Briefly
• Local Senior Citizens will NOT meet in January or February 2006 due to other events being held in the community. Regular meetings will resume the first Tuesday of March 2006.
• Glasscock County’s EMT’s are organizing an EMT certification course. Howard College will teach it in Garden City if there are enough people enrolled. If you are interested, call Linda Avery, 354-2206, and leave a message on her answering machine. Once there is a list of those interested, options will be discussed with Howard College. Please consider taking this course.
• As of Dec. 12, the following people have filed for elected positions in Glasscock County, according to the County Clerk’s office: for clerk, Becky Batla and Ellen Seidenberger; for Judge, Kim Halfmann (incumbent Judge Wilburn Bednar says he is going to file); for Justice of the Peace, Marilee Jost; and for Treasurer, Alan Dierschke. To date, no one has filed for commissioners’ seats. The last day to file is Jan. 2.
• Incumbent Ernie Schwartz was recently reelected to his seat on the Glasscock County Farm Service Agency County Committee in Local Administrative Area #1. Only sixteen percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the election, according to County Executive Director John Kinnibrugh, who said he was disappointed in the voter turnout, especially since the election was given more publicity than ever. However, he said this LAA traditionally has a lower voter percentage than the others due to its large number of non-resident landlords.
• The Glasscock County Junior Livestock Show will be Jan. 5 – 7 at the community center. Events will begin with the rabbit show Jan. 5 at 6 p.m. The goat show will be Jan. 6 at 8 a.m. with the swine show to follow. On Jan. 7, the sheep show begins at 8 a.m., followed by the steer show; the pig scramble at 11 a.m., lunch at 12 and the premium sale at 1 p.m.
• The James Cypert family thanks everyone who came to their celebration of 50 years in business, and to those who called or sent cards, as well.