Archive
July 23rd, 2011
Reserved season football tickets to Sweetwater games for the 2011 season are up for renewal to the current option holders through Friday, Aug. 5.
Tickets may be purchased at the Sweetwater ISD administration building, located on 207 Musgrove.
Tickets are $30 for Sweetwater’s five home games which will be against Vernon on Aug. 26, Mona-hans on Sept. 2, Early (homecoming) on Sept. 16, Big Spring on Oct. 14 and Brownwood on Oct. 28.
Reserved ticket sales for the general public will go on sale on Monday, Aug. 8. The last day to purchase season tickets will be Friday, Aug. 19.
The drawing for the four Rangers tickets and $150 Mastercard to benefit the Wounded Warriors project was held Friday, July 15, 2011 at Texas National Bank. Raffle tickets were sold to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Alliance. Funds from the ticket sales will send a wounded soldier to Eagles Summit Ranch in Junction, TX for both training and tools needed to turn tragedy into triumph. Drawing the winner was Jim Kelley, Chief of Police. The winner of the prize package was Ron Johnston. Ron very generously donated the tickets and Mastercard to the family of local Wounded Warrior Cpl.
Hot temperatures aren't stopping Nolan County United Way from driving for a good cause.Â
The summer golf tournament Drive for United Way has been set for Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Sweetwater Country Club. There will be an 8 a.m. scramble with a shotgun start.Â
“The funds raised from the tournament will once again go towards supporting our 10 local agencies,” Wendy Smartt, NCUW executive director, said.Â
Currently on a global tour, the International Coin Collectors Association (ICCA) will be making a stop in Sweetwater, TX at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel, located at 300 SE Georgia Ave., on Monday, July 25 through Saturday, July 30. The show hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. The ICCA will be purchasing coins, paper currency, gold and silver on behalf of their global network of collectors, dealers and refineries. This special event is free and open to the public.
On Wednesday, July 13, Brookshire’s launched a new sweepstakes called “You Save, You Win: Cruises, Cars and Cash.”
The program will run through October 4, and customers at every Brookshire’s store will have an opportunity to win prizes guaranteed to be given away.
Eight customers from each store will win an exciting cruise for two. Also, two customers from each store will win a $100 Brookshire’s gift card during each week of the promotion.
Rosie Tovar and Richard Ferguson with KXOX were at Brookshire's Thursday, July 21, to help promote the Brookshire's Cars, Cruises and Cash Sweepstakes.
Funeral services for Israel "Bombie" Morales, R.N., 51, of Sweetwater, will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 25, 2011, at McCoy Chapel of Memories with Rev. Frankie Santiago officiating. Interment will follow at Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.
A Rosary was said at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 24, 2011, at McCoy Chapel of Memories.
Morales died Friday, July 22, 2011, at Shannon Hospital in San Angelo.
A memorial service for Lark Samuel Campbell, 60, of Sweetwater, will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at McCoy Chapel of Memories with Rev. Ward Hayes officiating.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, July 25, 2011, at McCoy Funeral Home.
Campbell died Friday, July 22, 2011, at his home.
He was born July 27, 1950, in Roscoe. He married Melisa Rawlings in 2003 in Sweetwater. Lark was a graduate of Sweetwater High School and attended San Angelo State University. He was a lifelong resident of Sweetwater and worked for USG for 35 years as a fork lift operator.
Carmaleta Whisenant Sudbrock, daughter of one of the area’s pioneer ranch families, died at home on July 18, at the age of 95. Born during World War I, Carmaleta grew up on a ranch in Fisher County. Although she lived
for several years in New Mexico, Florida and Utah, she remained at heart “a rancher’s daughter” who felt that there was no prettier place in the world than the West Texas prairie. She spent the final decades of her life on
Trent — Wanda Ruth Stubblefield Hodo, 82, died Friday, July 22, 2011 in Abilene, TX. Wanda was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother “Grannie”. Services will be at 2 p.m. on Monday, July 25, at the McCaulley Methodist Church with Reverend J.W. Raney officiating. Burial will be in the Newman Cemetery, directed by Starbuck Funeral Home of Merkel.
