Lamar is a partner in Pedro's Tamales, Inc. and Mitzi helps to market the company and its food products. Pedro's supplies tamales and other Mexican food products to grocery stores and restaurants. The Sartin's first dressed the two dogs for the Mansfield High School football homecoming came this past season. And that was the beginning. Since then the two dogs have been decked out for the State Fair of Texas, Christmas, New Years Eve, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and even politically correct for election days.
People just love it.
Under Tier IIIB existing debt allotment the district receives a 48.87 percent state subsidy for existing debt service, up to a maximum level. This is the second time Larry Nix has attempted to get council approval for the campground on about 18 acres he owns on the west side of U.S. 287 at Walnut Creek. Nix's first request met with heavy opposition in January from homeowners in the Hillcrest Addition to the west of the property. Complaints centered around concerns about increased flooding, tree removal, attraction of transient workers, increases in crime, noise, garbage and the uncertainty of proper entrances and exists as well as possible commercial traffic in surrounding residential neighborhoods. Some local residents still oppose the project.