Gonzales Cannon Oct 25 Issue

The priorities of the 83rd Texas Legislature boil down to three words, says District 17 State Rep. Tim Klein-schmidt: “Budget, budget, budget.”

“We’ll have a little more money to work with this session,” says Kleinschmidt, who represents Gonzales, Caldwell, DeWitt, Bastrop and Lee counties. “We’ll be able to steer a little bit more

toward education, but that and medicare costs will be two of the big issues. Those, and eminent domain, and of course water issues.”

Kleinschmidt stopped in Gonzales Friday and said that although he has an op-ponent in his campaign for re-election to his seat, his best ally is his opponent’s leader.

“I’ve got a pretty good district,” he said jokingly. “It’s primarily rural, and as long as I have the Farm Bureau, the NRA and the right-to-lifers on my side and Obama in office, it’s easy to get votes.”

Kleinschmidt said voters in the district have high-lighted their concerns and he’s going to be closely fol-lowing developments.

“Water and property rights, those are going to be major concerns for our district for the next 30 years,” he said. “Now with the oil development, you

add transportation to that. The problem is, where do you find the money to fund transportation?”

Teachers’ unions and many in the news media were roundly critical of the Legislature in its last session for “cutting edu-cation funding,” causing some school districts to cut teaching positions. Klein-schmidt said the actions by he and his compatriots helped prevent a deficit and major tax hikes.

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More arrests made in shooting

School cuts ribbon on new computer lab

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Apaches stun Buffs; previewing this week’s contests

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Have fun — safely!on Halloween

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Pitching up a winner for GE

Through 8 a.m. Wednesday, the Gonzales County Clerk’s office reported that 848 total votes have been cast in person and by mail in the Nov. 6 General Election. early voting continues through Friday.

Budget issues will take top priority, Kleinschmidt says

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday morning at Gonzales Elementary School to formally open the school’s new computer lab. Among those shown cutting the ribbon are GISD Superintendent Dr. Kim Strozier, Nolan Ryan Foundation director Reese Ryan and Kitchen Pride founder Darrell McLain. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

The furnishings in the new computer lab include cus-tomized mouse pads. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

It was a banner day at Gonzales Elemen-tary School on Tuesday.

Principal Jayne Iley, along with members of the GES faculty and Parent Teacher Or-ganization (PTO), presented the school’s new Texas Rangers’ Computer Lab. The ceremony included a ribbon-cutting cer-emony and small reception.

The project, which cost approximately $25,000, was funded through a collabora-tion of the Nolan Ryan Foundation and Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms.

“I can’t tell you how grateful we are to the Nolan Ryan Foundation and Kitchen Pride

for providing this opportunity for our stu-dents,” said Gonzales Independent School District superintendent Dr. Kim Strozier. “We’re very proud of the finished product and of our PTO for the efforts they put into it.”

The Nolan Ryan Foundation is of course named after the legendary Texas ballplayer. Nicknamed “The Ryan Express,” the former Major League Baseball pitcher is currently principal owner, president and CEO of the Texas Rangers. During his major league re-cord 27-year career, he pitched in 1966 and from 1968 to 1993 for four different teams: the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers.

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State Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt

Two more men have been taken into custody in con-nection with the double ho-micide that took place at a Gonzales nightclub.

Frederick Lamon Smith, 39, died on October 7 after he was struck by gunfire in the 1400 block of Kliene, across the street from The Ebony Club. Taylon Edow Porter, 23 of San Marcos, was also shot and transport-ed to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, where he eventu-ally succumbed to his inju-ries.

The men were two of four people who were injured during the incident.

Parris Brown, 24 of Hal-lettsville, was arrested the next day and charged with one count of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.

Gonzales Police Cap-tain Alan Taylor said on Wednesday that his office had received some informa-tion based on witness ac-counts on Oct. 10 that led him to believe that Robert Garcia Jr, 34 of Cuero, was involved in the case.

It was discovered that

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Thought for the Day

“The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieuten-ant, and also get rid of ‘that Martian fellow’... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn’t keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn’t the other way around. I mean Leonard’s cute, but...”

— GeneRoddenberry

October 25, 1991On this day in 1991, “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenber-

ry died in Santa Monica, Calif. Roddenberry was born in El Paso in 1921, and began writing for television in the 1950s. His scripts were produced on “Dragnet,” “Naked City,” “The U.S. Steel Hour,” and “Goodyear Theater,” among other se-ries. He received his first Emmy award as head writer for “Have Gun, Will Travel,” a western series, and produced the television series “The Lieutenant” in 1960-61. Rodden-berry is best remembered, however, for “Star Trek,” which premiered in 1966 and ran until 1969. The series became a cult favorite, spawned numerous fan clubs, products, and conventions, and later became one of the most popular syndicated shows in reruns.

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Gonzales Sheriff’s Office Report

Weekend accident claimslife of Cuero woman, 20

DPS cites troopers for heroism

Here is the Gonzales Police Department Report for the period of Oct. 15-22:

Oct. 15Reported Unauthorized Use Motor Vehicle At

200 Blk Hwy 90-A.Reported Theft At 300 Blk West Cone St.Reported Harassment At 200 Blk Reid St.Reported Criminal Mischief At 700 Blk St. Paul St.Oct. 16Jeffery Lee Malatek, 47 Of Gonzales, Arrested

And Charged With Driving While License Invalid At 1100 Blk Tinsley St.

Reported Assault At 1600 Blk St. Andrew St.

Oct. 17Justin Ray Gammons, 23 Of Gonzales, Arrested

And Charged With Injury To A Child At 700 Blk St. Paul St.

Reported Theft At 700 Blk St. Frances St.Reported Criminal Mischief At 200 Blk St. Mat-

thew St.

Oct. 18Reported Criminal Mischief At 700 Blk Church St.Reported Assault At 400 Blk College St.15 Year Old Female Detained And Charged With

Trespassing At 1700 Blk Seydler St.Reported Criminal Mischief At 1300 Blk Donovan

St.Oct. 20Crystal Ann Riojas, 25 Of Gonzales, Arrested And

Charged With Disorderly Conduct At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

Juan Antonio Gonzales-Cano, 56 Of Gonzales, Ar-rested And Charged With Possession Of Controlled Substance At 1300 Blk St. Lawrence St.

Oct. 21Reported Assault At 1700 Blk Seydler St.Juan Perez, 32 Of Yoakum, Arrested And Charged

With No Driver’s License At 100 Blk College St.Oct. 22Reported Criminal Mischief At 1300 Blk Robert-

son St.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff’s Report for Oct. 14-20:

10/14/12Grantham, Clifton, 05/1983, Gonzales. Local War-

rant – No Drivers License Issued. Released on Order to Appear.

10/15/12Pennington, Ronald Thomas, 08/1991, Smiley.

Evading Arrest Detention with Vehicle. Requires $25,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

10/16/12Barfield, Kristy Chanell, 01/1978, Houston. Local

Warrant – Theft of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Requires $2,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.

James, Brandon Michael, 11/1987, Houston. Local Warrant – Forgery Financial Instrument. Re-quires $25,000 bond. Remains in Custody.

10/18/12Castillo, Silvino Tobias, 09/1981, Houston. Local

Warrant – Theft Stolen Property >$1,500 <$20K. Re-mains in Custody.

10/19/12

Richter, Michael Anthony, 09/1959, Palacios. Commitment/Sentence – Driving while Intoxicated 2nd. Released – Weekender/work Release.

Garcia, Felipe Medina, 01/1969, Waelder. No Driv-er License Issued. No Liability Insurance. Speeding. Released on Order to Appear.

Butler, William E., 07/1925, Nixon. Victoria Coun-ty Warrant – Criminal Trespass. Released on $500 Bond.

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

GCSO 08DPS 06GPD 10WPD 00NPD 04Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 28

Yoakum Police ReportYoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Re-

port for Oct. 15-21:10/15/12Case #12-421, Burglary-Vehicle, 201 Schrimisch-

er; Disposition, Investigation.10/16/12Case #175789, Warrant Arrest(6), Casillas, Eric(6),

26 Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense(s), 1, W#12-638-FTA-No Insurance, 2, W#11-696-No Insurance, 3, W#12-638-FTA-No Inspection, 4, W#11-694-No Ve-hicle Inspection, 5, W#11-695-No Drivers License, 6, W#12-637-FTA-No Drivers License; Disposition(s),1, Fine/$214/Rel., 2, Fine/$289/Rel., 3, Fine/$214/Rel., 4, Fine/$164/Rel., 5, Fine/$214.10/Rel., 6, Fine/$214/Rel.

Case #12-422, Lopez, Ricardo, 22, Yoakum, 407 Post; Offense, Evading Arrest; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

Case #12-423, Lopez, Ricardo, 22, 407 Post; Of-fense, Failure to Identify; Disposition, Court Citation.

Case #12-425, Gonzalez, Steven, 18, Yoakum, 104 Poth; Offense, Poss. Dangerous Drug; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

10/17/12Case #12-424, Hale, Tiffany, 26, Yoakum, Pat

Cleburne; Offense, Public Intoxication; Disposition, Bond/$500/Rel.

10/18/12Case #12-427, Delarosa, Tony, 21, Yoakum, 203 W.

Gonzales; Offense, Theft-C; Disposition, Fine/$364/Rel.

10/19/12Case #12-428, Burglary-Vehicle, 705 Lavaca; Dis-

position, Investigation.Case #175828, Warrant Arrest, Sanchez, Jose, 27,

Yoakum, 425 E. Morris; Offense, W#12-221-FTA-Poss. Drug Paraphernalia; Disposition, Fine/$262.53/Rel.

Case #12-429, Juvenile Male, 14, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense, Burglary-Residence; Disposition, Trans/Vict. Juv. Det.

10/20/12Case #12-430, Theft-B, 117 Kimberly; Disposition,

Investigation.10/21/12Case #12-491, Runaway (C.I.N.S.), 407 Sheehan;

Disposition, Investigation.

DeWitt County Sheriff’s ReportDeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from

Oct. 11-18Oct. 11Arrested Ollie King, 47, of Victoria, Speeding 16

to 20 Over Limit, CPDArrested William David Smith, 35, of Victoria,

Driving while Intoxicated / Open Alcohol Con-tainer, Bond of $1,000, CPD

Arrested Michael Gonzales, 26, of Cuero, Driv-ing while License Invalid Enhanced, Bond of $1,000, DPS

Oct. 12Christopher Buesing, 38, of Westoff, Public

Intoxication, Fine of $414 (30 Days to Pay), CPDArrested Roger Corey Orosco Jr., 22, of York-

town, Violation of Probation / Burglary of Habi-tation with Intent to Commit Felony, No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Deborah Rosemarie Dueser, 43, of Yorktown, Assault Causing Bodily Injury (Karnes County), Bond of $5,000, DPS

Arrested Kenneth Wayne Erwin, 43, of Ma-lino, Theft Property >$50<$500, Bond of $1,000, DCSO

Arrested Salvador Nieto, 21, of Seguin, Driving while License Invalid, Bond of $1,000, CPD

Arrested Michael Hill, 32, of Austin, Possession of Marijuana < 2 oz, Bond of $1,000, CPD

Arrested Melissa Diane Flores, 27, of York-town, Public Intoxication, Fine of $414 (30 Days to Pay), CPD

Arrested Ryan Brandon Rivera, 39, of Victoria, Public Intoxication, Fine of $414 (30 Days to Pay), CPD

Arrested Kepper Chase Barnett, 21, of Lon-gansport, LA, Driving While Intoxicated, Bond of $2,000, DPS

Arrested Logan Phillip Dominy, 21, of Cleve-land, Public Intoxication, Fine of $355 (30 Days to Pay), DPS

Oct. 13Assisted DPS with an Accident on Hwy 87NArrested James Dave Nelson, 50, of Yorktown,

Driving while Intoxicated 2nd, Bond of $4,000, DPS

Arrested Coreon Delossantos, 19, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine / No Drivers License, Fine of $419.29, CPD

Arrested Caleb Cuellar, 17, of Cuero, Posses-sion Marijuana <=2oz Drug Free Zone, Bond of $2,000, Tamper / Fabricate Physical Evidence, Bond of $10,000, CPD

Arrested Dakota Lee Turrentine, 24, of Houston, Driving while Intoxicated, Bond of $2,000 PR, DPS

Arrested Monty Wayne Key, 40, of Cuero, Re-sist Arrest Search or Transport, Bond of $2,000, Public Intoxication, Fine of $414 (30 Days to Pay), CPD

Arrested Daniel Pantoja, 24, of Cuero, Driving while Intoxicated, Bond of $2,000, DPS

Oct. 14Assisted Cuero PD with a Disturbance on Hwy

183NArrested Inez Echavarria, 46, of Cuero, Public

Intoxication, Fine of $414 (30 Days to Pay), CPDArrested Glen E McNary Sr., 47, of Cuero, No

Drivers License, Fine of $280.80 (30 Days to Pay), Failure To Appear Court / No Drivers License,

Fine of $470.60 (30 Days to Pay), Violate Open Container Law, Fine of $526.50 (30 Days to Pay), Failure To Appear / Violate Open Container Law, Fine of $470.60 (30 Days to Pay), CPD

Arrested Nicholas Falcon, 22, of Yoakum, As-sault Family Violence, Bond of $1,000 Cash, Yoa-kum PD

Arrested Javier Barrientos, 34, of Yoakum, Driving While Intoxicated 1st, Bond of $2,000, Il-legal Entry, No Bond, DPS

Arrested Duante Mathis, 25, of San Antonio, Bond Forfeiture / Resist Arrest Search or Trans-port, Bond of $750, (Dallas Co), Forfeiture / Es-cape from Custody, Bond of, $500, (Dallas Co) DCSO

Arrested Kianna Dawkins, 24, of Cibolo, Crimi-nal Nonsupport, Bond of $ 1,000 Cash, (Atascosa Co), DCSO

Oct. 15Arrested Mark Johnson, of Cuero, Bail Jump-

ing Failure to Appear, Bond of $50,000, DCSOArrested Anissa Kotara, 38, of Cuero, Driving

While License Invalid with Previous Convection, Bond of $1,000, CPD

Oct. 16Arrested Aaron John Guzman, 28, of York-

town, Assault Causes Bodily Injury Family Mem-ber, Bond of $4,000, Capias Pro Fine / Driving While License Invalid- Surcharge, Fine of $342, Yorktown PD

Oct. 17Arrested Ronald Burrell, 62, of Cuero, Assault

Causes Bodily Injury Family Member, Bond of $2,000, CPD

CHEAPSIDE — A Cuero woman was killed and three others were injured in a single-vehicle crash near Cheapside early Sunday morning.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers said Cuero resident Elizabeth Jane Rocha, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which took place on FM 2067, about seven miles west of U.S. 183,

around 3:30 a.m. Sunday.DPS investigators said Rocha was driv-

ing a 1999 Toyota west on FM 2067 when she veered off the road and crashed into a tree. Rocha’s three passengers, Ashley Garza, 21; Andrea Mills, 25; and Bianca Villa, 19, all sustained serious injuries and were taken to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin.

All four women were wearing safety belts, according to the DPS. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Marijuana found in backyardFayette County Sheriff’s Deputies have charged a Flatonia man with possession of marijuana after plants were found growing behind a mobile home off FM609. Sheriff Keith Korenek reported that on Tuesday, October 16, at about 9:00 a.m., the narcotics unit went to a residence in the 3200 block of south FM 609 to fol-low up a possible marijuana grow. Three investigators saw what appeared to be marijuana growing behind a mobile home near a garden. Charged with Pos-session of Marijuana was Larry Ray Elliot Jr., 46, of Flatonia. The case will be forwarded to Fayette County Attorney Peggy Supak for prosecution.

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Safety Commission (PSC) and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Direc-tor Steven McCraw this week presented a Purple Heart to a DPS trooper and Life Saving Awards to several officers for their valiant efforts.

Trooper Max Honesto re-ceived a Purple Heart after being shot in a traffic stop last year in Ector County. The other officers at the Public Safety Commission meeting were recognized for helping to save someone’s life.

“Each of the individuals honored today is a hero in their own right, distinguish-ing themselves in extraor-dinary fashion with their courage and selfless service to others,” said Director Mc-Craw. “Trooper Honesto survived a roadside shooting and we are proud to have him back at work protecting the citizens of Texas. Our other recipients acted instinctively and used their training to

save the lives of others. In one incident, a DPS captain received a second chance at life when three of his fellow DPS officers performed CPR on him.”

The following awards were presented:

• Trooper Max Honesto, Highway Patrol in Pampa, re-ceived a Purple Heart for in-juries suffered in a May 2011 roadside incident. Trooper Honesto was patrolling I-20 in Ector County when he stopped a vehicle for speed-ing. He learned that the driver was recently released from prison and noticed the smell of marijuana from in-side the vehicle. When a pas-senger was asked to remove something from his shoe, he instead pulled a pistol from his pocket and pointed it at the trooper. The two men exchanged gunfire; the sus-pect was struck in the leg and Honesto sustained a wound to his right shoulder. As a re-sult of the gunshot, Trooper Honesto sustained muscle and nerve damage to his right shoulder. He has since re-turned to full active duty.

• Three DPS officers re-ceived Life Saving Awards for performing CPR on a fellow DPS officer who collapsed during an exercise session in September of 2012. The DPS captain, stationed in Aus-tin, did not have a pulse and was not breathing. Without hesitation, Assistant Direc-tor Tom Ruocco (Criminal Investigations Division), Deputy Assistant Director Greg Gloria (Leadership and Operational Review Unit) and Sgt. Greg Davis (Train-ing) began performing CPR until EMS personnel arrived. Ultimately, an external defi-brillator shock was needed to restore the victim’s breathing and heart functions. Wit-nesses to this event stated that there was no doubt that the efforts of the three DPS offi-cers helped save the captain’s life.

• Trooper Jonathan “Shane” Lawrence, Highway Patrol in Atlanta, received

a Life Saving Award for ad-ministering first aid to a car crash victim in May of 2012. Trooper Lawrence was re-turning to his duty station after attending in-service training in Florence when he drove upon a one-vehicle, rollover collision. The vic-tim’s left arm was severed below the elbow and he was bleeding profusely. Lawrence fashioned a tourniquet with a shirt from the vehicle and was able to stop the bleeding until EMS personnel arrived on the scene.

• Trooper Jeffrey Wach-tendorf, Highway Patrol in Waco, received a Life Saving Award for helping a choking victim at a restaurant in June of 2012. Trooper Wachten-dorf was eating lunch when he observed a young woman unsuccessfully performing the Heimlich maneuver on a 17-year-old man. Another restaurant patron intervened, but his efforts were also ulti-mately unsuccessful and the victim was again unable to breathe. Trooper Wachten-dorf applied the Heimlich maneuver three times and was eventually able to com-pletely dislodge the food from the victim’s airway.

• Sgt. Michael Nix, High-way Patrol in Austin, and Cameron Police Department Officer Jason Lantz both re-ceived awards for assisting a woman who had a seizure in April of 2012. Sgt. Nix was going home at the end of his shift and noticed a Cameron Police Department patrol unit responding to an emer-gency call with its lights and siren activated, and Sgt. Nix went to assist. Once inside the residence, the officers found an unconscious woman with-out a pulse. They immedi-ately began CPR and contin-ued for several minutes until paramedics arrived. After the arrival of the paramedics, Sgt. Nix continued to give chest compressions for 20-30 min-utes while the paramedics rendered aid. Their efforts re-stored the victim’s heartbeat.


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The annual Gonzales County Pink Ribbon Brunch took place Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church in Gonzales. In addition to a hat decorating contest (won by Blakely Mercer, front left above), cancer survivors were recognized, a silent auction helped raise funds for the Gonzales County Relay for Life’s contributions to the American Cancer Society, and entertainment was provided by the ACTS singers, Sean Zambrano, Robert Camarillo, Mary Camarillo, Robert Klupach and Gerald Bazan. (Photos by Dave Mundy)

The Girls at Rusted Gingham would like to announce their up-coming 5th Annual Barn Sale to be held at the showbarn of the JB Wells complex in Gonzales.

This event has steadily grown over the past 5 years. For this year, the girls have selected 70 vendors to fill the barn. Come with your list in hand- this is the perfect place to find that special Christmas gift to honor a friend or family member with! Vendors will be offering; vintage, antique, unique, handmade, remade or otherwise made stuff!

The show has expanded this year to include a Friday evening shopping opportunity! Please mark your calendars for Friday November 2 from 5pm-8pm, and Saturday the 3rd from 9am-4pm. The girls hope this will give more opportunity for locals and out of town shoppers to experi-ence the sale!

The Girls at Rusted Gingham have been selected as one of the top 50 Barn Sales in the U.S. by

Flea Market Style Magazine! This is a huge honor as both the girls; Suzanne and Tracy have shopped many of the shows listed in their Texas region.

The Texas Co-Op Power magazine also featured them and focused on the young en-trepreneurs at the barn sale along with the strong amount of ‘upcycled’ items that will be for sale! This helps keep ‘junk’ out of dumpsters when it can be repurposed or upcycled! There will be so many great vendors displaying their wares for sale! In addition; there will be paint demonstrations, custom boot making, a fun photography booth and great visiting to be had!

As was last year, the Girls would like shoppers to assist in filling the local food pantry in time for Thanksgiving.

We are all so blessed and would love if our shoppers could help us in helping the commu-nity for those that need some

assistance during the holidays. Help us share the true meaning of the Holidays by blessing oth-ers! The girls will give $1 off ad-mission if 2 or more canned or dry goods are presented at the gate. Admission is only $3 and parking along with cute kids under 12 are Free!

The girls will also be host to the Gonzales County A&M Club who will be selling deli-cious tamales, chili, Frito pie, and hot dogs in an effort to raise funds for their college scholar-ships.

Contact 830-672-8676 for pre-orders to be picked up at the sale! Along with this food you will find; hot chocolate & coffee, pastries, breads, sand-wiches, cookies, cokes, teas and milks- all until sold out! Call your friends and pile in the car- come experience some of the best shopping in South central Texas- 1st Weekend of Novem-ber…..See ya at the the Barn!!!! www.rustedgingham.com

5th Annual Barn Sale slated

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Pictured (from left) are Gonzales County Health Foundation board members John Mohrmann, Darren Schauer, President Sue Ortman, and Noel Lindemann; Gonzales Memorial Hospital Auxiliary members Gladys Lindemann and Barbara Koricanek; and, Sascha Kardosz representing Memorial Hospital. (Courtesy photo)

GONZALES – At its Annual Meeting on September 25, the Board of Directors of the Gonzales County Health Foundation ap-proved a grant in the amount of $25,000 to the Auxiliary of Gonzales Memorial Hospital.

The grant funds will be used to provide scholarships for nursing school students. To date, the Auxiliary has funded $181,000 in lo-cal nursing scholarships.

Gonzales County Health Foundation Board President Sue Ortman commented on the grant, saying, “Having adequately trained and skilled nurses available in our community helps us fulfill our mission to provide quality affordable health services to the residents of Gonzales County. We are happy to assist the Auxiliary in providing funds to help these worthy students complete their nursing de-grees.”

The Gonzales County Health Foundation

was established in 1983 to assist the hospi-tal district in providing quality healthcare to Gonzales County residents. The Health Foundation was initially started because of the need for a local health clinic.

With the help of financial contributions from the estates of Clarence and Sue Traeger and Dr. Walter A. Sievers, the Health Foun-dation grew to become a driving force in es-tablishing the Sievers Medical Clinic, and its continued growth and expansion, as well as countless other projects that have benefited the residents of Gonzales County.

The Gonzales County Health Foundation Board of Directors manages the assets of the Health Foundation. The Board is comprised of President Sue Ortman, Vice-President John Mohrmann, Treasurer Darren Schau-er, Secretary Dr. Terry Eska, and members Ricky Lester, Noel Lindemann, Greg Mc-Clain, Bryan Denman, Mark Lindemann, Tim Markham, Greg Peterek and Chuck Norris.

Health Foundation approves grant to hospital auxiliary

Garcia had an outstand-ing warrant in DeWitt County for a probation vio-lation. He was located and arrested for the violation by U.S. Marshals in Victo-ria, and he is currently be-ing housed in the Victoria County Jail.

On Oct. 18, Judge David Bird issued warrants for Garcia, charging him with capital murder and three counts of aggravated as-sault with a deadly weapon. Those warrants were served to Garcia on Oct. 19.

Taylor also announced the capture of 21-year old Rashad L. Rudolph, aka “Gunner.”

A capital murder warrant was issued for Rudolph on Oct. 11. He was located and arrested on Oct. 23 by U.S.

Marshals in New Orleans. Rudolph is a Louisiana na-tive who was living in Cu-ero.

“We’ve started the paper-work to file in order to get him back to Texas,” Taylor said. “Arrangements are be-ing made to get him trans-ported.”

Taylor said the case is still under investigation but wouldn’t speculate if any

more arrests are imminent.“It’s really too early to

say at this point,” he said. “There’s still a lot of peo-ple we shave to interview. We’ve talked to 30 or 40 people already and there’s probably at least that many more we’ve still got to talk to.”

The District Attorney’s Office and Texas Rangers are assisting with the case.


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“We had to reduce the budget 8.3 percent. We didn’t ‘cut education fund-ing,’” he said. “We simply didn’t fund the growth. This time, I think, we’ll be able to fund that growth.

“We’re getting a lot of requests to restore that funding. We still need (school districts) to operate efficiently, but we’ll have more to go around.”

The Lee County resi-dent, an attorney and rancher, is finishing his second term in of-fice and said he expects the new Legislature will avoid the sharp divi-sions and acrimony of the last session.

He said he expects Joe Straus, a target of the Tea Party for replace-

ment as Speaker of the House, will have much more support this ses-sion from his Republi-can colleagues, and that many members of his party are committed to issues like state sover-eignty.

“Sovereignty is going to be an issue, especially when we have such an activist federal govern-ment,” he said. “The EPA is effectively stomping on Texas farmers and oil and gas producers. We need to reduce federal regulation.”

A major by-product of the recent expansion of oil and gas exploration in the Eagle Ford Shale formation, he noted, was increased property val-ues — which will start to be seen significantly during this session.

“It takes a couple of years for those values to factor into the prop-erty tax,” he said. “Of course, that plays back to transporation. any coun-ty with significant oil and gas revenues is also going to have trouble maintaining the roads.”

Health-care issues will also be revisited, Kleinschmidt said, as will restoring funding to the state’s park sys-tem, which suffered sig-nificantly from the 2011 budget cutbacks.

“No doubt, we need to pay more attention to our state parks,” he said. “We just need to keep an eye on where the available money is going. We implemented a lot of transparency in government funding last session, so we may revisit some of those issues.”

Ryan was an eight-time MLB All-Star, and his 5,714 career strikeouts rank first in baseball history. He is also the all-time leader in no-hitters with seven and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.

On hand for the GES pre-sentation was Reese Ryan, di-rector of the foundation and son of its namesake.

“Gonzales has been part of my life,” he said. “After my father won the World Series in 1969, he bought a piece of property here so we’ve been in this area for a long time. To be able to help the school to fund this computer lab is a really big deal for us.”

The Nolan Ryan Founda-tion is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that was formed in Ryan’s home-town of Alvin in 1990. Ryan and his wife, Ruth, give their time for signing and other fund-raising efforts that en-able the foundation to provide resources for youth, education, and community development.

“We just had our annual Board of Directors meeting last month at the Ballpark in Arlington and this project was one of the highlights,” said Ryan. “It’s nice for me to come down and get to see the lab and meet some of the children who are going to benefit from

it.”Kitchen Pride founder Dar-

rell McLain also attended the lab’s opening and explained why he wanted his company to be a partner in this venture.

“Our motivation is to do good wherever we can,” he said. “Even though we may have been a limited partner in this overall effort, we felt like it was a very important effort. Education is indeed what this country needs and what is needed to push this country forward.”

The new computer lab con-tains 25 work stations, spread out in a spacious classroom. Open and available to all GES students, the lab is beauti-fully decorated in tribute to its benefactors and the furnish-ings include pictures of Ryan from his playing days, framed Sports Illustrated covers bear-ing his likeness, a shelf filled with books about baseball and mushrooms, and even cus-tomized Texas Rangers mouse pads.

“When my parents started this foundation, the goal was youth and education so this project really fit right into our mission and what we do,” Ryan said. “We were honored to be able to help out here and it’s going to be rewarding to see these computers put to good use.”

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Kitchen Pride founder Darrell McLain and Reese Ryan flank GES students who are holding a banner they made to show their gratitude. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

The Texas Rangers’ Computer Lab is largely decorated in a baseball motif including with pennants from each team Nolan Ryan has been associated with throughout his illustrious career in the sport. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

As a benefit for the Har-wood Community Center, the Committee will sponsor multiple garage sales on No-vember 3, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Center. The Community Center will be the only one selling food but they will also have a bake sale and sell garage sale items. There will be coffee, drinks, breakfast items, sandwiches, hot dogs, Frito pies, and des-

serts all day.The Harwood Library will

have many free books for any-one that wants them.

Several booths have already been reserved but free booths are still available for vendors. There will be space outdoors for sales from trailers or pick-ups. For a free booth call Peg-gy Duncan at 830-540-3923 or Marjorie Fairchild at 830-540-4212.

Harwood benefit slated

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 Saturday, October 27th, begin-ning at 11 a.m. in the GCAM parking lot located at 708 St. Louis Street. Volunteers and donations are welcome. Con-tact Linda at 361-275-1216.

Revival/Summit setSpiritual Warfare Revival/

Summit. Several Pastor’s Shar-ing. Special Praise Band from San Antonio: Deep Calling Rev-olution. Sunday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m. at Gonzales Family Assembly of God, 320 Andrew. Special Children’s/Nursery Ac-tivities Provided. All pastors and churches welcome – We desire God to move in Gon-zales, Come share your heart. Sponsored by Gonzales Family Assembly and New Beginnings Pastor Glynn Behrend & Pas-tor Margo Johnson. For more information call 830-236-4214.

Delhi Fund-RaiserComing this weekend on

Saturday Oct. from 4-6 pm the Delhi Volunteer Fire Depart-ment is hosting its 3rd Annual Gun Raffle & Chili Supper. We will also have a large selection of silent auction items & a live auction of a Savage Arms 512 Over/Under 12 Gauge Shot-gun. Please join us at 6108 State Highway 304 (Hwy 713 & 304) at the Delhi Community Center for an evening of great food, good company and lots of community fun. Thank you for you continued support of the Caldwell County Volunteer Fire Departments.

Hospital AuxiliaryThe Auxiliary of Memorial

Hospital will be meeting Tues-day, October 30, at 2 p.m. in the hospital dining room.

Polly Fink will be presenting a program on The Texas Heri-tage and Marilyn Qualls will make a presentation on The Pioneer Museum and the Texas High School Rodeo Museum.

Anyone interested is wel-come to attend. Anyone inter-ested in becoming a volunteer just come by the Gift Shop an fill out an application or call Kennon Brunkenhaufer at 830-672-3096.

GCA chicken supperThe annual Chicken Supper

for Grace Christian Academy will be held on Thursday, Octo-ber 25th from 4-6:30 p.m.

You may dine in the Fellow-ship Hall at Memorial Heights Baptist Church or take advan-tage of the convenient drive through line.

Tickets are only $7 and avail-able from any of the students, faculty or board members of the school. For further informa-tion you may call the school office at 830-672-3838 be-tween 8 AM and 4 PM, Monday through Friday.

Harkey BenefitA barbecue benefit to help

defray medical expenses

for Caldwell County Sher-iff’s Deputy Randy Harkey is scheduled 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Rotary Pavilion at Independence Park in Gonzales. Harkey suffered a stroke recently. A barbecue brisket, sausage, beans and German potatoes plate will be available for $7. There will also be a drawing and baked goods sale; tickets in the draw-ing are $1 each or $5 for six. To purchase tickets in the draw-ing or order a barbecue plate, contact Brandi Vinklarek at 830-203-0892, Dean Vinklarek at 830-203-0692, Mary Irle at 830-203-1154, Debbie Toliver at 830-857-3974, Sanya Harkey at 830-203-0131 or Dorothy Gast at 254-931-5712.

Free piano lessonsFree piano lessons for stu-

dents 8-18 are being offered in Gonzales.

There are 10 weekly lessons that take place from 3:45-4:45 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Gonzales Public Library, located at 415 St. Matthew.

Registration must be done at the library by a parent or legal guardian and library member-ship is required. No telephone registrations will be accepted.

For more information, call the library at 830-672-6315.

Health FairThere’s a Health Fair com-

ing to town! The Community Health Centers of South Cen-tral Texas will be hosting its “25th Annual Health Fair” on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m.-11 p.m. at the Victoria School of Nursing at the corner of Hwy. 90A and St. Joseph Street. Flu Shots will be available for $15. Free blood pressure, pulse and Blood Sugar screenings will be available.

Information on family plan-ning, diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and WIC services will be available. There will be health education booths from various health-related organizations in Gonzales and surrounding counties, plus healthy cooking demonstra-tions. There will be an area designated for the kids, with games and prizes. There will be door prizes. Everyone is invited to be a part of this community event. We are making health care fun!

The Community Health

Centers of South Central Texas, Inc. has been serving the com-munity with their health care needs for over 45years reach-ing out to surrounding coun-ties. For more information, please call 830-672- 6655 and ask to speak to Christina Cor-dova or Melissa San Miguel.

Bunco NightVictoria College Nursing Stu-

dents present their Fundraising Bunco Night. $25 per person. Dinner will be served. Prizes and door prizes will be given. Bring a friend! Please RSVP by November 12, 2012 to Kristin Schuette All proceeds beneift Victoria College Gonzales Cam-pus

Elks Ladies Style ShowThe Gonzales Elks Ladies

will present the annual Ladies Champagne Luncheon and Style Show on Saturday, Nov. 10.

Entitled “Dreamin’ For A Cure,” the event will take place at the Elks Lodge, located at 1222 E. Sarah DeWitt Drive, be-ginning at 11 a.m.

Pre-sale only tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Shear Designs Boutique, W.B. Farm & Ranch, or from Elks Ladies members. Proceeds benefit the local American Cancer Society Relay for Life event.

For more information, call 830-672-2615 after 6 p.m.

Free organ concertFor the fifth consecutive

year, the Presbyterian Church of Gonzales will showcase its 1925 pipe organ with a concert during the Winterfest celebra-tion.

The free concert will be held Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. Visit-ing organist Paul Keith of Aus-tin will perform a selection of classical and modern pieces. Refreshments follow the event.

For more information, call the church office at 830-672-3521.

Livestock ShowThe Gonzales Livestock

Show Association recently announced its show require-ments.

To be eligible for the Gon-zales Livestock Show: all ex-hibitors must be members of Gonzales 4-H or FFA prior to November 1; and exhibitors and a parent/guardian must

attend one drug residue avoid-ance class.

Classes will be held at Gon-zales High School cafeteria on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m.; Monday, Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 5 at 9 a.m.

Updates may be acquired by visiting the new Gonzales Livestock Show Association Facebook page and Show rules may be picked up at the Coun-ty Agent’s office.

Lamb and goat validation will be held Wednesday, Oct. 10th at J.B. Wells Showbarn. The times are from 5-6 p.m. for Lambs and from 6-7 p.m. for Goats. All market and breeders must validate at this time.

Smoke Meat saleThe Gonzales Odd Fellows

Lodge #38 I.O.O.F. is now taking orders for their annual Smoked Meat Sale.

Chickens (about 3 lbs.) will sale for $8 each, sausage (3-lb. packages) will sale for $11, tur-keys (8-10 lbs.) will be available for $22 each and ham (5-6 lbs.) for $26 each.

Orders must be turned in by Nov. 15 and will be delivered or picked up on Dec. 12.

For more information, con-tact Larry Mercer at 830-672-2982 or any other Odd Fellow member. All proceeds will go to benefit the children and orga-nizations that help the children in Gonzales area.

Movies in the Park The City of Luling will spon-

sor “Movies in the Park” at 7:30

p.m. Oct. 27 at Longer Park. The show will be “Real Steel.” The event is sponsored by the City of Luling, Luling Chamber of Commerce and other local supporters.

Bring your blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy this free event. Longer Park is located on South Magnolia Ave and East Bowie St.

Head StartTMC Golden Crescent Head

Start offers pre-school services to children ages 3-5 years, in-cludeing education, nutrition, dental, social, disability, health and mental health. Gonzales Head Start is now accepting applications at the Gonzales Head Start Centers at 1600 Elm Street or 925 Wells Street. For information call 361-582-4441.

To apply for head Start, you will need a copy pof the child’s Birth Certificate, proof of in-come, proof of address and a current immunization record.

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family

Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit organization providing services to both resi-dents and non-residents that are victims of domestic vio-lence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadal-upe, Karnes and Wilson.

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


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Love, Brittany, Brandon and all your family & friends!

Halloween DanceGhosts & Witches will be out along with GLENN COLLINS Band at the Geronimo VFW

Post 8456 rocking the house with true country music on Saturday, October 27, 8 PM till Midnight at 6806 N Highway 123, Geronimo. Dare to wear your costumes! Prizes will be given. Dance is smoke free and always opened to everyone ($7 donation). Reservations 830-379-1971.

American LegionGonzales American Legion Post #40 wil hold their regular monthly meeting and

Thanksgiving Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1 at the Legion Hall. All members and their guests are invietd to attend.

Leesville FairThe Leevsille Community Center wil host a fall festival at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3. There

will be a Hay Ride, Cake Walk, costume contest, door prizes, drawing and plenty of food and drink.

Family & FriendsUnion Lea Missionary Baptist Church, 931 St. Andrews St. will host its annual Family

and Friends Day at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4 at the church. Guest speaker will be Rev. Richard Jones, pastor of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of Houston. The public is invited.

Youth Center BBQThe Gonzales Youth Center Bar-B-Que was held Oct. 21 at the Gonzales Jr. High Cafeteria. There was a big demand! (Photo by Dave Mundy)

Liberal media bias atthe South Texas level


In Our ViewA reminder to young athletes: all glory is fleeting

El Conservador

George Rodriguez is a San Antonio resident. He is the former President of the San Antonio Tea Party, and is now Executive Director of the South Texas Political Alliance. He is a former official in the U.S. Justice Dept. during the Reagan Administration.

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RichLowry

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review and a syndicated columnist for King Fea-tures Syndicate.

President Obama’s bird-brained attack

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One of the hardest things to im-part to young people these days is the fact that they’re not immortal and all-powerful.

The chances of we adults suc-ceeding in that task are difficult to start with, and the chances decrease exponentially when the kids in question are exceedingly gifted — especially when they are athletes.

It is tragic to watch some of these kids —youngsters with such prom-ise in them — destroy themselves because they start believing the hype.

We adults do a poor job of edu-cating them. Some of that has to do with what we have allowed to be taught in our schools — an over-weening interest in enhancing their self-esteem, when what we need to be doing is exposing them to the adult world, where failure happens.

We enable their delusions, and we let them slide on minor transgres-sions instead of doing our jobs and correcting them immediately. And yes, people like me write glowing stories about them and big head-lines about them which often makes the situation even worse.

During my first two years as a professional sportswriter, I covered a Class 5A school in the Houston area where the football program was at its zenith. I remember that

team more than any other I’ve ever covered because of the promise it had — and the way that promise self-destructed.

The team started the season re-turning the entire backfield (with two 1,000-yard rushers) as well as a host of defensive starters. In some publications, they were ranked No.2 in the country — not just in Texas, but in the nation.

The team eventually ran into a juggernaut from Houston Stratford led by Craig James (of Pony Express fame and later a starting running back for several seasons with the New England Patriots). Nonethe-less, at year’s end, three members of the offensive backfield, an offen-sive lineman and a defensive back earned first-team All-State honors and were on everybody’s “gotta-have” list.

The out-of-state license plates be-came so numerous in town that two

new restaurants opened. Folks like Barry Switzer, Fred Akers, Emory Bellard, John Robinson, Bill Yeo-man and any number of coaches from smaller schools were seen shuttling around the high school. On National Signing Day, we had vans from all three television net-works in town (there were only three networks then, of course) to record the festivities.

I remember the personalities of each of the kids well.

The offensive tackle was huge (6-7, 285) by 1977 standards, and row-dy. He signed with the University of Texas. It’s reported that his first day on campus, he was approached by quarterback Donnie Little, who in-formed him that UT tradition called for freshmen to serve lunch to the seniors. His response was that “I don’t do (bleep) for (the N-word).”

He rnever played another down of football — but became intimately acquainted with the interior of the Jester Unit out in Brazoria County.

The quarterback, a flashy speed-ster, opted to sign with Oklahoma. After only a few days as a Sooner, he discovered that OU was tran-sitioning from the Wishbone to a pro-style offense — and that 5-foot-7 Wishbone quarterbacks would henceforth be wide rceivers.

He transferred to Eastern New

Mexico, where he played a few games but never again reached the notoriety he’d once enjoyed. He came home with absolutely no em-ployability skills, and last I heard he also got quite familiar with the Texas justice system.

The defensive back, who doubled as a running back and wide receiver, also signed with Oklahoma. He eventually earned a spot as a starter and was a pre-season All-American his senior year. The Oakland Raid-ers were said to be interested in him as a top-three pick.

He never played a down his se-nior season. I was told by the man who was the publisher of the paper I worked for that he’s serving a life sentence for rape in Oklahoma.

The running back was a junior that first year, and the second year carried the whole show on his back — rushing for more than 2,000 yards and earning a national letter of intent date with Texas A&M.

While touted nationally as one of the best high-school running backs in the country, he couldn’t even fill in the forms to be admitted to the school and never played a down as an Aggie. He wound up at a junior college, where he also flunked out. Later, like the others, wound up in prison.

The fullback was a big kid who

was admittedly not on the same tal-ent level as the others, and got a lot less publicity. He wound up signing with the University of Texas-Arling-ton. He played in about six games during his college career, carried the ball about four times, and never scored a touchdown.

He got a degree in engineering and is now living comfortably with his wife and kids in the Dallas area, a respected member of the commu-nity.

The movie Patton closes with a quote attributed to the great Ameri-can general that I wish we could have every high-school athlete in the nation learn by heart:

“For over a thousand years Ro-man conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the pro-cession came trumpeteers, musi-cians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and cap-tured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whis-pering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”

While national political talk shows are buzzing about moderator Candy Crowley’s behavior during the recent presidential de-bate, we don’t have to look far in south Texas to see examples of that type of journalistic bias.

Crowley clear jumped to President Obama’s defense when Mitt Romney pressed Obama on the Libyan terrorist attacks. She tried to explain herself after the debate, but her bias partisanship had been exposed.

Unfortunately, we have examples of such biased journalism in south Texas. Recently a San Antonio Express reporter was going to do a “hit piece” about a conservative group based on his legal interpretation of PAC laws. The reporter was defending liberal Mayor Julian Castro’s policies.

Although the reporter is not an attorney, and did he not have a full understanding of the law, he was ready to attack the conservative group. Luckily, after speaking to an attorney who is a PAC expert, the reporter decided to seek the advice of a law professor before writ-ing the story. It is amazing that he was going to do a critical story based on his legal assump-tions.

There are newspapers editors and report-ers in south Texas who refuse to recognize or even speak to conservatives. The owner/editor of one Valley newspaper told me he would not speak to Tea Party supporters because he felt they were “radicals and Neanderthals.” With that kind of attitude, how could local conser-vatives expect fair and balance coverage?

There also small newspapers that see them-selves as local versions of the New York Times or the Washington Post. They are too sophisti-cated for the local conservatives and either ig-nore them or contradict them without reason.

However, there are those newspapers that are fair. The Wilson County News has done a great job of reporting on a grass roots rebellion against the Floresville Mayor and city council. Mayor Tejeda has done everything from al-

leged racism, to enlist the support from U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar and the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NA-LEO) to counter the challenge to his liberal establishment.

However, the WCN has not backed off, and neither have the local Tea Party and their al-lies. The stories have always been fair and bal-anced, as the truth has been told.

The Seguin Gazette is another great exam-ple of a balanced newspaper. The Gazette runs a weekly side-by-side, liberal versus conserva-tive editorial page. The dueling opinion edito-rials give the public a fair and balanced view on the issues.

Yet another local newspaper that provides fair coverage to conservatives is the Gonzales Cannon which serves Gonzales and four sur-rounding counties. The newspaper’s editorial page provides a counter balance to local liberal news outlets.

Many reporters and editors have decided to support popular trends rather than report on the facts. It may be difficult for a reporter to cover a story in an unbiased manner, but that is their role. The challenge to editors is have a balance of opinions. There is no room for bias in the media, whether it is a large market like New York, or a small market like Wilson County.

President Barack Obama can’t even get his snark straight.

In an attempt at the cutting cleverness that escaped him during his first debate with Mitt Romney, his campaign aired a TV ad hitting the Republican for his alleged hostility to Big Bird. “Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about,” the ominous voice-over declares. “It’s ‘Sesame Street.’”

The problem with the widely panned spot is that it plays less like a spoof of Mitt Rom-ney than a parody of one of the Obama team’s own negative ads. It’s as dishonest, over the top and -- for lack of a better word -- stupid.

The president of the United States him-self -- the man who once pledged to elevate our politics and make the oceans recede -- has made Big Bird a recurring feature of his stump speeches. He also cites Elmo and Os-car as other characters who need to “watch out.” (The president apparently cares noth-ing about the fate of Mr. Snuffleupagus, who never rates a mention.)

Obama told an adoring throng at one of his events that Romney “said he’d bring down our deficit by going after what has been the biggest driver of our debt and deficits over the last decade -- public television, PBS.” On “Sesame Street,” they would tell you Obama’s statement is spelled U-N-T-R-U-E.

Stipulating “I love Big Bird,” Romney said he would stop the subsidy to PBS, not be-cause it is a big expenditure in the scheme of things, but because he doesn’t want to spend on unnecessary items we must “borrow money from China to pay for.”

Romney’s point is unremarkable. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets more than $400 million a year from the federal government. If this is an essential expenditure at a time of $1 trillion deficits and a $16 trillion debt, what is nonessen-tial?

Besides, if the line item for the Corpora-tion for Public Broadcasting were zeroed

out tomorrow, it wouldn’t ruffle a feather on Big Bird. On CNN, Sherrie Westin, ex-ecutive vice president of the Sesame Work-shop, cited all the organization’s private funding and declared that, even without government help, “’Sesame Street’ will be here.”

Someone should load that up in the president’s teleprompter so he’s sure to read it. Then, he might at least hesitate be-fore whipping up a crowd -- like the one in Cleveland recently -- into chants of “Save Big Bird!”

To the extent it isn’t purely cynical, the president’s “Sesame Street” offensive is an extreme example of the belief that civil so-ciety is all but helpless without the guidance and succor of government. As if private ac-tors can’t be trusted to keep a popular chil-dren’s program featuring iconic puppets on the air, or to preserve the “PBS NewsHour,” or to find a way to broadcast “Downton Abbey” in the United States.

What really boggles the mind, though, is that the president is touring the country a few weeks before a consequential national election talking about a fictional bird. To paraphrase Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings, “Have you no sense of self-respect, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of self-respect?”

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.(c) 2012 by King Features Synd., Inc.


2012 General ElectionFront Page of Ballot, Gonzales County Precincts 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 Front Page of Ballot, Gonzales County Precincts 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 14, 15

Back Page of Ballot, Gonzales County State Races Back Page of Ballot, Gonzales County Races

Precincts 1, 2 Precincts 3, 7 Precinct 8

Precincts 9, 11 Precinct 12Precincts 4, 6, 10, 13

Precinct 5 Precincts 14, 15

Where to Vote on Election Day — Gonzales CountyElection DayElection Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. County precincts and locations include:• Precinct 1: Gonzales County Courthouse, 414 St. Joseph St. in Gonzales;• Precinct 2: American Legion Hall, 1512 Robertson St. Gonzales; • Precinct 3: Gonzales City Building, 820 St. Joseph, Gonzales;• Precincts 4 and 6: Gonzales County Nixon Annex, 603 E. Central Ave., Nixon;• Precinct 5: Belmont Community Center (Methodist Church), 14335 Hwy 90A, Bel-

mont;• Precinct 7: Texas Elks Children’s Services (Elks Hospital), 1963 FM 1586, Ottine;• Precinct 8: Harwood Community Center, 101 CR 230N, Harwood; • Precinct 9: Waelder Community Center, 311 Hwy 90W, Waelder*;• Precinct 10: Smiley Fire Station, Smiley*;• Precinct 11: Peach Valley Youth Camp, 581 CR 537, Gonzales;• Precinct 12: JB Wells Park, Multi-Purpose facility Show Barn, 2301 CR 197, Gon-

zales;• Precinct 13: Leesville Cemetery Association, 6077 CR 155, Leesville;• Precinct 14: Cheapside Community Center, 18 CR 297A, Cheapside• Precinct 15: Guadalupe Valley Telephone Co-Op, 67 FM 466S, Cost.

(Details on County races

at right, by Precinct)


Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

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

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

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

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

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

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

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

Christian

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

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

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

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

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

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

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Method-ist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

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

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

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

Emmanuel Fellowship

1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

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

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

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

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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

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Oh my goodness, the Apache football spirit and the Apache Band spirit is running high and off the charts. After the football team won the game against Giddings, the band went to Giddings and placed a One in their division and they are on to Waxahachie for competition there. Thank goodness they drew place 8, which means they only have to leave at 5AM---if they would have drawn a one they would have had to leave after the game with Yoakum.

Mr. Boucher is making plans and arrangements now as to when they will leave in the wee hours of early Saturday AM and get on a chartered bus. You will need pillows, blankets, and some food. Also some spending money and lots of energy. We pray for your safety, and may God go with you, and good luck in this competition. Go Gon-zales Apache Marching Band!!!

The Pumpkin patch is officially open at the Mon-thalia UMC around 9:30 AM in the morning. Come out, buy a pumpkin, and take a picture.

On October 28, at the BUMC the young ones and the young at heart can wear their costumes to church.

We are having a pot luck supper at the Belmont Community Center with a bake sale to go along with it. This event is slated for November 11th, at 6pm and you are asked to make donations to the commu-nity center to help with the renovations. If you would just like to give a donation send it to Belmont Com-munity Center % Shari Lee; P. O. Box 947, Belmont, TX 78604. This means two dishes per person or two big dishes per family like main dishes (meat) and vegetables and salad, along with dessert.

As a bonus, November 11th is Veteran’s Day. Also at BUMC there will be a pastor swap, a Pastor R. C. Waddle.

Belmont United Meth-odist Church is having an-other Live Nativity Scene this year. This takes place on December 23rd at 6PM.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Justin Klosel, Joe Kot-wig, Paul Villareal, Glenn Malatek, Mr. Bill, Jesse Esparza; Bill and Marie Lott, “Sarge” Dunkin; Lou-ise Jones, Aunt Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Velma and Bobby Bullard; Mildred O’Neal, Pastor Lundy Hoo-ten, Aunt Frances Gandre, Glenn Mikesh; Maria Cas-tillo, Selma Vickers, Lan-dis, Gene Robinson, Keith Glass, Timothy and Jack Black, Teresa Wilke, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Betty Gan-dre, Linda Nesloney, Ma-rie Schauer, Esther Linde-mann, Anna Lindemann, Tony Black, Noreen Soefje, Mandy and Wm. (Ressie) Brietschopf, Lanny Baker, Flo, Lucy Jones, Ann Bond; Case Martin, Marguerite Williams, Shirley Dozier, Our sympathy to the Fam-ily of Norman Wundt and Dorothy Cardwell; Pray for our service men and women, and thank God for the previous rains, but we could use a little rain by now.

Pastor Lundy Hooten is in the Methodist Heart Hospital in San Antonio. Pastor Lundy was to have had at least one bypass done today (Monday).

We wish a belated Happy Birthday to Shari Lee who ran off to somewhere spe-cial, and a Happy Birthday to our dear friend, Ken-neth Vickers; Kenneth has always been able to keep up with Will and his birth-days a lot better than Will has been able to keep up with Kenneth’s birthday. However, Will did actu-ally try to chase Kenneth down at church yesterday but he was moving too fast. Kenneth went to visit his mother, Selma Vickers, yesterday after church and she told him that he was 51 years old. It’s no won-der Will could not catch up with him at that young age.

Belmont lost one of its oldest members of the community this past week. Norman Wundt passed away. Many of you only knew him as “Pop” Wun-dt. He was such a stalwart character with those ha-zel-blue eyes that took the world before him with one sweep of the room. I loved visiting in their home when I was growing up as a kid. I

remember the dinner table best. Pop was at one end, and Martha was forever at the sink getting ready to sit down. All the kids and their visitors were in be-tween. Martha would start to say something about “you start settling down” and Pop would go “Hrrp” and things would be very quiet. Pop was always do-ing something construc-tive. He was cataloging his records, writing down memories, planting fruits trees in his orchard—even in the last few years; sorting out pecan pieces at the Bel-mont Pecan House while he played polka and big band music so loud that no one else could hear; you get the idea. Pop loved life and he loved people. If most of us could have a wish, it would to be able to live as full a life as he did, to be as active as he did and to have the good mental capacity that he did for most of those 98 years. It is an understatement to say that he will be missed by his family and friends, as well as the community in general.

Then Ellen Wun-dt’s mother, Dorothy Cardwell, passed away Monday morning at The Heights in Gonzales. She was such a sweet and lovely, most proper lady. She was a member of the Nixon United Methodist Church for 68 years and gave freely of her musi-cal talents playing for her church family. You could find her at the Belmont Pecan Co. helping check out customers giving each of them her undivided at-tention. She helped out her children whenever and wherever she could. They gave her all the love that they could give her and all of the comforts. Visitation for Mrs. Doro-thy will be from 5 to 8 PM Wed. at Finch Funeral Chapel in Nixon. Funeral Services will be at 2PM on Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Nixon with burial in Nixon. Fellowship will be afterwards at the Richard-son Center. Mrs. Dorothy woke up a couple of days ago and said “I want ev-erybody to wear purple to my funeral.” So her daughter Ellen requests that—If you have a pur-ple garment or accessory, wear it for Mom even if you are not able to attend the services. Oh yes, I think we can do that.

You know I believe if I explained it just right I could get Twerpt to wear a purple bow just for a little while on Thursday. I think that she is intelligent enough to understand that we need to honor someone who was very special.

Have a good week and God Bless.


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From Right to Left: Sue Breuer, Phyllis Noonan, President; Shirley Spoon, Vice President; Barbara Houde, Recording Secretary; Lois Armor, Treasurer; Carol Du-Bose, Historian.

Texas Federation of Music Clubs District VI representatives met Oct. 20 hosted by the Etude Music Club, at Colonial Hills United Method-ist Church Fellowship Hall in San Antonio with persons from Gonzales, New Braunfels, Austin and San Antonio Music Clubs participating.

Pres. Armor called upon Herb Karnau who led the Federation Hymn, accompanied at the pia-no by Carol DuBose. The agenda included officer reports and hearing the interesting plans each club has for the 2012-13 Club year.

Treasurer Herb Karnau reported almost 600 en-trants in the Dist. VI Mu-sic Festival held in Feb-ruary 2012 and reminded teachers the registration fee is now $16.00 per en-trant and event. Dues to the District VI Treasury is $15 per club, needed presently.

Pres. Lois Armor an-nounced the 2013 Festi-val will be February 23rd to be held in the Music Building of Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas with Mary Thoma-son of the Etude Music club as Festival Director. Mr. Karnau also reported donations were made to Arkansas’ Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony (IPFAC) and to Texas’ Round Top International Festival Institute.

Sue Breuer who is Na-tional Federation of Mu-sic Club Historian, urged Clubs to build and main-tain good community re-lations by getting out the news of Club activities. She also urged Clubs to preserve evidence of mu-sic culture activities in news reports and store these in the various lo-cal archival libraries. Historian Carol DuBose was displaying the Dis-trict VI Achievement Record at the meeting. Mrs. Breuer reported al-most $750,000 was given

in scholarships nation-wide to all ages of youth and young adults who have excelled in music. A doctoral studies stu-dent is presently search-ing through NFMC re-cords in Indiana dating from the 1890s, at the NFMC Headquarters, in preparation for writing her doctoral thesis. Pres. Armor reported Festival Director Mary Thoma-son will be needing vol-unteers to help with the coming activities of the 2013 Music Festival.

Each of the four Club Presidents reported high-lights of their club year studies providing ideas to others who listened. Pres. Barbara Houde of the New Braunfels Club reported they will be celebrating its 80th year and Pres. Maxine Gomes of the Wednesday Morn-ing Music Club or Austin noted they will be cel-ebrating its 90th year! Each Club gives scholar-ships to young person’s studying music and the Austin Club also gives donations to Young Art-ists who are musicians with instruments and/or vocal talent. Gonzales Club Pres. Shirley Spoon and Etude Club Pres. Cookie Nattinger each reported much varied activities of their clubs including programs with poetry reading and Hand Bell music.

The musical interlude among the business was delightful with vocal so-los by soprano Margery Hamm singing George Gershwin’s Someone To Watch Over Me, and Mary Eck accompanying at the piano; Mary Eck’s piano solo of George Gershwin’s

The Man I Love and Ginger McKay’s mezzo soprano and piano solo of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s All I Ask Of You. Then we heard po-etry read with dramatics; the James Whitcomb Riley Hoosier area poem Little Orphan Annie was spoken with flair by Marque McK-ay. All the above ladies are members of the hosting Etude Music Club.

Wednesday Morning Club President Maxine Gomes conducted a me-morial service honoring Vivian Mansell, longtime member of the Austin Club.

After singing together the Wesleyan Grace invo-cation, we all enjoyed the lavish table of club sand-wiches, salads, desserts and cookies served with our choice of drinks from the long table laid and ac-cented with the brilliance of a fall setting.

Pres. Armor then called upon Sue Breuer who graciously con-ducted the installation Service of incoming of-ficers of TFMC District VI, briefly mentioning the purpose of District VI offices: She declared the following: Presi-dent Phyllis Noonan, Vice President Shirley Spoon, Recording Sec-retary Barbara Houde, Treasurer Lois Armor, Corresponding Secretary Virginia Kniesner, His-torian Carol Dubose and Parliamentarian Lois Ar-mor duly installed for the 2013-15 term of office. Credentials and Resolu-tions were reported and the meeting adjourned after all joined to sing The Gift Of Song, led by Shirley Spoon and ac-companied by Mary Eck.

By CAROL DUBOSE

Special to The Cannon


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Gonzales Finest “Cooter” as the best fire fighter — Posted by Michelle Stephens

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Obituaries

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Weldon “Shorty” Pullin,

1925-2012

PULLINGod must have needed

another Cowboy in Heav-en, to ride those wide open spaces and lush green pas-tures. He called Shorty to his Eternal Home on Sunday, October 21 at the age of 87. The day the Dal-las Cowboys won by one point; he was a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys.

Weldon “Shorty” Pul-lin was born to Allen Ju-lius Pullin and Willie Mae Caraway Pullin on April 9, 1925 in Dewville, Gonza-les County. “Shorty” mar-ried Thelma Lorene Burton on May 8, 1943 in Seguin before joining the Army, where he honorably served his country in the Philip-pines.

“Shorty” worked at the Cotton Gin and GVEC, be-fore he and his wife started their own dairy, which they operated for four years. When getting up at 4 a.m. to milk the cows was short-lived for “Shorty” and Lorene, they raised chick-ens for Checkerboard and Boothe Farms. “Shorty” worked cattle for various individuals in and around Gonzales County for many years.

“Shorty” and Lorene en-joyed playing baseball at gatherings and with fam-ily and friends. He liked to joke about how Lorene would have to hit a home run to make it to second base. “Shorty” inherited the love of roping calves at a very young age from his daddy. He then passed on the love of the sport to his son, his grandson and great grandson and many others.

Later in life, he and Lorene enjoyed spending time traveling to various rodeos and other places with their great grandson, Weslee, even attending Cheyenne Frontier Days, the “Daddy” of them all.

“Shorty” was preceded in death by his parents, wife Lorene, brothers and sis-ters, Jewell Ogdon, Clyde, Loyal, Jake, and Delton Pullin, and his great grand-son Weslee Andrew Pullin.

“Shorty” is survived by his son, Richard Pullin of Cost; grandson, James Pullin and wife Charlene of Mexia; granddaughter, Pam and husband Mike Castro of Cost; great-granddaughter, Naice Steines and husband Shaun of Killeen; and great-great granddaughters, Sumer El-more of Mexia and Isabella Steines of Florida.

Funeral will be Thursday, Oct. 25 at 10 a.m. in Sey-dler Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales, with Pastor Ken Callaway officiating. In-terment will follow in the Wrightsboro Cemetery in Wrightsboro.

Pallbearers are James Pullin, Mike Castro, Karl Pullin, Keith Pullin, Ed-ward Ogden, Cody Kidd. Honorary pallbearers in-clude Ray Ogden, Ronald Ogden, Dickie Lovering, Ronnie Behlen, Cass Rath-mann, Raegen Tieken, and Rylan Tieken.

In lieu of flowers, memo-rials may be made to the Wrightsboro Cemetery in Wrightsboro. Services are under the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Virginia Riojas, 1920-2012

RIOJASVirginia Morales Rio-

jas, age 92, passed away Thursday, October 18. She was born March 19, 1920 in Belton City to the late Timoteo and Guadalupe DeLeon Morales. She was a member Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

She is survived by her daughters, Hilaria Zamora of Gonzales, Hope Ceja of California, Anita Rio-jas, Delia Zamora, Rafela Sepulveda, Janie Rodri-guez, Rosemary Alma-guer, and Mary Cantu, all of Gonzales; sons, Fabian Riojas and Frank Riojas, both of Gonzales; numer-ous grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren; and sister-in-law, Susie Riojas.

Virginia was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Inocencio Riojas; daughter, Sandra Flores; sons, Ben Riojas, Alfred

Riojas, and David Riojas; and her brother, Frank Morales.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday, October 21 and the Rosary will be held 7 p.m. Sunday at Buffing-ton Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Monday, Oc-tober 22 at St. James Catho-lic Church, with the Rev. Paul Raaz officiating. Buri-al will follow at St. James Catholic Cemetery. Serv-ing as pallbearers will be her grandsons: Ben Riojas Jr., Herman Zamora, Mike Ramirez, Frankie Lee Rio-jas, Ino Sepulveda, Chris Rodriguez, Jonathan Al-maguer, Samuel Cantu, and Ronnie Flores.

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

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Norman Albert Wundt,

1914-2012

WUNDTNorman Albert Wundt,

98 from Belmont, passed away Wednesday, October 17. He was born January 14, 1914 in Robstown to William Julius Wundt and Meta Kolterman Wundt.

Norman married Martha Marie Burell on December 21, 1938 in George West. He was a member of the Belmont United Methodist Church.

Norman became well-acquainted with hard work as a young man. He had worked as a roughneck on south Texas drilling rigs and later gained employ-ment at a cotton gin. While working, he played baseball for the Plymouth Oilers of the South Texas Baseball League. He was a success-ful pitcher for the team and had many fond memories of the game and the people he met along the way.

He had also played the violin in his father’s band and learned to appreciate the Big Band sounds of that era. At the age of 24, he married his sweetheart, Martha Burell, and they purchased a dairy farm

near Orange Grove. After a few years, he

moved his dairy operation to Taft and built this opera-tion into the second larg-est milk producing farm in south Texas. It is important to note; in those days there were no milking machines, cows had to be milked by hand and the milk then de-livered for processing at the end of the day and the same process repeated everyday.

In 1953, Norman moved his family to Belmont and they made their home on a ranch on the beautiful Guadalupe River. He be-came active in the com-munity of Belmont, where he served as one of the founders of the Belmont Civic Association and had served as President of the association. He was instru-mental in building the Bel-mont Community Center and was very active in his church, where he had built the altar and the church pulpit with his own hands that are still in use today.

After their children had grown, Norman and Mar-tha purchased a home in Austin. Norman obtained his real estate broker’s li-cense and went to work as a real estate agent and bro-ker in Austin while Martha went to work as a florist. In time, they purchased a RV and traveled together all across the United States, delighting in taking their children and grandchildren with them. The Big Bend area was Norman’s favorite, a country wild and wide open, much like what the pioneers and early settlers had to traverse seeking a place to call home.

Martha was later diag-nosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Norman stayed by her side, loving and loyal to the end as Martha passed away just two hours af-ter their 60th anniversary. So many sweet memories filled Norman’s heart upon this passing, memories that recalled how he boldly in-troduced himself to Mar-tha at a dance and won her heart on the dance floor, memories of raising five wonderful children to-gether in homes filled with love and the scenic beauty they witnessed of the natu-ral world as they traveled through life together.

Norman Albert Wundt was a loyal, honest, robust and hardworking man. He believed in treating all people fairly and would not tolerate prejudices. He instilled these qualities into his children and certainly they are a reflection of their father’s values. He freely

gave of his time to those who needed him. He loved his garden and enjoyed writing as he committed memories of his life to vol-umes of paper. Certainly as he now dances through the golden streets of Heaven with his loving wife Mar-tha, God is smiling and welcoming his good and faithful servant home.

He is survived by his daughters and sons-in-law, Karen Janet and Alvin Cook, Evelyn Lucille and Dennis Engblom, all of Austin; sons and daughter-in-law, Warren William Wundt of Seguin and James Avery and Ellen Wundt of Belmont; his brother, Marvin Julius Wundt of San Marcos; grandchil-dren, Sherri Escalante, Gina Blackstone, Douglas Cook, Charles Wundt, Vic-tor Engblom, Angie De-

cou, Shelby Scharen and Kyle Wundt; and 11 great-grandchildren. He was pre-ceded in death by his wife, parents and a son, Allen Wayne Wundt.

Funeral services were held Saturday, October 20 in the Belmont United Methodist Church with Pastor Paul Smith officiat-ing. Interment will follow in the Belmont Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Dale Burell, Marcos Burell, Per-ry Winegeart, John Henry Burell, Mike Bond, Rich-ard Goss, Royce Towns, Jr., and Martin Garcia. Hon-orary pallbearers were Pat Romike, Tom Kolterman and Richard Kolterman.

Memorials may be made to the Belmont United Methodist Church. Ser-vices were under the care and direction of O’Bannon Funeral Home, Luling, TX.

Hospital Auxiliary NewsFive members of the

Auxiliary of Memorial Hospital attended the Texas Association of Healthcare Volunteers (TAHV) Dis-trict 3 Conference in Victo-ria on October 22.

Sixteen hospitals were represented by 128 auxil-iary members, six TAHV state officers, six DVS Co-ordinators, two hospital ad-ministrators, and two visi-tors. Our motto is “Angels With Hidden Wings”.

The morning program was on Dyslexia Aware-ness presented by Brenda Billstein, Principal Dewitt-

Lavaca Special Education Cooperative. Most children not diagnosed by third grade often never receive the help they need to learn to read and write, and are often behavior problems.

The afternoon program was Human Therapy pre-sented by Marion Peitz, Humor Therapist.

Peitz stated that stress is caused by our thoughts and how we react to situations. She told stories and had all of us to be involved in her cheers and jokes. It was a very funny and uplifting presentation enjoyed by all.

The Gonzales Learning and Career Center is excited to offer our friends and neighbors the chance to show off their pets - in costumes!

On Saturday, October 27, the GLCC will be hosting a pet parade and contests at the Brickyard Pavilion in Independence Park near downtown Gonzales Contest registration will start at 11:30. There will be a $10 entry fee per contest, which will be for 1) Best Pet Costume; 2) Closest Pet/Owner Lookalike; 3) Most Unusual Pet and 4) Best Pet Trick.

The FREE event will start

at noon. Contest judging will immediately follow. A photographer will be on hand to photograph pets, with or without their owners. 5 x 7” photographs can be ordered, also for $10. What if you don’t have a pet - or could use just one more? The Gonzales Dog Adoptions folks will be showing off local shelter pets, too! Proceeds will benefit the Gonzales Learning and Career Center’s GED and English as a Second Language classes and Gonzales Dog Adoptions. Call 830 672-8291 for more info.

Pet Paradeset Saturday

Gonzales City Manager Allen Barnes announced Tuesday that Kristina Vega, Administrative As-sistant to the City Manag-er, has been named as the new City Secretary for the City of Gonzales.

Vega has been employed by the City since April. She is a native of Gonzales and a graduate of Gonzales High School.

“Kristina has proved herself to be a valuable asset to the City,” Barnes said. “Since April, she has worked very effectively

with Citizens, Council, and Staff.

“She has been perform-ing many of the functions of City Secretary for the last several weeks and has done an outstanding job,” he continued. “We inter-viewed three applicants from a pool of 15 and Kris-tina was head and shoul-ders above the others in-cluding a couple of people with experience as City Secretary.”

Vega will officially begin her new duties on Monday, Oct. 29.

Vega namedcity secretary


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First Place, Chicken — Pit Talkers Second Place, Chicken — Bebe Boys, Joe Kotwig

Showmanship winner —Butt Burners Seniors

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Cowboys participating in Saturday’s Ranch Rodeo were proud to show their pink in support of breast cancer awareness.

Keeping those wild hogs penned up is important, and Trason Gordon is becoming an expert at closing gates.

Katrina Suire and Katheren Rawls were busy Saturday selling tasty chili cheese fries to help the Junior Class raise money for Prom

Some dogs herd cattle the old-fashioned way; others prefer to ride!

Officer Garcia claims he can convince kids to do almost anything goofy— such as trying to lick your elbow for the camera.

Jesse Raper of Gonzales’ Sunset Hill Cookers tends his brisket — which, after sampling, we agree was a prize-winner

Just because you’re busy with a cookoff doesn’t mean you can’t re-create your “man cave” to listen to the game on the radio, as proven by Gabe Casas of the Los Amigos team from New Braunfels. The colors are presented to start Saturday’s Ranch Rodeo

Photos by Dave Mundy

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SHINER — Hair-styles and fashions have changed considerably since 1982. And while Beran’s Agri-Center & Western Wear has changed to keep up with the times, one constant remains: a history of family involvement.

Beran’s is celebrating 30 years in business this month in Shiner, but the Beran family can claim more than a century of service as one of the leading agribusiness ser-vice operation in Lavaca County.

Brian and Julia Beran bought Beran’s Gin, Mill & Feed Company in 1978

from Brian’s uncle, mak-ing Brian the fourth gen-eration of the family to run the business.

“Brian and I got mar-ried in 1975 and he was planning to attend phar-macy school, but his un-cle got sick and wanted to sell,” says Julia.

In early 1982, the Be-rans were approached by Purina Feeds and asked if they would be inter-ested in expanding their dealership. Julia’s father, Wayne Horton, agreed to become the branch manager and the deci-sion was made to locate a second store in Shiner.

Construction began

in June 1992 on a prop-erty purchased from Ju-lius Zissa on the edge of Shiner on Hwy 90A.

“We’d looked at some properties in Shiner it-self,” Julia recalls. “Mr. Zissa sold us a corner of his cornfield.”

With the help of Julia’s mother and brother, Dor-othy Horton and Wayne ‘Chip’ Horton, Jr, they opened the doors mid to late September and held their Grand Opening at the end of October. Be-ran’s Agri-Center start-ed out as a Purina Feed store but also carried farm and ranch supplies along with some garden

products.In 1984, with the de-

mand for work clothes, they added Wrangler brand jeans and denim shirts. Shortly after came a line of boots – Bona-Allen. The busi-ness continued growing and in 1987 made the transition from “just a feed store” began with the installation of carpet and linoleum to cover the cement floor of the ‘feed store’. They were then officially a feed AND western wear store.

As business continued to grow, so did their in-ventory. Red Wing and Justin boots were the next addition, followed by Resistol hats, belts, men’s dress shirt, kids’ and ladies’ clothing and Carhartt jackets.

On May 29, 1992, Beran’s sold their first Texas Lottery ticket at 6 a.m., along with all the other new lottery retail-ers in Texas. They still sell lottery tickets today.

In 1997 additional showroom area, where the boots and hats are currently displayed, was created by closing in part of the existing ware-house. This also allowed them to expand their line of ‘work’ clothing. They recently added flame resistant clothing in re-sponse to the local oil boom. Other new lines were eventually added including Ariat boots and jeans, Cinch jeans, Case knives and Hooey caps, among others.

In 2003, a point-of-sale (POS) system was installed. Up until that time, all tickets were hand-written. This made check-out slow and the information was minimal. The POS sys-tem enables Beran’s to collect a wealth of infor-mation and even help a customer, or someone shopping for a gift for a particular customer, find the size and style that

individual wears. This significantly reduced the amount of returns seen at the store.

Julia had been work-ing full-time in Shiner up until about a year ago when she transitioned to the Moulton store to help her husband there. This gave them the perfect opportunity to install a POS system like the one in Shiner at that location as well. Accomplishing this turned out to be a full-time job. She is still there overseeing the day-to-day operations and training new employees on the system. Julia only helps in Shiner part-time currently, but her daugh-ter, Brandy, is there to help while she is away.

Brandy grew up in the business but left to at-tend college at UT in Austin. She worked in Real Estate and Graphic Design there after grad-uation but decided she was ready to come back home in 2010 to help with the family busi-ness. Her background in Communications made her the perfect candidate to be in charge of the computer system, ad-vertising and marketing,

as well as personnel and customer relations. And she is now happy to be living in Shiner.

The most familiar face at Beran’s is that of Kris-tine Villarreal. She has been an integral part of Beran’s for over 12 years now. Along with sales and customer service, she is in charge of pur-chasing and inventory control for the store. She is like one of the family and a lot of patrons even think she is.

The newest face is Karac Wolting. He has worked there for a little over a year now. He started out loading feed but now manages the warehouse and has slow-ly taken on new duties in the office as well, includ-ing purchasing, order entry and sales.

The faces may change over the years but Beran’s will always be the same. They are proud to be a part of the Shiner com-munity and would like to thank everyone who has helped to make these 30 years a reality. They appreciate your business and hope they can con-tinue to serve you in the future

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Recent well location reports from the Texas Railroad Commission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-32893Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resources O and

G Co. LPLease Name: Martinez Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.5 miles NW. of

YoakumSurvey Name: W.D. Saunders, A-423Acres: 248.49

API No.: 42-123-32898Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating Com-

panyLease Name: Hamilton AWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 5.42 miles SE. of

WesthoffSurvey Name: W. Simpson, A-431Acres: 501.99











panyLease Name: D. Warzecha AWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 5.42 miles SE. of









panyLease Name: Kickendahl Unit 1

Well No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.61 miles SE. of



panyLease Name: Kickendahl Unit 1Well No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.61 miles SE. of



panyLease Name: Kickendahl Unit 1Well No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.6 miles SE. of



panyLease Name: Oehlke AWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.83 miles SE. of




WesthoffSurvey Name: W. Simpson, A-431

Acres: 500.59





panyLease Name: Blackwell AWell No.: 8HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.84 miles SE. of








Gonzales County

API No.: 42-177-32712Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: McCollum AWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 9.3 miles SE. of

SmileySurvey Name: J. Baker, A-535Acres: 404.36

API No.: 42-177-32727Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Boysen UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 0.1 mile SW. of

SampleSurvey Name: W.C. Jones, A-289Acres: 583.34

API No.: 42-177-32732Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Spahn Farms UnitWell No.: 7HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 12.1 miles SE. of

CostSurvey Name: M. Cogswell, A-144Acres: 709.30

API No.: 42-177-32724Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: H.F.S.Well No.: 10HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 10.2 miles SE. of

CostSurvey Name: J. Oethkin, A-369Acres: 1,259.61


Cost

Survey Name: W.W. Pace, A-373Acres: 1,259.61


CostSurvey Name: W.W. Pace, A-373Acres: 1,259.61

API No.: 42-177-32733Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Hansen Kullin UnitWell No.: 9HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 11.9 miles SE. of

CostSurvey Name: O. Von Roeder, A-462Acres: 640

API No.: 42-177-32728Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Hunt Oil CompanyLease Name: JP Ranch FWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 18,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8 miles SE. of

GonzalesSurvey Name: F. Taylor, A-71Acres: 400

API No.: 42-177-31056Classification: Fld. Dev. and Re-EntryOperator: Tri-Force Exploration LLCLease Name: ChristianWell No.: 4RField Name: Christian (6800)Total Depth: 6,850 feetDirection and Miles: 1 mile W. of Gon-

zalesSurvey Name: Town of Gonzales, A-25Acres: 995.03

API No.: 42-177-32731Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Barnhart (EF)Well No.: 25HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 16,200 feetDirection and Miles: 17.5 miles SW. of

GonzalesSurvey Name: G. McConnell, A-354Acres: 9,013.84

API No.: 42-177-32730Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Barnhart (EF)Well No.: 23HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 16,000 feetDirection and Miles: 17.5 miles SW. of

GonzalesSurvey Name: G. McConnell, A-354Acres: 9,013.84

Lavaca County

API No.: 42-285-33671Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Alta Mesa Services LPLease Name: SugarberryWell No.: 1Field Name: ConquistadorTotal Depth: 11,100 feetDirection and Miles: 8.1 miles SE. of

HallettsvilleSurvey Name: J. Malone, A-314Acres: 313.83

API No.: 42-285-33670Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: NFR Energy LLCLease Name: Olsovsky UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 13,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.8 miles NE. of

MoultonSurvey Name: W. Daniels, A-11Acres: 678.18

Recent oil and gas completions ac-cording to reports from the Texas Rail-road Commission

DeWitt County


G Co. LPLease Name: Burge Unit BWell No.: 1

Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: F. Fassett, Section 22,

A-707Direction and Miles: 6.7 miles NW. of

YorktownOil: 533MCF: 1,236Choke Size: 10/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,817Total Depth: 18,960 feetPerforations: 13,712-18,796 feet


G Co. LPLease Name: Ruckman RanchWell No.: 6Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: J. Powel, A-658Direction and Miles: 2.6 miles SE. of

EcletoOil: 760MCF: 448Choke Size: 10/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,000Total Depth: 16,535 feetPerforations: 12,622-16,327 feet


G Co. LPLease Name: Warm Springs Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: A.J. Harris, A-220Direction and Miles: 3.6 miles SE. of

EcletoOil: 1,242MCF: 1,988Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 4,823Total Depth: 17,290 feetPerforations: 12,907-17,061 feet

API No.: 42-123-32565Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Sandy AWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: T. Mancha, A-326Direction and Miles: 10.23 miles NW.

of YorktownOil: 956MCF: 1,735Choke Size: 11/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 6,641Total Depth: 18,480 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,426 feetPerforations: 12,949-18,370 feet

Gonzales County

API No.: 42-177-32497Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Hunt Oil CompanyLease Name: Cinco Ranch DWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: T.P. Fowle, A-211Direction and Miles: 8.4 miles SE. of

GonzalesOil: 548MCF: 126Choke Size: 11/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,183Total Depth: 15,243 feetPerforations: 10,116-14,496 feet

API No.: 42-177-32516Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Hunt Oil CompanyLease Name: Cinco Ranch HWell No.: 8HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: B.D. McClure, A-41Direction and Miles: 8.4 miles SE. of

GonzalesOil: 538MCF: 208Choke Size: 17/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 880Total Depth: 14,859 feetPerforations: 10,462-14,782 feet

Lavaca County

API No.: 42-285-33628Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Eagle Ford Hunter Resources

Inc.Lease Name: Moose HunterWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: W. Chase, A-9Direction and Miles: 2.3 miles SW. of

MoultonOil: 1,682MCF: 801Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,100Total Depth: 17,085 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,891 feetPerforations: 11,358-16,838 feet

API No.: 42-285-33658Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas

LPLease Name: Smith UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: H. Russell, A-376Direction and Miles: 3.43 miles SW. of

MoultonOil: 730MCF: 1,278Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,498Total Depth: 16,571 feetPerforations: 12,086-16,545 feet


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Wednesday, November 7, 2012Lutheran Fellowship Hall, Gonzales

(1206 N. St. Joseph, Gonzales)

Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. Programs begins at 8:30 a.m.Breakfast tacos, coffee and water will be provided and Lunch.

3 CEU’s givenTopics - Highway Safety, etc.; Feral hog update;

Rainwater harvesting; livestock & wildlife

There will be a $10.00 per person registration fee.

Please RSVP to the Farm Bureau office at 830-672-7518

by Monday, Nov. 5th, 2012. Seating is limited.

Area Livestock ReportsGonzales LivestockMarket ReportThe Gonzales Livestock Market Report for Saturday, October 20, 2012

had on hand: 1,146 cattle.Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady to $1 high-

er. Packer cows sold steady.Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs.,

$235-$275; 300-400 lbs, $210-$225; 400-500 lbs, $155-$195; 500-600 lbs, $144-$153; 600-700 lbs., $137-$142; 700-800 lbs, $132-$135.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $95-$111.Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs,

$175-$210; 300-400 lbs, $145-$170; 400-500 lbs, $138-$152; 500-600 lbs., $122-$135; 600-700 lbs., $122-$126.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $70-$75; Cutters, $74-$85.50; Canners, $58-$68; Low yielding fat cows, $67-$71.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $91-$96.50; light weights and medium quality bulls, $83-$87.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,150.Pairs: $1,050-$1,250.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.com!

Nixon LivestockCommission ReportThe Nixon Livestock Commission Inc. report had on hand, October

22, 2012, Volume, 935; Sheep & Goats, 9.Steers: 200-300 lbs, $189 to $199 to $255; 300-400 lbs., $170 to $180

to $228; 400-500 lbs, $151 to $161 to $200; 500-600 lbs, $138 to $148 to $171; 600-700 lbs, $121 to $131 to $157; 700-800 lbs, $110 to $120 to $138.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $158 to $168 to $220; 300-400 lbs, $152 to $162to $213; 400-500 lbs, $132 to $142 to $215; 500-600 lbs, $121 to $131 to $215; 600-700 lbs, $112 to $122 to $155; 700-800 lbs, $105 to $115 to $124.

Slaughter cows: $60 to $82; Slaughter bulls: $80 to $95; Stocker cows: $750 to $1,100; Pairs, 1 pr., $1,350.

Cuero Livestock Market Report

Cuero Livestock Market Report on October 19, 2012, had 1,613 head.Had 268 cows and 15 bulls. The packer market continued to be steady

with last few weeks. The fat cow market was a little weaker with every-thing else steady. Packer bulls were higher. The Stocker cows and pair market was really high on the consignment here this week with bred cows as high as $1,240 and pairs up to $1,900.

The calf market was much higher than even last week’s up market. Lighter thin calves were much higher. Thinner $5 to $7 weight steers up to $10 higher while others were up at least $2-$3/cwt. There were no holes in the market as the market was extremely active with lots of inter-est from buyers. Just a good solid day.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $87-$95; lower grades, $75-$84.Packer cows: breakers, $68-$75; boning, $70-$76; canners & cutters,

$65-$78.50; light & weak, $40-$55.Palpated dry Cows by the head, $900-$1,240.Pairs: $1,380-$1,900.Steer and bull calves: under 200 lbs, none; 200-250 lbs, $200-$222.50;

250-300 lbs, $195-$220; 300-350 lbs, $186-$210; 350-400 lbs, $179-$219; 400-450 lbs, $192-$204; 450-500 lbs, $155-$183; 500-600 lbs, $150-$170; 550-600 lbs, $142-$152; 600-700 lbs, $143-$148; 700-800 lbs, $119-$129.

Over 700 lbs. bulls, $114-$127.Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs., one, $205; 200-250 lbs. ONLY 4, $182-

$185; 250-300 lbs, $170-$182; 300-350 lbs, $172-$196; 350-400 lbs, $144-$160; 400-450 lbs, $141-$182; 450-500 lbs, $139-$164.50; 500-550 lbs, $131-$137; 550-600 lbs, $126-$133; 600-700 lbs., $122-$130.50; over 700 lbs, $117-$124.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission ReportThe Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on Oc-

tober 16, 2012, 1,636; Week ago, 2,053; Year ago, 1,912The market this week was $2 to $3 higher in most areas with light

weights. $4 to $6 higher. Demand very good on all better quality classes. Wheat and oat grazing demand very good.

Packer cows and bulls sold $1 to $2 higher on approx. 160 hd. Total.Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $73-$84.50; lower

dressing utility & cutter cows, $62-$73; light weight canner cows, $51-$62.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $93-$98.50; utility & cutter bulls, $87-$93; lightweight canner bulls, $78-$87.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200; None; 200-300 lbs, $210-$245; 300-400 lbs, $187-$222.50; 400-500 lbs, $155-$205; 500-600lbs, $131-$172.50; 600-700 lbs, $126-$146; 700-800 lbs, $121-$133. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, None; 200-300 lbs, $185-$225; 300-400 lbs, $160-$193; 400-500 lbs, $140-$178; 500-600 lbs, $122-$144; 600-700 lbs, $119-$128; 700-800 lbs, $113-$123.

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

COLLEGE STATION – Livestock producers are certainly more optimistic this fall than last year, but generally they remain ex-tremely cautious when it comes to rebuilding herds and holding onto forage stocks, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service beef expert.

“There is more optimism, but at the same time they’re very cautious right now be-cause they’re still trying to allow pastures to recover and make sure they have some forage reserves for the next drought,” said Dr. Ja-son Cleere, AgriLife Exten-sion beef cattle specialist, College Station.

The 2011 drought was devastating for many of the state’s beef producers. Lack of grazing and depleted hay stocks forced them to cull or disperse herds altogether, Cleere said.

Nationwide, beef cattle inventories dropped 3 per-cent last year, he said. For those not familiar with the beef cattle business, 3

percent may not seem like much.

“But we’d already had a shrunken cowherd because of a number of years of drought and dispersals. As a result, we now have the smallest cowherd that the U.S. has had in the past 60 years,” he said.

We hear the 3 percent na-tionally, but here in Texas it was a whole lot worse,” he said. “In some of the coun-ties, it was pretty devastat-ing.”

The drought is far from over, but many areas have had considerable relief. Ac-cording to the Oct. 9 U.S. Drought Monitor, only about 16 percent of the state was still suffering from ex-treme drought, compared to 97 percent a year ago.

As a result, hay sup-plies have been rebuilt and, though not fully recovered, many pastures and range-land have improved con-siderably, Cleere said. Now, with the improved forage situation and high market prices because of decreased herd sizes, some livestock producers would like to uti-lize that improved grazing,

and buy back some of the cattle that were sold north last year.

“Yesterday, I talked to a number of ranchers, and those ranchers are looking to buy some of those cattle and bring them back to Tex-as,” he said.

But replacement prices are high, and those same ranchers remain cautious, he said.

“They can’t afford to go through what they went through last year.”

More information on the current Texas drought and wildfire alerts can be found on the AgriLife Extension Agricultural Drought Task Force website at http://agril-ife.tamu.edu/drought/

AgriLife Extension dis-trict reporters compiled the following summaries Oct.

9-15:Central: Parts of the region

had light showers. Winter grasses, wheat, oats, ryegrass and clover emerged and were actively growing. Pecans made progress, and growers were expecting good yields. Producers took the final cut-ting of hay for the year. Tem-peratures dropped below 50 degrees. There were some re-ports of armyworms in wheat and oats, but none in warm-season grass.

Coastal Bend: The region had scattered showers and cooler temperatures early in the week, followed by above-average temperatures. Farmers continued to work fields, plowing under vol-unteer cotton or killing the seedlings with herbicides. They were also busy planting winter wheat, oats and other cool-season annuals. Some producers were taking the last hay cutting for the sea-

son. Cattle remained in good condition. The pecan nut load was very heavy and causing much limb breakage. Late-season rains promoted the development of pecan scab.

South: In northern coun-ties, soil moisture conditions were excellent, pastures greened up, there was some hay cutting and baling, the cotton harvest was finished, and peanut digging and har-vesting began. Most cattle herds improved, with early weaning of calves helping for-age conditions. In the eastern counties, pastures rebounded due to the recent rains. Pro-ducers in those counties re-moved cattle from pastures to allow for forage growth. Rains from two weeks ago promoted the growth of win-ter weeds and fall grasses. In the western counties, condi-tions improved with showers in some areas. Some stock tanks were filled with runoff

rain from a couple of weeks ago, but most earthen stock tanks remained dry. Livestock producers got some relief from supplemental feeding of livestock thanks to recent rains and a rapid growth re-sponse from native rangeland and pasture grasses. How-ever, forage growth slowed with cooler soil temperatures and lack of soil moisture. In the southern counties, the harvesting of early season citrus, including oranges, began. Sugarcane was also being harvested. Vegetable planting continued, and irri-gation of fall corn, citrus and sugarcane remained active. There were spotty showers, but drought conditions still dominated the area. Ranch-ers continued to provide sup-plemental feed. Rangeland looked good where there were no cattle grazing, but grasslands with cattle grazing definitely needed more rain.

SAN ANTONIO – As part of educational oppor-tunities at the upcoming San Antonio International Farm and Ranch Show, the Texas A&M AgriL-ife Extension Service will present a youth livestock clinic from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Nov 10 at the Free-man Coliseum.

The coliseum is located on the San Antonio Live-stock Exposition grounds, 3201 East Houston Street.

The clinic, which is open to all 4-H and FFA members, will be one of more than 20 no-cost edu-cational programs offered at this year’s show, which runs Nov. 8-10.

“AgriLife Extension experts Dwight Sexton, Brad Roeder, Todd Swift and Chuck Real will be the guest speakers at the clinic,” said Cheree Leita, AgriLife Extension agri-cultural youth educator for Bexar County, who is helping coordinate the clinic.

Sexton will present on beef cattle, Swift on lambs, Roeder on goats and Real on swine, Leita said.

The show admission is free, but there is a $5 per day charge for parking on the show grounds.

For more information, go to http://www.farman-dranchexpo.com.


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Gonzales County Records

Gonzales County Court-house Deeds

October 1-31Camarillo, Herminia Mar-

tinez to Jajal, Jagdish, w/d, 0.25 of an acre (Pt. lts. 8-9 & Pt. Street) King’s 2nd Addn, Gonzales.

Cooper, Lynnette, Smith, Loy Elizabeth, Cooper, Nicole Bree and Cooper, Slade Da-vid to Whitescarver, Scott and Whitescarver, April, w/d, Pt. Lt. 7, RG 1, East of Water St., Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Everett, Christine to Barrett Brothers Oil & Gas, Inc., o/l, 123.788 Acres, Henry Bymer Svy, A-105.

Villagomez, Arturo to Vil-logomez, Eleazar, w/d, Lt. 5 & Pt. lts. 4, 6-7, Blk. 3, Lowry Ware Addn, Nixon.

Boyd, Anne Mackenzie (In-div. & Trustee), Boyd Trust, Craig H. and Boyd Trust, Anne M. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 71.293 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran A-209 Svys.

Miller, W.T. (Estate) and Gray, Ellen (Extrx) to Sweet, Leland Terence and Sweet, Su-san Ilona, w/d, 143.194 Acres, James Billings A-128 & Mary Cogswell A-144 Svys.

Martin, Sharlene to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 84.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

King, Dennis to EOG Re-sources, Inc., o/l, 50.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

Buch, Jerome to EOG Re-sources, Inc., o/l, 84.00 Acres, Joseph Dillard Svy, A-177.

Zschappel, Sharon Elaine to Eagle Ford Hunter Resources, Inc., o/l, 17.00 Acres, Turner Barnes Svy, A-112.

Zschappel, Kenneth Alan to Eagle Ford Hunter Resources, Inc., o/l, 17.00 Acres, Turner Barnes Svy, A-112.

Wier III, John Rex (MD) to Eagle Ford Hunter Resources, Inc., o/l, 17.00 Acres, Turner Barnes Svy, A-177.

Marek, Suzanne Wier to Eagle Ford Hunter Resources, Inc., o/l, 17.00 Acres, Turner Barnes Svy, A-177.

Zschappel, Robert Brad-ley to Eagle Ford Hunter Re-sources, Inc., o/l, 17.00 Acres,

Turner Barnes Svy, A-177.Patteson Trust, Lewis A.,

Patteson Trust, Jolea B. and Patteson, Lewis A. (Indiv. & Trustee) to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 71.293 Acres, Gon-zales County Schl Land A-230 & Charles Fordtran Svy, A-209.

Syrinek, James (Co-Extr), Sellers, Bobby Joe (Co-Extr) and Sellers, Billy (Estate) to Sellers, Marie, w/d, Int. in 77.14 Acres, Robert Kelley Svy, A-307.

Guevara, Ricardo, Guevara, Emma Nelda T., Guevara, Ricardo Daniel, Guevara, Monica Marie, Titan Vacuum Services, LLC and Catarina Salt Water Disposal, LLC, to Guevara Investment Partners, LLC, w/d, 314.45 Acres, W T Shuff Svy, A-412 & Acreage in Starr, Brooks, Frio, Willacy & Zapata Counties.

Assumed NamesBuell, Jereld Wesley – Jerry’s

Central Vacuums, Nixon.Tuttle, Kristi K. – Shiner

Home Care, Shiner.Ban, Chantha Keat and

Orch, Senglav – Donut Palace, Nixon.

Patel, Nilesh R. – The Texas Lodge, Gonzales.

Bones, John Williams, IV – Black Marlin Energy Services, Smiley.

Pullin, Billie, Pullin, Sam, Pullin, John and Pullin, Kelley – Pullin Trucking Company, Gonzales.

Anderson, Jennifer – Texas Elks Children’s Services, Gon-zales.

Anderson, Jennifer – Texas Elks Grants For Special Chil-dren, Gonzales.

Anderson, Jennifer – Texas Elks Camp, Gonzales.

Johnson, Codie – KJ Oilfield Services, Gonzales.

Callaway, Jr., Kenneth C – Knowing This Ministry.

Marriage LicenseZapata, Emileo and Her-

nandez, Luz M.Gast, David Joe and Staton,

Dorothy Faye.Sudderth, Thomas Neal to

Duke, Patsy Jo.Campion, Justin Lynn and

Morgan, Meagan Leaann.Kincaid, Corey L. and Du-

Bose, Jody D.

Music Show on hold; GLC Pet Parade

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

Around theChamber Office

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The Guadalupe Valley CattleWomen would like to thank our 20 sponsors and 26 teams for making our 15th annual T-bone cook-off a big

success. We also want to thank Running M for allowing us to use her restaurant for judging. Money made

from the cook-off goes to scholarships for students majoring in agriculture.

SponsorsCaraway Ford-GonzalesFehner & Son Grain Co.Graham Land & Cattle Co.Guadalupe Valley Vet ClinicHallettsville Livestock CommissionRobert W. Bland, Attorney at LawAdams Flavors, Foods & IngredientsKitchen Pride MushroomsLindemann Fertilizer Service, Inc.

Independent Cattlemen’s AssociationE-Barr Feeds, Inc.Gonzales Livestock MarketSheriff Glen SachtlebenBorrer ElectricLone Star BankWells Fargo BankSouthern LivestockSage Capital BankTexas BEEF CouncilNixon Livestock Commission

The Gonzales Music Show has cancelled the November and Decem-ber performances as they are awaiting final approval from the Crystal Theatre Board on the plan to begin quarterly shows in Janu-ary 2013, playing January, March, June and October, eliminating the conflict with Floresville’s quarterly shows in February, May, August and November.

• The Gonzales Learning and Career Center is hav-ing a pet parade and con-

tests on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 11:30 a.m. at the Brickyard Pavilion in Independence Park.

• The First Lutheran Church Women will hold a Fall Festival on Saturday a 10 a.m. On the menu will be sandwiches, soups, home-baked breads and cookies, with craft items also sold.

• Author Chris Meister will be at the Commission-ers Courtroom on Thurs-day at 7 p.m. to introduce his book, “James Riely Gor-don: His Courthouses and Other Public Architecture.” This is jointly sponsored

by the Gonzales Historic Homes Association and the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce. The book will be for sale after the talk.

• Wrap N 3 Barrel Rac-ers will be at the J. B. Wells Arena on Friday and Sat-urday, while Central Texas ICA and All-Breed Bull and Female Show will be at the Show Barn. Thurs-day viewing is at 3 p.m. and Friday the bull sale is at 10 a.m. and the females sell at 1 p.m.

Texas’ pro-business ap-proach continues to receive national recognition, and Area Development Maga-zine is the latest organiza-tion to take notice by nam-ing Texas the top state to do business in their third an-nual “Top States for Doing Business Survey.”

The award is given to the state that most exemplifies industrial competitiveness related to its business en-vironment, labor climate, infrastructure and global access and economy.

“I am very proud of the work state leaders have ac-complished to make Texas the best place in the nation to live, work, raise a family and start a business,” Gov. Rick Perry said. “As a state, we will remain committed to upholding the pillars to our success, including low taxes, restrained spending, reasonable regulations and a fair legal system, all of which have made Texas the best state in the nation to live, work, raise a family and start a business.”

Magazine citespro-businessTexas climate

FOUND: Male Sia-mese Cat, w/pur-ple flower collard, no chip in ear. On North side of Gon-zales by Hermann Sons. Call 672-5251.--------------------------FOUND: Stray calf found in Belmont area. 830-424-3685.

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.

Scale Operator. Will train. Position avail-able Immediately. Contact Rudy at Wildcat Minerals, 1045 CR 284, Har-wood, TX 78632. 830-339-9141.--------------------------Now hiring for Cer-tified Nurses Assis-tants. Apply in per-

son at Oak Creek, 1105 Magnolia St., Luling.--------------------------Full-time positions available for Certi-fied Nurses Aides. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. for more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------Positions available for Certified Nurses Aides on Memory Care Unit. Special Skills required. Please apply at The Heights of Gonza-les, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas.

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

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

Sale, 307 E. Wallace. Thurs. & Fri. 1st & 2nd only. Vanities, TV, Hamster cage & bird acc., Christmas Decor, girls youth & jr. clothing, small sizes, other misc. apparel wear. Stuff & more stuff. Open late to sellout.--------------------------Moving Sale. Household items, furniture, antique organ, old piano, tanning bed. Oct. 26, 8-5; Oct. 27, 8-2. Hwy. 304 & CR 156. Caldwell County.

For Sale: Brush Guard for 2004 1/2 ton Chev. Pickup $50 and 36” Whirl-pool used Gas Range, $50. 361-594-2507.--------------------------Electric cook 4 burner stove, white w/oven. Estate by Whirlpool. $150. For more information. Call 830-203-8899.--------------------------Jazzy Power Chair. Up to 300 lb capac-ity. New battery, $600. For more in-formation, call 830-203-8899.--------------------------21” RCA TV, great for kids room or 2nd TV. $75. Call

437-2046.--------------------------

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Peavy Patriot Bass Guitar w/soft case, $175. Peavy Ba-sic 60 Bass Amp 150w, $175. Hoh-ner acoustic guitar w/case. Good for student, $75. Key-board, Casiotone, TT 360, $125. 437-2046.--------------------------Unicorn Collection for Sale. Call Fran-ces between 9pm-10am, 830-587-6476.--------------------------5,000 lb. Mobile creek feeder for sale. 437-2927.--------------------------Wicker Screen Room divider, red poppy design. $45. Lg. rattlesnake skin, mounted on panel, $95. Camping travel pot, $20. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Old Metal Full size bed w/rails - no mattresses, $40. Chain Saw w/case, $125. 361-208-3565. --------------------------For Sale: Cage large, off the ground. By 2ft, cage size about 3 1/2 ft. front, 2 ft. deep. 2-3 ft. high.

Tray slides out end on bottom for cleaning. Has top large opening & side opening. Clean can be put in house. $65.00 firm. 830-263-4608 anytime.--------------------------Medium size bird cage, slide out bot-tom to clean trays to feed & water & extras. Aqua Green. $25.00. 830-263-4608.--------------------------Baby walker, eating tray combo and it is a red race car, plays tunes and lights up. Ages 6 months-1 1/2 year baby. Cool must see! $40.00. 830-263-4608, day-time or evening.--------------------------Troybilt Trimmer with attachments (edger, tiller). 4 cycle, uses straight gasoline. $250. 361-741-2604.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------Kenmore Washing machine. Excellent condition. $150. Call 361-741-2604, anytime.--------------------------Antique metal wood burning stove. $175. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has rollers. 857-8090.--------------------------2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, antique egg incubator, en-tertainment cen-ter, lamp stand w/

drawers, booth din-ing table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.--------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Every-thing $85.00; worth about $300. Health problems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.--------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.--------------------------Used Dell Com-puter. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jeanette Conques-tat 830-672-3419.--------------------------Upright piano for sale. Great for kids starting piano les-sons. All keys works. Needs to be tuned. $100. Call 830-832-5965.--------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Ro-tisserie $275. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Gasoline operated Hedger, $125; 5 HP Tiller, $200. Both in excellent condition. 361-208-3565. --------------------------Electric Hospital bed, $150. 582-1120. --------------------------Stain Glass Win-dow, white tail deer. $275. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Headache Rack, Bumper Hitch, Aluminum Run-ning Boards, 5 office desks, Lift Chair, An-tique Bed, Leather Sofa Bed. 1109 FM 532 West, Shiner. 361-596-4403.--------------------------Air Framing Nailer. Contractor Series. $75.00. Call 361-741-2604.

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.

Hay for sale. Lg. bales Kleingrass. $60 per bale. 830-857-3616, 830-491-7310.--------------------------Fertilized Johnson Grass Bermuda Hay. Large round bales. $50. 857-3324.--------------------------

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF TEST OF AUTOMATICTABULATING EQUIPMENT

Notice is hereby given that the automatic tabulating equipment that will be used in the GENERAL Election held on 11/6/2012 will be tested on 11/2/2012 at 9:00 AM at 1709 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, TX 78629 to ascertain that it will accurately count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures.

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AVISO PUBLICO DE PROBAREL EQUIPO PARA TABULAR AUTOMATICAMENTE

Por lo presente se de aviso que el equipo para tabular automati-camente que se usara en la Eleccion GENERAL que se llevara a cabo el dia 6 de noviembre, 2012 se probara el dia 2 del noviem-bre, 2012 a las 9 en la manana en 1709 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gon-zales, TX 78629 para determinar si el equipo contara con exaci-tud los votos para todos los puestos oficiales y sobre todos los proyectos de ley.

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City of Gonzales provides Bulk Waste Disposal at Public Works,

1920 St. Joseph on every Wednesday between 8-4 p.m.

and every 2nd and 3rd Saturday between 9-11:30 a.m. No tires

or paint cans. Please bring your utility bill and sign in

at front office.

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Administration Assistant at Gonzales Chamber of Commerce

Job Description:Gonzales Chamber of Commerce is cur-rently seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant. A preferred candidate thrives in a collaborative environment with volunteers, the public and has outstanding public rela-tions skills. Duties include excellent phone etiquette, office and computer skills, a good working knowledge of accounting, sched-uling of events and planning programs. Other tasks include updating communica-tions and marketing materials. Must have the ability to think independently; strong critical-thinking skills are a plus. Salary is dependent upon qualifications and experi-ence. Benefits include vacation time, sick leave and holidays. The Gonzales Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture is an equal op-portunity employer. Submit resume to Tex-as Workforce Solutions, 1617 East Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, Texas. 78629. Dead-line is Nov. 2, 2012.

Full-time position Equipment Operator, water distribution, wastewater collection department. This is a skilled service-main-

tenance position. Work involves maintaining, repairing and installing new water and sewer lines, meters, fire hydrants, pumps and plumbing systems at all city fa-cilities. Perform related duties as required and ability to operate equipment needed to perform these tasks. Class B-CDL required. Must be available for on call duty ev-ery fifth week.

Starting pay $23,664.00.Benefits for full time employees include health insur-ance, retirement program and paid leave. Applicant must be able to pass a pre-screen drug test and physical. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all interested parties to apply. Applications available at the city’s website, www.cityofgonzales.org.Please complete an employment application and take to City Hall or mail to:City of GonzalesAttn: Payroll Dept.P.O. Box 547Gonzales, TX 78629“NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE”

EquipmEnt OpEratOr

Day and Night Transport DriversJohnson Oil Company,

a family-owned oil and gas distributorship in business for over

53 years is currently hiring for Day and Night Transport

Drivers - Three years over the road driving experience preferred and a current Class A CDL with HazMat and Tanker endorsements required.

Competitive compensation with night and holiday pay

differential. Potential annual earnings of $70,000 with limited overnight travel. Sign on bonus available to qualified applicants.Benefits include two weeks paid vacation, health insurance and 401(k). Applications may be

picked up and returned to Johnson Oil Company, Attn: Mike Burke,

1113 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr,

Gonzales, TX or faxed to

830-672-6659.

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Want to Buy: Oliver 60 Tractor. V.A.C. Case Tractor. Run or Not. 361-293-1633.--------------------------For Sale: 231 Massey Ferguson Tractor. $9,000. 830-437-2358 or 830-857-0800. (08-23-12)--------------------------5 Bale Hay King Trailer & Bale Flip-per Loader. Load hay without getting out of truck. Video on baleflipper.com. $13,500. 512-565-5927.

Dining room table, solid wood, with six high back chairs and leaf to extend table, $200.00. Large china cabi-net, $200.00 . 830-672-2604.--------------------------7 pc. dinette, $95; coffee and end table, $75; Rol-laway Bed, $35; 37” TV, $15; 2 office re-ceptionist chairs, couch, table, etc. 361-596-4096. --------------------------For Sale: Queensize mattress set, $200; complete desk w/hutch, $30; Dining Room table with 4 high back chairs, solid wood, $300; Low back swivel re-cliner rocker, $150. Call 672-3728.--------------------------Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions, $175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.

tierraverdehomes.com. 830-369-6888. Fayette Country Homes, RBI 32986. Open Sundays, 1-6pm. New, Used and Repo homes.--------------------------Palm Harbor 4 bed-room Doublewid Repo. Fayette Coun-try Homes, Schul-enburg, 979-743-6192. RBI 32986.--------------------------3bedroom/2 bath-room singlewide available. $27,900. Call if in need of housing. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.--------------------------Clayton Single-wides. Large selec-tion. Tierra Verde One Bedroom with hardie siding, bay window, plywood floors. Fleetwood 3 bedroom 16x76 coming soon. Fayette Country Homes, 800-369-6888, RBI 32986.--------------------------OILFIELD HOUS-ING - 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with washer and dryer, office spaces, must see to appreci-ate. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.--------------------------Between 4-5 Acres for Sale. Double-wide. Excellent con-dition. Hwy. front-age. 3BR, all electric, all appliances. Call 830-857-1026.

2004 Ford Taurus SES. 44,000 miles. $4,000. 214-695-5623.--------------------------2008 Mustang GT with Shelby package and low miles (48K), 22” chrome wheels with performance tires, 5-speed manual transmission, leather interior, Shaker 500 sound system with 6 CD/MP3 changer, and auto windows. $25,000 OBO. Call or text 830-263-1212.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - $7,500. 2nd owner pickup with low miles, cold A/C, spray-in bed liner, grill guard, towing package and more! Call Lauren at (361) 648-5049 for more info.--------------------------Tires for Sale. 4 brand new tires - 255-35-

ZR20 Nitto Extreme ZR with Rims - Mar-tin Bros 20” universal rims. $500. 830-857-1340.

Mobile Homes for rent: 3 bedroom/1bath, fully furnished, some homes have Wi-Fi. 900 Old Shiner Rd., Yoakum, 361-582-6593 or 361-798-0816.--------------------------3 mobile homes for rent in Leesville on Hwy. 80. Call 830-534-6525.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2bed, 1 bath trailer. New kitchen floor. For more information call Samantha at 830-857-5812.

Newly renovated home in Shiner for rent. 3/1, CA/H, wood floors, lg. BR’s. $850/mo. Bro-ker/Owner, 512-217-3171.--------------------------Charming 1/1 home on 2 wooded acs, w/lrg. deck in country, 77 North, paved road. $775/mo. No pets/smok-ers. 512-415-6483.--------------------------3/2 Large home on nice lot. $1,250/mo. Stove, refrigerator, included. Families or Oil Field Workers welcome. 713-501-3416.--------------------------2 B R / 2 B A , 1,750SF(+/-) home for lease 7 mi. north of Gonzales on gravel road. Central A/C, full kitchen w/appliances. $1,300/mo. + deposit. Email [email protected] and 3 Bedroom houses for rent. $650 & up + de-posit. Current ref-erences a must. Furnished or un-furnished. Call 830-672-5169.--------------------------For Rent: 2 B R / 2 B A / 2 C G home on 183 N. $1,250/mo., plus deposit. Call 830-857-4458 for infor-mation.--------------------------3BR/2BA Brick house for rent. 1 mile North of Yoa-kum. AC, washer, dryer. Large access driveway in & out for truck parking for large bobtails. Oak grove, great

for BBQ’s and enter-taining. Available Now. Call 361-293-6619, leave mes-sage.--------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 830-857-5727.--------------------------

House for RentCompletely fur-nished house, 3 or 2 bdrms, one room furnished as office, one full bath, fully equipped kitchen, microwave, washer and dryer, large storage space, yard maintained. No pets. Cable and Wi-Fi. Near County Clerk’s office. Con-venient for two landmen. $1,250 a month plus utilities. Call 830-672-6265 or 830-857-4251.--------------------------For Rent in Luling. 3 bed, 1 bath, Cen-tral Air & heat. $850/month, $600/deposit. 830-832-3163. Earl Landry.--------------------------House for Rent. 302 Lancaster, Moulton, TX. Nice spacious 1BR home w/ap-pliances & a large yard. Call for info. 832-633-3950.--------------------------Single Suite. Perfect for Supervisor for Oil Company. Full kitchen, washer/dryer, TV/Full cable, wireless internet. No smoking inside. No Pets. Fully fur-nished and all bills paid. Private Yard/Garage. Weekly, $280; Deposit $300. Call 512-292-0070--------------------------Home For Rent. Country Home. completely remod-eled. 2BR/1BA, CA, hardwood floors, roof for AG Proj-ect. Navarro ISD between Seguin & New Braunfels. $1,000 month, $1,000 deposit. 830-660-7351 or 830-822-5348.--------------------------

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NIGHTLY RATESSingle nightly rates starting at $35.00 per night. Which include A/C, Micro-wave, Refrigerator, TV/Cable and fur-nished with all bills paid. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------For Rent to oilfield or pipeline work-ers 2BR/1BA, CH/A, furnished kitchen in Yoakum. Call 361-293-6821.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.

Looking for a 2 or 3BR nice house in Nixon and Leesville area. Call 830-857-1658.--------------------------Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.

For Rent: Office space or store front, 960 sq. ft., 1/2 block off square. Kitchen-ette, 1 ba, newly re-furbished. For more information, call 830-672-6265.--------------------------Office space for rent. 1,500 sq. ft. Recently remod-eled. 314 W. Cone. If interested call 830-672-4433.--------------------------For Rent: Indus-trial Property for rent. M1 Ind. Stor-age Yard, 70x130. Church Street. 830-423-2103.--------------------------For sale or lease. 10,000 sq. ft. Bldg. with multi-level loading docks - Prime location - with offices and separate garage. Call 830-857-5448.--------------------------For Lease: Small of-fice space w/work-shop located at 339 St. George. Recently Renovated, $400/month. For more information please (830) 672-5580.

3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past Halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road.

830-445-9131.--------------------------For Lease: commer-cial 1,500 + square foot warehouse in Luling. Hwy. frontage. $850 per month. 830-305-6248. (10/4/12)--------------------------12 acres/house/of-fice with Hwy. 80 frontage between B e l m o n t / N i x o n near Leesville. Will subdivide. For sale or lease. Would make a great oil field yard or resi-dence. Call Peyton, 512-948-5306; Da-vid, 713-252-1130.--------------------------Land for lease for oil field service equipment. Prime location. 4 miles N. on 183. 2 1/2 acres. Electric, water, parking, storage. Call 203-0585 or 672-6922. (TFN)

3BR, 2BA 1670+Sq. Ft. Upstairs apart-ment on Residen-tial Lot in nice area of Cuero, $1,185/mo. includes all Util. with cable and WiFi, fully furnished - incl. linens. Hotel-style kitchenette (no sink or stove), but full-size fridge, microwave & Keurig brewer. Hot plate ok, outdoor bbq w/propane & charcoal grill onsite. No pets. $750 deposit, 3 mo. lease. (361) 484-1922, leave mes-sage.--------------------------2BR, 1 bath nicely, fully furnished apartment. TV/Ca-ble/Internet ready, washer/dryer, no pets, no smoking, good neighbor-hood, covered parking for one car, deposit, rent plus all utilities. Call 830-672-6265.

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Need a job as a caregiver, as live-in or to help with clerical, customer service, telemar-keter or teachers aide. Have 30+ years experience. Great references & background check, dependable, caring and love children. If iterested call 830-391-4837.--------------------------Camera work for businesses, pro-motional uses, editing titles. 830-263-0909. cre-ativechannel@live.

com.--------------------------Electrical Wiring, Troubleshooting, Repairs, etc. Li-censed & Insured. Call 830-437-5747. --------------------------For Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.--------------------------Will do house cleaning Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.--------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5072. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.

Willing to mow lawns in morning or evening. Also will do weedeating. Not affiliated with any company’s. 830-263-0909.--------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Will also mow oilfield yards or large oil re-lated businesses. Li-ability ins., free esti-mates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.(TFN)

Child care in home. I have 2 openings, Curriculum and meals included. Please call for de-tails. 830-263-0058.

203 Big Sky 38’ Fifth wheel Travel Trailer. 3 slideouts, very, very nice. 3 1/2 yrs. Bumper to bum-per warranty left. $17,900. Call 512-914-8347.--------------------------RV For Sale. Older unit. 5th wheel. $2,900. Contact Richard, 830-556-6905.--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.--------------------------Travel Trailer for rent or sale. Rent is $300.00 per week with all bills paid. willlocate at RV park of your choice and I pay the RV Rental. Or $1,000.00 per month with all bills paid. Will sell travel

trailer for $55,000. Call 830-351-0943 for details.--------------------------Travel Trailers or RV space for rent. Great family en-vironment. Great location in Smiley. $225/week for the Travel Trailer or $900/month, all bills paid included. If interested please call 830-203-9255 Lisa or Daniel @ 3 6 1 - 7 9 0 - 6 3 0 5 . Hope to hear from you.--------------------------Fully furnished Travel Trailers for rent. Will rent week-ly or monthly. Pets Allowed. $50.00 Deposit. $300 per week or $1,000 per month. Call Terry for details, 830-351-0943. Will relocate to RV Park of your choice. All utilities paid. All trailers will be available first week in October for move in.--------------------------Travel Trailer for rent for RV space in Smiley. All utili-ties included, good healthy environ-ment. 830-203-9255 or 361-790-6305.--------------------------30’ Travel Trailer w/2 slides for rent in RV Ranch in Gonzales.

Swimming pool, laundry facilities, shower house and all bills paid. $300 a week. 830-305-6926.--------------------------28’ Travel Trailer for rent. Can be moved from job site. Call 830-305-6926.--------------------------Office or Living Trailers for lease or buy. Peyton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.--------------------------RV Rentals available at Belmont RV Park Estates. Call Rich-ard, 830-556-6095.--------------------------Travel Trailers for rent. Located at J.B. Wells, Gonza-les, Texas. Cheaper than motel. Clean, fully furnished, 32 ft. trailers. $300/ a week. Please call for more info & rates. Pug @ 512-963-0000 or Dawn @ 512-508-6221.

RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.

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Saturday, November 17 at 11am2012

CHAROLAIS BULL SALE

At theGonzales Livestock Market

Gonzales, TXOffering 25 coming Two-Year-Old Bulls

All Virgin Bulls, Birth and Weaning Weights, EPD’s Fertility Tested

Contact: Clay Boscamp, 830-857-5130 David Shelton, 830-857-5394

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

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

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

on qualifications.

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

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

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1996, 18.5’ Baymas-ter Center Console Boat, 120 Horse Force Mercury Mo-tor with Jack Plate, Lourence GPS Map-p i n g - S o n a r - Fi s h Finder, Marine Ra-dio. $7,000.00. Con-tact 830-263-2920.--------------------------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. Inde-pendent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.

Free kittens. Call 361-594-4307.--------------------------Free dog to good home. Large female dog, brown, tame, gentle. Chip paper work with her. Call 830-481-4707.--------------------------Free Kittens. Call 672-7094.--------------------------

PuppiesHalf Lab, Half Pyr-enees. Free to good home. 830-203-1733 or 830-540-4485.--------------------------We stock Sport-mix Dog and Cat Food, Demon WP for those ants and scorpions. Gonza-les Poultry Supply, 1006 St. Paul Street, 672-7954.(TFN)

For Sale: Beautiful Western Roping

Saddle, blanket in-cluded. Excellent condition. $400.00 cash only. Call Ms. Miller, Waelder. 830-788-7123.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------For Sale: 2 & 3 year old red & black Brangus Bulls. No Papers. Good selec-tion. Call 830-437-5772.--------------------------Baby Guineas. $2.00 each. Call for info. 830-660-2526 or 830-540-4063.--------------------------“Black Limousin and Angus Heifers and Bulls, Gentle Increase your wean-ing weights. Estab-lished breeder since

1971. Delivery avail-able 979 561- 6148 --------------------------Nanny Boer Goats (adult). Ages: 1yr-4yr. Pkg. Deal (4). $320.00. 830-560-0238 to request photos..please send an email request to [email protected] or text me at above num-ber.--------------------------Muscovy ducks for sale. $10.00 each. 8 3 0 - 2 6 3 - 2 4 8 2 . (TFN)--------------------------Laying Hens, $10.00. 512-718-0482.--------------------------For Sale: Registered Polled Hereford Bulls. 8-22 mths old. Heifers also, 8 months to 2 years. 830-540-4430.--------------------------WANT TO BUY: Any or Unwanted Hors-es. Call Leejay at 830-857-3866.--------------------------For Sale: Baby & Young Adult Ducks. Mix Breeds. Cost $3.50-$20.00 each. Call 830-857-6844, ask for Tammy Ste-phens.---------------------------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.

Home for Sale. Low down, 3/2/1,136 sq. ft. Only $85,600 w/$1,600 dn. 202 East Lee at Smi-ley. Call Mr. Smith, 8 5 5 - 8 4 7 - 6 8 0 6 . (11/01/12)--------------------------3bd/1ba home on 0.985 acres for sale in Nixon. 1,048 sq. ft. with additional 400 sq. ft. attached deck. Recently re-modeled, CA/H, all appliances stay! Asking $79,000. Call 830-203-9383.--------------------------3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road. 830-445-9131.--------------------------3BED, 1 Bath House For Sale! 0.985 acres on Hwy. 80, 8 miles north of Nixon, TX. 78140. 1048 sq. ft with 400 sq. ft. deck attached. Recently remodeled. Central Air and Heat. Appli-ances stay! $89,999. Ph. 830-203-9383. No owner financing available.--------------------------FOR SALE BY OWN-ER: 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, single story home in Gonza-les. Beautiful wet bar and gourmet kitchen with gran-ite counter tops. Large pantry utility room. 2 car garage with workshop, nice pool and spa, huge covered porches. All on or nearly 1/2 acre. $249,000. Call 210-844-4963.--------------------------

Older couple down-sizing 15 acres (10 acres fenced), house, 3/1 1/2, Barn, ponds, trees. Wharton County. $137,000. 979-533-3262.--------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood Trail. New appli-ances, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.--------------------------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.

Modern home on 165-acre ranch located between Gonzales and Shin-er on paved road FM 443. Highly im-proved with scat-tered oak trees, improved grasses, hay field, cross fenc-ing and stock tank. Recently updated 2,300 square foot home, 3BR, 2BA, two live-in areas. Property includes large hay barn, equipment build-ing shop and cattle pens. Shiner ISD. Possible owner fi-nancing available. 361-648-4090 or 361-935-1109.

Wanted to lease land for cattle graz-ing. Must have water and fences. Contact Mitchell Hardcastle, 830-857-4544.--------------------------90x60 lot for sale. For more info, call Jose at (936) 488-8115.--------------------------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.

Want to Buy: Used Headgate for cattle. 361-798-0482.--------------------------WANTED: Acetylene Gas Regulator for welding torch. 437-2232.

Pampered Chef D e m o n s t r a t o r . Host a Show! It’s Easy! Choose from a Cooking Show, Catalog Show, Face-book Show or if you need an item, here is my site, https://w w w.pampered-chef.b iz/zavadi l . Dee Zavadil, 830-857-1495.--------------------------Lucky Shots by Dee.Need Family Por-traits, Family Re-unions, Birthdays, School Pictures, Weddings, Etc. 830-

857-1495 --------------------------Electrical wiring, troubleshooting & repairs. 830-437-5747.--------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

All Types of Plumbing.

Master Plumber.Reasonable Rates.

Please Call 713-203-2814 or

281-415-6108.License #M18337

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AccessoriesDavid Matias,

Owner830-263-1633

1026 St. Paul St., Gonzales

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Every year children anxiously count down the days until they are able to put on their costumes and head out into the neighborhood in search of candy. Al-though Halloween is meant to be a fun occa-sion for the young and the old alike, it can also be unsafe.

Costumes may im-pair a child’s vision and motor function. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says that studies indi-cate Halloween is in the top three among holi-days that produce the most visits to hospital emergency rooms. Fin-ger and hand injuries account for 17.6 percent of injuries, and children ages 10 to 14 sustain the greatest proportion of Halloween injuries. Trips and falls also ac-count for a high number

of injuries. There are also a good

deal of children who become injured before Halloween arrives, many of whom sustain lac-erations when carving pumpkins.

To make Halloween a safe holiday, children and adults can heed these suggestions.

* Wear comfortable, stur-dy shoes. Although kids might want to wear shoes that match the costume, shoes that fit well and are comfortable are a safer bet. This will help prevent tripping and falling over cumbersome shoes. It also reduces the risk of develop-ing blisters and discomfort when walking from home to home.

* Go trick-or-treating in groups. Children should not be allowed to go out in search of candy alone. Going in a group means that someone can get help

if need be. Also, there is safety in numbers. Preda-tors won’t view a child as an easy target if he or she is with fellow trick-or-treat-ers.

* Be visible. Since daylight saving time begins shortly after Halloween, there are fewer hours of daylight for trick-or-treating. When Halloween falls on a weekday, children have to wait until after school to venture out, and it can quickly be-come dark. Therefore, make sure that children are equipped with flash-lights and put reflective tape on their costumes so they will be more vis-ible to fellow pedestri-ans and motorists.

* Stick to the side-walks. Children should stay on sidewalks and cross the street only at established crosswalks.

* Do not enter homes. Unless a child is with an adult and the home

is owned by a trusted friend, kids should not enter homes for treats.

* Avoid candles and jack-o-lanterns. A cos-tume can easily catch on fire, so it is best to steer clear of candles, lumi-naries and lit pumpkins.

* Bring water. Cos-tumes can become hot and uncomfortable, es-pecially when worn for long periods of time. Be sure children have water to rehydrate themselves.

* Accessorize safely. Select flexible swords and knives if they are accompanying a cos-tume. Avoid rigid items that can cause injuries.

* Examine all candy before eating. Before kids have their first bite, parents should in-spect candy wrappers to determine if there has been any tampering. Also, avoid homemade treats from homes un-less you know the people who prepared the items.

It is a safe idea to go trick-or-treating in groups. Also, try to visit only homes where you know the people.

For some, Halloween is about the clever costumes and homages to superhe-roes and favorite cartoon characters. Others prefer to tap into their inner hor-ror lover and pull out all the gory stops. Borrow-ing some tricks of from horror movies can turn a somewhat scary costume into one that is truly hor-rifying.

Movie special effects teams put a lot of effort into making the blood, gore and guts in a movie look as realistic as pos-sible. Using a combination of makeup, prosthetics and some common house-hold items, they can lead movie-goers to believe they’re really seeing ex-posed brains or gushing blood.

Although some Hol-lywood films have mas-sive budgets for creating amazing special effects, it may not take much money for Halloween tricksters to replicate some of these looks for less money.

Fake blood can make anything look creepy. This blood can be pouring out of mouths or ears or cov-ering various body parts. Having a go-to artificial blood recipe at the ready will help with many Hal-loween special effects.

There are many differ-ent ways to create artifi-cial blood. Most of them involve mixing corn syrup

with food coloring. Here’s how to get started.

Artificial Movie Blood

* bottle of dark or light corn syrup

* red food coloring* blue food coloring* green food coloring* cornstarch* water

Pour out about 1/8 cup of the corn syrup into a bowl that you don’t mind staining. Add 1/4 cup of cornstarch and 1/4 cup of water to the syrup. Mix well so that you have a re-alistic consistency. Blood that is too runny or too thick will not seem real.

Add about 20 drops of red food coloring and 10 to 15 drops of blue food coloring. Add a single drop of green food color-ing. Mix and gauge the color. Add the blue and red accordingly until you find the perfect shade. Blood is fairly dark and red-brown when exposed to oxygen, therefore it should not be bright red in color.

Dip a paint brush into the “blood” and flick onto the surface of cloth-ing or props to give it a blood splatter effect. Use the paint brush to paint around the edges of latex wounds or wounds on prosthetics. Try to keep the blood placement as realistic as possible. The blood also can be put on clothes to mimic the look of a seeping wound.

Because this recipe is made from food products, it is edible and safe for use around the mouth. Just keep in mind that it may stain the skin and teeth temporarily due to the food coloring.

Other supplies can be turned into gory props as well. Slices of foam bun-dled together can look like brain tissue. Peeled grapes look and feel like eyeballs. Use your imagination and you can probably come up with something that mim-ics the look of real body organs and body parts. Even a PVC pipe wrapped in foam and placed in a shirt sleeve can make a re-alistic looking arm.

Halloween fun can mean channeling your in-ner horror movie special effect artist.

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FLATONIA — Music fans from across Texas are already making plans to head for Flatonia this weekend for the 40th an-nual Czhilispiel Oct. 26-28.

The Flatonia Chamber of Commerce will host major recording artists Robert Earl Keen and the Bellamy Brothers, as well as one of the hottest emerging local bands, The Pale Horses, will headline the entertain-ment Saturday, Oct. 27.

The entertainment kicks off on Friday, Oct. 26 with Max Rios & The Waysiders from 6:30-8:30 p.m., with Southbound 955 wrap-ping up the evening from 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Saturday fun begins with the Dujka Brothers from 1:30-4:30 p.m., fol-lowed by The Pale Horses from 5-8:30. Keen, famous for such hits as Amarillo Highway, The Road Goes on Forever and Merry Christ-mas from the Family, will take the stage from 9-10:30,

with the Bellamy Broth-ers (Let Your Love Flow, If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me) from 11 p.m.-1 a.m.

Sunday’s wrapup includes The Georges from 1:30-4:30 p.m., followed by The Origi-nal Velvets from 5-8 p.m.

The Czhilispiel 40 Parade begins at noon on Sunday, October 28, and this year’s parade marshalls will be the state championship Flato-nia girls’ softball team. The Champion Girls’ Softball team members riding will

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The smell of popcorn was a powerful attraction as the previews flashed up on a portable movie screen at Con-federate Square oin Gonzales Saturdya. More than 300 area residents were on hand for a free outdoor screening of “Despicable Me” sponsored by the Lynn Theatre.

Tickets for the first “midnight movie” at the reopened Lynn Theatre, “Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2,” are now on sale at the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce of-fice.

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The Bellamy Brothers and Robert Earl Keen take the state in Flatonia Saturday.

Gonzales County was well-represented Saturday at the Yorktown Western Days parade. Participating in activities were Cassidy Lafleur, Gonzales County Duchess; Griselda Lopez- Junior Miss Gonzales; and Destiny Voigt- Little Miss Gonzales.


First Place, Beans — Buffalo Smokers

Second Place, Beans — Texan Nursing, Louis Kuntschik

First Place, Brisket — Bustin’ Tail

Second Place, Brisket — Butt Burners Juniors

First Place, Dutch Oven Dessert — Porkin Around

Second Place, Dutch Oven Dessert — Texan Nursing

First Place, Pork (Other) — Bustin Tail

Second Place,Pork (Other) — 73U Ranch

First Place, Ribs — Back 40 Cookers

Second Place, Ribs — Buffalo Smokers

First Place, Surprise (Deer Meat) — Dynasty Seguin, Faith Schlekel

Winners in Friday’s Cookoff events were not available at press time. They will be published as they become available.

Still looking for its dis-trict win with a state-ranked team heading into town, Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock knew last week’s game was pivotal.

Even so, this week’s matchup might prove even more crucial as the Apach-es travel to Yoakum to take on the Bulldogs Friday night at Bulldog Stadium.

Gonzales has major momentum coming into the contest after having knocked off then-#7 Gid-dings 43-23.

“It was a big win,” said Lock. “I was real proud of our players, our coaches and our community for their tremendous support.”

“We watched a lot of film and the one thing that struck me was I didn’t think Giddings was very physical up front. They were extremely athletic, but we were pretty pleased with the way our offensive line blocked.”

It’s hard not to be happy with a blocking perfor-mance that allowed Ce-cil Johnson to carve up the Buffalo defense for a season-high 256 yards and five touchdowns, marking the sixth time this season Johnson has rushed for at least 200 yards.

“Gonzales has one of the better backs in the district,” said Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay. “In my opinion, they have one of the best offensive lines in

the state.” Perhaps the more im-

pressive feat last week was turned in collectively by the Apache defense. Gid-dings came into the game averaging nearly 400 yards per game and they were held to a paltry 202 total yards last Friday night.

“They had won all of their games because of their offense,” Lock said. “We held them to 202 and a lot of that came late in the game when they were throwing it while we were sitting back in prevent, tackling everything in front of us. We bowed our necks

and played really well in a good team effort.”

That effort is going to have to be nearly equally as earnest if Gonzales is going to knock off Yoakum. Like the Apaches, the Bulldogs have won five of their seven games. The main difference is Yoakum has won both of its’ district games, while Gonzales has gone 1-1.

Tied for the district lead right now with La Grange, a win by Yoakum will put them in the driver’s seat for the District 28-3A title. Giddings and Gonzales are both tied for third with Cuero and Smithville still seeking their first league wins.

“Anybody can beat any-body on any given Friday in this district, so you have

to go in ready to play,” said Kornegay. “It’s really kind of sad because come play-off time, there are going to be some good teams sitting at home.”

“They’ve played some good football all year,” Lock said about Yoakum. “I think a lot of Coach Korne-gay as a coach and a per-son. He’s done a good job and I have a lot of respect for their program. I know they’ll be ready.”

Yoakum has been in ev-ery game they’ve played this year and seem to have a knack for finding ways to win late. The margin is slim, but they have outscored their opponents (168-145) while averaging just over 309 yards per contest.

Headed to the finishGilbert Chavez finished second individually in Wednesday’s District 26-3A meet. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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The University Interscholas-tic League (UIL)has made some changes to Class 3A football.

Beginning with the 2013 sea-son, four teams from each district will make the playoffs. Currently, the top three teams in each dis-trict qualify for the playoffs.

“Football season is going to be more interesting with four teams in the playoffs,” Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock said. “It will be different. Teams will have more opportunity to make the playoffs.”

“I still like the current system.The UIL is also considering

splitting 3A into Division I and Division II.

Lock said it will affect realign-ment.

“Teams you have been playing for a while may come off your schedule,” he said.

Yoakum athletic director and football coach Brent Kornegay said he is fine with the changes.

“It is good thing for our district because once the playoffs for this year start, we will have three good football teams at home,” he said. “Any of the six teams in our dis-

trict can beat one of the others on any given night. Adding a fourth team to the playoffs will not change how we prep for district because you have to come out and play in every district game.”

He said splitting 3A into Divi-sion I and II is also a good thing.

“It is good for Yoakum because we are in the top 10 of the bottom half of the 3A enrollment and it will put us on a more level playing field,” Kornegay said.

“Moving towards four play-off teams from each district is something the UIL has been moving towards for quite some time,” Cuero head coach Travis Reeve said. “Ultimately, it is good to allow more teams to make the postseason.”

He said there are both pros and cons against splitting 3A into two divisions.

“Bad thing is for the split is it will cause more travel for teams,” Reeve said. “But there is not really a perfect system.”

A new classification, 6A, will be started as well.

5A schools will go to 6A, 4A’s to 5A and so forth. Six-man teams will now be Class 1A

GIDDINGS—The Gon-zales Apaches cross country team won a berth in the Re-gion IV-3A championship with a runner-up group finish at the District 26-3A meet Wednesday morning at Camp Tejas near Gid-dings.

The Apaches scored 54 points, 32 apart from win-ners Giddings.

Gilbert Chavez finished in seond place with a time of 17 minutes, 11.19 sec-onds to lead Gonzales. Sergio Garza was No. 11 in 19:44.21 and Eduardo Ruv-alcaba followed in 19:54.19. Jose Olalde was No. 14 in 20:18.93, Dalton Couch fol-lowed in 20:24.28 and Alan DeLeon was behind him in 20:33.38. Ashton Williams rounded out Gonzales with a No. 24 finish in 22:24.80

Other local runners were Cuero’s Jordan Venor was No. 19 in 20:49.21 and Al-berto Munoz of Yoakum was No. 29 in 27:15.52.

The Yoakum Lady Bull-dogs took third in the with

All area teams are in ac-tion this week, mainly away from home. Shiner will host Three Rivers, Marion visits Luling and Halletts-ville entertains Rice. In other action, Flatonia is at Thorndale, Lockhart and Hallettsville Sacred Heart are in the Alamo City to face Alamo Heights and St. Gerard, respectively. Nixon is at Cotulla, Cuero visits Smithville and Shiner St. Paul makes the long trip to Bryan.

Three Rivers at ShinerThe No. 7 Shiner Co-

manches are coming off a bye week to face the Three Rivers Bulldogs tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Comanche Field.

Shiner’s last game was Oct. 12, a 33-7 win at Kene-dy to open district play.

“Our bye week went well,” Comanches head coach Steven Cerny said. “We rested up more than anything and we did not have a lot of physical con-tact in practice. We still had good sharp workouts.”

Three Rivers (4-3, 1-1) is coming off an unsual game

to Kenedy, where they fell short to the Lions, 29-28.

“It looked like Three Riv-ers would dominate the game,” Cerny said. “They have a good offense but it was just a strange game.”

On offense, the Bulldogs run the Slot-T with coun-ters and misdirection plays.

Running back Wesley Guzman is the focus point as he has 88 carries for 888 yards and 11 touchdowns on the year.

“He is a strong runner who has great vision and can hit the holes quickly,” Cerny said. “We will need

UIL changes willhave big impacton 3A programs

By MARK LUBE

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Area squads hit roadfor Week 8 matchups

YOAKUM, Page C10

SHINER, Page C2

Through the gapNixon-smiley’s Jared Van Auken (32) bursts through the line en route to some of his 190 yards rushing in Friday’s 28-21 win over Bloomington. See story, Page C4. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

The Bulldogs have been re-energized ever since the re-turn of sophomore sensation Tre’vontae Hights, who missed time this season due to injury. He scored three touchdowns last week in Yoakum’s 28-21 win over Cuero.

Hights will split time at quar-terback with Chase Hermes, who has thrown for 1,155 yards this season.

“I think we’re playing with a little more consistency than we did in our pre-district games,” said Kornegay. “In the last two games, we’ve moved the ball well and Hights has come back so we’ve got two quarterbacks that we feel comfortable with and we’ll play both of them.”

“Both of their quarterbacks are very capable,” said Lock. “Hights is very athletic and does good things with the foot-ball in his hands. Hermes is the same way, he’s thrown for a lot of yards.”

“They are an option team. They like to run the midline and they like to run veer. Ob-viously when Hights is in the game they are more run-ori-ented and when Hermes is in there they throw it more. We have to prepare for both and understand the situations dur-ing the football game.”

When the Bulldogs do take to the air, the likely target is Keith Ratley. The senior has reeled in 19 catches for 582 yards with six touchdowns. T.J. Hights has also been huge in the passing game, catching 19 balls for 372 yards.

“Ratley is as good as any re-ceiver in the district,” Lock said. “He’s made a lot of big plays for them and has good speed. They’ve got a lot of good ath-letes on that team, maybe more than any one team in this dis-trict.”

Another reason for Yoa-kum’s newfound offensive rhythm is the improved play of their offensive line, which is

anchored by state powerlifting champion Willie Hights and Jake West.

“They’ve gotten a whole lot better up front,” said Lock. “They’ve moved some guys around and I think they’re coming together as a unit.”

“Hights is the right guard and he weighs about 335. The West kid is a good player too. We’re going to have our hands full with this offense, but hope-fully we’ll be up to the chal-lenge.”

Yoakum likes to rely on a split formation defensively with two linebackers usually inside the box, although at times they will walk one up to the line of scrimmage and show a five-man front.

Linebackers Devante Price and Braden Drozd lead the team with 72 tackles each and have added 3.5 and 2 sacks re-spectively. The difference mak-er for the Bulldog defense has been Rico Perry, who is averag-ing 11 tackles per game and has

two sacks on the season.“Their defensive line is not

overly big, but they are very quick,” said Lock. “Perry is about 160, but he plays defen-sive tackle. He causes a lot of havoc because he’s constantly twisting and turning to get penetration up the field.”

Yoakum has beaten Gon-zales only twice in the last six years, but neither of those wins happened with Lock as the head coach. Under his tenure the Apaches have dominated the Bulldogs, outscoring them 116-30.

Neither coach is expecting a lopsided affair in this year’s game and Kornegay realizes exactly what his team needs to do in order to avoid one.

“We have to win the turn-over battle and eliminate the big plays,” he said. “To me, those are the most important things. You’ve got to play well in all three phases of the game because special teams are im-portant too.”

to play tough on the inside with our defensive line and get them for minus yard-age. Since they like to get 3-4 yards at a time, we will need to put them in long-yardage downs.”

Flatonia at ThorndaleFlatonia has a road game

with Thorndale this week. The Bulldogs are coming off a close 20-19 loss to the Weimar Wildcats.

“In district, a close loss does not count,” Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag said. “We were without three two-way starters. Our kids played hard but just did not make enough plays to win the game.”

Thorndale is 5-2 overall and 1-1 on the season.

“They play hard, are fast, big and very physical,” Freytag said.

Thorndale’s offense is multiple and has many looks.

Freytag said they pre-fer to run the ball but can throw it if they need to. He said they have a good offen-sive line.

Thorndale lines up in a 4-3 on defense and is led by nose guard Fabien Gomez, who Freytag described a candidate for All-State.

“Our offense must score when we have the football inside the red zone,” he said. “Our defense must tackle well.”

Lockhart at Alamo Heights

The Lions quickly re-bounded from their second loss two weeks ago to edge Boerne Champion 34-32 on Friday.

“It was a fantastic game,” Lockhart head coach Paul Kilby said. “We held a 21-0 lead at halftime, but got a little bogged down in the third quarter. Our kids got fired up and stepped up to hang on for the win.”

The Lions have a very big game tomorrow as they travel to Alamo Heights for a 7:30 p.m. The Mules are 4-0 in district and are the leaders.

Kilby said the Lions are considered 20-point under-dogs in the game and a win is crucial for playoffs.

“We have to win our next two or three games ,” he said.

Alamo Heights lines up in one back and shot-gun formations. Quarter-back Kalen Brockwell has thrown for 920 yards on 71-of-132 passing with 10 scores and three picks. His main target is Cole Bailey (15-204, six touchdowns). Alamo Heights’s run game is paced by Byron Proctor (98-379, six touchdowns).

“We will have to shut down Proctor because he is an explosive back,” Kilby said.

The Mules run ‘50’ de-fense, and Kilby said line-backer Nick Urestky and defensive end Aaron Rodg-ers are the two main defen-sive players. Alamo Heights has given up just 93 points this year or 13 points a game.

Kilby said it was impor-tant for Lockhart to be con-sistent and not have lapses on offense.

“We need to win for play-offs and to earn respect,” he said.

Industrial at No. 7 Hal-lettsville.

The Brahmas held off Rice Consolidated, 47-34, last week.

“We expected them to be athletic,” Hallettsville head coach Tommy Psencik said. “Rice has about two or three kids that are faster than anyone on our team. I think it was a good game.”

He said the Brahmas of-fense produced as usual but

the defense gave up some yards.

“We were playing a lot of younger kids. I was pleased with the effort in the first half,” Psencik said. “We had a couple of dry runs but came back and scored before halftime to really set the tone.”

Industrial employs a run-heavy offense, led by running back Will Knopp.

The Cobra’s main passing scheme is screen passes.

Psencik said Hallettsville must contain Knopp and the screen game.

Industrial will line up in the 4-4 on defense.

Sacred Heart at St. Ge-rard

Sacred Heart continued their turn around with a 40-6 Homecoming win over Schertz John Paul II on Saturday.

“We took control of that game early and did what we had to win,” Indians head coach Pat Henke said. “Get-ting early control allowed to play some younger play-ers later in the game.”

The Indians (4-3, 2-0) hit the road for two straight games as they play at San Antonio Saint St. Gerard at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.

“They have lots of speed and skilled players,” Henke said. “They like to throw the ball over the field.”

Quarterback Samuel Me-dina has completed 74-of-153 passes for 1,280 yards, 12 touchdowns and four interceptions. Leading re-ceiver is Ernest Sanchez (23-597, six touchdowns).

“Their receivers are tough to cover because of their height,” Henke said. “We will have to pressure the quarterback.”

St. Gerard comes out in a 5-2 defense and will blitz.

Henke said the key will be for the offensive line to pick up the blitzing effec-tively and take care of gap responsibilities.

“It is important for us to keep winning,” he said.

St. Paul at Bryan St. Jo-seph

The Cardinals will be coming back from a bye week to head up to Bryan to take on the St. Joseph Eagles.

“We worked on things that you normally would not spend too much time when you have a game at the end of the week,” St. Paul head coach Jake Wa-chsmuth said. “We got some kids back from injury and scouted some oppo-nents.”

St. Paul plays at a Eagles team that is a better team from what they have been in the past.

He said Bryan St. Joseph runs a spread offense and uses a lot of empty-back-field sets.

“They use motion, run jet sweeps and counters,” Wachsmuth said. “St. Jo-seph will throw the football a little bit.”

“Our defense needs to defend their key players and take away the big play because the Eagles some-times tend to make mis-takes when you stop them from having big plays.”

St. Joseph runs a ‘50’ on defense and stunts a lot with their linebackers. They run man-to-man coverage in the secondary.

“They are a big-play de-fense,” he said. “But they give up some yards. Their style of defense may allow us to make some big plays on offense. We still want to control the ball and have long drive but if we see the chance for a big play, we need to take it.”

Marion at LulingThe Luling Eagles (4-3,

3-0) face Marion after their 2012 bye week.

“We took the off time to rest and recover,” Eagles head coach Colby Hensley.

Luling rested at a good time.

Marion (4-4, 3-1) has only lost to Navarro in dis-trict after going 1-3 in non-district.

Hensley said they are a physical team and the game should be a drag out fight between two good teams.

The Bulldogs line up in a spread and also use double-tight end and three-back formations.

The Bulldogs’ main weapon on offense is quar-terback Jourden Stanley who has thrown for 632 yards and two touchdowns. He has rushed for 515 yards and 11 scores.

“He can take it to the house immediately,” Hens-ley said. “We need to shut him down.”

On defense, Marion goes with a 4-3 and all of the linebackers come downhill and hit you, Hensley said.

“Our offense will have to execute so that to place their defense in a situation where they will have to make a decision,” he said.

Nixon-Smiley at CotullaFresh off their first win

of the season, the Mustangs travel to Cotulla for a 7:30 p.m. game tomorrow.

Cotulla is 3-4 but 1-3 in district.

The Mustangs defeated Bloomington, 28-21, last week.

“It was good for us to get that first win,” Nixon head coach Carlton McKinney said. “We made a couple of mistakes and the game was little closer than it needed. But we made the plays we needed to for the win.”

He said fullback Jared Van Auken had his best game of the season and the offensive line did well in creating opportunities and running lanes for the backs.

Cotulla runs a Slot-T on offense and will utilize all of their offensive backs.

“On defense we will have to trust our keys and make sure we take care of assign-ments,” McKinney said.

On defense they line up in the ‘27’ and the ‘50’, for-mations, the Mustangs see all the time.

“We will need to protect the football and sustain drives,” he said.

Cuero at SmithvilleCuero fell to 0-2 in dis-

trict after losing 28-21 to rivals Yoakum.

Head coach Travis Reeve said while turnovers and missed tackles gave the Gobblers some trouble, the players still played hard.

Smithville is 3-4 and 0-2 in district play after suffer-ing close losses to Yoakum and La Grange.

“They have size and speed, and are formidable opponents, having been in two close district games,” he said. “

Smithville has a balanced attack led by quarterback Denton Cooper and run-ning backs Gray Morris and DaArron Jackson.

“We need to swarm to the football and finish our tackles,” Reeve said. “Our defense must win the battle up front.”

The Tigers run a 4-3 on defense that is solid all the way around.

Cuero will need to cor-rect the turnover issue and execute well.

“Both schools have solid offenses. I think it will be a question of who can ex-ecute better,” Reeve said.

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APACHES: Battle ‘Dogs

LOCKHART – C.J. McK-inney ran for 128 yards and three touchdowns to lead Lockhart to a 34-32 win over Boerne Champion.

Marcos Rodriguez rushed for 115 yards and two scores, while Curtis Hawkins contributed with 99 rushing yards.

McKinney got the Lions off to a fast start with a 46-yard touchdown in the first quarter. He added two more scores in the second and Lockhart (5-2, 2-2) held a 21-0 halftime advantage.

Kyle Poeske brought Champion (3-4, 1-3) back in the second half with scoring tosses to Spencer Jarzombek and Michael Moloney, both in a score-less third quarter for Lock-hart.

Rodriguez hit paydirt from five yards out in the fourth quarter before Poeske threw a touchdown pass to Dillon Manz.

Champion would score twice more in the period, but they failed to garner any conversion points, which was the difference in the game.

Game SummaryLockhart 34, Boerne Champion

32BC 0 0 14 18–32Lck 7 14 0 13–34Scoring summaryLCK -- C.J. McKinney 46-yard

run (Jordan Johnson kick), 1:33, 1st.

LCK -- C.J. McKinney 1-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick), 5:32, 2nd.

LCK -- C.J. McKinney 44-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick), 3:00, 2nd.

CHA -- Spencer Jarzombek 28-yard pass from Kyle Poeske (Clay-ton Hatfield kick), 10:50, 3rd.

CHA -- Michael Moloney 22-yard pass from Kyle Poeske (Clay-ton Hatfield kick), 1:39, 3rd.

LCK -- Marcos Rodriguez 5-yard run (Jordan Johnson kick), 5:18, 4th.

CHA -- Dillon Manz 18-yard pass from Kyle Poeske, 4:24, 4th.

CHA -- Kyle Poeske 1-yard run, 3:44, 4th.

LCK -- Marcos Rodriguez 2-yard run, 0:20, 4th.

CHA -- Dillon Manz 14-yard pass from Kyle Poeske, 0:07, 4th.

Team statistics BC LockFirst downs 15 16Rushes-yds 15-14 69-371Passes 21-39-0 0-1-0Passing yards 336 0Punts-yards 2-81 3-92Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-yds 5-37 5-40Individual statsRUSHING — Champion: Kyle

Poeske 9-15, Austin Humphrey 6-(-1). Lockhart: Marcos Rodri-guez 22-115, Juan Lopez 2-(-13), Levi Mair 9-38, C.J. McKinney 13-128, Curtis Hawkins 22-99, Chris Castillo 1-4.

PASSING — Champion: Poeske 21-39-336. Lockhart: Charles Ereaux 0-1-0.

RECEIVING — Champion: Spencer Jarzombek 4-82, Michael Moloney 9-135, Chandler Ruble 2-29, Travis Posposil 2-9, Dillon Manz 3-68.

Weimar 20, Fla-tonia 19

FLATONIA – A three-yard touchdown run by Ju-wan Almeida with five min-utes left to play proved to be the game-winning score as Weimar squeaked by Flato-nia, 20-19.

Almeida led Weimar (4-3, 2-0) by running for two scores and throwing for an-other.

Mitchel Mica was the leading rusher for Flatonia (3-5, 0-2) with 93 yards on 14 carries.

The Bulldogs scored first when they garnered a safety and then Almeida put Wei-mar on the board with a five-yard run.

Flatonia answered back with a Will Bruns touch-down run from 19 yards out and then he threw the conversion pass to Colby Craig. Bruns nailed a 28-yard field goal at the end of the first half to give Flatonia a 13-7 lead at halftime.

CUERO — Quarterback Tre’Vontae “Tre” Hights knew he would play against Cuero. The sophomore just did not know how much, especially since earlier in the season he had sat out because of injury.

Hights shared duties with junior quarterback Chase Hermes and provid-ed a big offensive spark for Yoakum as he ran the foot-ball 13 times for 114 yards and three touchdowns, in-cluding the go-ahead score with 1:50 left in the game in Yoakum’s 28-21 victory at Gobbler Stadium Friday night.

It was the Bulldogs’ first win in Cuero since 2001 and their second straight win in the series. Yoakum edged the Gobblers 25-21 last year with a late score.

Hights said he did not feel he had completely healed yet.

“I am not 100 percent but I keep healing and I will be back full-time soon,” Hights said. “Hopefully, I will be 100 percent by the playoffs.”

Hights said before the game, Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay said he would see time in the game.

“He told me I would have a big game. I just listened to him and ran the plays he told me to,” Hights said. “I was very nervous playing against our rivals.”

Kornegay said that what-ever the situation called for is what dictated whether Hermes or Hights took the snap.

“I cannot say enough about both of them,” he said. “Chase threw the ball well and Tre is like our Wildcat kid. It is hard for defenses to defend two kids like that.”

This was Hights’ first ac-tion at the varsity level in the rivalry game.

“I showed you (what it was like to play Cuero for

the first time) better than I can tell you,” he said. “I do not have any words for it. It is just amazing.”

Like any offensive back who amasses yards on the ground, Hights gave plenty of credit to his offensive

line for his production.The Cuero Gobblers

moved the ball well with 211 yards rushing and quarterback Blake Reeve completed 14-of-24 pass-es for 133 yards and one touchdown.

However, turnovers killed the Cuero offense as they lost one fumble and had three interceptions in-cluding a pick in the Yoa-kum end zone with no time left in the game as Cuero

GONZALES - Getting your first district win is al-ways a good thing, but get-ting it by beating a Top Ten team makes it even better.

The Gonzales Apaches did just that by upsetting #7 Giddings, 43-23, Friday night at Apache Stadium.

The win improved Gon-zales to 5-2 overall, but more importantly it got them back into the hunt for the District 26-3A title. The Apaches are 1-1 in league play, placing them in a tie for third place with Gid-dings while both La Grange and Yoakum have district marks of 2-0.

Cecil Johnson had an-other huge night for the Apaches, rushing for 256 yards and five touchdowns. Matt Hillman was efficient in the passing game, com-pleting 5 of 9 for 58 yards.

“We tried to make it real simple with what we threw tonight,” Lock said. “We called for a lot of high per-centage short passes and Matt did a good job of de-livering the football.”

The Buffaloes (6-1) are well known for their of-fensive prowess, but Gon-zales held them to only 202 yards of total offense. Their outstanding running back tandem of Joseph Glenn

and Deon Hickey only managed to eke out 68 and 39 rushing yards respec-tively.

Head coach Ricky Lock said his team was well-prepared coming into the game, which enabled them to limit Giddings offen-sively.

“We watched a lot of film on them and we knew we had to take away Hickey,” he said. “We knew Glenn would have his moments, but Hickey had been unbe-lievable on film.”

The game began on an ill note for Gonzales. Dar-rance James was unable to field the opening kick-off and the ball bounced through his legs. He re-treated to retrieve it, but was hit by a Giddings de-fender and Quake Rich-mond fell on the loose ball in the end zone to give the Buffaloes a 6-0 lead three seconds into the game.

“Our defense really only gave up two scores because that opening kickoff was just a disaster,” said Lock. “To start off in a hole like that and still be able to beat a top-ranked team, I think that says a lot about the character of our team.”

Gonzales’ next posses-sion began on their own 30 and Johnson picked up a first down on the drive’s second play with a nine-

yard run. Hillman threw complete to Coltin Russell for a five-yard gain and three plays later, Johnson converted a fourth and one on a run from the Wildcat formation.

Hillman completed a bubble screen pass to Der-ek Hunt for five yards be-fore scrambling for a first down on third and five. Johnson gained 11 yards on a second down carry

and two plays later, he had a powerful run where he dragged two tacklers with him en route to another Gonzales first down.

Johnson scored a pitch right from eight yards out and Hillman got the ball to Zack Lopez on an option pitch from the swinging gate formation to put Gon-zales up 8-7.

Hickey had a great return to set Giddings up at their

own 44. After a short run by Glenn, Hickey ripped off a 17-yarder to put the ball into Apache territory. Adam Dock gained seven yards on a quarterback keeper, but the Buffaloes were flagged for illegal pro-cedure on the next play to set up a second and eight from the Gonzales 34.

Dock was pressured by Zach Perez-Clack and Jor-dan Johnson finished him

off for a sack to cause a three-yard loss. Two plays later, Giddings turned to trickeration as a double-re-verse pass ended up in the hands of Hickey for a 33-yard gain. Glenn capped the drive two plays later with an eight-yard run, but the conversion pass failed and Giddings was up 13-8.

After a Gonzales three and out, the Buffaloes took

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Friday Night LightsGonzales pulls off upset of #7 Giddings

GONZALES, Page C4

Yoakum survives late scare to pick up road win at rival CueroBy MARK [email protected]

YOAKUM, Page C5

Lockhart holds Champion at bay, winning 34-32

ROUNDUP, Page C4

Football Roundup


Cecil Johnson follows behind the blocking of Cameron Smith (25), D.J. Gonzales (32) and Tyler Filla (70) dur-ing this run in Gonzales’ 43-23 upset of #7 Giddings Friday night. Johnson rushed for five touchdowns in the game. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

T.J. Hights hauls in a pass during Yoakum’s 28-21 win at Cuero Friday night. (Pho-to by Mark Lube)

over at their own 38. Glenn picked up 10 yards to move the chains, but after a pen-alty Giddings was soon fac-ing a second and 13.

A screen pass to Glenn went for 12, but Dock was decked by Alyas Ramirez for a four-yard loss on the next play. The Buffa-loes went for it on fourth and five, but Russell deftly swooped in to break up the pass from Dock to Cody Zwernemann to give the ball back to Gonzales.

The Apaches embarked on an 11-play drive where-in Johnson carried the ball seven times. The highlight came when he bowled over Justin Herzog at the goal line to score from six yards away. Johnson also got the two-point conversion run and Gonzales led 16-13.

Another big kick return by Hickey gave Giddings a first down from midfield. Dock got six yards on a run before his pass on sec-ond down ricocheted off the hands of his intended receiver and into the grasp of Lopez, who returned the ball down to the Buffalo 44.

On the next play, James took in a hitch pass from Hillman and raced into the end zone but the play was called back due to an illegal shift. Following a six-yard carry, Johnson got 18 on a counter and then went 17 yards on a run off the right side.

The Apaches ran three more plays before letting the clock run down to four seconds and calling for a time out. From the Wildcat, Johnson punched into the end zone from the two-yard line and Hillman’s kick was good to give the Apaches a 23-13 lead at halftime.

Giddings came out in the second half with a full head of steam, launching an 11-play drive that ended with Dock falling forward on a three-yard touchdown run. Michael Rangel made the extra point kick and the Buffaloes closed the gap to

23-20.Johnson started Gonza-

les’ first second-half pos-session with three straight carries that got the ball out to the Buffalo 48. Then D.J. Gonzales got an in-side rush where he broke a tackle at the line of scrim-mage, moved a pile of players forward and then burst through the mass of humanity and sprinted into the end zone. Hillman made the extra point kick and Gonzales was up 30-20.

The Buffaloes respond-ed by executing a 10-play scoring drive that culmi-nated in a 31-yard field goal by Rangel to pull within 30-23 late in the third quarter.

The final nails in the Gid-dings coffin were driven in by the Apache defense early in the final quarter.

Dock threw a middle screen pass to Hickey, who was immediately dropped by Perez-Clack for a five-yard loss on second down. On the next play, Damien Airhart got pressure on Dock and ran him into Jordan Johnson for a sack which forced a Giddings punt.

Gonzales was penalized five yards for a false start to open their drive and then Cecil Johnson picked up four yards out of the Wild-cat. Hillman then connect-ed with Cameron Smith on a short crossing route for 22 yards to move the chains.

Two plays later, James made a gorgeous fingertip catch of a Hillman pass that went for 19 yards. On second and six from the Buffalo 19, Johnson took another Wildcat carry and got across the goal line on the scamper. The kick was blocked, leaving the Gon-zales lead at 36-23.

A first down pass from Dock from Zwernemann picked up 13 yards and Gonzales was called for face mask on the play, which put the ball at the Apache 37. Dock threw a pass that went off the hands of Glenn and James snagged the bounce for an interception

and returned it to the near midfield.

Johnson ran for 23 yards on the ensuing drive’s first play and was flagged for a controversial taunting call, which put the ball at the Giddings 37. Johnson ran twice for a total of 11 yards before he broke a tackle at the 15 and waltzed into the end zone for a 26-yard touchdown. Hillman’s extra point kick accounted for the final score.

Gonzales gained 384 yards on offense with 326 of it coming on the ground.

“We moved the ball on them fairly well,” Lock said. “Our kids played hard, ran hard and blocked well to-night. Hopefully this will carry over into Yoakum next week.”

Game SummaryGonzales 43, #7 Giddings 23Score by QuartersGid 13 0 10 0–23Gon 8 15 7 13–43Scoring SummaryGID -- Quake Richmond fum-

ble recovery in end zone (Michael Rangel kick), 11:57, 1st.

GON -- Cecil Johnson 8 run (Zack Lopez run), 5:30, 1st.

GID -- Joseph Glenn 7 run (pass failed), 1:01, 1st.

GON -- Johnson 6 run (John-son run), 4:09, 2nd.

GON -- Johnson 2 run (Matt Hillman kick), 0:00, 2nd.

GID -- Adam Dock 3 run (Ran-gel kick), 7:26, 3rd.

GON -- D.J. Gonzales 44 run (Hillman kick), 5:45, 3rd.

GID -- Rangel 31 field goal, 0:34, 3rd.

GON -- Johnson 19 run (kick failed), 5:18, 4th.

GON -- Johnson 26 run (Hill-man kick), 2:55, 4th.

Team Statistics Gid GonFirst downs 13 22Rushes-Yds 33-125 41-326Passing 6-12-2 5-9-0Passing Yds 77 58Punts-Yds 1-46 2-59Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0Penalites-Yds 4-25 5-45Individual StatisticsRUSHING - Giddings: Deon

Hickey 6-39, Joseph Glenn 14-68, Adam Dock 13-18. Gonzales: Ce-cil Johnson 36-256, Hillman 1-8, D.J. Gonzales 2-53, Francisco Diaz 2-9.

PASSING - Giddings: Dock 6-12-77-2. Gonzales: Hillman 5-9-58.

RECEIVING - Giddings: Hick-ey 2-28, Glenn 1-12, Cody Zwer-nemann 2-25, Richard Jurk 1-12. Gonzales: Cameron Smith 1-22, Coltin Russell 2-11, Darrance James 1-19, Derek Hunt 1-6.

NIXON — Try as they might, the Nixon-Smiley Mustangs couldn’t help but win Friday.

“We did everything we could to give it away,” mused head coach Carlton McKinney after his team held on down the stretch to claim a see-saw 28-21 Homecoming victory over Bloomington Friday to reg-ister their first win of the year.

“It feels good to get the monkey off our back,” McKinney said. “But all the same, our problem all year has been execution. We put the ball on the ground at inopportune times. We’re just not talented enough to overcome mistakes like that.”

The Mustangs (1-6, 1-3) survived three fumbles — one of which was returned for a touchdown — and a blocked field goal that was almost run back for a touchdown thanks in part of the fact that the Bobcats were pretty much equally snakebitten when it came to execution.

Nixon-Smiley foiled a possible tying touchdown in the final two minutes with an interception, halted another Bobcat drive with a second pickoff, and recov-ered an onside kick while limiting Bloomington to just 184 total yards on the night.

Fullback Jared Van Auken, meanwhile, carried 28 times for 190 yards and scored twice, including the game-winner, to pace the Mustangs.

“We’d had him at half-back the first few weeks and we moved him back to full-back this week,” McKinney said. “He gave us the big night, he ran very tough.”

The Mustangs got them-selves burned for a couple of long passes, but McKin-ney said that, too, is par-tially the result of the youth and inexperience his team is saddled with this season.

“They’ve been watching too much NFL and col-lege, where you hit the guy and he goes down,” he said. “That’s something we work on on a daily basis and they just have to learn it.”

Bloomington (0-7, 0-4) had taken a 21-20 lead late in the third period when

quarterback Jacob Hardee hit wideout Joe Martinez with a quick look-in pass and Martinez had three defenders miss tackles en route to a 48-yard score.

The Mustangs came back, however, when Gar-rett Earlywine gave them great field position with a 41-yard kickoff return. Sev-en plays later, on the second play of the fourth quarter, Van Auken punched it in from four yards out and a two-point conversion by Tristan Newman gave them a 28-21 lead.

Newman grabbed a wounded-duck pass aimed at the end zone on Bloom-ington’s next possession and put the Mustangs on course for a time-consum-ing march which should have iced the win. Nixon-Smiley churned out 11 plays and covered 52 yards, surviving two fumbles, be-fore settling for a 25-yard field-goal attempt by Oscar Torres.

The Bobcats’ David Lla-mas burst through to block the kick, however, and ran the ball all the way back to the Mustang 14-yard line with 3:01 to play.

A no-gainer was fol-lowed by a holding penalty, and then the Bobcats tried a halfback-pass play which backfired when Nick Pena intercepted the ball for the Mustangs at their 10-yard line.

Nixon-Smiley was able to run the clock down to 32 seconds before being forced to punt, but a roughing the kicker call against the Bob-cats gave them a first down and enabled them to run out the clock.

The contest started badly for both teams. Blooming-ton’s opening kickoff trav-eled only four yards, but the Mustangs couldn’t capi-talize. The Bobcats’ Alex Aguirre pounced on a N-S fumble at the 15 to kill the threat.

The Mustang defense forced a punt before Nix-on-Smiley’s offense found its stride on the next drive, when Van Auken popped through a pack inside and raced 44 yards for a touch-down and a 6-0 lead.

The Bobcats took the lead in the second quarter when a bad pitchout wound up in the hands of Llamas, who returned the ball 13 yards for a score and a 7-6 lead.

The Mustangs struck right back to forge ahead, this time with a quick five-play, 75-yard drive. New-man took a handoff on a counter sweep and charged through a gaping hole on the right side to race un-touched 45 yards for the score.

Bloomington made it a one-point game at inter-mission. After stopping the Mustangs on downs, Hard-ee and Martinez hooked up for a 31-yard gain, then Reuben Aguirre covered the final 23 yards on a burst up the middle to make it 14-13.

Nixon-Smiley extended its lead on its first drive of the third quarter, going 70 yards in nine plays, with Miguel Hernandez cover-ing the final 50 on his own with a scoring run that made it 20-13.

The Bobcats struck back on their next possession to take back the lead at 21-20 before the Mustangs mounted what would be the winning march.

Nixon-Smiley wound up with 374 rushing yards on 60 attempts, but lost three fumbles.

Game SummaryNixon-Smiley 28, Bloomington

21Score by quartersBloom 0 13 8 0—21N-S 6 8 6 8—28Scoring summaryN-S — Jared Van Auken 44 run

(kick failed)Bloom—David Llamas 13 fum-

ble return (Ruben Aguirre kick)N-S—Tristan Newman 45 run

(Van Auken run)Bloom—Aguirre 23 run (kick

failed)N-S—Miguel Hernandez 50

run (run failed)Bloom—Joe Martinez 48 pass

from Jacob Hardee (Martinez pass from Aguirre)

N-S—Van Auken 4 run (New-man run)

Team Statistics Bloom NSFirst downs 9 20Rushes-Yds 29-67 60-374Passes 5-14-2 1-2-0Passing yards 115 9Punts-Avg 4-37 0-0Fumbles-Lost 3-0 5-3Penalties-yards 6-50 4-30Individual StatisticsRUSHING – Bloomington: Ja-

cob Hardee 4-4, Reuben Aguirre 16-47, Chris Cabrera 8-15, Joe Martinez 1-1. Nixon-Smiley: Jared Van Auken 28-190, Tristan New-man 13-117, Miguel Hernandez 10-77, Nick Pena 8-(-13), Tom Palacio 1-3.

PASSING – Bloomington: Ja-cob Hardee 5-13-1-115, Joe Mar-tinez 0-1-1. Nixon-Smiley: Nick Pena 1-2-0-9.

RECEIVING – Bloomington: Joe Martinez 3-94, Reuben Agu-irre 2-21. Nixon-Smiley: Tristan Newman 1-9.


By DAVE [email protected]

Friday Night Lights

Continued from page C3

GONZALES: Defensive effort spectacular, shut Giddings down

Mustangs outlast Bloomington for season’s first win

Nixon-Smiley players react as they recover a fumble during the Mustangs’ 28-21 win over Bloomington Friday night. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

Weimar got the first score of the second half when Torre Johnson caught a nine-yard pass from Al-meida, who also kicked in the extra point.

A 19-yard pass from Bruns to Evan Butcher put Flatonia back in the lead, but the conversion pass failed.

Game SummaryWeimar 20, Flatonia 19Score by QuartersW 0 7 7 6–20F 2 11 0 6–19Scoring summaryFLA -- Safety, 5:18, 1st.WEI -- Juwan Almeida 5-yard

run (Juwan Almeida kick), 11:55, 2nd.

FLA -- Will Bruns 19-yard run (Colby Craig from Will Bruns), 7:54, 2nd.

FLA -- Will Bruns 28-yard field goal, 0:00, 2nd.

WEI -- Torre Johnson 9-yard pass from Juwan Almeida (Juwan Almeida kick), 3:24, 3rd.

FLA -- Evan Butcher 19-yard pass from Will Bruns (pass failed), 8:23, 4th.

WEI -- Juwan Almeida 3-yard run (pass failed), 4:56, 4th.

Team statistics W FFirst downs 14 15Rushes-yards 29-147 48-

208Passes 5-8-0 3-6-1Passing yards 55 32

Punts-yards 1-41 1-30Fumbles-lost 3-2 4-1Penalties-yards 3-25 3-15Individual statisticsRUSHING— Weimar: Delexus

Gordon 4-23, Jakyle Harris 11-80, Juwan Almeida 11-47. Flatonia: Mitchel Mica 14-93, Aaron Man-zano 8-26, Will Bruns 19-64, Ed-die Manzano 7-25.

PASSING— Weimar: Almeida 5-8-55. Flatonia: Bruns 3-6-32.

RECEIVING— Weimar: Seth Helmcamp 2-19, Jalen Almeida 1-16, Torre Johnson 2-20. Fla-tonia: Evan Butcher 2-25, Colby Craig 1-7.

Sacred Heart 40, Schertz John Paul II 6

HALLETTSVILLE – The Hallettsville Sacred Heart Indians made it four in a row as they dispatched Schertz John Paul II, 40-6, in their Homecoming game Saturday at Hallett-ville Brahmas Memorial Stadium.

Jonathan Vanek rushed for 125 yards and a touch-down, and scored on the defensive side with a 95-yard interception return. Quarterback Leightin Pi-lat completed 3-of-7 pass-ing for 104 yards and two touchdowns, one to Cade

Brewer and the other to Evan Wick. Pilat also scored on a 33-yard run.

The Indians led 27-0 at halftime on the first-quarter touchdown run by Vanek; his interception for a touchdown and Pilat’s two touchdown passes all came in the second period.

Pilat ran 33 yards for a third-quarter score and in the fourth, John Paul II got on the board with a 2-yard run by Michael McCabe.

Sacred Heart got one last score, a 1-yard plunge by Tyler Kraatz in the fourth as well.

Game SummarySJPII 0 0 0 6-6HSH 6 21 6 7-40Scoring SummaryHSH-Jonathan Vanek 11 run

(kick failed)HSH-Vanek 95 interception re-

turn (Leightin Pilat run)HSH-Evan Wick 18 pass from

Pilat (Wick kick)HSH-Cade Brewer 42 pass

from Pilat (Wick kick)HSH-Pilat 33 run (kick failed)SJPII-Michael McCabe 2 run

(run failed)HSH-Tyler Kraatz 1 run (kick

failed)Team statistics JPII HSHFirst downs 16 23Rushes-yards 47-170 33-230

ROUNDUP: Flatonia falls again, #9 Hallettsville remains unbeaten by downing Rice


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had marched 38 yards in over a minute for a last shot to tie the game for over-time, or score and go for two for the win.

“I am proud of our effort and we do not have any-thing to regret or hang our heads,” Cuero head coach Travis Reeve said. “Yoa-kum has a great football team and give them credit, they played a good game tonight.”

“You cannot win when you turn the ball over four times. We learned that the hard way.”

Ray Horton had 104 yards on 19 rushes while D’Anthony Hopkins, who recently returned from in-jury, added 97 yards on 14 carries.

“I thought those guys did a good job for us,” Reeve said. “It starts up front with our offensive line doing a good job.”

Kornegay said he expect-ed Cuero to pound the ball on the ground with their massive offensive line.

“I felt we corrected some things for the second half and our kids played well,” he said.

A Justin Kremling 5-yard run and Blake Reeve two-point conversion pass to D’Andre Gallagher brought the Gobblers back from a 21-13 deficit.

Yoakum started at its 23 with over six minutes left to play, following a 15-yard penalty on the kickoff re-turn, and drove 87 yards in 13 plays. Myron Hights took an option pitch to give Yoakum first down at the 35. Cuero was flagged for offsides and Hermes had a 6-yard pass to Keith Rat-ley for first down. Hermes’ pass for T.J. Hights on the next play was incomplete but Cuero was penalized for defensive holding and the ‘Dogs had first down at the Gobbler 44. T.J. Hights caught an 8-yard pass on second and 7 for another first down to the 33. Tre Hights kept the ball on an a read option using a jet-sweep fake and got the 22. Terrance Hall got the ball on the jet sweep for 10 yards down to the 12 and Yoakum overcame a delay of game call and scored the game-winner of a 6-yard plunge by Tre Hights.

Cuero had two time outs left during the drive but Reeve elected to not use them.

“We felt like if we gave them a time out, they might have a chance to come up with something and it is

harder to call plays some-times when you have 25 seconds left as opposed to having a minute and a half,” Reeve said. “We have had games where we marched down the field and scored. We wanted to keep our time outs when we needed them (on offense). “

On the potential game-tying or game-winning drive, Cuero had some in-complete passes and some plays that went out of bounds, allowing them to conserve the time outs.

Kornegay said the thing for Yoakum’s defense was to keep everything in front of them and no big plays, saying they deployed their “rainbow” pass coverage.

The Gobblers started at their 16. Reeve went to Justin Rossett for 7 yards and that was followed by two incomplete passes and a false-start penalty. Reeve hit Gallagher for a 16 yard gain to the Cuero 34 on fourth down. Several plays later, Cuero was at the Dog 45 with just a few seconds left. Reeve’s heave to the end zone was intercepted by T.J. Hights to seal the win.

Yoakum took the open-ing kickoff and marched from its 30 to inside the Cuero 20 as Hermes com-pleted some passes, and Myron Hights and Ter-rance Hall provided most of the ground attack. A Hermes pass fell incom-plete on fourth down at the 19 to end the drive.

Yoakum got the ball back two plays later as Horton was stopped for no gain and then a Reeve swing pass to Hopkins saw the tailback try to find room to the near sideline and then reverse direction and was tackled for a 4-yard loss at the 15. He fumbled the ball and Yoakum recovered.

A run by fullback Reagan Jacobs was stuffed for no gain then Tre Hights took his first snap at quarterback for the night and hit T.J. Hights for 14 yards to the Cuero 1 where Tre Hights scored and Jacobs added the extra point for a 7-0 Yoakum lead.

Cuero responded with a 78-yard drive in about six minutes. Horton had car-ries of 13, 3, 9 and 31 yards to move the ball close to the goal line and a few plays later, Reeve hit Kremling for the first Cuero score.

The Gobblers took ad-vantage of a three-and-out, leading to a 16 and 28-yard gain by Hopkins to put Cu-ero inside the red zone but the ‘Dogs held them to a

25-yard field goal attempt to put the home team ahead 10-7.

Yoakum drove 72 yards in five plays, getting a 47-yard carry by Tre Hights, and he capped the drive with a 2-yard plunge for the 14-10 Yoakum lead with 4:49 to play in the first half.

The Gobblers then used a balanced attack to move the ball inside the Yoakum 20. A Reeve pass was tipped by T.J. Hights and intercepted by Keith Ratley in the end zone.

However, the ‘Dogs com-mitted their only turnover of the game as Tre Hights was dropped for a 5-yard loss and lost the football.

Hopkins took a shovel pass from Reeve down to the 5 but the Gobblers later had to settle for the field goal and trailed Yoakum 14-13 at the break.

Yoakum thwarted Cu-ero’s opening drive of the third quarter as defensive back Blake McCracken in-tercepted a Reeve pass and returned it to the Yoakum 42. The ‘Dogs appeared to stall out after crossing the 50. Yoakum made a play and struck pay dirt as Ratley hauled in a 48-yard touchdown pass from Hermes for a 21-13 Yoa-kum advantage with 7:22 to play in the third.

Yoakum is 5-2 on the year and 2-0 in a district while Cuero drops to 2-5 overall and 0-2 in district.

Game SummaryYoakum 28, Cuero 21Score by QuartersY 7 7 7 7-28C 0 13 0 8-21Scoring SummaryY-Tre Heights 1 run (Reagan

Jacobs kick)C-Justin Kremling 3 pass from

Blake Reeve (Brenden Pupi kick)C-Pupi 25 FGY-Hights 2 run (Jacobs kick)C-Pupi 22 FGY-Keith Ratley 48 pass from

Chase Hermes (Jacobs kick)C-Kremlin 5 run (D’Andre Gal-

lagher pass from Reeve kick)Y-Hights 6 run (Jacobs kick)Team statistics Y CRushes-yards 30-191 38-211Passes 8-14-0 14-24-3Passing yards 105 133Punts-yards 2-71 1-31Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1Penalties-yards 4-42 5-30Individual statisticsRUSHING — Yoakum: Tre

Hights 13-114, Myron Hights 7-46, Terrance Hall 4-15, Chase Hermes 4-13, Blake McCracken 1-3, Reagan Jacobs 1-0. Cuero: Ray Horton 19-104, D’Anthony Hopkins 14-97, Blake Reeve 4-5, Justin Kremling 1-5.

PASSING — Yoakum: Hermes 7-11-0-91, Tre Hights 1-3-0-14. Cuero: Reeve 14-24-3-133.

RECEIVING — Yoakum: T.J. Hights 4-44, Keith Ratley 3-60, Myron Hights 1-1. Cuero: Krem-ling 3-27, Ross Reimenschneider 1-12, Hopkins 1-9, D’Andre Galla-gher 1-16, Justin Rossett 7-73.


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YOAKUM: Takes district lead with victory over the Gobblers

Cecil JohnsonRB, GonzalesThe senior was a major reason

why the Apaches were able to up-set #7 Giddings. He ran for 256 yards and five touchdowns in the 43-23 win over the Buffaloes.

Honorable Mentions• CJ McKinney, Lockhart. Ran for 128

yards and three touchdowns on 13 car-ries in the Lions’ 34-32 win over Boerne Champion.

• Leightin Pilat, Sacred Heart. Threw for 104 yards and two touchdowns in the Indians’ 40-6 win over Schertz John Paul II. He also ran for 38 yards and another score.

• Carson Schindler, Hallettsville. Threw for 174 yards and three touch-downs in the Brahmas’ 47-34 win over Rice Consolidated.

• Tre Hights, Yoakum. Rushed 13 times for 114 yards and three touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ 28-21 win over Cuero.

• Jared Van Auken, Nixon-Smiley. Ran for 190 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Mustangs to a 28-21 win over Bloomington.

• Jonathan Vanek, Sacred Heart. Ran for 125 yards for a touchdown and re-turned an interception 95 yards for an-other score in the Indians’ win over John Paul II.

• Marcos Rodriguez, Lockhart. Rushed for 115 yards and two touchdowns in the Lions’ win.

• Will Bruns, Flatonia. Rushed for 64 yards and a touchdown and kicked a 28-yard field goal in the Bulldogs’ 20-19 loss to Weimar. He also threw a touchdown pass.

• Tedrick Smith, Hallettsville. Ran for 182 yards a touchdown on 12 carries

in the Brahmas win over Rice Consoli-dated. He also caught two passes for 46 yards.

• Justin Kremling, Cuero. Caught three passes, including one for a touch-down, and ran for a five-yard score in the Gobblers’ 28-21 loss to Yoakum.

• Tristan Newman, Nixon-Smiley. Ran for 117 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries in the Mustangs’ win over Bloom-ington.

• Chase Hermes, Yoakum. Complet-ed 7 of his 11 passes for 91 yards and a touchdown in the Bulldogs’ win over Cuero.

• D’Anthony Hopkins, Cuero. Rushed 14 times for 97 yards in the Gobblers’ loss to Yoakum.

• Curtis Hawkins, Lockhart. Ran for 99 yards in the Lions’ win over Boerne Champion.

• Mitchel Mica, Flatonia. Rushed 14 times for 93 yards in the Bulldogs’ loss to Weimar.

• Ray Horton, Cuero. Ran 19 times for 104 yards in the Gobblers’ loss to Yoa-kum.

Cannon FootballPlayer of the Week

Subvarsity ReportApache JV struggles at Giddings, lose big 33-7

Yoakum quarterback Tre Hights turns the corner during this carry in the Bull-dogs’ win over Cuero Friday. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Passing 1-5-1 3-7-0Passing yards 15 104Punts-yards 1-36 1-43Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1Penalties-yards 1-5 4-20Individual statisticsRUSHING — Schertz JP II: Mi-

chael McCabe 17-100, Cameron Ahrens 20-63, Jacob Bradley 9-10, Mark Cooper 1-7. Hallettsville Sacred Heart: Jonathan Vanek 13-125, Leightin Pilat 7-38, Tyler Kraatz 7-35, Marc Raphael 2-20, Dylan Jahn 2-6, Evan Wick 1-7, Scott Stoner 1-0.

PASSING — Schertz JP II: Mc-Cabe 1-4-1-25. Jacob Bradley 0-1-0-0. Hallettsville Sacred Heart: Pilat 3-7-0-104.

RECEIVING — Schertz JP II: Cameron Ahrens 1-15. Halletts-ville Sacred Heart: Stoner 1-44, Cade Brewer 1-42, Wick 1-18.

#7 Hallettsville 47, Rice Consoli-dated 34

ALTAIR – The Brahmas preserved their unbeaten record but had their work cut out for them in a 47-34 shootout rival Altair Rice Consolidated, 47-34.

The Brahmas held a nar-row 7-6 lead after one quar-ter as Tedrick Smith scored on an 8-yard run for the Brahmas and the Raiders scored soon after on an 81-

yard kickoff return by Jus-tin Semora.

The Brahmas then ripped off 20 second-quar-ter points with three touch-down passes by Carson Schindler — 55 yards to Trenton McGee, 19 yards to Jimario Grounds and a shorter 8-yard reception by Tim Sheppard.

In the third quarter, Rice got a 1-yard touchdown run by Jordan Johnson and Hallettsville got an 8-yard run by Sheppard.

The teams combined for 35 points in the fourth quarter. Johnson scored on a 1-yard run, the Brahmas got a 51-yard run from Smith, Rice got a 6-yard score from Johnson and a two point play to pull with-in 40-27.

Kaden Hardt scored on a 58-yard run for Halletts-ville and Rice got number four from Johnson.

Game SummaryHall 7 20 7 13-47Rice 6 0 6 22-34Scoring SummaryH-Tedrick Smith 8 run (Sam

Barrera kick)R-Justin Semora 81 kickoff re-

turn (kick failed)H-Trenton McGee 55 pass from

Carson Schindler (kick failed)H-Jimario Grounds 19 pass

from Schindler (Barrera kick)H-Tim Sheppard 8 pass from

Schindler (Barrera kick)R-Jordan Johnson 1 run (kick

failed)H-Sheppard 8 run (Barrera

kick)R-Johnson 1 run (pass failed)H-Smith 51 run (kick failed)R-Johnson 6 run (Joe Castillo

pass from Johnson)H-Kaden Hardt 58 run (Bar-

rera kick)R-Johnson 10 run (Johnson

kick)Team statistics H RFirst downs 18 22Rushes-yards 25-288 40-127Passing 12-21-0 17-30-2Passing yards 174 202Punts-yards 3-128 4-114Fumbles-lost 3-2 0-0Penalties-yards 2-20 4-20Individual statisticsRUSHING — Hallettsville:

Tedrick Smith 12-182, Kaden Hardt 2-62, Dalton Herrington 1-18, Carson Schindler 3-12, Tim Sheppard 4-6, Drew Haas 2-5, Brent Motal 1-2. Rice Con-solidated: Jordan Johnson 26-85, Jamikel Dancy 3-18, James Garner 8-12, Everitt Grounds 1-12, Justin Semora 1-0, Jordan Garner 1-0.

PASSING — Hallettsville: Schindler 12-21-0-174. Rice Con-solidated: Johnson 17-30-2-202.

RECEIVING — Hallettsville: Sheppard 3-29, Herrington 3-7, Trenton McGee 2-63, Smith 2-46, Jimario Grounds 2-29. Rice Con-solidated: Grounds 6-82, Cullen Weise 5-79, Joe Castillo 3-24, Dancy 2-21, James Garner 1-(-4).


ROUNDUP: Hallettsville stays unbeaten by downing Rice

From coaches’ reports

The Gonzales JV took one on the chin last Thurs-day when lost at Giddings, 33-7.

The Apaches’ only touch-down came when Jaime Tellez ran around the left side and scored from six yards out with two minutes left to play. Nestor Solis

added the extra point.Gonzales (4-3) was also

led on offense by Cameron Horton, who caught two passes for 18 yards.

The Gonzales freshman team also fell to Giddings, 48-8, on Thursday.

The Pleasanton junior varsity defeated Nixon 20-14, Yoakum 9th defeated Cuero 28-18 and the Bull-

dog JV was a 34-28 winner over Cuero. Flatonia’s JV blanked Weimar 26-0, the Hallettsville JV beat Rice 32-20, Lockhart JV fell to Boerne Champion 34-0 and the Lion freshmen lost to Boerne Champion 27-14.

The Gonzales Junior High 8th Grade A team

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The footsteps echoed on Grandma’s front porch. Un-cle Munroe Kuhn, Grandma’s brother, tramped across the wooden boards and took a seat on the concrete steps. Then he snapped a glance at me, pulled out his Beechnut pouch, cocked his head, and smirked. Mama and Daddy sat on a red rocking bench watching my little sister toddle as she stretched out her arms and learned to balance on new legs. Grandma stepped through the screen door wiping her hands and shuffled to a seat beside her brother.

The wooden farmhouse whis-pered memories creaking and groaning at our movements as if carrying on its own con-versation. In the hall were 25 mounted deer heads belonging to a grandfather that I never knew. They murmured stories, to a young boy’s imagining ears, about adventures afield and what a Winchester can accom-plish in the hands of an expert. Painted covers hid the holes in the ceiling where once wooden heaters had smoked through the stovepipes while keeping the family warm. The dark blue floral carpeting, in the living room, dining room, and guest room, spoke of ladies in long dresses and the ensuing domino and rook parties. The kitchen smelled like fresh baked cook-ies and the bedrooms yawned their duties of providing silent solitude after a hard day of fol-lowing mules in the cotton and cornfields. The television in Grandma’s bedroom hid like a plastic alien and it was easier to visualize the long gone vin-tage WWII radio scratching its message into a still night’s air. On the high walls were ancient oval black and white photo por-traits of the old people. There were mothers and fathers, and a brother that had not returned from The Great War.

The spring sun invigorated us despite the full-bellied la-ziness induced by Grandma’s meal with fresh green beans, potatoes, and grass-fed beef. Daddy still held a glass of tea complete with mint leaves from the garden. A cool breeze kept our shirtsleeves rolled down. Around the perimeter of the yard fence flowerbeds burst bright colorful bulbs and blos-soms displaying the woman’s tireless efforts. Across the lawn, the smokehouse squatted and a short loop of chain hung from a nearby oak limb giving testa-ments to the days of butcher-ing hogs and sharing meat with neighbors via the beef club.

My job was to be seen and not heard, and most of the time, that suited me fine. There were no other boys to play with. I stood transfixed with my glasses pushed tight on my nose, suck-ing wind past crooked teeth, squirming and waiting for the next words of wisdom. The scene became a part of my be-ing. The utterances molded my lifelong thinking. The words would never leave me.

Grandma had no use for Old Lady Roosevelt, and with pre-cise recollections, she discussed a downward spiral of national, state, and local policies. Daddy pointed out the discrepancies in modern economic ideas, and touted the conservative view-points that the more the world changes the more personal val-ues needed to remain the same. Then Uncle Munroe muttered several phrases that ingrained themselves in my psyche.

“I’m against leasing land for hunting.” His eyes fluttered and he spit a stream of tobac-co. Then he went to someplace that I’ve sought to find ever since. “Me, your Grandpa, and our brothers used to go pitch a tent at Kesler’s Lake. We hunted ducks, we hunted deer, and we never had to pay nobody. We shared everything we killed and we took almost anybody along that wanted to go. It didn’t have anything to do with money. The whole experience was about the hunt and about being with each other.”

Daddy looked down and fingered his shirt. He was no hunter, and since Grandpa’s death, he had leased some of the pastures to relatives and men from town. It was apparent that he was uncomfortable and Uncle Munroe was voicing his core belief. The problem aris-ing was that it was up to me to decipher the dilemma. Uncle Munroe’s words burned into my formulating opinions. But the places and times that Uncle Munroe cherished had slipped away. His memories were from the same era as prohibition. Grandpa was gone and all the brothers were gone. Daddy did the right thing. Daddy provided the same outdoor opportunities to the following generations of relatives and friends that Uncle Munroe once enjoyed. However, the tobacco-chewing old timer couldn’t realize this concept--and unfortunately, it took years for me to understand.

Now, in an ever-urbanizing world there are new words buzz-ing against and chilling the walls of social judgments. Words such as “green,” “environmentalist,” “global warming,” “organic,” and “politically correct” put the old school country boys on the de-fensive. Likewise, some of the left-leaning crowd don’t compre-hend that the hunting heritage is the main contributor to wildlife conservation. And, a lot of folks have their own list of words that makes them see red. On another note, after trailing guests from all over the U.S. through much of the wild country in Montana, Texas, Wyoming, and Mexico, it’s apparent to the common guide that not everyone was inoculated with equal doses of compassion, and that’s true no matter what side of an issue you stand.

Not everyone was fortunate enough to hear the lessons that Grandma’s house whispered. Not everyone was fortunate enough to listen to the elders reminisce about childhoods be-fore horses and buggies became obsolete. Not everyone grew up cloaked in down home conser-vatism, and with that said, not everyone would understand why Old Lady Roosevelt aggravated Grandma. But maybe, someday, the old ways and values will be recognized and folks will realize that policies, ideas, and words must be tempered. However, if nobody listens, words just flit away on the wind.


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Looking Downfrom the Saddle

AUSTIN — Texas hunters should see deer in good condition and above average numbers of mature bucks when the general season kicks off Nov. 3 statewide.

“Despite the drought of 2011 deer appeared to come through the season in fair shape, which I think in part is a tribute to hunters and landowners doing a better job of managing deer populations and the native habitat across the state,” said Alan Cain, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department white-tailed deer program leader. “Couple the results of good management, lower harvest in 2011 and some late winter and spring precipitation and the stage is set for a good deer season in 2012.”

TPWD Big Game Harvest survey results confirmed what biologist and hunters already knew, the deer harvest was down in 2011. Last year’s estimated harvest was 574,808 white-tailed deer; 309,207 being bucks and 265,601 antlerless deer. Compare those statistics to the 2010 season, one of our better seasons, when total deer harvest was estimated at 647,975 deer; 336,550 being bucks and 311,425 antlerless deer. However, a little perspective is in order here. Keep in mind the 11-year average for annual total harvest is 574,423 deer and the lowest estimated harvest occurring during the 2007-08 was an estimated 512,852 deer.

“Although we had a few dry spells during mid-summer, I’m seeing and hearing reports of deer appearing in good body condition,” Cain said. “In fact, range conditions look good across most of the state. As my

Dad and I recently returned from a mule deer hunt in Wyoming I had a chance to drive from almost one end of Texas to the other, Texline to Pleasanton, and can say that the landscape was a brilliant green from just east of Amarillo to south of San Antonio.”

The abundant forage, critical to help deer need nutritional demands, will help to bolster fawn production as well as antler quality. Cain is predicting slightly above average antler quality for most regions of the state this season. Late summer rains should help bucks bulk up and insure good fat reserves to make it through the rigors of rut and improve overall survival this winter. The only downside to the late summer rains is deer may not readily come to feeders or food plots early this fall so hunters may have to change up their strategies to bag a deer during the first weekend or two of general season.

Hunters can expect to see fewer bucks in the 1 ½ year old age class as fawn production was very low across many regions of the state in 2011. However, good fawns crops in 2005, 2007, and 2010 should translate into more bucks in the 7 ½, 5 ½, and 2 ½ year old age classes as compared to other age classes. With the exception of the 1 ½ year old age class there may have been a reasonable carryover of bucks in all other age class simply because many hunters passed on bucks with average antler quality last year, just hoping for an extra year of age and more importantly some rainfall to provide the necessary nutrition to help

those buck reach their potential.“Hopefully, hunters will find what

they’re looking for this fall,” Cain said. “I’ve already seen pictures of an 8-point harvested in Bandera County this year that scored on the 159 Boone & Crockett scoring system, maybe sign of good things to come this season. Keep in mind this is well above the average antler quality for bucks 6 ½ years of age or older.

In fact, based on 30+ years of TPWD’s age and antler data the average estimated B&C score for 6 ½ year old or older bucks is 125.34. The South Texas and Eastern Rolling Plains regions have the highest estimated average B&C scores for bucks 6 ½ or older at 134.59 and 129.82, respectively. The remaining regions produce great quality mature bucks with estimated average B&C scores in the low to mid 120s.

“As always we encourage hunters to harvest antlerless deer to help with overall population management, which is an important component to maintain quality native habitats for all wildlife,” said Cain. “One thing is for sure we are blessed with the largest white-tailed deer herd in the nation, approximately 3.3 million deer, and opportunity can be found in nearly every region of the state. So don’t sit on the couch this fall watching the hunting shows, get outdoors and be a part of what will hopefully prove to be a great deer season.”

The general season runs Nov. 3 through Jan. 6, 2013 in the 209 counties that comprise the North Zone and through Jan. 20, 2013 in the 30 counties of the South Zone.

BUCHANAN Water murky; 74–78 degrees; 26.84’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon spinnerbaits, Rat–L–Traps, and crankbaits in 10–20 feet. Striped bass are good on Red Fins, Zara Spooks, and plastic swim baits near Lighthouse Point at daylight. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on pink or chartreuse Curb’s crappie jigs and live minnows. Channel catfish are good on liver and cheesebait. Yellow and blue catfish are good on live shad.

CANYON LAKE Water stained; 75–79 degrees; 7.50’ low. Black bass are fair on watermelon Whacky Sticks on wacky rigs, Smokin’ Green Devil’s Tongues on drop shot rigs, and Texas rigged 6” pumpkin Scoundrel worms along main lake bluffs. Striped bass are fair on chartreuse crankbaits over humps, and on Pirk Minnows at daylight. White bass are slow. Smallmouth bass are fair on pumpkin Curb’s jigs and smoke JDC grubs in 12–25 feet early. Crappie are fair on minnows and crappie jigs upriver. Channel catfish are slow. Yellow and blue catfish are fair on trotlines and juglines baited with live perch.

GRANGER Water clear; 75–79 degrees; 0.84’ low. Black bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse jigs over brush piles in 4–15 feet. Blue catfish are good on prepared baits, and on juglines baited with fresh shad. Yellow catfish to 70 pounds are good on trotlines baited with live perch.

LBJ Water clear; 76–80 degrees; 0.32’ low. Black bass are good on white spinnerbaits, swim baits, and watermelon Whacky Sticks off creek points early. Striped bass are good on Li’l Fishies at night. White bass are good on Li’l Fishies at night. Crappie are fair on watermelon Curb’s crappie jigs and live minnows over brush piles. Channel catfish are good on minnows and liver. Yellow and blue catfish are good on trotlines baited with perch.

TRAVIS Water clear; 75–79 degrees; 46.83’ low. Black bass are fair on watermelon soft plastic worms, topwaters, and crankbaits in 8–15 feet. Striped bass are fair on white grubs and chartreuse striper jigs. White bass are fair on chrome jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows and blue tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on nightcrawlers and fresh cut bait. Yellow catfish are slow.

WALTER E. LONG Water lightly stained. Black bass are good on chartreuse/black Rat–L–Traps and shad colored crankbaits. Hybrid striper are good on silver striper jigs. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows near the dam. Channel and blue catfish are good on nightcrawlers and shrimp. Yellow catfish are slow.

BRAUNIG Water clear. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are good on liver and shad near the pier and at Dead Tree Point. Redfish are good downrigging spoons near the jetty and dam. Channel catfish are excellent on liver, shrimp, cut bait, and cheesebait near the dam. Blue catfish are good on cut bait.

CALAVERAS Water clear. Black bass are good on chartreuse Rat–L–Traps, spinnerbaits, and crankbaits near the dam. Striped bass are slow. Redfish are fair on live bait and down rigging spoons near the crappie wall. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on liver, shrimp, cheesebait, and shad. Yellow catfish are slow.

CHOKE CANYON Water clear; 80–84 degrees; 15.62’ low. Black bass are good on chartreuse soft plastic worms and lizards over grass in 8–15 feet. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and white tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are fair on live perch.

COLETO CREEK Water clear; 3.49’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon soft plastics, spinnerbaits, and Rat–L–Traps in 10–18 feet. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and watermelon tube jigs over brush. Channel and blue catfish are good on trotlines baited with live perch. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines baited with live perch.

FALCON Water murky; 82–86 degrees; 34.60’ low. Black bass are good on crankbaits in creeks. Striped bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and blue tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are very good on cut bait and frozen shrimp. Yellow catfish are slow. Everyone in a boat must have a Mexico fishing license (if fishing the Mexico side) whether fishing or not.

NORTH SABINE Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad on soft plastics. Redfish and flounder are good in the marsh on shrimp.

SOUTH SABINE Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad. Redfish are good at the jetty on live bait and cracked crabs. Flounder are fair at the mouths of the bayous on a falling tide.

BOLIVAR Trout, black drum, sand trout and redfish are good at Rollover Pass. Trout are fair to good while drifting shell on plastics.

TRINITY BAY Trout are good for drifters working pods of shad and mullet on Bass Assassins, Trout Killers and Sand Eels. Redfish are good on the north shoreline and up the river.

EAST GALVESTON BAY T r o u t and large Gulf trout are good for drifters working deep shell on plastics and fresh

shrimp. Redfish and flounder are fair to good in the marsh around drains on shrimp.

WEST GALVESTON BAY B u l l redfish and flounder are good at San Luis Pass on shrimp and shad. Sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs.

TEXAS CITY Redfish are fair to good in Moses Lake on crabs and shrimp. Gulf trout are good in the channel on fresh shrimp.

FREEPORT Redfish are fair to good on the reefs in Christmas Bay. Bull redfish are good around Surfside and at the Quintana jetty on crabs, shrimp and mullet.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY T r o u t are good for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scattered shell. Trout and flounder are fair to good on muddy shorelines on soft plastics.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY T r o u t are fair on sand and grass humps on soft plastics and topwaters. Redfish are very good on live shrimp at Shell Island and Mad Island.

PORT O’CONNOR Redfish are good in the back lakes on shrimp and mullet. Bull redfish are good at the jetty on crabs, mullet and shad. Trout are fair to good on the reefs in San Antonio Bay.

ROCKPORT Redfish are good in Redfish Bay on mullet and crabs. Bull redfish are good in the Shrimpboat Channel on shrimp and crabs.

PORT ARANSAS Redfish are good at Shamrock Cove and Pelican Island on topwaters and Gulps. Bull redfish are good at the jetty and on the beachfront on natural baits.

CORPUS CHRISTI Bull redfish are good in the surf on mullet and shrimp. Trout are fair for waders working mud and grass on small topwaters and Corkies. Redfish and black drum are good in the Humble Channel on live bait.

BAFFIN BAY Trout are good on topwaters and plum plastics around rocks and grass on the King Ranch shoreline. Trout are good while working the edge of the Land Cut on topwaters. Redfish are fair to good in the Land Cut on shrimp and crabs.

PORT MANSFIELD Redfish are fair to good while drifting pot holes on topwaters and soft plastics under a popping cork. Trout and redfish are fair to good on the spoils in West Bay.

SOUTH PADRE Redfish are good in South Bay and on the Gas Well Flats on DOA Shrimp and TTF Flats Minnows. Snook are fair on shrimp in the Brownsville Ship Channel.

PORT ISABEL Trout and redfish are fair to good at Laguna Vista on Gulps. Redfish are good in Cullen Bay on Gulps and DOA Shrimp under popping corks.

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Shiner swept Ganado 25-18, 25-14, 25-17 on Friday.

LaNeisha Hunt had four aces and 15 kills; Lauren Oden had 16 digs and 11 points; Julianna Rankin had four aces; Kristin Schacherl had 32 assists and Amanise Coleman had six blocks.

Shiner is 24-14 and 10-1.

Shiner will play Wei-mar in a playoff game for first place at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hallettsville High School.

• The Yoakum Lady Bulldogs defeated Cu-ero 25-16, 25-20, 25-8 on Friday. Callie Witte had 24 assists, six aces, 11 digs and 15 points; Les-ley Seidenberger had 17 kills and Danielle Pohl had five blocks. Yoakum is 22-14 and 6-3.

Yoakum concluded the regular season on Tuesday with a 3-2 (25-23, 20-25, 25-23, 22-25, 15-8) win against Gid-dings. Witte had 52 as-sists; Seidenberger had 20 kills and 20 digs; Jaccari Hights had one ace, seven blocks and 17 points; Shelby Pesek had one ace.

Giddings won the JV match 18-25, 25-18, 25-23 and the freshmen match, 25-23, 12-25, 25-23.

Yoakum’s regular sea-son record is 23-14, 7-3 and second in 26-3A. They will open the play-offs with the third-place team of 25-3A .

• The Gonzales Lady Apaches fell to Giddings 3-0 (16-25, 17-25, 18-25) on Friday. Cassidy La Fleur had three aces; Carly Bozka had 22 digs; Kiley Braune had 14 as-sists; Lindsey Akers had five kills; Allison Raley had 16 digs, five kills and three solo blocks; Dany-elle Glass had two kills.

Gonzales won the ju-nior varsity match 25-15, 25-20, and Giddings won the freshman match 25-

19 and 25-23.Gonzales lost to

Smithville in Tuesday’s regular-season finale, 25-23, 25-14, 19-25, 14-25, 12-15. Raley had 12 kills, 15 digs and five blocks; Glass had nine kills; Braune had 27 as-sists; Akers had four aces; Bozka had 28 digs and Morgan Simper had 15 digs.

The Gonzales JV lost 17-25, 25-17, 18-25 and the 9th team fell 12-25 and 16-25.

•The Nixon-Smiley Lady Mustangs fell in four sets, 12-25, 25-27, 25-18, 21-25 Saturday at Hallettsville. Megan Guerra had 13 assists; Hailey Boatright had eight kills, five blocks and six aces; Kelby Hen-derson had eight kills; Treca DeLeon had 10 digs

The Lady Mustangs are 3-8 in district.

Nixon fell to Karnes City Tuesday 25-21, 21-25, 21-25, 13-25 to con-clude the season with a 3-8 district record.

Guerra had 11 assists; Alena Alvarez had 11 assists; Devon Tristan had eight kills and seven aces; Jennifer Flores had 13 digs; Boatright had seven blocks.

• Flatonia defeated Louise 25-14, 28-26, 20-25, 25-20, on Oct. 16. Chandler Fike had seven aces and 10 digs; Abi-gail Schacherl had seven kills, 15 assists and two blocks.

On Friday, the Lady Bulldogs lost to Weimar 14-25, 7-25, 20-25.

Fike had one ace, three digs and three blocks; Meredith Pavlica had six kills; Alanis Ribera had 10 assists.

Flatonia is 11-25 and 6-5.

•Sacred Heart lost to John Paul II 3-2 (14-25, 11-25, 25-20, 25-18. 9-15) on Oct. 16.

Rachel Saulnier had 15 assists and nine digs; Adrienne Klimitchek had 14 kills and three aces; Sandra Adams had seven

blocks and Amber Labay had three aces.

“We looked terrible in the first two games and then it was like a totally different team,” India-nette head coach Wanda Orsak said. “ We domi-nated the net in games three and four the way we can when we are playing at our best. We started out strong in game five (3-0) and then the mo-mentum turned and ev-erything went wrong.”

The loss dropped Sa-cred Heart to 10-18 and 7-5 in district, tied for third place with John Paul II

On Thursday, the Indi-anettes played John Paull for the second time in three days.

Sacred Heart fell in four sets, 25-14, 23-25, 21-25, 13-25. Klimitchek had 12 kills; Jenna Brown had 12 digs; Adams had five blocks; Labay had three aces.

“We started out very strong and dominated the net in game one and two. We were up 17-12 in game two when a cou-ple of errors and missed serves stopped us and let John Paul II back in the game,” Orsak said. “Once again the momentum change bothered us and we lost that game 25-23. We just couldn’t turn it around after that. John Paul II does play very good defense and they pick up a lot of balls.”

The Indianettes finish 5-2A play with a 7-6 re-cord and fourth place.

Sacred Heart defeated San Antonio North Lu-theran on Tuesday in the TAPPS 2A bi-district round and is set to play at Shiner St. Paul in the area round either today or Sat-urday.

• Luling fell to No. 12 Poth on Oct. 16, 20-25, 16-25, 19-25 and to lost to Karnes City on Friday, 17-25, 12-25, 23-25.

The matches were the last for seniors Amanda Lee, Maria Castillo, Mi-randa Sheffield and Car-ley Glass.

SHINER — The end of the regular-season road arrived on Tuesday eve-ning for the Shiner and the Waelder volleyball teams.

Playoff-bound Shiner won in a sweep 25-6, 25-6, 25-7) and will now play co-district leader Weimar for a clear district cham-pion on Saturday with time and site information to be determined.

The Lady Wildcats (2-12, 0-12) conclude their first season under head coach Meaghan House, a season that saw the Lady ‘Cats have to deal with a tragic incident right at the start.

“I thought we played hard,” she said. “We could have played harder.”

“We have been through a lot this year. We have

lost players in multiple ways and it has been a rough season for us.”

House said she feels Waelder volleyball has made some steps during the season.

“We have grown as a team and as individual players,” she said.

For the match, Shiner head coach Megan Klim-itchek was already put-ting the game plan for the playoffs.

“I was happy to get two junior varsity players, Jayde Kurtz and Jennifer Hartl, up to the varsity team and getting them experience at this level,” she said. “Both of them played well. The whole team performed well and I cannot be happier.”

At the start of the first set, the teams exchanged bad serves and Waelder’s Alex Benitez picked up an ace.

Tabitha Blashke, Kristin Schacherl and Julianna Rankin got kills to take Shiner to an 8-5 lead, and LaNeisha Hunt gave Shin-er a 14-6 lead with around six or seven aces.

Later, Meagan Chum-

chal went behind the backline and got an ace or two while Amanise Cole-man and Rankin got some kills to close out the first set.

In the second game, Ta-mara Hajek and Lauren got early aces to build an 8-2 advantage.

The Lady Comanches later took a 20-4 lead as

Hunt and Hartl made some plays.

Waelder rallied to pull a couple of points back in-cluding an ace by Keanna Porter.

Shiner then used a five-point run to win the sec-ond set.

In the third game, a couple of aces from Hajek allowed Shiner (25-14,

11-1) to pull away early with a 7-2 lead and they cruised on a 18-5 run the rest of the way.

For Shiner, Hunt had nine aces, seven digs, one block and 12 points; Coleman had one block; Blashke had one block and Schacherl had 12 as-sists.


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Benefit BBQ for Randy Harkey Sr.Please come and support

Randy Harkey Sr. and his family.Date: Saturday November 3, 2012

Time: 11:00am-2:30pmPlace: Rotary Pavillion at

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Plate consists of Brisket, sausage, beans and German potatoes.

There will also be a raffle. Tickets will $1.00 a piece or 6 for $5.00.

You may contact one of the following people below for these also.

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cupcakes, ext.All proceeds go to help with medical

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Waelder’s Marrisa Ramirez digs a Shiner ball. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Shiner libero Meagan Chumchall defends against a Waelder attack. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Regular season wraps up,bi-district play set to beginBy MARK LUBE

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TNA Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Robbie E is coming to Gonzales.

On Saturday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m., the Ed-wards Association will host a Pro Wrestling event

at the Edwards Commu-nity Center.

The Texas Wrestling Federation will return to

Gonzales with an action-packed wrestling show featuring special guest Robbie E., who has wres-tled on IMPACT Wres-tling, TNA and SPIKE TV.

Robbie E will be appear-ing in a special autograph session from 3-6 p.m. at the center, and will be fea-tured in the first match.

Autographed photos will be $5 and a framed photo with Robbie E is $10. During the 3-6 p.m. time period, a special combination ticket for $12 includes both the photo op and admission

to the action.Straight from the shores

of Jersey comes Robbie E, the proud Italian who’s always down for a day at the beach to get his tan on or some fist pumping at the club. With the help of his personal bodyguard Robbie T, Robbie E likes to keep his competitors off the “list,” which grants access into his posse. A deadly head of spiked hair weaponry helped him claim TNA X Divi-sion Championship gold. Robbie E also earned the Television Championship,

which just so happens to be the most blingin’ title at IMPACT WRESTLING, but was robbed by some hamster. After all, Robbie E has plenty of ability and attitude to get it done bro!

Also scheduled on the card are several Texas Wrestling Federation stars, including Lemus Dos, El Resplendor, Cobra, El La-tino, Apollo 69, Alex Dra-zen and hasheem Akbar.

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Apaches again selected as‘Army Strong’ team of week

Gonzales head coach Ricky Lock con-firmed on Tuesday that the Apaches have been named the Army Strong Team of the Week for Class 3A.

The award, which is given out each week to one team in each classification, is sponsored the U.S. Army and TexasFoot-ball.com to the team that demonstrated the qualities exhibited within the Army. Those include leadership, commitment to excellence and a desire to make a differ-ence as a member of a team.

Gonzales (5-2) upset #7 Giddings last week by a score of 43-23 to earn the team honor. The loss dropped Giddings (6-1) down to number 10 in the Class 3A poll.

This is the third time Gonzales has earned the award in the last three seasons.

They received it in Week 4 of 2010 after beating Yoakum 41-16 in the District 28-3A opener. They won it again in Week 5 of 2011 after they blanked Poteet 55-0 to give Lock his 100th career win as a head coach.

Robbie E, known to wrestling fans for his appearances on Spike TV, headlines Saturday’s pro wrestling card at the Edwards Community Center. A spceial autograph session is scheduled from 3-6 p.m. Mrs. Hoghoughi celebrates with some Gonzales Elementary students for receiv-

ing the Spirit Flag for the third year in a row. (Courtesy photo)



defeated Giddings 34-21 last Thursday at Apache Stadium.

Aaron Hunt had a big game for Gonzales, scor-ing four touchdowns and a two-point conversion while racking up 128 yards on the ground. Alex Ortiz also scored a touchdown and a two-point conversion.

Kameron Glass com-pleted three passes on the

night, including a two-point conversion and a 42-yard scoring toss to Tristan Riley.

Outstanding credit went to the offensive line whose members include Hayden Henke, Dawson Hull, Ry-lan Tieken and the “Twin Bulldozers” Wade Miller and Josh Bustos.

The 8th Grade B team also beat Giddings, 8-0.

Gabriel Camarillo scored on a 65-yard run and Isaac

Almaguer caught the two-point conversion pass from Luis Segura. Other offen-sive highlights included a 15-yard pass completion by Elandreus Thorne.

Brandon White was named the Defensive Play-er of the Game and Mat-thew Grauke once again earned the Big Hitter honor for the night.

The 7th Grade A team lost to Cuero, 30-14. Caleb Carrizales and Colby Cox

accounted for both of the Apache scores.

The 7th Grade B team also fell in their game with Giddings, 8-0.

In CYFL action on Satur-day, the Gonzales freshman team lost to Yorktown 24-6. The Sophomore Black de-feated Orange 19-7, Junior Black shut out the Orange 27-0, and in the Senior Or-ange edged Black 14-13.


SUBVARSITY: GJH 8th grade teams get district victories at home over Giddings

Above left, Elandreus Thorne leaves a would-be Cuero tackler in his wake during this run in the Gonzales 8th Grade B team’s 8-0 win on Thursday. Above right, Benjamin Stone breaks a tackle en route to a nice gain in the 7th Grade B team’s game with Giddings. (Photos by Cedric Iglehart)

59 points and Lady Apach-es booked 74 points for fourth place.

For Gonzales, Kristeney Magallanez came in tenth in 12:58.26 to lead the Lady Apaches. Kaily Zumwalt was No. 12 in 13:05.05; Briana Miller was No. 15 with a time of 13:35.88; Valeria Aguayo was No. 21 in 13:41.42; Alejandra Diaz DeLeon was No. 26 in 13:50.44 and Kendall Foug-erat followed in 13:58.28. Hannah Lorton was No. 35 in 14:50.82.

Hannah Berdovsky led Yoakum with a sixth-place finish in 12:41.12. Kait-lyn Anzualda was No. 13 in 13:20.59, Olga Renteria followed in 13:30.11 and Emily Kelley was No. 16 in 13:37.91. Desiree Garza was No. 19 in 13:40.81; Parker Janssen was No. 23 in 13:45.71 and Ruby Cor-rea was No. 34 in 14:49.92.

Alexandra Villafranca was fourth with a time of 12:33.43.

• The Luling cross-coun-try teams swept the district meet Tuesday morning at Starcke Park.

The Lady Eagles finished first out of three times, scoring 30 points, and the boys won first out of five teams with 15 points as runner-up Karnes City re-corded 63 points.

Individually for the Luling girls, Kristaly Mu-noz was first in 12:03.51

and Carley Glass followed in 12:30.1. Shelby Dra-bek was eighth in 14:47.9 and Sydney Neumann was tenth in 15:00.6. Maria Cas-tillo was No. 12 in 15:08.6; Ashlea Avila was No. 14 in 15:10.03 and Meaghan Richardson was No. 17 in 15:27.9.

Luling boys claimed the first five spots: Ryan Flores (16:08.131), Jose Campos (16:08.137), Brian Guerre-ro (16:36.3), Danny Castillo (17:11.8) and Fabian Guer-rero (17:20.4). Will Frazier was seventh in 17:30.1.

The Hallettsville Lady Brahmas came in third with 63 points with Paiden Pruitt coming seventh in 14:39, Jenna Allen was No. 11 in 15:04.9, Hope John-son was No.15 with a time of 15:14.6, Camille Grah-mann was No. 19 in 15:51.7 and Shelby Bozka was No. 22 in 16:55.3.

Nixon-Smiley boys were in fourth place with 76 points, close to making it to regionals as third-place Stockdale scored 75 points.For the Mustangs, Fiden-cio Tristan was tenth in 18:31.2; Raul Tovar was No. 13 in 19:15.2; Luis G. Vasquez was No. 17 in 20:07.4; Cain Perales was No. 22 in 20:55.6 and Luis F. Vasquez was No. 24 in 21:15.1.

• In the 28-1A meet Monday in Shiner, the Fla-tonia Bulldogs were second with 43 points and host Shiner was third with 47, giving the Comanches their first trip to the regional meet in 10 years.

For Shiner, Ethan Berger was eighth in 18:33; Ethan Zissa was No. 13 in 19:29; Colby Jahn was No. 21 in 21:27; Daniel Hernandez was No. 25 in 22:04 and Blake Miraz was No. 30 in 25:39. For Flatonia, Jesus Hernandez was second in 17:10; Flynn Harrison was No. 18 in 20:29; Zachary Kalina was No. 20 in 21:10; Dillon Moreno was No. 24 in 21:57 and Theodore Steinhauser was No. 28 in 22:53.

In the varsity girls race, the Lady Comanches fin-ished in second place with 93 points to advance to regionals and Flatonia was fifth with 107.

For Shiner, Kristin Sch-acherl was fifth in 15:05; Clara Grosenbacher was No. 17 in 16:09; Shaanan Pardy was No. 22 in 16:29; Keely McCarthy was No. 24 in 16:38 and Meloni Berger was followed in 16:43. Tabitha Blaschke was No. 28 in 16:51 and Kaci Jamison was No. 35 in 17:18.

For the Lady Bulldogs, Carla Gonzales was eighth with a time of 15:16; Hal-ey Moeller was tenth in 15:210; Amy Koncaba was No. 20 in17:25; Sherie Vra-na was No. 34 in 17:14; Hil-ary Koncaba was No. 37 in 18:08 and Lorena Castillo was No. 42 in 18:40.

• The Moulton Bob Kit-

tens won the 32-1A meet held Monday in Moulton with 25 points. Prairie Lea was fifth with 95.

Paige Bartos led Moulton with a second-place finish in 14:20; Makaela Beard was fourth in 14:28; Kend-all Kristynik was seventh in 15:05 and Mackenley Ebner followed in 15:39. Megan Mitchon was tenth in 15:58 and Laramie Zant finished in No. 11, and Malori Mi-tchon followed in 16:53.

For Prairie Lea, Shelli Hardaway was No. 13 in 16:55; Nia Rivas was No. 19 in 17:25; Ashley Wade was No. 22 in 17:53; Sierra Mar-tinez was No. 25 in 18:54 and Jennifer Sauceda was No. 26 in 18:59.

The hosts won the boys’ race with 17 points.

Alex Reyes won the in-dividual title with a time of 17:15, Dennis Lopez followed in 18:31 and Ma-rio Pinedo was behind him in 19:22. Holden Jahn was fifth in 19:58 and Dal-las Rothbauer was sixth in 20:07; Justin Holcomb was No. 12 in 21:49 and Cam-eron Jalufka was No. 18 in 23:14.

Waelder had several run-ners, with Antonio Morales leading the pack with a ninth-place finish in 21:07. Joseph McCook was No. 14 in 22:09 and Aaron Lee Wilson was No. 27 in 25:42.

•The Moulton high school and junior high cross-country teams com-peted in the Industrial meet on Oct. 13.

The Moulton BobKatz came in second place in the varsity boys race. Alex Reyes finished first individ-ually with a time of 17:42; Dennis Lopez was eighth in 19:09; Marion Pinedo finished in 19:57 for No. 18; Holden Jahn was No. 30 in 20:43Dallas Rothbauer came in at No. 38 in 21:00; Cameron Jalufka was No. 72 in 24:31 and Justin Hol-comb was No. 77 in 24:43.

The Bob Kittens came in fifth place and were led by Makaela Beard at No. 29 in 15:28;Mackenly Ebner was No. 37 in 16:13; Sara Baker was No. 45 in 16:27; Megan Mitchon at No. 52 in 16:52;Norma Colchado was No. 57 in 17:03; Lara-mie Zant was No. 69 in 18:49 and Malorie Mitchon followed with a time of 18:54.

For the Moulton junior high girls,Rayvin Kalisek was third with a time of 15:27 Madison Moeller was ninth in 19:29;Laura Man-zano was No. 21 in 17:59; Mandi Mitchon was No. 37 in 19:49.

The junior high boys won first place in the meet with Fernando Euceda placing second in 12:35, Irene Bar-bosa following in 12:43 and Kyle Trejo was eighth in 13:39; Todd Zidek was No. 24 in 15:06; Conner Bla-huta was No. 29 in 15:36; Noah Barton was No. 31 in 15:44 and David Harris was No. 36 in 17:42.

YOAKUM: Lady Dogs thirdNixon-Smiley runners in the district 28-2A meet: from left is Raul Tovar, Luis F. Vasquez and Fidencio Tristen

28-2A Girls District CC champions (not shown as llisted), Luling Lady Eagles. Meaghan Richardson, Shelby Drabek, Carley Glass, Maria Castillo, Sydney Neu-mann, Ashley Avila, Kristaly Munoz and Larissa Carmona

Yoakum Lady Bulldogs win third place. Runners, not shown as listed, are Han-nah Berdovsky, Kaitlyn Anzualda, Olga Renteria, Emily Kelley, Desiree Garza, Parker Janssenm Ruby Correa

Kristina Schacherl of Shiner almost done with the two-mile race

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a pole outside Westminster Hall.

Those who study such things say that if all the gold in the world were combined in one lump, it would result in a cube that measures 20 yards on each side.

If you’re planning a trip to Lima, Peru, you might want to add Puente de Piedra to your sightseeing list. Though the Spanish name means “Bridge of Stone,” the span is popularly known as the Bridge of Eggs. Legend has it that in 1608, the builders the used the whites of 10,000 seabird eggs in the mortar that

holds the stones together.

Pumpkins are native to the Americas, not Europe. This is why the original jack-o’-lantern was a turnip.

What do the words “obscene,” “tranquil,” “mediate,” “catastrophe,” “dire,” “critical,” “vast” and “apostrophe” have in common? All of them appeared in print for the first time in the works of William Shakespeare.

If you’re contemplating a move to Corpus Christi, Texas, be sure to keep in mind that in that town, it’s illegal to raise alligators in your home.

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hours trouble calls to City crews, including calls on weekends and holidays.

Alan TaylorCaptain

Investigations28 years of service

Gayle AutryCaptain

21 years of service

Tammy WestLieutenant

Investigations16 years of service

Drew NideyPatrol Sergeant

21 years of service

Larry ValisAnimal Control9 years of service

Tanner SchwakePatrolman

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John BrummePatrolman

4 years of service

Matthew CamarilloSchool Reserve Officer

4 years of service

Jimmy NavarroPatrolman

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Jason MontoyaPatrolman

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J.D. HoltPatrolman

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Gonzales County Sheriff’s Department

Glen SachtlebenSheriff

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Dennis RichterChief Deputy

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Instructor, Fire Investigator

Jeromy BelinCID Lieutenant

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Deron DementDeputy

Johnnie HallUnpaid Deputy

Dennis JahnsDeputy

Stephen MonsivaisPatrol Sergeant

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Leslie PirkleUnpaid DeputyJail Transport

Albert “Nick” RichterDeputy

Dennis JamesDeputy

Lynn WilburnUnpaid Deputy

Ryan ParkerDeputy

Travis VegaDeputy

In MeMory ofFour members of the Gonzales County Sheriff’s

Office have died in the line of duty. They are:

Sergeant David Furrh - December 6, 2000Sheriff Richard M. Glover - June 14, 1901

Deputy Robert Coleman - November 4, 1898 Deputy Albert Little - February 8, 1888.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Darvin K. Hogg was shot and killed near the Guadalupe

County line on April 12, 1966. He was stationed in Nixon.

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Al PakebuschDispatcher

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Agnes GastJailer/Cook

10 years of serviceLicensed Jailer

Corporal Vicky TorresJailer, Corporal

9 years of serviceCorrections Officer

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Cpl. David NoahubiJailer, Corporal


Marvin MilesAdministrative

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Jean FloydAdministrative

Secretary4 years of service

Diane JurekJailer, Sgt. ID &

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Keith LongoriaJailer


Donna OlsenJailer


Diann TaylorDispatch

Teresa ThompsonJailer, Lieutenant10 years of service

Jesse SoefjeJailer


Licensed Jailer

Magdalena MartinezJailer, Corporal

2 years of service

Rachel TrevinoTelecommunications

Supervisor

Erica LeopoldDispatcher

Sammie DanielsDispatcher/Clerk

Julia GuardiolaDispatcher

Members of the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Department, Department of Public Safety and Gonzales Fire De-partment confer at the scene of an accident that occurred last June, where one man was severely injured. (File photo)

Catina GibsonJailer

Cynthia HuntJailer

Ruby MonaghanJailer

Rogelio PenaJailer

Robert TaylorJailer

Deanna DelaCruzDispatcher

Tollie MehaffeyDispatcher

David AllisonCourt Baliff

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Jared BrummeJailer

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Gonzales County EMS/EMT

Thank you for your tireless and faithful service!

Robert McCauleyParamedic Assistant

Director18 years of service

Jim RussellParamedic Director19 years of service

Allen LinebrinkAssistant Paramedic

Director

Dr. Robert WilliamsonMedical Director38 years of service

Carla RussellParamedic Supervisor

19 years of service

Tyree SchurigRescue

25 years of service

Glenn GlassRescue, Special Ops20 years of service

Bobby PakebuschEMT, Rescue, Special Ops

18 years of service

Jennifer MillerEMS/EMT-B

18 years of service

Al PakebuschRescue

17 years of service

David MatiasEMS, EMT-B, Rescue

14 years of serviceEVOC Instructor

Michael LongoriaRescue, Special Ops13 years of service

Bobby BakerEMS, Paramedic

12 years of service

Lisa PakebuschEMS, EMT-B

17 years of service

Brian JurekEMT, Rescue

13 years of service

For more Gonzales EMS/EMT personnel, see page E7

(Editor’s note: This story first ran in our May 10, 2012 edition. We are re-printing it here to remind us all of the constant dan-ger that the brave men and women who serve as first responders expose them-selves to on a daily basis, just to keep us safe.)

While Mother’s Day will be garnering the lion’s share of the country’s atten-tion this Sunday, it will also mark the beginning of a na-tional celebration.

National Police Week, which runs May 13-19, is a time set aside for Ameri-cans to honor its fallen po-lice officers like Sergeant David Furrh of the Gon-zales County Sheriff ’s De-partment.

It happened on Dec. 6, 2000.

Furrh, who was working in the department’s narcot-ics division, and his partner were assisting members of the Luling Police Depart-ment in the execution of a warrant search in Caldwell County. As the officers ap-proached the residence, the suspect inside stuck a .38 caliber handgun through a crack in the front door and fired approximately five rounds.

“The guy opened up the door before they could an-nounce themselves and began shooting at them,” said Michael Furrh, his el-dest son. “He shot my dad once in the chest. There was a short standoff for a few minutes before he was finally apprehended.”

Furrh was taken to the hospital in Luling, where he ultimately died after they couldn’t stabilize him enough to fly him to San Antonio.

“The Luling chief of po-lice was standing immedi-ately behind him when he was shot,” recalled Sheriff Glen Sachtleben. “It was just one of those things that shouldn’t have ever hap-pened, but it unfortunately it did.”

Miguel Salas Rodriguez was convicted on charges of murder, aggravated as-sault, possession of a con-trolled substance, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. In January 2001, he received three life sen-tences and is currently in the Mac Stringfellow Unit in Brazoria County.

A native of Moulton, Furrh spent 17 years in law enforcement. He got his first job at age 19 with the Moulton Police Depart-ment where he also worked with EMS. He took a short hiatus from his career be-fore returning to work in Colorado County.

Furrh went on to join up with Gonzales County and was in his fourth year of service with the agency when he was killed in the line of duty. He was sur-

vived by his wife, three children, parents and two sisters.

Furrh’s presence is still felt as you walk through the corridors of the Sher-iff ’s Office. The walls are lined with photos of him and there are several me-mentoes including a rep-lica of his badge. The real badge is still in evidence in Caldwell County, where it will remain with his other personal effects as long as Rodriguez continues to file appeals.

“He’s never really left us,” said a misty-eyed Sa-chtleben in speaking about Furrh. “There’s not too many people still here that were working when that happened, but everybody still has something on their wall.”

“It was a very personal thing because we’re a small department. This truly hit us very hard. We had some officers leave law enforce-ment because of it, that’s how personal it was. I don’t think a day goes by where someone around here doesn’t think about him.”

During his years of ser-vice, the national senti-ment toward police officers wasn’t the same as it is to-day. Despite working on a job that was pretty much thankless in those days, Furrh always found joy in knowing that what he was doing would make a differ-ence.

“David was one of those people that just inserted himself into his job,” said Sachtleben. “It was his life. He did everything he could do to make the world a little better.”

Furrh is the fourth mem-ber of the Gonzales County Sheriff ’s Office to be killed in the line of duty, but only the first in the last 100 years. Sheriff Richard M. Glover died on June 14, 1901; Deputy Robert Cole-man died on Nov. 4, 1898; and Deputy Albert Little died on February 8, 1888. All three were killed by gunshot.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Darvin K. Hogg was shot and killed near the Guadalupe Coun-ty line on April 12, 1966. He was stationed in Nixon.

“In his own way, David was an officer’s officer,” said Sachtleben. “He did a lot of things wherever he was, simply for the good of the community. We’ve never really lost the faith that he instilled in everybody

that there is always a chance to do good.”

“He loved what he did,” said Mi-chael. “I can r e m e m b e r growing up when there were plenty of times he wasn’t home because he had to work. It wasn’t that

he didn’t want to be around his family, it’s just that he was determined to go a good job.”

Michael said he vividly remembers what his fa-ther’s attitude was like after he was promoted to work in narcotics.

“He always tried to do his best to get rid of drugs,” he said. “He took it pretty per-sonal because that was his mission and he loved what he did.”

“He always knew that as soon as you would take one guy down, there would be another ready to take his place. But he would turn

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after the next guy and the guy after him.”

Michael is now 27 and has two siblings, 19-year old brother Kale and 11-year old sister Terri. He continues to carry on his fa-ther’s legacy by working as a paramedic, but is hoping to make a transition soon.

“I’m waiting for the right time so I can go to college and get my peace officer’s license,” he said. “I’ve been wanting to do it for a long time. I grew up around law enforcement. My wife is even a deputy sheriff as well.”

“It makes me feel better at night knowing that my father died doing what he loved to do. Of course I wish he was still here, but I think what he was instilled in me most was the importance of serving the community.”

Michael has a two-year old who bears the same name as his heroic grandfa-ther, David Michael Furrh. Michael and his wife, Tier-ra, are expecting a baby girl in July, whom they are plan-ning on naming Trista Jo.


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City of Nixon Police Department

Chris AlmaguerPolice Chief

Mike VillarealOfficer

Mario HernandezOfficer

Jimmy LoerOfficer

Maria RiojasCourt Clerk/Secretary

Not pictured:Reserve Officer Justin Foliz

Nixon Volunteer Fire Department

Mark MendezFire Chief

David Clifton Eddie Valdez Eddie Vigil Estella Vigil Hector Dominguez

Jeanne Mendez Kordell Valdez Larry Cardenas Mark Trigo Mary Clifton Spencer Brown

Smiley Volunteer Fire Department

Billie EggerFire Chief

Bryan GriffinStewart Wishert Danny YawsDonnie JanicekFire Marshal

Robert CulpepperAssistant Fire Chief

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City of Waelder Police Department

Jim TaylorPolice Chief

Austin HarperPolice Captain

Billy Bob MoorePolice Sergeant

Waelder police chief Jim Taylor (kneeling) does inventory on evidence seized during a search warrant service on March 16 in rural Gonzales County. Also pictured are Lt. Austin Harper and Cpl. K.D. Hallmark. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

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Drug SeizuresDPS troopers are ever vigilant in their efforts to keep illegal narcotics off the streets. They seized 90 pounds of marijuana (left above) during a traffic stop on Interstate Highway 10. A 1997 Chevrolet pickup (left below) driven by Victor Garza Ruiz, 31 of Laredo, was pulled over for a traffic violation at mile marker 642 going eastbound in Gonzales County and the drugs were found in a false compartment in the vehicle’s bed. (File photos)

Fighting in the BrushA member of the Gonzales Fire Department shoots water on a brush fire that broke out on October 20 in the Gonzales Industrial Park. No structures were damaged and no injuries were reported. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Pictured are members of the Shiner Police Department. They are (bottom row, from left) Patrolman Chelsea James who has served since 2011, Patrolman Zachary Kramer who has served since 2005, K-9 Trigger, Reserve Patrolman Shane O’Reilly who has served since 2003, (top row, from left) Sergeant Louis Wolting who has served since 2008, Senior Patrolman Will Horton who has served since 2005, and As-sistant Chief Brian Berkman who has served since 1995. Not shown are Chief Adam Brunkenhoefer who has served since 1985, Reserve Sergeant Harvey Bauer who has served 1997 and first-year Reserve Pa-trolman Claudio Elias. (Courtesy Photo)

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Shiner Police Department

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Officers

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The Cannon’s Salute to Our Hometown Heroes Thursday, October 25, 2012Page E2

One of the highlights of every September is the Belmont VFD Barbecue Fund-raiser. (File photo)

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Belmont Volunteer Fire Department

Brian SchauerFire Chief

Dale DeColaAssistant Fire Chief

Kenneth SchauerCaptain

Kent PruettCaptain

Blake Allen Bob Kidd

Brian Jurek Jay Tinsley

Royce Towns Tom Orr

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Thank You For Taking Good Care of Us!

First responders from all over the state came to lend a hand in fighting the Bastrop County Complex fire on Sept. 4, 2011.Three separate fires started and merged into one large blaze that burned east of the city of Bastrop. Nearly 1,700 homes were destroyed by the fire, making it the most de-structive single wildfire in Texas his-tory. It was declared extinguished on October 29, having killed two people and inflicted an estimated $325 mil-lion of insured property damage. Some residents waited until the last moment before fleeing their homes in advance of the Delhi Fire along County Road 304 just north of Har-wood, while the drifting smoke and ash from the Bastrop County Fire Complex created evacuation fears in Waelder. (File photos)

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Bastrop fire now partially containedHarrowing sceneFlames leap hundreds of feet into the air as residents flee the Bastrop area Sunday afternoon. The Bastrop County Complex Fire is being called the worst wildfire in Texas history and is being blamed for two deaths. (Photo submitted by DeNeesa Baker)

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Delhi Fire threat avertedFlames and smokebillow over the tree line near County Road 304 just north of Harwood on Tues-day. Firefighters from more than 30 different agencies battled the Delhi Fire, and were able to fi-nally contain it on Wednesday. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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Firestorm!

The worst wildfire in Texas history is now being blamed for two deaths and the loss of hundreds of homes in Bastrop County, but calmer winds on Wednesday enabled firefight-ers battling the blaze to bring it under at least partial containment.

The Texas Forest Service reported Wednes-day afternoon the Bastrop County Complex Fire was 30 percent contained, and officials were hoping continued milder weather would enable them to bring it fully under control by the end of the week.

Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald voiced the relief of county officials at a news briefing Wednesday morning, noting the calm-er winds overnight on Tuesday had greatly aided efforts to bring the massive blaze, which began as a series of smaller fires, under con-trol.

“We had a good night,” McDonald told re-

porters.The firestorm began on Sunday as high

winds form a cool front blowing through the region, combined with winds from the back-side of Tropical Storm Lee, fanned the flames of dozens of smaller fires in the drought-parched region. Several fires in Bastrop Coun-ty eventually merged to form the larger Com-plex fire.

Additional fires also erupted in Caldwell County and moved into Bastrop County near Delhi, but firefighters with more than 30 dif-ferent agencies finally brought that blaze to a half Tuesday evening with the help of bull-dozers and road graders cutting trenches to help stop the fire’s growth on the west side of County Road 304.

Officials estimate the Bastrop County blaze has consumed more than 38,000 acres and has destroyed more than 600 homes.

The Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management released a list of evacuated ar-eas via its Facebook account at around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday: Circle D Estates, KC Estates,

Tahitian Village, Pine Forest, Colo Vista, Wil-derness Ridge, Bastrop State Park, Beuscher State Park, Lake Bastrop Acres, Park Road 1C west to city of Bastrop north of Hwy 71, S of Hwy 71 to river west of Smithville, La Reata, Pine Valley Loop off Hwy 304, Bluebonnet Acres, Hobbs Creek Subdivision.

Road closures on Tuesday included: Hwy 71 to 153 (Smithville); Hwy 21 East from Bas-trop to 290; Hwy 21 West roads 535 to 1209. Those roadways remained closed Wednesday.

Bastrop County officials on Wednesday identified one of two people found dead in the charred remains of a home. The deceased was identified as Michael Troy Farr, 48, an em-ployee of the city of Austin. He was a master electrician for the city.

Texas Task Force 1, the state’s emergency-response team, was also in the area using ca-daver dogs to search for possible victims.

The Texas Forest Service said the fire jumped the Colorado River twice as it ex-panded Monday and pushed south, and some

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Gonzales Fire Department

A member of the Gonzales Fire Department examines the scene of an accident that claimed a man’s life in January on FM 1116. (File photo)

Authorities employ a bomb-sniffing dog during a stop of an Amtrak train in Har-wood last April. Federal agents were dispatched because a passenger on the trip called in a bomb threat. (File photo)

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Gary SchroederVolunteer Firefighter

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David MatiasVolunteer Firefighter

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Brent TiekenVolunteer Firefighter

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For more Gonzales FD members, see page E6


We Salute all the Fire Department personnel for being there 24/7.

In Memory of our beloved Dean Baker, who loved being part of the Gonzales Fire Dept.

We miss you very much. May God watch over each one when the fire bell rings.

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Gonzales County Constables

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Raleigh MeasomConstablePrecinct 3

Gerald HullDeputy Constable

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John MorenoConstablePrecinct 4

Jon Harris (far right) and his K-9 partner, Jack, are shown in this photo with members of the Afghan Secu-rity Team. Harris is serving as a civilian dog handler with U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Upon his return, he plans on resuming his duties with the Gonzales Police Department. (Courtesy photo)

Travis SowellPolice Officer

Jon HarrisReserve Officer

Tom FriendReserve Officer

Peggy MalochID/Records Clerk37 years of service

Margaret PenaComm. Supervisor29 years of service

City of Gonzales Police Department

Kyle FortenberryComm. Operator21 years of service

Bernice NavarroCommunications6 years of service

Tania JohnsonCommunications5 years of service

Monique WhiteDispatch

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4 years of service

Lance BehlenVolunteer Firefighter

1 year of service

Bobby PakebuschVolunteer Firefighter

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Tony MatiasRescue

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4 years of rescue

Eric ConnorEMS, Paramedic, Rescue

5 years of serviceSpecial Ops

Mark MendezEMT, Rescue

4 years of service

Daniel VahalikEMT, Rescue, Special Ops

3 years of service

AshleyRussellEMS

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Belinda RichterEMS, Paramedic3 years of service

Cal BatesEMS, EMT. Rescue,

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Damon CurryParamedic, EMS3 years of service

Jonathan LortonRescue

2 years of service

Dawn CurryEMT

3 years of service

Jess FulliloveEMT, Rescue, Special Ops

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James McLeodEMS, Paramedic

Michelle GarzaEMS, EMT

2 years of service

Tim DeckerEMT, Rescue, Special Ops

3 years of service

Christian BrownEMS, Paramedic

Josh HuttonRescue

Chris TippettEMS

2 years of service

Jacob StinsonEMS, Paramedic

Tony PradiaEMT

Michael NeumanEMS, Paramedic

Adam ChapmanEMS

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