On the morning of April 13, 2013, the City of Keene rolled out the welcome mat to a record number of “Wounded Warriors” (Military veter-ans of Iraq and Afghanistan injured in the line of duty) and their supporters who cycled into Keene - northbound on Old Betsy Road - on their fifth annual Ride 2 Re-covery Texas Challenge. They were received with a warm and enthusiastic welcome by the John Ackerman, Keene City Mayor and Texas Senator Brian Birdwell, District 22. Close to 1,000 Keene area residents were in attendance at this celebration, which The City of Keene has been hosting since its inception in 2009. The hungry cyclists were served a hearty breakfast prepared by 12 Keene area Pathfinder Clubs. This Ride 2 Recovery Texas

Challenge began on with a kick-off celebration at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio on April 7, 2013 with their final destination being the Rangers Ballpark in Ar-lington on April 14, 2013 – a 350 mile trip! This year, the R2R ride featured a number of stops and visits to Brooke Army Medical Center and Randolph AFB in San Antonio as well as Ft. Hood in Killeen. Before the final leg of their

journey to Arlington, the Ride 2 Recovery bicyclists were escorted by both land and air passed the 220 U.S. flags planted along Old Betsy Road, under the 3’X15’ “Let’s Roll” welcome banner - strategi-cally located at the intersec-tion of Lewis Lane - and into Callicott Student Park. KPD vehicles and the U.S. flag bearing chopper of Dennis and Shirley Lauterbach were involved in the escort. The “Let’s Roll” banner created

by Yddo Ortiz was conspicu-ously suspended by ladder fire trucks from Keene Fire & Rescue and the Cleburne Fire Department.The R2R cyclists were

given a formal greeting and

welcome by Mayor Acker-man and Texas Senator Brian Birdwell, District 22. This was followed by brief presen-tations and acknowledgements by other event participants and organizers. Keene Seventh-

day-Adventist Church Pastor for Administration, Phil Rob-ertson gave the convocation. Leading out with the musi-

cal portion of the opening ceremonies was the newly formed “Keene Municipal

Band,” organized and directed by Steve Hubbard. The band also performed brilliantly a number of inspirational and patriotic renditions through-out the course of this event. The Keene Municipal Band

is sponsored by the City of Keene and is comprised of individually recruited local musicians.Some of the other highlights

at this year’s Keene R2R Texas Challenge breakfast stop included: • The dramatic firing of a

Confederate Cavalry era mili-tary cannon by Terry’s Texas Rangers Camp No. 1937. “An organization to honor and preserve the memory and true history of our Confederate ancestors.”• Youth Director and Pas-

tor Gary Blanchard, Texas Conference of Seventh-day-Adventists, presented copies of “Steps to Christ” by Ellen G. White to Texas Senator Brian Birdwell, District 22 and each of the R2R cyclists and support staff.• Senator Birdwell (who

frequently attends R2R scheduled stops and functions) presented a U.S. flag once flown over the state Capitol in Austin, to R2R Executive Director John Wordin in honor of the Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge and as a tribute to the veteran rider’s honorable military service and the sacri-fice to their country.• John Wordin expressed his

appreciation with the enthu-siastic “great spirit” reception by the City of Keene and its residents. He presented an R2R jersey signed be each participating cyclist to Keene City Mayor Ackerman for supporting the final breakfast of the 2013 Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge. • Ackermann and Hubbard

performed a trumpet duo rendition of the National An-them. (Music arrangement by Hubbard.)

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Over 200 “Wounded Warriors” roll into Keene for physical and spiritual nutrition!

R2R cyclists escorted towards Callicott Park with _Let’s Roll_ banner in background

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By TG

The summer of 1964 was a hot one. The 14 inch snow of the winter proved to be ‘not the norm’ for Keene, since we haven’t had one for the past 48 or 49 years. But 100 degree days in the summer does seem to be normal because we have probably had 1000's of them in that same time period. So, in '64 we rode bikes,

played ball and got into mis-chief like young boys do. In the hot afternoons we would seek places that were cooler. Mockingbird Lane was the coolest place to ride bikes. It was gravel then and had large trees; the limbs and branches covered the street from one side to the other, even more-so than it does today. It was like that from Hillcrest all the way down to 4th Street. It was a cool place to ride. Or, you could go down to

the pavilion, which today is known as Liske-Pultar Audi-torium. In 1964 the pavilion was only a couple of years old and was open on three sides; the east, west and south sides were open. It was shady in part of it until late afternoon, and lots of times there was a nice breeze, which made it a nice place to ride a bike and play on a hot afternoon. One afternoon we found a garden hose outside and discovered it

would just reach to the baptis-mal tank. So we thought -- if we turned the water on slow, the tank would be full tomor-row and we could swim there and get cooled off. Well, we were right. The next after-noon we went to the pavilion to swim. The tank was full all right. In fact, it had been full for some time! If it had been winter we could have gone ice skating, because most of the floor of the pavilion was flooded, and water was running out the west side. So, what did we do? Well, we turned off the water and went swimming!Another place you could

get cooled off was under the water tower. In '64 Keene had a wooden water tower and it leaked. Water dripped down and when it hit you it would cool you off. This old water tower was south and west of the old Post Office, just a little ways. The Post Office sat where the Sabbath School complex of the Keene, SDA Church is today.If you were lucky enough to

have a dime in those days, you could get a real treat and get cooled off at the same time. On College Drive, just south of the W.O. Belz General Store, was an open lot and some cedar trees. And, backed up almost to the sidewalk, was an old yellow school bus. In

the back of that old school bus was a snow-cone machine owned and operated by Mau-rice Crane . I gotta tell you, my favorite was root beer. Maybe that’s what started the pot belly I have today.Maurice had several children.

My favorite was Eddie. But it didn’t start off that way. The first time I met Eddie Crane, I had just stepped out of Blair’s Store. Eddie walked up and kicked me in the shins, jumped up and grabbed me in a headlock and took me down the sidewalk. He would not let me go until I told him, “I give up.” It took some time, but Eddie and I became good friends later.In August of 1980, we lost

Eddie. I’m sure many of you reading this today feel as I do and miss him very much. Ed-die Crane was ‘good people.’ When Eddie died, he left be-hind a very young son, David. David is in his thirty’s now and is a hardworking family man. He has a daughter and two sons. He works for Crest Water Company. I’m sure Jim Dike thinks David is a valu-able employee. The story you have just read

is true. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent or for that matter the guilty. Signed TG

FIFTY YEARS IN KEENE KEENE Jr HIGH to WEST ISDwe are just friends that you have not met yet!

Our thoughts and prayers are with you daily.

The Keene Jr High students raised money to purchase 1008 red pencils with this imprint to be given to West

ISD next week.

Keene ISD is sponsoring a collection for school supplies to be sent to the school district of West, Texas. Students are invited to bring school sup-plies to donate to this district who has experienced such a great loss this past week. Our

hearts go out in thought and prayer for the families who have lost losved ones, homes, and so much of their commu-nity. This small token of love and concern will be sent will our sympathy and encourage-ment to face the days ahead

knowing we care. We hope that it will help the students to know that Keene Junior High students and KISD students are sharing the sorrow that is in your hearts. Picture submitted by Jenni-

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Keene Baptist Church cel-ebrated its first anniversary as a church, April 21, 2013. Worship was at 11:00a.m. and a luncheon followed after the service.Keene Baptist Church is a

Southern Baptist church which functioned as a mission of First Baptist Church Burleson, Texas from September 2005 until April, 2011. Norman Harrell, the founding Pastor served until about the fall of 2009. In July of 2010, Pastor Lamar Black became the Pastor and began a successful Wednes-day evening Bible Study and Prayer Meeting and help Keene Baptist go from a mission to a Southern Baptist Church.

Keene Baptist Church has been an active participant in the Keene community by participating in the Chamber of Commerce, community events such as the parades, festivals and benevolence needs. Keene Baptist Church is still

a small store front church with a classical form of worship. The Keene Baptist congrega-tion wants those in the com-munity to know we are always excited to have guests come worship with us and hope that those without a place of regular worship and Bible study will come and see that we preach the Bible, sing with a grateful heart, and where everyone is special.

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Eddie Michaels:Hooked, fought and finally reeled in...

“You know when you’re fish-ing and you’re trying to catch a big fish, the hook will set but you don’t reel it in right away,” says Eddie Michaels, sopho-more theology major. “It goes its own way and gets tired of fighting and eventually you just reel it in.”Michaels sees the moment in

third grade when he prayed his school’s salvation prayer as setting the hook for his salva-tion. But from then on, until age 20, Michaels was putting up that fight.At twenty years old he had

looked around and started to question where he was headed

in life. Michaels had just received the opportunity of his lifetime, a chance to train with some of the best judo coaches and judokas in the world. Michaels had been doing judo since he was six, but had never had the opening to train with people of this caliber, so he went down to South Texas to train for a year.Now 27, Michaels looks back

on that time as the turning point of his life. “I feel like God brought me to that point and gave me that opportunity when I didn’t deserve it,” says Michaels. After that happened, he came home, falling back

into his old habits just to be shaken up again, but this time permanently.He started questioning why

he was here, what his pur-pose was, and what he really believed in. “I came to the conclusion that there was a God and the God that I had studied in my few years of Christian schools is the God that I believe in.”After being baptized as a

Christian, Michaels decided to join the military and it was tough. “My first four plus years as a Christian I was in the mili-tary by myself. I didn’t have any Christian friends. That was

really hard to do,” Michaels recalls. When Michaels wasn’t on deployment, he was sta-tioned in Abilene, Texas, which brought him to the next phase of his life.Michaels had been going to

a huge non-denominational church in Abilene when he wasn’t on deployment. He had enjoyed the church, and during those four years he had tried to get more involved, but not once did he get the opportunity to shake the pastor’s hand. Things started to fall into place when Michaels finally met James Milam, a senior theol-ogy major at Southwestern.

Eddie Michaels, sophomore theology major, Southwestern Adventist University

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Cycling past the 220 U.S Chow time! L-R TTR cannon crew Melvin Burt, Cecil Bonham, Jody Coleman, & Charles Baskett

• Mayor Ackermann publi-cally proclaimed April 13-14 as “Wounded Warrior Week-end in Keene.” He presented Wordin with a “Book of Heroes,” an album containing photographs from last year’s R2R’s Keene stop.• Army veteran Gerald Ja-

cobs led out in the Pledge of Allegiance while Steve Hub-bard played Military Colors in the flag raising ceremony on the duck pond island. The U.S. flag was raised in the Color Guard ceremony by our very own Army veteran Bug-ger Putnam accompanied by a Wounded Warrior cyclist.The Keene portion of the

Ride 2 Recovery was brilliant-ly organized and coordinated by Mayor John Ackermann, Police Chief Rocky Alberti, City Secretary Keesha Lay, Keene Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Yddo Ortiz, Keene Public Works Director George Evans, Keene resi-dents Bugger Putnam and Dr. Brady Rusk and Keene/Fort Worth Pathfinder Area Coordi-nators Suzanna and Tony Facundo. Suzanna Facundo, when

interviewed by Keene Chronicle, spoke with great enthusiasm about the Keene/Fort Worth Pathfinder’s role in this year’s R2R Keene stop breakfast:“My husband Tony and I

are the Pathfinder Keene/Fort Worth Area Directors, which means that we offer support to the 20 Clubs that are in the

Keene/Fort Worth area. And so because of that, we are the coordinators of the breakfast for this event. We have 12 clubs with roughly 200-250 Pathfinders participating this year. Between all the Clubs, the breakfasts are being made. We have 26 omelets stations with people making hash browns, pancakes and potato burritos. We also have fruit on the table with juice, milk and water. We expect to feed at least 225 veterans!”“We would also like to thank

Walmart for donating all the food served at this event,” added Facundo.Coffee for this event was

provided and served by Mark and Mary McDonald of Sweet Peppa’s Café, Keene, Texas.The Keene/Fort Worth area

Seventh-day-Adventist Path-finder Clubs who participated in this year’s R2R breakfast event were the Alvarado English Midnight Warriors, the Arlington Central Yel-low Jackets, the Arlington Wolves, the Burleson Bears, the Crowley Lightbearers, the Filipino Tamaraws, the Forest Hill Sigmas, the Fort Worth First Eagles, the Fort Worth South Spanish Tigres, the Joshua Wildcats, the Keene English Rocketeers, the Keene Spanish Soul Savers and the Masterguides of Keene Span-ish.Yddo Ortiz shared an inter-

esting personal anecdote to Keene Chronicle at this year’s R2R event: “While my wife

and I were standing curbside along Old Betsy Road, an R2R cyclist who had some-how become aware of my involvement in the planning for the event approached us and passionately expressed his appreciation for our goodwill efforts. He stated ‘this is the highlight of the entire trip, we just love the overwhelmingly warm reception we get from the City of Keene and its resi-dents!’ He was so emotional that he gave me a big hug and planted a kiss on my cheek! I’ll have to admit that this is the first time I have ever been kissed by a man! I didn’t feel so bad after he also kissed my wife!”About Ride 2 Recovery:Ride 2 Recovery is a non-

profit program produced by the Fitness Challenge Foun-dation, a 501(c)3 to benefit mental and physical rehabili-tation programs that feature cycling as the core activity. Held in partnership with the Fitness Challenge Foundation, The R2R raises money to sup-port outdoor cycling programs and Spinning Recovery Labs at Military and VA locations around the U.S., as well as local rides for healing heroes, all aimed at helping injured veterans overcome obstacles they face as part of their re-habilitation. To participate in this year’s event, each cyclist paid a minimum $3,000 “do-nation.” R2R funds also support the

equipment donated to each

healing hero participating in the events, includ-ing bikes that require modification due to injuries. R2R supporters include UnitedHealthcare, Chevro-let, Raleigh Bicycles, United Airlines and the USO. For more information, visit www.ride2recovery.com.Texas Senator Brian

Birdwell: District 22Senator Brian Birdwell has

an impressive and event-ful history. On his web page www.birdwell.senate.state.tx.us/ his bio reads as follows:Occupation: Retired US Army

Officer; Founder and President of Non-Profit Education: Lamar University

in Beaumont, B.S. Criminal Justice, 1984; University of Missouri-Kansas City, Mas-ters of Public Administration, 1996; Graduate, Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS, 2000.Hometown: Granbury Party: RepublicanLt. Col. (Ret.) Brian Birdwell

is a native Texan, decorated military veteran and lifelong conserva-tive Republican currently representing Texas Senate District 22.Brian is a native of Fort Worth

and a resident of Granbury. He is a graduate of Lamar Univer-sity, Command and General Staff College and the Univer-sity of Missouri-Kansas City, where he earned a Master’s of Public Administration.As the Distinguished Mili-

tary Graduate of the Lamar Army ROTC program in1984,

Brian was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army and served in numerous training deployments and two opera-tional deployments. In 1990, he deployed to Operation Des-ert Shield/Desert Storm, where he was awarded the Bronze Star for Exceptional Meritori-ous Achievement. In 1998, he deployed to Central America as the Joint Operations Officer for Joint Task Force Aguila. In 2001, Brian was serving on the Department of the Army staff as the military aide to the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management.On September 11, 2001, when

American Airlines Flight 77 was crashed just yards away from his second floor Pentagon office, Brian was critically wounded and severely burned. Of the burns that covered more than 60 percent of his body, nearly half were third degree in severity. Today, follow-ing 39 operations, months of hospitalization and numerous skin grafts, Brian has made a miraculous re-covery. Despite physical limitations, he testifies not only to his physical heal-ing, but the ultimate mira-cle of grace through Christ. He was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received that day. Upon re-tirement in July 2004, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.After his retirement from

the Army, Brian and his wife Mel launched Face The Fire Ministries, a non-profit orga-nization that supports critical

burn survivors and wounded servicemen and women and their families. Together, Brian and Mel authored Refined by Fire: A Family’s Triumph of Love and Faith, which chroni-cles their life-changing ordeal. Through the years, Brian has been profiled in nu-merous national and regional media outlets.In June 2010, Brian won a

special election to the Texas State Senate. Five months later, he was re-elected to serve a full term. After his first legislative session, Brian received criti-cal acclaim from nu-merous conservative organizations, including an A+ rating from Texans for Fiscal Responsibil-ity, the highest rating in the Texas Senate from Texas Eagle Forum and a 100% rating from Texas Heritage Alliance.Brian serves as the vice-chair-

man of the Higher Education committee, vice-chairman of the Veter-an Affairs commit-tee and is a member of the Economic Development and Government Organization committees. In January 2012, he was appointed by Lieuten-ant Governor David Dewhurst to the Sunset Advisory Com-mission and the Joint Interim Committee to Study Human Trafficking.Brian and Mel have been mar-

ried for 26 years and they have one son, Matt, who a recent graduate of Texas Tech Uni-versity. They attend Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury.

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By email in December 2012 Wanda Smith, KISD superintendent , notified the board of trustees that at the end of the 2013 school year she was planning on returning to retirement. Since that an-nouncement the board has been busy working to hire her successor. After post-ing the position available, the board received 42 applications to be consid-ered. The board reviewed each and every application and narrow the search to 24 and then down to 6. On Monday April 22 there were 3 candidates in the final interview with the board. After 4 plus hours of interviews and discus-sion the board of trustees emerged from closed session to see if the board was ready to vote for a lone finalist and they did. After a few more serious question-ing among board members it was voted by a 4-3 margin to name Ricky Stephens to KISD lone finalist for the superinten-dents’ position. A second vote for unanimity was held and it was 6-1 in favor of Stephens.

Stephens has been the principal of the Mineola High School for the past 13 years. He comes to Keene with many positive references & achieve-ments in his academic life. He started as a math teacher and was a coach in Diboll and then he moved to Mineola as principal. His interests are in sports and would like to see

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