Archive - Mar 2012
March 29th
April is Child Abuse Awareness Month and as a way to celebrate the efforts to end child abuse, the West Texas Children's Advocacy Center will host the seventh annual awareness banquet.
According to David McDonald, Board President, last year's banquet was a great success due to generous donors. "We are optimistically looking forward to another successful event this year."
The Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors honored new business and Chamber member, Lulu’s Super Mercado, located at 1001 Lamar in Sweetwater with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, March 23, 2012. Owner Danish Siddiqui is shown receiving his first dollar from Ambassador Gay Nell Cherry.
Also, the Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors honored new business and Chamber member, Open Window, located at 316 Oak in Sweetwater with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
The Sweetwater Police Department (SPD) received 39 calls for service, issued five citations and made one arrest on March 27, 2012.
The SPD received 13, 911 calls.
Accidents:
• 500 block of E. Broadway.
Calls for service:
• Sexual assault of a child — Sweetwater.
Arrested by SPD:
• Male juvenile, 15 — Sexual assault.
The Nolan County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) had two calls for service, served five civil papers and made no arrests on March 27, 2012.
Calls for service:
• 911 misdial — North I-20.
• Reckless driver — I-20 MM 257 west bound.
Total in Custody: 34
THURSDAY, MARCH 29
Golf
Sweetwater boys play first leg of district tournament at Snyder.
Tennis
Sweetwater JV plays at Snyder tournament.
Track
Sweetwater JV and varsity boys are at Colorado City meet.
Roscoe junior high teams are at district meet in Christoval.
Highland and Black-well junior high teams are at district meet in Roby.
FRIDAY,
MARCH 30
Baseball
Sweetwater varsity plays at Snyder, 7 p.m.
Softball
Sweetwater JV and varsity play at Snyder, 5 and 6:30 p.m.
Tennis
Sweetwater varsity plays at Snyder tournament.
Track
BROWNWOOD — After hitting its low point of the season in a district-opening 16-1 home loss to Wylie on March 20, the Sweetwater baseball team is suddenly hitting its stride — and the Mustangs are hitting the ball pretty darn well, too.
Wednesday’s convincing 14-8 victory at Brownwood certainly drove home the last point. Sweetwater belted 15 hits off three pitchers while handing the three-time defending district champion Lions their first defeat in 5-3A play. The win leaves both squads at 1-1 in district and tied for second place behind Wylie (3-0), a 9-7 winner over Big Spring on Wednesday.
BROWNWOOD — After getting eight days off following its come-from-behind 8-6 win over Wylie here on March 20, Sweetwater’s softball team came out blazing with three early runs at Brownwood and a 3-0 lead after 1 1/2 innings Wednesday. A double by Claire Williams began the rally, and Kendra Crosson was hit by a pitch before Kelsi Crosson doubled both of them home. After a strikeout, Maty Montgomery then reached on an error to score courtesy runner Angela Garza and give Sweetwater a 3-0 advantage over the Lady Lions and their ace pitcher, Sydney Laws.
Roscoe narrowly missed getting a clean sweep of the team titles Saturday in varsity track competition at Rotan’s Double Moun-tain Relays. Roscoe had 145 points to win the boys division, while the Roscoe girls scored 99 points to finish just one behind first-place Roby’s 100.
Highland and Blackwell’s boys track athletes had sev-eral top finishes at Jayton’s Rolling Plains Relays this past week. Girls results were not available at press time today.
Boys results follow:
HIGHLAND
VARSITY BOYS
(20 points)
Triple jump — Ron Covington 6th (36-10 1/4)
800 — Sheldon Hall 2nd (2:11.44)
400 — Sheldon Hall 1st (54.56)
200 — Sheldon Hall 6th (24.93)
BLACKWELL
VARSITY BOYS
(32 points)
Pole vault — Jayden Jones 1st (11-0); Mason Magness 3rd (10-5)
110 hurdles — Mark Monroe 5th (18.95)
100 — Jayden Jones 4th (12.08)
2oo — Jayden Jones 1st (24.04)
March 28th
Sweetwater Intermediate School (SIS) brought its campus report to the SISD (Sweetwater Independent School District) Board of Trustees during their regular meeting on Monday evening, March 26 at the Administration Building.
Heather Moore, the principal at SIS, presented an overview of the school, noting that more departmentalization has been utilized this year. Tripods--clusters of three teachers--in both the fourth and fifth grades have been established to help prepare students for the new standardized test, STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness).
Shown are Anjelique and Sweet City Band of Sweetwater, who performed at the 2012 Tejano Music Awards Fan Fair, a three-day event in San Antonio from March 16-18 with over 100 bands performing throughout the day on six stages. Anjelique and Sweet City Band performed on Friday night and Sunday afternoon.
