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Spiller, Carter go to District 68 runoff election
As expected there was a low voter turnout for Saturday’s District 68 Texas House election and it will go to a runoff since no candidate earned the 50 percent majority.
Across the district there were 100,260 total votes cast for a 9.12 percent voter turnout. Montague County saw 8.27.
David Spiller, a Jacksboro attorney, fell shy of 50 percent earning 43.88 percent. He won 20 of the 22 counties in District 68 with 4,010 votes.
Jason Brinkley, former Cooke County judge, took his home county of Cooke with 1,143 votes, while John Berry won Crosby with 73 votes.
Craig Carter, a Metroplex area businessman who lists his residence in Nocona, earned 18.07 percent of 1,651 votes to make the runoff. Carter saw 305 votes in Montague County, but Spiller took it with 463 votes.
Overall vote totals were: John Berry, Jacksboro, 1,594 votes; Jason Brinkley, Gainesville, 1,489; Craig Carter, Nocona, 1,651; Charles Gregory, Childress, 395 and David Spiller, Jacksboro, 4,010 votes.
No runoff date will be set until all the votes have been canvassed.
As a card-carrying member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Shadowland Giant Lone Star hosta.
Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.
Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.
Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year or thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller County it’s breakout year.
Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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