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BC appeals FEMA flood maps Bridge City council mem-

bers met for an emergency meeting Saturday to have a fi-nal discussion before proceed-ing with plans to hire Lonnie G. Harper and Associates, of Grand Chenier, La. to repre-sent them and file an appeal against FEMA’s flood plain maps.

The rush to enter into the contract is because of an up-coming deadline to file the ap-peal by Dec.24th. Once the ap-peal is submitted the clock stops on the initiation of the latest maps. After they receive the appeal, the federal govern-ment will review the informa-tion and meet with Lonnie G. Harper and Associates. To get a final answer could possibly take years. Until then, the rates will remain as they are now.

Bridge City is committed to paying the full amount of $85,000 for the appeal to the firm. However, they first met with local entities to see if they wanted to form a coali-tion to share in the costs. The representatives then went back to their local entities to take action. On board is Or-ange County after commis-sioners voted to join Bridge City in the appeal process for the unincorporated areas of the county, but not sign any contracts at this time. The West Orange city council also voted to join the effort.

In addition, according to Jerry Jones, Bridge City city manager, there was also a ver-bal committment from the drainage district and the Bridge City Indendent School

District. ‘We are really excited about

them being on board,” Jones said.

Currently, about 70 percent of Bridge City is in the flood plain which will result in much higher premiums in flood insurance rates.

The city is hopeful the engi-neering firm will be able to do what they did for Cameron Parish, La. Like Bridge City, Cameron Parish was present-ed with new flood plain maps where there was an increase in the amount of the area changed to a flood zone. Once the firm completed the appeal, it was decided they were cor-

rect and the maps were changed. Now, there is much less of the parish in the flood zone.

“We feel very confident they can get a large amount of the city removed from the flood zone,” Jones said.

To facilitate a proper evalu-ation, by the engineering firm of FEMAs efforts, a variety of information, including de-tailed input/output files and data were requested from FEMA. After reviewing the information from FEMA, it was determined by the engi-neering firm many areas of Jerry Jones, city manager for Bridge City, looks over the new FEMA

flood plain maps. The city has hired a Louisiana engineering firm to file an appeal. RECORD PHOTO: Debby Schamber

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BCISD hosts meeting on possible bond issue

The second of two meetings hosted by BCISD was held Monday evening for feedback from the community about a possible bond proposal.

‘The purpose is not to sell this project, but to get the community’s thoughts,” said Mike King, BCISD superin-tendent.

He added, “This is the com-munity’s district.” The point behind the meeting was to share the information, listen to thoughts, gather insight and to answer any questions.

At the last meeting about 75 people arrived to listen to the presentation and comment on the issues. Not as many people went to the meeting the sec-ond time and the cold, rainy weather was thought to be a factor.

First of all, King empha-sized there have not been any decisions made on any-thing.

Overall the response was

in favor of the possible bond proposal. But, there was still some apprehension about rais-ing taxes in light of a possible increase in flood insurance.

The things being considered for a potential bond proposal is a performing arts facility, athletic improvements and a new middle school.

“What makes these project needs is the kids deserve the best programs,” King said. “We want out programs to be the best in Texas.”

However, the school district cannot fund the project with-out a bond, he said.

According to King, admin-istrators met in January 2013 to discuss the needs of the dis-trict. About 10 months ago, they began facility committee meetings. Members took tours of the campuses and thor-oughly looked everything over. Following the tour the group was asked for their most significant thoughts on what they saw. They reported how well they thought the build-ings were maintained and clean. They also said the safe-ty plans are in place and well thought out. In addition, BCE is an example of what a mod-ern day campus should be like. In addition, even the older buildings still surpass others in the area and how well the district is keeping up with technology in the classrooms.

The group also made sug-gestions. In order of signifi-cance is the need for a fine arts

center that has up to a 1,500 seat auditorium, the continua-tion by the district to improve vocational capabilities, im-prove parking at entrances to the junior high and the stadi-um, improve the AC/heating at BCMS and tablets and iPads versus textbooks.

The district recently asked the community to participate in an online survey. The re-sults showed 66 percent of people were in favor of a per-forming arts center.

Currently, the high school choir has 95 students and no rehearsal space. In addition, there are not any nearby rest-room facilities. Students have to walk from the choir hall to the main building to use the bathroom. Plus, drama stu-dents use the ‘cafetorium’ to perform. That stage is not a standard size and does not have proper lighting and the acoustics are bad.

The high school has BCTV for students to produce a tele-vision show. The media stu-dents don’t have a studio or a space to edit the show.

The Strutters has about 30 members on the drill team. They need a larger space for practicing and dressing. Cur-rently, the 11th and 12th grade students use the hallway while the others use a small dressing room. But, King said that was a benefit since the hall was much larger.

The band is one of the fast-est growing activities in the district. The band hall was originally built for 50 stu-dents. Currently, the program has 90 students. The program will grow up to 175 students in 2015-16 school year. The band program now has 349 students in the sixth through 12th grades.

In addition, art exhibitions from 120 students have to be set up in the hallways of the high school. The theater arts program has 130 students.

“Our concern is the co-cur-ricular and extra curricular programs have outgrown their current facility,” King said.

The junior high school re-cently had work done to the

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The community is invit-ed to participate in a sur-vey for the Bridge City In-dependent School District.

The survey is currently on the BCISD homepage. Everyone in the communi-ty is encouraged to com-plete a survery whether they currently have chil-dren in school or not. The survey will give everyone the opportunity to give their opinion on their ex-periences with BCISD in-cluding the staff and facil-ities. The survey will re-main active on the website until Dec. 20th.

In addition, the presen-tation from the Communi-ty Meetings will also be on the BCISD website.

For people who do not have access to a computer, they can go by any school campus or the central ad-ministration building, lo-cated at 1031 W. Round-bunch, which is behind Bridge City Elementary, and fill out the form.

BC parade to be held Saturday

The Bridge City Cham-ber of Commerce’s 5th Annual Electric Light Christmas Parade has been postponed to Satur-day, Dec. 14 due to the in-clement weather expected this weekend. The parade is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and applications will continue to be avail-able at www.BridgeC-ityChamber.com or by calling 409-735-5671.

The entry fee is a new unwrapped toy from each participant. Toys donated will be given to the Minis-terial Alliance for distri-bution to needy children.

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The Orangefield Christmas Festival starts at 10 a.m. Satur-day, Dec. 14 with the annual Orangefield Christmas Pa-rade. After the parade, the fes-tivities will continue at the Or-angefield Cormier Museum. Many activities are designed for adults: singing, bands, dancing groups, drama pre-sentations, and a Civil War presentation. The museum will also be open with special quilting displays, and a model train group. Children activi-ties include the ever popular Uncle Jesse’s Farm, the new outdoor train ride, jumper blow ups – slide and bouncers, a petting zoo, and many oth-ers. Food booths, including Betty Chandler’s famous gum-bo, will be served throughout the day. At dark there will be a short program and a lighting of our new Christmas Tree Derrick.

The tradition of the Christ-mas Tree Derrick was started by W.N. (Bill) Remke of the Kilmarnock Oil Company in 1953 when he decorated the

derrick located near his home in Orangefield. It was said that he wanted a Christmas tree in Orangefield that would not only attract the local folks but people from Beaumont and Port Arthur also. Remke also put a Santa Claus on top of the derrick, but in later years it

was replaced by a star.After Bill Remke’s death in

1957, Curtis Laughlin contin-ued the lighting. He said this was done “in memory of Billy whom we fellow workers all admired. We have a desire to do the thing that we think he would want us to do, and that

is to light the tree so all the kiddies can enjoy seeing it.”

In December 1977 the Or-angefield Lions Club took over the lighting with another der-rick located on the north side of Hwy. 105 near Cow Bayou. The Cormier Well Service Company also took care of the annual Christmas Tree light-ing for many years. The Christmas Tree was finally brought down during Hurri-cane Rita.

In the first year of the Or-angefield Christmas Festival the Orangefield Cormier Mu-seum put lights on a Work-Over Rig to re-start the tradi-tion. After the Wooden Der-rick was built for the Centen-nial Celebration of the Orange Oil Field, it was decided that it should become the new Christmas Tree Derrick for Orangefield.

For more information on the history of Orangefield you can go to “Orangefield Cormier Museum”, or “Orangefield Texas Historical Society” on facebook. Also visit the Or-angefield Cormier Museum on Dec. 14th and enjoy a tour at your leisure.

Jesse Fremont and Chad Jenkins set Christmas lights on the new Christmas Tree Derrick. RECORD PHOTO

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of Orange County, Texas I recently read an article in The Atlantic to the effect that the word “because” has be-come a preposition. Example: I should have done my home-work last night, but I didn’t, because Internet.

If I were to rephrase that in an old-school way, I would say: I should have done my home-work last night, but I didn’t, because of the Internet. In the latter example, because is merely the introduction to the prepositional phrase “of the Internet.” In the previous, we’ve cut out the middle man, making “because” itself into a preposition. This new con-struction is becoming popular on internet forums and is now breaking into the speech pat-terns of any millennial with two eyes and access to Wi-Fi.

A lot of speculation about the evolution of language in re: txt tlk is that avoidance of let-ters shortens the time you spend typing (as if our atten-

tion spans weren’t already short enough) and also that its easier (because texting an ex-tra letter per word is difficult).

Also, it’s less expensive than buying those pesky vowels.

In any case, the evolution of “because” seems to support this trend. We’ve eliminated two whole words. Wouldn’t Hemingway be proud?

On the other hand, what, exactly, are we getting in terms of the quality of our speech?

While fun, the prepositional “because” is the equivalent of picking up an order of Mc-Donald’s chicken nuggets for dinner. There’s a time and a place for it. Or, for that matter, any text shorthand. School and work are obviously inap-propriate. What about Face-book?

Facebook has become the testing grounds for the new is-sue of digital privacy. The temptation to share our lives must be tempered with the prudence of knowing that em-ployers can see that record. Keep your keg stands to your-self.

But while we’re at least aware of the implications of posting pictures that may get us in trouble, what about a comment on a friend’s wall — a harmless remark, but riddled with spelling errors and mis-used parts of speech?

Will we be judged for that? Speaking to friends, after all, is a more casual affair than sending a business email.

I don’t know. I suspect the issue of Facebook profiling

will evolve as the public be-comes more and more aware of the gradual erosion of priva-cy on that digital shore.

I have decided that for me, at least, while I do enjoy read-ing about these new trends — and often, poking fun at them — I’ll continue to talk like a real grown-up, because, like, i just dont know what employ-ers would think of me if like, every other word was mispelled.

I do write for a living, after all.

Caroline BrewtonFreelance journalismBaylor UniversityTwitter: @CarolineBrew.

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Cameron Parish were improperly mapped with Base Flood El-evations and flood hazard zones that are technically deficient. One of the things they looked at was the topography. It did not match other sources and some of it was out of date by decades.

In addition, they looked at the still water elevation. Some of the points listed on the model were not calibrated properly and inland water features were not modeled to actual dimensions of width and depth.

They also looked at wave heights. In their report they stated the default vegetation parameters used in the model are incor-rect and do not represent actual field conditions. Field investi-gations during winter months and after Hurricane Ike showed the parameters to grealty exceed those included in the models.

The engineering firm also looked at mapping omissions. The area “A” in FEMAs output were mapped as “V” zones which were about 400 continuous acres in lower Cameron Par-ish.

As a result of their efforts, they were able to prove and cor-rect the deficiencies in the original maps based on the new data they had collected. The new data included topographic surveys and higher resolution data sets of topography, bathym-etry and vegetation. The revised flood zone shows a reduction in the Base Flood Elevations throughout the parish and a change in the many flood hazard zones.

To prepare for the appeal for Bridge City, although some-what similiar, they will review the digitial flood insurance rate maps and determine the techinical basis for the base flood el-evations shown on the maps. To do this, they will collect storm statisitics, bathymetry, topography, land cover and channel and barrier dimensions. Also, they will review the set-up of the wind, wave and surge computer models.

City officials believe winning the appeal is important be-cause of the large amount of the city being in a flood zone. This will have a ripple efffect because it not only would in-crease flood insurance rates, but also, could possibly decrease property values. The combination of both could have damag-ing repercussions.

Although not always a determining factor, businesses want-ing to locate to Bridge City, may look elsewhere rather than pay higher insurance rates.

In addition, people wanting to sell their houses may have to lower the selling price to compensate for the higher flood in-surance rates.

For now, area citizens will just have to wait for the results of the appeal for the outcome.

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HVAC, roof and electrical operations. But, these are only tem-porary fixes. The building is said to be good for another 10 to 12 years.

For the athletic facilities, they would like to see improve-ments such as moving the weight room closer to the athletic complex. Also suggested is to upgrade the baseball and softball fields and make stadium bleacher improvements.

As of Dec. 4, at BCHS in the band, cheerleading, choir, strut-ters, drama, BCTV and athletics has a total of 641 students of the 738 total involved in co-curricular and extra curricular ac-tivities. This is 85 percent of the students at BCHS. The num-ber will increase when the number of students in vocational classes is added.

According to King, information was gathered from the ap-praisal district. The average house in Bridge City is valued at $130,000. If a bond was approved for $10 million, then for a ho-meowner with a homestead exemption, the average tax in-crease per year could be $94.85. If the bond was $15 million then the tax increase could be $132.45 and for a larger bond of $20 million the tax increase could be $171.80 per year.

The conversations between school officials is leaning to-wards $15 million bond if they were to actually issue a bond proposal.

However, homeowners who are 65 years old or older and are at the their primary, homesteaded residence their taxes will not increase.

Also in consideration, is the bond which passed in 2005 in order to build the new high school building. Homeowners are still paying for that bond and if there was a new bond it would need to be paid on top of the other one. It is scheduled to be paid off in 2035.

If the district waited for the improvements, everything comes with costs. Not only could the costs of construction es-calate but also the interest rates which could make the project more expensive.

If voters were to approve building a new junior high school building, it has been discussed the construction will be done in stages and the best location is where it is now. The current building was built in the 1950s.

“It is in good shape considering its’ age,” King said. During the comment portion of the meeting, a woman ex-

pressed her concerns about the possible flood insurance in-crease.

Bridge City Council member, Mike Reed, stood and ad-dressed the insurance issue.

“The city is signed a contract with an engineering firm and the city is looking to join a coalition with other cities,” he said. “I assure you the city is going to do everything they can to not just delay it but make it go away,” he said.

Other questions asked were if portable buildings could be the answer. King responded it would not solve the issues be-cause of the size of the problem regarding the large spaces needed.

Another person said he thought sports is more than just the game itself. It is a valuable teaching tool to learn things such as team work and provides an incentive to keep their grades up to standards.

“I think this is a good idea,” he said. “I am not wanting to see my taxes increase, but if that is what it takes, then I am okay with it.”

Billy Moore, who had a student in the district last year, also gave his opinion. He said if he had to get a job mowing lawns in addition to his full time job, he would do it in order to pay the additional taxes.

“I am not going to turn my back on these kids, “ Moore said. “It’s not a need, it’s a must.”

Others who commented in support of a bond said it was the best thing to do. For some, their home is their biggest asset and if they were to sell it, they would want a “buyers market.”

The best thing to do would be to support the bond and sup-port the schools because it would increase property values since potential buyers would look at the schools when pur-chasing a home.

King encouraged everyone to participate in the latest sur-vey on the BCISD Web site whether they have a child attend-ing school in the district or not. It will be available through Dec. 20.


During the Monday meet-ing of Orange County Com-missioners, they voted to join Bridge City in their efforts to appeal the new FEMA flood plain maps.

Bridge City signed a con-tract Saturday with Lonnie G. and Associates, a civil engi-neering and land surverying consultants firm from Grand Chenier, La., to file an appeal.

“If you don’t appeal, then it stays the same,” said Pct. 3 County Commissioner John Banken.

There is a Dec. 24th dead-line to file the appeal. Bridge City has committed to paying the full $85,000 cost. Howev-er, if other local entities decide to join in on the appeal pro-cess then the cost is split be-tween all involved.

Presented in court was a map showing where the firm had successfully won an ap-peal for Cameron Parish, La.

Originally, Cameron also faced a large amount of their area being in a flood zone af-ter FEMA presented them with a new flood plain map. However, once the firm com-pleted the appeal, the maps were changed. Now, there is much less of the parish in the flood zone.

‘It’s very probable the same mistakes made in Cameron Parish are the same mistakes made here,” said Joel Ardoin, director of code and compli-ance for Orange County.

In the end, commissioners voted to join Bridge City in the appeal process for the unin-corporated areas of the coun-ty, but not sign any contracts at this time. They hope to have representatives from Lonnie G. and Associates give a pre-sentation in the near future. The firm was unable to attend the meeting Monday because they were working with an im-pending deadline on the ap-peal for Bridge City and look-ing to work on Orange County maps, too.

Orange County to join Bridge City in FEMA appeal

OCS brings Christmas cheerDebby SchamberFor The Record

The holidays are a busy time for everyone, especially Orange Christian Services who helps the needy in the area with food, clothes and with prescription medica-tions.

In December 2012 there were 970 families seeking as-sistance at OCS. Director Judy Jensen said she expects the same amount of people to request assistance this year. OCS does not only give out food for the holidays, but all year long.

“We are not seasonal,” Jen-sen said.

However, during the Christmas season, there are more needs due to colder weather and people needing additional food to feed their families a special holiday meal. Also, there are more illnesses and people request-ing help with prescriptions.

Beginning the first Mon-day in December, individuals or families coming in for as-

sistance are given a regular food order, but also holidays foods. In addition, depend-ing on the number of people in the household, they may receive a chicken or a turkey.

The last week OCS opens in 2013, families with chil-dren are given toys. However, they cannot be signed up with another agency such as Salvation Army, The Bridge City/ Orangefield Ministeri-al Alliance, the OCS Adopt a Family program or any other toy give away, to be eligible for toy assistance at OCS.

OCS depends on dona-tions to help the needy.

“We give what God has provided us to give,” Jensen said.

Donations are always ac-cepted. Currently they espe-cially need blankets and coats. Food donations need to be non-perishable items.

The office, located at 2518 W. Park is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and Thurs-day and from 8 a.m. to noon on Friday.

Susan Burdine and Robert Rothrock, pantry volunteers at Or-ange Christian Services, fill a bag with food for a needy family. OCS helps the needy not only at Christmas but all year long. However, during the holidays, they receive additional holiday type foods.


From the Creaux’s NestTHE GREATNESS OF MANDELA

Last night was one of those sleepless and restless nights that I know you’ve all had. I finally gave it up and put the coffee on at 2:30 a.m., did a little writing and turned on the television. I watched all the Nelson Mandela service including President Barack Obma’s speech. Ninety-one governments were represented. Former United States Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and their spouses attended. President Obama drew the largest reception. I suspect there will be plenty said and written about him shaking hands on the way to the podium with Raul Castro. Mandela was one of a kind; born in 1918, he died at age 95. After being imprisoned 27 years, where he was mistreated and often kept in solitary confinement, he came out at age 70 and transformed South Africa in a successful struggle against an apartheid system of racial segregation. It earned him the Nobel Peace prize. He told President Clinton once, “That in prison they took away everything, but they couldn’t take his heart or mind.” He taught that hope always trumped fear. Millions of words have been written and many more will be, about this great man. There will be those who will have negative words, mostly because he was a man of color and they want to discredit him.*****I have a long way to go and best get going. Come along, I promise it won’t do you no harm.

JOB MARKET SHOWS STEADY GROWTHFive years ago the nation was in a great recession, the worst loss of jobs since the great depression. As many as 700,000 jobs a month were being lost. Unemployment was at 10.4 percent, the auto industry was facing bankruptcy. Mortgage companies had raped millions of American homeowners who were upside down on their home loans. Millions lost their homes because of unregulated mortgage companies who took advantage of everything the government let them get away with. Over the last four and a half years the job market has shown consistent gains. Last month employers hired 250,000 and the unemployment rate fell to seven percent, a five year low. Analysts have raised hopes that 2014 will be the year the economy returns to normal. The stock market is at an all time high, the country is poised to boom. An element of Congress, who prefers to obstruct rather than compromise, is all that stands in the way. If a Farm Bill, Jobs Bill and Immigration Reform Bill was signed into law the country would take off overnight. It’s time to stop talking about impeaching the President; it’s a waste of time. They couldn’t defeat him at the polls and impeachment is a political process, not a legal one, plus it takes 67 votes in the Senate to uphold the impeachment. It never has happened and never will, so why not move on? The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and here to stay. Again, so much energy and time spent on repeal is destructive, why not work together to improve it? Last, but certainly not least, is the issue of extending unemployment. On Dec. 28, when it runs out, many poor unemployed people will be hurt. Children will be devastated. The large majority of those affected, through no fault of their own, are jobless. They are caught in an economic trap. Over 22,000 veterans will lose unemployment benefits. Now is not the time to turn our backs on them or the unemployed. I’m sure most of you don’t know what it’s like to go to bed hungry, but I do. It’s tough as a kid to not know where and when your next meal is coming.

STOCKMAN - GOOD RIDDANCEI believe two things prompted Congressman Steve Stockman not to seek re-election to Congress. First: pressure was mounting in the House to hold hearings on his ethics and unlawful financial disclosures. By leaving the House, hearings can be put on hold, despite still having a year to serve. Sen. Ted Cruz will use his influence with House Tea Party members to keep the heat off Stockman. The second reason and the reason Stockman is running against Sen. John Cornyn, is that it is a good way for Ted Cruz and the Tea Party to get back at Cornyn for supporting Dewhurst against Cruz. It also is payback for Stockman criticizing Cruzon his filibuster and shutting down the government. Stockman has $32,000 while Cornyn holds over $7 million in campaign funds. He is not going anywhere but thank God he will be gone. Hopefully, never to be heard from again. I hope the voters won’t make the same mistake and vote blindly on another radical obstructionist.

Our CondolencesWe were sorry to hear of the death of Dorothy Marie Morphew, 83, of Orange, who passed away Monday, Dec. 9, at Baptist Hospital, in Beaumont. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. with a Rosary recited at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Claybar Funeral Home, in Orange. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 12, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, in Orange. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Our deepest sympathies go out to our friend, Monte Morphew, his siblings, Dad and family. Please see obituary.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME12 Years Ago-2001

On a cold, damp Nov. 8th day, the Bridge City Cardinals, one of the best 4-3A football teams, ended a good season on a bad day. The Cardinals great season came to an end at the hands of Sinton in Kyle Field, at Texas A&M. Sinton is not your typical Hispanic team. They were loaded with state caliber talent across the board. The rainy, wet field was a disadvantage to the Cardinal speed and for the most part Matt Peebles was the workhorse,

as B.C. tried to ground some yards and burn the clock. Sinton races for 22 first downs, B.C. manages only six in a 38-0 loss. Only two teams remained in the playoffs, Sinton and Everman. Seniors leaving the Cardinals, the best team since the 1966 state champs, seniors are: Justin Cruse, Matt McCain, Joe Khoury, Bobby Vice, Dwayne Breaux, Chris Harvey, Lanston Fults, Jason Yeaman, Luther Sanders, Luke Wolfford, Chris Jetton, Pat Godwin, Tyler Briggs, Aaron Mitchell, Dustin Bock, Shannon Maloney, Greg Alejo, Kaleb Faulk, Scott Lambert and Chris Sneed. Bridge City has alot of talent returning in their juniors and sophomores. (Maybe if space permits I can run a list of the outstanding returnees later.)*****Dot Eshbach makes her annual Christmas season stops delivering her homemade fudge to friends. *****Lon Hubbard treated a dozen folks, plus one, to a great meal at “On the Border” in College Station. *****West Orange-Stark linebacker, Turquoy Reggs, is on the Houston Chronicle’s Top 100 Recruits.*****About 75 people gathered at the K.C. Hall for the reunion of the Bridge City 1966 state championship team. Quarterback Joe Lanston had fallen and was unable to attend but Steve Worster, All American at Texas, despite of having quadruple bypass heart surgery, was in attendance.*****Kree Harrison, a 13-year-old singer, will appear on the Rosie O’Donell show Dec. 12. Since the death of her father in a plane crash, Kree and her mother Kathy have moved to Nashville to further Kree’s career.*****Ray Cotton had surgery last week but the cowboy is doing good.*****Johnny Montagne finally returns from the deer lease. He left at Thanksgiving. Bobby Cormier and others visited Johnny at his Ozona lease.

40 Years Ago-1973Paul Hale is mayor of Orange.*****James “Stick” Stringer is county judge.*****Henry Stanfield, Orange fire chief, announces his retirement.*****County attorney is Jim Sharon Bearden. *****Prescient 4 county commissioner is Raymond Gould of Vidor.*****Fred Trimble is district judge of 160th district court.****Dr. Joe Mayors is Bridge City’s only dentist.*****Wayne Peveto is state representative and represents all of Orange and Newton counties.*****Preston Woods is mayor of Bridge City.*****Louvenia Hryhochuk is tax-assessor-collector.*****Some of the old boys around is 55-year-old Boob Taylor, who coached football and other sports at Hackberry, La.*****Wayman Martin, 62, of Little Cypress school superintendent; Buck Sims, 60, a former crop duster and businessman; Fred ‘Cooder’ Avant, 51, who claims to work at DuPont; Murphy King, who turned 71 on Dec. 15, is known as the Pawnshop King; Lloyd Merlin Broussard, 49, works at Allied Chemical and coached at Carr Junior High; Charlie Webb, 44, works at DuPont; Wynne Hunt, 46, is a DuPont hand as is Harry Fulton, 45 and Harold Force, 53; J.D. Stanfield, 56, is a partner in Case and McGee Furniture and is also city councilman; Cecil Willey, 52, works at Gulf States. Others are Percy Bordelon, 53, who has put in his time at DuPont and Firestone; Monty Moran, 51, works at DuPont; Danny Barker, a 44-year-old youngster, is often seen enjoying the coffee at Kroger’s with Joe Runnels, Steve Williamson, Eddie Morris, John Taylor, Cecil Griffin, Charles Picking and former County Judge Charlie Grooms. Also, spotted at Kroger’s was the coin machine operator, Dag Andress and John Magness, Harold Emmert, Tony Garritonia and Joe Burke.****You can always hear when Junior Clark is around.*****Gene Hidalgo, a DuPonter, thinks he’s the last of the sex symbols.*****Ann Segura returns to East Texas from time to time to keep the accent intact.*****Jim Dunaway flies around on his motorcycle.*****Lucy Sciarileo has lost 18 pounds and is looking great.*****Laverne Ridley is shooting up B-12 with a touch of hormones, good for 24 hours.*****Lew Malcolm keeps the chamber and his mouth going.*****Everyone prepares for Christmas.

A LITTLE ABOUT THE NATIVES The one of a kind, Ray Cotton, stopped by. Ray, at age 84, is the most optimistic person I know. His great outlook on life is inspiring. He says every day is a good day. If he can visit with old friends it’s an extra special day. Ray always parks the farthest away from his destination so he can get his walking in. He parks nearly to Hwy. 87 to go all the way to Super Wal-Mart Pharmacy. What a guy. *****A lady I’ve admired for a long time, is Elaine Myers, owner of The Horseman Store and many other ventures. Her business runs from Mississippi to South Texas. She bought the oldest “Redwing” shoe store in Houston and moved it to a new location. She’s the busiest person I know, yet she finds time for community work and supporting her church that she’s quite proud of. They bought the Lutheran Church building on 16th Street and the congregation has been steadily growing. At age 70, Elaine doesn’t have a slow gear in her makeup.*****Our buddy, John Heard, who grows some of the country’s best citrus right here in Orange County, blessed us with a mess of fruit. Enough for us to ship some to Arkansas to a beautiful lady who looks forward every year to some of John’s oranges. He and wife, Linda, face all their regular aches and pains while doing good. *****We ran into Don and Mary Stanton at Robert’s. Don is on the recovery now but Mary, who previously had back surgery, is suffering with back pain. We told her she was paying for too much aerobics in her younger life. *****I had a chance to visit with a young man I’ve thought well of since he was a teenager. Dennis Bell has done quite well for himself. I’ve always known he was intelligent and he was smart enough to take advantage of his talents. *****We visited with my longtime Black buddy from Rayne Louisiana, former Orange mayor and present councilperson, Essie Bellfield. Ms. Essie spoke about the time Velma Jeter, Willie Mae Champagne and she had the opportunity to visit and be touched by the late Nelson Mandela in Detroit. This was shortly after he was released from 27 years in prison and became the president of Africa. *****We received a special treat from Ginger, of Ginger and Company, on West Roundbunch in Bridge City. It was a brew of chicken and special Louisiana sausage gumbo. The brew was very good, much like Grandma’s. That girl could pass for a Cajun.

A FEW HAPPENINGSChristmas festivities began in Orange County this week. The big Orange parade has been canceled due to pending bad weather, however, on Saturday, Bridge City’s Light parade, which was postponed to Dec. 14, will start at 6:30 p.m. The Orangefield Christmas parade will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. Come out and see David’s 1946 Farm All tractor. Everyone loves a parade. Also, on Saturday, Orange will sponsor Christmas at the Pavilion. Bundle up the kids; join in the fun of the Christmas season. Make memories for the children.*****The Wednesday Lunch Bunch dines at Peggy’s Off the Bayou on Hwy. 62 this week and will have an annual Christmas gathering at Robert’s next Wednesday, Dec. 18. It’s always a nice gathering, hosted by Robert himself. Make plans to attend. It will be the last gathering of the year until Jan. 8, again at Robert’s. *****We’re sure hearing some good things coming from David Self Ford in Orange. Consumers are learning you don’t have to go out of town to get the best deal on a new Ford truck or car. Also, they are now volume used car dealers with a lot of choices. A great place. David and Ross Smith are going all out to keep the business here at home, plus they’re good folks to do business with.*****A few good folks we know celebrating their special day. On Dec. 11, folks celebrating are Tara Fountain, nice,

smart and principal of Bridge City Intermediate; Kent Sarver, who was a valuable member this year of the West Orange-Stark ‘Chain Gang’; also, Jo Lynn Mott, Jon Mott’s better half and a special lady, Terry Fall.*****On Dec. 12, Lucy Hanks, Rene’s lovely wife and Pattie Hank’s mom celebrates.***Also on this day Arielle Foster, Scott DeRouen and Bonnie Albright celebrate as does Dionne Warwick, who turns 73, Bob Barker, 90.*****On Dec. 13, Hazel Smith, Kristy Kidwell and Jenny Duncan, all lovely women, celebrate along with Taylor Swift, who is 24 and Jamie Foxx, 46.*****On Dec. 14, one of our family of advertisers, Keri Michutka, CPA, celebrates, as does longtime friends Danny Blacksher and Hannah Carpenter. *** It also is the 57th wedding anniversary of Betty and Corky Harmon. *** Patty Duke turns 67 on this day, too. *****On Dec. 14, Shirley Roccaforte celebrates. She’s special and one-of-a-kind. Also, longtime friend Maac Hughes celebrates. ***Donnie Stanton, Mary and Don’s eldest, turns 47. ***Our late friend, Doug Harrington, would have been 75 on this day. *****On Dec. 16, a good friend of many years, James Brabham, another proud product of the Cove, celebrates.***Also on this day beautiful Elizabeth Uzzle has a birthday. ***Dec. 16 also marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, 1944. *****On Dec. 17, one of the great guys, former mayor, community leader Brown Claybar marks another birthday.***Also celebrating are Martha Taylor and Beatrice Cortez. ***This would have been the birthday of one of the finest ladies we’ve known, the late Betty Lou Womack, who left us much too young. It’s come on a full moon on this day and will hopefully bring clear skies. Please see complete list.*****Good news, the Food and Drug Administration, in the last few days, approved a new pill that is expected to make the treatment of Hepatitis C less onerous, shorter in duration and more effective. It will allow at least some patients infected with the liver destroying virus to be treated with pills, doing away with weekly injections of a drug that can have debilitating side effects. Many teenagers of the 1970’s carry the Hepatitis virus because of lifestyles and drug use. Not all Hepatitis infection, however, came about from drug use, as many other factors contributed.*****As the year comes to an end, the prospects for immigration reform seem bleak, despite polls showing broad bi-partisan support for reform. A Senate immigration package sits in the House collecting dust; while House Speaker John Boehner, has the bi-partisan votes for it to pass. Boehner fears crossing the radical right Tea Party. It’s an issue even frustrating to regular Republicans who see the urgency to get something done before next year’s mid-term elections. The immigration problem could become a hot button issue that no one but the Tea Party is willing to gamble on. The immigration problem in the heat of a campaign will cut both ways, but Republican leaders, the grown ups, know that the Republicans facing opposition will get the short end of the stick.

Birthdays this WeekJo Lynn Mott, Kent Sarver, Karissa Kordish, Kristine Cortez, Jim Sands, Cody Caples, Terry Fall, Leslie Lyons, Cody Caples, Tara Fountain, Nathan Vogt, Rob Clark, Shelby Hebert, Zackery Anderson, Arielle Foster, Joel Fruge, Scott Derouen, Bonnie Albright, Daniel Bates, Melissa Poydence, Hazel Smith, Melinda Swares, Kristy Kidwell, Dennis Lee, Hailey Tally, Jenny Duncan, Keri Michutka, Ronald Escamilla, Kandy Sartin, Tim Fix, Danny Blacksher, Danny Prosperie, Dorothy Jenkins, Hannah Carpenter, Ken Pittman, Amanda Webb, Linda Easley, Imogene Bland, Jeff Harrington, Kenneth Pittman, Maac Hughes, Melanie Richter, Shirley Roccaforte, Alex Harner, Belinda Broom, Brent Burris, Craig Reynolds, Dale Armand, Kitty Martin, James Brabham, Michelle Gephart, Bobby Adaway, Elizabeth Uzzle, Michael Terry, Natalie Nimitz, Beatrice Cortez, Jeremie Delano, Nathan Applebac, Brown Claybar, Chris Chambless, Martha Taylor.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEKSostan and Annabel were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant in Lafayette, gazing wit love at each utter and holding hands. Da waitress was taking an order at anutter table wen she noticed Sostan him, sliding down his chair and under da table. Annabel her, stared straight ahead.Da waitress, tinking this behavior a bit strange and dat it might offend da utta diners, went over to da table and tactfully began by saying to Annabel, “Pardon me, ma’am, but I tink you husband him just slid under da table.”Annabel her, calmly looked up at her and said, “No honey, he didn’t, my husband Joe just walked in da door him.”

C’EST TOUTWell, the local candidates all made their way to the starting gate. The race is on. The local Republican Party did a good job of recruiting candidates. Many, or should I say most, who switched did so through the threat of having opposition recruited against them by the Party. They chose to switch rather than face the expensive long haul. Others chose to stay put and run on their records. Only time will tell. I don’t look for a repeat of the last election, where people were herded into voting against President Obama by voting a straight ticket, assuring his defeat. Nationwide it didn’t work. Local government has nothing to do with either national party. In Texas, the law requires any one running for county government must register with a party. I believe there are four or five parties one could sign up with. The unfairness is that for many years officials who have served us well were forced to change brands. Their thinking and way of governing hasn’t changed, the only thing that changed is their names on the opposite side of the ballot. Locally, it’s not the party, it’s the person. If they were good or bad officials, they will continue to be the same. All local governments are the same; they serve the needs of the local people, not a national political party. Mayors, city councilpersons, school boards, port commissioners or drainage boards all serve without the knowledge to the voter if they are democrat or republican, because it doesn’t matter. We all vote for the person, not a brand. I find it very unfair that especially judges have to run under any brand. The law prevents them from engaging any political but their own. They can’t take part in politics so why have to declare for any party. That law needs changing. All judges run according to the law, not who the president or senator is. This election, you would be best served by studying the candidates, not the party. *****Gotta go, take care and God bless.


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David BallFor The Record

The long awaited dredging of the Neches River was ap-proved this year. Now to get the wheels in motion to make things happen.

The Orange County Naviga-tion and Port District Board of Commissioners held their reg-ular meeting on Monday af-ternoon to conduct the busi-ness of the port.

Though there was nothing to report at the meeting on the dredging project, many think this project will be monumen-tal as reported in an earlier edition of The Record.

When Gene Bouillion be-came port director for the Port of Orange 15 years ago there were talks already about deep-ening and widening the Sabi-ne-Neches Waterway.

Now that project has be-come a reality after being au-thorized in Water Resources

Reform & Development Act Passed by U.S. House of Rep-resentatives on October 23.

“This will only be the Nech-es River portion,” Bouillion said. “From the Gulf (of Mexi-co) to Beaumont. It will also impact the Port of Port Arthur and heavy industry in Jeffer-son County. It will be good for the region.”

Bouillion explained the project is limited to the Nech-es River side because of nu-merous wetlands along the Sa-bine River, such as Bessie Heights on the Orange County side, make access to areas in-accessible to either rail or road.

Yet, he believes the water-way project will benefit the Orange County facility at the Port of Beaumont.

In addition to helping public ports, the project will benefit private terminal at oil refiner-ies on the Neches River, too.

“They’ll be able to load and

unload vessels with bigger and deeper drafts which will lower freight costs and lower the cost of crude. It’s a huge factor loading at 40 feet compared to 48 feet,” Bouillion said.

It was reported at the meet-ing there was a drop in reve-nues for the Port of Orange.

Bouillion said the port lost a ship that was docked there. Fortunately for the port, an-other ship soon moored at the port which makes three ships docked and the port is now at capacity.

Bouillion foresees other ships looking for a temporary short-term port berthing at the Port of Orange.

Building D of the Border Street Complex next to the port office has had its siding taken out and abated. Demoli-tion of the structure may be-gin as early as next week.

The port office will be closed Christmas Eve, Christ-mas Day and New Year’s Day.

Port waiting for Neches River dredging to begin

Tom Harmon, director of administration and finance for the Port of Orange is retiring. Lorrie Taylor, for-mer finance director for the city of Vidor, will take his place. RECORD PHOTO: David Ball

Penny LeleuxFor The Record

Paul Burch will be making his directing debut with “Yule-tide III,” an Orange Commu-nity Players, Inc. production that starts its three day run at 7:37 p.m., Thursday night.

The third annual fundraiser will raise funds to be used on building repairs and mainte-nance.

“Usually its just a Christmas show, a Yuletide thing. What we’ve done is divided the stage with a manger on the right side and a Christmas tree and homey looking scene on the other side of the stage,” Burch said. They will play with both sides of the stage so as Chris-tians, they can honor the true meaning of Christmas, but at

the same time they can show the fun side of Christmas too.

“We are doing songs that are from the part of Jesus Christ and songs from the Spirit of Christmas, you know, ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town,’ ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,’ those types of things,” said Burch.

“We’re trying to do both ends of the spectrum.”

“It is different than the ones we’ve done before, but I believe we can pull it off,” he said with a smile.

“I’ve been assistant director to two other shows. ‘Rico Vásquez and I have built this show. Rico hasn’t been a direc-tor either.” Vásquez is Burch’s assistant director for the pro-duction.

Burch said they couldn’t

have done it without Judy Smith, ‘Rico’s grandmother. “She’s been our costume per-son and she has done a little bit of everything to help build this show. She has really worked hard. She has not missed one rehearsal.”

A good deal of credit also goes to John Gray as choreog-rapher for the production.

According to Burch rehears-als are going well, but are kind of slim some days because the flu season is here. He said there have been people that have been sick and had to drop out. “It has been quite inter-esting, but we’ve managed to pull together a show. We are adjusting as we go,” he laughed. “When someone drops out, we have to adjust the number or ditch the number and create

another one.”What’s really remarkable is

the show is put together in only two weeks. “We will be ready, we have a show now and we’re tweaking it.” He has a few special treats planned. “John Gray is going to be our tapping Santa Claus!” Burch said Gray will be doing a Boo-gie Woogie number. Children will also be participating in the show as elves.

Previously, the Yuletide shows were directed by Brook Doss, but she retired, got mar-ried and moved to Sugarland. When she left, Burch agreed to take on both the Yuletide and Broadway Fun for Funds as director.

“I get to do the fun ones. There’s no script. We chose our songs. We chose our talent

and build a show from song to song.”

Cost of tickets is $25, which includes heavy hors d’oeuvres and wine before the show, with desserts, wassail and coffee at intermission.

Santa will be in the Lobby before the show to visit with the children at 7 p.m.

Yuletide III will be per-formed Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week. Reserva-tions are HIGHLY recom-mended so they know how much food to prepare each evening. To reserve your spot call 409-882-9137 and leave a message for which day and how many attending. It’s a great way to kick-off the holi-day season.

The theater is located at 708 West Division, Orange.

Burch excited about directing debut with Yuletide III

Santa will be in the lobby of the Orange Community Players Theater at 7 p.m. before each production of “Yultide III.”

Deaths and MemorialsNo Services

Bobbie L. MillerOrange

Bobbie L. Miller, 76, of Or-ange, passed away Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, at St. Eliza-beth Hospital in Beaumont. Cremation will be under the direction of Claybar Funeral Home in Or-ange.

Born in Denver, Colo., on Sept. 28, 1937, Bobbie was the daughter of R.T. and Lola Evelyn (Root) McAnally. Bobbie was the very first “Indianette” at Port Neches High School and gradu-ated in 1955. She loved to bowl and play softball. Bobbie was a loving wife and mother and will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

She was preceded in death by her son, Thomas Bertrand Miller; sons-in-law, Curtis Vick-ers and Dwight Williams; grand-daughter, Amanda Sharp; and two brothers and one sister. Bobbie is survived by her hus-band of 59 years, Thomas Miller; daughter, Charlotte Williams; and daughter and son-in-law, Gwen and Glenn Matthis, all of Orange.

Bobbie is also survived by her grandchildren, Curtis Michael Vickers, Joseph Williams, Ste-ven Williams, all of Orange, Da-vid Roberts and wife, Tiffany of Pearl, Miss., Daniel Sharp of Or-ange, GM2 Timothy Sharp of Norfolk, Va. and Sheila Seifried of Baytown; and four great-grandchildren.

Services to be held

Reable “Reba” FooteBridge City

Reable “Reba” Foote, 76, of Bridge City, passed away Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, at her residence. Funeral Services will be 1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 12, at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Bridge City. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday, at the funeral home in Bridge City. Born in Clayton, Ala., on Nov. 22, 1937, Reba was the daugh-ter of Kermitt and Violet Ellene (Johnson) Warr. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Bridge City. Reba enjoyed shopping and spoiling her grandchildren. She also loved flowers and animals. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ellene and Marvin Adams; and brother-in-law, Woody Woods. Reba is survived by her husband of 30 years, Roger Ramey of Bridge City; sons, Kim Northen of Port Neches, Kurt Northen of LaBelle; son and daughter-in-law, Keith and Karen Northen of Orangefield; daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Cody Wilkerson of Lufkin; and step-

son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy and Dealina Ramey of Las Vegas, Nev. Reba is also survived by her ten grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; sister, Vicki Woods of League City; brother and sister-in-law, Benny and Sherry Warr of Bridge City; and numerous nieces, nephews and extended family members. Billie Louise KingBeaumont

Billie Louise King, 84, of Beau-mont passed away Dec. 8, 2013 at Harbor Hospice. A gathering of family and friends will be from 5 p.m to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Claybar Funeral Home. The celebration of Mrs. King’s life will be at 10 a.m.,Thursday, Dec. 12, at the funeral home with interment to follow in Orange Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Mrs. King, one of 12 children, was born March 8, 1929, in Gar-rison, to James and Etta Young-blood. She moved from East Texas to Orange where she met and married her husband of 65 years, Russell Leon King. Mrs. King was devoted to teaching the children of Cove Baptist Church to love their faith as much as she did and she en-joyed singing in the church choir. She loved to crochet and knit but she did have one well known vice, her love of Dr. Peppers! In 2007, Mr. and Mrs. King moved to Beaumont where they promptly joined West End Bap-tist Church.

She is survived by her chil-dren, Ernest James King and his wife, Glenda of Lufkin and Mi-chael King of Beaumont, Aleta King and Freida King Wilde of Orange; and son Richard King and his wife, Susan of Austin; sister, Martha Meyers, of Chica-go, Ill., grandchildren, Natalie Johnson, Elizabeth Pittman, Mi-chael King, Amy Wagner, Ste-phen King, Sherry Turner; 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

The family of Mrs. King wants to extend their special thanks to Libby Taylor and her team of caregivers; Jennifer, Maggie and Tiara.

Memorial contributions may be made to Cove Baptist Church, 1005 DuPont Drive, Orange, Texas 77630, West End Baptist Church, 8180 Phelan Blvd. Beaumont, Texas 77706 or Tex-as Children’s Hospital, P.O. Box 300630, Houston, Texas 77230-0630.

Thomas Earl MaberryOrange

Thomas Earl Maberry, 60, of Orange, passed from this life into the arms of his Savior on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in the early morning after a struggle with illness. Services to remember

and honor Thomas’s life will be at 4 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 12, in the Dorman Funeral Home Cha-pel in Orange, with the Rev. K. Ray McDowell officiating, with cremation to follow. A gathering of family and friends for a time of reflection and sharing will be from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. just prior to the services.

Born on Sept. 15, 1953, in Or-ange, to his parents, Loyd Irvin Maberry and Juanita Mae (Pen-nington) Maberry, he was a life-long resident of Orange. Thom-as worked as a welder and a me-chanic within the shipbuilding and repair industry. He was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene, in Orange. He was a very caring person who will be remembered for his abili-ty to fix things. He most enjoyed fixing lawn mowers, assisting his friends and neighbors in need and most of all, the love he held for his family and friends.

Thomas is preceded in death by his parents. Those who will most cherish his memory are his fiancee and caretaker, Norma Flanagan of Orange; his sisters, Phyllis Kessler and husband, Ronald of Call, Linda Reyes and husband, Robert of Mauriceville and Karon LeBleu of Call; his brother, Michael Maberry and wife, Jean of Call, numerous nieces, nephews, members of his extended family and a host of friends.

The family has requested that memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society, 755 South 11th Street, Suite 212, Beaumont, Texas 77701-3723 or call (800) 227-2345 or log on to www.cancer.org. Condolences may be expressed for the family at www.dormanfuneralhome.com.

Josephine Amanda WatkinsOrange

Josephine Amanda Watkins, 90, of Orange, passed away Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in Or-ange. A graveside service will be 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Texar-kana.

Born in Springhill, La., on Nov. 30, 1923, Josephine was the daughter of George and Alma (Griffith) Stiles.

She was preceded in death by her husband, H.R. Watkins and brother, L.D. Stiles. Jose-phine is survived by her son, Robert William Watkins; grand-children, Dale Scarber, Greg and Seth Watkins; great-grand-children, Bentley, Marlee and Bailey Watkins, Dixie Scarber; and nieces, Linda Nix and Bren-da Tackett. Arrangements are under the direction of Claybar Funeral Home in Orange.

Ronald Dale “Pee Wee” HudsonFormerly of Orange

Ronald Dale “ Pee Wee “ Hud-son, 67, of Millsap, formerly of Orange, passed away Wednes-day, Dec. 4, 2013, at the Weath-erford Regional Medical Center in Weatherford. A gathering of

Pee Wee’s family and friends for a time of reflection will be from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m., Wed., at the fu-neral home. Services to remem-ber Pee Wee’s life will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Dec.12, in the Chapel of Dorman Funeral Home, in Orange, with Brother John Fortenberry officiating. Rite of Committal and Interment will follow services in the Hud-son Cemetery in Orange.

He was born on April 9, 1946, in Orange, the son of Travis Hud-son and Verna Mae (Lechner) Hudson. He lived in Millsap since 1998. Pee Wee worked as a Terminal Manager for a truck-ing company. He most recently worked for his daughter and son-in-law, managing the family ranch. He previously lived in

Waco where he was a member of the Western Heights Baptist Church. Pee Wee enjoyed spending time outdoors and with his family. He enjoyed bar-becuing and sharing his cook-ing. His family will most fondly remember his brisket, sausage and his secret sauce. The best and most rewarding part of his job at the ranch was being a full time grandfather.

Pee Wee is preceded in death by his parents; his sisters, Juan-ita Cooper and Eva Eloise Mc-Clain; his brother, Travis Charles Hudson and his third wife, Jen-nifer Hudson. Those who will most cherish his memory are his daughters, DeAnn Herbel and husband, Dene of Millsap and Amy McCarley and husband,

Mike of Blue Ridge; his sons, Ronnie Hudson and wife, Dal of Argyle, and Clinton Hudson and wife, Mindi of Lott; his brother, Willard Hudson and wife, Doris of Orange; his seven grandchil-dren, Sydney, Sierra, Cade, Seth, Megan, Ashley and Tyler. Pee Wee is also survived by nu-merous nieces, nephews, ex-tended family and a host of friends. Condolences may be expressed for the family at www.dormanfuneralhome.com.

Dorothy Marie MorphewOrange

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of Orange, passed away Mon-day, Dec. 9, 2013, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. with a Rosary recit-ed at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec.11, at Claybar Fu-neral Home in Orange, with Deacon Melvin Payne officiating.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 12, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, in Orange, with Father Joseph P. Daleo officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Me-morial Gardens near Bridge City.

Born in Catahoula, La., on Oct. 2, 1930, Dorothy was the daughter of Agest Joseph Latio-lais and Eva (Bourque) Latiolais. She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and was very faithful. She had a strong love for God and her family. Dorothy worked at Weingarten’s, en-joyed reading and refurbishing antique furniture.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, A.J.; and sister, Sable. Dorothy is sur-vived by her husband, Brad Morphew of Orange; daughter and son-in-law, Cynthia and Kenneth Slaughter of San Anto-nio; son and daughter-in-law, Thad Ray and Regina Morphew; son and daughter-in-law, Britt and Jodi Morphew; daughter and son-in-law, Kelly and Mi-chael Guillot; and son and daughter-in-law, Monte and Kel-ly Morphew, all of Orange.

Dorothy is also survived by her grandchildren, Oleatha, Ty-son, Chad, Kendall, Lexi, Alli-son, Samantha, Kailey, Macken-zie, Elizabeth and Madeline; nine great-grandchildren; and sib-

lings, Joyce, Myrtle, Diana and Huey.

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Itamar DeLafuenteMauriceville

Itamar DeLafuente, 53, of Mauriceville, passed away Fri-day, Dec. 6, 2013. Visitation and funeral ser-vices were Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Claybar Fu-neral Home in Orange. Burial fol-lowed at Del-Rose Ceme-tery in Vidor.

Born in Las Choapas, Vera-cruz, Mexico, on Dec. 10, 1959, Itamar was the son of Guadal-upe DeLafuente and Paula Alva-rez DeLafuente. He was a house mover for Williamson’s House Moving and Leveling and retired after 35 years. Itamar loved to travel, fish, hunt and camp.

He was preceded in death by his father and is survived by his mother; son, Itamar DeLafuente Jr.; daughter, Dianna DeLa-fuente; six brothers; four sisters; his children’s mother, Irma Loza-no; and his best friend and care-giver, Renee Williamson.

Kenneth M. HodgeOrange

Kenneth M. Hodge, 78, a life-long resident of Orange, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont. Visitation was Friday at Claybar Fu-neral Home

in Orange. Services were Satur-day, Dec. 7, at First Baptist Church in Deweyville. Officiating was the Rev. Damon Bickham and the Rev. Lynn Ashcraft. A graveside service and burial was Saturday, at Cold Springs Cem-etery in Garrison.

Born in Orange on Jan. 21, 1935, Kenneth was the son of Joseph Ernest Hodge and Eula Mae (Goodman) Hodge. While attending high school, Kenneth worked for the Orange Leader delivering newspapers, first on a bicycle and later driving a vehi-cle, to the Orange area, includ-ing the Navy Base and Coopers Grocery. He then graduated from Lutcher Stark High School in 1954 and began working for Levingston Ship Building Co. He also played on Levingston’s softball team. Kenneth worked for Allied Chemical Co. in Or-ange, as a Maintenance Me-chanic in 1956 and retired in 1990. After retiring, he owned and operated two businesses; Kenneth Hodge Christmas Tree Farm and Kenneth Hodge Live Oak Nursery.

Kenneth was an active mem-ber of North Orange Baptist Church for over 55 years, where he served as Deacon and sung in the regular and Senior Adult choirs. Kenneth enjoyed travel-ing with the church choir mem-bers across the United States and Canada. He also attended First Baptist Church in Dew-eyville where he participated in the regular choir and Christmas Musicals. He did mission work with North Orange Baptist Church, East Texas Baptist Family Ministries and the Gold-en Triangle Baptist Boys Camp for troubled boys. Kenneth was a member of the Boy Scouts and coached Little League Baseball at Twin County Little League and the All Star teams.

Kenneth enjoyed his family vacations to Branson, Mo., Fla., Colo., Ala., and Canada. His hobbies included fishing, hunt-ing and golfing with his son, grandson and friends.

He was preceded in death by

his parents; sister, Lois Hodge Talbert; and brothers, Curtis, Hershel, Ernest Roy, Henry and Johnny Hodge.

Kenneth is survived by his wife of 57 years, Verna Faye (Ed-wards) Hodge; father-in-law, Vernon Edwards; son, Kenneth Wayne Hodge and wife, Kathy; daughter, Rhonda Kaye Hodge Shores and husband, Timothy; grandchildren, Melanie and Chris Hodge, and Macey David-son; brother, Darrell T. Hodge; and sister, Emma Jean Keller.

Serving as pallbearers will be Chris, Dan and Hank Hodge, Lance Tiner, Timothy Shores and Todd Edwards. Honorary pallbearers are Vernon Edwards, Bill Ernest, Burford Rector, Gor-don Pace, Dickie Seago and Gus Waits.

Randy Maroy BradyMauriceville

Randy Maroy Brady, 56, of Mauriceville, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 at Christus Hospital - St. Elizabeth in Beaumont. A gathering of Randy’s fam-ily and friends was Saturday, at Dorman Funeral Home in Or-ange, followed by cremation.

Randy was born on June 17, 1957, in Port Neches. He was the son of Edwin Brady and Anna Marguerite (Price) Brady. He was a lifelong resident of Southeast Texas and was em-ployed as a pipefitter in the con-struction industry with Pipefit-ters Local 195, in Nederland. Randy enjoyed spending time in the outdoors; fishing, hunting and golfing. He will be remem-bered as a loving husband, fa-ther and grandfather who en-joyed spending time with his family and friends.

Randy is preceded in death by his parents and his brother,

Charles Brady. Those who will most cherish his memory are his wife, Joy Phelps Brady of Mau-riceville; his daughter, Amber Wright and fiancé, David Savant of Orange; his son, George Gar-za Jr. and wife, Stephanie of Vi-dor; his sisters, Edwina Brady of Marshall and Peggy McGowen of Galveston; his brothers, Mike Brady and wife, Susan of Mar-shall and Rocky Brady of Gran-bury; his seven grandchildren,

Zackery, Zander, Zowie, Zaylee and Zerionna Garza, Aaron Wright and Gavin Savant.

In lieu of flowers, memorial accounts have been established to assist the family with expens-es. Please make a donation to the Randy Brady Memorial Fund at Guaranty Bond Bank, P.O. Box 600, Hallsville, Texas 75650 or call 903-660-2181. Condo-lences may be sent for the family at www.dormanfuneralhome.

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Judge Janice Menard is seeking re-election for JP Precinct #3

Hello this is Judge Janice Menard, your Justice of the Peace in Precinct 3. I am an-nouncing that I will be seeking re-election in 2014.

As you may know, I am a life long resident of Orange Coun-ty. I am an active member of St. Henry Catholic Church

and faithful parishioner for 47 years.

My experience began with 20 years as the Chief Clerk un-der former Justice of the Peace Flo Edgerly. The last 12 years I have been the Justice of the Peace in Precinct #3.

For the past 32 years, as Chief Clerk and your Justice of the Peace, my career has been a fulfilling and wonderful ex-perience, and I want to thank you for that privilege serving you. I am looking forward, with your support, to serving you for the next 4 years.

I hope each and everyone of you had a wonderful Thanks-giving and we will be visiting more after the holidays. For more information on how you can contact my campaign call,

Judge Janice Menard

BC parade to be held SaturdayThe Bridge City Chamber of Commerce’s 5th Annual Electric

Light Christmas Parade has been postponed to Saturday, Dec. 14 due to the inclement weather expected this weekend. The pa-rade is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and applications will con-tinue to be available at www.BridgeCityChamber.com or by call-ing 409-735-5671.

The entry fee is a new unwrapped toy from each participant. Toys donated will be given to the Ministerial Alliance for distribu-tion to needy children.

Orange Parade Re-scheduledThe Orange Christmas Parade scheduled for Friday, Dec. 13

has been re-scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 19.

OC Dems to host executive meeting

The Orange County Democrat Party will host an executive meeting starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 20. Those interested in becoming a precinct chair or a precinct captain should attend the meeting. For more information, call 409-882-9620.

Chief’s Christmas Dance Dec. 14The annual West Orange High School Chief ’s Christmas

Dance will be held 8 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, Dec. 14 at the American Legion in Orange. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with a so-cial at 7 p.m.

Once again, it will feature the music you loved from the 50s and 60s with the Ken Marvel Ban and Jivin’ Gene Bourgeois. Tickets are $10 person, attire is casual. Bring your own bottle. There will be a cash bar with set-ups and beer. Open to the pub-lic. Invite your friends. There will be door prizes courtesy of Granger Chevrolet.

If you are unable to attend, please let them know how you are doing by calling or writing Jimmy Guidry, 5285 Fairview, Or-ange, TX 77632, [email protected], or 409-738-2294.

The West Orange High School class of 1967 wishes you a merry Christmas.

Christmas in Orangefield setThe 3rd annual “Christmas in Orangefield” will take place on

Saturday, Dec. 14. Any individual, group or organization inter-ested in being in the parade, please contact Windee Jenkins at 409-988-8256.

For information on reserving vendor space, please contact Deena VanPelt at 409-988-5931.

Any musical or performing group wanting information on the performance schedule needs to contact Julie Agee at 409-670-2003.

Any person interested in volunteering please contact the Cormier Museum.

Thrift and Gift reduces holiday wreaths and decor

Christmas arrangements and wreaths have been reduced at the Thrift and Gift; just in time for the holidays. Selected vendor items have also been marked down.

Come early and stay late. They are open from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Tuesday through Friday at Thrift and Gift located at 350 37th St. Call 409-886-7649 for more information.

Hunter Education Safety Class scheduled

Texas Parks & Wildlife Hunter Education Safety Class will be held 6:30-9:30 p.m. Monday Jan. 13 and Tuesday, Jan. 14. Both sessions must be attended for certification, which is required if you are at least 17 years old and were born on or after Sept. 2, 1971 to hunt in Texas. You can become certified if you are at least 9 years old. Call Danny Odom to register at 883-8118.

This is not just for hunters, anyone with firearms can benefit

from this class.

Eagles to host pool tourneyThe Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2523, located at 803 N.

28th Street in Orange, will host a pool tournament each Friday beginning at 8 p.m. The two tables are open Tuesday, Wednes-day and Saturday nights. Popcorn will be served and a drink spe-cial will be offered until 11 p.m. The community is invited to come meet the members of Aerie 2523 and join in the fun.

For more information leave a message for Sharon Bodin after 4 p.m. at 886-7381.

VFW to host Christmas DanceA Christmas Dance will be held 8 p.m. til 12 a.m., Dec. 21 at

VFW Post 2775 located at 5303 N 16th St., N Hwy. 87 in Orange.Cypress Band will perform live with Willie Tee and the “ God-

father of Swamp Pop” Warren Storm. Come in Christmas with this great band and “Swamp Pop” legends.

Tickets are $10 per person. For more info call 409-886-9738.


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At the Minden First Baptist Church I at-tend, I feel blessed to have an outstanding Sunday School Teacher. She is exceptionally knowledgeable of the Bible. In preparing for the Sunday School lessons, she obviously stud-ies the lesson book, her Bible and her many Bi-ble reference books and is well prepared for the each week’s lesson. Her teaching brings our understanding of Bible history to life and she encourages participation by asking us challenging questions.

In 2011, Carolyn hosted our Class’s Christ-mas party in her lovely home beautifully deco-rated for the holidays. She served a delightful luncheon consisting of potato soup, two Chicken Salads, one warm, a Vegetable Stir-Fry, a Strawberry Jell-O Salad, homemade dinner rolls provided by class member, Mar-garet Burton and a dessert tray of sweets. Fol-lowing our meal we exchanged Christmas gifts and spent the rest of the time visiting.

I had arrived early and as we waited for the others to arrive, Carolyn allowed me to rum-mage through her huge collection of cook-books. I think she has more cookbooks than me and that is a LOT! She shared three reci-pes with me and this week’s recipe is one of them.

Carolyn made us feel so comfortable and

relaxed that time just slipped by and we prob-ably over stayed our welcome. She is a gra-cious hostess and we appreciated her and Pon-to’s (Carolyn’s husband) hospitality.

The following recipe was a candy served on her tray of sweets. It would be an outstanding homemade Christmas gift. Plan to save this KEEPER with your holiday treats file.

Pecan Dainties

• *2 egg whites• 1 tsp. vanilla extract• 1 cup light brown sugar• 1 Tbsp. flour• ½ tsp. salt• 2 ½ cups pecan halves Beat egg whites and vanilla until stiff, stand-

ing up in peaks but not dry. Mix and sift brown sugar, flour and salt into beaten egg whites. Fold in pecan halves. Drop from a tsp. of mixture with 2 pecan halves well spaced on a well-greased cookie sheet that has been lined with nonstick foil. Bake in a 275° oven for approximately 25 minutes. Remove from oven, cool thoroughly and place in an airtight container. These freeze well. Yield 3-4 dozen

*TIP: When beating egg whites, it will be more successful if using eggs at room temper-ature.

NANCY’S KITCHENNancy McWhorterFor The Record


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Good Shepherd Lutheran Church cordially invites the commu-nity to join their congregation in celebrating Jesus’ birthday with a pizza party in which Santa Claus will attend. The party begins promptly at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 18 with pizza, salad, cook-ies and punch.

Santa is scheduled to leave the North Pole and arrive at the church around 6:30 p.m. He will bring a gift for children ages 0 to 12 years of age. Also, each child will have their picture made with him.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is located at 945 W. Round-bunch Road in Bridge City and they look forward to your attend-ing. This event is for all who are young at heart and who want to enjoy the spirit of Christmas.

Good Shepherd Lutheran will also host Christmas Eve Candle-light Services with Holy Communion which begins at 5:15 p.m. with Lamar University music major students accompanying the choir with special Christmas music. Christmas Day worship with Holy Communion starts at 10:00 a.m.

Stutes grand marshall of Pearl Harbor parade in Hawaii

Chief Cliff Stutes was a special guest at the 72nd Pearl Harbor anniversary celebration on Oahu on Dec 7. His service was rec-ognized by congresswoman Ganbards of Hawaii and he was pre-sented a lei and medal by Miss Hawaii before leading the parade as one of 12 World War II veterans to be Grand Marshalls.

Bands and military units from every state with a named ship docked at Pearl Harbor during the attack attended the event.

Navy Chief Cliff Stutes is pictured with daughter Army Major Donna Peterson in a 1961 corvette to begin the parade.

Darrell Trahan says “Thank You!”We would like to thank everyone who was involved in the Ben-

efit BBQ for Darrell Trahan, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Bridge City, Texas. We are so ap-preciative to all our friends from Port Neches-Groves ‘71 class who organized, bought, prepared the food, cooked, advertised and worked the event. Thank you to all of those who bought din-ners, raffle tickets, baked cakes, pies and cookies and helped serve.

Thank you to our family and friends that donated to the blind auction. Thank you for the Over and Under Gun that was donat-ed by a close family friend and was raffled to raise money for medical bills.

Thank you also to the wonderful band who performed for five hours and sang and played beautiful music for everyone.

We appreciate those who picked up dinners and delivered them to businesses and individuals. Thank you to all who made donations but were not able to attend the benefit.

Thank you to our friends and family who hosted our out of town guest overnight. Thank you to our friends and family in Bridge City, Mid-County and surrounding areas and our friends and family who traveled from Louisiana, Dallas, Houston, Waco and Austin areas for being there for us in our time of need. We thank all of our friends at St. Henry Catholic Church and all area churches for their many prayers for healing.

Our family is truly blessed and we are humbled by the out pouring of support, prayers and love!

Darrell and Claudia Trahan

Ken and Lucy Arnold

Happy 50th AnniversaryHappy 50th wedding anniversary to Ken and Lucy Arnold,

married on Dec. 21, 1963 at Memorial Baptist Church in Port Arthur Texas. All friends and family are invited to join in a cel-ebration on Saturday Dec. 21 from 2 till 4 p.m. at Fellowship Baptist Church on FM 408 in Bridge City, Texas.

Happy Birthday!I was double blessed on Dec. 14 many years ago with twins. Happy Birthday to Coach Dwayne (Beaver) DuBois and Sister

Melanie LaFleur.Lots of Love,Mom and Family


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He glanced at me one time, shook his head while adding another log and backed away to give them more room. Usually a very talkative individual, I was shocked that the heckling hadn’t started the moment we entered the room.

When it was clear that my clients had once again regained the use of their fingers and were warm enough to talk through still chat-tering teeth, my thoughtful friend posed the obvious question, “Y’all have a good time out there today?”

“We got our money’s worth,” replied Melvin Curtis.“Dalton caught two trout in the seven pound range and I dropped an even better fish before we could take a picture of her.”That un-expected response only served to further baf-fle my fair weather friend.

They had scarcely eased their Tahoe up on DuPont Drive and headed west to Katy when the honest, but belligerent assessment of what my non-fishing friend had just witnessed be-gan. I knew it was going to be even more de-meaning than usual when he started with, “The only people I’ve talked to today dumber

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There wasn’t much doubt in anybody’s mind that follows the National Football League that the Houston Texans were going to make a coaching change.

After all, when a team is considered to be a Super Bowl con-tender and then turns out to be THE WORST team in the league at the three-quarters mark of the 2013 season, something drastic has to happen.

But the firing of Head Coach Gary Kubiak by team owner Bob McNair Friday still was a shocker, probably because of the timing involved. Why couldn’t he wait until then season ended?

McNair made this decision on the flight home after Thursday night’s nationally televised 27-20 loss to Jacksonville. It was the Texans’ second loss in 11 days to the Jaguars, who had the distinc-tion of having the NFL’s worst re-cord before their win in Houston 11 days ago.

“It was difficult for me because I think so much of Gary,” McNair was quoted as saying in Satur-day’s edition of the Houston Chronicle. “It’s something I didn’t want to do, but you do what’s best for the organization.”

McNair mentioned “account-ability” and “unacceptable” in ex-plaining why Kubiak had to go. Shortly after firing Kubiak, Mc-Nair also canned special-teams coach Joe Marciano, who had been with the Texans since their inception in 1992, also on Friday.

The owner said that losing to the Jaguars for a second time with such a mistake-infested perfor-mance was that proverbial straw than broke the camel’s back. He

also said the list of appropriate re-placements for Kubiak would not be picked over in early December like it probably will be a month from now.

There’s been all kinds of specu-lation as to who McNair will se-lect as the Texans’ new head coach. One of the prime candi-dates is Houston’s defensive coor-dinator Wade Phillips, who Mc-Nair named as the team’s interim coach for the final three games of the season.

Phillips took three teams to the playoffs as head coach and is an interim coach for the third time in his 36-year coaching career.

But the Orange native will have his hands full operating with a skeleton crew that has lost a fran-chise-record 11 straight games and play at Indianapolis Sunday where they have NEVER defeated the Colts. But McNair did order Phillips to start Case Keenum at quarterback for the remainder of the season.

One of the biggest rumors cir-culating the blogosphere is that Mack Brown will be available AF-TER he is fired by the Texas Long-horns and will take over the Tex-ans while Alabama coach Nick Saban moves his coaching talents to Austin.

Another is that Kevin Sumlin would leave Texas A&M for the Houston Texans’ job. Sumlin and Texans’ General Manager Rick Smith both played football at Pur-due—but not together—and are good friends.

But these pipe dreams don’t fit with McNair’s specifications for his new head coach. During last week’s press conference announc-ing Kubiak’s dismissal, McNair stated that his preference would be to hire a candidate who has been a head coach and has NFL experience.

Some of the candidates filling that criterion are television foot-ball announcers Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden, former Chicago

Bears head coach Lovie Smith, Stanford coach David Shaw, San Diego offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt, Penn State coach Bill O’Brien and Denver defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, who was Jacksonville’s head coach for nine years.

O’Brien coached under Bill Belichick at New England and Shaw turned down NFL teams af-ter the 2012 season and might again, according to Monday’s edi-tion of the Houston Chronicle. Shaw is doing a great job at Stan-ford and was an NFL assistant for nine years with Philadelphia, Oakland and Baltimore.

After his playing days as an NFL tight end, Whisenhunt was a successful offensive coordinator at Pittsburgh before accepting the head job at Arizona. During his six years (2006-12) with the Car-dinals, he had two winning re-cords and guided them to Super

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KAZ’S KORNERJOE KAZMARFOR THE RECORD

Houston’s interest in Lovie Smith definitely makes sense. Smith, 55, posted an 81-63 record in the regular season in nine years with the Bears. He led the Bears to three division titles, two NFC title games and a Super Bowl ap-pearance during his tenure.

2B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013

West Orange-Stark Mustang Chase Rutledge carries the ball down the field. Rutledge was the lead rusher with 56 yards and also passed for 133 yards. RECORD PHOTO: Meri Elen Jacobs

The Chain Gang defense held the Bulldogs to just 342 yards. Carthage averaged 608 yards coming into the game. RECORD PHOTO: Meri Elen Jacobs

Mighty Mustangs: Team of overachievers

A team of overachievers.No real superstars, just kids

who love to play football.A team that many didn’t

even think would win district.But a group that bowed up,

and proved many wrong, win-ning the district champion-ship in a 27-0 shutout, scoring 134 points in the playoffs, set-ting several school records be-fore bowing out in the regional finals, losing to Carthage 28-14 in a classic football game that was intense the entire second half after being behind 20-0 at halftime.

And that’s the 2013 WO-S varsity football team-over-achievers.

“The effort was there,” Head Coach Cornel Thompson said. “We fought for 48 minutes but you can’t beat anyone with seven turnovers. We made mistakes and they capitalized on them, while we weren’t able to capitalize on their mis-takes.”

Down 20-0 at the half, se-nior Thomarcus Fontenot took the kickoff 98 yards to put the Mustangs on the board. Kicker Jack Dallas’ PAT was good, and WO-S was back in the race. The Mustangs re-covered a fumble on the kick-off but were unable to do any-thing with it.

Quarterback Chase Rut-ledge came into the game for Dillon Sterling-Cole and moved the offense down the field and was able to score late in the third on a quarterback sneak. Deionte Thompson had a huge catch for 54 yards and then Caleb Collins caught a 16 yard pass to set up Rutledge’s

score.“Chase did a good job lead-

ing the football team in the second half,” Thompson said. “And I am sure proud of the second half beIn the fourth quarter, the Mustangs were close to the go ahead score but Rutledge’s pass was picked off in the end zone and the Bull-dogs would use the clock to their advantage slowly moving the ball down the field, scor-ing in the last minute and a half of the game.

Give the Chain Gang de-fense credit. Twice in the first half, when the Bulldogs had the ball, they were forced to kick field goals instead of scor-ing.

“I was so proud of us defen-sively,” Thompson said. “We held them to two field goals in the first half. They also came in averaging 608 yards a game and we held them to just 342. Also, we held them to just 28 points, when they have been scoring 50-60 in every game. The least before our game was 39 in their only loss of the sea-son to Whitehouse.”

And according to Thomp-son, the Mustangs will bounce back.

“I hate it for the seniors but we will have a pretty good team next year if we take care of our business in off-season on and off the field,” Thomp-son said. “We have two quar-terbacks that can step in and get the job done, and a lot of teams are looking for just one.”

The Mustangs began the season with only two return-ers on defense and several that started that had never really played in a varsity contest. But these guys would be the ones to prove the naysayers wrong. Seniors such as Josh Tims, Eli-

jah Teel, Tavin Terrell and Jor-dan Richard tormented their opponents all season. Dwain Boullard took over the punt return duties after fellow se-nior Maurice Morris went down with an ACL injury in the Port Neches-Groves game and was out for the remainder of the season. Boullard was also instrumental in catching clutch passes when the ‘Stangs needed him most. Jacob Hry-horchuk, who fought off sever-al injuries throughout the sea-son did a great job on offense as the center. Chris Horn, who transferred in from Jasper during March of last year proved himself to be a great receiver, along with Will John-son, who set a school record for most touchdown catches (4) in a game against Huffman. Caleb Collins was another re-ceiver who the Mustangs could count on when they

needed someone to make a great catch. Collins would also be one of the biggest encour-agers after the loss, as he con-soled his team mates who will get another year to play. Chris James, who transferred in from Ozen late in the season last year, played both ways and not only tortured other teams’ receivers, but could carry the ball and catch on offense. Thomarcus Fontenot also played both sides of the ball, while returning kick offs and punts. And last but certainly not least, Rodikson Cano, the kicker who not only could boot the ball, but most of the time was the first one down the field and in on the tackle. Cano was injured in the Sils-bee game and wasn’t able to play in the play-offs.

And give credit to the soph-omore quarterback who set several records on the season,

the most recent one being most passing yards in a sea-son. Sterling-Cole finished with 2309 to top Andre Bevil’s 2063.

Thanks to all of our fans that came out Friday night to support us. The stands were three times more packed than Carthage’s and were full of

green and gold, purple and white, black and gold, red and white and orange and white. We may not have pulled off the win but we sure gave those who stayed a great game in the second half. The score did not even come close to showing what a close game it truly was.

Mustang InsiderMeri Elen JacobsFor The Record

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than you are those two fools that just left.” It only went downhill from that point as I hurriedly struggled to peel off my own wet gear.

“First of all, y’all got out of a perfectly dry boat to stand chest deep in freezing ass wa-ter with rain running down your neck for five hours,” he stated as if I weren’t only dumb, but suffering from am-

nesia as well . “You did that just to catch three fish that you never intended to keep in the first place and they thought they had a good time,” he add-ed without ever pausing to take another breath. “The only thing that makes you just a lit-tle less dumb than those guys is that you at least got over-paid one more time!”

Sufficiently, but not unex-

pectedly chastised, I escaped out the back door and loaded my boat back on the trailer. After tying everything down I dared to walk back inside to dry off one more time and gather up any loose gear I may have forgotten.

It also came as no surprise when I was greeted with, “You gonna do this nonsense again tomorrow?” Before I could re-

ply he laughed and handed me a diet Dr. Pepper.“Now, that’s a dumb question,” he said. “I’ll put a log on the fire for you and bring a couple of extra do-nuts.

I detest climbing out of bed so early day after day almost as badly as dealing with cold weather, but both go hand in hand with increasing the odds of duping a lifetime trout. Ac-tually, getting started early isn’t that critical as the warm-er hours of the day are usually the most productive, but the one day I choose to sleep in will be the day the best bite takes place at first light!

While we continue to see more large trout spending more time on the flats border-ing deeper water, we still en-joyed a great bite last week fishing the open lake in spite of the fog and a howling south-west wind. Lower surface tem-peratures, however, will surely slow that bite some this week. The redfish went on a tear and we caught more flounder in three days than I caught in the past two months.

Perhaps the best news of all is that you don’t absolutely have to put on the waders and climb out of the boat to catch a big trout. There are still enough big trout holding in water a little too deep to wade right now and drifting is the best way to locate these fish. Choice of colors and lure pre-sentation are always key, but equally important is the use of a wind sock and a Talon or Power Pole.

Make sure that you pur-chase a wind sock that is large enough to significantly slow the speed of your drift. In the event that you aren’t sure as to what size to buy, error on the large side. Once you have lo-cated the fish, the ability to immediately stop your drift makes the Talon an invaluable asset. As effective as these an-chors are, however, do not to-tally rely on them to keep your boat in place while wading.

As pointed out earlier in the column, challenging Mother Nature for one big bite this

time of year is admittedly…..a little dumb. Having conceded that point, however, when your line starts peeling off the

reel and that massive yellow mouth rises above the surface, you feel a whole lot smarter in a hurry!

Staff ReportFor The Record

AUSTIN — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Re-source Damage Assessment Trustees have released a draft plan that proposes $627 mil-lion in early restoration proj-ects across the Gulf states.

The proposal includes the first Texas early restoration projects, five projects totaling about $18.4 million. The Draft Programmatic and Phase III Early Restoration Plan and Draft Early Restoration Pro-grammatic Environmental Impact Statement is available for public review and com-ment through Feb. 4.

Local residents can view the proposal on Jan. 21, 2014 at the Port Arthur Civic Center, HallE, 3401 Cultural Center Drive in Port Arthur.

This marks the third and largest phase of early restora-tion to date. Included in the draft are 44 proposed proj-ects. Some aim to restore bar-rier islands, dunes, marshes, shorelines, and oyster beds. Others, such as boat ramps and park enhancements, seek to address the lost recreation-al use of natural resources.

The draft also proposes a programmatic plan for con-tinuing to pursue early resto-ration. The draft, available at www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov, includes the pro-grammatic plan and the com-plete list of proposed projects with locations and descrip-tions.

Of the $627 million, ecolog-ical projects comprise about $397 million, which is approx-imately 64 percent of the total. Lost recreational use projects make up the remaining $230 million. Both approaches meet criteria under the Oil Pollu-tion Act and other applicable laws and guidelines.

The Texas project proposals include about $10.8 million for beach facilities at Galveston Island State Park, $210,100 for

facilities at Sea Rim State Park, and about $7.4 million for three artificial reefs. All five projects are intended to com-pensate for lost recreational use of natural resources.

“We’re pleased to invite public review of the first Texas early restoration project pro-posals, which would contrib-ute to restoring the entire Gulf of Mexico,” said Carter Smith, Texas Parks and Wildlife De-partment executive director, speaking for the three Texas trustee agencies, which also include the Texas Commis-sion on Environmental Quali-ty and General Land Office. “These proposals represent in-vestments that are good for our Gulf and good for Texas coastal communities and economies.”

The draft’s release opens a 60-day public comment peri-od that runs through Feb. 4. The comment period will in-

clude 10 public meetings held across the Gulf states. All meetings will begin with an interactive open house during which Trustee staff will be available to discuss project de-tails. The open house will be followed by a formal presenta-tion and opportunity to pro-vide comments to Trustee representatives.

Please visit www.gulfspill-restoration.noaa.gov to down-load an electronic copy of the draft and to view a list of pub-lic libraries and community locations across the Gulf in which copies of the draft have been placed for public review.

In addition to verbal com-ments at public meetings, the public may submit written comments:

Online: www.gulfspillresto-ration.noaa.gov

By U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 48567, Atlanta, GA 30345

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Hunters and fishermen are two very separate groups that share a very common bond and that is the fact their suc-cess or failure often hinges on the same thing, weather. Very few people draw the type of criticism that a weatherman from TV or a radio station gets on a regular basis and that comes from everybody, not just outdoor folks either. During this time of the year the folks who predict the weather usually stay busy as cold fronts become more and more common. The constant change between warm and cold offer a unique opportuni-ty and a curse almost simulta-neously. Right now the duck hunters are certainly enjoying the fact that colder weather continues to become a more common theme as each suc-cessive front ushers in new birds to the area and more op-portunities for local water-fowlers.

Over the past week locally we have seen some downright rank weather conditions with low temps, wind and rain. Just the kind of weather that takes you all day to warm up after a duck hunt. The cold tempera-tures here have been nothing compared to the frigid temps to our north. Large portions of the Central flyway are iced up and holding snow right now. Reports from Oklahoma and Kansas make me cold just talking about the conditions. As the cold grips these north-

ern states the ducks and geese have been steadily flying south and the num-bers of birds that

have invaded Texas are way up. Locally we have seen a huge increase in the numbers of ducks in the marshes and on the big lakes. As the second split opens up on December 14th the prospects for some outstanding hunts looks very favorable.

Many of the local marshes remain in outstanding shape as far as water and available food sources are concerned. The amount of good widgeon grass still around is a direct result of rains at just the right time during the summer months. It appears that many of the birds in the local marsh-es have begun to seek out smaller potholes that still re-main full of good food sources and get very little hunting pressure. The big water ponds seem to be still producing sol-id numbers but the smaller bodies of water have been the ticket for some top notch hunts. Several local hunters have even capitalized on the tiny areas and have been able to consistently take some mal-lards on each hunt which is a great bonus for any waterfowl-er, especially in our tidal marshes.

As the numbers of ducks in our area fluctuate with the weather the numbers of geese

seem to continue to grow re-gardless of the forecast. Sever-al big concentrations of geese have settled into our area around Sabine lake and west-ward towards Winnie, Ana-huac, and Trinity Bay. These ultra-wary birds are nearly impossible to take in consis-tent numbers without some help from the weather. The biggest help a goose hunter can get from the weather is foggy conditions without a doubt. Fog helps neutralize the biggest asset a goose has and that’s their eyesight. If you

can get a good heavy fog and goose are in your area you can certainly shift the odds in your favor. Another great help for goose hunters that is di-rectly weather related is wind. Having a good strong wind usually forces geese to fly low-er and become easier to decoy. Without any help from wind or fog a goose hunter is really behind the 8 ball and usually comes out on the losing end. But with a good dose of fog and some wind a hunter may just have one of those days to remember.

Cold fronts crank up duck numbers


Texas coach Mack Brown is expected to resign by the end of the week, a source told ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.

“I know Mack, he’s friend, this is his deci-sion, but he wants to tell his players and staff and not read it on the internet,” the source told ESPN. “That’s why he reacted strongly to the (Orangebloods.com) report.

“I’d be real surprised if it hasn’t happened by Friday night with the (Texas) football banquet. I think it will be taken care of. It wouldn’t drag on much longer.”

According to sources, Mack Brown is expected to resign by the end of the week after 16 years as Texas Longhorns coach.

Orangebloods.com first reported Tuesday afternoon Brown would step down after 16 years as the Longhorns’ coach.

Later Tuesday, Brown texted the website Horns247: “I haven’t seen [the] article. I’m in Florida recruiting. If I had decided to step down, I sure wouldn’t be killing myself down here. I have not decided to step down.”

A source said, though, discussions have been ongoing with Brown, Texas president Bill Powers and Brown’s agent, Joe Ja-mail.

“The talks were very friendly and the conclusion was Mack would step down in the next couple of days,” the source told ESPN.

However, the source said Jamail is participating in a trial in Beaumont, Texas, which has slowed the process, and there are a “lot of logistics” to work out. “Such as when he leaves, what his role will be,” the source said. “A myriad of things that have to be worked out.”

The source reiterated Brown would not be coaching at Texas in 2014.

“By the end of the week, that will be the outcome,” the source told ESPN. “That will happen. It’s a shame after 16 years he’s not able to do it on his own with dignity and grace.”

Another source told ESPN’s Joe Schad that Brown has had ac-tive discussions with Texas officials about his intention to re-sign and there is a good chance it will become official later this week.

In a statement, Athletics Director Steve Patterson said: “We continue to discuss the future of Texas Football. Mack Brown has not resigned. And, no decisions have been made.”

Mack Brownexpected to retire by week’s end

OUTDOORS WEEKLYCAPT. CHUCK UZZLEFOR THE RECORD

The constant change between warm and cold offer a unique oppor-tunity and a curse almost simultaneously.


Bowl XLIII, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-23.

Lovie Smith is a native Texan who grew up in Big Sandy, playing on high school state championship teams and as a head coach led the Chicago Bears to Super Bowl XLI, losing 29-17 to Indianapolis. Smith was fired after coaching the Bears to a 10-6 re-cord in 2012.

Another rumor is that Mike Sha-nahan is about to be fired by the Washington Redskins and would be a good choice to fit McNair’s hiring profile. However, Kubiak’s former boss would NEVER take a job as his replacement.

I really like Gary Kubiak and was a big fan of the way he built the Texans into playoff contenders. He was very humble and honest and polite during his press conferences throughout the seasons as head coach and never made excuses for the team’s poor play.

He is a first-class act who is certain to land on his feet as some team’s quarterbacks coach or offensive co-ordinator.

KWICKIES…There certainly were some interesting NFL games Sunday that were played under some blustery wintry conditions. And most of them were very entertaining, especially those decided in the final minute of play.

Monday night’s nationally tele-vised game between the defense-less Dallas Cowboys and the Chicago Bears also was played in the extreme-ly raw cold which undoubtedly af-fected Dallas players much more than those whose home stadium is Soldier Field. Idiot owner Jerry Jones needs to do another de ja vous and get rid of that senior citizen of a de-fensive coordinator and bring in somebody who’s more in tune with stopping those sophisticated offens-es being used by most of the NFL teams.

Just as the BCS is being antiquated for a College Football Playoff system,

it appears the 13-member selection committee finally got it right in their send-off season by pitting Florida State against Auburn for the BCS na-tional championship game. Ohio State vs. Clemson in the BCS Orange Bowl also seems right, but I would rather see Baylor have a crack at Ala-bama rather than play Oklahoma in the BCS Sugar Bowl.

Despite being a seven-point favor-ite and playing on their home field, my alma mater McNeese State cer-tainly laid an egg Saturday night on Louis Bonnette Field in Lake Charles against Jacksonville State in the Football Championship Subdivision second round after having a first-round bye. The Pokes were overpow-ered 31-10 by the aggressive visitors and finished the season at 10-3.

Zach Johnson rallied from four strokes down with eight holes to play to tie Tiger Woods at the end of the 72 holes and then beat him on the first playoff hole Sunday to win the World Challenge at Thousand Oaks, Cal. Johnson holed out from the drop area for a par to force a playoff and then won when Tiger missed a five-foot par putt on the first extra hole. For Woods it was only the fourth time in his career that he lost a lead going into the final round. Johnson won $1 million while Tiger settled for $400,000.

JUST BETWEEN US…It a crying shame the Class 3A Regional cham-pionship game between the West Or-ange-Stark Mustangs and Carthage had to be played under those unbe-lievable weather conditions Friday night. The temperature at The Butch Stadium in Beaumont was in the 30’s and the wind chill factor because of the 20-30 mph north wind was in the upper teens. Probably the best team won---but maybe it didn’t due to the wintry weather conditions that led to seven Mustang turnovers. Anyhow, WO-S surpassed all expectations EXCEPT perhaps the ones they set for themselves.

Kaz: Texans From Page 1B Kaz’s Fearless Football Forecast Playoff Games This Week

HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFFS—Class 5A Div. I—Allen (14-0) over Desoto (14-0), Pearland (13-1) over San Antonio Madison (11-3); Div. II—Lake Travis (12-1) over Cedar Hill (12-2), Katy (14-0) over San An-tonio Johnson (12-2);

Class 4A Div. I—Highland Park (13-1) over Guyer (12-2), Houston Stratford (12-2) over San Antonio Brennan (14-0); Div. II—Aledo (14-0) over Ennis (14-0), Brenham (13-1) over Calhoun (13-1);

Class 3A Div. I—Stephenville (13-1) over Kilgore (14-0), Carthage (13-1) over La Grange (13-0); Div. II—Argyle (14-0) over Graham (14-0),

Fairfield (14-0) over Sinton (12-2);Class 2A Div. I—New Boston (13-

1) over Wall (14-0), White Oak (13-1) over Cameron Yoe (13-1); Div. II—Cisco (14-0) over Leonard (11-3), Refugio (13-1) over Waskom (14-0);

Class A Div. I—Hico (13-1) over Stamford (12-1). Mart (10-3 over Shiner (10-3); Div. II—Wellington (13-0) over Albany (13-0), Falls City (13-0) over Tenaha (11-1).

COLLEGE—Navy over Army.Football Championship Subdivi-

sion (Quarterfinal Round)—Eastern Illinois (12-1) over Towson (11-2) Friday; Southeastern Louisiana (11-2) over New Hampshire (9-4), North Dakota State (12-0) over Coastal

Carolina (12-2), Eastern Washington (11-2) over Jacksonville State (11-3).

PRO PICKS—Denver over San Diego (Thursday Night); Philadel-phia over Minnesota, Indianapolis over Houston, Atlanta over Wash-ington, San Francisco over Tampa Bay, Seattle over NY Giants, Chicago over Cleveland, Jacksonville over Buffalo, New England over Miami, Kansas City over Oakland, Carolina over NY Jets, Arizona over Tennes-see, New Orleans over St. Louis, Green Bay over Dallas, Cincinnati over Pittsburgh; Detroit over Balti-more (Monday Night).

Pictured from right to left: Mom-Anna Hughes; Jessica Hughes; Delis Chalamba-ga; Nathan Hughes; Kolby Hughes; and John Hughes.

Former studentsurprises siblingsat St. Mary School

Former St. Mary Catholic School student, Delis Chalambaga, cur-rently serving in the Air Force, sur-prised his four sibling who are cur-rent students at St. Mary Catholic School at school.

Chalambaga surprised each sib-ling as they transitioned throughout the school. This surprise brought great joy and happiness to each fam-ily member. Chalambaga even sur-prised some of his former teachers, as they were just as excited to see him as his family was.

Chalambaga’s family has not seen him in six months and he is sched-uled to stay in Orange for 10 days before departing again. Chalamba-ga is the son of Bill and Anna Hughes.


MVP:Patrick Reed, Sr., Silsbee

OFFENSIVE MVP:Dillon Sterling-Cole, Soph.,

WO-S

DEFENSIVE MVP: Delonte Thompson, Jr.,

WO-S

OFFENSIVE NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR:

Patrick Hudson, Soph., Sils-bee

DEVENSIVE NEWCOM-ER OF THE YEAR:

Mandel King, Fr., WO-S

COACH OF THE YEAR: Cornel Thompson, WO-S

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE

QB: Kendrick Kind, Soph., Hampshire-Fannett

RB: Chris James, Sr., WO-S

RB: Carl Wiley, Sr., Orange-field

RB: Logan Thompson, Har-din-Jefferson

WR: Will Johnson, Jr., WO-S

WR: Zayon Jackson, Sr., Silsbee

WR: Chris Elam, Sr., Silsbee

WR: Malcolm Busby, Sr., Bridge City

TE: Blaine Padgett, Jr., Har-din-Jefferson

C: Ty Ligon, Sr., Silsbee

OL: Paul Hebert, Jr., WO-S

OL: Justin Durden, Jr., Buna

OL: Kanon Mackey, Sr., Sils-bee

OL: Weston Crain, Sr., Or-angefield

OL: Rod Wilkins, Sr., Har-din-Jefferson

FIRST TEAM SPECIAL-ISTS

K: Rodikson Cano, Sr., WO-S

KR: Chris Elam, Sr., Silsbee

P: Chase Rutledge, Sr., WO-S

PR: Dwain Boullard, Sr., WO-S

FIRST TEAM DEFENSE

DL: Seth Adams, Sr., SilsbeeDL: Jared Watkins, Jr., Or-

angefieldDL: Ty Tamplin, Jr., BunaDL: Josh Tims, Sr., WO-S

DL: Octavius Crosson, Jr., WO-S

ILB: Elijah Teel, Sr., WO-SILB: Blaine Padgett, Jr., Har-

din –JeffersonILB: Colby Leblanc, Sr., Sils-

beeOLB: Carl Wiley, Sr., Or-

angefieldOLB: Floyd Spearman, Sr.,

SilsbeeOLB: Garrett Ames, Jr., Har-

din-JeffersonOLB: Skylar Conner, Sr.,

Hardin-JeffersonOLB: Tyler Edwards, Jr.,

BunaCB: Chris James, Sr., WO-SCB: Thomarcus Fontenot,

Sr., WO-SCB: Chris Elam, Sr., SilsbeeS: Trey Spencer, Jr., WO-SS: Jordan Gore, Sr., SilsbeeS: Jared Gieske, Sr., Hardin-

JeffersonS: Dustin Verrett, Sr., Or-

angefield

SECOND TEAM OF-FENSE

(Only selections from Bridge

City, Orangefield and WO-S are included)

QB: Carmichael Wiley, Sr., Orangefield

WR: Dwain Boullard, Sr., WO-S

WR: Blaine Slaughter, Jr., Bridge City

TE: Mason Sonnier, Sr., Or-angefield

C: Jacob Hryborchuk, Sr., WO-S

C: Jarrod Watkins, Jr., Or-angefield

OL: Josh Orebo, Jr., WO-SOL: Bryan Lopez, Sr., Or-

angefieldOL: Josh Khoury, Sr., Bridge

City

SECOND TEAM DEFENSEDL: Kane Booth, Fr., Bridge

CityDL: Brandon Bray, Soph.,

OrangefieldILB: Steven Tims, Soph.,

WO-SOLB: Colby Choate, Jr., Or-

angefieldOLB: Kalen Garrett, Jr.,

WO-SCB: Carmichael Wiley, Sr.,

OrangefieldS: Bryan Trahan, Fr., Bridge

City

Orange County Members of the 20- 4A Team:

FIRST TEAM OFFENSERB: Brandon Tolliver, Sr.,

LC-MFB: Sage Smith, Sr., VidorWR: Dalton Doyle, Sr.,

LC-MTE: Matthew Chitty, Sr.,

LC-MT: Ethan Reed, Jr., LC-MUtility: Dalton Doyle, Sr.,

LC-M

FIRST TEAM DEFENSEILB: Sage Smith, Sr., VidorOLB: Kayl Simon Sr., LC-MCB: Teondre Gant, Sr.,

LC-M

Iva Switzer and Santa Brooks Switzer arriving at the Mauriceville Christmas Tree Lighting in Santa’s red golf cart.

Tree lighting held in MauricevilleMauriceville held its annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting celebration Tuesday, Dec. 3

at Woodridge Land Company. Elves served cookies and hot chocolate while community residents sang carols directed by Pas-

tor Kevin Brown of Mauriceville First Baptist Church. Santa Claus and his helper arrived delight-ing the many children who were in attendance.

A big thanks goes to the area merchants who contributed and supported this event especially Maverick Communications who helped string the tree lights.

(CNN) -- More than Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Lady Gaga or Lorde, it was Miley Cyrus who owned 2013.

At least, according to MTV.After stealing the spotlight

at not one but two MTV awards shows, starring in an MTV documentary and taking over the network on her 21st birthday, MTV has crowned Cyrus as its best artist of the year.

It’s not like the pop star hasn’t worked for it. (Or twerked for it -- we had to!) Her October release, “Bangerz,” bowed at No.1 and features two other chart-top-ping tracks, “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball.” Both sin-gles were accompanied by mu-sic videos that became cultur-al touchstones and almost broke the Internet. (According to Vevo.com, Cyrus’ “Wreck-ing Ball” is its most-viewed video of 2013, followed by the clip for “We Can’t Stop.”)

The former Disney star also nailed her appearance on “Sat-urday Night Live” in the fall, when she both hosted and per-formed. Barbara Walters con-siders Cyrus one of the most fascinating people of the year, and she somehow managed to end up on Time magazine’s

best- and worst-dressed lists of 2013.

Given that, it’s not too sur-prising that MTV’s news and music teams -- having noticed that Cyrus’ MTV artist page is the most-visited of the year, with her VMAs performance being the most-watched video -- have given her another No. 1.

Cyrus is the third star to take the title, following Katy Perry and One Direction.

Neither of those music acts

should feel too badly about losing to Cyrus -- they’re both still on MTV’s list of the top 10 best artists of 2013:

1. Miley Cyrus2. Macklemore and Ryan

Lewis3. Justin Timberlake4. Kanye West5. One Direction6. Katy Perry7. Drake8. Bruno Mars9. Lorde10. Lady Gaga

Miley Cyrus is MTV’s best artist of 2013

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First Baptist Church Orangefield

9788 F.M. 105 Orangefield, 409-735-3113

Pastor Forrest WoodSun.: Bible Study - 9:15 a.m., Worship Service - 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship- 6:30 p.m.

Wed. Evening Services: Youth & Children - 6:30 p.m.

Praise & Prayer - 6:30 p.m. Choir Practice - 7:30 p.m.Email: [email protected]

www.fbcof.com

St. Paul United Methodist Church

1155 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City

409- 735-5546Rev. Mark Bunch

[email protected]. Mornings: Worship Experience - 8:15 a.m.;

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 10:45 a.m.

(Nursery provided at all services)

For Mid & Sr. High YouthSun. Afternoon:

3:30 to 6 p.m. Sun. Evening : Taizé

Service - 7 p.m.For Children Ages 4–10 on

Wednesday evening –6 to 7 p.m. – JAM (Jesus & Me) Club

First United Methodist Church Orange

502 Sixth Street886-7466

8 a.m. - Worship in Chapel 9 a.m. - Celebration Service

in Praise Center 10 a.m. - Sunday School

for all ages 11 a.m. - Worship in

Sanctuary 5 p.m. - UMYF & Kids

Pastor: Rev. John Warren Director of Music & Fine

Arts: Doug Rogers Organist: Justin Sanders

Director of Youth and Christian Education: Allisha

Bonneaux www.fumcorange.org

Trinity Baptist Church

NEW LOCATION:1819 16th Street, Orange

Office: 886-1333 Pastor Dr. Bob Webb

Worship Leader Dan CruseSun. Morning

Worship 11 a.m.Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Nursery Provided

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

945 W. Roundbunch RoadBridge City, TX 77611

409-735-4573 - Church409-988-3003 - Pastor

Paul ZochWorship Services:Traditional - 9 a.m.

Sunday School: 10:15 a.m.Contemporary: 11 a.m.

Wednesdays (Young & Young @ Heart)

Potluck: 6 p.m.Fun, Games, Singing &

Bible Study: 7 p.m.�e Little Church with a Big Heart.

Christ of Latter-day Saints

Services at 9 a.m.6108 Hazelwood

409-779-9039

Living Word Church

Hw 87 & FM 1006, Orange409-735-6659

www.livingwordtx.orgSamuel G.K. - Pastor

Joseph Samuel - Asst. PastorSun. Service - 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wed. Service - 7 p.m.Come As You Are!

Orange First Church of the

Nazarene

3810 MLK Drive, OrangeLead Pastor: Ray McDowell

Music Pastor: Bruce McGraw

Youth Pastor: Michael PiggChildren’s Pastor: Rebekah

Spell Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Celebration Service 10:45 a.m.

Prayer Service: 6 p.m.Wednesday Service: 7 p.m.

Everyone Welcome!

First BaptistChurch

of Bridge City

200 W. Roundbunch, BCOffice: 409-735-3581

Fax: 409-735-8882www.fbcbc.org

Rev. Bob Boone, PastorSunday Schedule: Bible

Study at 9:15 a.m.;Celebration Service - 10:30

a.m.; Youth Bible Study, Discipleship

Classes - 5:30 p.m.Wednesday Schedule:

Prayer Meeting - 6:30 p.m., Children’s Activities.

First Christian Church of

Orangefield

4234 FM 408 (between BC & Orangefield) 409-735-4234

Minister Jim HardwickSunday School: 9 a.m.;

Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday: Prayer & Bible Study 7 p.m.

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Cowboy Church of Orange County

673 FM 1078 Orange409-718-0269

E. Dale Lee, Pastor Sunday Worship Service

10:30 a.m. “Round Pen” (Small Group)

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West Orange Christian Church

900 Lansing Street, W.O.409-882-0018

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday Evening - 6 p.m.

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BC Knights smoking pork loins for New Year

The Bridge City Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Coun-cil #3406 will be smoking pork loins (10 Lbs.) with apple wood for your New Year dinner.

Advance orders for New Year Pork Loins must be placed with a KC Member on or before Sunday, Dec. 22. You can pick up your order in the KC Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31. Cost is $40 per pork loin.

Black Friday has come and gone; amid the tales of super sales and throngs of people, stories were reported about in-juries and fights. For me, sav-ing a few bucks is not worth the lines, the waiting and the hustle. Whether we like it or not, the holiday season is upon us. In the Christian liturgical calendar (how the Church tells time) December 1 was the be-ginning of Advent. Advent is the season of waiting and ex-pecting the coming of the Christ child on Christmas Day. Maybe it’s just me but it seems like every year Christ-mas decorations are being put up earlier and earlier thus los-ing the magic and the expecta-tion that Advent has to bring.

Children hold on to the magic, wonder and awe that comes with the season of Christmas. We adults, on the other hand, we tend make it a chore. It doesn’t have to be this way. Some people however are not satisfied with the notion that not everyone in the coun-try celebrates Christmas or even promotes Christmas.

The American Family Asso-ciation has been tracking ma-jor companies to see how they promote Christmas. They came up with the “Naughty or Nice” list where they have ex-amined different company’s websites, circulars, commer-cials and stores noting how many times they use the word “Christmas” if at all. Accord-ing to their website, “If a com-pany has items associated with Christmas, but did not use the word “Christmas,” then the company is considered as cen-soring ‘Christmas.’” Their re-search has uncovered that if you shop at Radio Shack, Barnes & Noble, Family Dollar and Foot Locker (just to name a few) then you are part of the problem and thus should be placed on the “naughty list.”

It’s an interesting note, how-ever, that the phrase “naughty or nice list” is not technically Christian. Sure Saint Nicholas was a real person but the jolly bearded man in a red and white suit that “watches you when you are sleeping” and makes a “list and checks it twice” is a product of commer-cialism. The Santa we all know and love today is straight from the Coca Cola factory. But I di-gress...

The American Family Asso-ciation believes that there is a full out “war on Christmas.” Well, I would have to say that they are correct but not for the reasons they postulate.

The real “war on Christmas” is not when cashier says “Hap-py Holidays.”

The real “war on Christmas” is not when people refer to a Christmas tree as a “Holiday Tree.”

The real “war on Christmas” is when Christians support the overspending and mass con-sumption propagated by our “spend, spend, spend” culture.

The real “war on Christmas” is when we reduce this holiday to a feeling or a moment.

The real “war on Christmas” is when we equate our love for someone by how big the price tag of the gift is.

The real “war on Christmas” is when Christians only think about doing charity work in December.

The real “war on Christmas” is teaching our children or grandchildren the “reason for the season” but make more about toys and gifts under the tree.

The real “war on Christmas” is when we are more worried about saving a buck than we are about the millions of peo-ple in this world without ac-cess to clean water or medi-cine or that there are 22,000 homeless children in New York City alone.

The real “war on Christmas” is when Americans spend $450

BILLION on Christmas; how-ever it would only take $20 Bil-lion to ensure that all people in the world could have access to clean water for a year.

The real “war on Christmas” is when Americans buy prod-ucts because they are cheap without thinking twice about the person who made it, their working conditions, their pay or even their age. (Yes, that’s right their age. In some coun-tries it is LEGAL to employ children.)

This so called “war” is some-thing that Christians every year are participating in but point the judgmental fingers at others.

The real “war on Christmas” is something that can be stopped but it will not happen by making a “naughty or nice” list.

Don’t get me wrong I love Christmas and I love hearing the story of Christ coming to the world again. However the act of acquiring things should not be the central focus of Christmas. Neither is worry-ing about what catch phrase

people say in a store.It is not the cashier’s job to

share the Church’s story of God coming to the world. This story of the incarnation of God is MY story to tell, the Church’s story to tell, all of Christ’s followers story to tell. Christmas has the power to make a difference in the world today. Imagine what we could do if we chose this Christmas to share our love in ways that cannot be wrapped and placed under a tree. What if we took some of the money that we would have spent on each other and gave it to peo-ple who were in need– then Christmas could change the world.

So let’s call a metaphoric “cease fire” and stop this so-called war on Christmas. We have some work to do.

Rev. Evan M. Dolive is an or-dained minister in the Chris-tian Church (Disciples of Christ) and author of evandol-ive.com. He can be reached via email at [email protected].

The So-Called “War On Christmas”The Rev. Evan DoliveFor The Record

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HOME RENTALSNICE BRICK 3 OR 4

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3/1 & 2/1 IN OFISD, 1 BLOCK FROM SCHOOLS, LARGE LOT, W./D HOOK-UPS, NO PETS, $550 AND $350 MONTHLY + DEP., (409) 720-8699. (12/18)

TWO BC - 3/2 NEWLY RENOVATED. WATER & TRASH PICKUP PAID. ONE IS $625 & $750. CALL 735-3856. (12/18)

HOME SALES

NICE BRICK ORANGE HOME ON CORNER LOT, 3/2/2, 2404 POST OAK LANE, LCMISD, GARDEN ROOM OVERLOOKING BACK YARD, FAMILY ROOM (17’X19’), 2 WALK-INS IN MASTER BDRM. , SHOWER AND JETTED TUB IN MASTER BATH, OPEN CONCEPT KITCHEN AND BREAKFAST ROOM, FIREPLACE, NEW TILE / LAMINATED AND CAR-PETED FLOORS, FENCED BACK YARD, (REDUCED TO $190,000) FOR MORE INFO CALL EDEE @ (409) 670-9272 OR 330-4470.

BEAUTIFUL 3/2/2/ ON 2 LOTS! GREAT NEIGHBOR-HOOD, MOVE IN READY! GREAT OPEN FLOOR PLAN WITH STUDY OR 3RD BEDROOM! KITCHEN INCLUDES PRO-SERIES 6 BURNER GAS STOVE & MORE! HUGE BACKYARD W/ COVERED PATIO +IN-SULATED 24X30 WORK-SHOP W/ TANDEM ROLL-UP DOORS. ONLY $169,900!! FOR MORE DE-TAILS ON 175 SHADOW-DALE OR ANY OTHER PROPERTIES IN BRIDGE CITY CALL LIBBY MITCH-ELL W/ REGENCY REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS (409)724-6683

BEAUTIFUL 4/3/2+ UP-DATED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM! CUSTOM CABI-NETS THROUGHOUT AND TONS OF EXTRA STOR-AGE. MASTER SUITE WITH HIS AND HER CLOS-ETS AND PRIVATE BATH. BOTH FORMALS PLUS IN-SIDE UTILITY ROOM AND LARGE KITCHEN WITH IS-LAND AND BUILT IN HUTCH. PLENTY OF STORAGE AND NICE FULL BATH IN GARAGE + UP-

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DINING TABLE W/ 4 CHAIRS, $350; HEAD-BOARD, PAID $1,000 WILL

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Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of MARGARET JOAN WINGATE, Deceased, were issued on October 15, 2012, in Cause No. P16255, pend-ing in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, to: Nicholas M. Wingate.

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

c/o THE LAW OFFICEOF TOMMY GUNNAttorney at Law202 S. Border StreetOrange, Texas 77630

DATED the 15th day ofOctober, 2012

Tommy GunnTOMMY GUNNState Bar No.: 08623700Attorney for Nicholas M. Wingate202 S. Border StreetOrange, Texas 77630Telephone: (409) 882-9990Facsimile: (409) 882-0613



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Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of KENNETH P. SMITH, SR., Deceased, were issued on December 3, 2013, in Cause No. P16687, pending in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, to: CAROLYN A. SMITH


c/o THE LAW OFFICEOF TOMMY GUNNAttorney at Law202 S. Border StreetOrange, Texas 77630

DATED the 3rd day ofDecember, 2013

Tommy GunnTOMMY GUNNState Bar No.: 08623700Attorney for Carolyn A. Smith202 S. Border StreetOrange, Texas 77630Telephone: (409) 882-9990Facsimile: (409) 882-0613



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Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of LERCY J. BRAUS, Deceased, were issued on October 22, 2013, in Cause No. P16627, pending in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, to: MARIE JEANETTE BRAUS.


c/o David DiesAttorney at Law1009 Green Ave.Orange, Texas 77630

DATED the 22nd day ofOctober, 2013

David DiesDavid DiesAttorney for MARIE JEANETTE BRAUSState Bar No.: 058508001009 Green Ave.Orange, Texas 77630Telephone: (409) 883-0892Facsimile: (409) 670-0888



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NOTICE TOCREDITORSNotice is hereby given

that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of GARY MATTHEW PATTEN, Deceased, were issued on December 3, 2013, in Docket No. P16685, pending in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, to: ELIZABETH DUHON.

The residence of the Executor is in Orange County, Texas, the post office address is:

c/o Bush Lewis, PLLCP.O. Box 189Orange, Texas 77631

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

DATED the 9th day ofDecember, 2013

BUSH LEWIS, PLLCAttorneys for the Estate

By John Cash SmithJohn Cash Smith

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SAT., 375 RACHEL, BC, 7 TILL? PLANTS, LOTS MORE, WAY TOO MUCH TO LIST!

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TUE.-FRI. THRIFT AND GIFT 9 A.M.-3 P.M. VOLUNTEERS HAVE MARKED DOWN CHRISTMAS WREATHS, CEN-TERPIECES AND SELECTED VENDOR AND SHOP ITEMS. COME SEE AT THRIFT AND GIFT LOCATED ON 37TH ST. CALL 886-7649 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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WED., 1375 SHADOWDALE, BC, 7:30 TILL ? TOOLS, A/C UNITS, FISHING POLES, CHRISTMAS ITEMS, CLOTHES, KITCHEN AND BATHROOM DÉCOR, GOLF CLUBS, DIN-ING TABLE, BABY CLOTHES, DISHWASHER, TOYS, MISC.

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The candidate filing information displayed here is collected pursuant to Tex. H.B. 3103, 83rd Leg., R.S. (2013). This

information is provided by the Republican and Democratic Parties of Texas. The Office of the Secretary of State does not modi-fy, add, or delete any of this data in any way nor does the Secretary of State own the data. The Office does not vouch for the ac-curacy or completeness of the candidate filing information provided by the political parties.

The Bridge City Chamber of Com-merce welcomed a new business to their membership with a ribbon cutting cere-mony. USA Mobile Drug Testing of Southeast Texas is lo-cated in the new shop-ping center at 2875 Texas Avenue, Suite I in Bridge City next to Orange County Build-ing Materials.

USA Mobile Drug Testing of Southeast Texas (USAMDT) is a local family owned franchise that pro-vides professional drug testing services on location. The fam-ily owned business of Dale and Anita Dugas is operated by son’s Aaron and Jerrod Du-gas, with help from daughter, Candace Denison.

They offer DOT and Non-DOT random, pre-employment, and post-accident testing for all major testing methodologies in-

cluding: hair, saliva, urine, sweat, breath, and alcohol.

Bringing all the necessary items on-site to conduct multi-ple collections, test-ing, or training will save you time and money or send those your company desig-nates for testing into the local office.

USAMDT will also assist you with every-thing from identifying employees who need to be tested and con-ducting employee and supervisor education and training, to per-forming program au-dits, record keeping and data collection re-quirements. As the name says, they will bring drug testing to your facility or stop by their permanent loca-tion, for all your drug testing needs.

For more informa-tion call 409-586-4115 or www.USAM-DT.com/SE-Texas.

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Crawfish Farmers

10 temp positions; 5 ½ months; job to begin 2/1/14 and end on 6/15/14; Duties: to operate boats in the crawfish ponds during the baiting of traps and the pulling of traps during the crawfish harvesting season. To assist with the preparation of the crop for distribution. $9.50 per hour; 35 hrs per week; OT varies but not guar-anteed; 2 months experi-ence in Crawfish Farming required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and sub-sistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employ-ment offered by Kent Soi-leau Farms, Inc. located in Bunkie, LA. Qualified applicants may call em-ployer for interview (337) 945-9120 during normal business hours or fax re-sume to 318-838-2268. Applicants may apply for this position at their near-est SWA office located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

ACROSS

1. Fire or passion6. *Yule firewood9. Winston Churchill’s

“_ ___ Country”13. France’s longest riv-

er14. 401(k) alternative15. Squirrel’s stash

16. Wake Island, e.g.17. Official18. Indian restaurant yo-

gurt staple19. *Cratchit’s boss21. *Typical holiday

guests23. Duffer’s goal24. *”Go ____ it on the

Mountain”

25. Prime time ruler28. It can be crunched30. Pass on35. Caught outside?37. “Cheers” regular39. Ma Bell, e.g.40. Backward arrow

command41. Iraqi money43. Andean land

44. Utopian46. Drawn in sand47. Petitions48. Sluggish50. Back talk52. “Comprende?”53. “Gee!”55. Flightless and down

under57. Potpourri bag60. *Pan-African cele-

bration64. Sober Ness65. Tropical American

cuckoo67. Walk clumsily68. Mother ____, pl.69. Summer glow

70. Vasily Alekseyev’s weight

71. ____ a cold72. Finish73. Investment

DOWN

1. “Sad to say...”2. Campus military org.3. Last name in fashion4. Lowest deck5. Load again6. Italian money, 1861-

20027. Bauxite, e.g.8. Blooper9. Smoothie berry10. *Popular tinsel ma-

terial in 20th Century

11. Bohemian12. Biochemistry abbr.15. Arm decoration20. $1,00022. Matterhorn, e.g.24. Sully25. *Holiday cake filler26. “No ___ __”27. *Hot serving, archaic29. Hard work31. Sales force32. Intestinal obstruc-

tion33. Rocks at mountain

base34. *Gingerbread sculp-

ture36. Sold in bars38. Supernatural life

force42. Stitch again45. *Hanukkah’s eight49. *Rudolph’s Clarice,

e.g.51. Slaps54. HI, e.g.56. Without illumination57. ___ gin fizz58. Campaign worker59. College girl60. Warm-hearted61. “J’accuse” author62. Run ____63. Cathedral area64. *Holiday shelf

watcher66. A Bobbsey twin

THEME: HOLIDAY TRADITIONS Last Weeks Solution

Chief’s Christmas Dance December 14The annual West

Orange High School Chief ’s Christmas Dance will be held 8 p.m. to midnight, Sat-urday, Dec. 14 at the American Legion in Orange. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with a social at 7 p.m.

Once again, it will feature the music you loved from the 50s and 60s with the Ken Marvel Ban and Jivin’ Gene Bourgeois. Tick-ets are $10 person, at-tire is casual. Bring your own bottle. There will be a cash

bar with set-ups and beer. Open to the pub-lic. Invite your friends. There will be door prizes courtesy of Granger Chevrolet.

If you are unable to attend, please let them know how you are do-ing by calling or writ-

ing Jimmy Guidry, 5285 Fairview, Or-ange, TX 77632, [email protected], or 409-738-2294. The West Orange High School class of 1967 wishes you a merry Christmas.

Hunter Education Safety Class scheduled

Texas Parks & Wild-life Hunter Education Safety Class will be held 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Monday Jan. 13 and Tuesday, Jan. 14. Both sessions must be at-tended for certifica-tion, which is required if you are at least 17 years old and were

born on or after Sept. 2, 1971 to hunt in Tex-as. You can become certified if you are at least 9 years old. Call Danny Odom to regis-ter at 883-8118.

This is not just for hunters, anyone with firearms can benefit from this class.


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