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The Gladewater Mirror, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, Page 9 Adjustable Beds #1 Name Brand Adjustable Bed! Available In All Mattress Types Including Our New Cool Gel Memory Foam Discover Craftmatic ® For Less! Discover Craftmatic ® For Less! 50 % Less Up to Than The Leading Memory Foam Brand For Prices & Free Information: Craftmatic ® RATED #1 by Consumers Nationwide on .com Trusted Over 40 Years! 844-763-2302 The end of year program by the crowd pleasing HoneyBears under the direction of Diane Clark was held last week. Courtesy Photo The award winning Sweepstakes Gladewater High School Band held its end of year concert last week under the direction of Jeff Smith. Courtesy Photo Gladewater Museum docent Lois Reed shows Weldon Elementary School third graders how a rotary phone works. Weldon students tour the museum annually to learn more about the history and culture of their hometown. Courtesy Photo Outgoing Gladewater city council member Quyen Tong was recognized for his work on the council at Thursday’s meeting which saw newly-elected council members Kar- la Byrd and Kevin Clark take their seats on the council. Councilman Dennis Robertson was unable to attend. Photo by Jim Bardwell Little Miss Kinsleigh Gor- don was crowned 2019 Little Miss Fashionetta on Sunday, May 18th at Maude Cobb Activity Center in Longview by Alpha Kap- pa Alpha Sorority, Epsilon Zeta Omega Chapter. Kins- leigh is a student at Glade- water Primary school. She is the daughter of Ms. Ki- erra Gordon and grand- daughter of Mr. Anthony Gordon and Mrs. Kristy Helen Gordon. The Little Miss Fashionetta pageant is the culmination of a series of cultural, ed- ucational and fundraising events for young girls ages 7 to 10 years old. This EZO signature program pro- motes and cultivates in the young girls’ etiquette, ele- gance, and poise. Since the pageant’s in- ception , EZO has used the program as a means of fundraising for award- ing scholarship dollars to young women and men for their scholastic achieve- ment and community ser- vice. Funding for the schol- arships come from patron donations and ticket sales. By Phillip Williams The West Mountain Cemetery Association recognized five de- ceased persons for “dedicated service” to the cemetery, and elected two current members and one new member to its board of directors, at the association’s annual meeting Sunday. More than 50 attended the luncheon under the cemetery pavilion on U.S. 271 between Gilmer and Gladewater. The five were honored with red paving bricks, to be laid at the cemetery. One brick bears the names of Alpha Phillips and his wife, Elizabeth (who donated the land for the graveyard), while another lists the names of Briggs Todd and his wife, Marna Blake Todd, and the third will honor Nona Cason Clark. Tom Price, representing the Todd family, presented the association with a donation from the family trust. The association also re-elected current board members Roberta McCrary, Don Morgan and new board member Terry Kaster. Kaster replaces Garrett Adkins, who did not seek another term. Other board members include Danny Johnson, Leean Clark Wil- liams, David Galbraith, Larry Pyle and Craig McCrary. Association President Lon Cox presided at the meeting. Johnson discussed past and present landscaping at the cemetery. Pyle discussed new rules being devised for the site, including the banning of certain objects at gravesites because they endanger main- tenance workers. Roberta McCrary discussed the association cook- book, noting the $15 book not only includes recipes, but histories of some families whose members are buried at West Mountain. The meeting opened with children ringing the old West Mountain school bell, a tradition at the annual gathering. W. Mt. Cemetery Assoc. honors five for dedicated service Kilgore College will once again honor former standout ath- letes, coaches and contributors at its annual Hall of Fame Weekend Sept. 27-28. The newest inductees for the Hall of Fame for the 2019 season: Men’s Basketball Player: Jermaine Lewis: Lewis played basketball for the Rangers from 1999-2001 under head coach Scott Schumacher. He recent- ly returned to Gladewater High Schoo as head basketball coach after two years at Pine Tree High School where the Pirates advanced to the Bi-District (sec- ond) round of the state playoffs. Lewis took over coaching at Pine Tree after spending eight years coaching at Gladewater High School. At Gladewater, Lewis’ team won the district champion- ship in 2015-16 for the first time in 20 years and he was named 16- 4A Coach of the Year. Football players: Curtis Buckley: Buckley played defensive back for the Rangers on the 1989 and 1990 teams under head coach Jim Miller and assistant coaches Marion Turner, Phil Fuller and Raymond Woodard. In those two seasons, KC was 15-7. After KC, he played football at East Texas State University and played in the National Football League from 1993-99 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He works now as an assistant psychiatrist at Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Center in Dallas. Dr. Robert Iden: Iden was an All-American football player for the Rangers on the 1970 and 1971 teams under head coach Charles Simmons and assistant coaches Jim Miller and Brodie Campbell. In those two seasons, KC was 15-4-2. Women’s Basketball Player: Meosha Walker: Walker played basketball for the Rangers from 2000-2002 under head coach Scotti Wood and assistant coach Cortina James. During these two seasons, KC was 40-23 overall and 18-12 in conference play. Men’s Basketball Team: 1963-64 Team: The 1963-64 men’s basketball team won the Texas Eastern Conference cham- pionship with a 26-4 overall and 11-1 conference record. Head coach was Joe Turner. Tennis Coach: Chris Blair: Blair served as tennis coach at KC from 1996- 2001 where he had several out- standing seasons. He currently works at Pinecrest Country Club in Longview as the USPTA Cer- tified Tennis Professional and has 34 years’ experience coaching top-ranked juniors, adults and future touring professional tennis players. Tennis Player: Martin Kardos: Kardos played tennis at KC from 1999-2001 un- der head coach Chris Blair where he had outstanding seasons and was ranked in the Top-100 ten- nis players in the NJCAA his sophomore year. After KC, he transferred to University of Mis- souri-St. Louis where he earned a Bachelor’s in International Busi- ness and an MBA in Manage- ment, graduating Summa Cum Laude with 4.0 GPA. Kardos now resides in his home country of Slovakia and is Managing Di- GHS’s Lewis among KC’s newest Hall of Fame inductees rector for CSI Leasing, Inc., for Central and Eastern Europe, a job he has had since 2005. Contributors: Travis Martin: Martin is a ma- jor supporter and booster of KC athletics. Martin has also served in the Kilgore High School Foot- ball Booster club for many years and has been a constant supporter for the youth of Kilgore for de- cades. He was also co-founder of the Kilgore Boys & Girls Club where he served on its board for many years. In 2010, the Kilgore Chamber of Commerce named Martin Kilgore’s Citizen of the Year for his work in the commu- nity. He currently serves as a su- pervisor for JDW Services where he has worked since 1985. Glenn Wells: Former band di- rector Glenn Wells revitalized the band program at KC when he was hired by KC in 2011. Wells, a KC graduate and band alum, served as head band director at KC from 2011 until retiring in December of 2018. With more than 30 years in education, Wells served 20-plus years as the head band director of high schools including Kilgore, Pine Tree, Lufkin, Gladewater, Chapel Hill and Overton. Spirit of Excellence Awards*: Dr. Hurley Miller: Dr. Miller serves as the district extension administrator for Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He played football for KC from 1989-1990 under head coach Jim Miller and assistant coaches Mar- ion Turner, Phil Fuller and Ray- mond Woodard. Miller played football at Abilene Christian Uni- versity after KC from 1991-92 where he was named Offensive Player of the Year in 1991. He was also named by ACU as the “Young Alumnus of the Year” in 2005. Phil Castles: Castles played football at KC on the 1986 and 1987 teams under head coach Jim Miller and assistant coaches Mar- ion Turner and Phil Fuller. Cas- tles has served as head football coach at Henderson High School since 2013 where he has a record of 52-23. In six seasons at Hen- derson, the Lions have made the playoffs four-out-of-six seasons, having reached the state quarter- finals in 2018. In 2017, the Li- ons were 11-3 and he was named American State Bank’s 2017 East Texas Coach of the Year. Henderson reached the region- al playoff (third) round during the 2014 and 2016 seasons. He also coached at Corsicana, Chapel Hill and Elysian Fields. A benefit golf tournament is set for Friday, Sept. 27, and Hall of Fame inductees will be intro- duced during a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the Devall Ballroom on the Kilgore campus. Entry fee for the golf tourna- ment is $75 per player. Tickets to the luncheon are $20 each. Hall of Fame members will also be recognized during half- time of the KC versus Texas A&T football game 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at R.E. St. John Memo- rial Stadium in Kilgore. “I always look forward to the Hall of Fame event because it is one of the most inspirational and motivational events of the year,” said Jimmy Rieves, athletic di- rector. Anti-drug abuse program set The Pritchett Church of Christ will host an anti-drug abuse pro- gram, to be presented by the Special Investigations Unit of the Up- shur County Sheriff’s Office, Tuesday night. The program, open to the public free of charge, is set for 6:30 p.m. in the church annex behind the church building on FM 1404, said Bruce Pace, the congregation’s youth minister. The presentation will “center on awareness and prevention” of drug abuse, Pace said. The unit, which works drug cases, offers such programs to groups, said Sheriff Larry Webb. One can be arranged by calling Webb at 903-843-2541.
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The end of year program by the crowd pleasing HoneyBears under the direction of Diane Clark was held last week. Courtesy Photo
The award winning Sweepstakes Gladewater High School Band held its end of year concert last week under the direction of Jeff Smith.
Courtesy Photo
Gladewater Museum docent Lois Reed shows Weldon Elementary School third graders how a rotary phone works. Weldon students tour the museum annually to learn more about the history and culture of their hometown.
Courtesy Photo
Outgoing Gladewater city council member Quyen Tong was recognized for his work on the council at Thursday’s meeting which saw newly-elected council members Kar-la Byrd and Kevin Clark take their seats on the council. Councilman Dennis Robertson was unable to attend.
Photo by Jim Bardwell
Little Miss Kinsleigh Gor-don was crowned 2019 Little Miss Fashionetta on Sunday, May 18th at Maude Cobb Activity Center in Longview by Alpha Kap-pa Alpha Sorority, Epsilon Zeta Omega Chapter. Kins-leigh is a student at Glade-water Primary school. She is the daughter of Ms. Ki-erra Gordon and grand-daughter of Mr. Anthony Gordon and Mrs. Kristy Helen Gordon. The Little Miss Fashionetta pageant is the culmination of a series of cultural, ed-ucational and fundraising events for young girls ages 7 to 10 years old. This EZO signature program pro-motes and cultivates in the young girls’ etiquette, ele-gance, and poise. Since the pageant’s in-ception , EZO has used the program as a means of fundraising for award-ing scholarship dollars to young women and men for their scholastic achieve-ment and community ser-vice. Funding for the schol-arships come from patron donations and ticket sales.
By Phillip WilliamsThe West Mountain Cemetery Association recognized five de-
ceased persons for “dedicated service” to the cemetery, and elected two current members and one new member to its board of directors, at the association’s annual meeting Sunday.
More than 50 attended the luncheon under the cemetery pavilion on U.S. 271 between Gilmer and Gladewater.
The five were honored with red paving bricks, to be laid at the cemetery. One brick bears the names of Alpha Phillips and his wife, Elizabeth (who donated the land for the graveyard), while another lists the names of Briggs Todd and his wife, Marna Blake Todd, and the third will honor Nona Cason Clark.
Tom Price, representing the Todd family, presented the association with a donation from the family trust.
The association also re-elected current board members Roberta McCrary, Don Morgan and new board member Terry Kaster. Kaster replaces Garrett Adkins, who did not seek another term.
Other board members include Danny Johnson, Leean Clark Wil-liams, David Galbraith, Larry Pyle and Craig McCrary. Association President Lon Cox presided at the meeting.
Johnson discussed past and present landscaping at the cemetery. Pyle discussed new rules being devised for the site, including the banning of certain objects at gravesites because they endanger main-tenance workers. Roberta McCrary discussed the association cook-book, noting the $15 book not only includes recipes, but histories of some families whose members are buried at West Mountain.
The meeting opened with children ringing the old West Mountain school bell, a tradition at the annual gathering.
W. Mt. Cemetery Assoc. honors five for dedicated service
Kilgore College will once again honor former standout ath-letes, coaches and contributors at its annual Hall of Fame Weekend Sept. 27-28.
The newest inductees for the Hall of Fame for the 2019 season:
Men’s Basketball Player:Jermaine Lewis: Lewis played
basketball for the Rangers from 1999-2001 under head coach Scott Schumacher. He recent-ly returned to Gladewater High Schoo as head basketball coach after two years at Pine Tree High School where the Pirates advanced to the Bi-District (sec-ond) round of the state playoffs. Lewis took over coaching at Pine Tree after spending eight years coaching at Gladewater High School. At Gladewater, Lewis’ team won the district champion-ship in 2015-16 for the first time in 20 years and he was named 16-4A Coach of the Year.
Football players:Curtis Buckley: Buckley
played defensive back for the Rangers on the 1989 and 1990 teams under head coach Jim Miller and assistant coaches Marion Turner, Phil Fuller and Raymond Woodard. In those two seasons, KC was 15-7. After KC, he played football at East Texas State University and played in the National Football League from 1993-99 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He works now as an assistant psychiatrist at Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Center in Dallas.
Dr. Robert Iden: Iden was an All-American football player for the Rangers on the 1970 and 1971 teams under head coach Charles Simmons and assistant coaches Jim Miller and Brodie Campbell. In those two seasons, KC was 15-4-2.
Women’s Basketball Player:Meosha Walker: Walker played
basketball for the Rangers from 2000-2002 under head coach Scotti Wood and assistant coach Cortina James. During these two seasons, KC was 40-23 overall and 18-12 in conference play.
Men’s Basketball Team:1963-64 Team: The 1963-64
men’s basketball team won the Texas Eastern Conference cham-pionship with a 26-4 overall and 11-1 conference record. Head coach was Joe Turner.
Tennis Coach:Chris Blair: Blair served as
tennis coach at KC from 1996-2001 where he had several out-standing seasons. He currently works at Pinecrest Country Club in Longview as the USPTA Cer-tified Tennis Professional and has 34 years’ experience coaching top-ranked juniors, adults and future touring professional tennis players.
Tennis Player:Martin Kardos: Kardos played
tennis at KC from 1999-2001 un-der head coach Chris Blair where he had outstanding seasons and was ranked in the Top-100 ten-nis players in the NJCAA his sophomore year. After KC, he transferred to University of Mis-souri-St. Louis where he earned a Bachelor’s in International Busi-ness and an MBA in Manage-ment, graduating Summa Cum Laude with 4.0 GPA. Kardos now resides in his home country of Slovakia and is Managing Di-
GHS’s Lewis among KC’s newest Hall of Fame inductees
rector for CSI Leasing, Inc., for Central and Eastern Europe, a job he has had since 2005.
Contributors:Travis Martin: Martin is a ma-
jor supporter and booster of KC athletics. Martin has also served in the Kilgore High School Foot-ball Booster club for many years and has been a constant supporter for the youth of Kilgore for de-cades. He was also co-founder of the Kilgore Boys & Girls Club where he served on its board for many years. In 2010, the Kilgore Chamber of Commerce named Martin Kilgore’s Citizen of the Year for his work in the commu-nity. He currently serves as a su-pervisor for JDW Services where he has worked since 1985.
Glenn Wells: Former band di-rector Glenn Wells revitalized the band program at KC when he was hired by KC in 2011. Wells, a KC graduate and band alum, served as head band director at KC from 2011 until retiring in December of 2018. With more than 30 years in education, Wells served 20-plus years as the head band director of high schools including Kilgore, Pine Tree, Lufkin, Gladewater, Chapel Hill and Overton.
Spirit of Excellence Awards*:Dr. Hurley Miller: Dr. Miller
serves as the district extension administrator for Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He played football for KC from 1989-1990 under head coach Jim Miller and assistant coaches Mar-ion Turner, Phil Fuller and Ray-mond Woodard. Miller played football at Abilene Christian Uni-versity after KC from 1991-92 where he was named Offensive Player of the Year in 1991. He was also named by ACU as the “Young Alumnus of the Year” in 2005.
Phil Castles: Castles played football at KC on the 1986 and 1987 teams under head coach Jim Miller and assistant coaches Mar-ion Turner and Phil Fuller. Cas-tles has served as head football coach at Henderson High School since 2013 where he has a record of 52-23. In six seasons at Hen-derson, the Lions have made the playoffs four-out-of-six seasons, having reached the state quarter-finals in 2018. In 2017, the Li-ons were 11-3 and he was named American State Bank’s 2017 East Texas Coach of the Year.
Henderson reached the region-al playoff (third) round during the 2014 and 2016 seasons. He also coached at Corsicana, Chapel Hill and Elysian Fields.
A benefit golf tournament is set for Friday, Sept. 27, and Hall of Fame inductees will be intro-duced during a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the Devall Ballroom on the Kilgore campus.
Entry fee for the golf tourna-ment is $75 per player. Tickets to the luncheon are $20 each.
Hall of Fame members will also be recognized during half-time of the KC versus Texas A&T football game 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at R.E. St. John Memo-rial Stadium in Kilgore.
“I always look forward to the Hall of Fame event because it is one of the most inspirational and motivational events of the year,” said Jimmy Rieves, athletic di-rector. Anti-drug abuse program set
The Pritchett Church of Christ will host an anti-drug abuse pro-gram, to be presented by the Special Investigations Unit of the Up-shur County Sheriff’s Office, Tuesday night.
The program, open to the public free of charge, is set for 6:30 p.m. in the church annex behind the church building on FM 1404, said Bruce Pace, the congregation’s youth minister.
The presentation will “center on awareness and prevention” of drug abuse, Pace said.
The unit, which works drug cases, offers such programs to groups, said Sheriff Larry Webb.
One can be arranged by calling Webb at 903-843-2541.
