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News March 26th, 2008
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
      Art 46TH ANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 27 and 28 in the Brown & Scurlock Galleries at the Beaumont Art League, 2675 Gulf St., in Fair Park. The exhibition features works by local and national artists in a variety of media and styles including painting, photography, printm...
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Chicken Express
     Chicken Express at 520 S. Main in Lumberton celebrated their membership in a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce March 20. Pictured from left are Chamber Executive Director Rachel Griffin, Chamber President Andy Kelley, Director Lynette Barks, co-owner Gary McCarty, employ...
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Super Sonic
     David Rogers, right, represents the Silsbee Sonic location in accepting the 2007 Current Employer award from Sherry Woodard with the Silsbee Chamber of Commerce and Deanna Wilson, Silsbee Workforce Center Manager. The annual award is bestowed on an area employer which uses innovative methods in obta...
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Better Business Bureau warns of tax fraud
      Better Business Bureau warns that every tax season scam artists come out to prey on unsuspecting consumers. Posing as the Internal Revenue Service through mail, e-mail, or the telephone, identity thieves and many other types of fraudsters are on the prowl looking to get their hands on taxpayer's p...
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Preschool storytime
      LUMBERTON - The Lumberton Public Library will offer a preschool storytime program beginning in April on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. The event will last about an hour and features fun stories and crafts. For information, call (409) 755- 7400.
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Catfish lunches
      SILSBEE - Catfish plate lunches will be served March 28 at the Silsbee Masonic Lodge No. 927, 390 N. 6th jointly by the O.E.S. Chapter No. 298 and the Masons of Lodge No. 927, lunches will be $7 each with all benefits going to local school college scholarship funds. Serving starts at noon.
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VC Parade
      LUMBERTON - The Village Creek Festival Parade will be on April 18, starting at 10 a.m. The parade theme will be Happy 150th Birthday Hardin County. Celebrate the Times of 1958!
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Charity pageant
      MAURICEVILLE - Star Charity Pageant System is will host the Texas Star Charity Beauty Pageant and Concert June 21 at Mauriceville Elementary School located at 20040 FM 1130. Entries are being accepted until June 2 with no late entries. There are 12 different age divisions from babies up to adult w...
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Lunches for seniors
      LUMBERTON - Lumberton Senior Citizen Center is offering $2 nutritious lunches to persons 60 and older Monday-Friday beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the facility, 140 East Chance cut-off. Games, socialization and special events will accompany meals. For information, call Colleen at (409) 755-2230.
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Chamber of Commerce Board
     The Silsbee Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed new board members at their annual banquet. Pictured, from left, are Steve Cooper of Broussard's Mortuary, Harland Strother with Old Town Auction, individual member Ann Nell Herbst, Mic Cowart of Entergy, Margaret Underhill with Charles E. Reed and As...
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Trustee focuses on diversity
James de Garavilla
      Silsbee school district Trustee James de Garavilla joined other school board members from across the state February 21-23 at the third session of Leadership TASB. Participants gathered as part of class activities in the year-long education leadership study program sponsored by the Texas Associati...
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Pct. 1 candidates face off in primary run off election
      Two candidates will face off April 8 to determine which one will be the Democratic primary winner and will be the next Hardin County Pct. 1 Commissioner. Kenneth "Frank" Riedinger earned 1,414 or 46.56 percent of votes in the April 4 primary and faces Roger Martin, who brought in 1,232 or 40.57 ...
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Southern Plainsmen take Kountze stage
By JULIE SHEHANE EDITOR
      The gospel group The Southern Plainsmen will take center stage during a special April 6 performance in Kountze. The group, celebrating 30 years with a nationwide tour, will perform at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church.
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ELECTION FILINGS
      The following are filings for local elections on the May 10 ballot. Filing deadline was March 10. Incumbents are denoted by (I).
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Betty's business blooms in Silsbee
By HEATHER NOLAN THE ENTERPRISE
      SILSBEE - With 10,000 daylily seedlings in her yard, Betty Hinkie decided to turn her hobby into a business. Cuttings taken from friends' pruned shrubs, discarded metal cans from school cafeterias and a nursery license from the Texas Agriculture Department officially put her in business in April ...
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Silsbee production opens next week
By LOLA BURGESS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      Led by Silsbee High School English department head Richard Atmar, 'They'd Hang You in Nashville' opens next week at the Silsbee Little Theatre. Written by William Gleason, the annual spring production opens April 4 with additional performances April, 5, 10-12 and 17-19.
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Women Gather for Celebration
      Area women and teenage girls are invited to a celebration event on April 5 at the Community Fellowship Center of First United Methodist Church at the corner of 13th Street and Nederland Avenue in Nederland. Free brunch will be served at 9:30 a.m. and childcare is provided for the event until noon.
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Three if by sea
Orange family announces first collective art exhibit
      The family that plays together, stays together. So goes the old saying. The Coughlan family play together, but mostly they are off working on artwork. This April, daughter Trish and parents Renee and Andy will present "Three If by Sea," the Orange family's first collective art exhibit.
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Horse adoption March 27-29
      The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will have a wild horse and burro adoption in Beaumont March 27 to 29. The three-day event at Ford Park features 90 adult and yearling horses and burros that once roamed free on public lands.
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Deaf artist express visions at Lamar
      To put a deaf lens on the world. This is a goal for many of the nationally known deaf artists and art history scholars participating in the Lamar University-sponsored touring exhibition entitled "Deaf Artists in the Community and in the Schools." The show examines how artists who are deaf express...
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Buckner expands local services with new youth independence center
      BEAUMONT - Buckner Children and Family Services will soon open a transition center that will provide a wide range of services for youth ages 16 to 25 who are transitioning out of foster care and those that were formerly in foster care to work towards independence and self-sufficiency.
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