Colt McCoy
"back home again"
to talk about supporting our home town advantage!
What Happened at the Spring Banquet
The Jim Ned Valley Chamber of Commerce had a great spring banquet, Saturday, April 11, at the Jim Ned High School, with our hometown hero and Jim Ned High School grad, Colt McCoy, present as guest speaker.
Colt spoke on "What Makes a Great Community?"
and expounded on the three areas that made Jim Ned a great community --
the people, education, and faith.
The chamber honored community members for their contributions to the Jim Ned community, which includes the smaller communities of Buffalo Gap, Lawn, Tuscola, Cedar Gap, Moro, Lemon's Gap, Rogers, Bradshaw, Guion, Elm Valley, the Canyons, Ovalo and even Possum Trot!
Honorees given special awards were:
Outgoing Jim Ned CISD Superintendent: Kent LeFevre, 30 years at Jim Ned, 14 years as Superintendent
Jim Ned CISD School Employee of the Year for each of the four campuses:
Buffalo Gap Elementary - secretary Marcie Tutt Lawn Elementary -
teacher Jennifer Willis Middle School -
secretary Carolyn Golson High School -
teacher Bobbidee Thompson
Community Volunteer of the Year: Genny Abercombie
Business Leader of the Year: Super S Foods Store
Also appreciated were the nominees in the above categories, who were asked to stand as his/her name was announced:
School employees: at Buffalo Gap Elementary -
Sue Harris and Nan Egger at Lawn Elementary -
Kathy LeFevre and Rosie Ortega at the Middle School -
Steve Bryant and Mike McClure
at the High School - Debbie Cook and Jan Pearce
Community volunteers: Tim Brannon Bob Eisenberg Maxine Poindexter
Business leaders: The Jim Ned Journal Carpenter's Interiors
Colt McCoy spent six years of his youth in Jim Ned schools,
played sports, especially football,
and brought Jim Ned into the limelight as a gifted quarterback under the coaching of his father, Brad McCoy, now at Graham, Texas.
Colt is now finishing up his junior year at the University of Texas
and is known across football America and beyond for being the star quarterback for the UT Longhorns. He was a runner-up for the 2008 Heisman Trophy, much to the chagrin of local fans, who view him as the best of the best.
Colt McCoy did a wonderful job at the banquet greeting old friends and old and new fans
as they moved through the food line for a delicious dinner of rib-eye steaks and chicken cooked by Big G's Steak and Barbecue of Tuscola.
Colt also made many fans happy when
he signed their Longhorn souvenirs for them
- helmets, stuffed animals, pictures, magazines, and Longhorn shirts.
More than 300 fans came from as far away as Roswell, New Mexico, and the Dallas/Fort Worth area for the event.
The Jim Ned Valley Chamber of Commerce promotes the economic, civic, and cultural well being of the Jim Ned communities.
(Thanks Grace for this contribution to the blog... courtesy of the Jim Ned Journal Newspaper)
We might have been disappointed that our man, Colt McCoy, didn't get the Heisman :(,
The hills around our Jim Ned Valley were blanketed with the purest covering we've seen in years!
Holiday traffic was slowed to a snail's pace, but our local residents got to see
As I stopped along the roads, there were others precariously perched with me... just hoping that the demanded slower speeds would prevent our indulging in the pictures from fender bender possibilities!
May the end of 2009 bring in a stunningly brilliant 2010....
