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Bank to Close Early for Holiday
In observance of New Year’s Eve, The Santa Anna National Bank will be closing at 3:00pm on Friday, December 29, 2006
Gerald R. Ford
I saw the news about former President, Gerald R. Ford's passing on CNN late Tuesday night. President Ford lived a long and succesful life by most any standard.
Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, died peacefully at 6:45 p.m., P.S.T. today at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. Born July 14, 1913, he was 93 years old.
President Ford is survived by Betty Ford, his beloved wife of 58 years, four children, Michael, John (Jack), Steven and Susan, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Richard of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Some interesting facts about Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States from http://statefuneral.mdw.army.mil/:
He was born Leslie Lynch King Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Neb. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Mich., to live with her parents.
On Feb. 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald R. Ford Jr., although his name was not legally changed until Dec. 3, 1935. He did not know until 1930 that Gerald Ford Sr., was not his biological father. The future president grew up in a close- knit family that included three younger half-brothers, Thomas, Richard and James.
Ford attended South High School in Grand Rapids, where he excelled scholastically and athletically, being named to the honor society and the "All-City" and "All-State" football teams. He was also active in scouting, achieving the rank of Eagle Scout in November 1927. He earned spending money by working in the family paint business and at a local restaurant.
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. holds the flag as he and his fellow members of the Eagle Scout Guard of Honor prepare to raise the colors over Fort Michilimackinac at Mackinac Island State Park, MI. The troop served as guides during the summer months. August 1929.
Photo from http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
From 1931 to 1935 Ford attended The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he majored in economics and political science. He held various part-time jobs to supplement his scholarship. A gifted athlete, Ford played on the University's national-championship football teams in 1932 and 1933. He was voted the Wolverine's most-valuable player in 1934 and on Jan. 1, 1935, played in the annual East-West College All-Star game in San Francisco, for the benefit of the Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in June 1935, and in August, he played in the Chicago Tribune College All-Star football game at Soldier Field against the Chicago Bears.
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. centers a football during practice at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1933.
Photo from http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
He received offers from two professional football teams, the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but chose instead to take a position as boxing coach and assistant varsity football coach at Yale, hoping to attend law school there. Among those he coached were future U.S. Senators Robert Taft Jr. and William Proxmire. Yale officials initially denied him admission to the law school because of his full-time coaching responsibilities, but admitted him in the spring of 1938. Ford earned his LL.B. degree in 1941, graduating in the top 25 percent of his class in spite of the time he had to devote to coaching. His introduction to politics came in the summer of 1940 when he worked in Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign.
After returning to Michigan and passing its bar exam, Ford and a University of Michigan fraternity brother, Philip A. Buchen (who later served on Ford's White House staff as counsel to the president), set up a law partnership in Grand Rapids. He also taught a course in business law at the University of Grand Rapids and served as line coach for the school's football team. He had just become active in a group of reform-minded Republicans in Grand Rapids that called themselves the Home Front and were interested in challenging the hold of local political boss Frank McKay, when the United States entered World War II.
In April 1942, Ford joined the U.S. Navy Reserve and received a commission as an ensign. After an orientation program at Annapolis, he became a physical-fitness instructor at a pre-flight school in Chapel Hill, N.C. In the spring of 1943 he began service in the light aircraft carrier USS Monterrey. He was first assigned as athletic director and gunnery-division officer, then as assistant navigator, with the Monterrey, which took part in most of the major operations in the South Pacific, including those at Truk, Saipan and the Philippines. His closest brush with death came not as a result of enemy fire, however, but during a vicious typhoon in the Philippine Sea in December 1944. He came within inches of being swept overboard while the storm raged. The ship, which was severely damaged by the storm and the resulting fire, had to be taken out of service. Ford spent the remainder of the war ashore and was discharged as a lieutenant commander in February 1946.
When he returned to Grand Rapids, Ford became a partner in the local law firm of Butterfield, Keeney, and Amberg. A self-proclaimed compulsive "joiner," Ford was well-known throughout the community. Ford has stated that his experiences in World War II caused him to reject his previous isolationist leanings and adopt an internationalist outlook. With the encouragement of his stepfather, who was county Republican chairman, the Home Front, and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Ford decided to challenge the isolationist incumbent Bartel Jonkman for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1948 election. He won the nomination by a wide margin and was elected to Congress Nov. 2, receiving 61 percent of the vote in the general election.
During the campaign, Ford married Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren, a department-store fashion consultant. They were to have four children: Michael Gerald, born March 14, 1950; John Gardner, born March 16, 1952; Steven Meigs, born May 19, 1956; and Susan Elizabeth, born July 6, 1957.
Ford served in the House of Representatives from Jan. 3, 1949 to Dec. 6, 1973, being re-elected 12 times, each time with more than 60 percent of the vote. He became a member of the House Appropriations Committee in 1951, and rose to prominence on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, becoming its ranking minority member in 1961. He once described himself as "a moderate in domestic affairs, an internationalist in foreign affairs and a conservative in fiscal policy."
As his reputation as a legislator grew, Ford declined offers to run for the Senate and the Michigan governorship in the early 1950s. His ambition was to become Speaker of the House. In 1960 he was mentioned as a possible running mate for Richard Nixon in the presidential election. In 1961, in a revolt of the "Young Turks," a group of younger, more progressive House Republicans who felt that the older leadership was stagnating, Ford defeated 67-year-old Charles Hoeven of Iowa for chairmanship of the House Republican Conference, the number-three leadership position in the party.
In 1963 President Johnson appointed Ford to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1965 Ford co-authored with John R. Stiles a book about the findings of the commission, Portrait of the Assassin. Ford was the last living member of the Warren Commission.
The battle for the 1964 Republican nomination for president was drawn on ideological lines, but Ford avoided having to choose between Rockefeller and Goldwater by standing behind Michigan favorite son George Romney.
In 1965 Ford was chosen by the Young Turks as their best hope to challenge Charles Halleck for the position of minority leader of the House. He won by a small margin and took over the position early in 1965, holding it for eight years.
Ford led Republican opposition to many of President Johnson's programs, favoring more-conservative alternatives to Johnson's social-welfare legislation and opposing Johnson's policy of gradual escalation in Vietnam.
In the 1968 and 1972 elections, Ford was a loyal supporter of Richard Nixon, who had been a friend for many years. In 1968 Ford was again considered as a vice presidential candidate. Ford backed the president's economic and foreign policies and remained on good terms with the conservative and liberal wings of the Republican party.
While Ford was unable to reach his goal of becoming Speaker of the House, ironically, he did become president of the Senate. When Spiro Agnew resigned the office of vice president of the United States in late 1973 after pleading no contest to a charge of income-tax evasion, Nixon was empowered by the 25th Amendment to appoint a new vice president. He chose Ford, who was confirmed and sworn in on Dec. 6, 1973.
The Watergate scandal, the break-in at Democratic headquarters during the 1972 campaign and the ensuing cover-up by Nixon-administration officials, hung over Ford's nine-month tenure as vice president. When it became apparent that evidence, public opinion and the mood in Congress were all pointing toward impeachment, Nixon became the first president in U.S. history to resign from that office.
Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office as president of the United States Aug. 9, 1974, stating that "the long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works."
President Ford takes oath of office
Within the month, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller for vice president. On Dec. 19, 1974, Rockefeller was confirmed by Congress, and the country had a full complement of leaders again.
One of the more difficult decisions of Ford's presidency was made just a month after he took office. Believing that protracted impeachment proceedings would keep the country mired in Watergate and unable to address the other problems facing it, Ford decided to grant a pardon to Nixon prior to the filing of any formal criminal charges.
President Ford inherited an administration plagued by a war in Southeast Asia, rising inflation and fears of energy shortages. He faced many difficult decisions, including replacing Nixon's staff with his own, restoring the credibility of the presidency and dealing with a Congress increasingly assertive of its rights and powers.
In domestic policy, Ford felt that through modest tax and spending cuts, deregulating industries and decontrolling energy prices to stimulate production, he could contain inflation and unemployment. This would also reduce the size and role of the federal government and help overcome the energy shortage. His philosophy is best summarized by one of his favorite speech lines, "A government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have." Through compromise, bills involving energy decontrol, tax cuts, deregulation of the railroad and securities industries and antitrust-law reform were approved.
In foreign policy, Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger continued the policy of detente with the Soviet Union and "shuttle diplomacy" in the Middle East. U.S.-Soviet relations were marked by on-going arms negotiations, the Helsinki agreements on human rights principles and East European national boundaries, trade negotiations, and the symbolic Apollo-Soyuz joint manned space flight. Ford's personal diplomacy was highlighted by trips to Japan and China, a 10-day European tour, and co-sponsorship of the first international economic summit meeting, as well as the reception of numerous foreign heads of state, many of whom came in observance of the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976.
With the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 as background, Congress and the president struggled repeatedly over presidential war powers, oversight of the CIA and covert operations, military aid appropriations and the stationing of military personnel.
On May 14, 1975, Ford ordered U.S. forces to retake the S.S. Mayaguez, an American merchant ship seized by Cambodian gunboats two days earlier in international waters. The vessel was recovered and all 39 crewmen saved. In the preparation and execution of the rescue, however, 41 Americans lost their lives.
On two separate trips to California in September 1975, Ford was the target of assassination attempts. Both of the assailants were women.
During the 1976 campaign, Ford fought off a challenge by Ronald Reagan to gain the Republican nomination. He chose Senator Robert Dole of Kansas as his running mate and succeeded in narrowing Democrat Jimmy Carter's large lead in the polls, but finally lost one of the closer elections in history. Three televised candidate debates were focal points of the campaign.
Upon returning to private life, President and Mrs. Ford moved to California, where they built a new house in Rancho Mirage, where the former first lady had her husband's support in establishing the Betty Ford Center, a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol dependencies.
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After Christmas Vandalism
Several woke up the day after Christmas, Tuesday morning, to find their yards and Christmas decorations had been vandalized late Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
Ray Findley reported that someone had knocked over several of his yard decorations and stolen several items from his front porch including a 4 foot tall animated Santa, a 2 foot tall furry reindeer, and a reindeer riding stick. The Santa and furry reindeer were found on the Brady highway and returned.
Several on Avenue A reported vandalized decorations including Dickie Horner who reported a damaged giant blowup snow globe.
I also heard reports and saw that Todd McMillan had extensive vandalism to his decorated yard.
Police are investigating and a reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for this crime. Please contact the Santa Anna Police Department if you have any information.
I also noticed several homes wrapped with toilet tissue this morning. I think maybe a few misguided youths are celebrating the wrong holiday. Maybe someone will put the switches they got in their stockings to use!
Found
Cindy found this toolbox full of tools on the side of the road on the way home from work last Friday. I would like for it to get back to it's owner if possible. It appears to be a welders maybe and someone that might work at Loadcraft because she found it between Santa Anna and Rockwood.
If you lost a toolbox or know someone that did send us an e-mail to news@santaannanews.com and we will arrange for you or them to get it back.
I think someone may have actually stolen some tools out of it this weekend but we will have to see when you claim it because it was overturned and scattered across the road when she found it and it overturned once in the back of her truck.
New Publication Available on Converting Manure to Energy
Writer: Edith Chenault, 979-845-2886, EChenaul@ag.tamu.edu
Contact: Dr. Saqib Mukhtar, 979-458-1019, mukhtar@tamu.edu
COLLEGE STATION - In the wake of higher gas prices, interest in renewable and green energy has been fueled tremendously. This led to the publication of a Texas Cooperative Extension publication called "Manure to Energy: Understanding Processes, Principles and Jargon."
This publication gives agricultural producers and the general public information on bio-energy, said Dr. Saqib Mukhtar, Extension agricultural engineer and one of the authors.
The demand for hydrocarbon energy-or energy from crude oil, natural gas and coal-will continue to rise. However, potential sources of energy include biomass sources, such as trees, agricultural crops, animal manure and municipal solid waste, he said.
The publication primarily focuses on converting manure to energy on the farm and the management of co-products resulting from that conversion, Mukhtar said.
Co-author of the publication was Sergio Capareda, assistant professor in the department of biological and agricultural engineering at Texas A&M University.
The free publication (No. 428) may be ordered from the Extension Bookstore Web site at http://tcebookstore.tamu.edu. Click on the links for Agriculture and then Livestock to find the publication. It also may be ordered from the Texas Animal Manure Management Issues Web page at http://tammi.tamu.edu/.
IPM Programs Slow Common Housefly's Resistance Building to Pesticides
Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu
Contacts: Dr. Jeffrey Tomberlin, 254-968-4144, JKTomberlin@ag.tamu.edu
STEPHENVILLE - Thanks to years of unrestricted spraying, the ordinary housefly is becoming more resistant to commonly used pesticides every year, said a Texas Cooperative Extension entomologist.
"Resistance is widespread, and it's not confined to agricultural operations," said Dr. Jeff Tomberlin, Extension entomologist.
That's the bad news. The good news is that integrated pest management techniques greatly slow the development of resistance to pesticides, said Tomberlin, who is based at the Texas A&M University System Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Stephenville.
In a recent study, Tomberlin and Dr. Greta Schuster, Extension entomologist, looked at housefly resistance to commonly used chemical controls at restaurants and confined livestock feeding operations. With the livestock operations, they compared resistance between those using integrated pest management - IPM for short - methods, and those that did not.
At the livestock operations, housefly resistance to commonly used chemical controls was much lower where IPM methods had been in use, Tomberlin said.
IPM methods, whether at livestock operations or restaurants or public
or private facilities, all include:
- Using localized instead of area-wide treatments.
- Using pesticides only when insect pests are a problem, not as a
prophylactic treatment;
- Rotate methods used, such as sprays, pour-ons, baits, etc.
- Whenever possible, preserve beneficial insects. In the case of the
housefly, this would mean using chemical controls in a manner so as to not
kill natural predators such as parasitoid wasps.
"When you use insecticides broad-spectrum, you kill most insects,
including the beneficial ones," Tomberlin said.
- Keeping things clean. For restaurants, this means better management
of garbage; for livestock operations improved manure management.
Houseflies, one of the most common insect pests on the planet, are more than just a nuisance. Because they breed in manure and regurgitate food, they spread many human and animal diseases. In restaurants and homes, the primarily complaint is their insanitary nature. For livestock operations, this is also cause for complaint, but in large numbers, houseflies can irritate to the point of reducing weight gain and milk production of the animals. And, as urban areas encroach upon farmland, livestock operations are under more scrutiny of their fly control, Tomberlin said.
Most chemical controls used today are pyrethroids, a class of chemicals that are low in toxicity to humans and other mammals and therefore safer to use around livestock, he said.
In Tomberlin and Schuster's study, housefly resistance was measured by trapping samples of houseflies at both types of facilities. Three generations of flies were reared from those trapped, and the scientists then measured the percentage killed by differing rates of common pyrethroids after four hours and 48 hours for each generation.
Flies from both restaurants showed a high rate of resistance to all pesticides tested, with the highest level of resistance exhibited to the older pesticides, Tomberlin said. With some commonly used pesticides, the fly mortality rate was for all practical purposes zero.
Tomberlin noted that later generations of test flies showed less resistance overall.
"This was to be expected as there's less pressure (from pesticides) on succeeding generations to select for resistance," he said.
Tomberlin and Schuster conducted similar tests at four large north central Texas feedlots, with herd sizes ranging from 30,000 to 100,000 head. In these tests, two of the feedlots practiced some IPM methods and two did not.
Again, trapped flies were bred in three generations, but with the feedlot flies, Tomberlin and Schuster tested pesticide effectiveness on the flies at one, three, 10 and 100 times the recommended label rate.
Pesticides approved for use on feedlots differ from those used at restaurants, but again all were of the pyretheroid class, Tomberlin said.
As with the restaurant flies, the flies from the feedlots that did not practice IPM methods showed a very high rate of resistance to common pesticides. Several pesticides showed less than 20 percent control at labeled rates. For two of the pesticides, the 90 percent or better control wasn't reached until 100 times the labeled rate was used.
All four pesticides performed significantly better at the feedlots using IPM methods. At one of the feedlots where IPM methods were used, three of the four pesticides tested gave better than 75 percent control at labeled rates.
Though there are newer pesticides in development, such as Spinosad, which was just recently released, Tomberlin noted that unless agricultural producers, restaurant owners, school facility managers and householders practice IPM, it will only be a matter of time until houseflies develop resistance to the new products too.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from the Peltons' and SantaAnnaNews.com!
I hope that you and your family had a safe holiday.
We had a very good Christmas with lots of family. There were Pelton's, Robinett's, Wrights, Pierces, Gibsons, Chambers, Colsons, Horners, Guthries, Smiths, Ellis's, Titsworths, and Rambos. We filled the house several times and went to a few others as well. There were lots of little ones running around all waiting to see what Santa would bring.
This years gifts to give and get seemed to be Crocs, Ipods, and HDTV's. I didn't give or get any so I am maybe a little out of touch. I do know that the imitation crocs are not the same. Not because I have personal experience but from being told so.
You would think that there would be more Sony PlayStation 3's but they are too hard to find and to expensive. I saw a few in the Abilene paper for $700 to $2000 or best offer and while I am sure that there are some that would give it, I am not one.
I am always reminded of those less fortunate at this time of year.
Please remember the Coach Bob Kerr family as their son and brother, Charlie Kerr, recovers from a serious oilfield truck accident in Oklahoma.
NASA WELCOMES DISCOVERY CREW HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew returned home Friday after a 13-day journey of more than 5.3 million miles in space. Discovery's STS-116 mission successfully reconfigured the International Space Station's power and cooling systems from a temporary setup to a permanent mode and added a new piece to the station's backbone.
Discovery's Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Bill Oefelein and mission specialists Nicholas Patrick, Bob Curbeam, Joan Higginbotham, Thomas Reiter and Christer Fuglesang landed Friday, Dec. 22, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 5:32 p.m. EST. Reiter and Fuglesang are European Space Agency astronauts.
After landing, Polansky told Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, "Seven thrilled people right here. We're just really proud of the entire NASA team that put this together. Thank you, and I think it's going to be a great holiday."
The flight was the second in a series of missions that are among the most complex in space history. Discovery's crew rewired the station's power system and delivered a key component of the station's structure. The segment will enable future missions to attach a new set of solar arrays.
The mission involved intensive ground commands as the station's power was shut down and rerouted in stages on two spacewalks. As systems were then powered up for the first time on their new channels, the station's power system was in its final configuration, ready for further expansion with more solar arrays and laboratories to be launched in 2007. As part of the station power reconfiguration and assembly process, the station flight control team uplinked a total of 17,901 computer commands, averaging about 2,000 commands per day. During a typical day on the station, flight controllers give approximately 800 commands.
The newest resident of the International Space Station also traveled aboard Discovery. Astronaut Sunita Williams joined the crew of Expedition 14. She is scheduled to spend six months on the station.
Curbeam, Fuglesang and Williams, with the help of crewmates, made four spacewalks that completed the construction tasks, reconfigured power and cooling systems, and retracted a snagged solar array. The astronauts also replaced a failed camera, cleared a worksite essential to the next shuttle mission, reconfigured power to station's Russian segment and installed panels to provide additional protection from space debris.
The fourth spacewalk was added to the mission to retract a solar array that only partially folded into its box on flight day 5. The solar wings were retracted far enough so that the new arrays installed in September could begin to fully rotate and track the sun to provide power. Mission managers decided, however, to address the problem of the partially retracted arrays while the shuttle crew was on the station. With only several days notice, mission engineers in both the shuttle and station programs developed a spacewalk plan for Curbeam and Fuglesang that resulted in the arrays' successful retraction on flight day 10.
Discovery's launch was the first night liftoff of a shuttle since Nov. 2002. Several inspections in orbit revealed no critical damage, and Discovery's thermal protection system was declared safe for re-entry on the flight's thirteenth day.
The day before landing, pilot Bill Oefelein, who was born in Alaska, and the rest of the Discovery crew talked to Alaskan schoolchildren from the shuttle's flight deck.
With Discovery and its crew safely home, the stage is set for the next phase of International Space Station assembly. Preparations continue for Space Shuttle Atlantis' launch, targeted for March 2007, on the STS-117 mission to deliver to the station the S3/S4 truss segment and a third set of solar arrays.
For more on the STS-116 mission and the upcoming STS-117 mission,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
4-H Reminders - December 20, 2006
Coleman 4-H Club Reminder - Poinsettia Money
Just a reminder for Coleman 4-H Club members .... if you have collected any money for Poinsettias - this needs to be turned in to Synda Smith, Club Leader or the County Extension office AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Thanks for all your hard
work !
County Food Show Checks - There are a few food show checks at the Co. Extension Office. Those of you who won 1st place at the County Food Show, please come by to get your check. Be sure to bring your thank you note with you.
Shearing Date Announced - Tuesday, Dec. 26th Reminder - Lambs must be slick shorn by December 31st for the County Show. For 4-H AND FFA Livestock Exhibitors - There will be a sheep shearer on hand Tuesday, December 26th at the Coleman Rodeo Grounds from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon. If you need assistance with lamb shearing, this would be a good time to have it done right before the county show. Please keep in mind there will be a small charge for the shearer.
Shooting Sports News - Pistol practice is still on-going. However, due to the holiday schedule, there will not be any practice on Sunday, Dec. 24th or Monday, December 25th. Practice will resume on Sunday afternoon December 31st at 2:00 p.m. , Ben Taylor's Range. If you have questions, contact Steve Hinds at 636-7144.
4-H Club Meetings - At this time - there are no scheduled 4-H Club meetings for the month of January. Watch the newsletter for February meeting announcements.
Four Leaf Photography Club - is scheduled to meet January 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Santa Anna Computer Lab. If you are interested in attending these photography club meetings please feel free to do so. For more information contact Tex Wright, Club leader, at 325-348-3655.
STOCK SHOW REMINDERS
Listed below are County Stock Show Reminders. PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY ! If you have any questions about any of the rules of regulations for the County Show, contact the Superintendent of your show, your Ag Science teacher, or the County Extension Agent.
* NO PASS. NO SHOW. Each exhibitor must be academically eligible.
* Rabbits are to be brought to the grounds for judging on Sunday for the County Show, taken home after the show.
* You must be present for weigh-in and sifting your animals at the county stock show. See the show schedule for details. If you miss weigh-in, you will not show.
* 4-H members are required to sell their own animal at the county sale.
* ALL EXHIBITORS ARE TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO STAY AFTER THE SALE & HELP CLEAN UP - NO EXCEPTIONS !
* Once livestock are on the grounds at the County Stock Show, they cannot leave without permission of the superintendents. EXCEPTION - Swine may leave Sunday morning for washing.
* SWINE SHOW - Show weights are 150 to 270. In order to consign your pig to the floor, it must weigh 225 to 270 with a 5 pound variance on the TOP only.
* All lambs must be slick shorn by no later than December 31st, in order to show in the Coleman County Stock Show. Lambs & goats may be washed for the county show as long as it is done before arrival on the rodeo grounds.
* All 4-H members must have exhibitor signs on their pens at the County Show. These are available from the County Extension Office or you can find them out in the show barns during the event.
* STEERS - This will be a blow and show exhibition. No adhesives.
* MANDATORY - YOU MUST CLEAN OUT YOUR PEN(S) BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE STOCK SHOW GROUNDS AFTER THE STOCK SHOW IS OVER.
Chapter Show Schedules
Novice - Saturday, January 6, 2007
* SHOW STARTS at 10:00 a.m.
* SHOW ORDER: Rabbits, Goats, Lambs, Steers, Pigs
Santa Anna - Saturday, January 6, 2007
* Swine Weigh-In: Friday, January 5, by 7:00 p.m.
Pigs can be put in show barn anytime on Friday.
All pigs should be in show barn by 5:30 p.m.
* Lambs & Goats arrive at barn for weighing at 7:30 a.m., January 6th
* Rabbit Show: Will start at 9:00 a.m.
Note: Rabbits should arrive at 8:15 - 8:30 a.m. ( NO LATER )
* Goat Show - 9:30 a.m.
* Lamb Show - Following Goat Show
* Steer Show - Following Lamb Show
* Swine Show - Following Steer Show
* BBQ Lunch Break (12 Noon - 1 PM)
* Approx. 1:15 p.m. - Complete Swine Show
* YOUTH FAIR SHOW - All exhibits will need to be at Ag Shop by 5 p.m. on Friday.
* Baked Goods must be in the Ag Building by 8:30 a.m. on January 6th.
Panther Creek - Friday, January 12, 2007
* Swine Weigh-In: Thursday, Jan. 11th at the Panther Creek Bus Barn from 6 to 8 pm
* Lambs & Goats Weigh-In: will be at 7:00 am to 8:30 am on Friday, Jan. 12, 2007
* SHOW STARTS at 10:00 am : Goats, Lambs, Pigs
* BBQ Lunch @ 11:45 am
Coleman - Saturday, January 13, 2007
* Weigh-In for Goats, Lambs and Pigs will be Friday, January 12, from 4 - 6 pm
* Steers Weigh-In: Friday, Jan. 12, 2007 from 4 - 6 pm at the Coleman Livestock Auction
* SHOW STARTS: 7:30 am Saturday, January. 13, 2007
* SHOW ORDER: Swine, Lambs, Goats, Rabbits, Steers
2007 County Stock Show Schedule
Friday, January 12, 2007
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Steers weigh-in at Coleman Livestock Auction Barn
Saturday, January 13, 2007
3:00 p.m. All livestock must be in place for the County Show
Sift for swine, lambs, goats will begin.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
12:00 Noon Swine Show
1:00 p.m. Weigh-In for Rabbits
2:00 p.m. Rabbit Show Begins
Little Britches Goat Show - Following Rabbit Show (Approx. 3 PM)
Monday, January 15, 2007
8:00 a.m. Steer Show
Lamb Show Immediately following Steer Show
Meat Goat Show Immediately following Lamb Show
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
12:00 Noon County Stock Show SALE at Bill Franklin Center
Little Britches Goat Show - Sunday, January 14, 2007
Each year the Little Britches Goat Show is a great success with many youth involved. This show will again be part of the county's stock show events. ENTRY FEE IS $1.00. You can enter just prior to the show on Sunday, January 14, 2007. If you have a little brother, sister, cousin, grandson, granddaughter, who is not old enough to be a member of 4-H or FFA, and would like to get them started in the show ring - get them involved at the County Show in the Little Britches Goat Show.
There are 2 classes:
1) Under 5 years of age - This is a COSTUME Contest. Both the animal and the contestant can sport a costume.
2) Ages 5 to 8 years of age - Contestants will go through a showmanship class. Contestants in this class should wear stock show attire.
4-H Calendar
JANUARY, 2007
1 HAPPY NEW YEAR !
3-6 Odessa Stock Show
6 Santa Anna Chapter Show
6 Novice Chapter Show
9 Four Leaf Photography Club Meeting
12 Panther Creek Chapter Show
12 Weigh-In for Steers @ Coleman Livestock Auction, 4-6 PM
13 Coleman Chapter Show
13 Weigh-In for County Show (All Livestock) beginning at 3:00 p.m.
14 COUNTY STOCK SHOW (Swine, Rabbits, Little Britches Goat Show)
14 Little Britches Goat Show
15 COUNTY STOCK SHOW (Steers, Lambs, Meat Goats)
16 COUNTY STOCK SHOW-SALE - Bill Franklin Center
24 - Feb. 2 Ft. Worth Stock Show
The Coleman County Extension Office wishes for you a Merry Christmas and a happy and safe holiday season.
Did you notice the banner ads for That Santa Anna Store, Cool Creek Outfitters, and Santa Anna Grocery that appeared on Thursday?
I have been a little hesitant about selling advertising on SantaAnnaNews.com but I am going to bring the spirit of giving and Christmas to the News in December. The ads will link to the business's web site if they have one or possibly to a page that I have created, or to more information about the business.
For those with ads that appear over the next few weeks I want to say Merry Christmas! I hope that the advertisements on the News will send you some business. In checking referrals and page counts I hope that you notice increased traffic to your website if you have one and increased business that say they came from the News. I will be implementing a banner advertising program for 2007 that I hope that you will find affordable and profitable to your business and you will choose SantaAnnaNews.com for your online advertising. SantaAnnaNews.com will soon reach 75,000 Front Page hits and I can provide you with supporting traffic documentation if you would like.
So watch for the ads over the next couple of weeks and be sure and tell them that SantaAnnaNews.com sent you!
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