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Colorado Middle School’s 7th and 8th grade boys’ track teams competed in the Ballinger Relays on Thursday, March 4th. The 7th grade team won the meet with 166 points, and the 8th graders placed 3rd.

Team results for the 7th graders are: Colorado City, 1st, 166; Bangs, 2nd, 152; Early, 3rd, 96; Winters, 4th, 67; Coahoma, 58, 5th; Ballinger, 6th, 39; Brady, 34, 7th; and Miles, 8th, 6.

Individual results follow:
High Jump:   4th Dillon Gainey, 5th Chris Martinez

The Westbrook Junior High and High School Wildcats traveled to Klondike to participate in the Cougar Relays on March 4, 5.
 
For the junior high boys, Jahari Vanover placed 1st in shotput (35’ 6 1/2”), 3rd in long jump (14’ 6 1/2”), 1st in 100 Hurdles (20.24), and 1st in the 300 Hurdles (49.77). 

Jacob Morris placed 5th in the long jump (14’ 2”), 5th in the high jump (4’4”), 2nd in the 800 (2.34.09), 5th in the 1600 (6.08.20), and 6th in the 100 (13.96). 

Texas Department of Criminal Justice “80 John” Wallace and Dick Ware units and the W3 Work Camp received an “outstanding” on their first annual re-accreditation audit last Thursday.

The two units received a score of 98.3 for compliance with the national agency’s standards for correctional facilities.

“We are required to get 95% of their standards to receive re-accreditation,” said Warden Richie Wathen.

With a vision toward economic development, the city council approved a rezoning request  for a 10 acre area near the old speakeasy.

The rezoning will allow Terry and Teresa Gibbs to utilize the area for 50 RV spaces with accompanying facilities, including a mini laundromat and office complex.

All the facilities associated with the RV park will be open to the general public, according to Gibbs.

Council members began compiling a list of residents for consideration as part of a 15 person Visioning Steering Committee.

Lawrence “Red” Smith
1941-2010
COLORADO CITY - Mr. Lawrence “Red” Smith, age 69, passed away on March 4, 2010, in Kent County.  Funeral service was held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 6, at House of Hope Community Church with Rev. Floyd Green, Jr. officiating. Burial followed in the Mitchell County Cemetery under the direction of Kiker-Seale Funeral Home.

Bass Club Meeting
First National Bank meeting room at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10.

Blood Drive
United Blood Services will hold a blood drive sponsored by the hospital volunteers on Sat., Mar. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Bloodmobile will be at the Railhead Building. To make an appointment, call Ernestine O’Dell at 728-5593.

Saturday Cleanup

Location

Big game hunters no longer need to travel to the Serengeti to bag their trophies. Hunters can bag exotic game down the road at Champion Ranch.

The ranch, owned and operated by father-son combo Joe and Joel Swan, run 28-32 different species of winged and four-footed game.

“We’ve hunted all our lives, and loved the exotics,” said Joel Swan.  “Seems like every where we went we found things right and a bunch wrong.  We wished we could go to a place that did it all right.”

Dorcas Bedford
1927-2010
BURLESON – Funeral services for Dorcas Bedford, 82, were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, 2010, in the Rosser Funeral Home Chapel in Cleburne with Rev. Gary Little officiating. Burial will follow at noon on Thursday, March 4, in the Colorado City Cemetery.

Mrs. Bedford passed away on Sunday, February 28, 2010, in Alvarado. She was born in Quinlan on March 17, 1927, the daughter of Sybil (Hancock) and Willie Flem Little. She was a retired nanny and was a member of the United Methodist Church of Joshua.

Mitchell County voters will return to the polls in their respective precincts April 13 for two runoff elections following Tuesday evening's election results.

Early voting will take place April 5-9 at the courthouse.

Democrats Jennifer Rivera and Debby Guelker went down to the wire neck and neck in voting for county treasurer.

When the polls closed Rivera had 35.74% of the voter turnout with 223 votes and Guelker had 35.26% with 220 votes.

Janet McCright trailed with 29.01% and 181 votes.

A motor home fire claimed the life of a Loraine resident at the 223 RV Campground  on I-20 early Sunday morning.

Sixty-five-year-old Cathalene Martel died in the fire which destroyed her motor home between 3 and 4 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs.

“The 911 call went to Sweetwater PD and was transferred from there,” Toombs said.

Both the Loraine Volunteer Fire Department and the Colorado City Volunteer Fire Department responded with three trucks each.