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Hughes Springs High School One-Act Play is advancing to Area competition which will be held at Van High School.  The students have advanced out of Zone and District competitions with six individual medals at Zone and five at District. 
Caitlin Moreland won All-Star Cast and Honorable Mention All-Star Cast and Laura Stewart won two All-Star Cast medals.
Haylee Wommack and Breanne Gunn both received Honorable Mention All-Star Cast.
BJ Fickling captured Honorable Mention All-Star Cast and All-Star Cast honors, while Dylan Tippett won Best Actor at Zone. Uryia Kemp won the Outstanding Tech Award at Zone, while Nicole Willis won Outstanding Tech Award at District. Sabranna Sloan and Luis Dorantes participated.
Students are advancing to the University Interscholastic League Regional Competition April 20.

First United Methodist Church in Lone Star welcomed its new pastor, Dr. Richard Heyduck, on April 7.
Dr. Heyduck, a member of the Religion Department at Wiley College, pastored churches throughout Texas for over 20 years before joining the Wiley faculty last year. No stranger to this area, he pastored most recently at First United Methodist Church in Pittsburg.
Dr. Heyduck and his wife, Christi, have three children, two of whom still live at home.
 Dr. Heyduck is taking over the pastorate upon the retirement of Rev. Dave Avis who has been the pastor at Lone Star for three years.
“I’m thankful for Rev. Avis’ assistance as I learn about this congregation,” Dr. Heyduck said. “The church property is beautiful and has a great setting. I’m thankful to be able to lead such a friendly, loving congregation. I look forward to getting to know the people and identifying the ways our church can help people in the community connect with Jesus.”

Kynlie Sera Cheek
Keilani Gonzalez and Brett Cheek announce the birth of their daughter, Kynlie Sera Cheek, who was born March 29 at 1:45 a.m. at Titus Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and was 20 inches long.
The new parents are 2008 graduates of Pittsburg High School and live in Mount Pleasant.
Kynlie’s grandparents are Fernando Gonzalez and Penelope Aumua of Pittsburg and  Tim and Sivi Cheek of Mount Pleasant. Her great-grandparents are Ciro and Esperanza Gonzalez of Mount Pleasant, Ella Cheek of Mount Pleasant, Johnny and Patsy Cheek of Mount Pleasant, Janis Wyatt of Jackson, Miss., and  Jerry Hockaday of Texarkana.

Vehicle Crime Prevention
The Daingerfield Lions Club will host a program on Vehicle Crime Prevention by the Texas Auto Theft Task Force on Monday, April 15. The program will be at noon at the Boy Scout Hut on Freeman Avenue across from West Elementary. The Lions Club will serve free hot dogs beginning at noon, followed by the program at 12:30 pm.

Class Reunion
There will be class reunion for the Hughes Springs High School Class of 1948 on May 4 at Don Juans in Hughes Springs, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Anyone who was in school around that time is invited to join the reunion. For further information, contact Eloise Hull at 903-639-3026.

Hendrix Marshall, 10 months, spent his first Easter in Lone Star at his great-grandmother’s house hunting for eggs. He is the son of Whitney and David Marshall of Longview. His great-grandmother is Donnie Embrey.

J.T. and Kaye Brison present a check to Carolyn Franks, right, director of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College, to sponsor the upcoming performance of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It.’ The national tour of the play will be presented one night only at 7:30 p.m. on April 5 in the Whatley Center. Call 903-434-8181 to order tickets or for more information. Visit www.ntcc.edu/whatley to learn more.
 

Northeast Texas Community College professor Andrew Yox of Mount Pleasant has been named president-elect of the Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC). He was chosen to serve by his peers and will assume his new role at the annual GPHC conference at West Texas A&M University April 5-7. He will begin his term as president in November 2013.
Dr. Yox teaches history and is the founding director of the NTCC Honors program, which was established in 2007. The GPHC is a non-profit association of 80 honors programs and colleges from several states. It is a regional branch of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Dr. Yox has served on the GPHC board since 2009.

Descendants of Sam Houston Collins and LouEndie Culver Collins are encouraged to attend the annual reunion at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 6, at Jenkins-South Union Family Life Center.
Sons and daughters of Sam and LouEndie were Dave, Zack, Magdaline, Donnie, Charlie, Homer, Dock, Dewey, and Wallace. If you are a relative or friend of any of these, you are invited to attend. Last year there were over 40 in attendance.
Paper products and drinks will be furnished with your covered dish.
A group picture will be taken at 11 a.m. Also, bring any pictures, genealogy, or memorabilia you may have.
 

Copeland Jacks Theobald was born March 1, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco. He weighed 8 pounds and was 21 inches long.
Copeland is the son of Wesley and Lacy Theobald of Waco.
Proud maternal grandparents are Brian and Mary Jacks of Waco and Paula Jacks also of Waco.  Paternal grandparents are Boyd and Sheila (Justiss) Clary of Daingerfield and Bruce Theobald and Melanie Adams of Kingston Springs, Tenn. His great-grandparents are Dale and Bennie Jacks of Waco, the late Windell and Martha Campbell of Mount Pleasant, the late Adron and Mae (Copeland) Justiss of Daingerfield and the late William and Pauline Theobald of Basalt, Colo.

The Cass County Genealogical Society will meet at their new location in the Queen City Methodist Church Family Life Center at 6:30 p.m. on April 9.  The church is located one block south of the Main Street (Highway 74) through downtown Queen City.
The guest speaker will be Ashley Miles Denson, the granddaughter of Robert “Chick” Miles, who was the last owner of Miles Drugs Store in Atlanta.  She will share information about the drug store as well as information on the Miles Family, who were early settlers in the Atlanta-Queen City area. 
For further information, contact Olice Davis at 903-7963866 or Kathy Peacock at 903-826-5473.