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Lavaca County Justice of the Peace and Moulton Municipal Judge Fred Nieto, Jr. was suspended and placed on unpaid administra-tive leave in August.

District Attorney Heather Mc-Minn told The Cannon Wednesday that her office is working in con-junction with Texas Rangers to in-vestigate Nieto’s business activities.

Nieto owns a used car dealership in Moulton, which has been closed since January due to a revocation of his license.

“The investigation has just be-gun,” McMinn said. “We have received several letters of com-plaints from people and attorneys throughout the district and sur-rounding counties.”

The details of the complaints were not released. The DA said she has asked the Texas Rangers to as-

sist her office with the investigation.According to Moulton City Hall,

Nieto was placed on unpaid ad-ministrative leave from his position as Moulton municipal judge a few weeks ago.

“To my knowledge, no charges have been filed (against him),” Moulton City Manager Deborah Patteson wrote in an email reply to The Cannon’s inquiry. “The City of Moulton is not able to release any

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Today in Texas History Sept. 1, 1863On this day in 1863, Maj. Santos

Benavides, the highest-ranking Mexi-can American to serve in the Confed-eracy, led seventy-nine men of the predominantly Tejano Thirty-third Texas Cavalry across the Rio Grande in pursuit of the bandit Octaviano Zapata. Union agents had recruited Zapata, a former associate of Juan N. Cortina, to lead raids into Texas and thus force Confederate troops to remain in the Rio Grande valley rather than participate in military campaigns in the east. Zapata was also associated with Edmund J. Davis, who was conducting Northern-sponsored military activities in the vicinity of Brownsville and Matam-oros. For these reasons, and because his men often flew the American flag during their raids, Zapata’s band was often referred to as the “First Regiment of Union Troops.” Benavides caught up with Zapata on September 2 near Mier, Tamaulipas. After a brief exchange of gunfire, the Zapatistas dispersed, leav-ing ten men dead, including Zapata.

Today’s Quote“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”

— Jim Carrey

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Traffic stop nets 442-pound haulA Department of Public Safety trooper patrolling on Interstate 10 made a routine traffic stop which resulted in the seizure of some 442 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $243,000. A DPS spokesman said the trooper became suspicious because of the activity of the driver and received consent to search the 2004 Ford F350 work truck. During the search, the vehicle’s tool box was found to have a false compart-ment built into it concealing 40 bundles of pot. Francisco Javier Martinez of Laredo is in Gonzales County Jail facing a $30,000 bond on charges of pos-session of more than 50 pounds of marijuana. (Courtesy photo)

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DA, Rangers investigate Moulton judge

Fred Nieto

By NIKKI MAXWELL

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The fourth court date for former Gonzales City Councilman Tilman Rus-sell Grant came and went last Thursday, with no resolution to the numer-ous charges against him for election misconduct.

The trial, scheduled four times since February, re-sulted in no conviction or sentencing.

According to Assistant District Attorney Thomas Mitchell, the case was re-ferred for pre-trial diver-sion. Also known as pre-trial intervention, it gives first-time offenders a sec-ond chance at a clean crim-inal record.

"If you qualify, its a form of probation," said District Attorney Heather McMinn.

“We don’t know yet if he will be approved for that program.”

Texas Law states that depending on the severity of the charges, individuals arrested for the first time can be offered an option for keeping the crime off of their record without having to go to trial.

Pretrial diversion is a program for first-time of-fenders to give them that second chance and avoid being marked by a felony conviction for the rest of their lives. It is also known as withheld adjudication, good behavior, withdraw and file, deferred prosecu-tion and withheld sentenc-ing.

“This is the same offer we gave Charles Roaches earli-er this year,” McMinn said.

Grant casehits a wallDA offers former councilman 2nd probation, clean record

A team of United States Mar-shals arrested John Walpole hiding in a home in Smiley, Fri-day morning.

A federal warrant was issued for Walpole’s arrest in June, charging him with a Supervised Release Violation (parole viola-

tion.) Walpole’s original charge was for ‘Felon in Possession of a Firearm,’ based on an arrest by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in 2006.

“We developed information from a confidential source that he (Walpole) was staying with a female associate in Smiley,” said Preston Browning, of the Unit-ed States Marshals Service.

According to Browning, Wal-pole was taken into custody without incident.

“The information we had go-ing into the scene was that he was known to be a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, and that he had supposedly shot at officers in the past,” Browning said.

No firearms or drugs were lo-

cated inside the residence, and the unnamed woman he was found with was not charged with harboring a fugitive.

“We believe he had only been there a few days,” Browning said.

According to the Federal Marshal’s Office, Walpole is be-ing held at the GEO Detention Facility in downtown San An-tonio.

By NIKKI MAXWELL

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By NIKKI MAXWELL

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SAN ANTONIO — The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force sponsored by the United States Marshals Ser-vice is announcing the ar-rest of two federal fugitives; Ramon Salas and James Brooks. Both have been wanted since November of 2009.

Ramon Salas and James Brooks, both of whom were wanted on federal warrants, were arrested on August 30, at approximately 9:00pm, in San Antonio, TX, as the re-sult of a collaborative effort between the San Antonio Police Department’s Gang Unit and the Lone Star Fu-gitive Task Force.

Ramon Salas has been wanted since November 4, 2009, when he was supposed to surrender to begin serv-ing a 5 year conviction for a drug possession charge. Salas failed to surrender and as a result his bail was revoked and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Earlier

this month, on August 15, investigators from the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force developed reliable informa-tion on a possible location for Salas. When task force

members moved in to effect the arrest, Salas was able to flee in a vehicle, and then on foot. This touched off a two day manhunt for Salas but he was able to avoid capture.

DeWitt County Sheriff’s Of-fice Arrest Report for Week of August 19, 2011-August 25, 2011

Jail Average Daily Count- 74

Inmates Housed for other Agencies- 5

August 19, 2011Hunt Katie, 39, of Leander,

Bail Jumping Failure to Ap-pear/Theft by Check,

Bond of $1,000, Revoca-tion of Probation/Theft by Check, No Bond, DCSO

Lucas Tommie, 21, of Cu-ero, Violation of Probation/ Assault Family Violence,Bond of $1,000, Violation of Proba-tion/ Assault Family Violence, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Taylor Anthony, 29, of Yoakum, Theft of Prop-erty >$500<$1500, Bond of$1,000, DCSO

Zamora Rico, 19, of Cu-ero, Revocation of Proba-tion/Tamp Physical Evidence, Bond of $1,000, Cuero PD

Nichols Victoria, 22, of Cu-ero, Capias Pro Fine/Theft of Property >$50<$500, Fine of $884.00, Cuero PD

Rechterman Logan, 25, of Yorktown, Class C/Speeding 11-15mph over, Plea for Pay-ments, Failure to Appear, Plea for Payments, DCSO

August 20, 2011Whitehead Crystal, 39, of

Rockport, Capias Pro Fine/Public Intoxication, Fine of $544.70 DCSO

Hilscher Jeremy, 23, of Cu-ero, Assault Causes Bodily In-jury Family Violence, Bond of $1,000, Injury Child/Elderly/Disable w/Intent Bodily In-jury, Bond of $5000, Cuero PD

Salas Yvonne, 36, of Victo-ria, Driving While Intoxicated, Bond of $800, DPS

August 21, 2011Hernandez Mauro, 46, of

Yorktown, Public Intoxica-tion, Plea for Payments, Yor-ktown PD

Schiltz Hugh, 32, of Victo-ria, 90 Day Commitment Or-der/Driving While Intoxicated 3rd or More, Victoria County Warrant, Bond Forfeiture/Driving While Intoxicated 3rd or More Bond of $500, DCSO

August 23, 2011Davidson Cody, 17, of Cu-

ero, Class C/Disruption of Transportation, Appear In Court 31 Days, Cuero PD

Walker Charles, 37, of Gill-ham, Possession of Control Substance PG1 LT 1G, Bond of $5000, DPS

Contreras Robin, 30, Hum-ble, Violation of Probation/Engaging Organized Crimi-nal Activity, Bond of $50,000, DCSO

August 24, 2011Jares Stacey, 26, of Yoa-

kum, Violation of Probation/Theft by Check, Bond of $1000, DCSO

Jackson Trent, 17, of Cuero, Forgery Financial Instrument,

Bond of $10,000, Forgery Fi-nancial Instrument, Bond of $10,000, Forgery Financial Instrument, Bond of $10,000, Cuero PD

Flessner Cody, 17, of Cu-ero, Possession of Marijuana <2oz, Bond of $1000, Cuero PD

Perez Sergio, 18, of Cu-ero, Possession of Marijuana <2oz, Bond of $1000, Cuero PD

Thomas Artrel, 23, of Cuero, Theft of Property >$500<$1500, Bond of $2000, DCSO

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08/22/2011 Simon Cantu 67 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charegd With Public Intoxication At 900 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/23/2011 Reported Criminal Mischief At 1200 Blk Church St.

08/23/2011 Reported Criminal Trespass At 1600 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

08/24/2011 Reported Theft At 1000 Blk St. Peter St.

08/25/2011 Reported Criminal Mischief At 1100 Blk College St.

08/25/2011 Reported Theft At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

08/25/2011 Reported Theft At 1800 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/25/2011 Reported Disorderly Conduct At 1000 Blk St. Andrew St.


08/26/2011 Darren Deshawn Hunt 30 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana At 1800 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/27/2011 Victor Castillo-Chavira 24 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public

Intoxication At Henry And Badger St.08/27/2011 Reported Forgery At 400 Blk St.

Matthew St.08/27/2011 Simon Cantu 67 Of Gonzales

Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.


08/27/2011 Reported Assault At St. Louis St And Fair St.

08/28/2011 Reported Assault At 300 Blk Hwy 90-A.

08/27/2011 Dennis Wayne Smith 48 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Driving While License Suspended At 900 Blk Kliene St.

08/28/2011 Reported Theft At 183 At Brickyard.08/26/2011 Reported Theft At 1600 Blk Sarah

Dewitt Dr.08/28/2011 Stacy Eugene Hunt Jr 28 Of

Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Expired Drivers License At 1200 Blk Hastings St.

08/29/2011 Simon Cantu 67 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 300 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/30/2011 Reported Disorderly Conduct At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

08/30/2011 Reported Forgery At 700 Blk College St.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Report

The Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff’s Re-port for 08/21/11-08/27/11

08/22/11Sistos, Michael Anthony, 01/1968, Nixon. Public

Intoxication. Released on PR Bond.08/23/11Guzman, Ricardo Adan, 10/1987, San Antonio.

Atascosa County Warrant - Evading Arrest Deten-tion with Vehicle. Requires $50,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

08/24/11Galvan, John, 11/1983, Seguin. Local Warrant

- Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Local Warrant - Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Local Warrant - Delivery of a Controlled Substance. Local Warrant - Delivery of a Controlled Substance. Transferred to another Facility.

08/25/11Perez, Barbara G., 01/1974, Gonzales. Local War-

rant - Secure Execution of Document by Deception >$1,500 <$20K. Released on $1,000 Bond.

Beauregard, Doris French, 08/1951, Waelder. Lo-

cal Warrant - Aggravated Assault Family Violence with Deadly Weapon. Released on $50,000 Bond.

Furnace, John Earl, Jr., 11/1966, Manvel. Local Warrant - Burglary of a Habitation. Local Warrant - Burglary of a Habitation. Local Warrant - Burglary of a Habitation. TDC Hold - Detainer. Remains in Custody.

08/26/11Aguilar, Dustin Allen, 11/1990, Smiley. Commit-

ment/Sentence - Burglary of a Building. Released - Weekender/Work Release.

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

GCSO 07DPS 06GPD 08WPD 01NPD 02Constable 01DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 25

Gonzales Municipal Court Failed to Appear Notice for Aug. 24:

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

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

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

Martha Sandy GamboaJaime ZamoraOscar Cardoza-LeLaCruzLorenzo Reyes RobledoErnesto R. Quintanilla, Jr.Victoria FurnaceFrancisco Javier Perez James Ward Gillespie

Jasmine Wright Ramon RiveraCharles DavisEduardo Luis ArellanoRogelio Serrato Peralez Alberta IzaguirreDimitri Diego Vigil Thomas Enriquez, Jr.Brian Joseph MartinezSophia Estelle SilbasAlonzo McKinneyIgnacio GutierrezJohn Vasilio Aleman, Jr.Marrissa CastilloRigo Sandoval RojasJennifer VaraArthur Lackey, Jr.Reyna GuadalupeJohnny CantuRobyn GarciRamon Soliz The above listed defendants need to contact the

court as soon as possible at 830-672-2815. If you have any outstanding fines your name may make the next list.

This week the Gonzales County Sher-iff ’s Office joined a nation wide informa-tion gathering system known as “Leads on Line” that tracks sales activities to pawn-shops, eBay, scrap metal recyclers, second-hand sales sites, etc. across the nation.

It is impossible for the Sheriff ’s Office to check every site the online system checks; the time and manpower that has been dedicated to simply checking area vendors, while necessary, has been extremely costly for us.

Historically, we have taken a list of missing items and toured the pawnshops and resale shops around our area. Being limited to only the list on hand and time constraints for manpower, a search of this nature is or was very limited. Usually we recovered items in this manner only when we had a tip or a suspect with a known method of operation.

On the first query of Leads on Line, we found and have recovered five firearms that were stolen from Gonzales County. Four were located from recent thefts and one was located in Oklahoma City from a 1997 theft.

It should be pointed out that this is not an “end all, do all” application. There are certain things that the Sheriff ’s Office In-vestigators need to utilize Leads on Line. They must have serial numbers, model numbers and a good description of the

items they are searching for. More often than not the victim of a theft or burglary does not have a record of the items missing and because of that the Gonzales County Sheriff ’s Office is unable to enter the miss-ing items into Texas and national data base for stolen items. If it is not entered into these data bases, we cannot claim or even query for the missing items.

With times a tough as they are, we are all targets of certain people who feel it is easier to steal than to work. Protect your valu-ables; put the lawn mowers in the garage, lock you homes, close your garage doors at all times. Simply put, don’t advertise the things you have worked hard for as being available for some crook to steal. And al-ways, always record the serial numbers of your property. Guns, computers, TVs, lawn mowers (particularly riders), saddles are all prime targets that are seldom recov-ered because people just don’t make a list of the numbers when they buy the item. I might also add that it is important to be able to find the list when you need it, so make a couple of them. One for the home and one stored somewhere else.

If you see something suspicious around your neighborhood, please do not hesi-tate to report it. Call the Gonzales County Sheriff ’s Office at 830-672-6524 or if it is pressing, utilize the 911 system. NO call is unimportant and ALL calls are reacted to.

The City of Gonzales will hold a “Come and Go” Reception in the Council Chambers of City Hall, Thursday, Sept. 8, from 4-6 p.m. to introduce the new City Manager, Allen Barnes to the community.

All Gonzales citizens are invited. Refreshments will be served. For more information call (830) 672-2815.

Come meet Gonzales’new city manager

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reported that on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, Flatonia Police Chief Mike Noak contacted the Fayette County Narcotics Task Force regarding a Methamphetamine lab in the county. Fayette County Narcotics Task Force Investigators went to 2310 FM 609 just North of Flatonia. After speaking with the two residents investigators found mul-tiple precursors to manufacture Metham-phetamine and a Methamphetamine lab in the back of the house. “Items such as sodium hydroxide, acetone, and ephedrine

lead the investigator to look closer into the allegations,” stated Korenek.

Arrested and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphet-amine) and Possession of Certain Chemi-cals to Manufacture Methamphetamine, were David Barta, 55, and John Scherbeh (Sher-Bee), 33, both of Flatonia.

The Fayette County Task Force is an ef-fort by the cities of Flatonia, Schulenburg, La Grange and the Fayette County Sheriff ’s Office to address drug issues within the county.

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Flag football programstarts 23rd year here

GRANT: New deal madeMain St. Scarecrow contest begins

GISD vendor dayGonzales ISD staff stopped by the Gonzales Cannon table during the annual GISD vendor day at Gonzales High School Aug. 19. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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statement at this time. It is my understanding that several agencies are performing investiga-tions or audits. Findings will be forthcoming as available.”

Moulton Municipal Court sessions were canceled for the month September, according to Moulton City Hall records.

McMinn said she has no idea what charges if any will be filed against Nieto.

“It is too early in the investigation.” The investigation may involve Nieto’s auto

dealership, which has been closed since Janu-ary.

In August 2010, his business license was ap-proved for revocation and a fine of $7,500 im-

posed by the Texas Department of Motor Ve-hicles for a total of eight violations, according to the minutes of the agency’s board of directors meeting.

According to the DMV, the violations includ-ed failure to maintain complete records, sold or offered to sell motor vehicles without the appro-priate license for that type of motor vehicle, and failure to timely transfer title and pay sales tax.

Nieto’s (business) license was officially re-voked on Jan. 12, 2011.

Nieto became justice of the peace of District 2, on Jan. 1, 2003. His current term expires Dec. 31, 2014.

The Cannon made several attempts to con-tact Nieto at his business, residence and city hall for comment on this story.

Guests of the Gonzales County Jail who are cooling their heels in custody, will re-main in a comfortable climate thanks to a new air condition-ing system contract approved by the county commissioners Monday.

The county has agreed to a $42,585 one-year contract with Mtech, a company located in Austin. The maintenance agreement includes specific guidelines regarding the cost of overtime for service calls after

regular business hours, and es-timated response time to repair equipment.

The contract between Gon-zales County and Mtech, takes effect Oct. 1. It is designed to save the county money.

Sean DuBose of Mtech an-swered the commissioner’s questions and explained the rate charges. The on-call hour-ly rate for Saturdays will be $40 per hour, and Sundays and hol-idays it will cost $80 per hour.

“Once the maintenance phone call is made we’ll find out what the problem is and dispatch a technician,” he said.

“The technician should be on site between 4-6 hours.”

DuBose explained that his company has two technicians who live nearby in Lockhart, and if dispatched to Gonzales County Jail could arrive within 90 minutes.

“If we have to call you at night during the week, will there be an additional charge to the contract amount?” Asked Commissioner Donnie Brzozowski.

“Weekdays after 5 p.m. is also $40 per hour,” DuBose said. “But the whole idea on our full coverage agreement is to allevi-

ate as many of those (potential problems) as possible.”

DuBose explained that Mtech dispatchers take calls and identify problems. He said the company will have at least two technicians available for repairs.

Gonzales County has used the hourly rate program since January, contacting Mtech when there was a problem with the air conditioning system.

The changes and final details are being added to the contract this week.

“If all the guidelines and provisions are clear and agree-

able, then I’ll sign it and we’ll be good to go,” said Gonzales County Judge David Bird.

According to the Texas Jail Regulatory Authority, the tem-perature of the interior of the jail must be maintained at a certain level to pass inspection. Any deviation from following that can result in an incarcera-tion facility being closed until the problem is fixed.

In other business, the court set a public hearing date for the 2011 proposed tax rate for Sept. 1 at 9 a.m. and scheduled the date for setting the tax rate as Sept. 12, 9 a.m.

New AC contract approved for county jail

The Gonzales Economic Development Corporation unanimously approved their small business incen-tive grant program Monday night.

There are currently two applicants for the grant program — Outback Bar and Grill in the Booth and Lewis Building in down-town Gonzales, which new owner Marlene Metzler plans to open this Fall, and Laurel Ridge Antiques where business owner Bar-bara Crozier is renovating part of the historic home to create an Inn, while main-taining her antiques and gift shop business on the ground floor.

GEDC discussed at length the details of the program wordage, and the qualifications for partici-pating businesses.

Director Clint Hille asked why there had to be so much specification on the definition of “an estab-lished business” to partici-pate in the grant program.

“A business is a business,” Hille said.

“But a new business that doesn’t have a location, or a DBA, or somebody

who just wants to come to town to open a busi-ness who hasn’t done their due diligence to open the business,” EDC Director Carolyn Gibson explained. “That’s why I put ‘bonafide’ in the description.”

“Let’s just keep it simple,” Hille said. “Whether its a new or existing business.”

GEDC President Connie Kacir said the whole word-age is somewhat overkill because the grant is de-signed as a reimbursement for funds already spent by the business owner.

“So they’d have to have a location and license, etc, before they are eligible any-way,” Kacir said. We’re not approving and disbursing money at the time the ap-plication is tendered.”

The board made no de-cisions regarding the two current applications be-fore them, however Kacir and Gibson reminded the board of the crucial time-table one of the applying businesses in under to open on schedule.

“I know it would help that business owner make decisions about what she is going to purchase for the restaurant based on our decision for her participa-tion in the grant program,”

Kacir said.Gibson and the board

discussed whether quali-fication for the program should include how many jobs the applying business is creating.

Hille asked for creation and retention of jobs to be included in the quali-fication standards. They also discussed the vari-ance of the amounts re-quested by each business. Gibson commented about smaller business own-ers who ask for help on a smaller scale.

“Because of the diversity of the applications I receive, there may be one business needing more than anoth-er, based on one wanting to purchase more inventory and another just needing a new sign,” Gibson said.

The board agreed that all applicants must go through Small Business Develop-ment Centers (SBDC). Di-rector Hector Porras said he doesn’t want GEDC to fund new businesses through the grant.

“Even banks aren’t doing that right now,” he said.

Kacir disagreed with him.

“We’re here to subsidise and be that (financial) bridge for the businesses.”

GEDC green-lights smallbusiness grant program

By NIKKI MAXWELL

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By NIKKI MAXWELL

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The case against Grant originated during the 2009 Gonzales Municipal Election when Grant (Gonzales City Council-man for District 2 at that time) assisted council candidate (for district 1) Charles Roaches during his campaign, marking dozens of voters disabled on their mail-in ballot applications, and illegally han-dling ballots.

An investigation in 2010 resulted in Grant resigning his seat on the council as part of his pre-trial probation agreement with the DA’s Office at that time.

He also agreed to abstain from pub-lic office and assist the prosecution with other election fraud cases. One year later, the DA's office reported that Grant and Roaches had not followed through with

their probation responsibilities, and the case was taken to the Gonzales County Court in February 2011.

Grant and Roaches were then indicted by the Grand Jury on ten counts of "pro-viding false information on voting docu-ments" during the 2009 municipal elec-tion, and arrested.

Roaches’ case resulted in pre-trial agreement and probation earlier this year.

Grant’s original trial date was April 21, then re-set for May 26, July 20, and Aug. 25. The reason for the string of delays was never released to this newspaper.

McMinn said a new court date is being determined by the district court to final-ize Grant’s case.

The Cannon has covered this story since 2009, and will continue to follow it as the case as it develops.

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JUDGE: Probe underway

Youth flag football lets players improve coordination, which is something you can-not develop too much in regular youth tackle football.

A longtime youth flag football league can provide that development to players 12 and younger.

The Johnny Ross Hunt Youth Flag Foot-ball League starts its 23rd year of existence.

Local Gonzales resident Hunt served as an assistant coach when the league was started by O.S. Grant in 1988.

Afterwards, Grant had Hunt serve as the Assistant Director.

Today, Hunt runs the league.In its infancy, the league had around 150

kids participating.Now, it averages around 85-100 players,

Hunt said.He said he feels the league is different

in what it teaches its players in contrast to the Cross Roads Youth Football League (CYFL) which is the local Pop Warner youth football association.

“In the flag football league, the kids get to work on coordination such as eye-hand and footwork,” Hunt said. “Everyone gets to play as a quarterback, receiver and cen-ter.”

“In Pop Warner, you only get to play the position that you are in.”

Hunt said that only playing Pop Warner and not flag football affects mainly athletes playing wide receiver.

And some athletes who have good hands but do not get to get the football because they are playing as offensive linemen.

“In flag football, you get to work on using your hands a lot,” he said.

Hunt said that young kids’ bones are not structured enough for tackle football and injuries can be common.

Which can affect the player for years af-terwards.

“There was a study that showed that 85 percent of players in the National Foot-ball League who have drug problems with painkillers received injuries while in Pop Warner,” Hunt said.

He said after a child has spent several years in flag football, then he will be ready to advance to Pop Warner.

Hunt said the coaches need to be certi-fied in teaching the players how to hit, tackle, block, etc.

“I love the CYFL but I just think kids should play in flag football first, and the CYFL coaches need to be certified in hit-ting, tackling and blocking,” Hunt said.

Over the years in the Hunt Flag Football League, there have been a lot of notable football players and other athletes that have gone on to excel at the high school level and higher.

Some examples are Ari Ince, a volleyball, basketball and track standout who was a state champion in the pole vault and went on to compete in college track and field at Rice; the list also includes recent Apache football members David Schautteet, Cash Greathouse, Ckody Burton, Jacob Bird, Garrett Simper, Dustin Hastings, Charles Hastings, Justin Hastings and Kelvin Wright.

The league is for girls and boys ages 4-12-years-old and the registration fee is $30 per child. Registration day is set for Saturday from 9-11 a.m. at the Gonzales Junior High practice field.

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I am admittedly perplexed at the irrational, quivering, abject fear and hatred which grips the political left when Rick Perry’s name is uttered. I am even more perplexed at the ir-rational, quivering, abject falsehoods trotted out to paint Perry as some kind of conservative demon, the second coming of Ronald Reagan or something.

And worse, I don’t think the lefties realize that the more hatred and lies they spew at Perry, the stronger his base of support grows. If they don’t leave him alone, they’ll help get him elected.

But no one ever accused progres-sives of being able to think in big-picture terms.

There are huge, gaping holes in ev-ery attack on Perry mounted by the left, which at this point includes the state’s major daily newspapers -- who run attack pieces thinly disguised as “news stories”on him every day, usu-ally in concert with one another. The only group with a lower credibility rating than Congress is the news me-

dia: coincidence? I think not.But let’s examine the lefties’ most

dramatic arguments.* Rick Perry is a secessionist. False.

Rick Perry is a Bilderberger statist who would no more lead a drive for Texas independence than he would close our southern border (more on that in a moment).

Perry’s statement following a Tea Party rally in April, 2009, was that Texas has a “right” to secede, which is an accurate statement. Any state does. The question is whether Wash-ington would use military force to prevent it.

If Perry were a secessionist, you’d

also figure the secessionists would be among his fans. We’re not. Perry made his statement thinking he could pander to the quarter-million-strong Texas Nationalist Movement. They were not fooled. The TNM en-dorsed Debra Medina in the Repub-lican gubernatorial primary last year.

* Rick Perry is “anti-immigration.” False on a couple of counts, not the least of which is the fact that what the radical left defines as “immigration” is what the rest of us call “foreign in-vasion.”

Yes, Perry has talked tough about the need to secure our southern border. Yet he’s in charge of some 270,000 members of the Texas Military Forces -- that’s the national guard and Texas State Guard -- and he’s yet to take unilateral action to deploy them to defend that border from the continuing military incur-sions by our well-governed neighbor.

Perry has long been known as an open-borders advocate. He support-ed the Trans-Texas Corridor, and he backed off his support this year for

tough Texas legislation to battle ille-gal immigration because two of his big supporters — home builder Bob Perry and H-E-B chairman Charles Butts — love illegal immigrants be-cause they drive down labor costs.

That hasn’t stopped Perry from continuing to talk tough on the issue, since he knows his support among the Old Guard Republicans and reli-gious conservatives will never ques-tion the duplicity.

* Rick Perry dramatically cut Texas education funding. Another dra-matic lie. I realize that folks on the far left aren’t completely cognizant of how things run, but Texas does not have a “strong governor” form of government. Our Governor actu-ally has very little to do in the way of governing.

Perry doesn’t build budgets; that’s left completely in the hands of the Legislature, and Lord knows, that’s like giving the jail population gov-erning authority over prisons. Dur-ing Perry’s tenure in office, per-pupil spending in Texas has more than

doubled, although that has had no effect whatsoever on education achievement or performance.

The Governor is also not respon-sible for education policy, beyond naming a chairman of the State Board of Education and the head of the Texas Education Agency. The chairman casts one of 15 votes and the SBOE isn’t known for deciding matters by consensus.

Rick Perry is not a Tea Partier, and no more believes in state’s rights than he does in Moon Men. He’s a career Old Guard Republican who knows when to shift stances to cater to spe-cific audiences. He’s very, very good at it.

The left should still have plenty of ammunition to oppose a Perry presi-dential candidacy, but keeps sticking to the same irrational falsehoods -- perhaps following Goebbels’ adage to “Tell a lie, make it big and keep re-peating it until everyone believes it.”

Either that, or it’s Perry’s campaign which is secretly funding the smear effort knowing how it is helping him.

Dear readers, I’ve had many DeJevu’s in my 40 years of life, but unlike those foggy “I remem-ber being here/saying this to you before” moments which seem to evaporate like water on our 120 de-gree sidewalks, the one I’m experiencing now won’t go away. No matter how much I try to take my mind off of it, its still there. Because unlike a typical DeJavu’, this one is really happen-ing. And not just to me, to our whole city.

Last week we learned that Tillman Russell Grant, a former Gonzales City Councilman, is getting a second chance to walk away from taking any responsi-bility for his crimes against the people of Gonzales. On Thursday, the district attor-ney made another deal with Grant, offering him pre-trial diversion (AKA: pro-bation) for the second time.

Grant admitted his elec-tion misconduct (in a letter to the council and citizens, not in person) and was forced to resign his coun-cil seat in February 2010. At that time, the DA told the public he was placed on probation and not allowed to seek public office again. One year later we learned Grant never followed through with his proba-tion agreement, a grand jury indicted him, and he was arrested. Great, it was about time in my opinion! Gee, only 18 months after his crimes were commit-ted (with dozens of affida-vits and witnesses on the record). During that time he was allowed to continue working for the Gonzales Independent School Dis-trict on the taxpayer dime. And during the nine month investigation that led to his resignation, he still col-lected his $350 per month stipend for being a coun-cilman. That totals $3,150. I wonder if that was ever required to be paid back to the city? Just a thought...

So last Thursday, after stalling and rescheduling the court date four times, the case against Grant fi-nally made it into the Gon-zales County Courtroom. But there was no long awaited justice for the be-trayed taxpayers of Gonza-les. No satisfaction for the hundreds of people Grant lied to during the 2009 mu-nicipal election. And no apology from the former elected official who know-ingly orchestrated and par-ticipated in the candidate conspiracy, and maliciously manipulated the citizens who trusted him.

As he went door to door

with a candidate for anoth-er district, he told the citi-zens it was a new form of early voting. He told them he would help by filling in the rest of the complicated mail-in ballot application for them. He even told them to call him when the bal-lot came in the mail so he could help them vote. And then, after shaking hands and leaving their homes, he marked the trusting, faith-ful, unaware voters as dis-abled -- 83 of them to be exact.

Nevermind that they were mostly healthy, mobile people who worked outside their homes and were not physically handicapped (which would prevent them from voting at the polls.) Nevermind that he, and others, had the arrogance to mark entire households as disabled -- mothers, fa-thers, aunts, uncles, and all the children over 18 years old.

After all, it was in the name of democracy and helping more people vote, so no harm done. No “REAL” crime. Nobody got hurt, right? Move along folks, nothing to see here. I mean, its not like he shot anyone or robbed a bank.

In my opinion what he did was just as serious as any oth-er crime the district attorney has on her plate. There may not be a body on the ground, but there are still victims. Victims who came forward during the past two years, re-peating their testimony over and over to investigators and this reporter. Now, where is their closure? And why wasn’t this case taken as seri-ously as it should have been from the beginning?

Why is it that if you violate the city’s noise ordinance by blasting your boom car mu-sic too loud you get a ticket and slapped with a $400 fine...But if you tamper with an election and forge fed-eral documents, you don’t even have to write anyone a check?

Why is it if you tear up the grass with a mud-bog-ging, joy ride through the city’s park, you’re charged with damage to government property and spend the night in jail...But if you throw mud in the faces of citizens who trust you and tear away their

right to vote, you are un-touchable?

Why is it that if you walk into Walmart and steal $350 worth of merchandise, you go to jail...But if you steal a seat on the city council, and try helping someone else steal one right next to you, you’re rewarded with $350 a month?

The investigation against Grant began in June 2009, when he was a councilman. Nine months later he admit-ted some of his crimes and was forced to resign. Dur-ing that period he was paid $3,150 in taxpayer money. Since stealing more than $1,000 is grand larceny, where are the charges for that? If tampering with an election and stealing people’s rights isn’t enough to consti-tute a “real crime” for some people, surely taking $3,150 is at least enough for an ac-tual jury trial!

The Gonzales County Grand Jury apparently felt their was enough evidence to charge Grant, when they in-dicted him earlier this year? Why would the district attor-ney go to the trouble of pre-senting the case to them, if she was just going to let him walk away from any conse-quences. The whole thing doesn’t add up.

The citizens of Gonzales deserve answers. And I, as a taxpaying homeowner and resident of district 4, de-mand answers. I am tired of secondhand excuses, no re-turned phone calls and polit-ically-correct rhetoric. If this behavior goes unpunished and pushed under the rug then what’s next? Who will be the next one to push the legal envelope and see what they can get away with? And if they get caught, all they have to say is, “Well, why should I be punished for this, when the court let a council-man get away with that...?

And what if they play the race card? What if the next person busted for a crime against the citizens is white, Hispanic, or Chinese? What if they say, “You’re just doing this to me because I’m not black like that other guy....He got away with it, so why can’t I?”

The answer is simple: We are being set up. The ac-countability of our criminal court and its elected repre-sentatives is being destroyed by this.

So instead of having the historic reputation we cel-ebrate every year during “Come And Take It,” we will be know as the city which says, “Come And Take Our Vote.”

After all, that’s not a real crime, is it?


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If you’re going to attack Perry, at least tell the truth

Tea Party should be holdingCity Hall accountable, too

Citizens of Gonzalesdeserve some answers

Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neal once said, “All politics is local.” This phrase sum-marized the principle that a politi-cian’s success is directly tied to his ability to understand and influ-ence the issues at the local level.

The Tea Party movement has gained attention by focusing on national issues such as the na-tional debt. However, in order to strengthen its political position Tea Parties should also address local issues, specifically holding state, county and municipal elect-ed officials fiscally responsible and accountable.

The Tea Party, like all political groups, needs to appeal to the simple, everyday concerns of the citizens it wants to represent. They also need to hold local elect officials who represent their communities accountable to the electorate. For example, many Tea Party leaders are focused on federal EPA regulations and restrictions of gas ex-ploration, but common citizens/voters in Texas communities are more worried about the price of gasoline when they fill up.

While liberals talk about globalization, the Tea Party should speak about the impact globalization has on the local community. For example, liber-als want to protect the environment by encourag-ing people to use mass transportation and live in densely populated communities, but American

citizens must be free to live where they wish and travel how they wish. Tea Parties should question the costs of local policies tied to these liberal ideas.

Tea Parties should also hold local elected officials account-able. State, county and municipal elected officials need to be ques-tioned about their votes and poli-cies just as members of Congress are questioned in meetings.

Unfortunately, this approach of “all politics is local” is contrary to the notion that most people have about how to affect politics. Most

people cast votes to “send a message” to the high-est levels. Many people believe local elections are not that important, and concentrate on national issues. A good example is the 2011 re-election of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro who won with 82% of the votes cast, but only 7% of the total elec-torate actually voted.

In 2010, the Tea Party voted out several U.S. House members to help conservatives take con-trol of a national branch of government in re-sponse to fiscal issues and accountability. How-ever, in order to broaden and deepen its political influence, Tea Parties need to focus on the costs of government at the state, county, and municipal levels, and hold those elected officials account-able. Just as Tea Parties affected change in Con-gress, they should also affect change in City Hall.

I am by no means trying to equate myself with anyone that I am writing about today. I just wanted to honor some of my heroes, who inspired me to be the Sci Guy I am today.

Early television was a hodgepodge of pro-gramming that included Radio cross-overs like “Texaco Star Theatre”, which gave the Iconic comedian Milton Ber-

le the nickname “Mr. Televison”, also variety shows like “Godfrey’s Talent Scouts”, similar to today’s “America’s Got Talent” but without the voting. Of course family friendly situa-tion comedies like “I Love Lucy” and “They Honeymooners” always topped the ratings. But some of the most memorable television was the children’s pro-gramming. I have to of course mention shows like “Howdy Doody”, “Mr. Rogers” and “Cap-tain Kangaroo”. But in my opinion, the tele-vision shows that suc-cessfully blended enter-tainment and education were and are the best. Now I am sure I will miss a few of your fa-vorites, but I think the Editor of the Cannon might be a little upset if I fill an entire paper with the list of favorite science programming that is rattling around in my head.

I have to start with the pioneer. “Mr. Wiz-ard”. I wasn’t around

yet, when Don Herbert first started broadcast-ing “Watch Mr. Wizard” in the spring of 1951, but I definitely watched re-runs of the black and white 30 minute pro-gram which featured Mr. Wizard and a young boy and girl as help-ers as he demonstrated experiments which seemed impossible at first, but were easily re-producible by the view-ers at home. Each show ended the same way—an experiment that somehow displayed the letters “FCMBB”, which Mr. Wizard reminded us of the five parts of a healthy breakfast: “Fruit, Cereal, Milk, Bread and Butter”. Mr. Wizard produced 547 live episodes until his show was cancelled in 1965. In 1983, Don Herbert developed a reprisal of his origi-nal show for the cable channel Nickelodeon. “Mr. Wizard’s World” was a faster paced ver-sion of his show that ran new episodes un-til 1990, and in reruns until 2000, making it the longest running show on Nickelodeon. Don Herbert did much to pioneer and mold educational program-ming during his life and many later science shows paid him hom-age. Don “Mr. Wizard” Herbert, passed away in 2007.

Legend has it that a writer for a Seattle, Washington local com-edy show called “Al-most Live!” tried to correct the show’s host,

when he mistakenly pronounced the word “Gigawatt” as “Jigawatt” (the way Doc Brown did in “Back to the Future” ). The host indignantly replied, “Who do you think you are? Bill Nye the Science Guy”. Well of course that gave the writer, William Nye, a great idea for his own show.

In 1993, “Bill Nye the Science Guy” premiered on PBS and syndicated to local stations. With only 100 episodes, it still airs on some PBS sta-tions as an educational program for school use. Each episode taught a specific science topic to a preteen audience. Even though I was in my twenties, I never missed an episode. But of course it was because I was a “fellow science educator”.

Other shows have run targeting science to teens, like “New-ton’s Apple” and “3-2-1 Contact”, but Mr. Wiz-ard and Bill Nye, are still the icons of “Sci Guys”. I put them right alongside of my favor-ite Junior High Science Teacher, Mr. Volk, and almost as influential as my Gonzales High School science teacher, Mr. Jesse Smith. “The coolest science teacher, ever.”

If you had Mr. Smith as a teacher, whether at Edwards High School or Gonzales High School, write me at [email protected], or make a post on the cannon website www.gonzalescannon.com.

To say it is hot would be an understatement. When I left Harwood to go on this mission it was 100 plus almost everyday but here, the heat is oppressive. 120 plus in the shade with zero breeze is the norm. It is just plain hot.

When arriving in Afghanistan, one of the first things you notice is the dust. It is like nothing we have at home. Three inches of talcum powder is the best way I can de-scribe it. It gets everywhere and into everything. Dust and more dust.

Let me back up a bit first. The trip here was an adven-ture in itself. First I went to Ft. Benning for mandatory deployment training and briefings. Then it was on the Afghanistan by way of London and then to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I arrived in Dubai around eleven thirty at night and was met by porters and minders to get me to the correct hotel. The service was outstanding and they carried my over 150 pounds of gear.

Next I arrived at the hotel in Dubai. It was a beautiful hotel all arranged by the contracting entity. This is where I found out this was going to be a real adventure. I was greeted at the door by a couple of South African guys I had been in training with at San Antonio the month before.

They were in the pub drinking twelve dollar Bud Lites and basically having a last fling as there would be no alco-hol of any type after tonight. I checked in and went to my room on the fourth floor. As the porter opened the door to my room for me, I was approached by a young ( mid twen-ties) Chinese girl. Now mind you I have not even stepped into the room yet.

“Where do I go? She asked. Then she answered her own question “I Know, I go with you.”

What? Are you kidding me? I thought. I pointed to my wedding ring and said “Why don’t you try down the hall.”

“Ring don’t matter”, she said.“It does to me, no thanks.” I told her.She headed down the hall and I went straight to sleep,

alone. Seventeen hours of flying was exhausting and I wanted nothing but sleep.

The next morning I went down to meet the shuttle to the airport again to make the trip to Kandahar in Afghani-stan. This was a completely different type of flight. We, I and the South Africans I had run into the night before, loaded on a smallish commuter type jet. This was no luxu-ry flight. I could not understand the pilot on the intercom and I probably really didn’t want to. The flight took a very indirect route and stopped at a base en route somewhere.

We were on the ground a short time and the plane never shut down. As soon as a few passengers got on and the crew argued over the count until satisfied that they had everyone they were supposed to, we rolled down the run-way and were in the air again. This time we would stop at our destination: Kandahar Afghanistan.

Once on the ground there we were led into a hangar and met by military officials to start our in-country brief-ings and to meet our escorts. Seems you can’t go anywhere without an escort unless you have certain identification and credentials, which I do. Security is very tight here, as it should be.

I was assigned a space in a tent and settled in for the night. Pretty comfortable and quiet except for the shelling that began around midnight and lasted about thirty min-utes. The shelling started up again about 4 a.m. It actually was pretty cool as all but one round was outgoing. Some-thing got hammered that night.

While writing this email I was interrupted by the, what is becoming normal, siren then the announcement “rock-et attack, rocket attack.” So the laptop gets hastily placed on the cot and I grab the leash and my dog Uzo. We head to the bunker about 50 yards away. Sitting in the dusty and

dark sand bagged reinforced conex container, I can hear the sirens of emergency vehicles in the distance hurrying to wherever they need to go. I will not find out what was hit, if anything. Looking out the door and into the night sky I can see the slow moving lights of a drone flying high overhead.

About an hour later the all clear sounds and I return to the tent and finish this email. Just another night in Kanda-har. This reminds me of the opening to Apocalypse Now where Martin Sheen says “ All I wanted was a mission, and for my sins they gave me one.” Well I’m waiting for a mis-sion, I’m sure it will come soon.

Jon Harris is a Gonzales reserve policeman currently serving as a canine handler in Afghanistan. If you have any questions or comments for Harris, send them to: [email protected], and indicate if you prefer your correspondence not be published.


Getting settled in, in Afghanistan

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Science Guy

Steve Scott is a former science teacher at Gonzales High School.

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Maxwell showed some courage

A little tribute to theoriginal ‘science guys’

“Dispatch from Downrange”

By JON HARRIS

Special to the Cannon

Jon Harris

A couple of TV icons: Bill Nye the “Science Guy” (left) and “Watch Mr. Wizard”

Dear Editor:I want to commend Nikki

maxwell for her courage to write the column entitled “Communism doesn’t be-long in the classroom.” It is about time that someone took a stand again both the appalling school supply lists and the communist way of combining the supplies for the whole class to use.

Glynda Henderson DavisGonzales

It’s time tochange, GonzalesDear editor:

What in the world is wrong with Gonzales? There are people and orga-nizations spending time and money to promote Gonzales and bring more events and people to town. That means more business for the city not to mention more tax revenue. Folks are building motels and restaurants to serve these people. But now we find out the director of the chamber of commerce is telling event organizers to go away, that Gonzales wants to take a step back. I have been told the local car club was told that their car show was growing too big, and to scale it back. What! I thought the idea was to grow and prosper.

I know the downtown businesses want to keep ev-erything downtown. Well look at downtown. Empty

buildings and stores that cater to a very small group of people, not the tourists that come to town. All the people and events that are turned away means fewer people spending outside dollars. I recently saw where the GEDC gave $3000 to help promote the Come and Take It celebration. Why? If we are going to turn people away why do we need to waste tax dollars to promote it?

The Texas Independence Relay that was shunned would have given Gonzales national exposure. That’s free advertising folks, FREE! And what better place for the relay to start than the city that started the Texas road to independence? Bas-trop? No, GONZALES!!!

We have a new city man-ager that has said he wants to make Gonzales a “shining star” in Texas. Well, I hope he brings a lot of polish, our star is really tarnished today. He says he wants other cities to say they want to do it like Gonzales. I certainly hope

what is happening today is not what he has in mind.

It’s time to change Gon-zales, get out of last century. Replace these people that are holding back Gonzales growth.

Bill SheppardGonzales County

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We owe a debt of grati-tude to David Davenport, Canyon Regional General Manager, for his direct in-volvement in all phases of this project, and to Canyon Regional for expending its own resources to help get the job done.

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Gonzales County Courthouse Deeds

August 1-31Pieprzyca, Cynthia Ann Moore

to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 70.73 Acres, J J Tejada Svy.

Porter, Carole to Sharon Hunter Re-sources, Inc., o/l, 1.05 Acres, P Priestly Svy, A-56.

Peterson, William and Weterson, Janice M to Brzozowski, Christopher and Brzozowski, Jodie M, w/d, Lt. 31, Park Place Subdvn, Gonzales.

Brown Produce, Inc. to Quantum Machining, LLC, w/d, Lts. 3-11 and Pt. Lt. 12, Blk. 16 & Lts. 5-6 & Pt. Lt. 9, Blk. 17, Nixon.

Commissioner of the General Land Office State of Texas and Texas, State

of to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 6.671 Acres, Armstead R. Payton A-390 & Alex Carmack A-157 Svys.

Trammell, Auyve Ray and Tram-mell, Auvye Ray (aka) to Mendiola, Noel, w/d, Pt. Lt. 7, Blk. 38, Nixon.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to Seguin First Home, LV, w/d, Lts. 5-6, blk. 8, Badger’s Addn, Gonzales.

Hobizal, Jo Nell to Forest Oil Cor-poration, o/l, 138.oo Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land Svy, A-229.

Pigott, Roger S to Forest Oil Cor-poration, o/l, 24.999 Acres, Robert S. Armstead Svy, A-87.

Potts, Jim to WEXCO Resources, LLC, o/l, 189.47 Acres, Juan Jose Te-jada & James Roden Svys, Gonzales & Wilson Counties.

Potts, Zachary L. to WEXCO Re-sources, LLC, o/l, 189.47 Acres, Juan Jose Tejada & James Roden Svys, Gon-zales & Wilson Counties.

Bar F Land & Cattle Ltd and Potts, Zachary L. (Pres.) to WEXCO Re-sources, LLC, o/l, 189.47 Acres, Juan Jose Tejada & James Roden Svys, Gon-zales & Wilson Counties.

Hines, Milton D. and Hines, Reta P. to Lucas Energy, Inc., o/l, 34.714 Acres, Sarah Hendricks Svy, A-261.

Mason National Bank to Smith, Lillian H., w/d, Pt. Lt. 2, Tier 1, Orig.

Outer Town Gonzales.Guerra, Arnulfo and Guerra, Ruth

to A. Guerra Enterprise LLC and Guerra Enterprise LLC, A, w/d, 2.545 Acres (Pt. Lts. 14-15, Rg. 1) Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

New Home Life Enterprises, Inc. to Akins Jr., Frank and Akins, Janet, w/d, Lt. 7, Blk. 55, Nixon’s Extension, Nixon.

McFarland, Harry Don and McFar-land, Weldon H. to Mosqueda, Martin and Reyes, Rosa, w/d, Pt. Lt. 2, Camp-bell’s Subdvn, Nixon.

Rinehart, William f. and Rinehart, Irene L to McClung, John and Mc-Clung, Kim, w/d, 20.00 Acres, Andrew Winters Svy, A-471.

Murray, Collie L. and Murray, Nancy to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 25.070 Acres, Juan Jose Tejada Svy, AJ-448.

Weston, Debbie and Weston, Mike to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 20.00 Acres, William Small Svy, A-425.

Torres, Oscar to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 37.78 Acres, William Small Svy, A-425.

Mora, Alfredo and Mora, Maria C. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 31.22 Acres, William Small Svy, A-425.

Cancio, Michael to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 76.616 Acres,Wm. Small Svy. & Blks. 33, 38-39, 45-47 & Pt. Blks. 34, 37 & 48, Glover’s Addn,

Smiley.Estes, Eric and Estes, Eloise to For-

est Oil Corporation, o/l, Lts. 1-2, Blk. 48, Pt. Lts. 3-4, Blk. 49, Pt. Lt. 3, Blk. 36 & Pt. Lt. 2, Blk. 37, Glover’s Addn, Smiley.

Goode, Addie to Wilson, Lillie, w/d, 8.90 Acres, A B Williams, Svy, A-79.

Yeschke, William P. and Yeschke, Pat to Mercer, Michael Gene and Mer-cer, Rhonda Jean, w/d, 0.585 of an acre (Pt. Tract 7) Pecan River Ranch, J E Patrick Svy, A-55.

Kennedy, Jarrett J. and Kennedy, Nan A to Diamond M Drilling & Exploration Co., o/l, 259.749 Acres, Samuel McCoy Svy, A-340.

City of Gonzales and Gonzales, City of to Ford, Don and Ford, Nancy, o/l, 38.83 Acres, Outer Town Gonzales.

Assumed NamesFord, Leah S. -Red Hen Pottery Stu-

dio & Gallery, Gonzales.Ruiz, Evett - Zoe’s Cafe, Gonzales.Miles, Larry G. - Larry’s Saddle

Shop, Nixon.Peyton, Stephen Allie - Battalion

Roofing, Austin.Marriage LicenseGonzales, Martin and Torres, Eliza-

beth.Wilson Jr., Elroy and Alley, Joyce M.King II, Rufus Melvin and Pollaro,

Gabrielle Lou.

The First Friday Coffee will be held on Friday at Lone Star Bank at 8:30 a.m. It will be moved around, so if your business would like to host a First Friday Coffee, just con-tact the chamber or Main Street at City Hall to reserve the month of your choice.

Come & Take It is still approaching, pa-rade letters went out last week, with a dead-line of Sept. 12 to enter. If you didn’t get yours, come by the chamber office or call us, we’ll send you one. The Soft Ball Tournaments are Saturday, Sept. 24 for the men and Sunday, Sept. 25 for the co-ed.

Deadline to get the chamber ballots in is this week, so don’t forget to mail or bring them by the office.

The First Shot Barbecue is coming up on Sept. 16, 17 and 18, with the tractor pull going on at the same time at the J. B. Wells Park. Let us know if you need an entry form.

Christmas will be here before you know it, even though we don’t like to look that far ahead. If you have decorations you want to get rid of (making room for new stuff this year) Pioneer Village Living History Center is looking for trees or decorations to use in getting the village ready for their annual Christmas Tour.

Start planning your scarecrows! We hear that Main Street will be sponsoring the contest again this year and they hope to have them all up by Come & Take It for our visitors to see and enjoy

The chamber office will be closed for Labor Day, Sept. 5.Three and a Half Amigos will be at the J. B. Wells Park

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Holiday Inn GroundbreakingGroundbreaking ceremonies were held Friday for the new Holiday Inn location. Pictured taking part in the ceremonies along with Gonzales Chamber of Commerce members are Andrew Rodriguez, Ellie Rodriguez, Alison Rodriguez, Arnold Guerra, Ruth Guerra, Margaret Murray, Gary Mobbs, Carolyn Gibson, Bobby Logan and David Kapavik. Ruth Guerra said that she and her husband Arnold along with family and staff are ex-cited about the new Holiday Inn Express & Suites being built next to Sleep Inn on 183 S. Depending on the weather or possible construction problems they are looking at the hotel to be completed by March of 2012. The 3 story, 62-room hotel will also have a meeting room, fitness center, pool and complimentary breakfast for the guests. Holiday Inn Express & Suites is a part of IHG Franchise (Inter Continental Hotel Group). Holi-day Inn Express is like cream of the crop for the limited service hotels being considered the nicest or top of the best. Guerra stated that they enjoy working with IHG they are a likeable franchise they let them put their own touches in the hotel. Guerra also stated that they are very blessed to have partnered with Lone Star Bank, Gary Mobbs, president and the staff to take on a project this size and to GEDC - Carolyn Gibson Baros for all the help. Alison Guerra Rodriguez will take on as GM when the new hotel opens. They are look-ing at hiring up to 30 people to take on positions at the hotel. Guerra also said “the demand is here and we are ready to take on a second hotel and make it as profitable as we did the Sleep Inn.” (Photo by Mark Lube)

There is no better time for Texans to learn about groundwater conservation and to spread the word than on Protect Your Groundwater Day on Tuesday, Sept. 13, the National Groundwater Association (NGWA) said.

Conservation is an important way citizens can protect groundwater, said Cliff Treyens, public awareness director for NGWA, which sponsors the annual recognition event.

“As states like Texas grapple with water scarcity, the good news is that every person can do something to conserve,” said Treyens. “We each have a personal responsibility to protect groundwater. A small adjustment in one’s daily water use habits can make a big difference.”

Almost three-quarters of water used in-side the home occurs in the bathroom, with 41 percent used for toilet flushing and 33

percent for bathing. The remainder of indoor water use is divided between clothes washing and kitchen use, including dish washing, ac-cording to the U.S. EPA.

Outdoor water use varies greatly across the country. For instance, in California, 44 percent of all household water use is out-doors, while in Pennsylvania only 7 percent is used outdoors.

In addition to any state or local restric-tions on water use, here are some basic in-door water conservation tips:

* Never pour water down the drain when there may be another use for it such as wa-tering your indoor plants or garden.

* Repair dripping faucets and toilets. One drop per second wastes 2,700 gallons of wa-ter a year.

* Retrofit all household faucets by install-ing aerators with flow restrictors.

* Choose appliances that are water and energy-efficient.

* Don’t run a faucet when you’re not us-

ing the water, such as while brushing your teeth.

* Only run the dishwasher when it is fully loaded, and use the “light wash” feature, if available, to use less water.

* Store drinking water in the refrigerator instead of running the tap until the water is cool.

* Avoid wasting water waiting for it to get hot. Capture it for other uses such as plant watering.

* Operate clothes washers only when they are fully loaded, or set the water level to match the size of your load.

Here are some basic outdoor water con-servation tips:

* Check your well pump periodically. If the automatic pump turns on and off while wa-ter is not being used, you could have a leak.

* Plant native and/or drought-tolerant grasses, ground cover, shrubs, and trees. Once established, they do not need water as frequently and usually will survive a dry

period.* Install irrigation devices that are the most

water efficient for each use. Micro and drip irrigation and soaker hoses are examples of efficient devices.

* Use mulch to retain moisture in the soil.* Avoid buying recreational water toys

that require a constant stream of water.* Use a shutoff nozzle on the hose that

can be adjusted down to a fine spray.* Position sprinklers so that water lands

on the lawn and shrubs and not on paved areas.

* Raise the mower blade to a higher level. A higher cut encourages grass roots to grow deeper, shades the root system and holds soil moisture.

Learn other ways to protect groundwater, access NGWA’s Protect Your Groundwater Day web page at www.wellowner.org. Or contact your local groundwater district – Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District at 830.672.1047.

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1922 Co. Road 197Gonzales, TX 78629Phone: 830-672-3710

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First Friday CoffeeSeptember 2

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GonzalesThe Gonzales Livestock Mar-

ket Report for Saturday, August 27, 2011 had on hand: 2,420.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold $1.00 to $3.00 lower. Packer cows sold $1 to $2 lower.

Stocker-feeder steers: me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $155-$165; 300-400 lbs., $141-$151; 400-500 lbs., $130-$138; 500-600 lbs., $118-$126; 600-700 lbs., $116-$117; 700-800 lbs., $111-$115.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs., $92-$111.

Stocker-feeder heifers: medi-um and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $134-$155; 300-400 lbs., $123-$126; 400-500 lbs., $118-$121; 500-600 lbs., $113-$116; 600-700 lbs., $111-$113.

Packer cows: good lean utility and commercial, $48-$55; cut-ters, $57-$65; canners, $39-$47; low yielding fat cows, $56-$61.

Packer bulls: yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls, $69-$75; light weights and medium quality bulls, $66-$68.

Stocker cows: $650-$850.Pairs: $775-$900.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.

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HallettsvilleThe Hallettsville Livestock

Commission Co., Inc had on hand on August 23, 2011, 2,897 week ago, 2,789 year ago, 1,330.

Compared to last week, bet-

ter quality classes of calves and yearlings sold fully steady and very active. Plainer quality class-es were weaker.

Packer cows and bulls sold $2 to $3 higher on approx. 600 hd. total.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $52-$68; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $42-

$52; light weight canner cows, $33-$42.

Packer Bulls: Heavyweight bulls, $71-$76.50; Utility & cutter bulls, $65-$71; light weight can-ner bulls, $58-$65.

Stocker and feeder calves and yearlings: No. 1 steer & bull calves: under 200 lbs, $135-$175; 200-300lbs, $130-$170; 300-400lbs, $128-$167.50; 400-500lbs, $120-$144; 500-600lbs, $114-$134; 600-700lbs, $111-127; 700-800lbs, $102-$119. No. 1 Heifer calves, under 200 lbs, $122-$162; 200-300lbs, $113-$148; 300-400lbs, $112-$128; 400-500lbs, $108-$126; 500-600lbs, $104-$120; 600-700lbs, $100-$113; 700-800lbs, $92-$104. No. 2 & 3 steer & bull calves, 200-300lbs, $95-$132; 300-400lbs, $94-$130; 400-500lbs, $92-$122; 500-600lbs, $88-$115; 600-700lbs, $85-$110. No. 2 & 3, heifer calves, 200-300lbs, $94-$118; 300-400lbs, $92-$115; 400-500lbs, $88-$110; 500-600lbs, $84-$108; 600-700lbs, $80-$100.

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

CueroCuero Livestock Market Re-

port on August 26, 2011 had 2,875 head.

Had 478 cows and 32 bulls. Bulls were steady. Good cows lower. Did not sell enough calves before 4:00 pm to quote a mar-ket.

Packer bulls: heavy weights, $65.50-$73; lower grades, $55-$67.50; canners, $38-$47.50.

Packer cows: boning cows,

$52-$65.50; cutters mainly, $45-$54.50, few, $40-$44; low yield-ing cutters, $35-$44; canners, $25-$38.50, few, $10-$22.50; fats, $59-$65.50.

Dry cows, $40.50-$60; young, $32-$66.

Palpated cows, $38-$71.Cow and calf pairs: $530-

$890.Early indications are that the

calf market is steady with last week.

Lanny Baker presenting Amanda Autry with the Star Lone Star Farmer Award.

Ken Hedrick presenting James Alford the Sundown-er Award.

Lanny and Kathy Baker receiving the Family of the Year Award.

Ken Hedrick presenting Jerry Akers with the Honor-ary Member Award.

Ken Hedrick presenting Elgin Heinemeyer with the Distinguished Service

Lanny Baker presenting Kenneth Fink with Out-standing Member Award.

Lanny Baker presenting Ken Hedrick with the Star Young Farmer Award.

Lanny Baker presenting Blaine Frederick with the Star Greenhand Award.

Lanny Baker presenting Ty Tinsley with the Star Chapter Farmer Award.

Harwood town meetingThere will be a Town Meeting on Tuesday,

September 6 at 6:30 p.m. at Community Center in Harwood, to voice concerns and ideas to save the Harwood Post Office.

Relay for LifeThe planning committee for the 2012

American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Gonzales County has scheduled it next meeting for Monday, September 12, at 5:15 p.m. at Abiding Word Lutheran Church, 1310 St. Louis. Various committees are being formed and volunteers who are committed to the cause and are willing to be part of the planning team are encouraged to attend this meeting to learn more about Relay and upcoming events and fundraisers.

The Kick Off event for the 2012 Relay is set for Saturday, September 24, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Victoria College Gonzales Center. Relay teams and their captains from past years are challenged and encouraged to come for a motivated jumpstart and new teams are always welcome to join the effort. Together we will “Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.”

For more information, please contact Ar-line Rinehart (672-2077) or Patty Stewart (672-7581), event co-chairs.

Yoakum Clean-upThe City of Yoakum, along with area or-

ganizations will be coordinating a Cleanup Day on Saturday, October 1, 2011. Local businesses and citizens are asked to contact City Hall at 293-6321 if they are interested in disposing of ANY items. Regular household garbage, paint and hazardous waste will NOT be accepted. Calls will be accepted until Friday, September 23rd. No items will be picked up outside the City limits of Yoa-kum. If any individual or organization is in-terested in volunteering their time or equip-ment, please contact Gena or Theresa at City Hall. If there are any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact City Hall at 293-6321.

Community involvement is needed for this to be a success!

Apache BoostersApache Booster Club would like to remind

everyone that all Fall Sports are underway. Put on your spirit shirts. Decorate your homes & businesses to support your team! Mark your calendar for the community Pep Rally to be held Wednesday, Oct. 5th at 7:30 p.m. at Apache Field.

The booster club will be selling raffle tick-ets at each home game for the 50-50 draw-ing & a football signed by the 2011 Gonzales Apaches.

They will also sell raffle tickets for two

Gonzales Apaches Benches. That drawing will be held at the last home football game, Oct. 28th.

Protstate ExamsIf you’re a man 50 years or older, Medicare

covers tests to help find Prostate Cancer early when treatment works best. Medicare covers a digital rectal exam and prostate specific antigen (PSA) test once every twelve months for all men with Medicare over age 50. Coverage for this exam begins the day after your 50th birthday. See your local healthcare provider for more information.

Country StoreAccepting donations for the Country

Store to be held Sept. 10 at 8 a.m. at Sacred Heart Grounds. Accepting cakes, pies, cook-ies and can goods. Bring to 1822 St. Louis St. or call 672-8034. Thank you Isabel Mata. Riverside Barbecue

You get your chance to enjoy Ken Hed-rick’s superb barbecue Saturday, September 17th. to benefit Riverside Community Cen-ter.

Pick it up from 11 AM till 1 PM at Riverside Community Center, corner of St.Lawrence and Water Streets. See Ken or a Pilot Club member for a ticket.

You can enjoy whole OR half briskets at $35 or $20, whole OR half Pork Loins for $30 or $15, or a rack of ribs for $20.

You can call Ken at 540-4940 to order, be-fore September 9th.

Sundowner’s 4-HThe 1st meeting for Sundowner’s 4-H club

will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. at the Riverside Community Center.

New and old members need to enroll with 4-H connect, any questions regarding enrollment, please contact the Extension of-fice at (830) 672-8531.

‘Wake-Up Call’First United Methodist Church of Gonzales

will host the “Wake-Up Call for God’s People” on Sept. 11, at p.m. in the sanctuary of the church. The event is open to the public.

The event will include a simulcast with anne Graham Lotz and Joel Rosenberg, as well as music from the Dove Award-winning trio Selah.

Belmont VFD fundraiserThe 21st annual Belmont Volunteer Fire

Dept. barbecue and auction is scheduled Saturday, Sept. 17 from 5-8 p.m. at the Bel-mont Fire Dept. Plates will be $7 each.

Job CorpsThe Job Corps is currently enrolling appli-

cants aged 16-24 in over 20 career fields. If you need a GED, High School Diploma and a Driver License give us a call. College train-

ing is available as well. Get started today, call 512-665-7327.

Pesticide TrainingAnyone wishing to obtain a private pesti-

cide applicator license to purchase restrict-ed use pesticides on their property is invited to attend this training. People attending this class need to come to the Texas AgriLife Extension-Gonzales County Office to pur-chase a study manual and obtain sample test questions prior to September 8, 2011. Cost of study materials is $40.00 and the fee for the class is $10.00 For more information, contact the Extension Office at 830-672-8531.

Shelter VolunteersThe Guadalupe Valley Family Violence

Shelter is looking for volunteers to attend advocate training. The training is manda-tory, but flexible times are available. Indi-viduals that complete the training will be-come valuable advocates to our community members in need of crisis intervention and services. The training and materials are free. Volunteers are also needed for the “Cranny,” the thrift store operated by the shelter. Please call our office at (830) 372-2780 or our hotline number at 800-834-2033 for more information.

CWJC RegistrationChristian Women’s Job Corps of Gonzales

County is taking applications for their fall semester which begins on Tuesday, Septem-ber 6. CWJC is a free job/life skills training program offering women a fresh start in life.

Call Sherry Poe, Director, at 672 6180 or drop by the Bethany House at 721 St. Louis between 9a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday thru Fri-day.

Fire Dept. BBQGonzales Fire Department will hold a BBQ

Chicken Dinner Fund Raiser from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 at the fire house. Drive-thru only, donations $7.

Class of 1971The Class of 1971 needs an update on ad-

dresses of classmates for their 40th reunion. Contacts: Nancy at [email protected], 512-297-8500 or Jacque830-672-2626

Donations NeededThe Learning Center is seeking donations

of caps and gowns. If you have donations, please contact Ann Gaines Rodriguez at the Gonzales Learning and Career Center, PO Box 116, 1135 St. Paul St., Gonzales, TX 78629, 830 672-8291 / 830 672-1076 fax or e-mail [email protected]

Dementia-Alzheimer SupportThis group meets the first Wednesday of

every month at 1 p.m. in the Narthex of the First United Methodist Church. This meeting is free and open to the public. Shirley Goss, Wesley Nurse is the facilitator. It offers health-wellness education and supportive programs related to dementia. You are welcome to at-tend. For more information, call 672-1031.

Parkinson Support GroupThis group meets the second Thursday of

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

Free Exercise ProgramsFlex & Tone is held every Tuesday and

Thursday, 11-11:45 in the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church. These are chair exercises using exercise balls, dowels and hand weights. Come on, join us, and get fit. Exercises are led by an RN with blood pres-sure assessments available.

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


Area School menus: Sept. 5-9

NOTICE

OF TAX REVENUE INCREASE

The COUNTY OF GONZALES conducted public hearings on Aug. 29, 2011 and Sept. 1, 2011 on a proposal to increase the total tax revenues of the COUNTY OF GONZALES from properties on the tax roll in the preceding year by 5.91 percent.

The total tax revenue proposed to be raised last year at last year's tax rate of $0.645 for each $100 of taxable value was $5,578,667.

The total tax revenue proposed to be raised this year at the proposed tax rate of $0.6268 for each $100 of taxable value, excluding tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year, is $5,899,709.

The total tax revenue proposed to be raised this year at the proposed tax rate of $0.6268 for each $100 of taxable value, including tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year, is $5,999,593.

The of COUNTY OF GONZALES is scheduled to vote on the tax rate that will result in that tax increase at a public meeting to be held on SEPT. 12, 2011 at Commissioners Courtroom, Gonzales County Courthouse, 414 St. Joseph St. Gonzales, Tx. 78629 at 9:00 AM.

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Gonzales ISDEast Avenue - Breakfast and Lunch Menu: School

Holiday! Tuesday, Breakfast: French Toast Sticks, Apricots, w/Juice. Lunch: Honey Lemon Chicken, Wheat Dinner Roll, Macaroni & Cheese, Green Beans, Banana Half. Optional: Turkey Ham Sand-wich. Wednesday, Breakfast: Chicken Biscuit, Fresh Oranges. Lunch: Beef Nacho Salad, Pinto Beans, Mexican Spiced Rice, Jello. Optional: Ham & Cheese Sandwich. Thursday, Breakfast: Assorted Cereal, Raisins Pkg. Lunch: Chili Mac, Honey Wheat Bread-stick, Sweet Golden Corn, Fresh Broccoli, Banana Half. Optional: Turkey and Cheese Sandwich. Friday, Breakfast: Sausage Egg Biscuit w/cheese, Applesauce. Lunch: Hot Dog, Romaine Lettuce, Fruit Cocktail and Sugar Cookie. Optional: PB&J Sandwich.

Gonzales Elementary & North Avenue - Breakfast and Lunch Menu: Monday, Student Holiday. Tuesday, Breakfast: French Toast Sticks, Apricots, w/Juice. Lunch: Honey Lemon Chicken w/Mac & Cheese, Cheeseburger, Turkey and Cheese Wrap, Wheat Din-ner Roll, Tater Tots, Tortilla Crisp. Daily Sides: Burger Salad, Baby Carrots, Diced Pears w/juice, Fresh Or-anges, Apple Juice. Wednesday, Breakfast: Chicken Biscuit, Fresh Oranges. Lunch: Turkey Enchiladas, Grilled Ham and Cheese, Chicken Buffalo Wrap, Charro Beans, Mexican Spiced Rice, Chocolate Pud-ding. Daily Sides: Romaine Salad, Celery Stix, Apple-sauce, Fresh Honeydew Melon, Orange Juice. Thurs-day, Breakfast: Assorted Cereal, Raisins Pkg. Lunch: Chili Mac, Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Nacho Salad, Sliced Carrots, Honey Wheat Breadstick, Jello Cake. Daily Sides: Fresh Broccoli, Fresh Cucumber, Banana Half, Apple Juice, Apricots. Friday, Breakfast, Sausage Egg Biscuit, Applesauce. Lunch: Pepperoni Pizza, Fish Nuggets w/Wheat Roll, Peanut Butter & Jelly Sand-wich, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Baked Pretzel, Brown-ies. Daily Sides: Romaine Lettuce, Baby Carrots, Fruit Cocktail, Fresh Apple, Orange Juice.

Junior High & High School Breakfast and Lunch Menus: Monday, Student Holiday. Tuesday, Break-fast: Scrambled Egg, Sausage & Toast or Pancake on a Stick or Assorted Cereal w/Toast. Daily Breakfast sides: Fresh Apple Slices, Orange or Apple Juice, Sun Butter and Jelly Condiments. Lunch: Sweet & Sour Chicken, BBQ Pork Riblet, Hash Brown Starz, Jello Cake or Choice of Specialty Pizza, Cheeseburger, Chicken Nuggets w/Roll, Turkey and Cheese Wrap, Veggie Burrito w/Cilantro Rice. Daily Sides: Burger Salad, Baby Carrots, Diced Pears w/Juice, Fresh Or-anges, Apple Juice. Wednesday, Breakfast: Waffles w/Syrup or Chicken Biscuit or Assorted Cereal w/Toast. Daily Breakfast Sides: Sliced Peaches, Orange or Ap-ple Juice, Sun Butter and Jelly Condiments. Lunch: Enchilada Casserole, Grilled Ham and Cheese, Campfire Beans, Brownies or Choice of Cheese Pizza, Hamburger, Crispy Chicken Burger, Chicken Buffalo Wrap, Chicken and Bean Burrito. Daily Sides: Ro-maine Lettuce, Celery Stix, Applesauce, Fresh Hon-eydew Melon, Orange Juice. Thursday, Breakfast: Egg

Breakfast Sandwich or Blueberry Muffin or Assorted Cereal w/Toast. Daily Breakfast Sides: Fresh Orange Wedges, Orange or Apple Juice, Sun Butter and Jelly Condiments. Lunch: Inside Out Manicotti w/Bread-stick, Max Sticks with Marinara Sauce, Sliced Carrots, Green Beans, Brownies or Choice of Specialty Pizza, Cheeseburger, Chicken Nuggets w/Roll, Nacho Salad. Daily Sides: Fresh Broccoli, Fresh Cucumber, Banana Half, Apple Juice, Apricots. Friday, Breakfast: Break-fast Burrito or Cinnamon Roll w/Glaze or Assorted Cereal w/Toast. Daily Breakfast Sides: Applesauce, Orange or Apple Juice, Sun Butter and Jelly Condi-ment. Lunch: Rotisserie Chicken w/Roll, Crunch Fish Sandwich, Spinach, Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy, Rice Krispy Treats or Choice of Hamburger, Crispy Chick-en Sandwich, Pepperoni Pizza, Peanut Butter & Jelly Sand, Poppin’ Chicken Burrito. Daily Sides: Romaine Lettuce, Baby Carrots, Fruit Cocktail, Fresh Apple, Orange Juice.

Nixon-Smiley CISDMonday, Breakfast: Labor Day Holiday. No School.

Tuesday, Breakfast: Turkey ham, and cheese sunrise stick, juice and milk. Lunch: Frito pie, shredded cheese, pinto beans, rice, tossed salad, fresh fruit & milk. Wednesday, Breakfast: Sausage biscuit sand-wich, milk & juice. Lunch: Sausage wrap, ranch style beans, kernel corn, ice cream, fruit & milk. Thurs-day, Breakfast: Breakfast sausage pizza, milk & juice. Lunch: Chicken burger, baked fries, lettuce, tomato, pickles, fresh fruit & milk. Friday, Breakfast: Beef pat-ty biscuit sandwich, milk & juice. Lunch: Hamburger steak, whipped potatoes, green beans, roll, fruit & milk.

Mustang Special: Monday, Labor Day Holiday. No School. Tuesday, Ham & cheese hot pocket, baked fries, lettuce, tomato, pickles, fresh fruit & milk. Wednesday, Chicken spaghetti, green beans, tossed salad, garlic bread, ice cream, fruit & milk. Thurs-day, Soft beef tacos, shredded cheese, lettuce, tomato, rice, fresh fruit & milk. Friday, Chipped BBQ on bun, baked fries, lettuce, tomato, pickles, fruit & milk.

Rise: Monday, Labor Day Holiday. No School. Tuesday, Animal crackers & juice. Wednesday, Pret-zels & juice. Thursday, Peanut Butter, graham crackers & juice. Friday, Vanilla wafers & juice.

Shiner Catholic SchoolsMonday: School HolidayTuesday: BBQ on Bun, Ranch Style Beans, Baked

Chips, Sliced Pickles, Fruit.Wednesday: Beef & Cheese Enchilada’s, Combina-

tion Salad, Pinto Beans, Spanish Rice, Crackers, Gar-lic Bread, Fruit.

Thursday: Chicken Nuggets (Pre K-8), Roasted Chicken (9-12), Rice w/Gravy, Corn, Rolls, Fruit.

Friday: Cheese & Bean Burritos, Lettuce, Tomato, Picante Sauce, Carrot Stix & Cucumber Slices w/Dip, Fruit, Salad Bar (9-12)

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Obituaries

Malcolm Claude “Mickey” Reaves,

1914-2011REAVES

Malcolm Claude “Mick-ey” Reaves, 97, of Gonza-les, passed away Monday August 29, 2011. He was born February 22, 1914 to William B. and Margaret Wood Reaves in Gonzales. Mickey graduated from Gonzales High School and married Dorothy Steen on June 5, 1937 in Gonzales. He later joined the United States Navy serving during WWII.

After Dorothy passed away he married Iva Lee Calhoun on August 16, 1964 in Gonzales. He had owned and oper-ated Reaves Food Market in Gonzales for nearly 35 years where he dedicated himself to providing qual-ity service and products to his patrons. Mickey also served as the store butcher and frequently arranged grocery delivery to regu-lar customers. After a fire severely damaged the gro-cery store, Mickey closed the business and went to work for IGA Grocery in Gonzales until he retired. He enjoyed traveling and studying local history as well as world history. He was a loving and under-standing father and grand-father. Survivors include, daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Dave Holder of Meadowlakes, TX, step-son and his wife, Richard and Lonelle Taylor of Holly Lakes, TX, grandchildren, Dorothy Moore, Randall Taylor, Kim Tomlinson, great-grandchildren, An-drea Harper, Sarah, Zach, and Nick Tomlinson. He was preceded in death by his first wife Dorothy Steen Reaves, his parents, his sec-ond wife, Iva Lee Calhoun Reaves, sister, Margaret Fullilove, brothers, Walker and Wilber Reaves. Fu-neral serviceswere held at 2 p.m. Wednesday August 31, 2011 in the First Baptist Church in Gonzales with Rev. Chris Irving officiat-ing. Interment will follow in the Gonzales Masonic Cemetery. The family had

received friends at the fu-neral home Tuesday eve-ning. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Gonzales, the Gonzales EMS, or the char-ity of ones choice. Services are under the care and di-rection of Seydler-Hill Fu-neral home.

Thomas Keith Robinson,1945-2011

ROBINSONCome to me, all you who

are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

--Matthew 11:28 NIV

Beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Thomas Keith Robinson joined his Heavenly Father on August 27, 2011 at the age of 65. “Tommy,” as he was known during his younger years, was born on September 14, 1945 in Gonzales, Texas to parents Howard Grey and Mary Audrey Borrer Rob-inson. He spent most of his childhood attending school in Waelder and helping his parents run the family farm in Thompsonville. After graduating from Waelder High School in 1964, Tom entered the Class of 1968 at Texas A&M University and earned a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in Education. Before graduation, how-ever, he married his high school sweetheart, Phyllis Marie Drake, on August 26, 1967 at the First Baptist Church in Waelder.

Shortly after finishing at A&M, Tom enlisted in the United States Army. After two years of service and having fulfilled his enlist-ment, he was honorably discharged and returned home to Texas and his wife. Shortly thereafter, Tom entered law school at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. In 1972, he re-ceived his Doctor of Juris-prudence degree, and Tom and Phyllis subsequently settled in Gonzales. After a few years practicing law in Gonzales County, Tom partnered with R.L. Miller and W.T. Miller to form the Gonzales law firm Miller, Miller, and Robinson. Tom’s distinguished legal

career spanned over 39 years, during which he was consistently recognized for his ceaseless dedication to his clients and his unshak-able passion for the law. Although Tom was usually seen in Gonzales wearing a suit and on his way to the Courthouse, he was just as comfortable in boots and pair of Wranglers working at his farm, where he and Phyllis spent the majority of their weekends.

During their forty-four years of marriage, Tom and Phyllis celebrated the birth of their two daugh-ters, Robin Denise and Kara Brooke, and their six grandchildren, Joseph Grey Kapavik, Thomas Al-exander Fino, Phillip Er-nest Kapavik, Drake Law-rence Kapavik, Alysandra Marie Fino, and Audrey Bernice Fino. While Tom was often a man of few words, he could talk for hours about his daughters and their families, especial-ly the grandkids who affec-tionately call him “Grand-daddy.”

Tom was preceded in death by his parents, H.G. and Mary Robinson, and father-in-law, Cur-tis Drake. He is survived by: his wife, Phyllis; chil-dren, Dr. Robin & Larry Kapavik and Kara & Lt Col Steven Fino, USAF; grand-children, Joseph, Thomas, Phillip, Drake, Aly, and Audrey, brother, Dr. G. Tucker (Emily Buffington) Robinson; mother-in-law, Alysandra Drake, and sis-ters and brothers-in-law Lydia (John) Ondrias and Curtis (Connie Scrubar) Drake. Tom’s life was re-membered with a funeral service at the First Baptist Church of Gonzales on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Burial immediately followed at the Thomp-sonville Community Cem-etery. Pallbearers were Curtis Drake, Steven Fino, Freddie Kapavik, Larry Kapavik, Raleigh Measom, William J. Miller, Jr., Ash-ley Pirkle, and Ray Raley. Honorary pallbearers were Posey Alford, Sandra Baker, Pat Heinemeyer, El-len Gray, W.T. Miller, Syl-via Sheffield, and Jimmy Windwehen. The fam-ily had received friends at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home Tuesday evening. Memo-rials may be sent to First Baptist Church of Gonza-les or the Gonzales County A&M Club. Services are under the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Funer-al Home.

Sandra Lee Lord,1946-2011

LORDSandra Lee Lord, 65, of

Gonzales, TX, passed away peacefully Friday, August 26, 2011, in Gonzales. She was born April 18, 1946, in San Antonio, TX, to Roger and Cora Evelyn Mills Lord. Sandra loved to spend time with her fam-

ily. She enjoyed traveling and being around the ro-deo life as she supported her sons in their rodeo production business. She loved spending time with her dogs, working in her yard and flower garden, and living the country life of a rodeo mom. The fam-ily would like to extend a special heartfelt thank you to Dr. Commie Hisey and the staff of The Heights of Gonzales for their warm and loving care they pro-vided to Sandra during her time as a resident there. She was preceded in death by her parents. She is sur-vived by her sons, Bo Davis and Roger Davis, both of Gonzales, TX; sister, D.J. Jaynes and husband Dr. Charlie Jaynes of Dripping Springs, TX; grandchil-dren, Justyn Davis and Jayd Davis, both of Stephenville, TX; niece, Britney Cross of Dripping Springs, TX; and nephew, Brady Castille of Austin, TX. Memorial ser-vices were held 2:00 PM Sunday, August 28, 2011, at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales, with Rev. Clint Lowery officiating. The family received friends from 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM prior to the service. In lieu of traditional remem-brances, memorials may be made in Sandra’s name to The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah Dewitt Dr., Gonzales, TX 78629. Ar-rangements are under the care and direction of Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home, 906 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 78629 (830)672-3232.

Jessie Elizabeth Deason Ronshausen, 1915-2011

RONSHAUSENJessie Elizabeth Deason

Ronshausen, age 95, of Houston, Texas, formerly of Gonzales, TX, passed to her eternal home on August 26, 2011. She was born in Meridian, MS on December 30, 1915 to Ben-jamin and Sarah Gertrude (Clay) Deason. Jessie was preceded in death by her parents and both of her husbands, Milton Ron-shausen and Roy Staton of Gonzales. Her second son, Milton Dale Ronshausen, who passed away as an infant as well as three of her sisters, Virginia Wiley, Opal Gibson and Ethel Pullin Sears also preceded her in death.

Jessie is survived by her loving son, Chuck Ron-shausen and his wife Judy of Houston, TX and their two daughters, Laura Ron-shausen Dowdy and Kath-eryn Lee Ronshausen of Pearland, TX, as well as two of the greatest Great-Grandsons ever, Samuel Charles Thomas Dowdy, 22 months old and Jackson Robert Harrison Dowdy, 4 months old. She is also survived by her devoted sister, Annette Sullivan and husband Don of San Anto-nio, TX; her loving brother,

Delbert Deason of Austin, TX, and; her niece Sue Gibson Shelton of Victoria, TX, with whom she was particularly close, as well as many other nieces and nephews whom she dearly loved.

Jessie lived most of her life in Gonzales until the great Guadalupe River flood of 1998 when she lost all of her possessions. She then moved to Hous-ton to be near her son and his family. Her capacity to move to Houston and re-build her life from scratch was a testament to her great strength and forti-tude of spirit. While in Gonzales, she worked at Stahl Brothers with Milton for many years and later at JC Penney’s where she enjoyed many friendships. She loved playing chicken foot, yahtzee, canasta, draw poker and many other card games and she loved to have fun. She traveled with her family to New-port Beach, CA; St Louis, MO; Santa Fe and Cloud-croft, NM and New York City, NY where they all had many great times together.

Jessie will be buried at the Hermann Sons Cem-etery east of Gonzales be-side her husband, Milton and baby Dale in the family plot. A Memorial Service celebrating her long life will be held at First Bap-tist Church in Gonzales on Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions in her memory be made to City of Refuge Church at 3150 Yel-lowstone Blvd, Houston, TX 77054.

Rev. Lamar C. Leifeste,1917-2011LEIFESTE

The Rev. Lamar C. Leifeste passed away Au-gust 19th at 93 years, 11 months, 10 days. He was a pastor in the United Meth-odist Church for 29 years before retirement.

Rev. Leifeste began his ministry in 1951 as an As-soc. Pastor First Church Seguin; 1953 Corpus Christi Aldersgate (which church he started); 1957 Pleasanton First; and 1963 Brady First where he pas-tored for 12 years.. He re-tired in 1978. His Service was Monday, August 22, 2011, at FUMC, Brady. The Rev. Leifeste is survived by his wife, Joan, of Brady; son Michael Leifeste and his wife, Nancy, of Austin; daughters Melinda Philipp and husband Gary of Brady and Sue Owens and husband Monte of Brady; brother A.C. Leifeste and wife Eleanor of Kingsland; sisters Ruth Farmer and Arlene Moore of Austin; grandchildren Melissa Philipp, Kevin Owens and wife Shea, Aaron Leifeste and wife Gretchen, Zac Leifeste and Taylor Owens

and wife Beth; great-grand-children Averie Owens and Luke Leifeste; and numer-ous nieces and nephews. Condolences can be sent to his widow, Joan Leifeste at: PO Box 807, Brady TX 76825. (Jo Ann and Don Leifeste were married by Lamar, Don’s first cousin, at FUMC, Gonzales, 5-16-59.)

This editorial was writ-ten by the Editor of the “Pleasanton Express”, Mr. Wally Daetwyler, June, 1963. Lamar had pastored FUMC, Pleasanton from 1957-1963 and had been appointed to First UMC Brady:

“Quite a long time ago a volunteer fireman, who was retiring after 50 years of service to this commu-nity said, “You look ahead and 50 years seems like forever. You look back and it seems like yesterday.” So it seems like yesterday that I was interviewing a young Methodist minister who had been assigned to the first Methodist church here, and who acknowl-edged that he was “Glad to be back in a small town.” Actually, it was six years ago. In those six years, the First Methodist Church of Pleasanton has noted its 100th anniversary, and has built a new church sanctu-ary that must rank among the most beautiful of the South Texas small-town churches. And the pastor, the Rev. Lamar Leifeste, has spoken with courage and conviction on controversial subjects. He has been dedi-cated to community better-ment and improved human relationships. He has com-forted the sick, ministered the dying, and spoken with sincere eloquence at the biers of some of your friends and mine. Perhaps some of his congregation may feel, with some justifi-cation, that he should have devoted his energies en-tirely to his church. Lamar is a man whose energies, convictions and personal-ity transcends denomina-tion lines.He has not just been a Methodist minister in Pleasanton. He has been a minister in Pleasanton to whom many persons, outside his congregation, turned in time of distress.It is notable, I think, that Lamar has been an “honor-ary cheerleader” at Pleas-anton high school, and that he played an equally important role with the Golden-age group known as the Friendly Club.In my opinion, he is a sensi-tive, intelligent man with a great gift for expression and a capacity for human understanding.A small-town such as Pleasanton is fortunate to come in con-tact with men and women who are riding an ascend-ing star and whose stay, by the very nature of things, will be brief. Lamar Leif-este, in my opinion, is such an individual. He has given much. I wish him and his fine family well. I will fol-low his career with inter-est.” (Mr. Daetwyler died 9/10/74.)

NOTE: After serv-ing FUMC Pleasanton, in 1963 Lamar was ap-pointed to FUMC, Brady, not too far from where he was born in Castell, and served that community for 12 years.

There is a saying that tech-nology is nothing without the people behind it. The Gon-zales Memorial Hospital’s (GMH) Radiology Depart-ment is a great example of that colloquialism.

“I came here from a 560 bed hospital about five years ago, and we have a handpicked crew and better equipment here than in the big city,” said Charles Harvey, Director of Radiology. “We cross-train our staff and appreciate hav-ing state of the art equipment here, which helps us serve our patients.”

Harvey explained that his department has a 64 slice CT scanner, a much more advanced piece of medical equipment than where he came from.

“My previous hospital’ only had an 8 slice scanner,” Har-vey said. “This allows us to increase our productivity.”

In fact, Harvey said he has seen a dramatic increase in patient flow in his department during the past two years.

“We are doing more MRI’s, and physicians here are do-ing further interpretation (of tests) than before,” Harvey said.

That’s good news for the hospital and the Gonzales Healthcare System Founda-tion, which is focussing on women’s health for the cur-rent fiscal year.

“Our goal is to raise $409,325.00 to purchase the equipment this fiscal year for the hospital” said Connie Kacir, Executive Director of Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foundation. “The hospital has been seeking state of the art mammography equip-ment to provide the very best health care for women in our community.”

Kacir said the project has identified digital mammog-raphy equipment as the Gold Standard in imaging quality.

“The mammography equip-ment upgrade and focus will reflect the dedication Gon-zales Healthcare Systems has placed on women’s health care,” Kacir said. “This proj-ect states our mission of help-ing women everywhere lead longer, healthier lives.”

Kacir said the equipment purchase “illustrates the in-vestment Gonzales Health-care is making to improving services to meet the level of excellence.”

She said the digital mam-mography equipment will im-prove patient satisfaction and decrease the radiation dose up to fifty percent, while in-creasing the early detection of breast cancer.

According to Kacir and Harvey, the hospital will be able to eliminate the last film processor in use in the radi-ology department, improv-ing environmental condi-tions and save approximately $20,000 annually in chemicals and supply costs.

“I love working here be-cause every time we need something the board is good at finding a way to provide it,” Harvey said. “It will be great to have digital mammography capability. Right now we have physicians reading mammo-grams two days a week, but with digital we can send the images on the internet to the Women’s center in Austin and get a report within an hour.”

Harvey explained that through computer aided de-tection (C.A.D.), the equip-ment will record different algorythms incase there is something technicians and physicians need to take a clos-er look at.

“The image quality of digi-tal mammogram machines is impressive because there is more detail,” Harvey said. “You can increase the contrast and magnify areas to help clarify a diagnosis.”

Kacir said the hospital should have the digital equip-ment in the radiology de-

partment approximately six months following purchase approval.

“Breast cancer can be found early, and with the latest tech-nology we can help more pa-tients,” Harvey said. “The compression paddles on the digital machines are more an-gled and offer better visuals of the breast tissue.”

“I invite everyone in the community to participate in making a difference to im-prove healthcare and our quality of life by making a tax deductible donation to the Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foundation (GHSF) for this project,” Kacir said. “How ex-citing it will be to have digital mammography at Gonzales Memorial Hospital and know that you assisted in making this vision a reality.”

The GHSF was established as a 501(C)3 to invest gifts and charitable contributions

to fund the vision of advanc-ing health and well-being within the community. The foundation reaches out and partners to design and fund the services needed to deliver the promise of well-being for Gonzales and the surrounding communities. If you would like to make a difference and have a part in this exciting project you may make your tax deductible contribution to:

Gonzales Healthcare Sys-tems Foundation

Digital Mammography Project

PO Box 587Gonzales, TX 78629

Contributions may also be accepted as Memorials. A Memorial may be made to the GHSF in memory of or honor of someone at any time. Me-morial forms may be found at

all funeral homes in Gonzales or you may call Connie Kacir, Executive Director of Gonza-les Healthcare Systems Foun-dation at (830) 672-7581 to handle your memorial.

“This is an excellent way to acknowledge someone while giving a tax deductible do-nation to a very worthwhile cause and benefit our local health care,” Kacir said.

• 1 in 8 women will devel-op breast cancer sometime in their life.

• The use of Full Field Digi-tal Mammography will in-crease the detection of Cancer in women, especially those with Dense Breast Tissue.

• The use of this technology will provide our community with the same Mammography units that are used at breast centers across the U.S. (Bay-lor Hospital System, MD An-derson, Kelsey Seybold, etc.)


Anticipating new technologyCharles Harvey, Director of Radiology, and Kristy Garcia, mammography technologist, with the existing mammogram machine at the Gonzales Memorial Hospital Radiology Department. The hospital board is reviewing equipment specifications to possibly purchase a new digital mam-mogram machine. (Photo by Nikki Maxwell)

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Labor day Special!

Appreciation from Fisher HouseSeveral members of the Gonzales Young Farmers and the Gonzales VFW were recognized by the Fisher House as Fisher House Angels. This was awarded for the dedication to improving the quality of life for our military service men, women, and their families. Receiving this award were from left to right: Ray Raley, Ken He-drick, Inge Godfrey(manager of Fisher House),JoAnn Hedrick, Robert Bland, Kathy Baker,Lanny Baker, James Alford, Jerry Akers, Butch Gandre, Elgin Heinemeyer, Bob Falany, Kenneth Fink, Dick Kuenstler,John Floyd. (Courtesy Photo)

NIXON — The Board of Trustees of the Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Indepen-dent School District unanimously agreed on the adoption of a new budget for the 2011-2012 school year.

Superintendent Dr. Cathy Booth pre-sented the board with a $9,289,446 bud-

get, slightly lower than the $9.319 finance plan from the last school year.

“The budget is good,” said Booth. “We have nothing but pride right now. Not only is our budget balanced, but I really don’t feel like we cut anything that hurt. There were a lot of cuts on things, but I don’t think it’s nothing we can’t learn to live without. The good news is we didn’t let anybody go, the people who left did so

because they wanted to.”The board also voted unanimously to

adopt a proposed tax rate of $1.20 per $100 valuation. The total appraised value of all property in the district’s area for the current tax year is $840,620,064.

The proposed tax rate is comprised of a Maintenance and Operations (M&O) rate of $1.17, and an Interest and Sinking (I&S) rate of $0.03. The M&O funds the district’s normal operations and salaries, while the I&S is used to pay on the dis-trict’s $13.8 million of bonded indebted-ness.

By adopting this proposed rate, the dis-trict will be able to pull off the impressive feat of providing property owners a reduc-tion from the current tax rate of $1.265, while bringing in an additional $320,000 into their coffers.

Booth explained this can be achieved

by taking from the I&S rate and applying more to the M&O.

“The M&O tax is like having your money in a bank that pays more interest,” she said. “The state pays us more for the money we put in that side than in the I&S side.”

Because the proposed M&O is higher than the rollback rate of $1.07, a tax roll-back election will be required in order for it to take effect. The election is set for Nov. 8, with early voting running from Oct. 24 to Nov. 4.

“How can you not vote for a six-cent tax drop?” said Booth. “People just have to get out of bed and go vote ‘yes’ on that day.”

In other business, the board:* Approved an $800 cost of living in-

crease for all district employees across the board. The move could mean as much as a 50-cent hourly hike in pay for some of the district’s lower-end paraprofessionals.

By CEDRIC IGLEHART

[email protected]

So. county communitiesorganize 9-11 ceremony

The Nixon, Smiley, and Leesville areas are being encouraged to show patriotism the en-tire weekend of the 10th anniversary of 9-11. This can be done by displaying flags, and red, white, and blue displays at your home, your school, your place of business, in your dress, and on your car. Flags and national colors blanketing the southwestern part of Gonzales County is our way of stating, “WE REMEM-BER!” – “WE WON’T FORGET!”

Find a way to get involved in the support of our nation through this opportunity to show your love and gratitude. Neighborhoods, buildings, and churches should cry out in a combined show of patriotic support for three days.

Patsy Vigil Scherrer at Nixon Insurance will organize decorations downtown. We ap-preciate very much this participation by lo-cal merchants and look forward to enjoying the display. If all of us express what we feel toward our nation, we’re in for a giant, emo-tional exposition – let’s do it!

By KEY GARNER

Cannon Correspondent

Masons donate bikes to WISDLocal civic groups donated two bicycles. The Waelder Masonic Lodge, represent-ed by V.H. “Vic” Christenson, donated a bicycle to the Waelder ISD library. The Waelder chapter of The Order of the Eastern Star, represented by, Linda Chris-tenson, donated a second bicycle to the library. The Waelder Masonic Lodge and The Order of the Eastern Star each donate one bicycle to the Waelder ISD library twice a year. The bicycles are used as incentives to promote reading in the el-ementary. Elementary students can earn tickets after taking tests on books they read. If a student makes a 100 on a test, they earn one ticket to be entered into the drawing. Ms. Martinez, school librarian, announces winners of the drawings before Christmas break and at the end of the school year. Pictured are Linda Christenson and V.H. “Vic” Christenson. (Courtesy Photo)

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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

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

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

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Efeso Igesia BautistaHwy. 87 Smiley

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

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

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Bap-tist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

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

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

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

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

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

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

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Meth-odist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

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

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

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

Emmanuel Fellowship1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

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

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

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

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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

Places of Worship

RodRigueZBody ShopP.O. Box 8101839 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales, TX 78629

Phone: 830-672-6715Fax: 830-672-6717

Email: [email protected]

Family Dentistry of GonzalesGentle Quality Care

606 St. LouisGonzales, TX 78629

Office 830-672-8664Fax 830-672-8665

Logan Insurance AgencyHOME AUTO FARM

COMMERCIAL BONDS

Jim Logan516 St. PaulPO Box 100

Gonzales, Texas 78629

Travis Treasner(830) 672-6518

Fax: (830) 672-6368Cell: (512) 376-0773

Dry FertilizerCustom Application &

Soil TestingSTEVE EHRIG830-263-1233

P.O. Box 1826Gonzales, TX 78629

Morgan Mills830-857-4086

HOLIDAY FINANCECORPORATION

506 St. Paul St. • Gonzales, TX 78629(830) 672-6556

Luxury Motors830-672-7500113 US Hwy. 90A EGonzales, Tx 78629

SATURN SALES & SERVICEJames Miller

4421 Hwy. 97E, Gonzales

830-540-4285 • 830-540-4422

Serving Gonzales & surrounding CountiesFamily owned with over 20 yrs. experience

Sale every Saturday at 10amwith live webcast @ www.cattleUSA.com

P.O. Box 565 • Gonzales, TX 78629Dave Shelton Mobile 830-857-5394

Mike Brzozowski Mobile 830-857-3900

Office 830-672-2845Fax 830-672-6087

Ann HaubDirector(830)672-6865

Brandi VinklarekAssistant Director

(830)672-2065921 St. Peter St. & 1214 St. Louis

830-672-6865 or 830-672-2065“Train a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6

FARMERS INSURANCE GROUPGets You Back

Where You Belong! Gieser Insurance Agency941 St. Joseph

Gonzales, Tx 78629830-203-5325

Toll Free: (800) 358-5298Lisa G. GaspardAgency ManagerTDI #001113854

Leticia M. CenottiAgency ProducerTDI #001243345

Reyna’s Taco Hut1801 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, TX

830-672-2551Next to the Courthouse Annex

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & DinnerMon.-Sat. 5 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sun. 5 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Home of the “Silverado”Authentic Mexican Food Including Caldo & Menudo

Ilene B. GohmertCertified Public Accountant

409 St. George St. • Gonzales830-672-5030 • 830-672-2483 (Fax)

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Stock Tanks-Brush ClearingOffice 830-437-2873

David Ehrig 830-832-6063 Bubba Ehrig 830-832-5094

701 North Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, TX, 78629 830-672-4530

Ph. 830.672.6511

Community Health CentersOf South Central Texas, Inc.

“Making a difference one life at a time since 1966”

Most insurances accepted, we welcome Medicare - Medicaid.(No one is turned away for inability to pay.)

228 St. George StreetP.O. Box 1890

Gonzales, Texas 78629

Hours: Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 8a.m.-5p.m.

Tues., 8a.m.-8p.m. • Sun. 12p.m.-4p.m.Closed Sat.

BUFFINGTON FUNERAL HOME

520 N. Ave. C.P.O. Box 64Shiner, TX 77984Phone: (361) 594-3352Fax: (361) 594-3127

424 St. Peter St.Gonzales, TX 78629

Phone: (830) 672-3322Fax: (830) 672-9208

WAYNE SCROGGINSFuneral DirectorCell: 361-258-1303Email: [email protected]

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Greetings in the name of the Lord, I pray that you are well and experienc-ing the abundance of life that Jesus brings to all who believe. Let’s contin-ue our study in the eighth chapter of Romans. We will pick up in verse 26.

Romans 8:26-27 “In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself inter-cedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27) and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

I placed these two verses together because they form one of the most important truths concerning prayer in the Bible. Paul says that because of our weakness we don’t know what to pray for. The word weakness is the Greek word astheneia, which means feebleness of mind or body. Because of this feebleness we must rely on the Holy Spirit to guide us in prayer and not our own intellect or feelings.

How is it that we don’t know what to pray for? First is the simple fact that we cannot see the future. Therefore we might in our intellect be praying for something that might not be in our best interest. But God has planned our lives and He knows

what we need and when we need it. We might pray against something that God plans to use to teach us, or to cause spiritual growth.

The second thing is that no mat-ter the situation we really don’t know what is best for us. We might pray for something that ultimately could harm us. We may think that we know best, but I can testify that we don’t. The only One Who knows is God Al-mighty!

Jeremiah 29:11 “I say this because I know the plans that I have for you.” This message is from the LORD. “I have good plans for you. I don’t plan to hurt you. I plan to give you hope and a good future.” ESV. Think of it from the stand point of a parent who must refuse a child’s request because it may harm them.

Now in verse 27 Paul will show us that all things are of God, especially prayer. In the first portion of the verse He (The Father) searches our heart because He knows the mind of His

own Holy Spirit. God searches the heart of the one that is praying. He knows the state of our emotions as well as our frame of mind. Therefore He knows perfectly the meaning of the groaning that the Holy Spirit pro-duces in our spirit, which proceeds from our mouth. The word groaning in the Greek is the word stenagmos. It means to sigh.

Have you ever been trying to pray and it felt like there was a lid over you stopping anything from going up? Then you let out a sigh in de-spair, well friend fear not, you were prompted to sigh by the Spirit and it meant something which the Father understands. C.H. Dodd put it this way, “ We cannot know our real need; we cannot with our finite mind grasp God’s plan; in the last analysis all we can do is bring to God an inarticulate sigh which the Spirit will translate to God for us.”

I will close for this week as I feel next week we may devote the entire column to verse 28 which is among my favorites. I leave you to ponder it until we meet again. Romans 8:28 “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

May God richly bless you.

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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. Genesis 2:2 (NIV)

GOD rested.Do you know when to call it a

day so that you can rest? There are two types of people in this world: the workers and the over-workers. Some people have the ability to forget about their workday and chill out when they get home. The workaholics don’t have the skill set for inactivity. They have their plates full and keep piling more on. This is especially true for those who care for others. Caretakers often neglect to see that they need care too.

Our bodies are made from the same physical substances that make up the earth, and every-

thing of the earth deteriorates. In Psalm 90:10 God tells us that we have been given 70 years of life (anything over that is icing on the cake). However, when we don’t take care of ourselves those 70 years may be needlessly shortened by the choices we make.

It’s unfortunate that we seem to understand the mechanics of our cars better than the mechanism of our own bodies. It’s common knowledge that a car needs regu-lar maintenance to continue run-ning efficiently. Yet, how many of us know how to read the signs

from our own bodies that signal trouble? We all know that a car needs fuel to keep on going. How many times do we run out of gas because we don’t make the needed pit stop?

There are limitations to what we can continue to do without tak-ing a break. Energy is the gas that keeps our bodies running; energy it expended by everything we do. Strenuous physical exercise makes a large withdrawal from our en-ergy resources. Increased physical energy requires additional food, and additional rest, in order to keep us in good health. Growth of cells occurs when our bodies are at rest, and clear thinking depends on the energy available to our minds. It is more difficult to with-stand strain and to resist com-municable disease and infections

when our bodies are exhausted. Rest deposits energy that’s been withdrawn.

Rest and relaxation are just as important as sleep. Relaxation comes in different forms for dif-ferent people. Any pleasurable activity that is a change of pace from the usual routine helps the body shed tension and remain en-ergized. If you are the type of per-son who feels guilty about taking time for yourself let me ask you a question. How can you help any-one when you are too exhausted to form a coherent sentence? When the disciples hadn’t taken the time to eat because the crowds had de-manded all their attention, Christ told them to go and rest. That is wise advice for us all.

Learn to find balance in every-thing you do. In your worship,

work, play, and rest, balance is the key. Find out what is expected of you and do it to the best of your ability. Then take it easy. Take care of yourself or your body will give out before its intended time. Our loved ones want to have us around as long as they can. We owe it to the people who depend on us to be kind to ourselves. Let’s learn to read the signals so that we know when its time to call it a day. Rest the body. Relax the mind.

The Bible tells us that Christ is willing to carry the burdens when we are weary. Maybe we should let him do it.

God rested. Why don’t we fol-low His example and back off for a while? It will do us all a world of good.

love, eloise

Norma’s House and the Gonza-les ISD SHAC (School Health Ad-visory Council) are sponsoring an opportunity for adults in our community to take action against child sexual abuse by learning how to prevent this epidemic in real time. Darkness to Light’s award-winning prevention train-ing, Stewards of Children will be presented for the public and is proven to change beliefs, actions and attitudes towards child sexu-al abuse.

Darkness to Light is a national non-profit organization dedi-cated to the prevention of child

sexual abuse. Carolyn Morrow, a local Authorized Facilitator and a volunteer at Norma’s House will be leading this training.

Members of local law enforce-ment, Children’s Protective Ser-vices, the District Attorney’s of-fice and medical professionals will be on-hand to provide infor-mation and answer questions.

Registration deadline is Sept. 12. The training will take place from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the Coun-try Village Shopping Center, 1600 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr. in Gonzales. The event will include a free meal, free child care and can qualifty for continuing education credits.

To register call 830-672-1278.Darkness to Light’s Stewards of

Children is a three-hour work-shop designed to educate adults on how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the reality of child sexual abuse. This train-ing is open to the public and is of specific interest among par-ents, youth sports organizations / coaches / camp counselors, youth service organizations, teachers / school personnel and faith cen-ters.

Research shows that one in four girls and one in six boys are sexu-ally abused before the age of 18. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that 40 million Americans are victims of child sexual abuse. Stewards of Children emphasizes child safety as an adult’s responsibility.

MIDDAUGHAir Force Senior Master

Sgt. Mickey P. Middaugh has deployed to Iraq to serve in support of Opera-tion New Dawn, the for-merly named Operation Iraqi Freedom. This transi-tion signifies a formal end to U.S. military combat op-erations in Iraq.

Middaugh, an opera-tions and training super-intendent with 22 years of military service, is regu-larly assigned to the 30th Security Forces Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

He is the son of Marvin E. Middaugh Jr. of Shiner, and Cheryl Goodman of Newport News, Va. He is the father of Amy and Ash-ley Middaugh of Norman, Okla.

The senior master ser-geant received an associ-ate degree in 2008 from the Community College of the Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base, Gunter Annex, Montgomery, Ala.

Operation New Dawn shifts the U.S. emphasis from predominantly mili-tary to predominately ci-vilian as the U.S. officials assist Iraqis in accordance with the Strategic Frame-work Agreement.

The three primary mis-sions of U.S. Forces include advising, assisting, and training the Iraqi Security Forces; conducting part-nered counterterrorism operations; and providing support to provincial re-construction teams and ci-vilian partners as they help build Iraq’s civil capacity.

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Shiner Heritage Quilters invite you to join us at our meeting on Tuesday, Sep-

tember 6th, at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall in Shiner. We gather around 6:15 pm for socializing and light refreshments. The meet-ing, which begins at 6:30, includes lots of activi-ties such as show and tell, block-of-the-month, door prizes and special pro-grams.

This meeting will fea-ture a presentation by guild member, Ann Mose-ley, who will talk about a unique wall hanging that features a flag design made

out of prairie points. Ber-nadette Kresta, program chair, will introduce a new block-of-the-month de-sign.

Our members, who range from beginner to advance, are always eager to share our knowledge and learn about quilts from each other. Visitors and new members from Shiner and the surround-ing towns are always wel-come.

For more information log onto www.shinerher-itagequilters.org

My first newspaper article last week was so thrilling. The first thing I did when I saw the article was slam the paper shut. Could that be my article? My hus-band laughed and then I opened the paper back up to see just how things turned out.

Overall, I think I did pretty well and I do appreciate the opportunity that both Dave and Nikki have given to me.

The first correction I need to let you know is that I live in Waelder, but I do frequent Gonzales a lot along with San Marcos, Bastrop and LaGrange.

In all, let’s see… 21??? years of life, I have never felt like I lived in our car as

much as I have since we moved to the country. Ev-erything (that I think I need) is always in another town. I continuously search the internet trying to find interesting places and I am always asking questions.

This week let’s talk about Robert’s Steak House, lo-

cated at 1241 HWY 95 North in Flatonia. Their website is www.robertsteakhouse.com. The best news is that they are open 7 days a week from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. You probably have already discovered this little bit of heaven, but for me it was a Godsend.

It is not too far from home and a place to relax and unwind. It is a place where friends meet friends and visit. As soon as

you are seated you’re served with a basket of rolls and butter.

They accept credit cards, have take out, a full bar and TV’s. The back room can be reserved for special occasions. That is how I first tried it by attending the Waelder Homecoming in June 2010.

They have a large number of appetizer selections from fried cheese, chips and dip, and buffalo wings to name a few. Prices start at $5.50 to $14.

They have delicious soups and salads ranging from $2.99 - $10.99. Soup choic-es include steak, baked potato and my fa-vorite tortilla soup. You can get a cup for $2.99 and a bowl for $4.50.

A variety of hearty salads like steak, chicken and salmon run from $7.99 to $11.99.

The main entrée includes your choice of salad or soup plus one sidewinder. Some choices are pork chops, ribs, steaks and mouth watering prime rib! They offer chicken, pasta and fried shrimp, which is another favorite of mine! I order the half portion because it is perfect for me. In

Kids Meals start from $2.99 to $5.29.

Is your mouth watering yet? Well, take a ride to Flatonia and check it out!

Pros: The staff is friendly and your beverages

are kept full. The meals are good and their salads are fresh. In all, the food is deli-cious and the prices are fair.

Cons: The chicken fried steak is not to my lik-

ing. It could have just been a bad day for the cook. It can get loud when it is a full house. Both restrooms need baby chang-ing tables! Would you really like to place your child on the floor to change a diaper?

Overall: Great menu and good family restaurant.

The entire establishment was clean includ-ing the restrooms. Stop by and give it a try! I bet you will become a regular too. Re-member send your suggestions and com-ments to [email protected]


Great menu and really clean: Robert’s Steak House

Chelsea Schellenberg weds Blake Mikesh

Shiner Heritage Quilters set next meeting Sept. 6

Neighbors

Rhodes Elijah ThomasonMarin Jewel Thomason, along with her parents Brian and Nikki (Johnson), is proud to announce the arrival of her little brother, Rhodes Elijah. He was born on June 10 at 10:26pm at Baylor All Saints-Fort Worth. He weighed in at 8 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Joyfully welcoming the new addition to the family are grandpar-ents Britt and Laurie Johnson, of Gonzales, Carl and Bar-bara Thomason, of Gilmer, great-grandparents Jerry and Joan Lage, of San Antonio, Lena Thomason, of Shreve-port, Louisiana, and Trellie Mullis, of Cochran, Georgia.

Hey, Baby!

Bolech - ScaffStephanie Nicole Bolech and Cody Ray Scaff both of Killeen are happy to announce their engagement. Stephanie is the daughter of Steven Bolech and Betty Shows and the granddaughter of Joe and Pat Heins and Margie Shows of Gonzales and Victor Bolech of Yo-akum. Stephanie’s great grandmother is Esther Raindl of Shiner. Cody’s parents are Carolyn and Jimmy Scaff of Killeen. Stephanie graduated from San Antonio School of Dental Assisting and is employed with Austin Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in Georgetown. Cody is employed with the Copperas Cove Fire Department. A September 10th wedding is planned.

EngagementsChelsea Lynn Schellen-

berg, daughter of Dale and Sherri Schellenberg, and Blake Mikesh, son of Mike and Jackie Mikesh, ex-changed wedding vows at a double-ring ceremony on Saturday, May 21, 2011, at Zedler Mill in Luling, with Reverend Andy Smith of-ficiating.

Chelsea is the grand-daughter of Betty Cuvelier, of Rockport, Donald and Bertha Cuvelier, and Dan-nie and Joyce Schellen-berg, all of Gonzales.

Blake is the grandson of Beatrice Mikesh, the late Ervin Mikesh, and the late Burgess and Evelyn Kridler, all of Gonzales.

The bride, escorted by her loving father, wore a formal ballgown designed by Sottero and Midgley, featuring ivory organza and tulle. The strapless bodice was embellished with beaded lace and ac-cented at the empire bod-ice with swarovski crystals and framing the waistline with shirred organza. The full ballgown was delicate-ly detailed with cascades of lace from the basque waistline flowing to a full gown cascading to a semi-cathedral train. A corset back accented the back bodice.

The bridesmaids wore cocktail length gowns of shamrock green Chiffon.

The flowergirl wore a gown of satin accented with pearls and crystals.

The matron-of-honor was Valorie Daniel. Brides-maids included Manda Leal, Caitlyn Boscamp, Ashley McIntosh, Melissa Carlisle, Alecia Bartel, and Monica Leal. The flower-girl was McKenzie Hodg-es, honorary flowergirl was Reagan Daniel.

The bride carried a hand-tied nosegay of green ‘Limbo’ roses, white

dahlias, green ‘Trick’ dian-thus, white Sweet William, lisianthus, yellow spider mums, Scabiosa pods and lycopodium. The nosegay was tied with a band of kelly green satin ribbon with pearl accents.

Each bridal attendant carried hand-tied nosegays of cream-white cremones, yellow spider mums and fuschia Sweet William. The nosegays were tied with a band of kelly green satin ribbon with rhinestone trim. As the flower girl walked down the aisle, she gently tossed rose petals.

The best man was Chris Tate. Groomsmen were Zach Kotzebue, Eric Ras-mussen and Josh Daniel, Blaine Carlisle, Nathan Bailey and Bill Finch. The ringbearer was Kolby Saengerhausen. Ushers included Rick Frazier and Rayce Wurz.

The groom, groomsmen along with the couple’s fa-thers, wore a Classic Notch tuxedo with kelly green vests and Windsor ties by Classic Peak. The grooms boutonniere was a scabio-sa pod, hypericum berries, white Sweet William and lycopodium, groomsmen and ushers boutonnierre were greet “Trick’dianthus, yellow daisy, hypericum berries and fuschia Sweet William.

The Mother-of-the-Bride wore a Gold Taffetta strapless gown, rouching at the waist by Alexia II Designs. She was escorted by the father-of-the-bride to her seat. She carried a small bouquet made of ‘tussie-mussie’style nose-gays of ‘Limbo roses, white lisianthus, yellow spray roses and white Sween William.

The Mother-of-the-Groom wore a Vanilla poly chiffon gown with a strapless neckline. As her

son escorted her down the aisle she too carried a small bouquet made of ‘tussie-mussie’style nosegays of ‘Limbo roses, white lisi-anthus, yellow spray roses and white Sween William.

Special music was played by Les and Becky Richter before and during the cer-emony. Which included Its Your Love, Because You Loved Me, Mama’s Song and From This Moment.

Lynda Frazier, groom’s Aunt, read the chosen scriptures 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 and Colossians 3:12-17

Arrangements were placed in front of the arch in footed, embossed metal containers and contained arrangements of white stock, yellow spider mums, cream-white cremones, yellow yarrow, green ‘Trick’ dianthus, curly wil-low stems, ti leaves and scabiosa pods.

Both the ceremony and reception were held at Zedler Mill.

Andy’s of Shiner catered

a dinner, consisting of roast beef, mashed pota-toes, green beans, coleslaw and homemade bread. Pastor Andy Smith blessed the meal.

Daisy Scheske, after starting the night off with the “Grand March,” led by Bob and Shirley William-son entertained guest by playing various songs.

The bride’s cake, made by Kathy Zella, was served by Connie Dolezal, Leigh Pirkle, and Kathy Freder-ick. The groom’s cake, also made by Kathy Zella, was served by Lori Bauml and Patty Castelow.

On the eve of their wed-ding a rehearsal dinner was hosted by both the parents of the bride and the groom at the Southside pool in Luling. The couple along with their parents would like to thank Son-ny Dolezal, Brian Pirkle, Kevin Pirkle and Poochy Krider for all their help in preparing the meal.

The couple spent their honeymoon in Costa Rica.

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I just cannot believe that we are now calling 99 to 100 degrees a nice temperature because it is fifteen degrees less than what have got-ten used. When we got into the truck on Sunday it was 109 degrees, and just a little further West it turned into 111 degrees. It stayed at 111 degrees for so long that we gave up looking at it. I think Austin set a record tempera-ture of 112 degrees that day. Labor Day is soon upon us. It seems like it has arrived sooner rather than later. It is supposed to be the last fling before school starts, but in our modern day times school has already com-menced starting. Be careful on your holiday and slather the sun screen on because remember that it is boiling hot out there and you do have to be in school the next day. Take care in your driv-ing. Please do not text and drive. Please do not drink and drive. If you are going to engage in these extra activi-ties, then let someone else concentrate on driving and do not distract them. HAP-PY LABOR DAY!!!

The annual fundraiser for the Belmont VFD is hap-pening soon at the Oliver Pecan Building in down-town Belmont. It is slated for September 17th, for chicken and brisket barbeque plates for $7.00 each. Serving is from 5PM to 8PM. The Kerr Creek Band is playing. In ad-dition there is a raffle, auc-tion and silent auction. I am sure that they will have some fans, but if it is too hot for you, I am sure that you can take your plate home.

The Leesville Country Fair is Saturday, October 8th, at 10:00AM at the pavilions by the Leesville Cemetery. This is the annual fund raiser for the Leesville Cemetery and provides a $1000.00 scholar-ship for a local high school student. There will be live entertainment by the O’Neal Brothers Band. There is an auction, a silent auction and raffle drawing, a Country Store, and Flag Presentation. For the kids—All Free—bouncer moon walk, animal exhibits, face painting, craft activity table, Bean Bag Toss, Fish pond, Fire Truck and a Police Car. There will be plenty to eat and drink (No alcoholic beverages).

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Annie Kotwig (Mam-Maw is Joe’s mother); Kenneth Crumley, Jesse, Candy Brown, Gilby, Hester Behlen, Susan, Roy Wright, Lynn (who is Rudolpho and Edna Garza’s daughter as well as Rudolpho and Edna: Elson Schreiber(a former employee of Johnson Oil); Kathryn, Karen Roecker Mahan, Roland Barthels, Mary Jane Keith, Bill and Marie Lott, Laddie Studler, William Fink, Doris and Al-vin Hewell; Brenda; Mildred O’Neal, Lisa Rodriguez, Joe

Keith, Debbie and Bill Read, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Geor-gie; Lawrence Walshak and Joan; Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Lillie Lay, Mil-dred O’Neal, Louise Rossow, Selma Vickers, Teresa Wilke, Carl and Vida Tindle; Aunt Betty Gandre, Anna Linde-mann, Doug Parker, Ann and Bubba Bond; Shirley Dozier, Tommy Daum, Britt Hindman, Sean Weda, Scott Hindman, George Fink, the family of Marjorie Ma-calister, the family of Gas-ton Thurmond, the family of Joy Maynor; the family of Kenneth W. Baker and our troops and their families, and RAIN

There is good news on some of our people who are on our prayer list. William Fink had a checkup and the results were mostly good. Mrs. Hester Behlen had to have her back opened up to get some infection straight-ened out and is at The Heights recuperating and doing better. Alvin Hewell came home Saturday a week ago. He has round the clock sitters, but he is so very hap-py to be home. He is doing better than expected for his conditions. Tommy Daum has recovered enough from his surgery that he is going to be able to go to work this next week. Karen Roecker Mahan is doing well enough to come visit the parents and with a little help is going to be able to go back to her teaching job at the Christian School where she was teach-ing. Shirley Dozier is mov-ing around a little better. She has Michelle visiting from Arizona and is soon to have

another relative come in for a bit of vacation.

The Belmont Social Club was rocking this weekend with Best Friends playing on Friday night and Kerr Creek Band playing on Sat-urday night. I cannot re-member which night it was, but someone celebrated 51 years of marriage and had a cake to boot. On Saturday night Ceretta and Tommy Daum celebrated 41 years of marriage and Sidney and Bendra Brown celebrated 45 years of marriage. They read about the music in my col-umn and decided that was a good place in the middle of the area to meet. The Daums came from New Braunfels and the Browns came from Victoria. As I said, Tommy is going back to his job and is really looking well. He may be carrying his little pillow but that is quite okay. A lot of people have to have pillows these days for a lot of different reasons. Some-times it is just because the blast chairs are just too hard, like the fold up little “tin” ones. And then a lady named Lillie was celebrat-ing her birthday on Satur-day night. The Kerr Creek Band dedicated songs to her and sang a song about her, and she will never for-get this Saturday night. The Jack Finch’s were out to eat and listen along with Don and Gladyne Finch along with Donald and Patri-cia Hoffman from Nixon, and the latter two couples danced the night away. I don’t know his name, but there was the cutest little boy sitting behind us. He was so tired and he just would not give it up and go to sleep. There were just too many exciting things going on around him. Bless his heart, he finally konked out.

I think that the Best Friend gals are going to be back next Friday and then Clark Grien and Two Way Street is going to be there Saturday night. We will have to get all our eating done this week-end because the Social Club is going to be closed Labor Day. I guess that I will have to stock up on potato salad. They had a big extravaganza in Seguin at the Texas The-atre last week where Dotsy and many others sang. It is too bad that you cannot be two places at once.

I had to inquire about Katie Abrameit’s first week of teaching. Julia, her mom, said that she called on Mon-day to see how things had gone. Well, on Monday Ka-tie managed to keep up with all of her little first graders and get all of them on the right bus. However, it is best not to ask Katie about what happened on Tuesday. Nev-ertheless, everyone survived the week and she came out with a smile. I am sure that things will soon settle down to a slow roar. I somehow do not think that first grad-ers will ever be boring.

The Belmont Ladies Club had a very good meeting. There were quite a few ab-sent and we need to pray for Landis Kern and for Connie too. He was get-ting all of his tests done at M. D. Anderson and that takes quite a lot out of you no matter how you look at it. We also reported on Pete Kallies and Doug Parker and several others in our prayer list. The earthquake in VA had just occurred right before the meeting so we did not know too much about it. We are definitely in need of a roofer. It is eventu-ally going to rain, we hope, and we are going to have a mess. Glenda Parker made her “wondermost” chicken salad and had two kinds of bread to serve it on. Then she had cole slaw which had mayo with olive oil dressing and that was really tasty. Then there were corn chips, and two kinds of dip, along with a filled coffee cake. She was nice enough to have some diet Coke and then tea for those who did

not like diet drinks. Then there was Bingo. Let’s just say that the Bingo machine was in really good form. We think that the balls are not round any more, but have been banged around so much that they are square. Then some of the bunch tried out new Bingo games like strange “x’S” and Rail-road Ties or something. You can tell I was not too enthralled about them. It hurt my brain. However, we had some different and exciting prizes and that was really interesting. I am told that it was Shirley Bradley’s birthday and that she went wandering off to I believe they said La Grange with her husband Kevin. If it was not your birthday, I’m sorry, but she did go wandering and wasn’t at the meeting and we missed her.

We have changed routes for the dogs to go outside. They say that old dogs are supposed to be able to learn new tricks. Well I don’t know about this batch of dogs. Squeaky is in open rebellion about the whole situation. Hugo and Munchie go to the edge of the floor and just about jump off on this big new step and take about two steps backward and just stand there and look. I mean this look turns into a three minute halt and sometimes there is a forward motion and some-times there is a backward motion. Sometimes the halt is so long that Samson and Dililah think that they need to go to the edge and I have to make them go backwards. We have decided that the outside cats are being killed by Bobcats. It seems that some have been seen close in the vicinity of the house. Ev-erything is hunting water and food. So I do not want my babies going outside. Then the hogs have been reported to be worse than the Bobcats, so there seems to be a lot of danger out for the little ani-mals. Be sure that you have water out for your outside critters and maybe let a little water soak into the ground so that they have a cooler place to park.

Have a good week, and God Bless, and Pray for Rain.

In 2009, the Texas Vet-erans Commission no-ticed that Veterans were struggling to get hired with an unemployment rate at 8.1 percent.

Kevin Smith was hired in November 2009 as the Veterans Business Outreach Coordinator, a new position tasked with matching qualified Vet-eran applicants with jobs.

“I didn’t want to just get jobs for Veterans; I want-ed to get high-paying jobs with major employers for Veterans,” said Smith. “I wanted these Veterans to have a future at the com-panies that wanted to hire them.”

Some employers are now seeking out these promising candidates di-rectly through Smith be-cause he has promoted Veterans so well to major corporations across the state.

Until recently, Smith was the Texas Veterans Commission only Veter-ans Businessepresenta-tive, but due to Smith’s success, the Texas Vet-erans Commission has hired three new Veter-ans Business Outreach Coordinators to work with Smith and under his guidance.

The coordinators will each be working in a spe-cific area of Texas to get Veterans hired in that re-

gion. Smith has been pro-moted to Lead Veterans Business Outreach Coor-dinator and will oversee the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The other coordi-nators will concentrate on the Houston area, the San Antonio/South Texas area, and the Austin/Fort Hood area.

When Smith was hired, there were no precedents set for how to accomplish the goal of the new initiative. Smith started by reaching out to employers through social media such as LinkedIn to inform hir-ing managers about the Texas Veterans Com-mission as a source for high performing candi-dates—Veterans.

The Business Outreach Coordinators work in conjunction with the 173 Texas Veterans Commis-sion Veterans Employ-ment Representatives (VERs) who provide job-readiness resources to Veterans. Smith has trained the VERs on how to find the resumes need-ed for the positions that employers send to the co-ordinators.

Once resumes are screened by the VERs and sent on, the coordi-nators will do a second screening before send-ing them on to the hir-ing managers. With the second screening, the co-ordinators are ensuring that every resume sent

on adheres to all the re-quirements of the hiring managers. Building trust through screening candi-dates also helps form last-ing relationships with the companies.

These jobs are posted in Work in Texas, but

Smith also highlights Veteran preferred jobs on the Texas Veterans Com-mission website.

For more information on Veteran preferred job opportunities please go to http://texas-veterans.com/job-postings.


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Past Governor speaks to LionsPast District Governor John Rauser was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Noon Lions Club on Monday, August 29th. PDG Rauser, a member of the College Station Lions Club, serves district 2-S5 as the LCIF (Lions Clubs International Foundation) coordinator. LCIF is the official charitable organiza-tion of Lions Clubs International. Through funding from LCIF, Lions are able to help others, both in their local community and around the world. Since LCIF began in 1968, it has awarded more than 10,000 grants totaling more than $700 million. Many of LCIF’s successful humanitarian programs range from combating disability to disaster relief efforts such as the earth quake-sunami event in Japan. Rauser said that Lions are known worldwide for blindness prevention and he presented a power point presen-tation depicting the results of two Lions Clubs Sight-First Programs that raised more than $343-Million to continue and expand the battle against prevent-able blindness around the world. The Noon Lions Club contributes to LCIF with a part of members yearly dues, by fund raisers and by indiviual dona-tions by members. Rauser is pictured with Lion Julie Fairchild, program chairperson. (Courtesy Photo)

By Rachel Howell

Texas Veterans Commission

The Texas Nationalist Movement will host its sec-ond “Take Back Texas” sem-inar at the Crockett Hotel in San Antonio Saturday, Sept. 10.

This is one of a series of regional gatherings to rally Texans to mobilize to secure Texas independence. These events are free and open to the public and guests of all political persuasions are welcomed.

The events will be from

1-6 p.m. and will feature TNM leaders and guest speakers. The August event in Houston featured a key-note address from Apostle Claver T. Kamau-Imani, one of the most widely-known conservative Tea Party ac-tivists in Texas.

To register for the event, you can check at the TNM website at www.texasnation-alist.com, or you can call the organization’s national office at (800) 662-1836.

Texas Nationalists setSan Antonio meeting


Lost: Lost set of keys in city of Gonzales. Approx. around August 8. Offering reward of $25 for keys. Call 979-224-8013.--------------------------Found: Wedding Ring left at Wal-

Mart. Call (830) 445-6597 and describe.--------------------------Lost - 5 Donkeys. 1 Black, 4 white. I-10, 304, Hensling Lane area. 830-437-2952.--------------------------Accepting dona-tions for the Coun-

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Gonzales Learning Center seeking do-nations of caps and gowns. Call 830-672-8291 for infor-mation.--------------------------Job Corps is cur-rently enrolling stu-dents aged 16-24 in

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Local truck owner needs Class A CDL driver to run re-frigerated freight out of Yoakum, TX. 5 to 6 day turn-around. 3000-3500 miles per week. Condo Freightliner and new 53’ reef-ers. Good running, good pay and good equipment. CALL TODD, 361-935-7589.--------------------------Now accepting ap-plications for Out-back Bar and Grill, 520 St. Paul, Gon-zales, Tx. Need wait staff, bartenders, cooking and clean-ing. Pick up appli-cation after 5 pm on Mon.-Fri, or call 830-857-5194. You may e-mail resume to [email protected] Mechanic Needed. M&K Au-tomotive. 830-672-1000 or 830-263-2123. Ask for Sean.--------------------------Automotive & Die-sel Repair Business looking for Service Writer/Clerical Help M o n d a y - F r i d a y, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. Please send resume to: P.O. Box E, Gon-zales, Texas 78629.--------------------------M e c h a n i c / m a i n -tenance position. Successful can-didate must be experienced as a diesel mechanic or truck mainte-nance and willing to work on a variety of projects involv-ing general facility maintenance. We offer a competitive wage based on tal-ent and experience along with 401K, vacation and life in-surance plans. Ap-ply at Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms, County Road 348, Gonzales, TX. 830-540-4516. K.P.M.F. is an EOE employer.--------------------------

NOW HIRINGDump Truck/Water Truck Driver - Class B License required. Maintainer/Heavy Equipment Op-erator - Experience preferred. E.F. Ehrig & Sons, Ltd., 221 PR 2003, Gonzales, TX 78629. 830-437-2873.--------------------------Taking applications for a Cook in Di-etary Department. Full time position with benefits at The Heights of Gon-

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Multi Family Yard Sale. Saturday, Sep-tember 3, 8:00-?; Sunday, September 4, 12:00-? Children & adult clothing, furniture, office desk, chains, tools, utility trailer w/A.C., cook stove. Too much more to men-tion. Corner of Hwy. 90A & 90B (toward Belmont) at the old Flash Offices.--------------------------Garage Sale. Friday, 3p.m.-7p.m.; Sat-urday, 7a.m-1pm. 2833 Harwood Rd. Women’s size cloth-ing, lots of other misc. items.

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Gonzales County Commissioners’ CourtProposed Salary Increases for Elected Officials

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Pursuant to the Texas Local Government Code, Section 152.013, notice is hereby given that the Gonzales County Commissioners Court will meet at the Courthouse on Monday, the 12th of September, at 9:00 a.m.

The Commissioners Court shall consider a proposal to raise the annual salaries of the Gonzales County elected officials, to become effective on October 1, 2011, as follows:

County Judge Juvenile Board State Salary SupplementCounty ClerkCounty Treasurer RLF/ORCA GrantCounty Tax-Assessor-CollectorCounty Attorney State Salary SupplementDistrict ClerkJustice of the Peace, Precinct 1Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4Constable, Precinct 1 Rabies/Wild Animal OfficerConstable, Precinct 3 Subdivision Compliance Officer Permit OfficerConstable, Precinct 4County SheriffCommissioner, Precinct 1Commissioner, Precinct 2Commissioner, Precinct 3Commissioner, Precinct 4

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Allowance$46,091.85$3,400.00$15,000.00 $1,310$40,435.20 $1,500$38,628.76 $1,450 $2,400.00$40,435.20 $2,400$42,412.92$20,833.00$40,435.20 $2,400$36,618.56 $900 $3,200 $36,618.56 $3,200$36,618.56 $3,200$27,854.96$7,080.00 $2,400 $7,400$27,854.96$10,000.00 $2,390$27,854.96 $1,550 $45,760.00 $1,270$46,099.96 $1,330$46,099.96$46,099.96 $2,400$46,099.96 $1,310

$47,291.85$3,400.00$15,000.00 $1,430$44,000.00 $1,620$39,828.76 $1,570 $2,400.00$44,000.00 $2,400$43,612.92$20,833.00$44,000.00 $2,400$37,818.56 $3,200 $37,818.56 $3,200$37,818.56 $3,200$29,054.96$7,080.00 $2,400 $29,054.96

$10,000.00 $2,400$29,054.96 $1,670 $55,000.00 $1,390$47,299.96 $1,450$47,299.96$47,299.96 $2,400$47,299.96 $1,430

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The City Council of the City of Gonzales, Texas, will hold a public hearing in the City Council Chambers, Gonzales City Hall at 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Texas on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 5:30 PM, for the purpose of considering councilmember district populations and boundaries based upon the 2010 Census, and the consideration of proposed plans for revised council-member district boundaries. The City Council will receive public comments on the proposed councilmember district boundaries and redistricting plans.

The City Council will accept proposed redistricting plans from the public. To be considered, public plans must be drafted in accordance with the redistricting guidelines approved by resolution by the City Council. The public plan submis-sion deadline is September 13, 2011 at 5 P.M.

The maps and materials related to the above references public hearing and the criteria and guidelines for citizen presented plans are available for inspec-tion at the City Hall located at 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Texas 78629.

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El ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Gonzales, Tejas tendra una audiencia pu-blica en las camareas de ayuntamiento de la ciudad, situados 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Tejas a las has 5:30 P.M., el martes, el 13 de septiembre de 2011, con el fin de considerar las poblaciones y los limites del distrito de Miem-bros del Concilio y fronteras basados en el Censo 2010, y la consideracion de los planes propuestos para los limites revisados del distrito del ayuntamiento. el ayuntamiento recibira los comentarios publicos sobre los planes de fronteras propuestas del distrito de Miembro de Concilio de la ciudad.

El ayuntamiento aceptara del publico, sumisiones de planos de rediseno de distritos. Para ser tomados en cuenta, los planos del publico deben ser re-dactados segun las guias de rediseno de distritos que han sido aprobadas por resolucion del ayuntamiento. La fecha limite de sumision de planos del publico es el 13 de septiembre de 2011, a las 5:00 P.M.

Mapas y las materiales disponibles y relacionados a la audiencia publica de referencia y los criterios para el ciudadano los planes presentados, estan dis-ponible para la inspeccion en Municipalidad, 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Tejas 78629

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CLASSIFIEDS: Beautiful hand-made “orange poinsettia” pottery bowl. Large. Great gift. $35. Call (512) 917-4078.--------------------------Pecans for Sale. This year’s crop. Shelled, Halved. $10/1 lb. bag. 512-417-3032.

Culligan Water Softner and Rust Remover, old cars, elect. water heater, 2001 Fiber Truck bed w/key, Hay Bal-ers, Bar B Q pipe. 830-437-5759.--------------------------2 pipe BBQ pits for sale. Ozarka Water cooler with bottle.

Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------128 used letter-size hanging file folders, most have colored tabs, excellent con-dition. $30 cash for all or $7 per 25. 830-672-1106.

Computer, printer & desk, all $400. Stamina #4755 ex-ercise machine. Like new condition. $100/obo. 672-2267.--------------------------4 tires. LT2457QR17 in good condition. $100 obo. 830-672-2075.--------------------------Metal Bench, $150; Organ, $50; School desk & books of all kinds. Just out of Moulton on 532. Call 361-596-4403.--------------------------Tanning Bed for Sale. 1996, 24SF. $300. Children’s wardrobe, good condition. $300. 672-7127.--------------------------Beautiful Vintage water color paint-ing, landscape & water. 12x19. $375. Antique very or-nate picture frame. 16x20, $295. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Dalhart Winberg original oil paint-ing, landscape, $3800 (512)917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Picnic tables built with treated 2x6 lum-ber with bolts and screws. No nails. 4, 6, and 8 foot sizes available. For more details call 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273. Delivery Available.

Hay for Sale. 120 large round bales of coastal. Heavily fer-tilized. $70.00. 830-582-1057.--------------------------Heavily fertil-ized, horse qual-ity, coastal square &

round bales. Bebe, Tx. 210-326-6053.--------------------------17 clover hay. Hay for cows. $45 a bale. Call 512-917-4078.

John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall and 1988 Wrangler, new motor. Sahara special Make offer on Jeep and Tractor. Call 857-1781.--------------------------For Sale: Cat D6C Dozer, power shift, hydraulic single blade, Hyster Winch w/cable, brush cab, extra set tracks pads. 830-437-5759.--------------------------Ford 3000 Tractor. Diesel. $4,800. Call 830-203-9385.--------------------------1977 WW 2-horse straight load bum-per pull. Good con-dition - ready to haul. Asking $2,000. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------Old western saddle, needs repair $150 (512) 917-4078.--------------------------2 wheel trailer. Call Robert at 830-203-0540.

Beautiful 6 month old dark brown all leather sofa & lo-veseat, 4 recliners built in. Very com-fortable. Need to sell, too large for room. Store will not take back. They are custom made. Paid $4,000, will take $3,000 for them. Call 672-3613.--------------------------Cargo style sofa. $100.00. Call 361-772-5859.

Custom Designed Western motif 3 panel decorative screen, 54”x78 1/2’, horses, brands & leather look, $395 512-917-4078.--------------------------For sale antique set twin beds, antique wardrobe, table with chairs, sofa and two matching chairs. 830-672-7347.--------------------------For sale 3 piece an-tique loveseat, lamp’s new and used mo-bile chair with bat-teries. 1827 St. Louis 830-672-8034.

3/2, Singlewide Mo-bile Home. All elec-tric, excellent con-dition. Also, Zemith 25 in. console TV and 25 inch color TV. All in excellent condition. Call 830-672-6414.--------------------------For Sale: 3br/2ba Fleetwood Mobile Home. 1,728 sq. ft. New roof, lami-nated wood floors, new windows, new furnace and door. Antique bath tub. 85% completely new remodeling throughout house. Must sell fast and be moved. Reduced $18,000/obo. Call 830-445-9889.--------------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Doublewide Mo-bile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home is in need of repair. New water well. There are two septic tanks on property. Asking $56,000. Call 830-401-0147.

Grill Guard and Run-ning Boards for 2002 Durango. Westin Brand, excelllent condition. $300. Call 830-560-0238.--------------------------For Sale. Older Buick Regal Sport Car. En-gine is gone. Body, tires are almost new. Air condition system is new. Make me an offer. 361-594-2129. Shiner, County Rd. 299, Box 577.--------------------------1988 Wrangler, new motor. Sahara special and John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall. Make of-fer on Jeep and Trac-tor. Call 857-1781.--------------------------“Simply the best deal on new Chevrolets and GMCs and over 100 used vehicles with financing to fit most credit situa-tions. Grafe Chevrolet GMC - Hallettsville, TX - 800 798-3225 or 361-798-3281.”--------------------------FOR SALE: 2007 Toyota Camry LS - 48,000 miles; auto; a i r - condit ioned, power locks, etc. Great condition; be-low Blue Book price. Call in Gonzales - 404-502-0340. (Cell-phone).--------------------------1989 Ford Conver-sion Van. Super clean interior, good motor & A/C, transmissions slips, $1,900 firm. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.--------------------------2000 Jeep Wrangler SE Sport 2D, New Tires and New Sony Stereo. 107,000

miles. Great Condi-tion. Asking $7,000 obo. Call 361-865-3353.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Crown Victoria Ford, price $3,250. Call 830-587-6230 or 830-857-5559.--------------------------1998 Chevrolet, heavy 1/2 ton 4WD, 350CC engine. New AC. $5,000. Call 830-203-0147.--------------------------Van for Sale. $3,800 OBO. 2001 Oldsmo-bile Silhouette. Well-maintained, very clean. 181,000 miles. Great for family or hauling van. Call 512-905-8226.--------------------------2,000 F-250, Power-stroke, Ford Diesel truck, Hunter Green, Tow Ball, Bedliner, CLEAN, 182K Miles. Power windows, locks. $6,500 cash. (512) 917-4078.--------------------------2005 Yamaha V-Star Classic with Silvera-do Package. Lots of extras. 1995 F-250 4x4 Supercab Diesel 5-speed. 281-330-9417.--------------------------2009 Honda Trail-wagon, w/dump bed, headlights, re-ceiver hitch & seat belts. 2wd w/rear dif-ferential. $2,500. For more information, 672-8580.--------------------------2007 Saturn Ion, 56,000 Miles $5000 worth of perfor-mance parts. $9000 OBO 830-203-0282.--------------------------For sale: 1998 GMC P/U, V8 automatic, 2D Extended Cab, 181K miles, bed liner, tow-package, $3,800. 830-203-0287.

For Rent: 3BD/1BA home. 1510 Long Street. $525/month, plus $325 deposit. 830-832-3136.--------------------------2BR/1BA home in Shiner. Contact 361-594-3201 or leave message.--------------------------3BR/2BA home for rent on 318 DeWitt St/ Central Air. Big back yard. $850/mo., $500/dep. Call 830-445-9294.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for rent, w/covered patio, w/electric-ity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no

smoking. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances available. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-ances. $750.00 per month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.--------------------------House in country for rent. 3/2, nice yard. 361-594-3233 or 830-857-4364.

I want to share my gift of making a room come alive. I can see the room and vision what I can do. Clean pic-ture frames, knick-knacks, move fur-niture around. If thats what it takes to make my vision come alive. Guar-anteed you will be enchanted. Just give me a try, give Laura’s Gift a call. 830-203-5180. Free estimates on site.--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------Do you need your house cleaned? No job is too small or too big. $10-$15/hr. Available M-S. Call Brittany Balderas at 445-0703. --------------------------

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ANGELSOur caring home companions help seniors live at home. Hygiene assistance, meals and housework. Service provided up to 24-hour care. We let you choose your caregiver! Top references and af-fordable rates. Visit-ing Angels Toll Free 855.859.6989.--------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-865-0286 or 832-655-9195.--------------------------Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.

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Requirements:Class A CDL with HazMat/Tanker Endorsements

Must be at least 25 years of age

Insurance, 401K and vacation included

Applications available at:Schmidt & Sons, Inc.

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

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variety of job duties ranging from: Operating mixing, stuffing and cooking

machinery, placing and removing product from racks, washing items used in the

production of our products, inspecting and packing the finished products.Qualified

candidate will have the ability to work in a COLD environment. Follow instruc-

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Under general direction, directs, manages and oversees parks and recreation programs for the City of Gonzales.Required Education, Experience, and Certifications:• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation Management, Landscape Architecture or related field, and five (5) years parks and recreation program experience including three (3) years recreation program management experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.• Must pass a post-offer pre-employment drug screening.• Must possess Sate of Texas Drivers License.

Benefits for full-time employees include health insur-ance, retirement program and paid leave. Applicant must be able to pass a pre-screen drug and alcohol test. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all interested parties to apply.

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City of GonzalesAttn: Payroll Dept.P.O. Box 547Gonzales, TX 78629“No Phone Calls Please”

HELP WANTEDEquipment Operator

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is a skilled service-maintenance position. Work involves maintaining, repairing and installing new water and sewer lines, meters, fire hydrants, pumps and plumbing systems at all city facilities. Perform related duties as required and ability to operate equipment needed to perform these tasks. Class B-CDL required. Must be available for on call duty every fifth week. Starting pay $23,664.00.

Benefits for full-time employees include health in-surance, retirement program and paid leave. Appli-cant must be able to pass a pre-screen drug test and physical. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportu-nity employer and encourages all interested parties to apply. Applications available at the city’s web-site, www.cityofgonzales.org.

Please complete an employment application and take to the City Hall or mail to:City of GonzalesAttn: Payroll Dept.P.O. Box 547Gonzales, TX 78629

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CLASSIFIEDS: Private Caregiver. 20+ years experi-ence. Hospice certi-fied. Looking to do private duty, cook, clean, drive. 361-772-2011.--------------------------Ironing done, in my home can pick up & deliver. References if needed. Call Lou-ise (830) 582-1120.--------------------------Will clean your house. I’m depend-able and have refer-ences. Call Mary at 830-672-4691.--------------------------All-around handy-man available. I also build sheds, 16x8 tool shed. Call 830-857-1959.--------------------------Building Demoli-tion – House, barns, etc. 830-263-0663 or 830-203-0540.--------------------------Hand for Hire, Odd Jobs Done, FREE estimates. Anything you don’t want to do, Junk hauling, Tree Removal, Lot clearing, House pressure washing, office help, ranch, farm, lawn & Flower beds, Barbed wire fence repair, gutter cleaning, I do win-dows. One call does it all. Call Terry (830 203-1503 or (830) 857-5927.

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

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

GREAT DEAL!1997 Kountry Star 34 ft., 5th Wheel. 2 slideouts, upgrad-ed kitchen, ducted A/H, 11 storage compar tmenbts, ceiling fans. NADA.com/RV appraised RV at $15,900. Ask-ing $10,000. Great home for oilfield. Located in Rock-port, TX. 361-645-1009.--------------------------2004 Wildcat 5th Wheel RV. 28 ft., equipped to sleep 5, w/lrg. slide con-taining sofa & di-nette. Lots of stor-age. Adapted to pull as gooseneck. Excellend condi-tion. Call 361-218-1880.--------------------------2002 Jayco Eagle 27’ bumper-pull travel trailer w/slide out. New a/c. $7,000. Also, 2004 Fleetwood RV Pecos pop-up. Like new, only pulled from dealer. $4,000. Both units located near Old Moulton. Call 857-0734 or 361-596-7317.--------------------------1990 25ft Dutch-man travel trailer for sale. Fifthwheel hitch, queen size bed and couch, rear bathroom with closet, gas stove and microwave, new tires. Gonzales area, $4,000. 830-857-4750.--------------------------1976 Ford Eldorado Motorhome. V-8, super clean, good motor & A/C. New refrigerator. $3,700/obo. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.--------------------------24 ft. 2006 bought in 2007. Zeppelin Travel Trailer w/slide out; Lg. corner shower, qn. bed, m/w, stove, refrig-

erator, sat./cable prep, tires 2-yrs-old. $9,800; located near Gonzales. Call 936-203-4378 or 936-594-9809.--------------------------FOR SALE: 25 ft. 5th wheel travel trailer with 5th wheel hitch. Good condi-tion. Microwave, stove, refrigera-tor, sleeper couch, queen bed. Asking $4,000. Call 830-437-2359.------------------------1996 Pace Arrow. Ready to travel. Good condition. Runs well. 830-660-3883.--------------------------2009 38’ Landmark. 3 slide-outs. Like new. King size bed. Great Buy. $39,900. 830-437-5211.

2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.--------------------------Harley Sportster, 883 Custom, 2005 model. Hwy. guard bars, detachable windshield, saddle bags, windshield bag. Yellow custom paint, garage kept, excellent condition, never laid down. 9K miles, tires excel-lent, new battery & new rear tire. $5,200.00 FIRM. Call 830-560-0238.--------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.--------------------------Enduro 55 lb. Thrust Minn Kota used 1 hour. $150. 916 Qualls St., Gonzales.

Boat Fender and life vests. $5 to $10 each. 916 Qualls St., Gonzales.--------------------------For Sale: 2007 Hon-da Shadow, VT 750 C2, 3,902 Miles. Like New condition. $5,000.00. Call after 5:00 p.m. M-F. 830-540-3555.--------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-David-son. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, beginners or ex-

perienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.--------------------------2003 Golf Cart for sale. Call 830-857-6208.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2-RV Parking Sites, shade trees, all hook ups. 5 miles East Gon-zales. $350/mo. Call 263-0292.--------------------------5 RV Spots for rent. $350/mo. Electric, sewer hookups, wa-ter all included in price. Off 90A and Kelly Loop. For in-formation call 830-857-3112.--------------------------2003 Dyna Super-Glide Harley 100 yr. Anniv. Gold Key ad-dition windshield, backrest, forward controls. Great con-dition. $7,500. 830-875-2278.--------------------------For Sale or Trade. 2006 Yamaha V-Star 1100 Midnight Custom motorcycle w/helmet & deluxe motorcycle cover for sale or trade. Purchased new July 2007 - currently has only 987 miles - Pristine condition, garage kept & ma-ture owner-must see to appreciate. $5,400 or trade for good condition Jon Boat, Jet Ski, or Pontoon boat. I can email photos. [email protected]. 830-672-6033.--------------------------Having Fun with piano lessons with Shelia Wright 1622 N. College St. Youth and Adults Flexible Schedule (830) 672-2719.

CKC Regis-tered Miniature Dachsund puppies. Call 830-888-0165.--------------------------Free coonhound mix pups. Two spayed females, 1st shots, wormed, 6 months old. Res-cued after aban-doned on dirt road. Smart, healthy, gen-tle, already hunting together. Get along with other dogs.

830-540-4591.--------------------------FREE 1/2 Lab Pup-pies. Call 830-857-6208.--------------------------For Sale: Dog car-rying cage. Asking $40.00. Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------AKC German Short-hair pointer pup-pies for sale. Great hunters & family companions. Male - $200; female - $250. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Pups For Sale. Great Pyrenees, (1/8 Ana-tolian). Call Sammie Gibson at (830) 203-8666.--------------------------Splish Splash Time for a bath! Groom-ing with loving touch... We strive to give your pet a pawsitive experi-ence. We do diffi-cult dogs. We also brush teeth. Master Groomer Stacy Gar-cia at 830-540-3344 or 972-464-6312 or Shirley at 830-540-4365.--------------------------Very cute Rat Terrier puppies. 6 wks old. $75. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Tiny Chihuahua puppies. 8 wks. Registered. S/W, ti-ger striped, Apple Head. $150-$175. 210-379-0771.--------------------------Cocker Spaniels AKC, 3 males, shots & wormed. $250.00. 830-540-4368 or 830-203-8511.--------------------------Male, 8 wks. old Schnauzer/Terrier Mix. Free to good home. Socialized with children, other dogs and a cat. Call 830-203-8444 be-fore 1 p.m.--------------------------2 Great Dane pup-pies. Asking $225. 857-5147.--------------------------Rhodesian Ridge-back and lab mix puppies. With ridges $50. They are blond, brown and tan. Without ridges, $25. Will be big dogs around 75-100 lbs. Call Leia Dalton at 830-263-2570.--------------------------AKC Bichon Pup-py’s. Shots and wormed. Females, $500; Males, $450. 830-540-4368. 830-203-8511, cell.--------------------------Turn your favorite pet photo into a work of art! Artist Brenda Shannon, Pastel or Acrylic. Great gift idea. (512) 917-4078.--------------------------Cute, playful, pure-bred shorthair Chi-huahua puppies. 6 wks. Male & fe-male. Black and tan markings. 1st shots, wormed. $150

each. Christine, 830-875-9519.--------------------------5 Cockatiels. 2 years old. Yellow and gray. $50 each. Call 830-534-5930.

3 female geese, 1 male goose. Also laying hens to pick from. Call 361-594-4319.--------------------------Polish crested Blue Legged Bantam Chickens. 512-272-5147.--------------------------HACCP Trained per-son need to help write HACCP plan for poultry. 830-339-0419.--------------------------Boer Goats for Sale: 1 Billy, 6 mths. 1 Nannie, 6 mth & 5 Adult Nannies. Sell as package deal or individual. 830-560-0238.--------------------------Baby Guineas. $2.00 each, your choice. Multiple colors. 8 3 0 - 5 4 0 - 4 0 6 3 . Leave number, will return call.--------------------------For Sale: Guinea eggs for setting. Call 830-672-7384.--------------------------For Sale: Calf table/shoot with self catch gate. $950. 830-437-5747.--------------------------For Sale: Sorrell Gelding, 10 yrs. old. Big, strong, sound ranch horse. Very good looking. Needs a strong rid-er. Gentle, calm dis-position. $850/firm. Call 361-596-4954.

Black Limousin & Black Angus Bulls. Also Heifers. Gentle. Increase your wean-ing waits. Delivery available. 979-263-5829.--------------------------Reg. Polled Her-eford Bulls. One year to 3 1/2 years, $1,100-$1,500. Also Reg. Heifers, 1 yr. olds. $650-$850. Call 830-540-4430.--------------------------For Sale. 3 black Brangus Bulls, 1

red Brangus Bull. 2 yrs. old. No papers. $1,200/each. 830-437-5772.--------------------------For Sale. Female mare, 6 yrs. old. $500. Please call if interested. 713-203-2814.--------------------------Riding lessons in Gonzales. My horses or yours. For more information please call, 830-203-0470.

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RESIDENTIAL297 HOWARD LANE, Gonzales - Located on Guadalupe River adjoining Lake-H, 2/1, app. 1,068 sq. ft. Very nice. Move in ready, Deck, fishing pier!..........................................................................................................................................................$148,500First North Street, Harwood - .49 ac lot w/2 storage bldgs, water, septic, electricity avail-able..................................................................................................................$20,0004-H Lake Property - 90B - Gonzales, 41 ac. lot w/MH, Mature trees. Great for weekend getaway; rental property....................................................................................$55,000110 First North St., Harwood - 3/1, app. 1,410 sq. ft, FP, 2 storage bldgs, nice lot.................................................................................................................................$46,000277 HOWARD LANE, GONZALES - 1.168 acres - beautiful river property, rock home, app. 2,648 sq. ft., open kit with family room and dining area glassed in with panoramic view of water. Wrap around porch. Located on the Guadalupe River, adjoining Lake 4-H. Workshop and fishing pier......................................................................$282,000189 CR 280, Harwood - 3BD/2BA, app. 1,574 sq. ft, 2 dining areas, 2 family rooms, FP, enclosed bonus room, covered deck, 10x20 storage bldg.........................$94,989

Farm & Ranch11439 HWY 90A, Gonzales - 5 acres, ranch fenced, ag exempt, barn with 1/2 bath, elec., septic....................................................................................................$157,80016.96 ACS - 77CR 391, Gonzales - 3/2 rock home, app. 2,131 sq. ft. barn, outdoor arena, 2 storage bldgs, water well.................................................................$290,000

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HOMESvTHOMPSONVILLE 2br/1ba home on 30 ac. Recent new metal roof, remodeled and updated. On CR 240 in Thompsonville........................................................................................... $199,500vGONZALES 2br, 1 bath, 1 car garage................................$74,500

FARM & RANCHvGONZALES 28 acres, 2 story, 3BR, 2 Bath custom built home..............................................................................................$375,000

ACREAGEvTHOMPSONVILLE 10 ac. fronting CR 240........ $4,900.00/ac.vWAELDER 97.44 acres, 4BR ranch house, great house, oil/gas income, Ranching/Investment............................................$750,000vGONZALES 25 acres. Fronts Hwy. 304.......................$112,500vWAELDER 10.49 acres. New perimeter fence............$4,900/acvGONZALES 78 acres. 2 tanks, fenced.......REDUCED to ....................................................................................................$3,450/acvRED ROCK 181 acres......................................................$895,000

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Yearling smoky grulla dun filly (solid). Has halter on and has been trailered. Asking $600 OBO. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------17 year sorrel paint with blue eye. Originally trained in western pleasure - used for trail rides. Asking $1,200. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------7 year dun paint. Well trained, ready to finish your way. Asking $2,000. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------White Leghorn chickens, $7.00 each. 830-857-4580.--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------M I N I - G O A T S . (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.

Brick Home for Sale. 4BR/3BA, 1513 St. Michael Street on about 1 acre. Lots of trees. 830-857-5231 or 830-857-5236.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commercia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.

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Pasture with 3/2 older home, CA/H, on FM 1116. 5 miles from downtown Gonzales. Live Oaks, lots of new fence. After 5 p.m. call 830-437-2955 or 830-857-4242.--------------------------Home For Sale; New Construction; 2 bed/1 bath; 1504 Weimar Street; $74,900; 100% fi-nancing for quali-fied buyers; 830-203-5065.--------------------------House for Sale. 3BR/1 bath or 2 BR and dining room, carport & storage building in back. Phone, 830-203-5181, good bargain.--------------------------3BR/2BA at 1609 Gardien St. 1,400 sq. ft, 2 living areas, lg. fenced yard. $94K. 830-203-1874.--------------------------4BR/1BA, privacy fenced-in yard. 1000 Cuero St., Gonzales. Open lot in front of house, carport. Good con-dition. About 20 yrs. old. $75,000. Call 830-203-0389 for information.

For Sale: 37 acres land. North of Waelder, TX. FMR 1296. Contact Info. 830-237-9227.--------------------------6+ Acres for Sale or Lease. Build to suit. End of Oil Patch Lane. Call 210-416-0041.--------------------------FOR LEASE. 2.70 acre yard with 1568 sq. ft. building with attached 1440 sq. ft. shed, built for large equipment including two 12’ access doors for trucks. Electrical, water, highway frontage, easy on and off truck en-trance, close to city of Gonzales. 830-857-4905.--------------------------Small acreage for sale or lease on US 183 just North of US 90A in Gonzales. Great for oilfield, etc. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Approximately 10 acres for lease in Gonzales. Great for commercial busi-ness. For more info please call 830-203-0470.

----------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Doublewide Mo-bile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home is in need of repair. New water well. There are two septic tanks on property. Asking $56,000. Call 830-

401-0147.--------------------------Lot for Rent. $100/month. 70’x130’ on Church St. Call 830-423-2103.--------------------------25 acres for sale. I-10 & 304 area. Abundant wild-life, great hunting, pond, nice home-site. $4,500/acre. Call 713-203-2814 for information.

Want to Buy used electric wheelchair, 5 yrs. old or approx. Jet 3 Ultra. 830-437-2232.--------------------------Wanted: Any make rifle, caliber 22-250. Call 830-857-1781.--------------------------I want to buy a used shower stall & kitchen cabinets. 830-437-5659--------------------------WANTED: Old, bro-ken and unwanted costume and vin-tage jewelry, chain necklaces/belts and loose beads. I am a crafter who loves beading and mak-ing jewelry, and can’t afford new, full price beads. I will make an offer. I am in Gonzales. Please help me with my hobby. YOUR TRASH IS MY TREA-SURE! Call (512) 227-4040 today.--------------------------Wanted: Heavy duty metal shelv-ing, 6-7 ft. tall, 3-5 ft. long, 12-24 inch-es deep. 832-419-5275.--------------------------Wanted: Wooden shelves. Approx. 6 ft. tall x 12-30 inches deep, x 30 inches wide. 832-419-5275.--------------------------Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.--------------------------Small family owned trucking company looking to lease or purchase 5-15 acres in Gonzales or surrounding area. Prefer w/shop or building. Call 501-589-5097.--------------------------Wanted: Looking for Deer Lease to pay by the day. 361-596-7792.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.

K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. First Month $10.00

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Buy loose gem-stones and allow us to custom design your upcoming gift. Over 1,000 cts. to choose from. Call 979-743-5840.--------------------------Hello. Need some-one to fill in for an absent employee for a day or two. Maybe I can help. I’m 54, female, co-ower auto shop, 16 yrs, Dental Asst. 3 yrs, Photographer, newspaper & aer-ial, weddings, etc, great with the pub-lic & full of common sence. 24 hr. prior notice. Will be glad to drop by before hire. Laura Gift, 830-203-5180.--------------------------JCK Services. Tree shearing, brush stacking, stump treatment, small brush grubbing. Call Jeff (830) 263-1016 or Wayne, (830) 857-3611.--------------------------Welding, Fabrica-tion and repairs. Call 830-437-5747.--------------------------A/C & Electrical side jobs: New installs, A/C maintenance, Condenser change-outs, Residential & Commercial at affordable prices. Please call David anytime at 830-263-1747.--------------------------Ranch Hand Work. Rounding up cattle, fence work. Willing to learn. Call Steven & Gerald, 512-538-8950.--------------------------Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.--------------------------Mobile Massage is now serving Gonzales & Luling. Specializing in Therapeutic Mas-sage for pain in lower back, neck, knees etc. Also corporate chair massage. 13 years experience. LMT Steve Turner, Lic. # MT021213. Call 8 3 0 - 8 5 7 - 0 2 7 0 . “Let me help get-ting you mobile.”--------------------------

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Granny Dean:

Granny Dean May is loved by many people, evi-denced by the crowd gath-ered at Boomer’s Sports Bar Saturday afternoon in Gonzales.

May’s family and friends organized two recent events, an auction and a BBQ plate sale, to raise money for her almost daily cancer treatment.

“Mom got sick at our family reunion in June,” said Leann Wilkerson.

Doctors at the San An-tonio Methodist Hospital removed the upper right lobe of May’s lungs in No-vember 2009, and told her she was cancer free. But now, less than two years later, she is back in the fight of her life.

This time the cancer is in the center of the 75 year old’s chest. A large mass was found around her esophagus, touching four vital organs. May said her doctors told her they prefer to operate on her only as a last resort.

“They said that after the operation I won’t be able to talk or eat solid food,” May explained. “I would need a feeding tube, and anyone who knows me will tell you I have a big mouth so I can’t imagine not talking!”

May’s family is currently driving her to San Marcos five days a week for chemo-therapy. This is the fourth of seven weeks scheduled for the treatments.

“It’s really taken a lot out of her, but she is a fighter and we won’t give up until we beat this,” Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson said all funds raised during the benefit events organized by May’s family and friends will be used to offset the cost of the medical treatment and traveling each day.

“Her insurance didn’t cover it all,” Wilkerson ex-plained.

The South Texas Chapter of The Guardians of The Ribbon also made an ap-pearance and helped with fundraising through their T-shirt sales to the crowd.

The group’s pink fire truck named ‘Debbie’ pulled in front of Boomers Saturday morning to sur-prise May and show their support for her fight.

“We help raise money for women and children who are battling cancer in each community we visit,” said Ricky De La Garza, a teacher at Victoria College, retired EMT and member of the ‘Guardians of the Ribbon team. “Our goal is to establish chapters of our group throughout the country. Today we’re here to show Granny Dean that she is not alone in this.”

When they arrived, De La Garza presented May with a bouquet of roses.

“When they put those roses in my hands and said they were here to help me fight my cancer, I broke down crying. And I don’t like to cry, but that was really special to me,” May said.

Debbie the pink fire truck is named after Deb-bie Breeden, an employee of the Victoria Fire De-partment for more than 30 years now and a cancer survivor.

The group purchased the truck last year in an auction, and volunteers cleaned it up and painted it pink. After traveling to several benefits through-out South Texas, the truck is covered with more than 1,000 signatures and per-sonal messages written by cancer patients and the people who love them.

One message written on the truck says, “In honor of the fighters, survivors, and my mom...” Another mes-sage simply says, “I hope you’re dancing in heaven...” And another says, “Don’t give up and know that God holds you in his hand...”

That last one definitely applies to May, who says she isn’t going down with-out a fight.

“I’ve never given up on anything in my life, and I’m not going to start now,” May said with a confident and determined look in her eye.

Her attitude matches the quote printed on her T-Shirt - the same shirt worn by her entire family during the event: “I’ll never back down from anyone or any-thing...” — Granny Dean.

“That saying is true,” she said pointing to the shirt designed by one of her granddaughters.

May met and married her husband Bill in 1953. They have four children, 17 grandchildren, and 12 great grandchildren plus two on the way.

“Our house is full of love, always has and al-ways will be. I have a lot of loving and living to do yet,” she said.

Her family thanks ev-eryone who helped them organize the benefit for their matriarch.

“Mom and Dad are so humbled by the people

who helped us with this,” Wilkerson said. “All the food and time was donat-ed, and we didn’t have to spend a dime.”

She said she’s not sur-prised that hundreds of people would show up for her mother at her time of need.

“They (parents) never turned anyone away who needed help,” Wilkerson said. “And Mom never met a stranger but once.”

Reciting pickle reci-pes between hugs, May kissed her family good-bye and thanked friends who traveled from out of town to help with the event.

“The generosity of the people floored me,” said Bill May.

“I can’t comprehend it all, and everything that people are doing for us,” May said. “I knew I had a lot of friends, but the turnout for us has been out of this world. When I get back on my feet we’re having a party and I’m doing most of the cook-ing!”

De La Garza said peo-ple like Granny Dean are why the Guardians of the Ribbon exist.

“We want to give the la-dies who are battling this disease the love, hope, support and rest that they need and deserve,” De La Garza said. “Its our way of giving back for all the things the women in our lives do for us.”

“When I was diagnosed my daughter said, ‘Mom-ma you fought for us all our lives, and now its our turn to fight for you,” May said.

The Guardians of the Ribbon are currently work-ing on a pink patrol car, purchased at an auction.

The national tour will be in Victoria and com-ing back through the area on Oct. 23. For more in-formation, visit www.pinkfiretrucks.org, pink-texas.org and pinkheals.

Gonzales woman fights cancer with family, friends, firetruck

Family and friends of Gonzales’ Granny Dean May gathered at Boomer’s Sports Bar Saturday for a special benefit that included a visit from “Debbie,” the fire truck of the South Texas Chapter of the Guardians of the Ribbon. It was a special event for Dean, who got a chance to pose with her granddaughters (below) as well. (Photos by Leann Wilkerson and Nikki Maxwell)

Granny Dean’s benefit barbecue sold out in a hurry Saturday. (Photo by Nikki Maxwell)

LULING — A playmaker in football is defined as one who has a penchant for making timely plays in games. The only thing missing from that definition is a picture of Billy Medford.

A three-year starter for the Eagles, Medford is clearly the team’s go-to guy on both sides of the ball. During his career, he has played inside receiver, outside re-ceiver, running back, cornerback and was recently installed this off-season at quar-terback.

“Playmaker, difference maker, jack of all trades — they all apply to Billy,” said Luling head coach Michael Waldie. “The

kid can run, he can throw, and he can catch so without killing him we try to use him as much as we can.”

Medford’s versatility was on full dis-play during the Eagles’ season opener with Navarro. He ran the ball 10 times, threw nine passes and caught four balls for a combined total of 134 yards. The se-nior also caught a two-point conversion toss and made several plays on defense, including one interception plus another that was taken away by the officials and ruled as an incomplete pass.

“That’s the role I want to play as a leader on this team,” Medford said. “I want to let people know that I’m never going to give up on a play. I do it to keep my teammates motivated. I know if they see me giving

100 percent, then they’ll give 100 per-cent.”

Medford’s ability to get open and make catches at receiver helped to elevate the play of quarterback Trayden Staton, who completed 5 of his 7 passes for 113 yards including a 13-yard touchdown to Med-ford.

“It just continues to spread our op-tions,” said Waldie about Staton’s emer-gence. “Billy is our best overall option at quarterback with the style of offense we’re wanting to run, but anytime you get bet-ter at other positions it just frees up your ability to do more with him.”

Not only does Medford play a lot of positions, but he plays them better than

The Paul Johnston era got off on the right foot when St. Paul rallied to claim a 28-24 win over Pettus last Friday.

“We were glad to get the win because it was tough game,” said Johnston. “We got into a hole early and were behind at half-time, but the kids played the whole four quarters and just fought real hard for a win. I was real proud of them.”

St. Paul held the high-flying Eagles to just 276 yards and intercepted all-state quarterback Ryan Beck twice. The new-look Cardinal offense racked up 487 total yards and Martin Kennedy ran for three

touchdowns. He also caught a scoring pass from Dakota Kresta, who went 17 for 27 for 306 yards in his quarterbacking debut.

“For a first game with a new quarter-back and a new system, I was pleased but we’ve got to get better,” Johnston said. “We looked at the game film with the kids and went over lots of corrections. Offensively we’ve still got a long way to go and in the first half we missed quite a few tackles. We did tackle a lot better in the second half and I think that was the difference in the game.”

The Cardinals will hit the road to take on San Antonio Cornerstone, who lost their season opener to D’Hanis 49-6. The Warriors, who were outgained 486-96 and

didn’t score until Robert Toler found the end zone on an 18-yard jaunt, are coming off back to back 1-9 seasons.

“Teams can change from year to year,” Johnston said. “I try not to look too much into how they’ve been in the past. They’ve got good size on their offensive and defen-sive lines, and they’ve got some skill kids who can run. Looking at them on film, it looks they have kids who can play.”

Brazos at ShinerThe Comanches were feeling generous

last Friday against Industrial. They gave the ball away four times and ultimately gave the Cobras their season-opening win.

“We were pretty upset with the game

overall,” said Shiner head coach Steve Cerny. “We thought we had two re-ally good scrimmages where our offense looked sharp, but we came out last Friday and made a lot of mistakes. We lined up wrong on a lot of different formations and had to use some timeouts when we didn’t want to. We were very pleased with our hustle and our intensity, but we just didn’t execute and do the little things right.”

Cerny’s charges are going to have to protect the ball better in order to prevent Brazos

Consolidated from picking its first win of the year. The Cougars lost last Friday to TAPPS Division II Houston Second Bap-

No doubt, Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock prefers running the football.

“I always want to run the football,” he said.

But there are times when the quarterback will need to put some air underneath it.

“You do not always have the ability to run the foot-ball every time due to per-sonnel or mismatches.

Lock would like to see the Apaches throw the ball a little more come Friday against Luling at 7:30 p.m. at Apache Field.

“We need to work on our passing game and not have missed assignments,” he said.

Lock said the Apaches need to be better at ball security. Gonzales lost two

fumbles and an intercep-tion against the Buccaneers.

Against Corpus Christi Miller, Gonzales threw eight passes and completed three.

After missing most of last season with an injury, Apache quarterback Matt Hillman got his first full game experience against Miller, and Lock said you could see the improvement as the game progressed.

“I left Matt in for the whole game against Miller so he could get some reps,” Lock said. “Our backup quarterbacks are starters at other positions and Matt will get better and better as he gets more reps.”

Look for Cecil Johnson and Zack Lopez to help

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NIXON — The Mustangs learned quite a bit about themselves in last week’s opener of the 2011 campaign, a 36-33 come-from-behind win at Flatonia.

Head coach Carlton McKinney said of all those things the biggest takeaway was the team’s show of determination.

“The biggest thing we did well was con-tinue to compete when we got down,” he said. “There are several areas we need to continue to improve upon and we pointed those out to the kids on Saturday during film time. Even though we had a lot of mis-takes, the effort was there because the kids

played extremely hard.”McKinney is hoping to see a similar

showing of spunk and resolve when the Mustangs host Bloomington in their sea-son home opener. The Bobcats roll into town looking for their second road win of the year after getting by Woodsboro 6-0 last week.

“Bloomington is not a bad team and they have improved from last year,” said McKin-ney. “They run more a spread and a pistol type offense. It will be a good test for us.”

The key to stopping Bloomington lies in the containment of Andres Castro, a dual-threat quarterback. He was the cata-lyst for the Bobcat offense last year when

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Flatonia’s Leanna Dunk (8) tries to slip a shot past Gonzales’ Allison Raley (13) and Danyelle Glass (5). Below, Morgan Simper positions herself for a pass as teammates Carly Bozka and Kiley Braune stand by to assist. At right, Bozka serves up a winner for the Lady Apaches. (Photos by Mark Lube)

Gonzales gets a little payback on Flatonia

Volleyball RoundupLady Mustangs sweep to win; Hallettsville wins

The Lady Apaches had seen Flatonia during the Schulen-bur g Tournanment last week.

Twice.And twice, Flatonia was the

winner.Tuesday night at Gonzales

High School Special Events Center, Gonzales prevented a third straight Lady Bulldog vic-tory by taking the match three sets to zero, 25-14 25-19 25-21.

“We felt we had them this time,” said Gonzales junior Lindsey Akers. “We were ready for Flatonia.”

Gonzales head coach Kim Payne said she made some ad-justments in the Lady Apaches defensive game plan for Tues-day’s match.

She said she still needs per-formances out of her hitters.

“Hitting was improved to-night but it is still our weak area,” Payne said. “I have got to get my hitters to just slam down the ball.”

Flatonia head coach Rodney Stryk said his players might have had a little too much con-fidence after the previous two wins against Gonzales and the Lady Apaches were more in-tense.

“I think Gonzales felt they had chances to win the match-es over the weekend but we

found a way to win those,” he said. “They were at home and stepped up.”

Flatonia came into the match with some health con-cerns and had another player have to leave the third set be-cause of health.

“We will do what we can to fix our personnel and injury issues,” Stryk said. “What is best for the team to get people healthy in time for district and not be concerned about our record.”

Gonzales went straight to work in the first set jumping ahead 6-1 on serves by Carly Bozka and early kills from Shayla Simper and Allison Raley.

The Lady Bulldogs hit back with some serves from Court-ney Mica to close down to 13-8.

The Lady Apaches turned up the heat with servive from Jessica Cantu, Bozka, Simper and Kiley Braune, mixed in with plays from Brittany Pak-ebusch, Akers and Raley for the win in the first set.

In the second set, Flatonia turned the tables with six of the first seven points.

But effort from Akers helped Gonzales close the gap to 11-9.

Flatonia battled back from an 11-11 tie with a 15-11 lead with serves from Mica and a

block from Abi Schacherl.Gonzales’ Danyelle Glass

combined on two blocks, one with Pakebusch and one with Raley to help cut the Lady ‘Dogs’ lead to 18-17.

Pakebusch made another play to help give Gonzales a 20-19 advantage, and then it was 5-0 run to go up 2-0 in the match.

“We fought back well in the second set,”’ Payne said. “I told them that the scoreboard is their enemy and to not look at it all, and just fight for each point.”

In the third set, Gonzales opened with six of the first eight points and soon was on a roll.

Flatonia knocked it down to just a point or two at a couple of stages but never could com-pletely catch up and overtake Gonzales.

Raley had a good game for GHS as she had 15 kills and five blocks; Brittany Pakebusch had nine kills; Raley and Boz-ka each had three aces; Bozka had 23 digs and Shayla Simper chipped in 22 more, and Jessica Cantu had 21 assists and nine digs.

Gonzales won both subvar-sity matches with the freshmen winning 2-1 (17-25, 25-22, 28-26) and the junior varsity win-ning 25-9 and 25-14.

The Nixon-Smiley Lady Mustangs swept Jourdanton on Tuesday, 25-18, 25-12, 25-12. Devon Martinez had seven kills; Jessica Flores had 10 assists; Jennifer Martinez had 11 digs; Hailey Boatright and Abigail Scarbrough had a block each and Brooke Gordon had two aces. Nixon’s serving percentage was 88. The Lady Mustangs junior varsity won 25-16 and 25-10.

• The Hallettsville Lady Brahmas opened district play with a 25-16, 25-20, 25-17 win over Rice. Heather Henneke had 10 points; Ali Patek and Madison Schindler had three aces each; Cassidy Targac made 10 kills; Cheyenne Dowdy had five blocks and Lauren Jones had 15 assists.

“Defensively, we played well. We had a cou-ple of blown assignments,” said Hallettsville head coach Karen Darilek. “Other than that, I thought we did a great job. Offensively, we are still not consistent. The victory was a great way to open district play.”

•Cuero defeated Victoria Faith Academy 3-2 (25-21, 23-25, 17-25, 26-24, 15-13) on Tuesday. Emily Valenta had 16 kills for the Lady Gob-blers; Abby Sheppard had 20 digs; Tiffany Shel-lenbarger had 27 assists; Sheppard had four aces, and Valenta, Sheppard and Shellenbarger had two blocks a piece. Faith Academy won the junior varsity match 25-11, 25-21.

• The Yoakum Lady Bulldogs beat Palacios in four sets (25-15, 22-25, 25-16, 25-14) Tues-day. Ashtyn Henkes and Lesley Seidenberger had 14 kills each; Camiel Desmet had 39 as-sists; Ryan Hagan had 18 digs; Henkes had four blocks with Desment, Hagan and Seidenberger scoring two aces each. The Lady ‘Dogs rise to 12-7 The Yoakum JV won 2-1 (25-14, 14-25, 25-17).

•The Shiner Lady Comanches opened the Schulenburg Tournament with a pair of wins on Thursday. Shiner handed the Hallettsville Lady Brahmas a 3-1 defeat (25-13, 22-25, 25-17). Kristin Schacherl and LaNeisha Hunt scored 14 points each; Hunt led with 14 kills; Cassie Stafford had 25 assists; Schacherl had two blocks and Hunt had 18 digs

The Lady Comanches then beat Wharton 25-14, 23-25, 25-16. Stafford scored 13 points; Hunt and Stafford had three aces; Hunt had nine kills; Stafford had 15 assists; Amanise Coleman had three blocks and Schacherl had 10 digs.

The Lady Comanches defeated Industrial 3-2 (25-15, 25-20, 20-25, 23-25, 16-14) on Friday. Schacherl had 18 points and Stafford scored five aces; Hunt had 18 kills; Stafford had 38 assists and Ryah Michalec had 40 digs.

In Saturday’s action, the Lady Comanches defeated 2-0 (25-12, 25-13). Michalec had 10 points; Hunt scored 10 kills; Stafford had 13 assists;Amanise Coleman had one block and Michalec had four digs.

Shiner fell to Schulenburg, 16-25, 21-25. Hunt and Michalec had five points and Stafford had four aces; Hunt had five kills; Stafford had seven assists; Emmalie Berkovsky had three blocks and Michalec had 10 digs.

Shiner faced Columbus in the third-place match. The Lady Cardinals emerged with a 2-0 win (25-20, 25-17). Micahalec had four points; Hunt had seven kills; Stafford had 14 assists; Coleman had three blocks and Lauren Oden had three digs.

Stafford was named to the All-Tournament Team.

The Lady Comanches played Victoria St. Jo-seph on Tuesday. St. Joseph took another win from Shiner in five sets (23-25, 21-25, 25-22, 25-23, 15-13). Hunt had 18 kills; Stafford had 34 assists; Coleman had four blocks; Michalec had 20 digs and Stafford had two aces. Shiner is 14-6 on the season.

•The Lady Brahmas started the Schulenburg Tournament with a 2-1 loss to Shiner (13-25, 25-22, 17-25). Jones had six points and 11 as-sists; Dowdy had six blocks; Madison Schindler had 15 digs and Targac had 11 kills.

Hallettsville rebounded with a 2-0 (25-20, 25-11) win against Wharton. Jones had 12 assists; Dowdey had five blocks; Katie Wag-ner had seven points; Madison Schindler had seven points and Henneke had four digs and two aces. The Lady Brahmas opened bracket play with a 25-14, 25-19 sweep of Sacred Heart. Wagner had seven points; Henneke had two aces and nine kills; Madison Schindler had 10 digs; Dowdey had four blocks and Jones had 16 assists.

On Friday, Hallettsville took a break from the tournament and played Ganado, winning 25-5, 25-16, 25-13. Wagner had 15 points and four aces; Targac had 11 kills; Madison Schindler had 10 digs; Jones had 21 assists and Dowdey had four blocks.

The Lady Brahmas resumed tournament play Saturday against La Grange in bracket play.

La Grange won 2-0 (25-14, 25-13). Madi-son Schindler had three points and seven digs; Dowdey had three kills and two blocks while Jones had 16 assists. Hallettsville then defeated Rosenburg-Terry 25-23, 25-11. Jones had nine point, seven digs and eight assists; Henneke had three aces and eight assists; Dowdey had

five kills and four blocks.The Lady Brahmas fell to Giddings in the

fifth-place match. Targac had 10 points, eight digs and nine kills; Henneke had one ace; Dowdey had four blocks while Jones had 17 as-sists and eight digs.

•The Sacred Heart Indianettes played Co-lumbus to open the Schulenburg Tournament. Sacred Heart fell 10-25, 12-25. Adrienne Klim-itchek had two kills and Shelby McElroy had two assists.

The Indianettes fell 2-0 (19-25, 8-25) in their second game. McElroy had four assists; Klimitchek had one block; Caitlin Orsak had a block; Jenna Brown had one kill and two digs; Kelsie Buchanan had two aces and a kill while Robyn Pavlicek and Shyanne Schlauch had one kill each.

Sacred Heart closed out the tournament against Gonzales. Orsak had eight digs; Klim-itchek had three kills and two blocks; McElroy had eight assists and five aces.

The Indianettes opened bracket play with Hallettsville, falling 14-25, 19-25. McElroy had five assists and two kills; Klimitchek had two kills, one block and three digs; Pavlicek had two kills; Orsak had one block and Buchanan had two aces.

Sacred Heart opened district play Tuesday with a 3-2 (21-25, 25-13, 25-16, 25-27, 15-12) win over San Antonio Keystone School. Klim-itchek had 18 kills, eight aces, six blocks and 11 digs; McElroy had 30 assists; Kelsie Buchanan and Jenna Brown had eight digs each.

“We played a great match majority of the time,” Indianette coach Wanda Orsak said. “In the first game we got behind with a bad serve receive run and had to play catch up. After the first game, we started passing better and that al-lowed us to control the net more.”

“The last four games of the match were probably the best we’ve ever played this year. The girls knew it was important to win that first district match at home because you have to face them again on the road. This is a great way to start district play.”

• Lady Eagles play at Lockhart, Halletts-ville and Comfort Tournament, host Kyle Lehman.

The Lady Eagles volleyball team played at Lockhart Aug. 16 falling to the Lady Lions, 18-25, 19-25 and 20-25.

The Lady Eagles travelled to Hallettsville Aug. 19. The Lady Brahmas swept Luling 25-4, 25-12 and 25-11.

On Aug. 23, the Lady Eagles hosted Kyle

Lehman. Luling fell in three games (13-25, 11-25, 25-27).

The Lady Eagles played in the Comfort Deer Invitational Tournament Aug. 26-27.

Luling opened Pool B play with Geneva, a private school in Boerne. Luling fell in two games, 17-25, 16-25. The second match was against Boerne who swept the Lady Eagles 25-18, 25-17. Luling concluded pool play against Junction, winning 25-23, 25-19.

Luling earned the No. 6 seed for bracket play and started against Sonora, going down 14-25, 18-25.

The Lady Eagles bounced back against Center Point and won in three sets (25-21, 21-25, 25-23.). The win gave Luling a tie for first in the Silver bracket.

• The St. Paul Lady Cardinals swept Pettus (25-15, 25-14, 25-18). Marrisa Ynclan had 11 kills and 13 aces; Kourtney Knesek had 20 as-sists; Kali Kocian had four digs and Katelynn Leist and Alexa Schaefer had one block each. The Lady Cardinals are 8-3 on the year.

• The Flatonia Lady Bulldogs fell to Schul-enburg 10-25, 17-25 and 7-25 on Tuesday. Leanna Dunk had seven kills; Alex Bruns had six assists and Courtney Mica had eight digs.

Two days later, Flatonia started play in the Schulenburg Tournament, opening with a 2-0 win over Gonzales (25-17, 25-22). Dunk had 11 kills; Abigail Schacherl had 17 assists; Mica has 12 digs and Dunk had three aces.

Flatonia was swept by La Grange in its next match (25-13, 25-11). Dunk had four kills; Schacherl had seven assists and Mica had sev-en digs. In its last match on Thursday, Flatonia fell to Anderson-Shiro in two (27-29, 27-25, 24-26). Schacherl had 27 assists; Mica had 18 digs; Abby Rodriguez, Dunk and Kaci Pav-licek had one ace each and Dunk had 18 kills.

On Friday, Flatonia beat Nixon-Smiley in five sets (25-14, 25-18, 16-25, 18-25, 15-11). Dunk had 17 kills; Schacherl had 22 assists; Mica had 17 digs and Chandler Fike had five aces.

On Saturday, Flatonia returned to action in the Schulenburg Tournament. They swept Wharton (25-23, 25-12). Rodriguez had nine kills; Schacherl had 13 assists; Dunk had two aces and Mica had nine digs.

The Lady ‘Dogs then played Gonzales for the second time.

And with the same end result.Flatonia won 25-23, 25-19. Dunk had 10

kills; Schacherl had 18 assists; Mica had nine digs with Pavlicek and Fike getting two aces each.

CORPUS CHRISTI--The Gonzales Apaches feel they got sand kicked in their faces during a few games last season, and in the off-season they deter-mined they weren’t going to get bullied on the beach any more.

Charles Atlas may want to take a peek over at the GHS field house and may-be swipe a few business tips.

The bulked-up Apaches played like they were the beach bullies and cast the Corpus Christi Miller Buccaneers in the role of the 95-pound weakling Friday as Gonzales rolled to a 42-6 victory in the 2011 season opener.

Gonzales manhandled Miller at the line of scrim-mage, and both coach Ricky Lock and his players said the team’s intensive focus on weight training is going to make a big differ-ence for the Apaches this year.

“We’re a whole lot stron-ger than last year, we felt like a couple of teams pushed us around a little and we wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again,” said outside line-backer Damien Airhart after the Apache defense limited the Buccaneers to just 103 total yards -- most of those coming in the fourth quarter with the game already decided.

“We start as soon as school gets out,” added inside linebacker Hunter Noack, who along with fellow ILB Landon Lock spent almost as much time in the Miller backfield as did Buccaneer backs Fri-day. “We’ve really been pushing to improve, and you can tell everyone is a lot stronger than we were last year.”

Gonzales’ defense picked off four Miller passes, with all four of the picks leading to Apache touchdowns. Three of the interceptions came in the first half as the Apaches made things aca-demic by intermission.

The Bucs appeared to get an early break mid-way through the opening period when Roger Cole-man pounced on a loose ball after quarterback Matt Hillman and running back Zach Lopez miscom-municated on a handoff. But two plays later, Jon Anthony Casares swiped a wounded-duck pass at midfield and returned the ball to the Miller 4-yard line.

Lopez used three tries before hammering it into the end zone, and Hill-man’s point-after kick gave the Apaches a 7-0 lead.

After Miller punt, Gon-zales turned the ball over on downs at the Buc 37. A lineman got a hand on another Miller passing attempt moments later, however, and Lopez made a diving interception at midfield. Four plays later, he took a pitch out of a full-house backfield, turned the right corner and raced 42 yards to score.

A Hillman pass to Don Cartwright made it 15-0.

The Apaches forced another punt and then mounted a five-play, 60-yard march to run the score to 22-0. Hillman connected with Cart-wright and Casares on consecutive swing passes that went for nice gains to set up Cecil Johnson for a pitchout around right end that went for a 25-yard touchdown run.

“They’re better than that, they were sitting back waiting for us to throw the long ball like we did last year and that gave us a lot of room to run the ball,” coach Lock said.

The Bucaneers finally got a first down on their next drive, but as they threatened to cross the midfield stripe Landon Lock’s pressure on the quarterback forced an-other errant throw that DB Cory Espinosa was all too happy to scoop up. A 24-yard wildcat keeper by

Cartwright and a personal foul penalty got tyhe ball into point-blank range for the Apaches, who turned to Lopez for a 2-yard scor-ing run to make it a 28-0 game at halftime.

The Apaches took the second-half kickoff and launched a workmanlike nine-play, 50-yard drive.

A 22-yard gain by Landon Lock from the fullback slot was the big gainer on the drive, and Hillman capped it by sneaking over from a yard out to make it 35-0.

The Bucaneers finally got a break in the fourth quarter after Gasper Felan recovered a Johnson fumble in Apache terri-

tory. Two fine sideline re-ceptions by Jesse Franco helped moved the ball to the Gonzales 3-yard line, and Justin Trevino bulled in from there to snap the shutout.

The Apaches responded immediately, however, after D.J. Gonzales recov-ered Miller’s onside kick attempt. Gains of 19 and five yards by Gonzales got the ball to the Miller 34-yard line, and Johnson took things from there, taking a pitch around left end and sailing untouched to the end zone.

GONZALES 42, MILLER 6Gonzales 7 21 7 7--42Miller 0 0 0 6-- 6

Scoring SummaryGON--Zach Lopez 1 run (Matt Hill-

man kick), 5:53 1stGON--Lopez 42 run (Don Cart-

wright pass from Hillman), 11:08 2ndGON--Cecil Johnson 25 run (Hill-

man kick), 7:39 2ndGON--Lopez 2 run (kick failed),

2:19 1stGON--Hillman 1 run (Hillman

kick), 7:20 3rdMIL--Justin Trevino 3 run (run

failed), 4:56 4thGON--Johnson 34 run (Hillman

kick), 2:59 4th

Team Statistics GON MILFirst Downs 18 6Rushes-Yards 41-295 31-56Passing Yards 29 47Passes 3-7-1 3-12-4Punts-Avg 0-0 6-32.0Penalties-Yards 1-5 4-45Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-0

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Gonzales, Cecil John-

son 8-90, Zach Lopez 13-86, DJ Gon-zales 10-56, Don Cartwright 3-32, Landon Lock 2-20, Hunter Noack 1-8, Cory Espinosa 1-4, Tyler Mor-gan 1-1, Matt Hillman 2-(-2). Miller, Julian Firo 4-23, Fernando Vela 4-15, Dennis Grant 13-12, David Casarez 2-7, Justin Trevino 1-3, Tyrell Clay 3-2, Christian Fuentes 1-1, Jason Tre-vino 1-(-1), Jesse Franco 1-(-2), Aaron Howard 1-(-4).

PASSING: Gonzales, Matt Hillman 3-7-1-29. Miller, Julian Firo 2-4-2-39, Tyrell Clay 1-6-2-8, Dennis Grant 0-2-0.

RECEIVING: Gonzales, JonAn-thony Casares 1-17, Don Cartwright 1-9, Cameron Smith 1-3. Miller, Jesse Franco 2-39, David Casarez 1-8.

The Gonzales CannonThursday, September 1, 2011 Page C3

Friday Night LightsApaches plunder CC Miller, 42-6

Wrapping him upGonzales defensive lineman Cody Jurek (74) puts the squeeze on Miller ball carrier Dennis Grant during first-half action. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

FLATONIA — After be-ing victimized often in the first half, the Mustangs’ de-fense gave an inspired sec-ond half performance and help preserve a 36-33 win for Nixon-Smiley Friday night at Flatonia’s Bulldog Stadium.

Joe Medina ran for a game-high 167 yards while Alex Hernandez rushed for 129 yards and two scores. Damian Perez returned a punt 52 yards for the go-ahead touchdown midway through the final quarter. Two series later, he stepped in front of a Colby Mica pass and returned it 35 yards late in the game to seal the victory.

The Mustangs (1-0) over-came a 27-13 halftime defi-cit.

“We had some kids that really stepped up,” said Nixon-Smiley head coach Carlton McKinney. “We had to move some kids around because of gimpy injuries and I think it hurt us in the first half. We made some adjustments in the second half. We didn’t want to change a lot, but we moved some kids around and they made great plays.”

Mica looked extremely

sharp early on, but the combination of several drops and tight coverage by the Nixon-Smiley D caused him to complete only three passes in the second half. He finished the game with 169 yards and two touch-downs on 10-for-29 pass-ing, and also ran for 142 yards and two more scores. Zane Ponder caught six passes for 118 yards and two touchdowns.

“The offense played great and the defense played ter-rible,” said Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag. “The bottom line is we didn’t come off the ball and we didn’t tackle well. If we played defense like I know we can play defense, then we win this game. But we didn’t do it and that’s on me.”

Although it was enter-

taining, it was a relatively sloppy game. The Bulldogs (0-1) were flagged 11 times for penalties, while the Mustangs drew eight flags and lost four of their five fumbles.

“We made a ton of mis-takes in the first half and it really tested our charac-ter,” McKinney said. “I was very pleased with how we responded in the second half. It was just a matter of the kids playing the way they’ve been coached to play. They didn’t quit and the true Mustangs showed up in the second half.”

Nixon-Smiley attacked Flatonia with their signa-ture power running game, picking up 307 yards on 45 carries, but it was their passing game that dealt the Bulldogs the hardest blows. Jaime Moreno com-

pleted all three of his pass attempts, but two of them were scoring tosses to Gar-rett Earlywine and Miguel Hernandez.

“It’s something that we really spent a lot of time on,” said McKinney. “Jaime really had a soft touch on the ball and we have some kids that can catch it. Be-cause we run the ball as well as we do, whenever we see the defense start to suck in we have to use it to loosen them up. It’s an added dimension to the of-fense that we really didn’t have last year.”

Nixon-Smiley 36, Flatonia 33Nixon-Smiley 0 13 15 8—36Flatonia 7 20 6 0—33

Scoring SummaryF - Zane Ponder 10 pass from Col-

by Mica (Will Bruns kick), 6:20N - Garrett Earlywine 33 pass from

Jaime Moreno (Alex Hernandez kick), 11:51

F - Ponder 11 pass from Mica

(Bruns kick), 7:13N - Miguel Hernandez 21 pass

from Moreno (kick blocked), 1:45F - Mica 2 run (Bruns kick), 0:38F - Mica 1 run (kick failed), 0:00N - A. Hernandez 1 run (Joe Me-

dina run), 7:40N - A. Hernandez 38 run (A. Her-

nandez kick), 6:37F - Mitchell Mica 4 run (pass failed),

4:13N - Damian Perez 52 punt return

(Moreno run), 7:31Team Statistics Flat N-SFirst downs 14 11Rushes-yds 25-156 45-307Passing yds 169 69Passes 10-29-1 3-3-0Punts-avg 4-39.5 1-46Penalties-yds 11-52 8-76Fumbles-lost 1-1 6-4

Individual StatisticsRUSHING - Flatonia: Colby Mica 17-

142, Andres Melendez 5-6, Mitchell Mica 2-6, Dalton Griffin 1-2. Nixon-Smiley: Joe Medina 22-167, Alex Her-nandez 16-129, Jared Van Auken 1-6, Jaime Moreno 2-(-4), Miguel Hernan-dez 2-(-5), Team 2-14.

PASSING - Flatonia: Colby Mica 10-29-169. Nixon-Smiley: Jaime Moreno 3-3-69

RECEIVING - Flatonia: Zane Ponder 6-118, Andres Melendez 1-33, Aaron French 1-9, Evan Butcher 1-7, Dalton Griffin 1-2. Nixon-Smiley: Garrett Ear-lywine 2-48, Miguel Hernandez 1-21.

By DAVE MUNDY

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Late punt return lifts Mustangs, 36-33

Damian Perez

Setting up sixGonzales defensive back Jon Anthony Casares (2) picks up a lead block from teammate Alejandro Hernandez (1) after picking off a Miller pass. Casares returned the ball to the 4-yard line to set up Gonzales’ first touchdown. (Photo by Dave Mundy)


Cardinals, Bulldogs pull out victories

Panthers grind way past Eagles, 43-22Friday Night Lights

LULING —The Luling Eagles will face two other teams that will run the same kind of offense as the Navarro Panthers — three yards and a cloud of dust.

Navarro may be one of the toughest teams that Luling could face all season.

Nevertheless, head coach Michael Waldie said the Ea-gles came up short in their first challenge, 36-22 Friday night at Eagle Field.

“Bottom line is we will see this kind of team later in the year when we play Lago Vista and Blanco,” he said. “No question we failed this challenge. We have to be more physical and we have to have better technique. It goes back to the fundamen-tals of tackling.”

The struggle with tackling and containing ball carrier allowed Navarro to drive the ball on the ground and score on four of five offen-sive possessions, including scoring the first four times they had the ball, for a 29-6 halftime lead with running back Eric Schleier scoring two of those touchdowns.

“We did not tackle well. We only had around 14 of-fensive snaps in the first half,” Waldie said. “It is hard to win or stay in games like that.”

The defense stepped up in the second half, stopping the Panthers and forcing some punts but more im-portantly, got the ball into

the claws of the Eagles’ of-fense led by quarterback Billy Medford, who also lined up as a receiver when Trayden Staton took the snap.

“When we had our 30 or so snaps in the second half, we did what we needed to do,” Waldie said. “We have a saying: good, better, best. Never let it rest ‘till your good is your better and your better is your best. We were not very good tonight and so we have to get good be-fore we can get better.”

On offense, Medford was all over the field as he ran the ball from his quarter-back spot for the first time and caught a couple of pass-es, including a touchdown and two-point conversion pass.

“Billy is special wherever you put him. Still has a ways to go at quarterback,” Waldie said. “I thought Trayden (Staton) came in and did a good job at quar-terback which allows us to play him at four different spots on the field.”

“We have got a lot of spe-cial kids on the field and we have to learn to use all of our weapons.”

The Panthers had drives of 75, 93, 61 and 80 yards for their first-half touch-downs. Schleier got major-ity of the carries with Zane Conlin and L.J. Anderson getting some reps too.

Anderson scored from the 7 on the opening drive of the game. Schleier scored on runs of 18 and 52 yards

for the next two Navarro touchdowns. Quarterback Chris Sestak hit Anderson for a 27-yard touchdown pass with mere seconds left in the first half to give the Panthers a 29-6 halftime lead.

Luling’s only score of the first 24 minutes came on a seven-play, 68-yard march. Key play was a 48-yard scramble by Medford that electrified the Eagle faithful. Later, Slaton hit Ty Ander-son for the 24-yard scoring play.

The Navarro offense punted and missed a 23-yard field goal on its first two second-half posses-sions. Later, a short punt by the Eagles gave the visitors a short field to work with and their second-string offense kept the ball on the ground, using over five minutes to go on top 36-6.

Luling answered with a 67-yard drive in less than three minutes. Medford ran and threw and Slaton took over as signal caller, hitting Medford for a 13-yard completion and then scrambling for another 12 yards. Staton went back to Medford for a 13-yard scoring play, and Bren-don Cubit caught the two-point pass to bring Luling to within 36-14. Navarro had its next drive start at midfield but was stopped cold on fourth down by the Eagles’ defense

Luling then drove 59 yards in less than a min-ute as Staton threw his

third touchdown pass of the night, a 55-yard bomb to Vince Garcia. Medford made the catch on the ex-tra point and Luling closed down to 36-22. Navarro put its offensive starters back on the field and Schleier scored from the Luling 8 with 35 seconds left to close out the game.

Navarro 43, Luling 22Navarro 7 22 0 14-43Lul ing 0 6 0 16-22

Scoring plays

N-L.J. Anderson 6 run (Tyler How-ard kick)

N-Eric Scheleier 18 run (Howard kick)

L-Ty Anderson 24 pass from Trayden Slaton (kick blocked)

N-Scheleier 52 run (Howard kick)N-Anderson 27 pass from Chris

Sestak (Scheleier run)N-Boone Blair 3 run (Howard kick)L-Billy Medford 13 pass from Sla-

ton (Brendon Cubit pass from Slaton)L-Vince Garcia 55 pass from Slaton

(Medford pass from Slaton)N-Scheleier 8 run (Howard kick)

Team stats NAV LULFirst downs: 23 10Rushes-yards: 69-362 21-101Passing: 4-6-1 9-16-0Passing yards: 88 140

Punts-average 1-41 5-44.4Fumbles-lost: 2-0 2-1Penalties-yard: 1-5 6-38

Individual statsRushing: Navarro- Eric Schleier

25-219, Evan Deleon 12-32, Oscar Esquivel 5-27, Zane Colin 5-26, L.J. Anderson 7-22, Tyler Howard 3-20, Oscar Castillo 3-12, Boone Blair 3-7, Gage Bowles 1-5, team 2-0, Chris Sestak 3-(-9). Luling-Billy Medford 10-64, Brendon Cubit 8-18, Trayden Slaton 1-12, Abraham Palomo 1-4, Vince Garcia 1-3.

Passing: Navarro-Sestak 4-6-1 88. Luling-Slaton 5-7 113, Medford 4-9 27.

Receiving: Navarro-Bowles 2-49, Anderson 2-39. Luling-Anderson 4-43, Garcia 2-65, Medford 2-26, Josh Alvaraez 1-6.

The St. Paul Cardinals and Yoakum Bulldogs got dramatic fourth-quarter touchdowns Friday to score big season-opening wins, but some other lo-cal teams had a rough first night of the season.

The Cardinals, opening defense of their TAPPS Class 2A state title, used two short touchdown runs by Martin Kennedy to erase a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat Pettus 28-24, while the Bulldogs got an 11-yard touchdown pass from Jeff Harrison to Blake McCracken midway through the final period to stump Columbus 19-16.

In other regional ac-tion, Wimberley whipped Cuero 34-6, Sacred Heart downed Yorktown 22-19, Industrial slid past Shiner 20-7, and Ganado whipped Hallettsville 32-7.

St. Paul 28,Pettus 24

Pettus struck for four first-half touchdowns, but the Cardinals held them in check in the second half and Kennedy, who fin-ished the game with four TDs, scored on runs of 5 and 6 yards to help St. Paul pull out the win.

Pettus jumped out in front early run runs of 1 yard by Ryan Beck and 2 yards by Hunter Tomlin to take a 12-0 lead. St. Paul responded on a 16-yard TD run by Kennedy, but Tomlin and Beck connect-ed on a 30-yard TD pass to make it 18-7.

Dakota Kresta and Ken-nedy hooked up on a 63-yard passing TD before a 25-yard run by Casey Jones gave Pettus a 24-14 halftime edge.

A 5-yard run by Ken-

nedy cut the Pettus lead to three in the third period, and the senior scored from six yards out at the 11:49 mark to provide the win-ning margin.

The Cardinals amassed 543 total yards in the con-test. Kresta passed for 276 yards, hitting 14 of 24 tosses, and he also rushed for 85 yards on 20 carries. Adam Hollenbach add-ed 98 yards on 9 carries, wghile Kennedy rushed for 67 yards and gathered another 105 receiving six apsses. Jason Natal also had four catches for 113 yards.

St. Paul 28, Pettus 24St. Paul 0 14 7 7 —28Pettus 6 18 0 0 —24

P-Ryan Beck 1 run (kick failed)P-Hunter Tomlin 2 run (kick failed)SP-Martin Kennedy 16 run (Cole

Hybner kick).P-Tomlin 30 pass from Beck (kick

failed)SP-Kennedy 63 pass from Dakota

Kresta (Hybner kick)P-Casey Jones 25 pass from Beck

(kick fail)SP-Kennedy 5 run (Hybner kick)SP-Kennedy 6 run (Hybner kick)

Team Statistics Pet St.PFirst Downs 10 22Rushes-Yards 20-127 34-172Passing Yards 150 317Passes 8-16-2 17-25-2Punts 3-109 1-16Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0Penalties-yards 5-35 4-26

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Pettus, H. Tomlin 9-59,

R. Beck 6-31, J. Herrera 5-37. St. Paul, A. Hollenbach 6-52, M. Kennedy 7-57, D. Kresta 19-51, D. Barton 2-12.

PASSING -- Pettus, R. Beck 8-16-150-2. St. Paul, D. Kresta 17-24-276-1, A. Hollenbach 1-0-0-1.

RECEIVING -- Pettus, J. Herrera 4-75, H. Tomlin 3-65, C. Jones 1-10. St. Paul, M. Kennedy 6-106, J. Natal

4-113, C. Hybner 3-46, A. Hollenbach 2-31B. Hodges 2-11.

Yoakum 19,Columbus 16

COLUMBUS--The Yoa-kum Bulldogs staged a rally midway through the fourth period to overtake the Columbus Cardinals and take a 19-16 win.

After Seth Vickers had put the host Cardinals on top on the first play of the final quarter with a 1-yard TD run, the Bulldogs responded with a drive capped by an 11-yard scoring pass from Har-rison to McCracken. The Cardinals added a safety with nine seconds left for the final margin.

Harrison gave Yoakum an early lead with a 38-yard field goal, and then tossed an 11-yard scoring pass to Blake Harrison on the last play of the first half as the Bulldogs took a 10-0 lead into intermission. Co-lumbus came back to cut the margin on a 73-yard run by Royce Caldwell be-fore Vickers’ run put Co-lumbus on top 14-10.

Yoakum 19, Columbus 16Yoakum 0 10 3 6 --19Columbus 0 0 7 9 --16

Y-Jeffery Harrison 38 field goal, 6:33

Y: Blake Harrison 11 pass from Harrion (Harrison kick)

C: Royce Caldwell 73 run (Jacob Christen kick)

Y: Harrison 28 field goalC: Seth Vickers 1 run (Christen

kick)Y: McCracken 11 pass from Harri-

son (conversion failed)C: Safety, :09

Team Statistics Col YoaFirst Downs 11 15Yards Rushing 32-228 43-193Yards Passing 139 103Passes 7-11-1 7-14Punts 1-16 4-122Fumbles-lost 4-3 0-0Penalties-yards 6-51 4-30

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Columbus, T. Long

9-41, R. Caldwell 9-154, D. Stevens 6-35, S. Vickers 4-(-7), J. Benford 2-5. Yoakum, B. McCracken 8-47, K. Mi-kulik 8-30, A. Jimenez 4-38, R. Moya 3-38, K. Ratley 3-14, M. Hights 3-(-2), T. Blakeney 2-14, J. Harrison 11-13, D. Price 1-1.

PASSING -- Columbus, S. Vickers

6-5-55, D. Stevens 3-1-67-1, J. Chris-ten 1-1-16, T. Long 1. Yoakum, J. Har-rison 14-7-103.

RECEIVING -- Columbus, D. Short-er 3-89, D. Stevens 1-13, R. Caldwell 1. Yoakum, B. McCracken 4-46, T. Blakeney 1-4, F. Thompson 1-35, A. Jimenez 1-18.

Industrial 20, Shiner 7

SHINER -- The Shiner Comanches rolled up the yards Friday, but couldn’t overcome two second-quarter scoring runs by Industrial’s Jake Smiley as the Cobras held off Shiner 20-7.

Smiley scored twice on 1-yard plunges in the fi-nal 2:28 of the first half to stake the Cobras to a 14-0 edge at intermis-sion, and Industrial got a 7-yard scoring pass from Brice Pruitt to Al-len Sellers on a halfback pass play to open a 20-0 lead before the Coman-ches got on the score-board on the game’s fi-nal play when Evel Jones broke loose for a 22-yard TD run.

Industrial 20, Shiner 7Industrial 0 14 6 0 --20Shiner 0 0 7 0 --7

Industrial- Jake Smiley 1 run (Davis kick)

Industrial-Jake Smiley 1 run (Davis kick)

Industrial: Allen Sellers 7 pass from Brice Pruitt; kick failed

Shiner- Evel Jones 22 run (Lu-cian Blaschke kick).

Team Statistics Shi IndFirst Downs 9 9Yards Rushing 40-195 36-70Yards Passing 22 59Passes 2-7-1 5-5-0Punts 2-20 2-34Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-1Penalties-yards 10-68 6-29

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Shiner, E. Jones 13-

105, M. Wallace 12-44, J. Stafford 12-41, B. Caka 1-5. Industrial, M. Davis 9-35, B. Franz 5-21, J. Tseng 4-22, J. Smiley 16-(-6), S. Townley 1-3, W. Knopp 1-1.

PASSING -- Shiner, J. Stafford 7-2-22. Industrial, J. Smiley 4-3-58, B. Pruitt 1-1-10.

RECEIVING -- Shiner, Z. Law-rence 1-11, E. Jones 1-11. Indus-trial, A. Fellers 2-42, K. Klimitchek

1-7, B. White 1-7, B. Pruitt 1-10.

Wimberley 34, Cuero 6

WIMBERLEY -- Wim-berley quarterback Brady Lambert threw for four first-half touchdowns as the Texans whipped the Gobblers.

Lambert hit Trinity Wilson with a 33-yard scoring toss in the first quarter, then added TD passes of 8 yards to Brennen Blakemore, 38 yards to Hunter Burtt-schel and 47 to Wilson in the second as Wimberley opened a 27-0 lead at in-termission.

Cuero got on the score-board in the fourth quar-ter when Darius Mathis broke loose for a 48-yard punt return for a score.

Wimberley 34, Cuero 6Cuero 0 0 0 6 — 6Wimberley 6 21 7 0 —34

WIM -- Trinity Wilson 33-yard pass from Brady Lambert (kick failed)

WIM -- Brennen Blakemore 8-yard pass from Brady Lambert (Kyle Terreo kick)

WIM -- Hunter Burttschell 38-yard pass from Brady Lambert (Kyle Terreo kick).

WIM -- Trinity Wilson 47-yard pass from Brady Lambert (Kyle Terreo kick)

WIM -- Dennis Smith 6-yard run (Kyle Terreo kick)

CUE -- Darius Mathis 48-yard punt return (kick failed)

Team Stats Cuero WimberleyFirst downs 10 15Rushes/Yds 44-159 31-112Passing yards 25 268Passes 2-3-0 10-20-0Punts-Avg 4-33.5 4-36Fumbles/Lost 2/2 1/0Penalties-yards 5-26 6-60

Individual LeadersRUSHING: Cuero, A.J. Bustos 15-

63, Lane Balfanz 6-24, Logan Goebel 5-23. Wimberley, Trinity Wilson 16-62, Cameron Morris 5-25.

PASSING: Cuero, Stoney Schoen-feld 2-3-0-25. Wimberley, Brady Lam-bert 10-20-0-268.

RECEIVING: Cuero, A.J. Bustos, 1-25. Wimberley, Trinity Wilson 3-73, Brennen Blakemore 3-90.

Sacred Heart 22, Yorktown 19

HALLETTSVILLE -- The Sacred Heart Indians used a pair of two-point conversions to give them the margin of victory Fri-

day over Yorktowns in both teams’ season open-er.

The Indians struck first as Sterling Hrncir broke loose for a 71-yard TD run. Cole Wick passed to Jared Crichke for an early 8-0 lead. Jayden Bare-field responded for the Wildcats with a 23-yard scoring run early in the second quarter, but the conversion run failed.

Sacred Heart added a 36-yard TD run by Hrn-cir, who rushed for 203 yards on 21 carries, and a conversion run by Hrncir made it 16-6 at halftime.

Cade Brewer returned a recovered fumble 25 yards for a third-quarter Indian score to open up a 20-6 lead before the Wildcats mounted a comeback. Derek Franke hit Barefield with a 41-yard scoring pass, and Franke scored on a 7-yard run with 3:20 remaining in the game for the final margin.

Sacred Heart 22, Yorktown 19Yorktown 0 6 6 7 --19Sacred Heart 8 8 6 0 --22

Sacred Heart-Sterling Hrncir 71 run, converson Cole Wick pass from Jared Crichke

Yorktown-Jayden Barefield 23 run, converson run failed

Sacred Heart- Sterling Hrncir 36 run, conversion Sterling Horncir run

Sacred Heart- Cade Brewer 25 fumble return, conversion run failed

Yorktown- Jayden Barefield 41 pass from Derek Franke, conversion run failed

Yorktown- Derek Franke 7 run , conversion Jacob Garcia kick

Team Statistics Sacred YorFirst Downs 12 14Yards Rushing 37-289 46-160Yards Passing 11 66Passes 1-8 3-4Punts 3-81 5-173Fumbles-lost 2-0 1-1Penalties-yards 4-40 4-20

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Hallettsville Sacred,

M. Holub 9-42, J. Krischke 4-34, S. Hrncir 21-203, R. Hall 1-6, J. Vanek 1-5, C. Bludau 1-(-5). Yorktown, R. Williams 18-70, D. Franke 14-3, J. Barefield 12-78, C. Lubyinesky 1-10.

PASSING -- Hallettsville Sacred, J. Krischke 8-1-11. Yorktown, D. Franke 4-3-66.

RECEIVING -- Hallettsville Sacred, C. Wick 1-11. Yorktown, J. Barefield 2-61.

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Eagles scoreLuling’s Ty Anderson catches a touchdown pass from quarterback Trayden Sla-ton in the second quarter. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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pace the Gonzales ground game.Lock said he feels his offensive line is improv-

ing, and will be very good by the end of the sea-son.

“We have already improved a bunch since the first week of practices,” he said.

Miller made no points, two first downs and less than 40 yards of offense against the Gonzales first-string defense. Miller scored their touch-down when the Apache second-string defense was in.

“Our starting defense did not give up any scores and that is what we are looking for,” Lock said. “We expect our defense to swarm the ball. We were decent of defense last year and nine of those guys are back.”

“Every week will be a new challenge and the defense passed the first test.”

Gonzales pounded Miller, 42-,6 and is getting set for its first home game of the year.

“I feel Luling is an improved team from last year and their coach (Michael Waldie) is fired up,” Lock said. “Luling has a lot of good athletes. It will be a big test for us”

Gonzales will keep its eyes on Billy Medford, the Eagle starting quarterback who also plays wide receiver.

“He gets the ball in a lot of situations and is just a good football player,” Lock said. “He is a fast and talented player with good hands.”

The Eagles are coming off a 43-22 loss to Na-varro in week zero action on Friday.

Luling scrimmaged two 4A teams in pre-season and faced a powerful 3A team in Navarro.

Now the Eagles take on their neighbors to the south.

Waldie said he wants his team to put plenty of

focus on the big picture.“Our main goal is to win football games,” he

said. The Eagles struggled on defense against the

Panther, yielding over 400 yards of offense.“Defense always wants to improve on funda-

mentals,” Waldie said. “Against the Panther, we had some bigger problems: we did not get our reads right, we had the wrong lines and were out of position.”

It will be crucial for the Eagle defenders to swarm to the football against the Apaches.

Waldie said he feels Gonzales’ offense will be a better matchup for his defense.

“They run a pro-style offense and that is good for us because when you face a Slot-T team like Navarro you have to tweak your personnel and tactics,” he said.

The Eagles ran just under 40 plays against Na-varro.

“Our offense needs to have more than just 36 or 37 snaps,” Waldie said. “We did have an aver-age gain of 6.5 yards of offense against Navarro but scored just three touchdowns. That is not all that impressive. At times, we had ineffective drives and three-and-outs.”

“We just need to keep doing what we are do-ing of offense and get around 50-60 offensive snaps in a game.”

He joked about hoping the highs on Friday only getting around 85 degrees, a relief from the searing heat and 100-degree days that have been plaguing the area for weeks.

Early reports have Friday’s high about 93—with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms.

Nevertheless, Waldie is expecting a good matchup.

“We are looking forward to the challenge,” he said.

just about anybody else. He was a first team all-district pick at running back last year after earning the same distinction at cornerback as a sophomore. This season, he is one of the pre-season favorites to win the district’s MVP award.

“He’s a great young man and I love him,” said Waldie. “He makes good grades and he’s always respectful. Every coach would love to have Billy Medford on his team and I’m thankful every day that he’s on ours.”

Medford began playing football at the age of 8 and it didn’t take long for him to discover that he was different from the other players. He said the game came easy to him and soon made up his mind to master every facet of the sport he could.

“I just always wanted to be noticed one day for doing something good in football,” he said. “I know I’m not the best, but I’m going to work as hard as I can to at least become one of the best.”

Of all the roles Medford fills for the Eagles, Waldie said the most important is that of team captain. Even though he is not a big talker, Waldie said Medford’s soft-spoken, lead-by-example ap-proach is effective.

“Billy is more of an action guy when it comes to leadership,” Waldie said. “He leads with his performance on the field. The great thing about

it is he doesn’t talk a lot, but when he does every-body listens.”

Right now, Medford is focusing his energies on doing his part in improving on the Eagles’ 3-7 record from last year. Luling returns 18 letter-men from that squad and are hoping that wealth of experience will translate into a postseason bid.

“I really like our team this year,” Medford said. “We were very young last year with a lot of fresh-men and sophomores playing. Now that they’ve gotten a taste of varsity, they really know what they’re supposed to do. I just keep telling every-body to keep working hard because it’s going to pay off one day.”

Medford is the son of LaTonya Harris and Billy Medford, Jr. He also has a sister, Ashlyn Lampkin, and said his family is a great source of motivation for him to perform well.

“My family is who I really play for,” he said. “I just want to do something that’s good for them because they’ve always seen something good in me.”

Medford said he sees good things on the ho-rizon for the Eagles this season. The goals he has for the team are well-defined in his mind.

“A district championship, make the playoffs and then hopefully get a state championship,” he said. “Watch out for us because we’re going to do something good this year.”

he threw for 1,020 yards and five touchdowns and also ran for 120 yards and two more scores. Castro’s style of play is comparable to that of Flatonia’s Colby Mica, who racked up 311 total yards last Friday.

“The quarterback seems to be their top run-ner, but they do a lot of different things,” McKin-ney said. “We expect our secondary to get tested again, so we have to improve on our pass rush and put more pressure on the quarterback.”

The running game was effective for Nixon-Smiley last week. The Mustangs grinded out 307 yards on the ground led by running backs Joe Medina and Alex Hernandez, who had 167 and 129 yards respectively. They also showed a new wrinkle on offense with quarterback Jaime Moreno throwing touchdown passes to Garrett Earlywine and Miguel Hernandez.

“We would really like to throw the ball a little more and become a bit more balanced,” McKin-

ney said. “We’re always going to be heavy on the run, but our natural balance should be more of a 65-35 split. A lot of that is predicated on what the defense does. If they put eight or nine guys in the box, then it allows us to do more things through the air..”

Last Friday’s win over Woodsboro was the first in a long time for Bloomington, a program that has been a literal revolving door for head coaches. Their recent ineptitude is lost on McK-inney, who said his opponents’ reputation - no matter how good or bad - doesn’t ever factor into how he prepares his team to play.

“We always put our emphasis on putting our best foot forward every time we step on the field,” he said. “We don’t talk about victories or losses, we talk about improvement.”

“We’re probably at about 45 or 50 percent of where we want to be. Our goal is to have a shot at winning the district championship and right now we’re nowhere near where we need to be in order for that to be the case. “

tist 24-0.“Our kids played hard,” said Brazos head

coach Barry Minter. “I’m not saying we would have won the game, but barring a few mistakes the outcome would have looked differently. We’re still young with a lot of sophomores and juniors playing on the varsity, and I was proud of their effort but not their execution.”

Brazos had its own problems on offense last week. The Cougars only garnered 152 to-tal yards and punted four times while being forced into two turnovers. Quarterback Kyle Kolafa completed 6 of his 13 passes but they only went for 27 yards and he accounted for both of Brazos’ giveaways with a fumble and an interception.

“Kyle has got to play better this week in order for us to win,” Minter said. “Our bell-cow on defense is linebacker Dale Dostal. He played an outstanding game last week and he’s going to have to do it again this week for us.”

The Comanches did a good job moving the ball against Industrial, picking up 227 total yards of offense. Shiner had 213 of those yards come via the run with running back Evel Jones leading the way with 101 yards on 10 carries. Marlon Wallace and Jacob Stafford were also effective, with each averaging 4.3 yards per carry.

“Shiner is tough,” said Minter. They’re a physical team and they’re fast, so we’re going to have our work cut out for us. We have to tackle well. Their backs are fast and very tough, but they’re not big so we have to tackle well. We can’t allow them to get yards after contact. We’re going to have to not break down on our assignments and play good assignment foot-ball.”

Cerny said the focus for his team this week has not necessarily been on stopping Brazos, but on resolving their own internal issues.

“Right now fixing our mistakes are more important than anything,” he said. “Indus-trial had a great football team, but it wasn’t so much what they were doing to us than it was us shooting ourselves in the foot.”

“I talked to the Second Baptist coach and he said Brazos is much improved over last year. We couldn’t get a whole lot of game film on them, so we don’t have a really good gauge of them. But after last week, we’re definitely not going to overlook anybody because we didn’t play very well ourselves.”

The game will kick off Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Shiner’s Comanche Stadium.

LaGrange at YoakumThe Yoakum Bulldogs received a spark

from their opening 19-16 win at Columbus.And now will take the confidence into Fri-

day’s game against La Grange.“The kids are upbeat after beating a very

good Columbus team,” Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay said. “We want to build on the momentum.”

The ‘Dogs will face a big Leopard team who has a solid quarterback, Logan Vinklarek, di-recting the offense.

“We will have our hands full with La Grange,” Kornegay said.

He said La Grange is an I-formation team that runs toss, trap, isolation and bootleg plays, and will drop back into the shotgun when they throw the ball.

The Leopards will run the ball around 80 percent of the time.

“We need to eliminate the big play,” he said. “Our defense played well against Columbus except on a couple of plays where we had missed assignments.”

Yoakum’s offense did well against Colum-bus with no turnovers.

“We won the turnover battle and that was a huge plus for us,” Kornegay said. “We will need to accomplish that again and have sus-tained drives.”

Other key players for the Leopards are DL Chad Childs, OL Ben Hardin, OL Zachary Ledwick and FS Justin Neiser.

Cuero at Liberty HillCuero figures to better matchup with the

Liberty Hill Panthers than they did against the Wimberly Texans in the first game.

“Wimberly was impressive at the quarter-back, running back and wide receiver posi-tions,” Cuero head coach Rick Owens said.

He stressed the need for the Cuero offense to stay on the field a lot.

“We are not the big-play team that we used to be in the past,” Owens said. “We need to grind it out and keep the chains moving.”

The Panthers’ offense is thinking the same.Liberty Hill will be a running team who

pounds the ball out of the Slot T set.Owens said the key plays for their offense is

the quick trap and isolation plays.The key player for the Liberty Hill Slot-T of-

fense is fullback Brandon Corn.“That fullback is their best player,” he said.

“He is not a real big kid but he is strong.”“Our defense’s first priority is to stop the

fullback Corn.”Once the Panthers get their opponents to

focus on the inside attacks, they change things up.

“Liberty Hill will suck the defense to the in-

side and then try to hit you with a sweep out-side,” Owens said.

He also said that whatever the Panthers lack in speed or talent, they will make up with their solid execution.

Owens also noted this is Cuero’s second road game of a three-game road trip to start the season for the Gobblers.

More players to watch for Liberty Hill are DB Jadon Boatright, DE Brice Bishop, RB Johnny Johnston and DE Jordan Skinner.

Refugio at HallettsvilleThe Brahmas are in need of a stronger per-

formance from its offensive line Friday night at home against Refugio.

Hallettsville hosts the Refugio Bobcats.Head coach Tommy Psnecik said the team

has to get a good performance out of the of-fensive line and the offensive backfield for any chance of defeating Refugio.

“Our offense will need to be more produc-tive and get more scores,” he said.

The Brahmas have two offensive line start-ers that also start on the defensive line.

“We need some of the offensive lineman backups to step up so a couple of our offen-sive line starters can focus on defense,”Psencik said. “We have some big kids sitting on the bench that we need to get something out of.”

He said field position and no turnovers will be another key to success against the Bobcats.

Refugio is a highly-ranked team that has lots of speed and talent on it, Psnecik said.

Key players for the Bobcats are RB Shiloh Wetsel, WR Cory Brown, DL Donald Trevino, DE Justin Padilla, RB Draigon Silvas and DB Marcus Thompson.

Sacred Heart at FlatoniaIt was all right there for the taking last week.The Flatonia Bulldogs took a 14-point ad-

vantage into halftime and were holding on to a one-score lead going into the fourth quarter before the wheels came off.

Nixon-Smiley used a punt return for a touchdown and their signature ground-and-pound rushing attack to pull off a 36-33 vic-tory to stun the homestanding ‘Dogs.

“Most of the areas we need to improve in are defensively,” said Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag. “Our defensive line did not play very well, our linebackers did not play very well and neither did our secondary. I’m the head foot-ball coach, but I’m also the defensive coordi-nator and I take all of the blame because our kids weren’t ready to play defensively.”

In addition to giving up 307 yards on the ground, Flatonia furthered the Mustangs’ cause by committing 11 penalties for 52 yards - including three offsides calls in a row on Nix-on’s opening drive.

“We’ve got to learn to get lined up correctly on every play,” Freytag said. “Whenever you’re misaligned, good teams take advantage of that and Nixon-Smiley is a good team. We have to correct that. It almost got to the point last Fri-day where it was embarrassing. You can’t give teams free first downs like we did Nixon and expect to win a ball game. Our coaches have to do a better job and that’s the bottom line.”

The schedule isn’t doing the ‘Dogs any fa-vors as rival Hallettsville Sacred Heart comes to town this week. The Indians staved off a late rally by Yorktown last Friday to hold on for a 22-19 win.

“We started the game well, but we had a sluggish second half and didn’t play as well as we are capable of playing,” said Sacred Heart head coach Pat Henke. “It was good to win the ball game, but at the same time we have a lot of room for improvement.”

Sacred Heart did the majority of their dam-age against Yorktown on the ground. Sterling Hrncir ran for 203 yards, including touch-down runs of 71 and 36. The Indians also have one of the better field generals in the region in quarterback Jared Krischke and a game-changer on defense in end Cole Wick.

“Sacred Heart is very well-coached and they have one of the best coaches around in Pat,” said Freytag. “Their quarterback is very good and they have a running back who is very fast. Their defensive end is probably 6-5 and he’ll be one of the best single defenders that we’ll face all year. They’re so experienced, all 11 of their offensive starters are seniors and they’re a very good football team.”

The defensive lapses from last week aren’t the only concern for Freytag. His team only managed 169 rushing yards against Nixon-Smiley, with the bulk of it coming from quar-terback Colby Mica scrambling on busted plays.

“In order for us to win, we have to run the ball better than we did,” said Freytag. “If we can’t line up and run the ball at people, then we’re going to have a hard time winning games. When you’re struggling on defense, the best way to help it is to control the clock on offense.”

Mica was brilliant in defeat last week. He finished the game with 169 yards and two touchdowns on 10-for-29 passing, and also ran for 142 yards and two more scores.

“We’ve got to contain their quarterback because he’s such a good athlete,” Henke said. “He can hurt you running and passing, and we can’t let him just do whatever he wants.”

The Shiner junior varsity defeated Industrial on the road, 25-6, on Thursday. The Comanches led 19-0 at halftime and scored once more in the second half as they held Industrial to one touchdown.

Marcus Coleman provided all four of the touchdowns on runs of 10, 72, 46 and 2 yards. Hunter Mrzaz added an extra point.

• Both Gonzales subvarsity teams defeated Cedar Creek on Aug. 25.

The freshman team pounded Cedar Creek, 32-12, behind three touchdowns from Darrance James and stellar defensive effort fromTravis Schauer, Allen Beene and Jose Contreras.

The junior varsity Apaches ran away with a 34-6 decision with touchdowns coming from Marvin Lewis, Morgan Martinez, Donnie Saunders and Francisco Diaz.

• Nixon-Smiley’s JV blanked Flatonia 16-0 with a touchdown from Tom Palacio and Tristan Newman, and a defensive safety.

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YOAKUM —Gonzales, Moulton, St. Paul and Yoa-kum harriers got their sea-son off to fun start Saturday morning at the Yoakum City Park.

The Gonzales Lady Apaches and Apaches did well in the race.

Gilbert Chavez won the boy’s division with a time of 9 minutes, 6 seconds. Jose Ol-alde was No. 13 in 10:11 and Alan DeLeon came in No. 15 in 11:06. Other runners were Luis Morales (11:11), Tyler Janota (13:48) and Dylan Gomez (11:49).

For the Lady Apaches, Kim DeLeon finished in the top 30 with at ime of 12:18 and Hailey Whitted finished in 12:38. Also for the Lady A[aches were Dora Rodri-guez (12:53), Juana Sanchez (13:48), Katy Guerra (13:21), Jessica Baker (14:55), Eliza-beth Neuse (13:30) and Ana-hi Ortiz (16:07).

Yoakum coach Bobby Vick said he was happy about the conditioning level of his athletes.

“Our level of fitness com-ing in is better than last year at this time,” Vick said. “Our strategy was to start slow up the hill then move out at the half-mile mark.”

The Moulton athletes were pleased to be in an actual meet.

I think the kids were just excited to finally race af-ter running and training all summer,” Moulton head coach John Meisetschlea-ger said. “I think we looked good for week one. We still have some work to do to get where we want to be, but af-ter running in the Yoakum meet, we have something to build upon.”

He said the Moulton run-ners ran a good race.

“Race tactics looked good as we went out with some energy, raced hard and held our ground at the finish line. I can’t ask for more much more than that in the first week,” Meisetschleager said.

St. Paul had a suberb meet as well.

“We are very pleased with our performance on Satur-day,” said St. Paul coach Dana Beal. “We have three days of practice under our belt, and seven of our girls placed in the top 30.”

“We have a mixture of young and seasoned run-ners.”

The Lady Cardinals have two All-State runners in se-nior Kali Kocian and sopho-more Samantha Siegel.

Beal said St. Paul had a strong showing by juniors Ashton Kutac and Katelynn Leist who were instrumental in helping the Lady Cardi-nals to the state titles.

“Freshman runners stepped up well with McK-enzie Kresta, Isabella Craw-ford and Elise Patek finish-ing in the top 30,” Beal said. “Melanie Wagner, Victoria Kusak and Johanna Green who are new to cross country ran well along with Cassidy Thomas and Alexa Schaefer.”

Beal said the school is pleased to be able to field a boy’s cross country team like last year.

“Our boys are led by junior Mason Matias and is joined by junior Ted Wenske and freshmen Sam Wenske, Kurt Chunda and Kyle Chunda. Mason finished in the top 30.”

Beal said the course, that was shorter than the usual distances, was a good mea-sure for the St. Paul runners’ speed endurance progress.

Gonzales’ Gilbert Chavez heads for the finish line during Saturday’s meet in Yoakum. Dovanty Mathis and Kobey Braun of Yoakum (center left) keep pace on the backstretch, while Gonzales’ Kim DeLeon and Moulton’s Brandee Dolezal stage their own battle (middle right). At bottom left, Moulton’s Dennis Lopez crosses the finish line, while at bottom right St. Pauls’ Cassidy Thomas and Johanna Green lead a pack of runners down the home stretch. (Photos by Mark Lube)

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Showdown winnerEgon Barthels of KCTI AM 1450 and Desiree’ Bohac of Yoakum Gin and Feed with Beverly Holik winner of the KCTI AM 1450 Texaco Country Showdown. Bev-erly now will move on to the state finals October 1st at Prairie Days in El Campo. (Courtesy photo)

A limited number of free tickets for Sat-urday’s Texas Wrestling Federation show in Seguin featuring a women’s title match remain available at the Gonzales Cannon offices at 618 St. Paul St.

Gonzales and area fans who enjoyed

the recent “Summer Warfare” event in Gonzales are invited to stop by the office and pick up complimentary tickets for the event, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3 at the Seguin Activity Center, 624 Zorn St. in Seguin.

The headliner match will pit Angel Blue against current TWF women’s title-holder Barbi Hayden. Angel Blue defeated Ruth-

less LaLa in the Gonzales event to earn the right to the challenge.

Local fans will also be treated to another match featuring a couple of wrestlers who were showcased here, when El Latino faces Lemos Dos in a Lucha Libre match. The two were part of a tag-team event during the Gonzales show Aug. 20 at the Edwards Community Association Center.

Other matches on the card include Joey Diamond against Scorpio Garcia, Zane

Coxx against Kevin Knight, and Jasper Da-vis against Silky Baines.

Pre-sale tickets are $10 and available at La Palma Grocery in San Marcos, and at JR Food Mart, Quick Pick Food Mart #1, Quick Pick Food Mart #2, JP’s Quick Stop & Bajkery and the Seguin Activity Center in Seguin. All tickets at the door will be $15.

Proceeds will help benefit the Seguin Ac-tivity Center.

Angel Blue Barbi Hayden

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April and Amy Rankin are pretty good at grabbing attention.

What used to be Christmas Eve perfor-mances in front of the family are now sold-out shows at Gruene Hall as an opener for Roger Creager. The trips to Portland dance halls with their parents have now trans-formed into headlining some of the most famous music venues in Austin. Their first single off their EP of the same name, “Headaches and Heartbreaks,” reached number 41 on the Texas Charts.

“One of the biggest factors in ‘making it’ in the music business is how well does the artist and the music relate to the audience. At the end of the day that’s what matters,

and that’s what the Rankin Twins have,” ex-plains Texas country music superstar Josh Abbot.

The Rankin Twins will headline this weekend’s entertainment at Yoakum Gin & Feed on Saturday night. Bo Brumble and Gypsy Rebel open the show at 8 p.m. Tick-ets are $8 at the door.

The twins’ latest recording effort, an EP titled “Silver Lining”, further proves that the Rankin Twins are real, Texas country talent with an unexplainable characteristic that makes you immediately fall for them at first sight or sound. And, they’re not go-ing away anytime soon.

Pop poignancy with a Texas-Country edge. That’s exactly what Austin’s The Rankin Twins deliver on their new EP,

The Rankin Twins will headline Saturday’s show at Yoakum Gin & Feed.


Rankin Twins to headlineshow in Yoakum Saturday

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VICTORIA—The next art exhibit opening at The Nave Museum in Victoria will feature new works by Mel Chin. Titled The Funk and Wag From A to Z, the exhibit will feature art with social and historical con-texts: a specific installation adorning the façade, hun-dreds of collages filling the interior walls (all derived from a complete set of the 1953 edition of the Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclo-pedia), and a room-sized sculptural homage to three artists: Louise Bourgeois, Jesse Lott, and Madeline O’Connor of Victoria.

Mel Chin was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After attending Peabody

College in Nashville, Mel lived again in Houston and then New York City for many years. He currently resides and works outside of Asheville, North Caro-lina. People may have seen his outdoor public work, Seven Wonders, in Hous-ton at the Wortham The-atre along Buffalo Bayou, or the Manila Palm outside of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Oth-ers may have witnessed his sculpture and paintings at the Menil Collection or at the Station Museum of

Contemporary Art. Mel is known for the

broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require collaborative teamwork, installations and sculptures that reflect complex ideas and per-sonal works that focus on aesthetic and personal con-cerns.

The Nave is open Tues-day through Sunday, 1 – 5 P.M.

For museum informa-tion, please call 361-575-8227 or visit www.victori-aregionalmuseum.com.

“Silver Lining.” Their lyrics relay a kind of hope-filled angst, which showcases a uniquely modern, yet still organic sound, which is sure to strike a chord in fans of all ages.

The Rankin Twins de-liver a captivating live per-formance. The strength of their natural chemistry radiates throughout any room they play. The sisters’ voices form uniquely beau-tiful harmonies that can only be attributed to their God-given congruency, and which could never be dupli-cated. Their awe-inspiring stage presence is bolstered by their distinct confidence in each other, and in the fantastic lineup of seasoned musicians with whom they

perform.The Rankin Twins’ road

to where they now stand in the Texas music scene, like many Troubadours before them, was not a straight one. After having to move from Portland to Longview and then to Midland for their high school years, one would have had a bet-ter chance at finding April and Amy on the soccer field than on a stage. During col-lege at Texas A&M, Amy fell in love with the Texas music scene, rubbed elbows with big names like Cross Cana-dian Ragweed, and received her first guitar as a gift.

It wasn’t until after gradu-ating college that the Rankin Twins’ music career got the push it needed. Amy’s life began to take a left turn, first with a bad breakup and then

having to undergo two sepa-rate operations to remove a brain tumor. Like many great musicians, Amy found an escape in the form of writ-ing music, and “Headaches & Heartbreaks” was born. More songs kept coming, and the two started collabo-rating, which is when April’s writing talents blossomed. They made their first record-ings, put together a band, and began playing shows throughout Texas.

Rob Patterson, a longtime music journalist and critic explains the rare talent and charisma that make up The Rankin Twins:

“One thing we music-loving journalists live for is those all too rare magical moments when you hear an act and immediately say, ‘wow, they’ve got it!’

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TWINS: Perform Saturday Mel Chin works head exhibit

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Breakfast • Lunch • DinnerCall in Orders!

Gonzales VFW Post #4817Monday,

September 511 a.m. to 1 p.m.

$7 per plateDine In or Drive Thru

Baked goods for sale by VFW Auxiliary Post #4817

This week’s top 40 requested Texas independent music tracks at RadioFreeTexas.org:

1. Agave Posse Band Slide Another Brew2. Brian Coy And The Remaining Few Turkey On The Bottle3. Tyler Cannon Sweet Southern Thing4. Jody Jenkins Brings Back Amarillo5. Kat Moore Band Shadows6. Beau Hinze And The Back Porch Shufflers Thunderstorms & Dominoes7. Brian Coy And The Remaining Few Momma Save Me8. Max Stalling 6x9 Speakers Revisited

9. Mark Monaco Empty Glass10. Jason Boland And The Stragglers Mary Ellen’s Greenhouse11. Red Dvorak You Ain’t Going Nowhere (With Tim Lewelling, Steve Judice & Slim Bawb12. Scotty Thurman And The Perfect Trouble Band Good To See You13. Hunter McKithan & The Offenders Dirty Little War14. Tyler Cannon Smile and a Wink15. Bryant Carter Band Southern Crawl16. Town Walsh Cold Light Of Day17. Mark Monaco Never Let You Down18. Slaid Cleaves Breakfast In Hell19. Slaid Cleaves Horeseshoe Lounge20. Slim Bawb J’Ai Beson D’une Biere21. Nick Verzosa She Only Loves Me22. Jackson Lee Brooks Band Ballad Of A Broken Heart23. Kat Moore Band Country Through And Through24. Jamie Richards She’s Cold As That Beer She’s Drinking

25. Steve Judice Only By A Stone26. Josh Ward Band Jebediah Beane27. Beau Hinze And The Back Porch Shufflers Double Stack Mack28. Kat Moore Band Home29. Troy Stone Till The Wind Started Blowing30. Slim Bawb Big Easy31. HeyBale That’s How I Got to Memphis32. Steve Judice Pvt. Miller’s Mama’s House33. David Lee Kaiser 13 Days34. Temper Young Born To Be A Southern Man35. Slow Rollin Lows Rainy Tuesday36. Getocowboys Crazy37. Jimmy Kaiser Galveston Lights/Can’t You See38. Bryant Carter Band 539. Reckless Kelly Good Luck & True Love40. Rich O’Toole Ay Dios MioSource: radiofreetexas.org

Playing Moulton Sept. 9One of the best up-and-coming bands out of Nash-ville will be in Moulton headlining a show Sept. 9. Ned Van Go, who publicize themselves as a “ragged crew of small-town rockers,” will head up a Friday evening’s en-tertainment at the at the Ole Moulton Bank, 101 Main St. in Moulton. The Nashville rockers, who blend working-man rock with a unique twang of mountain-music roots, recently released their fourth album, “Heartbreak City.” For ticket details, call 361-596-7499.

Nearly 40 artists from around Tex-as will compete in the eighth annual “Reflections of Texas” art competi-tion to be held at the Central Texas Oil Patch Museum, 421 E. Davis in Luling, from Sept. 11-20.

The show will begin with a recep-tion at the museum on Sunday, Sept. 11 from 2 to 6 p.m. and art will re-main on display through September 20th. Awards will be presented to the artists at the reception, and attend-ees may vote on their favorite work for the People’s Choice Award. The

reception is open to the public, with food, drinks and music provided by the museum association and art show sponsors. Donations are appreciated.

Artists will be competing for six cash awards, six merit awards, the People’s Choice Award, and the Pur-chase Prize which results in one piece of artwork being added to the mu-seum’s collection each year. Many works are available for sale, and a silent auction of donated works also is held throughout the entire show period.

Gonzales area artists participat-ing in the show are Steven W. Lewis, Beatrice Maddox and Marie Rawls

of Gonzales, Trina Hill and Brenda Briggs Shannon of Cost, and Jenice Benedict of Harwood. Show hours in the days following the reception are Monday - Saturday 10 am to 3 pm, and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Individuals or tour groups are welcome.

The Central Texas Oil Patch Mu-seum is operated by the nonprofit Luling Area Oil Museum Associa-tion. It is housed in the historic Walk-er Brothers Building in downtown Luling. For more information regard-ing the show, museum hours, exhibits and tours, contact: Carol Voigt at 830-875-1922 or the Lulling Chamber of Commerce at 830-875-3214, Ext. 1.


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‘Reflections of Texas’Artists from around state set to compete inannual show at Luling’s Oil Patch Museum

Thursday, September 1Thursday Night Acoustic Jam, Ole

Moulton Bank, Moulton, 6:30 p.m.-mid-night, call 361-596-7499 for info

Clint Martin Band at Jerry B’s, Kene-dy.

Comedy Night at Scooter’s Dance-hall, Moulton, 9 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 2Nick Verzosa & Noble Union at Yoa-

kum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.

Saturday, Sept. 3Charla Corn at Fayette County Fair,

La Grange, 8 p.m.Country Magic Band at Cistern

Store, Cistern, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. No cover.Rankin Twins at Yoakum Gin & Feed,

Yoakum, 9 p.m. Tickets $8.



Friday, Sept. 9Dolly Shine at Scooter’s Dance Hall,

Moulton. Tickets $8.

Saturday, Sept. 10

Molly Hatchet at the Texas Rally, Somerville. Gates open at noon.

Johnny Cooper at Scooter’s Dance Hall, Moulton. Tickets $10.

John Evans Band at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.



Friday, Sept. 16Thom Shepherd at Scooter’s Dance

Hall, Moulton. Tickets $10.The Washers at Yoakum Gin & Feed,

Yoakum.

Saturday, Sept. 17Perfect Stranger at Scooter’s Dance

Hall, Moulton. Tickets $10.Country Magic Band at Watterston

Dance Hall, Watterston, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $6 cover

Brandon Jackson at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.

Sunday, Sept. 18Bad Bob and the Cow Paddy Dad-

dys at Old Moulton Bank, Moulton. For tickets call 361-596-7499.



Saturday, Sept. 24Mike Ryan at Scooter’s Dancehall,

Moulton. Tickets $10.

Saturday. Oct. 1Granger Smith at Scooter’s Dance-

hall, Moulton. Tickets $12.Sons of Magnolia at Yoakum Gin &

Feed, Yoakum.

Friday, Oct. 7Curtis Grimes at Scooter’s Dance-

hall, Moulton. Tickets $8.

Friday, Oct. 14Zack Edwards at Scooter’s Dance-

hall, Moulton. Tickets $8.

Saturday, Oct. 15Jarrod Bingham at Yoakum Gin &

Feed, Yoakum.

Musicians and Venues: To add or up-date events, contact us via e-mail to [email protected].

First Friday CoffeeSeptember 2

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Lone Star BankMike Koeth - Speaker

Everyone is invited to attend.

Sponsored byGonzales Main Street

&Chamber of CommerceFor more information

contactBarbara Friedrich,

830-672-2815.

MatamorosTaco Hut

BreakfastPotato &

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September 2Nick Verzosa

& Noble Union

8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

September 3

9 p.m. - 1 a.m.Doors open at 6 p.m.

Rankin Twins

Yoakum Gin & Feed117 West Street, Yoakum, TX 77994

361-293-3515Lunch on Sundays

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CANNON KID’S CORNER

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, just when you think you’ve had enough, the wa-ters recede and the path is clear. All it takes is a little deterination and a lot of patience to get there.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21There are no easy answers this week, Taurus. That is why you will just have to be diligent in your own quest to find the best solutions.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, a small disagree-ment at work eventually will lead to a bigger disas-ter than you had imagined. You may have to have an-other party intervene to work things out.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cut someone close to you a little slack, Cancer. This person has been extremely distracted and isn’t able to devote all of his or her at-tention to the task at hand.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23No matter what you do, you can’t seem to lose this week, Leo. Call it a lucky streak or the stars aligned in your favor. Whatever the case, let the good times roll.VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, when a family mem-ber comes to you for ad-vice, snide remarks won’t suffice. This person really needs assistance and trusts you to have an open mind on the situation.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, now that you’ve tackled some of the big-ger tasks that were on your

agenda, you can focus on having more down time for enjoyment. Spend it with friends.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, when the going gets tough, you just have to get tougher. Now is not the time to admit defeat. Buckle down and get the job done. You will be happy you stuck it out.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, you’re only fooling yourself if you think you can keep up with all the secrets and still get others to trust you. Others may be humoring you. It’s time to confess.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, just when it seems like your luck won’t change for the best you have a stroke of good fortune. The best part is the luck will last for a while.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, when you are not able to tackle a problem, it’s alright to call in a profes-sional to help you solve it. Not everyone is an expert in every subject.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, there’s no time like the present to simply do something nice for a friend or family member. Go on and bring a smile to some-one’s face.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYSSEPTEMBER 4Beyonce, Singer (30)

SEPTEMBER 5Rose McGowan, Actress (38)

SEPTEMBER 6Jane Curtin, Comic Actress (64)

SEPTEMBER 7Chrissie Hynde, Athlete (60)

SEPTEMBER 8Pink, Singer (32)

SEPTEMBER 9Michelle Williams, Actress (31)

SEPTEMBER 10Colin Firth, Actor (51)

Puzzle Answers

It was revered American comedian Bill Cosby who made the following sage observation: “Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”

Here’s a disturbing statistic for parents: If your child is like the average American youth, between the ages of 5 and 15 he or she will see approximately 13,500 people killed on television.

Most languages change dramatically over time. If we in modern America were to try to read “Beowulf” (which was written in Old English), for instance, only those who have spent time studying the language would be able to make out more than a word or two here and there. If you’re from Iceland, however, this isn’t the case; the written language there has remained virtually unchanged for more than 1,000 years. Modern Icelanders have no trouble reading sagas that were written in the 10th century.

Relative to body size, humans — unsurprisingly — have larger brains than any other animal. Of non-

human animals, it’s the bottlenose dolphin that has the largest brain.

When Great BritainÕs current Queen Elizabeth -- then Princess Elizabeth -- wed Prince Philip, their wedding cake weighed a whopping 500 pounds.

As legend has it, in 1288, when Dusseldorf, Germany, was granted its city charter, children all over the city began turning cartwheels for joy. The cartwheel has been an enduring part of the culture there ever since, and in 1937 the city even

inaugurated an annual international cartwheel championship.

Those who study such things claim that when youÕre playing Monopoly, youÕre likely to land on Illinois Avenue and the B&O Railroad more than on any other squares.

***Thought for the Day: “I

always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.” -- W. Somerset Maugham

(c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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