KILGOROUND
MITCH LUCAS

FOUND OUT THIS MORNING that David Cline, the pro at Meadowbrook Country Club, had an interesting weekend.

David spent the weekend in Las Vegas, attending the 43rd Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand, which aired live on CBS. Cline even attended a couple of parties while he was there: one thrown by Reba McIntyre, and another thrown by Kenny Chesney.

I know that Lindale's Miranda Lambert won a big award - I think it may have been for best album. At any rate, that's pretty cool that David was able to go.

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OUR NEW Texas Collegiate Baseball franchise, the East Texas Pump Jacks, is looking for staffers to fill several positions, including mascots.

The Pump Jacks will host a job fair on Friday and Saturday - according to general manager Mike Lieberman, jobs that the club is looking to fill in-

clude concessions, ushers, wait staff, public address announcer, merchandise sales and even the mascots (a dinosaur and a donkey).

If you want to come out to the job fair (be 16 years old first), show up at the Kilgore Chamber of Commerce at 813 North Kilgore Street from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday, or from noon until 4 p.m. Saturday.

The franchise is also still looking for a few host families to help put up the players while they're here this summer. Host families get season tickets to the Jacks' games here at Driller Park, by the way.

If you'd like to become a host family for a young college player, or if you'd like to hear more about it, call their office at (903) 218-GOET or visit them online at info@pumpjacksbaseball. com.

Lieberman said the franchise would like to fill two positions - the job of concession manager and of groundskeeper - prior to the job fair. They ask for experienced candidates to contact them either by the email or the phone number listed above.

By the way, the season opens on the road June 10, and the first game at Driller of their 24- game home schedule is June 12. If you'd like to get season tickets, they are on sale. Call them at the phone number I included above, go by their offices at 1100 Stone Road, Suite 120, or visit their website, pumpjacksbaseball.com.

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THERE ARE STILL spots open in the Lions Club's golf tournament at Meadowbrook, to be played Friday.

The tournament is a two-person scramble, and lunch will be served prior to its start Friday afternoon. Entry fee for one is $75, and it's $150 for a team. The fee includes cart and green fee, and a lunch prior to the tournament. Cash prizes will be awarded for first ($300), second ($200) and third ($100) places, prizes based on a full field. Door prizes will be given, and there will be two mulligans per player.

The Lions Club will use the fees and all the funds raised for the tournament to help them contribute to all sorts of causes, including the local Boy Scouts, charities and scholarships to Kilgore College.

If you'd like to enter or find out more, you can call Cline at the pro shop at (903) 984- 3387, Bob Ellzey at (903) 984-7956, or Richard Henley at (903) 987-1344.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY to Michael Rhoton, Vi Wicki, Dora Hooper, Randy Shelburne, Gary LaGregs, Mark Moore, Jay Sherrer, Cecil Mayo, Mutt Watson, Jeanette Portley, John Pope, Cecil Tolleson, Helen Burrows, Shelia Moreland, Jeanne Scott, Vernon Ray Collins, Debbie Williams, Sgt. Joseph Heard

Celebrating with you: singer Joe Cocker (64), singer/actress Cher (Can we still call her an actress? Haven't seen her in forever; she's 62), actor/comedian Bronson Pinchot (of "Perfect Strangers;" he's 49), and Mindy Cohn, former child actress and now the voice of Velma in the new "Scooby Doo" cartoons, is 42. See what kinds of things you can find out when you watch too much TV?

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TODAY to Rodney and Traci Portley, Gene and Rita Brown, Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Haskins, Dee and Sonya Headley