Gonzales Cannon September 6 Issue

Gonzales City Council on Tuesday moved to mend some fences by reviewing the structure of a new, ex-panded board to run the Gonzales Memorial Mu-seum, and also moved to resolve some emergency issues with the city’s com-puter system.

The Daughters of the American Revolution had effectively served as admin-istrators of the museum un-til early this summer, when DAR representatives said they could not continue in that role without a support plan from the city.

City staff presented the council Tuesday with plans for a new Museum Board which will include rep-resentatives of the DAR, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, LULAC, the Ed-wards Association, Gonza-les ISD’s 7th grade history department, and other citi-zens to be selected by the council.

“This is a good idea,” noted councilman Lorenzo Hernandez. “There is fair representation.”

Council will formally make appointments to the board at either its Sept. 18

or Oct. 2 meeting.The council will also re-

visit an appointment to the board of directors of the Gonzales Economic De-velopment Corp. Clarence Opiela has resigned from that board after his election to the council and recom-mended GISD deputy su-perintendent Larry Wehde as his replacement, but on Tuesday council tabled that in order to give other citi-zens an opportunity to ap-ply for the post.

The council also ap-proved a couple of reso-lutions authorizing City Manager Allen Barnes to contract with two firms to help the city with specific projects.

The council approved hiring IT to the Rescue, a Gonzales-based company run by Dennis Nesser, to provide services to help the city upgrade and repair its computer systems after declaring the situation an emergency.

“This is something that needs to be addressed, and it needs to be addressed in a timely fashion,” city finance director Pam Larison told the council. “Our systems are very unstable at this time.”

WAELDER — The Waelder City Council took a hard look at their policy on granting extensions of time for residential utility customers to pay their bills during its regular meeting Tuesday night.

Councilman Valentino Hernandez put the item on the agenda because he was recently made aware of a situa-tion where a customer requested and

was granted such an extension for the third time this year, which violates the limit of two allowed under a city ordinance.

“This person called me wanting an extension and I told them I didn’t have the authority to do that,” Waelder mayor Mike Harris explained. “He said he called three other council members and they said for me to do it.”

“Since it was three members, that’s the majority of the council. That was

the way it used to be done at one time.”

Waelder city attorney Angela Beck said it was illegal for the council to operate this way because it is a viola-tion of the Texas Open Meetings Act, which requires councils to discuss and make such decisions in a public forum.

“If the council wants to do a vari-ance to their ordinance, that’s within the council’s purview,” said Beck. “A

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Scary accident in WaelderA Department of Public Safety trooper and a Gonzales County Sheriff’s deputy consult while investigating an accident Sunday at the Shell Station in Waelder. The driver of the blue car struck a container trailer which was exiting the station and burst into flames, but initial reports indicated the car’s driver escaped with minor injuries. (Photo courtesy of Ken Dernehl)

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Friday ScoreboardGonzales 27, Victoria East 6Luling 35, Randolph 6Flatonia 41, Nixon-Smiley 6

St. Paul 60, Pettus 21Shiner 36, Industrial 13Hallettsville 35, Ganado 14Lockhart 55, VictoriaWest 12

Yorktown 8, Sacred Heart 0Yoakum 27, Columbus 25Cuero 20, Wharton 19SM Home. 66, Praire Lea 18

The sixth annual IBCA Barbecue & CASI Chili First Shot Cook-Off will take place at the J.B. Wells Park in Gon-zales on Sept. 14-16.

The fun begins on Friday, Sept. 14 with check-in times from 1-9 p.m. A dessert competition will take place for a $10 jackpot, and the Come & Pull It Tractor Pull will begin.

Saturday, Sept. 15 will be highlighted

by an Antique Tractor Exhibit, plus there will be Arts & Crafts and vendor booths open all day. Saturday will also feature live music from 8 p.m. to mid-night, as well as the conclusion of the tractor pull.

Gonzales’ own The Pale Horses will provide the entertainment Saturday night starting at 8 p.m. in the showbarn. The show is free and the public is invited

to bring a chair and an ice chest.Trophies will be awarded in the

Cook-Off in the categories of Chicken, Pork Spare Ribs, Brisket, Beans and Chili. Cash prizes will be awarded in-cluding $2,500 for Grand Champion and in each category meats for $300 for first, $200 for second and $100 for third. A Reserve Champion will also be crowned and awarded $1,000. Turn in

time for Chili is noon on Sunday, Sept. 16.

Judges are still needed for all catego-ries and cook-off entry forms are avail-able online at www.firstshotcookoff.com.

To volunteer as a judge or for more information, contact Shirley Bre-itschopf at 830-857-4142 or Sissy Mills at 830-857-6247.

Gonzales County Com-missioners on Tuesday moved forward with plans to adopt the county’s tax rate for 2012-13, accepted more than 60 donated loads of limestone for repair of a county road and estab-lished a standard rate for reimbursement to elected officials using their own cell phones for county business.

No members of the pub-lic came forward during the second public hearing

on the county’s proposed 2012-13 tax rate, and com-missioners set Sept. 17 as the date for final adoption. The proposed effective tax rate for this year is $0.3276 per $100 valuation, while the proposed rollback tax rate is $0.3554 per $100 valuation. Both figures are substanially lower than last year’s county tax rate of $0.6268 and are based on an increase in property values primarily due to in-creases in oil and gas explo-ration revenues.

An exciting start in LulingThe stands were full and the cheerleaders were fired up as the season got underway for the Luling Eagles Friday. The Eagles went on to beat Randolph 35-6. See sports in Section C for full coverage of the game. (Photo by Ron Oswalt)COUNTY, Page A4

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Thought for the Day

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

– Bernard Shaw

Sept. 6, 1952On this day in 1952, Benito Martinez of Fort Hancock,

Texas, died in action in Korea. Corporal Martinez was a ma-chine gunner with Company A, Twenty-seventh Infantry Regiment, Twenty-fifth Infantry Division, near Satae-ri, Korea. On the night of the sixth he was manning an advanced lis-tening post when he was encircled by a strong enemy force. He remained at his post and refused to allow any attempts to reach him because of the danger to any rescuers. The next morning his body was found with an empty ammunition clip in his left hand and a .45 caliber pistol in his right. Because of his stand, friendly forces were able to regain key terrain. His posthumous Medal of Honor was presented to his mother by the secretary of the army at the Pentagon in Washington.

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Here is the Gonzales Police Department Report for the period of Aug. 27-Sept. 3:

Aug. 27Reported Burglary Building At 700 Blk St. Francis St.Reported Theft At 1800 Blk Church St.Reported Theft At 1600 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.Reported Burglary Motor Vehicle At 700 Blk St. Mat-

thew St.Reported Theft At 600 Blk St. John St.Aug. 28Reported Assault At 700 Blk Qualls St.Salvador Pop-Cac, 19 Of Gonzales, Arrested And

Charged With Theft At 3300 Blk Hwy 90-A.Aug. 29Paul Macias Villareal, 36 Of Gonzales, Arrested And

Charged With Assault At 100 Blk McClure St.Aug. 30Cody Amos Kidd, 23 Of Gonzales, Arrested And

Charged With Public Intoxication At Water And St. Louis St.

Reported Theft At 1800 Blk Church St.Reported Criminal Mischief At 800 Blk St. Vincent St.Aug. 31

Reported Hit And Run Accident At 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Sept. 1Reported Credit Card Abuse At 1500 Blk Waelder

Hwy.Richard Glenn Rivera, 31 Of Gonzales, Arrested And

Charged With Tampering With Evidence, Terroristic Threat, Resisting Arrest, Possession Of Marijuana, And Public Intoxication At 100 Blk W Wallace St.

Sept. 2Deshawn Ramon Johnson, 33 Of San Antonio, Ar-

rested And Charged With Felon In Possession Of Fire-arm At 3000 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

Reported Burglary Motor Vehicle At 1800 Blk St. Louis St.

Sept. 3Adolfo Perez, 47 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged

With Possession Of Controlled Substance and Aaron Dwayne Hunt, 25 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 100 Blk Main St.

Feron Leonard Smith, 30 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana At 1700 Blk Waco St.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff’s Report for Aug. 26-Sept. 1

08/27/12Gloria, Fernando Jr., 07/1980, Luling. Commit-

ment/Sentence – Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon. Caldwell County Warrant – Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 > 1 G. Requires $50,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

08/28/12Riebschlaeger, Tracy Rouse, 01/1968, Aransas.

Commitment/Sentence – Forgery Financial Instru-ment. Released – Weekender/Work Release.

Mitchell, Milton Tyrone, 10/1975, Gonzales. Com-mitment/Sentence – Murder. Remains in Custody.

Nichols, Robert James, 02/1985, Waelder. Local Warrant – Evading Arrest Detention. Released on $2,500 Bond.

08/29/12Campos, Hector Villazana, 02/1962, San Antonio.

Local Warrant – Theft of Property >$1,500 <$20K. Requires $100,000 Bond. Bexar County Warrant –

Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 <1 G. Requires $5,000 Bond. Bexar County Warrant – Fail-ure to Appear. Requires $1,600 Bond. Remains in Custody.

08/31/12Robinson, Leslie Michelle, 04/1968, Gonzales.

Commitment/Sentence – Theft of Property >$50 <$500. Released – Weekender/Work Release.

Total Arrest, Court Commitments, other agency arrest and processing’s:

GCSO 06DPS 01GPD 06WPD 02NPD 02Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 17

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Re-port for Aug. 27-Sept. 2

08/27/12Case #12-358, Burglary-Vehicle, 212 Hill; Disposi-

tion, Investigation.08/28/12Case #12-359, Burglary-Vehicle, 202 Nieman; Dis-

position, Investigation.08/29/12Case #12-360, Riley, Dayton, 17, Yoakum, 104

Poth; Offense, Public Intoxication; Disposition, PG/FG/Fine$364/Rel.

Case #12-361, Burglary-Vehicle, 312 Davidson; Disposition, Investigation.

09/01/12Case #12-365, Disorderly Conduct, 201W. Gonza-

les; Disposition, Court Citation.Case #12-366, Disorderly Conduct, 201 W. Gonza-

les; Disposition, Court Citation.09/02/12Case #12-267, Public Intoxication, 722 Front ; Dis-

position, Court Citation.Case #12-368, Assault-C, 1200 Carl Ramert; Dis-

position, Court Citation.

DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from Aug 23-30

Aug. 23Arrested Jordan Lehmberg, 26, of Yorktown, Capias

Pro Fine / Speeding 11/15 over Limit, Fine of $353.30, DCSO

Arrested Modesto Perez, 49 , of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine/No Expired Vehicle Registration, Fine of $417.30, Capias Pro Fine / Failure to Appear, Fine of $607.10, DCSO

Arrested John Kelly, 22, of Yoakum, Larceny / Theft by Check, Bond of $1,000, DPS

Arrested Matthew Maciel, 27, of Yoakum, Felony Driving While Intoxicated, Bond of, DCSO

Arrested Justin Molands, 23, of Cuero, Failure to Ap-pear / Burglary of Habitation, No Bond, Failure to Ap-pear / Evading Arrest / Detention with Vehicle, No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Dusty Riedel, 18, of Cuero, Failure to Ap-pear/Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon, No Bond, Failure to Appear/ Burglary of Habitation, No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Michael Slaydon, 20, of Yoakum, Violation of Protective Order, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Arrested Patricia Saenz, 31, of Cuero, Motion to Re-voke / Burglary of Building, No Bond, DCSO

Aug. 24Arrested Theresa Davidson, 38, of Cuero, Driving

While License Invalid with Previous Convection, Bond of $800, DCSO

Arrested Michael Johns, 52, of Kingsville, Criminal Non Support (Kleberg Co), No Bond, Cuero PD

Arrested Dylan Kraatz, 18, of Victoria, Possession of Marijuana < 2 oz, Bond of $1,000, Prohibited Weapons, Bond of $2,000, Cuero PD

Arrested Robert Gardner, 67, of Yoakum, Driving While Intoxicated 2nd, Bond of $2,000 with Conditions, DPS

Assisted Yorktown PD with an AssaultAug. 25Arrested Richard Sammons, 43, of Meyersville, As-

sault / Family Violence, Bond of $ 1,000, DCSOArrested Robert Gardner, 67, of Yoakum, Capias Pro

Fine / No Seat Belted Passenger, Fine of $224, DCSOArrested Santo Ramos, 20, of Victoria, Failure to Ap-

pear / Possession of Marijuana < 2 oz (Victoria Co), Bond of $ 2,000, DPS

Assisted Cuero PD with a Suspicious Person on Warn St

Aug. 26Arrested Gabriel Alvarez, 35, of Yorktown, Resist Ar-

rest / Search / Transport, Bond of $2,000, Yorktown PDArrested Ruben Hernandez, 46, of Cuero, Capias Pro

Fine / Speeding 1/10 above Limit, Fine of $56.00, CPDArrested Austin Luke Rokovich, 31, of Victoria, As-

sault Causes Bodily Injury Family Member (Williamson Co), Bond of $5,000, Harassment (Williamson Co), Bond of $1,500, DPS

Arrested Judy Fay Knox, 32, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine / Parent Contributing To Non-Attendance, Fine of $442, CPD

Aug. 27Arrested Miguel Angel Cabrera, 23, of El Campo, Il-

legal Entry, No Bond, DCSOArrested Marco Antonio Nendo-Garcia, 23, of Bay

City, Illegal Entry, No Bond, DCSOArrested Courtney Hinojosa, 20, of Cuero, Revoca-

tion of Probation / Tamper / Fabricate Physical Evidence, Bond of $50,000, DCSO

Arrested Andrew Thomas Perez-Venegas, 17, of Cu-ero, Obstruction or Retaliation, Bond of $2,500, CPD

Arrested Kirk Allen Guenther, 34, of Sugar Land, Theft of Property >$20K < $100K, Bond of $50,000, DCSO

Arrested James Allen Salles, 43, of Cuero, Driving While License Invalid, Bond of $1,000, Yorktown PD

Aug. 28Arrested Desiree Rachell Payne, 27, of Austin, Public

Intoxication, Fine of $355, DCSOArrested Carmen Gomez, 31, of Cuero, Assault/Fam-

ily Violence, Bond of $2,000, Cuero PDAug. 29Arrested Clarence Pope, 58, of Yoakum, Possession of

Child Pornography, No Bond, DCSOArrested Neil Kloesel, 31, of Moulton, Capias Pro

Fine/Driving While License Invalid-Enhanced, Fine of $937, DCSO

Arrested William Dabbs, 30, of Cuero, Public Intoxica-ton with 3 Prior Convictions, Bond of $1,000, Resisting Arrest, Bond of $2,000, Cuero PD

GUADALUPE COUN-TY — A 17-year old from Luling died after she was ejected from her car Tues-day morning.

Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers said Lauren Ashley Longe was traveling east on U.S. High-way 90 Alternate around 8:30 a.m. when the 2000 Ford Explorer she was driv-ing crossed the highway and left the road, rolling over multiple times.

The Explorer drove down the embankment, and upon hitting the bar ditch began to flip, troopers said.

Longe was ejected after the vehicle began to roll over.

The SUV continued into field about 100 feet off the roadway.

Longe was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice

of the Peace Precinct 1 Dar-rell Hunter.

The cause of the accident remains under investiga-tion.

Officers survey a crushed 2000 Ford Explorer that drove off of State Highway 90 Alternate in the 11,000 block around 8:30 a.m and rolled several times, ejecting the driver. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Pct. 1 Darrell Hunter. (Photo by Felicia Frazar/Seguin Gazette)

By FELICIA FRAZARof the Seguin Gazette

Special to The Cannon

SAN ANTONIO - In the days following the Septem-ber 11th attacks, 500,000 Americans donated blood.

As the 11th anniversary approaches, the South Tex-as Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) encourages all eligible blood donors to donate in honor of the 9/11 victims.

Thirty percent of donat-ed blood is transfused into accident/ trauma patients. STBTC strives to keep an adequate blood supply so that patients of all types have blood available when they need it. After all, the

rarest blood type is the one not on the shelves when it is needed.

Visit a mobile blood drive in your area to help local hospital patients:

Gonzales• H-E-B, Saturday, Sept.

8; 10 am - 2 pm, 1841 Church St.

• First United Methodist Church, Sunday, Sept. 9; 8:15 am - noon, 426 St. Paul

• St. James Catholic Church, Sunday, Sept. 16; 10 am - 1 pm, 417 N. Col-lege

• Gonzales High School, Tuesday, Sept. 25; 8:30 am - 3 pm, Highway 90A

Nixon• Nixon Smiley High

School & Community, Tuesday, Sept. 18; 9 am - 4 pm, 806 N. Rancho Rd.

• Holmes Foods, Friday, Sept. 28; 8:45 am - 12:45 pm, 101 S. Liberty Ave.

Donors must present identification. Anyone who is 16 years old weighing 120 pounds (with parental consent form), or at least 17 years old weighing 110 pounds and in good gener-al health may donate blood. All donors receive refresh-ments, a mini-physical a thank you gift and are en-couraged to eat before and after donation. Learn more about blood donation at www.southtexasblood.org or call 800-292-5534.

AUSTIN — In a gesture to honor those men and women who have made great per-sonal sacrifices to ensure our freedom and protect our nation, the Texas Transporta-tion Commission has approved granting free passage for select veterans on several Texas toll roads.

The decision will benefit veterans who are either disabled or recipients of the Purple Heart and/or Congressional Medal of Hon-or.

In central Texas, those toll roads where some veterans will be able to drive free of charge include Loop 1, SH 45 North, SH 45 Southeast and SH 130 (Segments 1-4) in the Austin area. Additionally, qualified veterans will be able to travel free of charge on the Camino Colombia, which is SH 255 near Laredo and Loop 49 in Tyler.

House Bill 3139, passed by the Legisla-ture in 2009 and enacted in the Transpor-tation Code (Section 372.053), stated that the state’s toll authorities may develop a dis-count program for various veterans.

Governor Rick Perry recently called on

the Transportation Commission to begin implementing a program that would help support Texas veterans getting around Tex-as with less financial burden.

“Our veterans are motivated by a higher calling that is rooted in the fundamental values of our nation,” Gov. Perry said. “In Texas, we understand and appreciate the sacrifices the men and women of our armed forces make in defense of our freedom, and we consider it an honor to support them.”

Currently, there are 7,360 specialty li-cense plates indicating drivers are disabled vets, Purple Heart and Congressional Medal of Honor recipients in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties closest to the central Texas toll roads. Statewide there are 160,666 similar specialty plates.

“We are able to celebrate our freedom each and every day due to the unwavering sacrifice of our military’s brave men and women, so making it a bit easier for them to move through our great state is the least we can do,” said Phil Wilson, Executive Direc-tor of TxDOT.

AUSTIN – As part of an on-going com-mitment to address congestion, the Texas Department of Transportation today re-leased a list of the 100 Most Congested Roadways. Topping this year’s list is a sec-tion of I-35W in Ft. Worth that caused Tex-as motorists to spend more than 2 million more hours traveling on a section of road that is only 3.7 miles long.

“One of the best ways to keep Texas mov-ing is to identify those roadways causing the most delays,” said Phil Wilson, TxDOT Ex-ecutive Director. “Results from this annual study validate our approach to moving ag-gressively with our priority projects in Texas to address congestion and help Texans get to and from work and help them easily and safely move around our great state.”

The 100 Most Congested Roadways

clearly illustrates the severity and extent of the Lone Star State’s traffic problem. Results show 40 percent of the delay encountered by drivers takes place in the top 20 roadways on the list. Additionally, the total delay in hours – more than 137 million hours – car-ries with it an economic cost in lost time and wasted fuel of nearly $3 billion.

Every one of the stretches of road cited on the list are in urban areas.

“To truly address congestion in Texas, we must look at a variety of solutions,” Wilson said. “Most often, reducing traffic conges-tion is more effectively achieved by improv-ing or constructing alternate routes, quickly clearing crashes, re-timing traffic signals, augmenting transit and implementing workforce efforts such as telecommuting and flexible work hours.”

State ranks most congested roads

Gonzales County Clerk Lee Riedel has announced the dates and locations for early voting for the upcom-ing general election.

Ballots by MailNew applications for a bal-

lot by mail will be available beginning Sept. 7. To receive the application, contact the County Clerk’s Office at 830-672-2801 or write: Gonzales County Clerk, PO Box 77, Gonzales TX 78629.

Applications for ballots by mail must be received by the County Clerk’s office no later than Tuesday, Oct. 30. Riedel reminds voters that the appli-cations must be RECEIVED by that date, not merely post-marked. Mail ballots must be returned by mail by Election Day, Nov. 6.

Applicants for ballots by mail must meet one of the following requirements:

• 65 years of age or older;• Disability;• Confinement in jail;• Expected absence from

county on Election Day and during the period of early voting. Ballots for this reason can only be mailed outside the county.

Early Voting by personal appearance

Early voting by personal appearance begins Monday, Oct. 22 and concludes Friday, Nov. 2.

Early voting locations in Gonzales County include the Gonzales County Court-house Annex (1709 Sarah DeWitt Dr., across from Walmart) in the County Clark’s Office; the City of Nixon Building at 100 W. 3rd in Nixon; and the City of Waelder Building at 300 Hwy. 90W, Waelder.

Voting will take place 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday during the early voting period.

You must be registered to vote 30 days prior to the elec-tion to be eligible to vote. The last day to register is Oct. 9. If you have moved, it is also necessary to contact the Vot-er Registrar, Norma Jean Du-Bose, to correct your address. Contact number ofr DuBose is 830-672-2841.

New registration cards are YELLOW. They were mailed out some time ago and have a slightly different look to them. They show your street

(home) address and your mailing address. Your home address is what governs where you vote.

Election DayElection Day is Tuesday,

Nov. 6, from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. County precincts and loca-tions include:

• Precinct 1: Gonzales County Courthouse, 414 St. Joseph St. in Gonzales;

• Precinct 2: American Le-gion Hall, 1512 Robertson St. Gonzales;

• Precinct 3: Gonzales City Building, 820 St. Joseph, Gonzales;

• Precincts 4 and 6: Gonza-les County Nixon Annex, 603 E. Central Ave., Nixon;

• Precinct 5: Belmont Community Center (Meth-odist Church), 14335 Hwy 90A, Belmont;

• Precinct 7: Texas Elks Children’s Services (Elks Hospital), 1963 FM 1586, Ot-tine;

• Precinct 8: Harwood Community Center, 101 CR 230N, Harwood;

• Precinct 9: Waelder Community Center, 311 Hwy 90W, Waelder*;

• Precinct 10: Smiley Fire

Station, Smiley*;• Precinct 11: Peach Val-

ley Youth Camp, 581 CR 537, Gonzales;

• Precinct 12: JB Wells Park, Multi-Purpose facil-ity Show Barn, 2301 CR 197,

Gonzales;• Precinct 13: Leesville

Cemetery Association, 6077 CR 155, Leesville;

• Precinct 14: Cheapside Community Center, 18 CR 297A, Cheapside;

• Precinct 15: Guadalupe Valley Telephone Co-Op, 67 FM 466S, Cost.

* — These two locations remain subject to Dept. of Justice approval for change.

The CannonThursday, September 6, 2012 Page A3

Scouts lend a hand to GCAMGonzales Cub Scout Pack #261, along some family members, volunteered over 71 hours of service to GCAM. They helped by sorting clothes and hangers, and also helped by carrying out items for GCAM clients and taking in donated items. Shown at left are (top row, from left) Cub Scouts Anthony Medina, Anthony Naylor, Isac Espinoza, Quinn Atkinson, Xavier Condel (bottom row) Forestt Stephens and Ancel Atkinson. Pictured at right are (from left) Julie Burek, Jacob Burek, Matthew Schramm, Marilyn Krum and Kyle Krum. (Courtesy photos)

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Season gets underway for the bands, too!

Friday wasn’t just the start of the season for football teams around the region — it marked the start of the season for the bands, too. At Comanche stadium in Shiner (left), the St. Paul High School/Junior High band had lots to cheer about and also put on a field show for the first time in more than a year. The Gonzales High School Mighty Apache Marching band (right) got things going for the school’s first pep rally of the season prior to the Apaches taking the field against the Victoria East Titans. (Photos by Dave Mundy and Mark Lube)

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lot of cities do it infor-mally and they don’t in-volve the council, but those type of cities usu-ally have city managers so they have a little more latitude.”

The council decided to take no action on amend-ing the current ordinance, but said that any citizen who wants to claim hard-ship and ask for an addi-tional extension can come before the council and make such a request.

During his Monthly Police Report, Waelder police chief Jim Taylor said there were six misde-meanors and two felonies reported to his office dur-ing the month of August.

Those crimes included three public intoxications, two aggravated assaults, one criminal mischief and one burglary of a vehicle.

Taylor said five arrests have been made regarding those cases with two oth-er pending. The number of reported crimes were down 33 percent from Au-gust 2011.

In other business, the council:

• Adopted a tax rate of $0.2231 per $100 valua-tion for tax year 2012.

The rate, which is the highest the City could adopt without triggering a rollback election, will in-crease the City’s total tax revenue by 7.99%.

• Authorized the prepa-ration and submission of a

2013/2014 Texas Commu-nity Development Block Grant Application to the Texas Department of Ag-riculture for funding of a wastewater treatment plant.

The $275,000 grant would require the City to pay a matching cost of $25,000.

• Authorized the City Attorney to draw up an interlocal agreement with the City of Gonzales al-lowing them to use the City’s sprayer in regards to mosquito control.

• Appointed Mike Har-ris and Rocky Quintero Jr. as members to the Golden Crescent Region-al Planning Commission for the General Assembly and Board of Directors.

Councilman Tommy Schurig and Hernandez noted citizens’ comments in recent town-hall meet-ings urging the city to “hire locally” as often as possible, and Nesser told the council that while his company is essentially a one-man operation, he has access to a number of contractors he works with regularly for area-specific needs.

The council also ap-proved a resolution au-thorizing Barnes to con-tract with Southwest Engineers for specific projects to preclude any conflict of interest with the city’s current engi-neering firm.

In other action Tues-day, the Council:

• Approved requests by the Girl Scouts to use Confederate Square for a registration drive Sept. 15;

• Approved road clo-sures for the annual Sacred Heart Catholic Church Jamaica fest Sept. 15;

• Authorized the Knights of Columbus to sell beer on Confederate Square during the Come and Take It Festival Oct. 5-7;

• Authorized street closures and the use of Confederate Square for the annual Main Street Christmas Parade and Winterfest Nov. 30-Dec. 1;

• Approved GEDC’s transfer agreement with Schmidt and Sons for two acres of land in the Gon-

zales Industrial Park;• Approved and offered

support for a project by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to re-store the Confederate He-roes monument on Con-federate Square;

• Authorized Liberty National Life Insurance to offer an additional life insurance policy to city employees;

• Accepted the zoning and subdivision analysis done by Freese and Nich-ols and authorized that company to begin draft-ing changes to the city’s zoning ordinance;

• Approved an ordi-nance waiving a require-ment for construction documents for residents seeking to make home additions totalling less than 15 percent of the home’s square footage.

Commissioners also accepted 34 loads of limestone from SAWS and 31 loads of lime-stone from Forrest Oil Co. for repairs to Coun-ty Road 123 in Precinct 4.

There was some dis-cussion over a request from County Auditor Becky Weston to estab-lish a standard for cell phone allowances and reimbursments.

Weston told the court that cell phones used by

most county employees are contracted for and paid for by the county for around $60 a month, but that several elected officials use their own cell phone plans. The plan used by Precinct 2 Constable Raleigh Mea-som costs around $100 a month, she said, because the constable has data rate charges for an air card for both his phone and his laptop computer in his office.

“We need to do this where we set a flat rate for everyone,” said Pre-

cinct 3 Commissioner Kevin LaFleur.

Measom explained that because he is out of the office much of the time, he uses the phone to check for emails and other data.

Commissioners dis-cussed the matter briefly before opting to set a flat rate of $90 per month reimbursement.

In other action Tues-day, the court received the auditor’s monthly report; set the salary of the auditor and assis-tant county auditors; ap-proved budget amend-ments; and received a presentation from for-mer Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDon-ald, who now heads an organization called MVBA which provides training, team building and stress management training for county em-ployees and offiicals.

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WAELDER: To review hardship cases on residential utility bills



Royal Court Wins AgainThe Gonzales Royal Court, which consists of Miss Gonzales County Angela Wit-zkoske, Junior Miss Gonzales County Griselda Lopez, Lil’ Miss Gonzales Coun-ty Destiny Voigt, and Lil’ Mister Gonzales County Jeremiah Hastings, received “Smoothest Entry” at the Waelder Guacamole Festival on Sunday, September 2. (Courtesy photo)

The wiry old Mexican cowboy lay quiet in his cot. His face tingled in the cold air as he listened to the breathing of his *com-padres*. He was thankful for another day, and in the cool stillness, his instincts murmured it would be a good day. Then he reached from beneath his covers, pitched the worn blankets aside, and swung his bare feet to the icy stone floor. The tinder was stacked be-side the waist-high, mud-bricked fireplace, and in moments he had a blaze dulling the sharp frigid temperatures. Then he slicked back his gray mop, jerked on a threadbare shirt, and wiped his eyes.

The old man enjoyed making coffee and mea-sured the water and grounds precisely. Then he banged two frying pans onto the fire and plopped a dollop of bacon grease into each. As he waited for the heat, he glared at the sleep-ing *vaqueros*. The men had been together so long that they slept through his morning rituals. Now, he woke the youngest and

sent him to crank the die-sel generator at the top of the hill. Visitors to the *hacienda* want electric-ity.

A few yards away, Greg Nebel lay within a canvas wall tent and heard the youngster stumble past. The guide waited several minutes, listening, and then struggled out of his sleeping bag. Rubbing his arms and hunching his shoulders, he blew gusts of steam as he huffed across the matted floor. With numb fingers, he lit the propane lantern and then arranged the kindling in the wood stove. For a mo-ment, he studied his chore

and massaged his bald-head. Then he placed his match under the fire start-er and glanced at the other guide, who was peeking at him from his own snug nest.

“Are you getting up Sleeping Beauty, or do I have to kick your butt?”

“Aw, hell, now I can sleep another hour while you try to round up some help. Why don’t you get Clay to help you? I’ll give both of y’all a spanking and get y’alls’ day started right.”

Greg sniggered and fed the growing flame. The jokester yawned, lurched out of his covers, and be-gan dressing. Both men gathered their hunting gear; they wore binoculars and knives as normal ac-cessories. The inside of the tent was toasty when they stepped through the flap

into the darkness.Greg walked across the

road and knocked on a door adjacent to the *va-queros’* quarters.

“We’re up,” John Pfluger, another guide, called from inside the adobe building.

Greg trudged back to his roommate.

“Getting out of that ice-box was the best thing we ever did,” Greg said. His partner nodded.

“Yes sir, you could hang meat inside the guide’s quarters; to hell with that. Besides, the room was too small for all of us.”

Greg agreed: “Yep, I like the tent.”

The two men strode down the road toward the grand hunting lodge and *hacienda*. In the *va-queros’* doorway, the old Mexican took a break from cooking and watched the guides. Then he turned his

head and peered at the can-vas structure. He consid-ered the men. The young-er one was there when the landowner brought a wounded cougar home in the bed of his pickup; the older guide was there the day the old Mexican roped a black bear and drug it out of the feed room. Both men had helped; he nodded his approval.

The *hacienda* spread across several acres with stacked-rock walls border-ing the perimeter. A spa-cious yard with worker’s quarters and a skinning shed made up the north side. In the center, a plaza with a stone-steeple fronts the family chapel. Antique carts and flowerbeds ac-centuate the Spanish archi-tecture, and giant mesquite trees and oaks shade the grounds. From there, the estate slopes up a carpet-

grassed hill to the owner’s house. Beside the house looms the two-story lodge.

The lodge accommo-dates guests on the second floor in several spacious bedrooms. Sans air con-ditioning, large windows and the dry desert air keep folks under the covers most of the night. Down-stairs is the dining room with its heavy wooden fur-niture, pool table, and im-mense fireplace. Mounted trophy heads and steer horns as well as pictures, artwork, and bronzes add to the rich feeling of the decor. Several deep-cush-ioned couches offer a place to languish and smoke cigars while servants and guides attend to guests’ whims.

The visiting sportsmen represent a wide cross sec-tion of society, from blue-collar lot


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Gonzales Cannon General Manager Dave Mundy will speak on “Media Bias and Texas Nationalism” during the first-ever Texas Independence Conference hosted by the Texas Nationalist Movement Nov. 3.

The event will take place on Nov. 3, Stephen F. Austin’s birthday, at the Washington-

On-The-Brazos state historic park, the home of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Registration is open to the public for the event. Space is limited, and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Those wishing to regis-ter can sign up at the THM website at http://www.texas-nationalist.com/index.php/

conference.Mundy will speak on strate-

gies to overcome bias by local and mainstream news media in spreading the message of Texas independence.

Mundy is the Gonzales County Coordinator for the Texas Nationalist Move-ment. A 35-year veteran of the newspaper business, he has written for papers in Deer Park, Pasadena, La Porte, Houston, Rosenberg, Lub-bock, Katy and Orange as well

as for military publications such as Okinawa Marine, the Camp Lejeune Globe and Stars and Stripes during six years of service in the U.S. Ma-rine Corps. He won the 1998 National Newspaper Associa-tion award for Best Coverage of Education as well as a Jim Lehrer Award for fairness in journalism and is the author of two books: “DUH! Texas, a Case Study in Educational Takeover (1998)” and “Dances with Chihuahuas” (2011).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt never denied that he created Social Security. Lyndon Baines Johnson didn’t forswear any responsibility for Medicaid. Ron-ald Reagan never argued that his de-fense buildup didn’t happen.

The Obama White House, in con-trast, wants to wish away the historic federal spending that is one of its sig-nature accomplishments.

White House press secretary Jay Car-ney has urged reporters to steer clear of “the BS that you hear about spend-ing and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration.” Not one to be out-classed by his press secretary, President Barack Obama kept up the edifying livestock theme by calling Mitt Rom-ney’s attacks on his deficit spending “a cow pie of distortion.”

The White House has a deeply con-flicted relationship to its own record. It is saddled with a bad case of spender’s denial, a rare psychological disorder afflicting committed Keynesians facing re-election at a time of record debt.

On the one hand, spending is the lifeblood of “Forward.” It saved us from another Great Depression. It is forging a glorious new future of green energy. It is the only thing standing between the American public and the untold devastation of the Paul Ryan budget. How do we know? Because President Obama says so.

On the other hand, the deficits and the debt that come with all this spend-ing are alarming and unpopular. So Obama calls himself the most fiscally conservative president in more than half a century. When the president isn’t extolling his transformative expendi-tures, he has a Walter Mitty life as the second coming of Dwight Eisenhower. He needs to consult an accountant and a therapist, and not necessarily in that order.

Andrew Taylor of The Associated Press writes that “Obama bears the chief responsibility for an 11 percent, $59 billion increase in non-defense spending in 2009. Then there’s a 9

percent, $109 billion increase in com-bined defense and non-defense ap-propriated outlays in 2010, a year for which Obama is wholly responsible.” Spending growth slowed after that, un-der the influence of the very same con-gressional Republicans that President Obama excoriates for not allowing him to spend more.

There’s no doubt that the president inherited a fiscal nightmare. Spend-ing spiked as the economy tanked. His response has been to spend yet more every single year. As a percentage of GDP, spending has been at post-World War II highs throughout his term. If fiscal probity is truly his aim, President Obama is a miserable failure of a skin-flint.

The laughable claim to fiscal restraint is meant to recapture some of Obama’s former ideological indistinctness. Back in 2008, he could say that he wanted a net cut in federal spending, in his guise as a post-partisan pragmatist. That was several $1 trillion deficits ago. Now, the president can say whatever he wants, but his budgets are a matter of public record.

He should embrace those budgets in all their Keynesian majesty. They are one of his most consequential contri-butions to our national life, and a true expression of his philosophical core and that of his party. In his tawdry denials, the president almost acts as if $5.5 trillion in new debt is something to be ashamed of.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

(c) 2012 by King Features Synd., Inc.

Why are the candidateshiding voting records?


In Our ViewTexas Solution: it ain’t perfect, but it’s a start

El Conservador

George Rodriguez is a San Antonio resident. He is the former President of the San Antonio Tea Party, and is now Executive Director of the South Texas Political Alliance. He is a former official in the U.S. Justice Dept. during the Reagan Administration.

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Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review and a syndicated columnist for King Fea-tures Syndicate.

Spending? What spending?

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One of the planks of the plat-form adopted by the Republican Party at last week’s national con-vention was taken from the plat-form adopted by Texas Republi-cans a few weeks earlier — part of the “Texas Solution” to resolving the illegal-immigration debate.

A lot of Republicans and con-servatives reject the “Texas Solu-tion” for its major flaw: it fails to provide for the immediate mas-sive deportation of illegal aliens. What those folks fail to see, how-ever, is the giant step forward the Texas Solution offers to end the invasion of our country.

The Texas Solution proposes the establishment of a guest-worker program — something which has been talked about for years, but never before formally defined. It has its drawbacks, es-pecially for stand-our-ground “Amnesty Never” folks like my-self — but even we have to admit, it’s a step forward and far better than anything the Other Side has proposed.

Under the guest worker pro-gram outlined in the GOP plat-form, this would create a tem-

porary worker program to bring skilled and unskilled workers into the United States for tempo-rary periods of time when no U.S. workers are currently available. Some key points:

• It would fund itself through participation fees (licenses) and fines;

• Applicants must pass a full criminal background check;

• Applicants with prior im-migration violations would only qualify for the program if they paid the appropriate fines;

• Applicants and/or employers must prove that they can afford and/or secure private health in-surance;

• Applicants must waive any and all rights to apply for finan-

cial assistance from any public entitlement programs;

• Applicant must show a pro-ficiency in the English language and complete an American civic class;

• Temporary workers would only be able to work for employ-ers that deduct and match payroll taxes;

• All participants would be is-sued an individual Temporary-Worker Biometric Identifica-tion Card that tracks all address changes and both civil and crimi-nal court appearances as a defen-dant.

As detailed, the program would take care of the most pressing concerns with about half our illegal alien problem. It recognizes that most of those who cross the border to enter our country illegally are not “im-migrants” — they have no inten-tion of staying here permanently, they’re just here for the money;

Importantly, it would slow down the flow of “free stuff ” — free government handouts — that is such a lure to many il-legal aliens. Those who employ

the guest workers must be able to ensure those workers can af-ford the most expensive of those social programs, health care, the abuse of which is currently suck-ing our nation dry.

It also puts an onus on those employing these guest workers: no more showing up with your pickup at Home Depot at 7 a.m., loading 10 guys in the bed, pay-ing them cash and dropping them off at 5 p.m. Do so and you are an instant target for immi-gration enforcement (which you should be already, but that’s an-other column).

Most importantly, this pro-gram would begin cutting down on the skyrocketing number of criminals — some estimates say up to 35 percent of illegal aliens making their way across the bor-der now have felony records. What the background checks wouldn’t catch would be caught by the biometric ID cards as they are brought to the attention of law enforcement.

The requirement for English proficiency and American civ-ics actually seems superfluous

for temporary guest workers, although no doubt it rests well with the English-only crowd.

A guest worker plan would by no means solve the problem of illegal immigration. Our en-tire set of immigration regula-tions needs to be re-worked and streamlined to eliminate the massive cost and red tape to prompt so many of those who DO want to become U.S. citizens to choose to take the legal immi-gration route rather than risking being smuggled across the bor-der.

And we also need to either amend or replace the 14th Amendment to specifically ex-clude the notion of “birthright citizenship,” to specify that only those born to citizens can be citi-zens.

It’s not a perfect plan, by any means. But it’s a better plan than that currently being enforced by the current administration, which is in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s instruction to the federal government to defend our borders against foreign inva-sion.

Why are some liberal candidates hiding their records this election season? They seem to be avoiding a public stand on certain issues, and/or tying themselves to President Obama and his policies.

Take for example state representa-tive Ryan Guillen (D-Dist.31) from Rio Grande City, and state senator Juan Hino-josa (D-S20) from McAllen. Both Guillen and Hinojosa represent the Eagle Ford area of Texas, yet their voting records re-flect an anti-energy attitude. Guillen had legislative ratings of 92% in 2009 and 73% in 2011 from the Sierra Club. Hinojosa had ratings in of 100% from the Sierra Club in 2009, and 86% for a “Lifetime” score in 2011 from the Environment Tex-as.

They don’t mention their ties to anti-energy groups like the Sierra Club nor do they say anything about the Democratic Party’s and Obama’s green agenda.

Republican Ann Matthews of San An-tonio is challenging Guillen, and she has stated clearly that she supports the energy industry in south Texas because it brings jobs and economic growth to south Texas. Likewise, Raul Torres, a Republican from Corpus Christi, has taken a pro-energy position as the best solution to the re-gion’s unemployment problems and the nation’s energy independence.

Another example is state senator Pete Gallego, a Democrat from Alpine, who is running against U.S. Congressman Quico Canseco. Gallego got a 100% from the Texas Sierra Club in 2009 and 2011. He also was rated at 20% on social issues, personal liberties, and property rights the by Libertarian Party during the same pe-riod.

Then there is state representative Joa-quin Castro (D-San Antonio) who is running for the 20th U.S. Congressional seat vacated by Charles Gonzalez of San

Antonio. He received 100% rating from NARAL and the Sierra Club in 2009 and 2011, but he keeps a low profile on that record.

While a majority of Texans supported the voter identification law and reduced state spending, Guillen, Hinojosa, Castro, and Gallego all opposed those bills. They also opposed the redistricting and the Sanctuary Cities, and they refused to sign the “Tax Payer Protection” pledge spon-sored by Empower Texans.

When will these liberals owned up to their voting records? Guillen, Hinojosa, Castro, and Gallego have liberal voting records which are pro-abortion, spend-and-tax, and anti-energy business. They also seem to be keeping a distance from Obama.

The voters deserve to know who they are electing. These liberals may want to keep a low-profile on their record, but isn’t that deceiving the voters?

The beliefs and positions of these four liberal candidates, Guillen, Hinojosa, Castro, and Gallego should be brought out into the light of day for all to exam-ine and view. Why are they hiding their record?

They should be honest and tell the vot-ers the truth about how they have voted in the past and what they really believe.


In Your View

False expectations can lead us to wrong judgementsLove, Eloise

EloiseEstes

We assume that our meaning will be under-stood when we explain something to someone—especially when that per-son knows us well.

We presume that our motives will not be ques-tioned by people who have seen us consistently trying to do what is right.

We expect people to keep the promises they have made.

We expect that our loved ones know us well enough not to misunderstand and misjudge us.

We are certain that peo-ple love us as much as we love them.

We are certain that those closest to us will never do anything to hurt us.

We expect that people who say they love us will do what is right at all times.

In a perfect world these things would be true. But, we do not live in a perfect world. And people are not perfect. Character flaws are a part of every member of the human race.

No matter how old we may be there is something in us that keeps us from completely growing up. This is because not ev-eryone has the ability to be absolutely honest with themselves. How many

people do you know who can reel in their emo-tions when someone says something to stir them up? Can you? How many of us can step away from a situation and be objective about something that rubs one of our tender areas the wrong way? I venture to say that when someone hits our automatic trig-ger it shoots off our emo-tions - and our mouths. To overcome this natural tendency we must do what comes unnaturally.

We must keep in mind that our primary goal in life is to please God. That means turning our full attention away from our-selves. We have to disci-pline ourselves to think of others first. Loving others as we love ourselves is a command. It is not a re-quest. Loving people who choose to be unlovable is a painstaking effort that is easier when we can train ourselves to look forward to our ultimate goal --to live for the will of God.

When we act out of love

for God in all we do then everything is bearable. If we do something good because we are expecting people to appreciate us, to think highly of us, or we do things for others be-cause we are trying to earn their love, we will always be riding the wave of our fluctuating feelings. But if we are motivated by doing what is right, and keep our minds focused on pleasing only God in all we do, we will never be disappoint-ed.

False expectations are a major cause of the disap-pointment, frustration, anger and depression we all experience. The fact that you wouldn’t break a promise doesn’t mean someone else won’t. Just because you wouldn’t lie, steal or cheat doesn’t mean others don’t.

Understanding these simple truths will…

• Keep us from having false expectations of our-selves and of others.

• Free us from the frus-tration and anger which comes from trying to force people into behaving a certain way.

• Help us face our short-comings and give us the wisdom to fix them.

• Help us to be less judg-mental and critical of oth-

ers.• Help us to consider

someone else’s opinion.• Help us to forgive oth-

ers.• Help us to forgive our-

selves.Don’t give in to the way

you used to act before you knew Christ. Train your mind to control your emotions. Begin to look at others through the eyes of the Spirit that’s within you. Glorify God by the good you do for others, so that God can bless your efforts. Get rid of malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slan-der of every kind, and imi-tate Christ. He acted out of love and compassion for

everyone in spite of what they said or did to Him. We are commanded to do the same.

True love is often in-convenient. It puts our wants and needs on hold so that we may cater first. Love bleeds as it bandages someone else’s wound. Love listens and waits to be heard. Love reaches out in sympathy and com-forts those in need, while its own heart is breaking. Love overlooks the weak-nesses in others that cause them to hurt us.

More importantly…love enables us to forgive.

We are all ‘works in progress’. There is not

one person alive who is - or ever will be - perfect. Quite frankly, we expect too much out of people. And, quite frankly, some of us expect too much out of ourselves.

We all slip up. If you do something wrong, don’t beat yourself up. Forgive yourself. When someone hurts or wrongs you, for-give their “human-ness.” Let’s just keep trying to be the best versions of our-selves that we can be.

Let’s give each other a break, pray for one anoth-er…. and just try our best to get along.

love, Eloisewww.loveeloise.net

Sometimes it seems the public back home doesn’t think about those serving very much.

The war in Afghani-stan has stretched on for over a decade. It has become our longest war and the end is not really

in sight. Yes, I know the timeline for the draw-down. The timeframe is the end of 2014, and we will be finished with combat operations. Sup-port functions will con-tinue. It is simply a name change to shift a combat operation into a support role.

Do I have any insider information? No, but, I am not naive enough to think that in December 2014 we will be done. Did you know the U.S. has signed an agreement that will insure U.S. mili-tary presence in Afghan-istan for at least another 10 years? The level of troops that will remain is said to be between 25 to 30 thousand. Who are these 25 to 30 thou-sand people? They are your sons and daughters. They are your parents, your grandchildren and they all volunteered to do it.

Did you know that less than 2% of the U.S. population serves in the military? Less than 2% raise their hands and say when asked by a some-times forgetful nation, “Here I am, Send me.”

Yes this has been a long war. It has not been a flashy “Shock and Awe”

war. This battle in Af-ghanistan is fought by faceless enemies who choose mainly to fight remotely. They would rather plant a roadside bomb that will kill any-one that comes along, soldiers and civilians alike. In a face to face fight they do not prevail. In fact, no enemy that chooses to fight the U.S. face to face prevails. In that type of a fight, there are none better than our folks.

This war is costly. On average, we lose one sol-dier a day over here. In past wars much larger numbers were lost and those loses were seldom even mentioned. Think of the battle in the Viet-nam War where many soldiers were lost that didn’t make the news. Now, unless you happen to be watching Armed Forces TV, the losses here are not normally even mentioned. I’ve written before about the “Fallen Hero” ceremo-nies that I’ve attended. They are pretty regular here. I know every time the Medevac helos come in something went bad somewhere. They do a great job and risk every-thing to save a life.

Over here there are all types. There are Re-servists, Active Duty, National Guard, and Ci-vilians all serving. All raised their hand. I know some may say it’s just a job, but how many jobs include leaving home, family, friends and con-tending with heat, cold, bombs, gunfights, and a population that you can’t understand and normal-ly don’t trust? Just think about working in an en-vironment where your security personnel are all armed and from one mo-ment to the next you are not sure whose side they are on. That type of nec-essary situational aware-ness (SA in army speak) wears on the nerves after a while.

Very soon the press and the public will put this war on the shelf. After all, we are end-ing combat operations right? As we draw-down, fewer and fewer soldiers will be here to man the bases and to conduct all the missions that are part of that draw-down. For those of us here dur-ing the reduction of U.S. force size, the situation will be much more dan-gerous than it is now. Before where a platoon of 30 or 40 U.S. soldiers went out on patrol with the Afghans, the U.S. numbers will be very few. This will, in my opinion as well as oth-ers that study this stuff, be a very volatile and as far as the enemy goes, a very active time. In fact that may have already started.

I was searching the mail facility with my dog, Jack, yesterday when I heard a buzzing sound and then the very loud crack of an explosion. The rocket went overhead and im-pacted close enough for

me to feel the concus-sion and shake things all around where I was. OP-SEC precludes mention-ing where it hit, but I was a lot closer than I wanted to be.

What I want to get across is this. Don’t for-get about the people serving over here. Thank them when you see them. Think about the sacrifices they make. As you worry about your schedule or who is going to take the kids to football practice or what’s on TV tonight, remember we are con-cerned with our own little things. Things like where the closest bunker is for incoming attacks, where the extra ammo is, where all our people are when something does go south. Our problems are just a little different, that’s all.

Yes problems here are exasperated by the loca-tion and the way things are. One example was the company truck. I have a SUV assigned to me and it lost a lower front ball joint a month ago. It has been sitting on the side of the

road until today. It took a month to get the Afghan mechanic to come fix it. Holy month of Ramadan you know. That ended for us with the rocket attack I mentioned earlier.

The first mechanic they sent was 12 years old. He did not even get on the FOB. The next guy came with a crescent wrench and a hammer. I was amazed to watch this guy replace the lower ball joint on this truck while sitting on the ground in the rocks. It took him a month to show up and less than an hour to fix it. He had brought the part with him and the truck was quickly back in oper-ation. I’m still shaking my head over that one.

Yep, the holy month of Ramadan is certainly over. Last night, our fuel depot blew up and burned. The FOB loudspeakers alerted everyone through an-nouncements and coded directives to certain sec-tions and units. Pretty sleepless night to say the least. To the credit of the servicemen though, no

injuries and the fuel point was back in “limited” op-eration by morning.

There is a slogan you see painted on several of the barriers here. “The difficult done immediate-ly. The impossible done by appointment.” That slogan fits better than most know.

On a happier note, I’ll be coming home in Sep-tember for annual leave. During that time the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce has arranged a presentation of a cou-ple special things I have brought with me. I’ll be presenting them to Gon-zales at a Commissioner’s Court meeting I believe. Then, after reacquainting myself with my family and getting my Mexican food fix at Mr. Taco, I’ll be once again heading back to the place we call the Armpit of the World. You know it as Afghanistan.

Keeping one eye on the door to the bunker and one eye to the sky, I’m Jon Harris and this has been a Dispatch from Downrange.

Hey, remember us? Don’t forget our troops

Jon Harris (far right) and his partner, Jack, are shown in this photo with members of the Afghan Security Team. (Courtesy photo)

Jon Harris

Jon Harris is an Army retiree, re-serve City of Gonzales policeman and former deputy constable who is currently serving as a civilian mili-tary dog handler in Afghanistan.

Dispatches fromDownrange


NOTICE

OF TAX REVENUE INCREASE

The COUNTY OF GONZALES conducted public hearings on August 27, 2012 and September 4, 2012 on a proposal to increase the total tax revenues of the COUNTY OF GONZALES from properties on the tax roll in the preceding year by 8.49 percent.

The total tax revenue proposed to be raised last year at last year's tax rate of $0.6268 for each $100 of taxable value was $6,050,944.

The total tax revenue proposed to be raised this year at the proposed tax rate of $0.3554 for each $100 of taxable value, excluding tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year, is $6,551,633.

The total tax revenue proposed to be raised this year at the proposed tax rate of $0.3554 for each $100 of taxable value, including tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year, is $6,600,028.

The GONZALES COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT of COUNTY OF GONZALES is scheduled to vote on the tax rate that will result in that tax increase at a public meeting to be held on September 17, 2012 at Commissioners Courtroom, 1ST Floor, Gonzales County Courthouse, 414 ST. Joseph St. Gonzales at 09:00 AM.

Community CalendarE-Mail Your local information to: [email protected]

National Night OutA National Night Out celebration will

be held for the communities of McMahan, Elm Grove and Tilman at the McMahan Women’s Club on Tuesday, Oct. 2. from 7-9 p.m.

Sheriff ’s deputies will be present for question-and-answer and there will be door prizes. Caldwell County Sheriff Dan-iel Law will be passing through to all the Night Out Celebrations in the area.

Your National Night Out is one of many ways to meet and get to know your neighbors. Other ways available to us are through the volunteer fire department, the neighborhood watch meetings, and the McMahan’s Women’s Club activities.

Tea, water and coffee will be provided, but attendees are asked to bring finger foods. Door prizes will also be offered.

For more information, contact Phyllis Fischer at 512-644-5927.

Retired TeachersGonzales County Retired Teachers Asso-

ciation will meet at noon September 17 at Café On The Square. All education related persons are urged to call Ann Laster (672-7609 or Pat Cochran (672-4789) for more information.

Helping HandsIf you are in need of a meal, Helping

Hands, a non-profit, multi-church ministry would like to bless you with a free lunch. Meals will be distributed Saturday, Sep-tember 8th, beginning at 11 a.m. in the GCAM parking lot located at 708 St. Louis Street. Volunteers and donations are wel-come. Contact Linda at 361-275-1216.

The BriefcaseAll Ladies Are Invited, Tuesday, Septem-

ber 11, 12:05-12:55 p.m. Merritt Johnston will present the program Re: generation discussing relationships between women of different generations. Join us in the Fel-lowship Hall for our first meeting of the year. This will be a salad luncheon. Chicken and ham salads, pimiento cheese, crack-ers and drinks will be provided. Bring your favorite salad and a friend and come for a time of fun, food and fellowship. Childcare is available on request. Call the church of-fice at 672-9595.

Driver’s Ed GroupA parent-student Driver’s Ed study

group will start meeting at the Gonzales Learning and Career Center on Monday, Sept. 10.

This course is for high school students aged 14-17, and will meet Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7:30 p.m. for four weeks, from Sept. 10 thru Oct. 3.

We’ll be using course materials ap-proved by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

For more information, call 830-672-8291.

Key to the CityGonzales mayor Bobby Logan will pres-

ent a Gold Key from the City of Gonzales to Karen Thompson, President General of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) Sept. 13.

The presentation, which marks the first time Mayor Logan has presented a Gold Key, will take place at 3:30 p.m. at the J.B. Wells House.

At 4 p.m. on the same day, Thompson will cut the ribbon on the Historic Research Center at the Riverside Campus, which is sponsored by the DRT and maintained by the City of Gonzales.

Flu ShotsGonzales Healthcare Systems will ad-

minister flu shots at Country Village Square Apartments on Tuesday, Sept. 11 from 9-10:30 a.m.

Flu shots are free to Medicare recipients and $25 for others. You must have your Medicare card with you.

To RSVP, please call 830-672-4429 by Monday, Sept. 10.

Farm Bureau MeetingAnnual Meeting of the Gonzales Coun-

ty Farm Bureau will be held on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 12 noon at the First Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall in Gonzales. All Farm Bureau members are encouraged to attend. A chicken fried steak meal will be served followed by the business meeting and a program. Please RSVP by calling 672-7518.

Judges NeededFirst Shot Cook Off is right around the

corner Sept. 14, 15 & 16 and is in need of judges if you are interested in being one for any or all categories please contact Shirley Breitschopf at 830-857-4142 or Sissy Mills at 830-263-0335. Also, if you have not gotten a hook up for these days call 830-263-0335. Please join us for good food, fun and company.

Half-Moon 4-HAny Shiner youngsters interested in live-

stock judging are invited to join the Half-Moon 4-H group, which meets at 7:40 p.m. Sept. 10 at the United Lutheran Church in Shiner. For details, call 361-741-8804.

Caraway CemeteryThe Caraway Cemetery Association will

hold its annual meeting Saturday, Sept. 8. Business meeting begins at 10 a.m. For de-tails on location, contact Vera Caraway at 830-437-2869 or Diane Ritchie at 830-582-1007.

Head StartTMC Golden Crescent Head Start offers

pre-school services to children ages 3-5 years, includeing education, nutrition, dental, social, disability, health and men-tal health. Gonzales Head Start is now ac-cepting applications at the Gonzales Head Start Centers at 1600 Elm Street or 925 Wells Street. For information call 361-582-4441.

To apply for head Start, you will need a copy pof the child’s Birth Certificate, proof of income, proof of address and a current immunization record.

SCV to meetThe Sons of Confederate Veterans, Texas

Bonnie Blue Camp #869 and Col. Gustav-Hoffmann Camp #1838 will be honoring the soldiers who fought in the War Be-tween The States at the Harwood Cem-etery, located at South 2nd Street in Har-wood.

This memorial will be on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 2 p.m. All participants will be in pe-riod clothing. I need to hear from families who have Civil War soldiers buried there.

Both Confederate and Union will be honored.

For more information, contact Linda Miller at 210-420-5461.

Delhi VFDThe Delhi Volunteer Fire Department is

having their 3rd annual Gun Drawing and Chili Supper on October 27. To purchase your ticket for a chance to win 9 differ-ent guns contact a Delhi Fire department member or call 830-263-1555. We hope you will join us at the Chili cook-off & sup-per from 4-6pm on October 27th.

Victoria Master GardenersVictoria County Master Gardener Asso-

ciation. Fall Plant Sale. Saturday, Septem-ber 8, 2012, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. or until sold out. Veg Pavilion, 283 Bachelor Drive, Vic-toria Regional Airport across from tower. While you are there enjoy a stroll through the Victoria Educational Gardens. Don’t miss out on your chance to get some great plants at great prices! Flowers, Shrubs, Vegetables, Citrus, Orchids, Bulbs, Water Lilies, Seeds and more! Special Event. Gen-tly used garden art and supplies for sale. Recycled Pots, Garden Art, Birdhouses, Hats and other stuff.

Master GardenersGonzales Master Gardeners. “Come

Grow With Us.” Become a Master Gardener. New class starts September 11, 2012. Con-tact Alan Marek at 830-857-5820 or Texas AgriLife Extension Office at 830-672-8531. http://gonzales.agrilife.org.

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family Violence

Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit organi-zation providing services to both residents and non-residents that are victims of do-mestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

GVFVS provides survivors with legal ad-vocacy, case management, counseling, as-sistance with crime victims compensation and other services at no cost. For more information, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.

Toastmasters meetCome and Speak It Toastmasters Club

meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, from 12-1 p.m. at the Gonza-les County Farm Bureau Community Room, located at 1731 Seydler Street.

The Toastmasters environment is friend-ly and supportive whether you are a pro-fessional, student, stay-at-home parent or retiree, Toastmasters can give you the skills and confidence you need to express yourself in any situation.

For more information contact Club President GK Willmann at 830-857-1109 or send email to [email protected], or Gerri Lawing at 830-857-1207 or [email protected].

Parkinson Support GroupThis group meets the second Thursday of

every month at 10 a.m. in the Narthex of the First United Methodist Church. This meeting is free and open to the public and is facili-tated by Wesley Nurse, Shirley Goss. Educa-tional and supportive programs are offered. For more information, call 672-1031.

Free Exercise ProgramsFlex & Tone is held every Tuesday and Thurs-

day, 11-11:45 in the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church. These are chair ex-ercises using exercise balls, dowels and hand weights. Come on, join us, and get fit. Exercises are led by an RN with blood pressure assess-ments available.

Walk-Exercise your way to fitness is an Video exercise available at First United Methodist Church. It is offered every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 3 pm, and every Wednesday at 2 pm. This group meets for 45 minutes in the Fellowship Hall. It consists of low impact aerobic exercises and is facilitated by Shirley Goss, Wesley Nurse. Blood pressure assess-ments are available at each class. Come and have great fun and socialization along with gaining fitness.

American LegionThe Gonzales American Legion Auxiliary will meet on Thursday, September 6th at 6

p.m. at the Legion Hall. Girls State Delegates will give their reports along with Boys State Delegates and a pizza supper will be served. All members are urged to attend as an ex-tremely important meeting will immediately follow. A decision will have to be made as to the future of the local organization. Will it continue under new leadership or disband? Your attendance and interest will determine the outcome.

Lavaca Co. RepublicansThe Organizational Meeting of the Lavaca County Republican Party is scheduled for

7pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at the Hallettsville Chamber of Commerce. The agenda will include the swearing-in of new office holders by our County Judge Tramer Woytek. The public is welcome and invited.

Gonzales Livestock ShowTo be eligible for the GLS, all exhibitors must be members of Gonzales 4-H or FFA prior

to November 1.Also, exhibitors and a parent/guardian must attend one drug residue avoidance class.

Classes will be held at Gonzales High School cafeteria on Tuesday, October 23rd at 6:30 p.m., Monday November 26th at 6:30 pm and Saturday, January 5th at 9:00 a.m.

Steer Validation is Wednesday, September 19th at Guadalupe Valley Vet from 5-7 p.m.You may also stay updated by visiting the new Gonzales Livestock Show Association

Facebook page.Show rules may be picked up at County Agent’s Office.


Belmont Volunteer Fire DepartmentAnnual BBQ – Auction

Sat., Sept. 15 Meal 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

$8.00 plate

Live Music by: Kerr Creek Band

Live Auction 6:45 pm

Silent Auction (ends 15 min. after

live auction)

Tickets available from any Belmont Volunteer Fire Department

Personnel

Drawing for a 4 Wheeler and

Guns(to be held after

Auctions)

Louisa Jones Vargas,1920-2012

VARGASLouisa Jones Vargas, 91 of

Waelder, passed away Thurs-day, August 30 at her home. She was born September 17, 1920 in Yorktown, the daughter of Rafael and Je-susa Bottello Jones.

She married John P. Var-gas in 1943 in Gonzales. She was a homemaker and a member of the Bautista Me-morial Church in Waelder. She was a very devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great grandmother.

She is survived by her daughters, Vicenta V. Del-gado and husband Joe of Waelder, Viola V. Escareno and husband Mario of Katy, Oralia V. Almaraz and hus-band Rudy of Houston, Sally V. Sanchez and husband Carlos of Katy, Mary Lou V. Munoz and husband Nick of Houston and Rachel V. Mar-tinez and husband Frank of

Katy; sons, Dimas Vargas and wife Mary of Houston and John Vargas and wife Liz of Hutto; and daughter-in-laws, Polly Vargas of Katy, Teresa Vargas of San Anto-nio and Martha Eureste of Waelder. Also surviving are 38 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband John, daughter Mary Lou Vargas, sons Abel and Joe Vargas and Daniel Eureste; sisters: Elaiza J. Hernandez, Benita J.Garcia, Anita J. Fer-nandez and Beatrice J. Tovar and brothers: Julio, Federico and Arthur Jones.

Funeral services were held Monday, September 3 at the First Baptist Church in Waelder with Reverend Orlando Pena officiating. Burial followed at the Bau-tista Memorial Cemetery in Waelder.

Pallbearers included Ed-ward Delgado, Felipe Mar-tinez, Michael David Escare-no, Nick Munoz III, Orlando Vargas and Ray Eureste.

Louisa’s family would like to thank Dr. Vaz and his staff and the nurses with Accolade Hospice for their wonderful care and love. Ar-rangements under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home 906 St. Paul, Gonzales Texas, 830-672-3232.

William Kenneth “Butch” Vaughan, 1948-2012

VAUGHANWilliam Kenneth “Butch”

Vaughan, 64, passed away Monday, September 3. He was born February 15, 1948 in Gonzales to William H. and Lena Rose Tieken Vaughan.

Butch graduated from Gonzales High School with the class of 1966. He went to work for GVTC and later DuPont Chemical as a crane operator in 1968. After 25 years of dedicated service, Butch retired from DuPont in 1993. On April 16, 2011 Butch re-married Marilyn Ruth Gibson in Gonzales.

Butch loved to work out in the pasture, tending to the cattle, baling hay, and fixing fence. He enjoyed hunting deer, sika, hogs, squirrel and raccoons. He relished the quiet of fishing. Butch took great pride in teaching his son, Kenneth, to hunt and fish made certain each of his daughters could bait their own hook.

He made sure that his children knew the basics of automotive repair and main-tenance. He was an excellent story teller and he endeared himself to his grandchildren with fantastic stories of his yesteryears. He shared his hunting knowledge with his grandchildren and how

“catch and release” didn’t just apply to fishing. His grand-children idolized him and of course, his love for them was beyond measure as well.

Butch could be stubborn, set in his ways, impatient at times, but he was always generous, loving, and a good hearted loving husband and adoring father and Paw-Paw. He loved his dogs, two of them named “Maggie May” after one of his favor-ite songs, and he took his dog with him everywhere. A typical day for William Kenneth “Butch” Vaughan, began with a cup of “Start Me up” as he’d load “Maggie May” into the pick-up and head to the pasture where he was a “Free Bird” and he could “Take it to the Limit” one more time.

Butch is survived by his wife, Marilyn Vaughan of New Berlin; mother, Lena Rose Vaughan of Gonzales; daughters and sons-in-law, Jean Ann and Todd Grubb of New Berlin, Debra Renee and Jake Mueller of Seguin, and Tracie Leigh Anne Chenall of Baytown; son and daughter-in-law, Ken-neth Wayne and Barbara Vaughan of Cove; brother and sister-in-law, David “Rusty” Vaughan and wife Debbie of Livingston; fa-ther-in-law, Carol Gibson of Gonzales; and his grandchil-dren, Trace Lippard, Mary, Dennis, and Shaylee Grubb, Brenna, Kenlee, and Brenton Vaughan and Xavier Deakle and numerous nieces. He was preceded in death by his father; grandparents, Fletch-er and Dollie Vaughan and Otto and Annie Tieken; and his mother-in-law, Mary Ella Gibson.

Funeral services will be held Friday September 7 at 10 a.m. in Seydler-Hill Fu-

neral Home. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m.

In lieu of usual remem-brances, memorials may be made to the Methodist Spe-cialty and Transplant Hos-pital, c/o Liver Transplant, 8026 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229 or the charity of one’s choice. Ar-rangements are under the care and direction of Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home.

Helen Louise Maulding, 1932-2012

MAULDINGHelen Louise Mauld-

ing, 79, passed away Fri-day, August 24. She was born December 20, 1932 in Longview, Texas to Roy Wil-liam and Bessie Mae Turner Bowman.

She married Harmon Lee Maulding on September 11, 1959 in Donna.

Louise as she commonly known, worked at theaters in the early years of her life and later as the store keeper for Maulding Country Store. She was an animal lover and adored her many cats and dogs. She enjoyed dancing, playing games in the casinos, scratch-off tickets and play-ing card games. She would often pass the time working on crossword puzzles, oil

paintings and playing domi-noes. Her favorite colors were purple and turquoise.

Louise was a “laid back” mom; she passionately loved her family and enjoyed holi-days when she could cook delicious meals for her fam-ily. Her great-grandchildren remember her famous “circle sandwiches” and the balance of the family longs for her smothered steak and banana pudding. Louise was a wonderful woman, proud of her Indian heritage and proud of her family.

Helen Louise Maulding is survived by her daugh-ter and son-in-law, Eugenia (Jeannie) A. Lewis and hus-band Benny of Gonzales; sons and daughter-in-laws, Larry Wayne and Sally Maulding of Gonzales, and Roy Lee and Corette Mauld-ing of Fischer; sister-in-law, Tommie Bowman; grand-children, Bruce Maulding, Lori Herries, Michael Lewis, Michele Faith, and Kirsten Maulding; and great-grand-children, Alyssa Faith, Tea-gan Faith and Matthew Her-ries.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; granddaughter, Stephanie Ann Maulding; sisters, Nel-lie Cox, Rosie Duncan, Betty Hanzel, Margaret Jones, and Leona Johnson; and broth-ers, Elmer Bowman, Claude Bowman, Floyd Bowman and Bill Bowman.

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 in the Gonzales Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers include: Bruce Maulding, Michael Lewis, Steve Herries and Matthew Herries.

Memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Obituaries

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Separate sealed bids addressed to the City of Gonzales (OWNER) clearly labeled “IMPROVEMENTS TO MIDDLE BUSTER ROAD AND HARBORTH STREET, ATTN:CITY SECRETARY” will be received at Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Texas 78629, until 2:00 o’clock p.m. on Thursday, September 13, 2012, and then publicly opened and read aloud immediately.

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Each bid shall be accompanied by a cashier’s check or certified check upon a national or state bank in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the total actual bid price payable without recourse to the City of Gonzales, or a bid bond in the same amount from a reliable surety company as a guarantee that the bidder will enter into a contract and execute required performance and payment bonds.

The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder; however, the right is reserved, as the interests of the OWNER may require, to reject any and all bids, and to waive any informality or minor defects in bids received. Bids may be held by the OWNER for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days from the date of the opening for Bids for the purpose of reviewing the Bids and investigating the qualifications of Bidders, prior to awarding of the Contract.

There will not be a pre-bid conference. Contractors shall make their own individual site inspections and/or investigations to make themselves aware of existing conditions/issues. Failure to make adequate observations, investigations and/or ask questions prior to bidding shall not be grounds for requesting additional work or services. Questions shall be forwarded to J. Keith Schauer, P.E., 427 St. George Street, Suite 304, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-1205, by 5:00 o’clock Monday, September 10, 2012.


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If the grocery carts were any sign of the celebrations that were to be going on for Labor Day, then there was going to be a lot of BBQ’s with pits full of brisket, hot dogs, hamburgers and all the trimmings to go along with it. Our holiday is gone, and you kids had better buckle down and be ready for studying.

You had better keep those grades up because that football team was doing some really fantastic play-ing on Friday night. I don’t think that Victoria East was quite ready for the Gonzales Apaches. Go Apaches! This next week they play Bas-trop.

On the Apache Band Booster Facebook page it says that on Thursday, Sept.

6th, there will be a scrim-mage and that at 5PM the Concession Stand is open with the Flutes, Clarinets and Flags working. They still need workers and can call Granella at 210-573-6342. Go look on Facebook because there is a really nice picture of the band out on the football field at half-time during the football game.

The fifth Sunday at BUMC is Celebration/Song Service—A delicious

breakfast starting 8:15am on every fifth Sunday. Mark your calendar for Septem-ber 30th.

September 9th is Grand-parents Day. Hug your grandparents and those who you claim as grand-parents. Make their day special. They will give their love back a hundred fold. At Monthalia UMC the classes are honoring their grand-parents with a breakfast at 9:15. Bring your grandchil-dren.

-September 15th—this is the third Saturday of Sep-tember-the Belmont Volun-teer Fire Department BBQ and Auction—check with Kenneth and Gail Schauer and Bob Kidd on how you can help.

Remember to circle that date of October 13th for the Leesville Country Fair.

There will be a Cluster Church Conference Sun-day, October 14th, 4pm @ Seguin.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Justin Klosel, Joe Kotwig, Alma Hastings, Paul Villa-real, Glenn Malatek, Chris-tian, Diana Garcia, Terry Bowman, Mr. Bill, Michael Barnard, Sergio Domingo Rodriguez, Jesse Esparza; Bill and Marie Lott, Doris Hewell, “Sarge” Dunkin; Louise Jones, Aunt Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Velma and Bobby Bullard; Jon Bullard and family; Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vick-

ers, Charlie, Landis, Gene Robinson, Keith Glass, Bob Young, Dorothy Cardwell, Clayton Lee, Fred Mar-tin, Timothy Black, Jack Black, Teresa Wilke, Sandi Gandre, Juanita DuBose, J.D. Fullilove, WM. Fink, Aunt Betty Gandre, Linda Nesloney, Marie Schauer, Esther Lindemann, Anna Lindemann, Noreen Soefje, Lanny Baker, Norman Wundt, Lucy Jones, Ann Bond; Case Martin, Mar-guerite Williams, Shirley Dozier, The family of Broth-er A. C. Newmann; Please pray for rain; For our mili-tary and their families, For the victims of Hurricane Isaac. So many people have once again lost all of their belongings, their homes, and will have to start their lives all over. There is so much emotional trauma involved, and you just want to hold them and cry with them. Maybe they can feel that through our prayers.

I saw Debbie from the Best Friends singing group with her grandson, Coy, in the grocery store. Coy is two years old and he is just as cute as can be. Deb-bie was keeping Coy for the weekend, and he needed to stock up on juice. It looked like they made great part-ners.

Debbie said that Best Friends had a good crowd to play to at the Belmont Social Club on Friday. We were too tired to make it Friday but went and got

some great fried mush-rooms and good BBQ on Saturday night when the Brushy Creek Boys were playing. You haven’t heard anything until they start telling the story of the old turkey hen coming up in the barnyard and disturbing the peace. I did not know that a man and a guitar could make such sounds. This next Saturday a fella by the name of Smokey Wilson is supposed to be there. He is a singer/songwriter from Cuero. You can look up his stats on Facebook. He is rather interesting.

Be careful. Will went to choir practice and there happened to be a small rattlesnake lying there on the sidewalk. Will said that he was sorry but he just had to get rid of that little snake. Then Wade Wilson lifted up a board out at the shop and there was a rattlesnake. Somehow it seems to me that they are just moving in closer to population this year.

Kay Bahlman we send you hugs and prayers and hope that you will continue to have a steady heartbeat. I don’t know why we are all getting this kind of stuff but my heart goes into what they call a “flutter”. I don’t think that it is as bad as a “fib” but neither is good.

It looks like the Bonds/Barnes Reunion was well attended from all the ve-hicles going to the Greater Palestine Baptist Church.

I am sure that they had a good time down at Garcia’s Camp.

Don’t forget that Trey Daum the son of Tommy and Ceretta Daum will be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ameri-can on Sunday, September 9th, 2012, at 3PM at Peace Lutheran Church in New Braunfels. All of the friends and family are invited to this service. The church is at 1147 S. Walnut, New Braunfels, TX (right across the street from Wal Mart, right off of IH35 going to-ward SA—use the Walnut exit)

This is what happened to my ring. One ring sets in-side the other. Samson had been pestering me during the night while I was half asleep. When I woke up, the outside setting of the ring was lying on the bed. The inside marquis ring was nowhere in sight. However, there was a whole cat claw lying there beside the other part of the ring. I shook all of the bedding out etc. and still have not found that part of my ring. I think that Samson got his claw caught between those rings and couldn’t get it undone. He was missing a claw. He actually could have tossed that other part of the ring anywhere. So I am still looking for the ring to show up some place in this bed room.

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The Kerr Creek Band will be pro-viding live entertainment and there will be plenty of food and drinks.

The fair is the annual fund raiser for the Leesville Cemetery and the area high school scholarship program.

Leesville Fair scheduled for Oct. 13

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On Sunday, Sept. 2, the 63rd Annual Thompsonville Homecoming was held at the Thompsonville Community Cen-ter with over 150 individuals in atten-dance. Many attended the Homecoming church service next door at the Thomp-sonville Community Church with Bob Burchard delivering the teaching.

This year’s Homecoming was dedi-cated to the following individuals who had passed since the last Homecoming and are buried in the Thompsonville Cemetery: Charles Owen Davis; Mar-guerite Martha Davis; Lillie LaVerne Fox; Odie Hill “Sister” McConnell; Rus-sell Gene Riley, Jr.; Thomas “Tom” Keith Robinson, Eli Stewart, and Jimmy Clyde Wallace.

Bruce Schreiner, master of ceremo-nies, introduced the officers and other members of the governing board of the Thompsonville Cemetery Association: Bruce Schreiner, President; Mark Kin-caid, Vice President; LaVerne Davis, 2nd Vice President; Carol Shea and Betty Schroeder, Secretary-Treasurer; and Dorothy Kincaid, Joyce Harris, Dwana Kincaid, Preston DuBose, and Susan Landers, members. David Allison, the Board’s maintenance trustee, was also introduced.

Dorothy Kincaid and Carol Shea have begun collecting obituaries for all in-dividuals buried in the Thompsonville Cemetery. A book containing those col-lected thus far was made available for re-view. Everyone was encouraged to assist in this project by submitting obituaries that are not contained in the book.

The Grave Locator notebook com-piled by LaVerne Davis and Betty Schro-eder was also available for review. Indi-viduals who have a concern regarding the upkeep or condition of a loved one’s grave were encouraged to notify the maintenance trustee.

The painting of the interior of the Thompsonville Community Church was recently completed and paid for entirely by earmarked donations and church rental fees. Individuals who did not attend the church service were encouraged to go and admire the work done by Landry’s Painting & Sheet Rock, Earl Landry, Jr., owner.

Individuals were encouraged to visit

and admire the cemetery. The mowing of the cemetery is done by Gator Lawn Service, Darryl Aubin, owner.

Organizations and other individu-als were also thanked for their con-tributions. A large brisket and 15 lbs. of sausage were donated by J Bar B Foods, Danny Janecka, owner. Pest eradication services were provided by Annie Oakley’s Pest Control, Sherry Hill, owner. County Commissioner Donnie Brozozowski had the right of way mowed to the cemetery. GVEC provided the raffle drum.

After everyone had enjoyed the abundant food brought by attendees, President Bruce Schreiner awarded special recognition gifts: oldest wom-an--Johnny Seitz Wiley, 99; oldest man, Hugh Carmichael, 92; youngest child--Zane Hill, 6 months, parents are Bob and Vanessa Hill; longest mar-ried couple--Gene & Maureen Cox, 59 years; most recently married couple--Jason and Stacy Fogle, less than 4 years.

The live auction was conducted by David Allison. A few of the items auc-tioned were: several post oak and ce-dar bowls crafted by Preston DuBose; a queen-sized, granny-square afghan; a king-sized quilt; a baby quilt made by Dorothy Kincaid; two crossed-stitched, patriotic-themed pillows handmade by Bonnie Hermann; a painted birdbath/planter stand crafted by Two Country Girls (LaVerne Davis & Betty Schroeder); a large wall clock with thermometer; and a large painted pitcher set with matching glasses.

The final event of the day was the raffle drawing in which individuals selected their prize from a wide vari-ety of items, some of which were: two baby quilts; a queen-sized, handmade, patchwork quilt; two loaves of home-made bread; picture frames; a chess set; a travel clock; a doll dressed as a bride; a cactus planter with a horned toad; a gardening tool set and bag; a crocheted throw; an angel garden stake; a ceramic cross; and numerous potted plants.

Available for purchase were Thomp-sonville cookbooks, history books, cemetery books, and fresh ground cornmeal.

Next year’s 64th Annual Thomp-sonville Homecoming will be held on Sunday, September 1, 2013.

The feeding begins at this year’s Thompsonville Homecoming (Courtesy Photo)

Hugh Carmi-chael, Old-est Man at 92 (above); Young-est Child, Zane Hill, & Fam-ily (above right); fun during the auction (right). (Courtesy photos)

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HOUSTON—Marathon Oil Corpora-tion (NYSE: MRO) announced this week that Gretchen H. Watkins, currently vice president of International Production Op-erations (IPO), has been appointed vice president of North America Production Operations (NAPO).

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after 30 years of service with Marathon Oil. Mitch Little, currently resident manager of Marathon’s Norway business, has been named vice president of International Pro-duction Operations. Watkins’ and Little’s appointments are effective September 1.

“We are grateful to Jim for the extraor-dinary contribution he has made to the company during his career. Jim has been a testament to Marathon’s culture and drive for operational excellence,” said Dave Rob-

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SEGUIN — Engineering firms from across the state were in Seguin this week to hear about a potential desalination plant on the Texas coast designed to provide power and water to the fast growing region.

The firms were at a pre-proposal meeting for those interested in responding to the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s request for qualifications for the selection of a consultant for a feasibility study on the project.

Described in the meet-ing at GBRA’s River An-nex, the desalination plant is envisioned as having an initial water supply capac-ity of 25 million gallons per day, 28,000 acre-feet per year, with ultimate capacity of up to 250 million gallons per day, 280,000 acre-feet per year.

The project is expected to take about 10 years to be fully implemented from feasibility to construction and startup.

The state’s population is expected to increase from

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Population of the South Central Texas region is projected to increase from 2.5 million in 2010 to 4.3 million in 2060, an increase of 75 percent.

Of the region’s popula-tion, about 70 percent of the people are expected to reside in the Guadalupe and San Antonio river ba-sins.

The region’s municipal water use is projected to in-crease from 340,000 acre-feet per year in 2000 to 640,000 acre-feet per year by 2060.

“You can’t double your population without provid-ing water and jobs for those folks,” said Jim Murphy, GBRA’s executive manager, water resources and utility operations.

He said water supply projects costing $53.1 bil-lion are included in the state’s water plan, but some of the projects will never be built.

“Most of the projects in the state water plan were there five years ago,” Mur-phy said. “Nothing has been done, but the price-

tags have increased.”Population growth and

increased demand for wa-ter also were addressed by GBRA General Manager Bill West in an article titled “Seawater Desal: A Wa-ter Solution for Texas” in the authority’s publication GBRA River Run.

“In the Guadalupe wa-tershed, we have one of the highest growth areas in the state — the I-35 and Texas 130 corridors in Comal, Hays, Caldwell and Gua-dalupe County,” West said. “I really don’t see how this area of the state is going to manage without a substan-tial source of new water in the next 10 to 20 years. It is not enough to simply ac-knowledge there is a water crisis; we must do some-thing about it, and soon.”

Murphy noted that two-thirds of the state’s popula-

tion is located within 150 miles of the coast.

“There are multiple sites for locating desal plants,” Murphy said. The consul-tant’s feasibility study is ex-pected to identify potential sites for the desalination project.

Murphy showed the group a photo of a seawater desalination plant located near Sydney, Australia. “Real people in a real coun-try are relying on this,” Murphy said.

“More than 6,000 desali-nation plants worldwide transform seawater into a potable resource. Some countries, such as Israel, Australia and India, have aggressively pursued de-salination as a water sup-ply strategy. Texas, with its extensive Gulf coastline, has not,” State Rep. Bill Callegari, R-Katy, wrote in

an article in the Houston Chronicle quoted in GBRA River Run.

Other materials provid-ed at the meeting includ-ed information on Saudi Arabia where 27 desalina-tion plants have been con-structed.

The Saudis’ desal plants supply 70 percent of the nation’s drinking water and more than 28 million megawatts of electricity.

Although Texas has 44 desalination plants, all of them process brackish groundwater; none of the existing plants process sea-water.

In the state water plan, seawater desalination is not included among rec-ommended strategies; it is listed as “requiring fur-ther study and funding” with actual development planned as far off as 2060.

“If the droughts of re-cent years have taught us anything, they should have taught us that shelving sea-water desalination in the state water plan for the next 50 years is absolute folly,” West said in the authority’s publication.

Murphy noted that de-salination has environmen-tal advantages. “This is the only large project that will provide fresh water to the bays and estuaries,” he said.

Serving as project man-ager for the feasibility study will be the Texas Sus-tainable Energy Research Institute and the Center for Water Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The feasibility study is expected to be completed before the Texas Legisla-ture convenes its session starting in January 2015.

Gonzales Livestock Market Report

The Gonzales Livestock Market Report for Saturday, September 1, 2012 had on hand: 547 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady. Packer cows sold.

Stocker-feeder steers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $210-$280; 300-400 lbs, $185-$197.50; 400-500 lbs, $149-$175; 500-600 lbs, $132-$144; 600-700 lbs., $128-$133; 700-800 lbs, $118-$124.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $91-$111.

Stocker-feeder heifers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $175-$225; 300-400 lbs, $148-$169; 400-500 lbs, $136-$147; 500-600 lbs., $122-$133; 600-700 lbs., $114-$117.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $74-$79; Cutters, $77-$84.50; Can-ners, $58-$68; Low yielding fat cows, $65-$74.

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The Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on August 28, 2012, 1,880; Week ago, 1,402; Year ago, 2,734.

The better quality calves and yearlings were steady to $3 higher this week. Demand was much stronger this week with all classes very active.

Packer cows and bulls sold fully steady on approx. 200 hd. Total.

Packer Cows: higher dress-ing utility & cutter cows, $75-$86.50; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $63-$75; light weight canner cows, $53-$63.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $96-$100; utility & cut-

ter bulls, $88-$96; lightweight canner bulls, $78-$88.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200; none; 200-300 lbs, $190-$235; 300-400 lbs, $180-$215; 400-500 lbs, $148-$195; 500-600lbs, $127-$160; 600-700 lbs, $118-$137.50; 700-800 lbs, $116-$126. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, none; 200-300 lbs, $170-$210; 300-400 lbs, $148-$190; 400-500 lbs, $130-$164; 500-600 lbs, $119-$148; 600-700 lbs, $114-$128; 700-800 lbs, $107-$121.

If we can help with market-ing your livestock, please call 361-798-4336.

Cuero Livestock Market Report

Cuero Livestock Market Re-port on August 31, 2012, had 927 head.

Had 74 cows and 8 bulls. Again there were not many cows and bulls on hand. The market was essentially the same as prior weeks. Just a slow period before the fall runs of culls start exists.

The calf market looked like it regained any ground some classes lost last week. Replace-ment market for heifers makes those 10-20 cents per pound higher than others. The Steer market for those over 550

pounds was about $1/cwt higher. Market very active on all classes under 450 pounds but such numbers are low as most calves are weighing more than that. Very active and strong market throughout. Only discounts are on calves that are too fleshy or fat.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $90-$96; lower grades, $82-$85.

Packer cows: breakers, $65-$78; boning, $68-$85; canners & cutters, $68-$72; light & weak, $40-$65.

Palpated dry Cows: $84-$94Pairs: None.Steer and bull calves: un-

der 200 lbs, none; 200-250 lbs. none; 250-300 lbs, $201-$210; 300-350 lbs, $192-$208; 350-400 lbs, $165-$196; 400-450 lbs, $160-$190; 450-500 lbs, $146-$184; 500-600 lbs, $136-$148; 550-600 lbs, $128-$141; 600-700 lbs, $124-$139; 700-800 lbs, $119-$127.

Over 700 lbs. bulls, $115-$123.

Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, none; 200-250 lbs, $165-$175; 250-300 lbs, $178-$194; 300-350 lbs, $164-$187.50; 350-400 lbs, $158-$178; 400-450 lbs, $129-$160; 450-500 lbs, $128-$148; 500-600 lbs, $126-$146; 550-600 lbs, $121-$133; 600-700 lbs., $121-$131; over 700 lbs, $117-$143.

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AUSTIN — Parents looking to make their child’s college education more affordable can begin enrolling in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund®, the state’s prepaid college tuition pro-gram, on Sept. 1. The enrollment pe-riod runs through Feb. 28, 2013.

“This program is a great way to pre-pay all or part of a child’s undergrad-uate tuition and fees at Texas public colleges and universities at today’s prices,” said Texas Comptroller Susan Combs. “And we offer flexible pay-ment options to help fit any family’s budget as they save for college.”

Families in the Texas Tuition Prom-ise Fund purchase prepaid “tuition units” that can later be used toward undergraduate tuition and required fees at schools ranging from Texas public community colleges to four-year, in-state universities. Prices are

based on 2012-13 academic year costs for the state’s public colleges.

• Type I units, priced for tuition and required fees for the most expen-sive public four-year school in Texas, cost $115.92 per unit.

• Type II units, based on the weighted average cost of tuition and required fees across all Texas public four-year schools, cost $82.92 per unit.

• Type III units, priced at the weighted average cost of tuition and required fees across all Texas public two-year schools, cost $21.39 each.

Under the plan, 100 units equal one academic year consisting of 30 semester hours of tuition and re-quired fees at the Texas public school that most closely matches the pric-ing base. Families can prepay for up to six years (600 Type I units or the

equivalent amount of Type II and III units) of undergraduate tuition and required fees.

The plan’s payment options include lump sum payments, installment pay-ments that include 8 percent interest or a pay-as-you go plan that allows parents to gradually add more units when the family budget allows. Pay-ments can be as low as $15 after an account is established by paying a one-time fee of $25 and purchasing at least one unit.

The Texas Tuition Promise Fund is entering its fifth year. For more infor-mation about enrolling in the prepaid college tuition program, including a college cost calculator, go to www.TexasTuitionPromiseFund.com or call (800) 445-GRAD (4723), Option 5.

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Recent well location reports from the Texas Railroad Com-mission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-32862Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern En-

ergy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 4Well No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.68 miles

northeast of WesthoffSurvey Name: J. Bird, A-60Acres: 221.02


HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern En-

ergy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 4Well No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


northeast of WesthoffSurvey Name: J. Bird, A-60Acres: 221.02


HorizontalOperator: Matador Produc-

tion CompanyLease Name: Matador K. Love

OrcaWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


northwest of YorktownSurvey Name: F. Gonzales,

A-194Acres: 350.42


HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resourc-

es O and G Co. LPLease Name: Adamek Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle


northwest of YoakumSurvey Name: W.A. Miskell,

A-346Acres: 307.71


HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resourc-

es O and G Co. LPLease Name: Loos Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle

Ford Shale)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 7.9 miles

northwest of YoakumSurvey Name: W.A. Miskell,

A-346Acres: 619.32


HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-

ing CompanyLease Name: D. Warzecha AWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


southeast of WesthoffSurvey Name: W. Simpson,

A-431Acres: 586.83


HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-

ing CompanyLease Name: D. Warzecha AWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


southeast of WesthoffSurvey Name: W. Simpson,

A-431Acres: 586.83

Gonzales County


HorizontalOperator: Denali Oil and Gas

Management LLCLease Name: HRNCIRWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


northeast of GonzalesSurvey Name: L. Mallet, A-352Acres: 638.22


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Boothe UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


north of CheapsideSurvey Name: J. McCoy, A-44Acres: 1,166.18


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Ward FWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


southeast of SmileySurvey Name: D. Moses, A-334Acres: 306.27


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Ward FWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle




HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Ward GWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle




HorizontalOperator: Southern Bay Oper-

ating LLCLease Name: Newtonville

North UnitWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


northeast of GonzalesSurvey Name: P. Hope, A-252Acres: 855.92

Lavaca County


HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil

and Gas LPLease Name: Smith UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


southwest of MoultonSurvey Name: H. Russell,

A-376Acres: 424.60

API No.: 42-285-33659Classification: Fld. Dev.

Operator: Alta Mesa Services LP

Lease Name: DanielWell No.: 1Field Name: BenbowTotal Depth: 10,400 feetDirection and Miles: 20.3 miles

northwest of EdnaSurvey Name: G. Dulin, A-153Acres: 180


HorizontalOperator: Eagle Ford Hunter

Resources Inc.Lease Name: Rhino HunterWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


southwest of MoultonSurvey Name: A. Ponton, A-35Acres: 695.91

Recent oil and gas comple-tions according to reports from the Texas Railroad Com-mission

DeWitt County


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: HendersonWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-2)Survey Name: J.S. Stump,

A-430Direction and Miles: 5.9 miles

south of WesthoffOil: 598MCF: 3,742Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 8,475Total Depth: 18,268 feetPerforations: 13,585-18,147

feet


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Leske-Lott UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-2)Survey Name: S. Pharrass,


southeast of WesthoffOil: 717MCF: 3,590Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 7,925Total Depth: 18,565 feetPerforations: 13,835-18,307

feet


HorizontalOperator: Pioneer Natural

Res. USA Inc.Lease Name: Afflerbach 01Well No.: 02HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle

Ford Shale)Survey Name: S.H. Burton,

A-99Direction and Miles: 3.35

miles northwest of YorktownOil: 221MCF: 2,834Choke Size: 10/64 of an

inchTubing Pressure: 7,259Shut In Well Pressure: 8,215Total Depth: 19,311 feetPerforations: 13,750-19,311

feet


HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: Bargmann

Trust Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle

Ford Shale)Survey Name: I RR Co, Sec-

tion 12, A-613Direction and Miles: 6.5

miles northwest of YorktownOil: 960MCF: 3,003

Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchFlowing: 5,118Tubing Pressure: 6,167Total Depth: 18,773 feetPerforations: 13,820-18,561

feet



sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: J Rossett Unit

AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Ea-

gle Ford-2)Survey Name: LIM and C

Co, A-567Direction and Miles: 4.2

miles southeast of EcletoOil: 1,332MCF: 1,812Choke Size: 14/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,940Total Depth: 18,600 feetPerforations: 13,173-18,334

feet



sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: S. Wallis Unit

AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle

Ford Shale)Survey Name: H.P. Cook,


miles northwest of CueroOil: 845MCF: 3,577Choke Size: 14/64 of an


feet



sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: Butler Unit DWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle

Ford Shale)Survey Name: F. Leal, A-304Direction and Miles: 4.2

miles northwest of NordheimOil: 1,121MCF: 3,578Choke Size: 14/64 of an


feet

Gonzales County


HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil Corp.Lease Name: Tinsley-LawleyWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: G.W. Barnett,


southwest of SmileyOil: 579MCF: 158Choke Size: 20/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 480Total Depth: 12,235 feetPlug Back Depth: 12,092 feetPerforations: 8,075-12,027

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Lord A UnitWell No.: 8HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: A.W. Hill, A-247Direction and Miles: 12.8

miles southeast of SmileyOil: 1,784MCF: 2,321

Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,959Total Depth: 16,461 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,375 feetPerforations: 11,985-16,370

feet




miles southeast of SmileyOil: 1,853MCF: 2,214Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,109Total Depth: 16,823 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,736 feetPerforations: 12,072-16,459

feet




miles southeast of SmileyOil: 2,139MCF: 2,802Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,970Total Depth: 16,798 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,700 feetPerforations: 12,068-16,695

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Baker-DeForest

UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: R.H. Wynn,


miles southeast of CostOil: 3,817MCF: 4,145Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,258Total Depth: 17,278 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,192 feetPerforations: 11,688-17,187

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Baker-DeForest


Ford-1)Survey Name: R.H. Wynn,



feet


HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil Corp.Lease Name: Mahan SouthWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: R. Sellers,


southeast of SmileyOil: 661MCF: 180Choke Size: 24/64 of an inchPumping: YesTotal Depth: 11,395 feetPlug Back Depth: 11,310 feet

Perforations: 7,145-11,217 feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: ReillyWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Humphrey,


southeast of SmileyOil: 3,579MCF: 4,021Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,428Total Depth: 15,805 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,714 feetPerforations: 11,929-15,704

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Thomas Crozier


Ford-1)Survey Name: D. Taylor, A-445Direction and Miles: 8.8 miles

south of SmileyOil: 1,527MCF: 1,778Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,243Total Depth: 17,095 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,998 feetPerforations: 11,873-16,988

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Thomas-Crozier


Ford-1)Survey Name: D. Taylor, A-445Direction and Miles: 8.8 miles

south of SmileyOil: 1,608MCF: 1,804Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,512Total Depth: 17,055 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,968 feetPerforations: 11,527-16,958

feet


HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil Corp.Lease Name: Tinsley-RaekeWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: I. Roberts,

A-399Direction and Miles: 6 miles

southwest of SmileyOil: 898MCF: 215Choke Size: 18/64 of an inchPumping: YesTotal Depth: 12,545 feetPlug Back Depth: 12,401 feetPerforations: 7,243-12,393

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Boyles UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: W. Simpson,



feet

Job Corps is current-ly enrolling students aged 16-24 in over 20 vocational trades at no-cost! Will help students get drivers license GED or High School diploma and college training if qualified. For more info call 512-665-7327.

Full-Time position requiring a self-mo-tivated person with a strong work ethic, positive attitude, good people skills, a high-school diplo-ma ( or equivalent),

and a clean driv-ing record. Apply in person, with a copy of your resume, at NAPA - Kessler’s Auto Supply, 717 St. Joseph, Gonzales. Ask for Crystal.---------------------------Part-time position available for Janitor/Floor Technician. Ex-perience Required. Please apply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas.---------------------------Positions available for Certified Nurses Aides on Memory Care Unit. Spe-

cial Skills required. Please apply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas.---------------------------

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

J.M. Oilfield Service, a family oriented company is seek-ing professional & reliable Class A CDL employees. Re-quirements: 2 years experience tanker and must be will-ing to get HazMat endorsement ASAP. Call 830-672-8000.

AVON Representa-tives Wanted! Great earning opportuni-ties! Buy or Sell! Call 830-672-2271, Inde-pendent Sales Rep.

Garage Sale. 228 N. Fair St. Friday, Sep-tember 7, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, Sep-tember 8, 8am-12 pm. Linens, clothes, shoes, scrubs, furni-ture & holiday deco-rations.---------------------------Yard Sale. Saturday, September 8, 8:00-1:00. Clothes, col-lectible misc. items,

Compound Miter Saw, John Deere Case International IH models, some in boxes, tools. 1118 St. Louis St. (Corner of St. Louis & Darst). ---------------------------2 Family Garage Sale. 1702 Neuman St. Saturday, Sep-tember 8, 8:00-2:00. Kids stuff, clothes, household items. Lots of everything.---------------------------Garage Sale: Sat-urday, August 8, 8:00-1:00. Boys/girls clothes, s h o e s , j a c k e t s & more. 112 St.

George.---------------------------Jamaica Garage Sale. Saturday, Sep-tember 15th. 10 a.m.-? at Sacred Heart Grounds. Ac-cepting Donations. Call Isabel Mata for more information, 672-8034.---------------------------Garage Sale. Sat-urday, September 8th. 8:00-11:00 a.m. Household items, antique, M & W clothes & so forth. 1607 Neuman St. Cancel if Rain.---------------------------Antique metal wood

burning stove. $175. 512-917-4078.---------------------------Single axle trailer. 4 ft. tall, 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide. $500.00. Call for information. 830-660-2526 or 830-540-4063.---------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has roll-ers. 857-8090.---------------------------2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, couch & 2 chairs w/horse head & saddle design on them, antique egg

incubator, enter-tainment center, glider rocker, lamp stand w/drawers, booth dining table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.---------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Everything $85.00; worth about $300. Health prob-lems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.

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MISC. FOR SALEMISC. FOR SALE

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed bids addressed to the City of Gonzales, will be received until September 25, 2012 @ 2:30 pm (local time) at City Hall located at 820 Saint Joseph Street in Gonzales, Texas 78629 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud, for furnishing all labor, mate-rial, tools and equipment and performing all work required for 1.5 & 2.5 MG STANDPIPE IMPROVEMENTS. A Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on September 18, 2012 @ 10:00 am (local time) at City Hall with an on-site visit being a portion of the proceed-ings. Any bids received after the above-stated date and time will be returned unopened.

The contract will be awarded upon vote of the City Council at a regu-lar meeting which will be held at October 2, 2012 @ 6:00 pm (local time).

Each proposal shall be accompanied by a Certified or Cashier’s Check or a Bidder’s Bond from a surety company licensed in the State of Tex-as, in an amount of at least Five Percent (5%) of the largest amount bid, payable to the City of Gonzales, Texas as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into a contract with the Owner.

Major items of work include the following:

The work under this contract shall be for the 1.5 and 2.5 MG Stand-pipe Improvements located in Gonzales, Texas. The major improve-ments include adding an external 12” inlet pipe to the top of each standpipe from the existing external inlet located at the bottom of each tank and adding three 8” check valves inside 72”-RCP vaults outside of the 1.5 MG standpipe. Improvements shall include all work, materi-als, fittings, pipe, valves, welding, coatings and other miscellaneous items to provide a complete operating system.

Copies of the Contract Specifications and Drawings are on file at the City of GonzalesCity Hall and at the office of LNV, Inc., 1101 South Capital TX. Hwy, Suite C-220, Austin, Texas 78746, and will be for-warded to prospective bidders or suppliers upon receiving $40.00 with the engineer, LNV, Inc., for each set of documents obtained. If mailed, an additional non-refundable fee of $10.00 will be required from all prospective bidders or suppliers to cover shipping and han-dling charges. The payment represents reproduction costs and is non-refundable.

We reserve the right to process checks electronically by transmitting the amount of the check, routing number, account number, and check serial number to your financial institution.

In case of ambiguity or lack of clarity of the prices in the bid forms, the City reserves the right to consider only unit prices written in words, or to reject the entire bid. The City of Gonzales reserves the right to re-ject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding.

Bids may be held by the City of Gonzales for a period not to exceed 60 days from the date of the bid opening for the purpose of reviewing the bids and investigating the bidder’s qualifications prior to the contract award.

Honorable Robert Logan, Mayor City of Gonzales

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed bids addressed to the City of Gonzales, will be received un-til September 25, 2012 @ 2:00 pm (local time) at City Hall located at 820 Saint Joseph Street in Gonzales, Texas 78629 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud, for furnishing all labor, material, tools and equipment and performing all work required for HIGHWAY 97 WELL IMPROVEMENTS. A Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on September 18, 2012 @ 1:30 pm (local time) at City Hall with an on-site visit being a portion of the proceed-ings. Any bids received after the above-stated date and time will be returned unopened.

The contract will be awarded upon vote of the City Council at a regu-lar meeting which will be held at October 2, 2012 @ 6:00 pm (local time). Each proposal shall be accompanied by a Certified or Cashier’s Check or a Bidder’s Bond from a surety company licensed in the State of Texas, in an amount of at least Five Percent (5%) of the largest amount bid, payable to the City of Gonzales, Texas as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into a contract with the Owner.

Major items of work include the following:

The work under this contract shall be for the well improvements lo-cated on Highway 97. The improvements include a 3,050 gallon double wall polyethylene tank for HCL and a 1,500 gallon single wall polyethylene tank for LAS, 12” and 16” ductile iron piping and fittings, five (5) concrete foundation pads, two (2) 3-HP pumps, chemical feed systems, retrofitting an existing building, electrical improvements and miscellaneous PVC and C-PVC (SDR-17 and SCH 80) piping ranging from 1” to 3”.

Copies of the Contract Specifications and Drawings are on file at the City of Gonzales City Hall and at the office of LNV, Inc., 8918 Tesoro Drive, Suite 401, San Antonio, Texas 78217, and will be forwarded to prospective bidders or suppliers upon depositing $40.00 with the engi-neer, LNV, Inc., for each set of documents obtained. If mailed, an ad-ditional non-refundable fee of $10.00 will be required from all prospec-tive bidders or suppliers to cover shipping and handling charges. The payment represents reproduction costs and is non-refundable.

We reserve the right to process checks electronically by transmitting the amount of the check, routing number, account number, and check serial number to your financial institution.

In case of ambiguity or lack of clarity of the prices in the bid forms, the City reserves the right to consider only unit prices written in words, or to reject the entire bid. The City of Gonzales reserves the right to re-ject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding.

Bids may be held by the City of Gonzales for a period not to exceed 60 days from the date of the bid opening for the purpose of reviewing the bids and investigating the bidder’s qualifications prior to the contract award.

Honorable Robert Logan, Mayor City of Gonzales

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For Sale: Scentsy Warmer (Fire De-partment), never been opened or used. $35. 3 Leather scents, $5.00 each. Dell Keyboard and Mouse. $10.00 set. 830-305-2521.---------------------------3 cement steps set, 48”x21”. Like new. Asking $125. 4 cement steps set, 48”x28”, asking $75. You haul any items. 830-540-4277.---------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.---------------------------Chronic Illness, Medical Bills. Every-thing reasonably priced. Long list.

Must sell by Mid-Sept. or End. Plan to move away soon. Gonzales, 830-203-8529, M-F.---------------------------Used Dell Computer. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.---------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jea-nette Conquestat 830-672-3419.---------------------------Upright piano for sale. Great for kids starting piano les-sons. All keys works. Needs to be tuned. $100. Call 830-832-

5965.---------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Rotis-serie $275. Call 512-917-4078.---------------------------Gasoline operated Hedger, $125; 5 HP Tiller, $200. Both in excellent condition. 361-208-3565. ---------------------------Craftsman Riding Mower. 30” Mower/Mulcher. 13.5 HP Model 536.270300. Purchased April 2011..used 6 times. Exc. Condition. $600.00. 830-560-0238. ---------------------------Electric Hospital bed, $150. 582-1120. ---------------------------Stain Glass Window, white tail deer. $275. 512-917-4078.---------------------------For Sale: Headache Rack, Bumper Hitch, Aluminum Running Boards, 5 office desks, Lift Chair, Antique Bed, Leather Sofa Bed. 1109 FM 532 West, Shiner. 361-596-4403.---------------------------Air Framing Nailer. Contractor Series. $75.00. Call 361-741-2604.

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.

Fertilized Johnson Grass Bermuda Hay. Large round bales. $50. 857-3324.

3. Dirt Scoop, $130, 16’ Grain Auger, new, $175, 7’2 Grat-er Blade, $175, 4500 Mahindra Tractor, 42 hp, like new, $8,500. 830-481-4707.---------------------------Want to Buy: Oliver 60 Tractor. V.A.C. Case Tractor. Run or Not. 361-293-1633.---------------------------For Sale: 231 Massey Ferguson Tractor. $9,000. 830-437-2358 or 830-857-0800. (08-23-12)---------------------------5 Bale Hay King Trailer & Bale Flip-per Loader. Load hay without getting out of truck. Video on baleflipper.com. $13,500. 512-565-5927.

Dining room table, solid wood, with six high back chairs and leaf to extend table, $200.00. Large china cabinet, $200.00 . 830-672-2604.---------------------------7 pc. dinette, $95; coffee and end ta-ble, 475; Rollaway Bed, $35; 37” TV, $15; 2 office recep-tionist chairs, couch, table, etc. 361-596-4096. ---------------------------For Sale: Queensize mattress set, $200; complete desk w/hutch, $30; Dining Room table with 4 high back chairs, solid wood, $300; Low back swivel re-cliner rocker, $150. Call 672-3728.---------------------------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.

OILFIELD Housing - 5 bedroom/5 bath-room bunkhouse for sale for immediate delivery. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.---------------------------3bedroom/2 bath-room singlewide available. $27,900. Call if in need of housing. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.---------------------------OILFIELD HOUS-ING - 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with washer and dryer, office spaces, must see to appreci-ate. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.---------------------------Between 4-5 Acres for Sale. Double-wide. Excellent con-dition. Hwy. front-age. 3BR, all electric, all appliances. Call 830-857-1026.

‘78 Chevy Pickup, $2,500. 830-481-4707.---------------------------For Sale: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - $7,500. 2nd owner pickup with low miles, cold A/C, spray-in bed liner, grill guard, towing pack-age and more! Call Lauren at (361) 648-5049 for more info.---------------------------Tires for Sale. 4 brand new tires - 255-35-ZR20 Nitto Extreme ZR with Rims - Mar-tin Bros 20” universal rims. $500. 830-857-1340.---------------------------2003 Saturn - Great Gas Saver - $6,988. (830)303-4381.---------------------------2011 Chevy HHR - Certified - Was $18,499 - Now $15,991. (830) 303-4381.---------------------------2010 Jeep Patriot -

only 28K miles. Was $19,999 - Now $17,688. (830) 303-4381.---------------------------2011 Dodge Grand Caravan, 42K miles - Was $22,899 - Now $20,988. (830) 303-4381.---------------------------2011 Chevy Equi-nox - Certified - Was $24,388 - Now $21,988. (830) 303-4381.

3 mobile homes for rent in Leesville on Hwy. 80. Call 830-534-6525.---------------------------FOR RENT: 2bed, 1 bath trailer. New kitchen floor. For more information call Samantha at 830-857-5812.

Large country home, 2BR/1BA, near belmont. Hwy. 90A. No pets. $650/mo. $400/deposit. 830-424-4685.---------------------------2/1 Duplex. CH/CA, yard, storage room, $675/mo. $600/de-posit. No pets. 830-672-3089.---------------------------2 and 3 Bedroom houses for rent. $650 & up + deposit. Current references a must. Furnished or unfurnished. Call 830-672-5169.---------------------------2/1 house for rent in central Gonzales. 1,000 sq. ft, remod-eled w/new hard-wood floor, inte-rior & exterior paint. CA/H. Furnished, ap-pliances, big screen, cable, Wi-Fi, flexible lease terms & yard service. $1,200/mo. Contact 830-542-9743 or email [email protected] Rent: 2BR/2BA/2CG home on 183 N. $1,250/mo., plus deposit. Call 830-857-4458 for information.---------------------------For Rent: 3BR/2Bath, central air/heat, newly remodeled country home at 1714 CR 383 be-tween Gonzales and Moulton. No smok-ing and no pets in house. $1,000.00/month w/$500.00 deposit. First & last months rent due upfront. References required. Available Sept. 1. 830-263-0910.---------------------------House in the coun-try for lease. Large, clean and nice house and nice yard.

Lease and deposit required. 361-594-3233.---------------------------3BR/2BA Brick house for rent. 1 mile North of Yoa-kum. AC, washer, dryer. Large access driveway in & out for truck parking for large bobtails. Oak grove, great for BBQ’s and entertain-ing. Available Now. Call 361-293-6619, leave message.---------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 830-857-5727.---------------------------

House for RentCompletely fur-nished house, 3 or 2 bdrms, one room furnished as office, one full bath, fully equipped kitchen, microwave, washer and dryer, large storage space, yard maintained. No pets. Cable and Wi-Fi. Near County Clerk’s office. Con-venient for two landmen. $1,250 a month plus utilities. Call 830-672-6265 or 830-857-4251.---------------------------For Rent in Luling. 3 bed, 1 bath, Central Air & heat. $850/month, $600/de-posit. 830-832-3163. Earl Landry.---------------------------House for Rent. 302 Lancaster, Moulton, TX. Nice spacious 1BR home w/appli-ances & a large yard. Call for info. 832-633-3950.---------------------------Single Suite. Perfect for Supervisor for Oil Company. Full kitchen, washer/dryer, TV/Full cable, wireless internet. No smoking inside. No Pets. Fully furnished and all bills paid. Private Yard/Garage. Weekly, $280; De-posit $300. Call 512-292-0070---------------------------Home For Rent. Country Home. completely remod-eled. 2BR/1BA, CA, hardwood floors, roof for AG Project. Navarro ISD be-tween Seguin & New Braunfels. $1,000 month, $1,000 de-posit. 830-660-7351 or 830-822-5348.---------------------------

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NIGHTLY RATESSingle nightly rates starting at $35.00 per night. Which include A/C, Micro-wave, Refrigerator, TV/Cable and fur-nished with all bills paid. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.---------------------------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.

Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.

Office space for rent. 1,500 sq. ft. Recently remodeled. 314 W. Cone. If interested call 830-672-4433.---------------------------For Rent: Indus-trial Property for rent. M1 Ind. Stor-age Yard, 70x130. Church Street. 830-423-2103.---------------------------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.

12 acres/house/of-fice with Hwy. 80 frontage between Belmont/Nixon near Leesville. Will sub-divide. For sale or lease. Would make a great oil field yard or residence. Call Pey-ton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.---------------------------Land for lease for oil field service equip-ment. Prime loca-tion. 4 miles N. on 183. 2 1/2 acres. Electric, water, park-ing, storage. Call 203-0585 or 672-6922. (TFN)

Camera work for businesses, promo-tional uses, editing titles. 830-263-0909. [email protected] to do part-time sitting of elder-ly man or woman after hospital stay or surgery. Take them to local doctors vis-its, grocery shop-ping, etc. Call 830-788-7123 for more information. ---------------------------Electrical Wiring, Troubleshooting, Repairs, etc. Li-censed & Insured. Call 830-437-5747. ---------------------------For Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.---------------------------Will do house clean-ing Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.---------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5072. Call be-tween 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.

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• Maintenance • Back Dock Hanger • Back Dock Driver w/ Class A CDL • 2nd Processing • Sanitation (Nights) Feed Mill - FM 108 S., Gonzales Production • Day & Night Shifts Available

Mon.-Fri., 8-10 hr. days Must have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the

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CDL DRIVERS NEEDEDBobtail Truck Driver

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Class A CDL with HazMat/Tanker EndorsementsMust be at least 25 years of age

Insurance, 401K and vacation included

Applications available at:Schmidt & Sons, Inc.

2510 Church St. • Gonzales, Texas 78629www.schmidtandsons.com

(830) 672-2018 • John Clark @ ext. 112

Full-time position Equipment Operator, water distribution, wastewater collection department. This is a skilled service-main-

tenance position. Work involves maintaining, repairing and installing new water and sewer lines, meters, fire hydrants, pumps and plumbing systems at all city fa-cilities. Perform related duties as required and ability to operate equipment needed to perform these tasks. Class B-CDL required. Must be available for on call duty ev-ery fifth week.

Starting pay $23,664.00.Benefits for full time employees include health insur-ance, retirement program and paid leave. Applicant must be able to pass a pre-screen drug test and physical. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all interested parties to apply. Applications available at the city’s website, www.cityofgonzales.org.Please complete an employment application and take to City Hall or mail to:City of GonzalesAttn: Payroll Dept.P.O. Box 547Gonzales, TX 78629“NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE”

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Plant Openings Plant Palletizers & Cleanup Positions

Benefits include: Vacation, Sick Leave, Hosp. Ins.,

Dental, Vision, 401K, ESOP. Apply in person at:

Cal-Maine foods, Inc., 1680 CR431 or 748 CR 422,

Waelder, Texas 78959. Mon-Friday, 7-4 pm. Telephone number

830-540-4105/830-540-4684.

The City of Gonzales is seeking a highly professional individual to serve the public as a Code Enforcement Officer. This individual must possess excellent commu-nication and customer service skills and have the ability to manage difficult situations in a professional manner. Under the general supervision of the Building Official, performs research, investigative, enforcement, and fol-low up duties on various code and ordinance violations for the City and other duties as assigned.

High School Diploma or equivalent, and two years code enforcement experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Certification as a Code Enforcement Officer is preferred, but candidates with a minumum of 5 years construction experience will also be considered. Residential Building Inspector Certifi-cation from the International Code Council is required within 12 months of employment. Must be certified by the Texas State Plumbing Board as an inspector within 2 years of employment. Electrical inspector certifications are desired. Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Products. Must possess a valid Texas Driver’s Li-cense.

The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer. Applications available at City Hall or www.cityofgonza-les.org. Please complete an application and take it to City Hall or mail to:City of GonzalesAttn: Payroll Dept.P.O. Box 547Gonzales, TX 78629“NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE”

Code enforCement offiCer

Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office is now accepting applications for Pre-Employment Examination for all positions. Deadline for next Examination is Friday the 28th of September 2012. Point of Contact: Chief Brent 1204 Reed Dr. Lockhart, Tx. 78644 512-398-6777 ext 202

Probation OfficerThe 2nd 25th Judicial District Community Supervision and

Corrections Department seeks to hire a

Probation Officer to supervise mental health offenders in Gonzales, Lavaca, and Colorado

counties. Must have a degree in criminal justice or a related field. Send resume, copy of transcript, and references to Linda Smith,

Chief Probation Officer, P.O. Box 330, Hallettsville, Texas 77964.

Closing date: September 18, 2012.

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830-540-4516.K.P.F.M. is an EOE employer.

Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms has immediate full-time positions available for:

Various PositionsNew entry level wages.

We offer 401k, Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance.

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I’m not hiring. Need a job as a Nurse Aide in hospital, Agency or home. I’m a CNA & CPR certified and need work in Medi-cal Center. Freder-icksburg area ONLY. Full-time. If you have a relative needing exceptional care in San Antonio, please call and ask for Chell, 830-391-4837.--------------------------Hand for Hire, Odd Jobs Done, FREE

estimates. Anything you don’t want to do, Junk hauling, Tree Removal, Lot clearing, House pressure washing, office help, ranch, farm, lawn & Flower beds, Barbed wire fence repair, gutter cleaning, I do win-dows. One call does it all. Call Terry (830) 203-1503 or (830) 857-5927.

Willing to mow lawns in morning

or evening. Also will do weedeating. Not affiliated with any company’s. 830-263-0909.---------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Will also mow oilfield yards or large oil re-lated businesses. Li-ability ins., free esti-mates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.(TFN)

Child care in home. I have 2 openings, Curriculum and meals included. Please call for de-tails. 830-263-0058.

RV For Sale. Older unit. 5th wheel. $2,900. Contact Richard, 830-556-6905.---------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.

Travel trailer for rent. Fully furnished and ready for move-in. Located in lo-cal RV park with cable, pool, laundry. Weekly $300.00 or if paid by the month $1,100.00. All bills paid. Call Debbie at 830-263-4356 or email [email protected] for details.---------------------------Furnished Travel Trailer for rent in 4L RV Ranch. Avail-

able immediately. $350 week or $1,000 month. Call 830-305-6926 for more info.---------------------------Office or Living Trail-ers for lease or buy. Peyton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.---------------------------RV Rentals available at Belmont RV Park Estates. Call Richard, 830-556-6095.---------------------------Travel Trailers for rent. Located at J.B. Wells, Gonza-les, Texas. Cheaper than motel. Clean, fully furnished, 32 ft. trailers. $300/ a week. Please call for more info & rates. Pug @ 512-963-0000 or Dawn @ 512-508-6221.

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. Inde-pendent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.

Free kittens to good home. Please call 830-587-6278

Free to good home. German Shepherd mix puppies. Pri-marly black with Shepherd markings. Mother purebred. Current on shots and wormed. 830-672-2631.---------------------------Free Kittens. Call 672-7094.---------------------------

PuppiesHalf Lab, Half Pyr-enees. Free to good home. 830-203-1733 or 830-540-4485.---------------------------We stock Sportmix Dog and Cat Food, Demon WP for those ants and scorpions. Gonzales Poultry Supply, 1006 St. Paul Street, 672-7954.(TFN)

Baby Guineas. $4.00 each. Call for info. 830-660-2526 or 830-540-4063.---------------------------“Black Limousin and Angus Heifers and Bulls, Gentle Increase your wean-ing weights. Estab-lished breeder since 1971. Delivery avail-able 979 561- 6148 “ ---------------------------Nanny Boer Goats (adults). Pkg. Deal $500.00 (5) or $125 each. 830-560-0238. ---------------------------Muscovy ducks for sale. $10.00 each. 830-263-2482. (TFN)---------------------------Laying Hens, $10.00. 512-718-0482.---------------------------For Sale: Registered Polled Hereford Bulls. 8-22 mths old. Heifers also, 8 months to 2 years.

830-540-4430.---------------------------FOR SALE: 4 year old Angus Bull. 830-875-2524.---------------------------WANT TO BUY: Any or Unwanted Hors-es. Call Leejay at 830-857-3866.---------------------------For Sale: Baby & Young Adult Ducks. Mix Breeds. Cost $3.50-$20.00 each. Call 830-857-6844, ask for Tammy Ste-phens.---------------------------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.---------------------------MINI-GOATS. (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beauti-ful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.

FOR SALE BY OWN-ER: 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, single story home in Gonza-les. Beautiful wet bar and gourmet kitchen with granite counter tops. Large pantry utility room. 2 car garage with workshop, nice pool and spa, huge cov-ered porches. All on or nearly 1/2 acre. $249,000. Call 210-844-4963.---------------------------Older couple down-sizing 15 acres (10 acres fenced), house, 3/1 1/2, Barn, ponds, trees. Wharton County. $137,000. 979-533-3262.---------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood Trail. New applianc-es, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.---------------------------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 i a l / c o m m e r c i a l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.

Modern home on 165-acre ranch lo-cated between Gon-zales and Shiner on paved road FM 443. Highly improved with scattered oak trees, improved grasses, hay field, cross fencing and stock tank. Recent-ly updated 2,300 square foot home, 3BR, 2BA, two live-in areas. Property includes large hay barn, equipment building shop and cattle pens. Shiner ISD. Possible owner financing available. 361-648-4090 or 361-935-1109.

Wanted to lease land for cattle graz-ing. Must have water and fences. Contact Mitchell Hardcastle, 830-857-4544.---------------------------90x60 lot for sale. For more info, call Jose at (936) 488-8115.---------------------------5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equipment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for information.

WANTED: Acetylene Gas Regulator for welding torch. 437-2232.

Lucky Shots by Dee.Need Family Por-traits, Family Re-unions, Birthdays, School Pictures, Weddings, Etc. 830-857-1495 ---------------------------Electrical wiring, troubleshooting & repairs. 830-437-5747.---------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

All Types of Plumbing.

Master Plumber.Reasonable Rates.

Please Call 713-203-2814 or

281-415-6108.License #M18337

---------------------------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.---------------------------

No Limit Accessories

David Matias, Owner

830-263-16331026 St. Paul St.,

GonzalesWindow Tinting,

Commercial.Call for

appointment.---------------------------Need a monument or marker? Save $$ on monuments, markers. High Qual-ity. Less Cost Monu-ments & Markers. 1405 Conway St., Gonzales, the IOOF Building. 830-857-8070.

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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

New Life Assembly of GodCorner of Church St. & Jessie Smith St. Gonzales

Baha’i FaithBaha’i Faith621 St. George St. Gonzales

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

Greater Palestine Baptist ChurchS of 90-A (sign on Hwy 80)

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

San Marcos Primitive Baptist Church4 Miles west of Luling on Hwy. 90P.O. Box 186, Luling830-875-5305

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

Christian

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)712 Crockett, Luling

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

Church of Christ (Iglesia de Cristo)201 E. Second St. Nixon

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

New Way Church of God in Christ514 St. Andrew, Gonzales

EpiscopalEpiscopal Church of the Mes-siah721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-3407

EvangelicalLa Os del Evangelio Mission Capilla del PuebloW. Central at 87 Nixon

Full GospelCamp Valley Full Gospel7 mi N of Nixon on Hwy 80

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

Harwood Methodist Church North 2nd and North Gonzales, Har-wood

Henson Chapel United Method-ist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

Webster Chapel A.M.E.1027 Church St. Gonzales

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

El Centro Cristiano “Agua Viva” of WaelderSun. Worship 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m.

Emmanuel Fellowship

1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

New Life Temple for Jesus ChristBelmont, Corner of Hwy 466 & Hwy 80

River of Life Christian Fellow-ship207 Steele St., Smiley 830-587-6500

Two Rivers Bible Church1600 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Ste 210, Gon-zales

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

Life Changing Church of Gon-zales3.3 miles north on 183, Right on CR 235, Right on CR 236

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, you are entering a

creative phase and others will admire and appreciate your work. But don’t allow the extra attention to go to your head. Be humble at every turn.

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nities for communicating your ideas this week, Gemini. Expect quite a few meetings and other

social occasions where you can discuss things with others.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, you have a basic idea

of how you want to handle your finances, but you are open to suggestions, too. Consult with a professional if you are consider-ing making major changes.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Your ability to supervise and

organize people makes you unique, Leo. This role will be-come central to your lifestyle for the next few days as you tackle new responsibilities at work.

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vance your career present them-selves, but you are not sure if you are ready for a bigger role. Seek advice from trusted col-leagues.

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terest in business and making career decisions that will work for you. That new venture you have been pondering takes a big step forward.

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Interactions with coworkers could feel a little strained, Sagit-tarius. Make a few adjustments to remedy any uncomfortable situations. Take stock of your working relationships.

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If you’re considering having a child sometime in the near future, you might want to consider this: It’s said that the cost of caring for a newborn during its first year of life is more than $6,000.

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Even though this game is considered a road game for Hallettsville, they are not going too far. Just over to the next town.

The Shiner Comanches (1-0) welcome their neigh-bors to the east, the Brah-mas (1-0), for a local-area game tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Comanche Sta-dium.

“It works out nicely,” Hallettsville head coach Tommy Psencik said. “We are saving some travel money by playing Shiner. Normally at this time, we would play Refugio.”

Both teams started off the season on the right foot as Shiner ran over Indus-trial, 36-13, and Halletts-ville took care of business against Ganado, 35-14.

The Comanche trio of Jacob Stafford, Trevion Flowers and Caleb Curtis pounded out 280 yards of offense. Flowers rushed for 95 yards on 16 carries and had touchdown runs of 1 and 60 yards, while Curtis ran for 70 yards on nine carries, scoring a pair of touchdowns on runs of 4 and 13 yards. Stafford had six carries for 65 yards and an 18-yard scoring run.

For the Brahmas against Ganado, quarterback Nate Kowalik completed 8-of-25 passes for 129 yards and one touchdown, includ-ing a 58-yard pass to Dal-ton Herrington. Kowalik also ran for 82 yards and a touchdown. Running back Tedrick Smith led the Brahmas’ ground game with 125 yards on eight carries and scored on runs of 40 and 63 yards.

Pscensik said he wants the Brahmas to improve the run game in order to set up the passing attack.

“We need our receiv-ers to get more precise on

their routes,” he said.Hallettsville will also

need the offensive line to block better.

“Shiner will blitz and bring pressure off the edge with their linebackers,” Pscensik said. “This will be the first time we will play a team that blitzes a lot so we will have to improve our blitz handling.”

The Brahmas’ defense will get to see an option-oriented offense in Shiner’s veer attack.

“We have to be disci-plined and physical on defense,” he said. “We have to fly to the ball and make some turnovers in our fa-vor.”

Pscencik said he is look-ing toward a good game with both players and coaches from both pro-grams familiar with one another.

Shiner coach Steven Cerny said the opening win against Industrial was typical of a first regular-season game.

“Lots of people were playing for the first time and we hit the wall early,” he said. “It also seemed like slow motion. But I thought we regrouped well in the second half.”

The Comanches will have their work cut out for them on both sides of the ball.

“Their defensive line is a concern because they are quick, big and strong. The linebackers are very good,”

Cerny said. While still going

through their paces of ball control and possession, the Shiner offense will need to be able to make a couple of big plays.

Against the Cobras, Shiner was able to take ad-vantage of some turnovers and score some points. Cerny said Hallettsville’s spread offense will be a challenge for Shiner’s de-fense.

“They have a great run-ning back in Teidrick Smith and are able to stay balanced,” he said. “We must prevent the big play and stop Smith. We have to make the Brahmas earn the yardage.”

Hallettsville and Shiner have only played 10 times in the programs’ history, despite the geographic proximity with the last contest coming in 1991.

“Seems like we have played more than that,” Cerny said. “It will be a good game with fans and players from both towns acquainted with each oth-er.”

Several area football teams got the season off to a good start by picking up wins in their opener. Now, they look to add one more to the win column early while making improve-ments.

Sinton at YoakumThe Yoakum Bulldogs

(1-0) fought hard to earn

WAELDER — Waelder volleyball coach Meghan House feels she has the player combinations or lineups in place.

Next bullet point on the agenda will be to get the team some more reps, con-fidence and playing as a team.

Waelder opened district play with a 3-0 (1-25, 11-25, 10-25) loss to the Wei-mar Lady Wildcats Tues-day evening at Waelder ISD Gymnasium.

“That has been our track record. We start out bad for the first set and then do better in the later sets,” House said.

House is seeing improve-ment in her team game in and game out.

“I saw lots of good things tonight,” she said. “I saw good blocks. I saw people in the right spots.”

Hailey Rincon opened the first set and the match

with an ace for Waelder. Weimar then got a kill from Kendall Marak, and from there scored 24 straight points, mostly on the serves from Hunter Ervin and some plays from Marak, Emily Koenig and Kristie Guerrero.

In the second set, Wei-mar quickly took a 2-0 lead but Waelder fought back, getting a kill from Alex Benitez to level the game.

Weimar then went on a 6-0 run and Waelder came back with two points to close the gap to 8-4. Later, the home side came with-in 9-6, but Weimar then scored nine of the next 12 points to go ahead 18-8. Waelder closed down to 18-10 and Weimar ended the second set on 6-1 run.

In the third game, Waelder battled from an early deficit to come within two points at 10-8, getting a kill from Chelsa Nichols in the process. Weimar then finished the job with 15 of the next 17 points.

Waelder (1-3, 0-1) will start play in the Nordheim Tournament this weekend. It gives them a chance to get some wins under their belt before resuming dis-trict play this week.

“It will be pivotal for us,” she said. “We have all the pieces. It is just a matter of getting some confidence.”

Waelder also has new-comers to the team. Five new players — Keanna Por-ter, Nancy Lizman, Destiny Herrera, Yasmin Porter and Jackie Garcia – all suited out for the game in addition to starters Rincon, Benitez, Marrisa Ramirez, Kirsten Muenchow and Nichols.

“Every coach likes to see that,” House said. “But at the same time, I try to be hard on them. I do not ever want to be easy.”

“The new players are still learning and they will earn their spots on the team based on how they perform in practice. I am excited for next year, but I also think we can be good this year.”

Another tough test faces the Apaches on Friday when they travel to contest Bastrop.

Gonzales opened their season with a convincing 27-6 win over Victoria East and now face their second straight Class 4A oppo-nent in the Bears.

Despite a slow start, the Apach-es (1-0) showed they were clearly the better team last week as they outgained the Titans 278-169 and forced three turnovers.

“They were physical, big and had a lot of speed,” said Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock about last week’s opponent. “They present-ed a lot of problems, but I think our kids really played well.”

The Bears return 20 lettermen from a year ago including two blue-chip prospects in defensive Antwuan Davis (5-11, 180, 4.4)

and linebacker Paul Whitmill (5-11, 200, 4.5). Both are early Division One com-mits with Davis go-ing to the University of Texas and Whit-mill slated to play for TCU.

“There’s two D-I guys they have right there and that’s a good place to start,” Lock said. “They have a lot of team speed, they’re big up front and they have an active de-fense.”

Bastrop (0-1) is currently heading in the opposite direction of Gonzales, having started off the season last week with a disap-pointing 30-0 loss to Cedar Park Vista Ridge.

“They had a few miscues the other night and it really hurt them,” Lock said. “They imple-mented a new offense this year

that they got from Georgia Tech so they’re going to run a lot of midline option, veer option, lead option and counters. They’ll run it all, so it’s going to be a tough test for us.”

With the Bears offense relying on so much misdirection, Lock said the foremost charge for his defense is to play assignment football.

“This is one of those times where you have to be a disci-plined player and take care of your responsibility first,” he said. “If everybody does that, then we ought to be in good shape.”

The Apaches racked up 248

yards rushing last week, led by Cecil Johnson’s 211-yard, three-touchdown ef-fort. However Gon-zales struggled in the passing game with the most productive completion being a

20-yard shuffle pass from Matt Hillman to Darrance James.

“We’re slowly putting things into the playbook to have them ready by district,” Lock said. “We’re going to try to add a bit each week.”

“Our passing will be different this week because Bastrop loves to run man coverage. Hopefully we can hit on some of our cross-ing stuff underneath. They stunt a lot so they may hit you in the mouth on one play, but then you can go 70 yards on the next play. It’s generally hit or miss when you

stunt a lot.”Bastrop operates primarily out

of a 3-4 defense, where they like to play a lot of man to man in the secondary and rush the outside backers. Their leading tacklers in last week’s loss were cornerback Jeramy Bell and linebacker Casey Waites, who had 15 and 14 stops respectively.

Lock said ball control will be the key to neutralizing the Bears’ aggressive defensive attack.

“I always say we have to control the football and not turn it over,” he said. “Time of possession will be big in this game because I think we have a tendency to wear people down.”

“The other thing will be how we will respond to adversity. With the style of defense they play, there’s going to be a few bad plays for us. We’re going to have to fight through that if it happens.”

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Gonzales faces first road test of the seasonGonzales at Bastrop

Friday, 7:30 p.m.Memorial Stadium in Bastrop

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Apache Football

Lady Wildcats drop district opener to Weimar in three

PREVIEWS, Page C2

Neighbor pitted against neighbor when Shiner hosts Hallettsville Friday

Hallettsville at Shiner

Friday, 7:30 p.m.Comanche Stadium in Shiner

Alex Benitez goes for a kill attempt during Waelder’s district-opening loss to Weimar Tuesday evening. Looking on at the play is Waelder’s Marissa Ramirez (14). (Photo by Mark Lube)


a 27-25 win against the Columbus Cardinals on Friday.

Yoakum hosts Sinton at 7:30 p.m. for its first home game of the season. Sinton opened its 2012 campagain with a 48-22 win over Cor-pus Christi Tuloso-Mid-way.

Quarterback Tyler Handson completed 12-of-20 passes for 242 yards and a touchdown out of Sinton’s spread offense.

“Hanson started several games last year as a fresh-man and he throws the ball well,” Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay said.

The Pirates’ ground game was led by Keith Gar-cia who ran seven times for 142 yards and Handson added 134 yards on 12 car-ries. The leading receiver was Derek Shedd with three catches for 68 yards.

Look for some speed from the Sinton defense.

“They are a little more quick and are much im-proved,” Kornegay said.

Linebackers Troy Cook and Jared Janek will lead the Pirate defense. They combined for 18 total tack-les against Tuloso-Midway.

Kornegay said the Yoa-kum offensive line must play better than they did against Columbus, and the offense as a whole must protect the ball. The ‘Dogs fumbled five times against the Cardinals and lost three of them.

“It is hard to get into a rhythm when you fumble like that. We must hold on to the ball,” Kornegay said.

The Yoakum defense will need to keep Sinton from making a big play. Korne-gay said the defense did play well against Colum-bus.

“We kept everything in front of us. I did feel we were half-step behind on getting interceptions,” he said. “But our kids ran to the football and were ag-gressive.”

Shiner St. Paul at Fort Bend Christian

St. Paul opened the sea-

son with a 60-21 win over Pettus on Friday.

Adam Hollenbach rushed for 254 yards and four touchdowns while Martin Kennedy had 88 yards on 10 attempts and one touchdown. He also caught two passes for 45 yards and a touchdown. Quarterback Dakota Kres-ta ran for 60 yards and a touchdown, and was 2-for-5 with a touchdown and in-terception in passing.

This week, the Cardinals make the trip to the Hous-ton area to play Fort Bend Christian.

“Fort Bend Christian will be a tougher game than our first game,” St. Paul head coach Jake Wachsmuth said.

The Fort Bend spread of-fense is run through quar-terback Kellen Kacal, who is a threat with his passing and his running.

“Our defense will need to contain Kacal and we will need to control the foot-ball,” Wachsmuth said. “We need to prevent Fort Bend from making big plays.”

He said Fort Bend’s de-fense pressures and pur-sues the football well.

“We will need to have long drives by mixing the run and the pass, but if we get the chance to make a big play, then we need to take it,” Wachsmuth said.

Flatonia at Sacred HeartFlatonia opened the sea-

son with a 41-6 win over Nixon-Smiley in the first game. Dalton Griffin had 100 yards rushing, and Zane Ponder ran for 74 yards.

Hallettsville Sacred Heart dropped a close one to Yorktown 8-0, with the touchdown for Yorktown coming on a fumble recov-ery in the end zone by Lane Strieber.

“This will be a battle be-tween two good teams,” Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag said. “Sacred Heart is strong on defense and they fly to the ball. Plus, they have one of the best coaches around.”

Sacred Heart (0-1) will look to pound the foot-ball on the ground, which

is what Flatonia(1-0) saw against the Mustangs.

“We will have to read our keys well, be disciplined and fly to the football,” Freytag said. “In our first game, the kids flew to the ball.”

“Another thing is in the past we would have one guy tackle the ball. This year, we would have at least six or seven players swarm-ing to the play.”

Freytag said the Bull-dog offense must eliminate turnovers, limit penalties and get the ball in the end zone after penetrating the red zone.

Indians head coach Pat Henke said the ‘Dogs have lots of depth and experi-ence.

“Their offensive line is mostly seniors,” he said. “They rotate several players out of the backfield. I think this is the year Flatonia makes some noise in their district and in the playoffs.”

The key for Sacred Heart’s defense is to not let Flatonia make big plays.

“We have to make them drive the length of the football field,” Henke said. “And we have to improve on defense.”

The defense kept York-town out of the end zone last week, but it was a fumble recovered for a touchdown that led to Yor-ktown’s win.

“We cannot afford to turn the ball over on of-fense,” Henke said. “We need to drive the length of the field when we have the ball.”

Last year, Sacred Heart came away with a win, 33-27, in overtime.

Lockhart at Austin Crockett

Fresh off their opening win against Victoria West, Lockhart is right back to work. It will be a short week for the Lions as they play Austin Crockett at 7:30 tonight at Austin ISD’s Burger Stadium in South Austin.

“The kids just executed well in all three phases of the game,” Lockhart head coach Paul Kilby said.

Crockett opened the year

with a win, defeating Aus-tin Akins 29-14.

Crockett has some speed among its receivers, most notably Trevon Louis and Nikki Tamez, who could play anywhere in the of-fensive backfield. Three-year starter at quarterback, Nicholas Azurdia, will be the trigger man for the of-fense.

“We need to contain these players,” Kilby said. “We also have to limit their big plays.”

The Cougar mainstays on defense are linebacker Marcellus Henderson (65 tackles in 2011), defensive end Marcus Mayes and free safety Jonathan Garcia (28 tackles in 2011).

On offense, Lockhart will continue to do what they do best: possess the football by using of run-heavy attack.

Cuero at Victoria WestThe Gobblers opened

with a 20-19 win over Wharton and look for more improvements as they face Victoria West on the road on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

In the hard-fought battle against Wharton, the Gob-blers (1-0) got the job done with the passing game. Blake Reeve was 23-of-29 for 329 yards and two touchdowns.

“We are still a work in progress,” Cuero head coach Travis Reeve said. “We need to continue get-ting better on both sides of the ball and on special teams.”

West was routed by Lockhart, 55-12, in their first game of the season. The Warriors did have 324 total yards of offense but had four turnovers.

Quarterback Garrett Rother went 13-of-21 pass-ing for 143 yards and two interceptions Qualian Bry-ant led West with eight car-ries for 88 yards .

“I think Victoria West is a solid team and Rother is a good quarterback,” Reeve said. “It should be another test for us.”

West will line up in a spread offense and goes no huddle.

“Our defense has to line

up correctly and correctly follow their assignment,” he said.

Against Wharton, Cuero did sail the ball through the air a lot to move the chains.

“We like to be balanced but will do whatever it takes to win,” Reeve said. “We have to execute well and not turn the ball over.”

Luling at Rice Consolidated

The Eagles are flying higher after opening the Colby Hensley era with a 35-6 win over Universal City Randolph.

Quarterback Trayden Staton had a monster of a game as he was 20-of-25 for 354 yards and four touchdowns. Josh Alvarez had three catches for 124 yards and Brendon Cubit caught six balls for 99 yards and two touchdowns. Ty Anderson had four recep-tions for 79 yards and a touchdown.

Rice Consolidated dropped their first game against St. Thomas Catho-lic, 21-20, after a fourth-quarter touchdown by St. Thomas. James Garner led the Owls with 83 yards on eight carries and Jordan Johnson rushed for 58 yards on 19 carries and one touchdown.

“They got a lot of speed and a lot of talent,” Hensley said. “Rice Consolidated is a pretty physical team and they are well coached.”

Rice Consolidated runs a spread offense similar to what the Eagles run.

“They have a good quar-terback and couple of run-ning backs to go with him,” Henlsey said. “Our prior-ity on defense is to contain the quarterback. We need to tackle well and have all 11 defenders fly to the ball. The Owls can break one if we slip up a little.”

Rice Consolidated uses a three-man front on defense in the 3-4 or 3-3 Stack.

“Our offense will need to execute, and our line will have to be physical and win the battle with their defen-sive line,” Hensley said.

He said that the game against the Owls will not make or break the Eagles,

but will let them measure how far they have come or how far they have to go in their progress.

Nixon-Smiley at Three Rivers

The Mustangs (0-1) will take what they learned in a season-opening loss to Flatonia last week and use it to make progress as they travel to Three Rivers for their second straight road game. Three Rivers scraped by Skidmore-Tynan, 19-7, on Friday.

Head coach Carlton McKinney said the key for the Mustangs to get better is lots of repetition and pa-tience.

“As long as the kids give high intensity and great effort, I think we will be headed in the right direc-tion,” he said.

Three Rivers will run the Slot-T offense, the same system utilized by the Mus-tangs.

“Three Rivers has a dif-ferent offense than what we saw against Flatonia, and their offense being like ours will help our players. Defending it will require discipline and assignment football.”

The Bulldogs’ offense will be led by running back Wesley Guzman, quarter-back Hagan Johnston and lineman James Lee and lineman Kalli Escamilla.

Three Rivers runs a modified version of the ‘Split’ system. Escamilla is one of the top players on defense as a defensive end along with linebacker Ze-non Sanchez.

McKinney said in order to be productive, the of-fense will have to execute well with the line blocking well and the backs will have to protect the football.

WILCO at Praire LeaThe Indians will try to

rally from a 66-18 loss in their season opener to San Marcos Home School. Prairie Lea will host its first home game of the season with Willamson County Home School (WILCO) as the guest.

The Cannon Thursday, September 6, 2012Page C2

PREVIEWS: Teams hoping to continue their winning waysContinued from page C1

From coaches’ reports

LOCKHART – Area runners had a good show-ing Saturday morning at the Lockhart cross country meet.

The Gonzales Lady Apaches finished third as a team in the Varsity Small Girls race. Luling’s Kristaly Munoz took first individu-ally in the Varsity Large Girls race and Carley Glass came in fifth place.Luling boys’ runner Jose Campos also finished first individu-ally in his race, the Varsity Large Boys.

“I was very proud of all the girls as they competed

hard and showed a lot of character,” Gonzales head coach Cully Doyle said. “The girls team overall is young in experience and they will continue to im-prove each week.”

The Apaches came in fourth place in the team standings for the Varsity Small Boys race with 115 points, with Gilbert Chavez coming in first place indi-vidually with a time of 10 minutes.

“I was proud of the boys’ performance and it showed that the hard work is pay-ing off. I am excited to see where we end up by Octo-ber 24th with the Girls and

Boys team,” Doyle said.Lockhart placed seventh

in the Varsity Large Girls standings with 224 points. In the Varsity Large Boys team results, Luling was in first place with 83 points, 11 better than second-place Austin St. Michaels. Host Lockhart came in fourth place with 164 points.

Luling’s Ryan Flores was in sixth place and Robert Uhr of Lockhart placed third.

Individual results (local runners only)Varsity Small Girls

12. Kaily Zumwalt, Gon-

Gonzales cross country runners (from left) Jose Olade, Valeria Aguayo and Gilbert Chavez are shown with the individual medals they earned at the recent Lockhart Cross Country Meet. (Courtesy photo)

Local runners fare well at Lockhart XC Meet

XC, Page C6

From coaches’ reports

Gonzales opened the Goliad Tourna-ment Friday with a 2-0 (25-11, 25-14) sweep of Goliad and followed up with a 25-13, 25-21 win over Banquette to place first in their pool.

The Lady Apaches started bracket play on Saturday with a 25-15, 28-26 quarter-finals win over Palacios. Gonzales next played Victoria St. Joseph in the semifi-nals, losing 25-19, 11-25, 20-25.

The Lady Apaches lost to Hallettsville in the third-place match, 22-25, 13-25. Senior Carly Bozka was named to the All-Tournament Team.

On Tuesday, Gonzales lost a road match to El Campo 3-2 (25-23, 21-25, 17-25, 25-20, 11-15).

Gonzales lost to Round Top-Carmine in the Schulenburg Tournament, 17-25, 15-25 on Aug. 23. Gonzales fell to Shiner in two sets, 23-25, 17-25 and rebounded to sweep Rice Consolidated 28-26, 25-14.

Gonzales played the hosts on Aug. 25, falling 6-25, 20-25. The Lady Apaches opened bracket play later in the day against Hallettsville Sacred Heart, falling 25-18, 22-25, 19-25.

Gonzales closed out the tournament with a 25-19, 19-25, 15-25 loss to Rice. On Aug. 28, Gonzales was swept by Co-lumbus 14-25, 7-25, 5-25.

• The Sacred Heart volleyball team came up short in four group matches Aug. 23 at the Schulenburg Tournament.

The Indianettes fell to Anderson-Shi-ro, 16-25, 17-25 to open the tournament. Adrienne Klimitchek and Robyn Pav-licek had three kills, Rachel Saulnier had

two assists with Jaycie Orsak and Kirsten Heger getting two digs each.

Giddings swept Sacred Heart 25-9, 25-18 in the next match. Klimitchek had two kills, Orsak and Amber Labay had two digs with Saulnier and Erin Miksch getting one ace each.

Sacred Heart next battled Columbus, falling in two, 5-25, 6-25. Saulnier had two assists; Jenna Brown had five digs and Klimitchek had one kill

Sacred Heart ended the day with an all-Hallettsville match with the Lady Brahmas, falling 17-25, 14-25. Labay had three aces, Klimitchek had two kills and Brown finished with three digs.

“This is a very tough tournament to try to turn a team around in. Once again I ended up going to a new lineup, we seem to be a little smoother and more comfortable in it,” said Indianette head coach Wanda Orsak.

Sacred Heart came up with its first win of the season Aug. 25 as they de-feated Gonzales, 25-18, 22-25, 25-19 in the Bronze Bracket. Brown had five digs, Labay chipped in five aces, Pavlicek had seven kills, Klimitchek had five assists and Sandra Adams had one block.

The Indianettes swept Flatonia 25-14, 25-14 in the Bronze Championship match. Brown had three aces, Klimitchek contributed two kills. Saulnier had four assists; Labay had two kills with Miksch, Pavlicek and Adams getting one block.

“Finally we found something that worked now we just need to build on it,” Orsak said. “I have to give the girls credit for not getting down while we have been struggling.”

Lady Apaches take fourth place in Goliad Tourney

Volleyball Roundup

ROUNDUP, Page C6

Trayden Staton, Luling

The Eagles quar-terback threw for 354 yards and four touchdowns in Luling’s 35-6 win over Universal City Randolph. The ju-nior signalcaller con-nected on 20 of his 25 attempts.

Honorable Mentions• Adam Hollenbach, St. Paul. Ran for 254 yards and

four TDs on 15 carries in the Cardinals’ 60-21 win over Pettus.

• Cecil Johnson, Gonzales. Picked up 211 yards rushing with three TDs in the Apaches’ 27-6 win over Victoria East.

• Teidrick Smith, Hallettsville. Rushed for 125 yards and three TDs on just eight carries in the Brahmas’ 35-14 victory over Ganado.

• Brendon Cubit, Luling. Caught six passes for 99 yards and two TDs in the Eagles’ 35-6 win over UC Randolph. He also ran for another TD and blocked an extra point attempt that was returned for a score.

• Blake Reeve, Cuero. Completed 23 of 29 passes for 329 yards and two TDs in the Gobblers’ 20-19 victory over Wharton. He also ran for a score in the game.

• Zane Ponder, Flatonia. Ran for 74 yards and three touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ 41-6 win over Nixon-Smiley.

• C.J. McKinney, Lockhart. Ran for a team-high 116 yards in the Lions’ 55-12 victory over Victoria West. He also completed both of his pass attempts for two touchdowns.

• Trevion Flowers, Shiner. Rushed for 95 yards and two TDs in the Comanches’ 36-13 win over Industrial.

• Keith Ratley, Yoakum. Caught three passes for 92 yards and a TD in the Bulldogs’ 27-25 victory over Co-lumbus. He also returned a punt 95 yards for another score.

• Ross Reimenschneider, Cuero. Hauled in six pass-es for 144 yards and a score in the Gobblers’ 20-19 win over Wharton.

GONZALES – It wasn’t very fancy, but it was cer-tainly effective.

The Gonzales Apaches used their experienced of-fensive line to their advan-tage by pounding Victoria East, 27-6, in their season opener Friday night.

“We got better as a team tonight and in non-district that’s what you want to do,” said Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock. “I thought we made a step in the right di-rection. We’ve got a lot of new people playing, but I think this bunch will con-tinue to improve.”

Cecil Johnson had a big night running the ball, gor-ing the Titan defense for 211 yards and three touch-downs on 32 carries. Gon-zales struggled in the pass-ing game but Matt Hillman did manage to connect with Francisco Diaz for a 10-yard score.

Although Lock is happy to take the win, he was cha-grined by his team’s incon-sistency on offense where the Apaches were flagged for infractions five times and failed to score in the opening quarters of both halves.

“We’ve got to clean up those penalties and stay on our blocks longer,” he said. “We’ve got to do a better job of finishing drives. We should have had 28 points by halftime, I was disap-pointed in that.”

A pleasant surprise for Lock was the play of fresh-man Alyas Ramirez, who looked good carrying ball at running back but was especially sound playing

extensively at outside line-backer.

“I thought he did well for a freshman,” said Lock. “He’s a 14-year old kid out there playing with 18-year olds and he’s holding his own.”

The Apaches (1-0) opened the game on of-fense and showed promise of their first drive. Gonza-les gained 41 yards on 10 plays before Hillman had a pass tipped and intercepted by Seth Christian.

The Titans (0-1) went three and out with the last play being a pass broken up nicely by Zack Lopez. Ramirez returned the ensu-ing punt to the Victoria 37, but the Apaches fumbled the ball away plays later on a fourth down and short.

Victoria East only ran two plays before Morgan Martinez recovered a fum-ble to give the ball back to Gonzales. The Apaches moved the ball steadily, but once again failed to convert on fourth down after six straight runs.

The Titans started on their own 25 and marched deep into Apache territory, facing a third down at the Gonzales 25. Mark Cavazos threw a pass across the middle where it was picked off by Lopez.

Gonzales began the en-suing drive going in reverse before Johnson scored on a 45-yard jaunt. Hillman ran in the two-point conver-sion on the swinging gate play.

Victoria East couldn’t answer back because the Apache defense stiffened up. Damien Airhart nearly intercepted a pass from Cameron Schultz and Tyler

Filla sacked Schultz on sec-ond down. J.T. Miller laid a big hit on Schultz the next play and then Wyatt Fim-bel’s knee hit the ground as he was taking the snap to punt on fourth down, setting up Gonzales at the Victoria 31.

It only took the Apaches five plays to score with the touchdown coming on the short pass from Hillman to Diaz with 21 seconds left in the first half.

Both teams exchanged two ineffective drives to begin the second half and the Titans finally got on the scoreboard when they capped off a five-play drive with a 42-yard run from

Chris Clark.On Victoria East’s next

possession, Martinez dropped Jonathan Ortega for a loss on first down. The next play Lanken Williams fumbled and the ball was recovered by Diaz at the Victoria 13. Johnson scored on the next play with a run up the middle.

The Apaches put the game out of reach when Johnson scampered into the end zone from 35 yards out to end a three-drive play with 1:00 left to play in the game.

Gonzales will next travel to Bastrop on Friday with the kickoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The Bears (0-1)

lost their opener to Cedar Park Vista Ridge 30-0.

Game SummaryGonzales 27, Victoria East 6

Score By QuartersVE 0 0 6 0–6GHS 0 14 0 13–27

Scoring SummarySecond QuarterG - Cecil Johnson 45 run (Matt

Hillman run), 4:06G - Francisco Diaz 10 pass

from Hillman (run failed), 0:21Third QuarterV - Chris Clark 42 run (kick

failed), 1:46Fourth QuarterG - Johnson 13 run (run

failed), 8:50 G - Johnson 35 run (Hillman

kick), 1:00

Team Statistics

VE Gon First downs 6 10Rushes-yds 27-102 46-248Passing yds 67 30 Passes 9-19-1 2-11-1Punts-yds 4-105 2-79 Penalties-yds 8-50 7-49Fumbles-lost 3-3 1-1

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -Gonzales: Cecil

Johnson 32-211, Zack Lopez 8-26, Alyas Ramirez 5-14, Matt Hill-man 1-(-3). Victoria East: Mark Cavazos 6-24, Lanken Williams 4-8, Cameron Schultz 6-15, Chris Clark 9-69, Jonathan Ortega 1-(-2), TEAM 1-(-12)

PASSING - Gonzales: Matt Hillman 2-11-30-1. Mark Cavazos 4-9-22-1, Cameron Schultz 5-10-45

RECEIVING - Gonzales: Dar-rance James 1-20, Francisco Diaz 1-10. Victoria East: Deondric Lof-ton 2-42, Jonathan Ortega 4-17, Lanken Williams 2-(-7), Trent Whitley 1-15.

The CannonThursday, September 6, 2012 Page C3

Friday Night Lights



Apaches run away from Victoria East

Bulldogs pound Mustangs into submission during 41-6 victory

Breaking AnklesGonzales running back Cecil Johnson (12) weaves his way through the Victoria East defense during this run in the first half of the Apaches’ 27-6 win. Johnson finished with 211 yards and three touchdowns. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

FLATONIA — Flatonian physicalness is a two-way starter.

The Bulldogs opened their 2012 season with a punishing 41-6 win over the Nixon-Smiley Mus-tangs Friday night at Bull-dog Field.

Flatonia’s (1-0) ground game produced 288 of 313 yards of offense due to stel-lar blocking by both the offensive line and the of-fensive backfield. The ‘Dog defense held the Mustang’s equally run-dominated of-fense to just 10 yards, in-cluding minus-34 yards rushing.

“We physically wore them down tonight and pretty much pounded them,” Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag said. “Defen-sively, we had a great game plan. We dominated them and that is what you want to do.”

“We are a lot more physi-cal this year and probably one of the most physical teams we have ever had in a long time. That is how you win football games: be able to run the ball and manage the game on offense and play sound defense.”

The ‘Dog running back committee of Zane Ponder, Dalton Griffin, Mitchell Mica, Marcus Mica, Aaron Manzano and Eddie Man-zano all got carries out of the backfield, in addition to quarterbacks Will Bruns and Colby Craig.

“We have five to six re-ally good running backs,” Freytag said. “When you

have that many, they all get to touch the ball. They can run any play and the great-est thing about our backs is they know how to block. That is the key to our of-fense right now. Our backs can block.”

He added the Flatonia offensive line controlled the line of scrimmage and both Bruns and Craig did well in managing the game.

The ‘Dogs had a couple of issues on kickoff teams, with a kickoff that went out of bounds and inadequate

coverage that allowed a big return from the ‘Stangs.

“We cannot get a 20-point lead and then let them back into the game with a big kickoff return,”he said. “Special teams tack-ling was not all that good. We have some things to work on for special teams.”

While it was a rough start for Nixon and head coach Carlton McKinney, they can look on the bright side and see that their new-to-varsity players now have a little bit of experience un-

der their belts“Our inexperience really

showed tonight,” McKin-ney said. “We have some positions that are being played by sophomores or juniors with little (varsity) experience. We did not come out and play the way we are capable of playing.”

“We got down early and could not figure out a way to get back in the game. We will have to go back and work on their confidence and get ready for Three

Flatonia’s Gus Venegas hauls in a pass from quarterback Will Bruns close to the Mustang goal line while Nixon-Smiley’s Miguel Hernandez attempts to disrupt the play. (Photo by Mark Lube)

FLATONIA, Page C4

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By RON OSWALTCannon Correspondent

Cardinals’ offense way too speedy, easily zips past Pettus in 60-21 win

Friday Night Lights

Rivers.”The “Dogs had five pos-

sessions in the first half and scored on every one of them.

Flatonia opened the game with a 10-play, 67-yard scoring drive. Griffin gained 17 yards on a toss and Ponder took a wildcat snap as the quarterback to convert a third-and-3 play. He capped the drive with an 11-yard scoring run.

The ‘Stangs ran three plays on their first offen-sive series and had to punt. The snap was high and over the head of punter Tristan Newman. He collected the ball and tried to run for the first down but was tackled at his 18, a loss of 21 yards.

It took Flatonia three plays to score, with Ponder getting his second of the game with a 13-yard scam-per.

On the next drive, New-man picked up 10 yards on a third-and-11 play, and Nixon elected to go for the first down. Fullback Jared Van Auken was brought down for a 2-yard loss.

Starting at the Nixon 32, the ‘Dogs got to the 9 in just two plays— a 16- and 7-yard run by Griffin. Mitchell Mica then carried three straight times, scor-ing from the 2 to help give Flatonia a 21-0 lead.

The ‘Stangs received a break on their next series as

Newman was stopped two yards short of a first down, but a personal-foul call against Flatonia gave Nixon a first down at the ‘Dog 45 and two players later, quar-terback Nick Pena faked a handoff and made a quick throw to Garrett Earlywine who outraced several Flato-nia defenders for a 44-yard score.

The home side answered with an 84-yard drive in four plays, capped by a 49-yard run by Griffin, who managed to break several tackles in the secondary on the way to the end zone.

Nixon got a little revival as Newman returned the following kickoff 50 or 60 yards to the ‘Dog 23. The ‘Stangs did not finish the drive as Pena was sacked on fourth down.

Flatonia scored once more before halftime — a 10-play march that con-sumed over four minutes off the clock. Mitchell Mica capped the drive with a 2-yard run and Flatonia held a 35-6 lead 0:22 before halftime.

Nixon opened the third quarter with some runs from Van Auken, Pena and Newman but to no success and had a 25-yard punt. Ponder raced 57 yards for a touchdown that was called back on a Flatonia hold. The Nixon defense recov-ered a fumbled snap on the next play.

The ‘Stangs could not

capitalize on the field po-sition and had another mishap on special teams as Newman was dragged down for a 24-yard loss.

Flatonia scored the game’s final touchdown as Ponder completed his hat trick on a 25-yard run.

Game SummaryFlatonia 41, Nixon-Smiley 6

Score by QuartersNS 0 6 0 0-6F 14 21 6 0-41

Scoring SummaryF-Zane Ponder 11 run (Will

Bruns kick)F-Ponder 13 run (Bruns kick)F-Mitchell Mica 2 run (Bruns

kick)NS-Garrett Earlywine 44 pass

from Nick Pena (kick failed)F-Dalton Griffin 49 run (run

failed)F-Mica 2 run (Mica run)F-Ponder 25 run (run failed)

Team Stats NS FFirst downs 4 15Rushes-yards 37-(-34) 46-288Passing yards 44 25Passing 2-4 1-1Total offense 41-10 47-313Punts-average 3-15.6 1-25Fumbles-lost 2-1 4-1Penalties-yards 2-10 7-70

Individual statsRushing — Nixon-Smiley: Jar-

ed Van Auken 16-23, Nick Pena 5-(-10), Miguel Hernandez 6-(-11), Tristan Newman 10-(-36). Flatonia: Dalton Griffin 13-129, Zane Ponder 7-74, Aaron Man-zano 5-32, Marcus Mica 5-26, Mitchell Mica 8-24, Colby Craig 4-4, Will Bruns 1-3, TEAM 1-1, Eddie Manzano 2-(-5).

Passing — Nixon-Smiley: Pena 2-4-0-44. Flatonia: Bruns 1-1-0-25.

Receiving — Nixon-Smiley: Garrett Earlywine 1-44, Newman 1-0. Flatonia: Gus Venegas 1-25.

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FLATONIA: Scored on each of their five first half possessions

SHINER—The St. Paul Cardinals may have devel-oped a new school cheer.

This one’s easy. It goes, “Meep-Meep!” Then you stick out your tongue and disappear over the horizon at the speed of light.

Just about the time the Pettus Eagles began creep-ing up Wile E. Coyote-style on the top-ranked Cardinals Friday, Adam Hollenbach and friends did the Roadrunner on them.

Hollenbach scored three third-quarter touchdowns — including two on runs of 83 and 53 on succes-sive offensive plays — and Mitchell McElroy’s pick-six hammered home the point as the Cardinals roared off with a 60-21 season-opening win Fri-day.

“It’s good to get a win, but we’ve got a long way to go,” said St. Paul coach Jake Wachsmuth, who cel-ebrated his return to the Cardinal program with the win. “It was a typical first game. I told the kids that yeah, we did some things that were good, but if we play like this five weeks from now, we will lose.”

It was an evening of big plays by both teams, but the Cardinals’ 27-point ex-plosion in the third quar-ter left the Eagles’ hopes for a come-from-behind win skidding over the cliff.

St. Paul, leading 27-14 at halftime, opened the second half on an off-note when Pettus’ Darren Cap-istran picked off an over-thrown Dakota Kresta pass. But the St. Paul de-fense held, and an Eagle punt rolled dead at the Cardinal 17-yard line.

On the next snap from scrimmage, Hollenbach found a seam on the right side and zipped into the secondary, racing 83 yards for a score which made it 35-14.

Another defensive stop and another punt later, Hollenbach repeated the feat, this time from 53 yards away. And to add insult to injury, three plays after Hollenbach’s second TD made it 41-14, McEl-roy stepped in front of a John Grayson pass and raced down the sidelines with a 28-yard return for an insurmountable 47-14

lead with 5:07 still remain-ing in the third period.

A 20-yard burst by Martin Kennedy, coupled with a personal-foul pen-alty against the Eagles, set the stage for Hollenbach’s third score of the quarter, a 16-yarder with 3:00 left in the period to make it a 54-14 ball game.

The Cardinals got off to a good start in the contest, but the Eagles got some big plays of their own from Casey Jones and Staton Lindemann to threaten the state’s top-ranked TAPPS Division IV team.

A 30-yard punt return by Kennedy set up St. Paul’s first score, as Kresta concluded a short 22-yard drive with a 14-yard quar-terback scramble.

The Cardinals’ defensive front, anchored by Laddie Patek and Tyler Morgan, gave the Pettus backs fits and forced another punt. The Cardinals respond-ed with another scoring drive, covering 47 yards in just four plays, with Ken-nedy bolting 15 yards for the payoff to make it a 13-0 ball game.

A fumble recovery by Morgan stopped a Pettus threat at the St. Paul 12-yard line, and the Cardi-nals mounted a 13-play, 88-yard march. Hollen-bach scored from nine yards out to take a 19-0 lead.

Pettus — a 9-3 Class 2A playoff team a year ago — wasn’t about to roll over, however. On the Eagles’ next play, Jones got the edge around right end and turned it into a 66-yard scoring run. Jones finished his evening with 184 rush-ing yards on just 10 carries.

The Eagles followed with a defensive stop of their own, and a play later Grayson found Lindeman behind two defenders and turned it into a 51-yard touchdown pass.

The Cardinals answered in kind just before the first half ended, when Kresta capped a 55-yard, four-play drive by drilling Ken-nedy with a strike on a crossing pattern which the senior turned into a 41-yard TD play and a 27-14 lead.

The Eagles got their final score midway through the fourth quarter, with Jones wrapping up a five-play, 50-yard march with a 14-yard scoring run.

The Cardinals’ second offense put together a ball-control drive of their own as the clock wound down, running 10 plays and cov-ering 50 yards before T.J. Bell crashed into the end zone from a yard out for the final score.

Wachsmuth said that al-though the margin of vic-tory was satisfying, some of the sloppy play was not; the Cardinals had 60 pen-alty yards and fumbled four times.

“You’re never in as good a shape to start the season as you want to be, but the good thing is it’s stuff these kids know,” he said. “And you’ve got to give Pettus credit, they’ve got some guys on that team who are some good players. There was a period of time there where they were giving it to us.

“We’ll get better. When you get a big lead like that, you tend to let your defense down a little. But we’ll get better.”

Game SummarySt. Paul 60, Pettus 21

Pettus 0 14 0 7—21St. Paul 13 14 27 6—60

Scoring PlaysStP—Dakota Kresta 14 run (Adam Hollenbach kick)StP—Martin Kennedy 15 run (kick failed)StP—Hollenbach 9 run (kick failed)PET—Casey Jones 66 (Dylan Dunn kick)PET—Staton Lindemann 51 pass from John Grayson (Dunn kick)StP—Kennedy 41 pass from Kres-ta (Kennedy pass from Kresta)StP—Hollenbach 83 run (Hollen-bach run)StP—Hollenbach 53 run (pass failed)StP—Mitchell McElroy 28 inter-ception return (kick failed)StP—Hollenbach 16 run (Hollen-bach kick)PET—Jones 14 run (Dunn kick)StP—T.J. Bell 1 run (kick failed)

Team Statistics Pettus St.PaulFirst Downs 10 21Rushes-Yards 34-211 47-458Passing Yards 72 45Passes 3-10-1 2-5-1Fumbles-Lost 2-1 4-1Penalties-Yards 7-70 6-60Punts-Avg 5-33.8 0Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Pettus, Josh Herrera 10-35, Casey Jones 10-184, John Grayson 8-(-26), Stayton Lin-demann 3-13, Pete Garcia 2-1. St. Paul, Mitchell McElroy 2-8, Adam Hollenbach 15-254, Mar-tin Kennedy 10-88, Dakota Kres-ta 6-60, T.J. Bell 10-61, Marco Ynclan 3-(-15), Jed Janecek 1-3.PASSING: Pettus, John Grayson 3-10-1-72. St. Paul, Dakota Kres-ta 2-5-1-45.RECEIVING: Pettus, Stayton Lindemann 1-51, Kyle McJunkins 1-11, Casey Jones 1-3. St. Paul, Martin Kennedy 2-45.

St. Paul’s Mitchell McElroy (25) and Martin Kennedy (5) plow the road to spring Adam Hollenbach (21) on his 53-yard touchdown run in the third period. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

LULING – The Luling Eagles under first year head coach Colby Hensley showed no signs of install-ing a new system as they rolled to an easy 35-6 win over the Ro-Hawks of Uni-versal City Randolph in front of a packed crowd at Eagles Stadium.

The Eagles would get on the board first as junior quarterback Trayden Sta-ton threw a pass to sopho-more running back Bren-don Cubit for a 52-yard touchdown pass down the left sideline with 7:10 left in the first quarter.

Luling wasted little time adding to the scoreboard as Staton would connect with Cubit again on a 5-yard slant to push the Eagles advantage to 12-0 as the 2-point conversion failed at the 9:37 mark in the second quarter.

However, the Ro-Hawks wouldn’t take long to put up some points of their

own. They scored when Ro-Hawk running back Alonzo Barclift scored on a 7-yard run, but the PAT was blocked by Cubit and returned by defensive back Abraham Palomo to put the Eagles ahead 14-6 with 4:30 left in half.

On the next drive, Staton took very little time as he connected on an 89-yard pass to junior wide receiver Josh Alvarez, the PAT was good by kicker Shawnessy Marshall.

The Eagles would roll up 237 yards of offense to 134 for the visiting Ro-Hawks in the first half alone, while allowing only 134 total yards to Randolph.

After halftime, the Ro-Hawks came out with a rejuvenated spirit as they held the Eagles to a score-less third quarter. How-ever, the Eagles hit the gas pedal a little harder as Cu-bit punched it in for a one-yard touchdown; the PAT was added by Marshall to make it 28-6 with 6:31 left in the final quarter.

The Eagles kept on roll-ing over the Ro-Hawks as Staton threw a 5-yard pass to junior wide receiver Ty Anderson, the PAT was good by Marshall to push it to the final score 35-6.

Defensively, the Eagles played a fantastic game, forcing four fumbles and having an interception. The Eagles’ Chess Elley led the defense and stayed in the Ro-Hawks backfield most of the night.

Postgame, Hensley shared how it felt to win his first game as the Eagles’ boss.

“It is unbelievable when you go to a stadium and the crowd is absolutely nuts,” he said. “It’s a great feeling, and it’s even better when you have a group of kids that work so hard and see them succeed at a high level.”

Staton had a great night. He went 20-for-25 passing for 354 yards and zero in-terceptions.

Luling’s Brendon Cubit stiff-arms UC Randolph’s Damani Phillips en route to a touchdown. Cubit scored three times in the game. (Photo by Ron Oswalt)

Luling rolls in season opener to 35-6 win over UC Randolph

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COLUMBUS — Keith Rat-ley scored on two long plays, a 95-yard punt return and a 71-yard pass from quarter-back Chase Hermes, and the Yoakum Bulldogs weathered a 57-pass barrage by Columbus’ Tyson Simcik to hold on for a 27-25 victory in the season opener for both teams Friday.

After a scoreless first quar-ter, the Bulldogs struck twice in the second period for a 14-0 halftime lead.

Ratley fielded a Cardinal punt at his own 5-yard line and raced to paydirt at the 5:03 mark to put Yoakum on top. Myron Hights added a 31-yard scoring run to cap a six-play, 52-yard drive with 1:21 remaining. Reagan Jacobs toed both point-after kicks.

A fumble recovery by Zach Woytek set the Cardinals up for their first points of the eve-ning. Cameron Stovall gath-ered in a 13-yard scoring pass from Simcik to cut the gap to 14-7.

A 49-yard return of the en-suing kickoff by Ratley got the Bulldogs going again, how-ever. Hermes capped a 7-play, 36-yard march by plunging in from a yard away.

Simcik completed 32 of 57 passes for 338 yards and four touchdowns, with three of those scores coming in a furi-ous fourth quarter.

The Cardinals marched 86 yards in 10 plays to cut the Yo-akum lead to 21-13 when Sim-cik found Darius Stevens for a 20-yard TD pass. A Yoakum fumble put Columbus back in business moments later, and Simcik led a 66-yard, 11-play march with a two-yard scor-ing pass to Stevens with 5:08 remaining in the game.

The Bulldogs recovered, however, when Ratley struck again moments later, turning a Hermes pass into a 71-yard TD that made it 27-19.

YOAKUM 27, COLUMBUS 25Yoakum 0 14 7 6—27Columbus 0 0 718—25

Scoring SummaryYOAK — Keith Ratley, 95-yd

punt return (Reagan Jacobs kick)YOAK—Myron Hights, 31-yd

run. (Jacobcs kick) COL—Cameron Stovall, 13-yd

pass from Tyson Simcik. (Derrick Hayes kick)

YOAK—Chase Hermes, 1-yd run. (Jacobs kick)

COL—Darius Stevens, 20-yd pass from Simcik (kick failed)

COL—Stevens, 2-yd pass from Simcik (pass failed)

YOAK—Ratley, 71-yd pass from Hermes. (kick failed)

COL—Dari’yon Shorter, 7-yd pass from Simcik (pass failed)Team statistics YOAK COLFirst Downs 8 22Rushes-Yds 31-72 19-57Passing Yds 131 338Passes 8-19-0 32-57-1Fumbles-Lost 5-3 1-1Punts-Avg 5-25 7-38Penalties-Yds 3-11 9-55

Individual LeadersRUSHING: Yoakum, Myron

Hights, 7-55, Reagan Jacobs, 6-15, Chase Hermes, 8-2. Colum-bus, Detri’yon Carter, 9-42.

PASSING: Yoakum, Chase Hermes 8-19-1-131. Columbus, Tyson Simcik, 32-57-1-338.

RECEIVING: Yoakum, Keith Ratley, 3-92, TJ Hights, 2-32. Co-

lumbus, Darius Stevens, 11-154, Detri’yon Carter, 7-59, Cameron Stovall, 6-42, Dari’yon Shorter, 3-40.

Cuero 20, Wharton 19

CUERO — Justin Rossett snagged a 30-yard scoring pass from Blake Reeve with just two seconds remaining Friday to lift the Cuero Gobblers to a dramatic come-from-behind 20-19 win over the Wharton Tigers.

The late-game heroics erased a 19-14 Wharton lead after quarterback Bartee Gris-som plunged over from a yard out early in the third period.

Reeve hit 23 of 29 passes for 329 yards and two scores. His first TD pass came at the 3:53 mark of the second period on an 84-yard play to Ross Rei-menschneider that staked the Gobblers to a 14-12 edge at intermission.

Alfred Pinkney staked the Tigers to an early 6-0 lead with a 1-yard scoring run in the opening period, but Cu-ero came back when Reeve scored on a 1-yard run early in the second period. Wharton closed Cuero’s 14-6 lead after the Reeve to Reimenschneider pass with a 40-yard strike of their own from Grissom to Leeshad O’Neal, but the failed conversion points would come back to haunt the Tigers later.

CUERO 20, WHARTON 19Wharton 6 6 7 0 --19Cuero 0 14 0 6 --20

Scoring summaryWHA -- Alfred Pinkney 1-yard

run (pass failed)CUE -- Blake Reeve 1-yard run

(Pearson Reese kick)CUE -- Ross Reimenschneider

84-yard pass from Blake Reeve (Pearson Reese kick)

WHA -- Leeshad O’Neal 40-yard pass from Bartee Grissom (pass failed)

WHA -- Bartee Grissom 1-yard run (Brett Kocian kick)

CUE -- Justin Rossett 30-yard pass from Blake Reeve (run failed)Team Stats WHA CUEROFirst downs 18 21Rushes-Yds 30-203 27-72Passing Yards 202 329Passes 13-22-1 23-30-1Punts-Avg 1-38 0Fumbles/Lost 2-0 4-3Penalties-yards 10-81 1-5

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Wharton, Brett Ko-

cian 1-4, Bartee Grissom 8-52, Alfred Pinkney 15-122, Dontre Elliott 6-21, Ashton Branch 1-4. Cuero, Blake Reeve 10-15, Justin Kremling 16-61, Tristian Barefield 1-1, Hunter Fales 1-(-5).

PASSING: Wharton, Bartee Grissom 13-22-1-202. Cuero, Blake Reeve 23-29-1-329.

RECEIVING: Wharton, Leeshad O’Neal 2-63, Dontre Elliott 1-3, Ashton Branch 2-21, Dontay Bell 6-102, Alfred Branch 1-14, Devonte Durgan 1-(-1). Cuero, Ross Reimenschneider 6-144, Justin Rossett 8-98, Justin Krem-ling 4-50, Tristan Barefield 3-17, D’Andrew Gallagher 1-19, Cole Liendo 1-1.

Shiner 36, Industrial 13

VA N D E R B I LT— C a l e b Curtis and Trevion Flowers each scored two touchdowns as the Shiner Comanches pounded their way to a 36-13 win over the Industrial Cobras Friday.

Flowers and Curtis each scored on short runs as the state-ranked Comanches opened up an early 14-0 lead. Flowers capped a drive with a 1-yard dive with 3:07 left in the opening period, and Cur-tis helped the Comanches fol-low up on a turnover a minute later by crashing into the end zone from four yards out.

The Cobras came back, however, scoring on the fi-nal play of the first half. Jay Rubio nailed A.J. Rosas with a 20-yard TD pass to cut the Comanche lead to 14-7 at in-termission.

Industrial pulled to within a point in the third period when Will Knopp scored on a 7-yard run, but the Comanches coun-tered with a 13-yard TD run from Curtis late in the period to extend their lead to 22-13.

A 60-yard scoring jaunt by Flowers to open the fourth quarter extended the Coman-ches’ lead, and a final 18-yard TD run by Jacob Stafford sealed the win for Shiner.

The Comanches pounded out 227 rushing yards on 34 carries in the contest.

SHINER 36, INDUSTRIAL 13Shiner 14 0 8 14 --36Industrial 0 7 6 0 --13

Scoring summarySHI -- Trevion Flowers 1-yard

run (kick failed)SHI -- Caleb Curtis 4-yard run

(Caleb Curtis run)IND -- A.J. Rosas 20-yard pass

from Jay Rubio (Mason Davis kick)

IND -- Will Knopp 7-yard run (kick failed)

SHI -- Caleb Curtis 13-yard run (Caleb Curtis run)

SHI -- Trevion Flowers 60-yard run (Rigo Baray kick)

SHI -- Jacob Stafford 18-yard run (Rigo Baray kick)Team Stats SHIN INDUSFirst downs 13 14Rushes-Yds 34-227 29-65Passing Yards 24 102Passes 1-6-0 14-31-1Punts-Avg 2-33 3-26.3Fumbles-Lost 3-0 5-2Penalties-yards 6-50 4-24

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Shiner, Jacob Staf-

ford 6-65, Trevion Flowers 16-95, Caleb Curtis 9-70, Marcus Cole-man 3-(-3). Industrial, Will Knopp 2-7, Jay Rubio 20-60, A.J. Rosas 2-3, Brandon Maraggia 1-2, Tren-ton Thetford 1-(-5).

PASSING: Shiner, Trevion Flow-ers 1-6-0-24. Industrial, Jay Rubio 14-31-1-102.

RECEIVING: Shiner, Caleb Ka-lich 1-24. Industrial, Evan Gregg 2-5, A.J. Rosas 4-35, Rhett Moss-er 1-8, Brandon Maraggia 1-4, Bryson Koop 2-12, Bryan Franz 3-25, Jeffrey Koch 1-13.

Yorktown 8, Sacred Heart 0

YORKTOWN — York-town’s Lane Strieber recovered a third-quarter fumble in the Sacred Heart end zone to lift the Wildcats to an 8-0 season-opening win over the Indians in a hard-fought defensive struggle.

The fumble recovery came after Sacred Heart had re-covered a Yorktown fumble at its own 1-yard line to stop the Wildcats’ deepest scoring threat of the contest.

Yorktown quarterback Derek Franke ran in the two-point conversion for the final margin.




LULING: Staton has big night in opener, throws for over 300

Staton mentioned what most contributed to his game.

“I think it is the condi-tioning over the course of two-a-days in the summer,” he said. “When you run ten half gases, it’s a heck of a trip.”

The 1-0 Eagles return to action next week on the road versus the Rice Con-solidated Raiders for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.

LULING 35, UC RANDOLPH 6

Randolph 0 6 0 0— 6Luling 6 15 0 14—35

Scoring PlaysLUL—Brendon Cubit 52 pass

from Trayden Staton (kick failed)LUL—Cubit 5 pass from Staton

(pass failed)RAND—Alonzo Barclift 7 run

(kick failed)LUL—Abraham Palomo return

of blocked PAT kickLUL—Josh Alvarez 89 pass

from Staton (Shawnessy Marshall kick)

LUL—Cubit 1 run (Marshall kick)

LUL—Ty Anderson 5 pass from Staton (Marshall kick)Team Statistics RAN LULFirst Downs 12 13Rushes-Yards 43-191 21-23Passing Yards 28 354

Passes 2-15-1 20-25-0Fumbles-Lost 4-1 4-1Penalties-Yards 5-45 5-37Punts-Avg 4-27 4-32

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Randolph, Christian

Hosley 9-65, Damani Phillips 4-2, Bo Brust 9-12, Alonzo Barclift 12-64, Andy Rivera 2-13, Bryan Lon-don 6-29, Leo Blount 1-6. Luling, Brendon Cubit 8-5, Trayden Sta-ton 10-(-4), Aaron Werlein 3-22.

PASSING: Randolph, Bo Brust 2-15-2-28. Luling, Trayden Staton 20-25-354.

RECEIVING: Randolph, Chris-tian Hosley 1-6, Damani Phillips 1-22. Luling, Josh Alvarez 3-124, Ty Anderson 4-79, Brendon Cubit 6-99, Jorge Munoz 4-25, Keeton Coe 3-27.

Friday Night Lights

GONZALES – The Gon-zales junior varsity football team did something a little out of the ordinary in their season opener Thursday evening – they took on a varsity team.

The Runge Yellowjack-ets varsity to be exact, who came away with a 27-0 win at Apache Field as they held Gonzales to 63 yards of of-fense and just three first downs.

The game provided the JV squad a taste of their varsity brothers’ normal Friday night routine.

“It is a chance for them to get their feet wet,” Gonzales JV coach Larry Wuthrich said. “And it is a chance for our JV players to go through the experience of Friday Night lights. They will benefit from this expe-rience in the future.”

The Yellowjackets came through with a punishing power ground game that netted nearly 300 yards. Still Gonzales did not give up and fought hard.

“The boys played physi-cal. When you lose not everything goes wrong for you,”Wuthrich said.

The Apaches took the opening kickoff but was unable to move the ball ef-fectively, save for a 5-yard run by Travis Schauer.

Runge’s Jeric Esparaza picked off a Brant Philippus pass to set up the Yellow-jackets at the Gonzales 17. Dylan Torres had 12-yard run and scored two plays later for the 6-0 Runge lead.

After forcing a three-and-out, Runge had good field position at the Apache

48 and moved the ball down inside the 30, getting a fourth-down conversion on the pass from quarter-back Rob Molina to Torres for 11 yards. The drive later ended when Molina was sacked on fourth down at the Apache 44.

Gonzales stalled once more on offense but had a 44-yard punt to the Yellow-jacket 14 and Runge had a return out to the 36. Runge had a sustained drive that ended at the Gonzales 15 as running back Travis Perez was brought down a yard shy of the marker.

The Apaches had a chance to move the foot-ball as Schauer hauled in a 4-yard pass from Philippus to set up third down-and-five but a penalty killed the drive and the Tribe had a punt to their 41.

Runge set up at the plus-30 and Molina scooted 30 yards for the score. Esparza recovered a teammate’s fumble in the end zone on the two-point play for a 14-0 Runge advantage.

The Yellowjackets forced another punt by Gonzales but did not cross the 50 on offense as Esparaza gained 9 yards before Sammy Gonzales stripped the ball from him and recovered the fumble.

Esparaza grabbed an interception on the next possession to end another Apache drive.

Runge opened the third quarter with a six-min-ute plus, 13-play, 74-yard drive that ended with Mo-lina, who was moved to the backfield, catching a 27-yard pass from quarterback Perez.

A 1-yard plunge by Mo-

lina on the first play of the fourth quarter, with the extra point no good, tal-lied what would be the final score of the game.

On its next possession, Gonzales had some better luck moving the ball. On a third-and-6 play, running back Allen Beene gained 15 yards for a first down and later, Phillippus went to Schauer for an 8-yard gain to convert a fourth down.

Runge kept Gonzales out of the end zone on its last two possessions of the game.

Game SummaryRunge 27, Gonzales JV 0

Runge 6 8 7 6-27Gonz 0 0 0 0-0

R-Dylan Torres 5 run (kick failed)

R-Rob Molina 30 run (Jeric Esparza fumble recovery in end zone)

R-Molina 27 pass fromTravis Perez (Ryan Saucedo kick)

R- Molina 1 run (kick failed)

Team stats Runge Gonzales

First downs 15 3Rushes-yards 46-280 27-46Passing 4-7-0 4-9-2Passing yards 59 16Total offense 53-339 36-62Punts-average 0-0 4-30Fumbles-lost 5-1 4-1 Penalties-yards 10-75 4-20

Individual statsRUSHING — Runge: Travis

Perez 7-103, Dylan Torres 12-80, Rob Molina 14-59, Ryan Bird 4-13, Jeric Esparaza 3-12, Eric Gutier-rez 2-8, Justin Vasquez 2-5, Corey Barnes 1-5, Kevin Torres 1-(-5). Gonzales JV: Jaime Tellez 12-38, Allen Beene 6-18, Travis Schauer 3-(-1), Brant Philippus 4-(-4), Er-nest Porter 2-(-5).

PASSING — Runge: Perez 2-2-0-18, Molina 2-5-0-14. Gonzales: Phillippus 4-9-2-16.

RECEVING — Runge: Molina 1-27, Esparaz 1-18, Dylan Torres 1-11, Bird 1-3. Gonzales: Schauer 2-12, Tellez 2-4.

Gonzales JV comes up short against Runge’s varsity, 27-0

Gonzales’ Mark Perez tackles Runge’s Rob Molina during the first half of the JV Apaches’ loss to the Yellowjacket varsity Thursday night. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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LOCKHART — The Lock-hart Lions pounded home six second-quarter touchdowns and had three 100-yard rush-ers to race off with a convinc-ing 55-12 victory over Victo-ria West Friday in the season opener for both teams.

Quarterback C.J. McKin-ney led the way by carrying 13 times for 116 yards and saw his only two passes of the game both go for touchdowns to Brandon Clinger.

LOCKHART 55,

VICTORIA WEST 12Victoria West 0 6 6 0—12Lockhart 7 35 6 7—55

Scoring summaryLCK -- Brandon Clinger 36-

yard pass from C.J. McKinney (Jordan Johnson kick)

LCK -- Brandon Clinger 20-yard pass from C.J. McKinney (Jordan Johnson kick)

LCK -- Curtis Hawkins 16-yard run (C.J. McKinney run)

LCK -- Brandon Miller 10-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick)

VWE -- Qualian Bryant 75-yard run (kick failed)

LCK -- Charles Ereaux 5-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick)

LCK -- Marcos Rodriguez 3-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick)

LCK -- Marcos Rodriguez 2-yard run (kick failed)

VWE -- Chaz Johnson 1-yard run (kick failed)

LCK -- J.D. Franco 19-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick)Team Stats West LockFirst downs 16 30Rushes-Yds 29-181 62-444Passing Yards 143 56Passes 13-21-2 2-2-0Punts-Avg 0 0Fumbles/Lost 3-2 1-1Penalties-yards 0-0 0-0

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: West, Garrett Roth-

er 14-51, Chaz Johnson 3-1, Qual-ian Bryant 8-88. Lockhart, Marcos Rodriguez 16-112, Brandon Mill-er 1-10, C.J. McKinney 13-116, Curtis Hawkins 15-104.

PASSING: West, Garrett Rother 13-21-2-143. Lockhart, C.J. McK-inney 2-2-0-56.

RECEIVING: West, Jacob Arm-strong 5-66, Anthony Navarro 3-33. Lockhart, Brandon Clinger 2-56.

Hallettsville 35,Ganado 14

HALLETTSVILLE — Nate Kowalik threw for one touch-down and ran for another, while Teidrick Smith added three touchdown runs as the Brahmas raced off with the victory.

HALLETTSVILLE 35,GANADO 14

Ganado 0 6 0 8 —14Hallettsville 0 14 14 7—35

Scoring SummaryHAL--Dalton Herrington 58-

yard pass from Nate Kowalik (Timmy Sheppard pass to Justin Reeves)

GAN--Clay Vesely 1 yard run (run failed)

HAL--Kowalik 5 yard run (kick failed)

HAL--Teidrick Smith 40 yard run (Sam Barrera kick)

HAL--Smith 63 yard run (Bar-rera kick)

Ganado: Kaleb Leal 4 yard run (Ray Salazar run)

Halletsville: Smith 11 yard run (Barrera kick)Team Stats Gan Hall First Downs: 12 17Rushes-Yards 21-89 50-178Passing Yards 89 129Passes 6-20-0 8-25-0Punts-Avg 3-39 2-30Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1Penalties-Yards 5-55 7-70

Individual LeadersRUSHING: Ganado, Clay Vese-

ley 31-106. Hallettsville, Teidrick Smith 8-125, Nate Kowalik 8-82.

PASSING: Ganado, Ray Salazar 7-16-0-82, Clay Veseley 1-9-0-28. Hallettsville, Nate Kowalik 8-25-0-129.

RECEIVING: Hallettsville, Dal-ton Herrington 3-73, Trenton Mc-Gee 3-56

Second quarter blitz helps Lions deliver stunner to Victoria West

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HOUSTON — At a time when people in big cit-ies are becoming increas-ingly disconnected from the world of nature and the outdoors, the 4th annual Take Me Outdoors Hous-ton is set for Sept. 15 at Discovery Green.

The free, family-oriented outdoors festival will fea-ture hands-on activities, booths and opportunities for people to experience the great outdoors even if they haven’t had much ex-posure to Texas beyond the city limit signs.

“By introducing Texans, especially urban adults and kids, to outdoor recreation, our woods and waters and natural places become more relevant and impor-tant to them,” said Heidi Rao, Texas Parks and Wild-life Department hunter education specialist.

“We believe recreation leads to conservation. Folks out there enjoying the natural world come to care about it and finally to care for it.”

Take Me Outdoors

Houston will run from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 at Discovery Green, a 12-acre park created by a public/private partnership between the City of Hous-ton and the non-profit Dis-covery Green Conservancy. The park’s mission is to provide a beautiful, urban green space in the heart of Houston that serves as a village green for the city. It is located across Avenida de las Americas from the George R. Brown Conven-tion Center and the Hilton Americas Hotel, sitting be-tween the Toyota Center and Minute Maid Park.

Take Me Outdoors Houston will consist of a variety of exhibitors clus-tered in topical zones and a wide range of activities, including:

The Nature & Environ-mental Zone will include a Rock Climbing Wall; TP-WD’s State Parks Division, Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Program, and Urban Outdoor Program; Katy Prairie Conservancy; Armand Bayou Nature

Center; Wetlands Center and Baytown Nature Cen-ter; Student Conservation Association; and Nature Heritage Society.

The Hunting & Wildlife Conservation Zone will include TPWD’s Hunter Education Program & Instructor Association, Spanish Hunter Education Program, Youth Hunter Education Challenge; SCI Houston’s Sensory Safari; and Texas State Rifle Asso-ciation & air gun booth.

The Fishing & Aquatic Conservation Zone will include TPWD’s Coastal and Inland Fisheries Divi-sions, TPWD Angler Edu-cation Program with Back-

yard Bass casting, Texas Toyota Bass Classic booth & Neighborhood Fishing program; Texas Coast-al Watershed Program; and Landry’s Downtown Aquarium.

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Sacred Heart is 2-12 on the season after the tourna-ment.

On Aug.28 Sacred Heart fell to Victoria St. Joseph on the road, 17-25, 8-25, 13-25. Orsak had two digs, Klimitchek had four kills, Saulnier had seven assists.

“We started out okay, but in the second game we folded,” Orsak said. “We just have to learn to play every point all the time.”

The Indianettes are 2-13 after the match.

St. Joe won the JV match, 25-11, 25-15 and the fresh-man match, 25-8 and 25-13.

Sacred Heart fell to Aus-tin Waldorf in district play on Thursday, 25-12, 22-25, 15-25, 12-25. Pavlicek had nine kills, Klimitchek had four assists, Jaycie Orsak had four digs, Labay had two aces and Miksch had two blocks.

“We played the first game of the match and slowly went downhill. Ser-vice errors, hitting errors and passing errors haunted us the rest of the night,” Or-sak said.

The Indianettes fell to 2-14 and 0-1. Sacred Heart won the JV game, 20-25, 25-14, 25-14.

• Shiner St. Paul swept Yorktown on Aug. 24, 25-8, 25-10, 25-21. Morgan Long had 13 kills and six aces, Kourtney Knesek had 16 assists and Jacy Pawelek had eight digs.

The Lady Cardinals beat Flatonia 25-16, 25-21, 25-19 on Aug. 28. St. Paul de-feated Sacred Heart 3-1 on Tuesday.

Katelynn Leist and Katie Denson had two aces, Long had 12 kills and nine digs, and Knesek finished with 31 assists. Alexa Schaefer had seven aces, Long had nine kills,Knesek had 10

assists and Madison Kurtz had 13 digs.

Shiner opened district play Tuesday with a 25-17, 25-13, 26-24 win over Fla-tonia. LaNeisha Hunt had 10 kills, Lauren Oden had 12 points and 11 digs, Juli-anna Rankin had 12 points and four aces, Kristin Sch-acherl had 26 assists, Ama-nise Coleman and Tabitha Blashke each had four blocks.

• The Shiner Lady Co-manches went 1-5 in the Schulenburg Tournament.

Shiner was swept by the hosts, 21-25, 8-25, in their opening game. Hunt had eight digs and three kills, Rankin had eight assists, Blaschke had one block and Meagan Chumchal had four points.

Shiner fell to Rice in two close sets, 21-25 and 23-25. Hunt and Coleman had seven kills, Chumchal had 14 digs, Oden had three aces and one block, Schacherl had 20 assists, Sara Lauer had five points. Hunt, Oden and Coleman had one block each.

Shiner defeated Gon-zales, 25-23, 25-17 in its third game. Chumchal had 10 digs and one ace, Sch-acherl had 14 assists, Hunt and Oden chipped in four kills, Coleman had three blocks, Oden had one ace and Rankin had six points.

The Lady Comanches fell to Round Top-Caramine to close out the day, 15-25, 23-25. Coleman had four kills and three blocks, Hunt had 11 digs, Schacherl had 14 assists and Rankin had eight points.

Shiner played its final pool game Saturday against La Grange, falling in two sets, 15-25, 12-25. Sch-acherl had 10 digs, three points and eight assists; Rankin had three kills with Blaschke, Coleman, Oden and Hunt getting a block,

and Chumchal getting one ace

To start bracket play, Shiner fell to Hallettsville in two games, 14-25, 24-26. Chumchal had 17 digs and one ace, Rankin had three kills and one ace, Schacherl had 14 assists, Blaschke had three blocks and Lauer had one ace.

The Lady Comanches wrapped up the Schulen-burg Tournament with a 2-1 (25-22, 27-29, 19-25) setback to Giddings. Cole-man had two aces and nine points, Rankin had 22 digs and 11 kills, Schacherl had 28 assists while Oden and Chumchal had two aces each.

Shiner’s record was 10-8. Shiner beat Giddings,

22-25, 25-21, 25-20, 26-24, on Aug. 28. Hunt had 12 kills, Coleman had seven blocks, Chumchal had 31 digs, Schacherl had 33 as-sists, Rankin had 10 points and Oden had three aces.

Shiner opened play in the Edna Tournament on Thursday with a 12-25, 21-25 loss to El Campo. Sch-acherl had seven assists, Chumchal had eight digs, Hunt had five kills and five points, Oden and Coleman had three blocks, Lauer had two aces.

Shiner rebounded with a 25-13, 25-18 win over Tidehaven. Oden had 11 digs and four aces, Chum-chal had seven points, Schacherl had 15 assists, Rankin had nine kills and Blashke had three blocks.

The Lady Comanches ended the day with a 2-0 (25-11, 25-19) win over the Edna JV. Oden had eight aces, four digs and 14 points; Schacherl had 11 assists; Hunt had six kills and Tamara Hajek had four digs.

On Saturday, Shiner fell to Edna, 19-25, 19-25. Hunt had one ace; Oden

had five points, five kills, one ace; Chumchal had 13 assists; Coleman had four blocks; Rankin had five kills And Schacherl had 15 assists.

The Lady Comanches then swept Faith Academy 25-19, 25-23. Hunt had nine kills; Rankin had two aces and Schacherl had two aces, seven points.

• On Aug. 14, the Luling Lady Eagles played at Bas-trop Cedar Creek to open the season. Cedar Creek won the match, 3-2.

Luling started play in the Stockdale Tournament on Aug. 17 and opened with a 2-0 loss to Navarro and got back on track with sweep of Holy Cross JV. Luling fell to George West in two sets to conclude pool play.

The Lady Eagles started bracket play on Aug. 18, sweeping Runge and then Jourdanton.

Luling hosted Smithville on Aug. 21, falling 3-0 (23-25, 24-26, 15-25) The Lady Eagles returned to Cedar Creek, Aug. 23-25 for the Cedar Creek Invitational. Luling opened Aug. 23 with a 2-0 (20-25, 18-25) loss to Waller; fell to Hark-er Heights, 8-25, 11-25 and completed pool play with Austin Crockett, losing 2-1 (25-21, 20-25, 21-25).

On Aug. 24, the Lady Eagles swept Cedar Creek 25-19, 25-17 and turned around to beat Univer-sal City-Randolph in two sets, 25-18, 25-15. Luling wrapped up the day with a 25-15, 25-22 win over Del Valle, putting Luling into the Bronze bracket.

On Aug. 25, the Lady Eagles opened bracket play with a 2-1 loss to Academy, 23-25, 25-20, 18-25. In their next game, Luling fell to Randolph in a rematch, 23-25, 25-12, 20-25.

• The Yoakum Bulldogs swept Pettus, 25-15, 25-

17, Thursday in the Goliad Tournament. Callie Witte had 14 assists, Lesley Se-idenberger had six kills, six digs and nine points, La-tice Brown had six kills and four blocks.

Yoakum then defeated Mathis 25-3, 25-10. Seiden-berger had 10 kills, Jaccari Hights had 16 points and seven digs, Lexi Williams had three aces and Witte had 15 assists.

Yoakum closed out the day with a 25-7, 25-10 win over the Goliad JV. Cath-erine Hunter had eight points and four aces, Witte had 10 assists and four aces, Seidenberger had six kills and one block, Wil-liams had seven points and three digs.

Yoakum improved to 11-6.

On Saturday, the Lady ‘Dogs fell to Victoria St. Jo-seph in three in the tourna-ment (25-17, 24-26, 19-25). Witte had 21 assists, Brown had nine kills, Seidenberg-er had 11 digs, Faith Hagan had two aces and 10 points while Danielle Pohl had three blocks.

Yoakum defeated Pala-cios 26-24, 25-8. Seiden-berger had eight kills and two aces, Witte had 21 as-sists, Hights had one block and 10 points, Brown had 10 digs.

Yoakum fell to Goliad in three sets, 19-25, 25-12, 13-25. Witte had 13 digs, two blocks and 17 assists; Seidenberger had 12 kills with Hunter chipping in seven points and two aces. Yoakum’s record fell to 12-9.

The Yoakum JV went 3-1 at the Port Lavaca Calhoun Tournament, losing to Cal-houn (16-25, 16-25) and then beating Industrial 25-20, 25-20, St. Paul 25-14 and 25-21, and Woodsboro 25-5, 25-15.

On Tuesday, Yoakum

played in a dual match with Beeville and Navarro. The Lady ‘Dogs swept Beeville 25-20, 25-12, 25-11. Witte had 24 assists and three aces, Seidenberger had 10 kills, Brown had 10 digs, Hagan had three aces, Pesek had 12 points and Hunter had three blocks.

The Lady ‘Dogs beat Na-varro 3-2 (25-22, 20-25, 16-25,25-17, 15-9. Seiden-berger had 19 kills, 15 digs and one ace; Witte had 50 assists; Brown had nine points and Pohl had three blocks. The Yoakum JV beat Beeville 25-19, 25-9 and lost to Navarro, 18-25, 23-25.

The Lady ‘Dogs are 14-9 on the year.

• Flatonia fell to Shiner St. Paul 16-25, 21-25, 19-25, on Aug. 28. Savannah Flood had two aces and three blocks, Chandler Fike had 11 kills and Alanis Ri-bera had eight digs.

Flatonia was swept by La Grange 9-25, 8-25, Thurs-day in the Rice Consolidat-ed Tournament. Fike had four kills and two blocks, Ribera had three assists, Meredith Pavlica had one block. Flatonia then fell to Weimar 16-25, 11-25 and then to St. Paul 17-25, 18-25.

On Friday, Flatonia host-ed Nixon-Smiley, falling short, 21-25, 22-25, 19-25. Fike had 10 kills and five aces, Ribera had nine as-sists and six digs, and Pav-lica had three blocks.

Smithville swept Flato-nia, 25-4, 25-16, Saturday in the Rice Tournament.

Rice then defeated Flato-nia 25-13, 25-20. Fike had seven kills, Abigail Sch-acherl had seven assists and one ace, Crystal Rodriguez had seven digs and one ace, Ribera had one ace.


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