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The regular Camp County Cattlemen’s Meeting is Tuesday (Feb 18) at 6:30 pm at the Aubrey Pilgrim Building. Annual dues are DUE at this meeting, which is $30 single/$45 couple. If you are not sure if you have paid dues or not, please call the office. If you are not currently a member but are interested, please visit! We will feed you and give you another month to think about joining and paying your dues. 

I highly encourage joining this organization as it promotes education and comradery between beef producers in the county, something that not all local communities have! We are also building a scholarship fund through our cap sales to help support Camp County 4-H. Caps are $20 each and available at meetings or in the Extension office. By being a member of this organization, it guarantees you at least two pesticide CEU’s a year from regular meetings! 

We also have the Landowners’ Educational Field-day Series hosted by Camp, Franklin, and Titus Counties Extension Offices. They are on Saturday (Feb 22) from 9:00 am-2:00 pm in Mount Pleasant at the Titus County Extension Office and on Saturday (Mar 21) from 9:00 am-2:00 pm at the Aubrey Pilgrim Building in Pittsburg. These two programs will begin with a classroom portion, will include lunch, and a field portion for live demonstrations follows.

Saturday (Feb 22) from 9:00 am-2:00 pm

“Getting the most out of your pastures” 1 CEU

Classroom Location: Titus County Extension Office

                                        1708 Industrial Rd. Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455

Field Location: Titus Co. Extension Office—Equipment from Conroy Tractor, Mt. Pleasant

(subject to change in the event of inclement weather)

Topics Include: recovering from hog damage, winter weed control, baleage, sprayer calibration, and utilizing various farm equipment

Saturday (Mar 21) from 9:00 am-2:00 pm

“Aquatic vegetation and Fish Health” 1 CEU

Classroom Location: Aubrey Pilgrim Building

                                        402 Broach St, Pittsburg, TX 75686

Field Location: TBA in Pittsburg 

(subject to change in the event of inclement weather)

Topics Include: pondweed ID and control, utilizing online resources to identify weeds, blue-green algae, fish health, pond measuring, fertilizer applications

The cost is $15 per program. Pre-register by Friday (Feb 14) for the Pasture Management program and Friday (Mar 13) for the Pond Management program by calling the Camp County Extension Office (903)-856-5005

Dr. Tommie “Tonea” Stewart

Educator and Award-Winning Actress Dr. Tommie “Tonea” Stewart To Give Keynote Address At Black History Month Convocation At Jarvis Christian College On Tues. Feb. 25, 2020, 11:00 am.

Hawkins, TX – Jarvis Christian College is proud to announce that educator and award-winning actress Dr. Tommie “Tonea” Stewart will be its Black History Month Convocation Keynote Speaker on Tues. Feb. 25, 2020, 11:00 am. This event is free and is open to the public and will take place in the Smith-Howard Chapel. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Tommie “Tonea” Stewart, a native of Greenwood, Mississippi, has lived in Montgomery, Alabama, since 1990. She is a professional actress, play director, national museum exhibit director, retired tenured Professor and Dean of the College of Visual & Performing Arts at Alabama State University (ASU).

As Dean of the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Stewart served as administrator over the Departments of Art, Music, and Theatre. She also served as a professor, role model, motivator, and mentor to students. Since her arrival, the number of theatre majors, minors, and the number of graduates from the Department of Theatre Arts have soared. The Department of Theatre Arts received the 2013 and 2014 Best Fine Arts Program Award from HBCU Digest. Over 75% of ASU theatre graduates have received full scholarships to major graduate universities. Universities like Brown, Yale, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Louisville, Washington State, New York University, Pennsylvania State, and Louisiana State University, to name a few. Her summer performance and enrichment camps have touched youth and adults from the Montgomery area and across the nation. Such as TAPS (Theater Artists Performance School), Camp 3T (Teaching through Theatre), TTI (Technical Theatre Initiative), ARPAC (Adult Repertory Performing Arts Camp), and Camp Gifted for persons with disabilities.

After receiving a BS degree in Speech and Theatre from Jackson State University and an MA in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stewart completed her Ph.D. in Theatre Arts at Florida State University in 1989. She was the first African American female to receive a doctorate from the FSU School of Theatre and the first McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Theatre Arts. During her study at FSU, Tonea also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award.

As an actress, Tonea is best known for her recurring role as Miss Etta Kibbee in “In the Heat of the Night.” She earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for her role in the film adaptation of John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” and a New York World Festival Gold Medal Award for the narration of Public Radio International’s series “Remembering Slavery.” Tonea began her acting career in 1969 and became the first African American to direct and star in a leading role at New Stage Theatre, the most prestigious equity theatre in Mississippi. Since then, she has directed over 40 plays as well as directed major museum exhibitions such as the Rosa Parks Museum, African American Museum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC. Stewart has performed in Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Scotland, Turkey, and throughout the United States, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her screen and television credits include A Time To Kill, The Rosa Parks Story, Mississippi Burning, Invasion of the Body Snatchers III, Living Large, My Stepson/ My Lover, “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “Memphis Beat” “Matlock,” “Leave of Absence,” “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” “ER”, “Touched by an Angel”, “Mississippi Damned” “Come Sunday” and several Lifetime Movies, the latest being “The Wronged Man.”