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Vol. 96 No. 16
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7s?4S Thursday, September 15,1983
The Dublin Cham-
ber of Commerce has
been informed that
Rhonda Cook has
been selected to per-
form with the National
Superstar Drill Team,
which will be com-
prised of the Nation’s
top dance-drill team
girls. The National
Superstar Drill Team
will consist of young
ladies who will
represent more than
half the nation. i
The team will per-
form in Kilkenny,
Ireland on the grounds
of the beautiful
Kilkenny Castle and
afterwards travel to
Dublin, Ireland. While
in Dublin they will
make a special per-
formance in front of
the reviewing stand at
the St. Patricak's Day
Parade and that
evening they will per-
form at the Lord
Mayor’s Ball, which is
“the" social event of
the season in Ireland.
Rhonda and the
other National Super-
star Drill Team mem-
bers will spend three
days in London in
rehearsal for their tour
of Ireland. Rhonda is
the 17-year old
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Cook. She
has a sister, Christy,
and they reside on
Preston Lane in
Dublin. She is a senior
at Dublin High School
and Captain of the
“Dandilion Drill
Team.” She is an ac-
complished dancer
and has performed
locally for several ac-
tivities including the
“Experience Ireland”
Celebration last St.
Patrick’s Day.
Rhonda has been a
member of the Dan-
dilion Drill Team for
four years. She served
as a Lieutenant last
year and was elected
Captain by the group
this year.
Members who wish
to serve as Lieutenant
or Captain must work
up a routine on their
own and try out for the
positions. She feels
the year of dancing
she has done with
Wanda Wade was in-
strumental in her
selection.
She was selected
as the “Star Perfor-
mer” at the Tarleton
Super Star Drill Team
camp. She received a
plaque for this and it
was probably impor-
tant in her selection
for consideration in
the Super Star selec-
tion.
Rhonda is a mem-
ber of the National
Honor Society, is
Student Council
secretary, Senior
Class treasurer, and
was a Girl's State
representative.
The Chamber of
Commerce has voted
to sponsor a fund
Raising drive to help
cover Rhonda’s ex-
penses on this “trip of
a lifetime.” Con-
tributions are being
taken at the Dublin
Chamber of Commer-
ce office, or by any of
the Chamber
Executive Board
Members. An account
is being established
at the Dublin National
Bank to receive these
funds. It is “Rhonda
Cook, Performing
Tour to Ireland" fund.
All civic
organizations and
clubs are urged to use
whatever fund raising
activites that are
available to help with
this project.
The Chamber of
Commerce will be
publishing progress
reports on fund
raising along with par-
ts of Rhonda's
itinerary in the
following weeks.
Hoka Hey to hold
Summers art exhibit
The Hoka Hey Fine
Arts Gallery and
Foundry announced
this week that an
exhibition of Robert
Summers’ paintings
and bronzes would be
open to the public
Sunday.
The September 18
showing will be from
one to four o’clock
that afternoon.
Summers is con-
sidered onp of the
nation’s premier pain-
ters and sculptors of
western art. Limited
editions of his work
are widely collected
throughout the U.S.
and abroad.
Summers is a native the showing. The
Texan and resides in Gallery and Foundry
Glen Rose where he j$ two miles north of
was born and raised. Dublin on Highway
He was chosen as the 377.
State of Texas Bicen- Wade Cowan, who
tennial Artist in 1976. pianned-^nd built the
The exhibition will foundry,^^Nrpcently
feature a number of disclosed that they
his best known and would cast 152 bron-
most recent paintings. zes of the 24-inch
Many Of them have sculpture of John
never been exhibited Wayne done by Sum-
in this area. mers.
Those who pur-
chase prints during
this show will receive Each bronze will
a copy of his album, carry the name of a
“Commune with movie made by Wayne
God.” and they will be sold
Pat Cowan of Hoka or auctioned at a later
Hey said that Sum- date to benefit the
mers would be jJohn Wayne Cancer
available throuahout Resaarch Prnnram
Robert Summers at work
Special school meeting
Because of the
crowded conditions of
; the Dublin schools,
the school board will
hold a meeting Sep-
tember 20 to discuss
solutions.
The meeting will
; start at 7 p.m., be held
; in the high school
: building and all in-
: terested citizens of
: the district will be
: welcome.
The decision to
hold the special
meeting was made at
the regular meeting
held September 6.
Principal Ermanell
Hurst emphasized the
need for more
classrooms when she
registered a fourth
class for the first
grade and a third
class for the fourth
grade.
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Dividing these
groups not only brings
on a need for more
classrooms, but for
more teachers.
Harry Bradberry
made a motion to
amend the budget to
include money for the
additional teachers.
Willard Mann secon-
ded the motion and it
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Council meeting
The Dublin City The council heard
Council met Tuesday
night with all coun-
cilmen present and
Mayor Jack Pratt
presiding.
The council passed
two ordinances, one
requiring a $5.00 per-
mit to excavate oh city
property (streets,
alleys or rights-of-
way) and making it a
misdemeanor for not
doing so. The other
completed the legal
requirements on
closing streets- and
alleys on J. R.
Walker’s property in
Southwest Dublin. It
maintained a city
easment for utilities
and included a deed
restriction on mobile
homes if set on that
property.
several requests but
took no action on any
except to assign them
to committees for
study and action at
the October meeting.
Steve Hightower
asked for an ordinan-
ce to restrict mobile or
manufactured houses
in an area of north-
west Dublin, in behalf
of homeowners there.
It was assigned by
the mayor to an ap-
pointed committee
with Ron Huse as
chairman and Jim
Leatherwood and Cliff
Cain as members.
Helen Martin asked
the city to consider
providing $1,380 as
matching funds for a
Turn to page 7
News Briefs
Boosters
Garage Sale
The Dublin Athletic
Booster Club is spon-
soring a parking lot
garage sale Saturday,
September 17, corner
of Blackjack and
Patrick Streets, star-
ting at 8 a.m.
Proceeds help sup-
port the school
athletic teams.
Everyone is invited to
come buy.'’
Dairy
Festival
The fall Dublin
Dairy Festival will be
held on October 1 this
year. It will feature the
open Holstein show.
James Keilers is
chairman and the
event will be held in
the show barns at
Dublin City Park.
Gospel
Singing
Community Gospel
Singing will be held at
the Senior Citizens
Center Monday night,
September 19. The,
program begins df 7
p.m. and Is open to all
age groups. The
public is cordially in-
vited.
Booster Club
wiii meet
The Athletic
Booster Club will
meet each Tuesday
night at the TP&L
Building at 8 o’clock.
Game film of the
previous Friday night
will be shown.
Turney
Birthday
Friends of Mr. Har-
ve Turney are invited
to a reception
honoring him on hits
90th birthday, Sunday,
September 18, from 2
until 4 p.m. at Perry
Hall.
No gifts please.
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Lingleville
Appreciation
Forty Dublin
businessmen and
women . attended a
planning meeting
Tuesday afternoon for
their appreciation
hamburger feed for
the citizens of
Lingleville. The sup-
per will be held Satur-
day evening in the
Tabernacle at
Lingleville, beginning
at 6:30 p.m.
Rhonda Cook
Brobm sale is a record
United Way kickoff
■ i *
The Dublin Com- from this one-time League, $330; Dublin
munity United Way drive for funds. The Cancer Fund, $385;
will kick off Its fall goal is $7,500. ' Dublin Soccer
: campaign on October Association, $330;
% 3. The agencies and Campfire Girls, $880;
. Monte Thlebaud of the amount they are to and SalVatlon Army,
the Dublin National receive for the 1984 $660.
*■ Bank and Mike Me- operations .are: Boy Alsp Dublin 4-H
; Farland * of Dublin Scouts of America, Club, $250; FFA, $440;
Realty will serve as $880; Dublin Library, Senior Citizens, $700;
> co-chairmen for -this $800; Goodfellow Pecan Valley MHMR
year’s drive. *' Fund, $330; American Region, $825; and the
Fourteen agencies Red Cross, $440; Dublin Historical
. will receive support Dublin --Baseball Society,$250.
Senior
Trip
The Senior Citizen
sponsored bus tour to
Eureka Springs,
Arkansas and Bran-
son, Missouri still has
spaces. Call 445-3446
for details. It is
scheduled for October
i through 11. /'
Sophomore
mothers
There will be a
sophomore room
mother’s meeting
Tuesday, September
20, at 3:30 In room 302
in, the. high school
building. All mothers
are urged to attend.
The Dublin Lions eyeglasses for neeoy
Club had its best children, to sponsor
ever mop and broom little league teams
sale last Friday, and other worthwhile
Receipts were and needed projects.
$1,435.25 to exceed Delbert Shafer, club
former sales by over a treasurer, said,
hundred dollars. however, “The impor-
Once, when they tant thing to remem-
were rained out and ber is that the $1,062
held a second sale received by the
later, the total was Lighthouse for the
more than this. For a Blind will keep many
one-day sale, blind people on the
however, it was a payroll making
record- brooms instead of on
_. _ the welfare roll, doing
The Lions Club nothing."
received a 26% share Stephen Hegner,
amounts to, who was here as the
$373.16 for com- driver for the vehicles
munity activities. The belonging to the
local money can be Caravan Sales for the
used to buy Blind, said
over 300 sales a year.
They are all held
with Lions Clubs and
the seven trucks they
have are used nearly
every Saturday. A few
sales are held on
weekdays and they
are seasonal, mostly
in the spring and fall.
The blind em-
ployees work at
various locations
around the state but
most are in Dallas and
Houston. Each are
called "The
Lighthouse for the
Blind.”
Lions Clubs in
Texas are instrumen-
tal in keeping them in
Mike McF
Mt Brenda Simmons, Sandy Gregory, Everett
Hightower discuss sale of brooms.
First State Bank will
sponsor Homecoming
The First State ber 30 at Memorial given out by several
Bank, Gustine, will Stadium' with Grand- business places in
sponsor the Dublin view as the opponent, town and they will be
High School ’ The directors of the, available at the gate. ,
'■■.■■'■■■'■4 • bank voted-to pay for
Homecoming football the ticket pf each per- Locations to pick
game. The game will son attending the up tickets will be an-
be played on Septem- game. Tickets will be nourveed next week.
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Grimes, Bill. The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1983, newspaper, September 15, 1983; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778328/m1/1/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.