The Penny Record of Bridge City and Orangefield • Founded 1960Vol. 51 No. 42 Week of Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Mosquito Control Director Patrick Beebe informed the Orange County Commission-ers’ Court Tuesday of an up-coming deadline concerning new permit requirements. The

changes are newly adopted re-quirements by the Texas Com-mission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

“It applies to all biological or chemical applications that meet certain use patterns that are made either over or near U.S. waters,” said Beebe. The

permit is required if you are treating areas in excess of 6,400 acres. Type of materials used is another area Orange County falls under. “Some of the materials we use are gen-eral use pesticides, some of them are state limited use and some of them are restricted

use. We use a combination of all the above,” he said.

“There are a lot of require-ments with the permit,” said Beebe. It will include mapping coverage areas, material in-ventory, a pesticide discharge management plan, calibration procedures, inspection guid-

ance forms, ad-verse incident reporting guid-ance forms, site specific train-ing, and records have to be pre-pared for an an-nual audit.

“That’s just a few of the things, we don’t have enough time to cover everything that’s in this permit and I’m not go-ing try and do that. I’m just trying to give you an idea of what all we will be looking at this year. Not only Mosquito Control, but any entity that falls under Orange County.” He said it could included Road and Bridge and the Parks De-

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Bridge City High School has a long-standing tradition with Speech and Debate. Each year, students participate in competitions to strengthen their speaking skills, which not only builds confidence but also helps prepare them for life once they graduate from high school.

The 2011-2012 BCHS Speech and Debate team has a record number of students than previous years.

“It is my first year to take over but our student member-ship has grown from a pretty small club to 24 participat-ing members and about 35 club members,” said Jennifer Clarke, English teacher and Speech and Debate coach.

Participation in competi-tions always costs a great deal of money, but the Speech and Debate competitions require the participants to pay the judges as well entry fees and travel expenses.

“With 24 students partici-pating, that gets really expen-sive,” Clarke said. “You want all of the kids to have an op-portunity to participate be-cause this activity can make them eligible for significant scholarships for college.”

These kids give up their Saturdays for competitions, so their time is limited and it becomes difficult to plan and

execute a fundraiser. “Tiger Rock Martial Arts

of Bridge City has been nice enough to offer to host the event for us so the funds will go to these kids so they can compete,” Clarke said.

Tiger Rock will host a Fam-ily Personal Protection Semi-nar on Saturday, Feb. 18 in the BCHS Competition Gym from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

“Today’s world is kind of crazy,” Elyse Thibodeaux, owner and instructor of Ti-ger Rock Martial Arts, said. “We’re going teach them self-escape techniques, teach par-ents how to be bodyguard for their kids, how to subtly get their child out of a danger-ous situation without freaking their child out.”

Thibodeaux and her hus-band are certified instructors in self defense classes, includ-ing family personal protec-tion, women’s personal protect and bully guard.

“We’re going to teach how to strike somebody, how to use your voice and how to scan a room...basic things that might one day save your life,” Thibodeaux said. “Our [Tae-Kwondo] program helps build confidence and we have a sig-nificant spirit of competition.”

“This is something for ev-erybody,” Clarke said. “I think it’s going to be great. We do have some students at the high school that are involved at Ti-

ger Rock. I’m hoping this will draw them in and they will get involved.”

The seminar will cost $15 per person and $35 per fam-ily of four. The minimum par-ticipation age is six years old. A t-shirt will be included for participants who sign up by Jan. 27.

For more information, please contact Thibodeaux at 409-920-1462 or Clarke at 409-735-1600.

BEEBE

David BallFor The Record

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Public getsbird’s-eyeview ofIH-10project

The general public had a chance to receive informa-tion firsthand Tuesday night from Texas Department of Transportation officials on the Interstate 10 construction project.

The open house meeting was held at the Orange Pub-lic Library Auditorium with various maps placed about the room for the upcoming con-struction project from Adams Bayou to the Sabine River.

Jay Trahan, director of the Orange Economic Develop-ment Corporation, wrote in an e-mail, “The purpose of the project is to reconstruct IH-10 and to make frontage road im-provements at State Highway 87 (16th Street) and Business 90 (Simmons Drive).”

Matthew Volkmann, an en-gineer with the TxDOT Beau-mont district office, was avail-

“We’re going to teach how to strike 

somebody, how to use your voice and how 

to scan a room...basic things that might one 

day save your life,” Thibodeaux said.

Though it’s January, the Orange County Democrat-ic Party is already gearing up for the 2012 election year.

The party held a meet and greet with local can-didates running for office Saturday night at the VFW Hall in Orange. Chairman Mark Carter said a com-mittee was formed at the Democrats monthly meet-ing to organize the meet and greet event. Co-charis Carol Edwards and Debra Mitchell were instrumental in organizing the event.

“It gets the candidates out there and puts a face on the ballot and people have time to visit with them in a casual atmosphere,” Carter said. “All of us have a voice in government. We have these fine candidates here.”

Candidates at the meet and greet included Lynn T. Arceneaux who is run-ning for Pct. 2 Constable, Michael Abbott who is running for County Court at Law judge, Addie D. Al-len who is running for U.S. Senate, John Dubose who is running for reelection as Pct. 3 Commissioner, James Stringer who is running for Pct. 1 Commissioner and Sarah Jefferson-Simon who is running for Pct. 1 Con-stable. Several elected offi-cials attended the event as well.

Arceneaux said he has always wanted to be a con-stable.

“I retired two years ago and it would be great to serve Pct. 2 and Orange County,” Arceneaux said. “I’ve spent 20 years in the Orange Police Department, two-and-a-half years with the Orange County Sher-iff ’s Office and seven-and-a-half years with the Vidor Police Department.”

Abbott currently serves as a Vidor Municipal Court

Requirements affect Mosquito Control

David BallFor The Record

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Jennifer Clarke, BCHS English teacher and Speech and Debate coach, and Elyse Thibodeaux, owner and instructor and Tiger Rock Martial Arts in Bridge City. RECORD PHOTO: Nicole Gibbs

BCHS, Tiger Rock team upfor personal protection seminar

IH-10 project gets public viewing

A TxDOT open house meeting was held at the Orange Public Library Auditorium for the community to receive firsthand information on the upcoming construction on I-10 from Adams Bayou to the state border. (See story above) RECORD PHOTO: David Ball

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judge. He’s been on that bench since 2007.

“I’ve discovered I really en-joy being a mediator and be-ing a judge,” Abbott said. It’s a way to give back to the com-munity. I’ve practiced at that court (County Court at Law) for a number of years. I have extensive experience in that area of law. I think I have the temperament.”

Allen said she tossed her hat into the ring for the U.S. Sen-ate because, “The needs of the people should always come first. I plan to represent Texas as an advocate for the voices too often ignored by candi-dates once they get into office. Your vote for my candidacy is critical to ensuring that all Texans have a voice,” she said.

Dubose said the county has

a number of projects to com-plete he would like to see come to fruition.

“Because of Hurricane Ike, we’re building three major buildings — Judge (Janice) Menard has moved into the Precinct 3 JP building, adult probation and the shelter of last resort are being built. We received funding for them from insurance, FEMA and other grant funds with no bor-rowed money. I would like to see them finished.”

Other projects Dubose would like to complete is a Texas Parks and Wildlife proj-ect in Bridge City and replac-ing the swing bridge on East Roundbunch Road. He added he would love to see the Loop 299 project, or Vidor Loop, be built as long as Orange County

doesn’t have to pay for it.”Stringer rhetorically asked

the audience if they wanted the Tea Party to take over the county.

He believes Republicans would cut many services be-cause they believe in smaller government.

“I hope to God we can beat them,” Stringer said.

Jefferson-Simon, an Orange Police officer, said she has been a Democrat all her life and she would never “jump the fence” to join another party.

Allen Daniel, a Top Teen of America, a part of the Youth of Tomorrow Democratic Party organization, gave a speech at the meet and greet.

He said the organization does volunteer work in the community and sets an exam-ple for young people.

Daniel said his speech ex-pressed the values of the Dem-ocratic Party and what they stand for.

He began his speech by ref-erencing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “I Have a Dream,” and how President Ronald Reagan made a holiday for MLK in 1985.

Daniel said Democrats stand for Tolerance, justice and freedom, family, freedom and fairness.

He next spoke on inalien-able rights that can’t be taken away such as civil rights and equal opportunity for all, ac-cess to education and health care, a job with dignity, a safe home, clean air and water, a living wage, fair business prac-tices, taxes fairly distributed and secure retirements and pensions.

Carter believes Orange County residents have pros-pered over the years under Democratic elected officials

“We’re all middle class. We will support Democrats in Or-ange County because Demo-crat elected officials support our values. We support life from the cradle to the grave,” he said.

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Fire on Norman Circle destroys homeFirefighters from the Bridge City Volunteer Fire Department, McLewis Volunteer Fire Department and Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Department responded to a house fire on the 2600 block of East Norman Circle on Tuesday morning . While there are no injuries, the house collapsed at approximately 11:30 a.m. Fire-fighters are still on scene extinguishing that last of the flames. The cause of the fire has not yet been reported. RECORD PHOTO: Nicole Gibbs

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able to answer questions from the public. He said the open house was designed to let every-one know what they were proposing to do.

“The roadway is aging and county judges vot-ed I-10 as a regional priority,” he said.

Funding for the over $40 million project came from Proposition 12 to replace the roadway.

In Summer 2011, the Texas Legislature au-thorized TxDOT to go to contract on approxi-mately $3 billion in general obligation bonds for highway improvements. Texas voters approved these Proposition 12 bonds, which are backed by the state’s general revenue not by fuel tax revenues, by a vote of 63 percent in November 2007.

Bridges, such as the Highway 87 overpass, will accommodate six lanes after the project.

The original estimate for the project was $75 million until some cost cuts were made such as leaving the structurally sound Adams Bay-ou and Sabine River overpasses alone. An ad-ditional $10 million to $12 million for bridge funding was found from TxDOT.

Volkmann added the turnout for the Orange open house was much better than the atten-dance for the Beaumont open house held last week.

From an economic point of view, Trahan said Tuesday’s night meeting was all about access and visibly moving the project forward.

He continued saying the freeway is zoned as an Interstate Development Corridor for com-mercial businesses from Adams Bayou to Sim-mons Drive.

Private development could occur once access is improved.

“TxDOT is best at executing a traffic flow plan. It’s key. There top goals are flow and safe-ty. We’ll work together in the short term and in the long term,” he said.

Trahan estimates the project will take three years to complete - from Spring 2013 to Spring 2016- at no cost to the city.

He added current business owners are gener-ally supportive of the project because it will im-prove access and visibility to their businesses.

“There’s still some available land out there for attracting businesses zoned for commercial use,” Trahan said. “Our hotel inventory there (on Interstate 10) is adequate. Restaurants and specialty retail is targeted.”

TxDOT estimates the traffic count on that portion of Interstate 10 is from 40,000 to 45,000 vehicles per day.

“It’s really incredible we were approved for funding in an economically difficult environ-ment. Orange shows up on their (commercial developers) radar,” he said. “They look at three things: population, average household income and traffic counts.”

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partment, or any department that uses herbi-cides.

Beebe said other entities are looking into forming coalitions to help manage permits and implement all the requirements and the record keeping. Caroll and Blackman Inc. is aware of all the permitting process, has talked with sev-eral groups and offered to help implement and maintain the permits through the five year process.

The first deadline is Feb. 2 to submit a notice of intent to permit. That would allow 90 days to formulate a pesticide discharge management plan.

“If we don’t get the permit, we don’t perform our services,” said Beebe reminding commis-sioners that mosquito season will soon be here.

In other business, bills were paid totaling $514,158 including $164,894.92 to G&G Enter-prises for the Shelter of Last Resort; $1,150 to Claybar Funeral Home for indigent funeral ex-penses; $120,049.26 for McInnis Construction, Inc., for Adult Probation facility; $276.30 to Cleveland Construction, Inc., for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3 facility.

The court gave Tina Barrow, elections ad-ministrator permission to replace some bags purchased for election workers.

“We have some HAVA funds left over,” said Barrow. “We had purchased some rolling bags awhile back so judges could put their ballots and all that stuff in. It makes it easier for them to bring to locations,” said Barrow. She said the wheels on some of the bags had broken, so the bags needed to be replaced.

Donna Scales of the Parks Department was

given approval to replace a part-time employee that would work weekends and holidays.

Commissioners voted to renew the annual contract of $4,500 with Real Vision for the im-aging software two-thirds of the departments use to scan their documents.

Bobby Manshack and Jason Gengo were re-appointed for a two year term with the Emer-gency Services District 3. Joe Parkhurst, David Teague and Wayne Lacombe will complete their unexpired one year terms.

A bid of $1.30 a gallon for county waste oil was accepted. That also includes the disposal of oil filters.

In a workshop held Tuesday morning con-cerning the 299 Loop project for Vidor, a finan-cial proposal was presented by Raymond James and Associates.

“It lasted over an hour,” said Orange County Judge Carl Thibodeaux. “Basically they pre-sented some worst scenario financing plans to where it basically boils down to where the county’s got an obligation to sell certificates of obligation or create a debt service program to pay the total amount of money which could be as much as $40 million. Twenty-eight million is paid for by TxDOT, but then you’ve got interest on the $28 million TxDOT won’t pay back for. It may take 10-15 years to pay that back. You’re looking at about a $20 million debt service from the county, which is a substantial amount of money,” said Thibodeaux. He said that was the worse case scenario, if we went ahead and borrowed the money and built the road. “We told them to come back with a better plan than that.”

Staff ReportFor The Record

Over 160 All State dancers and their dance/drill team directors attended the annual Texas Dance Educators Association convention held recently at the Houston Marriott Westchase. The dancers learned choreography from Ro-chelle Mapes and performed at the Directors’ Banquet. They also attended various dance workshops throughout the four-day conven-tion as did their directors. A TDEA scholarship committee chose Victoria Scott, Hardin Jeffer-son High School All State Recipient, as one of six finalists out of seventy applicants to receive

a $2,000 college scholarship.Representation of the Golden Triangle in-

cluded Crystal Knabeschuh – Beaumont West Brook Stars and her Director Tisha Smith; Ni-cole Encalade – Bridge City Strutters and her Director Cathy Riley; Victoria Scott – Hardin Jefferson High School Starlettes and her Direc-tor Meredith Love; Alaina Cole – Nederland High School Westernaires and her Director Laura Kendrick; Lauren Knebodeaux – Silsbee High School Tigerettes and her Directors Jenny Chandler and Cynthia Chandler; and Christen Kennon – Vidor High School Brigadettes and her Director Ginger Faul.

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Christian Women’s Job Corps to host spring classesChristian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC, “offering a hand up not a hand out”), serving the Golden

Triangle will be having Orientation Day at the Orange Site, located at 2300 41st Street, (room # 37) Orange, TX 77630 with Spring Classes resuming on Feb. 15 at 10 a.m.

The organization, which was started in 1997, has had a tremendous success rate of helping wom-en from all walks of life improve that their quality.

Each student will also be assigned a personal mentor to accompany them in their journey to wholeness. For more information, please call 409-883-9100.

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From the Creaux’s Nest

FASTER I GO, SLOWER I GETWell, I’ve rolled up on another week. They sure do come

around quicker than they did 30 years ago. I haven’t been up to speed the last few weeks so time is traveling faster than I am. I have to rush my mind to catch up but it still falls behind. Some-times old folks get too much on their plate. Deadline and old age don’t go hand in hand. I need to find out what the old man at the parks secret is, but then maybe that’s exactly what I don’t need, I’m just half alive now. I’m four hours away from deadline and I’ll never make it if I don’t get started. I would appreciate it if you came along. I promise it won’t do you no harm. We have a little something for everyone. Take what you want, throw the other out. Remember It’s just me and Creaux letting you in on the know. Now it’s time to go.

YOU BE THE JUDGE

Experts predict a housing turnaround is near and the hous-ing industry is nearing a bottom. The housing outlook is brightening, with signs of a better economy. United States em-ployers are adding jobs, unemployment is slowly moving down. Today it’s the lowest in three years. There is now more evi-dence of improvement in the economy and housing follows the economy. Moody predicts single-family housing starts will rise 37 percent this year.*****Natural gas prices are plummeting at a pace which has even caught the experts off guard. The coun-try is flush with natural gas, with the surplus growing, even as the country burns record amounts. Winter’s warm weather was the fourth warmest in the last 177 years. Cheap natural gas is mainly a good thing for the economy. Offsetting heat and electric cost cushions the high gasoline prices. So why is it that gasoline prices at the pump are so high? For the first time in six decades, the U.S. is exporting more gasoline and diesel fuel than it imports. Six hundred thousand barrels a day of refined products, mostly gasoline and diesel fuel are exported. Howev-er the oil companies are gouging us at the pump. We have no oil shortage. Their latest excuse is problems with Iran that might occur. Watch the profit report for oil companies to go through the roof, yet they are talking about $4 a gallon gaso-line. Who’s raping us? Who’s making it difficult on the work-ing class? If prices don’t come down by September or October, Obama will get the blame so he had better have a plan.

TO KNOW HIM WAS TO APPRECIATE HIM

It seems so strange to me to be saying goodbye to Gene Goza, 74, who left us on Jan. 10. A longtime loyal friend, Gene was one of this publications biggest fans but he was so much more. Gene was a fun loving, colorful character who brought laughter and smiles because his own was so contagious. He loved to entertain but just as much, enjoyed good entertain-ment and was close to many who did it professionally. He had a handsome face but a rubber-like face that he could turn into the worlds ugliest, a fun loving gimmick. Fifty-one years on the same job at Firestone, his goal was 55. He was a survivor after tragedies. His first wife was killed in a wreck, his daughter Misty murdered. Just five days before his death Christy Koury visited with her uncle. He was as usual upbeat, with his hearty laugh. She said he had nothing but praise for The Record Newspapers and the services they render to the local commu-nity. We feel the same about the life and goodwill Gene spread. We have lost another of our beautiful, unique characters. Rest in peace our friend.

OPPS CHRISTIANS ELIMINATE PERRY

Gov. Rick Perry’s ace in the hole got beat by a straight flush. His ace was that he had set it up for the Religious Right leaders to meet at Judge Paul Pressler’s ranch in Brenham. All the Evangelical leaders that attended, including Tom Perkins, Dr. James Dobson, Gary Bauer and Don Wildmon, reached a strong consensus to support Rick Santorum on their third ballot. Their focus was on who they felt best represented the conservative movement and who had the best chance to suc-ceed. Roughly 150 people from around the country attended; they prayed and heard passionate speeches on behalf of candi-dates. They threw Perry out on the first ballot and didn’t even consider Mitt Romney. In the final ballot, 114 voted. Eighty-nine votes for Santorum and 25 voted for Newt Gingrich. Perry is the big loser. He needed the boost the Evangelicals could have provided. He had met with the leaders last fall in Fredericksburg and thought he had the endorsement locked in. Perkins said the group was driven by the desire to oust Presi-dent Obama and who they felt could best do that. “There were some concern because of Perry’s stumbles, his missteps ended up being too troublesome,” said Perkins. The backing should mean public endorsements, fundraising and support by reli-gious activist for Santorum. They don’t want to repeat 2008, when Sen. John McCain was nominated. This is a stop Rom-ney move. I don’t believe they can make it happen. Huntsman has dropped out and it won’t be long now before Perry is full time in Austin. His ride in the national limelight was a big dol-lar Texas taxpayer blunder. Perry confirmed what many around the country think of Texans. He never was prime time material and he didn’t improve the Perry brand, not even with the Evangelicals he had set up. My bet is even with the religious leaders’ best efforts, they can’t stop Mitt, and if they don’t even have a chance at beating Obama, they will have to join him or wait four more years for Jeb Bush. Laura Bush said the family

wanted him to run this time. The quote of the week came from George Will, “The country won’t fall in love with Mitt.” Not if the Religious Right has anything to do with it. The race will be left with one Mormon, two Catholics and Ron Paul, as the only protestant. For the first time in decades the Southern Baptist Fundamentalist and Evangelicals won’t have a protes-tant running for president. Strange how things turn out in pol-itics. Sometimes they deal from the bottom of the deck and come up with a dead horse. By the way, if you’re wondering why Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh came down hard on Rick Perry’s vulture comment on Bain Capital, it’s because Bain’s portfolio includes syndicating their radio shows. Now you know the rest of the story. The vultures did get Perry.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME10 Years Ago-2002

The Nelda C and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation is provid-ing nearly $50,000 to help Ducks Unlimited restore 1,531 acres of habitat on two conservation projects, on private land near Bridge City. Texas Parks and Wildlife and Ducks Unlimited launched the conservation plan*****Betty Harmon, Gerald Ehrman, United State Rep. Jim Turner and Judge Carl Thibodeaux cut the ribbon to the new Hwy. 87 overpass, near Wal-Mart Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002.*****Dolly Parton turns 56 on Jan. 19. That could also be her bust size. Many of us saw her with Porter Wagner in Beaumont when she was in her early 20’s. Her measurements have grown since those days. (Editor’s note: This week, she turns 66 and is still carrying that load up front.)*****The Record Newspapers names All Orange Coun-ty Football Team. Bridge City Coach James Conway was named “Coach of the Year.”***On offense, Bridge City’s Luke Wolfford, was named “Most Valuable Player,” Matt Peebles “Two-way Player of the Year and Jamey Knight “Versatility Player of the Year.”*** “Defensive Player of the Year,” was Aaron Williams of Orangefield.***“Special Team Player” was Robert Melich, of B.C.***Best Newcomers Jonathan Teat-LC-M, Kerry Franks, WO-S, Josh Chagois, LC-M, Sean O’Bannion, Vidor, Dwayne Breaux, B.C., Luke Agerton, Orangefield.***Wide Receivers named were Kendrick Wiley, LC-M, Luther Sanders, B.C., Colby Walton, Orange-field, Eric Enard, WO-S and Eric West, WO-S.***Tight Ends named were Tyler Bridges, B.C. and Justin Hall, Vidor. Linemen named were Chris Harvey, B.C., Aaron Mitchel, B.C., Mark Cole, Vidor, Pat Godwin, B.C., Dustin Dyer, LC-M. and Aaron McGuire, B.C.***Kicker named was Brett Barclay, W.O.-S.***On defense: Linemen Justin Cruse, B.C., Tyrone Brown, WO-S, Keith Ingle, Vidor, Adam Woods, LC-M, Thomas Raley, Vidor, Jeff Pollock, LC-M, Kaleb Faulk, B.C. and Jonathan Morrow, WO-S.***Linebackers: Joe Khoury, B.C. Stephen Hodge, Vidor, Matt McCain, B.C., and Blake Callier, LC-M.***Defensive Backs: Turquoy Riggs, WO-S., Vontearr Edwards, WO-S., Chad Smith, LC-M. and Punter, David Pelfrey, LC-M. (Editor’s Note: Over the past 40 years, we have been featuring an “All County Team.” I think this 2002 team was one of the best, not only on the grid-iron but also all around kids.)

35 Years Ago-1977

James Earl Carter Jr., the Peanut Prince from Plains, Georgia, became president of the United States on Jan. 20. Jimmy is a true product of the old south. He defied all of the odds to become president. Walter Mondale, a Yankee, be-comes vice-president.*****Attorney H.D. Pate is elected presi-dent of the Rotary Club. He will replace Roy Dunn in June. Others elected are Rev. Don Richey, first vice-president, Bill Wiesman and Rev. Ed Robinson, vice-presidents, J.R. Wil-son, secretary/treasurer, William “Bill” Nacol, sergeant at arms. Directors are Bobby Cormier, Lynn Emerson, Jimmy Moss and Bubba Hubbard. Pate is a partner in the law firm of Pate and Burgess. He is also city attorney, water district attor-ney and past president of Orange County Bar and Bridge City Chamber.*****Hal Sanders has purchased Charlie Sprotts Bar-B-Que and will relocate on Fourth Street.*****Lester Barrett marries Annetta.*****Gene Goza picked to be the “Ugliest Man in the World” at a Canadian show similar to “What’s My Line.” Meanwhile, his daughter Traci, was named “Deb Queen” and “Miss Photogenic” in the LaJoli Belle contest. (Ed-itor’s note: Gene passed away last week and Traci was mur-dered several years ago.*****The Horance Granger home, on Michelle Road, was totally destroyed by fire.*****Jackie Har-mon is home from hospital.*****Orange Appliance outgrows location. Fain Holbrooks and Coy have moved to the former Hester Andrews location on MacArthur Circle. (Editor’s note: That place has been a lot of things. It’s now Orange Carpet and back in the 1950’s, it was Holly Motor Co., Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge dealer. Ted Wilkinson was general manager, Roy Dunn was sales manager.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEKBrenda Oliver, Laverne Walles, Bonny Sarver, Dylan

Huckebay, Mary Louise McKee, Misti Jagoe, Tara Thomp-son, Virginia Sanford, James Crabtree, Candace Clark, Jim-my Whittle, John Michael Foote, Lisa Costilla, Michael Amsden, Brenna Manasco, Melissa Berry, Beth Fisher, Glo-ria Bertrand, Joy Gilliam, Steve Griffith, Beverly Delahous-saye, Chjarl;es Arceneaux, Sarah Bonds, Millagro Foster, David Doucet, Cris Anderson, Meloney Delano, Joseph Trantham, Julian Meadows, Don Collins, Gary Baker, Jan-ice Westfall, Lyndon Robinson, Myra Sherwood, Nancy Sieck, Suzanne Pittard, Betty Stephenson, Sandra Peveto, Caitlyn Lindner, Cindy Cain, Eryn Leroux, Harold Collins, Jennifer Grizzaffi, Logan Mitchell, Lyndell Hodgkinson, Stephanie Smith, Sue Harris and Karen Anthony.

A FEW HAPPENINGSDeputy County Clerk, Brandy Robertson and Angelique

Cook just returned from College Station where they had four intense days of County Clerk education put on by Texas A&M.**** Linda Steward, once a Wal Mart greeter at the Or-ange Super Wal Mart from 1995 to 2000 and moved to Vinton, is now back in Orange.*****Tevin Henson who is majoring in music at Lamar Beaumont just returned after visiting mom, Kim Fezia.*****Happy birthday to La’Quinthia Henson who turned 25 on Jan. 16.*****Donna Peterson and family had a great time in Hawaii. Ask her about the pro-golf tournament.*****Orange County Clerk Karen Jo Vance was part of a focus group at Sam Houston Regional Library and Re-search Center in Liberty. She recommends we all visit the Cen-ter if ever in Liberty.*****Fort Worth native, Kelly Clarkson, will perform the National Anthem before the Super Bowl, Feb. 5. Miranda Lambert and husband, Blake Shelton, will sing America the Beautiful and Madonna will perform at halftime.*****Dick Van Dyke, 86, will marry 39-year-old Ar-lene Silver. She has a good knowledge of classic television triv-ia and a sense of humor. *****Halle Berry will marry 46-year-old Oliver Martinez. It’s his third trip to the alter.*****The Es-sence Music Festival will be held in New Orleans, July 6 to July 8. It’s the largest black artist festival in the country. Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is the headliner, with Stephanie Mills, Charlie Wilson, Kayshia Cole and dozens of other artist to

perform.*****CREAUX’S TIP OF THE WEEK: Alka Seltzer has many uses, here are just a few. Drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets to clean toilet, wait 20 minutes, brush and flush. Can be used for cleaning dentures also, put one tablet in a cup of water with dentures for at least 10 minutes or overnight, rinse with hot water. Another use for Alka Seltzer is to clean jewelry, just soak. *****CAJUN DICTIONARY: Coonass: I’m often asked where or what the word derived from. The word is a controver-sial term in the Cajun lexicon. To some Cajuns, it’s regarded as a supreme ethnic slur, meaning “ignorant or backward Ca-juns.” To many others, the term is a badge of pride, much like the word Chicano is for Mexican Americans. In South Louisi-ana for example, one can often see bumper stickers reading, “Registered Louisiana Coonass.” The word originated in South Louisiana’s Cajun parishes and is derived from the belief that Cajuns frequently ate raccoons. It is proposed that the term contains a negative racial connotation, namely that Cajuns were beneath or under blacks or “Coons” as Blacks were often called. I recall Blacks took pride in the word Negro and weren’t bothered by the word “Nigger” and used it in their regular con-versation but the word “Coon” was offensive. Now you know.*****Retired County Court at Law Judge Mike Shuff was seen visiting around the courthouse on Thursday. Every-one was shaking his hand and saying how much they missed having him around. He’s been doing a lot of fishing at his camp and absolutely loving not having time limits anymore. Wife Jennifer is still loving giving tours at the Stark House so he does have to come home every now and again.***** George Clooney won the Golden Globes “Best Actor” for the “Descen-dants” which also won “Best Motion Picture.”*****One of my favorites, Meryl Streep won “Best Actress” for her perfor-mance in “The Iron Lady.”***** Woody Allen is still around, he won the screenplay award with “Midnight in Paris.”*****Bridge City short stop, Zach Smith, signed to play baseball with An-gelina Junior College. Zach is a three-year varsity player for Coach Chad Landry. His new coach will be Jeff Livins. It’s a great place for Zach to attend and advance his education *****There was a robbery in Mr. Cox’s Neighborhood. He’s falling down on his neighborhood protection program. A black man, with a big knife, robbed Quick Stop He got away and no one seems to know which direction he took. The Rainbow Bridge is four minutes away, it’s five minutes to IH-10 down Hwy. 62. That leaves only Roundbunch, east or west. Makes me wonder if he left Bridge City at all

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYSKevin Costner will be 57 on Jan. 18 and Jason Segel will be

32.***Dolly Parton will turn 66 on Jan. 19; Paula Dean, 65 and Shawn Wayans, 41.***Bill Maher will be 56 on Jan. 20’ Loren-zo Lamas turns 54 and John Michael Montgomery will be 47.***Gena David will be 55 on Jan. 21 and Hakeem Olajuwon, 49.***John Hurt turns 72 on Jan. 22; Linda Blair, 53; Mariska Hargitay, 48 and Princess Caroline of Monaco, 55.***Neil Di-amond will be 71 on Jan. 24 and Mischa Barton, 26.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEK

Tee-Boy took him a break from his Bar & Grill and ven-tured to New Orleans for sightseeing, making the French Market and killing time. At a busy bus stop, a beautiful woman was waiting for a bus her. She was wearing the shortest, tight, tight, mini skirt Tee-Boy had ever seen. Wen da bus stop, she realize her skirt was too tight to get her leg up on da step. A little embarrassed she gave da bus driver a little smile and reach behind her and unzip her skirt a little. Again, she couldn’t make it so she reach behind her again to unzip a little more. Still unable to make da step she reach around to unzip some more but was still unable to reach da step.

Tee-Boy, who was standing right behind her picked dat lady up by da waist and place her on dat step. Dat lady turn around and yell at Tee-Boy, “How dare you touch my body. I don’t even know you.”

“Well madam, normally I would agree wit you me, but af-ter you unzip my fly two times, me, I kinda figured we was friends us.

C’EST TOUT

We prepared real well for the NFL playoffs. The boys and I prepared a feast to cover the weekend. The only thing we en-joyed was the food and company. The Saints getting beat by the 49ers gave us indigestion. The Texans fell to the Ravens. Man-ning and the Giants upset Rogers and the Packers. The 49ers and Giants meet in San Francisco with the 49ers having the most awesome defense I’ve seen in years. I wouldn’t be sur-prised if they win it all. You have to bet on Tom Brady and the Pats being there for the big Super Bowl show. Brady put on a clinic against Tim Tebow and the Broncos. It was the master showing the student how it’s done. The NFL needs more good people like Tebow and Ray Lewis as examples to our youth. I’ll watch the games but I don’t have a horse in the race unless it the 49ers, they’re a class act. They have to score because for sure Manning will.***** The Wednesday Lunch Bunch will dine at Robert’s this week. Donna Scales often has a good sto-ry to tell about the latest happenings at the park so this week should be an interesting one. A spry 85-year-old guy was caught with his britches down and his younger, 82 year old partner, was enjoying herself. All I want to know is what pill he’s on that allows him to be a great outdoorsman.*****I watched the GOP debate and I think Newt won. The big loser was Ron Paul. I was pulling for the old man but then he shot himself in both feet. Romney will win Saturday but 65 percent will vote against him. *****I’m anxious to find out what hap-pens to Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. and Senators in Wiscon-sin on recall. This could be big, a partition was turned in Tues-day. Walker busted out all unions in Wisconsin in a Republi-can takeover.*****Rick Perry keeps calling for a part time con-gress. I see why. Eighty-four percent of Americans disapprove of the U.S. Congress and blame them for doing nothing and causing our credit rating to fall. If they served part time, they could do just half the damage. The poll came out Monday and Rick grabbed it. It was his best debate to date. He’s not going anywhere but maybe he helped his brand.**********One more debate Thursday night.*****Well, I’ve gotta go. Thanks for your time. Read us cover to cover and check us out on our web-site, therecordlive.com. Take care and God bless.

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If you’re like me, an ex-English teach-er from the Neanderthal days when kids learned not only literature, but the dreaded grammar, then you’ll un-derstand when I say I am bombarded daily by evidence of a growing lack of basic and practical knowledge of those around me.

Now, I said basic and practical, not tech-nological. How well I know that twenty- and thirty-somethings on down can make an iPad dance, a Smart Phone sing, and a Nook howl at the moon, but many are still lacking in various fundamentals. Me, I congratulate myself for be-ing able to turn one on.

How many times have you heard about the dumb cluck behind the cash register that is stumped when a customer gives him and ten-dollar bill and eleven cents to pay for a snack that costs four eleven?

What really bothers me is that a certain per-centage of these individuals actually go to the polls and elect others to lead our cities, state, and country. Maybe I’m way off base, but we’d better off if they’d just stay behind the cash reg-ister.

I take that back. We don’t need them where the money is. Brooms and mops are their forte.

Think I’m joking? In 2008, the city council of Chico, California issued a ban on setting off nuclear bombs in town. Anyone convicted of it would be fined $500.00.

Only idiot voters could elect idiot council-men to make an idiot decision like that.

What prompted this harangue of mine was when I inquired of various veterinarians in re-gard to spaying a stray cat that has adopted us. Truth is, if it were left up to me, I wouldn’t spay her. I’d take her over to my brother-in-law Jim’s neighborhood and drop her off.

But if I did that, my wife wouldn’t forgive me, so I’m stuck with spaying or neutering strays that come along.

But, back to the call to the vet. I called sev-eral. Since this was just a neighborhood feline, I wasn’t interested in anything except preventing more felines, the tiny ones if you know what I mean.

Of the seven (vets, not felines) I called for prices, upon my asking if they spayed cats, four of the receptionists responded with “is it a fe-male?”

Whoa there, partner. I’d pay a bundle to see the expression on someone’s face when they

tried to spay an old ragged-ear tom cat.

Over the years, I’ve grown used to such mindless re-sponses. They’ve become both understandable and humorous just like the story that came from a company that supplies goods for missionaries. Now, according to the article, one particular church requires all

of its missionaries to carry a ministerial certifi-cate showing they are authorized representa-tives of the church.

So the supply salesman was stunned when a woman from the church stated that the one last item on her list of needs was a menstrual cer-tificate.

When questioned, she explained that “one of their elders had lost his menstrual certificate and needed a new one.”

The salesman rolled with laughter for five minutes before he managed to stammer out “ma’am, I think you mean a ministerial certifi-cate.”

That’s as laughable as the young couple ask-ing for a fecal heart monitor and explaining that it was to be used to hear the baby while it was still in the womb.

What they wanted was a fetal heart monitor.These are voters, folks. Just what kind of in-

telligent decision can they make at the polls? They might as well eeeny-meeny-miney-moe at the various buttons or levers.

On the other hand, perhaps it is unfair to be so critical of their decisions. We’ve all make questionable, even dubious judgment calls.

Like the director of the Charlton Public Li-brary in Massachusetts who sent the police to collect overdue library books from a five-year-old girl.

Oh, they collected the books and left, leaving behind a five-year-old in tears.

According to her mother, sending the po-lice was like pounding a ten-penny nail with a sledgehammer.

In all fairness to the police, the department felt uneasy about going to the home, but the li-brary insisted. (like the idiots they are)

Most folks suppose individuals in positions of influence render wise decisions. Not so. Not at all. There was a judge in Louisville who be-lieved the jury went too far in sentencing the defendant to 5005 years.

He would show them the right way, the hu-mane way.

So what kind of Solomon-like decision did this wiser-than-thou jurist hand down? He low-ered the sentence to 1001 years.

Wow! Now the guy can ask for parole in only 600 years.

One of my classmates on my old high school chat group sent me a story concerning a con-ceited judge proud of his unusual sentences.

Once when a teacher came before him, he made her write 500 times, “I will not speed through a red light.”

But then his sentencing fancies caught up with him when a sharp (real sharp) attorney de-fending an accused burglar stated, “My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few articles. His arm is not himself, and I can’t see you punishing the whole indi-vidual for an offense committed by his limb.”

The smug judge agreed, and replied “Us-ing your logic, I sentence his arm to one year in prison. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses.”

The judge leaned back and grinned, but the

grin suddenly vanished when the defendant rose, smiled, rolled up his sleeve, and detached his artificial limb. He laid it on the bench and walked out.

Now, this country is a republic, which means everyone has a say in the way it is governed. That’s good on the one hand, but on the other, when those voters are not informed, not edu-cated, or fail to think problems through, then we end up with what we have today, an admin-istration intent on redistribution.

Vote however you wish, but do yourself and the rest of us a favor, and stay informed-or stay home.

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BCISD Substitute Teacher Orientation set for Jan. 19

BCISD Substitute Teacher Orientation will be Thursday, Jan. 19, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the BCISD Administration Build-ing, 1031 W. Roundbunch Rd. Applications must be pro-cessed  before attending this orientation. The application for substitute teacher can be found at www.bridgecityisd.net under the Human Resources tab or by visiting the BCISD Administra-tion Building. Once the application is processed a Fast Pass Fin-gerprint form will be issued. All substitute teachers must be fin-gerprinted as required by the State of Texas.

Red Hot Flashers to meet Jan. 19 The Red Hot Flashers of Orange County will meet Jan. 19, at

11:30 a.m. at the New York Pizza in Vidor, Texas, for their regu-lar meeting. The birthday lady is: Lady Cha Cha, Marcie Baca. We will be celebrating the new year. All ladies are welcome. For information, please call 409-886-1609.

OC Master Gardeners to meet Jan. 19, 21The Orange County Master Gardeners will have a meet and

greet at their new greenhouse facility on FM 1442 at Jewel Corm-ier Park from 10 a.m. to noon on Jan. 19 and 21.

The community is invited to come out and visit with the Mas-ter Gardeners, see their new greenhouses and learn what it is to be a Master Gardener. If plants, gardening and horticulture fas-cinate you, they would love for you to come check us out.

The Orange County Master Gardeners are located in Orange-field between St. Helen Catholic Church and the railroad tracks

south off IH10 Exit 869 and north off FM 105 from Bridge City. For more information, please visit their website, http://txmg.org/orange

Fraternal Order of Eagles to host pool tournament, dance

The Fraternal Order of Eagles, located at 903 N. 28th Street in Orange, will host a pool tournament Friday, Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. and a dance on Saturday, Jan 21 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Cover charge for the dance will be $5 per person and $10 per couple. The kitchen will have food available.

Fraternal Order of Eagles to host benefitThe Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Eagle Riders will host a

benefit on Saturday, Jan. 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Darrell Boudreaux to help with medical expenses. Barbecue lunches will be sold for $7, games for prizes, an auction and the Three Legged Dog will be providing the entertainment. The Fraternal Order of Eagles is located at 803 N. 28th Street in Orange. For more information, please call or text Tim Martin, President of the Eagle Riders at 902-6667, or Sharon Bodin, Chaplain of the Ladies Auxiliary at 719-7763.

“Home Sweet Home” opening reception at the Dishman

The Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University will host an opening reception for “Home Sweet Home: Works by Jasmyne Graybill” from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20. “Home Sweet Home” features sculptures by San Antonio artist Graybill that borrow from the familiar forms of fungus, lichen and mold to reflect the intrinsic beauty of natural growth and decay. Graybill invents and sculpts fictional organisms that graft onto domestic objects, challenging notions of synthetic and organic, real and imagined. These works show that through the passage of time, man-made objects may be overtaken by nature. The exhibition will run through Feb. 23. Light refreshments will be served at the recep-tion. Admission and parking are free. The Dishman Art Mu-seum is located at 1030 East Lavaca, Beaumont, Texas. Call (409) 880-8959 for more information or visit lamar.edu/dishman.

BCHS Speech and Debate team host family personal protection seminar

The Bridge City High School Speech and Debate presents a

Family Personal Protection Seminar instructed by Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City on Saturday, Feb. 18, in the Bridge City High School Competition Gym from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The seminar will cost $15 per individual and $35 per family of four; minimum participation age is 6 years old.

T-Shirt will be included for participants who sign up by Jan. 27. All proceeds will go to Bridge City High School

For more information, please contact Elyse Thibodeaux with Tiger Rock Martial Arts at 409-920-1462 or contact Jennifer Clarke with Bridge City Speech and Debate at 409-735-1600.

Free Credit Repair Saturday set for Jan. 21 at LSCO

Southeast Texas Alliance for Economic Inclusion (AEI) an-nounces “Free Credit Repair Saturday” on Saturday, Jan. 21. The day will consist of free one-on-one credit counseling and finan-cial education sessions about Identity Theft Detection and Pre-vention, Predatory Lending, Consumer Law, Budgeting and Credit Basics.

The free event will be held at the Student Center on the Lamar State College Orange campus from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is open to the public.

AEI is the FDIC’s national initiative to establish broad-based coalitions of financial institutions, community-based organiza-tions and other partners across the country to bring all under-banked and underserved populations into the financial main-stream. AEI believes all consumers should have reasonable ac-cess to full service banking and other financial services.

Pre-registration for “Free Credit Repair Saturday” is not re-quired, but is suggested. Registration forms are available at Beaumont and Port Arthur public libraries and the Workforce Solutions Center. To pre-register or to get more information, call Buddy at 409-896-8528 or fax your contact information to 409-898-2289, Attn: Buddy.

BCHS to offer senior parent financial aid workshopThe Counselors at Bridge City High School will host its annu-

al Senior Parent Financial Aid Workshop on Thursday, Feb. 9,, at 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria at Bridge City High School. This pro-gram is designed to assist students and parents with the comple-tion of the FAFSA Application, as well as to inform them of oth-er financial assistance options for college education. A financial aid representative will be available after the workshop to answer questions and schedule individual follow-up appointments to

assist families in submitting the FAFSA. Also, please do not for-get to check on scholarship information in the Counselor’s Of-fice or on our website at www.bridgecityisd.net. Call 409-735-1617 for additional information.

Palm Garden health fair set for Jan. 26Palm Garden Apartments  at  1727 N. 37th St. in Orange is host-

ing their 3rd Annual Health Fair on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Palm Garden Apartments Club House. There will be community service groups and health agencies to answer health questions and offer information on a range of subjects.  Refresh-ments will be provided and door prizes will be given away.  For more information contact Cheryl Crawford at  409-883-8539

AARP income tax assistance program offeredThe AARP Tax Filing Assistance Program will begin Wednes-

day, Feb. 1 at 12:15 p.m. in the Orange Public Library. Trained volunteers will be available from 12:15 to 4 p.m. every Wednes-day and Friday through April 13th.

Anyone seeking assistance should bring the following: all W-2 and 1099 forms, including Social Security benefits and state-ments; records of Capital gains and losses; receipts of medical expenses, taxes paid, interest paid, contributions, casualty and theft losses, job expenses, sales tax receipts for major purchases and Social Security cards for dependents; a copy of your 2010 tax return, which will be very helpful for the volunteers assisting in the preparations of the 2011 return.

Electronic filing will be available. No tax returns will be start-ed after 4 p.m.

Glenn Pearson Alumni Basketball Game set for Feb. 4

The 5th Annual Glenn Pearson Alumni Basketball Game will be held Saturday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. at the BCHS gym.  All former basketball players who lettered one year in the varsity program are encouraged to attend and/or play.  Those interested may contact Coach Knight at tony.knight@bridgecityisd.net or call 409 735-1644.  Mr. Pearson will be in attendance and he would thoroughly enjoy seeing all former basketball players and other students of Bridge City High School.

Hunter Education Safety Class set for Feb. 6Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunter Education Home Study Safe-

ty Class Field part will be held on Monday, Feb. 6 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Orange. Participants are required to complete the home student computer sections, print completed tests and bring them to the class. To register or for more information, please call Danny Odom at 409-883-8118.

This class is not just for hunters, but anyone who handles fire-arms can benefit from it.

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Patricia Caldwell BlackOrange

Patricia Caldwell Black, 93, of Or-ange passed away Satur-day, Jan. 14.

A graveside service will be at 11 a.m., We dne sday, Jan. 18, at Or-ange Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Black was born Dec. 7, 1918 in Oklahoma City, Okla. to Harry McRill and Frances Viv-ian (Head) Caldwell. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, Scottish Society and Society for Creative Anach-ronism. She was co-owner of Black’s Orange Floral Shop for 62 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Wil-liam Arthur Black Jr.

Mrs. Black is survived by her son, Christopher Michael Black and fiancé, Caron Marble of Houston; son, Brian McRill Black of Austin; daughter, Monica Gar-rett and husband, John of Or-ange; five grandchildren, Cara, Donovan, Colin, Ian and Nicho-las; eight great-grandchildren, Meagan, Chloe, Will, Adrianne, Alex, Gavin, Liam and Graham and one great-great-grandchild, Shawn.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the St. Paul’s Episcopal Memorial Fund, 1401 W. Park Ave., Orange, Texas 77630 or to the Orange Public Library, 220 N. 5th St, Orange, Texas 77630.

James Olin AlfordVidor

James O. Alford, 87, of Vidor died Saturday, Jan. 14, at his residence. A native of Schulen-berg, Texas, he has lived in Vidor for 19 years and was a retired truck driver with C&B Transport.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Caney Creek Open Door Church in Vidor under the direc-tion of Memorial Funeral Home of Vidor with burial to follow at Wilkinson Cemetery in Orange, Texas.

James is preceded in death by his sons, Gary Cormier and Jerry Lee Cormier, daughter, Barbara Cormier, brother, Macken Al-ford and his first wife, Josephine Smith Alford.

He is survived by his wife, Es-ther Alford of Vidor; sons, Jack-ie Cormier of Orangefield and Roger Cormier of Beaumont; daughters Mary Cormier Gir-ouard of Orange, Peggy Cormier of Lumberton and Mary Bridges Meth of Vidor; sisters, Sylvia and Bunny Thomas of Colmesneil, twenty-seven grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren.

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Dorothy ChandlerBridge City

Dorothy Chandler, 81, of Bridge City, died Friday, Jan. 13, at her home.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at Claybar Fu-neral Home in Bridge City, with the Rev. Roy A. Parker officiat-ing. Burial followed at Antioch Cemetery in Ratcliff, Texas.

Born in Waller County, Texas

on July 19, 1930, Dorothy was the daughter of Virgil and Luda (Clepper) Sheffield. A member of First Baptist Church of Or-angefield, she worked as an at-tendance clerk at West Orange-Cove CISD for 20 years. She and her husband enjoyed square dancing together. Dorothy was a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers and sister; and husband, Ray Chandler.

Dorothy is survived by her d a u g h t e r , Maudine Kel-ley and hus-band Stephen of Bridge City; sons, Kenneth Chandler and wife Sandy of Smithville, and Hoyt Chandler of Orange; grandchildren, Crys-tal Wickersham, Lance Chandler and wife Amy, Jake Chandler, Justin Chandler, and Donna Ma-rie Mather; six great grandchil-dren; and sister, Irene Williams of Carthage.

Johnny Eugene Metcalf, Bill Wiley Metcalf, James Wesley Metcalf, Lance Kyle Chandler, Raymond Jake Chandler, Ste-phen Kelley and Raymond D. Hutto served as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Alzheim-er’s Association – Houston and Southeast Texas Chapter, 2242 West Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas 77030-2008. Please re-quest the memorial donation be used for Alzheimer’s Research. For the convenience of those wanting to send a memorial, do-nation forms will be available at the funeral home. Leslie L. BeckerOrange

Leslie L. Becker, 66, of Or-ange, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, at his home.

Memorial services were held Saturday, Jan. 14, at Claybar Fu-neral Home in Orange. Officiat-ing will be Rev. Scott McIntosh of North Orange Baptist Church.

Born in Orange, Texas on April 4, 1945, Leslie was the son of Douglas Robert and Lorraine (Young) Becker. He served in the US Army and worked for Inland Orange. He was a member of North Orange Baptist Church, Masonic Lodge and VFW.

He was preceded in death his parents, Douglas and Lor-raine Becker, and brother, Pete Becker.

Leslie is survived by his wife, Scherry Ann Becker of Orange; daughter, Tammy Becker Dietze of Orange; son, Les L. Becker, Jr. and wife Lynda of The Wood-lands; daughter, Kathy Melton and husband Ken of Orange; grandchildren, Dylan, Drake, Ally, Samantha, Rachelle, Da-vid and Tyler; and sister, Cindy Lucas and husband Mike of Or-ange.

Eva Elois McClainOrange

Eva Elois McClain, 81, of Or-ange, passed away Wednesday, Jan.11 in The Woodlands.

Funeral Services were held Saturday Jan. 14, at Little Cy-press Baptist Church with the Rev. David Turner officiating. Interment followed at Hudson Cemetery.

Mrs. McClain was born Nov. 29, 1930 in Orange to Travis and Verna Mae Katherine (Lechner)

Hudson. She was a partner of a catering company until her hus-band passed away and then she went to college and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. She was a very talented artist who enjoyed painting in different styles. Mrs. McClain was a long time member of Little Cypress Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School and was very ac-tive up until her illness.

She is preceded in death by her father, Travis Hudson; hus-band, Harmon McClain; sister, Juanita Cooper and brother, Tra-vis C. Hudson Sr.

Those left to cherish her mem-ory are her mother, Verna Mae Katherine (Lechner) Hudson of Orange; sons and daughters-in-law, Ray and Bonnie McClain of Crowley, La., Don McClain of The Woodlands and Tom and Laura McClain of Austin; grand-children, Cole McClain and step grandchildren, Robbie Mar-quis and Shane Marquis. She is also survived by her step great grandchildren, Caitlin Marquis, Grant Marquis, Connor Marquis and Kobe Marquis and brothers, Willard Hudson and wife, Doris of Orange and Ronald Hudson of Milsap.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Little Cypress Baptist Church, 3274 Little Cy-press Drive, Orange, Texas 77632.

Janie Marie ArnoldOrange

Janie Marie Arnold, 29, of Or-ange passed away on Tues-day, Jan. 10, at Baptist Hospital in Or-ange.

A funeral service was held on Sat-urday, Jan. 14, at Dorman Funeral Home. Burial followed at Wilkinson Cemetery in Orange.

She was a native of Port Ar-thur, born March 9, 1982 to par-ents Richard Macks and Lavella Alvarez Lummus. She was a life-long resident of Orange. Janie was a very strong woman, grad-uate on the Presidents List from Lamar University in Orange. Janie never met a stranger and would help anyone who needed her help. She was a loving wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend who will be dearly missed.

She was preceded in death by her brother Robert Alvarez.

She is survived by her hus-band, James Arnold of Orange; daughter, Kailey Arnold of Or-ange; mother, Lavella Lummus of Deweyville; sisters, Stormy Alvarez (Daniel Morgan) of Har-lem, Ga, Tammy Welch of Dew-eyville, Angel Istre (Matt) of West Orange; brother, Poncho Her-nandez (Dezi) of Houston and numerous nieces and nephews.

Johnnie Finklea TaylorOrange

Johnnie Finklea Taylor, 84, of Orange passed away Tuesday, Jan. 10, at her home.

Funeral Services were held Friday January 13, at Hartburg Baptist Church with the Rev. Clifton Rankin and Mr. Paul Mi-chael Taylor, officiating. Inter-ment followed at Kings Cem-etery in Hartburg.

Mrs. Taylor was born Aug. 30, 1927 in Center, Texas to Jesse Ernest and Gena E. (Oates) Fin-

klea. She was a clerk at the Fair Stores for ten years and a Red Cross Volunteer at the Orange Baptist Hospital. She was a very active member at Hartburg Baptist Church and First Baptist Church in Mauriceville.

She is preceded in death by her parents; husband of 37 years, Eugene “Gene” Taylor; son, Brian A. Taylor; sisters, Vertie Nations, Peggy Johnson and Nora Johnson and great granddaughter, Kira E. Watson.

Those left to cherish her mem-ory are her son and daughter-in-law, Paul Brent and Patti (John-son) Taylor of Orange; daughter and son-in-law, Clare Elizabeth and Lee Houghton of Orange and their family; 5 grandchildren, David V. Watson and his family, Paul M. Taylor, Philip A. Taylor, Patrick S. Taylor and Peyton L. Taylor; 4 great grandchildren; brother-in-law, Grady L. John-son and many relatives and friends who will miss her dearly.

Serving as pallbearers will be David V. Watson, Paul M. Taylor, Philip A. Taylor, Patrick S. Taylor, Timothy Johnson and Matthew Johnson.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Red Cross, 3901 Interstate 10 E, Orange, TX 77630.

The family would like to thank Dr. Marty Rutledge, Harbor Hos-pice of Beaumont and especially the Home Team for the service and care that was given to their mother. They would also like to give a special thank you to Adri-enne Casamire whose care and devotion will always be appreci-ated.

Gene GozaBridge City

Donald Eugene Goza Sr., 74, of Bridge City, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, at St. Luke’s Hospi-tal in Houston.

Funeral ser-vices were held on Friday, Jan. 13, at Claybar Funer-al Home in Bridge City with the Rev. Charles Miller, associate pastor of First Baptist Church in Groves, officiating.

Burial followed at Hillcrest Me-morial Gardens in Bridge City. Pallbearers will be H.D. Cham-bers, Landon Woodard, Mel Knapp, Chad Jones, Richard Chambers and Scott Ballard. Honorary pallbearers will be Kurt Guntner and Cory Jay.

Born in Vivian, La. on April 9, 1937, Gene was the son of Ralph and Juanita (Cook) Goza. He has been employed with Fires-tone Polymers in Orange for the past 51 years.

Gene was an entertainer and had participated in Little The-ater. He was a singer and song writer; performed with the Char-lie Pruitt Show and was an Elvis impersonator. With his group, Jo, Gene and Company, he en-joyed entertaining senior citizens throughout the Golden Triangle. For his contribution to the local music and entertainment field, he received a star on the Walk of Fame in Vidor.

Although he loved performing and entertaining, he also enjoyed spending quiet times at home with his wife. Gene was a loving husband, father, grandfather and brother and will be missed by his family and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Ralph and Juanita

Goza; daughter, Misty Dawn Goza; and brother, Tommy Goza.

Gene is survived by his wife, Mattie Goza of Bridge City; children, Debbie Hamilton and husband, Harvey of Demopo-lis, Alabama, Donnie Goza, Jr. of Longview, Deeya Fitz-Gerald and husband, Don of Demopolis, Traci Goza of Beaumont, Rhon-da Guntner and husband, Mike of Nederland, Cindy Arquit and husband Marc of Montgomery, Ricky Woodard and wife, Sue of Orange and Randy Woodard of Houston.

Also surviving is his brother, Max Goza of Bridge City; sisters, Martha Boutwell of Vidor, Caro-lyn Sewell of Beaumont, Polly

Lowry of Katy; ten grandchil-dren, three great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Rebecca Watson and husband, Harold of Texar-kana; brothers-in-law, James Chambers and wife, Aggie of Mi-lam, and Henry Chambers and wife, Patsy of Bridge City; close friends, Jo and Tal Hargis and numerous nieces and nephews.

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I got several com-ments about the Etouffee so, I thought I’d stick to French cooking this week; even though I’m not French, just my name.

• 1 pound peeled crawfish tails and any fat

• 2 sticks margarine• 4 heaping tablespoons all-

purpose flour• 1 chopped onion• 1 stalk chopped celery• 1 bell pepper, chopped• 2 minced cloves of garlic• 1/4 lemon, sliced• 1 can tomato sauce• 1 teaspoon sugar• 1 can whole tomatoes• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire

• 2 quarts warm wa-ter

• 1 tablespoon chopped green onion tops

• 1 tablespoon pars-ley

• salt and pepper or your favorite season-ing

• 24 fried stuffed crawfish shells

Make a roux with 1 stick margarine and flour. Be sure to use an aluminum pot; an iron pot may cause crawfish to darken. Remove roux from pot and set aside. Add other stick of margarine to the pot and saute onions, bell pepper, cel-ery, lemon slices, tomato sauce, sugar and whole toma-toes. Cook slowly about 15 minutes.

Make a mixture of roux, warm water, Worcestershire sauce, the fried stuffed craw-fish shells and add to first mixture. Season and bring to a boil and cook slowly for two hours. Add crawfish tails and cook slowly for another hour. May need seasoning again to taste.

Serve in soup bowls over rice and place 6 stuffed craw-fish in each bowl.

Fried stuffed crawfish shells

• 24 crawfish body shells• 1 pound crawfish tails in-

cluding fat• 1 chopped onion• chopped bell pepper• 2 stalks of celery, chopped• 1 tablespoon chopped

green onion tops• 2 cloves garlic• 1 small can paprika• 3 eggs• 1 cup bread crumbs• salt and pepper or your fa-

vorite seasoning.

Chop crawfish tails and veg-etables together. Do not grind. Combine mixture with raw eggs, bread crumbs or corn bread. Add fat and seasoning. Add a generous amount of pa-prika. If the mixture is too dry, add a little water. Stuff in shells, roll in flour and fry in deep fat until they float. Re-move, and use in bisque.

P.S. If you can’t find the shells, simply roll in a ball and deep fry. You can also substi-tute shrimp for crawfish.

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This is a great recipe for you. I love to make meatballs out of ground beef.  If you prefer to use the ground beef no problem. Just season ground beef good and put a little minced onion in and some bread crumbs along with an egg and you are good to go. I bake them in the oven, so put them in raw, and add sauce. It will cut down the cooking time to about 45 min.  If you prefer the stew meat then follow directions I am about to give you.  Either way you will love cooking with the sherry.  You know the alco-hol evaporates and leaves a delightful aroma. Happy eat-

ing!2 lbs of beef stew

meat, cut in one inch cubes

¼ cup of all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons cook-ing oil

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noff sauce mix1 tablespoon instant minced

onion4 oz. can sliced mushrooms,

drained½ cup of dairy sour creamToss beef cubes with flour

to coat. In a large skillet brown meat in hot cooking oil. Drain off excess fat.

Combine soup, sherry, dry stroganoff sauce mix and in-

stant minced onion; stir into meat along with mushrooms. Turn mixture into a two quart casserole. Bake covered at 350 degrees till meat is tender, about one and a half hours for stew meat, 45 min. for meat-

balls. Stir in sour cream. Serve over hot cooked white or brown rice, or noodles. Makes six to eight servings.

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As the typical peak of the Texas flu season approaches, the Texas Department of State Health Services reminds peo-ple to get vaccinated against the flu.

“This has been a fairly mild flu season so far, but that can change quickly,” said Dr. Da-vid Lakey, DSHS commis-sioner. “We usually see a sig-nificant increase in influenza in Texas in January and Febru-ary, so this is the time to pro-tect yourself.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rec-ommends everyone at least 6 months old be vaccinated against seasonal flu. Getting

an annual flu vaccine is the best way to prevent flu from spreading. People should also remember to cover all coughs and sneezes, wash their hands frequently with soap and wa-ter or hand sanitizer and stay home if they are sick.

Flu symptoms include fe-ver, coughing, sore throat, aches, chills and fatigue. Most healthy people recover fully, but people 65 and over, pregnant women, young chil-

dren and people with chronic health conditions are at higher risk for serious complications and even death. It is especially important for people in those high-risk groups to be vacci-nated.

To find out where to get a flu shot, people should contact their health care provider, lo-cal health department or dial 2-1-1. Flu information and tips for protecting against the flu are at texasflu.org.

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Chuck Young Alumni Classic scheduled for Feb. 11

The Bridge City Baseball Program will host the Chuck Young Alumni Classic along with an Alumni Homerun Derby on Sat-urday, Feb. 11, 2012 at Cardinal Field. The Home Run Derby will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will cost $20 to enter. The game will be held a noon. Game shirts will cost $10. Any former Cardinal baseball players interested in participating in either event please contact Chris Moore at chris.moore813@gmail.com  All former Bridge City Baseball coaches are welcome to come out and see their former players. For more information visit the BC baseball website at http://bridgecitycardinalbaseball.webs.com/

Christian Women’s Job Corps to host spring classes

Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC, “offering a hand up not a hand out”), serving the Golden Triangle will be having Orien-tation Day at the Orange Site, located at 2300 41st Street, (room # 37) Orange, TX 77630 with Spring Classes resuming on Feb. 15 at 10 a.m.

The organization, which was started in 1997, has had a tre-mendous success rate of helping women from all walks of life improve that their quality. We have been in the Golden Triangle since 2005 and the modern Orange site is a wonderful job skill site, offering free of charge, job skills such as computer skills, re-sume writing, interview techniques, job etiquette, business and banking, crafts, as well as a Bible study, with a graduation cere-mony complete with certificate at completion. 

Each student will also be assigned a personal mentor to ac-company them in their journey to wholeness. For more informa-tion, please call 409-883-9100.

American Legion to host pool tournamentThe American Legion Lloyd Grubbs Post 49, located at 108

Green Ave. in Orange, will be hosting a pool tournament every Friday from 7 p.m. to midnight. There is a ten player maximum. The community is encouraged to join in the fun and free food to help support the Veterans. For more information, call 409-330-4847.

Girl’s Haven Gumbo Cook-off set for Feb. 25Girl’s Haven is excited to announce that their 18th Annual

Gumbo Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25. They will hold their annual gumbo cook-off to be held in the Parkdale Mall parking lot in Beaumont. This year’s entry fee will be a $100 donation to Girl’s Haven per team to secure a 10x10 space or $150 donation to Girl’s Haven per team to secure a 10x20 space. Spaces are available to those (businesses or persons) wish-ing to participate as cook team.

Gumbo will be judged in three categories: seafood, poultry and combination. There will also be a People’s Choice award giv-en.

The Gumbo is schedule for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Live entertain-ment will be provide by Texas 80 Proof, Lamar Port Arthur, Stone Cold and other live entertainment. They will also be host-ing Sonny “The Bird Man” for a live show. There will be a kid’s area with carnival like games that fun for the whole family. Gumbo tickets are sold on-site. Admission and parking is free. A large bowl or four small bowls of different gumbo is cost $7.

Sponsor’s include YMBL, SETMA, Quality Mat, Valero, La-mar Advertising and Clear Channel Radio, as well as many oth-ers.

For more information on cook teams or sponsorships, please call Alice Teeler or Pati Crittenden at Girl’s Haven at 409-832-6223.

Orange Community Band to meet every Thurs-day

The Orange Community Band rehearses every Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, located at 4103 Meeks Drive in Orange. They are in need of players for the fol-lowing sections; flute, clarinet, saxophone, French horn, and percussion, but ALL are welcome! The band performs Christ-mas, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veteran’s Day con-certs. At least one traditional band concert is performed annu-ally. Please visit us on Facebook at Orange Community Band.

BCCC now accepting Business, Citizen of Year applications

Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for Business of the Year and Citizen of the Year. Please submit all nominations in writing to Bridge City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 150 W. Roundbunch Rd, Bridge City, Tx. 77611.  Deadline to submit nominations will be Feb. 8, 2012.

Rape and Suicide Crisis Center to offer support group meetings

The Rape and Suicide Crisis Center of Southeast Texas will be hosting a support group for female survivors of sexual assault the first and third Wednesday of every month, starting at 5:30 p.m. Meetings will be held at the Foundation of Southeast Texas building, located at 700 North St. in downtown Beaumont.

To RSVP or for further information, please contact the Crisis Center at 409-832-6530.

BCISD to administer Credit by Examination Bridge City ISD, in accordance with Chapter 74.24 TAC, will

administer the Texas Tech University Credit by Examination Tests. Testing dates will be June 5, 6 and 7, 2012. Students in grades first through fifth will be allowed to take each of the five tests (Math, Science, Language Arts, Reading, and Social Stud-ies) at the elementary level without prior instruction. The stu-dent must score at least 90 on each of the five four tests to be considered eligible for grade level acceleration. Students in grades sixth through 12 will be permitted to take an examina-tion to earn credit for an academic course for which they have had no prior instruction. Students must score at least 90 on the test to receive course credit. Additional information and regis-tration forms can be obtained by contacting Gina Mannino at:  gina.mannino@bridgecityisd.net.

Deadline for BCISD Board of Trustees Application approaches

The deadline to file applica-tions for be placed on Bridge City I.S.D School Board of Trustees. Regular (special) election ballot may be filed during the following time: Feb. 6 to March 5, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Drop off or mail applications to Bridge City I.S.D., Superintendents Office, 1031 W. Roundbunch, Bridge City, Tx 77611.

On Thursday, Jan. 19 and Saturday, Jan. 21, the Orange County Master Gardener’s will have a meet and greet at their new greenhouse facility on FM 1442 in Jewel Cormier Park from 10 a.m. to noon. Come out and visit with the Master Gardener’s, see our new greenhouses and learn what a Master Gardener is. If plants, gardening and hor-ticulture fascinate you, we would love for you to check us out. We are located in Or-angefield between St. Helen Catholic Church and the rail-road tracks south of IH10 Exit 869 and north of FM 105 from Bridge City. Visit http://txmg.org/orange for more informa-tion.

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It certainly wasn’t a major surprise that the Baltimore Ravens defeated our Houston Texans 20-13 Sunday af-ternoon in the AFC Divisional Playoffs because they were favored by the Las Vegas Boys to win by 7 ½ points.

But what stunned the so-called “ex-perts” was the fact the Texans out-played the Ravens in almost every aspect of the game except one—turn-overs. Those mis-takes led to 17 of Baltimore’s points and its right to ad-vance and meet the top-seeded New England Patriots in Foxborough Sunday, with the winner representing the AFC in Super Bowl XLVI.

Rookie third-string quarterback T. J. Yates was picked off three times by the clever Ravens’ secondary. But those three interceptions didn’t cause the Texans’ loss as much as the bone-headed decision by punt-returner Ja-coby Jones to try to pick up the foot-ball after he let it bounce a couple of times, causing a fumble that was re-covered by Baltimore.

So instead of the Texans forcing the Ravens to punt on their first posses-sion, the fumble instead gave Balti-more a first down at the two-yard line, which quickly turned into a 7-3 lead that Houston was never able to over-come.

Almost a non-factor in Baltimore’s victory was quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice who were

With no cover to run to or time to run from a driving rain that esca-lated from a slow drizzle to a monsoon in a matter of seconds, we wedged the bow of the boat up against the south bank of the ICW to wait it out under the overhanging cane and tal-low tree branches. It was far from dry, but we were out of the wind and that was apparently good enough for two other fishermen headed our way in a fourteen foot aluminum boat as well.

We were all wearing rain gear and were more irked by the conditions than the minor dis-comfort, but our new neighbors were soaked to the bone and shivering. I offered them two extra tops and one set of bottoms which they readily accepted with no reservations.

We had five slot reds and one trout in the box at the time, but the two young fishermen had done much better prior to the rain. They launched in Louisiana so a number of the fish in their ice box would not have been legal in Texas, but the more important fact was that they had a very diverse catch.

A pair of 20- inch stripers immediately caught my eye, but they also had some sand trout, a few small specks, six flounder and nine reds in the 17 to 20-inch class. Maybe it was because I gave them the rain jackets or maybe they were just that friendly, but they were will-ing to share not only what they caught every fish on, but where they caught them as well.

I will try both of the spots they showed us at some later date, but I was shocked to learn that they had caught everything from their sand trout to the stripers on a quarter ounce chrome-blue Spin Trap. I still have some, but

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Bridge City Cardinal senior shortstop Zack Smith has signed a letter of intent to play for the Angelina Col-lege Roadrunners. As a junior Smith was kay in the success of the Bridge City Cardinals in 2011 as Big Red advanced to the Region III semifinal round of the state baseball playoffs. With a solid group of returners that includes Smith the Cardinals are eager to get the 2012 season underway. Above: Cardinal shortstop Zack Smith in action during the 2011 season. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

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BC Chuck Young Alumni Classic scheduled for Feb. 11The Bridge City Baseball Program will host the Chuck Young Alumni Classic along with an Alum-

ni Homerun Derby on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 at Cardinal Field. The Home Run Derby will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will cost $20 to enter. The game will be held a noon. Game shirts will cost $10. Any former Cardinal baseball players interested in participating in either event  please contact Chris Moore at chris.moore813@gmail.com  All former Bridge City Baseball coaches are welcome to come out and see their former players. For more information visit the BC baseball website at http://bridgec-itycardinalbaseball.webs.com/

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they are buried somewhere deep in one of my fresh water tackle boxes.

I don’t even know if they are still available in area fishing tackle departments, but we just caught the heck out of school bass with them when I was still guiding on Toledo Bend. They were also deadly on white perch when they would make that initial move to shallow water in the early spring.

The Spin Trap is a quarter ounce Rat-L-Traps with only one treble hook and a small willow leaf blade on the rear of the bait. They can be fished from top to bottom and they obviously attract most everything that swims. Our water

logged Louisiana anglers said they caught the two stripers schooling across from the public launch on Simmons drive, but caught all of the other fish bouncing the bait off the bottom in 10 to 15 feet of water.

I don’t think it happens as often to saltwater fishermen as it does to bass fishermen, but how many productive lures do you have tucked away in the garage that you no longer use for no good reason. That Spin Trap was a perfect example. I can go back further than I care to recall, but I could shrink wrap the neighborhood with bags of plastic worms I have never even opened.

There was never a sound reason to quit using

Fliptail worms and lizards, Mann’s jelly worms, or the always reliable ringworm. Why did I de-cide one night that the Norman Little N, Storm Mag Wart or Rebel Wee R would no longer catch bass? There is no doubt that I made that decision….not the fish.

And, as relatively new as pursuing trout and redfish with topwaters and crankbaits is, I have already benched some super lures that did not deserve such disrespect. I cannot remember the last time I threw a Cordell Jumping Min-now or a Storm jointed Thunderstick and they were my “go to” lures for years.

The list of retired winners is endless and there is no doubt that lure manufacturers would have it no other way. From their stand-point, there is always a better color and yet one more new lure that out performs all others. The quality of the materials involved in making a quality lure has significantly improved as has the ability to incorporate lifelike patterns and colors, but a topwater is still a topwater and a crankbait is still a crankbait and so on.

The bottom line is that the majority of those lures that worked forty years ago will still work just as well today. My bow compartment packed with boxes of “better choices” had pro-duced only six fish and the two youngsters had an ice box full of fish that couldn’t resist an old chrome-blue back Spin trap.

“The proof is in the pudding!”

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Another nice slot red gets a second chance!

Glenn Pearson AlumniBasketball Game Feb. 4

The 5th Annual Glenn Pearson Alumni Basketball Game will be held Saturday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. at the BCHS gym. 

All former basketball players who lettered one year in the varsity program are encour-aged to attend and/or play. 

Those interested may contact Coach Knight at tony.knight@bridgecityisd.net or call 409 735-1644. 

Hunter Education SafetyClass set for Feb. 6

Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunter Education Home Study Safety Class Field part will be held on Monday, Feb. 6 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Orange.

Participants are required to complete the home student computer sections, print com-pleted tests and bring them to the class. To register or for more information, please call Danny Odom at 409-883-8118.

This class is not just for hunters, but any-one who handles firearms can benefit from it.

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held in check beautifully by Texans defensive coordi-nator Wade Phillips’ game plan.

Houston’s young and tenacious defense held the Ra-vens in check most of the game, with Flacco scram-bling for his life on numerous occasions. He was sacked five times and a hurried during most of the game.

A pair of rookies, defensive end J. J. Watt and linebacker Brooks Reed, combined for five sacks, 20 tackles, five quarterback hurries and four tackles for losses to lead the way for the Tex-ans’ defense.

The offense was led by running back Arian Foster’s 132 yards on 27 carries and the Tex-ans’ only touchdown while often-injured wide receiver Andre Johnson hauled in eight passes for 111 yards.

Foster had 95 yards rushing in the first half. The playoff record for yards rushing against the Ravens in a game was 91 by Ten-nessee’s Eddie George in 2000.

“We did the one thing we couldn’t do to come in here and win,” Texans’ head coach Gary Kubiak told the Houston Chronicle after the game. “We had four turnovers, and then you don’t give yourself a chance. Right now, with our football team, if we don’t turn the ball over, we are pretty tough to beat.”

Owner Bob McNair said, “This was an unbelievable season. We made so much progress. It hurts to lose, but we’re going to learn from our mistakes and move on. I think our fans fell in love with this team this season. I think they appreciate what we’re able to do. We’ll be back next season and we’ll be even better.”

The home team emerged victorious in the first seven playoff games during the past two weekends until Sun-day’s final game at Green Bay where the 15-1 Packers dis-covered like the Texans did that mistakes cost victories. They were upset at Lambeau Field 33-20 by the rapidly-improving New York Giants.

The other upset last weekend occurred at Candlestick Park where the San Francisco 49ers surprised the 3-point favored New Orleans Saints 36-32 and will host the Giants in the late game Sunday for the NFC championship as a 2 ½-point fa-vorite.

The 49ers won the right to continue in the playoffs when quarterback Alex Smith fired a 14-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis with nine seconds left in the game.

It appeared the Saints had pulled another game out of the fire when quarterback Drew Brees connected with 6-6 tight end Jimmy Graham on a 66-yard scoring bomb with 1:37 left, putting New Orleans in front 32-29.

In Saturday’s late game, New England quarterback Tom Brady didn’t give Tim Tebow a chance to pull his magic act for Denver as the Patriots rolled up 35 points in the first half and glided to an easy 45-10 victory over the Broncos. The Pats are favored by 7 ½ points over the Baltimore Ravens Sunday.

It appears the Las Vegas Boys expect New England to be playing San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVI. However, this Korner believes that the red-hot New York Giants will pull off anoth-er upset Sunday in a high scoring game and win 34-28.

We’re not sold on New England either, but Brady should pull them through 27-23.

KWICKIES…The collegiate basketball world seems to be dominated by a

pair of undefeated teams with Syracuse topping the Men’s Top 25 Poll with a 19-0 record going into Monday’s game against Pittsburgh. The Baylor Lady Bears are the No. 1 team in the

Women’s Top 25 Poll with a 17-0 mark after cruising past the Texas Lady Longhorns 76-55 last weekend.

Some high school football fans were critical of Craig Stump leaving a good head football coach-ing job at West Brook High School for a similar post at Atascocita High School. But it was far from a sideward move, getting away from that wacky BISD and working for the Humble ISD.

At least he will have access to a field house and weight room facilities, unlike that half-finished mess he’s leaving behind.

The American League champion Texas Rangers have been talking with free-agent slugger Prince Fielder in hopes of inking him to a 2012 contract. From this Korner it appears the Rangers’ biggest problem in the

scenario will be Fielder’s agent Scott Bo-ras who usually wants the whole galaxy

when you’re just offering the moon.

JUST BETWEEN US…Former West Or-

ange-Stark miler Michael Defee

finished 20th in Sunday’s C h e v r o n H o u s t o n

M a r a t h o n . The Vidor resident covered the 26.2 mile

course with a time of 2:35:11, compared to Tariku Jufar’s winning time of

2:06.51. Orange’s 70-year old mara-thon enthusiast Kenny Ruane had

to skip this year’s event because of an aggravating foot injury but plans to be back next year. He has run in 24 Houston Marathons and would like to complete 25 before he retires from the sport.

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Just like the old saying “all good things must come to an end,” the 2011-2012 waterfowl season is al-most over. This weekend will be the final chance for hunters in Louisiana while Texas duck and goose hunters will have one more week to finish as their season ends on Jan. 29.

For plenty of local hunters it feels like the season already ended as this crazy weather pattern has made staying on the birds a challenge. Hunters who have been willing to put in the scouting time and be flexible are still shooting their birds but they are certainly working for them.

Without a doubt the hunters who are locked in on a freshwater pattern are having the most success. After the last round of thunderstorms and rain the saltwater marshes seemed to just empty out as the birds headed for the prairies and other areas that were holding fresh water. One of the best bets has been along river bot-toms where water levels took a much needed jump after the rains.

The freshly flooded areas have been magnets for good concentrations of mallards, gadwall and of course wood ducks. Finding an area that’s holding these concentrations is like find-ing a gold mine and it certainly takes some ef-fort so don’t think it will be easy. Use all the resources available like satellite photos, other maps, and good old fashioned burning gas and covering ground.

Closer to home it almost seems like Sep-tember as the numbers of teal in the area have helped fill straps for many hunters. Through-

out the season there have been waves of teal come into the area for a few days and then seemingly over night vanish.

This last big influx of green winged teal that showed up has almost taken up residence they’ve been here so long. With no really major cold conditions in the imme-diate forecast the teal should hang around for a while longer and hope-fully stay until the season ends.

With the final few days staring hunters squarely in the eye now may be the time to make that hunt or try something different you have been putting off all season. Put standard decoy spreads and techniques aside and try something new like using fewer decoys. A sim-ple spread of just a few decoys often will pro-duce some amazing results, especially during the last weeks of the season when the birds get extremely skittish.

Going easy on the calling also helps out as well. Limit yourself to soft calls or whistles and leave the aggressive hail calls alone. Also think about not even calling at all when birds are headed towards your decoy spread, if they want in there leave them alone, no extra calling nec-essary. If the ducks pass you by then give them a call, that’s a much more natural presentation.

As we count down the days until the season officially ends it’s hard to believe how fast it’s gone by. Every year is remembered for some-thing and this one will certainly be no differ-ent. Hopefully the final days of the regular will help us to remember that this season was a good one. Take advantage of the final week because it will seem like a lifetime until teal season rolls back around.

Waterfowl hunters head for the home stretch

Green wing teal have helped fill straps for many local hunters over the last few weeks.

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RECORD PHOTO: Chuck Uzzle

Hunter Education Safety Class set for Feb. 6

Texas Parks and Wildlife Hunter Education Home Study Safety Class Field part will be held on Monday, Feb. 6 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Orange.

Participants are required to complete the home student computer sections, print completed tests and bring them to the class. To register or for more information, please call Danny Odom at 409-883-8118.

This class is not just for hunters, but anyone who handles firearms can benefit from it.

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For most people, the men-tion of a ghost town brings to mind an image of a street of falling down buildings on a dusty street, broken glass in the windows of long closed stores, and tumbleweeds blowing in the wind, and dust inches thick all over every-thing. The ghost towns of Or-ange County are not that type of ghost town. They tend to be acres of overgrown land with, at best, the foundation blocks of a few long gone buildings hiding in the weeds.

Lemonville, also known as Lemon, was located on what is now Farm Road 1130 in north-ern Orange County. The first development of the site was in 1898 with the construction of the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway. The town plat was filed in 1901 and the Lemon Lumber Company, owned by Alexander Gilmer, began to buy town lots from William Manuel. In 1902 the post of-fice was opened with Corne-lius P. Ryan as its first post-master.

In 1900 the mills were cut-ting over 30,000 board feet per day. In 1901, Gilmer in-stalled new equipment and the production increased to over 100,000 board feet per day. After Gilmer’s death in 1906 the mills were run by others, including the Miller-Link and Peavey-Moore lumber com-panies. The locally available timber was cut off and market prices dropped and the mills were gradually shut down. In 1928 the post office shut down and the town was eventually abandoned. The population at one time had numbered 300.

Echo was founded in 1880. The Texas and New Orleans Railroad was being run from New Orleans to Houston and the Louisiana Extension Rail-road Company was given the task of building the last link of the railroad, crossing the Sa-

bine River. The land immedi-ately east of Orange had been found too swampy for the rail-road, so the site was pushed north and east of Orange. The site was named Echo because the railroad sounds “echoed” through the swamp.

A quarantine station had been established in 1880, but the town plat was not filed until 1903. By 1930 the quar-antine station had been re-moved and Echo had become an industrial site with about 15 dwellings.

The T&N.O. Railroad be-

came the Southern Pacific Railroad and Echo served as a freight yard. 1965 saw construction of the starting point of the Sabine River and Northern Railroad. This line would be the connector for the Southern Pacific to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway and would service the timber industry of the region.

In 1964, shallow draft com-merce on the Sabine River at Echo was 219,000 tons. Much of that trade was due to the Alpha Portland Cement Com-pany plant being built at Echo.

Maps in the early 1980s showed a church and two busi-nesses. Echo was by then with-in the city limits of Orange. In 1990 Echo reported a popula-tion of 25.

Terry was located at what is now the junction of the South-ern Pacific Railroad and Farm Road 1135, 13 miles west of Orange and 11 miles east of Beaumont.

Terry was probably named for J.L. Terry, an official with the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The railroad had been built on a section of land awarded to the T & N.O. in 1860. The first railroad from Orange to Beaumont was abandoned in 1863. It was re-built in 1876. The first post of-fice was built in 1877.

In 1884, a post office, named Pearl, was established. A re-vised town plat was filed in 1887 and the post office was renamed as Terry Station. By 1889 Terry Station was closed, leaving only the main Terry post office.

French Acadians had settled in Terry in about 1860 and in Sept., 1877 completed the sec-ond Catholic Church built in Southeast Texas.

The Reverend W. H. Craw-ford, a Methodist circuit rider, was pastor of Terry’s Method-ist church in 1881.

In 1892, rice farming had begun in Orange County, and about half of the farming was done at Terry. In Nov., 1892, 70,000 pounds of rice was shipped by rail to a New Or-leans mill.

By 1898, the Terry rice farms were irrigated by the Cow Bay-ou Canal Company and the Des Moines Canal Company. In Feb., 1898, 135, 260 pounds of rice was shipped by barge from the Bland rice farm on Cow Bayou.

In 1908, Kichimatsu Kishi established the Kishi Colony at Terry. Kishi imported Japa-nese rice farmers and truck farmers and had a very pros-perous farm until the produc-

tion of rice was halted by the intrusion of salt water, partly from the discovery of oil at the Oilla Field and the de-velopment of the field begin-ning in 1913. Kishi recovered from the irrigation problem by switching from rice to veg-etables.

Also in 1913 in an attempt to cash in on the Orange lum-ber boom, C.E. Slade founded the Terry Lumber Company and established a sawmill at Terry. The lumber company went bankrupt in 1917, and the mill was dismantled and moved away.

Terry was never more than a

rural community with a peak population of about 200 in the years 1900-1915. By 1939, the population was about 40 and the post office was discontin-ued. In the mid-1970s only a few scattered rural residences remained.

Loss of timber and other economic changes caused people to move into Orange and other surrounding towns. What has been left behind are only a few physical signs of occupation, but to those who lived in those towns are many memories of the days when the towns were occupied before the ghosts took over.

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This year the rich history of the first 100 years of Girl Scouting will be celebrated across the country. Girl Scouts USA, with the help of dedicated parents, volunteers and staff, devel-ops important qualities of leadership and ser-vice in young women, and encourages families and communities to invest in our country’s fu-ture leaders. Girls Scouts was founded to em-power girls and to help teach important values like honesty, fairness, courage, compassion, character, sisterhood, confidence, and citizen-ship. Those founding principles are as impor-tant today as they were in 1912.

Through the Girl Scouts organization, girls are encouraged to pursue four goals: develop-ing their full potential; relating to others with increasing understanding, skill, and respect; developing a meaningful set of values to guide their actions and to provide for sound decision-making; and contributing to the improvement of society.

The invaluable qualities and skills that Girl Scouts develops in young women have pro-pelled Scouts to the top of virtually all indus-tries and professional fields. Girl Scout alum-nae include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Astronaut and Space Shuttle Com-mander Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins, co-median Lucille Ball, television host Katie Cou-ric, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush. More than twenty of NASA’s career astronauts have been former Girl Scouts. In fact, the first American woman to spacewalk was a former Girl Scout, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. It is no surprise that eighty-two percent of high achieving alumnae believe that Scouting influ-enced their success.

Today, more than 50 million women in the United States are Girl Scout alumnae, includ-ing my colleague Barbara Mikulski, the senior U.S. Senator from Maryland. When Barbara was first elected to the Senate in 1987, she was one of only two female senators. Twenty-four years later, there are 17 of us women serving in the U.S. Senate. Barbara would be the first

to say that many of the experiences she had as a Girl Scout have been invaluable in meet-ing challenges and opportunities she has faced throughout her life, particularly during her long and distinguished career in the Senate.

Like many Texans, I, too, am proud to count myself among the ranks of former Girl Scouts. As a Girl Scout alumna, I have made it a pri-ority to give back to this organization that has made such a difference in my life. Over the years, I have had the pleasure of serving as the Honorary Chair of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Alumnae Association and as the honor-ary Senate Co-leader of the Congressional Girl Scout Troop, with Senator Barbara Mikulski. To recognize the valuable role Girl Scouts play in our society, the Senate recently unanimously passed my resolution in honor of their 100th anniversary convention that was hosted in Houston.

In 2002, when my female Senate colleagues and I published the book “Nine and Count-ing,” about our life experiences and how we overcame obstacles, we agreed unanimously that all the proceeds from the book would go to the Girl Scouts organization. Most of us had been Girl Scouts and we knew firsthand about the leadership qualities that it instills in young women.

For a century, Girl Scouts has fostered cour-age, confidence, and character. Today, the pos-sibilities are limitless for young women. They are living in a world of opportunities that may have been unavailable to their mothers and grandmothers. And I am honored to be a part of an organization that empowers young wom-en to pursue their goals – no matter how high.

By instilling a sound foundation of positive values, developing a sense of service, and fa-cilitating creative decision-making, the Girl Scouts continue to help develop girls into mod-el citizens and leaders in our communities, our country, and the world.

Hutchison, a Republican, is the senior U.S. senator from Texas and Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey HutchisonSpecial To The Record

Girl Scouts: celebrating 100 years

Rachel Scott was the first victim of the Col-umbine High School shootings on April, 20, 1999. Thirteen people lost their lives that day, and the world witnessed what bullying could lead to. Rachel made an impact in the lives of many during her life by showing kindness and compassion, but even after death she is chang-ing the lives of people across the world.

Rachel believed that her life was going to im-pact the world and touch the hearts of millions of people. Shortly after her death, her father, Darrell Scott, found an essay that Rachel had written that said she hoped she could start a chain reaction of kindness by helping others. Darrell and his wife created the Rachel’s Chal-lenge program and have since gone around the world honoring their daughter’s life. It is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious organiza-tion dedicated to advancing with integrity the primary mission of equipping and empowering students and adults to create a permanent posi-tive culture change in their school, business,

and community. On Nov. 14, 2011, Sabine Federal Credit

Union invited representatives from six school districts, local law enforcement, and local city and county officials to experience Rachel’s story firsthand from her father, Darrell Scott. He spoke about Rachel’s life and how her ran-dom acts of kindness to her peers at her school made such a huge impact. Sabine Federal Cred-it Union is making the first step in starting a chain reaction by making a corporate donation to fund the program for all six high schools in Orange County.

Orangefield High School is scheduled for Jan. 23. Community Christian School and St. Mary Catholic School are combining and are sched-uled for Jan. 24. Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School is scheduled for Jan. 25. Vidor High School is scheduled for Jan. 26. Bridge City High School is scheduled for Feb. 1, and West Orange Stark High School is scheduled for Feb. 2.

To learn more about Rachel’s Challenge, please visit www.rachelschallenge.org.

Sabine FCU presents ‘Rachel’s Challenge’ to Orange County High SchoolsStaff ReportFor The Record

The Bridge City Baseball Program will host the Chuck Young Alumni Classic along with an Alumni Homerun Derby on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 at Cardinal Field. The Home Run Derby will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will cost $20 to en-ter. The game will be held a noon. Game shirts

will cost $10. Any former Cardinal baseball players interested in participating in either event  please contact Chris Moore at chris.moore813@gmail.com  All former Bridge City Baseball coaches are welcome to come out and see their former players. For more information visit the BC baseball website at http://bridgec-itycardinalbaseball.webs.com/

Chuck Young Alumni Classic scheduled for Feb. 11Staff ReportFor The Record

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CHURCH BRIEFS

First Baptist Church Orangefield

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

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

Wed.: Midweek Meal- 5:30 p.m.,

Praise & Prayer - 6:30 p.m. Youth & Children Activities,

7:15 p.m. - Choir PracticeEmail: office@fbcof.com

www.fbcof.com

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)

Studies: Men’s group: 7 p.m.

Mondays, Ladies’ group: 6:30 p.m.

ThursdaysCome as you are!

Boots & hats welcome!

St. Paul United Methodist Church

1155 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City

409- 735-5546Pastor Brad Morgan

office@stpaulfamily.orgSun. 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

Apostolic Pentecostal Church

IH-10 at Highway 62, Orange

(409) 745-3973Sun. Morning at

7:30 a.m. on A.M. 1600 KOGT Radio

Sun.: 2 p.m. • Tues: 7:30 p.m. 24 Hour Prayer Line:

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Back to God Fresh Anointing Ministries

1011 10th St., Suite 108, Orange

409-779-3566•409-883-0333backtoGodnow@gmail.comwww.backtogodfreshanoint-

ingministries.comPastor Gerald Gunn

Co-Pastor Pearlie GunnSun. School 9:45 a.m.

Sun. Morning Worship 11 a.m.Tues. Night Bible

Study 7 p.m.Men of Valor & Women of

Warfare classes on Thur. 7 p.m.

First United Methodist Church

502 Sixth Street 409-886-7466

Pastor: Rev. John WarrenDir. of Fine Arts & Music:

Doug RogersOrganist: Justin SandersDir. of Youth & Christian

Education: Allisha BonneauxSunday: Worship in the Cha-

pel: 8:15 a.m., Celebration Service in Praise

Center: 8:55 a.m.,Sunday School for all ages: 9:50 a.m., Worship in the

Sanctuary: 11 a.m., UMYF & Methodist Kids: 5 p.m.

Web site: www.fumcorange.org

West Orange Christian Church

900 Lansing Street, W.O.

409-882-0018Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship

10:40 a.m. & 6 p.m.Wednesday Evening - 6 p.m.

“Our church family wel-comes you!”

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.

Nursery providedFor a ride, call 735-4234

Trinity Baptist Church

1408 W. Park Ave. @ 14th 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

Miracle Restoration Revivals Church

608 Dogwood St., Orange 409-883-5466

Residing Pastor Rev. Larry DoucetFounding Pastor

Rev. Tunney Vercher Sr.Sunday Worship:10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday night Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday night Bible Study 7 p.m.

Orange First Church of the

Nazarene

3810 MLK Drive, OrangeLead Pastor: Ray McDowell

Music Pastor: Bruce McGraw

Youth Pastor: Michael PiggChildren’s Pastor: Marilyn

BallSunday School 9:45 a.m.

Celebration Service 10:45 a.m.

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

Everyone Welcome!

First Baptist Church of Bridge City

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

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

Rev. Bob Boone, PastorSunday Schedule: Traditional

Worship - 8:15 a.m.; Bible Study at 9:30 a.m.;

Celebration Service - 10:45 a.m.; CSI, Youth Bible Study,

Discipleship Classes - 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday Schedule: Prayer Meeting - 6:30 p.m., Youth

Worship “Living Stone”

Harvest Chapel

1305 Irving Street, Orange409-882-0862

Ruth Logan Burch, PastorSun. Morning 10 & 11 a.m.

Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday Service 6 p.m.Gospel Singing first Friday

of the each month.

Echo Church

1717 FM 3247, Orange409-735-8580

Pastor George A. Cruse Jr.Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

Praise & Worship - Contemporary music!

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St. Henry’s to host parish mission

St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City, located at 475 West Round Bunch Road in Bridge City, is having a parish mission from Sunday, Jan. 22 through Wednesday, Jan. 25.    They will have a morning service Monday through Wednesday at 9 a.m. and the evening services (Sunday through Wednesday) will be at 7 p.m. The priest giving the mission is Fr. Cedric Pisegna, a Pas-sionist priest based in Houston.

FBC of Orange to host DiscipleLife ClassesFirst Baptist Church of Orange will be conducting DiscipleLife

Classes for adults beginning Wednesday, Jan. 25. Classes will be-gin at 6:30 p.m. Classes include “Read the Bible for Life,” a Beth Moore study of James, and “Recovering the Power of Christianity.”

For more information about taking these classes, contact Todd Beasley, minister of spiritual development at the church office, 409-886-7461 or todd@fbco.org.

Fellowship Baptist Church to celebrate 19th Anniversary

 Fellowship Baptist Church of Bridge City turns 19 this year

and to celebrate they are hosting a weekend of concerts for their members and the public.  The celebration will start out on Fri-day, Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. with the men’s quartet “Four Told” from Sulphur, La.  On Saturday, Jan. 21 at 6:30 p.m. “The Master’s Men” from Silsbee will perform.  Then on Sunday, Jan. 22 Nikki and Brandon Hanson will lead the Sunday morning service at 10:30 a.m.  Everyone is invited to stay for lunch because John and Trina Bickham will finish out the Sunday celebration after lunch.

  The members of Fellowship hope invite the community to celebrate their anniversary with them and enjoy a weekend with the joy of music.  Fellowship Baptist  Church is located at 1965 Miller Dr (FM408) in Bridge City.  For more information, please call  409-735-9511.   

Christian Women’s Job Corps to host spring classes

Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC, “offering a hand up not a hand out”), serving the Golden Triangle will be having Orientation Day at the Orange Site, located at 2300 41st Street, (room # 37) Or-ange, TX 77630 with Spring Classes resuming on Feb. 15 at 10 a.m.

The organization, which was started in 1997, has had a tre-mendous success rate of helping women from all walks of life improve that their quality. We have been in the Golden Triangle since 2005 and the modern Orange site is a wonderful job skill site, offering free of charge, job skills such as computer skills, re-sume writing, interview techniques, job etiquette, business and banking, crafts, as well as a Bible study, with a graduation cere-mony complete with certificate at completion. 

Each student will also be assigned a personal mentor to ac-company them in their journey to wholeness. For more informa-tion, please call 409-883-9100.

Community Christian School announced students awarded Academic All-State in volleyball are: Ivey Benoit, Haley Brack, Lauren Jackson, Samantha Leifeste and Madalyn Tran-Reno.

Community Christian School’s Jacob Trevino received an award as Academic All State in football.

Community Christian School congratulates Ivey Benoit, set-ter, and Lauren Jackson, outside hitter, for being named to the Second Team All State.

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ANTIQUE WALNUT BED with carved headboard, 3/4 size, custom mattress and bed springs like new - $400. Old white wicker couch - $125. Call 409-882-9559.

HONEY PINE DINING SET purchased 3 years ago from Rooms to Go in Dallas, TX. Large table with extra leaf will seat 10. Six side chairs and one captains chair. Chair seats are ecru woven fabric. Must see!! Paid $750, $400 or best offer! Call 409-735-4329.

VERY COMFORTABLE SOFA SLEEPER $185 w/matching big mans chair $125. Feels like leather! Desk - $20, Book case - $15. White coming out or wed-ding dress w/pearls - $40. 4 piece ceramic canister set $12. 4 piece rust orange canister set - $20. Glass coffee table - $35. Brown filing cabinet - $10. 2404 Post Oak Dr. in Orange. Must make Appointment. Call 670-9272.

LOST & FOUNDFOUND FEMALE DOG, minia-ture Dachshund puppy, call and describe, (409) 670-0651. 1/4

LOST DOG. BLACK LAB

mix. She’s been missing since 12-31. If you have seen her, please call 735-3055. We love her and miss her dearly!!

FOUND MALE DOG, retriever, OF/Vidor area, call and describe @ (409) 988-9059.

MISCELLANEOUSAIR COMPRESSOR SPIRV-FLO Ingersoll Rand, 100 scf, not running, $425 OBO, (409) 735-3271.

ELLIPTICAL MACHINE, 3 yrs old, used a handful of times. Works great. $100 o.b.o. Call 409-926-4131.

SLIM PS2 w/ 2 controllers, 2 memory cards, games, $45; (409) 474-0166, call or text for more info.

2 LIFT REMOTE BEDS, $35 ea.; 1 full size bed set, $40; 1 twin all wood bed set, $70; 1 king bed set; $70; 1 antique Singer sewing machine, mint cond., $140; 1 black & silver queen head board, $35, (409) 499-2128.

JUGG’S PITCHING MACHINE, like new, auto feeder, throws 90 MPH, fast & curve balls etc., paid $3,000, used vey little, will sell for $2,000, (409) 474-1518.

LES PAUL STUDIO ELECTRIC GUITAR for sale, asking $250, great condition. Estabon acous-tic guitar, great condition, ask-

ing $50. 7 piece drum set with sticks and stool, great condition, asking $175. If interested call 330-2582.

LAWN TRACTOR, 42” yard machine. $400. 409-735-7414.

PETS & LIVESTOCKRESCUE DOGS, spayed & neutered, needing good homes. Pet food donations welcome. (409) 746-9502.

LAB/PIT MIX, 8M old, spayed female, on heart worm prev., free to good home, (409) 746-9502.

PUBLIC NOTICES:

AL-ANON MEETS ON Wednesday & Sunday at 7pm. 1512 Strickland Dr., Orange, call (409) 779-4289 or Cindy @ 994-5503 for details.

GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOUGHLOVE is a self help par-ents support group for parents

of children displaying unac-ceptable behavior. Meets every Tues. at 7 pm. at Immaculate Conception education building, 4100 Lincoln (corner of Lincoln & Washington) in Groves. For more information call 962-0480.

AT. ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST you can experi-ence the warmth of friendly peo-ple, beautiful music, and inspir-ing sermons. Join us at 1155 W. Roundbunch Rd., BC each Sunday at 8:15 AM or 10:45 AM for worship experience at 9:30 AM for Sunday School. You’ll be glad you came, and so will we!

SUICIDE RESCUE of Orange County. Suicide is not the answer, give us a chance, 769-4044 Vidor.

CRISIS CENTER. Rape and cri-sis center of S.E. Texas needs volunteer advocares to provide direct services to survivors of sexual assault in a medical set-ting. Comprehensive training is provided, Anyone interested should contact the Crisis Center at (409) 832-6530.

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one(mention favor).

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heart,where your Father

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become your favor, not mine.

Amen.Say this prayerfor three days,

promise publication and favor

will be granted.Never known to fail.

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The Miraculous

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APARTMENTSVERY NICE AND CLEAN BC 2/1, carpet, CA/H, kitchen has pantry & lots of cabinets and bar, all appliances, small din-ing area, 1 Lg bedroom and 1 small bedroom, Lg. utility room w/ W&D connections & stor-age, bath has built-in vanity, all blinds, ceiling fans, No pets, concrete parking & patio, $625 monthly + elec. & water, $300 dep., call for an appointment to se @ (409) 735-6277 or 626-1968. (ss)

THE VILLAGE AND SOUTHERN OAKS IN BRIDGE CITY

ARE OFFERING A MOVE-IN SPECIAL for January, water/ sewer & trash included on these units,ALSO leasing newly constructed 1/1 apartments w/ dishwasher / washer and dryer included! Monthly rents start at $550 - $725, please call for more info at (409) 735-7696 or 474-9731.

THE VILLAS AT COW Bayou located at 3650 Fish Hook in Bridge City, now has 1$2 bed-room openings! Enjoy comfort-able living in a quiet, secluded

surrounding. Located in the Bridge City School District with convenient access to Orange, Port Arthur and Mid-County areas, we are close to all area refineries! Covered parking, washer/dryer connections are provided. We supply your City of Bridge City water, trash & sewer! Please call today and ask about our move-in special! Move-in by January 31st, 2012 and we will take $250.00 off of your first month! Call to make an appointment for your per-sonal tour! 409-988-5754.

DOUGLAS OAKS LOCATED at 604 Douglas Street in Bridge City, now has 1&2 bedroom opening. Enjoy comfortable liv-ing in a quiet, secluded sur-rounding. Located in Bridge City school district with conve-nient access to Orange, Port Arthur and Mid-County areas, we are close to all area refiner-ies. Garage/Covered parking, washer/dryer connections are provided. We supply water, trash & sewer! Please call today for your personal tour! 409-988-5754.

BC BRICK DUPLEX APT.,

2/1/1, CA/H, W/D hookups, in quiet residential neighborhood, ideal for 1 or 2 persons, No Pets, $625 monthly + $400 dep., application required, (409) 728-8995.

BC 2 BEDROOM DUPLEX APT., 380 Austin, $600 monthly + $500 dep., (409) 718-6947 or 735-9615.

COMMERCIALBC ON TEXAS AVE., small or large office spaces, CA/H, carpet, on Texas Ave., great location, price range of $300 to $600 monthly, available now, call (409) 735-6277 or 626-1968 for details. (ss)

HOME RENTALS

1/1 IN MAURICEVILLE, Log Cabin, in the woods, $550 monthly, Call for an appoint-ment to see @ (409) 735-2030. (M&R)

BRIDGE CITY BRICK 3/2, fenced back yard, $1,000 monthly + dep., (409) 735-2030. (M&R)

MOBILE HOME RENTALSBC AREA , as little as $30 daily for rooms, M.H.’s by day or week, starting at $30 a day or weekly, 735-8801 or 734-7771. (cctfn)

‘06, 2/2 & 3/1 IN OFISD, 1 block from schools, Large lot, W./D hookups, No Pets, $425 & $550 monthly + dep., (409) 720-8699 or 735-6701. (1/18)

‘09 JAYCO G2 T.T., 31’, on pri-vate land, on dead-end street, in nice neighborhood, 2/1, No Pets, all bills paid (includes lot, elec., water, garbage, satellite TV, internet), $750 monthly + $750 dep., references req., (409) 781-2640.

BC 2 BEDROOM, nice and clean, all elec., stove & refrig., mini blinds, air & heat, gar-bage paid, $425 monthly + dep., (409) 735-5230 or 553-1479. (1/25)

HOME SALES4/2/2 IN LCMISD, 1717 Greenbriar ave., screened in patio, corner lot, $95,000, (409) 883-8389.

OWNER FINANCE. 2211 Travis. 3/1/1, hardwood floors, $34900. Down $3,500 P&I 420.57. Call 409-504-5945.

RANCH HOUSE & 5 ACRES, 3/1 w/ screened porch, 2 liv-ing areas, beautiful pasture, LCMISD, WOODRIDGE LAND CO, (409) 745-1115.

LAND & LOTSMAURICEVILLE SCHOOLS, 2 and 3 acre tracts now available, FM 1130 area, mobiles and livestock OK, MMUD water and sewer available, WOODRIDGE LAND CO, (409) 745-1115.

OVER AN ACRE, VICTORY Gardens, nice quiet neighbor-hood, water and electric ready, cement dr., perfect homesite, $28,000 OBO, Call Mike @ (409) 735-7680.

QUAIL TRAILS 3, LCMISD, 3.735 acres, ready to move on, MSUD water and sewer, mobiles and horses OK, WOODRIDGE LAND CO, (409) 745-1115. (10/12)

430 HOLLY ST., BC, lots 28 - 29 - 25’ of 27 and 15’ of 30, $30,000, water and sewer tap paid; 450 Holly, 1 bedrm. house, zone B, buy ALL for $50,000, No Owner Finance, (409)735-5041.

TEXAS VETS! numerous prop-erties that qualify for Texas Land Board financing, as low as 5% down and 7.25% interest, and up to 30 years financing. NOT VA, call today! WOODRIDGE LAND CO, (409)

745-1115. (10/12)

AUTOMOBILES‘68 FORD MUSTANG. GT Fastback, Automatic, runs and drives well, Price $6950, for details mail me at steph-bo2@msn.com / 512-782-4586.

‘98 FORD TAURUS: motor, 3.0 V-6, asking $350 OBO; Whole car, $500, for more info call (409) 221-9996.

‘T R U C K S & VA N S

‘88 CHEVROLET P.U., runs good, $1,200, 543-8089 or 886-7329.

MAXI-VAN, ‘97 CHEV. EXPRESS, white w/blue inte-rior, 2 high-back bucket seats, optional 3 bench seats, $2,950. a/c, radio, clock, heat, casette, electric windows. Newly inspected, tags up to date. Some newer parts. Just need to get out of the way. Runs great. 409-313-6598

‘'85 CHEVY C-10, V-8, LWB, A/C, C. player, auto trans., PS/B, good motor, no oil leak-age, real workhorse, $3,000 OBO, ask for Ruth @ (409) 735-7353

‘02 CHEVY BLAZER 4X4 FUL-LY LOADED! Power steering, power brakes, power windows. Call 409-779-3354

‘82 DODGE PU., brown, 93k miles, nice camper on it, extra nice, no rust, asking $3,000, (409) 886-2978.

‘08 DODGE DAKOTA, 4 dr., V-6, very clean, low miles,

$17,500 OBO, call Ray @ (409) 745-4059.

‘89 JEEP WRANGLER, auto, straight 6 cyl., soft top, new tires, needs TLC, $1,700 OBO, (409) 553-3332. ‘97 FORD F-150, excel-lent cond., Ext. cab, V-6 A/C, $6,000, (409) 499-2128.

8104 Caterbury Dr. (Country Squire) Stately 4 Bedroom Home on 7/10 Acres of Land. 2 Baths,

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‘05 Kia Sedona LX

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‘03 Mustang Conv.

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‘04 Chevy Tahoe

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Toolbox, 149kAutomatic - AIr

Automatic - Air, Clean, 101k

‘07 Chevy Silv. LT

$7,5004 door, Automatic - Air, 52k

‘04 Pontiac Sunfire

$7,000Automatic - Air, 103k

‘08 Chrys. PT Cruiser

‘04 Chevy Ext. Cab

‘07 Dodge Cargo

‘02 Ford Mustang

‘05 Buick Lesabre

‘03 Grand Marquis ‘05 Lincoln TC Sig.

‘04 Chevy Impala

‘04 Chevy Monte Car.

$9,500

‘04 Saturn Ion

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Orange

For the 17th consecutive year, the Orange community is invited to work together on beautifying the streets of Or-ange and the banks of Adams Bayou by picking up litter dur-ing the Annual Community Trash-Off. This event, spon-sored by Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., at Orange Lions Park, which will serve as headquarters for the Trash-Off.

The Community Trash-Off began in 1995 as an effort to clean Adams Bayou and has expanded to include more than 60 streets throughout

Orange, Pinehurst and West Orange. In 2011, this program collected over 16,000 pounds of trash from roadways and waterways. With much of our area ultimately draining directly into Adams Bayou, cleaning the streets helps keep Adams Bayou free of litter.

Individuals, organizations, businesses and families are encouraged to sign up their teams early for the Trash-Off. Teams consist of 3-5 partici-pants and are limited to adults and children age 12 and older. All stations must be super-vised by an adult. Volunteers may bring gloves; however, gloves will be provided at the event. Shangri La will provide trash grabbers and garbage bags for all volunteers, and

volunteers with small personal boats are needed to help pick up trash out of Adams Bayou. Those working along Adams Bayou in personal boats may receive, if desired, a disposable suit to help them stay clean.

After the trash pick-up, all volunteers will regroup to en-joy complimentary pizza and soft drinks for lunch at Or-ange Lions Park, where prizes donated by local businesses will be awarded to teams for their efforts. If your business or organization would like to make a donation for this event, contact Christin Hutchison at 409-670-0803 or chutchison@shangrilagardens.org. Items may also be dropped off at the Shangri La Admissions Win-dow.

For more information on participating in the Annual Community Trash-Off, call 409-670-0803 or visit www.shangrilagardens.org to down-load a participation form. Forms may be returned via email to chutchison@shan-grilagardens.org, via fax at 409-670-9341 or in person at the Admission Window at Shangri La.

Located at 2111 West Park Avenue in Orange, Texas, Shangri La is open to the pub-lic Tuesday through Satur-day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information about Shangri La, call 409.670.9113 or visit

www.shangrilagardens.org.

Shangri La to host 17th Annual Community Trash-OffSTAFF REPORTFOR THE RECORD

WOCCISD to offer volunteer trainingWest Orange – Cove CISD will conduct training on

Wednesday, Jan. 18 for individuals interested in becoming volunteers for the District.

Training will be offered at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. All sessions will be held at the Carl Godwin Auditorium. Interested indi-viduals need only attend one session.

For more information, contact the Public Information Of-fice at 882-5627.

Glenn Pearson Alumni Basketball Game set for Feb. 4

The 5th Annual Glenn Pearson Alumni Basketball Game will be held Saturday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. at the BCHS gym.  All former basketball players who lettered one year in the varsi-ty program are encouraged to attend and/or play.  Those in-terested may contact Coach Knight at tony.knight@bridgec-ityisd.net or call 409 735-1644.  Mr. Pearson will be in atten-dance and he would thoroughly enjoy seeing all former bas-ketball players and other students of Bridge City High School.

10B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Staff ReportFor The Record

The Orange County Hotel/Motel Tax committee has re-released applications for non-profit entities within Orange County to apply for a portion of the County’s Hotel/Motel Tax funds. The earlier release contained an error that lim-ited the application to “501(C)(3)” organizations and should have been to any “501(C)” or-ganizations. Any 501(C) or-ganization in Orange County that attracts visitors to Orange County, Texas can make appli-cation to the committee. Any organizations that have al-ready submitted applications do not need to resubmit their application.

There are a number of re-strictions by state law as to how the funds can be utilized. First, the funds must be used in a manner that encourages overnight visitors to Orange County. Secondly, expendi-tures must fall within one of the following categories.

1. Convention Centers and Visitor Information Centers: the acquisition of sites for and the construction, im-provement, enlarging, equip-ping, repairing, operation and maintenance of convention center facilities or visitor in-formation centers, or both;

2. Registration of Conven-tion Delegates: the furnish-ing of facilities, personnel and materials for the registration of convention delegates or reg-istrants;

3. Advertising, Solicitations and Promotions that Directly Promote Tourism and the Ho-tel and Convention Industry: advertising and conducting solicitations and promotional programs to attract tourists and convention delegates or registrants to the county;

4. Promotions of the Arts that Directly Promote Tour-ism and the Hotel and Con-vention Industry: that the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and applica-tion of the arts, including in-strumental and vocal music, dance, drama, folk art, cre-ative writing, architecture, design and allied fields, paint-ing, sculpture photography, graphic and craft arts, motion picture, radio, television, tape and sound recording, and oth-er arts related to the presenta-tion, performance, execution and exhibition of these major art forms,

5. Historical Restoration and Preservation Activities that Directly Promote Tour-ism and the Hotel and Con-vention Industry: historical restoration and preservation projects or activities or adver-tising and conducting solici-tation and promotional pro-grams to encourage tourists and convention delegates to visit preserved historic sites or museums.

6. Sporting Event Expenses that Substantially Increase Economic Activity at Hotels: Expenses including promo-tional expenses, directly relat-ed to a sporting event in which the majority of participants are tourists who substantially increase economic activity at hotels and motels within the county.

7. Certain Portions of Sport-ing Facilities: Expenses for a certain percentage of a facil-ity’s patrons that are directly contributing to increased local hotel activity.

8. Shuttle Services for Con-vention Activities: Shuttle ser-vices for an event is an eligible expense provided the shuttle services begins or terminates at a local hotel facility.

Applications can be down-loaded from the Orange County Economic Develop-ment Corporation web site at www.orangecountyedc.com. Applications will be accept-ed until 5 p.m. Jan. 20 at the OCEDC offices; 1201 Childers Road, Orange, Texas 77630 or interested persons can call the OCEDC offices at 409-883-7770 and have an application mailed to you. The Hotel/Motel Tax Committee will re-view the applications and hold

a public hearing in February. The committee will then make recommendations to the Or-ange County Commissioner’s Court for expenditure of the funds.

One major project that will be considered for funding will be the CHAMPS project to be located on Highway 1442. This proposed facility was the focal point for the passing of the tax. This will be a multi-million dollar project that will serve many uses for Orange County. It has not been de-termined how much of the tax funds will be dedicated to that project. All remaining funds will be dedicated to the vari-ous projects around Orange County.

Orange County Hotel/Motel Tax Committee applications re-released

OC youth participate in Rotary Leadership Conference

Twenty-two local individu-als participated in the RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) leadership confer-ence January 6-8, 2012 at the Pineywoods Encampment in Woodlake, Texas.  This pro-gram, sponsored by area Ro-tary Clubs in District 5910, provides high school students with leadership enhancement opportunities as well as team building exercises.

Bridge City/Orangefield Rotary Club sponsored the following:  Bridge City High School representatives Zach-ary Cole, Nicholas Portacci, Craig Sterling and Sydney Shepard; Orangefield High School students Luke Johnson, Reagan Ficken, Macy Hamil-

ton, and Elizabeth Newell; and Community Christian High School representatives Lauren Leger and Melanie Benoit. The Orange Rotary Club spon-sored the following:  Little Cypress Mauriceville students Julian Edwards and Lacy Wo-odard; and West Orange Stark High School representatives Julius Krolley and Darylyn Pollard.

Three area high school se-niors served as Alumni Lead-ers for the three day event:  Karli Anderson of Bridge City High School, Robert Ehrlich of Orangefield High School and Kyle Herfurth of Little Cy-press High School.  Local edu-cator Ryan DuBose returned for his seventh year at RYLA and served as the Adult Leader for the counselors and alumni trainers.

Bridge City/Orangefield Rotary President-elect Jason Wagoner and Orangefield In-teract Club sponsor Bridget Luna Trawhon attended as chaperones.  In addition, two men who were instrumental in the establishment of RYLA in District 5910, Ronnie Hutchi-son and Charles Atkinson served as adult leaders for the weekend’s events.

The adults at RYLA invited Luke Johnson and Zach Cole to return in 2013 as camp counselors and Macy Hamil-ton is an alternate. In addition, they also selected Robert Eh-rlich out of the 24 counselors to return next January as one of the four adult trainers.  He was presented with a $650 scholarship to use at the uni-versity of his choice.

Robert Ehrlich stated, “I

thoroughly believe in what RYLA does for its participants -- teaching optimism, enthu-siasm, logical reasoning and most of all what it means to truly be a leader.  I am hum-bled and honored to be invited to be a part of it once again.”

According to Reagan Fick-en, “RYLA was life-changing for me.  It made me realize that my sole purpose is to be a leader, but that leadership is not about me, but moreover, others.  RYLA has shown new avenues in my life that I would have never seen, but avenues that are totally worth pursu-ing.  I am incredibly thankful to all of the Rotarians and the Clubs that made RYLA pos-sible, and helped me to be a leader in a world that is des-perate for them.”

Staff ReportFor The Record