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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Penelope football players released from hospital after rollover wreck
Three Penelope High School football players injured in a rollover accident Friday afternoon in Hubbard were released from Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center later that day — minutes before their six-man team squeaked out a 52-51 win over Kopperl.
Just after Penelope’s pep rally, the players were involved in a one-vehicle rollover wreck on Farm-to-Market Road 2114 near Highway 171 in Hubbard, a Hill County Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.
No details were available on the cause of the wreck. The Sheriff’s Office and Penelope coach Corey McAdams declined to release the players’ names.
One of the boys, a sophomore, had been ejected from the vehicle and was taken by medical helicopter to Hillcrest, the coach said. A junior and a sophomore were also injured and taken by ambulance, he said.
Shaken up, McAdams said he called a meeting of his nine remaining players. In a few hours, they were set to kick off at Kopperl.
A call from the hospital revealed the boys were sitting up and talking. The team decided to play.
After the game, McAdams held a team meeting.
“I don’t often get a chance to tell those guys I love them,” he said. “But I told them last night.”
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Bruceville-Eddy water customers need to boil drinking water
All customers of Bruceville-Eddy Water Supply are being instructed to boil their water prior to drinking it.
The city of Bruceville-Eddy sent out its boil notice Friday night, noting that, “due to conditions which have occurred recently in the water system,” the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality was requiring the boil order.
To ensure destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking and ice-making should be boiled and cooled prior to consumption. The water should be brought to a roiling boil, then boiled for two minutes.
To ask questions, call (254) 644-9759.
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Tropical Storm Hanna makes landfall
STORM INFO
Hanna has made landfall as a strong tropical storm, with winds around 70 mph, just at the border between North and South Carolina. It’s expected to continue on up the East Coast over the next couple of days.
Hurricane Ike, meanwhile, is barreling down on the Turks and Caicos Islands, where it’s expected to hit tonight, and possibly aiming at Florida after that. Tourists have already been ordered to leave the Florida Keys starting this morning, and further evacuations will likely be ordered later.
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