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 Several activities were approved to take place in city parks as summer fun begins in Cameron.

Juneteenth Celebration 

The Second Annual Cameron Juneteenth Celebration comes to Wilson-Ledbetter Park in Cameron this weekend.

Activities planned by the Cameron Community Club include a trail ride, camp-out, parade and family fun day - with games and activities for both kids and adults. Activities begin at the park at 10 a.m. Saturday with the parade and trail ride set for Sunday.

Club representative Yvette Wells met with the Cameron City Council last week and the event’s plans were unanimously approved by the council. The goal is as an event celebrating Juneteenth in a family-oriented atmosphere. The family fun activities planned include games such as volleyball, horseshoe pitching and other attractions for kids as well as card and domino tournaments for adults.

At Monday night’s meeting, the Cameron ISD Board of Trustees approved hiring  Kamol Nohe as the new head volleyball coach and girls athletic coordinator for the Lady Yoe athletic program. 

Nohe replaces Kara Del Bosque, who was with the school district for just one year. 

Nohe comes from Mexia, where he spent the last two years rebuilding the Cat Girls program. Before his time as a head volleyball coach, Nohe had coached the Waco High and Midway girls soccer teams, and helped lead the Lady Panthers to a state tournament appearance. 

Before Mexia, Coach Nohe had stops at Lorena and Moody. Nohe is also the director of player development for the Waco Juniors Volleyball club. 

By Curtis Chubb

The county courtroom was alive with 4-H’ers, Master Gardeners, and their supporters at Monday’s meeting of the Milam County Commissioners Court. 

One of the reasons people were gathered was to honor Jackie Thornton from Rockdale for being selected as the “2015 Outstanding Texas Master Gardener.” 

As Milam County AgriLife Extension Agent Floyd Ingram summarized her extensive volunteer service to the Little River Basin Master Gardeners Association, it was easy to understand why the State of Texas had selected Thornton for this honor.

There also were four outstanding and upstanding 4-H members in attendance whom humbly stood near the north wall of the courtroom while their long list of accomplishments and awards were recited by Micah Holcombe, Milam County AgriLife Extension Agent. 

Buckholts High School graduation, the annual school reunion and the 29th Annual Cotton Festival filled a weekend of events in the small community this past weekend. After several days of heavy storms and flooding, commencement ceremonies were moved indoors for the 2016 graduating class of nine students.

Skies threatened rain again Saturday but that didn't deter the Cotton Festival parade and other activities in downtown Buckholts. Family activities filled the day.

Members of the Cameron Volunteer Fire Department, together with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, will fan out across the Cameron area Saturday with boots in hand for the fire fighters' annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to help children and adults fight muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases that severely weaken muscle strength and mobility.  Firefighters will stand at intersections in Cameron Saturday collecting cash donations from motorists and others who want to support the cause.

Funds raised through 2016 Cameron Fill the Boot drive empowers families with life-enhancing resources and support, including state-of-the-art support groups and Care Centers, including the MDA Care Center at St. David’s Medical Center in Round Rock, TX.  They also help give more than 30 local kids the opportunity to experience the best week of the year where anything is possible at MDA summer camp at no cost to their families at Camp For All in Burton.

To commemorate Memorial Day, the Mayfield Dairy Queen in Cameron has a missing man table set up in the main dining area to remind patrons of the meaning of today's holiday. The placard on the table reads:

Memorial Day Missing Man Table

The table before you is a place of honor. This table is our way of symbolizing the fact that members of our Armed Forces have fallen or are missing in the service of our country and they are unable to be with us today. So we remember them.

The tablecloth is white. Symbolizes the purity of the intentions of the members of our Armed Forces who respond to their country’s call to arms.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the lives of each of the fallen and missing and their loved ones who keep their memories alive.

The red ribbon tied to the vase symbolizes our determination to account for our missing.

High schools throughout rain-soaked and storm damaged Central Texas celebrated graduations Friday night - with more commencement ceremonies planned next week.

It was a close call, but Yoe seniors were able to walk the stage on Yoe Field Friday night. Skies cleared for a few hours late Friday afternoon and with the synthetic turf, the field was not muddy.

Milano commencement exercises were set in the MHS gym and Thorndale High School moved their graduation ceremonies to the Taylor ISD auditorium.

All University Interscholastic League football state championship games will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington for the next two years, the UIL announced today. 

The 11-man and six-man football championship games will be played at AT&T Stadium, with a new schedule placing all 12 games in a four-day span. The 2016 championship games will take place Dec.14-17.

“The UIL Football State Championships will be bigger and better than ever this year at AT&T Stadium, with all 12 games in the same week in one location,” said UIL Executive Director Dr. Charles Breithaupt. “The UIL is excited to showcase the best high school football in Texas at AT&T Stadium during the football finals for an outstanding championship experience.” 

By Curtis Chubb 

The Milam County Commissioners Court was again asked to abandon some platted but never-developed streets and alleys in an unincorporated town at their meeting on Monday.

This time a real estate transaction in Minerva could not be completed because the undeveloped streets and alleys are still listed as being owned by the county. One of the people requesting action by the court referred to the undeveloped roadways as “paper alleys.” 

The commissioners approved the abandonment of the designated streets and alleys at Monday’s meeting.

The Minerva agenda item highlighted one of Minerva’s pioneers: F.W.R. Hubert. Hubert had platted an addition to the Town of Minerva sometime in the 1920s and 1930s – it was named the F.W.R. Hubert Addition to the Town of Minerva. The Addition incorporates the undeveloped roadways discussed on Monday.

After two hours and ten minutes in executive session Monday night “to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of Police Chief Randy Dixon,” Cameron Mayor Connie Anderle announced “no action taken.”

The special called session was held at City Hall with a large crowd of police department employees and other supporters waiting outside the closed-door session. The meeting started at 5:30 p.m. and the council came back into open session at 7:40 p.m., when the mayor made the announcement and adjourned the meeting. She and other council members did not make statements to the press.

Noel Johnson, one of three representatives for Dixon from the Texas Municipal Police Officers Association, said the mayor’s statement meant that Dixon is still employed as chief of police in Cameron.