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Graves I agree with you. <br />Webb To come back to this area. <br />Graves When we specify one it is hard. <br />Webb Right. <br />Burgin I like the program that Paris High School started a few years ago <br />when they wanted to start a champion football team. They did not <br />start with the seniors, If you will remember, they went down to the <br />grade school, or middle school level and they started there. They <br />put the coaching staff in. They put everything in place to bring the <br />kids up, and accruement them to the sport program. I look at it the <br />same way with recruitment, now then, it would dearly please me to <br />death if I hire anybody and everybody and have a good <br />representation with our current test. We do not have it. And, I do <br />not think we should quit trying, right to day, right now, but we have <br />kids coming up in the town that, you know, we can start that <br />program right now. More involvement with the youth in the town, I <br />think we have a lot of organizations in this city. We have tours of the <br />fire station weekly. The minority churches would be welcome and <br />start bringing their Sunday school class, their youth groups on a <br />regular basis to the fire station and to the police station. There is <br />still a problem there. If there is a community event, we should be <br />invited to participate, we do, but there is more than what we <br />participate in. So, any contact that we can have in the black <br />community on a regular on going basis, touch the kids and when <br />they grow we are on their minds. The money part that you were <br />talking about, Clovis, I agree 100% with you; however, your bigger <br />cities pay more, but it cost you more to live over there, and then you <br />also have the environment to live in, which I wouldn't trade Paris, <br />Texas for Dallas, or Houston or any other big city. And it takes the <br />kids to grow up and realize that. Mine is 30 year old and he just now <br />starting to turn around and want to come home, and he has been <br />gone 12 years. Now, what changes that attitude, I do not know. <br />There is adventure and excitement out there in the world, and when <br />I got out of high school, I was just like these kids. I wanted to go <br />