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VOLUME 97 NUMB m 15 2006 The MalakoffNews Friday, April 14, 2006 50 cents
Happy Easter
From the staff of
The MalakoffNews
Coming
MYFA signups
next week
MalakoffYouth Football As-
sociation will have signups for
football, cheerleading and drill
during the Malakoff
Cornbread Festival on April
22.
The signups will be held at
MYFA headquarters, which
are located on South Terry
Street just south of the inter-
section with Hwy. 31.
Leagues are open for children
ages kindergarten through
sixth grade.
For more information, call
Trisha Nix at 903-489-2831.
PTO planning fundraiser
The Malakoff PTO will
have a spaghetti dinner and
silent auction April 22 begin-
ning at 5:30 p.m. at the caf-
eteria on the intermediate
campus. Tickets are being
pre-sold through April 21 at
the campus.
Tickets purchased in ad-
vance are $6 for adults, $3 for
students ages 4 and over and
$3 for senior citizens age 62
and older.
Tickets will also be sold at
the door and will cost $9 for
adults, $6 for students and $4
for seniors. For more infor-
mation call, call Ms. Ptacek
903-489-2226.
Jim Dave Bartlett II
Billy Ray Crutcher
Richard 'Rick' Holland
Correction
The headline for the article
"One-act play moves on to
regional competition," which
was published in the April 7
issue, contained an error.
The one-act play cast and
crew participated in area
competition April 8, not re-
gional.
The Malakoff News re-
grets the error.
Our goal at The Malakoff News
is to deliver information in an accu-
rate manner and corrections brought
to our attention will be run as soon
as possible. Please call 903-489-
0531for corrections.
Index
Calendar Pg. 2
Opinion Pg. 4
Obituaries Pg. 7
Sports Pg. 8
Trinidad Page Pg. 11
By Jennifer Stone-Hannigan Municipal Judge Remley retires made his niche in the commu-
Editor nity and a lot of the people in
After Monday's meeting of Chief of Police Joe Cantu at the but only in the capacity ofpo- town expressed their opinion
the Malakoff City Council, a March meeting. Monday, the lice chief, said Mayor Pat that they would like for the
resignation had been rescinded council rescinded his resigna- Isaacson. His salary was ad- council to keep the chief and
and a retirement accepted, tion. j usted accordingly to reflect the let him keep doing the good
The council accepted the res- Cantu will remain an em- Change.
ignation of City Administrator/ ployee of the city of Malakoff, "The council felt he hadSee CHIEF, Page 10
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Malakoff track team member Gabby Crockett leaps
more on recent track events, see Page 8.
over
JENNIFER STONE-ttANNIGAN/TttE MALAKOFF NEWS
the high jump pole during- last week's Tiger Relays. For
Special to The News
The Henderson County Black
History Committee will be
wrapping up its spring events
with the annual Children's Pag-
eant.
The Black History Children's
Pageant will be Saturday, April
15 at the Malakoff Community
From Staff Reports
It took an extra month, but Re-
publicans now know Tommy
Center. Time
for the event is
7 p.m. Admis-
sion is $3.
awarded two Each king and queen holds
trophies and the crown for one year and the
each child next year they are asked back
Barnett will face Democrat
LloydArthus in November's Pct.
5 Justice of the Peace race.
Barnett won Henderson
i County's only local runoffelec-
tion Tuesday by getting 58 per-
I cent (242) of the vote to oppo-
I nent Pam Underhill's 42 percent
!(174).
"Of course, I'm excited about
I winning," said Barnett Tuesday
i night. "But it's been a good race.
I've known Pam tbrever, mad I
[ appreciate the way everybody
See RUNOFI Page 3
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1
I Annual festival
set for April 22
From Staff Reports
Hungry'?
Malakoffwill be serving up a
little old, fashioned fare next
weekend at the annual
Combread Festival.
At the center of the festivi-
ties is the fight lbr the bragging
rights that go to the best
combread cook. The Combread
Contest will begin at noon April
22 at MalakoffCity Hall. This is
the ninth year for the annual
shindig, which is sponsored by the
Malakoff Chamber of Corn-
merce.
The pageant is open to chil- gift bag.
dren throughout Henderson The winners are crowned The pageantwillbejudged by entries.
County and surrounding king and queen of the a panel of three: Barbara l Then,
counties. Henderson County Black McClelland, Cesar Ledezma
All participates are History Committee. and Ruth Weiheimer. I
Organizers say there is no reg-
istration, just bring your
combread to MalakoffCiW Hall
on Saturday before the contest
willreceive a to crown the next king and l and get ready to eat. Cash
queen. ! prizes will be given for the top
the public gets a
See FESI'I~9,L, Page 3
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Padgetts work together to make karate class a success
By Jennifer Stone-Hannigan close friends. Don's first wife the next year.
Editor passed away. Then, seven years Having a karate school with his
When Don Padgett came to ago, Don and Corene married, name on the sign is nothing new
Cleveland, Okla he thought he Now, they teach karate to- to Don. As part of Padge-
was going to take a break for gether, filling the fellowship hall Mathis-Hale Martial Arts, Don
awhile. His future wife, Corene, of Malakoff First United Meth- has been running karate schools
had other ideas, odist Church on Monday nights since 1980. Don, along withpart-
"The first time I met him, it was and taking on students of all ages ners Dave Mathis and Rob Hale,
at church. I asked him to start a and skilllevels, have five active schools in Texas
karate school there," said Corene. The two came to Malakoff, so and Oklahoma.
She was driving 60 miles to take Don could work as a coach at Over the years, overl,500stu-
classes and the idea of having Malakoff High School. He has dents have come through Padge-
something closer was ideal for coached at various schools for Mathis-Hale schools. Of the hun-
her. years, dreds, only 28 have made black
Don had not planned to start a But the two continued their ka- belt.
school in Cleveland, but he rate teaching on the side and now "It's not that earning a black
agreed, and Corene became his have about 3 5 students in belt is so brutal, it's just that a
student. He was impressed by her Malakoff and plan to open a
fighting skills andthetwo became school building in Malakoff in See FORCE, Page 10
JENNIFER STONE-HANNIGAN/THE MALAKOFF NEWS
[)on and Corene Padgett demonstrate techniques during a
recent karate class.
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