White Castle Recalls Limited Production of Frozen Sliders
December 10, 2010 – White Castle has initiated a voluntary recall of a limited number of frozen 6-pack cheeseburgers, frozen 6-pack hamburgers, frozen 6-pack jalapeno cheeseburgers, 16-pack hamburgers, 16-pack cheeseburgers for the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
The voluntary recall will impact product on shelves at select retailers with best by dates ranging from 04 Aug 2020 to 17 Aug 2020. Any product with these dates on shelves is presently being removed. Any product with a best by date before or after these best by dates is not included in the voluntary recall.
To date, public health officials have not reported any illness associated with these products, according to the company and FDA announcements.
White Castle conducts frequent and regular quality assurance tests. A recent sample conducted by a third party laboratory of its frozen sandwiches from one manufacturing facility showed a presence of Listeria monocytogenes, halting any shipment of product to customers. Since the problem was identified, White Castle has not shipped any product from this facility to customers. Following rigorous safety testing protocols, all impacted production runs have been identified for destruction.
White Castle is taking the following actions at the facility where the problem was identified:
- Intensive sanitation and cleaning with guidance from outside food safety experts.
- Aggressively elevating already strong food safety testing and manufacturing guidelines.
- Conducting comprehensive testing to confirm no presence of listeria in the facility. “This voluntary recall is precautionary and is the right thing to do,” said Richardson.
Customers who may have purchased any of the products indicated (product codes listed below) are urged to dispose of them or return them to the store where they were purchased for an exchange or full refund and to consult with their physician regarding any medical questions.
Customers may also contact White Castle at 1-800-843-2728.
White Castle frozen sandwiches are sold in rectangular cardboard packages and the code date is located on a side panel.
A complete list of recalled products may be viewed on the FDA announcement page
Wildcats Soccer Coach Alexi Upton Discusses Team's First Scrimmage This Saturday on Coaches Show
Wildcats Soccer Coach Alexi Upton, in his second year here, says he is excited and ready to get things rolling. This Saturday (December 14) the Wildcats have their first scrimmage of the season at The Prim against Mount Pleasant Chapel Hill, Sabine and Mineola. Coach Upton was on KSST and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday Morning Coaches Show last Saturday. The Wildcats scrimmage Chapel Hill at 9 a.m., Sabine at 11 a.m. and Mineola at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Wildcats JV scrimmages Chapel Hill at 3 p.m. and Sabine at 4 p.m. Coach Upton says all the teams at the scrimmage are solid teams and should provide a good test for the Wildcats. He says he’ll be working to clean up things for the Wildcats so they can get better. Coach Upton says they will need to work on possessing the ball and increasing their speed of play. He says the Wildcats have looked good in practices that started December 2. Coach Upton says he held tryouts Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week and then assigned players to the varsity and JV teams. Friday he says the Wildcats and JV played each other. Coach Upton says the Wildcats have more depth than they did last year and are more talented. He says he would like to have the numbers to create a freshman team. Coach Upton is also working to continue developing soccer at the Middle School level. After Saturday’s scrimmage, the Wildcats will have two more scrimmages along with the popular Alumni Scrimmage this month. The Wildcats open the regular season at a prestigious Frisco tournament on January 2.
Wildcats and Lady Cats Basketball Teams Have Non-District Games on Tuesday
The Wildcats and Lady Cats Basketball Teams have non-district games on this Tuesday (December 10) game day.
The Lady Cats are at home playing New Boston in the Main Gym at Sulphur Springs High School. There will be a JV game at 5 p.m. with the varsity game coming up at around 6:15 p.m. The Lady Cats are hoping to break a three game losing streak. They dropped their last three games in a Glen Rose tournament this past weekend. The Lady Cats season record is 4-9. Lady Cats Coach Brittney Tisdell said like Terrell and Liberty-Eylau, New Boston will be super athletic and fast and will pressure the ball. She says if the Lady Cats can stay calm and handle the pressure, they should do alright. KSST Radio will have the Lady Cats and New Boston game live beginning at around 6:15 p.m. with live audio streaming. The game will also be videotaped for replay later on Channel 18 on Suddenlink Cable.
Meanwhile the Wildcats Basketball Team will be taking on the Dallas Woodrow Wilson Wildcats in Dallas. There will be a freshman game at 5 p.m., a JV contest at 6:15 p.m. with the varsity game at around 8 p.m. Woodrow has a 5-7 season record according to Max Preps but they have played some good teams. The Wildcats, ranked #3 in Class 5A, are 8-2 for the season. They just finished in fifth place in a Mansfield tournament last weekend by winning 4 of 5 games. Included were wins over Pearland Shadow Creek, #2 ranked in Class 5A, and Killeen Ellison, ranked #6 in Class 6A. Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta says Woodrow Wilson lost no one off of last year’s team. He says they are very tall with several guys from 6-foot-6 to 6-foot-9. Coach Cipoletta says not many teams make the Wildcats look small but Woodrow Wilson does. He says the Wildcats will have their hands full defending Wilson’s size. He says the Wildcats may be more athletic at some positions than Wilson. Coach Cipoletta says the Wildcats will need to execute, keep Wilson off the boards and defend them inside.
Fifteen Wildcats Make All-District Football Team
Fifteen Wildcats’ football players made the District 8-5A All-District Football Team selected by the district’s coaches recently. Three Wildcats made First Team All-District: outside linebacker Kylan Wade, safety Chase Haney and punter Noe Ponce. Four more Wildcats made Second Team All-District: running back Caden Davis, offensive lineman Giovanni Pizano, defensive end Cameron Kaufert and inside linebacker Ryan Carrillo. Eight Wildcats received Honorable Mention All-District Honors: running back Da’Korian Choc Sims, offensive lineman Chandler Leo, offensive lineman Ryan Hammons, defensive lineman D’Andre Peoples, inside linebacker Eleazar Brena, cornerback Detrick Clayton, safety Korderrian Bull Turner and cornerback Dominique Sims.
2 Arkansas Men, 1 Sulphur Springs Man Jailed Monday On Felony Warrants
Two Arkansas men and a Sulphur Springs man were reported to have all been booked into the county jail on Monday, Dec. 9, on felony warrants, according to sheriff’s reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Osornio and Sgt. Shea Shaw were reportedly notified Monday by Jeramie Jermaine Smith’s parole officer that that a warrant had been issued for his arrest, according to arrest reports.
Osornio and Shaw received information the 39-year-old Sulphur Springs man could be located at a Sulphur Springs sale barn. They located Smith there and took him into custody at 10:50 a.m. Dec. 9 for violation of parole, an offense alleged to have occurred on Nov. 17. Smith was transported and booked into Hopkins County jail on the charge, according to arrest and jail reports
Morris Lee Toney, 57, of Judsonia, Arkansas was arrested in Upshur County on four felony Hopkins County warrants. Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office was notified. Deputy Elijah Fite traveled to Upshur County jail, where he took custody of Toney at 2:10 p.m. Dec. 9, according to arrest reports.
Fite transported Toney to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked on four warrants for violation of probation, which he was on for possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance, possession of 4 grams or more but less than 200 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance, possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence charges, according to arrest and jail reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office was notified Carl Featherston had been arrested and was being held in Bowie County jail on a Hopkins County warrant, according to arrest reports.
HCSO Deputy Elijah Fite traveled to Bowie County jail, where he took the 36-year-old Louisville, Arkansas man into custody at 4:05 p.m. Dec. 9, on the warrant for violation of probation on a Jan. 5, 2018 unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon charge, according to arrest and jail reports. Featherston was transported and booked into Hopkins County jail.
Commissioners Approve Agreements With 5 VFDs, FEMA Hazardous Mitigation Grant Project Documents
Fire protection agreements for five of the county’s volunteer fire departments, resolutions and agreements regarding FEMA Hazardous Mitigation Projects, a resolution in support of the Second Amendment and Article 1 Section 23 of Texas Constitution, and a budget amendment for Precinct 2 receive approval of Hopkins County Commissioners Court at their regular meeting Monday.
Fire Protection Agreements
The Hopkins County Commissioner Court has been working for months on fire protection agreements with volunteer fire departments. In order to receive any funding from the county, the departments have to return an approved agreement.
Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom Monday reported several had turned in agreements for approval, one agreement brought in will require additional discussions with the VFD officers.
The council approved agreements returned by Brinker, Como, Cumby, Dike and Tira VFDs. The remaining departments will need to get those documents in soon so the VFDs can request to receive funding from the county, according to Newsom.
The commissioners also set Feb. 1 as the deadline by which the remaining VFDs must return their agreements.
FEMA Project Documents
The Commissioners Court also approved agreements for FEMA Hazard Mitigation Projects and a resolution related to those agreements for maintenance agreements for assurances under non-construction programs, things that have to be part of the assurances for the construction program, certified signature authorizing agent form and disclosure of lobbying activities.
The resolution authorizes the submission of multiple locations for Hazardous Mitigation Assistance Grant projects and appoints the county judge as chief executive officer to act in all matters in connection with the grants, according to Newsom.
Projects the county hopes to attain funding for include critical facilities generators, a county-wide drainage improvement project and a warning siren project.
Hopkins County Fire Chief Andy Endsley, who serves as the county’s emergency management coordinator, said he and Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator Kristy Springfield, Beth Wisenbaker, and Hopkins County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Tanner Crump and Communications Adminstrator David Ray have worked together on emergency management planning, including compiling information for FEMA grant applications.
Endsley said, originally, the county had planned to apply for funding to put a fixed generator at each of the volunteer fire departments, which are considered critical infrastructure throughout the county. The emergency planning officials later learned two water systems and the City of Como do not have back up generators to pump water if the area is without electricity for a long period of time.
Requesting funding for all of those projects not only exceeds the allowable amount for a county, but the allocation even for the state. So, emergency officials expect to apply for one mid-sized mobile generator and a large generator, which would be available to be moved to facilities that might need them if an extended electricity outage occurs, according to Endsley.
The county officials are amending their hazard mitigation plan to include the Como, Cumby and Tira in their requests for warning sirens. Rural schools, where the most populous areas are during the day on week days, so they’d have a warning that would be set off through the county dispatch center, the fire chief noted.
Endsley said, currently, the only capability the county has to set off any warning siren is in the city of Cumby. The emergency officials are applying for consideration for grant funding to assist in attaining and installing warning systems in those areas as well.
The county fire chief said the county is able to apply for these funds by presidential disaster declaration.
“This would be one more way of making our county safer, especially safer for our children and citizens,” Newsom said.
2nd Amendment Resolution
Hopkins County Commissioners Court also took a “stance to support the sheriff and law enforcement and people’s right to defend themselves” Tuesday.
The Commissioners Court approved a resolution declaring “support of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Texas Article 1 Section 23 protecting citizens inalienable rights.”
The court resolved to defend citizens’ rights and liberties as guaranteed in both Constitutions, and to support the sheriff “in the exercise of his sound discretion” and decisions regarding law enforcement in the county. The resolution will not support or appropriate funds or resources to “enforce any law that unconstitutionally infringes on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”
“Thank you, I do appreciate it,” Hopkins County Sheriff Lewis Tatum said after the commissioners court unanimously agreed in favor of the resolution.
Budget Amendment
A budget amendment was approved for the Precinct 2 road budget.
Commissioner Greg Anglin received a $6,778 check from Harmony Cemetery Association for road repairs into the cemetery. A budget amendment was required from the court in order for the funds to be moved into the Precinct 2 road building budget, as it increases that budget, Hopkins County Auditor Shannah Aulsbrook explained.
Special City Council Meeting Called For Friday To Accept Resignations; Appoint 1 New Council Member, Mayor
A special meeting of Sulphur Springs City Council has been called to address resignations of council members made over the last week and to appoint a mayor and pro tem.
Sulphur Springs Mayor Norman Sanders gave notice of resignation on Thursday December 5th, 2019. Council members Erica Armstrong, Jimmy Lucas and Jeff Sanderson submitted notice of resignation, “effective immediately,” city officials confirmed Monday.
Resignations are not effective until stipulated number legal days after their official notice is given.
Any action of the council will require a quorum of at least four people.
“I think we will be able to commit to a special council meeting set for Friday. I think we will have a quorum. I think with that we’ll be in a position that we can operate,” City Attorney Jim McLeroy said shortly before lunch Tuesday.
With a quorum, the council would consider accepting resignations and appointing a new member to fill one of those positions, which the council will assign. A mayor and mayor pro tem to serve through June 2020 would also be selected.
The council would have to hold elections in 2020 for city residents to elect new representatives to fill the majority of the council seats, including those whose terms expire this May and the remaining terms of those resigning.
The special council meeting has been called for noon Friday, Dec. 13, in the Council Room at City Hall, 201 North Davis St.
9 Personnel Decisions, 1 Appointment Made By Sulphur Springs ISD Board
On Monday, Sulphur Springs Independent School Board of Trustees gave approval for nine personnel decisions and appointed a school representative to the appraisal board.
Mike Horne, who has been representing the school district on Hopkins County Appraisal District Board of Directors, was contacted and agreed to serve another term, school officials told trustees. SSISD trustees at their regular December meeting, held at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 9, unanimously approved the motion by John Prickette and seconded by Craig Johnson for Horne to serve from Jan. 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2021.
Following an executive session, the board reconvened to approve nine personnel changes recommended to them by administrators. Overall, four resignations were accepted, as were recommendations for four new hires and one job swap. The changes affect four campuses.
At high school, resignations from Spanish teacher Natalie Johnson, Connections teacher Kellie Noles and technical theatre teacher Desiree Pharis were accepted. Approved to join the high school staff as a Spanish teacher was Carlos Ramire.
Travis Primary is losing second grade teacher Morgan Nutt. Maria Sofia Sosa, a Title I aide at Travis, was approved to fill the second grade teaching opening on that campus.
New personnel were approved for two additional district campuses. Tabitha Barker was approved as a purchasing clerk and Tiffany Yarbrough as a payroll coordinator at the Administration Building, and Kimberly Noe is to joing the Barbara Bush Primary staff as a special education aide.
Winnsboro Celebrates "Cultural Arts District" Renewal through 2029
Brenda Buck, Director of the Winnsboro’s Main Street Project and Cultural Arts District, proudly welcomed several dozen guests to the Cultural Arts Center in downtown Winnsboro on Saturday night, December 7, 2019. In addition to being ringside for the Winnsboro Christmas Parade, attendees enjoyed viewing the art hung inside the Center and the music of pianist and vocalist Ashlen Jackson. The celebration included the cutting and serving of a cake for the event.
It was with great excitement and pleasure that the Board of Directors of the Arts Center received word that their designation as a Cultural Arts Center was renewed for another ten years, by the Texas Commission for the Arts. In 2009, Winnsboro was among the first seven cities selected across the state as a Cultural District by the Texas Commission of Arts, and that designation was recently renewed, through 2029. Winnsboro also retains a designation of Main Street City, both State and National.
Earlier in 2019, more great news was celebrated, as a larger Arts Center will be constructed which can accommodate future exhibits and expanding interest in the Center. The present location is a vintage building in the downtown district which currently rotates exhibits by local painters and sculptors, offers books by local writers, houses a performance stage as well as a small museum, and a retail outlet which stocks art materials for sale.
