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Fish Fry
The Jenkins Volunteer Fire Department will hold a fish fry Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ounce of Prevention
Ounce of Prevention emphasis in October is domestic violence/family violence. The regular meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 8, at the Church on the Rock in Daingerfield. Melissa Horton from Safe-T and Bunny Terre, crime victim’s compensation counselor, will speak.

Special services
Williams Chapel Baptist Church will have special services at 10 a.m. on Oct. 19. Joyce Thurkal of Faith Holy Temple in Gilmer and Beulah Howard will speak. For further information, call 903-204-8136.

Youth Revival
Williams Chapel Baptist Church will host youth revival at 3 p.m. on Oct. 13. T.K. Monroe of New Birth Baptist Church will be the special guest speaker.

10 YEARS AGO
The contract for the Clean Rivers Program with Northeast Texas Municipal Water District has expired.
The unbeaten Daingerfield Tigers reach the 4-0 mark beating the Jefferson Bulldogs 34-14 at Tiger Stadium.
In a decision at city council, the Avinger city dump will remain open; however, the charges will be different.
20 YEARS AGO
The city’s fall cleanup will be Oct. 18 through Oct. 23 in Daingerfield.
Hughes Springs’ resident Wendy Hampton is a new member of the Austin College student body, having begun classes at the college Aug. 30.
Daniel ‘Gene’ Adams of Tyler has been named to fill the chief engineering position at the Texas Department of Transportation office in Atlanta.
30 YEARS AGO
Computers, they’re everywhere, from the largest companies in the world to peoples’ homes. And for the last two years, Daingerfield High School has offered classes in learning how to use them.

Daingerfield FFA members competed at the Four States Fair in Texarkana Sept. 12 through 14. Sixth grader Hailey Byrd, placed second in her class with her 6-month-old registered Hereford and fourth in her class with her 8-month-old registered Angus heifer.

Daingerfield FFA members competed at the Four States Fair in Texarkana Sept. 12 through 14. Delaney Smith, a senior, placed first in her class with her 24-month-old registered Beefmaster.

Northeast Texas Community College winners in the student category include, from left, Alisha Richardson, first place; Zachary Davis, second place; Stephanie Peek, third place; and Noah Griffin, fourth place.

Adult poetry winners at the Northeast Texas Community College’s recent poetry contest, are Karen S. Watt, right, who won first place in the adult category. Lauren Shortnacy, left, received second place.

The Arbor Day Foundation will brighten up your fall by offering 10 free autumn classics trees when you join the organization in October.
The free trees are part of the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation’s Trees for America campaign, a program dedicated to environmental stewardship through the planting of trees.
Everyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation in October will receive 10 free autumn classics: Two sugar maples, two red maples and one each of scarlet oak, sweetgum, northern red oak, silver maple, white flowering dogwood and Washington hawthorn.
“Members will especially enjoy these trees during the autumn months because they’ll add abundant, vibrant color to any yard or landscape for years to come,” said John Rosenow, founder and chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation.

By Marlene J. Bohr
mbohr@steelcountrybee.com

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Shane Lawrence is enlisting the public’s help in locating the driver of a hit and run vehicle. The incident occurred on Saturday, Sept. 28, at approximately 1:20 p.m.
“On Highway 49 and County Road 3108 there was a green Ford Crown Vic making a left-hand turn onto County Road 3108 when a black, either a Jeep Laredo or Jeep Cherokee, passed in a no-passing zone, clipped the front of the car and kept going,” Trooper Lawrence said. “There should be substantial damage to the right side of that black vehicle.”
If anyone has any information or sees the vehicle, contact the Linden Department of Public Safety Office at 903-756-3363, the Morris County Sheriff’s Office at 903-645-2232 or the Daingerfield Police Department at 903-645-2114.

Lone Star Police Sgt. Susan Laake takes the clippers to Hughes Springs Chief of Police Randy Kennedy Saturday night at the benefit held for her sister, Amanda Solis. Officer Solis is a Daingerfield Police Officer and is undergoing treatment for leukemia at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas.

By Marlene J. Bohr
mbohr@steelcountrybee.com

Two East Texas teenagers lost their lives in a one-vehicle crash at approximately 10:50 p.m., on Thursday, Sept. 19, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Mark McKinney.
Tanner Lane Allen, 19, of Naples and Chelsey Rayann Marie Hatfield, 18, of Omaha, were pronounced dead on the scene by Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Betty Johnson at 5:45 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20.
 

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