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Telephone Coop Annual Meeting

Well it's time for the 51st Annual Meeting of the Coleman County Telephone Cooperative. This years' meeting will be held at the Santa Anna Civic Center (Armory), located at 303 South Houston Street in Santa Anna on Friday, August 20, 2004 at 8:00 PM. Registration will begin at 7:00 PM with refreshments, door prizes to all attending members, and drawings for prizes following the business meeting. Action will be taken on the following items:

Report of Officers

Election of three directors of Coleman County Telephone Cooperative, Inc. You must be a member of the Cooperative and attend the meeting in order to vote. The nominees are as follows:

For Burkett: Rickey Adams and Anthony Strawn.

For Mozelle: Jerry Allen and Mike Corbett

For Valera: Glenda Gassiot and Betsy Davis

Presentation of Tom Kingsbery Scholarships

All other business which may come before the meeting

The Telephone Coop's General Manager is Michael Walton and the Board of Directors includes: Jerry Allen, President - Mozelle, Stanley Hartman, Vice-President - Santa Anna, Thomas Rutherford, Secretary - Rockwood, Barbara Kingsbery Jones - Santa Anna Rural, and Glenda Gassiot - Valera.

 

New Business in Santa Anna!

Are we getting a new airport on the West side of town? I would bet you could land a plane on US HWY 67... you know on the "dragstrip"... no that's not an aircraft hanger... that's Morgan Time Machines! See the new Business page for the complete article.

Check out the Sports Page!

I spent some time this past few days working on the pictures so that they will load faster, especially for those that still have dial up Internet access. I also redid the dark background on the August 12-14 articles so that you could read them a little better. The web page design program that I started using is a really nice "state of the art" program called Dreamweaver MX 2004. I figure I better give them a plug because the 30 day trial will run out soon and the full version costs $400. Anyhow when I first started using the program it made the text darker and the pictures 10 times larger automaticly on last weeks' articles. I have also added the "About Us", "Contact Us", "Community Links" pages and a counter. A special thanks to those that sent e-mails and your words of encouragement. I hope to be adding some content to the other pages during the next couple of days.

I would like to include in santaannanews.com those servicemen and women from Santa Anna that are serving our country. If you know or have someone that is serving our country please send me some information, service portraits, and/or pictures in service: news@santaannanews.com.

I also will be putting together an article featuring college back-to-school students. If you have a student from Santa Anna that will be heading back to college or technical school this Fall please e-mail their name, parents' and relatives' from Santa Anna names, school, classification, field of study, and a photo if available.

Meet The Mountaineers

Well I hope that you got to attend "Meet the Mountaineers" at Mountaineer Stadium on Friday night. If you did then this probably won't be news to you and if you didn't make it then we missed you.

There was a pretty good turn out, and the coaches kept it pretty short and simple, which I liked. I am not much of a "Bad to the Bone" fan. I prefer a little less talk and lot more walk.

The athletes were all ready and the coaches had most of them there and did a great job of introductions; the band and director did a good job of playing the Fight Song and Alma Mater; and the Cheerleaders were great; and the Booster Club did a great job with refreshments.

I am sure that the Booster Club could use more help and if you have a student athlete or band member then you should be active in it. I don't mean that you should attend all the meetings and all, but when they need help and your name is on a work schedule please do your part and show up without having to begged or threatened.