Archives for Wednesday, October 4, 2000newsPool sharks, hustlers, whatever you call them, they were out playing eight-ball billiards in the smoky air of the Rusty Nail Tuesday as part of the first day of athletics in the Scott and White Texas Senior Games.Ten contestants demonstrated the arts of ricocheting the balls off the ends of the table to accomplish a desired shot and sinking two balls at once along with the discouragement of having a ball perch on the very edge of the pocket only to teeter there and not fall in.The event marks a return to the sport for Espy Leroy, a 62-year-old El Paso resident who won trophies in the sport from 1978-1982 before giving it up as a result of her job duties as an accountant.She resumed the activity this year and won her first round game Tuesday before being defeated in the second."I like it (billiards)," she said. "It's fun. It's just a fascinating game." by Jonathan Walburgh
Temple's Bethune Early Childhood Center planted the seeds of literacy Tuesday with its first meeting of the "Rocking Readers" reading program.Remembering a story of planted seeds from a fellow educator, Early Childhood Coordinator Tina Coppin likened the reading program to planting seeds."We are planting seeds that are going to grow into flowers," she said. "Like budding flowers, this program will expand children's minds and literacy in their homes."Representatives from Southwestern Bell and Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company were presented with certificates for helping in the effort to provide the school with five rocking chairs for the volunteers and their chosen students."We love to sponsor programs like these to help children. The company is very education oriented," said Jewell Sanders of Southwestern Bell's External Affairs office.The Tuesday afternoon gathering allowed the program's first volunteers to choose children they would like to read to once a month."We just completed home visiting and found that not many homes had a lot of books in them," Coppin observed. by Nicole Edwards
sportsTemple head volleyball coach Rhonda Etheridge was hoping her team would be able to build on the momentum gained from its first district win over Waco last Friday.Unfortunately, the Tem-Cats again fell victim to inconsistency in a 15-11, 10-15, 15-5 District 13-5A loss to the Killeen Lady Kangaroos Tuesday at Wildcat Gym.With the loss, the Tem-Cats dropped to 3-11 overall and 1-3 in District 13-5A."I don't know what happens to us out there," Etheridge said. "We'll play great one game and then fall apart in another game. "We have to continue to play hard the entire match and stay focused from start to finish. We know what we're capable of doing; we just have to do it." The Tem-Cats often looked out of sorts in the first game against the Lady Roos (11-9, 3-1). Five Roos points resulted from the Tem-Cats' inability to communicate with each other. by Robert Hollier
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