Gonzales Cannon Feb 9 Issue

Gonzales City Council on Tuesday moved to tighten up its old ordinance regulating sexual-ly-oriented businesses and passed a new ordinance specifying re-structions on sex offenders living in the city.

The Council voted unanimous-ly to replace the city’s existing ordinance regulating adult enter-tainment businesses, which City Attorney Jackie Williamson said was “very weak.”

“The new ordinance is much stronger and is based on ordi-nances of a number of other Tex-

as cities,” Williamson said.The sex-offender ordinance

prohibits known sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of premises where children gath-er and makes it illegal to loiter within 300 feet of the area around a child safety zone. It also speci-fies that landlords cannot know-

ingly rent property to known sex offenders if those properties fall within those paramaters, and that accountability clause drew some condemnation during the meet-ing.

The ordinance drew praise from Gonzales ISD superinten-dent Dr. Kim Strozier.

“We still have many students in our district who go home to empty houses, waiting for their parents to get off work,” she said. “We are in favor of the distance rule.”

Two other speakers voiced dis-sent, however.

Gonzales Police arrested one man and detained two others following a report of a fight in the 400 block of St. Joseph Tuesday morning.

Police received a call about a fight at around 10 a.m. and upon investigat-ing, a foot pursuit resulted in the arrest of John Andrew Garza. He was charged with disorderly conduct and evading arrest, Chief Tim Crow said.

A short time later, police also detained two suspects in a black sport utility ve-hicle in the 300 block of St. Joseph.

“The subjects were with Garza but not charged at this time,” Crow said. They were ticketed for traffic vio-lations.

Chief Crow confirmed later Tuesday that a firearm

WAELDER — A new business venture is eyeing Waelder as its new location and it could mean good news for that city’s econom-

ic future.The Waelder City Council

heard a presentation from Avan-gard Innovative during its regular meeting on Tuesday night.

The company is a sustainable solutions provider headquar-

tered in Houston, with branch of-fices and operating plants located around the world. As one of the largest recyclers in North Amer-ica and Latin America, they offer full-service recycling solutions at all levels of the process.

“The reason we want to come here to Waelder is very simple,” said spokesman Anibal Alvarado. “Geographically you’re in the middle of three of the biggest cit-ies in Texas in Austin, San Anto-nio and Houston.”

“Our intention is to not only bring new jobs and help boost the economy, but also we are here to hire local people. Our intention is to train, educate and make this plant something that belongs to

Last week, three area pastors traveled to Ger-many in an effort to form a partnership between their Texas Baptist churches and two sister churches in Ger-many.

Pastor Jonathan Smith of First Baptist La Grange has led these trips for five years while partnering with a sister church in the city of Bunde, Germany. First Baptist La Grange also formed a partnership with Flatonia Baptist Church several years ago and the two churches have served the Bunde Freie Gemeinde for the last three years to-gether. Since 2008, the two Texas churches traveled to Bunde several times and sponsored a baseball camp for children ages 8 - 18.

Baseball in Germany? Yes, it is a foreign con-

cept to Germans, BUT you would be amazed at how quickly the kids pick up the game! The camp runs for five days, and concludes with a baseball tournament on the sixth day. At night, the teams from the Texas churches have a gathering where they teach Texan culture, hold worship ser-vices, and engage in rela-tionship building with the kids and their families.

Each year the camps have grown. On average the first camp has about 75 participants. By the second year, attendance doubles. During the four hours of camp, each team has “team time” where the Texans lead a small group Bible study. Many lives have been changed in Bunde because of a faithful God who uses a

game like baseball as a tool for ministry and sharing the Gospel.

Several months ago, First Baptist Gonzales was ap-

proached by First Baptist La Grange and Flatonia Baptist to partner with Wende Punkt Freie Ge-meinde (Turning Point

Fellowship) in Datteln, Germany. The three pas-tors from Texas traveled in an effort to form this new

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City tightens sex-business ordinance

John Andrew Garza

Pastor Chris Irving presents Pastor Stefan Arhelger with the “Come and Take It” flag of Gonzales. The two churches exchanged flags so that when each congre-gation looked upon the other’s flag, they would be reminded to pray for their partner across the Atlantic. (Courtesy photo)

By CHRIS IRVINGSpecial to The Cannon

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ALTERCATION, Page A3

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A realValentine’s

surprise

When Paige Goss was called to the office at Christian Kids Day Care Wednesday afternoon, little did she realize who was asking for her. Paige’s boyfriend, Zack Head, has just arrived on leave from the Ma-rine Corps and made a surprise visit ... and im-mediately dropped to his knee to propose.More photos and Valentine’s Day sto-ries in today’s paper on Pages B7 and B8.

(Photo by Dave Mundy)

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Gonzales Co. Sheriff’s Office Report

Thought for the Day

“A child who is allowed to be dis-respectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”

Billy Graham

February 09, 1854On this day in 1854, Samuel K. Lewis finally received pay-

ment for two beeves he had furnished to the Army of the Republic of Texas in November 1842. Lewis, whose place and date of birth are unknown, had moved to Texas in 1838. He was issued an unconditional grant for land in Brazoria County in 1841 and was living in or near La Grange by 1842. In that year, president Sam Houston and Congress were pur-suing a policy of retrenchment and economy. Despite their efforts, by the time Texas was annexed to the United States, in 1845, the money owed Lewis was part of a $12 million public debt. Lewis, who also represented Austin County in the House of Representatives of the Ninth Congress (1844-1845), died in 1867.

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Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice

Sheriff’s Report01/29/12-02/04/1201/30/12Reininger, Bruce Berton,

06/1973, Gonzales. Lavaca Coun-ty Warrant – Criminal Nonsup-port. Requires $10,730.00 Bond. Remains in Custody.

Bowlin, Brandan Glen, 11/1985, Richmond. Commit-ment/Sentence – Driving while Intoxicated. Remains in Custody.

1/31/12Ramos, Daniel, 01/1974, Vic-

toria. Victoria County Warrant – Evading Arrest Detention with Vehicle. Remains in Custody.

02/01/12Romero-Garcia, Jose Wilfredo,

01/1987, El Salvador. Criminal Trespass. Requires $2,000 Bond. Immigration Detainer. Remains

in Custody.Alvarez-Perez, Santos Alberto,

06/1968, El Salvador. Criminal Trespass. Requires $2,000 Bond. Immigration Detainer. Remains in Custody.

Daughtry, Henry, 11/1970, Carthage. Local Warrant – Driv-ing while Intoxicated 2nd. Re-quires $2,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

02/02/12Rasmussen, Amelia Lynn,

03/1949, Nixon. Guadalupe County Warrant – Theft of Prop-erty >$20 <$500 by Check. Re-leased on $1,000 Bond.

02/03/12Kelsey, Tammy Jean, 08/1974,

Kingsbury. Local Warrant – Theft Stolen Property >$1,500 <$20K. Released on $5,000 Bond.

Longoria, Rene, Jr., 09/1961, Houston. Commitment/Sen-

tence – Driving while Intoxicat-ed. Released – Weekender-Work Release.

02/04/12Martinez, Marissa Ofelia,

12/1993, Gonzales. Commit-ment/Sentence – Assault causes Bodily Injury Family Violence. Released – Weekender/Work Re-lease.

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

GCSO 10DPS 02GPD 05WPD 03NPD 02Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 22

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Report Jan. 30, 2012 thru Feb. 5, 2012

01/30/12Case #71857, Warrant Arrest

(3), Gonzales, Alan, 19, Yoakum, 209 Hefferman (3), Offense(s), W#1d-10-11339-FTA-Assault-Aggr., W#11-09-11527-FTA-Deadly Conduct, W#12-0111603-Bail-Jumping-FTA; Disposition, Bond/$100,000/Trans/DCSO, Bond/$20,000/Trans/DCSO, Trans/DCSO.

Case #12-036, Burglary-Res-idence, 112 Lester; Disposition, Investigation.

Case #12-037, Hindering Ap-prehension/Prosecution (2), Ar-royo, Jessica, 23, Yoakum, 209 Hefferman; Offense, Hindering Apprehension/Prosecution; Dis-position, Trans/LCSO. Camarillo,

Marcus, 20, Yoakum, 209 Heffer-man; Offense, Hindering Appre-hension/Prosecution; Disposi-tion, Trans/LCSO.

01/31/12Case #12-038, Theft-SJF, 203

W. Gonzales; Disposition, Inves-tigation.

Case #12-039, Criminal Mis-chief-B,103 Austin; Disposition, Investigation.

02/01/12Case #12-040, Assault-C, 904

Cammie; Disposition, Court Cita-tion.

02/02/12Case #12-041, Theft-A, 403

Hubbard; Disposition, Investiga-tion.

Case #12-042, Assault-C, 904 Cammie; Disposition, Court Cita-tion.

Case #12-043, Assault-C, 103

McKinnon; Disposition, Court Citation.

Case #12-044, Robbery-Aggr., Juvenile Male, 15, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense, Robbery Aggr., Disposition, Detained/Trans/Vic-toria.

Case #12-045, Arson, 500 Blk. Mathews; Disposition, Investiga-tion.

02/03/12Case #12-046, Credit Card

Abuse, 601 Huck; Disposition, In-vestigation.

Case #11-488, Warrant Arrest, Cruz, Josue, 31, Yoakum, 500 Blk. Baldwin; Offense, W#L2012-14662-Assault-Aggr.; Disposi-tion, Trans/LCSO.

02/04/12Case #12-047, Assault-C, 103

McKinnon; Disposition, Court Citation.

A high-risk sex offender last seen in Fort Worth has been added to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list, and a $3,000 cash re-ward is offered for tips lead-ing to his arrest. All tips can be offered anonymously.

Derrick Dion Christo-pher, 38, was accused of sex-ually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Tarrant County in 2007. The charge was later reduced to Indecency with a Child. He was also con-victed of Injury to a Child for burning the tops of two juvenile’s feet with a bottle cap. Other convictions in-clude Deadly Conduct for discharging a firearm and drug possession.

Christopher has a scar on his forehead and scars

on his hands and forearms. He also has numerous tat-toos, including “DC” on his upper right arm, a Japanese symbol on his neck, and a dog on his right shoul-der. For more information, view his wanted poster at: http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/wanted/sexoffend-ers/topTenSexOffenders.htm#;view=Individual%20Details/fugitive=3. (Close the Featured Fugitive box first.)

Texas Crime Stoppers, which is funded by the Gov-ernor’s Criminal Justice Di-vision, offers cash rewards to any person who provides information that leads to the arrest of one of the Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitives or sex offenders, http://www.

dps.texas.gov/wanted/in-dex.htm.

Anyone with information can provide anonymous tips in three different ways:

• Call the Crime Stoppers

hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).

• Text the letters DPS—followed by your tip—to 274637 (CRIMES) from your cell phone.

First Shot CookoffA First Shot Cookoff Committee meeting will be

held on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 5:30 p.m. at the office of DuBose Insurance.

For more information, call Shirley at 830-857-4142.

Shiner Health FairMark your calendars for Tuesday, February 21st,

3 to 6 pm, for the annual “Partners in Health”, Shin-er’s annual Health Fair, at the Knights of Columbus Park (formerly American Legion Hall) 102 S. Ave. G.

The free event, sponsored by the Shiner Cham-ber of Commerce, Shiner Knights of Columbus, Shiner American Legion, City of Shiner and Shiner Rotary Club, will include display tables featuring health-related businesses, organizations, hospitals, nursing homes offering information on healthy living and wellness programs. There will be treats, giveaways and free information on sleep disorders, home health care, mental health, child develop-ment, physical therapy and cancer treatment.

For further information or to sponsor a table, please contact Bernice Jalufka at the Shiner Cham-ber of Commerce office: 361-594-4180. [email protected] ; www.shinertx.com.

Anchor Club BingoThe Gonzales Anchor Club will host Senior

Citizen Bingo at Country Village Square Tuesday, February 21, 2012 from 4:30-5:30 pm. A light meal will be served and all Senior Citizens are invited to attend.

Bluebonnet TrailsBluebonnet Trails Community Services will host

an open house at the center, located at 228 st. George St., from 12:30-2 p.m. Feb. 22. The public is invited. For details, call 830-672-2212 or 672-7975.

Horse SeminarThe Gonzales elks Club will host a free horse

handling seminar featuring renowned clinician Ron McLoughlin from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Elks Club, 1216 N. Sarah DeWitt Dr.

McLoughlin will cover horse care, footwork, leads, maneuvers, balanced stops and solving horse-handling problems. For details, contact Pat Rosato at 830-437-2046.

Sweetheart cakesThe Heights of Gonzales will host a bake sale

featuring 10-inch heart chocolate cakes and choc-olate covered strawberries Feb. 14. Those wishing to order the cakes or strawberries for $20 are asked to pre-order by 4 p.m. Feb. 10 and pick up your or-ders by 4 p.m. Feb. 14. All proceeds will benefit the Relay for Life.

Lunch & LearnGonzales Healthcare Systems Lunch & Learn

for February will feature Dr. Kathleen Koerner speaking on “Gall bladder disease.” The monthly luncheon is scheduled for noon Feb. 16 at The Heights Nursing & Rehab. To RSVP, please call 830-672-7581, ext. 421.

Valentine’s Contest WinnerCongratulations to Carla Faltisek for winning

The Gonzales Cannon Valentine’s contest! Your prize is waiting at The Cannon office.

Barbecue CookoffThe Gonzales VFW Ladies Auxiliary will host

its annual Barbecue and Chili Cookoff Saturday, March 17 at the post home on Harwood Road. Categories include Brisket, Chicken, Ribs, Chili and Jackpot beans. Entry is $15 per event. Registration begin sta 7:30 a.m. For details, call 254-931-5712 or 830-263-0973.

Pancake supperEpiscopal Church of the Messiah will host its

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. Plates are $4 for adults, $2 for children. All proceeds benefit our Community Outreach Programs. Contact Dee at State Farm In-surance for tickets.

Alumni baseball gameThe Gonzales Fighting Apaches baseball pro-

gram will have its annual Alumni Game at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 at T.E. Burrows Field.

For more information, please contact Gonzales head baseball coach Larry Wuthrich at 830-672-6641.

RFL team meetingsRelay For Life Committee will meet Monday,

February 13, at 5:15 p.m. at Abiding Word Luther-an Church. Any individual or business still wishing

to become a sponsor of Relay For Life 2012 or to volunteer to help should contact Event Chair Ar-line Rinehart (672-2077), Co-Chair Patty Stewart (672-7581), or Sponsorship Chair Jo Ann Low (437-5265) by February 13.

FOTL quilt raffleCome support the 2012 Friends of the Library

Fund Drive by purchasing a raffle ticket for a chance to win an Underground Railroad Quilt made by Earth Angels Quilters. This beautiful quilt was donated to the Friends of the Library by The Sesame Study Club. Tickets are available at the Li-brary for $1 each or 6 for $5. Drawing will be held Monday, March 5, 2012. The winner will be noti-fied.

Boots & Hearts BallThe Caldwell County Area Go-Texan Commitee

will host the Go-Texan Boots and Hearts Country Ball starting at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11 at the Luling Civic Center, 333 E. Austin St.

The event will feature a steak dinner, live auction and dance to help raise scholarship funds for local students.

Tickets are $30 per person or $350 for a table seating eight. Tickets are available at the Luling Foundation or at the Lockhart Auction. For details, call 512-964-3625.

Eastern Star luncheonCome For Lunch. Luling Chapter #155, Order

of the Eastern Star, Hardeman Masonic Lodge, 601 E. Fannin St., Luling, Texas, invites you to their Chicken Spaghetti Luncheon on Saturday, Febru-ary 11, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Chicken Spaghetti, Garlic Bread, Salad, Dessert, Tea, Coffee all for $5.00 per plate donation. We will also have a Bake Sale and Craft Table.

Valentine’s BalloonsThe Gonzales High School 2012 Prom Commit-

tee will be holding the annual Valentine Day Bal-loon Sale through February 9th. Balloons will be delivered on Valentine Day.

Balloons will be delivered to any business in the city limits, local schools, and day cares. Home deliv-ery is not available.

Order forms can be picked up at Gonzales County Senior Citizens @ 818 Seydler Street or from any Prom Committee member. Everyone is encouraged to order early.

If you have any questions… please contact Twila Huber, 857-4104, Keaton Smith, 857-3538, Tammy Zella, 203-0455, Misty Cook, 857-0272 or Kyndel Zella, 203-8854.

Love a LabThe Labrador Retriever is America’s No. 1 fam-

ily dog!We have so many GREAT Labs and Lab mixes at

the Gonzales Dog shelter, waiting for their forever homes.

These Labs have so much LOVE to give!Instead of the usual $80 adoption fee, you can

take one of these Labs home for only $50 during the whole month of February. All Labs are heart-worm negative, have all current vaccinations, and have been spay/neutered. WHAT A DEAL!!!

Why don’t you fill your life with a Lab AND LOVE?

*For more information, please contact Gon-zales Dog Adooptions @(830)445-9811/9279. Check out one of our great Labs at www.gonza-lesdog.org Also check our Facebook for more details

GLC donationsAs the holidays wind down, the Gonzales

Learning Center wants to let folks know that we’re collecting gently used Christmas orna-ments, 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 do-nations.

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 victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

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

Norma’s House is looking for loyal community partners like LULAC and the Elks Lodge to make the Annual Gala a suc-cessful fundraising event to benefit children in Gonzales, Lavaca and other surrounding counties.

Gonzales County LULAC has snatched up the first “Din-ner Sponsorship” at $250 and the Elks Lodge has generously donated the use of the lodge for the Rib Eye dinner, auction and dance on April 28.

Board members will be reaching out to members of the community to help with various phases of preparation: Dinner Sponsorships ($250 for each table of 8), Table Sponsors ($200 per table of 8), Live Auc-tion and Silent Auction item donations.

Norma’s House strives to improve child abuse investiga-tions while reducing harmful effects on children and fami-lies. With early intervention, the caring team of at Norma’s House helps break the cycle of abuse and cultivates each child’s chance of becoming a healthy adult. Support from the com-munity makes this happen.

“Every individual and orga-nization from the community who contributes to Norma’s House becomes a child’s hero” said Ann Alexander, Executive Director of Norma’s House. “And the Annual Gala offers a public venue to celebrate the community spirit of giving for a great cause.”

For more information about the Annual Gala call Ann Alex-ander or Judy Parks at Norma’s House, 830-672-1278, or go to http://www.normashouse.net.

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had been found near the scene of the origi-nal altercation, but police had not yet de-termined which of the men involved in the incident it might belong to. He said the police investigation was continuing and that more information may be forthcom-ing later this week.

Witnesses told The Cannon that the

men had been involved in an altercation earlier and they are believed to be part of one street gang which has an ongoing feud with another local gang.

Police are asking that any citizens with information concerning these activities contact them at 830-672-7100.

More details will be posted to this story on our website at www.gonzalescannon.com as they become available.

the citizens of Waelder.”Avangard Innovative

utilizes a state-of-the-art program called Natura that helps their clients reach their zero waste initiatives, while at the same time pro-viding a stream of raw mate-rial feedstock to process and market to their clients for their manufacturing pur-poses.

“Our system is going to be cleaner and better for the city,” Alavardo said. “No one is doing what we’re doing. This is going to be our pilot plant and Waelder will be our headquarters.”

In addition to bringing in a process that won’t pollute the air, the main asset by having Avangard come to town will be the creation of new jobs.

“We’re talking about start-ing off with maybe 15 or 20 people,” said Clyde Oatis, another company spokes-man. “We can grow this plant up to 60 people and run it 24/7, but we don’t be an annoyance to the people who live here or interrupt their quality of life.”

“As a minority who has ownership in this company, I can tell you we are keen are giving back to our people. I believe in paying a livable wage and not minimum wage. That’s what we’re set-ting out to do.”

The company will hold a Town Hall meeting at the Waelder Community Cen-

ter tonight from 7-9 p.m. to further introduce them-selves and answer any ques-tions from the community.

“We don’t want to come to a city where they don’t want us,” Alvarado said. “We don’t want to come to a city where we’re going to be opposed by the citizens.”

In another agenda item, the council appointed Avery Williams to be the interim city secretary. The appoint-ment was made necessary after the former city secre-tary Norma Puente resigned her post on Jan. 27 citing a lack of communication between her office, former Mayor Roy Tovar and two other unnamed council members.

“I am very thankful for the opportunity of being a part of the City of Waelder, but at this time I find it in my best interests to take my professional attributes else-

where,” Puente’s resignation letter read in part.

In other business, the council:

• Approved an ordinance allowing for an extension of time to pay utility bills. Citi-zens will be able to buy an extension for $15 with pay-ment due on the 3rd of the following month.

• Ordered the election of City officers to be held on May 12.

• Approved the addition of Avery Williams as an authorized signer for Lone Star Bank for City, Library, Waelder Community Cen-ter and Fire Department ac-counts.

• Authorized a payment of $600 to help fund the operations of the Gonzales County Mental Health Cen-ter.

• Agreed to reduce the number of reserve police of-ficers from eight to four.

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WAELDER: Company planningto open new center, bring jobs

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Baseball across the Big PondThe front page article of the Datteln Newspaper regarding the visit in the Dat-teln schools by Texas churches who have found baseball as a way to cement ties between congregations across the Atlantic. The pastor pictured this the article is Jonathan Smith of FBC La Grange. (Courtesy Photo)

partnership with Wende Punkt and her pastor Stefan Arhelger.

Over the eight days the three pastors where in Germany, they visited several schools and met over 1,000 kids inviting them to baseball camp this summer where many will be able to hear Bible stories for the very first time! The intent of the trip is not just teaching baseball, but rather to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with these kids, their parents, and their grand-par-ents.

This summer, from July 19-28, 10 team members from First Baptist Gonzales will travel to Datteln, Germany for what prom-

ises to be the first of many trips. Prayer-fully, in a few years, Wende Punkt Freie Gemeinde will travel to Gonzales and offer a soccer camp!

Why Datteln? Datteln is a city of 35,000 people where less than 2% of the people attend any kind of Christian fellowship. Though Gonzales is five times smaller, the number of people who attend a church on Sunday morning here is much greater than Datteln.

On the Sunday the “Texas Boys” visited and worshiped with Wende Punkt, one older genltemen desperately pleaded with God for spiritual awakening in their city. We too pray for this, not only in Datteln, Germany, but also in Gonzales.


CAMPS: Baseball helps Texas,German churches build bridge

“There are already laws on the books that cover this,” said John Russell, who told the Council that he is a registered sex offender who has obeyed the law strictly since his release. He asked the Council to reconsid-er, saying that it could possibly restrict his ability to stay employed.

“This is a feel-good law that isn’t going to save any children,” noted local property owner Mike Hanson. “Y’all are going to have to do the background checks yourself on all those oil field people (at the RV park at JB Wells Rodeo Arena).”

Hanson said that some sex offenders are what he termed “Romeo and Juliet” offend-ers — men who married underage girls — who are otherwise upstanding citizens, and the ordinance doesn’t differentiate between them and other offenders such as violent rapists.

City Manager Alan Barnes said the ordi-nance gives landlords the ability to insert provisions into lease agreements requiring prospective tenants to identify themselves if they are sex offenders, thus clearing the landlord of liability under the ordinance.

The Council also ordered the 2012 city election for May 12, and gave final ap-proval to the city’s single-member-district redistricting plan after Barnes reported it had received the required pre-clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Another speaker during the public-comment portion of the meeting asked the

council to review the conduct of the city’s beautification committee.

Roger Eberle said he had recomended using crepe myrtle trees for a beautifica-tion project at the Gonzales Public Library but had been informed the committee had rejected the proposal and called the crepe myrtle an “invasive” plant without provid-ing any explanation. He asked the city to require the committee’s meetings and votes be recorded.

In other action Tuesday, the concil ap-proved a number of resolutions authoriz-ing:

• use of Heroes’ Square by the Gonzales Master Gardeners on March 31 for their spring Fling Plant Sale;

• use of Confederate Square by Gonza-les Pawn Shop from 2-5:30 p.m. Feb. 18 for their Customer Appreciation Day;

• use of Confederate Square and adjacent streets by the Gonzales chamber of Com-merce April 28 for their Tailgate Trash & Treasure Sale and Old Jail Fun Run;

• use of Texas Heroes’ Square by the Chamber of Commerce March 1 for Texas Independence Day recognition ceremo-nies;

• adopting the city’s revised investment policy, authorizing the city manager to contract with the Texas Historical Com-mission’s Texas Main Street Program, and authorizing the city manager to approve the GBRA hazard mitigation plan which will qualify the city for FEMA disaster funding in advance of disasters.


CITY: Adult-business ordinancegets a revamp; election May 12

Pictured (from left) are: Tony Espinosa, Fund Development Committee Chairper-son for Norma’s House; Sharon Pirkle, President of the Board of Norma’s House; Ann Alexander, Executive Director of Norma’s House; Eddie Reyes, President of Gonzales Co. LULAC Council; Judy Parks, Family Advocate at Norma’s House; Glo-ria Hidalgo, Secretary of Gonzales Co. LULAC. (Courtesy photo)

Gonzales Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4817 will host the District 5 meeting Sunday, Feb. 12 at the post hall.

The “Fighting Fifth” is made up of VFW Posts and Ladies Auxiliaries from Dripping Springs, San Marcos, Gonzales, Wimberley, New Braun-fels, Schertz, Geronimo, Canyon Lake, Starzville, Lockhart, McQueeney and Kyle. The District Commander is Keith Foley and the District ladies Auxiliary presi-dent is Nelda Hackett.

Members and guests will be welcomed to Gonzales by Post Com-

mander Dick Kuenzler, Ladies Auxiliary presi-dent Linda Kuenzler and City Manager Al-len Barnes. The guest speaker from the local post will be Constable Ken Hedrick from Gon-zales.

The guest speaker for the VFW will be State Senior Vice Command-er Larry Velasquez from VFW Post 2397 in Cor-pus Christi.

Registration will be-gin at 8 a.m., with a join meeting scheduled 10-11:30 a.m. and a memo-rial service at 11:30, fol-lowed by lunch at noon. The local post will con-

duct a business meeting afterwards, while the la-dies Auxiliary will host its business meeting at the American Legion Hall, 1612 Robertson St.

Mitt Romney summoned all the righteous indignation he could muster after a Newt Gin-grich ad called him “anti-immi-grant.” Romney blasted the ad shortly afterward in an inter-view: “It’s just inappropriate.”

“Inappropriate.” For Rom-ney, that qualifies as a stinging rebuke. He also regretted in the strongest possible terms the Gingrich ad’s “terrible terms.” The Republican campaign now pits a man, in Newt Gingrich, expert at channeling and ex-pressing emotions against a man, Mitt Romney, who can’t or won’t.

“I have emotion and passion,” Romney said the other day, in an assurance an overtly emo-tional and passionate person would never have to make. In Gingrich, Romney is fighting fire with reticence. He is a throwback to a cultural archetype that lost its purchase in American culture decades ago. Mitt Romney is the last WASP, Mormon edition.

In his book “The Way of the WASP,” Richard Brookhiser summarized the main traits of the species as “Conscience,” “Industry,” “Success” and “Civic-mindedness.” All can be seen in Romney, the private-equity titan and Mormon bishop who served as the head of the Salt Lake City Olympics and once swept the floor of an aide’s garage when he had an idle moment. The same charges that were leveled at the long-ago, buttoned-up WASP establishment are now di-rected at Romney -- stiff, boring, inauthentic.

There is an inherent politeness to him. In-terrupted by a heckler in New Hampshire, he says she lacks “courtesy,” obviously an offense he takes seriously. Whenever he resorts to trash talk -- at one debate he promised to take Presi-dent Barack Obama’s attack on his wealth and “stuff it down his throat” -- it feels awkward. It is as if the Marquess of Queensberry briefly strayed into a mixed martial arts octagon.

It’s not that Romney won’t fight. His Super PAC filleted Gingrich in Iowa, and his cam-paign apparatus crushed the former House speaker in Florida. Yet, Romney himself has no relish for the task. In the first Florida de-bate, he worked early on to hit Gingrich with his entire opposition research file. Rushed and uncomfortable, he seemed to enjoy it as little as Gingrich did. When he got off the attack, he shifted back into his accustomed measured and unflappable mode.

Gingrich is unburdened by any inner guard-

rails. He loves combat. As a campaigner, he can be loud-mouthed, unscrupulous and angry. It’s a style that fits the public mood, and it has been validated through the decades in our culture. We’ve been taught to trust a let-it-all-hang-out spirit over an ethos of emo-tional restraint. It’s an irony of Romney’s candidacy that his genuine reserve is taken as con-

firmation of his inauthenticity.If Romney doesn’t wear his emotions on his

sleeve, he doesn’t wear his riches there, either. He seems uncomfortable with his own success, a classic WASP trait. When he says he makes no apologies for his wealth, he clearly would rather not be talking about his wealth at all.

If Romney seems alien, it’s not his Mormon-ism or bank account so much as his adherence to a code of conduct that was overthrown long ago, and now feels quaint and odd. His is the plight of the last WASP.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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In the event you were thinking Texas’ economic recovery is set in stone, thanks to the booming Ea-gle Ford Shale, you might want to reconsider. You forget how much the green-energy radicals in the Obama Administration hate the state.

The U.S. Interior Dept. has an-nounced plans to significantly downsize previous plans to de-velop oil shale in the Western U.S., sparking immediate outrage from politicians in Western states — and you can bet that action to limit Texas’ oil development won’t be far behind.

The Interior Dept. announced that it would investigate potential environmental effects of shale-oil and gas production on fed-eral lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming before letting energy companies start commercial op-erations. The region is believed to hold some 1.4 trillion barrels of oil — enough to meet U.S. do-mestic energy needs for the next

200 years.Ah, but don’t forget who’s in

charge these days. The Greenie types who infest the Obama Ad-ministration are frothing about fracking — claiming that the technology which allows shale-formation extraction corrupts aquifers, causes earthquakes and, worst of all, keeps us from devel-oping “clean energy alternatives.”

The Bureau of Land Manage-ment’s proposal would shut off approximately 75 percent of the region to development until the oil industry “demonstrates that commercial development is tech-

nically viable and environmen-tally safe.”

As you can imagine, it’s not a popular move in an economy where more than one person in 10 is looking for work.

“The Obama Administration has a plan to lock up U.S. energy resources and send jobs over-seas,” said U.S. Rep. Don Hast-ings, R-Wash., in a statement to the media. “This unfortunately is just one more example to add to the ever-growing list of Obama administration actions that block U.S. energy production.”

You’ll recall the same admin-istration, via the ill-named En-vironmental Protection Agency, has blocked oil production in West Texas because of a salaman-der. Don’t be surprised if the EPA doesn’t stick its unwanted nose into south-central Texas seeking to pro-tect some other unviable, unwant-ed species.

I wonder if the chupacabra has moved off the list of “mytholigical

beasts” and onto the “endangered species” list yet?

+++++In spite of the NFL’s best efforts

to put together a Super Bowl half-time show that was both free of controversy and still appealed to a wide “family” audience, it got nei-ther.

Here’s a hint, NFL Marketing and Promotions: what did you ex-pect?

By all accounts, Madonna’s half-time show was either very good (if you like Madonna) or a waste of time (if you like music). I won’t venture a personal opinion, since I hit the “MUTE” button and played a computer game during intermis-sion.

But if you happen to be the poor NFL clown who organized this year’s halftime show hoping against hope that nothing controversial would happen, and you’re cring-ing this morning as the video of rapper M.I.A. flipping off America goes viral, I’ll venture that you set

yourself up.You wanted wholesome family

entertainment, then you booked Madonna? Doh!

Madonna has never exactly qualified as “wholesome.” Fortu-nately, she didn’t suffer any ward-robe malfunctions Sunday.

Then you fill her supporting cast with rappers and hip-hoppers, all of them known for their vulgar-ity and lack of class. And you’re shocked?

We should be thanking our lucky stars that all we got was flipped off and that fellow rappers Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo didn’t demonstrate their wide command of the coarser aspects of the English language.

The NFL wants a family-friendly halftime show., but no one has ever accused show-business types of giving one whit about family fare.

The next Super Bowl is sched-uled for New Orleans. How about we let two college bands march around for 15 minutes and then get back to the game?

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Since the beginning of 19th century, oil and coal have determined how strong a nation is or isn’t. Unfortunately, in 2012, the greatest and most progressive na-tion the world has ever known is being starved of energy by its own leader, President Barack Obama.

Gas prices have dou-bled since Obama took office. According to the “GasBuddy”, a gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office.

Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa, Okla., the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, Calif. Four-dollar-a-gal-lon gas has arrived on average throughout Cal-ifornia, and a number of other states are headed in that direction.

Energy analysts are predicting even higher prices by summer.

As for the coal indus-try, in 2009 Obama’s EPA announced a set of “enhanced coordina-tion procedures” that the EPA said would strengthen the environ-mental review of pend-ing mining applications and help address a back-log of permit decisions. The procedures became

an impediment to the coal industry which eventually led to the state of West Virginia challenging Obama and the EPA.

In October 2011, a federal district judge ruled that the EPA un-lawfully tried to curb coal mining operations. The EPA exceeded its own authority begin-ning in June 2009 when it set up a new process for issuing clean water permits in an effort to protect mining com-munities from polluted water, according to a decision by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton. By doing so, it entangled permits necessary to Appalachian coal opera-tors, Walton said.

The reason for Obama’s antagonism toward oil and coal has several factors. First, Obama believes that America’s role as a glob-al power (liberals would say bully) is past, and we must share the earth and its resources with the

rest of world. Second, he has rabid environmen-talists on his side who believe “carbon-based” energy is destroying the earth.

Third, these same en-vironmentalists want Americans to stop being dependent on oil and coal, and start looking toward “clean energy.”

While these ideas are noble, they are not real-istic.

America needs oil and coal to keep its economy growing and strong. We also need this energy to defend ourselves from our enemies. Canada, a friend and neighbor, has lots of gas and was ready to share it with the U.S., but Obama choose to kill the deal.

Closer to home, Obama and his EPA have done everything possible to stop offshore drilling, and to scare people about fracking for gas in south Texas’ Eagle Ford.

Yes, we should look for new future fuels but we cannot and must not stop drilling and refin-ing oil, or mining for coal. America is and can be strong again but apparently not under Obama. Obama and his supporters have weak-ened America with a failed, liberal, and un-realistic energy policy. We should remember in November.

The Gonzales Healthcare Systems Founda-tion Board of Directors met for their January Board meeting which focused on the 2012 Digital Mammography project. The board was attended by eleven board members and Chief of Staff Dr. Commie Hisey. Board member Bill Tate, HEB Store Director, intro-duced his guest, Keith Maddox. Mr. Mad-dox is the new pharmacy manager and was pleased to have the opportunity to initiate a relationship with the hospital. A presentation was given by Dorothy Aupperle and Larry Jones from the USDA Rural Development of-fice concerning grant and loan opportunities to assist in the funding of the mammography equipment. Larry Jones is the Area Director serving in the Georgetown office and gave an endorsement to rural hospitals seeking progressive opportunities to improve quality healthcare in their communities. An addi-tional presentation was given by Chris Cor-netto, Marketing Director of So Clay Prod-ucts who disseminated the overview for the Come and Take It Bike Race. The downtown race will be held on March 31st and the road race at Cost on April 1st. So Clay has named the Hospital Foundation to be the beneficia-ry of the fundraiser. Chris encouraged the board to promote the activities of the race in order for the event to be enjoyed by the com-munity at large. The event hosts professional racers who will be attending from all across the United States as well as competitors from out of the country. The community is en-couraged to come out and bring their lawn chairs lining the course and cheer for the rac-ers. An estimated 400 cyclist are anticipated to be racing in the competition.

The board discussed the progress of the” Wall of Honor “and was informed the com-

munity has been overwhelmingly positive in supporting the ongoing focus for qual-ity healthcare in Gonzales. An unveiling of the “Wall of Honor” is being scheduled for the end of this month. The gala com-mittees were defined with board members named to serve as committee chairs. Each committee will then be developed with additional volunteers. The number serv-ing on committees for the gala is approxi-mately fifty (50) with meetings currently underway. The gala will be held on May 5th at the McClure-Braches house on the Johnson Ranch. A “True Women” theme is planned to support the women’s health focus of the digital mammography project. Tickets will become available for the event soon with supporting details and informa-tion.

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In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

George SzellI think it is high time we adopted a new

national anthem. I do.Now you’re probably giving thought,

“Why, only a liberal bleeding heart could suggest such a thing.”

I am not a bleeding heart. I am not!It’s just that I feel the “Star Spangled Ban-

ner” in this day and age and stage and phase is about as representative of the American spirit as a hot dog topped with chow mien.

Also, the words and music don’t muster a meter and movement conducive to the masses.

That is, for non-musical types. The tin-ears and tone deaf toe-tappers. Which I qualify membership for.

And what about the celebrity musical pulpy and tacky idjits? How many singers at prominent stagings have forgotten the words since Robert Goulet butchered it up prior to a Cassius Clay (he wasn’t known as Ali at the time) fight? Too numerous to recall.

What about Rosanne Barr’s crotch-grab-bing rendition at a San Diego Padres game? Where she had a sound like a dying cat with its tail caught in a rocking chair. And now she has the audacity to say she’s a candidate for president.

Oh, I shouldn’t have mentioned politics.

‘Cause when Hillary Clinton was on the campaign trail some years back she found herself in Iowa. And she failed to realize her mic was on during the “Star Spangled Ban-ner.” What was recorded for all ears to hear was a lazy, off-key, half-hearted performance that left her blushing for whatever length of time Hillary is capable of. A great American. Indeed.

Yes indeedy. For those with a musical bent and those without, the national anthem is a bugger to sing.

I think probably the only man that ever knew all the words to the song is Francis Scott Key. That’s only because he wrote it.

And the only thing harder to remember than the words to the tune is the name of the last Vice-President.

Reason I got to contemplating about changing America’s tune was the opening

pomp and circumstance of the Super Bowl this past Sunday that numbered No. 46.

Now Kelly Clarkson did an admirable and beautiful job on the “Star Spangled Banner.” Of course she’s a native Texan and that makes her a Great American.

But all-in-all, the best way most Ameri-cans can show respect for the “Star Spangled Banner” is by not trying to sing it.

Minutes prior to Clarkson’s performance the country-western duo of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert started off the musical festivity of the night with “America the Beau-tiful.” And indeed it is. The country and the song. They did it right. Even though they’re man and wife.

Now Kate Smith is the one most of us identify “America the Beautiful” with.

Why swap out the tunes to be classified as our national anthem? The words speak for themselves. I deem.

Rather than “And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,” and “…that the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more …” and “From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave …”

Imagine, instead: “O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties

“Above the fruited plain! …“God shed His grace on thee

“And crowned thy good with brotherhood “From sea to shining sea!”Spawns a joyous tear to a glass eye. I guar-

antee.It’s my belief that the “Star Spangled Ban-

ner” pulsates with visions of war. Albeit, it gives us pride in the stars and stripes and the red, white and blue. It was written un-der duress of a battle in defense for Fort McHenry.

But “America the Beautiful” resonates with a pastoral tone. And God is mentioned in just about every verse. And that is grander than grand.

The verses, written by Katharine Lee Bates, are blessed with a gentleness not seen in the high-pitched national anthem.

Consider the last stanza of “America the Beautiful.”

It goes:“O beautiful for patriot dream“That sees beyond the years“Thine alabaster cities gleam“Undimmed by human tears!“America! America!“God shed His grace on thee“Till nobler men keep once again“Thy whiter jubilee!”It’s a tune I’ll hum often as I envision the

Good Lord shedding His grace on thee and crowning thy good with brotherhood … down the road.

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eryone for an extra favor. We desperately need your help.

We had to take over quite a lot of dogs from a hoard-ing situation next week. The owner is a senior lady who just couldn’t stop collecting dogs, especially small breeds. She has about 20 dogs---she had much more, but some of them were killed from fight-ing each other.

All these dogs have been living in a small house with-out being housebroken, and her house has been extremely poor condition. The current condition is not only harmful to the dogs’ health, but also very dangerous to humans.

Last week, her husband

who had been a primary care-taker for these dogs, had to go to the emergency room, and has been hospitalized since. Now she simply has no choice but to let her dogs go, and we were asked to take them over ASAP.

Since our shelter is the mu-nicipal shelter in Gonzales, we have no choice but to take any owner-surrendered dogs within the ctiy limits at any-time. Even though, most of her dogs are small breeds, our shelter just doesn’t have the capacity to take over 10 dogs at the same time, and we des-perately need some help.

Most of their dogs seemed like they were fed well. How-ever none of them had been properly vaccinated, and

some are not so socialized. Only way we can make rooms for these dogs is that we have to relocate some of our adopt-able dogs. Most of our current shelter dogs are heartworm negative, have been fully vac-cinated, and have been spay/neutered.

If there is even one single space at your home to intake any of our dogs (we currently have a lot of small/smaller-med sized dogs and litter of pups), please let us know. We’re more than happy to transfer ASAP.

Thank you for your kindly consideration.

Keiko McCormickDirectorGonzales Dog Adoptions

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Connie Kacir is the Executive Director of Gonzales Healthcare Systems Founda-tion.

Greetings in the name of the Lord! I pray that you are all well and blessed, lets finish up on some aspects of sowing and reaping. Let’s turn to the Scrip-tures and see what we find.

Last time we examined tith-ing. An offering is over and above your tithe, it is a free will gift to God and the work of the church. As I pointed out last week, you can’t give an offering until you pay your tithe. Offerings are a step be-yond the trust we place in God when we tithe. Here are some vital principles we must know about sowing a free will offer-ing.

First it must be done out of love. John 3:16a- “For God so loved the world, that He GAVE His only begotten Son...” God gave because He loves us; therefore we ought to reciprocate because we love Him.

Next the amount we sow determines the amount we reap. Paul wrote in 2 Corin-thians 9:6 “Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” Just as in agricul-ture the more you plant the more you harvest. Jesus called it “measure.”

Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure--pressed down, shaken to-gether, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.” So my question to you is, “What are you measuring with?”

God multiplies what we

measure out to give. So are you using a teaspoon or a #8 corn scoop?

Next principle is our atti-tude. 2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each one must do just as he has pur-posed in his heart, not grudg-ingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

There are several things we need to see here. First is what do you feel in your heart that you should give. Remember what God gave and remember your love for Him as you pray about what He would have you give.

Next is “not grudgingly”, this means if you have a prob-lem or a bad attitude about it, keep it. God doesn’t want an offering that you don’t want to give, and I can assure you He won’t bless it.

Next is “under compul-sion”, which means being pressured into giving by someone. Today in many churches and especially on TV ministries they try to pressure you into giving. They try to make people feel guilty or they show images of downcast people or starv-ing children to prod them into giving. Give only into that which God puts on your heart to give into. We can’t possibly give into every cause we see or hear.

I personally sow into min-istries that directly affect my walk with Christ, these I have researched and know that they are fertile ground in which I sow seed. They have little “red tape” to go through so the majority of the seed will reach the need.

Finally, “God loves a cheerful giver.” Once again it comes back to love, and I’ve got to tell you as much as I enjoy worship and the Word my favorite part of any service is when I give. Give to God with a heart of love cheerfully and it is worship. Yes I said worship, and this worship produces joy and provision.

Finally I leave you with this passage, 2 Corinthians 9:8-11, “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; 9 as it is written, “HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE POOR, HIS RIGH-TEOUSNESS ENDURES FOREVER.” 10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will sup-ply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteous-ness; 11 you will be enriched in everything for all liberal-ity, which through us is pro-ducing thanksgiving to God.”

Friends it is ALL His any-way, He gives us seed and bread. So if we will give back He is obligated to multiply it back to us.

Be blessed, Amen.

Guidelines for sowing and reapingUnder His Wings

Patrick Whitehead


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Veterans can now have status noted on licensesTexas veterans can now Tinclude the des-

ignation “VETERAN” on the face of any class or type of Texas driver license issued to a Veteran in compliance with Section 521.1235 of the Texas Transportation Code.

A veteran is defined as anyone who has served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Marine Corps of the United States; served in the Texas National Guard

as defined by Section 431.001, Government Code, which includes veterans who served in the Texas Army and Air National Guard but does not include individuals who have served in the Texas State Guard only; and been honorably discharged from the branch of service in which the person served.

Veterans who are not United States citi-zens but served and received an honorable discharge from one of the services listed above are eligible to receive the “VETERAN”

designation on their Texas driver license upon request.

The “Veteran” designation is not available on a Texas identification card at this time.

To be eligible for the Veteran designa-tion to be placed on their driver license, the Veteran must present a DD-214 or DD-215 (corrected copy of DD-214), signifying they received an honorable discharge orgen-eral (under honorable conditions) from the branch of service in which the person served.

The Veteran will visit a driver license office and initiate the request to have the Veteran designation placed on their driver license.

Upon the initial request, the veteran will provide military documents (DD-214, DD-215) signifying they received an honorable discharge. Once the Veteran status has been recorded in DLS, military documents will not be required to maintain the veteran designation on subsequent transactions.

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HOUSTON — Lucas Energy, Inc., an indepen-dent oil and gas company, on Wednesday announced that the Company has com-pleted the Hagen Ranch No.4H well in Gonzales County, as a flowing hori-zontal oil well in the Austin Chalk formation.

The official 24 hour test that will be reported to the regulatory agency is 475 BOPD (barrels of oil per day, 232 MCFPD (thou-sands of cubic feet) of gas,

and 103 BWPD (barrels of water per day - load water or drilling water, not for-mation water) with 419 psig (pounds per square inch) of FTP (flowing tub-ing pressure) on a 20/64” choke. Lucas has approxi-mately a 25% working in-terest in this well.

Further testing indicated that the well is capable of producing 846 BOPD, 422 MCFPD, and 264 BLWPD (load water) at 283 psig FTP on a 36/64” choke. This choke size is slightly greater than a 1/2” pipe,

or approximately 60% of the full opening choke size. Indications are that the Ha-gen Ranch No.4H well may have a greater capacity cur-ing the initial production period.

Future production rates will be determined by technical information, safety, tank capacity, and other factors.

At some time in the fu-ture, the well may be put on artificial lift. Specifi-cally a pumping unit may be added.

William A. Sawyer, President and Chief Ex-ecutive Officer of the Company, said, “The drilling and comple-tion of the Hagen Ranch No.4H well opens a new chapter in the company history book.” For more information on this and other activities of the Company, visit the Lucas Energy web site at www.lucasenergy.com.

Gonzales Livestock Market Report

The Gonzales Livestock Mar-ket Report for Saturday, February 4, 2012 had on hand: 469 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady to $2-$3 higher. Packer cows sold $1-$2 higher.

Stocker-feeder steers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $210-$240; 300-400 lbs, $205-$220; 400-500 lbs, $190-$200; 500-600 lbs, $154-$180; 600-700 lbs., $138-$150; 700-800 lbs., $131-$144.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $108-$135.

Stocker-feeder heifers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $175-$195; 300-400 lbs, $175-$180; 400-500 lbs, $160-$175; 500-600 lbs., $147-$155; 600-700 lbs., $134-$145.

Packers cows: Good lean utili-ty and commercial, $54-$64; Cut-ters, $72-$83; Canners, $48-$61; Low yielding fat cows, $66-$74.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $89-$93; light weights and medium quality bulls, $74-$83.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,150.Pairs: $975-$1,275.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.

com!

Nixon Livestock Commission Report

The Nixon Livestock Commis-sion Inc. report had on hand, February 6, 2012, Volume, 240.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $181 to $191 to $230; 300-400 lbs., $185 to $195 to $245; 400-500 lbs, $167 to $177 to $205; 500-600 lbs, $150 to $160 to $185; 600-700 lbs, $126 to $136 to $162; 700-800 lbs, $145.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $162 to $172 to $225; 300-400 lbs, $159 to $169 to $230; 400-500 lbs, $157 to $167 to $195; 500-600 lbs, $134 to $144 to $158; 600-700 lbs, $145; 700-800 lbs, $111.

Slaughter cows: $65 to $75 to $85; Slaughter bulls: $73 to $83 to $94; Stocker cows: $900 to $1,084; Pairs, $1,040-$1,050.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission Report

The Hallettsville Livestock

Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on January 31, 2012, 1,155; Week ago, 1,461; Year Ago, 1,145.

Calves and yearlings sold higher again this week. Demand continues to be very strong in all areas.

Packer cows and bulls sold $3 higher on approx. 190 hd. total.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $65-$86.50; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $50-$65; light weight can-ner cows, $36-$50.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $83-$97; utility & cutter bulls, $70-$83; lightweight can-ner bulls, $64-$70.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200 lbs, $185-$240; 200-300 lbs, $180-$245; 300-400 lbs, $178-$228; 400-500 lbs, $168-$205; 500-600lbs, $145-$190; 600-700 lbs, $140-$175; 700-800 lbs, $136-$150. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $175-$225; 200-300 lbs, $168-$220; 300-400 lbs, $165-$212.50; 400-500 lbs, $153-$192; 500-600 lbs, $138-$170; 600-700 lbs, $128-$151; 700-800 lbs, $110-$128. No. 2 & 3 Steer & Bull Calves: 200-300 lbs, $120-$180; 300-400 lbs, $118-$176; 400-500 lbs, $115-$166; 500-600 lbs, $112-$145; 600-700 lbs, $100-$138. No. 2 & 3 Heifer Calves: 200-300 lbs, $115-$165; 300-400 lbs, $115-$162; 400-500 lbs, $112-$150; 500-600 lbs, $110-$140; 600-700 lbs, $98-$127.

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

Cuero Livestock Market Report

Cuero Livestock Market Re-port on February 3, 2012, had 985 head.

Had 141 cows and 17 bulls. Bulls were steady. Cows sold to a strong demand. Calves were much stronger as much as $5-10/cwt.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $88-$96; lower grades, $60-$85.

Packer cows: boning cows, $79-$83; cutters mainly, $65-$83; fat cows, $75-$80.

Dry cows, $54-$86. Palpated cows: $69-$114.Pairs: $820-$1,090.The calf market was very ac-

tive. Higher on the choice.Steer Calves: 200-250 lbs,

$23150-$235; 250-300 lbs, $215-$245; 300-350 lbs, $185-$225; 350-400 lbs, $150-$210; 400-450 lbs, $175-$225; 450-500 lbs, $132-$195; 500-550 lbs, $130-$190.

Bulls: 500-600 lbs, $139-$179. Heifer Calves: 200-250 lbs,

$195-$205; 250-300 lbs, $146-$185; 300-350 lbs, $129-$215; 350-400 lbs, $133-$170; 400-450 lbs, $133-$185; 450-500 lbs, $127-$175; 500-600 lbs, $80-$141.

Over 700 lb steers, $128-$152; bulls, 496-$130; heifers, $63-$124.


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Area Livestock Reports

Gonzales County Deeds

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The 2011 Chamber Ban-quet is history now, but it was a good time.

The food was good, the auction was very successful and we appreciate all the do-nated items and those who purchased them. We thank everyone who helped in any way with the event.

Our Visitor Center had 4,591 visitors in 2011, with 4,021 of these from within the state of Texas and 507 from other states and coun-tries. Among the countries represented were Austria, Germany, the Cayman Is-lands, Spain, Mexico, Great Britain, France, and Italy.

Many of the states are represented, too, since

there are so many RV’ers now and so many Winter Texans. They come from places like North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wis-consin, Iowa, Kansas, Mon-tana, Idaho, Colorado and others.

The work on St. George has started, so you might

have to park on the square and walk to the businesses on St. George. The work will take awhile, but don’t get discouraged; it’ll be over soon and worth the wait.

Logan Insurance looks a bit different since they took the awning down, but never fear, it’ll be recognizable again soon as there will be a brand new awning in place.

The Community Com-mittee will meet on Wednes-day at the chamber office.

South Texas Tour Team Roping will be at the J. B. Wells Park on Thursday. Junior and High School Rodeo will be there on Sat-urday and Sunday.

Barbara Hand is the Execu-tive Director of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce.

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Gonzales County Courthouse Deeds

January 1-3121st Mortgage Corporation to

Wyman, Dean, w/d, Pt. Lts 1-5, Blk. 6, F C Reid’s Addn, Gonzales.

Rhodes, Kevin and Rhodes, Lori A. to Yates, Christopher and Yates, Tiffany, w/d, 1.19 Acres (Lt. 4 & Pt. lt. 3, Blk. 9) Glover’s Addn, Smiley.

Fernandez, Lillian Marie to Shelton, Joshua David and Shelton, Heather D., w/d, 1.444 Acres Pt. Lt. 4, RG 1) Orig. Outer Town Gonza-les.

Quick, Jon B to Elizondo, Hector and Monslave, Claudia, w/d, 3.50 Acres, Robert Kelly Svy.

Commissioner of the General Land Office State of Texas and Texas, State of to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 5.96 Acres, John Florence A-213, Robert S. Armstead A-87 & Wade Horton A-257 Svys.

Fielder, Patricia G. (Trustee) and TGF & TC, DST to City of Gonza-les and Gonzales, City of, w/d, 3.717 Acres (Pt. Lt. 11, RG 2) Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Fannie Mae (AKA) Federal Na-tional Mortgage Association to Rine-hart, William F. and Rinehart, Irene L., w/d, 0.201 Acres (Pt. Lt. 12, Tier 2) Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Camarillo, Bernice, Ramos, Irene Marie and Casares, Alethia Destiney to Ramirez, Maria Juana, w/d, Pt. Lt. 6, Blk. 3, King’s 8th Addn, Gonza-les.

Richardson, William H. to Ro-dell, Jeffery and Rodell, Susan, w/d,

19.263 Acres, Andrew Winters Svy, A-471.

Gescheidle, Malcolm L. and Stobaugh, Nancy (Atty-In-Fact) to Boehm, James W., w/d, 0.073 of an Acre, Sarah Seeley A-60 & Jonathan Cottle A-10 Svys.

Gregory, Annette Kay, Norris, Robert H., Norris, Lawrence E., Norris, Danny K., Brown, Mable D., Norris, David R., Norris, James L. and Norris, Donnell K. to Norris Jr., Lawrence and Randle-Norris, Vernell, w/d, Lts. 7-8, Blk. 52, Waelder.

Orsak, Bonnie Dernehl to Dia-mond M Drilling & Exploration Co., o/l, 259.749 Acres, Samuel MCCoy Svy, A-340.

Garcia, Maria Borjas to Ford, Don and Ford, Nancy, o/l, 12.34 Acres, Andrew Zumwalt Svy, A-503.

Campion, Rickey L. and Cam-pion, Janie to Ford, Nancy and Ford, Nancy, o/l, 5.37 Acres (Pt. Lts. 13-15, RG 11) Orig. Outer Town Gon-zales.

Cornette, Robert and Cornett, Twila to Ford, Don and Ford, Nan-cy, o/l, 0.407 of an Acre (Pt. Lt. 15, RG 12) Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

G&S Racing Transport, Inc to GS Ranch Hands, L.L.C., w/d, 205.402 Acres, John R King A-308 & Ygnacio Berrera A-124 Svys.

Harvey, Morris L. and Harvey, Pamela S. to Schoenfield, Kenneth, w/d, Pt. Lts. 5-6, Blk. 7, Nixon.

CATI Properties, LTD. to Put-nam Avenue Properties, Inc., w/d, 1.89 Acres (Lts. 3-4 & Pt. Lts 1, 2,

5 & 6, Blk. 17) Orig. Inner Town Gonzales.

Brown, Gary to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dil-lard Svy, A-177.

Cole, Weldon to EOG Resourc-es, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

McCulloh, Richard to EOG Re-sources, Inc., o/l, 0.75 of an Acre, James Billings Svy, A-128.

Goodspeed, Clifford and Good-speed, Hannelore to Buck, Albert W., and Buck, Lynda J., w/d, Lts. 19-20, Guadalupe Hills Ranch Sub-dvn, Gonzales & Guadalupe Coun-ties.

Have A Rich Life, LLC to Sut-ton, Gary A., and Sutton, Robin Lee, w/d, 4.816 Acres, Juan Jose Tejada Svy, A-448.



Assumed NamesLittlefield, H.T. – Circle L Ranch-

es, Leesville.Littlefield, H.T. – L & P Enter-

prises, Leesville.Veselka, Bobby – Bobby Veselka

Trucking, Waelder.Stevens, Justin and Gordon, Brett

– S & G Services, Nixon.Jan, Ahmed and Ali, Barkat –

Gonzales Quick Stop, Gonzales.

GVTC equipment building installedAn important step is in place necessary to extend GVTC’s fiber network into Gonzales. A large crane recently placed a specialized building, brought in from Georgia, to its permanent home at 2103 St. Andrews St. The 12’ x 28’ building will house the remote head-end equipment that will transmit video, dial-tone and broadband, via GVTC’s fiber network, to its Gonzales customers. Once the head-end is in place, crews will begin running fiber line throughout Gonzales. GVTC is on track to begin providing customers service by summer 2012. (Photo by Mark Lube)

AUSTIN — Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples announced Monday the Texas Department of Agriculture is awarding more than $8.5 million to agencies that serve meals to homebound elderly and disabled Texans. The grants are provided through TDA’s Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meal Grant Program.

“Home-delivered meals are critical to the health and well-being of fellow Texans who would go hungry without this food,” Commissioner Staples said. “This funding will allow meal providers to continue their mission of fighting hunger in Texas, and I am proud to support such an honorable and necessary initiative.”

The Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meal Grant Program was created during the 80th Legislative Session in 2007 to give supplemental funding to home-delivered meal providers. The grants, based partly on the number of meals served by eligible applicants the year prior to applying, can only be used to supplement and expand

existing services related to the delivery of meals.

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston is receiving more than $1.5 million.

“The TDA funds are truly a lifesaver,” said Elliot Gershenson, president and CEO of Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston. “By leveraging TDA funds with other government and private funding, IM has increased the number of seniors served from about 3,000 clients to

well over 4,500 each weekday. It is a privilege to help keep so many seniors in their own homes, and a sacred duty that we are proud to share with the Texas Department of Agriculture.”

“By providing food to elderly residents in their own homes, we help maintain their independence, which saves Texans more than $37,000 in tax dollars annually per individual served,” Commissioner Staples said.

AUSTIN — United American Petroleum Corp. announced this week it completed a workover on its Marcee well located in Gonzales County, which consists of 112 lease acres. The well is now back online and producing. During the workover, the well was pulled and washed out to a total depth of 8,720 feet and approximately 90 barrels of oil were recovered throughout that process.

At present, United is pumping back ap-proximately 800 barrelks of water and 100 barrelsof spent acid, which was pumped into the well during the acid job. This procedure is going extremely well and we anticipate this well to add relevant cash flow to the Company’s operations. United is currently evaluating daily production

of the well, and once the well is stabilized the Company estimates production to be approximately 8-10 BOPD. United owns 100% working interest in this well and ex-pects its production to increase the Com-pany’s overall revenue stream. Additional information regarding the Marcee well will be forthcoming as this well stabilizes and oil flow is monitored over the course of the next month.

For additional information regarding the Company’s operations, projects, man-agement team and other valuable informa-tion, please visit the Company’s web site at www.unitedamericanpetroleum.com . To be placed on the Company’s master email list and receive future press releases, progress reports and developments, please send an email to [email protected] or contact the Company at +1 855-PETROL-1.


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Everything Has To Go

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St. Joseph Food Mart (Texaco) on St. Joseph Street held a third chance lottery drawing Friday, Feb. 3. Winners of the drawing (top photo) were Edna Falany, Pat Baustita and Sherry Tate each winning $100. Pictured are Bob and Edna Fa-lany, Pat Baustita, Jessica and son Cameron Benavides, Christina Ruiz and Amir, owner. Not pictured is Sherry Tate. The Lottery Wheel out of Austin was at Texaco with many customers enjoying their chance to spin the wheel to win many differ-ent prizes. (Photos by Debbie Toliver)

‘Third chance’ winners

Little League donationKen Holt of San Antonio Water Systems presented a check to the Gonzales Little League to help buy banners for the organization. Accepting the check for GLL are Mary Lou Holub and Lori Luensmann. (Photo by Mark Lube)

UAP completes workover onMarcee Well in Gonzales Co.

State awards grants to agenciesproving meals to the elderlyCannon News Services

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Applications are now being accepted for the GVEC Scholarship program for graduat-ing high school seniors planning to continue their education.

Last year, the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC) awarded a total of $37,500 to 15 outstanding students across the GVEC service territory.

Scholarship recipients are selected based on a combination of criteria including scho-lastic achievement, extracurricular activities, community service and ambition to further their education. To be considered, students must submit a resume, high school transcript and a GVEC Scholarship Application, avail-able online at www.gvec.org or at any GVEC area office. Area school counselors also have applications.

“We want students to have the opportunity to reach their full potential, which is some-thing we can help them accomplish through

the GVEC Scholarship program,” said GVEC General Manager and CEO Darren Schauer. “We are proud to reward our area’s students for their hard work as well as their commit-ment to higher education.”

To be eligible for a scholarship, the stu-dent’s parents or primary guardian must have an active GVEC electric account. The stu-dent must also be a 2012 high school gradu-ate able to meet admission requirements of the university or trade school selected.

For more information about GVEC Schol-arships, visit www.gvec.org. GVEC must re-ceive applications by March 1, 2012.

GVEC is an electric cooperative that serves over 68,000 meters across 13 Texas counties. The service area spans 3,500 square miles across South Central Texas. The headquar-ters is located in Gonzales, Texas with four area offices in the cities of Schertz, Seguin, La Vernia and Cuero.

SMITHSON VALLEY— To help stu-dents pay for the high cost of a college education, The GVTC Foundation is sig-nificantly increasing its Ola Armstrong Scholarship to $10,000. The Armstrong scholarship was first awarded in May 2011, to Kate Murphy of Smithson Valley High School, in the amount of $3,000. Ms Mur-phy is currently attending Tarleton State University.

A recent $250,000 endowment from GVTC and generous support from GVTC employees, has put the Foundation in a po-sition to considerably boost the amount of the Armstrong scholarship

“Increasing the Ola Armstrong scholar-ship to $10,000 will really make a difference in a young adult’s life as they overcome many challenges earning their college de-gree,” Paula White, The GVTC Founda-

tion board president, said. “Enhancing our scholarship like this further demonstrates the Foundation is committed to support-ing education and fulfilling our mission of enriching the lives of those who live in our service area.”

The Armstrong scholarship is awarded to a public or private high school student who lives within the GVTC service area. The recipient is selected by The GVTC Foundation board of directors for best ex-emplifying characteristics of community involvement through volunteerism and similar activities. The scholarship was es-tablished in honor of Ola Armstrong, who served as a Foundation board member and president for several years. The application deadline is March 16, 2012. Compete de-tails and a scholarship application is avail-able at www.gvtcfoundation.com.

Endowment helps GVTC raiseArmstrong scholarship award

GVEC accepting applicationsfor annual scholarship award

Gerald Allan “Jerry” Gorden, 1947-2012

GORDENGerald Allan “Jerry”

Gorden, 64, of Gonzales, passed away Sunday, Feb. 5. Jerry was born Dec. 7, 1947 in Gonzales to Marshall and Milda Knetig Gorden.

Jerry graduated from Gonzales High School with the Class of 1966. He attended college before going to work in Hous-ton for short period. Jerry moved back to Gonzales and worked for his father at Gorden Auto Parts. Af-ter his father passed away in 1985, Jerry took over as manager of Gorden Auto Parts.

Jerry had been active in his community; he had been a volunteer EMT, a member of the Noon Li-on’s Club, the Elks’ Lodge B.P.O.E., and had presently been serving as a director on the board of the Gonza-les Community Healthcare Center.

Jerry was a popular en-tertainer as a Gonzales “Bop and Bash” perform-er, where he dressed and played to the songs and performances of Jerry Lee Lewis and a fan favorite, Johnny Cash.

Jerry loved NASCAR and therein liked Chev-rolet, and Jeff Gordon. He enjoyed watching Bill O’Reilly and the “Factor,” listening to Rush Lim-baugh and baiting those with opposing views of his conservative nature.

Jerry enjoyed leisurely rounds of golf and com-petitive games of bowling, and it was on Lane 5 of the Luling bowling alley that Jerry first told his then-girlfriend Sandra that he loved her, a memory San-dra will forever hold dear.

Jerry was silly, funny, a ham and he loved, loved, loved his family. He was an amazing daddy; he was a very supportive father, loving his children uncon-ditionally. He played an active role in his children’s lives, coaching little league baseball teams, football teams, taking them fishing and hunting with his son, Bryan, just to spend pre-cious time with him. He played a big part in raising his step-son Kevin, provid-ing support, conversation and protection as teenage boys sometimes need from their less then understand-ing mothers.

He adored his grandchil-dren and his grandchildren cherished moments with their G-G. Jerry followed a simple principal on family, “family is being together, celebrating often, creating happiness and loving with-out limits.”

Gerald Allan Gorden is survived by his devoted wife, Sandra Baron Gor-den of Cost; mother, Mil-da Gorden of Gonzales; daughters, Trista Lee Fu-gate and husband Charles of Kyle, Sunny Lynn Gor-den Lehnert and husband Todd of Roundrock; sons, Bryan Kelly Gorden and wife Pamela of New Braun-fels, Kevin Baron DuBose and wife Angela of Cost; sister, Marsha Gail Helms (Mitchell) of Gonzales; brother, James Gorden (Rebecca) of Houston; and grandchildren, Harrison Fugate, Bella DuBose, Abi-

gail Lynn Gorden, Reese Gorden, Baron DuBose and Lindsey Lehnert.

He had been preceded in death by his father.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8 in the First United Methodist Church with Pastor Andy Smith officiat-ing. Interment followed in Gonzales Memorial Park.

Pallbearers included: Gordon Hensley, Travis Schumann, Ronnie Pick, Happy Schieberle, Chris Shuler and Gene Adams. Honorary pallbearers in-clude the 10 O’clock Coffee Drinkers. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or the First United Methodist Church. Services were under the care and direction of Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home.

James Fred Brunkenhoefer,

1932-2012BRUNKENHOEFER

James Fred Brunken-hoefer, 80, of Gonzales, passed away Saturday, Feb. 4. James was born Janu-ary 14, 1932 in Shiner to Fred and Frances Heinzel Brunkenhoefer.

He married Kennon Pa-tricia Barnick on July 25, 1953 in St. James Catholic Church in Gonzales. James was a member of St. James Catholic Church and had honorably served in the Texas National Guard for 32 years retiring as a Ser-geant First Class.

James was not afraid of hard work, as young man he spent long days pick-ing cotton in the fields. At the age of seventeen, he worked under an older gentleman learning to be-come a paint contractor, and he later established Brunkenhoefer Paint Con-tracting Company.

Through the years enu-merable local homes and businesses had been pro-fessionally painted by James and his company. James and his father built the home that he and his wife live in today, a testa-ment to his many talents.

His massive hands were seldom idle. If James wasn’t working, then he was play-ing rhythm guitar for bands like the Texas Hired Hands or the Pilgrim Heirs. He played because he loved the music and loved to play guitar. One noted local mu-sician, Robert Remschel, stated that James “was a very good rhythm guitar-ist.” His wife Kennon must have thought so as well, she was smitten with James after meeting him at the Kokernot Grove dance hall, where he had been playing in a band.

James was an awesome father to his children, very patient and kind. His chil-dren never wanted for anything, except for a few more blessed years with their father. James adored his grandchildren. He loved watching his grand-son, who he proudly re-ferred to as “The Dude,” play baseball for Halletts-ville High School and the University of Kerrville and he cherished spending time with his beautiful grand-daughter, he lovingly called “Poopsie.”

James Fred Brunken-hoefer is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Kennon Brunkenhoefer of Gonzales; his adoring daughter, Patti Denise Cas-tellow of Hallettsville; a devoted son, Russell James Brunkenhoefer of Gon-zales; sister and brother-in-law, Ruth Marie and Eugene Koncaba of Flato-nia; brother and sister-in-law, Elton Joe and Mary Brunkenhoefer of Hous-ton; and grandchildren, Colton James Hermes and Carley Jo Hermes, both of Kerrville. He was preced-ed in death by his parents; son-in-law, Ronald Castel-low; and a nephew, Grego-ry Koncaba.

A rosary was recited at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5 in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6 in St. James Catholic Church in Gonzales with Fr. Paul Raaz as celebrant. Interment followed in St. James Cemetery.

Pallbearers included: Ray Irle, Ronnie Koncaba, Freddy Frazier, Brent Bar-nick, Jimmie Barnick and Lloyd Brunner. Memorials may be made to the Parish Bereavement Fund, Odys-sey Hospice in San Mar-cos or the charity of one’s choice.

The family received friends from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. Services were under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales.

Mariella Agnes Frederick, 1925-2011

FREDERICKMariella Agnes Fred-

erick, 87, of Gonzales, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 1. She was born Jan-uary 14, 1925 in the Stie-ren Community in Gon-zales County to Frank and Agnes Gast Kunts-chik.

Mariella married Har-rell Lafayette Frederick on October 18, 1947 in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in San Antonio. Though she worked pri-marily as a homemaker in the early days raising her family, Mariella had also worked at H.E.B. until she retired in 1990 and then she continued caring for others’ needs as a nurses’ aid with Care-Inn and Cartwheel Lodge nursing homes.

She had been a mem-ber of St. James Catho-lic Church, and the St. James Altar Society. She taught Catechism for the children of St. James and was a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, the Catholic War Vets and had served with the Catholic Daughters.

Mariella worked faith-fully by her husband’s side, raising poultry, managing the annual large garden she would have laden with pro-duce for canning of se-lect vegetables, and of primary importance to her was maintaining her commitment in tending to the needs of her fam-ily. She was a wonderful cook and her sweet po-tatoes, dressing, green

grape pie and that deli-cious fried chicken fresh from the chicken house that only she could pre-pare are just a few of the dishes that will linger forever in the memory of her family.

Mariella was many things to her family. She was the family activity coordinator, where she directed arts and craft projects, planned activi-ties for her grandchil-dren and would play with them for hours. She was a building project man-ager; her keen under-standing of mathematics enabled her to guide her children and grandchil-dren in the building of most anything.

She was the household business administra-tor, keeping immacu-late records of everyday household expenses and always managing to keep the pantry full of items her grandchildren loved to snack on. Mariella’s talents were multifold, she was a wonderful seamstress and she could pluck a chicken faster than anyone.

In a time of texting, emails, phone calls, Mariella continued to embrace the true art of letter writing and she wrote many letters to her friends and family through the years. She loved to dance and at-tended many dances with her husband Harrell and together they attend-ed the Yoakum Coun-try Music and Pilgrim Opry. She loved to talk; she could talk to anyone and frequently spoke her thoughts out loud, being demure or even listening weren’t heavily practiced qualities in her, but she’d talk to anyone. Most of all Mariella loved, she loved her husband of 64 years, she loved her children and she loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and with out question, all of them loved her in return so very, very much.

Mariella Agnes Kunts-chik Frederick is sur-vived by her husband, Harrell L. Frederick of Gonzales; daughters, Linda Dian Frederick Denker (Ronald) of Vic-toria, Marilyn Sue Fred-erick Buchholtz (Her-man, Jr.) of Gonzales; son, Leonard Steve Fred-erick (Kathy) of Gon-zales; grandchildren, Denise Greer, D’Anna Long, Chris Cox, Becky Lowell, James Buchholtz, Dian Patterson, Chad Frederick, and Blaine Frederick; great-grand-children, Mac Long, Bethany Long, Logan Long, Grace Frederick, Brynlee Frederick, La-cie Lowell, Austin Greer, and Abby Cox; four step g r e a t - g r a n d c h i l d r e n , Noah Cox, Miranda Cox, Ben Cox and Grace Cox; sister-in-laws, Mary Jane Kuntschik of Dallas, Le-tha May Frederick of Shiner; and a brother-in-law, Tony Lesak of Gon-zales. She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Oswald, Law-rence, Leho, Edgar, and Ernest Kuntschik, sis-ters, Rosie Schumann, Annie Benes and Hattie Hobizal Lesak.

A rosary was recited at 7 p.m. Thursday eve-ning, Feb. 2, in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3 in St. James Catholic Church with Fr. Paul Raaz as celebrant. Interment will follow in St. James Catholic Cem-

etery. Pallbearers included:

Chad Frederick, Blaine Frederick, James Buch-holtz, Louis Kuntschik, Jay Tinsley, and Da-vid Kardosz. Honorary pallbearers: the staff of Texan Nursing and Re-habilitation of Gonzales and Dr. Garth Vaz. Me-morials may be made to the St. James Altar Soci-ety or St. James Catholic Church. Services are un-der the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Fu-neral Home.

STORYEdna Eugene “Billie”

Story, 91, of Gonzales, formerly of New Braun-fels, passed away Sunday, February 5, 2012. Billie was born June 6, 1920 in Cushing, Oklahoma to Eugene and Opal Go-forth Davenport. She married Gus Robertson and after his passing married Orben Story. Billie had been a mem-ber of the New Braunfels Jehovah Witness King-dom Hall.

Billie was a very so-cial person; her ability to easily befriend people enabled her to lead many to the Jehovah Witness faith. She had a will-ful spirit and preferred to take charge in any endeavor rather than take a passive role. She was a natural caregiver; her loving qualities en-abled her to raise three foster children in addi-tion to her own daugh-ter, tend to the needs of her elderly mother and later the needs of her adoring husband. She sought comfort for her-self in her faith and the nurturing of plants and flowers which flourished through her innate abil-ity to cultivate healthy plants.

Billie is survived by her loving daughter and son-in-law, Kathie and Dar-rell McLain of Gonza-les, grandchildren, Greg McLain and his wife Kris of Gonzales, Gina St. John, Lori Wuensch and her husband Ed, granddaughter- in-law, Piera McLain all of New Braunfels and fourteen g r e a t - g r a n d c h i l d r e n . She was preceded in death by her husbands, parents, sisters Fern and Druzell and her grand-son Phil McLain.

A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, February 9, 2012 in Guadalupe Val-ley Memorial Park with Jesse Elizondo officiat-ing. Memorial services will follow at 5 p.m. in the New Braunfels Je-hovah Witness King-dom Hall on Wald Road. Honorary pallbearers include: Mark St. John, Edward Wuensch, Ian McLain, Eric Wuensch, Andrew Wuensch, Adam Wuensch and Matthew McLain. Memorials may be made to Odyssey Hos-pice of San Marcos. Ser-vices are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales, Texas.

SIEGFRIEDShelly Marie Jones Sieg-

fried, beloved daughter, mother, wife, sister and friend, went to be with our Lord on Monday, January 30, 2012. She was born to Mr. and Mrs. Na-than E. and Kay (Young-blood) Jones on Febru-ary 29, 1972, in El Paso. Shelly was a Certified Family Law Mediator and Certified General Media-tor. For eight years, Shelly practiced law in Bexar,

Karnes, Atascosa, DeWitt, Gonzales, Wilson, Comal, Guadalupe and other sur-rounding counties. For the past six years she had specialized in family law matters and was certified in general mediation as well as divorce and fam-ily law mediation. Shelly was involved in the com-munity, speaking at semi-nars and panel events. She was a member of the San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, and a prior member of the Bex-ar County Court Resource Committee, Bexar County Children’s Court, Safe Ha-vens Advisory Board and a mentor for the Bexar County Community Jus-tice Program. She was the most beautiful, kind hearted, loving soul who gave selflessly of herself to everyone who came into her life. She never stopped advocating for the helpless and hopeless. She was truly a servant of God. Our “Borrowed An-gel” touched so many lives and will never be forgot-ten. Shelly is survived by her husband, Sean Eric Siegfried; son, Shane Eric Siegfried; parents, Na-than and Kay Jones, all of Smiley; sisters, Jenni-fer Norris of Seguin and Catherine Mitchell and husband, John, of Smi-ley; aunt, Vey Janosek; uncles, Jay Youngblood, Charles Jones and Roy Jones; niece, Jessie Kay Norris Barillet and hus-band, Matt; nephews, Ja-cob Norris, Joshua Norris, Jonathan Mitchell (cur-rently serving in Afghani-stan) and wife, Janet, and Brandon Mitchell; great nephews and nieces, Coby Norris, Tyler Barillet, Coralie Barillet and Mad-isyn Mitchell; numerous family and friends.

A Funeral Service was held on Saturday, Febru-ary 4, 2012, 2:00 pm at Finch Funeral Chapel in Nixon. Brother Leon Da-vis officiated. Interment followed at the Bundick Cemetery in Smiley.

Pallbearers were Shane Siegfried, John Mitchell, Brandon Mitchell, Jacob Norris, Josh Norris, and Matt Barillet. If desired, memorial contributions may be made in Shelly’s name to The Shelly Jones Siegfried Memorial Fund, Nixon State Bank, P. O. Box 188, Nixon, Texas 78140.

FAHRIGAlfred Otto Fahrig went

home to be with the Lord Thursday February 2, 2012 at the age of 82.

Fred was born to Albert and Roxie “Strickmire” Fahrig on June 23, 1929 in Caldwell County, Texas.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Al-bert and Roxie; his sons, T.C “Wesley”, Donnie, Wayne, and Joey Fahrig; brother, Albert Fahrig; sisters, Della Battles, and Leonora Stiffermire. He is survived by daughter, Carolyn Rice and hus-band Tony of Luling and son, Emil Fahrig and wife Cindy of Nixon; sisters, Hilda Dvenowski, Do-ris Dvenowski, and Edna Johnson; as well as, 12 grandchildren and nu-merous great grandchil-dren.

Finch Chapel was open for visitation and viewing Sunday February 5, 2012 from 4:00 PM-8:00 PM with the family receiving friends from 6:00-8:00 P.M. Graveside Services was conducted Monday February 6, 2012, at 2:00 PM at Nockenut Cem-etery near Nixon.

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Relay For Life DonationsRelay for Life received two $250 donations on Tuesday afternoon from DuBose Insurance Agency and the Gonzales Young Farmers. At left, Relay For Life event chairperson Arline Rinehart and Relay For Life sponsorship chair Jo Ann Low accept a check from Sissy Mills, the insurance agency’s manager. At right, Rinehart and Low accept a check from Constable Ken Hedrick, treasurer of the Gonzales Young Farmers. (Photos by Cedric Iglehart)

SHINER — After much deliberation, the Shiner City Council reluctantly approved an increase in the city’s water and sewer rates.

Before the increase was approved, Shiner had the lowest water and sewer rates in the area. The last time the council instituted a rate raise was July 2010, when they went up 25 per-cent.

The council had four options to consider in re-gards to how much higher the rates would be. They ranged from raising the base water residential rate

up from $9.75 to as high as $12.19.

“To go up 50 percent in two years, that’s a pretty big increase,” said council-person David Schroeder. “I know we’ve got some big expenses that we have to pay for, but to jump up 25 percent is too much.”

“We’ve been talking about revenue rates for a long time and it’s about time for us to do some-thing,” said councilperson Gus Jaehne. “It’s got to be done. It’s just like raising taxes because no one wants to do that, but we’ve got to be able to pay our bills.”

The rate hike was needed in order for the city to fund upcoming water/wastewa-ter improvement projects and to allow them to stop subsizing the water depart-ment with taxpayer money.

The council eventually settled on raising the ba-sic water residential rate to $11.21, about a 15 percent increase. The commercial rate will go from $18.00 to $20.70, and the industrial rate will increase to $43.13, up from $37.50.

The sewer residential rate of $6.75 goes up to $7.76 plus $1.62 for each addi-tional 1,000 gallons of wa-ter used. The commercial rate increases from a base of $13.50 to $15.53 plus $1.55 for each additional 1,000 gallons of water used.

The rest of the fees are calculated on a scale based on water usage up to 100,000 gallons. The entire rate scale can be viewed on our website at www.gonzal-escannon.com.

In another agenda item, the council agreed to allow the Chamber of Commerce to make changes to one of the city’s premiere events.

Chamber president Jeff Pesek told the council he planned to alter the pre-sentation of the Half Moon Holidays.

“We’re looking at mov-ing the Barbecue Cookoff from the Half Moon Holi-day weekend in July to Oct. 12 & 13,” said Pesek. “We’ve had cookers complain to us about having to stand over a 200-degree pit in 100-de-gree weather. Hopefully this will allow the event to grow because the weather is

significantly better in Octo-ber and it’s on the other side of the calendar of the Firemen’s event.”

Pesek further announced plans that will scale down Half Moon Holidays to a one-day with vendors and the parade in Wellhausen

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The Train Room chronicles Yoakum’s origination due to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass (SAP) Railroad. Shown here are pictures of Uriah Lott (left), the first president of SAP; and the city’s namesake Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, SAP’s first vice-president and general manager. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

YOAKUM — Tucked away in a residential neigh-borhood in an unassum-ing structure is a place that strives on the retelling of the history of the City of Yoakum.

The Yoakum Heritage Museum was established in 1982 to preserve the cul-ture and heritage of the sur-rounding area.

“We were established to be a historic source for the community,” said Jamie Kelley, the museum’s ex-ecutive director. “We’re all about the livelihood of Yoa-kum, how it started, what it currently is and what we’re striving to be.”

It was the collabora-tive efforts of Mrs. Shir-ley Blundell, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wite, Attorney Elwood Gaus, and William (Bill) Browning that began the preliminary action in 1980 with the help of many community members to establish a museum in Yoa-

kum. The first organizational

meeting was held on No-vember 30, 1981. A steering committee was formed and on December 8, 1981, the Yoakum City Council vot-ed to support the prospec-tive museum. The Secretary of State of Texas chartered Yoakum Heritage Museum

on January 26, 1982. The museum’s first resi-

dence was in the former home of Dr. and Mrs. John Boyd at 215 Nelson Street (behind the Yoakum Fire Department). The museum opened to the public during the 1982 Tom-Tom Festival and its first exhibit consist-ed of gowns and regalia of earlier Tom-Tom celebra-tions. The museum had no heat and was leased for $900 a year. During the first three years of operation, more than 4,000 toured the museum.

The current museum, located at 312 Simpson

Street, was built in the early 1900’s and became the home of the J.K. Elkins family, owners of a small chain of 5, 10, and 25 cent stores. The house originally faced Hugo Street and was one story.

The Elkins acquired the home in 1907 and com-pletely renovated it in 1912 by adding a second story and moving the front door and placing it at an angle changing the address from Hugo to Simpson Street. Original to the house are the beveled glass front door, stained glass win-dows and ornate staircase.

The house was later oc-cupied by the Elkins grand-son, William (Bill) Brown-ing and his family. Mr. Browning was president of the First National Bank of Yoakum. Mrs. Mary Bell Browning deeded the house to the museum in 1986.

Behind the museum is the carriage house used by the Brownings as a garage.

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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.

Emmanuel Fellowship

1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

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

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

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

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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

Places of Worship

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

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

Email: [email protected]

Family Dentistry of GonzalesGentle Quality Care

606 St. LouisGonzales, TX 78629

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

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Logan Insurance Agency

Dry FertilizerCustom Application &

Soil TestingSTEVE EHRIG830-263-1233

P.O. Box 1826Gonzales, TX 78629

Morgan Mills830-857-4086

HOLIDAY FINANCECORPORATION

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

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

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4421 Hwy. 97E, Gonzales

830-540-4285 • 830-540-4422

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

830-672-2551Next to the Courthouse Annex

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

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

Ilene B. GohmertCertified Public Accountant

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

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Community Health CentersOf South Central Texas, Inc.

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Originally it was a horse barn with hay loft that is still intact.

The museum is a non-profit organization with very limited funds coming from the City of Yoakum, hotel/motel tax revenues, donations, Walk of Fame memorials and fundraising projects.

“Without community sponsors and support from our membership drives, our efforts of preserving our local history would not be possible,” said Kelley.

The museum’s board offi-cers are Jody Maneth, pres-ident; Martha Faulkner, vice president; Carroll Sharp, secretary; and Helen Seekamp, treasurer. Other board members include Archie Ackerman, Fred Ackerman, Betty Borch-ers, Virgie Ferrell, Tricia Matthew, Tommy Shults, Elorine Sitka, Dave Talbert, Debra Vahalik, and Travis Wagner.

Among the constant fea-tures is The Train Room, which includes the history of Yoakum and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad. Many artifacts and photographs from the early railroad days are on display, including pictures of Uriah Lott, the first Pres-ident of SAP, and Benja-min Franklin Yoakum, first Vice-President and Gen-eral Manager of SAP Rail-road. Both are considered as the founding fathers of Yoakum.

The city bears Yoakum’s name because Lott insisted on naming the new town in 1887 after his vice-pres-ident and general manager when the town became a stop along the railroad route.

Mr. Yoakum made quite a name for himself in the rail-road industry. From before 1888 to 1892, he worked for the SAP Railway as general manager and traffic man-

ager. From 1893 to 1896, he was general manager and third vice president for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad. In 1896, he became vice president and general manager of the Frisco Railroad before be-coming president in 1900, and chairman of the board in 1904.

In 1905 the Frisco and Rock Island lines were joined, and Yoakum was the chairman of the execu-tive committee. This line was known as the Yoakum Line and at the time was the largest railroad system un-der a single control.

Yoakum’s hobby was ag-ricultural improvement, which led him to promot-ing irrigation for the Rio Grande Valley to develop cattle grazing and citrus fruits. He was also active in the construction of the In-ternational Bridge between Brownsville and Matam-oros, Mexico in 1909.

As one of the directors of the Corpus Navigation Company, Lott worked to improve the Corpus Christi channel. He was particu-larly interested in railroad development and with the help of Mifflin Kenedy and Richard King, he built the Corpus Christi, San Di-ego and Rio Grande Nar-row Gauge Railroad from Corpus Christi to Laredo. The project required seven years and was jeered as “Lott’s Folly.”

In 1884, Lott went to San Antonio and played a lead-ing role in projecting and building the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway. Continuing his railroad promotion, he became president of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, which reached Brownsville on July 4, 1904.

Lott was essentially a promoter, not a finan-cier, and he spent his last years in poverty. He died in Kingsville on March 28, 1915, and was buried there but not before he had played a significant part in developing transportation in the Corpus Christi and Rio Grande Valley sections as well as South Texas in general.

“Both men worked to-gether in vision,” Kelley said. “If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t be here as a town.”

“Mr. Yoakum was really the main instigator in get-ting some of these busi-nesses established in Yoa-kum. Once the railroad was established, it opened the way for the leather industry. Leather was already here, but the railroad allowed it to really branch out.”

The museum’s Leather Room offers a photograph-ic history of that industry in Yoakum and features C.C.

Welhausen, the founder of Tex Tan.

The hand-tooled leather border on the walls were designed by Leo Smith, a former commercial artist for Tex Tan and previous owner of the Leather Capi-tal. More than 23 hand-toolers worked on the room, which also exhibits a variety of antique saddles and hand-tooled saddles from Tex Tan and Circle Y.

Upstairs is where the Military Room is housed. It includes history and ar-tifacts from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Viet Nam and Iraq Con-flict.

On display are sou-venirs from Yoakumites who served in the mili-tary during both war and peacetime. There are also a variety of cavalry sabers, cannon balls and a musket.

One of the more moving exhibits is a Christmas tree dedicated to the 3/5 Dark-horse Infantry, a battalion of U.S. Marines that have served in every war from World War I to Afghani-stan.

During Operation En-during Freedom, the Dark-horse was deployed to the Sangin District of the Helman Province in Af-ghanistan in Sept. 2010. During their tour they were in 520 firefights, where they killed or wounded an esti-mated 470 enemy fighters while clearing the area.

Unfortunately by tour’s end, they had suffered the highest casualty rate of any Marine unit in the past 10 years of war.

Another ongoing ex-hibit is The Yoakum Room, which is filled with pho-tographs and artifacts of Yoakum’s early years. Also on exhibit is a collection of arrowheads and projectile points donated by Richard Baros.

On the sidewalk lead-ing up to the museum is its Walk of Fame with bricks honoring the past and pres-ent citizens of Yoakum. The bricks can be used to honor someone for their birthday, anniversary, or any special occasion.

The bricks are also open to community partners and businesses to purchase as a remembrance of their faithful service to the com-munity. Bricks are $50 each or buy four and get one free.

The Yoakum Heritage Museum is open Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 1– 4 p.m. and on Fri-days from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Special arrangements can be made for groups of 10 or more.

For more information, call the museum at 361-293-7022.

Park. He also asked the coun-cil to shut down 9th Street, from 90A to Avenue D, to allow for a street dance to be held that night.

In other business, the council:

• Set new hours for the city’s Recycling Program Schedule. The facility will be open on Tuesdays from 7-9 a.m. and Thursdays from 1-3:30 p.m., beginning on March 1.

• Agreed to use the remain-ing funds from the Certificate

of Obligation series 2009 to fund three water/wasterwater projects totaling $104,000 in cost.

• Set May 12 as the date for the municipal election. The seats of councilpersons Law-rence Kurtz, August Jaehne and Linda Rigby will expire this year. The council also designated April 30 and May 3 as the two dates in the early voting period, which runs from April 30-May 8, where the City will be open for 12 hours.

• Renewed three cer-

tificates of deposit - in the amounts of $439,736.64, $219,999.95 and $325,521.75 - with the First National Bank of Shiner for 12 months at a rate of 1.32%.

• Approved a proclamation for a 211 day. The 211 pro-gram is a free service where people can receive informa-tion by dialing the numbers “2-1-1.”

• Agreed to advertise an opening in the Parks Depart-ment due to the impending retirement of Ruben Torres. The position will pay $8.50 per hour.

• Set the dates for the an-nual Cleanup Week for April 23-26.

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Happy Chocolate Day!Sandi’s Country

Fried News

Sandi Gandre

I came across something that could be really helpful for those who are on the campaign to losing weight. It said that “calories only exist if you count them.” Guess where that was?? It was on the wrapper for a Dove chocolate candy. It is so hard to pass chocolates up especially when Valen-tine’s Day is almost here. Maybe you can think of something else to give your sweetie and Happy Valen-tine’s Day!

The Belmont Ladies Club will have their end of the year luncheon on the date of their regular meeting date in February which is the fourth Tuesday. The meeting place for the lun-cheon has not yet been de-cided.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Lisa Rodri-guez, Terry Bowman, Mr. Baker,William Hudgins, Kathryn, Sabrina Flores, Bill and Marie Lott, Doris and Alvin Hewell; Hes-ter Behlen, Louise Jones, Aunt Georgie; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vickers, Gene Robinson, Susie Dolezal, Teresa Wil-ke, Melissa Munoz and family, Sandi Gandre, Carl and Vida Tindle; Rev A. C. and Evelyn Newman, Ruby Ruth Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Linda Nesloney, Esther Lindemann, Jack Lott, Anna Lindemann, Ann and Bubba Bond; Case Martin, Clint and Lindsay, Gloria and Odean Gass; Shirley Dozier, The fam-ily of Mary Eilerman, The family of Hertha Wagner, The family of Skee Wil-liams, The family of Jerry Gorden, The family of James Brunkenhoefer and please pray for all of our troops and their families plus the extra unrest we are having in Syria and Egypt.

Gloria and son, Odean Gass, part of the GVTC family of employees, were involved in a head on col-lision on road 311 a couple of days ago. Both are in University Hospital in San Antonio and we ask that you pray for them. The driver of the other vehicle is also in University Hospi-

tal and I don’t know about his condition. Odean so far has checked out to not have any major internal injuries. Gloria had one hip shat-tered and the doctors took eight hours in surgery to put it back together with screws, etc. with a rod go-ing down her leg. It is going to be a long road to recov-ery. But thank you God that they are even alive.

William Hudgins, the grandson of Skee Williams, had to be operated on to repair his kidneys and liver, and is also still in Universi-ty Hospital in San Antonio.

Pray extra for Case Mar-tin. He is to get his transfu-sion of stem cells on this Wednesday that will create his new immune system. Pray extra for Clint and Lindsey Martin to have the energy and patience to get through all of this with Case.

Ruby Ruth Gandre is in Memorial Hospital the last I heard with pneumonia in both lungs plus whatever else and has a long road to recovery. She was in ICU, but may have been moved from there.

We send sympathy to the family of Jerry Gorden. He will be missed by a lot of friends and classmates. It seems to hit closer to home when the person is your age and as we grow older it seems that more and more are getting to be our age.

Wade and Lola Wilson were pleasantly surprised Sunday when Betty Lou, Wade’s sister, called and said that they were close by with a load that her hus-band Matt was hauling to Corpus. So they came by to eat lunch and had a re-ally nice visit and talk. In addition to that they were celebrating Joshua Wilson’s thirteenth birthday. Lola made him a fudge mar-ble cake at his request. It sounds like to me that they just had a really good party.

We have another proud grandma. Nancy Garnand’s grandson, Jacob Garnand is a freshman at Rockport Fulton High School in Rockport. He is compet-ing in Powerlifting and is doing so well that he has been placed on the Varsity competition. Jacob is only 16 years old and he is 6’5” and weighs 285 lbs.. He is dead lifting 475 lbs. (from the floor up with straight arms to his waist). We are hoping that he goes to state competition.

We had a good time over at the Belmont Social Club last Saturday night. The Brushy Creek Boys were playing some really good music. Then we had Doug Parker to show up and play two of his original songs with them backing him up. Doug comes up during the week sometimes and plays just for the fun of it. This next week on the 10th, Natalee Rose is going to be there on Friday, and then on Saturday the 11th Best Friends is going to be there. Now this should truly con-fuse things. On the third Saturday, February 18th, Wyatt Arp and Deep Water, is supposed to be return-ing, and on March 3rd, we finally get to have Tommy Schlein in our midst again. Now I hope that I have got-ten all of this straight.

By the way, it sure is nice to see the RV’s over in the Belmont Estate’s RV Park that is owned by Richard and Willehelmina Walker. Go to their site on Face-book and see all of the buildings that are in prog-ress. It will be so very nice when it is finished. There are many RV hook up sites available at the moment and better things to come in the future. Everyone is always looking for a place to live.

Termite has it made this afternoon. In this cold weather all of the critters even in the house dig bur-rows. I am making some fleece tied blankets. She is in the middle of one and all you can see sticking out is the top of her ears. I am tired of typing, so I think that I just might join her.

Have a good week and God Bless.

SHINER: Half-Moon Holidays plannedContinued from page B1

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MUSEUM: Yoakum history displayedMuseum executive director Jamie Kelley stands among commemorative railroad plates and vintage typewriters. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)


Lost: Female Chi-huahua, brown, no tail, about 4 years old. Lost on 1-29-12 evening, off St. Andrew St. $150 reward if found. Call

203-9494 or 263-9888.(2-23-12)

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

Pest Control Tech-nician needed. Li-censed or will train. Mail resume to P.O. Box 1984, Gonzales, TX. 78629.

Receptionist need-ed for front desk. At least 1 yr. experi-ence preferred and Spanish speaking preferred. Apply at The Vaz Clinic, 1103 N. Sarah DeWitt or call 830-672-2424.--------------------------Part-time posi-tions available for Hospitality Aides and Activity As-sistant to provide non-nursing, com-passionate care for the residents Prefer energetic, positive individuals. If inter-ested, please apply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gon-

zales, Texas or email resume to adminis-trator@theheights-gonzales.com.--------------------------Landscape Crew Leader. English speaking individual with valid Texas Drivers License. Must be able to lift over 50 lbs., fol-low directions, and communicate with customers. Send resume to landsca-

[email protected] or apply in per-son at Green Acres Nursery.--------------------------Good Health Is Not By Accident. Expe-rience Akea Today. We are Seeking Consultants in your area. Full or Part-time income. No ex-perience necessary. http://akeawebinar.com. Contact Di-ann, 830-401-3044

or email to diann.a k e a l i f e @ g m a i l .com.--------------------------Bartenders and waitresses needed at Gonzales Elks Lodge. Flexible schedule. Excellent pay. Call Deana, 830-672-2025 after 5 p.m.--------------------------Certified Medical Assistant needed. Must have expe-

rience, Spanish speaking preferred. Apply at The Vaz Clinic, 1103 N. Sar-ah DeWitt or call 830-672-2424.

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

GET BACK IN.

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

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

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICECITY OF GONZALES

GONZALES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

The Gonzales Economic Development Corporation, by this in-strument, notifies the public of the commencement of the 60 Day Public Comment Period and a PUBLIC HEARING on the follow-ing Small Business Incentive Grant Application that has been presented to the GEDC Board for their consideration. The maxi-mum grant amount is $10,000.00, it is a reimbursement grant, and a 50% minimum match is required. The grant applications are available at City Hall for viewing by the public during the 60 Day Public Comment Period.

1.) Tammy Hillman, Owner of The China Basket, 617 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales

The GEDC will hold a Public Hearing on this project the 27th of February, 2012, at the Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph St., during the Regular Meeting that begins at 6:00pm, to allow for public comment on this project and the proposed expenditure of Type B Sales Tax funds. After consideration and voting by GEDC, the projects will go to City Council for their approval of the expenditure of funds at their next meeting. The GEDC encourages citizens to participate in the public com-ment and public hearing stages of all GEDC projects. Citizens unable to attend meetings may submit their views to Carolyn Gibson, Economic Development Director for the City of Gonza-les, by mailing them to P.O. Drawer 547, Gonzales, TX 78629. For additional information, contact the Economic Development office at (830)-672-2815.

- BID NOTICE –The Gonzales Housing Authority is requesting competitive sealed proposals from qualified contractors for general landscaping for the Housing Complex Grounds Improvements. Proposals will be received until 2pm, February 23, 2012, at the Gonzales Housing Authority office, 410 Village Drive, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-3419. Proposals shall be clearly marked. Proposals will be publically opened and read at the time and date mentioned. No proposal may be changed, amended or modified after the same has been submitted or filed in response to this notice. A proposal may be withdrawn, however, and re-submitted any time prior to the time set for receipt of proposals. The Gonzales Housing Authority has the right to accept or reject any proposal or to waive any technicality which may be in their best interest.

Included in the construction but not limited to will be:

Landscaping at the following Housing Complexes:

• Green DeWitt Village• Edwards• Casa Rio Annex

The work will be awarded to under a single lump sum contract for all general construction work.

For plans and specifications contact the architect, TSG Architects AIA, 427 Saint George Street, Suite 300, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-7801. A current, completed AIA A305 will be required upon receiving plans and specs. Contractors may obtain a refundable set after receipt of $50.00 per set, plus postage and handling if applicable. A CD of the construction document set is available for a non-refundable deposit of $50, which includes shipping. Plans may also be available for review at the Gonzales Housing Authority office.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Zoning Board of Adjustment and Sign Control Board of the City of Gonzales will hold a Public Hearing on February 15, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. in City Council chambers at City Hall to consider the request of Paul Prove for

a Specific Use permit to run 1-ton trucks and for Juana Matamoros to erect an internally lit sign at the below addresses:

Address Property Owner/Applicant

530 Seydler Street Cleo Cooper/Paul ProveParcel #0012649

201 St. Joseph Street Juana MatamorosParcel #11843/14582

All interested parties are encouraged to attend.

Please visit the City website at www.cityofgonzales.org or City Hall to view Agenda.

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING

Victoria College Gonzales Centeris now hiring a

Facilities AssistantThis position will be responsible for

maintaining the facilities, building and grounds in a clean and well kept condition

at all times, performing general building maintenance and custodial work, and

reporting maintenance problems to the Campus Manager.

Starting pay range is $953.34 - $996.67 Semi-Monthly depending on qualifications, plus

employee benefits that include retirement, paid health insurance, group rates for dental, life, and disability insurance, tuition waiver, paid leave, Sec. 125 flex, and a quality work environment.

www.victoriacollege.edu/jobsatvc or call 1-830-672-6251.

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ESTATE SALEMickey Reaves Estate

(and items from other area Estates)1332 St. Paul Street

Gonzales, TexasSaturday, February 11, 2012

8:30 am - 5:00 pmSunday, February 12, 2012

9:00 a.m. - ???Duncan Phyfe dining table and chairs, piano, miscellaneous chairs, oak bedroom furniture,

secretary, corner cabinets, miscellaneous antique pieces, collectibles (Occupied Japan) punch bowl

and tray, lamps, kitchen items, pots and pans, quilts and linens, almost new wireless printer, tools and

books.COME BROWSE AND HAVE FUN!!!

ESTATE SALES

Morning Comput-er-Repair person. Part-Time, 8 AM til ?, M-F. Must be able to open, interact well with customers in person and on the phone. Must be comfortable work-ing with computers. Call 830-672-9068.--------------------------

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

J.M. Oilfield Service, a family oriented company is seek-ing professional & reliable Class A CDL employees. Re-quirements: 2 years experience tanker and must be will-ing to get HazMat endorsement ASAP. Call 830-672-8000.--------------------------AVON Representa-tives Wanted! Great earning opportu-nities! Buy or Sell! Call 830-672-2271, Independent Sales Rep.

Saturday, February 11, 9-? Warm-ups, Lg, women, little girl size 6. Micro-wave, toaster oven, craft books, 2 file cabinets, desk top files, keyboard. 1326 Seydler, across from Shamrock sta-tion. Too much to mention. No Prior Sales.--------------------------Garage Sale: Satur-day, February 11, 2012. Hyatt Manor, Waco St. Half Way don. Chair, dinette iorn, round mirror, make-up dresser, 2 1/2 pint wicker swivel chairs. Box Magazines current, misc. girls sale. Cold or Rain CANCEL. 8:30-10:30. a.m.--------------------------Garage Sale. Satur-day, February 11. 8-am-Noon. Furni-ture & little bit of everything. 206 St. Paul St.

Leaf blower, $65. Hedger, $100. Both gasoline. 361-741-2604. (2-23-12)--------------------------Milton Driveway Bell/signal, $15.00; Big 4” 3 ring Note-book binders, store records, manu-als, documents, etc. $1.00 each. Discount for 10 or more. “White Christmas” movie poster. Collector’s item. 12”x18”. $8.00. Call 512-431-0823. (2-23-12)--------------------------Guitar ampli-fier. Marshall Valve State. VS65R. $250. 830-857-3978.(2-9-12)--------------------------Stihl Chain Saw, 16” bar w/case. Ex-cellent Condition, $225. Weedeater, excellent condition, $50. Sears Crafts-man Tiller, 5 hp, $250. 361-741-2604 or 361-208-3565. (2-9-12)--------------------------4 tires and Alumi-num rims. Can fit a Ford Probe or Mazda MX6. Muf-flers can fit a pickup truck, good condi-tion. Cabinet fits over refrigerator. Collectibles, sweat-ers (some with Christmas themes). Various sizes. Call Marcus Migl, 361-594-4307.(3-15-12)--------------------------Men and Women’s jackets, sweaters. Different sizes. Can be seen at 1822 St. Louis or call 672-8034.(3-15-12)--------------------------1 axle trailer, wide ramp, 12’x61/2’ for sale. Call 857-4993.(3-15-12)--------------------------For Sale: Whirlpool Washing Machine, like new. Large ca-pacity. $200. 361-208-3565.(3-15-12)--------------------------Westein Running Boards. $140. For pictures or any questions, please email [email protected].(3-15-12)--------------------------Dalhart Windberg - Winters Velvet Mantle - $250.00. Signed Affidavit of Limited Edition 12x36 in frame. Email [email protected] for pictures or any questions.(3-8-12)--------------------------Baby and Womens Clothes for sale. Cheap. Call 361-772-5566.(3-8-12)--------------------------25” Color TV & en-tertainment center. Excellent condition.

830-672-6414.(3-8-12)--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane (detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs good. $6,000 obo. Individ-ual, 830-660-2813.(3-8-12)--------------------------Power Box Asphalt Paving Machine and Roller. Good Condition. $9,900. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.(3-8-12)--------------------------Small computer desk, wood, $40.00 obo. Large play-pen, $25.00. Both in great condition. 830-203-9159.(3-1-12)--------------------------

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Cobra 25, NW Ltd, Classic CB, Igloo Ref. Cooler, Wave Box, Portable Mi-crowave. $50.00 each. 361-596-4502 or 361-401-0556.(3-1-12)--------------------------Like new, 26” Men’s 21 spd., $50 obo. Call Theresa at 830-203-5212.(3-1-12)--------------------------2 Teenagers For-mals-Party Dresses. 1 White w/spaghet-ti Strap, with rhine-stones. 1 Beige/golden color, spa-ghetti straps, gold rhinestones. Call 672-8034 or come by 1822 St. Louis.(3-1-12)--------------------------Heavy, vinyl tarps. 15’x50’. UV proof, tuff boogers. $50 each. 830-660-2813.(3-1-12)--------------------------6 oak restaurant booths w/copper inlaid tops. Large round folding ta-bles w/6 armchairs. Contact Tommy, 830-351-1263.(2-23-12)--------------------------Electric Hospital Bed, $300. 12 func-tion exercise bi-cycle, $65. Prices Negotiable. 830-582-1120, Nixon.(2-23-12)--------------------------Insulated 6x8 stor-age building. Like new. Used as a pro-duce cooler. $1,000. Call 512-227-6950.(2-23-12)--------------------------Proform Treadmill. Model 380CS. Pro-grammable, in-cludes built-in fan, speaker for IPOD radio. Like new con-dition. $350/obo. Contact Liz, 830-263-2103.(2-23-12)

Whirlpool Heavy Duty Gas Dryer. Good condition. $75. Can be seen at 511 Church St. 830-857-4993.(2-23-12)--------------------------For Sale: Thomas Playmate with Col-or Glo Chord Organ. Good condition. All instruction books included. Call Sue, 672-2192.(2-23-12)--------------------------Utility trailer. All wired for lights. Current tag. $450. 512-917-4078.(2-23-12)--------------------------Commercial, Martin Luther King, Desk and many other calendars with your chosen informa-tion. Personal ser-vice at your busi-ness. Spread your website or business information all over South Texas. 830-437-5142 or cell, 830-857-0876.(2-16-12)--------------------------Prayer Shawl, 38x72, handmade, burgundy, green white, $50.00. 512-917-4078.(2-16-12)--------------------------Fullsize Mattress & Box Springs, $100. Queensize Mattress and Box Springs, $175. Both in ex-cellent condition & sanitized. 830-672-3728.(2-16-12)--------------------------2 young ladies black jackets size 14. One is leather. 672-8034.(2-16-12)--------------------------Old Readers Digests for Sale. Call 830-672-3362.(2-16-12)

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.

John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall and 1988 Wrangler, new mo-tor. Sahara special Make offer on Jeep and Tractor. Call 857-1781.(2-9-12)

For Sale: Fullsize mattress, box spring & bed frame - $100. Sofa table - light oak, 48x18x20 - $50. 622 N. Hamil-ton, Gonzales. 672-4559. (2-16-12)--------------------------Dining Room China Cabinet For Sale: A large honey pine dining room buf-fet and hutch with glass shelves and doors. Two sepa-rate pieces makes it easier to move. Haswooden cabinet doors and several drawers on the bot-tom half for storage. The drawers are lined with velvet to protect silverware and other objects from scratches. Tophalf has three shelves with a plate rail and is perfect for china and col-lectibles to be dis-played in the glass case. The whole piece is in overall good condition, just has a few dings from moving. Wood color and style matches many clas-sic and contempo-rary dining room sets. Retails for more than $1300. We are asking ONLY $500 for it. Call Nikki at (512) 227-

4040, or email: [email protected] for more information and pictures. Will deliver FREE within Gonzales County.(2-23-12)--------------------------Solid Wood Cubby Shelf With Coat Hooks: A solid pine free-standing cub-by shelf unit with FIVE segmented c o m p a r t m e n t s , each with THREE areas of storage -- a cubby in the top area, a tall back-pack/purse/coat rack section, and a shoe compart-ment at the bot-tom. PERFECT for a classroom, daycare, in the home by the door, or in the garage for organiz-ing tools. Retails for $550. We are asking ONLY $250 for it. Call Nikki at (512) 227-4040, or email: [email protected] for more in-formation and pic-tures. Will deliver FREE within Gonza-les County. (2-23-12)--------------------------6 pc. Solid Oak Bed-room Set. $500/OBO. Call 361-772-5566.(2-23-12)

Late 1970’s Mobile for sale. 2BR-1BA. Great remodel-ing project. 12x48. Plumbing good. No electric. Livable condition. Ready to be moved. $1,000 firm. 512-718-0482.--------------------------’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. --------------------------2002 Fleetwood Festival Ltd. 76x16 in excellent condi-tion. 3 bedrooms and 2 bath. I am selling it for the pay off, est. $24,000. The payments with Wilson County tax-es are about $250 a month. It is located in La Vernia and needs to be moved. Call Megan, 830-477-9792.--------------------------3/2, Singlewide Mo-bile Home. All elec-tric, excellent con-dition. Also, Zenith 25 in. console TV and 25 inch color

TV. All in excellent condition. Call 830-672-6414.

Grandma’s car. 1994 Buick Century Cus-tom Sedan, 4 door, 4-cyl., auto transmis-sion, mileage, 65,589. $1,500 obo. Call 830-788-7780. (3-1-12)--------------------------1977 Chevy 1/2 ton, 2 wd, 4 spd, special ordered. Original owner. $3,000 obo. 830-857-1506.(2-23-12)--------------------------2006 Corvette, 16,000 miles. Very Clean. $33,000. Call 830-672-7040.(2-13-12)--------------------------4 20” XD Series wheels from a 2008 Toyota Truck. Asking $800/obo. Call 830-857-6434.(2-23-12)--------------------------For Sale: ‘94 Cadillac DeVille. $500/obo. Call Luis, 830-339-0645.(2-23-12)--------------------------Mercury Grand Marquis LS. Load-ed, 146,284 miles. $3,000. 830-437-2961.(2-23-12)--------------------------For Sale: Bully Brand Sidesteps stainless steel for a Crew Cab Silverado. New body style. Asking $200/obo. Like new. 830-857-5598.(2-9-12)--------------------------Grill Guard and Run-ning Boards for 2002 Durango. Westin Brand, excellent con-dition. $300. Call 830-560-0238.(2-9-12)--------------------------1988 Wrangler, new motor. Sahara special and John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall. Make of-fer on Jeep and Trac-tor. Call 857-1781.(2-9-12)--------------------------1989 Ford Conver-sion Van. Super clean interior, good motor & A/C, transmissions slips, $1,900 firm. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.(2-9-12)--------------------------2000 Jeep Wrangler SE Sport 2D, New Tires and New Sony Stereo. 107,000 miles. Great Condi-tion. Asking $7,000 obo. Call 361-865-3353.(2-9-12)--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Crown Victoria Ford, price $3,250. Call 830-587-6230 or 830-857-5559.(2-9-12)

Travel Trailers for rent. Ready for move-in. Equipped with everything you need. All you need to bring is your personal items. Call 512-963-0000 or 512-508-6221.

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.

Paws for Effect Dog Grooming is for sale! Established business with ready made clientele. $20,000 buys all equipment, sup-plies and client pro-file cards. Average 1,500 dogs per year! Call Jackie, 830-857-6324.(2-23-12)

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.

Hello! Look Here!Caregiver CNA and CPR-certified. Look-ing for employment with an agency or to go to homes and care for the elderly. Also interested in being trained to work front desk tak-ing vitals and his-tories, or at a rehab doing range of mo-tion exercises with children or adults. I also have experi-ence working with Alzheimer’s and Hospice patients. I’m very personable, dependable, loving and caring. Have 30+ years of expe-rience as a nurse. Looking for FT work on the northside of San Antonio. Have excellent refer-ences. If interested, call 830-391-4837.(3-1-12)--------------------------CAREGIVERS need-ed for relief shifts in Seguin. Must have reliable transporta-tion and references. NO SMOKING al-lowed in the house. 830-560-0238 for details.(2-23-12)--------------------------Looking for private sitting job w/el-derly, $8.00/hr. 437-2727 or 263-2768.(2-9-12)--------------------------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.

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Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.--------------------------Private Caregiver. 20+ years experi-ence. Hospice certi-fied. Looking to do private duty, cook, clean, drive. 361-772-2011.--------------------------Ironing done, in my home can pick up & deliver. References if needed. Call Lou-ise (830) 582-1120.--------------------------Will clean your house. I’m depend-able and have refer-ences. Call Mary at 830-672-4691.--------------------------All-around handy-man available. I also build sheds, 16x8 tool shed. Call 830-857-1959.--------------------------Building Demoli-tion – House, barns, etc. 830-263-0663 or 830-203-0540.

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.

2011 Big Horn 367ORL 5th Wheel with 4 slices, load-ed, king bed, flat screen TV, electric awning, two A/C units, non-smok-er. NADA Value $82,500. 38 feet long. Great live-in trailer. Call 830-540-4058 or 830-263-9172, Price $46,000.--------------------------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.--------------------------24 ft. 2006 bought in 2007. Zeppelin Travel Trailer w/slide out; Lg. corner shower, qn. bed, m/w, stove, refrig-erator, sat./cable prep, tires 2-yrs-old. $9,800; located near Gonzales. Call 936-203-4378 or 936-594-9809.--------------------------FOR SALE: 25 ft. 5th wheel travel trailer with 5th wheel hitch. Good condi-tion. Microwave, stove, refrigera-tor, sleeper couch, queen bed. Asking $4,000. Call 830-437-2359.

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.--------------------------2003 Dyna Super-Glide Harley 100 yr. Anniv. Gold Key ad-dition windshield, backrest, forward controls. Great con-dition. $7,500. 830-875-2278.

American Pit Bull Terrier Pullies for sale at $75 each. Only 3 female pup-pies available. 2 black, 1 brindle. Not Registered. Will be available to take on February 12. Call 830-203-1574, Randy or 830-263-2808, B.J.--------------------------Adorable Longhair Chihuahua puppy, last one, is looking for a new home, male, 9 wks, pure bred, healthy, play-ful, raised in home with a lot of love. 1st shots, wormed. $125. 830-875-9519.(2-9-12)--------------------------AKC German Short-hair pointer pup-pies for sale. Great hunters & family companions. Male - $250; female - $300. 830-203-0470.(2-16-12)--------------------------Pups For Sale. Great Pyrenees, (1/8 Ana-tolian). Call Sammie Gibson at (830) 203-8666.(2-16-12)--------------------------Tiny Chihuahua puppies. 8 wks. Registered. S/W, ti-ger striped, Apple Head. $150-$175. 210-379-0771.(2-16-12)--------------------------2 Great Dane pup-pies. Asking $225. 857-5147.(2-23-12)--------------------------Turn your favorite pet photo into a work of art! Artist Brenda Shannon, Pastel or Acrylic. Great gift idea. (512) 917-4078.--------------------------16 FT. Gooseneck Livestock Trailer. Bar Top, slide rear gate,

center cut gate, re-cent farm tags. De-cent floor, Decent tires. $2,500/obo. 512-718-0482. (3-1-12)--------------------------6 month Gelded Male Donkey. Good with people, livestock & kids. Haltered and lead broke. $50.00. 512-718-0482. (3-1-12)--------------------------Crossbred Jersey Limousin cows in milk. $1,100. Call Al-ice, 512-272-5147. (2-23-12)--------------------------Buy fresh & local! Brown eggs, chick-en, lambs/Borne-gos. Live & Process sales available. Please call 512-718-0482. www.neilranch.com.(2-23-12)--------------------------For Sale: Two Reg-istered Hereford Bulls. One 5-year old herd bull and one 18-month old. Call 830-857-0560.(2-16-12)--------------------------Game Chickens For Sale. 3 roosters, 7 hens. $5.00 each. 512-917-4078.(2-16-12)--------------------------HACCP Trained per-son need to help write HACCP plan for poultry. 830-339-0419.(2-16-12)--------------------------For Sale: Sorrel Gelding, 10 yrs. old. Big, strong, sound ranch horse. Very good looking. Needs a strong rid-er. Gentle, calm dis-position. $850/firm. Call 361-596-4954.(2-16-12)--------------------------Black Limousin & Black Angus Bulls. Also Heifers. Gentle. Increase your wean-ing waits. Delivery available. 979-263-5829.(2-16-12)--------------------------For Sale. 3 black Brangus Bulls, 1 red Brangus Bull. 2 yrs. old. No papers. $1,200/each. 830-437-5772.(2-16-12)--------------------------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.

Cottage house for sale in Shiner, 315 S. 13th St-Newly remodeled and move in ready - a must see! - Front porch and a back patio too. 3 large bedrooms, large bathroom - all new, appliances includ-ed, new hardwood floors, new carpet, new energy effi-cient windows, high ceilings, all new light fixture & fans, large landscaped yard, large lot, out-door/utility shops. Approx. 1,600 sq. ft. Call 832-633-3950 for appt.(2-9-12)--------------------------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.--------------------------Small acreage for sale or lease on US 183 just North of US 90A in Gonzales. Great for oilfield, etc. 830-203-0470.--------------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Doublewide Mo-bile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home is in need of repair. New water well. There are two septic tanks on property. Asking $56,000. Call 830-401-0147.Looking for Leroy Matocha 33 Vinyl Records. “Time to Dance” and “All Aboard”. Call 979-532-3117.--------------------------Want to buy used tractors, running or not. Call 361-293-1633.--------------------------Professional Art-ist needs coastal round bales of hay. Will barter for art-work. Brenda Shan-non, 512-917-4078.--------------------------I want to buy a used shower stall & kitchen cabinets. 830-437-5659

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YOU NEED IT WELD-ED WE CAN DO IT.On the farm or in the field we can get it done. No job to big or to small. Just callus. Donald or Michael at 361-275-6467.(2-23-12)--------------------------Computer repair and upgrade, virus removal, and wire-less setup. Call (830) 857-4438.(2-16-12)--------------------------Electrical wiring, troubleshooting, repairs, new con-struction, additions, meter loops, panel upgrades, ceiling fans, etc. 830-437-5747. (2-2-12)--------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

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--------------------------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.--------------------------

Brush Busters.Bobcat, w/tree cut-ter attachment, land clearing, mesquite spray-ing, fence building, misc. odd end jobs. Reasonable Rates. Call James at 512-738-0848.(2-23-12)--------------------------Welding, Fabrica-tion & Repair. 830-437-5747.(2-16-12)--------------------------

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Homes/Residential7 + Acres. & home...........................$240,000New: 1720 St. Vincent, ....................$275,000Lot - Live Oak....................................$8,000507 St. Michael, 3 bd., 2 ba..............$78,000New: 2 lrg. lots - Hopkins......$15,000/eachDuplex, + 2 M/H set up, Moulton.....$56,000

LandNew: 33 acs., East Gonzales Co....$4,500/Ac.70 acs., wooded, hills, game, tanks.........................................................$420,000153 acs., FM 2091...........................$795,0008.7 acs., city limits...........................$150,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town...............................................................$12,000/Ac.,4+ Acres, city...................................$125,0006 Acres, 183 N., city........................$225,000

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Homes3.7 ACS. 4BR, 3BA, 2LV.................. $150,000306 McClure - 3BR, 1 Bath................$65,0001618 St. Peter - Home and extra lot....$70,000473 Crockett Lane-Settlement - 3 bd., beautiful property..................................$258,0001602 Water St.-commercial/rental....$150,0002342 FM 108, 3 bd.,2 story home.....$145,000792 90-B - Lakefront..............................$89,000312 Cr. Rd. 471, Lakefront + ,3 bd., 1.5 acre lot............................................$150,000

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Flowers will be delivered on Valentine’s Day to schools & anywhere in city limits.

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The Gonzales Inquirer622 St. Paul

The Gonzales Chamber of Commerce414 St. Lawrence

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Gonzales Leo Club

Gonzales Elks Lodge #2413Valentine’s Day Dinner

Members & GuestsTues., Feb. 14 - Starts at 6 p.m.

Appetizers & Meal of your choiceNew York Strip & Garlic Grilled Shrimp

or Grilled Chicken BreastChoice of Twice Baked Potatoes or Green Beans with Baby Potatoes &

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Square Dancing MilestoneOn Monday, January 30, the Come and Take It Squares of Gonzales hosted a cel-ebration dance honoring their caller and his wife, Cris and Allene Crisler (shown above) at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Center. The dance was called a “40-60-80 Dance” because it marked the 40th anniversary of calling for Cris, the 60th anniversary of marriage for the couple, and Cris’s 80th birthday, with all events occurring within the first three months of 2012. Approximately 170 friends and family members from San Antonio, Austin, LaGrange, Victoria, Goliad, Edna, New Braunfels, Canyon Lake, Bandera, Seguin, San Marcos, Ft. Worth and other towns were present. Twenty square dance clubs were repre-sented, and 13 square dance callers and cuers were there. The local club meets at the First Presbyterian Church in Gonzales each Monday night at 7:30. The club began “ Plus” lessons on Feb. 6. Visitors and new members are always welcome. For information, call 830-672-7384.


A reunion for Valentine’s DayWhen Zack Head of Gonzales came home on leave from the Marines, he didn’t tell his girlfriend, Paige Goss — who got quite the surprise Wednesday after-noon when Zack showed up and proposed. Also no doubt enjoying the reunion was the couple’s young son, Bentley, who awakened from a nap at Christian Kids Day Care to find Daddy there. (Photos by Dave Mundy)

To My Loving Wife JoAnn

Almost 25 years & still loving you.

Love Always,Billy Bob

To God,Thank you for giving me 2 of

the most wonderful

Valentines, Tim & Kabel. I love you to the moon & back w/all my

heart guys.Mom

Happy Valentines Day to my Sweetheart of

Children & Grandbabies!

Kristen, David & Kristin,

Tenley, Michael &

JournieLove,Moma

(Nana-Ganny)

Celebrate St. Valentines Day At the 1896 Tavern Restaurant

In the historic Francis Ainsworth HouseFri., Sat., and Tues.

Feb 10th, 11th, and 14thChateaubriand & Champagne for Two

Four Course Dinner including:Homemade Bread, Strawberry and

Field Greens SaladSeasoned Center-Cut Tenderloin of Beef

(Filet Mignon)Starch and Vegetable du Jour

Special Valentines Day DessertFull bottle of Spumante Champagne

Only $69.95 per couple (18% gratuity included)

Call for Reservations and Seating times830-875-3435

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Happy Valentines DayTo my children,Mark, Krystal, Courtney & my

grandchildren Destiny, Anna Claire, Hagen,

Kinsley & Ayden.

Love you all!Dorothy

To our wonderful children, Brandi, Dean, Randy, Brittany

and our two beautiful granddaughters,

Mikayla and Miranda!Love you all very much!

Love Nana and Gampaw

Shrove Tuesday Pancake SupperEpiscopal Church of

the Messiah$4.00 Adults

$2.00 ChildrenTuesday, February 21st

5-7 p.m.Contact Dee at State Farm

Insurance for tickets.All proceeds benefit our

Community Outreach Programs.

Saturn Friendship club holds meeting

The Saturn Friendship Club met at the Cistern Schoolhouse on the afternoon of Jan. 16.

The meeting table was gaily decorated with gold and sil-ver table covers to welcome the New Year. Wrapped door prizes also graced the table. Elizabeth Brosch and Libby Hopkins, serv-ing as hostesses, greeted the ar-riving members. Before the meet-ing began, the 2012 yearbooks were handed out and inspected. Thanks of appreciation were giv-en to Mary Kelly and Sandy Parr, who had compiled them.

At the appointed hour, the pres-ident, Roberta Kilpatrick, called the meeting to order. The Club Prayer was recited in unison and the motto, “To make the best bet-ter” was stated. Nancy Littlefield brought a devotional by Barbara Smith from “Miles Ahead - Devo-tionals From Older Adults”. The Title “Epiphanies” was based on Ephesians 1:8-9.

Ms. Smith had received a let-ter instructing her to write an essay on epiphany in the writing of poetry. She was of the opinion that writing is indeed a religious experience, an epiphany, a revela-

tion. She felt that it was the use of a God-given talent to share her experiences and those of others. Those epiphanies were mysteri-ous and wonderful. They had mo-tivated her to become a writer. As she worked on her assigned essay, she had a new awareness of just how mysterious and wonderful were the ways of God. He worked through individuals,through na-ture and through the Bible. And the wonder of His works never end. The amazing thing is that the epiphany occurs not just to the writer, but to the reader as well. What a blessing!

The roll call was answered by what had brought happiness in the new year. Answers included rain, sunshine, good health, fam-ily, faith, grandchildren and many answered “just glad to be here”.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved as was the financial statement from the trea-surer. Sandy Parr read a note of ap-preciation from Allison Singleton, Activity Director at the Heights of Gonzales Rehabilitation and Long Term Care, for the gifts presented to the residents at Christmas.

Sue Kalinec thanked the club for the donation given to her and her husband for the use of the School-house for meetings. President Kil-

patrick thanked the club for the lovely poinsettia she received at Christmas.

During the time for new busi-ness the president asked the members to bring suggestions for goals and ideas of who The Friendship Club can help in the coming year.

Jo Brunner announced that the Independent Cattlemen’s Asso-ciation will have a fund raiser on Feb. 18 at the K. C. Hall in La-Grange. There will be a dinner, speakers, booth vendors, and an auction. The funds raised will be used for four scholarships. Tick-ets can be purchased at the door.

Another upcoming activity is the Muldoon Fire Department fund raiser on April 28.

There was no Birthday Lady for the month of January. There be-ing no more business, the meet-ing was adjourned.

The hostesses the invited the group to come to the serving table. Everyone held hands as Littlefield offered a prayer be-fore the meal began. It included chicken spaghetti, seven-layer salad, warm garlic bread, deviled eggs, watermelon rind pickles, miniature sweet pickles, poppy seed cake and drinks of choice. Everyone enjoyed filling

Sixteen members of the Gonzales Memorial Hospital Auxiliary met on Jan. 31st in the dining room of the hospital. Mr. Chuck Norris, CEO of the hospital, was a guest at the meeting.

Sec. Carol DuBose read the minutes of the November meeting and also a thank-you note for a memorial sent by the Auxiliary for Mrs. Opal Pruitt.

2nd Vice-Pres, Lydia Rice gave the report of hours worked for November and December with Carol Du-Bose, Bernice Heldersen and Elizabeth Bennett receiving 100 hour bars. Members have worked a total of 80,257 hours to date.

Treasurer Leona Zella gave her report of monies earned during November and De-cember in the Gift Shop and by the vending machines, stating sales have been good.

Pres. Sally Brown appoint-ed Bernice Heldersen to as-sume the duties of the Good Cheer Committee during Ruby Gandre’s recuperation.

Scholarship Chairman,

Gladys Lindemann, reported funds available for scholar-ships at the present time is $29,630.70.

Peggy Baros showed the group one of the tray favors she had made for patients for Christmas.

Pres. Brown thanked members for all their efforts in making the December Wassail Party a big suc-cess. She also reported the first baby born at memorial Hospital in 2012 had been presented several gifts by the Auxiliary.

Members were then invit-ed to a dinner on Feb. 20th at 6:00 at which time they well be presented with the Hermann Sons Humanitar-ian Award for Community Service.

Sascha Kardosz and Con-nie Kacir were then pre-sented with a check in the amount of $15,000 toward the purchase of Digital Mammography equipment for the hospital.

The February meeting will be in the hospital dining room on the 28th.

By EVA BOSCAMP

Special to The Cannon

Hospital CEO speaksto hospital auxiliary

SEGUIN — If you’re a fan of vintage country music, you’ll want to be at the Fiesta Ballroom, 735 East IH-10, on Fri-day, Feb. 10 as The Al-most Patsy Cline Band performs for the 4th An-nual Sweetheart Valen-tine Dance sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of America Court #2505.

The event raises money

for local scholarships. Doors open at 7 p.m. and dancing will be from 8 p.m.-midnight.

Pre-sale tickets are $15 and available at Karen McMillan Realtors, the Seguin Chamber of Com-merce, Orlando Castanon Attorney at Law or by calling Gloria Nolan at 830-285-1944 or Cathy Hajek at 830-303-3712. Tickets at the door will be $20.

In addition to music

from the Patsy Cline era, the band offers a wwide variety of music includ-ing classic country, clas-sic rock and pop. Dubbed the “Official Goodwill Ambassadors of Ban-dera,” the band loves playing music to dance to.

The Texas Commission on the Arts has placed The Almost Patsy Cline Band on the 2010-12 Touring Artists and com-panies Roster, a Who’s Who of touring Texas cultural acts. TCA un-derwrites many perfor-mances by the band at fairs, festivals and other non-profit events.

In 2006, the band was awarded the Cowboy Capital Award by the Bandera County Cham-ber of Commerce for pro-moting Bandera as the Cowboy Capital of the World.

“We’re very proud to be from such a great Texas town,” says Lanette Pen-nell, bassist/songwriter/vocalist. “And we’re excit-ed about coming to share our music in Seguin.”

Pennell teams with ac-tress/keyboardist/vocal-ist Vicki Gillespie to front the band. other members include guitarists and vo-calists Larry Lucas and Larry Nolen Jr., along with drummer/vocalist Rick Reynolds.

“It’s magic, and the people feel it,” Gillespie says. “We like to play songs that everyone knows — fun and mean-ingful songs that revive fond memories.”

bies, made its cable network debut last Friday night on Chiller (Time Warner digi-tal channel 465). It was also the first time Davis had a chance to view the finished product, since he was un-able to attend the premiere.

“My car broke down and it seemed like I just had bad luck on my side,” he said about missing the film’s theatrical debut. “My first time seeing it was last Friday and I thought it was awesome. Sitting on the couch watching it with my wife and kids, seeing my kids scared and my wife all jittery, it was a good thing.”

Acting wasn’t the only skill Davis was able to work on while on the set.

He was also able to glean enough to become an ef-fective makeup artist.

“I’ve made up my kids every Halloween since,” he said. “Some people learn by doing and other people learn by watching some-body else do it. I’m one of those people that can watch and learn.”

Since the zombies are of-ten seen flying around the screen at high speeds, you have to look closely to pick up Davis.

During the scene where the film’s hero, David, (played by veteran actor Tom Lagleder) is looking for his wife in the corn-field, Davis is the zombie that gets hit in the head by David with a tire iron. Another scene where

Davis can be clearly dis-cerned is the one where he smashes the window out of the driver’s side of a police car and helps a mob of zombies extract the terrified sheriff from the vehicle.

Although the stunts were carefully planned out and orchestrated, Da-vis said one did get a bit out of hand.

“There’s another scene where I have to tackle this soldier and when I hit him, I really hurt his leg,” he recalled with a smile. “We shot that scene a bunch of times trying to get it right. It must have taken over four hours do-ing the same thing over and over in the same spot.”

Davis had the opportu-nity to be in more scenes, but he was involved in a car accident that prevent-ed him from returning to the set.

“This lady ran right up under my car and injured my neck,” he said. “But now that I’m feeling bet-ter, I’m going to try to get into more shows.”

Davis lives in Gonzales with his wife, Rachel; and their three children, Teni-cha, Larry and Savone.

“The Killing Strain” is being shown on Chiller several times during the first two weeks of Febru-ary. The last two airings will take place Saturday, Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. and 11 p.m.


A Tribute toGonzales Legend

Al Urban

Date: Saturday -- Feb. 11, 2012Place: Longbranch Saloon, 315 St. Lawrence, GonzalesTime: 5 Till Close

Master of Ceremony: Paul Elder

Attn: ALL MUSICIANS & CUSTOMERS, we are having a Tribute to our wonderful buddy

“Al Urban” which we lost on January 18, 2012. Al was a very wonderful man, good musician, song writer and singer. He would set with our original

jam night people and play and sing his heart out. So on Saturday the 11th of Feb., we will all set around again and play some good ole country music for Al.

Please bring your instruments and join in our tribute to Al Urban.

For more info see Patsy or call her at 672-9050

Howard’sA C-Store with (More)

1701 N. Ave. EShiner

361-594-4200

LiveMusic

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Beer - Bait - Ammo

Thursday, Feb. 9Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole

Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.

Friday, Feb. 10Scotty Thurman at Scooter’s Dancehall,

Moulton. Tickets $8.Chris Rybak (11 a.m.) and Dr. Zog (4:30

p.m.) at Ragin Cajun Throwdown, Luling. No charge.

Almost Patsy Cline at 4th Annual Val-entine Sweetheart Dance, Fiesta Balltoom, Seguin. Doors open 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11Jason Boland w/Trevor Cole Band at

Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton. Tickets $20.Dolly Shine at Mardi Gras Galveston,

show begins 2 p.m.


Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.

Friday, Feb. 17Adam Hood with Bri Bagwell at Scoot-

er’s Dancehall, Moulton. Tickets $10.Vic Patek Band at Howard’s. Shiner,

7:30 p.m.

Dolly Shine at Yoakum Gin & Feed. Doors open 7 p.m. Tickets $8.

Saturday, Feb. 18Zack Walther Band at Howard’s, Shiner,

doors open 8 p.m.


Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.Clint Martin at Houston Livestock Show

& Rodeo Barbecue Cookoff, Houston

Friday, Feb. 24Clint Martin at Houston Livestock Show

& Rodeo Barbecue Cookoff, HoustonblacktopGYPSY at Yoakum Gin & Feed.

Doors open 7 p.m. Tickets $8.

Saturday, Feb. 25Clint Martin at Houston Livestock Show

& Rodeo Barbecue Cookoff, HoustonBill Pekar & The Rainey Brothers at

Howard’s, Shiner, doors open 8 p.m.Tequila Black at Running M Bar & Grill,

Gonzales, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.TJ Broscoff at Yoakum Gin & Feed.

Doors open 7 p.m. Tickets $8.

Sunday, Feb. 26George Ensle at Howard’s. Shiner, 3

p.m.

Musicians and Venues: To add or update events, contact us via e-mail to [email protected].

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A local man had the op-portunity to put his acting skills on display and now the whole world can bear witness.

Larry Davis of Gonzales landed a role as a zombie in the horror film, “The Killing Strain.” The movie was released in theaters last summer and is cur-rently enjoying a revival on the Chiller cable network.

Davis’ path to the big screen began innocently enough - all it took was one phone call.

“I saw an advertisement on TV three years ago say-ing this movie company needed some extras,” he explained. “I called the number, went over and auditioned, and ended up getting in a couple of major scenes in the film.”

Davis found himself on the film’s set, which was located in rural Bexar County just outside of San Antonio. A novice to the industry, Davis was ex-tremely impressed with the

entire moviemaking expe-rience.

“Man, it was awesome,” he said. “There was what seemed like a million peo-ple around this old house. The house was actually like a dog run just sitting on the outskirts of town. The shoots were really long. I was there for like a week.”

While most of the 150 unpaid extras found their work left behind on the cutting room floor, Davis was fortunate enough to appear on camera more than once.

“There were a lot of peo-ple that came out, but they just didn’t make the mov-ie,” he said. “Knowing that I was able to make some scenes makes me want to further this as a career. I think I played a pretty good zombie and I imag-ine and I can make some more.”

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Aaron Gaytan applies a tag at second base to Sam Houston’s Gary Reed during a game from last season. Gaytan is one of four juniors expected to contribute heavily to a playoff run for Gonzales under new head coach Larry Wuthrich. (Cannon File Photo)

The latest UIL realign-ment has been released and area Class 1A teams Shiner and Flatonia will no longer be in the same district.

Flatonia is grouped with schools to its north in Wei-mar, Holland, Thorndale and Thrall in District 13-1A DI, while Shiner is in District 15-1A DI with Ga-

nado, Kenedy, Three Rivers and Yorktown.

“I just thought for sure we were going to have Fla-tonia and Weimar in our district because we’re so close together,” Shiner head coach Steven Cerny said. “I was surprised when they dropped us in there with Kenedy and Three Rivers. I’ve learned to expect the unexpected over the years.”

“Three Rivers is going

be tough. They got a lot of yards on Refugio last year. It’s going be a struggle.”

“Shiner and us in differ-ent districts is a big shock,” said Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag. “It came down to we are more north than Shiner and they need-ed another north team, while Shiner is more to-wards the south.”

“We went from a tough district into another tough

district with Thorndale be-ing really good and Shiner being a preseason top 10.”

The Gonzales Apaches will remain with rivals Cuero and Yoakum, but the trio has moved to Dis-trict 26-3A in which three schools north of Interstate 10 on the way to Houston will join with them.

Giddings, La Grange and Smithville move into the district, replacing the

previous arrangement with San Antonio-area pro-grams La Vernia, Poteet, Pleasanton and Sam Hous-ton, who still compose part of District 28-3A.

“I think it will a very competitive district,” Gon-zales head coach Ricky Lock said. “We went from a seven-team district down to a six-team district. It will cut down on our travel, but the new alignments are

usually going to surprise you.”

He also added it was a good thing to keep the Gonzales rivalry with Cu-ero and Yoakum intact as part of district play.

Cuero head coach Rick Owens said the new dis-trict will be tougher.

“It will be more com-petitive than the district we

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New-look Apaches focusing on playing the right way

GONZALES - First-year Gonzales head baseball coach Larry Wuthrich has three goals for the 2012 Fightin’ Apaches baseball team: make the grades, learn to play baseball the right way, and have fun while doing so.

He especially wants them to learn how to play right and to have passion for the game of baseball.

“I expect to us to get bet-ter with each game,” said Wuthrich.

The strength of this year’s team will be the enthusi-asm of the junior class.

“Tyler Janota is a return-ing all-district player and he will be called upon for leadership,” Wuthrich said. “Aaron Gaytan got a lot of playing time last year and so did Devin Benes. Tyler Morgan got his feet wet as well.”

“These juniors show up every day enthusiastic and try to get better each day.”

He said the Apaches are working on fundamentals and that he hopes their skills in April and May will be better than what they are in February.

“The more you practice skills and theories, the bet-ter you get at them,” Wuth-rich said. “I think we are better now than we were a

week ago. I think our work ethic is top notch.”

Janota will lead the pitch-ing corps as he is the only returner hurler with varsity experience. Behind him are junior varsity players Trey Kridler and Gaytan.

“Trey and Aaron had success pitching on the JV last year so we will call on them,” Wuthrich said.

Also in the pitching mix are Morgan and Joe Ryan Carrizales. Devin Benes returns as the Apaches’ catcher.

“Devin showed a lot of growth last year and re-ally took charge,” Wuthrich said. “He really learned the art of catching. He works the bullpen every day. Devin gets to know all of the pitchers, their strengths and their weaknesses.”

“He shows the ambi-tion to learn pitching and wants to learn how to man-age pitchers, which is a big plus.”

The pitching lineup will determine the defensive alignment.

“When we change pitch-ers, we will change the in-field,” he said. “Tyler Janota and Trey will rotate at first base.

Other infield spots are still being determined by the coaches, but Wuthrich mentioned Morgan and D.J. Gonzales for second and third bases with Mor-

gan Martinez, along with Gaytan competing at short stop.

In the outfield, Morgan is the only returning starter.

“If Tyler Morgan is moved to the infield, we will have to shore up some things in the outfield,” Wuthrich said. “Tyler and D.J. are both candidates, and so is Trey Lester, who played a lot in the outfield last year on JV.”

The Apaches will have the services of Donald Cartwright after the con-clusion of the Gonzales boys’ basketball season.

“We have to put our best hitters on the field,” said Wuthrich. “If someone is hitting the ball well we have to find place for them (on defense).”

In a recent preseason scrimmage against Nix-on-Smiley, Wuthrich said Gonzales did a good job of putting the ball into play.

“Our hitters respected the opposing team’s pitch-er,” he said. “We will face strong pitching over the course of the year. They stuck the ball up and we hit it. You never want to give the pitcher any more re-spect than he deserves.”

Wuthrich said the teams in Gonzales’ district, as well as some of the surrounding area teams, play some good baseball and are great am-


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Brahma SplitByron Martin slips between two defenders during Luling’s win over Stockdale Tuesday night. (Photo by Mark Lube)

LULING — After see-ing the Eagles lose some of their momentum in the second half Friday against Stockdale, head coach Clint Anderson was glad they had played well in the first half of the game.

“We played better in the first half than expected,” he said. “In the second half, we got into some foul trouble and I knew Stock-dale would make a lot of their free throws.”

Luling finished the job in a 77-69 victory over the Brahmas to improve to 8-14 and 3-7 in district with just two games left to play in the season.

“Stockdale ran their press in the second half, and instead of running our press breaker to counter it, we tried to dribble through it,” Anderson said. “We

had to settle down. In the end, we got the win.”

The Eagles will next play Universal City-Randolph and finish off their sched-ule with No. 3 San Antonio Cole.

Anderson said Luling will be fine if it plays like the first half of the Stock-dale home game.

“I think we can compete with Randolph and against Cole, well, anything is pos-sible,” he said.

The Eagles opened the game with a 6-2 advan-tage as Josh Alvarez, Byron Martin and Darion Sayles made some early shots. The Brahmas closed down to 6-5 on the triple from Colton West.

Stockdale eventually got within 10-9. Luling then went on a 12-4 run with eight points from Sayles on two long-range shots and a shorter-range bucket. To end the quarter, Cody

Hastings made a layup and West dropped in a very long three-point basket at the buzzer.

In the second quarter, Martin got hot and bagged eight of Luling’s first 10 points for a 32-23 ad-vantage. During the run, Stockdale had managed to close down to 27-23 on baskets from West and Hastings.

Brendan Cubit, Juan Ordonez and Billy Med-ford also contributed some points as Luling built a 41-26 halftime advantage, with Martin sinking 14 points in the quarter.

In the third quarter, the Brahmas took 15 free throws and sank 11 of them for half of their 22 points as they held Luling to 14 points. Hastings, West, Kelson Anderman, Caleb Sanchez and Josh Vela all connected on field


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GONZALES - It is a good thing that Gonzales was not hunting for food because they would have come home with very little to eat Tuesday night.

The Apaches had trouble with their marksmanship - making few baskets and converting on just as few from the charity stripe - in a 46-41 loss to the La Ver-nia Bears.

“We did not cash in on free throws and buckets,” Gonzales head coach Jason Tucker said. “Our number of turnovers was good, I think we were only in the single digits. We also played well on defense, especially in the first half.”

“In the third quarter, we had a couple of bad turn-overs and bad sequences.”

The first quarter went back and forth as Kenny Moehrig opened scoring with a jumper and Gonza-les surged ahead slightly as Donald Cartwright made a three-point basket. After the Bears tied the game 3-3 on free throws, the lead was changed three times before Gonzales got a free throw from Jared Smit for a 6-6 tie at the end of the first period.

In the second frame, Colby Simms dropped in a long-range shot to put the Bears ahead 11-8. The Apaches reclaimed the lead, 12-11, with some free throws.

Thomas Burris put La Vernia back on top 14-12 to cap three straight points, and then Gonzales took the lead 17-14 after baskets and points from Cameron Smith, Cartwright and An-thony Sullivan.

La Vernia then closed out the second period with

an 8-0 run, paced by five points from Aaron Grubb, for a 22-17 halftime lead.

The Bears held onto the momentum with a 7-2 run to open the third quarter. Gonzales rallied with a bas-ket from Smit, free throws from Darrance James and a triple from Chris Garcia, driving to within 29-24. La Vernia closed out the pe-riod’s scoring with a three-point field goal by Dalton Dennehy.

The Apaches battled to within 34-31 as James scored off a steal and little later, converted a three-point play. La Vernia then scored five of the next sev-en for a 39-33 margin.

Smith scored twice to bring the Apaches to within 41-37. The Bears finished

off the game with a narrow 5-4 scoring advantage.

Game SummaryLa Vernia 46, Gonzales

41La Vernia: Colby Simms

3 5-8 12, Aaron Grubb 4 2-4 10, Kenny Moehrig 3 3-6 9, Dillon Pickens 3 0-0 6, Thomas Burris 2 0-0 4, Dalton Dennehy 1 0-0 3, Jose Sahagun 1 0-2 2. Totals 17 10-20 46.

Gonzales: Cameron Smith 4 4-6 12, Darrance James 2 4-5 8, Donald Cart-wright 2 2-4 7, Jared Smit 1 3-4 5, Chris Garcia 2 0-1 5, Anthony Sullivan 1 0-0 2, Tanner Davis 1 0-2 2. Totals 13 13-22 41.

Score By PeriodsLV 6 16 10 14-46G 6 11 7 17-41

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Top Doubles DuoGonzales tennis team members Josh Estrada (left) and Keaton Smith won first place in boys doubles at the Yoakum Tournament, held on Feb. 2-3. The team will next be in action on Feb. 16 at the Shiner Invitational. (Courtesy photo)

Shooting woes lead to loss for Gonzales

RejectedAaron Grubb swats away a shot from Gonzales’ Dar-rance James during La Vernia’s win over the Apaches Tuesday night. (Photo by Mark Lube)


Cuero Little League Baseball/Softball registra-tion for the upcoming sea-son will be held at the Little League Complex on Feb. 11 and 18 from 1 to 3 p.m., and Feb. 15 and 22 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Cost is $80 per child and $75 for additional children. A $40 late fee will apply af-ter Feb. 25. A mandatory skills test will be performed Feb. 26 for all players in major and minor leagues. For more information, call 361-935-4643.

Registration for the spring season of Cu-ero Area Soccer Associa-tion currently underway. League ages range from those born by Aug. 1, 2007 up through high school.

Registration may be made by mail by sending in forms postmarked no later than Feb. 11. There will also be on-site registrations Feb. 4 and 11 at the CASA Field House (across from the air-

port) from 9 a.m. to noon.

St. Paul swimmers sixth at TAPPS Regionals

On Feb. 4, the St. Paul swim team attended the 2012 TAPPS Southern Re-gional Championship in Pearland. The team did wonderfully, earning sixth place in the 200-yard med-ley relay with a time of 3 minutes, 13.55 seconds.

In the 50 freestroke, Vic-toria Kusac placed 17th with a time of 39.49, Emma Holley placed 18th with a time of 40.04 and Christine Bittick placed 19th with a time of 40.44. The team took fifth in the 200 free relay with a time of 2:46.60. Bittick had to withdrawal from the 100 backstroke due to a overextended ten-don.

While in the 100 breast-

stroke, Kusac placed 14th with a time of 1:50.65, Hol-ley placed 16th with a time of 1:55.07 and Rebecca Bittick placed 18th with 2:07.24.

The girls will now ad-vance to the state meet, which will take place Feb. 17-18 in San Antonio.

Harrison signs with A&M-Kingsville

Yoakum quarterback Jeff Harrison signed last week to play football for the Texas A&M-Kingsville Ja-velinas. Harrison is slated to play quarterback for the Division II South Texas program.

“It is a great deal for Jeff,” Yoakum head football coach Brent Kornegay said. “Jeff has always worked hard and improved every year. To play college ball has always been a goal of his and I am very proud of him.”

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GONZALES - Year One of the Andre D’Aversa era concluded in an unlikely, but positive way on Tues-day night - with a “W.”

The Lady Apaches held off the La Vernia Lady Bears 36-35 at the GHS Special Events Center. Un-fortunately, Gonzales’ Fri-day loss to San Antonio Sam Houston ended any chance at postseason for the Tribe.

“This is how it should have been with some of our other games,” said D’Aversa.

On a night where Gon-zales bid farewell to eight seniors, it was only poetic justice that a senior made the play that won the game.

La Vernia’s Kayla Mark-graf nailed a pair of free throws to give the visitors a 35-34 lead with 21 seconds left. Gonzales then drove down the court, missed the initial shot which was re-bounded by Brittany Pak-ebush, and she put it back into the net with a mere eight seconds left to play.

“That win was what we needed to go out with pride,” Pakebusch said. “There is no better feeling to have scored the winning basket of my last game.”

D’Aversa said Gonzales really excelled in its defen-sive play.

“The girls played defense well,” he said. “We went to a 3-2 and did not press. We did not give up as many la-yups.”

Early in the first frame, it was a Pakebusch three-point play that gave the Lady Apaches a 3-2 lead. La Vernia went on a quick 9-0

run and Gonzales fought back with a Pakebusch score and Donniqua Sand-ers free throw to trail just 11-6 at the end of the first quarter.

In the second box, Sand-ers made some more free throws but the Lady Bears connected on a couple of field goals and held an 16-8 advantage.

La Vernia started miss-ing shots and Gonzales got a trio of buckets from Vancheska Russell to close the gap to 16-14. Brooke Martinez nailed a jumper to boost La Vernia to a 18-14 halftime lead.

Buckets were exchanged to start the third box,

keeping La Vernia’s lead at four points. The Lady Bears started having trouble making shots and free throws, and the Lady Apaches took advantage with baskets from Sanders and Pakebusch and a free throw from Sanders for a 21-20 margin.

Taylor Penshorn scored for the Lady Bears to boost them up by one point, 22-21, at the end of the third despite Gonzales limited them to just four points. To kick off the fourth quarter, La Vernia had another lull in shooting and Gonzales took advantage - getting a field goal from Loni Lester,

FearlessDonniqua Sanders drives right into the heart of the La Vernia defense during Gonzales’ win over the Lady Bears Tuesday night. (Photo by Mark Lube)


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were in,” he said. “And it will be tougher in all sports.”

Owens agreed it is a good thing for the Gob-blers to be in the same dis-trict with their rivals Gon-zales and Yoakum. He also said the travel to Giddings, La Grange and Smithville will be similar to La Vernia, Poteet or Sam Houston.

Yoakum coach Brent Ko-rnegay said he feels the new district will be a good one.

“I am not surprised by the makeup,” he said. “I fig-ured we had two options: our district would remain the same or we would be placed in a district with schools to the north.”

Nixon-Smiley retained Poth, Stockdale and Karnes City in District 15-2A DII, but have a slightly spread out rest of the district with Natalia, Dilley and Cotul-la, who are located along the I-35 corridor between San Antonio and Laredo. The Mustangs also gained a new district mate in Bloomington, which is in the Victoria area.

“Not a lot of surprises,” Nixon-Smiley head coach Carlton McKinney said. “I assume we would keep most of the core teams.”

“I was not surprised at Bloomington because the two of us have been in the

same district before, but I was surprised at Cotulla coming in. The district will be pretty competi-tive. There will be four or five schools that field good football teams consistent-ly.”

The Luling Eagles also have a distance-challenged composition to the new district 15-2A DI, which includes San Antonio-area schools Jourdanton, Mar-ion, San Antonio Brooks and San Antonio Cole, as well as George West and Goliad, which dropped down from 3A.

Luling head coach Mi-chael Waldie said he was a little surprised about the district makeup.

“The first thing that jumped out at me was oth-er than Marion, there’s no crossover opponent from our previous district. It’s the fear of the unknown factor,” he said. “I did not see us going south. I had a scenario prepared for us going west or east. I even saw a way we would be go-ing north, but it just goes to show you that you never know what to expect from the UIL.”

“The second thing that stood out to me was any-time you can lose Lago Vista, Blanco and Comfort from your district, that’s a good thing. I think it will be really good for our

team, considering the tal-ent we loss. There’s always travel concerns but when you have the Division I/Division II thing, that’s al-ways going to be there. At the end of the day, it’s going to be all about what we do.”

Hallettsville in District 14-2A DI retains its previ-ous district mates (Altair Rice, Edna, Hempstead, Vanderbilt Industrial) with Palacios coming in, but Van Vleck and Hitchcock going out.

Brahmas head coach Tommy Psencik said the changes were what he had hoped for.

“We are glad to not be in the same district as Hitch-cock because of the driv-ing distance,” he said. “It worked out real well.”

The alignment also re-duced the number of teams in the district from seven teams to six, which was also welcomed news by Psencik.

No changes were made regarding Moulton and Waelder, who will still play basketball in District 31-1A DII with Nordheim, Austwell-Tivoli and Prairie Lea.

The cutoff numbers for the classification were slightly different than the 2010 realignment.

Class 5A schools have an enrollment of 2,090 & up, while 4A schools range from 2,089 to 1,005. Class 3A schools have between 1,004 and 450 students, while the Class 2A num-bers are between 449 and 200. Class 1A is 199 and below, with schools that have enrollments of 99 or lower given the option to compete in Six-Man foot-ball.

The break numbers be-tween the Division I and Division II designation is 297.5 for Class 2A, 150.5 for Class 1A 11-Man, and 53.5 for Class 1A Six-Man.

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Continued from page C1bassadors for the game.

“We are sitting in a district where baseball is played the right way,” Wuthrich said. “A 28-3A district game reflects on the baseball in this whole area. You will see baseball played the right way and played with passion. We are trying to stress playing the game with passion.”

“I think we are fortunate to be in the district and area that we are in. There is not a whole lot of foolishness in these local programs and the coaches promote the game and coach their teams well.”

To show the strength of District 28-3A, Yoa-kum is ranked 9th in the Texas High School Base-ball Coaches Association’s (THSBCA) Preseason Poll.

“Based on what they did last year and in the past, Yoakum deserves that kind of respect,” said Wuthrich. “All three teams (Yoakum, Cuero, La Vernia) in the playoffs last year will have to be looked at as being

strong.”“Pleasanton plays good

ball and Poteet has always had good pitching. Some-times, they have depth problems at pitching like we do occasionally.”

In fact, the only un-known commodity in the district is San Antiono Sam Houston.

“Talking with their coach, they have baseball players on campus,” said Wuthrich. “It is a matter for recruiting them and getting them out on the team.”

“The coach does a good job of getting the boys out that he does and his goal is to get a few more play-ers out there. A lot of them have never been asked to play baseball before. He is trying to open that door for them.”

Gonzales will play Bas-trop Cedar Creek, Kyle Lehman and Smithville in non-district. They will host the Gonzales Tourna-ment (Feb. 23-25), and play in the Yoakum Tourna-ment (March 1-3) and the Hallettsville Tournament

(March 8-10).Wuthrich praised the

rich history of the Gonzales program.

“What Coach (Eric) Winkenwerder and the previous coaches have done here is incredible,” he said. “They have established a legacy here in Gonza-les and it does not matter where you go in this area, when people see you are from Gonzales, it naturally raises their expectations of how you are going to play the game and conduct yourself. That is a credit to the coaches that have come before me.”

“We just hope to get back to that level as we stumbled a little bit last year. I think we approach things with our eyes wide open and know what it is going to take.”

Wuthrich will be assisted by longtime Gonzales assis-tant coach Joey Carrizales and Jimmy Cox.

NOTES: The Apache Alumni scrimmage is slat-ed to be held Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. at the baseball field.

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BASEBALL: Tough district teams stand in way of playoffs

goals for the Brahmas.The start of the fourth

stanza turned into a three-point shooting contest between Sayles and West. West had a pair of ultra-downtown shots while Sayles connected on threes that were a little closer as Stockdale was able to inch within 62-60.

Both teams converted some free throws over the

next several minutes as Luling edged away 74-64. West made one last long three-point bucket to close down to 72-67.

Luling then made five of six free throws down the stretch for the victory.

Game SummaryLuling 77, Stockdale 69Stockdale: Colton West

10 2-4 27, Kelson An-derman 4 6-6 14, Cody Hastings 5 3-3 14, Rob-

ert Bischak 2 1-2 5, Caleb Sanchez 1 2-2 4, Josh Vela 1 0-0 3, Trevor Thompson-Baumann 1 0-0 2. Totals 24 14-17 69.

Luling: Byron Martin 8 8-17 25, Darion Sayles 8 1-2 22, Billy Medford 5 10-10 21, Kelvin Larkin 2 1-2 5, Josh Alavarez 1 0-2 2, Brendan Cubit 1 0-0 2. To-tals 25 20-33 77.

Score by PeriodsS 18 8 22 21-69L 22 19 14 22-77

EAGLES: Luling trio tops 20+Continued from page C1

a combined 4-of-4 from the line from Sanders and Tay-lor West and another Lester score to go up 29-22.

La Vernia got a triple from Markgraf to help close down to 29-26 and later to 31-28. The Lady Apaches went up 34-28 on points from Russell and Sanders.

It was then a 7-0 run from La Vernia on a Cath-erine Reed triple and some free throws before Pake-busch stepped up for Gon-zales.

It was a fun roller-coaster ride for D’Aversa during the

season.“Coaching girls is ad-

venturous,” he said. “They drive me crazy, I drive them crazy. That’s okay as long as we get smarter and better each day.”

The Lady Apaches fell in two games last week, 48-42 to Cuero (Jan. 31) and 55-36 to Sam Houston (Feb. 3). They finished at 11-21 overall and 6-6 in district.

The junior varsity team fell in their recent games to Cuero, Sam Houston and La Vernia, but finished the season at 18-7 overall and 8-4 in district.

Game SummaryGonzales 36, La Vernia

35La Vernia: Kristine Krey

4 2-4 10, Kayla Markgraf 2 4-6 9, Catherine Reed 2 1-3 6, Taylor Penshorn 1 2-2 4, Alexandra Cruz 1 0-0 2, Kelsee Penshorn 1 0-0 2, Brooke Martinez 1 0-0 2. Totals 12 9-15 35.

Gonzales: Vancheska Russell 5 0-0 10, Brittany Pakebusch 4 1-1 9, Donni-qua Sanders 1 7-18 9, Loni Lester 2 2-2 6, Taylor West 0 2-2 2. Totals 12 12-23 36.

Score by PeriodsLV 11 7 4 13-35


LADY APACHES: Finish just shy of qualifying for playoffs

From coaches reports

SEGUIN - The Gonzales boys powerlifting team fin-ished second at the Seguin Matador meet on Feb. 2 with 43 points, only five be-hind the winner, Lockhart.

Josh Estrada won the 123-pound class with a 800-pound total (300 squat, 195 bench press, 305 dead-lift) and Dalton Couch fol-lowed with a 665 total (250 squat, 115 bench press, 300 deadlift).

George Olivo came in fifth in the 148 class with a total of 850 (320 squat, 230 bench press, 300 deadlift). D.J. Gonzales was third in the 165 class with a 980 to-

tal (415 squat, 215 bench press, 350 deadlift).

Zack Lopez won the 181 class with a 1,130 total (385 squat, 265 bench press, 480 deadlift) and Hunter Noack won the 198 class with a 1,240 total (475 squat, 265 bench press, 500 deadlift).

Landon Lock placed first in the 220 class with a 1,495 total (600 squat, 315 bench press, 580 deadlift).

Levin Snider placed sev-enth in the 242 class with a total of 950 (360 squat, 240 bench press, 350 deadlift) and Zac Perez-Clack was runner-up in the 275 class with a 1,320 total ( 525 squat, 315 bench press, 480 deadlift).

The Lady Apaches came in third at the meet with a team score of 22 points.

Laci Lock won the 132 class with a 595 total (235 squat, 100 bench press, 260 deadlift).

Alexis Cerda was fourth in the 148 class with a total of 515 (185 squat, 85 bench press, 245 deadlift).

Elea Molina won the 165 class with a 730 to-tal (280 squat, 140 bench press, 310 deadlift) and Pilar Hood followed with a 605 total (240 squat, 110 bench press, 255 deadlift). Ashton Miller came in fifth in the 165 class with a 500 total (170 squat, 100 bench press, 230 deadlift).

GHS powerlifters muscle their way to second and third place

LULING —Down by seven points at the start of the fourth quarter, the Lady Eagles needed some kind of boost.

And they got it with a little dose of good ‘ole adrenaline Friday night in a 52-49 win over Stock-dale.

“It just kicked in for us,” said guard Carley Glass. “I am proud of my team. We did a good job of commu-nicating and handling the ball.”

Glass connected on a triple early in the fourth period, followed by a bas-ket from Cayla Taylor, and another shot from Glass to tie the game at 42-42 with 4:15 left to play.

The Lady Brahmas went ahead 44-42 about a min-ute later on the field goal by Kat Wehmeyer. Luling drew level at 44-44 with a offensive rebound and score from Amanda Lee.

Lee assisted on a Hanna

Luling comes back to claim victory in must-win contest

Under PressureAdrianna Morales gets off a shot under duress dur-ing the Lady Eagles’ win over Stockdale Friday night. (Photo by Mark Lube)LADY EAGLES, Page C4


Clark bucket to give Luling a 46-44 lead with 2:05 left. Adrianna Morales then hit 1-for-2 from the free-throw line to go up 47-44.

Wehmeyer scored with 1:35 left to bring Stockdale to within 47-46. Clark made a couple of free throws and Luling held a 49-46 cushion with around a minute left.

They added to the pad as Glass got a steal. The ball later got into the grasp of Lindsey Rios, who then fed Clark for layup and a 51-46 lead with 57 seconds left in the game. The teams traded a free throw to keep a five-point margin for Luling at 52-47 with 27 seconds to go.

Jewls Templeton convert-ed two more free throws to cut Stockdale’s deficit to 52-49 with 17.3 seconds left. With 14.4 seconds to go, Stockdale had the ball but was unable to score and Luling had possession with 11.7 seconds left.

The Lady Eagles missed a couple of free throws, and Stockdale’s MaKaley Perez

missed a game-tying three-point bucket with just two seconds left.

The game was a must-win for playoffs for the Lady Eagles.

“We looked at it like win and in, or lose and out,” Luling head coach Scott Jones said. “Our players wanted this one badly and never stopped playing, and Stockdale is a very good team.”

Luling (14-10, 7-4) held a five-point lead with less than a minute left. The ad-vantage was nowhere near comfortable for the Lady Eagles.

“I felt it was pretty tough to defend our lead for just seconds,” Glass said.

The Lady Brahmas opened the game with an 8-5 advantage as Wehm-eyer did damage with the first four Stockdale field goals and Glass produced some points to counter. A Clark basket and later a free throw, helped push the Luling lead to 12-10 at the end of the quarter.

Stockdale needed just an 8-2 run to kick off the sec-ond box, taking an 18-14

advantage. Two Morales free throws

later in the quarter put Luling up 22-20 before Stockdale ended the frame with five of the next six points.

Stockdale got a bigger lead early in the third with the first seven points as Sarah Holguin made two buckets and Perez drained a long-range basket.

Luling rallied from a 35-27 deficit later on with points from Morales, clos-ing down to 35-33.

Game SummaryLuling 52, Stockdale 49Stockdale: Kat Wehmey-

er 10 3-5 23, MaKaley Perez 3 0-0 9, Sarah Holguin 4 0-0 8, Jewls Templeton 2 2-2 7, LaShay Castro 1 0-0 2. Totals 20 5-7 49.

Luling: Carley Glass 9 1-4 20, Hannah Clark 4 4-7 12, Adrianna Morales 4 3-5 11, Cayla Taylor 1 1-2 3, Maria Castillo 1 0-1 2, Amanda Lee 1 0-0 2, Miranda Shef-field 1 0-0 2. Totals 21 10-19 52.

Score by PeriodsS 10 15 15 9-49L 12 11 12 17-52

LADY EAGLES: Claim berth to playoffs with home victory


Hoops RoundupArea teams wrap up district titles

From coaches’ reports

The Lady Bulldogs, Bob-kittens and Lady Coman-ches closed out their sea-sons with district crowns and first-round byes in their respective upcoming playoffs.

Moulton pounded Waelder, 69-10, Tuesday and is 22-9 and 10-0. Me-gan Mitchon and Brandee Dolezal scored 10 points each, while Casie Zimmer-man banked in 12 points. For Waelder, Chelsa Nich-ols had four points while Marissa Ramirez, Jackie Garcia and Tatianna Garcia had two points each.

The Bobkittens pounded Runge, 50-21, on Friday. Mitchon sank 16 points to lead all scorers.

Yoakum (30-2, 12-0) beat San Antonio Sam Houston, 61-38, as Shardae Jones and Raeian Samuel each fin-ished with 16 points and Shervante Caldwell bagged 10 points.

Shiner defeated Louise, 63-29, to finish the regular season 25-6 and 8-0. Ryah Michalec bagged 14 points and Amanise Coleman sank 12 points.

The Shiner junior varsity won 41-4 with 19 points from Shamyra Coleman.

•The Nixon-Smiley Lady Mustangs beat San Antonio Cole, 42-26, in Friday’s ac-tion. Jazmine Erskine led Nixon with nine points in the book; Hailey Boatright, Jennifer Flores and Savan-nah Martinez sank seven points each; D’Laine Pa-lacio bagged four points; Abigail Scarbrough, Alena Alvarez and Kelby Hender-son deposited two points each, and Jordan Newman and Megan Guerra each finished with one point.

Nixon-Smiley won against San Antonio Brooks, 48-24, and is now 20-9 and 8-4. Boatright bucketed nine points while Alvarez, Erskine and Flores banked in eight points.

• The Hallettsville Brah-mas dropped a close dis-trict game to East Bernard, 52-48, on Friday. Trevor McGee paced the Brahmas with 27 points.

Hallettsville rebounded on Tuesday against Bra-zos, 69-40. McGee scored 17 points and Dalton Her-rington had 14 points with Dazon Silgeuro finishing with 11 points. Hallettsville improved to 21-6 and 8-2. The Brahmas also won the JV game, 80-30.

• The Shiner Comanches rose to 13-9 and 5-1 with a 61-28 win over Louise. Matt Pohler led Shiner with

28 points and Leo Baray bagged 12 points.

• The Sacred Heart In-dianettes got a win against San Antonio Keystone, 41-33, Friday. Arianne Kubena bucketed 18 points for Sa-cred Heart.

The Indianettes beat San Marcos Baptist, 61-31, on Tuesday. Kubena bagged 14 points and Adrienne Klimitchek chipped in 13 points. Sacred Heart is 14-7 and 10-3. The Indianettes won the JV game, 27-14, as Olivia Bohuslav scored 12 points.

• The Nixon-Smiley boys defeated San Antonio Brooks, 76-21, on Tuesday. Robbie Mejia bagged 15 points with Seth Barrow and Jaime Moreno sink-ing 13 points and Damian Perez bucketing 11 points. Nixon is 25-4 and 9-2 after the win.

• The Hallettsville Lady Brahmas raced ahead of East Bernard, 45-33, on Friday. Lauren Jones sank 15 points and Heather Hen-neke bucketed 10 points. East Bernard won the JV game, 32-18.

Hallettsville went to 20-11 and 8-4 with a 67-22 win over Brazos. Shataira Runnels had 14 points and Cassidy Targac chipped in 10 points. Hallettsville won the JV contest, 42-13, with 10 points from Elise Rother.

• The Waelder Lady Wildcats fell to Austwell-

Tivoli, 48-7, Friday. Court-ney Orona and Nichols scored three points each.

• The Sacred Heart Indi-ans defeated San Antonio Keystone, 76-38, in dis-trict action on Friday. Evan Wick bagged 12 points and Scott Stoner chipped in 10 points.

The Indians fell to San Marcos Baptist, 75-48, to drop their record to 7-13 and 7-6. Leightin Pilat had 12 points and Cole Wick scored 11 points. San Mar-cos Baptist won the JV game 40-31.

• The Moulton Bobkatz claimed a 47-26 win Friday over Runge. Bronson Zapa-ta had 15 points and Jason Gold contributed 14 points.

The ‘Katz got the season sweep on Waelder with a 61-41 win Tuesday. Matt Dornak had 21 points for Moulton while Tyler Schwartz and Jacob No-vosad scored 13 points. Waelder was led by Clay Orona with 21 points.

• The Flatonia Bulldogs fell to Ganado, 57-53, on Tuesday. Cole Robbins re-corded 18 points for the Bulldogs, while Colby Mica sank 15 points and Clay Branecky finished with 10 points. Flatonia won the JV game 34-21.

• The St. Paul Cardinals fell to Alvin Livingstone 49-35 on Tuesday. Dakota Kresta dropped in 15 points while Justin Natal chipped in 10 points.

Fantastic FadeawayDakota Kresta shoots a jumper over the out-stretched arm of a defender during St. Paul’s 49-35 win over Livingstone. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)

From coaches reports

The Gonzales Junior High 8th Grade B team lost to Cuero in a close game in double overtime, 20-17 on Feb. 2.

The 8th grade A team de-feated the Gobblers 56-36

to finish 11-1 on the season. The 7th grade B team de-

feated Cuero 20-4 on Feb 2, closing their season with a 9-1 winning record.

The scorers were Joe Guerrero with 8 points, Micah Medellin 4 points, Brenden Hastings 3 points,

Cody Oaks 2 points, Braden Gomez 2 points and Luis Segura with one point.

The 7th grade A team lost against Cuero. How-ever, they played hard all season with a final winning record of 6-4.

Gonzales JH teams close out fine seasons with wins over Cuero

In Hog HeavenArea young men (from left) Wade Miller, J.T. Miller, Ralston Williams, Matt Hill-man, Raylee Raley and Ty Tinsley are shown with their bounty from last week-end’s Hog Hunt in Cuero. (Courtesy photo)

West Zone GooseOutfitters said they

took limits of Canadas and a few snow geese to boot over corn and wheat during the last weekend of goose season.

Outfitters said they were surprised at how well geese cooperated this season, despite drought conditions. The regular goose season ended Feb. 5. The Light Goose Con-servation Order began Feb. 6 and few hunters took advantage of the lib-

eral rules. Hunter partici-pation this goose season was down overall, accord-ing to several sources. Prospects are fair.

East Zone GooseSoupy fog aided e-call-

er hunters throughout most of the week as mild temperatures persisted, but overall, hunter par-ticipation was minimal. Some outfitters reported 50- bird shoots. Goose concentrations along the coastal prairies were not

consistent this year, prob-ably due to drought con-ditions, however, a good crop of juvenile birds did aid in superb decoying ac-tion.

The coast received as much as six inches of rain in some spots, but on av-erage, most fields received at least two inches of rain-fall. That bodes well for all waterfowl enduring the winter, but makes it much tougher for hunters to ne-gotiate black dirt plowed fields.

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Capricorn, this week pro-vides the perfect opportunity to reconnect with old friends. Use some unforeseen down-time to do just that and enjoy the much-needed respite.

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It was American author James Thurber who made the following sage observation: “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

If you’re a fan of the original “Wizard of Oz” movie, you might be surprised to learn that the actress who played Glinda the Good Witch, Billie Burke, was 54 years old when the film was shot.

The award for the most needless war in history could very well go to Paraguay, whose president, Francisco Solano Lopez, believed himself to be an excellent tactician. He was a great admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte and wished to emulate the French emperor, but he had no wars to fight. To remedy the situation, in 1864 Lopez declared war on all three of his neighboring countries, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. His tactical abilities seem to have been of little use, however; it is estimated that 90 percent of Paraguay’s male population was killed during the course of the war.

During this time of election madness, “misology” could be a useful word to know. It means “hatred of reason.”

French novelist Marcel Proust’s magnum opus, “Remembrance of Things Past,” has been hailed as a literary masterpiece, but not everyone was a fan at first read. As Proust was trying, unsuccessfully, to find a publisher for his seven-volume work, one publisher said, “I may be dense, but I fail to see why a chap needs 30 pages to

describe how he tosses and turns in bed before falling asleep.” The author finally published the first volume with his own money; after the book was hailed as a masterpiece by critics, the same publishers who had rejected Proust competed for the opportunity to print the other six volumes of his work.

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