West Orange Cove CISD Special Called Meeting

The board of trustees of the WOCCISD held a special called meeting to discuss and act on items relative to the search and hiring of a new su-perintendent. Board president Pete Amy started the meeting bypassing the normal order of business and going straight to the agenda items.

The first item was a motion to hire a consulting firm for the search for the new superin-tendent. The motion failed by a vote of two for and five against. The decision is that the board will conduct its own search without outside assistance.

Item five on the agenda was the presentation of a search calendar. This item was moved

up the agenda and discussed as the second item. Board president Pete Amy read the calendar, starting with the mailing of advertise-ments for the

position of superintendent of schools this week and conclud-ing with the selection of the candidate on March 19, 2015.

After the presentation of the calendar, board member Na-thaniel Colbert began to object to the calendar by asking who had created the calendar. Amy replied that he had made the calendar after researching the process and timetables that had been used by other dis-

Ross Smith’s

There was a joint meeting of the Orange City Council and the Economic Development Corporation December 9. The subject of the meeting was whether to continue with the downtown real estate project.

The council and the EDC went into closed session to de-liberate the issue. After nearly an hour of discussion the meet-ing was reopened and the vote was taken to discontinue the downtown project known as the “Southern Printers Devel-opment” with Brazos Urban.

There was no discussion in open meeting and no reasons were made public. The vote to discontinue was unanimous. In

other council business, City Manager Dr. Shawn Oubre reported that he has reached agreement on contracts with the Orange Municipal Po-lice Associa-

tion and the International As-sociation of Firefighters and the City of Orange.

Dr. Oubre stated that there was a great degree of coopera-tion between the two union groups and the city and through a lot of time and hard work a contract was reached that was beneficial to all par-ties.The Deep South Racing Association will be holding

their races on May 30 and 31, 2015 at the city boat ramp on Simmons Drive. The Tunnel Boat Races with be held in Sep-tember, 2015.Authorization

was given for purchase orders and to purchase equipment for several projects in the city at the Jackson Street Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Coo-

per’s Gully Pump Station. The installation of the radio-read meters is ongoing. The council authorized payment for pay-ment of 295 radio-read meters

in the Roselawn neighborhood. There are 444 total meters needed to complete the instal-lation of the meters in all homes in Roselawn.In closing remarks each of the council members in attendance and Mayor Jimmy Sims made re-marks about how they appreci-ated the city in general and the work that the city employees have done over the past year. Councilman

Larry Spears said he hopes the citizens of Orange will at-tend the meetings and see how the city operates and what is being accomplished in Orange.“I would like to com-mend the Kiwanis Club for giv-ing the citizens of Orange an-other wonderful Christmas pa-rade this year. It was really nice and a lot of hard work went into it”, said Sims.

This week the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service presented its annual report to commissioners. The County Extension office offers great services to the citizens of Or-ange County for no or very low cost. They not only offer class-es on agriculture, but also have a very active 4-H pro-gram, classes on nutrition and diabetes awareness.

Christina Ritter and Fallon Foster, Orange County Exten-sion Agents elaborated on the services offered this year and introduced interns and volun-teers that have helped imple-ment those programs for their feedback.

This year the department offered 200 various education-al programs and had 20,000 participants, plus 200 curricu-lum enrichment participants. They have a huge volunteer staff of over 100 people that contributed 5,459 hours for a value to the community of $123,209.

Ritter is over the 4-H pro-gram. Currently, there are 95 members amongst four differ-ent clubs with 41 leaders. Many of the youngsters par-ticipate in local livestock show and currently the popularity of the shooting sports clubs are overtaking the agriculture clubs according to Ritter. “Shooting Sports is one of the top 10 4-H projects offered in the Texas 4-H and Youth De-velopment Program,” stated the report. “Thirty-eight per-cent of youth in Orange Coun-ty are enrolled in the Shooting sports Program,” it says.

John Bilbo, the man in charge of the shooting sports program said that one of the different from pryor to him taking the lead two years ago, “

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Orange downtown development halted

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A community pep rally will be held Thursday, Dec. 11 for the West Orange – Stark High School varsity football team.

The pep rally will be held at 6 p.m. in the WO-S High School varsity gymnasium. The community is invited to attend and show your support for the Mustangs.The Mustangs will play Sinton Friday, Dec. 12, in a Semi-final Round of the State foot-

ball play-offs. The game will be played at 7:00 pm at Guy K. Traylor Stadium in Rosen-berg.

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OUBRE

One of Deionte’ Thompson’s youngest fans, Raelynn Jacobs, gives him a kiss after the Mustangs beat LaGrange Friday night, 42-7.

After the post game huddle, Mustang players show the fans that they are headed to the fifth round of the playoffs.

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Martinez remainsinterim superat WOCCISD

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County RecordH The Home Of Seattle Seahawk Earl Thomas III H

New canine teams joing DPS crime fighting efforts

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BESTFISHINGIN TEXAS

Capt. Dickie ColburnPage 3B

Kaz’s KornerPage 2B

Go Mustangs!Beat Sinton In The State Semifinals

See Photos And Article By Meri Elen Jacobs Page 1B

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Cheer The Mustangs In Community Pep Rally

Staff ReportFor The Record

AUSTIN – The Texas De-partment of Public Safety (DPS) today graduated four troopers and canines from an eight-week training program. These canine teams will join 44 other DPS teams stationed throughout Texas, including six explosive-detection teams stationed in Austin.

“The DPS canine program is a powerful law enforcement tool responsible for detecting and keeping ton quantities of drugs off Texas streets,” said DPS Director Steven McCraw. “These specially trained troopers and dogs possess pre-cise skills and knowledge criti-cal to protecting the state and

keeping drugs out of our com-munities.

The four dogs were obtained from the U.S. Department of Defense and K-9 Officers, a non-profit organization. This canine graduation class in-cludes three German Shep-herds and one Belgian Mali-nois. (Three additional dogs, which will replace retiring ca-nines, also completed the pro-gram.) All the newly-trained dogs will be used for drug de-tection.

In 2013, DPS canine teams assisted in the seizure of ap-proximately 14,470 pounds of marijuana, 455 pounds of co-caine, 16 pounds of heroin, 338 pounds of methamphet-amine, 10 pounds of other drugs and $6.2 million in cash.

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Crude oil prices accelerated their six-month slide Monday, plunging to fresh five-year lows after a key investment bank bear-clawed the energy market, a major producer slashed its drilling and explora-tion budget by more than 20% and fresh re-ports pointed to slowing global economic growth.

USA Today reports that he 4% drop in crude oil prices crimped Wall Street, push-ing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down 0.7% to 2060 and igniting big losses among already hard-hit energy producers and oil patch stocks. The latest drop in oil is likely to fuel fresh cuts in gasoline prices in the weeks ahead, saving consumers, shippers and airlines billions. Oil prices have yet to find a bottom.

“We’re in a tailspin,’’ said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service. “The world is facing a possible glut of oil in 2015. Con-sumers typically paid $470 billion-$480 billion for motor fuel between 2011 to 2013. We’re on track for about $449 billion this year and likely to pay $75 billion to $100 billion less next year.”

Gasoline prices, averaging $2.67 a gallon nationwide — vs. $3.26 a year ago — are likely to fall to about $2.50 before year’s end, Kloza says.

West Texas Intermediate crude — the

benchmark for U.S. oil prices — ended at $63.05 a barrel, down 4.3%, its lowest close since July 2009. Brent crude — which re-flects the broader, global market — sank 4% to $66.10, its lowest since September 2009. Since peaking at about $107 a barrel in June, West Texas crude has dropped more than 40%.

“It’s just the path of least resistance right now,’’ says Tamar Essner, lead energy ana-lyst for NASDAQ. “Until the market senses that (investors) don’t need to be long crude, it’s going to go lower.”

Monday’s plunge was nowhere near last month’s Black Friday sell-off, when oil prices sank 10% after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) couldn’t agree on production cuts. The damage was widespread, roiled by invest-ment bank Morgan Stanley, which said in a report that while OPEC production holds and U.S. production surges, Brent crude could fall to as low as $43 a barrel in the second quarter of 2015, a 35% drop from

current levels.ConocoPhillips (COP), the world’s fifth-

largest energy company, announced plans to slash capital spending by about 20% and reduce spending on development energy drilling by 23%. China, the world’s second-biggest economy, said November exports grew at a lower-than-expected 4.7%, while No. 3 Japan said its economy shrank at a larger-than-expected 1.9%.

As North American production climbs and more supply comes from oil-rich states such as Libya and Iraq, oil futures are likely to remain relatively low for at least the next year, perhaps even longer. Futures con-tracts point to crude oil prices remaining below $70 until 2017, Essner says.

Production cuts and geopolitical risks could prop up or push oil prices higher be-fore then. But for now, oil “is in a bear mar-ket that hasn’t found its bottom yet,’’ Ess-ner says.

Brian Milne, energy editor at Schneider Electric, suggests crude could fall below $60. Like other analysts, Milne has repeat-edly slashed energy prices. “In the middle of the summer, I was looking at gasoline maybe below $3.10 a gallon and $2.75 by Thanksgiving. Now, we’re probably going below $2.50. Prices have come down hard,’’ Milne says.

Perhaps nowhere is that more evident than in oil and energy services stocks. Af-ter Monday’s losses, they’re off as much as 90% from 52-week highs.

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“We only shot February through August. We have a lot of kids now thanks to Christina pulling in a bunch of home schooled kids. Last fall we ex-tended the season and shot year round, except in the fall, we only shot once on month just to give some of the kids that didn’t play football and other sports, something to do. That went over very well,” said Bilbo. “We shot every week now, year round.” He said they took 13 shooters to state this year. “We continue to grow. At least every two weeks a new kid

shows up,” He said.One hundred ten youth par-

ticipated in livestock projects.The Orange County 4-H

program will continue to work with FFA teachers, the Orange County Livestock Association and the 4-H livestock commit-tee to plan for a livestock clinic series beginning n May and ending in September.

They also plan to expand the shooting sports program, training at least six more shoot-ing sports coaches and starting an Orange County shooting sports committee to provide

more opportunities to mem-bers.

Texas AgriLife Extension of-fice also introduced the egg to chick program to students from St. Mary Catholic School and Vidor Elementary Schools. A total of 42 students were evaluated.

This year Ritter plans to im-plementing a teacher training for teachers, principals, parent volunteers and anyone else in-terested in participating in the program. The hope to get the program implementing in all the elementary schools in Or-

ange County.Another important program

under the guidance of Foster is the Diabetes Prevention, Awareness and Education. Their goal is to educate indi-viduals and assist them with prevention and control of Dia-betes by sharing information through educational classes and cooking demonstrations.

Hand in hand with that is the Better Living for Texans/Nu-trition Education program that teaches mostly low income families on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly re-ferred to as food stamps. Susan Garrison oversees that pro-

gram for the county. Over 3,000 Orange County residents were reached through nutrition education. Garrison plans on increasing that reach in 2015.

One of the biggest events for Texas AgriLife Extension each year is the Senior Citizen Rally Day. Each year they host this day of fun, food and health in-formation/education. This year was the 45th annual event theme “Feeling Good Fiesta. Over 430 people attended. Ven-dor booths numbered 53 and

over 85 people volunteered their time to make the day a success.

In agriculture, there is a very active Master Gardeners group that assist in educating the public on various aspects of ag-riculture. The bee keeping classes were so popular they began a year long project teach-ing people everything about maintaining and caring for a hive, pest control, harvesting honey and wax.

tricts in their search for super-intendents. Colbert replied that he would have felt better if oth-er board members had been consulted. Amy informed him that the calendar had been sent to board members in their agenda packets the Friday be-fore the meeting. “I’m not say-ing it was not sent out, I am saying I did not get it”, said Col-bert. “We can reject this and wait, we can wait two years if we want to”, said Amy. “We can wait as long as we want to, but as board president I am trying to move our board along in this process. We have to set a calen-dar before we know how to pro-ceed.” Motion was made by Bryan Thomas Muhammad and seconded by Colbert to re-ject the calendar. The motion passed four to three to not ac-cept the search calendar. Amy then asked “what is the plea-sure of the board? We have to know how to proceed with this matter.”

Colbert than began a long statement about how the whole board needed to be consulted and that he had to look at his schedule, that as a shift worker he could not agree to any scheduling of dates without knowing how those days would mesh with his work schedule. Muhammad said he also need-ed time to look at his schedule and that he thought they should wait a couple of weeks to vote after they have had time to re-view their work schedules. “We do not have another board meeting scheduled this year”, said Amy. It was then pointed out by Ruth Hancock that the calendar had been attached to the agenda that were emailed out and received last Friday. “You have had time to look at it, is the problem that it is set, or that you have not had time to look at it?” asked Hancock. “Is the problem that it is set, or that Pete Amy set it?” asked Amy. “We need to have a calen-

dar set so that we can proceed in a timely manner.”

“I’m not retired. I need to look and my schedule so that I can decide on the dates”, said Muhammad.

“We need something to work with, other than it is not ac-ceptable”, said Amy. “I am try-ing to get suggestions about what is wrong with it other than you do not like it because you did not see it. We need some suggestions so that we can proceed. This has to be dis-cussed in public, not in a closed session. We have to give out ap-plications, we have to receive applications and we have to in-terview the applicants.”

Colbert continued to assert that he did not receive the cal-endar in his packet. Amy said he needed to talk to the tech-nology department to see why Colbert did not receive his packet. “What if my computer is broken? Do I need to bring it to you to prove it is broken? I

am telling you for the last time, I did not receive the packet”, said Colbert.

With no resolution of the problem another meeting is set for December 15 to discuss the issue of the calendar. The board then adjourned into a closed session to discuss items relat-ing to personnel that cannot be discussed in open meetings. After one hour and 15 minutes the board returned and recon-vened the open session.

In open session Colbert made a motion with a second by Mu-hammad to select Dr. Timothy Chargios as the interim super-intendent. The motion failed by a vote of four against, three for. Amy, Hancock, Mitchell, and Sarah Jefferson-Simon cast the dissenting votes.

For the present time, Dr. Slivia Martinez will continue to serve as interim Superinten-dent.

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WO-S MUSTANGS PLAY LIKE CHAMPIONS

The Mustangs of West Orange-Stark have played almost flawlessly over the last couple of games. Coach Thompson and his coaches came up with just the right game plan and the youngsters executed it. The boys stayed focused and didn’t commit the errors that had haunted them in the past. If the Mustangs can continue to avoid the foolish penalties and turnovers they will prove they can play with anyone. The on-the-field coaching by the staff throughout both games was very impressive. They made just the right calls and adjustments that were called for. Filling in for injured players by the younger boys has also been impressive. With their backup players, the Mustangs haven’t missed a beat. The Mustangs meet Sinton in the semi-finals Friday at Rosenberg. If the Mustangs play like they have in the last two games it’s a good bet they will be playing for the state championship. Special thanks to Mari Elen Jacobs who has done a great job covering the Mustangs, both in writing and photos, throughout the season. We look forward to her next two reports. First let’s put it on Sinton and then go meet the last challenger. *****Before I move on, let me correct an error in last week’s column. On a piece I did on Pearl Harbor the date read Dec. 7, 1943. How those things happen I don’t know but the correct date is Dec. 7, 1941. Any-way now that the record is straight I must move on. Plenty to do in a short time. I would be proud if you came along. I promise it won’t do you no harm.

JERRY WILSON REMEMBERED

We were sorry to learn of the death of Jerry Wilson, 71, who passed away Dec. 2. He was one of the unique characters that we’ve known down this road of life. Jerry upset many apple carts and didn’t care whose cart is was. He had the nerve to ex-press his convictions publicly, different than those who would go behind your back in the dark of the night. Jerry was always above board. Radical in his beliefs, over the years we often clashed, but in the latter days came to understand each other. We decided neither was going to convince the other so we pooled our knowledge of what we agreed on. Jerry had more nerve than Bob Steele, a tough movie cowboy in my child-hood; he didn’t back away for any man and would fight a buzz saw. He was a colorful guy and you may not always have liked the paint he used but had to admire that he wasn’t a phony. He was a Republican long before it was cool. He ran for County Commissioner as a Republican long before people voted for the Party instead of the candidate. He nearly pulled off an upset as the only local Republican candidate on the ballot. He would approach anyone, tell them his name, no one was a stranger to Jerry Wilson. He was often considered acting like a fool but he was no dummy, extreme mostly but also very wise. His actions often meant to provoke but he knew what he was doing. It worked. I can attest to that. You either liked Jerry are you didn’t. It didn’t seem to matter to him which you chose. Jerry did a lot of good in civic matters while rowing his own boat. Many of us will never forget how our paths crossed. I’ll never forget him as being unique, stubborn, honest and just a little off center from the rest of us. To his wife Judie, the children and their families, we send our sincere condolences. May he rest in peace. Where ever he’s at he will try to convert the place to the GOP. Please see obit.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME10 Years Ago-2004

LSC-O to graduate 109 on Dec. 17. Troy Johnson, assistant district attorney, a native of Orange and graduate of West Or-ange-Stark, will be the guest speaker at commencement cere-monies. (Editor’s note: Today Johnson is County Court at Law Judge.)*****The Bridge City Rotary Club, formed in 1974, is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The club char-tered with 25 members. Gerald Pesson was first president, Roy Dunn first recipient of the Paul Harris award. The dinner will be held Dec. 17, at the Bridge City Community Center. Charter members were Dr. David Olson, Bill Nickum, Roy Dunn, Dr. Joe Majors, Jerry Pesson, Doug Harrington, H.D. Pate, Butch Lusignan, Jimmy Hanson, Dr. Carlyle Dotson, Joe Fields, Louis Linder, Barry Weisman, Neil Bond, Her-shel Mulligan, Bill Weisman, Tim Leiby, Don Castille, Paul Eason, Rev. Ed Robinson, Bubba Hubbard, Bobby Smither-man, Don Cole, Wilson Roberts and Gene Guillotte. (Edi-tor’s note: I count 10 of those young members that have died since the club was charted 40 years ago. The Bridge City Rota-ry Club is still very active and meets each Thursday at noon.)*****BCISD is in search of a new superintendent. Sam Lucia, outgoing superintendent’s last day is Friday, Dec. 17. Asst. Joe Chenella has been named as the interim superinten-dent. Chenella says he does not want to move up to the posi-tion full time but is willing to serve as interim until someone is hired. Chenella said Bill Ortego has been hired by the school board as search consultant to find a new superintendent. Feb. 21, 2005 is the date set to fill the position. *****Junior Matt Leinard wins Heisman Trophy. Adrian Peterson, freshman, was chosen #2; Jason White, last year’s winner, came in #3; Utah quarterback Alex Smith, #4 and Reggie Bush,USC team-mate of Leinard, was #5.*****Kirk and Shirley Roccaforte were in a motorcycle accident which sent Shirley to the hospi-tal. She underwent surgery on her hand and suffered a broken leg. Kirk was banged up and bruised but we understand he is

alright. *****Woody Carter turns 6-years-old Dec. 15. He shares birthdays with grandmother Patsy Carter.*****GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Jack Douglas “Jackie” Harmon, 75, passed away Dec. 9, at Memorial Herman Hospital in Hous-ton. He was born in Orange March 13, 1929, to a pioneer Or-ange family. Ovie and Rosalie Harmon were his parents. At age 16, Jackie started in the used car business and later owned Harmon Chrysler dealership. He and his brothers, Corky and Don, purchased the Chevrolet dealership in 1969. He served as president for 20 years. He was preceded in death by son Rocky Lynn Harmon. Survivors are his wife of 57 years Jerry Nell, siblings Carlton, Don and Tom, sisters Janie Holton and Cynthia Fisher, children Sherry, Tim and Michael Clay Harmon.***Robert Bucklin, 64, Bridge City councilman, died Dec. 13. Arrangements are pending at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange.***Nelry M. Prince, 80, of Orangefield died Dec. 8.***Olga Balodis, 100,of Orange died Dec. 7.***Willie Ann Tinsley, 92, of Orange, died Dec. 10.***Pat Snyder, 52, of Or-ange, died Dec. 7.***Clarence A. Folsom, 77, of Mauriceville, died Dec. 10.***Heather Marie Lonidier Sizemore, 32, of Or-ange, died Dec. 7, in an auto accident.*****Beverly Frederick was honored for 25 years of service to Orange Savings Bank.*****Mark Dunn writes feature story on Orangefield Oil pioneer Paul Cormier and the boom-town era celebrated in Cormier’s museum collection. The museum is scheduled to open in January. An oilfield jail house, turn of the century sa-loon and oilfield boarding house are just a start of what will be on display. Cormier, 85, has collected historic items of the 20th century oilfield establishments that will fill twin 60X180 buildings. 

35 Years Ago-1979

Keeping the Cajun heritage alive and sharing it with new-comers to the area, W.T. “Boss Cajun” Oliver embarks on sec-ond Gros Boucherri. The Boucherri was a gathering of Cajun families in Louisiana to butcher and share their hogs. It’s a tra-ditional winter event because, before the days of refrigeration, pork would spoil quickly. Cajuns never wasted anything edible. From pork they got cracklins and shortening. Besides cooking, the shortening was used to preserve pork meat in a jar by pour-ing it over the meat. As long as the air didn’t hit it, the meat would congeal and not spoil. Among the guests were new in-coming Orange Chamber president Harmon Beauchamp and wife Mary, Lawrence and Ethel Foux, Bob Boudreaux, G.C. Fells, Ann Oliver was chief hostess. Other helpers and eaters were Ann Lieby, Bill and Martha Hughes, Roy and Phyllis Dunn and Carolyn and Frank Riddick. Out-of-towners were Jack Pevin and Bill Minert of Dallas, Bob Anderson, of Ohio and Van Grady from Mississippi. Two hundred and fifty guests attended Oliver’s hog killing and feast which was a big success.*****On Jan. 1, at the stroke of midnight, pretty Vicki Drake Curtis will become Mrs. Frank Brown. By the way, they are still married and living in Kansas. *****John Edgerly broke a bone in his foot at basketball practice, knocking him out for the season.*****Dedication of a historical marker and plaque for Claiborne West Park was held last Saturday at the soon-to-be-open park on Cow Bayou off of IH-10.*****Al Bar-bre is basketball coach at Bridge City. The leading scorer is Da-vid Ess. He also leads in rebounds. *****A few of the students on the Bridge City principle’s honor roll in the 12th grade: Bil-ly Bryant, Louis Garriga, Darrell Gurney, Barbara Hryhor-chuk, Shelly Pate and Paul Zoch; 10th grade,Georgia Flem-ing, Brenda Berry and Fred Zoch; 9th grade, Frank Angelle, Cheryl Pesson and Tammie Waddell. *****Tony Dorsett, of the Dallas Cowboys, became only the second NFL running back to rush for over 1,000 yards in each of his first three sea-sons. The other was John Brockington, of Green Bay. Dorsett has lost only one fumble in over 200 carries. *****The lovely Inez Hearne celebrates another birthday this week. Louis Du-gas will celebrate on Dec. 12., Diane Prince on the Dec. 14, Todd Murdock turns 16 on Dec. 15.***** Former sheriff Ches-ter Holts and Iva will celebrate 52 years of marriage on Dec. 19. R.J. and Marty Conway celebrate on Dec. 12, Betty and Corky Harmon celebrate their special day on Dec. 14.*****This week, Carl Thibodeaux and his crew will be moving the West Orange Pharmacy to a nice, new building next to the office of Dr. Jones.

A FEW HAPPENINGS

Todd “Big Daddy” Landry tells us it’s going to be a good year for crawfish. Samplings have been running very high counts. That’s good news for all of us Cajuns and those folks who would like to be. Right now, Big Daddy’s is selling craw-fish tail meat. Nice, large, fat, already clean tails ready for holi-day cooking. See ad in this publication and call to place your order. These crawfish are local, home-grown crawfish, not dried out China ones.*****A big New Year’s Eve shindig will be held at the V.F.W. in Orange, featuring G.G. Shinn, Jivin Gene and friends. It’s going to be one heck of a big party. See adver-tisement in this publication for more information.  Make your reservations now. *****We ran into Lamar “Co-Co” Hardin last week. His daughter had brought him to Robert’s to feed his face. The old guy is looking good. Might-near 90 years ago, Co-Co was born on the Vermillion River at Abbeville, in a houseboat made out of a barge. The barge made its way to Or-ange where they lived on the Sabine River. They were docked at Market St. until they moved into a house. *****We were sorry to hear about the death of Jim Austin, who was a former Orange Olds/Cadillac dealer for many years. He was a prince of a guy. *****We are glad to report that Don Harmon has been moved to Baptist Beaumont rehab unit. He’s improved but still deep in the woods. Our prayers are with him.*****A few folks we know celebrating their special day: On Dec. 10, our longtime friend who we haven’t seen in way too long, David Claybar celebrates. David has always been one of my favorite people and his wife Peggy is a jewel.***Also celebrating on Dec. 10 are Cindy Briggs and Michelle Watson. They share birthdays with ce-lebrity chef Bobby Flay, 49 and actress Susan Dey, 61, and Ra-ven Symone, 28.*****Dec. 11, finds the “First Lady” of Starks Lucy Hanks celebrating another one, also Leslie Lyons, Rob Clark and Kent Sarver. They join Secretary of State John Kerry, 70, actress Rita Moreno, 82, Jermaine Jackson, 59 and Mo’Nique, 46.*****On Dec. 12, Shelby Hebert, Daniel Bates, Scott Deroune and Joel Fruge celebrate. They join Bob “The Price is Right” Barker, 90 and singer Dionne Warwick, 73. *****Kristy Kidwell, Hazel Smith and Dennis Lee all cele-brate on Dec. 13. They join singer Taylor Swift, 24 and Ala-bama’s Randy Owen, 64.*****On Dec. 14, CPA Keri Michut-ka, Kandy Sartin, Danny Blacksher, Diane Bertrand and Hannah Carpenter all celebrate. They join actress Patty Duke, 67 and Astros’ Craig Biggio, 48 in celebrating. This would also have been our late friend Doug Harrington’s birth-day. *** Dec. 14 is also Betty and Corky Harmon’s 58th wed-ding anniversary. *****On Dec. 15, the “First Lady” of Bridge City Shirley Roccaforte celebrates. Also having a birthday are Maac Hughes, Amanda Webb, Ken Pittman, Imogene Bland and Melanie Richter. This would also have been former Re-cord editor Robert Hankins’ birthday. They join actor Don Johnson, 64 and Tim Conway, 80.*****On Dec. 16, our buddy

James Brabham celebrates as does a special gal Elizabeth Uz-zle, also Kitty Martin, Carol Allen and Michelle Gephart. They join ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, 64, actor Benjamin Bratt, 50 and Liv Ullmann, 75.*****We were sorry to hear that Mar-garet Louviere was admitted to the hospital for a few days af-ter her 97th birthday Nov. 29. We wish her a speedy recovery. *****It was time to release the CIA torturing report and put that behind us. Push the reset button. Water boarding and oth-er torture of captives is not who we are as a country. That bad period was in the Bush Administration, when Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Scooter Libby were running the torture chamber. The world needs to know the United States will not allow it. President Obama ended it when he came into office. *****Diesel Durkin is home after a little over a year in a special care facility. He will still need special care but thank God he’s home for the Christmas Holidays. *****Sen. Ted Cruz is at it again. He’s trying to use the Congress that he controls, to shut the government down. He’s a bad apple who has no influence with his Senate colleges. He is Sen. Joe McCarthy reincarnat-ed. On Dec. 2, 1954, the US Senate passed a resolution con-demning Joseph R. McCarthy, saying, “He had acted to sena-torial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and dispute.” Cruz has been very much as bad and the Senate should handle it. *****Norris Brandon is not a happy camper after someone jumped the back fence and stole his entire award winning persimmon crop. Norris raises large, beautiful per-simmons, gives them special care year round and passes the fruit out to his friends..*****Carlos Vasek, TCU’s biggest fan ,is not happy that TCU was dropped out of the final four. To put salt in the wound, they dropped TCU to sixth place behind Baylor.*****The Wednesday Lunch Bunch will dine at Novro-zsky’s this week and at Robert’s next week for the last gather-ing of the year. Come out and enjoy the fellowship. Everyone is always welcome. *****Don’t forget the big community pep rally Thursday, 6 p.m. at the West Orange-Stark High School gym. Let’s give the Mustangs a big send off for Friday’s game against Sinton, 7 p.m at Guy K. Traylor Stadium in Rosenberg.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK

Michelle Watson, Shelly Motts, Bonnie Hopperton, Sean Ureta, David Claybar, Monica Placette, Cindy Briggs, Karri Piccone, Jo Lynn Mott, Kent Sarver, Kristine Cortez, Jim Sands, Cody Caples, Terry Fall, Leslie Lyons, Cody Caples, Tara Fountain, Nathan Vogt, Rob Clark, Shelby Hebert, Zackery Anderson, Arielle Foster, Joel Fruge, Scott Der-ouen, Bonnie Albright, Daniel Bate, Melissa Poydence, Ha-zel Smith, Melinda Swares, Kristy Kidwell, Dennis Lee, Hailey Tally, Jenny Duncan, Keri Michutka, Ronald Esca-milla, Kandy Sartin, Tim Fix, Danny Blacksher, Danny Prosperie, Dorothy Jenkins, Hannah Carpenter, Ken Pitt-man, Amanda Webb, Linda Easley, Robert Hankins, Imo-gene Bland, Jeff Harrington, Ken Pittman, Kenneth Pitt-man, Maac Hughes, Melanie Richter, Shirley Roccaforte, Alex Harner, Belinda Broom, Brent Burris, Craig Reynolds, Dale Armand, Kitty Martin, James Brabham, Michelle Ge-phart, Bobby Adaway, Carol Allen, Elizabeth Uzzle, Mi-chael Terry and Natalie Nimitz.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEK

Asa Comeaux’s boy Arnold was marrying Oris Bou-dreaux’s daughter Evalyn. On da day of da wedding Asa took his boy Arnold aside and tole him, “Wen you get back from you honeymoon, you got to lay down some rules. Let you wife know dat da man is da boss him, and he can do wat he wants to, and for her not to forget dat,you understand wat you Papa is tell-ing you?”

Arnold, him, he answer, “Yes sir, I’ll do dat, me.”Wen him and his wife got home from dere honeymoon at

Holly Beach, Arnold say to his wife, “Look here, I got to lay down some rules rat now, me. I’ll be home wen I want, at wat time I want, and I don’t expect any hassle from you. Da man is da boss, him. Wen I get home I expect a good meal to be on da table, unless I tell you I won’t be home for supper. I’ll go hunt-ing, fishing, boozing and card playing wen I want wit my good buddies and you better not give me a hard time bout it. Dose are my rules. You have any comments, hanh?”

His new bride Evalyn look him rat in da eyes and say, “No, dats fine wit me Arnold, just understand dat dere will be sex here at seven o’clock every night, whether you here or not.”

C’EST TOUT

Cheaper fuel helps business; savings adds up to more hir-ing and investments. Airlines, repair services, freight haulers, farmers and manufactures could save billions of dollars a year. Airlines are the largest winners; jet fuel prices have fallen to $2.46 but don’t expect them to pass the savings to passengers. Prices for West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude oil fell to a five year low Monday to $63.05 a barrel. It seems that oil prices may continue to drop but there comes a point when too low oil prices could start hurting energy producing states. When I predicted, several months ago, that gas at the pump would go down to $2.50 a gallon, I believed that would be the bottom. The low prices are a boost to the economy. A big help to working families. Gas has dropped $1 a gallon in the past year, a big savings for customers. Nobody can say happy days are here again but the outlook is very good and has been steady for quite some time. The stock market is at record levels, un-employment is down and the deficit has fallen so far you don’t hear the “Talking Heads” mention it any more. Although bit-terly denounced by Republicans at every turn President Obama’s economic and energy policies have worked. Now if the legislatures would pass a minimum wage and a highway bill, the middle class would be lifted and up to a couple million jobs could be created to improve our infrastructure. Happy days could be here again. What is likely to happen, because of the extremist in the Congress, is more gridlock paralyzing the government. Folks have a short memory. They forget whose party was in control when the economy crashed and burnt in 2007, the worse recession since the great depression. Today, we’re on a high note. We need to give credit where credit is due. *****Well, I’ve come to the end of another column. I give thanks to the Big Man for allowing me to still be able to do this and communicate with you. I thank you for the time you spend with me each week. Read us cover to cover and please, whenever possible, shop our family of advertisers who make it all possible. We’re locally owned and operated and strive to make our community better. Take care and God bless.

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The Orange County Sheriff’s Posse & The OCSP Special Angels Rodeo Committee would like to take a moment to say “Thank You.” to all of our Spectacular Sponsors, our awesome volunteers and most importantly our Special Angel Cowboys & Cowgirls for helping us have a very successful 1st ever Special Angels Adapted Rodeo. We hope and pray that each of you will be involved with us for many years to come. If we missed your name by chance we apologize but just know that all of you are special to all of us that just wanted to improve the lives of our special kids even if it was only for that day. We strive to promote our western heritage through the Sheriff’s Posse Organization each year with our annual rodeo and now we have grown by adding a brand new branch to our ever growing tree. Again we want to thank you all for helping us give 94 kids an awesome experience. Special thanks to Newpark Mats & Integrated Services for the use of their mats and to Britt Godwin and Earl Thomas for helping us with our Celebrity signatures and memorabilia.

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School administrators werenotified recently  that four LittleCypress-Mauriceville HighSchool students have been rec-ognized as Ronald Reagan Stu-dent Leader Award winners.

Sophie Braud, MckenzieDiLeo, Gabrielle Gonzalez andKirstyn Weatherly were pre-sented Ronald Reagan Com-

memorative Coins and Certifi-cates from the Ronald ReaganPresidential Foundation by LCMprincipal, Dr. Terri Estes.

According to the website, “eRonald Reagan PresidentialFoundation offers high schooladministrators a way to recog-nize outstanding high schoolstudents whose leadership, drive,

integrity, and citizenship skillsare emblematic of our nation’s40th President.”

Qualities that are consideredin the selection process includeleadership, drive, integrity, andcitizenship, and participation instudent government, athletics,and other extracurricular activi-ties are emphasized.

Winners of the Ronald Reagan Student Leader Award, from left, are Kirstyn Weatherly, SophieBraud, Dr. Estes, Gabrielle Gonzalez, and Mckenzie DiLeo.

Four named Reagan Leader winners

St. Mary Catholic School donates to the 20th Share Your Christ-mas food drive as part of their 20th Share Your Christmas fooddrive benefitting the Southeast Texas Food Bank. Check out the8th graders from St Mary Catholic School in Orange; they do-nated and helped out. St. Mary Catholic School promotes givingback to our community and serving those in need.

St. Mary Catholic School is honored to share the “Good Samari-tan” award winners for this week. St. Mary staff nominates stu-dents they witness displaying acts of kindness, helping othersand showing respect at school and within the community. Theprincipal, Donna Darby announced the winners at morning an-nouncements in front of all students and staff. The winners re-ceived a certificate and other prizes for their wonderful behavior.Winners pictured are Nicholas Wilson, Louis McIntire and ThomasAbshire.

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The West Orange - Stark Middle School “Stampede Rocket Club” launched a number of rocketsfrom the WO-S Middle School football field recently. The club, sponsored by Steven Singer, has in-troduced Rocket History to students. Now that student teams have experienced initial launches,they will begin to design and build their own rocket kits and predict results. Mr. Singer uses theEngineering Design process to encourage creativity and individual resources. West Orange – StarkMiddle School Stampede Rocket club member Jordan Johnson watches a rocket lift off.

Santa for Seniors seeking donationsSanta for Seniors is in need of donations to make

a difference in the lives of  all nursing Home resi-dents in Orange.

By sponsoring the seniors this holiday season,you allow them to be presented with a beautiful giftset that includes hand cream, leg energizer, lipbalm, grip socks, small shamp/cond and tooth

brushes.ere are over 260 nursing home residents in

Orange and many have no family. Your financialdonation not only gives gifts, it offers hope. Showa senior that you care for them and make a dona-tion today.  All proceeds go toward Santa for Seniorgifts.

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Dreaming of a Green ChristmasDecember 13, 2014 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Evening Christmas Strolls begin December 11, 2014

2111 W. Park Ave., Orange, TX 77630 409.670.9113 / shangrilagardens.org

Program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation. ©2014 All Rights Reserved.

Included with general admission. Members free. Wreath-making workshop fee applies; Sign-up 409.670.9799.

Meet Santa See festive trees Make ornaments & wreaths

Nederland

Orange Trade Days DEC. 12-14For more information: 409-883-4344

$5 Picture withSanta Dave

by: JNH Photography

200 Turret St. Orange

Hot Chocolate & Cookies$5 Christmas Keepsake

$1 Face PaintingColoring ContestBooth Contest

Sat. DEC. 1312-4 p.m.

Angel Tree forTeenage Foster Children

PIZZA WITH SANTA

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church945 W. Roundbunch Road

Bridge City

6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17Pics with

SantaYour camera

or oursChildren Ages 0-12Will Receive Gift Bag

Pizza, salad, cookies and punch

Christmas is in the air as the holiday season is well under way. Santa is rumoured to be staying in Orange County this week.

You can have breakfast with him this week and pizza with him next week.

You also have several oppor-tunities to help those less for-tunalte.

C.A.S.A. is hosting a Toy Drive for youngsters in foster care. You can buy a gift, give gift card or make a cash dona-tion. They are hoping to have everything in by Thursday Dec. 11. You can drop cards or toys off at the CASA office located at 2120 Gloria Drive, Orange or you can donate online at http://

www.gofundme.com/eblzwc just make a notation that it is for the CASA Toy Drive.

Southeast Texas Hospice Annual Toilet Paper Tea will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Thursday at the Hospice Office located at 912 W. Cherry Orange.

The annual event was creat-ed to help stock Hospice’s shelves for the new year, there-by allowing their funds to be focused on patient needs in-stead of office supplies.

Enjoy refreshments, visit with volunteers and learn more about Southeast Hospice, the only nonprofit hospice in the area, at the Toilet Paper Tea.

Evening Christmas Strolls at Shangri La Begin Thursday night. Join them for special evening strolls to see new light displays and festive, communi-ty-decorated Christmas trees lining the pathways of Shangri La. Stroll Dates: Dec. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 26 & 27

Explore the Children’s Gar-den decorated as a lighted “Candyland”. Great for the en-tire family!

Admission: Members – Free; Adults – $6 per person; Chil-dren – $4 per person

Bring a non-perishable food item per person to receive half-price admission to that eve-ning’s stroll. Food items benefit the local community.

For more information, call 409-670-9113. Shangri La is lo-cated at 2111 West Park Avenue Orange, TX 77630

Not a holiday gathering, but a celebration nontheless-A community pep rally for the West Orange-Stark Varsity Mustang Football Team will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, in the WOS High School varsity gym-nasium.

The community is invited to attend and show your support for the Mustangs.

The Mustangs will play Sin-ton Friday night, Dec. 12, in a Semi-final Round of the State Football play-offs. The game will be played at 7 pm at Guy K.

Traylor Stadium in Rosenberg.Thursday also kicks of “Yule-

tide IV” presented by Orange Community Players, Inc. Dec. 11-13, at the OCP Playhouse lo-cated at 708 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas 77630.

The curtain goes up at 7:37 p.m.

The theme this year is “Bells of Christmas,” a lighter, jazzier night of food, fun and Christ-mas cheer.

Food will be served before the show starts, with dessert and coffee at intermission.

Tickets are $20. Proceeds from the show are used for building expenses at the play-house. Call the theater for res-

ervations.Listen to the lights continues

this weekend beginning Friday at Pine Forest Baptist Church at 4800 North Main in Vidor. Drive up with your family, tune your radio to FM 103.1 then en-joy the music and light show!

2014 Season Schedule is:Friday-Sunday Dec. 12-14,

and Dec. 19-26(Family Nights are: Dec. 6

and 20)* 6:00 – 9:30 pm each eve-

ning *North Orange Baptist

Church brings the Nativity to life with their “Village of the Nativity” at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday

North Orange Baptist Church has brought Orange County a live nativity for sever-al years.

It gives families the opportu-nity to share the experience of the birth of Christ, while also allowing children to see what life was like during that time.

North Orange Baptist Church is located at 4775 16th St, Orange, TX 77632. For more information, call: (409) 883-5678.

Enjoy Breakfast with Santa 8-9:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 at the Old Orange Cafe benefiting River City Hospice Foundation.

Tickets are $10/person and includes pancakes, bacon, fruit and drink of your choice.

After breakfast, have your picture taken with Santa.

Children must be accompa-nied by an adult.

If you miss old St. Nick there, you can catch him at Orange trade Days noon to 4 p.m. at 200 Turrett Saturday. Enjoy Hot Chocolate and Cookies and more activities for the Kid-dies.

Christmas in Orangefield will also be held Saturday. The Orangefield Cormier Museum will be open from 8-10 a.m.

The parade starts at 10:30 a.m. on Cormier Road off FM 408, traveling to 105. The pa-rade will then turn left and travel to the schools, taking a right on Sandbar Road and ending at the Junior High

The festival has relocated to the Jewel Cormier Park on 1442. Gates will upon at 11 a.m. The festival will continue until 5 p.m.

Booths are still available for only $50.

There will be a 60 foot zip line, Zorb rollers, bounce house, train rides and games.

Scheduled entertainment in-cludes Barbara Hickey and the Fanatics, Britt Godwin, Deep Creek Band, Studio C Dancers, Tiger Rock Martial Arts, Thay-er Dance Academy, Orange-field Elementary students and more.

“Fun family hometown festi-val; if you’ve never been, please join us this year,” Montagne said. “Please tell you family, friends, neighbors and neigh-boring communities as well.

For booth information con-tact Deena Van Pelt at 409-988-5931. For information on the parade, contact Windee Jenkins at 409-988-8256

Visit Shangri La to partici-pate in Christmas activities and see special sights designed for the entire family. Meet San-ta & Mrs. Claus, create an or-nament or make a wreath in our wreath-making workshop (a workshop fee applies).

Beautifully decorated Christmas trees line the court-yard, along with other beauti-ful, seasonal decorations and flowers. The Children’s Garden becomes “Candyland” with a bright, colorful gingerbread house. Bring your family and your friends, and enjoy a Christmas experience for visi-tors of all ages!

Included with general admis-sion. Members free.

Also on Saturday the annual West Orange High School Christmas dance and reunion is scheduled 8 p.m.-midnight, Saturday, at American Legion Post 49 on Green Avenue in Orange, Texas. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a social until 8 p.m.

Come dance to the sounds of the Ken Marvel Band and Jivin’ Gene Bourgeois.

Tickets are $10. The dance is open to the public. There will be a cash bar. You are welcome to bring your on snacks.

For more information con-tact Jimmy Guidry at 409-738-2294

First Methodist Kids will present “Back to the Manger”

at 6 p.m., Sunday, at the Praise Center located at the corner of 5th Street and Elm Street in Orange.

This Caroling Adventure through time was created by Christy Semsen and arranged by Daniel Semsen.

The youth will serve dinner at 5:30 p.m. Proceeds from din-ner go towards their annual an-gels and elves shopping trip.

For more information call 409-886-7466

The Kiwanis Club of Orange Texas will host a traditional Bluegrass Gospel Revue featur-ing the Marksmen Quartet at 7 p.m., Dec. 15 at the Little Cy-press-Mauriceville High School Auditorium, 7327 Hwy 87N., Orange

For tickets call 409-853-1867. Tickets are $11 advanced.

Santa is in Town this week and you have lots of opportunities to catch him

Youngster decorate the Lobby tree at OCP getting ready for Yule-tide IV Thur-Sat. Curtain goes up at 7:37 p.m. Call for reservations RECORD PHOTO: Mike Louviere

Penny LeLeuxFor The Record

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Community Bulletin BoardBC Knights taking orders for hams

e Bridge City Knights of Columbus will beselling cherry wood smoked PIT (Partially Inter-nally Trimmed) hams for Christmas meals.

Advance orders must be placed with a KC mem-ber, or by email at bckcorders@gmail.com, by Sun-day, Dec. 14. ese hams will be available for pickup in the KC Hall from 8:30 am to 2:00 pmWednesday, Dec. 24.

e 7.5 - 8.5 pound hams are $50 each.

MB North Class of ’65 to meetM.B. North High School, class of 1965 will meet

at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 13, at McDonald’s,1710 N 16th St., Orange. For more informationplease contact Walter Lazenby or Peggy Lazenbyat 746-2139. 

Pancakes with SantaSanta is coming to town and he is joining us for

pancakes and a good cause.Santa Clause is coming to town to help raise

money for the River City Hospice Foundation. Sat-urday, Dec. 13,  join Santa at Old Orange Café withthe kids to have breakfast. Tickets are on sale nowand are $10 per person. Reserve your seats onlineat https://itrulycare.com/events/breakfast-with-santa. 

Seating is limited and an adult must accompanychildren. e menu includes pancakes, bacon, fruitand a drink of your choice. Following breakfastSanta will be available for pictures.

Many thanks to the Breakfast with Santa under-writers Gopher Industrial, Granger Chevrolet, OldOrange Cafe and Southwestern Printing Company.

River City Hospice Foundation, a 501(c) 3 wascreated to address the needs of patients who haveno resources available to them. e contributionsreceived are earmarked for the communities fromwhich they came.

Each fundraiser ensures that we come closer tomeeting the needs of another patient. We believethat all patients who are eligible for hospice shouldreceive hospice. After all, this is the time whenquality of life matters most. For more information,call River City Hospice at 886-9977.

Christmas in OrangefieldChristmas in Orangefield will be held beginning

at 11:00 am, Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Jewel

Cormier Park, Hwy. 1442 in Orange County. eCormier Museum will be open from 8:00 -10:00am, followed by the Christmas parade beginning at10:30.

WOHS Christmas dance, reunion set e West Orange High School annual Christmas

dance and reunion will be Saturday, Dec. 13, at theAmerican Legion on Green Ave. in Orange. Doorsopen at 6:30 pm, for a social until 8:00 pm. Musicand dancing will be from 8:00 pm until midnight.ere will be a cash bar and snacks are welcome.Tickets are $10 per person. Music will be providedby Ken Marvel Band, with Jivin’ Gene Bourgeois.For more information, contact Jenny Guidry at738-2294. e dance is open to the public.

BC/OF Ministerial Alliance open latere first Monday of each month, the Bridge

City/Orangefield Ministerial Alliance will openfrom 5:00-7:00 pm for those who work and cannotget there during normal business hours. e al-liance will be assisting people with food. e Min-isterial Alliance is located at 285 W. RoundbunchRd., Bridge City, and can be contacted at 735-8296.

BCLL offers online registration discountBridge City Little League is now offering online

registration for Spring 2015, with an early bird dis-count of $10 per child if you register them by Dec.31. Coaches, umpires, and other volunteers maycomplete their application online also at this time.More information can be found at www.bcll.org.

Orange Community Bridge LeagueJoin bridge players for games on Tuesdays and

Fridays, at 10:00 am, in the Orange CommunityCenter, 103 N. 5th St. For more information, call313-0266, or 988-9166.

Learn to line-dancee Orange Blossom Dancers, hold a ladies

dance class every Monday at the Salvation ArmyGym, from 6:00-7:30 pm. e classes are free, ex-cept for a $2 donation to the Salvation Army. Be-ginning Oct. 6, a new beginner class is beingoffered. Even if you have never taken a dance class,come and learn the basic steps and simple linedances. For more information, call Dayle Gunn-Weatherford at 313-0306.

Robert’s Meat Market and Steakhouse was recognized recentlyas the Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce Business ofthe Quarter. The restaurant was established in 1979 when theyopened their first business on Simmons Drive. With a lot of hardwork they were able to build a bigger store a few years later.Robert’s has continued to grow through the years and moved thebusiness to the Pinehurst area where they has since built aSteakhouse with a banquet room. Robert has made many contri-butions to the Orange community. Robert has a loyal staff of em-ployees and has stated “with good employees you can doanything”

St. Mary Catholic School ishonored to announce MelindaKing as “Teacher of the Month”for December.

Mrs. King was chosen by herdedication to her students andparents, her willingness tohelp others and her tremen-dous pride in St. Mary CatholicSchool. Mrs. King has atremendous dedication to herjob and a catholic education.

Mrs. King was recognizedduring morning announce-ments at St. Mary school andreceived many special itemswith this reward including a re-served parking spot, teachingsupplies and personalizedsnacks.

The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony for Pinehurst Gallery. The business is locally ownedby Phyliss and John Nazworth. They frame most anything. Services include diploma framing, custom picture framing, shadow boxesand canvas stretching just to name a few things. Pinehurst Gallery is located at 2498 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite C, Orange.

Buy Classified409-735-5305

Breakfast EnchiladasEVY’S CAJUN KITCHEN

Evelyn Brandone Record

When families gather duringthe holidays, the thing on mostpeople’s minds is food. We thinkof the turkey, ham, sweet potatopie and cranberry sauce. Butwho ever thinks of breakfast?

Breakfast is essential to gettingthe day started right. In ourhouse, we gather first in thekitchen and decide what we aregoing to eat as the first meal ofthe day. If there’s company, it’s abig deal.

is is a perfect fix for thosetimes when you have severalpeople to feed and don’t reallywant to go through the motionsof fixing the single dishes tomake a plate.

With Christmas just aroundthe corner, these breakfast enchi-ladas will be a nice meal to serveand not worry about lots ofcleanup time in the kitchen be-fore preparing your lunch orsuppertime meals.

Breakfast Enchiladas1 pound pan sausage, cooked andcrumbled8 flour tortillas6 eggs1 Tablespoon flour2 cups half & half4 cups crisp bacon, cooked andcrumbled2 cups shredded cheddar cheeseHeat oven to 350

Add sausage, 1 cup cheese,

half the bacon and stir to mix.Place 1/8 of mix into center oftortilla and roll up. Repeat untilall tortillas are used.

Beat eggs and flour, mix in half& half and pour over tortillasinto sprayed pan. is dish canbe cooked, or covered and put inrefrigerator until morning.

Before baking, sprinkle re-maining cheese and bacon overtortillas. Bake 35 minutes cov-ered with foil. Uncover dish andbake another 10 minutes.

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Chocolate CrunchNANCY’S KITCHEN

Nancy McWhortere Record

is week’s recipe is from aGooseberry Patch Series ofcookbook sand is titled“ C o u n t r yQuick &Easy,” thirdp r i n t i n g ,c o p y r i g h tO c t o b e r ,2013  It EachGooseberryPatch cook-book is a collection of tried andtrue recipes, tips and craft ideassubmitted by people throughoutthe U.S. and compiled togetherby authors JoAnn & Vickie (nolast names given).  I have severalof their cookbooks containingeasy to follow instructions.  eingredients are usually availablein your local grocery store.  isKEEPER recipe was submittedby Rebecca Santelli. 

Since my small freezer was notwide enough to accommodatethe baking dish, I refrigerated itinstead and that worked outfine.  e recipe did not indicatewhat flavor of chocolate chips, Iused milk chocolate chips.  If I

prepare it again, I would like totry a different flavor chip such aspeanut butter or butterscotch.

Yummy Chocolate Crunch1 sleeve saltines crackers1 cup sugar1 cup (2 sticks) butter1 (12 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips

Place crackers side by side, ina large 13x9 inch baking dishlined with aluminum foil, untilbottom of dish is covered.  In asmall saucepan, bring sugar andbutter to a boil; stir 3 minuteswhile boiling.  Pour mixture overthe crackers and spread with aspatula until all crackers are cov-ered.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10to 15 minutes or until edges ofcrackers are golden brown.  Im-mediately remove from oven,spread chocolate chips over alluntil melted.  *Freeze for 2hours.  Break into pieces.  Makes12 to 14 servings

*e dish was too wide to fitinto my small freezer; instead Irefrigerated them and thatworked just as well.

I liked what it said at the bot-tom of the page.  I quote: “I’mnot going to vacuum ‘til Searsmakes one you can ride on.”Roseanne Barr

Pecan Pie CupcakesEVY’S CAJUN KITCHEN

Evelyn Brandone Record

Pecan Pie Cupcakes are one ofthe most sinful, decadentdesserts I have ever made. I firstsaw the recipe on a Facebookrecipe page, and knew I had totry it. It's a super easy dessert towhip up if you have guests dropin to visit. ey go great with acup of coffee or a glass of ice coldmilk.

ey make great desserts totake to a party or church func-tion. ey are well loved and dis-appear as quickly as they are setout on the serving table.

Pecan Pie Cupcakes1 cup chopped pecans1/2 cup all purpose flour1 cup packed brown sugar2/3 cups butter, melted2 eggsHeat oven to 350

In medium bowl combine allingredients and mix well.

Spray mini muffin tins withcooking spray (e spray withflour in it works best). Fill eachtin with 3/4 of the way.

Bake approximately 18 min-utes.

Note: Let cupcakes cool for 1minute, then flip out onto cool-ing racks. If they cool in the pan,they are very difficult to remove.

Sheriff’s ReportOfficers from the Orange

County Sheriff ’s Office re-sponded to the following callsbetween Dec. 3 and Dec. 9:

Dec. 3:Copper theft, 8565 N. Hwy. 62, Or-

angeDec. 4:Burglary of habitation, 135 Yeager

Rd., VidorDebit card abuse, 152 Milam,Rd.,

VidorFound property, Elmira and West

Bluff, OrangeDec. 5:Unauthorized use of motor vehicle,

3008 Lawn Oak Dr., OrangeBurglary of habitation, 1200 N. Lin-

scomb Rd., VidorDec. 6:Burglary of motor vehicle, 10230

Ashford Chase Dr., OrangeTraffic arrest, 915 FM 1131,

Vidor/Lakeview Grocery StoreDec. 7:Disturbance, 163 Sharon St., Or-

angeDec. 8:Alarm, 2530 Arrow Ln., OrangeTelephone harassment, 3321

Ancar St., OrangeMedical, 12281 N/ Hwy. 62, OrangeDisturbance, 7357 Lariet Loop, Or-

angeHarassment, 7872 June St., Or-

angeis December the commu-nity and surrounding areas areinvited to experience the Christ-mas story up close and personalas the church family at NorthOrange Baptist Church recreatesthe birth of Christ in first cen-tury Palestine.  

Over 100 church members arejoining together again to bring“Village of the Nativity” to theGolden Triangle area. e rainand cold prevented the churchfrom offering this experience tothe community in 2014, but dur-ing 2011 and 2012 the presenta-tion saw almost 5,000 totalguests walk through this outdoorencounter with history. Hearfirst hand from the townspeopleabout the newborn King as youwalk through the town that endsat a manger scene. e reenact-ment is complete with animals,music, and structured facades.Many volunteers from thechurch are dressed in costume toresemble biblical characters. 

Upon arriving in Bethlehem,guests will enter through the citygates protected by Romanguards because a census hasbeen ordered to be taken in thearea. Guests will follow variousindividuals from the village alonga lighted path through this first

century recreation and come incontact with numerous sights,sounds, and smells that wouldhave been experienced sometwo-thousand years ago.  

While walking along the path,you will see live animals, bakers,potters, basket weavers, inn-keepers, and other various vil-lage folk who will invite you totake part in their special trade. Inaddition, children of all ages willbe able to play and encounterfirst century children’s games.e journey culminates wherevisitors see baby Jesus lying in amanager, surrounded by his par-ents, shepherds, and the wisemen.

e production will be Friday,Dec. 12 and Saturday, Dec. 13,from 6-8 p.m., to walk throughthis live nativity experience. Fin-ish up the evening with a cup ofhot cocoa, cookies, and someChristmas carols.North OrangeBaptist Church is located justone mile north of I-10 on 16thStreet (Highway 87) and is freeto the community.

Make “Village of the Nativity”a meaningful part of your Christ-mas experience with your familythis year.  More info is availableat www.nobcfamily.com or 409-883-5678.

N. Orange Baptist Nativitybrings birth of Christ to life

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The Record • Week of Wednesday, December 10, 2014 • 1B

Meri Elen Jacobse Record

Putting on a show for a packed house, the Mus-tangs beat the LaGrange Leopards, 42-7, to advanceto the semifinal round of the Class 3A state footballplayoffs.

WO-S shut down LaGrange’s J.K. Dobbins andcompany, holding the Leopards to only one score andless than 250 offensive yards. e win puts the Mus-tangs in a showdown this Friday night with the 11-3Sinton Pirates at Guy K. Traylor Stadium in Rosen-berg at 7 p.m. with the winner playing for the statetitle.

“We finally got over the fourth round hump. Weplayed inspired football most of the game,” HeadCoach Cornel ompson said. “I’m proud of the kids.ey keep looking forward. I’ve told them that theycan’t be satisfied because this is the gateway to state.”

e Mustangs took the field in front of a hugecrowd that cheered the entire night and never lookedback.

“We would really like to thank our fans who havebeen great the last few weeks,” ompson said. “ekids and the coaches notice the fans and the cheeringand we really appreciate that the town and people arerallying behind us at this time.”

e fans had a lot to cheer about. On the third playfrom scrimmage, quarterback Jack Dallas handed offto Trey Baldwin, who jumped over a couple of Leop-ards before hitting the open field and taking the ball55 yards for six. Hector Vela’s PAT was good and theMustangs led, 7-0, with less than three minutesticked off of the clock.

e Chain Gang defense forced LaGrange to punton three and out and just two plays later, Dallas foundTrey Spencer streaking down the sidelines for a 50yard touchdown. After Vela’s PAT, the Mustangs wereup 14-0.

LaGrange didn’t give up and moved the ball downto the 14 before Will Johnson stepped in front of aDobbins pass to kill the drive. Two plays later, theMustangs fumbled the ball back to the Leopards, butthe Chain Gang defense held and LaGrange wasforced to punt. On the Leopard’s next possession,linebacker Justin Brown snagged a pass from quar-terback Aaron Janda.

On the very next play, Dallas hit a wide openDeionte’ ompson for a 55 yard score. e ChainGang again forded the Leopards to punt after threeand out and the Mustangs struck one last time beforethe half when Trey Baldwin carried the ball in fromfive yards out for the score. e Mustangs led at thehalf, 28-0.

“e offensive did a great job,” ompson said.“Jack had a great game. He threw well and we ranpretty well. Our kicker made all of his extra points.”

During the first half, LaGrange’s touted Dobbins,

Two To Go: Mustangs head to state semifinalsMUSTANG INSIDER

See MUSTANG INSIDER, Page 3B

Kalen Garrett and Tre Spencer sack Leopard Aaron Janda for a loss. Spencer not only helped outon the defense but scored a touchdown and intercepted a LaGrange ball in the end zone. RECORDPHOTO: Jordan Darnall

Quarterback Jackson Dallas hands off to junior Malech Edwards. Dallas completed 11 of 13passes and threw for 3 touchdowns and 202 yards. RECORD PHOTO: Meri Elen Jacobs

Ticket Sales,Pep Rally for

Mustangse West Orange-Stark (Visitors) vs.  Sinton,

Semifinal Round Football game will be played Fri-day, Dec. 12, at 7:00 pm, at Guy K. Traylor Stadiumin Rosenberg.

Tickets will be on sale in the WOS Athletic officethe following days:

ursday, Dec. 11, from 9:00 am-12:00 pm and1:00-3:00 pm;and Friday,  Dec.12, from 9:00 am-12:00 pm only.

Ticket  pricesare $8 for adultsand $5 for stu-dents. All  tick-ets at the gate are$10.

Directions toGuy K. TraylorStadium, Rosen-berg (4606 Mustang Ave. )

• I10 - W towards Houston• Merge onto I-69 S/ US-59 S/ Southwest Fwy.

via Exit 770A• Take FM-762 exit towards Richmond• Turn right onto FM 762 Rd / FM-762. Con-

tinue to follow FM-762• Turn left onto FM 1640 Rd. / FM -2218. Con-

tinue to follow FM 1640 Rd, which becomes Av-enue I / FM-1640

• Turn right onto Horace Mann Ave (HoraceMann Ave is .3 miles past E. Stadium Dr. If youreach Radio Lane you’ve gone too far)

• Turn right onto Mustang Ave. and stadium ison the right

Community Pep RallyA community pep rally will be held ursday,

Dec. 11 for the West Orange – Stark High Schoolvarsity football team.

e pep rally will be held at 6 p.m. in the WO-SHigh School varsity gymnasium.

e community is invited to attend and showyour support for the Mustangs.

e Mustangs will play Sinton Friday, Dec. 12,in a Semi-final Round of the State Football play-offs. e game will be played at 7:00 pm at Guy K.Traylor Stadium in Rosenberg.

2B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, December 10, 2014

December means crunch time in the NFLLast weekend was the

first time in many moonsthat the National FootballLeague had seven gameson its regular schedulefeaturing teams withwinning records matchedagainst each other.

ese very importantgames occurred the firstweekend in December,which usually is “crunchtime” in the NFL andshould help determine what teams have the bestchance of reaching the playoffs, which begin nextmonth.

ere even were a few teams—including ourHouston Texans and Dallas Cowboys—who ex-tended their fading playoff hopes with victories lastweek.

e Indianapolis Colts, who went into last week-end with a comfortable two-game lead with four toplay over the Texans in the AFC South Division,trailed the scrappy Cleveland Browns for 59 min-utes and 28 seconds before quarterback AndrewLuck threw a one-yard touchdown pass to T.Y.Hilton with 32 seconds left to pull out a 25-24 win.

e Colts’ timely victory kept their lead overHouston at two games instead of having Sunday’sgame with the Texans at Indianapolis being for atie for first place.

e Texans had trouble in the first half with di-vision bottom-feeder Jacksonville, but camethrough with 17 unanswered points to keep theirplayoff hopes alive with a 27-13 win over thescrappy Jaguars.

e Dallas Cowboys, who rarely play well duringthe month of December, came up with an out-standing performance before a national audienceursday night at Soldier Field in Chicago andthrottled the Bears 41-28 in a game that wasn’tnearly as close as the final score indicated.

e Cowboys’ victory kept them within a gameof the NFC East Division Philadelphia, which wasstymied by the Seattle Seahawks Sunday afternoon24-14 and their vaunted Legion of Boom defensivesecondary. As a result of the Eagles’ loss, Sunday’sgame with the Cowboys will be for sole possessionof the division.

e Pittsburgh Steelers upset AFC North Divi-sion leader Cincinnati 42-21 to keep their playoffhopes alive with an 8-5 record. e same is true forBaltimore, who upset the three-point favoredMiami Dolphins 28-13 and joined the Steelers withan 8-5 mark, one game behind Cincinnati in thestandings.

e San Diego Chargers hosted the New Eng-land Patriots Sunday night and fell short 24-14 anddropped to 8-5, joining both Pittsburgh and Balti-more in keeping their playoff hopes alive.

Other games involving teams with winning

records include division front-runners Denver,which nipped Buffalo 24-17 and extended theirlead in the AFC West to two games over San Diego,and Arizona who nudged past Kansas City 17-14to retain their slim one-game lead over Seattle inthe NFC West Division.

Green Bay had little trouble subduing the At-lanta Falcons in the Monday Night Game of theWeek and retaining their one-game lead over De-troit in the NFC North Division.

e biggest joke of the NFL has to be the NFCSouth that is led by Atlanta and New Orleans withdismal 5-8 records. Nobody can figure out what’swrong with the Saints, except me. I guarantee mostof the reason the Saints can’t win is two words—Rob Ryan, the defensive coordinator who is farfrom a chip off the old block of his dad Buddy Ryan.

Oddly enough, there also are seven games thisweek involving teams with winning records, in-cluding both the Texans and Cowboys.

Neither team can afford to lose, but both are on-the-road underdogs. Indianapolis is an early 6½-point favorite over Houston while Philadelphia isfavored over Dallas by 3½ points.

Both the Cowboys and Texans have a player ontheir team who should be among the top candi-dates for the NFL’s Most Valuable Player awards.

Dallas running back DeMarco Murray has ledthe league in rushing the entire season while theHouston Texans’ J.J. Watt is the league’s best de-fensive player by far and maybe the best one ever.His 14½ sacks so far this season is second in theNFL behind Baltimore’s Elvis Dumervil with 16.

But both of these outstanding players probablywill be edged out by a quarterback—either GreenBay’s Aaron Rodgers or Denver’s Peyton Manning.

Other big games this weekend that might makeor break a team’s playoff hopes are San Franciscoat Seattle, with the Seahawks a huge 9½-point earlyfavorite, Miami at New England, Green Bay at Buf-falo, Cincinnati at Cleveland and Denver at SanDiego.

KWICKIES…Houston Texans’ running backArian Foster rushed for 127 yards on 24 carries inSunday’s 27-13 victory at Jacksonville, breaking the1,000 yard barrier for the fourth time in his careerand collected his 32nd 100-yard game and the sev-enth this season, which is one more than PriestHolmes, putting Foster atop the NFL chart for 100-yard rushing games by an undrafted player. Foster,who played at the University of Tennessee, wasn’tone of the 23 running backs picked in the 2009NFL draft.

And while on the subject of the Texans, wide re-ceiver Andre Johnson, who left the game Sundaywith a concussion, needs only four more catches tobecome the 10th player in NFL history with 1,000receptions.

Orange’s All-Pro free safety Earl omas withhas been very instrumental in the Seattle Sea-hawks’ defensive success in which they have only

allowed 20 points in the last three victories. Earl’spersonal stats for the year include 71 tackles whichis third on the team, 49 solo stops (second), 22 as-sists and two fumble recoveries, including the onehe got Sunday against Philadelphia.

Seven Texas teams and three from Louisiana willbe playing in the upcoming bowl season this year.UTEP (7-5) gets things started in the New MexicoBowl Dec. 20 against Utah State (9-4), Rice (7-5)plays Fresno State (6-7) Dec. 24 in the Hawaii Bowl,Texas A&M (7-5) takes on West Virginia (7-5) inthe Liberty Bowl and Texas (6-6) plays Arkansas inthe Texas Bowl, both on Dec. 29. TCU (11-1) ismatched up with Ole Miss (9-3) in the Peach BowlDec. 31, Baylor (11-1) challenges Michigan State(10-2) in the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1 and the Universityof Houston (7-5) takes on Pittsburgh (6-6) Jan. 2 inthe Armed Forces Bowl. Teams from across theSabine River involved in bowl games includeLouisiana Tech, LSU and Louisiana-Lafayette.

One bowl-eligible team that was overlooked bythe selection committee was UAB (6-6), probablybecause its president Ray Watts recently an-nounced he was discontinuing the school’s footballprogram. e decision to shut down the programcame after cost projections in the spring “were

shockingly high”— like $49 million over the nextfive years.

is week’s Associated Press Top 25 CollegeFootball Poll remained unchanged for the firstthree places (Alabama, Florida State and Oregon)with No. 4 Baylor and No. 5 Ohio State each mov-ing up one notch while No. 6 TCU for some reasondropped two spots. Michigan State remained No.7, Mississippi State jumped two spots to No. 8, OleMiss moved up four places to No. 9 and GeorgiaTech came up two slots to No. 10.

JUST BETWEEN US…e first week of De-cember hasn’t stopped the golfers at Sunset GroveCountry Club from coming up with some out-standing feats. Kenny Ruane made an eagle-2 from55 yards out with a pitching wedge on No. 17ursday. And just to prove that wasn’t a fluke,Kenny did it again Saturday on the Par-4 No. 11hole from 145 yards with a five wood. And thenwithin a half-hour Bob Hoepner hit a hole-in-oneon the 130-yard Par 3 No. 14 hole with a six-iron.It was Hoepner’s first-ever ace, for which he re-ceived a check for $200 because he was a memberof the Men’s Golf Association. Witnessing the acewas Craig Couvillion, Ken Ruane, Mike Durci ofShreveport, La. and yours truly.

The Dallas Cowboys, led by quarterback Tony Romo, came up with an outstanding performancebefore a national audience Thursday night at Soldier Field in Chicago and throttled the Bears 41-28 in a game that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicated.

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who entered the game with 2,176 yards and 37touchdowns, went down with an injury.

“I hate that the Dobbins kid got hurt,” ompsonsaid. “at kind of limited both of our game plans.”

e Mustangs finished the game with two moretouchdowns, and gave up one to LaGrange. Dallashit ompson from 21 yards out, as ompsonjuked and jived through the Leopard defenders be-fore hitting the end zone, late in the third. La-Grange tried to answer back, but Janda was pickedoff in the end zone by Spencer.

e defense hit pay dirt in the middle of thefourth when Baldwin picked up a loose ball and re-turned it untouched 40 yards for the score.

“ere are just four teams left in the state in ourdivision,” ompson said. “For the most part we arehealthy. It’s a mental game now. We have to askourselves, ‘Can I get myself ready to play?’”

Up next are the Sinton Pirates, a team that theMustangs have never played and didn’t really knowa lot about.

“ey’ve got a quarterback that’s been startingsince the ninth grade,” ompson said. “He’s got agood live arm and is the top rated passer in theirdistrict. He’s put up a lot of yards in the last twoseasons, passing and rushing.”

Led by quarterback Tyler Handson, the Piratesrun out of the spread formation. According toompson, they like to spread the field and have abevy of wide outs in junior Mark Villareal and sen-ior Ryan Murphy. eir main formations are Tripsand No Backs and also use Cobra formation. eylike to open up the run for the quarterback.

“Right now, they are playing good football,”ompson said. “ey played Yoakum early in the

season and got beat in overtime, but avenged themthis past Friday night, winning 35-21 to advance tothe fifth round. We can’t underestimate them.”

e Pirates remind ompson of last years’Huffman team.

“ey do a great job of throwing the ball,”ompson said. “We’ve got to defend the pass andforce them to run. We can’t let Handson stay in hisspot.”

e Mustangs will prepare all week for 48 min-utes of football on Friday night. Please come andjoin the crowd and cheer on the team in the fifthround.

“I can’t say enough about our fans right now,”ompson said. “We very much appreciate thepeople following the Mustang parade.”

Tickets will be on sale in the WOS Athletic of-fice ursday, December 11,  9-12 and 1-3pm andFriday, December 12 9-12pm only. Ticket prices are$8 for Adults and $5 for students. All tickets at thegate are $10.

To get to Guy K. Traylor Stadium, Rosenberg Tx(4606 Mustang Ave. ) take Interstate 10 West to-wards Houston. Merge onto I-69S/US 59S/South-west Freeway via exit 770A. Take FM 762 towardsRichmond. Turn right onto FM 762 Rd / FM-762.Continue to follow FM-762. Turn left onto FM1640 Rd./FM2218. Continue to follow FM 1640which becomes Avenue I/FM1640. Turn right ontoHorace Mann Avenue (Horace Mann Ave is .3miles past E. Stadium Dr. If you reach Radio Laneyou’ve gone too far). Turn right onto Mustang Ave.and the stadium is on the right.

Please come out and support the Mustangs inthe GATEWAY to STATE.

Mustang Insider

LaGrange's JK Dobbins had nowhere to go all night as theMustang defense, led by Oc-tavus Crosson and Trey Bald-win stuffed him fromeverywhere on the field. Dob-bins went down with an injuryin the second quarter, finishingthe game with just 55 yards onthe ground. RECORD PHOTO:Jordan Darnall

Justin Brown and the Chain Gang defense held LaGrange to only 159 yards on the ground and justtwo pass completions. RECORD PHOTO: Meri Elen Jacobs

Mustang Josh Orebo tackles LaGrange's Bralon Hutchinson for a loss.The Chain Gang defense heldthe Leopards to 249 yards. RECORD PHOTO: Jordan Darnall

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KAZ’S FEARLESS FORECASTJoe Kazmare Record

Playoff Games is WeekGames is Week

WEST ORANGE-STARK (12-2) over SINTON (11-3) 7 p.m.Friday at Rosenberg—e Mustangs finally got over the hump bywinning that fourth playoff game and capturing the Class 4A RegionIII Division II championship by steamrolling previously-undefeatedLaGrange 42-7 Friday night in Conroe. Sinton came on strong in thesecond half of their game against Yoakum to win the Region IV title28-14. If the ‘Stangs continue this week to get better with each game,their reward will be playing for the state championship next week.

NEWTON  (11-3)  over  BLANCO  (14-0)  7:30  p.m.  Friday  atWaller—e Eagles also seem to be peeking at the right time of theseason after disposing of Rogers 32-7 to win the regional champi-onship in Class 3A. If the Mustangs could manhandle an undefeatedteam last week, the Eagles should be able to do it this week. After all,Newton defeated the Mustangs earlier this season.

HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFFS—Class 6A Div. I—Dallas Skyline(14-0) over Allen (14-0), Cypress Ranch (12-2) over Converse Judson(10-4); Div. II—Houston Westfield (13-1) over Cedar Hill (11-2), Katy(12-1) over Cibolo Steele (13-1); Class 5A Div. I—Aledo (13-1) overTyler John Tyler (12-2), Temple (12-1) over Leander Vandegrift (12-2); Div. II—Ennis (12-2) over El Paso Canutillo ( 13-1); Crosby (12-1) over Cedar Park (11-3); Class 4A Div. I—Argyle (14-0) overGraham (12-2), Navasota (14-0) over Liberty Hill (12-2); Div. II—Gilmer (14-0) over Celina (12-2), West Orange-Stark (12-2) over Sin-ton (11-3); Class 3A Div. I—Shallowater (13-1) over Mineola (11-3),Cameron Yoe (10-4) over Edna (9-5); Div. II—Waskom (13-1) overSonora (11-3), Newton (11-3) over Blanco (14-0); Class 2A Div. I—

Canadian (13-0) over Mart (13-0), Mason (13-0) over Centerville (10-3); Div. II—Seagraves (13-0) over Hamlin (13-0), Tenaha (13-1)over Bremond (13-0); Class A Div. I—Crowell (13-0) over May (12-2), Div. II—rockmorton (13-0) over Groom (13-1).

COLLEGE—Navy over Army;FOOTBALL  CHAMPIONSHIP  SUBDIVISION  (Quarterfi-

nals)—New Hampshire over Chattanooga (Fri.); North Dakota Stateover Coastal Carolina, Sam Houston State over Villanova, EasternWashington over Illinois State.

PRO PICKS—St. Louis over Arizona (ursday Night); Houstonover Indianapolis and Dallas over Philadelphia (Upset Specials),Kansas City over Oakland, Pittsburgh over Atlanta, NY Giants overWashington, New England over Miami, Baltimore over Jacksonville,Green Bay over Buffalo, Carolina over Tampa Bay, Cincinnati overCleveland, Denver over San Diego, NY Jets over Tennessee, Seattleover San Francisco, Detroit over Minnesota, New Orleans overChicago (Monday Night).

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catching more big trout than anyother approach. Talons andPower Poles have narrowed thegap for boaters, but there is nosubstitute for standing in onespot and quietly making re-peated casts to an isolated pieceof structure.

Many times there is actuallyno designated target, but simplyeliminating boat noise and thevibration off the troll motor pro-peller makes the elite of thespecies far less wary. Perhapseven more important is the factthat you do not scatter the podsof baitfish that lead your preyinto casting range.

Regardless of your choice oftackle and lures, you cannot stayfocused very long if you are ex-ceedingly cold or your feet hurt.Maintaining your balance andcarefully negotiating a muddyuneven bottom quickly takes itstoll when wearing waders that donot fit properly. Some preferboot waders and other preferstocking waders that necessitate

wearing a shoe or boot as well.Either way, you need a sole

that is wide enough to provide acomfortable base and a shoe orboot that does not slip or bindwhen you walk. Unfortunately, itis difficult to determine that bysimply walking around in the de-partment store.

e fabric of the waders is alsocritical. For years we wore noth-ing but neoprene, but the thin-ner breathables are far superiorand much more comfortable.ey are thinner and far moreflexible and dressing in layerswill solve the warmth issue. Youcan pretty much pay whateveryour checking account can han-dle for a quality pair of waders.

I was talking with two of thebest wade fishermen on Sabinelast weekend and while theyspend a great deal of time wad-ing together, they are on oppo-site ends of the spectrum as faras the cost of waders. You canfind decent waders that may ormay not leak over the course of a

year or possibly two dependingon use for as low as $100 to $150.At some point, however, they aregoing to develop a leak.

At the other end of that scaleare the Simms waders.I havenever been able to justify buyinga pair, but they carry a fantasticguarantee, are extremely com-fortable and are well worth theextra money for anyone thatspends as much time in thewater as they do in the boat.eir best wader sells for some-where around $800.

is is absolutely the best timeof the year to decide if wading isfor you.I would recommendmaking your first trip with some-one that knows the ropes. Obvi-ously there is more to it thansimply dressing right, but thatcertainly helps you keep yourmind on those other things.

And ... pack an extra change ofdry clothes. Even an $800 pair ofwaders won’t keep you dryshould you misstep and take abone chilling spill!

Austin Smith be-grudgingly strug-gled with his waderswhile his youngestson, B.J., slippedover the side of theboat and his eldestson, Lon, repeatedlyassured him that hewas going to enjoyhis first attempt atwading. We couldnot have asked forbetter conditions, but Austincould have cared less.

“Waders were made for duckhunting and boats were made forfishing,” declared Smith. Withboth boys already in the waterand casting, I helped him un-twist his suspenders while ex-plaining in general how all of thiswade fishing stuff worked. “Don’tbother to get too detailed,” hebarked while digging for theringing cell phone buried some-where deep inside his waders. “Icould catch a state record troutand this will still be my one and

only wade trip!”We slowly headed

in the opposite di-rections of his sonsand it was immedi-ately apparent thatwhile he had no usefor the wading ap-proach it was not hisfirst rodeo. His thirdcast with a GeauxDaley She Dog pro-duced a classic blow

up and he wasted no time bring-ing a fat three pound trout tohand. “Are we going to keepthese nasty things,” he shouted inthe direction of his two sons.

He strung the fish and I no-ticed the first hint of a smile allmorning. “I am a flounder fisher-man,” he stated in mid-cast. “eboys are home from college andwe have been wearing the floun-der out all week. I lost my bet onthe Saints this weekend and herewe are slopping around in thismud. ey couldn’t be happier.”

Wade fishing is obviously not

for everyone and the elder Smithis at the head of that list. He isfifty-one years old, has fished theLouisiana coast his entire life andhas never seen any need to get wetto catch fish. We just caught theheck out of the trout all eveninglong while he spent the majorityof that time sitting on the bow ofthe boat taunting his sons.

“It’s really not as bad as Ithought it would be ... its worse,”he whispered while I was clean-ing their fish at the end of theday. “I got out of the water earlybecause I had a leak in my left legand my right boot was rubbing ablister on the inside of my ankle,but I enjoyed watching the boys.”

I saw him toss his waders inthe dumpster as they headed forthe truck leaving little doubt thathe had no intention of ever wad-ing or betting on the Saintsagain.

In all honesty I do not wade somuch because I enjoy it as be-cause I am convinced that it af-fords me the best opportunity of

Wade fishing might not suit everyone’s angling taste

Mustangs, Eagles a good pick to win again this week

On the third play from scrimmage, full back Trey Baldwin scootedaround the corner and headed for the end zone from 55 yardsout. Baldwin scored two touchdowns on offense and also had afumble return for a score. RECORD PHOTO: Jordan Darnall

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Hard to believewe are already halfway done with the2014-2015 duck sea-son but it’s alreadyhere.  is weekendmarks the openingof the second splitfor Texas duckhunters in the southzone while ourneighbors to theeast in Louisianawill be idle. e second half forLouisiana hunters will re-openon December the 20th one weekafter Texas re-opens.  So far theoverall report has been verygood from both sides of theSabine River as local huntershave cashed in on an outstand-ing population of waterfowl in

the area. All of thepre-season worryabout the saltwaterin the marshes,higher tides, and alack of grass appar-ently was a falsealarm as it hasn’thurt the hunting inmost areas.

e weather forthe first half hasbeen a little warmer

than most folks would like butit’s been far from bad. e mildtemperatures and just right mixof cold fronts has made the firsthalf of the season almost enjoy-able. e cooler and windierconditions have also helped curbthe numbers of mosquitoes wa-terfowl hunters must deal with

and that in itself has been a hugebonus. Unlike the comingmonths when the weather willcertainly get tougher the coldfronts of the first split didn’t dryup the marshes with ultra lowtides. For the most part there hasbeen plenty of water and thatmakes accessing your favoritepond a much more enjoyabletask. e folks who hunt theSabine Refuge have been blessedwith good water levels so farwhich has kept many huntersfrom pushing their boats acrossmud flats to a minimum.  All inall the conditions and numbersof ducks for both the Texas andLouisiana first half of the seasonhave been really good.

Now if you are not huntingTexas and are waiting for

Louisiana to re-open now is thetime to take care of any mainte-nance you have been putting off.First thing that comes to mind isre-brushing and repairing blinds.A new coat of brush on an exist-ing blind will help with conceal-ment and also give you anopportunity to scout while youare in the area. Do your best tobreak up any outlines and look asnatural as possible. Keeping yourblind from looking like a tacostand in the middle of a pondwill increase your success ten-fold. e hunters who take thetime to really blend their blindsinto the natural surroundings areusually the ones with the heavi-est straps of ducks when theyreach the cleaning table.

Another item that may require

some maintenance is your de-coys. Take a few minutes to washthem up really well and inspectthe cords and weights. Mosthunters have gone to Texas Rig-ging their decoys for the conven-ience but some still put theirs inbags. Decoys are a big investmentfor waterfowl hunters and theyneed to be properly cared forwhen hunting and when they arebeing stored. Always rememberthat when you buy decoys you getwhat you pay for, period. With-out a doubt the gold standard fordurability in decoys are the G andH brand made in Oklahoma.ese decoys hold up as well orbetter than any others on themarket. e G and H decoys arehard to scuff, hold their paint,and will weather the occasional

stray shotgun pellet like a champ.I have been using them for yearsand have no complaints.

One other thing to be sure andtake a look at is your shotgunshell supply, many big box storeswill start clearing out their in-ventory and make it harder tofind your favorite load. SimonOutfitter’s in Orange has taken alot of the guesswork and hassleout of the equation for localhunters as they keep a good sup-ply on hand. It’s always nice to goin there and be able to get theshell you want at any time duringthe season. We are getting readyfor the home stretch of duck sea-son so be sure to have all yourgear in order because it will behere and happening before youknow it.

Texas duck hunters set to crank back up as Louisiana rests

Deionte Thompson had three catches for 86 yards and two touch-downs in the Mustangs 42-7 win over the LaGrange Leopards.RECORD PHOTO: Jordan Darnall

The students of Tiger Rock Martial Artsof Bridge City recently participated in theTiger Rock District Championships heldNov. 1, in Beaumont, at Legacy ChristianAcademy. Several students also competedNov. 8, at the Houston District Champi-onships. Bridge City students at the Beau-mont Districts competed against Tiger Rockstudents from Tiger Rock Academies in Or-ange, Vidor, Mid-County, Lumberton,Beaumont, and Fannett. At the HoustonDistricts, the Bridge City students com-peted against Tiger Rock students from allover the Houston area, including, Katy,Atascosita, Kingwood, Sugarland and TheWoodlands.

Students from the Tiger Rock Bridge City

academy won a total of 21 Gold Medals, 17Silver Medals and 18 Bronze Medals at theBeaumont Districts in Sport Sparring, Formsand Board Breaking competitions and all sixstudents who also competed at the HoustonDistricts medalled in at least one event each.ose who competed at both District Cham-pionships were Elyse ibodeaux, Aaronibodeaux, Gary ibodeaux, Tyler Hebertand Aimee Martin.

e following students are pictured: Bottom row (left-right):  Athan Peterson,

J.J. Rougeau, Justin Rougeau, Zain Khan,John Beebe, Jacie Busby, Owen Sims

2nd Row (seated): Walker Swindell, ElyseMartin, Seth Stephenson, Joseph Rougeau

3rd Row (Kneeling): Kade Bryant, Rylee

Martin, Lane Freeman, Gavin Briggs, Tren-ton Parker, Jennifer Summers, Landenomas, CJ Dinkins

4th Row: Elyse ibodeaux (Owner, ChiefInstructor), Micheal Jones, Alston Reynolds,Oceanna Rougeau, Jasmin Vega, ShilohWalker, Jacob Rougeau, Jessica Tingler (In-structor), Aimee Martin

Back Row: Leslie O’Neal, AJ Hollis, JoAnnHollis, Tyler Hebert, Gary ibodeaux,Aaron ibodeaux (Instructor), BraedonFalls, Daniel Walker

Not Pictured: Talia Gunter, Adam Hollis,Corban Palfy, Hannah Best, Matthew Gole-mon, Ava Osborne, Garrison Hughes, GracieByrn, Kellan Biggs, Victor Ortiz, GamaOrtiz, Dallas Powers

Pictured are students of Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City who recently participated in district championships.

Students compete in district championships

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Deaths and MemorialsRay railkilleDeweyville

Ray Scott railkille, 66, ofDeweyville, passed from this lifeon Monday, December 8, 2014 inthe Pine-hurst Nurs-ing andRehabilita-tion Centerin Orange.Born on Feb-ruary 21,1948 in Or-ange, Texasto her par-ents, LillianFrankie (Hemingway) Scott andEdred Haddon Scott, she was alifelong resident of Orange, sheworked as a bookkeeper for amoving company as well as otherbusinesses and she was of theBaptist faith. Ray enjoyed spend-ing time on the River, hunting,fishing and hosting gatherings ather home. She was an avid DallasCowboys fan and she enjoyedspending time with her family, es-pecially her grandchildren.

Ray is preceded in death by herparents; her husband, Billrailkille; her brother, JosephHoward Scott; her sisters, HelenDavis and Mona McShan and herstepson, Billy railkille. osewho will most cherish her mem-ory are her daughter, TrudyCollins of Deweyville; her son,Bobby railkille and wife, Stacyof Orange; her sister, Susie Burchand husband, Bruce of Hartburg;her adopted daughter, MissyHammond of Orange; heradopted son, Randy Roberts andwife, Lisa of Orange her stepson,Danny railkille of Orange; hergrandchildren, Heavenlee Powell,Cruzz railkille, Robbyrailkille, Briana railkille,Sara railkille, Katy railkille,Wesley railkille, Billyrailkille, Kelly railkille, RickyRoberts, Eric Wise and DillonWise; her great grandchildren,Kaylee Crooks, Kallel Crooks,Macee Powell, Remi Powell, RylieAnn railkille and Adysin Doo-ley. Ray is also survived by nu-merous members of her extendedfamily and friends.

Services to remember andhonor Ray’s life will be at 10:00A.M. Wednesday, December 10,2014 in the Chapel of DormanFuneral Home in Orange withBrother John Fortenberry, offici-ating. Rite of Committal and In-terment will follow services atKing Cemetery in Hartburg. Agathering of Ray’s family andfriends for a time of reflectionand sharing will be from 5:00 P.M.until 9:00 P.M. Tuesday at the fu-neral home.

Charles AndersonOrangefield

Charles “Andy” Anderson, 82,longtime resident of Orangefield,passed away Dec. 9, in Vidor.

Funeral services will be at2:00pm, Saturday, Dec. 13, atClaybar Funeral Home in BridgeCity. Burialwill follow atOak BluffCemetery inPort Neches.

Visitationwill be from12:00 to 2:00pm, Satur-day, Dec. 13at ClaybarF u n e r a lHome in Bridge City.

He was born in Brunswick,Ga., Aug. 21, 1932. He was theson of Charles Marion AndersonSr. and Pearl (Herring) Anderson.Charles graduated from omasJefferson High School, joined theArmy and served our country inthe Korean War. He then went onto retire from Arco Polymers.Charles was a member of theVFW as well as being a memberof Drake Memorial PresbyterianChurch. He enjoyed gardening,raising goats and playing the steelguitar. Charles will be greatlymissed by all who knew him.

He was preceded in death byhis parents and his wives, Geral-dine Murphy Anderson and AliceSherwood Anderson.

Charles is survived by hisdaughter, Debra Roberts and hus-band, Jerry of Vidor; sons, ChuckAnderson and wife, Toni of La-Grange, GA and Gregory Ander-son and wife, Peggy of Omaha,NE; grandchildren, Wesley An-derson and wife, Melena, BrianAnderson, Erik Anderson, AliciaAnderson, Erin Srivastava andhusband, Saurabh, Shaun Robertsand wife, Tiffany and ChadRoberts and wife, Misty; greatgrandchildren, Zachary Roberts,Andrew Roberts, Rylee Robertsand Breelyn Roberts; step greatgrandchildren, Katlin, Michael,and Chase and wife, Jayme; sis-ters, Nancy Moore and husband,

Dick, and Annette Moore.Serving as pallbearers will be

Shaun Roberts, Chad Roberts,Wesley Anderson, Brian Ander-son, Erik Anderson, Alicia An-derson and Erin Srivastava.

In honor of Chaplain KevinTrinkle, memorial contributionsmay be made to the ChaplainsEmergency Relief Fund at BaptistHospital, 608 Strickland Dr, Or-ange, Texas 77630.

Doris PevetoOrangefield

Doris Elaine Peveto, 81, of Or-angefield, passed away Dec. 3, ather home.

Funeral services were Sunday,Dec. 7, at First Baptist Church inOrangefield. Officiating was theRev. Cody Hogden. Burial fol-lowed at Hillcrest Memorial Gar-dens in Bridge City.

Born in Orangefield, Dece. 10,1932, Doris was the daughter ofAusbon A.Scales andKatie May( B u r k e )Scales. Shewas a veryactive mem-ber of FirstB a p t i s tChurch ofOrangefield.A very socialw o m a n ,Doris loved the Lord and enjoyedhelping others whenever shecould.

She was preceded in death byher loving husband, BennyPeveto; great grandson, LoganWright; two brothers and threesisters.

Doris is survived by her sons,Bruce Peveto, of Dover, TN,Bobby Peveto and wife, Elaine, ofPlano, Benny Peveto and wife,Elizabeth, of Witchita Falls;daughters, Brenda Brown andhusband, Tony, of Brookshire,and Becky Hodgkinson of Or-angefield; sister, Geneva Mancilof Orange; 10 grandchildren and12 great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be made toFirst Baptist Church of Orange-field, 9788 Farm to Market 105Orange, TX., and e AmericanCancer Society, 755 S. 11thStreet, Ste. 212, Beaumont, Texas77701.

Joshua McKinneyMauriceville

Joshua Scott McKinney, 30, ofMauriceville, passed awayWednesday, Nov. 26, at his resi-dence.

Joshua was born July 18, 1984in Clearwater, Fl., to Scott McK-inney and Lynn Rogers. Heworked as an industrial radiogra-pher.

A memo-rial servicewas heldS a t u r d a y ,Dec. 6, atMelancon’sF u n e r a lHome inNederland.

Joshua issurvived byhis daughter,A s h t y nMcKinney of Orangefield; momand dad, Sherri Lynn Rogers andSteven Russ Wilson of Mau-riceville; father, Scott McKinneyand wife, Debbie of Arkansas;brothers, Steven Wilson and KyleWilson, both of Mauriceville;grandparents, Phyllis Head ofArkansas; Wayne Wilson & LillieWilson of DeRidder and SherriHoffman of Florida; aunts, JudyMay and husband, James of Geor-gia; Jessica Reese and husband,Randy of Georgia; Karen Kite andhusband, Blayne of DeRidder; un-cles, Greg Wilson of DeRidder,Mark Wilson and wife, Tammy ofDeRidder, as well as numerouscousins and friends.

He was preceded in death byhis grandfathers, Flint Rogers andSteve Danine; uncles, David Wil-son, Joseph McKinney and aunt,Jennifer Evans.

Joshua loved his daughter, hisfamily, music and playing guitar.

Jerry WilsonOrange

Jerry Lynn Wilson, 71, of Or-ange, passed away Dec. 2, at eMedical Center of SoutheastTexas in Port Arthur.

Born in Beaumont, July 7,1943, he was the son of omasJefferson Wilson and Verna Es-telle (Stimits) Wilson. Jerryserved in the U.S. Air Force andworked at car dealerships as amechanic and salesman. He wasa member of Faith UnitedMethodist Church and active inthe Republican Party. Jerry was aformer volunteer at OrangeChristian Services, enjoyed col-

lecting Texaco memorabilia, andwas a former member of OCRCC( O r a n g eCounty R/CClub). Jerrynever didmeet astranger.

He waspreceded indeath by hisp a r e n t s ;b r o t h e r ,Troy GeneW i l s o n ;brothers-in-law, Orville Hall,omas O’Donald, Jr. andRichard O’Donald; mother-in-law, Emily O’Donald.

He is survived by his wife, JudieO’Donald Wilson of Orange; chil-dren, Penny Colton and husband,Paul of Kountze, Mark Wilsonand wife, Jodi of Rockwall, andWendy Wilson and husband Johnof Deer Park; five grandchildren,Zachary Listebarger, DallasColton and wife, Jessica, CalebColton, Seth Colton, and KatieWilson; three great-grandchil-dren, Aria Colton, Braydyn Liste-barger, and Brody Listebarger;sister, Dolores Hall of Bevil Oaks;sister-in-law, Nelda Peacock ofVidor; brother and sister-in-law,Jay and Louise O’Donald of Tuc-son, Az; sisters-in-law, Mary JoO’Donald and Jerri O’Donald ofDelaware.

Services were Saturday, Dec. 6,at Faith United MethodistChurch in Orange.

In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be made toFaith United Methodist Church:8608 Martin Luther King Jr.Drive, Orange, TX 77632.

Gladys SinclairTyler

Gladys Carol Sinclair, 81, ofTyler, passed away Dec. 3, at Hos-pice of East Texas in Tyler.

Funeral services were Saturday,Dec. 6, at Claybar Funeral Homein Bridge City.

Born in Orange, on June 14,1933, Gladys was the daughter ofRobert A. Fitzgerald and AudreyHarmon Scarbough Fitzgerald.She attended school in Orange-field, played basketball, and wasvaledictorian of her class. Afterbusiness school and East TexasBaptist University in Marshall,she worked in administration inOrange and Collin CountyCourthouses, as well as the Jeffer-son County Tax Office. After re-tiring from the insurancebusiness in the late 80’s, she mether husband Robert while attend-ing Green Acres Baptist Churchin Tyler, and together they en-joyed their grandchildren andgreat-grandchildren until the lastfew days of her life. At rest withJesus.

She was preceded in death byher parents, Robert and AudreyFitzgerald; and sisters, Mary AnnFitzgerald, Rachel Cunningham,and Dorothy Lea Gilcrease.

She is survived by her husband,Robert Sinclair; children, PaulaAnn Johnson of Austin, and MarkJohnson of Denver, Co; step-chil-dren, Schelly Mendoza and hus-band, Robert of San Antonio,Synthia Martinez of Canton,Shauna Fraas and husband, Jeff ofTyler, and Robert Sinclair III andwife, Alex of Phoenix, Az; 11grandchildren; nine great-grand-children; sisters, Jimmy Cay Pat-tillo and Earline Russell; andnumerous nieces, nephews, andcousins.

In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be made to thenursery of First Baptist ChurchOrangefield, 9788 FM 105, Or-ange, TX 77630.

Robert TruncalePort Acres

Robert Anthony Truncale, 56,passed away Wednesday, Dec. 3,in Port Arthur.

Robert is survived by his son,Jake Truncale and wife JoAnna;daughter, Miranda Foster andhusband Clint; grandchildren,Ayden, Peyton, Preston, Paisley,Ezra, and Molly; parents, An-thony and Barbara Truncale;brothers, David, Mark, Brian,James, andJohn; sister,Ellen; formers p o u s e s ,D o r o t h yT r u n c a l eand CandyRoberts; sev-eral niecesa n dnephews.

F u n e r a lServices were celebrated Tuesday,Dec. 9, at Grammier-Oberle Fu-neral Home with interment tofollow at Greenlawn MemorialPark.

David SotoBeaumont

David Rodriguez Soto, Jr., 23, ofBeaumont passed away Wednes-day, Dec. 3.

David was born in Beaumont,on Oct. 22, 1991. He was an In-dustrial Radiographer who had apassion for life and loved his fam-ily and friends. David spent mostof his free time with family andfriends, helping others, workingon fourw h e e l e r s ,b u i l d i n gmud vehi-cles, andhunting andfishing. Hee n j o y e dbaseball andloved hisDallas Cow-boys. He wasalso knownfor his goofy personality and hiskeep it real attitude. e onlything bigger than his truck wasDavid’s heart as he gave a piece ofit to everyone he met.

David is survived by hismother, April Chapa and her hus-band, Eladio, of Beaumont; father,David Soto and his wife, Techa, ofOrange; siblings, Percila, Taylor,Alex, Carmen, Griselda, Justin,Mario, Antonio, and Karley andgrandmothers, Laura Mistrot andPauline Soto, both of Beaumont.David also leaves loved ones thatimpacted his life, great friendsand his best friend, Chico.

He is preceded in death by hisgrandfather, Virgil Rutledge.

Funeral service will be at 2:00p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 10, atBroussard’s, with interment tofollow at Forest Lawn MemorialPark, Beaumont.

James MecheOrange

James “Tony” Anthony Meche,60, of Orange, passed away onDec. 5, at Harbor Hospice inBeaumont.

A Memorial service will be at2:00 p.m.S a t u r d a y ,Dec. 13, atW i n f r e eB a p t i s tChurch inOrange. Of-ficiating willbe the Rev.Keith Royal.

Born inL a k eCharles, La., on Dec. 29, 1953, hewas the son of Leroy Meche andMary Cormier. Tony was veryfaithful, strong and optimistic. Hewas a deacon at Winfree BaptistChurch and a constant prayerwarrior. His positive outlook onlife remained constant eventhrough his illness.

He is survived by his wife, San-dra Lynn Meche; son, James ScottMeche and wife, Amanda of LakeCharles; daughters, Shawn LynnCain and husband, Steve of Or-ange and Hannah Hyde and hus-band Enoch of Bridge City;brother, Joseph Meche of Sul-phur, La; sisters, Patricia Naquinand husband, Dale, Tina LeJuneand husband Sidney, Pam Gentryand husband Ben and NodaMeche all of Sulphur and grand-children, Matthew Cain, LoganCain, Emersyn Meche, HoldenMeche, Samuel Hyde and IsabellaHyde.

Joyce JonesOrange

Joyce Jones, 91, of Orange,passed away Dec. 4, at e Mead-ows in Orange.

Funeral services were Monday,Dec. 8, at Claybar Funeral Homein Orange. Officiating will be Dr.Bob Webb and Pastor Gary Priceof Trinity Baptist Church in Or-ange. Burial followed at HillcrestMemorial Gardens in Orange.

Born in Memphis, Tn., on Sept.29, 1923, she was the daughter ofRobert Edward Fields and AlfaC y r e n a( B l a c k )Fields. Joycewas a veryactive per-son, she didmany things.She was oneof the char-ter membersof TrinityB a p t i s tChurch, swam at the Natatoriumand took exercise classes atLamar. She was also a Docent(Volunteer Teacher) at Shangri LaGardens and loved her garden.Joyce was an avid reader and en-joyed crossword puzzles.

She was preceded in death byher husband, Cletus M. Jones.

Joyce is survived by her son,Gary Brooks Jones of Orange;daughter, Katherine Joyce Jonesof Austin; and her brother and R.

LeWayne (Rudolph) Fields of Bra-zoria.

Gurney GisclairOrange

Curney Lynn Gisclair, Jr., 41, ofOrange, passed away Monday,Dec. 1, at his residence.

Born on Feb. 21, 1973 in PortArthur, to Kathy Marie (Davis)Gisclair and Curney Lynn Gis-clair, Sr. He was a lifelong residentof Southeast Texas. He was of theBaptist faith and a member ofCove Baptist Church in Orange.Curney enjoyed hunting, camp-ing, fishing and tattooing.

Curney is preceded in death byhis mother.

ose who will most cherishhis memory are his wife, PeggyGisclair of Orange; daughter,Cheyanne Gisclair of Orange;sons, John Gisclair, Christian Gis-clair and Dan Michael Ball, all ofOrange; sister, Misty Gisclair ofLouisiana; brother, Donnie Creedof Newton and his grandchild,Jade Alex. Curney is also survivedby his numerous extended familyand friends.

Services to remember andhonor Curney’s life were Satur-day, Dec. 6, at Dorman FuneralHome in Orange. Cremation fol-lowed services.

Billy WrightOrange

Billy Glenn Wright, 80, of Or-ange, passed away Dec. 7, at Bap-tist Hospital in Beaumont.

A graveside service will be at10:00 am,Wednesday,Dec. 10, atH i l l c r e s tM e m o r i a lGardens inBridge City.Officiat ingwill be theRev. Bill Col-lier, retiredpastor ofLiberty Bap-tist Church in Bridge City.

Born in Manning, Tx., on Feb.15, 1934, he was the son of Her-cial DeLevi Wright and Alice MayDurham Wright. Billy was a USArmy Veteran and a retireddraftsman from Chevron Chem-ical. He enjoyed hunting and fish-ing and enjoyed spending timewith his best friends “brothers”,Jack Pepper and George Peery.He was a loving husband, father,grandfather, great-grandfather,and friend.

He was preceded in death byhis parents, wife of 35 years,Anita Reeves Wright and secondwife, Sheridon Wright.

He is survived by his children,Darryl Wright of Warren, KamiWright of Bridge City, GlynisGothia and husband, John ofBridge City; step-children, ChrisBarron and wife, Jenny of Orange,Stephanie Nimitz and husband,Adam of Rusk; grandchildren,Kendall Wright and wife,Chelsea, Kyle Wright, HunterGothia, Forrest Gothia, andLacey LeMoine and husband,Jake; step-grandchildren, EvieBowen, Grace Nimitz, HopeNimitz, and Nate Nimitz; andgreat-grandchildren, Brayden,Aaleah, Jaxon, and Landon.

Serving as pallbearers will beKendall Wright, Kyle Wright,Hunter Gothia, Forrest Gothia,John Gothia, and Jake LeMoine.

e family requests for thosewishing to make memorial con-tributions, they can be made toLiberty Baptist Church: PO Box851 Bridge City, TX 77611.

James AustinOrange

Jim Austin was born on Feb. 26,1928 in Hubbard, Tx., to Cecil

Earl and Edna Smith Austin.He was preceded in death by

his parents; son David; brotherHillard; sister Jacqueline; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-lawGeorge and Mozelle Smith andHenry and June Medford.

He is survived by his wife of al-most 68 years, Virginia; son, Gre-gory and his wife, Janiece, alongwith their five children, MaryCaroline, Tara Montgomery,Jonathan David, Olivia Kathryn,and Reece Nixon, of Beaumont.He also enjoyed his many niecesand nephews over the years.

Funeral service was Monday,Dec. 8, at Westgate MemorialBaptist Church in Beaumont,with inter-ment to fol-low at ForestLawn Me-morial Park,Beaumont.

Memorialc o n t r i b u -tions may bemade toAlzheimer’sAssociation,700 NorthStreet, Suite M, Beaumont, Texas77701; Julie Rogers “Gift of Life”Program, 2390 Dowlen Road,Beaumont, Texas 77706; or toWestgate Memorial BaptistChurch, 6220 Westgate Drive,Beaumont, Texas 77706.

Elsie RobertsOrange

Elsie Rae Creel Roberts, 81, ofOrange, passed away Dec. 5, ather home.

Funeral services were Monday,Dec. 8, at Claybar Funeral Homein Bridge City. Officiating wasMark Legendre of MainstreetChurch of Christ in Vidor. Grave-side servicefollowed atM e a d o w sCemetery inMerryville,La.

Born inNoble, La.,April 29,1933, shewas thedaughter ofLouis P. Colton and ElizabethAnne (Kegley) Colton. Elsie was amember of West Orange Churchof Christ. She loved quilting, can-ning, and gardening. Elsie en-joyed spending time outdoorshunting and fishing. She alwaystook care of others and put herchildren and family first. efamily would like to thank thestaff of Gentiva Hospice in Beau-mont for all of their wonderfulcare.

She was preceded in death byher first husband, Wallace G.Creel; second husband Upton K.Roberts; sisters, Opehlia Hargerand Lucille Parker and parents,Louis and Elizabeth Colton.

Elsie is survived by her daugh-ters, Rebecca Anne “Becky” CreelWilcox and husband Earl, ofMauriceville, Peggy ElizabethCreel Erwin and husband Alvin,of Kountze, Cynthia Rae “Cindy”Creel Rascoe and husband David,of Bridge City and Sherry JeanetteCreel LeBlanc and husband Carl,of Bridge City; eight grandchil-dren; 11 great-grandchildren; twogreat-great grandchildren; nu-merous nieces and nephews andbrothers, Woodrow Colton andCharles “Buddy” Colton.

Serving as pallbearers wereGarrett Wilcox, Wesley LeBlanc,John Erwin, John Erwin Jr., AlanRascoe and Dustin Creager. Hon-orary pallbearers were BaylorLeBlanc, Dawson Creager, andGaven Wilcox

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MetropolitanOpera singerShelton singsChristmas Eve

A former member of theChancel Choir at First UnitedMethodist Church in Orange,Chad Shelton will sing at theCandlelight service on Christ-mas Eve.

e service will take place inthe First United MethodistChurch Sanctuary at 502 N. 6thStreet in Orange at 5:30 p.m.

Shelton, who will be makinghis Metropolitan Opera debut in2015, left Orange to major inmusic at LSU and graduate stud-ies at Yale. Shelton studied voicewith Robert Grayson atLouisiana State University, andthen at Yale University on thegraduate level.

He made his professionalopera debut in 1994 while still atLSU as Tamino in WolfgangAmadeus Mozart’s Die Zauber-flöte with Baton Rouge Opera.

In 1998 Shelton became amember of the Young Artist Pro-gram at the Houston GrandOpera, remaining in the pro-gram through 2000.

Although Shelton’s career hascontinued to be largely based atthe HGO, he has performed withnumerous opera companiesthroughout the United States.He made his international operadebut in 2000 with Opera Aus-tralia as Belmonte in Mozart’sDie Entführung aus dem Serail.

is was followed by his Euro-pean debut in 2002 as Mitch inAndré Previn’s A StreetcarNamed Desire at Opéra nationaldu Rhin in Strasbourg.

In 2005 he made his debutwith the Opéra national de Lor-raine as Tamino.

Chad Shelton

FUMC Christmas schedule*FUMC-Kids present Back to the MangerA caroling adventure through time, created and arranged by

Christy Semsen.e youth will serve dinner at 5:30 pm. Proceeds from dinner will

go towards their annual Angels & Elves shopping trip.Sunday, Dec. 14, at 6:00 pm, in the Praise Center at the corner of

5th and Elm Streets.

FUMC-Fine Arts Department presents playTwo different worlds seeking the truth. A Dramatic Christmas

Musical, script By Walter L. Black. Arranged and Orchestrated byDavid T. Clydesdale. Sunday, Dec. 21, at 11:00 a.m., in e PraiseCenter.

FUMC-Blue Christmas - WorshipA quieter time of worship for those who are facing the holidays

with loss, whether it be the loss of a father, mother, sister, brother,husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather, friend, a broken relation-ship or the loss of a job.  Whatever may be impacting your life at thistime, we offer a more soothing time of worship for you and yourfriends. 

Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 6:00 pm, in the Slade Chapel, Elm St., be-tween 5th and 6th Streets.

FUMC-Christmas EveAt 6:00 pm, Wednesday, Dec. 24, the community is invited to a tra-

ditional candlelight service in the sanctuary of the First UnitedMethodist Church, 502 N. 6th St., Orange. A celebration of HolyCommunion will be included.

Please join the congregation at 5:30 pm for special music. Bring afriend and share the joy that is Christmas.

Miracle on South StreetMcDonald Baptist Church, located on the corner of South and

Broad Streets in West Orange, will have Miracle on South Street,Sunday, Dec. 14, from 5:30-7:30 pm.

ere will be games, crafts, refreshments, live nativity and ahayride. Come enjoy the Christmas experience and have a free pro-fessional photo made with Santa.

Faith UMC presentationPastor, Dr. Billy Watson, Choir Director, Cheri Bouillion, and Faith

UMC Chancel Choir invites the community to come hear the mes-sage of Christmas through music and drama. Musical numbers in-clude well known Christmas carols and newer songs such as “JesusMessiah”, “Mary did You Know?” and “Hallelujah Chorus.”

Later that same day,starting at 4:00 until 5:30 pm, there will be  ahayride and caroling, followed by a delicious chili dinner. en be-ginning at 6:00 until 7:30 pm, a live nativity scene will be presented.Come and experience the enactment of Christ’s birth as you view thenativity complete with actors portraying Mary, Joseph, the Christchild, wisemen and shepherds as well as stable animals. You maydrive by to view or park and get a closer look at the scene. en comeinside for refreshments and fellowship with your friends and neigh-bors.   e event is free.

On Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 5:00 pm, there will be a Christmas EveCandlelight Communion service.

Churches offer Soup Kitchen lunchese following churches in Orange offer lunch throughout the week

to those in need. All meals are provided free of charge.MondayMount Sinai Baptist Church, 1109 N. 2nd St.886-2089

TuesdayFirst Presbyterian Church. 902 W. Green Ave.883-2097

WednesdaySt. Mary Catholic Church, 912 W. Cherry883-2883

ursdayMt. Olive Baptist Church, 106 W. Park886-2508

FridayFirst Presbyterian Church

SaturdaySalem United Methodist Church, 402 W. John Ave.883-2611

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21 Gas dryers, pro-pane and nat. gas, $100 to $300 ea., 409-886-4111. (tfn Harry)

inVacare WHeel-cHair, brand new M91 sure step, heavy duty, elevating seat, head rest, reclines, ad-justing foot rest, 300 lb. capacity, 6.5 mph, manuals, lifetime war-ranty, paid $5,500 will sell for $2,000 OBO! (409) 499-2121. (tfnKG)

serVices

HOUse cleaninG, yard work, flower bed work, call Janice @ (409) 988-9232. (12/16)

sewing, hemming and custom made items. you still have time to get custom made christmas outfits for holiday pictures! 238-1230. Js

employment

Tax preparer/customer service representative: liberty Tax service

(Orange) is hiring tax preparers and cus-tomer service reps for the upcoming tax season. We are looking for bright, cus-tomer service orient-ed, friendly, and out-going individuals who will help make the tax experience fun! no tax experience is re-quired as we will train

the right individual. Office and computer experience is required. please apply in person on Thursday from 2pm to 6pm or submit

resume to rvayon@lib-ertytax.com. (12/10)

La Moine’sHair Quarters

Now hiring hair dressers in Orange.

Have walk-ins, but clientele helpful.Call La Moine’s @

886-7286 or 886-2175

Crawfish farmers

10 temp positions; 6 months; job to begin 2/1/15 and end on 7/31/15; Duties: to operate boats in the ponds during the baiting and setting of crawfish traps and to assist with the harvesting of crawfish from the traps in the ponds during the harvesting season. Pre-paring the crop for distribu-tion. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in im-mediate termination. $9.87 per hour; 35 hrs per week; OT varies but not guaran-teed; 2 months experience in Crawfish Farming. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reason-ably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day dur-ing contract. Employment of-fered by Michael Dwain Buller Farms located in Port Barre, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview at 337-945-8930 or fax resumes to Dwain Buller at 318-838-2268 or apply during normal business hours. Applicants may apply for this position at their nearest State Workforce Agency located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

Field Workers5 temp positions; 4 months; job to begin 2/20/15 through 6/15/15; Duties: to operate tractors in the fields during the preparation of the sugar cane and wheat fields for planting season. Washing and main-tenance of farm equipment. Shovel work in fields. General farming work. Must be able to work in hot, humid weather, bending and stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired work-ers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to workers. Testing positive or failure to comply may re-sult in immediate termination. $9.87 per hr; 35 hrs a week, OT may vary but not guaran-teed; 3 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reason-ably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day dur-ing contract. Employment offered by Circle A Farm, Inc. located in Lafayette, LA and Stacey Albert Farms, L.L.C. located in Youngsville, LA. Worksite located in Maurice and Youngsville, LA . Quali-fied applicants should call employer for interview at (337) 278-1563. Applicants may apply for this position at their nearest SWA office located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

Field Workers5 temp positions; 10 months; job to begin 2/1/15 through 12/1/2015, 7am-4pm; Duties: assisting with planting and harvesting corn, soybean and nursery plants including trac-tor driving, hand planting of container plants, land pulling of weeds, trimming trees and plants, fertilizing, mowing and irrigating. Must be able to lift heavy containers and seed bags and walk through fields pulling weeds and using a hoe. $9.87 per hour; 40 hrs a week, OT may vary but not guaran-teed, 3 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reason-ably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employ-ment offered by Boone Farms located in LeCompte, LA and Broussard’s Nursery located in Forest Hill, LA. Qualified applicants may fax resume to Frank Hebert at 318-776-5610 or apply during normal busi-ness hours. Applicants may apply for this position at their nearest SWA office located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

Field Workers9 temp positions; 9 months; job to begin 2/1/15 through 11/1/15; 7am-3pm; Duties: to operate tractors in the sugar cane fields during the clean-ing and preparation of soil for upcoming planting season. To assist with the upkeep of the existing crop, planting of new crop and harvesting of matured crop during harvest-ing. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in im-mediate termination. $9.87 per hr; 35 hrs a week, OT may vary but not guaranteed; 3 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reason-ably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day dur-ing contract. Employment of-fered by Blanchard & Patout, Inc. located in Jeanerette, LA. Worksite is located at 240 Kilgore Plantation Rd, Jeaner-ette, LA. Qualified applicants should fax resume to Kevin Blanchard at (337) 276-9445 or call for an interview at (337) 276-4141 during normal busi-ness hours. Applicants may apply for this position at their nearest SWA office located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

CommerCial

For Rent on Round-bunch Rd, bc, various sizes and prices, front-age available. Rear spaces cheaper. Per-fect for shops, storage, warehouses, etc. 409-735-2030 (m&r)

FOR RENT, two offices w/1,800 sq. ft. ware-house, located at 17890 Hwy 62 S., Orange/bc, $925 monthly, call (409) 735-6970 for more info. (12/10)

Home reNTalS

For rent - Pinehurst, 3bR, 1 bath (409) 882-1614 (12/24)

For Rent-900 sq ft du-plex. 2/1 1/2. private back yard. bcISD. Wa-ter, trash and gas pd. $825 plus dep. phone 409-553-1483 (12/10)

Home Sale

3 bR 1 1/2 ba 2718 auSTIN 1300 sq ft liv-ing space. Single car garage Smoke/pet free. across from city Hall. $90,000 337-786-6810 cell 337-884-6801 (12/17)

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ROOm FOR RENT-fully furnished, private en-trance, TV and cable, microwave, Frigidaire refrigerator, private bath, linens furnished. $125 wk- $125 deposit. 409-886-3457 (12/17)

laND1.25 acre tract in Orangefield ISD! Wooded & Restrict-ed to slab houses. North of I-10, great location and estab-lished neighborhood. access to mmuD water and sewer. No Owner Financ-ing. cOuNTRYLaND PROPERTIES LLc. 409-745-1115 (1/7) 3.4 acre REPO on a private road. Water, sewer, electricity, drive and padsite. Lc-m Schools. Owner Fi-nancing available. cOuNTRYLaND PROPERTIES, LLc. 409-745-1115. (1/7) 10 acre REPO on West Grigsby Rd. Quite country Living! access to mauriceville water & sewer & electricity. Owner Financing avail-able. mobile Homes and Livestock OK.cOuNTRYLaND PROPERTIES, LLc. 409-745-1115. (1/7)PeTS

cHIHWINNIE PuPPIES FOR SaLE, $200 ea., 3 are ready now and 4 will be ready by christ-mas, 2m & 2 F, adults are free to good homes, (409) 886-3112. (12/10)

GaraGe and eSTaTe SaleS

Sat. 409 bridal Wreath, Orange 7:30 - 12:00, Large Ga-rage Sale Sofa, Loveseat, Sea-sonal Decoration,

clothes, Lots of misc. Items.

multi-Family Sat. Dec 13, 4309 Wil-lowglen St. Orange 7 a.m. - Electronics, baby Items, Jewelry, Designer clothes, Stocking Stuffers & more! air Jordan sneaker, IPod Dock, PS3 controllers, Electronic Toys, De-signer Shoes.

Sat. Dec. 13, 1004 Dayton, Orange 8:00 a.m.to 12 noon. LOTS of camo gear, mens jeans, misc

FRI. & SaT., 11058 HWY 62, mau-RIcEVILLE, (77630) N. of mauriceville, 9 till ? Several families w/ lots of stuff! Ev-erything is priced to go!

SaT., 226 RIDGE-WOOD, bc, NO EaRLY bIRDS, 7 till 1. Lots of mostly girl’s toys, baby / toddler/ girl’s/ Jr. women’s/ and some men’s clothes, wom-en’s and kid’s shoes, baby items, car-seats, strollers, swing, household items, home decor, much more!

SaT., 130 aND 135 GREENWING LaNE, bc/ORG., moving Sale In Waterwood Est. off Hwy 62 be-hind ‘Snappy’s’, 7 till 1. Furniture, house-hold items, TV, tool bench, lots of misc.

SaT. & WED (12/17), 2309 bEaR TRaILS, ORG/Lc, (77632), 8 TILL 1. child’s bikes, Graco stroller, wooden bench, ‘barbie’ Jeep, gas grill, home decor, kitchen items, men’s/ women’s and children’s clothing, comforter set, Lots and lots of misc.

PSa

aLcOHOLIcS aNONY-mOuS meets daily at noon and 8 pm at 240 Dobbyn St. in bridge city. If you are strug-gling with a drinking or drug problem come see what aa has to of-fer. call 409-735-8094 for more info.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP to promote healing after the loss of a loved one meets Mondays at 7 p.m. and Wed. at 10 a.m. at Good Shepherd Lu-theran Church at 945 W. Roundbunch Rd, Bridge City. Good Shepherd Compas-sionate Friends is open to anyone who would like to join.

DEmENTIa caRE GIV-ERS SuPPORT GROuP meets monthLY the 2nd

Wed. at 10 a.m. and the second Thur. at 6:30 pm. at St.Francis of as-sisi catholic church, 4300 meeks Dr. in Or-ange in the brother Sun Room of the canticle bldg.

aL-aNON meets Wed. & Sun. at 7 pm 1512 Strickland Dr., Orange. call 409-779-4289 or cindy 994-5503 for de-tails.

GOLDEN TRIaNGLE TOuGH LOVE is a self help parents support group for parents of children displaying un-acceptable behavior. meets Tues. 7 pm. at the Immaculate con-ception Ed. bldg., 4100 Lincoln (corner of Lin-coln & Washington) in Groves. For more info call 962-0480

RaPE aND cRISIS cENTER of SETX pro-vides critical services for those in crisis due to sexual assault, rape, suicide or general cri-sis. In addition, a 24 Hour Hot line is provid-ed for crisis interven-tion, referrals and sup-port group sessions for

sexual assault/rape victims. Victims are not alone, help is provided. all of the services as provided are free. Our number is 1-800-7-WE-caRE or 1-800-793-2273 or 409-835-3355. Volunteer advocates are needed to provide direct services to survivors of sexual assault in a medi-cal setting. comprehen-sive training is provided. For more info call 409-832-6530.

miSC. For Sale

Jugg’s Pitching machine: like new, auto feeder, throws 30-90 mph, fast & curve balls, etc. pd $2500, used very little, will sell for $1000 for all. Perfect condition. Great buy! can be seen at the Penny Record office in bc. 409-474-2855. (tfn)

THEME: YEAR IN REVIEW

ACROSS1. Good for biceps6. “__’_ alive!”9. *Many Kurds did this from Syria in 201413. Unctuous Heep, of “David Cop-perfield”14. Not pre-owned

15. It made Harry Potter’s invisible16. Common Thanksgiving Day action17. ATM extra18. Reduce, _____, recycle19. *Captured drug lord21. Zoo section23. Go wrong24. Hat part25. Old age, archaic28. Musical compositions for one

30. African equines35. *Suspect in PA police ambush was denied this37. Kosher establishment39. Davy Crockett’s last stand40. Popular Creole vegetable41. _____ Miss hot chocolate43. Auditory44. MC Hammer’s “2 _____ 2 Quit”46. Last two words of certain shoe company’s famous slogan47. “Rambling Wreck From Georgia ____”48. *Beyonce and Jay Z performed in them together in ‘1450. Antonym of #14 Across52. “Big Island” flower necklace53. Leave them behind for riches?55. Grazing area57. *Animated Oscar-winner60. *Billboard Music Awards hologram guest64. Indian restaurant condiment65. Schiller’s “___ to Joy”67. Got up68. Remove, as in a Pinterest post69. A cool ___, as in money70. Takes it easy71. They’re famous for being busy72. Snake-like reef dweller73. Arrogant one

DOWN1. 27 is the ____ of 32. Russia’s ____ Moun-tains3. Reduced Instruction Set Computer4. Wood-shaping device5. Barn scissors6. Facts and figures7. Tiger’s peg8. Take an oath9. Bloodsucking hopper10. Displeasure on one’s face11. “Piece of cake!”12. Obtain or create, barely15. *Russia/Ukraine “apple of discord”20. Cattle control, pl.

22. “That is to say”24. Suffering from gastric distress25. *It caused a scare globally in 201426. Kobe, e.g.27. Sad song29. Off-color31. The Phantom ____, Mickey Mouse’s nemesis32. a.k.a. honey badger33. White liturgical neckwear34. *2014 Olympic site36. Been in bed38. *Infamous terrorist group42. Type of monument45. Jane’s mate49. Sigma Alpha Epsilon51. Type of sticker, pl.54. *Washington Nationals gave away a Jayson Werth garden _____56. Ohio rubber hub57. Olden-day temple58. ____ for the picking59. Elevator inventor60. Come together61. *Hope ____ set U.S. soccer record for career shutouts62. Norse capital63. Egg holder64. Cause friction66. Bond movie “Live and Let ___”

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CLAIMS

AGAINST THE ESTATE OF FRANK PAUL MOONEY, DE-CEASED Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary were issued in the Es-tate of FRANK PAUL MOONEY, on October 29, 2014, in Cause No. P16865, in the Coun-ty Court of Orange County, Texas, to Betty Joyce Collum.The address of such In-dependent Executrix is c/o Kendall S. Cockrell, P.O. Box 1488, Bellaire, Texas 77402. All persons having claims against this Es-tate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner pre-scribed by law.

Betty Joyce Collum, Independent Execu-trix of the Estate of Frank Paul Mooney, Deceased

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The state of TexasTo any and all Unknown Heirs and all Persons interested in the Estate of

Ramona Gay Tolman, Deceasedcause No. P16979

in county court at law, orange county, Texas

The alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate filed an

APPLICATION TO DETERMINE HEIRSHIP in this estate on September 4, 2014, requesting that the Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of Ramona Gay Tolman, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate.

The court may act on this application at any call of the docket on or after 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next after the expiration of 10 days from the date of publication of this citation, at the Orange County Courthouse, 801 W. Division, Orange, Texas 77630.

All persons interested in this case are cited to appear before this Honorable Court by filing a written contest or answer to this Application should they desire to do so. To ensure its consideration, you or your attorney must file any objection, intervention or response in writing with the County Clerk of Orange County, Texas.

Given under my hand and the seal of the County Court at Law, Orange County, Texas at the office of the Orange County Clerk in Orange, Texas on September 4, 2014.

Karen Jo Vance, County Clerk,Orange County, Texas

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that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of William Ruby Gates, Deceased, were issued on November 21st, 2014, in Cause No. P17035, pend-ing in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, to: cARol ANN GATEs.

All persons having claims against this Estate, which is currently being adminis-tered, are required to pres-ent them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.c/o George b. barronAttorney at lawP.o. box 279orange, Tx 77631-0279DATED: the 21st day ofNovember, 2014

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Public NoticeBridge City ISD is now accepting referrals for students who may need Gifted/Talented Services for the school year. This program is designed for stu-dents who exhibit in-tellectual and creative thinking abilities at an extraordinary level not normally served in the regular classroom. Services are provided only upon identifi-cation of education needs of the student. Anyone wishing to re-fer a student attend-ing Bridge City ISD in kindergarten through twelfth grade this school year is asked to go by the student’s campus office and re-quest a copy of the re-ferral form. This form must be returned to the school by January 7, 2015. Those unable to go by the school may access a form in the following ways:call 409-735-1520 or email gina.mannino@bridgecityisd.net

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