Restless Heart to Headline July 4th Celebration

Restless Heart

This year’s featured performers for Roscoe’s July 4th Celebration on Saturday, June 30, will be Restless Heart. The group is on its year-long 35th Anniversary Tour with stops in Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Kentucky. The band’s Dave Innis says that “35 years is more than we could have ever imagined or hope for and still share the stage with all our original members.”

Over the years, the band has had six consecutive No. 1 hits and four gold-certified albums. Singles now considered country classics include “The Bluest Eyes in Texas,” “Wheels,” “That Rock Won’t Roll,” “I’ll Still Be Loving You,” and “Why Does It Have to be Wrong or Right?”

The July 4th Celebration will also include the Lions Club’s Pancake Breakfast, the July 4th Parade, Plowboy Mudbog, street vendors on Cypress and Broadway, the Street Dance and Free Concert, the Fireworks Show, and the Post-Fireworks Dance at the Lumberyard with Lyndall Underwood and the Dusty Creek Band.

It should be a great day, so make plans to attend the festivities and once again celebrate our nation’s independence.

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COMMUNITY CENTER TO SPONSOR CITY-WIDE GARAGE SALE

On Saturday, June 30, the same day as this year’s 4th of July celebration, the Roscoe Community Center is sponsoring a city-wide garage sale. The sale will run from 8am to 3pm at individual homes as well as the Community Center.

For those choosing to use the Community Center, vending locations will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis. Inside locations will be $10, which will provide you with a table and come with advertising. Vendors are responsible for any tables beyond that. Outside spots are also $10 and include advertising, but vendors are responsible for their own tables. Those holding sales at their own homes will be charged $5 for advertising and placing their address on the map provided.

Your junk is someone else’s treasure! Don’t miss this opportunity to rid of your stuff on such a good busy day! Come shop or sell your goodies!

For more information, contact Misty at 325-338-1005 or Connie at 325-338-1287.

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TWELVE VEHICLES HIT BY BURGLARY IN ROSCOE

Twelve vehicles in Roscoe were burglarized this week. The person or persons involved focused on vehicles that were left unlocked. Roscoe Police are currently investigating the crimes and expect to apprehend the perpetrator(s) soon.

Roscoe Police also will cite the driver responsible for a three-vehicle wreck on east Broadway Monday afternoon. The collision occurred when the driver of an eastbound black SUV, traveling at an unsafe speed in a no-passing zone, attempted to pass an eastbound blue 18-wheeler that was turning into the E.On warehouse. The SUV struck the 18-wheeler and then caromed into a parked white F-350 pickup, causing damage to all three vehicles. No one was injured beyond minor bumps and bruises.

Also, on Thursday, a grey, 4-door sedan with an unknown driver lost control, struck a parked vehicle at Seventh and Cypress Streets, and then fled on foot. There were no identifiers for the vehicle, which hadn't been registered since 2015. Both car and driver are believed to be from out of town.
 

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STONEY LARUE AT THE LUMBERYARD SATURDAY

Stoney LaRue

Are you ready for some Red Dirt? Saturday night, the ever-popular Stoney LaRue and his band, The Arsenals, return to the Roscoe for a command presentation on the Lumberyard’s north stage.

Born in Texas but raised in Oklahoma, LaRue is famous for developing the Red Dirt sound along with friends Cody Canada, Jason Boland, and Brandon Jenkins. His 2005 CD, The Red Dirt Album, reached the Billboard sales charts its debut week, and in 2006 he released the best seller Live at Billy Bob’s. In 2014 he achieved acclaim for his 2011 CD, Velvet, and his 2014 album, Aviator.

His latest album, Us Time, is a collection of fan favorites from his live shows. It includes Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,” Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman,” and Gary Stewart’s “Empty Glass,” as well as LaRue standards such as “Feet Don’t Touch the Ground,” and “Oklahoma Breakdown,” plus a new LaRue original, “Easy She Comes,” and others.

Michael Carubelli

The Michael Carubelli Band will open for Stoney LaRue at around 8:00pm. LaRue will take the stage around 9:45pm. For reservations or more information, contact the Lumberyard at 325-766-2457.

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WEATHER REPORT: HEAT WAVE AND ANOTHER RAIN

There’s no other way to put it. It’s been hot, and it will continue to be hot in the days to come. Last week had only one day in which the high didn’t reach 100°F, and that was Monday when it rose to only 99°.  The high for the week was Thursday’s 106°, one degree more than Wednesday’s 105°. We got a break on Sunday and Monday, when the highs were only 90° and 91°. After all the heat, the two days felt like a return to spring. But the temperature was back up to 101° yesterday and should reach 103° today.

We also got a much-needed rain early Monday morning between 2:30 and 3am. Roscoe weatherman Kenny Landfried reported .5” for the official total, but I had .64” at my house, and most people I talked to who live west of town got more, somewhere between ¾ of an inch to an inch. Then last night after midnight, another storm blew through and dropped some rain west of town but nothing in town.

The outlook for the coming week is for continued hot, dry, and windy weather. Highs will be in the mid to upper nineties and lows in the mid to low seventies. Skies will be partly cloudy with winds from the south. The possibility of rain is only slight with 20% chances tomorrow and Friday but little beyond that.

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† DIXIE LEE TEMPLETON SMITH BERLIN

A memorial service will be held at 2:00pm on Sunday, June 10, at the Roscoe Church of Christ for Dixie Lee Templeton Smith Berlin, 82, who passed away peacefully at her home in Sweetwater June 3. Royce Clay, Hershel McDonald, and Dan Boren will officiate.

Dixie was born on January 28, 1936, in China Grove to J. M. and Ovada Templeton. The second of three sisters, she was raised in Loraine and was a graduate of Loraine High School. She received an undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University in 1957, where she met her husband of over fifty years, Jimmy Dean Smith. Following their wedding, Jimmy and Dixie lived in Lubbock, Robert Lee, Panhandle, Friona, and Rotan before settling in Roscoe in 1967. Dixie was a longtime resident of Roscoe. She was a schoolteacher at Roscoe ISD for many years and a member of the Roscoe Church of Christ. She was a Girl Scout troupe leader for several years and volunteered at the Roscoe School Library and the Sweetwater County Library after retiring from education. In 1991 she earned a Master of Education degree from Texas Tech University and shortly thereafter moved professionally to Snyder ISD where she was a school librarian for the final six years of her career.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy Dean Smith, and her sisters, Mary Rose Templeton Bowen and her husband, Charles, and Virginia Templeton Martin.

Following the loss of Jimmy, Dixie married Jerry Berlin in 2011 and the two were happily together until the time of her passing. She will be remembered by her husband Jerry Berlin, of Sweetwater; her three children, Stephen Smith and his wife, Angela, of Wiggins, CO; Randall Smith and his wife, Coilla, of Roscoe; and Susan Smith of Kornwestheim, Germany; six grandchildren, Cheyenne Smith and his wife, Kylee; Cale Smith and his wife, Kimberly; Anna Smith; Sarah Nolen and her husband, Tyler; Caden Smith and his fiancée Brittany Cain; and Rachel Smith and her fiancée Jonathan Daniel; and six great-grandchildren, as well as many extended family members and the hundreds of students whose lives she changed over the years.

In lieu of flowers, Dixie and her family invite you to donate to the Garrison Institute on Aging, TTUHSC, 3601 4th Str./MS:9424, Lubbock, Texas 79430.

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