06.11.09 AAW.indd - Wise County Messenger
06.11.09 AAW.indd - Wise County Messenger
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VOLUME 129 - NO. 44 SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009 DECATUR, TEXAS 26 PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS PLUS INSERTS 75¢<br />
Find out how many<br />
violations were observed<br />
from 147 commercial<br />
vehicles inspected during<br />
Roadcheck 2009 in<br />
Decatur.<br />
Justin<br />
Mesquite<br />
Rhome<br />
Carollton<br />
Boyd<br />
Denison<br />
Dawson<br />
Boyd<br />
Bridgeport<br />
Cottondale<br />
News Briefs ..... 3A<br />
Opinion ........... 4A<br />
Lifestyle .............6A<br />
See story, page 5A<br />
they happen with live<br />
blogging from Saturday’s<br />
state championship track<br />
and field events at www.<br />
wcmessenger.com/sports/<br />
sportsupdate<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> is wellrepresented<br />
at the<br />
state track and field<br />
championships this<br />
weekend in Austin. See how<br />
our local athletes did on<br />
Friday.<br />
See story, page 1B<br />
See pages 13A-16A<br />
Sports ...............1B<br />
Classifi eds .........4B<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> Business 10B<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Messenger</strong><br />
P.O. Box 149<br />
115 South Trinity<br />
Decatur, Texas 76234<br />
By TRAVIS MEASLEY<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s investigators<br />
have ruled the Thursday evening<br />
shooting and death of a 19-year-old<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> resident at a home on<br />
Kincannon Lane in the east part of the<br />
county an accident, pending the results<br />
of toxicology tests.<br />
Cameron White, 19, was pronounced<br />
dead shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday at<br />
<strong>Wise</strong> Regional Health System in Decatur<br />
after he was shot in the chest with<br />
By TRAVIS MEASLEY<br />
For teenage girls, the pressures of adhering to<br />
what today’s culture finds beautiful, sexy or appealing<br />
can often lead to drastic consequences.<br />
According to the National Eating Disorder Information<br />
Center, eating disorders are the thirdmost<br />
common chronic illness in adolescent girls.<br />
By KRISTEN TRIBE<br />
Thursday, representatives with<br />
Wiginton, Hooker Jeffry Architects<br />
presented county commissioners with<br />
a preliminary site plan for a new courthouse<br />
as part of the county’s “master<br />
facilities study plan – to 2030.”<br />
Charlie Kearns and Jim Wiginton<br />
showed commissioners the basic layout<br />
for a three-story 130 000-square-foot<br />
More than 50 percent of young females begin<br />
dieting before age 14, and 76 percent of women<br />
between the ages of 24 and 56 who diet do so for<br />
cosmetic rather than health reasons.<br />
In Boyd, a young woman familiar with the<br />
pressures of being a teenager is spreading a different<br />
message to girls struggling with the top-<br />
Continued on page 12A<br />
building with a basement on a 20-acre<br />
site. The footprint was created after<br />
consulting with county employees for<br />
more than a year on space needed for<br />
each department.<br />
“This is just what it is – a concept,”<br />
Kearns said. “We needed to make sure<br />
the square footages from the (department)<br />
surveys would actually fit into<br />
this type of facility if you elected to go<br />
Continued on page 8A<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo by Andrew May<br />
SHOOTING SCENE — East <strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> resident Cameron White,<br />
19, is treated inside an ambulance while officers question witnesses<br />
at Thursday’s shooting.<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photo by Joe Duty<br />
LOVING YOUR REFLECTION — Boyd teenager Hannah Ferver, 18, uses her blog, nationwide conferences, and an<br />
upcoming book to teach young women that beauty isn’t pining over what is seen in the mirror, but being pure and<br />
striving to be a woman of God and loving what He has created.<br />
a .22 rifle.<br />
Sheriff’s Investigator Jerry DeMoss<br />
said White was attempting to hand<br />
the gun to a friend, Ernest Hammond,<br />
19, who accidentally hit the trigger instead<br />
of the safety, causing the gun to<br />
discharge.<br />
Authorities said White and some<br />
friends had been shooting the rifle at a<br />
stock tank before the injury.<br />
DeMoss said no charges will be filed<br />
against Hammond because the incident<br />
was accidental.<br />
2127<br />
RUNAWAY<br />
BAY<br />
1810<br />
380<br />
2952<br />
LAKE<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
1655<br />
101<strong>Wise</strong> <strong>County</strong> Traffic Update<br />
2265 Week ALVORD of June 7 -13<br />
1658<br />
920<br />
CHICO<br />
101<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
2210 2123<br />
Seal Coat and Patching<br />
Pilot Car – One Way Traffic<br />
1655<br />
114<br />
1655<br />
1810<br />
380<br />
PARADISE<br />
81<br />
287<br />
3259<br />
Signal Light Out<br />
4-Way Stop<br />
By BRIAN KNOX<br />
The Decatur school dis<br />
trict is considering offering<br />
a Bible course, possibly as<br />
early as the fall 2010 schoo<br />
year.<br />
The idea was first discussed<br />
at the board’s regular May<br />
meeting after trustee Alan<br />
White suggested the district<br />
consider offering the course<br />
as an elective. White said he<br />
had talked to the Paradise<br />
school district, which offered<br />
a Bible course for the first<br />
time this past school year<br />
Continued on page 10A<br />
By MANDY BOURGEOIS<br />
The Bridgeport City Coun<br />
cil approved an amendment<br />
to the city’s economic devel<br />
opment incentive agreement<br />
with the Bridgeport Doctors<br />
Hospital at Tuesday’s meet<br />
ing, allowing for the city of<br />
Bridgeport to make monthly<br />
interest payments on behalf<br />
of the hospital should the<br />
hospital be unable to make<br />
them.<br />
The move was approved<br />
Continued on page 5A<br />
51<br />
DECATUR<br />
730<br />
730<br />
730<br />
BOYD<br />
81<br />
51<br />
380<br />
287<br />
114<br />
AURORA<br />
2264<br />
NEW<br />
FAIRVIEW<br />
RHOME<br />
NEWARK<br />
Carrier Route<br />
Presort<br />
BULK RATE<br />
U.S. POSTAGE<br />
PAID<br />
Decatur, TX<br />
Permit No. 88<br />
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009<br />
WISE COUNTY MESSENGER<br />
HERE’S WHAT YOU<br />
MAY HAVE MISSED<br />
IN LAST SUNDAY’S<br />
NORTHWEST<br />
IN NEWS...<br />
■ Shooting appears<br />
accidental<br />
■ School considers<br />
Bible course<br />
■ City may make<br />
payments for hospital<br />
■ True beauty<br />
■ Courthouse of the<br />
future<br />
IN SPORTS...<br />
■ Fresh feat<br />
■ Honoring baseball’s<br />
best<br />
INSIDE ...<br />
CHECKING<br />
TRUCKS<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
Shooting appears accidental<br />
ON THE WEB ...<br />
LIVE BLOGGING<br />
FROM STATE<br />
Keep up with events as<br />
IN SPORTS ...<br />
STATE<br />
CHAMPIONSHIPS<br />
BOYD<br />
DECATUR<br />
School<br />
considers<br />
Bible<br />
course<br />
AREA DEATHS<br />
AND FUNERALS<br />
BOBBY GUINN<br />
PHYLLIS CANTRELL<br />
MARGIE METHVIN<br />
JESSICA BONESIO<br />
SALLIE BRADBERRY<br />
LESLIE MOORMAN<br />
WARREN SPAIN<br />
KEVIN STONE<br />
BILLY LONG<br />
QUINT BRIDGES<br />
WEATHER...<br />
INDEX<br />
True beauty<br />
Local teen spreads Godly message to women of all ages<br />
WISE COUNTY<br />
Courthouse of the future<br />
Architects show commissioners what a new facility might look like<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
City may<br />
make<br />
payments<br />
for hospital<br />
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<strong>Messenger</strong> photo by Joe Duty<br />
NEW GRADS — Family and friends gathered to watch the Seven Hills Elementary kindergarten class receive diplomas on June 4. Above, the kindergarten<br />
class of 2009 awaits their turn to walk across the stage.<br />
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