Gonzales Cannon Oct 18 Issue

SHINER — The longtime chief of the Shiner Police Department has been placed administrative leave.

Adam Brunkenhoefer, who has been in place as the city’s top cop

since August 1985, was suspended on Oct. 8 for 30 days with pay in lieu of an investigation being con-ducted by the Shiner City Council into an undetermined allegation made against him.

Shiner Mayor Fred Hilscher confirmed the suspension, but de-clined to go into the specifics of the

allegation. “He has been suspended while

we look into this,” said Hilscher.Hilscher added that Brunken-

hoefer’s service has been exempla-ry during his tenure as mayor and that this investigation is in no way an indictment of the chief ’s job performance.

“This is a precautionary move,” he said. “Someone said something about him so we (the council) decided it would be better to look into in now rather than overlook it and have it come back to bite us later.”

“These things happen some-

A scary incident took place Saturday morning when a school bus over-turned on Highway 183.

Authorities say at 7:55 a.m. an International Bus owned by St. Joseph’s pri-vate school in Victoria flipped over while traveling down the roadway, injuring 27 people with five students being taken to area hospi-tals in Cuero, Gonzales and Yoakum. An additional five students were transported from the scene by family members.

The bus was heading northbound on Highway 183 when the driver sud-denly lost control, went off

the road to right into the east bar ditch, and struck two traffic signs. The driver over-corrected to

the left onto the roadway across the center stripe into southbound traffic. The ve-hicle went into a side skid

across the roadway, into the east bar ditch, rolled, and went through a fence before coming to a stop on its right side.

James Parks, 67 of Inez, was the driver of the bus and Texas Department

of Public Safety Troopers believe he was the cause of the accident. Parks was charged on Monday with violation of driver’s license restriction P32, which means he is not allowed to drive more than 24 passen-

gers at a time. Troopers indicated that

Parks fell asleep at the wheel, which caused the accident. He was treated for minor injuries and released from Gonzales Memorial

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A passer-by submitted this photo of first responders and passengers on the St. Joseph High School team bus which crashed Saturday on U.S. Highway 80. (Courtesy photo)

Bus driver cited in Highway 80 crashSUSPECT, Page A4

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Praying for an End to the Violence

Friends, family and community members gathered at the spot where two men were slain by gunfire Oct. 6, calling on one another to unite to work against the culture of violence which led to the shooting deaths of two men. A small crowd gathered on Kleine St. in Gon-zales near the Ebony Bar where a shooting led to the deaths of Lamon Smith of Gonzales and Taylon Porter of San Marcos. A third man and a woman were wounded. A Hallettsville man is in custody and facing charges of capital murder in connection with the slayings. Police say that other arrests may be forthcoming in the case, and are asking that anyone with information to please step forward and call them at 830-672-8686. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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Early voting in this year’s general election gets underway in Texas on Monday, Oct. 22. See Page A5 for a roundup on locations and times for your area.

Another man is being sought in connection with the shooting death of a Gonzales man.

Frederick Lamon Smith, 39, died on October 7 after he was struck by gunfire at a local nightclub. Tay-lon Edow Porter, 23 of San Marcos, was also shot and transported to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, where he eventually succumbed to his injuries.

The men were two of four people who were injured during the incident.

Parris Brown, 24 of Hal-lettsville, was arrested and charged with one count of first degree murder and two

By CEDRIC IGLEHART

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Shiner police chief placed on administrative leave

Woman charged with murder

Alice Ramos

A Gonzales County woman was indicted last Thursday on a murder charge stemming from an accident where a teenager died.

The Gonzales County Grand Jury in-

dicted Alice Nonre Ramos, 50, for mur-der/intoxication assault in connection with a two-vehicle crash last August that killed 18-year old Andrew Chet Hamm of San Marcos.

At approximately 6:15 a.m. on Au-gust 25 on Highway 183 about 11.5 miles north of Gonzales, a 2001 white

Toyota 4Runner driven by Ramos was traveling northbound. Authorities said Ramos crossed the double yellow lines and entered into the southbound lane, where she collided head-on with a 1999 red Chevy S10 driven by Hamm’s older brother, Scott.


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Gonzales Police Report

Thought for the Day

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”

— Plato

October 18, 1915On this day in 1915, Luis De la Rosa, revolutionary and

follower of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón, caused a train crash at Tandy’s Station, eight miles north of Brownsville. The incident was one of several raids by the Floresmagonista movement formed by De la Rosa and Aniceto Pizaña. De la Rosa was also in command of a force that took part in the Norias Ranch Raid. He also raised an army of 500 men whose raids and guerrilla fighting on the Mexican border of Texas were connected with the Plan of San Diego, an effort to establish an independent republic in the American Southwest. Cooperation between Mexi-can and American authorities stopped the guerrilla raids along the lower Rio Grande by 1919.

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Harwood woman amongvictims in copter crash

FREDERICKSBURG — A Harwood woman was among three victims in a helicopter crash in Kendall County.

Authorities said Kaci Fairchild, 29, of Harwood, and Rusty Aaron, 26, of Decatur were passengers in a helicopter being piloted by Chester Monroe, 35, of Seguin. Department of Pub-lic Safety spokesmen said all three died in the crash.

According to the Fed-eral Aviation Administra-tion’s online airman regis-try, Monroe was issued his commercial pilot license on March 6.

The Kendall County Sheriff ’s Office said depu-ties and other emergency personnel were sent to an area near Ranch Road 1888 and FM 1376 in far northeast Kendall County around 10:15 p.m. Thurs-day to investigate a report of a possible helicopter crash.

The wreckage of the four-seat Robinson R44 helicop-ter was discovered Friday morning.

Officials said the owner of the helicopter was in Seguin when he was noti-fied about an emergency beacon activation con-

cerning the helicopter. The Robinson R44 chopper was traveling from Midland to Seguin and had stopped in Fredericksburg to refuel. The chopper is believed to have left Fredericksburg around 7:30 p.m., and the emergency beacon was ac-tivated about 30 minutes later.

The Kendall County

Sheriff ’s Office said the crash site was located by another aircraft Friday morning in a heavily wood-ed area. The three people onboard died in the crash.

Kaci Fairchild

A high speed chase through Gonzales County Monday afternoon resulted in the arrest of a man.

Ronald Thomas Pen-nington, 21, was taken into custody after he led author-ities on a chase that lasted nearly 90 minutes.

Gonzales County Sheriff Glen Sachtleben said Pen-nington was already being sought in connection with a theft when he was spot-

ted early Monday morning in Smiley. He was located at approximately 4:43 p.m. in a suspected stolen vehicle and instead of pulling over for authorities, Pennington allegedly chose to flee. The chase went from Smiley to Nixon to Dewville and back through Nixon, with most the routes taken con-sisting of dirt roads.

Pennington finally came to a stop in the Union Val-

ley area, where the vehicle he was driving was basi-cally reduced to traveling on rims.

Pennington was charged with evading arrest or de-tention with a vehicle and his bond was set at $25,000. There are additional charg-es of unauthorized use of a vehicle and reckless driv-ing pending in connection with this incident.

Man arrested followinglengthy chase in county

FLATONIA — The Fayette County Sher-iff’s Dept. and Texas Rangers are looking into the case of a man who may have been shot to death Saturday in a rural area west of Flatonia.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek re-ported in a news release on Monday that deputies responded to a 911 call the evening of Saturday, Oct. 13 in reference to a man be-ing shot on FM 2762 near Cowan Road west of Flatonia.

The sheriff said that deputies and EMS personnel arrived on the scene to find a male

subject unresponsive. Lavaca Co. Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Dan Mueller responded and the male subject was pronounced dead. An autopsy was requested.

The dead man was identified Monday as Sabino Alvarado Gutierrez, 63.

Korenek said the shooter in the incident has been identified by law enforcement, but no charges have been filed pending comple-tion of an investigation by the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Ranger Brent Ba-rina.

Authorities investigatingFayette County shooting

Here is the Gonzales Police Department Report for the period of Oct. 1-14:

Oct. 115 Year Old Female Issued Citation To Appear

In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Reported Burglary Habitation At 100 Blk Briarcliff Lane

Oct. 2Reported Burglary Building/Criminal Mischief At

2500 Blk Church St.Myles Nicholas Macy, 26 Of Gonzales, Arrested

And Charged With Driving While Intoxicated/Evad-ing Arrest/And Resisting At 800 Blk St. Paul St.

Oct. 3Reported Theft At 2300 Blk 197Reported Attempted Burglary At 2600 Blk Wind-

ing Way Dr.Oct. 4Reported Criminal Mischief/Theft At 2300 Blk Cr

197.Two 14 Year Old Females Issued Citations To Ap-

pear In City Court Charged With Disorderly Conduct At 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Reported Credit Card Abuse At 600 Blk Guerra Lane.

15 Year Old Male Detained And Charged With Theft At 900 Blk Badger St.

Oct. 5Reported Burglary Building At 500 Blk Water St.Oct. 6Kyle Raymond Gunn, 21 Of Gonzales, Arrested

And Charged With Public Intoxication/Possession Marijuana At 700 Blk Qualls St.

Earl Thompson Jr, 59 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Assault At 1600 Blk Huisache St.

Reported Assault At 2600 Blk Winding Way Dr.Reported Assault At 1600 Blk Huisache St.Reported Theft At 1100 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.Oct. 7

John David Russell, 29 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged On Outstanding Warrant For Trespassing At 300 Blk St. Joseph St.

Reported Criminal Mischief At 300 Blk St. Joseph St.

Reported Criminal Mischief At 300 Blk St. Law-rence St.

Oct. 816 Year Old Female Issued Citation To Appear

In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Oct. 9Reported Assault At 400 Blk College St.16 Year Old Male Detained And Charged With

Possession Of Marijuana At 1600 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Oct. 10Lolo Palacios, 48 Of Gonzales, Arrested And

Charged With Aggravated Assault And Cristian Cas-tillo, 19 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Drug Paraphernalia At 800 Blk Cuero St.

Reported Criminal Mischief At 1200 Blk Wallace St.

Reported Assault At 100 Blk Dunning St.Reported Harassment At 700 Blk St. Paul St.Oct. 11Kenneth Donnell Erskin, 39 Of Gonzales, Arrested

And Charged With Aggravated Assault At 1100 Blk Norwood St.

Oct. 13Reported Theft At 1100 Blk St. Andrew St.Vincent Grant Hernandez, 18 Of Gonzales, Ar-

rested And Charged With No Drivers License At 183 CR 197.

Oct. 14Reported Assault At 1800 Blk St. Joseph St.Reported Theft At Park Place Dr.Reported Assault At 1500 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff’s Report for 10/07/12-10/13/12

10/09/12Ivey, Darrell Leon, Sr., 10/1968, Gonzales. Local

Warrant – No Seatbelt – Driver. Requires $198.00 Fine. Local Warrant – Assault causes Bodily Injury Family Violence. Requires $2,500 Bond. Local War-rant – Violate Bond/Protective Order. Requires $2,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.

Reyes, Federico, Jr., 08/1986, Gonzales. Local Warrant – Driving while License Invalid w/previous Conviction or Suspension. Requires $2,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.

Leal, Jason, 10/1986, Gonzales. Commitment/Sentence – Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Remains in Custody.

10/10/12Peterman, Tommy Lee, 11/1989, Gonzales. Live

Oak County Warrant – Theft of Firearm. Released on $10,000 bond.

Waddell, Donta Marquice, 03/1988, Brenham. Lee County Warrant – Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1>1G 4G. Remains in Custody.

10/11/12Garcia, Katrina, 10/1973, Nixon. Local Warrant –

Issuance of a Bad Check. Released on Order to Ap-pear.

Hunt, Edward, 09/1960, Gonzales. Commitment/Sentence – Possession of Marijuana <2 oz. Released

– Weekender/Work Release.Lloyd, Kristie Garrett, 09/1971, Atkins. Local War-

rant – Theft of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Re-quires $1,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

10/13/12Segura, Eduardo, 08/1990, Harwood. Local War-

rant – No Seatbelt – Driver. Requires $198.00 Fine. Local Warrant – Violate Promise to Appear. Requires $264.00 Fine. Possession of Marijuana <2 oz. Re-leased on $1,000 Bond.

Sanchez, Antonio Martinez, 07/1969, Waco. Pub-lic Intoxication. Austin Parole Warrant – Driving while Intoxicated 3rd or More. Immigration Detain-er. Remains in Custody.

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

GCSO 10DPS 06GPD 09WPD 01NPD 01Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 27

DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from Oct. 4-11Oct. 4Arrested Roger Salazar, 46, of San Antonio, Theft Prop-

erty > = $20 < $500 by Check, Bond of $800, (Bexar Co), DPS

Arrested Garrett Barnett, 26, of North Zulch, Theft Property > = 20 < $500 by Check, (Madison Co) Bond of $737, DPS

Arrested Desiree Trevino, 25, of Cuero, Speeding-1/10 miles Over Limit, Fine of $306.80, (30 Days to Pay), Failure to Appear-Speeding, Fine of $392.00, ( 30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Courtney Garcia, 31, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine/ Driving While License Invalid, Fine of $241.00 (30 Days to Pay), Failure to Appear/Driving While License In-valid, Fine of $241.00, (30 Days to Pay), DCSO

Oct. 5Arrested Bobby Smith, 57, of Nopil, Driving While In-

toxicated 2nd, Bond of $1,500, Yorktown PDOct. 6Arrested Noel Rivera-Rivera, 19, of Honduras, Illegal

Entry, No Bond, DCSOOct. 7Arrested Brianna Arocha, 20, of Cuero, Assault Causes

Bodily Injury Family Member, Bond of $1,000, Yoakum PD

Arrested John Lyvonne Edwards, 28, of Cuero, Failure To Display Drivers License, Fine of $319.80 (30 Days to Pay), Failure to Appear / Failure To Display Drivers License, Fine of $509.60 (30 Days to Pay), CPD

Oct. 8Arrested Adrien Shermane Thomas, 31, of Cuero, Vio-

lation of Probation / Manufacture / Delivery Controlled Substance Penalty Group 1 >=1G Drug Free Zone, No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Jose Ruben Gonzales, 33, of Cuero, Violation of Probation / Possession of Marijuana < 2 oz, Bond of $1,000, Capias Pro Fine / Possession of Marijuana < 2 oz,

Fine of $957, CPDArrested Linda Bulgerin Thompson, 43, of Cuero,

Theft of Property >$500 < $1,500, Bond of $2,500, DCSOArrested Juan Manuel Pacheco, 34, of Odem, Speed

11/15 over Limit, Fine of $334.74 (30 Days to Pay), Failure to Appear – Speed, Fine of $392 (30 Days to Pay), DCSO

Arrested Dennis Leeland Felder, 58, of Yorktown, Theft Property >=$20<$500 by Check, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Arrested Santha Owen Danna, 63, of Houston, Bail Jumping and Fail to Appear / Theft by Check, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Oct. 9Arrested Amelia Enriguez, 33, of Cuero, Capias Pro

Fine/Driving While License Invalid, Fine of $1182, Capias Pro Fine/Parent Contributing to Non-Attendance, Fine of $249.60, Cuero PD

Arrested Stanley Campbell, 25, of Cuero, Violation of Probation/ Sexual Assault of Child, Bond of $100,000, Cuero PD

Oct. 10Arrested Roy Barbontin, 32, of Cuero, Violation of Pro-

bation/Driving While Intoxicated, (Victoria Co) Bond of $500 PR, Cuero PD

Arrested Jana Priess, 27, of Cuero, Public Intoxication, Fine of $364 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Reynaldo Gonzales, 35, of Cuero, Public In-toxication, Fine of $ $364 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Wardell Chapman, 68, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine/Child Age 8 < 17 Ride Unrestrained, Fine of $264, Cuero PD

Arrested Daniel Satterfield, 56, of Yoakum, Theft of Service > = $20 < $500, Bond of $ 1,000, Yoakum PD

Arrested Johnny Hammer, 32, of Yoakum, Class C/Fail-ure to Appear, Fine of $ 467 (30 Days to Pay), No Expired Drivers License, Fine of $266 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Ollie King, 47, of Victoria, Speeding over limit 16/20 Over Limit, Fine of $210 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Re-port for October 8, 2012 thru October 14, 2012

10/09/12Case #12-372, Warrant Arrest(1), Satterfield,

Daniel, 56, Yoakum, 34 Rodeo Grounds; Offense, W#2012-17655-Theft of Service; Disposition, Trans/DCSO.

10/10/12Case #12-414, Criminal Mischief, 210 Nelson; Dis-

position, Investigation.10/13/12Case #12-415, Burglary-Vehicle, 205 Walter; Dis-

position, Investigation.Case #12-416, Burglary-Vehicle, 205 Walter; Dis-

position, Investigation.Case #12-417, Burglary-Vehicle, 412 Montgom-

ery; Disposition, Investigation.Case #12-418, Burglary-Vehicle, 412 Montgom-

ery; Disposition, Investigation.Case #12-419, Burglary-Building, 412 Montgom-

ery; Disposition, Investigation.10/14/12Case #175753, Warrant Arrest(1), MacCallum,

Kendrick, 21, Yoakum, 403 Henrietta; Offense, W#EO5610001410184-Burglary-3rd Degree; Dispo-sition, Trans/LCSO.

Case #175755, DWI/Assist Agency, Barrientos, Ja-vier, 34, Yoakum, 700 Edgar; Offense, DWI; Disposi-tion, Trans/LCSO.

Case #175756, Warrant Arrest(1), Falcon, Nicholos, 22, 201 W. Gonzales; Offense, W# 2012-17745-Assault F/V; Disposition, Trans/DCSO.

Gonzales County Court Failure to Appear List for Court Date October 11, 2012

David Airhart, Criminal MischiefJennifer J. Anglin, Violation of ProbationKedrick J. Cray, Deadly ConductDanna Dumoit, Escape Mathew R. Hernandez, Violation of ProbationEdward J. Jasek, Driving While IntoxicatedPamela Ann Leazer, Terroristic ThreatMark Edward Piercy, Theft of Property

Christopher J. Ramos, Possession of MarijuanaRuben Allen Reyes, Assault Family ViolencePatrick Rhodes, Assault Family ViolenceFrank Villareal, Theft of PropertyCarlos Luis Canales, Possession of MarijuanaGeorge Trigo, Jr., Driving While IntoxicatedThe next County Court date is November 8, 2012.

If these people come on this date a warrant will NOT be issued. For further information you may contact the County Attorney’s office at 830-672-6527.

AUSTIN— The Texas De-partment of Transportation is installing additional “Left Lane for Passing Only” signs on all highways with a speed limit of 75 mph or higher. State law requires TxDOT to post these signs on highways where slower traffic is asked to stay in another lane.

“We want to make sure that travelers on our high-ways have a safe, efficient and enjoyable trip,” said Car-ol Rawson, TxDOT’s Traffic Operations Division Direc-

tor. “Reminding the public that slower moving vehicles should use right lanes and that passing vehicles use left lanes will help improve safe-ty on our highways.”

Safety of the traveling public is always TxDOT’s No. 1 priority. Agency lead-ers think the expanded use of these signs will allow highway users to reach their intended destinations more safely and without undue delay due to slower moving vehicles. This is more im-

portant than ever with an increasing number of Texas highways with speeds of 75 mph or higher.

TxDOT expects installa-tion of approximately 3,400 new “Left Lane for Passing Only” signs to be completed by summer of 2013. The signs are enforceable and violators can be stopped and ticketed by law enforcement.

For more information, contact TxDOT Media Re-lations at [email protected] or (512) 463-8700.

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Luling, railroad reach deal to promote projectLULING — The City of Luling

has approved a supplement to the city’s agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad which will enable a citizen-led project to move forward with conversion of an old building into a high-tech Luling Information Station.

Council on Monday approved the updated agreement with the railroad, which owns the property bounded by Laurel Ave., East Pierce St. and North Magnolia Ave. (the intersection of U.S. Highway 183 and U.S. Highway 90).

The city’s Tourism Task Force last month presented preliminary plans for a travel-stop-style infor-mation kiosk and roadside rest area designed to attract tourists traveling one of those highways to visit sights and businesses in the Luling area.

The agreement with the railroad removes one major obstacle to the project.

“Our prior agreement with the railroad was that there would be parking but no building there oth-er than the existing building,” city manager Bobby Berger noted in the council’s September meeting.

Trey Bailey of the Luling Eco-nomic Development Corp. said railroad officials had proven very positive on the project.

“We got in touch with the rail-road people, and they’re OK with the project,” he said. Bailey asked

council during its meeting Thurs-day for a nomination that could help the project be funded in part through a Texas Department of Transportation grant which would reimburse 80 percent of the amount spent on it.

The station would be a glass-sided information kiosk designed to look a little like an old-time gas sta-tion — which is what the property originally housed — with high-tech holographic images displayed on the four sides of the building. To the side of the kiosk would be an im-proved restroom facility, a parking area and a small area for motorists to exercise their pets.

The Tourism Task Force gave an initial estimate of the cost of the project at about $130,000 and dur-ing the September meeting indicat-ed that most of those funds may be able to be raised without any city tax dollars being used.

The Council covered several other issues during a regular meet-ing on Thursday a special meeting on Monday, including dealing with a number of billboard permit ap-plications as well as leasing of city-owned ball fields by the Luling Little League.

“‘This is turning into Billboard Alley,’” councilman James Nickells exclaimed at a total of six applica-tions to erect billboards on proper-ties fronting Interstate 10.

Councilmen were told the city’s Planning and Zoning board had approved the permits as technically

correct, but that the total number of billboards in the city is limited — and Luling is approaching that limit, depending on how many permits have actually been used.

“If we’re going to continue to grow, and we want to grow, where will (new businesses) want to be? They’ll all want to be on the inter-state,” said Councilman Woody Cox. “I don’t want to see billboards all up and down the interstate.”

Berger and Mayor Mike Hen-drick told Council that city ordi-nance effectively defines how many billboards can be erected, but that some of those who have applied for permits have not yet exercised those permits. Berger said the city staff would get an accurate count before the council’s November meeting.

“We may have to look at a mora-torium on billboards at some point,” Nickells added.

During Thursday’s regular ses-sion, council also received an up-date on the Zedler Mill Dam Re-habilitation and Bank Stabilization project and the sale of $3.15 million in bonds to fund that project.

Council was told the bond sale had gone exceedingly well, with the city saving about $20,000 by earning an “AA” rating and thus avoiding a bond insurance requirement. The bonds will be sold with a 2.15 per-cent interest rate, bond counsel Bart Power said.

The bonds will be repaid primar-ily with funds from the city’s utility fund.

The Council also gave some fur-ther guidelines to the engineering firm of Freese and Nichols, which is designing the renovation project. The bank stabilization on the Zedler Mill side of the lake will not include a tapered bank to maintain bank ac-cess for swimmers, although Berger said the city may look at creating a “swimming area” on the opposite side of the lake.

“We’ve been trying to convince swimmers to use the other side of the lake,” he said. “It’s a nice swim-ming hole ... but at some point we may have to regulate it somehow because of the liabilities.”

Swimming on the mill side of the pond could become an issue be-cause of the dam repairs, which will enable the city to open the flood-gates — which would create an undertow. The repairs to the dam would enable the city to install a hy-droelectric generator at some point, but would not include it at this time.

Council also gave approval for Berger to negotiate an updated agreement between the city and the Luling Little league for the leasing of the three city-owned ball fields year-round as opposed to the current eight-month contract.

Councilwoman Jackie Campbell said she had concerns over the Little League Board’s restricting use of the fields.

“We ran into the issue this sum-mer where a young man wanted to use one of the fields for a tour-nament,” she said. “They were so

ugly and so adamant about him not (having control over concessions at the park)... They were given a con-tract for two fields, not the adult field in a city park.”

Members of the Little League board told the council the organi-zation would like to use the larger (adult) field on a year-round basis to enable participation in “Select” fall and winter leagues. The league maintains the fields during the eight months it has operational control, but Berger said the city hasn’t had time for routine maintenance dur-ing the four months it has control.

The Council directed Berger to continue working on an updated arrangement to give the league the fields year-round, but to specify that other organizations would also have rules enabling access.

The Council also moved during Thursday’s meetings to make its police and electrical departments a little more marketplace-competitive by approving step raises for employ-ees.

Police Chief Bill Sala said the move would help his department as it tries to attract qualified applicants — Luling has had three patrol offi-cer positions vacant for months.

As part of the raise package, Sala asked to name his current police captain to the position of Assistant Chief. There would be no pay dif-ferential, but Sala said it would “help establish a line of succession. This will enable the city to promote from within in the future.”

By DAVE MUNDY

[email protected]

Traffic stop results in million-dollar bustMore than $1 million worth of crystal methamphetamine was found in the tires of the vehicle, DPS reports said. (Photos by Mark Lube)

Department of Public Safety officials said a white 2005 Jeep Liberty SUV was stopped for having obscured rear license plate on eastbound Interstate Highway 10 at mile marker 637 in Gonzales Country around 9:21 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, and the stop resulted in the seizure of some $1.6 million in crystal methamphetamine.

The vehicle had a Mexico li-cense plate and was driven by Eduardo Hernandez-Casas, 38, of Mexico.

Troopers said Hernandez-Ca-sas appeared nervous. Hernan-dez-Cass said he was traveling to Houston and would be return-ing to Mexico the next day. The trooper said he did not observe any luggage or clothes in the ve-hicle. Hernandez-Casas told the trooper the vehicle belonged to his girlfriend but could not give

the officer her first name. He add-ed that there was nothing illegal in the vehicle.

The trooper then asked for con-sent for a vehicle search and said Hernandez-Casas consented. The trooper said he observed that the four tires on the vehicle appeared to have been removed before. He said he tapped on the tires and observed them to be solid.

The trooper then compared to them to the tires on this patrol car. The trooper had the vehicle

towed to a local automotive re-pair facility and discovered con-structed aluminum boxes in the rims. Each tire contained about eight pounds of crystal meth-amphetamines. A total of 16 ki-los/32 pounds of crystal meth, estimated to be a street value of $1 million, was recovered by DPS.

Hernandez-Casas was taken into federal custody and will likely be charged with possession with intent to deliver.

By MARK LUBE

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LOCKHART — Lockhart City Council on Tuesday gave the green light to a plan by the city’s economic development corporation to fund $100,000 in improvements at the city’s main park over objections from two councilmen who opposed a proposal to include a frisbee golf course in the upgrades.

The Lockhart EDC had approved the plan at its last meeting and the Council on Tuesday had an option to approve or not approve the plan, but councilmen Richard Banks and Juan Mendoza posed differing objections to the golf course.

The improvements planned by LEDC would include paving some portions of the park, additional benches for sitting, water fountains, a washer-pitching and horseshoe-pitch-

ing area, and a nine-hole frisbee golf course.

“We have to vote against it, because nobody in my district wants a frisbee golf course” Banks said, “Have we in-quired how many of our citizens would actually use a frisbee golf course?”

“About as many as want washers and horseshoes or like to sit around and fish,” quipped Councilman Paul Gomez.

The course would be located in a lit-tle-used section of Lockhart City Park which lies within a flood plain. City Manager Vance Rogers said city per-sonnel could fabricate the baskets used in the game, popular among some col-lege students.

Banks said he would rather see the $6,200 earmarked for the course used on creating an area for dogs to be ex-ercised.

“Only the frisbee golf fanatics lob-bied for this,” Banks said. “If we could

find another $1,500 we could put in a dog park that people would actually use.”

Mendoza said he’d rather see those funds expended to improve play-ground equipments at several of the city’s parks.

Mayor Lew White said the frisbee course would help attract some tour-ists to use the facility, and Council-man Angie Gonzales-Sanchez said she viewed that idea favorably.

“When the students from Texas State gave their presentation (last month), I was impressed,” Gonzales-Sanchez said.

Banks’ motion to reject the proposal and send it back to LEDC for reconsid-eration died for lack of a second, and the Council then voted 5-2 to approve the measure.

Mendoza said he would rather see the money earmarked for the frisbee course on improvements to play-

ground equipment at the city’s vari-ous “pocket parks,” but Rogers said much of that equipment needs to be replaced, not merely refurbished.

“We need these improvements and there’s a lot of things we need to do, but this is a good start,” Gomez said.

In other action Tuesday, the Coun-cil appointed councilman Benny Hill-burn to the Community Action Inc. Central Texas Board; approved a zon-ing change for a property in the city’s industrial park from light industrial to commercial heavy business; accepted the city’s fourth-quarter investment report; and approved a grant applica-tion by the Lockhart Fire Dept. for a FEMA natural-disaster preparedness grant.

Vance also updated Council with a report that two swarms of bees which had taken up residence in Lions Club Park were due to be removed on Wednesday.

NIXON — The Nixon City Council approved a change in the direction of traffic on Sec-ond Street during its regular city council meeting Monday.

The council unanimously approved an ordinance that would make the 100 blocks of East and West Second Streets one way streets, one going east-bound one way and the other westbound one way. East and West Second Streets are cur-rently two way streets, and city officials say that the change to one way streets is necessary for safety and for effective traffic flow reasons.

“Basically it’s all for safety purposes, because of all the truck traffic and other traffic we’re having now,” explained City Manager George Blanch. “We have had complaints from citizens. Our police chief want-ed this on the agenda for safety reasons.”

Within the next two to three weeks the ordinance is to take effect, once all the necessary and official traffic signs can be bought and properly installed in the right locations.

According to Blanch, in-creased traffic flow throughout the city has been an ongoing concern for city and law en-forcement officials. He related how citizens and drivers in Nixon may have for and against views on the change.

“When you have change, you always have mixed feel-ings,” he said. “ But if people understand what we’re doing it for and why we’re doing it, then I think it will be okay.”

In other matters, the council: • Administered the Oath of

Office to temporary Municipal Judge Richard Jackson

• Approved the advertising of bids to sell two police cars and 12 to 15 office chairs

• Approved the moving of the next city council meeting from Nov. 12 to Nov. 19.

By BAIN SERNA

Cannon Correspondent

Nixon setsstreets asone-way

By DAVE MUNDY

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Lockhart Council OKs park project

LOCKHART — The Caldwell County Judge an-nounced Monday he has sent a letter to the Criminal Prosecutions Division of the state Attorney Gener-al’s Office contending that Caldwell County Sheriff Daniel C. Law had violated the law in the filing of some routine paperwork, but the Sheriff said Wednesday the document the judge is claiming he filed and what’s on file with the AG’s office aren’t the same thing.

County Judge Tom Bonn, during Monday’s

meeting of Commissioner Court, read a statement that he had sent a letter to the AG’s office on Oct. 5 contending misconduct by Law, who is locked in a tough re-election battle against challenger Gene Chandler.

Bonn contends that Law violated Chapter 59 of the Code of Criminal Proce-dure, which concerns the handling of forfeited funds and seized assets.

In a letter addressed to Kent Richardson with the AG’s office, Bonn said that Law filed a certification for the reporting period of Oct 1, 2010 through Sept.

30, 2011 contending his department had seized no property nor expended any of the money seized. That report is required to be filed yearly by law enforce-ment agencies.

Bonn said the discrep-ancy was found during an audit, and that Law’s department had received $3,362.40 and expended $6,152.41.

Law, however, said Wednesday the judge is forgetting that his own sig-nature is also required on that filing — after the num-bers are audited.

“I don’t know where that documentation came

from,” said Law in a tele-phone interview. “I’ve al-ready contacted the AG’s office, I thought that maybe I’d signed the wrong form, but they told me that they had the right form and it showed the correct infor-mation.

“What he turned in to the AG does not match what I sent into the state,” he said. “And it looks like it’s been tampered with.”

Law said his call to the AG’s office had indicated the pages of the package on file were numbered, as they were when sent by the AG’s office to reporting agencies. He said the re-

port package displayed by Bonn had one page — the one with the final numbers and his signature— that was missing a page num-ber.

Bonn and Law have had disputes in the past, nota-bly over the Sheriff ’s depu-ties’ use of fuel cards not authorized by Commis-sioners Court.

Law said the document Bonn claims is the one he swore to may not be genu-ine.

“It looks like my signa-ture, but it also has a line across it like someone cut the page, it’s hard to tell because all I’ve seen was a

fax of it,” he said. “There’s an extra page in this form that does not match what is on file with the AG’s of-fice and what I filed with the county attorney.”

Hospital later in the day.St. Joseph’s principal Bill McCardle con-

firmed that 28 people were on the bus at the time of the incident and at least four students received stitches, but assured The Cannon that everyone was fine.

McCardle said he was informed by a DPS trooper that when Parks took his CDL test, it was taken on a smaller bus than the school is accustomed to using. Therefore the restriction on his license was unknown to school authorities.

“To our knowledge, he had all of the certifications in place and had taken all of the safety courses required. We are re-checking to make sure that all of our other drivers have all of the proper certifications in place.”

McCardle said the school’s administra-tion was only just notified of the citation issued minutes before his interview with The Cannon.

“We have just been made aware of the charges and now know that the officer stat-ed that something caused the bus driver to

drive off to the side,” he said.McCardle went on to further explain his

support of Parks, who had been driving for St. Joseph’s since 2006.

“I don’t know what precipitated the bus being on the side of the road and nobody will ever know,” McCardle said. “But I do know he (Parks) used his experience to make sure everybody came out as safe as possible. It could have been one of the worst tragedies in the history of the school.”

“Without question, the most important thing to us is the welfare of our students. The bus had all of the appropriate safety mechanisms in place. We will continue to make sure all of our drivers do the appro-priate things. Mr. Parks has a safe driving record with all of the necessary credentials and he’s never had any unsafe incident or any report to that effect.”

The citation filed by DPS troopers isnot enough on its own to affect the employ-ment of Parks, but McCardle said the situ-iation will continue to be monitored.

“We will wait for any further informa-tion from the DPS on this incident before we take any immediate action,” he said.


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times, but it’s nothing that relates to anyone being harmed or placed in danger in any way. We just want to make sure that everything is OK.”

One initial report indi-cated that Texas Rangers were involved in investi-gating the situation, but a check with that agency de-termined they are not in-volved.

Both men were air-flighted from the scene and taken to Breckenridge and University hospitals. Scott Hamm was left crippled as a result and still uses a wheelchair to this day.

Ramos was arrested on August 26 and booked into the Gonzales County Jail, where she was charged with intoxicated assault with a vehicle and murder. Her bond was set at $110,000.

According to the arrest affidavit, Ramos’ blood contained three times the legal alcohol limit and test-ed positive for cocaine. It was her fourth DWI-relat-ed arrest since 1990.

Other people indicted by the October Grand Jury include:

• Francisco Alvarado, sexual assault of a child/in-decency with a child

• Christina Barefield, theft of $1500 or more but less than $20,000/forgery

• Daniel Carrillo, evad-ing arrest with a vehicle

• Lajuana Clark, deadly conduct/unlawful posses-sion of a firearm/criminal mischief

•Tommy Brian DeBerry,

forgery by passing• David Fontenot, driv-

ing while intoxicated 3rd or more

• Emanuel Garcia, aggra-vated assault

• Jose Manuel Garcia, ag-gravated assault

• Joe Garza, burglary of a building

• Reggie Grear, assault (family violence) previous conviction

• Leslie Hastings, aggra-vated assault

• Herman Hernan-dez, injury to a child (two counts)

• DeShawn Johnson, un-lawful possession of a fire-arm

• Salvador Martinez, driving while intoxicated 3rd or more

• Martin Mata, theft of

property <$1,500, two or more previous convictions

• Joe Alfred Molina, driving while intoxicated 3rd or more

• Calvin Rhoades, evad-ing arrest

• Richard Rivera, tam-pering with or fabricating physical evidence

• Brandon Rudisill, criminal mischief

• Manuel Ruiz, aggravat-ed assault

• Ruben Carlos Saenz, indecency with a child

• Preston Smith, pos-session of a controlled substance/tampering with physical evidence

• Albert Donald Sutton, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

• Ernest Vivian, indecen-cy with a child

Continued from page A1counts of aggravated assault. Gonzales Police Captain Alan Taylor confirmed on Wednesday that a capital murder warrant has been issued for Rashad L. Rudolph, 21

of Cuero. Rudolph is also known by the alias “Gunner.”

Taylor said Rudolph remains at large and is asking anyone with information as to his whereabouts to contact the Gonzales Po-lice Department at 830-672-8686.

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SUSPECT: Warrant issued

The University of Hous-ton- Victoria Small Busi-ness Development Center will host several no-cost interactive workshops at their Gonzales office located at Randle Rath-er Bldg. 427 St. George Street, Ste. 303, in Gon-zales.

On October 19, 2012, the UHV SBDC Gonzales office will be holding an interactive workshop on Starting Your Own Busi-ness. Kacey Lindemann Butler, Certified Senior Business Advisor III will present this workshop from 10 AM -Noon at the SBDC Gonzales office at

the Randle Rather Bldg. 427 St. George Street, Ste. 303, in Gonzales. At-tendees will learn about the fundamental elements of starting a small busi-ness. The workshop is designed to help attend-ees get a great start in business. Before invest-ing time or money into a new business, attend this workshop and learn what it takes to start a business.

On October 26, “Plan-ning for Growth: Finding Hidden Money using Fi-nancial Statements ” will be offered at the UHV SBDC Gonzales office. From 10 am to Noon, this no-cost interactive work-shop is an introduction to financial management

concepts and helping plan for growth. The workshop will cover understanding key terms such as fixed and variable costs, contri-bution margin, and break even point. Presenter Lisa Barr, Associate Direc-tor, UHV SBDC will lead hands on exercises to un-derstand how to find your break even point and how to improve your profit.

November 16, from 10 am to Noon, the UHV SBDC Gonzales office will host a no-cost interactive workshop on “People Re-sources – Employee Files and Employee Reviews. Presented by Kacey Lin-demann Butler, Certified Senior Business Advisor III, the workshop will

help attendees to under-stand how to set up em-ployee files and comply with current regulations. Included will be informa-tion on documentation and employee reviews.

The UHV SBDC offers assistance on starting, growing and financing a business; contracting op-portunities; and recover-ing from disaster. It also helps new businesses start and existing businesses expand through a combi-nation of consulting and training in areas like mar-ket identification, raising capital and developing a business plan. Most of its services are free to area

small business owners. The center serves Aran-sas, Bee, Calhoun, De-Witt, Gonzales, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Refugio and Victoria counties.

To register for a work

shop, call the SBDC at (361) 485-4485 or from outside the Victoria calling area (877) 895-SBDC (7232). Or regis-ter through our website, sbdc.uhv.edu - just follow the training links.

Sheriff Daniel Law

Kacey Butler Lisa Barr

Halloween DanceGhosts & Witches will be

out along with GLENN COL-LINS Band at the Geronimo VFW Post 8456 rocking the house with true country mu-sic on Saturday, October 27, 8 PM till Midnight at 6806 N Highway 123, Geronimo. Dare to wear your costumes! Prizes will be given. Dance is smoke free and always opened to everyone ($7 donation). Res-ervations 830-379-1971.

American LegionGonzales American Le-

gion Post #40 wil hold their regular monthly meeting and Thanksgiving Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1 at the Legion Hall. All members and their guests are invietd to attend.

Leesville FairThe Leevsille Community

Center wil host a fall festival at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3. There will be a Hay Ride, Cake Walk, costume contest, door prizes, drawing and plenty of food and drink.

Family & FriendsUnion Lea Missionary Bap-

tist Church, 931 St. Andrews St. will host its annual Family and Friends Day at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4 at the church. Guest speaker will be Rev. Richard Jones, pastor of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of Houston. The public is invited.

Bake SaleThere will be a bake sale

and tacos at 9 a.m. Satur-day, Oct. 20 at the Gonzales Walmart. Proceeds wil go to support the 2012 Walk to End Alzheimer’s and the family of Juana Zertuche will be partici-pating in the walk.

Harkey BenefitA barbecue benefit to help

defray medical expenses for Caldwell County Sheriff’s Dep-uty Randy Harkey is scheduled 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Rotary Pavilion at Independence Park in Gon-zales. Harkey suffered a stroke recently. A barbecue brisket, sausage, beans and German potatoes plate will be avail-able for $7. There will also be a drawing and baked goods sale; tickets in the drawing are $1 each or $5 for six. To purchase tickets in the draw-ing or order a barbecue plate, contact Brandi Vinklarek at 830-203-0892, Dean Vinklarek at 830-203-0692, Mary Irle at 830-203-1154, Debbie Toliver at 830-857-3974, Sanya Harkey at 830-203-0131 or Dorothy Gast at 254-931-5712.

Free piano lessonsFree piano lessons for stu-

dents 8-18 are being offered in Gonzales.

There are 10 weekly lessons that take place from 3:45-4:45 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Gonzales Public Library, located at 415 St. Matthew.

Registration must be done at the library by a parent or legal guardian and library membership is required. No telephone registrations will be accepted.

For more information, call the library at 830-672-6315.

Health FairThere’s a Health Fair com-

ing to town! The Community Health Centers of South Cen-tral Texas will be hosting its “25th Annual Health Fair” on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m.-11 p.m. at the Victoria School of Nursing at the corner of Hwy. 90A and St. Joseph Street. Flu

Shots will be available for $15. Free blood pressure, pulse and Blood Sugar screenings will be available.

Information on family plan-ning, diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and WIC services will be available. There will be health education booths from various health-related organizations in Gonzales and surrounding counties, plus healthy cooking demonstra-tions. There will be an area designated for the kids, with games and prizes. There will be door prizes. Everyone is invited to be a part of this community event. We are making health care fun!

The Community Health Centers of South Central Texas, Inc. has been serving the com-munity with their health care needs for over 45years reach-ing out to surrounding coun-ties. For more information, please call 830-672- 6655 and ask to speak to Christina Cor-dova or Melissa San Miguel.

Bunco NightVictoria College Nursing

Students present their Fund-raising Bunco Night. $25 per person. Dinner will be served. Prizes and door prizes will be given. Bring a friend! Please RSVP by November 12, 2012 to Kristin Schuette All proceeds beneift Victoria College Gonza-les Campus

Elks Ladies Style ShowThe Gonzales Elks Ladies

will present the annual Ladies Champagne Luncheon and Style Show on Saturday, Nov. 10.

Entitled “Dreamin’ For A Cure,” the event will take place at the Elks Lodge, located at 1222 E. Sarah DeWitt Drive, be-ginning at 11 a.m.

Pre-sale only tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Shear Designs Boutique, W.B. Farm & Ranch, or from Elks Ladies members. Proceeds benefit the local American Cancer So-ciety Relay for Life event.

For more information, call 830-672-2615 after 6 p.m.

CATI Square DancersThe Come and Take It

Square Dance Club of Gonza-les is offering lessons begin-ning Monday, October 22 from 7 to 8 P. M. Two free “open house” sessions will be held on Monday, October 1 and Mon-day, October 8 from 7:30 – 9:30 P. M. These two “get-acquaint-ed” opportunities will allow prospective students a chance to learn a few basic steps and to meet the friendly dancers. Lessons and “open houses” will be held at the First Presbyte-rian Church, located across the street from the south side of the courthouse in Gonzales, at 414 St. Louis St. Come give it a try. Everyone is welcome!

Square-dancing is an enjoy-able social form of exercise, appropriate for all ages, teens to “seniors.” For more informa-tion, please call 830-672-7384 or 830-672-9307 or 830-672-3224.

Free organ concertFor the fifth consecutive

year, the Presbyterian Church of Gonzales will showcase its 1925 pipe organ with a concert during the Winterfest celebra-tion.

The free concert will be held Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. Visit-ing organist Paul Keith of Aus-tin will perform a selection of classical and modern pieces. Refreshments follow the event.

For more information, call the church office at 830-672-3521.

Fall festivalFirst Lutheran Church will

hold its annual Women’s Fall Festival and Quilt Raffle on Sat-urday, Oct. 27.

The event, which was for-merly known as the Bake & Soup Sale, will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the church’s Fellowship Hall, located at 1206 St. Joseph Street in Gonzales.

For the 16th time, Velma Marek has stitched and do-nated a quilt for the raffle. The pattern of the king-sized quilt is called “The Farm,” done in warm Autumn colors with off-white background. The draw-ing will be held that day at 12:30 p.m.

The Festival will have home-made soup (by quart to-go or eaten there), sandwiches, baked items, silent auction, face painting, country store, a demonstration of five-finger braiding and Amish knot rug making all with live accordion music accompanying the ac-tivities.

Raffle tickets are available from the church office, China Basket gifts and Frames & Things.

Smoke Meat saleThe Gonzales Odd Fellows

Lodge #38 I.O.O.F. is now taking orders for their an-nual Smoked Meat Sale.

Chickens (about 3 lbs.) will sale for $8 each, sausage (3-lb. packages) will sale for $11, turkeys (8-10 lbs.) will be available for $22 each and ham (5-6 lbs.) for $26 each.

Orders must be turned in by Nov. 15 and will be deliv-ered or picked up on Dec. 12.

For more information, contact Larry Mercer at 830-672-2982 or any other Odd Fellow member. All proceeds will go to benefit the chil-dren and organizations that help the children in Gonza-les area.

Youth Center BBQThe Gonzales Youth Cen-

ter Bar-B-Que will be held on Sunday Oct. 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Gonzales Jr. High Cafeteria.

The plates will consist of delicious beef brisket, potato salad, beans, and pickles, on-ions, bread and dessert for only $8. You may dine in or go through the drive-through pick up on St. Louis Street.

Ken Hedrick will again head up the fantastic cook team. Tickets are available from any Youth Center member or can be purchased at the event. Any briskets left after 1 p.m. will be sold for $40 and halves for $20.

Please plan to eat with us Sunday, Oct. 21 after church and help the Youth Center continue serving our kids. If you would like to help, need tickets or need more informa-tion, call Pat Anders at 830-857-3483.

Movies in the Park The City of Luling will spon-

sor “Movies in the Park” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Longer Park. The show will be “Real Steel.” The event is sponsored by the City of Luling, Luling Chamber of Commerce and other local supporters.

Bring your blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy this free event. Longer Park is located on South Magnolia Ave and East Bowie St.

Delhi VFDThe Delhi Volunteer Fire

Department is having their 3rd annual Gun Drawing and Chili Supper on October 27.

To purchase your ticket for a chance to win 9 different guns contact a Delhi Fire de-partment member or call 830-263-1555. We hope you will join us at the Chili cook-off & supper from 4-6pm on Octo-ber 27th.

Head StartTMC Golden Crescent

Head Start offers pre-school services to children ages 3-5 years, includeing education, nutrition, dental, social, dis-ability, health and mental health. Gonzales Head Start is now accepting applications at the Gonzales Head Start Cen-ters at 1600 Elm Street or 925 Wells Street. For information call 361-582-4441.

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

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley

Family Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit orga-nization providing services to both residents and non-residents that are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gon-zales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

GVFVS provides survivors with legal advocacy, case management, counseling, as-sistance with crime victims compensation and other ser-vices at no cost. For more in-formation, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.

Toastmasters meetCome and Speak It Toast-

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

The Toastmasters environ-ment is friendly and support-ive whether you are a profes-sional, student, stay-at-home parent or retiree, Toastmasters can give you the skills and con-fidence you need to express yourself in any situation.

For more information con-tact Club President GK Will-mann at 830-857-1109 or send email to [email protected], or Gerri Lawing at 830-857-1207 or [email protected].


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Gonzales County Clerk Lee Riedel has announced the dates and locations for early voting for the upcoming gen-eral election.

Ballots by MailNew applications for a bal-

lot by mail are available. To receive the application, con-tact the County Clerk’s Of-fice at 830-672-2801 or write: Gonzales County Clerk, PO Box 77, Gonzales TX 78629.

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

Applicants for ballots by mail must meet one of the fol-lowing requirements:

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

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

Early Voting by personal appearance

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

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

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

You must be registered to vote 30 days prior to the elec-tion to be eligible to vote. The last day to register is Oct. 9. If you have moved, it is also necessary to contact the Voter

Registrar, Norma Jean Du-Bose, to correct your address. Contact number ofr DuBose is 830-672-2841.

New registration cards are YELLOW. They were mailed out some time ago and have a slightly different look to them. They show your street (home) address and your mailing ad-dress. Your home address is what governs where you vote.

Election DayElection Day is Tuesday,

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

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

• Precinct 2: American Legion Hall, 1512 Robert-son St. Gonzales;

• Precinct 3: Gonzales City Building, 820 St. Jo-seph, Gonzales;

• Precincts 4 and 6: Gon-zales County Nixon An-nex, 603 E. Central Ave., Nixon;

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

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

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

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

• Precinct 10: Smiley Fire Station, Smiley*;

• Precinct 11: Peach Val-ley Youth Camp, 581 CR 537, Gonzales;

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

• Precinct 13: Leesville Cemetery Association, 6077 CR 155, Leesville;

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

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

Sweet Home danceThe Texxas band will be the featured entertainers at the Sweet Home Community

Center from 3-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. Cover charge is $8. The center is located at CR 318, Sweet Home, TX 7798. The center featured bingo every Monday at 7:30 p.m.

GCA chicken supperThe annual Chicken Supper for Grace Christian Academy will be held on Thursday,

October 25th from 4-6:30 p.m.You may dine in the Fellowship Hall at Memorial Heights Baptist Church or take

advantage of the convenient drive through line.Tickets are only $7 and available from any of the students, faculty or board mem-

bers of the school. For further information you may call the school office at 830-672-3838 between 8 AM and 4 PM, Monday through Friday.

Geronimo DanceTWO WAY STREET BAND are back at Geronimo VFW Post 8456, 6808 N Highway

123, Geronimo 78115, on Sunday, October 21, 3-6:30 pm playing lively old country music. $7.00 donation. Smoke free, good dance floor, and always open to everyone. Info 830-303-9903/379-9260.

Credit President Barack Obama’s aides with discernment. Even before the first presidential debate was over, they knew they needed to come up with an excuse, and fast.

They settled on one that they haven’t stopped repeating: Mitt Romney lied his way to victory.

The president would have rebutted Romney’s gross deceptions, except he was too focused on answering ques-tions about the country’s future and too taken aback by Romney’s brazen-ness to answer the former governor in real time. Although once he had a day or two and his witty rejoinders were cued up in a teleprompter, he was ab-solute hell on Romney.

The case that Romney lied so bra-zenly that it undid the president who prides himself on his rhetorical genius rests, first, on the idea that the Re-publican misrepresented his own tax-reform plan. The president said that Romney proposes to cut taxes by $5 trillion over 10 years. Romney denied it. The president’s team responded, with its customary civility and nu-ance: “Liar!”

But this isn’t even a close call. Rom-ney wants to cut income-tax rates 20 percent across the board and make up the revenue by closing loopholes and deductions. This isn’t a tax cut; it’s a wash. It’s been Romney’s plan ever since he proposed it during the Re-publican primaries. It’s such a simple concept that only willful obtuseness keeps the president or his team from understanding it.

It’s true that Romney hasn’t speci-fied which deductions he’d cut, leaving that for a future negotiation with Con-gress. The Obama team takes this as license to accuse Romney of propos-ing to raise taxes on the middle class, a pure fabrication. When Obama made this charge in Denver, Romney proved that it is possible to reply to false-hoods one-on-one during a live de-bate. Romney firmly said he wouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class and pa-

tiently explained why not.Romney’s other whopping deception

allegedly was his contention that his health-care plan covers people with pre-existing conditions. On this, too, he was on solid ground. To simplify, he wants to extend the current legal protection that exists in the employer-based insurance market to the individ-ual market, and make it easier for peo-ple to buy insurance in that individual market. Again, this is nothing new, but has been an element in his health-care policy from the beginning.

When Obama aides say that the real Romney didn’t show up in Denver, what they really mean is that he failed to live down to their rank caricature of him. As Romney showed during an hour and a half of high-pressure tele-vision, he is a capable and intelligent man who is ready to be president and has a substantial reform agenda. The Obama campaign’s response to his debate victory basically was, “Don’t believe your lying eyes -- believe our super PAC ads.”

The president’s team evidently un-derestimated Romney once already. If it really believes this “lying liar” interpretation of the debate -- rather than pushing it in the media for lack of anything else to say -- it will under-estimate him yet again. Mitt Romney bested President Obama on the merits in Denver. Anyone insisting otherwise simply can’t handle the truth.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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

When Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009, it was obvi-ous to most Americans that she was NOT the most qualified person for the job. But it was also obvious that because she would be the first Hispanic on the Court, no one was going to seriously challenge her nomination.

Thus we see the legacy of affirmative action … people who are promoted because they members of a “protected class,” not because they are the best qualified.

Affirmative Action may have stated out as a good idea in the early 1960s, to overcome dis-criminatory practices, but the idea soon lost its way.

Its goals were redefined “to promote actions that achieve non-discrimination” and “to pro-mote anti-discriminatory actions.” Bingo! At that point it began encouraging and justifying discrimination.

Almost 50 years and two generations of Americans later, affirmative action has ex-panded to include anyone and everyone who feels socially insecure because of their race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, sexual preference, physical abilities, and even weight and height.

The fact is affirmative action has bred dis-crimination. It has caused Americans to think about their differences, not about their com-monalities. It has caused us to think “tribal.”

Americans are encouraged to celebrate “di-versity,” but in reality they are taught to prac-tice and justify a new, subtle (sometimes not so subtle) form of discrimination.

Today, Americans are identified by whether or not they are members of a “protected group or class,” because that means having special rights and privileges. However, affirmative action, in the cold reality of day, means “dis-crimination.”

Because affirmative action pretends to make up for “past injustices,” it should be called “civil revenge,”not civil rights. After 50 years of civil rights enforcement, after two generations of promoting anti-discriminatory actions, how

much longer do we need this type of legal “protection”?

Furthermore, it has hurt “protected classes” by breeding the false expectations of special treatment in all their social, economic and po-litical activities. It is undeniable that President Obama has accomplished most of his achieve-ments because he is African American.

Many people openly admit that they voted for Obama in 2008 because of his race, not qualifications. Just look at what the ultimate affirmative action candidate has brought America because he is of a protected class, not because he was qualified.

Thus, it should be disturbing to Americans that liberals are promoting San Antonio’s May-or Julian Castro as first Hispanic president as if groups or tribes should take turns leading our nation. It should be very disturbing to Ameri-cans that Castro apparently believes it his turn because he is Hispanic.

The case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Fisher v. University of Texas, is about UT de-fending and justifying the preferential treat-ment of some, at the expense of qualified people. It is time for affirmative action to end and to return to the pure principles of “equal protection under the law”. Competition is good and discrimination, in any form and for any reason against anyone, is bad.

George Rodriguez is president of the South Texas Alliance.

Time to pull the plugon affirmative action


In Our ViewCSCOPE: Obama’s end-run around Texas standards?

El Conservador

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

GeorgeRodriguez

RichLowry

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

It’s not Bush’s faultany more: now,it’s ‘Romney lied’

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Has the Obama Administration, through its control of the massive U.S. Department of Education bu-reaucracy, pulled an end run around Texas to force sub-standard national education curriculum standards on Texas schools?

CSCOPE is advertised as a cur-riculum management guide, devel-oped in Texas by the Region XIII Education Service Center to cash in on what had been a budding cottage industry of curriculum manage-ment sold to local school districts.

The rush by Texas school dis-tricts, desperate to cut the costs of curriculum-writing and to ensure that more students pass account-ability exams, to implement a cur-riculum management system called CSCOPE is being questioned by not only education traditionalists, but also by Texas teachers.

“Schools with only CSCOPE and no text books are threading on thin ice with parents arm in arm with their lawyers waiting for them to come ashore,” writes “Janice,” who identifies herself as an educator in North Texas.

Why the anonymity? In growing numbers, Texas teachers say they

fear administrative retribution if they speak out.

In “CSCOPE: Texas Teachers Given Gag Order,” available on a website called Texas CScope Re-view operated by retired teacher Janice Van Cleave, another group of currently-employed teachers say that was was advertised as a “supple-mentary” education program is rap-idly becoming the official but never-approved state curriculum.

“CSCOPE started out to be a sup-plementary program,” write a group calling itself ‘concerned Texas edu-cators’ on the site. ”On the CSCOPE website, the program is advertised as a ‘curriculum management system.’ However through careful market-ing tricks by the ESC’s, CSCOPE’s lessons have become an all-in-one

comprehensive curriculum used to direct instruction K through Grade 12. “

The group maintains that Texas teachers in districts where CScope has been implemented are being forced to sign contracts to not dis-close details of the program:

“Each Texas teacher in a CSCOPE district had to sign a contract with CSCOPE — a full page of legal de-scriptions binding the teacher not to reveal the content of CSCOPE to anyone outside the school. The teachers were not allowed to copy the contract nor secure legal coun-sel to interpret the content. The consensus among teachers across Texas is that they dislike CSCOPE intensely because it does not pre-pare their students academically for the new STAAR/End-of-Course tests.”

Texas CScope Review contend sthe secrecy is because CSCOPE isn’t based on Texas’ official educa-tion standards, adopted by the State Board of Education — they’re based on the Common Core Standards developed by the DoE and rejected by Texas for their lack of rigor.

“Cscope is modeled after Lucy

Calkins. According to Ms. Calkins, she has worked hard to finesse the adoption of the Common Core Standards. ‘As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplish-ment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious ex-pectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not.’

“CSCOPE is instructional mate-rial patterned after researchers who promote Obama’s Common Core Standards Texas has not adopted Obama’s common core standards,” Van Cleave adds. “So why has the Texas Education Agency written and sold CSCOPE to Texas public schools?”

In other words, by adopting CSCOPE, local districts are effec-tively adopting the substandard Common Core Standards.

A report by the Pioneer Institute concluded that, barred by law from creating and imposing a national curriculum, the Obama Admin-istration’s DoE is doing an end-around at the local level.

“The department has simply

paid others to do that which it is forbidden to do,” said the authors of the reported called “The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Stan-dards, Race to the Top, and Condi-tional Waivers.” “This tactic should not inoculate the department against the curriculum prohibitions imposed by Congress.”

“To this date, CSCOPE (includ-ing its lessons and learning activi-ties) has never gone through the intense Texas textbook adoption process in which public hearings are held and factual errors are docu-mented, discussed, and verified. Neither has there been any follow-up to make sure that the errors in CSCOPE lessons and learning ac-tivities have been corrected,” the educators’ group writes in an article posted Oct. 12 on the Texas Cscope Review website.

“As importantly, there has been no independent review of CSCOPE to make sure that its lessons and learning activities align with the new SBOE-adopted curriculum standards (ELAR, Science, Social Studies, Math).”

Recently, we received the great news that the number of Texas students taking the SAT has soared over the last five years, especially among minority students.

Statistics released last week show a 42 percent increase among African-American students and a 65 percent increase among Hispanic students. More than ever before, Texas stu-dents from all backgrounds are dreaming of going to college, and are taking ac-tive steps to get there.

This is quite a turnaround for Texas. In 2000, we had a smaller percentage of stu-dents going to college than any of the other 10 most populous states. To reverse this trend, the Texas High-er Education Coordinating Board adopted a strategic plan called Closing the Gaps by 2015, which chal-lenged our higher educa-tion institutions to increase enrollment by 500,000 in 15 years.

By 2005, this plan was working so well that we moved the goalposts back further, increasing the tar-get number to 630,000 by 2015.

As interest in pursuing a college degree is increasing, state officials have to do ev-erything we can to remove the roadblocks and enable students to pursue their dreams.

That’s why I’m calling for a four-year tuition freeze for incoming freshmen, so that the amount students pay when they first arrive on campus will be locked in through what should be their senior year.

Not only will this help students and their families predict and plan for the cost of their college careers, it will also provide a pow-erful incentive to complete degrees on time.

Currently, less than 30 percent of students at Tex-as’ four-year institutions graduate within four years. In fact, only 58 percent get their degrees in six.

Clearly, this system can - and must - be improved.

For this reason, I’m also proposing we link a portion of each university’s funding to the number of students that graduate.

Under the existing for-mula, state funding is based primarily upon the number of students who enroll in the university. This number is important, but it’s not the complete story. Under my proposal, 10 percent of the school’s funding will be tied to how many of those stu-dents are actually receiving degrees.

Simply put, if a school fails to graduate students, it’ll eventually cost it some funding.

This will encourage uni-versities to do everything they can to help their stu-dents complete their de-grees and graduate in a timely fashion, saving both

the student - and ultimately the university - time and money.

Along those lines, we must do more to give stu-dents a clearer picture of how much is at stake when it comes to graduating on time. One way to do this is by requiring universities to break down the costs and inform students of the price tag for graduating in four years, compared to five or six.

In the 2011 State of the State address, I challenged our universities to develop bachelor’s degree pro-grams that cost no more than $10,000. My challenge gained national attention, and while some shook their heads and said it couldn’t be done, others simply went to work.

Already, nine institutions have announced programs to meet that challenge, and others will soon be added to the list.

These measures will make college more af-fordable and will meet the growing demand for higher education in a way that en-courages students to com-plete their degrees on time.

While the average Texas college student graduates with less debt than the na-tional average, now is the time to take steps to pre-vent us from moving fur-ther up that chart.

To meet the growing de-mand for higher education in Texas, we must give our students affordable and predictable options, and reduce the debt that they carry with them as they start their careers.

In one year alone, 12.7 million men and women in the United States, are physically abused, raped, or stalked by their partners. That’s approximately, the number of people in New York City and Los Angelus, California. That is 24 people every minute.

It’s time to Take a Stand! There’s No Excuse for Abuse! Just like the yellow ribbons stand for ‘Support Our Troops’ and the pink ribbons designate ‘Breast Cancer Aware-ness Month’ - won’t you please consider donning a purple ribbon this October to show your support for Domestic Violence Awareness Month and say No More!

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month is observed every October across the country with the adorning of purple rib-bons, which is an important and recognizable symbol to join in the stand, to end the national and lo-cal tragedy of domestic violence and other violent crimes that per-meates every facet of society.

The striking purple ribbon re-minds us of our moral obligations and the commitment required to prevent domestic violence. We must all work together to break the silence, and spread the message that there is no place for violence in homes, schools, communities or workplaces. The purple ribbons are also worn to show support for the survivors and advocates. The color purple represents courage, survival, honor and dedication to ending domestic violence and other violent crimes.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) initially, evolved from the “Day of Unity” that was first observed back in 1981, by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). The intent was to connect advo-cates across the nation who were working to end violence against women, and their children. The Day of Unity soon became an en-

tire week devoted to a range of ac-tivities as varied and diverse as the programs but its common themes: mourning those who have died as a result of domestic violence or other violent crimes, and cel-ebrates those who have survived, plus connecting those who tire-lessly, work to end the brutal and destructive effects of violence on the victims of society.

Dave Mundy, General Manager of Gonzales Cannon Newspaper, posed an important question, in last week’s paper, “Want to stop the violence? Change the culture”. Mr. Mundy made some relevant points, regarding our decayed culture–the negative impact that the entertainment media, as well as the music and fashion indus-try, has had in our society, and how these entities are at fault, in their glorification and celebration of crime, violence, vulgarity, sex-ism, racism, drug use and the vile nature of “gangstra rap” – which Dave further states, “…Has tran-scended being merely annoying noise and now influences fashion.

During my many years, serving as an advocate, crisis counselor, and an ordained minister, I agree that it is absolutely, crucial that parents set positive examples and be good role models.

However, since Mr. Mundy’s article did not elaborate on the negative effects that alcohol, sub-stance abuse, pornography, family violence, peer pressure, and a fa-therless society, has had on violent crime, around the nation and in our small Texas towns, I would like to touch on those negative factors. Violent crime extends far beyond “ganstra rap” and “baggy britches” falling down, because their parents bought those clothes for them.

Statistics show that children who come from homes where one or more parents engage in sub-stance abuse of any nature, and/or children who witness family violence at home are more likely to experience behavioral prob-

lems and increased aggression, have less developed social and conflict resolution skills, and suf-fer long-term developmental ef-fects. These youth are also at risk of being abused themselves and engaging in future violence. Re-searchers have found that people who batter their partner, are more likely to abuse their children too. Those studies and others have fur-ther indicated a direct correlation between woman abuse and child abuse. Child abuse and neglect, affects the lives of over 50,000 plus children each year in Texas alone. Every three (3) minutes or less, a child is reported abused and/or neglected in Texas.

Child abuse and neglect are no longer just big city problems. It’s occurring all over in epidemic proportions in our cities, towns, and throughout rural areas in our country. The incidences, as well as severity of abuses are growing each year. Unfortunately, family violence, child abuse, gang vio-lence, violent crime is occurring at alarming rates right here in the ru-ral areas where we reside. Due to the rapid increase of needs in the service areas of Gonzales County, Lavaca County and beyond – the demands for social services are rapidly increasing. Existing ser-vices in and around these sur-rounding regional areas have only been able to form a minimal safety net. Violent abuse of women and children destroys families and promotes violent behavior in fu-ture generations.

In the October 11th issue of The Gonzales Cannon, Dave Mundy said, “The problem is that we ra-tionalize and enable criminal be-havior, by saying, “He grew up in a bad environment’ and enablers say, “He never had a chance.” Dave then adds, “That’s not a reason, that’s an excuse.” “We as a society, have come to accept the violence – and in many cases we celebrate it.”

As the Founder and CEO, of Reachout Outreach, I would like to expound on one of our mot-

tos for this organization: “There’s No Excuse for Abuse”. As an ac-tive, and vocal advocate against all forms of violence – I would like to attempt to educate the public, in my guest column and add to the aforesaid statements presented in said newspaper. Studies clearly in-dicate that victims of child abuse often end up involved in crimi-nal activities throughout their lifetime. Unfortunately, many do wind-up in the juvenile criminal system and ultimately, the prison system – with research proving that that 85% of Texas prison in-mates did indeed, grow up in a “bad environment” and were vic-tims of child abuse.

A number of years ago, statistics had shown:1 out of 7 boys and 1 out of 5 girls suffer some form of abuse before the age of 18, but in the last ten plus years, those numbers have rapidly increased, especially, with the horrors of hu-man trafficking. Further, statistics from Greenfield L. 1996, indicat-ed that two-thirds of all prison-ers convicted of sexual assault or rape committed the crime against a child. Child abuse and neglect is not only a human rights viola-tion, but also a health and social epidemic requiring a coordinated response to prevent it.

Texans’ awareness of domes-tic violence as a crime and their understanding that it is a serious issue needs to be addressed on an on-going basis. Texans clearly understand that more should and must be done to help victims of domestic violence. Educat-ing the public, helps Texas and county residents to become more acutely aware of the tragic conse-quences domestic violence has on our families, friends, workplaces, schools and communities. Far too many Texans know someone who is a victim of violence. It will take all of us working together to help these survivors find safety, receive justice and create opportunities for them to live the violence-free lives they deserve.

Yes, it is time to ‘Change the Culture’ – People’s Lives Depend On It!

Reachout Outreach with its expansion plans will help pro-vide individuals and/or victims with emergency shelter, hot lines, resources, and other sup-portive social services for people in crisis, victims of domestic vi-olence, sexual assault, teen dat-ing violence, and other violent crimes – to further aid in the safety and stability of the lives of individuals, survivors, family members and the community. It is vital that a domestic violence shelter be raised up in Gonza-les County, and other types of crisis centers be established for the service areas of Gonzales, Shiner, Yoakum, Moulton, Fla-tonia, Hallettsville, and beyond. Reachout Outreach is also in the developmental stages of of-fering other social services in-cluding a pro-life outreach, and other programs including a teen-tween outreach, in teaching young people about domestic violence, and prevention of teen dating violence, teen rape, and teen pregnancy, etc. It is further in the works to raise funds for a crisis center to assist with such needs as identified thus far but by no means in its entirety. We desire for people of all ages, with or without children to be healed, nurtured and mentored in a safe home-like environment, and help their lives to become stable and productive again.

If your orgainization, ministry or business would like more infor-mation on scheduling a speaking engagement and/or if you would like to volunteer, contribute, or serve on staff in any capacity to help expand these vital outreach-es: Ava’s Ark, Project Protect and My Sister’s Keeper and other out-reaches – Please Contact: Rev. Ava Anderson at Reachout Out-reach by calling 512-576-2275 or email address: [email protected].


In Your View

Guest Commentary

Rick Perry is Governor of Texas

Gov. Rick Perry

Add a purple ribbon to that pink ribbon this monthBy Rev. Ava Anderson

Special to The Cannon

Meeting the growing demand for college

GBRA undertakingdesalination project

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority is undertaking a major desalination proj-ect to supply this water basin with a much needed new source of water.

James Murphy, Executive Manager of Water Resources and Utility, and Tommy Schulte, Regional Representative for Com-munity and Economic Development, made an informative presentation about the project at the October monthly meet-ing of the Water Protection Association. It is part of their focus on maximizing re-sources to meet all needs including the en-vironmental requirements of maintaining water flows for bays and estuaries.

They identified three items needed for long term growth to occur in Texas – roads, water, and power. Of these three, projec-tions by state and regional water plans show that future water needs may not be met from current resources, particularly during frequently recurring droughts.

Municipal population projections show that their future water needs continue to grow, but present surface water and groundwater resources are essentially al-ready allocated. Some studies show that future water shortages will affect 83 percent of the state’s population and reduce income

by $116 billion. The GBRA project will add a new source of water to the present mix of resources to help meet these needs.

Their evaluations show that ocean source of water has advantages over using brackish water from wells because two thirds of the population of Texas live within 150 miles of the coast and the vast quantities avail-able. The studies show that costs reduce as quantities of water produced increase and also identified several options for financing the project. It also meshes well with other current projects.

Reverse osmosis is the predominant processing method. With this method, 50 percent of the ocean water going through the process is converted to usable quality water and the rest is returned. This has been shown to be an environmentally ac-ceptable method in numerous desalination plants around the world.

The presenters emphasized that the GBRA ocean water desalination project will provide a new source of water to bal-ance current surface and groundwater sources to meet the future needs of this fast-growing region including the needed environmental flow requirements during drought periods. In conclusion, political support by the municipalities and indus-tries that will benefit from the project was requested.

By WAYNE LEPORI



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

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the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Kelli Anne, to David Aaron Haug, son of Darrell and Gloria Haug, of Gonzales. Kelli is the daughter of the late Gil Roberts of Schertz.

Kelli was a spring 2010 graduate of Texas Lutheran University, receiving a Bachelor’s of Music degree in vocal performance. Kelli also has a minor in Business Administration.

David was a spring 2007 graduate of Texas Lu-theran University receiving a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemistry and a December 2010 graduate of TLU receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Music. David is employed by Southern Clay Products.

A Nov. 24 wedding is planned at the Chapel of the Abiding Presence of Texas Lutheran University, Seguin. The couple will make their home in Seguin.

Cole-CalcoteAllyson and Michael Cole of Victoria are pleased

to annouce the engagement and approaching mar-riage of their daughter, Colby Jo Cole, to Dwayne Allen “Nicky” Calcote, Jr., son of Rachel and Dwayne Calcote, Sr. of Victoria.

The bride-elect graduated from Southwest Texas University and is employed by Urban Surveying. The groom-to-be graduated from Texas A&M University (Kingsville) and is employed by DOW Chemical.

The couple will wed in a 6:00 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at The Venue in Cuero, Texas.

My dear readers, you had better watch where you are walking. The rattlesnakes are moving and they are looking for a home. Joe Kotwig killed one in his driveway just as his com-pany was leaving. It was almost dark but he was able to get anyway. I am begin-ning to think that Wade and Lola Wilson are running a rattlesnake birthing center over there. Lola is about to get hysterical over this and I am about to get hys-terical with her. When they start attacking our cats, it is fighting time. Her cat Jake got grazed by one right after she put him outside. They heard the rattlesnake when it struck and hit the garage door. It barely hit the side of Jake’s foot and fortunately he is okay. Later that day when Gene left he ran over a big one in their drive way. In talking with Patsy West at the fair, I found out she had killed two rattlesnakes which was unusual. Some people are saying they are trying to find a place to curl up for the winter. Well I wish to goodness, that they would find a place that is not up close and personal. It sure would make me feel better if they would go out in the pasture some place.

The Band Boosters need helpers for the concession stands on Thursday and on Friday. On Thursday it is supposed to be the Twirlers and the Trumpets. How-ever, more help is needed in addition to that. They also need help grilling and serving hamburgers. At 11:15 they will be serving hamburgers to the band, and band directors. Oh, the Mighty Apache Band is looking for a win. They are traveling to Giddings this Saturday for a marching UIL competition.

Ah Yes the pumpkins!!! This pumpkin patch is get-ting off to a slow start. It seems that there are no pumpkin pickers in New Mexico. Due to the fact that they had no pumpkin pickers and loaders, we are just now getting our

pumpkins at the Monthalia United Methodist Church. (Maybe the third time was a charm.) So round up your family and come with your cameras to take a picture of all the lovely pumpkins and buy a pumpkin to take home with you. The pump-kins have been unloaded and the pumpkin patch is open as of 9am Wednesday, October 17th. Thanks to all who served refreshments to the pumpkin unloaders. They served hotdogs, chili, cheese, chips, tea, cookies, and talking and laughter.

The Belmont Commu-nity Club will meet at the Belmont Community Cen-ter for their regular meeting on the fourth Tuesday, Oct 23rd, at 2pm. Make plans to see you there.

On October 28, at the BUMC the young ones and the young at heart can wear their costumes to church. After paying for these cos-tumes and getting all the “stuff” together that goes with it, they must be worn as much as possible. They rarely last two years. Out here in the country you show them off every time you get the chance.

This year instead of hav-ing just a few bake tur-keys, we are having a pot luck supper at the Belmont Community Center with a bake sale to go along with it. This event is slated for November 11th, at 6pm and you are asked to make do-nations to the community center. These will go for ren-ovations for the community center. If you would just like to give a donation send it to Belmont Community Cen-ter % Shari Lee; P. O. Box 947, Belmont, TX 78604. So we will need two dishes per person or big dishes per family like main dishes (meat) and vegetables and salad, along with dessert. There will be some activities for the kids. A signup sheet will be passed around by Jackie Kidd. If you are not at church, maybe you could give her a call.

As a bonus, November 11th is Veteran’s Day. Also at BUMC there will be a pastor swap, and we will be having Pastor R. C. Waddle.

There will be the turning on of the Christmas lights on November 23rd over on the outside of the Belmont Community Center and the Belmont United Methodist Church.

Belmont United Meth-odist Church is having an-other Live Nativity Scene this year. I am so excited

because I was sick last year. I got to see the pictures and the donkey stole the show. I know that the one that adorned the church before Christmas with the figures of the Nativity Scene was beautiful too. That program will be December 23rd at 6pm.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Justin Klosel, Joe Kotwig, Paul Villareal, Glenn Ma-latek, Christian, Diana Garcia, Terry Bowman, Mr. Bill, Michael Barnard, Jesse Esparza; Bill and Marie Lott, “Sarge” Dunkin; Lou-ise Jones, Aunt Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Velma and Bobby Bullard; Mildred O’Neal, Melda Rios, Pastor Lundy Hooten, Aunt Fran-ces Gandre, Shirley and Glenn Mikesh; Maria Cas-tillo, Selma Vickers, Char-lie, Landis, Gene Robinson, Keith Glass, Timothy Black, Jack Black, Teresa Wilke, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Linda Nesloney, Marie Schauer, Esther Lin-demann, Anna Lindemann, Tony Black, James Soefje, Noreen Soefje, Mandy and Wm. (Ressie) Brietschopf, Harold Pape, Lanny Baker, Flo, Norman Wundt, Lucy Jones, Ann Bond; Case Martin, Marguerite Wil-liams, Shirley Dozier, our military and their families, And Thank You God for the wonderful rain.

While at the pumpkin patch unloading, we learned that Pastor Lundy Hooten is in we think the Method-ist Heart Hospital in San Antonio. Pastor Lundy has had both a pacemaker and a defibrillator that he has had to contend with and they sometimes got out of kil-ter. They thought that was the problem, but it appears it might be more extensive than that and require open heart surgery. Please say ex-tra prayers.

Shirley Goss held a Mini Health Fair before church on September 30th at the BUMC. People came early to get their glucose checked, blood pressure checked etc. For those who do not know it, Shirley Goss is the Wes-leyan Nurse for the United Methodist District. She does a lot of good things for our community to try to help people healthy. This last week she provided a lady to tell us about the in and outs of Medicare Part D. It started out with a luncheon at the Belmont Social Club and then we went down to the Belmont Community Center where she had all of her papers laid out to give to us. Cheryl Moore was from Victoria and this is her job to go around helping people obtain all the Medicare ben-efits that they are entitled to get for the cheapest amount of money. She did not have a shy group of people. She

fielded questions about Medicare Advantage plans that are not very good out in our area, and what happens when you get in that famous “donut hole”. Jackie Kidd and I just about got our an-swers. But the one thing she could not answer was what exactly the cost of this and that was going to be. This was because nobody really knew and so nobody could really say. It was just dan-gling up in the air. It was certainly a very informative meeting and the lunch was certainly wonderful too. We appreciate Shirley Goss for getting her come out to the Community Center and present this to us. There were about eleven people there from several different areas. October 15th to De-cember 7th is the open en-rollment time.

On another note, we are happy that the Belmont Community Center has been awarded the grant from GVEC to fix up the center so that we can con-tinue to have things like meetings like the above in it. We will be able to fix the roof properly, the air conditioners, bathrooms, and generally give it a good over haul. The Community Center has to match that amount and so we will be accepting donations to-ward that end. The commu-nity center has been a vital place for this community ever since I was a little girl for voting, scouts, water board meetings, and the fa-mous womanless wedding and the talent show. Home demonstration club meet-ings were held there, and birthday parties too. I have gotten wiser with the years. Things like this go in cycles.

It seems like that Chihua-huas are like a lot of people when it comes to biting off more than they can chew. Munchie, at all of maybe six pounds, nearly caused me to have a heart attack this week. I went to see what all this commotion was out near the truck and there stood this huge dog about as tall as the top of our wheel well on the truck. I called it a Husky. And here is little Munchie biting at its heels with Sweet Pea next in line, and Squeaky who can’t hear a thing, but who still has good teeth, following her---and me hollering GET dog----MUNCHIE come back. It is not working. The more I holler, the more Munchie bites, and the big dog just circles around the truck totally happy. I think really fast and I grab a bag of cat food, rattle it and take off for the porch. My dogs fol-low me and luckily the big is bewildered as to where we have all disappeared out of the realm of sight. It took off and we were saved that day.

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Frederick Lamon Smith,1973-2012SMITH

Frederick Lamon Smith was born August 10, 1973 in Gonzales, Texas to Fred and Melba Smith. He grad-uated from Gonzales High School in 1992. He worked numerous jobs, but his fa-vorite occupation was be-ing a truck driver where he was faithful until his death.

Frederick accepted Christ at an early age and was an active member of The Holy Temple of Jesus Christ #2. He was a Sunday School superintendent and sang in the youth choir.

He was preceded in death by his son; Tylon Lamon Smith, one sister, Felisha L. Smith, his grandmoth-er, Mattie M. Spence, his grandfather, Fred L. Smith, Sr., two great grandmoth-ers; Dora M. Hansford and Gina Henry Greathouse.

He leaves to cherish his memory, a loving and devoted wife, Donna C. Smith;, one daughter, Tyla Janae Smith; his parents, Fred and Melba Smith;, three brothers, Franklin L. Smith, Fred L. Smith, III (Camisha) and Feron L. Smith; one sister, Frieda L. Smith, all of Gonzales, Texas; Grandmother, Merle J. Smith of Gonzales, Texas; Grandfather, Hiawatha Greathouse of Houston, Texas; one niece, Tasha L. Smith of Gonzales, Texas; two nephews, Braelen DuBose of Cuero, Texas, Drayden L. Smith of Gon-zales, Texas; Loving and dear in-laws, Fletcher and Diane Garner of Kyle, Tex-as; a dear brother-in-law, Donald Steen, Jr. (Jay), a very special niece, Jasmine Scott and a host of uncles, aunts, other relatives and friends.

Services were held Fri-day, October 12, 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, Gonzales. Rev. Gary Clack, Eulogist, Rev. Steve Faulkner, Senior Pastor.

Services entrusted to the Professional Care of Harris Funeral Home, 127 Hwy. 90A, Gonzales, 830-672-1075. George L. Harris – Funeral Director/Embalmer in Charge, Ella L. Harris – Provisional Fu-neral Director.

Dorothy Lee Hastings, 1923-2012

HASTINGSDorothy Lee Hastings

was born April 7, 1923 in Oklahoma City, Okla-homa. She passed away on Sunday, October 7th, 2012 at her home in Gonzales, Texas. She accepted Christ at a early age and was a member of greater Webster A.M.E.

She was preceded in death by her parents Thom-as and Mattie Smith, three sons, three daughters, three brothers and two sisters.

She leaves to cherish her memory, her husband, one daughter, Shirley Mackey of Adkin, Texas, sons, Wil-lie Hastings Jr. of El Paso, Texas, John Henry Hast-ings (Becky), Hinesville, GA, Ronald Ray Hastings (Cora), Live Oak, Texas, Rev. Jimmie Lee Hastings (Carolyn) and Tommy Lynn Hastings (Vella) of Gonzales, Texas, five sis-ters, Celestine Hazel Car-penter, San Antonio, Ella Louise Richardson, Lillie Mae Richardson, Edna Earl Jarett and Mattie Jean Wil-liams, all of California, 20 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and ten great-great grandchildren.

Services were Saturday, October 13th at the Provi-dence Baptist Church, 1020 Church St., Gonzales, Tex-as. Rev. Gary Clack, Pastor and Rev. Jimmie Hastings, Eulogist.

Services entrusted to the Professional Care of Har-ris Family Home, 127 Hwy. 90A, Gonzales, TX 78629. 830-672-1075. George Harris, Funeral Director/Embalmer In Charge, Ella Harris, Provisional Funeral Director.

HILLArthur L. Hill, Jr., 65,

of Gonzales, passed away Oct. 13 at Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital in Luling. He was born June 2, 1947.

He was a career pilot in the U.S. Air Force, where he flew combat missions over Vietnam. He recently retired from Dell. He was an avid golfer.

He is survived by his

wife, Charlene Hill; daugh-ter, Shanna Marie Howard of Sanger, Tx.; grandson, Joshua Beene’ of McK-inney; grandchildren, Brayden Beene’ and Lyla Beene’; and brother, Joe Hill of Austin.

Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19 at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gonzales, with the Rev. Ildiko Rigney offi-ciating. A reception for the family will follow services in the Fellowship Hall at the church.

The family requests that flowers be sent to the church on Friday, or in lieu of flowers, donations to the American Heart Associa-tion.

Lonnie E. Busch, Jr.,1930-2012

BUSCHLonnie Edmund Busch,

Jr., 82 of Gonzales, passed away Monday, October 15. Lonnie was born Septem-ber 29, 1930 in Gonzales, the first child of Lonnie E. Busch, Sr. and Emma Anna Gloor Busch.

Lonnie’s paternal family came to Texas from Ger-many in 1834, settled in the Schulenburg area and became citizens of the Re-public of Texas. Lonnie’s maternal family came to Texas from Switzerland around 1890 and settled in the Shiner area.

He graduated from Gon-zales High School with the class of 1948 where he had played on the school’s foot-ball team. As a young man, Lonnie was active on the rodeo circuit competing in roping events.

Lonnie married Ruby Helen Stehle on January 18, 1953 in the Monthalia Methodist Church. He was a life long member of the First Lutheran Church in Gonzales and had been a member of the Indepen-dent Cattlemen’s Associa-tion and the Young Farm-ers Association.

Lonnie spent his life working as a cowboy in Gonzales; he had worked for Carnes Cattle Com-pany, Brisco Brother’s and he worked cattle for Lee Carnes for 51 years. He had worked sales at the

Gonzales Livestock Com-mission longer then any-one can remember and had helped Donnie Brzozowski work cattle after retiring. There was little he didn’t know about raising cattle or working them and his advice was highly prized by those who sought his knowledge of the subject.

He loved his horses and could “sit a saddle” with the best of the cowboys, he knew a good horse was a valuable tool in work-ing cattle and sometimes he enjoyed riding just for pleasure. Lonnie was a humble man; he was a de-pendable, efficient, hard-working man with hands that showed the years of toil in his vocation.

But there was so much more to Lonnie than hard work; there was his wife, Ruby, his son, daughter and extended family whom he loved so deeply. He cher-ished holidays and Sun-days or anytime the family could all gather around for dinner and whatever fun may follow in having his family home. He longed to have grandchildren as his own children grew up and started their own lives, he had so much love to give, and who better to share this love with than his own grandchildren.

Lonnie was many things; he was a loving husband, devoted father, ador-ing grandfather and car-ing brother. His hardened hands softened with love as he doted on his grandchil-dren. As the years passed; those same hands that saddled up many a horse, roped countless steers, paired thousands of cows and hung acres of barbed wire, now gently fed his loving wife three meals a day, everyday, as she lay afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.

Lonnie’s loving spirit led him to check on his sis-ter Gloria every morning as she battled cancer be-fore continuing on to the nursing facility to care for his wife. John Wayne was quoted as saying, “A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by,” certainly Lon-nie’s code and creed was to put the needs of others before his own and love generously, for as another famous poet wrote in part, “what we put into the lives of others, will come back into our own.” Lonnie Ed-mund Busch, Jr. was loved and respected in return and his memory will be cherished forever.

This good man is sur-vived by his daughter and

son-in-law, Sandra Kay “Sandy” and Joel Mey-ers of Lake Charles, LA.; son, David Wayne Busch of Dripping Springs; sister and brother-in-law, Bethel Inez and S.R. “Pal” Lester of Gonzales; grandchil-dren, Ashley Richelle and William O’Neal of Baton Rouge, LA, and Jeremy Meyers of Lake Charles, LA.; great-grandchildren, Adeline Mae O’Neal and William Henry O’Neal of Baton Rouge; and numer-ous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife of nearly 58 years Ruby Helen Stehle Busch, his parents and a sister, Gloria Ann Grantham.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, October 18 in the First Lu-theran Church with Pastor Ildiko Rigney officiating. Interment will follow in Gonzales Memorial Park. Pallbearers include: Byron Lester, Ricky Lester, Jarrett Grantham, Jay Grantham, Kerry Morgan and Jeremy Meyers.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011, or the First Lutheran Church, 1206 N. St. Joseph, Gonzales, Texas 78629. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Kaci Leann Fairchild,1982-2012

FAIRCHILDKaci Leann Fairchild, 29

of Harwood, passed away Thursday, October 11. She was born December 31, 1982 in Andrews, the daughter of Larry Owen Loffler and Audrey D’Ann Smith.

She was a graduate of Seminole High School and attended Western Texas University. Kaci was the safety and human resourc-es manager with Venture Energy Services. She had previously worked with the Texas Oncology Center in both Midland and San Marcos for several years.

She will always be re-membered as a compas-sionate and caring em-ployee and was the favorite wherever she worked. Ka-

ci’s smile could brighten up everyone’s day. Kaci and Travis Fairchild both en-joyed the music of Aaron Watson and a concert of his composed their first date. Whether it was during Aar-on’s rendition of “Leather and Lace” or “Summertime Girl,” somewhere in that concert Travis knew that Kaci’s sparkling eyes, infec-tious smile and lust for life were the qualities he was searching for in a partner for life.

Kaci and Travis married August 30, 2008 in Semi-nole. They enjoyed travel, recently returning from an Alaskan trip, and were looking forward to a trip to Hawaii.

Kaci was an avid pho-tographer; she loved craft work and spending time with her dogs Charlie, Her-bie and Molly. Kaci became a deer hunter last year and was eager to go with Travis again this season.

Because of gentle man-ner and fun-loving heart she was a favorite aunt to her nieces and nephews, Jayden Contreras, Braylee and Rostyn Moorefield, and Jewel and Faith Short. She loved to visit with friends and will be remem-bered as a spirited individ-ual with a wonderful smile and personality.

She is survived by her loving husband, Travis Fairchild of Harwood; par-ents, Audrey D’Ann Black-mon and husband Dusty of Seminole, Larry Owen Loffler and wife Tanya of Driftwood; sisters, Madi-son Loffler of Austin, Katlin Moorefield and husband Gaidge of Seminole, and Dallas Blackmon of Semi-nole; brother, Kolt Black-mon of Seminole; grand-parents, Bob and Shirley Loffler of Seminole, Lenda and Eugene Blackmon of Seminole and Jim and San-dra Morgan of Denver City. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Per-lena and Dean Smith.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, Octo-ber 16 at the First United Methodist Church in Gon-zales with Reverend Andy Smith officiating. A me-morial service will be held at South Seminole Baptist Church in Seminole on Fri-day, October 19, at 10 a.m. Pallbearers include Cody Fleming, Shad Fleming, Jeff Loffler, Brent McKin-ley, Gaidge Moorefield and Gere Pallis.

Arrangements are un-der the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, 906 St. Paul, Gonza-les, TX 830-672-3232.

Winners from the 2012 Come And Take It Photo Contest

Animals - 1. Janice Car-riger of Victoria, 2. Sarah Bailey of Leesville, 3. Patty Stewart. Honorable men-tion: Marsha Gibson of Cu-ero.

Architecture - 1. Kevin Esparza of San Antonio, 2. Lillian Barta, 3. Kevin Esparza of San Antonio. Honorable mention: Lillian Barta.

Flowers - 1. Marsha Gib-son of Cuero, 2. Marsha Gibson of Cuero, 3. Cindi Jackson of Gonzales. Hon-orable mention: Marsha Gibson of Cuero.

Landscape - 1. Kevin Es-parza of San Antonio, 2. Kevin Esparza of San Anto-nio, 3. Lillian Barta. Honor-able mention: Marsha Gib-son of Cuero.

Miscellaneous - 1. Marsha Gibson of Cuero, 2. Lillian Barta, 3. Robin Alaniz of Goliad. Honorable mention: Lillian Barta.

People - 1. Lillian Barta, 2. Leslie Ince of New Braun-fels, 3. Patty Stewart. Honor-able mention: Lillian Barta.

Portraits - 1. Sandra Johnston, 2. Patty Stewart, 3. Lillian Barta. Honorable mention: Janice Carriger of Victoria.

Still Life - 1. Leslie Janssen of Shiner, 2. Ann Augustine, 3. Leslie Janssen of Shiner. Honorable mention: Sandy Johnston.

TX History - 1. Kevin Es-parza of San Antonio, 2. Peg-gie Schultz, 3. Leslie Janssen of Shiner. Honorable men-tion: Peggie Schultz.

Youth - 1. Kaci Her-man of Yoakum, 2. Megan Massey, 3. J. Burns Cowley of Meyersville. Honorable mention: Cullen Eppright of Cost.

Digital - 1. Marsha Gib-son of Cuero, 2. Dianna Bartosh of Cuero, 3. Marsha Gibson of Cuero. Honorable mention: Ann Augustine.

Best of Show - Leslie Jans-sen of Shiner.

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Perfect Attendance Pays OffThis year at GJH, we honor those with perfect attendance! As an incentive for attending school every day, all 7th and 8th Grade students have the opportunity to win $15 dollars each Friday of the year. Pictured (from left) are: Leslie Ramirez, a 7th Grader who won the week of September 17-21; Juan Hernandez, an 8th Grader who won the week of September 24 – 28; Keaton Glass, a 7th Grader who won the week of October 1-5; and Jose Rios, a 7th Grader who won the week of October 8-12. (Courtesy photo)

Students of Gonzales El-ementary’s tech teacher Angela Zumwalt invited their parents to school last week to teach them something new in Tech-nology. Among those participating were (top): Shelby, Jennifer, and Jason Davis; Collin and Gerri Lawing; Samantha and Lisa Barnick; Chris-tian, Chris, and Jennifer Almaguer; (bottom from left) Stephanie and Alex-andra Reyna; and Lauren Kridler and Ryan Gomez (Courtesy photos)


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Pictured (from left) are WAGs Charter Members: Adrienne Brunner, Sandra Mica, Pat Werlein, Bitta Maeker, and Doris Garbade. (Courtesy photo)

FLATONIA — The Flato-nia WAGs (Women’s Action Guild) began the spring of 1973 with 18 to 20 women who wanted to help their community and assist with purchasing much needed equipment and many items for the Civic Center, School, Parks and Library. They start-ed as a service organization and that is just what they did: Serve!

Their first festival booth started them down the road moving quickly from work-ing behind the scenes to tak-ing charge of future Czhilispiel Parades and the Souvenir booths. These projects are still happening today at “Czhilispiel 40.”

In order to establish a chari-table fund that would become appreciated by many, they started with what they knew best: Cooking. From making over 500 rosettes for the Fay-ette County Fair food booth to baking literally hundreds of cakes for Czhilispiel Cake Walks and other bake sales, they moved on to larger fund raising projects.

Now they design and sell the annual Czhilispiel T-shirts, caps and Koozies that are sought after and treasured. These items have become col-lectors’ items with some folks having a collection of memo-rabilia from all 39 previous Czhilispiels.

WAGs members, today as when they started, are always thinking about their service to the community and look-ing for ways they can help. When the Garbade Park was donated to the City of Flatonia in 1973, WAGs quickly saw a need and within three years began a concession stand to serve the Little League players and spectators. These conces-sion funds helped to purchase the current children’s play-ground equipment and add a perimeter chain-link fence to protect the young ball play-ers from the traffic on nearby Highway 90.

Being a non-profit orga-nization allowed them to use their hard-earned funds to purchase tables for the Civic Center, chairs for the Library, the City Clock in the Main Street parking lot and the school entrance brick mar-quee. This marquee now is a memorial to the original 1912 Flatonia two-story school-house since they designed it to include: the 1882 cast bronze bell, some of the origi-

nal schoolhouse bricks and part of the cast stone “School Building” sign. The 1988 dedi-cation plaque reads: “A project of the Flatonia Women’s Ac-tion Guild committed to con-serving the past while looking towards the future of our com-munity.”

The Flatonia ISD has since updated the marquee with a flashing billboard posting the date and special messages.

The first Czhilispiel, held October 26-28 in 1973, head-lined Ambassador to Czecho-slovakia Dusan Spacil as the city’s honored guest and cel-ebrated Flatonia’s 100th birth-day, 1873-1973. State Senator Bill Patman and State Repre-sentative John Wilson were riding in the parade. The hon-ored Parade Marshall, Harry Jersig, was a descendant of the Flatonia Founding Fam-ily, F.W. Flato, and also Chair-man of the Board of Lone Star Brewery. Entertainment included “Strong Man” Ivan Putski tearing license plates and crumpling steel barrels with a bear hug. A Houston Television Star, “Big Daddy Country” shared his talent as did local pop singer Miss Deb-bie Syrinek.

WAGs Charter members were behind the scenes at this first Czhilispiel, helping with the souvenir booth and sell-ing the cookbook they had the Argus reprint: the original edition of the “1938 Flatonia Cook Book,” published for the Oak Hill Cemetery Associa-tion. This was a keepsake item since it had so many Flato-nia residents’ and businesses’ names printed somewhere in the cookbook with recipes, ads and “appreciation for support” pages. There were pages of “Helpful Hints” in the back of the book that told how to “Fry Crisp Potatoes”, “Keep pecans fresh by canning them”, “How to wash organdy so it wouldn’t shrink” and even “How to clean combs.” It was a treasure to have in one’s possession. One WAGs Charter member touts the Poppy Seed Cake recipe on page 93 as still the best poppy seed recipe she has ever found. That statement says a lot in this part of Texas!

The Cookbook was such a hit, WAGs had it reprinted for Czhilispiel VIII in 1980. Wouldn’t it be a treat to have them reprint it again and again share all the pages filled with family names, recipes and business ads?

The Dr. Pepper ad shows a bottle was five cents in 1938 and page 23 was entitled “Matrimonial Prospects”, list-

ing in ‘capital letters’ the first and last names of 12 pro-spective gentlemen with this saying “In this book no reci-pes we offer, Because we’re forced to spend our days in single life. Here’s hoping ere this page is torn and tattered, Each bachelor listed here has found-A Wife!”

Helping in the community, especially the children, con-tinues to be the stated pur-pose of WAGs. Their contri-butions have purchased new maps for the Social Studies classes, books for Reading Labs, a Science Projector for Science classes, and numer-ous other pieces of equip-ment. The back fence for the softball field, a whirlpool for the school athletes’ physical therapy and the first micro-wave in the Homemaking department are also among their past donations. Their latest donation is the very impressive Score Board in the new gymnasium that is due to be in use this Novem-ber (take a look at the con-tributor’s name at the bottom: Women’s Action Guild).

WAGs continues to help annually with school events. Former AG teacher, Wayne Hunt, asked in the early 1980’s if they would host a Buyers’ Reception to gain support for the FFA and 4H projects. They accepted the challenge and continue each year to help encourage dona-tions towards premiums for the students’ entries. Other financial assistance is given annually to students by fund-ing scholarships to the High School College bound Miss Czhilispiel and runners up. The annual budget also in-cludes donations to activi-ties such as Santa’s gifts for special families, or field trips to Splashway for elementary students, the annual Girls’ State Candidates’ registration along with the Magnolia Re-naissance Festival high school field trip.

There are five Charter Members of the original 1973 membership who have served these past 40 years and along with many other mem-bers are still active, dedicated women with a heart for help-ing students and their com-munity. Guild membership dues are still the same as they were in 1973 - just $5. If you have the same interests and wish to become involved, please contact a member or come to one of the second Monday 5:30 p.m. meetings at Robert’s Steakhouse meet-ing room.

Flatonia WAGS continuetradition at Czhilispiel

NIXON — The 24th an-nual Wild Hog Cook-Off & Ranch Rodeo will be held this weekend at the Nix-on-Smiley Livestock Show Arena.

Friday night event’s will feature a dance with local entertainers performing. Linda Robinson will be taking the stage at 7p.m. followed by The Hole in the Floor Band at 8 p.m. The dance will last from until midnight.

The first night will also feature the first Women’s Ranch Rodeo to be held at the Cook-off. Also on Fri-day night will be the Salsa, Margarita and BBQ Sauce competition.

Turn in time will be 8 p.m. and the entry fee is $10 per entry. Admission fee for the Women’s Ranch Rodeo and Dance on Fri-day night is free

Saturday the main cook-off begins.

Categories for the NSLS Wild Hog Cook-off are:

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• Dutch Oven Dessert• Pork Other than Ribs• Surprise. Prepared

“ANYWAY” you desire• Pinto Beans (No

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than ribs12:00 p.m. - Surprise12:30 p.m. - Pinto beans1:00 P.M. - Chicken1:30 P.M. - BrisketSaturday morning begins

with kid’s games starting at 8 a.m. There will be games for all ages from Mutton Bustin, Pig Tying, Goat Slapping and Pig Scramble.

A Live Auction will be-gin at noon, followed by the popular Wild Pig Races at 1 p.m.

The Qualifying San An-tonio Ranch Rodeo will begin at 4 p.m. This year the Nixon event is the last qualifying ranch rodeo on the circuit so we are expect-ing a large turnout of teams

trying to qualify to the San Antonio Ranch Rodeo Fi-nals held in February.

Following the ranch ro-deo will be a dance featur-ing Jarrod Birmingham.

Opening for Jarrod with be local performer DJ Richter and Texxas from Gonzales. DJ will take the stage at 9 p.m. and will go until 11. At that time Jarrod Birmingham will take the stage and go until 1am.

The admission fee for Saturday is $10 for adults and $5 for youths 5 to 12 and under 5 free.

Come out and enjoy two days of family fun. This event is our main fundrais-er for the year. A portion of the proceeds go to scholar-ships for local Nixon-Smi-ley CISD seniors that are planning to further their education.

The goal and purpose of the Corporation is to sup-port the students of the Nixon-Smiley CISD, par-ticularly those students en-rolled in the FFA, FCCLA and 4-H programs.

Any question please call Harold Rice at 830-534-

Gonzales Co. manfaces porn charge

SHINER — A Lavaca County employee has been charged with felony possession of child pornography following a lengthy invet-sigation by the Shiner Police Department.

David Laverne Waldrop, 54, of Gonza-les County was arrested last week on the charges. He was an employee of the Lavaca County EMS, and had previously worked for the Shiner, Moulton and Halletsville EMS squads.

Shiner Police Chief Adam Brunkenhoefer said the investigation stemmed from a report that child pornography had been found on a local EMS computer. The computer was turned over to investigators with the Attor-ney General’s office.

“Investigators were able to link the em-ployee to the pornography,” he said.

Warrants were served by Shiner Police, with help from the Gonzales County Sher-iff ’s Office and the Attorney General’s office. Brunkenhoefer said that computers were seized from the suspect’s home and during questioning the suspect confessed to the charges.

He said the investigation is continuing.

Lavaca Co. sheriffseeking suspect

YOAKUM — The Lavaca County Sher-iff ’s Office is seeking a suspect in connection with several burglaries in the Yoakum area in recent months after recovering a number of stolen items from a residence in the city.

“A warrant has been issued for the suspect’s

arrest and we are actively searching for him at this time,” Sheriff Micah Harmon said. “We hope to take him into custody soon.”

Deputies served a search warrant at a Yoa-kum residence last week and recovered some 50 stolen items. Burglary victims have re-ported flat screen televisions, jewelry, savings bonds, fishing gear and shotguns missing, among other items.

Lavaca A&M Clubto meet Thursday

SHINER — The Yoakum A&M Club will hold its fall meeting Oct. 18 at the Ar-thur Kaspar Pavilion, 135 CR 350, Green Dickson Park in Shiner.

A social hour will begin at 6 p.m., fol-lowed by a meal. For more information, contact Jimmy Mudd at 361-293-1621 or email Mark Kimball at [email protected].

No foul playsuspected in deaths

FLATONIA — No foul play is suspect-ed in the case of an elderly couple found dead in their Flatonia home.

The bodies of August Richter, 85, and his wife Helen, 79, were found Oct. 9 by Flatonia police called by relatives to check on the couple’s welfare.

Flatonia Police Chief Mike Noak re-ported the officers found no signs of foul play, but is awaiting autopsy results before making a final ruling. He estimated the couple may have been dead between 7-10 days when they were found.

Texas Nationalist Movement members from Gonzales and surrounding counties were on-hand as the Texas Nationalist Movement held its first Alamo Memorial March on Oct. 13 at The Alamo. Members to the chapel of The Alamo and pay their respects to the men who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and inde-pendence of Texas in protest of the City of San Antonio’s plans to turn much of Alamo Square into a shopping and festival area. (Courtesy photo)

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• A free movie by the Lynn Theatre will be aired on Oct. 20 at dusk on Confederate Square, so put that date on your calendar and bring your lawn chair or blanket down to make yourself comfortable. The Lynn will be showing movies soon!

• Chris Meister, author of “James Riely Gordon: His Courthouses and Other Pub-lic Architecture,” will talk about his book on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Commissioners Courtroom of the Gonzales County Courthouse. It was not known for many years that this famous architect was the designer of our court-house. He is responsible for 31 that were actually built and 21 that still exist today and the story of his life and career should be very interesting.

• The Monthalia United Methodist Church has the Pumpkin Patch coming in again from midday to dusk through Oct. 31. To sched-ule a visit by a group, contact Jackie Gandre at 830-437-5730.

• The Come & Spike It Co-Ed Volleyball Tourna-ment will be held on Oct. 20 at Independence Park. Pre-

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• Need a good replacement bull or female for your herd? The Central Texas ICA All-Breed Bull and Female Sale will be held at the J. B. Wells Park on Oct. 26. Bulls will sell at 10 a.m. and females after 1 p.m. They can be seen after 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25.

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Marathon is selling about 97,000 acres in Wilson, Karnes and Bee Coun-ties, the reuters news service reported, citing a marketing brochure from the Oil and Gas Asset Clearinghouse.

The company has 325,000 acres in the Eagle Ford, with 200,000 acres

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Marathon and others have spent heavily to acquire oil and gas proper-ties in the Eagle Ford, a formation con-taining large amounts of crude oil and pricer natural gas liquids.

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During its second-quarter earnings call, Marathon said its oil and gas out-put in the Eagle Ford rose 50 percent from the prior quarter and its is on track to produce an average of 30,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2012.

(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced this week that state sales tax revenue in Sep-tember was $1.96 billion, up 11.6 percent compared to September 2011.

“Continued strength in the man-ufacturing and oil and natural gas

sectors led to the sales tax revenue increase,” Combs said. “Collections were also boosted by improvement in consumer spending at restau-rants and retail stores. State sales tax revenue has now increased for 30 straight months.”

Combs will send October local

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TaxRate Oct. 2012 Oct. 2011 %Change 2012 Total 2011 Total %ChangeCaldwell County Lockhart 1.500% 157,528.96 151,367.33 4.07% 1,629,167.70 1,515,926.82 7.47%Luling 1.500% 145,161.90 138,030.26 5.16% 1,217,722.54 1,065,190.93 14.31%County Total 307,543.50 293,811.71 4.67% 2,894,933.17 2,617,441.95 10.60%Dewitt County Cuero 2.000% 208,628.22 198,543.49 5.07% 2,184,341.52 1,641,708.60 33.05%County Total 251,226.81 230,572.53 8.95% 2,535,618.81 1,915,612.42 32.36%Fayette County Flatonia 1.500% 26,370.06 21,907.41 20.37% 215,338.23 176,313.40 22.13%La Grange 1.500% 153,956.51 168,295.55 -8.52% 1,510,840.99 1,338,983.19 12.83%County Total 251,403.17 248,476.53 1.17% 2,422,695.97 2,152,574.39 12.54%Gonzales County Gonzales 1.500% 201,425.78 258,739.88 -22.15% 1,938,272.98 1,511,593.03 28.22%Nixon 1.500% 28,221.12 19,133.66 47.49% 263,024.17 173,361.30 51.72%Smiley 1.000% 3,764.40 700.66 437.26% 27,651.69 11,300.63 144.69%Waelder 1.000% 1,496.44 11,486.11 -86.97% 20,091.19 29,830.20 -32.64%County Total 234,907.74 290,060.31 -19.01% 2,249,040.03 1,726,085.16 30.29%Lavaca County Hallettsville 2.000% 88,131.44 76,864.07 14.65% 868,381.59 743,994.58 16.71%Moulton 1.750% 13,903.85 16,984.58 -18.13% 122,100.93 101,092.30 20.78%Shiner 1.000% 19,830.64 18,783.28 5.57% 254,732.85 209,395.46 21.65%Yoakum 2.000% 102,740.44 95,859.73 7.17% 995,947.70 825,623.67 20.62%County Total 224,606.37 208,491.66 7.72% 2,241,163.07 1,880,106.01 19.20%

State sales tax revenue up 11.6 percent

Report: Marathon selling 100,000 acres

Recent well location reports from the Texas Railroad Commission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-32890Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-

zontalOperator: Burlington Resources O

and G Co. LPLease Name: Adamek Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.8 miles NW.

of YoakumSurvey Name: J. Hughes, A-22Acres: 354.42



and G Co. LPLease Name: Turkey Bottom Unit

AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-


of YoakumSurvey Name: W.A. Miskell, A-346Acres: 316.84



and G Co. LPLease Name: Ruckman RanchWell No.: 5Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 3.4 miles SE.

of EcletoSurvey Name: W.C. BullockAcres: 3,737.40



and G Co. LPLease Name: Hamilton Trust A 405Well No.: 2Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-


of CueroSurvey Name: J.E. Ross, A-405Acres: 651.43

Gonzales County


zontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Allen Trust UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

1)Total Depth: 11,200 feetDirection and Miles: 2 miles NW.

of SampleSurvey Name: George Gwinn,

A-223Acres: 562.49


zontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Alen Pagel UnitWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

1)Total Depth: 11,200 feetDirection and Miles: 2 miles NW.

of SampleSurvey Name: G. Gwin, A-223Acres: 506.45


zontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Mitchell UnitWell No.: 11HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-


of CostSurvey Name: R.H. Wynn, A-474Acres: 647.95


zontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Mitchell UnitWell No.: 10HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-


of CostSurvey Name: J. Billings, A-128Acres: 647.95


zontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: McClure Unit

Well No.: 9HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

1)Total Depth: 11,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.2 miles N. of

KokernotSurvey Name: W. Hill, A-27Acres: 994.50

Lavaca County


zontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and

Gas LPLease Name: Raab UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.88 miles SW.

of MoultonSurvey Name: P. Soy, A-411Acres: 666.41

Recent oil and gas completions according to reports from the Texas Railroad Commission

DeWitt County



and G Co. LPLease Name: Stanchos Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: J. Hall, A-217Direction and Miles: 5.7 miles SW.

of YorktownOil: 876MCF: 3,825Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 6,508Shut In Well Pressure: 7,615Total Depth: 18,152 feetPerforations: 13,845-17,944 feet



and G Co. LPLease Name: A Mueller Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Survey Name: J.E. Ross, A-403Direction and Miles: 14.5 miles

NW. of CueroOil: 1,363MCF: 2,206Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 6,235Total Depth: 18,285 feetPerforations: 13,090-17,503 feet



and G Co. LPLease Name: P Crain Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: J. Hall, A-217Direction and Miles: 5.7 miles NW.

of YorktownOil: 670MCF: 4,759Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 7,123Shut In Well Pressure: 7,815Total Depth: 18,550 feetPerforations: 13,893-18,340 feet



and G Co. LPLease Name: Hooks Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: MEP and P RR Co,

A-360Direction and Miles: 9.1 miles NW.

of CueroOil: 257MCF: 1,274Choke Size: 8/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 7,494Shut In Well Pressure: 7,836Total Depth: 18,805 feetPerforations: 14,000-18,480 feet


zontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy

Corp.Lease Name: Hinojosa AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: B.W. Paine, A-379Direction and Miles: 7.19 miles SW.

of YoakumOil: 144MCF: 1,503Choke Size: 9/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 5,115Shut In Well Pressure: 7,400

Total Depth: 17,052 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,995 feetPerforations: 13,588-16,979 feet



Corp.Lease Name: Migura BWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: J. Wharton, A-475Direction and Miles: 5.46 miles

NW. of NordheimOil: 600MCF: 2,853Choke Size: 11/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 7,390Shut In Well Pressure: 7,765Total Depth: 16,641 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,582 feetPerforations: 13,702-16,570 feet



Corp.Lease Name: Wallis AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: I RR Co, Section 3,

A-247Direction and Miles: 6.54 miles SE.

of WesthoffOil: 120MCF: 4,045Choke Size: 11/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 6,965Shut In Well Pressure: 9,450Total Depth: 17,860 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,753 feetPerforations: 14,027-17,743 feet


zontalOperator: Matador Production

CompanyLease Name: Matador K Love OrcaWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Survey Name: F. Gonzales, A-194Direction and Miles: 10.6 miles

NW. of YorktownOil: 1,757MCF: 2,126Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,900Total Depth: 17,859 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,809 feetPerforations: 12,830-17,701 feet


zontalOperator: Rosetta Resources Op-

erating LPLease Name: KlotzmanWell No.: 3SField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Survey Name: I. Baker, A-89Direction and Miles: 6.6 miles SW.

of SampleOil: 1,032MCF: 1,061Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 4,981Total Depth: 18,377 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,000 feetPerforations: 12,969-17,992 feet



erating LP

Lease Name: KlotzmanWell No.: 8Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Survey Name: J.E. Ross, A-403Direction and Miles: 6.3 miles SW.

of SampleOil: 523MCF: 881Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,820Total Depth: 18,123 feetPerforations: 12,933-16,713 feet



erating LPLease Name: KlotzmanWell No.: 7Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-


of SampleOil: 773MCF: 1,450Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,755Total Depth: 17,966 feetPerforations: 13,059-17,884 feet





of SampleOil: 790MCF: 1,763Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,781Total Depth: 18,240 feetPerforations: 12,992-18,153 feet



erating LPLease Name: KlotzmanWell No.: 5SField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-


of SampleOil: 1,181MCF: 1,698Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,386Total Depth: 18,597 feetPerforations: 12,972-18,464 feet





of SampleOil: 1,302MCF: 1,617Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 4,800Total Depth: 18,121 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,000 feet

Perforations: 13,221-17,762 feet

Gonzales County


zontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Sample Baros UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

1)Survey Name: I. Baker, A-130Direction and Miles: 0.1 miles SE.






























Lavaca CountyAPI No.: 42-285-33620Classification: Fld. Dev. and Hori-

zontalOperator: Eagle Ford Hunter Re-

sources Inc.Lease Name: Kudu HunterWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-

2)Survey Name: W. Strode, A-52Direction and Miles: 2.66 miles SW.

of MoultonOil: 1,650MCF: 890Choke Size: 17/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,500Total Depth: 17,633 feetPerforations: 11,366-17,408 feet


Oil & Gas Activity Report

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Gonzales County RecordsGonzales County Courthouse DeedsOctober 1-31Bledsoe, Sheila King to EOG Resources, Inc.,

o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.JZ Realty Ltd. to Tundra Energy LLC, w/d,

10.00 Acres, Eli Mitchell Svy, A-337.Bell, Lloyd J. and Bell, Iva Gayle to Schoen-

field, Kenneth, w/d, 5.02 Acres, William Small Svy, A-425.

Lamb Sr, John H. to JH Lamb Properties, LP and Lamb Properties LP, JH, w/d, 548.419 Acres, Jesse Robinson Svy, A-57.

H.G. Johnson Family Trust, Johnson Family Trust, H.G. and Johnson, Evelyn Knapp (Succ. Trustee) to Johnson, Evelyn Knapp, w/d, 1.00 Acre (Pt. Lt. 6, RG 7), East of Water St., Gon-zales.

Brisco, Clinton G. (Trustee) and Brisco Man-agement Trust, Ruth D to Smith, Ross Ward and Smith, Cynthia Warren, w/d, 1.024 Acres (Pt. Lt. 17) Shady Oaks Subdvn.

Ball, Frank J. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Meux, Bonnie Boothe to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Boothe, Daniel Richard to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

King, Miles Carlton to Forest Oil Corpora-

tion, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

King, Michael to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Baddour, Margaret Boothe to Forest Oil Cor-poration, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Edge, Carla Ehlers to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Stott, Sarah King to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Miller, Mary Kathering to Pena Jr, Manuel, w/d, 0.614 of an acre (Lts 1-3, Blk. 2) Guymont Addn, Gonzales.

Simmons, Charles D. to Perez, Tony, w/d, 45.312 Acres, Ezekiel W. Cullen Svy, A-148.

Knudson, M.I. and Knudson, Dorothy Gray to Mueller, William B. and Mueller, Brooke S., w/d, 5.015 Acres, James Thompson Svy, A-72.

Matter, Janet T. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Lee, Mary Jo to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Boothe, Joe Rochelle to Forest Oil Corpora-tion, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl.

Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.Michelson, Leo Krohn to Forest Oil Corpo-

ration, o/l, 71.923 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Gonzales, Joacquin Raymond, Gonzales, Paula and Gonzales, Ronnie Joe to Gonza-les, Raymond, w/d, Pt. Lts. 84 & 89, King’s 6th Addn, Gonzales.

Lopez, Maria Del to Perez, Eduardo and Her-nandez, Graciela, w/d, 32.740 Acres (Tracts 54-55) Land mart Subdvn, Peter Winn Svy, A-464.

Currie, Emmitt and Currie, Marie to Cur-rie, Janet, w/d, 5.00 Acres, Andrew Winters Svy, A-471.

Meyer, Barbara B. to Eagle Ford Hunter Re-sources, o/l, 17.00 Acres, Turner Barnes Svy, A-112.

Mang, Barbara A. and Mang, Annette (AKA) to Eagle Ford Hunter Resources, Inc., o/l, 6.67 Acres, Turner Barnes Svy, A-112.

Parker, Edwin F. to Garcia, Victor Alfonso Galvan, w/d, Lt. 11, Blk. 2, Forrester Addn, Nixon.

Valdez, Eddie Thomas to Valdez, Rafaela Ann, w/d, Lt. 9 & Pt. Lts. 7-8, Blk. 53, Nixon’s Extension, Nixon.

Huffman Jr, James C. (Indiv, Extr & Trustee), Huffman, Hope Wilson (Estate) and Huffman Trust, Hope Wilson to Nopal Resources, L.C., o/l, 700.00 Acres, J M White Svy, Gonzales & Guadalupe Counties.

COLLEGE STATION — A laboratory test us-ing beef cattle rumen fluid can pinpoint which forages will be best uti-lized by Texas livestock, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Exten-sion Service specialist.

Dr. Tony Provin, who leads the Texas A&M Soil and Forage Test-ing Laboratory in Col-lege Station, gave beef cattle producers at a Brazos County work-shop a first-hand look at Invitro True Digestibil-ity analysis, which gives ranchers “a truer pic-ture” of the digestibility of warm season grasses consumed by cattle.

“This test is deter-

mined by the actual cattle rumen fluid,” Pr-ovin said. “We put that (rumen fluid) in with a sample and incubated.

The advantage of this method is that it gives us a true picture of di-gestibility of warm-sea-son forages dominating Texas that are fed to our feeder calves and non- dairy animals. What this will do for our cattlemen is provide them with great information on when to supplement or not supplement, which directs their feed dollars and their bottom line.”

Provin said the ru-men fluid is added to an unknown forage sample and incubated for 48 hours. The remaining material is considered non-digestible, giving

an indication of what portion of nutrition the forage is available to the animal, Provin said.

“The wet chemistry method takes days, but many producers don’t have a week or more to wait on laboratory analyses, particularly in drought years when hay is bought and fed nearly the same day,” Provin said.

Also used in the lab to correlate IVTB is near infrared spectrometry,

a modern method using wave lengths of light, helping predict a sam-ple’s differences, Provin said.

He noted the testing is “very rapid, very afford-able.”

This method has been commonly used to de-termine feed quality in alfalfa in other parts of the U.S., Provin said. The work began as a col-laborative project with Dr. Tryon Wickersham, a Texas A&M AgriLife

Research nutritionist and associate professor in the department of animal science at Texas A&M, who has been evaluating the digestive quality of several tra-ditional and non-tradi-tional forage types.

Approximately three years of forage samples submitted to the testing laboratory helped devel-op a database that sam-ples could be screened against, Provin said.

“To the best of our

knowledge working with Dr. Wickersham, our lab along with some work being done at Stephen F. Austin, we are the first in the southern states to do this from a commer-cial standpoint, working with producer samples in determining IVTD.”

For more information about the soil and forage testing laboratory, visit http://soiltesting.tamu.edu/.

SAN ANTONIO — The Texas A&M AgriLife Ex-tension Service, in co-operation with the Texas AgrAbility Project and U.S. Department of Agriculture, will present an agriculture workshop for military vet-erans from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the San An-tonio International Farm and Ranch Show.

The no-cost workshop, called “From Battleground to Breaking Ground,” is one of numerous free edu-cational opportunities to be provided to attendees of the show, which takes place Nov. 8-10 on the grounds of the Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston Street.

“This program will give military veterans inter-ested in farming or ranch-ing the opportunity to get information on aspects of starting, developing and funding an agriculture-based business,” said Bryan

Davis, AgriLife Extension agent for Bexar County and educational coordina-tor for the show. “It’s one of dozens of no-cost edu-cational programs being offered during the SAIFRS, most of which provide at-tendees with continuing education units or credits.”

Davis said this and other educational programming is available to attendees free of charge due to the sponsorship of the San An-tonio International Farm and Ranch Show.

“The military ag work-shop addresses the pos-sibilities for ranching or farming for veterans both with and without disabili-ties,” he said. “It has been developed with input from AgriLife Extension, the Texas AgrAbility Project, the USDA’s Natural Re-source Conservation Ser-vice, the National Farmer Veteran Coalition, Farm Service Agency, Texas De-partment of Agriculture and others.”

The program begins with registration from 8:30-9 a.m. Presentations start at 9:15 a.m., beginning with an overview of agribusiness opportunities and a talk by a military veteran currently involved in production ag-riculture. Additional agen-da items include a panel discussion on resources available for funding and business plan development, and the program concludes with a presentation on the Texas AgrAbility Project.

“Texas AgrAbility is a program of AgriLife Ex-tension that focuses on connecting, assisting and empowering agricultural producers, their family members and employees with disabilities and chron-ic health conditions to stay engaged in production ag-riculture,” said Dr. Cheryl Grenwelge, AgriLife Exten-sion specialist in disability transition with the Texas AgrAbility Project. “About 45 percent of returning veterans are from rural ar-

eas, and we want to enable veterans with or without disabilities to return to the area of production agricul-ture — if they choose.”

Register for the program online at http://txagrabil-ity.tamu.edu/ or download and fill in the registration

form from the website and mail to: Texas A&M AgriL-ife Extension Service, Attn: Cheryl Grenwelge, Ph.D., 2251 TAMUS, College Sta-tion, Texas 77843-2251.

For more information on the Texas AgrAbil-ity Project, go to http://

txagrability.tamu.edu/ or contact Grenwelge at 979-845-3727, [email protected].

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012Lutheran Fellowship Hall, Gonzales

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Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. Programs begins at 8:30 a.m.Breakfast tacos, coffee and water will be provided

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Rainwater harvesting; livestock & wildlife

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Area Livestock ReportsGonzales LivestockMarket Report

The Gonzales Livestock Market Re-port for Saturday, October 13, 2012 had on hand: 1,341 cattle.

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

Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $235-$275; 300-400 lbs, $195-$225; 400-500 lbs, $155-$185; 500-600 lbs, $140-$150; 600-700 lbs., $126-$131; 700-800 lbs, $123-$128.

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

Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $175-$210; 300-400 lbs, $150-$165; 400-500 lbs, $135-$148; 500-600 lbs., $121-$131; 600-700 lbs., $116-$123.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $70-$75; Cutters, $74-$85; Canners, $58-$68; Low yielding fat cows, $65-$68.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $91-$96; light weights and medium quality bulls, $83-$87.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,150.Pairs: $1,050-$1,250.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.com!

Nixon LivestockCommission Report

The Nixon Livestock Commission

Inc. report had on hand, October 15, 2012, Volume, 783.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $151 to $161 to $250; 300-400 lbs., $160 to $170 to $213; 400-500 lbs, $150 to $160 to $193; 500-600 lbs, $130 to $140 to $161; 600-700 lbs, $119 to $129 to $145; 700-800 lbs, $113 to $123 to $133.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $163 to $173 to $192; 300-400 lbs, $149 to $159 to $225; 400-500 lbs, $131 to $141 to $193; 500-600 lbs, $118 to $128 to $155; 600-700 lbs, $110 to $120 to $133; 700-800 lbs, $99 to $109 to $118.

Slaughter cows: $55 to $81; Slaugh-ter bulls: $82 to $95; Stocker cows: $640 to $1,400; Pairs, $1,400.

Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market Report on

October 12, 2012, had 1,228 head.Had 113 cows and 9 bulls. The

packer market continued to be steady with last two weeks as nothing has changed. Seasonal runs continue to hold this market back.

On October 19, 2012 we will have 80 stockers cows with 30+ with calf with the balance being palpalated. These are 4-6 year old cows with some brangus and crossbred cows. Will sell at noon.

The calf market was fully steady

with last week’s up market. Some lighter calves were even higher. Fleshy calves and bull calves are only classes being discounted. As usual the heifer replacement market continues to sell at a $10-15/cwt premium. Overall it was a very solid market on all classes and weights of classes.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $87-$90; lower grades, $75-$84.

Packer cows: breakers, $68-$74; boning, $70-$76; canners & cutters, $68-$77; light & weak, $50-$65.

Palpated dry Cows-only 4 head none of any quality, $67-$78.

Pairs: None.Steer and bull calves: under 200

lbs, none; 200-250 lbs, None; 250-300 lbs, $191-$198; 300-350 lbs, $196-$212; 350-400 lbs, $203-$218; 400-450 lbs, $172-$206; 450-500 lbs, $161-$190; 500-600 lbs, $150-$163; 550-600 lbs, $142-$151; 600-700 lbs, $126-$136; 700-800 lbs, $119-$127.

Over 700 lbs. bulls, $114-$124.Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs.

$219-$265; 200-250 lbs. ONLY 4, $213-$225; 250-300 lbs, $191-$198; 300-350 lbs, $196-$206; 350-400 lbs, $190-$206; 400-450 lbs, $165-$198; 450-500 lbs, $159-$178.50 (Repl); 500-550 lbs, $138-$160; 550-600 lbs, $134-$148; 600-700 lbs., $126-$144.50; over 700 lbs, $117-$124. (Repl) means a replacement heifer was top price.

A special Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program designed specifically for military veterans will be one of the many no-cost educational opportunities available to attendees of the San Antonio International Farm and Ranch Show from Nov. 8-10. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo)

On the bright sunny after-noon of October 15th, mem-bers of the Saturn Friendship Club journeyed to the Old Schoolhouse in Cistern for their monthly meeting.

The trip through the rural area showed falling leaves on green grass. A welcome sight for most ranchers, it meant waiting a little longer to start feeding the cattle. The recent rains had not only kept the pastures and roadsides green, they had put much needed rainwater in the stock tanks, a welcomed sight.

Upon reaching the meet-ing place they were warmly welcomed by Sandy Allen, the hostess for the afternoon. Everyone was ready for some tasty treats, a little business, and a lot of Halloween fun. Black cats, jack-o’-lanterns and spooks were in evidence on the serving table along with some inviting refresh-ments. The General Election and the many upcoming fall activities were the topics of conversation while waiting for the meeting to began.

At one o’clock, Mary Kelly

invited everyone to the serv-ing table and asked Nancy Littlefield to offer a word of prayer. There were serv-ing trays of small deli sand-wiches and tortilla roll-ups, along with a vegetable tray with spinach dip, and a fruit tray with cream cheese dip. They were so attractively dis-played they were almost too pretty to eat, but too tempt-ing to keep anyone from filling the colorful Halloween decorated plates with some-thing from each tray. Tiny jack-o’-lanterns and smiling ghosts topped the luscious looking chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. The decorations turned out to be rings for small fingers, probably soon to find their way to a favorite child. Drinks of choice were available.

When everyone had fin-ished the delicious food and pleasant conversation, the meeting was called to order by the Secretary-Treasurer, Mary Kelly, filling in for the officers who were unable to attend. The club prayer was recited and the motto stated. Before the devotional began, prayer requests were made for several individuals and for

our country. Nancy Littlefield brought

the timely devotional titled “Our Nation”. Based on Psalm 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” Nan-cy stated, “As we approach what most of us consider a crucial election, we need to ask ourselves if we remember those words of Psalm 33. The rhetoric about our choices makes me groan. I want the negativity and in some cases, hatred and personal attacks, to be over.”

“Our forefathers and oth-ers fought against oppression and a government that did not listen to its people. They left us with a plan for a na-tion based on freedom and individual responsibility. I fear that, in many ways, we have forgotten this and have become complacent about letting the government take over our lives and our re-sponsibilities. I pray that we, as a nation, look back at the plan our ancestors designed and reclaim their concept of governing. God has given us everything and wants us to be prosperous and live abun-dantly in His love. As you lis-ten, if you are still listening, to

the election ads and debates, ask yourselves, what does our God desire for us and for our children and grandchildren? Weigh the arguments against God’s plan and the plan cre-ated by the founders of our great nation. And then be sure to vote your conscience and give God thanks for the privilege and the blessings of living in a free country.”

The prayer that followed renamed those in need of special prayer and then re-quested, “Lord, You are our God and we want Your bless-ings to continue on our land and in our lives. Guide our hearts and minds in the de-cisions we make in the days ahead. Keep our eyes on You and keep our lives in Your love. We ask for strength and comfort and healing for those whom we have lifted up to-day and for those whom we lift up in the silence of our hearts. In Your Holy Name we pray. Amen.”

Roll call was answered by naming a special Halloween Trick or Treat. There were lots of favorites including Re-ese’s Peanut Cups, Popcorn Balls, Candy Corn, Heath Bar, Chocolate Kisses, Fruit Jellies, Rice Crispy Treats and the good old lollipop. One

member recalled the treat of a life time for a little girl, two darling kittens. Mom gave an OK just this once but not ev-ery Halloween.

The minutes of the Septem-ber meeting were read and approved and the financial statement accepted. Because the present club evolved from the Saturn Home Demon-stration Club, through the years the Bylaws had been misplaced and a committee has been working to created new Bylaws and Articles. The Club was established many years ago, probably in the late 1930’s. The Gonzales County Extension Service in-structed ladies how to cook, can and preserve foods, to sew and quilt, to make a gar-den and do upholstery. The most important thing was to be a good citizen and a good neighbor. Although times have changed, “being a good citizen and a good neighbor” express the goal of the pres-ent organization.

Every active member had received a copy of the pro-posed Bylaws and Articles to read and study before com-ing to the meeting. They were reviewed by the Chairman of the Bylaws Committee and a vote was taken. They were ac-

cepted without any changes. They will become effected in January of 2013.

A report of the Nomi-nating Committed gave their recommendations. The new officers for 2013 were elected by acclama-tion. They are Sue Kalinec - President, Jo Brunner - Vice President and Sandy Parr - Secretary - Treasurer.

Some time was spent dis-cussing the Annual Christ-mas Project. A free will offering toward that will be taken at the November meeting. It will to be added to the Club’s donation and final plans will be made at that time.

Sandy Allen lead the group in two enjoyable Hal-loween Word Games. Mary Kelly won the first game. Sandy Parr won the sec-ond game. Each received a prize. Eva Boscamp won the Door Prize. Mary Kelly and Eva Boscamp, birthday ladies for October, were honored with song and a birthday gift from their Se-cret Pal.

The November meeting will be the Thanksgiving Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on November 12 at Kloesel’s Steak House in Moulton.


What’s Happening at the GYC

Saturn Friendship Club NewsBy EVA BOSCAMP


Central TexasAll-Breed

Bull & Female Sale

JB Wells Park • Gonzales, TXFriday, October 26, 20-12

Bulls start at 10 amFemales start at 1 pm

MEAL SPONSORSBeeville & Nixon Livetock Comm.

Fehner Feed & GrainSeguin Cattle Co

Gonzales Livestock MarketGonzales Co. ICA

For more information contactW.R. “Billy Bob” Low

at 830-857-3324

The Gonzales Youth Center BBQ will be held this Sunday in the Gonzales Junior High Cafeteria. Pictured are GYC members (from left): Adrianna Gonzales, Laney Kirk, Destiny Hunt, Armeshia Williams, Fatima Ruedas, Mikayla Harper, Xaviar Sirildo, Lindsey Ramos, and Mykala Padilla. (Courtesy photo)

Here’s what’s happening at the Gonzales Youth Cen-ter this weekend:

Thursday, Oct. 18• Open 3:30-6 p.m.• 4:15 p.m. Bake Cook-

ies for the Pink Ribbon Brunch on Saturday at the Presbyterian Church. Earn 200 points for helping.

• 5:15 p.m. Arts and Crafts Halloween decora-tions.

Saturday, Oct. 20• Open 3:30-10 p.m.• 4 p.m. Bake Desserts• 5 p.m. Bag desserts for

BBQ• 6:30 p.m. Balloon Vol-

leyball• 7 p.m. Pool tournament

Sunday, Oct. 21• 11 a.m.-2 p.m. GYC

Fall BBQ at the Gonza-les Junior High Cafeteria. Brisket Plates only $8. Get your tickets from the center today.

The Gonzales Youth Center offers Tutoring from 3:30-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with help in all subjects. We can help you get your grades up

and keep them there. Get in the habit of coming in and staying ahead with your classes. Students working in homework lab will earn 200 points an hour. The Center is open from 3:30-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and Saturday from 3 until 10 p.m.

Ride bus # 21 from North Avenue or the Junior High and ride the GYC Bus home after 6 p.m. All students must be picked up by par-ent or ride the bus home when we close. No Walking Home!

FOUND: Male Sia-mese Cat, w/pur-ple flower collard, no chip in ear. On North side of Gon-zales by Hermann Sons. Call 672-5251.--------------------------LOST: Red Nose Pit Bull. white male w/brown spot on left side of head and also brown spot on right ear. No collar. Call 857-3118.

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

Now hiring for Cer-tified Nurses Assis-tants. Apply in per-son at Oak Creek, 1105 Magnolia St., Luling.--------------------------Full-time positions available for Certi-fied Nurses Aides. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt,

Gonzales, Texas. for more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------Part-time position available for Activ-ity Assistant. Must be available for weekends. Experi-ence in long term care preferred. If in-terested, please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N.

Sarah DeWitt, Gon-zales, Texas.--------------------------The Gonzales In-dependent School District has the fol-lowing positions open: 1. Full-Time Custodians; 2. Part-Time Custo-dians. Contact Clar-ence Opiela (Direc-tor of Maintenance) or Val Ramirez (Cus-todian Coordina-tor), Gonzales I.S.D. Warehouse, 1615 St. Lawrence, Gon-zales, Texas 78629, telephone, 830-672-7507.--------------------------Positions available for Certified Nurses Aides on Memory

Care Unit. Special Skills required. Please apply at The Heights of Gonza-les, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas.--------------------------

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

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

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

Huge inside ware-house garage sale. Furniture, antiques, household items, antique furniture & garden tools. Satur-day, October 20, 8 a.m.-? 304 Thornton St. (1 block west of Post Office).--------------------------Moving Sale. Household items, furniture, antique organ, old piano, tanning bed. Oct. 26, 8-5; Oct. 27, 8-2. Hwy. 304 & CR 156. Caldwell County.--------------------------2 family sale, Sat-urday, Oct. 20. 8:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. 213 Saint James St. Fur-niture, childrens clothes, used lawn mowers.

5,000 lb. Mobile creek feeder for sale. 437-2927.--------------------------Wicker Screen Room divider, red poppy design. $45. Lg. rattlesnake skin, mounted on panel, $95. Camping travel pot, $20. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Old Metal Full size bed w/rails - no mattresses, $40. Chain Saw w/case, $125. 361-208-3565. --------------------------For Sale: Cage large, off the ground. By 2ft, cage size about 3 1/2 ft. front, 2 ft. deep. 2-3 ft. high. Tray slides out end on bottom for

cleaning. Has top large opening & side opening. Clean can be put in house. $65.00 firm. 830-263-4608 anytime.--------------------------Medium size bird cage, slide out bot-tom to clean trays to feed & water & extras. Aqua Green. $25.00. 830-263-4608.--------------------------Baby walker, eating tray combo and it is a red race car, plays tunes and lights up. Ages 6 months-1 1/2 year baby. Cool must see! $40.00. 830-263-4608, day-time or evening.--------------------------Troybilt Trimmer with attachments (edger, tiller). 4 cycle, uses straight gasoline. $250. 361-741-2604.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------Kenmore Washing maching. Excellent condition. $150. Call 361-741-2604, anytime.--------------------------Antique metal wood burning stove. $175. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has rollers. 857-8090.

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HELP WANTED

LOST & FOUND HELP WANTEDHELP WANTED

EFFECTIVE NOW: ALL FREE ADS WILL RUN FOR 4 WEEKS AND THEN BE CANCELLED. IF YOU WANT THEM TO RUN ANY MORE AFTER THAT THERE WILL BE A TWO WEEK WAITING PERIOD TO

GET BACK IN.

EFFECTIVE NOW ALL SERVICE ADS WILL START BEING CHARGED FOR. FOR 25 WORDS OR LESS IT WILL BE $5.00

A WEEK; ANYTHING OVER 25 WORDS IT WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL .25 CENTS PER WORD.

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

NOTICES

HELP WANTEDNOTICES MISC. FOR SALE

For Thursday due Tuesday at 5:00 p.m.

AUCTIONS

LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES

HELP WANTED

GARAGE SALES

Thanks for Advertising in the Gonzales Cannon

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

MISC. FOR SALE

Invitation to Bid for the City of GonzalesNotice is given that the City of Gonzales is requesting

sealed bids for fuel

Bid Specifications for Gas and Diesel

Tanks to be supplied by distributor at these locations; 300 gallon tank with stand for gravity fill, Dyed Diesel tank at J.B. Wells. 300 gallon tanks with stands for gravity fill (300 gallon Dyed Diesel). 500 gallon tanks with stands for gravity fill (500 gallon Gas Tank) at Public works. 300 gallon combination tank and stand for gas and dyed diesel, located at Golf Course.

Bulk oil tank for motor oil to be filled as per needed. Tanks are to be equipped with digital metering devices. Tanks to be able to be pad locked.

Bid cost should be for delivery of gas and diesel to J.B. Wells, Public Works, and Golf Course. The Sewer Plant and Police Department are to supply a diesel generator.

Successful bidders must be able to disburse fuel using a credit card type system at a local location, which provides or includes identification of ve-hicle/equipment, mileage/hours and pin number for activation.

Billing should be on a master bill with a break down by department.

Bids should be submitted as “Cents per Gallons over in Ground”.

Submit bids to:City of GonzalesP.O. Box 547820 St Joseph StreetAttn: Kristina VegaGonzales, Tx 78629

Bids are to be turned in by October 24, 2012 no later than 5:00 p.m.Bids will be opened on October 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.

Patrol OfficerThe City of Gonzales is

accepting applications for the position of Patrol Officer

with the Gonzales Police Department.

Applicants must be TCLEOSE certified and will

be subject to a physical fitness test, written exam

and drug screen test. Salary $41,000 plus benefits.

Applications may be picked up and returned to the

Gonzales Police Department

716 St. Paul StreetGonzales

830-672-86868 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday

through Friday. Closing date for this position is October 26,

2012. The City of Gonzales is an Equal Opportunity

Employer.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR COMMERCIAL FLUID INJECTION WELL PERMIT

PYOTE WELL SERVICE, LLC 400 W. ILLINOIS AVE, STE 950 MIDLAND, TX 79701

Is applying to the Railroad Commission of Texas for a permit to inject fluid into a formation which is not productive of oil and gas.

The applicant proposes to inject fluid into the Wilcox, Pilgrim Swd Lease, Well Number 1. The proposed injection well is located 4.5 miles East of Smiley, TX in the First Shot (Austin Chalk) Field in Gonzales County. Fluid will be injected into strata in the subsurface depth interval from 4950 to 6500 feet.

LEGAL AUTHORITY: Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code, as amend-ed, Title 3 of the Texas Natural Resources Code, as amended, and the Statewide Rules of the Oil and Gas Division of the Railroad Commis-sion of Texas.

Requests for a public hearing from persons who can show they are adversely affected or requests for further information concerning any aspect of the application should be submitted in writing, within fifteen days of publication, to the Environmental Services Section, Oil and Gas Division, Railroad Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 12967, Austin, Texas 78711 (Telephone 512/463-6792).

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

Various PositionsNew entry level wages.

We offer 401k, Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance. Apply at Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms, Inc.

County Road 348, Gonzales, TX. 830.540.4516. KPMF is an EOE.

Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms solicita personal de tiempo completo inmediatamente en

Diferentes ÁreasNuevo Sueldo Inicial

Ofrecemos el plan 401K, Vacaciones, Seguro de Salud, Dental, de Visión y de Vida. Interesados favor de aplicar en Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms,

Inc., Country Road 348, Gonzales, TX 830.540.4516. KPMF es un

Empleador con Igualdad de Oportunidades (EOE)

City of Gonzales provides Bulk Waste Disposal at Public Works,

1920 St. Joseph on every Wednesday between 8-4 p.m.

and every 2nd and 3rd Saturday between 9-11:30 a.m. No tires

or paint cans. Please bring your utility bill and sign in

at front office.

NOTICES

Sun., Oct. 2110:00 a.m.

401 CR 488 GonzalesAntiques, Primitives,

Collectables, Advertising,

Art, Household,

Toolswww.IntegrityAuctions.bizCash or Check, 10% B.P.

J. MolnoskeyAuctioneer #15091

512/557-3333

12th AnnualFall Auction

Maintenance Position OpenWaelder Housing Authority is accepting applications for a full-time maintenance position. Only qualified applicants need apply. MUST be well organized, have

knowledge of Electrical, Plumbing, Sewer Lines and Lift Station, Inventory,

carpentry skills, ability to maintain apartment units in clean, decent and safe condition. Operate lawn equipment, floor equipment, receive and document service request. Good people skills, a plus. Health Ins. and Retirement benefits. Salary based

on qualifications.

Must be able to pass criminal history. Apply at WHA Office located at:

220 North Avenue A, Waelder, TX. Call 830-203-0009 for additional information.

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2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, antique egg incubator, en-tertainment cen-ter, lamp stand w/drawers, booth din-ing table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.--------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Every-thing $85.00; worth about $300. Health problems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.--------------------------For Sale: Scentsy Warmer (Fire De-partment), never been opened or used. $35. 3 Leather scents, $5.00 each. Dell Keyboard and Mouse. $10.00 set. 830-305-2521.--------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.--------------------------Used Dell Com-puter. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jeanette Conques-tat 830-672-3419.--------------------------Upright piano for sale. Great for kids starting piano les-sons. All keys works. Needs to be tuned. $100. Call 830-832-5965.--------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Ro-tisserie $275. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Gasoline operated Hedger, $125; 5 HP Tiller, $200. Both in excellent condition. 361-208-3565. --------------------------Electric Hospital bed, $150. 582-1120. --------------------------Stain Glass Window, white tail deer. $275. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Headache Rack, Bumper Hitch, Aluminum Run-ning Boards, 5 office desks, Lift Chair, An-tique Bed, Leather Sofa Bed. 1109 FM 532 West, Shiner. 361-596-4403.--------------------------Air Framing Nailer. Contractor Series. $75.00. Call 361-741-2604.

For Sale: Post Oak Firewood - year old - size and quantity to fit your need. De-livery available. Call for prices, 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273.

Hay for sale. Lg. bales Kleingrass. $60 per bale. 830-857-3616, 830-491-7310.--------------------------Fertilized Johnson Grass Bermuda Hay. Large round bales. $50. 857-3324.

Want to Buy: Oliver 60 Tractor. V.A.C. Case Tractor. Run or Not. 361-293-1633.--------------------------For Sale: 231 Massey Ferguson Tractor. $9,000. 830-437-2358 or 830-857-0800. (08-23-12)--------------------------5 Bale Hay King Trailer & Bale Flip-per Loader. Load hay without getting out of truck. Video on baleflipper.com. $13,500. 512-565-5927.

Dining room table, solid wood, with six high back chairs and leaf to extend table, $200.00. Large china cabi-net, $200.00 . 830-672-2604.--------------------------7 pc. dinette, $95; coffee and end table, $75; Rol-laway Bed, $35; 37” TV, $15; 2 office re-ceptionist chairs, couch, table, etc. 361-596-4096. --------------------------For Sale: Queensize mattress set, $200; complete desk w/hutch, $30; Dining Room table with 4 high back chairs, solid wood, $300; Low back swivel re-cliner rocker, $150. Call 672-3728.--------------------------Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions, $175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.

Low Overhead = A Better Deal for YOU! Locally Owned, We Sell For Le$$. Fayette Country Homes, RBI 32896. Open Mon-Sat. 9-7, Sundays, 1-6. 800-369-6888.--------------------------This Month’s Spe-cial - 2013 Model 16x80 3+2, De-livered, Set, A/C, $36,900. Fayette Country Homes, RBI 32896. Open Mon-Sat., 9-7, Sundays, 1-6. 800-369-6888.--------------------------3bedroom/2 bath-room singlewide available. $27,900. Call if in need of housing. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.--------------------------Just Arrived-Repo 4 Bedroom Double-wide Palm Harbor Priced to Sell... Fayette Country Homes, RBI 32896. Open Mon-Sat., 9-7, Sundays, 1-6. 800-369-6888.--------------------------OILFIELD HOUS-ING - 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with washer and dryer, office spaces, must see to appreci-ate. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.--------------------------Between 4-5 Acres for Sale. Double-wide. Excellent con-dition. Hwy. front-age. 3BR, all electric, all appliances. Call 830-857-1026.

2004 Ford Taurus SES. 44,000 miles. $4,000. 214-695-5623.--------------------------

2008 Mustang GT with Shelby package and low miles (48K), 22” chrome wheels with performance tires, 5-speed manual transmission, leather interior, Shaker 500 sound system with 6 CD/MP3 changer, and auto windows. $25,000 OBO. Call or text 830-263-1212.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - $7,500. 2nd owner pickup with low miles, cold A/C, spray-in bed liner, grill guard, towing package and more! Call Lauren at (361) 648-5049 for more info.--------------------------Tires for Sale. 4 brand new tires - 255-35-ZR20 Nitto Extreme ZR with Rims - Mar-tin Bros 20” universal rims. $500. 830-857-1340.

Mobile Homes for rent: 3 bedroom/1bath, fully furnished, some homes have Wi-Fi. 900 Old Shiner Rd., Yoakum, 361-582-6593 or 361-798-0816.--------------------------3 mobile homes for rent in Leesville on Hwy. 80. Call 830-534-6525.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2bed, 1 bath trailer. New kitchen floor. For more information call Samantha at 830-857-5812.

Charming 1/1 home on 2 wooded acs, w/lrg. deck in country, 77 North, paved road. $775/mo., No pets/smok-ers. 512-415-6483.--------------------------3/2 Large home on nice lot. $1,250/mo. Stove, refrigerator, included. Families or Oil Field Workers welcome. 713-501-3416.--------------------------2 B R / 2 B A , 1,750SF(+/-) home for lease 7 mi. north of Gonzales on gravel road. Central A/C, full kitchen w/appliances. $1,300/mo. + deposit. Email [email protected] country home, 2BR/1BA, near Belmont. Hwy. 90A. No pets. $650/mo. $400/deposit. 830-424-3685.--------------------------2 and 3 Bedroom houses for rent. $650 & up + de-posit. Current ref-erences a must. Furnished or un-furnished. Call 830-672-5169.--------------------------For Rent: 2 B R / 2 B A / 2 C G home on 183 N. $1,250/mo., plus deposit. Call 830-857-4458 for infor-mation.--------------------------3BR/2BA Brick house for rent. 1 mile North of Yoa-kum. AC, washer, dryer. Large access driveway in & out for truck parking for large bobtails. Oak grove, great for BBQ’s and enter-taining. Available

Now. Call 361-293-6619, leave mes-sage.--------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 830-857-5727.--------------------------

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

ATTENTION OIL AND GAS PIPE LINERS - CREW

HOUSING AVAILABLE

Furnished with all bills paid -- Full Kitchen - Personal bedrooms and liv-ing room. WEEKLY RATES AVAILABLE. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------

MOTEL ROOMS AVAILABLE

NIGHTLY RATESSingle nightly rates starting at $35.00 per night. Which include A/C, Micro-wave, Refrigerator, TV/Cable and fur-nished with all bills paid. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------For Rent to oilfield or pipeline work-ers 2BR/1BA, CH/A, furnished kitchen in Yoakum. Call 361-293-6821.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.

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

For Rent: Office space or store front, 960 sq. ft., 1/2 block off square. Kitchen-ette, 1 ba, newly re-furbished. For more information, call 830-672-6265.--------------------------Office space for rent. 1,500 sq. ft. Recently remod-eled. 314 W. Cone. If interested call 830-672-4433.--------------------------For Rent: Indus-trial Property for rent. M1 Ind. Stor-age Yard, 70x130. Church Street. 830-423-2103.--------------------------For sale or lease. 10,000 sq. ft. Bldg. with multi-level loading docks - Prime location - with offices and separate garage. Call 830-857-5448.--------------------------For Lease: Small of-fice space w/work-shop located at 339 St. George. Recently Renovated, $400/month. For more information please (830) 672-5580.

3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road. 830-445-9131.--------------------------For Lease: commer-cial 1,500 + square foot warehouse in Luling. Hwy. frontage. $850 per month. 830-305-6248. (10/4/12)--------------------------12 acres/house/of-fice with Hwy. 80 frontage between B e l m o n t / N i x o n near Leesville. Will subdivide. For sale or lease. Would make a great oil field yard or resi-dence. Call Peyton, 512-948-5306; Da-vid, 713-252-1130.--------------------------Land for lease for oil field service equipment. Prime location. 4 miles N. on 183. 2 1/2 acres. Electric, water, parking, storage. Call 203-0585 or 672-6922. (TFN)

3BR, 2BA 1670+Sq. Ft. Upstairs apart-ment on Residen-tial Lot in nice area of Cuero, $1,185/mo. includes all Util. with cable and WiFi, fully furnished - incl. linens. Hotel-style kitchenette (no sink or stove), but full-size fridge, microwave & Keurig brewer. Hot plate ok, outdoor bbq w/propane & charcoal grill onsite. No pets. $750 deposit, 3 mo. lease. (361) 484-1922, leave mes-sage.--------------------------2BR, 1 bath nicely, fully furnished apartment. TV/Ca-ble/Internet ready, washer/dryer, no pets, no smoking, good neighbor-hood, covered parking for one car, deposit, rent plus all utilities. Call 830-672-6265.

Looking For WorkNot Hiring

Need a job as a caregiver, as live-in or to help with clerical, customer service, telemar-keter or teachers aide. Have 30+ years experience. Great references & background check, dependable, caring and love children. If iterested call 830-391-4837.--------------------------Electrical Wiring, Troubleshooting, Repairs, etc. Li-censed & Insured. Call 830-437-5747. --------------------------For Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.--------------------------Will do house cleaning Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.--------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5072. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.

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

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

203 Big Sky 38’ Fifth wheel Travel Trailer. 3 slideouts, very, very nice. 3 1/2 yrs. Bumper to bum-per warranty left. $17,900. Call 512-914-8347.--------------------------RV For Sale. Older unit. 5th wheel. $2,900. Contact Richard, 830-556-6905.--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.

Travel Trailer for rent or sale. Rent is $300.00 per week with all bills paid. willlocate at RV park of your choice and I pay the RV Rental. Or $1,000.00 per month with all bills paid. Will sell travel trailer for $55,000. Call 830-351-0943 for details.--------------------------Travel Trailers or

RV space for rent. Great family en-vironment. Great location in Smiley. $225/week for the Travel Trailer or $900/month, all bills paid included. If interested please call 830-203-9255 Lisa or Daniel @ 3 6 1 - 7 9 0 - 6 3 0 5 . Hope to hear from you.--------------------------Fully furnished Travel Trailers for rent. Will rent week-ly or monthly. Pets Allowed. $50.00 Deposit. $300 per week or $1,000 per month. Call Terry for details, 830-351-0943. Will relocate

to RV Park of your choice. All utilities paid. All trailers will be available first week in October for move in.--------------------------Travel Trailer for rent for RV space in Smiley. All utili-ties included, good healthy environ-ment. 830-203-9255 or 361-790-6305.--------------------------30’ Travel Trailer w/2 slides for rent in RV Ranch in Gonzales. Swimming pool, laundry facilities, shower house and all bills paid. $300 a week. 830-305-6926.

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

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Estates. Call Rich-ard, 830-556-6095.--------------------------Travel Trailers for rent. Located at J.B. Wells, Gonza-les, Texas. Cheaper than motel. Clean, fully furnished, 32 ft. trailers. $300/ a week. Please call for more info & rates. Pug @ 512-963-

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1996, 18.5’ Baymas-ter Center Console

Boat, 120 Horse Force Mercury Mo-tor with Jack Plate, Lourence GPS Map-p i n g - S o n a r - Fi s h Finder, Marine Ra-dio. $7,000.00. Con-tact 830-263-2920.

2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. Inde-pendent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.

Free kittens. Call 361-594-4307.--------------------------Free dog to good home. Large female dog, brown, tame, gentle. Chip paper work with her. Call 830-481-4707.--------------------------Free Kittens. Call 672-7094.--------------------------

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

For Sale: Beautiful Western Roping Saddle, blanket in-cluded. Excellent condition. $400.00 cash only. Call Ms. Miller, Waelder. 830-788-7123.--------------------------For Sale: 2 & 3 year old red & black Brangus Bulls. No Papers. Good selec-

tion. Call 830-437-5772.--------------------------Baby Guineas. $2.00 each. Call for info. 830-660-2526 or 830-540-4063.--------------------------Black Limousin and Angus Heifers and Bulls, Gentle In-crease your wean-ing weights. Estab-lished breeder since 1971. Delivery avail-able 979 561- 6148 --------------------------Nanny Boer Goats (adult). Ages: 1yr-4yr. Pkg. Deal (4). $320.00. 830-560-0238 to request photos..please send an email request to [email protected] or text me at above num-ber.--------------------------Muscovy ducks for sale. $10.00 each. 8 3 0 - 2 6 3 - 2 4 8 2 . (TFN)--------------------------For Sale: Registered Polled Hereford Bulls. 8-22 mths old. Heifers also, 8 months to 2 years. 830-540-4430.--------------------------For Sale: Baby & Young Adult Ducks. Mix Breeds. Cost $3.50-$20.00 each. Call 830-857-6844, ask for Tammy Ste-phens.--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------M I N I - G O A T S . (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-

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3bd/1ba home on 0.985 acres for sale in Nixon. 1,048 sq. ft. with additional 400 sq. ft. attached deck. Recently re-modeled, CA/H, all appliances stay! Asking $79,000. Call 830-203-9383.--------------------------3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road. 830-445-9131.--------------------------3BED, 1 Bath House For Sale! 0.985 acres on Hwy. 80, 8 miles north of Nixon, TX. 78140. 1048 sq. ft with 400 sq. ft. deck attached. Recently remodeled. Central Air and Heat. Appli-ances stay! $89,999. Ph. 830-203-9383. No owner financing available.--------------------------FOR SALE BY OWN-ER: 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, single story home in Gonza-les. Beautiful wet bar and gourmet kitchen with gran-ite counter tops. Large pantry utility room. 2 car garage with workshop, nice pool and spa, huge covered porches. All on or nearly 1/2 acre. $249,000. Call 210-844-4963.--------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood

Trail. New appli-ances, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commerc ia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.

Modern home on 165-acre ranch located between Gonzales and Shin-er on paved road FM 443. Highly im-proved with scat-tered oak trees, improved grasses, hay field, cross fenc-ing and stock tank. Recently updated 2,300 square foot home, 3BR, 2BA, two live-in areas. Property includes large hay barn, equipment build-ing shop and cattle pens. Shiner ISD. Possible owner fi-nancing available. 361-648-4090 or 361-935-1109.

Wanted to lease land for cattle graz-ing. Must have water and fences. Contact Mitchell

Hardcastle, 830-857-4544.--------------------------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.

Pampered Chef D e m o n s t r a t o r . Host a Show! It’s Easy! Choose from a Cooking Show, Catalog Show, Face-book Show or if you need an item, here is my site, https://w w w.pampered-chef.b iz/zavadi l . Dee Zavadil, 830-857-1495.--------------------------Lucky Shots by Dee.Need Family Por-traits, Family Re-unions, Birthdays, School Pictures, Weddings, Etc. 830-857-1495 --------------------------Electrical wiring, troubleshooting & repairs. 830-437-5747.--------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

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HOMESvWAELDER 5641 Hwy. 90, 2/2 on 2 accres........................$117,000vGONZALES 3/2, new construction, 707 St. Francis.............$229,000vGONZALES 1543 Seydler St. 3/2 on 2.732 Acres................$179,900vGONZALES 3/2.5, 1714 Gardien St..REDUCED AGAIN...$210,000vGONZALES 1006 Seydler St., 2 bed/2 bath, on 2 acres..........$120,500

FARM & RANCHvWAELDER 97.44 acres, 4BR ranch house, great house, oil/gas in-come, Ranching/Investment...... REDUCED TO SELL!............$650,000

ACREAGEvHARWOOD Manufactured home in excellent condi-tion, about 1900 sq. ft., 3bed/2bath, large kitchen, locat-ed on 5 acres with many oak trees. County water and GVEC elec. Ready for move in. Fronting Hwy. 304, 2 miles north of Hwy. 90 and about 16 miles from Gonzales. Owner/Agent. Price............................................................................................$110,000vWAELDER- 10 acres, has utilities.......................................$65,000vREDROCK Good homesite, hunting, and investment opportunity. Property includes producing oil well with $24K annual production rev-enue and Seller will negotiate the sale of mineral rights...........$895,000

LOTSvFLATONIA- 2 lots (one corner) 100x125............$11,000 for both

COMMERCIALvGONZALES Income producing poultry Breeder Farm with 50 ac in-cludes Tyson contract and 1600 sq. ft. home...owner/agent.....$1,100,000vGONZALES For Lease: 10 to 20 acres, about 5 miles south of Gonzales, just off Hwy. 183.

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LandRV Park - 10.5 AC - Great location just off IH-10, mature trees and nice tank. Site has been engineered for 54 unit RV Park. 10 AC - Chuckwagon Rd - Heavily wooded with a runoff tank and partial fencing. Electric available - well & septic required. $67,000.43 AC - 2198 Sandy Branch Rd., Harwood - Secluded with par-tial high fence, large tank, rustic cabin. Beautiful views. $279,500.19.77 AC - AVE A., Waelder - Partially cleared and wooded with HWY 90 frontage. Previous tree farm operation. City utilities.

Residential189 CR 280, Harwood - 3BD/2BA home with sunroom and cov-ered porch to enjoy the country views! Storage building. $84,000.3 AC - 473 Crockett Lane, Settlement at Patriot Ranch - Beau-tiful countryside views offered with this 2BD/2BA main home and detached guesthouse. $239,000.18 AC - 5224 Sandy Fork Rd, Harwood - 3BD/2BA home per-fect for the country getaway! 2 car detached garage, 30x40 run-in shed. Large tank, fully fenced. $244,500.14 AC - 1491 Highsmith Rd, Luling - Partially cleared and wood-ed. 3BD/2BA home with stained concrete and additional living/bonus room. Detached storage building. $245,000.960 S Pecan, Luling - 1 AC lot with modern 4BD/3BA/3 car ga-rage home, office, open floor plan great for entertaining! $340,000.220 Parkview, Luling - 3BD/2BA, updated kitchen features, gran-ite counters. Large den w/fireplace. Nice upgrades. $155,500.715 S. Pecan, Luling - 4BD/2BA split bedroom features hardwood floors. Large, fenced yard, water well, alley access. $137,700.

CommercialLEASE - 1887 S. Magnolia, Luling - approx. 4,450 Sq. ft., recep-tion area, 4 offices and break room. Great location just off IH-10. Small shop area with overhead door. $2,500./mo.1313 E. Pierce, Luling - Approx. 2,480 sq. ft., includes showroom & storage. Approx. 200’ of HWY 183 frontage. Could be converted to garage/service center. $112,000.

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Duplex: A+ condition, rented............. $92,000New on Mkt: 10 acs., perfect home, pri-vate.....................................................$249,900Brick office bldg, downtown. ............$114,00022 ACS., home , pool, guest home.......$425,000New Home - 3/2, great location..........$70,000Park Place: Exceptional Home .......$295,000.New: 1720 St. Vincent, ....................$265,000Lot - Live Oak......................................$8,000507 St. Michael, 3 bd., 2 ba................$78,000

Land14 Acres, Hwy. 90A East...................$115,00090 A East, 35 acs., + home................$369,000

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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The Music Study Club, part of the Texas and Na-tional Federation of Music Clubs, met Tuesday evening at the home of Irene and Gene Cerny with Vida Bur-nett co-hosting. Pres. Shir-ley Spoon opened the meet-ing by asking for the Fed. Hymn, led by Herb Karnau and accompanied at the piano by Vida Burnett. We continued by singing from TOGETHER WE SING, the Civil War era soldiers’ lament “Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Mr. Karnau related the song’s story which told it was sung by prisoners of war in those times.

Secretary JoAnn Liefeste, who has been in contact with classical guitarist Tony Morris of Austin, Texas, reported progress with the pilot program of the Ameri-can Classical series of 12 programs to be recorded in Gonzales historical homes. The pilot program is partial-ly funded and a demonstra-tion DVD has been made of which copies were offered to members and we viewed the demo.

Pres. Spoon noted we will be making plans for the December Club meeting in

November when we meet at the Ince home.

Pres. Spoon then called for the evening’s program and Carol DuBose reviewed parts of the the Rodgers and Hart Song Book which were tributes to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart who wrote the music and lyrics for hundreds of songs, still so popular and much enjoyed by Americans since the mid 1920s This study course titled THE LEGACY OF MUSICALS, will be in four parts to include show tune and musical drama produc-tions up through the present times. Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Hart were geniuses working together to write music and script which has intrigued audiences all these years.

We heard the first song they wrote, “Any Old Place With You” which was a fa-vorite from 1922, from a nearby computer. At least half of the tunes in the book are familiar and many are used as piano background music in restaurants and theaters even today. We heard lyrics read by Mrs. DuBose, then the piano mu-sic of “With a Song in My Heart” played by Barbara Blanchard, then words and music at the piano by Fran-ces Jackson, of the song “My

Funny Valentine”.Irene Cerny who uses just

such music at the piano in Shiner’s Gaslight Theater, played for us a medley of her choosing including “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” by The Blackbirds of Harlem. NY, “Leave It To Me” by Cole Porter, “My Heart Belongs To Daddy” and “Bewitched”, both writ-ten by Rodgers and Hart. At our request she later played three examples of waltzes, “Lover”, “The Most Beauti-ful Girl in the World” and “Falling in Love With Love”, all written by Rodgers and Hart. Pres. Spoon then called for all to stand and speak The NFMC Collect and the meeting adjourned.

Host and hostesses served refreshments of party sandwiches, pick-led vegetables, salted nuts, Blondys and chocolate-with-coconut cookies, cranberry punch and cof-fee from a table laid with an old gold lace edged cloth and centered with a fall ar-rangement of pumpkin, brilliant leaves and dried grasses fashioned from various fall print cloth by Mrs. Cerny who is a Master Quilter. The November 8th meeting will be hosted by Laurel and Joe Ince.

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The year was 1921. World War I had ended. Women had the vote. Enthusiasm and excitement energized the nation and the newly empowered women were eager to claim their rightful place a leaders in a modern American society. The roar-ing Twenties began on a note of general jubilation that the worse was over and the best was yet to come.

Elizabeth Leonard of Ma-con, Georgia watched as the men around her formed civic groups but none were “women friendly”. Not to be bested, Ms. Leonard brought together six of her friends

to discuss how women can contribute to their own com-munities. Six women quickly became forty and Pilot came into being. On October 18, 1921 the Pilot Club of Ma-con, Georgia held its first meeting. The name Pilot was inspired by the mighty river-boat pilots of that day who represented leadership and guidance. The Pilot emblem is the riverboat wheel with a motto of “true course ever”.

Due to Elizabeth Leonard vision 91 years ago, Pilot’s across the nation including 5 countries have contributed to the needs of their com-munities. Since those early founding days, Pilot clubs and members have partici-pated in countless endeav-

ors worldwide including the purchase of a Red Cross am-bulance during World War II, furnishing of a children’s ward on the famed medical hospital ship, the S.S. Hope, and Meals for Millions Pro-gram and establishing the Anchor Clubs. Today Pilot’s current focus is on brain health awareness issues. Pi-lots continue to support St. Jude’s Children Research, United Cerebral Palsy Asso-ciation, the Freedoms Foun-dation, Brain Injury Asso-ciation, Project Lifesaver, Make a Wish Foundation, Wounded Warriors Project and many others.

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A Rosary Rally for Peace was held at Confederate Square in Gonzales last Sunday, sponsored by the Catholic Communities of Gonzales and Waelder. The event was held in conjunction with over 9,000 other cities in association with the American Needs Fatima organization. The date marked the 95th anniversary of Our Lady’s Miracle of the Sun, during which 30,000 to 100,000 people who were gathered near Fátima, Portugal claimed to have witnessed extraordinary solar activity and saw panoramic visions of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph blessing the people. Attendees at last Sunday’s rally received small rosaries and recited prayers while holding onto a large rosary that was laid out in the square. (Photos by Cedric Iglehart)

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Grammy winning gos-pel music vocalist Cynthia Clawson will be featured in a free concert Saturday night, Oct. 20 at First Baptist Church, Gonzales.

Referred to many as the “singer’s singer” and called “The most awesome voice in gospel music” by Billboard Magazine, Cynthia Claw-son has received a Grammy and five Dove awards for her work as a songwriter, vocal artist and musician. Her ca-reer has spanned over four decades with 22 recordings to her credit.

She was three years old when her father first asked her to sing in the small church he pastored, and Cynthia has not stopped since – from local neighbor-hood churches to London’s Wembley Stadium. Though never considered a southern gospel singer by critics and fans, she has been honored to be a frequent guest on Bill

and Gloria Gaither’s Home-coming Series. Cynthia has reached millions throughout the world with her music.

A graduate of Howard Payne University with a ma-jor in vocal performance and a minor in piano, Cynthia was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from her alma ma-ter in 2007. She holds the same honorary degree from Houston Baptist University in 1995.

Her rendition of “Softly and Tenderly” set the evoca-tive tone for the soundtrack of the Academy Award winning movie The Trip to Bountiful.

Included in her schedule, Cynthia has performed as a guest artist for Conspir-are, an Austin, Texas cho-ral group recognized as the preeminent a Cappella cho-ral ensemble in the United States. She has performed with the Grammy-nominat-ed choir under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson, to full houses for ten years.

Cynthia and her husband, writer and playwright Ragan Courtney live in Houston.

Gonzales’ troop of Boy Scouts is ready for sea duty.

Boy Scout Troop 262 got the sponsorship of Gonza-les VFW Post 4817 Tues-day to launch the “Come and Take It Sailing Crew,” a program to enable young men and women ages 14-21 to learn small-craft sailing.

The project is an out-growth of a trip to summer camp last year by troop members Ian Maxwell and Dillon Catchings, who at-tended a summer sailing camp on the coast.

“Once we saw the beauty of sailing, we wanted to be able to share that,” said Catchings.

“The summer camp lim-ited people by age, and we figured we could get more people involved by opening the age range up,” Maxwell

said.The program will enable

the Scouts to teach the ba-sics of sailing using small 14- and 18-foot Hobie Craft sailboats, primarily on area lakes.

“We had some other troops donate some Hobie Craft to us for this,” said scoutmaster Dennis Nesser. “It’s all about teaching peo-ple how to sail and how to enjoy the sport.

“This will give some kids from Gonzales County the chance to get on the water.”

“The Boy Scouts are al-ways helping us out with flag ceremonies and things like that, and we’ve been looking for a way to get the Boy Scouts some support,” said VFW Post Command-er Dick Kuenzler. “So we’re very happy to sign on.”

The program will be open to anyone who wants to participate, Nesser said.

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The Gonzales High School Apache Theatre Arts Department will present the play “Leaving Iowa,” beginning on Sun-day, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m.

The production will also take on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. All showings will be held at the Gonzales Ju-nior High Auditorium.

The play is directed by Leslie Buesing and as-sistant directors are GHS Theatre Department Alumni, Kaylyn Perry and Megan Williamson.

“Leaving Iowa” is a heart-warming comedy about a journalist who re-turns home to Winterset, Iowa to find a final resting place for his father’s ashes and is a nostalgic ode to days gone by. With a gen-erous dollop of humor and a heart as big as the Mid-west, the play shows us that the journey really is as important as the destina-tion.

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GHS Apache Theatre Arts will present the play “Leaving Iowa” beginning on Sunday, Oct. 28 in the GJH Auditorium. Pictured (from left) are cast members Elizabeth Williams as Judy, Dillen Fellers as Bob, and Clayton Kelley as Older Don. (Courtesy photo)

Gonzales seniors Tyler Janota (third from left) and Ashley Castillo (fourth from left) were winners of $1,000 scholarships from Dr. Pepper, Johnson Oil Co. and Tiger Tote during the Community Pep Rally Oct. 10. Also in the picture are Jay Tinsely, Colette Blount, Pablo Marquez and Joe Weir. (Photos by Cedric Iglehart)

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Heights residents celebrate milestone birthday together104 times three equals a great party

Three centenarians who are long-time residents of the Heights Nursing Home in Gonzales were given a party in their honor last week.

Fannie Mae, Ada White and Elsie Bartels all turned 104 recently.

Elsie Bartels’s birthday was Sept. 17, Ada White’s was Oct. 3 and Fannie Mae’s birthday was Wednesday.

According to Jo Ann Leifeste, Fan-nie Mae Sellers Miller was born on Oct. 10, 1908 in Elm Grove, Fayette County, Texas to Ben Sellers and Fan-nie Halliburton Sellers, the sixth child

of nine. She was the granddaughter of Mary Jane “Mollie” Brown and Melvin C. Sellers of Waelder.

Fannie Mae grew up during the de-pression in a large family and as one of the oldest girls had many responsi-bilities helping her mother raising the other children.

On Jan. 1, 1932, Fannie Mae ,at 23, married Nicholas Fairfield “Nick” Miller, son of Ross Miller and Kate McCrorey. Fannie Mae and Nick had one son, Wiley L. Miller, born Oct. 26, 1936 and he succumbed to cancer this past June.

Fannie Mae was always a dedicated mother to her son Wiley and devoted

helpmate of her husband Nick, yet sur-prisingly independent as a woman way before it was in style. She was always very devoted to her family and col-lected news articles that appear in vari-ous papers about them. She collected many news clipping about the 36 Divi-sion which her brother Harvey Sellers was with in 1944 at Solano Landing where he died at the age of 22.

She has one grandson, Nathan Ross Miller, born July 31, 1964 a resident of Topeka, Kan. Fannie Mae has lived at The Heights two years. She is a mem-ber of Waelder United Methodist Church in Waelder.

Fannie Mae was involved with the Waelder Senior Center and Colony Methodist where she was baptized very young. and Waelder United Methodist Church where she helped to make Seasons of the Church Year Ban-ners which still hang in that church, and helped make quilts in Waelder un-der the leadership of the mayor, Zola Schultz.

Fannie Mae is an avid basketball fan as she follows the achievements of San Antonio Spurs basketball team.

She also helped run a ranch with Billy Sellers of Flatonia from 1980 to 2010.

Ada White was born in Gonzales County, the baby of eight children.

She has one daughter, one grandson and his wife, along with two great-

grandsonsAda White was a seamstress for

many years, fixing clothes for people. She worked at the nursery at the Bap-tist Church. She did bookwork for the auction. She was in her 70’s when she went to work at the Dairy Queen and learned how to make the curl on top of the ice cream cone.

When Ada White was young she picked cotton and corn. Her father died when she was one.

Family and friends said Ada White loved working outside around her resi-dence.

She loved yard work and flower beds, and had a wonderful yard that she took care of until she was about 92. She was 95 when she broke her ankle and stopped doing it.

Elsie Bartels was born in Gonzales County.

She has one daughter, one grand-daughter, one great-granddaughter, one great-great-granddaughter, and one great-great-grandson on the way.

Elsie was a homemaker on the farm. Her daughter, Billie Spohler used to own a dry cleaning/ laundry shop here in town and she used to help Billie with that. When she turned 100 Larry Fortune of Abiding Word Lutheran Church sang at the nursing home, “One day at a time” She said that is how she has always lived…one day at a time.

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Exchanging gifts has become synonymous with the holiday season. Family members exchange gifts with one another, men and women trade gifts and greeting cards with their coworkers and students participate in grab bag gift exchanges in the classroom.

Giving gifts is such a big part of the holiday season that shoppers may run out of gift ideas before they have crossed everyone off their lists. For example, it might not be easy to find the perfect gift for the senior citizen on your holiday shopping list. Seniors might not be up-to-date on the latest gadgets or might have downgraded from a home to a more manageable living arrangement, so knickknacks or decorative items for the home may not be too practical, either. The following are a few tips for gifting seniors this holiday season.

* Warm things up. As men and women age, many develop medical conditions that require medication. Medications like blood thinners can make seniors feel the cold more than others, so a gift that can keep seniors warm through the winter can make a great gift. A thick wool sweater or a fleece blanket is both practical and thoughtful.

* Open a senior’s eyes to e-readers. Many seniors find that maintaining a household is simply too much work once all the kids have grown up and moved out. As a result, many move from private homes into apartment complexes geared to the senior set or even into assisted living facilities that make it easier to deal with the daily demands of life. When seniors make such a move, they sacrifice space for convenience. Personal libraries may no longer be possible or practical, but an e-reader such as Amazon’s Kindle or the Nook(R) from Barnes and Noble allows seniors to store their favorite

books in one small and convenient place.* Give the lap of luxury. Many seniors are on

fixed incomes, which greatly limit how much disposable income they have to treat themselves to something nice. But seniors still love a trip to the spa or a round of golf just as much as their younger counterparts. Savvy shoppers know that deals can be had on such luxuries, and it just takes a little patience and research. Sign up for a service like GrouponTM to gain access to exclusive discount offers to a variety of luxury offerings, including spa treatments, cruise vacations and rounds of golf. Signing up is free and easy, and you might just find a deal that makes a senior’s holiday season.

* Go healthy. Many men and women embrace a healthier lifestyle as they age. Seniors who might have been too busy raising a family to focus on their own health are typically encouraged by their physicians to exercise and embrace healthier eating habits. Gift-givers can help seniors on their quests to become healthier by buying them a membership to a local fitness club, many of which provide classes designed specifically for seniors. Fitness clubs typically offer discounted memberships to seniors, who might even be eligible for rebates from their health insurance providers if they meet established attendance requirements. Seniors who suffer from arthritis might benefit from a membership at a nearby yoga center.

* Give the gift of communication. Sometimes the best gift is the simplest gift. Seniors love to speak with their children and grandchildren, so why not give the gift of communication? If you haven’t already, alter your cellular phone plan to a family plan that gives seniors unlimited minutes when calling family members so they can speak to their grandkids as often as possible.

Holiday season gift ideas for the seniors in your life

Three residents of The Heights celebrated their 104th birthdays together last week: (from left) Elsie Bartels, Ada White and Fannie Mae. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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Apaches looking to rebound vs Giddings#7 Giddings at Gonzales

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are hoping a little home cooking will serve them well as they return to Apache Stadium for a big game Friday night against Giddings.

Gonzales (4-2, 0-1) lost their district opener at La Grange last week, 35-34, and head coach Ricky Lock said his team needs to re-bound from that heart-breaking loss.

“We had our chances because we were up by 13 in the third quarter before they came storming back,”

he said. “We just couldn’t close the deal. I tell the kids all the time that we can’t live in the past. We don’t have time to pout or hang our heads because we got to get ready for Giddings.”

The Buffaloes (6-0, 1-0) are ranked seventh in Class 3A and will bring a prolific running game to town with them, led by running back Joseph Glenn. The Univer-sity of Houston commit has rushed for 514 yards and seven touchdowns this season.

With Glenn receiving most of the attention from opposing defenses, his backfield mate Deon Hick-

ey is enjoying a breakout season. Hickey has run for 435 yards and six touch-downs, and has also caught 13 passes for 349 yards and three more scores.

“They have two running backs who are very good,” said Lock. “We’re going to have to pay attention to where they are lined up and how they plan to distribute the football between them.”

Quarterback Adam

Dock keeps the Giddings offense balanced with his efficient throwing. Dock has completed over 55 per-cent of his passes for 958 yards and 10 touchdowns. Among his top targets are Josh Mack, who has three receiving touchdowns, and Quake Richmond, who is averaging over 16 yards per catch.

“They are just so fast on offense,” said Lock. “Their

athletes have tremendous speed and a lot of those kids have been starting for two or three years. They’re very hard to get ready for because of all the things they can do offensively.”

Giddings operates out of the same split defensive formation as Gonzales does, with the main differ-ence being the way they use their safeties.

The Buffalo defense has allowed an average of 292 yards per game but are also seeing opponents score an average of 26.5 points ev-ery week. They gave up 400 total yards last week to Cu-ero, but still won the game

comfortably by a score of 41-28.

“We’re going to run at them and try to make this game as physical as pos-sible,” Lock said. “We’re go-ing to split our tight ends out wide and try to make it 8 on 8 in the box. Their defensive is aggressive, but they have given up a lot of points this season.”

“Losing the way we did left us with an empty feel-ing. We have to eliminate the big plays from their offense and make them ex-ecute. We didn’t win time of possession against La Grange, so we really want to do that this week.”

Area Game of the WeekCuero, Yoakum renew their historic rivalry

They have been squaring off for more than a century.

Rivals Yoakum and Cu-ero play in their 102nd game at 7:30 p.m. tomor-row at Gobbler Stadium. The game has been tabbed as Dairy Queen’s Game of the Week.

The Yoakum Bulldogs (4-2, 1-0) opened district play with a close 27-24 win over the Smithville Tigers on Friday while Cuero (2-4, 0-1) fell to the state-ranked Gidding Buffaloes, 41-28.

“Giddings made some big plays,” Cuero head coach Travis Reeve said. “I think our kids played hard against them and I am proud of them.”

Cuero owns the advan-tage in the series versus Yoakum with a 66-29-6 record, but had a couple of winning streaks come to end in last year’s game during which the Bulldogs prevailed 25-21. The Bull-dogs edged the Gobblers with a late rushing touch-down by Willie Hights.

The game ended an 11-game streak against Yoa-kum for the Gobblers and also halted Cuero’s streak of 42 straight wins in dis-trict.

“This game is big for other reasons than being a rivalry match,” Reeve said. “It is a district game. Both teams are vying for a play-off spot so it is important for us to play well.”

The Bulldogs have run a balanced attack out of the spread formation this year.

“We need to play assign-ment football and get a lot of guys to the football,” he said.

One thing that Cuero improved on in the game against Giddings is that they were able to run the football well, improving their offensive balance.

“We need to continue that in the game against Yoakum,” Reeve said. “Of course, we also need to

eliminate mistakes and ex-ecute well.”

Running back D’Anthony Hopkins re-turned to action last week against Giddings for his first game. Hopkins, who had missed the first several weeks due to an injury, made his presence felt by rushing for 179 yards and two touchdowns.

“D’Anthony is an added weapon for our offense,” Reeve said. “We are hap-py to have him back and healthy for the team.”

With the tradition of the Cuero program, the play-ers are always motivated for games. They will be up for this game especially.

“Cuero and Yoakum has always been a big rivalry,” Reeve said. “The play-ers know each other. The people in the communities know each other. Yoakum players and our players will be excited. It should be a fun one on Friday.”

Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay said the ‘Dogs got a quality win against a rugged Smithville team to open district play last week.

“I tell the players anyone can beat anyone on any given night,” he said. “And that is pretty much what happened to us against Smithville.”

The injury bug bit the Yoakum offensive line against Smithville.

“We had backups play-ing in three out of five positions on the offen-sive line,” Kornegay said. “Those kids stepped up.”

On defense, the ‘Dogs will need to play sound

and not miss assignments.With only one giveaway

against the Tigers, Yoakum won the turnover battle and did a good job of pro-tecting the football.

Kornegay said the Yoa-kum offense must not turn the ball over to the Gob-blers, saying his team will view the game against Cu-ero as another important district contest.

“Cuero is in a must-win situation and we need keep rolling on in district,” he said.

In area action this week, the Hallettsville Sacred Heart Indians have re-bounded after a slow start to the season and have won three games in a row. They will host John Paul II on Saturday for Home-coming 2012.

Nixon-Smiley is still getting reps for its inex-perienced varsity players but will host Bloomington in its Homecoming game. Hallettsville will look to build off its district-open-ing win against Palacios as they travel a little to the east to take on Rice Con-solidated, and the strug-gling Flatonia Bulldogs host Weimar in an district game.

Lockhart will look to bounce back after a tough loss to Buda Hays while St. Paul, Luling and Shiner all have Friday night off.

John Paul II at Sacred Heart

The Indians return home after defeating Bryan St. Joseph 42-40 last week to improve to 3-3. The win was not pretty.

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Yoakum at Cuero

Friday, 7:30 p.m.Gobbler Stadium

Gonzales’ Payne relieved of volleyball coaching duties

Kim Payne has been re-moved as head coach for the Lady Apaches volley-ball team.

Gonzales athletic direc-tor Ricky Lock confirmed the change on Monday.

He said Payne was re-moved before the match at La Grange on Friday.

“Girls athletic coordina-tor Culley Doyle and my-self met and came to the conclusion that this change was needed at this time,” Lock said.

Assistant coach Sarah

Moreno is now the interim head coach for the remain-der of the season.

Lock said Monday that a decision on whether More-no will be promoted to head coach for next season or a new coach will be hired has not been made.

The Lady Apaches were 1-5 in district play heading into Friday’s match at La Grange, which they subse-quently loss. Gonzales had made the playoffs only once during Payne’s four-year tenure, which resulted in a first round exit at the hands of Devine.

Calls made to Payne for comment were not re-turned as of press time.


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“We quit playing after we got a big lead,” Indians head coach Pat Henke said. “We were fortunate to get the win.”

John Paul II fell to Sa-cred Heart’s rival, St. Paul 44-20, in Shiner.

“John Paul II is a young team but they are well coached,” Henke said. “They play hard and do all the simple things right and they do not rest.”

Henke said the defense will need to stop John Paul’s quick quarterback and the running back. On offense, they will need to make sure to score more touchdowns and control the line of scrimmage.

Weimar at FlatoniaThe Bulldogs dropped

their district opener, 46-13, to Holland last week.

“We did not play well,” head coach Chris Freytag said. “We had penalties at key moments and you can-not win when you turn the ball over five times.”

Weimar comes into the contest with a 3-3 mark and won its district opener, 27-9, against Thorndale.

“They are big and fast and playing the best foot-ball of the year right now,” he said.

Weimar runs the ball but will mix in the pass.

“We need to tackle well, stick to our assignments and return to fundamental football,” Freytag said.

On offense, Flatonia will need to get back to their power running game. That might be challenging with a number of players sitting out the game or playing little due to health.

Freytag said Zane Pon-der was still sidelined with

injury and Dalton Griffin did not play. Mitchell Mica played half the game and Marcus Mica played spar-ingly.

Freytag also said he would have some of his injured backs available for Friday.

Boerne Champion at Lockhart

The Lions are licking their wounds after a 56-6 pounding at the hands of Buda Hays last week.

“We felt prepared for this game but we did not execute well,” Lockhart head coach Paul Kilby said. “Give credit to Hays. They got after it. Our kids played hard; we made some mistakes but the effort was there.”

The Boerne Champion Chargers come to town also sporting a 1-2 record in district.

“Boerne Champion is talented and they have a massive offensive line. They throw it very well,” Kilby said.

Champion is pass-heavy team running multiple spread formations like the one-back, no-back, shot-gun, and 2+2/3+2, Kilby said.

Quarterback Kyle Poeske has completed 151-of-273 passes for 1,964 yards, 14 touchdowns and 10 in-terceptions. He is also the leading rusher with 319 yards on 94 carries and four touchdowns.

Top receivers are Spen-cer Jarzombek (44-613, three touchdowns), Mi-chael Maloney (33-480, five touchdowns) and Hunter McMurry (17-289, touch-down).

“Poeske is accurate and moves very well, giving his receivers time to get open,”

Kilby said. “We need to contain him and pressure him long enough for our secondary to be able to cover the receivers.”

Champion runs a ‘50’ de-fense and is very feisty, he said.

“We will have to protect the ball, win the battle in the trenches,” Kilby said. “Our running backs will need to get the hole quick-er.”

The winner of the game is still in the mix for a play-off spot while the loser will most certainly have an up-hill battle.

Bloomington at Nixon-Smiley

The winless Mustangs continue to make progress but still are looking for the game where they put ev-erything together.

Nixon lost to rivals Stockdale, 34-7, last week.

“I felt we started off well on offense,” Nixon head coach Carlton McKinney said. “We made some steps

and it is just a matter of putting it all together.”

“I think our kids got tired and would take a play off. We also had some turn-overs and big plays on spe-cial teams.”

The Bobcats (0-6, 0-3) are in the same boat as Nixon.

“Bloomington will see this as an opportunity to get their first win,” McKin-ney said. “This game will not be easy. I believe we will get their best effort. We need to play good football and be focused.”

The Bobcats run a mul-tiple offense, using just about every formation in the book.

“They go under center, spread, pistol, slot-T, I-for-mation,” he said. “Bloom-ington is trying to find what works best for them.”

Jacob Hardee has hit 11-of-31 passes for 111 yards while the top rusher is Ru-ben Aguirre, who has 44 yards on 23 carries.

“We must limit the big plays, and take care of de-fensive responsibilities and assignments,” McKinney said.

On defense, Blooming-ton runs both the ‘27’ and the ‘50’.

McKinney said Nixon will likely see a lot of the ‘50’ because of the Wing-T offense they run.

“We must limit the mis-takes, take care of offensive responsibilities and control the tempo with our of-fense,” he said.

Hallettsville at RiceThe Brahmas take their

unbeaten record into Rice, which will be their tough-est game to date.

Hallettsville head coach Tommy Psencik said it is important for the Brahmas to improve from week to

week.“Rice has a lot of speed,”

he said. “They have a big offensive line and are very physical.”

The keys for the Hal-lettsville defense will be to stop quarterback Jordan Johnson and running back James Garner.

“We have to be physical and make sure we are lined up right because Rice runs a lot of different forma-tions,” Psencik said. “Rice runs more than they pass so we will have to stop the run and prevent the big play.”

It will be necessary for the Brahmas to control and protect the football on the offensive side of the ball.

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GONZALES – An injury to Cuero volleyball senior Cay Cay Toot forced head coach Rebecca Riojas-Fryer to have to concoct a new lineup Tuesday against rival Gonzales.

“She is a senior captain, our vocal leader and brings a spark to our matches,” she said.

Cuero overcame the loss of Toot’s services and de-feated Gonzales 3-1 (25-18, 25-19, 17-25, 25-21) at the GHS Special Events Center to split the regular-season series. At 22-14 and 3-5 in district, the Lady Gobblers are battling Giddings for fourth place.

“We have to win out and have someone beat some-one else in order for us to make the playoffs,” Riojas said. “We will still fight to the end with playoffs on our mind.”

While their chances are practically nil for a playoff spot, Gonzales (1-7) will look to end the season on a high note as they host Giddings tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. and travel to Smith-ville on Tuesday.

“Our goal in the last two matches is to have fun and do our best,” Gonzales head coach Sarah Moreno said. “Winning would be nice but we want to make sure we have fun.”

She praised the efforts of the Lady Apaches in the match.

“We played with heart and we played together as a team,” Moreno said.

Subvarsity players Cassi-dy LaFleur and Molly Bar-nick suited up for varsity against Cuero. Moreno said both players did well on the court.

In the first set, the Lady Gobblers broke open a close game with six points, getting kills from Missy Odom, Abby Sheppard and Autumn Means, and an ace from Ashley Grahamann, for a 10-4 lead.

Gonzales fought back to 17-13 as Carly Bozka and Danyelle Glass made some plays and LaFleur had some good serves.

Kills from Odom and Emmarie Johnson put Cu-ero ahead 20-14 before Gonzales continued fight-ing and closed down to 21-17 on service from Allison Raley. Cuero then scored four of the next five points for victory in the first game.

Cuero opened the sec-ond set with a 6-1 advan-tage and held onto the margin. The Lady Apaches eventually closed down to 21-18 on kills from Glass, Lindsey Akers and Barnick. Cuero then used a 4-1 run to close out the set.

The Lady Apaches

grabbed a 7-2 lead in the third game as Allison Raley and Kendall Fougerat had some kills. Cuero was able to come within 13-10, but a play from LaFleur and miscues by the Gobblers helped Gonzales go ahead 17-11. The Lady Gobblers were able to come within 18-14 before Gonzales went on a 7-3 run to end the game.

In the fourth set, Cuero rallied from several early deficits and eventually went ahead 16-11. The Lady Apaches got within 20-17 on contributions from Shayla Simper, Akers and Fougerat, but Cuero hung on for the win.

For the Lady Apaches, Bozka had two aces and 40 digs; Raley had five block assists, four solo blocks, two aces and 11 kills; Glass had 10 kills; Fougerat had six solo blocks; Kiley Braune had 19 assists; Mor-gan Simper had 13 digs; and LaFleur had 18 assists.

Cuero defeats Gonzales in very intense contestBy MARK [email protected]

Cuero’s Abby Sheppard bumps the ball during the Lady Gobblers’ win on Tuesday. (Photo by Mark Lube)

From coaches’ reports

The Nixon-Smiley Lady Mustangs gathered a 3-1 (25-17, 22-25, 25-17, 25-22) win over Stockdale on Friday.

Kelby Henderson had 11 kills; Abigail Scarbrough had four blocks; Hailey Boatright had four blocks; Megan Guerra had 15 as-sists and 10 digs; and Dev-on Tristan finished with five aces.

The Lady Mustangs are 3-7 in district.

• The Flatonia Lady Bull-dogs played Waelder on Friday, winning 25-8, 25-3, 25-3.

Chandler Fike had 13 aces and four kills; Alanis Ribera had seven assists; Meredith Pavlica had one block; Katie Steinhauser had one block; Kylie Mica, Crystal Rodriguez and Abi-gail Schacherl all had one dig each.

The victory boosts Fla-tonia to 10-24 and 5-4 in district.

• The Yoakum Lady Bull-dogs defeated Smithville 3-2 (25-22, 21-25, 25-27, 25-22, 15-11) on Friday.

Callie Witte had 51 as-sists and one ace; Lesley Seidenberger had 26 kills, 19 digs and one ace; Jaccari Hights had 11 points and 10 blocks; Faith Hagan fin-ished with 11 points.

The JV team won 25-22, 25-20 and the freshmen were defeated 26-24, 22-25, 20-25.

The Lady ‘Dogs fell to La Grange 12-25, 19-25, 15-25 on Tuesday.

Witte had 18 assists and one ace; Seidenberger had seve kills; Hights had one ace; Latice Brown had sev-en kills, six digs and five points; Faith Hagan had six digs; and Danielle Pohl had two blocks.

Yoakum is 21-14 and 5-3 in district.

The Yoakum freshmen won 25-21, 21-25 and 26-24 while the JV fell 15-25, 13-25.

• The Sacred Heart vol-leyball team swept Austin Veritas Academy 25-23, 25-20, 25-17, Thursday in Austin.

Jenna Brown had 16 digs and two aces; Rachel Saul-nier had 20 assists; Adri-enne Klimitchek had 10 kills; Jami Shimek had two blocks; and Erin Miksch had two blocks.

“We started out slow in this match, but didn’t get frustrated,” Sacred Heart coach Wanda Orsak said. “Halfway through the sec-ond game we took off and really started playing bet-ter as a team. We just have to keep getting better as a team.”

The Indianettes are 10-17

and 7-4 in district.The junior varsity team

won 25-11 and 25-16.• The Shiner Lady Co-

manches lost a non-district match to East Bernard 3-1 (13-25, 25-22, 22-25, 20-25).

Kristin Schacherl had five aces, 30 assists and 12 points; Amanise Coleman had six blocks; Julianna Rankin had 12 kills; and Lauren Oden had 23 digs.

• The Gonzales Lady Apaches fell to La Grange on Friday, 3-0 (12-25, 12-25, 15-25).

Lindsey Akers and Mor-gan Simper both had one ace; Carly Bozka had 11 digs; Allison Raley had eight kills and one block assist; Kiley Braune had 17 assists; Kendall Fougerat had three solo blocks; and Danyelle Glass had one block assist.

The Lady Apaches JV fell 16-25 and 21-25; the fresh-men were defeated 6-25, 7-25.

• The Luling Eagles host-ed #17 Schulenburg on Oct. 9, falling 12-25, 13-25, 13-25.

On Saturday, Luling hosted the Hallettsville Lady Brahmas, who were ranked No. 12 in Class 2A. Luling won the first set 29-27 but faltered in three straight sets, 12-25, 14-25 and 14-25.

Volleyball RoundupLady Mustangs defeat rival Stockdale in four

Gonzales Youth Soccer SchedulePee Wee

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Junior Oct. 20 — Eels vs Red Wasps, 9:45

a.m., Lions Park Junior 1; Eagles vs Ti-

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SeniorOct. 20 — Destroyers vs Lions, 9:45

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LA GRANGE -- It start-ed with a bang and ended with a shocked gasp.

“It was a tough way to lose a ball game,” Gonzales Apaches head coach Ricky Lock said after La Grange’s Dillon Davis came up with two turnovers in the final 1:20 of the game to enable the Leopards to pull out a 35-34 victory in their dis-trict opener Friday.

The Apaches and Leop-ards swapped the lead back and forth in the contest, with La Grange taking a 35-34 lead with 5:11 remain-ing in the contest. Gonzales marched right back down the field, however, spurred by a 27-yard pass comple-tion from Matt Hillman to D.J. Gonzales that reached the 2-yard line.

On the next play, how-ever, Zack Lopez couldn’t connect on a handoff on a power play and the Leop-ards’ Davis wound up with the ball after a scramble at the 4-yard line with 1:18 left to play.

“You get to the 2-yard line and lose the ball, you’re going to have trouble win-ning like that,” Lock said.

Despite the turnover, the Gonzales defense and two timeouts got the Apach-es the ball back with 45 seconds to play. But the

Apaches, who moved the ball well all night, couldn’t get any closer than the Leopards’ 30-yard line, and Davis picked off a despera-tion pass with 21 seconds remaining to seal the win. It was his third takeaway of the game.

The dramatic finish helped La Grange capital-ize on a sparkling perfor-mance by Leopard quar-terback Logan Vinklarek, who hit 10 of 11 passes for 225 yards and four touch-downs.

“He’s a veteran quarter-back and we knew coming in he was good,” Lock said. “But we had our chances.”

It was a tough night for the yardstick crew to keep pace, as the teams com-bined for more than 700 yards of offense and seven scoring plays of 19 yards or more.

The first of those plays came on the first snap from scrimmage, when Gonza-les’ Cecil Johnson scooted through a gaping hole on the right side of the line and raced 65 yards for a score just 10 seconds into the game. Johnson, returning after a one-game suspen-sion, carried 27 times for 238 yards for the Apaches.

Gonzales looked as if it might put this one away quickly just moments after Johnson’s first score, when

Bralon Hutchison muffed the kickoff and Darron Hernandez pounced on it at the Leopards’ 30-yard line. The Apaches reached the 13 before Davis picked off a fourth-down pass and spotted the Leopards the ball at the 6-yard line.

Rodney Filmore ripped off a 22-yard gain, then added a 5-yarder before Vinlarek ran the play ac-tion to perfection and found Hutchison wide open behind the Apache secondary, hitting him in stride for a 67-yard touch-down to tie the game.

Following a Gonza-les punt, the Leopards marched 91 yards in seven plays to take the lead as Vinklarek nailed Cassel Tezeno at the back of the end zone with a 34-yard bomb.

The Apaches roared back in the second quarter, how-ever.

After a longball pass was picked off by Ryan Scott deep in LaGrange terri-tory, the Leopards moved to the 27 before Filmore coughed up the ball on a move up the middle. The ball bounced right into the hands of the Apaches’ Lo-pez, who dashed 30 yards into the end zone to make it a 14-13 game. A personal-foul penalty after the play led to a botched conversion

attempt that would come back to haunt Gonzales.

After an exchange of punts, Gonzales demon-strated its long-ball capa-bilities when Hillman and Darrance James teamed

up - first on a leaping grab good for 32 yards, then on a heave into the end zone that James plucked out of the air for a 19-yard touch-down.

La Grange struck back

moments later following a 35-yard kick return by Hutchinson when Vin-klarek nailed Trey Supak with a pass at the back of the end zone for a 25-yard

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Friday Night LightsLeopards deny Apaches in dramatic finish

Cameron Smith (25) signals for a touchdown, but Darrance James (10) was ruled just short of the end zone after a gain of 29 yards during Gonzales’ district-open-ing loss at La Grange last Friday. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

GONZALES, Page C4

Smith guides #10 Hallettsville past Palacios in district opener


BRAHMAS, Page C4

By DAVE [email protected]

#6 Shiner blasts Kenedy to get first district win

ROUNDUP, Page C4

Tedrick Smith hurdles Palacios’ Kevin Brown during this run in Hallettsville victory over the Sharks. Smith ran for two touchdowns and 127 yards on just seven carries. (Photo by Mark Lube)

HALLETTSVILLE — Whoever stated that foot-ball is a team sport just had their point proven on Fri-day night by the Halletts-ville football team.

The Brahmas opened District 14-2A Division I play at Hallettsville Brah-mas Memorial Stadium with a 49-15 victory over the Palacios Sharks.

Hallettsville is 6-0 for the first time in several decades, although head coach Tommy Psencik was not sure exactly how many years since the Brahmas have started this well.

However, he is complete-ly sure about why.

“One thing I can say about this team is that they are a true team,” Psencik said. “Everybody partici-pated tonight and every-body played a big role in the game.”

The Brahmas also got some help off the bench in the win.

“All of our backups got involved,” Psencik said. “Our kickoff game was good tonight and I thought our kicking game was well overall. A lot of good things happened tonight and the man upstairs really blessed us. I am just proud of the kids.”

The Brahmas were not sure of where Palacios was as a team coming into the matchup.

“Looking at Palacios on film, we knew they were go-ing to be a good ball club,” Psencik said. “They had us worried because they came in with confidence and mo-mentum. We have to im-prove on the next game and keep building depth.”

Hallettsville (6-0, 1-0) built a 21-0 lead after the first quarter, which would have mathematically been enough to win since Pa-lacios only managed two touchdowns and scored a safety.

Of course, the Brahmas and their spread offense

were not going to settle for just three trips across the goal line. They had 530 yards of total offense, in-cluding Carson Schindler going 16-of-21 for 353 yards and four touchdowns and Tedrick Smith rushing for 125 yards on seven car-ries, two touchdowns and catching three passes for 36 yards and a touchdown.

“I thought the offense ex-ecuted well and early to set the tone,” Psencik said.

Palacios (5-1, 0-1) was a better team than indicated by Hallettsville’s margin of victory.

“The Sharks did a good job of challenging us out of the wishbone power set,” said Psencik. “We had to make some adjustments at halftime for their power run game. Our kids did a good job of adjusting to that power offense that we were not expecting.”

“Palacios did a good job of moving the ball against us. Coach (Mike) Treybig has got a lot of experience

as a coach and it showed tonight.”

Hallettsville opened the game with big plays.

Tedrick Smith ripped off a 25-yard run from his 25 to midfield on the game’s first offensive play. On the next play, Schindler found receiver Jimarion Grounds for a medium-range pass that Grounds turned into a touchdown.

Palacios got an 8-yard pass from Anthony Gar-cia to Zach Garcia to open their offensive drive but a false-start penalty and a couple of incomplete pass-es later, the Sharks had to punt.

At their 37, the Brah-mas used a quick, two-play drive to score. Schindler had a humble gain of four to Tim Sheppard and Smith took a handoff and pierced the Shark defense for a 59-yard run to make the score 14-0.

Palacios had more luck on the next drive and was

Football Roundup

KENEDY – The sixth-ranked Shiner Comanches took care of business last Friday with a 33-7 road win at Kenedy in the district opener for both teams.

Caleb Curtis opened the scoring with a 17-yard run in the first quarter and Evel Jones added a 67-yard jaunt to give Shiner (6-1, 1-0) a 14-0 lead after the first quarter.

Curtis’ second score of the game came on a 26-yard scamper in the sec-ond quarter. Second half touchdowns by Trevion Flowers and Jones capped the scoring for the Coman-ches, who enter a bye week before hosting Three Rivers on Oct. 26.

Game SummaryShiner 33, Kenedy 7S 14 6 13 0–33K 0 0 0 7–7Scoring summarySHI -- Caleb Curtis 17-yard run

(Kris Patek kick), 7:06, 1st.SHI -- Evel Jones 67-yard run

(Kris Patek kick), 4:22, 1st.SHI -- Caleb Curtis 26-yard run

(Kris Patek kick failed), 1:06, 2nd.SHI -- Trevion Flowers 3-yard

run (Kris Patek kick failed), 6:55, 3rd.

SHI -- Evel Jones 9-yard pass from Trevion Flowers (Kris Patek kick), 1:53, 3rd.

KDY -- Rolando Zepeda 12-yard run (Weston Hallmark kick), 2:18, 4th.

Team stats Shiner Kenedy

First downs 1 7 9

Rushes-yards 47-315 17-37

Passes 1-8-0 14-27-2

Passing yards 9 116

Punts-yards 2-82 6-182

Fumbles-lost 4 - 2 1-1

Penalties-yards 3-15 3-25

Individual statsRUSHING — Shiner: Evel

Jones 5-85, Jacob Stafford 8-25, Trevion Flowers 17-108, Caleb Curtis 5-52, Brady Cejka 6-27, Chad Neubauer 3-9, Tyler Patek 1-3, Daniel Hernandez 2-6. Kene-

dy: Rolando Zepeda 9-17, Cedric Mejia 8-20.

PASSING — Shiner: Flowers 1-8-9-0. Kenedy: Zepeda 14-26-116-1, Dillon Cruz 0-1-0-1.

RECEIVING — Shiner: Jones 1-9. Kenedy: Weston Hallmark 6-60, Kris Bryan 1-12, Cruz 5-38, Mejia 2-6.

RECORDS – Shiner 6-1, Kene-dy 4-2.

Yoakum 27, Smithville 24

SMITHVILLE – Reagan Jacobs nailed a 38-yard field goal with 1:53 left to play and the defense held to give Yoakum a 27-24 vic-tory over Smithville.

Yoakum overcame an inconsistent performance on offense and scored the last 10 points of the game to pull off their first district win.

The Tigers’ Denton Coo-per put his team on the board first with a 36-yard run, but the Bulldogs’ Blake McCracken scored on a fumble recovery to tie the game late in the first quar-ter.

After both teams ex-changed field goals, Cooper scored again with a three-yard plunge. Tre’Vonte Hights ripped off a 31-yard scoring run before DaAar-on Jackson put Smithville ahead with a 21-yard romp.

T.J. Hights hauled in a catch from Chase Hermes and the play went for a 75-yard score before Jacobs executed the game-winning kick.

Game SummaryYoakum 27, Smithville 24Y 7 3 7 10–27S 7 3 14 0–24Scoring summarySMT -- Denton Cooper 36-yard

run (Colin Quitta kick), 9:03, 1st.YOA -- Blake McCracken Fum-

ble recovery (Reagan Jacobs kick), 3:07, 1st.

SMT -- Colin Quitta 28-yard field goal, 7:42, 2nd.

touchdown to take a 21-19 lead.

The Apaches responded with a nice 58-yard, two-minute drill. Hillman hit Gonzales with one outlet pass for a 12-yard gain, then connected with James on a middle screen good for 28 yards to move the ball to the 1-yard line before tak-ing it over himself with one second remaining in the half. Lopez bulled in with a two-point conversion play to stake the Apaches to a

27-21 lead at halftime.The second half began

pretty much the same way the first one did for the Apaches. After the Leop-ards were stopped on downs at the Gonzales 21 to open the half, Johnson danced for one 12-yard gain before again breaking free on a long touchdown run, this time of 68 yards, to put the Apaches up by a 34-21 score.

But La Grange wasn’t ready to write this one off. The Leopards responded with a 62-yard, nine-play

march which ended when Vinklarek nailed Filmore in the flat and the running back punched it into the end zone from seven yards away to trim the Gonzales lead to 34-28.

Following an Apache punt, the Leopards took the lead with a 75-yard, 11-play drive ending in Hutchinson’s 4-yard run.

“We didn’t have the ball a lot in the second half,” Lock noted. “They held on to it pretty good.”

The Apaches now find themselves in an uphill

battle to grab one of the district’s playoff spots.

“It’s like I said, every game in this district is go-ing to be a war,” Lock said. “We got Giddings next week, they’re state-ranked, we’re going to have to be ready.”

Game SummaryLa Grange 35, Gonzales 34Gonzales 7 20 7 0—34La Grange 14 7 7 7—35Scoring summaryGON — Cecil Johnson 65 run

(Matt Hillman kick)LG— Bralon Hutchinson 68

pass from Logan Vinklarek (Mar-co Cerda kick)

LG—Cassel Tezeno 34 pass from Vinklarek (Cerda kick)

GON—Zack Lopez 30 fumble recovery (pass failed)

GON—Darrance James 19 pass from Matt Hillman (pass failed)

LG— Trey Supak 25-yard pass from Vinklarek (Cerda kick)

GON —Hillman 1 run (Lopez run)

GON—Johnson 67-yard run (Hillman kick)

LG—Rodney Filmore 7 pass from Vinklarek (Cerda kick)

LG—Hutchinson 4 run (Cerda kick)

Team Stats Gon LGFirst downs 15 18Rushes-Yds 30-245 40-152Passes 7-15-3 11-13-0Passing yards 139 225Punts-Avg 3-29.7 2-35.5

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-3Penalties-yards 6-80 5-26Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Gonzales, Cecil

Johnson 27-238, Zack Lopez 2-6, Matt Hillman 1-1. La Grange, Rodney Filmore 23-116, Logan Vinklarek 10-12, Bralon Hutchin-son 4-12, Dillon Davis 3-12.

PASSING: Gonzales, Matt Hill-man 7-15-3-139. La Grange, Lo-gan Vinklarek 10-11-0-204, Cas-sel Tezeno 1-1-0-24, Dillon Davis 0-1-0.

RECEIVING: Gonzales, Dar-rance James 4-88, D.J. Gonza-les 2-39, Coltin Russell 1-12. La Grange, Cassel Tezeno 4-87, Trey Supak 3-48, Rodney Filmore 2-16, Bralon Hutchinson 1-68, Dillon Davis 1-6.


Friday Night Lights

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GONZALES: Late game charge delivers close win to La Grange

able to move the ball to the Brahmas’ 33 yard line. An-thony Garcia was sacked by Smith for an 8-yard loss back to the 41. He had an incomplete pass and then was sacked by Justin Reeves on fourth down to give the ball back to Hallettsville.

The Brahmas drove 53 yards in six plays with Schindler hitting Dalton Herrington on a third-down and 13 for 48 yards to the Shark 8 where Tim Sheppard scored several plays later.

Aided by a 15-yard face-mask call against Halletts-ville, Palacios got inside the 40 but the drive ended as Anthony Garcia was picked off by Herrington near the goal line.

The Brahmas stalled as Schindler threw the ball away while in the process of being taken down at his 4. The officials ruled an in-eligible receiver downfield on Hallettsville, but Pala-cios declined the call and accepted the sack.

Schindler found Her-rington for a big gain to near the Palacios end zone but the officials called hold-ing on the Brahmas in their own end zone and Palacios was awarded a safety. How-ever, Palacios muffed the kickoff, setting up the Brah-mas past midfield at the 45. Trenton McGee hauled in a 21-yard pass to give the Brahmas first down at the 30 of Palacios.

The Brahmas moved in-side the 10 but Schindler was sacked for a loss of 11 at the 18 and later threw incomplete on fourth down to give the ball back to the Sharks.

Palacios then started the drive with 23- and 43-yard

runs by Chris Garcia to get the ball down to the Hal-lettsville 16. Several plays later, Chris Garcia scored from the 1 to bring the Sharks to within 21-9.

The Brahmas got a good kickoff return as Shep-pard went from his 16 to the Palacios 19. The drive was fruitless as Smith was brought down two plays later at the 6 but fumbled the ball to the 2and into the hands of the Sharks.

Palacios got to its 36 be-fore Reagan McAda came up with the second inter-ception for the Brahma defense at the Hallettsville 31. The 69-yard drive was capped seven plays later as Smith had a 21-yard recep-tion to give the Brahmas a 28-9 halftime advantage.

Palacios opened the third period with a six-play drive that netted just nine yards total and had a 19-yard punt to the Brahma 47. A holding call later helped push the Brahmas deeper into their own territory but a 36-yard reception by Grounds put Hallettsville at the 24 and Smith took a handoff, bounced outside and raced to the end zone behind a McGee block for a 35-9 Brahmas advantage.

The Sharks had their next drive end on downs at Hallettsville’s 21. The Brah-mas paid homage to their quick-scoring drives from the first half with a three-play drive that culminated with a McGee touchdown reception of 66 yards to put Hallettsville ahead 42-9.

The Sharks managed an-other score on a 58-yard drive and got some help on a pass interference call on the Brahmas for a first down at the 50. Later, An-thony Garcia connected on a 39-yard home-run ball to

Zach Garcia to bring the Sharks to within 42-15 after a blocked extra point.

The Brahmas added one last touchdown early in the fourth as they had a drive start at their 24, and Kaden Hardt had a six-yard run to the 30 and added 15 more yards on a face-mask call. Herrington later hauled in a 19-yard pass to the 35 and two plays later, Grounds had his second touchdown of the game on a 34-yard pass from Schindler.

Game Summary#10 Hallettsville 49, Palacios 15Pal 0 9 0 6-15Hall 21 7 14 7-49Scoring SummaryH-Jimario Grounds 50 pass

from Carson Schindler (Sam Bar-rerra kick)

H-Tedrick Smith 59 run (Bar-rerra kick)

H-Tim Sheppard 8 run (Bar-rerra kick)

P-Safety. Hallettsville called for holding in end zone

P-Chris Garcia 1 run (Zach Garcia kick)

H-Smith 21 pass from Schindler (Barrerra kick)

H-Smith 24 run (Barrerra kick)H-Trenton McGee 66 pass from

Schindler (Barrerra kick)P-Zach Garcia 39 pass from

Anthony Garcia (kick blocked)H-Grounds 30 pass from

Schindler (Barrerra kick) Team Statistics P HFirst downs 21 20Rushes-yds 48-143 25-177Passing 9-22-3 16-21-0Passing yds 144 353Punts-yds 2-49 1-34Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-1Penalties-yds 4-35 10-94Individual StatisticsRUSHING — Palacios: Chris

Garcia 26-152, David Aparicio 1-3, Seth Garcia 1-0, Anthony Garcia 20-(-12). Hallettsville: Ted-rick Smith 7-127, Kaden Hardt 5-25, Tim Sheppard 3-21, Brent Motal 3-12, Dalton Herrington 1-3, Carson Schindler 6-(-12).

PASSING — Palacios: Anthony Garcia 9-22-3-144. Hallettsville: Schindler 16-21-0-353.

RECEIVING — Palacios: Dylan Brune 4-58, Kevin Brown 3-39, Zach Garcia 2-47. Halletts-ville: Trenton McGee 5-99, Jima-rio Grounds 4-134, Herrington 3-80, Smith 3-36, Sheppard 1-4.


BRAHMAS: Offense explosion in first, third quarters proves too overwhelming for Palacios

Hallettsville’s Tim Sheppard (21) accelerates around the corner after taking a handoff from quarterback Carson Schindler (2). (Photo by Mark Lube)

YOA -- Reagan Jacobs 31-yard field goal, 2:03, 2nd.

SMT -- Denton Cooper 3-yard run (Colin Quitta kick), 8:41, 3rd.

YOA -- Tre’vonte Hights 31-yard run (Reagan Jacobs kick), 6:37, 3rd.

SMT -- DaAaron Jackson 21-yard run (Colin Quitta kick), 2:14, 3rd.

YOA -- T.J. Hights 75-yard pass from Chase Hermes (Reagan Ja-cobs kick), 10:19, 4th.

YOA -- Reagan Jacobs 38-yard field goal, 1:53, 4th.

Team statistics Y SFirst downs 12 12Rushes-yards 34-136 39-219 Passes 12-21-1 7-10-1Passing yards 185 168Punts-yards 3-122 1-27Fumbles-lost 0-0 3-3 Penalties-yards 9-70 4-25Individual statisticsRUSHING—Yoakum: Braden

Drozd 2-5, Blake McCracken 2-10, Myron Hights 2-1, Reagan Jacobs 3-4, Chase Hermes 6-(-11), Tre’vonte Hights 16-118, Ter-rance Hall 3-9. Smithville: Jeremy Kadleck 8-20, Grey Morris 12-75, Kegan Bledsoe 1-1, DaAaron Jack-son 10-62, Denton Cooper 8-61.

PASSING—Yoakum: Hermes 8-14-148-1, Tre’vonte Hights 4-7-37. Smithville: Colin Quitta 0-1-0, Cooper 7-9-168-1.

RECEIVING—Yoakum: Mc-Cracken 1-11, T.J. Hights 3-98, Keith Ratley 4-50, Myron Hights 3-20, Jacobs 1-6. Smithville: Kadleck 1-8, Bryce Helmcamp 1-47, Jimmie Gonzales 1-9, Khalil McCathern 1-7, Reed Zapalac 1-52, Darrin Ott 1-40, Jacob Ro-driguez 1-5.

RECORDS – Yoakum 4-2 (1-0), Smithville 3-3 (0-1).

St. Paul 44, Schertz John Paul II 20

SHINER – Adam Hol-lenbach rushed for three touchdowns and Martin Kennedy ran in two scores with a game-high 167 yards as the Cardinals ran rough-shod over the Guardians, 44-20.

St. Paul dominated the first half scoring as Hol-lenbach hit paydirt twice in the first quarter on runs of 4 and 12 yards. Kennedy’s 70-yard scamper and a 12-yard pass from Mitchell McElroy to Dylan Barton left the Cards up at the half, 24-0.

A 55-yard run from Ken-nedy and a 39-yard rumble by Hollenbach staked St. Paul to a 38-0 advantage in the third quarter.

Game SummarySt. Paul 44, John Paul II 20SP 12 12 14 6–44JP 0 0 7 13–20Scoring summary

SP -- Adam Hollenbach 4 run (kick failed), 10:12, 1st

SP -- Hollenbach 12 run (kick failed), 5:52, 1st

SP -- Martin Kennedy 70 run (pass failed), 9:38, 2nd

SP -- Dylan Barton 12 pass from Mitchell McElroy (kick failed), 0:28, 2nd

SP -- Kennedy 55 run (Hollen-bach kick), 10:43, 3rd

SP -- Hollenbach 39 run (Hol-lenbach kick), 7:02, 3rd

JP -- Mike McCabe 1 run (Matt Carpenter kick), 1:11, 3rd

JP -- Cameron Ahrens 36 run (kick failed), 9:26, 4th

JP -- Mark Cooper 35 run (Car-penter kick), 4:44, 4th

SP -- Barton 15 pass from McElroy (kick failed), 0:12, 4th

Team statistics JP SPFirst downs 10 15Rushes-yards 52-291 27-313 Passes 1-2-1 10-16-0Passing yards 6 132Punts-yds. 4-126 2-66Fumbles-lost 1-0 3-0 Penalties-yards 2-10 3-25Individual statisticsRUSHING—John Paul: Mike

McCabe 18-101, Cameron Ahrens 18-100, Jacob Bradley 15-55, Mark Cooper 1-35. St. Paul: Martin Ken-nedy 8-167, Adam Hollenbach 9-115, Ryan Geiger 4-23, Mitchell McElroy 2-4, Jed Janecek 3-3.

PASSING—John Paul: McCabe 1-2-6-1. St. Paul: McElroy 10-15-132, Marco Ynclan 0-1-0.

RECEIVING—John Paul: Bradley 1-6. St. Paul: Dylan Bar-ton 4-83, Jared Markham 2-15, Ryan Kapavik 1-9, Kurt Chunda 1-2, Geiger 2-23.

Luling 18, Jour-danton 13

JOURDANTON – Trayden Staton threw two touchdown passes to Jorge Munoz to lift Luling to an 18-13 win over Jourdanton.

Staton to Munoz opened the game’s scoring with a six-yard connection in the first quarter. Taylen Moore got loose for a 20-yard scor-ing run before Staton and Munoz hooked up again on an 11-yard toss.

The Indians tried to get back into the game with two second half scores – both one-yard touchdown dives by Isaac Oropeza – but it wasn’t enough for them to avoid their first district loss.

Game SummaryLuling 18, Jourdanton 13L 6 12 0 0–18J 0 0 7 6–13Scoring summaryLUL -- Jorge Munoz 6 pass

from Trayden Staton (kick failed), 0:46, 1st

LUL -- Taylen Moore 20 run (pass failed), 3:01, 2nd

LUL -- Munoz 11 pass from Staton (pass failed), 0:28, 2nd

J -- Isaac Oropeza 1 run (En-rique Lugo kick), 6:13, 3rd

J -- Oropeza 1 run (kick failed),

2:54, 4thTeam statistics Lul JouFirst downs 15 15Rushes-yards 31-140 46-173 Passes 13-21-1 5-18-1Passing yards 127 54Punts-avg. 3-28 4-30Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-1 Penalties-yards 8-65 5-40Individual statisticsRUSHING—Luling: Quinton

Grant 11-57, Brendon Cubit 8-43, Abraham Palomo 4-33, Taylen Moore 2-16, Trayden Staton 6-(-9). Jourdanton: Isaac Oropeza 12-34, Brandon Pacheco 18-91, Chase Harrison 8-18, Ian Chachere 5-10, Tyler Davis 2-19, Joe Estrada 1-1.

PASSING—Luling: Staton 13-21-127-1. Jourdanton: Harrison 5-18-54-1.

RECEIVING—Luling: Jorge Munoz 5-52, Josh Alvarez 3-49, Moore 2-26, Grant 1-2, Cubit 1-(-1), Palomo 1-(-1). Jourdanton: Nicholas Lopez 3-22. Pacheco 1-18.

RECORDS – Luling 4-3 (3-0), Jourdanton 2-4 (0-2).

#7 Giddings 41, Cuero 28

GIDDINGS – Joseph Glenn ran for three touch-downs and Deon Hickey caught two scoring passes to power the seventh-ranked Giddings Buffaloes to a 41-28 win over Cuero.

Michael Rangel opened the game’s scoring with a 42-yard field goal and then Glenn raced 64 yards to stake Giddings to a 10-0 lead.

Cuero answered with a 26-yard pass from Blake Reeve to Ross Reimen-schneider before Dickey closed out the first frame by taking a pass from Adam Dock 53 yards for a score. Dickey scored again early in the second quarter on a 68-yard pass from Dock, but Cuero responded with a drive capped by a seven-yard run by D’Anthony Hopkins, who ran for 179 yards in his first full game of the season.

Game SummaryGiddings 41, Cuero 28C 7 7 6 8–28G 17 10 7 7–41Scoring summaryGID -- Michael Rangel 42-yard

field goal, 10:38, 1st.GID -- Joseph Glenn 64-yard

run (Michael Rangel kick), 6:44, 1st.

CUE -- Ross Reimenschneider 26-yard pass from Blake Reeve (Pearson Reese kick), 3:54, 1st.

GID -- Deon Hickey 53-yard pass from Adam Dock (Michael Rangel kick), 3:35, 1st.

GID -- Deon Hickey 68-yard pass from Adam Dock (Michael Rangel kick), 3:58, 2nd.

ROUNDUP: Cardinals stay on a roll with another district win

Adam Hollenbach gets good blocking from Ryan Geiger (far left), Jed Janacek (16) and Justin Siegel (66) during this run in St. Paul’s win last Friday night. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)


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CUE -- D’Anthony Hopkins 7-yard run (Pearson Reese kick), 0:36, 2nd.

GID -- Michael Rangel 42-yard field goal, 0:00, 2nd.

GID -- Joseph Glenn 2-yard run (Michael Rangel kick), 3:40, 3rd.

CUE -- D’Anthony Hopkins 1-yard run (kick failed), 0:20, 3rd.

GID -- Joseph Glenn 1-yard run (Michael Rangel kick), 1:46, 4th.

CUE -- D’Andre Gallagher 2-yard pass from Blake Reeve (Ross Reimenschneider from Blake Reeve), 0:04, 4th

Team statistics Cue GidFirst downs 26 9Rushes-yards 47-288 29-222 Passes 12-22-0 6-11-0Passing yards 136 181Punts-avg. 2-48 3-28Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-yards 5-40 5-41Individual statisticsRUSHING—Cuero: Blake

Reeve 8-(-14), Justin Kremling 1-5, Ray Horton 14-105, Ross Rei-menschneider 1-13, D’Anthony Hopkins 23-179. Giddings: Deon Hickey 3-11, Joseph Glenn 13-125, Adam Dock 12-80, Macain Porske 1-6.

PASSING—Cuero: Reeve 12-22-136. Giddings: Dock 6-11-181.

RECEIVING—Cuero: Justin Kremling 1-18, Reimenschneider 5-63, Hopkins 1-10, Colby Ebrom 1-4, Grant Diebel 1-10, D’Andre Gallagher 2-7, Justin Rossett 1-24. Giddings: Hickey 2-121, Glenn 1-44, Greg Haywood 2-13, Quake Richmond 1-3.

RECORDS – Cuero 2-4 (0-1), Giddings 6-0 (1-0).

Buda Hays 56, Lockhart 6

BUDA – Caleb Kimbro rushed for 146 yards and five touchdowns to lead Hays in a rout of a Lock-hart, 56-6.

Kimbro scored on runs of 3, 10, 2, 7, and 6 to Hays, who ran for a team total of 400 yards in the game.

Lockhart’s Curtis Hawkins got the only score of the contest for the Lions when he went 63 yards for the game’s first score. From there it was all about the Rebels, who also got 119 yards and two touchdown runs from Marcos Solis.

Game SummaryBuda Hays 56, Lockhart 6L 6 0 0 0–6H 7 14 28 7–56Scoring summaryLCK -- Curtis Hawkins 63-yard

run (kick failed), 1st.BHY -- Caleb Kimbro 3-yard

run (Payton Kisor kick), 1st.BHY -- Caleb Kimbro 10-yard

run (Payton Kisor kick), 2nd.BHY -- Caleb Kimbro 2-yard

run (Payton Kisor kick), 2nd.BHY -- Caleb Kimbro 7-yard

run (Payton Kisor kick), 3rd.BHY -- Caleb Kimbro 6-yard

run (Payton Kisor kick), 3rd.

BHY -- Marcos Solis 26-yard run (Payton Kisor kick), 3rd.

BHY -- Marcos Solis 48-yard run (Payton Kisor kick), 3rd.

BHY -- Shawn Leerssen 5-yard run (Payton Kisor kick), 4th.

Team Statistics Lck BHyFirst downs 12 20Rushes-yards 33-271 48-400 Passes 3-8-1 7-12-0Passing yards 13 100Punts-avg. 1-32 0-0Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 1-10 1-10Individual statisticsRUSHING—Lockhart: Marcos

Rodriguez 12-67, Charles Ereaux 3-(-9), Levi Mair 5-38, C.J. McKin-ney 12-36, Curtis Hawkins 5-123. Buda Hays: Caleb Kimbro 19-146, Beau Reed 5-43, Shawn Leerssen 1-5, Taven Mayberry 8-70, Marcos Solis 11-119.

PASSING—Lockhart: Ereaux 3-8-13-1. Buda Hays: Kimbro 7-12-100.

RECEIVING—Lockhart: Mair 3-13. Buda Hays: Granger Stud-dard 1-13, Leerssen 3-56, May-berry 3-31.

RECORDS – Lockhart 4-2 (1-2), Buda Hays 5-1 (2-1).

Holland 40, Fla-tonia 17

HOLLAND – The Hol-land Hornets put up 33 second half points to blow open a close game with Fla-tonia.

Reese Nicholson scored on runs of 45, 10 and 38, and the Hornets took ad-vantage of six Bulldog turn-overs to get the victory.

Flatonia did most of their damage in the first half, coming on a 23-yard field goal from Will Bruns and a 38-yard fumble return by Gus Venegas.

Venegas scored again in the fourth quarter on a 91-yard catch and run pass from Bruns.

Game SummaryHolland 40, Flatonia 17F 3 7 0 7–17H 7 0 13 20–40Scoring summaryFLAT -- Will Bruns 23 field

goal, 5:22, 1stHOL -- Reese Nicholson 45 run

(Cody Langford kick), 4:10, 1stFLAT -- Gus Venegas 38 fum-

ble return (Bruns kick), 3:57, 2ndHOL -- Dominic Rendon 1 pass

from Jacob Cantu (kick failed), 7:52, 3rd

HOL -- Nicholson 10 run (Bri-an Gibson kick), 7:37, 3rd

FLAT -- Venegas 91 pass from Bruns (Bruns kick), 11:39, 4th

HOL -- Marquis Blahl 12 pass from Cantu (kick failed), 6:42, 4th

HOL -- Nicholson 38 run (Gib-son kick), 5:29, 4th

HOL -- Cantu 1 run (Gibson kick), 2:03, 4th

Team Statistics Flat HolFirst downs 14 16Rushes-yards 36-145 41-213 Passes 6-13-3 9-14-0Passing yards 139 126Punts-avg. 1-40 4-42

Fumbles-lost 3-3 2-1 Penalties-yards 4-27 5-30Individual statisticsRUSHING—Flatonia: Mitch-

ell Mica 8-23, Will Bruns 11-32, Aaron Manzano 3-13, Marcus Mica 7-32, Gus Venegas 4-33, Ed-die Manzano 3-12

PASSING—Flatonia: Will Bruns 6-12-139-2.

RECEIVING—Flatonia: Man-zano 1-(-2), Venegas 3-127, Colby Craig 1-10, Casen Novak 1-7.

RECORDS – Flatonia 3-4 (0-1), Holland 6-1 (1-0).

Stockdale 34, Nixon-Smiley 7

NIXON – Matt Valadez ran for two touchdowns and 139 yards to lead Stock-dale to a 34-7 win over win-less Nixon-Smiley.

Valadez got the ball roll-ing with a 64-yard touch-down run on the Brahmas’ opening drive. The Mus-tangs came back with a 28-yard scoring scamper by Tristan Newman.

Stockdale would go on to score the rest of the game’s points - highlighted by a Valadez 8-yard run and two touchdown passes from Ja-cob Cardenas to Josh Vela.

Game SummaryStockdale 34, Nixon-Smiley 7Sto 14 13 7 0–34NS 7 0 0 0–7Scoring summarySTO -- Matt Valadez 56-yard

run (Travis Covington kick), 10:45, 1st.

NXS -- Tristan Newman 28-yard run (Oscar Torres kick), 8:13, 1st.

STO -- Matt Valadez 8-yard run (Travis Covington kick), 0:27, 1st.

STO -- Josh Vela 90-yard pass from Jacob Cardenas (Travis Cov-ington kick), 9:35, 2nd.

STO -- Josh Vela 7-yard pass from Jacob Cardenas (kick failed), 1:21, 2nd.

STO -- Dustin Mosier 45-yard run (Travis Covington kick), 3:51, 3rd.

Team Statistics Stock NSFirst downs 15 9Rushes-yards 35-306 42-193 Passes 5-11-1 1-10-0Passing yards 174 7Punts-avg. 0-0 5-22.2Fumbles-lost 1-0 4-2 Penalties-yards 4-30 4-20Individual statisticsRUSHING—Stockdale: Dustin

Mosier 6-67, Matt Valadez 12-139, Darion McMahan 9-30, Deryk Mayberry 4-44, Jacob Cardenas 2-6, Christian Segura 2-20. Nixon-Smiley: Miguel Hernandez 5-30, Jared Van Auken 9-32, Nick Pena 3-20, Tristan Newman 18-96, Tom Palacio 3-6, K. Martinez 2-1.

PASSING—Stockdale: Carde-nas 5-11-174-1. Nixon-Smiley: Pena 1-10-7.

RECEIVING—Stockdale: Josh Vela 3-122, Miguel Marquez 1-28, Mosier 1-24. Nixon-Smiley: Gar-rett Earlywine 1-7.

RECORDS – Stockdale 4-2 (2-1), Nixon-Smiley 0-6 (0-3).


Friday Night Lights


ROUNDUP: Lockhart Lions take another one on the chin

Carson SchindlerQB, HallettsvilleSchindler was extremely effi-

cient in leading #10 Hallettsville to a 49-15 win over Palacios. The senior completed 16 of his 21 passes for 353 yards and three touchdowns.

Honorable Mentions• Cecil Johnson, Gonzales. Ran for 238

yards and two touchdowns in the Apach-es’ 35-34 loss at La Grange.

• Tedrick Smith, Hallettsville. Rushed seven times for 127 yards and two touch-downs in the Brahmas’ win over Pala-cios. He also caught three passes for 36 yards and another score.

• Adam Hollenbach, St. Paul. Ran for 115 yards and three touchdowns on just nine carries in the Cardinals’ 44-20 over Schertz John Paul II.

• D’Anthony Hopkins. Rushed for 179 yards and two touchdowns in the Gob-blers’ 41-28 loss to Giddings.

• Gus Venegas, Flatonia. Caught three passes for 127 yards and a touchdown in the Bulldogs’ 40-17 loss to Holland. He also returned a fumble 38 yards for an-other score.

• Jimario Grounds, Hallettsville. Had four catches for 134 yards and two touchdowns in the Brahmas’ win over Palacios.

• Martin Kennedy, St. Paul. Rushed eight times for 167 yards and two touch-downs in the Cardinals’ win over Schertz John Paul II.

• Dylan Barton, St. Paul. Caught four passes for 83 and two touchdowns in the Cardinals’ win over Schertz John Paul II.

• Jorge Munoz, Luling. Had five catch-es for 52 yards and two touchdowns in

the Eagles’ 18-13 win over Jourdanton.• Reagan Jacobs, Yoakum. Converted

field goal kicks of 31 and 38 yards, in-cluding the game-winner, in the Bull-dogs’ 27-24 win over Smithville. He also went 3-for-3 on extra points.

• Evel Jones, Shiner. Gained 85 yards on five carries with two touchdowns in the Comanches’ 33-7 win over Kenedy.

• Tre’vonte Hights, Yoakum. Ran for 118 yards and a touchdown in the Bull-dogs’ win over Smithville.

• Caleb Curtis, Shiner. Rushed for 52 yards and two touchdowns on five car-ries in the Comanches’ win over Kenedy.

• Darrance James, Gonzales. Caught four passes for 88 yards and a touch-down in the Apaches’ loss at La Grange.

• Curtis Hawkins, Lockhart. Ran for 123 yards and a score on five carries in the Lions’ 56-6 loss to Buda Hays.

• T.J. Hights, Yoakum. Caught three passes for 98 yards and a touchdown in the Bulldogs’ win over Smithville.

• Tristan Newman, Nixon-Smiley. Ran for 96 yards and the Mustangs’ only touchdown in a 34-7 loss to Stockdale.

Cannon FootballPlayer of the Week

Gonzales assistant foot-ball coach Cassius Starks has been involved in foot-ball, both outdoors and in-door.

Starks played football for the Denton Ryan Raiders from 1999 until fall semes-ter of 2002, and also played basketball and ran track. During his time at then Class 4A/ current class 5A Denton Ryan, Starks was part of the state champion-ship football team of 2001 and 2002, and played in the state title games from 2000-2002 and continued his career at nearby North Texas from 2003-07, play-ing wide receiver and free safety.

Upon graduation, Starks played pro football but competed in the indoor football arena. He starred for the Billings Outlaws and then for the St. Louis/River City Rage from 2007 until 2010. Both teams are members of the Indoor Football League (IFL).

“Indoor and arena league football is faster than play-ing outdoor football,” Starks said. “Outside is 53 and half yards by 100 yards. Arena/indoor is 50 by 123. It is whole lot faster because the receivers get a running start at you.”

Starks said he played wide receiver and free safe-ty while in indoor football.

One of things Starks learned in indoor football

is how to effectively cover receivers in fast-paced game, lessons he can teach to his high school defensive secondary to help them in their coverage schemes.

“I learned how to get on top of receivers quicker,” he said. “They get that run-ning start on you so you really have to know where you are supposed to be.”

“It is more about getting to landmark or spot on the

field in arena and indoor football instead of covering man-to-man. Defensive backs will get burned be-cause of the running start; you just have to get to your landmark.”

After concluding his career in indoor football, Starks took his first coach-ing job with the Gonzales Apaches, starting this cur-rent school year with sec-ondary on the varsity, ju-nior varsity and freshman teams.

“I really like how every-one is involved with the football program,” he said. “This is a small community so everybody is invested in the football team, how they are playing, etc.”

Starks said he came upon the Gonzales job af-ter hearing about openings from a friend of his, Tyrone Carter, who was a coach at Hutto and knew Gonzales assistant coach Chris King. Starks applied and was in-terviewed, and got the job.

Starks also coaches JV and freshman secondary, and will coach JV basket-

ball. His degree from UNT is a Bachelor’s in Applied Arts and Sciences. In GISD, Starks teaches in the DAEP program.

New Gonzales defensive ends coach Mark Olbert has not really seen a con-centrated long-term inter-est in a public school ath-letics program.

Olbert, a 2003 graduate of Garland Naaman Forest, said fans, especially par-ents, tend to lose interest in the high school sports when their daughter or son graduates.

“In the Dallas area, you have parents who come and go with the program. You do not really have anyone who stays around,” Olbert said. “Here in Gon-zales, you have people who are invested in the pro-gram even if they do not have a kid in the program or the school district. They are still coming out to the games.”

“That is something I am not used to because in Gar-land, once your child grad-uates from high school,

then you stop attending the games and stop taking an interest in the teams.”

Olbert said that is good for the sports programs because a lot of people care about the teams, the student-athletes and the coaches.

This is Olbert’s first coaching and teaching po-sition in a school system, and he is enjoying the chal-lenge.

“I enjoying coaching for Coach (Ricky) Lock. It is valuable experience,” he said.”

He played football and threw the shot put in track and field while in high school.

Olbert said he trans-ferred around several col-leges, but graduated from Texas Tech University in 2011 after studying there for about three years. Ol-bert has a Bachelor of Arts in History, and teaches World History at GHS.

He coaches defensive ends on varsity, JV and freshman football teams.

New football assistants getting comfortable at GHSBy MARK [email protected]

Cassius Starks Mark Olbert

From coaches’ reports

The Gonzales junior varsity team fell to the La Grange Leopards 10-8 on Thursday.

La Grange led 7-0 half-time and Gonzales scored with 4:20 left in game on 6-yard pass from Brant Philippus to Nathan Burek. Jaime Tellez ran off right tackle for the two-point conversion. The Leopards then drove down the field

and kicked the game win-ning 32-yard field goal, with under one minute left.

The Gonzales 9th team tied La Grange 6-6.

In other subvarsity ac-tion, the Shiner JV blanked Kenedy 12-0; Luling JV fell to Jourdanton 20-14; The Yoakum Bulldogs 9th beat Smithville 22-6 and the Dog JV won 21-6. Stockdale JV beat Nixon 25-0 and Hal-lettsville’s JV blanked Pa-lacios 14-0. The Cuero JV

defeated Giddings 14-0 and the 9th Cuero team lost to Giddings, 48-20.

In Gonzales CYFL games on Saturday, the freshman team lost to Hallettsville 24-21. The Gonzales soph-omore Black shut out Go-liad and Cuero 6-0 and the Gonzales Orange was de-feated by Hallettsville, 34-13. The Junior Black team defeated Goliad 6-0 and the Senior Orange fell to the Lavaca Rams 28-0.

Subvarsity ReportLate field goal trips up Apache JV in home loss


The Great OutdoorsTexas boaters can take no-cost safety course on the Web

Texas Weekly Fishing ReportNORTH SABINE - Trout are

fair to good under birds and pods of shad on soft plastics. Redfish are good in the marsh with high tides. Recent rains have hurt the bite in the river.

SOUTH SABINE - Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad. Trout are good at the jetty on live bait and top-waters. Flounder are fair at the mouths of the bayous on a fall-ing tide.

BOLIVAR - Trout are good on the south shoreline on Bass Assassins, Trout Killers and Sand Eels. Trout, black drum, sand trout and redfish are good at Rollover Pass.

TRINITY BAY - Trout are good for drifters working pods of shad and mullet around wells and on the shoreline. Trout are good under birds in the upper end of the bay. Redfish are good on live bait around the reefs.

EAST GALVESTON BAY - Trout and sand trout are good for drifters working deep shell on plastics and fresh shrimp Redfish are good in the marsh and out the mouths of drains on the falling tide.

WEST GALVESTON BAY - Trout are fair to good in the surf and around San Luis Pass on live shrimp and topwaters. Sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs.

TEXAS CITY - Redfish are fair to good in Moses Lake on crabs and shrimp. Sand trout are good in the channel on fresh shrimp.

FREEPORT - Redfish are fair to good on the reefs in Bas-trop Bay. Bull redfish are fair to good around Surfside and at the Quintana jetty on crabs, shrimp and mullet.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY - Trout are fair for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scat-tered shell. Waders have taken better catches on the shorelines on small topwaters and dark plastics. Birds are beginning to work.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY - Trout are fair on sand and grass humps on soft plastics and top-waters. Redfish are fair on live shrimp in Oyster Lake, Crab Lake and at Shell Island. Redfish are beginning to school.

PORT O’CONNOR - Redfish are best in the back lakes on shrimp and mullet. Bull redfish are good at the jetty on crabs, mullet and shad. Trout are fair to good on the reefs in San An-tonio Bay.

ROCKPORT - Redfish are good on mullet on the Estes Flats and around Mud Island. Bull redfish have been found in the Lydia Ann Channel on mul-let.

PORT ARANSAS - Redfish are fair at East Flats on topwa-ters and Gulps. Bull redfish are good at the jetty and on the beachfront on natural baits.

CORPUS CHRISTI - Trout are fair to good in the guts in Oso Bay on topwaters. Redfish are good on the beachfront on mullet and shrimp. Trout are fair for waders working mud and grass on small topwaters and Corkies.

BAFFIN BAY - Trout are good on topwaters and plum plastics around rocks and grass. Redfish are fair to good in knee–deep water on small Super Spooks, She Pups and SkitterWalks.

PORT MANSFIELD - Red-fish are fair to good while drift-ing pot holes on topwaters and soft plastics under a popping

cork. Trout are fair to good on the shorelines on small Super Spooks, She Pups and Corkies.

SOUTH PADRE - Trout, red-fish and snook are fair to good in South Bay and Mexiquita Flats. Tarpon and snook are fair on DOA Shrimp at the jetty. Bull redfish are good on the beachfront on mullet.

PORT ISABEL - Trout and redfish are fair to good while drifting sand and grass flats on live shrimp, DOA Shrimp and Gulps under popping corks. Trout and redfish are fair to good in protected coves on small topwaters and soft plastics under rattling corks.

ATHENS - Water clear, 73–78 degrees; 3.25’ low. Black bass are fair on Texas spinnerbaits and shallow crankbaits in bait-fish patterns. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on prepared bait.

BASTROP - Water stained; 78–82 degrees. Black bass are good on black/blue soft plastics and small spinnerbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and char-treuse tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow.

BELTON - Water stained; 76–80 degrees; 4.49’ low. Black bass are good on chartreuse Rat–L–Traps and crankbaits early and late. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are fair on minnows and white Li’l Fishies. Crappie are fair on minnows and blue tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and nightcrawlers. Yellow cat-fish are fair on live perch and live shad.

BRIDGEPORT - Water clear; 73–78 degrees; 13.14’ low. Black bass are excellent on Texas

rigged craw fished around any shallow wood cover. Shallow running Crush 50X crankbaits and Yellow Magic topwaters in shad patterns are good early in the day. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. Channel catfish no re-port.

CEDAR CREEK - Water clear; 74–79 degrees; 2.84’ low. Black bass are good on black and blue flipping jigs fished around docks with brush. Top-waters are good early in the same areas. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on live shad. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on prepared bait.

COOPER - Water lightly stained; 74–78 degrees; 5.04’ low. Black bass are good on Texas rigged soft plastics, spin-nerbaits and shallow running crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are fair on slabs. Hybrid striper are good on small swimbaits and live shad over main lake humps. Catfish are fair on prepared bait and cut bait.

FAIRFIELD - Fishing has been slow since the fish kill in September of 2010. TPWD has discontinued stocking the lake after another kill in early Sep-tember 2011. Redfish and black bass survived the kill in limited numbers.

FAYETTE - Water stained. Black bass are fair on pumpkin-seed spinnerbaits and crank-baits. Red ear perch are good on worms. Channel and blue cat-fish are good on live bait.

GIBBONS CREEK - Wa-ter clear. Black bass are fair on watermelon crankbaits, spin-nerbaits, and soft plastics. Crap-

pie are fair on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs. Catfish are good on stinkbait, shrimp, and liver.

GRANBURY - Water stained; 74–78 degrees; 4.50’ low. Black bass are good on perch col-ored spinnerbaits, soft plastics, and topwaters early and late. Striped bass are slow. White bass are good on minnows and silver spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on stinkbait and shrimp.

GRAPEVINE - Water clear; 74–78 degrees; 5.64’ low. Black bass are fair on shakyheads around main lake points in 6–10 feet. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Catfish are fair on cut shad.

JOE POOL - Water clear; 74–79 degrees; 2.04’ low. Black bass are fair on spinnerbaits and small crankbaits around shal-low cover. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are good on slabs and jigs. Cat-fish are good on prepared baits.

LAVON - Water lightly stained; 74–79 degrees; 7.62’ low. Black bass are fair on Texas rigged craws around shallow cover. White bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are good on min-nows. Catfish are fair on cut shad. .

COLETO CREEK - Water clear; 3.28’ low. Black bass are fair on chartreuse crankbaits and soft plastics in 8–12 feet. Striped bass are fair on white striper jigs. White bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are fair on minnows and white tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are fair on live bait. Yellow cat-fish are slow.


Legislation passed last September now requires all Texas boaters born on or after September 1, 1993, and operating personal wa-tercraft, motor vessels with 15 or more horsepower or wind-powered vessels greater than 14 feet, to have

mandatory boater safety education.

The catch is, until re-cently a Texas boater had to break out their wallet to pay for a course, which started at around $20. Now, however, the BoatUS Foun-dation offers lone-star state boaters a no-cost online boating safety course ap-

proved by Texas Parks and Wildlife and by the Na-tional Association of State Boating Law Administra-tors and recognized by the US Coast Guard as exceed-ing the minimum require-ments for the National Recreational Boating Safety

Pictured are Becky Morris and Ricky Lester with a trophy buck Becky got at Lester Ranch, located south of Gonzales, on Oct. 11. She shot him with a 308 Browning Rifle using a 150 grain Hornady bullet. The kill scored a gross of 196 1/8 with a net score of 188. It took three days of hunting to finally take this trophy buck. (Courtesy photo)

Trophy Kill

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The school bus bounced and lurched across the low water crossing at Jimmy Zapalac’s and Cecilia To-bias’ houses. The leverage in the back seat pitched me into the air and made me lose my place in the library book.

Stevie Hoelscher sat across the aisle alone in the other back seat. He never lost his place in a library book. Any paper items in his charge were apt to be chewed into spit wads. Be-tween him and the rest of the country boys--Keith Schobel, Curtis Vasut, Ken-ny Noska, Eddie Gaetner, and Ronnie Polasek--there was a consolidated vigil for whitetail bucks as we en-dured the morning route through Shaws Bend, Cul-len Ranch, and the Sanna

Anna riverbottom.Besides the “there’s one!”

shouts that interrupted my academic concentration, a wary scholar read with one eye in his book and the other on his fellow passen-gers. My compadres could shoot acorns from rubber bands at .22 velocities. An unsuspecting victim was

the best. The little kids took cover when the oak nugget wars erupted, and the older girls glared at us, gabbing out their ultimatums for ac-cidental hits. There was also the possibility that without provocation, Hoelscher would dive across the aisle to thump on me just to get my attention.

However, it would be wrong to insinuate that I was an innocent cast in with a lot of ruffians. My intolerance for serenity was punctuated by my procliv-ity to bludgeon a dozing comrade with a geography book. Sometimes my at-tacks ignited the aforemen-tioned battles.

The roughhousing was a pecking order exercise. Every aspect of society was

Texas sons and country logic

Herman Brune

Herman Brune is a freelance writer, radio personality and author based in Colorado County.

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mirrored on the bus. Hoel-scher and I ruled from the back seats. Awkward high school boys occupied the last six seats. In front of them were the high school girls, then the junior high kids, and finally the elementary children were up front. We were toe-headed German and Czech pupils with last names that had echoed through the riverbottoms since Texas was a Republic.

Our parents were the foundations of the com-munity--bankers, realtors, nurses, gravel pit hands, carpenters, farmers, and housewives. It didn’t matter if your daddy wore a neck-tie or a welding hood; we all bought our clothes from Gindlers, Charlie Walla’s Store, or the Sears catalog. Every boy and girl knew how to hunt chicken eggs, pick peas in the garden, and sic the dog on an ar-madillo. We grew up eating wild game, pasture-raised beef, and fish from the river and ponds.

Most of our grandpar-ents were still alive and spoke second languages while demonstrating the lifestyle that survived the Great Depression. We were awed by the sounds, smells, and warmth of the wood frame family homeplaces that needed paint. Wooden picket fences, barns filled with decaying harnesses, and helping Grandma make cookies from scratch would be the memories of our childhood.

The unfortunate part was that we had to grow up. Hoelscher and I fought maturity as long as we could. Any good sense was unnoticeable because

of our backwoods humor. Nevertheless, it was oddly coupled with a demand for the truth. Tales of ille-gally taken fish and game and ill-gotten gains from under-the-table backroom bargaining flirted with our curiosity.

It was becoming evident that the world was growing smaller. Maybe a few good-old-boy traditions would need to be forsaken, but not before we knew how every-thing worked.

When I went to college, Hoelscher explored the academia of hoop nets, spotlighting, hunting out of season, and going over the limit. He was also an expert at manipulating the Bohe-mian grapevine.

Before long, he had an unwarranted reputation that brought him hours of tongue-in-cheek mirth. He became a master of the un-derstatement as well as ex-aggeration.

For logical reasons, no game warden ever tick-eted him for any game violations. Yet, mention his name and locals howl about the unrepentant un-punished poacher. None howl or laugh as hard as Hoelscher.

When the headlines read that our state representative illegally stocked ponds with fish from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Hoelscher was outraged.

“Who does he think he is? Stealing fish is my gig. He can’t come into my county and get top billing.”

We all smirked and watched as the rep parlayed into a career as a lobby-ist, and made more money than ever.

Time marched on and age crept toward us. Then on a cold night in Hoel-

scher’s smokehouse, we were delivered another of life’s stark lessons. I was tying sausage while Hoel-scher stuffed. Several of our buddies were de-boning while others fired up the wood stove and hung sau-sage.

Then a man who moved into our county and was adopted as a friend regurgi-tated what he’d been trained to say by local river author-ity officials: “If you dumb farmers knew what was good for y’all, you’d sell out and let them build a dam on the river below Shaws Bend. You might lose your land, but it would be bet-ter for the community. You dumb farmers need some-body to take care of y’all.”

Hoelscher and I stopped and looked at each oth-er. Then we stared at our friend who had gone back to his chore as if he had commented on the weather. I glanced around the room and somebody remarked that we needed more deer meat. Hoelscher mopped his brow, sighed, and went back to making sausage.

After the crew went home, Hoelscher and I vis-ited.

“Hoelscher, there’s two kinds of people in this world. Some think there’re the smartest and need to rule over everyone else; and some think the world is a better place if everybody works together,” I said. “People are people, rural or urban, everyone deserves mutual respect. It gripes my butt when a public servant wants to lord over folks.”

“Yeah,” said Hoelscher. “Our little buddy has been running with the wrong crowd. Hey, look! I found a new battery for my spot-light!”

BRUNE: Backwoods humor got me through childhood


Program.Boaters who successfully

pass the BoatUS Founda-tion online course can print their own Certificate of Completion and then the state will automatically send the official Boater Education Card to their homes. This card must be kept within a boater’s pos-session when boating along with picture identification. While all boaters born be-fore September 1, 1993, are exempt from required certification, passing the

course could earn a dis-count on a boat’s insurance policy.

“The course is loaded with interactive anima-tions, videos and photos to give boaters an education that goes well beyond the basics of boating,” said Boa-tUS Foundation President Chris Edmonston. “It in-cludes videos that demon-strate important safety de-vices such as visual distress signals, how to get help in an emergency, how to pre-vent and extinguish fires aboard your boat, and the best way to fit a life jacket to

a child so they won’t slip.”“The best part of all is

the course is free and can be taken at home, and it’s designed so that you can stop and then continue at any time. I will guaran-tee you that everyone will learn something new,” said Edmonston.

To take the course, go to www.BoatUS.org <http://www.boatus.org/> . For more information about the Texas Boater Certifica-tion Card and application process, go to www.tpwd.state.tx.us/faq/learning/boater_education.


COURSE: Certification can be received online from BoatUS

SHINER — The end of the regular season is draw-ing near an end and the playoffs are looming.

The Shiner Lady Coman-ches took another step to-ward prepping for the post-season as they swept Louise 25-17, 25-9, 25-2 on Friday to improve to 23-13 and 9-1 in district. Shiner had already qualified for a spot in the playoffs and are look-ing to finish business in the regular season.

Against Louise, the Lady Comanches finished strong after not starting all that well.

“I felt we started slow and picked up later in the match,” head coach Megan Klimitchek said. “The girls did exactly what they need-ed to do to win.”

Klimitchek said a recent win against Weimar has re-ally boosted Shiner lately.

“We have our eyes on the prize,” she said.

Shiner and Weimar both are 9-1 in district and the likely scenario for Shiner to win the district champion-ship is to play Weimar in a playoff seeding game for first place as both teams will likely finish their dis-trict matches with wins.

The Lady Comanches opened the first set with a 3-1 lead after plays from Julianna Rankin and Ama-nise Coleman. The Lady Hornets managed to keep the score relatively close until kills from Tabitha Blashke, Lauren Oden, La-Neisha Hunt and an ace from Meagan Chumchal put Shiner ahead 17-9.

Louise did attempt to battle back but both teams recorded eight points each for the rest of the way. The serves of Rankin early in the second game included a couple of aces as Shiner

raced out to a 10-1 lead.After the Lady Hornets

were able to pull a couple of points back, service from Oden and Tamara Hajek blasted Shiner to a 19-4 ad-vantage and they went on a 6-5 run to win the second set.

In the third set, Shiner opened with a kill from Rankin and ton of produc-tive serves from Kristin

Schacherl included five aces, as they scored the first 19 points and went on to win 25-2.

Oden had eight digs; Rankin had a dozen kills; Schacherl had 21 points, 10 aces and 15 assists; Cole-man had three blocks; Blashke had three blocks and Chumchal chipped in eight digs.

Playoff bound #24 Shiner swats away Lady HornetsBy MARK [email protected]

Shiner’s Tabitha Blashke shows a great vertical in leaping up to attempt this block against Louise on Friday. (Photo by Mark Lube)

The Lady Apache volley-ball team will be support-ing Breast Cancer aware-ness with a Pink Out and Dig for a Cure game.

The game will be played Friday, Oct. 19 against the Giddings Lady Buffaloes, starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Gonzales High School Spe-cial Events Center.

The Lady Apaches will be giving all their donations to the Susan G. Komen Foun-dation.

Pro Wrestling comes back to Gonzales

On Saturday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m., the Edwards Association will host a Pro Wrestling event at the Ed-wards Community Center.

The Texas Wrestling Fed-eration will return to Gon-zales with an action-packed wrestling show featuring a special guest Robbie E., who has wrestled on IM-

PACT Wrestling, TNA and SPIKE TV.

All tickets will be sold at the door the day of the event starting at 3 p.m. Limited tickets will be available at $12.

Boot camp fitness class Want to lose weight

fast, then join the Holiday Meltdown Boot Camp. The class is for people age 18 and older, and is $10 per class with an optional meal recommendations for $15. Class will be held Nov. 6-Dec. 6 at Green Dickson Park in Shiner.

For more information, contact Jacklyn Soto at 361-772-3536.

Area teams holding steady in Top 10 poll

Three teams in our re-

gion managed to stay un-beaten to keep their elite status in this week’s As-sociated Press Texas High School Football Poll.

Giddings is ranked sev-enth in the Class 3A poll after downing Cuero, 41-28 last week. The Buffaloes (6-0) will take on Gonzales Friday night.

Hallettsville moves up two spots and are tied for eighth place with Cisco. The Brahmas (6-0) beat Pa-lacios 49-15 last week and will travel to Rice Consoli-dated Friday.

Shiner maintained its number seven ranking by beating Kenedy, 33-7. The Comanches (6-0) are idle this week.

The top-ranked teams in the state this week are Katy (5A), Pearland Daw-son (4A), Navasota (3A), Refugio (2A), and Munday (1A).

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Lady Apaches volleyball wants to Pink Out Friday

“You must be very reli-gious!” is a comment I often hear whenever I share my faith in Christ. Confusing true Christianity with man-made religion is common, even among faithful church-goers. Let me assure you that there is a very big difference between being religious and living as a Christian should.

According to Webster’s dictionary, a religion is de-fined as a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices;

a cause, principle, or sys-tem of beliefs held to with ardor and faith.

Every organized religion

has its set of laws, rules of conduct, and ritual to vener-ate their object of worship. And religions abound. Best estimates are around 4200. These are the 12 major world religions and the most cur-rent approximate estimates from www.adherents.com:

• Christianity: 2.1 billion• Islam: 1.5 billion• Secular/Nonreligious/

Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion• Hinduism: 900 million• Chinese traditional reli-

gion: 394 million• Buddhism: 376 million

• primal-indigenous: 300 million

• African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million

• Sikhism: 23 million• Juche: 19 million• Spiritism: 15 million• Judaism: 14 millionIt troubled me to see how

many faiths were considered Christian, when they really are not. Even more distress-ing is how many professed Christians are confused with this issue.

To clarify, Christian-ity’s sole source of absolute authority is the Bible. No other sacred book exists that should be used to supple-ment what God has already said. The Bible consists of the Old and New Testaments with a total of 66 books. The original ancient languages were translated into an Eng-lish version by King James scholars in 1611; many other versions are now available. The New International Ver-sion, American

Standard and New Living Translation have a high de-gree of harmony and convey the same general message of God’s Word, but will use some of their own distinc-tive phrases and words.

Christianity is the only belief that acknowledges Christ as God and as the only Savior; He is the cor-nerstone of Christian con-viction. There are many religions that acknowledge Christ as a prophet or a very good man, professing belief in Jesus, while disbelieving that He is God or that He is the only Savior.

Another common mis-conception is that a religion is ‘Christian’ because belief in a god is involved. Belief in a higher power is universal and there have always been other gods that men idolize and worship. The ancient Egyptians had over 2000 gods that they worshiped in biblical times.

The Christian faith is dif-ferent from other spiritual beliefs in some very signifi-cant ways.

Christianity is the only faith involving a personal in-vitation from God to get in-timately involved with Him; specifying, in no uncertain

terms, that Jesus is the only path to Him. Christianity is also the only faith in which God requires an RSVP; this requirement to affirm be-lief in His Son is unique to Christianity.

You have to know what you believe and why. If your faith is to hold up in the midst of the difficulties of life, you must be convinced that the principals you live by are based on truth, and not based on lies. Unmov-able faith is what you need to stand against the pres-sures of this world. Without a solid foundation your faith won’t hold up when you face the losses of life.

If you don’t know what it means to be a Christian you may be tempted to rely on someone else’s opinions. Without a solid foundation, you will be tricked into be-lieving false doctrine that will take you away from God and away from His purpose for you.

A weak Christian founda-tion will cause you to doubt what you believe. And when your beliefs are put to the test-and they will be-you won’t be able to defend what you believe.

People will ask you…

• Who is God?• Who am I? • Where did I come from? • Why am I here? • What happens to me

when I die?• How can I be sure that

the Bible is God’s written word and true?

Are you prepared to an-swer these questions with absolute authority?

Can you give skeptics an answer that will convince them that your belief is based on truth? If not, why not? God wrote a book that has the answers to every-thing you are searching for. ‘The Ultimate Guide to Bet-ter Living’ was written with you in mind, and it is at your disposal. The author would love you to read it. 1 Peter 3:15 says “Always be pre-pared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope (the trust-the faith) that you have.”

It is amazing how many believers struggle through their circumstances without ever thinking of picking up their Bible to read what God says regarding their situa-tion.

I agree with what Clarence Randall once wrote: Faith is

more than thinking some-thing is true. Faith is think-ing something is true to the extent that we act on it.

This faith of ours is an ac-tive participation lifestyle. Being a Christian means knowing the true Christ and following in his example. It begins with an initial re-sponse to God’s invitation to believe, but it must continue in a change of lifestyle. Re-lationship means a connec-tion with someone; and that takes involvement.

Dr. Bob Utley, Professor of Hermeneutics (Retired) says: …“Salvation is not a product, but a relationship. It is not finished when one trusts Christ; it has only be-gun (a gate and then a road)! It is not a fire insurance poli-cy, nor a ticket to heaven, but a life of growing Christ-like-ness. We have a proverbial saying in America that says the longer a couple lives to-gether, the more they begin to look alike. This is the goal of salvation!”

Keep in mind that “Your faith is as strong as the foun-dation on which it is built.”

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Appointed by Grace will appear in concert at Gonzales Family Church Assembly of God, 320 St. Andrew St. at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 28.

Joe Irwin, Karla Burris, Vonnie Behrend offer a unique mix of gospel music singing styles. Joe has been involved in music ministry for over 30 years. He sang and played bass with a fam-ily group called the Wood-romes for many years as they traveled throughout the southeastern United States. In addition to be-ing Godly wives and moth-ers, Karla and Vonnie have both been involved in sing-ing ministries since child-hood.

God has gifted them as singers, songwriters, musi-cians and ministers. They

have proven themselves to be dedicated to God and their families. Joe served as an Associate Pastor and as a Youth/Music Direc-tor. He is now serving as an Evangelist. Karla grew up in a family of talented singers and musicians. She has taught Sunday school, AWANA, and ladies Bible studies in her home church. For other thirteen years, she performed weekly at the Liberty Opry. Singing there led to many oppor-tunities for her to sing at community ceremonies, Senior Center programs, worship services and vari-ous church functions. Von-nie has ministered as a Children’s Pastor & Music Director. She has played and sang for Women’s con-ferences, at Senior Cen-

ters and at Kid’s Camps. With her husband, she has served in the mission field of Alaska and helped pas-tor churches. Joe, Karla and Vonnie have appeared on numerous television programs throughout the nation and in Canada and have completed several re-cording projects both as a group and separately.

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AUSTIN — The idea of using rail as an option to address highway congestion moves one step closer to reality this month as the Texas Department of Transportation kicks off a two-year study to explore the possibility of passenger rail service from Oklahoma City to South Texas.

The study will examine best possible options for the development of passenger trains that will connect metropolitan areas

such as Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio, and compare different types of services such as existing Amtrak routes to a new high-speed rail system. The study will also explore funding options such as the potential for public-private partner-ships.

“To truly address congestion, we must look at more than just building and ex-panding highways,” said John Barton Tx-

DOT deputy executive director & chief engineer. “Passenger rail is a strategic com-ponent for the future of Texas transporta-tion.”

The $14 million study is partially funded through a $5.6 million grant from the Fed-eral Railroad Administration’s High Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail program. Tx-DOT is providing a 20 percent match.

“Rail has always been considered a good way to address congestion,” said Bill Glavin TxDOT’s rail division director executive director. “This study will help define the path forward for passenger rail along a heavily traveled corridor and provide the citizens of Texas with an alternative to con-

gested highways.”TxDOT has already held public meet-

ings and met with citizens along the cor-ridor to seek input on this study. Compo-nents of the study will include a prioritized business and financial plan to implement services identified through public involve-ment, and general environmental studies.

If built, the Oklahoma City to South Texas line could provide the foundation for a high-speed or higher performance rail system that would eventually connect all the major metropolitan areas in Texas.

For more information, contact TxDOT Media Relations at [email protected] or (512) 463-8700.

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COLLEGE STATION — Experts at a conference ad-dressing water and energy in Texas collectively agreed the state’s water needs will grow exponentially over the next decade, fueled by a “business-friendly” envi-ronment attracting more people to the Lone Star state.

But unsolved is how to fund the proposed $53.1 billion state water plan go-ing before the Texas Legis-lature in January. This issue, along with education, will be on the forefront of issues debated among lawmak-ers in Austin, according to conference speakers.

“People want water and water security, but they don’t want to pay for it,” Dr. Robert Mace, Texas Water Development Board depu-ty executive administrator told conference attendees.

The conference, “Grow-ing Texas: Water and En-

ergy in Texas”, held at the College Station Hilton and Conference Center, featured experts from sev-eral Texas A&M University System agencies,including Texas A&M AgriLife Re-search, and university fac-ulty in the areas of agricul-ture and engineering.

Dr. Mark Hussey, vice chancellor and dean for ag-riculture and life sciences at Texas A&M University, told attendees that water and energy are part of “grand challenges many individu-als are talking about across the country and the world.”

A historic drought in 2011 caused $7.6 billion in Texas agriculture losses and stressed water sup-ply systems statewide. Parts of Texas are still un-der drought and last year’s parched conditions state-wide is “what keeps water planners up at night,” Mace said.

Mace said Texas’ pro-jected population growth will lead to a shortfall of 8.3

million acre-feet of water by 2060.

“All of these folks will want a glass of water,” he said.

Potential funding sourc-es for the state’s overall wa-ter plan could come in the form of a tax, water usage fees, sales of state bonds or other funding methods. State Rep. James Keffer, Texas House of Representa-tives energy resources com-mittee chair, told attendees some conservatives will “not look ahead to the fu-ture” as the issue is debated and that other politics will weigh in on the state’s water issues.

Nevertheless, Keffer said education and water are two top priorities among Texas legislators in the up-coming legislative session.

Meanwhile, efficient technologies, such as those in agricultural irrigation in the High Plains, will help temper demand, but won’t be the sole solution to wa-ter efficiency.

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TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, reflect on special

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GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, you may be a party

animal this week if the social op-portunities arise. Just keep your

head at all times and remember to celebrate in a responsible way.

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centrate when you are being pulled in so many directions. You need to designate special times to handle all tasks so you can stay organized.

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If you grew up during a certain era in the United States, you are probably familiar with the board game Parcheesi. If you have a particularly good memory, you may recall that the game’s subtitle is “The Royal Game of India.” You may not realize, though, that the game is so-called because royalty in India used to play a life-size version of the game in gardens specially

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Everyone knows that a sophomore is someone in his or her second year of high school or college. Most people don’t realize, though, that the word is derived from the Greek words “sophos,” which means “wise,” and “moros,” which means “stupid.”

It’s not unusual for music critics and the artists they critique to butt heads, but they usually do it in print, not in person. In 1978,

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The creator of the ubiquitous smiley face earned a grand total of $45 for his creative effort.

Having trouble with your teenager? It’s a worldwide problem, it seems -- though not always for the same reasons. In 2004, a 13-year-old boy in India ran away from home, declared that he was a Hindu holy man and founded a monastery. His parents arranged for him to be kidnapped and brought back home.

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Worldwide, breast cancer accounts for 22.9 percent of all cancers (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers) in women, causing 458,503 deaths in 2008 alone.

Prognosis and survival rates for breast cancer vary greatly depending on the cancer type, stage, treat-ment, and geographical

Awareness: The most effective weaponlocation of the patient. Survival rates in the West-ern world are high. For ex-ample, more than 8 out of 10 women (84%) in Eng-land diagnosed with breast cancer survive for at least 5 years. In developing coun-tries, however, survival rates are much poorer.

To understand breast can-cer, the first thing you have to do is understand how

breasts are structured.The breasts are made up

of a complex network of milk-producing sacs (lob-ules), passageways for car-rying milk (ducts), support-ing tissue, lymph nodes, glands, tiny muscles and fat. Throughout puberty and menopause, the look of the breasts changes as well as the structure and function of the breasts.

In a healthy body, natu-ral systems control the cre-ation, growth and death (called apoptosis) of cells. In the natural cycle of life, cells divide to make new tissue as older cells die.

When tissue is injured (say by a cut on the hand), the body’s cell growth regu-lators react by speeding up cell division to create new tissue in the injured area as fast as possible. When the body has healed, the creation of new tissue goes back to the normal pace.

Cancer is a condition where the natural systems do not work right and cells do not die at the normal rate. As a result, there is more cell growth than cell death. Cancer cells divide without their normal con-trol and make a mass of ex-tra tissue.

As a tumor grows, it pro-motes the growth of new blood vessels (called angio-genesis) to bring in the oxy-gen and nutrients it needs. Cancer cells can leave the tumor site and travel through the blood stream and lymphatic system (the network connecting lymph nodes throughout the body) to other parts of the body, such as the liver, lungs or bones. This process is called metastasis. In the new site, cancer cells again may begin to divide too quickly and create new tumors.

Breast cancer occurs when cells in the breast divide and grow without normal control. Between 50 and 75 percent of breast cancers begin in the ducts, 10 to 15 percent begin in the lobules and a few begin in other breast tissues.

Tumors in the breast tend to grow slowly. By the time a lump is large enough to feel, it may have been grow-ing for as long as 10 years. However, some tumors are aggressive and grow much more rapidly.

It is important to under-stand the difference be-tween invasive breast can-cer and non-invasive breast cancer, called ductal car-

cinoma in situ, sometimes called DCIS. If you have any of these symptoms, see your health care provider.

In most cases, these changes are not cancer. For example, breast pain is more common with benign breast conditions than with breast cancer. However, the only way to know for sure is to see your provider. If breast cancer is present, it is best to find it at an early stage, when the cancer is most treatable.

Breast lumps or lumpiness

Many women may find that their breasts feel lumpy. Breast tissue naturally has a bumpy texture. For some women, the lumpiness is more pronounced than for others. In most cases, this lumpiness is no cause to worry.

If the lumpiness can be felt throughout the breast and feels like your other breast, then it is probably normal breast tissue. Lumps that feel harder or different from the rest of the breast (or the other breast) or that feel like a change are a concern. When this type of lump is found, it may be a sign of breast cancer or a be-nign breast condition (such as a cyst or fibroadenoma).

You should see your health care provider if:

• You find a new lump or any change that feels dif-ferent from the rest of your breast.

• You find a new lump or any change that feels differ-ent from your other breast.

• Feel something that is different from what you felt before.

If you are unsure whether you should have a lump checked, it is best to see your provider. Although a lump may be nothing to worry about, you will have the peace of mind that it has been checked.

Nipple dischargeLiquid leaking from your

nipple (nipple discharge) can be troubling, but it is rarely a sign of cancer. Dis-charge can be your body’s natural reaction when the nipple is squeezed. Signs of a more serious condition, such as breast cancer, in-clude:

• Discharge that occurs without squeezing the nip-ple.

• Discharge that occurs in only one breast.

• Discharge that has blood in it or is clear (not milky).

Nipple discharge can also

be caused by an infection or another condition that needs medical treatment. For these reasons, if you have any nipple discharge,

see your health care pro-vider.

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WarningSigns of

Breast Cancer

There has been great progress over the last 30 years in identifying risk factors for breast cancer.

Researchers agree on many factors that increase breast cancer risk and some factors that lower risk. Some of these factors affect risk a great deal and others by only a small amount.

Although we have learned a lot, we still do not understand what causes breast cancer to develop at a certain time in a cer-tain person. It’s likely a combination of risk factors (many of which are still unknown) that make cells in the breast become cancer-ous. But, why a certain combination of factors might cause cancer in one person, but not in another is still unclear.

There are steps we can all take to lower risk, but no one has full control over whether he/she gets breast can-cer. Many risk factors are still unknown and many are simply out of our control (such as getting older or hav-ing a family history of breast cancer).

However, leading a healthy lifestyle can help lower your risk of breast cancer (more). And, knowing what

factors may increase your risk can help you work with your health care provider to ad-dress any concerns and develop a breast health plan that is right for you.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® recommends that you:

•Know your riskTalk to your fam-

ily to learn about your family health history. Talk to your health care provider about your personal risk of breast cancer.

• Get screenedAsk your health care

provider which screen-ing tests are right for you if you are at a high-er risk. Have a mam-mogram every year starting at age 40 if you are at average risk. Have a clinical breast exam at least every three years starting at age 20, and every year starting at age 40.

Know what is normal for you and see your health care provider if you notice any of these breast changes:

•Make healthy life-style choices

Maintain a healthy weight and add exer-cise into your routine. Limit alcohol intake and postmenopausal hormone use. Breast-feed, if you can.

Identifying risk factors for breast cancer is important

Every day, we take steps to reduce the risks in our lives. We wear seat belts to avoid getting hurt and we brush our teeth to protect them from cavities. Even so, most of us don’t spend much time thinking about risk. However, it’s an im-portant concept worth ex-ploring, especially when it comes to matters of health and science. “Risk” in these fields can have spe-cial meanings. Knowing the basic types of risk can help you understand your chances of getting breast cancer and the steps you can take to lower your risk.

Absolute riskThe most basic type of

risk is absolute risk. Abso-lute risk is a person’s chance of developing a certain dis-ease over a certain period of time. It is estimated by looking at a large group of people who are similar in some way (in terms of age, for example) and counting how many people in the group develop the disease in question over a certain time period.

For example, if we fol-lowed 100,000 women ages 30 to 34 for one year, about 25 women would develop breast cancer. This means the one-year absolute risk of breast cancer for a 30- to 34-year-old woman is 25 per 100,000 women, or 1 per 4,000 women. An-other way to say this is that the chances of developing breast cancer in the next year are 25 in 100,000 (or 1 in 4,000) for the average 30- to 34-year-old woman.

In another example, if we followed 100,000 women ages 70 to 74 for one year, about 443 of them would develop breast cancer. This means the one-year abso-lute risk of breast cancer for a 70- to 74-year-old woman is 443 in 100,000 women, or 1 in 226 women.

Knowing the absolute risk of a disease can help you understand the health risks in your life. In the ex-amples above, for instance, we see the absolute risk of breast cancer is low in young women and much higher in older women.

Lifetime riskOne absolute risk we of-

ten see is the lifetime risk of breast cancer. Women in the United States have a “1 in 8” (or about 12 per-cent) lifetime risk of get-ting breast cancer. This means that for every eight women in the U.S. who live to be age 85, one will be di-agnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime.

The lifetime risk of breast cancer is much higher than the one-year risk of breast cancer. This is because the lifetime risk adds up all the one-year absolute risks over a woman’s life span, up to age 85.

Risk factorsAnything that affects a

person’s absolute risk of de-veloping a disease is called a risk factor. A risk factor can be related to lifestyle (such as lack of exercise), genetics (such as family history) or the environment (such as radiation exposure).

Lack of exercise is an ex-ample of a risk factor for breast cancer. Women who are not active have a higher chance of getting breast cancer than women who are active.

Relative riskThough the term “rela-

tive risk” may not sound fa-miliar, you often see or hear about relative risks in news stories about health. A rela-tive risk is a way to present the increase or decrease in risk due to a certain risk factor.

A relative risk is calcu-lated by comparing two ab-solute risks. The numerator (the top number in a frac-

tion) is the absolute risk among those with the risk factor. The denominator (the bottom number) is the absolute risk among those without the risk factor. The absolute risk of those with the factor divided by the absolute risk of those with-out the factor gives you the relative risk.

Understanding relative risks

Say a study finds that women who don’t exercise have a 25 percent increase in breast cancer risk com-pared to women who do exercise. This statistic is a relative risk. It means wom-en who don’t exercise are 25 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than women who do exercise.

It’s important to remem-ber that relative risks de-pend on the underlying absolute risks of the dis-ease. When a condition is rare (such as breast cancer among young women), a high relative risk leads to only a few extra cases. By contrast, when a condition is more common (such as breast cancer among older women), even a small rela-tive risk can mean a lot more cases among those with the risk factor.

We can think about rela-tive risk in terms of money. If you have a single dollar, this makes dollars “rare”. If you double your money, you only gain one extra dollar. In contrast, if you have a million dollars, this makes dollars “common” and a doubling your money means you gain a million extra dollars. In both cases, you double your money, but the real increase in dol-lars is quite different. The same is true with disease risk. The higher the abso-lute risk of getting a disease, the greater the number of extra cases that will occur for a given relative risk.

Using our example of the exercise study, we can also show how absolute risks affect the number of ex-tra cases. The study found inactive women have a 25 percent greater risk of breast cancer than active women (a relative risk of 1.25). Since older women are more likely to get breast cancer, lack of exercise has a greater impact on breast cancer risk in older women than in younger women.

Let’s first look at the women in the study ages 70 to 74 years. The study finds that 500 women per 100,000 who are inactive develop breast cancer dur-ing one year (this is the absolute risk for women with the risk factor, lack of exercise). And, it also shows that 400 women per 100,000 who are active de-velop breast cancer (this is the absolute risk for wom-en without the risk factor).

So, we see the relative risk is 1.25 for women who are inactive compared to those who are active. And, among women ages 70 to 74, being inactive led to 100 more cases of breast cancer per 100,000 women in one year (500 cases – 400 cases = 100 cases).

However, in women ages 20 to 29, the study finds 5 per 100,000 who were inac-tive developed breast can-cer in the next year. And, 4 per 100,000 women who were active got breast can-cer.

Here too, the relative risk is 1.25. However, in the younger women, being inactive caused only one extra case of breast cancer in 100,000 women. Thus, the same relative risk of 1.25 led to many more ex-tra cases of breast cancer in the older women (100 extra cases) than in the younger women (one extra case).

Understanding and determining the difference in types of risk

Why the differences in breast cancer rates? The main reason seems to be that different races and eth-nicities simply have differ-ent prevalence rates of the established risk factors for breast cancer. Known risk factors that vary by race and ethnicity include: age at first period, age at meno-pause, age at first birth, number of children and postmenopausal hormone use

For example, compared to Hispanic/Latina women, white women are more likely to put off childbirth and to have fewer children, each of which increases the risk of breast cancer.

Although white women have higher rates of post-menopausal breast can-cer compared to African American women, African American women have higher rates of premeno-pausal breast cancer. There are a few possible reasons for this. African Ameri-can women appear to have more reproductive factors

related to breast cancer risk such as an earlier age at first period, more lifetime periods and higher blood estrogen levels.

There also appear to be differences in the biology of the breast cancers of whites and of African Americans. Although the reasons are not clear at this time, the basal-like/triple negative subtype of breast cancer is more common among African American women compared to other women [213-219]. Triple negative breast cancers are: Estro-gen receptor-negative (ER-), Progesterone receptor-negative (PR-) and HER2/neu-negative (HER2-).

These tumors have a poorer prognosis com-pared to other subtypes of breast cancer. They tend to be higher grade and have a greater number of muta-tions in the p53 gene—fac-tors also linked to a worse prognosis.

Although, data are lim-ited at this time, some life-style factors may play a role

in the higher rate of triple negative tumors among African American women. Some studies have found African American women tend to have lower rates of breastfeeding and tend to carry excess weight in the abdomen area, both of which may increase the chances of having triple negative/basal-like tumors.

In the United States, breast cancer risk is slightly higher among Jewish wom-en than among other wom-en. This increased risk is likely due to the high prev-alence of BRCA1 (Breast Cancer gene 1) and BRCA2 (Breast Cancer gene 2) ge-netic mutations in Jewish women of Eastern Euro-pean descent (Ashkenazi Jews).

BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the most well-known genes linked to breast cancer risk. BRCA1/2 mutations can be passed to you through your mother’s or your father’s side of the family and can affect the risk of both fe-male and male cancers.

While BRCA1/2 muta-tions are rare in the general population, between eight and 10 percent of Ashke-nazi Jewish women carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene.

Women who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation have an increased risk of breast cancer. Esti-mates of this increased risk vary greatly. Women who carry a BRCA1 gene mu-tation have a 60 to 90 per-cent chance of developing breast cancer by age 70. For BRCA2 carriers, estimates range from 40 to 85 per-cent. Women in the general population have about an eight percent chance of de-veloping breast cancer by age 70.

This means in a group of 100 women without a mutation, about eight will develop breast cancer by age 70 (about 12 by age 85). While in a group of 100 women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, between 40 and 90 will develop breast cancer by age 70. Be-

cause these numbers repre-sent average risk, the risk of breast cancer for any one

woman with a BRCA1/2 mutation may fall outside this range.

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The effects of race, ethnicity on breast cancer

This chart illustrates the breakdown of new breast cancer patients from 2004-2008 by race and ethnic-ity.

Over the past 20 years, progress in both early de-tection and treatment has led to improved survival for people of all ages and races, and with all stages of breast cancer. Between 1990 and 2009, breast cancer mortal-ity (death) declined by 33 percent among women in the United States.

The goal of treating early breast cancer is to get rid of the cancer and keep it from coming back. Treat-ment for early breast cancer includes some combination of surgery, radiation ther-apy, chemotherapy, hor-mone therapy and targeted therapy. These treatments are designed to remove the cancer from the breast and destroy any small amounts of cancer that might be elsewhere in the body.

Your breast cancer treat-ment plan is based on both medical and personal choices. It is tailored to your specific type of breast cancer (the biology of the tumor), the stage of the breast cancer and your per-sonal preferences.

Because of the differ-ences between tumors and between people, your treatment plan may dif-fer from another person’s, even though you both have breast cancer. Each treat-ment option has risks and benefits to consider with your own values and life-style.

Treatment for breast can-cer can be thought of in two areas: local therapy and sys-temic therapy.

Local therapy Local therapy is designed

to remove the cancer from a limited (local) area, such as the breast, chest wall and lymph nodes in the arm-pit (axillary nodes), and make sure it does not recur (come back) in that area. It involves surgery, either with or without radiation therapy to the breast area.

Systemic therapySystemic therapy (adju-

vant therapy) aims to get rid of cancer cells that may have spread from the breast to other parts of the body. It includes treatments such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy and targeted ther-apy. These drug therapies (either in IV or pill form)

can travel through the body to get rid of cancer cells that may have spread from the breast. Because systemic therapy is an adjunct to (in addition to) breast surgery, these treatments are often called adjuvant therapy.

How does your age affect your treatment plan?

No matter your age, your treatment plan depends on many factors, such as the type of breast cancer you have and the characteristics of the tumor. Your over-all health and any other health conditions you may have also play a role in your treatment plan. For example, if you have heart disease, some medications can cause more harm than good. All of these things help tailor your treatment plan.

Young women with breast cancer also have spe-cial concerns about early menopause and loss of fertility due to treatment. Learn about these issues for young women with breast cancer.

Throughout your treat-ment and beyond, you will receive care from many health care providers. Your health care team may in-clude: physicians (oncolo-gists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, radiologists and pathologists), nurses, dietitians, social workers, physical therapists, pallia-tive care specialists, patient navigators, pharmacists and other providers. These professionals may be in-volved in your care during diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

You may find it helpful to create a notebook or other organizer to keep track of your cancer treatments and your health care team. A three-ring binder often works well. The notebook should include:

• A directory of the names, addresses and con-tact information for your health care team

• Insurance information• Medication lists• Pharmacy contact in-

formation• Other medical informa-

tion• Calendar to help plan

and keep track of appoint-ments

Having a treatment plan in place is very important following cancer diagnosis

Most people diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States will live for many years.

Overall, the five-year rel-ative survival rate for breast cancer is 89 percent and the 10-year relative sur-vival rate is 82 percent [3]. Relative survival compares survival rates between peo-ple with breast cancer and the general population. So, people with breast cancer are, on average, 89 percent as likely as other people to live five years beyond their diagnosis.

It is important to keep in mind survival rates are av-erages and vary depending on each person’s specific

diagnosis and treatment. For example, the five-year relative survival for stage II breast cancer is 92 per-cent. This means women with stage II breast cancer are, on average, 92 percent as likely as women in the general population to live five years beyond their di-agnosis.

Women with stage 0 (ductal carcinoma in situ, DCIS) or stage I breast cancer are just as likely as women in the general population to live five more years. Moreover, these sur-vival rates are for people diagnosed up to 10 years ago. With recent advances in treatment and early de-

tection, people diagnosed with breast cancer today may have even greater sur-vival rates.

Once your breast cancer treatment ends, your life changes in many ways. You face a new set of issues and concerns. You may have side effects (like lymph-edema) or have issues re-lated to sexuality, fertility or menopause.

You may be concerned about family members get-ting breast cancer and also worry that your own can-cer will come back. There are things you can do that may ease many of these concerns.

Many people who are

employed at the time of their breast cancer diag-nosis return to work after treatment. Your health care provider can help you de-cide when (and if) you are able to return to work (part time or full time).

Going back to work can increase your emotional and social well-being. However, it can be physi-cally and mentally chal-lenging. You may need to adjust some aspects of your job, especially during the first months after treatment ends.

Having a supportive em-ployer can help ease the move back to the work-place.

Exploring the different types of breast cancerCannon News Services

Breast cancer is a univer-sal term to describe several different cancers that form in and around the breasts. Breast cancer types are generally categorized based on where the illness begins, most often in the ducts or lobules, the parts of the fe-male anatomy responsible for producing breast milk.

About 226,870 new cases of invasive breast cancer in American women will be diagnosed in 2012, while more than 22,000 Cana-dian women will be diag-nosed with breast cancer over that same time period.

The National Breast Can-cer Foundation lists seven different types of breast cancer. Here’s a look at them.

• Ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS)

This is an early form of breast cancer that refers to the presence of abnormal cells inside a milk duct in the breast. This type of can-cer is generally found dur-ing mammograms and is considered non-invasive. This means it hasn’t spread yet. This makes treatment for DCIS easier than for other forms of breast can-cer.

• Infiltrating ductal car-cinoma (IDC)

Also known as invasive ductal carcinoma, this is the most common type of breast cancer. According to BreastCancer.org, roughly 80 percent of all breast can-cer cases are IDC. This can-cer starts in the ducts, but “infiltrating” means that it spreads to the surround-ing breast tissue. Over time, IDC can spread to the

lymph nodes and possibly to other areas of the body.

• Medullary carcinomaThis is a less common

form of breast cancer. It is a type of IDC, but it gets its name from the color of the tumors, which are close to the color of brain tissue, or medulla. Medullary carci-noma is quite visible dur-ing mammograms because the cancer cells are large and form a barrier between healthy tissue and tumors.

• Infiltrating lobular car-cinoma (ILC)

The American Cancer Society says that 1 in 10 women will be diagnosed with ILC, which originates in the milk-producing glands of the breast. In ILC, abnormal cells inside

the lobule begin to divide and break through the wall of the lobule to invade the surrounding connecting tissues.

• Tubular carcinomaThis is a common can-

cer for women ages 50 and older. When viewed under the microscope, tubular carcinoma cells have a dis-tinctive tubular structure. There is a 95 percent sur-vival rate for tubular carci-noma.

• Mucinous carcinoma (Colloid)

This is a rare condition in which the breast can-cer cells within the breast produce mucus. The mucus and the cancer cells join to-gether to form a jelly-like tumor. The tumors may feel

like bumpy water balloons, but some are too small to detect with the fingers.

• Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)

This is a rare and very ag-gressive type of breast can-cer that causes the lymph vessels in the skin around the breast to become blocked. The cancer gets its name from the appear-ance of a swollen, red and inflamed breast.

Women are advised to get a baseline mammo-gram in their mid-30s and then annual mammograms starting at age 40. Early de-tection is generally vital for any form of cancer and is especially so for breast can-cer.

How to cope, survive post-treatment

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The Second Annual Pink Ribbon Brunch will be held on Saturday, October 20 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Gonzales Pres-byterian Church.

Held in celebration of October being Breast Can-cer Awareness Month, the event will feature a buffet of wonderful homemade goodies that have a break-fast flair and many that will have a luncheon flair.

The tickets are available for a $10 donation and there are a limited num-ber of tickets available. All funds raised will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Gonzales County 2013.

This year’s guest speaker will be from the Gonzales Memorial Hospital Foun-dation. They will be in-

forming about the new 3D Mammography Machine that is coming soon to the hospital.

Gonzales will be the first rural area in the state of Texas to have such high technology available. Even in the larger urban areas, this technology is fairly un-common. There was a lot of hard work that went into getting such cutting edge equipment and everyone is thankful for their efforts.

The Brunch will also fea-ture live music to dine by. A silent auction with loads of wonderful items will be available for those who are interested. It’s never too early to start holiday shop-ping.

There will also be a num-ber of door prizes. If anyone is interested in donating an

item to the silent auction or door prizes, please let us know.

The “Best Decorated Pink Hat Contest” is back by popular demand. Deco-rate a hat in pink, wear it in to the brunch and show it off to everyone. The one who gets the most votes from those at the brunch will win a prize.

There will be a prize for adult entries and one for student entries.

Dress in pink and join family, friends, and survi-vors for this great celebra-tion of hope.

For additional informa-tion, to make donations or purchase tickets, call Shari Johnson at 830-857-1149, Rebecca Flores at 512-669-8196 or Janice Williamson at 830-857-5694.

Second annual Pink Ribbon Brunch scheduled

Our Salute to All the Women who have beat breast cancer.

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