Gonzales Cannon March 8 Issue

WAELDER – New housing was the topic du jour at the regular meeting of the Waelder City Coun-cil Tuesday.

Several months ago, the City of Waelder was awarded a $500,000

grant for the construction of five new homes under the Neighbor-hood Stabilization Program, which was part of President Obama’s stimulus package. All construction costs will be covered under the grant with nothing coming out of the city’s coffers.

“The intent of this grant is to

take properties that have been foreclosed or abandonded and put them back on the market,” ex-plained Philip Ruiz, a consultant with Community Development Management Company.

Ruiz said the state has had dif-ficulty getting the program under-way because there were no regula-

tions or guidelines in place on how to proceed.

“We now have a contractor on standby,” he said. “We’ve demol-ished the old homes and foreclosed on the properties. The title compa-ny has delivered the documents to the city and we’re going to upload

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Livestock show honors

SportsLocal teams fall in

state, region finals Section C

HistoryLocal, visiting students

celebrate independencePage A12

BusinessLandfill’s developers launch

information campaignPage B1

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• Moulton • Shiner • • Waelder • Yoakum• • Luling • Flatonia •

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Gonzales toconsider dealon warranties

Colby Brown Award WinnerTanner Hardcastle receives a belt buckle signifying him being named the winner of the Colby Brown Award during this year’s Gonzales 4H/FFA Livestock Show at the JB Wells Show Barn Satur-day from livestock board member Tim Knesek. For a complete list-ing of all the results from the Gonzales and Shiner shows and more photos from the judging, see Pages B9 and B10. Photos of all the winners from the Gonzales, Nixon-Smiley, Waelder, Shiner, Moult-on and Luling shows will appear in our annual Livestock Show Sa-lute in the March 22 edition of The Cannon. (Photo courtesy Nikki Maxwell)

H-E-B to openfuel stop Friday

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COUNCILS, Page A10

Several area city councils have meetings scheduled Thursday, with a report on the City of Luling’s electric system cost of service and rate study headlining items being considered.

The Luling, Moulton and Shiner city councils will meet on Thursday, with the Waelder council tentative-ly scheduled for a special meeting on Friday.

LulingLuling council mem-

bers are scheduled to hear a report from Schneider Engineering on its study of the city’s electric system with recommendations on service cost and rates. No council action on that item is on the agenda.

The council is expected to take action on the annexa-tion of two small tracts of land. The owners of those properties have requested annexation.

The Council will also con-sider appointing election judges and clerks for the May municipal elections; adopting a resolution gov-erning the city’s investment practices; and possibly tak-ing action on a proposed oil lease.

MoultonThe Moulton City Coun-

Gonzales City Council on Tuesday tabled action on authorizing a contract for a warranty program for sewer services to enable the city to look at programs for both sewer and water war-ranty services for citizens.

Council was asked to consider allowing city man-ager Allen Barnes to enter into a contract with Util-ity Service Partners which would enable city residents to pay a small fee for war-ranties to cover the cost of repairs to sewer lines. Those costs can often run several thousand dollars, Barnes said, and residents are cur-rently responsible for those lines from the residence all the way to the city’s water mains under streets.

The warranty would pay up to $3,500 of the costs in-volved should a sewer line need repair, lessening the impact on property own-ers. The fee for the warranty

would be billed separately by the company, not part of the city’s bill, and would be wholly optional.

Councilman Bobby Lo-gan questioned whether the company also provides warranty coverage for water lines, and Barnes said both Utility Service Partners and another company, Home Services, provide such ser-vices.

“I’d like to get a company that does both water and sewer lines,” Logan said.

Councilman Gary Schro-eder agreed, and made a motion to table the reso-lution to enable Barnes to come up with a recommen-dation for both sewer and water warranties.

Council gave approval to a required annexation plan for the city, while pointing out the city has no plans to annex anything. Barnes said the procedure is mere-ly a formality, “even though it uses the ‘A’ word.”

“The Legislature, in 1999, CITY, Page A10

The new H-E-B Gonzales Fuel Sta-tion will open for business on Friday, March 9, offering lower than low fuel prices on all grades of gasoline, diesel and the option of Additech to help keep your fuel system clean.

The launch of the Fuel Station pre-cedes thescheduled 6 a.m. March 16 opening of the 51,000 sq.-ft. Gonzales H-E-B. The new store will lend custom-ers a first-class shopping experience that is both fresh and convenient, of-fering the best of H-E-B food and drug stores.

The H-E-B Fuel Station accepts all major credit cards as well as H-E-B Gift Cards. From Friday, March 9 until the grand opening day, debit or credit cards will be accepted 24 hours a day and an attendant will be available from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

After grand opening on March 16, the Fuel Station will maintain normal hours, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The H-E-B Fuel Station is located at 1841 Church Street, right off Highway 90 A in Gonzales.

Eggleston descendants honoredDescendants of the Eggleston Family were on-hand Wednesday to unveil a new historical marker honoring the Gonzales landmark. Those present included Karen Grauke, Melvin Grauke, Donnie Grauke Sr., Donnie Grauke Jr., Linda Grauke, Matthew Grauke, Caden Low, Kaye Worrell, Betty Vaughn, Lunetta Low, Phyllis Low, Robert Worrell, Junus Low and Connie Low. The placement of the marker came as the Texas Historical Commission cele-brates 50 years of marking historic sites in Texas. The house was the first re-built in Gonzales after the Runaway Scrape, and dates officially from 1840. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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Thought for the Day

“You can lead a man to Congress,

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—Milton BerleMarch 8, 1798On this day in 1798, Mathew Caldwell was born

in Kentucky. He settled in Dewitt County, Texas, in 1831. Caldwell earned the name “Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution” because he rode from Gonzales to Bastrop to call men to arms before the battle of Gon-zales in October 1835. He was also called “Old Paint” because his whiskers were dappled. He was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Caldwell commanded a company in the defense of Goliad. He was captured during the Santa Fe expedition and im-prisoned in Mexico. He died at his home in Gonzales in 1842 and is buried here. Caldwell County was named in his honor.

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Gonzales Police Department Report from Feb. 24-March 5

February 24Reported Forgery at 900 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.February 26Reported Disorderly Conduct at 1300 blk Mes-

quite St.February 2717-year old male issued citation to appear in City

Court charged with Minor in Possession of Tobacco at 1800 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

13-year old male issued citation to appear in City Court charged with Disruption of Class at 1800 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

15-year old male issued citation to appear in City Court charged with Disruption of Class at 1800 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Reported Criminal Mischief at 600 blk St. Francis St.

Reported Hit and Run accident at 1300 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Reported Theft at 700 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.Reported Hit and Run accident at 1800 blk Sey-

dler St.February 2816-year old male issued citation to appear in City

Court charged with Disruption of Class at 1800 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Reported Assault at 700 blk St. Paul St.Reported Credit Card Abuse at 700 blk St. Paul St.Reported Burglary of a Habitation at 2400 blk

Church St.Reported Burglary of a Habitation at 900 blk St.

Peter St.Edward Hunt, 51 of Gonzales, arrested and

charged with Possesson of Marijuana at 400 blk St. Vincent St.

February 29Reported Criminal Mischief at 2600 blk Winding

Way Dr.14-year old male and 15-year old male issued ci-

tation to appear in City Court charged with Disrup-tion of Class at 400 blk College St.

William Curtis Leal, 17 of Gonzales, arrested and charged with Theft at 800 blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Reported Burglary of a Habitation and Credit Card Abuse at 1000 blk Hastings St.

March 1Reported Theft at 1400 blk St. Joseph St.Simon Cantu, 66 of Gonzales, arrested and

charged with Public Intoxication at 700 blk St. Paul St.

Brandon Lee Rudisill, 19 of Gonzales, arrested on Forgery Warrant at 1200 blk St. Andrew St. and was also charged with Resisting Arrest.

March 2Reported Burglary of a Motor Vehicle at 600 blk

St. Lawrence St.Reported ID Theft at 700 blk Ridgemont Ln.Reported Theft at 1000 blk St. Louis St.Reported Theft at 1100 blk Fischer St.March 3Stephanie J. Enriquez, 27 of Luling, arrested and

charged with Public Intoxication at 800 blk Espi-nosa Alley.

Simon Cantu, 66 of Gonzales, arrested and charged with Public Intoxication at 700 blk St. Law-rence St.

James D. Tedford Jr., 50, arrested and charged with Public Intoxication and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia at 1800 blk St. Joseph St.

March 4Juan Izaguirre, 18 of Gonzales, arrested and

charged with No Driver’s License at Highway 183 North.

Andrea Susana Ramos, 22 of Gonzales, arrested and charged with Assault Family Violence at 2600 blk Winding Way Dr.

Niari Mali DeLoach Jr., 17 of Gonzales, arrested and charged with Disorderly Conduct at 900 blk Williams St.

Reported Theft at 200 blk St. George St.March 5Jorge Luis Alvarez-Rivera, 25 of Fort Worth, ar-

rested and charged with No Driver’s License at Highway 183 and Highway 97.

Gonzales Police Report

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office report for Feb. 26-March 3:

02/28/12Kidd, Frank Ryan, 04/1992, Gonzales. Local War-

rant – Criminal Trespass. Requires $2,000 Bond. Re-mains in Custody.

02/29/12Bernal, Elma Edile, 04/1988, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Evading Arrest Detention. Requires $2,000 Bond. Immigration Detainer. On Hold for ICE. Remains in Custody.

03/01/12Zetka, Hunter James, 11/1988, Bebe. Local

Warrant – Driving while License Invalid. Requires $515.00 Fine. Local Warrant – Assault. Requires $215.00 Fine. Released on Order to Appear.

Gonzales-Garcia, Juan Pablo, 05/1989, Unknown. Public Intoxication. Dropped by Judge. Immigra-tion Detainer. Released to ICE.

Demidio, Joshua Dean, 06/1983, Cooper. Local

Warrant – Driving while Intoxicated 2nd. Requires $2,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.

03/03/12Henderson, Kenneth Wayne, 10/1978, Smiley.

Driving while License Invalid. Released on Order to Appear.

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

GCSO 06DPS 01GPD 19WPD 01NPD 00Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 27

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Re-port for Feb. 27-March 4:

02/28/12Case #172242, Warrant Arrest, Harrison, Harvey,

51, Yoakum, 407 West; Offense, W#005202009-03131428-Parole Violation; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

02/20/12Case #12-068, Burglary-Building, 205 W. Gonza-

les; Complainant, Livengood Foods; Disposition, Investigation.

Case #12-069, Theft, 406 Ross; Complainant, Debord, Brandy; Disposition, Investigation.

03/02/12Case #12-014, Warrant Arrest, Washington, Dar-

ren, 23, Yoakum, 100 Lavaca; Offense, W#FE12-004-Theft-SJF; Disposition, Trans/DCSO.

Case #12-038, Washington, Darren, 23, Yoakum, 100 Lavaca; Offense, W#L2012-14754-Theft-SJF Dis-position, Trans/DCSO.

Case #172299, Traffic Arrest, Penaloza, Felipe, 20, Yoakum, 500 Blk. Davis; Offense, TK#25519-A-No Drivers License; Disposition, Bond/$500/Rel.

03/03/12Case #12-070, George, Shaun, 20, 201 W. Gonza-

les; Offense, Possession of Marijuana; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

Case #12-071, Shields, Damian, 22, 200 W. Gon-zales; Offense, Public Intoxication; Disposition, Bond/$500/Rel.

03/04/12Case #12-072, George, Shaun, 20, Yoakum, 200

W. Gonzales; Offense, Fail to Identify; Disposition, LCSO.

Case #17321, Warrant Arrest (3), George, Shaun (3), 20, Hallettsville, FM 318; Offense(s), W#1000000024-Minor Poss./Alcohol, W#1000000609-Driver’s Li-cense Suspended, W#1000000609F-Failure To Ap-pear/Bail Jumping; Disposition(s), Fine/$214/LCSO, Fine/$314/LCSO, Fine/$214/LCSO.

Gonzales Municipal Court Fail-ure to Appear Notice for Court Date: Feb. 29

Defendants who receive a citation(s) must appear on or before the date indicated on the citation(s). Their appearance must be in writing, in person or by an attorney, and any change of address must be given to the court.

Defendants listed below have recently missed their scheduled court date and their failure to respond will result in a warrant(s) being issued for their arrest. An additional charge of violate promise to appear being added to their fine.

In addition to the original charge, there will be a warrant fee for violate promise to appear. In addition, you may be denied the renewal of your driver license from the Department of Public Safety and collection of debt fees by attorneys at law.

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Luis Carlos GarciaVictor TorresTyler B. TuckerAlberta IzaguirreLannon D. ElkinsJohn BroussardRicardo Gonzales AlvaradoAngel Isidro HernandezJaime Zamora CarmonaJavier Rangel ReyesElizabeth Castillo RosasPhil Prado MaldonadoTray Dejuan LarkinJuan GonzalezJose G. IzaguirreMarsha Ann HernandezMelita TyngJohn Paul CasaresRuben Ortiz

Ronald ZavalaDennis Lee GarzaCarlos NavarroVictoria FurnanceWilliam Craig WilsonAshley Nicole SmithMarcus W. MillerDaniel R. FrankJustin HastingsLuis Alberto HernandezMiguel Angel Garcia

The above listed defendants need to contact the court as soon as possible at 830-672-2815. If you have any outstand-ing fines your name may make the next list.

Gonzales County Courthouse DeedsFebruary 1-29

Taylor, Stephen and Taylor, Laurie Kelley to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 168.615 Acres, Adam Zumwalt A-504- & Samuel McCoy A-340 Svys.

Kelley, Isabel O. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 162.00 Acres, Joseph Smith Svy. A-423.

Kelley, Isabel O. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 198.88 Acres, Adam Zumwalt Svy, A-504.

O’Neal, Bobby G. and O’Neal, Nancy L. to Hinson Retirement Fund, LLC, w/d, 0.253 of an Acre (Pt. Lts 5-6, Blk. 20) Orig. Inner Town Gonzales.

Manford, Mary Frances and Manford Jr., Lee Miller to Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., w/d, 2.07 Acres Henry Earthman Svy, a-202.

Nesloney Sr., Robert L. (Trustee), Nesloney, Linda L. (Trustee) and Nesloney Family Revo-cable Trust to Traugott, Calvin, w/d, 3.04 Acres, Daniel Lankin Svy, A-542.

Hudson, Erleen to Guadalupe Valley Prop-erties, L.L.C., w/d, Pt. Lt. 91, King’s 6th Addn, Gonzales.

Julius, Clay Lewis (Indiv. & Extr) and Coufal, Roylyn Mcculley (Estate) to Novosad, Garrett Q. and Novosad, Rayeder A., w/d, Pt. Lts. 2-3, Blk. C, East Rivercrest Addn., Gonzales.

Julius, Gregory Lee, Cooper, Cynthia Ann, Coufal, Leroy, Housner, Karen Elaine, Coufal, Charles Maple and Byrd, Jeannine Marie to No-vosad, Garrett Q. and Novosad, Rayeder A., w/d, Pt. Lts. 2-3, Blk. C, East Rivercrest Addn, Gon-zales.

Porter, Lillian to Almaguer, Manuel, w/d, 1.00 Acre, Archibald Gibson Svy, A-237.

Brantley, Candace Griffin to Baetz, Cal W. and Baetz, Terri L., w/d, 1.781 Acres, Joseph Saracean Svy, a-416.

Braden, Ronald and Oshel, Rebecca to Walker, Walter Bill, w/d, 2.292 Acres, Wm T. William Svy, A-482.

Dernehl Jr., Wilbert O. to Diamond M Drill-ing & Exploration Co., o/l, 259.749 Acres, Samu-

el McCoy Svy, A-340.Rinehart, Mary F. to Diamond M Drilling &

Exploration Co., o/l, 20.74 Acres, John Slater A-435 & Samuel McCoy Svy, A-340.

Clampit, Rusty J. and Clampit, Melissa S. to Diamond M Drilling & Exploration Co., o/l, 103.01 Acres, Samuel McCoy Svy, A-340.



Kure, Lena B. to Southern Bay Energy, LLC, o/l, 71.50 Acres, Prosper Hope Svy, A-252.

Ward, Connie M. to EOG Resources, Inc., o/., 80.00 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-36.

Strait, Mary (Heirs of) and Gray, Gloria A. to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 4.580 Acres, Isaac Baker A-130 & F Happell A-284 Svys.

Lane, Rosa Nell to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

Carter, Jonsie F. to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 80.00 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-36.

Smith, Larry to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

Green, James to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 80.00 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-36.

Roy Waymon to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 80.00 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-36.

Williamson III, Howard, Williamson, Janice S., Norman, Lawrence A. and Norman, Kelli Jo to Canyon Regional Water Authority, w/d, 1.00 Acre, Jose De La Baume Svy, A-34 ( Chicken House Well).

Murphy, Michael to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 40.00 Acres, Thomas Jackson Svy, A-30.

Price, Harold to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

Price, Elvin to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

Alvarez, Raymond to Alvarez, Manuella, w/d, 5.023 Acres (Pt. Lts. 12-14, RGS 5-6) Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Gonzales County Deeds

NRA GrantFayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek announced that the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office received a grant from the Friends of the NRA in the amount of $4,940.00. The money received from the grant will be used to purchase 5 new ballistic vest and accessories. This is the fifth year the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office has received a grant from the Friends of the NRA. Sheriff Korenek would like to remind everyone the Friends of the NRA banquet is going to be held July 27, 2012 in Schulenburg. If anyone needs information or tickets for the banquet they can contact Sheriff Keith Korenek. Pictured from left to right are: Lt. David Beyer, Sheriff Keith Korenek, Dennis Brower, Jeremy Stoever, Sgt. Ron Naumann.

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Lost load of hogsA Luling police officer patrols the scene as D&T Wreck-er Service of Harwood helps remove debris after a truck carrying a load of Harley-Davidson motorcycles lost its load Feb. 29, hitting a power pole and inter-rupting electricity to some areas for part of the day. (Courtesy photo)

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Another successful stock show has been completed at J.B. Wells Arena, which reminds us once again of the value and economic potential of the arena to the City of Gonzales and Gonzales County. The quality of the facilities continues to serve the needs of not only the stock show, but the various rodeo and cutting horse activities regularly staged at the arena. We must de-velop a plan for the J.B. Wells arena so the maximum economic benefits may be derived by the taxpayers of the City of Gonzales; benefits such as increased sales tax to the city, lower property taxes for the taxpayer, and increased business growth, new jobs, and new in-dustry for your town. Elect me Mayor, and you and I will work together on the economic plan for the J.B. Wells Arena.

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Final area office filings for the May 12 local elections

City of CueroCity Council - District Two: David L. Ruiz, Doyle Cruz, and Rev. Terry GloverCity Council - District Three: incumbent Brad Hedrick and Eric PenaMayor: incumbent Sara Post Meyer, Randy Saenz and Jeff Lucas

Cuero ISDDistrict 5: incumbent Emily Davis, Linda NemecTwo At-Large Seats: incumbent Johnny Blackwell, Brooke Smith, Cynthia Santa Cruz, Araceli (Shelly) Pena and Monica Go-mez

City of FlatoniaCity Council (for two At-Large seats) - in-cumbent Tyler Mica, incumbent Bryan Mil-son, William “Punky” Richter and Richard ValdezMayor - incumbent Scott Mica and Dennis Geesaman

City of GonzalesCity Council District 3: incumbent Lorenzo Hernandez running unopposedCity Council District 4: Steve Hendershot, Clarence Opiela and Johnny Ross HuntMayor: Bob Burchard and Bobby Logan.

Gonzales ISDDistrict 4: incumbent Josie Smith-Wright running unopposedDistrict 7: incumbent Tom Lester Jr. and Maricella Gonzales

Gonzales UWCDDistrict 1: incumbent Kurt Trammell and Bruce TiekenDistrict 2: incumbent Bruce Patteson run-ning unopposedDistrict 3: Steve Ehrig and Keith SchauerDistrict 4: incumbent Link Benson and Barry MillerDistrict 5: René de la Garza and Louis Kuntschik

City of LulingCity Council Ward 4: incumbent Jamie Nichols running unopposedCity Council Ward 5: incumbent Woody Cox running unopposedMayor: incumbent Mike Hendricks running unopposed

City of MoultonCity Council Place 3: Harvey Kloesel and Diane RothbauerCity Council Place 4: incumbent Ernie No-vosad running unopposedCity Council Place 5: incumbent Gussie

Machalec running unopposed

Moulton Community Medical Clinic Board of Directors (three At-Large seats): incum-bents Kathryn Fishbeck, James Freytag and Patrick Wenske all running unopposed

Moulton ISDPlace 6: Rhonda Braeuer, Tina Trejo and Bradley AnderlePlace 7: incumbent Danny Rother running unopposed

City of NixonCity Council (two At-Large seats): Ashley Villanueva Gonzales, Doug Koening, in-cumbent Hector Dominguez and Dorothy RiojasMayor: Jose Zuniga and Maria Blanch

Nixon-Smiley CISDNixon Place 2: incumbent Bud Box and George BlanchNixon Place 3: incumbent Richard Lott run-ning unopposed

City of ShinerCity Council (three At-Large seats): incum-bent Linda Rigby, incumbent Lawrence J. Kurtz, Randy Boone, Alois Louis Herman and Bobby Boehn

Shiner ISDPlace 1: incumbent Julie Gamez running unopposedPlace 7: Max Moore and J.M. “Trey” Rankin III

City of SmileyCity Council (two At-Large seats): incum-bents Willie Ann Canion and Kathy White-head both running unopposedMayor: incumbent Ellis Villasana running unopposed

City of WaelderCity Council (two At-Large seats): incum-bent Robert Tovar, Sharon Denise Nichols, Rocky Quintero Jr., Dora Ramirez, Marie Ibarra Almaraz, Angie Andrade Arriaga and Richard Ayala Jr.Mayor: Mike Harris, Valentino Hernandez, Curtis Hadnot, and Becky Ayala

Waelder ISDThree At-Large Seats: incumbent JoAnn Ibarra, Rudy Orona, incumbent Delores Martinez and incumbent Cathy Hernandez

City of YoakumCity Council Place 4: incumbent Elorine Sitka and Cindy MartinCity Council Place 5: Rodney Jahn

Yoakum ISDThree At-Large seats: incumbents Glen Ku-sak, Terry Boening and Walt Ellis Hairell all running unopposed

As Spring approaches, so does the movement of illegal immi-grants being transported north to work on farms and fields. This also brings an increase in the number of bailouts that can be expected in the area.

“The active time of the year is now, between February to the end of April,” Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said.

The bailouts take place when law enforcement officers conduct traffic stops and the illegals evacu-ate the vehicle and scatter into the brush, trying to avoid detention and deportation back to Mexico.

In the events of bailouts, many times the officers are not stopping the vehicle to curb immigration.

They are more interested in stop-ping the smuggling of narcotics into the U.S. or the transportation of money and guns going south into Mexico.

“We’re not necessarily target-ing illegals,” Harmon said. “We’re not trying to be Border Patrol or Immigration agents. We’re more focused on the interdiction of criminal narcotics, but it seems that people get mixed into these stops. Our officers don’t know when they stop a vehicle, if illegals are in it or not.”

There were three such incidents that took place over the weekend in Lavaca County.

On Friday, March 2, shortly before 10 a.m., Lavaca County Deputy Mike Gibson was patrol-ling on Highway 90A East and ob-served two vehicles traveling at a

suspiciously slow rate of speed. Gibson turned around to fol-

low the vehicles and attempted to stop the lead vehicle, but the second vehicle wouldn’t allow the deputy to pass. The lead vehicle then sped away, turned onto FM 155 and stopped in a ditch. Upon arrival to the vehicle’s location, Gibson was able to apprehend six illegal immigrants and trans-ported them to the Lavaca County Jail. The second vehicle continued driving east on Hwy. 90A and was later stopped by Colorado County deputies. The occupants were ap-prehended and transported to the Lavaca County Sheriff ’s Office for questioning.

On Saturday, March 3, at 5:45 a.m., Lavaca County Deputy Noe Miranda was patrolling on FM 532 East when he observed a ve-

hicle driving recklessly. He at-tempted to stop the vehicle but it sped away, left the roadway, drove through a fence and stopped in a pasture. The vehicle was left aban-doned with the engine running and no occupants were located.

Later that evening around 9:20 p.m., the Lavaca County Sheriff ’s Office assisted the Hallettsville Police Department with a bailout on FM 2314, just outside of Hal-lettsville.

On Monday, March 5 around 11 a.m., LCSO Deputy Chris Rosales conducted a traffic stop on a sus-picious vehicle traveling on Hwy. 90A East, and several occupants bailed out and ran into a wooded area. Rosales was able to appre-hend one of the subjects, an illegal immigrant, and transported him to the Lavaca County Jail.

30 arrested in warrant roundupDeWitt County Sheriff’s

Office recently completed a 16-day warrant round-up on Feb. 29, arresting 30 persons and clearing 74 warrants.

The deputies were asked to focus on outstanding war-rants in the local data base, which currently contains some 5,500 warrants. Most warrants originated from unpaid misdemeanor traffic tickets issued by DPS Troop-ers and area law enforcement agencies with the remain-

ing warrants ranging from misdemeanor thefts to ag-gravated assault and narcotic possession.

Only a small percentage of the warrants are on persons with local address. Most war-rants are for non-residents which were stopped by lo-cal or state law enforcement while traveling through the county on traffic related of-fenses.

One of the reasons for the large number of traffic war-

rants is that there is no longer a data base for courts to send warrant information to that local and state law enforce-ment agencies can access.

This was accomplished by deputies on patrol during their normal shifts. A special emphasis was placed on lo-cating persons within DeWitt County with outstanding warrants. The average fine amount is roughly $200 per warrant, not including court cost.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek would like to inform the citizens of Fayette County of a scam occurring to citizens in the area.

“Our office has received sev-eral complaints in reference to scams conducted over the tele-phone and relate to lottery win-nings of a million or more dol-lars,” Korenek said. “The culprit

targets the elderly and portrays himself as ‘Dave Johnson,’ ‘John Johnson’ or a ‘Mr. Marshal.’ He tells the victim that they have won several million dollars; however, process fees are needed to obtain the money and they are told to wire the money through Western Union to certain loca-tions in the United States. The ranges of currency asked for

varies from $375-750. It is also noted that the number displayed has an ‘876’ area code.”

Korenek said he has received reports that some have fell victim to this culprit already.

“If there is any question about any type of lottery winning or such we encourage you to con-tact the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.”

Phone scammer targeting elderly

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, thinks that Iran is a “rational ac-tor.” He is indisputably correct.

Tehran couldn’t have made itself into the world’s foremost exporter of terror and extended its tentacles throughout the Middle East with-out resorting to rational calculation. That’s obvi-ous. What Dempsey is implying, though, is that a regime capable of such calculation can necessar-ily be deterred if it gets a nuclear weapon. That’s an unsupportable leap.

If the Soviets, the fa-mous “evil empire” bris-tling with thousands of nuclear weapons, could be deterred, why not Iran? The Soviet leadership became more pragmatic over time. After Nikita Khrushchev renounced Josef Stalin, it didn’t be-lieve that war with its en-emies was imminent and inevitable. Iran’s religio-ideological fire, in con-

trast, is still burning hot.From our perspective,

there is no point in es-tablishing a theocracy, killing innocents abroad, pursuing sectarian war, crushing protesters, de-nying the Holocaust and threatening Israel with annihilation, either. From the point of view of the Western liberal tradition, the Islamic Republic itself makes no sense. Yet there it is, withstanding punish-ing economic sanctions to pursue the weapon that the regime wouldn’t want in the first place if it accepted international norms.

A highly ideological leadership with a sense of desperate urgency is the enemy of deterrence. In 1941, Dean Acheson rightly said: “No rational Japanese could believe an attack on us could result anything but disaster.” Ex-cept the Japanese -- driven by a sense of honor alien to us -- believed that they only had two choices: get-ting squeezed out of Chi-na by the U.S., or launch-ing a risky war.

Even in the Cold War,

deterrence almost failed. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the airstrike and in-vasion pushed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff might well have unwittingly prompt-ed a nuclear exchange. The defense secretary at the time, the late Bob Mc-Namara, maintained that “we lucked out.” Ah, yes, that crucial backstop to deterrence -- luck.

The Israelis can be for-given for not feeling very lucky. Do we think Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Ne-tanyahu and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will establish a “red telephone” to smooth out misunderstandings after Iran goes nuclear? The Iranian regime is fac-tionalized, and it is sure to be the most fanatical elements that control the nukes. It also is prone to

bouts of popular unrest threatening its existence. If the regime ever believes it is going down, national martyrdom might look gloriously alluring.

In March 1945, Adolf Hitler gave his infamous Nero Decree, essentially calling for the destruction of Germany. After the first U.S. atomic attack on Hi-roshima, the Japanese war minister mused about how wonderful it would be if his nation were destroyed “like a beautiful flower.” It is in this tradition that former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsan-jani -- a relative pragma-tist -- said that “even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything. However, it will only harm the Islamic world. It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality.”

On his own perverse terms, Rafsanjani’s rea-soning is unassailable. He’s just another “rational actor.”

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

(c) 2012 by King Fea-tures Synd., Inc.

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So Rush Limbaugh is fight-ing to keep his job, forced to apologize for calling a homely-but-rich college girl a “slut” for wanting us to pay for her sexual proclivity. Sponsors are fleeing his syndicated talk-radio show in droves, and once again, the Evil Conservative is the arch-en-emy of all that is right and good in this world.

Meantime, progressive talk-show host Bill Maher did es-sentially the same thing with an equally-tasteless attack on the daughter of a potential presi-dential candidate who’d gotten herself pregnant as a teenager — and all you hear from the same news media attacking Limbaugh is crickets.

Maher also slipped away from allegations of sexism and abuse from former acquaintances slicker than Bill Clinton — al-legations which would have put

him in the unemployment line had his political preferences been less leftist.

Oh, no — there’s no liberal me-dia bias!

The duplicity of the political left’s pawns in the major news media continues to astound. We media types are supposed to be unbiased, telling both sides of the story in a fair and impartial fash-ion. Yet over and over again my brethren and sisters show their ugly color, and it’s a uniformly bright blue.

Don Imus makes a poor-judge-ment crack about some less-than-attractive female basketball play-ers? Run him out of town as a racist mongrel!

Meanwhile, Al Sharpton refers to people with light skin tones as “crackers” on a regular basis and expresses violent anti-Semite views — but gets a pass from the lefty talking heads, because that’s acceptable political commentary.

We have a Texas Congressman who uses a vulgar term for homo-sexual fellatists to refer to those who oppose his socialist views, and the only one who calls him on it is some newspaper colum-nist from Gonzales. In the mean-time, columnists in other papers plead for the political Right to douse the “hateful” rhetoric.

An interesting story appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram March 4. It noted that gun sales, especially in Texas, are booming

amid fears that President Barack Obama will probably get re-elect-ed.

“Look who the Republicans are trying to put against Obama,” Anna M. Tinsley’s story quotes gun shop owner DeWayne Ir-win. “It’s the Keystone Kops and people are getting scared. People are terrified he’s going to get re-elected and then he won’t care about getting votes next time. He’ll just pass whatever legisla-tion he wants.”

Tinsley’s piece says that many Texans fear that Obama will use a second term to wage all-out war on the Second Amendment, and pooh-poohs those concerns with the observation that it’s a political impossibility -- even though the Progressive in Chief has already demonstrated he’s not the least bit hesitant about ignoring the Constitution when it suits him to do so.

I recall another esteemed gen-tleman from Illinois who did the same.

Interestingly enough, the piece quotes gun-shop owners and a variety of other “experts,” but never asked any of the gun-buyers themselves why they were arming up.

It should be noted that we haven’t heard a lot the last few months from Texas’ secession-ist movement. That’s because several of their key players have been busy running for state of-fice and forming an alliance with Tea Party and other orga-nizations.

Students of history will recog-nize this scenario, because we’ve seen it before in these United States. Our society was similar-ly polarized in the late 1850s -- and if they still teach facts these days, you’ll recognize that many of the issues were similar.

There is a tragic situation in Guadalupe County where the County Judge Mike Wiggins was arrested on Feb. 6 in Col-lege Station on a charge of pos-session of less than 2 ounces of marijuana. Judge Wiggins claims he is innocent because he was using the drugs for medical purposes. His arrest has had an additional compli-cation because the incident throws a cloud on a commu-nity trying to rid itself of drugs and drug abuse.

Whether he is guilty or in-nocent will be determined by the courts; however until that verdict happens the commu-nity will suffer.

Political scandals are not new to American politics. A scandal, whether private or public, is always painful to the individual, their family, and their friends.

They are embarrassing for the nation such as Watergate, the Monica Lewinski affair, and Anthony Weiner’s pho-tos. What made these even more painful was how those involved behaved. President Nixon denied his guilt, Presi-dent Clinton tried to redefine sexual intercourse, and Con-gressman Weiner flatly denied everything. The pain and embarrassment of a scandal is always complicated by the re-sponse of those involved, and not just final outcome.

Public figures are held to a higher standard of behavior. They are leaders and role mod-els, and whether they accept the burden or not, they set the tone for behavior on a commu-nity or a nation.

But what happens when leaders do not live up to the

higher standard? What hap-pens when they err by accident or on purpose? Their response is very important for the well being of those they lead.

Every person in the U.S. is innocent until proven guilty. Everyone must have their day in court. But, in the meantime, what should leaders do about their role in the community? Should the community have to suffer through the leader’s legal ordeal, or should they resign from public service until the matter is resolved?

A good leader will resign for the sake of the community.

A good leader will recog-nize that the law is the law and that rules are rules. Laws and rules maintain order in soci-ety. The U.S. Constitution and lesser laws at the state and local level are all important to main-tain order, and a leader must obey them as example for the rest of the community. Sadly, our liberal society has made it easy to excuse bad behavior for any and all reasons from health to a lack of proper parenting.

Regardless of the reason for their mistake, leaders should not visit their personal prob-lems on a community. We should not allow the percep-

tion to linger that someone is given a pass to continue being a public official because of their social, economic, or political status.

Guadalupe County should not suffer for the sake of a leader while he is clearing his name. Judge Wiggins should be a good leader and resign until the courts give a final verdict.

More than a million Americans have heart attacks each year and early half of them die. Why does this happen? In many cases it’s because people don’t take action quickly enough or at all.

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked. If blood flow isn’t restored quickly to that part of the heart muscle, it lacks nutrition and dies. That’s why it’s so important to seek medical help right away.

If you or someone you’re with may be having a heart attack call 9-1-1 without delay. This needs to be an ambulance trip to the hospital, not a joy ride. If you get caught driving in traffic you can lose valu-able minutes.

To help you visualize the urgency of the situation, think of a heart attack as a gun-shot to the heart. If symptoms stop within five minutes or come and go, don’t just thank your lucky stars. Call your doctor and describe what happened. A blood ves-sel could be on its way toward blockage.

Cardiologists call the 60 minutes after a heart attack the “golden hour”. That’s be-cause this is the narrow window of time when treatment can open arteries and pre-vent permanent heart damage. Heart spe-cialists have two methods for doing this. They can use a clot-dissolving drug or they can perform a procedure, known as angio-plasty, to open blocked heart arteries.

If treatment is so effective, why don’t people get themselves to the hospital? Maybe it’s because many have a Hollywood image of a heart attack: the clutching of the chest, the unbearable pain and the dramat-

ic collapse onto the floor. A heart attack can have many guises.

Symptoms can begin quickly or slowly. They can be severe or mild. They may come and go. They can even vary from one time to the next. Some people may have no clear symptoms at all. These are called “si-lent heart attacks” and they are more com-mon in people with diabetes.

Chest discomfort or pain may be a hall-mark of a heart attack. However, it may feel more like pressure than pain. It may be a squeezing or heaviness, making it difficult to catch your breath, or you may have the feeling of fullness or indigestion, resem-bling heartburn.

You may have other warning signs of a heart attack including:

• Discomfort in one or both arms, or your back, neck, jaw, or stomach.

• Nausea, vomiting, lightheadedness or fainting.

• SweatingForty-two percent of women have non-

typical symptoms. They may experience fa-tigue, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, nausea, or upper body pain that radiates to the neck

Dear Editor,The Texas General Land Office that

manages some 13 million acres and annu-ally generates in excess of $300 million in revenues will not discuss the risks due to poor drilling practices. The risks include water well contamination, cross zone con-tamination and surface location leaks.

Slick assembles, pendulum assemblies and steerable assemblies that make ran-dom adjustments to drill near vertical drill crooked holes plagued with doglegs and keyseats. Numerous articles have identi-fied the problem but do not mention the solution. The Lubinski/IADC Drilling Manual solution has been published for over 50 years yet mostly ignored by the in-dustry and our regulatory agencies.

Commissioner Jerry Patterson in August said he would give me an appointment. We finally got an appointment with Senator Hegar in January. Sen. Hegar said I just saw Jerry in the hall and I will find out why he will not give you an appointment. Still waiting.

We are just one day closer to a prevent-able disaster that could shut down hun-dreds of jobs and significantly reduce the millions in revenues enjoyed by the state, counties and towns.

Roy L. DudmanGonzales

Perry throwingwomen under busDear Editor,

Gov. Perry is throwing Texas women — our mothers, sisters, aunts, girl friends — under the bus by cutting the Women’s Health Program. When it ends mid-March, about 130,000 low-income, unin-sured women will be denied hypertension, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer screen-ings, STD testing, annual exams and birth control at the hands of the Texas legislative leadership.

The Women’s Health Program helps women plan their families, have healthy babies and saves Texas at least $20 million each year in services related to unintended pregnancies. Without WHP, abortions will likely increase.

Is this want you want, Gov. Perry? Play-ing politics with the lives and health of Texas women is totally unacceptable.

Candace Flenniken KingSchertz

Donations continuefor cemetery workDear Editor:

Contributions continue to arrive at Cap-itol Monuments for work in the Gonzales City Cemetery . As stated in my last letter, we will use additional funds to continue cleaning the cemetery stones. My husband and I contributed money to clean about one-third last year. Additional donations arrived from Tommy Schurig, Gary Schro-eder, and Jenny Lou Crowder of Luling, and will pay to clean more stones.

Mr. Joe Solansky and I found other

tombstones that because of age need re-pairs. He will repair and clean a total of 13, including the 7 vandalized and will bear the extra cost. He will begin the work in a few weeks.

My contact information is: cell 678-232-9258, and email: [email protected], if you have questions.

Mr. Solanksy is also repairing tomb-stones of Black Veterans in recognition of Black History Month. “All Faiths of the Pines Funerals & Cremations” located in Smithville, TX is the sponsor. Please contact Joe or Natalie at 830-672-7929 for more information.

I believe when families buried their loved ones in this cemetery, for example, Dr. George Washington Barnett, Captain Matthew Caldwell and Valentine Bennet, all who served in the Texas Revolution, they expected their graves to be protected.

To continue honoring all people buried in this cemetery, we must protect their graves by continuing to maintain it, as our ancestors did.

Otherwise, this city cemetery will return to an unprotected, ruinous state and not only dishonor those buried here but you and me too.

JoAnn LiefesteGonzales

Are any of thesepeople from Texas?Dear Editor:

After reading the Letter to the Editor from JC Dufresne of Cibolo (“Cornyn, Republicans have no room to talk”) in one of your January editions, I got curious. How interesting. I found the same letter from the same person and several others in small newspapers all over Central Texas. Like it was an organized campaign.

I am just curious: are the radical whacko left-wingers like this guy even FROM Tex-as? Because they sure don’t sound like it. They sound more like they were born and bred to an entitlement mentality in Cali-fornia.

Sammy RobertsDeer Park


Patterson avoids meeting

Health Mart Pharmacist

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Sharon Raley is a certified pharmacist with Mohrmann’s Drug Store in downtown Gonzales.

Is it really a heart attack?

Letters to the editor

Belmont Community Centermeeting scheduled March 27

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Lenten services are be-ing held every week in Gonzales at the different churches on Wednesday. Different pastors will be holding the services with a light lunch afterwards. Check around to keep up-dated as to what church they are being held at on what date.

Please pray for those who have lost their homes and livelihoods in all of the tornadoes. Our spring had barely begun and the destruction is already great.

The first meeting of the Belmont Community Center will be held on the fourth Tuesday in March at 2 PM at the center. There will be no bingo. Please be thinking about joining this club as we are trying to have a combined membership and are insti-tuting new bylaws. We are few in number so we need all the help we can get.

Remember that the Eas-ter egg hunt is the Satur-day before Easter at the Belmont community cen-ter. Also remember that on Easter Sunday Mon-thalia United Methodist Church has an early sun-rise service and breakfast so the Belmont United Methodist Church has their service starting at 10:30 AM.

Then the Saturday after Easter is when the fund raiser rummage sale for the Belmont community center will be held. We would appreciate every-one in the community get-ting their re-sellable items together to donate to this rummage sale. We will also have plants for sale.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Lisa Rodri-guez, Terry Bowman, Mr. Baker, William Hudgins, Sabrina Flores, Bill and Marie Lott, Doris and Alvin Hewell; Hester Be-hlen, Louise Jones, Aunt Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vickers, Gene Rob-inson, Susie Dolezal, Te-resa Wilke, Sandi Gandre, Carl and Vida Tindle; Rev A. C. and Evelyn New-man, Ruby Ruth Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Lin-da Nesloney, Larry Filip, Esther Lindemann, Jack Lott, Anna Lindemann,

Ann and Bubba Bond; Case, Clint, and Lindsay Martin; Gloria Gass, Billy Watson, Shirley Dozier, are and all of our troops.

I came face-to-face with a lady serving in the military along with her daughter who was may-be ten years old. She was in Hobby Lobby, and we conversed about scrap-book paper. I thanked her for serving our country. I also told her that I pray for our troops every day. She gave me the thumbs up signal and thanked me profusely. Several other people, one an employee of the store who had been grouchy to me, were all smiling and grinning after I said that. It means a lot to them. Things are not going well for our troops in Afghanistan. They need extra prayers.

Well Tommy Schlein put on quite a show over at the Belmont social club on Saturday night. We re-ally enjoyed his perfor-mance and enjoyed seeing him again along with his family. They brought his mother along and another beautiful older lady, Mrs. Moody. They brought her from Victoria and she met up with her son, Dr. Moody, who has a coun-try home at Waelder. That way he didn’t have to drive a long distance to see his mother and could enjoy the good food at Belmont . Tommy also honored our Vets, and our troops by singing Lee Greenwood’s song, “I’m Proud to Be an American” I do not mind honoring our military anywhere anytime. We will be looking forward to seeing Tommy Schlein perform at the social club on these future dates April 14, May 26, and June 30. So Mark them on your calendar now. I won’t name you, but we had some friends of our own age group that were really having a swinging good time.

JoAnn and Don Leifeste had Christabel and Rob-

bie West and his mother, Kay, as their guest with Kay coming from Austin and the Wests coming from New Braunfels. I was certainly glad to see the West’s again, and I am sure that they enjoyed their meal and Tommy Schlein’s and music. Christabel and Robbie spent the night with JoAnn and Don and attended church at Monthalia with them on Sunday morning. I think that I should be able to remember Kay’s name be-cause my middle name is Kay.

We send sympathy to the family of Vance Parks. I know that he is not hurt-ing or in pain where he is now, but that never makes up for the loss of a loved one. Roger Parks was one of my classmates in Nixon and you remember people in a small school.

Lola Wilson tells me that the patch of land that burned off last year is cov-ered solid with bluebon-nets. I bet that is one beau-tiful picture. I just hope it keeps raining. Those tak-ing the Bluebonnet tour will truly get to see some great bluebonnets and other wildflowers.

I have been trying out that Dragon Speak pro-gram and you should see some of the things that it spells and the tricks that it plays on me. I am sure that it will be a lot more efficient when I get it trained properly.

Hugo probably endured the worst couple days in his little doggie life last week. We took him to the vet to get him” fixed”. That meant that he had to spend the night at the vet clinic. I think that I cried as much as Hugo. I don’t know what they think of me in that place, but I don’t guess it matters be-cause I couldn’t help it. I cried when I left my baby and I cried because I was happy to see my baby Hugo and be able to take him home. There was no doubt that he was my dog because he squealed his head off. I think we both had tears running out of our eyes. He has been pretty sore but beyond that he has just one the happy dog.

Have a good week, and God Bless.

Sandi’s Country Fried News

Sandi Gandre

Are you ready for the Ride of Your Life?

Let’s blaze some new trails on this side of eterni-ty while making sure that our last ride into glory is secured and reserved in the heavenly arena.

In honor of the old pioneer Circuit Rid-ing Preachers who rode throughout the land with a rifle on his saddle and a cowboy Bible in his hand, riding through the mire and mud, through storms of rain, wind, hail, and snow, sleeping on the ground with his saddle blanket for a bed, his sad-dle bag for a pillow, tying his horse to a limb.. Come enjoy the ambiance of past pioneer days as we prepare to pioneer a brand new modern-day western heri-tage fellowship in Gonza-les County and beyond.

The name of our fellow-ship, “Ride of Your Life Western Heritage Fellow-ship,” stems from serving all kinds of people that we are called to reach-out to: ranging from ranch-ers, farmers, rodeo cow-boys & cowgirls, rough stock riders and the horse & livestock industry, to arena performance people, as well as people from all walks of life. Come as you

are!Everyone is invited to

come blaze some new trails, as well as share the romance of some old trails. Come experience a blend of the new and the old, the traditional along with the non-traditional, by com-bining the legacy, and the history, as well as a myriad of other Texas venues. Best of all, you don’t have to travel far, for your spirit & soul to be quenched.

We are currently in the process of pioneer-ing a modern-day western heritage church plant in Gonzales County and sur-rounding areas, designed to promote unity in the Body of Christ and pro-vide a place of fellowship throughout the Western Ministry World. We are passionate about preserv-ing our western heritage in this country, as well as pre-serving our Christian val-ues that are being eroded in this land.

Ride of Your Life West-ern Heritage Fellowship will be offering a weekly, monthly and annual cal-endar of events, including weekly Cowboy Church services with good Gos-pel preaching and singing in the morning and eve-ning services. In addition, Cowboy Up Youth Groups, Children’s Church, Little Buckaroo Nursery, and much more is in the works.

We will also be offering Bible studies and Prayer Share groups for all ages.

Our fellowship is a friendly gathering among good ol’ friends, new friends and friends to be. We cordially invite you to our first Meet & Greet Gathering, and Pot Bless-ing Picnic. We are looking forward to visiting with each of you personally over a picnic filled with good-ol’ fashion home-cookin’ served in conjunction with our First Annual Spring Break Pioneer Cowboy Camp Meetin’. We invite all hometown folks, as well as out-towners to join us for this fun event. We nev-er require a charge to at-tend, but please remember we are faith-based and you may prayerfully consider contributing when the hat is passed during church services.

Coming soon, you’ll want to watch for these additional exciting events throughout the year: Ranch Retreat Reviv-als, Weddings, Baptisms, Communion, Baby Dedi-cations, Special Ministry for Men & Women, Rodeo & Arena events for adults and youth, including team ropings, barrel races, playdays, jackpots, men & women’s ranch rodeos, youth ranch rodeos, youth camp, chuck wagon BBQ’s and so much more.

To get a jump-start you can join us at our first ever Annual Spring Break Pio-neer Cowboy Camp-Meet-in’. This is perfect timing – as rodeo families from around the state, are ready for Spring Break. They love the outdoors and en-joy doing things together as a family. Moreover, in the spring and summer months the City of Gon-zales plays host to the top youth cowboy & cowgirl contenders in the State of Texas.

The J.B Wells Arena will also be hosting the Cow-boy Spring Break Youth Challenge next week. The covered arena is also booked throughout the en-tire year, hosting numer-

ous other events such as adult team ropings, barrel races, cutting horse events, extreme bull ridings, play-days, junior high rodeos, high school rodeos, and other special events.

The First Annual Spring Break Pioneer Cowboy Camp Meetin’ is a special event hosted by Ride of Your Life Western Heri-tage Fellowship and will be held at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center on Sunday, March 11, starting at 4 pm, located at 2122 N. St. Jo-seph St., just north of Hwy. 90 A (N. Sarah DeWitt Dr.) on Business 183 (St. Joseph St.) in Gonzales.

After enjoying a journey through The Pioneer Vil-lage to explore a part of liv-ing history, we will enjoy a Pot Blessing Picnic on the grounds, and then we will be congregating in the historical Hamon Church on the same grounds. The people in the Hamon area built this church in the late 1870’s for use as a Presby-terian Church. It later be-came the Hamon Baptist Church and was presided over by an old fashioned circuit riding preacher.

This cypress-sided building had a theater floor and is still used for special events - and in the near future will serve as an interim location for our upcoming weekly western heritage church services when the arena facilities aren’t available and until our own fa-cilities are built. Camp-meeting will offer live en-tertainment, circuit rider preachin’, and country gospel music.

This special event is open to the general public and after 5 p.m. there is no charge to attend the Spring Break Pioneer Cowboy Campmeetin’. Come and Partake of It!

For more information about Ride of Your Life Fellowship, contact Cow-girl Minister, Rev. Ava An-derson, at 830-540-3737 or 512-576-2275 or email address: [email protected].


GISD salutes Master GardenersDuring Monday’s monthly school board meeting, the Gonzales ISD issued a certificate of appreciation to the Gonzales Master Gardeners for their self-directed efforts to involve and educate GISD students in the process of learning about horticulture. The group has partnered with first graders in the district in planting and maintaining a garden at the Eggleston House. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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GISD suspends‘15 percent’ rulefor school year

Gonzales school trustees on Monday approved tem-porary suspension of the district’s “15 percent” policy for this school year and also gave approval to an update of the GISD technology plan.

New state laws require that end-of-course exams count toward 15 percent of the total grade in a course, but uncertainty over those exams at the state level is prompting a number of dis-tricts to suspend the policy for at least this year, super-intendent Dr. Kim Strozier told board of trustees mem-bers.

Renee Fairchild updated the board on changes to the district’s technology plan, which call for all students having access to IPads and an expansion of the “Bring Your Own Device” program test-fielded by Gonzales High School this year.

“What we was was that the fears of problems with students using their cell phones just have not devel-oped,” Fairchild said.

“Technology is changing so rapidly, our plan has to have some changes every year,” she added.

Other elements of the plan changes include giv-ing students in Grades 9-12 access to their own grade and attendance records; al-lowing teachers the option of using IPads or laptops; establishing an online help desk for teachers for tech-nology questions which

would always be manned; and making sure all the dis-trict’s systems are backed up in secure locations.

Board members also ap-proved the district’s 2012-13 school calendar, a cal-endar which will no longer include the 10 “TAKS waiv-er days” used in the past few years.

Deputy superintendent Larry Wehde gave the board an update on construction projects, saying the district and contractors would be meeting this week to deter-mine the construction cycle for planned renovations at North Avenue Intermedi-ate, East Avenue Primary and Gonzales Elementary schools. he said the prior-ity would be ensuring that the new classroom annex at North Avenue was ready in time for the start of the next school year.

He said plans are already being formulated on how to handle lunches at East Avenue, where construc-tion will overlap into the school year to renovate and expand the cafeteria and kitchen areas.

“We may have to cook at the high school and transport it over for a while,” he said.

Trustees also approved nominating four individu-als for Texas Association of School Boards Media Awards for wholly support-ive coverage of school pro-grams: Egon Barthels of ra-dio station KCTI 1450AM; Brenda Adams and Jason Chlapek of the Gonzales Inquirer; and Mark Lube of The Cannon.

By DAVE MUNDY

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Pioneer Village to host Ride of Your LifeBy Cowgirl MinisterAva Anderson

Special to The Cannon


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

Community

Eagle Ford forum set March 20

Carolyn Martin DayThe City of Gonzales recognized its outgoing interim finance director for help-ing the administration transition to new management and improve transparen-cy during Tuesday’s monthly council meeting. Mayor Bobby O’Neal proclaimed Tuesday as “Carolyn Martin Day” in Gonzales. Martin postponed her planned retirement and took over as the city’s interim finance director shortly after the hiring of Allen Barnes as the new city manager. Pam Larison was recently named the city’s new finance director. (Photo courtesy Nikki Maxwell)

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Garage-Bake SaleGarage and Bake Sale at Full Gospel Church,

Saturday, March 10th from 8am-3pm, 1426 Fisher St.

Yoakum chamber breakfastThe Business Development Committee of

the Yoakum Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler will be the speaker at the Business Break-fast scheduled for March 13th at 7 a.m. He and his wife, Lisa, make their home in Yoakum.

Judge Fowler will speak on the effects of the Eagle Ford Shale on DeWitt County and the sur-rounding areas. It is sure to be an informative talk on a topic that is of great interest to the people of this area. The Bistro at Yoakum Com-munity Hospital will sponsor the breakfast. All chamber members are encouraged to come and to bring a friend.

Delhi Community BBQPlease join us for the 52nd annual Delhi Com-

munity Center Barbecue and live auction on April 28 at the Delhi Community center 6108 State Highway 304. Barbecue plates will be available for $7 for adults, $3 for children 10 and under. Serving will begin at 5:30 p.m., with the auction getting underway at 6. There will be live music by Don George & friends.

First Shot CookoffFirst Shot Cookoff Committee meeting will be

held Wednesday, March 21st at 5:30 at DuBose Insurance Agency.

LULAC fund-raiserLULAC County of Gonzales, Council #4693 is

having a Fundraiser BBQ Plate Sale, $8.00. Bris-ket, Sausage, Rice, Beans, Potato Salad & all the Amenities. March 10, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at R&E Recycling/Mr. B’s Detail, 1204 St. Louis St., Gonzales, TX 78629. For orders call: President Eddie Reyes at 830-445-9419 or Bon-nie Martinez at 830-263-0387.

Appreciation DayThe members of Union Lea Baptist Church

invite you to join us as we celebrate an Appre-ciation Day Program for our pastor for 5-years of dedicated services, love and caring. On Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. the Rev. Henry H. Bell, pastor of Mt. Moriah Christian Fellowship Church, San Antonio, Texas will be our Guest Speaker. We look forward to seeing you there.

Kettle Fried ChickenA 4-Piece Kettle Fried Chicken Dinner will

be held Sunday, March 11. Price is $7.50. Serv-ing in Drive-thru lines at Shiner K.C. Park Hall, 10:30 a.m til 12:15 p.m. Tickets for pick-ups in Shiner available at Shiner merchants and from JCDA members. Yoakum delivery available: Buy tickets at All-Med Sales & Rental, Yoakum or call 293-1839. Pick up plates at Jahn Refrigeration, Sun., March 11, 11-12 p.m. Gonzales delivery available: Buy tickets at Gonzales Poultry Supply or call 830-857-5448. Pick up plates at Wal-Mart Parking Lot, Sun., Mar. 11, 11 am – 12 p.m. Spon-sored by Shiner Catholic Daughters and JCDA.

Free Movie NightFirst Baptist Gonzales will host a free movie

night. The movie is the blockbuster movie en-titled “Courageous.” Everyone in the community is invited to attend. Saturday, March 10 at 7 pm. First Baptist Gonzales is located at 422 Saint Paul St.

Candidate meet & greetThe Republican Women of Yoakum will spon-

sor a Candidate Forum at the Shiner K.C./Legion Dining Hall, 102 South Ave G, on Tuesday, March 13, from 5-9 p.m. The event will feature a meet and greet from 5-7, followed by a forum from 7-9.

Candidates from County to Congressional level will be present. The event is open to all vot-ers.

Chicken Fried Steak Plates will be available for

$8. For information, call 361-594-4258

Lanny Baker BenefitThe Gonzales Young Farmers and the Gonza-

les Odd Fellows Lodge are having a pork steak plate with all the trimmings for member Lanny Baker. The benefit will be held March 25, 2012 from 11-2 at the Odd Fellows lodge. Directions to the lodge are turn west off St. Joseph Street on Tate Street and go 2 blocks. Donations are $7 and pre-sale tickets are until March 18, 2012 and can be bought from any Odd Fellow member, Young Farmer member, Larry Mercer, 830-263-0331 or Ken Hedrick, 830-857-5332.

Appreciation barbecueAn Appreciation BBQ Dinner will be held for

Gonzales emergency employees and volun-teers on Friday, April 20.

The dinner will be held from 4:30-7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Center of the First United Methodist Church, located at 426 St. Paul St. in Gonzales, and is being hosted by the Gonzales Ministerial Alliance.

All emergency employees, volunteer and their families are invited to attend. Come and go or to go plates will be available.

For more information, contact Rev. Andy Smith at 830-672-8521.

Revival SlatedDo you need a lift? A new start? Come hear

a message with the power to change your life and to discover a new beginning Jesus Christ at the Little Hill Baptist Church Revival, Thurs-day, March 1st through Saturday, March 3rd nightly at 7:00 p.m., by hearing the word of God from the spirit-filled, dynamic speaker, Pastor M.C. Walker, Sr. of the East 19th Street Missionary Baptist Church of Austin! Special musical guests invited each night. Little Hill Baptist Church Revival Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3, nightly at 7:00 p.m. LHBC – 2835 FM 1586, Ottine. For more information, call (830) 672-5959 or send an email to [email protected]

Church CookbookThe Rock Church of Gonzales is now accept-

ing donations for their first ever publication.“Recipes from the Rock” is a cookbook that

contains recipes submitted by members of the Rock Church, as well as Christian writings and various household hints.

The church is asking for a donation of $15 for the book. All proceeds will go toward the funding of church projects.

To inquire about a book or for more infor-mation, contact Pastor Carolyn Bolden at 830-263-0139.

70th AnniversaryEastside Baptist Church on Seydler St. will

host its 70th anniversary celebration March 25 with services beginning at 9:30 a.m. fol-lowed by a concert by the Seale Sisters. For details, contact the church at 672-2628.

Barbecue CookoffThe Gonzales VFW Ladies Auxiliary will host

its annual Barbecue and Chili Cookoff Satur-day, March 17 at the post home on Harwood Road. Categories include Brisket, Chicken, Ribs, Chili and Jackpot beans. Entry is $15 per event. Registration begin sta 7:30 a.m. For de-tails, call 254-931-5712 or 830-263-0973.

Love a LabThe Labrador Retriever is America’s No. 1

family dog!We have so many GREAT Labs and Lab

mixes at the Gonzales Dog shelter, waiting for their forever homes.

These Labs have so much LOVE to give!Instead of the usual $80 adoption fee, you

can take one of these Labs home for only $50 during the whole month of February. All Labs are heartworm negative, have all current vaccinations, and have been spay/neutered. WHAT A DEAL!!!

Noon Lions ProgramLeader Dogs For The Blind was the subject of the program at the Monday, Feb. 27 meeting of the Noon Lions Club. A display and short TV visual program were pre-sented by Lion Rita Herzik, a member of the Weimar Lions Club and the LeaderDog Chairman for Lions Distrct 2-S5. Lion Rita talked about her visit to the Lead-er Dog campus located on 14 acres in Rochester, Michigan, where she partici-pated in the training process. She said since 1939, Leader Dogs for the Blind has been providing dog guides to people who are blind and visually impaired to en-hance their mobility, independence and quality of life. Over 13,500 clients from 39 countries have been trained to use Leader Dogs with all services provided free of charge. Lion Rita also noted that it takes 26 days to train a person to use the Leader Dogs at a cost of about $40,000 per person, however this service is provided at no cost to the individual, thanks to the funds provided by individu-als, foundations and Lions Clubs. Lions Clubs contribute over $2.5 million to the facility every year. The Gonzales Noon Lions Club voted to purchase a global po-sition system (GPS) known as “Trekker Training” technology at a cost of $147.50 to be used in the clients training process. Lion Rita was the guest of Lion Greg McLain, program chairman. Noon Club president Brent White advised members that from now on the club will be meeting at Riverside Community Center in-stead of the Randle-Rather Building. (Courtesy photo)

LA VERNIA — The Gonzales Economic Development Corporation has partnered with regional economic developers to coordinate the Governor’s Small Business Forum: Opportuni-ties of the Eagle Ford Shale on March 20 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the La Vernia High School Auditorium, located at 221 FM 775 in La Ver-nia.

The forum will provide an excellent oppor-tunity for the business owners in Gonzales to benefit from information designed to assist them as they grow and expand their businesses.

The Governor’s Small Business Forums are designed to educate the Texas small business community on workforce development, em-ployee skills training and growth opportuni-ties. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) will present information on employee training grants and other programs available through TWC.

The event will also feature Dr. Tom Tun-stall of the University of Texas at San Antonio, speaking about the Economic Impact of the

Eagle Ford Shale, and several oil and gas indus-try leaders will be on hand share information on conducting business with the oil and gas industry.

After the informational sessions, several small businesses from Wilson, Karnes, DeWitt, Atascosa, Gonzales and Guadalupe counties will be honored with small business awards from the Governor’s Office.

Business owners, prospective entrepreneurs, elected officials and community leaders are en-couraged to attend. Contact Carolyn Gibson with any questions at (830) 672-2815 or [email protected]. There is no charge to attend but in order to prepare handouts attend-ees are asked to RSVP to the La Vernia Mu-nicipal Development District office by email or phone to [email protected] or (830) 779-2371.

The event is a partnership of the Gonzales Economic Development Corporation, La Ver-nia Municipal Development District and sev-eral other private and public organizations.


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

Messianic JudaismCongregation Adat HaDerechMeets on Saturdays and Holy Days, 672-5953

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Faith & FamilyObituaries

Leonard Brandt, 1919-2012BRANDT

Leonard Brandt of Gon-zales, passed away at the prime age of 93 on March 3 at Audie L. Murphy Me-morial in San Antonio. Brandt was born on Jan. 29, 1919 in Brenham to the late Mr. Erwin and Mrs. Lillie Brandt.

Leonard was a friendly, warm, inviting person who enjoyed spending time with his family. Leonard served in the United States Army during World War II.

He later married the love of his life, Dorothy, on Nov. 3, 1948 in Shelby. They soon resided in Gonzales and raised their four sons.

Leonard worked for 39 years as a manager for the Perry Company. He was a member of the First Lu-theran Church, the Ma-sonic Lodge, American Legion, Lions Club and the Lutheran Brotherhood, all of Gonzales. He was a great husband, father, grand-father, great-grandfather and friend who was greatly loved and will be missed by all.

He is preceded in death by his parents and a sister. Leonard is survived by his wife and sons, Wayne and wife Barbara Brandt of Au-rora, Colo., Larry Brandt of New Braunfels, Don Brandt of Gonzales, and Kenneth and wife Allison Brandt of Waddell, Ariz. Leonard also leaves behind 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren to cherish his memory.

Visitation for Mr. Leon-ard Brandt was held on Wednesday, March 7 at 8 a.m. at the Buffington Funeral Home Chapel in Gonzales. Funeral services were held Thursday, March 8 at 10 a.m. at the Buffing-ton Funeral Home Chapel in Gonzales. Interment followed at the Gonzales Memorial Park Cemetery with Pastor Ildiko Rigney officiating.

Any words of comfort can be left online for the Brandt family at www.Buff-ingtonfuneralhomegon-zales.com. Arrangements made by Buffington Fu-

neral Home, 424 St. Peter Gonzales, TX 78629; 830-672-3322.

Josephine Moreno, 1935-2012MORENO

Josephine Moreno, 76 of Gonzales, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 29. She was born Aug. 27, 1935 in the Slayden Community of Gonzales County. She was the daughter of Jesus and Louisa Hernandez.

She married Guadalupe Moreno April 4, 1952 in Gonzales. He passed away in 1972. She was a home-maker and loving mother and grandmother.

She is survived by her daughters Josephine More-no of Gonzales, Frances Moreno of Gonzales, Ra-chel Carrizales of Troup and Maria Burton of Gon-zales; sons, Guadalupe Moreno Jr. of Gonzales, Reyes Moreno of Gonzales, Ramon Moreno of Kyle, Domingo Moreno of Gon-zales, Carlos David Moreno of Wylie and Jose L. More-no of Gonzales; and broth-ers, Crispen Hernandez of Gonzales and Jesse Her-nandez of Dallas. Also sur-viving are 18 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchil-dren. She was preceded in death by her parents, hus-band, brother Issac Her-nandez and her sister Lupe Rodriguez.

Visitation was held from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 2 at Seydler-Hill Fu-neral Home. Funeral ser-vices were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 3 at the funeral home with Chap-lain Janet Hunter officiat-ing. Interment followed at the Slayden Cemetery. Ar-rangements under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home 906 St. Paul, Gonzales 830-672-3232.

GONZALESMr. Jorge Luis Gonzales

was born to Samuel and De-lores Gonzales on Novem-ber 12, 1957. he departed this life on Monday, March 5, 2012 at the age of 54.

Jorge attended Gonzales High School and was an excellent track runner. Mr. Gonzales was well-known in the Gonzales area. To

know him was to love him. He was a kind and lovable person.

He was preceded in death by his father.

He leaves to cherish his memory: his wife, Betty Vega; his mother, Mrs. De-lores Gonzales; two daugh-ters, Mandy Vega (Leon) and Beth Marie of Gonzales, Texas; one sister, Mary Ann (Steven); six brothers, Tony Gonzales (Mary Alive), Robert Gonzales (Alicia), Samuel Gonzales (Mary), Ruben Gonzales, Richard Gonzales (Estella), and Freddie Gonzales; grand-children, Alliya Vega, Mir-saydes Castillo, DeMarcus Scott and Trae Gonzales.

He was a great father and husband. Jorge will be missed by his family and friends.

Viewing will be from 5-9 p.m. Sunday, March 11, 2012 at the Harris Funeral Home, 127 Highway 90A in Gonzales. Graveside servic-es are scheduled for Mon-day, March 12, 2012 at the Union Cemetery in Gonza-les County.

Services entrusted to Harris Funeral Home, 127 Highway 90A, Gonzales, Texas 78629, 830-672-1075.

ALEMANManuela Aleman, age

65, of Smiley, died March 5, 2012 in San Antonio. She was born on March 5, 1947 in Wrightsboro, Texas and was a member of St. Philip’s Catholic Church in Smiley. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lau-riano and Marcela (Longo-ria) Medina. She is survived by her husband since May 10, 1966, Frank Aleman, Sr.; her daughter, Wendy Avers and husband Mike of Frisco, TX; two sons: Frank Ale-man, Jr. and wife Sylvia of Smiley; Chris Aleman and wife Bertha of Ft. Huachuca, AZ; a sister, Susie Rice; four brothers: Larry Medina, Domingo Medina, Joe Me-dina, and Robert Medina; 10 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; as well other family and many friends.

Viewing and visita-tion will be held Thursday, March 8th, from 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM at Finch Funeral Chapel in Nixon with a Ro-sary recited at 6:00 PM by Deacon John Moreno. The Funeral Mass will be held Friday, March 9th, at 10:00 AM at St. Philip’s Catho-lic Church in Smiley with Father Alfonso Gioppato officiating. Interment will follow at the Wrightsboro Cemetery in Wrightsboro. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Arrangements by Finch Funeral Chapel, LLC, of Nixon (830) 582-1521.

Fr. Pete Roebucks Catholic Daughters Court 2140 met February 28, 2012 at St. James Parish Hall. During the meeting, the Pro-Life Prayer and the prayer for the Armed Services were said.

Following the delicious Mexican Food meal made by a member, the meeting was opened. Terry Nelson said the prayer and members said the Pledge to the American Flag. Annual dues were collected also.

Thank you notes were read from Fr. Paul, also one from he and Pat Brennan for the money given for the Confirmation stu-dents’ Bibles. Also read were letters from the Friends of the Library for the annual Fund Drive and from the Pilot Club asking for support for the Senior Grad All-Night Party.

Two funeral meals were served. Bingo held at The Heights was enjoyed by the residents. Two sympathy cards were sent. Five Memorials were given. The Bereave-ment Fund report was given.

Members who brought cookies for the Confirmation Retreat or who also helped were thanked.

The Chicken Fried Steak meal will be held on May 10th. Members voted to have future meals on the second Thursday of May. Tickets will be distributed to mem-bers at the March meeting. The price will be $8.00.

In Victoria, the Catholic Daughters are building a house for a needy family. This will be the fifth Texas house and one in Mexico which CDA does. During the March meeting, we will discuss what we can do.

March 7th is the Catholic Community’s turn to have the meal at the Methodist Hall following the Lenten Service.

On March 22nd, a group of members will provide and serve a meal for the la-dies at the Christian Women’s Job Corps of Gonzales County.

The CDA National Convention will be held in Omaha, Nebraska on July 15 to July 23, 2012.

The local winners of the 2012 Educa-tion Contest are: Division 1, Grades 4-5: Essay—1st, Jacey Henrichs; Poetry—1st, Jacey Henrichs; Art – Joana Lopez; Com-puter Art—1st Kathleen Knesek.

Division II, Grades 6-8: Computer Art—1st , Kameron Knesek; 2nd , Desiree Joan Flores; 3rd, Kristofer Knesek. Art—1st, Desiree Joan Flores; Poetry—1st , Haley Clampit; 2nd, Desiree Joan Flores.

Division III, Grades 9-12; Poetry—1st, Kimberly DeLeon; Essay—1st, Kourtney Knesek; 2nd, Kolten Knesek; 3rd, John (Braxten) Zella. Honorable Mention, Lance Lopez.

All will receive a certificate and a previ-ously stated monetary price.

All first place winners to be forwarded to State Competition.

During the March meeting the Nomi-nating Committee will be formed for the May Elections.

The next meeting will be March 27th with Kennon Brunkenhoefer, Leona Zella, Jeanette Technick, Ursula Holubec and Dorothy Bludau are the food commit-tee members. Suzanne Benes will say the prayer.

Catholic Daughters hold Feb. meeting

Connie Kacir presented the program at the February 28th meeting of the Auxil-iary of Memorial Hospital. She gave an overview of why the Gonzales Health Care Foundation was formed and of her role as its Executive Director.

In the absence of Pres. Sally Brown, Lois Willmann conducted the meeting.

Door prizes were won by Nonis Gibson, Elizabeth Bennett and Bernice Hel-derson.

Sec. Carol DuBose read

the minutes of the January meeting and Lydia Rice gave the report of hours worked in the gift shop. Kennon Brunkenhoefer, Lydia Rice, Cecelia Williamson and Lois Willmann were awarded 100 hour bars.

Leona Zella gave the trea-surer’s report, noting both vending machines and gift shop did well in January.

Bernice Helderson re-ported sending two cards to members in February.

Memorial Commit-tee member Irene Oakes reported four memorials had been received the past month.

Lois conveyed Sally’s thanks to the members who attended the dinner honor-ing the Auxiliary by Her-mann Sons Lodge.

The March meeting will be a luncheon at Gonzales Food Market on the 29th at 11:30 a.m. All members are urged to attend!

Kacir speaks to Hospital Auxiliary

Little League DonationLucas Energy, Inc. recently donated $1,150 to the Gonzales Little League. Pic-tured (from left) are: Chris Almaguer (Gonzales Little League), Jennifer Alma-guer (Gonzales Little League), Mary Lou Holub (Gonzales Little League), Shelley Stamport (Lucas Energy, Inc.) and Wendy Allen (Gonzales Little League). (Photo by Mark Lube)

A Gonzales student has been given a chance to explore another part of the world, thanks to a decades-old government program.

Kierstin Kulp, a 16-year old junior at Gon-zales High School, is participating in People to People (P2P), a movement that was founded in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was acting on his firm belief that direct interaction between ordinary citizens around the world can promote cultural understand-ing and world peace. That proud legacy of hope lives on in P2P Ambassador Programs on seven continents.

Kulp, who moved to Gonzales last May, received a letter from the organization stating that she had been nominated for the program and would have the opportunity to go to New Zealand as an ambassador.

“The letter really sparked my interest,” said Kulp. “I went to the meeting and it was a big introduction about where we would be going because some of the kids are going to China.”

The student program Kulp is in is sched-uled to leave for New Zealand on June 23 and return on July 9.

“I’ll be staying with a host family to see what it’s like to eat their kinds of food and live their lifestyle,” she said. “We’ll also be taking trips around the country and doing other neat

stuff like snorkeling and hiking. I’ll even get a chance to live with a local tribe for a couple of days out in the bush.”

It’s customary for P2P ambassadors to bring a gift for their host family and Kulp has already been given permission to present her hosts with a Come and Take It flag.

“I always wanted to travel abroad, but I’ve never left the country,” she said. “It was pretty interesting to find out that I would be able to go away while being with students and getting to know more people.”

The allure of the trip for Kulp goes beyond the traveling and the opportunity to represent America.

“I want to be a photojournalist and I think this trip would be a good way to get a start on that,” she said.

Kulp’s mother, Dawn Curry, is excited for her daughter because she can relate to the cul-ture shock she is about to experience.

“I was raised in Europe so coming to the United States was quite interesting for me,” Curry said. “I think this is a perfect thing for Kierstin because before I came to Texas, I thought it was all desert and cowboys. When I got here, I was surprised to see there was grass.”

“This gives her the opportunity to see Aus-tralia is more than just kangaroos, plus it will give her a chance to broaden her indepen-dence and grow as a woman.”

Kulp’s father, Damon Curry, said his ex-citement for her is tempered with a little jeal-ousy.

“I just want to trade places with her,” he said with a laugh. “I’ve always wanted to go to Australia and dive the Great Barrier Reef, so she’s going to get to do something that I want to do except she’ll be snorkeling it.”

The family’s only concern about the trip is how to get it fully funded.

“My husband just received a pancreas transplant so we’re financially strapped right now,” said Dawn. “I’ve given up all of my child support to go towards this trip, but we’re still falling short. We’re now reaching to the community to see if they can help us.”

Though they are relatively newcomers to the area, the Currys have been working in Gonzales for the past three years for Gonza-les EMS. They have fund set up at Wells Far-go Bank under the name “Kierstin Kulp P2P,” which they hope will bring in about $8,000.

Donations can be made at any Wells Fargo

location.“Anybody can donate to it,” Dawn said. “I

don’t care if it’s only a dollar because every little bit helps. Whatever you donate goes directly into the fund.”

For more information on how to help, call 210-535-7799.


WAELDER: grants will aid building of new homes

COUNCILS: City meetings scheduledcil will meet in regular session Thursday at 7 p.m. with an agenda that includes de-liberation on the receipt of bids for oil, gas and mineral leases on 12 plots of land.

The consent agenda includes the presen-tation of a financial overview and police activity reports for Feb. 2012, a municipal court report and a proclamation in support of Keep America Beautiful.

The council is also expected to consider action on the establishment of Municipal Court Technology Fund, and ordinances concerning the offices of municipal court

judge, associate municipal court judge and municipal court clerk.

SmileyThe Smiley City Council will meet in

regular session tonight at 6 p.m.The only agenda item is the cancellation

of the upcoming city election. City coun-cilpersons Willie Ann Canion and Kathy Whitehead, along with Mayor Ellis Villa-sana, are all running unopposed.

WaelderThe Waelder City Council has a special

meeting tentatively set for Friday, March 9 at 7 p.m. The agenda includes a discussion and possible action concerning the city’s

required all cities to develop an annexa-tion plan,” Barnes told the council, saying the proposed plan is simply to correct an administrative oversight by past city gov-ernments. “Since this is Texas, what this plan says is that we have no plans to annex any areas that have an annexation plan. We have no plans to annex any property.”

The council also approved the 2012-13 budgets for both the city and the Gonzales Economic Development Council following a question by Councilman Lorenzo Her-nandez over a slight increase in both bud-gets. GEDC director Carolyn Gibson ex-plained her organization’s budget included a $12,000 addition to cover administrative costs shared with the city, while Barnes said a $20,000 increase in the city budget is a carryover from last year’s budget of a comprehensive study being performed by Texas A&M.

In other action Tuesday, Council:

• Rejected proposals for the city’s an-nual naming of a newspaper of record for the year, asking both The Cannon and the Gonzales Inquirer to re-submit proposals;

• Approved a request by the Knights of Columbus to close part of Hamilton St. on March 16 for that organization’s annual Fish Fry;

• Approved GEDC’s award of a $10,000 Small Business Incentive Grant to The China Basket and GEDC’s agreement with Wise Products on deeding 2.9023 acres in the industrial park for a new warehouse facility;

• Heard a report from the Gonzales Beautification Committee;

• Re-appointed Erwin Ckodre, Jon Such and Ed Sullivan to the city’s Gonzales Inde-pendent Golf Course Advisory Board;

• Approved funding through the city manager’s office for a number of special projects;

• Approved an election judge, alternate and assistants for the May 12 city election.

them into the state system. As soon as the properties are closed on, construction can start on the next day.”

The new dwelling can be built in 30 to 45 days and will be offered to lower income, first-time homebuyers at 30 years with no interest. Ruiz briefly explained the pro-gram’s sliding scale for qualifying income limits.

“Most likely if you live in Waelder with a family and make less than $45,000 then you’ll qualify,” Ruiz said. “Another factor that the state is looking at is credit history. There is a low level of credit history in this area so the state is saying as a rule of thumb for every 10 applications you get, maybe three or four will qualify.”

“Your credit score needs at least in the 525-560 range. The state is going to look at your credit score and your late payment history. If you have any late payments in the last four months, don’t even bother to apply.”

Once the homes are built, an appraiser

must come in and assess the comparable homes in the area to establish the final list-ing price. So if for example, the house costs $85,000 to build but the comparable value for the other area homes is $60,000, then the new house will sell at $60,000.

“Bear in mind that because these houses are going to be built with styrofoam, con-crete and steel structure sides, I imagine the utility bills for heating and cooling are going to be minimal,” Ruiz said. “I’m guess-ing a $30 or $40 utility bill. They’re going to be that energy-efficient.”

The council agreed to take advantage of the program’s delayed start by issuing change orders to provide for a one-car car-port and driveways. They also agreed to re-open the application process since there were only 22 who have applied to date.

In other business, the council:• Agreed to purchase parts for Playscape.• Agreed to take bids for the next two

weeks for construction of a 275-foot long and four-foot wide sidewalk on the south-side of Highway 90, west from the four-way stop sign to the scale house.

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By CEDRIC IGLEHART

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Local student selected for P2P program

Southern Clay DonationJon Such of Southern Clay Products recently presented a check to Sue Withers, president of the Friends of the Library. Pictured (from left) are: Shari Stefinsky, Debbie Vernon, Such, Withers, John Boothe, Pam Such and Carolyn Holt. (Cour-tesy photo)

CITY: Annexation plan OK’d,but no plans to annex anything

SAN ANTONIO — In 2011, about 65 percent of South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) donors gave one time. If all blood donors gave at least three times per year, blood shortages would be a rare event.

A blood type becomes rare when it’s not available for a patient. Becoming a regu-lar blood donor helps prevent shortages throughout the year. Donors can donate whole blood every eight weeks, up to six times per year.

To help make donating blood easier, STBTC has created Donating for Life, an electronic portal for blood donors. Click the Donating for Life button at southtex-asblood.org to schedule appointments on-line, track your mini-physical history and

redeem points for a T-shirt or wellness re-wards. Schedule your next appointment at a blood drive in March.

A blood drive will be held in Nixon on Thursday, March 22 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Holmes Foods, located at 101 S. Liberty Avenue.

Anyone 16 years old weighing 120 pounds (with a parental consent form) or at least 17 years old weighing 110 pounds, and in good general health can donate blood. It is recommended to eat iron rich foods before donating and to drink plenty of fluids to keep the body hydrated.

Donors must present photo ID, last four digits of their social security number and their birth date.

Nixon to host blood drive

AUSTIN – Salomon Torres of Harlingen filed his Application for a Place on the Democratic Party General Primary Ballot today in Austin. After months of deliberation, the United States Dis-trict Court for the West-ern District of Texas – San Antonio approved interim redistricting maps last week, creating a new Congressional District 34, anchored in Cameron County, which will in-clude southern Gonzales County.

Torres, a long-time ad-vocate for South Texas with an established pub-

lic policy background, is ready to serve District 34. Having worked for U.S. Congressman Ruben Hi-nojosa for over nine years as District Director in the Rio Grande Valley, Torres has the legislative, profes-sional, and community experience needed to ef-fectively represent Texas in Washington, DC. In addition to his work with Congressman Hinojosa, he served as the Economic Development Corpora-tion Director for the City of San Benito, worked in Washington D.C. conduct-ing legislative advocacy work for a major law firm, worked for a Hispanic-owned federal contrac-tor, and served on Capitol

Hill as a Legislative As-sistant and Professional Staff Member for the U.S. House Small Business Committee.

“I am no stranger to Washington, D.C. or to the needs of District 34,” said Torres. “I am very passion-ate about my community and about my work under Congressman Hinojosa to help grow and better the Rio Grande Valley. I am aware of the needs of our area and have the know-how to address them. This is much more than a ‘con-gressional seat’ for me. It is about using my skills and experience to bring resources to our commu-nities and provide oppor-tunity for all families and

our children who are the future of Texas and this country.”

Torres was raised in La Feria and is the youngest of eight siblings. He at-tributes his determination and dedication to serve the public to his own ex-perience as a migrant farm worker in the Valley and in other states. He was the first in his family to go to college through the College Assistance Mi-grant Program (CAMP) and earned a degree from St. Edward’s University (BBA). He continued to the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (MPA), and Columbia Law School (JD) in New York.

He resides in Harlingen with his wife, Ivette Tor-res, and their three chil-dren: Joaquin (4) and twin daughters, Marielle and Marisol (2).

General Primary Elec-tions are scheduled for May 29th, with Early Voting be-ginning on May 14th, 2012. You can learn more about Salomon Torres and his campaign by visiting www.torresfortexas.com.


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Hey, Baby!Relay For Life of Gonzales County

is pleased to recognize four teams and thirteen sponsorship donors who have been truly “TENacious about the Fight.” They began as supporters in 2003 and have remained involved in all ten Relays. Dedication and perseverance are what these teams and sponsorship donors all have in common as they remain “TENacious about the Fight” in Gonzales County.

North Avenue is one of the ten-year teams. Each of those years the team captain has been Carolyn Kocian, the school nurse. Joining her at each Relay have been Anita Vela, Sarah Miller, and survivor Jeannie Lewis. They are busy selling luminarias and preparing their Relay fundraiser.

Another ten-year team is Warm Springs Specialty Hospital with Joyce Gibson having served as team cap-tain for each Relay. Survivor Kathy Jurek, one of this year’s Relay hon-orees, has also been a Warm Springs team member since 2003. They are busy selling tickets for $3 each or 2 tickets for $5 for an opportunity to win a beautiful queen-size quilt made by Shirley Gibson, a cancer survivor, and Vlasta Pirkle; both are members of the Warm Springs team which is using “Hang TEN” as their 2012 team theme.

GVEC, another ten-year team is being led this year by team captain,

Shari Johnson. Team members who have been Relayers since 2003 include Cindy Malatek, Lori Luensmann, Su-san Wilkerson, and G.K. Willmann. Selling luminarias in addition to other fundraisers is keeping the team busy.

The fourth ten-year team consists of hospital employees who have been together since 2003. Known as Memorial Hospital Business Of-fice team that first year, they were the top fundraising team in 2003. As the years went by the team name changed to Business Office Friends. Today they are known as Brenda’s Buddies, a name chosen to remem-ber their co-worker and friend, Brenda Baros, who will be memo-rialized at this year’s Relay. Team captain Rebecca Flores is proud of her team’s ten-year members: Kristi

Mercer, Michelle Williamson, Do-ris Zambrano, and Adela Ramirez, a survivor. At Relay you will find them “FrosTEN for a Cure.”

Sponsorship donors are also a big part of Relay For Life fundrais-ing. Thanks to Allen’s Body Tech, Borrer Electric Service, DuBose Insurance, Patricia Ferrell, Gonza-les Camera Club, Gonzales Health-care Systems’ Employees, Hoch-heim Prairie Farm Mutual, Center for Cancer Care—Dr. Jones and Dr. Lawson, Kitchen Pride Mush-room Farms, Inc., LCRA Employ-ees United Charities, Seydler Hill, Sievers Medical Clinic, and Wells Fargo for their unwavering support since 2003.

What an accomplishment! We salute all of you for being “TENa-cious about the Fight.”

Dog of the WeekGonzales Dog Adoptions last week took a total of 14 out of 19 dogs from a hoarding case we have been helping with. Brutus is one of the dogs that came from this situation. He is around 2 years old and weighs around 12 to 15 lbs. He is pretty gentle for his age and would be a great companion for anyone and he will be at the adoption event at Tractor Sup-ply this Sat. so come on by and see what a great little dog he is.

Gonzales Master Gar-deners are pleased to an-nounce the start of the 2012 free public education classes. Do you want to know how to grow a better garden and use worms to make the best compose for your garden? Then our first class on March 29th is for you, and it’s FREE.

On March 29th starting at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, Kyle Harrell will be speak-ing on making compost using worms. Good soil

and great compost are reci-pes for a successful garden whether you are growing vegetables or flowers. Door prizes will include a free soil test for your garden and many other gifts. So come along to City Hall on Thursday, March 29th at 6:30 p.m and enjoy an fas-cinating talk that will help improve your gardening skills.

For further information please contact Carol Bond at 210-216-1713.

The Gonzales Master Gardeners second annual Spring Plant Sale will be held Saturday, March 31, from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. downtown at Texas Heroes Square.

Plants of all kinds, shapes, colors will be avail-able for shoppers to select from and children will have the opportunity to plant some seeds in their very own decorated pot.

Other activities include an “Ask the Master Garden-er” booth, which will in-

clude well-renowned horti-culturalist Dr. Calvin Finch for those with gardening questions, a silent auction and the Girl Scouts and Odd Fellows selling food and drink. Proceeds from the silent auction and the sale of plants will be used to continue improvements at the Eggleston House Children’s Garden, the Fair Street Exploratorium and other ongoing community projects and educational programs.

State Rep. VisitsState Represenative Lois Kolkhorst recently went to Englein Haus in Hallettsville to visit with local candidates, office holders and interested members of the com-munity. Pictured are (from left): Rep. Kolkhorst; Lavaca County Judge Tramer Woytek; Carol Janecek Renner, Candidate for Justice of the Peace, Pct. 2; Shirley Johnson; and Michael Johnson, Candidate for Lavaca County Republican Party Chairman. Also participating was Travis Hill, candidate for Justice of the Peace, Pct. 2. (Photo courtesy Kathleen Leininger)

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Gonzales residents — and some visitors from a ways off — celebrated the 176th anniversary of Texas Inde-pendence during ceremo-nies Thursday at Texas He-roes Square downtown.

With the help of the Gon-zales High School Band and fourth-graders, students from Gonzales Elementary made up much of the crowd for the ceremonies, which concluded with Gonzales County Sheriff Glenn Sa-chtleben priming and firing a shot from the ceremonial Gonzales Cannon.

Local historian Bob Bur-chard explained to the visi-tors the importance of Texas’ struggle for independence and the central role played by the residents of the town of Gonzales. Fourth-graders from GE placed 41 flags around the square as Bur-

chard recited the names of the 41 men from Gonzales who fought and died at The Alamo on March 6, 1836.

Burchard and GE student representative Johnna Dal-ton then placed a wreath at the foot of the monument and led the attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Texas flag, followed by the ceremonial firing of the Cannon.

Among the many visitors attending the ceremonies was a busload of young men from the Grace Commu-nity School from Tyler. That group used Thursday for an expedition to tour a num-ber of historical sites in the Gonzales area, including the Sam Houston Oak east of town.


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While a meeting to or-ganize opposition to the proposed Post Oak Clean Green solid waste landfill drew a reported 200 people Monday evening in Bel-mont, the company devel-oping the site is launching a campaign of its own to combat public misconcep-tions.

The proposed Post Oak Clean Green landfill would be on a 1,250-acre site in eastern Guadalupe County

about a mile south of Inter-state 10 and six miles from the City of Seguin. Of that acreage, about 350 acres would actually be devoted to a landfill; much of the rest would be set aside as a wildlife reservation, a recy-cling and composting cen-ter, and a research station similar to the one Black-well helped design to study sanitation issues in Austin.

The entire site has been designed along extremely eco-friendly lines — nor-mally something which en-vironmentalists would wel-

come. But engineer James E. Blackwell and Post Oak Clean Green Inc. presi-dent and landowner Tom Funderburg said a “not-in-my-backyard” mentality is leading to a lot of wrong information getting to the public.

“Everybody has heard one side of the story,” Blackwell said. “Now we’re going to counter that.”

The company will host a public meeting at the Seguin Coliseum at 7 p.m. April 24 to address com-munity concerns, answer questions and enable offi-cials with the Texas Com-mission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) an oppor-tunity to directly address issues as well.

The biggest public mis-conception, Blackwell said, is that runoff from the site could affect communities downstream — including Gonzales County.

“A lot of people are un-der the idea that a landfill is just a big hole you fill with trash, and it all seeps into the underground wa-ter system,” said Blackwell. “There’s a section of the EPA rules called Subsec-tion D which tells you how

you have to develop a land-fill, and our development will go beyond that.”

Blackwell said the bot-tom of the proposed 350-acre landfill will be lined with two feet of compact-ed clay, topped by a thick sheet of plastic. A Leachate collection system will help

remove any water — rain-water or liquids contained in the municipal waste.

“The EPA’s rules for the clay are very strict, so that it would take about 240 years for a drop of water to get through the clay,” Blackwell said. “We would further have a layer of sand

at the bottom (atop the plastic) to allow us to leach off any water from the waste. We also add sand between layers and a cover of soil at the end of each day to help control possible vectors (birds and rodents) that people fear would get

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remember those dealing with cancer and those who lost their battle, and commit to fight back against this dreadful disease that

affects so many.

Relay For Life is a time for many emotions just as the patient on the cancer journey experiences many emotions. It is a time for reflect-ing, grieving, and healing, but it is also a time for celebrating and making a conscious decision to fight back. No matter the emo-tion, there will be something for

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attend the luminaria ceremony on Friday evening at 9 p.m. Thank

you for supporting Relay For Life. Together we will celebrate, remember, and fight back! We

will be “TENacious about the Fight!”

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Breakfast in JailMembers of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce and the community helped celebrate Texas Indepen-dence Day Friday with the Chamber’s annual “Break-fast in the Old Jail” fundraiser. (Photo by Mark Lube)

By DAVE MUNDY

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Texas Independence Day was very successful and so was the day after Texas In-dependence Day, when we celebrated with ‘Breakfast at the Old Jail Museum’.

Independence Day was actually celebrated on March 1, when two buses of seventh-graders came here from Tyler to see all our important places. The 90 students visited the Old Jail, Memorial Museum, The Sam Houston Oak and arrived back to Texas He-roes Square to join in that celebration, hearing Bob Burchard’s program. They also got to hear the cannon being fired – twice. The second time Sheriff Glen Sachtleben did his duty in firing the cannon was be-cause the groups had split and the second one arrived a little late for the high point. The sheriff always steals the show and scares that half of the downtown area to death with the win-dow-rattling shot.

There was a good crowd for Breakfast at the Old Jail, even though the county took the holiday and some forgot. First Friday Coffee was held here, so there was actually a good group that came late to the breakfast and did the usual coffee visit. Thank goodness for our volunteers, including chamber directors, faithful cooks Wayne Spahn, Rex Kelley and John Barfield who have a big job to do, and Vicki and Paul Fren-zel who are here to help set up for the breakfast day of and day before, give history programs for the students, then help with cleanup and give more tours. Don’t know what we’d do without volunteers; we sure couldn’t handle it all!

We are seeking 20 ‘host homes’ for the Texas A&M Singing Cadets after they give their concert at the Lynn Theatre on March 23. Each host will invite two or more Cadets to spend the night at their home and the Cadets appreciate any-thing from a guest room to a couch or roll-away bed. They are also willing to sleep up to two in a double bed and are very grateful that local families are will-ing to open their homes for them for that night. Hosts will meet their Cadets after the concert about 9:30 p.m. and are to be returned to the Lynn Theatre the next morning at a time to be an-nounced. Hosts will receive two complimentary tickets to the concert. Those in-terested in hosting, contact the chamber office at 672-6532.

The Eggleston House will have a Texas Historical Marker Event on March 7 from 1:15 to 1:45 p.m., as it was the first recorded Texas Landmark, celebrated in March of 1962. A recep-tion will follow at the DAR House.

The Business Committee will meet Wednesday and the Come & Take It Com-mittee will meet Thursday.

Texas Jr. & Sr. High School Rodeo will be at the J. B. Wells Park on March 9 and 10.

Barbara Hand is the Execu-tive Director of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce.

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The C.E. Dilworth House, home of Belle Oaks Inn Bed and Breakfast, is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. In honor of this milestone event, innkeeper Michelle London will be host-ing an Edwardian Era tea party

on Wednesday, March 14th, at 4 p.m.

Built in 1912 and designed by renowned architect J. Riely Gor-don, the Greek Revival house has been home to only five families in its 100 year existence. Dur-ing the 1950s, the home served as living quarters for employees

of Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center. It has been operating as Belle Oaks Inn Bed and Breakfast since 2000.

The party’s menu will feature an assortment of tea sandwiches, salads, scones and clotted cream, and a variety of other items that would have graced tea tables dur-

ing the Edwardian Era. Of course, an assortment of teas will also be served, along with a special treat of lavender lemonade.

Local historian Paul Frenzel will give a presentation on the history of the house. Vicki Fren-zel, president of the Historic Homes Association, will talk

about everyday life and customs in 1912.

Admission to the event is $20. Seating is limited, so please RSVP by March 12th. Period at-tire is welcome, but not required.

Call Belle Oaks Inn at 830-857-8613 to make your reservations or for more information.

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near a disposal site.”When the site is full, it

would be topped by a similar lining of compacted clay and soil.

“It is literally almost im-possible to penetrate,” he said.

Among those the Post Oak team is hoping to con-vice to withdraw objections would be some of the wa-ter districts in surrounding counties, including the Gon-zales County Underground Water Conservation District.

“We’ll be talking to the water districts to allay their concerns,” Blackwell said.

The “dump” portion of the project would be sur-rounded by about 75 acres of composting, recycling and administrative areas, provid-ing around a quarter-mile buffer completely around the disposal area.

The wildlife management area which will further sur-round the site effectively provides a buffer of around a mile between the disposal area and the nearest resi-dence.

“TCEQ calls for a quar-ter-mile to the nearest residence,” Blackwell said.

“We’ve got more than a mile, and there are only two resi-dences within that area, and one of those is someone who spends most of their time in San Antonio.”

Blackwell was part of the engineering team which tackled environmental prob-lems in the city of Austin some years back, and the re-search station proposed for the Post Oak project stems from that idea.

“The City of Austin had decided that the way to con-trol growth was just to not build facilities, and as a result they ended up with sludge in the Colorado River,” he said. “Their treatment plant just wasn’t big enough. So we designed them a new one, and as part of that designed the Center for Environmen-tal Research to study sani-tation issues, and now UT and A&M and other colleges send graduate students there to study various issues.

“What we’d like is to cre-ate a similar facility here to study issues surrounding solid waste,” he said. “In Aus-tin, they came up with a way to turn that sewage into a us-able product and developed the Dillo Dirt Program. They took a nasty problem and

turned it around.”The Austin-to-Seguin-

to-San Antonio triangle is expected to be the scene of rapid development over the next few years as State High-way 130 nears completion and the two larger metropo-lises continue phenomenal growth. Funderburg said that rural, agrarian Guada-lupe County will be part of that growth, but that projects like this one will help to fun-nel it.

“A lot of people say they worry about what could hap-pen to their land (if the site is developed),” Funderburg said. “I’ll still be running about 150 head of cattle on it.”

The Post Oak Clean Green project is guaranteeing miti-gation for landowners who fear falling property values. In addition, the site will gen-erate around $300,000 a year for Guadalupe County and county municipalities can also earn revenues.

While designed to handle municipal solid waste — no hazardous or medical waste will be accepted — from the Austin and San Antonio ar-eas, Blackwell said the Post Oak project will also allow county residents to dump household waste and bulky waste like appliances for free on weekends, and will also have free access to the recy-cling center.

Gonzales Livestock Market Report

The Gonzales Livestock Market Report for Saturday, March 3, 2012 had on hand: 990 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold $2-$3 higher. Packer cows sold $1 to $2 higher..

Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $230-$255; 300-400 lbs, $215-$240; 400-500 lbs, $205-$220; 500-600 lbs, $180-$195; 600-700 lbs., $138-$166; 700-800 lbs, $136-$145.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $121-$138.Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs,

$190-$225; 300-400 lbs, $185-$210; 400-500 lbs, $165-$180; 500-600 lbs., $152-$160; 600-700 lbs., $141-$147.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $71-$81; Cutters, $84-$96; Canners, $56-$64; Low yielding fat cows, $74-$80.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $97-$111; light weights and medium quality bulls, $74-$94.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,250.Pairs: $975-$1,600.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.com!

Nixon Livestock Commission Report

The Nixon Livestock Commission Inc. report had on hand, March 5, 2012, Volume, 473.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $207 to $217 to $265; 300-400 lbs., $190 to $200 to $255; 400-500 lbs, $185 to $195 to $226; 500-600 lbs, $172 to $182 to $209; 600-700 lbs, $147 to $157 to $175; 700-800 lbs, $125 to $134 to $139.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $182 to $192 to $265; 300-400 lbs, $167 to $177 to $225; 400-500 lbs, $168 to $178 to $201; 500-600 lbs, $153 to $163 to $175; 600-700 lbs, $136 to $146 to $165; 700-800 lbs, $106 to $115 to $129.

Slaughter cows: $74 to $84 to $93; Slaughter bulls: $88 to $98 to $103; Stocker cows: $676 to $1,100; Pairs, 1 pr. $1,470.

Notices: We will be closed on April 9, 2012 for Easter.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission Report

The Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on Feb-ruary 28, 2012, 831; Week ago, 682; Year Ago, 999.

The calves and yearlings sold steady this week. Demand continues strong in all areas. Calves getting a little fleshier each week.

Packer cows and bulls sold $2 higher on approx.. 150 hd. Total.Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $75-$96.50; lower

dressing utility & cutter cows, $59-$75; light weight canner cows, $49-$59.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $88-$106.50; utility & cutter bulls, $79-$88; lightweight canner bulls, $68-$79.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200 lbs, $210-$275; 200-300 lbs, $195-$255; 300-400 lbs, $188-$210; 400-500 lbs, $176-$205; 500-600lbs, $158-$195; 600-700 lbs, $148-$175; 700-800 lbs, $140-$153. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $200-$260; 200-300 lbs, $180-$230; 300-400 lbs, $175-$225; 400-500 lbs, $165-$190; 500-600 lbs, $145-$176; 600-700 lbs, $138-$158; 700-800 lbs, $120-$138. No. 2 & 3 Steer & Bull Calves: 200-300 lbs, $120-$193; 300-400 lbs, $120-$188; 400-500 lbs, $118-$175; 500-600 lbs, $115-$160; 600-700 lbs, $110-$148. No. 2 & 3 Heifer Calves: 200-300 lbs, $118-$185; 300-400 lbs, $118-$176; 400-500 lbs, $115-$166; 500-600 lbs, $112-$145; 600-700 lbs, $105-$138.

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

Cuero Livestock Market Report

Cuero Livestock Market Report on March2, 2012, had 620 head.Had 76 cows and 13 bulls. Bulls steady to higher. Cows sold to a strong

demand. Calves were lower.Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $104-$107; lower grades, $93-$101.Packer cows: boning cows, $92-$94; cutters mainly, $60-$94; low cut-

ters, $55-$66; fat cows, $80-$88.Dry cows, $60-$91; young, $85-$105. Palpated cows: $92-$111.The calf market was very active. Steer Calves: under 200 lbs, $236-$260; 200-250 lbs, $236-$250; 250-

300 lbs, $245-$270; 300-350 lbs, $185-$245; 350-400 lbs, $174-$235; 400-450 lbs, $190-$235; 450-500 lbs, $150-$205; 500-600 lbs, $173-$191.

Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $206-$250; 200-250 lbs, $210-$235; 250-300 lbs, $210-$230; 300-350 lbs, $210-$225; 350-400 lbs, $121-$210; 400-450 lbs, $175-$200; 450-500 lbs, $149-$190; 500-600 lbs, $131-$215; over 700 lbs, $88-$121.

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Czhilispiel recognizedfor marketing excellence

FLATONIA – Flatonia’s an-nual festival, Czhilispiel, was recognized with five awards from the Texas Association of Fairs and Events (TAF&E).

The Ray Cammack Shows Awards of Excellence in Marketing and Communica-tions, were presented during a breakfast at the TAF&E con-vention on Saturday, Jan. 13.

Six volunteers from the Czhilispiel committee were in attendance at the conven-tion and present to accept the awards, which included: First Place for Best Online Advertising (for festivals with attendance under 50,000) by Veronica Garcia of Houston; First Place for Other Mer-chandise (for festivals with attendance under 50,000) by Flatonia Women’s Action Guild Society (WAGS); Sec-ond Place for Best Promo-tional Advertising - Outdoor (for festivals with attendance under 50,000) by Czhilispiel Chairman David Urban and Oliver Meissner of San An-

tonio; Second Place for Best Newspaper Ad – Color (for festivals with attendance un-der 50,000) by Veronica Gar-cia of Houston; and Third Place for Best Newspaper Ad – Black & White (for fes-tivals with attendance under 50,000) created by Veronica Garcia of Houston.

“We competed against festivals from Texas and Oklahoma in the category of Festivals of 50,000 or less in at-tendance,” said David Urban, Entertainment Chairman of Flatonia Czhilispiel. “We en-tered eleven entries and came home with five awards.”

“I feel this is a big accom-plishment being one of the smallest festivals in the state. This shows how dedicated our committee is in striving to make Czhilispiel one of the best festivals in the area and in Texas.”

Czhilispiel 39, held in Oc-tober 2011, was a huge suc-cess, with net profits over $28,000. Approximately 15 percent of these profits are assigned to the Czhilispiel Committee to designate in

ways they feel are appropri-ate. The remainder is desig-nated by the Flatonia Cham-ber Board of Directors.

“We attribute the success of Czhilispiel to all the dedicat-ed volunteers who work dili-gently throughout the year to deliver such a great event,” Urban said. “Without all the help, there it would not be possible to continue to grow Czhilispiel year after year.”

Czhilispiel began as a fund-raiser to help fund a local Flatonia student’s medi-cal school education. At the time Flatonia needed a doc-tor, so the residents organized the Czech heritage festival and chili cook-off and named it Czhilispiel. The student agreed to serve the commu-nity for at least five years after completing medical school, but ended up staying longer.

Czhilispiel continues to use proceeds from the event to benefit local needs, whether they be for students or com-munity services. Czhilispiel 40 is scheduled to run this year from Oct. 26-28.

Flatonia Festival Earns HonorsMembers of the Czhilispiel Committee display the five awards the festival won for Excellence in Marketing from Texas Association of Fairs and Events. Pictured are (from left): Megan Bryant, Dawn Guzman, David Urban, Patty Pritchard and DeRose Janecka. (Courtesy photo)


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--------------------------Taking applications for full-time posi-tion and PRN posi-tion in Housekeep-ing. Apply at The Heights of Gonza-les Nursing and Re-habilitation Center. Please apply in per-son at 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gon-zales, TX.--------------------------Full time positions available for Re-torative Aide and Medical Records Clerk. Must be a Certified Nurse Aide in good stand-ing. Long term ex-perience preferred. Please apply at The Heights of Gonza-les, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, TX.--------------------------Housekeeper Want-ed. Apply in person at The Vaz Clinic, 1103 N. Sarah De-Witt or call 830-672-2424.--------------------------

Housekeeper Wanted

Looking for a housekeeper with a minimum of 4 years house cleaning ex-perience to clean a 3,000 sq. ft., 2-story home in east Gon-zales County. Du-ties include dust-

ing, vacuuming, mopping, cleaning windows/mirrors and bathrooms. Must be able to provide 3 refer-ences and speak English. Please call 713-582-0794 for more information.--------------------------

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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 opportu-nities! Buy or Sell! Call 830-672-2271, Independent Sales Rep.

Garage Sale: Satur-day, 8-Noon. 206 St. Paul. Furniture, clothes, lots of misc.--------------------------Garage Sale: 1221 St. Matthew. Infant, toddlers, girls, boys, adult clothing. Sat-urday, March 10th, 7 a.m.-?--------------------------

GARAGE SALE: A great variety of it-mes for sale. 215 Darst St., Gonzales. Saturday, March 17th, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Cement Steps. 3 step hollow core set, $125. 4 step hollow core set, $75. Call 830-540-4277.(3-29-12)--------------------------Cannas Plants. Orange & Yellow mixed. $1.00 plant. Hwy. 97 W, Bebe.

512-917-4078. (3-29-12)--------------------------Deer protein feed-ers for sale - very reasonable - call 830-827-5720. (3-15-12)--------------------------Most household items, tools, etc. All Neg. OBO. 1-210-689-4016, Stan. (3-15-12)--------------------------Misc. furniture, appliances, QVC cookware, QVC Silicone Bakeware, Cockatiels (Pair),

small travel cage, large cage w/stand & wheels, 5 house-plants, xtra. lge. clay pots w/saucers. All Neg. OBO. 830-203-1994, Anna. (3-15-12)

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The Gonzales Economic Development Corporation, by this in-strument, notifies the public of the commencement of the 60 Day Public Comment Period and a PUBLIC HEARING on the follow-ing Application that has been presented to the GEDC Board for their consideration. Grant applications are available at City Hall for viewing by the public during the 60 Day Public Comment Pe-riod.

1.) Gary Beavers, Owner of Wise Products, 400 East Commerce Street, Honey Grove, Texas Requesting GEDC Incentive of 2.9 Acres of Land known as Block 2, Lot 2, in the Gonzales Industrial Park Subdivision, for the Construc-tion of a Warehouse, Expanding the Company to Four (4) Locations in Texas.

The GEDC will hold a Public Hearing on this project the 26th of March, 2012, at the Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph St., during the Regular Meeting that begins at 6:00pm, to allow for public comment on this project and the proposed expenditure of Type B Sales Tax funds. After consideration and voting by GEDC, the projects will go to City Council for their approval of the expenditure of funds at their next meeting. The GEDC encourages citizens to participate in the public com-ment and public hearing stages of all GEDC projects. Citizens unable to attend meetings may submit their views to Carolyn Gibson, Economic Development Director for the City of Gonza-les, by mailing them to P.O. Drawer 547, Gonzales, TX 78629. For additional information, contact the Economic Development office at (830)-672-2815.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICECITY OF GONZALES

GONZALES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

The Gonzales Economic Development Corporation, by this in-strument, notifies the public of the commencement of the 60 Day Public Comment Period and a PUBLIC HEARING on the following Small Business Incentive Grant Application that has been presented to the GEDC Board for their consideration. The maximum grant amount is $10,000, it is a reimbursement grand, and a 50% minimum match is required. Grant applications are available at City Hall for viewing by the public during the 60 Day Public Comment Period.

1.) Connie Dolezal, Owner of Shear Designs Salon & Boutique, 805 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales.

The GEDC will hold a Public Hearing on this project the 26th of March, 2012, at the Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph St., during the Regular Meeting that begins at 6:00pm, to allow for public comment on this project and the proposed expenditure of Type B Sales Tax funds. After consideration and voting by GEDC, the projects will go to City Council for their approval of the expenditure of funds at their next meeting. The GEDC encourages citizens to participate in the public com-ment and public hearing stages of all GEDC projects. Citizens unable to attend meetings may submit their views to Carolyn Gibson, Economic Development Director for the City of Gonza-les, by mailing them to P.O. Drawer 547, Gonzales, TX 78629. For additional information, contact the Economic Development office at (830)-672-2815.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamen-tary for the Estate of John Steen DuBose, Deceased, were issued on January 17, 2012, in Docket No. 9509 pending in the County Court of Gonzales County, Texas to Jerry Kay DuBose.

The residence of the Independent Executor is in Gon-zales County, Texas; the mailing address is:

c/o James Austin Pinedo 5120 Woodway, Ste. 8002 Houston, Texas 77056

All persons having claims against this Estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

Dated the 23rd day of February, 2012.

James Austin Pinedo

HELP WANTED

Washer & dryer for $150 each. 830-857-3003 or 830-437-5313. (3-15-12)--------------------------3 in 1 - Baby bed, youth bed & twin bed. $100.00 540-3382. (3-15-12)--------------------------

Three weedeaters. Gasoline operated. $150 for all three. O23 Stihl Chainsaw, w/ case. $225. 361-208-3565. (3-8-12)--------------------------Walls Coveralls. Gray. Size 46 Reg. Like New. $60.00. 830-875-9397.Voit

400 GRS. Gravity Glider. $40.00. 830-875-9397.(3-8-12)--------------------------4 tires and Alumi-num rims. Can fit a Ford Probe or Mazda MX6. Muf-flers can fit a pickup truck, good condi-tion. Cabinet fits

over refrigerator. Collectibles, sweat-ers (some with Christmas themes). Various sizes. Call Marcus Migl, 361-594-4307.(3-15-12)--------------------------Men and Women’s jackets, sweaters. Different sizes. Can be seen at 1822 St. Louis or call 672-8034.(3-15-12)--------------------------1 axle trailer, wide ramp, 12’x61/2’ for sale. Call 857-4993.(3-15-12)--------------------------For Sale: Whirlpool Washing Machine, like new. Large ca-pacity. $200. 361-208-3565.(3-15-12)--------------------------Westein Running Boards. $140. For pictures or any questions, please email [email protected].(3-15-12)--------------------------Dalhart Windberg - Winters Velvet Mantle - $250.00. Signed Affidavit of Limited Edition 12x36 in frame. Email [email protected] for pictures or any questions.(3-8-12)--------------------------Baby and Womens Clothes for sale. Cheap. Call 361-772-5566.(3-8-12)--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane (detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs good. $6,000 obo. Individ-ual, 830-660-2813.(3-8-12)--------------------------Power Box Asphalt Paving Machine and Roller. Good Condition. $9,900. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.(3-8-12)

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.

Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions, $175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.

For Sale: 64x16, 2/2. Like new. Call 830-660-1286 for ap-pointment.--------------------------For Sale: Double-wide Mobile Home. CA/CH, 3br/2ba and Singlewide, 3br/2ba on 5 acres. Hwy. frontage, 5 miles from town. Excellent condition, fenced in with barn. 672-6414.--------------------------’07 Doublewide, sits on 10 ac. Homesteaded, AG exempt, chain-link fence in yard and around 10 ac. Large deck on front, small one in back. Covered dog pen, outside night light. Different types of sheds. Water Softener tanks at-tached to back of house, for inside water only. 4BR/1 Bath, LR, carpeted, rest have linoleum. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, very roomy, high ceilings all through house. Ceiling fans in all 4 bedrooms and Living room, also White block Fireplace never used, Island kitchen between kitchen & dining room w/bar-stools. Silver cabi-nets. Belmont area, Gonzales School Route. Call Candy, LREB at 210-365-2803.

1998 Dodge Ram Pickup. Black incolor with silver bottom. Has sun damage, very strong & runs great. Has many ex-tra features. Asking $2,200 or best offer. Call 903-603-2289. Weekdays call at 5:00 or 6:00 in evening. On weekends call anytime or email me at [email protected].(3-29-12)--------------------------2007 Chevy Extend-ed Cab Z71 truck. 99,200 miles. LT Mod-el. Good condition, 1 owner. $14,250. Call 361-935-3068. (3-29-12)--------------------------1983 Chevy El Camino, 350 engine, 94,000 miles. As Is. Blue Book - $3,500, $2,500/neg. 1-210-

689-4016, Stan. (3-15-12)

3BR/2BA house. $850/mo. 318 De-Witt St. No pets. 830-445-9294.(3-29-12)--------------------------1214 N. Hamilton. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, central air. Call Glo-ria Torres, 830-822-2045.(3-15-12)--------------------------For Rent. Furnished 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Den, Living Room and Kitchen. Avail-able Immediately. Call 830-672-6265 for information. (TFN)--------------------------For Rent to oilfield or pipeline work-ers 2BR/1BA, CH/A, furnished kitchen in Yoakum. Call 361-293-6821.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for rent, w/covered patio, w/electricity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no smok-ing. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances avail-able. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-ances. $750.00 per month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.

Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.

Looking for a Roommate to share a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in nice n e i g h b o r h o o d . Please call 830-263-0498 for more infor-mation.

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.

Efficiency apart-ment North of Gon-zales. Furnished ABP, 1 person. 830-875-3028.

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.(3-29-12)--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-865-0286 or 832-655-9195.--------------------------Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.

Will mow yards. Reasonable Rates. Call for free esti-mates. 857-5147. (TFN)--------------------------Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.--------------------------Lawn care & shred-ding. Call for free estimates. 830-203-9385.--------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Li-ability ins., free esti-mates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.

Willing to do baby-sitting at my house. 8-5 M-F. 511 Church St., 830-857-4993.

2009 40 ft. Luxury 5th wheel. Three slide outs, washer/dryer, fireplace, aw-ning, dishwasher, 2 ac’s, much more.

$26,500.00 obo. 337-962-3484 or 815-764-5200. (3-15-12)--------------------------2011 Big Horn 367ORL 5th Wheel with 4 slices, load-ed, king bed, flat screen TV, electric awning, two A/C units, non-smok-er. NADA Value $82,500. 38 feet long. Great live-in trailer. Call 830-540-4058 or 830-263-9172, Price $46,000.(3-8-12)--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.--------------------------

GREAT DEAL!1997 Kountry Star 34 ft., 5th Wheel. 2 slideouts, upgrad-ed kitchen, ducted A/H, 11 storage c o m p a r t m e n t s , ceiling fans. NADA.com/RV appraised RV at $15,900. Ask-ing $10,000. Great home for oilfield. Located in Rock-port, TX. 361-645-1009.--------------------------2004 Wildcat 5th Wheel RV. 28 ft., equipped to sleep 5, w/lrg. slide con-taining sofa & di-nette. Lots of stor-age. Adapted to pull as gooseneck. Excellent condition. Call 361-218-1880.--------------------------2004 Fleetwood RV Pecos pop-up. Like new, only pulled from dealer. $4,000. Both units located near Old Moulton. Call 857-0734 or 361-596-7317.

RV-SITES-GONZA-LES COUNTY. Large lots, long term rent-als, with laundry service available. $270/mo. + utilities, Weekly-$100; Dai-ly-$20. Pool Opens Summer. Call for in-formation. 830-424-3600.--------------------------RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.

For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for Jeff.--------------------------2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. In-dependent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.--------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.

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Part-time position with the Revenue Collection Department. This is an entry level office/clerical position responsible for customer service and assisting customers with city-related business. Must

have knowledge of secretarial procedures, cashiering, bookkeeping, and telephone operations. Must be

efficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. High school Diploma or equivalent. A minimum of one year experience in general office or accounting experience

recommended. Hours vary from 19-38 per week. Applicant must be able to pass a pre-screen drug and

alcohol test. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all interested

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JOB SUMMARYServes as an administrative secretary to the Mayor, City Administrator and other city officials; manages, organizes and processes all official records of the City; supervises municipal elections; coordinates public meetings of staff, the City Council, and Boards and Commissions; primary telephone contact with public and performs related work as required.SUPERVISION RECEIVEDWork is performed under the general direction of the Mayor and City Administrator. This is a Type A Government Municipality. Appointed by the Mayor with concurrence of the City Council.SUPERVISION EXERCISEDNone.EXAMPLES OF DUTIESPrepares and manages agendas as directed by the Mayor and City Administrator for the Council.Compiles supporting documents for agendas, posts meeting notices, including to the City’s website.Prepares meeting minutes for approval by City Council and Mayor. Attends evening meetings of the City Council and the Mayor.Publishes all required legal notices in the official newspaper of the City within the appropriate time requirements dictated by state law.Responds to requests for information and assistance from Council, staff and citizens.Maintains records, filing, drafts and correspondence for Mayor, City Administrator and other city officials.Maintains custody of city seal and official records of the city including ordinances, resolutions, minutes of the City Council, contracts, agreements, etc. Attests to all official documents of the City.Serves as the Official Records Management Officer for all city documents; insures City is compliant with State Law.Receives on behalf of the City petitions, initiatives, referendums, recall proceedings and applications for office, and verifies all applications and petitions.Coordinates and administers elections and related matters for the City and other agencies as directed. Serves as Early Voting Election Judge.Assists in preparation and management of various budgets.Assists other departments with customer service as needed.Performs other duties as directed.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONSKNOWLEDGEKnowledge of the Texas Election Code, Texas Local Government Code and Texas Open Meetings Act; excellent knowledge of grammatical and technical writing rules and standards; knowledge of Type A Government Municipal-ity and City Ordinances; basic knowledge related to local government administration and home rule governance; knowledge of municipal election laws and duties; knowledge of basic accounting principles; knowledge of com-puter systems including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access); knowledge of document retention and records management; knowledge of secretarial and administrative practices.SKILLSExcellent oral and written communications skills including accurately recording information in precise, written form; highly skilled in computer operations using all Microsoft Office 2000 applications; skill in operating office equipment including copiers, scanners and fax machines; skill in technical writing and copy editing; excellent orga-nizational, document management and record keeping skills.MINIMUM ABILITIES Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing; ability to work well with others; ability to identify what information is needed by others for effective action; ability to deal in a fair and courteous manner with a variety of individuals; ability to demonstrate consideration of others regardless of ethnicity, gender, beliefs, or personal style; able to effecitvely record, document and process complex information in a timely manner; ability to fulfill requests or other wise provide services, accurate information, or assistance in a courteous and timely manner; ability to present a positive image of the city; ability to safeguard sensitive or confidential information from intentional or un-intentional disclosure; ability to maintain an accurate and legible record of official city business; ability to organize and conduct an efficient and honest election in compliance with State law and local ordinances; ability to set goals and accomplish same; ability to type a minumu of 40 words per minute without errors.EDUCATIONHigh school graduate or GED required. Associates Degree preferred.EXPERIENCEA minimum of five years of progressively responsible administrative secretary experience, preferably in the public sector.LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONSNotary Public CertificationCity Secretary Certification by the Texas Municipal Clerks Certification Program (within fours of employment)ADA ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONSAbility to read, analyze, and interpret reports and documents.Ability to respond effectively both orally and in writing in inquiries or complaints.Ability to effectively articulate information to management.Ability to use indpendent judgment in achieving assigned objectives.Ability to take shorthand, either electronically or handwritten.Ability to use basic mathematics.Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.Must be able to travel overnight for up to three days at a time.Must be able to sit for an extended time period.Must be able to work nights and evenings on avarage 4 times per month.

Apply in person at 300 Hwy. 90 W., Waelder, Texas

City SecretaryWaelder, Texas

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER

The City of Gonzales is seeking a highly mo-tivated Office Professional to become its new

Administrative Assistant to the City Manager. This is a newly created position for the City. The Administrative Assistant to the City Manager will provide clerical assistance, schedul-ing, record keeping, and completes special assignments for the City Manager. This position may be asked to fill in for City Secretary or other office personnel from time to time. This position will also manage the Human Resource needs for the City.

Qualifications include:

• High School Diploma or equivalent; Associates De-gree preferred

• 3 years experience of administrative support experi-ence

• Must have intermediate knowledge level of Microsoft Office Products

• Must have skill in English composition, grammar, spelling, and comprehension

• Skill in effective oral and written communication

• Skill in gathering data and preparing reports

The City will be accepting applications for this position until close of business March 14, 2012.

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Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.----------------------------Lawn care & shred-ding. Call for free estimates. 830-203-9385.----------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Liability ins., free estimates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.

Willing to do baby-sitting at my house. 8-5 M-F. 511 Church St., 830-857-4993.

2009 40 ft. Luxury 5th wheel. Three slide outs, washer/dryer, fireplace, aw-ning, dishwasher, 2 ac’s, much more. $26,500.00 obo. 337-962-3484 or 815-764-5200. (3-15-12)----------------------------2011 Big Horn 367ORL 5th Wheel with 4 slices, loaded, king bed, flat screen TV, electric awning, two A/C units, non-smoker. NADA Value $82,500. 38 feet long. Great live-in trailer. Call 830-540-4058 or 830-263-9172, Price $46,000.(3-8-12)----------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.----------------------------

GREAT DEAL!1997 Kountry Star 34 ft., 5th Wheel. 2 slideouts, upgraded kitchen, ducted A/H, 11 storage com-partments, ceiling fans. NADA.com/RV appraised RV at $15,900. Asking $10,000. Great home

for oilfield. Located in Rockport, TX. 361-645-1009.----------------------------2004 Wildcat 5th Wheel RV. 28 ft., equipped to sleep 5, w/lrg. slide contain-ing sofa & dinette. Lots of storage. Adapted to pull as gooseneck. Excellent condition. Call 361-218-1880.----------------------------2004 Fleetwood RV Pecos pop-up. Like new, only pulled from dealer. $4,000. Both units located near Old Moulton. Call 857-0734 or 361-596-7317.

RV-SITES-GONZALES COUNTY. Large lots, long term rentals, with laundry service available. $270/mo. + utilities, Week-ly-$100; Daily-$20. Pool Opens Summer. Call for information. 830-424-3600.----------------------------RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.

For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-

3335. Ask for Jeff.----------------------------2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. Independent Suspension. Wind-shield and Roof. 4x4. Asking - $4,950.00 in very good condition. Call 830-857-4670.----------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.----------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.----------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-Davidson. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, begin-ners or experienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.

Mini Schnauzers. 8 wks, CKC, party col-ors, first wormed, 2 Females, 1 Male, $400.00. 210-379-0771. Stockdale/Seguin Location.----------------------------

CKC Registered Min-iature Dachsunds for sale. 4 wks old. 1st shots & wormed. Call 830-888-0165. (3-29-12)----------------------------English Springer Spaniel Puppies: AKC, liver/white, par-ents on site, just old enough to go to new owners, 1st shots and wormed, vet checked, 3 males/3 females, Super cute, $400. 830-263-1114 or email [email protected]. (3-15-12)----------------------------American Pit Bull Ter-rier Puppies for sale at $75 each. Only 2 female puppies available. Black Not Registered. Available Now. Call 830-203-1574, Randy or 830-263-2808, B.J.

Three “M” Boer Goats, producers of Champion Market and Breeding Goats at the Gonzales Live-stock Show for the past five years, will have goats avail-able for sale for the 2013 Livestock Show beginning in June of this year. Num-bers are limited so don’t wait too long! Viewing to begin in June. Don’t get left out of the Winner’s Circle-Join our win-ning team today and purchase your next Champion from us. (830)491-8508. www.threemboer-goats.com. (7-29-12)----------------------------

3 Game Roosters, free to good home. No fighters please! 512-917-4078. (3-29-12)----------------------------For Sale: Guinea Eggs. Call 830-672-7384. (3-29-12)----------------------------For Sale. Red Bran-gus Bulls and Black Brangus Bulls. 1-2 years old. No papers. 830-437-5772. (3-8-12)----------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.----------------------------

------------MINI-GOATS. (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.

Home for sale. 3/2, 3 car carport on 4 ac. with tank. $89,900. 830-875-2848.(3-8-12)----------------------------Home for sale. Las Hadas Subdivision - Between Seguin and New Braunfels on Hwy. 46. 334 Las Hadas. Spectacu-lar riverfront estate 5BR/4.5Ba, with boat landing and 2100’ tiled covered cabana on the Guadalupe River. Surprisingly

beautiful features including hardwood floors, beamed and wooden ceilings, extensive use of oak hardwood, copper covered cabinets, 2 curved stairways, Murano chandeliers, fully furnished with custom furniture, an-tiques, crystal, china, silver, wide-screen TV, sound system, and much more. Breath taking view of the Guadalupe River on Lake McQueeney. cdkproperties.com. (3-8-12)----------------------------Beautiful Stone House. 24 acres. 2 ponds, well, county water. $400,000. For Info call 713-203-2814.----------------------------Owner Finance, 3BR/1BA located at 810 E. 2nd St. in Nix-on. Asking $65,000. Please call for more information. (830) 672-5580.----------------------------FOR SALE: Seven (7) Buildings, 20 Units Multi-Family Apart-ment Complex, lo-cated at 929 Water St, on 1.595 acres in Gonzales, TX, front-age along US Hwy 183. 1, 2, 3&4 Bed-rooms. All buildings built on concrete slabs, brick veneer siding, metal roof, central heat, Paved Parking Lots and Public Utilities. For information contact: Gonzales Housing Authority, 830-672-3419 or [email protected]/1 home. 714 Sey-dler St. Owner Fi-nance. $75,000 or best cash offer. Call Martha, 830-556-2280. Habla Espanol.----------------------------

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. Ap-prx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residential/commer-cial. Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.----------------------------53.35 Improved Pas-ture with 3/2 older home, CA/H, on FM 1116. 5 miles from downtown Gonza-les. Live Oaks, lots

of new fence. After 5 p.m. call 830-437-2955 or 830-857-4242.----------------------------Home For Sale; New Construc-tion; 2 bed/1 bath; 1504 Weimar Street; $74,900; 100% fi-nancing for qualified buyers; 830-203-5065.

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.

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Human Resources603 W. Central, Hwy. 87

Nixon, TexasThe following positions are currently available:Production/Poultry Processing:

• Back Dock Hanger • 2nd Processing • Sanitation (Nights) • Mon.-Fri., 8-10 hr. daysFeed Mill, 2170 FM 108 S., Gonzales

• Production (Nights)

Apply today, Start today!!!Must consent to and pass a criminal background

check. Must have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the U.S.

Drug screening as applicable to position.Call Human Resources @ (830) 582-1619 for more information.

Si Habla Espanol~

Victoria College Gonzales Centeris now hiring an

Adjunct English Instructor

The department of Instruction is hiring an Adjunct English Instructor for the Victoria

College Gonzales Center to teach daytime classes. Position requires a Master’s Degree and at least 18

graduate hours in area of concentration. College teaching experience preferred. Rate per

course depending on educational qualifications. For application

details see our website at www.victoriacollege.edu/jobsatvc or contact us at 361-572-2459 in

Victoria or at 1-830-672-6251in Gonzales. EOE

We are growing and need your talent and experience! - Maintenance Technicians - Machine Operators - Welders

Stop by our office at 959 Hwy. 95 North in Shiner to complete an application

OR request one at [email protected]

Help WantedWater Operator 1

Full time position, Involves all aspects of operating and

maintaining both the water and wastewater treatment plants. Requires Class B-CDL,

Class C water and Class C wastewater operator license or ability to obtain in 6

months. Must be available to work every fifth weekend. Starting pay $26,928.00

Benefits for full time employees include health insurance, 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. Applications available at City Hall or www.cityofgonzales.org. Please

complete an application and take to City Hall or mail to:

City of GonzalesATTN: Payroll Dept

P O Box 547 Gonzales, TX 78629

“NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE”

Victoria College Gonzales Centeris now hiring a

Full Time CustodianPosition will be responsible for main-taining the Gonzales Center by doing custodial work, sweeping, mopping/waxing and polishing floors; vacuuming and shampooing carpets; cleaning and supplying bathrooms. Must safely lift up to 50 pounds, and be able to stand, reach and stoop frequently, and work from ladders. Must be able to read and understand safety information.Starting pay range is $791.27 - $808.60 Semi-Monthly depending on qualifica-tions, plus employee benefits that include retirement, paid health insurance, group rates for dental, life, and disability insur-ance, tuition waiver, paid leave, Sec. 125 flex, and a quality work environment. www.victoriacollege.edu/jobsatvc or call 1-830-672-6251 EOE

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

Mushroom HarvestersPicker Helpers

Production CrewWe offer 401K, vacation and life insurance.

Apply at Kitchen Pride

Mushroom Farms, Inc., County Road 348, Gonzales, TX.

830-540-4516.KPFM is an EOE employer.

CHECK OUT OUR MOVE-IN SPECIAL!

EFFICIENCY APARTMENTS FOR THE ELDERLY 62 OR OLDERAVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

* Rent based on income* Garden Style Apartments* Private Entrances* Individual Flower Bed Available* Carpeted & Air Conditioned* Water, Sewer & Trash Paid* Miniblinds, Ceiling Fan, Range, Refrigerator furnished* Maintenance/Management/Service Coordinator on site

COUNTRY VILLAGE SQUARE APARTMENTS1800 Waelder Road - Gonzales, TX (830) 672-2877

8 am - 5 pm, Tuesday-Friday

HELP WANTED HELP WANTEDHELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

APTS. FOR RENT APTS. FOR RENT

TRAVEL TRAILERFOR RENT

Call 1-512-863-000or 512-508-6221

CLEAN!Fully furnished!

All Household items.

Move in Ready.$350 a week.

Just BringYour Toothbrush

TRAVEL TRAILERSFOR RENT

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

CHILD CARE

RV SITESFOR RENT

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or any classified ad.

6+ Acres at end of Oil Patch Lane. Zoned Commercial for $180,000. Can divide into smaller tracts. Call 210-416-0041.

Work wanted/need-ed. Man, 32 yr. old looking for steady employment. 830-203-5072. (3-15-12)

WANTED: Broken and unwanted costume jewelry, beads, buttons, and fabric scraps. I am a crafter on a

very tight budget, so your “craft trash” is my treasure. Call Nikki at (512) 227-4040.(3-15-12)--------------------------Looking for Leroy Matocha 33 Vinyl Records. “Time to Dance” and “All Aboard”. Call 979-532-3117.(3-8-12)

K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. Call 830-445-9583 or 830-857-3505 for details.

APACHE STORAGE - The Store All Place is located at 2502 Harwood Rd. Gon-zales, TX. 830-203-5115.

Plumbing Repairs.All Types of Plumb-

ing.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.(3-15-12)--------------------------

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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Hwy. 90 A East, 3 bd., 2 ba., 7 acs, ...........................................................................$135,000Ottine: 3 bd., 2 ba., on 1+ ac.,............$98,0007 + Acres. & home............................$240,000New: 1720 St. Vincent, ....................$275,000Lot - Live Oak......................................$8,000507 St. Michael, 3 bd., 2 ba................$78,000New: 2 lrg. lots - Hopkins........$15,000/each

LandNew: 20 acs., trees, pond, miner-als..................................................$4,800/acre.90 A East, 35 acs., + home...............$400,000New: 33 acs., East Gonzales Co....$4,500/Ac.70 acs., wooded, hills, game, tanks...........................................................$420,000153 acs., FM 2091.............................$795,0008.7 acs., city limits.............................$150,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town...................................................................$12,000/Ac.,4+ Acres, city....................................$125,0006 Acres, 183 N., city.........................$225,000

Homes3.7 ACS. 4BR, 3BA, 2LV.................. $150,000306 McClure - 3BR, 1 Bath................$65,0001618 St. Peter - Home and extra lot....$70,000473 Crockett Lane-Settlement - 3 bd., beautiful property..................................$258,0001602 Water St.-commercial/rental....$150,0002342 FM 108, 3 bd.,2 story home.....$145,000792 90-B - Lakefront..............................$89,000312 Cr. Rd. 471, Lakefront + ,3 bd., 1.5 acre lot............................................$150,000

Land11.2 acs., Hwy 90. Gast Rd.......$5,300/Ac.CR 228 - 15 acs., M/H, trees................$87,500153 acs., FM 2091.........................$795,00061 acs., perfect homesite.................$4,990/Ac.3.94 acs., Settlement.......................$65,00010 acs., Settlement.........................$79,0002-4 acs., Sarah DeWitt............$25,000/Ac.1 ac. Seydler St...............................$25,0008.7 acs., city limits........................$120,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town................................................................$12,000/Ac.

CommercialLot - Live Oak..................................$8,000401 St. George-approx. 3400 sq. ft........................................................................$170,000

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On March 1, the St. Paul Cardinal Band participat-ed in the TAPPS District Concert/Sight reading and Solo/Ensemble Contest at Sacred Heart High School in Hallettsville.

The concert band re-ceived a 2nd division rating in concert and a 1st divi-sion in sight reading. They received a plaque for the 1st division in sight reading.

Seven students qualified for the State Solo and En-semble Contest that will be held at University of Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton on April 13. Students that qualified for state were: Mary Adamek, Katie Den-son and Kymberlie Malatek on clarinet trio; Laddie

Patek, Katelynn Leist, and Travis Raabe on a trumpet trio; Adamek on piano and clarinet solo; Denson on clarinet solo; and Kourtney Knesek on alto sax solo.

Other students that made a 1st division on solos and earned medals were: Cole Hybner, piano solo; Victo-ria Kusak, piano solo; Ryan Kapavik, baritone solo; and McKenzie Kresta, bass clar-inet solo.

Students making a 2nd division on solos or ensem-bles were: Morgan Hull, flute solo; Kourtney Kne-sek, Alexa Schaefer, and Justin Seigel, alto sax trio; and Abby Irvin, Cassidy Thomas, and Elise Patek, clarinet trio.


Gonzales Elementary Honor Rolls

Education

Gonzales Junior High honor roll for the fourth six weeks:

7th GRADEALL A’S Katherine Bonilla, Mckenzie Caldwell, Hal-

ey Clampit, Paige Glass, Hayden Henke, Mada-lin Kocian, Reuben Morales, Emma Morgan, Brandon Page, Josie Stowers

ALL A’S AND ONE BCorie Connell, Erin Foley, Connie Garza,

Joshua Haynes, Kolby Kifer, Angelica Mathis, Wade Miller, Allyson Schauer, Jason Velasquez Banda, Nathan Walker

8TH GRADEALL A’SValerie Barnick, Molly Barnick, Alyssa Bar-

ta, Dylan Cantu, Jannine Cortez, Blake Cox, Ashley Gonzalez, Mitchell Hardcastle, Ash-leigh Haub, Tyler Hendershot, Ali Hoghoughi, Tesha Landry, Maxililiano Moreno, Trent Schauer, Alyson Solis, Clayton Wilkerson

ALL A’S AND ONE BZachary Akers, Ryan Benes, Carlos Blanco,

Kelsey Camarillo, Angelica Castro, Adrian Landa, Shelly Mann, Alyas Ramirez

Gonzales Elementary honor roll for the 4th Six Weeks:

All A’sSecond GradeJacob Bakken, Braden Barfield, Jacob Ca-

marillo, Juliana Castillo, Kailey DeLeon, Nico-las DeLeon, Benjamin Dement, Mikayla Dick-inson, Breck Eleby, Krisanta Esquivel Diaz, Jackelyn Gamez, Daniel Garcia, David Garcia, Gabriel Garcia, Reese Griffin, Jose Hernan-dez Lopez, Carlie Hernandez, Hailey Hidalgo, Stephanie Izaguirre, Genevieve Kelley, Marisol Leon, Brianna Lucio, Audrey Martinez, Nico-las Martinez, Ava Medellin, Demi Monohan, Grace Morgan, Eliana Morrow, Luz Olmedo Almazan, Taylor Orme, Hannah Pena, Paola Perez, Tara Pettus, Jennifer Ramirez, Kaylin Ramirez, Colby Richter, Jordan Riojas, Anna Rodriguez, Monica Ruedas Valladolid, Makay-la Sanchez, Alexandra Santillano Ortega, Elena Silva, Brooklyn Simper, Samantha Sirilo, Erika Torres, Abigail Trevino, Jacqueline Vasquez, Samantha Villa, Isaac Villanueva, Brittney Vil-legas, and Lesley Williamson.

Third GradeSkylynn Barnes, Samantha Barnick, Hallie

Barron, Raphael Bibas, Mark Burek, Britany Castillo, Braden Clampit, Shelby Davis Jeffrey Decou, Ayden DeLeon, Bella DuBose, Esteban Gallardo, Antonio Govea, Lieza Martinez, Lane Mills, Bailey Petras, Stephanie Reyna, Hay-ley Sample, Emily Sanchez, Elizabeth Stolicki, Christian Tibbetts, Melanie Vazquez, Jordan Williams and Krysten Zuniga.

Fourth GradeKiley Allen, Dominic Anzaldua, William

Atkinson, Maggie Barnick, Madison Blundell, Tanner Blundell, Krystalynn Buesing, Dylan Cantrell, Sydney Clack, Diego Diaz DeLeon, Samantha Gallegos, Domingo Garcia, Heath Henke, Christopher Holub, Kyle Krum, Ashton Longoria, Staznie Molina, Anayeli Noyola, So-phie Oliver, Fernando Orduna, Shelby Orme, Lauren Parks, Diego Pecina, Abigail Rodriguez, Brenden Rodriguez, Nayeli Salazar, Ashlynn Stewart, Sadie Thibodeaux and Bree Wolff.

A’s and B’sSecond GradeFreddy Almazan, Karla Almazan-Correa,

Lisbet Alvarez, Avery Arriola, Brett Breitschopf, Juan Cardoza DeLaCruz, Maria Castillo, Virgie Cervantes, Kyron Dora, Briana Duenez, Alex-avier Escobedo, Addison Farias, Alfredo Fer-nandez, Larissa Fernandez, Noemy Gallegos, Luis Garcia, Mary Kate Garcia, Noah Gonzales, Ashley Hernandez, Diego Hernandez, Emma Hernandez, Marianna Herrera, Blake Hull, Noelia Inocencio, Dustin Irle, Amy Izaguirre, Ignacio Izaguirre, Jazmin Izaguirre, Treyton James, Alanna Kenning, Hannah Koncaba, Alexis Laney, Joshua Leal, Kari Leal, Damian Longoria, Luis Maldonado, Michael Mariscal, Alejandro Martinez, Graciela Martinez, Jathan Martinez, Karla Martinez, Marissa Martinez, Miranda Martinez, Stefanie Martinez, Carlos Matamoros, Cesar Matamoros, M’Kenna Matl, Eric Medina-Ortiz, Brandon Melancon, Emily Melchor, Marissa Molina, Carlos Morales, Jace Morris, Paige Null, Martin Orozco, Sara Perez Vazquez, Johnathan Perez, Joshua Perez, Mat-thew Pullin, Alexis Ramon, Jace Ramos, Dylan Reeves, Lianette Reyes, Raymond Roberts, Ana Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez III, Sabine Sanchez, Danny Skorpenske, Jalen Soto, Travis Thibodeaux, Dakota Villagran, Brenda Villan-ueva, and Landon Watson.

Third GradeChristian Almaguer, Kalie Almaguer, Ay-

anna Amaro, Ashley Berger, Caitlyn Blundell, Hunter Brown, Madelynn Brown, Caleb Ca-marillo, Logan Cantrell, Nicholas Casares, Les-lie Castillo, Mirsaaydes Castillo, Austin Davis, Larry Davis, Lilia DeLaCruz, William Filla, Ashleah Flores, Hannah Fullilove, Elizabeth Gallegos, Karla Gallegos, Dyllon Garcia, Felipe Garza, Noah Garza, Ryan Gomez, Angela Gon-zalez, Damian Grifaldo, Angel Gudino, Jillian Guerra, Elisa Guillen Balleza, Jake Hardcastle, Brian Haufler, Deissy Hernandez, Luis Her-nandez, Savannah Heximer, Richard Hood, Donovan Iglehart, Leonel Izaguirre, Vanessa Izaguirre, Victor Izaguirre, Brett Jahns, Chris-topher Jaramillo, Brenda Juarez, Ryan Kocian,

Collin Lawing Donovan Lerma, Annalasha Lewis, Sebastian Llamas, Jaydyn Lookabill, Lindsey Low, Jorge Lucio Salinas, Ashleigh Lu-ensmann, Danna Martinez, Naomi Martinez, Emily Moore, Ariana Morris, Osvaldo Oro-zco, Charles Pierpont, Madison Pirkle, Silvano Reyes, Ivan Reyna, Ramona Reyna, Jonathan Rodriguez, Yesenia Rodriguez, Peyton Rud-dock, Kobe Schwausch, Bethany Shovlin, Des-tiny Silva, Emily Stair, Kyla Stamps, Kaitlyn Taylor, Natalie Tenberg, Mayra Torres Mendez, Mallory Vara, John Vega, Jennifer Velasquez, Camaeron Vernor, Brayden Watson, Hope West, and Anna Zuniga.

Fourth GradeMaddison Amaro, Christian Barron, Bailey

Bennett, Taryn Bolton, Dylan Buford, Chris-topher Camarillo, Victoria Camarillo, Andrea Chavez, Jamison Cogburn, Johnna Dalton, Tyla Dalton, Jacob Duke, Isac Espinoza, Jesus Espinoza, Alyssa Faith, Moses Flores, Aukievah Fryer, Miriam Gallegos, Patricia Galvan Estra-da, Denisse Galvan, Fernando Garcia, Meghan Garcia, Christian Gomez, Steven Gonzales, Lil-lie Griffin, Antonio Hernandez Sanchez, Jason Hernandez, Martina Hernandez, Mariel Huer-ta, Maryann Ivey, Trinity James, Alexia Juarez, Joshua Kenning, Josue Leon, Mauro Leon, Mason Ligues, Violeta Llamas, Jisaela Longo-ria, Giselle Lopez, Wendy Lopez, Molly Man-ning, Gino Martinez, Joshua Martinez, Nayellie Martinez, Maraia Mathis, Carlos Miramontes-Mariscal, Emily Moreno, Veronica Moreno, Brady Oakes, Sandra Palacios, Michelle Perez, Alejandro Ramirez, Keisey Ramirez, Marinna Ramirez, Victoria Reininger, Saigelyn Rhoades, Mason Richter, Alexzandria Rocha, Anabela Rodriguez, Angela Rodriguez, Coby Rdori-guez, Kristen Rodriguez, Angel Sanchez, De-nise Sanchez, Santiago Sanchez, Mary San-Miguel, Sydney Schroeder, Guadalupe Segura, Kaitlyn Shelton, Skylar Siptak, Abagail Solis, Angela Stair, Madison Stamport, David Torres, Megan Torres, Wendy Vazquez, Victoria Vela, Julia Webb, Harley Whitfield, Devonte’ Wil-liams, Kayla Willis, and Taylor Zumwalt.

Gonzales Junior High Honor Rolls

Cardinal band earns honors in district contest

Cardinal Band Earns HonorsThe St. Paul Cardinal Band recently participated in the TAPPS District Concert/Sight reading and Solo/Ensem-ble Contest at Sacred Heart High School in Hallettsville. The concert band received a 2nd division rating in con-cert and a 1st division in sight reading, for which they were awarded a plaque. (Courtesy photo)

First Division MedalistsEleven St. Paul Cardinal Band members earned 1st Di-vision Medals including: Mary Adamek, Katie Denson, Kymberlie Malatek, Laddie Patek, Katelynn Leist, Travis Raabe, Kourtney Knesek, Cole Hybner, Victoria Kusak, Ryan Kapavik and McKenzie Kresta. (Courtesy photo)

Book Club Member of the WeekClayton Wilkerson, an 8th grader, is Gonzales Ju-nior High School’s March Book Club Member of the Month. His favorite book is “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling. His favorite au-thor is Rick Riordan, who wrote his favorite series, “Heroes of Olympus.” Mythology/Fiction books are Clayton’s first choice of reading. The JH Book Club, led and inspired by GJH library aide Ms. Stephens, meets on Tuesday mornings at 7:30 in the library and is always open to new members. (Courtesy photo)

Dr. Seuss Birthday CelebrationGonzales Elementary School’s new librarian, Alma Trevino, organized a celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Trevino planned a wonderful week of story tellers that included parents, community leaders, fire men, and even business executives. She also person-ally constructed enough “Cat in the Hat” hats for the entire staff to wear. Steve Gonzales and Nela Gallardo made ap-pearances as the Cat in the Hat throughout the day, and all week teachers and students were focused on enjoying Dr. Seuss’ books by the reading of, listening to, and writing down their favorite books. At top left, fourth grade teachers are all hatted up. At bottom left, Samantha Sirilo points out the focus of the pro-gram — promoting reading. at top right, Steve Gonzales as the Cat in the Hat. At bot-tom right, school trustee Jus-tin Schwausch gets into the act with Mr. Gilliam’s class. (Courtesy photos)

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Gonzales 4H/FFA Livestock Show Results

Shiner Livestock Show Results

Results from the Gonzales 4-H/FFA Livestock Show (Our thanks to Egon Bar-thels from KCTI 1450AM for the compila-tion):

Market Steers:Grand Champion - Dylan MillsReserve Champion - Cuatro KoehlerSenior Showmanship-Loni LesterJunior Showmanship-Tanner Hard-

castleCounty Bred Market Steers:Grand Champion - Loni LesterReserve Champion - Taylor Mills

Heavy Weight1st - Dylan Mills2nd - Loni Soefje3rd - Joshua Weigang4th - Gretchen Singleton

Medium Heavy Weight1st - Cuatro Koehler2nd - Tanner Hardcastle3rd - Kelli Soefje4th - Zachary Singleton

Medium Weight1st - Loni Lester2nd - Trent Malaer3rd- Taylor Mills4th - Travis Malaer

Light Weight Class1st - Kailyn Malaer2nd - Emma Morgan3rd - Kourtney Knesek4th - Nathan Wagner5th - Kailey Williams

Heifers:Grand Champion: Dylan MillsReserve Champion: Kayla Mason

County Bred Grand Champion - Lane Mills

County Bred Reserve Champion - Mad-ison Culpepper

Beef Showmanship:Grand Champion - Loni LesterReserve Champion - Dylan Mills

Junior Beef Showmanship:Grand Champion - Tanner HardcastleReserve Champion - Madison Culpep-

per

Commercial Heifers:Grand Champion - Tanner HardcastleReserve Champion - Haley Clampit

Commercial Heifers County Bred:Grand Champion - Tanner HardcastleReserve Champion - Haley ClampitBred:1st- Lindsay Kuck2nd - Derek KapavikOpen:1st - Hope Kapavik2nd - Wyatt JohnsonPair:1st - Tanner Hardcastle2nd - Haley Clampit

Market Lambs:Grand Champion - Lauren CampionReserve Champion - Zachary DavisGrand Champion County Bred - Zach-

ary DavisReserve Champion County Bred -

Weston Davis

Market Lambs:Light Weight1st - Neally Basquez2nd - Josie Stowers3rd - Erica Malatek4th - Allan Jaehne

Market Lambs:Medium Weight1st - Weston Davis2nd - Trace Herndon3rd - Don Jaehne4th - Hannah Lorton

Market Lambs:Heavy Weight1st - Lauren Campion2nd - Zachary Davis3rd - Aspen Flach4th - Shelly Kresta5th - Richard Thiele

Ewes:Grand Champion - Lauren CampionReserve Champion - Erica MalatekGrand Champion County Bred - Erica

MalatekReserve Champion County Bred - Rich-

ard Thiele

Lambs/Ewes:Senior Showmanship:Grand Champion - Lauren CampionReserve Champion - Erica Malatek

Junior Showmanship:Grand Champion - Josie StowersReserve Champion - Zachary Davis

Market GoatsLight Weight1st - Madelyne Parr2nd - Taylor Mobbs3rd - Kyle Krum4th - Brendan Yoakum5th - Michaela Malatek6th - Gareth Fowler

Market Goats:Medium Weight1st - Lauren Campion2nd - Hunter Laqua3rd - Hailey Clampit4th - Cameron Glass5th - Ashlyn Kardoz6th - Blaine Frederick

Market Goats:Medium Heavy Weight1st - Madison Culpepper2nd - Trace Herndon3rd - Karlee Krum4th - Zachary Davis5th - Adrien Masek6th - Taylor Glass7th - Erica Pavliska

Market Goats: Heavyweight1st - Dillon Zella2nd - Wayne Fowler3rd - Allie Koone4th - Emily Schramm5th - Brenna Raineyr

Breeding Goats:Grand Champion - Lauren CampionReserve Champion - Madison Culpep-

perCounty Bred Champion - Lauren Cam-

pionCounty Bred Reserve Champion - Mad-

ison Culpepper

Market Goats:Senior Showmanship -Grand Champion - Lauren CampionReserve Champion - Gareth FowlerMarket Goats:Junior Showmanship -Grand Champion - Haley ClampitReserve Champion - Hunter Laqua

Breeding Goats:1st - Lauren Campion2nd - Madison Culpepper3rd - Dillon Zella4th - Lauren Campion5th - Taylor Mobbs6th - Madison Culpepper7th - Madison Culpepper8th - Emily Schramm9th - Blaine Frederick

Market Swine:Grand Champion - Lynnea FinkReserve Champion - McKenzie

CaldwellCounty Bred Grand Champion - Trent

WilkersonCounty Bred Reserve Champion - Kym-

berlie Malatek

Swine Senior Showmanship -Grand Champion - Ty TinsleyReserve Champion - Derrick Davis

TatschSwine Junior Showmanship -Grand Champion - Katarina LeistReserve Champion - Sheridan Tate

Heavy Weight1st - McKenzie Caldwell2nd - Luke Tinsley3rd - Case Johnson4th - Trent Wilkerson5th - Mackenzie Parker6th - Kymberlie Malatek7th - Tristan Barta8th - Katarina Leist9th - Ashleigh Luensmann10th - Ryan Kocian11th - Natalie Tenberg

Medium Heavy Weight1st - Lynnea Fink2nd - Sheridan Tate3rd - Anna Adamek4th - Shaelynn Malatek5th - Skylea Tatsch6th - Mary Adamek7th - Chris Brown8th - Derrick Davis Tatsch9th - Clayton Wilkerson10th - Dakota Stamport11th - Ty Tinsley

Medium Weight1st - Ashlynn Tatsch2nd - Elijah Clark Norman3rd - Cade Davis4th - Wyatt Johnson5th - Eric FLores6th - Kayla Malatek7th - Kolby Kifer8th - Madelin Kocian9th - Devin Rickman

Light Weight1st - Bradley Samport2nd - Jesslyn Nowotny3rd - Raven Dyer4th - Dalton Nowotny5th - Cody Whitfield6th - Blaine Frederick7th - Sadie Thibodeaux8th - Quinton Parker

Breeding Gilt:Grand Champion - Sheridan TateReserve Champion - Cade DavisCounty Bred Grand Champion - Clay-

ton WilkersonCounty Bred Reserve Champion - Ra-

ven Dyer

Hamp -1st - Eric Flores2nd - Lynnea Fink3rd - Ashlynn Tatsch4th - Blaine Frederick5th - Natalie Tenberg6th - Brittany Komoll7th - Skylea Tatsch

Duroc -1st - Sheridan Tate2nd - Ashleigh Luensmann3rd - McKenzie Caldwell4th - Clayton Wilkerson5th - Ty Tinsley

York -1st - Cade Davis2nd - Raven Dyer3rd - Sadie Thibodeaux

Cross -1st - Sheridan Tate2nd - Derrick Davis Tatsch3rd - Madelin Kocian4th - Tristan Barta

Broliers -Grand Champion - Weston Davis

Reserve Champion - Tyler Janota3rd - Brittney Pakebusch4th - Jaylee Moeller5th - Mitchell McElroy6th - Briant Hand7th - Richard Thiele8th - Jordan Moeller9th - Dillon Catchings10th - Eric Flores11th - Alexis Knox12th - Keaton Kuntschik13th - Damaris Green14th - Kolby Kifer15th - Brittany Richter16th - Devin Bennett17th - Haley Hernandez18th - Ralston Williams19th - Collin Richter20th - Wyatt Williams21st - Autumn Hernandez22nd - Bailey Bennett

County Bred Market Rabbits:Grand Champion - Michaela GarciaReserve Champion - Kelli Soefje

Breeding Rabbits:Grand Champion - Alexis KnoxReserve Champion - Joshua Weigang

County Bred Breeding Rabbits:Grand Champion - Alexis KnoxReserve Champion - Joshua Weigang

Junior Rabbit Showmanship:1st - Daniela Hinojosa2nd - Hope Kapavik

Market Rabbits1 - Kymberlie Malatek2- Max Moore IV3- Brenna Rainey4 - Patrick Green5- Bre Wolff6- Kendall Fougerat7- Bryn McNabb8- Maria Janecek9 - Cheyenne Moore10 - Jacey Haile11 - Kristofer Knesek12 - Kathleen Knesek13 - Kyle Wyrick14 - Johanna Green15 - Madison Stamport16 - Hope Kapavik17 - Isabell Clay18 - Keela Hoffman19 - Jessica Henrichs21 - Samantha Kuntschik22 - Harley Whitfield23 - Faith LaFleur24 - Atlanta Moore25 - Jacy Chrismon26 - Devin Benes27 - Ryan Benes28 - Rebekah Baker29 - Sophie Oliver30 - Kristin McKinney31 - Isabella Crawford32 - Parker Clay33 - Claire Pavliska34 - Michaela Garcia35 - Brianna Rickman36 - Scarlett Crawford37 - Lillie Griffin38 - Mikayla Harper40 - Mikayla Wyatt41 - Tesha Landry42 - Morgan Simper43 - Daniela Rivas44 - Pilar Romero45 - Jacey Henrich46 - Tyler Hendershot47 - Alexis Knox49 - Kellie Soefje51 - Cole Hendershot52 - Emma Hohenshell53 - Monica Miller

Baked Goods - SeniorsGrand Champion - Shelly KrestaReserve Champion - Lauren CampionBaked Goods - JuniorsGrand Champion - Sadie ThibodeauxReserve Champion - Kyle Krum

Results from the 32nd Annual Shiner FFA Livestock Show Friday at Green-Dickson Mu-nicipal Park in Shiner:

SteersGrand Champion – Jacob Stafford. Total

Sale Price: $6,356.Reserve Champion – Blaine Caka. Total sale

price: $6,316.70.Showmanship: Blaine Caka.1 - Hannah Koenning, Total sale price:

$4,288.25.2 - Tyler Patek, Total sale price: $$3,746.253 - Kris Patek, Total sale price: $$3,2584 - Jeace Chumchal, Total sale price: $3,4925 - Brian Kloesel, Total sale price: $3,5226 - Brady Schlenker, Total sale price: $2,7167 - Dauntee Hights, Total sale price: $$3,3068 - Matthew Lerch, Total sale price:

$3,075.209 - Caleb Kalich, Total sale price: $2,84010 - Abby Tieken, Total sale price: $2,864.4011 - Nichole Tieken, Total sale price:

$2,509.3012 - Hunier Muniz, Total sale price: $4,152

13 - Austin Rammers, Total sale price: $4,645.20

LambsGrand Champion - Sarah Koenning, Total

sale price: $5,922Reserve Champion - Paige Dollard, Total

sale price: $3,406Showmanship: Kaci Pesek1 - Chad Rable, Total sale price: $1,5512 - Kaci Pesek, Total sale price: $1,2243 - Lucas Peterson, Total sale price: $1,2404 - Sara Lauer, Total sale price: $2,6205 - Jessica Mauric, Total sale price: $1,7206 - Jonathon Albrecht, Total sale price:

$1,0087 - Stacey Perez, Total sale price: $1,3508 - Meagan Chumchal, Total sale price:

$1,4529 - Chase Schroeder, Total sale price: $1,16810 - D.J. Jaehne, Total sale price: $1,13411 - Audrey Horsley, Total sale price: $928

HogsGrand Champion - Micah Morkovsky, Total

sale price: $7,453Reserve Champion - Kaylyn Benes, Total

sale price: $3,780Showmanship - Kaylyn Benes1 - Lindsey Petru, Total sale price: $1,8242 - Hailey Tucker, Total sale price: $1,9953 - Weston Roller, Total sale price: $2,4894 - April Lauer, Total sale price: $3,567.625 - Ethan Berger, Total sale price: $1,6386 - Blake Michaelec, Total sale price:

$1,362.507 - Eric Hewett, Total sale price: $3,702.538 - Daphne Lazano, Total sale price: $1,3099 - Caleb Curtis, Total sale price: $1,358.5010 - Derek Duke, Total sale price: $1,16511 - Julianna Rankin, Total sale price: $1,48212 - Ethan Zissa, Total sale price: $1,003.5013 - Nick Nevlud, Total sale price: $1,156.5014 - Danny Meza, Total sale price: $1,106.7515 - Craig Kneifel, Total sale price: $1,31016 - Colby Jahn, Total sale price: $2,18717 - Kristin Schacherl, Total sale price:

$2,31318 - Ryan Horsley, Total sale price: $1,048.5019 - Zachery Lawrence, Total sale price:

$1,13420 - Kaci Jamison, Total sale price: $1,30821 - Lauren Oden, Total sale price: $1,111.5022 - James Olhausen, Total sale price: $91223 - Meloni Berger, Total sale price: $1,02824 - Michael Lawrence, Total sale price:

$1,093.5025 - D.J. Truman, Total sale price: $1,092.2526 -Jeremiah McAfee, Total sale price:

$1,962

Broilers:Grand Champion - Jordan Wenske, Total

sale price: $4,300Reserve Champion - Destiny Chumchal, To-

tal sale price: $4,2991 - Joelyn Rogers, Total sale price: $1,0002 - Jake Jalufka, Total sale price: $2,5003 - Tamara Hajek, Total sale price: $800

Sale Grand total: $147,602.95Donations: $6,500Add-On total: $46,065Grand total of sale: $200,167.95


Miles of Smiles at theGonzales Livestock ShowThe judging was tough — but as awards began to be presented during last week’s Gonzales 4H/FFA Livestock Show, the smiles were abundant on young faces. Check The Cannon’s March 22 edition for photos of all the winners and sponsoring buyers from the Gonzales, Luling, Moulton, Shiner, Waelder and Nix-on-Smiley shows.

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AUSTIN — Moulton had seen some good press defenses before and had handled them too well too.

The Bobkittens came up against another press defense Friday night at the University of Texas at Austin’s Frank Erwin Cen-ter in the girls Class 1A, Division II state semifinal against the Neches Lady Tigers. This time the press got the better of Moulton as Neches romped, 64-42, be-hind the play of their stellar guard Roddricka Patton.

Moulton had an early turnover problem, with 13 in the first quarter.

“I do not know if it was so much Neches’ press as our nerves,” Moulton head coach John Meisetschlea-ger said. “We threw the ball away a lot and that is going to happen sometimes. This is the first time these girls

have been in this situation (playing at state tourna-ment), but Neches ran a very good press.”

Patton’s quickness caused some issues for the Moulton defense. She had a monster game and fin-ished with a triple double, getting 15 points, 11 assists and 11 steals to go with six rebounds.

“She is lightning fast and a good ball player,” Mei-setschleager said. “She is hard to contain. She beat us out front. I think we did a good job stepping in to help, but she kept her head up and dished off to who-ever was there to help.”

Brandee Dolezal was one of the Bobkittens who spent some time in the game defending Patton.

“She is fast and a good passer,” Dolezal said. “Rod-dricka can dribble well, but she is not one of those players who will take it to you. She will dish off to a

teammate. She is quick and small and so it was easy for her to go past someone.”

Scoring was sparse in the first three minutes with Neches missing several field goals. Moulton had a hard time getting a shot off because of the Neches defense. Patton’s free throw was the first point for the game and the Lady Tigers extended the lead to 5-0 after Kiandra Taylor re-bounded a missed shot and Raven McFarland made a layup.

Kristen Green grabbed a steal to make a layup for the 7-0 lead. Moulton fi-nally broke through around the 2:45 mark when Casie Zimmerman took a pass from Kendall Kristynik and made a triple. Neches ended the quarter with two buckets and a 13-3 advan-tage.

In the second frame, Dolezal completed a three-point play to bring Moult-

on to within 17-8. The Lady Tigers then scored nine of the next 11 points, getting shots and free throws from Patton and Green.

A jumper from Chey-enne Green gave Neches a 30-10 lead, its biggest of the half. Moulton ended the period with the last five points to trail 30-15 at the break.

Meisetschleager gave a halftime speech similar to the last four outings, games where Moulton was lead-ing.

“I told them to play 32 minutes of basketnball,” he said. “I told them it was not over by any means. I knew we needed to come out and play hard in the second half and I thought we had a lot better second half.”

The Lady Tigers scored 13 of the first 14 points in the third stanza to go ahead 43-16. Dolezal made an-other three-point play to

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Molina powers her way to state tournamentCORPUS CHRISTI –

Elea Molina of Gonzales is heading to state after she qualified at the Texas High School Women’s Powerlift-ing Association’s Region V Division II Championships Saturday at Calallen High School.

Molina failed to fin-ish among the top two in her 165-pound division to advance in a traditional manner, but her total of

745 pounds lifted met the state qualifying total. Mo-lina placed in third with a 295-pound squat, 135 bench and 315 deadlift.

The Class 3A State Championships will be held on Saturday, March 17 at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, beginning at 9:15 a.m.

Laci Lock of Gonzales measured up to her re-gional rank coming into

the meet by finishing fifth in the 132-pound division. She squatted 230, benched 110 and deadlifted 240 for a total of 580.

Julie Tesch of Yoa-kum finished fifth in the 220-pound division with a total of 605. She had a 225 squat, a bench of 125 and a deadlift of 255. Her team-mate, Terry Turner, placed eighth in the 165-pound division. She squatted 285,

benched 145 and deadlift-ed 260 for a total of 690.

The only other area lifter to place was Katy Drehr of Cuero, who came in 10th in the 114-pound division. She had a squat of 170, a bench of 75 and a deadlift of 220 for a total of 465.

Gonzales finished 15th in the team standings with four points. Yoakum was 18th with one point, while Cuero finished tied for 21st

with no points. Crystal City won the meet with a team total of 40.

Several area boys will be in action at the Region V Championships this week-end at Bishop High School. The Division II teams will compete on Friday, while the Division III teams will be action on Saturday. Both meets begin at 9 a.m. with the squat.

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Moulton girls fall in statechampionship semifinals

Up The FloorBrandee Dolezal splits the defense of Neches’ Lyric Duncan (10) and Kamry Kinder (31) during the Class 1A state semifinal in Austin last Friday. Dolezal, one of four seniors on the team, finished with 16 points. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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Gonzales opens district play by beating Yoakum

GONZALES – It is a little unusual for the entire Lady Apache softball hit-ting lineup to make plays in a single game. Then again, sometimes unusual things happen.

Every player in the bat-ting order helped out in some way in Gonzales’ 7-6 thriller win over #20 Yoakum Monday night at Lady Apache Field in the District 28-3A opener for both schools.

“Our one through nine hit the ball,” said Gonzales head coach Holly Long. “There was not one girl that did not contribute something.”

“Everyone, the seniors, the juniors who have been on varsity since freshman and this year’s underclass-men, we all stepped up,” junior first baseman Sibil Philippus said. “We have come along way.”

The Lady Apaches made relatively few mistakes.

“I told them before the game that defense would win it,” Long said. “Yoa-kum made some mistakes and we were able to capi-talize. (Lindsey) Akers pitched an amazing game.”

Down 5-4 heading into

the bottom of the sixth, the Lady Apaches got a leadoff single by Shayla Simper and she went home for the game-tying run on the hit by Philippus.

“I just wanted to hit the ball and not strikeout because we needed some base runners,” Philippus said.

Philippus stole second and moved to third on the single by Cassidy La Fleur. A little later, Jessica Can-tu smacked a ball down the third-base line for an eventual triple as Philip-pus and La Fleur scored to put Gonzales ahead 7-5.

The Lady Bulldogs man-aged to close the gap to a slim 7-6 in the seventh inning. Callie Witte got a leadoff single and moved to second on the field-er’s choice from Wishert to Philippus on Latrice Brown. Amy Malik then reached on an error, the same one that allowed Witte to score.

Ryan Hagan grounded out to Bozka to move Ma-lik to second, who was left on base as Faith Hagan lined out to Bozka to end the inning and the game.

The win against Yoakum was the first for the Lady

Play At FirstSibil Philippus catches the ball at first before Yoakum’s Faith Hagan reaches the bag during the Lady Apaches district-opening win on Monday. (Photo by Mark Lube)


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From coaches’ reports

The Flatonia Lady Bull-dogs softball team is 6-0 on the season after winning the Schulenburg Tourna-ment last week and its dis-trict opener on Monday.

On Thursday, Flatonia beat Halletsville, 3-1, to open pool play in Schulen-burg.

Katie Steinhauser took the win with a no-hitter. Courtney Mica was 2-for-3, Steinhauser was 1-for-3 with three RBI, and Tay-lor Williams earned three walks.

The Lady Bulldogs fol-lowed that game with an

8-7 comeback against Gon-zales.

Crystal Rodriguez was 2-for-3, Mica went 1-for-3, Williams hit 2-for-3 with two RBI, Alex Bruns was 1-for-3, Steinhauser hit 1-for-2 and Brooke Migl was 2-for-2.

In the tournament cham-pionship semifinals Satur-day, Flatonia had a rematch with Gonzales, winning 5-2. Mica went 1-for-3, Bruns was 2-for-2 with a double and three RBI, while McKenna Lopez and Chandler Fike hit 1-for-3.

Flatonia faced off against the hosts in the champion-ship game Saturday. The

Lady Bulldogs defeated the Lady ‘Horns, 6-2.

Mica was 1-for-4 with an RBI, Williams was 1-for-3 with one RBI, Bruns hit 1-for-2 with an RBI, Stein-hauser was 1-for-1 and Ab-igail Schacherl was 1-for-2.

Steinhauser improved her record to 5-0 and was named MVP while Bruns, Williams, Courtney Mica and Kylie Mica all made the All-Tournament team.

The Lady Bulldogs de-feated Louise, 12-1, in five innings Monday to open district play.

Steinhauser got her sixth win of the season in the cir-cle. Mica was 3-for-3 with

an RBI and two doubles, Williams was 2-for-3 with an RBI and double, while Rodriguez and Bruns were 2-for-4. Steinhauser was 3-for-4 and Maecie Miku-lenka was 1-for-1.

• The Shiner Lady Co-manches defeated Marion, 5-0, on Tuesday.

Julianna Rankin im-proved to 3-3 on the sea-son.

Rankin was 1-for-3 with one run and three RBI, Ryah Michalec had an RBI, and Cassie Stafford and Kristin Schacherl were each 1-for-4 with one run. Stacey Perez went 1-for-3 and scored two runs.

Cuero, Gonzales and Yoa-kum all have entrants in the Division II meet.

Josh Estrada of Gonza-les is ranked third in the 114-pound division with a season-best total of 795 pounds. Cuero’s Hunter Kutac is ranked 10th in that division with a total of 395.

In the 123-pound divi-sion, Gonzales’ Dalton Couch is ranked eighth with a total of 705 pounds. Lane Faust of Yoakum is ranked sixth in the 132-pound division with a total of 915.

Taylor Nobles of Yoa-kum is ranked eighth in the 148-pound division with a total of 990. Two area boys are ranked in the 165-pound division with Kody Perez (1,230) and D.J. Gonzales (1,110) ranked fourth and seventh in the region respectively.

Yoakum’s Andrew Ji-menez is the top-ranked lifter in the 181-pound division with a total of 1,340, while Daniel Rivera of Gonzales is ranked 10th with a total of 1,170.

Gonzales’ Landon Lock is the top lifter in the 198-pound division with a total of 1,465, while his teammate Hunter Noack is ranked sixth with a total of 1,265.

Gabriel Garcia of Yoa-kum is ranked 10th in the 242-pound division with a total of 1,225. In the 275-pound division, J’Von Thomas of Cuero is ranked seventh (1,405) and Gon-zales’ Zach Perez-Clack is ranked eighth (1,400).

Willie Hights of Yoakum is the top ranked lifter in the Super Heavyweight di-vision with a total of 1,780. He set a regional record

last year when he powered up 715 pounds during the squat.

Four area lifters will compete in the Division III meet including Drew Haas of Hallettsville, who is ranked sixth with a total of 845.

A trio of Nixon-Smiley boys will be action includ-ing Miguel Hernandez (960), who is ranked third in the 132-pound division,

and Jacob Perez, whose to-tal of 1,065 ranks him sixth in the 148-pound divi-sion. Logan McMain, who is ranked seventh in the 242-pound division with a total of 1,220, rounds out the list.

The Texas High School Powerlifting Association’s State Championships will be held on Saturday, March 24 at the Taylor County Expo Center in Abilene.

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LIFTERS: Several area lifters are highly ranked going into regional competition

Lock It OutElea Molina grimaces as she competes in the squat during last weekend’s Re-gion V Championships at Calallen High School. (Courtesy photo)

bring Moulton to within 43-19.

Near the end of the frame, Neches got the lead as big as 30 points (49-19), but settled for a 50-21 lead to head into the fourth quarter.

The Lady Tigers got buckets from Taylor, Lyric Duncan, Brook Gatlin, Green and Haskins to go up 60-33 halfway through the fourth. Moulton got baskets from Megan Mitchon and Dolezal during that run.

With both teams running some younger players in, Moulton went on a 9-4 run to end the final quarter.

Meisetschleager, who is in his first year as Moulton girls head coach, had four seniors – Dolezal, Chelsey Darilek, Zimmerman, Jen-nifer Crumley and Tasha Zidek – put on the Moulton jersey for the last time.

He lauded those seniors for sticking through their senior year under a new system.

“They had the leader-ship skills to decide they did not want to play for me or set the team against me,” Meisetschleager said. “They did not do that. They decided they wanted to win some basketball games. The whole year they worked hard to be leaders. I am proud of them.”

The seniors said they enjoyed playing for Mei-setschleager.

“This year has been the best for us in basketball,” Zimmerman said. “It was the most fun year. Like Coach said, we could have turned against him but we knew we had to give him a chance, and it turned out to be something great.”

Next year, Mitchon will be counted as one of five se-niors to help lead Moulton (26-11) back to some more

success.“It was an amazing expe-

rience to play in the state tournament,” she said. “It has been awesome work-ing with our seniors and the rest of the team. I hope we can come back here next year.”

Game SummaryClass 1A, Division II

SemifinalsNeches 64, Moulton 42Neches: Roddricka Pat-

ton 5-15 3-6 15, Kristen Green 6-11 0-0 12, Kian-dra Taylor 5-8 0-4 11, Lyric Duncan 3-5 2-2 8, Raven McFarland 2-4 0-0 4, Chey-enne Haskins 2-4 0-1 4, Ka-mry Kinder 2-3 0-2 4, Kel-see Wade 2-3 0-0 4, Brook Gaitlin 1-1 0-0 2, Mary Williams 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 28-56 5-15 64.

Moulton: Brandee Dolezal 5-8 5-6 16, Me-gan Mitchon 4-12 4-8 13, Casie Zimmerman 2-5 1-2 7, Chelsey Darilek 1-4 0-0 2, Kendall Kristynik 0-0 2-4 2, Jennifer Crumley 1-3 0-0 2, Michelle Holub 0-1 0-0 0, Megan Euceda 0-0 0-0 0, Amanda Berckenhoff 0-0 0-0 0, Paige Bartos 0-0 0-1 0, Ashley Gabler 0-0 0-0 0, Tasha Zidek 0-0 0-0 0, Taylor Bohuslav 0-0 0-0 0, Malori Mitchon 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 13-33 12-21 64.

Three-point shooting: Moulton 4-14 (Zimmer-man 2, Dolezal, Megan Mi-tchon), Neches 3-10 (Pat-ton 2, Taylor). Rebounds: Neches 31 (Patton 6), Moulton 26 (Dolezal 11). Assists: Neches 20 (Patton 11), Moulton 3 (Kristynik 2). Blocks: Neches 5 (Wade 2), Moulton 2 (Darilek 2). Steals: Neches 20 (Patton 11), Moulton 12 (Kristynik, Dolezal 3). Fouls: Neches 22, Moulton 13. Turnovers: Moulton 27, Neches 15. Technical fouls: none

Score by PeriodsNeches 13 17 20 14-64Moulton 3 12 6 21-42


MOULTON: Girls respond well to first year head coach

Apaches over their rivals in a while and the first posi-tive result in the series for Long since she became Lady Apache head coach.

“This win was huge,” Long said in what could be considered a slight under-statement. “We did not let down or die at any point. If it comes down to us and Yoakum (for the district title), this win will help.”

Yoakum jumped out to a 3-0 lead at the start of the game as Ryan Hagan beat a throw to first, got to second on a passed ball and went

to third as Faith Hagan hit a sacrifice bunt to Akers/Philippus.

Ryan Hagan scored on the error on Carroll’s ball. Reagan Renken knocked the ball to second base-man Kortney Wishert, who passed to short stop Carly Bozka on the fielder’s choice tag out on Faith Hagan as she tried to get back to second.

Meyer doubled in Ren-ken’s runner, Danielle Darilek, for the 2-0 lead. Rex singled and a hit by Witte was enough to score Meyer.

Gonzales had two of

their first three batters (Bozka and Morgan Sim-per) reach base on walks. Bozka moved to second on the sacrifice by Akers. Gonzales scored two on the two-run double by Shayla Simper.

Pitching and defense ruled the night until the bottom of the fourth when Jerika Vega tripled into left field. Philippus doubled to score Vega for the 3-3 tie.

Later, Madison Muscik, pinch running for Philip-pus, broke the tie when she came home on an error. The Lady Bulldogs came back with a pair of runs in

the sixth. Malik got an in-field single and got to sec-ond the sacrifice by Ryan Hagan to Shayla Simper.

Faith Hagan singled in Malik and continued to second on an error. Meyer’s hit scored Faith Hagan for the Yoakum lead.

Faith Hagan took the loss for Yoakum with sev-en runs on seven hits, two walks and five strikeouts.

At the plate for Yoakum, Witte was 2-for-4 with one run. Ryan Hagan hit 2-for-3 with one run, Faith Hagan went 1-for-3 with one run and one RBI, Car-roll was 1-for-4, Darilek had one run, Meyer went 2-for-3 with one run, two RBI and a double, and Rex was 3-for-4.

Akers pitched all seven innings for Gonzales with six runs, 12 hits, one walk and four strikeouts.

Shayla Simper hit 2-for-3 with two RBI, one run and a double. Philippus finished 2-for-3 with one run, two RBI and a double; La Fleur went 1-for-3 with one run; Vega was 1-for-3 with a triple, RBI and run scored; Cantu was 1-for-3 with a triple and RBI; while Bozka, Morgan Simper and Musick scored one run each

The Lady Apaches (9-3) return to action when they host the Cuero at 5 and 7 p.m. tomorrow.

What A FeelingMembers of the Gonzales softball team celebrate after their upset win over Yoa-kum. The Lady Bulldogs, who were the preseason favorite to win district, came into the game ranked #20 in the state. (Photo by Mark Lube)


LADY APACHES: Huge win over Yoakum

Flatonia gets off to a fast startSoftball Roundup

NEW BRAUNFELS - It was a battle of contrasting styles on display Saturday afternoon for the right to play at state.

Unfortunately the me-thodical ball control of-fense of Moulton paled in comparison to the up-and-down, frenetic attack of Calvert as the Bobkatz fell 69-46 in the Class 1A, Di-vision II Region IV Cham-pionship at New Braunfels Canyon High School.

“First and foremost I would obviously have liked the outcome to be differ-ent,” said Moulton head coach Kevin Fishbeck. “I’m proud of my kids and I wouldn’t trade them for any other team. The bottom line is it comes down to 32 minutes of basketball and it wasn’t in the script for us today (to win).”

Moulton (25-10) was up to the challenge of stop-ping Calvert’s high-octane style as they deftly handled the Trojans’ full court press. Calvert had used the high-pressure defense and their incredible team speed to their advantage throughout the playoffs, as they came in averaging 82 points per postseason contest.

“I wasn’t really too con-

cerned about their press because we were ready for that,” Fishbeck said. “We just didn’t knock down shots. We fell into the rut of shooting the jump shot too much, but that’s what they were giving us.”

“They had two bigs play-ing on the inside of their zone, so we had to settle for jump shots. They weren’t bad jump shots because they were open shots that we’ve been hitting all year. It’s just that today for what-ever reason they didn’t fall down.”

The game was fairly com-petitive throughout the first half, but the Trojans came out of the locker room af-ter the intermission to out-score Moulton 42-24 in the second half to put the game away.

“Calvert’s got a good basketball team, but we’ve played speed like that be-fore this year,” said Fish-beck. “What happened was we were missing shots and long shots lead to long re-bounds. When they’re not having to take the ball out of the net and step out of bounds, transition baskets happen. It started building and building until it just snowballed on us.”

The loss ended the Bob-katz’ bid to qualify for their

Bobkatz lose in regional final to Calvert, 69-46By CEDRIC [email protected]

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On the RunBronson Zapata pushes the ball up the floor ahead of Calvert’s Tyrone Huffman (23) and Jamal Wortham during Moulton’s loss at the Class 1A, Division II Region IV Championship on Saturday. Zapata led all Moulton scorers with 13 points. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

eighth state tournament and their first since 2000. This year’s run marked the furthest Moulton has ad-vanced in Fishbeck’s three-year tenure and he gave the majority of the credit to Moulton’s group of seniors, which include Dylan Beyer, Douglas Fojtik, Jason Gold, Jacob Novosad and Ty Ra-mos.

“It’s been a few years since Moulton has been in the regional tournament so these seniors have put the program back to where it should be,” said Fishbeck. “It was their selflessness, their leadership and their work ethic that got us back to this point.”

Bronson Zapata led Moulton with 13 points and he was joined in dou-ble-figure scoring by Tyler Swartz, who finished with 12. Calvert’s Javion Ross finished with a game-high 21 points to lead the Tro-jans, who also had three other players to score at least 12.

Calvert came out hit-ting on all cylinders as they started the game with a 8-0

run. Novosad got the ‘Katz on the scoreboard with a free throw and later Zapata knocked down a three-pointer.

With two minutes left in the opening frame, Swartz laid in a pass from Zapata to pull Moulton to within five. Swartz later drew a foul after an offensive re-bound and swished both shots from the foul line. After a Calvert turnover, Zapata was fouled while his layup went through and he converted the three-point play to tie the game at 15-15 to end the period.

Novosad canned an open jumper to start the second, giving Moulton its first lead of the game. Calvert got a paint bucket from its 6-5 post Tyrone Huffman and then Marquise Nunn drained one from down-town.

After Huffman scored off an offensive board, Zapata sent in another jumper. The Trojans got a fast break basket, which Zapata an-swered with a three to cut the Calvert lead to 24-22 with 1:02 left, but Nunn forced in a running three-pointer right before the buzzer.

The third period fea-tured several missed shots by Moulton and Calvert took advantage of the cold shooting spell by turning each miss into fastbreak points, scoring the next 10 points in a row.

Swartz garnered a layup on an inbounds pass to stop the run at the 4:40 mark and that was followed by a bucket from Matt Dornak. But Calvert kept coming on strong, getting a layup from Ross and a steal by Huff-man that led to another easy Ross basket.

A nice feed from Zapata to Jason Gold made the score 45-28 with 1:26 left in the period. Scores by Gold and Swartz preceded a bucket in the paint by Ja-mal Wortham to end the third with Moulton trailing 49-32.

The Trojans began the final period pretty much they the way they did the one before it. Ross got three consecutive breakaway la-yups before Swartz stuck a miss back in.

Swartz then stole the ball, which eventually led to a triple from Dornak. Novosad also got a three to go, but Huffman responded

with back-to-back layups. Zapata scored on a gor-geous reverse lay-in, but Calvert held a command-ing 63-42 lead with 2:30 left to play.

Game SummaryClass 1A, Division II Re-

gion IV ChampionshipCalvert 69, Moulton 46

Calvert: Javion Ross 8 5-7 21, Bobby Cyrus 2 0-0 4, Cory Chopp 1 0-0 2, Eli-jah Brown 0 0-0 0, Jamal Wortham 6 1-3 13, Ja’Mikel Fletcher 0 0-0 0, Anthony Jones 1 0-0 2, Marquise Nunn 6 0-2 15, Taron Gip-son 0 0-0 0, Brian Webster 0 0-0 0, Tyrone Huffman 5 2-2 12. Totals 29 8-14 69.

Moulton: Alex Reyes 0 0-0 0, Dennis Lopez 1 0-0 2, Layne Caballero 0 0-0 0, Bronson Zapata 5 1-1 13, Douglas Fojtik 0 0-0 0, Ty Ramos 0 0-0 0, Matt Dor-nak 3 0-0 7, Jacob Novosad 2 1-2 6, Dylan Beyer 0 0-0 0, Dallas Rothbauer 0 0-0 0, Jason Gold 2 0-0 4, Tyler Swartz 4 4-4 12, Tyler Jones 1 0-0 2, Jaydon Nieto 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 6-7 46.

Score by PeriodsCalvert 15 12 22 20 - 69Moulton 15 7 10 14 - 46


BOBKATZ: Couldn’t get open jumpers to go down in the second half of play

YOAKUM — The Bull-dog baseball team has a position currently open – starting pitcher.

Yoakum (5-1) used a to-tal of four hurlers Saturday

night in a 12-3 loss to La Grange in the champion-ship game of the Yoakum Tournament. There were mountains and valleys for all four pitchers.

Head coach Bobby Nich-olson touched on criteria for starting pitcher on the

Yoakum team.“What I am looking for

now on the mound are kids that are going to get up there and compete,” he said.

Neil Berger started the game for the Bulldogs and Ryan Kvinta relieved him

late in the first inning. Troy Kacir came to the mound in the second inning and pitched until the sixth in-ning, at which point Jeff Harrison closed out the game for Yoakum.

“I felt like we got off to a bad start on the mound,” said Nicholson. “We kept getting behind on the count and when you get behind on the count and do not have an 85-mile-an-hour fastball, you still have to throw your fastball and good teams are going to tee off on it.”

“We just did not have a good mindset on the mound tonight. I thought the kids who came in relief after the first two pitchers did a decent job.”

Yoakum had the ability to rally back and get in the game from the plate.

“I felt like their pitch-ing was not something we could not come back from especially when it was 8-3,” Nicholson said. “We showed spurts where we hit the ball hard but it was right to them. We have got to be able to score some runs against that caliber of pitching so that bothered me a little.”

The Leopards got going early. Leadoff Dustin Drab tripled on the game’s first

pitch. Weston Wick earned a base on balls and Justin Neiser got to first on an error, which scored Drab’s runner Deairreon Oliver.

Logan Vinklarek got a walk to load the bases be-fore Berger rallied for two consecutive strikeouts. Tanner Fritsch got a two-run single and Vinklarek scored on the single by Trey Supak. Chance Supak doubled to score Fritsch.

Rvinta came on to pitch and La Grange went to the top of the lineup. Drab was walked and Wick walked to score Trey Supak for the 6-0 lead.

The Leopards took the score to 8-0 in the top of the second as Vinklarek got a leadoff walk and two batters later, Laken Grimes slammed one over the right field wall for a two-run homer.

In the bottom of the third, Taylor Nobles and Tim Blakeney earned walks, as well as Adam Hunter to load the bases. Keith Ratley doubled to score Nobles and Blakeney.

Kvinta was hit by the pitch to get on base and his runner, Chase Hermes, was out at second on the field-er’s choice on the ball by Blake McCracken, which allowed Hunter to score.

La Grange scored a run in the fifth as Grimes got a solo homer for his sec-ond home run of the game, and the Leopards plated three runs in the sixth as Drab, Neiser and Vinklarek scored.

Berger took the loss for Yoakum with six runs on four hits, two strikeouts and two walks in 2/3 in-nings. Kvinta threw for 2/3 innings and allowed two runs on one hit and three walks. Kacir worked four innings, giving up four runs on one hit with three walks and three strikeouts. Harrison pitched the last 1 2/3 innings with one hit, one walk and three strike-outs.

At the plate, Nobles, Blakeney and Hunter all plated one run, Lauer was 1-for-4 and Ratley finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a double.

Yoakum beat Boling and had an eight-inning game against Weimar to reach the title game.

“I think we had a good tournament,” he said. “We just needed to come out better against La Grange in the championship game.

Bulldog players Brice Lauer, Hunter and Blak-eney were all chosen for the All-Tournament team.

All Tourney Brice Lauer receives his All-Tournament plaque from Bulldogs head coach Bobby Nicholson after conclusion of play at the recent Yoakum Tournament. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Yoakum takes second at own tournament



The Gonzales Apaches picked up a victory as they went 1-2 in the Yoakum tournament over the week-end.

The Apaches started the tournament Friday against La Grange, who will be in their district starting next year, with a 12-0 loss.

“We faced La Grange’s No. 1 arm,” Apaches head coach Larry Wuthrich said. “He had 17 strikeouts and threw a no-hitter.”

The score was 2-0 going into the fifth innings and the Apaches allowed five unearned runs. Tyler Janota fell to 1-2 on the season.

The Apaches bounced back 9-6 against Austin Travis later in the day.

Tyler Morgan improved to 1-0 on the season after relieving Joe Ryan Carriza-les. Aaron Gaytan closed out the last two innings with four strikeouts and one hit.

At the plate, Devin Benes was 2-for-4 with a triple,Trey Lester was 2-for-2 and DJ Gonzales batted 1-for-2 with a triple.

“The bats came alive with seven hits,” Wuthrich said. “We managed to bunch some hits and produce big innings. Trey Lester had a big night and Tyler Kocian had a big RBI. It took three pitchers to complete the game, but that seems to be our identity right now.”

The Apaches lost to Needville, 13-2, in the con-solation game.

“We had some of the same old mistakes rear their ugly head,” Wuthrich said. “Gaytan pitched well. We just had too many mis-takes in defense.”

“Baseball rewards con-sistenecy and right now we are struggling with that. We did have some people hit the ball hard this week-end. Devin, Tyler Morgan and Trey Lester had good games.”

Janota was named to the All-Tournament team.

The Apaches fell to Yoa-kum, 9-2, Monday night to open district.

Both teams plated one

run in the third inning, but The Bulldogs blew the game open with six runs in the fifth. Gonzales got a run in the sixth inning and Yoakum scored twice in the seventh inning. Yoakum outhit Gonzales 7-4.

Janota took the loss for Gonzales with seven runs on seven hits, one walk and 11 strikeouts in six innings.

•In other Yoakum Tour-nament action, Halletts-ville opened their action with an 8-3 win over Austin Travis.

Reagan McAda (1-0) took the win for the Brah-mas. Carson Schindler went 2-for-4 with two RBI, Will Wallace was 3-for-3, Nate Kowalik was 2-for-3 with two RBI and McAda was 2-for-4.

The Brahmas fell to La Grange, 8-2, Saturday. Wal-lace had a double and RBI, and McAda was 1-of-3. Chris Jones fell to 1-1.

Hallettsville defeated Weimar, 9-2, Saturday in the third-place game.

Kory Smith improved to 2-0 for the Brahmas. Mar-shall Hajek went 2-for-4 with two runs, Wallace was 3-for-4 with an RBI, Schindler hit 1-for-2 with a pair of runs and Braden Kahanek was 1-for-3 with two RBI.

Schindler and Wallace made the All-Tournament team.

• Karnes City defeated Nixon-Smiley, 22-3, in the Nixon tournament on Friday. Earlier in the day, Nixon dropped a close one to San Antonio Wolverines, 10-9.

The Mustangs fell to Kenedy, 13-3, in five in-nings. Kenedy led 5-2 after the first inning and 8-2 after two innings. Kenedy plated five more runs in the fourth and Nixon scored one run in the fifth.

Jaime Moreno started on the hill, giving up five runs on one hit and four walks. Raul Tovar pitched in relief, allowing eight runs on 10 hits with five strikeouts and two walks.

• The Luling Eagles won the Pettus Baseball Invita-

Baseball RoundupStruggling Apaches still searching for some consistency

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ROUNDUP: Strong pitching has Luling on a hot streaktional this past weekend. They defeated Poth, 12-2, in the Championship game. The game was called after 5 innings due to the 10-run rule.

In earlier tournament ac-tion, the Eagles defeated Jourdanton, 3-2, and Run-ge by a score of 10-0. After the Championship game, Trayden Staton and Zach Lawton were named All Tournament. In a unani-mous vote by the team, the entire team accepted MVP honors making it a team award rather than an indi-vidual honor.

Earlier in the week, the Eagles traveled to Johnson City to play the defending Class 1A champions. The Eagles left town with a 6-0 win.

During the first week of tournament play, the Eagles claimed 2nd place in the inaugural James Mont-gomery-Progress Drilling Baseball Classic in Luling. The Eagles went 4-2 in the tournament, where they played Hallettsville, Shiner, and Lytle two games each in the tournament.

They defeated Lytle by the scores of 14-1 and 3-1. The Eagles defeated Shiner, 5-3, and tied them, 3-3, in an extra inning classic. The game was stopped due to the tournament’s two-hour time limit. The Eagles held the advantage in the tie breaker rules and claimed a victory.

Hallettsville defeated the Eagles by scores of 12-4 and 20-3.

Luling players Ryan Lari-son, Brett Eckles, Byron Martin, and Marc Magal-lanez were chosen as All Tournament selections.

The Eagles overall re-cord through two weeks of play is 9-2. The team has had multiple players step up and produce big games. Leading the way has been the pitching of Martin (3-0, 1.17 ERA), Eckles (2-0, 0.82 ERA), Magallanez (2-0, 0.00 ERA), Larison (1-0, 1.00 ERA) and Anthony Perales (1-1, 3.32 ERA).

Offensively, the Eagles were led by Martin (.433, 11 runs), Larison (.407, 10 RBI), Zach Lawton (.333, 3 RBI), Eckles (.310, 12 runs) and Staton (.286, seven RBI).

The Eagles have two weeks before district play begins. On Thursday, they open tournament play in the Jimmy Appelt Tourna-ment in Hallettsville. They play Gonzales at 12:30 p.m. and Shiner at 3 p.m. They will then play on Saturday with time and opponent to be determined by the seed-ing of Thursday’s pool play.

The Eagle junior varsity team has had a success-ful start. They hold a 4-3 record and brought home a 2nd place trophy in the Hallettsville JV Tourna-ment.

• The Flatonia baseball team fell to St. Paul, 13-4, on Friday in the Sacred Heart Tournament. The Bulldogs fell to Victoria St. Joseph, 9-6, Saturday in the tournament championship.

Zane Ponder took the loss for the Bulldogs.

Sacred Heart edged Fla-tonia, 4-3, on Tuesday. Cade Brewer picked up the win for the Indians.

Casey Mueller went 1-for-2, Brewer was 1-for-3 with a double, and Michael Zaruba hit 1-for-3.

Jose Cedillo took the loss for Flatonia. Colby Mica went 1-for-3, Josh Velas-quez batted 1-for-2 and Will Bruns went 1-for-4.

• The Cuero Gobblers won two and tied two last weekend in the Co-mal County Classic in New Braunfels and Spring Branch.

Cuero pounded Del Val-le, 11-0, with Clint Davis picking up the win for the Gobblers.

Davis was 2-for-3 with a double, Logan Goebel was 1-for-3 with a triple, while Dustin Ohrt and Austin Johnson both hit 2-for-3.

Cuero tied Seguin, 3-3, later in the day. The Gob-blers edged Austin St. Mi-chael, 3-2. Brayden Sievers picked up the win for Cu-ero and hit 2-for-3 with the game-winning RBI after Levi Jones (1-for-2) got the game-tying RBI.

Cuero worked to a 9-9 tie with Boerne. Ohrt hit 2-for-3 with an RBI; and Davis was 3-for-3 with a double, triple, two runs and two RBI.

•Hallettsville edged East Bernard, 6-5, Tuesday to even its district record at 1-1 (8-2 overall).

Schindler took the win for the Brahmas. Wallace was 2-for-4, Kahanek hit 2-for-4 and McAda went 1-for-2 with two RBI.


The St. Paul Lady Cardi-nals concluded their sea-son Saturday with a loss to Muenster Sacred Heart, 66-49, in the TAPPS 2A state title game at Mansfield Legacy High School.

St. Paul led 11-10 after

the first quarter, but Sacred Heart got a 17-12 run in the second to lead 27-23 at halftime.

Sacred Heart scored 15 points in the third and held the Lady Cardinals to just six. St. Paul stormed back in the fourth with 20 points, but Sacred Heart

bested them by netting 24.Marrisa Ynclan scored a

team-high 17 for St. Paul and Katelynn Leist finished with 10.

Kali Kocian chipped in seven points and Alexa Schaefer netted five, Ka-tie Denson bucketed three points, Bethany Pokluda

recorded four and Chris-tina Sqyres had two. Mary Adamek finished with one point.

In the semifinals on Fri-day, St. Paul took care of Sherman Texoma Chris-tian 59-51.

St. Paul led 13-7 after one quarter and 31-18 at half-

time. They scored 13 of 25 third-box points and with-stood a Texoma Christina 21-15 run in the fourth.

Ynclan dropped in 23 points and Kourtney Kne-sek bagged 13 points. Leist finished with seven points, Adamek scored six, Den-son sank four points with

Schaefer and Pokluda get-ting three points each.

•The Hallettsville Brah-mas fell in the regional final Saturday at Seguin High School to San Anto-nio Cole 53-52.

The Brahmas defeated Santa Rosa 61-48 in the re-gional semifinal on Friday.

Lady Cardinals come up short in state title gameBasketball Roundup


The Gonzales varsity and junior varsity track teams finished fourth at the Yoa-kum Tom Tom Relays on Saturday.

In the Varsity Division, Cody Jurek won the shot put with a throw of 45 feet, 10 inches. He also placed second in the Discus with a throw of 115-2.

Zach Perez-Clack placed third in the shot put with a long throw of 39-5 1/4. He also placed third in the dis-cus with a throw of 113-8. J. T. Miller placed fourth in the shot put with a toss of 37-9 inches and was sixth in the discus with a throw of 104-3.

Thompson Ince placed fourth in the pole vault by clearing 11-6. Don Cart-wright won the 100-meter dash in 10.89 seconds.

Darrance James placed third in the 200 with a time of 24.34 and Chris Cerda placed fourth with a time of 24.46. Troy Hernandez placed fifth, finishing in 24.69.

Coltin Russell placed fifth in the 400 with a time of 54.09. The team of Her-nandez, James, Cerda, and Cartwright placed second in the sprint relay with a time of 44.22.

The team of Russell, James, Hernandez, and Cerda placed third in the mile relay with a time of 3:40.96.

In the JV Division, Fran-cisco Diaz placed third in the long jump with a leap of 16-9 3/4. He also placed third in the triple jump with a jump of 34-11 1/2.

Tyshawn Erskin placed fifth in the long jump with a jump of 16-5. He also came in sixth in the triple jump with a jump of 33-7.

Darnell Arnic placed sixth in the high jump with a jump of 4-10. He also

placed fifth in the 800-me-ter run with a time of 2:22.9.

Sam Gonzales placed fifth in the 100 with a time of 12.28. Marco Rodriguez placed fifth in the 200 in 26.45 and Jaime Tellez placed sixth with a time of 26.69.

Ashton Williams placed fourth in the 400 with a time of 59.11 and Eli Mapes placed fifth in 59.68.

The team of Tellez, Er-skin, Marco Rodriguez, and Diaz placed third in the sprint relay in 48.03. This same team won the 800 re-lay with a time of 1:40.21.

The team of Mapes, Edu-ardo Angel, Williams, and Arnic placed runner up in the mile relay. Their time was 3:59.59.

The Gonzales girls track team also took part in the Tom Tom Relays. In the Varsity Division, Donni-qua Sanders won the 100 (12.58). Melanie Hunt was fifth in the 200 with a time of 29.33.

Contessa Baird was fourth in the 800 in 2:38 and Alejandra Diaz fol-lowed in 2:47. The 800-re-lay team of Ebonique Har-ris, Hunt, Kelsey Hardy and Sanders was third with a time of 1:54.12.

The 1600-relay team of Harris, Diaz, Baird and Hardy finished in 4:26 for fifth place. Hardy was third in the 300 hurdles with a time of 51.31 and fourth in the triple jump (30-9). Vancheska Russell was fourth in the shot put (30-4) and third place in the discus (84-11).

The JV team finished sec-ond in the standings. Bai-ley Connell was second in the 100 in 13.11 and Dany-elle Glass came in fifth in 13.65. Priscilla Pescina was second in the 1600 in 6:56.40 and finished the 3200 in 15:04 for fifth place.

Kendall Fougerat placed third in the 200 (30.86) and Merianda Gomez was sixth (31.25).

Bri Miller was third in the 400 in 71.89. Taylor Malatek was fourth in the 800 with a time of 3:08.

The 800-relay team of Merianda Gomez, Kriss-lyn Sexton, Connell and Fougerat came in first place with a time of 1:56.7. The 1600-relay team of Foug-erat, Malatek, Miller and Sexton came in runner up with a time of 4:47.9.

Elizabeth Neuse was third in the 100 hurdles (21.37) and fourth in 300 hurdles (57.62). Glass won the long jump with a dis-tance of 14-0.

Kierah Harris was first in the shot put (27-9) and fourth in the discus (31-0). Fougerat was the winner in the triple jump, reaching 29-4.

The teams will travel to Geronimo Navarro on Sat-urday, March 10.

•The St. Ludmila track teams competed recently at the Sacred Heart meet.

For the 7th grade girls, the 400-relay team of Van-essa Sqyres, Alexis Capple-men, Sydney Mikes and Morgan Mason came in fifth place.

Mikes won the 800, was seventh in the 200 and sec-ond in the 400. Mason was third in the long jump, sec-ond in the 200, third in the 400 and the 800. Ally Kutac came in fourth place in the shot put.

For the 8th grade girls, Juliette Siegal was third in the 800. Ashlyn Patek was third in the shot put, Shaelynn Malatek was sixth in the 400, and Natalie Jackson won the 800 and was fifth in the 200.

The 400-relay team of Patek, Siegel, Jackson and Malatek came in sixth place.

Gonzales track teams fare well at Tom Tom Relays

Track & Field Roundup

Air AdjustmentMatt Dornak contorts his body get off this shot during Moulton’s regional final game against Calvert. For the game story, see page C3. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

SCHULENBURG — Doing all of the little things right is usually the difference between being just a good team and be-ing a great team.

The Lady Apaches soft-ball team had some minor trouble, but fought hard and came away with a 10-4 win in five innings against the Hallettsville Sacred Heart Indianettes Thursday evening in the Schulenburg Tourna-ment.

“I feel we are messing up on the little things, a lot,” Gonzales head coach Holly Long. “Because of this, we are a good team but not a great team. I think we will be a great team once we get those lit-tle errors under control.”

Sacred Heart head coach Donald Bohuslav said it was Gonzales who was able to make the plays.

“Gonzales had good ex-ecution and they played as a team,” he said.

The Indianettes had their troubles inside the circle and at the plate.

“I thought we could have hit our pitching spots better and hit the ball better,” Bohuslav said.

The Lady Apaches (5-2) had a couple of errors in the top of the first inning that led to an early run for the Indianettes (4-6).

“The first inning always

seems to kill us,” Long said. “We let the other team score. It is beyond frustration. Then we start fighting, we overcome and we win, and that is what counts.”

In the top of the first, Sacred Heart’s Emily Harper reached first on the error and made it to second as Rachel Saulnier put the ball into play and also got to base on an er-ror. Emily Kossa flew out to short stop Carly Bozka for two away before Gon-zales had an error on the ball by Kirsten Heger, which allowed Harper to score for the 1-0 Sacred Heart lead.

Gonzales got a quick hit as Bozka got a leadoff sin-gle and was able to steal second. She moved to third on the sacrifice bunt by Lindsey Akers. Bozka was left at third after a fly out to short stop and line out to third base got the Indianettes out of the jam.

In the top of the second, Olivia Bohuslav earned a walk and took second on a passed ball, but it yielded no runs for the Indianettes as Gonzales’ defense held.

Sibil Philippus led off with a double and Cas-sidy La Fleur was hit by the pitch. After fanning the next Gonzales batter, Saulnier walked Jessica Cantu to load the bases.

Bozka’s double got Philippus and La Fleur home for the 2-1 Lady Apache lead. Akers fol-lowed with a single to score Cantu, and Sacred Heart brought center fielder Adrienne Klim-itchek in as a relief pitcher. Morgan Simper earned a walk to load bases, which was followed by the base hit from Shayla Simper to score Bozka. Jerika Vega then got a two-run single that plated Akers and Morgan Simper.

The Indianettes worked for a couple of runs in the top of the third to bring the score to 6-3. Harper got an infield single to lead off. She eventually got to third as Bozka threw to Madison Muscik at sec-ond on the fielder’s choice on the ball by Heger, to tag out Kossa, who had reached base on an earlier error. Klimitchek struck pay dirt as she brought Harper and Heger home on a double.

At Gonzales’ next turn at bat, La Fleur got a hit and Kortney Wishert got a walk. Bozka was walked to load the bases. Muscik flew out to the short stop and Morgan Simper got a two-out, three-run triple to empty the bases and give Gonzales a 9-3 cush-ion. She later scored on a passed ball to make the Gonzales lead 10-3.

Lady Apaches unload on Sacred Heart at Schulenburg Tournament


Ragin’ Cajun Throwdown

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Rybak is scheduled to take the stage at 11 a.m., with Dr. Zog setting up to play at 4:30 p.m. for the event, which is free and open to the public all day long.

Chris Rybak is the young accordion player who has been filling Texas dance hall floors with fans who enjoy his show-manship and his fresh enthusiastic musi-

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He has been playing accordion for more than a decade performing for events such as festivals, picnics, wed-dings, anniversaries, birthday parties. He plays a variety of music from Czech/German polkas and waltzes, country, and gospel, to his style of toe-tapping Cajun and Tex-Mex music.

Rylak and his band plays a mixture of Bluegrass, Cajun, Country, Folk, Old-ies, Polka, Tex-Mex, World Music, and

Zydeco. Members of Dr. Zog hail from Port

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SEGUIN — The Texas Independent Film Net-work (TIFN) and Seguin Film & Arts Festival are proud to present a “BBQ

and Beer” double feature on Saturday, March 10 at 7pm at the Palace Theatre in downtown Seguin.

In the tradition of Texas

culture, TIFN will show-case two films that focus on two things that Texans have loved for decades – BBQ and beer.

First showing will be “BBQ: A Texas Love Sto-ry,” followed by a panel discussion on BBQ with local experts moderated by Seguin’s own Mike An-drews. The next film shown will be “Somethin’s Brewin’ In Shiner,” a film directed by Mike Woolf.

Directed by Seguin na-tive Chris Elley and nar-rated by former Governor Ann Richards, “BBQ: A Texas Love Story” takes viewers on a journey across the state to visit many of the different BBQ spots and the individuals behind them, from local pit mas-ters to a group of Univer-sity of Texas students that have formed their own BBQ club. In each city and town, Elley shows the best places for brisket and the undying enthusiasm that Texans have for BBQ.

“Somethin’s Brewin’ In Shiner” follows the small town of Shiner during the summer of 2003 as the Spoetzl Brewery was set to launch its next great beer. Filmmaker Mike Woolf captures the his-tory of the town’s brewery as well as the small town culture. Speaking with ev-

eryone from the mayor to the fire chief, Woolf treats the audience to an often-humorous commentary on

the importance of beer in Shiner.

Admission is $5 and doors open at 6 p.m.

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Barbecue and Beer: Showcase to salute Texas films

Tony Morris to Appear

Guitarist-Composer to appear hereTony Morris, Guitarist-Composer, will Perform at the Gonzales Music Study Club, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13. Morris, heard by radio-listeners world-wide on the “Classical Guitar Alive” Program on NPR Radio, has performed at the White House, and frequently served as an adjudicator, lecturer, and adjunct guitar pro-fessor at Texas Lutheran University. He will also speak about the PBS television program he is developing with KLRN, “American Classical.” He will be joined for this appearance by flutist Renata Green. If you would like to see this appearance, please contact, by Friday, March 9, Jo Ann Leifeste at [email protected], or by calling 678-232-9258, if you wish to attend this event but aren’t a member of this Club, as seating is limited. There is no charge.

BBQ Film FeatureFormer Texas governor Ann Richards serves as nar-rator for “BBQ: A Texas Love Story,” one of the films to be offered at a showcase at the Palace Theatre in Seguin on Saturday, March 10. The other film, “Some-thin’s Brewin’ In Shiner,” takes a look at the Spoetzl Brewery in 2003 when they were about to release a new brew and the relationship between the City of Shiner and beer. (Courtesy photo)


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Sat., March 17 The World Famous Platters

7:30 p.m. * Doors Open 6:30 p.m.General Admission

$20 Advance Purchase $25 At the Door

(Tickets Available at Gonzales Chamber of Commerce)Thurs., March 22

Concert present by Richard Green - SOLD OUT! Watch for monthly schedules.

Fri., March 23

The Texas A&M Singing Cadets7:30 p.m. * Doors open 6:30 p.m.

General Admission$10 Advance Purchase • $15 At the Door

Coming Soon - April 1 - Auditions for Wizard of OZJune - Miss Gonzales Beauty PageantSummer Musical Acting Drama Camp

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LiveMusic

DraftBeer

Beer - Bait - Ammo

SLE thespians capture honors

The Cannon Live Music Calendar

VFW Ladies

AuxiliaryPost #4817

3rd Annual BBQ Cook-OffSaturday, March 17, 2012

Entries include:Brisket, Ribs, Chicken, Chili and

Jackpot Beans!$15.00 (per entry) early entries turned into Dorothy Voigt at Gonzales Cannon

on or before Friday, March 16th by 4 p.m. or $20.00 per entry on the day

of the event!Check-In begins at 7:30 a.m.

Turn in starting at 3 p.m.at the VFW Post Home on the Harwood Road

Gonzales, Texas!Members will be at the Post Home on

Friday from 3-7 p.m. for those who would liketo come and sign up or set up!

Other Events:* 50/50 Drawing

* Showmanship Award* Music After Awards Presentation

All proceeds will go towards VFW Ladies Auxiliary Local Scholarships!

Please contact Donna Allen at 830-203-0716 or Dorothy Voigt at 254-931-5712

or Michelle McKinney, 830-263-0973.for more information!

Thursday, March 8Thursday Night Acous-

tic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.

Saturday, March 10Los Kolaches at Ole

Moulton Bank, Moulton, 9 p.m. Ticket details, 361-596-7499

Frank Foster at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.

Country Magic Band at Howard’s, Shiner, 8-11:30 p.m., no cover

Two-Way Street at Bel-mont Social Club, Belmont



Saturday, March 17The Platters at the

Lynn Theatre, Gonzales. Advance tickets $20 avail-able through the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce at 830-672-6532; tickets at the door $25.

Cody Johnson with Bubba Westly at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

The Platters at the Lynn Theatre, Gonzales. Pre-sale

tickets are available at the Gonzales Chamber of Com-merce for $20 pre-sale and they will be on sale at the door for $25.

Los Kolaches at How-ard’s, Shiner, 8-11:30 p.m., no cover



Friday, March 23Tequila Black Band at

Running M Bar & Grill, Gon-zales, 8 p.m.-midnight

Andrea Marie and the Magnolia Band at How-ard’s, Shiner, 8-11:30 p.m., no cover

Texas A&M Singing Ca-dets at the Lynn Theatre, Gonzales. Advance tickets $10 available through the Gonzales Chamber of Com-merce at 830-672-6532.; tickets at the door $15.

Saturday, March 24Roger Stowell at Scoot-

er’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.

Zack Walther Band (ten-tative) at Howard’s, Shiner,

8-11:30 p.m., no cover



Friday, March 30Matt Stalling at Scooter’s,

Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.Gator Bait Band at How-

ard’s, Shiner, 8-11:30 p.m., no cover

Saturday, March 31Dana Cooper at Ole

Moulton Bank, Moulton, 9 p.m. Ticket details, 361-596-7499

Country Magic Band at Cistern Store, Cistern, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. No Cover

Saturday, April 7Bill Pekar and the Rain-

ey Brothers Band at How-ard’s, Shiner, 8-11:30 p.m., no cover

Saturday, April 21Charla Corn at Scooter’s,

Moulton, Details TBA.Musicians and Venues: To

add or update events, contact us via e-mail to [email protected].

SLE One-Act Play winnersPictured are (top row): Kayla Kubenka, Erica Pavliska, Kelsey Longoria, Ryan Malinvosky, Mallory Grabarkievtz, Jessi Pesek, Parker Clay, Scarlett Crawford, Mackenzie Parker, Alexis Cantu and Darby Johson. (bottom row) Kristofer Kne-sek, Natalie Knesek(director), Sydney Grabarkievtz, Ashley Wachsmuth, Daniela Hinojosa-Rivas, Kameron Knesek, and Charlotte Knesek (assistant director). Not pictured aressistant director Krystal Patek. (Courtesy photo)

SHINER — Seventeen students from St. Lud-mila competed in the PSIA District One Act Play competition held at Seguin High School on Saturday, Feb. 25.

Performing a farce titled “Final Dress Re-hearsal” by Jack Frakes, the cast and crew gave an outstanding perfor-mance. The play is about a theatrical groups’ final dress rehearsal before the “triumphal” opening of Cinderella, where every-thing goes wrong.

Cinderella is late, the prompter wants to play all the parts, the sassy stage crew is noisy, the author feels her brain-child is being ruined and the director is distraught. The stepsisters miss cues, sound effects are played at the wrong speed, the messenger crashes her bicycle and the fairy godmother can’t find her wand.

Cast members are Alexis Cantu as Author-ess, Kristofer Knesek as Director, Kameron Knesek as Stage Man-ager, Mackenzie Parker as First Stagehand, Ryan Malinovsky as Second Stagehand, Elyssa Wag-ner as Cinderella, Parker Clay as Elder Sister, Scar-lett Crawford as Younger Sister, Darby Johnson as Stepmother, Jessi Pesek as Fairy Godmother, Danie-la Hinojosa-Rivas as Util-ity Girl, Erica Pavliska as Prompter, and Kelsey Longoria as Messenger Girl. Crew members are Sydney Grabarkievtz (music), Mallory Grabar-kievtz (lighting), Ashley Wachsmuth (alternate and properties), and Kay-

la Kubenka (alternate and curtain).

Over 125 participants from seven schools com-peted for individual awards. Other partici-pating schools were San Antonio St. John Bosco Catholic School, Houston St. Francis Episcopal Day School, Austin Trinity Episcopal School, Seguin Lifegate Christian, and Plano Prestonwood and Christian Academy. Re-ceiving honors from St. Ludmila were Ashley Wa-

chsmuth, All-Star Crew; Erica Pavliska, Honorable Mention; Darby John-son, Honorable Mention; Alexis Cantu, All-Star Cast; and Kristofer Kne-sek, Best Actor.

The public is invited to attend an encore per-formance at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 8 in the Shiner Catholic School gym. Donations will be taken to help recover en-try fees. A short awards presentation and recep-tion will follow.


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2012 Gonzales Main StreetConcert Series &

Star Spangled SpectacularEvery Friday in June and

Wednesday, July 4thOn Confederate square in

Downtown Gonzales, TexasGonzales Main

Street would like to cordially invite you to participate in the 4th Annual Gonzales Main Street Concert Series, every Friday in June on Confeder-

ate Square and the Star Spangled Spectacular, July 4th, 2012. As a sponsor of the Gonzales

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portantly, your sponsorship enables Gonzales Main Street to spotlight historic downtown

Gonzales with a family friendly atmosphere!

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CANNON KID’S CORNER

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, even though your

intentions are good, be careful with words this week. Rely on your actions and not just your words to convey the message.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, you are absolutely

sure your work week will go your way. Considering you weigh all the facts in decisions, there’s a strong chance you’ll be right.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, you are tempted to

bend the truth a little this week. Be careful what you wish for, as it might be hard to recover a sense of trust if your actions are discovered.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, adjust your way of

thinking to be more flexible. You should not always oper-ate on a rigid schedule, but be more receptive to changes. Check with friends; see what they think.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, you are aware of what

lies ahead, but you’re not eager to jump in and get started on the tasks that need your atten-tion. Develop a plan and things will work out.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, your confidence re-

turns this week but you are still treading carefully so as not to be disappointed later on. Trust in yourself and you likely won’t be disappointed.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Establishing a balance be-

tween humility and self-con-fidence is the key to being a well-rounded person, Libra. Therefore, don’t take the power of positive thinking to the ex-treme.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, although you are

not overly excited about plans for the near future, you are ca-pable of balancing fantasy with reality. Things will work out for the best.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, this week you realize that you don’t have as many answers as you thought you had. You can look for other answers by being in touch with friends and family.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Use this week as a time for renewal, Capricorn. Set lofty goals because this will serve as a challenge in order for you to really shine -- and you thrive on challenges.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, you may get

caught up in your emotions about a certain person in your life. Take a step back and you’ll realize there’s no reason to get so excited.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, once you start focus-

ing on what you want to do next, you find you have the motivation to get anything ac-complished.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYSMARCH 18Adam Levine, Singer (33)

MARCH 19Glenn Close, Actress (65)

MARCH 20Spike Lee, Director (55)

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MARCH 22Bob Costas, TV personality

(60)

MARCH 23Keri Russell, Actress (36)

MARCH 24Peyton Manning, Athlete

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Puzzle Answers

It’s still not known who made this sage observation: “Wisdom is divided into two parts: a) having a great deal to say, and b) not saying it.”

In 1931, the Newspaper Enterprise Association predicted that crime would be nearly gone in 20 years.

Do you subscribe to the adage “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”? Consider this: Would that teen heartthrob of an earlier day, Bobby Darin, have become so popular if he had been known by his given name, Walden Cassotto?

At one time, Canada’s CBC network banned the children’s cartoon “Rocky and Bullwinkle” because of its sometimes unflattering portrayal of the Mounties.

The Goodrich company, known primarily for its tires, also invented the first modern golf ball.

Sometimes scientists get to express their creativity when they have the opportunity to name things. Take deep-sea sites,

for example: in the North Atlantic is the Porcupine Abysmal Plain, Clam Acres is off the west coast of Mexico, and there’s a site near the Galapagos Islands called Hole-to-Hell.

Those who study such things have found that a sneeze leaves your mouth at more than 100 m.p.h.

Donald Duck’s middle name is “Fauntleroy.”

The game of chess originated in India in about 2,000 B.C. -- it was called “chaturanga.” And it didn’t

look quite like the modern version that is played all over the world today. Chaturanga had only four kinds of pieces: elephants, chariots, horses and foot soldiers.

A Rochester, Mich., law states that anyone who is bathing in public must be wearing a bathing suit that has been inspected by a police officer.

***Thought for the Day: “You

may do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -- Colette

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