Victoria Advocate Aug. 19, 2012

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Egypt’s president to visitIran, a first in decades

CAIRO – Egypt’s PresidentMohammed Morsi will attenda summit in Iran later thismonth, a presidential officialsaid on Saturday, the first suchtrip for an Egyptian leadersince relations with Tehrandeteriorated decades ago.

The visit could mark a thawbetween the two countries af-ter years of enmity, especiallysince Egypt signed its 1979peace treaty with Israel andIran underwent its Islamicrevolution. Under Morsi’spredecessor Hosni Mubarak,Egypt, predominantly SunniMuslim, sided with Saudi Ara-bia and other Sunni-dominat-ed Arab states in trying to iso-late Shiite-led Iran.

Police release video inArk. patrol car shooting

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Po-lice video recorded the night ayoung man was fatally shot ina northeast Arkansas patrolcar while his hands werecuffed behind his back hasn’tresolved questions aboutwhether he shot himself in thehead as officers said.

Jonesboro police releasedfootage to news organiza-tions. They released morefootage Friday amid ques-tions about why the first batchof video appeared to end be-fore the officers found ChavisCarter, 21, slumped over andbleeding in the back of a pa-trol car on July 28 as de-scribed in a police report. Po-lice have said officers friskedCarter twice without finding agun.

I N B R I E F

UK, Ecuador seek solutionon WeikiLeaks founder

LONDON (AP) – Britain isseeking an amicable solutionwith Ecuador to their diplo-matic standoff over Wik-iLeaks founder Julian As-sange, a U.K. official insistedSaturday, as the se-cret-spiller prepared to makehis first public statementsince the Latin American na-tion confirmed it would offerhim asylum.

Assange, who took shelterin the Ecuadorian Embassyon June 19 after he exhaust-ed all routes of appeal in theU.K. to avoid extradition toSweden for questioning oversexual misconduct allega-tions, is scheduled to make apublic statement Sunday.

London diplomats havespoken with Ecuadorian Am-bassador Ana Alban since theSouth American countrygranted Assange asylum on

Thursday, a move whichthreatens to further compli-cate Sweden’s two-year longattempt to have the activistextradited from Britain.

British officials inEcuador’s capital, Quito,have also contacted the coun-try’s foreign ministry to dis-cuss a resumption of talksover the case, and to quellanger prompted whenBritain appeared to suggestit could invoke a little-knownlaw to strip Ecuador’s em-bassy of diplomatic privileges– meaning police would befree to move in and detain As-sange.

Assange, an Australian,shot to international promi-nence in 2010 when his Wik-iLeaks website began pub-lishing a huge trove of Amer-ican diplomatic and militarysecrets.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Rushingtoward their party conventions, therival presidential campaigns aretrying to invigorate core support-ers while reaching out to a sliverof undecided voters who harbordoubts about President BarackObama yet aren’t sold on Repub-lican Mitt Romney.

In the past week, the campaignshave engaged in a vigorous debateover Medicare, pushing aside theeconomy and jobs, for the moment.Romney has charged Obama withrunning a campaign based on ha-tred, Obama has renewed a fightover Romney’s tax returns, andthe issue of government spendinghas blossomed again.

These are the August seeds thatcandidates are planting withfence-sitting voters even as thecampaigns try to get backers ex-cited in time for the conventions.Republicans will gather in Tampa,Fla., in a week, and Democrats willbe in Charlotte, N.C., in the firstdays of September.

Romney’s selection of WisconsinRep. Paul Ryan as a running mategave supporters extra motivationbeyond their deep-seated antipa-thy toward Obama. In calling outObama as a divisive, angry cam-paigner, Romney stoked Republi-cans’ dislike of the incumbent andtried to cut into an Obama advan-tage, his likability even among vot-ers who take a dim view of his poli-cies or his performance as pres-ident.

At one point, Romney urged Oba-ma to “take your campaign of di-vision and anger and hate back toChicago.” The Obama campaignsaid Romney’s remarks were “un-hinged.”

Obama dug in on his populist ar-guments, casting Ryan as the epit-ome of wrong-headed budget poli-cies that will benefit the rich overthe middle class. His campaignchallenged Romney to prove hisassertion that he had not paid lessthan 13 percent in taxes over a10-year period.

“They’re asking you to pay morein your taxes, not to reduce thedeficit, or grow jobs, or invest ineducation, but to give another$250,000 tax cut to people making$3 million a year or more,” Obama

said.The tax rhetoric is a hit with the

Obama faithful, but it is also de-signed to cast doubt among unde-cided voters who are seeking areason to support Romney.

NATO, Taliban in war of words over Afghan civilian deathsKABUL, Afghanistan (AP)

– A suicide bombing at awedding, a deadly airstrikeon a village, grenades in amosque – hundreds ofAfghan civilians are dyingviolently this summer, whilethe Taliban and the NATOcoalition wage verbal war-fare.

A U.N. report says 1,145

civilians were killed and1,954 others injured duringthe first half of the year, 80percent of them by mili-tants.

But like other aspects ofthis decade-long war, factsare often obscured by per-ception and propaganda.

That has left both sideslocked in a battle of words,

crafted to win the Afghanpublic’s support.

The foreign forces and Tal-iban fighters have been issu-ing dueling statements eversince the conflict beganmore than a decade ago.Civilian casualties are thelatest focus of the informa-tion war.

In a message ahead of Eid

al-Fitr, the feast that marksthe end of Ramadan thisweekend, Taliban leaderMullah Mohammad Omarinstructed his fighters onceagain to avoid killing orwounding Afghan civilians.

“Employ tactics that donot cause harm to the lifeand property of the commoncountrymen,” the one-eyed

chieftain of the insurgencysaid in an eight-page mes-sage released to news orga-nizations.

It came days after at least50 people were killed inbombings and gun battlesthat erupted on either end ofthe country in the deadliestday of violence for civiliansthis year.

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MIDDLE EAST

CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Obama, Romney vie for undecided voters

ASSOCIATED PRESSPresident Barack Obama arrives at a campaign event Saturday in Windham,N.H., at Windham High School. The rival presidential campaigns are met with thechallenge of rallying core supporters while engaging undecided voters who haveyet to endorse either Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

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over the long run, whichshould support the work be-ing done in Victoria.”

The 336E excavator model –a 36-ton machine Jones saidcosts about $370,000 – is theonly model in production butthe plant will eventually pro-duce seven total, rangingfrom 12 to 49 tons, ChrisHeitzmann, Caterpillar’s hu-man resources manager, saidat a recent Victoria Chamberof Commerce luncheon.

The first four machineswere completed and shippedin June, Heitzmann said.

Jones said the companywould not say when othermodels would join the mix,but said Caterpillar was fo-cused on a thoughtful and de-liberate production ramp-up.

Once fully up and running,he said it would take aboutthree days, from start to fin-ish, to complete a machine.

Caterpillar in August 2010announced plans to locate itsNorth American hydraulicexcavator plant in Victoria. Aceremonial groundbreakingtook place in September ofthat same year, while thecompany officially brokeground in April 2011.

On Thursday, almost exact-ly two years after that initial

announcement, the companywill host its grand openingevent.

Although the processmoved along quickly, thecompany faced one minor ob-stacle when it came to erect-ing the walls.

Walls could only be liftedwhen winds were less than 25mph, Jones said, notingCaterpillar had to wait for ac-ceptable days to continue theprocess along.

Those walls made it up,however, and employeesmade their way into theirhome away from home.

And, so far, Jones said it’sgone well.

“We are very pleased withour reception into the com-munity and our ability to par-ticipate in community activi-ties,” he said. “Recruitingand hiring have been goingextremely well and we arevery pleased with our teamand the local workforce.”

As for the company’s corpo-rate level, it isn’t all business.There’s a sense of humorthere, too.

When asked where Cater-pillar’s Victoria plant fit intothe company, Chief Corpo-rate spokesman Jim Dugan’sresponse was simple.

“From what I understand,”he said, “it fits in Texas.”

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TIMELINEof Victoria’s Caterpillarplant:May 20, 2010: Caterpillardecides to pursue anexcavator facility in theUnited States

Aug. 12, 2010: Companyannounces plans tolocate in Victoria

Sept. 23, 2010: VictoriaEconomic DevelopmentCorp. hostsgroundbreakingceremony at Lone TreeBusiness Center

April 7, 2011: Caterpillarofficially breaks ground

January 2012: Firstpeople move intobuilding

February 2012:Caterpillar hires firstproduction employees

June 2012: Companyships its first fourmachines

Aug. 23, 2012: Companyto host grand openingevent

SOURCES: CHRIS HEITZMANN, OFCATERPILLAR HUMAN RESOURCES,

AND EVENT INVITATIONS

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CATERPILLAR: Company officials pleased withbusiness, community reception, local workforce

Did you know ...Victoria’s Caterpillar plant is doing its part

to prepare for hurricanes and other naturaldisasters. The company has worked with thecity’s Office of Emergency Management,while the corporate safety team makes sureit has emergency preparedness plans inplace. The local plant also has numerousbathrooms on-site that act as Federal Emer-gency Management Agency shelters, in

case the need to take cover arises.Caterpillar invests time and resources

into supporting the communities it callshome. Since its inception in 1954, The

Caterpillar Foundation, the company’sstrategic philanthropy program, has con-tributed nearly $500 million. So far this year,Victoria’s facility has supported more than25 local organizations and causes throughfinancial donations, employee volunteersand contributions to United Way’s annualcampaign.

SOURCE: JOHN JONES, SITE MANAGER FORVICTORIA’S CATERPILLAR PLANT

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Brazos County constable remembered

COLLEGE STATION(AP) – Compassionate.Humble. A good friend. Adedicated public servant.

Those were some of thewords that family andfriends used during a fu-neral service Saturday tofondly remember a law en-forcement officer who wasamong three people killedin a shootout near TexasA&M University.

More than 3,000 peopleattended the service forBrazos County ConstableBrian Bachmann at an are-na on the A&M campus inCollege Station. Amongthose in attendance werelaw enforcement officersfrom across the state, in-cluding Lubbock in WestTexas and Hidalgo County

in South Texas. A choir ofmore than 80 people fromBachmann’s Methodistchurch in College Stationsang during the service.

“Brian would sacrifice him-self for the benefit of others,

always,” his mother, CarmenBachmann said as she stoodon a stage above her son’sflag-draped coffin.

Authorities say Bachmannwas fatally shot Monday byThomas Alton Caffall III.

The 41-year-old constablewas trying to serve Caffallwith a court summons for be-ing two months behind onrent. Other officers fatallyshot the 35-year-old Caffall.

A bystander also was killed

in the shootout, and threepolice officers and a femalebystander were wounded.

Caffall’s family has said hewas suffering from an un-specified mental illness andhas stated, “It breaks ourhearts his illness led to this.”

During Saturday’s morethan 21/2-hour-long service,the Rev. Tommy Myrick, apastor at the constable’schurch, said Bachmann hat-ed serving evictions andwhen he would have to putsomeone out of their home,he would do whatever hecould to find them a new one.

“He would help them withproperty transport to a safeplace and the thing is hedidn’t have to do that,”Myrick said. “Brian was go-ing to try and find that guy(Caffall) a place to live,” hesaid. “There’s no doubt in mymind when he stepped out ofhis car (on Monday he was)thinking, ‘Where will I findthis guy a place to live?’”

CRIME VICTIM

ASSOCIATED PRESSBrazos CountySheriff Chris Kirk,left to right, gives aflag to DonnaBachmann as herdaughter CaitlynBachmann looks onduring the funeralservice for herhusband BrazosCounty Precinct 1Constable BrianBachmann at ReedArena on the TexasA&M UniversityCampus on Saturdayin College Station,Texas.

Officer wouldsacrifice himself forothers, mother says

Odessa mansuspectedin shooting

ODESSA – Odessa policesay a 24-year-old man hasbeen arrested after ashooting left one persondead and two injured in amall parking lot.

Police say BraushlyonRichardson turned him-self in at the police depart-ment Saturday. Police sayan arrest warrant chargesRichardson with murder.He was booked into EctorCounty Law EnforcementCenter, where an officialsaid an attorney was notyet listed for him.

Police were on their wayearly Saturday to the Mu-sic City Mall because somepeople were refusing toleave a bar and grill whenseveral 911 calls came insaying that shots had beenfired in the parking lot.

ARREST

Storms haltWest Nilespraying

DALLAS (AP) – Officialssaid they won’t spray by airfor West Nile virus in DallasCounty on Saturday night be-cause of storms, but expectto resume the work Sundayevening.

Storms interrupted aerialspraying on Thursday andFriday nights as well. DallasCounty spokeswoman MariaArita said they were able tospray about 88,000 acres withpesticide that targetsmosquitoes on Friday night.The remaining 222,000 acresare expected to be sprayedSunday evening.

The virus spread bymosquitoes has left 10 deadand more than 200 sick inDallas County, which is hometo 2.5 million people and thecity of Dallas. Officials say itwill be a record year for WestNile virus, and about half ofthe United States’ cases arein Texas.

The City of Dallas said in anews release that, on the rec-ommendation of Centers forDisease Control and Preven-tion officials, a second roundof spraying will be done inDallas County on Mondayand Tuesday nights. Thatround is meant to kill larvaethat hatched since the firstspraying event.

At a Saturday news confer-ence, Dallas County JudgeClay Jenkins asked people topray for no rain and lightwinds Sunday through Tues-day evenings so that theplanes could go up.

Although commonplace inother major cities, the pesti-cide efforts have provoked adebate in the Dallas area be-tween health officials tryingto quell the disease risk andpeople concerned about in-secticidal mist drifting downfrom above.

The Environmental Protec-tion Agency has said that theinsecticide, Duet, poses nosignificant threat to humansor animals, though it is toxicto fish and other types ofaquatic life.

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“Normally, you have to haveeverything in place by Oct. 1 –budget adopted and tax rateset,” Bowman said. “So Ihave to understand what therules are going to be in calcu-lating an effective tax rate –how that is done with a situ-ation like this. I don’t have ex-perience with that. No one inthe county does … And theschool has a tighter deadlinebecause their budget yearstarts Sept. 1.”

He also said he did notknow how expensive a legalbattle will be for the county.

The company filed the peti-tion in the 135th JudicialCourt on Thursday, accord-ing to Danni Sabota, a com-pany spokeswoman.

“We felt that the original

valuation of the property wasmuch higher than any othercoal plant in the state and wewanted to work with the ap-praisal district to negotiatewhat we felt was a more ap-plicable value for the taxbase,” Sabota said. “We hopethat we can come to anagreement before we go totrial.”

Sabota said the GoliadCounty Appraisal Districthas three weeks to reply tothe petition.

In the annual Appraisal Dis-trict appraisal notices, theplant was originally valued at$355.3 million, said Pat Bren-na, the county's chief apprais-er. The appraisal work wasconducted by Pritchard & Ab-bott Inc., a Fort Worth valua-tion and consultant compa-ny.

But the power plant had its

own appraisal conducted.Duff & Phelps, a Chica-go-based investment man-agement firm, set the valueat $200 million.

After the power companycontested the county's valua-tion, the Appraisal ReviewBoard lowered the value ofthe plant $26.7 million to$328.6 million on June 20.

From there, the companyhad until Saturday to protestin court.

Bowman said he did notknow how the county plans tohandle the situation.

“We have to have some timeto work on that and try to fig-ure out what the best ap-proach is going to be,” Bow-man said. “This is a new ex-perience for all of us.”

His first step, he said, wouldbe to get a copy of the petitionon Monday.

Using the $328.6 million val-uation and the current taxrates, the school districtcould earn about $3.7 millionfrom the plant and the county

about $2.2 million.Though the Goliad School

District is hoping to give staffmembers a 2-percent raisethis year, Superintendent

Christy Paulsgrove said in anearlier interview that if Cole-to Creek contests its value,the district may have to layoffemployees or cut programs.

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COLETO CREEK: School district could earn about $3.7M from plant and the county about $2.2M

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Offshore (Port Arthur to Port O’Connor)Offshore (Port Arthur to Port O’Connor) InnerInnerWatersWaters Wind south 6-12 knots today. Waves 1-3feet. Thunderstorms. Water temperature: 89.Outer WatersOuter Waters Wind south 6-12 knots today. Waves2-4 feet. Visibility under 2 miles in a thunderstorm.Water temperature: 89.(Port Arthur to Port Brownsville)(Port Arthur to Port Brownsville)Inner WatersInner Waters Wind southeast 8-16 knots today.Waves 2-4 feet. A thunderstorm. Water tempera-ture: 87.Outer WatersOuter Waters Wind south 8-16 knots today. Waves3-5 feet. A thunderstorm. Water temperature: 87.

Lake TexanaLake Texana Wind southeast 6-12 knots today. Watersmostly smooth. Visibility under 2 miles in a shower orthunderstorm.Lake ColetoLake Coleto Wind east-southeast 4-8 knots today. Watersmostly smooth. Visibility under 2 miles in a shower orthunderstorm.

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Canyon ............. 909.0 ............... 902.77 ............................ 64Texana ............... 44.0 ................... 43.13 .............................. 0Coleto ................. 98.5 ................. 96.26 .............................. 0Travis ................ 681.0 ................ 637.10 .............................. 0

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Statistics for Victoria through 6 p.m. yesterday.

Yesterday ending 6 p.m. ........................... 0.00”Month to date ................................................ 1.09”Normal month to date .................................. 1.43”Last year month to date ............................ 0.00”Year to date ................................................ 20.37”Normal year to date .................................. 25.54”Last year to date .......................................... 7.60”

Yesterday at noon ......................................... 49%

High/low ....................................................... 99/76Normal high/low ......................................... 95/74Record high ......................................... 104 in 2011Record low ............................................. 65 in 1992Peak wind ............................................ S at 18 mph

Sunrise today .......................................... 6:59 a.m.Sunset today .......................................... 8:03 p.m.Moonrise today ...................................... 8:58 a.m.Moonset today ........................................ 9:12 p.m.Sunrise Monday ..................................... 7:00 a.m.Sunset Monday ...................................... 8:02 p.m.Moonrise Monday ............................... 10:00 a.m.Moonset Monday .................................... 9:51 p.m.

Mon. 2012 2011 Avg. Rec.Mon. 2012 2011 Avg. Rec.Jan. 2.07 3.17 2.52 11.87 (1934)Feb. 2.95 0.39 2.08 9.08 (1992)Mar. 3.29 0.96 2.77 11.61 (1997)Apr. 1.20 0.03 2.82 11.70 (1997)May 2.31 1.58 5.19 14.66 (1993)June 1.39 0.90 4.46 13.50 (2004)July 6.08 0.57 4.18 20.34 (2007)Aug. 1.09 0.45 2.85 10.88 (1914)Sept. ---- 1.02 4.16 19.05 (1978)Oct. ---- 2.53 4.64 17.25 (1960)Nov. ---- 0.13 3.24 16.14 (2004)Dec. ---- 1.35 2.31 8.67 (1923)Year 20.37 13.08 41.22 73.70 (2004)

Mold...........................................Low.......................... 423Grass ..........................................Low................................1Pigweed.....................................Low................................1

Total............................................................................. 425

Port O’Connor water temperature ............................. 84°Port Aransas water temperature ................................ 87°Port Arthur water temperature .................................. 89°

Abilene 89 72 0.02 88/63/t 89/64/sAlice 103 75 98/74/t 93/71/pcAmarillo 94 67 80/56/pc 86/60/tAustin 92 75 0.38 94/67/t 95/66/pcBeaumont 88 73 0.87 90/70/t 89/69/cBrownsville 96 78 93/77/t 90/77/tBryan/C.S. 89 80 T 90/70/t 91/68/pcCorpus Christi 100 79 95/74/t 92/74/cDallas/FW 87 70 0.74 88/67/t 90/68/sDalhart 90 60 80/55/pc 86/58/t

Del Rio 100 82 92/74/c 97/68/pcEl Paso 91 69 0.06 91/71/t 91/76/sGalveston 93 83 T 91/80/t 90/77/pcHouston 94 73 1.07 92/75/t 92/75/pcKerrville 91 77 87/66/t 91/60/pcKingsville 100 77 96/74/t 91/74/cLaredo 103 80 99/79/pc 95/77/pcLongview 90 74 0.11 88/64/t 87/64/sLubbock 91 70 83/57/pc 85/60/pcLufkin 92 77 T 91/69/t 90/65/s

Marfa 81 64 83/61/t 82/61/pcMcAllen 102 79 98/78/t 95/77/tMidland 90 70 0.03 84/63/t 89/65/pcOrange 88 73 0.14 88/70/t 87/68/cPort Arthur 88 73 0.87 89/71/t 89/71/cPresidio 88 70 0.16 91/66/t 91/69/pcSan Angelo 87 72 0.07 85/63/t 90/62/pcSan Antonio 99 78 93/72/t 93/70/pcWaco 83 74 0.14 89/68/t 90/68/sWichita Falls 95 69 0.32 87/63/pc 92/64/s

GuadalupeGuadalupeGonzales .............................. 31.0 ............ 11.22 ............... -0.11Cuero ................................... 24.0 ............ 6.85 ............. -0.03Victoria ................................ 21.0 ............ 5.02 ............. +0.01Near Bloomington ............ 20.0 ............ 9.29 ............. -0.05San AntonioSan AntonioFalls City .............................. 12.0 ............ 0.53 ............. -0.02Goliad ................................... 25.0 ............ 2.56 ............. -0.05NavidadNavidadSublime ................................ 27.0 ............. 5.14 ............... noneSpeaks ................................ 24.0 ............ 2.67 ............. +0.01Morales .............................. 29.0 ............ 6.52 ............. -0.06LavacaLavacaEdna ..................................... 21.0 ............ 5.04 ............... noneColoradoColoradoWharton ............................. 39.0 ............ 7.54 ............. -0.03Bay City .............................. 44.0 ............. 2.13 ............. -0.06La Grange ........................... 26.0 ............ 3.45 .............. -0.01

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GoodAir quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollu-tion poses little or no risk.

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GoodAir quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollu-tion poses little or no risk.

Refugio93/74Beeville

93/72

Victoria92/70

Cuero94/70

Gonzales93/70

Hallettsville93/69

El Campo89/69

Edna92/70

Goliad93/71

Palacios91/72

Port Lavaca90/73

La Grange90/68

Karnes City94/72

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Today 9:20 a.m. 0.4 ft. 1:53 a.m. 0.1 ft.7:06 p.m. 0.5 ft. 12:50 p.m.

Mon. 7:59 a.m. 0.4 ft. 2:14 a.m. 0.2 ft.9:02 p.m. 0.5 ft. 1:52 p.m. 0.2 ft.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

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After dumping 2.6 inches of rain on Cape Hatteras,N.C., the day before, Hurricane Bob moved north-northeastward on Aug. 19, 1991. The storm rippedthrough eastern New England during the afternoon.

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Albuquerque 93 63 86/66/pc 89/68/tAnchorage 62 46 60/52/r 59/50/rAtlanta 87 69 0.08 83/69/pc 79/66/pcBaltimore 84 64 0.06 84/65/pc 81/62/tBaton Rouge 87 70 0.72 87/73/t 86/68/tBirmingham 85 71 0.34 87/69/t 81/66/pcBoston 74 65 0.04 76/62/pc 78/66/pcCharleston, S.C.90 72 0.01 90/74/t 88/72/tChicago 77 53 75/58/pc 76/61/pcCincinnati 81 59 80/58/t 79/57/pcCleveland 75 55 76/55/t 74/56/cDenver 81 57 84/56/s 84/56/tDes Moines 75 51 0.03 76/55/pc 77/56/pcDetroit 76 52 77/58/pc 77/55/pcFairbanks 68 44 69/46/pc 65/48/shHonolulu 88 72 88/74/s 88/74/sIndianapolis 78 54 77/58/t 79/59/pcJacksonville 91 73 91/72/t 87/73/tKansas City 84 57 79/56/pc 83/55/sLas Vegas 100 81 102/85/pc 104/89/sLittle Rock 79 70 0.20 82/63/t 88/62/pc

Los Angeles 94 71 87/67/pc 85/64/pcMiami 92 77 0.19 91/79/pc 91/79/pcMilwaukee 76 55 74/58/pc 72/57/pcMinneapolis 78 56 73/52/pc 76/58/pcNashville 84 65 84/62/pc 81/60/pcNew Orleans 88 74 0.35 87/75/t 86/74/tNew York 79 63 0.23 82/66/s 79/66/tOklahoma City 81 65 1.27 86/60/s 89/63/sOmaha 66 54 0.11 78/54/pc 83/53/sPhiladelphia 82 65 0.43 84/65/pc 79/66/tPhoenix 100 82 103/86/t 105/86/tPittsburgh 78 57 78/56/t 76/55/cRaleigh 86 67 86/68/t 83/65/tSt. Louis 83 61 79/61/t 82/61/pcSalt Lake City 95 68 92/66/pc 91/67/sSan Diego 86 72 77/69/pc 76/68/pcSan Francisco 68 58 T 67/54/pc 67/54/pcSeattle 71 58 75/55/pc 78/55/pcSyracuse 74 57 79/55/s 77/57/cTampa 83 73 1.27 90/76/t 91/76/tWash., D.C. 86 69 0.15 85/70/pc 82/70/t

TROPICAL STORM REPORTGordon will begin to weaken slowly on Sunday as itapproaches the Azores from the southwest. Gordon willthen weaken further as it moves east of the Azores andtoward Portugal early next week. Tropical RainstormHelene will bring heavy rainfall to northeastern Mexicoon Sunday and Sunday night as it continues to weakenover land. A tropical wave in the Atlantic could developin the coming days.

Decades after oil bust, West Texas’Permian Basin sees boom again

MIDLAND (AP) – Nearlythree decades ago, TexasMonthly ran a post mortemon the Texas oil industry withheadline reading “So long, itwas fun while it lasted,” and aforlorn James Dean figurehitchhiking out of town.

Back then, few would havequestioned such a dire as-sessment, as the mother ofall busts was destroying theWest Texas banking industry,making oil barons into carsalesmen, and turning partsof Midland and Odessa intojunkyards of rusting equip-ment.

Triggered by an oil glut thatcaused a relentless price de-cline, the crash of ’82, and thelong depression that followedchased most of the industrymajors out of the PermianBasin and an entire genera-tion of oil field workers intoother livelihoods.

“In 1983, they thought the oilindustry in Texas was done,”said Doug Robison, presidentof the Permian BasinPetroleum Association, whokeeps a worn copy of the July1983 magazine in his office.

But, as the saying goes, theobituary proved a trifle pre-mature.

As anyone who has tried torent a house, navigate trafficor lease drilling equipmentaround here knows, the goodtimes are rolling again. Astrong demand for oil cou-pled with refined hydraulicfracturing and horizontaldrilling techniques are tap-ping long untouchable, deepreserves.

What began a decade agoas a modest revival is now afull-fledged boom. The playextends across hundreds ofsquare miles of West Texas

and into New Mexico.The price of oil is hovering

around $90 a barrel downfrom a peak over $110 thisspring. But because of funda-mental changes in how oil isbeing extracted, some doubtthat a drop to $60 or $70 a bar-rel will kill the boom.

There are now more than155,000 producing wells, gen-erating revenue and requir-ing service for years to come.

“It’s unbelievable. This has50 years worth of life. They’llbe redrilling the entire Per-mian Basin,” said JimSmitherman, a Midland bankofficial.

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Two firereports yieldno injuries

Two reports of fires Saturday keptrescue workers busy, but neitherevent caused any injuries or signif-icant damage.

Victoria firefighters responded toa call at 9:15 a.m. Friday at Jim’sBig Burger on Glascow Street.

The caller said smoke was com-ing from the air conditioning unit.Capt. Adam Luther said the smokewas from a malfunctioning unit. Nofire was discovered.

At 8:13 p.m., the Victoria CountyFire Marshal responded to a callabout a possible electrical fire at ahome in the 100 block of BobbieCircle Drive. An official said an ex-tenstion cord shorted and causeddamage to a wall outlet. No fire wasdiscovered.

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Tell us about yourfavorite veterinarianThe Magazine of the Golden Crescent is accepting nom-

inations for the December issue for Top 5 Veterinarians.Do you have a veterinarian who has done wonders

with Marley, Tuck or Dolly? Tell us about an experienceyou’ve had with your pet and veterinarian in a letter (notmore than one page) detailing what makes your nom-inee one of the top veterinarians in the Golden Cres-cent. Email it to [email protected] or mail to:

Jessica Rodrigo/ GC Top 5Victoria Advocate311 E. ConstitutionVictoria, TX 77901Be sure to include the nom-

inee’s name, address, tele-phone number andemail address. Thenomination dead-line is Friday,Sept. 14.

Police work to scratch out auto theft

BY CATY [email protected]

Dozens waited in line Saturday intheir air-conditioned cars, playing withthe radio, texting and chatting as theyinched their way closer to the front.

Waiting on them were Victoria policeofficers and volunteers, armed withstickers and acid pens, ready tothief-proof their cars.

The task force against auto theftworked nonstop to etch Vehicle Iden-

tification Numbers and enroll peoplein H.E.A.T. – a statewide program toprevent auto theft.

“Anytime people enroll their vehiclein these programs, the car becomes somuch less desirable for a thief. It be-comes so much trouble, the moneythey are able to make off the vehicle isdrastically reduced,” said Chris Guer-ra, crime prevention officer with theVictoria Police Department. “So inmost cases, they will just leave the ve-hicle alone and find an easier targetbecause there will always be an easiertarget.”

Debbie Nitschmann, of Victoria, saidshe has never had her car stolen andshe intends to keep it that way.

“For safety, with all the crime nowa-days, it is best to keep yourself cov-

ered and protected,” she said. “I thinkit is great they are doing this.”

Though the event didn’t start until 9a.m., cars were lined up in the Park-way Church parking lot by 8:30 a.m.,Guerra said.

VIN etching on every window of a carmakes it more expensive and harderto remove the VIN from a stolen vehi-cle. It also deters thieves from stealing

Officers, volunteers etchidentification numbers,enroll people in auto theftprevention program

MISSED SATURDAY’SEVENT?Call the Crime Prevention Unit at361-485-3803 and schedule a freeappointment.

SEE VIN, B5

Some thinkGoliad trashcompactor ispolitical pawnBY CATY [email protected]

Residents of Goliad County in Precinct 3haven’t been able to use the local trash com-pactor for almost three weeks.

Instead, they are driving 14 miles into Goli-ad to dump their trash there or they burn it.

Jim Kreneck, county commissioner, said thecompactor in Weesatche is closed becausethe safety switch on the local trash com-pactor, bought in 2001, is broken.

Some residents, however, such as VickieBorgfeld, suspect Kreneck is punishing theprecinct after he lost the runoff election onJuly 31 against Ronald Bailey.

“It’s never broken before, and now it’s bro-ken the day after the election. It is just weird,the timeline,” she said.

She said Kreneck told residents before theelection he would close the trash compactor ifhe lost the race.

Kreneck said that is not true, and he cannotopen the compactor until the safety switch isfixed.

“I’ve had some ask when it is going to beopen, and I’ve told them as soon as I get theparts and can reopen it,” Kreneck said. “Ican’t open it in an unsafe condition. Goliad

CATY HIRST/[email protected] Guerra,crime preventionofficer for theVictoria PoliceDepartment,uses a templateand acid to etchthe VINs on carwindows atParkway Church.The event wasSaturday. Theprocess tookabout 15minutes and isdesigned todeter thievesfrom stealingthe vehicle.

CATY HIRST/[email protected] trashcompactor inGoliad CountyPrecinct 3 hasbeen closedsince Aug. 1,the day afterthe runoffelection.CommissionerJim Krenecksaid a part isbroken, butsome residentssuspectretribution fromthecommissioner.

SEE TRASH, B5

BY CATY [email protected]

Victoria East senior Dinah Retiz started her highschool career at East by running through the tunnel atUnleash the Beast.

And that’s how she is going to end it.“It is my third year to go through the tunnel, and I hope

we can all cherish it,” she said. “All the parents are soproud of what the kids are doing. It is just a great feeling– I don’t have any words to express it. My smile is goingto be huge, and I’m probably going to cry.”

Retiz, captain of the Ballet Folklorico squad, a tradi-tional Mexican dance group, said Unleash the Beast isthe perfect way to start the school year.

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PHOTOS BY MORGAN WALKER/[email protected] Spence laughs with her fellow cheerleaders during Unleash the Beast on Saturday evening at Memorial Stadium.

‘What we do’

Victoria East parents, studentsshow off school’s diversity

Dinah Retiz, captain of the Ballet Folklorico squad, dances during Unleashthe Beast.

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OB I TUAR I ESOBITUARIES COORDINATOR:ADRIANA MARTINEZ,[email protected]

Ben Isaacs, oldestPullman porter, diesTHE LOS ANGELES TIMES(MCT)

For more than threedecades, Ben Isaacsworked as a Pullmanporter, one of the uniformedrailway men who servedfirst-class passengers trav-eling in luxurious sleepingcars – a much-coveted jobfor African-Americans be-tween the 1870s and late1960s.

Isaacs, a charismatic cen-tenarian who was believedto be the oldest survivingPullman porter, died of kid-ney failure Wednesday athis home in Victorville,Calif., according to hisbrother, Andrew Isaacs. Hewas 107.

Andrew Isaacs said hisbrother, who in his lateryears went blind, was hos-pitalized Aug. 10 and re-leased a couple of days lat-er.

Born Sept. 8, 1904, inKansas City, Kan., BenIsaacs was one of five chil-dren of Breckenridge“B.R.” Isaacs, a butcher,and Cora, a school teacherand beautician.

In Los Angeles, Isaacsfound work as a chauffeur.But his life-changing plumassignment came in April1936 when he began work-ing as a Pullman porter, ac-cording to the Chica-go-based Newberry Li-brary, which keeps data onPullman employees.

The Pullman Palace CarCo. was most famous for de-veloping the railroad sleep-ing car. The company pri-marily hired African-Amer-icans, many of whom wereelevated to middle-classstatus by their jobs.

Family dog strickenwhile in airlines’ care

HOUSTON (AP) – A dog re-turning to the United Stateswith a soldier’s family waseuthanized after sufferingheat stroke in Houston whilein the care of United Air-lines.

Rachel Estes said that sheand her 5-year-old daughterwere returning to North Car-olina from South Korea,where her husband was com-pleting a tour of duty. Shesays the family’s two cats ar-rived in Charlotte, N.C., a dayafter the family’s arrival, buttheir 14-pound terrier had tobe euthanized at a veterinaryclinic in Humble.

The dog’s medical chart atAnimal Emergency clinicNortheast in Humbleshowed the dog arrived col-lapsed in its carrier “tangledup in harness, and heatstroke.”

United Airlines said itwasn’t responsible for thedeath.

Ex-county commissionerpleads guilty in drug case

EL PASO (AP) – A formerEl Paso County commission-er has pleaded guilty to drugcharges in a federal drugtrafficking case.

Willie Gandara Jr. pleadedguilty in federal court in ElPaso to drug trafficking con-spiracy and using a propertyfor marijuana manufactur-ing. Gandara faces up to 20years in prison on each countwhen he’s sentenced Nov.14.

He and associate JuanCanales were arrested inFebruary. Prosecutors ac-cused the pair of trying tosmuggle 124 pounds of mari-juana through a remotecheckpoint in Sierra Blancaby hiding the drugs in Chica-go-bound boxes of chili pow-der.

Canales pleaded guilty lastmonth to a drug conspiracycount.

Gandara’s arrest promptedhim to abandon a campaignfor a seat in the TexasHouse.

East Texas meat producer, US prosecutors settleLUFKIN (AP) – An East

Texas meat producer andfederal prosecutors have re-solved a U.S. Agriculture De-partment investigation ofmislabeled meat products.

U.S. Attorney John Balessays John Soules Foods Inc.,of Tyler, will tighten policiesto comply with meat inspec-tion laws and pay $392,000 toreimburse costs of athree-year investigation. Nocharges will be broughtagainst the fajita processing

and marketing company.Bales said investigators

found that in 2006-07, thecompany sold beef trimmingsthat had freezing problems toa broker as pet food. The com-pany, however, didn’t changelabels on the boxes and thebroker violated an agreementby selling it to another brokerwho resold some meat to theFederal Bureau of Prisons forhuman consumption.

Bales says there’s no evi-dence anyone became sick.

NICHOLAS WAYNE STEPHENSVICTORIA - Nicholas WayneStephens, 60, of Victoria,passed away on Wednesday,August 15, 2012.Nick was born December 15th,1951 to Ginny and LeonardStephens in Fort Worth, Texas.It was here in his earliest yearsthat he found friends that wouldstay close to him for theremainder of his life. Hegraduated from Coronado HighSchool and later attended TexasTech University where hebecame a devoted Red Raider,never missing a chance to holdhis "Guns Up!" for the world tosee.

After college he completed physical therapy school at TexasWomen’s University in Denton, Texas. In 1978 he moved to Victoria,Texas and began his career at DeTar Hospital with his long-timefriend Jerry Brown. He went on to become the founder and medicaldirector of Team Rehab Physical Therapy serving Victoria, Palaciosand Port Lavaca, Texas for over 20 years. He devoted his life tohelping others as a dedicated physical therapist that was wellknown, respected and tremendously loved by his community.Nick was at his happiest in Port O’ Connor, Texas on his boat in thedeep blue water amongst friends and family waiting on the next bigcatch, drink in hand and listening to the music he loved. If he wasnot there he and his loving wife could be found singing and dancinganywhere from the sweet sounds of Austin to the New Orleans JazzFest.Nick was a man who loved all of life and had the unique ability tomake those around him love it as well. He cared deeply for hischildren, always able to bring a smile to their faces and a laugh fromtheir lips. He loved his wife with all of his heart and it was evidentshe held the key to his heart, always making him smile. He adoredhis two sisters and they were in absolute love with him. He loved hisdog, Toby, both past and present. He was a loving and proud father,devoted husband, caring brother and a true friend.Best known for his piercing blue eyes, quick wit and sense ofhumor, charm, adventurous spirit and profound love for his friendsand family, Nick was, simply put, one of a kind.Even in his final days, with a beloved friend and his family by hisside, he had one last happy hour, smiled and tapped his foot to thebeat of his beloved Stevie Ray Vaughn.He is preceded in death by his mother and father, Ginny andLeonard Stephens.He lovingly leaves behind his devoted wife Priscella Stephens, ofVictoria; step-daughters, Adamiley Luna, Adriana Luna, and BrianaLuna, all of Victoria, and Stephanie Depew of San Antonio; sons,Nicholas Adam Stephens of Houston, and Miles Wayne Stephens ofCollege Station; sisters, Nancy Plemens of Dallas, and Carol Dorn ofCarlsbad, New Mexico; grandson Nicholas Tate Stephens, and fourstep-grandchildren. Nick also leaves behind more friends than canbe counted.Per his wishes there will not be a memorial service at this time. Hewished that those who knew and loved him would gather togetherwith smiles and laughs and raise a drink to celebrate the life that helived. Soon, Daddy, your wish shall be granted. We love you deeplyand miss you greatly.In lieu of the usual remembrances, please make donations inNick’s name to the Memorial Medical Center Giving Tree, 815 N.Virginia, Port Lavaca, Texas 77979.Grace Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

EMIL "JACK" BRAMDANEVANG - Emil "Jack" Bram,life-long resident of Danevang,passed away August 17, 2012 atthe age of 94. He was bornDecember 13, 1917 to the lateMarius and ChristineChristiansen Bram. He was aretired farmer and rancher.He is survived by his wife,Velma Gann Bram of Danevang;daughters Judy Cox andhusband Jim of Victoria, IdelleDukes and Gwen Perrin, both ofPearland; brother Elve Bram andwife Irene, sister-in-lawHenrietta Bram, of El Campo; 5grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. He was precededin death by his parents, daughterRita Piwonka, sisters JohannaSaman and Clara Sifford;brothers Walter, Carl, Raymond,Otto, Clarence, Oscar, and HarryBram.Visitation will begin 2:00 pmSunday at Triska Funeral Home,with the family receiving friends4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Funeralservices will be 10:00 amMonday, August 20, 2012, atFirst Baptist Church with Rev.Rick DuBroc officiating.Interment will follow at Gardenof Memories Cemetery.Serving as pallbearers areGerald Foltyn, Wilbert Hansen,Clifton Bram, Walter Lilie, Jr.,Emil Stepan and Brent Cerny.Honorary bearers are hisgrandchildren and great-grandchildren, nephews andnieces, great-nephews and great-nieces, Art Janke, EdmondHolub, Eugene Krenek, Tim"Zeek" Zaskoda, Donald Roades.Memorial donations may bemade to First Baptist Church ofEl Campo or Houston Hospice-ElCampo.Words of Condolence may beleft for the family atwww.triskafuneralhome.com.

VLASTA H. REYBURNYOAKUM - Vlasta HrabovskyReyburn, age 83 formerly ofVictoria and Yoakum, passedaway on Friday, August 17,2012.She was born on October 17,1928 in DeWitt County, Texas toLouis and Annie OrsakHrabovsky.She was retired and was aCatholic. She was a member ofthe Catholic Daughter’s.Survivors: brothers, RobertHrabovsky of Yoakum and Leon(Sandra) Hrabovsky of Daphne,Alabama along with many niecesand nephews.Preceded in death by: parents;husband, W. H. (Sam) Reyburn;sisters, Leona Hrabovsky andMildred Hrabovsky Arnold and abrother, Willie Hrabovsky.Rosary on Monday at 9:30 a.m.at St. Joseph Catholic Church inYoakum followed by a 10 a.m.funeral mass with Rev. MatthewHuehlefeld officiating. Burial atSt. Ann’s Catholic Cemetery.Pallbearers: MichaelHrabovsky, Brian Hrabovsky,Steven Hrabovsky and JamesHrabovsky.On-line guest book may besigned at www.thielecooper.comArrangements by Thiele-CooperFuneral Home 361-293-5656.

ANGELINA VALDEZ LOPEZBAY CITY - Angelina ValdezLopez, 59, of Bay City passedaway August 16, 2012 inHouston. She was born April27, 1953, in Bay City to the lateJohn Joe and Julia RodriguezValdez. Angelina was a life longresident of Bay City, worked forBay City Independent SchoolDistrict, and was a member ofOur Lady of Guadalupe CatholicChurch.She is survived by: herhusband, Rogelio Lopez of BayCity; daughter, Lorraine Lopezof Bay City; son, Jaime Lopez ofBay City; two sisters, CorrinaCortez of Van Vleck and Mary

Rose Cox of Bay City; four brothers, Jesse Valdez of Missouri City,John Joe Valdez Jr. of Bay City, Lorenzo Valdez Sr. of Bay City, andGuadalupe Valdez of Wharton. Angelina was preceded in death by:her parents, John Joe and Julia Rodriguez Valdez, and two sisters,Mary Guajardo and Mary Helen Paniagua.The Rosary will be recited at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, 2012at Taylor Bros. Funeral Home. The Mass will be held at 10 a.m.Wednesday, August 22, 2012, at Our Lady of Guadalupe CatholicChurch with Father Gerry Cernoch officiating.Interment will follow at Cedarvale Cemetery in Bay City.Pallbearers will be John Joe Garay, Jonathan Jimenez, VictorGusman, Lonnie Melchor, Mark Garza-Melchor, Enrique Lopez,Camerino Lopez Jr, and Joe Guajardo Jr. Honorary Pallbearers areall family, friends, and BCISD employees that worked with "Angie."Condolences may be shared with the family by visitingwww.taylorbros.net.Arrangements are with Taylor Bros. Funeral Home, 979-245-4613

WALTON "WALT" REYNOLDSVICTORIA - Walton "Walt"Reynolds, 72, of Victoria passedaway Friday August 10, 2012. Hewas born on January 17, 1940 inKenedy, Texas.He graduated from PleasantonHigh school and TexasVocational School in SanAntonio in Refrigeration, AirConditioning and Controls. Heserved in the U.S. Army andworked for Citizens MedicalCenter for 28 years.He is survived by wife of 34years Vivian Reynolds, sonsDavid Reynolds and KennethHarris Jr. and daughter JanineCook. Grand children JasonMatheny, Kelsey Cook, TommyRobles, Patricia Salinas, KennethHarris, III, Justin Reynolds andBret Reynolds. Great grandchildren Jaelynn Reynolds andLayla Reynolds. Brother DougReynolds, sister Jayne Bakerand numerous nieces andnephews. As well as hisEngineering Family at CitizensMedical Center. Memorialservice and burial will be at FortSam Houston National Cemeteryin San Antonio, Texas MondayAugust 20, 2012, 2:30pm.Memorial donations can bemade in Walt’s memory to theWarriors Weekend atwarriorsweekend.org or theDorothy H. O’Connor PetAdoption Center at docpac.net.

DARCELIA CORTINAS VERACORPUS CHRISTI - DarceliaCortinas Vera of Corpus Christipassed away on Thursday,August 16, 2012 at the age of52. She was born on August 30,1959 to the late Adolfo Cortinasand Manuela Cortinas. She issurvived by her mother andhusband Ismael Vera. She wasemployed at Sunside Creditunion. She went to school inGoliad, Texas. She was amember of St. Peters CatholicChurch in Annaville, Tx. Theydidn’t have any children but hadover 20 God Children. Visitationand Rosary will be on August20,2012 at ImmaculateConception Catholic Church inGoliad, Tx. Mass will becelebrated on August 21, 2012at Immaculate ConceptionCatholic Church in Goliad, Tx.Burial will follow at La BahiaCemetery in Goliad. GoliadFuneral Home, 361-645-1104.

CONCHA RAMIREZHOUSTON - ConchaConcepcion Ramirez, 84, passedaway, Thursday, August 16,2012 in Houston, Texas .Concha was born, August 4,1928, in Kenedy, Texas, thedaughter of, Juan Diaz andConcepcion Garcia Diaz. Shemarried, Bartolo P. Ramirez andwas a loving mother and wife.She is preceded in death by herbeloved husband; her parents; 1daughter; 3 sisters and 4brothers. Concha is survived byher 8 daughters and 4 sons.Visitation will be held, Sunday,August 19, 2012, at EckolsFuneral Home Chapel, Kenedy,Texas. Funeral mass will becelebrated at 2:00 P.M.,Monday, August 20, 2012, atOur Lady Queen of PeaceCatholic Church, Kenedy, withRev. Norbert Herman officiating.Interment will follow in theSacred Heart Cemetery.

ALFONSO "PONCHO" PUENTEKARNES CITY - Alfonso"Poncho" Puente, 76, passedaway, Thursday, August 16,2012.Poncho was born, April 17,1936, in Kenedy, Texas, the sonof the late Arnuflo Puente andSaragosa Puente. He was aretired water meter reader forthe City of Karnes City.She is preceded in death by hisparents and 3 brothers.Rosary will be held, Sunday,August 19, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. atEckols Funeral Home Chapel,Kenedy, Texas. Funeral masswill be celebrated at 10:00 A.M.,Monday, August 20, 2012, atOur Lady Queen of PeaceCatholic Church, Kenedy, withRev. Norbert Herman officiating.Interment will follow in theSacred Heart Cemetery.

DEATH NOTICES

VICTORIA COUNTY

TILLMAN, FLORENCE A.WHITE, 78, of Victoria, diedSaturday, August 18, 2012.Arrangements are pendingwith Barefield Funeral Home,361-557-6180.

DEWITT COUNTY

PULLIN, HOWARD, 69, ofCuero, died Saturday, August18, 2012. Services pendingwith Freund Funeral Home,361-275-2343.

MATAGORDA COUNTY

LOPEZ, ANGELINAVALDEZ, 59, of Bay Citydied Thursday, August 16,2012. Taylor Bros. FuneralHome, 979-245-4613.

ELSEWHERE

BRAM, EMIL "JACK", 94, ofDanevang, died Friday, Au-gust 17, 2012. Triska FuneralHome, 979-543-3681.

KORTH.MICHAEL TODD"MIKE", 49, of Rockdale,diedWednesday, August 17,2012. Phillips & Luckey Fu-neral Chapel, 979-542-3113.

RAMIREZ, CONCHOCONCEPCION, 76, of Hous-ton, died Thursday, August16, 2012. Eckols FuneralHome, 830-583-2533.

VERA, DARCELIACORTINAS, 52, of CorpusChristi, died Thursday, Au-gust 16, 2012. Goliad FuneralHome, 361-645-1104.

TODAY’S SERVICES

ARNECKE, HERMINEHARMS, 99, of Goliad: Fu-neral service 2 p.m. at St. An-drew’s Lutheran Church, in-terment following at St. An-drew’s Cemetery, Finch Fu-neral Chapel, Yorktown, 361-564-2277.

BLUDAU, BRENDA J., 52, ofKaty: Visitation 7 a.m. - 12:30p.m. at Kubena FuneralHome, funeral Mass 2 p.m. atSacred Heart CatholicChurch of Hallettsville, burialat Sacred Heart CatholicCemetery, Kubena FuneralHome, 361-798-3271.

BRAM, EMIL "JACK", 94, ofDanevang: Visitation 2 - 6p.m. at Triska Funeral Home,979-543-3681.

GRASMUCK, ALBINA, 94, ofBay City: Rosary 5 p.m. atTaylor Bros. Funeral Home,979-245-4613.

MEISMER, GLENDA CAROLBUTLER, 63, of La Grange:Visitation 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.with family receiving 5 - 7p.m. and Rosary at 7 p.m. atKoenig & Strickland FuneralHome, 979-968-3121.

ORTIZ, ALFREDQUIROZSR., 92, of Victoria: Visita-tion 4 - 6 p.m. with Rosary at6 p.m. at Rosewood FuneralChapels, 361-573-4546.

PILZNER, GREG, 59, ofYoakum: Funeral service 2p.m. at First Baptist Church,burial at St. Joseph CatholicCemetery, Thiele-Cooper Fu-neral Home, 361-293-5656.

PUENTE, ALFONSO "PON-CHO", 76, of Karnes City:Rosary 7 p.m. at Eckols Fu-neral Home, 830-583-2533.

RAMIREZ, CONCHACONCEPCION, 84, of Hous-ton: Visitation at Eckols Fu-neral Home, 830-583-2533.

SMITH, ELISE P., 90, ofSmiley: Visitation 5 - 8 p.m.at Finch Funeral Chapel, Nix-on, 830-582-1521.

VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Sunday, August 19, 2012 — B3VictoriaAdvocate.com

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Star Student and Top Teacher are two new features on the Your Schools page that spotlight area teachers and students who stand out among their peers. Weaccept nominations from anyone affiliated with a school campus including fellow teachers, students, principals, staff, coaches, parents, etc. For more

information or a nomination form, e-mail education reporter Kayla Bell at [email protected].

VBEC spotlight business: Mid-Coast Family ServicesFROM A NEWS RELEASE

The Victoria Business and Education Coalition is recog-nizing businesses that have shown a commitment to vol-unteering in Victoria schools.

Mid-Coast Family Services has been around since 1991and has 65 contractors. The company provides services tovictims of family violence, homelessness and substanceabuse.

This year their goal is to change to their primary fundingcontracts in the upcoming funding cycle.

Mid-Coast Family Services explains why the organizationwants to give back:Q: Why do you feel it is important to be involved inour educational system?A: Education is the future. If we fail in our educationsystem industry, innovation and social sectors are also af-fected.Q: In what ways have you been a volunteer for theeducational community?A:A daily presence in the Victoria school district as wellas the surrounding counties. Mentoring, education, artsenrichment and service work have all been part of ourexperience.

VBEC honorary mentor:Marc Hinojosa

New history,writing classesnow offeredQ: I’d like to start taking class-es at the University of Hous-ton-Victoria this fall. Are thereany new, interesting courses be-ing offered?A: The University of Houston-Vic-toria has a variety of new class of-ferings for students this fall, rang-ing from courses about top trendslike oil and gas to creative writing.

Energy is a hot topic in the Cross-roads region and around the world.To supplement this trend, the UHVSchool of Business Administrationcreated an online graduate levelclass called “Accounting for Oil and

Gas,” with an empha-sis on accounting forcosts incurred in theacquisition, explo-ration, developmentand production of oiland natural gas. Thistopic is so popular thatthe class is filling upfast.

If you are interestedin earning the new

bachelor’s degree in creative writ-ing offered by the UHV School ofArts & Sciences, there are a coupleof writing classes that might interestyou. All of the creative writing class-es are taught by published authors.

You can enroll in “Creative Nonfic-tion Writing” to learn about variousforms of nonfiction such as memoir,reportage, new journalism and es-say. Or take Reading for Writers,where you will develop the ability tobetter identify, characterize and un-derstand the style and technique ofsignificant prose and poetry writ-ers.

With the U.S. presidential electionaround the corner, people arebuzzing about the government. “In-troduction to Public Policy” will pro-vide insight into how the govern-ment works and teach you about dif-ferent policy-making institutionsand processes, as well as differentareas of public policy.

If you’re a history buff, you cantake Western Civilization to 1600 tolearn about the people, ideas, eventsand major trends that happenedfrom pre-history to 1600. Or takeHistory of Mexico and trace the ma-jor developments in Mexican historyfrom the pre-Colombian period tothe present, as you evaluate Mexi-co’s place in the current global econ-omy.

Want to learn about Latin Ameri-can culture? Do so by taking LatinAmerican Literature and examinemajor works of contemporary LatinAmerican authors.

With all these new options, nowyou just have to get registered. Ifyou’d like to attend UHV in the fall,it’s not too late. The fall semesterstarts Aug. 27. UHV has a continu-ous admission process, so there areno specific deadlines to meet.

However, students interested in at-tending fall classes are encouragedto apply as soon as possible to allowtime for processing and registra-tion.

For additional information aboutattending UHV, contact the Office ofAdmissions, at 361-570-4110 [email protected].

Do you have a question aboutthe University of Houston-Victo-ria? Contact Katy Walterschei-dt, UHV communications spe-cialist, at 361- 570-4342 or [email protected].

LOTS OF FISHIN THE SEA

BY CAROLINA [email protected]

CUERO – Teens dressed in asea of green and blue teesamassed in the Cuero HighSchool cafeteria Thursday morn-ing.

A total of 151 students showedup for their firstday of FishCamp, other-wise known asfreshmen orien-tation. Thisyear, the fresh-man classbroke the classsize record by31 studentswith 175 stu-dents enrolled.

In its seventhyear, the campis designed toget the newhigh school stu-

dents acclimated to the schooland policies, help them relax andmeet new friends.

“I remember being scared todeath,” said Rhonda Patek, thecamp’s coordinator, recalling herfirst day of high school. “By thesecond day of camp, the studentswill be a lot more at ease and youcan tell that they’re ready for thestart of the year.”

The Cuero school district paysfor the camp, said Michael Ca-vanaugh, Cuero High Schoolprincipal.

Students were split intogroups, each group named by af-ter different species of fish.

Sloan Vaught, Courtney Clarkand Jacob Helweg, all 14, wereplaced in the blue marlin group.

“Watch out, don’t let a shark eatyou,” said Jacob, as the studentsmade their way to the first work-

shop.Sloan and Courtney had just

finished volleyball practice.Courtney wore a green sparklyheadband and Sloan wasdressed in a gray, long-sleevejacket and ankle-length sweatpants.

“Aren’t you hot in that?” Jacobteased.

As the blue marlins settled intotheir first round of Gobbler Jeop-ardy, 17-year-old Kayla Hutch-ings sat against the wall whis-pering the answers to herself.

Kayla, a junior, attended thecamp to better familiarize her-self with the school. Kaylamoved to Cuero in June from

Mineral Wells, a city outside ofDallas.

“I’m kind of shy,” Kayla said. “Idon’t know a bunch of peoplehere, but other than that, it’s notso bad.”

Sitting a few feet away wasRyan Garcia, 14, who was gettinginto the game.

“Cha-ching!” Ryan exclaimedafter winning a few points. “I re-ally want to win a lollipop.”

Ryan, along with Jacob, justjoined the freshmen footballteam.

“I want to go far in football,”Ryan said.

Next up was the drug dogworkshop, where dog handler

Roy Burris introduced his dog,Wilson, to the freshmen class.

One by one, Wilson detectedand pointed out locations whereBurris had hid small bottles ofalcohol and a metal case of mar-ijuana.

“We have to invest into ourkids, and prepare them for eachstage of life,” said Ken McCarthy,a case manager at the Cueroschool district. “Us being adults,we’ve already been down theseroads, it’s our responsibility toteach them.”

McCarthy spent the afternoongetting kids into line for the gog-gles test that simulated the ef-fects of alcohol. They attemptedto drive a go-cart while wearingthe goggles.

“I couldn’t put foot to foot,”14-year-old Donovan Cardenessaid. “My feet moved left to rightand I kind of stumbled. I couldn’twalk straight at all.”

Kids hit orange road cones withtheir go-carts while riding withCuero Police Department offi-cers.

Cavanaugh said he had about10 people from his staff workingto get the freshmen acclimatedto the Gobbler way.

“I don’t want them going toschool with a lump in their stom-ach,” Cavanaugh said. “It’s justsomething that has to be done.”

Orientation helpsnew freshmenlearn policies,make new friends

KATYWALTERSCHEIDTCOLLEGE Q&A

WHERETHE FISHARE FROM■ CUERO ISD:145

■ MEYERSVILLE:20

■ OUT OF THEAREA: 10

■ TOTALINCOMINGFRESHMAN:175

CAROLINA ASTRAIN/[email protected] dog handler Roy Burris introducedincoming freshmen to his dog Wilson anddemonstrated how the dog can easily detect alcoholand illegal drugs during Cuero High School’s FishCamp.

CAROLINAASTRAIN/[email protected] wearingdrunk goggles,Kerstin Timpone,14, gets into ago-cart with Sgt.Sam Saunders,with the CueroPolice Department,to experience whatit’s like to drivewhile intoxicated atCuero HighSchool’s FishCamp.

CAROLINAASTRAIN/[email protected], 14,and histeam playa game ofGobblerJeopardyat CueroHighSchool’sFish Camp.

FROM A NEWS RELEASE

The Victoria Business and Education Coalition ishonoring mentors who donate their time to work withstudents in Victoria schools.

This week’s spotlight mentor isMarc A. Hinojosa, an independentmentor of two students at HopkinsAcademy.Q: How long have you been amentor for the district?A: Six yearsQ: What made you decide to bea mentor?A: I was always involved with mychildren during their school days, so mentoring wasa no-brainer. I guess I became familiar with theprogram at Hopkins Academy during my grand-son’s years at the school. I was a regular visitor atthe school at his lunch break, so I developed a rap-port with his fellow students and the faculty.

Hinojosa

Q: What do you feel you bring to the student?A: Children at these ages are so impressionable, so anypositive influence works in their favor.Q: What do you enjoy most about mentoring?A: Working with children in any capacity is a rewardingexperience. Reading is such a valuable tool and mentor-ing enhances that resource.Q: What have you learned by the student, education-al system, etc. that has enlightened you?A: Everyone wins through the mentoring experience.We, as mentors, provide support to our learning systemand the kids reap the benefits for years to come.

Editor’s note


EDUC AT IONPAGE DESIGNER: JESSICA RODRIGO,[email protected], COPY EDITOR:ESTHER PEREZ, [email protected]

UHV,HoustonCommunity College extend partnership to benefit studentsFROM A NEWS RELEASE

A new agreement be-tween the University ofHouston-Victoria and Hous-ton Community College willmake it easier for studentsto earn an associate degreeon their way to obtaining abachelor’s degree.

Starting this fall, HCC stu-dents who transfer to UHVcan complete their associ-ate degree by taking UHVcourses. The same classesalso will count toward earn-ing a UHV bachelor’s de-gree.

This marks the first re-verse articulation agree-ment signed by UHV with acommunity college partner.

“This agreement not only

strengthens the partner-ship between the Universi-ty of Houston-Victoria andHouston Community Col-lege, but it also allows stu-dents to finish their associ-ate degree either before orafter transferring to UHV,”President Phil Castille said.“At the end of the day, bothinstitutions want to make iteasier for students to at-tend college and earn de-grees. With classes inGreater Houston, Victoriaand online, the pathwayfrom HCC to UHV will be aseamless transition to allowstudents to earn an associ-ate degree and bachelor’sdegree.”

HCC Northwest President

ZacharyHodgessaid he ap-preciatesthe part-nershipwith UHV.

“Thesetypes ofpartner-ships arethe futureof higher education, and Iam glad we are leadingrather than following,”Hodges said. “Reverse ar-ticulation, sending classesback to allow students tofinish their associate de-gree, is one more tool thatwill produce more gradu-ates for the Houston area.”

With more than 55,000 stu-dents, HCC is the fourthlargest community collegesystem in the United States.HCC offers two-year aca-demic degrees, workforcecertifications, continuingeducation classes, adult ed-ucation classes and highschool dual credit courses.

UHV offers more than 60bachelor’s and master’s de-

gree programs and concen-trations in the arts and sci-ences, business adminis-tration, education and hu-man development, andnursing fields.

UHV will offer 11 classesfor the first time this fall atthe HCC Katy campus. Thejunior- and senior-levelclasses, along with onegraduate class, will takeplace one afternoon orevening a week at HCCNorthwest, 1550 FoxlakeDrive, close to the Inter-state 10 and Fry Road inter-section. The courses areopen to any UHV student,including HCC studentswho have been accepted in-to UHV.

Math professor invites teachers to focus on fractionsFROM A NEWS RELEASE

A free workshop for Victoriateachers on Friday will focuson how to help students learnand remember fractions.

The program is open tokindergarten throughsixth-grade teachers at pub-lic, private and homeschools.

Teachers are asked to bringscissors and markers.

Barba Patton, a UHV asso-ciate professor of math edu-cation, will present interac-tive activities designed tohelp students understand

and remem-ber frac-tions. Infor-mation alsowill be pre-sented abouthow to avoidcommonfraction mis-conceptions.

Gettingstudents to retain informa-tion about fractions has anumber of state test and reallife benefits, Patton said. Forexample, on the state mathtests, fractions are embed-

Job fair brings students, local businesses together

FOR MORE INFOFall classes at UHV beginAug. 27. For moreinformation about how toenroll, contact the UHVOffice of Admissions at361-570-4110 [email protected].

UHValumnusworks hisway intomedicalschool

FROM A NEWS RELEASE

While studying at the Univer-sity of Houston-Victoria, BrianRuss spent his nights as anemergency medical technician

and his daysporing overbiology andchemistrybooks.

This month,Russ, 22, be-gan takingclasses atRocky VistaUniversityCollege of Os-

teopathic Medicine in Parker,Colo. He is studying to becomean emergency room physi-cian.

Russ said the classes in biol-ogy and chemistry he took atUHV helped prepare him formedical school. He appreciat-ed the convenience of onlineclasses and having faculty andresources nearby at UH SugarLand, where UHV offers manyof the programs.

“I don’t think I could haveworked as much as I did if Iattended any other universi-ty,” Russ said. “UHV did agreat job preparing me forthis. As a result, I think I maybe ahead of some of my class-mates.”

Russ started out as a hospi-tal volunteer when he was 16,and later worked as an emer-gency medical technician forfour years at Memorial Her-mann in Houston.

“Sometimes, I worked 70hours a week at the hospital tohelp put me through college,”Russ said.

Russ said Richard Gunasek-era, a UHV professor of biol-ogy and director of graduatebiology programs, not onlyhelped him in the classroom,but also wrote a recommenda-tion letter for medical schoolfor him.

“A number of UHV facultymembers assisted me in get-ting here,” Russ said.

Jeffrey Di Leo, dean of theUHV School of Arts & Science,said he’s glad Russ was able toget started with medicalschool right away.

“Brian clearly has a brightfuture ahead of him,” Di Leosaid. “We are proud of what hehas accomplished and are ex-cited to follow his career.”

Hodges

Russ

FROM A NEWS RELEASE

UniversityofHouston-Victoriastu-dents looking to earn supplementalincome are invited to the universi-ty’s Part-Time Job Fair on Aug. 29.

The job fair will be from 1-3 p.m. inthe Multi-Purpose Room of Univer-sity Center, 3007 N. Ben Wilson St.The event, organized by UHV Ca-reer Services, is free for studentsand employers.

“Many of UHV’s new students arejust moving to Victoria and are notfamiliar with the area,” said AmyHatmaker, UHV Career Servicesspecialist.

Representatives from area retail,food service and media businesses,nonprofit organizations, and gov-

ernmental agen-cies, includingUHV, will be at thefair looking for po-tential employees.Students are en-couraged to dressappropriately andbring resumes.

Job fair partici-pant KennethButschek, owner of Liberty Tax Ser-vice, said he and other employerswill be understanding of students’school schedules and will workaround them.

“As a parent, I think grades arevery important,” he said.

The job fair was started in 2010 in

conjunction with the first UHVfreshman class. With so many newstudents needing supplemental in-come and not enough jobs on cam-pus for them, UHV started the jobfair to bring together students andcommunity business owners.

With more than 14 companies al-ready signed up and more expected,

this year’s businesses offer a largevariety for students. Some of thebusinesses scheduled to attend in-clude AT&T, Boys & Girls Club ofVictoria, H-E-B, Texas Departmentof Criminal Justice, Ventura’sTamales, Victoria Advocate, Victo-ria Television Group, YMCA andWalmart.

IF YOU GO:■ WHAT: University of Houston-VictoriaPart-Time Job Fair

■ WHEN: 1-3 p.m. Aug. 29■ WHERE: Multi-Purpose Room ofUniversity Center, 3007 N. BenWilson St.

■ COSTS: Free

FOR BUSINESSES■ REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Aug. 27■ AMENITIES: Tables, electricity andWi-Fi

■ PHONE: 361-570-4378■ EMAIL: [email protected]■ WEBSITE: myinterfase.com/uhv/employer/home.aspx

CISD hires new school resource officer

EXPANSION

DEVELOPMENT

RECOGNITION

Patton

IF YOU GO■ WHAT: The “Motivation:Making Factions UserFriendly” in-service training

■ WHEN: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.Friday

■ WHERE: Alcorn Auditorium ofUHV University West, 3007 N.Ben Wilson St.

ded in 60 to 70 percent of thequestions. While the test maynot directly ask about a frac-tion, students need to knowfractions to answer the ques-tions correctly.

“Students will learn later inlife that fractions are every-where,” Patton said. “You usethem for shopping, time,money, cooking, travel – thelist goes on and on.”

R.S.V.P.Registration Deadline: 5p.m. ThursdayTo RSVP or for moreinformation, contact BarbaPatton at [email protected] 361-570-4263.

FROM A NEWS RELEASE

Officer John White is theCuero Police Department’snew school resource officer.

White began his career asa law enforcement officer in2002.

“Safety of our students ismy No. 1 priority. They needto feel safe on our campusesand safe in the classroom,”White said.

School resource officerswere introduced to Cueroschool district initiallythrough a collaboration be-tween the Cuero Police De-partment and the school dis-trict in a 1999 US Depart-ment of Justice COPSGrant.

In 2008 the CISD SMARTChoices program, fundedthrough a SafeSchools/Healthy Studentsfederal grant, continued thecollaboration and added asecond SRO.

As these funds have beenphased out, an interlocalagreement between the twoinstitutions continues thepartnership, which provides

a safe school environmentand law enforcement visibil-ity throughout the district asa positive role model to de-ter crime and delinquency.

White attended VictoriaCollege Police Academy andwas a patrol officer forCuero Police Departmentuntil 2005.

He received his SRO certi-fication in Galvestonthrough a rigorous curricu-lum provided through thestate. He worked for the Vic-toria Police Department forfive years as a school re-source officer assigned toMitchell Guidance Centercampus.

“I’m glad to be back,” heremarked.

The department will hire asecond school resource offi-cer. One will be based at thehigh school and cover boththe high school and juniorhigh campuses.

The other will work withthe pre-kindergartenthrough sixth-grade cam-puses.

“We want to be visible and

be proactive in the commu-nity,” said Sgt. Sam Saun-ders, Community ServicesDivision of the Cuero PoliceDepartment.

He is also developing a

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOOfficer John White was named the Cuero Police Department’s new school resource officer onJuly 23. He worked for the Victoria Police Department for five years as a school resourceofficer assigned to Mitchell Guidance Center campus.

HJM Elementary to host open houseevent for Pre-K through fifth gradesFROM A NEWS RELEASE

HJM Elementary, 605 N.Commerce St., Port Lava-ca, will host an open housefrom 5:30-7 p.m. Thursdayfor Pre-K through fifthgrade students.

Students will have an op-portunity to meet theirteacher and classmates.They will get to see theirclassroom, and parents

can ask the teacher ques-tions about the first day ofschool. Other general in-formation will be sharedwith parents on thisevening.

Parents are asked to re-port directly to theirchild’s homeroom. Class-rooms will be posted onthe evening of openhouse.

specialized education pilotprogram to be launched inthe Cuero school district in2013-14.

“I believe our CISD schoolresource officer has a posi-

tive impact on our studentbody as he gets to know ourkids and relates to them on apersonal level,” said schooldistrict superintendent JimHaley.

TRAINING

DEWITT COUNTY

BACK-TO-SCHOOL

‘I worked 70 hours aweek... to help putme through college,’former student says

Butschek

VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Sunday, August 19, 2012 — B5VictoriaAdvocate.com

CROSSROADSPUBLIC SAFETY

Passingschoolbuseshasconsequences

This week’s traffic law isfound in The Texas Trans-portation Code,

Sec.545.066. Passing aschool bus; offense.

(a) An operator on a high-way, when approachingfrom either direction aschool bus stopped on thehighway to receive or dis-charge a student:

(1) Shall stop beforereaching the school buswhen the bus is operating avisual signal as required bySection 547.701; and

(2) May not proceed until:(A) The school bus re-

sumes motion;(B) The operator is sig-

naled by the bus driver toproceed; or

(C) The visual signal is nolonger actuated.

(b) An operator on a high-way having separate road-ways is not required tostop:

(1) For a school bus thatis on a different roadway; or

(2) If on a controlled-ac-cess highway, for a schoolbus that is stopped:

(A) In a loading zone thatis a part of or adjacent tothe highway; and

(B) Where pedestriansare not permitted to crossthe roadway.

(c) An offense under thissection is a misdemeanorpunishable by a fine of notless than $200 or more than$1,000, except that the of-fense is:

(1) a Class A misde-meanor if the person caus-es serious bodily injury toanother; or

(2) a state jail felony if theperson has been previouslyconvicted under Subdivision(1).

(d) The court may orderthat the driver's license of aperson convicted of a sec-ond or subsequent offense

under this section be sus-pended for not longer thansix months beginning onthe date of conviction. Inthis subsection, “driver’s li-cense” has the meaning as-signed by Chapter 521.

(e) For the purposes ofthis section:

(1) a highway is consid-ered to have separate road-ways only if the highwayhas roadways separated byan intervening space onwhich operation of vehiclesis not permitted, a physicalbarrier, or a clearly indicat-ed dividing section con-structed to impede vehicu-lar traffic; and

(2) a highway is not con-sidered to have separateroadways if the highwayhas roadways separated on-ly by a left turn lane.

Why the emphasis on thisparticular law?

With the new school yearquickly approaching us, it istime we remind ourselvesof the traffic laws regardingschool buses as well as oth-er school zone issues. I willaddress more laws regard-ing school zones and schoolbuses over the next fewweeks.

The Victoria Police De-partment Traffic SafetyUnit reminds you to drivesafe. The life you save maybe your own.

If you have a traffic lawquestion, contact SeniorPatrol Officer Zac De LaRosa, Victoria PoliceDepartment TrafficSafety Unit, 361-485-3700.

Nashville songwriting stars perform for charity

BY CAMILLE M. [email protected]

Allen Shamblin has writtenhis way into stardom in themusic circuit.

The 53-year-old Franklin,Tenn. resident moved fromthe Lone Star State to theMusic City with $1,500 in hispocket and 14 songs underhis belt.

Victoria fans will have thechance to hear the story be-hind the melody in the Char-ity Concert Series at the LeoJ. Welder Center on Thurs-

day.Shamblin will perform with

fellow songwriters Mike Reidand Austin Cunningham.

The former real estate ap-praiser decided to pursue hiscreative passion.

“All my life, I had a love forwords and music,” he said.

Shamblin gained nationalnotoriety in the songwritingcommunity with RandyTravis’ version of “He Walkedon Water.”

The father of three haswritten songs recorded byWillie Nelson, Dolly Partonand Kenny Rogers.

His most recent hit, “TheHouse That Built Me,” wassung by platinum music jew-el Miranda Lambert.

Reid, a former NFL playerwith the Cincinnati Bengals

turned songwriter will alsoperform at the concert. Hiscredits include winning aGrammy award for RonnieMilsap’s hit “Stranger in MyHouse” and “Fallin’ For Youfor Years,” by Conway Twit-ty.

Cunningham, a Texas na-tive, has penned more than900 songs that have beenrecorded by artists such asHank Williams Jr., and Mar-tina McBride.

Shamblin said the perfor-mance with fellow songwrit-ers will be some down-homefun.

“We’re going to tell the sto-ries behind the songs andhave a great time in music,”he said.

Proceeds from the showbenefit The Lion’s Club, The-atre Victoria and BluebonnetYouth Ranch.

Claud Jacobs, one of theBluebonnet founders, saidthe audience is in for atreat.

“These writers are prolific,”Jacobs said.

CHARITY CONCERTSERIES: NASHVILLESONGWRITERS■ Mike Reid, Allen Shamblin,Austin Cunningham

■ When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday■ Where: Leo J. WelderCenter, 214 N. Main St.,Victoria

■ How much: $25■ For more info:361-570-8587 or online attheatrevictoria.org.

ENTERTAINMENT

‘Prolific’ writers’event will benefitLion’s Club, TheatreVictoria, youth ranch

cars for parts, because win-dow glass is one of thebiggest money makers at“chop shops,” Guerra said.

The other program offeredSaturday, Help End AutoTheft (H.E.A.T.), is sponsoredby the Texas Department ofPublic Safety and helps offi-cers identify stolen vehicles.Those enrolled have decalson their front and back win-dows, allowing officers to pullthe vehicle over between 1and 5 a.m., when most vehi-cles are stolen, to verify own-ership.

The department etchedVINs on 73 cars and enrolled63 cars in H.E.A.T. on Satur-day.

Officers at the free eventsaid etching only costs about6 cents a vehicle. Car dealer-ships, however, charge be-tween $200 and $300 for VINetching as an anti-theft pack-

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VIN: ‘Our goal is to prevent auto theft,’ detective says of event

age.Detective Adam Rodriguez

with the motor vehicle theftand burglary task force saidSaturday’s event is just oneway the department is proac-tive about theft.

“Our goal is to prevent autotheft by many differentmeans,” he said “EtchingVIN numbers lowers thechance of the vehicle beingstolen. In the community ofVictoria, we have a proactiveauto theft division andthieves know that. So it keepsour numbers lower and theftis reduced.”

The task force was namedthe Texas Automobile Bur-glary and Theft PreventionAuthority Task Force of theyear by the Texas Depart-ment of Motor Vehicles in Ju-ly.

The Victoria task force,which is funded by grants,has seen a 66-percent de-crease in vehicles stolen

since the task force started in1994.

Scott Douglas, of Victoria,registered his car in theH.E.A.T. program and had hiswindows etched as a precau-tion against theft.

“It provides a sense of com-munity between the policeand the citizens,” he said,waiting in the long line for histurn. “It is good to see taxdollars going to some good.”

Guerra said the crime pre-vention unit also offers freeetching by appointment, forthose who missed Saturday’sevent. Etching takes 10-15minutes.

“You are never going tocurb the crime completely, aslong as people fail to protecttheir vehicles,” Guerra said.“The more people that wecan get to engage in theseprograms, the harder it willbe for thieves to find theirtargets.”

CATY HIRST/[email protected] with

the auto thefttask force for the

Victoria PoliceDepartment usea template and

acid to etch theVIN numbers on

car windows.

County has another trash fa-cility in Goliad, and residentscan take their trash there.”

County Judge David Bow-man said his office has re-ceived dozens of calls aboutthe closed compactor, but hehas not looked into the situ-ation.

“It is up to him. A com-pactor is operated with fundsout of his budget,” Bowmansaid. “It is like any other pieceof equipment a commission-er would have, it is his pre-rogative on how he uses it.”

Dr. Zena Trcka, of

Weesatche, said she believesthe compactor is broken, butthat Kreneck needs to focuson finding a solution.

“I don’t think this is mali-cious, but something needsto be done regardless be-cause it is important to thecommunity,” she said.“There are widows and otherpeople and they can’t be ex-pected to burn their trash,and it is such a distance.”

Kreneck said he has or-dered the part, which keepsthe compactor from operat-ing when the door is open,from a company in Houston.He said the part is on back

order, but he is expecting itnext week.

“That machine is operatedat my discretion,” Krenecksaid. “That is not a mandatedmachine by Goliad County orby law. It was put in with mybudget money, and I’m thesole operator of it.”

Borgfeld said Kreneck hasbeen a good commissioner,but fixing the compactorneeds to be high on his list ofpriorities.

“To me, win or lose, he stillhas a job to do,” Borgfeld said.“He is still collecting a pay-check and he needs to do thejob to the best of his ability.”

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TRASH: County judge has received dozens of calls

TEXAS Texan drowns inOklahoma river

BROKEN BOW, Okla. (AP) –The Oklahoma Lake Patrol saysa Texas man has drowned whilekayaking on the Mountain ForkRiver in southern Oklahoma.

Troopers say 64-year-old GaryBurton of Quinlan, drowned inthe river about three miles eastof Broken Bow.

Troopers say a witness report-ed seeing Burton’s kayak flipThursday afternoon – then sawBurton swimming toward thekayak when he suddenlystopped swimming.

Investigators say the witnesswas able to pull Burton to shore– but was unable to resuscitatehim.

Houston man gets prisonfor online prostitution

HOUSTON (AP) – AHouston man has been sen-tenced to more than nineyears in prison in a prosti-tution case involving hotelsand online advertisements.

A federal judge in Houstonon Thursday sentenced30-year-old Jerald Bland.Bland in January pleadedguilty to transportation of awoman for commercial sex.

Prosecutors say Bland in2010 transported the wom-an to Beaumont and to

Louisiana. Investigatorsused online ads and corre-sponding hotel records inseveral Louisiana cities, in-cluding New Orleans, LakeCharles, Lafayette and Ba-ton Rouge.

Several hotel employeesrecognized Bland and thewoman as guests.

Prosecutors say Blandkept all the money the wom-an earned. Further detailson her were not immediate-ly released.

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TITANS: Booster clubs started event to kick offthe first year of Victoria East, principal says

“I think it is very important becausewe get to show off everything VictoriaEast has, and we are proud of who weare and all that our school has,” Retizsaid.

Folklorico was just one of 24 studentgroups presented Saturday night to thecommunity. Others included the hip hopclub, dance team and journalism stu-dents.

Mark Pullin, president of the footballbooster club, said about 200 parents vol-unteered to put the event together andthey started working in June.

“It is important for the kids because itgives the parents a chance to see all theclubs,” Pullin said. “Not everyone is anathelete or in the band. There are a lotof people that make East High functionother than those groups, and it gives ev-eryone a chance to display their kidsand be a part of the whole excite-ment.”

Principal Greg Crockett said thebooster clubs started the event threeyears ago to kick-off the first year of Vic-toria East.

“We had such a positive experiencewith the students, parents, the grand-

parents and the future Titans, we want-ed to continue it for them,” Crockettsaid.

The crowd, which filled half of Memo-rial Stadium, chanted “Unleash theBeast” with the students on the field, asCrockett marched in an authentic titancostume.

Nicole Butler, a mother of two bandmembers and one golf player at East,said it is exciting to see them all on thefield together.

“It helps us show that not only onesport is important, but they all are, andthat we all support each other,” saidButler, vice president of the boys golfbooster.

Some groups also performed for thecrowd, like the hip-hop club and Folk-lorico.

Retiz said Unleash the Beast is an op-portunity for her to share part of herculture with the community.

“People can see what we can do andthat it isn’t a regular club,” Retiz said.“We work out, we train, we go to work-shops during the summer. It is like whatfootball players, cheerleaders, whatthey are dong. I just want everyone tocheck out what we do and how we doit.”

PHOTOS BY MORGAN WALKER/[email protected] Retiz is escorted into Memorial Stadium by her fellow dance member, Jorge Perez, before Unleash the Beast.

Jorge Perezwhispers a secretinto JuhreeRodriguez ear whileDinah Retiz laughs.All are members ofthe Ballet Folkloricosquad at VictoriaEast High Schooland performed atUnleash the Beast.

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Ephron Shelton helps hold the blow up dome during Unleash theBeast on Saturday evening at Memorial Stadium. Because his wifeis a vice president of one of the booster clubs at Victoria East HighSchool, he offered to help with the festivities.

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M L B S TA N D I N G S A N D B O X S C O R E SAMERICAN LEAGUE

East DivisionW L Pct GB

New York 71 49 .592 —Tampa Bay 65 54 .546 51/2Baltimore 65 55 .542 6Boston 59 62 .488 121/2Toronto 56 64 .467 15

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Chicago 65 54 .546 —Detroit 64 56 .533 11/2Cleveland 54 65 .454 11Kansas City 53 66 .445 12Minnesota 50 68 .424 141/2

West DivisionW L Pct GB

Texas 69 50 .580 —Oakland 63 55 .534 51/2Los Angeles 62 58 .517 71/2Seattle 56 64 .467 131/2

Friday’s ScoresDetroit 5, Baltimore 3N.Y. Yankees 6, Boston 4Toronto 3, Texas 2Kansas City 4, Chicago White Sox 2Oakland 6, Cleveland 4Tampa Bay 12, L.A. Angels 3Seattle 5, Minnesota 3

Saturday’s ScoresTexas 2, Toronto 1Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 1Baltimore 3, Detroit 2Kansas City 9, Chicago White Sox 4Cleveland at Oakland, lateTampa Bay at L.A. Angels, lateMinnesota at Seattle, late

Sunday’s GamesBaltimore (W.Chen 11-7) at Detroit (Fister7-7), 12:05 p.m.Texas (M.Harrison 13-7) at Toronto (H.Al-varez 7-10), 12:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-2) atKansas City (Guthrie 2-3), 1:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (M.Moore 9-7) at L.A. Angels(Greinke 1-1), 2:35 p.m.Cleveland (Masterson 9-10) at Oakland(J.Parker 7-7), 3:05 p.m.Minnesota (Deduno 4-0) at Seattle (Bea-van 7-7), 3:10 p.m.Boston (Beckett 5-10) at N.Y. Yankees(Kuroda 11-8), 7:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesKansas City at Tampa Bay, 6:10 p.m.Baltimore at Texas, 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 7:10p.m.Minnesota at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.Cleveland at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

East DivisionW L Pct GB

Washington 74 46 .617 —Atlanta 70 50 .583 4New York 57 63 .475 17Philadelphia 55 65 .458 19Miami 54 66 .450 20

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Cincinnati 73 48 .603 —Pittsburgh 66 54 .550 61/2St. Louis 65 55 .542 71/2Milwaukee 54 65 .454 18Chicago 47 72 .395 25Houston 39 82 .322 34

West DivisionW L Pct GB

San Francisco 65 54 .546 —Los Angeles 66 55 .545 —Arizona 61 59 .508 41/2San Diego 52 69 .430 14Colorado 45 72 .385 19

Friday’s ScoresWashington 6, N.Y. Mets 4Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 3Atlanta 4, L.A. Dodgers 3, 11 inningsArizona 3, Houston 1Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 2Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1Miami 6, Colorado 5San Francisco 10, San Diego 1

Saturday’s ScoresCincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 3, 1st gameSt. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4Arizona 12, Houston 4N.Y. Mets 2, Washington 0Chicago Cubs 9, Cincinnati 7, 2nd gameL.A. Dodgers 6, Atlanta 2Philadelphia 4, Milwaukee 3Miami at Colorado, lateSan Francisco at San Diego, late

Sunday’s GamesChicago Cubs (Volstad 0-9) at Cincinnati(Latos 10-3), 12:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 9-9) at Atlanta(Minor 6-9), 12:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Hefner 2-4) at Washington(G.Gonzalez 15-6), 12:35 p.m.Arizona (I.Kennedy 10-10) at Houston(Galarraga 0-3), 1:05 p.m.Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 5-9) at Milwau-kee (Wolf 3-9), 1:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Karstens 4-3) at St. Louis(J.Garcia 3-4), 1:15 p.m.Miami (Jo.Johnson 7-9) at Colorado(D.Pomeranz 1-7), 2:10 p.m.San Francisco (Vogelsong 10-6) at SanDiego (Richard 9-12), 3:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesAtlanta at Washington, 6:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.Colorado at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.Miami at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.Pittsburgh at San Diego, 9:05 p.m.San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10p.m.

AL GAMESRANGERS 2, BLUE JAYS 1

Texas Torontoab r h bi ab r h bi

Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0 RDavis lf 5 0 1 0MiYong ss 3 0 0 0 Rasms cf 5 0 0 0Andrus ss 0 0 0 0 Encrnc dh 2 0 0 0Hamltn lf 4 0 0 0 Cooper 1b 4 0 1 0Beltre 3b 4 1 2 0 YEscor ss 4 0 1 0N.Cruz dh 3 1 1 2 McCoy 3b 0 0 0 0DvMrp rf 3 0 0 0 KJhnsn 2b 3 0 0 0Morlnd 1b 3 0 2 0 Mathis c 4 0 1 0Gentry cf 3 0 0 0 Gose rf 3 1 1 0LMrtnz c 2 0 0 0 Hchvrr 3b-ss 3 0 2 1LMartn ph 1 0 0 0Soto c 0 0 0 0Totals 30 2 5 2 Totals 33 1 7 1Texas 000 020 000 — 2Toronto 001 000 000 — 1E—Jenkins (1). LOB—Texas 2, Toronto 10. 2B—Bel-tre (23), Hechavarria (2). HR—N.Cruz (19).SB—R.Davis (38), Gose (10). CS—Dav.Murphy (3),Gentry (6). S—Hechavarria.Texas IP H R ER BB SOOswalt 4 2/3 2 1 1 2 5R.Ross 1 1/3 3 0 0 0 3Scheppers H,3 1/3 2 0 0 1 0Kirkman W,1-2 H,2 2/3 0 0 0 0 0Mi.Adams H,22 1 0 0 0 0 0Nathan S,24-25 1 0 0 0 0 2Toronto IP H R ER BB SOVillanueva L,6-3 6 1/3 4 2 2 1 4Loup 2/3 1 0 0 0 0Jenkins 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 1Oliver 2/3 0 0 0 0 0Loup pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.HBP—by Oswalt (Encarnacion). PB—Mathis.Balk—Oswalt 2.

ROYALS 9, WHITE SOX 4Chicago Kansas City

ab r h bi ab r h biWise cf 4 0 1 0 L.Cain cf 5 0 1 0Youkils 3b 4 1 1 0 AEscor ss 5 3 4 0A.Dunn 1b 3 2 2 2 AGordn lf 5 2 3 1Konerk dh 4 1 1 2 Butler dh 4 2 3 3Rios rf 4 0 0 0 Mostks 3b 4 1 2 4Viciedo lf 4 0 1 0 Francr rf 5 0 0 0AlRmrz ss 4 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b 4 1 1 1Flowrs c 4 0 1 0 B.Pena c 4 0 1 0Bckhm 2b 3 0 0 0 Giavtll 2b 4 0 0 0Totals 34 4 8 4 Totals 40 915 9Chicago 000 002 020 — 4Kansas City 102 011 04x — 9E—Youkilis (9), Rios (5), Flowers (2), Beckham (6).DP—Chicago 1, Kansas City 1. LOB—Chicago 4,Kansas City 9. 2B—Wise (4), A.Dunn (15), A.Gordon(39). HR—A.Dunn (35), Konerko (20), Moustakas(19), Hosmer (11). SB—Wise (8), A.Escobar (24).Chicago IP H R ER BB SOPeavy L,9-9 5 1/3 9 5 3 1 6N.Jones 0 2 0 0 0 0

Veal 1/3 0 0 0 0 1Humber 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 1Myers 1 4 4 4 0 0Kansas City IP H R ER BB SOB.Chen W,9-10 6 5 2 2 1 5K.Herrera H,15 1 1 0 0 0 0Collins H,7 1/3 2 2 2 0 1Crow H,14 2/3 0 0 0 0 2L.Coleman 1 0 0 0 0 1N.Jones pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.HBP—by Peavy (Butler).

ORIOLES 3, TIGERS 2Baltimore Detroit

ab r h bi ab r h biMarkks rf 3 0 2 0 AJcksn cf 4 1 2 0Hardy ss 4 0 0 0 Infante 2b 4 0 1 0McLoth lf 4 0 0 0 MiCarr 3b 2 1 2 0AdJons cf 4 1 1 0 Fielder 1b 2 0 0 0Wieters c 4 1 1 0 JhPerlt ss 4 0 1 2C.Davis dh 4 1 2 3 DYong dh 4 0 1 0MrRynl 1b 3 0 1 0 Avila c 4 0 0 0Machd 3b 3 0 0 0 JeBakr rf 3 0 0 0Andino 2b 3 0 1 0 Boesch ph 1 0 0 0

Dirks lf 3 0 1 0Totals 32 3 8 3 Totals 31 2 8 2Baltimore 000 000 300 — 3Detroit 000 000 020 — 2E—McLouth (1). DP—Baltimore 3, Detroit 1.LOB—Baltimore 3, Detroit 6. 2B—A.Jackson (21).HR—C.Davis (19). CS—Mar.Reynolds (3), Andino(5), Dirks (1).Baltimore IP H R ER BB SOBritton W,2-1 7 6 0 0 3 5Strop H,21 1 2 2 2 0 1Ji.Johnson S,36-39 1 0 0 0 0 0Detroit IP H R ER BB SOPorcello L,9-8 6 7 3 3 1 6Villarreal 1 0 0 0 0 2Coke 1 1 0 0 0 1Dotel 1 0 0 0 0 1Porcello pitched to 4 batters in the 7th.HBP—by Strop (Mi.Cabrera). WP—Strop.

RED SOX 4, YANKEES 1Boston New York

ab r h bi ab r h biEllsury cf 5 0 0 0 Jeter dh 3 0 0 0Crwfrd lf 5 1 1 0 Swisher 1b 4 0 3 0Pedroia 2b 5 0 1 0 Cano 2b 4 0 0 0AdGnzl 1b 3 1 2 2 AnJons rf 3 0 0 0C.Ross dh 4 0 0 0 ErChvz ph 1 0 1 0Lvrnwy c 4 0 0 0 McGeh 3b 3 0 0 0Pdsdnk rf 4 1 1 0 Ibanez ph 1 0 0 0Ciriaco ss 4 1 4 0 Grndrs cf 3 1 2 1Punto 3b 3 0 1 1 RMartn c 4 0 0 0

J.Nix ss 3 0 0 0ISuzuki lf 3 0 1 0

Totals 37 410 3 Totals 32 1 7 1Boston 200 010 001 — 4New York 000 100 000 — 1E—An.Jones (1). DP—Boston 2. LOB—Boston 8,New York 6. 2B—Pedroia (26), Ciriaco (7), Punto (6),Granderson (13). HR—Ad.Gonzalez (14), Granderson(32). SB—C.Crawford (5), Ciriaco (8), Punto (5),I.Suzuki (19).Boston IP H R ER BB SOLester W,7-10 7 5 1 1 2 4A.Bailey H,1 1/3 1 0 0 0 1Breslow H,1 2/3 0 0 0 0 0Aceves S,25-31 1 1 0 0 0 1New York IP H R ER BB SOPhelps L,3-4 6 2/3 7 3 3 0 7Logan 2/3 1 0 0 1 1Eppley 2/3 2 1 1 1 1Rapada 2/3 0 0 0 0 0D.Lowe 1/3 0 0 0 0 0Eppley pitched to 3 batters in the 9th.WP—Lester, Eppley.

NL GAMESD-BACKS 12, ASTROS 4

Arizona Houstonab r h bi ab r h bi

GParra lf 6 1 2 0 Altuve 2b 3 1 1 0A.Hill 2b 4 2 2 3 R.Cruz p 0 0 0 0Elmore ph-2b 0 0 0 0 Greene ss 4 1 2 2J.Upton rf 6 1 2 1 Pearce 1b 4 0 1 0Gldsch 1b 4 1 1 1 Maxwll lf 4 0 0 0MMntr c 3 2 1 0 BFrncs rf 4 0 0 0Bergsn p 0 0 0 0 Wallac 3b 4 1 2 0Zagrsk p 0 0 0 0 BBarns cf 4 0 0 0CYoung cf 5 2 4 3 CSnydr c 3 1 1 2Drew ss 4 1 0 1 Lyles p 2 0 0 0RWhelr 3b 4 2 1 1 XCeden p 0 0 0 0Corbin p 4 0 0 0 Fick p 0 0 0 0Nieves c 1 0 0 0 FMrtnz ph 1 0 0 0

SMoore 2b 0 0 0 0Totals 41121310 Totals 33 4 7 4Arizona 010 090 110 — 12Houston 001 210 000 — 4E—Wallace (3), Altuve (11). DP—Houston 1.LOB—Arizona 9, Houston 3. 2B—G.Parra 2 (16),M.Montero (17), C.Young (19), Altuve (30).HR—A.Hill (15), C.Young (13), R.Wheeler (1), Greene(6), C.Snyder (6).Arizona IP H R ER BB SOCorbin W,5-4 7 7 4 4 1 5Bergesen 1 0 0 0 0 0Zagurski 1 0 0 0 0 1Houston IP H R ER BB SOLyles L,2-10 4 8 7 5 3 4X.Cedeno 2/3 0 2 0 1 2Fick 2 1/3 3 2 2 1 1R.Cruz 2 2 1 1 2 3Lyles pitched to 6 batters in the 5th.WP—Lyles. Balk—Fick.

REDS 5, CUBS 3Chicago Cincinnati

ab r h bi ab r h biDeJess rf 3 1 0 0 Cozart ss 4 0 1 0Vitters 3b 4 0 0 0 Heisey cf 3 0 1 0Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 Stubbs cf 0 0 0 0ASorin lf 4 2 2 2 BPhllps 2b 4 0 0 0SCastro ss 3 0 0 0 Bruce rf 4 1 1 0WCastll c 4 0 2 1 Frazier 3b 3 2 2 2T.Wood pr 0 0 0 0 Paul lf 3 1 1 2BJcksn cf 3 0 0 0 Cairo 1b 3 1 1 1Mather ph 1 0 0 0 Hanign c 3 0 1 0Barney 2b 3 0 1 0 Cueto p 3 0 0 0Smrdzj p 2 0 0 0 Ludwck ph 1 0 0 0Belivea p 0 0 0 0 Chpmn p 0 0 0 0Corpas p 0 0 0 0Valuen ph 1 0 0 0AlCarr p 0 0 0 0Totals 32 3 5 3 Totals 31 5 8 5Chicago 200 000 001 — 3Cincinnati 020 200 01x — 5E—Samardzija (1). LOB—Chicago 4, Cincinnati 7.2B—Cozart (30). 3B—Bruce (2). HR—A.Soriano(22), Frazier (17), Paul (1), Cairo (1). SF—Frazier.Chicago IP H R ER BB SOSamardzija L,8-11 5 6 4 4 0 5Beliveau 1 0 0 0 2 0Corpas 1 0 0 0 0 2Al.Cabrera 1 2 1 1 1 0Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SOCueto W,16-6 8 3 2 2 0 8Chapman S,29-33 1 2 1 1 1 2HBP—by Samardzija (Heisey), by Cueto (DeJesus).WP—Samardzija. Balk—Beliveau.

CARDINALS 5, PIRATES 4Pittsburgh St. Louis

ab r h bi ab r h biSMarte lf 2 1 1 0 Furcal ss 5 2 2 0YNavrr lf 2 0 0 0 MCrpnt rf-1b 4 0 1 1Mercer 2b-ss 4 1 2 2 Hollidy lf 4 0 1 0AMcCt cf 5 0 0 1 Craig 1b 4 1 2 0GJones 1b-rf 4 0 1 1 Boggs p 0 0 0 0Snider rf 2 0 0 0 Descals 2b 0 0 0 0JHughs p 0 0 0 0 Freese 3b 2 1 0 0JHrrsn ph-2b 2 0 1 0 YMolin c 4 1 3 2PAlvrz 3b 3 0 0 0 SRonsn cf-rf 4 0 2 2Barajs c 3 0 0 0 RJcksn 2b 2 0 0 0Barmes ss 3 1 1 0 Beltran ph 1 0 0 0McKnr ph 1 0 0 0 Motte p 0 0 0 0J.Cruz p 0 0 0 0 Lynn p 2 0 0 0Bedard p 2 0 0 0 Brwnng p 0 0 0 0GSnchz 1b 2 1 2 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0

Schmkr ph 1 0 0 0Mujica p 0 0 0 0Jay cf 0 0 0 0

Totals 35 4 8 4 Totals 33 511 5Pittsburgh 001 020 001 — 4St. Louis 100 220 00x — 5E—Freese (10). DP—Pittsburgh 2. LOB—Pittsburgh10, St. Louis 8. 2B—Mercer (4), G.Sanchez (13), Fur-cal (17), Y.Molina 2 (24), S.Robinson (6).SF—G.Jones.Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SOBedard L,7-13 4 2/3 9 5 5 3 4J.Hughes 2 1/3 0 0 0 0 1J.Cruz 1 2 0 0 0 1St. Louis IP H R ER BB SOLynn 4 1/3 4 3 3 3 8Browning W,1-2 1 0 0 0 0 2Rosenthal H,1 2/3 0 0 0 0 1Mujica H,19 1 1 0 0 0 0Boggs H,23 1 2 0 0 0 2Motte S,28-33 1 1 1 0 0 1HBP—by J.Cruz (Jay), by Motte (Mercer), by Lynn(S.Marte). WP—Browning.

METS 2, NATIONALS 0New York Washington

ab r h bi ab r h biTejada ss 4 0 0 0 Werth cf-rf 4 0 0 0Baxter rf 4 0 1 0 Espinos 2b 4 0 2 0

DWrght 3b 3 1 0 0 Zmrmn 3b 4 0 1 0I.Davis 1b 4 1 2 2 Morse rf-lf 4 0 0 0DnMrp 2b 4 0 0 0 LaRoch 1b 4 0 1 0Vldspn lf 3 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 3 0 0 0Frncsc p 0 0 0 0 TMoore lf 3 0 0 0AnTrrs cf 3 0 0 0 Matths p 0 0 0 0Thole c 3 0 0 0 McGnzl p 0 0 0 0Niese p 3 0 0 0 Flores c 3 0 1 0Rauch p 0 0 0 0 EJcksn p 1 0 0 0Bay lf 0 0 0 0 Harper cf 1 0 0 0Totals 31 2 3 2 Totals 31 0 5 0New York 000 000 200 — 2Washington 000 000 000 — 0E—Desmond (13). LOB—New York 3, Washington 5.2B—LaRoche (26). 3B—Baxter (2). HR—I.Davis (22).SB—Zimmerman (5). S—E.Jackson.New York IP H R ER BB SONiese W,10-6 7 1/3 5 0 0 0 7Rauch H,13 2/3 0 0 0 0 0F.Francisco S,20-23 1 0 0 0 0 1Washington IP H R ER BB SOE.Jackson L,7-8 7 2 2 2 1 11Mattheus 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 3Mic.Gonzalez 1/3 1 0 0 0 1

DODGERS 6, BRAVES 2Los Angeles Atlanta

ab r h bi ab r h biVictorn lf 4 0 0 0 Bourn cf 4 1 1 0M.Ellis 2b 4 0 0 0 Prado lf 5 1 2 2Kemp cf 3 1 0 0 Heywrd rf 4 0 0 0Ethier rf 3 1 0 0 C.Jones 3b 3 0 1 0HRmrz ss 4 2 2 4 FFrmn 1b 4 0 0 0Loney 1b 3 1 1 1 Uggla 2b 1 0 0 0L.Cruz 3b 4 1 1 1 D.Ross c 4 0 0 0A.Ellis c 3 0 0 0 Janish ss 3 0 1 0Harang p 3 0 0 0 Sheets p 2 0 0 0Choate p 0 0 0 0 Avilan p 0 0 0 0Guerra p 0 0 0 0 Hinske ph 1 0 0 0ShTllsn p 0 0 0 0 CMrtnz p 0 0 0 0Jansen p 0 0 0 0 JFrncs ph 1 0 0 0

Venters p 0 0 0 0Totals 31 6 4 6 Totals 32 2 5 2Los Angeles 030 003 000 — 6Atlanta 100 000 001 — 2LOB—Los Angeles 1, Atlanta 11. 2B—Prado (31),C.Jones (20), Janish (5). 3B—Bourn (10).HR—H.Ramirez 2 (18), Loney (4), L.Cruz (3), Prado(7). SB—Kemp (7).Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SOHarang W,9-7 6 2/3 4 1 1 5 8Choate 1/3 0 0 0 0 1Guerra 1/3 0 0 0 2 0Sh.Tolleson 1/3 0 0 0 1 0Jansen S,25-31 1 1/3 1 1 1 0 3Atlanta IP H R ER BB SOSheets L,4-3 6 4 6 6 2 3Avilan 1 0 0 0 0 0C.Martinez 1 0 0 0 0 0Venters 1 0 0 0 1 0

CUBS 9, REDS 7Chicago Cincinnati

ab r h bi ab r h biValuen 3b 4 1 2 1 Stubbs cf 5 0 1 0Mather lf 5 1 1 0 Valdez ss 5 1 0 0Rizzo 1b 5 2 1 1 BPhllps 2b 5 1 2 0SCastro ss 5 1 3 2 Ludwck lf 4 3 2 3LaHair rf 3 1 1 2 Frazier 1b 5 0 1 1Russell p 0 0 0 0 Bruce rf 4 2 2 0Camp p 0 0 0 0 Rolen 3b 3 0 1 1Marml p 0 0 0 0 Mesorc c 4 0 0 0Clevngr c 4 0 0 0 Rdmnd p 1 0 0 0BJcksn cf 5 1 1 1 Simon p 0 0 0 0Cardns 2b 4 1 2 1 Heisey ph 1 0 1 1Barney 2b 1 0 0 0 LeCure p 0 0 0 0Raley p 4 0 1 0 Paul ph 1 0 0 0Corpas p 0 0 0 0 Marshll p 0 0 0 0DeJess rf 1 1 1 1 Cairo ph 1 0 1 1

Ondrsk p 0 0 0 0Totals 41 913 9 Totals 39 711 7Chicago 010 313 001 — 9Cincinnati 010 012 210 — 7E—Valbuena (6), Redmond (1), Frazier (6).DP—Cincinnati 1. LOB—Chicago 10, Cincinnati 7.2B—Valbuena (14), S.Castro (17), Cardenas (6),B.Phillips (24), Rolen (12). 3B—S.Castro (9), Cairo (2).HR—B.Jackson (1), DeJesus (5), Ludwick 2 (25).SB—S.Castro (20), LaHair 2 (4).Chicago IP H R ER BB SORaley W,1-2 5 1/3 5 4 3 2 4Corpas 1 2/3 3 2 2 0 1Russell 0 1 1 1 0 0Camp H,13 1 1 0 0 0 1Marmol S,15-17 1 1 0 0 0 2Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SORedmond L,0-1 3 1/3 7 4 4 5 2Simon 1 2/3 2 1 1 0 2LeCure 1 3 3 1 0 3Marshall 2 0 0 0 0 4Ondrusek 1 1 1 1 0 0Russell pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

LATE GAMESMARLINS 6, ROCKIES 5

Miami Coloradoab r h bi ab r h bi

Petersn lf 5 0 0 0 EYong rf 5 1 2 0GHrndz cf 3 2 2 0 Rutledg ss 5 2 2 1Reyes ss 4 1 1 3 Fowler cf 4 1 2 0Ca.Lee 1b 4 0 1 1 CGnzlz lf 3 0 0 1Stanton rf 3 1 1 1 WRosr c 4 0 2 2DSolan 2b 4 1 1 0 Pachec 1b 3 0 1 1Velazqz 3b 4 0 0 0 Brothrs p 0 0 0 0J.Buck c 4 1 2 1 WHarrs p 0 0 0 0LeBlnc p 1 0 0 0 Cuddyr ph 1 0 0 0Cousins ph 1 0 0 0 MtRynl p 0 0 0 0Zamrn p 0 0 0 0 Nelson 3b 4 0 1 0MDunn p 0 0 0 0 LeMahi 2b 4 0 2 0H.Bell p 0 0 0 0 Francis p 1 0 0 0Kearns ph 1 0 0 0 JHerrr ph 0 1 0 0Cishek p 0 0 0 0 Roenck p 0 0 0 0

Colvin 1b 2 0 0 0Totals 34 6 8 6 Totals 36 512 5Miami 100 032 000 — 6Colorado 000 230 000 — 5E—Nelson (8), W.Rosario (11). DP—Miami 1, Colorado1. LOB—Miami 4, Colorado 7. 2B—Ca.Lee (21), J.Buck(15), LeMahieu (6). 3B—D.Solano (2). HR—Reyes (9),Stanton (23). SB—G.Hernandez (4), E.Young (14).CS—Fowler (3). S—LeBlanc, Fowler.Miami IP H R ER BB SOLeBlanc W,2-2 5 9 5 5 2 2Zambrano H,3 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 2M.Dunn H,15 1/3 0 0 0 0 1H.Bell H,8 1 2 0 0 0 0Cishek S,8-11 1 0 0 0 0 1Colorado IP H R ER BB SOFrancis 5 5 4 4 1 3Roenicke L,4-1 BS,1-1 1/3 3 2 2 0 0Brothers 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 3W.Harris 1 0 0 0 0 2Mat.Reynolds 1 0 0 0 0 1HBP—by Francis (Stanton).

GIANTS 10, PADRES 1San Francisco San Diego

ab r h bi ab r h biPagan cf 5 1 3 2 Amarst cf-2b 4 0 0 0Christn ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Forsyth 2b-3b 3 0 0 0Scutaro 2b 5 2 2 2 Headly 3b 3 0 1 0Sandovl 3b 4 1 1 1 Guzmn lf 1 0 0 0Arias 3b 1 0 0 0 Quentin lf 3 0 0 0Posey c 4 2 1 0 Layne p 0 0 0 0Kontos p 0 0 0 0 Grgrsn p 0 0 0 0Pence rf 4 1 2 1 Thayer p 0 0 0 0Belt 1b 4 1 1 1 Maybin ph 1 0 0 0GBlanc lf-cf 4 0 2 1 Grandl c 3 0 0 0BCrwfr ss 5 2 2 0 Alonso 1b 4 1 1 0M.Cain p 4 0 1 1 Venale rf 3 0 0 0HSnchz ph-c 1 0 0 0 EvCarr ss 3 0 1 1

Ohlndrf p 0 0 0 0Mikolas p 1 0 0 0Kotsay ph 1 0 0 0Brach p 0 0 0 0Denorfi cf 1 0 1 0

Totals 421015 9 Totals 31 1 4 1San Francisco 108 000 001 — 10San Diego 000 010 000 — 1E—Grandal (4). LOB—San Francisco 9, San Diego 5.2B—Posey (25), Pence (20), B.Crawford (20), Headley(23), Alonso (32), Denorfia (16). 3B—Pagan (8).HR—Scutaro (6). SB—Scutaro (8).San Francisco IP H R ER BB SOM.Cain W,12-5 8 4 1 1 0 6Kontos 1 0 0 0 1 0San Diego IP H R ER BB SOOhlendorf L,4-4 2 1/3 6 8 8 2 2Mikolas 2 2/3 4 1 1 0 1Brach 1 1 0 0 0 0Layne 1 1 0 0 1 1Gregerson 1 0 0 0 0 2Thayer 1 3 1 1 0 1HBP—by M.Cain (Forsythe), by Thayer (Pence).WP—Mikolas. PB—Grandal.

ATHLETICS 6, INDIANS 4Cleveland Oakland

ab r h bi ab r h biKipnis 2b 4 0 0 0 Crisp cf 5 0 0 0AsCarr ss 4 0 2 0 JWeeks 2b 4 0 0 0Choo rf 3 0 0 0 Cespds lf 4 1 2 0CSantn 1b 3 1 1 0 Carter 1b 2 1 1 1Brantly cf 4 1 1 0 Rosales pr-1b 0 1 0 0Donald lf 4 1 1 0 Moss rf 3 2 1 0Carrer lf 0 0 0 0 JGoms dh 3 0 0 0Duncan dh 4 1 1 4 Reddck ph-dh 1 0 1 0Lillirdg 3b 3 0 0 0 Dnldsn 3b 4 1 4 2Ktchm ph 1 0 0 0 DNorrs c 4 0 1 1Marson c 3 0 0 0 Pnngtn ss 3 0 1 2Hannhn ph 1 0 0 0Totals 34 4 6 4 Totals 33 611 6Cleveland 000 400 000 — 4Oakland 000 310 02x — 6E—Cespedes (3). LOB—Cleveland 5, Oakland 7.2B—As.Cabrera (28), Cespedes (16), Donaldson (6).HR—Duncan (11). SB—Cespedes (11), Pennington(12). SF—Carter, Pennington.Cleveland IP H R ER BB SOMcAllister 6 8 4 4 1 6Sipp 2/3 0 0 0 0 1J.Smith L,7-3 1/3 1 2 2 1 1Pestano 1 2 0 0 0 1Oakland IP H R ER BB SOMilone 5 6 4 3 1 6Neshek 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 2Norberto W,4-1 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 2Balfour S,10-12 1 0 0 0 0 1J.Smith pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.HBP—by Norberto (Choo).

RAYS 12, ANGELS 3Tampa Bay Los Angeles

ab r h bi ab r h biDJnngs lf 6 1 2 1 Trout cf-lf 4 0 1 0BUpton cf 5 1 4 3 TrHntr rf 4 0 3 0Howell p 0 0 0 0 Bourjos cf 0 0 0 0Joyce rf 5 0 0 0 Pujols 1b 4 0 1 0Longori dh 4 1 1 0 BoWlsn 1b 0 0 0 0Fuld ph-cf 1 1 1 0 KMorls dh 4 0 0 0Zobrist ss 3 3 2 1 Trumo lf-rf 4 0 0 0EJhnsn ss 0 0 0 1 Callasp 3b 3 1 1 0Kppngr 1b 3 1 1 0 V.Wells ph 1 0 0 0C.Pena 1b 1 0 0 0 HKndrc 2b 4 1 1 2SRdrgz 3b 5 1 3 2 Aybar ss 3 1 2 1RRorts 2b 4 1 1 1 Iannett c 3 0 1 0JMolin c 4 2 2 3Totals 41121712 Totals 34 310 3Tampa Bay 110 710 011 — 12Los Angeles 001 200 000 — 3DP—Tampa Bay 3, Los Angeles 2. LOB—Tampa Bay 7,Los Angeles 4. 2B—De.Jennings (16), B.Upton (20),S.Rodriguez (13). 3B—Fuld (1), Trout (6). HR—B.Up-ton (15), Zobrist (14), J.Molina (5), H.Kendrick (6), Ay-bar (7). SF—E.Johnson.Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SOShields W,11-7 6 7 3 3 0 8Badenhop 1 2 0 0 0 0W.Davis 1 1 0 0 0 0Howell 1 0 0 0 0 1Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SOWeaver L,15-3 3 8 9 9 2 2Hawkins 2 3 1 1 0 1Takahashi 2 2 0 0 0 2Isringhausen 1 2 1 1 0 1Geltz 1 2 1 1 2 0Weaver pitched to 7 batters in the 4th.WP—Shields, Weaver.

MARINERS 5, TWINS 3Minnesota Seattle

ab r h bi ab r h biMstrnn cf 4 0 0 0 Ackley 2b 5 0 1 1Mauer c 4 1 2 1 MSndrs cf 4 1 1 0Wlngh lf 4 1 1 1 Seager 3b 4 0 0 0Mornea 1b 4 1 1 0 Jaso dh 3 1 2 2Doumit dh 4 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 4 0 1 0Plouffe 3b 4 0 1 0 Olivo c 4 1 2 1MCarsn rf 4 0 1 1 TRonsn lf 4 1 2 0JCarrll 2b 2 0 0 0 Thams rf 3 1 2 1Flormn ss 3 0 0 0 Ryan ss 3 0 0 0Totals 33 3 6 3 Totals 34 511 5Minnesota 000 010 020 — 3Seattle 210 002 00x — 5E—Ryan (5). DP—Seattle 1. LOB—Minnesota 4, Seat-tle 8. 2B—Morneau (25), T.Robinson (3), Thames (10).HR—Mauer (8), Willingham (31), Jaso (8), Olivo (9).SB—M.Saunders (16). S—Ryan.Minnesota IP H R ER BB SOBlackburn L,4-9 5 1/3 11 5 5 1 1T.Robertson 2/3 0 0 0 0 1Fien 1 0 0 0 0 2Swarzak 1 0 0 0 1 0Seattle IP H R ER BB SOIwakuma W,4-3 7 4 1 0 1 6Pryor 2/3 2 2 2 0 1

MLB ROUNDUP

W: Kirkman; L: Villanueva;S: NathanRECORDS: Texas 69-50;Toronto 56-64

W: Corbin; L: LylesRECORDS: Houston 39-82;Arizona 61-59

Rangers

2Blue Jays

1

D-Backs

12Astros

4

Cruz homers,Nathan sealswin over Toronto

TORONTO – Nelson Cruzhit a two-run homer, JoeNathan converted histeam-record 22nd straightsave opportunity and theTexas Rangers beat theToronto Blue Jays 2-1 Sat-urday.

Nathan broke the Rangersmark he shared with Fran-cisco Cordero, who was suc-cessful on 21 chances in arow in 2004. Nathan was thesixth pitcher for Texas.

Roy Oswalt started forTexas in place of Ryan Demp-ster, who missed his regularturn because of personal is-sues. Oswalt allowed one runand two hits in 4 2-3 innings,striking out five, walking twoand balking twice in his firststart since July 30.

Robbie Ross worked 1 1-3innings, Tanner Scheppersgot an out, Michael Kirkman(1-2) escaped a bases-loadedjam in the seventh, MikeAdams pitched the eighthand Nathan closed it out forhis 24th save in 25 chances.

Toronto lost for the 15thtime in 20 games despitelimiting the AL West leaders,baseball’s highest scoring of-fense entering play Saturday,to five hits.

The Blue Jays opened thescoring in the third whenAnthony Gose drew a one-outwalk, stole second, moved tothird on a balk and camehome as Adeiny Hechavarriasingled through a drawn-ininfield.

Hill, Young lead Diamondbacksover Astros

HOUSTON – Aaron Hill hita three-run homer in anine-run fifth inning, ChrisYoung had four hits and theArizona Diamondbacks rout-ed the Houston Astros 12-4 onSaturday night.

Young also drove in threeruns and finished a triple shyof the cycle. Justin Uptonadded two hits for Arizonaand Ryan Wheeler hit hisfirst major league homerun.

Patrick Corbin (5-4) wentseven innings, allowing fourruns and seven hits with fivestrikeouts. Corbin has threestraight wins in four outingssince moving back into therotation at the beginning ofAugust. He has gone at leastsix innings in each of thosestarts.COMPILED FROM ADVOCATE WIRE

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ASSOCIATED PRESSTexas Rangers' Nelson Cruz, right, celebrates after hitting a two-runhome run against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto on Saturday.

LLWS ROUNDUP

Curacao, Conn., Mexicoavoid elimination inSouth Williamsport

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT,Pa. – Kevin Oricoli finally hasbragging rights over his bigbrother.

Not many 12-year-old boyscan say they hit a two-runsingle at the Little LeagueWorld Series.

Oricoli’s two-out clutch hitkeyed a three-run third in-ning, and Matt Kubel si-lenced Nebraska’s bats tohelp Fairfield, Conn., avoidelimination Saturday at theLittle League World Serieswith a 12-0 victory.

Oricoli is savoring the mo-ment – and not just becausehis team is one step closer toa Little League title.

His 14-year-old brother,Jack, played on the FairfieldAmerican All-Star team lastyear that lost in the regionalsemifinals. Egged on by hismanager, Bill Meury, Oricolididn’t waste an opportunityto talk smack following Satur-day’s win after a reporterasked who was getting thelast laugh in the Oricoli fam-ily.

CURACAO 14, GERMANY 2Christopher Koeiman had

the big blow in an eight-runfirst inning for the winnersfrom Willemstad, Curacaowith a three-run homer tocenter. Rallison Benturaadded a two-run single, and

Curacao also took advantageof four errors in the inning bythe Europe region champi-ons, comprised of childrenwhose parents serve or workat the U.S. military installa-tion in Germany.

Justin Wilson and KyleGlenn each had RBI singlesfor Germany in the third.

MEXICO 12, UGANDA 0The first team from Africa

to advance to the World Se-ries in the 66-year history ofthe tournament received abaseball lesson from Mexi-co’s mini-mashers from Nue-vo Laredo.

Joel Turrubiates homeredand drove in three runs forMexico, which avoided elimi-nation. The sluggers have hiteight homers in two games atthe World Series.

NEW JERSEY 10, OREGON 4A 13-year-old shortstop,

Matti did his best imperson-ation of Yankees leadoff hit-ter Derek Jeter for the NewJersey team from the NewYork suburb of Parsippany.

And New Jersey’s vocalfans chanted the names ofeach of their favorite sons asthey strode to the plate as ifthey were Yankee Stadium“Bleacher Creatures.”COMPILED FROM ADVOCATE WIRE

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CONTRIBUTED BY GARY MOSES

Are you ready for some football? CYFL ready to kick off 2012 seasonThe Crossroads Youth Football League opens its 2012 season on Saturday at St. Joseph’s O’Connor Sports Complex. Gettingready for the season are, from left, commissioner Gary Moses, treasurer J.R. Diaz, vice president Michael Zappe, secretaryDeidrick Miller and league president Kevin Black.

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) –Mark Martin has won the polefor the NASCAR Sprint Cuprace at Michigan Internation-al Speedway.

Martin posted the top quali-fying speed Friday of 199.706mph on the track’s still-newsurface. Carl Edwards wassecond, followed by pointsleader Jimmie Johnson.

It’s the fourth pole of theyear for the 53-year-old Mar-tin, who ismaking onlyhis 15th Cupstart thisseason. It’sthe 55th poleof his career.

The trackat MIS wasrepaved inthe offsea-son, andMarcos Ambrose qualified forthe race there in June at203.241 mph, the first timesince 1987 the 200 mph markwas broken during Sprint Cupqualifying. NASCAR alteredleft-side tires for the race thatweekend, and cars sloweddown.

NASCAR-Sprint Cup-Pure Michigan400 Lineup

After Friday qualifying; race Sunday

Lap length: 2 miles

(Car number in parentheses)1. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 199.706.2. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 198.626.3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 198.44.4. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 198.183.5. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 197.878.6. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 197.78.7. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 197.65.8. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 197.493.9. (83) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 197.433.10. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 197.163.11. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 197.114.12. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 197.012.13. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 196.893.14. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 196.877.15. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 196.732.16. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 196.501.17. (22) Parker Kligerman, Dodge, 196.249.18. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 196.217.19. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 196.18.20. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 196.052.21. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 195.956.22. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,195.822.23. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 193.299.24. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,193.268.25. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,193.138.26. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 192.988.27. (91) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 192.709.28. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 192.596.29. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 192.56.30. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 192.539.31. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 192.359.32. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 192.282.33. (19) Jason Leffler, Ford, 192.205.34. (26) Josh Wise, Ford, 192.179.35. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 192.118.36. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 191.79.37. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 191.724.38. (23) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, 189.944.39. (10) David Reutimann, Chevrolet,189.036.40. (32) T.J. Bell, Ford, Owner Points.41. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, Owner Points.42. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, OwnerPoints.43. (98) Mike Skinner, Ford, 189.939.

Failed to Qualify44. (33) Stephen Leicht, Chevrolet,189.444.45. (37) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 188.157.

SUNDAYAUTO RACING

NOON■ ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup,Pure Michigan 400, at Brook-lyn, Mich.

8 P.M.■ ESPN2 — NHRA, Lucas OilNationals, at Brainerd, Minn.(same-day tape)

EXTREME SPORTS1 P.M.

■ NBC — Dew Tour, PantechBeach Championships, atOcean City, Md.

GOLFNOON

■ TGC — PGA Tour, WyndhamChampionship, final round, atGreensboro, N.C.

2 P.M.■ CBS — PGA Tour, WyndhamChampionship, final round, atGreensboro, N.C.

■ TGC — Champions Tour, Dick’sSporting Goods Open, finalround, at Endicott, N.Y.

3 P.M.■ NBC — USGA, U.S. AmateurChampionship, championshipmatch, at Cherry Hills Village,Colo.

6 P.M.■ TGC — LPGA, Safeway Classic,final round, at North Plains,Ore.

LITTLE LEAGUE11 A.M.

■ ESPN2 — World Series, Van-couver, British Columbia vs.Aguadulce, Panama-Lugazi,Uganda winner, at SouthWilliamsport, Pa.

1 P.M.■ ABC — World Series,Petaluma, Calif. vs.Goodlettsville, Tenn., at SouthWilliamsport, Pa.

4 P.M.■ ESPN — World Series, SanAntonio vs. New Castle,Ind.-Gresham, Ore. winner, atSouth Williamsport, Pa.

6 P.M.■ ESPN2 — World Series, Tokyovs. Taoyuan, Taiwan, at SouthWilliamsport, Pa.

MAJOR LEAGUESNOON

■ WGN — Chicago Cubs atCincinnati

12:30 P.M.■ TBS — L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta

7 P.M.■ ESPN — Boston at N.Y. Yan-kees

MOTOR SPORTS11 A.M.

■ SPEED — MotoGP Moto3, atIndianapolis (same-day tape)

NOON■ SPEED — MotoGP Moto2, atIndianapolis (same-day tape)

1 P.M.■ SPEED — MotoGP WorldChampionship, at Indianapolis

NFL7 P.M.

■ NBC — Preseason, Indianapo-lis at Pittsburgh

SOCCER4 P.M.

■ NBCSN — MLS, Philadelphia atDC United

TENNIS11:30 A.M.

■ CBS — ATP World Tour, West-ern & Southern Open, cham-pionship match, at Mason,Ohio

3 P.M.■ ESPN2 — WTA, Western &Southern Open, championshipmatch, at Mason, Ohio

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14U BRAVOS BASEBALL14u Bravos baseball looking for catchersand pitchers to join team for upcoming sea-son. For more info call Mark 361-655-0284or Eddie 361-212-9679.13U RED GENERALSThe 13u Red Generals will be conductingtryouts for this upcoming season. For ad-ditional information, please contact JimSimpson at 361-920-9023 or CharlesWenske at 361-550-9419.VICTORIA GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIA-TIONDATE: Aug. 30TIME: time TBALOCATION: Victoria MallFall season registration. Aug. 11, 18 and 25from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursday, Aug.30 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Registration willtake place at the Victoria Mall. For more in-formation, go to vgsa.org.NEW BALANCE BASEBALL 2012: FALLHITTING CLINICDATE: Sept. 1TIME: time TBACOST: $135LOCATION: Victoria East High SchoolJoin former Prairie View A&M player andSWAC champion Ro'Shard Shorter and for-mer Astros first round pick Willie Ansley forthe fall hitting clinic at the field at VictoriaEast. For participants 14 and under; fee is$135, limited to the first 50 to sign up.Deadline is Aug. 27. Those who sign up bythe deadline get a free pair of NEW BAL-ANCE MOLDED CLEATS. For more informa-tion, call Ro’Shard Shorter at (979)232-1392.VICTORIA PARKS & RECREATION DE-PARTMENT ADULT FALL SOFTBALL ANDKICKBALL LEAGUESDATE: Sept. 7TIME: time TBALOCATION: VictoriaRegistration begins Monday, Aug. 13. Theentry fee is $240 per team for aneight-game season in either sport. The reg-istration deadline is Friday, Sept. 7. For in-formation, call 361-485-3200 or [email protected] AND KICKBALL LEAGUEDATE: Sept. 7TIME: time TBALOCATION: Victoria Parks And Rec. Dept.The Victoria Parks and Recreation Dept. willbegin registering for this year's Adult Foot-ball Softball League and Kickball League onMonday, Aug. 13. Entry fee is $240 perteam for both softball and kickball and theseason for both sports is eight games.Deadline is Friday, Sept. 7. For more infor-mation, please call the Victoria Parts andRecreation office at 485-3200 [email protected], or fax 485-3212.SOUTHERN SWING VOLLEYBALL TRY-OUTSDATE: Sept. 30TIME: time TBALOCATION: VictoriaVictoria College Sports Center. Sunday,Aug. 26, 17s and 18s, 1-2:30 p.m.; 15s and16s, 3-4:30 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 30, 12s and13s, 1-2:30 p.m.; 14s, 3-4:30 p.m. Fee is$25. For information, go to athttp://www.southernswing-volleyball.com/,or email [email protected] or call coachMike Johnson at 979-533-0709.

Martin

Martin winspole atMichigan

S I G N U P

TRANSACTIONSBASEBALL

MLB— Suspended Los Angeles Dodgersmanager Don Mattingly two games andfined him an undisclosed amount for hisexcessive arguing in the top of the sec-ond inning of an Aug. 16 game.

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES— Recalled LHPZach Britton from Norfolk (IL). OptionedINF Joe Mahoney to Norfolk.BOSTON RED SOX— Recalled INF Mau-ro Gomez from Pawtucket (IL). PlacedLHP Felix Doubront on the 15-day DL,retroactive to Aug. 10.

National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS— Recalled LHP BrooksRaley from Iowa (PCL).CINCINNATI REDS— Recalled RHP ToddRedmond from Louisville (IL).COLORADO ROCKIES— Placed OF Car-los Gonzalez on the bereavement list. Re-called OF Charlie Blackmon from Col-orado Springs (PCL).SAN DIEGO PADRES— Recalled RHPNick Vincent from Tucson (PCL). Op-tioned RHP Ross Ohlendorf to Tucson.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball AssociationOKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER—Agreed toterms with F Serge Ibaka on a multiyearcontract extension.

FOOTBALL

National Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS— Reached an injurysettlement with WR Michael Calvin.CINCINNATI BENGALS— Signed DELuke Black.

SOCCER

Major League SoccerMLS— Suspended Vancouver MF BarryRobson one game and fined him an

undisclosed amount for aggravated dis-sent against an assistant referee duringan Aug. 15 game.

Carolina 1 1 0 .500 36 43Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 27 37New Orleans 1 2 0 .333 47 44Atlanta 0 2 0 .000 36 55

NorthW L T Pct PF PA

Detroit 1 1 0 .500 44 31Minnesota 1 1 0 .500 42 31Chicago 0 1 0 .000 3 31Green Bay 0 2 0 .000 23 56

WestW L T Pct PF PA

San Francis-co

1 0 01.000 17 6

Seattle 1 0 01.000 27 17Arizona 1 2 0 .333 58 71St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 3 38

Thursday’s ScoresCleveland 35, Green Bay 10Cincinnati 24, Atlanta 19

Friday’s ScoresTennessee 30, Tampa Bay 7Minnesota 36, Buffalo 14Jacksonville 27, New Orleans 24Detroit 27, Baltimore 12Carolina 23, Miami 17Arizona 31, Oakland 27

Saturday’s ScoresN.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, lateSan Francisco at Houston, late.Kansas City at St. Louis, lateWashington at Chicago, lateDallas at San Diego, lateSeattle at Denver, late

Sunday’s GameIndianapolis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Monday’s GamePhiladelphia at New England, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 23Green Bay at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.Jacksonville at Baltimore, 6:30 p.m.Arizona at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 24New England at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m.San Diego at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Seattle at Kansas City, 7 p.m.Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 25Indianapolis at Washington, 3 p.m.Detroit at Oakland, 6 p.m.Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 6 p.m.Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m.St. Louis at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 26San Francisco at Denver, 3 p.m.Carolina at N.Y. Jets, 7 p.m.

CONTRIBUTED BY FAYE BARNETT

Abby Barnett takes gold inhigh jump at Junior OlympicsAbby Barnett of Victoria Texas took firstplace in the high jump, beating out ErynPuett of Columbia, Mo. (silver) and CamilleTrotman from Douglasville, Ga. (bronze). Ab-by was awarded a gold medal with anAll-American Patch. She was the only par-ticipant from Texas to place in the top 10 inthe high jump.

S C O R E B O A R D

CONTRIBUTED BY SHANNON AND GENE SHANNON

Victoria Southeast team wins District 27 championshipThe Victoria Southeast 9-10 year olds were named the 2012 District 27Champions. They proceeded to the Sectionals tournament in Beeville and placedthird. The team was managed by Alex Gutierrez. Coaches were Jesse Tipton,Arndra Thomas and Ismael Gutierrez. Pictured are, front row, from left, D'ShayeGalinato, Justin Nunez, Jarod Tipton, Zachary Gutierrez and Dylan Rivera.Middle row, from left, is Dominic Perez, Xander Mahan, Isaiah Salas, ArndraThomas, Zachary Shannon and Jasper Gonzales.

T O U R N A M E N T S

YORKTOWN COUNTRY CLUBTHREE-MAN TOURNAMENTDATE: Aug. 18TIME: time TBALOCATION: Yorktown Country ClubAug. 18 and 19 at te Yorktown CountryClub. Tee times, 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.$195 per team, includes mulligans.Flight by combined handicap. Entrydeadline is Aug. 10. For more informa-tion, call, Warner Borth, 361-564-2148(days), James Kaiser, 361-564-3302(nights) or Club House at361-564-9191.M&M KICKBALL/SOFTBALL TOURNA-MENTDATE: Aug. 18TIME: time TBALOCATION: Victoria Youth ComplexAug. 18, at the Victoria Youth Complex.Fee: $80 plus umpire fee. For more in-formation, call Mike at 935-5421.SOFTBALL/KICKBALL TOURNAMENTDATE: Aug. 25TIME: time TBALOCATION: Victoria Adult ComplexAug. 25 at the Victoria Adult Complex.Round robin tournament, $75 plus um-pire fees. For more information, call Car-los at 218-1145 or George at

237-9209.MEN'S 30TH ANNUAL LABOR DAYWEEKEND SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTDATE: Aug. 30TIME: time TBACOST: $190LOCATION: Anderson East And MoraField, Alice, TxThis double elimination tournament willbe in Alice Sept. 1 and Sept. 2. The dead-line for entry is Aug. 30.The top four teams will receive awardsaccording to their finish. Balls must bepurchased at the field.The $190 entry fee per team includespayment for umpires. All monies mustbe paid prior to the entry deadline. Formore information contact Eustacio AlfaroJr. at (361) 389-4732.TEXAS NURSES ASSOCIATION DIS-TRICT 20 3rd ANNUAL GOLF TOURNA-MENTDATE: Sept. 8TIME: time TBALOCATION: Victoria Country ClubTexas Nurses Association District 20 ishaving its 3rd Annual Golf TournamentScholarship Fundraiser to Benefit Nurs-ing Students in our region: Victoria,Lavaca, Dewitt, Goliad, Calhoun,

Matagorda, Jackson, & Wharton coun-ties. It is a Four Person Scramble. Sat-urday, September 8, 2012 at the VictoriaCountry Club, 12:30 shot gun start. Entryfee: $400 per Team, includes cart rental,green fees, range balls, dinner, drinks, &music following play. A Silent Auctionwill also be held throughout the day. CallDebbie Peña, 361-212-0355, or visitTNA20.org for more information.COUPLES GOLF TOURNAMENTDATE: Sept. 15TIME: time TBACOST: $80 - $100LOCATION: Hatch Bend Country ClubHatch Bend Country Club will host its an-nual couples golf tournament.One woman and one man per team. Themaximum handicap is 32 for women and30 for men. Couples will be flighted bythe lowest team member's handicapscore.The $80 entry fee includes on mulliganfor each player.OUR LADY OF SORROWS GOLF TOUR-NAMENTDATE: Sept. 22TIME: time TBALOCATION: Riverside Golf CourseSept. 22 with a rain out date of Sept. 29.

Shot gun start, four player scramble,best ball with a 45 handicap. $75 perplayer fee includes green fees, lunch andbeverages. For more information, con-tact, Alex Lopez, 361-652-4631, [email protected]; Richard Vasquez,361-652-4968, [email protected]; or Jesse Escalante,.361-212-5363, [email protected] ON BAFFIN AND BLUE LADIESFISHING TOURNAMENTDATE: Oct. 6TIME: time TBACOST: $80CONTACT/WEBSITE:http://www.babesonbaffin.com/LOCATION: Roberts Point Park In PortAransasRegistration is ongoing for Babes onBaffin and Blue, an all ladies fishing tour-nament, sponsored by CCA's CorpusChristi Chapter. Tournament features alive weigh-in and donation bonus. Reg-istration deadline is 9/21; register by 9/1to ensure preferred shirt size. Fri.'scheck in & social is at Doc's Restaurantin Corpus; Sat.'s tournament weigh-in &dinner is at Roberts Point Park in PortAransas.

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Saturday’s ScoresAtlanta at Indiana, lateNew York at Connecticut, lateLos Angeles at Seattle, late


caught wind of the typicaloccurrence and blew it upand out of proportion overthe newspapers and televi-sions. Hyperbole is what mycollege English professorscalled it. I knew it was badwhen the contemporaryChristian radio station I lis-ten to and support financial-ly told beach-goers to be-ware of the fish kill onGalveston Island. Then myphone began to light up withcalls from concerned clientsabout the fish kill and how itwould affect their scheduledfishing charter.

So, to squash the hysteria,here a level-headed evalua-tion of the situation.

Early this week, the TexasParks and Wildlife Dept. is-sued a statement saying thefish kill was attributed tored tide, an algae caused byhigh concentrations of aplant-like microorganismcalled Karenia brevis or K.

brevis. These high concen-trations called blooms maycause the water to appearred, light or dark green, orbrown. Karenia brevis pro-duces a toxin, called breve-toxin, which can affect thecentral nervous system offish, birds, mammals andother animals. The most vis-ible result of red tide isdead fish on the beach orfloating in the water. It is anaturally-occurring organ-ism that is likely always pre-sent at low concentrationsin the Gulf of Mexico and isbelieved to have beenaround for centuries.

According to TPWD, redtide blooms most often be-ginning in late summer orearly fall and can last days,weeks or months. Bloom lo-cations can change dailydue to wind conditions. Peo-ple with respiratory prob-lems may be especially af-fected by aerosolized toxinsduring red tides. Symptomscommon when breathing

red tide toxins includecoughing, sneezing, and wa-tery, burning eyes.

Many anglers, includingmyself, experienced thesesymptoms during the Fall of2011 when red tide was pre-sent in most Texas bays,probably due to the lack offreshwater and hypersalinelevels brought about by thesevere drought Texas en-dured.

As for red tide contribut-ing to the fish kill last week?I am skeptical. I am not say-ing there are not algaeblooms present, rather, I be-lieve the kill was broughtabout by the same variableswe see every August - weaktides, a increase of shadshowing along the beach-front, triple-digit thermome-ters and a calm surf (wavescreate oxygen like an aera-tor when its water crashesover sand bars).

In past years I have seenkills much worse, to the ex-tent of floating shad cover-

ing the entire portion of thelower end and mouth of theColorado River.

I fondly remember August1998 because I had neverseen so many large schoolsof shad so tight to the beachand the surf so flat. I wadedthe first gut that morningand never caught a troutdue to acres of tarponpulling up shallow and blast-ing schools of shad.

The next day thousands ofdead shad littered the waterand tested my gag reflex af-ter a couple of days of ex-treme heat and decomposi-tion.

So last week's fish kill isnothing to be alarmedabout. Just part of the circleof life along the Texas coast.

Bink Grimes is a free-lance writer, photogra-pher, author and li-censed captain([email protected]).

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CONTRIBUTED BY BINK GRIMESThis photo was taken Aug. 2, 2005, near the mouth of the Colorado River in Matagorda. Last week’s shad kill, in many estimations, didnot come close to rivaling the 2005 episode or others since.

USCbrushesoff sanctions,topsAPpoll

NEW YORK (AP) – South-ern California is No. 1 in theAP Top 25, tossing off theweight of NCAA sanctionsand returning to a familiarplace in the rankings – with aboost from LSU’s problems.

USC earned the top spot inThe Associated Press’ pre-season college football pollfor the seventh time inschool history and the firsttime in five seasons, edgingout No. 2 Alabama and No. 3LSU.

The Trojans, who werebanned from postseasonplay the past two seasons,received 25 of a possible 60first-place votes from a me-dia panel in a close vote.USC received 1,445 points.Defending national champi-on Alabama had 17first-place votes and 1,411points while LSU, the Crim-son Tide’s SEC rival, got 16first-place votes and 1,402points.

“We definitely didn’t comehere to be underdogs,” Tro-jans safety T.J. McDonaldsaid Saturday. “The rankingdoesn’t mean we’ve doneanything as a team. But it’sgood to see we’re backwhere we’re supposed tobe.”

Oklahoma was fourth witha single first-place vote andOregon was fifth. Michigan,at No. 8, received the onlyother first-place vote.

The Tigers were poised tostart the season No. 1 beforeHeisman Trophy finalistTyrann Mathieu got kickedoff the team a week ago.

In light of that develop-ment, the AP extended thevoting deadline. BeforeMathieu was dismissed, re-portedly for failed drug

tests, LSU had received 28 ofa possible 60 first-placevotes. USC was a close sec-ond with 22 first-place votesand Alabama was third withnine.

The USA Today coaches’poll, which was releasedAug. 2, had LSU at No. 1, fol-lowed by Alabama andUSC.

Rounding out the top 10 inthe AP rankings, Georgiawas No. 6, followed by Flori-da State and Michigan. No. 9South Carolina and No. 10Arkansas give the South-eastern Conference half ofthe first 10 teams.

For the Trojans, their re-turn to national champi-onship contention comesjust two years after the pro-gram was hit by NCAA sanc-tions that seemed cripplingat the time.

Head coach Lane Kiffinwas an assistant coach forUSC during its last greatrun.

associated press top 25The Top 25 teams in The AssociatedPress preseason college football poll,with first-place votes in parentheses, fi-nal 2011 records, total points based on25 points for a first-place vote throughone point for a 25th-place vote, and 2011final ranking:

RecordPts Pv1. Southern Cal (25) 10-21,445 62. Alabama (17) 12-11,411 13. LSU (16) 13-11,402 24. Oklahoma (1) 10-31,286 165. Oregon 12-21,274 46. Georgia 10-41,107 197. Florida St. 9-41,093 238. Michigan (1) 11-21,000 129. South Carolina 11-2 994 910. Arkansas 11-2 963 511. West Virginia 10-3 856 1712. Wisconsin 11-3 838 1013. Michigan St. 11-3 742 1114. Clemson 10-4 615 2215. Texas 8-5 569 NR16. Virginia Tech 11-3 548 2117. Nebraska 9-4 485 2418. Ohio St. 6-7 474 NR19. Oklahoma St. 12-1 430 320. TCU 11-2 397 1421. Stanford 11-2 383 722. Kansas St. 10-3 300 1523. Florida 7-6 214 NR24. Boise St. 12-1 212 825. Louisville 7-6 105 NROthers receiving votes: Notre Dame 83,Washington 55, Auburn 53, North Carolina32, Utah 30, Georgia Tech 25, BYU 22, Ten-nessee 15, South Florida 11, Baylor 9,Texas A&M 5, UCF 4, Cincinnati 3, Mis-souri 3, N.C. State 3, Houston 1, LouisianaTech 1, Mississippi St. 1, N. Illinois 1.

Trojans are No. 1in AP preseasonpoll for 7th time inschool history

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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Coaches love to say it’s tougher to stay on topthan it is to get there. Fans of Vanderbilt, IowaState or Duke football might disagree, but there isno doubt maintaining a high level of success is dif-ficult. These six teams coming off big seasons willbe hard-pressed to repeat their feats in 2012. You’llnotice a trend.

■ OKLAHOMA STATE: The Cowboys quite simply had the bestseason in the history of the program, going12-1 with a Big 12 title, No. 3 final ranking anda resounding victory against rival Oklahoma. Afirm foundation has been laid by coach MikeGundy, but this is a retooling year. It starts atquarterback, where freshman Wes Lunt takesover for departed first-round NFL draft pick Brandon Weeden.FORECAST: 8-4 regular season.

■ STANFORD: Andrew Luck is gone. His replace-ment, Brett Nottingham, by all accounts has achance to be a fine quarterback. And the teamaround him is very good. But he’s not Luck,and very few quarterbacks have ever been thatgood. FORECAST: 8-4.

■ BAYLOR: See above, but replace Andrew Luckwith Robert Griffin III and Brett Nottinghamwith Nick Florence. While Florence showed hehas made some progress since getting mauledas a freshman, the sheer amount of talent tobe replaced for the Bears means they are likelytaking a step back. FORECAST: 6-6.

■ KANSAS STATE: The Wildcats were maybe themost surprising team in the country last sea-son. Picked to finish near the bottom of the Big12, Bill Snyder’s crew went 10-3 and played inthe Cotton Bowl. QB Collin Klein enters thisseason with Heisman Trophy buzz, but K-Statewon seven games by seven points or less and it’s tough to re-peat that kind of good fortune in a difficult conference.FORECAST: 7-5.

■ BOISE STATE: The Broncos have to replace asmuch talent, as many key players, as any teamin the country, starting with robotically efficientQB Kellen Moore. They have seven returningstarters – total. That’s it! Boise State hasn’twon less than 10 games in season since going9-4 in 2005, the last season under coach Dan Hawkins.FORECAST: 9-3.

■ GEORGIA: The Bulldogs bounced back nicelyfrom a couple of mediocre seasons by going10-4 and reaching the Southeastern Confer-ence title game.The schedule sets up wellagain. Georgia misses Alabama, LSU andArkansas out of the West, and plays three non-conference patsies. But ’Dawgs beware. The East should bebetter this year with Florida and Tennessee primed to step for-ward and Missouri joining.

EXTRA POINT: Houston, replacing both coach (Kevin Sumlin)and record-setting quarterback (Case Keenum), won’t be going13-1 again, and Temple will have a tough time winning nineagain as Steve Addazio takes a rebuilding team into the Big East.

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days before the Bobcatsopen at Woodsboro, they willlikely focus on their stami-na.

“I think they learned in-tensity means a lot,” Elkinssaid. “When you play withintensity, you can overcomesome of those mistakes thatyou make.

“Especially, early on for

us, we’re learning a new de-fense and a new offense. Ithink they have learnedthey need to push them-selves a little bit more inconditioning. They are notquite in the shape they needto be in.”

St. Joseph plans to spendthe next fortnight focusingon the mental approach tofootball. New coach KevinAuten said he wants his

team to be ready to playfrom the first snap. Howev-er, Auten was pleased histeam dictated the tempo to-ward the end.

“There at the end, in thelast series, I felt we pickedup the pace a little bit,” Aut-en said. “I felt we got betteras we went throughout theday. That’s what I was hap-piest with was that we con-tinued to get better as we

played.”At this point in the season,

Auten and Elkins said theirteams will improve as theyget more on-field repeti-tion.

Both teams have scrim-mages Thursday, coinciden-tally against opponentsfrom Jackson County.Bloomington will host Gana-do, while the Flyers will visitEdna.

SCRIMMAGE: Auten wants team to be ready from first snap

BINK GRIMES | WOODS, WINGS & WATER

Sooners’ player fighting cancer to play football

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) –When Austin Woods walksoff the football field afterpracticing in Oklahoma’s100-degree August heat,sometimes it’s only the startof a grueling day for theSooners’ center.

After being diagnosed withHodgkin’s lymphoma in thespring, Woods is undergoingchemotherapy treatments todeal with the form of cancer.For three to four hours ev-ery other week, a mixture ofchemicals is pumped intohis body through aninch-long needle in a pro-cess that leaves him feelingfatigued.

All that still isn’t enough tokeep the determined Texanfrom reporting for anotherpractice and putting in thework it requires to be theSooners’ deep snapper onplace kicks and the backupfor starting center GabeIkard.

Some days, it’s practice inthe morning and chemother-

apy in the afternoon.“It’s just something you’ve

got to do. It’s something Iwant to do,” said Woods, ajunior from Rockwall, Texas.“I want to play football, Iwant to bat-tle this can-cer and Iwant to win,so I want tohelp myteammates.That’s justsomething Ihad to do.”

Woods wasbotheredthroughmuch of spring practice by asore throat and swollenglands around his neck. Heeventually approached teamtrainer Scott Anderson, andwas told it wasn’t normal.Over the course of a coupleweeks, he had blood workand other tests done andwas sent to an oncologistwho was able to figure outwhat was going on.

At first, he thought he’dhave to sit out this seasonand use a redshirt. Givingup the sport, which his fa-ther used to play and nowcoaches, was never an op-tion.

“I love football. I love being

with my teammates. I lovethe University of Okla-homa,” Woods said. “Foot-ball was the first thing onmy mind: How can I getback to playing football asfast as I can?”

While fighting through thetreatments, Woods is ontrack to be right where hewants to be this season: onthe field. His role as thedeep snapper is solidifiedand longtime starter BenHabern’s decision to give upfootball after neck and backinjuries could mean moreplaying time with the of-fense, too.

As much as a person canbe, Woods was prepared totackle his lymphoma. Hismother, Donna, beat breastcancer when he was 5 yearsold and has been a key partof his support system. Andhe believes the fact that hewas already in footballshape and going through Ok-lahoma’s demanding work-outs probably prepared hisbody to handle the treat-ments.

His position coach, JamesPatton, describes Woods asa “pretty powerful,strong-minded kid” with anunwavering vision for whathe wants.

“The mind is the strongestpart of your body. If yourmind says you can do some-thing, you’re going to do it.You’re going to get it done.That’s what my wholestance on this thing was,”Woods said. “I was going totell my mind that I’m goingto get through this, I’m go-ing to attack these treat-ments just like we attack ateam on Saturday. I’m goingto attack these things, I’mgoing to get through it andI’m going to beat this thing.

“Defeat was never reallyan option.”

After Friday’s treatment,Woods is set to have threemore chemotherapy ses-sions before he’s all done.The last is scheduled foraround Oct. 1, one month in-to the regular season. So far,it has been relatively smoothsailing and he described thelast scan of his lymph nodesas “excellent,” showing thecancerous cells going away.

“God does some amazingthings. He’s really given mea body that’s handled thetreatments,” he said. “I’mjust very thankful for thatand just glad I’ve been ableto go through summer work-outs and everything and bewith my teammates.”

Austin Woodsperseveres to stayon the field despitedraining treatment

Woods

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Score. Stats. Spirit!

Victoria West winsColumbus tournamentADVOCATE STAFF REPORTS

COLUMBUS – Victoria Westwon six games to claim thechampionship of the Colum-bus tournament.

Kelsea Kalich had 14 kills tolead the Warriors to a 25-17,25-13 win over Brenham inthe championship game.Kalich had 25 kills in West’s25-23, 16-25, 25-21 win over LaGrange in the semifinals.

Kalich, Blair Butschek andEllen Hermes were named tothe all-tournament team forthe Warriors, who improvedto 7-0 on the season.

Lady Flyers take secondSHINER – St. Joseph went

5-1 to finish second in theShiner tournament.

The Lady Flyers beat ShinerSt. Paul 25-9, 25-11 in thesemifinals before dropping a18-25, 25-22, 25-19 decision toBurton in the championshipgame.

Lauren Kurtz and NatalieBales were named to the

all-tournament team for St.Joseph, now 5-2 on the sea-son.

Columbus Tournament

ChampionshipBrenham 17-13Victoria West 25-25Kills: (W) Kelsea Kalich 14 kills, Brooke Kirk-patrick 5, Deane Gallup 4; Blocks: Kirkpatrick4, Kalich 2; Assists: (W) Ellen Hermes 18;Aces: (W) Hermes 3, Gallup 2. Records:West. All-Tournament: Kelsea Kalich, BlairButschek, Ellen Hermes. Records: West7-0.

SemifinalsVictoria West 23-25-25La Grange 25-16-21Kills: (W) Kelsea Kalich 25, Deane Gallup 8,Blair Butchek 5, Rachel Hamon 3; Blocks:Hamon 6; Assists: Ellen Hermes 37.Brenham 25-23-25Schulenburg 22-25-20Kills: (S) India Connor 10, Bay Guentert 6,Kelsie Fietsam 5; Blocks: (S) SarahWalker 3;Digs: (S) Kristin Moring 16, ShannonMikesky 12, Bay Guentert 11; Assists:Mikesky 24, Moring 6.

Third PlaceLa Grange 24-25-25Schulenburg 26-18-20Kills: (S) Bay Guentert 8, India Connor 7,Sarah Walker 6, Tanner Guentert 5; Blocks:(S) Walker 3; Digs: (S) Kristin Moring 25,Bay Guentert 16, Shannon Mikesky 14, LexiFowlkes 6; Assists: (S)Mikesky 25. Records:Schulenburg 5-4.Yoakum 25-25Stafford 9-14Kills: (Y) Leslie Seidenberger 8, LatriceBrown 4, Reagan Renken 3; Digs: (Y) CallieWitte 5, Seidenberger 5; Assists: (Y) Witte11, Faith Hagan 4; Aces: (Y) Seidenberger 3,Witte 2, Brown 2.

Yoakum 24-12Sweeny 26-25Kills: (Y) Leslie Seidenberger 5; Blocks: (Y)Jaccarri Hights 4, Callie Witte 3; Digs: (Y)Witte 6, Faith Hagan 5, Shelby Pesek 5; As-sists: (Y) Witte 9. Records: Yoakum 3-5.Hallettsville 25-22Gonzales 25-22Kills: (H) Cassidy Targac 9, MadisonSchindler 4, Heather Henneke 3; Digs: (H)Morgan Mitchon 9, Schindler 4, Targac 4;Assists: (H) Schindler 15, Henneke 11;Blocks: (H) Lana Hickson 2, Henneke 2,Sha’Tiara Runnels 2; Aces: (H) Alicia Grah-man 6, Mitchon 2, Schindler 2.Hallettsville 25-25Brazos 22-21Kills: (H) Heaather Henneke 9, MadisonSchindler 5, Cassidy Targac 4; Digs: (H) Ali-cia Grahman 7, Schindler 7, Henneke 6; As-sists; (H) Schindler 12, Henneke 8; Blocks:(H) Lana Hickson 2; Aces: (H) MorganMitchon 2. Records: Hallettsville 6-3.

Shiner Tournament

ChampionshipBurton 18-25-25St. Joseph 18-25-25Kills: (SJ) Lauren Kurtz 10, Analise Ybarbo 4,Carly Boles 4, Natalie Bales 4; Blocks: (SJ)Ybarbo 6; Digs: (SJ) Balkes 16, Peyton Cuel-lar 15; Assists: (SJ) Bales 19. Records: St.Joseph 5-2.

SemifinalsBurton 25-26Shiner 16-24Kills: (S) Laneshia Hunt 8, Julianna Rankin 4,Lauren Oden 3; Blocks: (S) Amanise Cole-man 5; Digs: (S) Oden 16,Meagan Chumchal12, Kristin Schacherl 11; Assists: (S)Schacherl 13; Aces: (S) Oden 2.St. Joseph 25-25Shiner St. Paul 9-11Kills: (SJ) Carly Boles 6; Blocks: (SJ) AnaliseYbarbo 10; Assists: Natalie Bales 12; Aces:(SJ) Kalyn Hempel 3.

Third PlaceShiner St. Paul 13-25-18Shiner 25-18-25Kills: (S) Laneshia Hunt 10, Julianna Rankin7, Lauren Oden 5; Digs: (S) Meagan Chum-chal 14, Kristin Schacherl 13; Assists: (S)Schacherl 21; Aces: (S) Schacherl 3, Rankin2.Flatonia 19-19Shiner 25-25Kills: (S) Julianna Rankin 5, Laneshia Hunt 4,Tabitha Blaschke 3; Blocks: (S) AmaniseColeman 3; Digs: (S) Hunt 6, Meagan Chum-chal 5; Assists: (S) Kristin Schacherl 16;Aces: (S) Lauren Oden 3, Rankin 2,Schacherl 2.St. Joseph 25-25Nixon-Smiley 21-9Kills: (SJ) Lindsey Still 7, Lauren Kurtz 5;Blocks: (SJ) Still 3; Assists: (SJ) NatalieBales 14.Final results: 1. Burton; 2. St. Joseph; 3.Shiner; 4. Shiner St. Paul; Consolation: Fla-tonia.MVP: Rachel Warner, Burton.All-Tournament: Burton, Kaitlyn Blakey,Katie Kieke; St. Joseph, Lauren Kurtz, NatalieBales; Shiner, Laneshia Hunt, KristinSchacherl; St. Paul, Morgan Long; Flatonia,Abigail Schacherl; Nixon-Smiley, Devon Tris-tan; Cuero, Abby Sheppard.

Palacios TournamentPalacios 25-25, Boling 14-19Ganado 25-25, Columbia 14-21Van Vleck 25-25, Louise 17-19Bloomington 25-18-15, Tidehaven 14-25-9Palacios 25-23-15, Ganado 21-25-8Van Vleck 25-25, Bloomington 17-20Columbia 25-25, Boling 18-23Tidehaven 25-25, Louise 16-20Consolation: Columbia 22-25-15, Tidehaven25-16-8Championship: Palacios 25-19-25-22-15,Van Vleck 18-25-15-25-13

LOCAL GOLFFollowing are results from

Saturday’s Aggie Golf Clas-sic at the Victoria CountryClub

2012 Aggie Golf Classic1st Place: 52 Ron Dickson, Quint Burris,

Zak Koenig, Dr. Mark Spivey.5th Place: 54 Chris Janak, Dennis Satsky,Daryl Pohalek, Jonathan Pozzi.12th Place: 59 Alan Culberson, ThomasCulberson, TJ Culberson, Jack Culberson.Straightest Drive #1: Devin NewClosest to Hole #8: Ron DicksonClosest to Hole #12: Quint Burris

PGA

Garcia takes 1-stroke lead at WyndhamGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP)

– Sergio Garcia shot a 4-un-der 66 on Saturday to takethe lead at 14-under 196 afterthree rounds at the Wynd-ham Championship.

Tim Clark and Bud Cauleywere a stroke back, with Ja-son Dufner, Harris Englishand Carl Pettersson at 12 un-der entering the final roundof the last event before theFedEx Cup playoffs.

Dufner shot a 63, Cauleyhad a 66, Clark a 67, and En-glish and Pettersson 68s.

Garcia – whose sec-ond-round 63 marked hisbest PGA Tour round in adecade – made a move withconsecutive birdies midwaythrough the back nine thatbriefly helped him leapfroghis playing partner, Clark.PGA-Wyndham Championship Par

Scores

Saturday

At Sedgefield Country Club

Yardage: 7,117; Par: 70

Third Round

Sergio Garcia 67-63-66 — 196 -14Bud Cauley 66-65-66 — 197 -13Tim Clark 63-67-67 — 197 -13Jason Dufner 68-67-63 — 198 -12Harris English 66-64-68 — 198 -12Carl Pettersson 62-68-68 — 198 -12Davis Love III 67-66-66 — 199 -11Matt Every 65-66-68 — 199 -11Jimmy Walker 66-62-71 — 199 -11Justin Leonard 68-68-64 — 200 -10Will Claxton 69-66-65 — 200 -10Richard H. Lee 66-69-65 — 200 -10

Chad Campbell 71-64-65 — 200 -10Bill Haas 68-65-67 — 200 -10Troy Matteson 64-68-68 — 200 -10Webb Simpson 66-63-71 — 200 -10Bobby Gates 69-67-65 — 201 -9Charl Schwartzel 67-68-66 — 201 -9Scott Stallings 64-70-67 — 201 -9Tommy Gainey 66-67-68 — 201 -9Nicolas Colsaerts 67-65-69 — 201 -9Billy Horschel 69-67-66 — 202 -8Heath Slocum 68-67-67 — 202 -8John Merrick 66-69-67 — 202 -8Brandt Snedeker 67-67-68 — 202 -8Kevin Streelman 68-66-68 — 202 -8Brendon de Jonge 68-68-67 — 203 -7D.A. Points 68-68-67 — 203 -7Graham DeLaet 69-67-67 — 203 -7Rocco Mediate 70-65-68 — 203 -7Trevor Immelman 67-68-68 — 203 -7John Huh 69-65-69 — 203 -7

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Schaub, Holliday lead Texans over 49ersHOUSTON – Matt Schaub

threw a touchdown pass toLestar Jean, Trindon Hol-liday returned a punt foranother score and Houston’sdefense stifled San Franciscoin the Texans’ 20-9 win overthe 49ers on Saturday night.

Schaub completed 11 of 14passes for 128 yards in twoquarters, looking sharp in hissecond game since fractur-ing his right foot in Week 10last season. The 5-foot-5 Hol-liday, who returned a kickoff90 yards for a score in theTexans’ preseason opener,scored in the fourth quarter.

The Texans held the 49ersto 267 yards and 13 firstdowns. Alex Smith complet-ed 5 of 9 passes for 49 yardsfor the 49ers (No. 4). He wassacked twice by the Texans’first-string defense.

Giants stifle Sanchez, Tebow inwin over Jets

EAST RUTHERFORD,N.J. – Rookie Jayron Hosleyreturned an interception ofMark Sanchez 77 yards for atouchdown, and the NewYork Giants’ defense stifledthe Jets’ starters in a 26-3

preseason victory betweenthe hometown rivals on Sat-urday night.

Tim Tebow, making hishome debut for the Jets (0-2),didn’t fare much better in hissix series. But the backupquarterback led the Jets (No.14 in the AP Pro32) to theironly points of the night –Josh Brown’s 30-yard fieldgoal.

Lawrence Tynes kickedfour field goals for the Giants(1-1). Eli Manning and theGiants (No. 3) starters weremostly quiet, with the SuperBowl MVP going 7 of 14 for 62yards and an interception.

Bradford on game, Ramsbeat Chiefs

ST. LOUIS – Sam Bradfordthrew touchdown passes onhis first two drives, and theSt. Louis Rams made im-provements on the other sideof the ball in a 31-17 pre-season victory over theKansas City Chiefs in theannual Governor’s Cup gameon Saturday night.

Lance Kendricks and Dan-ny Amendola scored oncatches of 23 and 8 yards, and

Steven Jackson ran for 49yards on seven carries in a151-yard first quarter thathanded the backups atwo-touchdown cushion. TheRams (1-1) totaled 215 yardsin a 38-3 loss last week atIndianapolis.

Bradford was 6 for 9 for 102yards for St. Louis (No. 28 APPro32). Matt Cassel playedthe first half for Kansas City(1-1) and was 13 for 18 for 142yards.

Bears’ Hardin taken from fieldon cart

CHICAGO – Bears backupsafety Brandon Hardin wastaken from the field on a cartbecause of a neck injury ear-ly in the third quarter Sat-urday night in a preseasongame against the Washing-ton Redskins.

Chicago’s Lorenzo Bookerhad just returned the open-ing kickoff of the second half105 yards for a touchdown,when Hardin went down. Hewas injured trying to tackleLogan Paulsen on a 19-yardpass from Kirk Cousins onthe next play from scrim-mage.

ASSOCIATED PRESSHouston Texans' Arian Foster carries in the first quarter an NFL preseason game against the SanFrancisco 49ers on Saturday in Houston.

Hardin stayed down forabout 10 minutes as medicalpersonnel tended to him be-

fore being placed on astretcher and taken away ona cart. He was moving his

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NFL

Peppers confirms transcript was posted online

ASSOCIATED PRESSSergio Garciahits from asand trapduring the thirdround of theWyndhamChampionshipon Saturday.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) –Former North Carolina foot-ball star Julius Peppers con-firmed it was his academictranscript that was posted onthe university’s website andinsists there was “no aca-demic fraud” with it.

The Chicago Bears’ defen-sive end released a statementthrough his agent Saturday,nearly a week after a link tothe transcript surfaced.

“This week has been an up-setting and challenging weekfor me, as one of my mostprivate academic documentsappeared on the university’swebsite for public examina-tion,” Peppers said. “I’m ter-ribly disappointed in the factthat my privacy has been vi-olated, as well as frustrated

with whoever negligently andcarelessly committed such aflagrant error.”

The school never confirmedthe authenticity of the tran-script, which lists Peppers’name at the top, but has saidit is investigating how thedocument wound up on thewebsite. School officials re-moved the link and have saidthey can’t discuss confiden-tial student information cov-ered by federal privacy laws.

The link showed Peppersreceived some of his highestgrades in classes in the De-partment of African andAfro-American Studies(AFAM). A school investiga-tion has since found fraudand poor oversight in 54AFAM classes between sum-

mer 2007 and summer 2011,with football players makingup more than a third of theenrollments and student-ath-letes making up 58 percent ofthe overall enrollments inthose suspect classes.

“I can assure everyone thatthere is no academic fraud asit relates to my college tran-script,” Peppers said in thestatement. “I took everycourse with qualified mem-bers of the UNC faculty and Iearned every grade whetherit was good or bad.

“I was never given unap-proved assistance or prefer-ential treatment in terms ofmy academic career becauseI was a student-athlete. I wasalso never deemed ineligibleto compete on any of the

football or basketballteams.”

Peppers played two seasonsfor the men’s basketball teamunder Bill Guthridge andMatt Doherty, serving as areserve on the team thatreached the Final Four in2000. He was the No. 2 pick ofthe Carolina Panthers in the2002 NFL draft, spent eightseasons there before signingwith the Bears and is asix-time Pro Bowl defensiveend.

Nine of the 10 classes inwhich Peppers earned aB-plus, B or B-minus thatcould’ve helped ensure hiseligibility came in the AFAMdepartment where he wasmajoring, according to thetranscript.

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Ibaka’s signs new dealreportedly for $48M

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) –The Oklahoma City Thundertook a big step toward stick-ing around as an NBA cham-pionship contender.

The Thunder and generalmanager Sam Presti stillface difficult decisions in theteam’s quest to remain a ti-tle threat for the long haulafter reaching the NBA Fi-nals last season, but reach-ing a contract extensionwith blocks leader SergeIbaka is certainly a goodstart.

Ibaka came to terms on thedeal on Saturday as theThunder locked up anotherkey member of their nucleuswhile also putting into ques-tion whether the small-mar-ket team can afford to keepSixth Man of the Year JamesHarden beyond next sea-son..

Ibaka posted on Twitterthat he was happy for thechance to play for the Thun-der for five more years.Presti didn’t provide detailsof the contract, citing teampolicy, but Yahoo! Sportsfirst reported that the deal isfor four additional years and$48 million.

“At 23 years old (by the

time next season starts), wereally do expect his best bas-ketball to be in front of him,”Presti said in a conferencecall, hours before his wed-ding.

Presti dismissed the no-tion that Ibaka’s signingmeans that Harden’s depar-ture is inevitable. But withmore than $50 million com-mitted per season toAll-Stars Kevin Durant andRussell Westbrook andstarting center KendrickPerkins, there is not muchroom left in the budget forHarden, who earned a spoton the U.S. Olympic teamthat won gold in London.

Ibaka played for Spain’s sil-ver-medal winning Olympicteam. Both he and Hardenwere eligible for extensionsto their rookie contracts forthe first time this summerand were set to become freeagents after next season.

To make that happen, Ok-lahoma City would likelyhave to go over the salarycap – set at about $58 millionfor next season – and pay aluxury tax or make othermoves, such as using theamnesty clause to erasePerkins’ contract.


“As far as people’s notions ofthe NFL before they getthere, it’s kind of hard to real-ize coming from college to thepros what a business it is. It’sa lot of fun, but it’s still a joband you have to keep that inperspective and realize this isyour career you’re working at.A lot of times it’s short-livedeven if you have a long career.It’s not a whole lifetimeworth.”

Wallace played center in theTexans’ preseason openeragainst the Carolina Panthers,but can also play both guardpositions, which helped himearn another shot with theteam.

“Well, Cody’s been here for awhile, and he’s a talentedguy,” said Texans offensiveline coach John Benton. “Butprobably the biggest reason ishe’s very versatile, he canplay all three interior spots,he’s got a great handle on theoffense, so it was seamless tobring him back that way.”

Wallace played at 295 poundsat Texas A&M and went intoSaturday night’s game at 307pounds. He feels more com-

fortable in the Texans’ offensethan he did with the 49ers.

“Here, they don’t really needyou to be that big,” he said.“When I was in San Francis-co, there was a point when Iwas 318 pounds, and I coulddefinitely tell. They were allpower whenever I was there.Here it’s a lot of lateral run-ning. They like to have athlet-ic linemen here.”

Wallace knows the clock isticking on his pro football ca-reer.

He is eligible to play onemore season on the practicesquad, but has spoken withSean Washington, the team’splayer development directorabout the future.

Wallace’s plans could includereturning to Texas A&Mwhere he had begun workingtoward a master’s degree.

“I know this is a big year forme,” Wallace said. “Not a lotof teams want to give afifth-year player practicesquad. Somehow, I knew thatit was a big year for me to tryand make the roster.”

Wallace’s chances of makingthe Texans’ active roster de-pend on how he performs therest of training camp and on

the field in preseason games.“Like anybody else, he’s got

to produce on a consistent lev-el,” Benton said. “He’s beenvery close for a long time andcontinues to progress andwhatnot. But that’ll be how hedoes it, is through his versatil-ity and contributing that way.”

Wallace has found a way tosucceed at every level and hehopes to continue the trend.

“When I was young, I neverreally thought about it,” Wal-lace said. “But once I got intohigh school and started play-ing football, my whole goalwas just to get a college schol-arship. Once I was able to dothat and finally get to start incollege that became my nextgoal.

“It’s been a lot of fun to real-ize a dream that you’veworked hard for since youwere a freshman in highschool.”

Mike Forman is a sportswriter for the Victoria Ad-vocate. Contact him at361-580-6588 or [email protected], or com-ment on this column atwww.VictoriaAdvo-cate.com.

ON SPORTS: He is eligible for one more year on practice squadCONTINUED FROM C1 Wallace likes

Aggies’ moveto SECCody Wallace wasan All-Big 12center at TexasA&M, but isexcited about theAggies’ joining theSoutheasternConference.“I think it’s goingto be great for usin the long run,”Wallace said. “It’sgoing to bring alot of excitinggames to KyleField, which will befun and hopefullyI’ll get to get backfor some of them.It’s sad that therivalry is going tobe lost a little bit,but I’m sure we’llmake some newones.”

– MIKE FORMAN

“I know this is a big year for me. ... Not a lot of teams want to give afifth-year player practice squad. Somehow, I knew that it was a big year

for me to try and make the roster.”

ASSOCIATED PRESSCody Wallace splashes water on his face during training camp last year. The 27-year-old offensive lineman is hoping to earn a spot onthe roster in Houston this year.

scored 31 points to turn atight game into a 66-42 victo-ry.

That cost Florence a red-shirt year. So instead of thisyear and next as Briles orig-inally planned, Florence hasonly this season to be thestarter.

Yet the senior quarterback,also the primary starter in2009 as a freshman whenGriffin tore ligaments in hisknee, has no regrets aboutburning a full season of eligi-bility for that one half of foot-ball.

“I had the funnest half offootball you could have,” saidFlorence, who is in graduateschool. “I have one year, all Ican ask for is an opportunityto play, and I’m going to getthat opportunity and I’m go-ing to have fun with it, andtake advantage of it.”

Florence isn’t alone in try-ing to prove that Baylor cankeep winning without Griffin,now starting for the Washing-ton Redskins after bypassinghis senior season and beingthe second overall draftpick.

“This year I feel is the state-ment year,” junior linebackerAhmad Dixon said. “I under-stand that last year we madea statement, but this year, wehave to prove to people thatBaylor is never defined byone guy on the team, one staron the team. It’s a teamthing, and we applaud Robertfor everything he did. But it’stime now that we show peo-ple that we’re not just aone-hit wonder.”

Baylor plays its first gamein the post-RG3 era Sept. 2 athome against SMU.

The Bears go into the sea-son with a six-game winningstreak. Northern Illinois(nine games) and new Big 12foe TCU (eight games) are

the only FBS teams withlonger active streaks.

“They have us picked to fin-ish seventh (in the Big 12). ...That’s just more motivation,”senior receiver TerranceWilliams said. “We just seethat we can show them betterthan we can tell them. Sothat’s basically what we’retrying to do.”

Griffin was one of five offen-sive starters drafted by NFLteams last spring. The otherswere big-play receiverKendall Wright, running backTerrance Ganaway, centerPhilip Blake and offensivelineman Robert T. Griffin.The Bears set 101 offensiverecords last season, whenthey averaged 587 total yardsand 45 points a game.

In 2010, the Bears won sev-en games and ended a16-year bowl drought withtheir first winning season asa Big 12 team. They followedthat by matching the teamrecord of 10 wins set duringMike Singletary’s senior sea-son in 1980, and got their firstbowl victory in 19 years.

“Can they maintain whatthey did last year was actual-ly asked of us last year afterwe got to a bowl game for thefirst time in a long time,”Briles said. “They were say-ing can (Baylor) sustainagain and win in ’11. The an-swer was yes.”

BAYLOR: Florence lost redshirtyear as backup QB in 2011CONTINUED FROM C1 BAYLOR’S

KEY LOSSES■ QB Robert Griffin III: 291-402,4,293 yards passing, 37 TDs, 6INTs; 179 rushing attempts,699 yards, 10 TDs

■ WR Kendall Wright: 108catches, 1,663 yards and 14TDs

■ RB Terrance Ganaway: 1,547yards rushing and 21 TDs

■ Key linemen: Philip Blake (C),Robert T. Griffin (OL)

ASSOCIATED PRESSNick Florence has a chance to prove his mettle this year after arough time filling in as starter his freshman year.

CODY WALLACE, Cuero native working to earn make the Texans’ roster

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spans more than 70 years5 Place for a patch6 Latin trio word7 Chapel bench

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Q 1 - Both vulnerable, asSouth, you hold:♠ A J 7♥ K 10 9 3 ♦ A J 9 6 2♣ 8The bidding has proceeded:SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST1 ♦ Pass 1♠ Pass?What do you bid now?A - A bid of two hearts now wouldbe a reverse, showing extrastrength. Since you have a min-imum opener, all you can do forthe moment is raise to twospades and see how partner re-acts.

Q 2 - Both vulnerable, asSouth, you hold:♠ 8♥ A J 8 6 3 ♦ K 7♣ Q J 7 4 3As dealer, what action do youtake?A - Pass! You have no good rebidover partner’s expectedone-spade response. To bidtwo-clubs with such a shabbysuit asks for trouble and to bidone no trump with a weak single-ton, even though partner has re-sponded in the suit, misdescribesyour holding.

Q 3 - As South, vulnerable,you hold:♠ J 8 3♥ A 9 8 6 2 ♦ 9 4♣ J 7 6The bidding has proceeded:NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST1 ♦ Pass 1♥ Pass1♠ Pass ?What action do you take?A - Partner’s one-spade rebidwas not forcing, so take advan-tage of this to tell partner youhave a mediocre hand - pass!

Q 4 - As South, vulnerable,you hold:♠ A Q 9 3♥ K J 5 ♦ 7♣ A 9 6 4 3The bidding has proceeded:SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST1♣ Pass 1♠ Pass?What do you bid now?A - With 14 high-card points, asingleton and no wasted values,your hand is worth more like 18points than its high-card pointssuggest. Jump raise to threespades.

Q 5 - Both vulnerable, asSouth, you hold:♠ Q 7 6 2♥ A Q 7 4 ♦ 6♣ A K J 6

The bidding has proceeded:SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST1♣ Pass 1♠ Pass?What do you bid now?A - In support of spades yourhand is worth about 19 points.Tell partner the good news bymaking a splinter bid in yourshort suit. Jump to three dia-monds!

Q 6 - East-West vulnerable,as South, you hold:♠ -♥ Q 8 5 4 ♦ A Q 5 2♣ A Q 8 73The bidding has proceeded:SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST1♣ Pass 1♥ Pass?What do you bid now?A - A jump to three spades wouldshow a singleton and a stronghand - theoretically, to show avoid you need to jump to fourspades. However, that gets you tothe five-level. You have to tell alittle white lie and treat your voidas a singleton - jump to threespades.

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YOUR L I F EMEETINGS AND SUPPORT GROUPS

SUNDAYWONDERKIDS CLASSES■ Parkway Church, Rooms 203and 204.

■ 4802 John Stockbauer Drive■ 11 a.m.■ Designed for children andyouth with special needs (twogroups, ages 2-10 and ages11-18).

■ Email: [email protected]

CELEBRATE RECOVERY■ Faith Family Church, choirroom

■ 2002 E. Mockingbird Lane■ 9-10 a.m.■ Contact: 361-652-8137.

WOODMEN OF THE WORLDLODGE 3694 MEETING■ Golden Corral■ 5102 N. Navarro St.■ 6:30 p.m.■ Contact: Bobby L. Clark at361-578-5066.

CHRISTIANS AGAINST SUB-STANCE ABUSE (CASA)■ Central Church of Christ, annex■ 801 E. Airline Road■ 9-10 a.m.■ A 12-step recovery programfor any kind of addiction. In-cluding but not limited todrug, alcohol.

■ Contact the church at361-573-9133.

MONDAYNAMI VICTORIA MONTHLYMEETING■ St. Francis Episcopal Church■ 3002 Miori Lane■ All Saints Room.■ 6:30 p.m.■ No charge, all are welcome.■ Open to the public. Discussmental health issues.

■ Contact: Lisa, 361-935-0080.

VICTORIA BOULEVARD LIONSCLUB MEETING■ Grapevine Cafe■ 110 Medical Drive■ 6-7 p.m.■ Contact: Cheryl Moore, presi-dent, 361-578-7449.

DIVORCE CARE■ Faith Family Church■ 2002 E. Mockingbird Lane■ 7 p.m.■ Contact: Adam Harris,361-573-2484, Ext. 10.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY■ Parkway Church■ 4802 John Stockbauer Drive■ 6:30-8:30 p.m.■ A place of healing for life’shurts, hang-ups and habits.

■ Contact: Becky at361-572-8340.

YOUNG-AT-HEART■ Baptist Temple Church■ 1804 N. Laurent St.■ 2-4:30 p.m.■ Contact: 361-573-9157.

KIWANIS CLUB OF VICTORIAMEETING■ Sky Restaurant■ 236 Foster Field Drive■ Noon-1 p.m.■ New members are welcome.■ Contact: Terry Blevins,361-573-6451 or [email protected]

BINGO■ Victoria County Senior CitizensMurray Center

■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 10-11 a.m.■ Ginger Watkins with AdvancedHome Health Services sponsorthe event.

BLOOD DRIVE■ Halepaska’s Bakery■ 5805 John Stockbauer Drive■ 3-7 p.m.■ Contact: Visit the “blood” pageat southtexasblood.org or call800-292-5534, ext. 3500.

TUESDAYVICTORIA COMPOSITESQUADRON OF THE CIVIL AIRPATROL MEETING■ 6 p.m.■ Building 381 on Hangar Driveat Victoria Regional Airport

■ Anyone interested in aviation,search and rescue, and thetraining of cadets for a futurein aviation or the military areinvited to attend.

■ Contact: Robert H. Brecount,361-575-0078.

TOASTMASTERS■ Gonzales County Farm BureauCommunity Room

■ 1731 Seydler St., Gonzales.Visitors are welcome.

VFW POST 4146 ANDAUXILIARY■ 2001 VFW/Lova Drive■ 7 p.m. covered dish meal; 8p.m. meeting

■ Contact: Winnie McCarrell,361-574-8939.

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY■ First Baptist Church FellowshipHall

■ Moody Street entrance■ 8:30-10 a.m.■ Contact: 361-572-0523 or361-578-1205.

MOM’S DAY OUT■ Baptist Temple Church■ 1804 N. Laurent St.■ 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.■ Contact: 361-573-9157.

KNIT HAPPENS■ Parkway Church■ 4802 John Stockbauer Drive■ 5:30-7:30 p.m.■ Knitting and support group forany life challenge. (Enter build-ing through the side entrance.)

■ Contact: Cindy Tharp at361-655-1418.

DIVORCE CARE FOR MEN■ Parkway Church■ 4802 John Stockbauer Drive■ Church offices facing Salem■ 6:30-8:30 p.m.■ Contact: 361-572-8340, [email protected]

LIVING COURAGE SUPPORTGROUP■ Mid-Coast Family Services■ 120 S. Main, Suite 310■ 2-3 p.m.■ For female survivors of familyviolence who have been affect-ed by physical or emotionalabuse, either past or present.

■ Contact the Family ViolenceDepartment at Mid-Coast Fam-ily Services to sign-up:361-575-7842.

NAMI CONNECTION PEERSUPPORT GROUP■ 3002 Miori Lane■ 6-7:30 p.m.■ Meet at 5:45 p.m., group startsat 6 p.m. Consumers do not

have to be diagnosed, takingmedications or in recovery toattend.

■ For more info, call361-578-3935.

DIVORCE CARE FOR WOMEN■ Parkway Church■ 4802 John Stockbauer Drive■ Church offices facing Salem■ 6:30-8:30 p.m.■ Contact: 361-572-8340, [email protected]

I CAN CONTROL MY DIABETES■ Pine Street Community Center■ 803 Pine St.■ 6-8 p.m.■ Free■ Seven classes to learn to con-trol your diabetes. Each Tues-day through Oct. 2

■ Call to register at361-575-4581.

COMPUTER CLASS | INTRO TOMICROSOFT OFFICE 2007■ Workforce Solution GoldenCrescent Computer Lab

■ Victoria Public Library■ 302 N. Main St.■ 9:30-11:30 a.m.■ An introduction to common-ly-used features in Word 2007.Registration required by phoneor online, victoriapublicli-brary.org.

■ For more information call theVictoria Public Library,361-485-3302.

GAME/BRIDGE DAY■ Victoria County Senior CitizensMurray Center

■ 603 E. Murray St.■ Noon-3 p.m.■ Anyone 60 or older can comeplay card games, boardgames, dominoes, Bridge, orshoot a game of pool.

■ To reserve a place for Bridge,call Johnnie Gayda at361-645-3763.

OLS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORTGROUP■ Trinity Hall■ 204 W. River St■ 6-8 p.m.■ Tim Hornback Executive Direc-tor of CASA will speak onCASA: The Child Advocate

■ Contact: Naomi 361-648-3318.

CHRISTIANS AGAINST SUB-STANCE ABUSE (CASA)■ Bloomington Church of Christ■ Corner of Fifth Street and RailStreet, Bloomington

■ 7-8 p.m.■ Twelve-step recovery programfor any kind of addiction. In-cluding but not limited todrug, alcohol.

■ Contact: Robert Schmidt at361-920-1947.

AUG. 22BLIND COURAGE SUPPORTGROUP■ Victoria Mall CommunityRoom

■ 7802 N. Navarro St.■ 9:30-11:30 a.m.■ Your care provider or familymember is welcome to accom-pany you.

■ Contact: Debbie Ross,361-573-2424, or Donna Mun-sch, 361-580-1998.

LUNCHEON AND BINGO■ First United Methodist Churchfellowship hall

■ 601 South Second St., Seadrift

■ 11:30 a.m.■ A suggested donation of $3will be accepted.

■ All senior citizens, 60 years ofage or older and their spouses(regardless of age), are invitedto attend a luncheon eachWednesday. A hot meal will beserved at 11:30 a.m. Bingo willbe played after lunch. A sug-gested donation of $3 will beaccepted. The event is present-ed by the Calhoun County Se-nior Citizens Association, Inc.

QUILTERS & CRAFTERS■ Victoria County Senior CitizensMurray Center

■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 8 a.m.-3 p.m.■ Fun, food and fellowship whileyou quilt or craft items.Come-and-go atmosphere.Bring a friend.

SELF-GUIDED COMPUTERTRAINING■ Victoria Public Library■ 302 N. Main St.■ 9-10:30 a.m.■ Enhance your skills with morethan 110 different tutorials.

■ Visit victoriapubliclibrary.org orcall the Victoria Public Library,361-485-3302.

BLOOD PRESSURE CHECKED■ Victoria County Senior CitizensMurray Center

■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 10-11 a.m.■ Pauline Pena with CitizensMedical Center Home Healthwill sponsor the event.

LUNCHEON AND BINGO■ First United Methodist Churchfellowship hall

■ 601 South Second St., Seadrift■ 11:30 a.m.■ A suggested donation of $3will be accepted.

■ All senior citizens, 60 years ofage or older and their spouses(regardless of age), are invitedto attend. A hot meal will beserved at 11:30 a.m. Bingo willbe played after lunch. Theevent is presented by the Cal-houn County Senior CitizensAssociation, Inc.

ADVANCE BABY SHOWER ONPREGNANCY WELLNESS■ Trinity Lutheran Church, nurs-ery

■ 106 N. DeLeon St.■ 1:30-3 p.m. (session 3)■ 3:30-5 p.m. (session 2)■ All pregnant ladies will receivea free diaper bag at this show-er since all three sessions arebeing taught.

■ Contact: Jo Ann Garcia at361-542-6938 or Driscoll Chil-dren’s Health Plan-MemberServices at 877-220-6376.

WEIGHT WATCHERS MEETING■ Best Western■ 2202 N. Highway 35, PortLavaca.

■ Registration begins at 5 p.m.,meeting at 5:30 p.m.

■ For more information contactPat Babb at 361-576-4705.

THURSDAYQUILT GUILD OF VICTORIA■ Grace Presbyterian Church■ 3604 N. Ben Jordan St.■ 9:30 a.m.■ We meet the fourth Thursdayof each month.

■ Contact: quiltguildvictoria.org

COMPUTER CLASSES/INTERMEDIATE WORD 2007■ Workforce Solution GoldenCrescent Computer Lab

■ Victoria Public Library■ 302 N. Main St.■ 9:30-11:30 a.m.■ This class will expand yourknowledge of Microsoft Word2007 beyond the basics. Reg-istration required by phone oronline, victoriapublicli-brary.org.

■ For more information contactthe Victoria Public Library,361-485-3302.


■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 10-11 a.m.■ Sandra Pace with ComfortKeepers will sponsor theevent.

BINGO■ Victoria County Senior CitizensHalsey Center

■ 4009 Halsey St.■ 10-11 a.m.■ Holli Hasserodt with Elmcroftof Victoria Assisted Living willsponsor the event.

HOW TO RAISE AMONEY-SMART CHILD■ The Club at Colony Creek■ 301 Colony Creek Drive■ noon■ Free■ Learn how to start teachingyour child or grandchild aboutfinancial goal-setting, self-dis-cipline and the basics of mak-ing wise money choices.

■ Contact: Michele Rohde, Ed-ward Jones Financial Advisor,at 361-579-9251 to RSVP.

PROGRESSIVE BRIDGE■ Victoria County Senior CitizensMurray Center

■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 12:30-3 p.m.■ For the serious Bridge player.■ To reserve a place for Bridge,call Johnnie Gayda at361-645-3763.

CHRISTIANS AGAINSTSUBSTANCE ABUSE (CASA)■ Central Church of Christ, annex■ 801 E. Airline Road■ 7-8 p.m.■ Twelve-step recovery programfor any kind of addiction. In-cluding but not limited to drug,alcohol. Meets on Thursday andSaturdays. The Thursday meet-ing is under new leadership.


FRIDAYWOMEN RICH IN FAITHMINISTRY■ Faith Family Church, Kid’s LifeRoom.

■ 2002 Mockingbird Lane■ 7-9 p.m.■ A support group for womenwho have or had distractionswith their walk with God. Weinvite you and your friends tojoin us for study, fellowshipand fun. Our mission is to helpand encourage women to findthe true love that God has forthem. Childcare provided.

■ Contact: Patricia Pruett, leaderat 361-578-2677.

ADULT GAMES NIGHT AND

POTLUCK DINNER■ First Baptist Church■ 301 N. Glass St.■ 6:30 p.m.■ Public is invited.■ Contact church office361-573-4373.

THE VICTORIA WRIGHT-PAT-TERSON MAHJONGG CLUB■ 1 p.m.■ Beginners are welcome.■ Call 361-575-1344 for location.

TEXERCISE■ Victoria County Senior CitizensMurray Center

■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 9-10 a.m.■ Rita Williams with WarmSprings Specialty Hospital willlead the exercises.


■ 603 E. Murray St.■ 10-11 a.m.■ Mindy Brown with CarterHealth Care will sponsor theevent.

BLOOD DRIVE■ First Victoria National Bank,Navarro Branch

■ 8811 N. Navarro St.■ 2-5 p.m.■ Contact: Visit the “blood” pageat southtexasblood.org or call800-292-5534, ext. 3500.

SATURDAYCHRISTIAN AGAINST SUB-STANCE ABUSE (CASA)■ Central Church of Christ, annex■ 801 E. Airline Road■ 7-8 p.m.■ Twelve-step recovery programfor any kind of addiction. In-cluding but not limited todrug, alcohol. Meets on Thurs-day and Saturdays. The Thurs-day meeting is under newleadership.


LIFE IMPACT LADIES■ Life Impact Church■ 1603 Port Lavaca Drive■ 3-6 p.m.■ Contact: Pastors Ray and Jan-ice Vargas at 212-9481.

AUG. 26WONDERKIDS CLASSES■ Parkway Church, Rooms 203and 204.

■ 4802 John Stockbauer Drive■ 11 a.m.■ Designed for children andyouth with special needs (twogroups, ages 2-10 and ages11-18).

■ Email: [email protected]

CELEBRATE RECOVERY■ Faith Family Church, choirroom

■ 2002 E. Mockingbird Lane■ 9-10 a.m.■ Contact: 361-652-8137.

CHRISTIANS AGAINSTSUBSTANCE ABUSE (CASA)■ Central Church of Christ, annex■ 801 E. Airline Road■ 9-10 a.m.■ A 12-step recovery programfor any kind of addiction. In-cluding but not limited todrug, alcohol.


100, 75, 50 AND 25 YEARS AGO

1912Aug. 21 – A novelty in the

shape of a hen’s egg was foundabout the Laycock Livery stable afew days ago. The contents of theegg have apparently hardened andsettled in one end, and if it isplaced on a flat surface, it jumpsabout like it is full of life on theorder of a “Roly Poly” toy. A mangathered this egg along with oth-ers, and when he laid them on atable, he was nearly frightened outof his wits when it began to jumpabout.

Aug. 24 – The Junior, Interme-diate and Adult Sunday SchoolClasses of the First PresbyterianChurch enjoyed a straw ride lastevening. Refreshments wereserved on the Pump House lawn.

1937Aug. 22 – Port O’Connor, long

recognized as one of the finestfishing grounds on the Texascoast by sportsmen through thestate, is fast losing a patronagethat is otherwise deserved – be-cause of lack of good roads andshorter routes leading to the re-sort.

Aug. 23 – Victoria County’s cur-rent cotton crop passed over the7,000 bale stage Saturday with7,300 bales ginned in the countyup to Saturday night. The cottonmarket, however, continued in aslump with prices well under 10cents. The day’s price was 9.61cents per pound with no immedi-ate indication that a rise would bein effect in the near future.

1962Aug. 20 – A total of 33,447 Vic-

toria residents, representing near-

ly 72 percent of the entire popula-tion of 46,475, appeared in per-son at 14 dispensing stations forthe first of three Sabin oral poliovaccine immunizations, or re-ceived it elsewhere. The “else-where” included the City andCounty Jails, where 25 prisonerswere given the vaccine; local hos-pitals, where 235 patients re-ceived it, and the Twin PinesNursing Foundation home, wheremore than 100 oldsters were notneglected.

Aug. 25 – Army PFC James F.Mealer Jr., son of Mrs. KatherineMealer, participated with morethan 70,000 Army and Air Forcepersonnel in Exercise Swift StrikeII, a two-week U.S. Strike Com-mand Maneuver in North andSouth Carolina that ended Aug.17. Mealer is a clerk in Headquar-ters of the 4th Logistical Com-mand regularly stationed at FortBragg, N.C. He entered the Armyin September 1961 and completedbasic training at Fort Carson, Co-lo. and is a 1961 graduate of Vic-toria High School.

1987Aug. 19 – Texans paying high

interest rates should cut up theirbank credit cards and shop forcheaper ones, Consumers Unionurged Tuesday.Carol Barger, CU’s southwest di-

rector, said a July survey showedcredit card interest rates are outof kilter at many Texas banks, es-pecially ones that have movedtheir credit card operations out ofthe state to avoid the 14 percentlegal maximum here.“Results show consumers are

still paying too much for credit ata time when the lending rates for

other types of loans are still rela-tively low,” Ms. Barger said at anews conference.Although the Texas ceiling on

bank credit card rates is 14 per-cent, many of the major bankscollect 19.8 percent by setting uptheir MasterCard and Visa opera-tions in other states, primarilyDelaware and South Dakota.

Aug. 20 – A target closing datefor the Texas Zoo is under consid-eration by the South Texas Zoo-logical Society.Society members decided

Wednesday if long-term fundingof the zoo cannot be guaranteed,they can no longer “scratch by.”The society voted to establish a

committee that will create aone-year budget goal for operat-ing the zoo. And if that goal is notreached by this time next year, thesociety will turn the keys of thezoo over to the city.The action came out of discus-

sion of the proposed budget foroperation of the zoo, beginningOct. 1. It was partially in responseto a proposed $15,000 budget re-duction from the city of Victoria.The city is considering giving thezoo $85,000.The budget under consideration

by the zoological society is cur-rently between $32,000 and$50,000 shy of revenues to coverthe expected $238,000 of opera-tional costs.The zoo’s budget for the current

year is $239,158.Jackie Mead, zoo director, noted

that funds represent hard dollarsneeded by the zoo. She said do-nations of materials and in-kindlabor and services would almostdouble the zoo’s budget.

MYSTERY HISTORY

PHOTOGRAPH COLLEC-TION AT VC/UHVLIBRARYThe people in thisphoto, which ranon July 29, havebeen identified.They are, fromleft, the Rev. DanMorales, MelissaMitchell, Tim Grif-fith, Kelly Benaand Chris Griffith.The occasion wasthe 1993 Our La-dy of Victoryparish festival andauction.

PAGE DESIGNER: VERONICA GONZALEZ,[email protected]; COPY EDITOR:ESTHER PEREZ, [email protected]

H4 — VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Sunday, August 19, 2012 VictoriaAdvocate.com

hoosing Paul Ryanis a game-changer.

Ask the ChicagoGang and its pub-licists in the main-

stream media. They’re ter-rified.

They know that when MittRomney chose Ryan for hisvice president, it re-definedthe Romney campaignovernight.

It proved Mitt was not asboring, cautious and moder-ate as conservative Repub-licans feared and the Oba-ma Left hoped.

In one bold, smart move,Romney’s VP choice makesit clear that this election isabout one thing – the econo-my.

And there is no better per-son on the planet to discussthat issue than Ryan, theyoung, articulate, spirited,openly Reaganesque con-servative who heads up theHouse Budget Committeeand is the leading Republi-can deficit hawk inCongress.

With Ryan as his VPchoice, Romney also took ahuge step in redefiningwhat the Republican Partyis and reminding everyonewhat it’s supposed to stand

for.For decades,

Reagan con-servativeshave beenwonderingwhat has hap-pened to theGOP my fa-ther loved. He worked hardto shape it into a party thatclearly and proudly stoodfor smaller government,more freedom, free enter-prise and a strong military.

But for two decades, Re-publican politicians havebeen trying to out-Demo-crat the Democrats. TheGOP my father left behindlost its way, lost its nerveand chose to betray many ofits core principles to winelections.

By choosing Ryan, Rom-ney has ended the era ofRepublicrat fuzzinessovernight. It makes methink Mitt and his advisershave decided that the wayto defeat Obama was toheed the advice my fathergave to the GOP in 1975 atthe Conservative PoliticalAction Conference.

Republicans, disheartenedby the post-Watergatethrashing they got at the

polls in 1974, were beingurged by moderates to wa-ter down (i.e., liberal-up)their party’s principles tobroaden its appeal to vot-ers.

My father told them not tofurther “blur” the distinc-tions between the two par-ties but to “revitalize” theGOP by reasserting its con-servative principles andraising them “to full view.”

He challenged Republi-cans to raise “a banner ofno pale pastels, but boldcolors which make it unmis-takably clear” that theirparty believed in “a freemarket as the greatestprovider for the people,” notsocialism.

The conservative conven-tioneers took my father’swise message to heart, butthe nation’s voters didn’t.Jimmy Carter was electedin 1976 and the country gotfour years of economicmalaise and folly in theMiddle East that did notend until my father waselected in 1980 – as an un-abashed conservative.

America today is truly at acrossroads. This election isgoing to decide the direc-tion we take for the next 50

years. For the first time in awhile, the American peoplewill have a clear choice.

Do you want the USA togo down the Obama Ex-pressway to Greece or, Godforbid, California? Or do youwant to go down the Rom-ney-Ryan-Reagan Freewayto freedom, growth andprosperity for all people?

It’s up to the Americanpeople to decide where theywant to go. It’s up to Romneyand Ryan – R & R, two let-ters that look pretty good to-gether, I’d say – to sell theirmessage of conservatism.

Americans can’t afford towait for someone to comealong four years from nowand fix the damage Obamahas already done.

Michael Reagan is theson of President RonaldReagan, a political con-sultant, and the authorof “The New ReaganRevolution.” Visit hiswebsites atwww.michaelerea-gan.com and www.rea-gan.com. Send com-ments to [email protected]. Follow@reaganworld on Twit-ter.

ducation can be a contro-versial topic in Texas. Wehave emphasized its im-portance many times,but there are some as-

pects of public education todaythat go against common sense.

One of these problems involvesthe late start Texas students get ev-ery year. In 2006, the state legisla-ture passed an amendment to TexasEducation Code – Section 25.0811,which postponed the start of schooluntil the fourth Monday in August.The original code prevented schoolsfrom starting earlier than the weekof Aug. 21. There were many rea-sons for this decision. Legislatorscited a need to take migrant workerschedules and summer employ-ment into consideration, as well as ashortened tourism season, higher

school operation costs, and the needfor summer teaching and trainingprograms.

According to Diane Boyett,VISD’s communications director,Victoria’s schools have not soughta waiver to start the school yearearlier since the law was put inplace.

While we appreciate the need tobe frugal with public money, espe-cially in such an essential area aseducation, we think making the de-cision to extend summer vacationto cut back on utility costs is ashort-sighted move by the statelegislature. Public schools have re-ceived budget cuts from the state,but their main focus should alwaysbe educating students. Accordingto the National Summer LearningAssociation, students lose reten-

tion of the information they learnedin the previous school year. Ex-panding summers will only exacer-bate this problem, forcing teachersto waste time reviewing last year’smaterial instead of being free tomove on to new concepts.

And while this reason may bevalid in other districts, accordingto Boyett, there is no evidence tosuggest VISD is saving money onutility or operating costs due tolonger summers because campus-es are often in use for various pro-grams starting in early August.

The argument to give studentsand their families a longer tourismseason seems superficial whencompared to the need for im-proved education in Texas. Ac-cording to the state comptroller’swebsite, Texas is ranked 36th in

the nation for high school gradua-tion rates. When looking at SATscores, the numbers are evenworse. Texas is 49th in verbal SATscores and 46th in average mathSAT scores.

We understand there are stu-dents whose families take full ad-vantage of the summer vacationand also participate in summerlearning activities, such as educa-tional camps and visiting historicsites. But there are others whospend all summer at home playingvideo games, watching TV or do-ing other things that waste thevaluable time they have instead oftaking the initiative to expandtheir minds on their own. For thestudents who are willing and ableto take advantage of their breaks,longer summers are an asset, but

many waste the summer away.Giving them more time will notchange their behavior.

We would like to see the statelegislature re-examine thisscheduling law. When we look atTexas’ educational ranking, as wellas the lack of savings to our localdistrict, it is clear this expandedsummer vacation is not benefitingour students the way it should.Perhaps it is time to take anotherlook at schedules and think aboutwhat’s best for students, ratherthan what will save money andboost tourism economies. We can’tafford to leave our future high anddry in favor of current prosperity.

This editorial reflects the viewsof the Victoria Advocate’s edi-torial board.

VIEWPOINTSCongress shall make no law respect-ing an establishment of religion, or

prohibiting the free exercise thereof; orabridging the freedom of speech, or of thepress; or the right of the people peaceablyto assemble, and to petition the govern-ment for a redress of grievances.

– First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

■ Topic: School schedule ■ Our View: State calendar does not meet needs of students

F R O M U S

We want your letters because we value your opinion onissues in the community and region. We have few re-quirements and will help you meet these if needed.We will need your name, home address and daytime tele-phone or cell phone number so we can contact you to verifyyou want your opinion published.When sending letters by email, and if you do not hear from

us within a couple of days, you should call us to see if wereceived your letter because, sometimes, our email filter willnot let a letter through.Our letter lengths are 150 words for thank-yous, 200 words

for election-related letters and 350 words for all others. Weask that letter writers submit one letter per 30-day period.Letters may be delivered at the Advocate, 311 E. Con-stitution St.; mailed to P.O. Box 1518, Victoria 77902;faxed to 361-574-1220; or emailed to [email protected].

For I have not sent them, saith theLord, yet they prophesy a lie in myname; that I might drive you out,

and that ye might perish, ye, and theprophets that prophesy unto you.

Jeremiah 27:15

“There is a destiny that makes usbrothers: None goes his way alone: Allthat we send into the lives of others

comes back into our own.”Edwin Markham,American poet

F R O M Y O U

Lighted LampsThe electricity failed.Lamps stood ready.Wicks rose to meet thematch.Kerosene burned itsyellow light.Shadows played in thewalls.Sr. Frances Cabrini Janvier,

Victoria

Y O U R P O E M W O R D S WE WANT YOUR LETTERS

F R O M O T H E R S

Editorial page editor: Lauren Hightower-Emerson, 361-580-6590, [email protected]

Longer summer vacation not the best idea

Victorians are what make VISD great

Editor, the Advocate:As we prepare for another outstanding school year in the

Victoria Independent School District, we are extremely ex-cited about the many opportunities and endless possibilitiesthat await our wonderful students and staff.The success of our school district is definedby our leadership and we would like toextend our sincere appreciation to ourBoard of Trustees for their commitment toexcellence throughout our 612 squaremiles. On August 16, at our regular sched-uled board meeting, our Board of Trusteesapproved a pay scale that affords everyemployee a salary increase. Our teachersalary increases range from $1,050 to $1,300depending upon their years of experience.Classified and paraprofessional employees will receive a 47cent per hour increase while administrators will receive a$1,200 annual increase.

The Victoria ISD is extremely proud to be able to providethese pay raises at a time when the Legislature has cutschool funding and there are still many questions chal-lenging school districts in terms of school finance. We wouldlike to thank our Victoria community for your support of ourbond projects and for always serving as a “Champion forour Children.” This dedication to achieving excellence forall students is another example that the “Power of Victoria”is the “Power of our People.” Winston Churchill once stated;“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by whatwe give.”

It has been said that people who have great hearts andminds never have to fear what lies ahead, for their heartsand minds determine the quality of their future. It is clearlyevident that the future of Victoria is in great hands.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the entire VictoriaISD, thank you for all that you “give” to our amazing schooldistrict and for your continued focus on “Every Child, EveryClassroom, Every Day.” YOU make us great. YOU make usspecial. YOU make us Victoria.

Robert Jaklich, VISD superintendent, VictoriaPaul Ryan : A bold, smart choice for Republicans

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Dan Easton,Publisher

John M. Roberts,President,

Chairman of the Board

Catherine R. McHaney,Secretary-Treasurer

Chris Cobler,Editor, Vice-President of Content

Hamp Rogers, Circulation/Marketing Director

Becky Cooper, Local EditorTony Balandran,Delivery Desk Editor

Nick Rogers, Senior Copy EditorLauren Hightower-Emerson,Community Conversation Editor

Jessica Puente, Interactivity Editor

Opinions published on this page under the heading “From Us”represent the consensus views of the editorial board of theVictoria Advocate, whose members are named above.

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Thank you for helping with Cowboy Camp

Editor, the Advocate:

This community is extremely blessed to have so

many willing citizens with knowledge, interest, imag-

ination and kindness. The Chisholm Trail Heritage

Museum 2012 Cowboy Camp was a glowing example

of these extraordinary people.

“Thank you,” seems inadequate, but my grateful-

ness is sincere; so here goes. Thank you to: Standard

Printing, Goebel Construction, Travis and Dan Glid-

den, Paddy Burwell, Cavender’s Boot City, Ful-O-Pep,

DeWitt County Co-op, Walmart, Tod Slone, Annabel

McLeod, Chelsea Fuchs, Janie and Laura Veth, Sonja

Wolfe, Kathy Crim, TDECU, Ron Sitton and Shotgun

(his Longhorn), BHP Billiton, Allen and Neva Irwin,

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oy, our friends inEurope sure knowhow to vacation.

If they get sickwhile taking their

employer-paid vacation,their employer now has topay them to take another.

According to The NewYork Times, all 27 countrieswithin the European Union,and all employers withinthem, must abide by that re-cent vacation ruling by theEU’s highest court.

My hat goes off to my va-cationing pals overseas.

Take the French. Theirgovernment mandates thatevery employee get at leastfive weeks of paid vacation.The French average 37 daysof vacation every year – and22 paid holidays on top ofthat.

Virtually all Europeancountries have governmentmandates that require em-ployer-paid vacation of fourto six weeks – whereasAmerica has no govern-ment-mandated vacation re-quirements.

European employees enjoyall kinds of additional work-place perks and benefits,too.

Canadian weekly

Maclean’s re-ports that:■ “Spanish

workers getan extra twoweeks off forhoneymoons,and 20 daysof severance,even if they’re fired withcause.”

■ “In France, companiesmust give extra paid leaveto staff who work 39 hoursper week instead of thestatutory 35, even if theworkers are paid for theovertime.”

■ “In Italy, firms that laypeople off during an eco-nomic downturn can faceyears of costly legal pro-ceedings. ... Rome isproposing a law requiringemployers to pay laid-offworkers a whopping 27months in wages.”Vacations are way different

in America. CNN says theaverage employed Americanworker got about 18 vaca-tion days in 2011, but onlyused 14 of them.

And unlike our Europeancounterparts, we never real-ly “leave” work. Fearing forour jobs, with the economystill in the tank, we stay in

touch with the office.According to Rasmussen

Reports, 72 percent ofAmericans use email,smartphones and other elec-tronic devices to keep them-selves accessible to theiremployers 24 hours a day.

It’s even worse for Ameri-ca’s small-business owners.According to Business NewsDaily, fewer than half take aweek off during the summer.With the economy so uncer-tain and revenues down,many are afraid or unable tohire. They are picking upthe slack by working two orthree jobs themselves.

But we Americans areworkers, I suppose. We’re sodifferent from our Europeanfriends.

In tough times, we arehappier working hard andkeeping revenues coming in,rather than spending lots ofdough at hoity-toity resorts.

We don’t like our govern-ment telling us or our em-ployers how we ought toconduct business or howmany vacation days employ-ers must provide.

Heck, if our SupremeCourt ruled that employersmust not only provide paidvacations but pay for them

all over again if an employ-ee gets sick while vacation-ing, many Americans wouldtake to the streets inprotest.

Americans protest loss oftheir freedoms. Europeanstend to protest meddlingwith their government-man-dated benefits.

At least that used to be adistinction between Americaand Europe.

Our government has beenso busy handing out goodiesto citizens, it’s just a matterof time before the freedomlovers are overrun by thebenefit lovers.

It will be a sad day whenthat happens. We’ll have aneven more anemic economy,just as most EU nations donow, and all of us will strug-gle to pursue happiness andwealth.

Oh, well, at least our em-ployers will have to pay usfor another week off if weget sick while we’re on vaca-tion.

Tom Purcell is a free-lance writer is also a hu-mor columnist for thePittsburgh Tribune-Re-view. Email Tom at [email protected].

he charm of SarahPalin as a vicepresidential pick isshe set the bar in-credibly low for

her successors. As long as anominee can name a news-paper and their foreign pol-icy experience isn’t livingnext to a foreign country,the press can dub them bet-ter than Sarah Palin. Morequalified. More gravitas.More ready to lead thanPalin was...

A Palin standard for beingfit for public office is like aDonald Trump standard forpublic humility. Basically, nostandard at all.

It’s really not fair to com-pare Paul Ryan to SarahPalin. Sure it makes Ryanas a VP nominee seem lesscynical – less Hail Mary –less desperate than if Palinhad never word-souped thenation four years ago. IfJohn McCain would havepicked Tim Pawlenty in ’08,the Ryan pick would lookpretty irresponsible. Butnow the GOP has the “PalinStandard.”

A better comparison forPaul Ryan is former Repub-lican presidential candidateCongresswoman MicheleBachmann. Both are fromMidwestern cheese-heavystates. Both are high-profiletea party Republicans in thelowest-rated Congress inthe history of percentages.

Even whenBachmann iscausing inter-national inci-dents with herxenophobicrace baitingabout theMuslim Broth-erhood’s al-leged infiltration of the U.S.government – she soundsas pleasant as someoneselling orange juice on tele-vision.

If the 1980’s Michael J.Fox sit-com character – thebeloved Reagan-idolizingAlex P. Keaton – were aself-hating public employeewho cherry-picked all theworst parts of Ayn Rand,the Bible and the HeritageFoundation’s reading room,he’d be Paul Ryan! Quirky,young and clearly trying tofill a larger man’s suit – therightest of Republicans lovePaul Ryan.

Well they kind of love him.Both Paul Ryan andMichele Bachmann areguilty pleasures for Republi-cans. They like listening tothem beat up on PresidentObama and spout theircheery condemnations ofliberalism, but they don’twant to admit it too loudly,lest they get stuck defend-ing ALL their ideas. Bach-mann won the Iowa strawpoll, but now she’s not eveninvited to introduce anyone,

let alone speak, at the up-coming Republican NationalConvention.

Obama tried to campaignagainst the Ryan Budgetplan this past spring sincethe House GOP voted for it,but that was declaredout-of-bounds. Now? It’s inplay and Republican politi-cians are not thrilled aboutexplaining their vote to givefuture senior citizenscoupons for chemotherapy.

Bachmann and Ryan alsoshare the distinction of be-ing ineffective lawmakers.According to ThatsMy-Congress.com, in her nearlysix years in office “Bach-mann has passed threerhetorical bills with no forceof law, and one amendmentthat asks an Inspector Gen-eral to conduct inspections.”Paul Ryan has been an in-cumbent for twice that timeand has only introduced twobills that have become law:One renaming a post officein his home town, the otherchanging how arrows aretaxed (how very 21st centu-ry).

Bachmann at least gets todistance herself from theRepublican Congressionalblank check given to thebig-spending Bush adminis-tration. Under Ryan’s al-legedly hawkish eye, hisparty started two unpaid-forwars, cut taxes during saidwars, grew the government,

exploded the national debtand then bailed out unregu-lated banks with taxpayermoney. Paul Ryan voted yesfor all of it and doesn’t askfor a correction when he’scalled a small governmentconservative.

Both Bachmann and Ryanare also at the extreme endof the spectrum when itcomes to gay rights and re-productive freedoms. Theyboth have consistently votedfor any anti-abortion/an-ti-contraception bills thatcame before them. Dittowith expanding martialrights to same sex couples.Ryan, with all his libertarianbilling, has voted to takeaway liberties from his fel-low citizens. He is the gov-ernment he’s warned usabout: Freedom is for cor-porations, and regulationsare for our private lives.

If Ryan is now the Repub-lican mainstream, Bach-mann is now the Republi-can mainstream. If Ryan isgetting the full embrace ofhis party – Bachmannshould be getting that samewelcome into the fray.

Or in the case of Republi-cans in 2012, the fringe.

Tina Dupuy is anaward-winning writerand the editor-in-chief ofSoapBlox. Tina can bereached [email protected].

Oh my gosh, I am FURI-OUS!!! Last I checked, Iwas living in the UnitedStates! It is becoming moreobvious that if I were hereillegally, or chose not towork, I would have everylast thing handed to me! Iam so mad! America, WENEED CHANGE! Remem-ber that in November!

Carrolyn

I have been strugglingwith this issue for a whilenow. I have a 1-year-oldand she gets four shots ev-ery two months! I wouldlove it if you or someonecould give me more infor-mation on exactly whatvaccines are really, honest-ly a good idea to get orwhat might be poison. I'veresearched it, but I'm stillreally not sure

Britnee

Wonder why the risk ofcatching these diseases islow? Because most peoplehave been vaccinated. Yesfew will have an adversereaction just as with anyother medica-tion. Everseen a youngchild struggleto breathewith whoopingcough? They turnpurple and choke.Ever seen the effectsof polio? Please, if youdo not vaccinate yourchildren, keep them awayfrom others they may un-knowingly infect (most ofthese diseases have an in-fectious period prior tosymptoms) especially chil-dren under one year.Whooping cough has beenmaking a recent comebackdue to lack of vaccinations,adults can catch it too. Somaybe the Pedi who sug-gests you follow the statemandated vaccinations hasseen the consequences ofthese diseases.

So when everyone is re-quired to buy insurancethis program will be gone?

Kelly

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Is breeding dogs for you?Q: I’m considering pur-chasing a female dog formy male to breed so that Ican sell the puppies. Ihave never bred dogs butit seems like a pretty easyway to make some sparecash. Do you have any ad-vice for a novice breederbefore I jump in with bothfeet?

A: Just like anything elseyou try and do, you can do itperfectly to the T or you cantry and get by doing thebare minimum. The time of“good old ma and pa breed-ing a good pup” is gone.People who spend goodmoney on puppies expect toget what they have paid for.I’ve heard many, manytimes from the breederswho use me as their vet:“Breeding is not for thosewho want to make moneybut for those who love thebreed.”

There are multiple types ofbreeders out there. I’ll hit onthe two extremes and themiddle of the road. Let’sstart from the bottom up.

Unfortunately, the majorityof people breeding dogs donot put the proper time andeffort into it. They go get amale dog, a female dog, letthem breed and pray forpuppies. They may or maynot give any vaccinations,deworming or see a vet be-fore being sold. Sometimesthey are not even aware thattheir dog is pregnant or whoshe got pregnant from.

This makes record keepinga non-existent thing. Thequality of dog then becomesquestionable. The sale price

of these dogs has to be lowbecause they have not re-ceived appropriate care anddo not have a recorded back-ground. The purchasers of

these pupsshould expectto foot the billin medicalcare thathasn’t previ-ously been pro-vided by thebreeder, not tomention, youhave no ideawhat makes

them up genetically.Are they carriers of hip

dysplasia, demodecticmange, eye problems (en-tropion), cryptorchid, parrotmouth/under bite, cleftpalate, cleft nose, umbili-cal/inguinal hernias, livershunt, heart defects?

The middle-of-the-roadbreeder is pretty responsi-ble. They usually have awell-documented history forboth the male and femaleshowing no diagnosed ge-netic mutations or defects.They are fully aware of whobred who and when. Theystart deworming the pup-pies at 10 days of age andhave a history from a veteri-narian accounting for atleast one wellness exam andregularly scheduled vacci-nations until the point ofsale.

These breeders usuallymake great puppies that arefree of most genetic defectsand are partially socializedbefore headed for a newhome. These puppies usual-ly sell for a reasonable priceto cover the costs of medical

services and proper recordkeeping.

Finally, there is the tip ofthe top. These breedersbreed for a living. They willget an extensive lineage his-tory of both the male and fe-male before they breed. Notonly are these two dogs test-ed for any diseases, theyusually have their hips andeyes certified before beingbred.

They come from parentswho received the same test-ing and treatment. Pregnantfemales receive regular ra-diographs and/or ultra-sounds multiple times dur-ing their pregnancy to en-sure proper development ofpuppies and monitor momincase a C-section is needed.Once born the puppies aretaken to the vet within thefirst 24 hours of life and usu-ally once monthly until sold.

All vaccinations, deworm-ings, genetic screenings,etc. are documented and giv-en to the new owner at timeof sale. Obviously, these pup-pies make very expensivepets and are usually pur-chased with the idea of mak-ing them a breeding dog.

Breeding is a tough busi-ness when done right andprofit is usually slim to none(especially when startingout). Consult with otherbreeders, your veterinarianor me if you have any otherquestions.

Dr. John Beck has a vet-erinary practice at Hill-crest Animal Hospital inVictoria. Submit ques-tions to Dr. Beck at [email protected].

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A: Most likely this be-havior is the same aswhen a dog finds a deadanimal or some otherodoriferous object androlls all over it so the dogis coated in the scent.

I personally cannot sayI have noticed much ofan odor emitting fromslugs, but Molly’s nose ismuch stronger thanmine.

Some people say this isan old behavior left overfrom when dogs werewolves and wolves woulddo this to hide theirscent to fool any prey an-imals they were sneakingup on.

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SUNDAY, AUG. 19, 2012:This year you could be very con-

cerned about your security. You alsooften find yourself having to repeatconversations after you have them,which could be frustrating. If you aresingle, you mightbecome very fussywhen relating topotential suitors. Ifthat trait emerges,you are not withthe right person. Ifyou are attached,you often will havediscussions aboutfinances. Don’t letthese talks domi-nate your interac-tions. VIRGO makes a great accoun-tant.

The Stars Show the Kind of DayYou’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Posi-tive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Diffi-cult

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)««« You tend to be so respon-

sive that you could assume the roleof many other people. Listen to yourinner voice before approaching a con-versation. Tonight: If the other persondoesn’t make the first move, it willbe up to you to take the initiative.

This Week: Others are energized totell you exactly what they think. Canyou resist rolling your eyes?

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)««««« You seem to be more

childlike and fun than you have beenin a long time. As a result, you arebetter able to relate to other genera-tions, as you draw out the inner childin them, too. For those of you at theright age, romance will bloom.Tonight: Forget tomorrow. Live now.

This Week: Accomplishment isyour middle name.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)«««« Once you get into a

lazy-day mood, it is difficult for youto break out of that mindset. A room-mate or family member also mightenjoy this laziness, which gives youtime to hang out together. Tonight:Act on your newfound spunkiness.

This Week: You frolic into Mondayever playful.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)«««« Make your round of

Sunday calls or visits to friends andloved ones. As a family-oriented sign,you tend to think of these individualsas part of your extended family. En-joy the easy pace. Tonight: Catch upon news.

This Week: Be nurturing to some-one special; he or she might be test-ing your level of commitment.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)««««« Make an effort to

contact someone you have wanted tospend time with. A late brunch to-gether will give you an opportunity tocatch up on each other’s news.Refuse to stand on ceremony withsomeone. Tonight: Respond toemails.

This Week: Others try to draw youin. Only you can decide how interest-

ed you are.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)«««« You finally slow down

and decide to handle your finances,especially if you believe your budgetis off. You also might want to makesure you are on solid ground beforemaking a big purchase or taking amini-vacation. Tonight: Treat yourselfand others.

This Week: You value making mon-ey and working hard. Expect to hon-or these priorities.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)««««« You act as if you

have your vitality back. Count on thisrevived feeling as the beginning of anew sense of freeness. The next fewmonths play into this change, andthe veil of heaviness will start to dis-appear. Tonight: Only as you like it.

This Week: All smiles, you dowhatever you have to do.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)«««« Listen to others with

openness. You do not need to com-ment. In fact, you might want to re-think a situation, as you are gettingnew information. Keep your owncounsel for the moment. Tonight: Getsome extra R and R.

This Week: You emerge as a forceWednesday. Play it low-key.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)«««« Friends interfere with

your plans once more, but you lovethe attention. How you decide to han-dle this ongoing popularity needs tosuit your life, too. Do not forget animportant person who might need tospeak to you. Tonight: The festivitiessurround you.

This Week: You have no time towaste -- go for it!

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)«««« Be more in touch with

your needs and desires. Others makedemands that you might not want tomeet. Make it OK to let go and takecare of yourself first. Take a vacationfrom being so responsible. Tonight:In the spotlight.

This Week: Assuming responsibilityis normal for you. Let others fill in;they will appreciate you more.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)««««« Look at the whole

picture and understand what is hap-pening behind the scenes. You mightbe missing an important detail involv-ing a friend or loved one at a dis-tance. Once you understand what ishappening, you could decide to re-verse your stance. Tonight: Let yourimagination play out.

This Week: Take off if you can.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)«««« Someone close to you

makes it clear that he or she wantsgreater closeness between you,which is what you also desire. Donot be shy or withdrawn. If you allowyourself to be vulnerable, you couldexperience a new level of closeness.Tonight: Togetherness spices up thenight.

This Week: Understand what is go-ing on before you jump in.

Let’s just table the issue, shall we?For years, my husband

and I have harbored ashameful secret. A secret sohideous, so horrifying, sowholly con-ducive to allit-eration, wehave hardlydared to evenwhisper it outloud.

And the worstpart is we havecarried this se-cret with usfrom state tostate, apartment to apart-ment, every time we move,from Ohio to Texas to, now,Boston. Each time, witheach new set of friends andcolleagues, our pain andembarrassment only grow-ing as we again try and mis-erably fail to hide this, thisabomination from their in-nocent eyes.

This shame has only in-creased ever since we gotmarried and became some-what upstanding citizens(hunchbacked citizens). Imean, we pay taxes (occa-sionally), for crying out loud.

We fully intend to registerto vote someday probablybefore we die. Someday, wemight even be parents, onceChild Protective Servicestakes us off their “Do Not

Let These People ProcreateUnder Any CircumstancesEver list.”

And yet, here we are. Twogrown adults, living in ourvery own house that is“technically” owned by ourlandlord, and without a sin-gle surface to eat on or achair to sit on that is not ofthe office variety.

Yes, my friends, my hus-band and I have neverowned a set of table andchairs. For the past, oh,eight years or so, ever sincewe met, we have been re-duced to eating on thecouch like a pair of, of ani-mals (or frat guys, same dif-ference).

Now, you’re probablythinking, “How in the worlddo two grown adults gowithout a table and chairsfor eight, long years!?!” Ofcourse, for all I know, youcould be thinking, “Cheesemay just be the world’smost perfect food.” And I’dhave to agree with youthere. But for the sake ofcontinuity, let’s assumeyou’re thinking the former.

It’s not like we didn’t try.We always meant to get anactual dining room set. Butother, more pressing finan-cial matters got in the way,

such as paying the vet ap-proximately $3 million be-cause our dumb dog tried tochew his own tail off and thefact that we couldn’t live an-other day without owning“Rock Band 2.”

Although, one time, we didget as far as purchasing asecond-hand table. Whichwe had for years. But sincewe had no chairs to go withit, it ended up turning into“The Giant Shelf of RandomItems We Were Too Lazy toPut Away.” And then, therewas the winter we actuallyused our patio furniture asour “official” indoor tableand chairs, which ended af-ter the Great ThanksgivingCollapse of ’09.

We also tried to go all bo-hemian a few times, makingpeople sit on pillows on thefloor as they ate off the cof-fee table, but that stoppedonce I hit 30 and the pro-cess of getting up off thefloor started to resembleone of those bugs that getscaught on its back and can’tright itself.

And then, a miracle hap-pened. Like a deus exmachina plot twist (yeah,who didn’t pay attention inEnglish class now, Profes-sor Greenberg?) the hand of

God himself came downfrom the heavens andplopped a beautiful, darkwood six-seater with redvelvet chairs right in ourdining room.

Or, to be more specific, ourfriend was moving to Chica-go and said “Hey, you wantthis guy?”

And we did want that guy.Oh, how we wanted thatguy. Finally! A place to havea nice, intimate dinner! Aplace for guests to actuallysit and eat without ouraforementioned dumb dogbreathing right in their face!

A place to whatever elsesince I need a third examplethanks to that annoying“Rule of Three” writingprinciple.

I have to tell you, it hascompletely changed ourlives. All two times we haveused it in the past threemonths.

We are now, officially civi-lized.

Aprill Brandon is acolumnist for the Advo-cate. Her column runsevery two weeks in theYour Life section. Com-ment on this story atVictoriaAdvocate.com.

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And that’s no bullMy boys are very different.

Austin is older, has brownhair and deep blue eyes.Jamison is fair haired withgreen eyes. Their appear-ances are as different astheir personalities.

Austin is all about speed.Nothing he does is slow,from effortlessly rushingthrough his school work, torunning at top speed wher-ever he is headed and talk-ing non-stop. Whenever hisbody finally does slow down,it is guaranteed his mind isstill racing.

Jamison is calm andthoughtful. He is very cau-tious, honest to a fault, andhas a streak of shyness. Heis agreeable, understandingand is such a hard worker.Whatever he sets his mindto, he does and does it well.

As you can tell, I am avery thankful mom. I amthankful of who my boys areand who they will become. Iam also very thankful fortheir many differences.They certainly keep my lifeinteresting.

This was all on vivid dis-play recently. In true ranchfashion, we had an appoint-ment to take a new Brah-man bull into our local vet-erinarian’s office to vacci-nate and have tests per-formed. This bull is new toour ranch, young at only 2 1/2

years old, and he is a littlespirited. He was not too hap-py about getting in a trailer,or about being taken awayfrom his girls at the ranch.

My youngest child Jami-son has recently decidedthat being a veterinarianwould “be cool.” He wasbusy watching the vet workand asking a ton of ques-

tions. “What is that shotfor?” “Why does he dothat?” “Did you really stickthat there?” “Whoa, he real-ly weighs 1,565 pounds?”

Taking a break from hismany questions, he addedthat he weighs 55 pounds.The light bulb went off in

Jamison’shead. Justthen he real-ized that thisBraham bull,that we affec-tionately call“Big Boy,” isindeed a forceto be reckonedwith. Jamisonstarted ex-plaining his

sudden realization to Austin,who was already fully awareof the size situation.

Actually, Austin was ex-tremely quiet, which is veryunusual for him. Austin andJamison’s eyes were sud-denly extremely wide watch-ing how the vet was workingon Big Boy with a new re-spect for the vet’s abilitiesin handling the sheer sizeinvolved.

After a couple of lungesand extreme efforts to breakfree of the squeeze chute,Big Boy seemed to give up,and he sunk to the ground.Every hair on their headwas standing on end andtheir gazes were razorsharp, watching the vet andthe bull. The vet began hur-riedly releasing levers soBig Boy could breathe andstand back up.

John motioned for me totake the boys behind themetal gate should there beany problem with Big Boy’sunhappiness with his cur-

rent situation. Suddenly, thebull took a big gasp of airand let out a loud bellow ashe jumped to his feet readyto lunge once again.

Before I could make amove, Austin shot past myside taking cover on theseemingly safe side of themetal gate. Jamison, howev-er, didn’t move quite as fast.He was so intent on watch-ing exactly what the vet wasdoing; the sudden move-ments from the bull, loudbellows and the intenseclanking of the metal of thesqueeze chute, it took awhile to get through to him.

He shot behind the metalgate with Austin’s encour-agement of, “Run Jamison!Come on!” This encourage-ment came unfortunately alittle too late. Jamison hadjust received a blast fromBig Boy’s swishing tail. Thisswish consisted of all kindsof smelly stuff that cattle ex-pel when they get excited.Austin smiled at him andgave him the thumbs upsign. Jamison was initiated

into the club. He was a truerancher now. After his initialdisgust, his lip curled with alittle sense of pride.

On that particular day myboys reacted in completelydifferent manners. Austinchose to react, and he react-ed very fast. However Jami-son’s curiosity got the betterof him, and he got his ownreward of sorts, a virtualbadge of honor.

I overheard Austin men-toring Jamison, “Yeah thathappened to me a couple oftimes, but I think you smellworse than I ever did.” Thatcomment made Jamisonsmile even wider. John andI had to laugh. That familiarsaying is so very true, “Boyswill be boys.”

Johanna is a proud sev-enth generation Texan.She lives on her family’sSouth Texas ranch withher husband and twolively boys. Email Johan-na Bloom or AnitaSpisak [email protected].

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JOHANNA BLOOM/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOBig Boy in the trailer.

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ADVICE

Dear Abby: I have beenwith my wonderfulboyfriend for almost fiveyears, and we have a4-year-old daughter to-gether. The problem is,his parentsare hoarders.Their houseis a disaster.It’s fallingapart fromthe insideout. Theyhave piles ofjunk in thehouse andyard, and sixdogs that live in thehouse with them.

My daughter has justbeen diagnosed with a se-vere allergy to mold. Idon’t like her to go to theirhouse, but they adore herand want to spend timewith her. I don’t know whatto do!

I have tried talking to myboyfriend about it, but he’sin complete denial abouthis parents’ situation andsays I’m “overreacting.” Idon’t want to hurt theirfeelings, and I don’t wantto keep my daughter fromher grandparents. Help,please!

At A Loss In Texas

Dear At a loss: The lov-ing grandparents canspend time with the childat your home rather thantheirs.

Schedule an appointmentwith your daughter’s pedia-trician or allergy specialistfor you and your boyfriend.Because your daughter hassevere allergies, he needs tounderstand what thatmeans and how serious herallergic reactions could be-come. If your daughter is al-lergic to mold, she also maybe severely allergic to other

things – like animal danderand dust.

Dear Abby: My daughterwas recently married inour hometown. Althoughshe was born and raisedhere, she’s now living inanother state, so it was adestination wedding formany of the invitees. Itwasn’t a large affair – only60 people attended.

I received an email todayfrom an old friend whowas surprised to hearabout the wedding andwanted to know why shewasn’t invited. I’m at aloss as to how to respond.I have known her a longtime and now I feel guiltyfor not having invited her,but we had decided earlyon that only family and afew close friends would beinvited.

Is there a polite way torespond to her? I feel itwas rude of her to evenask.

Mother Of The Bride

Dear Mother of the bride:For the woman to ask whyshe wasn’t on the guest listwas, indeed, rude. A politeresponse would be to tellher the wedding was verysmall – family and only afew friends were invited –but you’ll be sure to let herknow when the grandchil-dren start arriving.

Dear Abby is written byAbigail Van Buren, alsoknown as JeannePhillips, and was found-ed by her mother,Pauline Phillips. WriteDear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com orP.O. Box 69440, Los Ange-les, CA 90069.

Clutteredhomeoff-limits totoddlerwithmoldallergy

DEARABBYJEANNEPHILLIPS

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45th AnniversaryPatricia Kloesel and James

Pooley were married onAugust 19, 1967. They have 2children: Daniel, of Victoria,and Bruce, of Houston; and 3grandchildren: Evie andAbbie, of Victoria, andNicolas, of Houston.James is a devoted

husband and grandfather.He retired from a longcareer within the oilindustry. James honorablyserved two tours in Vietnam.The final tour was servedwith the Army SpecialForces as a Green Beret.Patricia is a devoted wife and grandmother and along with

James is a parishioner at Our Lady of Lords CatholicChurch, where she is also a member of the Alter Society.She retired from a long career associated with theeducation field and is an avid book reader.

Price-MillerDavid and Theresa Saucedo, of El Campo, and David

Weston, of Sealy, are pleased to announce the engagementof their daughter, Jillian Price, of Victoria, to Allan Miller, ofVictoria, son of Brenda Talkington, of Victoria, and Allanand Janet Miller Sr., of Victoria.The couple will exchange vows at 2:30 p.m. on September

8, 2012 at Holy Family Catholic Church in Victoria.Jillian is a 1999 graduate of El Campo High School and a

2003 graduate of Sam Houston State University with aBachelor of Science Degree in General Business. She is theOffice Manager at Wolf Point Ranch in Port Lavaca.Allan is a 1999 graduate of Victoria High School and a 2004

graduate of Victoria College with an associates degree inProcess Technology. He is the Shop Manager at Allan’sWrecker Service.


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overall appearance and change thelook up completely. Adding staple ac-cessory pieces to your wardrobe canextend your wearing of apparel – it’s

a cheap way to addoutfits to your closet.

A bold statementnecklace can create acocktail dress out of alittle summer dress inan instant. You havegot to scout out theappropriate piecesthat can create thelook you’re going for.

When wearing acocktail dress or any strapless dressthat you opt to wear a statementnecklace with, skip out on earringsand go for studs. The overall effectwill draw attention (that you want alleyes on) to the accessory of choice –it also looks much classier not tooverdo jewelry.

We, of course, love pieces that arebig here in Texas and it’s definitely“the bigger, the better” type ofmentality. Definitely choose justone staple piece or the other – ei-ther earrings or necklace but neverthe both of them together.

Unique earrings always add an ex-tra element to the great dresses youhave in the closet. Change up youraccessories often to add a new lookto an old dress or outfit.

It is amazing what new accessoriescan do for old outfits. Keep appareland add new accessories. It not onlycreates an entirely new look, it is acheaper way of shopping.

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EUAN TORRIE/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOThe Metropolis BibNecklace is a stunningstaple piece.

EUAN TORRIE/CONTRIBUTEDPHOTOJamieTorigianwears anAnthropologienecklace witha straplessdress.

EUAN TORRIE/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOJamie wears the Point Assembly Necklace to jazz up alittle black dress.

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M A R R I A G E L I C E N S E S■ Thomas Dewayne Ellason toMartha Decena

■ Donald Gene Otto to TeresaSue Reese

■ Matthew James Ice to FaleciaCarol Shreve

■ Edward Clay Sanders toDinna Marie Wilkins

■ Matthew Allen Frank to Veron-ica Marie Gil

■ Garrett Vincent Riedesel toAaron Ashley Magee

■ Tommy Herrera III to MichelleMarie Samudio

■ Fernando Rangel toLashaundrea Yvonne Thomas

■ Lavon Wendell Crane toTracey Antoinette Ramirez

■ Randell Morgan Hebert toLeslie Ann Bennett

■ Ronald William Johannesen toMisty Kay Yaws

■ Anthony Allen Gwosdz to Mor-gan Machel Schoonover

■ Jose Maria Flores III toDarlene McClanahan-Flores

■ Timothy Raymond Bryant Jr.to Jennifer Amanda Garza

B I R T H SEditor’s Note: Announce-

ments of births in VictoriaCounty are published as afree public service based oninformation from local hospi-tals. For more information,call 361-574-1222. Those out-side Victoria County, or moredetailed or specially worded,are available for a fee throughthe classified advertising de-partment. Call 361-574-1226.Paid birth announcementsappear on this page in a box.

DeTar Hospital■ Mr. and Mrs. Mario Perez ofCuero, a daughter, 6 pounds,at 4:11 a.m. on Aug. 2, 2012

■Shanika Nuells and Tory StovallSr., a son, 7 pounds, 4 ounces,at 12:49 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2012

■Mr. and Mrs. Carlos TijerinaSr., a son, 5 pounds, 8 ounces,at 8:10 a.m. on Aug. 3, 2012

■ Mr. and Mrs. Devin Immen-hauser, a daughter, 2 pounds,at 6:20 a.m. on Aug. 4, 2012

■ Yesenia Lozano and SeanArredondo, a daughter, 5pounds, 8 ounces, at 8:50a.m. on Aug. 4, 2012

■ Mr. and Mrs. ClodoaldoRamirez, a daughter, 7pounds, 9 ounces, at 8:52p.m. on Aug. 4, 2012

■ Mariana Acosta and Saul Al-cantar, a daughter, 7 pounds,8 ounces, at 3:25 a.m. onAug. 4, 2012

■ Erika Troncoso and Cody Her-man, a daughter, 6 pounds,14 ounces, at 3:01 p.m. onAug. 5, 2012

■ Heather and Joshua Ocanas, ason, 6 pounds, 4 ounces, at5:49 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2012

■ Christy Rodriguez and Whit-ney Smid, a son, 6 pounds, 8ounces, at 8:32 a.m. on Aug.6, 2012

■ Cassandra Munoz and Sil-vestre Dominguez of El Cam-po, a son, 7 pounds, 1 ounce,at 12:43 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2012

■ Linda Rodriguez and BobbyPerez-Fuentes Jr., a daughter,5 pounds, 2 ounces, at 10:51a.m. on Aug. 6, 2012

■ Crystal Capistran and JoshuaWills of Woodsboro, a daugh-ter, 6 pounds, 11 ounces, at3:09 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2012

■ Kayla Thompson and BrandonAustin of Seadrift, a son, 7pounds, 14 ounces, at 8:39p.m. on Aug. 6, 2012

Citizens Medical Center■ No births reported


Spears-BellDenise Donell Spears and Otis G. Bell,

both of Victoria, were married at 5 p.m. onJune 2, 2012 at Mount Calvary BaptistChurch in Victoria. Rev. Vernon J. Garza, ofVictoria, officiated the double-ringceremony.The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Joyce

Bell and the late Allen L. Bell, of Nursery,and the late Fred D. Spears Sr., of CorpusChristi.The groom is the son of the late Mr. and

Mrs. Dallas Bell, of Victoria, and the lateMable Grant, of Victoria. He is the grandsonof the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell Sr., ofGanado.Mrs. Angie James-Gooden, of Houston,

and Mrs. Gwendolyn Spears-Jones, ofMontgomery, attended as matrons of honor.Morgan Blakes and Kellen Foster, both ofHouston, attended as flower girls.Gary Ellis and Markham Cook, both of

Victoria, served as best men. CassienFoster and Dash Foster, both of Houston,and Kameryn Spears, of Victoria, served asring bearer’s.Ushers were John L. Barefield, of Victoria, and Quinton Spears, of Montgomery.A reception was held following the ceremony at T.H. Robisnon Fellowship Hall. The

couple honeymooned in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will reside in Victoria.The bride is a graduate of Victoria High School and attends Victoria College, majoring in

Criminal Justice. She is employed by C.L. Thomas, Inc.The groom is a graduate of Victoria High School and attended Victoria Business School.

He is employed by Energy Maintenance Service as a Senior O&M Tech.

25th AnniversaryMike and Janet Sylvester,

of Victoria, recently celebrat-ed their 25th wedding anni-versary on August 2, 2012with a family dinner at RedLobster. Janet Nester andMike Sylvester were mar-ried at First United Method-ist Church in Victoria. Theyhave two daughters: Mandy(Pedro) Rodriguez and Amy(Taylor) Imes, both of Victo-ria; and two grandchildren:Alivia and Ayden Rodriguez,both of Victoria.Mike was born in Victoria,

Texas and is retired fromDow Chemical. He currently works at UHV as a security of-ficer, and enjoys motorcycles and hunting. Janet was bornin Charleston, West Virginia, she has been in Texas fortwenty-five years. She currently works at Toyota, and en-joys taking care of her family. Mike and Janet are bothmembers at Parkway Church.

Miller-PostAshleigh Miller, of Portland, Texas, and

Travis Post, of Portland, Texas, weremarried at 4:00 p.m. on July 7, 2012 at FirstUnited Methodist Church in Portland. Fr.Mark Porterfield, of Port Lavaca, officiatedthe double-ring ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Arlen andSherri Miller, of Portland. She is thegranddaughter of Arlen and Frieda Miller,of Victoria, and Glenn and June Hagemann,of Portland.The groom is the son of Paul and Sandra

Post, of Victoria. He is the grandson of F.F.and Elaine Post, of Victoria, and HenryJuenke and the late Earlene Juenke, ofVictoria.

Koethe Bourgeois, of Thibodaux,Louisiana, friend of the bride, attended asmaid of honor. Bridesmaids were AmberHagemann, of Portland, Audrey Hagemann,of Portland, Natalie Post, of Austin, sister ofthe groom, and Victoria Huerta, of Portland.Clayton Franke, of Goliad, served as best

man. Groomsmen were Matthew Miller, ofPortland, brother of the bride, AnthonyAbrameit, of Richmond, Jaron Post, of Victoria, brother of the groom, and Raymond Smith,of Portland.Ushers were Austin Hagemann, cousin of the bride, and Brian Hagemann, uncle of the

bride.A reception was held following the ceremony at Northshore Country Club. The couple will

honeymoon in Colorado and will reside in Portland, Texas.

Eichhorn-LyleBrittany Nicole Eichhorn, of Austin, and

Brian Lyle, of Trenton, NJ, were married at4 p.m. on June 30, 2012 at Holy Family Cath-olic Church in Victoria. Fr. GeorgeHenninger, of Victoria, officiated the double-ring ceremony.The bride is the daughter of Ron and Tina

Eichhorn, of Victoria. She is the grand-daughter of Reinhold and Lois Eichhorn, ofVictoria, and the late Ernest Bomersbach,of Houston, and John and JuliaBomersbach of Victoria.The groom is the son of Allan and Sandy

Lyle, of Hutto. He is the grandson of JohnLyle, of Austin, Tom and Gladys Thompson,of Hutto, and the late Ruth Lyle, of Austin,and Fred Sanford, of West Monroe, LA.Alyssa Lampert, of Austin, attended as

maid of honor. Linda Chhay, of Austin, at-tended as matron or honor. Bridesmaidswere Rachel Morris, of Victoria, DeenaSmith, of San Antonio, and Megan Lyle, ofJackson, MS, sister of the groom. Ms.Annabell Scott, of San Antonio, attended asflower girl.Adam Lucas, of Tomball, served as best man. Groomsmen were Chad Lawrence, of

Round Rock, Marc Fuller, of Houston, Nathaniel Muster, of Austin, and Bracen Eichhorn,of Victoria, brother of the bride.Ushers were Sterling Kocian, of Victoria, and Randy Scott, of San Antonio.A reception was held following the ceremony at Raisin L Ranch. The couple

honeymooned in Miami and on a cruise to the Bahamas. They will make their home atMcGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.The bride is a 2007 graduate of St. Joseph High School and a 2011 graduate of The Univer-

sity of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. Prior to the wedding,she was employed as a Registered Nurse at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin onthe Respiratory Unit.The groom is a 2007 graduate of Hutto High School and a 2009 graduate of Texas A&M

University with an Associate’s Degree in Fire Science Technology. He is currently enlistedin The United States Air Force and is stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jerseyas a C-17 Crew Chief.

YOUR MONEYVictoria Advocate, VictoriaAdvocate.com• Sunday, August 19, 2012

Caterpillar plant meansbig business for othercompanies in CrossroadsBY ALLISON [email protected]

With Victoria’s Caterpillar plant nowopen and initial excavators off assemblylines, things are booming at the newlocation. But that activity doesn’t end withCaterpillar.

Other Victoria companies feel the effectsof the newly-opened plant.

HOLT CAT, a Caterpillar dealer with aVictoria site, sees a direct impact from thenew location, said Howard Hicks, HOLTCAT’s vice president of public affairs.

Hicks works in the company’s regionaloffice in San Antonio, which covers 118counties, including Victoria.

Not only does the plant give HOLT CAT aplace to take customers on companytours, but the added supply also helps.

Hydraulic excavators are the productsthe company has the hardest time findingavailable because much of Caterpillar’ssupply was built in Japan. Shipping timeadded to the wait, he said, noting mostcame in through a port in Washington.

Now, he said, the longest delivery drive

will be about 200 miles, to Dallas or the RioGrande Valley.

It helps that its most in-demand ex-cavator – the 336, the prime machine forEagle Ford Shale activity – is the one thecompany will produce first.

“It’s very timely for us,” Hicks said,noting Victoria’s HOLT CAT might even-tually become a place the company canprep the excavators and store them be-fore shipping to customers.

Victoria’s plant also knocks $5,000 ormore off the price per machine becausefreight costs are down, he said.

“It adds up in a hurry,” Hicks said. “Overthe next few years, we’ll probably saveseveral hundred thousands of dollars.”

Clegg Services provided exhaust ex-traction, platforms and specialized fix-tures for the plant, said John Clegg, thecompany’s vice president. While it meantabout 20 new jobs on his end, he said theeffects flow down.

Seguin plantbuilds 25,000 engines,through two-minute intervals

BY MELISSA [email protected]

SEGUIN – Along a quarter-mile production line, the heavy duty mus-cle behind Caterpillar’s hydraulic ground movers takes life.

A crew of the 1,400 employees at Caterpillar Inc.’s Seguin plant in-stalls crank shafts, fuel systems and other components at rapid-fire, asengine blocks roll with excruciating precision, timed to the second,down the line.

Jim Lock, operations manager at the Seguin Caterpillar plant, stopsby a work station to check the progress.

“Every station is supposed to be two minutes,” he said, as the greenlight flashed and the engine moved on to another of the 136 stations inthe plant.

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The FBI recently issued awarning to consumers about“malicious schemers target-ing travelers when they areestablishing an Internet con-nection in their hotel rooms.

The FBI determined thatonce consumers were log-ging on to their computer at-tempting to connect to the In-ternet they were being pre-sented with a pop-up windownotifying them to updatetheir software.

The pop-up appeared to beoffering a routine update tosoftware for which updatesare frequently available.Those consumers who ac-cepted and installed the up-

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Be aware ofcomputermessages inhotel rooms

CONSUMER ADVICEdates were really installingmalicious software to theircomputers.

Those who travel take extracaution before updating soft-ware products through theirhotel Internet connection.

Government grantused as fraud

Your BBB hasrecently beenreceivingphone inquiriesfrom con-sumers whoare suspiciousof calls they’vereceived aboutqualifying for agovernment grant. This hasbecome a popular means ofdefrauding people as manyare not familiar with govern-ment grants and are not sureif they might qualify for one.

Believe me, grants are noteasy to come by and there isalways an in-depth processthat applicants must gothrough before they are

awarded anything.So, if you didn’t apply for a

grant and you receive one ofthese calls, someone is tryingto scam you.

These scammers are notaffiliated with the govern-ment or any reputable orga-nizations. They are criminalswho are seeking financial in-formation in an effort to getmoney from those they tar-get – not award money.

When a business closes

I just hate getting calls thata business has closed itsdoors. So from a consumer’sviewpoint what is your re-course when you’ve paid foror ordered somethingthrough a business that all ofa sudden closes?

Well, the business is still ob-ligated to provide the goodsor services that have beenpaid for, or issue a refund ifthey can no longer providethe goods. If you find yourselfin this situation:

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MM YY FF II RR SS TT JJ OO BB DD AA TT EE BB OO OO KK■ Name: Cally Coleman Fromme■ Age: 43■ City of residence: Victoria■ Current title: Executive vice president of Zarsky LumberCo.

■ First job: I worked at Mam’selle, a high-end women’sclothing store, when I was 15.

■ What it taught me: I really learned customer service –how to take care of your customers. I also learned notto work somewhere where you like the product, be-cause you’ll wind up spending your whole paycheck.My First Job is a feature that highlights people’s first – or wackiest

– job and what they learned from the experience. Please limit re-sponses to 100 words or less. Responses may be edited for style, con-tent or length. A photo of the jobholder accompanies the feature.

BUILDING REPORTThis is a listing of building permits issued by the city of Victoria from Aug. 9 toAug. 15, for new commercial, commercial remodeling, new residential construc-tion and manufactured homes.

COMMERCIAL■ Gemini Construction, permitfor Hull Storey Retail Group,7800 N. Navarro St., $8,575.

■ Don Krueger Construction,permit for Southern Flow/Zedi,3001 N. Cameron St.,$440,000.

RESIDENTIAL■ Abraham Gonzalez, 1912Dudley St., $4,000.

■ LDS Builders, permit forDeam Mathews, 707Washington St., $7,000.

MANUFACTURED HOMES■ Goodner Specialties, permit for Ed-ward Balfanz, 2007 Port LavacaDrive, $6,500.

■ M and S Mobile Homes, permit forBruce Hammack, 4302 JohnStockbauer Drive, $41,230.

■ Clegg Services, Ltd., permit forCharles Green, 108 Crestwood Drive,$12,000.

Building values listed in this graphic are basedon averages used by the city to assess feescharged builders for construction permits. Theestimated costs do not necessarily reflect actualsale values or values used to figure propertytaxes. The city requires permits to be issuedwhen new or used mobile homes are moved toor within the city.

Tammy Mikulik joined VictoriaCollege’s Physical Therapist As-sistant Program as its coordina-tor of clinical education. Mikulikworked part time as an adjunctinstructor with the PTA Programfor the past year and prior to that,worked at Victoria Pain and Re-hab for eight years. She has abachelor’s degree in physicaltherapy from the University ofTexas Health Science Center inSan Antonio and is a few monthsaway from completing a doctor-ate in physical therapy atHardin-Simmons University inAbilene.

Jeff Hubbard is the newfull-time government instructorat Victoria College. Prior to join-ing VC, Hubbard taught govern-ment for a year at Coastal BendCollege. Prior to that, he workedthree years for Frank PhillipsCollege. He has a bachelor’s de-gree in political science fromOhio State University and a mas-ter’s degree in political sciencefrom the University of Minneso-ta.

Sheryl Kosler joins VictoriaCollege as a full-time facultymember teaching chemistry.Kosler most recently worked as apart-time adjunct instructor forVC at the VC Gonzales Centerand prior to that, taught scienceat Smithville school district. Sheobtained her associate degreefrom VC, a bachelor’s degreefrom the University of Hous-ton-Victoria and a master’s de-gree from the University of Mary-land.

Deb Butler is the new curricu-lum and instruction specialist atVictoria College. Prior to joiningVC, Butler worked as the regis-trar at Westwood College inHouston. She has a bachelor’sdegree from Glenville Universityin West Virginia, a master’s de-

gree from Shepherd University,also in West Virginia, and is work-ing toward a doctorate in educa-tion from the University of Hous-ton.

Walter Kerr, of the financialservices firm Edward Jones inVictoria, won the firm’s EdwardJones Senior Founders Award forhis achievement in buildingclient relationships. Kerr wasone of 2,315 of the firm’s 12,000 fi-nancial advisors to receive theaward.

Natalia Ruiz began working asthe senior administrative assis-tant in the University Advance-ment Office at the University ofHouston-Victoria. She providesadministrative support for the of-fice, which handles alumni rela-tions, donor cultivation andmore. She also works as apart-time patient access supervi-sor at Citizens Medical Center.Ruiz has a bachelor’s degree inbusiness from UHV and is en-rolled in the UHV Global Masterof Business Administration pro-gram.

Lynn Silkey was named the Ju-ly Employee of the Month at theUniversity of Houston-Victoria.She is the senior administrativesecretary in the Office of StudentAffairs and has worked at UHVsince 2004.

Katy Walterscheidt recentlybegan working as a communica-tions specialist in the Universityof Houston-Victoria MarketingDepartment. Her duties includewriting news releases, editingmarketing copy and assistingmembers of the media with sto-ries and information. Walter-scheidt previously worked as apublic relations and social mediamanager for Hospitality Finan-cial and Technology Profession-als in Austin.

TUESDAYVICTORIA PARTNERSHIP MEETING■ 7:30 a.m.■ Second floor, 700 Main Center■ For more information, call361-485-3190.

INTRO TO MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007■ 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.■ Workforce Solutions of the GoldenCrescent computer lab, 120 S. MainSt.

■ For more information, call361-485-3302 or visitvictoriapubliclibrary.org.

WEDNESDAYSELF-GUIDED COMPUTER TRAINING■ 9 to 11 a.m.■ Victoria Public Library, 302 N. Main St.■ For more information, call361-485-3302 or visitvictoriapubliclibrary.org.

DIPPING INTO SOCIAL MEDIA■ 10 a.m. to noon■ UHV Small Business DevelopmentCenter, 3402 N. Ben Wilson St.

■ For more information, call361-575-8944.

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New shop offers home decor and gifts

Mikulik Hubbard Kosler Butler

Kerr Ruiz Silkey Walterscheidt

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PERSONAL FINANCES ECONOMY

Where’s the growth?Our latest long-term fore-

cast calls for Texas to con-tinue to out-pace the na-tion in termsof economicperformance.The outlook forthe state callsfor moderateexpansion fordecades tocome.

The state’slargest metropolitan statisti-cal areas will continue toserve as the drivers of over-all growth. (Ranked by 2011wage and salary employ-ment, these are Hous-ton-Sugar Land-Baytown,Dallas-Plano-Irving, San An-tonio-New Braunfels, FortWorth-Arlington,Austin-Round Rock-SanMarcos, and El Paso.)

Texas’ smaller MSAs are al-so centers for business activ-

ity, with many expected tosee moderate long-termgrowth. As a group, thestate’s 20 other MSAs are ex-pected to contribute 18.3 per-cent of the total jobs added inTexas through 2040.McAllen-Edinburg-Mission,Tyler, Brownsville-Harlingen,Waco, Laredo, and CorpusChristi are expected to seethe fastest compound annualgrowth rates in employment.

Smaller cities are especial-ly likely to be affected byparticular industries. For ex-ample, oil and gas explo-ration is providing a strongboost to the Midland andOdessa areas, which areamong the healthiesteconomies in the nation.Amarillo has the third low-est jobless rate in the stateat 5.5 percent, and San An-gelo and Abilene round outthe top five metropolitan ar-eas in unemployment.

Are coupons a waste of time or worth every penny?Q: Is it worth the timeand effort to use coupons,or are they just a wasteof time and a ploy to getyou to buy things? – Tam-my

A: Coupons are definitelya ploy to entice you to buysomething you may nothave purchased otherwise.But that doesn’t meanthey’re bad things. Thepractical and sensible ap-plication of coupons candefinitely help you savemoney.

The main things to watchout for when using couponsare overbuying and spend-ing your money on thingsyou don’t really need. Seri-ously, you don’t need to hitSam’s or Costco and walkout with nine gallons of mus-tard. I’ve even heard of peo-ple buying things they knowthey don’t like just becauseit was on sale or they had a

coupon. Imean, howdumb is that?

I guessthere is a timefactor in-volved in col-lectingcoupons, espe-cially if youstill like to clipthem from the newspapersor flyers that come in themail. Plenty of folks still dothat every week. I think on-line coupons are a lot easierto search for and savethough. There’s a company Ilove called eMeals that willwork with you to planrecipes and also give you in-formation on coupons andsales in your area to makethe meals.

I’m definitely not an-ti-coupon, but at the sametime couponing alone won’tchange your family tree. It’slike any other tool. If used in

a smart way, it can help yousave money. And that’s not abad thing.

Q: What’s the best wayto save or use money giv-en to a baby as a birth-day present? – Ron

A: I think it depends onyour financial situationalong with your plans andgoals. If you’re at a placewhere you can’t afford ne-cessities, then there’s abso-lutely nothing wrong withusing birthday money forfood, diapers or clothes.That’s not a fun answer,but sometimes you have todo whatever it takes toproperly care for your fam-ily.

If money isn’t a big issuethough, you’re left with fig-uring out a plan. In our case,we invested lots of it towardtheir college funds. Then wetaught them to save for oth-er things themselves. For in-

stance, we didn’t buy any ofour kids their first cars. Butwe did agree to match what-ever they saved when itcame to this purchase.

There’s also nothing wrongwith just setting up a simplesavings account and watch-ing it grow. As they get old-er, you can involve them inthe process and begin toteach them about the threeuses for money: spending,saving and giving.

And if you start somethinglike this when they’re reallylittle, chances are they’ll al-ready have a nice pile ofmoney already stashedaway when they become oldenough for those teachablemoments.

The point is to have a plan.Once you have a definiteidea in mind, it’s a lot easierto achieve the goal.

For financial help, visitdaveramsey.com.

DAVERAMSEYDAVE SAYS

M. RAYPERRYMAN

THEECONOMIST

■ Write to the owner and keepcopies of your correspon-dence. Mail is usually for-warded when a businesscloses.

■ If you paid via credit card,write to your credit cardcompany to dispute thecharges. Under federal law,you have 60 days after thecharge first appears on abill (this doesn’t work if youpaid with a debit card).

■ Contact the landlord to in-quire about gaining accessto merchandise inside theproperty.

■ Check to see if the compa-ny has filed for bankruptcy.

Door-to-door salesmen complaints

After receiving hundreds ofcomplaints against compa-nies using aggressivedoor-to-door sales tactics topressure consumers into buy-ing bogus or misleading prod-ucts, BBB is issuing an alertabout such companies.

The issues range from mag-

azine subscriptions that werepaid for but never delivered,to food products that werenot of the high quality origi-nally promised.

Some examples of highpressure sales tactics in-clude hostile and persuasiverebuttals to consumer con-

cerns, deep discounts offeredupon immediate paymentand refusal to take “no” foran answer.

Alan Bligh is the execu-tive director of the BetterBusiness Bureau in Cor-pus Christi.

ALANBLIGHBETTER

BUSINESSBUREAU

ALLISON MILES/[email protected] Wings opens for business Sept. 1 at 6605 N. Navarro St., Suite D.Owned by Meredith Golden, the business will offer home decor and gifts.She said the goal was to provide Victoria a unique place to purchase bothinspirational and spiritual items. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday throughFriday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call361-573-9464.


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CAT BY THE NUMBERS

$2.6 billionCapital Expenditures in 2011

$4 billionEstimated capital Expenditures in 2012

$60.14 billion, +41.2%Consolidated sales and revenues in 2011,

increase from 2010

125,099, +19.7%Number of employees globally at the end of

2011, increase from 2010

SOURCE: CATERPILLAR.COM

By the end of the quarter-milejourney, the signature Cat-yellowengines are swept out the door,packaged and shipped across theworld.

The plant assembles 15- and18-liter engines on the C15 line.The newest products are the 11-and 13-liter engines, called C9and C13, which become the forcebehind the hydraulic excavatorbuilt in Victoria.

Bridget Young, a media rela-tions representative for Caterpil-lar Inc., said the C9 engine will befully transitioned by the end ofthe year.

Lock said Caterpillar brokeground on the Seguin plant inJanuary 2009. It opened for busi-ness June 4, 2010.

The town’s location, on Inter-state 10 near Interstate 35, andits easily accessibility to theports of Houston and CorpusChristi give it a prime location forexporting.

In just over two years, the planthas produced more than 25,000engines, of which about 60 per-cent are exported, Young said.

Lock said the production styleencourages maximum efficiency.The Caterpillar Processing Sys-tem uses visual indicators ateach station to show progress, ef-ficiency and validation.

Lock said all engines are builton demand. One will not enterthe production line until some-one makes an order.

“Victoria will signal when atractor is down the line and we’llsend an engine,” Lock said. “It’spull-trigger delivery.”

He said both Seguin and Victo-ria’s plants will keep very littleinventory onsite, about enoughmaterials for two days of work atall time.

“We had a good start up here,”Lock said. “We’ve worked verywell. Our policy is to treat peopleright.”

He said the Seguin plant hashad a positive impact on the localeconomy, and there are opportu-nities for spin-off businesses:paint suppliers, distributors andsuch.

“For every one job we create,there are five in the community,”Lock said.

His company needed hardhats, boots and other supplies,he said, explaining they pur-chased those locally. Someequipment also came fromSunbelt Rentals.

“That job has put a lot ofpeople to work,” Clegg said.“Even the big contractors haveused a lot of Victoria people.”

Victoria Air Conditioning,Ltd. is one example.

In addition to the work the airconditioning company does onCaterpillar’s systems, Clayco,the project’s contractor, alsohired it to construct buildings,Warren Heilker, Victoria Air’schief estimator, said in anemail.

The project is one of thelargest, by building size, thatthey’ve worked on, he said.

“Construction of the newplant has directly and indirect-ly benefited the local economy,and I expect the plant and sup-port business to be a contin-uing economic boom for thearea,” Heilker said in theemail. “This will provide realopportunities for our commu-nity.”

One other Crossroads com-pany, High Brehm Hats andWestern Wear, has a contract tosupply Caterpillar withsteel-toed boots, owner KellyHigh said.

Although he did not know ex-actly how many extra salesthat meant, he said he thoughteach employee requiredboots.

Caterpillar employs about 200people – for now, said JohnJones, the plant’s site man-ager.

The store appreciates any in-fusion of business, High said,whether one pair of boots or500. And, just because it wonthe contract, it doesn’t meanthe job is done.

“We’re learning somethingnew every day with them andwhat their employees like anddislike,” he said. “We tried ourhardest to earn their businessand now we’re trying to keep it.It’s an ongoing work.”

CROSSROADS:Hard hats toboots boughtfrom localcompanies

SEGUIN: About60 percent ofplant’s enginesare exported

FOR MORE INFORMATIONTo learn more about Caterpillar and its services, visitVictoriaAdvocate.com, click on this story and follow the attached link.

CATERPILLAR CORPORATE PHOTOGRAPH/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOAn inside view of the Seguin Caterpillar plant where 1,400 people are employed to assemble engines for excavators that are built in the company’s Victoria plant.

CATERPILLAR CORPORATE PHOTOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOSeguin’s Caterpillar plant opened in June 2010. It employs about1,400 workers.

ATERPILLAR CORPORATE PHOTOGRAPH/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOEmployees at Caterpillar’s Seguin plant work on components of anengine.

CATERPILLAR CORPORATE PHOTOGRAPH/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOThe Caterpillar plant in Seguin supplies Victoria’s new facility withengines for its hydraulic excavator.

CATERPILLAR CORPORATE PHOTOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTED PHOTOAn employee at Seguin’s Caterpillar plant builds an engine.

VC, Caterpillar team up to train company workforce

BY CAROLINA [email protected]

Victoria College’s partner-ship with Caterpillar to trainits employees has led to thecollege’s expansion.

“They taught us everythingthat we needed to know,” saidfacility well technician Fred

Chaney. “They teach you howto deal with hazards that ac-tually exist and a lot of com-panies don’t do that.”

Chaney said he is happy tobe at a company dedicated todeveloping his skill set andcareer.

“I oversee the quality of thewelds, inspect the parts andmake sure when they’re go-ing out the doors they meetCaterpillar’s standards,”Chaney said. “I have 28 yearsin welding experience.”

In March, Chaney, of Goliad,

took part in Caterpillar’s newemployee training at VictoriaCollege.

The training covers areas insafety, welding, basic assem-bly, warehouse operationsand logistics.

Since completing the train-ing, Chaney now overseesthe testing for the weldingportion of VC’s trainingalongside the part-time in-structors at VC.

Jennifer Yancey, vice presi-dent of College Advancementand External Affairs at Victo-

ria College, said the collegeand Caterpillar started work-ing on the training programsoon after Caterpillar an-nounced it was coming to Vic-toria.

“It’s very exciting for VC tobe working with a companysuch as Caterpillar,” Yanceysaid. “We look forward toworking with our businessand industry partners.”

In February, VC startedlooking to expand the train-ing program into anotherbuilding on 1404 N. Liberty

Street.The VC college board ap-

proved the purchase of the7,200-square-foot building for$200,000.

“There is a demand in ourcommunity for skilled work-force,” Yancey said.

In May, voters approved a$22 million bond proposal forthe college to build anEmerging Technology Cen-ter. It will face the Caterpillarplant. The center will serveas a training facility forCaterpillar and other busi-

nesses.The facility would include

welding and computer labs,traditional classroom spaceand rooms for large-scalecorporate training events. Itwould create a home for allworkforce and continuing ed-ucation training, freeing upspace on a landlocked cam-pus for academic programs.

The center would serveVC’s longtime partners, suchas petrochemical, manufac-turing and oil and gas compa-nies.

Program includeslogistics, welding,safety procedures

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hoosing Paul Ryanis a game-changer.

Ask the ChicagoGang and its pub-licists in the main-

stream media. They’re ter-rified.

They know that when MittRomney chose Ryan for hisvice president, it re-definedthe Romney campaignovernight.

It proved Mitt was not asboring, cautious and moder-ate as conservative Repub-licans feared and the Oba-ma Left hoped.

In one bold, smart move,Romney’s VP choice makesit clear that this election isabout one thing – the econo-my.

And there is no better per-son on the planet to discussthat issue than Ryan, theyoung, articulate, spirited,openly Reaganesque con-servative who heads up theHouse Budget Committeeand is the leading Republi-can deficit hawk inCongress.

With Ryan as his VPchoice, Romney also took ahuge step in redefiningwhat the Republican Partyis and reminding everyonewhat it’s supposed to stand

for.For decades,

Reagan con-servativeshave beenwonderingwhat has hap-pened to theGOP my fa-ther loved. He worked hardto shape it into a party thatclearly and proudly stoodfor smaller government,more freedom, free enter-prise and a strong military.

But for two decades, Re-publican politicians havebeen trying to out-Demo-crat the Democrats. TheGOP my father left behindlost its way, lost its nerveand chose to betray many ofits core principles to winelections.

By choosing Ryan, Rom-ney has ended the era ofRepublicrat fuzzinessovernight. It makes methink Mitt and his advisershave decided that the wayto defeat Obama was toheed the advice my fathergave to the GOP in 1975 atthe Conservative PoliticalAction Conference.

Republicans, disheartenedby the post-Watergatethrashing they got at the

polls in 1974, were beingurged by moderates to wa-ter down (i.e., liberal-up)their party’s principles tobroaden its appeal to vot-ers.

My father told them not tofurther “blur” the distinc-tions between the two par-ties but to “revitalize” theGOP by reasserting its con-servative principles andraising them “to full view.”

He challenged Republi-cans to raise “a banner ofno pale pastels, but boldcolors which make it unmis-takably clear” that theirparty believed in “a freemarket as the greatestprovider for the people,” notsocialism.

The conservative conven-tioneers took my father’swise message to heart, butthe nation’s voters didn’t.Jimmy Carter was electedin 1976 and the country gotfour years of economicmalaise and folly in theMiddle East that did notend until my father waselected in 1980 – as an un-abashed conservative.

America today is truly at acrossroads. This election isgoing to decide the direc-tion we take for the next 50

years. For the first time in awhile, the American peoplewill have a clear choice.

Do you want the USA togo down the Obama Ex-pressway to Greece or, Godforbid, California? Or do youwant to go down the Rom-ney-Ryan-Reagan Freewayto freedom, growth andprosperity for all people?

It’s up to the Americanpeople to decide where theywant to go. It’s up to Romneyand Ryan – R & R, two let-ters that look pretty good to-gether, I’d say – to sell theirmessage of conservatism.

Americans can’t afford towait for someone to comealong four years from nowand fix the damage Obamahas already done.

Michael Reagan is theson of President RonaldReagan, a political con-sultant, and the authorof “The New ReaganRevolution.” Visit hiswebsites atwww.michaelerea-gan.com and www.rea-gan.com. Send com-ments to [email protected]. Follow@reaganworld on Twit-ter.

ducation can be a contro-versial topic in Texas. Wehave emphasized its im-portance many times,but there are some as-

pects of public education todaythat go against common sense.

One of these problems involvesthe late start Texas students get ev-ery year. In 2006, the state legisla-ture passed an amendment to TexasEducation Code – Section 25.0811,which postponed the start of schooluntil the fourth Monday in August.The original code prevented schoolsfrom starting earlier than the weekof Aug. 21. There were many rea-sons for this decision. Legislatorscited a need to take migrant workerschedules and summer employ-ment into consideration, as well as ashortened tourism season, higher

school operation costs, and the needfor summer teaching and trainingprograms.

According to Diane Boyett,VISD’s communications director,Victoria’s schools have not soughta waiver to start the school yearearlier since the law was put inplace.

While we appreciate the need tobe frugal with public money, espe-cially in such an essential area aseducation, we think making the de-cision to extend summer vacationto cut back on utility costs is ashort-sighted move by the statelegislature. Public schools have re-ceived budget cuts from the state,but their main focus should alwaysbe educating students. Accordingto the National Summer LearningAssociation, students lose reten-

tion of the information they learnedin the previous school year. Ex-panding summers will only exacer-bate this problem, forcing teachersto waste time reviewing last year’smaterial instead of being free tomove on to new concepts.

And while this reason may bevalid in other districts, accordingto Boyett, there is no evidence tosuggest VISD is saving money onutility or operating costs due tolonger summers because campus-es are often in use for various pro-grams starting in early August.

The argument to give studentsand their families a longer tourismseason seems superficial whencompared to the need for im-proved education in Texas. Ac-cording to the state comptroller’swebsite, Texas is ranked 36th in

the nation for high school gradua-tion rates. When looking at SATscores, the numbers are evenworse. Texas is 49th in verbal SATscores and 46th in average mathSAT scores.

We understand there are stu-dents whose families take full ad-vantage of the summer vacationand also participate in summerlearning activities, such as educa-tional camps and visiting historicsites. But there are others whospend all summer at home playingvideo games, watching TV or do-ing other things that waste thevaluable time they have instead oftaking the initiative to expandtheir minds on their own. For thestudents who are willing and ableto take advantage of their breaks,longer summers are an asset, but

many waste the summer away.Giving them more time will notchange their behavior.

We would like to see the statelegislature re-examine thisscheduling law. When we look atTexas’ educational ranking, as wellas the lack of savings to our localdistrict, it is clear this expandedsummer vacation is not benefitingour students the way it should.Perhaps it is time to take anotherlook at schedules and think aboutwhat’s best for students, ratherthan what will save money andboost tourism economies. We can’tafford to leave our future high anddry in favor of current prosperity.

This editorial reflects the viewsof the Victoria Advocate’s edi-torial board.

VIEWPOINTSCongress shall make no law respect-ing an establishment of religion, or

prohibiting the free exercise thereof; orabridging the freedom of speech, or of thepress; or the right of the people peaceablyto assemble, and to petition the govern-ment for a redress of grievances.

– First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

■ Topic: School schedule ■ Our View: State calendar does not meet needs of students

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us within a couple of days, you should call us to see if wereceived your letter because, sometimes, our email filter willnot let a letter through.Our letter lengths are 150 words for thank-yous, 200 words

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For I have not sent them, saith theLord, yet they prophesy a lie in myname; that I might drive you out,

and that ye might perish, ye, and theprophets that prophesy unto you.

Jeremiah 27:15

“There is a destiny that makes usbrothers: None goes his way alone: Allthat we send into the lives of others

comes back into our own.”Edwin Markham,American poet

F R O M Y O U

Lighted LampsThe electricity failed.Lamps stood ready.Wicks rose to meet thematch.Kerosene burned itsyellow light.Shadows played in thewalls.Sr. Frances Cabrini Janvier,

Victoria

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Longer summer vacation not the best idea

Victorians are what make VISD great

Editor, the Advocate:As we prepare for another outstanding school year in the

Victoria Independent School District, we are extremely ex-cited about the many opportunities and endless possibilitiesthat await our wonderful students and staff.The success of our school district is definedby our leadership and we would like toextend our sincere appreciation to ourBoard of Trustees for their commitment toexcellence throughout our 612 squaremiles. On August 16, at our regular sched-uled board meeting, our Board of Trusteesapproved a pay scale that affords everyemployee a salary increase. Our teachersalary increases range from $1,050 to $1,300depending upon their years of experience.Classified and paraprofessional employees will receive a 47cent per hour increase while administrators will receive a$1,200 annual increase.

The Victoria ISD is extremely proud to be able to providethese pay raises at a time when the Legislature has cutschool funding and there are still many questions chal-lenging school districts in terms of school finance. We wouldlike to thank our Victoria community for your support of ourbond projects and for always serving as a “Champion forour Children.” This dedication to achieving excellence forall students is another example that the “Power of Victoria”is the “Power of our People.” Winston Churchill once stated;“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by whatwe give.”

It has been said that people who have great hearts andminds never have to fear what lies ahead, for their heartsand minds determine the quality of their future. It is clearlyevident that the future of Victoria is in great hands.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the entire VictoriaISD, thank you for all that you “give” to our amazing schooldistrict and for your continued focus on “Every Child, EveryClassroom, Every Day.” YOU make us great. YOU make usspecial. YOU make us Victoria.

Robert Jaklich, VISD superintendent, VictoriaPaul Ryan : A bold, smart choice for Republicans

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Dan Easton,Publisher

John M. Roberts,President,

Chairman of the Board

Catherine R. McHaney,Secretary-Treasurer

Chris Cobler,Editor, Vice-President of Content

Hamp Rogers, Circulation/Marketing Director

Becky Cooper, Local EditorTony Balandran,Delivery Desk Editor

Nick Rogers, Senior Copy EditorLauren Hightower-Emerson,Community Conversation Editor

Jessica Puente, Interactivity Editor

Opinions published on this page under the heading “From Us”represent the consensus views of the editorial board of theVictoria Advocate, whose members are named above.

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Thank you for helping with Cowboy Camp

Editor, the Advocate:

This community is extremely blessed to have so

many willing citizens with knowledge, interest, imag-

ination and kindness. The Chisholm Trail Heritage

Museum 2012 Cowboy Camp was a glowing example

of these extraordinary people.

“Thank you,” seems inadequate, but my grateful-

ness is sincere; so here goes. Thank you to: Standard

Printing, Goebel Construction, Travis and Dan Glid-

den, Paddy Burwell, Cavender’s Boot City, Ful-O-Pep,

DeWitt County Co-op, Walmart, Tod Slone, Annabel

McLeod, Chelsea Fuchs, Janie and Laura Veth, Sonja

Wolfe, Kathy Crim, TDECU, Ron Sitton and Shotgun

(his Longhorn), BHP Billiton, Allen and Neva Irwin,

Robert Oliver, Circle Y, Carolyn Leist, Double J Sad-

dlery, AA&E Leathercraft, Shannon and Marvin

Blaschke, Tractor Supply, Van Hargis, Sherri

Driskol and Ernesto Rodriguez from the

Alamo, H-E-B, Chuck and Jean Nagle, Ted

Aven, Jim Mann, Joe Adams, Matt

Thigpen and GVEC.

The camp was a huge success. A

heartfelt thanks to our talented

and generous community.

Candy Glidden, CowboyCamp Coordinator,

Cuero

MIKEREAGAN


oy, our friends inEurope sure knowhow to vacation.

If they get sickwhile taking their

employer-paid vacation,their employer now has topay them to take another.

According to The NewYork Times, all 27 countrieswithin the European Union,and all employers withinthem, must abide by that re-cent vacation ruling by theEU’s highest court.

My hat goes off to my va-cationing pals overseas.

Take the French. Theirgovernment mandates thatevery employee get at leastfive weeks of paid vacation.The French average 37 daysof vacation every year – and22 paid holidays on top ofthat.

Virtually all Europeancountries have governmentmandates that require em-ployer-paid vacation of fourto six weeks – whereasAmerica has no govern-ment-mandated vacation re-quirements.

European employees enjoyall kinds of additional work-place perks and benefits,too.

Canadian weekly

Maclean’s re-ports that:■ “Spanish

workers getan extra twoweeks off forhoneymoons,and 20 daysof severance,even if they’re fired withcause.”

■ “In France, companiesmust give extra paid leaveto staff who work 39 hoursper week instead of thestatutory 35, even if theworkers are paid for theovertime.”

■ “In Italy, firms that laypeople off during an eco-nomic downturn can faceyears of costly legal pro-ceedings. ... Rome isproposing a law requiringemployers to pay laid-offworkers a whopping 27months in wages.”Vacations are way different

in America. CNN says theaverage employed Americanworker got about 18 vaca-tion days in 2011, but onlyused 14 of them.

And unlike our Europeancounterparts, we never real-ly “leave” work. Fearing forour jobs, with the economystill in the tank, we stay in

touch with the office.According to Rasmussen

Reports, 72 percent ofAmericans use email,smartphones and other elec-tronic devices to keep them-selves accessible to theiremployers 24 hours a day.

It’s even worse for Ameri-ca’s small-business owners.According to Business NewsDaily, fewer than half take aweek off during the summer.With the economy so uncer-tain and revenues down,many are afraid or unable tohire. They are picking upthe slack by working two orthree jobs themselves.

But we Americans areworkers, I suppose. We’re sodifferent from our Europeanfriends.

In tough times, we arehappier working hard andkeeping revenues coming in,rather than spending lots ofdough at hoity-toity resorts.

We don’t like our govern-ment telling us or our em-ployers how we ought toconduct business or howmany vacation days employ-ers must provide.

Heck, if our SupremeCourt ruled that employersmust not only provide paidvacations but pay for them

all over again if an employ-ee gets sick while vacation-ing, many Americans wouldtake to the streets inprotest.

Americans protest loss oftheir freedoms. Europeanstend to protest meddlingwith their government-man-dated benefits.

At least that used to be adistinction between Americaand Europe.

Our government has beenso busy handing out goodiesto citizens, it’s just a matterof time before the freedomlovers are overrun by thebenefit lovers.

It will be a sad day whenthat happens. We’ll have aneven more anemic economy,just as most EU nations donow, and all of us will strug-gle to pursue happiness andwealth.

Oh, well, at least our em-ployers will have to pay usfor another week off if weget sick while we’re on vaca-tion.

Tom Purcell is a free-lance writer is also a hu-mor columnist for thePittsburgh Tribune-Re-view. Email Tom at [email protected].

he charm of SarahPalin as a vicepresidential pick isshe set the bar in-credibly low for

her successors. As long as anominee can name a news-paper and their foreign pol-icy experience isn’t livingnext to a foreign country,the press can dub them bet-ter than Sarah Palin. Morequalified. More gravitas.More ready to lead thanPalin was...

A Palin standard for beingfit for public office is like aDonald Trump standard forpublic humility. Basically, nostandard at all.

It’s really not fair to com-pare Paul Ryan to SarahPalin. Sure it makes Ryanas a VP nominee seem lesscynical – less Hail Mary –less desperate than if Palinhad never word-souped thenation four years ago. IfJohn McCain would havepicked Tim Pawlenty in ’08,the Ryan pick would lookpretty irresponsible. Butnow the GOP has the “PalinStandard.”

A better comparison forPaul Ryan is former Repub-lican presidential candidateCongresswoman MicheleBachmann. Both are fromMidwestern cheese-heavystates. Both are high-profiletea party Republicans in thelowest-rated Congress inthe history of percentages.

Even whenBachmann iscausing inter-national inci-dents with herxenophobicrace baitingabout theMuslim Broth-erhood’s al-leged infiltration of the U.S.government – she soundsas pleasant as someoneselling orange juice on tele-vision.

If the 1980’s Michael J.Fox sit-com character – thebeloved Reagan-idolizingAlex P. Keaton – were aself-hating public employeewho cherry-picked all theworst parts of Ayn Rand,the Bible and the HeritageFoundation’s reading room,he’d be Paul Ryan! Quirky,young and clearly trying tofill a larger man’s suit – therightest of Republicans lovePaul Ryan.

Well they kind of love him.Both Paul Ryan andMichele Bachmann areguilty pleasures for Republi-cans. They like listening tothem beat up on PresidentObama and spout theircheery condemnations ofliberalism, but they don’twant to admit it too loudly,lest they get stuck defend-ing ALL their ideas. Bach-mann won the Iowa strawpoll, but now she’s not eveninvited to introduce anyone,

let alone speak, at the up-coming Republican NationalConvention.

Obama tried to campaignagainst the Ryan Budgetplan this past spring sincethe House GOP voted for it,but that was declaredout-of-bounds. Now? It’s inplay and Republican politi-cians are not thrilled aboutexplaining their vote to givefuture senior citizenscoupons for chemotherapy.

Bachmann and Ryan alsoshare the distinction of be-ing ineffective lawmakers.According to ThatsMy-Congress.com, in her nearlysix years in office “Bach-mann has passed threerhetorical bills with no forceof law, and one amendmentthat asks an Inspector Gen-eral to conduct inspections.”Paul Ryan has been an in-cumbent for twice that timeand has only introduced twobills that have become law:One renaming a post officein his home town, the otherchanging how arrows aretaxed (how very 21st centu-ry).

Bachmann at least gets todistance herself from theRepublican Congressionalblank check given to thebig-spending Bush adminis-tration. Under Ryan’s al-legedly hawkish eye, hisparty started two unpaid-forwars, cut taxes during saidwars, grew the government,

exploded the national debtand then bailed out unregu-lated banks with taxpayermoney. Paul Ryan voted yesfor all of it and doesn’t askfor a correction when he’scalled a small governmentconservative.

Both Bachmann and Ryanare also at the extreme endof the spectrum when itcomes to gay rights and re-productive freedoms. Theyboth have consistently votedfor any anti-abortion/an-ti-contraception bills thatcame before them. Dittowith expanding martialrights to same sex couples.Ryan, with all his libertarianbilling, has voted to takeaway liberties from his fel-low citizens. He is the gov-ernment he’s warned usabout: Freedom is for cor-porations, and regulationsare for our private lives.

If Ryan is now the Repub-lican mainstream, Bach-mann is now the Republi-can mainstream. If Ryan isgetting the full embrace ofhis party – Bachmannshould be getting that samewelcome into the fray.

Or in the case of Republi-cans in 2012, the fringe.

Tina Dupuy is anaward-winning writerand the editor-in-chief ofSoapBlox. Tina can bereached [email protected].

Oh my gosh, I am FURI-OUS!!! Last I checked, Iwas living in the UnitedStates! It is becoming moreobvious that if I were hereillegally, or chose not towork, I would have everylast thing handed to me! Iam so mad! America, WENEED CHANGE! Remem-ber that in November!

Carrolyn

I have been strugglingwith this issue for a whilenow. I have a 1-year-oldand she gets four shots ev-ery two months! I wouldlove it if you or someonecould give me more infor-mation on exactly whatvaccines are really, honest-ly a good idea to get orwhat might be poison. I'veresearched it, but I'm stillreally not sure

Britnee

Wonder why the risk ofcatching these diseases islow? Because most peoplehave been vaccinated. Yesfew will have an adversereaction just as with anyother medica-tion. Everseen a youngchild struggleto breathewith whoopingcough? They turnpurple and choke.Ever seen the effectsof polio? Please, if youdo not vaccinate yourchildren, keep them awayfrom others they may un-knowingly infect (most ofthese diseases have an in-fectious period prior tosymptoms) especially chil-dren under one year.Whooping cough has beenmaking a recent comebackdue to lack of vaccinations,adults can catch it too. Somaybe the Pedi who sug-gests you follow the statemandated vaccinations hasseen the consequences ofthese diseases.

So when everyone is re-quired to buy insurancethis program will be gone?

Kelly

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LOCATIONREPORTSRecent location reports for theAdvocate readership area.

BEE COUNTYAPI No.: 42-025-33841Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Killam Oil Co. Ltd.Lease Name: Tynan RanchWell No.: 1Field Name: Papalote WestTotal Depth: 5,500 feetDirection and Miles: 5 miles SE. of

SkidmoreSurvey Name: H. Brian, A-47Acres: 80

DEWITT COUNTYAPI No.: 42-123-32848Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resources O

and G Co. LPLease Name: Stanchos Unit AWell No.: 3Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 6.5 miles NW.

of YorktownSurvey Name: J. Hall, A-217Acres: 666.46

GONZALES COUNTYAPI No.: 42-177-32657Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas

LPLease Name: Kusak UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 11.95 miles NE.

of GonzalesSurvey Name: G. Blair, A-4Acres: 490.19

API No.: 42-177-32639Classification: Fld. Dev and

HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Sample Baros UnitWell No.: 17HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,750 feetDirection and Miles: 0.1 mile SE. of

SampleSurvey Name: J.L. Wood, A-473Acres: 640

API No.: 42-177-32656Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Verlander UnitWell No.: 12HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 11,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.5 miles SE. of

CostSurvey Name: S.H. Gates, A-228Acres: 976.83

KARNES COUNTYAPI No.: 42-255-32686Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Pfeifer-Bell UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 16,500 feetDirection and Miles: 9.5 miles W. of

KenedySurvey Name: J. Bradberry, A-24Acres: 401.30


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Pfeifer-Bell UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 16,500 feetDirection and Miles: 9.5 miles W. of



HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Vajdos-Foegelle UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 15,500 feetDirection and Miles: 6 miles SW. of

Karnes CitySurvey Name: Hrs. R.C. Bras hear, A-

27Acres: 360


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Rippstein-Rafter UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 15,000 feetDirection and Miles: 3.5 miles W. of

Karnes CitySurvey Name: F. Ruiz, A-9Acres: 360


Horizontal

Operator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Rippstein-Rafter UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 15,500 feetDirection and Miles: 3.5 miles W. of

Karnes CitySurvey Name: F. Ruiz, A-9Acres: 360


HorizontalOperator: Plains Exploration and

Prod. Co.Lease Name: Richter North UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 13,600 feetDirection and Miles: 3.8 miles E. of

GillettSurvey Name: D.B. McConnel, A-191Acres: 418.17


HorizontalOperator: Plains Exploration and

Prod. Co.Lease Name: Richter North UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 13,600 feetDirection and Miles: 3.8 miles E. of

GillettSurvey Name: D.B. McConnel, A-191Acres: 418.17


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Best-Beard UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 16,500 feetDirection and Miles: 10 miles W. of



HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Best-Beard UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 16,500 feetDirection and Miles: 10 miles W. of


VICTORIA COUNTYAPI No.: 42-469-34257Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Americo Energy Re sources

LLCLease Name: A.M. McFaddinWell No.: 52Field Name: McFaddin EastTotal Depth: 7,000 feetDirection and Miles: 7.6 miles SW. of

BloomingtonSurvey Name: C.O. Edwards, A-526Acres: 4,680

API No.: 42-469-34258Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Petra Oleum Corp.Lease Name: MuellerWell No.: 1Field Name: Coleto Creek (2800)Total Depth: 2,900 feetDirection and Miles: 7 miles SW. of

VictoriaSurvey Name: R. Manchola, A-87Acres: 56.38

WHARTON COUNTYAPI No.: 42-481-35033Classification: Wildcat and Re com-

pletionOperator: Petropro Energy Partners

LPLease Name: LuluWell No.: 1Field Name: WildcatTotal Depth: 7,207 feetDirection and Miles: 6.1 miles SE. of

Pierce

Survey Name: C. Howard, A-181Acres: 80

OILANDGASCOMPLETIONRecent oil and gas completions forthe Advocate readership area.

BEE COUNTYAPI No.: 42-025-33823Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Enco Exploration CompanyLease Name: Brown HWell No.: 1Field Name: Norbee, SE. (4,230)Survey Name: M. Carroll, A-11Direction and Miles: 1.1 miles W. of

BeevilleOil: 28MCF: 118Choke Size: 1/8 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 280Total Depth: 4,496 feetPlug Back Depth: 4,369 feetPerforations: 4,219-4,222 feet

DEWITT COUNTYAPI No.: 42-123-32590Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res. USA

Inc.Lease Name: Pedraza 01Well No.: 01HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford

Shale)Survey Name: J. Forster, A-176Direction and Miles: 7.8 miles NE. of

YorktownOil: 26MCF: 3,676Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 5,510Shut In Well Pressure: 8,015Total Depth: 17,912 feetPerforations: 13,920-17,912 feet


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Anne Friar ThomasWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: J. McCoy Jr., A-30Direction and Miles: 8.3 miles SW. of

YoakumOil: 402MCF: 2,295Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,800Total Depth: 17,990 feetPerforations: 13,513-17,883 feet

GONZALES COUNTYAPI No.: 42-177-32284Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.

Lease Name: Smith UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: T.G. Weeks, A-476Direction and Miles: 6.2 miles SW. of

SmileyOil: 1,077MCF: 360Choke Size: 26/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,111Total Depth: 14,873 feetPlug Back Depth: 14,782 feetPerforations: 9,890-14,782 feet

KARNES COUNTYAPI No.: 42-255-32367Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Thomas UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: D. Taylor, A-280Direction and Miles: 8.5 miles E. of

GillettOil: 1,579MCF: 1,769Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,569Total Depth: 17,300 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,214 feetPerforations: 11,781-17,195 feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Thomas UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: D. Taylor, A-280Direction and Miles: 8.5 miles E. of

GillettOil: 1,599MCF: 1,823Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,533Total Depth: 17,441 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,351 feetPerforations: 11,613-17,341 feet

WHARTON COUNTYAPI No.: 42-481-35244Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Maverick Prod. Co. Inc.Lease Name: HawesWell No.: 55Field Name: Boling (Segment A)Survey Name: S.F. Austin, Sec tion 6,

A-2Direction and Miles: 0.9 miles NE. of

BolingOil: 20MCF: 0Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchPumping: YesTotal Depth: 3,400 feetPerforations: 3,292-3,300 feet

G U S H E R S & D U S T E R S

RIG COUNT

Week Ending Aug. 19

.............................122

Week Ending Aug. 12

..............................102The rig count is provided by the Vic-toria office of Halliburton, showingthe number of active drilling rigs inVictoria, Goliad, Gonzales, Calhoun,Jackson, Bee, Refugio, DeWitt,Lavaca, Wharton, Karnes, Coloradoand Matagorda counties.

PRICE PER BARRELWeek Ending Aug. 19

..........................$95.60Week Ending Aug. 12

..........................$93.36Price per barrel figures areprovided from New York bythe Associated Press and re-flect the cash F.O.B. price ofWest Texas Intermediate, thebenchmark grade of U.S.crude oil.

BEEVILLEAug. 10

■ Cattle on hand: 526■ Horses: 2■ Sheep/goats: 21■ Trends: Steers and heifers,

steady/good.■ Steers: (200-300) $182-$245;

(300-400) $139-$185; (400-500)$135-$166; (500-600) $125-$160;(600-700) $116-$134; and (700-800) $105-$130.

■ Heifers: (200-300) $155-$175;(300-400) $135-$195; (400-500)$129-$200; (500-600) $123-$182;(600-700) $108-$141; and (700-800) $102-$116.

■ Slaughter cows: $40-$83;slaughter bulls, $75-$94; stockercows, $60-$97; bred cows, $560-$1,275; pairs, $1,010-$1,800; hors-es, $50-$125.

CUEROAug. 17

■ Receipts: 1,234■ Had 65 cows and 16 bulls.

There were not many cows and bullson hand. The market was essentiallythe same as last week’s market. Thelast 3 weeks have seen little changein these markets.

■ The calf market was strongerthan last week’s market. Realimprovement was noted in the lowergrades along with a general $2 to $3better prices in all the other classes.Some heifers under 450 poundslook $4 to $5 per count higher.Heavy weight steers and heiferswere a solid $2 to $3 higher. Notmany light cattle but a good healthymarket for all classes of calves.

■ Packer bulls: Heavy weights,$90-$95; lower grades, $82-$88.

■ Packer cows: breakers, $65-$74.50; boning cows, $68-$78.50;canners and cutters, $68-$89; light

and weak, $40-$70.■ Palpated dry cows: none; pairs:

none.■ Steer calves: (under 200) none;

(200-250) none; (250-300) $186-$222.50; (300-350) $193-$215;(350-400) $171-$198; (400-450) $151-$173; (450-500) $148-$168; (500-600) $145-$157; (600-700) $131-$140; (700-800) $123-$133.

■ Bulls: (over 700) $119-$133.■ Heifer Calves: (under 200)

none; (200-250) $175-$191; (250-300) none; (300-350) $165-$171;(350-400) $152-$168; (400-450)$144-$159; (450-500) $140-$158;(500-600) $131-$149; (600-700)$124-$140.50; (700-800) $117-$121.

EDNAAug. 13

■ Receipts: 444■ Steers: (200-300) $202-$246;

(300-400) $167-$200; (400-500)$146-$182; (500-600) $138-$160;(600-700) $126-$140; and (700 andup) $113-$133.

■ Heifers: (200-300) $183-$237;(300-400) $141-$164; (400-500)$140-$158; (500-600) $128-$146;(600-700) $117-$131; (700 and up)$113-$121.

■ Stockers pairs: n/a; Stockercows: n/a.

■ Packer cows: (600-800) $56-$66; and (800 and up) $67-$88.Packer bulls: (800 and up) $78-$100.

EL CAMPOAug. 14

■ Receipts: 311■ Trend: Feeder steers and heifers

were steady to $1 higher. Cows andbulls were steady.

■ Steers: (under 200) $190-$215;(200-300) $175-$210; (300-400)$170-$195; (400-500) $164-$191;(500-600) $137-$158; (over 600)$120-$140.

■ Heifers: (under 200) $190-$210; (200-300) $159-$185; (300-400) $159-$200; (400-500) $137-$150; (500-600) $130-$151; (over600) $122-$138.

■ Slaughter cows: smooth fat,$72-$76; excessive fat, $70-$74;cutter, $76-$80; canner, $60-$70.

■ Slaughter bulls: high dressing,$93-$100; low dressing, $90-$95.

■ Replacement cows: pairs, $900-$950.

GONZALESAug. 11Receipts: 699 cattle■ Compared to our last sale:

Calves and yearlings sold steady.Packer cows sold steady.

■ Stocker-feeder steers: Mediumand large frame No. 1 (150-300)$210-$280;(300-400) $185-$197.50;(400-500) $149-$175; (500-600)$132-$144; (600-700) $123-$131;(700-800) $118-$124.

■ Bull yearlings: (700-900) $91-$113.

■ Stocker-feeder heifers: Mediumand large No. 1 (150-300) $175-$225; (300-400) $148-$169; (400-500) $139-$147; (500-600) $122-$138; and (600-700) $116-$118.

■ Packer cows: Good lean utilityand commercial, $74-$79; cutters,$77-$84.50; canners, $58-$68; andlow yielding fat cows, $64-$71.

■ Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 and2, good heavy bulls, $93-$102.50;light weights and medium qualitybulls, $83-$89. Stocker cows, $850-$1,150. Pairs, $1,050-$1,350.

HALLETTSVILLE

Aug. 14■ Cattle on Hand: 1,211■ Week ago: 1,109; Year ago:

2,789■ Compared to last week: Better

quality classes of calves and year-lings were stronger in all areas.Heavier weights 550 pounds and upsold $2 to $3 higher. Lighter weightswere $2 to $5 higher. Demand wasvery good on all classes.

■ Packer cows and bulls sold fullysteady on about 160 head total.

■ Packer cows: Higher dressingutility and cutter cows, $75-$88;lower dressing utility and cuttercows, $63-$75; light weight cannercows, $53-$63.

■ Packer bulls: Heavyweight bulls,$97-$103.50; utility and cutter bulls,$88-$97; light weight canner bulls,$78-$88.

■ Stocker and feeder calves andyearlings: No. 1 steer and bullcalves, (under 200) $210-$275;(200-300) $190-$230;(300-400) $180-$220;(400-500) $148-$192.50; (500-600) $128-$158;(600-700) $120-$140;(700-800) $118-$130.

■ No. 1 Heifer calves: (under 200)$200-$270; (200-300) $165-$215;(300-400) $148-$182;(400-500) $132-$166;(500-600) $124-$152; (600-700) $117-$130;(700-800) $105-$121.

■ Stocker cows: good stockercows and heifers, $1,000-$1,275;medium stocker cows and heifers,$775-$1,000; good cow and calfpairs, $1,275-$1,650; medium cowand calf pairs, $1,000-$1,275.

KARNES CITYAug. 11

■ Cattle on hand: 305■ Market was steady and higher

in spots.

■ Steers: (200-300) $170-$235;(300-400) $160-$195; (400-500)$142-$175; (500-600) $132-$145;(600-700) $128-$142; (700 and up)$110-$120.

■ Heifers: (200-300) $160-$185;(300-400) $145-$165; (400-500)$138-$180; (500-600) $128-$150;(600-700) $120-$135; (700 and up)$115-$125.

■ Stocker cows (per head): Bredcows $850-$1,100, Pairs $1,100-$1,275; Packer cows: No. 1 $78-$89, No. 2 $68-$72, and Bulls $94-$98.

■ Goats and other (per head): 172on hand

■ Kid goats: (25-50) $65-$95;(50-100) $75-$120. Nannies: $75-$115. Billies: $125-$185. Sheep:$95-$125. Rams: $115-$200.Piglets: $55-$80. Top Hogs: $50-$55(per pound). Sows: $38-$45 (perpound). Boars: $8-$15 (per pound).

■ *No sale Sept. 1 due to LaborDay.

KARNES COUNTYAug. 16

■ Cattle on hand: 379. Marketstronger compared to last week.

■ No. 1 steer and bull calves:(200-300) $186-$220; (300-400)$171-$225; (400-500) $152-$194;(500-600) $132-$154; (600-700)$120-$131.

■ No. 1 heifer calves: (200-300)$164-$180; (300-400) $150-$190;(400-500) $138-$165; (500-600)$132-$150; (600-700) $120-$125.

■ Stocker cows: Bred good cowsand heifers, $1,150-$1,650; mediumcows and heifers, $800-$950; goodcow/calf pairs, $1,600-$2,100; medi-um cow/calf pairs, $875-$925; com-mon cow/calf pairs, $675-$750.

■ Packer cows: higher dressingutility and cutter cows, $75-$82;

lower dressing utility and cuttercows, $69-$74; light weight cannercows, $61-$68.

■ Packer bulls: heavyweight bulls,$90-$98; utility and canner bulls,$81-$89; and light weight cannerbulls, $75-$80.

NIXONAug. 13

■ Volume: 804;■ Horses: 0; sheep and goats: 0.■ Steers: (200-300) $188-$220;

(300-400) $164-$213; (400-500)$147-$181; (500-600) $129-$155;(600-700) $119-$146; (700-800)$112-$129.

■ Heifers: (200-300) $161-$183;(300-400) $144-$200; (400-500)$133-$178; (500-600) $119-$178;(600-700) $111-$138; (700-800)$114-$116.

■ Slaughter cows: $56-$87;slaughter bulls, $91-$104; stockercows, $730-$1,300; pairs, $1,400;horses, none.

■ *Closed on Sept. 3 for LaborDay.

WHARTONAug. 15

■ Receipts: 497■ Steers: (200-300) $187-$246;

(300-400) $177-$212.50; (400-500)$152-$186; (500-600) $138-$159;(600-700) $125-$142; (700 and up)$111-$121.

■ Heifers: (200-300) $188-$218;(300-400) $149-$177; (400-500)$145-$175; (500-600) $131-$157;(600-700) $122-$146; (700 and up)$104-$118.

■ Stocker pairs: $700-$960;stocker cows, n/a.

■ Packer cows: (600-800) $56-$68; (800 and up) $69-$89; packerbulls, (800 and up) $80-$102.

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