A8 County Star-News Thursday, January 9, 2014

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COLE FERTILIZERTommye Cole

Sales • Application • No-Til DrillingCustom Hay Baling & Farming

Hay for Sale(806) 334-2074 • McLean, Texas

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James Bros. Implement Company7106 Canyon Dr.

Amarillo,TX 79109(806) 358-2121

www.kubota.comOptional equipment may be shown.©Kubota Tractor Corporation, 2013

Get a Load of Kubota Quality

Power, stability and productivity in confined areas. Featuring a 24.8 HP Kubota diesel engine, 9'8.9" digging depth and

7,924 lbs. bucket breakout force.

Dig, lift, pull, haul … Lots of work calls for lots of features, including a 45 HP Kubota diesel engine, smooth HST transmission,

fully integrated front loader and backhoe.

Fully loaded: Turbocharged 92 HP Kubota diesel engine, 5,869 lbs. lift capacity and 7,961 lbs. bucket breakout force.

Optional pressurized cab.

Big power in a compact package – featuring a 42.4 HP Kubota diesel engine, 11'2.6" digging depth and 9,535 lbs.

bucket breakout force.

Compact Powerhouse: KX040-4

Smooth Operator: L45 TLBRight on Track: SVL90-2

Zero Tail Swing: U35

James Bros. Implement Company7106 Canyon Dr.

Amarillo,TX 79109(806) 358-2121

3 convenient locations for sales & service • Family Owned Since 1964www.jamesbro.com

Wallace Monument Company

Clarendon, Texas

1-800-999-9506

Family owned and operated since 1930

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Owner

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Monday - Friday9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Changing Room Available

Busy Body Fitnesswill be closing its doors

January 10, 2014

Abby Bond and Gaby Venzor, five points each, Tillie Mene-field and Dacey Clark each with three, Aileen Hinojos and Brit-tney Robinson with two each, and Abree Finsterwald with one. Michaela Bailey completed the roster.

The Lady Stangs were hosts to the Panhandle Lady Panthers December 27 in which the Lady Panthers claimed victory at the sounding of the final buzzer.

Score by QuartersWheeler 16 5 17 13 51Panhandle 12 4 23 19 58The Lady Stangs came out

stronger with this game of hoops with the Lady Panthers, however, still not strong enough to over-take them by the final buzzer. The Lady Panthers were able to

dominate all four quarters of the game taking a small final lead.

High shooter was Kori How-ard with 16 points followed by Tillie Menefield with 13. Brit-tney Robinson scored six points followed closely by Gaby Ven-zor with five, Abree Finsterwald with four, Michaela Bailey with three and Dacey Clark and Ai-leen Hinojos with two each. Dulce Castillo completed the roster.

The Stratford Lady Elks trav-eled to Wheeler territory for an-other game of hoop action during the Canadian tournament. The Lady Stangs were able to pull out a one-point leading win sending the Lady Elks home with a loss.

Score by QuartersWheeler 9 12 6 18 45

Stratford 8 8 9 19 44The Lady Stangs were able to

dominate the first half, while giv-ing the second half to the Lady Elks, although it was still enough to win the game by one point.

Shooters for this game in-cluded Kori Howard as high shooter with 12 points, followed closely by Tillie Menefield with 10 points. Abree Finsterwald scored six, while Brittney Robin-son, Dacey Clark and Michaela Bailey added four each. Gaby Venzor netted three points fol-lowed by Aileen Hinojos with two. Completing the roster was Dulce Castillo.

A final loss for the Lady Stangs occurred when they met the Clar-endon Lady Broncos December 28 at Wheeler.

Score by QuartersWheeler 12 12 11 8 43Clarendon 24 10 16 8 58The Lady Stangs played a

powerful game of hoops al-though it was not powerful enough when they met the Lady Broncos. Wheeler fell short in the first half and simply could not pick up their momentum.

Shooters for the Lady Stangs included Kori Howard with nine, Abree Finsterwald and Aileen Hinojos with six each, Gaby Venzor, Dacey Clark, and Dulce Castillo with five each, Michae-la Bailey with four, Abby Bond scored two, and Payton Leffew netted one. Completing the ros-ter were Tillie Menefield and Brittney Robinson.

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so heavily damaged that we just had to wait in line,” he said.

Weatherby said the new lighting will be similar to what is in place at Big Vern’s Steakhouse, the Western Motel and the ATM machine owned by Centennial Bank.

The neon will be the new LED style which should be more durable. The city was able to choose to have the new LED neon after its Histor-ical Grant expired last year. If the grant was still in place the city would have been forced to replace the light-ing with vintage neon, which is dif-ficult to repair and damages easily, especially when strong winds blow and severe weather shows up.

City officials are also preparing to install new playground equipment at Elmore Park in Shamrock after ap-

proving the purchase of new equip-ment in 2013. Officials hope the new equipment will be up and ready to go by spring.

Shamrock residents and visitors are also buzzing about the changes and improvements being made to the gazebo and area around the Irish Village located next to Mahnken’s Radio Shack. Last week, Billy Dun-can painted the gazebo green, and soon new roofing shingles will be put on top of the gazebo by Weath-erly Roofing.

Kerry Symons, owner of Mahnk-en’s Radio Shack, is also donating a pair of new metal picnic tables to replace the ones currently located there. Symons also is the owner of the property where The Irish Village is located.

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New year brings new salesWhen the holiday shopping rush

ends, there are plenty of people who are ready to retire their credit cards for awhile and take a break from the checkout lines. Still, others look forward to the sales that start the new year, eager to get great deals on many different products and ser-vices.

There are many deals to be had when January arrives. Smart shop-pers may want to wait until the dawn of the new year to get great deals on a wide variety of products.

* Electronics: Although many electronics go on sale for the holiday season, once January arrives there is another round of major discounts on electronics, even high-end items that were not included in holiday sales. New items are unveiled each year at the Consumer Electronics Show in mid-January, and many stores begin to clear out older inventory to make room for the latest offerings in home-theater systems, televisions and the like. These sales are bound to continue into February

* Furniture: New furniture de-signs are largely unveiled in Febru-ary, so come the beginning of the new year homeowners and renters can score good prices on clearance inventory. Those looking to start out the new year with new designs can

generally find good prices at the start of the year.

* Last-minute travel: Although the cost of travel, especially trips to warm weather locales, can increase in January, last-minute or fast-acting travel package combinations are of-ten available at low prices this time of year.

* Fitness gear: Many people make resolutions to get in shape; therefore, gyms, spas and manufacturers of fit-ness equipment may discount their products to take advantage of the trend toward getting in shape after a season of overindulgence.

* Christmas treats: Stores are looking to liquidate any items that have a Christmas or holiday mo-tif. The products inside are likely still fresh, and does it really matter if those cookies came in a red-and-green tin?

* New home: The spring and summer are prime seasons for buy-ing a new home. Few people want to brave the elements and look at homes with yards devoid of flowers and shrubbery. But buying a home in the winter may be more financial-ly prudent.

The new year presents new op-portunities to save money on items that are deeply discounted or go on sale this time of the year.