Special Olympians compete

Clarksville Special Olympics unified team member Warren Brooks (left) who stands 5' 10" gets ready to go up for the opening tip against an opponent who stands about a foot taller during action at the Area 10 Basketball tournament that took place this past Friday and Saturday in Grand Prairie. The event featured more than 100 teams. The Clarksville team members earned bronze medals. For more photos and the story, see the print edition of the March 1^st Clarksville Times.

- Clarksville Times Photo by Bruce E. Williams

City seeks juvenile curfew ordinance

By LOU ANTONELLI

Managing Editor

The Clarksville City Council held a public hearing Tuesday night on implementing a juvenile curfew ordinance.

It stipulates unaccompanied minors cannot be out in public between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m., and also between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. when school is in session.

City Manager Shannon Barrentine explained the city first adopted a juvenile curfew ordinance on Nov. 30, 1993, and that according to state law such an ordinance must be formally re-adopted every three years.

The previous ordinance therefore expired Nov. 30 of last year and the city must go through the adoption process again.

The ordinance includes a number of acceptable exceptions, such as going to and from work, or school/church related functions.

In order to be back in effect, the city has to hold two hearings. No member of the public spoke at Tuesday night’s hearing.

Barrentine said that in addition to preventing crime, the ordinance helps “protect our kids.”

Police Chief Larry Whittington agreed, stating it makes it less likely children will be taken advantage of.

The council will hold a second public hearing at its next meeting before the ordinance goes in effect.

Band to get new uniforms

By LOU ANTONELLI
Managing Editor
School trustees Monday night approved purchasing new uniforms for the Clarksville Tiger Band.
Director of Finance Melissa Darrow reported that a CD set aside to help with such a purchase now stands at $23,000. The current band uniforms are eleven years old.
Supt. Pam Bryant reported the district has investigated cost, and presented three different proposals based on 100 uniforms.
The lowest cost uniforms would cost $18,840, but Bryant and Interim Band Director Eric Shimanek they looked too inexpensive. Another proposal would cost $36,900.
Bryant told board members that, after some bargaining, Shimanek was able to get a bid for the high end uniforms at $53,000.
Trustees asked why the band needs 100 uniforms when it has 73 members currently. Shimanek explained they need surplus uniforms for when other wear out.
A number of band students have to change uniforms as they grow during high school, noted Bryant.
After some discussion, trustees agreed to add $30,00o to the $23,000 CD and purchase the 100 new uniforms for $53,000.
In November the Tiger Band won the state UIL Marching competition for Class 2A in San Antonio.

Thanks for your patience

We at the Clarksville Times would like to apologize to the people who have purchased a subscription during the past few weeks but have't been getting a newspaper.

When we bought the newspaper we inherited a label printer that didn't work, and we have instead paid our newspaper printer to run off and attach the mailing labels. The problem is the software we use for our subscription date base apparently won't update itself and add the new subscribers.

When we printed our labels in-house, we could manually check for any problem with the labels. However, we haven't been able to do that for the past few weeks.

We want you to know we are working on the problem. A new label printer is slated to be delivered Monday. Also, on Monday Lou and Patricia will each receive two hours training from the software company.

If this doesn't fix the problem, we will be changing the software.

Senior Night

February 2 was Senior Night for the Clarksville Lady Tigers. Pictured during the ceremony in the Clarence L. Nix Jr. gym are the athletes who were honored, and their family members. See Page 10-14 inside this week's issue of The Times’ for our annual recap of the Red River County basketball season.

TxDOT Weather Advisory

PARIS -The National Weather Service is predicting the likelihood of rainfall and temperatures below freezing this weekend. Both conditions could impact roads and driving conditions in Northeast Texas.
As of Friday, Feb. 9, TxDOT employees in the Paris District remain busy pretreating roadways in the district as a precautionary measure. This work began yesterday, Feb. 8. By close of business Feb. 9, we anticipate having US 75 and I-30 completely pretreated, as well as bridges and overpasses.
As the weekend approaches and unfolds, our weather response teams will continue this work and monitor the condition of roadways in all nine counties of the Paris District. The attached brochure/document further explains how our agency responds to winter weather threats statewide.
Motorists are advised to monitor weather conditions frequently, and be prepared to make adjustments in their travel plans as this weather event unfolds. More information about safe winter travels is available online: https://www.txdot.gov/driver/weather/winter-travel.html .

House fire

Clarksville firefighters battled a blaze Wednesday morning on West Broadway Street. It happened past the deadline for this week's paper; see next week's paper for the details.