of Varren INSIDE ADDATWIST TAKING A SHOT way this Food, ID Thanksgiving. NOEL, home against Texas Serve up potatoes a new basketball looks to stay perfect at Sports, 18 NOVEMBER 25, 2009 GOSAN ANGELO.COM A Standard Times 50 CENTS SERVING SAN ANGELO AND WEST TEXAS SINCE 1884 320 Mostly sunny Quick Read 20 QUESTIONS Got a question for the San Angelo mayoral candidates? Send it to the Standard-Times com, or call 659-8249 by Nov. 27. The best questions will be submitted to the candidates. STATUE VANDALIZED Hands are broken off marble statue of the Virgin Mary at Christ the King Retreat Center in San Angelo.
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Thank you for loyally reading the Standard Times. For home delivery, call 659-8300 64709 00001 committed to hearing care the hype. a drag loud, wet and rapid sport. With his competitive boating season over, Reagan Everett said he plans on sinking the money he won this year into his boat for next year. Everett's trophy, which sat in his office at the Bank champion Everett will spend prize on his boat JENNIFER RIOS 659-8262 "The best of the best go and duke it out.
We were on it so good they didn't have a chance." Reagan Everett, drag boat racing champion of San Angelo on Tuesday, matches began on Friday. San Angelo's drag boat was better than the couple purse. "I just got the tro- together at the Interna- This year, he and his crew races have gained national thousand dollars he won phy." tional Hot Boat Association stuck around until Sunday prominence, and now one last week. The nation's best racers World Finals in Phoenix to receive their award. of the local racers has won "I didn't care about that," form the north, south, east last week.
a top national prize in the he said, referring to the and west divisions came "The best of the best go Please see RACES, 8A and duke it out," Everett said. "We were on it so good they didn't have a chance." He and his wife, along with a nine-member crew, left last week for the tournament. Thursday was spent testing and tuning equipment before the qualifying County studies road convention Agreement cy that personnel address." directly to about street The court had three options: use the names needed of listed the roads the as they are names on plats kept with the County Clerk's MATTHEW WALLER office; use a road name list that the county main659-8263 tains; or use the existing signs. Naming roads, and all "Those are the three the hassles thereof, was bases that we can start a focal point for the Tom from to get them to the Green County Commis- point where 911 is comfortsioners Court on Tuesday. able and consistent with They dealt with roads being able to put those so that emergency dis- things into their database, patching will match up and that will establish the with county records.
criteria that all further someone calls velopment then provides," in, it pops up an address," Floyd said. said Steve Floyd, Precinct Floyd said that certain 3 commissioner. "Our departments, such as the road logs need to reflect county clerk's office or the exactly what that road road and bridge department, name is, where they can dispatch those emergen- Please see ROADS, 4A JASON Central High School culinary arts students Roman Thomas Jr. (from left), Chandler Mikeska and Kimberly Aston store leftover turkey and dressing at The River Terrace Restaurant. The students, who are drawn from Central and Lake View high schools, intern at different restaurants in San Angelo.
Class cuisine Culinary arts students take up turkey challenge LAUREL L. SCOTT 659-8381 Thanksgiving," Bickel said. On a recent Friday morning, 18-year-old Roman Thomas Jr. put his first tur- Gayle Bickel's culinary key in an oven in the profesarts students at Central sionally equipped kitchen at High School face many Central. He had prepared it tests over the school year, in the afternoon class with but Thanksgiving could be the help of classmate Chanone of the biggest.
dler Mikeska. As the students in her "I just came to put my morning class work on bak- turkey in. I made a seasoning pies from scratch and ing blend of garlic powder, prepare and taste-test roast onion salt, a little bit of Cajun turkey, Bickel explains: seasoning, chili powder," we're doing is so Thomas said. "Then Chanthey can walk in their homes dler, he made his stuffing for and say, 'I can help with flavor of apples, raisins and 1916 turkey drive just never quite caught on I've retold his story but not lately. many times over the years RICK So let's talk turkey SMITH drive.
"I think it was 1915 or '16. Let's say '16," Richland Springs rancher Marcus Coughran told me when we visited on Jan. 20, 1977. The drive took place that November. A couple of New York businessmen were buying Texas turkeys to ship back east by rail for Thanksgiving, and a Richland Springs general store owner named O.A.
about buying their turToombs agreed to act as keys." middleman. People from miles "Toombs was a pretty around brought their sharp old boy," Coughran flocks to the small town told me. "He was quite a between Brady and San trader. He knew every- Saba. body in the country, and he contacted everybody Please see SMITH, 4A SAISD Thanksgiving turkey recipe.
5A rosemary. Mrs. Bickel lets me do what I want. She lets me have creativity." Marina Garcia, 17, liked the look of the bird, already brown from the rich coating of seasoning. "Roman can make that turkey look good raw," she said.
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