di-viders; Notebook Paper; 1 - Spiral Notebook (70+ pages); Pen (Blue or Black); Map Pencils; Girls - Kleenex; Boys - Clorox Wipes (No lemon scent)

Janice Wood’s 8th Grade English/Reading School Sup-ply List: 3-ring Binder (1 inch rings, can be shared with other classes); Spiral Notebook or Composition Book - wide rule 70+ sheets (left in classroom); Loose-leaf Notebook Paper - wide rule; Red Pen; Blue or Black Pen; Pencils; Highlight-er; 1 box of Kleenex.

Meet the TigersAugust 26th

Meet the Tigers will be held Monday, August 26, 2013 at 6:30 pm in the New Gym. This is the fi rst day of school! Come out and meet the Tigers as they kickoff their 2013-2014 seasons.

Baked Potato Fundraiser at

Meet the Tiger NightThe Centerville Varsity

Cheerleaders will be holding a Baked Potato Fundraiser on Monday, August 26th start-ing at 6:00 pm in the foyer of the New Gym. Cost is $7 for Potato with BBQ and all the fi xings, $5 for Potato without BBQ. Come support the cheer-leaders in their quest to the Capital One Bowl!

7th Grade Orientation Aug. 19

All incoming 7th Graders and their Parents are invited to 7th Grade Orientation on Monday, August 19th at 6:00 pm in the High School Cafete-ria. Come meet your teachers, administration and fi nd out about your new campus!

Annual Choir Day Musical at

Mt. Pilgrim BaptistMt. Pilgrim Baptist

Church, CR 251 off FM 542, Oakwood, TX, would like to invite you to their Annual Choir Day Musical on Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 2:00 pm. Special guest will be Sis. Anne Birmingham. We pray that you will attend and participate in this program. Please sign in at the door if you want to par-ticipate. Musician Sis. Barbara Haven. Dinner will be served!

“A Time for Jubilee” at St. Paul & Pleasant

Springs AMESt. Paul and Pleasant

Springs A.M.E. Churches Combined Homecoming Weekend “A Time For Jubi-lee!” Saturday and Sunday, August 31 and September 1, Labor Day Weekend, at St. Paul African Methodist Epis-copal Church, 146 East Car-rington Street, in Centerville.

At 7 p.m. on Saturday, August 31, we will have a Combined Homecoming Mu-sical. Come and sing a song of praise to God! After our regular Communion Worship Service at 11 a.m., we will have a Combined Homecom-ing Service on Sunday, Sep-tember 1, at 3 p.m. Reverend Kennon W. Jackson, Pastor of Allen Chapel African Method-ist Episcopal Church in Bryan, Texas, will be the preacher of God’s Sacred Word. Dinner will be served ‘on the grounds’ afterwards. Come and experi-ence the blessing of fellowship while worshiping the LORD!

Each person is asked to bring a contribution of $50.00 (fi fty dollars). This is the major fundraiser which the churches do each year, so let’s try to make it a great one! Rev.Geoffrey S. Whitcomb, Pas-tor; Rev. P. Myria Whitcomb, Minister and offi cers.

Dog Days of Summer Event at Fort Boggy

State ParkCome celebrate the end of

a hot summer. Friends of Fort Boggy State Park cordially invite everyone in Leon and Madison counties to celebrate the “Dog Days of Summer” at Fort Boggy State Park on Sat-urday, August 31, 2013. Free hotdogs with all the trimmings will be served from 11:00 am till 1:00 pm at the Pavilion. Bring Family & Friends to en-joy eating, fi shing, swimming, hiking, bird watching, biking, etc. Planned activities are: special guest speaker at 12:30 and drawing for “Sampler Af-ghan” fi tting a king/queen size bed at 1:00 pm. Fort Boggy State Park is 1,847 acres lo-cated 4 miles south of Center-ville, TX or 3 miles north of Leona, TX on Hwy. 75. Park entry is FREE.

Centerville Elementary PTO is sponsoring a Stuff the Bus Campaign on Thursday, August 15, 2013 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm in Lacey’s parking lot.

Come by and drop off your donated school and of-fi ce supplies and help Stuff the Bus. Show your support for our schools as volunteers will be on site to accept donations from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Supplies needed: cray-ons, markers, rulers, pencils,

index cards, Kleenex, plastic 3 braid folders, disinfectant wipes, paper clips, glue, glue sticks, Construction paper, Post-it Notes, wide-ruled pa-per, 1-subject spiral, 3-subject spiral, pens, scissors, colored pencils, paper towels, staplers, staples, tape, colored copy pa-per, AA/AAA batteries, 1” & 2” 3-ring binders.

Supplies will benefi t Cen-terville Elementary children and teachers.

Meet the Teacher August 22nd

Meet the Teacher will be held Thursday, August 22nd. Elementary will be from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm and High School will be from 12:00 - 1:30 pm.

Jr. High Football Equipment Issue

August 20thDue to a scheduling con-

fl ict, Jr. High Football equip-ment issue will be Tuesday, August 20th (NOT Monday, Aug. 19th) at 6:30 pm at the Field House.

(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Susan Combs an-nounced today that state sales tax revenue in July was $2.2 billion, up 7.3 percent com-pared to July 2012.

“Texas sales tax revenue has increased for 40 consecu-tive months,” Combs said. “The retail trade sector bol-stered the latest growth in monthly revenue, and collec-tions from the construction and the oil and natural gas sectors continued to show strength.”

Combs will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts their August local sales tax al-locations totaling $671 mil-lion, up 6.2 percent compared to August 2012.

Leon County: Total was $168,511.15, 19.52% increase from $140,989.10 a year ago.

City of Centerville: Total was $28,858.22, 21.58% in-crease from $23,735.92 a year ago.

City of Leona: Total was $1,504.44, down 43.95% from $2,684.42 a year ago.

City of Buffalo: Total was

Comptroller Combs distributes $671 Million in Monthly Sales Tax

Revenue to Local Governments$78,070.79, 16.79% increase from $66,841.50 a year ago.

City of Jewett: Total was $23,808.97, 6.43% increase from $22,369.14 from a year ago.

City of Marquez: Total was $6,273.94, 34.99% in-crease from $4,647.37 a year ago.

City of Normangee: Total was $25,427.61, 33.84% in-crease from $18,997.29 a year ago.

City of Oakwood: Total was $4,567.18, 166.54% in-crease from $1,713.46 a year ago.

The sales tax fi gures rep-resent monthly sales made in June as well as April, May and June sales by businesses that report tax quarterly.

For details of local sales tax allocations in August to in-dividual cities, counties, tran-sit systems and special purpose districts, locate the Monthly Sales Tax Allocation Com-parison Summary Reports on the Comptroller’s Web site at www.window.state.tx.us/tax-info/allocsum/compsum.html.

Bible Study Resumes in September

Area women are invited to a Precept Ministries Bible Study of Romans, beginning Wed., September 4, 2013. Precept Ministries was started by Kay Arthur in 1973 and is in the 5th year in Madison-ville. The class is led by Dar-lene Fitzhenry, an approved Precept Bible Study leader and Certifi ed Evangelical Teacher Training Instructor. The class meets Wednesdays at the Mad-ison County Library Annex, from 10:00 to noon. For infor-mation, call 936-349-0092 or darlenesf@hughes.net.

The Centerville ISD Board Meeting was held at 7:30 p.m. in the High School Library on August 7, 2013. Members present were Danny Lacey, Charles Nash, Mike Asby, Tuffy Loftin, Kathy Gresham, Terry Largent and Tommy Neyland. Also pres-ent were Jason Jeitz, Carole Dickey, Dan Parker, and Dot-tie Sullivan.

The meeting was called to order and it was determined a quorum was present.

Centerville ISD Board Meeting Summary

The minutes from the July 17, 2013 meeting were read and approved.

The Board recommended the transfers of Hailie Da-vis, Daniel and Alexia Ditt-man, Maverick Mizell, and Makenna Kurtz be accepted. It was also recommended that more information be obtained on John Persaud before a fi -nal decision was made on this transfer.

See CISD on page 11

New Sweet Oak Baptist will NOT

hold HomecomingTo all of our Family and

Friends, normally we would celebrate our Church Home-coming on Sunday, August 25, 2013. This year because of the extreme heat conditions, we will NOT be having our Home-coming. I repeat, we will NOT be having the Homecoming. Thank you for your unending prayers. May God continue to bless you. Rev. R. Freeman, Pastor

Leon County Go Texan Ambassador Scott Pistone (center) presented Gary Bob Wood and Tim Franklin (represented by Steven Rappolee who sold Tim his ticket) a check for $2,625 each at the Steak Dinner Fundraiser Saturday night. AmyAckleyPhoto

“Doc, my cat got hung on a barbed wire fence. I went to town to get help and they cut the fence. Now, there is this wire in the skin. Can you take it off?”

Yes, after an exam, the wire is about three inches long with a single barb worked into the skin. We sedate the cat, cut the skin and wire away, suture the area, give antibiotics and send it on its merry way.

Farms and ranches can have many hazards but this was a fi rst like this with cats in my life time. I have seen deer, calves, and a raccoon hung on a barbed wire fence. It can happen.

Something to think about. If you have any questions call the Clinic at 936-348-3645. For specifi c questions, write to Little Doc’s Scribbles, P.O. Box 97, Centerville, Texas 75833.

Leon County Commis-sioner’s Court will meet on Monday, August 26, 2013 at 9:30 am at the Leon County Annex I for the regular month-ly meeting.

Farmer’s Market every Saturday at the Courthouse Square beginning about 8 am.

City Council met with St. Joseph Representatives Mark Riggins and Tim Ottinger to extend the contract for the Powell Clinic for another year. The contract was approved provided no changes were made following a review by the attorneys. City Attorney

Training Instructor Rick Dysart presented recent CERT training graduates their diplomas. The new CERT members are: Tammy Chafi ns, Francis M. Stone Jr., Susan Sullivan, Lynda Bradley, Mary Ann Hargrave, Louisa Maria Hargrave, Pat Jalufka, Robin Shafer and Kolt Thompson. EBPhoto

Training Instructor Rick Dysart presented recent CERT training graduates at Court meeting on Monday. The new CERT members receiving their diplomas are: Tammy Chafi ns, Francis M. Stone Jr., Susan

Condolences to the fami-lies of Tony Curry, Alberta Faniel, Cathie Largent, Rachel Snider,,, Names on the prayer list: Cindy Chambers Daniel Byrd, Ann Lowrey, Daniel Fritsche, Tommy, Wendy & Kadence Neyland, Dr. Jack Taylor, Jeff Speer, Lori Sav-age, Kathy Pierce, Tom Chum-ley, Gary Zaludek, Rita Payne, Terrie Swiger, Tony Smith, Fe-lecia & Johnny Lemons, Alice Langley, Donna Culpan, Joe Lockler, Joe Bill Lockler, Jim Cowger, Beth Neyland, James Ainsworth, Dorothy Burke, Springer Burke, Sylda Lan-drum, Dwane Wilkerson, Ma-rie Wilkerson, Arita Teer, Erin Moomey, Peggy Bell, Joel Garcia and Lewis Wright,,, Who was Sampson’s father? Manoah. This week: Who was the son of Gera, a Benjamite, who was left handed?

Sullivan, Lynda Bradley, Mary Ann Hargrave, Louisa Maria Hargrave, Pat Jalufka, Robin Shafer and Kolt Thompson.

Leon County Commis-sioners approved election proj-

Charlie Olsen had reviewed the contract which is now be-ing checked by their attorneys. Currently Dr. Camp is using the clinic once a month and MHMR is considering the lo-cation as well.

Laura Bloss with Texas Municipal League presented forms for approval for rate notice and benefi t verifi cation and administrative agreement with no increase, instead there is a 22 percent decrease in rates.

The Citizens Participation Plan was approved which is part of the grant process.

Council nominated Charles Nash for the Leon County Central Appraisal Dis-trict Board of Directors.

Council approved the

Commissioners congratulate CERT Grads

See COURT on page 9

Council extends contract with St. Joseph for Powell Clinic

See CITY on page 11

Wood & Franklin split the pot at Go Texan Fundraiser

The Leon County Area Go Texan Committee held their Annual Steak Dinner Fun-draiser on Saturday, August 10th at the Jewett Civic Cen-ter. Master of Ceremonies was

Tuffy Loftin. Kowboy Cater-ing served the steak dinner.

Guests were left in the dark for a few minutes when the power went out due to a See GO-TEXAN on page 11