Gonzales Cannon April 19 Issue

Gonzales citizens are asking the city to revoke a panhandling permit grant-ed to an aggressive group of “church” members who may be linked to multi-state fraud, and the city is already looking at ways to take ac-tion.

The panhandlers work for an organization suppos-edly raising funds to help “batered (sic) women and children,” but are both very aggressive in their attempts

to solicit donations and cu-riously silent about their or-ganization.

A group of four men were observed around 1 p.m. Fri-day, April 13, at the corner of Sarah DeWitt Dr. and St. Joseph St. Three of the four men were photographed actively interrupting traffic, which is a violation of their permit.

An attempt to get any of the men to identify them-selves or their organization was met with a confused look and silence. One man

Leann Molina said she was enjoying a quiet evening at home watching television with a friend just after midnight on a hot summer day when someone began bang-ing on her front door. Thinking her cousin might be paying her a late-night visit, she opened the door.

It wasn’t her cousin. It was her former boyfriend.

“When I saw him, I tried to close the door but he kicked it in,” she said. “He started cussing, so I went to the living room to get my phone, he took the phone away and threw it on the floor and broke it.

“I tried running to my Mom’s house across Water Street,” she said. “He chased me down and threw me on the highway, then dragged me back to my house. When he saw the blood on my face, he ran off.”

The Gonzales woman wound up at the hospital being treated for her injuries —but the charges against her attacker were even-tually dropped for “lack of evidence.”

It is, unfortunately, a scenario which is all too familiar to the hundreds of women in central Texas who live with the daily fear of being a victim of domestic violence.

Molina said she can’t understand why the charges against her attacker, her former boyfriend, were dropped. Kathryn Bab-bitt, a domestic-violence specialist with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office in San Antonio, says that even with recent changes to Texas law, it is a crime which is still difficult to prosecute.

“They are difficult to prosecute because a lot of times, the victim calls the police to remove the offender from the premises,” Babbitt said. “In a few hours, or a few days, it doesn’t seem as dire to the victim, and they don’t want the system to put him away, a lot of times it’s their boyfriend or their husband. So they try to drop the charges.”

Molina admitted she had been involved in a previous incident with her attacker of July 20, 2011 — a man who, because the charges against him were dropped, will not be named.

“They arrested the both of us before,” she said. “He beat me up pretty bad. I was dumb because I dropped the charges be-fore. He knew how to manipulate me. This time it was no, there’s nothing you could say or do.”

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CommunityAnnual car show,cookoff in Luling

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Despite the photographic evidence Leann Molina had of her injuries (top) and her blood on her front door (below), she was told the case against her at-tacker was dropped for “lack of evidence.” (Photos by Gonzales Police Dept.)

Tests findno moldon biscuitsin GISD

GISD, Page A7

Vive l’ Cannon!A couple of proud servicemen visiting Paris, France, recently spread a little Texas culture. Unveiling the “Come and Take It” flag near the Eiffel Tower are William Taylor and Gonzales’ Jacob Rodriguez. (Courtesy Photo)

Despite changes to law, too many domestic violence cases slipping through the cracks

VIOLENCE, Page A7

Gonzales ISD reported on Monday that tests on suspected “moldy” biscuits served during breakfast at one school in February had proven “conclusive” that no mold was evident.

Superintendent Dr. Kim Strozier, in a prepared state-ment, said the school dis-trict and its food services supplier, Aramark, conduct-ed tests on differing samples of the suspected biscuits and found no evidence of contamination.

“We received conclusive reports stemming from the report of mold on some biscuits served in Febru-ary,” Strozier said. “While the district took proactive measures to ensure student safety in light of the report, the investigation showed no evidence of mold.

“Aramark conducted tests on differing samples of the biscuits and the microbio-logical tests determined that all samples were found free of mold and showed no evidence that any consump-tion of the product could produce illness,” she added. “The cause of concern may have been related to normal chemical processes of the

Luling to gethotel project

LULING — City Council on Thursday gave an en-thusiastic thumbs-up to a proposed new hotel devel-opment.

Council voted unani-mously to accept the plat of a 29.782-acre property just north of the I-10/High-way 183 junction and to al-low a tax abatement on the property for Luling Lodg-

ing LLC. The property lies within the city’s special Re-investment Zone 1, making it eligible for the abatement.

Nick Patel and John Patel, reperesenting the develop-ment, told the council that plans call for a three-story, 54-room hotel complete with pool, workout room and modern WiFi conve-niences.

“Luling is ready for a nice hotel,” noted Mayor Mike

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Service atThe HeightsWaelder United Methodist

Church will provie a Worship Service, Sunday, April 29th at 2:30, at The Heights, with Wor-ship led by Rev. Jody Shank, Pastor WUMC. WUMC is lo-cated at at 200 E. Avenue E., in Waelder. A Worship Service is conducted each Sunday at 11 AM, and Shank can be reached at [email protected] , or on his cell at 512-988-0899.

Spaghetti SupperThe 44th Annual Spaghetti

Supper will be held Friday, April 27th at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Center from 4:30-8 p.m. – Take Out, 5-8 p.m. Dine In. Tickets are $7.00. Come and Support the Children & Youth Ministries. For more information, call 672-8521.

Czech HeritageThe Gonzales Chapter of

the Czech Heritage Society will hold its quarterly meeting on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the K.C. Hall. A meal will be served before the meet-ing. All members are urged to attend.

A&M MusterThe Gonzales County A&M

Club Muster will be at the Riv-erside Community Center on Saturday, April 21 at 6 p.m.

The speaker is former Bas-trop County Judge Ronnie Mc-Donald, who is also running for the Congressional District 27 seat. McDonald is also a former Aggie Yell Leader.

Membership DriveA membership drive has

been scheduled by the Gonza-les County Farm Bureau for May 23-28. Directors of the local Farm Bureau organization will be visiting prospective mem-bers in the area to inform them of the advantages of member-ship. Anyone involved with ag-riculture in any way should be-come involved in this excellent organization and have your interests represented in the law making progress.

Members are the strength of an organization like Farm Bureau. Gonzales County Farm Bureau has a membership of 1,150 member families. Texas Farm Bureau has 454,674, and the American Farm Bureau has 6,279,813 member families. Our organization in the state and national government has a great influence in guiding our legislators in their decision making progress.

Farm Bureau has policies that cover all phases of agricul-ture and rural living. Lobbyists in Austin and Washington D.C. use this policy book for refer-ence when informing elected officials about state and na-tional issues affecting agricul-ture issues. The contents of this policy book are developed in county organizations and pass upward through the state and national annual meetings. You might ask, “Where would we be if we didn’t have a voice for agri-culture in the legislature?”

Study ClubThe Woman’s Study Club will

meet at 4:00 pm on Wednes-day, May 9 at the home of Bev-erly Pirkle. A book report will be

given by Martha Jo Whitt on the book I Remember Noth-ing. Members will meet in the church parking lot at 3:40 for rides.

The BriefcaseAll Ladies Are Invited, Tues-

day, May 1, 12:05-12:55 p.m. Nelda Hoffman and “Team” will present the program. “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates!” Join us in the Fellowship Hall for our final meeting of the school year. This will be a salad luncheon. Chicken and ham salads, pimiento cheese, crack-ers and drinks will be provided. Bring your favorite salad and a friend and come for a time of fun, food, inspiration and fel-lowship. Childcare is available on request. Call the church of-fice at 672-9595.

Appreciation barbecueAn Appreciation BBQ Dinner

will be held for Gonzales emer-gency employees and volun-teers on Friday, April 20.

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

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

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

Elks Ladies BBQThe Gonzales Elks Ladies are

sponsoring a barbecue chicken and sausage dinner on Sun-day, April 22 from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. all plates can be picked up in a drive-through line at the Elks Lodge, 1222 E. Sarah De-Witt Dr. Plates are $8 each and proceeds will go to fund local projects and scholarships. For more details, call 672-2615 af-ter 6 p.m.

Bebe ReunionThe annual Bebe School

Reunion will be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, April 21 at Monthalia Methodist Church fellowship hall. All students and family are welcome. For more information, call Marga-ret Plunkett at 830-672-3329 or 830-263-2083, or Clarence Bahlmann at 830-437-2610.

Senior GamesThe Seniors In Action for

Gonzales County will be hold-ing free Senior Games during the month of April and we will hold an awards luncheon recognizing Senior Citizens in the month of May in honor of “Older Americans Month”. We will have Mayor Bobby O’Neal as our guest speaker and give many awards to Seniors as well as students from Gonzales High School and the annual “Joan Floyd” award. Please contact Donna Allen at 830-672-2867 for more information.

Young Farmers BBQThe Gonzales Young Farmers

are having a fifth Sunday Bar-beque to Go sale on Sunday April

29. BBQ is to be picked up from

11 am-1 pm at the old showbarn in Independence park. Prices are for whole brisket $45, 1/2 brisket $25, pork ribs $25, whole pork loin $35, 1/2 pork loin $20. Con-tact any Young Farmer member or Ken Hedrick 830-857-5332, Charles Rochester 830-857-5366, or Kenneth Fink 830-857-6355.

Deadline to order is April 22.

Delhi Community BBQPlease join us for the 52nd an-

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

GLC donationsThe Gonzales Learning Center

wants to let folks know that we’re collecting gently used Christmas ornaments, lights, artificial trees, wreaths, décor, and gift wrap for next year’s Christmas bazaar.

Call 830-672-8291 to make arrangements to drop off your donation at the Learning Center, located at 1135 St. Paul. We can also pick up donations.

For more information, send email to [email protected].

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family

Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit organization provid-ing services to both residents and non-residents that are vic-tims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

GVFVS provides survivors with legal advocacy, case man-agement, counseling, assistance with crime victims compensa-tion and other services at no cost. For more information, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.

Senior CitizensCenterThe Gonzales Senior Citi-

zens Center would like to invite anyone over 60 years of age to come and eat with them at 604 St. Michael St., Monday thru Friday. The center is open from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

We serve a hot delicious 1/3 RDA delicious meal noon each day. The cost of the meal is a $2.00 voluntary donation that is applied to the total cost of the meal.

We would like some sug-gestions for activities that you would like to see at the Gonza-les Center.

I would also like to remind you that we have Senior Citi-zen Centers in Waelder, Smiley and Nixon. For more infor-mation about our activities, please call me, Helen Richter at 672-2613.

For general public transpor-tation call 672-7014 or 672-6469, and talk to Kari or Bobby. Please make your reservations as soon as you know you need transportation because it is on a first come first serve basis.

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Thought for the Day

“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automati-cally, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”

—Gore Vidal

April 19, 1875On this day in 1875, Kiowa chief White Horse (Tsen-tainte)

and a group of followers surrendered at Fort Sill, Indian Terri-tory. White Horse had gained considerable notoriety during the early 1870s for his raids on Texas settlements, and was considered the “most dangerous man” among the Kiowas. He participated in the Warren wagon train raid in May 1871 and in the second battle of Adobe Walls in June 1874. He was also present in September 1874 at the battle of Palo Duro Canyon, which apparently convinced him that further resistance was futile. White Horse was among those singled out by Kicking Bird for incarceration at St. Augustine, Florida. He died of a stomach ailment in 1892 and was buried on the reservation near Fort Sill.

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Gonzales Police Department Report from April 7-15

April 7Angel Isidro Hernandez, 25 Of

Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana At 300 Botts St.

Reported Aggravated Assaut With Deadly Weapon At 900 Blk Williams St.

Juan Peralta-Iscano, 26 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Burglary Of A Habitation At 700 Blk Oakland Dr.

April 915 Year Old Female Issued

Citation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

13 Year Old Male Issued Ci-tation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

April 1014 Year Old Female Issued

Citation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 400 Blk College St.

Reported Burglary Habitation At 100 Blk Carroll St.

April 12Reported Theft At 200 Blk St.

Louis St.

16 Year Old Male Issued Ci-tation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

Reported Disorderly Conduct At 700 Blk St. Paul St.

April 13Barry Michael Sullivan, 35 Of

La Porte, Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Controlled Substance At 700 Blk St. Joseph St.

Reported Burglary Of A Habi-tation At 1900 Blk St. Michael St.

Reported Theft At 100 Blk Sar-ah Dewitt Dr.

April 14Jonathan Natividad Zavala,

20 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Mar-ijuana At 200 Blk St. Paul St.

April 15Ruben Allen Reyes, 38 Of

Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Disorderly Conduct At 900 Blk Cuero St.

Reported Cruelty To Animals At 1900 Blk Crawford St.

Robert Issac Buehler, 50 Of Thomasville, Pa., Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Mar-ijuana At 183 City Limits.

The Gonzales Police De-partment is asking the public’s help in locating a man suspected in sev-eral recent car burglar-ies in the area near the elementary schools, the College St./St. Lawrence area and near the Gonza-les County Courthouse. Police are seeking Daniel Navejar, 38 of Gonzales. If you have any informa-tion to the whereabouts of Navejar, contact Capt. Taylor at 830-672-8686.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice report for April 8-14:

04/09/12Ellsworth, Phillip, 09/1980,

New Braunfels. Local Warrant – Burglary of a Habitation. Com-mitment/Sentence – Engage in Organized Criminal Activity. Re-mains in Custody.

Martinez, Marissa Ofelia, 12/1993, Gonzales. Commit-ment/Sentence – Assault causes Bodily Injury. Remains in Cus-tody.

Riebschlaeger, Tracy Rouse, 01/1968, Aransas. Local Warrant – Forgery Financial Instrument. Released on $5,000 Bond.

04/11/12Walleck, Kevin Dwayne,

07/1981, Luling. Local Warrant – Possession of a Controlled Sub-stance PG 1 <1G. Released – Case Dismissed.

Darilek, Chelsey Nicole, 04/1994, Moulton. Local War-

rant – Burglary of a Habitation. Released on $3,000 Bond.

Navejar, Jeremy Lynn, 04/1988, Universal City. Com-mitment/Sentence – Robbery. Remains in Custody.

04/12/12Honey, David Shawn, 05/1969,

Nixon. Local Warrant – Disorderly Conduct Discharge/Display Fire-arm. Requires $2,500 Bond. Re-mains in Custody.

04/13/12Palacios, Librado, Jr., 01/1989,

Gonzales. Commitment/Sen-tence – Burglary of a Building. Released Weekender/Work Re-lease.

Jensen, Gregory Lynn, 12/1966, Holland. Local Warrant – Criminal Nonsupport. Remains in Custody.

Brister, Jason lee, 01/1983, Gonzales. Local Warrant – Bur-glary of a Vehicle. Requires $3,000 Bond. Remains in Cus-

tody.04/14/12Pirkle, Terry, 10/1964, Gon-

zales. Commitment/Sentence – Criminal Trespass. Remains in Custody.

Pena, Bobby John, 03/1993, Smiley. Guadalupe County War-rant – Assault causes Bodily In-jury Family Violence. Released on $1,000 Bond.

Total Arrest, Court Commit-ments, other agency arrest and processing’s:

GCSO 12DPS 07GPD 07WPD 00NPD 01Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 27

DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from April 5-12

April 5Arrested Geary Ermis, 59, of

Yoakum, Violation of Probation/ Evading Arrest Detention with Vehicle (Victoria Co.), No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Amanda Diaz, 27, of Austin, Violation of Probation/Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity, Bond of $20,000, DCSO

Arrested Gerald Garcia, 51 of Goliad, Driving While License In-valid with Previous Conviction, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Arrested Quincy Enoch, 28, of Victoria, Capias Pro Fine Drive Not Secured by Seatbelt, Fine $390, Capias Pro Fine Violate Failure to Appear Fine $573.30, DCSO

Arrested Roy Cleveland, 49, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine Public Intoxication Fine $608.15, DCSO

Arrested Gerardo Cantu, 28, of Beeville, Public Intoxication, Failure to ID Fugitive Intent Give False Information, Bond of $1,000, Evading Arrest Detention (Victoria Co.), Bond of $5,000, As-sault Causes Bodily Injury Family Member (Victoria Co.) Bond of $10,000, Bail Jumping Failure to Appear (Victoria Co.), Bond of $5,000, Bail Jumping Failure to Appear (Victoria Co.), Bond of $10,000, Possession of Marijuana < 2 oz. (Bee Co.) Cash Bond of $750, Yorktown PD.

April 6Arrested Paul Duffy, 73, of Cu-

ero, Lewd, Immoral, or Indecent Conduct, Bond of $2,000 PR, Cu-ero PD

Arrested Bobby Smith, 56, of Nopil, Public Intoxication, Fine of $ 355 (30 Day to Pay), DCSO

April 7Arrested Zerah Ybarra, 41,

Seguin, Theft of Property/Service over $20 under $500 (Gonzales Co), Bond of $1,000, Yorktown PD

Arrested Noe Chavez, 40, of Yoakum, Illegal Entry, Class C No Drivers License Fine of $166 (30 Days to Pay), DPS

Arrested Charles Shelton, 56, of Cuero, Public Intoxication Fine of $264 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Robert Middleton, 31 of Cuero, Public Intoxication Fine of $364 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Matthew Fortenber-ry, 20, of Seguin, Theft by Check > = $20 < $500, Bond of $1, 000, Cuero PD

April 8Arrested Robert Middleton, 31

of Cuero, Theft by Check > $20 < $500 (Collin Co.) Bond of $ 350, Capias Pro Fine/ Issuance Bad Check (Collin Co.), Fine of $ 240, Issuance Bad Check (Collin Co.) Bond of $ 500, DCSO

Arrested Patrick Vega, 33, of Round Rock, Driving While Li-cense Invalid, Bond of $1,000, DPS

Arrested Tayna Lopez, 27, of Cuero, Assault by Contact (C), Fine $ 364 (30 Days to Pay), Cu-ero PD

Arrested Gary Garcia, 25, of Cuero, Driving while Intoxicated, Bond of $1,000, DPS

April 9Arrested Eddie Gonzales, 22,

of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine/No In-surance, Fine $ 696.14, Capias Pro Fine/Fail to Display Drivers Li-cense, Fine of $ 367.24, Cuero PD

Arrested Robert Lewis Mraz Jr, 24, of Yoakum, Violation of

Probation/Criminal Mischief, No Bond, Capias Pro Fine/Driving while License Invalid, Fine of $445.80, DCSO

Arrested Viola Lugo, 44, of Cu-ero, False Report to Peace Officer, Bond of $ 2,000, Theft Property $1500-$ 20,000, Bond of $ 5,000, Cuero PD

Arrested Sharon Patton, 42, of Cuero, Driving while License Invalid w/Prev Conviction, Bond of $800, DPS

Arrested Dorothy Upshaw, 28, of Yorktown, Capias Pro Fine/No Insurance, Fine of $410, York-town PD

April 10Arrested Vicente Rodriguez,

39, of Corpus Christi, Driving While Intoxicated 2nd, Bond of $ 1,200, DPS

Arrested Angelica Olivera, 31, of Cuero, Failure to Appear, Fine of $367 (30 Days to Pay), Class C/Speed 1-10 above Limit, Fine of $231(30 Days to Pay) No/Expired Auto Registration, Fine of $216 (30 Days to Pay), DPS

Arrested Lisa Wilson, 45, of Victoria, Driving while Intoxicat-ed BAC > 0.15, Bond of $2,500, Cuero PD

Arrested Christina Flores, 28, of Victoria, Bail Jumping and Failure to Appear, Bond of $1,000 (Cash), DCSO

April 11Arrested Joshua Sharp, 26 of

Lumberton, Public Intoxication, Fine of $339 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Carlos Becerra, 36, of Cuero, Driving while Intoxicated 3rd or more, Bond of $20,000 with Conditions, Criminal Mis-chief, Bond of $2,000, DPS

Adela Garza, Olmito resident and business owner, has filed as Re-publican Candidate for United States Represen-tative, District 34.

Congressional Dis-trict 34 is comprised of 11 counties stretching all the way from Cam-eron County in the Rio Grande Valley to just southeast of San An-tonio with a portion of southern Gonzales County.

Garza, a graduate of Pan American Univer-sity, has a passion for education and public service. She current-ly serves on the Texas Southmost College Board of Trustees where she has led efforts to keep a strong commu-nity college system in Cameron County.

Garza grew up in a working class family where she was taught the values of faith, family and hard work that have been the foundation of her life.

Garza said of her deci-sion to run for Congress:

“This past year I served as a Field Repre-sentative for Congress-man Farenthold, where I came to realize just how under-served our district has been in the past. Unfortunately, the citizens of our District

are poorer and less edu-cated, on average, than most in the rest of our state and nation.

“I believe that is pri-marily because we have been neglected for so long and had ineffectual representation from de-cades of primarily Dem-ocrat Congressional leadership,” she added. “Because I have continu-ously lived and served in this District for 36 years, I know the needs of my district. As a small busi-ness owner, I have per-sonally felt the struggles of staying on a shrinking budget, while trying to keep my employees with jobs.”

A former school board member and Irrigation District Board member, Garza has served on numerous civic boards including the Texas

Council of Community, Mental Health and Men-tal Retardation Centers and the Healthy Com-munities of Brownsville. She and her husband Faustino Garza, M.D., R.P.H., own Tino’s Pre-scription Shop, a small pharmacy in Browns-ville. They have four children, Rene, Jon, Pa-tricia and Tina, and two granddaughters Amanda Scout and Andrea Re-nee.

Adela is pro-life, pro-business, and a firm believer in smaller, ef-ficient, constitutionally based government. She has many prominent Republicans in the Dis-trict supporting and en-dorsing her candidacy, including State Repre-sentative Jose Aliseda of Texas House District 35.

Adela says it is repre-sentatives like Aliseda and Farenthold that have inspired her to go to Washington D.C. to make good decisions about our tax dollars, reduce government red tape, and fight for the needs and values of our District.

She asks for your vote in the Republican Pri-mary on May 29th with early voting held be-tween May 14 - May 20 and May 21 - May 25.

The 2012 Gonzales County Republican con-vention is scheduled start-ing at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 21 at the Gonzales County Courthouse, Commission-ers Court Room.

The purposes of the convention are to choose delegates and alternates to the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) State Conven-tion, currently scheduled for June 7-9 in Fort Worth, and to consider resolutions or statements on policy is-sues to send to the State Convention for eventual inclusion in the state and national Party platform. All attendees have the right to seek to become a state delegate and to bring forth resolutions for consider-ation by the convention.

In past election cycles, the county convention has been held in mid-March, two weeks after the March Primary Election. Because of federal court involve-ment and changes to the

2012 Texas Primary Elec-tions, a three-judge panel in San Antonio issued a court order that moved the date of the convention back into April, but to a date that is before the May 29 Texas Primary Election.

One of the main differ-ences in this year’s Repub-lican convention process is that the Gonzales County Republican Party will not be conducting precinct conventions on the evening of the Primary Election, county chairman Myrna McLeroy said. Since the Primary Election falls so late on the calendar, the state Republican Party act-ed in accordance with RPT rules for the 2012 cycle in voting to forego precinct conventions and move straight to the county/dis-trict convention.

All attendees will be seated by precinct and will vote their precinct strength.

In making the an-

nouncement, McLeroy said, “Although the timing of this year’s convention schedule has changed for Gonzales County Repub-licans, we are more en-thusiastic than ever about coming together for this important event and ready to get to work on our du-ties that day. On behalf of our county party, I invite all interested Gonzales County Republicans to join us on April 21 at the Courthouse to participate in a full day of important discussions and decisions that will carry forward to our State Republican Con-vention and beyond.”

Traditionally, the coun-ty/district convention has been open to any registered voter in the county who either voted in that year’s Primary Election, or who took an oath of affiliation and identifying themselves with the Republican Party of Texas. Since the county/district conventions will

be held before the May 29 Texas Primary Election, the county Republican Con-vention will continue to be open to any registered voter who signs an oath of affilia-tion identifying themselves with the Republican Party of Texas.

As an additional re-source, the state party stands ready to answer any questions related to the 2012 Republican Party of Texas Convention process. More convention informa-tion is available at the RPT website - TexasGOP.org.

The CannonThursday, April 19, 2012 Page A3

Adela Garza

Lavaca GOPers hold convention

Politics

Bob Burchard for MAYOR

It Is Time For A

ChangeI promise you: •Transparency •Accountability •Responsibility

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• Born in Gonzales at Holmes Hospital • Graduate - Gonzales High School• Graduate - University of Texas, Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering• Graduate - South Texas College of Law, Juris Doctor Degree• Graduate - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity Degree• Registered Professional Land Surveyor • Licensed Attorney At Law• Owner and Manager - Burchard Abstract Corporation for 42 Years• Member - First Baptist Church • Chairman - City of Gonzales Beautification Committee• Chairman - Gonzales County Historical Commission• Member - Advisory Board, Gonzales Campus, Victoria Campus• Member - Victoria College Foundation Board• Member - Crystal Theatre Board

Call 830-672-2822, office or 830-672-6167, residencePol. Adv. paid for by Bob Burchard, 403 St. George St., Gonzales, TX 78629

Cannon, KCTI teamto sponsor forum for

city, school candidatesThe Gonzales Cannon and radio station KCTI

1450AM are teaming up to give Gonzales resi-dents a chance to meet and question candidates in the upcoming city and school elections.

The two media organizations will host a can-didate forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 26 at the VFW Post on Harwood Road in Gonzales. KCTI’s Egon Barthels and The Cannon’s Dave Mundy will serve as moderators for the event.

Each candidate in the Gonzales mayor’s race, City Council District 4 and GISD District 7 trust-ee will be allowed to make a short statement about his or her candidacy, then moderators will ask each candidate a series of general questions. All candidates in each race will be allowed to field the same questions.

Readers and residents in the city and school district may also submit questions for use. Your questions can be e-mailed to [email protected], or can be written on an index card and presented to the moderators prior to the start of the forum.

The forum is open to the public, and all voters in the city and school district are invited to attend.

Local members of the Lavaca County Republican Party held their bi-annual County Convention on Sat-urday at the Courthouse Annex with citizen delegates from 17 precincts participat-ing.

Local, State and Federal Candidates spoke before the Convention Delegates seek-ing their support, including Mike Johnson and JD Tanner (candidates for Republican Party County Chairman),

R.W. Brown (candidate for County Commissioner, Pct. 3), Micah Harmon (can-didate for Sheriff), Charles Greive (candidate for Con-stable, Pct 2), Bill Old (can-didate for 25th District Judge), Trey Roberts, John Grumwald, and a represen-tative for Blake Farenthold (candidates for Congress, 27th District).

Delegates to the State Convention were chosen and important resolutions

were approved by those in attendance.

Among the grassroots res-olutions to be presented at the state convention for in-clusion in the Texas Republi-can Party Platform are those which expressed opposition to mandates and regula-tions being imposed by the current administration. In

particular, delegates were opposed to implementation of Agenda 21, which places our country under a number of UN controls which would undermine our national sovereignty. Delegates also passed a resolution opposing the ability of the government to close down internet sites without proper authority.

Addressing the body of the Convention, Ronnie Rehm gave his report on the Nominations Committee. Front row attendees included County Judge Tramer Woytek, Michael Johnson, candidate for County Chairman, Phillip and Rosemary Hemmi. (Photo By Kathleen Leininger)

Gonzales Co. convention Saturday

Garza to seek 34th District seat

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Last week, President Obama signaled his intention to make the U.S. Supreme Court a central issue in the fall campaign if it guts his signature policy achievement, Obamacare. Although he and his liberal friends may believe this is a shrewd short-term political calculation, it raises trou-bling questions about a president’s broader ideas of the Constitution, and the respon-sibilities to the constitutional order he is sworn to uphold.

Obama and liberals remind me of kids who wanted played football to win but do not respect the rules.

If the other team is larger, they want to handicap the opponent rather than try to excel and play to their best. That’s called affirmative action. If the other team scores more points, they want to be given extra points to equalize the results. In short, they want “fairness” as per their definition which means equal results, not opportu-nity.

In the midst of this effort to bring about fairness, Obama has created Obamacare to bring affordable health care to everyone. In typical liberal fashion, it sounds good but the reality and implementation is bad because it forces citizens to buy a product created by the government or face a pen-alty.

We believe this is contrary to the Con-stitution and basic freedoms of all Ameri-cans, and thus the legal challenge in the Supreme Court by several states.

However, as the court arguments began, Obama’s arrogant personality and socialist political leaning have been revealed in full color.

First he made an outrageous statement. “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama said April 2.

“Unprecedented”? Judicial review has

been the centerpiece of the American con-stitutional system since Marbury vs. Madi-son in 1803. “Strong majority”? The House has 435 members. In March 2010, Demo-crats held a 75-seat majority. Obamacare passed by seven votes.

John Fund wrote in the National Review, “Obama makes Berkeley liberals look like statesmen.” Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henniger said that what appeared to be “unprecedented” was for a U.S. president to have “attacked the Su-preme Court before it handed down its de-cision.”

Obama has shown his lack of respect for the Constitution before in several ways.

He has refused to act on behalf of Ari-zona in illegal immigration issues and has even sued them for trying to do what his administration failed to do.

He has appointed “czars” to implement his liberal policies and circumvent Con-gress. He has also failed to present a budget to Congress in three years.

Obama is like a petulant child when he lashes out, this way. If there was any reason to vote against Obama in the coming elec-tion, it was on full display last week.

The U.S. cannot afford to have a presi-dent that undermines the Constitution, and who believes in a socialist economy. As we pay our federal taxes this week, we should remember November.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to in-sure implicit obedience is to com-mence tyranny in the nursery.

– Benjamin Disraeli,British Prime Minister (1874)

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.

– Karl Marx, “The Communist Manifesto”

The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.

– John Dewey,American educator

Parents in Texas, beware. The state is working hard to figure out how to take you out of the educa-tion picture.

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio has issued an in-

terim charge to Rep. Burt Solo-mons’ House committee, which met Tuesday in Austin: “Study State Board of Education districts to determine whether the size of the districts inhibits the ability of board members to provide repre-sentation to their constituents and whether a change to the number of districts or the makeup of the board would enhance the ability of the board to perform its duties.”

What that means is, Straus and other left-wingers — don’t let Straus’ identification as a “Repub-lican” fool you, he’s not known as “RINO Joe” for nothing —are trying to increase the number of State Board of Education districts in an effort to dilute the ability of

conservatives to elect a control-ling majority ... or to eliminate the elective process entirely.

The idea is being floated to in-crease the number of SBOE dis-tricts from 15 to as many as 37.

To quote activist Donna Gar-ner: “Bottom line: Speaker Joe Straus, Sen. Kel Seliger, other left-leaning Republicans, Texas Freedom Network, and the Dem-ocrats all dislike the elected, con-servative SBOE members; and creating more SBOE districts is an attempt to dilute the influence and power of the conservative SBOE members.”

The problem for Straus, SBOE member Thomas Ratliff, the ill-named Texas “Freedom” Network and others behind this legislative subterfuge is that the conserva-tives on the SBOE keep blocking all their efforts to federalize and further dumb-down education in Texas.

Ratliff, you’ll recall, is a lobby-ist and the son of the man who re-wrote the state education code in 1995, former Sen. Bill Ratliff. The re-write of the code greatly di-

minished the power of the SBOE in favor of unelected bueaucrats — and we’ve seen great improve-ments in Texas schools since then, haven’t we?

Not.The Texas Attorney General

ruled in August 2011 that Ratliff is not eligible to serve on the SBOE because of his lobbyist spe-cial interests — but Ratliff has not had the good grace to step down.

Those who grew all too famil-iar with the recent redistricting efforts in this state are aware what would happen with that — liber-als, with the backing of the fed-eral Justice Department — would gerrymander districts to ensure “adequate representation by eth-nicity.”

If you’re not familiar with Newspeak, that means conserva-tives will be bunched into a few districts while the large majority are drawn to ensure that liberals get elected, since all Hispanics and African-Americans must be, by definition, politically liberal.

And the whole time, they’ll in-sist it’s not political.

The sad part is the fact that most Texans will fall for that, because they have steadfastly re-fused to admit and stop the influ-ence of progressivism on public education for more than 70 years now.

It is the conservatives on the SBOE, not the “moderates” and liberals, who have led the charge in this state adopting the best cur-riculum standards in the entire United States — yes, better than the Common Core Standards which emanated from Washing-ton, D.C.

Our English, Science, and So-cial Studies TEKS (Math is be-ing re-worked now) are better than those national standards the Obama Administration is al-ternately bribing or threatening other states into adopting.

Once they’ve diluted the SBOE to a controllable status, figure the next target will be local school boards. That’s the progression as outlined by the National Gover-nors’ Council on Education way back in the 1990s — and signed onto by George W. Bush.

Obama’s arrogancewas on full display


In Our ViewRINO Joe trying to minimize conservatives’ input

El Conservador

George Rodriguez is a San Antonio resident and the first Hispanic in the nation to lead a Tea Party orga-nization. He is a former official in the U.S. Justice Dept. during the Reagan Administration.

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Dear Editor,In response to the letter,

written by Mr. Oscar Casas of Vann Energy that was pub-lished in the Cow Country Courier on Thursday March 22, and in the Gonzales Can-non on March 29. The City of Nixon invites and welcomes any new business into the area and is pleased and willing to do our best to work with each of them. But on the same token, businesses are expected to fol-low the same rules/ordinances that our citizens do.

Mr. Casas stated that dur-ing his tenure as Nixon City Manager many ordinances were created, approved, and adopted. This is true, but he failed to mention that these ordinances were never put into motion or enforced. The City is now enforcing these ordinanc-es that Mr. Casas had a part in getting approved, but now he is complaining about said en-forcement. As an aside and for clarification, the pictures that Mr. Casas has taken and sub-mitted to the media are of our City Dump/collection station.

It seems that Mr. Casas, who is in management at Vann En-ergy, has a hard time following City, State of Texas, and Fed-eral rules and regulations. He complained about “No Thru Trucks” signs being installed in the City. It is not the City’s in-tent to interfere with businesses that rely on truck transport, but rather we’re trying to regulate truck traffic to protect citizens and maintain the City’s infra-structure to the best of our abil-ity. The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) and the City are constantly repair-ing problems that are caused by the increasing of truck traffic.

The Nixon Fire Depart-ment, the Smiley Fire Depart-ment and TXDOT had to clean up an oil spill that Vann Energy was responsible for, at the intersection of Highway

80 and Highway 87 without compensation or thanks from Vann Energy or its manage-ment.

In addition, according to the United States Department of Labor, Vann Energy has been fined $70,200 for not following Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) re-quirements for 17 serious vio-lations following a health and safety inspection at their yard on East 8th Ave. This can be seen by anyone in the com-munity with internet access at the following URL: http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=21792

Mr. Casas’ position with Vann Energy placed him in charge of safety compliance at the company, and under his direction, or lack thereof, Vann Energy was sanctioned by the Federal Government.

Yet another example of Vann Energy not following guide-lines is that the management at Vann Energy hired a least four people that were fined or jailed for not having valid driver’s licenses while driving for the company. How can a company hire an individual that does not have a driver’s license for the purpose of driving for the company and placing citizens in peril?

Mr. Casas stated in his Letter to the Editor that Vann Energy had a permit to burn brush inside the City limits and then turned them into the Texas Commission for Environmen-tal Quality (TCEQ) for burn-ing brush. This was a gross misstatement of the facts.

Vann Energy did in fact ob-tain ONE burn permit from the City of Nixon and the Fire Chief. The Fire Chief was present during that permitted burn. Vann Energy did not obtain a subsequent permit as required to burn inside the

City limits. This subsequent burn was not only brush, but a combination of brush, plastics, and other materials that TCEQ instructed Vann to stop burn-ing immediately because of toxins that were being emitted into the air – the same air that is shared by the citizens of Nixon, Texas.

The City’s Code Enforce-ment officer did send Vann Energy two notices for compli-ance violations. Mr. Casas of Vann Energy stated that these violations were already being taking care of but if this were true, notices would never have been sent out by the City of Nixon.

Mr. Casas points out that Vann Energy creates revenue for the City through sales and property tax. This is true but only to a degree.

During the last quarter (Jan-Mar), sales tax revenue totaled approximately $5000 a month. This amount is for ALL sales tax revenue not just from Vann Energy. If you then subtract the necessary revenue to repair signs, streets and other issues caused by the increased truck traffic…there is not much rev-enue remaining to speak of.

The City of Nixon is striv-ing to have a clean, safe and presentable city that citizens and business owners alike can be proud of. We know that it is going to take time to ac-complish our ultimate goals, but with the continued active involvement of the City in en-forcing established ordinances and the help of citizens and business owners alike, we can continue to move forward to clean up the City.

George Blanch,Nixon City AdministratorBonnie ChessherNixon City MayorCity Council of Nixon

Letters to the editorLetter-writer excluded some facts


Dog shelter in danger of losing ‘No-Kill’ status

Letters to the editor

Read your ballot closely

Dear Editor,We would like to ask ALL of you for a

huge favor for Gonzales shelter dogs. We desperately need your support ASAP.

Our shelter’s maximum capacity is up to 80 dogs. Our average monthly intake has been 30-40. With all adoptions and trans-fering some of them to other rescue groups, we have been moving pretty much the same number of dogs out of our shelter monthly, and we have been surviving somehow.

However last month, 73 dogs were picked up by Animal Control, and all were brought to our shelter. After this extremely high intake, we now have 126 dogs at our small shelter.

As you know, our group is under contract with the City of Gonzales, and the shelter facility itself belongs to the City. The other day, we had a meeting with City of Gon-zales officials, and at this meeting we were informed that because of the overcrowded situation at the shelter, they feel that it is not being maintained in a satisfactory condi-tion. They still want us to operate the shel-ter, however they have given us a deadline of 30 days to get the number of dogs down to around 80 dogs or we will no longer be able

to operate as a NO(LESS)-KILL shelter and they will take over and it will go back to a HIGH-KILL pound.

There are only two full-time volunteers to maintain and operate all facilities of daily shelter cleaning, as well as all care for the dogs. To the rescue group, we are asking you for help by taking over as many of our dogs as you can.

To all supporters, please get the word out, and help our shelter dogs by either adopting or fostering. We have a tremendous variety of highly adoptable dogs who have been ful-ly vaccinated, are heartworm negative, and mostly spay or neutered (excluding puppies who are too young). We will be happy to provide transportation if you can possibly find a way to help us.

This is an extremely URGENT situation and any help will be greatly appreciated. If you can help please contact us as soon as possible. You may call us at 830-445-9811 or 830-445-9279.

Board of DirectorsGonzales Dog Adoptions/ Municipal Dog ShelterGonzales

Dear Editor,The Gonzales County Water Supply

Corp. has issued a ballot to its members for bylaws changes. At the very end of more than a page of fine print, they propose to assess each member a balloon payment if revenues collected in regular water rates proves insufficient at the end of the fiscal year.

There is already a rate increase proce-dure in place and a hint that they are able to borrow for emergencies. A perspica-

cious board of directors should be able to determine a looming shortfall and enact a gradual rate increase.

If the board is granted this new end-of-year assessment, it could open the door to unfettered wasteful spending. Washington, D.C. may try their idea, too!

Please read your ballot and vote care-fully.

Carroll GloorUniversal City

Get behind awarenessDear Editor,

I have been concerned for some time about the lack of interest people show in the func-tion and action of our every day political and welfare issues.

We tend to sit back and let things go as they may and even forget to vote.

There are several organizations that are ac-tively watching and working to maintain our liberty and freedom. Farm Bureau is one of the

strongest and largest of these organizations. It covers our local, state, and national interests, especially for the rural areas. We need to sup-port these organizations with our member-ship and whatever else we can do. When you join an organization you are expressing your concern for the good of everyone.

Allan FinkGonzales County Farm Bureau

We need to help elderlyDear Editor,

I would like to know why the City of Gonzles Electric Company does not help the elderly with their electric bill.

My mom and a dear friend of mine who is elderly received a letter from Lite-Up Texas to help the elderly who are on a fixed income pay their electric bills so they can run their A/C during the summer months without worrying about getting their elec-tric turned off because they can’t afford it. They were told they would be eligible for it, but the city does not participate in the program.

If all the people that are on welfare can

get help, who not the elderly who have worked all their lives to only get a small check every month and have to live on a fixed income month to month?

The government needs to look hard at the welfare system and start making changes. Everyone will be elderly one day and see what everyone who has worked has to look forward to. Just remember, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Pam LinebrinkGonzales

Special Olympics unfairnessDear Editor,

I am writing this letter in regards to my two sons, who are currently enrolled in GISD life skills classes. My sons are ages 12 and 12. They have participated in Special Olympics for eight years for my 13-year-old and four years for my 12-year-old. My sons participated in the state champion-ship games in Arlington last year.

Me and another parent got into a verbal disagreement and as a result my boys have been told that they will not be allowed to participate in Special Olympics this year. The other parent’s child has not been repri-manded, as my sons and I can understand

that I may not be allowed to go but my chil-dren should not be punished.

I have spoken to the school and the main office. The main office said that my boys do qualify to be part of Special Olympics because of their disabilities. But the coach over the Special Olympics said that my sons do not qualify.

I do not know what to do any more or who to speak with about this. My boys are devastated over this. They look forward to competing all year long.

Keya ThompsonGonzales

Commentary was offensiveDear Editor,

I have stayed overnight in Gonzales this past year on several occasions and each time I read your newspaper which can be found at the hotel’s front desk. I am always appalled by the obvious Republican slant that is entwined throughout your paper and the hatred toward President Obama.

The article written by Andrew Sullivan in your Thursday, April 5 issue clearly enraged me and prompted me to send you this letter. First and foremost, his “opinion” is based on a lie. President Obama is indeed a Christian and not a Muslim. He was ALSO born in the Unit-ed States, graduated from college in the United States, was married in the United States and in my opinion is a fantastic leader of our great country. We should be so lucky to have some-one sit in the Oval Office and put up with the shenanigans the Republicans throw at him.

Furthermore, the Treaty of Tripoli which was enforced by president John Adams states that the United States was to be religiously neutral and that there would be a separation between church and state.

Religion should not be the factor that con-stitutes the way a citizen should vote; a citizen should vote their conscience on who will do the best job for our country. It is extremely sad that most people in the United States do not even vote. They couldn’t care less. They only get upset with the government when their tax-

es are raised or the price of gas goes up, both of which could be controlled by the citizens IF they would vote.

I was born in Texas and have lived here all my life, but the politics of late have made me ashamed to say I am a Texan. Most people probably think I am a Tea Party supporter as I am a white woman and in my 60s, but they couldn’t be mor efar from the truth.

I have voted Republican in the past but these days I am a tree-hugging, gay loving, black is beautiful DEMOCRAT who can’t wait to cast my ballot for Barack Obama. I am lean-ing forward and not afraid of what lies ahead. Being stubborn and refusing to accept that America has more than one race of people and lots of different religious beliefs is shallow and ignorant. If the supreme white man thinks it’s either his way or the highway then indeed he will experience that old adage “it’s lonely at the top.”

Change is good. Accept it!

Kathy CarolltonHouston

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Cannon pointedly did not and does not endorse Andrew Sullivan’s opinion. We run opinions and commentaries which run counter to ours on our In Your View page — including opinions such as Ms. Caroll-ton’s letter.

Welfare education fundingDear Editor,

Recently teachers marched on the state capitol hoping to convince lawmakers to raid the “Rainy day Fund” in order to lessen the impact of spending cuts. Indeed, even Gonzales ISD has seemingly suffered. Not long ago, the Alternative Campus was rolled over into the regular campus in or-der to save money. This year a very suc-cessful after-school program had to be cut at the elementary campus due to the lack of funds. And I’m sure the administra-tion had to agonize over which personnel to keep on the payroll this year and which had to be let go.

But before the hand-wringing goes on too long, let’s take a closer look. In place of the Alternative Campus we got a new ball field and parking lot. And let’s not for-get the money borrowed from the State of Texas in order to build a new gym at the junior high campus a new band hall at the high school.

And while there may have been person-nel cuts, they weren’t felt in the athletic department. In fact, during the recent sea-son taxpayers were able to afford to pay for 13 football coaches on a typical football Friday, 14 if you count the trainer. This is up two from the previous year’s season and more than triple what it was a couple of decades ago, despite the fact that the number of graduating students has not re-ally changed over those two decades. Since we still employ one less than Judson High School in San Antonio, can we assume we’ll have one more added to the payroll next season?

Let’s also remember the largesse shown by our school board back in December when they were able to come up with tens of thousands of dollars to renovate the track and tennis courts at the high school, all in the course of a single board meeting. Kind of them to be so generous, isn’t it?

Unfortunately, Gonzales ISD is not atyp-ical. Most, if not all, school districts have the same priorities. Another local example is Navarro ISD just north of Seguin. The administration and board are lamenting the fact that they have had to squash their German language program due to financial concerns, while out of the other sides of their mouths they’re able to discuss spend-ing as much as $250,000 to renovate their practice field.

You see, public schools have become nothing more than your typical welfare queen. even in the better financial times they always seem to cry that they have no money for what they need, yet they always seem to have money for what they want. I personally believe that the schools should consider spending tax money that they do get on education and only education. A novel idea, I know, but something they should think about.

Dan YatesGonzales County

EDITOR’S NOTE: Interesting observa-tions. Here’s another one: it’s been more than two years since a parent or taxpayer stood up to address issues during a GISD Board of Trustees meeting.

Cannon has proven itself to be the paper with integrityDear Editor,

The Gonzales Inquirer was pur-chased by my great-grandfather Hen-ry Reese Jr. 120 years ago. The paper was in my family for over 100 years. My family strived to embrace journal-ism ethics including such principles as truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public ac-countability. We also subscribed to the principle of “limitation of harm.”

Recently, I believe that the Gonza-les Inquirer has gravely overstepped said principles in the name of sensa-tionalist journalism to the caliber of the National Inquirer rather than the integrity of the Gonzales Inquirer em-braced by my family when they were at the helm of the paper. I am referring to personal attacks on the local busi-ness Christian Kids’ Daycare and the owners of this business. The Inquirer’s actions created a ridiculous criminal investigation, harassment of the par-ents and children of the daycare, and defamation of the good character of the owners and staff of the daycare.

Melodramatic headlines such as “I poisoned four kids,” “Parental wrath ebbs, flows,” “Non-Existent Law Cited as Reason to Protect Parent’s Identity,” and “Judgment Day” grossly misrep-

resented the facts. The children were never poisoned. Indeed, a press re-lease was issued by the UT Medicine Health Science Center San Antonio to address the crazy mania. Their report reads as follows:

“At least one child last Wednesday reportedly drank a bleach solution that consisted of a quarter cup of bleach per gallon of water. ‘It’s no-where near the dose that would cause a serious adverse health effect,’ said Miguel Fernandez, M.D., a medical toxicologist and the director of the South Texas Poison Center. ‘It’s the dose that makes the poison.’

“Reports of children swallowing bleach are among the most common calls to the poison center, Dr. Fernan-dez said. But it’s rare that someone swallows enough household bleach to need to go to the hospital or emer-gency room, and that’s especially true with a diluted bleach solution.”

The wrath of the parents was a di-rect result of the Inquirer’s reporting. Indeed, one parent quoted sent a let-ter to the editor discussing how the Inquirer misrepresented them.

Finally, the Inquirer’s headline about a Non-Existent Law failed to refer to the Minimum Standards Section

746.601 state that children’s records should be accessible to caregivers dur-ing hours of operation, parents, and by the Texas licensing agency upon request. The Inquirer was not entitled to said confidential information.

Additionally, the Inquirer’s report-ing stirred up a criminal investigation. Fortunately, calmer heads prevailed. The District Attorney’s office rejected any case stating that there was no rea-sonable suspicion or probable cause for the commission of any crime nor was there any criminal intent. They further found that the staff of the daycare correctly relabeled and then improved the container for the bleach cleaning solution. The only thing that happened was an accident, not a crime.

This was also not a case of abused children. This was a case under the purview of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services which licenses daycares. Indeed, this is the agency which Connie Kacir and her staff correctly reported the incident to on the same day even though they had 48 hours to do so. This licens-ing agency has now completed their investigation. They found that four children were served the bleach water

solution as reported by Kacir in the In-quirer’s February 12, 2012 article. And yet Lynn Adams asked her on April 12th if she “would like to specifically address the findings in which the state confirms that it was four children in-volved although you have maintained it was only one child...”

The State findings also con-firmed that the employees failed to demonstrate competency in serv-ing the solution to the children, that the staff should have con-tatcted the parents immediately following the incident rather than waiting for the parents to pick up the children, and that the clean-ing solution was not adequately marked. However they did not find any evidence of abuse, neglect or exploitation of the children. They also found in the daycare’s favor on several other standards reviewed. The favorable findings were not re-ported in the Inquirer, so much for balanced reporting.

Interestingly enough, Christian Kids took steps to prevent any such incident occurring in the future by removing the responsible employ-ees from the direct supervision of children, creating a better labeling

system for the cleaning solution, and increased training to better educate the teachers and staff on notification of the parents and pre-venting any such accident in the future. And this was done a month before the investigation was even complete.

Finally, the Inquirer’s actions defamed the reputations of David and Connie Kacir. David and Con-nie are committed to caring for and protecting the children entrusted to them. Christian Kids Daycare is the realization of Connie’s desire to teach children the love of Christ early in their lives and to lay a foun-dation that will serve them well once they enter school. It is a labor of love and as I have heard Connie say, the greatest gift is the smile on a child that we serve.

Gonzales is a wonderful com-munity. It deserves better from such a historic institution as the Inquirer. Indeed, their reporting is putting your paper ahead as the pa-per with integrity within the com-munity.

Noel ReeseGonzales

NIXON — The Board of Trustees of the Nixon-Smiley Consolidated School District passed a measure that sends a strong message to the state in regards to their stance on education during their regular meeting on Mon-day night.

The board unanimously agreed to adopt a resolution concerning stan-dardized testing. The resolution be-gins by stating “Whereas, the over reliance on standardized, high stakes testing as the only assessment of learning that really matters in the state and federal accountability systems is strangling our public schools and un-dermining any chance that educators have to transform a traditional sys-tem of schooling into a broad range of learning experiences that better pre-pares our students to live successfully and be competitive on a global stage..”

“I think that sentence says it all,” said superintendent Dr. Cathy Booth. “This speaks volumes about how edu-cators really feel.”

The resolution concludes by calling for the Texas Legislature to reexamine the current accountability system and to develop a system that “encompasses multiple assessments, reflects greater validity, uses more cost efficient sam-pling techniques...and enhances the role of teachers.”

In another agenda item, the board approved the selection of election judges Yoland Messman, Maria Rio-jas, Jimmy Newman and Cindy Lott to preside over the upcoming trustee election, which begins with Early Vot-ing on April 30. Messman will be in charge at the polling place in Nixon City Hall, Riojas will be at the Smiley Community Center, Newman will be in charge at the place at Leesville En-couraging Word Church and Lott will preside over the absentee box at the Nixon-Smiley CISD Central Office.

The candidates running for office

are George Blanch and Bud Box for Place 2, and Richard Lott for Place 3. The election will take place on Satur-day, May 12 with Early Voting running from April 30 to May 8 at the NSCISD Central Office from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Polling places on Election Day will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The board received some good news from Booth during a reading of the administrative report regarding ADA (average daily attendance).

The ADA was up across the board at all three campuses, with the most significant spike coming at the el-ementary level. For March 2011, the elementary ADA was 94.45 percent, while the ADA for March 2012 was 96.04 percent. Overall the district’s ADA was 95.94, the highest total in recent years.

In another move, the board approved the job descriptions related to the Texas Literacy Initiative Grant.

The purpose of the grant is to improve school readiness and success in the ar-eas of language and literacy for students aged 0 through grade 12. The funding amount for the grant is $370,650, which could be spread over the next five years.

The board approved job descriptions for a Community Liaison/Parent Coor-dinator, Literacy Integration Specialist and two Literacy Coaches. In addition to funding the new positions, the grant will also pay for supplies such as elec-tronic tablets (iPads), laptops and new software.

In other business, the board:• Approved 15 student transfers into

the district. Per its policy, the district only accepts transfers who are the chil-dren of employees.

• Approved the contracting with RFR-EDU, Inc. for Sandra Whiteker, the dis-trict’s Special Education Director. It is Whiteker’s fifth year of employment with the district.

• Approved June 6 as “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.”

• Agreed to let out bids for motor fuel and propane.


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TAB endorses Kuempelfor re-election to House

The Business and Com-merce Political Action Committee, the political arm of the Texas Associa-tion of Business (TAB), is proud to endorse State Representative John Kue-mpel for re-election to the Texas House District 44.

“John Kuempel has served as an advocate for business and jobs in the Texas House,” said Bill Hammond, President and CEO of the Texas As-sociation of Business. “I know that he will contin-ue to be a strong advocate for the business commu-nity. I am confident he will continue to make the tough votes needed to keep the Texas economy strong.”

“I am honored to have the endorsement of the Business and Commerce PAC and the thousands of employers, families and taxpayers it represents throughout this state,” said Kuempel. “I look forward to working to-gether to help bring sus-tained economic growth and more job opportuni-ties to House District 44.”

Kuempel was sworn in on December 30, 2010 to the 81st Legislature and is serving his first term as State Representative from District 44. The district is comprised of Gonza-les, Guadalupe, and Wil-son Counties. During the 82nd Session, Kuempel was appointed by Speaker Straus to serve as a mem-ber of the Cultural, Rec-reational and Tourism Committee and the Li-censing and Administra-tive Procedures Commit-tee. In June 2011, He was appointed to serve on the Energy Council, a non-profit organization that helps promote a balanced national energy strategy and related environmen-tal policies at the state

level. Upon completion of the 82nd legislative session, Representative Kuempel was honored with the 2011 Legislative Champion Award given by the Foundation Ap-praisers Coalition of Tex-as for his tireless efforts in reforming Appraisal Management Companies in Texas and authoring

legislation to protect ap-praisers and consumers in the state.

Since his college grad-uation, John has been employed as a Salesman at Commercial Metals Company in Seguin. John and his wife, Michelle, have been married 11 years and are parents of seven-year-old twin boys.

LULING — City coun-cil and management — as well as the gas company — promised swift action to address several infrastruc-ture issues after concerns were raised by residents of the city’s north-side neigh-borhoods during Thurs-day’s city council meeting.

Several residents of Ward 1 spoke during the public-comment portion of Thurs-day’s meeting, urging the city to take action on dilap-idated houses, poor street maintenance and other is-sues.

“Things haven’t been this bad since Luling was seg-regated,” Margie Noonan said. “We have some de-plorable homes over there, they’re falling down. Street repair, we have handi-capped people who go to my church and have to go in the street because there are no sidewalks.”

Mitra Harrison told the council summarized the concerns.

“There are potholes in the streets, there are vacant houses that are not livable any more, Cotton Creek (drainage) continues to be a problem for us, and we have some street signs that are unreadable,” she said.

Grover Palmer said some of the street prob-lems are the result of un-completed work by the gas company.

“I have a spot in front of my house where the gas company came out and dug it up two years ago,” he said. “It’s never been fixed.”

Mayor Mike Hendricks and city manager Bobby Berger thanked the resi-dents for stepping forward, and promised to do what they could as fast as they could.

“The first thing to get it started is, we have to get complaints,” Hendricks said. “The north side is just

as important as any other part of the city. We’re into the new budget now and we do have money set aside for this.”

Berger noted that the process of removing some of the uninhabitable hous-es may be slowed down because of new state regu-lations resulting from a case in the Dallas area last year.

“The notification process is a little different,” he said. “And sometimes it doesn’t seem like your money goes very far because instead of just demolishing the house, we have to pay to have the material hauled off and stored in a landfill.”

A representative of Tex-as Gas Service was also on-hand during the meeting and assured residents he would work with Berger to find locations where the company had cut into streets to ensure those jobs were corrected and com-pleted.

The Cross of Honor Chapter, UDC, James George Chapter, DRT and Elizabeth Zumwalt Kent Chapter, DRT will jointly honor William Burnett and Susan Beeson Dillard Burnett on Saturday, April 28 at Pilgrim Presbyterian Church and Pilgrim Cemetery.

The program begins at 10 a.m. in the church, followed by the dedication cer-emony in Pilgrim Cemetery. Everyone is welcome to attend, light refreshments will be served after the programs.

William Burnett served at the Siege of Bejar and San Jacinto and died while he was hauling supplies for the Confederacy. His grave is marked with the Cross of Honor and Texas Citizen medallion. Su-san was first married to Joseph Dillard, who died in 1835 and she re-married Wil-liam Burnett in 1837. Her grave is marked with a Texas Citizen medallion.

Pilgrim church and cemetery are locat-ed at 621 CR 210, about 1/2 mile south of FM 1116.

Dedication ceremonies April 28for markers at Pilgrim Cemetery

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SHINER —“Wow! I am impressed.” These were the words used not once, but three times, by State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst as she visited with local business leaders at their companies recently.

Kolkhorst is now Shiner’s new State Representative since the district lines were redrawn by the Legislature. Kolkhorst and her husband are small business owners in Brenham. She understands the issues facing the busi-ness owners and will make her office available to hear and work for them.

Giving Kolkhorst the Grand Tour were Lavaca County Judge Tramer Woytek, Lavaca County Re-publican Chair candidate Jerry Tanner, and Brenda Cash, President of the Re-publican Women. Visits were also made to Moulton and Hallettsville local busi-nesses.

Brenda Cash; Republican Women President, State Representative Lois Kolkhorst, Jimmy Mauric, Brew Master of The Shinery Brewery, Lavaca County JudgeTramer Woytek, and candidate for Republican County Chair,Jerry Tanner. Shiner Beer is fourth in the nation in the Craft Beer division. Beer is taxed at the Federal and State level. Each keg has a combined tax of $17. Shiner Beer is distributed in 47 States. The Brewery employs over 80 people. (Courtesy photo)

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Noon Lions Meeting Approximately 150 Lions were in attendance at the District 2-S5 convention held Friday and Saturday, April 13-14 in Seguin. District Governor, Lion Andy Rodriguez of Gonzales, presided over the sessions. The keynote address following the noon banquet Saturday was delivered by Gorden V. Hartman, phi-lanthropist and former businessman who is now CEO of The Gordon Hartman Family Foundation. To date, the Hartman Family Foundation has donated over $15 million to pursue their dream of helping chil-dren and adults with special needs. Their devotion to this cause is inspired by their 18-year old daugh-ter, Morgan, who was born with cognitive and physi-cal special needs. Under his foundations guidance, Morgan’s Wonderland, the world’s first ultra-acces-sible family fun park designed with special needs individuals in mind was opened in April 2010 in San Antonio. The park has already welcomed more than 200,000 guests from all 50 states and more than 34 countries. Hartman is pictured above as he was presented with a special Lions recognition award by D.G. Rodriguez. During the convention, numerous awards were handed out to individual Lions for their service during the past year and to various clubs in the district for their achievements. District officers for the 2012-2013 year, which begins July 1st, were elected including Lion Ernie Koy of the Bellville Li-ons Club as District Governor. Lion Koy is a former University of Texas and National Football League All-Star. (Courtesy photo)

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Hendricks.Trey Bailey of the Luling

Economic Development Corp. noted that overnight lodgings was the No.2 con-cern of visitors to the city surveyed by the Chamber of Commerce.

“We have so many events here that right now, people have to stay in Gonzales or Lockhart,” he said. “This will keep that money here.”

The council also gave the go-ahead for a massive up-date of the city’s computer system to bring it up to modern standards.

Consultant Jeff Fox-hoven of NSD told the council the proposed changes would cost about $75,000 if implemented all at once, but “it will put you about two years ahead.” he said the biggest concern with the current system was that the city’s data did

not have a secure backup system.

City manager Bobby Berger noted the city can’t upgrade it’s database used for billing and accounts re-ceivable because its server — designed for small-busi-ness use — is too old.

“We’ve been setting money aside in the infra-structure fund, so we have the money for it,” he said.

The council also ap-proved an agreement for new rates with Texas Gas Service, the results of a negotiated agreement be-tween the gas company and several area cities.

Melissa Long of the Lloyd Gosselin law firm, which negotiated the deal on behalf of the cities, told the council that negotiators were able to compromise on more moderate rates than those initially pro-posed by the company.

Most residential rates

will rise about $1 per month, she said, while rates for commercial customers would jump about $3.50.

In other action Thursday, the Council:

• Approved bids for $34,450 in new LED street-lights for hte downtown area;

• Approved the 2012-13 Luling Economic Develop-ment Corp. budget;

• Approved an ordi-nance canceling the elec-tion for Ward 4, Ward 5 and Mayor-At-Large be-

cause those candidacies are unopposed;

• Approved an over-all budget amendment to close out the last fiscal year;

• Extended the lease on a city property being used for oil development;

• Approved bids for two tax resale properties, al-though action by the school district may have already voided the potential sale of one of those properties;

• Officially appointed Dr. Mike Weiner as the city’s Health Officer.


A group of four men panhandling for “New Life Min-istries” were observed stepping into traffic (top) and blocking cars as they aggressively sought “dona-tions” Friday at the intersection of St. Joseph St. and Sarah DeWitt Dr. When a reporter showed up and be-gan taking pictures and asking questions, the men quickly loaded into a pickup truck and left the scene — setting up moments later at the intersection of Sarah DeWitt and Church St. (Photos by Dave Mundy)

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ers, including “J” — a lo-cal woman whose abuser is currently awaiting trial.

“The first time he ever got violent was when I was pregnant,” said ‘J.’ “I actually had one of my friends fly out to North Carolina to try and bring me back, but I wouldn’t go.

“When he got back from overseas, we lived together for about five months, then he got vio-lent again,” she added. “We never lived together again.”

Photographic and oth-er evidence collected by the police in Molina’s case — including a pho-to of stitches repairing a head wound and a pic-ture of her blood on the door frame — appeared to give her a strong case, she believed.

“They charged him with burglary of a habi-tation and interfer-ing with an emergency phone call,” she said. “They had told me he would be suspended without pay (from his job with the city) until this was resolved. Two days later, he’s back at work.

“They said his boss got him his city job back. He was back coaching CYFL two months later,” she said. “I got a let-ter around Oct. 1 from

the DA’s office saying they had insufficient evidence to indict him. I was like, WHAT?”

How law enforcement and prosecutors are treating domestic vio-lence cases is beginning to change, however.

“In our office, we have a ‘no-drop’ policy,” Bab-bitt said. “This is really a crime against the State of Texas. So even if the victim wants to back out or drop the charges, if we have enough evidence to pursue the case, we pursue it. About three-fourths of the cases we prosecute, the victim re-fuses to testify.”

Babbitt said it’s hard to come up with a list of sure-fire evidence needed to ensure an abuser gets prosecuted, but “certainly, i fthere’s a witness, that’s a big help.”

“Domestic violence is all about control,” she said. “When the victim drops the charges that allows the offender to control the situation.”

“J” said her abuser did exactly that.

“He told me that he was coming up (for re-enlistment), and they wouldn’t let him re-enlist with a charge outstanding on him,” she said. “So I dropped the charge so he could re-enlist. He didn’t re-enlist. He knew how to push my buttons.”

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VIOLENCE: Manycases still slippingpast prosecution

cooking process.”Students at Gonzales El-

ementary reported in late February seeing spots on some biscuits included in egg biscuit sandwiches. The district immediately pulled that product and contacted parents.

Strozier said at the time the biscuits appear to have been confined to third- and fourth-grade students eat-

ing breakfast at the school. The district’s automated phone system, Phone Con-nect, was used to contact parents of students in the affected classes.

Strozier said that two children complained of stomach aches, but it was unknown if those com-plaints were related to the biscuits. The parents were notified, and the children were released to their par-ents, she said.


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asked the reporter’s interest and said, “You ain’t the po-lice. We report to the police, not the newspaper.”

After seeing the report-er calling the police, all four men then got into a red pickup truck and left the scene, headed for an-other intersection — fol-lowed shortly by a Gonza-les PD cruiser.

Gonzales City Manager Allen Barnes said Friday afternoon that while the city may not be able to re-voke the permit outright once it is granted — as-suming the donation-seekers do not interrupt traffic flow— the city is looking at amending the ordinance governing the process.

“We are working on a revised ordinance for the May 1 city council meet-ing that will limit the number of days people can (solicit),” Barnes said.

Several residents said the aggressive tactics used by the group are invasive.

“I actually had one knock on my window at the intersection by H-E-B,” reported local resident Chase Nesloney.

“I have repeatedly called the city and com-plained, wondering why they keep coming back, and why do the police let this happen,” asked Linda Menking.

The group apparently obtained a permit to so-licit last year, and tends to wander from town to town.

“They’ve been in Yoa-kum and Cuero in the past also,” said Dennis Trojcak. “I haven’t no-ticed them lately though. Maybe they were run out of town.”

The men were hold-ing buckets claiming to

be representing “New Life Ministries.” Several residents report the men claim to be from San An-tonio, but they do not ap-pear to be affiliated with the New Life Christian Center, a church estab-lished in the San Anto-nio area in 1987 which now also runs a parochial school.

The “New Life Minis-tries” organization is be-ing investigated in several states, according to news reports from Ohio, Okla-homa, Florida and New York, among others.

New Life Church was founded by Melvin B. Jefferson as “Deeper Life Christian Church.” A 2003 investigation by The Tampa Tribune discov-ered that Jefferson, who calls himself a bishop, has no theological train-ing. After several convic-tions for fraud, Jefferson changed the name of his organization to “New Life.”

A report by a college newspaper in Gainesville, Fla., said the church sends its members on collection “missions.” Members are recruited from among the homeless, drug addicts and undereducated, and they are prohibited from holding real jobs.

Jefferson lives in a gated, walled mansion in Florida, while most of the organization’s “churches” are located in cheap offic-es in rough-and-tumble neighborhoods.

Group members who have spoken with other news organizations have given addresses in the Tampa area and some in Dallas. Following several arrests of “Dallas” mem-bers in Florida in 2007, the Dallas branch may have relocated to San An-tonio.


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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

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

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

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

San Marcos Primitive Baptist Church4 Miles west of Luling on Hwy. 90P.O. Box 186, Luling830-875-5305

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

Christian

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

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

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

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

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

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

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Method-ist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

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

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

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

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Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

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

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

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

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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

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I hope that you have done something with your income taxes because if you haven’t it is a little late and it is all over but the crying. I am glad that there are such things called “extensions”. In one of my earlier jobs when I was a little more naïve two of my higher up bosses took off to Mexico fishing, and stayed until after April 15th. I did not understand it then, but I sure do understand it now. I guess that is the way “law-yers” handle some situa-tions.

The Soefje Reunion is this year the first Sunday in June in New Braunfels, TX. You should be receiving a notice in the mail. We need to be writing down the new additions to the family and the ones that were not en-tered in the last update.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Crystal Boyd, Rose Ri-vera, Joe Kotwig, Lisa Ro-driguez, Terry Bowman, Sabrina Flores, Bill and Marie Lott, Doris and Al-vin Hewell; Hester Behlen, Louise Jones, Aunt Geor-gie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vickers, Gene Robinson, Susie Dolezal, Keith Glass, Teresa Wilke, Sandi Gan-dre, Carl and Vida Tindle;

Rev A. C. and Evelyn New-man, Orvan Muelker, Aunt Betty Gandre, Linda Nes-loney, Esther Lindemann, Anna Lindemann, Lanny Baker, Ann and Bubba Bond; Case, Clint, and Lindsay Martin; Billy Wat-son, Lana, Shirley Dozier, Matt and Betty Lou, Robert Buffington, Jr.; the family of Tracy Kocian ,and all of our troops.

We extend our sympa-thy to the family of Billy Ray Robbins of Luling who passed away this last week. He was quite well known in Luling and in the sur-rounding area. A memo-rial service was held in his honor at O’Bannon Funeral Home in Luling followed by a reception celebrating his life this last Sunday.

Mattie Brassell had a heart attack this week that was a complication of where she had surgery be-fore. This time they went in and put a stint in that spot. She is already home. The miracles they can perform these days are wonderful.

I guess sometimes you

have to feel terrible before you feel better. After seeing Dr. Q today, we are getting on the right track to get my left foot cleared up, I hope. I don’t seem to have much circulation in that foot. The foot cannot get well with-out blood to work with. So I am trooping off to the hospital to get an MRI to see if it is in my bone and to see how bad the circulation is in both feet. Supposedly they have a new procedure where they can fix a foot even if a person has all the medical problems like I do.

I think that Wade Wilson is raising rattlesnakes over there. He killed another one. This one was nearly in the same place. However, it only had 4 rattles and one button. I don’t care. The snake is just as poisonous and only good rattlesnake is a dead one. They are not supposed to kill snakes over in Palmetto Park but someone accidently killed a coral snake. The snakes think spring has sprung, so be careful.

Thanks Tommy Schlein for singing some beautiful songs over at the Belmont Social Club on Saturday. I was not feeling worth a flip, but the beautiful songs distracted me. They made me feel better. I don’t know what was going on with Ka-tie’s love life but she sure did

blush after Tommy sang the requested songs by Lizzie and Brittnae. I am glad that Katie is a good sport about most of these things. Ah so,

I just read on Belmont Social Club Facebook that Jeffrey Charles is going to be there on May 3rd. Now if you didn’t catch that boy the first time around, then you need to catch him this time. He turned out to be quite an entertainer and reminds you a lot of Buck Owens and/or Dwight Yoakum only better than them.

That blasted Samson es-caped from the house and he has not returned yet. I am so mad at him. I just hope and pray that blasted snoopy big cat does not get on this highway.

I am so upset I have had a headache all day. This is worse than sending your child to school for the first day of school. I think that Itsy is inside running around flaunting the fast that he was smart enough to stay inside this time. Oh well, if he does not show up tomorrow, then things will have to get serious around here. Dililah is beside herself. She goes around talking and looking and it hasn’t done her a bit of good yet.

Have a good week and God Bless.

Lucas-BryantMr. and Mrs. John E. Lucas of Gonzales announce

the engagement of their daughter, Jamie Leigh Lu-cas, to Clifford John Bryant, son of Donald Bryant of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

The future bride graduated from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Kinesiology. She is currently employed in Klein ISD as a Physical Education Teacher.

The future groom received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from the Univer-sity of Phoenix. He is employed as a Pipeline Opera-tor for Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. in Aledo, Texas.

A July 2012 wedding is planned at the First United Methodist Church in Gonzales and the couple will live in Aledo, Texas. (Courtesy Photo)

Locks of loveOn April 10, Sydney Hermann, daughter of Trey & Diane Hermann of Gonzales, had her hair cut and donated 10 inches of hair to the Locks of Love Pro-gram for those children under 21 that are suffering from hair loss. Sydney said she enjoyed doing it and it made her feel good to help someone in need and plans on growing her hair out again and donating in the future. Sydney is a fourth grader at Shiner Cath-olic School. With her is her hair stylist, Crystal Mitch-ell of Gonzales. (Courtesy Photo)

On Tuesday, April 10, 24 members and guests of Spade and Trowel Garden Club traveled to Round Top to tour Festival Hill Institute.

The Institute was es-tablished in 1971 by re-nowned pianist James

Dick. It has grown from six to over 200 acres and contains numerous build-ings.

The magnificent con-cert hall, featuring hand-carved wood, was the highlight of the tour. The group also saw several mu-seum rooms, the Edythe Bates Old Chapel, the Wil-liam Lockhart Clayton home, various gardens and examples of stone work bridges. A knowledgeable and entertaining docent,

Jack Elvig, enlightened the group as to the history of this unique music institute which was the dream of Mr. Dick. He remains the guiding force in the devel-opment and improvement of the facility which offers a variety of educational and entertainment oppor-tunities.

The group continued their tour of Festival Hill in the historic Menke House, where they were also served a delicious

lunch of bourbon chicken, steamed vegetables, salad bar, and carrot cake. The Hill’s famous herb garden provided the lovely flavors for the meal.

After lunch, the group toured a private ranch home near Round Top. The large home contains museum-quality pieces of furniture, fabrics, ceram-ics, porcelains, and jade collected by the owners during a 20-year stint liv-ing in Singapore.

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Woman’s Study Club visits Pioneer Village

Fifteen members of the Woman’s Study Club toured the Gonzales Pioneer Vil-lage Living History Center on Wednesday, April 11. The group met in the Hamon church building and began with a brief business meeting conducted by President Jean Reese Ollom.

Attired in her 19th century costume, Vicki Frenzel wel-comed fellow club members to the village in the church

building and distributed flyers about the village and its buildings. She explained the need for some of the re-pairs and additions that have been (or are being) made and some that are being planned if and when funds are available. The great need for donations to keep the es-tablishment in repair and to cover the expense of moving donated pioneer buildings to the site was explained.

The second stop for the club members was the Gates Ranch House. Mrs. Frenzel

sat on the porch and dem-onstrated the pioneer craft of making corn husk dolls for the group. Members also en-joyed touring the rooms and studying the furnishings.

The last stop on the tour was the Muenzler House, where incoming club presi-dent Beverly Pirkle wel-comed the group in her 19th century costume complete with full apron. She served delicious homemade bread, homemade butter, and freshly squeezed lemon juice in the 1892 kitchen.

By MARY LOUISE VESELKA

Special to The Cannon

There is a new event in Gonzales called “Gospel Singing Jubilee” and it is held on the fourth Thurs-day of each month. The first program was March 22nd at the newly remod-eled Lynn Theater and it was full of laughter and music.

Performing for the first half of the program was: Rev. Hollas and Nelda Hoffman, Work In Prog-ress, Mayor Bobby O’Neil, former Mayor Jack Finch, Rev Steve Faulkner, and

Pat Green (former mem-ber of The Singing Ram-bos). After an intermis-sion, The Kyle Family from Dripping Springs brought the house down with their humor and “down-home” harmony.

We will always be look-ing for new talent and new musicians. For the April 26th program, lo-cal artists will include Rev. Steve Faulkner, the Glory Bound Singers, Brandi Behleen, Charlie Gordon,

Megan Cox (from Luling), and Pat Green.

The featured group on April 26th will be the Seale Sisters from Smith-ville.

General Admission tickets are free, but ev-eryone who attends must have a ticket in order to be seated. The Lynn Theater has 378 seats, and can ac-commodate those who need wheelchairs.

We look forward to see-ing you on the 26th.

The Music Study Club, a part of the Texas and National Federation of Music Clubs met Tuesday evening, April 10th, at the Don and JoAnn Leifeste home with co-hosts Shirley Spoon and Nell Linebarger. With Pres.Spoon, leading, the meeting began with report of progress of the planned American Classics series of 12 public televi-sion programs which is originated by Tony Morris, guitarist, of Austin,Texas. JoAnn Leifeste told of sev-eral meetings in Gonza-les with Mr.Morris as he and others visited historic homes here searching for the setting for the first program which will be an example of the series’ pro-grams.

Pres.Spoon announced National Federation of Mu-sic Clubs Awards of Merit for promoting National Music Week 2011, were issued to local businesses and the press including KCTI Radio, Channel 17 television, Gonzales Pub-lic Library, the First Bap-

tist Church Library, FBC Glory Bound Singers, the Vida Burnett Music Studio, the Gonzales Inquirer and The Cannon. Pres. Spoon warmly thanked the eve-ning’s host and co-hosts for their delightful hospitality.

V.P. Vida Burnett intro-duced the program begin-ning with Irene Cerny who reviewed Part III of the study course book, CLARA SCHUMANN: THE ART-IST AND HER MUSIC, by Nancy Reich. We learned there were three definite phases of Clara Schumann’s life; 1) being a student of her father and maturing in her piano performance, considered a local prodigy, 2) her romance and mar-riage to Robert Schumann and their eight children, all the while composing music and performing at concerts all over Europe and 3) the times after Robert’s illness and death when she contin-ued performances, began teaching piano at a Music Conservatory, composed and added editing and/or completing some of Robert Schumann’s music. There was a very dear friendship between Johanns Brahms

and the Schumann couple which was widely miscon-strued as an elicit romance of Brahms with Clara. It was an intimate friendship but their correspondence has shown they were kin-dred spirits, two strongly faithful Christians who shared the ‘agape’ kind of love. After Clara’s death Brahms wrote music as ‘a funeral offering’ honoring her great talent. Clara was also well acquainted with Frederich Chopin and had begun playing his music at age 12. Franz Liszt and his music was another kind of inspiration to Clara who wrote scathingly about his terrible ego and his dra-matic show-off style yet she judged him absolutely unique. Richard Wagner was somewhat admired by Clara but she said he was super selfish and self serving and she judged his opera TRISTAN UND ISOLDE to be “disgust-ing!” Clara Schumann lived from 1828 till age 72 in 1891. Critics of Clara and her music paid her the su-preme compliment by say-ing she should be “counted as a man”! We then heard

recorded music for the oboe and piano from Clara Schumann; oboeist Jeremy Palmear played THREE ROMANCES, opus 22.

Pres. Spoon led all pres-ent to speak the NFMC Collect and we adjourned for refreshments and fel-lowship. The hosts served party sandwiches of roast beef, swiss cheese, chicken salad and pimiento cheese with tiny spiced pickles and dill pickles, crackers, a dark chocolate and mint dessert, coffee and tea.

During the business meeting we heard plans ar-ranged by the Social Com-mittee that we shall enjoy a dinner party in Luling at the 1890’s Tavern on May 8th to celebrate Na-tional Music Week which is May 6-13th, 2012, with the theme “Music - Sounds That Inspire”.


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Baker BenefitOn March 25, The Gonzales Young Farmers and The Gonzales Odd Fellows Lodge #38 I.O.O.F. held a benefit meal to help with medical expenses for Lanny Baker. The benefit was very successful thanks to all of you who supported by purchas-ing plates and the many donations made. Special recognition goes to Guada-lupe Valley Electric Coop cooking team,Café on the Square, Derek Grahmann, Michael Mercer, Elgin Heinemeyer, Ken Hedrick, Larry Mercer, and all the Odd Fellows and Young Farmers. Pictured above (from left) are: Noble Grand Derek Grahmann, Hedrick, Baker, Charles Rochester, Ethel Rochester, and (in back) Kenneth Fink. (Courtesy photo)

By CAROL DuBOSE

Special to The Cannon

With Gonzales history serving as a backdrop, the latest installment in the “Briarcliff Lane” series delves into the idiosyncra-sies of the town’s fictional residents.

A new book, “Scattered Notions” written by Adler Duncan, captures the foi-bles, follies and heartbreak of the story’s characters as they pursue an histori-cal mystery as well as their modern-day lives.

Duncan grew up on a small family farm. He spent his days wandering through the woods and roaming country lanes. Evenings were spent shar-ing tales around the supper

table, where Duncan ac-quired an appreciation for the delightful interdepen-dence that exists between neighbors.

“Scattered Notions” ex-plores these neighborly relationships, and Duncan drew from his many en-counters growing up and living in Gonzales to come up with plot ideas.

“Small town experiences are universal,” the author said. “When you put to-gether a group of characters with exaggerated behav-iors, all kinds of interesting things happen.”

Duncan grew up as a corn-shucking, stall-muck-ing, feather-plucking lad on

a small family farm. He has served on boards, received awards and has performed as both student and teacher at one time or another. He lives with his wonderful wife and a bevy of beasts in a country cottage outsiden Gonzales.

From the origins of the DeWitt Colony to the leg-end behind the courthouse clock, whether imagin-ing the impact of the new liquor law or that of the horse shelter ordinance, the book employs colorful characters to bring Gonza-les – past and present – to life.

“Every story has a char-acter that offends to one

degree or another. The only way one can be offended by this tale is to read it,” the author stated tongue-in-cheek.

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The ‘Fighting Season’: Really? A season set aside for war?Yes, really. Once the

mountain passes open up from the winter snows, what is known as the “Fighting Season” starts.

From what I’ve learned, since coming to Afghani-stan, is that most of the Al Qaida and Taliban forces have been holed up in Pakistan or have been less than active in the past several months. It seems that most of our incidents and casualties have been from home grown Jihadist or Afghans that are taking their revenge on the US

and NATO forces for the recent Quran burning or the crime committed by

one very troubled soldier. These events are nothing more, in my opinion, than triggers for actions that are just waiting to happen. As I write this dispatch, our communications are down again.

A few days ago, a US soldier was killed by the Afghan Local Police. The A.L.P opened fire on US soldiers walking patrol in a village close to our loca-tion, resulting in the death of one of our soldiers. Ca-sualties were somewhat higher on the other side. These are the same people that provide our security and the very same people we train to keep the peace.

Today, the helos came swooping in again. Three more brave soldiers were wounded. This time they will all make it, thankfully. I watched as the medevac helicopters came in and figured something bad had happened. They landed on the hill mentioned in a previous article I wrote and they came in hot with no time to waste. Here the an-gles of mercy are not sur-rounded in a bright white light - they are covered in dust and arrive and depart on dark greenish mechani-cal machines, but they are angels of mercy just the same.

This type of thing has happened too many times recently and it has an effect on all of us. Talking to the soldiers that I work with, we pretty much all feel the same. Guards or not, work-ing with us or not. Most soldiers, and this goes for me included, won’t let the Afghan security forces get behind us. If we are patrol-ling with them or I’m doing a search, they are in front. Remember “Trust but Verify?” This is more like “Don’t Trust and Watch Ev-

eryone.”Several days ago while

searching for narcotics just outside the forward Entry Control Point, I noticed something out of place. There were a couple of wires where there should not have been. I investi-gated closer and discovered a homemade electronic detonator. Immediately the set procedures came into action, shutting down the entire ECP.

Not until all was cleared (I can’t say exactly what we did but rest assured it was thorough) did anything move again. They drill into all of us about Situational Awareness. (SA) Yea, we really do keep that in mind, believe me.

There is a sense of heightened alertness all around in the soldiers I work with. That alertness is very noticeable, almost palatable. We don’t search quite as far outside the wire as we did. Before where I felt OK with the Afghan guards, I now don’t venture out without a US security contingent by my side. My assignment has also ex-panded to several different locations in Afghanistan. The need for K-9 support, both in searching for nar-cotics as well as explosives, has never been greater.

With the Fighting Season closing in, the mood at my

FOB has also changed. The soldiers are more intense, more aware. You even see more soldiers at the gym making up for the slow times of the winter. Units are doing all those things to get ready for action.

The relaxed attitude of the winter where nothing really moved much, and the Taliban with less than adequate cold weather gear stayed inside, is clearly over. There is also the con-stant and I do mean con-stant whap-whap-whap of the Apache attack heli-copters with their missiles and rockets hanging like claws from some angry fly-ing dragon. They really do have that appearance flying overhead, always in twos, back and forth on patrols. It may sound funny that a loud and rumbling noise, one that actually vibrates the room at 03:00, is com-forting… but it is. Every time I see them I think of the Gonzales Apaches back home.

Another sign is the fact that we are expanding our K-9 support to assist in the security of FOBs that in the past had no four legged sol-diers. What this means for me personally is I’m mov-ing to these FOBs on a ro-tational basis or when the situation warrants. Looks like lots more helo trips in the future for me and Jack.

On one of these mis-sions last week, I was on the ground not more than an hour when we had our first casualty at the main gate. A truck driven by an Afghan driver had just left the FOB. About a hun-dred yards out the gate, the truck he was driving hit an IED. The driver was killed. We found three more IEDs that afternoon leading into the FOB.

These missions don’t take too long. I was on a nar-cotics search mission and by day’s end, I had found nine bags of illicit narcotics on the FOB in the Afghan worker’s areas. That search done, Jack and I jumped on a Blackhawk Helicop-ter and headed back to my home base.

The soldiers here very seldom get involved in the drug problem, at least not wittingly. I say that because we can no longer eat the Afghan fresh bread that we use to get from the vendors that feed the Afghan guards we work with. Seems the bread was tainted with drugs. Yep, the food tested positive for cocaine.

You know? Maybe it re-ally wasn’t as good as we thought.

Listening, watching, and waiting here in Afghani-stan, I’m Jon Harris and this has been another Dis-patch from Downrange.

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Jon Harris is an Army retiree, re-serve City of Gonzales policeman and former deputy constable who is currently serving as a civilian mili-tary dog handler in Afghanistan.

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Post-Mission PoseJon Harris and his partner, Jack, are pictured at a remote FOB just before getting on a Blackhawk to head back to base. (Courtesy photo)

DEER PARK — Boom-ing cannons, cracking musket fire, thundering hooves and battle cries will resound across the San Ja-cinto Battleground State Historic Site on Saturday, April 21, as hundreds of history re-enactors recre-ate the events leading up to Texas winning its indepen-dence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto.

This dramatic battle re-enactment is the cen-terpiece of the admission-free San Jacinto Day Fes-tival, that takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the grounds surrounding the San Jacinto Monument. Sponsored by the San Ja-cinto Museum of History, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the San Jacinto Volunteers, the fes-tival is a full day of music, entertainment, food, games and fun set amidst living history.

The battle re-enactment, which is the most popular event of the day, begins at 3 p.m. Presented by hundreds of members of the San Ja-

cinto Volunteers and other living history organizations from across the state, the re-enactment dramatizes the decisive battle where Gen. Sam Houston led his Texian soldiers to victory over the Mexican Army, eventually leading to al-most 1 million square miles of Mexican territory be-coming a part of the United States. The re-enactors will dramatically interpret the Runaway Scrape (Texians fleeing from the advanc-ing forces of Mexican Gen. Santa Anna), the cannon duel and the final battle be-tween the two forces. Gen-eral Houston will be played by his descendent, Sam Houston IV.

“It is so important to our mission that we are able to present this living, dynamic reenactment of Texas histo-ry for free, and that would not be possible without our chief sponsor H-E-B, as well as The Dow Chemical Company, Vopak, Pasade-na Strawberry Festival, and Lyondell Basell,” says Larry Spasic, San Jacinto Mu-seum of History President. “Just as important are our partners who help us coor-

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All festival activities are updated continually on the San Jacinto Museum of History website at www.sanjacinto-museum.org. Some of the entertainment and educational activities will include:

--New this year: Solero Flamenco presents a “fiery, passionate and virtuoso fla-menco performance,” led by founders Irma La Palo-ma and Jeremías García

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It was the 23rd year for the Roughneck Chili Coo-koff and the 21st year for the Classic Oil City Car Show. The undertaking, which was believed to be the largest this year in recent history, is the city’s second most important one-day event in terms of bringing in outside revenue. Several awards were handed during the Car Show, including a bevy that went out to Next Concepts. The cookoff win-ners were the M&Ms (headed by Murphy Coleta) in Showmanship, Adam Ibarra in Brisket, Robert Cheatham in Ribs and Walker Keeney in Chicken.

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What do the Scouts, the employees of HEB, Southern Clay, GVEC, Prosperity Bank, and Gonzales Memorial Hospital have in common with the Spade and Trow-el Club, The Chamber of Commerce, The Gonzales Youth Center and most of the churches in our community?

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in the past Jim Price Community Clean-up Day Events,” said Barbara Crozier, coordi-nator for this year’s event. “We post anoth-er ‘Price Partner’ to the growing list almost every day as the date for this years’s event approaches.”

At 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, the event kicks off with a light breakfast on the glo-rious grounds of the Episcopal Church of the Messiah at 721 St. Louis Street. Armed with lots of bottled water, provided by event sponsors and inspiration provided by Mayor Bobby O’Neal’s reading of this year’s proclamation, a varied and enthusi-astic group of participants will set out to attack this year’s clean-up projects.

The Jim Price Community Clean-up Event was inaugurated in April 2005 as a way to honor Dr. James Price for his over 50 years of service to this community. Dr.

Price’s legendary passion for practice of medicine spanned over six decades and literally thousands of patients, but it is yet another of Jim’s passions — community clean-up — that this World Wide Earth Day Event honors.

Throughout those 50-plus years, almost any day of the week (rain or shine) Dr. Price could be spotted taking his morn-ing walk with his HEB or Walmart bag in hand picking up the litter that often lined our beautiful avenues. What an inspiration he has been for all those years and what a challenge he calls us to today. Get your business, your organization, your campus or your group of friends together and plan your project. It can be as simple as walking outside and picking up trash on the empty lot down the street like Doc has done for so many years or it can be as involved as a 5 year plan to beautify and redevelop an area, a building or an under-utilized park space.

The City of Gonzales will supply large industrial trash bags and will be running extra trash pick-up routes all morning. GVEC will repeat its free appliance dispos-al at their 304 St. Louis Street store from 8 a.m.-noon. Outdoor spring cleaning will never be easier!

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With Adams Extract & Spice nearing its 125th Anniversary celebration beginning in Janu-ary 2013, the Company has launched its own Pinterest page dedicated to sharing photos, recipes, blogs and information

that Adams customers have cre-ated and posted. To help intro-duce this new page, Adams® has launched a Spring Photo Recipe Contest called “Pindulge”.

Pinterest users (called Pin-ners) are encouraged to make a Classic Adams® Recipe, take a photo of the finished dish, and then “Pin” and “Tag” the photo

on their own Pinterest Board. Five lucky winners will be se-lected to receive an Adams® Extract Bakers Kit, and a large bottle of the World famous Ad-ams Best® Vanilla.

How the Contest Works:1. Follow Adams on Pin-

terest at Pinterest.com/Ad-ams1888

2. Find a recipe from Adams Classic Dessert recipes at Ad-amsExtract.com

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dress. Winners will be notified by E-mail requesting mailing address. No limit to the num-ber of entries per Pinner!

For additional information and recipes, visit Adams Ex-tract & Spice website at www.AdamsExtract.com.

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Annual cleanup effort issues challenges

Area Livestock Reports

Health Force expands to Yoakum

Tax Season HoursMon.-Fri. 8-6 • Sat: 9-2

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April 19th-22nd3 1/2 Amigos

Cutting

CLEANUP: Businesses get behind effortmonths ago when Jim

Price Partners attended a brain-storming luncheon at the Episcopal Parish Hall to share information, resources and new ideas. Planning this year focused on recycling and litter pre-vention, not just litter pick-

up. The results were noth-ing short of inspiring. The partners linked websites, shared information on re-cycling, and hatched some great new plans!

Dr. Kim Strozier of the GISD gave the green light to the idea of The Cleanest Campus Contest. A Clean-est Campus Contest could

be based on how little litter needed to be picked up on each campus on a speci-fied day every six weeks. The cleanest campus might even find that the rewards extended past the pride of a good looking campus to include a few extra minutes on Friday’s lunch period!

Organizations partici-pating in the Jim Price Community Clean-up in-clude The City of Gonzales, The Gonzales Chamber of Commerce, The Noon and Breakfast Lions, The Gon-

zales Youth Center, The Boy Scouts, The Crystal Theatre, area churches, and The Gonzales Spade and Trowel Garden Club. Price Partner businesses par-ticipating this year include nearly 100% of downtown businesses. Event sponsors include The City of Gonza-les, GVEC, The Gonzales Inquirer, KCTI, The Gon-zales Cannon,, Southern Clay, HEB, The Episcopal Church of the Messiah and The Gonzales Memorial Hospital.

Gonzales Livestock Market ReportThe Gonzales Livestock Mar-

ket Report for Saturday, April 14, 2012 had on hand: 1411 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady. Packer cows sold steady.

Stocker-feeder steers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $220-$255; 300-400 lbs, $205-$225; 400-500 lbs, $180-$195; 500-600 lbs, $162-$183; 600-700 lbs., $136-$158; 700-800 lbs, $131-$133.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $118-$129.

Stocker-feeder heifers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $180-$215; 300-400 lbs, $175-$195; 400-500 lbs, $151-$172; 500-600 lbs., $146-$150; 600-700 lbs., $132-$144.

Packers cows: Good lean util-ity and commercial, $72-$81; Cutters, $84-$93.50; Canners, $56-$67; Low yielding fat cows, $74-$76.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $99-$109.50; light weights and medium qual-ity bulls, $89-$96.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,250.Pairs: $975-$1,700.Thank you for your business!!

View our sale live at cattleusa.com!

Nixon LivestockCommission ReportThe Nixon Livestock Commis-

sion Inc. report had on hand, April 16, 2012, Volume, 945.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $170 to $180 to $240; 300-400 lbs., $168 to $178 to $222.50; 400-500 lbs, $162 to $172 to $203; 500-600 lbs, $152 to $162 to $183; 600-700 lbs, $142 to $152 to $170; 700-800 lbs, $129 to $139 to $160.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $186 to $196 to $250; 300-400 lbs, $153 to $163 to $230; 400-500 lbs, $154 to $164 to $190; 500-600 lbs, $143 to $153 to $181; 600-700 lbs, $132 to $142 to $165; 700-800 lbs, $125 to $135 to $190.

Slaughter cows: $50 to $92; Slaughter bulls: $102 to $108; Stocker cows: $750 to $1,250; Pairs, $1,150 to $1,500.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission ReportThe Hallettsville Livestock

Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on April 10, 2012, 726; Week ago, 530; Year Ago, 1,244.

Calves and yearlings sold steady this week. Demand good in all areas. Light supplies con-tinue to support the market.

Packer cows and bulls sold steady to $1 higher on approx.. 150 hd. total.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $79-$95; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $59-$79; light weight can-ner cows, $48-$59.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $98-$110.50; utility & cut-ter bulls, $87-$98; lightweight canner bulls, $81-$87.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200 lbs, $215-$260; 200-300 lbs, $210-$245; 300-400 lbs, $185-$232.50; 400-500 lbs, $178-$205; 500-600lbs, $148-$187.50; 600-700 lbs, $145-$162.50; 700-800 lbs, $132-$145. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $210-$255; 200-300 lbs, $175-$230; 300-400 lbs, $168-$188; 400-500 lbs, $155-$180; 500-600 lbs, $140-$162; 600-700 lbs, $128-$148; 700-800 lbs, $115-$130. No. 2 & 3 Steer & Bull Calves: 200-300 lbs, $130-$205; 300-400 lbs, $125-$190; 400-500 lbs, $122-$177; 500-600 lbs, $116-$156; 600-700 lbs, $110-$145. No. 2 & 3 Heifer Calves: 200-300 lbs, $125-$180; 300-400 lbs, $122-$172; 400-500 lbs, $118-$158; 500-600 lbs, $112-$142; 600-700 lbs, $105-

$130.If we can help with marketing

your livestock, please call 361-798-4336.

Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market Re-

port on April 13, 2012, had 952 head.

Had 129 cows and 22 bulls. Bulls strong. Cows sold steady. Light calves were higher. Others about steady.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $101-$111; lower grades, $87-$90.

Packer cows: boning, $86-$97; cutter, $80-$94; canners/low cut-ters, $40.50-$62.

Dry Cows, $70-$94; young, $83-$100; one pair, $1,235.

Steer Calves: under 200 lbs, $165-$285; 250-300 lbs, $220-$235; 300-350 lbs, $201-$246; 350-400 lbs, $183-$199; 400-450 lbs, $160-$190; 450-500 lbs, $169-$188; 500-600 lbs, $125-$180; 600-700 lbs., $132-$162; over 700 lbs., $117-$140.

Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $160-$285; 200-250 lbs, $220-$265; 300-350 lbs, $176-$200; 350-400 lbs, $183-$193; 400-450 lbs, $169-$193; 450-500 lbs, $138-$172; 500-600 lbs, $146-$158; 600-700 lbs., $138-$168; over 700 lbs, $94-$133.

Bulls over 700 lbs, $119-$140

The Jim Price City-Wide Clean Sweep Challenge 2012 will be held on Satur-day, April 21, starting at 8 a.m. at Apache Field with breakfast and a chance at prizes.

This is an annual city-wide cleanup and this year, various businesses and organizations have is-sued challenges to their counterparts. Everyone is challenged to roll up their sleeves, bring family, friends or anyone they can and pick up trash all over our town. This is done in the name of the man who exercised every day by run-ning and carrying a bag to pick up the trash he found

along his route. Dr. Jim Price started this off, so Gonzales needs to keep it going!

Those interested in en-tering the Gonzales Pag-eant are asked to pick up packets at 2 p.m. on April 21 at the Lynn Theatre. Tra-ci Quinones will be present to meet with people who

want to help plan the event and who have children who would like to be con-testants. Contestants must be ages 7 through high school to enter.

Storey’s Jewelers held an Antique and Estate Jewelry Sale on Wednesday, April 18. Paul Neuse has been holding these sales regu-larly and always has special pieces from famous people. This sale featured jewelry from John Wayne, Tony Curtis, Bette Midler and Elizabeth Taylor. It’s great fun to see the items and it’s even more fun to pick out one to purchase and take home.

This week is a full one. On Wednesday, Victoria College, Gonzales Campus celebrated their fifth an-niversary with a ground-breaking for the Gonzales Workforce Training Cen-ter. There was a celebration

lunch, center tours and a si-lent auction benefiting VC Gonzales Scholarships. For more information, call 830-672-6251.

Daylight Donuts will hold a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony at their new location at 2100 Water Street, just north of 90-A intersection. Owner Borany Seng invites everyone to come out and help them celebrate the new shop, where they will be open seven days a week from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Don’t forget the Old Jail Run For it and the Tailgate Trash and Treasure Sale on Confederate Square on April 28. Forms are avail-able at the chamber office or online at gonzalestexas.com/celebrations. Pioneer Village will also hold the annual dutch-oven cookoff starting at 10 a.m. at the vil-lage.

GYC donationTexan Nursing and Rehab recently presented a check to Gonzales Youth Center in the amount of $100.00 to assist with purchases needed for the Center’s an-nual Spring BBQ Fundraiser. Presenting the check is Donna Allen with Texan Nursing and Rehab and Pat Anders- Ryan Executive Director of Gonzales Youth Center. (Courtesy Photo)

Citizenship AwardCongratulations to Sage Capital Bank‘s Crissy O’Neal on being awarded the The Benevolent and Protec-tive Order of Elks Distinguished Citizenship Award! This award was for her outstanding and meritorious service to humanity in Gonzales. Great work Crissy! (Courtesy Photo)

‘Focus Factor’ creatorto host free seminar

World renowned physi-cian and inventor of nu-tritional brain supplement “Focus Factor,” Dr. Kyl Smith, will give a free semi-nar in Gonzales April 21 at 10:30 a.m. at the Coun-try Corner Grill (formerly Doc’s).

Smith received his Doc-torate of Chiropractic in 1993 and has since engaged in ongoing nutritional and natural medicine research. His passion is teaching doctors across the country how to utilize and integrate nutritional therapies to im-

prove cognitive function.“My life’s work has bveen

about finding ways to im-prove the wondrous human brain’s ability to cogitate and remember throughout the lifespan, using key nu-trients that are proven in a large body of scientific re-search,” Smith said.

Seating is limited, so RSVP to 830-672-9444 to reserve a place. The event is being sponsored by Na-tional Lifestyle Centers Inc. and A New Weigh Nutri-tion Club.

VICTORIA — Established in 2003, Health Force’s Out-patient Rehabilitation Facility has strived to be the parent’s first choice in care for their child. The Medicare licensed company is privately owned and operated with an enthusi-asm for community depend-ability.

In the fall of 2011, Health Force expanded to serve pa-tients of all ages.

The outpatient facility of-fers the latest innovative ther-apy in South Texas, offering physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and social worker services.

Each team member is se-lected not only for their high level of professional compe-tence, but for their caring at-titude that exemplifies the pa-tient oriented culture of Heath Force.

Health Force serves Medi-care, Medicaid, Insurance, and private pay patients. Each professional assists every pa-tient and/or family members with education to assist them in managing their or their child’s illness or injury; as well as treatment and training spe-cific to his/her needs.

These highly trained spe-cialists will also make sugges-

tions that will assist them in the home environment and possible equipment needs, as well as other services available to them in the community.

Health Force opened an off-site clinic March 1, conveniently located at 211 West May Street in Yoa-kum. This clinic also pro-vides physical, occupational and speech therapy. Health Force is available Monday through Friday 8am-5pm and accepts referrals from the patient’s physicians and

specialists. Health Force is ready when

you need us. We have our patient’s excellent health as our goal. Since we serve our community, we work harder to provide quality and profi-cient service; because it’s our business, our reputation and our home. You can contact Health Force Outpatient Rehabilitation in Victoria at 361-582-0611 or by visiting the Yoakum clinic at 211 West May Street, phone 361-741-2100.

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White/black male heeler mix found Saturday, March 24th at the intersec-tion of Hwy. 90-A and Church Street (by the new H.E.B.) Please contact Pat-sy at 830-857-3844.

The Heights of Gon-zales Activity De-partment is looking for a fridge/freezer to hold supplies for event refreshments. If you would like to donate or know of one that is reason-ably priced, contact Gwen Koncaba, 830-672-4530. --------------------------Job Corps is cur-rently enrolling stu-dents aged 16-24 in over 20 vocational trades at no-cost! Will help students

get drivers license GED or High School diploma and col-lege training if qualified. For more info call 512-665-7327

Full-Time position requiring a self-motivated person with a strong work ethic, positive atti-tude, good people skills, a high-school diploma ( or equiv-alent), and a clean driving record. Ap-ply in person, with a copy of your re-sume, at NAPA - Kessler’s Auto Sup-ply, 717 St. Joseph, Gonzales. Ask for Crystal.

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

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

TAKING APPLICATIONS

FOR EXPERIENCED FLUX-CORE WELDERS

Pass all Pre-Em-ployment testing including a weld-ing test. Please apply in person at Gonzales Manufac-turing Company, 2900 Johnson Street, Gonzales, TX. Gonzales Man-ufacturing offers an excellent ben-efit package, paid holidays, bonus

programs, paid vacation, Medical, Dental and 401K Retirement Pro-gram.--------------------------GENERAL LABOR

Day ShiftPass all Pre-Employ-ment testing. Please apply in person at Gonzales Manufac-turing Company, 2900 Johnson Street, Gonzales, TX. Gonzales Manu-facturing offers an excellent benefit package, paid holi-

days, paid vacation, attendance bonus program, Medical, Dental, Safety and 401K Retirement Program.--------------------------AVON Representa-tives Wanted! Great earning opportu-nities! Buy or Sell! Call 830-672-2271, Independent Sales Rep.

Yard Sale. 3 families. Little bit of every-thing. 1228 N. Ham-

ilton St. Saturday, April 21, 2012. 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.--------------------------Garage Sale. Satur-day, April 21, 8:00. 1612 Long St.--------------------------Garage Sale. Friday & Saturday, 9-4 in Cost, next to Cost Store. New & used items, clothes, all sizes, construction items (tubs, win-dows, door, toilet, furniture), quilts, linens, dishes & glassware and

much, much, more.--------------------------Back yard Sale. Saturday, April 21. Hwy. 183 North, CR 601A. Most items, 25 cents-$1.00.

Air Framing Nailer. Contractor Series. $75.00. Call 361-741-2604.--------------------------For Sale: Antique Car Drive up Ramp. 830-672-7094.(4-26-12)

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NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION(AVISO DE ELECCION GENERAL)

To the Registered Voters of Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District(A los votantes registrados del Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District)

Notice is hereby given that the polling places listed below will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 12, 2012 for voting in a general election, to elect two trustees.(Notifiquese, por las presente, que las casillas electrales sitados ahajo se abriran desde las 7:00 a.m. hasta las 7:00 p.m. el May 12, 2012 para vota en la Eleccion Trustees para elegir trustees in Place 2 & 3.)

On Election Day, voters must vote in their precinct where registered to vote.(El Dia de Eleccion, los votantes deberan votar en su precinto donde estan inscritos para votar)

LOCATION OF ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES(Ubicacion de las casillas electorales el Dia de Eleccion)

Nixon City Hall, 100 West 3rd St., Nixon, TexasSmiley Community Center, 401 Billings St., Smiley, Texas Encouraging Word Christian Fellowship Church, St. Hwy 80, Leesville, Texas

Early voting by personal appearance will be conducted each weekday at:(Para Votacion de las casillas electorales de votacion adelantada.)

Nixon-Smiley CISD Administration Building800 Rancho RoadNixon, Texas

between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. beginning on APRIL 30, 2012.(entre las 7:30 a.m. de la manana y las 4:15 p.m. de la tarde empezando el APRIL 30, 2012)

and ending on MAY 8, 2012.(y terminando el MAY 8, 2012.)

Applications for ballot by mail shall be mailed to:(Las solicitudes para boletas de votacion adelantada por correo deberan enviarse a:)

Cindy LottPO Box 400Nixon, Texas 78140

Applications for ballots by mail must be received no later than the close of business on: Friday, May 4, 2012.(Las solicitudes para boletas de votacion adelantada por correo deberan recibirse para el fin de las horas de negocio el: Friday, May 4, 2012

Issued this the 10 day of April, 2012.(Emitida este dia 10 day of April, 2012.) Cindy Lott SignatureofPresidingOfficer(Firma del Oficial que Preside)

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamen-

tary for the Estate of Mark Edward Pruitt, Deceased, were issued on March 26, 2012, in Cause No. 9480, pending in the County Court of Gonzales County, Texas, to: Sandra Nell Pruitt.

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

c/o: V’Anne Bostick Huser Attorney for Sandra Nell Pruitt 119 E. 7th Street P. O. Box 567 Shiner, TX 77984

GONZALES STORAGE UNITS wishing to avail themselves of the provisions of CHAPTER 59 of the TEXAS

PROPERTY CODE, as amended from time to time, hereby gives notice of said act to wit:

ON: MAY 4, 2012 starting at 10:00 A.M. at 2929 BUSINESS HWY 183 N., GONZALES, TEXAS 78629 the following tenant’s property will be sold to the highest bidder

to satisfy the landlord’s lien:LAUREN LEE SIEGEL (2 UNITS)

Front loading washer/dryer, refrigerator, bedroom furniture, leather living room furniture, tools, toys, misc. household

items.The public is invited, terms are cash only.

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Human Resources603 W. Central, Hwy. 87

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• Back Dock Hanger • Back Dock Driver w/ Class B or CDL • 2nd Processing • Sanitation (Nights) • Mon.-Fri., 8-10 hr. days

Hatchery - 5611 FM 1116, Gonzales • General Labor

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

Must have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the U.S.Drug screening as applicable to position.

Call Human Resources @ (830) 582-1619 for more information.Si Habla Espanol~

Too much clutter. Must sell. Furniture, kitchen items; Exer-cise bike; birds, Cock-atiel Pair w/small travel cage & Large cage on stand. Extra large houseplants in clay pots. Assorted clay & ceramic pots

& plant stands. Ne-gotiable OBO. Cheap. 830-203-1994. (5-10-12)

For Sale: Post Oak Firewood - year old - size and quantity to fit your need. De-

livery available. Call for prices, 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273.

Large solid oak wooden desk, w/glass top. also Large dark wood desk.

Both in good con-dition. Price nego-tiavle. Call 830-263-4181. (4-26-12)--------------------------Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions,

$175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.

For Sale: 64x16 2/2, like new. Call 830-660-1286 for appt.--------------------------For Sale: Double-wide Mobile Home. CA/CH, 3br/2ba and Singlewide, 3br/2ba on 5 acres. Hwy. frontage, 5 miles from town. Excellent condition, fenced in with barn. 672-6414.--------------------------’07 Doublewide, sits on 10 ac. Homesteaded, AG exempt, chain-link fence in yard and around 10 ac. Large deck on front, small one in back. Covered dog pen, outside night light. Different types of sheds. Water Softener tanks at-tached to back of house, for inside water only. 4BR/1 Bath, LR, carpeted, rest have linoleum. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, very roomy, high ceilings all through house. Ceiling fans

in all 4 bedrooms and Living room, also White block Fireplace never used, Island kitchen between kitchen & dining room w/bar-stools. Silver cabi-nets. Belmont area, Gonzales School Route. Call Candy, LREB at 210-365-2803.

“SIMPLY THE BEST deals on new Chev-rolets and GMCs AND over 100 used vehicles with financ-ing to fit most credit situations. Grafe Chevrolet GMC - Hal-lettsville, TX - 361-798-3281 OR 800-798-3225”. (6/28/12)--------------------------FOR SALE: ‘06 Toyota 4Runner SR5, sil-ver, 76K miles, one owner, excellent con-dition, call 830-203-9383. (4-12-12)--------------------------2006 Chrysler 300. 76K Miles. $10,500. 830-672-7094. (4-26-12)--------------------------1997 30th Anniver-sary Camaro. Very clean, new engine, 6 month warranty. $4,500. Call 830-534-5512.(4-12-12)--------------------------For Sale: 1997 White Mazda Millenia. Has 2.3 DOHC engine, has minor problems but has lots of extra features. All auto, le-ther, and has sound system, etc. Asking $1,800 or best offer. 903-603-2289 or 512-963-3821.(5-10-12)--------------------------‘08 Chevy Aveo, Great Gas Saver! $7,488! (830) 305-1330--------------------------‘06 Ford Freestar, room for the family. $8,881! (830) 303-4381.

‘07 Saturn Aura, Great Gas Mileage. $14,988! (830) 305-1330--------------------------‘09 Toyota Corolla S, Silver Ground Ef-fects. $15,055! (830) 303-4381.--------------------------‘07 Suzuki XL7, SUV only 46K miles. $15,888! (830) 305-1330.--------------------------‘07 Ford Focus, Sips Gas, $7,981! (830) 303-4381.

Home For Rent. Country Home. completely remod-eled. 2BR/1BA, CA, hardwood floors, roof for AG Proj-ect. Navarro ISD between Seguin & New Braunfels. $1,000 month, $1,000 deposit. 830-660-7351 or 830-822-5348.--------------------------

ATTENTION OIL AND GAS PIPE LINERS - CREW

HOUSING AVAILABLE

Furnished with all bills paid -- Full Kitchen - Personal bedrooms and liv-ing room. WEEKLY RATES AVAILABLE. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------

MOTEL ROOMS AVAILABLE

NIGHTLY RATESSingle nightly rates starting at $35.00 per night. Which include A/C, Micro-wave, Refrigerator, TV/Cable and fur-nished with all bills paid. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------2 BR unfurnished house w/yard, nice n e i g h b o r h o o d . $650/mo., $500/Dep. Month to Month. 830-672-3089. (4-26-12)

For Rent: 2 BR Country Home on CR 359. Gonzales County. 361-594-3201, Shiner.--------------------------For Rent to oilfield or pipeline work-ers 2BR/1BA, CH/A, furnished kitchen in Yoakum. Call 361-293-6821.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for rent, w/covered patio, w/electricity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no smok-ing. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances avail-able. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-ances. $750.00 per month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.

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

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

2500 Sq. Ft. Com-mercial Building for rent. CA/CH, 304 Thornton St. Call 830-672-3147. (4-26-12)--------------------------For Rent: Indus-trial Property for rent. M1 Ind. Stor-age Yard, 70x130. Church Street. 830-423-2103.--------------------------For sale or lease. 10,000 sq. ft. Bldg. with multi-level loading docks - Prime location - with offices and separate garage. Call 830-857-5448.--------------------------For Lease: Small of-fice space w/work-shop located at 339 St. George. Recently Renovated, $400/month. For more information please (830) 672-5580.

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Applications for ballot by mail shall be mailed to: (Las solilcitudes para boletas de votacion adelantada por correo deberan enviarse a:)

Candice Witzkoske (Name of Early Voting Clerk) (Nombre del Secretario de la Votacion Adelantada) P.O. Box 547 (Address) (Direccion) Gonzales, Texas 78629 (City) (Ciudad) (Zip Code) (Codigo Postal)

Applications for ballots by mail must be received no later than the close of business on: April 27, 2012(Las solicitudes para boletas de votacion adelantada por correo deberan recibierse para el fin de las horas de negocio el 27 de Abril, 2012.)

Issued this the 5th day of March, 2012.(Emitiada este dia 5 de Marcha, 2012)

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NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION(AVISO DE ELECCION ESPECIAL)

To the registered voters of the City of Gonzales, Texas;(A los votantes registrados del City of Gonzales, Texas:)

Notice is hereby given that the polling places listed below will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on May 12, 2012, for voting in a general election to elect Mayor, Councilmember District 3, and Councilmember District 4.(Notifiquese, por la presente, que las casillas electorales citados abajo se abriran desde las 7:00 a.m. hasta las 7:00 p.m. el 12 de Mayo de 2012 para votar en la Eleccion General para elegir Alcalde, un Concejal para el Distrito No. 3, y un Concejal para el Distrito No. 4).

On Election Day, voters must vote in their precinct where registered to vote.(En el Dia de Eleccion, los votantes deberan votar en su precinto donde estan inscritos para votar.)

Location of Election Day Polling PlacesInclude Name of Building and Address(Ubicacion de las casillas electorales el Dia de Eleccion)(Incluir Nombre del Edificio y Direccion)Gonzales North Avenue Intermediate School1032 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Texas

Precincta Nombre(s)1, 2, 3, 4

(Numero de precinto)

1, 2, 3, 4

For early voting, a voter may vote at any of the locations listed below:(Para Votacion Adelantada, los votantes podran votar en cualquiera de las nombradas abajo.)

Locations for Early voting Polling PlacesInclude Name of Building and Address(Ubicacion de las casillas electorales de votacion adelantada)(Incluir Nombre del Edificio y Direccion)Gonzales Municipal Building, 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Texas

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Solicitation No: B-12-022-DD

Sealed bids are requested by the San Antonio Water System for the construction of approximately 41,000 linear feet of 36-inch HDPE water line and appurtenances for the Regional Carrizo Water Supply Pipeline Project, SAWS Job No. 10-8620-207.

To view additional project information, as well as obtain the plans and specifications for this project, visit our website located at www.saws.org/ and click on the Business Center. Then select Bidder, Consultant, and Vendor Registration, which is located on the left-hand side of the screen. Select the Register Now button and proceed with registration. For difficulties downloading plans and specifications, contact the Contracting Department at 210-233-3341.

For questions regarding this solicitation, technical questions or additional information, please contact Diana Dwyer, Contract Ad-ministrator, in writing via email to: [email protected] or by fax to (210) 233-5218 until 4:00 PM (CDT) on April 27, 2012. Answers to the questions will be posted to the web site by 4:00 PM (CDT) on May 14, 2012 as a separate document or included as part of an addendum.

A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, at the San Antonio Water System’s Cus-tomer Center Building, 1st floor, Conference Room CR-C154, 2800 U. S. Hwy 281 North, San Antonio, Texas.

Sealed bids will be received by the Contract Administration Divi-sion, 2800 U.S. Hwy 281 North, Customer Center Building, Suite 171, San Antonio, Texas 78212, until 2:00 p.m., May 17, 2012. Bids will then be publicly opened and read aloud in Contract Ad-ministration, Suite 169, Customer Center Building, 2800 U.S. Hwy 281 North, San Antonio, Texas. Each bid must be accom-panied by a cashier’s check, certified check, or bid bond in an amount not less than five percent of the total bid price.

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SALES PROFESSIONAL NEEDED

We’re one of the area’s most exciting dealerships and

we want you!

Opening available for an experienced Car Salesperson.

We offer full benefi ts.

Apply in person. Ask for Buddy Cupit

509 W. IH-10 • Seguin830-303-4381

A Medical Nursing Staffing AgencyLooking for RN’s, LVN’s, CNA’s, Sitters, to cover shifts in surrounding

areas.Full Time • Part Time

Just Weekends Available

Pay rate for:RNs - $32.00 Per/H

LVNs - $25.00 Per/H.CNAs - $12.00 Per/HSitters - $9.00 Per/H

CNA’s and Sitters will receive a $1,000 Sign On

BonusLVN’s and RN’s will receive

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Office: (361)221-2324Cell: (361)772-1705

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BONUS AND $600/WK.

GUARANTEE PAY. Contact Denise Frye at 800-456-8265 or apply

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CDL DRIVERS NEEDEDBobtail Truck Driver

Day & Night Positions AvailableRequirements:

Class A CDL with HazMat/Tanker EndorsementsMust 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

(830) 672-2018 • John Clark @ ext. 112

Maintenance Position OpenWaelder Housing Authority is accepting applications for a full-time maintenance position. Only qualified applicants need apply. MUST be well organized, have

knowledge of Electrical, Plumbing, Sewer Lines and Lift Station, Inventory,

carpentry skills, ability to maintain apartment units in clean, decent and safe condition. Operate lawn equipment, floor equipment, receive and document service request. Good people skills, a plus. Health Ins. and Retirement benefits. Salary based

on qualifications.

Must be able to pass criminal history. Apply at WHA Office located at:

220 North Avenue A, Waelder, TX. Call 830-203-0009 for additional information.

MOBILE HOMES AUTOS HOMES FOR RENT


For Lease: 1-4 acres oil field lot for lease. Pavement frontage on CR 342, 1/4 mile off Hwy. 90-A E. Call 830-857-1313. (5-10-12)

Ready Immediately. For Rent. 2br/1ba downtown loca-tion. Good for office or Apartment. Den, meeting room. Call 672-6265.

Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5072. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.--------------------------

LITTLE MISS DAWN’S

CLEANING SERVICES

Residential • Com-mercial

RV Cleaning - $30.00

Bonded. Have Ref-erences. Reason-able Rates. Call (512) 508-6221.--------------------------I’M LOOKING FOR

WORKI’m not hiring. Need a job as a Nurse Aide in hospital, Agency or home. I’m a CNA & CPR certified and need work in Medi-cal Center. Fred-ericksburg area ONLY. Full-time. If you have a relative needing excep-tional care in San Antonio, please call and ask for Chell, 830-391-4837.--------------------------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.(4-26-12)--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-

865-0286 or 832-655-9195.--------------------------Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.

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

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

Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.--------------------------

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

Travel Trailers for rent. Located at J.B. Wells, Gonza-les, Texas. Cheaper than motel. Clean, fully furnished, 32 ft. trailers. $300/ a week. Please call for more info & rates. Pug @ 512-963-

0000 or Dawn @ 512-508-6221.

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

For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for Jeff.--------------------------2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. In-dependent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.--------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.--------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.--------------------------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.

FREE to good home. Male, mixed breed, gets along with kids and other animals. Outside dog. 830-305-2521.--------------------------Mini Schnauzers. 8 wks, CKC, party col-ors, first wormed,

2 Females, 1 Male, $400.00. 210-379-0771. Stockdale/Seguin Location.

FOR SALE: 4 year old Angus Bull. 830-875-2524.--------------------------WANT TO BUY: Any or Unwanted Hors-es. Call Leejay at 830-857-3866.--------------------------3 Bird Cages w/toys. Like New. $50 for all 3. 2 donkeys, 1 Jack and 1 Jenny, $25 each. Call 830-460-0995.(5-10-12)--------------------------Easter Bunnies for sale. 361-208-3565. (4-26-12)--------------------------For Sale: Baby & Young Adult Ducks. Mix Breeds. Cost $3.50-$20.00 each. Call 830-857-6844, ask for Tammy Ste-phens.--------------------------We stock Sport-mix Dog and Cat Food, Demon WP for those ants and scorpions. Gonza-les Poultry Supply, 1006 St. Paul Street, 672-7954.(TFN)--------------------------Three “M” Boer Goats, producers of Champion Market and Breeding Goats at the Gonzales Livestock Show for the past five years, will have goats available for sale for the 2013 Livestock Show beginning in June of this year. Numbers are lim-ited so don’t wait too long! Viewing to begin in June. Don’t get left out of the Winner’s Circle-Join our winning team today and purchase your next Champion from us. (830)491-8508. www.threemboer-goats.com. (7-29-12)--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------

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.

4 bedroom, 2 bath home. Swimming pool. Great neigh-borhood. Close to schools. Call 830-857-1576.--------------------------Home for sale. Las Hadas Subdivision - Between Seguin and New Braunfels on Hwy. 46. 334 Las Hadas. Spectacular riverfront estate 5BR/4.5Ba, with boat landing and 2100’ tiled covered cabana on the Gua-dalupe River. Sur-prisingly beautiful features including hardwood floors, beamed and wood-en ceilings, ex-tensive use of oak hardwood, copper covered cabinets, 2 curved stairways, Murano chande-liers, fully furnished with custom fur-niture, antiques, crystal, china, silver, wide-screen TV, sound system, and much more. Breath taking view of the Guadalupe River on Lake McQueeney. cdkproperties.com. (4-26-12)--------------------------Beautiful Stone

House. 24 acres. 2 ponds, well, county water. $400,000. For Info call 713-203-2814.--------------------------Owner Finance, 3BR/1BA located at 810 E. 2nd St. in Nix-on. Asking $65,000. Please call for more information. (830) 672-5580.--------------------------FOR SALE: Seven (7) Buildings, 20 Units Multi-Family Apart-ment Complex, lo-cated at 929 Water St, on 1.595 acres in Gonzales, TX, front-age along US Hwy 183. 1, 2, 3&4 Bed-rooms. All buildings built on concrete slabs, brick veneer siding, metal roof, central heat, Paved Parking Lots and Public Utilities. For information contact: Gonzales Housing Author-ity, 830-672-3419 or [email protected]/1 home. 714 Sey-dler St. Owner Fi-nance. $75,000 or best cash offer. Call Martha, 830-556-2280. Habla Espa-nol.--------------------------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.--------------------------53.35 Improved 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.

5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off

183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for informa-tion.--------------------------6+ Acres at end of Oil Patch Lane. Zoned Commercial for $180,000. Can divide into smaller tracts. Call 210-416-0041.

Work Wanted - Pri-vate Sitter Care-giver. Housework, Hourly wage or Flat Fee. Very expe-rienced. 830-203-1994. (5-10-12)

Treadmill Wanted. Used, good condi-tion. Reasonable price. 830-203-1994. (5-10-12)

K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. Call 830-445-9583 or 830-857-3505 for details.--------------------------APACHE STORAGE - The Store All Place is located at 2502 Harwood Rd. Gon-zales, TX. 830-203-5115.--------------------------

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Electrical wiring, troubleshooting & repairs. 830-437-5747.--------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

All Types of Plumbing.

Master Plumber.

Reasonable Rates.Please Call 713-

203-2814 or 281-415-6108.

License #M18337--------------------------A/C & Electrical side jobs: New installs, A/C maintenance,

Condenser change-outs, Residential & Commercial at affordable prices. Please call David anytime at 830-263-1747.(3-15-12)--------------------------

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Need a monument or marker? Save $$ on monuments, markers. High Qual-ity. Less Cost Monu-ments & Markers. 1405 Conway St., Gonzales, the IOOF Building. 830-857-8070.

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Two more organizations concerned with water safe-ty have filed their objec-tions to the proposed Post Oak Clean Green Inc. land-fill in eastern Guadalupe County.

The Guadalupe County Groundwater Conserva-tion District Board (GC-GCD) unanimously ap-proved a resolution to oppose the landfill, while San Antonio Water Systems (SAWS) has sent a letter to the Texas Commission on Environemntal Quality noting its concerns.

The GCGCD joins the Gonzales County Under-ground Water Conser-vation District, Schertz-Seguin Local Government Corp and the Canyon Regional Water Authority who have also passed for-mal resolutions opposing the landfill.

Several local agencies have voiced concerns about the potential the landfill

could leak contamination into the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer. The company de-veloping the site, Post Oak Clean Green Inc., main-tains that its design is of the model approved by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and would include a clay-and-plastic liner to prevent leakage into the water sys-tem.

The proposed site is on a 1,250-acre tract in eastern Guadalupe County about 16 miles east of Seguin.

The TCEQ will be hold-ing a public meeting about the proposed landfill on April 24th at 7pm at the Se-quin Coliseum.

In a news release from Stop Post Oak Dump, the GCCD said it took its ac-tion after a review of the

permit application by GC-GCD’s hydrogeologist and peer review of the assess-ments by other stakeholder scientists. The GCGDC stated that it will legally op-pose the proposed landfill in any contested case hear-ings to ensure that appro-priate science is brought to the attention of the Ad-ministrative Law Judge and TCEQ.

Jim Watts, Executive Director of Stop Post Oak Dump, said “The Guada-lupe County Groundwa-ter Conservation District Board’s job is to protect water in Guadalupe Coun-ty, we applaud their strong stance.”

“Texas state law already prohibits the building of a landfill over the Edwards Aquifer. The law should

be changed to include the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer. We hope that strong op-position to this proposed landfill by the water con-servation boards and dis-tricts in the region will help make this possible in the future.”

In its letter to TCEQ, SAWS said the proposed landfill in Guadalupe County could have a “del-eterious impact on its well field”. The SAWS $132 Mil-lion Regional Carrizo Proj-ect & Buckhorn well field recently received approved permits from the Gonzales County Underground Wa-ter Conservation District. This cooperative regional partnership will provide the largest non-Edwards Aquifer water supply in SAWS history.


Victoria College expansionCity of Gonzales, GEDC and Victoria College officials were on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Victoria College-Gonzales Center Welding Center Wednesday morning. Taking part in the ceremonies were Tom Butler (VC), Jackie Mikesh (VC), Carolyn Gibson, (GEDC), Allen Barnes (City of Gonzales), Jon Such (VC Advisory Chair), Larry Garrett (VC), Bob Burchard (VC) and Babette Lone (VC). (Photo by Mark Lube)

Dog shelter seekshelp to alleviateover-crowding

Gonzales Dog Adoptions needs the public’s help to save the lives of a lot of ca-nine friends.

The shelter has a perma-nent capacity of 80 dogs, but last month accepted 73 which were brought in by Animal Control, many of them as a result of a dog hoarder. Because of that single-month intake, the shelter is over-booked with more than 120 dogs on hand — and as a result, stands from having to go from being a “no-kill” shel-ter to being a “high-kill” shelter because of animal-control regulations. The City of Gonzales has given the shelter 30 days to allevi-ate those conditions.

Director Lance McCor-mick said the shelter is ur-gently seeking the public’s help, especially for persons willing to be foster caretak-ers for many of the animals.

The shelter is in dire need of foster homes for the dogs that may have some issues that the shelter just can’t address or have health is-sues that are hard to cure in a shelter environment. Some of the health issues are skin conditions such as demodex mange, which is not contagous and takes time to heal, or dogs that have undergone medi-cal procedures and need a good home where they can get the attention they need on a daily basis.

Other foster needs may include litters of puppies and just dogs that might need some socialization skills.

Shown here is one such dog: “Sunflower.” “Sun-flower is a hound mix that is an extremely sweet dog, but she has some skin issues and is just not getting bet-ter here at the shelter,” said Lance McCormick. “We have had several people in-terested in adopting her but

because of her current con-dition it is hard. She will be an easy foster because she is extremely sweet and easy to deal with.”

Gonzales Dog Adoptions holds a weekly adoption event at Tractor Supply Co. store on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

“The staff at Tractor Sup-ply have been invaluable to our efforts to rehome some of the unfortunate home-less dogs at our shelter,” McCormick said.

The shelter is also run-ning a Tax Break special for the month of April.

“We are dropping our adoption price from $80 to $60,” he said. “This still includes all initial vaccina-tions, heartworm testing (for the dogs who are old enough), and spay or neu-tering.

“We are also in need of volunteers who can donate their time to help us get the shelter in better condition so that we may provide a better atmosphere for the dogs that call the shelter home for now. This can be volunteering to help in cleaning, building, or main-taining the grounds. Any help will be a huge help to the current staff of the shel-ter (which right now is only two individuals).”

For details, call 830-445-9811 or 830-540-3783.

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Logjam at the bridgeCrews with the Texas Department of Transportation were scheduled to begin untangling this mass of tree limbs and brush after they were reported Wednes-day. The mass wound up piled at the base of the Highway 183 bridge over the river in Gonzales following recent rain events. A TxDOT spokesman said the jam is the state agency’s responsibility because it is directly impacting the highway bridge. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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‘Senior Games’This week’s edition of the “Senior Games” took place at Country Village Square and featured some spirited competition in domino bingo. Gonzales County Se-niors in Action had been sponsoring the weekly event during April. Next week’s contests will be held at The Heights of Gonzales starting at 2 p.m., with an awards luncheon following a week later at 11 a.m. May 4 at the First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Damaged stones at cemetery repairedLocal residents who donated to see a number of vandalized grave mark-ers at the Gonzales City Cemetery re-paired can rest assured their money went to a good cause. The markers have been repaired by Joe Solansky and workers of Capitol Monument with no labor charges. “Thank you all again who contributed to repairing the vandalized stones and to Joe and his workers at Capitol Monument who gave of their time and money to repair the other stones,” said Jo Ann Liefeste, who organized the effort. “If you haven’t walked through the Gonzales City Cemetery lately, do so. You will be blessed by the beauty of it, thanks to a lot of volunteers who have given of their time and money. More work and money is needed, but a lot has already been given. “ (Photos courtesy JoAnn Liefeste)

Librarians honoredDuring its April meeting, the Gonzales ISD Board of Trustees honored school li-brarians and assistants as part of School Library Month. Honorees with super-intendent Kim Strozier included high school librarian Eve Waddell, Gonzales El-ementary librarian Alma Trevino, and library aides Robin Finch, Lisa Henry, Mary Margaret Stephens and Debra Opiela. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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don, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, April 16 at the age of 84.

She fought a coura-geous battle with cancer. She was born on May 30, 1927, to Ethelda Edwards and Haskell Lee Jackson in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

She married James E. Gordon on December 18, 1954, in Corpus Christi.

She is survived by her beloved husband and four sons; Paul Lee (Debbie) of San Antonio, Gray Eddie of Corpus Christi, Matthew Ernest (Sandra) of Huff-man, Glenn Robert (Phyl-lis) of Dallas; seven grand-children, Gray Eddie, Colt Robert, Cody James, Laura Ashley Hans, Garrett Lee, Courtney Anne, and James Matthew; five great-grandchildren, Tyler Scott, Walker Gray, Tyler Ryan Hans, Skyler Shyann, and Graycen Codi; one great-grandchild on the way, Jackson Ryan. She also is survived by a loving sister-

in-law, Elaine Griffin of Lampasas; nephew, James Timothy of Lampasas; and niece, Susan Schorre of Houston.

She is preceded in death by her parents and brother, Paul Edwards Jackson.

Faith and family were her passions in life. She de-voted her life to raising her four boys and enjoyed dot-ing on her grandchildren. She and her husband en-joyed living and spending their time at their family ranch in Wrightsboro.

Pat had a zest for life and was known for her optimism, generous heart, always putting others first and sense of humor. She was an inspiration to all and she will be terribly missed, but her memory will live in our hearts for-ever.

She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Gonzales.

Visitation will be at Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. Graveside services will be held 1 p.m. Friday, April 20 at the Masonic Cemetery with memorial services to follow at the First Presby-terian Church in Gonza-les with Reverend Diane Whitley officiating.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers memo-rial contributions may be made in her name to the Christian Foundation, First Christian Church in Cor-pus Christi, or First Presby-terian Church of Gonzales.

Arrangements under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home 906 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 830-672-3232.

EREDIAAnselma Eredia, age 86,

passed away Saturday, April 14. She was born on April 21, 1925 in Gonzales to the late Mr. and Mrs. Pablo and Antonia Bursiaga Eredia.

She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. She was an ac-tive member when she was able, including singing in the church choir and vol-unteering at the Jamaica for many years. She worked for many years as the house-keeper for Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and was also a caregiver for several families and their children.

She is survived by her sisters, Dolores Eredia and Carmen Molina, both of Gonzales; and numerous nieces and nephews and their families.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Jesus Eredia; and sisters, Mercedes Galan, Guadalupe Perales, and Lu-cresia Eredia.

Visitation and a rosary was held Tuesday, April 17 at the Buffington Funeral Home Chapel. The Funeral Mass was held on Wednes-day, April 18 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with the Rev. Paul Raaz of-ficiating. Burial followed at St. James Catholic Cem-etery with her nephews serving as pallbearers.

Words of comfort may be shared with the Family at www.buffingtonfuneral-homegonzales.com.

Arrangements are with Buffington Funeral Home, 424 St Peter Street, Gonza-les, TX 78629. 830-672-3322.

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CORPUS CHRISTI – As part of the company’s ongo-ing efforts to do its part to take care of Texas, H-E-B is celebrating Earth Day by giving away 250,000 reus-able shopping bags to cus-tomers statewide.

For the fifth consecutive year, H-E-B will encourage shoppers to keep the en-vironment and plastic bag recycling top of mind year-round with its reusable bag giveaway.

To show customers “it’s easy being green”, H-E-B will give away 250,000 spe-cially designed commemo-rative Earth Day reusable shopping bags. Taking place Sunday, April 22, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., this effort will help to eliminate more than 1 million plastic bags from the environment.

Customers who bring in five or more plastic bags for recycling will receive a cou-pon for one free reusable H-E-B shopping bag. The pro-gram is taking place during

this four hour time period at all H-E-B stores across Tex-as. Last year, H-E-B and its customers recycled 4.1 mil-lion pounds of plastic bags.

Plastic bags turned in for recycling may be from any retailer. No purchase is nec-essary, but there is a limit of one free reusable bag per customer while supplies last.

“At H-E-B, we look for-ward to Earth Day all year. Our bag giveaway promo-tion is a great way to help our customers make a small change that can add up to a big difference for our communities,”said Susan Ghertner, H-E-B Director of Environmental Affairs.

H-E-B stores across the state will host various in-store activities from April 16 - April 22. Last year, nearly 60 H-E-B stores part-nered with local elementary schools to collect 958,000 plastic bags for recycling.

This year, 97 schools are participating in the program

with 88 H-E-B stores. From Earth Day plastic bag recy-cling contests in schools, to story times for children, neighborhood clean-ups and tree plantings, H-E-B is working hard to educate customers about the impor-tance of being good envi-ronmental stewards.

In addition, H-E-B has launched a checkstand tear pad campaign in partner-ship with EarthShare of Texas, a non-profit that sup-ports dozens of respected environmental and conser-vation groups. Customers can choose to donate $1, $3 or $5 at checkout to be add-ed to their grocery bill.

Available every day at H-E-B, shoppers can select and purchase a variety of artistic designed reusable bags. Five cents from each reusable bag sale, up to a maximum of $50,000, will be donated to Keep Texas Beautiful to support their efforts to beautify and improve com-munity environments.

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Post Oak Clean Green, Inc. is a development management company that specializes in large scale environmental projects. Our people’s ex-pertise extend to the design, construction man-agement and operations of solid waste landfills, recycling facilities, composting facilities, envi-ronmental research and wildlife management.

Post Oak Clean Green is dedicated to provid-ing creative development services for the inter-actions between the human and natural envi-ronments. Post Oak Clean Green maintains a unique staff of experienced professionals from the engineering, environmental, design and construction industries. This approach enables us to form creative, practical, and environmental solutions to our waste management challenges.

The Post Oak Solid Waste Management Facility is a proposed waste reduction, recycling, com-posting and disposal facility located in the east-ern portion of Guadalupe County.

The facility will be a highly engineered, waste management facility that will provide revenue to Guadalupe County in the form of host fees and taxes, good paying jobs and new business opportunities for local contractors and service providers.

The following is why the Post Oak Solid Waste Management Facility is not only good for Gua-dalupe County, but the Municipalities within this immediate area as well:

• IncreasedRevenues to theCounty,andCities - Post Oak will pay “host fees” to Guadalupe County in the amount of $1.00 per ton of eligible waste disposed of at the landfill. This will amount to approximately $500,000 af-ter the first year of operation. Post Oak will pay

additional “host fees” to participating cities in the County in the combined amount of $0.50 per ton of eligible waste disposed in the landfill. (These amounts are in addition to a $1.25 per ton statutory fee payable to the State and available for local government grants.)

• GuaranteedRates- Post Oak will provide a guaranteed favorable waste disposal rate of $30 per ton for residential and other waste collected in the County and participating cities.

• NoFinancing- There will be no County or city financing or funding associated with the facility.

• ControlofWasteStreams- Post Oak will make it possible for the County and Cities within the County to take control of their waste stream. Without this residents will be at the mercy of large waste haulers and landfills outside the county. Prices will continue to rise and services continue to decline.

• Recycling – Post Oak will build a “State of the Art” recycling facility that will make recycling not only easier, but more profitable as well. No more need to haul our recylables all the way to other centers for processing.

• Composting– Post Oak will have a large composting facility that will take yard waste and other non-putrisible waste and compost it, thus reducing the amount of waste that goes into our landfills. This is not only good for our environment, but reduces our landfill fees as well.

• WasteReduction – Post Oak is dedicated to reducing the amount of waste we create and the amount of waste we put into our landfills. We will accomplish this through education of our neighbors, teachers and children about recylcing, composting and other waste minimization programs. The days of throwing away everything we no longer want are over. Post Oak will construct a 10 to 15 thousand square foot building to house the Center for Environmental Research, an organization that is focused on educating the public about is-sues related to the reduction, management and environmental balance of our waste streams. We anticipate a cooperative effort with the major Universities, Texas Parks & Wildlife and other organizations and institutions within the region.

• WildlifeManagement – Coupled with the Environmental research Center will be the Post Oak Wildlife Management Facility that will educate our children about issues related to Wildlife Management, the need for additional Wetlands and how they are construct-ed and preserved, Wildlife Conservation and the education of our youth as to hunting etiquette and game preservation.

• SuperiorDesign - All facility design, construction and operation will meet or exceed state and federal solid waste regulations, and will be subject to TCEQ regulatory oversight.

• SewageSludge - No sewage sludge will be accepted.

• OutofStateWaste - No out-of-state waste will be accepted.

• HazardousWaste - No hazardous waste will be accepted.

• MedicalWaste - - No regulated medical waste will be accepted.

• LocalJobs - Post Oak will give preference to hiring local residents and using local contractors and vendors. We estimate that 25-30 full time high paying jobs with benefits, like vacation, holidays, medical insurance and emergency leave time will occur within the first year of operations. Additional jobs will come as service industry is grown to support the waste re-duction facility. Over 100 full time good jobs will be created as a result of the Post Oak facility.

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LA VERNIA — The Yoakum boys track team were crowned District 28-3A champions Thursday evening at La Vernia High School after recording 150 team points to surpass San Antonio Sam Houston (139).

Host La Vernia came in third with 116 points, Cu-ero finished fourth with 84 points and the Gonzales Apaches were in fifth with 47 points.

Karl Kaiser won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.44 seconds, Rex Kutler was fourth in 16.84 and Miguel Resendez was sixth in 17.74. Resendez won the 300 hurdles in 40.39, Rosales was third in 42.69 and Kaiser was fifth in 43.49.

Cole Knocke won the pole vault with a distance of 13 feet, 6 inches and Keith Ratley came in second at the same height. Jonathan Smith was tied for third with 12-6.

Yoakum also went 1-2-3 in the triple jump with Thompson (45-4 ¼), Tre

Hights (43-4 ¾) and Myron Hights (43-1 ¾). Tre Hights was second in the 400 in 50.75 and Davontae Mathis was sixth in 52.77. Tre Hights and Ratley were sec-ond in the high jump with a height of 6 feet and Martin came in fifth with 5-8.

Myron Hights was third in the 200 in 22.50 and Tre Hights was sixth in 23.39. Dustin Rosas was sixth in the 1600 in 5:03.39. The mile-relay team of Jacob Linn, Fred Thompson, Mathis and Tre Hights came in third in 3:28.88. Blake McCracken was third in the long jump with 19-3 ¾.

The 400-relay team of Myron Hights, Rico Moya, Tre Hights and Martin Ro-sales were clocked at 43.85 seconds for fourth place.

Dustin Rose finished the 3,200-meter run in 11 min-utes, 52.46 seconds for a fifth place. McCracken was fifth in the 100 in 11.41. The 800-relay team of My-ron Hights, Thompson, Ratley and Moya were fifth in 1:32.29.

The Gonzales Apaches had Don Cartwright place

runner-up in the long jump, reaching 20-1 ¾. The 400-relay team of Ro-land Hernandez, Darrance James, Christopher Cerda and Cartwright came in third place to qualify for regionals with a time of 43.24. The mile-relay team of Coltin Russell, James, Hernandez and Cerda placed fourth with a time of 3:32.97.

Thompson Ince came in fourth in the pole vault with 12-0. Russell was fifth in the 800 in 2:11.26 and sev-enth in the 400 in 52.78 and Cody Jurek was seventh in the discus with a throw of 118-11. Zach Perez-Clack was seventh in the shot put with 43-4 ½.

For Cuero, the 400-relay team of Robert Gray, Dar-ius Mathis, Kelvin Johnson and Justin Rossett came in fifth in 44.03. Devon Mat-son was fourth in the 800 (2:09.69). Johnson was sixth in the 100 with a time of 11.59.

The 800-relay team (Gray, Mathis, Rossett and Chris Papacek) won second place with a time of 1:30.80.

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Championship LeapYoakum’s Leslie Seidenberger completes this attempt in the triple jump at the District 28-3A Championships last Thursday. Seidenberger won the event to earn a spot in the regional finals. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Get your walking or run-ning gear ready to capture your personal record for the 4th Annual Old Jail Run For It 5k and Kids K on April 28.

The event will start at 8 a.m. on St. Lawrence Street in front of the Old Jail. Run-ners will head east and will run over the Oak Forest Bridge and wind through the Disc Golf Park and end at the Old Jail.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Gonzales Old Jail Museum.

Medals will be awarded to overall Male and Female runners and to the top three in each standard age

division. A special award will be given to the busi-ness or church with the most runners/walkers par-ticipating.

The first 100 registrants will receive an Old Jail Run For It T-shirt.

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Registration forms can be mailed to: Gonzales Chamber of Commerce, 414 St. Lawrence, Gonza-les, TX 78629.

G-Town Striders sign-ups on May 4

The G-Town Striders Gonzales track club will be holding signups on May 4 at 6 p.m. at the Gonzales High School track.

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to qualify and compete in the National Junior Olym-pic Games.

Participating outh will work harder than ever, make life long relation-ships, learn discipline and get exposure outside of the local community - all while having the time of their life.

Registration fee is $75 and a parent must be pres-ent with athlete at registra-tion. There will be a short meeting with more infor-mation at registration.

For more information, contact Quincy Johnson at 830-857-3425 or send email to [email protected].

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Mathis won the long jump with 20-5 ½ and Rossett was fifth (19-3 ¾). Blake Reeve came in sec-ond in the shot put with a distance of 49-3 ½).

Papacek took first place in the 400 (50.11). Horton was second in the 300 hur-dles (42.47) and Kremling was fourth in 42.77.

The Gobblers mile-re-lay team of Gray, Rossett, Mathius and Papacek took first in 3:24.06.

On the girl’s side, Yoa-kum came in second with 165 points to the 194.66 posted by the host Lady Bears. Cuero was fourth with 78.333 and Gonzales was sixth with 36.

For Yoakum, Cabello was fifth in the 3200 in 13:22.87. The 400-relay team of Alexis Williams, Raeian Samuel, Courtney Carroll and Amy Rivera came in third in 50.93. Brittany Rosas won the 800 (2:27.69) and Hannah Bordovsky came in sixth in 2:34.63.

Celine Markert was third in the 110 hurdles with a time of 15.69 and Stepha-nie Korneygay was sixth in 16.47. Rivera was fourth in the 100 in 13.09.

The 800-relay team of Willliams, Rivera, Samuel and Leslie Seidenberger was fourth in 1:49.65. Har-ley Braun came in fourth in the 400 (1:02.44). Kornegay came in third in the 300 in 46.16. Samuel finished in third in the 200 in 26.42. Rosas finished the 1600 with a time of 5:42.21 for fourth place. The mile-relay squad of Kornegay, Braun, Carroll and Se-idenberger came in fourth place in 4:10.03. Markert was second in the discus (109-1) and Jaccari Hights finished in fourth (105-6). Desiree Garza and Seiden-berger were second and third in the high jump (5-4). Carroll was sixth with 4-10.

Seidenberger won the long jump (16-8 ¾) and Latrice Brown came in fifth (16- ¾). The Lady ‘Dogs went 1-2-3 in the pole vault: Wiilams (10-6), Markert (9-0) and Ashley Morris (8-6).

Hights won the shot put (35-8) and Markert was behind her with 34- ½). Morgan Long was fifth (32-

8).Seidenberger was second

in the triple jump (35-4) and Brown was fifth (33-10 ¾).

For the Lady Apaches, the 400-relay team of Bai-ley Connell, Lindsey Akers, Danyelle Glass and Mela-nie Hunt came in fifth in 52.11. Contessa Baird was third in the 800 in 2:29.23. Donniqua Sanders came in seventh in the 100 (13.50). The 800-relay team of Ebo-nique Harris, Kelsey Hardy, Connell and Hunt was third in 1:49.25. Krisslynn Sexton finished the 400 in second place in 1:01.22.

The mile-relay team (Harris, Hardy, Baird and Sexton) came in fifth in 4:21.27. Taylor Gray was sixth in the discus (90-2 ½).

Highlights for the Lady Gobblers were the 400-re-lay team of Bethany Boede-cker, Kyra Johnson, Missy Odom and Justyce Turner came in fourth place in 51.50.Alexandria Villafran-ca was fifth in the 800 in 2:30.48. Abby Sheppard won the 110 in 14.42. The 800-relay team of Johnson, Missy and Jessica Odom, and Emily Valenta came in fifth in 1:51.99. Shep-pard won the 300 hurdles in 43.55.

Danesha Johnson was seventh in the 200 in 27.10. Mathis was fifth in the 1600 in 5:46.39 and Southern followed in 5:58.05. The 1600-relay team of Kyra Johnson, Valenta, Vil-lafranca and Sheppard came in third in 4:10.0.

CayCay Toot came in

fifth in the pole vault (7-6) and Ashley Grahmann followed with the same height.

Khoaijia Mathis came in third in the shot put with 33-8 and Cevel Patton was sixth with 32-2 ½). Kyra

Johnson was third in the triple jump (33-6 ¾).

The Class 3A Region IV meet will be April 27-28 at Wildcat Stadium–Phil Danaher Field, located at 401 Wildcat Dr. in Corpus Christi.

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DISTRICT: Yoakum girls take second, Cuero fourth, Gonzales sixth overall

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At top, Poteet’s Ronald Sanchez (far left) takes a lead over Gonzales ‘ Don Cartwright, Blake McCracken of Yoakum, J’Kelvin Johnson of Cuero and La Vernia’s Alec Dews in the 100 meter final. Above, Gonzales’s Thompson Ince sails over the bar in the pole vault. (Photos by Mark Lube)

District Meet Results(Area finishers only)District 29-2A Meet

GIRLS100: 5th Hannah Clark,

Luling, 14.47400: 4th D’Laine Palacios,

Nixon-Smiley 1:05.221600: 1st Maria Salinas,

Luling, 5:27.04; 2nd, Carley Glass, Luling 5:32.39; 3rd, Kristaly Munoz, 5:35.76

3200: 1st, Carley Glass, Luling,, 11:39.70; 2nd, Maria Salinas, Luling, 11:43.877; 3rd, Kristaly Munoz, Luling, 11:47.81; 6th, Nancy Her-nandez, Nixon-Smiley, 16:25.47.

300 hurdles: 5th, Brooke Hester, Nixon-Smiley, 55.70

400 Relay: 4th, Nixon-Smiley( Alena Alvarez, Megan Guerra, D’Laine Palacios, Brooke Hester) 53.83; 5th, Luling (Claire Patterson, Megan Richard-son, Jayme Larkin, Hannah Clark), 54.24

800 relay: 4th Nixon-Smiley (Alena Alvarez, Sa-vannah Martinez, Megan Guerra, Brooke Hester) 1:55.67; 6th Luling (Claire Patterson, Megan Richard-son, Jayme Larkin, Hannah Clark) 1:58.20

1600 Relay: 4th, Nixon-Smiley (Treca DeLeon, D’Laine Palacios, Savannah Martinez, Alena Alvarez) 4:31.66

High jump: 2nd, Savan-nah Martinez, Nixon-Smi-ley, 4-6; 3rd, Meagan Stone, Nixon-Smiley, 4-6

Long jump: 3rd, D’Laine Palacios, Nixon-Smiley, 15- ½; 6th, Hannah Clark, Luling, 14-5

Triple jump: 5th, Claire Patterson, Luling, 31-4

Shot put: 6th, Haley Boatright, Nixon-Smiley, 23-1 ½

Discus: 4th, Amanda Lee, Luling 87-9.

BOYS100: 5th, Abraham Palo-

mo, Luling, 12.17200: 5th, Ty Anderson,

Luling, 23.96400: 6th,Garrett Early-

wine, Nixon-Smiley, 54.191600: 1st, Michael Bar-

nett, Luling, 4:39.01; 2nd, Jose Campos, Luling, 4:39.06; 3rd, Danny Castillo, Luling, 4:48.56; 5th, Victor Coronado, Nixon-Smiley, 4:57.00

3200: 1st, Jose Cam-pos, Luling, 9:59.34; 2nd, Michael Barnett, Luling, 10:06.55; 3rd, Danny Cas-tillo, Luling, 10:15.74; 5th, Victor Coronado, Nixon-Smiley, 10:55.62

300 Hurdles: 1st, Tristan Newman, Nixon-Smiley, 41.46

400 Relay: 3rd, Luling (Brenden Cubit, Aaron Wer-lein, Abraham Palomo, Tony Brown) 44.87

800 Relay: 3rd, Nixon-Smiley (Miguel Hernandez, Tristan, Newman, Jacob Arevalo, Garrett Earlywine) 1:36.67.

1600 Relay: 4th, Nixon-Smiley (Miguel Hernandez, Tristan Newman, Jacob Arevalo, Garrett Earlywine) 3:43.45; 5th. Luling (Jorge Munoz, Keeton Coe, Dan-iel Teafatiller, Ty Anderson) 3:43.52

High Jump: 1st, Ty An-derson, Luling, 6-2; 2nd Keeton Coe, Luling, 6-0

Pole vault: 1st, Vince Gar-cia, Luling, 11-6

Shot put: 3rd, Victor Ev-ans, Nixon-Smiley, 43-10 ¾

Discus: 6th, Josh Trevino, Luling, 112-5.

District 32-1A MeetGIRLS

100: 7th Taylor Bohuslav, Moulton, 14.9

400: 3rd, Megan Mitchon, Moulton, 1:10.7;4th, Kendall Kristynik, 1:13.7; 8th, Lara-mie Zant, Moulton, 1:21.60

800: 2nd Megan Mitchon, Moulton, 2:45.6; 8th, Maris-sa Ramirez, Waelder, 3:12.30

1600: 2nd, Brandee Dolezal, Moulton, 6:35.0; 4th, Paige Bartos, 7:11.9; 5th, Megan Euceda, Moult-on, 7:57.60

3200: 2nd, Brandee Dolezal, Moulton, 13:55.26; 3rd, Paige Bartos, Moulton, 14:56.81

400 Relay: 4th, Moulton (Brandee Dolezal, Michelle Holub, Tasha Zidek, Megan Koranak), 1:00.40

800 Relay: 3rd, Moulton (Brandee Dolezal, Michelle Holub, Tasha Zidek, Megan Koranak), 2:05.10

1600 Relay: 2nd, Moult-on (Tasha Zidek, Chelsey Darilek, Megan Mitchon, Laramie Zant), 4:57.90

High jump: 3rd, Chelsey Darilek, Moulton, 4-8

Long jump: 3rd, Kendall

Kristynik, Moulton, 14-1 ¼; 8th, Tasha Zidek, Moulton, 12-7 ¾

Triple jump: 2nd, Bran-dee Dolezal, Moulton, 29-10 ½; 4th, Megan Mitchon, 29-5 1/4; 6th, Paige Bartos, Moulton, 28-1 ¾

Shot put: 4th, Cassie Zimmerman, Moulton, 26-10; 8th, Jennifer Crumley, Moulton, 23-6

BOYS100: 6th, Dallas Rothbau-

er, Moulton, 12.50800: 7th, Jaime Moreno,

Moulton, 2:30.401600: 1st, Ty Ramos,

Moulton, 4:50.20; 2nd,Alex Reyes, Moulton, 4:56.10; 3rd, Clay Orona, Waelder, 5:05.0; 5th, Jaime Moreno, Moulton, 5:28.4

3200: 1st, Ty Ramos, Moulton, 10:25.1; 2nd, Alex Reyes, Moulton, 10:29.4; 4th, Clay Orona, Waelder, 11:09.87; 6th, Dennis Lopez, Moulton, 11:44.20

800 Relay: 4th, Moulton (Dennis Lopez, Tanner Nichols-Ranton, Dallas Rothbauer, Mario Pinedo), 1:46.90

1600 Relay: 3rd, Moulton (Ty Ramos, Alex Reyes, Dennis Lopez, Jaime More-no), 4:03.70

High jump: 5th, Dennis Lopez, Moulton, 5-6; 8th, Alex Reyes, Moulton, 5-2

Long jump: Alex Reyes, Moulton, 17-3

Triple jump: 5th, Dennis Lopez ,Moulton, 35-6; 8th, Ty Ramos,Moulton, 31- ½

District 28-3A JV MeetGIRLS

Shot put: 1st Pawelek, Yoakum, 28-11; 3rd Smith, Yoakum 28-8 ½; 4th, Harris, Gonzales, 28-2

Discus: 1st, Smith, Yoa-kum, 94-2 1/2; 3rd, Pawelek, Yoakum, 80-6; 5th , Elea Molina, Gonzales, 74-5

Long jump: 3rd, Hannah Lorton, Gonzales, 14-3/4

Triple jump: 2nd , Lor-ton, Gonzales, 31-5 ½;3rd, Kendall Fougerat, Gonzales, 30-4 ½

High jump: 2nd, Foug-erat, Gonzales, 4-8

3200: 5th, Prescina, Gon-zales, 14:19.30

400 Relay: 4th, Yoakum, 56.0

800: 3rd, Mindy Garza, Gonzales, 2:44.24; 4th, Cor-rea, Yoakum, 2:46.37

100/110 hurdles: 4th, Elizabeth Neuse, Gonzales, 20.25

100: 2nd, Lorton, Gonza-les, 13.80

800 Relay: 3rd, Yoakum, 1:58.34

400: 3rd, Adams, Yoa-kum, 1:08.67; 4th, Garza, Gonzales, 1:08.64;6th, Por-ras, Yoakum, 1:14.27

200: 5th, Lorton, Gonza-les, 28.36

1600: 5th, Prescina, Gon-zales, 6:20.65

1600 Relay: 2nd, Yoa-kum, 4:39.66; 3rd, Gonzales, 4:49.30.

BOYSShot put: 2nd, Brozowski,

Yoakum 37-10; 3rd, Dolezal, Gonzales, 37-8; 4th, Fowler, Gonzales, 37-3 ½; 5th, Tre-vino, Cuero, 36-9; 6th, John-son, Cuero, 35-9 ½

Discus: 1st, Brozowski, Yoakum, 105-4; 4th, Ca-marillo, Yoakum, 103-10 ½; 6th, Johnson, Cuero, 100-2

Long jump: 1st, Riley, Yo-akum, 19-10 ¾; 4th, Erskin, Gonzales, 17-10; 5th, 5th, Diebel, Cuero, 17-9 ¾

Triple jump: 1st, Diaz, Gonzales, 36-9

High jump: 1st, Beach, Cuero, 5-4; 3rd, Riley, Yoa-kum, 5-2; 6th, Holes, Cuero, 5-0

Pole vault: 1st, Knocke, Yoakum, 12-6; 4th, Eldridge, 11-0

3200: 6th, Garza, Gonza-les, 13:11.25.

400 Relay: 2nd, Gonzales, 46.56; 3rd, Cuero, 46.87; 5th, Yoakum, 48.33

800: 2nd, Braun, Yoakum, 2:16.97; 3rd, Darnnel Arnic, Gonzales, 2:18.72; 6th, An-gel, Gonzales, 2:22.98.

100/110 hurdles: 2nd, El-dridge, Yoakum, 18.27

100: 4th, Devin Benes, Gonzales, 12.09

800 Relay: 2nd,Gonzales, 1:37.73; 4th, Cuero,1:39.88; 5th, Yoakum, 1:43.36

400: 3rd, Riley, Yoakum, 55.63; 4th, Williams, Gonza-les, 56.53; 5th, Maples, Gon-zales, 57.07.

300 hurdles: 2nd, Anzual-da, Cuero, 44.45; 3rd,Wells, Gonzales, 45.15; 5th, El-dridge, Yoakum, 46.18

1600 Relay: 3rd, Yoa-kum, 3:52.03; 4th, Gonzales, 3:54.32; 5th, Cuero, 4:00.91.

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The Red Sox defeated the Cubs, 7-0. Jarren “Bug” Johnson hit a two-run home run over the fence for the 1st home run of the season for PeeWee’s.

Jordan Lookabill hit a tri-ple and there was outstand-ing hitting by the whole team. On defense, Jacob Camarillo and Paul Deleon both caught grounders hit to them and threw them out at first. The Red Sox are 4-1 on the season.

Minor SoftballGonzales Black defeat-

ed Gonzales Gray 7-4 on Thursday.

Shelby Davis and Peyton Ruddock made several de-fensive plays for Gray while Crista Carrizales got a two-run hit in the game.

On Monday, Gonzales Orange was leading Gon-zales Gray by two runs when the game was sus-pended due to weather in the second inning.

For Gray, Ashlynn Stew-art pitched well, Isabell Clay played solid defense at first base, and Alyssa Faith came back from an injury to score a run.

Minor BaseballOn Thursday, the Rock-

ies edged the Astros 12-11. Cade Davis pitched well

for the Astros with five strikeouts. Tanner Blundell and Colby Pruitt both had two hits in the game. Even in the loss, the whole team played well.

The Braves beat the As-tros, 6-4, on Monday. Kyle Krum had a great catch at third base. Jesus Silva, Kol-by Priutt and Gerard Nunez had a home run-saving play at the plate. Cade Da-vis also pitched well in the loss. The whole team is also

giving great effort.Pee Wee softball

Gonzales Black pulled out an 8-5 win against the Gonzales Orange.

Scoring two runs each were Meray Molina and Al-lison Landrum.

On Monday, Black beat Gray 6-3. Scoring runs were Ainsley Riojas, Lan-drum and Ashtyn Kardosz.

(Compiled from area coaches’ reports. To report your game results, send email to Mark Lube at [email protected] or call 830-672-7100.)

From coaches’ reports

The Flatonia Lady Bull-dogs notched two district wins last week.

On April 10, they edged Ganado. It was victory No. 14 for pitcher Katie Stein-hauser. Taylor Williams was 3-for-3 for two runs, five RBI, double and a home run; Courtney Mica was 2-for-4 with a triple and three runs scores; Alex Bruns was 2-for-4, double and two RBI; Steinhauser was 2-for-3; Chandler Fike was 1-for-3, Abigail Schacher went 1-for-2 and Brooke Migl was 1-for-3.

On Friday, the Lady Bulldogs defeated rival Shiner in district play for the sweep, 6-1.

Migl was 1-for-2 and a two-run double; McKen-na Lopez hit 1-for-3 with

two RBI and Williams was 1-for-3.

Flatonia finishes the regular season at 16-2 and 6-1 in district.

• Sacred Heart beat New Braunfels Christian 16-1 in three innings Monday.

Rachel Saulnier took the win for the Indianettes and Emily Kosa provided some highlights with a home run in the game.

BaseballGonzales was edged by

Pleasanton 14-8 on Tues-day. Tyler Janota took the loss for the Apaches.

Devin Benes and Trey Kridler went 2-for-4 with a double while Tyler Mor-gan was 2-for-4.

Gonzales took a 5-0 lead in the second but the Eagles fought back with eight runs in the third and two more in the fourth. Gonzales scored one

run in the bottom of the fourth. Pleasanton then outscored the Apaches 4-2 the rest of the way.

•The Stockdale Brah-mas used an 18-run fourth inning to run rule the Nixon-Smiley Mus-tangs, 23-0, on Friday.

• Hallettsville improved its mark to 17-5 and 8-3 in district with an 11-1 win over Rice Consolidated Friday.

Reagen McAda im-proved to 5-0 on the mound with the win with one hit and five strikeouts. Josh Mettlach got a home run for Hallettsville while Curtis Steffek was 2-for-3 for two runs; Will Wallace batted 2-for-4 for three RBI; Carson Schindler went 2-for-2 for two RBIs

The Brahmas junior varsity won 12-2.

Lady Bulldogs end season with two more district wins

Softball RoundupFrom coaches’ reports

Nathan Morris will be mak-ing a repeat trip to Austin after winning first medalist and sec-ond overall at the Region IV-2A Golf Tournament Monday and Tuesday at Quail Creek Country Club in San Marcos.

Morris carded an 81 on Monday, tied for fourth place. Morris improved by six strokes to shoot 75 on Tuesday to total 156.

Nixon golf coach David Mendez said last year, Morris qualified as the second med-alist. He faced more intense competition this year.

“Nathan pulled it together and got first medalist,” Men-dez said.

The Class 2A State Tourna-ment will be May 3-4 at the Roy Kizer Golf Course in Aus-tin.

Morris qualified for the re-gional meet at the District 28-2A meet on April 2. He shot a 44 on the front and 39 on the back to total 83 points, win-ning second medalist.

• The Yoakum Lady Bull-dogs are heading to state.

For the 31st time since the early 1980’s. Yoakum came in second in the one-day Region IV-3A Golf Tournament ear-lier this week.

Yoakum came in second with a 343, while regional win-ner Lampasas was 15 strokes better at 328. Salado came in third at 358.

Erin Jirkovsky won third medalist after shooting 81. Katherine Hull carded 86, Laken Garza shot an 87, Kayli Garber finished her day with 89, and Beth Moehlman scored a 100.

The Class 3A State Tourna-ment will be May 3-4 at Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin.

The Lady Bulldogs took a landslide victory at district, recording 710 with runner-up Cuero carding an 866. Gon-zales was in fourth place with 889.

Garza and Jirovsky won first and second medalists with scores of 171 and 173, resepec-tively.

• In the three-year coaching tenure of J. Lynn Barnick, the Gonzales Apaches golf have never shot below a 330.

First time for everything as Gonzales totaled 327 Tues-day in the Region IV-3A Golf Tournament in Corpus Chris-ti.

The tournament was slated for two days, starting Monday, but reduced to a one-day event due to weather.

Fredericksburg won the

meet with a 294 total while Lampasas came in second with 306 and Llano was fourth by carding a 318.

Keaton Smith tied for 13th medalist after he carded a 76. Ryan Lee shot a 79, Grayson Meredith recorded an 85, Ty-ler Geischeidle had a 90, and Garrett Remschel scored an 87.

“I thought we had a good season,” Barnick said. “We won some tournaments and our golfers improved their scores.”

He said Smith improved his scores from the 80’s into 70’s and Remschel went from the 90’s to the 80’s.

“Ryan Lee is still steady and Grayson Meredith is still a freshman,” Barnick said. “We only have one graduating senior, Tyler. I feel we have a good shot at getting back to regionals.”

The Gonzales boys won the District 28-3A title last week with a team score of 642, 23 points better than Pleasanton, who carded a 665.

The Apaches had two med-alists: Smith second with a 155 score and Lee third with a 157. Eric Villarreal of Yoakum also qualified to regionals with a 168.

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EAST GALVESTON BAY - Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on topwaters and soft plastics on the incom-ing tide. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the In-tracoastal on fresh shrimp.

WEST GALVESTON BAY - Sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs. Bull red-fish and sharks are good on the beachfront on natural baits.

TEXAS CITY - Redfish are fair in Moses Lake on shrimp and mullet. Sand trout and a few black drum are fair in the chan-nel off the dike.

FREEPORT - Sand trout and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs in Christmas Bay. Black drum and redfish are fair to good at San Luis pass on cracked blue crabs.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY - Trout are fair to good for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scattered shell. Redfish are fair to good on the edge of the Intra-coastal on crabs and mullet.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY -

Redfish are fair to good in Oyster Lake on shrimp. Trout are fair on shell and grass on soft plastics.

PORT O’CONNOR - Trout and redfish are fair on topwaters over mud and grass in San An-tonio Bay. Trout and redfish are fair for drifters working the back lakes with live shrimp.

ROCKPORT - Black drum are fair to good in the Lydia Ann Channel on crabs. Trout are fair over grass while drifting with live shrimp and Gulps.

PORT ARANSAS - Black drum are fair in the Shrimpboat Channel on crabs and finger mullet. Redfish and sheepshead are fair to good at the jetty on shrimp. Trout are beginning to show at the jetty as well.

CORPUS CHRISTI - Redfish are fair to good around Sham-rock Cove on small topwaters and spoons. Trout are fair to good on the edge of the spoils on Gulps and live shrimp.

BAFFIN BAY - Trout are fair to good in mud and grass on Corkies and topwaters. Redfish are good while casting to sand holes along the shorelines. Trout are fair to good on the King

Ranch shoreline on topwaters, Bass Assassins, Sand Eels and Trout Killers.

PORT MANSFIELD - Trout are fair to good on topwaters around sand and grass holes and along ICW spoils. Redfish are fair to good while drifting pot holes.

SOUTH PADRE - Trout and redfish are fair to good on the edge of the Intracoastal on DOA Shrimp and Gulps. Jack crevalle, redfish, sheepshead and trout are fair to good at the jetty on live bait.

PORT ISABEL - Snook are fair in the Brownsville Ship Channel on free–lined shrimp. Trout and redfish are fair to good in South Bay on live shrimp. Redfish are fair while drifting sand and grass flats on live shrimp and Gulps.

SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS REGION

BRAUNIG - Water clear. Black bass are fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Striped bass are fair on liver and perch near Dead Tree Point. Redfish are slow. Channel and blue catfish are

good on shrimp, cheesebait, and cut bait.

CALAVERAS - Water clear. Black bass are fair on minnows over grass. Striped bass are fair on spoons and chicken livers near the dam. Redfish are slow. Channel catfish are good on liv-er, shrimp, and cheesebait. Blue catfish are good on cut bait and liver. Yellow catfish are slow.

CHOKE CANYON - Water clear; 68–72 degrees; 12.52’ low. Black bass are fair on watermel-on spinnerbaits and crankbaits. White bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are fair on night-crawlers and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines baited with live perch.

COLETO CREEK - Water fairly clear; 1.67’ low. Black bass are good on perch colored Rat–L–Traps and soft plastics. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows in 10–20 feet. Chan-nel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and liver. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines baited with live perch.

FALCON - Water stained

north, clear from marker 12 south; 70–74 degrees; 21.48’ low. Black bass are good on wa-termelon and chartreuse soft plastics, spinnerbaits, and Rat–L–Traps. Striped bass are slow. Crappie are very good on min-nows. Channel and blue catfish are very good on frozen shrimp, stinkbait, nightcrawlers, and cut bait. Yellow catfish are slow. Everyone in a boat must have a Mexico fishing license (if fishing the Mexico side) whether fishing or not.

PRAIRIES AND LAKESREGION

BASTROP - Water stained; 70–74 degrees. Black bass are good on watermelon crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and Rat–L–Traps. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on live bait, shrimp, and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow.

FAYETTE - Water stained. Black bass are good on shad crankbaits and watermelon a soft plastic worms over grass. Channel and blue catfish are fair on stinkbait.

Texas Weekly Fishing Report

From coaches’ reports

Four members of the Hallettsville track team ad-vanced to regionals after their performances at the District 28-2A Champion-ships, held last Thursday and Friday at Rice Consolidated.

Tierra Haynes was second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.88 seconds, while Cheyenne Dowdy placed third in high jump by clear-ing 5 feet. Anthony Vesely was third in the high jump with a mark of 6-0, while Lo-gan Herrington punched his ticket to regionals by taking third place in the 800 with a time of 2:05.79.

Both the Brahmas and the Lady Brahmas finished sev-enth overall by scoring 33 and 17 points respectively.

Cassidy Targac threw 87-4 for fifth place in the discus and she placed sixth in the shot put with a toss of 32-7 ½. Terry Haynes placed sixth in the triple jump with a dis-tance of 39-6. The 400-relay team came in fifth place with a time of 45.15. The 800-re-lay team was fifth in 1:37.29 and the 1600-relay team was fourth in 3:35.27.

The Class 2A Region IV Championships will be held April 27-28 at Judson ISD Stadium in Converse.

The Nixon-Smiley Mus-tang track team has eight competitors moving on to the Class 2A Region IV meet.

D’Laine Palacio took third place in the long jump. Sa-vanah Martinez came in second in the high jump and Megan Stone finished in third place.

Tristan Newman won first place in the 300-meter hurdles, Victor Evans placed third in the shot put, and the 800-relay team of Newman, Miguel Hernandez, Jacob Arevelo and Garrett Early-wine came in third place.

Luling is sending around 13 athletes.

In the girls 1600, Luling won the top three spots with Maria Salinas, Carley Glass and Kristaly Munoz coming in 1-2-3. All three athletes also took top three in the

3200 with Glass, Salinas and Munoz, respectively.

The Eagles accomplished the same feat. In the mile, it was Michael Barnett, Jose Campos and Danny Castillo taking the top three place. In the two mile, it was Campos, Barnett and Castillo.

The 400-relay team of Brandon Cubit, Aaron Wer-lein, Abraham Palomo and Tony Brown came in third place. Ty Anderson and Keeton Coe went one and two in the high jump, and Vince Garcia won the pole vault.

The Region IV-2A meet will be April 27-28 at Judson ISD Stadium.

The Shiner St. Paul boys track team won its district meet on Thursday.

The 800-meter-relay team of Mitchell McElroy, Justin Natal, Adam Hollenbach and Dylan Barton took first place. Barton also won the 800 and Hollenbach came in third.

The 1600-relay squad of Natal, McElroy, Dakota Kresta and Jared Markham came in second place. Laddie Patek won second in discus and Austin Horne came in third. Patek was third in shot put and Horne came in sixth place.

Barton was second in the triple jump, followed by Hollenbach and Natal. The 400-relay team of Na-tal, Martin Kennedy, Hol-lenbach and Barton came in second place.

Kresta was second in the 110 hurdles and Ryan Kapavik came in fifth. Kresta was runner-up in the 300 hurdles. Barton finished the long jump in third and Hol-lenbach was fourth.

Markham came in fourth in the 400, Natal was fifth in the high jump and Kennedy came in sixth place in the 100. Travis Raabe, Colton Spahn and Justin Siegel also took part in the meet.

“The boys did an out-standing job,” said Cardinals boys coach Jake Wachsmuth. “Winning a district title is a team effort and everyone stepped up. I am extremely

proud of how they competed and we are looking forward to regionals.”

In the TAPPS District 4-3A Track & Field Meet, Sa-cred Heart’s young men put the “Field” into the name so often truncated into “Track Meet” by scoring 87 points in the field events.

They would have been fourth out of the nine-team field had they stopped there, but the Indians added an-other 75 points in the track events for a total of 162 points in the meet, 39 more than second place Houston St. Thomas Episcopal’s 123.

Cole Wick won the shot put with a throw of 46 feet, 3 inches and Regan Hall was fourth with 39-8. Bri-er Shimek won the discus with a throw of 137-2, Hall was fourth with 114-9 and Leightin Pilat was sixth with 107-7. Wick was second in high jump (6-0) and Pilat was fourth (5-8).

Bludau won the pole vault with a best attempt of 11-6, Pilat followed with 11-0 and Trent Janak was fourth place (8-0). Pilat came in second in the long jump with 19- 1/2 and Jonathan Vanek was be-hind him with 18-10 1/2.

Pilat was third in the triple jump (39-4 ½) and Vanek was fourth with 38-8. In the 100-meter dash, Vanek came in second with a time of 11.26 seconds and was second in the 200 in 23.81. Wick won the 400 in 52.26 and Scott Stoner was fourth in the 110 hurdles in 17.26. Cole Bludau came in run-ner up in the 300 hurdles in 43.11, Stoner was sixth in 47.95 and Michael Herndon was in eighth in 48.81.

The 400-relay team of Ster-ling Hrncir, Vanek, Bludau and Wick came in first with a time of 45.20. The 1600-relay team came in second place in 3:41.76.

The Indians will host the TAPPS South 2A & 3A Track and Field Regional Meet this Saturday at Hallettsville Sta-dium. The field events begin at 9 am and the track events begin at 2 pm.

Area athletes headed to regionalsTrack Roundup

The first place team (at top) for the Wednesday Night Scramble held at Inde-pendence Park in Gonzales was Gene Reed, Billy Breitschopf, Butch Jackson, Roy Cole and Alan Hunt. The second place team was Brian Mitchell, Eldon Farek, Peggy Iley, Jay Wndham and Dale Holcomb. (Courtesy photos)

GONZALES – With a likely must-win situation tomorrow at La Vernia, the Gonzales Lady Apaches softball team can consider themselves in the playoffs.

Gonzales (18-8, 6-5) came up short 4-3 to Pleas-anton, (22-2, 11-1) Tuesday night at Lady Apache Field.

Lady Apaches third-year head coach Holly Long said she told the team from here on out it is ‘do or die’.

“For us, the playoffs started today. We need to win or we are out,” she said. “We need to take that atti-tude into La Vernia.”

If the Lady Gobblers de-feat Sam Houston on Fri-day, they will be at 7-5 and with a Gonzales win over

La Vernia, both teams will be at 7-5 and will likely have to play a game for third place, which would occur Saturday in Shiner. A Gonzales loss in this case would put Cuero in third place.

In the other scenarios, if Cuero happens to fall in its final to Sam Houston and the Lady Apaches beat La Vernia, Gonzales wins third place. If Gonzales falls to La Vernia, they will be tied for third place with Cuero and will have to have a playoff game for third. If Gonzales wins in this sce-nario, they will beat Cuero by one game for third place.

Another scenario would be Gonzales, Cuero and Yoakum (5-6 and a bye on Tuesday) all tied for third

place which would hap-pen if Yoakum wins Friday (Poteet at home), Gonzales falls to La Vernia and Cu-ero loses to Sam Houston.

In its last home game of the regular season and Se-nior Night for Jerika Vega and Jessica Cantu, Gonza-les played its heart out.

“It was good game and we did well,” Long said. “I had nothing negative to say to them after the game, just we could have hit the ball better early in the game.”

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Dear Gonzales ISD School and Community Family,

These last weeks are filled with end of year activities that seem to go by in a blur of excitement that will end with the ageless warmth of summer. April and May are busy months as our students are immersed in end of year grade appropriate activi-ties and curriculum, state assessment, employee and student honors, and spring sports. It is a busy time for everyone! Our schools vir-tually go into “testing” mode as do all the public school districts in Texas. During the month of March thou-sands of exams were admin-istered leading to April and May, when GISD adminis-ters over 6000 highly secure exams with a four hour time limit per exam per student. It is an intense time culmi-nating with the end of May when we will recognize and celebrate the graduation of 137 seniors.

Much recognition is giv-en during the last months. During April we thank our librarians and celebrate the role of the school librarian. School librarians serve as a resource to educators in pro-moting literacy, the integra-tion of literary instructional programming and research in the classroom. Further, school librarians are role models for creating a love of reading and lifelong learn-ing for all students. During the summer months this year, GISD will welcome children to our libraries. We will have a schedule for you in the coming weeks,

but you can anticipate read-ing activities filled with fun at Gonzales Elementary on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a few hours each morning.

Additionally, April is Na-tional Volunteer Month. Volunteering in public school has many benefits. It provides assistance in the many facets of technical support that promote in-struction in the classroom. An example of this type of help would be to operate the copy machine and run off class sets of a practice activ-ity reviewing what has been taught by the teacher. An-other example may be to cut out decorations for keeping the classrooms and walls academically appealing and climate fun and friendly for our students. Volunteerism also provides for special support for individual stu-dents that may need a men-tor or a reading partner to strengthen academic skills in a supportive and “famil-ial” structure. GISD recog-nizes and extends a “Thank You!” to our volunteers on April 27th at 10:00 a.m. in the GHS cafeteria! Volun-teers are a big part of the good news in GISD.

More good news this month comes from Ara-

mark! While the district took proactive measures to ensure student safety in light of a report of mold on biscuits; an investiga-tion showed no evidence of mold. Aramark conducted tests on differing samples of the biscuits and the micro-biological tests determined that all samples were found free of mold and showed no evidence that any consump-tion of the product could produce illness. The cause of concern may have been related to normal chemical changes during the cook-ing process. We continue to work to provide the highest quality to our students and staff throughout the district!

End of school is such an exciting and active time! Don’t forget, next month we will hold a May 12th, 2012 election for GISD School Board Trustee position District 7. Please exercise your right to vote. Thank you for your interest in the education of all children. The future of our great state depends on the education of our citizens. As we enter into the second year of the biennium, we thank you for supporting public education and making education a pri-ority.

GISD is doing good work and it has been a great year! Parents, thank you for your continued participation in your child’s education. We are honored to partner with you as we work to ensure an education that embraces Excellence for All!

Kimberly A. Strozier, Ed. D. GISD Superintendent

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Super CitizensAt North Avenue Intermediate we feel citizenship is something that should be honored, recognized, and given status. It has nothing to do with academic achievement and anyone can achieve it. We know that the essence of good citi-zenship is RESPECT, RESPECT of authority, RESPECT for others, RESPECT for self, and RESPECT for rules. It is an attitude that begins at home and is reinforced at school and applied through life. The following students were selected as Super Citizens of the fourth six weeks. Each student was given gift certificates from the following vendors: Sonic, McDonalds, and Whataburger. We want to thank them as well. FIFTH GRADE: Abraham Martinez, Carlos Sanchez, Kayley Martinez, Christian Lopez, Jolie Edwards, Yaqueline Vasquez, Galilea Rodriguez, Francisco Gonzales, Isaac Longoria. SIXTH GRADE: Romy Cantu, Sabrina Arizpe, Jonathan Gudino, Keaton Glass, Sebastian Vega, Whitley Bonilla, Presleigh Zel-la, Lizbeth Soto, Mallory Ramos. (Courtesy Photo)

Shiner has advanced to the Regional One Act Play Competition that will be held at the Blinn Junior College Auditorium on Saturday, April 21.

Plays will begin at 1 p.m. and Shiner is the fourth of six shows to perform. There will be an admission for this contest.

Shiner will be performing “The History of Tom Jones.” The school earned several honors and awards with the play at the Area Meet including All Star Cast (Michael Lawrence & Emmalie Berkovsky) and Honorable Mention All Star Cast (Zach Lawrence & Brittany Hamilton).

A special thank you goes out from the Pilot Club to (top) Michael Mercer and Mercer Welding, and (bottom) The International Order of Odd Fellows Lodge #38 President Derek Grahmann for their continued support of Project Graduation. Flanking the men in both photos are Pilots Cindi Jackson and Stephanie Gacke. (Courtesy photos)

“Mardi Gras - Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! ( Let the Good Times Roll)” is the plan for Project Graduation 2012, set for May 25 at Disciple Oaks Retreat Center hosted by The Pilot Club of Gonzales, Inc.

The Pilot Club is happily ac-cepting contributions for the lavish party to host our 2012 Gonzales High School gradu-ates. The people of Gonzales are again generously “put-ting their money where their mouth is” to guarantee the safety of our graduates on this biggest night of their lives.

Also, please look out for our fundraiser benefiting Project Graduation. A lovely Ameri-can Flag afghan was made by Rosemary Huff Smith in honor of her granddaughter, Apryle Rose Smith, to help raise funds for our event. Please contact any Pilot Club Member if you are interested in donating to this fundraiser.

Mardi Gras celebrations are known as the most exciting of parties with favorite foods and drinks to enjoy along with games to play and win

you money and music in all varieties to move to. If you’re adventurous, you can compete with others in limbo and other contests.

The Pilot Club of Gonzales, Texas will warmly welcome adults who are parents, teach-ers, neighbors and friends to help host the party, so please contact Stephanie Gacke 830-672-8676, Ann Covert 830-

672-7246 or Pat Heinemeyer 830-540-4210 to tell us you of-fer your time and energy with us.

There will be a place to help for a number of hours or all night, if you’re up to it. We Pilots hope to hear from you other generous volunteers in Gonzales and look forward to working with you once again on May 25-26.

‘Mardi Gras’ theme announced for GHS Project Graduation

Gifted & TalentedThe students in the 1st grade Gifted and Talented class at East Avenue recently completed the Texas Performance Standards Project, “Animal Nation.” The stu-dents researched endangered animals, wrote reports on them, and then created artworks which represented their animals. The students are: (back row, left to right) Slone Gibson, Karalyn Irving, Haley Barrington, Joseph Gold, (3rd row, left to right) Lauren Johnson, Jocelyn Duwel, Leslie Borjon, (2nd row, left to right) Brendon Mercer, Cooper LaBuhn, and (bottom row) Yliana Barron. (Courtesy Pho-to)

GJH Artist of the WeekAdrien Masek was the Gonzales Junior High Artist of the Week for March 26-30. She is in 7th grade and has been drawing for 13 years. Adrien’s favorite type of art is computer art. She is a member of the JH Art Club, which meets each Friday during lunch in the art room, inspired and led by the JH Art Teacher Ms. Barta. (Courtesy photo)

GE poetsA number of outstanding Gonzales Elementary students have been selected for publication in the Young American Poetry Digest. These talented students wrote Haiku poems under the direction of our school librarian, Alma Trevino, and teacher’s assistant, Marilyn Dolezal. The poems were respectfully submit-ted to the National Schools Project, where they were judged based on creativ-ity, age-appropriate language, sensory/figurative images, structure, and poetic techniques. The school library will be receiving a free copy of the publication in October. Pictured are (back row, from left): Shelby Davis, Emily Moore, Bella DuBose, Alma Trevino, Gino Martinez, Marilyn Dolezal, Maraia Mathis, Kimberly Garcia, Jordan Williams, Julianna Izaguirre (front row) Macy Mendez, Denise Sanchez, Jennifer Velasquez, Samantha Barnick, Carlos Mendoza, Ashley Flores, Elizabethe Gallagos, Anabella Rodriguez. Not pictured are Kimberly Pruneda, Felipe Garza, and Josie Acosta. (Photo courtesy of Angela Zumwalt)

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The Gonzales High School’s production of “Still Life with Iris” will be having their second public performance at the Gonzales Junior High Auditorium on Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets for show are $6 for adults and $4 for students. Pictured are (from left): Layne Becker as Mr. Matternot, Kaylauni Luedtke as Iris, Adrian Buesing as Mozart, and Elizabeth Williams as Annabel Lee. (Courtesy photo)

East Avenue ProgramMiss Rodriguez’s first grade class at East Avenue Primary recently presented their traditional program of “Texas, Our Texas.” The students have been learn-ing about our great state of Texas and its’ symbols, as well as other interesting facts about our great state. Classes in Social Studies have been quite interesting and exciting. The class culminated their Texas unit by presenting the program, which included speaking parts by the students about Texas facts. Some of the songs sung by the class included: “Texas, Our Texas”, “Beautiful Texas”, “Giant”, “The Eyes of Texas”, and “Happy Trails.” (Courtesy photo)

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The hopefuls who showed up at The Lynn Theatre Sunday for the first round of casting for the upcoming production of “The Wizard of Oz” were mostly on the young side. Sort of.

“How old are you?” producer Cal Collins asked Luling’s Jeff Tucker, who’d showed up primarily to support the efforts of his kids to land roles and wound up being goaded into auditioning.

“I’m six,” Tucker responded. “Almost. With a zero behind it.”

Most of Sunday’s hopefuls were youngsters hoping to land roles as

Munchkins in the musical, which is cut from the script of the famous 1939 movie starring Judy Garland and featuring music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E. Y. Harburg. But at least a handful of potential Wicked Witches of the West showed up, including Dr. Alexandra Montgomery, who made the trip from San Antonio just for the auditions.

“We still have a number of adult roles we will still need to cast,” Collins said. “Anyone who’d like to be a part of this, please give me a call at 210-834-4042.”

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FLATONIA —The Flato-nia Chamber of Commerce invites you to come out and join us for an evening full of fun with a feast of craw-fish, shrimp, sausage, pota-toes, corn on the cob, beer, wine, tea, door prizes and a silent & live auction.

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The 9th annual Flatonia Crawfest is scheduled for Saturday, April 21, from 6pm until 12 midnight, at the Flatonia American Le-gion Hall – Hwy 90 East. The Chamber is also look-ing for sponsors for this event, please contact the Chamber Office if you are interested.

Tickets are $30 per per-son and it includes a feast of eats, drinks and enter-tainment! Tickets can be purchased at the Flatonia Chamber of Commerce

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Who’s the best fiddler in Texas? The place to find out is Hallettsville April 26-28.

Three-time champion Carl Hopkins of Porter will put his title on the line again in the 41st Texas State Championship Fid-dlers Frolics is scheduled at the Hallettsville Knights of Columbus Hall Thursday through Saturday.

There’s lots of entertain-ment mixed in with the con-test, with local and regional headliners giving fans lots of tunes to boot-scoot to each night.

A weekend pass will cost $35. Admission on Thurs-day is free, while tickets for evening events inside the hall on Friday and Satur-day are $10 each and tickets for day events are $7. Chil-dren under 12 are admitted free except for the Saturday night dance.

The event kicks off at 6 p.m. Thursday with a Jam Session on the Hall Pavilion. Bring your fiddle, guitar or other instument to this huge jam session where everyone gets to play.

Friday’s events will fea-ture Cajun Fun Night start-

ing inside the hall at 5 p.m. Come taste the crawfish, gumbo, red bean & rice or sample the barbecue and Hamburgers.

At 6 p.m., the fiddling be-gins in earnest with an Any-thing Goes Fiddle Contest. Twin fiddle, bowing tricks, or stand on your head while fiddling. The audience will decide which fiddle player can entertain best with their artistry. Prizes will be awarded to the top three contestants.

There will also be a Song-writer Contest starting at 6 p.m., including the Song-writer Serenade Semifinals. Songwriters will be compet-ing for more than $2,750 in prize money.

Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys bring their Cajun sound to the stage at 7:45 p.m., and Joey Riley and his band bring their show straight from Branson, Mo., starting at 9.

On Saturday, the Forest Craig Freshman Division fiddle contest for fiddlers age 15 and under kicks off the day’s music. There will also be competition in the Pee Wee division for those

10 and under.Saturday’s events con-

clude with a dance to the music of The Lost Trailers with Rhythm of the Road at 9 p.m..

The Texas State Barbecue Cook-Off Judging gets un-derway at 3 p.m., with the Darwin Macon Band and Ryan Thompson and Texas Lately playing at the BBQ area pavilion.

Sunday’s events inside include a Guitar Accompa-nist contest starting at 9:30 a.m., followed by the Texas Fiddlers’ Hall of Fame In-duction ceremonies at 10:30 a.m.

The Seniors Division (65 and over) fiddlers competi-tion gets underway at 11:30 a.m. The Jonah Ramirez Band will provide the en-tertainment at the Barbecue Pavilion starting at 1 p.m.

At 1 p.m., the big event starts: the Texas State Cham-pionship Fiddle Contest. Competitors must be resi-dents of Texas. The top three contestants will be back at 5 p.m. for the Cliff & Velda Fryer Championship Play Off, with the winner getting a first prize of $1,500.

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Thursday Night Acous-tic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.

Friday, April 20Zack Walther Band at

Howard’s, Shiner, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 21Charla Corn with

Break-N-Even at Scoot-er’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

Broke 60 at Flatonia Crawfest 2012, American Legion Hall, Flatonia, 6-10 p.m.

First Scott Taylor Band Eat Tail Suck Head Crawfish Fest feat. The Pale Horses, The Washers, Matt Thig-pen, Majestics,James & Green, Ron Shumate, The Eric Page Band, Scott Taylor Band, noon-11 p.m., Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum. $10 all day admission.

Sunday, April 22

George Ensle at How-ard’s, Shiner, 4 p.m.

Thursday, April 26Thursday Night Acous-

tic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.

Jam Sessions at the Hal-lettsville Fiddlers Frolics, Knights of Columbus Hall, Hallettsville, 8 p.m.

Friday, April 27Anything Goes, Kevin

Naquin & Ossun Play-boys, The Joey Riley Show at Hallettsville Fid-dlers Frolics, Knights of

Columbus Hall, Halletts-ville, 6 p.m.

Buster Jiggs at How-ard’s, Shiner, 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 28Jarrod Birmingham at

Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

Texas State Champi-onship Fiddlers Contest Hallettsville Fiddlers Frol-ics, Knights of Columbus Hall, Hallettsville, starting 9:30 a.m.

Dance feat. The Lost Trailers w/Rhythm of the Road at Hallettsville Fid-dlers Frolics, Knights of Columbus Hall, Halletts-ville, 9 p.m.

Saturday, May 5Pear Ratz at Scooter’s,

Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

Dolly Shine at Fire-house Saloon, Houston, 8 p.m.

Zack Walther Band at Howard’s, Shiner, 8 p.m.

Friday, May 11James Lann at Scoot-

er’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

Saturday, May 12Slim Bawb at Howard’s,

Shiner, 8 p.m.

Friday, June 1Johnny Lee at Scooters,

Moulton, 9 p.m. Advance tickets $18.

Musicians and Venues: To add or update events, contact us via e-mail to [email protected].

Fiddlers Frolics pit bestin Texas for coveted title

Texas State ChampionshipFIDDLERS’ FROLICS

April 26-29

K of C HallHallettsville, Texas

Photograph provided by Ronnie and Kris Naquin

Charla Corn will be live at Scooter’s in Moulton Saturday.

Broke 60 headlines9th annual Crawfest

Carl Hopkins saws his way to the 2011 Texas State Championship. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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CANNON KID’S CORNER

Aries, once you have your mind set on something, it is hard to get you to think about anything else. This dedication can be an asset at work but might also hinder relationships.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

Taurus, you’re in good spirits this week and it could be because you re-ceived some good news that provides you with extra energy. Get tasks done and then have fun.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, it may be time

for a change of scenery, es-pecially if you feel like you need recharging. Browse available travel deals and you can probably find something affordable.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, accept help when

it is offered. Doing so will reduce stress and put you in a better frame of mind. Someone close to you has a proposition.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, though you often

enjoy being the center of attention, there are many times -- like this week -- when you simply thrive be-ing able to recuperate out of the limelight.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, when an opportu-

nity presents itself, jump on it without delay. This could be the break you’re looking for, so don’t pass up the op-

portunity to get on board.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, pick your battles

and recognize that there are certain things that you just can’t change. It may prove frustrating, but that’s the way it is.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

Scorpio, sometimes the best way to help someone is to leave them to their own devices. This week you’ll adopt this approach, and it will work out for the best.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, there is con-flict at home, you must help reduce the tension. It may

take some time, but use this week to lay the ground work.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Capricorn, with so much change in the air, you may want to shout it from the hills. However, it may be wise to keep things hush-hush for a while until it’s all worked out.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

Aquarius, there’s no time like the present to do a self-analysis and take the steps to change something that has been on your mind. You’ll have the support of family.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, positive thinking

can often help you over-come obstacles, but so can simply taking some action. Expect good news this week.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYSAPRIL 15Emma Thompson, Ac-

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Puzzle Answers

It was British doctor and author Alec Bourne who made the following sage observation: “It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”

In 2007, a world record was set off the coast of Brazil when a single wave was caught by 84 surfers.

Have you ever heard of a book called “Never Again” by Doug Nufer? Probably not -- it’s not on any bestseller lists and hasn’t been reviewed by any notable critics. It’s quite possibly unique in literary history, however; in its entire 192 pages, not a single word -- even basic words such as a, an, the, of and for -- is used twice.

If you were to stack up a million $1 bills, they would weigh about one ton.

The Twist dance craze in the 1960s changed the culture in America and spread around the world. Most people don’t realize, though, that the song “The Twist,” which started the fad, wasn’t originally sung by Chubby

Checker, though he was the one who sent the single up the charts and has since been irrevocably associated with the dance. The song was originally written and performed by an R&B singer named Hank Ballard. A deejay in Baltimore saw teenagers dancing to Ballard’s song and called Dick Clark, host of “American Bandstand.” Clark loved it and invited Ballard to perform the song on the show, but it didn’t work out. Instead, Clark found someone else to perform the song: Ernest Evans,

who changed his name to Chubby Checker. It made his career.

Colonel Sanders started selling chicken when he was 65 years old, and his only goal was to make $1,000 a month.

***Thought for the Day:

“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.” -- George Burns

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