Gonzales Cannon Issue Nov. 3, 2011

Several localities in the region will host activities commemorating Veterans Day. A quick look at the various events:

GONZALES* A Veterans Day Celebra-

tion will be held in Gonzales on Thursday, Nov. 10, be-ginning at 10 a.m. at Apache Field. Come join us and cel-ebrate the men and women of the Armed Services.

Veterans Day is a great time to educate children

Unanticipated revenue increases from oil and gas royalties and sales taxes will help provide a pay bonus for City of Gonzales employees.

Gonzales City Council on Tues-day approved an ordinance pro-

viding a one-time pay increase for city employees based on longev-ity. The increase would be $4 per month of employment, a total cost of $43,675.

“It’s been since 2008 that the employees got a pay raise,” City Manager Allen Barnes said. “This would send a huge message to our

employees that they are appreci-ated.”

Barnes told the council that the city has experienced unexpected increases in oil and gas royalties as well as a sharp increase in state sales-tax income. Mayor Bobby O’Neal noted that the increase is not a permanent one, and can be

revisited in future budgets.The measure passed without ob-

jection.Those oil and gas revenues may

be further augmented soon, as well. During the public comment portion of the meeting, the coun-cil received a lease proposal from

Gonzales’ controversial ordinance regulating ga-rage sales remained in place after City Council voted Tuesday to reject a petition calling for its repeal, but at least one councilman said he’s willing to work with the organizers of the petition drive to perhaps amend the ordinance.

The council voted unani-mously to reject the petition on the recommendation of city attorney Jackie Wil-liamson. Williamson said the petition did not contain the signatures of enough registered voters living within city limits, based on the last contested municipal election -- an opinion she

said was double-checked through legal contacts with the Texas Municipal League.

“I rendered an opinion and the TML rendered an opinion that was the same as mine,” she said.

The petition was signed by 417 people, but only 365 turned out to be reg-istered voters living within the city limits. To force the council to act on repealing the ordinance, the peti-tion needed to be signed a number equal to by 20 per-cent of the number of vot-ers who cast ballots in the last contested city election. The 2011 elections were canceled because no candi-dates were opposed.

The ordinance limits Gonzales residents to two garage or yard sales per year and requires a city permit and fee to hold one. It was enacted because some resi-dents were holding garage

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No, it’s not bug-eyed comedian Marty Feldman imitating a dog, it’s the lovable Trixi done up in her best baseball apparel. JoAnn and Victor Martinez entered Trixi and won the Best Costume in Saturday’s first-ever Pet Parade and contest at Confederate Square in Gonzales, sponsored by the Gonzales Learning and Ca-reer Center. For more Halloween pictures of both dogs and humans from various celebrations around the area, see Pages D1-D3. (Photo by Nikki Maxwell)

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City rejectspetition ongarage sales

Happy Birthday!November 5Bailee FranksNovember 10

U.S. Marine CorpsHappy Anniversary!

November 6Jeff & Verenne Corby

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Organizer of drive says fight will continue

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• Gonzales • • Nixon • Smiley •

• Moulton • Shiner • • Waelder • Yoakum• • Luling • Flatonia •

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Walmart salutes GJH teachersWalmart donated 10 $100 gift cards to teachers at Gonzales Junior High to use for supplies or snacks for their classroom. From left are winners John Williams, Lauren Siegel, Sue Boothe, Brittany Barnett, Leslie Patteson and Karen Rasmussen, and Gonzales Wal-Mart store manager Laura Rivera. Not shown are win-ners Susan Hollimon, Jerry Scoggins, Willis Steward and Cynthia Pedersen. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Turnout remained very light at press time Wednes-day in early voting for two elections in Gonzales Coun-ty.

Through noon on Wednesday, the Gonzales County Clerk’s office re-ported that only two early ballots had been cast in the City of Smiley’s local-option liquor sales referendum. Both of those ballots were cast at the Gonzales County Courthouse location.

In the statewide con-stitutional amendments election, a total of 95 early ballots had been cast on Wednesday. Those included 18 mail-in ballots, 56 cast at the Gonzales location, 19 at

WAELDER – The Waelder City Council unanimously agreed to help finance the operations of a lo-cal children’s advocacy center dur-ing their regular meeting Tuesday

night.The council voted to issue $1,500

to the Gonzales Regional Children’s Advocacy Center, an organization that helps children who are victims of abuse and/or neglect. The entity, better known as Norma’s House, is one of only 64 of its kind in the

state of Texas.“We already work closely with

Chief (Jim) Taylor and the Waelder Police Department in helping chil-dren who have been victims of abuse, whether it’s sexual, physi-cal or drug-endangered,” said pro-gram coordinator/forensic inter-

viewer Tiffany Collie. “We provide counseling services and we have a family advocate who works with the families on providing anything they may need.”

Norma’s House is a non-profit or-ganization and Collie explained to

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Local groupsto observeVeterans Day

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ELECTIONS, Page A3

Richard Alan Remschel of Boy Scout Troop 135 of Fredericksburg completed his Eagle Scout Project in June and was honored at the Court of Honor, held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Sunday, October 30, 2011, with his brother, Da-vid Russell Remschel of Abilene, serving as Master of Ceremonies.

His Eagle Scout project consisted of putting four newly-constructed metal benches around the Fred-ericksburg Primary School track. They were primed, painted, and put into the ground twenty-eight inches deep. After they were lev-eled, concrete was placed in the holes to make sure they were secure. A border, filled with crushed granite, was then put around the benches to give them a fin-ished look. Richard was as-sisted by members of Troop 135, family, and friends.

After receiving his Eagle Scout awards at the church, a reception followed in St. Joseph’s Hall where guests enjoyed refreshments of an assortment of meats and cheeses, Texas Chex Mix, grapes, cookies, and punch. A cake, decorated with the Eagle Scout Medal and bordered in red, white and blue, was also served.

The registration table was centered with an eagle statuette and featured pic-tures of Richard as a young scout to his latest honor, the Eagle Scout Award. Another table featured memorabilia that Rich-ard has collected in his 11 years of scouting, from his time as a Cub Scout to his trip to the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. The hall carried out the red, white, and blue theme with balloons and his boy scout caps decorat-ing the tables, and flags and bunting placed around the

stage and in the windows. Richard is a senior

at Fredericksburg High School. He is the son of Robert and Valerie Rem-schel of Fredericksburg, and his grandparents are Bob and Jeanne Boothe and Robert Remschel, Sr. of Gonzales. Richard is also the grandson of the late Da-vid B. Walshak, Sr. and the late Leona Remschel.

Richard is the fourth member of his immedi-ate family to receive this honor. His uncle, David B. Walshak, Jr. became the first Eagle Scout in January 1975. Richard’s brother, David Russell Remschel, earned his Eagle in May

2009, followed by David B. Walshak III in August 2011, and now Richard joins the rank of those receiving this prestigious award.

Special guests were members of Troop 135, past and present troop lead-ers, many special friends and family, including: his parents, his grandparents, his brother, David R. Rem-schel of Abilene; his sisters, Robyn and Cory Remschel; his uncle, David Walshak, Jr. of Austin; his cousin, David Walshak III, also of Austin; his aunt, Ronette Walshak of Kerrville; and his aunt and uncle, Natalie and Barron Smith of Fred-ericksburg.

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Youth becomes fourth in hisfamily to achieve Eagle status

Thought for the Day

“I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find my-self in Hollywood.”

Renee Zellweger,native of Katy

November 03, 1891On this day in 1891, construction began on the Pecos High

Bridge in Val Verde County. Completed in early 1892, this structure was actually the second bridge built to serve trains traveling on the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Route, and the new crossing greatly shortened the route of the rail line. Located at a deep gorge of the Pecos River, the mammoth structure was an engineering marvel supported by twenty-four tow-ers and spanning a total length of 2,180 feet. Rising 321 feet above the river, the bridge was the highest railroad bridge in North America and third highest in the world. Judge Roy Bean of nearby Langtry served as coroner for workers killed during its construction. The Pecos High Bridge towered as a landmark for many years until a new bridge, located 440 feet downstream, opened in 1944.

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Newest Eagle ScoutRichard Alan Remschel becomes the fourth member of his immediate family to earn Eagle Scout rank. He is pictured here (at left) along with family members David B. Walshak III, David Russell Remschel, and David B. Walshak, Jr. (Courtesy Photo)

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice Sheriff’s Report for Oct. 23-29:

10/28/11Barefield, Christina Denise,

04/1986, Gonzales. Guadal-upe County Warrant – Theft of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Released on $1,000 Bond. Com-mitment/Sentence – Fraud Use

Possession of Identifying Info. Commitment/Sentence – Fraud Use Possession of Identifying Info. Released on Time Served.

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

GCSO 01DPS 04

GPD 14WPD 00NPD 01Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00

Total 20

Gonzales Municipal Court No-Show list for court date of Oct. 26:

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

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

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

by attorneys at law. Enrique Lopez FloresEmuil GreathouseHugo HernandezSepulveda Francisco MorenoBrandon Ray GarciaJose Alfonso Reyes-Hernan-

dezFabian Humberto MedranoEva GonzalesSolange Alexis MartinezJennifer TealerAshley MolinaJoshua Mario BermaCandace Nicole MoseleyBonnie WillisAnthony CastillejaJoseph Guadalupe Maldo-

nadoEugenio MartinezCarrie HoldmanJoe Dale Ochoa, Jr.Pierre ParkerJessica StatonMario Villegas HernandezMatthew David Dag

Jorge EspinoSammuel PollingCarl Brian WhiteMatthew WilliamsAmy Nicole MartinezTyler Lee McklinleyVodrich Terence GipsonSenglav OrchCales Anton RileyFranciso Javier RangelJoseph Dominic ArriolaDaniel D. FranzettiMireya AlmazanStacy Eugene HuntJoseph Lee VeraSimon CantuVictor Castillo-ChaviraJohnny CantuWilliam Marquis RobinsonJonathon Eugene HuntThe above listed defendants

need to contact the court as soon as possible at 830-672-2815. If you have any outstand-ing fines your name may make the next list.

DeWitt Co. Sheriff’s Office ReportDewitt County sheriff’s Office

Arrest Report for Week of October 21-27:

Jail Average Daily Count -78. Inmates Housed for Other Agen-cies - 8

October 21, 2011Jon Fisher, 24, of New Braunfels,

Public Intoxication, Fine of $364 (30 Days to Appear), Cuero PD

Laurie Jackson, 44, of Victoria, Class C / Speeding Over Limit 1/10 Miles Over, Fine of $299 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Norma Ruiz, 40, of Dallas, Revo-cation of Probation / Driving While Intoxicated 3rd or More, No Bond, DCSO

October 23, 2011Christopher Ureste, 23, of York-

town, Violation of Probation/ Bur-glary of Building, No Bond, Burglary of Habitation, Bond of $25,000, Terroristic Threat, Bond of $1,000,

Criminal Mischief, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

October 24, 2011Andrew Rios, 22, of Yorktown,

Driving While License Invalid En-hanced, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Melissa Gamez, 33, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine/ Theft<$50 With Previous Conviction, Fine of $277, Cuero PD

October 25, 2011David Ramirez, 42, of Ganado,

Public Intoxication, Fine of $364.00, 30 Days to Pay, Cuero PD

Jason Roland Pena, 28, York-town, Capias Pro Fine/ No/ Expired Motor Vehicle Registration, Fine of $339.30, Capias Pro Fine/ No Li-ability Insurance 1st Offense, Fine of $657.80,Cuero PD

October 26, 2011

John Cardenas, 30, of Cuero, Ca-pias Pro Fine/ No Drivers License, Fine of $194.00, Capias Pro Fine/ Driving While License Invalid, Fine of $442.00, Capias Pro Fine/ Fail To Appear, Fine of $342.00, Cuero PD

Leonard Jones, 48, of Yoakum, Escape From Custody, No Bond, DCS0

October 27, 2011Patricia Licon, 33, of Cuero,

Engaging In Organized Criminal Activity/For 3 Counts, Bond of $20,000.00, Victoria County, DCSO

Gonzales Police Department report for the week of Oct. 31:

10/24/2011 Shannan Nam-men Bessey 22 Of Hunt Texas Arrested And Charrged With Possession Of Marijuana At 183 South At River Bridge.

10/24/2011 Preston Leon Smith 25 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana And Driving While License Suspended At 900 Blk College.

10/25/2011 David Pitts 30 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Evading Arrest At 1300 Blk Ewing St.

10/25/2011 Charles Henry Waller 11 49 Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 400 Blk St. Joseph St.

10/25/2011 Reported Aggra-vated Robbery 100 Blk Wallace St.

10/26/2011 Simon Cantu

68 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 400 Blk Smith St.

10/27/2011 Reported Theft At 1100 Blk Hamilton St.

10/27/2011 Mark Edward Smit 38 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Possession Controlled Substance At 400 Blk College St.

10/27/2011 Reported Criminal Mischief At 1900 Blk Crawford St.

10/27/2011 Reported Theft At Business 183.

10/28/2011 Reported Bur-glary Habitation At 1700 Blk Col-lege St.

10/28/2011 Stacy Eugene Hunt Jr 29 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Driving While License Invalid At St. Joseph And Cone St.

10/29/2011 Leslie Tyrone Hastings 23 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Driving While Intoxicated And Matthew Mayo

25 Of Gonzales Arrrested And Charged With Failure To Identify And Outstanding Warrant At St. Lawrence And Church St.

10/28/2011 Simon Cantu 68 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxciation At 700 Blk St. Paul St.

10/29/2011 Reported Theft At 700 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

10/30/2011 Reported Assault At 1400 Blk St. Paul St.

11/01/2011 Reported Bur-glary Habitation At 800 Blk Bad-ger St.

11/01/2011 Damion Navarro 20 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Injury To A Child, Robbery, And Assault Family Vio-lence At 800 Blk St. Vincent St.

11/01/2011 Simon Cantu 68 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 1300 Blk St. Lawrence St.

The CannonThursday, November 3, 2011 Page A3

WAELDER: Council extendssupport to Norma’s House PETITION: Organizers vow to

continue fight over ordinance

GONZALES: Council movesforward with bond-sale plan

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sales far more frequently -- in effect, operat-ing a resale business without a license.

The petition drive’s backers, led by Mike Hanson, contend the ordinance is an assault on individual liberty directed at low-income citizens, and vowed Tuesday to continue the battle by next taking it to Gonzales County Judge David Bird.

“We’re going to take this to Judge Bird,” Hanson said. “They’re going by the wrong election, the May 2010 election. Five people DID vote in the May 2011 election (the council).”

Councilman Lorenzo Hernandez ques-tioned whether the council and city could work with the petition signers in an effort to limit objections to the ordinance, and city manager Allen Barnes responded that the council could direct the city staff to prepare such amendments -- providing waivers for the permit fees, for example. But Hanson said his group wants to remove the require-ments for a permit altogether.

“If I wake up on Saturday morning and say to myself, ‘I think I want to hold a ga-

rage sale today,’ I should be able to do that,” Hanson said. “We’re not willing to negotiate our liberty away. It’s the permit process that we’re against.”

The council’s actions have supporters, too, however. During the public comment portion of the meeting, resident Roger Eberle encouraged the council to stay the course on the issue.

“Regardless of other actions tonight, I think yard sales should be regulated,” he said.

Hanson said if Bird declines to act in fa-vor of the drive, he will organize another one.

“We were thinking you had to do this within 30 days of the ordinance being passed, but there’s no (time) limit,” he said.

Opponents of the ordinance have also ar-gued that the city already had an ordinance in place regulating garage sales and simply needed to enforce it. Texas Comptroller Su-san Combs has also posted on her agency’s website a legal opinion that persons hold-ing more than two garage or yard sales per calendar year are operating a business and should be paying state sales taxes.


Miles Klepper, president of Western En-ergy, for 32 acres of city-owned land on North Avenue east of Water St. Council will formally consider the proposal at a fu-ture meeting.

The city also moved forward with prepa-rations for a bond sale to finance repairs to the city water plant and named a new au-diting firm to review city finances. Council authorized Barnes to advertise the city’s intentions to sell bonds, and named Hous-ton firm M&K CPAs to conduct the city’s financial audits in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Barnes said in reviewing bids from the auditing firms, the Houston organization earned high marks of approval.

“In doing due diligence, I received glowing responses from city managers that I know and financial directors that I don’t” about the firm, Barnes said. He said M&K graded out with 100 points on the 120-point criteria established.

Council was also introduced to Carolyn Martin, the city’s new interim finance di-rector. She takes over for Joe Cavazos, who retired from his post Oct. 31.

In other action Tuesday, the council accepted recommendations for heritage management in the city from Lori Waters,

a Texas Tech graduate interning with the city. Waters prepared a master plan for managing heritage tourism in the city and presented the council with a list of 26 rec-ommendations.

“I did an inventory of heritage resources and came up with more than 2,400,” Wa-ter said. “And even that is not nearly all of them.”

Waters will also be presenting her find-ings to the public during a meeting of the Gonzales Historical Commission at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Gonzales County Court-house.

During Tuesday’s meeting, Council also:• Approved the nominations of Nancy

Burns, Erwin Ckodre and Martha Jo Whitt to the Library Board;

• Approved the Gonzales Economic De-velopment Corp.’s award of bids for con-struction of a street on Commerce Court in the Gonzales Industrial Park;

• Approved a $10,000 budget amend-ment for unanticipated repairs to fire department vehicles. Fire Chief Keith Schmidt told Council the higher-than-normal workload battling wildfires this summer had taken its toll on the Gonza-les Fire Department’s trucks, including a $3,500 engine computer system on one vehicle.


the council they are mainly funded through grants and community donations.

“We have received support from y’all in the past and we just wanted to re-establish that relationship,” she said.

Councilman Valentino Hernandez made a motion to issue the funds and Councilman

Mike Harris seconded it.“Thank you for helping out in our com-

munity,” said Mayor Roy Tovar after the vote.In other business, the council:• Appointed Avery Williams to head up

the city’s Christmas events.• Approved an ordinance for the city attor-

ney to write a Utility Billing Payment Exten-sion.


about the history of this holiday and the sacri-fice and dedication of our U.S. Veterans.

In the event of inclement weather, the event will be moved to the Gonzales High School Special Events Center.

* The Heights of Gonzales will sponsor an old-fashioned military-style breakfast for vet-erans at 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, prepared by David B. Tucy, the director of dietary services at the facility.

The breakfast will include creamed beef (SOS), biscuits and eggs for veteran residents, veterans in the community and the communi-ty’s first responders. If you would like to partici-pate, please RSVP to 830-672-4530, ext. 1041.

FLATONIAA Veterans Day Program will take place at

Flatonia Secondary School on Friday, Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. in the cafetorium.

The Flatonia Elementary School will put on their Veterans Day Program on Friday, Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. It will also be staged in the cafe-torium.

LULINGThe Benton I. McCarley Post 177 of the

American Legion will hold its annual Veteran Chili Luncheon on Friday, Nov. 11, beginning

at 11a.m. All area veterans are invited to at-tend. The post is located at 215 E. Davis Street in Luling.

SHINERThe Veterans Day Program of the Shiner

Independent School District will be held on Friday, Nov. 11 in the Shiner High School Gymnasium, beginning at 8 a.m. The featured speakers will be local U.S. Army veteran Steve Kubicek,and his son, Douglas.

SMILEYNixon-Smiley Elementary will hold its Vet-

erans Day Celebration on Friday, Nov. 11 at 8:30 a.m. in the Smiley Gymnasium.

YORKTOWNThe DeWitt County Vietnam Veterans Post

1029 cordially invites you to attend a Veterans Day Ceremony at the DeWitt County Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Friday, Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m.

The memorial is located at the intersection of Highway 72 and Main Street in Yorktown. The keynote speaker is Chief Warrant Officer Law-rence Castegnato.

If you know of any other Veterans Day celebra-tions taking place around the region, please call The Cannon at 830-672-7100.


VETERANS: Several groupsto honor our service heroes

the Nixon annex, and two at the Waelder annex.

Early voting continues through Friday. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. Polls will

be open from 7 a.m.- 7 p.m.For a list of the 10 propositions being

considered by Texas voters as well as a non-partisan explanation, you can visit the League of Women Voters of Texas website at http://www.lwvtexas.org/.

ELECTIONS: Light turnout

GHS Class of ‘52The Gonzales High School Class of 1952 held its 59th annual “Mini” reunion on Saturday, October 8th. Nineteen classmembers plus spouses attended the gathering where “old times” were discussed and a delicious meal was enjoyed. Class members pictured above are: (front row, left to right) Ruby Mitchell Siev-ers, Cleo Sherry Henderson, Minerva Ferrell Peeler, Bobbie Sue Peeler Hahn; Pat Bird Rainey, Jessie Nelle Reid Hahn, and Gladys Tieken Campion; (back row, left to right) Virgie Schroeder Van Kleff, Mary Ann Finch Streety, Firman LePori, Clar-ence Bahlman, Donald Hill, Karl Kelley, George Robinson, Geraldine Van Bev-eran Streckfuss, William Weber and Frank “Sonny” Sievers. Also attending, but not pictured were classmates Buster Kelley and Kenneth Hardcastle. Jessie Nelle Hahn, who made arrangement for the event, announced that plans are already underway for the big “60” anniversary reunion next year which will be held the weekend of Come And Take It. (Courtesy Photo)

The October meeting of the Auxiliary of Gonzales Memorial Hospital was held at 2:00 p.m. in the hospital dining room with 16 mem-bers in attendance.

Kathleen Caddell, Uni-form Co. Chairman, dis-tributed new uniform pack-ets to those needing them.

Secretary Carol DuBose read minutes of the Sept. meeting as well as a thank-you note from the family of Ann Lanels for the Memo-rial Sent in her memory of the Memorial Fund.

Second Vice-President Lydia Rice gave the report of hours worked for the month

and presented 100 hour bars to Leona Zella, Betty Neu-bauer and Jo Ann Hajovsky.

Treasurer Leona Zella re-ported sales and profits were good for both the gift shops and vending machines in September.

Betty Fink reported on the funds available for the Scholarship Accounts.

Peggy Baros reported she has made tray favors for hospital patients on Hal-loween.

Members were remind-ed that the Annual Wassail party for hospital employ-ees is scheduled for Thurs-day, Dec. 8 at 2:00 p.m.

President Sally Brown reminded members that the magazines in all wait-ing rooms at the hospi-tal and clinic are to be checked on frequently.

She also informed the group that new floor-ing will soon be installed in the out-patient area, including the gift shop. Members will be needed to help pack items from the shop for removal and storage while this is being done.

The Nov. meeting will be at 2:00 p.m. on Tues., Nov. 29th in the hospital dining room.

Country Village Square Apartments, the Volunteers of America & Seniors in Ac-tion of Gonzales County will once again host the annual Senior Citizens Thanksgiv-ing Day Dinner at Country Village Square. If you have no plans for Thanksgiving, come join the residents and volunteers at Country Vil-lage Square on Thursday, 11/24 from 11am to 1pm.

You do not have to be a resident of Country Vil-lage Square to attend. Also, if you are homebound and will be unable to attend, a meal can be delivered to you on Thanksgiving Day. If you need transportation to the dinner, we can provide transportation.

Country Village Square also needs volunteers to donate items, to help with

the meal and clean up after-ward. We are also looking for a volunteer or volunteers to provide good old-time gospel music sometime dur-ing the meal from 11am to 1pm.

Call Pat Compton at 672-2877 to make your reser-vation for the dinner or to offer your help in any way. Deadline for reservations is November 16th.

Seniors Thanksgiving scheduled

The phrase “by any means necessary” has been a favorite for liber-als since the early seven-ties. That phrase is now being implemented to “change” America’s social, economic, and political institutions in a very sin-ister way.

It is not enough for lib-eral politicians to push government regulations to extent of strangling business growth and de-velopment. It’s also not enough to push their so-cial agenda by telling re-ligious institutions who to employ or what to teach. But perhaps the worst is in the realm of politics.

We saw an indication of things to come when New Black Panther Party thugs stood outside a poll and openly intimidated voters in 2008. We got a better view of Obama’s progres-sive world when the Jus-tice Department failed to prosecute anyone in-volved.

Then we had Congress-woman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who was then the House Speaker, helping to push Obama-care through Congress, and then ad-mitting “let’s pass it so we know what’s in it!”

Most recently, we had “Fast and Furious” when the DEA sold guns to Mexican criminals under the direction of Obama Administration leaders,

with the goal of provoking a public backlash against gun sales and gun owner-ship.

Now we have the lat-est and worst incarnation of left’s efforts to change America, “Occupy Wall Street.” It has not been enough to clog streets, to dirty public places, and to engage in violent and anti-social behavior, but now the demonstrators are threatening private homes.

Earlier this month, Oc-cupy Wall Street demon-strators marched to the homes of JP Morgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, industrialist David Koch and financier John Paul-son. They have also tar-geted many others such as editor Arianna Huffington, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and House Speak-er John Boehner.

This is a new and dis-turbing trend of send-

ing protestors to people’s homes. This is not a new phase of protest, but good old fashioned mob intimi-dation.

Liberals have made it clear that private property is a “problem” in their attempt to redistribute wealth and restructure so-cial, economic and politi-cal institutions. These dem-onstrations appear to be the first steps toward attacking people in their homes on their private property.

The demonstrators and their supporters, includ-ing Obama, suggest that these protests are part of our American political tra-dition of dissent. But the iconic anti-war and civil rights rallies that inspired their demonstrations oc-curred at college campus-es, historic sites and other public places.

Protesting at a person’s homes is not about as-serting an opinion. It is a warning of potential violence. It implies, “we’re outside your house be-cause we’re angry enough to hurt you unless you do what we want.” It is ironic that these are the same people who push “political correctness”, but yet be-have so poorly.

If protesting outside one person’s home is allowed to continue, where will it end? Civilized people of all political beliefs should demand an end to it.

We hear a lot of talk these days about “media bias,” and while that is usually directed toward coverage of politics, it’s important to note that political writers are not alone when it comes to accusations of fa-voritism.

Had a fan stop me after one of the football games I covered earlier this season and ask why I wasn’t celebrating with everyone else. I told him a tale of my early days in this business.

Years ago, I was covering a game for the Rosenberg Herald-Coaster between the Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns at the Astro-dome. As the game developed, the Oilers mounted a comeback to overtake the Browns.

One of the amenities of a Hous-ton Oiler press box back then was the novelty of courtesy beer. And as the Oilers rallied to take the lead, an increasing amount of noise came from one end of the press box.

Following one particularly inter-

esting string of vulgarities directed at the Browns, the Oilers’ PR man, Chip Namias, slipped over to ask the overly-vocal “sports writer” which newspaper he happened to be working for.

“My friend got me this pass, he’s down on the field taking photos,” the guy responded. “This is great, even if everyone else up here isn’t an Oilers fan.”

In other words, he wasn’t even a member of the media, and his sportswriting “friend” had given him credentials which were by definition reserved exclusively for

members of the working news media. Both were removed from the stadium, post-haste — and his friend’s newspaper was banned from the press box for several years.

There is cardinal rule of pro-fessional sports journalism: “No cheering in the press box.” And the press box includes the sidelines and locker rooms.

The point becomes pertinent because of the phone calls we’re getting concerning the conduct of other journalists, in particular the use of vulgarity directed toward referees and even opposing players and coaches.

You will never hear me — nor anyone working for me— launch a series of F-bombs when we’re on the sidelines of a game we’re work-ing, especially when we’re around so many impressionable children.

I can’t speak to the training and experience of those working for other publications, but I’ve spent 35 years in this business and can

assure you that such conduct is considered unprofessional and im-mature.

We old-timers refer to it as “homer-ism,” as in: “Joe is such a homer.” Continuously covering one town, one school or one team lends an air of familiarity and emo-tional attachment. The trick is to remember that you are a profes-sional.

It’s certainly not limited to small markets. You’ll recall the story of Sports Illustrated’s Tom Bowles, who lost his job for cheering in the press box during the Daytona 500.

A sports writer covering a game wearing media credentials is there as a neutral observer. Although his coverage will no doubt be geared for fans of one team, in all other respects it should and must adhere to the standards of the profession: it should be truthful, unbiased and honest.

As noted by Pam Modarelli Hegner in Sports Journalism 101:

No Cheering in the Press Box and Other Unwritten Rules, “Sports is pure emotion - but as journalists we have to step back and get out of fan mode.”

As a journalist, we cover events to document them for history. Those reading or viewing our cov-erage should know that we have attempted to convey the results of a sporting event as honestly and truthfully as possible. We are not there to lead cheers.

We are not there to officiate the game; if we want to do that, we need to be wearing the striped shirts.

As Hegner notes, it’s hard not to become attached to the team, ath-lete or even coach you cover regu-larly. And yes, it’s easier (and much more fun) to cover a winner than it is to cover a team that goes 0-10.

But if he wants to cheer, the writ-er should turn in his press pass, buy a ticket and sit in the stands like ev-eryone else.


In Our ViewBeing professional: no cheering in the press box

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Leftists taking ‘By anymeans necessary’ toa new level: threats

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

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It might have been Mitt Romney’s most revealing moment in all the Repub-lican debates. Badgered by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was continually interrupt-ing him, Romney appealed to CNN moderator Ander-son Cooper to reassert the rules of the debate: “Ander-son?”

That one-word plaint could stand for all of Rom-ney’s straight-arrowness. It is a virtue and a curse. “Scandal” and “Romney” are two words you expect never to have to see in a sen-tence together. He’s every bit as upstanding as you would expect from a former Mor-mon bishop, a father of five and grandfather of 16.

Romney is a familiar type. We’ve all known the guy who sits in the front of the classroom and raises his hand to answer every ques-tion. We might admire him, or envy him, but we prob-ably don’t like him.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the technical proficiency Romney has exhibited during the de-bates. There is no question for which he doesn’t have a ready, sometimes sophis-ticated answer. Whenever challenged -- especially by Perry -- he almost always bests his opponent. He’s like a boxer with a couple of ex-tra inches on his reach com-

pared with everyone else. Even when another candi-date is talking, he’s perfected a look of patient, benign at-tentiveness.

What’s missing, as usual with Romney, is a sense of warmth and heartfelt con-viction. When Bill Clinton was confronted by someone with a sympathetic story, his reflex was to go in for a hug. Romney’s reflex is to go in for a crisp explanation of whatever is his relevant policy position, delivered smoothly and cogently, if distantly. It’s as if he sees people as inputs into his hard drive from which he reliably downloads the most appropriate intellectual out-put.

Romney talks of how he loves data, and his ability to master it is one of his fore-most strengths. Data doesn’t move people, though. The difference between Her-man Cain, who has gener-ated spontaneous excite-ment, and Mitt Romney is captured in their economic

plans. Cain’s depends on three simple numbers, 999, that have captured the imagination of a slice of the Republican electorate. In what he admits is almost a self-parody, Romney has a 59-point plan that hasn’t made an impression on anyone. Cain’s fearlessly bold plan is badly flawed and would almost certainly blow up in a general elec-tion. Romney’s plan is care-fully crafted for maximum survivability.

Romney has a likability and trust gap. It’s one reason he’s been near the top of the field all year yet has never opened up the kind of lead traditionally associated with front-runners.

If Republican voters con-clude there’s no one else in the field who is plausible as president or a general-elec-tion candidate, Romney will win, but it will be an act of calculation rather than pas-sion.

A former management consultant who couldn’t rabble-rouse if he wanted to, Romney would be a most unusual vessel for a party overflowing with populist enthusiasms.

Romney can impress, but he doesn’t naturally inspire or connect. That leaves an opening for others, even as he executes nearly flaw-lessly.

RichLowry

Rich Lowry is editor of the Na-tional Review and a syndicated columnist for King Features Syndicate.

Dear Editor,The Eagle Ford Task Force created by

Texas Railroad Commissioner David Por-ter lists advisements on policies for truck traffic and pipelines. When is the Task Force going to advise the operators con-cerning the risk of water well contamina-tion due to poor drilling practices?

The crooked hole problem was covered by Arthur Lubinski in the IADC Drilling Manual in the early 1960’s. Crooked holes prevent the obtaining of a secure bond/seal between the casing and the wellbore.

The TRC Task Force has been informed repeatedly of the associated risk of water well contamination. Water well contami-nation in the city of Dimock, Pennsylvania and Parker County, Texas was a national event. The Eagle Ford area is subject to the same risk.

Lubinski’s recommended packed bottom hole assembly drills a straight, full gauge, useful hole free of ledges, offsets, spirals and keyseats – insuring a secure bond/seal between the casing and the wellbore.Roy L. Dudman, SPE, Drilling Consultant (Retired)Gonzales

Romberg house man-agerdoing a great jobDear Editor,

We have had good fortune at the Rom-berg House for quite a few years now, and I am proud to say that the past year with Melanie Petru as manager has certainly portrayed the image I expected for this residence. As many of you know, I could not have found a more compassionate and sincere person to promote my focus of per-sonal care.

From the very start Melanie has em-braced the non-institutional approach to aging, and maintained our lovely home in a residential neighborhood. She is naturally clear on my attention to social, psychologi-cal and physical changes associated with aging, and promotes the notion that this is the residents’ home. Although our policy of affordability has been maintained with no additional hidden fees, Melanie has shown the largest appeal to the Romberg House is still the personal relationships (which people cannot live without) formed inside this house.

Throughout the year Melanie has devel-oped those relationships while providing a safe, residential environment. She realizes that we are not there to change peoples’ lifestyles, but to help continue the mean-ingful life they have always led. She has as-

sured me this is why she is here.

J.B. GougerOwner, The Romberg HouseGonzales

Halloween trafficwas frightfulDear Editor,

After being out in that mess of cars on St. Vincent and Fair street last night I have to say that traffic was far worse without the roads being blocked last night then they were with. Its a good thing that no emer-gencies came up because they (EMT,Fire or police) would not have been able to get through. It was very dangerous with all the cars driving through and the 1000+ people walking on the streets and the 100+ of cars driving. Its a miracle someone didn’t get hurt.

I hope the city will rethink not blocking off the roads next year.Jenny NesserGonzalesvia gonzalescannon.com

Freedom of, not from,religious beliefsDear Editor,

For those that need a refresher course:Amendment I Congress shall make no

law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The phrase “....or prohibiting the free ex-ercise thereof...” is usually omitted.Paul WolfeGonzales

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In Your View

Letters to the editor

Some news tidbits that’ll have you feeling ferly real quick

Shale drilling risks contamination

Foundation’s vision aimsto promote hospital growth

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News is anything that causes a woman to say, “My goodness!”

--Mark TwainIt bothers me that it even both-

ers me.That I’m bothered by being

bothered. But I am bothered. Al-beit, not enuff to break into a sweat. However, I am indeed, bothered.

Especially when it comes to pe-rusing the ‘zines (magazines) and rags (newspapers).

Perusing — make that word “peruse” — appears a lot in cross-word puzzles. I keep company with crossword puzzles. Though I never learned how to play the bagpipes because I’m not a blowhard, I am adept at solving crossword puzzles in a timely fashion. Knowing such words as eine and nee and egret and anil.

Anyway, I am addicted to words. Be it printed, on-line, or cocking an ear to a cockamamie idjit on the

boob tube.And as my eyes scan sentences

and paragraphs I am oft’times hit with a ferly feeling. I told you I like words, so go to your Merriam-Webster and look up ferly.

Here are a few tidbits, all true I kid you not, my little mind has reg-istered in the past few weeks via pe-rusing the periodicals and papers:

Let’s start off with a test on self-control. Evergreen Park High School in Illinois has announced

that students would be allowed to leave class to go to the bath-room only three times per semes-ter. Students who need to pee more often will have to make up class time after school.

Where’s a GPS when we need it? A family in Danvers, Mass., had to call 911 when they couldn’t find their way out of a seven-acre corn maze. ‘I’m really scared. It’s really dark, and we’ve got a 3-week-old baby with us,’ said the mom who made the call. ‘We thought this would be fun.’

Tech savvy or tech silly. The number of wireless devices in the U.S., such as smartphones and tablets, now exceeds the number of Americans.

Hail to the Queen. Australian Liam Warriner mooned Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip during their visit to Brisbane. ‘Everybody’s seen someone’s

butt, come on,’ said Warriner, 22, after his arrest for willful ex-posure. ‘You see it on TV all the time, but yet it’s an offense to the queen?’

Conveniently finding a cell home. Ronald Wade, 31, applied for a job as a jailer in Warren County, Miss. During his back-ground check, police found that Wade was wanted for DUI man-slaughter in Florida, so he was ar-rested and jailed.

What is it about the printed word? The average SAT reading score for the graduating class of 2011 is 497 — the lowest since 1972.

It pays to be voted in. Sixty-eight U.S. lawmakers made a total of at least $27.5 million through side jobs last year, on top of their $174,000 salaries. The outside earnings – more than four times higher than they were in 2006 – came from

activities that ranged from owning Subway restaurant franchises to selling chestnuts.

Now is this not a wild and wacky world we inhabit? Or not?

Consider this on playing with one’s emotions. And it’s Only in America, says The Week maga-zine, where a few of these tidbits were lifted in several past issues.

Hallmark has introduced a line of sympathy cards for peo-ple who have just been fired. ‘Don’t think of it as losing your job’ reads one. ‘Think of it as a time out between stupid bosses.’ Hallmark said the cards were designed to help the unem-ployed ‘focus on the hopeful side of things.’

Hopeful side of things? Hey, we always hope for the best, and if we get it we have a tendency to hope for something better … down the road.

ScratchPad

Jim Cunningham is a former longtime Gonzales newsman and the former interim publisher of the Gonzales Cannon.

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There are so many exciting plans and recent developments at the hospital unveiling a future of promise ensuring high quality healthcare facili-ties.

The hospital has endorsed the vision and fo-cus of an active Foundation (Gonzales Health-care Systems Foundation a 501(c)3 organized in 2008) to fund projects outside of the general op-erating budget of the hospital. These projects re-quire funding from donations and contributions made by individuals and businesses passionate about giving back to the community by invest-ing their resources towards advances in medical technology. This technology offers our hospital to afford a “step up” in quality healthcare. These gifts are “gifts for life” and give back to the entire community.

The first step in achieving the goals for the Foundation was to develop the board. Recently, the hospital board made seven (7) new appoint-ments to the Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foun-dation Board. New members are Elaine Baker, Tommy Cox, Brian Fees, Laurel Ince, John Lam-brecht Jon Such and Bill Tate. The existing Board members included Barry Miller-President, Lisa Gindler VP, Barbara Koricanek, Secretary Trea-surer and Kris McLain. The new appointments were all welcomed by the existing Board at their October 19 th board meeting.

The board meeting featured a healthcare pre-sentation by Chief of Staff - Commie Hisey who explained to the board the challenges hospitals and healthcare are facing today. With the rising number of these challenges affecting funding a hospital foundation becomes more and more vital to maintaining quality healthcare. Dr. Hisey stated he enjoys working in a rural community hospital and did not desire to practice in a metro-politan facility. His feelings remain strong that he gives patients the medical care they deserve with a much more personable touch. He reaches great reward in knowing most of his patients treated in the hospital are the same patients he treats at Sievers Medical Clinic and this gives a huge ad-vantage to comprehensive healthcare.

He commended each of the board members for dedicating their time and energies to this board as their work and success will bring success for our hospital and healthcare. He further stated he was available to them at any time should they have questions and wanted each one to know he was in strong support of this Foundation. Pres-ent CEO and hospital administrator, Chuck Nor-ris, addressed the group with updates on current healthcare issues and gave the history on how and why the Foundation was organized. He also informed them of the John Fritz Memory Gar-den project currently in process at the hospital which is a Foundation project. Sascha Kardosz -Director of Marketing reported on some of the Specialty Clinics she has implemented and high-lighted the addition of our fulltime general sur-geon, Dr. Kathleen Koerner.

All of the board members were appreciative for the opportunity to work together to improve healthcare for their community. I shared with

the board some of the upcoming events being planned to support the $409,325.00 needed in funding our current project, Digital Mammog-raphy. In November the hospital will be display-ing a donor wall proudly presenting members of the community who give a tax deductible dona-tion of $5,000.00 or more to the foundation. This dedication will be named the Wall of Honor. The Wall of Honor may reflect the name of the fam-ily who is making the contribution or they may choose to honor someone else in their family by naming them on the plaque.

A hospital Wall of Honor is a common dedi-cation seen in many hospitals today. What a wonderful way to pay tribute to your loved one by making a charitable donation in their name and give the “gift of life”. This is a gift that will benefit healthcare today and tomorrow as it pro-vides for an improved quality of life for the entire community.

The board is confident that our local resi-dents are committed to quality when it comes to healthcare. This donation is one of a kind by touching every person who resides here and seeks healthcare here. There are few gifts given that last beyond our lifetime and give to the entire community. With these thoughts in mind the board then adopted their Mission Statement as:

Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created to ad-minister charitable gifts, philanthropic contribu-tions and raise funds to be faithful in providing Gonzales County and surrounding communities with the very best in healthcare. The Founda-tion is passionate about delivering the financial resources needed to secure qualified physicians, state of the art equipment and medical services promoting health and well-being to all patients served.

It is rare to give a gift that lasts beyond our lifetime as we care for others and offer hope for future generations. this rare gift is found by giv-ing to Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foundation.

To make your donation for the Wall of Honor supporting Gonzales Healthcare Systems Foun-dation you may mail your tax deductiable dona-tion to:

Gonzales Healthcare Systems FoundationP.O. Box 587Gonzales, Texas 78629Please call Connie Kacir Executive Director at

(830)672-8758 if you would like to discuss other giving opportunities.

Hospital Hopes& HappeningsConnieKacir

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


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The Crystal Theatre will have two more weekends, including one Sunday matinee, for “Nunsense,” a musical comedy that is get-ting great reviews. Call the chamber office for tickets.

The Rusted Gingham’s Barn Sale will be held on Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the J.B. Wells Show Barn. The fourth annual sale will feature vintage, antique, unique, hand-made, remade or other-wise made stuff. Come out and enjoy shopping and food from Texas vendors. Adult admission is $3 and the website is rustedging-ham.com.

The burn ban has been lifted from Gonzales County for a time, but commissioners will reconsider the topic at their next meet-ing on Nov. 14 at the county courtroom. If you burn, be sure and watch it, making sure it’s all out before you leave.

The Edwards Association will hold a ground-breaking cer-emony for their senior housing program on Nov. 5 at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Robertson and Huisache streets. Parking will be available in the 1600 and 1700 blocks of Huisache. Light refresh-ments will be served. If you need more information on this project, please call Lawrence Fryer Sr. at 672-7142.

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Gonzales Livestock Market ReportThe Gonzales Livestock Market Report for Sat-

urday, October 29, 2011 had on hand: 1,355 cattle.Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings

sold $2-$4 higher. Packer cows sold steady. Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame

No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $141-$151; 300-400 lbs, $147-$171; 400-500 lbs, $139-$143; 500-600 lbs, $128-$133; 600-700 lbs., $119-$127; 700-800 lbs., $116-$119.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $92-$111.Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame

No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $129-$134; 300-400 lbs, $125-$132; 400-500 lbs, $121-$124; 500-600 lbs., $118-$120; 600-700 lbs., $114-$119.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $43-$52; Cutters, $57-$70; Canners, $34-$39; Low yielding fat cows, $51-$64.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $69-$71.50; light weights and medium quality bulls, $59-$65.

Stocker Cows: $425-$825.Pairs: $725-$900.Thank you for your business! View our sale live

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Nixon Livestock Commission ReportThe Nixon Livestock Commission Inc. report had

on hand, October 31, 2011, Volume, 1,494.Steers: 200-300 lbs, $132 to $142 to $183; 300-

400 lbs., $137 to $147 to $180; 400-500 lbs, $121 to $131 to $160; 500-600 lbs, $118 to $128 to $143; 600-700 lbs, $115 to $125 to $135; 700-800 lbs, $100 to $110 to $132.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $107 to $117 to $148; 300-400 lbs, $118 to $128 to $165; 400-500 lbs, $112 to $122 to $171; 500-600 lbs, $109 to $119 to $140; 600-700 lbs, $106 to $116 to $128; 700-800 lbs, $93 to $103 to $114.

Slaughter cows: $43 to $53 to $63; Slaughter bulls: $61 to $71 to $79; Stocker cows: $394 to $893; Pairs: $610 to $750.

Hallettsville Livestock Commission ReportThe Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co., Inc.

had on hand on October 25, 2011, 2,593; Week ago, 1,912; Year Ago, 1,928.

Better quality classes of calves and yearlings sold $2 to $3 lower on heavier weights and $3 to $6 lower on the lighter weights.

Packer cows and bulls sold $3-$4 lower on ap-prox. 580 hd. total.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $54-$68; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $42-$54; light weight canner cows, $30-$42.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $68-$79; utility & cutter bulls, $60-$68; lightweight canner bulls, $54-$60.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200 lbs, $125-$165; 200-300 lbs, $125-$172.50; 300-400 lbs, $125-$170; 400-500 lbs, $122-$158; 500-600 lbs, $115-$139; 600-700 lbs, $112-$125; 700-800 lbs, $105-$123. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $120-$155; 200-300 lbs, $118-$140; 300-400 lbs, $115-$132; 400-500 lbs, $114-$128; 500-600 lbs, $110-$124; 600-700 lbs, $108-$116; 700-800 lbs, $95-$113. No. 2 & 3 Steer & Bull Calves: under 200 lbs, $95-$128; 200-300 lbs, $93-$126; 300-400 lbs, $90-$124; 400-500 lbs, $88-$118; 500-600 lbs, $85-$111. No. 2 & 3 Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $90-$125; 200-300 lbs, $90-$118; 300-400 lbs, $86-$115; 400-500 lbs, $84-$110; 500-600 lbs, $80-$108.

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

Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market Report on October 28,

2011 had 1,450 head.Had 355 cows and 24 bulls. Bulls were steady.

Cows were stronger. Light weight steers were higher. Heavier calves a little lower. Heifers were stronger.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $67.50-$73.50; lower grades, $55.50-$66.50; feeders, $51-$99.

Packer cows: boning cows, $58.50-$63; cutters mainly, $50-$56.50; few, $60-$65.50; few, $40-$49; low yielding cutters, $40-$50.50; canners, $40-$42; few, $15-$35.

Dry cows, $40.50-$62.50; young, $36-$88; pal-pated, $55-$77.

Cow and calf pairs, $630-$850.Early sales: steers: under 200 lbs, $121-$165;

200-250 lbs, $164-$180; 250-300 lbs, $135-$180; 300-350 lbs, $149-$176; 350-400 lbs, $147-$161; 400-450 lbs, $141-$149; 450-500 lbs, $130-$143; 500-600 lbs, $115-$132; 600-700 lbs, $111-$124. Heifers: under 200 lbs, $121-$133; 200-250 lbs, $110-$140; 250-300 lbs, $118-$142; 300-350 lbs, $126-$175; 350-400 lbs, $129-$154; 400-450 lbs, $122-$134; 450-500 lbs, $112-$126; 500-600 lbs, $109-$125; 600-700 lbs, Steers, $121-$130; Bulls, $114- $121; Heifers, $102-$111; Over 700 lbs, Heif-ers, $90-$111.

Texas Weekly Direct Feeder Cattle Summary AMARILLO — Feeder Cattle Weighted Average

Report for Friday - 10/28/11Confirmed: 12,800 Last Week: 29,100 Last

Year: 15,400 Compared to last week feeder steers and heifers

were steady to 2.00 higher on a much lighter test of current FOB cattle. With the earlier movement of grass type cattle during late summer due to the drought, some of the remaining fall trade has be-gun to shift toward grow-yard type offerings.

Approximately 93 percent of this week’s cattle weighed over 600 lbs.

Approximately 53 percent of this week’s weight-ed average receipts were steers and 47 percent heifers. Prices based on net weights FOB after a 3 percent shrink or equivalent and 5-10 cent slide on calves and 4-6 cent slide on yearlings from base weights. Delivered prices include freight, commis-sions and other expenses. Current sales are up to 14 days delivery.

Steers: 6,800 hd (53 percent) Medium and Large 1 FOB Price 425 lbs 155.20;

600-700 lbs 140.00-149.00; 700-800 lbs 138.45-140.30. Delivered Price 650 lbs 143.00; 750-800 lbs 140.00.

Future Delivery FOB Price 750-800 lbs 144.15 Feb; 800-825 lbs 145.40-145.50 Mar.

Delivered Price 750-800 lbs 147.25-149.00 Jan-Mar; 800-850 lbs 143.50-147.00

Jan-May. Medium and Large 1-2 FOB Price 500-550 lbs 140.35-142.85; 600-650 lbs 137.85; 700-725 lbs 135.75-137.95, 750 lbs fleshy 128.40; 800-825 lbs 133.00-134.00.

Delivered Price 540 lbs 146.50; 680 lbs 139.00. Future Delivery Delivered Price 675 lbs 149.00 Jan.

Heifers: 6,000 hd (47 percent) Medium and Large 1 FOB 400 lbs 143.20; 600-

650 lbs 133.50-137.00; 700-725 lbs 131.50-136.45. Delivered Price 700-725 lbs 134.75. Future Delivery FOB Price 600-700 lbs 142.35-144.25 Jan; 700-750 lbs 140.50-142.00 Jan-Apr. Delivered Price 600-700 lbs 145.50-146.50 Apr; 700-800 lbs 141.40-145.00 Jan-Apr.

Source: USDA-TX Dept of Ag Market News Ser-vice, Amarillo, TX

San Angelo Sheep/Goat MarketSheep and Goat Auction Close and Weekly:Total Receipts: 11,534 Last Week: 6894 Year

Ago: 6583Sheep Receipts: 5091 Last Week: 2339 Year

Ago: 3558Goat Receipts: 6443 Last Week: 4555 Year

Ago: 3025Compared to last week heavy slaughter lambs

not well tested; lightslaughter lambs steady. Slaughter ewes steady.

Feeder lambs steady.Nannies steady; kids steady. Trading fairly active,

demand good.Supply included 15 percent slaughter lambs, 15

percent slaughter ewes,10 percent feeder lambs, 5 percent replacement

ewes, balance goats.All slaughter lambs went to non-traditional mar-

kets. All sheep and goatssold per hundred weight (CWT) unless other-

wise specified.

SLAUGHTER LAMBS:Choice 2-3 shorn and wooled 100-155 lbs

140.00-168.00, few 170.00-180.00.Choice and Prime 1 40-60 lbs 192.00-220.00, few

220.00-240.00; 60-80lbs 184.00-206.00, few 210.00-220.00; 80-90 lbs 180.00-192.00; 90-110 lbs 164.00-180.00, few 190.00.

Choice 1-2 40-60 lbs 154.00-188.00; 60-90 lbs 152.00-182.00; 90-110 lbs150.00-162.00.

Good 1 40-100 lbs 125.00-150.00.

SLAUGHTER EWES:Good 2-3 (fleshy) 59.00-65.00; Utility and Good

1-3 (medium flesh)68.00-78.00; Utility 1-2 (thin) 57.00-70.00; Cull and Utility 1-2 (very thin) 45.00-56.00; Cull 1 (extremely thin) 30.00-45.00.

SLAUGHTER BUCKS:54.00-78.00, few 80.00-90.00.

FEEDER LAMBS:Medium and Large 1-2 40-60 lbs 212.00-234.00;

60-70 lbs 210.00-222.00;70-90 lbs 200.00-218.00; 90-100 lbs 200.00.

Medium and Large 2 40-70 lbs 188.00-210.00; 70-100 lbs 180.00-200.00.

REPLACEMENT EWES:Medium and Large 1-2 yearlings 92.00-135.00

per head; baby tooth 112.00-148.00 per head; solid mouth 84.00-133.00 per head.

GOATS: Estimated 55 percent of receipts:All sold per hundred weight (CWT) unless oth-

erwise specified.SLAUGHTER CLASSES:KIDS: Selection 1 25-40 lbs 180.00-200.00, few

200.00-218.00; 40-80 lbs 180.00-200.00, few 200.00-218.00; 80-100 lbs 170.00-186.00.

Selection 1-2 25-40 lbs 150.00-180.00; 40-80 lbs 160.00-180.00; 80-100 lbs 140.00-168.00.

Selection 2 25-40 lbs 120.00-150.00; 40-80 lbs 120.00-160.00.

DOES/NANNIES: Selection 1-2 70-130 lbs 66.00-78.00, few 78.00-82.00; 130-175 lbs 64.00-72.00, few 80.00-84.00; thin 60-115 lbs 50.00-66.00.

BUCKS/BILLIES: Selection 1-2 70-100 lbs 112.00-148.00; 100-150 lbs90.00-118.00, yearlings 120.00-148.00; 150-250 lbs 88.00-106.00.

REPLACEMENT CLASSES:DOES/NANNIES: Selection 1-2 60-115 lbs 80.00-

124.00.Source: USDA Market News Service, San An-

gelo.

Poultry andEgg MarketsDaily Southern States Broiler/Fryer Parts F.O.B. Dock or equivalent, iced-packed, prices

shown are Day of shipment (includes cur-rent and prior negotiations), trucklot and less than trucklot volume, cents per pound.

As of November 1, 2011

Item (000) range majority wtd avg Breast - b/s too few to report Tenderloins too few to report Breast - line run too few to report Front halves too few to report Legs too few to report Leg quarters (bulk) 814 42.00-50.00 -

44.73 Leg quarters (4/10) 1,154 48.00-52.00 -

50.23 Wings (whole) too few to report Wings (cut) too few to report Drumsticks too few to report Thighs too few to report B/s thighs too few to report Whole body index based on southern states

parts trading for November 1, 2011 -- f.O.B. Dock. Today’s Range average 51.00 - 56.50 53.08 The Index is intended solely as an indicator of

values for commodity- type product and does not represent industry’s willingness to sell or ability to buy.

Source: USDA AMS Poultry Programs, Market

News & Analysis, Jackson, MS

Daily South CentralRegional Eggs Prices are steady. The undertone is steady.

Retail demand remains light to moderate. Food service demand is light. Offerings are moderate. Supplies are moderate to heavy. Market activity is slow to moderate. The Weekly Shell Egg Inventory increased 22% in the South Central region. Break-ing stock prices are steady with a steady to barely steady undertone. Offerings are moderate to at times heavy for the the light to moderate demand. Supplies are moderate to heavy. Market activity is slow to moderate.

Prices To Retailers, Sales To Volume Buyers, Usda

Grade A And Grade A, White Eggs In Cartons, Cents Per Dozen.

Prices Delivered To Warehouse: Range Mostly Extra Large 122.5-131 124-127 Large 120.5-129 122-125 Medium 103.5-112 105-108 SOUTH CENTRAL AREA:

AR,AZ,CO,KS,LA,MO,NM,OK, and TX. Source: USDA AMS Poultry Programs, Market News & Analysis, Des Moines, IA

Weekly TexasHay Report Compared to last week: Hay prices generally

steady to firm. Hay supplies remain short and buy-ers continue to be forced to go out of local market-ing areas or out of state to purchase needs. Some areas in the Panhandle received moisture in the form of snow or rain showers which will provide some help to pastures and fields. However, this is hardly enough moisture to end drought condi-tions and more moisture is needed.

Prices for hay and pellets quoted per ton except where noted. The Texas Department of Agriculture has Hay and Grazing Hot Line set up for buyers and sellers looking for hay or grazing; the number is 1-877-429-1998. The website for the hotline is: www.TexasAgricultue.gov/hayhotline

North, Central, and East Texas:Alfalfa: Small squares: Delivered: Premium to Su-

preme 330.00-365.00, 10.00-11.00 per bale; Good to Premium 275.00-300.00, 9.00-10.00 per bale.

Large squares: Delivered: Premium to Supreme 300.00-350.00. Good to Premium 275.00-300.00. Fair to Good 250.00-275.00

Coastal Bermuda: Small squares: FOB: Good to Premium 250.00-300.00, 8.00-9.00 per bale; Good 200.00-250.00, 6.00-8.00 per bale.

Large rounds: FOB: Good to Premium 170.00-200.00, 85.00-120.00 per roll. Fair to Good 50.00-85.00 per roll.

Peanut Hay: Large squares: Delivered: 235.00. Tipton 85: Small bales: FOB: 9.00 per bale. Rice Hay: Large rounds: Delivered: 70.00 per

roll. South Texas:Coastal Bermuda: Small squares: FOB: Good to

Premium 240.00-270.00, 8.00-9.00 per bale; Good 210.00-240.00, 5.00-8.00 per bale.

Large rounds: FOB: Good to Premium 160.00-170.00, 80.00-120.00 per roll; Good 120.00-160.00, 60.00-80.00 per roll.

approximate, and many factors can affect feed-ing value. Val

Source: USDA-TX Dept of Ag Market News Ser-vice, Amarillo

Barbara Hand is the Executive Di-rector of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce.

Around the Chamber Office

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First Friday Coffee;‘Nunsense,’ barn salecoming up this week


Second-place winnersThe float representing Christian Kids Daycare Center was a second-place winner in this year’s Come and Take It Parade. (Photo by Nikki Maxwell)

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The holidays are com-ing, and that means time to shop and festively decorate your homes. Sat. Nov. 5, marks the 4th annual Barn Sale.

The fun, community ‘event’ has grown in size each year, with vendors traveling from across the state — Literally. Some vendors come from Neder-land, Colorado City, Glen Rose, and Rivera.

The event will be held at J.B. Wells showbarn in Gonzales, with vendors displaying their creativity and unique finds. Many lo-cal vendors from Gonzales County will be selling their wares and sharing their tal-ents also.

The inspiration for the event began with an ar-ticle, sparking an idea in Suzanne Sexton’s creative mind. About five years ago she read a story about a Barn Sale in the Northeast which highlighted local vendors and their wares. It sounded perfect for this area, and she gathered some friends to help orga-nize and promote the first sale at her barn in Novem-ber 2008. That first sale hosted mainly local ven-dors with about five from out of town.

Word has now spread far and wide as Suzanne and her sister-in-law Tracy, known as The Girls at Rust-ed Gingham, have made contacts through friends, friends of friends and a lot of vendors at other antique and trade shows including Warrenton/Round Top.

There will be a wide va-riety of products for sale, including antiques, vin-tage retro furniture, vin-tage kitchenware, painted chicken nesters, woven shawls, handpainted cross-

es, decorated clothing, headwraps, honey, jams and preserves, silver coins, pillowcase dresses, repur-posed jewelry, hand strung jewelry, collectables and Christmas items.

“This list is just a sample of what will be under the barn, Sexton said. “We want our visitors and cus-tomers to have a wide va-riety to choose from, and for it to be a great shopping experience.”

The barn sale will include food from several vendors with snack items, sweets and homemade breads. The J.B. Wells concession stand will be run by the Gonzales County A&M Club. They are hosting a Tamale and Chili Fandango Fundraiser.

The Club is pre-selling Delicious Tamales for $9 per dozen with proceeds going into the scholarship fund to send local students off to college. Tamales will be sold the day of the sale for $9 per dozen and also with choices of 1, 2 or 3 ta-males with chili and Frito Pie will be on the menu as well. If you would like to pre-order please call Gua-dalupe Valley Vet Clinic at (830) 672-8676.

This year the ‘Girls at Rusted Gingham’ are hop-ing to help fill the local food pantry. Canned goods or other non-perishable food donations will be ac-cepted for $1 off admission.

Entry to this years event is $3 for adults- Adorable children under 18 are Free! Entry for $2 if you bring 2 canned goods! Help us help the community in time for the holidays.

The Girls like to pro-mote Gonzales for all the out of town shoppers that are coming. Last year Lau-rel Ridge Christmas got

in on the fun by having a drawing for a Lynn Haney Santa- This year, The Inn at Laurel Ridge will be giving away a One Night stay in the Historic home.

Laurel Ridge Christmas will be giving away a 25th Anniversary Lynn Haney ornament as well. The Hearty Gourmet will be giving away a great gift too- all shoppers are required to do is to make it into each of those locations and sign up for the prize drawing — both of the drawings will be held around 4:30 p.m. that afternoon (once the barn sale is closed for the day.)

Our desire is for all shops in town to welcome out of town guests anytime they are here and to make them glad to be in Gonzales. The hope is that shoppers and vendors that come from out of town will appreciate our historic and beautiful downtown and leave with fond memories that make them want to come back!

There will also be a give-away from The Junk Gyp-sies, a trio of Texas gals in Round Top who have recently signed on with HGTV to promote using ‘junk,’ and funky antiques to decorate your home. That is another way of sal-vaging items from the past and making them func-tional today. The Gypsies have been salvaging for years and their customer base loves their design work. Now the rest of the world will be able to see it too.

We hope you can come out and visit with the Girls at Rusted Gingham and all the other vendors at the Barn Sale, Sat., Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Happy shopping.

Antiques, crafts at ‘Barn Sale’ Saturday at J.B. Wells

YOAKUM — Enterprise Products Part-ners LP on Tuesday announced it would extend and expand its natural gas and natural gas liquids infrastructure in south Texas to accommodate output growth from the Eagle Ford shale.

Enterprise said in a statement that as a result of added demand from Eagle Ford producing customers, along with new gathering and processing agreements, it would build an additional 300-million-cubic-feet-per-day train at its Yoakum cryogenic natural gas processing facility in Lavaca County.

In addition, Enterprise is constructing 62 miles of 24-inch diameter and 30-inch diameter pipeline loops and increasing horsepower compression to gather and transport an additional 300 mmcf per day of Eagle Ford gas.

The expansion is expected to begin ser-vice in the first quarter of 2013.

The company said increased drilling activity in the Eagle Ford shale continues

to create opportunities to leverage its in-tegrated network of midstream assets to provide producers with flow assurance and market choice.

Enterprise said about 195 rigs were working in the play as of the end of the third quarter, compared to around 105 rigs in the third quarter of 2010.

Enterprise previously announced con-struction of its Eagle Ford natural gas mainline system and associated laterals consisting of about 300 miles of pipeline and gathering and transportation capacity of more than 600 mmcf per day.

The Yoakum gas processing facility has 600 mmcf per day of capacity under con-struction, expected to begin service in the second quarter of 2012.

The additional 300-mmcf-per-day train is expected to begin service in the first quarter of 2013.

The new Yoakum plant will complement seven existing natural gas processing plants in south Texas which have the capacity to

In celebration of its up-coming 120 year anniver-sary, Hochheim Prairie Insurance unveiled a new corporate logo during its annual agent conference on October 9 and 10 in San Antonio, Texas. The agent conference was attended by 225 representatives of agencies appointed with Hochheim Prairie Insur-ance across the state in-cluding Phillip Koehler of Koehler Insurance Agency and Travis Tresner of Lo-gan Insurance Agency.

“The new design proudly embraces the company’s unique name, connecting it to 120 years of history and heritage. The addition of the lone star emphasizes the company’s exclusively Texas focus,” says Dave Tal-bert, president.

Serving Texans since 1892, Hochheim Prairie Insurance is the state’s sec-ond largest farm mutual insurance company. As a mutual insurance company, Hochheim Prairie’s poli-cyholders are also its own-

ers. Families who insure their home with Hochheim Prairie become members of the association. Local rep-resentation of the members is accomplished through branches, which hold an-nual meetings across the state. The company annu-ally returns thousands of dollars to its branches to benefit the community as the members see fit. For more information visit hpfm.com or Hochheim Prairie Insurance on Face-book.

Hocheim Prairie unveils new logo

Senior Housing groundbreakingThe Edwards Association will host a ground-

breaking ceremony for its Senior Housing develop-ment at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 at the intersection of Robertson and Huisache streets. Parking will be in the 1600-1700 blocks of Huisache. For more infor-mation, contact Lawrence Fryer Sr. at 830-672-6309 or 672-7142.

Parent-Child TourneyThe Independence Golf Course is hosting a par-

ent-child tournament on Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. The cost is $10 per team.To register, please call the clubhouse at 672-1324.

Salvage saleThe Nixon-Smiley CISD will hold a salvage sale

on Saturday, Nov. 5, beginning at 8 a.m. The sale will take place in the Bus Barn on the Nixon campus, located at 800 Rancho Road.

All sales are, as is, without warranty as to fitness or merchantability, and are considered final. Items purchased can be taken at that time or picked up during working hours on Monday, Nov. 7.

For more information or to ask questions, please call Jeff Van Auken at 830-582-1536, ext. 0126.

Legion meetings setBoth the American Legion and American Le-

gion Auxiliary of Gonzales will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 3 for meetings and the annual Thanksgiving meal.

All members are urged to attend and the Auxil-iary members are to bring desserts.

Helping HandsIf you are in need of a meal, Helping Hands, a

non-profit, multi-church ministry would like to bless you with a free lunch. Meals will be distributed Sat-urday, November 5th beginning at 11 a.m. in the GCAM parking lot located at 708 St. Louis Street. Volunteers and donations are welcome. Contact Linda at 361-275-1216.

RFL team captains meetAn important meeting for Relay For Life team

captains will be held on Monday, November 7, at Abiding Word Lutheran Church, 1310 St. Louis, be-ginning at 5:15 p.m. If you are interested in starting a team, Team Development co-chairs Kristi Mercer (672-7581) and Carolyn Kocian (672-9557) are ready to help you get your team organized. Teams that have already registered should send a representa-tive if team captain is unable to attend.

The Relay For Life Planning Committee will meet on Monday, November 14, at Abiding Word Lu-theran Church beginning at 5:15 p.m. Anyone in-terested in helping with Relay should contact Arline Rinehart (672-2077) or Patty Stewart (672-7581) for more information.

Saturn Cemetery meetingThe Saturn Cemetery Association will hold quar-

terly meeting at 6:00 p.m. Friday, November 11, 2011 at the Saturn Community building on Hwy. 97 North.

All interested persons are encouraged to attend. If anyone has questions you can call 540-3858.

Childbirth classesThe labor and delivery department at Gonzales

Healthcare Systems is having a childbirth class on November 14 at 6:30pm to 8:30pm. We will cover how to know you are in labor, pain management, stages of labor, breastfeeding, and care of the new-born. The class is open to all expectant moms and their support persons. Contact Rene or Valerie at 672-7581 to RSVP.

Surplus saleFlatonia ISD will be hosting a surplus sale on Sat-

urday, Nov. 12 at 8 a.m. at the Carl Smith Pavilion, located at Flatonia ISD on 400 E. 4th Street. Preview of the auction items will be Friday, Nov. 11 from 3:30-5 p.m. at the Carl Smith Pavilion.

The district has hundreds of items for sale, in-cluding chairs, student desks, office desks, cabi-nets, tables, equipment, machinery and many more items. Most items are in working condition. The auction will be a silent auction and items will be sold to the highest bidder on a cash basis only. The bids will close at 1 p.m.

Public agencies are required by law to sell their surplus equipment to the public before discarding it. All proceeds from the sale will go to the district’s General Fund.

Barbecue and rummage saleFull Gospel Church, 1426 Fisher St. will host a

barbecue plate, baked goods and rummage sale at the church from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. Items available will include clothes, linens, shoes, purses and many other items.

Thanksgiving LuncheonThe Thompsonville Ladies Club will host their

annual Thanksgiving Luncheon on Friday, Novem-ber 11 at 12:00 noon at the Thompsonville Com-munity Center on County Rd. 423 off U S Highway 90. We encourage everyone to come join us for turkey and all the trimmings. This is our way of thanking you for your support of our scholarship fund.

Revival scheduledDo you need a lift? Come experience a spiritual

uplifting at the Little Hill Baptist Church (LHBC) Re-vival and ignite and revitalize your spiritual growth by hearing the word of God from the spirit-filled, dynamic speaker, Pastor M. C. Walker, Sr. of the East 19th Street Missionary Baptist Church of Austin at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10-11. Soecial musical guests on Fri-day will include the First Baptist Church Choice of Lockhart, while Friday’s guests will include the East 19th Street Male Chorus of Austin. Little Hill Baptist Church os located at 2835 FM 1586 in Ottine. For more information, call (830) 672-5959 or send an email to [email protected].

DAR meetingFriday, November 4, 2011 the Thomas Shelton

Chapter DAR will meet at 2:30 at The Chapter

House for a short business meeting. Then at 3:00 sharp, a tour of The Mushroom Farm. Wear com-fortable shoes for walking.

Book Club MeetingThe Gonzales Book Club meets on the third

Thursday of the month. This month’s meeting will be on Nov 17, from 10-11am at Liford’s Books and Fine Art to discuss “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Everyone is welcome and invited to attend. Please join us!

Gaslight Theatre TicketsTickets for the hilarious comedy, “Whose Wives

Are They Anyway”, the fall production at the Shiner Gaslight Theatre are on sale. Dates for the produc-tion are the: November 4, 5, 6, 9 (Wed), 11. 12. 13. 19. 20. Doors open at 6:30 pm, meal at 7:00 and performance at 8:00 for all performances except on Sundays, which are matinees. On Sundays the doors open at 12:30 pm, the meal is served at 1:00 and the performance begins at 2:00. Please call 361-594-2079 between the hours of 8:30 – 4 pm on weekdays for reservations. Visit our website, www.shinergaslight.org, for more information.

Leesville Fall FestivalFall Festival at the Leesville Community Center,

Leesville, Saturday, Nov. 5. Activities: Cake Walk, Hay Ride, Costume Contest, Door Prizes, Raffle, Food & Drink, Starts at 7 p.m.

‘Nights in Paris’The Gonzales Elks Ladies present “A Night in

Paris”. This annual Lady’s Champagne Luncheon and Style Show will be held Saturday, November 12 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Elks Lodge at 1222 E. Sarah DeWitt Drive in Gonzales. Pre-Sale Only tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Shear Designs Boutique or from Elks Ladies members. Proceeds benefit the local American Cancer Soci-ety Relay for Life event. For more information call 672-2615 after 6 PM.

Lutheran Women saleWomen of the First Lutheran Church will hold

their annual bake sale and quilt raffle featuring home baked items, soup and sandwiches Nov. 5. Included will be a raffle for this quilt, 84” X 102” and titled “Magnolias in Bloom.” Raffle tickets are $1 each and are available at the church office located at 1206 St. Joseph Street, Frames & Things, and the China Basket. The drawing will be held at 12:30 .P.M. on that day.

Monthalia Pumpkin PatchAll are welcome to come to the Pumpkin Patch

at Monthalia United Methodist Church, 1926 County Road 112, Cost, Texas. Please contact Jack-ie at 830-437-5730 for information and scheduling.

Interface MeetingThe Gonzales Community African American In-

terface Church Scholarship Fund will be conduct-ing its Monthly Business Meeting the first Thurs-day of each Month. The next business meeting is scheduled for November 3, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Union Lea B/C of Gonzales, Texas. The public is invited. For information contact Eugene Wilson Sr., (830) 857-3764.

Veterans Day BreakfastThe Heights of Gonzales will sponsor an old-

fashioned military-style breakfast for veterans at 8 a.m. on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, prepared by David B. Tucy, the director of dietary services at the facil-ity. The breakfast will include creamed beef (SOS), biscuits and eggs for veteran residents, veterans in the community and the community’s first re-sponders. If you would like to participate, please RSVP to 672-4530, ext. 1041.

American Legion ThanksgivingThe Gonzales American Legion Post #40 will

hold their Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 3, 6:00 p.m. at the Legion hall. All members, Ladies Auxiliary, and guests are invited.

Scholarship banquetThe Gonzales African American Interfaith Schol-

arship Banquet will be held November 5, 2011 at the St. James Catholic Church Banquet Hall at 6:00 p.m. Speaker will be Nelson Linder, President of the NAACP, Austin, Texas. There will be a Small Style Show, Talent Show, Special Recognition, Door Prizes with a Thanksgiving Holiday Menu. Dona-tions are $20 adults and $10 for children. For more information contact 512-773-4511.

Oddfellows BarbecueGonzales IOOF #38 is holding its annual smoked

chicken, sausage, turkey and ham sale. Orders will be turned in by Nov, 15 and will be picked up/de-livered on Dec. 14. Prices include smoked chicken (about 3 pounds) at $8 each, smoked sausage (3-pound packages) at $10 each, 8-10 pound smoked turkeys for $21 each and smoked hams (5-6 pounds each) for $25 each. For details contact an Oddfellows member or call 830-263-0331.

Women’s Study ClubThe Woman’s Study Club will meet at 4:00 pm

on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at the home of Jimmie Bouldin. The program will be “Show and Tell” and members are to bring a favorite thing to show and tell about.

Senior Citizens CenterThe Gonzales Senior Citizens Center would like

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

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

We would like some suggestions for activities that you would like to see at the Gonzales Center.

For general public transportation call 672-7014 or 672-6469, and talk to Kari or Bobby.


Obituaries

Nicholas Lossen Crews, 1946-2011CREWS

Crews, Nicholas Lossen, age 64 of Houston, Texas passed away unexpectedly on October 10, 2011 after complications from diabe-tes. Nick, born December 1, 1946, in Gonzales, Texas was a graduate of Gonza-les High School (1965). He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Trinity Uni-versity in 1970 and attend-ed the Graduate School of Business at Trinity. He was a member of Theta Tau Upsilon fraternity and en-joyed many lasting friend-ships. He joined the ROTC at Trinity in 1970 and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant. He was honor-ably discharged in 1974. Following graduation Nick worked for Deluxe Checks as department manager from 1976 to 1998 when he retired. He then worked as a residential real estate bro-ker at Bayou City Real Es-tate Corporation and was a member of the Houston Association of Realtors. A passionate golfer he also was an avid collector of Carnival Glass, amassing a large beautiful collection. He was gentle and kind, good natured, humor-ous and smart. Nick will be sorely missed by many friends and family.

He is predeceased by his brother Bruce Allen Crews, parents Dr. Theron Crews and Freda Ferguson Crews. He is survived by cousins Carmen Crews McMillan, James C. Crews, Sharon Crews Anderson and dear friend/‘brother’, Ben Cook-sey along with numerous second and third cousins to whom he was known as “Uncle Nicky”.

Services will be held at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Gonzales, Texas Satur-day, November 19, 2011 at 12:00 noon.

Marjorie Sue Tharp Iley, 1936-2011

ILEYMarjorie Sue Tharp Iley

of Gonzales entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at the age of 75. She was born on Au-gust 13, 1936 to Walter and Mayme Smith Tharp in Gonzales, Texas. She was the fifth of nine children. She is survived by her son, Richard Glen Baker. Her siblings include George Winston Tharp, Bonnie York, Audrey Kurtz, Walter Kent Tharp, James Tharp, Bettie Tullis, and Larry Tharp.

Marjorie was preceded in death by her loving hus-band, E.S. “Gene” Iley, her son Jack Charles Baker, her brother Wilbur Earl Tharp and her parents.

Marjorie, also known as Patty to some, had re-

sided in Houston, and it was there that she made her home with her two sons, Jack and Rick, and her hus-band Gene.

Eventually she and Gene moved home to Gonza-les, where they spent the remainder of their lives filling their days with ac-tivities they enjoyed most. One such activity in par-ticular was lawn care. She found this to be therapeu-tic as well as rewarding.

Marjorie also enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Up until a few years ago, each Friday night was reserved for the great-grandchildren and a sleep over at Paw-Paw and Granny’s house. This was followed by a full Sunday dinner which she lovingly prepared.

She and Gene enjoyed traveling. Marjorie espe-cially enjoyed traveling to the Coushatta Casino in Louisiana. They made nu-merous trips accompanied by Rick and Marian.

Marjorie lived a full, happy life and made a last-ing impression on those she knew and loved. She was a wonderful and caring wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She will be missed.

Funeral services were held Friday, October 28, 2011, at Seydler-Hill Fu-neral Home at at 2:00 P.M. with Rev. Paul Smith offici-ating. Interment followed at the Pecan Branch-Smith Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Larry Tharp, Bobby La Fleur, Spencer Bre-itschopf, Larry McKee, Gary Baker and William Nesbitt. Honorary Pall-bearers are: Melvin Roeck-er and Ken Chance. The family received friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 pm Thursday.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Pecan Branch-Smith Cemetery Association, 3466 E. State Hwy 97, Gonzales, Texas 78629 or the Belmont Methodist Church, P.O. Box 906, Belmont, Texas 78604.

Arrangements are un-der the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Gerald Franklin Kendrick, 1942-2011

KENDRICKGerald Franklin Ken-

drick, 69, of Gonzales, passed away Tuesday Oc-tober 25, 2011. Gerald was born August 12, 1942 in Carson, Mississippi to Gar-man and Myrtle Kendrick. Gerald married Nancy Kay Jackson on February 17, 1961 in St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Bassville, MS. He was a member of St. James Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. Gerald had worked for the Illinois Central Railroad for twelve years working up to track inspector. Gerald and Nancy moved their family to Gonzales in 1981 as Gerald accepted a posi-tion with Cal-Maine Foods. He retired as the Mill Man-ager in July of 2008.

Gerald was a loving hus-band, father and grandfa-ther. He loved to hunt and fish, he loved sports, but his true passion was his family. He was a wonder-ful cook and used his inter-est in cooking to develop

delicious spaghetti, stew, turkey salad sandwiches and bbq. His grandchil-dren will remember him as their loving Paw-Paw and will certainly remember the time he spent teaching some how to cook. He will be missed so very much.

Gerald is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, Nancy Kay Kendrick of Gonzales, daughter and son-in-law, Debbie Kay and Kermit Thiele of Gon-zales, sons and daughter-in-law, Gerald F. Kendrick of Gonzales, Billy K. and Ginger Kendrick of LeRoy, TX, sisters and brother-in-law, Betty Gail and Patrick Dickerson and Lynette Dickerson all of Purvis, MS, brothers and sisters-in-law, Earl and Mary Kendrick of Petal, MS, Jimmy and Ethel Kendrick of Vicksburg, MS, Richard and Jane Ken-drick of Hattiesburg, MS, Kendall and Regina Ken-drick of Columbia, MS, grandchildren, Amy Miller, Richard Thiele, Chelsea Kendrick, Bailee Kendrick, Layne Thiele, Hanna Kend-rick and Juliana Kendrick. He was preceded in death by his parents, and broth-ers, Floyd and Danny Ken-drick.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday at St. James Catholic Church with Fr. Paul Raaz as Celebrant. Interment followed in St. James Catholic Cemetery. Pallbearers included: Rich-ard Thiele, Alan Dickerson, Daniel Dickerson, David Terrell, Pete Delgado, and Rusty Williams. Honorary Pallbearers were his grand-children, Layne Thiele, Chelsea, Amy, Bailee and Hanna Kendrick and Juli-ana Kendrick. The family recevied friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society P.O. Box 22718 Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718 or the Ameri-can Heart Association P.O. Box 841125, Dallas, TX 75284-1125. Services are under the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

WULFJohnnie Wulf of Cistern

passed away Friday, Oc-tober 28, 2011 at the age of 57. He was born March 14, 1954 in Gonzales to the late Frances (Schutz) and George Wulf Jr.

Johnnie is survived by daughter, Dawn Guzman and husband Wayne of Cistern; grandchildren, Payton, Parker, and Colby Guzman of Cistern; sis-ters, Linda K. Malaer of Gonzales, and Noreen Jan-ecka and husband Danny of Waelder; brother and sister in-laws, Bobby Vinklarek wife Vicki of Cistern, Cathy Steinhauser husband Mike of Flatonia, Donnie Vin-klarek and friend Senda Snider of Cistern, Ronnie Vinklarek wife Belinda of Cistern, Suzanne Williams husband Craig of Smith-ville, Pam Marrs husband Rory of Smithville, and Mark Vinklarek wife Sha-ron of LaGrange, and many nieces and nephews.

Johnnie is preceded in death by his parents; his wife Betty Vinklarek Wulf (July 10, 2010), and one brother-in-law Roy Malaer.

Visitation was held at 11:00 am Tuesday, No-vember 1, 2011 at Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Flatonia.

Rosary was observed at 7:00 pm Tuesday, Novem-ber 1, 2011 at Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Flatonia. Funeral services were held at 9:30 am Wednesday, No-

vember 2, 2011 at St. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church in Cistern with Fa-ther Joe Hybner officiating. Burial followed in the St. Cyril & Methodius Catho-lic cemetery in Cistern. Pallbearers were Danny Ja-necka II, Scott Malaer, Jeff Cernosek, Dustin Marrs, Gary Vinklarek, Timmy Harmon, Jeff Pritchett, and David Wagner.

Honorary pallbearers were Jason Davis, Mark Vinklarek, Donnie Vin-klarek, Chad Marrs, Logan Vinklarek, Rory Marrs, Brent Vinklarek, Brandon Vinklarek, Larry Schultz, Ernie Vinklarek, Dennis Vinklarek, Danny Janecka Sr., Tyler Campbell, Kevin Vinklarek, Cole Williams, Trenton Vinklarek, Shawn Vinklarek, Brian Vin-klarek, Chris Williams, William Schutz, Lane Jan-ecka, Craig Williams, Earl Campbell, and Brendan Steinhauser.

Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.smithfuneralhome-flatonia.com

Smith Funeral Home, 128 East 5th Street, Flato-nia, Texas 78941.

Betty Jo Hagen Metz Knowlan, 1929-2011

KNOWLANBorn to Addie (Granny)

Clyde & (Pappa) Carl John Hagen Sr. , December 13, 1929, in Gonzales Texas. Died October 28, 2011 at the age of 81 in Houston Texas. Betty Jo was the lov-ing mother of her children Beverly Lyn Revis, Julianne Nasby, and Carl Hagen Knowlan. She is survived by her baby brother Clyde Lee (Woody) Hagen. She has 2 granddaughters Tricia Lyn & Carla Jo & 3 great grand children. She is proceeded in her journey to be with our Lord by her sister Mil-dred Houston, her brother Carl John Hagen Jr., and her dear friend Almer Frank Knowlan.

Betty Jo graduated Gon-zales High School in the class of 1946 and was an Apache cheerleader. She completed a 25 year career in the Oil and Gas industry in the 1980’s. Betty Jo has been a source of inspiration to her family, friends and community as she success-fully defeated cancer and other ailments in her latter years. While her time on earth has passed, Betty Jo continues to be a comfort to her family and friends, and is loved dearly by many car-ing souls.

Pallbearers included Ste-ven Eichler, Frank Garcia, Mark Hagen, Adam Green, Paul Bower, and Shaun Martin. Honorary Pallbear-ers were David Houston, Clyde Lee (Woody) Hagen and Carl John Hagen III.

Visitation was held 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Wednes-day, November 2, 2011. Fu-neral services were held 11 a.m. Wednesday at Seydler Hill Funeral Home, 906 St. Paul, Gonzales TX, 78629, Ph: (830) 672-3232. Burial Gonzales Memorial Park.

WASHICEKFrieda A. Washichek, 83,

of Gonzales passed away Thursday, October 26, 2011. She was born March 7, 1928 in Cost, the daughter of Charlie and Laura Beike Rossow. She was employed

for 19 years as a candler for the Continental Produce Company and later was with the Gonzales Hospital for 10 years in the house-keeping department. She married Frank Washichek on September 9, 1947. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Frank, brothers Rudolph “Rudy” Rossow and Adolph “Son-ny” Rossow. She is sur-vived by one sister Lindora Pace; 3 children Fred “Fritz” Washichek and wife Teresa, Leona Karl and husband Marvin, Franklin “Jimmy” Washichek and wife Doris. 8 grandchildren Kenneth Kuhynka and wife Donna, Candy Brown and husband Kenneth, Pamela Moore, Fred “Bubba” Washichek Jr., Brandi Washichek, Wendy Washichek, Franklin James Washichek and wife Danel-la and McKayla Washichek. 10 great grandchildren Will Irle, Kevin Brown, Christo-pher Brown, Jessica Moore, Debra Washichek, Nicole Washichek, Emmily Moore, Skylar Washichek, Cassidy Washichek, Logan Kuchyn-ka and 1 great-great grand-child Jayden Brown.

Visitation was held Fri-day, October 28, 2011 from 6 until 8 p.m. Funeral ser-vices were held 2 p.m. Sat-urday, October 29, 2011 at Seydler Hill Funeral Home with Pastor Ildiko Rigney officiating. Burial followed at the Union Hill Cemetery. Seydler Hill Funeral Home, 906 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 830-672-3232.

BOLADOLillian A. Bolado, 87,

passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2011, at the Guadalupe Valley Nursing Center in Seguin, TX.

She was born as Lillian Augusta Dullnig on March 28, 1924, in Monthalia, TX. Her parents were Wal-ter George Dullnig (born in Bexar County, TX) and Amanda (Werner) Dullnig (born in Guadalupe Coun-ty, Texas).

Lillian spent her child-hood and teenage years in Monthalia, TX. Af-ter graduating from high school, Lillian travelled to San Antonio, TX, to seek employment and went to work at a doctor’s office.

One day, Lillian hap-pened to see a “Help Wanted” notice posted on a three-bedroom white frame house. She later found out that the house belonged to Elmer Doo-lin, who was the founder of the Frito Company. She applied for the job and was hired by Doolin. Lillian, along with five other em-ployees, hand cooked the Fritos® brand corn chips in the Doolin kitchen and then packaged them in the front bedroom. They manually weighed the

corn chips with a scoop and a scale and then hand-clipped the bags to seal them shut.

During her employment with Frito-Lay, Lillian was known by her co-workers as “Caldonia,” after win-ning a bet on a horse by that name. The name fol-lowed her throughout her 38 years of employment with Frito-Lay, where she worked as a Packer and eventually a Lunchroom Attendant.

In 1944, Lillian married Daniel Eugene Williams (born on August 20, 1919), who worked at Kelly AFB. They lived in San Antonio, TX, and had two children together. Eugene passed away on May 21, 1964, and he is buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, TX. Lillian will be buried there, alongside Eugene.

On September 11, 1965, Lillian married Vicente Bolado. Vicente worked for Southern Pacific Rail-road, and he passed away on August 5, 1982.

Following the death of both husbands and her re-tirement from Frito-Lay, Lillian moved back to her birthplace home in Mon-thalia, TX, to take care of her mother until her death in 1987.

Lillian was also preced-ed in death by her parents, her brother, Emil Dullnig, and her sister, Stella (Dull-nig) Hausler.

Lillian enjoyed fishing, camping, country dancing and raising cattle.

Lillian’s survivors in-clude her children, Deb-orah Jean (Williams) Kaupert and husband Wil-liam (Billy), Dennis Wayne Williams and wife Debo-rah; grandchildren Melissa (Kaupert) Doege, William (Bubba) Kaupert III and wife Amanda, Kristi (Wil-liams) Stryk and husband Joey, and Lori Williams; Great Grandchildren, Ele-na Doege, Caden Doege, Bryan Kaupert, Matthew Weichold, Justin Stryk and Joshua Stryk; Sister-in-Law, Ruth Dullnig and nu-merous nieces and neph-ews.

Visitation will take place on Monday, November 7, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Seydler-Hill Funer-al Home in Gonzales, TX.

The funeral services for Lillian will be held on Tuesday, November 8, at 9:00 a.m. at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Interment will be held at Fort Sam Houston Cem-etery in San Antonio, TX, at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8.

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made in Lil-lian’s name to St. Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Gonzales Elementary hosted our annual Ghostly Family Reading Night. Parents, ghosts, ghouls, and even movie stars (such as Madi-son and Ayanna George, bottom right) attended and enjoyed the various activities available. Some of the activities were listening to stories (such as the one read by Maggie Tatsch, far right), creat-ing scary ghosts pictures, haunting word searches, spooky movies, bingo, Halloween bag making, and iPad discovery. Thanks go to the PTO for sponsoring the Book Fair for everyone to enjoy. Among the at-tendees were Sequoya and Ady Janacek, Kellie and Abigail Stewart, Carrie Oliver, and Lauren Cox (top). (Photos courtesy Angie Zumwalt)

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Two area bands have earned bids to compete in the UIL State Marching Band Contest, which will held this Monday at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

The Shiner Comanche Marching Band will be making its third state appearance in six years, after finishing ninth in 2005 and fifth in 2007. Shiner is scheduled to take

the field at 10:46 a.m.The band has been spectacular all season

long and have garnered several honors in-cluding 1st Division Ratings at contests in Brenham, Edna and the regional competi-tion in Giddings.

“It’s been a really great year and the kids have worked very hard since August,” said Shiner band director Stephen Krupicka. “They’ve been ahead of the game all year

SHINER — The plan-ning committee from Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catho-lic Church, Shiner is busy completing plans for the Annual Strudel Bake to be held on November 12, 2011.

To mark 2011 as the 25th Anniversary of the Shiner Strudel Bake, a specially de-signed Strudel Bake apron is being offered along with a tee-shirt that features a strudel theme. Each of these items will sell for $12 and will be available at the Strudel Bake.

Orders are being taken for the homemade apple strudel pastry that is so popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as other times of the year. By having contact persons and delivery points in several cities, the Shiner strudels will make their way into homes all over South Texas. All orders should be placed by Thursday, November 10, 2011 to assure orders being filled.

Prices for the strudels are $13 for unbaked and $15 for a baked strudel. The un-baked version continues to be the most popular since it can be baked up fresh at anytime with the simple bake instructions that are available.

To place an order for strudels to be picked up in Shiner, call Quality Phar-macy at 361-594-2262 or Marjorie Kresta at 361-594-2361. Pick-up time at the parish gym will be from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 12, 2011.

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Have You Heard?Heritage Quilt Car Rides AgainThe Shiner Heritage Quilt Car rides again—and this time it is going to the Houston International Quilt Festival at the George Brown Convention Center in Houston on November 3 - 5. The festival is the oldest and largest quilt show in the country and attracts over 60,000 visitors from around the world. Attendees will be able to take their pictures with the famous quilt car as a special remembrance of their visit to the show. Needless to say, Shiner Heritage Quilters, whose members are from Shiner and the surrounding towns, were thrilled to receive the invitation to feature their special car in such a prestigious show. The quilted car cover that fits snugly on a ’96 Blazer, was lovingly made by members of the Shiner Heritage Quil-ters Guild as a special addition to their first quilt show, “Spring into Quilting” in 2009. Since then the quilt car has won awards in area parades, been recognized as the “2009 Best National Quilting Idea Ever” by C & T Publishing Co., and featured at the Supper Quilt Exhibit and 2010 “Spring into Quilting” show as well as various Guild events and in newspaper publications. In addition, the Festival organizers have arranged for the quilt car to be a special highlight at the grand opening of the Texas Quilt Museum in La Grange on November 13th. This quilt car has truly become a Shiner Heritage Quilters Trademark! (Courtesy Photo)

…that the Smiley Volun-teer Fire Department will hold its annual fundraising event on Saturday, Novem-ber 5, 2011. This year’s event will have a BBQ meal, raffle, cakewalk and silent auction. The Smiley Firemen are sell-ing raffle tickets. Chicken and sausage plates will be served from 5:30 until gone for $8.00 a plate. The raffle drawing will be held around 7:00.

…that Nixon-Smiley El-ementary School students are presenting their annual Veteran’s Day program on November 11 at the Smiley

campus gym. It begins at 8:30 a.m. and YOU are in-vited!

…that $3602 was collect-ed to benefit the medical ex-penses of Janna Wheat? The Nixon-Smiley community, organized by school district friends and the livestock show board, is to be congrat-ulated for this outpouring of love.

…that rehearsals have begun for the community Christmas cantata? You are invited to join the fun and musical enjoyment on Tues-days and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at Nixon First United Methodist Church. Come.

…that Taylor Finch placed in the top ten of the 2011 Miss Pre-Teen San Antonio pageant competition and was voted Miss Congenial-ity by her peers? She is the daughter of Troy and Janet Finch in LaVernia and the granddaughter of Don and Gladyne Finch in Nixon. Congratulations, Taylor!

…that this is the last week for early voting in the Nixon-Smiley tax rollback election? Ballots are available in the school district’s administra-tion office. Election day is Tuesday, November 8 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Gonzales County Annex Building in Nixon. Your vote counts!

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APACHE FIELD November 10, 2011 @ 10:00 AM

Veterans Day Celebrat ion

Veterans Day is a great time to educate your children about the history of this holiday and the sacrifice and dedication of our U.S. Veterans.

Come Join us and Celebrate the Men and Women of the Armed Services

Let Us Honor and Remember their Service and Sacrifice.

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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

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

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

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Efeso Igesia BautistaHwy. 87 Smiley

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

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

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary 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

ChristianFirst Christian Church

(Disciples of Christ)712 Crockett, Luling

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

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

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

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

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

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Meth-odist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

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

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

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

Emmanuel 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

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Family Dentistry of GonzalesGentle Quality Care

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Greetings in the name of the Lord! I pray that you all are blessed and well. This week we will wrap up our study of Romans chapter 8. I trust that it has been as fruitful a study for you as it has been for me. If I could only have one chap-ter from all the scriptures this would be it. So let’s dive in one final time, at verses 37-39.

Romans 8:37-39 “But in all these things we overwhelm-ingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor prin-cipalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor pow-ers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

In the verses previous to this Paul was speaking of vari-ous trials that we may encoun-ter and in this conclusion he will show us that nothing can ever separate believers from the love of God in Christ Jesus. He answers the question that he posed in verse 35. In verse 37 he basically says that we are so far from being conquered by these things because of His love for us, that we can barely comprehend it.

Now in verse 38 Paul begins a list of things that cannot sep-

arate us from God’s love. First he is convinced, thoroughly and confidently convinced that neither death nor life can separate us. In life we will live with Him, and in death we will die with Him, and because we die with Him we will rise with Him.

Death to a believer is not separation but is stepping into His presence. [See 2 Corinthi-ans 5:8] Not even angels can separate us. Most theologians agree that these are Satan’s an-gels, [see Matthew 25:41] as it would be hard to grasp the thought that angels of God would even attempt to sepa-rate us from God’s love.

Next is principalities, which are simply a higher rank of evil spirits than the previous group. The kingdom of dark-

ness is much like the military or government where there are positions and ranks where some have authority over oth-ers. Nor things present, is the things that we are currently going through in our everyday lives. Nor things to come, is anything in the future whether on the earth or in heaven. Nor powers is a reference to any evil spirits regardless of rank, power or number can sepa-rate us from our love for our Redeemer, and most assuredly His love for us.

Finally in verse 39, nor height, nor depth is a refer-ence to anything in heaven or in hell or on the earth or any inhabitant therein. Any situa-tion from the highest moun-tain top experience to the lows of the valleys of life, the high-est point of abundance to the lowest point of need, none of these things can separate us from the love of God in Christ.

Then as if to make sure we understand he says nor any other created thing, which leaves no stone unturned in all the universe, NOTHING can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord! There is no doubt that the love Paul is referring to is God’s love for us.

Amazing love, how can it be? That Jesus the King would die for us. Because God knows the beginning and the end, and He knew that we would be sinful, yet He still gave His one and only Son to pay our sin debt on the cross. How can one ignore so great a love and salvation? This truth in turn should cultivate in us such a love for Him that separation from Him will never be an op-tion.

So this concludes our study of Romans 8, I pray that your learned as much as I have and the truths we found will become fruit in our lives. Amen…

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Under His WingsPatrick

Whitehead

Nixon First Baptist welcomesLinton as church’s new pastor

Rev. Michael Linton

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Nixon First Baptist Church welcomed Rev. Michael Linton as its new pastor in October. The fam-ily is finally moved into the parsonage from their former home in Kingwood, a sub-urb of northeast Houston, and he is ready to lead him new congregation.

Rev. Linton (who prefers to be called Michael) sees the church’s role as that of reach-ing out to the community, and, in turn, far beyond the reach one may be able to see. The mission of the church is to spread the gospel.

He believes there is a growth potential of eight to ten percent at Nixon First Baptist and envisions atten-dance on Sunday morning reaching 130–140.

Linton is enthused about becoming part of a town with a population less than 3,000. He sees it as an oppor-tunity for building relation-ships rather than existing

in a state of anonymity, the emotional state prevalent in urban areas and mega churches.

While discussing the pos-sibility of facing “resistance-to-change” as a new pastor, Linton quoted Dr. John Bisa-gno, pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Houston and a co-professor of his, when asked the same ques-tion: “No! Absolutely not (at forcing change)! If nobody’s following you, you’re not leading.” The solution of-fered by Bisagno for affect-ing change was the use of prayer, time, and then bar-reling through, if necessary.

Linton believes he has been called to minister to a city; he has been called to reach out to a city with the church as the command post. Other than theological ones, there are no standards at the door limiting atten-dance or membership – all are invited and all are wel-come.

His spiritual gifts include teaching, being an admin-

istrator, and his talent for adaptability. He is intrigued with the desire to be put in a situation where he can use undiscovered talents.

Another thought that in-fluences Linton’s approach to his ministry is “if your church was totally removed tomorrow, would anybody miss it other than church members?” He views his role as that of leading souls to Christ; he understands that people must be comfortable with him and Nixon First Baptist Church for that to

happen.He is a graduate of Texas

A&M-Texarkana, but iden-tifies with LSU, where most of his BA studies occurred – “Please do NOT call me an Aggie!” He earned his mas-ters degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Semi-nary.

He and his wife, Etta, were married at their home church after their mothers plotted their dating. They home school their two sons - Jamie, who is eight-years-old and Jaden, who is five.

Let’s pretend that I am a travel agent. You want to travel to 66 cities in Europe and have come to get my help. My job is to plan and organize your trip in such a pleasurable way that you will want to make return visits.

The first thing I will do is to familiarize you with a map of the region, teaching you how to read it, so that you can read-ily locate any place you wish to visit. For example, to find the city of Corinth and locate the 42nd house on 17th street, you would go to the modern dis-trict of the map and look for Corinth 17:42.

I’ll explain how the region is divided up into two distinct districts. A historical district composed of 39 cities; whose residents speak ancient He-brew and ancient Aramaic. And, a modern district, com-posed of 27 cities, where Koene Greek is spoken. Since these languages are not used any other place in the world, I will give you the names of some reliable translators that will help you communicate ef-fectively while you’re there. I will also give you a few other resources to help you under-stand the local culture.

Now take these concepts and apply them to your Bible. The 66 cities of this example are the books of the bible. There are 39 books in the Old Testament, 27 books in the New Testament. The historical district in this example is the Old Testament. The modern

district is the New Testament. The cities are the books of the bible, streets are chapters, and houses are verses.

Traveling through the pages of the Christian bible is a lot like visiting a foreign coun-try. It’s easy to get lost when we have limited knowledge regarding the language and customs of the people we are visiting. There are cultural, geographical and historical differences between ancient and modern man that have created an understanding gap that must be bridged in order to fully understand what God wants us to know.

Bridging those differences means getting acquainted with what people wore and ate; how they made their liv-ing; how they traveled; what animals and plants lived in the area; how they expressed themselves through art; what religious significance certain objects had for them; how they related to one another socially; whether they were an agricultural or industrial soci-ety; the geography and climate of their area, and their politi-cal structure. All of these areas impacted their perspective on the world and God.

In order to fully enjoy your

visits through biblical times, you have to understand what you are reading. The original books of the bible were written in languages that are not com-monly spoken in the world today. Therefore, a means of understanding vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, and literary style becomes necessary.

No serious Bible trav-eler would ever go on a trip through time without his ‘translators’:

1. A concordance lists every Bible reference for any word, character, place, or topic men-tioned.

2. A Bible dictionary and a Lexicon explain the origi-nal meanings of the Hebrew or Aramaic words in the Old Testament and of the Greek words in the New Testament, which were translated into English.

3. An archeology of the Bible lands, Bible atlas, and a Handbook to the Bible de-scribe ancient customs, geog-raphy and the history of the Bible.

Whenever reading a chapter or a verse, ask yourself ques-tions like these: To whom is God speaking? Who or what is He talking about? What is the key message? What does the verse teach about Jesus? Does the verse expose personal sin that I need to acknowledge and abandon? Does it contain a command for me to obey? Does it give a promise I could claim?

Write down your findings in a journal or notebook. Write down and carry verses that speak to you— memorize them. You will be surprised how they will come to mind when you need them the most.

God has gone to great lengths to communicate His will to us in the Bible. Your ef-forts to seek His will in your life should not be frustrated because you are confused, or bored to tears. If the word-ing of your bible causes you to lose interest within the first five minutes, then get one that makes sense to you. There are modern translations of the Bi-ble that will appeal to even the least scholarly among us.

Choosing a Bible that is easy for you to read stirs up the de-sire to make many return visits into scripture; which is vital to your spiritual survival.

Believe God’s promises and begin to obey and apply His commands. Learn to open the door to God’s truth so that His Living Word can begin to revitalize your mind and en-liven your spirit. Christ him-self told us that everyone who puts His words into practice is like a wise man who builds his house on the rock. Matt 7:24

You will need strong faith to withstand the many pressures you will face in this life.

Remember, this—faith is as strong as the foundation on which it is built.

love, eloise

Love, EloiseEloiseEstes

A traveler’s guide to the Bible

By KEY GARNER

Cannon Correspondent

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Found: Wedding Ring left at Wal-Mart. Call (830) 445-6597 and describe.

Lost - 5 Donkeys. 1 Black, 4 white. I-10, 304, Hensling Lane area. 830-437-2952.

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. --------------------------Gonzales Learning Center seeking do-nations of caps and gowns. Call 830-672-8291 for infor-mation.--------------------------Job Corps is cur-

rently enrolling stu-dents aged 16-24 in 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

GCAM is hiring for a part-time position as Director. Must be proficient in Excel spreadsheets, Mi-crosoft Office, and Quickbooks. Please

send resumes post-marked prior to 11/14/2011 to Lynn Wilson c/o Em-manuel Fellowship Church, 1817 St. Lawrence St., Gon-zales, TX 78629.--------------------------WRITERS NEEDEDThe Cannon, your regional weekly for Gonzales and sur-rounding counties, is taking applica-tions for regional c o r r e s p o n d e n t s in Luling, Waelder, Moulton, Shiner, Flatonia, Halletts-ville, Yoakum, Cu-

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looking for Service Writer/Clerical Help M o n d a y - F r i d a y, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Please send resume to: P.O. Box E, Gon-zales, Texas 78629.--------------------------

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Items from kitchen, dining, bedroom’s, bath, books, plants, yard, Christmas, tools, furntiure. 1415 St. Lawrence, Saturday, Nov. 5, 8am-?--------------------------Garage Sale, Satur-day, Nov. 5, 8-12 at 1614 Huisache St. --------------------------Multiple Garage Sale. Saturday, No-vember 5, 8-2 at East Side Baptist Church parking lot. 701 Seydler St.

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Separate sealed bids addressed to the City of Gonzales (OWNER) clearly la-beled “ATTENTION: CITY SECRETARY, 300 BLOCK ST. GEORGE STREET IMPROVEMENTS” will be received at Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, Texas 78629, until 2:00 o’clock p.m. on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, and then publicly opened and read aloud immediately.

This project entails the demolition and reconstruction of approximately 400 linear feet of street (300 Block of St. George Street) including sidewalks, curb & gutter, storm sewer and water and wastewater lines. The new construction includes approximately 7,000 SF of Sidewalk, 900 LF of Curb & Gutter, 1,500 SY of Pave-ment consisting of limestone and 2 course surface treatment with an alternate for HMAC, and approximately 350 LF 36” Storm Sewer, plus storm sewer laterals and curb inlets. It also includes the installation of approximately 430 L.F. of 8” PVC Water Line, 265 LF PVC wastewater line, 440 L.F. of irrigation line, 440 L.F. of electric conduit, 6 trees in tree wells and 6 Lamp Posts and Lights. The pro-posed work shall also include installation of erosion controls, traffic controls, and removal and disposal of demolished and excess materials.

The Contract Documents, consisting of Advertisement for Bids, Information for Bidders, Bid Proposal, Bid Bond, Agreement, Performance and Payment Bonds, General Conditions, Special Conditions, Notice of Award, Notice to Proceed, Tech-nical Specifications and Plans, together with any Addenda are available at Doucet & Associates, Inc., 427 St. George Street, Suite 304, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-1205, or at Doucet & Associates, Inc., 7401B Highway 71 West, Suite 160, Austin, Texas 78735, (512) 583-2600. Plans, Specifications, and Contract Documents may be examined and purchased for a non-refundable fee of $30.00.

Each bid shall be accompanied by a cashier’s check or certified check upon a national or state bank in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the total actual bid price payable without recourse to the City of Gonzales, or a bid bond in the same amount from a reliable surety company as a guarantee that the bidder will enter into a contract and execute required performance and payment bonds.

The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder; however, the right is reserved, as the interests of the OWNER may require, to reject any and all bids, and to waive any informality or minor defects in bids received. Bids may be held by the City of Gonzales for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days from the date of the opening for Bids for the purpose of reviewing the Bids and investigating the qualifications of Bidders, prior to awarding of the Contract.

A pre-bid conference will be held on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:00 o’clock p.m. at City Hall. A site visit will be made during the conference; however, con-tractors shall make their own individual site inspections and/or investigations to make themselves aware of existing conditions/issues. Failure to make adequate observations and/or ask questions shall not be grounds for requesting additional work or services. Questions shall be forwarded to J. Keith Schauer, P.E., 427 St. George Street, Suite 304, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-1205, by 5:00 o’clock p.m. Friday, November 18, 2011.

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Maytag washing machine, real clean, approximately 2 years old. $275. Call 208-3565.--------------------------For Sale: Hydrau-lic Motor Lift, Hy-draulic Transmis-sion Jack, 2 motor stands, Large Air Compressor, Fridgedair, double door ice box, Elec-tric stove (range), 9 months old, Shop Grinder & vice w/table and numer-ous other tools etc... Prices are negotia-ble. Call for prices. 830-857-4997--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane (detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs good. $8,000 obo. Individ-ual, 830-660-2813.--------------------------MUST TAKE IT ALL!

Barbie Dolls, some still in packages, purses, games, kitchen items, VHS tapes (new & used), more! All for only $100! Call 713-449-8861.--------------------------Power Box Asphalt Paving Machine and Roller. Good Condition. $9,900. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.--------------------------Small computer desk, wood, $40.00 obo. Large play-pen, $25.00. Both in great condition. 830-203-9159.--------------------------For Sale: pickup bed utility trailer, $125. (830) 377-8814.--------------------------Deer Hunters: For sale; feeder and feeder parts; cam-eras etc. 830-857-5720 --------------------------

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Whirlpool Heavy Duty Gas Dryer. Good condition. $75. Can be seen at 511 Church St. 830-857-4993.--------------------------For Sale: Thomas Playmate with Col-or Glo Chord Organ. Good condition. All instruction books included. Call Sue, 672-2192.--------------------------Utility trailer. All wired for lights. Current tag. $575. 512-917-4078.--------------------------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.--------------------------Prayer Shawl, 38x72, handmade, $75.00. Animal or bird cage, utility wire, 14x18, $60.00. 512-917-4078.--------------------------FREE 3 haul Fiber-glass boat, 16 ft. Needs work & no leaks. Call for infor-mation. 830-540-3574.--------------------------Fullsize Mattress & Box Springs, $100. Queensize Mattress and Box Springs, $175. Both in ex-cellent condition & sanitized. 830-672-3728.--------------------------2 young ladies black jackets size 14. One is leather. 672-8034.--------------------------Old Readers Digests for Sale. Call 830-672-3362.--------------------------Autograph picture of Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay (60’s), Certificate of Au-thenticity (11x16), $1,400. Yellow Lab Stud Service. (806) 577-3962.--------------------------Beautiful hand-made “orange poin-settia” pottery bowl. Large. Great gift. $35. Call (512) 917-4078.--------------------------Culligan Water Softner and Rust Remover, old cars, elect. water heater, 2001 Fiber Truck bed w/key, Hay Bal-ers, Bar B Q pipe. 830-437-5759.--------------------------2 pipe BBQ pits for sale. Ozarka Water cooler with bottle.

Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------128 used letter-size hanging file folders, most have colored tabs, excellent con-dition. $30 cash for all or $7 per 25. 830-672-1106.--------------------------Computer, printer & desk, all $400. Stamina #4755 ex-ercise machine. Like new condition. $100/obo. 672-2267.--------------------------4 tires. LT2457QR17 in good condition. $100 obo. 830-672-2075.--------------------------Metal Bench, $150; Organ, $50; School desk & books of all kinds. Just out of Moulton on 532. Call 361-596-4403.--------------------------Tanning Bed for Sale. 1996, 24SF. $300. Children’s wardrobe, good condition. $300. 672-7127.--------------------------Beautiful Vintage water color paint-ing, landscape & water. 12x19. $375. Antique very or-nate picture frame. 16x20, $295. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Dalhart Winberg original oil painting, landscape, $3800 (512)917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Picnic ta-bles built with treat-ed 2x6 lumber with bolts and screws. No nails. 4, 6, and 8 foot sizes available. For more details call 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273. De-livery Available.

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.

Heavily fertilized, horse quality, coast-al square & round bales. Bebe, Tx. 210-326-6053.

For Sale: 4 bale hay hauler. $1,000. (830) 437-2826.--------------------------For Sale: Case 970 tractor, new rear tires. $5,000. (830) 377-8814.--------------------------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.--------------------------For Sale: Cat D6C Dozer, power shift, hydraulic single blade, Hyster Winch w/cable, brush cab, extra set tracks pads. 830-437-5759.--------------------------Ford 3000 Tractor. Diesel. $4,800. Call 830-203-9385.--------------------------1977 WW 2-horse straight load bum-per pull. Good con-dition - ready to haul. Asking $2,000. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------Old western saddle, needs repair $150 (512) 917-4078.--------------------------2 wheel trailer. Call Robert at 830-203-0540.

6 pc. Solid Oak Bed-room Set. $500/OBO. Call 361-772-5566.--------------------------Solid wood double bookcase head-board, $50. 36x62 solid wood table, $40. 672-8390.--------------------------Bar Stools, 2-24” dark w/rattan cane, swivel seats, nice. $35.00 each. 2-24” V-finish ladder back w/woven seats. $15.00 each. 830-263-1702.--------------------------Beautiful 6 month old dark brown all leather sofa & lo-veseat, 4 recliners built in. Very com-fortable. Need to sell, too large for room. Store will not take back. They are custom made. Paid $4,000, will take $3,000 for them. Call 672-3613.

Cargo style sofa. $100.00. Call 361-772-5859.--------------------------Custom Designed Western motif 3 panel decorative screen, 54”x78 1/2’, horses, brands & leather look, $395. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For sale antique set twin beds, antique wardrobe, table with chairs, sofa and two matching chairs. 830-672-7347.--------------------------For sale 3 piece an-tique loveseat, lamp’s new and used mo-bile chair with bat-teries. 1827 St. Louis 830-672-8034.

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.--------------------------For Sale: 3br/2ba Fleetwood Mobile Home. 1,728 sq. ft. New roof, lami-nated wood floors, new windows, new furnace and door. Antique bath tub. 85% completely new remodeling

throughout house. Must sell fast and be moved. Reduced $18,000/obo. Call 830-445-9889.--------------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Dou-blewide Mobile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home is in need of repair. New water well. There are two sep-tic tanks on proper-ty. Asking $56,000. Call 830-401-0147.

1995 Z71 Ext. Cab, 4x4, bedliner, tool-box, receiver hitch, AC, 350 engine, auto, shortwide bed, rails. $1,800. 830-460-0995.--------------------------2006 Corvette, $16,000 miles. Very Clean. $33,000. Call 830-672-7040.--------------------------1997 Chevrolet 1500, short bed, V6, 128,000 miles. $2,600. Call 830-672-7040.--------------------------1999 Dodge Quad Cab. 5.9 engine, automatic, 85,000 miles. Clean. $13,500. Call 830-672-7040.--------------------------4 20” XD Series wheels from a 2008 Toyota Truck. Asking $800/obo. Call 830-857-6434.--------------------------For Sale: ‘94 Cadillac DeVille. $600. Call Luis, 361-433-2356.--------------------------Mercury Grand Marquis LS. Load-ed, 146,284 miles. $3,000. 830-437-2961.

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For Sale: Bully Brand Sidesteps stainless steel for a Cre Cab Silverado. New body style. Asking $200/obo. Like new. 830-857-5598.--------------------------For Sale: 1981 Chevy dually, 10’ dump bed, $1,800. 1986 Chevy dually, welding bed, $1,800. 1970 Ford gravel truck, new brakes, $1,000. 1965 Chevy 1/2 ton pick-up, flat bed, $600. Call (830) 377-8814.--------------------------Grill Guard and Run-ning Boards for 2002 Durango. Westin Brand, excellent con-dition. $300. Call 830-560-0238.--------------------------For Sale. Older Buick Regal Sport Car. En-gine is gone. Body, tires are almost new. Air condition system is new. Make me an offer. 361-594-2129. Shiner, County Rd. 299, Box 577.--------------------------1988 Wrangler, new motor. Sahara special and John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall. Make of-fer on Jeep and Trac-tor. Call 857-1781.--------------------------“SIMPLY THE BEST

deals on new Chev-rolets and GMCs AND 3 over 100 used vehicles with financ-ing to fit most credit situations. Grafe Chevrolet GMC - Hal-lettsville, TX - 800 798-3225 or 361-798-3281.”--------------------------1989 Ford Conver-sion Van. Super clean interior, good motor & A/C, transmissions slips, $1,900 firm. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.--------------------------2000 Jeep Wrangler SE Sport 2D, New Tires and New Sony Stereo. 107,000 miles. Great Condi-tion. Asking $7,000 obo. Call 361-865-3353.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Crown Victoria Ford, price $3,250. Call 830-587-6230 or 830-857-5559.--------------------------1998 Chevrolet, heavy 1/2 ton 4WD, 350CC engine. New AC. $5,000. Call 830-203-0147.--------------------------Van for Sale. $3,800 OBO. 2001 Oldsmo-bile Silhouette. Well-maintained, very clean. 181,000 miles.

Great for family or hauling van. Call 512-905-8226.--------------------------2,000 F-250, Power-stroke, Ford Diesel truck, Hunter Green, Tow Ball, Bedliner, CLEAN, 182K Miles. Power windows, locks. $6,500 cash. (512) 917-4078.--------------------------2005 Yamaha V-Star Classic with Silvera-do Package. Lots of extras. 1995 F-250 4x4 Supercab Diesel 5-speed. 281-330-9417.--------------------------2009 Honda Trail-wagon, w/dump bed, headlights, re-ceiver hitch & seat belts. 2wd w/rear dif-ferential. $2,500. For more information, 672-8580.--------------------------2007 Saturn Ion, 56,000 Miles $5000 worth of perfor-mance parts. $9000 OBO 830-203-0282.--------------------------For sale: 1998 GMC P/U, V8 automatic, 2D Extended Cab, 181K miles, bed liner, tow-package, $3,800. 830-203-0287.

Belmont. 3 br/2 ba, fireplace. $850/mo., $850/dep. 830-437-5312. 830-832-7813., cell.--------------------------3/2, $850/mo., $500/dep. 318 De-Witt St. 830-445-9294.--------------------------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/electric-ity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no smoking. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances available. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-

ances. $750.00 per month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.--------------------------House in country for rent. 3/2, nice yard. 361-594-3233 or 830-857-4364.

Need your house or office cleaned? Call 512-216-4901 or 512-644-7682. Good References.--------------------------

HELLO!Are you looking for extra income and want to make a difference in some-ones life? I’m look-ing for a Caregiver to work 2 times a month or more in Seguin taking care of a Alzheimer pa-tient. Must have great refs and ex-perience working with Alzeheimers patients. Call 830-391-4837.--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------Do you need your house cleaned? No job is too small or too big. $10-$15/hr. Available M-S. Call Brittany Balderas at 445-0703. --------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-865-0286 or 832-655-9195.--------------------------Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton,

Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.--------------------------Private Caregiver. 20+ years experi-ence. Hospice certi-fied. Looking to do private duty, cook, clean, drive. 361-772-2011.--------------------------Ironing done, in my home can pick up & deliver. References if needed. Call Lou-ise (830) 582-1120.--------------------------Will clean your house. I’m depend-able and have refer-ences. Call Mary at 830-672-4691.--------------------------All-around handy-man available. I also build sheds, 16x8 tool shed. Call 830-857-1959.--------------------------Building Demoli-tion – House, barns, etc. 830-263-0663 or 830-203-0540.--------------------------Hand for Hire, Odd Jobs Done, FREE estimates. Anything you don’t want to do, Junk hauling, Tree Removal, Lot clearing, House pressure washing, office help, ranch, farm, lawn & Flower beds, Barbed wire fence repair, gutter cleaning, I do win-dows. One call does it all. Call Terry (830 203-1503 or (830) 857-5927.

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

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

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830-857-6565.--------------------------Deer Hunter Spe-cial. Travel Trailer, $1,500. No AC or Fridge. 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.--------------------------1990 25ft Dutch-man travel trailer for sale. Fifth wheel hitch, queen size bed and couch, rear bathroom with closet, gas stove and microwave, new tires. Gonzales area, $4,000. 830-857-4750.--------------------------1976 Ford Eldorado Motorhome. V-8, super clean, good motor & A/C. New refrigerator. $3,700/obo. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.--------------------------24 ft. 2006 bought in 2007. Zeppelin Travel Trailer w/slide out; Lg. corner shower, qn. bed, m/w, stove, refrig-erator, sat./cable prep, tires 2-yrs-old. $9,800; located near Gonzales. Call 936-203-4378 or 936-594-9809.--------------------------FOR SALE: 25 ft. 5th wheel travel trailer with 5th wheel hitch. Good condi-tion. Microwave, stove, refrigera-tor, sleeper couch, queen bed. Asking $4,000. Call 830-437-2359.--------------------------1996 Pace Arrow. Ready to travel. Good condition. Runs well. 830-660-3883.

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.--------------------------RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------For Sale: Motor-cycle trailer, $100. (830) 377-8814.--------------------------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.--------------------------Enduro 55 lb. Thrust Minn Kota used 1 hour. $150. 916 Qualls St., Gonzales.--------------------------Boat Fender and life vests. $5 to $10 each. 916 Qualls St., Gonzales.--------------------------For Sale: 2007 Hon-da Shadow, VT 750 C2, 3,902 Miles. Like New condition. $3,000.00. Call after 5:00 p.m. M-F. 830-540-3555.--------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-David-son. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, beginners or ex-perienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2-RV Parking Sites, shade trees, all hook ups. 5 miles East Gon-zales. $350/mo. Call 263-0292.--------------------------5 RV Spots for rent. $350/mo. Electric, sewer hookups, wa-ter all included in price. Off 90A and Kelly Loop. For in-formation call 830-857-3112.--------------------------2003 Dyna Super-Glide Harley 100 yr. Anniv. Gold Key ad-dition windshield, backrest, forward controls. Great con-

dition. $7,500. 830-875-2278.--------------------------Having Fun with piano lessons with Shelia Wright 1622 N. College St. Youth and Adults Flexible Schedule (830) 672-2719.

Adorable Longhair Chihuahua puppy, last one, is looking for a new home, male, 9 wks, pure bred, health, play-ful, raised in home with a lot of love. 1st shots, wormed. $125. 830-875-9519.--------------------------Dobermans. AKC Registered, Black/Tan, Born 7-2-11, 4 females. Warlock Breeding. Shots & Wormed, tails and dewclaws, $150. 830-857-3232.--------------------------For Sale: Dog car-rying cage. Asking $40.00. Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------AKC German Short-hair pointer pup-pies for sale. Great hunters & family companions. Male - $200; female - $250. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Pups For Sale. Great Pyrenees, (1/8 Ana-tolian). Call Sammie Gibson at (830) 203-8666.--------------------------Very cute Rat Terrier puppies. 6 wks old. $75. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Tiny Chihuahua puppies. 8 wks. Registered. S/W, ti-ger striped, Apple Head. $150-$175. 210-379-0771.--------------------------Cocker Spaniels AKC, 3 males, shots & wormed. $250.00. 830-540-4368 or 830-203-8511.--------------------------2 Great Dane pup-pies. Asking $225. 857-5147.--------------------------Rhodesian Ridge-back and lab mix puppies. With ridges $50. They are blond, brown and tan. Without ridges, $25. Will be big dogs around 75-100 lbs. Call Leia Dalton at 830-263-2570.--------------------------Turn your favorite pet photo into a work of art! Artist Brenda Shannon, Pastel or Acrylic. Great gift idea. (512) 917-4078.

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Land4 acs with extra nice redone home...$155,00070 acs., wooded, hills, game, tanks.........................................................$420,000153 acs., FM 2091...........................$795,0008.7 acs., city limits...........................$120,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town...............................................................$12,000/Ac.,

Commercial4+ Acres, city..................................$125,0006 Acres, 183 N., city.......................$195,000Highway 183 N, 1.9 acs, across from new motel..................................................$65,0001.4 Acres - US 183S., 3BR/2BA, MH., of-fice...................................................$150,000Lot - Live Oak...................................$8,000

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

Land11.2 acs., Hwy 90. Gast Rd.......$5,300/Ac.CR 228 - 15 acs., M/H, trees................$87,500153 acs., FM 2091.........................$795,00061 acs., perfect homesite.................$4,990/Ac.3.94 acs., Settlement.......................$65,00010 acs., Settlement.........................$79,0002-4 acs., Sarah DeWitt............$25,000/Ac.1 ac. Seydler St...............................$25,0008.7 acs., city limits........................$120,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town................................................................$12,000/Ac.

CommercialLot - Live Oak..................................$8,000401 St. George-approx. 3400 sq. ft........................................................................$170,000

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

Banty’s For Sale. 3 roosters, 7 hens. 48.00 each. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Minia-ture donkey, male, brown and grey, cross on back. 6 months old. Great pet and farm guard. Fairly friendly. Call 830-263-1441 or 830-672-2346.--------------------------Polish crested Blue Legged Bantam Chickens. 512-272-5147.--------------------------HACCP Trained per-son need to help write HACCP plan for poultry. 830-339-0419.

Boer Goats for Sale: 1 Billy, 6 mths. 1 Nannie, 6 mth & 5 Adult Nannies. Sell as package deal or individual. 830-560-0238.--------------------------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.--------------------------Black Limousin & Black Angus Bulls. Also Heifers. Gentle. Increase your wean-ing waits. Delivery available. 979-263-5829.--------------------------Reg. Polled Her-eford Bulls. One year to 3 1/2 years, $1,100-$1,500. Also Reg. Heifers, 1 yr. olds. $650-$850.

Call 830-540-4430.--------------------------For Sale. 3 black Brangus Bulls, 1 red Brangus Bull. 2 yrs. old. No papers. $1,200/each. 830-437-5772.--------------------------For Sale. Female mare, 6 yrs. old. $500. Please call if interested. 713-203-2814.--------------------------Riding lessons in Gonzales. My horses or yours. For more information please call, 830-203-0470. --------------------------APHA flashy mare for sale. Broke to ride. FMI please call 830-203-0470. $1750.00. Used in Playdays/trailride.--------------------------Pretty Reg. A.Q.H.A. Cremello Colt, 6 months old. Great c o n f o r m a t i o n . Good bloodline - Hollywood Gold & King. $500.00. 830-437-5671 or 830-857-4591.--------------------------Longhorn young bulls and heifers for sale. Foundation genetics. Yard art or breeders. Gold Star Longhorns, Bob Tinstman, 830-540-4591.--------------------------For Sale: Black An-gus Bulls. 1 1/2 yrs. old. $1200-$1500. 830-437-5772.--------------------------Yearling smoky

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

2/1 home. 714 Sey-dler St. Owner Fi-nance. $75,000 or best cash offer. Call Martha, 830-556-2280. Habla Espa-nol.--------------------------511 Williams, Up-dated, 2BR/1BA, central A/C & Heat. Insulated. Wood floors throughout, kitchen & shower hard tile. Nancy, Stobaugh, Realtor, 512-297-8500, Sale or Lease.--------------------------Brick Home for Sale. 4BR/3BA, 1513 St. Michael Street on about 1 acre. Lots of trees. 830-857-5231 or 830-857-5236.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half

acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commercia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.--------------------------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.--------------------------House for Sale. 3BR/1 bath or 2 BR and dining room, carport & storage building in back. Phone, 830-203-5181, good bargain.--------------------------3BR/2BA at 1609 Gardien St. 1,400 sq. ft, 2 living areas, lg. fenced yard. $94K. 830-203-1874.--------------------------4BR/1BA, privacy fenced-in yard. 1000 Cuero St., Gonzales. Open lot in front of house, carport. Good con-dition. About 20 yrs. old. $75,000. Call 830-203-0389 for information.

5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equipment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for information.--------------------------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.--------------------------Approximately 10 acres for lease in Gonzales. Great for commercial busi-ness. For more info please call 830-203-0470.--------------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Dou-blewide Mobile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home

is in need of repair. New water well. There are two sep-tic tanks on proper-ty. Asking $56,000. Call 830-401-0147.--------------------------Lot for Rent. $100/month. 70’x130’ on Church St. Call 830-423-2103.--------------------------25 acres for sale. I-10 & 304 area. Abundant wild-life, great hunting, pond, nice home-site. $4,500/acre. Call 713-203-2814 for information.

Want to buy used tractors, running or not. Call 361-293-1633.--------------------------Looking for a good, used 3 wheel bike for adult. Call Paula at 672-3747.--------------------------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.--------------------------Professional Art-ist needs coastal round bales of hay. Will barter for art-work. Brenda Shan-non, 512-917-4078.--------------------------Wanted: Any make rifle, caliber 22-250. Call 830-857-1781.--------------------------I want to buy a used shower stall & kitch-en cabinets. 830-437-5659--------------------------WANTED: Old, bro-ken and unwanted costume and vin-tage jewelry, chain necklaces/belts and loose beads. I am a crafter who loves beading and mak-ing jewelry, and can’t afford new, full price beads. I will make an offer. I am in Gonzales. Please help me with my hobby. YOUR TRASH IS MY TREA-SURE! Call (512) 227-4040 today.--------------------------Wanted: Heavy duty metal shelving, 6-7 ft. tall, 3-5 ft. long, 12-24 inches deep. 832-419-5275.--------------------------Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-

4255.--------------------------Small family owned trucking company looking to lease or purchase 5-15 acres in Gonzales or surrounding area. Prefer w/shop or building. Call 501-589-5097.--------------------------Wanted: Looking for Deer Lease to pay by the day. 361-596-7792.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.

K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. First Month $10.00 - Move in special for month of August and September!!! Call 830-445-9583 or 830-857-3505 for details.--------------------------APACHE STORAGE - The Store All Place is located at 2502 Harwood Rd. Gon-zales, TX. 830-203-5115.

Buy loose gem-stones and allow us to custom design your upcoming gift. Over 1,000 cts. to choose from. Call 979-743-5840.--------------------------A/C & Electrical side jobs: New installs, A/C maintenance, Condenser change-outs, Residential & Commercial at affordable prices. Please call David anytime at 830-263-1747.--------------------------Ranch Hand Work. Rounding up cattle, fence work. Willing to learn. Call Steven & Gerald, 512-538-8950.--------------------------Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.--------------------------Mobile Massage is now serving Gonzales & Luling. Specializing in Therapeutic Mas-sage for pain in lower back, neck, knees etc. Also corporate chair massage. 13 years

experience. LMT Steve Turner, Lic. # MT021213. Call 8 3 0 - 8 5 7 - 0 2 7 0 . “Let me help get-ting you mobile.”--------------------------

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.--------------------------Electrical wiring, t r o u b l e s h o o t -ing & Repairs, new construction, a d d i t i o n s , m e t e r loops, ceiling fans, metal buildings, panel upgrades, etc. 830-437-5747.--------------------------Photographer - Pro-fessional, Afford-able, and Conve-nient. Specializing in families, children and maternity pho-tography sessions. Or relax and enjoy your special day by hiring “Memories by Maxwell” to shoot your birthday/an-niversary party, re-tirement ceremony, wedding, baptism, or other memora-ble event. Call Nikki today to schedule your event or ses-sion. (512) 227-4040. Located in Gonzales. Will travel to events within surrounding area.--------------------------

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It is good to know for the most part that Alvin Hewell is at home and doing well. I wish all of our people who were ill could end up like he has. I saw Evelyn Newmann at the doc-tor’s office and two days later I know that she landed on the floor again. I have not had the energy to find out what hap-pened next. I just know that we need to say a lot of extra prayers for Evelyn so that she can somehow keep her glu-cose levels more stable. I am still coughing my head off the majority of the time, so God has very effectively shut me up for a while. However, it seems to aggravate Augie since he can’t hear me in the first place.

I need prayers for a long distance friend of mine up in Michigan. His name is Blaine Welker and he had two strokes that affected his eyes

only. This is bad because it has cost him his sight except for shadows in one eye and perhaps a very centered close up sight in the other eye. I had never really ever heard of this happening but his carotid ar-tery was blocked 99% and his blood pressure was sky high and this is what happened. A person never ever knows what can happen to them from mo-ment to moment and we need to count our blessings.

Halloween has come and gone, but go to Facebook to your see some neat pic-tures of your favorite little critters. There are some re-ally cute pictures that will lighten your heart and make you laugh. You will find Jake Hobbs, Joe Kotwig’s little man, and Christina Wil-ke’s, little grandson; Nicole Weda’s one month old little Bentley, and many more. Oh, the UPS man just came with my Scentsy Blueberry Cheesecake brick that I or-dered from my niece Jen-nifer Soefje (go to my Face-book to find her site) who also has the cutest little gob-lins, Zack was a lobster and Brylee was a Ladybug and they won prizes from Wal-Mart. Then on top of that Zack and a friend got to go on an airplane ride at a car-nival event that they were attending. How cool is that? I would like to go on an air-

plane ride, but it was free for kids only. Oh well, maybe one of these days. It would be my luck that the blasted plane would crash.

I did not get to go to the Belmont Social Club to see all of the malarkey and fun they had with their Hallow-een costumes and the polka players and dancers. I know I missed a good time. This next week on Friday is the Best Friends, Sally and Deb-bie, and on Saturday is Tom-my Schlein with the Golden

voice from Victoria singing Elvis, Oldies and everything in between. I think some-one said that his mother is celebrating her birthday. If his whole family is coming with him, everyone will enjoy seeing them again. They are lovely people to be around with smiling and happy faces.

Well the Master Sean Allen came over Sunday afternoon to do a report for school and used our computer. He was on the porch since I was in this part of the house sleep-

ing and coughing my fool head off. Itsy has claimed the porch for his domain. When I woke up, my first glimpse was of Itsy flying high with that fluffy tail in full bloom. He was followed by Dililah on the floor creeping along like a moving rug. Samson was somewhere in between. Man it took almost a full hour for Itsy to decide it was safe for him to go back out on that porch.

Have a good week and God Bless.

long and are just a great group of kids to work with. They wanted to get to state and were willing to do whatever it took to get there.”

The piece the band will be performing a state is en-titled “The Trail of Tears,” an original composition by Barry Hurt based on the historical implications from the forced movement of Native Americans off their homelands.

“With us being the Co-manches, I thought it would be cool for us to do a show like this,” explained Krupicka. “I re-wrote a few parts of it to sort of make it ours and put that Shiner touch on it. The crowds have really gotten into it when we’ve performed it and it’s been exciting.”

Krupicka, who is in his eighth year at Shiner, said he likes the chances of his band doing well at state against the 16 other com-peting groups and possibly improving on their previ-ous finish.

“I think we have a shot at doing something really good,” he said. “It’s hard to tell because there’s so many great bands that are going to be there. It’ll be tough for us to win, but there’s no telling because I know these kids are going to play well.”

Members of the Shiner Comanche Marching Band include: Drum Majors Nicholle Tieken and Shelly Kresta, Abbie Abernathy, Devin Alegria, Kelsey Berk-man, Ryan Bickham, Sam Bickham, Kayla Blaschke, Trevor Bryan, Amanise Coleman,

Also, Shamyra Coleman, Stephanie Coronado, Chris Culak, Caleb Curtis, Paige Dollard, Rebekah Downey, Ernie Egan, Rose Egan, Eric Estrada, Alexandra Flynn, Matthew Foster, Emily Ga-mez, Michelle Garza, Mag-gie Grosenbacher,

Also, Tamara Hajek, Riley Handley, Jennifer Hartl, Ashley Hauptman, Kris Hauptman, Skyler Henry, Christopher Her-man, Audry Horsley, Ash-ley Indorf, D.J. Jaehne, Kelli Jamison, Evel Jones, Jayde Kurtz, Samantha Logs-don, Coy Mathis, Alicia

Matthews, Jessica Mauric, Keely McCarthy, Blake Mraz,

Also, Samantha Neal, Hannah Nevlud, James Ohlhausen, Kevin Ohlhau-sen, Hailey Pardy, Chad Rabke, Alexis Rainosek, Sarah Reese, Breana Ren-ken, Marcus Rodriquez, Jodi Rogers, Kimberly Ro-znovsky, Alana Saldana, Jose Sanchez, Chase Schro-eder, Kelsey Seymour, Cas-sidy Simper, Bobby Stasney, Sarah Stluka, Abby Tieken, Michael Turnini, Marlon Wallace and Ethan Zissa.

The band is under the direction of Krupicka and Sarah Rose.

The Luling Eagle Band will try to outperform 18 other 2A outfits when they take the field at 4:21 p.m. Luling is making their first state appearance since 1983.

“These kids have been working really hard,” said band director Coral Rios.

“They learned the mate-rial really quickly and have been passing their music at the assigned times. We’ve had a goal all year and that was ‘11-7-11,’ the date of the state contest, and now we’ve finally made it.”

The accomplishment is made even more impres-sive when you consider the band consists of several members who are involved in athletics, including 10 players on the varsity foot-ball team. “The coaches have really been awesome because they’ve allowed all of the kids to march at halftime and even let them leave practices early to at-tend band practice,” Rios said.

“We’ve worked as team over here all year with ev-erybody supporting each other.”

The Eagle Band will perform a show called “A Knight’s Journey,” a three-movement piece based on the movie “Gladiator.”

“The first movement kind of takes you through what knights have to do in order to get prepared for war,” explained Rios. “The second movement is called ‘Earth’ and it’s all about the warriors saying goodbye to their women before going to battle. The third move-ment is entitled ‘The Battle’ and it depicts what the war-

riors are actually doing in battle and how they are vic-torious at the end.”

Rios has been at Luling for 22 years and she said some of the credit for this season’s breakthrough goes to the former band mem-bers who have graduated.

“It wasn’t just these kids, but also the kids that came before them and laid the foundation,” said Rios. “It’s been about building on tradition and building on excellence. This group has really kept it going and they refused to accept anything less than being the best.”

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Area football teams end the regular season Friday with sev-eral teams locked in postseason or having a good shot.

Sam Houston at YoakumThe Yoakum Bulldogs will host

the Sam Houston Hurricanes in

the regular-season finale for both teams.

Both squads are 3-2 in district. And both teams need a W to stay alive in the playoffs.

The Hurricanes defeated Cuero last weekend, 45-14.

Sam Houston running back JeQuan McBride torched the Gobbler defense for 291 yards rushing and three touchdowns.

Quarterback Jhurrell Jackson ran for 55 yards and a score and threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Leo Thomas, Jr.

Yoakum got a 35-0 win over Poteet.

Jeff Harrison, Troy DeWeese and Myron Hights ran for one score each and the Yoakum de-fense scored twice on a fumble and interception return.

Hallettsville at IndustrialThe Brahmas close out the reg-

ular season at Industrial.Currently, the Brahmas are sit-

ting good for the playoffs with a 3-2 record.

A win by the Brahmas would cement them as the lone third-place team.

A loss by Hallettsville, com-

bined with a win by Hitchcock, puts those two teams and Rice even with 3-3 records for third place. Hallettsville has won against both and would leave the Brahmas in third place.

Shiner at LouiseThe Comanches face Louise af-

ter their open date.

With their goals of mak-ing the playoffs and win-ning the district now ac-complished, the Gonzales Apaches turn toward one goal they have had for months now: beating arch-rival Cuero.

The Apaches (9-0, 5-0) take on the team in green 7:30 p.m. Friday at Gobbler Stadium to close out the regular season.

“It says a lot about our kids setting goals,” Apache head coach Ricky Lock said. “We set those goals after we lost to Cuero last November. We started test-ing for offseason before last Thanksgiving and started getting ready for this year in December.”

The Tribe’s sacrifice paid off with an improved, tougher and stronger foot-ball team.

“We are excited to play Cuero and have a chance at win No. 10 on the season,” he said. “

Coming into tomorrow’s contest, Cuero is 3-2 and is tied with Sam Houston, La Vernia and Yoakum

A win will most definite-ly get Cuero in the playoffs while a loss will likely see the Gobblers out.

Cuero’s offense has pri-marily been a running team this season with backs Van Davis, Clint Davis, Logan Goebel, D’Anthony Hop-kins and A.J. Bustos.

Lock said the Apache defensive coaches are up to the task of preparing a game plan that will contain the Cuero offense.

“They always seem to put our defense in a good posi-tion,” he said.

Gonzales will have to prevent Cuero from mak-ing a big play and make Cu-ero earn every single yard.

They will also need to tackle the Cuero ball carri-er as flawlessly as possible.

Lock said in recent games, Cuero lines up in ‘50’ and split looks and could also run a 4-2-5

Bustos at corner and de-fensive lineman Colton Ja-cobs are mainstay players on the Gobbler defense as well as linebacker Goebel.

“Defensively, they are not bad at all,” Lock said. “We have our work cut out for

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LULING — A big showdown will take place this Friday when the Luling Eagles play host to the Blanco Panthers at Eagle Field, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

A postseason berth as the third place representative from District 13-2A Division I awaits the winner, since both teams will enter the game carry-ing identical 4-5 records with district marks of 2-2.

“It’s a pretty simple scenario,” said Blanco head coach Danny Rogers. “If we win, then we keep playing. If we lose, then we get ready for basketball.”

The Panthers, who fell 28-22 to league-leading Lago Vista last week on a last-second, fourth quarter touchdown, will be looking to gener-ate enough momentum to qualify for their eighth straight playoff appear-

ance.“Our kids know their backs are

against the wall, but they’re pretty excited about it,” Rogers said. “We’re hungry for a win.”

Blanco’s Wing-T offense has pro-duced the district’s third best rush-ing attack, averaging 165.4 yards per game. The engine that pushes the Panthers offensively is senior quar-terback Tanner Rogers, a three-year starter who has 901 yards passing and

For the Eagles, it’s now or never

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SEGUIN — Coming into Tuesday’s bi-district match against Devine, the Gon-zales volleyball team had already made an amazing accomplishment.

Returning to the playoffs after a three-year drought.

The Lady Apaches battled Devine hard but fell 3-1 (22-25, 26-24, 13-25, 19-25) Tuesday night in the bi-district round at Seguin High School.

By being the first volleyball team to make the playoffs in several years, the 2011 team should be proud.

“We have nothing to hang our heads about,” Lady Apache head coach Kim Payne said. “We stepped in the right direc-tion and done something that no one has done in a while in Gonzales. Hopefully, we have started a tradition. We should build from this and push on.”

Gonzales had to deal with the challenge of playing their fourth match in a little over a week.

“We did not play to our potential,” she

said. “The second set was great. Then we let our guard down and Devine went on a 5-1 run and it is hard to comeback against that.”

The Lady Apaches opened the first set with a 10-8 advantage.

Devine then scored seven of the next eight for a 15-11 margin.

Gonzales got within 15-13 with a pair of Allison Raley kills.

Devine used plays from Kaelyn Stacy to go up 20-15, Gonzales battled to within 24-22 on effort from Raley and Danyelle Glass before the Arabians got the set point.

In the second set, an Lindsey Akers play and service from Morgan Simper helped put Gonzales up 5-2, and the lead was extended to 9-3 with the help of a Kiley Braune ace.

Stacey helped rally Devine to trail just 17-15 and later a 24-24 tie before the Lady Apaches got the two points to tie the match at a set each.

In the third set, the Arabians jumped out to an early 7-1 advantage and did not take their foot off the gas pedal, holding Gonza-

By MARK LUBE

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Success is something that does not often happen by acci-dent or luck.

It is something that has to be ‘chosen”.

The Shiner Lady Comanches made the right choice despite some steep hills to climb.

“We had two starters lost early in the season because of injury and waited on another player to return from a basket-ball season-ending injury. The team took these obstacles as challenges that tested both their physical and mental abilities,”

Shiner coach Michelle Winken-werder said. “They have shown remarkable resilience and flex-ibility in overcoming those ob-stacles.”

She said the adversity forced the Lady Comanches to play at levels that might have gone un-tapped with a healthy team.

The Lady Comanche patience with their personnel issues has paid off.

“We now have two of those three players back in uniform and contributing their skills and talents to the team,” Winken-werder said. “Considering that we are 27-8 and seven of those losses came from several top-

ranked teams in the state with-out a healthy team, we cannot wait to have fun in the playoffs.”

Shiner’s district is comprised of fellow state ranked teams of Ganado and Flatonia and of de-veloping programs Prairie Lea, Louise and Waelder.

Winkenwerder said Shiner respects all of its district op-ponents without regards to re-cords or abilities

“To win district, we have to avoid injuries, be prepared for anything and show up to play on game night or someone else will gladly take the title,” she said.

The Lady Comanches prac-

tice and prepare for matches the same, regardless of the op-ponent.

“The overall things we do in practice to prepare for a team like Flatonia are no different from how we approach to win against a budding program,” Winkenwerder said. “All teams have to be able to serve and serve receive if you are looking to win. We will study and dis-cuss tendencies that we expect to see from our opponents to give us the best chance for suc-cess.”

The Lady Comanches will face Agua Dulce (third place 31-1A).

Shiner is taught to stay in the present and never look to the past or ahead to the future.

“Our girls are constantly re-minded not to take any team for granted and that on any given night, any team can win,” Winkenwerder said. “Do not look ahead, do not look behind, concentrate on the job in front of us at that particular time. We have to relax, have fun and ex-ecute our game plan. If we play Lady Comanche volleyball, the winning and the losing will take care of itself.”

The area round match will take place at Odem High School at 7 p.m. today.

les to just 13 points.In the fourth set, Gonza-

les overcame early deficits, going on top 18-15 on two kills from Shayla Simper and a Raley block.

Devine went on a 10-1 run at that point to close out the set and the match.

For Gonzales, Bozka had 44 digs; Shayla Simper had 27 digs and seven kills; Mor-gan Simper had 15 digs; Jes-sica Cantu had 40 assists and 10 digs; Raley had 13 kills and 19 blocks; Glass had 18 kills; Akers had nine blocks; Brittany Pakebusch had 10 blocks and five kills with

Braune contributing one service ace.

Seniors Lynnea Fink, Cantu, Pakebusch and Jerika Vega put on a Lady Apache volleyball uniform for the last time.

“I am going to miss the leadership from the four se-niors. They gave their heart and soul. They were leaders on and off the court. I could not ask for anything better,” Payne said. “I know two of them did not get a lot of playing time but they were still fighting for this team and giving me all they had in practice.”

Next year, Payne will have a whole pack of seniors who

will be fourth-year varsity players along with a couple of juniors.

The future looks bright for Gonzales

“I know we will be back in the playoffs next year. That is probably a bold statement but I am going to make it,” Payne said.

Gonzales 3, Cuero 0LA VERNIA —The Lady

Apaches’ last shot at the playoffs started Thursday night in La Vernia against Curero.

The Lady Apaches swept Cuero 25-21, 25-18 and 25-23.

“The girls had a ton of

energy,” Payne said. “They know what to do and they know what is at stake.”

“It is a great feeling (to be almost to a playoff spot),” re-marked Shayla Simper. “It is finally our time.”

Payne said the Lady Apaches played very well with a couple of things in the hitting department that was just a little off.

“Most everything was on for us and we need to con-tinue that momentum,” she said.

Gonzales got out to 4-1 lead early in set one as Mor-gan Simper served an ace and Allison Raley made a kill.

The Lady Gobblers fought back to score six of the next seven points, getting kills from Justyce Turner and Brandi Phillips.

Gonzales closed down to 13-12 on plays from Glass and later, went ahead 16-15.

The teams battled back and forth until the Lady Apaches went on top 23-21 and held Cuero scoreless the rest of the way.

In the second game, the Lady Gobblers held the early advantage until plays from Glass and Shayla Simper gave Gonzales a 12-9 lead.

Gonzales continued the run, going up 16-11 on ser-vice by Jessica Cantu and a play by Lindsey Akers.

Cuero fought back to keep the margin at five points at Abby Sheppard and Emily Olsovsky produced points for the Lady Gobblers.

Down 23-15, Cuero pulled back a few points be-fore Gonzales got the win-ning point 25-18.

The Lady Gobblers clawed their way to a couple of early leads in the third set and held a 22-21 lead after a kill by Madison Simpson.

The Lady Apaches came back to a 23-23 tie and scored two straight, getting the game point on a play by Shayla Simper.

For Gonzales, Bozka had 29 digs and one ace; Mor-gan Simper had eight digs and one ace; Cantu had 16 digs, one ace and 25 assists; Braune had 12 digs; Shayla Simper had 12 digs, eight kills and one ace; Raley had nine kills, six blocks and two aces; Glass had nine kills and Pakebusch had 10 blocks and five kills.

Gonzales 3, Pleasanton 1LA VERNIA —The very

next night, Friday, Gonzales had one last obstacle block-ing its way to postseason play.

The Pleasanton Eaglettes.The Lady Apaches defeat-

ed Pleasanton in four sets (25-22. 23-25, 25-12, 25-20) Friday in La Vernia, winning

third place in 28-3A and place in the postseason.

“Making the playoffs feels great,” Morgan Simper said. “It is definitely where we wanted to be at the end of our season and it is good to know all of our hard work over the past years has paid off.”

Gonzales really wanted to have success this year and was willing to do everything that was required.

“The number one factor would have to be determi-nation,” she said. “We never gave up, especially when times were hard. We knew what we wanted and we were not going to stop until we reached our goal. “

For Gonzales, Bozka had 31 digs, one ace; Shayla Simper had 18 digs, 12 kills and five aces; Braune had 10 digs and an ace; Morgan Simper had 12 digs; Cantu had 19 digs and 39 assists;, Raley had 16 kills, 12 blocks, nine digs; Glass had 16 kills and three blocks while Pak-ebusch had 12 blocks and seven kills.

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Digging one outGonzales libero Carly Bozka (10) goes to the floor to save a shot as teammate Kylie Braune (3) moves up to assist. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Volleyball RoundupYoakum advances with win; Lady Cardinals fall

Shiner hurdles big obstacles to return to topBy MARK LUBE

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The Yoakum Lady Bulldogs beat Hondo 3-1 (25-23, 26-24, 19-25, 25-21) in the bi-district round Tuesday in Stockdale. Leslie Seidenberger had 29 kills; Ashton Henkes had four blocks and three aces; Camille Desmet had 55 assists and Ryan Hagen had 15 digs.

The Bulldogs are set to play Burnet in the area round with site and date information to be an-nounced at press time.

•Flatonia ended the regular

season Friday with a 3-1 (9-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-21) win over Louise on Friday.

Leanna Dunk had 15 kills, three aces and two blocks; Alex Bruns had 26 assists and Court-ney Mica had 18 digs.

Flatonia played Woodsboro at Cuero Tuesday in the bi-district round, winning 25-7, 25-11, 25-22.

Flatonia will play Santa Maria in the area round, site, date and time information not available at press time.

•The St. Paul Lady Cardinals fell to Huntsville Alpha and

Omega 3-1 (11-25, 16-25, 25-18, 18-25) in the TAPPS Division II regional round Saturday in Hous-ton.

We played really well at times but could not consistently receive the ball so we struggled offensive-ly,” head coach Dana Beal said. “We are proud of the girls but disappointed the season came to an end short of the state tourna-ment. “

St. Paul ends the season with a 20-6 record.

• The Hallettsville Lady Brah-mas fell to Rogers 3-0 (20-25, 18-25, 19-25) in the bi-district

round Tuesday. Cassidy Targac had nine kills and four blocks; Ali Patek had 11 digs and one ac; Lauren Jones had 15 assists.

•On Oct. 25 the Luling Lady Eagles volleyball team played at Universal City Randoloh. Both teams were 7-4 in district and in a three-way tie with Nixon for second place.

Randolph won the match 25-18, 25-21 and 25-14, forcing Luling to play Nixon for third place.

The Lady Eagles won the match (3-2 23-25, 21-25, 25-19, 25-15, 15-7) and third place in

the district.Luling was swept by George

West 25-20, 25-10, 25-23, Tues-day in the bi-district round.

• Shiner was edged by Marion 3-2 (25-23, 18-25, 25-20, 23-25, 17-19) Tuesday in a playoff warmup game.

Lauren Oden had six aces; Cassie Stafford had 29 assists; Kaylyn Benes had 11 points, La-Neisha Hunt had 10 kills; Ama-nise Coleman had three blocks and Ryah Michalec had 32 digs.

Shiner plays Agua Dulce at 7 p.m. today at Odem High School.

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The Gonzales defense played savior to the of-fense Friday as the Apach-es preserved their unbeat-en record by escaping with a 14-9 win over the deter-mined La Vernia Bears.

The win, coupled with Saturday’s Sam Houston win over Cuero, clinched the District 28-3A title for the Apaches.

The defense made its case by killing several La Vernia drives, including two that would have given the Bears a potential game-winning score following Apache turnovers deep in La Vernia territory.

Jon Anthony Casares’ second interception of the night provided the final

heroics for the Gonzales defense when he picked off a Bear Hail Mary pass with no time left on the clock to preserve the Tribe’s 14-9 lead during ‘Senior Night’

Casares, one of the se-niors on the team, also had a hand in both touch-downs — an 8-yard pass to Don Cartwright and running for a touchdown at the end of the second quarter.

“It was a team effort on defense but for myself, I just played with guts and knew it was my last game at Apache Field,” he said. ‘Other than that, I knew I was going to leave ev-erything on the field. We made some mistakes in this game but came out and finished it. We played with heart.”

“We ran the ball (well) but we fumbled a couple of times,” Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock said. “We gave up a couple of potential touchdowns by fumbling the ball.

“If you fumble the ball away, you are not going to score many points. I told the players this was an ugly game and the worst one we have played in a long time.”

The defense got three in-terceptions, including two in the fourth quarter when the Bears were driving down the field for poten-tial game-winning scores.

“The defense played well,” Lock said. “Has played well all year long. They gave up the counter to (Aaron) Grubb but he is a fast kid.”

The Apaches took the opening drive and marched 52 yards in nine plays. Quarterback Casa-res rushed three times for 23 yards to get things going and shared carries with Cecil Johnson and Zack Lopez. On third and 6 from the Bear 8, Casa-res rolled to his right and found Cartwright for the touchdown. Matt Hill-man’s point after gave Gonzales a 7-0 advantage.

La Vernia’s first drive was stalled by two false start penalties before quarterback Vince Gill had a 40-yard completion to Josh Rutledge for first down to the Apache 27. The drive fizzled out and kicker Alec Dews missed a 39-yard field goal attempt.

The Apaches got into La Vernia land before killing the drive on a lost fumble.

The defense came up with a save as Casares got his first interception of the game on the next play. The

turnover failed to produce any points when La Ver-nia stopped Gonzales on fourth down.

The Bears marched from near the 50 to inside the Gonzales 30 but failed to convert another field goal try.

The Apaches threw an interception and La Vernia went three-and-out on the next couple of drives.

The Bears caught a break when Gonzales punter Matt Hillman took a low snap and punted but was ruled down in the end zone, giving the Bears a safety.

The Tribe later took over at its 47 following a 13-yard La Vernia punt.

Gonzales drove down to the 23 where Casares then had a 19-yard scram-ble, where he went out of bounds.

However, the clock did not stop and both teams thought it was the end of the half and appeared to start heading for the lock-er rooms.

The officials corrected the error and, after La Ver-nia had to use a time out, Casares got the ball into the end zone on a bootleg. Hillman’s extra point gave

Gonzales a 14-2 halftime lead.

La Vernia opened the third quarter with a three-play, 79-yard drive capped by the explosive run by Grubbs of 74 yards to cut the Apache lead to 14-9. Gonzales had another long drive that died because of a lost fumble.

Another Apache drive early in the final period fizzled deep in Bear terri-tory.

The drive eventually came to fourth down at the Bear 9. Casares went to his left and avoided pres-sure from La Vernia before throwing to an all-alone Cameron Smith in the end zone, but Smith was ruled to have gone out of bounds and return to the field be-fore making the catch.

La Vernia drove the ball to its 41 with less than two minutes to go. Cory Espi-nosa picked off a long Gill pass.

Gonzales could not move the ball and had to punt, setting up La Vernia at its own 45 with just two seconds left.

Gonzales improves to 9-0 and 5-0 and closes out the regular season next week at Cuero. By defeat-

ing La Vernia, Gonzales has wrapped up a district title and now has set the goal of beating Cuero.

“It is always important to beat Cuero,” Lock said. “Any rivalry game is im-portant. We go into the Cuero game with a chance to be undefeated in the regular season and nobody gave us that chance in the beginning of the season.”

Gonzales 14, La Vernia 9La Vernia 0 2 7 0— 9Gonzales 7 7 0 0—14

Game SummaryGon-Don Cartwright 8 pass from

Jon Anthony Casares (Matt Hillman kick)

La V-safety-Hillman down in end zone

Gon-Casares 4 run (Hillman kick)La V-Aaron Grubb 74 run (Alec

Dews kick)Team stats LV GFirst downs 9 19Rushes-yards 23-126 56-249Passing 5-15-3 4-9-1Passing yards 90 48Punts-yards 3-64 1-34Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-2Penalties-yards 7-58 10-78

Individual statsRushing — La Vernia: Aaron

Grubb 11-114, Landon Richter 5-7, Vince Gill 7-5. Gonzales:Cecil Johnson 22-107, Jon Anthony Casares 18-100, Zack Lopez

12-47, Landon Lock 1-5, Matt Hill-man 1-(-10). Passing — La Vernia: Gill 5-14-3-90, Grubb 0-1-0-0. Gonzales: Casares 4-9-1-48.

Receiving — La Vernia: Kenny Moehrig 3-44, Josh Rutledge 1-40, Grubb 1-6. Gonzales, Cameron Smith 2-36, Don Cartwright 1-8, Cory Espi-nosa 1-4.

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By MARK LUBE

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Defense rescues Apaches, 14-9

Early outburst spurs Stockdale past ‘Stangs

Turning the edgeGonzales offensive tackle Cody Jurek (74) lifts la Vernia defender Chris Herrera (22) off his feet with a block during Friday’s contest. (Photo by Mark Lube)

By CEDRIC IGLEHART

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NIXON -- A 21-point outburst in the first quar-ter put Nixon-Smiley in an early hole that proved to be too deep to get out of, as Stockdale picked up a cru-cial 50-29 road win over the Mustangs Friday night.

“We just had way too many mistakes and we couldn’t overcome them,” said Nixon-Smiley head coach Carlton McKinney. “We got off to a difficult start and our offense isn’t designed to play from be-hind, especially when we’re down by multiple scores.”

Stockdale (5-4, 3-2) was lead by Colton West, who accounted for four touch-downs and threw for 225 yards, including two scor-ing tosses to Dusty Mosier. Trevor Baumann led all rushers with a game-high 97 yards on 11 carries, and scored three times.

“It was because of blown assignments more than anything else,” said McK-inney about the game’s fi-nal tally. “We knew exactly what Stockdale was doing, but for whatever reason we just couldn’t seem to stop them. They have some play-makers and if you don’t play them correctly, then they’re going to make plays and that’s what they did.”

Having eschewed the op-portunity to control their own postseason destiny by failing to deliver a win, Nixon-Smiley (6-4, 3-3)

relegated themselves from active participants to inter-ested observers in the Dis-trict 14-2A, Division II race.

The only way the Mus-tangs can get into the play-offs is by having Stockdale and Karnes City both win next week against Dilley and Three Rivers, respec-tively. If that scenario comes to pass, then Nixon-Smiley would garner the nod be-cause of their head-to-head victories over the Wolves and Badgers.

“We’re keeping our fin-gers crossed, but this was our shot,” said McKinney. “It’s disappointing because we didn’t play as well to-night as we had hoped we would. We became a better program this year, but we still haven’t gotten over that hump. You’ve got to be able to step up and make plays when you need them most, and we weren’t able to do that tonight.”

The Brahmas scored on their first possession, a quick four-play drive that ended with Baumann’s catch-and-run for a 57-yard touchdown. Jared Van Auken’s fumble on the sixth play stalled the Mustangs’ ensuing drive and the ball was recovered by the de-fense to set up Stockdale at their own 49.

On the next play Bau-mann hauled in a pass and went 42 yards before Victor Coronado made a touch-down-saving tackle. Two snaps later, West threw to Mosier for a five-yard score.

The Brahmas tried an onsides kick, but it was re-covered by Jacob Perez and the Mustangs took posses-sion at their 46. Nine plays later, Alex Hernandez pow-ered in from the three-yard line to put Nixon-Smiley on the board for the first time. His extra point kick cut the Stockdale lead down to 13-7 with 1:54 still remaining in the opening frame.

It only took the Brahmas one play to respond as a play-action pass to Mosier went for 66 yards and Cody Hasting ran in the fake kick conversion.

After a three and out, Stockdale took over again at their 32. A dozen snaps oc-curred before the Brahmas were facing fourth and goal from the Nixon nine-yard

line. West threw a pass from Baumann but he was closely defended by Keith Lamza, whose tight coverage drew a questionable flag for pass interference to keep the drive going.

Baumann took it the ball into the end zone on the next play and Stockdale led 28-7 midway through the second quarter. The Mus-tangs struggled to keep pace as Jaime Moreno’s pass on third down was intercepted and returned by West for a 32-yard touchdown.

Moreno made up for his errant throw on sec-ond down, when he broke a West tackle en route to an 18-yard gain. Two plays later, he hit a wide-open Robbie Mejia over the middle for a 40-yard score.

Hernandez made the extra point kick and the Mus-tangs trailed 36-14.

The onsides kick was re-covered by Coronado near midfield and on third down Garrett Earlywine’s catch-and-run resulted in a 38-yard touchdown.

The Brahmas tallied one more score in the first half when their six-play drive culminated in a short plunge by West. Nixon-Smiley was looking to add more points before the half ended and launched an ef-fective march down the field via a beautiful two-minute drill. But a poorly-executed halfback pass led to an interception four sec-onds before halftime.

Stockdale opened the second half by forcing Nix-

on to punt, and two plays later Baumann raced into the end zone for a 39-yard touchdown. The Mustangs didn’t answer back until the fourth quarter when Miguel Hernandez corralled a pass in the flats from Moreno and jetted 60 yards to paydirt. Coronado’s conver-sion run ended the game’s scoring.

Stockdale 50, Nixon-Smiley 29Stockdale 21 22 7 0—50Nixon-Smiley 7 14 0 8—29

Scoring SummaryS - Trevor Baumann 57 pass from

Colton West (West kick)S - Dusty Mosier 5 pass from West

(kick failed)N - Alex Hernandez 3 run (A. Her-

nandez kick)S - Mosier 66 pass from West (Cody

Hasting run)S - Baumann 2 run (West kick)S - West 32 interception return

(West run)N - Robbie Mejia 40 pass from Jai-

me Moreno (A. Hernandez kick)N - Garrett Earlywine 41 pass from

Moreno (A. Hernandez kick)S - West 4 run (West kick)S - Baumann 39 run (West kick)

N - Miguel Hernandez 60 pass from Moreno (Victor Coronado run) Team Statistics Stock NS First downs 16 15Rushes-yds 33-237 37-133Passing yds 225 232Passes 9-13-1 9-16-2Punts-avg. 1-27 3-30.7Penalties-yds 9-65 8-74Fumbles-lost 0-0 3-2

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -Stockdale: Trevor Bau-

mann 11-97, Matt Valadez 9-65, Colton West 10-63, Cody Hasting 1-14, TEAM 2-(-2). Nixon-Smiley: Ja-mie Moreno 8-45, Jared Van Auken 12-38, Alex Hernandez 9-25, Miguel Hernandez 7-23, Victor Coronado 1-2.

PASSING - Stockdale: Colton West 9-13-225-1. Nixon-Smiley: Jaime Moreno 9-15-232-1, Jared Van Auken 0-1-0-1.

RECEIVING - Stockdale: Dusty Mosier 3-113, Trevor Baumann 2-77, Cody Hasting 3-30, Matt Valadez 1-5. Nixon-Smiley: Miguel Hernandez 1-60, Garrett Earlywine 2-58, Damian Perez 3-52, Robbie Mejia 2-49, Alex Hernandez 1-13.

Finding a holeNixon-Smiley’s Alex Hernandez (22) churns through a big hole to pick up yard-age during Friday’s contest against Stockdale. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

Paving the wayGonzales running back Cecil Johnsonn (12) cuts behind a lead block by fullback Landon Lock (23) in first-half action Friday. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Determined Bears give Gonzalesscare, but Apaches wrap up title

HALLETTSVILLE —Wel-come to the Shiner St. Paul-Hallettsville Sacred Heart ri-valry, Coach Paul Johnston.

The first-year Cardinal head coach got quite a greeting from both teams in a 14-12 St. Paul win Saturday evening at Hal-lettsville Memorial Stadium.

“The atmosphere of this ri-valry is awesome,” he said.

Johnston said that defeating Sacred Heart was something that was stressed to him when he came on board at St. Paul.

“Since the day I signed the contract, all I have heard about is if you win one game, it has to be the Sacred Heart game. I have been hearing that all season and especially this last week.”

“I told the players that games like this one make high school football what it is today. Our kids and their kids will re-member this game for the rest of their lives. We just needed to play our best game today.”

“It was a great football game,” longtime Indians head coach Pat Henke said. “We just came up short at the very end.”

He said Sacred Heart held the Cardinals offense in check with 14 points.

“Defense did a great job. I would have thought that if they only scored two touchdowns we would have won the game,” he said. “We made too many mistakes on offense. We had a chance to score before halftime and we throw an interception.

We ran the power sweep on the two-point conversion and St. Paul stopped it. That is just the way it goes.”

“This game was an emotion-al roller coaster,” said Johnston as he was surrounded by elated Cardinal fans. “We talked all week long about what a close game we thought it would be and how big extra points and two-point conversions were going to be. Our boys did a great job (on stopping both of Sacred Heart’s two-point con-version plays.”

The Cardinals had pre-vented the first Sacred Heart two-point conversion play — a sweep right by Sterling Hrncir after he had scored the touchdown. Johnston said the Cardinals have improved their tackling in recent weeks.

“When we tackle, I feel we can pretty much play with any-body,” he said.

Later in the game, after Sa-cred Heart scored to come within just two points, Hrncir got the ball on the sweep for a potential game-tying two-point play that St. Paul stuffed as well.

“Toss right to Hrncir is Sa-cred Heart’s bread and butter play,” Johnston said. “If I was Sacred Heart, that is what I would be calling. We had a feeling that it was coming at us. It (The second two-point play) was just inches short of the goal line but it was short and we are glad.”

Sacred Heart took the open-ing kickoff but fumbled the ball away on a fourth-down,

fake-punt play.St. Paul appeared to stall un-

til a 29-yard gain on a reverse by Martin Kennedy set up the Cardinals at the 1. A pair of penalties pushed the ball back to the 11 where quarterback Dakota Kresta hit Justin Natal on a short pass and Natal evad-ed tacklers to the end zone for the 7-0 St. Paul lead.

The Cardinals executed and recovered an onsides kick and got a 20-yard run by Adam Hollenbach on first down to the Sacred Heart 31 but were stifled by the Indian defense and had a 33-yard punt to the 9.

The Indians then drove 91 yards in almost eight minutes off the clock Hrncir, Matt Hol-ub and lineman Regan Hall, playing as a fullback in the wishbone alignment, alternat-ed carries and reached the 10 yard line where Hrncir scored on the Indians’ patented power toss play. He was stopped short of the end zone on the two-point conversion play, leaving St. Paul ahead 7-6.

The Cardinals needed just four plays to drive 59 yards — two incomplete passes by Kresta left the drive in doubt until he tossed a short pass to Hollenbach who followed a wall of blockers enroute to a 49-yard gain to the 10, where Brett Hodges scored to help give St. Paul a 14-6 advantage.

After their next drive stalled, Sacred Heart caught a break. Natal caught a 7-yard pass from Kresta and got to the Car-dinal 34 where he was tackled

and had the ball stripped away to Sacred Heart.

To make matters worse for St. Paul, they were assessed a 15-yard personal foul penalty to move the ball to the 19.

St. Paul managed to sack quarterback Jared Krischke on fourth down but was called for a facemask and Sacred Heart got a first down at the 8. A few plays later, Cole Hybner picked off Krischke to end the threat and the first half.

To open things in the third, Natal hauled in a 16-yard pass for St. Paul on the second play of the opening drive. Several plays later, Kresta threw in-complete on fourth down to give the ball back to the Indi-ans.

The teams traded punts and St. Paul missed a 20-yard field goal. Hrncir later burst for a 41-yard gain out to the 23 and

Krischke had a 13-yard option keeper called back on a chop block.

Sacred Heart was later given a first down at the 14 on a St. Paul personal foul and got down to the 11 before a Hyb-ner pickoff in the end zone killed the drive. St Paul drove the ball all the way down to the Sacred Heart 17, getting lots of help from a Hollenbach recep-tion for 46 yards.

The Cardinals later came to fourth down at the 11 and Kresta tried a pass that was in-tercepted by Leightin Pilat and returned 75 yards to the Cardi-nal 25.

Three plays later, Krischke found tight end Cole Wick in the end zone for a touchdown pass, and St. Paul prevented Sacred Heart from leveling the score on the two-point play.

St. Paul 14, Sacred Heart 12St. Paul 7 7 0 0--14Saacred Heart 0 6 0 6--12

Scoring SummarySP-Justin Natal 11 pass from Da-

kota Kresta (Cole Hybner kick)SH-Sterling Hrncir 10 run (run

failed)SP-Brett Hodges 10 run (Hybner

kick)SH-Cole Wick 25 pass from Jared

Krischke (run failed)

Team stats SP SHFirst downs 12 17Rushes-yards 35-104 45-195Passing 10-20-1 4-13-2Passing yards 199 45Punts-yards 2-79 2-76Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-1Penalties-yards 12-153 3-30

Individual statsRushing— St. Paul:Brett Hodges

13-41, Martin Kennedy 3-33, Adam Hollenbach 8-22, Cole Hybner 1-6, Dakota Kresta 10-2. Sacred Heart: Sterling Hrncir 22-136, Matt Holub 12-33, Jared Krischke 8-13, Regan Hall 2-10, Colton Brown 1-3.

Passing — St. Paul Kresta 10-20-1-199. Sacred Heart: Krischke 4-12-2-45, Cade Brewer 0-1-0-0.

Receiving — St. Paul:Hollenbach 3-116, Justin Natal 3-34, Hybner 3-25, Hodges 1-24. Sacred Heart:Cole Wick 3-40, Hrncir 1-5.


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St. Paul stuns Sacred Heart, 14-12

Marion escapes Luling; Brahmas burn HitchcockMARION — Doug Giles’

fourth touchdown of the night, a 31-yarder with 7:46 left in the game, enabled the Marion Bulldogs to come from behind to hold off the upset-minded Luling Eagles by a 24-22 score Friday in a key District 13-2A Division 1 matchup.

The win moved Marion to 7-2 for the season and 3-1 in district play, while Luling falls to 4-5 and 2-2.

Giles, who rushed for 212 yards on a workhorse 43 carries, gave the Bull-dogs an early lead when he scored from five yards out midway through the open-ing period, but the Eagles came roaring back to score 22 straight points.

Billy Medford returned an interception 54 yards for a score and then Trayden Staton scored on a 5-yard run, throwing a two-point conversion pass to Josh Al-varez for a 15-6 lead after one period.

Staton hit Vince Garcia with a 5-yard scoring toss early in the second quarter to make it 22-6, but Giles scored on a 5-yard run near the two-minute mark of the first half, then added anoth-er 5-yard TD run late in the third period to make it 22-18. The Bulldogs missed all four conversion attempts.

The Marion defense checked the Luling offense and held the Eagles to just 161 total yards in the con-test, although Staton and Medford combined to hit 10 of 20 passes for 123 yards.

MARION 24, LULING 22Luling 15 7 0 0--22Marion 6 6 6 6--24

Scoring summaryMRN -- Doug Giles 5-yard run (Con-

version failed)LUL -- Billy Medford 54-yard inter-

ception return (Brett Eckles kick)LUL -- Trayden Staton 5-yard run

(Josh Alvarez from Trayden Staton)LUL -- Vince Garcia 5-yard pass from

Trayden Staton (Brett Eckles kick)MRN -- Doug Giles 5-yard run (Con-

version failed)MRN -- Doug Giles 5-yard run (Con-

version failed)

MRN -- Doug Giles 31-yard run (Conversion failed)

Team Stats Luling MarionFirst downs 10 23Rushes/Yds 20-38 63-295Passes 10-20-0 4-11-1Passing yards 123 41Punts-Avg 5-26.6 1-36Fumbles/Lost 3/1 1/0Penalties-yards 7-55 2-15

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Luling, Billy Medford

7-21, Brendon Cubit 6-16, Josh Alva-rez 1-8, Trayden Staton 6-(-7). Marion, Doug Giles 43-212, Derek Pierce 11-36, Raphael DeHoyos 8-42, Victor Garza 1-5.

PASSING: Luling, Billy Medford 4-10-0-40, Trayden Staton 6-10-0-63. Marion, Derek Pierce 4-11-1-41.

RECEIVING: Luling, Josh Alvarez 3-61, Billy Medford 2-23, Vince Garcia 2-11, Ty Anderson 2-10, Brendon Cubit 1-18. Marion, Dakota Goodwin 2-40, Jon Crist 1-3, Raphael DeHoyos 1-(-2).

Sam Houston 45,Cuero 14

SAN ANTONIO -- The Sam Houston Hurricanes bounced back from con-secutive shutout losses Sat-urday to charge past the Cuero Gobblers 45-14 and remain in contention for a playoff spot, ensuring Gon-zales of the District 28-3A title in the process.

The Hurricanes grabbed an early lead on a 2-yard run by JeQuan McBride before Cuero’s A.J. Bustos took the ensuing kickoff and ran it back 88 yards for a score, but the rest of the first half belonged to the Hurricanes. McBride, who rushed for 291 yards in the contest, scored on a 38-yard run early in the second pe-riod and quarterback Jhur-rell Jackson added scoring runs of 47 and 7 yards, then tossed a 64-yard TD pass to Leo Thomas Jr. to build a 32-8 halftime lead.

The Gobblers trimmed the margin on a 2-yard scoring run by Bustos in the third period, but Sam Houston salted it away when McBride broke loose for an 85-yard TD jaunt int he fourth quarter and Gary Reed IV added a 17-yard scoring run.

SAM HOUSTON 45, CUERO 14Cuero 8 0 6 0 --14Sam Houston 7 25 0 13 --45Scoring Summary

SH-JeQuan McBride 2 run (Jhurrel

Jackson kick)C-A.J. Bustos 88 kickoff return (Lo-

gan Goebel run)SH-McBride 38 run (run failed)SH-Jackson 47 run (kick failed)SH-Jackson 7 run (Jackson kick)SH-Leo Thomas Jr. 64 pass from

Jackson (kick blocked)C-Bustos 2 run (pass failed), 10:02SH-McBride 85 run (Jackson kick),

10:02SH-Gary Reed IV 17 run (run failed),

9:39

Team Statistics Cue SamFirst Downs 11 19Yards Rushing 39-115 40-443 Yards Passing 15 117 Passes 6-15-3 4-10-0Punts 3-27.7 6-43.3Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-0Penalties-yards 6-40 5-30

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Cuero, V. Davis 5-5, A.

Bustos 11-45, S. Schoenfeld 11-33, C. Davis 10-27, L. Balfanz 1-3, T. Holland 1-2. Sam Houston, JeQuan McBride 33-291, Jhurrell Jackson 3-55 Gary Reed IV 1-17.

PASSING -- Cuero, S. Schoenfeld 5-13-3-33, C. Davis 0-1-0. Sam Hous-ton, Jhurrell Jackson 4-9-0-15

RECEIVING -- Cuero, A. Bustos 2-15, D. Mathis 1-4, R. Riemenscheider 1-4, T. Holland 1-16, R. Gray 1-10. Sam Hous-ton, Leo Thomas Jr. 1-64, Gary Reed IV 1-22, Donnavon Mann 1-16, Terrence Winkfield 1-15.

Hallettsville 42, Hitchcock 28

HALLETTSVILLE -- The Hallettsville Brahmas got big plays in the fourth quarter, including a blocked punt recovered in the end zone by Teidrick Smith, to stake their claim to a post-season spot Friday with a 42-28 victory over Hitch-cock.

The Brahmas, now 4-5 for the season and 3-2 in district play, used three fourth-quarter touchdowns to defuse a Bulldog come-back.

Leading 21-14 at half-time, the Brahmas opened the final period with a 52-yard scoring strike from Braden Kahanek to Trevor McGee. Smith’s blocked-kick recovery extended the Brahmas lead to 21 points before Hitcock rallied on a 5-yard TD run by Davin Molis.

With 6:17 remaining, however, Hallettsville came back witha 6-yard scoring run by Timmy Sheppard to cement the win. Jeffrey Wright scored from two yards out with 1:35 to play

for Hitchcock for the final margin.

Kahanek threw two of his three TD passes in the first half to put the Brahmas on top 21-14.

After Molis’ 22-yard TD run staked Hitchcock to an early lead, Kahanek hit Dalton Herrington with a 47-yard scoring strike, then slipped a 24-yard TD toss to McGee for a 14-6 lead. Frank Garner tied the game on a 23-yard run before Smith scored from a yard away with just 34 seconds left in the half to put the Brahmas back on top.

Kahanek finished his night completing 11 of 18 passes for 241 yards. Mc-Gee had five catches for 119 yards.

HALLETTSVILLE 42, HITCHCOCK 28Hitchcock 6 8 0 14 --28Hallettsville 7 14 0 21 --42Scoring Summary

HI- Devin Molis 22 run ( pass failed)HA- Dalton Herrington 47 pass

from Braden Kahanek ( Sam Barrera kick)

HA- Trevor McGee 24 pass from Ka-hanek ( Barrera kick)

HI- Frank Garner 23 run ( Krysten Hammon run)

HA- Teidrick Smith 1 run (Barrera kick)

HA- McGee 52 pass from Kahanek ( Barrera kick)

HA- Smith recovered blocked punt in end zone ( Barrera Kick)

HI- Molis 5 run ( run failed)HA- Timmy Sheppard 6 run (Bar-

rera kick)HI- Jeffery Wright 2 run (Molis pass

to Garner)Team Statistics Hal HitFirst Downs 18 17Yards Rushing 29-164 40-307Yards Passing 241 72Passes 11-18-2 5-14-0Punts-Avg 0-0 3-39.3Fumbles-lost 2-0 0-0Penalties-yards 3-15 11-95

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Hallettsville, T. Smith

16-64, J. Reeves 1-3.PASSING -- Hallettsville, B. Kahanek

18-11-241-2.RECEIVING -- Hallettsville, T. McGee

5-119, D. Herrington 3-78, R. McAda

2-25, A. Vesely 1-19.

Flatonia 42,Louise 6

FLATONIA -- The Flato-nia Bulldogs struck for four first-half scores and limited the Louise Hornets to just 128 total yards of offense Friday en route to a 42-6 win.

Flatonia got a first-quar-

ter touchdown from Mitch-ell Mica on a 2-yard run, then added three scores in the second period. Zane Ponder had touchdown runs of 4 and 20 yards be-fore Louise’s William Sei-mans countered with a 3-yard scoring run with just 42 seconds left on the clock inthe first half.

The Bulldogs stormed right back, however, as Will Bruns gathered in a 21-yard TD pass from Cole Rob-bins with no time left on the clock for a 28-6 halftime lead for the Bulldogs.

Dalton Griffin and Cole Robbins each scored on 4-yard runs in the third pe-riod for Flatonia, which im-proves to 4-5 for the season an 1-2 in district play.

FLATONIA 42, LOUISE 6Louise 0 6 0 0--6Flatonia 7 21 14 0--42

Scoring summaryFLA -- Mitchell Mica 2-yard run (Will

Bruns kick)FLA -- Zane Ponder 4-yard run (Will

Bruns kick)FLA -- Zane Ponder 20-yard run

(pass failed)LOU -- Seimans 3-yard run (kick

failed)FLA -- Will Bruns 21-yard pass from

Cole Robbins (Mitchell Mica run)FLA -- Dalton Griffin 4-yard run (Will

Bruns kick)FLA -- Cole Robbins 4-yard run (Will

Bruns kick)

Team Stats Louise FlatoniaFirst downs 8 23Rushes/Yds 34-122 51-290Passes 1-4-0 2-3-0Passing yards 6 32Punts-Avg 2-36.5 1-34Fumbles/Lost 3/2 2/1Penalties-yards 4-35 2-10

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Flatonia, Z. Ponder

7-80, C. Robbins 7-39, A. Manzano 6-25, D. Griffin 16-95, M. Mica 11-55. Louise, G. Aguilar 9-54, D. Lee 7-38, W. Siemens 6-(-1), J. Bishop 12-31.

PASSING -- Flatonia, C. Robbins 3-2-32. Louise, W. Siemens 4-1-6.

RECEIVING -- Flatonia, W. Brunes 1-21, Z. Ponder 1-11. Louise, J. Bishop 1-6.

Yoakum 35, Poteet 0

POTEET — The Yoakum Bulldogs used a pair of de-fensive touchdowns to pull away from Poteet for a 35-0 win Friday to keep their hopes for a post-season berth alive.

The Bulldogs capitalized on Aggie miscues for scores

in the first and fourth quar-ters to improve to 6-3 for the season and 3-2 in dis-trict play.

Rico Perry scooped up a Poteet fumble and ran it 27 yards for a touchdown in the opening period to stake Yoakum to a 6-0 lead. The Bulldogs ran that lead to 21-0 at intermission with a pair of second-quarter scores. Troy DeWeese scored on a 15-yard run and Chase Herms threw to Kyle Mikulik for a two=-point conversion early inthe sec-ond quarter, then just be-fore halftime Myron Hights gathered in a 20-yard scor-ing pass from Jeff Herrison to extend the lead to 21-0.

A 1-yard run by Harrison late in the second quarter upped Yoakum’s lead to 28-0, and Hogan Laur capped the win by picking off a Poteet pass and racing back 60 yards with it for the final score with seven minutes to play.

YOAKUM 35, POTEET 0Yoakum 6 15 7 7--35Poteet 0 0 0 0--0

Scoring summaryYOA -- Rico Perry 27-yard fumble

return (kick failed)YOA -- Troy DeWeese 15-yard run

(Kyle Mikulik from Chase Herms)YOA -- Myron Hights 20-yard pass

from Jeff Harrison (Reagan Jacobs kick)

YOA -- Jeff Harrison 1-yard run (Reagan Jacobs kick)

YOA -- Hogan Laur 60-yard inter-ception return (Reagan Jacobs kick)

Team Stats Yoak PoteetFirst downs 20 12Rushes-Yds 26-187 34-111Passes 9-15-1 11-22i1Passing yards 145 105Punts-Avg 2-34 5-25.4Fumbles/Lost 5/2 5/1Penalties-yards 11-125 7-65

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Yoakum, Troy DeWeese

2-35, Myron Hights 3-28, Jeff Harrison 4-35, Andrew Jiminez 2-20, Kyle Miku-lik 4-19, Blake McCracken 6-44, Chase Herms 3-9, T.J. Hights 2-(-2). Poteet, Derrick Santos 26-100, Mathew Chapa 3-17, Kris Guzman 1-6, Gene Lugo 2-2, Ruben Reyes 2-(-14).

PASSING: Yoakum, Jeff Harrison 5-7-0-90, Chase Herms 4-8-1-55. Po-teet, Ruben Reyes 10-19-1-89, Derrick Santos 1-3-0-16.

RECEIVING: Yoakum, Kyle Mikulik 3-65, Fred Thompson 1-36, Myron Hights 1-20, Blake McCracken 1-9, Troy DeWeese 1-4, T.J. Hights 1-5, Keith Rat-ley 1-6. Poteet, Frank Guzman 6-68, Eric Perez 2-13, Kade Rodriguez 1-16, Kris Guzman 1-5, Derrick Santos 1-3.

Allllllll-mostSt. Paul’s Justin Natal (17) stretches but can’t quite reach this pass during first-half action Saturday. Natal later scored his team’s first TD in a 14-12 upset of unbeaten Sacred Heart. (Photo by Mark Lube)

AUSTIN — With hundreds of thousands of Texans getting ready for opening day of the general gun season for white-tailed deer on Nov. 5, it’s important to keep safety in your crosshairs.

“It looks like hunting accidents are headed for another record low this year, and we want to keep it that way,” says Terry Erwin, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s hunter education coordinator. Last year, Texas saw 25 hunting accidents, four of them fatal.

If you were born after Sept. 1, 1971 and this is going to be your first deer season, keep in mind you must have completed a hunter education course or obtained a one-time deferral if you aren’t able to get into a course.

“This coming weekend is a good time to get that taken care of,” Erwin says. “It’s also a good time to make sure all your equipment is up to speed, from your stands to your firearms.”

Erwin suggests cleaning your rifle, check-ing for any mechanical problems and getting it sighted in.

“Beyond that, the week before deer season starts is a good time to go over the basic rules of gun safety, even if you’ve heard them a jillion times before. The big four are always making sure your rifle is pointed in a safe direction,

always treat it like it was loaded, always make sure of your target before you shoot (use bin-oculars, not your rifle scope) and keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to pull it. You can’t call a bullet back, and it always has the right-of-way.”

Last year in Texas, four persons died in hunting-related accidents. All four instances involved gunshots - two self-inflicted, two by other hunters.

TPWD’s annual Hunting Accident Report for 2010 identifies the factors involved in re-ported hunting accidents last year. The number one cause involved hunters swinging on game outside a safe zone of fire. One way to stay out of some other hunter’s sights is wearing blaze orange clothing or hat.

“Blaze orange is not mandatory in Texas un-less you’re hunting on public land, but it makes a lot of sense,” Erwin says. “Deer cannot see color, but other hunters can.”

While firearms safety should be a hunter’s top priority, accidents in the field are more likely to occur without a shot being fired.” The most un-reported of all hunting accidents are falls from elevated hunting blinds or tree stands,” Erwin says. “If you’re going to be hunting from a tree stand, make sure to use a Tree-stand Manufac-turer’s Association-approved tree stand and a TMA approved fall restraint device.”

Don’t try to carry your rifle when you get

into or out of an elevated stand and make sure it is unloaded until you are safely seated. “Use a haul line to bring your rifle up once you are safely in your blind, then, unload your firearm and lower it with the haul line before climbing down,” Erwin recommends.

Another thing to remember about deer stands, especially permanent blinds is that they make good habitat.

“Always check your blind for stinging in-

sects, snakes and other critters that might have been living in it during the off-season,” Erwin suggested.

The general gun season runs through Jan. 1, 2012 in North Texas and Jan. 15, 2012 in South Texas. A late youth-only season is also slated for Jan. 2-15, 2012. For additional late season deer hunting opportunities, consult the 2011-12 Outdoor Annual of hunting and fishing regu-lations.

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GONZALES APACHESRecord: 9-0, 5-0

A 26 at CC Miller W, 42-6S 02 Luling W, 35-0S 08 at Austin Lanier W, 45-7S 16 at Columbus W, 41-27S 23 Yoakum* W, 33-0S 30 at Poteet* W, 55-0O 07 Sam Houston* W, 27-0O 14 OpenO 21 at Pleasanton* W, 48-12O 28 La Vernia* W, 14-9N 04 at Cuero*

YOAKUM BULLDOGSRecord: 6-3, 3-2

A 26 at Columbus W, 19-16S 02 La Grange L, 0-6S 09 at Hallettsville W, 29-14S 16 Edna W, 21-13S 23 at Gonzales* L, 0-33S 30 Pleasanton* W, 53-7O 07 at La Vernia* L, 9-14O 14 Cuero* W, 25-21O 21 OpenO 28 at Poteet* W, 35-0N 04 Sam Houston*

CUERO GOBBLERSRecord: 3-6, 3-2

A 26 at Wimberley L, 6-34S 02 at Liberty Hill L, 7-14S 08 at Bellville L, 13-21S 16 Calhoun L, 0-35S 23 at Pleasanton* W, 23-8S 30 La Vernia* W, 22-18O 07 Open*O 14 at Yoakum* L, 21-25O 21 Poteet* W, 46-3O 29 at Sam Houston*L,14-45N 04 at Gonzales*

POTEET AGGIESRecord: 0-10, 0-6

A 26 at SA CentCath. L, 13-21S 02 Dilley L, 20-39S 08 at Carrizo Spr. L, 21-27S 16 Waco Robinson L, 21-49S 24 at Sam Houston*L, 0-74S 30 Gonzales* L, 0-55O 07 at Pleasanton* L, 9-38O 14 La Vernia* L, 7-35O 21 at Cuero* L, 3-46O 28 Yoakum* L, 0-35N 04 Open*

LA VERNIA BEARSRecord: 4-5, 3-2

A 26 OpenS 02 Canyon Lake L, 23-34S 09 at Giddings L, 7-45S 16 at Wimberley L, 6-49S 23 Bandera W, 63-34S 30 at Cuero* L, 18-22O 07 Yoakum* W, 14-9O 14 at Poteet* W, 35-7O 21 Sam Houston* W, 3-0O 28 at Gonzales* L, 9-14N 04 Pleasanton*

PLEASANTON EAGLESRecord: 2-7, 1-4

A 26 SA Edison W, 41-8S 02 at SA Jefferson L, 32-44S 09 SA Lanier L, 12-17S 16 at Aransas Pass L, 33-34 S 23 Cuero* L, 8-23S 30 at Yoakum* L, 7-53O 07 Poteet* W, 38-9O 13 at Sam Houston*L 14-31O 21 Gonzales* L, 12-48O 28 OpenN 04 at La Vernia*

SAM HOUSTON HURRICANESRecord: 7-2, 3-2

A 26 SABrackenridge W,45-13S 02 at SA Southside W, 58-7S 09 SA Brennan W, 26-13S 17 at SA Edison W, 48-10S 24 Poteet* W, 74-0S 30 Open*O 07 at Gonzales* L, 0-27O 13 Pleasanton* W, 31-14O 21 at La Vernia* L, 0-3O 29 Cuero* W, 45-14N 04 at Yoakum*

NIXON-SMILEY MUSTANGSRecord: 5-5, 3-3

A 26 at Flatonia W, 36-33S 02 Bloomington W, 33-3S 09 at Yorktown L, 13-20S 16 at Sacred Heart L, 20-35S 23 at Dilley* W, 43-42S 30 Poth* L, 14-51O 07 at Three Rivers* L, 12-27O 14 Karnes City* W, 40-22O 21 SA Brooks* W, 54-8O 28 Stockdale* L, 50-29N 04 Open

DILLEY WOLVESRecord: 7-2, 3-2

A 26 Charlotte W, 62-13S 02 at Poteet W, 39-20S 09 La Pryor W, 37-0S 16 at Cotulla W, 42-13S 23 Nixon-Smiley* L, 42-43S 30 OpenO 07 at Poth* L, 0-41O 14 Three Rivers* W, 27-26O 21 at Karnes City* W, 14-7O 28 SA Brooks* W, 43-0N 04 at Stockdale*

POTH PIRATESRecord: 9-0, 5-0

A 26 Marion W, 8-7S 02 at Falls City W, 49-6S 09 at George West W, 22-21S 16 Natalia W, 49-13S 23 Stockdale* W, 26-7S 30atNixon-Smiley*W, 51-14O 07 Dilley* W, 41-0O 14 OpenO 21 at Three Rivers* W, 34-6O 28 Karnes City* W, 35-14N 04 at SA Brooks*

STOCKDALE BRAHMASRecord: 5-4, 3-2

A 26 Falls City W, 34-14S 02 Jourdanton L, 22-28S 09 at St. Paul L, 34-38S 16 Odem W, 49-28S 23 at Poth* L, 7-26S 30 Three Rivers* W, 45-27O 07 at Karnes City* L, 13-28O 14 SA Brooks* W, 59-0O 21 OpenO 28 at Nixon-Smiley*W,50-29N 04 Dilley*

THREE RIVERS BULLDOGSRecord: 5-4, 2-3

A 26 George West W, 21-20S 02 Natalia W, 48-22S 09 at Jourdanton L, 14-55S 16 at Kenedy W, 35-21S 23 SA Brooks* W, 55-0S 30 at Stockdale* L, 27-45O 07 Nixon-Smiley* W, 27-12O 14 at Dilley* L, 26-27O 21 Poth* L, 6-34O 28 OpenN 04 at Karnes City*

KARNES CITY BADGERSRecord: 3-6, 2-3

A 26 at Kenedy L, 12-13S 02 at Marion L, 0-21S 09 at UC Randolph W, 10-7S 16 Luling L, 19-41S 23 OpenS 30 SA Brooks* W, 51-0O 07 Stockdale* W, 28-13O 14 at Nixon-Smiley L, 22-40O 21 Dilley* L, 7-14O 28 at Poth* L, 14-35N 04 Three Rivers*

SA BROOKS TIGERSRecord: 1-7, 0-4

A 26 at Runge L, 8-14S 02 at SM Baptist L, 6-35S 09 Center Point L, 7-28S 16 at SA St. Gerard W, 34-0S 23 at Three Rivers* L, 0-55S 30 at Karnes City* L, 0-51O 07 OpenO 14 at Stockdale* L, 0-59O 21 at Nixon-Smiley*L, 8-54O 28 at Dilley* L, 0-43N 04 Poth*

LULING EAGLESRecord: 4-5, 2-2

A 26 Navarro L, 22-43S 02 at Gonzales L, 0-35S 09 at Woodsboro W, 48-0S 16 at Karnes City W, 41-19S 23 Canyon Lake L, 56-28S 30 OpenO 07 at Lago Vista* L, 27-49O 14 at Comfort* W, 49-32O 21 Ingram Moore* W, 52-6O 28 at Marion* L, 22-24N 04 Blanco*

LAGO VISTA VIKINGSRecord: 8-1, 4-0

A 26 La Pryor W, 52-0S 02 at E. Memorial W, 45-0S 09 at Wac.Robinson L, 54-61S 16 Austin Reagan W, 65-0S 23 at San Saba W, 34-16S 30 OpenO 07 Luling* W, 49-27O 14 at Ingram Moore W,49-6O 21 Marion* W, 22-15O 28 at Blanco* W, 28-22N 04 Comfort*

INGRAM MOORE WARRIORSRecord: 0-9, 0-4

A 26 at Natalia L, 21-28S 02 UC Randolph L, 14-55S 09 at Harper L, 26-45S 16 at Crystal City L, 34-42S 23 Mason L, 0-56S 30 OpenO 07 at Blanco* L, 0-56O 14 Lago Vista* L, 6-49O 21 at Luling* L, 6-52O 28 at Comfort* L, 0-58N 04 Marion*

MARION BULLDOGSRecord: 7-2, 3-1

A 26 at Poth L, 7-8S 02 Karnes City W, 21-0S 09 at SA Cole W, 48-0S 16 UC Randolph W, 53-0S 23 OpenS 30 Goldthwaite W, 41-7O 07 Comfort* W, 26-7O 14 Blanco* W, 19-14O 21 at Lago Vista* L, 15-22O 28 Luling* W, 24-22N 04 at Ingram Moore*

COMFORT BOBCATSRecord: 4-5, 1-3

A 26 Lytle W, 49-6S 02 Skdmore-TynanW, 28-14S 09 Mason L, 24-48S 16 at F’ricksburg W, 31-24S 23 Boerne L, 21-41S 30 OpenO 07 at Marion* L, 7-26O 14 Luling* L, 32-49O 21 at Blanco* L, 10-42O 28 Ingram Moore* W, 58-0N 04 at Lago Vista*

BLANCO PANTHERSRecord: 4-5, 2-2

A 26 at Canyon Lake L, 7-14S 02 at Lexington L, 7-32S 09 Somerset W, 36-7S 16 at SA Christian W, 36-34S 23 Sonora L, 9-16S 30 OpenO 07 Ingram Moore* W, 56-0O 14 at Marion* L, 14-19O 21 Comfort* W, 42-10O 28 Lago Vista* L, 22-28N 04 at Luling*

HALLETTSVILLE BRAHMASRecord: 4-5, 3-2

A 26 at Ganado L, 7-32S 02 Refugio L, 21-64S 09 Yoakum L, 14-29S 16 at Palacios W, 21-17S 23 Edna* L, 36-47S 30 at Rice Cons.* W, 20-14O 07 Hempstead* L, 13-35O 14 OpenO 21 at Van Vleck* W, 51-14O 28 Hitchcock* W, 42-28N 04 at Industrial*

EDNA COWBOYSRecord: 7-2, 4-1

A 26 Needville W, 42-7S 02 George Ranch W, 34-18S 09 Boling W, 48-7S 16 Yoakum L, 13-21S 23 at Hallettsville* W, 47-36S 30 Van Vleck* W, 65-12O 07 at Hitchcock* L, 21-44O 14 Industrial* W, 48-35O 21 OpenO 28 at Rice Cons.* W, 35-28N 04 Hempstead*

VAN VLECK LEOPARDSRecord: 1-7, 0-5

A 26 Schulenburg L, 8-55S 02 at Louise W, 22-16S 09 at Weimar L, 8-27S 16 OpenS 23 Industrial* L, 20-34S 30 at Edna* L, 12-65O 07 Rice Cons.* L, 22-48O 14 at Hempstead* L, 7-38O 21 Hallettsville* L, 14-51O 28 OpenN 04 at Hitchcock*

HITCHCOCK BULLDOGSRecord: 4-5, 2-3

A 26 at Clear FallsJV L28-33S 02 Danbury W, 19-0S 09 Tomball Luth. L, 21-28S 16 Lutheran South W, 47-7S 23 OpenS 30 at Industrial* W, 22-20O 07 Edna* W, 44-21O 14 at Rice Cons.* L, 22-23O 21 Hempstead* L, 12-33O 28 at Hallettsville* L, 28-42N 04 Van Vleck*

HEMPSTEAD BOBCATSRecord: 9-0, 5-0

A 26 OpenS 02 at Stafford W, 24-23S 09 at Austin Reagan W, 77-0S 16 Brookshire Royal W, 28-0S 23 at Rice Cons.* W, 18-7S 30 Hou. St. John’s W, 31-7O 07 at Hallettsville* W, 35-13O 14 Van Vleck* W, 38-7O 21 at Hitchcock* W, 33-12O 28 Industrial* W, 47-8N 04 at Edna*

RICE CONS. RAIDERSRecord: 5-4, 2-3

A 26 at Refugio L, 7-26S 02 Somerset W, 62-22S 09 at Columbus W, 22-14S 16 OpenS 23 Hempstead* L, 7-18S 30 Hallettsville* L, 14-20O 07 at Van Vleck* W, 48-22O 14 Hitchcock* W, 23-22O 21 at Industrial* W, 10-7O 28 Edna* L, 28-35N 04 Open

INDUSTRIAL COBRASRecord: 4-5, 1-4

A 26 at Shiner W, 20-7S 02 Ganado L, 13-33S 09 at Tidehaven W, 42-6S 16 Somerville W, 33-7S 23 at Van Vleck* W, 34-20S 30 Hitchcock* L, 20-22O 07 OpenO 14 at Edna* L, 35-48O 21 Rice Cons.* L, 7-10O 28 at Hempstead* L, 8-47N 04 Hallettsville*

SHINER COMANCHESRecord: 4-5, 2-1

A 26 Industrial L, 7-20S 02 Brazos W, 53-10S 09 at Schulenburg L, 14-21S 16 at Weimar L, 14-19S 23 Navarro L, 21-48S 30 at Ben Bolt W, 27-23O 07 Ganado* L, 21-22O 14 at Yorktown* W, 41-6O 21 Flatonia* W, 42-0O 28 OpenN 04 at Louise*

FLATONIA BULLDOGSRecord: 4-5, 1-2

A 26 Nixon-Smiley L, 33-36S 02 Sacred Heart L, 27-33S 09 Bloomington W, 26-2S 16 at St. Paul W, 21-17S 23 at Thrall W, 41-40S 30 at Burton L, 13-29O 07 Yorktown* L, 19-33O 14 OpenO 21 at Shiner* L, 0-42O 28 Louise* W, 42-0N 04 at Ganado*

YORKTOWN WILDCATSRecord: 4-5, 2-2

A 26 at Sacred Heart L, 19-22S 02 at Agua Dulce W, 55-0S 09 Nixon-Smiley W, 20-13S 16 at Falls City L, 37-40S 23 Kenedy L, 31-33S 30 OpenO 07 at Flatonia* W, 33-19O 14 Shiner* L, 6-41O 21 at Louise* W, 33-12O 28 Ganado* L, 14-55N 04 at SA Cornerstone

LOUISE HORNETSRecord: 1-8, 0-3

A 26 at Danbury L, 13-35S 02 Van Vleck L, 16-22S 09 at Burton L, 8-49S 16 Woodsboro W, 48-0S 23 San Mar. Baptist L, 14-33S 30 at Sacred Heart L, 8-33O 07 OpenO 14 at Ganado* L, 14-56O 21 Yorktown* L, 12-33O 28 at Flatonia* L, 0-42N 04 Shiner*

GANADO INDIANSRecord: 9-0, 3-0

A 26 Hallettsville W, 32-7S 02 at Industrial W, 33-13S 09 at East Bernard W, 22-21S 16 Tidehaven W, 42-0S 23 George Ranch W, 41-7S 30 Palacios W, 28-7O 07 at Shiner* W, 22-21O 14 Louise* W, 56-14O 21 OpenO 28 at Yorktown* W, 55-14N 04 Flatonia*

ST. PAUL CARDINALSRecord: 7-2, 2-1

A 26 at Pettus W, 28-24S 02 at Cornerstone W, 59-0S 09 Stockdale W, 38-34S 16 Flatonia L, 17-21S 24 Bryan St.Joseph W, 70-13S 30 at Aus. Regents W, 25-21O 08 Brazos Christ.* L, 19-42O 14 OpenO 21 at St. Gerard* W, 56-12O 29 at Sacred Heart*W,14-12N 04 St. Dominic Savio*

SACRED HEART INDIANSRecord: 9-1, 2-1

A 26 Yorktown W, 22-19S 02 at Flatonia W, 33-27S 09 at Faith West W, 33-19S 16 Nixon-Smiley W, 35-20S 23 at Hyde Park W, 43-28S 30 Louise W, 33-8O 08 Bryan St. Joseph W, 56-0O 14 at SA St. Gerard* W, 56-0O 21 St. Dominic* W,58-0O 29 St. Paul* L, 12-14N 04 at Brazos Christian*

SA ST. GERARD ROYALSRecord: 0-10, 0-4

A 26 at Nuec.Canyon L, 6-56S 02 CP Summit L, 19-66S 09 SA Cornerstone L, 12-13S 16 SA Brooks L, 0-34S 23 D’Hanis L, 6-57S 30 at Sabinal L, 0-62O 07 at St. Dominic* L, 12-36O 14 Sacred Heart* L, 0-56O 21 St. Paul* L, 12-56O 28 at Brazos Christ.* L, 0-2N 04 Schertz John Paul II

ST. DOMINIC SAVIORecord: 2-7, 1-3

A 26 at C.TexChrist. W,20-13S 01 Texas Sch. Deaf L, 0-13S 09 San Marc. Baptist L, 0-42S 16Texas Christian L, 20-27S 23 OpenS 30 Somerville L, 0-64O 07 SA St. Gerard* W, 36-12O 14 Brazos Christian* L, 0-47O 21 at Sacred Heart* L, 0-56O 28 Dallas Homesch. L, 8-61N 04 at St. Paul*

BRAZOS CHRISTIAN EAGLESRecord: 8-1, 3-0

A 26 Cypress Christ. W, 12-10S 02 Snook L, 7-27S 09 at Tx. Sch. Deaf W, 54-29S 16 St. Joseph W, 39-6S 23 Wdlands Christ W, 63-36S 30 at Faith West W, 48-21O 08 at St. Paul* W, 42-19O 14 at St. Dominic* W, 47-0O 21 OpenO 28 SA St. Gerard* W, 2-0N 04 Sacred Heart*

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against Sam Houston, and Lock said Gonzales is positive of what its offense can produce against the Gobblers.

The Apaches must do a better job of not fum-bling the football when they get inside the red zone.

Against La Vernia, several turnovers inside the 20 negated potential touchdowns for Gonzales.

While Gonzales has a legitimate passing at-tack, with quarterback Jon Anthony Casares, wide receiver Don Cartwright and tight end Cameron Smith, it may not be necessary for the Apaches to air the ball out with all of the success the running game has had.

“When you have a good defense, you need to control the football by making first downs and playing field position,” Lock said. “The strat-egy we had at the beginning of the year, we have stayed with it.”

He said Casares also has the ability to scramble if receivers are tightly covered.

The Gobblers fell to Sam Houston 45-14 in their last game and are looking to get back on track.

“We are anxious to get redemption from the Sam Houston game,” Owens said.

The Gobblers go up against a Gonzales de-fense that has allowed just 21 points in the dis-trict season.

“We will have to find a way to move the ball effectively,” Owens said. “Their defense has done a good job this year.”

Cuero’s defense will need to find a way to break through the solid blocking of the Apache offensive line.

“Their line is playing great,” Owens said. “We will need to get past their lead blockers and make some plays.”

The Gonzales coaches discussed the impor-tance and history of the rivalry with the players early in the week.

“A lot of people in the community who have been here awhile are very concerned about this game,” Lock said. “It would be a good oppor-tunity for us to win in Cuero and to spoil their chances at making the playoffs.”

The Gobblers are also looking forward to the game.

“This game has been played for a long time. A lot of the players and the people in the commu-nity know each other,” Owens said. “This game usually has significance for one or both teams.”

SEGUIN — Lady Apache runner Con-tessa Baird placed seventh in the District 28-3A meet varsity girls race Thursday morning at Starke Park and will now rep-resent the Lady Apaches at the Region IV meet Nov. 5 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio.

“Contessa stepped outside of her com-fort zone in this race and it payed off, Gon-zales coach Jill Cox said. “Contessa did what she needed to do in order to go to regional’s this year. For the start of the sea-son it was her goal and she accomplished that.”

Baird crossed the finish line in 13 min-utes, 10 seconds.

La Vernia won the meet with 17 points and Yoakum was in second with 61. Pleas-anton was third with 62 and Gonzales came in fourth at 92.

Cox said the Lady Apaches did well in trying to overtake Pleasanton for the final team spot to regionals.

“There is no doubt that the girls gave their best performance in trying to beat Pleasanton for the third spot,” she said. “ I have only four girls who have high school cross country experience. I have three first- year runners on varsity.”

“This was a learning experience for many of the girls and they did a great job. My seniors, Kimberly Deleon and Brittney Pakebusch, did a great job being leaders in practice and in the district race. I could not have asked for more out of any of the ladies.”

“As for the rest of the ladies, our times were good and so was the competitive effort they gave.” Cox said.”

DeLeon was No. 14 in 13:43; Alejandra Diaz DeLeon was No 25 in in 14:49; Hailey Whitted was No. 27 (15:09) and behind her was Pak-ebusch (15:13). Kaitlyn Guerra was No. 31 in 15:37 and followed by Dora Rodriguez in 15:40.

For the runner-up Lady ‘Dogs, Brittany Ro-sas was fourth in 12:36; Harley Braun was ninth in 13:24; Courtney Carroll was No. 13 in 13:34; Hannah Bordovsky was No. 18 (14:00) and fol-lowed by Stephanie Kornegay (14:01).

For the Lady Gobbler runners, Alexandra Villafranca was No. 15 in 13:46, Sarah Southern was No. 23 in 14:34 and Luzy Flipse followed in 14:43.

In the boys varsity race, Eduardo Ruva-claba was the Apaches’ only runner, coming in at No. 14 in 19:25.

“Eduardo did a great job in the Varsity Boy’s race. This was his first year to run cross coun-try and placed 14th,” Cox said. “ After the first mile he was in 16th place and in the middle part of the race caught 2 other runners and held position. He ran very strong and was very competitive. His results were great for his first year. I am very excited about his future as a runner.”

Tyler Janota and Juana Sanchez were Gon-zales’ participants in the junior varsity races.

Juana is only a freshman and had a great showing. She will have much success in the future years. Tyler improved all year long. His times got better each week. Dis-trict was no exception. I am really proud of the effort and heart he showed through-out the season,” Cox said.

St. Paul girls finish second at stateThe Lady Cardinals came in second in

the 2011 TAPPS State Cross Country meet with 61 points, 23 points shy of first-place team Bulverde Bracken Christian School.

“The girls ran great as a team and did a great job of staying focused. I am very proud of them. They worked well to-gether all season,” St. Paul cross country coach Dana Beal said. “ I am also proud of the boys. We were able to have a team this year which is the first time in three years. They ran well and are young so we are excited about the future of our boys program. “

Kali Kocian was seventh in 13:45, Katelynn Leist finished in 14:24 for No. 16; McKenzie Kresta was No. 24 in 14:44, Samantha Siegel placed No. 25 with a time of 14:41, Ashton Kutac was No. 26 in 14:58, Elise Patek came in at No. 28 in 15.05 and Victoria Kusak finished in 15:30 for No. 31.

The Cardinals finished 10th out of 15

teams. Mason Matias finished No. 34 in 20:01, Sam Wenske was No. 53 in 21:11, Kurt Chunda finished in 21:35 for No. 62, Kyle Chunda was No. 75 in 22:27 and Ted Wenske was No. 80 in 22:49.

Moulton teams sweep districtMoulton varsity girls and boys took

first place in their district races with 22 and 31 points, respectively.

Waelder boys booked a trip to the re-gional meet with 73 points.

For the Kitten, Brandee Dolezal fin-ished in second place with a time of 14:18 and directly behind her was Paige Bartos (14:37), Chelsey Darilek (14:47) and Me-gan Mitchon (14:51).

Kendall Kristynik placed eighth in 15:44; Tasha Zidek came in No. 12 in 16:26 and Larmie Zant awas No. 14 with a time of 16:43.

Moulton’s Alex Reyes won the boys var-sity with a time of 17:11 and was followed by teammate Ty Ramos in 17:39. Dennis Lopez placed sixth in 19:07; Dallas Roth-bauer was No. 12 in 20:06; Jaime Moreno was No. 13 (20:30) and Mario Pinedo was No. 14 in 20:37and Cameron Jalufka was No. 18 in 21:42. Leading Waelder was Clay Ornoa who came in fourth in 18:55; Arthur Aguilar was No. 11 in 20:04; An-tonio Castillo finished in 21:54 for No. 19; Aldr Sanchez was No. 22 in 22:54; Jeremy Gonzales was No. 29 in 24:30; Joseph Mc-Cook was No. 34 in 27:02 and Deundre Fields was No. 36 in 27:29.

Shiner girls earn trip to regionalsCassie Stafford placed fifth to lead the

Lady Comanches. Jordan Pietsch came in at No. 11, Melanie Berger placed No. 15, Tabitha Blaschke placed No. 18, Shanan Pardy at No. 22, Destiny Chumchal at No. 27 and Kaci Jamison at No. 30.

Tovar to compete at regionalsNixon’s Balti Tovar finished in eighth

place at the 29-2A meet and will compete in the Region IV meet Saturday.


By MARK LUBE

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COMANCHES: close out against struggling Louise

APACHES: Battle Cuero looking to make 10-0 run

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LULING: Eagles battleBlanco for playoff spot

Local runners claim spots in regional meets

424 rushing with 18 total scores.“We have to corral that kid,” said Luling

head coach Michael Waldie. “He’s extreme-ly smart and does everything well. He’s a big, physical kid who is a lot faster than he looks and is capable of taking one to the house on you if you’re not careful.”

“He’s been stepping up his game every week,” Coach Rogers said about his son. “He’s been running the ball better and making good decisions in the passing game. He means a lot to our offense.”

The rest of the Panthers’ ground game consists of quality running backs in Colton Childress, Sam Isenberg and Tyler Brown. The trio has been a nice complement to Rogers and lead running back Tim Good-man, the team’s top rusher with 590 yards and seven touchdowns.

“They’ve got three or four backs who are kind of all the same,” Waldie said. “If they didn’t have on a different number, I don’t think you could really tell them apart. They’re all just really hard-nosed runners who pose a great challenge for us, but we’re looking forward to it.”

Fortunately for Luling, there’s no short-age of firepower in their offensive arsenal. The Eagles are averaging 37.5 points per game in league play led by their athletic jack-of-all-trades Billy Medford, who is second on the district’s scoring list with 82 points.

“Nobody’s really been able to contain him, that guy can really play,” Rogers said. “He’s the best athlete in the district by far. We’re worried about him, but he’s not all they have.”

Sophomore Trayden Staton has done a nice job at quarterback for Luling with 735 passing yards and 14 touchdown tosses. Freshman Brendon Cubit has offset Med-ford well at running back with 422 yards and six touchdowns, while sophomore Ty Anderson is the team’s leading receiver with 33 catches for 410 yards and four

scores. Senior Vince Garcia has also con-tributed heavily in the passing game with 26 catches for 403 yards and a team-high five touchdown receptions.

“They have a lot of guys who are pretty good,” said Rogers. “They’re not quite the caliber of Medford, but we can’t just con-centrate on him because those other guys can kill us.”

Putting up points against Blanco has been a daunting task all year for district opponents. The Panthers have allowed less than 13 points per league game and their average of 298.8 yards allowed is the dis-trict’s third best total. More importantly, their defense has given only two scoring plays of 20 or more yards in district play.

“They’re very sound in what they do de-fensively,” said Waldie. “They’re going to line up in a 4-3 and they’re going to play it all night. Their ends are wide and physical, and they do a good job of turning every-thing in to their seven-man box. They’re the type of defense that is going to force you to have to put together drives because they’re not real susceptible to big plays.”

A victory for the Eagles will do a lot more for the school than merely advancing them into the postseason for the first time since 2009.

After registering wins earlier in the year over perennial powers Karnes City and Comfort, the Luling program is on the verge of elevating its status. Such an elite standing will no doubt prove helpful in es-tablishing the Eagles as a major factor in a district where four of its teams are ranked in the top 30 statewide and in the top seven in Region IV.

“If we can add a win over Blanco to that list, then we will have put ourselves on an-other level,” Waldie said. “We won’t be so much knocking at the door anymore, we’ll be ready to kick it down. That’s what this game means. Somebody is going to be sent home for good on Friday night and we’re going to do everything in our power to make sure it’s not us.”

Louise was throttled by Flatonia in its last game, who Shiner blanked 42-0 on Oct. 21.

The Comanches will need to focus on backs Dillion Lee, George Aguilar and Josh Bishop to shut down the Hornet offensive game.

Shiner will need to continue execution of its smashmouth running game, mixed in with some passing.

Flatonia at GanadoFlatonia has a tough matchup against top-

ranked Ganado after defeating Louise, 42-6, last week.

The Indian running game is led by Josh La-bay and Flatonia will need to tackle and con-tain him well.

Main defensive players for Ganado are line-backer Tyler Gorman, linebacker Clay Vessley and lineman Anthony Parks.

With a win, Flatonia will be tied for third with Yorktown but will have lost the tiebreaker on head-to-head.

The Bulldogs will want to end the season on a high note by defeating the Indians.

St. Dominic at St. PaulThe Cardinals will look to add to their

streak after a 14-12 scraper against Sacred Heart last time out.

St. Dominic Savio fell to Dallas HSAA North 61-8 in its game on Friday. Their of-fense is paced by quarterback Daniel Miksch

and quality lineman in Charlie Harrell and Jacob Parks.

St. Paul will have to contain Miksch and running back Michael Harrell.

Key players for St. Dominic’s defense are linebacker Ryan Puetz, defensive back Stephen Bierschenk and defensive back J.T. Brown.

Sacred Heart at Brazos Christian The Indians are looking to bounce back

from their first loss of the season to St. Paul, 14-12, on Saturday.

Sacred Heart will hit the road to Brazos Christian who holds a 3-0 record in TAPPS Division 4 District 3 after a forfeit win against St. Gerrard.

The Indian defense will have to keep their on ball carriers Justin Brown and Jaxton Mc-Nair and quarterback Gentry Gail.

Defensive players for Sacred Heart to keep away from their ball carriers are linebacker Hunter Elms and tackle Matthew Ford.

Mustangs waitingNixon-Smiley has an open date this week

and has to wait for the results of other district games before knowing if they are in the post-season.

The Mustangs will need Stockdale to beat Dilley and for Karnes City to get a win against Three Rivers, as Nixon has beaten both Dilley and Karnes City and would hold the tie-break-er for third place with all three teams at 3-3


Cross Country Roundup

Down the home stretchGonzales’ Kim DeLeon heads toward the finish line during the District 28-3A cross-country meet. (Photo by Mark Lube)


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Minnie Mouse - Gabriella Riojas (3), and Zebra - Marinna Ramirez (9)

Tinkerbell - Mikayla Vinklarek (6), Simba Lion Cub - Miranda Vinklarek (3), Elmo - Brandi Vin-klarek and Cheerleader Chihuahua - Heidi Vin-klarek (also at right)

Gonzales Cannon Staff get into the Halloween spirit. From left, “Doctor” Dorothy Voigt, “Hip Chick” Debbie Toliver, “Grandma Hippy” Sanya Harkey, and “Witchy Woman” Nikki Maxwell, and their “Ghostly” Intern.

Blues Clues - Michael Meeh (2) Strawberry Shortcake - Tenley Matias (3)

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Lion - Ayden Ramirez Spell Witch - Destiny Voigt (7)

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Above, Winners of the Sage Capitol Bank Halloween Costume Contest: First Place - Beverly Malatek (Harry Potter), Second Place - Janie Massey (Old Woman), and Third Place - Crissy O’Neal (Saloon Girl). Below, M&M’s: Terri Stewart - Blue, Susan Castillo - Orange, Maydell Pankey - The Bag, Patsy Stamport - Yellow, Kathy Fredrick - Red, Felipe Leon - Brown, Felica Camarillo - Green. See more on page D3. Courtesy Photos

Barbie Witch - Kinsley Voigt (2)

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Kitty Cat - Yarel Gallegos

Batman - Aiden Zambrano and Bat Girl - Yesenia Melchor

1950’s Sock Hop Girl - Anessa Villareal Carrizales

Little Indian - Grayson Ramirez and Gorilla (Dad) Darth Vader - Jayden Blackwell Cheerleaders - Venessa Contreras (left) and Ashlynn Clack Princess - Trinity Barr

Dark Angel - Whitley Bonilla

Barroom Dancer - Josslyn Longoria, Vampire - Aa-liah Bolden, Ninja - Jaydee Longoria, Gangster - David Smith

Ninja - Kabel Faltisek

Two Screamers - Hunter and Noah Gonzales Scream - Salomon Chavez and Skeleton

- Naomi CasarasIndian - Bethany Shovlin and Cat - Katie Carter

Cowgirls - Julia Webb (left) and Ashley Taylor (right)

The Castaways from Gilligan’s Island, Sage Capitol Bank employees: Keri Mikulencak (Mary Ann), Cindy Finch (Gilligan), Susan Ditto (Ginger), Sharon Tenberg (Skipper), Ashley Wilke (The Professor),Sheilah Baker (Mrs. Howell) and Samantha Garcia (Mr. Howell). Courtesy photo

Beautful Cat - Sophia Torres, and Gloria (Mom)

Butterfly - Arissa Bolden

Scream - Jacob Reyes (5), Aiden Reyes (6 months)

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Iron Man - Nicholas Cruz (4), Pirate Girl (1) - Katherine Cruz, and Bat Girl - Alexis Ontiveros (7)

Cat and Olivia - Brianna and Ava Carrizales Ninja - Jaydee Longoria, and Bar Room Dancer - Josslyn Longoria

Cinderella - Jayda Glass, and Hobo - Presley Belscher

Bumble Bee Transformer & Dracula - Angel and Jose Gallegos

Bumble Bee - Tara Pettus, and Scary Boy - Tyler Valis

Fireman and Puppy - Jessiah Barr

The Flintstones - Fred, Rachel and Haley

Devialina & Catarenia - Haley Canton & Kaitlyn Banda

A gang of Pirates, from left - Alex Ramon, Chris Rodriguez, Mikey and Marina Castillo.

Cinderella - Skylynn Barnes

Dracula - Jacob Clack

Batarina - Myrna Hernandez, Scooby Doo - Estrella Castillo, Zombie - Louis Hernandez, Spiderman - Raymond Hernandez, and Pirate - Jennifer Hernandez Transformer - Lauro Arizape

Fortune Teller - Shatorri Williams, Sponge Bob - Jaimee Nunn, Fairy - Jaynaria Nunn, and Jason - DeVonte Williams

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On Wednesday, Gon-zales-based radio station KCTI-AM 1450 program director Egon Barthels an-nounced an adjustment to its “Texans, Outlaws and Legends” programming format. The station will shift focus more towards the legends of country mu-sic.

During the announce-ment, Barthels made men-tion of a recent survey of KCTI-AM 1450 listeners and advertisers.

“Many were very com-plimentary with the direc-tion of the station and our commitment to Gonzales County local news, but we heard a clear message that the community wished to

hear more Classic Coun-try legends, such as George Jones, Waylon and Willie, and Patsy Cline. We also heard a demand to keep some titles from country music’s superstars of the 80s and 90s in the mix, such as older George Strait, Tim McGraw, Reba, and Garth.”

The music adjustments are effective immediately.

Contemporary Texas Country music will contin-ue to be spliced in during The Texas Morning Show weekdays from 6 to 9, and Sunday afternoons from Noon until 7 with the pop-ular Texas Country Week-end and Texas Red Dirt Roads with Justin Frazell shows. Contemporary Tex-as Country artists include Wade Bowen, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, Robert

Earl Keen, Stoney LaRue, and Cody Canada & The Departed. The 1450 Polka Club with Mister John will continue weekdays from 9-noon.

KCTI-AM 1450 news and information program-ming will also continue, Barthels said.

“We still air the Texas State Network news hourly along with the Texas Farm Bureau’s Agriculture news-cast, plus frequent news and weather updates dur-ing the morning show,” he said. “Throughout the day we air various news, local event information and pub-lic service announcements. Our Facebook page is also continuously updated with local news articles and community information.

“KCTI is here for the Gonzales County commu-nity. We are committed to local radio that gets results for our advertisers and gives our listeners a profes-sionally produced and ex-citing listening experience” Barthels said.

KCTI AM 1450 has served the citizens of Gon-zales County, The Guadal-upe Valley and South Cen-tral Texas since 1947. For complete information on KCTI AM 1450, visit www.kcti1450.com. Follow KCTI AM 1450 on Facebook and Twitter.

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‘Willy Wonka’ opensLayne Becker stars as Willy Wonka and Mackenzie Moers as Charlie Bucket in the Gonzales High School production of “Willy Wonka Junior,” which opens at 7 p.m. Friday at the Gonzales Junior High Auditorium. Performances are also set at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 and 2 p.m. Nov. 13. Tickets at the door are $8 for adults and $6 for students, or you can buy them in advance at either the high school or junior high offices for $2 off. (Courtesy Photo)

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, once something is in your head, it is hard to get rid of it. A stubborn nature can be an asset at times, es-pecially when getting ahead in business.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21It’s a love of life that will move you through the next few days, Taurus. Otherwise you can become bored with the mundane responsibili-ties of day to day.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, once the wheels are in motion, it can be very dif-ficult to turn back. That is why it is best to think things through before you take any action.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, it is difficult to get others to hear what you are saying when they refuse to listen. You will just have to be more diligent in your ef-forts.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, many people will be fol-lowing your lead this week. Be on your best behavior, so you will be a role model and set a positive example for those who follow.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, when someone chooses to offer advice, lis-ten to that advice even if you don’t agree with it. Things will have a funny way of working out.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Make an effort to spend some time with someone whom you have not seen

in awhile, Libra. You won’t regret the decision because soon you will part ways again.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, try to find a balance between the time you spend with others and the mo-ments you secure for your-self. While not secretive, you do relish in your privacy.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, you will quickly become “persona non grata” if you don’t mend your ways. Taking advantage of others will cause them to rescind their generosity.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Personal matters take pre-cedence once again, Capri-corn. Just when it seems you can never conquer the chal-lenges that arise, you are met with a welcome surprise.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, bide your time because the stars indicate a changing of times that will move in your favor. This will be an opportunity for wrongs to be righted.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, don’t devote too much attention to recre-ational activities this week because then it could dis-tract you from work that needs doing.

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Puzzle Answers

It was British writer and humorist Jerome K. Jerome who made the following sage observation: “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

According to an international survey of taxicab drivers, passengers who use cabs in London are twice as likely as those in eight other major metropolises to leave a laptop behind when exiting the taxi.

Sharks can live for a century or more.

Velcro came to market in 1957, after a Swiss inventor named George De Mestral spent nearly 10 years developing the idea. His inspiration came to him in 1948 on a hike, when he had difficulty removing tenacious little burrs from his clothes. He reasoned that if he could create synthetic burrs, they could be used as fasteners.

The Parker Brothers game Monopoly is the best-selling game in history. It’s available for purchase in 28 countries, and it can be played in 19 different languages.

If you speak some French, you might know that the phrase tout a l’heure means “see you later.” You might not realize, though, that that phrase is the origin of the English term “toodle-oo.”

Chances are, there’s a Park Street in your town.

It’s the most common street name in the United States.

Europe is the only continent without a desert. Even icy Antarctica has deserts -- including the world’s largest cold desert.

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