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Tumbleweed Smith Guest Speaker at Floydada Chamber Banquet
Broadcaster and humorist, Tumbleweed Smith, will be the guest speaker at the Floydada Chamber of Commerce Banquet, March 24th. The banquet's theme is "A Time for Texas". The Banquet will be held at the Unity Center and will honor the Citizen of the Year, Employer of the Year, Extra Mile Award, and Volunteer of the Year. Tumbleweed Smith has been doing his syndicated radio show for over 30 years. He is a graduate from Baylor University and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Missouri. Smith served as District Governor of Rotary, won state, national and international awards and has been recognized by the Texas Legislature. He has been the subject of influential publications and has traveled around the world. During Smith's presentation, he will share his experiences, humorous stories and different characters he has met in his travels. He has performed at some of the most outstanding events in Texas, such as "The Toad Holler Hoot in Desoto", "The Luling Watermelon Thump," "The Hondo Hootenanny", "The Rabbit Twister Pageant in Robert Lee", "The Anvil Shoot in Hamilton", and "The Fire Ant Festival in Marshall". Tumbleweed Smith's presentations have been compared to family reunions or a neighborhood party. He presents tape recorded segments of stories that gets the audience involved with his funny stories about everyday people. Door prizes will be given at the banquet and will include a free trip, sponsored by KFLP, a 3 piece luggage set, and a bar-b-que grill. Tickets are $12.50 for adults and $8.50 for children under 8. Tickets are available at the chamber office and Script, or any board member. The meal will include a rib eye steak, baked potatoes, green beans and corn. The banquet will start at 6:30 p.m. 
NEW CONSTRUCTION--The new buildings for ACE Hardware, Radio Shack, and Napa are going up at Floydada Ford on the Ralls Highway. ACE hardware and Radio Shack will be housed in the larger building (back) and Napa will be in the new building (front) connecting to Floydada Ford. April and May are possible target dates for grand openings.
The Floyd County Friends Gala will be held March 29th, 6:00 p.m. at the Unity Center in Muncy. The theme for this year's Gala is "Heaven on Earth". Entertainment will be the "Singing Women of West Texas". In keeping with this year's theme the choir will lead in celebrating God and country. Members of the group from Floydada are: Margaret Jones, Jane McCulley, Barbara Edwards, Brenda Parker, Carolyn Cheek, Kathy Ross, and Janet Lloyd. Kay Abney of Plainview also sings with the choir. Organized in 1994 by the Texas Baptist General Convention of Texas Music Department as a counterpart of the Singing Men of Texas, the West Texas Chapter is the most active women's chapter in the state. The choir is a dedicated group of more than 40 women from across the West Texas region who are devoted to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ through song. The Singing Women of West Texas have toured Europe, Canada, the East Coast, West Coast, Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. During the 2002 Tour the choir sang the National Anthem for a WNBA Houston Comets basketball game and at the raising of the flag on the deck of the Battleship Texas. The women have been invited to return to California in July, 2003. In Anaheim, they have been asked to lead in worship at the Garden Church. They will also be part of the music at the play, Pageant of the Masters. The Gala is the chief fundraiser for the operation of and purchase of equipment for the Unity Center. Tickets are $30.00, or a reserved table of 8 for $280, and can be bought at Nick Long Insurance, D & J Gin, or any board member. Highlights of the gala will include: a $1,000 cash giveaway sponsored by FNB Floydada, an auction, and a big screen T.V. raffle. If anyone would like to donate an item to the Gala Auction, contact: Regina Nelson, at 983-3322; Nick Long, at 983-3441; or Shawnda Foster, at 652-3351. Any type and size of item, including homemade items, are always welcome. Filet Mignon will be served courtesy of Caprock Industries. All the trimmings will be courtesy of Lowe's Supermarket. The Floyd County 4-H'ers will serve the meal. The Unity Center has been open since January 2000 and has been averaging approximately 150 event days per year with 20,000 people attending those events each year. The Unity Center is operating on a budget of $28,000 this year and the Gala is the biggest supplement to its operation. Floyd County Friends has $50,000 on deposit. The organization has two major financial goals: to build a $150,000 endowment for operation of the Unity Center indefinitely, and to construct paved parking on the front side of the Unity Center.
Obituaries BILLY HARRIS Funeral services for Billy Donnell Harris, 50, of San Francisco, California, former Floydada resident, were held in Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Floydada. Burial was in East Forrest Lawn Cemetery in Floydada by Bartley-Silva Funeral Home of Plainview. Mr. Harris died Friday, March 2, 2003, in Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco. He was born January 16, 1953, in Floydada. He had worked most of his life as a cook. Survivors include his mother, Rosie McDonald of Lockney; his father, Luther Harris of Cape Cod, Massachusetts; seven brothers, Luther Harris of Killeen, Clyde Harris and David McDonald, both of Lockney, Independence McDonald of Plainview, Kirk McDonald of Childress, Jamie McDonald of Pampa and Joe McDonald of Albuquerque; six sisters, Lela Allen of Denver, Colorado, Nona Acy and Danielle McDonald, both of Plainview, Tirina McDonald of Floydada, Bonita Nelson of New Jersey and Peggy McDonald of Lockney. JUANELLE WARD Graveside service for Juanelle Ward, 87, of Floydada were held Tuesday, March 18, 2003 in the McAdoo Cemetery. Rev. Anthony Sisemore officiated. Arrangements were under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada. Mrs. Ward died Monday, March 17, 2003 at the Floydada Rehabilitation and Care Center. She was born on January 23, 1916 to the late Malcolm Ward and Ruth Ann Scoggins Ward. She moved to Floydada from Prague, Oklahoma in September of 1996. She was a rancher and a cowgirl on the Y/O Ranch. She broke horses and did all of the veterinarian work herself. She is survived by her son, Ray Lee Tinney of Floydada; one brother, Joy G. Ward of Lubbock; one sister, Gladys Valentine of Leesburg; one grandson, Danny Ray Tinney of Floydada.
(Editor's Note: Lockney graduate, Jeffrey Hunter, is currently a student at Harding University and is studying in Greece for a semester. He sends emails occasionally to update us on where he is traveling and what he is learning. His thoughts on being an American oversees at this time were interesting and we thought we would share them with our readers.) Greetings from Greece: I just added pictures and commentary of recent travels on my website (www.duststorm.net/hug). Included is an entry on Northern Greece, and the long-awaited Egypt pictures. Sorry that it took so long, thanks for the patience. Because of recent website problems, however, the Egypt entrys are not yet completed. The semester is quickly coming to a close, and we are treasuring the days that we have left. Greece continues to be wonderful, but living in Europe during the turbulent times makes me appreciate my home. From personal experience, I would like to warn you to beware of what you are reading in newspapers and seeing on television--there is a part of the anti-Americanism that the US media isn't telling you. It is true that European opinion is strongly against the US, but in many cases it is only because the average citizens are uninformed and have become victims of their morally corrupt governments. From the vantage point we have, it seems that much of the European political fight against the U.S. is fueled by greed. France, Russia, Germany, and many other countries with ties to Iraq have much to lose from a war, and their safety is not immediately threatened as the U.S.‚s. We attend church with an Iraqi refugee family, and it has been interesting to hear their thoughts about the situation. The man holds a masters degree in Geology, and the wife was an elementary school teacher. They left 5 months ago, sneaking across the border and fleeing through Turkey to Greece in an effort to escape the oppression in Iraq. Although you rarely see it on your televisions in the U.S.A., there are many families just like this living in Greece and throughout all of Europe that illegally leave to seek refuge from the politically directed famine and killing. He admits that war would be painful for his country; but he sees it as a very good thing and optimistically awaits the day that his home country is without its current leadership. As he said, "Iraq it crying. People with good governments don't cry." My point is that you might see the anti-war protesters marching the streets in Washington, London, and Paris, but you don't see the pro-war Iraqi's living on the streets of foreign cities because they had to flee their homeland to survive. I hope that everything is going well for all of you. Enjoy your Spring Break! May God Continue to Bless You, Jeffrey
P.S. Did you watch the President last night? We all got
up at 3 a.m. this morning to watch his speech live on Global
CNN. While I feel totally safe here, things are getting a
little tense. It will be interesting around here to see
what's going to happen now that war is less than 48 hours
away. Since 9/11, the US Embassy has requested that we not
fly the American flag and university banner outside of our
campus... but we really want to do so right now. So, to
honor our soldiers, fly your flag with pride (and remind
others to do so, too!)
by Alice Gilroy (an email funny from my dad) Who Reads What 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country, and who are very good at crosswords. 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts. 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave LA to do it. 6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much. 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train. 8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated. 9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are Democrats. 10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores. 11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store. A plane with 4 passengers is about to crash, but has only 3 parachutes. The first passenger said, "I'm Kobe Bryant, the best NBA basketball player. The Lakers need me, I can't afford to die." So he took the first parachute and let the plane. The second passenger, Hillary Clinton, said, "I'm the wife of the former President of the United States; I am the most ambitious woman in the world. I am also a New York Senator, a potential future President and, above all, the smartest woman in the world." She grabbed the second parachute and jumped out of the plane. The third passenger, Rev. Billy Graham says to the fourth passenger, a 10 year old school boy, "I am old and I don't have many years left. As a Christian I will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute." The boy said, "It's O.K.--there's still a parachute left for you. America's smartest woman took my school backpack."
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