As the growth of McKinney, Sherman and Denison moves toward Bonham, plans must be in place to be prepared for this growth. Kathy Seei has experienced such growth while she was Mayor of Frisco, Texas when the population exploded by 300% in six years (1996-2002). Seei spoke to the Bonham Rotary Club last week on this subject and told of her experiences in a skyrocketing economy and how the City of Frisco kept up with the boom. With a background in education at the Plano I.S.D. for many years, she had no experience in economic development, but knew what needed to be done. Many, many projects were developed during her tenure on the city council, but four projects were nominated in 2001 for the deal of the year by the Dallas Business Journal: 1) Stonebriar Centre - 1.6M SF shopping mall opened in 2000, 2) Hall Office Park - 4M SF of Class A office with the largest collection of Texas sculpture in the world, 3) Centre at Preston Ridge - 1.2M SF shopping - longest sculpture collection in Texas - opened in 2000, and 4) Sports Complex - 75 acre mixed-use development and serves as home to: the Rough Riders (2-A Ranger Affiliated) Minor League Ball Team (Opened April, 2003); Dallas Stars Practice Ice; Home of Tornado Minor League Hockey Team. Currently Seei is president of SEEI3 which uses interactive tools to transfer core knowledge, transform attitudes and move future plans from the shelf and into action.

She observed that Bonham has an atmosphere of working together to get things done. When everyone pulls in the same direction with a master plan, good things happen.

The Bonham Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at 12 Noon at the Family Life Center.

The Friends of Sam Rayburn have announced the First annual Awards Banquet to be held on Saturday, June 11, 2005, 6:00 p.m. at the Legacy Ridge Country Club in Bonham, Texas. Guest speakers will feature Congressman Ralph hall, Dr. Don Carleton (Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin), former House Speaker Jim Wright, and Dr. Randy McBroom (Texas A&M at Commerce). The event will honor H.G. Dulaney, former Director of the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum and former Aid to Speaker Sam Rayburn.

Curtis Smith, President of the Friends of Sam Rayburn, commented on the upcoming event, "This event will honor Mr. Dulaney for decades of public service and his ongoing contributions to the legacy of Congressman Rayburn --Bonham’s most famous and respected citizen." Mr. Smith went on to add, This event will not only assist the Friends of Sam Rayburn in its efforts to provide financial support to the Sam Rayburn Library & Museum and the Sam Rayburn House Museum, but will also be "THE social event of the year’ here in Fannin County."

Tickets for this event are $100 each and availability is limited. To ensure your place at this special event, call 903-583-2455. Information on sponsorships for this event may be obtained by calling Curtis Smith at 903-227-0920

The Daughters of the American Revolution, George Blakey Chapter, Bonham, Texas met in the country home of Mary Jo Barbee, Windom for a luncheon and installation of officers for 2005-06 at 11:30 a.m. Before the luncheon, Austin Buford, 7th Grade, Honey Grove School, winner of History award, read his paper he wrote on John Shield a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We really enjoyed it and he did such a good job in presenting it. Kassiday Holmes, 6th Grade, Honey Grove School, winning paper was on York, Negro servant of Clark and high school winner, Joy Bates, on her paper, Christopher Columbus, Imperfect Hero were not able to attend. Marissa Lloyd, senior, Honey Grove, won the Good Citizens award on her paper, Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility For Preserving It. Marissa’s paper was also very good. She and Austin were presented a certificate, pin and check. Ruby Draisey brought the birthday gift and the winner of the gift was Flo Odom. Mary Jo read a very nice article, The Cost Of Freedom. The veterans gave a large price for our freedom. Mary Jo served a delicious luncheon to ten members and six guests. After the luncheon Dot Linn, chaplain, installed the following officers - Martha Mayrell, Regent, Kay Merworth-Partain, Vice-Regent, Myra Rodgers, Treasurer, Mary Lou Kissinger, Chaplain, Nancy Bellows, Secretary, Flo Odom, Registar, and Mary Beavers, Historian and Librarian. Our next meeting will be Sept. 17, 2005 and the place will be announced later. If anyone would like to know more about our chapter they can phone Flo Odom, 903-623-4031.

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The Red River Valley Car Club met on May 12^th at Rolondo’s Restaurant for dinner and the Business meeting. There was 31 members present, We gave member’s their job descriptions for the Car Show on June 4th so everyone will know just what they are to do that day. This will be a Judged Show, 53 Trophies will be Given out, 50-50 Pot, Dash Plaques and Goody bags to the first 100 entrants.

The Club went to Legacy Ridge Car Show on Saturday the 7^th of May Winners from our club were, Pre 50s, 1st place John and Janett Reichle for a 1928 Model A 50s ,1^St Place Nadine May for a 1957 210 Chevrolet. 70s, 1^St Place Gary and Karen White for a 1971 Chevelle SS, 80s 1^St Place Bill and Cheryl Spann for a 1980 Mustang Convertible.

Open Class 1^St place Pre 50s David Nelson for a 1933 International Pickup. Open class 60s Bill and Cheryl Spann for a 1965 Mustang Convertible. Class Winner’s, Pre 50s Charles and Choweta Kimball 1938 Chev. Convertible Class Winner: 50s Denzel Grojion for a 1958 Olsmobile Sedan Class Winner: 60s Joe and Joyce Darling for 1960 Ford Thunderbird Corvette Class: Gary and Linda Anderson 1982 Corvette Corvett Class: James and Carol Bruce 1990 Corvett.

The Wolf City Cruisers Car Club invited our club to come to Wolf City and display our cars for their High School Reunion. 50s celebration. One of our members was honored with a picture of his 1954 Buick 2 door hard top In Cruisin Style Magazine, February Issue, I’ll give You a hint it was Claude Wix needless to say. He carrys the Magazine every where he goes to show it off. The rest of us couldn’t be that lucky. Our Cruise on Saturday, May 14^th was a lot of fun. We had 12 cars, and 23 People to go, we traveled the back roads to Denison and on to Hucks for Lunch. Every one had a great time. We plan on gong on a cruise each Month through the summer. www.gonecruisin.com.

Till next month may the Lord Bless and Keep You Safe.

Reporter, Nadine May