Jack County students competed in livestock judging and a food show earlier this month.
Livestock judging
Juniors
The team of Ellys Behling, Brody Hawkins, Bryce Thorne, and Canyon Cansler finished second. Behling picked up a pair of first place titles in first place individual and reasons. Kelton Behling competed as an individual.
Intermediates
After almost 60 years of ‘taking to the whitetail woods’, I think I am qualified to at least take a stab at answering the question, ‘what is a trophy buck?’ This question might sound simple, especially to those of you that have just begun your whitetail hunting career but take it from me.
To possibly help answer this complex question, I will give an account of my deer hunting career which has when the full circle through the years.
Behind Business Manager Christy Thomas, the Jacksboro Independent School District received a clean opinion regarding financial management statements during its regular meeting Nov. 9.
Doris & Leon King eloped to Lawton OK., on November 11, 1950 and were married at 5:30pm. They have lived all over the United States but settled in Doris' childhood home in Jacksboro in 1987. They have been blessed with three daughters, two grandsons and six great grandchildren, the eldest great grandson serving in the Navy. Doris and Leon have been members of the First Baptist Church since settling in Jacksboro. On Wednesday, November 11th, the First Baptist Church organized a reverse parade to congratulate the Kings for their 70th Anniversary. The Kings sat on their porch as everyone drove by honking their horns, blowing bubbles and leaving signs in celebration.
Jacksboro city officials continue to look at internal controls.
Some folks schedule hunting and fishing trips months in advance, which is a necessity for trips that require travel. This coming summer, I’m planning to fish up in northwestern Saskatchewan, for giant northern pike and lake trout, assuming the border reopens. I will be fishing with friends at Tazin Lake Lodge which is a ‘fly in’ destination with float plane being the only viable means of getting there.
Today, Rep. Drew Springer filed several bills addressing the conservative priorities of North Texas, including Constitutional Carry, the elimination of gun free zones, protection of unborn life, curbing the emergency powers of the Governor, and making Texas's official knife the Bowie Knife.
Chris McBride, is inducted into the Jacksboro Lions Club by Lion Tim Castle as his sponsor Lion Mark Maples looks on as prt of the meeting Nov. 11. The local Lions Club was started in 1928.
In Jack County, President Donald Trump won with more than 90 percent of the votes cast during Tuesday’s general election. These are unofficial votes provided by the Election Administrator’s office. The election must be canvassed by county officials inn order to be official.
Trump had 3,415 votes cast (2,643 in early voting and 772 on Election Day) to Joe Biden’s 331 cast (276 early voting and 55 on Election Day. Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy Cohen had 24 votes with Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker having nine votes cast.
Members of the JHS 4-H Agriculture Issues Team discussed modern issues of today’s farmer during Oct. 28’s meeting of the Jacksboro Lions Club.
The topic was the dissolution of 100,000 family farms since 2010. Four large corporations control most of their farms with three of them based in foreign countries.
