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Texas High School Athletic Training Program Honored

Parents of student athletes at Mount Pleasant High Independent School District can rest easy knowing their kids are in safe hands.

The athletic trainers at MPISD received an award from the National Athletic Trainers Association, the Safe Sports School Award.

Justin Hargrove, head trainer at MPISD, is a Mount Pleasant graduate himself who has been in athletic training for more than 25 years.

“Professionally I’ve been doing this since 1998,” Hargrove said. “I started as a student trainer way back in 1990. So about 26 years now.”

Hargrove first got into training back in his high school days.

“Growing up I was really into sports,” Hargrove said. “I was one of those kids that was always a little bit undersized and when we got to high school and everybody kept growing and I didn’t I decided I wanted to find some way to stay involved in athletics.”

Hargrove took his high school training experience and went off to college before doing multiple professional internships.

“I went to Howard Payne University and did my college work there,” Hargrove said. “I did two summer internships with the Philadelphia Eagles and one with the Dallas Cowboys.”

In order to receive the award that MPISD was honored with a school must meet several criteria.

“There are about 10 or 12 bullet points,” Hargrove said. “They look at our equipment, our developed emergency plans. It shows that the Mount Pleasant Independent School District is doing what they can to keep the kids safe.”

Hargrove said he had seen the application for the award come across his desk for a few years.

“I got to looking at it and thought you know we do everything on this list already so why not apply for it,” Hargrove said.

Hargrove and his fellow trainer Jamie Denman are both certified trainers.

“Jaime and myself both have our national certifications,” Hargrove said.

Denman came to Mount Pleasant from San Antonio and like Hargrove has a love for the work she gets to do on a daily basis.

“I love being able to work with the kids and help them stay healthy,” Denman said. 

For both Hargrove and Denman the job brings a great sense of reward, even when there are unfortunate injuries.

“You never want to see the kids get hurt Hargrove said. “But being able to take that kid and get them back out there, that’s very rewarding.” 

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Texas Athletic Trainer First to get restocked Blue Bell Ice Cream !

Blue Bell Ice Cream returned to grocery shelves in Mount Pleasant and Titus County Monday, Dec. 14.

Mount Pleasant ISD athletic trainer Justin Hargrove may have been one of the first in town to buy a half-gallon carton.

“About 6: 30 [a.m. Monday] I was in Walmart buying some things. They were in the process of stocking the shelves,” Hargrove said.

He saw the Blue Bell going into the store freezer shelves and decided he definitely just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

“I just happened to be in there. I saw the ice cream. I thought, well I’ve got a freezer at work, so I got one of the half-gallon Dutch Chocolate containers,” he said.

After his school lunch duty Monday, Hargrove took an ice cream break, after all these months.

In the parking lot of Brookshire’s Monday afternoon, Lori Hindman, who lives in Leesburg but works in Mount Pleasant had snagged a carton of the Blue Bell Great Divide.

She noted it was great to have the ice cream back and pay the store price, $5.99, as opposed to what her husband paid for a carton last weekend out of Pittsburg – $9. 

Apparently, the ice cream had hit the underground market, she said.

Blue Bell Creameries reported they would begin distributing the ice cream in phase three of the market re-entry plan.

“Phase three reaches the remaining majority of Texas as well as central and southern Alabama,” said Ricky Dickson, vice president of sales and marketing for Blue Bell. “This is our largest phase to date but we will work as quickly as we can to get our products in stores.  Freezers will be refilled as needed throughout the week.”

The company announced that Blue Bell is once again making ice cream at its three production facilities located in Brenham, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Sylacauga, Alabama. 

“We have increased our production capacity which allows us to build enough inventory to meet the consumer demand in our first two phases and move into phases three and four within a week of each other,” Dickson said. “With three of our plants now in production we also have plans to expand our flavor selection.”

For now Blue Bell is producing the following flavors of ice cream: Buttered Pecan, Cookies ’n Cream, Dutch Chocolate, Homemade Vanilla, Peppermint, Pistachio Almond and The Great Divide. 12-pak Homemade Vanilla cups and 12-pak Homemade Vanilla and Dutch Chocolate cups are also available in stores.

Blue Bell officials announced the company would begin phase four, which will cover the state of Louisiana and Jackson, Miss., and its surrounding areas, on Dec. 21. It was announced on Friday that the El Paso, Texas, Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., markets will have ice cream in stores beginning Jan. 11. A date for phase five has not yet been announced.

Brookshire’s issued a press release this week announcing the re-entry of the Blue Bell ice cream brand into the Brookshire’s stores beginning Monday in Texas cities from Marshall to Sweetwater.

According to Rebecca Sanders, with Brookshire’s, the Brookshire’s store on Rice Road in Tyler would 

be the first store to receive a Monday delivery which was scheduled for 4 a.m.  Deliveries to Brookshire’s, FRESH by Brookshire’s, and Super 1 Foods in various towns were reportedly to continue throughout the day on Monday (with no specific times available).

Stores will receive approximately seven varieties and quantities may be limited, Sanders said.

The Texas cities include Albany, Athens, Atlanta, Bullard, Canton, Chandler, Cisco, Daingerfield, Eastland, Flint, Gilmer, Gladewater, Grand Saline, Hallsville, Hawkins, Jefferson, Kilgore, Lindale, Longview, Marshall, Mineola, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, New Boston, Overton, Palestine, Pittsburg, Quitman, Sweetwater, Texarkana, Troup, Van, White Oak, Whitehouse and Winnsboro.  Ashdown, Arkansas Brookshire’s is also included in the list.

Blue Bell began returning its ice cream products to food markets Aug. 31, four months after a total product recall. That recall, announced April 20, 2015, was due to the potential for the products to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes after Blue Bell received several positive tests from products made in two different places, according to the company’s reports.

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