In the wake of the acci- dent involving a trailer car- rying hazardous materials on State Highway 97, Gon- zales County’s emergency management program was pressed into service — and it passed with flying colors. Gonzales County Fire Chief Keith Schmidt, County Judge David Bird and Jimmy Harless, the county’s Emergency Man- agement Coordinator, sat down with local media Wednesday morning to dis- cuss the accident and the county’s response to it. At approximately 8 a.m. on Feb. 10, a tractor-trailer rig overturned aſter clip- ping another vehicle. e trailer was filled with 9,000 gallons of liquid propane. Emergency respond- ers evacuated residents an area in a half-mile radius around the intersection of SH 97 with FM 108 because of the nature of the load. In Gonzales County Under- ground Water Conservation Dis- trict directors on Tuesday moved to act to limit the impact of salt-water injection wells on the county’s underground aquifers, but also learned one of the state’s top elected officials is considering eliminating the district entirely. Directors voted to approve a resolution authorizing general manager Greg Senglemann to be- gin taking actions to oppose salt- water injection wells which could affect the Wilcox, Carrizo, Queen City and Sparta aquifers which provide drinking water to county residents. Sengelmann presented a map noting the locations of current and proposed salt-water injec- tion wells in the county. While the board has no direct authority over those wells and hazardous- fluid disposal wells, it could seek public hearings in an attempt to influence action by the Texas Railroad Commission. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s salt-water or hazardous material, you still can’t drink it,” Sengel- mann said. As part of his monthly report to the directors, Sengelmann also noted a memorandum from Lt. Gov. david Dewhurst to the Friday: High-61, Low-52 Showers Saturday: High-59, Low-40 Showers Sunday: High-65, Low-48 Sunny Monday: High-69, Low-50 Cloudy Tuesday: High-72, Low-50, Isolated T-Storms Wednesday: High-74, Low-50 Sunny Weather Watch Weather Sponsored by: 830-672-8585 www.SageCapitalBank.com Cannon THE GONZALES Vol. 3- Issue 21 Reporting on Gonzales and Surrounding Counties with Honesty, Integrity and Fairness **50 Cents** Subscribe Today Call (830) 672-7100 Gonzales’ only locally-owned newspaper • www.gonzalescannon.com County reviews response aſter truck wreck Sports Lady Eagles claim playoff victory Section C Politics Roundup of filings for area municipal, school races Page A3 The Arts Local woman’s dog a winner at Westminster Page D1 Crash closes highway A tractor-trailer rig carrying liquid propane was involved in an accident on State Highway 97 on Friday, clos- ing the road for most of the day while awaiting the arrival of a team from Eagle Lake to clean up the scene. 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By CEDRIC IGLEHART [email protected]Painting of local rodeo star adorns cover of SA Rodeo program WATER, Page A9 Former city parks director indicted By DAVE MUNDY [email protected]ACCIDENT, Page A9 By DAVE MUNDY [email protected]In the event you’ll be at- tending events at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo this year, you’ll probably want to make sure and pick up a program. e cover art for one of this year’s San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo programs features a paint- ing done by a young artist from La Vernia based on a photo of a young Gonzales rodeo enthusiast, and ties together a couple of prize- winners. e painting of Gonzales’ Loni Lester on her horse Biscuit preparing for a bar- rel race run was done by Natalie Baker, an 18-year- old senior from La Vernia. e painting was named the winner in the Western Art competition for this year’s show and will be sold at auction on the final Sun- day of the rodeo. “Our western art com- petition was coming up at school for the rodeo and I really wanted to do an amazing picture to try and place in the top 25 like I’ve done so in the past two years,” Baker said. “I was going through Loni’s pictures on Facebook actually because I knew she does rodeo and would have some pictures I might use,” Baker added. “And really I was just scrolling through the pictures and immedi- Natalie Baker A former City of Gonzales em- ployee has been indicted on two counts of tampering with govern- mental records. e Gonzales County Grand Jury, meeting Feb. 10, issued two indictments for tampering with government records against for- mer Gonzales parks and recre- ation department manager Billy Malaer. An April 26 court date has been set for Malaer, who had not been arrested prior to the in- dictments. e Grand Jury issued a to- tal of 24 indictments against 22 individuals, including return- ing a murder indictment against Tyron Milton Mitchell. Mitchell is accused in the December 12, 2011shooting death of Dyron James Green. ere was no immediate in- dication from the office of Dis- trict Attorney Heather McMinn whether any other indictments would be sought stemming from the city’s months-long investiga- tion into possible financial mis- appropriation within the city’s Parks & Recreation Department. McMinn confirmed last month that her office has asked for some additional information from the Gonzales Police Department concerning its investigation, and planned to move forward with the case. e city’s investigation began in July 2011 when interim City By CEDRIC IGLEHART and DAVE MUNDY [email protected]CITY, Page A9 PAINTING, Page A9
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In the wake of the acci-dent involving a trailer car-rying hazardous materials on State Highway 97, Gon-zales County’s emergency management program was pressed into service — and it passed with flying colors.
Gonzales County Fire Chief Keith Schmidt, County Judge David Bird and Jimmy Harless, the county’s Emergency Man-agement Coordinator, sat
down with local media Wednesday morning to dis-cuss the accident and the county’s response to it.
At approximately 8 a.m. on Feb. 10, a tractor-trailer rig overturned after clip-ping another vehicle. The trailer was filled with 9,000 gallons of liquid propane.
Emergency respond-ers evacuated residents an area in a half-mile radius around the intersection of SH 97 with FM 108 because of the nature of the load. In
Gonzales County Under-ground Water Conservation Dis-trict directors on Tuesday moved to act to limit the impact of salt-water injection wells on the
county’s underground aquifers, but also learned one of the state’s top elected officials is considering eliminating the district entirely.
Directors voted to approve a resolution authorizing general manager Greg Senglemann to be-gin taking actions to oppose salt-
water injection wells which could affect the Wilcox, Carrizo, Queen City and Sparta aquifers which provide drinking water to county residents.
Sengelmann presented a map noting the locations of current and proposed salt-water injec-
tion wells in the county. While the board has no direct authority over those wells and hazardous-fluid disposal wells, it could seek public hearings in an attempt to influence action by the Texas Railroad Commission.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s
salt-water or hazardous material, you still can’t drink it,” Sengel-mann said.
As part of his monthly report to the directors, Sengelmann also noted a memorandum from Lt. Gov. david Dewhurst to the
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County reviewsresponse aftertruck wreck
SportsLady Eagles claim
playoff victory Section C
PoliticsRoundup of filings for area
municipal, school racesPage A3
The ArtsLocal woman’s dog
a winner at WestminsterPage D1
Crash closes highwayA tractor-trailer rig carrying liquid propane was involved in an accident on State Highway 97 on Friday, clos-ing the road for most of the day while awaiting the arrival of a team from Eagle Lake to clean up the scene. (Courtesy photo)
Thursday’s Forecast: Scattered showers. High-66, Low-48. 20% chance of rain. Winds from the north-northeast at 12 mph, 58% relative humidity. UV index: 4 (moderate)
Agribusiness.....................Arts/Entertainment......Business..............................Classifieds..........................Comics................................Crime Beat........................Faith & Family...................In Our View........................In Your View......................Obituaries..........................Puzzle Page......................Regional.............................Sports..................................
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InsideThis Week:
“Come and Hear It!”Tune in to radio station
KCTI 1450 AM at 8 a.m. Fri-day and 8 a.m. Tuesday for weekly updates from Gon-zales Cannon news editor Cedric Iglehart and General manager Dave Mundy with KCTI personality Egon Bar-thels.
In the event you’ll be at-tending events at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo this year, you’ll probably want to make sure and pick up a program.
The cover art for one of this year’s San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo programs features a paint-ing done by a young artist from La Vernia based on a photo of a young Gonzales rodeo enthusiast, and ties together a couple of prize-winners.
The painting of Gonzales’ Loni Lester on her horse Biscuit preparing for a bar-rel race run was done by Natalie Baker, an 18-year-old senior from La Vernia. The painting was named the winner in the Western Art competition for this year’s show and will be sold at auction on the final Sun-day of the rodeo.
“Our western art com-petition was coming up at school for the rodeo and I really wanted to do an amazing picture to try and place in the top 25 like I’ve done so in the past two years,” Baker said.
“I was going through Loni’s pictures on Facebook actually because I knew she does rodeo and would have some pictures I might use,” Baker added. “And really I was just scrolling through the pictures and immedi-
Natalie Baker
A former City of Gonzales em-ployee has been indicted on two counts of tampering with govern-mental records.
The Gonzales County Grand
Jury, meeting Feb. 10, issued two indictments for tampering with government records against for-mer Gonzales parks and recre-ation department manager Billy Malaer. An April 26 court date has been set for Malaer, who had not been arrested prior to the in-dictments.
The Grand Jury issued a to-tal of 24 indictments against 22 individuals, including return-ing a murder indictment against Tyron Milton Mitchell. Mitchell is accused in the December 12, 2011shooting death of Dyron James Green.
There was no immediate in-
dication from the office of Dis-trict Attorney Heather McMinn whether any other indictments would be sought stemming from the city’s months-long investiga-tion into possible financial mis-appropriation within the city’s Parks & Recreation Department.
McMinn confirmed last month
that her office has asked for some additional information from the Gonzales Police Department concerning its investigation, and planned to move forward with the case.
The city’s investigation began in July 2011 when interim City
SCHULENBURG — A lot of people were anxiously awaiting mail deliveries for Valentine’s Day, but one Fayette County man didn’t get quite what he expected.
Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reported that on Monday, Feb. 13, the Fayette County Narcotics Unit executed a search and arrest warrant at 1121 James Avenue in Schulenburg. Ar-rested was Terrence Speed, 21, of Schulenburg.
Korenek reported that investigators intercepted a package which had been shipped from El Paso to Schulenburg and contained five pounds of high-grade marijuana.
Also located in the home
was a stolen semi automatic pistol, which was reported stolen from Schulenburg in 2010.
Speed was taken to the Fayette County Jail where he was booked for posses-sion of five pounds of mari-juana.
Korenek advised that
charges of Engaging in Or-ganized Criminal Activity will possibly be filed on up to three other individuals involved with this offence. The United States Attorney’s Office will review the fire-arm case and determine if it will be filed in Federal or State Court.
Gonzales County Court Notice for the date of Feb. 9, 2012:
Defendants who receive a citation(s) must appear on or before the date indicated on the citation(s). Their appearance must be in writing, in person or by an attorney, and any change of address must be given to the court.
Defendants listed below have recently missed their scheduled court date and their failure to respond will result in a warrant(s) being issued for their arrest. An additional charge of violate promise to appear being added to their fine.
In addition to the original charge, there will be a warrant fee for violate promise to appear. In addition, you may be denied the renewal of your driver license from the Department of Public Safety and collection of debt fees by attorneys at law.
Jason Lee Brister, Burglary of a Motor Vehicle
Johnathan Robert Chris-tensen, Possession of Marijuana
Jose Angel Cruz, Driving While
License InvalidPaul Garcia Falcon, Theft of
Property (2 cases)Rudolfo Hernandez, Driving
While IntoxicatedThe next County Court date
is March 8, 2012. If these people come on this date a warrant will NOT be issued. For further in-formation you may contact the County Attorney’s office at 830-672-6527.
The Cannon Thursday, February 16, 2012Page A2
Lavaca Co. Grand Jury Indictments
Gonzales Co. Sheriff’s Office Report
Thought for the Day
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bod-ies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
February 16, 1949On this day in 1949, the body of Private Felix
Longoria of Three Rivers, Texas, was buried in Ar-lington National Cemetery. Longoria had died in the Philippines near the end of World War II. When his recovered remains were sent to Three Rivers for burial, the funeral director refused the use of his chapel for a “Mexican.” After action by the American G.I. Forum and Lyndon Johnson, Longo-ria was buried in Arlington. The affair provided a model case in the Mexican-American struggle for civil rights.
tation to appear in City Court charged with Disruption of Class at 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
Reported Assault at 700 Blk St. Paul St.
February 7Rudolph Diaz, 70 of San Anto-
nio, arrested and charged with Public Intoxication at 100 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
Reported Criminal Mischief at Hwy. 183 at Circle G.
Reported Cruelty to Animals at 1900 Blk St. Louis St.
Darren Deshawn Hunt, 31 of Gonzales, arrested and charged with Assault at 900 Blk Water St.
Mario Luis Salas, 27 of Kenedy,
arrested and charged with Failure to Identify at 200 Blk
Bright St.February 8Reported Criminal Mischief at
1500 Blk Hamilton St.Ascencion Suarez, 38 of Gon-
zales, arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicated at 1300 Blk College St.
February 9Diego Garcia Olade, 40 of
Gonzales, arrested on warrant charged with Sexual Assault at 2100 Blk St. Joseph St.
Brittanie Danielle Bailey, 22 of Gonzales, arrested and charged with Theft at 100 Blk Sarah De-Witt Dr.
Reported Criminal Mischief at 100 Blk Dunning St.
16-year old male issued ci-
tation to appear in City Court charged with Disruption of Class at 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
16-year old male issued ci-tation to appear in City Court charged with Disorderly Conduct at 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
15-year old male issued ci-tation to appear in City Court charged with Disruption of Class at 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
February 10Reported Credit Card Abuse at
700 Blk St. Paul St.February 11Erik Wray Currie ,21 of Gonza-
les, arrested and charged with Possession of Drug Parapherna-lia at 800 Blk Dunning St.
February 12Reported Hit and Run Acci-
dent at Hwy. 183.
Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice Sheriff’s Report for Feb. 5-11:
02/05/12Campos, Hector Villazana,
02/1962, Gonzales. Local War-rant – Theft of Property >$1,500 <$20K. Released on $10,000 Bond.
02/07/12Deluna, Elojio, Jr., 09/1987,
Gonzales. Commitment/Sen-tence – Possession of Marijuana >2 oz <4 oz. Remains in Custody.
Evans, Damon Jabor, 04/1978, San Antonio. Local Warrant – Driving While Intoxicated with Child under 15 YOA. Sentenced to TDC. Bexar County Warrant – Unlawful Possession Firearm by Felon. Transferred to Bexar
County.02/08/12Peterson, Kevin, 03/1956. San
Antonio. Local Warrant – Posses-sion of a Controlled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Transfer to Gua-dalupe County.
02/09/12Bosse, Joshua J., 12/1986,
Albuquerque, NM. Local War-rant – Burglary of a Habitation. Requires $50,000 Bond. Local Warrant – Burglary of a Building. Requires $10,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.
02/11/12Adcock, Rhonda Kay, 03/1963,
Nixon. Possession of Drug Para-phernalia. Released on Order to Appear.
Hernandez, Mike, 05/1966, Nixon. Local Warrant – Con-tempt. Released – Paid $140.00 Fine.
Total Arrest, Court Commit-ments, other agency arrest and processing’s:
HALLETTSVILLE — The Lavaca County grand jury imet on Jan. 24 and returned the following indictments:
Darrius Brown, 22, of Hal-lettsville, on a charge of as-sault causing bodily injury/family violence enhanced.
Santos Castillo, 34, of Yoa-kum, on a charge of assault causing bodily injury/family violence.
James Deiss, 55, of Yoa-kum, on a charge of assault/family violence.
Darryl Ehler, 53, of Halletts-ville, on a charge of failure to appear.
Michael Faigout, 34, of Patterson, La., on a charge
of possession of a controlled substance.
Alfunco Franklin, 46, of Yoakum, on a charge of theft.
Shane Jacobs, 36, of Swee-ny, on a charge of stalking.
Mark King, 36, of Weimar, on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
David Lee Koopenoi, 34, of Hallettsville, on a charge of aggravated assault.
James Law, 32, of Yoakum on a charge of assault/family violence.
Sarina Murphy, 22, of Hal-lettsville, on two charges of hindering apprehension.
Adam Newton, 21, of Hal-lettsville, on a charge of ag-
gravated robbery.Carmelo Salazar, 24, of
Moulton, on a charge of fail-ure to appear.
Miranda Schorre, 27, of Yoakum, on a charge of theft.
Deryl Sherly, 52, of Shiner on a charge of possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility.
Charles Shorts, 28, of Rich-mond, on charges of burglary of a habitation, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Terrance Washington, 30, of Yoakum, on a charge of sexual assault of a child.
CORPUS CHRISTI — A Corpus Christi woman faces charges of driving while drunk and evading arrest with a vehcile after leading police on a low-speed chase while wearing nothing but a pair of cow-boy boots.
Corpus Christi police report they were check-ing on a suspicious-person call early Sunday morning and located Taylor Burn-ham, 18, in an alley near a home in the Lakes subdi-vision, wearing only a pair
of cowboy boots. When approached, the woman got into her nearby Jeep Wrangler and attempted to elude them during a mile-and-a-half chase through the subdivision in which speeds never exceeded 30 miles per hour.
Police said the driver steered the Jeep onto the sidewalk at one point.
Once she was appre-hended, a female officer arrived to help the driver get re-acquainted with clothing. She was then ar-
rested for both evading arrest and driving while intoxicated.
Taylor Burnham
Naked cowgirl leads police on slowchase in Corpus Christi subdivision
Gonzales County FTA List
DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from Feb. 3-9
February 4Arrested Rex Alan Kelley, 28, of
Gonzales, Driving while Intoxicated 2nd, Bond of $1,200, DPS
February 5Arrested Roger Gonzales, 40, of
Cuero, Speeding 16-20 Above Limit, Fine of $226 (30 Days to Pay), Fail-ure to Appear on Speeding 16-20 Above Limit, Fine of $367 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD
February 6Arrested Ruperto Herrera, 26,
of Cuero, Criminal Non Support (Waller Co.), No Bond, Capias Pro Fine/DWLI, Fine $ 579.00, Capias Pro Fine/Expired License, Fine $352.30, Capias Pro Fine/No Insurance, Fine $ 657.08, DPS
Arrested Erica Maldonado, 17, of Cuero, Possession of Dangerous Drug, Bond of $1,000.00, Cuero PD
Arrested Willie Deleon Saenz Sr., 41, of San Antonio, Driving while In-toxicated 1st, Bond of $1,000.00, Dis-orderly Conduct-Language, 30 Days to Pay, Fail to Stop and Render Aid, 30 Days to Pay, Fail to Display Drivers Lic, 30 Days to Pay, DPS
Arrested Martin Moreno, 44, of Robstown, Criminal Non Sup-port (Cameron Co), Cash Bond of $1,500.00, DPS
Arrested Ulysses Ortega, 23, of River Oaks, Driving while License Invalid, Bond of $1,000.00, Cuero PD
February 7Arrested Tommy Bell, 42, of
Spring, Assault Family/ House Mem-ber Impede Breath/Circulation,
Bond of $10,000.00, DeWitt County SO
Arrested Jeremiah Bullock, 24, of Cuero, Prohibited Weapons, Bond of $10,000.00, Cuero PD
Arrested Patricia Ann Saenz, 30, of Cuero, Criminal Trespass, Bond of $1,000.00, Cuero PD
February 8Arrested Clifton Johnson, 36, of
Cuero, Violation of Probation on Possession of Marijuana, Bond of $1,000.00, DeWitt County SO
Arrested Steven Black, 46, of Houston, Violation of Probation on DWI 3rd or More, No Bond, DeWitt County SO
Arrested Isaiah Garza, 28, of York-town, Capias Pro Fine on Driver Not Secured by Seatbelt, Fine of $331.50, Yorktown PD
DeWitt Co. Sheriff’s Office Report
Schulenburg man faces chargesafter getting pot via the mail
Marijuana and weapon seized
The Gonzales County grand jury imet on Feb. 10 and returned the following indict-ments:
Manuel Almaguer Jr. on a charge of pos-session of a controlled substance.
Mario Banda on a charge of possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone.
Hector Campos on a charge of theft from person.
Tony Castillo on a charge of possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone.
Tommy DeBerry on a charge of posses-sion of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone.
Derrick Dora on a charge of theft with en-hanced priors.
John Nathan Eleby on a charge of posses-sion of a controlled substance.
Fergus Ginther on a charge of possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated.
Miguel Angel Guzman on a charge of sexual assault.
Beau Hemmer on a charge of possession of marijuana.
Juan Izaguirre on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
William Malaer on two charges of tam-pering with governmental records.
Jeon Martinez on a charge of possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility.
Tyron Milton Mitchell on a charge of mur-der.
Charles Montague on a charge of posses-sion of a controlled substance.
Kevin Peterson on a charge of bail jump-ing.
Randon Romero on a charge of posses-sion of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
Melissa Ann Shelton on a charge of pos-session of a controlled substance PG3 less than 1G in a drug-free zone.
Marvin Trejo on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
Cary Wilkinson on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
Gonzales Co. Grand Jury Indictments
Gonzales school trustees on Monday approved bids for a
$3 million renovation project at the district’s elementary schools which could eventu-ally force one campus to develop alternative
plans for lunch.Trustees voted to
award a $3.029 mil-lion contract to Don Krueger Construction of Victoria for a list
of projects which in-cludes new awnings at Gonzales Elementary, gym and annex reno-vations at North Av-enue Intermediate and a complete lunchroom renovation at East Av-enue Primary.
Deputy Superin-tendent Larry Wehde told the board that the work should begin the firts of March and could last through next December. The biggest hurdle the district will face, he said, would be devising alternate plans for school lunch-es when the renovation work begins on the
East Avenue cafeteria.Superintendent Kim
Strozier abd the board recognized members of the East Avenue staff pre-kindergarten program for winning a Texas School Readi-ness Award for 2009-2012. The award sa-lutes Pre-K programs which help prepare children to begin regu-lar school.
The school board also approved calling the district’s annual single-member dis-trict election for May 4 for districts 4 (Josie Smith-Wright) and 7 (Tom Lester Jr.).
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Candidate Filings
GISD trustees approve renovation projects
... and the race is “on”The race is “on” in Gonzales following the filings for the Mayor’s seat by Councilman Bobby Logan (left) and attorney Bob Burchard (right), who filed their paper-work with city secretary Candice Witzkoske. No one has yet filed to seek Logan’s District 4 seat, while incumbent District 3 councilman Lorenzo Hernandez turned in his paperwork this week to seek re-election. (Photos by Mark Lube and Dave Mundy)
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Reported office filings for the May 4 local elections:
City of CueroFor Mayor - incumbent Sara Post Meyer
City of FlatoniaNon candidates have yet been an-nounced
City of GonzalesFor Mayor - Bob Burchard and
Bobby Logan.For District 3 Council -- Incum-
bent Lorenzo Hernandez has filed
for re-election. Logan’s District 4 seat will also be open.
Gonzales ISDDistrict 4 (Josie Smith-Wright) and District 7 (Tom Lester Jr.) will be up for election this year.
City of LulingThere are three positions open- Council Member - Ward 4 & 5 and Mayor-at-large.Mayor Mike Hendricks is the only one that has filed.
City of Moulton
No filings have been reported.
Shiner ISDThree candidates have filed for
two places on the Shiner ISD Board of Trustees.
Place 1 incumbent Julie Gamez has filed for re-election, while in Place 7, Max Moore and J.M. “Trey” Rankin III have filed for the seat currently held by Dr. Maurice Wilkinson.
City of ShinerCity Council - incumbent Linda Rigby
City of WaelderCity Council - incumbent Valentino Hernandez
City of YoakumCity Council - Place 4 incumbent Elorine Sitka
City of NixonNo filings reported
Nixon-Smiley CISDNo Filings reported
Gonzales UWCDNo filings reported
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Pictured (from left) are: Jack Marr, candidate District 24 Judicial Court, Bill Old, candidate District 25 Judicial Court, J.W. Brown candidate Lavaca Commissioner Pct. 3, Don Al Middlebrook, US Congressional District 27, Stuart Fryer, Lavaca County Attorney, Kevin Kolb candidate District 25 Judicial Court. Seated are Jer-ry Tanner, candidate Lavaca County Republican Chairman, Borah Von Dormo-len, Republican National Committeewoman, Daryl Fowler, DeWitt County Judge, Edwin Pustka, Lavaca County candidate Commissioner Pct. 1, Carol Janacek Renner, candidate JP Pct 2.
Borah Von Dormolen was the featured speaker at the February 1, 2012 meeting of the Republican Women of Yoakum. Ms. Von Dormolen is a Nation-al Committeewoman for the National Republican Party representing Texas. Borah spoke on the impor-tance of a unified vote and challenged the group to support the candidate cho-sen to be the Republican candidate in the Novem-ber election. Borah was available to meet with the audience at the end of the meeting. Approximately 70 members, local candi-dates and visitors attended the meeting.
Local and District candi-dates attending the meeting included Jack Marr, Victo-ria, candidate for the 24th Judicial District includ-ing DeWitt County; Bill Old, Seguin, candidate for the 25th Judicial District,
Kevin Kolb, Seguin, can-didate for the 25th Judicial District, including Lavaca County, Don Al Middle-brook candidate for the US Congressional District 27 and Patricia Finch candi-date for District Attorney. Lavaca County candidates attending included Edwin Pustka, Commissioner Pct. 1, J. W. Brown, Commis-sioner Pct. 3, Carol Janacek Renner, JP Pct. 2, and Jerry Tanner Lavaca County Republican Party Chair-man. Also in attendance were Daryl Fowler, DeWitt County Judge, Stuart Fryer, Lavaca County Attorney, Micah Harmon Lavaca County Sheriff and Eliza-beth Murray Kolb Guadal-upe County Attorney.
Members of the Republi-can Women of Yoakum in-clude women from Lavaca and DeWitt Counties. Men are invited to join as Asso-ciate members. The next meeting will be March 7 at the Yoakum community Center. For more infor-
mation please call Brenda Cash, 594-4258 or Dori Wyatt 293-2869.
Patterson to speakat Gonzales dinner
Texas Land Commis-sioner Jerry Patterson will be the guest speak-er for the annual Gonza-les County Republican party fund-raiser din-ner Feb. 23 at the First Lutheran Church, 1206 St. Joseph. A meet and greet will begin at 6 p.m., followed by din-ner at 7. In addition to Patterson, several other local and state elected officials and candidates will be on-hand to meet and greet Republican constituents. Tickets are $25 per individual, or $200 for a table of eight. There will also be a raffle for a number of items, including a long rifle, pistol, gas card and more. Raffle tickets may be purchased at the en-trance. For information or to reserve tickets, call
A central idea in our Constitution is that of keeping government, whether national, state, or local, accountable to the people. That includes the fiscal responsibility which elected officials have to-ward tax payers.
Floresville has recently had some controversy re-garding the city’s financial records and its account-ability to citizens.
Floresville businessman Jim Miller and others pri-vate citizens questioned the city’s finances and initiated a recall against Mayor Daniel Tejada and councilmen Jesse Chris-topher Flores, Mario Mo-rones, Sherry Martinez Castillo, John W. Guerre-ro, and Johnnie R. Gomez.
The local newspaper, the Wilson County News, also investigated and re-ported on the accounting problem, and published several articles challeng-ing the validity of figures contained within the bud-get, specifically as they relate to actual sales-tax proceeds received from the state comptroller’s of-fice.
The recall failed be-cause they did not acquire the necessary 500 signa-tures to prompt a special election. It took a law suit for the city to admit fiscal and accounting problems. The law suit found that city budget documents were “riddled with errors,” some of them in the hun-
dreds of thousands of dol-lars, and demanded they be corrected. The law suit was dropped when the city made the changes.
The action by citizens forced the city (public servants) to correct long-standing budget errors be-cause, and by, community involvement, including good responsible report-ing.
However, the other half of the story is also inter-esting. The mayor told the San Antonio Express that the outcome is a “vindica-tion of city leadership”.
He said “we knew all along that the people liked the progress here. The ma-jority support what is hap-pening in Floresville.” He accused Miller of being an “outsider,” and blamed a faulty computer program for the fiscal and account-ing mistakes. Even more ironic was Mayor Tejeda’s claim that the controversy tarnished the city’s image.
Finally, some defenders of the city hinted “rac-ism” was involved. The
mayor and all five city council members of Flo-resville are Hispanic. But because an Anglo ques-tioned them, and because the news reporter was an African American, some people claim the real issue is was racism, not faulty accounting.
When Hispanics domi-nate (100%) a commu-nity’s political leadership, where is the racism? Ac-cording to NALEO, a na-tional Hispanic organiza-tion, in 2010 there were 2,459 Hispanic elected officials in Texas. That is hardly a sign of discrimi-nation.
The controversy was a city management problem, and the mayor and city council should be upset with the city manager, not the citizens.
Racism cannot be used as a defense for an exposed and clear problem. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have used racism to defend of President Obama, re-gardless of obvious failure of his policies. If minori-ties want to progress, they must do it individually on their own merits, and be prepare to accept criticism, and change when neces-sary.
This is particularly im-portant if they are public servants. If Obama, the city leaders of Floresville, or any other minority pub-lic servants officials cannot stand the heat, they should get of the kitchen.
If Clint Eastwood narrated “The Cat in the Hat,” the words of Dr. Seuss would instantly take on a menacing authority. He could read the latest worthless United Nations condemnation of Syria and make Bashar Assad tremble.
So if you’re Chrysler and want to air a propagandistic advertisement implicitly tout-ing your government bailout as what’s best about America, Eastwood is a natu-ral frontman. The movie tough-guy and former Republican mayor of Carmel, Calif., will make everyone take notice. He will dare you not to believe him. He will invest a sugarcoated narra-tive of Detroit’s comeback with every bit of his gravelly voiced credibility.
Eastwood’s two-minute ad during halftime was one of the most memorable of the Super Bowl ads (putting aside all the Doritos spots, of course). Eastwood walks toward the camera in a dark tunnel and says, in his slightly threaten-ing near-whisper, “It’s halftime.” Lest you think that’s a cue to get up and reload on nachos and beer, he intones, “It’s halftime in America, too.”
What follows is a half-baked tale about the revival of the automotive industry wrapped in economic nationalism: Dirty Harry does cor-poratism. Eastwood says that Americans are hurting and that “the people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything. But we all pulled together. Now, Motor City is fighting again.”
We all pulled together? As euphemism, this is clever; as history, it is false. Congress never approved the bailouts. Given the option to do so explicitly, it declined. The Bush and Obama administrations acted on their own, diverting TARP funds to Detroit regardless of the letter of the law. In Eastwood’s telling, a legally dubi-ous act of executive highhandedness qualifies as patriotic collective action.
What Chrysler and GM desperately needed in their extremity was to go through Chapter 11 reorganization to pare down wages and ben-efits, shed uneconomical dealerships and ditch unnecessary brands. When the government got its hooks in them, it politicized this process and threw some $80 billion at the companies. Since we’ll never get an estimated $23 billion back, we all must be “pulling together” behind Detroit still.
Amid all the patriotic piety, Eastwood ne-glects to mention that Chrysler is now 58.5
percent owned by Fiat, an Ital-ian company. The heart-tugging images of Turin, Italy, apparent-ly were left on the cutting-room floor.
Walking near the end of his tunnel, Eastwood assures us of our hoped-for national come-back: “Detroit’s showing us it can be done. And what’s true about them is true about all of us.” Yet if Detroit is the model
for our future, we should prepare for national collapse. Yes, it is getting a boost from resurgent auto sales. Otherwise, it remains a byword for urban apocalypse. More than anything, the city is a standing warning of the perils of social dis-order and unaffordable, dysfunctional govern-ment.
It is good that Chrysler and GM are now off life-support, but they took a lot of money we’ll never recover. A simple apology would be nice. Surely, Clint Eastwood could be hired to deliver an impressively sincere-sounding one.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
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It’s been noted that I often stick my nose into other people’s busi-ness. It’s true. I do.
My role as a newspaperman re-quires me to do look into what peo-ple are doing, because others want to know about it.
Outside the newspaper, however, I’m also the nosy sort. That’s because I have another role — that of citizen.
We all talk a lot about all the rights and privileges we have be-cause we are “free,” but we don’t talk a lot about the responsibilities and duties which walk hand-in-hand with those freedoms.
When citizens do not do their duty and manage their responsibili-ties, there is no “freedom” — there is only anarchy.
It’s a fact that, thanks in great part to cultural influences from enter-tainment to our education system, our society has drifted away from an appreciation of the value of law and order and instead increasingly favors anarchy. We’re quick to con-demn conformity and order with-out recognizing the positive impacts they have had on the development
of our society.Which brings us to my good
friends, our local street thugs. Our local hoodlums seem to
think I need to keep my nose out of their business, that as long as they’re not directly harming me, it’s not my concern.
Sorry, guys, but along with my freedom I assumed the mantle of civic responsibility. You are disrupt-ing and harming my society; it is my civic duty to stick my nose into your business.
We’ve made brawling an illegal activity. Thus, when you are driv-ing around the neighborhood look-ing to pick a fight with your fellow hoodlums, it is my duty to report
your activity. Whether or not we agree with
the law, it’s still the law. We’ve made possession of certain substances il-legal. Thus, when you advertise that you’re in possession of marijuana, it is my duty to report you.
We’ve determined that stealing is illegal, whether or not you’re steal-ing from a company which would never really miss it. Thus, when I see you shoplifting at the store, it is my duty to point you out to store per-sonnel and/or the police — and, if necessary, to testify against you.
We’ve made membership in or-ganized criminal street gangs illegal. Thus, when you come walking past me and you’ve got gang-land tattoos all over your neck, arms, face and fingers, I’m going to keep a close eye on you.
But aside from the fact that I feel that laws are there to create a frame-work for us all to live together in peaceable fashion, the main reason I stick my nose into thugs’ business is because the mental disease they have embraced rubs off on others. More and more we’re seeing kids
who want to walk, talk, look and act like “gangstas.”
I see some of these kids talking about how tough they’ve got it here on “the Streets of G-Town.” I hate to break it to y’all, but there AREN’T any “streets” here. This is the coun-try.
You may want to think you’re “ghetto,” but you’d get eaten alive in a real gangland ghetto environment. I’ve met the real gangsters in the real ghetto — and bubba, you ain’t that.
You can sag your pants and twid-dle your fingers like they do in East L.A., but you live in Gonzales, Texas.
It’s not YOUR town. It’s ours. And we’re about fed up with your nonsense.
That’s probably the most impor-tant point to impart to our local hoodlums. Mine may be the most confrontational voice you’ll hear, but I’m not alone. Most people, in fact, feel the same way I do.
Like me, they’re not afraid to step up to the plate and do their civic duty by helping law enforce-ment keep tabs on you; they’re just a little more discreet in how they
get involved.We’re not interested in hear-
ing more excuses about why you “went bad.”
You had an underprivileged childhood? Cry me a river. I grew up as the oldest of five sons of a single mother who had to work two jobs to keep food on the table. Not one of us has ever spent an hour inside a jail cell for stealing anything, beating anyone half to death, shooting at someone out-side a combat zone or selling il-legal substances to someone else’s kid.
Can’t get a good job because of your record? That’s your own fault. We didn’t sluff off at school to be “cool” and we didn’t run around breaking every law in sight. We got jobs — and worked our way up.
You’ve had the same chances we’ve had, and refused them.
When you decide you want to become respectable members of society, we’ll be glad to give you a hand. Until then, we’re going to watch you like hawks.
Over 100 years ago just East of Seguin, less than 2 miles from the beauti-ful Guadalupe river, John Henry Ranft and his two sons, lived and worked the land in Guadalupe County to support their families. Both sons grew to serve their country in World War I, one died and the other lost a leg but returned to help maintain the ranch. Raising cotton, peanuts, hay and cattle the work was challenging, but now, an even bigger challenge faces their descendants. 131 years later, the families who have maintained the ranch are struggling to stop what they consider a real threat to their water source and envi-ronment.
The owners of the prop-erty where Post Oak Clean Green Landfill would cover over 400 acres filed an ap-plication with the Texas Commission on Envi-ronmental Quality and promptly sent out a press release extolling the virtues of the landfill project as not only environmentally friendly but an attraction for visitors to the adjoining future wildlife preserve that would feature environmen-tal education, a haven for birdwatchers, and a place for “seasonal community gatherings”.
But the surrounding ranchers and landown-ers don’t see it that way. A request for a public hear-
ing with the Texas Com-mission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has been filed through state offi-cials in hopes of stopping what the neighbors see as a disaster waiting to hap-pen. “My main concern is the water table” said Alan Evans whose family still lives on the ranch. “I am familiar with landfills and this land is too porous for a dump. And liners in the bottom of a landfill can be easily punctured.” Evans, like many of his neighbors, continues to live in this part of Guadalupe County be-cause of the fertile land and the water.
The land near where Gua-dalupe County and Gonza-les County join is full of his-tory and beauty. Some parts are dotted with oil fields from the boom days but for the most part, the landscape is a series of rolling hills covered in post oaks with an occasional small church or cemetery. Many of the once large ranches have been di-vided up as generations and families grew but the love of the land has drawn new families as well as de-scendants of original land owners to live in the coun-try. And the water is a big part of the attraction. Even in the 1920’s and again in the 1950’s during the most severe droughts, a hand dug well on the original Ranft property provided usable water for the cattle and fam-ilies that lived there. The thought of contamination of their water source and the
water for their neighbors in nearby Gonzales motivated Evan’s family and others to speak out.
The East Fork of Nash Creek begins on the proper-ty where the dump will be lo-cated and joins Nash Creek as it flows down into the Guadalupe river. Though the land on some ranches is good for building a “tank” (a small lake or pond used for a water source, fishing or recreation), chemicals, solid waste, dead animals and other trash are another matter altogether. And wa-ter contamination is not the only problem. “It’s the smell, the blowing plastic and trash, and the constant traf-fic from the garbage trucks coming from all over this and other counties…those are the real problems that we know will come” said Mrs. Evans.
Despite the “native vege-tation buffer”, the “environ-mental research center”, the high grass covered berms that are intended to hide the trash and the prom-ise of a “balance between processing solid waste and maintaining healthy Texas wildlife”, the reality of the dump is not lost on Doro-thea Chessher. Thea, as she is known to her family and friends, is the aunt of Mr. Evans. She summed it up this way: “The only wildlife that will be attracted to that part of the county will be fe-ral hogs and big fat rats.”
Evans is a resident of Guadalupe County.
I’ve sat down several times before with the intention of writing an update on the current status and saga of Texas redistricting. Like most people who follow elections, it’s been a struggle to even guess when this issue will ever be solved.
The issue of redistricting has truly been a moving target.
While the following may be an oversimplifi-cation, here’s an attempt: To recap, on the day before Thanksgiving, a three-judge Federal panel of judges in San Antonio released a court order that redrew most of the Texas Legislative and Congressional maps (two justices agreed on these substantial changes; the third justice strongly dissented). These maps were extremely different from the maps drawn by elected leg-islators. As a result, the State of Texas (through Attorney General Greg Abbott) appealed the panel’s decision to the United States Supreme Court, asking for a “stay” of the maps. That stay was granted with written arguments due on Dec. 22 and oral arguments then heard on Jan. 9.
On Jan. 20, the High Court unanimously or-dered that the San Antonio federal court maps be “vacated” with instructions sent back to the San Antonio court to follow the Legislative-drawn maps as closely as possible in all cases, except when they believe the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 was violated. Keep in mind that only nine states, including Texas, are still sub-jected to statewide adherence of the VRA, and many feel the act has morphed from its original intent years ago into something today that is closer to judicial or political activism.
After the Supreme Court ruled, those three judges in San Antonio have now asked the parties involved (plaintiffs being the Mexican American Legislative Caucus and the defen-dant being the State of Texas) to agree on a compromise map. On Monday, Feb. 6, Attor-ney General Abbott released a compromise map which was accepted by many, and covered in the media. However, the plaintiffs were in disagreement among themselves and did not wholly accept that compromise.
On Friday, Feb. 10, the San Antonio court released another order stating that parties must continue to negotiate. “It is the Court’s desire to have redistricting plans in place for an April primary and all parties must continue their ne-gotiations to assist the Court in accomplishing that task,” the Court wrote. “If the parties have ceased negotiations, they should resume with all due effort between now and the time of the hearing.” The next hearing is set for Feb. 14. The court went on to say that it was their intent to have the issue resolved by the end of that court hearing.
Meanwhile, the Federal Department of Justice (the agency in charge of enforcing the VRA) issued a brief on Friday night, Feb. 10, telling the San Antonio Court that it did not
have authority to waive the requirement that counties obtain preclearance for new precinct boundaries, explaining that the current situ-ation did not meet the definition of an “emer-gency” under applicable regulations and that counties had the option of requesting expedited DOJ review. The DOJ said that even if the court ordered an April primary “there is still enough time for [county] jurisdictions to submit their voting changes for preclearance.” (source: www.txredistricting.org)
So, clear as mud? Indeed. Many local candidates have asked me when the Texas primaries are going to be held. As the legal wrangling drags on, it’s impossible to say. For House District 13, where I currently serve, the difference between the legislative-drawn map and the San Antonio map is a five-county swing. I have spent time in many different counties meeting wonderful people, but a consistent question has been, “when is the primary going to be?” and “what district, State House, State Senate and Congressional seat will we be in?”
For now, those decisions lie in the hands of those three federal judges in San Antonio. To make sure the water doesn’t become any clearer, there is also another pre-clearance trial going on in Washington D.C, separate entirely from the lawsuit that spurred the San Antonio court action. The Washington D.C. judges have said they may deliberate for at least an-other month. However, if the elusive San An-tonio compromise does happen in the mean-time, the D.C. judges eventual ruling may not come in time to impact this election cycle. If you get the feeling that some people want the process of re-drawing maps tied up in court for as long as possible, you are correct.
I hope we’ll soon have this entire redistrict-ing drama far behind us. I’d like in the future to report on a recent Public Health hearing which I chaired that exposed significant Medicaid fraud. I’ll also fill you in on a victory we had for rural Texas in regards to land takings and power lines in our area.
It is with great honor that I serve you and the people of Texas, no matter where these maps place our district. Please feel free to call or email me at [email protected] with your feed-back and input.
Dear Editor,I write this to inform the citizens of Gon-
zales County of a potential threat to their wa-ter supply.
There is a new 440-acre Landfill proposed for the Eastern Guadalupe County to be called the Post Oak Municipal Solid Waste Landfill. It will be a Type 1 landfill which can accept everything from household waste to industrial waste to dead animals.
The threat to Gonzales County water sup-ply is twofold. The threat to surface water is that the proposed site is on the headwater drainage area for Nash Creek. This is a sea-sonal creek which drains into the Guadalupe River just a couple of miles downstream.
The threat to the Gonzales County ground water is that the site also sits atop the Car-rizo-Wilcox aquifer system which, of course, is a source of water for much of this county. In fact, pure fresh drinking water is within 450 feet of the surface there.
This DUMP is expected to have an active life of 67 years but the contents will be fester-ing for centuries.
At a time of drought we should be espe-cially mindful of the value of our water re-sources. It is also important to remember that in Central Texas, droughts are often broken by torrential floods from tropical storms and there are not reasonable measures to contain contamination in such floods.
Please contact the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality TODAY to oppose Pending Permit #2378. The time for public comment ends in just a few days.
Carl WoodGuadalupe County
Were you awareof the landfill?Dear Editor,
Hey Gonzales, how do you like the taste and smell of your water today? Did you know that a HUGE Landfill, that would be used by Houston, Austin, San Antonio is being pro-posed just west of you, only a couple miles from the Guadalupe River?
Join us as we stop our beautiful, undevel-
oped part of Guadalupe County from the un-safe landfill which will ruin the area that in some cases have been in families dating back to the 1880’s.
Not only do we not want this hazardous venture to move forward. Please join us as we stop this before a permit can be granted.
Please go the following link and express your concern and comments to the TCEQ.
http://www10.tceq.state.tx.us/epic/ec-mnts/, The permit number is 2378.
Thank you for keeping Guadalupe County wild and beautiful!
Becky Schultze BakerKingsbury
Help to restorevandalized tombstones Dear Editor,
Because the City Council would not add this need to the City of Gonzales Budget, the tombstones that were vandalized in the Gon-zales City Cemetery must be paid for by the families of those whose stones were vandal-ized and/or by you and me.
If you wish to contribute towards the $750 that is still needed ($150.00 has been contrib-uted by the Leifeste, Dennis Nesser, and Bill Sheppard families), please send your check to: Joe Solansky, Capitol Monument Com-pany, 5233 U. S. 183 North, Gonzales, TX, 78629 or call Joe or Natalie at 830-672-7929.
Please annotate your check with “Repair of vandalized stones” and if you like, add a “In Memory of ____________”.
Joe will begin the repairs after he receives a total of $900. Please make your donation as aoon as possible.
Financial help from those who vandalized the stones would be very much appreciated, the “right” thing to do, and one way to make amends for desecrating a burial site. Thank you.
The tombstones vandalized: Gawel, Si-mon and karolina; Hobizal, Pius & Julie; Ho-bizal, Tom and Katie; English; Sanders, J. L., and Smith Elizabeth. (7 Tombstones)
Pastor Jo Ann and Don Leifeste, RetiredGonzales
Cannon is remarkablefor a small paperDear Editor,
Just a note to let you know how much the Gonzales Cannon is appreciated and enjoyed. For a small town paper, it truly is remarkable! One can actually read about na-tional, state and local news.
The classifieds are full of bargains through the free classified service you offer.
The best part of your paper is the color-ful Cannon Comics. The “Strange But True” section always has items of interest. I love the “Katzenjammer Kids!” Reminds me of how my German grandmother used to speak her brand of English when I was a kid.
Don’t change a thing! This is how a news-paper should be, interesting and entertain-ing.
James SterlingBastrop
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Proposed landfill is an affrontto our area’s ranching heritage
Guest Opinion
State Rep. Lois Kolkorst represents Texas House District 13. Under the maps re-drawn by the Texas Legislature, she will represent Lavaca and Fayette counties.
State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst
By WINNIE EVANS
Special to The Cannon
AUSTIN)— Texas Comptroller Susan Combs this week released The Impact of the 2011 Drought and Beyond – an analysis of the ef-fects of the severe 2011 drought in Texas, current and future water re-sources in the state and innovative solutions being used in Texas and elsewhere in the Southwest to solve
the water crisis.“Planning and managing water
use will be of utmost importance for the state’s growth and prosperi-ty,” Combs said. “While recent rains have helped put a dent in drought severity in different parts of the state, we’re not out of the woods. Texas is prone to cycles of drought which makes it important for resi-dents, businesses and state and local
governments to manage water use. Every Texan has a stake in water is-sues the state faces.”
The Texas Water Development Board’s 2012 State Water Plan pre-dicts water demand in Texas will rise by 22 percent by 2060, and es-timates that should we experience another “drought of record” like in the 1950s, it could cost Texas busi-nesses and workers nearly $116 bil-
lion in income by 2060.Impact of the 2011 Drought and
Beyond looks at innovative wa-ter management solutions such as aquifer storage and recovery, used in cities such as San Antonio; the use of treated wastewater for irriga-tion; and the conversion of brackish groundwater into drinking water (known as desalination).
“We also contacted water plan-
ners in cities in New Mexico and Arizona that have grappled with water issues since the 1980s and ‘90s. Their strategies range from di-versified water portfolios that draw water from different sources, to re-bates for landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants. This water report helps give valuable insight as Texas looks for a broad range of so-lutions to water issues,” Combs said.
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Texas has been ranked the top exporting state in 2011 for the 10th year in a row, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, a sign of Texas’ continued role as a leader in the global marketplace.
“For a full decade now, Texas has been the nation’s epicenter for international trade thanks to the contin-ued strength of our state economy and the opportuni-ties created by our business climate,” Gov. Perry said. “We remain committed to the bedrock conservative values of low taxes, reason-
able regulations and fair courts that attract and keep employers in Texas, and we will continue to develop the world-class workforce neces-sary to meet the demands of any 21st century employer.”
Texas’ exports in 2011 to-taled more than $249.8 bil-lion, up 20.7 percent from $206.9 billion in 2010, out-performing overall U.S. ex-ports, which grew by 15.8 percent in 2011. The state’s top export recipients were Mexico, Canada, China, Brazil and the Netherlands, which respectively im-ported $86.6 billion, $21.9 billion, $10.9 billion, $9.9 billion and $9.0 billion in Texas-manufactured goods. Texas’ top exporting in-dustries in 2011 were pe-troleum and coal products, chemicals, computer and electronic products, non-
electrical machinery, and transportation equipment.
In 2011, Site Selection Magazine, DCI and Area Development Magazine each ranked Texas as the best business climate. Ad-ditionally, Texas won Site Selection Magazine’s 2010 Governor’s Cup for the most new and expanded corporate facilities an-nounced over the year. According to USA Today, Texas has moved past New York as the nation’s sec-ond largest economy, and the Wall Street Journal has credited the state’s low tax-es and employer-friendly environment with helping make Texas the job creation capital of the nation. Addi-tionally, Texas consistently ranks among the top states for Fortune 500 headquar-ters.
AUSTIN — It was a solid Christmas season for retail businesses throughout the region, especially in Gon-zales County.
State Comptroller Susan Combs this week released figures charting local cit-ies’ share of state sales tax revenues for January, and all four municipal govern-ments in Gonzales County saw increases of better than 35 percent over 2011 num-bers — indicative of strong sales during the Christmas season. The January figures represent sales from De-cember.
Leading the way was the City of Smiley, where the impact of a local-option liquor-sales election last fall continues to be felt. Smiley’s check for this month of $4,302 represents a 212.07 percent increase over a year ago.
December sales were also strong in Gonzales, Nixon and Waelder.
Gonzales’ February al-location for $221,668 rep-resents a 43.69 percent in-crease over the 2011 check for $154.258. For the year, Gonzales’ revenues to date are 44 percent over 2011 figures.
Nixon will receive a Feb-ruary check for $26,204, an increase of 48.16 per-cent, and its yearly total of $48,264 is also a healthy 47.74 percent ahead of 2011. Waelder’s February check for $2,424 is 35.63 percent ahead of 2011 numbers, and for the year the city’s receipts are up more than 43 percent.
While Gonzales County led the region, however, several other municipali-ties also had strong holiday seasons.
The February allocation
for the City of Luling will be $121,351, a modest 6.12 percent increase. For the year, the city is at $231,382, more than 11 percent ahead of 2011 figures.
Cuero’s business revival also continued strongly, with a February check for $227,142. For the year, the city’s receipts are up more than 40 percent.
In Lavaca County, all four municipal govern-ments will also see increas-es in Febuary.
Hallettsville’s check for $113,635 represents a 24.1 percent increase, while Moulton will get a check for $13,707, up nearly 42 percent over last year.
The City of Shiner’s Fe-burary check for $32,601 represents a 34.59 percent over last year, and the city is 37.57 percent ahead of last year’s totals month-to-date.
Yoakum also saw a mod-est increase of 6.34 per-cent, based on a Febuary check for $106,177. For the year, Yoakum has collected $192,374, up 6.58 percent.
Combs announced today that state sales tax revenue in January was $2 billion, up 9.5 percent compared to January 2011.
“Sales tax revenue con-tinues to grow in almost all major economic categories and revenue has now in-creased for 22 consecutive months,” Combs said. “The recent monthly increase was led by the oil and natu-ral gas-related sectors. Res-taurants and services sec-tors also showed significant gains.”
Combs will send Feb-ruary local sales tax al-locations totaling $708.5 million to cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts, up 8.2 percent compared to February 2011.
For details of February
sales tax allocations to in-dividual cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts, locate the Monthly Sales Tax Alloca-tion Comparison Summary Reports on the Comptrol-ler’s Web site at www.win-dow.state.tx.us/taxinfo/al-locsum/compsum.html.
The Lynn Theater will open on March 16 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the Platters will be there on March 17. We will have tickets for sale at $20 pre-sale and they will be on sale at the door for $25. This show will take you back a few years.
About five miles out on U.S. 183 south on the right, there is a yard cov-ered in red phlox. I have some lavender ones in my yard and yesterday I checked on my bluebon-nets. The yard is covered with the plants, so we hope they keep growing. It will allow us to put out lots of blooms and bring lots of visitors to our area.
“Wish” will be open soon at 507 St. Joseph Street.
There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the front gate of Pioneer Vil-lage. It’s located at US 183, St. Joseph Street, at the wa-ter tower with the cannon on it.
I attended the Har-ris County Precinct Four ‘Destinations Galore’ last week. We made contact with over 250 people who control the buses that come out of Houston to visit our town.
Don’t forget the March 2 Breakfast at the Old Jail. Mark your calendars for the event. Wayne Spahn and his crew are work-ing on their cooking skills right now.
The chamber office and Old Jail Museum will be closed on Monday, Feb. 20 for President’s Day
American Petroleum Team Roping will be at the J. B. Wells Park Friday through Sunday.
Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $63-$71; Cutters, $78-$86; Canners, $48-$62; Low yielding fat cows, $66-$74.
Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $89-$96; light weights and medium quality bulls, $74-$86.
Stocker Cows: $850-$1,150.Pairs: $975-$1,375.Thank you for your business! View our sale live at
cattleusa.com.
Nixon Livestock Commission ReportThe Nixon Livestock Commission Inc. report had
on hand, February 13, 2012, Volume, 345.Steers: 200-300 lbs, $189 to $199 to $255; 300-
400 lbs., $186 to $196 to $240; 400-500 lbs, $174 to $184 to $230; 500-600 lbs, $164 to $174 to $210; 600-700 lbs, $145 to $155 to $180; 700-800 lbs, $135 to $145 to $154.
Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $185 to $195 to $255; 300-400 lbs, $153 to $163 to $208; 400-500 lbs, $153 to $163 to $210; 500-600 lbs, $151 to $161 to $205; 600-700 lbs, $132 to $142 to $158; 700-800 lbs, $143.
Slaughter cows: $70 to $80 to $87; Slaughter bulls: $85 to $90 to $95; Stocker cows: $550 to $940.
Hallettsville LivestockCommission ReportThe Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co., Inc.
had on hand on February 7, 2012, 729; Week ago, 1,155; Year Ago, 840.
The market continues strong with calves and yearlings steady to higher on all classes. Packer
cows sold $2 higher on approx.. 90 hd. Total.Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter
Over 700 lb steers, $130-$173; bulls, $114-$136; heifers, to $135.
More details have been made available about the new H-E-B Store scheduled to open soon in Gonzales.
After many years of planning, the new H-E-B Gonzales store will open its doors on Friday, March 16 at 6 a.m., offering Gonzales-area residents a first-class shopping experience that is both fresh and convenient. The new 51,000 sq.-ft. store, located at 1841 Church St., will feature H-E-B products selected for the Gonzales community.
“H-E-B has been proudly serving the Gonzales area for 40 years and we are committed to investing in the lo-cal community,” said Rob Hall, vice president and general manager, H-E-B Gulf Coast Region. “This store is specifically tailored to meet the needs of the Gonzales community.”
The new store will offer customers expanded departments never before seen in this community. A few high-lights of the store include:
• Unparalleled Produce Depart-ment showcasing hundreds of variet-ies of fresh fruits and vegetables.
• An expanded Seafood Depart-ment with a greater variety of frozen fish.
• Meat Market offering USDA Prime, Natural, and Organic meats. We offer full service “cut to your spec-ifications” for your special occasions.
• Full-service Deli featuring pre-mium meats and cheeses sliced to
order. Hot Rotisserie Chickens will be roasted fresh several times daily, along with daily offerings of take and bake fresh pizzas.
• Bakery complete with a full as-sortment of scratch made breads. Fresh pies, muffins and fully deco-rated cakes are available to customers daily as well as flour tortillas.
• Pharmacy dedicated to providing superior service for all your prescrip-tion needs with expert consultations and savings via our Platinum Re-wards program. A convenient drive-up window provides easy customer access.
• A Texas Front Porch area with dé-cor items, potting soil and ceramics.
• Brand new Fuel Station offer-ing lower than low fuel prices on all grades of gasoline, diesel and the op-tion of Additech to help keep your fuel system clean.
Committed to the environment and green business practices, H-E-B designed the new store with numer-ous innovative and sustainable ele-ments. The store will feature highly reflective roofing, which keeps from heating up the building and there-fore saves energy to cool the build-ing interior; water efficiency features and equipment inside the store; and energy efficient features including computer automated air conditioning and heating, administrative area light fixtures, and energy-saving “Night Blind” roll down thermal shades on open front refrigerated display cases, reducing the energy use.
The store will also feature natural skylights. The lights in the store will dim or brighten, adjusting to the den-sity of the natural sun light.
Bill Tate, a 15-year H-E-B partner, will be the store’s unit director. The store will be staffed with an estimated 150 knowledgeable partners that will make the shopping experience an outstanding one for customers.
“The new Gonzales H-E-B will have an expanded assortment throughout the store while offering the same low prices the community has come to expect from H-E-B,” Tate said. “Our goal is to provide the best customer service, lowest possible prices and largest variety of products, including products from local vendors such as J Bar, Adams Spices, Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms, Shiner Beer and Buddy’s Chicken.”
H-E-B’s commitment and involve-ment in the communities it serves has been recognized as an important part of the way the company does busi-ness. H-E-B’s Spirit of Giving and commitment to community service is at the core of its mission, annually contributing more than five percent of gross pre-tax earnings to commu-nity initiatives and charities across Texas.
“H-E-B is committed to making a lasting and powerful impact in this community, and you will see evidence of this commitment in many ways as we continue to deepen our roots in Gonzales,” Tate said.
1)Survey Name: S. Bateman, A-1Direction and Miles: 5.9 miles
north from CheapsideOil: 1,814MCF: 1,824Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,240Total Depth: 17,667 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,582 feetPerforations: 11,745-17,572 feet
API No.: 42-177-32372Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
1)Survey Name: S. Bateman, A-1Direction and Miles: 5.9 miles
north of CheapsideOil: 1,547MCF: 1,415Choke Size: 30/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,186Total Depth: 17,370 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,287 feetPerforations: 11,897-17,277 feet
DeWitt CountyAPI No.: 42-123-32675Classification: Fld Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res.
USA Inc.Lease Name: Bruns 01Well No.: 2HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Total Depth: 21,000 feetSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 40,
A-499Acres: 620.80
API No.: 42-123-32676Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res.
USA Inc.Lease Name: Bruns 01Well No.: 3HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Total Depth: 21,000 feetSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 40,
A-499Acres: 620.80
API No.: 42-123-32677Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res.
USA Inc.Lease Name: Bruns 01Well No.: 4HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Total Depth: 21,000 feetSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 40,
A-499Acres: 620.80
API No.: 42-123-32693Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating
Company
Lease Name: Walters AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Total Depth: 14,000 feetSurvey Name: F. Gonzales, A-194Acres: 545.80
API No.: 42-123-32694Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res.
USA Inc.Lease Name: Wild 01Well No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Total Depth: 21,000 feetSurvey Name: A. Lockhart, A-24Acres: 667.55
API No.: 42-123-32695Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Burlington Resources O
and G Co. LPLease Name: Hunsaker Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-
API No.: 42-123-32687Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Burlington Resources O
and G Co. LPLease Name: Straube Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-
2)Total Depth: 13,600 feetSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 19,
A-274Acres: 652.27
API No.: 42-123-32479Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res.
USA Inc.Lease Name: Garvel 01Well No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Survey Name: P.B. George, A-205Direction and Miles: 4.1 miles
northwest from YorktownOil: 416MCF: 3,539Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 6,902Shut In Well Pressure: 8,000Total Depth: 18,950 feetPerforations: 13,550-18,802 feet
API No.: 42-123-32449Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy
Corp.Lease Name: Rayes BWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Survey Name: I RR Co, Section 42,
A-577Direction and Miles: 7.69 miles
northwest from YorktownOil: 744MCF: 1,527Choke Size: 10/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 7,015Shut In Well Pressure: 7,015Total Depth: 18,929 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,865 feetPerforations: 13,408-18,445 feet
API No.: 42-123-32485Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy
Corp.Lease Name: Wagner AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Survey Name: J. Ross, A-413Direction and Miles: 3.13 miles
southeast from WesthoffOil: 768MCF: 2,475Choke Size: 11/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 960Shut In Well Pressure: 8,165Total Depth: 18,590 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,522 feetPerforations: 13,373-18,521 feet
API No.: 42-123-32451Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy
Corp.Lease Name: Williams “A”Well No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Survey Name: J. McCoy Jr., A-30Direction and Miles: 10.06 miles
northeast of WesthoffOil: 528MCF: 2,345Choke Size: 11/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 6,165Shut In Well Pressure: 6,715Total Depth: 19,162 feetPlug Back Depth: 19,075 feetPerforations: 13,243-19,053 feet
API No.: 42-123-32531Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-
zontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy
Corp.Lease Name: Arndt “A”Well No.: 2HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford
Shale)Survey Name: J. Ross, A-413Direction and Miles: 3.13 miles
southeast from WesthoffOil: 672MCF: 1,770Choke Size: 9/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 856Shut In Well Pressure: 8,165Total Depth: 19,157 feetPlug Back Depth: 19,088 feetPerforations: 13,459-19,067 feet
Oil & Gas Activity Report
Marathon Oil introduces itself to region
Also out in force were representatives of Gonzales-based McLeroy Land Group, which represents Marthon’s interests in a number of area projects.
Oil & Gas
Hundreds of local residents and landowners from around the region were on hand Thursday as Marathon Oil Co. formally introduced itself to Gonzales with an open house at the First Lutheran Church Fellowship
Hall.A brigade of company employees
were on hand to answer questions about all aspects of the oil and gas business, especially those related to the Eagle Ford Shale -- from details
about hydraulic fracturing to ques-tions about groundwater protec-tion, land management, royalties and more.
Photos by Dave Mundy
DuBose Insurance Agency
826 Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales, TX 78629
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ACCIDENT: County’s emergencyresponse system works as planned
WATER: GCUWCD planning tooppose injection well projects
ately when I saw this one I knew I had to do it because of the fabulous lighting hit-ting her and her horse and just the atmosphere I got from the photo of anticipa-tion and readiness. I just couldn’t pass up doing her photo because I knew that it was the one.”
“I was really surprised,” said Lester, the reigning Texas High School Rodeo Association Cowgirl of the Year. “She’s a great artist!”
Legislature’s interim com-mittee on natural resources. The priorites specified by Dewhurst include, among a wide range of environ-mental and resource objec-tives, studying and recom-mending ways to combine groundwater conservation districts along major aqui-fer lines rather than by in-dividual counties, and the eventual elimination of county water districts.
“They’re talking about getting rid of us,” Sengel-mann said. “We don’t have the money for lobbyists, so
what we need is for our of-ficers and our residents to contact legislators in per-son.”
Consolidation of smaller taxing entities into “re-gional” authorities and the eventual transformation of those districts into ap-pointed rather than elected boards is a key tenet of United Nations Agenda 21.
The GCUWCD directors also voted to de-annex a number of properties lo-cated in Caldwell County back to the Plum Creek UWCD. The two districts have been wrangling over a number of dual-annexed properties in Caldwell and Gonzales counties, and un-
der recently-passed state legislation gave property owners the opportunity to choose which district they wished to be a part of.
As a result of the settle-ment, the GCUWCD will lose 4,672 acres to Plum Creek, while Plum Creek loses 7,503 acres to Gon-zales.
Directors also approved a change in the rates the district is paying for equip-ment through the Western Mitigation Fund. Sengel-mann told the board there have been several price hikes from suppliers, most notably for the suppliers of solar panels used to power new well pumps.
Manager Charles Windwehen announced that police were “conducting an internal investigation in the theft of cash or goods,” and that one city employee had been ter-minated.
Parks & Recreation employee Belinda Walker was fired, and Malaer and golf course manager Ricky Bazan were also later terminated as the investigation continued. Police Chief Tim Crow, who was appointed to run the department on an interim basis, said that not all of those terminations may
have resulted from the investigation, how-ever.
Since that time, several aspects of the city’s parks and recreation department have been scrutinized, including the city-owned Inde-pendence Park Golf Course and the conces-sions stand at J.B. Wells Rodeo Arena.
The Gonzales Police Dept. turned the results of its investigation over to the DA’s office in early November, with Capt. Alan Taylor saying at the time that “multiple charges” have been recommended, and that the report includes multiple statements and affidavits.
addition to the road closure, power was out for most of the day in the area, includ-ing parts of Nixon, affecting about 130 households.
“Anything inside the property lines on state highways is the scene for Texas High-way Patrol,” said Schmidt. “They’re ulti-mately responsible. They made the call for the evacuation, they made the call to cut the power, they pretty much controlled the scene.”
Schmidt added that while DPS was the controlling entity on scene, it took a col-laborative effort to contain and eventually clear the incident.
“It was a tag team effort pretty much throughout the day,” he said. “It was every-body together trying to come up with the best plan of attack.”
Early speculation was that the truck had actually overturned, but Schmidt said that proved not to be the case.
“The truck didn’t look like it ever went completely over because it was still sitting on its tires,” he said. “Apparently when it went into the embankment, it put it in such a bind that it broke the fifth wheel on the trailer. The trailer then flipped at least one complete turn.”
It was the tossing of the trailer that caused the situation to call for the electric-ity to be turned off.
“There was a pole there and when that trailer rolled, it sheared that pole off,” Schmidt said. “It came unhooked from the primary, but the primary was intact. It looked like it was probably still good, but there was a secondary line that came off of that and it went up FM 108. All of that was beyond repair.”
“Trooper Brothers went to get the ve-hicle information and he smelled propane. At that point, we knew we potentially had a leak.”
The evacuation area started at 300 feet but was eventually expanded to a half-mile.After everyone had been cleared, the officials re-assessed the tank and found a small seep. Even though the threat of ex-plosion had all but passed at that time, they chose to keep the road closed.
“We could have probably let the hom-eowners back in at that time, but we still had to move that tank,” said Schmidt. “We already had a safe scene so it didn’t make sense to let people back in when we knew we might have to go through it (the evacu-ation) again.”
“Same thing with the power. We could have turned it back on briefly but nobody was hurt and the scene was safe, so why jeopardize that for a little bit of comfort.”
The highway from FM 108 to FM 1116 remained closed pending the arrival of a HazMat team, who was dispatched by the transport company who owned the truck. The company’s main office is in Piedras Negras, Coahuila in Mexico, which means it took several hours for them to make it here.
“TCEQ (Texas Commission on Envi-ronmental Quality) rules say that we have to give the company an opportunity to get their product and provide their clean-up folks, if it’s not an emergency situation,” Harless explained. “The problem is there is no specific time that we have to give them.”
The HazMat team didn’t reach Gonzales until nearly 4 a.m. Saturday because they got delayed at the border, which held them up for almost 10 hours.
In the meantime, the county was forbid-
den to call in assets located closer to the area without approval from the state.
“There are several HazMats around in San Antonio, Austin and Houston, but the first question would have been who are we billing?” said Schmidt. “Obviously the Gonzales Fire Department doesn’t have money for a HazMat team and neither does the county.”
“If Keith or I would have made the deci-sion for the judge to call a local asset, the county would have gotten the bill,” said Harless. “We’re talking thousands and thousands of dollars at the taxpayers’ ex-pense.”
Once the off-loading of the tank’s con-tents began, it took about 90 minutes to get the scene cleared. By the time they were done, crews from Guadalupe Valley Elec-tric Cooperative (GVEC) began restoring power.
“We were able to drag that trailer from its position over to the road and then we were able to get about 18 percent off of the tank,” Schmidt said. “That made it light enough where we could right the tanker. We had the tank off-loaded ready to go town, we had the truck going to Mexico and at about the same time, GVEC were starting to bring the power up.”
The highway was officially re-opened around 6 a.m. on Saturday.
Because it is so rare to see propane tank-ers of that size come through the area, the county is not accustomed to dealing with such events. Schmidt said it was good to know the procedures they followed were effective.
“This was done pretty much by the book,” he said. “I wish that we could have done something else (to make it less incon-venience), but it was done by the book.”
Despite the way it was executed, Judge Bird said there is one thing about the pro-cess he plans on addressing.
“We may have to put in some triggers time-wise to speed things up,” he said. “At some point, we need to be able to say to these companies ‘Hey, you’re time’s up. We’re going to take care of this and your insurance company’s going to be getting a bill.’”
To effect the evacuation, the county uti-lized its Reverse 9-1-1 system to notify af-fected residents. Bird thought that worked well, but admitted it could also use some tweaking.
“As far as notification, I think we’ll get better at that,” he said. “We’ve already talk-ed to the radio station about some things and we’re going to gear Jimmy up so he can post from the site on our Facebook page and website.”
As of press time, the Cannon was unable to acquire an official report on the accident from DPS. However, the other driver in-volved in the incident gave us his side of what happened in an telephone interview.
“I was coming from Circle G and had put on my turn signal to turn onto FM 108 when I heard him coming from behind me, so I went straight,” said Robert Ramirez of Moulton. “His trailer caught the side of my truck and put me in a ditch. His trailer turned over and his cab went into the em-bankment.”
Ramirez said the driver of another 18-wheeler, which arrived on the scene to help, told him it appeared the tractor-trailer rig may have been trying to pass Ramirez and been surprised when he be-gan a left turn. Officials at the scene report-ed the driver of the propane truck spoke little English.
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NIXON — The Board of Trustees for the Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Inde-pendent School District met in regular session Monday night.
The meeting kicked off with an impressive presen-tation by fifth-graders from Sheri Wuest’s class.
The students staged a “Walk Through Time Wax Museum,” during which they portrayed iconic in-dividuals including Harry Houdini, Johnny Cash, President Dwight Eisenhow-er, Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Pocahontas, General George Patton, Shirley Tem-ple Black, Selena Gomez, Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel and Sacagawea. Each student recited a brief history of their person while dressed in ap-propriate costumed garb.
Parking at the new gym was addressed when Super-intendent Dr. Cathy Booth told the board of the admin-istration’s plan to create more room.
“We have 104 parking spaces that cost us $250,000,” she said. “We decided that instead of building more, we can pave the road from the lot up to the Central Of-fice and use that as overflow
parking.”“I know some people have
been very critical and said it was poor planning, but it wasn’t. It was fiscally smart. You don’t spend another quarter of a million dollars for something you’re only going to need 10 nights a year.”
Booth said there are a few growing pains concerning the new facility that are being worked out like the quality of the sound system.
“It’s a really good system but we were told that we don’t have the right speakers,” she said. “A sound expert will be coming in to listen to it.”
“We know a gym is not a good place for sound be-cause of the acoustics. But we need to have this because we use it for things like grad-uation in case of inclement weather.”
The board also received a report on the district’s atten-dance. The average daily at-tendance (ADA) for January was up at all three campuses. Booth particularly praised the job being done at the el-ementary level by principal Curtis Wubbena.
“Curtis has really been on this,” she said. “He has his teachers doing attendance logs. They call every parent of every child who is absent.”
“What we’re finding out is
a lot of parents just flat don’t understand how important school is. They don’t under-stand if you have a medical appointment, you don’t have to be out all day.”
The board also set May 12 as the date for the school board election. There are two Nixon positions open - Place 2 and Place 3. Both of the incumbents, Bud Box and Richard Lott, have already filed to run again for another three-year term.
Early voting by personal appearance will be conducted each weekday at the School Administration Building, lo-cated at 800 Rancho Road in Nixon, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. from April 30– May 8.
Applications for ballot by mail should be mailed to: Cindy Lott, P.O. Box 400, 800 Rancho Road, Nixon, Texas 78140. Applications for ballots by mail must be received no later than the close of business on May 4.
In other business, the board:
• Changed the meeting dates for March, April and July to the third Monday of the month.
• Adopted a policy on test integrity and test security procedures.
• Recognized March 5-9 as Texas Public School Week.
Fifth-graders highlightN-S school board meetingBy CEDRIC IGLEHART
GUADALUPE COUN-TY — A group of resi-dents are mobilizing op-position to a landfill they say poses a threat to their water, roads and way of life.
Approximately 80 property owners and residents of eastern Guadalupe County met Thursday night at the Watts Ranch to discuss opposing the application by Post Oak Clean Green Inc. to open a munici-pal solid waste landfill on a 1,200-acre site off FM1150.
The meeting was led by Jim Watts Sr. and Jim Watts Jr. who said one of the first steps for oppos-ing the application filed with the Texas Commis-sion on Environmen-tal Quality would be to choose a name for the group.
Watts Jr. said “Proud Land Stewards of Gua-dalupe County” had been tentatively selected but they welcomed sugges-tions.
The group later de-cided on “Stop Post Oak Dump” which can be ab-breviated to SPOD.
“We’re all here for one thing - to eliminate this dump,” Watts Sr. said in convening the meeting. “We want to leave here tonight with some kind of game plan.”
Post Oak Clean Green Inc. is headed by Tom Funderburg, president, and his son, Norman Funderburg, secretary-treasurer.
The corporation filed its initial application for a landfill permit on Dec. 27, 2011, and the TCEQ published a notice in the Jan. 18 edition of this newspaper to inform the
public about the applica-tion and the process for submitting comments on the application.
The proposed site is bounded by Nixon Road, Dix Road and FM 1150. Located in the middle of the 1,200-acre tract will be the landfill eventu-ally taking up 450 acres. The other 750 acres will be used for environmen-tal research and wildlife management, according to Jim Blackwell, an envi-ronmental engineer who is project manager for the corporation.
“There are several landfills in the Austin and San Antonio areas that are now at capacity and will close in a few short years; thus there is a real need for additional capacity within this area,” Blackwell said in a pre-sentation Feb. 2 to the Alamo Area Council of Governments.
“It just doesn’t make good sense to have some-body come in and put a dump site over an aqui-fer,” Bill Jones told the gathering at the Watts Ranch. He said there are potential sites for land-fills not located over aquifers.
Jones represents Dis-trict 4 on the board of the Guadalupe County Groundwater Conserva-tion District, and he said the GCGCD board is “100 percent opposed” to the landfill.
Jones said the landfill site is located over the Wilcox Aquifer which is down 430 to 460 feet in that vicinity. Although often referred to as the “Carrizo-Wilcox Aqui-fer,” there actually are two aquifers - the Carrizo and the Wilcox which generally lies below the Carrizo.
Jones also read an email
letter from hydrologist Bill Klemt who formerly worked for the Texas Wa-ter Commission. Klemt listed several factors to be cited in opposing the ap-plication for the landfill.
Besides water pollution concerns, the group dis-cussed traffic, noise and road damage concerns.
“They’re talking about Austin. They’re talking about trash coming from every direction,” Watts Jr. said. “They’re going to go out and solicit anywhere they can to make money.”
While the owners will profit from the landfill, there are costs that will be passed along to tax-payers, he said.
“When these roads are damaged, who’s going to pay for it? They’re not going to pay for it,” Watts Jr. said.
Watts Jr. said a priority needed to be the hiring of an attorney to represent the group. An attorney he has worked with previ-ously estimated legal fees of $3,000 to $4,000 for writing a certified letter
to Post Oak Clean Green Inc. and for represent-ing the group at a public meeting about the land-fill application.
“We need somebody that deals with this,” Watts Jr. said. “It’s a scary deal, and we’re as con-cerned as we can be.”
Regarding raising funds to pay an attorney and cover other costs such as purchasing signs opposing the landfill, those attending the meet-ing agreed to sign up with pledges for donations to
be made after the group has opened a bank ac-count.
“I’m hoping we’ll have signs posted all over Gua-dalupe County,” Watts Jr. said.
He also urged the group’s members to write letters of opposition to the TCEQ. Comments can be submit-ted electronically to the TCEQ website or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087.
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By BOB THAXTONof the Seguin GazetteSpecial to The Cannon
Guadalupe residents organize to fight landfill
SEGUIN — Guadalupe County Judge Mike Wig-gins will take a two-week leave of absence to make a decision about his future as the county’s chief execu-tive after being arrested last week in College Station on a charge of possession of marijuana.
After a closed-door ses-sion that lasted more than an hour Tuesday morning in commissioners court, Wiggins announced that no action would be taken on two other topics dis-
cussed during the executive session and then turned to Precinct 2 Commissioner Kyle Kutscher for further comment.
“As commissioners court, we do not have the authority to remove an elected official from office in this circumstance,” said Kutscher who is the current county judge pro tem who presides in the absence of the county judge. Kutscher said it is a misconception that commissioners court has such authority.
“The judge will be tak-ing a two-week absence to make a decision,” Kutscher
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NIXON — The Nixon City Council took a hard look at imple-menting an ordinance to regulate game rooms and amusement re-demption machines during its regular meeting Monday night.
City Administrator George Blanche said the issue was placed on the agenda because he was
made aware of a proposal to bring a game room to downtown Nixon that would house as many as 50 eight-liner machines.
“The first thing we have to de-termine is whether or not this is even legal,” he said.
“There’s been considerable de-bate about that,” answered Eddie Escobar, the city’s attorney. “There is so much gray in the law regard-ing these that instead of outlawing
them altogether, it’s just better to regulate them.”
Escobar presented the council with an ordinance recently passed by the City of Gonzales regarding eight-liners.
“Other local cities are just tax-ing the machines,”he said. “This is the process that everybody else lo-cally seems to be taking.”
“It’s bit restrictive for a town our size. It would require too much
policing as written, but I just wanted to give you an example.”
The council instructed Escobar to draft an ordinance more suit-able to Nixon and bring it back for approval at a later date.
In a purely ceremonial move, the council chose the Gonzales In-quirer as the city’s official newspa-per for the next year.
In other business, the council:• Called for their municipal
elections to be held on May 12• Approved a resolution to place
a historical marker at 109 E. 2nd Street (Post Office). The marker will be placed at the discretion of the Texas Historical Commission.
• Adopted a resolution au-thorizing the hiring of Lloyd Gosselink and consultants to represent the City in all matters associated with the Texas Gas Service application.
Former Lavaca County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Fred Nieto, Jr. has been indicted on two charges of felony theft by the Lavaca County Grand Jury.
Nieto, 54 of Moulton, was charged with theft of property greater than or equal to $1,500 and theft of property less than $20,000.
According to the indictment, Nieto wrote a check for $18,650 on July 28 through Texas Dow Employees Credit Union without sufficient funds in or on deposit with the bank for the full pay-ment. On Aug. 1, through Wells Fargo, Neito wrote a $6,400 check, again with-out sufficient funds.
Nieto resigned his county position in August while he was under investigation
by 2nd 25th Judicial District Attorney Heather McMinn and the Texas Rang-ers regarding the business practices at his now-defunct auto sales company.
Later that month, his business license was approved for revocation and a fine of $7,500 was imposed by the Texas De-partment of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for a total of eight violations, according to the minutes of the agency’s board of directors meeting. According to the Texas DMV records, the violations included failure to maintain complete records, sale or of-fering to sell motor vehicles without the appropriate license for that type of motor vehicle, and failure to timely transfer title and pay sales tax.
The investigation led to him being placed on administrative leave from his role as Moulton Municipal Court Judge.
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But wait a minute! To get even doesn’t a person have to get mad first?
Vengeance is a by-product of anger; it is an angry per-son’s attempt at regaining what he feels has been stolen from him. We become hostile when we think that our rights have been violated or that we have lost something that we have the right to keep. The loss may be a person, a goal, an object, or in many cases, our own self-esteem.
But, a person who holds grudges and is obsessed with vengeance harms himself more than he/she may realize. Gandhi once said: “Following the philosophy of ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ would leave the world filled with blind, toothless people.”
Most anger is caused by not getting our way and is always self-seeking. The pro-cess goes like this: Someone says or does something unex-pected that hurts our feelings. Many times we are taken off guard and aren’t prepared with a good comeback. The embarrassment causes us to create scenarios of the things we should have said, or the things we should have done; we resolve to go in punching the first chance we get.
Resentment builds up in a person’s heart as a result of feeling unjustly humiliated, unloved, misunderstood or unappreciated. Bitterness is inner resentment; a fertile breeding ground for anger’s offspring. Anger gives birth to brawling, slander, murder, and every form of malice leading to trouble of all kinds. History has shown that the emotion of anger burns away all reason and compels man to take destructive action. The early church leaders of the Middle Ages named seven evil dispositions that moti-vate most of the evil in the world. Anger is third on the list of the ‘Seven Deadly Sins.’
A symptom of anger is something I call ‘toxic tongue.’ Words that spew out from a wounded heart can cut like knives; injuring someone’s
mind and spirit. Angry words have long-lasting and nega-tive consequences that may ruin a relationship overnight. It takes years to gain some-one’s complete trust and con-fidence and only one moment full of angry words to break it down. Once angry words have entered someone’s mind they can’t be retrieved. Al-though some people are quick to forgive hurtful remarks they will not easily forget, be-cause when hateful words hit their mark they always leave a scar. What is unleashed in a fit of angry passion exposes something ugly that’s been hiding in the dark corners of our hearts. People are never quite the same around us af-ter they’ve seen our monsters.
A poisonous seed takes root in our hearts when we clench our mental teeth around a bitter incident, chew on it again and again, and in-tentionally internalize it—a mind full of resentment and bitterness contaminates the good in us in more ways than one.
Anger is always self-defeat-ing and self-destructive. Any-one who has been enraged enough to hate knows that there is little rest for a trou-bled mind. There is evidence that anger causes chemical imbalances which are linked with arthritis, asthma, heart disease and cancer.
A person who can’t take their vengeance out on their perceived attacker will turn their anger inward and suffer emotionally as well. Depres-sion is anger unexpressed; it’s a joy-killer. When anger turns inward it wreaks havoc on the mind, hindering a person from effectively participating in life.
Such character imperfec-tions are not productive traits. It’s time for all of us to grow up and learn how to deal with life’s obstacles without resort-ing to emotional outbursts. The first step toward maturity is to eliminate the things in ourselves that displease God
and cause us problems. To get an anger issue under con-trol…
• Desire to submit to God’s will instead of your own.
• Don’t take everything as a personal attack. It isn’t really all about you. Other people have bad days too.
• Put others needs first be-fore yours. Giving your atten-tion, love, care, skills and tal-ents for the benefit of others out of love for God.
• Commit to love others as you would like to be loved. Don’t expect to get what you are unwilling to give.
• Don’t expect anything in return for the good things you do. False expectations will disappoint you, filling you with resentment.
• Learn to reel in your emotions before they over-take you.
• Take full responsibil-ity for your behavior without blaming others or trying to justify your anger.
• Stop resenting others for not reading your mind. Com-municate.
• Talk about your feelings calmly; don’t point fingers, cuss or throw fits.
• Watch people’s reactions to your behavior and words. Make needed adjustments.
• List everyone who has of-fended you. Forgive them.
• List everyone you’ve of-fended. Ask their forgiveness. If no longer possible, forgive yourself.
• Stop running from your problems. Confront the rea-sons why certain things make you angry. Deal with past is-sues that are affecting your present.
• Be patient with yourself. Change is a process that takes time.
• Ask God to help you over-come your stinkin’ thinkin’.
Think about this…your body, your time on earth, your talents, your abilities, and your loved ones all be-long to God. Whatever is in your possession is a privilege that God has allowed you to enjoy. Rights can be violated. Privileges can’t.
Now ask yourself…“Do I really have a right to be an-gry?”
love, eloise
Remember to mark on your calendars that every fifth Sunday morning that there is breakfast at the Belmont United Method-ist Church right before church around 8:15 and then the congregation gets to pick the songs that will be sung that Sunday. Eas-ter is coming somewhat in the early part of April this year so remember that we always have the Easter Egg hunt the Saturday in between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Then that the Saturday after Easter is when we have the rum-mage sale.
The Belmont Ladies Club will have their end of the year luncheon on February 28th, the fourth Tuesday of the month. Remember to bring your secret pal gift to reveal who she is. We will be having that luncheon at the old Ainsworth House in Luling at around 11:30AM. Because of funding issues for the roof and being able to get a grant to fix it, it has been decided to merge with the Belmont United Method-ist Church since the Bel-mont Community Center is owned by the confer-ence. Thus from now on it will be known as the Bel-mont Community Center and be one group. We are all getting older and less in number. For the time being the meeting time will remain the same. If you have any questions about this, you can call Shari Lee.
There is a benefit tenta-tively set for the expenses of Amber Robbins on March 24th, and you can call Pam Toland West at 830-263-0684 for more information.
Please lift the follow-ing people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Lisa Rodriguez, Terry Bow-man, Mr. Baker,William Hudgins, Kathryn, Sa-brina Flores, Bill and Ma-rie Lott, Doris and Alvin Hewell; Hester Behlen, Louise Jones, Aunt Geor-gie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vickers, Gene Robin-son, Susie Dolezal, Teresa
Wilke, Sandi Gandre, Carl and Vida Tindle; Rev A. C. and Evelyn Newman, Ruby Ruth Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Linda Nes-loney, Esther Lindemann, Jack Lott, Anna Linde-mann, Ann and Bubba Bond; Case Martin, Clint and Lindsay, Gloria and Odean Gass; Shirley Doz-ier, Larry Washington The family of Hertha Wagner, The family of Skee Wil-liams, The family of Jerry Gorden, The family of H. L. and Barbara Saur, The family of James Brunken-hoefer and please pray our troops and their families
You know I am like Clint and Lindsay Martin are when they are look-ing at that little bag of cells that they infused into Case---that precious bag of cells doesn’t look like much of anything. It did not take but about twenty minutes to actually infuse into Case’s body. However, think about the miracle that it is supposed to cre-ate in conjunction with the rest of Case’s body. With God on Case’s side and these cells building him an immune system, he will be able to virtu-ally lead a normal life as we know it. If you have not seen him, go to Clint Martin’s Facebook page and look at that precious baby. You know when Je-sus walked around on this earth, He sat down and talked to the little chil-dren and really rebuked those who wanted to harm them. I guess that is why it is so hard for us to un-derstand why and how some people can harm their children by beating them to death.
We are having a very warm Valentine’s Day. I think it was just yesterday that we had snow landing on the ground in Del Rio. This could only happen in Texas. Our Courtney is on her way back to Texas from
Florida. We wish her God-speed with her horse and trailer etc. She is one sweet young lady, and we don’t want anything to happen to her. Chocolate covered strawberries seem to be in vogue this year. I hope you got your sweet tooth satis-fied one way or the other and had a wonderful Val-entine’s Day.
The last news I received was that Odean Gass had been released from the hos-pital and was doing well. Gloria Gass was in a rehab center and if you went to see her, to please go af-ter 4pm as she was having therapy before that time. If you want to send a card, the address is Global Re-hab, 19126 Stonhue, Room i 226, San Antonio, TX 78258. This is at the corner of Huebner and Stoneoak.
I will have eaten my tasty heart shaped rib eyed steaks over at the Belmont Social Club by the time you have read this. You see I get a double treat just four days apart because our anniver-sary is on February 18th. Stanley and Sandra Froeh-ner also got married on February 18th. I am just go-ing to say that I have been married for more than half of my life.
Well I think that the Gan-dre ladies have wandered back to their respective res-idences. I hope that means that Ruby Ruth Gandre was able to return to The Heights for more physical therapy after getting over her bout with pneumonia. Now I was told that Aunt Georgie fell and cracked a rib. I hope that she did not hurt anything else. Aunt Georgie we cannot have you taking tumbles like this. We will just keep on praying for both of you la-dies to stay on your feet.
Miss Dililah, the brave dear kitty that she is, got spooked yesterday and saw a really bad “booger” on my bed and decided to attack it and in the pro-cess of jumping sky high and attacking it involved my right arm and I got clawed pretty bad. (Yes, that is a terrible run on sentence. Sorry.) Yes, it hurt and blood was ev-erywhere. The cause of all this consternation was a piece of fabric that had gold thread in it and had roosters and hens on it and I have to admit that it did look suspicious. It re-ally did look like a curled up snake. And after all we did have that hateful vacuum cleaner out and had moved some furni-ture around to boot. So how can I totally blame Miss Dililah? I can’t blame her because she was going to save all of us from that horrible look alike snake.
Have a good week, and God bless.
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ORDINANCE NO. 2012-05 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GONZALES, TEXAS, FOR THE REGULATION OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS, MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR CERTAIN SEXUAL OFFENDERS TO RE-SIDE WITHIN 1,000 FEET OF PREMISES WHERE CHILDREN GATHER; MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO LOITER WITHIN 300 FEET OF THE PUBLIC WAY AROUND A CHILD SAFETY ZONE; PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS TO THE ORDINANCE; PROVID-ING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORDINANCE, IN-CLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $2,000.00 AS ALLOWED BY LAW, PER DAY OF THE CON-TINUING VIOLATION.
ORDINANCE 2012-07 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GONZALES, TEXAS, ORDERING THE POSTING OF THE ORDER OF ELECTION FOR MUNICIPALITIES; DIRECTING THE GIVING OF NOTICE OF ELECTION; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS RE-LATING TO THE ELECTION.
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- BID NOTICE –The Gonzales Housing Authority is requesting competitive sealed proposals from qualified contractors for general landscaping for the Housing Complex Grounds Improvements. Proposals will be received until 2pm, February 23, 2012, at the Gonzales Housing Authority office, 410 Village Drive, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-3419. Proposals shall be clearly marked. Proposals will be publically opened and read at the time and date mentioned. No proposal may be changed, amended or modified after the same has been submitted or filed in response to this notice. A proposal may be withdrawn, however, and re-submitted any time prior to the time set for receipt of proposals. The Gonzales Housing Authority has the right to accept or reject any proposal or to waive any technicality which may be in their best interest.
Included in the construction but not limited to will be:
Landscaping at the following Housing Complexes:
• Green DeWitt Village• Edwards• Casa Rio Annex
The work will be awarded to under a single lump sum contract for all general construction work.
For plans and specifications contact the architect, TSG Architects AIA, 427 Saint George Street, Suite 300, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-7801. A current, completed AIA A305 will be required upon receiving plans and specs. Contractors may obtain a refundable set after receipt of $50.00 per set, plus postage and handling if applicable. A CD of the construction document set is available for a non-refundable deposit of $50, which includes shipping. Plans may also be available for review at the Gonzales Housing Authority office.
The City Council of the City of Gonzales will conduct a Public Hearing on the proposed budget for use of City Funds for the Fiscal Year Begin-ning April 1, 2012, and ending March 31, 2013. All interested citizens are hereby notified that the hearing will be held at the Gonzales Mu-nicipal Building Council Chambers, 820 St. Joseph Street at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 28, 2012.
The purpose of the Public Hearing is to receive public comments in writing or verbally on the proposed budget. All citizens are encouraged to attend this public hearing and present their views to the city. The Gonzales Municipal Building is accessible to the disabled; disabled indi-viduals who might have difficulty in attending this public hearing should contact this office of the Mayor to arrange for special assistance. If anyone interested in attending the public hearing requires a translator, please contact the office of the Mayor prior to the public hearing so ar-rangements may be made. If you cannot attend person, written com-ments may be submitted and will be accepted by the city until the public hearing is concluded.
I certify that a copy of the February 28, 2012, Notice of Public Hearing was posted on the City Municipal Building bulletin board on the 15th day of February 2011, at 2:00 p.m. and remained posted continu-ously for at least 72 hours proceeding the scheduled time of the meet-ing.
____________________________Candice Witzkoske, City Secretary
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Men and Women’s jackets, sweaters. Different sizes. Can be seen at 1822 St. Louis or call 672-8034.(3-15-12)--------------------------1 axle trailer, wide ramp, 12’x61/2’ for sale. Call 857-4993.(3-15-12)--------------------------For Sale: Whirlpool Washing Machine, like new. Large ca-pacity. $200. 361-208-3565.(3-15-12)
Westein Running Boards. $140. For pictures or any questions, please email [email protected].(3-15-12)--------------------------Dalhart Windberg - Winters Velvet Mantle - $250.00. Signed Affidavit of Limited Edition 12x36 in frame. Email [email protected] for pictures or any questions.(3-8-12)--------------------------Baby and Womens Clothes for sale. Cheap. Call 361-772-5566.(3-8-12)--------------------------25” Color TV & en-tertainment center. Excellent condition. 830-672-6414.(3-8-12)--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane
(detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs good. $6,000 obo. Individ-ual, 830-660-2813.(3-8-12)--------------------------Power Box Asphalt Paving Machine and Roller. Good Condition. $9,900. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.(3-8-12)--------------------------Small computer desk, wood, $40.00 obo. Large play-pen, $25.00. Both in great condition. 830-203-9159.(3-1-12)--------------------------
2 Teenagers For-mals-Party Dresses. 1 White w/spaghet-ti Strap, with rhine-stones. 1 Beige/golden color, spa-ghetti straps, gold rhinestones. Call 672-8034 or come by 1822 St. Louis.(3-1-12)--------------------------Heavy, vinyl tarps. 15’x50’. UV proof, tuff boogers. $50 each. 830-660-2813.(3-1-12)--------------------------6 oak restaurant booths w/copper inlaid tops. Large round folding ta-bles w/6 armchairs. Contact Tommy, 830-351-1263.(2-23-12)--------------------------Electric Hospital Bed, $300. 12 func-tion exercise bi-cycle, $65. Prices Negotiable. 830-582-1120, Nixon.(2-23-12)--------------------------Insulated 6x8 stor-age building. Like new. Used as a pro-duce cooler. $1,000. Call 512-227-6950.(2-23-12)--------------------------Proform Treadmill. Model 380CS. Pro-grammable, in-cludes built-in fan, speaker for IPOD radio. Like new con-dition. $350/obo. Contact Liz, 830-263-2103.(2-23-12)--------------------------Whirlpool Heavy Duty Gas Dryer. Good condition. $75. Can be seen at 511 Church St. 830-857-4993.(2-23-12)--------------------------For Sale: Thomas Playmate with Col-or Glo Chord Organ. Good condition. All instruction books included. Call Sue, 672-2192.(2-23-12)--------------------------Utility trailer. All wired for lights. Current tag. $450. 512-917-4078.(2-23-12)--------------------------Commercial, Martin Luther King, Desk and many other calendars with your chosen informa-tion. Personal ser-vice at your busi-ness. Spread your website or business information all over South Texas. 830-437-5142 or cell, 830-857-0876.(2-16-12)--------------------------Prayer Shawl, 38x72, handmade, burgundy, green white, $50.00. 512-917-4078.(2-16-12)--------------------------Fullsize Mattress & Box Springs, $100. Queensize Mattress and Box Springs, $175. Both in ex-cellent condition & sanitized. 830-672-3728.(2-16-12)--------------------------2 young ladies black jackets size 14. One is leather. 672-8034.(2-16-12)--------------------------Old Readers Digests for Sale. Call 830-672-3362.(2-16-12)
For Sale: Post Oak Firewood - year old - size and quantity to fit your need. De-livery available. Call for prices, 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273.
16 FT. Gooseneck Livestock Trailer. Bar Top, slide rear gate, center cut gate, re-cent farm tags. De-cent floor, Decent tires. $2,500/obo. 512-718-0482. (3-1-12)
Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions, $175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.--------------------------For Sale: Fullsize mattress, box spring & bed frame - $100. Sofa table - light oak, 48x18x20 - $50. 622 N. Hamil-ton, Gonzales. 672-4559. (2-16-12)--------------------------Dining Room China Cabinet For Sale: A large honey pine dining room buf-fet and hutch with glass shelves and doors. Two sepa-rate pieces makes it easier to move. Haswooden cabinet doors and several drawers on the bot-tom half for storage. The drawers are lined with velvet to protect silverware and other objects from scratches. Tophalf has three shelves with a plate rail and is perfect for china and col-lectibles to be dis-played in the glass case. The whole piece is in overall good condition, just has a few dings from moving. Wood color and style matches many clas-sic and contempo-rary dining room sets. Retails for more than $1300. We are asking ONLY $500 for it. Call Nikki at (512) 227-4040, or email: [email protected] for more information and pictures. Will deliver FREE within Gonzales County.(2-23-12)--------------------------Solid Wood Cubby Shelf With Coat Hooks: A solid pine free-standing cub-by shelf unit with FIVE segmented c o m p a r t m e n t s , each with THREE areas of storage -- a cubby in the top area, a tall back-pack/purse/coat rack section, and a shoe compart-ment at the bot-tom. PERFECT for a classroom, daycare, in the home by the door, or in the garage for organiz-ing tools. Retails for $550. We are asking ONLY $250 for it. Call Nikki at (512) 227-4040, or email: nikki.max-well2009@yahoo.
com for more in-formation and pic-tures. Will deliver FREE within Gonza-les County. (2-23-12)--------------------------6 pc. Solid Oak Bed-room Set. $500/OBO. Call 361-772-5566.(2-23-12)
’07 Doublewide, sits on 10 ac. Homesteaded, AG exempt, chain-link fence in yard and around 10 ac. Large deck on front, small one in back. Covered dog pen, outside night light. Different types of sheds. Water Softener tanks at-tached to back of house, for inside water only. 4BR/1 Bath, LR, carpeted, rest have linoleum. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, very roomy, high ceilings all through house. Ceiling fans in all 4 bedrooms and Living room, also White block Fireplace never used, Island kitchen between kitchen & dining room w/bar-stools. Silver cabi-nets. Belmont area, Gonzales School Route. Call Candy, LREB at 210-365-2803. --------------------------2002 Fleetwood Festival Ltd. 76x16 in excellent condi-tion. 3 bedrooms and 2 bath. I am selling it for the pay off, est. $24,000. The payments with Wilson County tax-es are about $250 a month. It is located in La Vernia and needs to be moved. Call Megan, 830-477-9792.--------------------------3/2, Singlewide Mo-bile Home. All elec-tric, excellent con-dition. Also, Zenith 25 in. console TV and 25 inch color TV. All in excellent condition. Call 830-672-6414.
1977 Chevy 1/2 ton, 2 wd, 4 spd, special ordered. Original owner. $3,000 obo. 830-857-1506.(2-23-12)--------------------------2006 Corvette, 16,000 miles. Very Clean. $33,000. Call 830-672-7040.(2-23-12)--------------------------4 20” XD Series wheels from a 2008 Toyota Truck. Asking $800/obo. Call 830-857-6434.(2-23-12)--------------------------For Sale: ‘94 Cadillac DeVille. $500/obo. Call Luis, 830-339-0645.(2-23-12)--------------------------Mercury Grand Marquis LS. Load-ed, 146,284 miles. $3,000. 830-437-2961.(2-23-12)
Travel Trailers for rent. Ready for move-in. Equipped with everything you need. All you need to bring is your personal items. Call 512-963-0000 or 512-508-6221.
Belmont-4BR/2BA for rent. Nice & clean. Master bed-room has 3 closets, tub and separate shower. Kitchen has lots of counter space and large pantry. One of the living areas has fireplace. Rent will be $1,100 a month. (that includes all water and trash pickup). Deposit is one month’s rent. I will need refer-ences and proof of income. No indoor smoking please. Outdoor pets if you build small fenced-in area. This home will be avail-able by the end of the month. A large covered deck will be built as soon as weather permits. Please call me or send e-mail. mer-cerranch@gmail .com. 830-437-5312 or 830-832-7813.(3-8-12)--------------------------For Rent. Furnished 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Den, Living Room and Kitchen. Avail-able Immediately. Call 830-672-6265 for information. (TFN)--------------------------For Rent to oilfield or pipeline work-ers 2BR/1BA, CH/A, furnished kitchen in Yoakum. Call 361-293-6821.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for rent, w/covered patio, w/electricity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no smok-ing. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances avail-able. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-ances. $750.00 per month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.
Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.
Paws for Effect Dog Grooming is for sale! Established business with ready made clientele. $20,000 buys all equipment, sup-plies and client pro-file cards. Average 1,500 dogs per year! Call Jackie, 830-857-6324.(2-23-12)
For sale or lease. 10,000 sq. ft. Bldg. with multi-level loading docks - Prime location - with offices and separate garage. Call 830-857-5448.--------------------------For Lease: Small of-fice space w/work-shop located at 339 St. George. Recently Renovated, $400/month. For more information please (830) 672-5580.
Hello! Look Here!Caregiver CNA and CPR-certified. Look-ing for employment with an agency or to go to homes and care for the elderly. Also interested in being trained to work front desk tak-ing vitals and his-tories, or at a rehab doing range of mo-tion exercises with children or adults. I also have experi-ence working with Alzheimer’s and Hospice patients. I’m very personable, dependable, loving and caring. Have 30+ years of expe-rience as a nurse. Looking for FT work on the northside of San Antonio. Have excellent refer-ences. If interested, call 830-391-4837.(3-1-12)--------------------------CAREGIVERS need-ed for relief shifts in Seguin. Must have reliable transporta-tion and references. NO SMOKING al-lowed in the house. 830-560-0238 for details.(2-23-12)--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-865-0286 or 832-655-9195.--------------------------Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.--------------------------Private Caregiver. 20+ years experi-ence. Hospice certi-fied. Looking to do private duty, cook, clean, drive. 361-772-2011.
Will mow yards. Reasonable Rates. Call for free esti-mates. 857-5147.
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Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.--------------------------Lawn care & shred-ding. Call for free estimates. 830-203-9385.--------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Li-ability ins., free esti-mates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.
Willing to do baby-sitting at my house. 8-5 M-F. 511 Church St., 830-857-4993.
2011 Big Horn 367ORL 5th Wheel with 4 slices, load-ed, king bed, flat screen TV, electric awning, two A/C units, non-smok-er. NADA Value $82,500. 38 feet long. Great live-in trailer. Call 830-540-4058 or 830-263-9172, Price $46,000.--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.--------------------------
GREAT DEAL!1997 Kountry Star 34 ft., 5th Wheel. 2 slideouts, upgrad-ed kitchen, ducted A/H, 11 storage c o m p a r t m e n t s , ceiling fans. NADA.com/RV appraised RV at $15,900. Ask-ing $10,000. Great home for oilfield. Located in Rock-port, TX. 361-645-1009.--------------------------2004 Wildcat 5th Wheel RV. 28 ft., equipped to sleep 5, w/lrg. slide con-taining sofa & di-nette. Lots of stor-age. Adapted to
pull as gooseneck. Excellent condition. Call 361-218-1880.--------------------------2004 Fleetwood RV Pecos pop-up. Like new, only pulled from dealer. $4,000. Both units located near Old Moulton. Call 857-0734 or 361-596-7317.--------------------------24 ft. 2006 bought in 2007. Zeppelin Travel Trailer w/slide out; Lg. corner shower, qn. bed, m/w, stove, refrig-erator, sat./cable prep, tires 2-yrs-old. $9,800; located near Gonzales. Call 936-203-4378 or 936-594-9809.
RV-SITES-GONZA-LES COUNTY. Large lots, long term rent-als, with laundry service available. $270/mo. + utilities, Weekly-$100; Dai-ly-$20. Pool Opens Summer. Call for in-formation. 830-424-3600.--------------------------RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.
For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for Jeff.--------------------------2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. In-dependent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.--------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o.
830-857-5236.--------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.--------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-David-son. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, beginners or ex-perienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.
American Pit Bull Terrier Pullies for sale at $75 each. Only 3 female pup-pies available. 2 black, 1 brindle. Not Registered. Will be available to take on February 12. Call 830-203-1574, Randy or 830-263-2808, B.J.--------------------------AKC German Short-hair pointer pup-pies for sale. Great hunters & family companions. Male - $250; female - $300. 830-203-0470.(2-16-12)--------------------------Pups For Sale. Great Pyrenees, (1/8 Ana-tolian). Call Sammie Gibson at (830) 203-8666.(2-16-12)--------------------------Tiny Chihuahua puppies. 8 wks. Registered. S/W, ti-ger striped, Apple Head. $150-$175. 210-379-0771.(2-16-12)--------------------------Turn your favorite pet photo into a work of art! Artist Brenda Shannon, Pastel or Acrylic. Great gift idea. (512) 917-4078.(2-23-12)
Crossbred Jersey Limousin cows in milk. $1,100. Call Al-ice, 512-272-5147. (2-23-12)--------------------------Buy fresh & lo-cal! Brown eggs, chicken, lambs. Live & Process sales available. Please call 512-718-0482. w w w. n e i l r a n c h .com.(2-23-12)--------------------------Game Chickens For Sale. 3 roosters, 7 hens. $5.00 each. 512-917-4078.(2-16-12)
HACCP Trained per-son need to help write HACCP plan for poultry. 830-339-0419.(2-16-12)--------------------------For Sale: Sorrel Gelding, 10 yrs. old. Big, strong, sound ranch horse. Very good looking. Needs a strong rid-er. Gentle, calm dis-position. $850/firm. Call 361-596-4954.(2-16-12)--------------------------Black Limousin & Black Angus Bulls. Also Heifers. Gentle. Increase your wean-ing waits. Delivery available. 979-263-5829.(2-16-12)--------------------------For Sale. Red Bran-gus Bulls and Black Brangus Bulls. 1-2 years old. No pa-pers. 830-437-5772. (3-8-12)--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------M I N I - G O A T S . (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.
Home for sale. 3/2, 3 Car Carport on 4 ac. with tank. $89,000. 830-875-2848. (3-8-12)--------------------------Home for sale. Las Hadas Subdivision - Between Seguin and New Braunfels on Hwy. 46. 334 Las Hadas. Spectacular riverfront estate 5BR/4.5Ba, with boat landing and 2100’ tiled covered cabana on the Gua-dalupe River. Sur-prisingly beautiful features including hardwood floors, beamed and wood-en ceilings, ex-tensive use of oak hardwood, copper covered cabinets, 2 curved stairways, Murano chande-liers, fully furnished with custom fur-niture, antiques, crystal, china, silver, wide-screen TV, sound system, and much more. Breath taking view of the Guadalupe River on Lake McQueeney. cdkproperties.com. (3-8-12)
Beautiful Stone House. 24 acres. 2 ponds, well, county water. $400,000. For Info call 713-203-2814.--------------------------Owner Finance, 3BR/1BA located at 810 E. 2nd St. in Nix-on. Asking $65,000. Please call for more information. (830) 672-5580.--------------------------FOR SALE: Seven (7) Buildings, 20 Units Multi-Family Apart-ment Complex, lo-cated at 929 Water St, on 1.595 acres in Gonzales, TX, front-age along US Hwy 183. 1, 2, 3&4 Bed-rooms. All buildings built on concrete slabs, brick veneer siding, metal roof, central heat, Paved Parking Lots and Public Utilities. For information contact: Gonzales Housing Author-ity, 830-672-3419 or [email protected]/1 home. 714 Sey-dler St. Owner Fi-nance. $75,000 or best cash offer. Call Martha, 830-556-2280. Habla Espa-nol.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven
room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commercia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.--------------------------53.35 Improved Pasture with 3/2 older home, CA/H, on FM 1116. 5 miles from downtown Gonzales. Live Oaks, lots of new fence. After 5 p.m. call 830-437-2955 or 830-857-4242.--------------------------Home For Sale; New Construction; 2 bed/1 bath; 1504 Weimar Street; $74,900; 100% fi-nancing for quali-fied buyers; 830-203-5065.--------------------------House for Sale. 3BR/1 bath or 2 BR and dining room, carport & storage building in back. Phone, 830-203-5181, good bargain.
5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for informa-tion.--------------------------6+ Acres at end of Oil Patch Lane. Zoned Commercial for $180,000. Can divide into smaller tracts. Call 210-416-0041.--------------------------Small acreage for
sale or lease on US 183 just North of US 90A in Gonzales. Great for oilfield, etc. 830-203-0470.Looking for Leroy Matocha 33 Vinyl Records. “Time to Dance” and “All Aboard”. Call 979-532-3117.--------------------------Want to buy used tractors, running or not. Call 361-293-1633.--------------------------Professional Art-ist needs coastal round bales of hay. Will barter for art-work. Brenda Shan-non, 512-917-4078.
K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. Call 830-445-9583 or 830-857-3505 for details.--------------------------APACHE STORAGE - The Store All Place is located at 2502 Harwood Rd. Gon-zales, TX. 830-203-5115.
YOU NEED IT WELD-ED WE CAN DO IT.On the farm or in the field we can get it done. No job to big or to small. Just callus. Donald or Michael at 361-275-6467.(2-23-12)--------------------------Computer repair and upgrade, virus removal, and wire-less setup. Call (830) 857-4438.(2-16-12)
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--------------------------A/C & Electrical side jobs: New installs, A/C maintenance, Condenser change-outs, Residential & Commercial at affordable prices. Please call David anytime at 830-263-1747.--------------------------
Brush Busters.Bobcat, w/tree cut-ter attachment, land clearing, mesquite spray-ing, fence building, misc. odd end jobs. Reasonable Rates. Call James at 512-738-0848.(2-23-12)--------------------------Welding, Fabrica-tion & Repair. 830-437-5747.(2-16-12)--------------------------
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Dear Gonzales ISD School and Community Family,
Hello everyone! GISD is busy with spring programs, sports, planning, and testing. Faculty and staff are working with students daily to facili-tate academic achievement, communicate respect and appreciation of others, and to promote the process of learn-ing how to learn. I believe public school supports the foundation of our country. The vast majority of all suc-cess stories and great leaders have come from public edu-cation and small community schools. Gonzales ISD is do-ing good work!
Our students and staff have been working to prepare for the 2012 spring assessments as we embark on the first year for the State of Texas Assess-ments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and End of Course (EOC) assessments. http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/staar/ Some re-ported changes included in the new assessment system are increased rigor and depth of complexity according to the Texas Education Agen-cy (TEA). What increased rigor and depth of complex-ity means is still a mystery in many ways as are other facets of the new assessment system including how the exams will be scored. As educators teach, motivate to excel and work to extend challenging lessons, there emerges continuous controversy over high stakes testing.
The accountability era gained momentum in the early ‘80’s and has emerged into a multi-billion dollar industry for testing entities.
While assessment of student progress against a uniform comparison standard is an important part of account-ability, the current account-ability system does little to promote major ingredients to success in the real world. In a document provided by the Public Education Vision-ing Institute entitled Creat-ing a New Vision for Public Education in Texas, several Texas superintendents sup-port the original impetus of public education as a state’s right with local control (p.7). Further, the document holds firmly to the assertion that accountability is a good thing, but not an account-ability system that “relies on one-shot testing.” Not accountability that “…pun-ishes students and teachers based on false conclusions about student success and development” (p.9). http://www.tasb.org/legislative/documents/vpevi.pdf . The authors purport the trans-formation of the system into one that supports skills necessary to a well rounded adult world.
The Secretaries Commis-sion on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report en-titled: What Work Requires
of Schools, A SCANS Re-port for America 2000 was published in response to a directive by the Secretary of Labor to inform educa-tors of the skills necessary for work success http://wdr.doleta.gov/opr/fulltext/docu-ment.cfm?docn=6140. Still recognized today as leading research, the SCANS report supports basic skills in the content areas while pro-moting necessary skills that are integral to professional working relationships, prob-lem solving and knowledge acquisition as instrumental competencies. The SCANS report listed five major com-petencies including: identify and organize resources, work with others, acquire and eval-uate information, understand complex interrelationships of various systems, and use tech-nology. Additionally, there is a three part foundation which includes: understand basic skills, use thinking skills that demonstrate knowledge of how to learn, make decisions, and use information to solve problems and demonstrate personal qualities of respon-sibility, sociability, self esteem, integrity and honesty.
I applaud educators for their work every day integrat-ing real world lessons that support work ready envi-ronments. Teachers are ac-countable for so much more than a snapshot high stakes test given one day in the life of a child. We enter this new testing era with many unan-swered questions. Just know that whatever comes our way, GISD will continue to do what is best for our students and strive to surpass the ex-cellence of our vision.
Gonzales Junior High Honor Roll for the third six weeks:
Erin Foley, Samantha Fuss-ner, Brandon Gomez, Regan Gray, Joshua Haynes, Juan Hernandez, Adrien Masek, Caytlyn Molina, Mario Pi-zano, Katia Sanchez, Jaydin Tatsch, Merideth Tatsch, Ja-son Banda Velasquez, Bran-don White
8th GradeAll A’sValeria Aquayo, Molly Bar-
nick, Alysa Barta, Jannine Cortez, Blakelyn Cox, Pedro DeLuna, Ashley Gonzalez, Tanner Hardcastle, Ashleigh Haub, Ali Haghoughi , Tesha Landry, Maximiliano
Moreno, Alyson Solis, Clay-ton Wilkerson
All A’s and One BJasmine Allen, Miguel
Almaguer, Carlos Blanco, Kelsey Camarillo, Dylan Can-
tu, Angelica Castro, Christian Garcia, Shelby Mann, Tristan Mathis, Kirstin McKinney, Alysa Ramirez, Andrew Ro-driguez, Trent Schauer, Wy-att Williams
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Education
Nixon-Smiley CISD UIL Results
Everybody’s perfectThe Gonzales Elementary administration recognized one very special class for their hard work. Not a single student in Mrs. Molina’s third grade class missed a day of learning during the last six week period! Pictured are (top row, from left): Isabel Rosas, Eduardo Perez, Juan Miramontes, Pedro Almazan, Osvaldo Oroczo, (middle row) Juan Olmedo, Yesenia Rodriguez, Carlos Mendoza, Anna Zuniga (bottom row) Priscila Pizano, Lesli Lopez, Jorge, Lucio, and Vanessa Izaguirre.
Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Inde-pendent School District UIL competi-tion results:
SPECIAL OLYMPIC AREA MEETJosue Bernardi, Silver Medal; Colton
Kinnison, Silver Medal; Nicole Natal, Bronze Medal; Sara Torres, 4th place ribbon.
REGION 12 UIL SOLO &ENSEMBLE CONTESTSuperior Rating Solos: Liliana Gar-
cia (alto sax), Chris Casas (tuba), Case Samford (alto sax).
Excellent Rating: Ariel Bermea (clar-inet); Chase Neubauer (french horn); Kyle Robinson (tenor sax); Ashley Rawls (flute); trombone trio of Trini Dominguez, Marissa Garcia and Mat-thew Krueger; percussion ensemble of Frankie Aleman, Seth Barrow, John Martinez Jr., Tristan, and Delrik Vera.
Teacher of the MonthEduardo Briseno was selected as Gonzales High School’s Teacher of the Month for the month of December, 2011. Mr. Briseno is assigned as the Dropout Pre-vention Specialist at Gonzales High School and has worked there for five and a half years. Mr. Briseno has an excellent relationship with our students at Gonza-les High School and is the right person as the Dropout Prevention Specialist. He is shown with GHS principal Joe Martinez.
Teacher of the MonthConnie Brzozowski was selected as Gonzales High School’s Teacher of the Month for the month of November, 2011. Mrs. Brzozowski has been with Gonzales ISD for 15 years. She worked at the alternative campus before it was moved to the Gonzales High School and continues to excel in working with the Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) at the high school. Mrs. Brzozowski, who has worked well with students, was assigned to the DAEP because of her excep-tional patience and insight that enable her to understand and work with stu-dents that need added assistance and structure. She is flanked by GHS principal, Joe Martinez, and GHS assistant principal, Gene Kridler.
GJH Artist of the WeekBrandon Page is the Gonzales Junior High School Artist of the Week for Jan 30-Feb 3. Page is in the 7th grade and has been drawing for nearly three years. His favorite type of art is drawing and acrylics. Bran-don is a member of the JH Art Club, which meets each Friday during lunch in the art room, inspired and led by the JH Art Teacher, Mrs. Barta. (Courtesy photo)
GJH Artist of the WeekJosh Landi was the Gonzales Junior High School Art-ist of the Week for Feb. 6-10. He is in 7th grade and has been drawing for 8 years. His favorite type of art is drawing and sculpture. Josh is a member of the JH Art Club, which meets each Friday during lunch in the art room, inspired and led by the JH Art Teacher, Ms. Patrice Barta.
Superintendent’s Letter
Dr. Kimberly Strozier is superin-tendent of Gonzales ISD.
Dr. KimStrozier
Gonzales Junior High Honor Roll
New STARR tests seeking to provide accurate measure
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Shiner Catholic Honor Rolls
To the following businesses & to everyone who purchased carnations from
the Gonzales Leo Club. We sold 1,100 carnations for Valentines. It could not have
been done without your support.The Gonzales Cannon
KCTI 1450 AMThe Gonzales Chamber of Commerce
Personnel ImpressionsThe Gonzales Inquirer
Thank you again,Lorrell Wright & everyone
in the Gonzales Leo Club.
Thank You! We Did It!
Shiner Catholic School Honor Roll(High honors-All grades 94 and above; Hon-
ors-All grades 85 and above.)
St. Paul High School Honor RollSeniors Honors: Jacob Coull, Kali Kocian, Justin Natal
JuniorsHigh Honors: Katie Denson, Abby Hull, Cole
Hybner, Madison Kurtz, Mason MatiasHonors: Mary Adamek, Dylan Barton, Rachel
Honors: Frank Benes, Madison Culpepper, Luke Darilek, Sydney Hermann, Kath-leen Knesek, Lauryn Kubenka, Tyler Opiela, Mallory Pokluda, Reid Yackel
Third GradeHigh Honors: Maria JanecekHonors: Grant Barta, Sam Benes, Jared
Chumchal, Ashtyn Kardosz, Ted Machacek, Taylor Mobbs, Gerard Nunez,
Quinton Parker, Brooke Pesek
North Avenue Third Six Weeks Honor Roll & Perfect Attendance
Fifth Grade Perfect AttendanceMatthew Almaraz, Jesus
Balderas, Jose Cardoza, Jor-dan Cosper, Iris Dement, Ga-brila Dorantes, Jared Esparza, Kabel Faltisek, Aspen Flach, Cristal Garcia, Maura Garcia, Zachary Garcia, Elijah Garza, Seth Gibson, Chelsie Hast-ings, Cole Hendershot, James Herndon, III, Keela Hoffman, Destiny Hunt, Paige Johnson, Justin Komoll, Jordan Maldo-nado, Abraham Martinez, An-thony Martinez, James Mar-tinez, Kayley Martinez, Jose Martinez-Rodriguez, Jennifer Mendez, Donovan Molina, Sadie Morgan, Jean Ortiz-Aguilera, Karen Perez, Adrian Rivera, Carlos Sanchez, Miles Svoboda, Anileisis Vazquez, Brooke Walls, Sydney Wil-liamson.
All A’s – 1 BTyler Barfield, Carlos Busta-
mante, Marvin Cardoza, Aneesa Carrizales, Edgar Zuniga, Alyssa DeLuna, Jolie Edwards, Raven Flores, Chris-topher Gamez, Ashley Garcia, Mauricio, Gonzalez, Jessica Henrichs, Eduardo Izagu-irre, Isaac Longoria, Joana Lopez-Molina, Julian Mat-amoros, Jared Molnoskey, Ruben Ortiz, Lindsey Ramos, Alysa Rodriguez, Galilea Ro-driguez, Fatima Ruedas, Em-ily Schramm, Ashlynn Tatsch, Matthew Velasquez-Banda, Alexander Villa, Miranda Vil-larreal, Skylynn Williams, Jaz-min Zuniga.
All A-sMatthew Almaraz, Tyler
Barfield, Carlos Bustamante, Tylor Allenger-Andrews, Elizabeth Cardoza, Edgar Castillo-Zuniga, Jerry Co-sper, Jordan Cosper, Alyssa DeLuna, Giselle, Dias, Jolie Edwards, Jared Esparza, As-
pen Flach, Raven Flores, Ri-cardo Games-Reyes, Cristal Garcia, Mayra Garcia, Zach-ary Garcia, Elijah Garza, Seth Gibson, Larry Gomez, Fran-scisco Gonzales, Luis Gon-zalez, Jayden Goode, Justin Gosch, Kieran Grant, Merissa Guerrero, Chelsie Hastings, Keith Hastings, Cole Hender-shot, Autumn Hernandez, Marylou Hernandez, Keela Hoffman, Alan Hunt, Destiny Hunt, Cristian Izaguirre, Edu-ardo Izaguirre, Isaac Kluting, Mario Laney, Jonathan Le-rma, Issac Longoria, Cristian Lopez, Jordon Maldonado, Arleth Mar, Abraham Marti-nez, James Martinez, Kayley Martinez, Jose Martinez-Rodriguez, Yaslyn Mayberry, Jennifer Mendez, Donovan Molina, Jared Molnoskey, Jo-lie Moreno, Gavin Navarro, Manuel Olalde-Granados, Jose Olmedo-San Martin, Jose Orduna, Makayla Pa-dilla, Karen Perez, Mallorie Pirkle, Lindsey Ramos, Juli-ana Reyna, Alysa Rodriguez, Fatima Ruedas, Braxton Sanders, Dalton Shirley, Ma-rissa Singletary, Mykal Sirildo, Karelyz Soto, Amy Swanson, Ashlynn Tatsch, Sergio Tor-res, Ricardo Vera, Alexander Villa, Nicole Washichek, Tren-ton Wilkerson, Gabrielle Wil-liams, Justyn Ybarbo, Jazmin Zuniga.
6th Grade Perfect Atten-dance
Jada Allen, Sabrina Arizpe, Robert Bernal, Sarah Ca-macho, Gracelyn Camarillo, Romy Cantu, Celeste Castillo, Joan Castillo, Alasia Chavez, Madison Condel, Karina Contreras, Calvin Davis, Tra-vis Decker, Nayeli DeLeon, Rachael Duwel, Bernardino Gallardo, Leslie Gallegos, Saul Gamez, Andres Games-Reyes, Javier Garcia, Haley Garza, Brittany Gloria, Lizabeth Soto, Fernanda Velazquez, Seidy Villegas, Alexandra Gomez,
Zachary Gonzales, Julian Gonzalez, Yoselin Gutierrez, River Haynes, Jose Hernan-dez, Levi Hernandez, Sofia Hernandez, Emma Hohen-shell, Jaylen Johnson, Cam-eron Kluting, Juan Licea, Han-nah Longoria, Cesar Lopez, Kimberly Lucio, Brynn Mann, Celia Manzanares, Anthony Mata, Maricruz Medina, Jamie Mendoza, Taylor Mills, Abby Morgan, Timtrell Stovall, Ariel Vega, Presleigh Zella, Abby Morrow, Omar Munguia, Jus-tice Musick, Christian Pena, Isabel Perez, Ryan Perez, K’Leigh Pish, Kelsey Polk, Nicolas Ramirez, Mallory Ra-mos, Tristan Ramos, Cesar Reyes, Garrett Rickman, Jose Rios, Devin Roberts, Desaray Rodriguez, Joley Rodriguez, Martin Romero, Blanca Romo, Melinda Rosales, Hannah Rowland, Alexis Scott, Lauren Strickland, Taegan Thwing.
All A’sAncel Atkinson, Jason (J.D.)
Baker, Romy Cantu, Karina Contreras, Colby Cox, Travis Decker, Patrick DeCola, Ra-chael Duwel, Steven Flowers, Leslie Gallegos, Emma Ho-henshell, J.C. Hoskins, Jaylen Johnson, Cameron Kluting, Juan Licea, Maricruz Medina, Taylor Mills, Abigail Morgan, Abby Morrow, Stephanie Per-ez-Vega, K’Leigh Pish, Timtrell Stovall, Hannah Longoria, Fernanda Velazquez, Cassan-dra Walker, Marisol, Zuniga, Jada Allen, Saul Gamez, Ke-aton Glass, Julian Gonzales, River Haynes, Hailey Hernan-dez, Hernandez, Sylvia.
All A’s-1 BSabrina Arizpe, Kelly Chris-
tia, Jose Hernandez, Brandon Lela, Brynn Mann, Anthony Mata, Justice Musick, Kelsey Polk, Ramos, Mallory, Aaren Rocha, Desaray Rodriguez, Martin Romero, Hannah Rowlans, Juan Velazquez, Presleigh Zella.
North Avenue Honor Rolls
A Big Thank YouStudents and administrators from Gonzales Elementary are shown with Kitchen Pride representatives and members of the Gonzales Elementary PTO displaying a big banner thanking Kitchen Pride Mushrooms and the PTO for their help in funding a new computer lab at the school.
Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District for the second nine weeks:
na, Trey Mejia, Jose Melendez, Amanda Munoz, Isaias Mu-noz, John Parks, Christy Perez, Yolanda Perez, River Rasmus-sen, Juanita Reyes, Rylan Tiek-en, I’Vonne Torres, Precious Tovar, Lexi Trammell, Destiny Van Zandt, Ana Rosa Vazquez, Joshua Wilson
EIGHTH GRADEALL A’s
Deion Jacobo, James Koehler, Caitlyn Weathers
EIGHTH GRADEA-B HONOR ROLL
Brandon Casas, Shiloh Clifton, Xiomara Davila, Jeremiah Fah-rig, Alexis Lozano, Alma Marti-nez, Omar Munoz, Jose Olalde, Aryia Rasmussen, Cameron Rasmussen, Carlos Reyes, Uriel Tovar, Alex Villanueva, Colton Wishert
Rodolfo Acebedo, Erin Agu-irre, Tyler Alvarez, Rosa Alva-rez-Perez, Seth Barrow, Justin Caesar, Treca Deleon, Victor Evans, Matthew Finch, Jen-nifer Flores, Marissa Garcia, Kelby Henderson, Miguel Hernandez, Tye Hyatt, Rae McGee, Chase Neubauer, Priscilla Robles, Austin Rog-ers, Adrian Valerio, Luis Fer-nando Vasquez, Luis Gerardo Vasquez, Justin Wolf
TWELFTH GRADEALL A’s
Vanessa Acevedo, Ariella Bermea, Jessica Flores, Mat-thew Krueger, Randi Lamza, Katarina Leal, Maria Martinez, Robert Mejia, D’Laine Palacio, Jake Robinson, Sara Torres, Heather Turner
TWELFTH GRADEA-B HONOR ROLL
Brea Alvarez, Kristin Alvarez, Naomi Casas, Jazmin Erskine, Liliana Garcia, Nickolas Garcia, Alexander Hernandez, David Hernandez, Gabriela Hernan-dez, Colton Kinnison, Angel Leasman, Ashlyn Maldonado, Michael Martinez, Jaime Moreno, Enrika Natal, Ash-ley Rawls, Dylan Robinson, Gabriel Rodriguez, Rebbeca Rodriguez, Dora Santana, Jo-seph Tortorello, Joann Tovar, Lauren Trigo
Nixon-Smiley CISD Honor Rolls
North Avenue Super CitizensAt North Avenue Intermediate we feel citizenship is something that should be honored, recognized, and given status. It has nothing to do with academic achievement and anyone can achieve it. We know that the essence of good citi-zenship is Respect, Respect of authority, Respect for others, Respect for self, and Respect for rules. It is an attitude that begins at home and is reinforced at school and applied through life. Each month we recognize 10 fifth grade and 10 sixth grade students as our “SUPER CITIZENS”. We are proud to announce the following students as our for the 3rd Six Weeks: FIFTH GRADE: Ani Vazquez, Keela Hoffman, Sadie Morgan, Jerry Cosper, Jazmin Zuniga, Ashlyn Tatsch, Bray-an Juarez, Carlos Bustamante, Zachary Garcia SIXTH GRADE: Madison Condel, Jaylen Johnson, Maricruz Medina, Ariel Vega, Taegan Thwing, Calvin Rhodes, I.G. Franklin, Bradley Bakken, Jaslyn Solis (Courtesy photo)
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NIETO: Former Moultoncity judge faces charges
On Sept. 8, 2010, the Moulton City Council ter-minated Nieto and was forced to cancel all court sessions for the month of September.
The final results of the in-quiry revealed a long list of infringements at his busi-ness, including failure to maintain complete records, sold or offered to sell motor
vehicles without the appro-priate license for that type of motor vehicle, and failure to timely transfer title and pay sales tax.
An audit of his county operations revealed no im-proprieties and Nieto’s busi-ness license was officially revoked on Jan. 12, 2011.
Calls made to McMinn and Nieto’s attorney, Hous-ton Munson III were unre-turned as of press time.
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WIGGINS: To takeleave of absencemeeting, Wiggins went to the podium in front of the court and delivered a state-ment apologizing for what had happened and ask-ing for forgiveness from the commissioners, other county officials and the public.
None of the commission-ers commented after Wig-gins’ statement. However, Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Todd Friesenhahn went to the podium during the “citizens to be heard” segment of the meeting.
Friesenhahn said he used to have great respect for the county judge, but he now felt that Wiggins should step down.
Wiggins was arrested Feb. 6 by a College Station po-lice officer who was called to the Hilton Hotel after a bellman reported smelling the odor of marijuana on the hotel’s fifth floor. Wig-gins was jailed on a charge of possession of marijuana, less than 2 ounces, and he was released the next day from the Brazos County Jail in Bryan after posting $3,000 bond.
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Horse SeminarThe Gonzales elks Club will host a free horse handling semi-
nar featuring renowned clinician Ron McLoughlin from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Elks Club, 1216 N. Sarah DeWitt Dr.
McLoughlin will cover horse care, footwork, leads, maneu-vers, balanced stops and solving horse-handling problems. For details, contact Pat Rosato at 830-437-2046.
Lunch & LearnGonzales Healthcare Systems Lunch & Learn for February
will feature Dr. Kathleen Koerner speaking on “Gall bladder disease.” The monthly luncheon is scheduled for noon Feb. 16 at The Heights Nursing & Rehab. To RSVP, please call 830-672-7581, ext. 421.
Gonzales Stock Show Weigh-InScales will be set up on Sunday, Feb. 19 and Sunday, Feb. 26
at the JB Wells Showbarn from 3-5 p.m. for anyone needing to weigh their project.
Hypertension TreatmentCardiologist Dr. William Craig will speak on “New Treat-
ments for Hypertension” at a luncheon at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 23. To RSVP, call 830-672-1031.
Gospel Sing-AlongThe public is invited to an Old-Time Gospel Sing Along.
(Congregational Singing of the old hymns). Will be held at the Full Gospel Church, 1426 Fischer St., Gonzales, TX on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 6 p.m. Refreshments served afterwards. Y’all Come!
Fruit of the SpiritCome and experience a great exchange of the nine fruits
of the Holy Spirit at the Little Hill Baptist Church Fruit of the Spirit program on Saturday, February 25 at 5:00 p.m. Several dynamic speakers will be highlighting the importance of each gift and the significance of manifesting each in your life. For more information, call (830) 672-5959 or send an email to [email protected]
Revival SlatedDo you need a lift? A new start? Come hear a message with
the power to change your life and to discover a new beginning Jesus Christ at the Little Hill Baptist Church Revival, Thursday, March 1st through Saturday, March 3rd nightly at 7:00 p.m., by hearing the word of God from the spirit-filled, dynamic speak-er, Pastor M.C. Walker, Sr. of the East 19th Street Missionary Baptist Church of Austin! Special musical guests invited each night. Little Hill Baptist Church Revival Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3, nightly at 7:00 p.m. LHBC – 2835 FM 1586, Ottine. For more information, call (830) 672-5959 or send an email to [email protected]
Thompsonville Ladies ClubThompsonville Ladies Club annual Chili Supper and Auc-
tion, Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Thompsonville Com-munity Center. Chili Supper at 5 p.m. Chili is free – we do ac-cept donations. Auction at 6 p.m. Proceeds will be used for scholarships to area youth.
Church CookbookThe Rock Church of Gonzales is now accepting donations
for their first ever publication.“Recipes from the Rock” is a cookbook that contains recipes
submitted by members of the Rock Church, as well as Chris-tian writings and various household hints.
The church is asking for a donation of $15 for the book. All proceeds will go toward the funding of church projects.
To inquire about a book or for more information, contact Pastor Carolyn Bolden at 830-263-0139.
70th AnniversaryEastside Baptist Church on Seydler St. will host its 70th an-
niversary celebration March 25 with services beginning at 9:30 a.m. followed by a concert by the Seale Sisters. For details, contact the church at 672-2628.
Shiner Health FairMark your calendars for Tuesday, February 21st, 3 to 6 pm,
for the annual “Partners in Health”, Shiner’s annual Health Fair, at the Knights of Columbus Park (formerly American Legion Hall) 102 S. Ave. G.
The free event, sponsored by the Shiner Chamber of Com-merce, Shiner Knights of Columbus, Shiner American Legion, City of Shiner and Shiner Rotary Club, will include display ta-bles featuring health-related businesses, organizations, hos-
pitals, nursing homes offering information on healthy living and wellness programs. There will be treats, giveaways and free information on sleep disorders, home health care, mental health, child development, physical therapy and cancer treat-ment.
For further information or to sponsor a table, please contact Bernice Jalufka at the Shiner Chamber of Commerce office: 361-594-4180. [email protected] ; www.shinertx.com.
Anchor Club BingoThe Gonzales Anchor Club will host Senior Citizen Bingo at
Country Village Square Tuesday, February 21, 2012 from 4:30-5:30 pm. A light meal will be served and all Senior Citizens are invited to attend.
Bluebonnet TrailsBluebonnet Trails Community Services will host an open
house at the center, located at 228 st. George St., from 12:30-2 p.m. Feb. 22. The public is invited. For details, call 830-672-2212 or 672-7975.
Barbecue CookoffThe Gonzales VFW Ladies Auxiliary will host its annual Bar-
becue and Chili Cookoff Saturday, March 17 at the post home on Harwood Road. Categories include Brisket, Chicken, Ribs, Chili and Jackpot beans. Entry is $15 per event. Registration begin sta 7:30 a.m. For details, call 254-931-5712 or 830-263-0973.
Pancake supperEpiscopal Church of the Messiah will host its Shrove Tues-
day Pancake Supper from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. Plates are $4 for adults, $2 for children. All proceeds benefit our Commu-nity Outreach Programs. Contact Dee at State Farm Insurance for tickets.
Alumni baseball gameThe Gonzales Fighting Apaches baseball program will have
its annual Alumni Game at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 at T.E. Burrows Field.
For more information, please contact Gonzales head base-ball coach Larry Wuthrich at 830-672-6641.
FOTL quilt raffleCome support the 2012 Friends of the Library Fund Drive by
purchasing a raffle ticket for a chance to win an Underground Railroad Quilt made by Earth Angels Quilters. This beautiful quilt was donated to the Friends of the Library by The Sesame Study Club. Tickets are available at the Library for $1 each or 6 for $5. Drawing will be held Monday, March 5, 2012. The win-ner will be notified.
Love a LabThe Labrador Retriever is America’s No. 1 family dog!We have so many GREAT Labs and Lab mixes at the Gonza-
les Dog shelter, waiting for their forever homes. These Labs have so much LOVE to give!Instead of the usual $80 adoption fee, you can take one of
these Labs home for only $50 during the whole month of Feb-ruary. All Labs are heartworm negative, have all current vac-cinations, and have been spay/neutered. WHAT A DEAL!!!
Why don’t you fill your life with a Lab AND LOVE?*For more information, please contact Gonzales Dog
Adooptions @(830)445-9811/9279. Check out one of our great Labs at www.gonzalesdog.org Also check our Facebook for more details
GLC donationsAs the holidays wind down, the Gonzales Learning Cen-
ter wants to let folks know that we’re collecting gently used Christmas ornaments, lights, artificial trees, wreaths, décor, and gift wrap for next year’s Christmas bazaar.
Call 830-672-8291 to make arrangements to drop off your donation at the Learning Center, located at 1135 St. Paul. We can also pick up donations.
Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS)
is a non-profit organization providing services to both resi-dents and non-residents that are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.
GVFVS provides survivors with legal advocacy, case man-agement, counseling, assistance with crime victims compen-sation and other services at no cost. For more information, call
The Luling Foundation will be hosting the Annual Angus Production Sale with the Foundation An-
gus Alliance on Saturday, March 3 at 1 p.m.
Here are some high-lights of the sale: 100+ Performance Tested Bulls, 70+ Females. To watch the LIVE online auction or to
register for online bidding go to www.LiveAuctions.tv. To view or request a catalog, go to www.faa-an-gus.com or visit the Luling Foundation Office at 523 S. Mulberry, Luling.
Cattle will be available for viewing all day Fri-day, March 2 as well as Saturday morning before the sale. On the sale date, Saturday March 3, 2012, refreshments will be avail-
able; lunch will be served at 11:30 AM; Sale begins at 1 PM.
If you can not make it on the sale day and see some-thing you are interested in, you can leave a bid with one of our representatives or participate on the LIVE internet auction. For more information, please call Mike Kuck at 830-875-2438 or visit www.luling-foundation.org.
CUERO — The Cu-ero Police Department has concluded its investigation into alleged sexual con-tact between an adult and a child on the French Pri-mary School campus with a finding that no evidence of any such contact could be found.
In a news release, the CPD reports: “Early Mon-day, January 9th, 2012, Cuero Police Department received information from un-verified sources of al-legations of a possible sexual contact between a child and adult which may have occurred on the John C. French Primary School Campus. The alleged sus-pect was not an employee of Cuero Independent School District. The al-leged victim is not a stu-dent of Cuero Independent School District.
“During the four week period from January 9th and concluding today, February 7, 2012, investi-gators with Cuero Police Department conducted an in-depth investigation, requiring dozens of man-hours to complete. During the course of the investi-gation, the alleged victim was interviewed by police officers and State Certified
Forensic Interview Special-ist. The reported victim did not confirm allegations of impropriety and did not make an outcry statement.
“Also during the investi-gation, numerous employ-ees of Cuero Independent School District and mem-bers of the alleged victim’s family were also inter-viewed as well as interviews with medical practitioners and an examination of the alleged victim’s medical re-cords. Cuero Independent School District Employees were unable to substantiate allegations of impropriety.
“The alleged suspect was interviewed by Cuero Po-lice Department and Tex-as Department of Public Safety. At request of Cuero Police Department, the al-leged suspect submitted to polygraph examination administered by Texas De-partment of Public Safety. Results of the polygraph examination indicated the alleged suspect was truth-ful in all answers and indi-cated no deception.
“No information was developed by Cuero Police Department confirming the alleged sexual contact had taken place. The Cu-ero Police Department has closed its investigation and no further action will be taken regarding the allega-tions.”
CUERO — Cuero school trustees took no action af-ter a two-hour closed ses-sion Feb. 9 to determine the future of superintendent Henry Lind.
Legal representatives of the school board and Lind met with the board in a
two-hour closed session, but adjourned the meeting with no vote taken and no determination announced. Lind’s contract was re-viewed by the board in January.
The school board is ne-gotiating legal options with Lind for a voluntary exit from his contract, which runs through June 30, 2014.
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Gonzales Pilot Club was honored with a visit from the Texas District of Pilot International Lt.Gov. Deborah Garrett, coming all the way from Lufkin. Ms.Garrett is a 22 year Pilot member, one facet of whose career is in teaching Theater Tech. She spoke com-mending the Gonzales Club reminding us how Pilot Club touches lives
with the service projects we do and encouraged us to be active on all lev-els.....local, Texas Dis-trict and International. She cited Brain Minder Buddies with the safe-ty tips to the youngest students, Camp Higher Ground which provides camping experience to young people with trau-matic brain injuries, Pi-lot International grants which help local clubs in myriad ways, and the character building which
occurs when a new member becomes active in local club projects. Ms.Garrett presented each member a Tiffany-cut crystal as a remem-brance of these qualities to be built into lives and as a token of the 75 year Jubilee anniversary of Pi-lot International.
Gonzales Pilot Club is beginning the fund rais-ing for our celebration of Project Graduation and wishes to remind all friends of the Club we need their help and sup-port in coming months for the count-down to the big party on gradua-tion night 2012.
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Debbie Jozwiak, the University of Houston-Victoria general accounting manager, is recognized by UHV President Phil Castille as the university’s 2011 Em-ployee of the Year.
VICTORIA —A Gonzales native has been named the University of Houston-Victoria 2011 Employee of the Year.
Gonzales native Debbie Jozwiak, the school’s general accounting manager, received the top honor at the university’s annual Employee Recognition Luncheon. University employees gathered to recognize those celebrating employment an-niversaries at UHV and to honor other employees for their hard work.
“I like my job at UHV because of the challenges that a university en-vironment provides,” Jozwiak said
after the luncheon. “Very seldom is it repetitive.”
A second Employee Recogni-tion Luncheon will take place at the University of Houston Sugar Land Campus on Feb. 21 for those UHV employees who work at that teaching center or the UH System at Cinco Ranch.
Jozwiak was voted the Employ-ee of the Year by other UHV staff members from an e-mail ballot listing each 2011 UHV Employee of the Month.
Jozwiak began work at UHV in 1993 as an accounts payable super-visor in the Finance Department. She also was a senior accountant, the accounts payable manager and the general accounting manager
before starting her current job.“When a special project or diffi-
cult situation arises, Debbie can al-ways be counted on to not only take on the task in a professional man-ner but also to approach it enthusi-astically as a challenge and an op-portunity to learn something new,” UHV Comptroller Val Walden said after the luncheon. “Debbie is an inspiration to everyone she works with and is a tremendous asset to the university.”
In recognition of Jozwiak’s achievement as the 2011 Employee of the Year, she received a $500 check, a UHV T-shirt and a plaque. Her name also was engraved on the Employee of the Year plaque dis-played in UHV University West.
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Pilot Club President Ann Covert and Texas District Lt. Gov. Deborah Garrett who spoke to Gonzales Pilots en-couraging us in the many local service projects we have, especially now with the upcoming Project Graduation in May.
The Gonzales Master Gardeners are busy preparing for their sec-ond annual Spring Plant Sale, which will be held on Texas Heroes Square on Saturday, March 31, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Plants of all kinds, shapes, colors will be available for shoppers to select from and children will have the opportunity to plant some seeds. An “Ask the Master Gardener” booth will be available for those with garden-ing questions.
A silent auction will also be part of the fundraising activities of the Spring Plant Sale. Last year’s silent auction created lots of excite-ment and this year’s is expected to be just as much fun.
The committee is accepting item donations until March 1 for the silent auction and encourages showcasing a donor’s support at the Spring Plant Sale. To donate items for the silent auction, please call Arline Rinehart (672-2077) or Cindy Turner (830-263-1363).
Proceeds from the silent auction and the sale of plants will be used by Gonzales Master Gardeners to continue improvements at the Eggleston House Children’s Garden and the Fair Street Explor-atorium.
By CAROL DUBOSE
Special to The Cannon
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GONZALES - Gonzales assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Lan-ny Wilson has been hired as the head coaching foot-ball job at Harlingen South.
Wilson, 48, will also serve as the athletic coor-dinator for the Hawks, who compete in District 32-5A.
During his two seasons as Gonzales’ defensive co-ordinator, the Apaches were known for their ag-gressive style of play on defense.
Since 2009 Gonzales has
gone 18-4, went undefeated last year en route to win-ning an undisputed district title, and were area-round
finalists in 2011. Wilson also coached the Gonzales boys powerlifting team.
“I think it is a good thing for Coach Wilson,” Apaches athletic director and head coach Ricky Lock said. “We have been friends for a long time and I wish him nothing but the best.”
“Lanny will do well. He worked well with the kids, and was very sound and fundamental in his coach-ing.”
The Harlingen school board unanimously ap-proved Wilson at its meet-ing on Tuesday. Contract and salary details were un-
disclosed.“Coach Wilson has some
big-game experience and he coached at one of the best 5A districts,” said Har-lingen ISD superintendent Steve Flores. “Obviously, he had some defensive success and overall team success while at Gonzales.”
Wilson will lead the foot-ball program and oversee the rest of the Harlingen South girls and boys ath-letic programs.
Flores said Wilson had a reputation while at Round Rock for having successful and well-managed athletic programs, something he
believes Wilson can bring to Harlingen.
“We also need some suc-cess in our football pro-gram and believe Wilson can help with that,” he said.
Flores said that while Wilson’s departure will be a big loss for Gonzales, it is a plus that Wilson will be-come part of the Harlingen South community.
Wilson was one of three finalists for the job along with Brownsville Lopez head coach Mike Ramirez and South’s interim coach Jim Morton, who was rec-ommended for the job but was voted down 4-3 in
January.A 25-year veteran of the
coaching profession, Wil-son came to Gonzales after spending 10 years at Round Rock High. He served his last seven as head coach where his record was 41-37. Prior to that, he spent time coaching at Gregory-Portland, Goliad, Pleasan-ton and Three Rivers.
Harlingen South has been looking for a new head coach since Gilbert Leal was reassigned on Nov. 28.
Attempts were made to contact Wilson, but he was unavailable for comment.
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Playoff PressureLuling’s Maria Castillo draws contact while going to the basket during the Lady Eagles’ win over George West in the bi-district round of the playoffs. (Photo by Mark Lube)
PLEASANTON — The Lady Eagles expected a rough and physical game in Monday’s bi-district against the George West Lady Longhorns.
Knowing what to expect, Luling was ready and held off George West, 47-35, at the Pleasanton ISD Sports Complex.
“It was a physical game but we knew it would be and we were prepared,” Lady Eagles head coach Scott Jones said.
“It was very physical. I fell down five times,” re-marked senior guard Adri-ana Morales. “George West was very aggressive and played good on defense. We really wanted this game, so we were more aggressive.”
Hanna Clark for Luling opened scoring at the start of the game and Kate Ji-merson responded for the Lady ‘Horns. Jimerson later sank a free throw to put George West ahead 5-4, its first lead.
The Lady Eagles coun-tered with a bucket from Clark. George West got a four-point run on field
goals by Erin Snider and Marley Snider.
Luling scored two of its own, from Maria Castillo and Amanda Lee, to lead 10-9 after the first quarter.
In the second frame, George West put in just one field goal and missed countless others.
“We ran our press well in that second quarter and capitalized on some turn-overs,” Jones said. “We are fortunate to have held them to two points on one bas-ket.”
Luling built a 21-9 lead with baskets from Morales
Lady Comanches looking to keep the state title in Shiner
Area Softball Preview
Repeat Performance?The Lady Comanches hope this scene from last year’s state championship game will repeat itself in 2012. Shiner is among several area teams who are favored to go deep into the playoffs this year. (File photo)
Shiner, the defending Class 1A state champi-ons, will be hoping for an encore performance this season.
“That is obviously one of our goals,” said head coach Brandon Siegel. “We want to make it to the state championship, which we play for every season.”
The Lady Comanches lost just three seniors in-cluding starting pitcher Ashley Shimek. Siegel said he is looking at Julianna Rankin as the apparent replacement, with several other younger players who could step into the role as well.
First baseman Jordan Pietsch could switch to catcher, leading to a com-petition for the first base. Ryah Michalec will play second base and shortstop goes to Kristin Schacherl.
Siegel said there will be competition for third, which Rankin could also play depending on if she is slated to start at pitcher. Cassie Stafford will be the right fielder, Stacey Perez returns to center field and Meagan Chumchal is the
tentative starter at left field. Siegel said Michalec and
Scacherl finished the last year strong as two of Shin-er’s key hitters and look to return to that role.
Shiner may not play a lot of games in the begin-ning of the season because of the upcoming playoff run of the Lady Comanche basketball team. Siegel said the two sports share a lot of the same players.
“Right now, I only have 10 girls on the team be-cause of players still in bas-ketball,” he said.
Shiner will get a good challenge in district from Ganado and Flatonia.
“We split the series with Ganado last year and had to play them in a playoff to determine first place in the district,” Siegel said. “Flatonia always plays us tough.”
LulingMaking the playoffs will
be a challenging but rea-sonable goal for the Lady Eagles softball team and head coach Stephanie Sul-livan.
“It will be tough, but it is one we can accomplish,” she said.
The Lady Eagles gradu-ated several players includ-
ing their starting pitcher.“We will have a young,
young team this year,” Sul-livan said.
Luling returns four play-ers, who are strong hitters including senior Chel-sea Cyphers. Returning at catcher, Cyphers is a strong hitter who displays very good leadership.
Another returning play-er who will be key is short-stop/pitcher Stephanie Gonzales.
Sullivan said she has not decided on the remaining positions, and those deci-sions will not be made un-til the softball team has its basketball-playing group back.
Sullivan said the Lady Eagles have a challenging non-district schedule that will help prepare them for district.
“I want us to learn something from each non-district game,” she said. “When it comes time for district, I expect we will be one of the three teams that makes the playoffs. It will require the girls to work hard in practice.”
and Cayla Taylor, who then knocked down two free throws, had another bucket and then hit 1-for-2 from the charity stripe.
Clark got a bucket, and then George West got its lone field goal with three minutes left in the period on the jumper by Victoria Wasicek.
The quarter ended with Morales hitting a triple and making two free throws to put the Lady Eagles ahead 26-11 at halftime.
The Lady ‘Horns had a little more luck shooting
to start the third quarter as they made a pair of baskets to score four of the first six points, closing down to 28-15.
Luling then went on a 6-0 run before George West halted with a three-point play by Brittney Mathis and a jumper by Bethany Brysch. Morales and Taylor made late buckets to give Luling a 38-22 advantage to end the third quarter.
The Lady ‘Horns made a run in the fourth quarter with 13 of 22 points, which Luling was also anticipat-ing.
“We knew they would
make a run so we substi-tuted some of our starters out,” Jones said.
A triple from Erin Snid-er, and buckets from Mar-ley Snider and Jimerson constituted a 9-0 run for George West’s one final ef-fort to get back in the game.
Luling (16-11) will face Santa Gertrudis Academy in the area round.
“It (winning the bi-district game) was awe-some,” Morales said. “We worked hard and together as a team. As a senior, I am proud of these girls.”
Luling: Adriana Morales 4 5-5 14, Maria Castillo 4 1-3 9, Cayla Taylor 3 3-4 9, Carley Glass 2 2-2 6, Amanda Lee 1 0-0 2.
Score by PeriodsGW 9 2 11 13-35L 10 16 12 9-47
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LULING: Will play area game on Friday
Yoakum senior Stephanie Kornegay recently signed a letter of intent to compete on the Tarleton State Uni-versity track team. Korne-gay will run hurdles for the Texans track team.
She was the 300-meter hurdles district champion in 2010, when she won the event with a time of 47.13. Later that year she placed second at regionals with a personal best time of 45.49, before going to finish sev-enth at state (46.21).
Last season, she finished fourth at the district meet with a time of 48.24. She also ran a personal best time of 13:02.80 at the Re-gion IV Cross Country Championships.
Yoakum basketball boss placed on leave
Yoakum boys’ head bas-ketball coach Myke Ortiz was on relieved of basket-ball coaching duties last week.
Yoakum athletic director Brent Kornegay declined to explain the dismissal other than to say Ortiz is “cur-rently on administrative leave.”
The Bulldogs were 17-14 overall and 5-3 in district play at the time The Can-non learned of the incident. Yoakum went 3-24 in the 2010-2011 season, Ortiz’s first at the helm.
Gonzales hosts power-lifting meet today
Gonzales High School will be the site of the Apache Invitational Power-lifting meet. Lifting begins in the old gymnasium at 4 p.m.
Gonzales alumni game Saturday
The Gonzales Fightin’ Apaches will hold their Alumni Scrimmage at 1
p.m. Saturday at T.E. Bur-rows Field.
The Apaches bested Wharton Tuesday in a scrimmage.
“I thought our mental approach at the plate was a whole lot better,” said head coach Larry Wuthrich. “We reduced our strikeouts against some good pitch-ers.”
“All our pitchers were able to work so that’s a plus. We identified some areas of concern, but left the ball-park knowing that they can be corrected. The team that made the fewest mistakes came out on top.”
Shiner FCA holding 5K run in March
Shiner Fellowship of Christian Athletes will be holding the Light the Night 5K Run/Walk on March 3 at 7 p.m. at Comanche Sta-dium in Shiner.
Proceeds from the event will benefit Camp Kesem and Turn on the Tap.
Registration and check-in will be at 6 p.m. The 5K run/walk will start at 7 and the awards ceremony will be at 8.
Entry fee is $20 if paid by Feb. 24 (T-shirt guaran-teed) and $25 after. T-shirt availability will be limited on race day.
There will be awards for the top three male and female runners in the fol-lowing categories: 18 and under, 19-25, 26-39, and 40 and up.
Checks can be made pay-able to Shiner FCA and mailed to Shiner FCA, P.O Drawer 804, Shiner, Texas 77984. For more in-formation, contact Court-ney Welch at [email protected].
Kornegay inks track letter with Tarleton
Area Basketball Playoff PairingsFriday, Feb. 17
Flatonia vs Everdale, 7:30 p.m. Tomball High School, Class 2A area round
Hallettsville vs Houston YES Preparatory SE, 7:30 p.m. Needville High School
Yoakum vs Burnet, Bastrop Cedar Creek High School , 7 p.m.
Shiner vs Big Sandy, Bryan High School, 6 p.m.Moulton vs. Barksdale Neuce Canyon, San Antonio
O’Connor High School 6 p.m.Luling vs Santa Gertrudis Academy, Three Rivers
High School, 7 p.m.Monday, Feb. 20
St. Paul vs Austin Waldorf, St. Paul High School, 4 p.m. (tentative)
St. Paul blazes Beren in bi-district
SHINER — The St. Paul Lady Cardinal cag-ers couldn’t probably care less about what the score or the situation is, or who the opponent is. They just know they want to work to keep a certain level of pace throughout the course of an entire game.
St. Paul played its usual tempo Tuesday evening in an 83-27 drubbing of Houston’s Robert M. Beren Academy at St. Paul High School.
“We executed well. We worked on maintaining a level of high intensity throughout the game,” Lady Cardinals head coach Dana Beal said. “Our big-gest goal was to play fast regardless of the score. “
We have to play intense and fast to keep our shoot-ing and passing good,” said Kourtney Knesek, who scored a team-high 19 points.
Beal was able to give her bench considerable play-ing time in the first-round post season game.
“We had some young kids do a lot of good things,” she said.
The Lady Cardinals per-formed well all-around.
“We did a nice job of shooting,” Beal said. “Had a good effort on defense as we mixed up a couple of sets. We even did well on rebounding the ball, which has been a weakness for us this year.”
The Lady Cardinals opened the game with the first two baskets from Katelynn Leist and Kne-sek. Beren Academy closed down to 4-2 on the bucket by Melissa Stock.
St. Paul kept the intensi-ty going as they ripped off the next 12 straight points on plays by Leist, Knesek and Marrisa Ynclan.
Beren Academy got an-other score by Gabi Yaffee. Ynclan, Leist and Knesek combined to put St. Paul up 28-4. Beren Academy got the last shot of the quarter on a field goal by Sara Grzebinski.
The Lady Cardinals opened the second quarter with three buckets from Kymberlie Malatek and a layup from Alexa Schaefer to go ahead 36-7. St. Paul then called timeout at the
5:09 mark of the second and pulled the starters out.
Malatek made anoth-er bucket and Christine Squyres hit a layup for a 40-7 St. Paul lead. There was a lull in scoring for a few minutes as St. Paul
missed a few shots and Beren Academy fell short on seven free throw at-tempts.
The Lady Cardinals then got two straight buckets from Melanie Wagner and then scored nine points to
go up 53-7. Ester Kerzner made a three and a free throw to cut Beren Acad-emy’s deficit to 53-11.
The Lady Cardinals out-scored Beren Academy 17-8 with Ynclan dropping
Leist Is Far From LeastKatelynn Leist goes up for a contested shot during St. Paul’s win bi-district win Tuesday night in Shiner. Leist finished the game with 10 points. (Photo by Mark Lube)
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in eight points and Kerzner scoring the same for the Beren Academy.
McKenzie Kresta scored
on a jumper and made a free throw for a 75-19 St. Paul advantage early in the fourth frame. Later in the quarter, the Lady Cardi-nals polished their passing
game with five, six or seven passes before attempting a shot on each ensuing pos-session.
“In practice, we work on passing to our posts and the wing. It helps that we got to practice it in a game,” Kne-sek said.
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another state title like the one they got accomplished last year.
“We expect to make it back to the state tourna-ment this year,” St. Paul head coach Chris Farias said. “Our goal is to repeat as the champions.”
The Lady Cardinals have the experience to get the job done.
“We graduated two se-niors,” he said. “But we have the athletes to fill those spots and we have a strong group of incoming freshmen.”
Kali Kocian will be St. Paul’s lone senior for the season. Her presence will be complimented by ju-niors Mary Adamek, Beth-any Pokluda, Kylie Natal, Lizzie Opiela, Abby Hull, Katelynn Leist and Alexa Schaefers.
The Lady Cardinals have two sophomores, Kym-berlie Malatek and Chris-tina Squyres. The fresh-man group is the largest with nine athletes: Abby Irvin, Emily Pokluda, Elise Patek, Victoria Kusac, Julie Bartek, Loni Soefje, Bella Crawford, Emily Malino-vosky and Morgan Hull.
FlatoniaLast year, the Lady Bull-
dogs started slow, winning just two of their first 10 games. A huge win against Smithville in their own tournament spurred Flato-nia to finish the regular sea-son at 10-13 (4-4 in district play and third place).
The Lady Bulldogs beat Holland in the first round and fell to North Zulch, 4-3, in the area round.
Head coach Rodney Stryk said his team can compete for the district ti-tle with all of his team back.
Seniors are shortstop Courtney Mica (.492 aver-age, 30 runs, five HRs), sec-ond baseman Alex Bruns (.348 average, 24 runs, nine RBI) and catcher Kaci Pav-licek (.226 average with 12 RBI), who will miss part of the season while rehabbing an injury.
Flatonia has two juniors, third baseman Taylor Wil-liams (.551 average, 23 runs, 34 RBI and four HR), who has committed to play softball at the University of South Carolina, and first baseman Abigail Schacherl (.206 average, eight RBI, six sacrifice bunts).
The Lady Bulldogs will have four sophomores on the team, led by pitcher Katie Steinhauser (10-11, 3.10 ERA, 67 strikeouts in 116 innings, .232 average with 10 RBI). The others are center fielder Brooke Migl (.286 average, eight runs, two RBI), right field-er McKenna Lopez (.256 average, three outfield as-sists, two at home plate) and designated player Chandler Fike (.202 aver-
age, five RBI) who started last six games after Lopez sustained an injury.
Stryk said he feels the district is up for grabs this year.
“Shiner will return seven starters but they have to replace their catcher and pitcher from last year, and Ganado returns eight,” he said.
“We return our entire starting lineup with our starting catcher Kaci Pav-licek tentatively returning for the second round of dis-trict in April. This district is going to be exciting.”
For the three teams who make the playoffs, Stryk said they will be in for a challenge.
“The region is loaded with quality teams includ-ing Thrall, Holland, North Zulch, Mart, Center Point and Falls City,” he said.
HallettsvilleThe Hallettsville Lady
Brahmas have played in the postseason for 14 straight years now and they would love to make it No. 15 in a row.
“Our goals are to have a successful season and go deep into the playoffs,” said head coach Mike Mikesha. “I expect the girls to play hard, play as a team and carry on the LB softball tra-dition of playoffs.”
Returning starters are junior Megan Henke, sophomore Heather Hen-neke, sophomore Madison Schindler, senior Alexis Louden and sophomore Ashley Grahmann.
Mikesha said he has sev-eral other players from last year competing for some spots.
“Overall we will be young, but they got valu-able playing time last year that will help,” he said. “I hope to have the starting lineup set by the start of district depending on what happens in basketball sea-son. The competition has been very good in practice.”
Hallettsville will need stellar defense at first while the offense is coming up to speed.
“We need to pitch well and be sound on defense until the offense catches up,” Mikesha said. “With East Bernard ranked fourth in the state, we will have our work cut out but that is what makes the game fun.”
YoakumHow much you get out
of something depends on how much you put in. The Yoakum softball team un-derstands that truth going into the 2012 season.
“The girls have been working really hard and have the desire to do some great things this season,” Lady Bulldog head coach Scott Mann said. “I know the kids expect and want to make a deep run in the playoffs and have commit-
ted themselves to pushing each other in practice.”
The Lady Bulldogs return six starters from last year’s varsity team which include starters at the pitcher, cen-ter fielder, left fiedler and second baseman.
Mann said he also has two junior varsity players that have moved up since last year and two other players that played varsity.
“We have a solid core of returners from last year,” Mann said. “I expect we will push some people in our district and if all goes well, we can have a shot at the end for the district title. It will take a little time for the group to fit into their roles.”
The strength of Yoakum’s schedule is not unlike the last few years. It will be tough.
“We will play in the Vic-toria, Cuero and Seguin tournaments,” Mann said. “We also will play some good 4A teams like San An-tonio East Central and New Braunfels Canyon.”Hallettsville Sacred Heart
The Sacred Heart India-nettes did something last year they hadn’t done in a long time - they missed qualifying for the state tournament.
Sacred Heart has been a dominant force in TAPPS softball over the past de-cade. They have played in the championship tourna-ment every year since the 2000-2001 season, winning five titles in the process in-cluding four in a row from 2006-2010.
This season’s team is loaded up and poised to make yet another run at the state championship.
The Indianettes return a dearth of talent that in-cludes All-State players Rachel Saulnier, Kristen Heger and Adrienne Klim-itchek. The other returning starters are All-District se-lections Emily Kossa at first base, outfielder Emily Seyl, infielder Haley Sharp and catcher Lauren Huser.
“Expectations are high because we have so many starters returning,” said Sacred Heart athletic direc-tor Pat Henke. “We’re still relatively young with only two seniors (Kossa and Seyl) back, but we have two of our top three pitchers (Klimitchek and Saulnier) returning and that’s always big.”
Nixon-SmileyIt’s the beginning of a
new era in Nixon-Smiley as John Hilsberg takes the helm of the Lady Mustangs program.
Last season was a strug-gle for the Lady ‘Stangs as they finished with an over-all record of 8-13. Nixon-Smiley didn’t fare much better in district play, where they went 2-8.
Hilsberg is hoping the
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SOFTBALL: Several area teams expect to be in the playoff huntsenior leadership from catcher Brooke Gordon, shortstop D’Laine Palacio and third baseman Ashlyn Maldonado will serve as the catalyst for rebound-ing this year. The rest of the core of the returners from last year include pitcher Mikayla Vasquez, infielder Jordan Newman, center fielder Alena Alvarez, and utility player Savanna Mar-tinez - all sophomores.
“We will be young again but this year we will be young with some valuable experience,” Hilsberg said. “The girls from the fresh-man class will be counted on to step up and contrib-ute almost immediately. Several of those young la-dies show some real prom-ise.”
“I believe that with the solid core of returning players and the talent that the freshmen have to add to the mix, we will surprise some people.”
The young Lady Mus-tangs will have to “grow up” quickly in order to get to the postseason. Last year’s three playoff teams from District 29-2A - Poth, Marion and Luling - beat Nixon-Smiley by a total combined score of 85-4 in district play.
“I believe that we will compete for one of the top three spots in the district,” said Hilsberg. “I expect to make the playoffs with this group.”
CueroThe Cuero Lady Gobblers
are eager to improve on last year’s outcome and return to the playoffs, where they last went in 2010.
Head coach Amanda Ulcak is excited about her nucleus of returners, which includes seniors Maegan Martin (3B/P), Candace Moeller (1B) and Madeline Davis (2b/OF).
“We will look to Mae-gan for her leadership and strong pitching,” Ulcak said. “Candace is a great power hitter and Madeline has a good, quick bat plus good range on the field.”
The Lady Gobblers are also expecting to get a boost from juniors Madi-son Simpson (3B/P) and Cay Cay Toot, who missed significant time last year due to injury.
“Madison has tremen-dous on the mound and has a great bat,” said Ulcak. “Having Cay Cay back will help us on the field as well as on the bases with her speed.”
“We also have three freshmen who I’m looking
at to do big things for us. They know the game very well and will be great addi-tions to our team.”
Despite the optimism, Ulcak realizes her squad will have to step it up in order to improve on last year’s 4-8 district mark. Cuero will have to find a way to win against defend-ing district champion La Vernia, last season’s third place Pleasanton and run-ner-up Yoakum, who are ranked 16th in the Texas Girls Coaches Association Preseason Poll.
“We are going to have to be aggressive on bases and eliminate mental mistakes,” said Ulcak. “Everyone is a threat in this district. This is a very strong and very competitive district.”
“I’m looking forward to this year because we have more girls in our program this year. The younger girls are very knowledgable of
the game and will be great for the program for years to come.”
MoultonThe Moulton Bobkatz are
hoping an influx of return-ers will steer them toward the postseason.
Head coach Craig Barta is welcoming back five starters including senior Casie Zimmeran (3B), senior Kalla Gaertner (DH/2B), sophomore Ken-dall Kristynik (SS/2B), ju-nior Megan Mitchon (CF) and senior Jennifer Crum-ley (OF/1B).
Other key players for Moulton include Taylor Bohuslav (P/IF), Kelsey Pi-lat (IF) and Noely Vasquez (IF).
Last season, the Bobkit-tens finished 5-10 overall and fifth in district play.
(News editor Cedric Igle-hart contributed to this story)
Senior SwingFlatonia senior Courtney Mica is hoping to lead the Lady Bulldogs to a district title this season. (File photo)
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In recent games, Gonza-les would make just one or two passes after dribbling down court, before taking a shot.
Gonzales head coach Ja-son Tucker instructed the Apaches to be a little more patient when on offense.
“Instead of shooting af-ter one or two passes, we would make five or six passes and then take the shot,” Tucker said.
The offensive patience paid off as Gonzales de-feated Yoakum, 53-45 on Friday, to split the season series.
“I thought Gonzales re-ally had momentum at the end of the game,” Yoakum coach Joe Mireles said. “For us, the shots were not fall-ing in the end.”
Tucker said the Apaches also played very well on de-
fense.The first half of the game
was pretty much like kids on a playground seesaw. Back and forth. Back and forth.
The Bulldogs got the first bucket of third pe-riod to take 29-27 lead on the play by Chase Hermes. The Apaches tied the game on the basket by Cameron Smith, and then took over the quarter with a strong, defensive effort.
Smith got a another field goal, Jared Smit drained a triple, Tanner Davis made a basket and Donald Cart-wright completed a three-point play to give Gonzales a 39-29 lead, the largest for either team.
Yoakum got bucket from Tre Hights to close down to 39-31 at the 0:55 mark of the period. Yoakum then scored six of the next seven points to trail 40-37 to start the fourth quarter.
A bucket from T.J. Hights to start the fourth brought the ‘Dogs to within 40-39. The Apaches then scored eight of the next 12 points. Davis put back a rebound-ed shot; Darrance James made a layup, hit a free throw, made another bas-ket and then made another 1 of 2 free throws.
Yoakum got baskets from TJ and Tre Hights. The Apaches closed out the game with a 5-2 run with James, Smit and Smith combining on a 5-for-6 ef-fort from the line down the stretch.
In the first frame, the Apaches got ahead 10-6 af-ter scores from Smith, An-thony Sullivan and James. Yoakum went on an 8-6 run to close out the first box, getting a bucket from Heath Kristek and a pair of three-point baskets by Blake McCracken.
In the second frame
Gonzales battled, getting eight points from Cart-wright and five points from Smith. McCracken sank a couple of threes to finish the frame for six points to lead Yoakum.
Game SummaryGonzales 53, Yoakum 45Yoakum: TJ Hights 6
Gonzales: Cameron Smith 7 3-4 17, Darrance James 5 4-6 14, Donald Cartwright 4 3-7 11, Jared Smith 1 1-2 4, Tanner Da-vis 2 0-0 4, Josh Taylor 0 1-2 1. Totals 20 12-21 53.
Score by PeriodY 14 13 10 8-45G 12 15 13 13-53
Reaching Higher HightsT.J. Hights elevates to shoot this jumper over Gonzales’ Tanner Davis (21) while Jared Smit (10) looks on during the Apaches’ win over Yoakum. (Photo by Mark Lube)
• The Hallettsville Lady Brahmas pulled out a 65-64 overtime win over Rogers Tuesday in the Class 2A bi-district round.
Hallettsville will play Houston YES Prepartory SE in the area round. Game set for 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Needville.
• The Flatonia Lady Bull-dogs defeated Bartlett, 71-23, Tuesday in the bidis-trict round. They will play Evadale at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Tomball High School in the area round.
• The Nixon-Smiley Lady Mustangs fell to Karnes City, 51-32, Monday night in the Class 2A bi-district round at Floresville High School.
The Lady Badgers led Nixon 24-7 after the first quarter, and the Lady Mus-tangs fought back in the second period with a 13-11 run to trail 35-20 at half-time. Karnes City scored 14 of 24 points in the third frame and both clubs got just two points in the last quarter.
Hailey Boatright sank seven points; Abigail Scar-brough and Alena Alva-rez dropped in six points. Savannah Martinez and D’Laine Palacio finished with four points, Jenni-fer Flores chipped in three points and Kelby Hen-derson finished with two points.
The Lady Mustangs won their third-place playoff game against Stockdale Saturday, 45-35. Martinez led Nixon with 13 points. Nixon finishes with a 21-10 record.
• Shiner will play Dal-lardsville Big Sandy Friday in Bryan in the area round at 6 p.m.
• Other area girls team that have won their district and will start their playoff run in the area round are Yoakum, who plays Bur-net at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Bastrop Cedar Creek High School and Moulton, who will play Barksdale Nueces Canyon Friday at San Anto-nio O’Connor at 6 p.m.
• The St. Paul Cardinals fell to Sherman Texoma Christian, 49-46, Tuesday in the TAPPS 2A bi-district round in Sherman.
Adam Hollenbach led the Cardinals with 12 points and Dylan Barton scored 10 points. Dakota Kresta and Austin Horne contrib-uted nine points with Jus-tin Natal finishing with six points.
• The Sacred Heart In-dianettes fell to Austin St. Dominic Savio, 57-48, Tuesday in TAPPS 2A bi-district action.
Adrienne Klimitchek and Arianne Kubena sank nine points each, Kirsten Hager and Jenna Brown dropped in eight points, Emily Kossa finished with six points, Maryanne Herndon bagged seven points, and Em-ily Harper chipped in one point.
Sacred Heart closes the season with a record of 15-8 and 11-3 in district.
• The Sacred Heart In-dians lost to Waco Texas Christian, 59-52, in the TAPPS 2A bi-district game Tuesday.
Cole Wick led Sacred Heart with 14 points and Leightin Pilat scored 12 points. Reagan Hall buck-eted nine points, Jared Krischke registered six points, Sterling Hrncir chipped in five points with Nathan Holub, Scott Stoner and Evan Wick scoring two points each.
Sacred Heart’s final re-cord is 8-14 and 8-7.
•The Shiner Lady Co-manches, winners of Dis-trict 28-1A DI, beat In-dustrial, 51-34, in playoff
warmup game Friday. LaNeshia Hunt dropped
in 17 points while Amanise Coleman scored 15 points.
Shiner defeated Moult-on, 45-40, Tuesday in an-other warmup game. Hunt dropped in 18 points and Coleman bagged 10 points.
Megan Mitchon sank 11 points for Moulton and Brandee Dolezal chipped in 10 points
•The Shiner Lady Co-manches junior varsity team closed out the season with a 41-4 win over Louise recently. Shamyra Coleman led the team with 17 points.
The team finishes with a 20-7 record and a perfect 8-0 record in district.
• The Shiner Comanches beat Ganado on Friday, 56-49. Matt Pohler deposited 24 points and Evel Jones sank 14 points. The Co-manches improve to 13-8 and 6-1 in district.
The Shiner JV won, 40-24.
•The Sacred Heart In-dianettes closed out the regular season on Thursday with a 46-36 win over Texas School For the Deaf.
Arianne Kubena led Sa-cred Heart with 12 points and Adrienne Klimitchek recorded 10 points. The In-dianettes finish the regular season at 15-7 and 11-3.
• The St. Paul Lady Cardi-nals defeated Sugarland Lo-gos Prep, 71-43, in Alvin on Saturday. Marrisa Ynclan sank 21 points and Mary Adamek had 16 points.
•The Sacred Heart Indi-ans defeated Texas School for the Deaf Thursday, 48-33.
Cole Wick bagged 17 points for the Indians who finish at 8-6. TSD won the junior varsity game 18-15.
• The Moulton Bobkatz improved to a perfect dis-trict record after nine con-tests with a 67-55 win over Austwell-Tivoli on Friday. Jacob Novosad recorded 27 points and Bronson Zapata put in 18 points.
Moulton won the district title outright with a 71-23 win over Prairie Lea Tues-day to improve to 22-8 and 10-0. Novosad scored 18 points for Moulton while Jaydon Nieto recorded 12 points.
• The Hallettsville Brah-mas rose to nine wins out of 11 district games and to 22-6 overall with a 49-38 win over Schulenburg Fri-day. Trevor McGee posted 15 points for the Brahmas.
Hallettsville won the JV game 57-32 while Schulen-burg was the winner in the freshman game 45-44.
• The Nixon-Smiley Mus-tangs lost a close one to Marion, 55-54, on Friday. Both teams are 9-3 and in second place.
Robbie Mejia bagged 20 points for the Mustangs while Damian Perez and Jaime Moreno scored 11 points.
• The Shiner St. Paul Car-dinals got by Faith Acade-my, 57-56, on Friday. Dako-ta Kresta scored 16 points, Justin Natal chipped in 14 points and Dylan Barton finished with 12 points.
• The Hallettsville Lady Brahmas defeated Hemp-stead, 56-48, on Friday to wrap up second place in District 28-2A.
Kaneishia Moore led the Lady Brahmas with 14 points and Heather Hen-neke sank 12 points. Hal-lettsville finishes the regu-lar season at 21-11 and 8-4.
• The Shiner Comanches beat Yorktown Tuesday, 71-47, to end the regular sea-son with a district record of 7-1.
Matt Pohler led Shiner with 27 points; Evel Jones bagged 15 points andT-revian Flowers scored 14 points.
District champs play in playoff warmup games
Hoops Roundup
Two-Car CollisionAn accident between these two vehicles occurred Wednesday afternoon near the in-tersection of St. Andrew and Seydler streets. Initial reports said four people were transported to Gonzales Memorial Hospital with injuries. (Photos by Mark Lube)
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The Music Study Club, a part of the Texas and Na-tional Federation of Music Clubs met Tuesday eve-ning, the 14th, at the Herb Karnau home with co-hosts Frances Jackson and David Thiede and guests present were the parents and stu-dents of the Burnett Music Studio and the Ince Piano Studio. Pres. Shirley Spoon called upon Herb Karnau and Laurel Ince at the pia-no who led the group sing-ing the Federation Hymn and from TOGETHER WE SING, the favorite south-ern folk song, “Dixie”.
The evening music pro-gram was piano and vocal music performed by the students of Vida Burnett and Laurel Ince. We greatly enjoyed hearing these ac-complished pianists and vocalist play some lovely familiar music and other charming pieces. Allison Baer played “Valse Dra-matico” by Bober and “Ga-votte in G Major” by Han-del.
Elizabeth Neuse played “Winter Rhapsody” by Al-exander and “Polonaise in G Minor” by Chopin.
Samantha Neal, vocal-
ist sang “Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head” with Vida Bur-nett accompanying at the piano. And Miss Neal then played “Arabian Tale” by Mier at the piano.
Mary Campbell at the piano, played “Moonlight Nocturne” by Rollin, “Min-uet in G” by J. S. Bach and “March in D” also by Bach.
Sara Campbell played “A Night in Madrid” by Rou-bos and “Sonatina in D, Mvt. I” by Clementi.
Karlee Krum played “Danse Scherzo” by Agay and “Reverie” by DeBussy.
All the above young musicians will be enter-ing the Texas Federation of Music Clubs District 6 Music Festival to be held in Texas State University Music Hall, San Marcos, on February 25th and will be performing before college level music adjudicators to recieve a critique and rat-ing in competition with a standard. If they are rated “Superior” they then will be eligible to compete in the TFMC State Music Fes-tival to be held in May.
Following their music the young ladies and their parents adjourned for re-freshments while the Mu-sic Study Club held their business meeting with Pres.
Spoon leading.The Gonzales Club will
host the office staff, adju-dicators and monitors who will work at the Festival, for lunch, on Feb. 25th and several members will be at-tending to do this service.
Pres. Spoon has been and is collecting the lists of Music Club member vol-unteer music service hours in Nursing Homes and Re-habilitation Centers to be reported to TFMC.
Mr. Karnau, Mrs.Jackson and Mr.Thiede provided a lovely table decorated with Valentine red and white hearts and frills, candies and plates of party sand-wiches, tiny sweet pickles, crispy chips, toasted nuts, a strawberries and cream cake, red fruit punch, cof-fee and tea. In addition, the students enjoyed valen-tine heart decorated sugar cookies.
The Music Study Club will meet next on March 13th at the home of Mildred Lauraine and hear Part III of the study course on CLARA SCHUMANN,THE ART-IST AND HER MUSIC and piano music composed by the fascinating Clara Schumann.
By CAROL DUBOSE
Special to The Cannon
Obituaries
Hazel E. “LaNelle” Lacy, 1938-2012
LACYHazel E. “LaNelle” Lacy,
73, of Seguin, formerly of Gonzales, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 8. She was born March 18, 1938 in Smiley, the daughter of Harvey and Lola Belle Miller English.
She was a graduate of Gonzales High School. She married Alvin C. Lacy May 19, 1960 in Gonza-les. She was employed for many years with the Alamo Group, Inc. in San Antonio as a receptionist. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Gon-zales.
She is survived by her husband, A.C. Lacy of Seguin; daughter, Nell Tro-ell of Seguin; grandson, Chance Troell of Corpus Christi; and granddaugh-ters, Lacy Troell and Leah Troell, both of Seguin. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Visitation was held Fri-day, Feb. 10 at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home. Funeral services were Saturday, Feb. 11 at the funeral home with Reverend Andy Smith of-ficiating. Interment was at the Masonic Cemetery.
Arrangements under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home 906 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 830-672-3232.
Donald Howell, 1917-2012HOWELL
Almost a century ago, Donald Howell was born on Oct. 23, 1917, in Pil-grim, Texas. He lived a full life until Feb. 10, when he went peacefully to be with the Lord.
Donald was the son of Grover and Myrtle Howell and grew up with his eight brothers and sisters in Dil-worth. He later moved to Gonzales and on Dec. 13, 1941, he married Willie “Billie” Staton Howell, thus beginning an amazing 70-year marriage that would produce seven children, 20 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild.
Shortly thereafter, he was deployed to fight in World War II with the Army’s 36th Infantry Division, Fifth Army, as a First Staff Sergeant. He was eventu-ally captured just outside Salerno, Italy and became a prisoner of war for 15 months.
During his service to this nation, he received many honors and medals, includ-ing the Bronze Star Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the Army of Occupation Medal, the Presidential Unit Medal,
the European, African, Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the American The-ater Campaign Medal, and the Prisoner of War Medal. He also received the Com-bat Infantry Badge.
He was a proud member of the 36th Division As-sociation, P.O.W. Gonza-les Chapter, the National P.O.W. Association, VFW, Disabled American Veter-ans, American Legion, and the P.O.W. San Antonio Chapter.
In addition to his ser-vice to the Army, he had unyielding service to the Church. He served in many roles at Eastside Baptist Church in Gonzales, in-cluding Secretary, Sunday School Teacher, and Sun-day School Superintendent. He was also honored to serve as a deacon for many years.
In his later years he at-tended Hochheim Baptist Church, where he had been baptized in a creek as a young man in 1938.
After he returned from the war, Donald worked at Purina Mills for 15 years. Later he continued in the field of agricultural as an entrepreneur, marketing and shipping supplies for the poultry industry. He also raised chickens and turkeys commercially, and was a cattle rancher.
Donald was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers, Norris, Onley, Grover, and Leroy; his sis-ters, Vera Broadway and Frankie Stockton; and his grandson, Gregg Pergrem.
Donald is survived by his wife of 70 years, Billie; their seven children; Mae-del Hearn, Donald David Howell and Sandy, Nell Pergrem and her husband Bill, Marji Breslow and her husband Jim, James How-ell, Grover Howell and his wife Teri, and Sally O’Dell and her husband Danny. He is also survived by his two sisters, Dorothy Reyes and Hazel Weaver; his many grandchildren; great grandchildren; great-great grandchild; many nieces and nephews; and wonder-ful friends.
Services to honor him were held on Feb. 12 at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home at 2 p.m., followed by ser-vices at Hochheim Baptist church, and graveside ser-vices at Bellevue Cemetery in Cheapside.
Donald’s grandsons, Don Hearn, Shane Howell, Jef-frey Pergrem, Derek Kotrla, Jason Howell, and Patrick O’dell served as pallbear-ers. Afterwards, family and friends gathered to cel-ebrate Donald’s amazing life with a meal in Fellow-ship Hall at Eastside Baptist Church.
Arrangements were un-der the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home 906 St. Paul, Gonza-les, TX (830) 672-3232.
HARKEYMrs. Lula Lou Mae Kiser
Harkey, age 75, of 1786 Tin Mine Road in Lincolnton, died on Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm on Sat-urday, February 18, 2012 in the Warlick Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jeff Kin-caid officiating. The family will receive friends follow-ing the service.
Mrs. Harkey was born March 18, 1936 in Lincoln County to the late William H. and Dessie Pace Kiser. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Ken-neth Ray Harkey.
She is survived by six sons, Tony Harkey of Seguin, Texas, Mike Har-key of Maiden, Randy
Harkey of Gonzales, Texas, Danny Harkey of Conover, Barry Harkey of Gonzales, Texas, and Billy Harkey of Lincolnton; two daughters, Linda Rickman of Lincoln-ton and Kathy Flowers of Fallston; 38 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and 5 great-great-grand-children.
In lieu of flowers, memo-rials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6000 Fairview Road, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28210.
Warlick Funeral Home is serving the Harkey family.
WOOLSEYBarbara Adele Lor-
raine Woolsey, age 61 of Devine, TX passed away Friday, February 10, 2012 in Devine.
She is preceded in death by her husband Norman Barr Woolsey; her father Rudolph Lorraine; paternal grandparents Angus Jacobs and Emma Bosse; maternal grandparents Charles and Adeline Nelson.
Barbara is survived by her mother May Lorraine of Natalia; brothers: Bill Lor-raine and wife Joan, Brett Lorraine and wife Cheryl, all of Devine. She is also survived by her daughter Eileen Woolsey and “sweet grandbaby” Myles Wilkins of Devine; five nieces, two nephews, three great nieces and one great nephew.
Visitation will be held Friday, February 17, 2012 from 5:00PM until 9:00PM at St. John Bosco Catholic Church in Natalia, with a rosary to be recited at 7:00PM.
Mass will be celebrated at St. John Bosco at 10:00AM Saturday, February 18, 2012.
There will be no visita-tion at the Hurley Funeral Home prior to the service. Services will conclude at the Church.
Family has requested memorials may be made to the Barbara Lorraine Wool-sey Memorial Scholarship Foundation at Security State Bank, 200 Hwy 132 N., Devine TX 78016.
Arrangements under the direction of HURLEY FU-NERAL HOME, 303 W. College Ave., Devine TX 78016 (830) 663-4445.
Music Study Club enjoys evening of piano classics
The Thompsonville La-dies Club met on Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Thompson-ville Community Center.
There were 17 members present. Our hostesses, Pat Wenzel and Maggie Benson, had decorated the center in shades of red and pink.
After everyone visited and had arrived, Sandy Van Velthoven read a blessing prayer prior to getting in line to eat. The red buf-fet table had many choices including Chicken Pot Pie and Hamburger Macaroni Cheese Casserole. These dishes were supplemented with garlic toast and mixed greens salad. For dessert, we chose from Valentine Sugar Cookies, Sopapilla Cheesecake, and Choco-
late cookies. A selection of drinks closed the large buf-fet table.
While we were enjoying our lunch, we were asked to look at the bottom of our plates. If you had a Valen-tine Heart, you won a door prize. Chris Williams, San-dy Van Velthoven, and Nell McClinton opened Valen-tine-decorated bags and showed off their winnings.
After enjoying a deli-cious meal, Betty Schro-eder, Club President, called the meeting to order. Pat Wenzel gave the Treasurer’s Report and we honored our Birthday Lady, Maggie Benson. We reviewed our plans for the Chili Supper and Auction held later this month. Donnie Richter will once again be our auction-
eer. Since there was no oth-er business, we adjourned to play Bunco.
Be sure to mark your cal-endars for Saturday, Feb. 25, for our Annual Fund-raiser Event. We will serve Chili and Side Dishes at 5 p.m. and the Auction will start at 6 p.m. Come early and look over our many homemade and donated items to be auctioned.
We thank the communi-ty and our local businesses for helping us with this project. The funds raised go to our Scholarship Fund. In 2011, we gave six scholar-ships to Gonzales County high school seniors. Please join us to help us give more scholarships and bring your neighbors and meet new friends.
Valentine theme spices meeting
The Woman’s Study Club met at The St. James Inn on Feb. 8.
President Jean Reese Ollom called the meeting to order and led the mem-bers in the Club Collect. There were 18 members and two guests present. Pat Green was welcomed as a new member.
Committee reports were made concerning future programs, host-esses, officers for the coming club year, and the library. Members who are ill were mentioned, and cards will be sent to them.
Martha Jo Whitt in-troduced Betty Wharton, who presented the pro-gram for the day. The topic of the program was dulcimers. Whar-ton brought two different types of dulcimers and explained their histories, structures and played them for the group.
The mountain dulcimer is an American folk instru-ment having its beginnings in the mountains of the east-ern part of the USA. When settlers who had come from Europe wanted to make music but had not brought instruments with them, they improvised. These dul-cimers are held on the lap and plucked, or strummed, with the fingers. Wharton
played lovely mountain party songs on them. The dancing the settlers did to this music led to our present day square dancing.
The hammer dulcimer dates back to at least 500 B.C. in ancient Nineveh. It is a large trapezoidal instru-ment which sits on a stand and is struck with mallets. This type of dulcimer is the
forerunner of harpsichords and pianos. Wharton played some beautiful, traditional, Scottish music on it for the enjoyment of all.
Ollom passed the Val-entine box from which the mostly homemade Valen-tines were selected and then read and showed them for all to enjoy. Members were reminded that the next
meeting will be held on March 14 at The Gonzales Memorial Museum.
After the meeting was ad-journed, the members and guests admired tables cov-ered with Valentines and albums full of Valentines belonging to hostess Ann Covert, who also shared a beautifully decorated Mardi Gras table with the group.
GVTC ProgramThe Noon Lions Club was informed of plans by GVTC (Guadalupe Valley Tele-phone Company) to expand its service into the city of Gonzales. The program was given by Dane Needham, Construction Supervisor for GVTC. Needham noted the GVTC was founded about 50 years ago as a rural telephone service and has grown to an $80 million company that has evolved from a telephone provider to a total communications provider. Needham spoke about the many services that GVTC will be offering to the residents of Gonzales and said that in-stallation of fiber optic cables throughout the town will soon be getting started. Needham, who also just joined the Noon Lions Club, is pictured with Lion Felipe Leon, program chairman. (Courtesy photo)
Dulcimers topic for Women’s Study Club
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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Relay For Life
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in the fight against cancerYour support
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Relay Gives Hope andEmpowers Alll to Fight Back
$32,475.00Anyone wishing to be a sponsor of the
2012 Relay For Life of Gonzales County
should contact Arline Rinehart
(672-2077), Patty Stewart(672-7581), or Jo Ann Low
(437-5265) as soon as possible. The
window of opportu-nity is closing and we
don’t want to overlook any
potential sponsors who want to be
“TENacious about the Fight.”. Your gifts will help the American Cancer
Society save lives by helping people stay well and get well, by finding cures, and by
fighting back.
Survivors!!!Come and join us as we celebrate
10 years of HOPE in 2012. We are
“TENacious about the Fight”. Relay For Life of Gon-zales County Sur-vivor Dinner will be held on March 19th at 6:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church
in Gonzales. If you did not re-ceive an invita-
tion to come join us, please contact Joyce Gibson at
(day) 875-8403 or (night) 672-2359.
RFL Legacy DonorsSeydler-Hill Funeral Home was recognized as one of the 10-year donors to the Relay For Life event. Pictured (from left) are: Relay For Life sponsorship chair Jo Ann Low, Relay For Life event chair Arline Rinehart, and Seydler-Hill manager Tim Markert (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)
RFL Legacy DonorsGonzales Healthcare Systems’ Employees were one of the 10-year donors to the Relay For Life event. Pic-tured (from left) are: Patty Stewart, Relay For Life sponsorship chair Jo Ann Low, Relay For Life event chair Arline Rinehart, Belle Ducote, Melinda Gonzales, Ann Marie Aubin, Karen Glover, and Gonzales Healthcare Systems CEO Chuck Norris. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)
RFL Legacy DonorsHochheim Prairie Farm Mutual was recognized as one of the 10-year donors to the Relay For Life event. Pictured (from left) are: Relay For Life sponsorship chair Jo Ann Low, Relay For Life event chair Arline Rinehart, Karen Glover, Billy Mikesh, Barbara Koricanek. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Alfredo Granados of Gon-zales, an Engineman 1st Class (EXW/SW) with Riverine Group 1, has received the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command’s highest honor.
Granados was named NECC’s 2011 Sea Sailor of the Year during a recent luncheon recognizing recipients of the Sea, Shore and Reserve Sailors of the Year honors. Granados will now compete for the U.S. Fleet Forces Direct Reporting Activities Sailor of the Year.
Granados is a native of Gonzales and the father of Gonzales third-grader Jenna-vie Granados. Granados has previously visited Gonzales Elementary School to share information about his career in the Navy with his 9-year-old daughter’s class.
Granados attended junior high and high school in Gon-zales before attending a trade school in San Marcos. In 1998, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
He is the son of Eulogio Granados and Delia Angel. He has a brother, Pedro, and a sister, Maria, who is also currently enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Granados has three un-cles - Evodio, Reyes and Hora-cio Angel - and 12 cousins. As
part of their final evaluation in the competition for Sailor of the Year, each of the 12 can-didates attended an interview board before four master chief petty officers where they were asked scenario-based leader-ship questions and judged on their professionalism, military bearing, evaluations and SOY package.
“The competition was ex-tremely intense,” said Rear Admiral Michael P. Tillotson, commander of NECC. “It is very important to recognize all these well-rounded sailors who stand out among their peers and exemplified the Navy’s core values of honor, courage and commitment in every aspect of their lives.”
Granados is now in the competition for U.S. Fleet Forces Direct Reporting Ac-tivities Sea Sailor of the Year where he will continue to compete at the Chief of Naval Operations competition. The winner of USFF DRA will be meritoriously advanced to the rank of chief petty officer.
“I feel greatly honored to be recognized in a field of such highly trained and mo-tivated sailors within NECC and today’s Navy,” Granados said.
Sailor of the Year Rear Adm. Michael P. Tillotson, commander of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, presents Engine-man 1st Class (EXW/SW) Alfredo Granados, Riverine Group 1, with the NECC Sea Sailor of the Year plaque during a luncheon Jan. 26. (US Navy Photo)
Local man earns honoras ‘Sea Sailor of Year’
The Crystal Theatre has been the scene of a number of “firsts” over its 100-year history — and another one is on the way.
The Crystal will be the stage for the production of “Ain’t We All God’s Children,” a play written by Yoakum’s Tommie Lemons and fea-turing gospel recording art-ist Twyla Graise. It’s the first production ever at the theatre featuring an African-Ameri-can theme and cast as a salute to Black History Month.
The play centered in a
community hospital in a run-down area and focuses on the lives and relationships of the medical personnel and their patients — both of whom are battling addictions.
“It focuses on addition,” said Lemons, whose husband is the pastor at St. James Mis-sionary Baptist Church in Yoakum. “I play an alcoholic doctor. In today’s society, ad-diction is a big issue.”
There are 12 cast members, including Graise, who por-trays Blind Millie — who’s addicted to prescription drugs. The Mississippi native is best-known around the region as a gospel recording
artist.For Lemons, being able to
reach the stage in Gonzales is a big step.
“I’ve been writing plays since I was in high school,” she said. “I wrote this play in 2008.
“We’re going to try and make this a traveling pro-duction, we already have a booking in Austin and we’re trying to get the Moody (Theatre) in Dallas, too.”
Cast and crew come pri-marily from Victoria and Yoakum, and Lemons said she has received a warm reception from the church
community in Gonzales.A pre-show reception is
scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 24 and 25 preceding the performance at 7 p.m. each night, and a 2 p.m. matinee performance is also sched-uled on Feb. 25.
Pre-sale tickets for the play are on sale at the Gon-zales Chamber of Com-merce office for $20, as well as Mumphord’s Bar-B-Que in Victoria and Styles by Pam in Victoria.
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Yoakum playwright’s work to be featured at Crystal
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‘Ain’t We All God’s Children’ castThe cast of “Ain’t We All God’s Children,” set to play the Crystal Theatre Feb. 24-25. (Courtesy photo)
To help re-open The LynnThe Platters will be in Gonzales to help re-open the Lynn Theatre on March 17. Pre-sale tickets are available at the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce for $20 pre-sale and they will be on sale at the door for $25. (Courtesy photo)
Thursday, Feb. 16Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.
Friday, Feb. 17Adam Hood with Bri Bagwell at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton.
Tickets $10.Vic Patek Band at Howard’s, Shiner, 7:30 p.m.
Dolly Shine at Yoakum Gin & Feed. Doors open 7 p.m. Tickets $8.
Saturday, Feb. 18Zack Walther Band at Howard’s, Shiner, doors open 8 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 23Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.Clint Martin at Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Barbecue Coo-
koff, Houston
Friday, Feb. 24O.S. Grant and The Hot Rails at Running M Bar & Grill, Gonzales,
9-12 p.m.Clint Martin at Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Barbecue Coo-
koff, Houston
Saturday, Feb. 25Clint Martin at Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Barbecue Coo-
koff, HoustonBill Pekar & The Rainey Brothers at Howard’s, Shiner, doors open
8 p.m.Tequila Black at Running M Bar & Grill, Gonzales, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Sunday, Feb. 26George Ensle at Howard’s, Shiner, 3 p.m.
Thursday, March 1Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.
Saturday, March 3Pear Ratzs at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.The Pale Horses with Micky & The Motorcars at Yoakum Gin &
Feed, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 8Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.
Saturday, March 10Frank Foster at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.
Thursday, March 15Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.
Saturday, March 17Cody Johnson with Bubba Westly at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m.
Cover $10.
Thursday, March 22Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.
Saturday, March 24Roger Stowell at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.
Thursday, March 29Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No
cover.
Friday, March 30Matt Stalling at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.
Saturday, March 31Dana Cooper at Ole Moulton Bank, 9 p.m.
Saturday, April 21Charla Corn at Scooter’s, Moulton, Details TBA.
Musicians and Venues: To add or update events, contact us via e-mail to [email protected].
Winner at WestminsterShilo Time for Good Time finished #4 in the country for 2011 and was invited to compete in the West-minster Kennel Club dog shows at Madison Square Garden this week — and on Monday was named Best in Breed among non-sporting breeds. The Tibetian Spaniel was bred and is owned by Shirley Carroll of Gonzales. Born Nov. 23, 2009, his sire is Ch Aldrea When You’re Hot You’re Hot and his dam was Aldea See a Memory at Shilo. (Courtesy Photo)
The Cannon Live Music Calendar
This week’s Top 40 re-quests from Radio Free Texas:
1. Geezatrio Poor House2. Scotty Thurman And
The Perfect Trouble Band Cowboys Aint Sup-
posed To Cry3. Steve Judice Pvt. Miller’s Mama’s
House4. Brian Coy And The Re-
maining Few Highest Of The Low5. Bryan Fontenot Who I Ain’t6. Max Stalling 6x9 Speakers Revisited
7. Brian Coy And The Re-maining Few
Turkey On The Bottle8. Red Dvorak Girl With The Golden
Cross9. Crazywater Ghosts Of Mineral Wells10. Slim Bawb Udu Swamp11. Beau Hinze And The
Back Porch Shufflers Double Stack Mack12. Slim Bawb Steel Blade13. Josh Peek Waltzin All Alone14. Beau Hinze And The
Back Porch Shufflers Thunderstorms & Domi-
noes15. Slim Bawb Voodoo Weddin/Amos
Moses16. Josh Peek Beaches Bikinis And
Beer17. blacktopGYPSY Too Far From Texas
18. Kat Moore Band Shadows19. Damn Quails Fool’s Gold20. Marina Believe In Love21. Josh Peek I Love Drunk Women22. Crazywater $1000.0023. Donny Waits Black Train24. Marina Believe In Love (Remix)25. Red Dvorak You Ain’t Going No-
where (With Tim Lewelling, Steve Judice & Slim Bawb
26. Hunter McKithan & The Offenders
Dirty Little War27. Jackson Lee Brooks
Band Ballad Of A Broken
Heart28. Jimmy Kaiser Galveston Lights/Can’t
You See29. Chyles Road Band Keepin’ My Freedom30. Beau Hinze And The
Back Porch Shufflers Flathead Yellow Named
Undertow31. Josh Grider Slow (Studio Bonus)32. Josh Grider Slow33. Pear Ratz Ozona34. Cody Johnson Band Diamond In My Pocket35. Paul Eason The Mountains Of Nue-
vo Leon36. Bryant Carter Band Southern Drawl37. Jeff Strahan Band Southern Jeans38. No Justice Shot In The Dark39. Charlie Faye Bottletops40. Charlie Faye Obvious To Me
Source: radiofreetexas.org
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Free showing of ‘Courageous’ setThompsonville Commu-
nity Church will host a free showing of the current box office hit “Courageous: Honor Begins At Home” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16.
The church is located at 2494 County Road 423, Thompsonville.
The movie is about four po-
lice officers who are focused and confident when it comes to facing danger on the job. They willingly stand up to the worst the streets have to of-fer. But, leading their families at home in a God-honoring way… that takes real courage.
When tragedy strikes home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, fears, faith and fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God and to their children? This family centered film,
rated PG-13, is powerful, heroic, entertaining and life-changing.
Snacks, finger-food, des-sert and drinks will be served starting at 6 pm. Seating is limited to 75 people. Please call and make reservations at: 830-540-4196 or 830-788-7431.
Thompsonville Commu-nity Church is inter-denom-inational. Our focus is Jesus Christ and not “religion”. We stress relationships and not programs.
KCTI to broadcastSan Antonio rodeoperformances live
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We serve gourmet soups, entrée and deluxe salads, quiche, gourmet sandwiches, pasta and other hot din-ner selections, and specialty desserts. We make and
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Radio station KCTI AM 1450 in Gonza-les has teamed with Steve Kenyon of Pro Rodeo Live to announce they will carry live coverage of Semifinal 1, Semifinal 2, Xtreme Bulls and the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Finals. The performanc-es should all be 2-2 1/2 hours.
“We’re excited to bring coverage of the biggest rodeo event in our area to fans across Gonzales County and the Gua-dalupe Valley and thankful that we have a great partnership with Steve Kenyon, Prorodeolive.com, and the San Antonio Stockshow and rodeo,” said KCTI-AM 1450 program director Egon Barthels.
Coverage of the final rounds can be heard on KCTI AM 1450, KCTI1450.com, on smartphones with the free TuneIn Ra-dio App by searching for KCTI AM 1450.
The broadcast schedule is as follows:• Feb 21-23 - Broadcast 6:45, rodeo 7
PM• Feb 24 - Broadcast 7:15, rodeo 7:30• Feb 25 - Bull Riding Broadcast 12:45 -
Bull Riding 1 PM (our coverage will begin
in progress at 1:00pm)• Feb 25 - Broadcast 7:15, rodeo 7:30The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
is going on now thru February 26th at the AT&T Center and Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas.
ProRodeoLive will present the final rounds of the San Antonio Rodeo, includ-ing semi final rounds, the championship round, and the $100,000 PRCA Xtreme Bull Riding February 21-25.
ProRodeoLive.com is owned by veteran PRCA member rodeo announcer Steve Kenyon, who will be describing the action from San Antonio. Kenyon was the Wom-en’s Professional Rodeo Association’s An-nouncer of the Year in 2010, and received the PRCA’s Media Award for Broadcasting in 2009.
ProRodeoLive will present a busy springtime schedule of live rodeo cover-age, beginning in San Antonio and also in-cluding the Timed Event Championships from the Lazy E in Guthrie, OK March 2-4; the Ram National Circuit Finals March 29-April 1 from Oklahoma City; and the Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo April 20-22 from Red Bluff, CA.
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CANNON KID’S CORNER
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, expect others to grav-
itate toward you this week. Your decisions will carry extra weight and others will look to you for guidance and support.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, you’re thinking of
creative ways to pass some time, but relaxation might be the best solution. Use the down time to recharge your batteries.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, hold your tongue
to avoid stepping on other people’s toes this week. Re-serve your comments for when people ask for them, and you’ll be happy you did so.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, mixing business
with pleasure could prove di-sasterous. Better think again before you take this route in the next few days. Romantic ties may break if you let them.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, it may be time for a
complete makeover. You’ve earned the right to some in-dulgence, so treat yourself to a mini-vacation and some pampering.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, you’re very good
at marching to the beat of a different drummer. But sometimes it can be to your advantage to fall in line with the pack if it serves your best interest.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23
Not every day can be an ex-citing day, Libra. If you make the most of what you’re work-ing with, you can make boring moments a little more enjoy-able, especially with friends.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, expect to tackle
work projects with renewed vigor this week. That extra hop in your step will enable you to get everything done without breaking a sweat.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21
Sagittarius, speak your mind when others ask your advice. Don’t be afraid to share your opinions, even if those opinions are bound to ruffle some feathers.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20
Capricorn, this week pro-vides the perfect opportunity to reconnect with old friends. Use some unforeseen down-time to do just that and enjoy the much-needed respite.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18
Aquarius, others prove es-pecially grateful of your efforts this week. Be gracious when accepting praise and spread some of your own as well. Wednesday proves to be fun.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, you have a lot of sup-
porters who want to help you with whatever they can. Make the most of this generosity.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYSFEBRUARY 19Victoria Justice, Actress
(19)
FEBRUARY 20French Stewart, Comic Ac-
tor (48)
FEBRUARY 21Charlotte Church, Singer
(26)
FEBRUARY 22Lea Salonga, Actress (41)
FEBRUARY 23Aziz Ansari, Actor (29)
FEBRUARY 24Billy Zane, Actor (46)
FEBRUARY 25Sean Astin, Actor (41)
Puzzle Answers
It was noted American wit and columnist Franklin P. Adams who made the following sage observation: “Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” It’s certainly something to keep in mind during this strife-ridden election season.
Americans make more collect phone calls on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year.
It was a German company, Interstuhl Manufactur, that made the world’s most expensive office chair. With a price tag of $65,500, you shouldn’t be surprised that the chair is plated in gold and comes with a matching ottoman.
Have you ever wondered where we got the phrase “the dog days of summer”? According to tradition, the dog days start in July -- and not just because it’s usually pretty hot then. At one time, that was when Sirius, also known as the dog star, rose at sunrise. The Romans associated Sirius (called the dog star
because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, or “large dog”) with hot weather, and at the beginning of the dog days they would sacrifice a dog in the hope of ameliorating the sultry weather.
If you were to take the entire world’s water supply and compress it into one single gallon, freshwater would make up just 4 ounces, and freshwater that is easily accessible would be just two drops.
Considering the fact that
it’s home to much of the American film industry, it’s probably not surprising that the sprawling city of Los Angeles has the world’s third-largest GMP, or gross metropolitan product.
***Thought for the Day:
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
