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JanICE ann’S JOuRnal

Making the Kilgore Rang-erette line for 2020-22 are Grace Montes, daughter

of Samie Love Montes, and Nevaeh Davis, daughter of Traci and Will Davis from Hunting-ton. Grace was from Lufkin High School and Nevaeh was from Huntington High School. Congratu-lations to these young women.

Congratulations to Morgan and Zach Watson on the birth of Kennedy Blaire Watson on July 8 weighing 6 lbs., 11 oz. She was 19¾ inches long. Grandparents are: Wendy and Scott Berger, Karen and Van Watson. Great-grandpar-ents are Janell and Charles Wat-son, Mary Frances Johannessen and the late Ronald Christopher from San Augustine, Bev and Rex Livingston, and Evelyn Leach.

Kennedy was born on grandmother Karen’s birthday.

I saw pictures of the group of friends on the lawn of Woodland Heights Medical Center in a prayer circle around 6 p.m. before Kennedy was born. She had been due on July 13 and was a little early. All are home and doing fine.

Lynne Haney at Lufkin Coca Cola Bottling Company told me that Van Watson had started work there in February as general manager when Jim Watkins retired.

Thanks to Patsy Colbert at The History Center in Diboll for helping find newspapers on the microfilm about Mildred Griffith Kitchens in 1935 to 1937. She was on the first drill team, for which both boys and girls were eligible.

Mildred and Paul Beard were selected yell leaders at the first meet-ing. They worked two-hour meetings each day to perfect the school’s yells and songs. The Panthers played Mexia in the first district game of the season. Mildred is the one that turns 100 on July 17. My dad, W.C.

Royle, was an FFA teacher and mentioned in one of the articles as was Annon Card as one of the Senior Favorites.

There were many names that rang a bell as teachers in 1937: Ola and Ruth Tenney, Bess Thomp-son, Coach Abe Martin, Lucy and Mabel Malear, Ina Mae Townsend, Maude Newman, Mary Emma Binion, Evelyn Parker, Margaret Abney, Bell Allwine, Clara Jo Menefee, Mau-dice Smith, Mattie Kingsolving, Ethel Abney, Frances Maroney and Florene Fuller.

Some students that were seniors in 1937 were: Francis Braden, Ruth Brittain, Jack Earl Cook, Doris Cummings, Mary Claire Denman, Joseph Floyd, Verna Allene Holleman, O. C. Lowery, Queen Esther McCall, Gladney McCarty, Taylor Miller, Dora Jane Peavy, Marjorie Perry, Robert Richardson, Marcus Swan, Orell Slover and Jack Stroud. These are some family names that I remembered.

Keith New here in Lufkin was my contact to get things to the family for her party. There was an interview for the University of North Texas Oral History Depart-ment and this is what started Mary Wall to ask about things from Lufkin in her school year. We did have a 1937 annual that had been Annon Card’s and it had their senior pictures in it.

Polly and Jeff Goodier went to Ruidoso, New Mexico, the week of the 4th of July. They took their travel trailer “Bullet” and camped at Pine Ridge RV Park. They hiked and played golf. It was a great way to socially distance. Unfortunately, the weather was hotter than normal but it was still cooler than it was here.

Polly went to Oklahoma in June to visit her dad who is 99 years old. He is a WWII and Korea veteran. He just endowed a scholarship for the University of Central Oklahoma ROTC department. The University of Central Oklahoma is his alma mater.

The ROTC department created an

award for an outstanding student and named it the Lt. Col. Oren Lee Peters Award a couple of years ago. He wanted to attach a scholar-ship to that award and Polly went with him and they took care of that while she was there.

Julie McManus was named LHS associate principal of curriculum and instruction. Lufkin High School Principal Brandon Boyd said she has accepted the position.

Mary Sears told me about the produce from her garden. She has raised beds that are 36 inches tall on her porch with green beans, strawberries and tomatoes in pots. She shared basil with me. Jo Ann Killingsworth shared rosemary with me. Jo Ann and Sara Ray-burn went to the same schools in Baytown. We are truly in a small world.

Son-in-law Rocky and my brother Bill Royle have been adding names to Ancestry and have built our fam-ily tree to Charlemagne in 742.

Janice Ann Rowe’s email address is roweja@suddenlink.net.

Montes, davis earn spots on world-famous Rangerette line

JanICE ann ROWE

On THE RECORd

MarriagesMarriage licenses filed in the

angelina County Clerk’s Office:■ Albert Lee Moreland Jr., 34, and

Jaimee Marie Hamilton, 29■ Ford Jakob Sprinkle, 25, and

Jena Ruth Roland, 23■ Christopher Dwayne McMillon,

28, and Kaitlyn Nicole Larson, 20■ Thomas Jefferson Mann, 57, and

Marjorie Lynn Ferden, 62■ David Eliseo Rangel, 34, and

Stevie Michelle Riley, 24■ Elliott Anne Marie, 19, and

Chloe Elizabeth Luce, 18■ Jimmy Michael Cosby III, 40,

Penny Leigh Moore, 45■ Quincy Oneal Berry, 49, and

Cenvasea Centael Berry, 32■ Jermaine De Undre Garner, 32,

and Danyelle An Jalque White, 20■ Dustin Heath Brewer, 32, and

Kelsi Lynn Kay, 29

divorcesdivorces filed in angelina County

district Clerk’s Office:■ Robert G. Zamora and Laura F.

Zamora■ Roberto DeJesus and Noor

Khaled■ Clint Ray Davis and Kyra

Shawntaul Davis■ Yalonda Leaann Thompson and

Edward Van Thompson Jr.■ Guadalupe Fiallos and Allan

Orlando Fiallos■ Charolette Yvette Jones and

Robert Samuel Joseph Jones■ Hallie Hatthorn and Ryan

Hatthorn■ Rebecca Lyn Franklin and Cody

T. Franklin■ Jonathan Blalock and Holly

Whisenant Blalock■ Michael Stephens and Carmen

Stephens■ A.H. and J.H.

lawsuitslawsuits filed in angelina County

courts-at-law:■ State of Texas vs. Dale Delton

Robinson, principal, and Lexington National Insurance dba Angelina County Bail Bonds (Shanna Glawson), surety

■ State of Texas vs. James Aaron Landers, principal, and Lexington Na-tional Insurance dba Angelina County Bail Bonds (Shanna Glawson), surety

■ State of Texas vs. Reyno Camacho, principal, and Lexington National Insurance dba American Bail Bonds, surety

■ State of Texas vs. Reyno Cama-cho, principal, and Lester Bellows dba American Bail Bonds, surety

■ State of Texas vs. Angela Janet Russell, principal, and Lester Bellows dba American Bail Bonds, surety

■ State of Texas vs. Edgar Gomez, principal, and Lester Bellows dba American Bail Bonds, surety

■ Citibank vs. Alma Castillo■ State of Texas vs. Kareem Abdul

Jabbar Mark, principal, and Lester Bellows dba American Bail Bonds, surety

■ Citibank vs. Kristina R. Belschner

■ Citibank vs. James D. McCaa■ B&J Excavating Inc. vs. T-5

Construction Inc.■ State of Texas vs. Trucker Ray

Sweet, principal, and Lester Bellows dba American Bail Bonds, surety

■ State of Texas vs. Jatavious Treshawn Grant, principal, and David Fregia dba ABail merica, surety

■ State of Texas vs. Jatavious Treshawn Grant, principal, and David Fregia

■ ■ ■

lawsuits filed in angelina district courts:

■ In the name change of: Carrie Leray Van Hyfte

■ 21st Mortgage Corporation vs. Beckie R. Lewis

■ Mason Nair, individually, and Priscilla Nair, individually, and as next friends as W.N. and D.N., minor children, vs. James Dalton Neugent, Twister Trucking LLC and Twister HK Livestock LLC

■ Hoang Kim Vo vs. Brian De-wayne Goodwin and Drilltech Inc.

dispositionsdispositions filed in angelina

County courts-at-law:■ Mohammed Hassin Aden, evad-

ing arrest/detention, deferred, one year probation

■ Meagan O’Dean Brown, theft of property, dismissed

■ Shakeyra Casey, theft, deferred, seven months probation

■ Garland Ray Erwin, obstruct-ing highway passage, dismissed; terroristic threat, dismissed; criminal trespass, dismissed; bail jumping and failure to appear, dismissed

■ Clarence Benard Garner, pos-session of marijuana, dismissed

■ Braden Houston, possession of marijuana, deferred, nine months probation

■ James Darryl Hutson, pos-session of a controlled substance,

convicted, 60 days jail■ Wade D. Murchison, driving

while intoxicated, dismissed■ Lynsie Norwood, theft, deferred,

one year probation■ Ever Ramos, theft, dismissed;

failure to identify fugitive/intent to give false information, dismissed

■ Roland D. Range, failure to yield right of way, deferred, 180 days probation

■ Dean William Rhodes, DWI, dismissed

■ Michael James Whittemore, fictitious license plate, dismissed

■ Darryl Lamont Rolle, DWI, proba-tion or deferred adjudication revoked, convicted, 60 days jail

■ Justin Lee Hickman, theft of ser-vice, probation or deferred adjudica-tion revoked, convicted, two days jail

■ Michael McCulloch, possession of a controlled substance, probation or deferred adjudication revoked, con-victed, 90 days jail; possession of a dangerous drug, probation or deferred adjudication revoked, convicted, 90 days jail

EXTEnSIOn nEWS

Last week I talked about the wonders of drip irrigation, mulch and

watering deeply with less frequency. This works best for shrubs and flower beds. But the lawn doesn’t get watered with drip irrigation.

So let’s talk about a relatively new irri-gation strategy when you use the sprinkler on your lawns: the soak-and-cycle method.

You’ve seen it happen countless times; some well-meaning sprinkler system has excess water running out of the landscape, and down the street into the storm drain. It’s a waste of our best water and an unneeded expense to the homeowner.

What’s happening is that water isn’t being absorbed into the soil as fast as it is applied.

Our soils in Angelina County are typically a good loam over clay. In the south end, we have that gray clay, locally known as “post-oaky”

clay. On the north end, red clay is the norm. I swear I have both types on my farm in

Clawson, just north of Lufkin.

But it is that heavy, compacted clay soil that has a very slow infiltration rate. How much the soil can absorb depends on type, slope and other factors. A flat area can take up more per hour while a slope

will start to run off after a quarter of an inch is applied, with the rest of the water be-ing wasted.

One of our local Master Gardeners, Vickie Boren, first told me about the wonders of the soak-and-cycle method after she attended a state training to become an irriga-tion specialist. Put simply, the soak-and-cycle method breaks up your typical sprinkler cycle into at least 2 different, concurrent sessions to fully allow water to reach deep into the soil.

The soak-and-cycle method works best for in-ground

sprinkler systems, but for hose-draggers (like me) it has merit. The theory behind the method is to soak the soil to a depth of 6 to 8 inches, which is where grass roots should grow to develop a nice lawn. The cycle phase refers to the fact that water will not be applied faster than the soil can uptake. So first we lightly soak, allowing that water to move into the soil, and then lightly soak again, and maybe even once more, applying up to the 1 inch or so needed per week.

Far too often, people run their systems over the entire lawn every couple of days, or three or four times a week, and they probably have no idea of how much water is applied. This method con-centrates all the water in the upper few inches of the soil, developing a shallow root system and disease-prone plant.

The first step is determin-ing how much water your sprinklers apply. You have to know how much you are ap-plying so you will know how

long to run the sprinkler system.

To determine the flow rate of your sprinkler heads, set several rain gauges or straight sided cans in your lawn and measure the amount applied in 30 minutes or an hour. This rate of application combined with the infiltration rate will determine how long to run the system in each zone.

The soak part then applies that amount of water to that zone. For example, if you de-termine your lawn can take up about 2 or three-tenths of an inch of water before run-ning off, then apply that rate of water to the area and turn off the system on that zone. You are now ready to cycle.

Cycle then means to water another zone and allow that water that was just applied to soak into the soil. Then you go back to the first zone and soak it again. This may require several soaking and rest periods to apply the needed 1 inch of water per week to keep the lawn healthy while being

efficient with water use. So this means that on a given day the same area may have irrigation run three or four times on the same zone to al-low water to reach deep into the soil.

Sound difficult? It’s not. Let’s review the steps.

First, determine the flow rate of your sprinkler heads. How many inches of water do they put out per hour?

Second, carefully observe your lawn to see how long before it quits absorbing wa-ter. Fifteen minutes? Thirty minutes?

Third, re-program your time clock to soak-and-cycle the zones. Remember, the same zone will be watered several times on the same day with just enough water

to be absorbed.Finally, monitor the lawn

for a few weeks and make adjustments based on the various conditions.

soak-and-cycle may still be a new concept for lawn wa-tering but once it is figured out, it takes the guesswork out of the equation, as you know how much water is be-ing applied, the rate in which the soil can absorb, and your lawn will be better for it.

Give it a try, and stop those light, frequent ap-plications that help create awful conditions that lead to disease and even death of great lawns.

Cary Sims is the county Exten-sion agent for agriculture and natural resources for Angelina County. His email address is cw-sims@tamu.edu.

Irrigating your lawn with the soak-and-cycle method

CaRy SIMS