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An upgrade for a county office will temporarily alter the way they do business.

During the week of Feb. 25 to March 1, the Gonzales County Tax Office will be installing new tax processing software. The new

system, Orion, will replace the current ATC system, which has been outdated for some time. Ty-ler Technologies of Plano came up with Orion in 2000, but the tax of-fice just recently got the conversion approved in its budget.

“Right now we have an in-house server and it’s getting to where it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to

do,” said Gonzales County Tax Assessor-Collector Crystal Cedil-lo. “It will be better with the new system because there will be more detailed reports we can run for en-tities.”

The new system will also give the office the ability to issue e-state-ments and build individual data-bases for each of their customers.

“When someone comes in and they want their receipt from last year so they can put it with their income tax, right now we can’t do that,” said Cedillo. “We have to go to our books and make a copy of that page because it’s not in the sys-tem. Once we get on Orion, we’ll be able to just print it off and hand it

Directors of the Gonzales County Underground Wa-ter Conservation District on Tuesday held off on pay-ing a number of claims filed through the district’s West-ern Mitigation Fund after hearing that the improper paperwork associated with those claims might be in violation of state law.

Link Benson, hired last month as the district’s new Mitigation Fund manager, told directors that several applications for compen-sation from the fund had been made which did not include invoices, among other legal shortcomings.

Several of the applica-tions failed to include re-quirements such as the

contractor’s license num-ber, phone number and more, Benson said.

“I have tried to contact them but have not been able to reach them,” he said of the contractors. “Some of the violations on the in-voices actually violate the law.”

Directors tabled pay-ment of those claims pend-ing proper invoices, and also took no action on pay-ing the expenses of former Mitigation Fund manager David McMillan.

Directors also tabled ac-tion until their next meet-ing on filling the District 5 seat, which came vacant be-cause of the untimely death of Louis Kuntschik. The board’s charter requires the seat to be filled by appoint-

The design for the proposed Gon-zales County Veterans Memorial was unveiled Friday, and the next task ahead for the volunteers and commu-nity members promoting the project is raising the money necessary to get blueprints done.

The Gonzales County Veterans Me-morial Association showed off a sign at the site of the proposed memorial, located at the corner of Moore and St.

Lawrence streets just east of the Gon-zales Memorial Museum. The site would include five obelisks — one for each of the nation’s armed services— around a brick courtyard designed in the shape of a star.

Each of the obelisks will carry as many names as can be located of ser-vice members from Gonzales County who served in any of the armed ser-vices in the post-Civil War era.

At the entrance to the memorial will be an “honor wall” listing the names of all Gonzales County resi-

dents who gave their lives in military service.

“This is a pay-as-we-go project from donations,” said the associa-tion’s Larry Mercer. “Our next item that we are in need of donations is the blueprint for the memorial.” He said the blueprints and dirtwork for the project are expected to cost around $50-60,000.

The unique design of the project as a brick courtyard will enable the association to sell commemorative

Gonzales school trustees on Monday rewarded their superintendent for a job well done with a contract extension into 2016, and took steps toward meeting expected p o p u -l a t i o n g r o w t h in the district.

T h e s c h o o l b o a r d extend-ed Dr. Kim Strozier’s con-tract for an additional year through Jan. 31, 2016, and also approved the superin-tendent’s contract recom-mendations for a number of other administrators and principals.

“Dr. Strozier has had many positive impacts in many areas of our schools,” Board of Trustees president Glenn Menking Jr. said. “I’m pleased she’s our superin-tendent.”

Menking said the board

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Feb. 14, 1904On this day in 1904, Walter William Fondren married Ella

Florence Cochrum at Corsicana. Walter Fondren came to Texas as a 16-year-old orphan. He entered the oil business as a roughneck in the Corsicana oilfields, and went on to be-come one of the most successful oilmen in the state and the major stockholder of Humble Oil Company. As a teenager, Ella Fondren worked in her family’s boardinghouse in Corsi-cana, where she met her future husband, then working as a driller. Shortly after their marriage, she settled the family in Houston and purchased stock in the firm that became Texaco, an investment that was eventually worth millions. The couple were known for their philanthropic efforts. The Fondrens established the Fondren Lectures in Religious Thought at Southern Methodist University, and donated nearly half a million dollars to SMU to build the Fondren Li-brary. After Walter’s death in 1939, Ella carried on their phil-anthropic interests, establishing the Fondren Library at Rice University and administering the Fondren Foundation. Ella died in 1982, shortly before her 102nd birthday.

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Lecture SeriesThe Gonzales Church of Christ, located at 1323 Seydler

Street in Gonzales, will be hosting a series of five (5) lectures on the theme of “Jesus: The People Person”, February 22nd-24th. Friday, Feb. 22nd at 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 23rd at 5:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m. and on Sunday, Feb. 24th, at 10:30 a.m. and at 6:00 p.m. Everyone is cordially invited.

Cemetery CommitteeThe Andrew Wesley Chapel Cemetery Committee will be

conducting its annual business meeting on Saturday, Febru-ary 16, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the Waelder Community Center.

If anyone has any input concerning the Cemetery, please feel free to come out and attend. The public is invited.

Texas NationalistsGonzales County members of the Texas Nationalist Move-

ment will host an information meeting for the public starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 at Boomer’s Sports Bar, 2513 Harwood Road in Gonzales. Gonzales County Coordinator Dave Mundy will explain the organization’s beliefs, core prin-ciples and goals, and members will also be available to answer questions from anyone interested in learning more about the group.

Black Heritage paradeThe Black Heritage Organization will be hosting their An-

nual Black History Parade on Feb. 23 at 10:30 a.m. in Shiner. The public is welcome to attend our Soul Food Feast after

the parade at the Old American Legion Hall. Serving time for the meal will be at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

If you would like to participate in the parade or make food donations, contact the following: Jake Mathis, 594-2989; Er-vin Flowers-Parade Committee, 594-8051; Pam Brooks-Food Committee, 361-401-1401 or work 594-3353; Georgie Flow-ers-Food Committee, 594-8051; Alice Evans-Food Committee, 594-2974; Shirley Harper, 594-4243.

DAR luncheonThe Thomas Shelton Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-

can Revolution will host a luncheon at noon Saturday, Feb. 16 at the First Baptist Church in Gonzales. Gonzales ISD super-intendent Dr. Kim Strozier will be the guest speaker. To make reservations, call Janet Smith at 672-3346.

Confederate MemorialMembers of the Texas Bonnie Blue Camp #869 and the Col.

Gustav-Hoffman Camp #1938 of the Sons of Confederate Vet-erans will host ceremonies honoring 79 Confederate soldiers buried at the Gonzales Masonic Cemetery at 2 p.m. Feb. 28. Members will be on-hand wearing period costumes for the ceremonies.

Family members of those soldiers being honored who have not made contact with the organization are asked to contact Linda Miller, Texas Society Order of Confederate Veterans Rose Historian, at 210-420-5461.

GBRA lab to closeSEGUIN—The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA)

will be closed on Monday, Feb.18.This will include the GBRA Regional Laboratory. For any in-

dividuals or entities that have water sampling requirements,

regular business hours will resume Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 8 a.m.Please contact the GBRA Regional Lab at (830) 379-5822,

ext. 248 with questions or concerns.

Thompsonville Chili SupperThompsonville Ladies Club Annual Chili Supper and Auc-

tion will be held Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Thomp-sonville Community Center. Chili Supper will be at 5 p.m. Chili is free – we do accept donations. Auction is at 6 p.m. Proceeds will be used for scholarships to area youth.

Historical CommissionThe Gonzales County Historical Commission is accepting

applications form county residents wishing to serve a two-year term on the commission for 2013-14. Applications received by Feb. 22 wil be reviewed and appointments made by Gonzales County Commissioners Court at its regular March meetings.

Application forms may be picked up at the Gonzales County Archives, 1709 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, or by contacting chairperson Glenda Gordon at 512-924-5850, [email protected], or secretary Pat Mosher at 830-672-7970, [email protected].

Al-Anon meetingAlcoholics Anonymous meets every Monday and Friday at

8 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah, 721 St. Louis in Gonzales. Al-Anon meets every Monday night at the same time and place. Please call 830-672-3407 for more informa-tion. All meetings are open.

Free piano lessonsFree piano lessons for students 8-18 are being offered in

Gonzales.There are 10 weekly lessons that take place from 3:45-4:45

p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Gonzales Public Library, located at 415 St. Matthew.

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

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

Head StartTMC Golden Crescent Head Start offers pre-school services

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

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

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS)

is a non-profit organization providing services to both resi-dents and non-residents that are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

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

Jim Price CleanupThe Annual Jim Price Community-Wide Cleanup in scheduled in Gonzales Saturday,

April 27. The event will be held at Apache Field, 456 Tate Street. Tire and electronic disposal are being added to the event this year.

The first planning meeting will be announced at a later date.

Hermann SonsGonzales Hermann Sons Lodge #175 will meet Mon., Feb. 18, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. at

the Hermann Sons Hall east of Gonzales on US Hwy. 90-A. Discussions on Hall rental rates & Cemetery lots/upkeep rates are planned with membership in attendance.

Community LentOn Wednesdays during Lent (Feb. 13-March 27) the local Ministerial Alliance will

be holding their Community Lenten Services. Every Wednesday at noon a 30 minute service will be held in the Sanctuary of First United Methodist Church with lunch to follow in the First UMC Fellowship Hall. A different preacher from the community will bring the message each week with his/her home church providing the meal. This is an ecumenical event all are invited to attend.

Free GED ClassesFREE GED classes, day (M T W and Th, 8 30 to noon) and night (M and W 6 30 to 9),

Gonzales Learning Center, 1135 St. Paul, 672-8291.

Here is the Gonzales Police De-partment Report for the period of Feb. 6-13:

Feb. 6Reported Online Harassment

At 700 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.Reported Criminal Mischief At

300 Blk St. Joseph St.Feb. 7Reported Burglary Building/

Burglary Motor Vehicle At 1900 Blk St. Joseph St.

Reported Forgery At 2900 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

Reported Criminal Mischief At 1600 Blk St. Lawrence St.

Reported Theft At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

Reported Theft At 1800 Blk Church St.

Feb. 8Amparo Chavez Moreno, 32 Of

Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With No Drivers License At 90A And St. Andrew St.

Reported Theft At 2100 Blk Water St.

Devonte Terrell Cubit, 19 Of

Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Terroristic Threat At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

Feb. 9Reported Hit And Run Acci-

dent At 1400 Blk St. Paul St.Feb. 10Ester Smith, 46 Of Gonzales,

Arrested And Charged With Ag-gravated Assault With Deadly Weapon And Maricela Gonzales Rangel, 38 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Interference With Emergency Phone Call And Assault Family Violence At 2400 Blk Church St.

Reported Theft At 2100 Blk Water St.

Reported Assault At 2400 Blk Church St.

Reported Injury To A Child At 700 Blk St. Paul St.

Feb. 12Reported Criminal Mischief At

Independence Park.Feb. 13Reported Hit And Run Acci-

dent At 700 Blk Wells St.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice

Sheriff’s Report02/03/13-02/09/1302/04/13Contreras, Roxy Marie,

08/1979, Gonzales. Local Warrant – No Liability Insurance. Requires $415.00 Fine. Released on Order to Appear. Local Warrant – No Drivers License Issued. Requires $315.00 Fine. Released on Or-der to Appear. Local Warrant – Speeding. Requires $223.10 Fine. Released on Order to Appear. Lo-cal Warrant – Speeding. Requires $243.10 Fine. Released on Order to Appear. Local Warrant – No Drivers License Issued. Requires $315.00 fine. Released on Order

to Appear. Local Warrant – Use of unapproved equipment. Re-quires $173.00 Fine. Released on Order to Appear.

02/05/13Green, Allen Author, 05/1978,

Bastrop. Local Warrant – Theft of Property >$1,500 <$20K. Posted $3,500 Bond. Transfer to Bastrop Co.

02/06/13DeBerry, Tommy Brian,

03/1969, Gonzales. Local Warrant – Possession of a Controlled Sub-stance PG 1 <1G. Local Warrant – Forgery Financial Instrument. Remains in Custody.

02/08/13Galvan, John Nicholas,

11/1983, Seguin. Commitment/

Sentence – Deliver Offer Deliv-ery of Dangerous Drug – Count 1. Commitment/Sentence – De-liver Offer Delivery of Danger-ous Drug – Count 2. Remains in Custody.

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

GCSO 04DPS 03GPD 06WPD 01NPD 01Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 15

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Arrest Report for Feb. 4-10:

02/05/13Case #12-310, Solis, John, 34,

Yoakum, W. Gonzales @ Forest; Offense, CPF#12-497-Assault; Disposition, Fine/$264/Rel.

Case #177300, Wallace, Kris-tian, 17, Yoakum, 206 Garrett; Of-fense, CPF#12-592-Fail To Attend; Disposition, Fine/$614/Rel.

Case #12-437, Wallace, Kris-tian, 17, Yoakum, 206 Garrett; Offense, CPF#12-689-Theft; Dis-position, Fine/$614/Rel.

Case #12-370, Wallace, Kris-tian, 17, Yoakum, 206 Garrett; Offense, CPF#12-575-Disorderly Conduct; Disposition, Fine/$614/Rel.

Case #177307, Ramirez, Karla, 18, Yoakum, 204 Irvine; Offense, CPF#12-714-Failure to Attend; Disposition, Fine/$638/Rel.

02/08/13Case #177001, Ramirez, Karla,

18, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense, Failure to Attend; Disposition, Fine/$864/Rel.

Case #177361, Mendoza, Efrain, 23(2), Yoakum, 400 Blk. Dunn; Offense(s),1. W#13-2-8969-Engage in Organized Crim-inal Activity-Fraudulent use or poss. Of ID info of an elderly in-dividual, 2. W#13-2-8970-Fraud-ulent Use or Poss. Of ID Info; Disposition(s), 1. Bond/$10,000/Trans/LCSO, 2. Bond/$10,000/Trans/LCSO.

Case #13-050, Juvenile Male, 15, Yoakum, E. Hochheim; Of-fense, Evading Arrest/Detention; Disposition, Trans/Vic. Juv. Det.

Case #13-051, Juvenile Male, 14, Yoakum, 518 Migl; Of-fense, Assault-C; Disposition, Bond/$500/Rel.

02/10/13Case #10-052, Hights, Tevin,

21, Yoakum, 201 Hickey; Offense, Disorderly Conduct; Disposition, Bond/$500/Rel.

Case #10-052, Evans, Chezdric, 19, Yoakum, 201 Hickey; Offense, Disorderly Conduct; Disposition, Bond/$500/Rel.

Case #10-053, Hights, Treyvi-on, 21, Yoakum, 201 Hickey; Of-fense, Disorderly Conduct; Dis-position, Bond/$500/Rel.

Case #177375, Bankhead, James, 41(3), Yoakum, 211 Plaza; Offense(s), 1. CPF#11-486-No Driver’s License, 2. CPF#11-486-Disobey/Ran Stop Sign, 3. CPF#11-392-Theft; Disposition(s), 1. Fine/$214.10/Trans/DCSO, 2. Fine/$197.10/Trans/DCSO, 3. Fine/$314.00/DCSO.

Case #13-036, Bankhead, James, 41, Yoakum, 211 Plaza; Offense, W#13-012-Burglary/Habitation; Disposition, Bond/$20,000/Trans/DCSO.

Case #13-015, Bankhead, James, 41, 211 Plaza; Offense, W#L2013-15653-Felony-Theft (Two Previous)-SJF; Disposition, Bond/$25,000/Trans/DCSO.

Yoakum Police Report

Traffic was halted on Highway 90A early Mon-day morning when an 18-wheeler overturned.

According to a Texas Department of Public Safety report, at approxi-mately 6:30 a.m. near the

San Marcos River bridge the driver of the vehi-cle lost control and the 18-wheeler began to hy-droplane. It fishtailed and crossed the westbound lane into the southside bar ditch, where it flipped and

landed on the passenger side.

No injuries were re-ported, but the driver, Au-tra Villareal of Houston, was cited for traveling at an unsafe speed on a wet roadway.

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VC-Gonzales students meet with state legislators

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Victoria College students attending classes in the Gonzales Center were part of a contingent travelling to Austin Feb. 5 as part of Community College Day.

The 13 students, accom-panied by Gonzales Center Manager Jackie Mikesh, joined the VC main cam-pus students on a bus trip to meet Crossroads area legislators.

The students, along with VC President Dr. Tom But-

ler, met Tim Kleinschmidt who represents Gonzales County. Just prior to the group’s 1:30 p.m. appoint-ment, Kleinschmidt had met with state adjutant general, Maj. Gen. John Nichols and two of his fel-low officers.

The Gonzales group was ushered into Klein-schmidt’s small capitol of-fice where they quizzed the representative on the edu-cation system.

LVN student Shelby Voigt asked Kleinschmidt his thoughts on commu-nity colleges and learned the legislator is a fan of the dual credit system in which high school students can earn college credits.

“One of the best pro-grams is the advance credit program for high school students,” Klein-schmidt said.

Mikesh said that a number of Gonzales High

School students attend the VC center five days a week and can earn 18 hours of credit during their junior and senior years. The Gonzales school district pays for the students to attend the college classes and purchases student books.

Butler said that pro-posed legislation will make it easier for students to transfer to a university without losing credits. Kleinschmidt said this would not only help the students, but also their parents who are paying for the education.

“You should not lose an hour of credit going to a larger university,” the Gonzales County repre-sentative told the group. “You will see a huge push in the next few years to-wards efficiency.”

VC Gonzales Center student Elizabeth Perry described the day as fun and educating.

“It was very interesting to learn about the type of laws that could affect us as community col-lege students,” Perry said. “Speaking with Rep. Todd Hunter, chairman of the Calendars Committee,

was the most interesting. Things he mentioned such as allowing gambling in Texas seemed like a prom-ising alternative to getting funding for education.”

“Texas Community College Day trip was a great experience for our Victoria College stu-dents,” Mikesh said. “They were able to interact with state representatives and discuss current issues. I was impressed with the thoughtful questions our students asked and the concern they have for the important issues facing Texas Higher Education.

The winners in this year’s Valentine’s Giveaway were drawn Wednes-day. They include:

• Dinner at the Running M: Carolyn Kocian• Candy from Bloomin’ Creations: Kathy Jurek• Bottle of Wine from B&J Liquor: Shirley Breitschopf• Tickets to Thursday’s special Valentine’s Day showing of “Casablanca”

at the Lynn Theatre, donated by The Cannon: Linda Kuenzler.The winners will be contacted by phone Thursday and can pick their

prizes up at the merchants.

Members of the Texas Senate Education Committee, led by Dan Patrick and Donna Campbell, have been rather active in the ear-ly days of this legislative session in correcting some problems in the Texas school system.

Hearings were also being held this week to take a look at pro-viding high school students with more flexibility towards gradua-tion while still prioritizing a core curriculum of English, Math, His-tory, and Science. In plain English, that means they’re looking at pro-viding more chances for students to pursue vocational rather than purely academic tracks.

Campbell and her fellow Sena-tors have been quick to react to the public outcry about the over-em-phasis on testing in Texas schools. The Senate has already moved to do away with the “15 percent rule” — which requires that a student’s end-of-course test count for 15 percent of his grade for the year.

The state’s accountability system was a good idea gone haywire be-cause it tied student performance on tests to the job security of school administrators. Faced with

that, administrators reacted as you’d expect: whatever it takes to get kids passing those tests.

The result of that “whatever it takes” was CSCOPE, the electron-ic curriculum management sys-tem which effectively does away with textbooks.

Patrick led the way in the hear-ings on CSCOPE, which has been the focus of a great deal of concern from the public over the secrecy surrounding access to the system and for some of the questionable lessons included.

The Senate hearings were in-strumental in finally hammering out an agreement with the Texas Education Service Center Cur-riculum Collaborative (TESCCC), which developed CSCOPE, mak-

ing the system more open and ac-countable.

TESCC, which is composed of representatives of the state’s regional education service cen-ters, had maintained that it was a “private” organization operating CSCOPE on a non-profit basis, and thus was not subject to public disclosure. Attorney General Greg Abbott had previously ruled that since the consortium was made up of government employees, the co-operative was itself a government agency and thus was subject to the law allowing the public full access.

The agreement also achieved another significant concession from the state education bureau-crats: the State Board of Education, tasked with approving the state’s curriculum standards, is thus authorized to review CSCOPE. TESCC had maintained that since it was a “private” organization, the state’s elected officials in charge of public education had no authority over the system.

The critiques of CSCOPE were most alarming after some of the social studies/history lessons came to light characterizing the

Boston Tea Party as an “act of ter-rorism,” and referring to Christi-anity as a “cult.”

The concessions are significant because they return to the public authority over what’s being taught in our schools. Now, if only the Senate could come up with some-thing to convince the public to pay attention.

A lot of folks are under the il-lusion that local schools are un-der local control via elected local school boards. While it’s true that local school trustees have final say over how money is spent, on a lot of issues from curriculum to legal policy every public school in Tex-as takes its marching orders from elsewhere.

The reason for that is because education has become a subject too complex to be easily under-stood by the average Joe in the street. Thanks ito a half-century’s worth of politicians who deferred decisions on public education to “professional educators,” the professional education bureau-cracy has built a self-perpetuating system which effectively works as permanent job security for

educational administrators. The politicians provide “more money for education” and get re-elected, while the education bureaucracy keeps milking that cash cow.

Organizations like TESCC and independent publishers of educa-tional materials get paid to create curriculum after curriculum de-signed to “fix” problems created by other curriculums designed by the same people, over and over again. It’s a lucrative industry.

What’s interesting in watching these actions by the Texas Leg-islature led by conservatives like Patrick and Campbell, is that the politicians are finally beginning to understand they can no lon-ger simply throw more money at education and the problem will go away for a few years.

The Texas Education Code needs to be re-written from the ground up. Rather than leaving the determination about which methodology to use to the “profes-sionals,” legislators need to return that authority to the elected rep-resentatives of the end consumer of education products: parents of children.

In Washington, a new gang has been born. The Gang of Eight on immigration is here to tell us that we have succeeded in not enforc-ing the law so persistently and thoroughly that now we have to give up all pretense.

The Gang of Eight, headlined by conserva-tive star Marco Rubio, wants to amnesty the 11 million immigrants who are already here as a product of past nonenforcement in ex-change for a promise of future enforcement.

Supporters of comprehensive immigra-tion reform resolutely refuse to say the word “amnesty.” They contend that the proposed package is not an amnesty because illegal im-migrants have to go to the back of the line for a green card. But before that happens, they get “probationary legal status.” As a practical matter, this is the amnesty.

Sen. Chuck Schumer states it with admira-ble clarity: “On Day One of our bill, the peo-ple without status (i.e., illegal immigrants) who are not criminals or security risks will be able to live and work here legally.” You can’t get more direct than that.

Once an illegal immigrant gets “probation-ary legal status,” he has jumped irrevocably ahead of all those poor saps back in their na-tive countries who want to come to the U.S. but for whatever reason were unwilling or unable to break our immigration laws to do it.

All indications are that this kind of “pro-bationary” legal status matters more to illegal immigrants than an eventual path to citizen-ship. In an essay in the journal National Af-fairs, immigration expert Peter Skerry points out that 20 years after the implementation of the 1986 amnesty, only 41 percent of the 2.7 million people who got legal status under the program had gone on to become citizens.

The Gang’s enforcement “triggers” affect only the path to citizenship. In principle, the enforcement provisions -- requiring use of the E-Verify system for employers and estab-lishing a system to monitor entries and exits from the country -- are worthwhile. But only a naif would have much confidence in their timely and effective implementation.

As Mark Krikorian of the Center for Im-migration Studies points out, Congress has already required the completion of an entry-exit system six times. To no avail. It passed a law in 2006 calling for the completion of a double-layer border fence. Also, to no avail.

We’ve been here before, with the Immigra-tion Reform and Control Act of 1986. Rubio calls the 1986 law a “blanket amnesty,” even

though, on his terms, it wasn’t unconditional or immediate. To apply for legal status, illegal immigrants had to pay a fee and prove that they had good moral character. If approved -- and not everyone was -- they had to wait 18 months before applying for a green card.

All of this was coupled with fearsome-sounding enforcement provisions to beef up security at the border and crack down on employers hiring illegal workers. In other words, in broad brush, the “blanket amnesty” of 1986 is indistinguishable from the biparti-san principles of 2013. Since the enforcement never happened, the 1986 law stands as a monument to bad faith.

Washington may be about to build another one.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Re-view.

(c) 2013 by King Features Synd., Inc.

This past week, a Texas state district court declared the state school finance system unconstitutional. This is the re-sult of litigation by liberals who continue to argue the need for “fairness” in fund-ing public education in Texas. This argu-ment sounds very appealing until it is properly analyzed.

The Texas public school districts are “independent” and their primary source funding is the school districts’ ability to assess property taxes. This funding is based on the assessed value of property in the districts’ neighborhoods.

However, the court has claimed the system is inefficient, inadequate, and has created a statewide property tax which violates Texas state constitution. The court said system is unsuitable for providing the constitutionally required “general diffusion of knowledge” for low-income students and English-language learners, while districts with low prop-erty wealth are forced to tax at or near the state cap of $1.17 per $100 of taxable value and no longer have discretion to set their own tax rates.

In short, according to the court, neigh-borhoods with wealth discriminate against those without. This argument has been evolving for over 30 years.

In 1984, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MAL-DEF) filed suit against state Commis-sioner of Education William Kirby on behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, claiming discrimination against students in poor school districts. The plaintiffs charged that the state’s methods of funding public schools violated the Texas state constitu-tion, which required the state to provide an “efficient” public school system.

The argument of “fairness” in school funding is based on emotion rather than logic. It assumes that American society is static and that the poor will never be able to move into better neighborhoods.

Second, it assumes money can create better schools, and thus better students. Third, it assumes a centralized system which collects, controls, and distributes the wealth is better than one where the local community controls its schools.

Texas lawmakers and the Texas Su-preme Court must overturn this lower court ruling because public school dis-tricts must remain independent and their funding must remain under local control. If the state wants to help par-ents move their children from low per-forming schools, it should provide them vouchers so they can choose and move to better schools.

Virginia Postrel wrote in 2004, “public policy experiments rarely produce com-plete successes or total failures. Occa-sionally, however, there’s a policy disas-ter so catastrophic that everyone agrees that something has to change. Califor-nia’s convoluted attempt to deregulate electricity was one example. Texas’s de-cade-long experiment in school finance equalization — universally referred to as Robin Hood — is another.”

Texas does not need a centralized bu-reaucracy that controls wealth and cur-riculum. If liberals want “fairness,” they should support vouchers for students who want to learn. We should fund stu-dents’ education, not educational sys-tems.

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For self-preservation, the Texas Education Service Cen-ters have found a way to create mass hysteria about so-called high-stakes testing. The result in many districts undermines the fundamental goals of schools, the work of teachers, the common sense of school boards, and (until recently) legal safeguards against poor achievement and disturbing indoctrination.

The ninnies conveying the madness are the superinten-dents and principals. Service centers attract administrators to alarmist meetings and offer a guaranteed, viable solution to impending exam disaster. The proffered solution is a weak, corrupt curriculum and evaluation “management sys-tem” called CSCOPE.

Many school districts use CSCOPE as a constructive supplement, giving teachers the freedom to dismiss the in-doctrination, beef up the con-tent weaknesses, and search the cockeyed exams for test-ing clues.

Other teachers — particu-larly in underachieving dis-tricts — are required to use the trashy lessons and exams

without revision. Their ad-ministrators use state and fed-eral formulas as justification for such academic control and deprivation, and use moni-toring technology to thwart teacher sensitivity to student needs.

Service center staff have stated that CSCOPE was writ-ten top-down, beginning with the end in mind and designed downward. Such a strategy works for planning but not for building. A house plan begins with the end in mind, but the building is bottom up, all de-tails being intertwined. The Service Centers would build an attic first and the founda-tion last, somehow tucking in the plumbing and electric work after the walls and ceil-ings are complete.

Good curriculum also sets goals first, but is built and taught bottom up, the natu-ral way. Every aspect of each

CSCOPE course shows the madness of trying to upend nature. Service center leaders who admit to this designing idiocy should be laughed out of the profession.

Given the assertion that CSCOPE was designed at all, the huge gaps between cur-riculum and exam objectives are perplexing and regrettable. Worksheets show no concern for design in either direc-tion, wasting space here and cramping thought processes there. Worse schooling would be hard to design.

The consequences should stir us all. Good schooling provides academic power and confidence for inventive and creative sparks, driving eco-nomic health.

Bad schooling quietly im-poses a feeling of stupidity and inferiority. And this im-posed feeling of stupidity, as an instrument of subjugation and humiliation, is at least as effective as iron chains or WHITES ONLY signs on re-stroom doors or lunch coun-ters, and is a much sneakier and more effective engine of division and discrimination.


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Brune: In recent weeks we’ve visited with Texas Sen-ator Campbell, Sen. Hegar, and state rep Tim Klein-schmidt. In those conversa-tions there are many com-mon threads, but one that we always keep an eye on is any changes in water legisla-tion. A quick review shows that Texas is divided into 16 regions. It is also divided into Groundwater Manage-ment Areas (GMA) that do not follow the same bound-aries as the regions. Then there is the elected Ground-water Conservation Dis-tricts (GCD) in the counties. Each region must work with the GMAs and GCDs in that region to come up with a long term plan for water us-age. GCD mgr. Jim Brasher is also on the Region K com-mittee. They come up with a plan for Region K and then the Texas Water Develop-ment Board must take those 16 plans, combine them, and create a comprehen-sive plan for the state. The Texas Water Plan is coming

up for approval again in the next session. There is also a letter circulating among the many statewide conserva-tion groups to approve the plan. But unless you’ve been privy to information during the plans formulation – you don’t know what’s in the plan. So how can a conserva-tion organization, or any ru-ral based entity, give support unless they are merely using follow-the-leader mentality? Jim – please tell us what you know about the upcoming water plan. And, are there factors involved where Re-gion K may favor the plan but Region L may not?

Brasher: In regard to the Region K plan, it covers the lower Colorado River Basin. All the other Regions must

develop plans that cover those regions’ demands. Currently, there are no plans that will transfer water from Region K to Region L. Those issues should be ironed out. Also remember that Region K extends to Austin which has a substantial popula-tion compared to Colorado and Fayette Counties. The Texas Water Plan is devel-oped over several years it covers a five-year cycle, and includes much public input. The plan also includes water conservation with crops that use less water, laser leveling fields, and looking forward to the next fifty years. They’re also looking at increased usage of groundwater and that’s where the GCDs be-come involved. And they’re looking at the off-channel reservoirs. That’s something that you’ll probably see more immediately.

Brune: One factor to re-alize is that these plans are done between legislative ses-sions. If the public wants to be involved, they shouldn’t wait until a bill comes up in session. If you want to irri-tate bureaucrats or lobbyists – let them work on a plan for two years, and then at the last minute raise hell about

their ideas. One issue that will be of interest is that the state is looking for a fund-ing mechanism to finance the implementation of the water plan. We’ve been told that everything from tap fees to water by the acre fees is being considered. But, what about the promise saying that personal wells will never be metered and commercial wells would only be metered for monitoring aquifer use? Then – we always worry about maintaining local con-trol through the GCD. There is also the issue of comin-gling groundwater and sur-face water in off-channel reservoirs. And what about the study that said reservoirs lose too much water to evap-oration to be efficient ways to store water? But, what else can be done? Please elabo-rate.

Brasher: Yes, the High-land Lakes get low and the lower river valley irriga-tors suffer. Also know that it takes five days for river water to get from the lakes to the irrigators. There is loss to evaporation in the Highland Lakes and then a 30 percent loss of that water before it reaches irrigators in Matagorda County. There

would be less water lost if it were stored in off-channel reservoirs. Whether these reservoirs are supplemented by groundwater accents the necessity of having a GCD. The GCD can regulate and have a say on how much wa-ter is pumped into a reser-voir or go down the river to another county. Now, we’re not talking about inter-basin transfer. The off-channel res-ervoirs may cost about $260 million apiece, and the word is that they may dip into the Rainy Day Fund to get the program started. Beyond that, we have no intention of ever metering personal wells. Irrigation wells are metered to monitor the aquifer and there is no indi-cation that there will be any type of usage fee as a revenue source.

Brune: Then that is an is-sue that needs to be put to rest. The promise is reiterat-ed – there will be no meters on personal wells for usage fees. Now – when conserva-tion groups ask to sign on a letter of support it’s tough to know whether everyone is on board. The water plan may be good for Columbus but bad for Gonzales.

Brasher: I’m sure there

are occasional conflicts between regions, but they should be settled by the time the plan goes to the legislature.

Brune: Key points are that we don’t see any legislation pending that would damage local control, we don’t see in-tent to meter personal wells, and we don’t see major con-flicts between the regions. So – when Texas Parks and Wildlife, The River Systems Institute, and the river au-thorities, were doing fresh-water inflow and in-stream flow studies – where did the money come from?

Brasher: I’m assuming that money came from state grants. But remember the water plan is for 50 years and some of the imple-mentation may not be for 30 years. The state is trying to provide funding for next year and hope they find a mechanism for the future. One other fact I want to mention is that the council of Region K is made up of more than 20 stake hold-ers. We’ve got rice farmers, environmental folks, GCDs, municipalities, and a lot of specific users that represent their interests as these water plans come together.

It is universally agreed that all persons need to love and to be loved. But, ‘I Love You!’ has become an over-used, worn-out cliché that comes out of our mouths without any thought about its true meaning. True love has been diluted, convo-luted and prostituted for so long, most of us can’t rec-ognize real love when it hits us in the face. In order to know what love should be, we need to know how love first began.

Love is the essential foundational element of everything created, and it was God Himself who set love into motion. Creation was the first outpouring of love; it is evidence of God’s unselfish nature. In the be-ginning, love was expressed in an unsurpassed act of al-truism. Everything created revolved around the only creation capable of loving Him in return. And it was all made for our delight. (Eden means delight). In the creation of man , when God breathed into Adam, it was the spirit of love that gave Adam life; animating him and filling him with the capacity to love. In the creation of Eve we were giv-en the first example of sac-rificial love--Adam had to give up a part of himself in order to establish a loving, lasting relationship with another human being. We are meant to do the same.

God shows by example what love should be.

There are four Greek words that were used in Biblical times to describe love. Eros, being sexual love; philia, which describes close friendship or broth-erly love; storge, referring to family love; the fourth is agape. God’s love is called ‘agape love’. The word agape is used to describe

the selfless love of one per-son for another, without sexual implications (espe-cially love that is spiritual in nature). Agape means to cherish; to esteem; to show charity; to be devoted; to respect; to be loyal; to have concern for. Agape love is the type that ‘seeks the highest good of the person cherished.’ Agape love de-sires the good of the other; it gives without demanding anything in return.

It amazes me that we are unconditionally loved by the One who created us, and it is even more amazing that His lasting desire is for us to love Him in return. When you study the bible it is clear to see that God had a master plan for mankind from the beginning of time. Man was meant to have dominion over everything, and to enjoy a never-end-ing relationship with his creator. Even before Adam was sent away from Eden, God had formulated a plan that would give mankind a chance to regain what Adam lost.

God’s plan of salvation meant sacrificing what He loved and cherished the most-but He did it anyway. The gospel of John tells us that, ‘God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not die but have eternal life.’ Christ is love personi-fied.

When Jesus was asked what the most important Law of Old Testament was, He replied “Love the Lord

your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ This is the first and great-est commandment. The second most important is similar: Love your neigh-bor as much as you love yourself. All the other commandments and all the demands of the proph-ets stem from these two laws and are fulfilled if you obey them. Keep only these and you will find that you are obeying all the others.” Mattthew 22:37 The Living Bible

1 Peter 4:8 says that it is the ‘exercising’ of love which helps against our disobedience to God’s com-mandments. Exercising love restrains a man from dishonoring his parents, committing adultery, steal-ing,, lying, cheating, being envious, assaulting, raping, judging, gossiping, abus-ing, abandoning, ridicul-ing, or murdering another human being. It also gives him the self-control to keep from doing anything that would disrespect or dam-age his own body, which is the temple of the living God. Our bodies do not belong to us, they were cre-ated by God to be used for His divine purpose.

To quote my husband, ‘Love is an action word’. It is easy to say “I love you” . It is much more diffi-cult to consistently show it. Love is the name of the game. Our Christian faith is meant to express itself through love. Is our faith evident to others?

I’ll touch on how to put love into action next time. Till then, have a safe and ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’.

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had reviewed Strozier’s performance over several meetings and “the Board had many favorable comments during the evaluation process.”

Also approved were contracts for ad-ministrators and school principals Michael Garcia, Linda Ainsworth, Lori Lindemann, Jennifer Needham, Ron Pekar, Stepha-nie Camarrillo, Hector Dominguez, Shari Barti, Sandra Brown, Nancy Pesek, Karen Engelhardt, Haley Browne, Ron Bragg, Jackie Krider, Larry Wehde, Renee Fairch-ild, Gwen Hodges, Ricky Lock, Frank Beh-rendt, Wanda Fryer, Gene Kridler, Jane Iley and Christine Leonhardt.

Trustees took no action on the contract for Gonzales High School principal Dr. Chris Morrow. Morrow was arrested in Victoria Feb. 1 following an accident and faces charges of driving while intoxicated.

Also Monday, the board and administra-tion took an initial step toward meeting an expected population growth.

The board approved an administration request for four portable classroom build-ings at a cost of about $400,000 during Monday’s meeting. Deputy superintendent Larry Wehde said two portables would be located at East Avenue Primary and two at Gonzales Junior High.

One of the portables at GJH would be

used to house the district’s staff develop-ment center, and the district would con-vert the current staff development center — housed in a portable building in the in-ner quadrangle of the school — to a pair of classrooms. all told, the four portables would enable the district to seat students in eight new classrooms.

“We’ve been thinking on this for a couple of years, watching the enrollment,” Wehde said.

The district has commissioned a demo-graphic study to review population growth trends accompanying the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas development and the impact that growth may have on the school dis-trict.

Strozier told the board that administra-tors will hold a facilities planning meeting on Feb. 20, and a workshop with trustees on the demographic study and possible fa-cilities expansion is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. March 4 prior to the board’s next sched-uled meeting.

In other action Monday, the board ap-proved scheduling the annual trustee elec-tion for Districts 1 and 2 for May 11.

Board members also recognized this year’s Gonzales ISD Education Foundation grant winners from East Avenue, Gonzales Elementary and Gonzales High School. The foundation awarded a total of $3,740 in grants to teachers at the three schools.


GISD: Meetings set to getahead of facilities needs

GISD Foundation GrantsDuring Monday’s Gonzales ISD Board of Trustees meetings, winners of this year’s Gonzales ISD Education Foundation grants were recognized. The grants include one for Rena Gray at East Avenue (top) for a first grade ukelele program; IPODs for the Gonzales Elementary team (center); and e-readers for ESL students at Gonzales High School (bottom photo). (Photos by Dave Mundy)

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Cedillo said that the office will be open to the public during this time.

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ing the conversion,” she explained. “Now if money comes in, we’re not going to refuse it. We will take it and issue a cash receipt then once the new system is up and run-ning we will process the payment.”

The system change will only affect the office’s taxing duties. All other functions of the office such as motor vehicle registra-tion, titles and liquor license renewals will remain the same.

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ment. Members will search for candidates from within District 5.

During Tuesday’s meeting, the board received a report from General Manager Greg Sengelmann on a couple of bills cur-rently under study by the Legislature which could impact local water districts.

One of the bills, backed by San Anto-nio Water Systems (SAWS), would extend from five to 30 years the amount of time required between permitting processes for water companies. The bill has not yet been filed, Sengelmann said.

“I think this is probably a good time to send the message that we don’t like the 30-year deal,” said board president Bruce Pat-teson.

Another bill, SB 272, would require a us-age fee to be collected by groundwater dis-

tricts for record-keeping on wells. The fee would be similar to one already charged by the district.

Sengelmann told directors he was also fine-tuning a final draft of changes to the district’s charter to submit to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The changes reflect the district’s decision to take over management of the Yegua Jackson Aquifer.

Sengelmann also presented monthly wa-ter level readings from test wells across the district and briefed directors on how read-ings can differ between wells drilled to ac-cess various parts of the same aquifer.

Among Senglemann’s findings was date which showed that pumping by water transport companies from one aquifer did not appear to significantly negatively affect adjoining aquifers.

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On Saturday, Feb. 9, the Mighty Apache Band participated with the Solo and Ensemble Contest at Hays High School. The students that received a Superior rating on their solos are: Back Row, (L-R) – Brooke Neuse, Karlee Krum, Clayton Wilkerson, Trent Trullender, Andy Garcia and Aaron Miller. Middle row, (L-R) – Valeria Aguayo, Aaron Olmos, Kirsten McKinney, Ivan Longoria, Isaiah Vasquez-Flores and Pedro DeLuna. Front row and going to State Solo and Ensemble in May are: (L-R), Twirlers – Ashton Miller, Gabbi Cristan, Destiny Pierpont and Jess-lyn Lamprecht.

This past Saturday members of the GHS Band traveled to Hays High School in Buda to compete in UIL Solo Competi-tion.

Congratulations to the following stu-dents for bringing back first division medals at the competition: Brooke Neu-se, Valeria Aguayo, Kirsten McKinney, PJ DeLuna, Aaron Olmos, Andy Gar-

cia, Aaron Miller, Isaiah Vasquez-Flores, Karlee Krum, Trent Trullender, Clayton Wilkerson, Ivan Longoria. Also congratu-lations to: Ashton Miller, Gabbi Cristan, Jesslyn Lamprecht and Destiny Pierpont for scoring a first division on their twirl-ing solo and advancing on the state twirl-ing competition in May. Congratulations to all those that participated.


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Gonzales Livestock Market Report

The Gonzales Livestock Market Report for Saturday, February 9, 2013 had on hand: 814 cattle.

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

Stocker-feeder steers: Medi-um and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $230-$255; 300-400 lbs, $205-$220; 400-500 lbs, $185-$195; 500-600 lbs, $153-$175; 600-700 lbs., $137-$151; 700-800 lbs, $133-$135.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $91-$105.

Stocker-feeder heifers: Me-dium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $185-$210; 300-400 lbs, $175-$177; 400-500 lbs, $155-$170; 500-600 lbs., $138-$145; 600-700 lbs., $126-$131.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $68-$74; Cutters, $79-$90.50; Can-ners, $61-$67; Low yielding fat cows, $68-$76.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $94-$105; light weights and medium quality bulls, $84-$91.

Stocker Cows: $950-$1,450.Pairs: $1,050-$1,775.Thank you for your busi-

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Nixon LivestockCommission Report

The Nixon Livestock Commis-sion Inc. report had on hand, Feb-ruary 11, 2013, Volume, 555.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $196 to $206 to $235; 300-400 lbs., $173 to $183 to $230; 400-500 lbs, $161 to $171 to $190; 500-600 lbs, $144 to $154 to $176; 600-700 lbs, $126 to $136 to $165; 700-800 lbs, $99 to $109 to $117.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $160 to $170 to $190; 300-400 lbs, $148 to $158 to $205; 400-500 lbs, $135 to $145 to $200; 500-600 lbs, $124 to $134 to $146; 600-700 lbs, $118 to $128 to $134; 700-800 lbs, 1 hd. @ $110.

Slaughter cows: $70 to $85; Slaughter bulls: $87 to $100; Stocker cows: $700 to $1,400; Pairs, $1,000-$1,600.

Cuero Livestock Market Report

Cuero Livestock Market Report on February 8, 2013, had 747 head.

Had 68 cows and 17 bulls. The packer market was fully steady to a little stronger on some classes. Had a short supply and as a result not much real indication of overall market. Market appeared to be very solid on those sold.

The calf market was steady to a little weaker on the fleshier calves… Most of the loss was in cattle over

600 lbs with a little too much flesh. Despite live cattle prices declining, this market held remarkably firm throughout given the undertone in the industry.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $85-$102; lower grades, $67-$80.

Packer cows: breakers, $65-$72; boning, $65-$78; canners & cutters, $62-$86; light & weak, $55-$68.

16 Palpated dry and Bred cows sold well, $88-$118.

Pairs: One, $1,090.Steer calves: under 200 lbs, none;

200-250 lbs, None; 250-300 lbs, one, $214; 300-350 lbs, $190-$226; 350-400 lbs, $185-$216; 400-450 lbs, $177-$200; 450-500 lbs, $176-$186; 500-550 lbs, $160-$179; 550-600 lbs, $154-$174; 600-700 lbs, $142-$154; 700-800 lbs, $127-$131.

Bull Calves: under 250 lbs, $131-$246; 250-300 lbs, $170-$216; 300-350 lbs, $188-$216; 350-400 lbs, $171-$208; 400-450 lbs, $162-$195; 450-500 lbs, $172-$187; 500-550 lbs, $158-$178; 550-600 lbs, $137-$154; 600-700 lbs, $135-$151.

Over 700 lbs. bulls, $125-$127.Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs.,

None; 200-250 lbs, $189-$225; 250-300 lbs, $167-$191; 300-350 lbs, $172-$185; 350-400 lbs, $163-$186; 400-450 lbs, $145-$168; 450-500 lbs, $143-$163; 500-550 lbs, $140-$178; 550-600 lbs, $134-$144; 600-700 lbs., $133-$146; over 700 lbs, $123-$127.

There have been a lot of ques-tions about the Animal I.D. Rule that the Texas Animal Health Commission and the Extension Service are pushing very aggres-sively. The Livestock Market As-sociation has been fighting this for the past several years. It has been defeated in Washington D.C., but the Texas Animal Health Commis-sion continues to push it because they want the funding that the pro-gram creates.

As of now, all cows sold sill have to be identified with a metal ear tag to be sold. This is the responsibility of the seller. We will help in com-

pleting this task for as long as we can. If things go like the Animal Health Commission and County Agents want it to, there will be a charge from $7.50-$10.00 per head for tagging these cattle. If we can’t beat this in the courts it will be a significant expense to everyone, with very little to gain.

Buddy BlackwellPresident of Cuero Livestock

Commission

Hallettsville LivestockCommission Report

The Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on February 5, 2013, 905; week ago, 1,257; year ago, 729.

The market was much stronger this week. Better quality classes of calves and yearlings sold mostly $3 to $7 higher with some light weights $10 higher. Demand very good in all areas.

Packer cows $1 to $2 higher. Packer bulls $2 to $4 higher. Supply consisted of approx.. 100 cows and 10 bulls.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $73-$86.50; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $62-$73; light weight canner cows, $50-$62.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $100-$105.50; utility & cutter bulls, $87-$100; lightweight canner bulls, $78-$87.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: un-der 200; None; 200-300 lbs, $220-$270; 300-400 lbs, $187-$220; 400-500 lbs, $173-$210; 500-600 lbs, $147-$190; 600-700 lbs, $132-$157.50; 700-800 lbs, $128-$140. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, None; 200-300 lbs, $185-$232; 300-400 lbs, $165-$202.50; 400-500 lbs, $150-$178; 500-600 lbs, $130-$163; 600-700 lbs, $124-$140; 700-800 lbs, $118-$127.

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

Shirley Breitschopf (fourth from left) with First Shot Cook-Off presented the Gonzales ISD Education Foundation with a donation. The Gonzales ISD Education Foundation helps provide resources that enrich teaching, inspire learning and maximize innovative opportunities for GISD students. On hand for the presentation were board members Ross Hender-shot , Mary Lou Holub, Scott Dierlam and daughter, Jillian, Felipe Leon and Debbie Tieken

SMITHSON VALLEY — The GVTC Foundation passed the one million dol-lar mark in giving by do-nating $5,000 each to eight food banks located from Boerne to Gonzales, for a total of $40,000 to fight hunger.

The Foundation was just

$5,000 dollars away from its milestone and wanted to do something special to push its legacy of contributions over the top. One priority was fulfilling the Founda-tion’s mission to profoundly enhance the quality of life in the communities it serves.

“We wanted to make a

statement about our posi-tion as charitable leader, and in working with area food banks for several years, our board members know the fight against hun-ger never stops,” GVTC Foundation President Paula White said. “Every day we have senior citizens,

adults and families with young children that worry where they’re going to get their next meal.”

The donations include $5,000 to the Gonzales

Christian Assistance Min-istry.

To announce the $40,000 food bank donations, and the million dollar mile-stone, the Foundation held

a celebration in the GVTC Auditorium, attended by employees, GVTC board of directors and represen-tatives from the area food banks.

The GVTC Foundation recently made a $40,000 contribution to area food banks. $5,000 went to Gonzales Christian Assistance Ministry, which helped the Foun-dation eclipse $1 million in giving to the community.

Groundhog Day was last Saturday. Did Punx-sutawney see his shadow? If he did, we will have six more weeks of cold weath-er. If you’ve not looked at the calendar, Easter is on March 31. In this part of the world we can usually figure on cold weather un-til Easter. Even if have a few nice Spring days we can still have a blue norther.

• Valentine’s Day is Thursday. The stores have a huge amount of Valentine-related items. Forgetting is no excuse for not finding the right gift for that special person.

• Thursday at 5:30 p.m. is

the first Come & Take It As-sociation meeting in Cham-ber office. We invite anyone to join us in making plans for 2013, Come & Take It, October 4, 5, 6. 2013.

• J. B. Wells Park will have the National Barrel Asso-ciation Friday thru Sunday.

AUSTIN – As Texas con-tinues to lead the nation in job creation, ensuring the state’s infrastructure can with-stand the boom in business is critical now more than ever.

On Feb. 7 the Texas De-partment of Transportation updated lawmakers on the progress of the Interstate 69 corridor and announced new federal designation of more than 28 miles of existing highway around Houston. Being developed on existing roadways as a critical artery for moving freight, I-69 will ultimately become a 1,600 mile-long highway stretching from Michigan to Texas.

“I-69 represents a vital component in our thriving and growing economy, not just in eastern Texas or in South Texas but across the entire state” Gov. Rick Perry said.

“Interstate 69 is important in providing safety, mobil-ity and connectivity between

rural and urban Texas” said Commissioner Jeff Austin, Texas Transportation Com-mission. “The Interstate links three major east- and west-Texas interstates: I-10, I-20 and I-30, and provides a critical national connection as well.”

From north to south Texas, communities across the state will see the eco-nomic benefits of I-69. The interstate is expected to be a critical artery for mov-ing agricultural, energy and industrial exports through the nation and beyond. It is also expected to attract more businesses to the Lone Star State.

“Economic development, commerce, safety and quality of life are all tangible benefits Texans will experience with the development of I-69,” said Phil Wilson, TxDOT executive director. “The I-69 expansion can mean growth for communities in Texas and attract businesses that want to move products in all directions throughout Texas and the nation.”


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Gonzales County RecordsGonzales County Courthouse DeedsJanuary 1-31Matta, Barbara A. Bouldin and Bouldin,

Barbara Ann (FKA) to McDonald, Betty Bouldin, w/d, 3.681 Acres, James Billins Svy, A-129.

Iley Jr., George R. to Board of Directors of The Gonzales ISD and Gonzales Inde-pendent School District, w/d, 9.18 Acres (Pt. Lt. 4, RG 6) Orig. Outer Town Gon-zales & Lts. 1-5, Blks. 8-9, Davidson Hill Addn, Gonzales.

Nixon-Smiley Consolidated ISD to Marathon Oil EF LLC, o/l, 4.257 Acres, James Tennell A-449 & A W Hill A-247 Svys.

Olguin, Patricia to Orta, Felipa, w/d, 0.148 of an acre (Pt. Lt 2, Tier 1) East of Water St., orig. outer town Gonzales.

O’Reilly Automotive Stores, Inc. to David’s Kountry Bakery, Inc., w/d, Lt. 1, Country Corner Subdvn, Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Wilson, Eugene and Wilson, Linda Mae

to Wilson Sr, Eugene and Wilson Revo-cable Living Trust, Linda Mae, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 6.00 Acres, Robert Kelley Svy, A-307.

Walshak, Dorothy P. to Cooper, Nicole and Styre, Edward, w/d, Pt. Lts 2 & 5, Blk. 43, Orig. Inner Town Gonzales.

Spohler Jr, Alfred and Spohler, Billie Jean to Schmidt III, Henry C., w/d, 2.732 Acres (Pt. Lt. 8, RG 6) East of Water St, Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Ray, Chris Roy to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 4.580 Acres, Isaac Baker A-130 & F Happel A-284 Svys.

Carter, Bettie to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 1.52 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Phillips, Pauline C. to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 1.52 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Colfry, Travis to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 1.52 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Davis, Jeffery E. to EOG Resources, Inc., ol, 11.70 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-37.

Smith, Anthony M. (Life Estate) and Smith, Pamela (Estate) to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 80.00 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy,

A-36.Gibson, Shirley A. to Gibson, Betty L,

w/d, 13.659 Acres, Jose Maria Salinas Svy, A-59.

Gibson, Shirley A. to Gibson, Betty L, w/d, 6.829 Acres, Jose Maria Salinas, Svy, A-59.

Gibson, Betty L. to Gibson, Shirley A, w/d, 6.830 Acres, Jose Maria Salinas Svy, A-59.

Gibson, Betty L. to Belin, Jeromy, w/d, 6.829 Acres, Jose Maria Salinas Svy, A-59.

Gibson, Betty L. to Gibson, Shirley A, w/d, 13.659 Acres, Jose Maria Salinas Svy, A-59.

Jemez, LLC to Attoyac Holdings LLC, w/d, 10.80 Acres, Sarah Hendricks Svy, A-261.

Jemez, LLC to FM 1116 SWD Ltd., w/d, 9.99 Acres, Sarah Hendricks Svy, A-261.

Trostel, Charles A. to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 202.70 Acres, Gonzales County Schl Land A-230 & Robert A Pace A-382 Svys.

McCamant, Karen to Forest Oil Corpo-ration, o/l, 202.70 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Robert A. Pace A-382 Svys.

Childress, Elizabeth Ann Ragsdale to Childress, J. Frank, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 605.23 Acres, Thomas Wright A-472, Eliza Hardeman A-250 & Sarah DeWitt A-176 Svys.

Miller, Shannon Burke to Marathon Oil EF LLC, o/l, 235.37 Acres, John McCoy Svy, A-45.

Burke, Susan Dee Richter to Marathon Oil EF LLC, o/l, 95.00 Acres, John McCoy, A-45.

Fox, Kenneth and Fox, Jo Ann to Pame-la Sue, Inc. and Sue Inc, Pamela, w/d, 0.08 of an Acre (Pt. Lt. 3, Blk. 14) Nixon.

Pamela Sue, Inc. and Sue Inc, Pamela to Fox, Joann, w/d, Lt. 6 & Pt. Lt. 5, Blk. 41, Nixon’s Extension, Nixon.

Wynne, Sidney R. and Wynne, Virginia to SV Wynne I, ltd, w/d, 384.967 Acres, M C Wing Svy, Wilson County.

Wynne, Sidney R. and Wynne, Virginia to S V Wynne II, Ltd., w/d, 3.18. 29 Acres, Ira Bisbee & Jesse Mapping Svys, Wilson County.

Benitez, Christopher R. and Amaya, Jes-sica A to Sanchez, Ramon, w/d, Lts. 1-2 & Pt. Lt. 3, Blk. 81, Schleicher’s Addn, Nixon.

Wilke, Allen Ray and Wilke, Sandra Lynn to Wilke, Brent Allen and Wilke, Ashley Ray, w/d, 1.00 Acre, George F. Man-aghan Svy, A-47.

Assumed NamesWright, J.B. – Wright Longhorns, Cu-

ero.Johnson, Tammie R. and Johnson, Scott

H. – Johnson Creek Farm, Moulton.West, Mark – West Towing, Gonzales.Courtland Financial Series – Courtland

Financial Corp., Westlake Hill.Courtland National Holdings, LLC –

Courtland Financial Series, Westlake Hill.Marriage LicenseBotello, Mark A. and Irle, Arichica D.

Cannon News Services

Recent well location reports from the Texas Railroad Com-mission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-33040Classification: Fld. Dev. and

HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-

ing CompanyLease Name: Carson AWell No.: 10HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 7.44 miles

NE. of WesthoffSurvey Name: G. Fulcher,

A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52



ing Company

Lease Name: Carson AWell No.: 8HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle



A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52






A-179Acres: 572.52


HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy

Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 4Well No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


NE. of WesthoffSurvey Name: J. Bird, A-60Acres: 221.02


HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy

Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 4Well No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


NE. of WesthoffSurvey Name: J. Bird, A-60Acres: 221.02


HorizontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res.

USALease Name: Edward Roeder 02Well No.: 04HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle

Ford Shale)Total Depth: 21,000 feetDirection and Miles: 6.4 miles

NW. of YorktownSurvey Name: W.G. Hill, A-223Acres: 580.95



USA .

Lease Name: Edward Roeder 02Well No.: 03HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle





USALease Name: Edward Roeder 02Well No.: 02HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle



Gonzales County


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Brothers UnitWell No.: 11HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


SE. of CostSurvey Name: S.H. Gates,

A-228Acres: 946





A-228Acres: 946





A-228Acres: 946


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Dreyer UnitWell No.: 14HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


NW. of DreyerSurvey Name: J. McCoy, A-44Acres: 1,184.45


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: HamiltonWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Total Depth: 11,900 feetDirection and Miles: 10 miles

SE. of CostSurvey Name: J. Oethkin,

A-369Acres: 439.20


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Burrow UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)

Total Depth: 12,600 feetDirection and Miles: 14.5 miles

SE. of GonzalesSurvey Name: S. Bateman, A-1Acres: 375.87


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Burrow UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


SE. of GonzalesSurvey Name: S. Bateman, A-1Acres: 375.87


HorizontalOperator: Rosetta Resources

Operating LPLease Name: Adele Dubose

Unit AWell No.: 2Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle


SW. of SampleSurvey Name: J. Humphrey,

A-266Acres: 1,000.34


HorizontalOperator: Rosetta Resources

Operating LPLease Name: Adele Dubose

Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle


SW. of SampleSurvey Name: J. Humphrey,

A-266Acres: 1,000.34

Lavaca County


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EFLease Name: Shiner Unit CWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


SW. of ShinerSurvey Name: B. Lockhart,

A-26Acres: 374.58


HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EFLease Name: Shiner Unit BWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle


SW. of ShinerSurvey Name: B. Lockhart,

A-26Acres: 260.49

Recent oil and gas comple-tions according to reports from the Texas Railroad Commission

DeWitt County


HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resourc-

es O and G Co.Lease Name: Baros Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-2)Survey Name: P. Pate, A-386Direction and Miles: 13.6 miles

NW. of CueroOil: 240MCF: 296Choke Size: 10/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,876

Total Depth: 18,770 feetPerforations: 12,450-18,547

feet


HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resourc-

es O and G Co. LPLease Name: Koehler Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-2)Survey Name: I RR Co, Section

16, A-683Direction and Miles: 8.7 miles

NW. of YorktownOil: 792MCF: 1,216Choke Size: 10/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 6,890Total Depth: 17,455 feetPerforations: 13,418-17,235

feet

Gonzales County


HorizontalOperator: Hunt Oil CompanyLease Name: O. Borchers DWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: B. Morris, A-49Direction and Miles: 9.2 miles

E. of GonzalesOil: 700MCF: 545Choke Size: 24/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 660Total Depth: 14,845 feetPlug Back Depth: 14,783 feetPerforations: 9,735-14,653 feet



Ford-2)Survey Name: J. McCoy, A-44Direction and Miles: 1.3 miles

NW. of DreyerOil: 4,276MCF: 3,792Choke Size: 34/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,464Total Depth: 18,894 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,811 feetPerforations: 11,816 -18,806

feet



Ford-1)Survey Name: J. McCoy, A-44Direction and Miles: 1.3 miles

NW. of DreyerOil: 2,705MCF: 2,904Choke Size: 34/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,195Total Depth: 18,323 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,240 feetPerforations: 11,937-18,235

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: BLTWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: J.L. Wood, A-473Direction and Miles: 2.2 miles

SW. of SampleOil: 1,188MCF: 1,976Choke Size: 36/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,252Total Depth: 15,926 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,831 feetPerforations: 11,950-15,821

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Preston A UnitWell No.: 7HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: W.W. Pace,

A-373Direction and Miles: 11.2 miles

E. of SmileyOil: 2,607MCF: 2,503Choke Size: 34/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,894Total Depth: 16,407 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,323 feetPerforations: 11,100-16,318

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: PrestonWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: 11.2 miles E. of

SmileyDirection and Miles: W.W.

Pace, A-373Oil: 2,584MCF: 2,694Choke Size: 34/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,982Total Depth: 16,456 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,369 feetPerforations: 11,150-16,364

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: McCollum AWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: I. Baker, A-535Direction and Miles: 9.3 miles

SE. of SmileyOil: 2,981MCF: 3,192Choke Size: 36/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,998Total Depth: 15,737 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,642 feetPerforations: 12,070-15,560

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Meyer UnitWell No.: 11H

Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)

Survey Name: S. Bateman, A-1Direction and Miles: 5.9 miles

N. of CheapsideOil: 1,108MCF: 1,515Choke Size: 30/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,843Total Depth: 14,788 feetPlug Back Depth: 14,705 feetPerforations: 11,700-14,700

feet


HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Lessor AWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle

Ford-1)Survey Name: G. Gwin, A-223Direction and Miles: 2 miles

NW. of SampleOil: 1,497MCF: 509Choke Size: 32/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 836Total Depth: 15,376 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,102 feetPerforations: 9,755-15,092 feet


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DALLAS HOLM is a GOSPEL MUSIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE and has garnered a GRAMMY NOMINATION and numerous DOVE AWARDS for SONG OF THE YEAR, SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR, MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR, a GOLD RECORD, and these number one songs: Rise Again, Here We Are, Face To Face, and To The Glory.

The Auxiliary of Memo-rial Hospital met Janu-ary 29, 2013 in the dining room of the hospital with 15 present.

Door prizes were won by Kennon Brunkenhoefer and Ruby Gandre. Min-utes and complete financial reports were read and ap-proved and are filed with the Minutes.

There was no program at this meeting.

There will be a surprise program scheduled for the February Business meet-ing. On March 27, we will meet for a catered meal at the Riverside Community Center. More details to fol-

low.Volunteer hours of 281

were reported in Novem-ber with a 100-hour bar earned by Irene Oakes (her total is 510). December hours reported were 249 were 100-hour bars were earned by Billy Dumas (her total is 2,108) and Dorothy Klapuch (her total is 2,705).

President Barbara Ko-ricanek thanked members for their good work and food items donated for the Wassial Party held on De-cember 13.

We have been asked to help host the Open House party to be held in April for the opening of the Jane

Johnson Women’s Health Center.

Texas State Convention of the Texas Association of Healthcare Volunteers is to be held in San Antonio June 2-6, 2013. Also a pre-invitation to the Auxiliary to attend the Appreciation Dinner event to be held at 4D Ranch on March 2, which is extended to all donors to the Jane John-son Center fund. Auxiliary need to state they will at-tend and complimentary invitations can be sent.

The February 26th meet-ing will be held at 2 p.m. in the Hospital Dining Room.

WEIMAR — Fayette County Sheriff Keith Kore-nek reports that on Friday February 8, at approximate-ly 1:45 p.m. a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 10 four miles east of Weimar. After the trooper met with the two occupants of the vehicle several criminal in-dicators were noticed.

The trooper was given consent to search the vehicle and observed the radiator had suspicious tampering. Fayette County K9 handler was called to conduct a free air sniff. K9 “Lobos’ alerted to the radiator of the vehicle for the presences of an il-

legal substance. The vehicle was then taken back to the Weimar Police Department where the radiator was re-moved from the vehicle.

After removing the ra-diator approximately 10 ki-los of cocaine, with a street value of approximately $500,000, was located in a false compartment built into the radiator.

Assisting with the traffic stop was Deputy Thumann with the Fayette County Sheriff ’s Office, troopers Tipton and Kohleffel with the Department of Pub-lic Safety and Lieutenant Krhovjak with the Weimar

Police Department. Marciano Moreno, 43,

and Maria Moreno, 53, both

of Lake Way Fla., were both arrested and taken to the Colorado County jail.

Fayette pot bust Sheriff Keith Korenek reports that on Monday, Feb-ruary 11 2013, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Canine Unit, made contact with a motorist at the east bound rest area on IH-10. After speaking with the occupants of the vehicle several criminal indicators were indicated. Further investigation rev-eled that the Ford F-150 had a gas tank that was full of marihuana bundles. The Sheriff’s Office moved the vehicle to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office in Lagrange to remove the bed of the truck to access the opening to the fuel tank. Once the fuel tank was accessed, forty-five bundles of marihuana weighing approximately 112 pounds, with a street value of $50,000 were removed. Margarita Perz De Diaz 37 and Rogelio Diaz 38 of Rio Grande City were arrested and taken to the Fayette County Jail.

AUSTIN—State Sen. Dan Patrick, in coordination with the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC), on Friday announced signifi-cant changes to the CSCOPE curriculum management system.

CSCOPE, a cystsem used by more than 70 percent of school districts around Tex-as, had come under criticism for a lack of transparency from public review and what some critics have termed outside cultural influences which create a bias in lessons critical of many traditional beliefs. Patrick-chairman of the Senate Education Com-mittee, presided over hearings recently which explored much of this criticism.

The TESCCC has worked with Patrick and the State Board of Education (SBOE), to address concerns raised at a recent com-

mittee hearing on the CSCOPE system. The two parties have agreed to several im-mediate as well as forthcoming changes.

The changes that take effect immedi-ately include:

• All future meetings of the TESCCC Governing Board, beginning with the Feb-ruary meeting, will be public with all the respective notice requirements being met.

• The TESCCC will begin a joint review process of all CSCOPE lessons with the SBOE, beginning with Social Studies.

• Amendment of all Terms of Use Agreements, signed by both teachers and districts, removing civil or criminal penal-ties associated with the release of CSCOPE content.

• Clarifying that all teachers and dis-tricts may post any and all CSCOPE les-

sons that they deem necessary.In addition to these immediate trans-

parency and quality control changes, CSCOPE will also undergo structural, governance, and other changes, including:

• Ending the non-profit 501(c)3 ar-rangement that incorporates CSCOPE.

• Initiating the posting of CSCOPE les-son content to their public website.

• Creating a standing curriculum re-view panel, comprised of: parents, teach-ers, school administrators, members of the SBOE, and TESCCC board members.

Finally, CSCOPE is notifying all partici-pating school districts that lessons are not intended to be taught verbatim, and the Governing Board generally recommends that local districts utilize CSCOPE lessons solely as a resource.

Agreement will make CSCOPE accessible to public


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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

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

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

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

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

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

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

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

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

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

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

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

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

EpiscopalEpiscopal Church of the Messiah721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-3407

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Methodist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

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

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

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

Emmanuel Fellowship1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian Fel-lowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

River of Life Christian Fellowship207 Steele St., Smiley 830-587-6500

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

Life Changing Church of Gonzales3.3 miles north on 183, Right on CR 235, Right on CR 236

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gonzales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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Mary Lee Cone Thiede, 1907-2013THIEDE

Mary Lee Cone Thiede, 105, of Gonzales, passed away Tuesday, February 12, 2013. She was born October 25, 1907 in Gon-zales County, near Nixon, to Harry and Hallie Gray Cone. She attended and graduated from the Nixon School system at the age of 16. She enjoyed school, even though most of the time she had to walk a good distance and on oc-casion her father would take her and the neigh-boring children to school on a horse drawn wagon. Mary Lee applied herself in school; she studied hard and played basketball. Af-ter graduating she attended Baylor College in Belton, Texas and later taught school in Wilson County for one year and in Mon-thalia for 3 years.

Mary Lee married Rob-ert Adolph Thiede on Oc-tober 5, 1929 in the Mon-thalia Lutheran Church. They joined the First Bap-tist Church in Gonzales where they remained active members for many years. Memaw and Pepaw as their grandchildren remember them were “like-minded” in their love for children. They enjoyed involving the children in day to day chores, teaching them to fish, paddle a bass boat, ride horses and the joys of catching fire flies on a mid summer night. Memaw taught them how to use the old wash tub and clothes wringer, and how to hang clothes on the line to dry. She took them out to pick figs, they made homemade ice cream together and she taught them to savor Dr. Pepper ice cream floats.

Mary Lee made beauti-ful quilts for the family, she made home-made bread and cooked delicious meals complete with “Memaw’s” chocolate cake, dewberry cobbler or snicker doodles. Surely there was not a bet-ter feast than Memaw’s de-licious fried catfish that Pepaw had caught fresh from the Guadalupe River.

Mary Lee and her husband kept a beautiful garden and often shared the garden’s bounty with family and friends. She found peace in the presence of God as she studied her Bible daily and prepared for her Sun-day school classes. She delighted in sharing her faith with her children and grandchildren as she fre-quently took to them along to Sunday services when they came to visit. Mary Lee, Memaw, held within her an abundance of love; she was a precious woman, completely devoted to her faith in God and love of family. One day she will greet her loved ones again, as she always had before, with hugs and great love.

She is survived by her sister, Fern Cone of Gonza-les, granddaughters, Karen Thiede Ivey of Taft, Kristi Thiede Carl of Round Top, five great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grand-child nephew, David Thie-de of Gonzales and his daughters, Denise Thiede Martindale, Gail Thiede Brown and their families and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preced-ed in death by her husband, parents, a son, Robert Gray Thiede, brothers, Robert Orville Cone, Ernest Er-rol Cone and Willie Farrell Cone.

Funeral services for Mary Lee Thiede will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 16, 2013 in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home with Rev. Steve Faulkner officiating. Interment will follow in Monthalia Lutheran Cem-etery. Pallbearers: Zane Martindale, Quinn Martin-dale, Ben Ivey, Roy Lind-ner, Luke Brown and Kyle Brown. Memorials may be made to the Monthalia Lutheran Cemetery. The family will receive friends before Saturday’s service in the funeral home. Services are under the care and di-rection of Seydler-Hill Fu-neral Home.

ELDERAzalene Marie Elder, age

87, of Smiley, died February 4, 2013 in Cuero. She was born in Gonzales County, Texas on September 3, 1925. Azalene is preceded in death by her parents, James Oscar McFarland and Johnnie Pinina (Coo-per) McFarland; a son, Bruce Elder; sisters, Hattie Mae Lewis, Jean Redmon, Johnnie L. Witzel, Donnie Wight; brother, Bob Mc-Farland; step-brothers, J.R. Stewart and Merrill Kelly Stewart; and a step-sister, Ava O’Neal. She is survived

by three sons: Paul Elder and wife Mary Beth, John Elder, Russell Elder; grand-children: David Brian El-der and Christopher Elder; great-grandchildren: David Marshal Elder and Cath-rine Grace Elder; her sister, Dorothy O’Neal; numerous nieces and nephews; as well as other relatives and many friends.

Viewing and visitation were held Friday, Feb. 8 at Finch Funeral Chapel of Nixon with the funeral service following with the Rev. Marvin Miles officiat-ing. Interment followed at the Union Hill Cemetery near Nixon. Memorial con-tributions may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Finch Funeral Chapel, LLC, of Nixon (830) 582-1521.

Randolph Nagel Witt,1924-2013

WITTRandolph Nagel Witt,

88, of Gonzales, passed away Friday, February 8, 2013. He was born Octo-ber 20, 1924 in Gonzales to William F. and Zella Na-gel Witt. Randolph was a member of the First United Methodist Church, VFW, American Legion; Elks Lodge, he was a charter member of the American Board of Orthotists and Prothetists, he had served as a member of the Nation-al Academy of Sciences, American Board of Cer-tification, Member of the National Advisory Coun-cil of ABC, had served as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President and President of Region VIII Orthope-dic Appliances and Limb Manufacturers and had earned the first award from the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Re-habilitation for his scientif-ic exhibit on Assistive Sup-ports in the Rehabilitation of Paralytic Hands in 1954. Randy had co-authored numerous scientific articles regarding the manufacture and application of upper extremity orthotics and methods of rehabilitation. He had shared his vast knowledge of orthotics, prosthetics and rehabilita-

tion lecturing in numer-ous venues specializing in upper extremity and spi-nal orthotics. Randy had faithfully and honorably served as the Director of the Orthotic Department of Warm Springs Rehabili-tation Hospital for nearly 40 years.

Randy had honor-ably served in the U.S. Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theatre on a P.T. Boat as a Torpedoman’s Mate. He married Catherine Frances “Kay” Hogg July 7, 1945 in Providence, Rhode Is-land. He loved his family and enjoyed boating, fish-ing, horseback riding, trail rides, bird hunting, water skiing and raising his cattle and tending to his horses. He was a highly recognized for his work in orthot-ics and rehabilitation, but Randy’s greatest pride was in his family. He instilled in them a sense of value and the difference of right and wrong. He led them by example as he always tried to do the right thing as a husband, father, grandfa-ther and man.

Randolph N. Witt is survived by his daughters, Linda Ann Witt of Corpus Christi, Monie Kay and her husband Tim “Zeek” Za-skoda of Caldwell, grand-children, Sterling Witt Dal-ley and his wife Jennifer, Zella Catherine Zaskoda, great-grandchildren, Jana and Jayden Dalley all of Caldwell. He was preceded in death by his wife, parents and brother, Verlin Witt.

Funeral servic-es will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, February 13, 2013 in the First United Methodist Church with Andy Smith officiating. In-terment will follow in the Woodmen of the World Cemetery. Pallbearers in-clude; Royce Towns, Jr., Eddie Halamicek, Ster-ling Dalley, Jack Tucker, Danny Majefski and Joey Moss. Honorary pallbear-ers are the Cow Palace cof-fee group. Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday evening. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

HERNANDEZPaulo Acevedo Hernan-

dez, age 53, died Febru-ary 3, 2013 at his home in Nixon. He was born in Mexico on June 29, 1959 to Felicitas Hernandez and Luis Acevedo.

A visitation was held Friday, Feb. 8, at Finch Fu-

neral Chapel in Nixon with a Rosary recited by Dea-con John Moreno. Other services and interment will take place in Venadito Mexquitic de Carmona, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The guest book may be signed on-line at www.finchfuneralchapels.com.


WALLEKWilliam “Willie” Wallek

Jr. was born March 27, 1931 to William Wallek Sr. and Betty Mary (Gregorczwk) Wallek. He passed away Thursday, February 7, 2013 at the age of 81 years. Wil-liam is preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Jill Lynn LeBlanc; son, Kerry Lee Wallek; sisters, Roberta Walker, Helen Parker. He is survived by his loving wife, Betty Wallek of Nixon, TX; daughters, Cynthia Susan Havelka and husband Steve of Stockdale, TX; Peggy Jo Adams and husband Clint of San Antonio, TX; grandchildren, Ashley Ad-ams, Megan Adams, Cara Adams all of San Antonio, TX, Christopher Michael LeBlanc of Austin, TX. A visitation will be held Sat-urday, February 9, 2013 at Finch Funeral Chapel from 5:00PM to 7:00PM.

Service was held Sunday, February 10, 2013 at Finch Funeral Chapel in Nixon with Rev. George Bradley officiating. Interment fol-lowed at the Nixon Cem-etery. Memorial donations may be made to the Nixon First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 20, Nix-on, Texas 78140 or the MS Society, 8111 N. Stadium Drive, Suite 100 Houston, TX 77054.


William Phelon Mercer, 1917-2013

MERCERWilliam Phelon Mercer,

95, passed away Tuesday, February 12, 2013. He was born October 30, 1917 in Fentress to Phelon and Minnie Eeds Mercer. Bill married the love of his life, Josephine Elizabeth Schul-tz, on May 3, 1941 in Gon-zales and they have been blessed with over 71 beau-tiful years together.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, a life member of the following; VFW Post 4817, American Legion Post 40 and the Gonzales I.O.O.F. Lodge 38. He had been a member and Past President of the Gonzales Lions Club.

Bill graduated from Gonzales High School and joined the Texas National Guard in 1935 at the age of 17. He was called into active duty and was part of the 36th Division, 141st Infantry 3rd Battalion and attained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In 1942, he joined the Army Air Corp and received his wings in 1943.

Bill was an instructor pi-lot for C-46 and C-47 air-planes. He received orders in to go overseas in March of 1945 and on the 17th day of September of that

year he landed on a Tokyo airstrip as part of General MacArthur’s team of Ma-jors and Generals, just a few days after Japan sur-rendered to Allied Forces. Captain William P. Mercer had earned many citations and medals for his honor-able service to his country, to name a few: Philippine Liberation Ribbon, Dis-tinguished Unit Citation Badge, and the Asiatic-Pa-cific Campaign Medal with two bronze service stars.

As a young man, Bill learned the value and harsh reality of hard work as he helped his father prepare fields for cotton by driving a two mule plow. This was back-breaking work, but Bill always realized a great sense of satisfaction for a job well done – a philoso-phy he carried with him through his life. Bill had worked as the manager for the Smiley Feed Co-op and managed Holmes Foods in Nixon before starting his own bookkeeping service in 1961 in Gonzales. Bill retired in 1980 and later accepted the position of Gonzales County Veterans Officer, a position he held for 10 years.

Bill Mercer was a de-voted husband, loving father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was an honorable, soft spoken, caring man who always put the needs of others before his own. He exemplified the term “true gentleman.” He adored his family and attended all of his grand-children’s functions.

Bill enjoyed fishing the waters of the Texas coast and cat fishing in local waters as well. He liked to hunt quail and loved tend-ing to his cattle. He delight-ed in playing dominoes, 42 and moon especially and his mastery of the game has his children and grandchil-dren puzzled still.

Bill Mercer is survived by his wife, Josephine E. Mercer; daughter, JoAnn Mercer; son and daughter-in-law, Larry J. and Mary Beth Mercer, all of Gonza-les; daughter-in-law, Linda Mercer and her husband L.R. Martindale; grandchil-dren, Clayton Baker and his wife Tamela, Michael Mercer and his wife Kris-ti, Sarah Mercer Barnett and her husband James; and great-grandchildren, J.D. Baker, Kristyn Baker, Brendon Mercer, Blakely Mercer and Cory Taylor. He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, Rob-ert William (Bob) Mer-cer, grandson, Jason Scott Baker, a brother, Samuel Marion Mercer, and a sis-ter, Mary Elizabeth Thiem.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Satur-day, February 16, 2013 in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home with Pastor Andy Smith and Rev. Chad Chamness offici-ating. Interment will follow in the Gonzales I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Pallbearers are Gary Baker, L.R. Martin-dale, August Etlinger, Elgin Heinemeyer, Tommy Huber and Genaro Saldana. Hon-orary pallbearers are Ray-mond Neitsch, Sr., members of VFW Post 4817, Ameri-can Legion Post 40, and Gonzales I.O.O.F. Lodge 38.

In lieu of flowers please make memorial contribu-tions to the Gonzales Coun-ty Veterans Memorial Asso-ciation, (GCVMA) 562 CR 238 Gonzales, Texas 78629 or Accolade Hospice, 222 West Grand Ave. Yoakum, Texas 77995 or to the char-ity of one’s choice.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday eve-ning. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.


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The Shiner Catholic School cast and crew invite you to a public performance of “Hopes and Words and Ordinary Things” at 6:30 on Thursday, February 21. Pictured back row left to right: Jenna Wenske, Audrey Green, Kameron Knesek, Kristofer Knesek, Alyssa Kutac, Parker Clay, Pilar Romero. Middle: Patrick Green, Sydney Mikes, Darby Johnson, Jessi Pesek. Front Row: Bailey Blair, Delynn Pesek, Ashley Wacsmuth, and Hope Kapavik. Not pictured: Riley Johnson

The cast and crew of the Shiner Catholic School Ju-nior High One Act Play cor-dially invite you to the pub-lic performance of “Hopes and Words and Ordinary Things” by Ronald Burke at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Shiner Catholic School gym. A $4 dona-tion to defray production expenses will be requested at the door.

A reception will be imme-diately follow in the school cafeteria. Set in the early 1900’s, this short play is complete with a town bum (Delynn Pesek), a town cop (Alyssa Kutac), and a local brat (Ashley Wacsmuth). The show unfolds in the park of Maple Springs, Mis-souri where painter Alison Drake (Darby Johnson) longs to take her career to the big city. Eric (Kameron Knesek) hopes she will not leave but is reluctant to in-terfere. Other members of the cast are Audrey Green, Parker Clay, Bailey Blair, Hope Kapavik, Patrick Green, Sydney Mikes, Jessi Pesek, and Kristofer Kne-sek. Crew members are Pi-lar Romero (sound), Jenna Wenske (lights) and Riley Johnson (stage manager).

The ensemble will com-pete in the PSIA District Four Meet on February 23 at Seguin High School. The public is encourage to come out and support the perfor-mance which is fourth out of eight productions that will run continuously that day beginning at 8:00 a.m. Two of the eight plays will be selected to advance to the state competition in May.

SAN ANTONIO — Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio released the fol-lowing statement upon hearing of the Pope Benedict’s announced resignation:

“I received the announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation with great sur-prise, but with the confidence that he reached this difficult decision after much prayer and reflection. The Holy Father’s love for God and the Church, and his unselfish spirit of service to God’s people were clearly deciding factors that led to his decision.

“Pope Benedict has been an important

force for people of faith and good will around the world. His contributions to the life of the Church will be felt for generations to come. During my participation in the recent Synod on the New Evangelization I was struck by the Pope’s level of constant and effective par-ticipation. His spirituality, his wisdom and his unfailing dedication will remain a source of inspiration to me and all Catholics.

“Let us pray for a long and peaceful retire-ment for the Holy Father and call upon the Holy Spirit to once again guide the Conclave as they select a new Pontiff.”

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It is going to be a little different this season for the Apache baseball team.

The program will have seniors after having none last year.

The 2012 juniors pro-vided leadership and role models to the younger players and will do so again in 2013.

This time as seniors.Dylan Gomez, August

Bordvosky, Devin Benes, Tyler Janota, Aaron Gaytan and Trey Kridler are ready to accept the call of giving guidance and leadership to their underclassmen team-mates.

“It feels good being out here being a leader,” Benes said. “Helping everyone out to the point where we make the playoffs.”

Without leadership last year ,the team had to grow up fast through a challeng-ing time.

“Without senior leader-ship, it was a little difficult to get by,” Janota said. “This year, I think we have start-

ed making the right steps such as making progress in pre-season practice.”

Benes said it was tough last year not having any se-niors to be able to look up to and follow.

“We were able to come together and having six seniors this year will help to build things up for next year’s seniors,”Kridler said.

Leadership in seniors is usually developed, starting

before the season and is a work in progress through-out it.

The baseball class of 2013 got a little early start on the training.

“Not having seniors last

year required the juniors to take on the leadership role and that helped prepare things for this year,” Gomez said. “We got an extra sea-son to learn how to be good leaders.”

“Having seniors will make it easier because the younger players will know who to turn to for help,” Bordvosky said.

Gaytan said the 2013 seniors have built a solid foundation over the years.

“We work hard from day to day, and are trying to improve from last year,” he said. “We are trying to step it up and be leaders to the underclassmen this year.”

“Last year, we had to learn leadership and going into the start of this sea-son, we pretty much have it down,” Janota said.”We are ready to take what anyone throws at us this year.”

Benes is looking forward to teaching this year under-classmen about the game of baseball and how to step up when Benes and his fellow seniors depart the pro-gram.

Janota said the seniors have already begun the process of giving guidance to the younger players.

Gomez said the seniors will teach the youngers players how to be focused, take things seriously and

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Shiner’s Hannah Koenning tosses the ball to Meagan Chumchal (far left) as Three Rivers’s Haleigh Garcia has her hands up in defensive mode during Shiner’s win over the Lady Bulldogs Tuesday in the Class 1A Division I bi‑district playoff game. (Photo by Mark Lube)

STOCKDALE — Shin-er’s 2012-13 playoff run got out to a great start on Tues-day as a team effort pushed the Lady Comanches past Three Rivers, 74-31, in the bi-district round at Stock-dale High School.

“That was a really good game,” remarked junior Julianna Rankin. “Every-one contributed. We played defense well and stopped people from scoring, and we protected the paint. I am surrounded by a good group of girls.”

“We had a great start to the game,” Lady Co-manches head coach John Hoelter said. “The defense created lots of turnovers and easy baskets. That is our thing we do.”

Hoelter said the offensive execution was improved in the second half of the game.

During a Shiner girls game, every player gets into the game and nearly every player scores. So it was not a concern of Hoelter’s when junior starter Amanise Coleman went down with an injury about halfway through the third quarter.

“The other girls stepped up,” he said. “And that is why I play everyone.”

Shiner (28-6) will meet up with La Ville (16-16) in the area-round contest that will be played at 7 p.m. Friday in Tuscolo-Midway High School in Corpus Christi.

Shiner raced out to a 11-0 lead in the first quarter with a flood of turnovers and rebounds — Rankin as-sisted on a LaNeisha Hunt

three, Hunt got a steal and the that series ended with a Lauren Oden bucket off the feed from Kristin Sch-acherl, and Hunt got her second field goal after the assist from Coleman who had grabbed a defensive board at the other end. Later, Schacherl put back a missed shot and Shamyra Coleman scored off the pass from sister Amanise.

Three Rivers managed a score when Haleigh Garcia got a steal to setup Lacey McNeil.

It was six straight points for Shiner as baskets from Rankin, Shamyra Coleman and Hunt. Garcia got a steal and score to bring Three Rivers to within 17-4, and Schacherl’s bucket capped first-quarter scoring.

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make the best use of their time.

Kridler said the seniors just want to help the young-er players get through each practice session and im-prove from each session.

“The underclassmen will do well in the next couple for years,” he said. “I just hope they continue to learn things from us.”

Benes is very optimistic about the season that about to get underway.

“I think we are going to be pretty good this year,” he said. “We have all of our starters coming back.”

The Apaches’ last playoff appearance was in 2009.

Janota and Co. are hop-ing to end the drought this season.

“I think we can go to the playoffs this year,” Janota said. “It is going to be a tough road, but I think we can do it.”

“I am looking forward to the season because I think

we have a chance at the playoffs,” Gaytan said.

“Playoffs will be up a rough road but I feel we can get there,” Kridler said.

“I feel we have a better chance of playoffs,” Bord-vosky said. “It will be more difficult.”

“With this being our last year, I am hoping we get to the playoffs and make a good run,” Gomez said.

Gonzales will face La Grange, Giddings and Smithville in district after seeing some of them each year in tournaments and other pre-district games.

“Beating those teams will be a challenge,” Benes said. “I am looking forward to playing them.”

“From what I hear, Gid-dings is pretty good,” Jano-ta said. “Losing Poteet and Sam Houston means we have to work harder for those four extra wins. It will be interesting.”

“Cuero and Yoakum are evenly matched while La Grange is right up there

with them,” Kridler said. “I feel we can tough it through

those teams,” Kridler said.

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ScoreboardBasketBall

BOYSDistrict 26-3A Standings

District Overall La Grange 7-3 21-9Yoakum 6-4 11-19Smithville 6-4 20-13Giddings 6-4 16-13Cuero 4-6 14-15Gonzales 0-10 4-26Friday’s game results – La Grange 56, Gonzales 44; Yoakum 60, Smithville 59; Giddings 39, Cuero 33Tuesday’s game results – Cuero 50, Yoakum 42; Smithville 77, La Grange 55; Giddings xx, Gonzales xx

District 28-2A Standings District Overall Hallettsville 10-2 21-8Poth 8-4 16-11Schulenburg 7-5 15-7Stockdale 6-6 14-9Luling 5-7 5-19Nixon-Smiley 4-8 12-7Karnes City 2-10 3-15

District 31-1A, DII Standings District Overall Moulton 8-0 22-9Waelder 6-2 16-14Austwell-Tivoli 1-3 1-8Nordheim 0-4 0-12*Prairie Lea 0-0 0-1Friday’s game results – Waelder 71, Austwell-Tivoli 60Tuesday’s game results – Moulton 56, Waelder 54Playoff game schedule – Feb. 18: Waelder vs. San Perlita, 6 p.m., Beeville Jones

GIRLSDistrict 26-3A Standings

District Overall Smithville 10-0 25-7Yoakum 8-2 23-9Giddings 5-5 19-13Gonzales 3-7 5-26La Grange 3-7 7-19Cuero 2-8 6-24Tuesday’s playoff results – Yoakum 57, Needville 50 (OT); Giddings 39, Sealy 38Playoff game schedule – Feb. 14: Yoakum vs. Boerne, 7 p.m., Seguin

District 28-2A Standings District Overall Schulenburg 11-1 20-5Poth 11-1 23-5Karnes City 7-5 21-7Hallettsville 6-6 17-14Nixon-Smiley 5-7 18-10Stockdale 2-10 17-15Luling 0-12 5-24Playoff game results – Blanco 50, Karnes City 41; Schulenburg 50, Comfort 30

District 29-1A, DI Standings District Overall Shiner 7-1 26-7Weimar 6-2 24-8Ganado 4-4 18-6Flatonia 2-6 5-28Louise 0-8 0-11 Playoff game results – Shiner 74, Three Rivers 31; Ganado 63, Pettus 27Playoff game schedule – Feb. 15: Shiner vs. La Villa, 7 p.m., Tuscola Midway; Ganado vs. Port Aransas, 6:30 p.m., Refugio

District 31-1A, DII Standings District Overall Moulton 8-0 18-12Austwell-Tivoli 7-2 18-7Prairie Lea 6-2 10-5Nordheim 0-6 0-14Waelder 0-6 4-18Playoff game results – Corpus Christi New London 44, Austwell-Tivoli 41; Tilden McMullen County 41, Prairie Lea 26Playoff game schedule – Feb. 15: Moulton vs. Rocksprings, 7:30 p.m., Smithson Valley

Results from the San Marcos Meet held on Feb. 9

(Area athletes only. Listed by class, place, lifter, school, squat, bench, deadlift, total)

Girls132, 2. Laci Lock, Gonzales, 660165, 5. Elea Molina, Gonzales,

705220, 2. Erika Hernandez, Gon-

zales, 825Boys114, 7. Jacob Villereal, Gonzales,

540123, 1. Josh Estrada, Gonzales,

890; 6. Alex Palomo, Luling, 715132, 2. Tyler Wells, Gonzales,

880; 5. Dalton Couch, Gonzales, 845

181, 3. D.J. Gonzales, Gonzales, 1,170; 4. Jamie Tellez, Gonzales, 1,160; 10. Eddie Gonzalez, Gonza-les, 1,045; 15. Josh Trevino, Luling, 955

198, 15. Walter Hood, Gonzales, 660

220, 6. Anthony Casares, Gon-zales, 1,045; 10. Colton Aleman, Luling, 765

242, 6. Brian Dolezal, Gonzales, 1,225

275, 3. Levi Snider, Gonzales,

1,275275, 9. Brian Swift, Gonzales,

1,030SHW, 8. Donte Green, Luling,

1,240; 13. Caleb Magallanez, Luling, 985

Results from the Stockdale In-vitational held on Feb. 9

Boys123, 2. Tom Palacio, Nixon-

Smiley, 825; 6. Michael Chomot, Yoakum, 590

132, 1. Miguel Hernandez, Nixon-Smiley, 985; 2. Lane Faust, Yoakum, 940

148, 4. Jerod Garza, Yoakum, 925; 6. Nathan Thiry, Yoakum, 875

165, 1. Jacob Perez, Nixon-Smiley, 1,130; 4. Hector Compose, Nixon-Smiley, 920; 8. Ryan Gasch, Yoakum, 620

181, 9. Ricky Camarillo, Yoa-kum, 930

198, 4. Oscar Torres, Nixon-Smiley, 1,040

242, 5. Neal Formalo, Yoakum, 1,100

275, 2. Logan McMain, Nixon-Smiley, 1,335

SENIORS: Looking to qualify for postseason for first time since 2009

BRIEFS

Apaches finish second at San Marcos Meet

TAPPS 2A, District 5 Standings

Dist Overall NB Christian 11-0 20-8Austin Waldorf 10-1 21-8Shiner St. Paul 5-6 6-9Austin Veritas 4-7 10-19Sacred Heart 2-9 7-13First Baptist 5-6 3-8John Paul II 2-10 12-19Last Friday’s game results – New Braunfels Christian 52, Austin Veritas 46; Austin Waldorf 65, Hallettsville Sacred Heart 60; First Baptist Academy 45, John Paul II 37Tuesday’s game results – New Braunfels Academy 100, Hallettsville Sacred Heart 88Friday’s game schedule – Austin Veritas at Shiner St. Paul, 6 p.m.;

TAPPS 2A, District 5 Standings

Dist Overall Sacred Heart 9-2 17-4Austin Waldorf 8-3 23-8NB Christian 8-3 18-9Shiner St. Paul 6-5 12-10John Paul II 5-6 16-12

Powerlifting

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Continued from page B1

District 29-1A, DI Standings District Overall Shiner 7-1 8-5Weimar 6-2 2-9Flatonia 5-3 9-18Ganado 2-6 3-6Louise 0-8 0-13Friday’s game results – Shiner 45, Weimar 37; Flatonia 46, Ganado 30Tuesday’s game results – Shiner 60, Louise 34; Weimar 51, Ganado 29

BoxscoresShiner 60, Louise 34

S 22 12 10 16-60L 5 10 12 7-34Shiner: Justin Stovall 23, Evel Jones 13, Caleb Kalich 10, Cole Strauss 7, Kris Patek 3, Rigo Baray 3, Caleb Murrile 1.

second period with three of the first five points. Shiner then went on a 10-0 run with baskets from Sha-myra Coleman, Rankin, Amanise Coleman, Han-nah Koenning and Rankin. Schacherl, Hunt, Mea-gan Chumchal and Lenae Kremling all picked up as-sists.

The teams then split the final 16 points for a 39-15 Lady Comanche lead at the halftime buzzer.

The Lady Comanches got the third quarter start-ed with the first 18 points, with Chumchal adding her name to the scoring book after converting a pass from Rankin.

The Lady’ Dogs stopped the run with a jumper from

Kaitlyn Roberts and they closed out the quarter with four of six points.

Shiner outscored Three Rivers just 15-10 in the fi-nal stanza of the game and was led by seven points from Rankin who finished as the game’s leading scorer with 21 points.

Game SummaryShiner 74, Three Rivers 31Class 1A Division I bi-district

TR 4 11 6 10-31S 19 20 20 15-74Three Rivers: Lacey McNeil

2 2-3 6, Kaitlyn Roberts 3 0-0 6, McKenzie Ruiz 1 3-3 5, Briana Ruiz 2 0-0 4, Brittany Shipman 2 0-0 4, Brittani Benham 0 2-2 2, Kaitlyn Shipman 1 0-0 2. Totals 12 5-8 31.

Shiner: Julianna Rankin 10 1-2 21, LaNeisha Hunt 7 0-2 15, Lauren Oden 5 0-1 10, Kristin Schacherl 4 0-2 8, Shamyra Cole-man 3 1-2 7, Meagan Chumchal 2 1-2 5, Amanise Coleman 2 0-0 4, Hannah Koenning 2 0-0 4. Totals 35 3-11 74.


SHINER: Led by Rankin’s 21 points and 15 from Hunt, next play La Villa

Austin Veritas 0-8 0-8First Baptist 0-9 0-9Tuesday’s game results – Shiner St. Paul 70, John Paul II 57

BoxscoresShiner St. Paul 70, John Paul II 57SP 14 13 18 25-70JPII 9 21 13 14-57St. Paul: Jacey Pawelek 11 4-5 26, Mary Adamek 5 4-6 15, Alexa Schaefer 4 1-2 10, Kourtney Kne-sek 1 3-4 5, Abby Irvin 2 1-2 5, Katelynn Leist 2 1-2 5, Loni Lester 1 1-2 3, Bethany Pokluda 0 1-4 1. Totals 26 16-27 70.

February 14Powerlifting - Gonzales meet,

4:30 p.m.Softball - Gonzales, Luling at

Navarro Tournament; Yoakum at Victoria Tournament

February 15Boys BasketballDistrict 26-3A Playoff Play-in

Tournament - Yoakum vs Smith-ville/Giddings, 7 p.m., Columbus

SoftballLuling at Navarro Tournament ;

Shiner at Altair Rice, 5, 6:30 p.m.; Yoakum at Victoria Tournament; Gonzales at Schulenburg, 6 p.m.

schedule

February 16SoftballGonzales, Luling at Navarro

Tournament; Pettus at Nixon-Smiley, 11 a.m.; Yoakum at Victoria Tournament, TBA

TrackGonzales, Yoakum at Gonzales

Tri-meet, 9 a.m.February 18Boys basketballClass 1A Division I playoff prac-

tice game - Shiner at Yorktown, 6 p.m.

SoftballCedar Creek at Gonzales, Mon-

day, 6:30 p.m.February 19SoftballNavarro at Luling, 5, 7 p.m.;

Victoria West at Yoakum, 5, 7 p.m.; Nixon-Smiley at Victoria St. Joseph JV, 6 p.m.

BaseballNixon-Smiley at Hallettsville

Sacred Heart, 6p.m.; Yoakum at Victoria West , 5, 7 p.m.; Shiner at Hallettsville, 6 p.m.

GolfGonzales girls at Navarro Tour-

nament, SeguinFebruary 20GolfGonzales boys at Navarro Tour-

nament, Seguin

rankings

Here is the Preseason Poll according to the Texas Girls

Coaches Association:Class 1A1. Flatonia, 2. Sam Rayburn, 3. Petrolia, 4. Ganado, 5. Beckville, 6. Alto, 7. Avery, 8. Harleton, 9. Blue Ridge, 10. North Zulch

The Gonzales Apaches powerlifting team came in second place at the San Marcos Rattlers meet on Saturday with 21 points.

Josh Estrada won the 123-pound class with a total of 890 pounds, Tyler Wells was second in the 132 with 880, D.J. Gonzales was third in the 181 with

1,170 and Levi Snyder was third in the 275 with 1,275.

The Lady Apaches came in eighth in the meet. Laci Lock was second in the 132 with 660 and Erika Her-nandez was second in the 220 with 825.

In the Stockdale Invita-tional, the Nixon-Smiley Mustangs won runner-up with 28 points and Yoakum was in ninth place with 13 points.

For Nixon-Smiley, Miguel Hernandez won top spot in the 132 with 985; Ja-cob Perez won the 165 with 1,130; Tom Palacio came in

second in the 123 class with 825 and Logan McMain came in second in the 275 with 1,335.

Yoakum’ Lane Faust was second in the 132 with 940.

Apaches to hold track tri-meet

The Gonzales Apaches track team will be holding

a practice-style Tri-Meet Saturday at the high school track. Gonzales will be hosting Yoakum and Na-varro.

Field events will start at 9 a.m., and the running events will start after the conclusion of field events.

Running events will be held on a rolling sched-

ule in the following order: 800-meter run,100 hurdles, 110 hurdles, 100 dash, 300 hurdles, 200 dash, 1600 run and 4x400 relay.

GHS tennis team at Yoa-kum Tourney

The Gonzales tennis team was in action in the

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Glass signs cross country letter with West Texas A&M

LULING — Two-time state cross country run-ner Carley Glass added her name to the list of Luling runners who have gone on to the next level.

She signed a national letter of intent with West Texas A&M on Wednesday afternoon at Luling Gym.

Luling head cross coun-try coach Michael Barnett has had around a dozen or so athletes from his cross country programs go on to compete at the college level.

“West Texas A&M is a great choice for Carly. It is a great program,” he said. “She has a chance to do very well.”

Glass has had a rich ca-reer in high school cross country under the guid-ance of Barnett. She has won two individual district titles, two regional indi-vidual championship titles and two individual state ti-tles. Glass also had success in distance-running events on the track team.

Barnett said Glass has been a great example of how to approach cross country with her work eth-ic as a Lady Eagle.

“Carly has been a real hard worker,” he said. “She was very committed to the team and has always been a

good role model. I am hap-py for Carly and her family. She has a great chance at making the team.”

“I am very excited to be headed to West Texas A&M. It will be a great experience for me,” Glass said.

She said she pretty much loved everything about the school and the program.

“I liked the campus, the

team, the head coach,” Glass said. “It feels like a great fit.”

West Texas A&M wom-en’s cross country program won their first-ever Lone Star Conference (LSC) title in 2012, came in fifth place at the 2012 NCAA Division II South Central Regional Tournament, and qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championships.

The Lady Buffs came in at No. 11 at Nationals. The team is coached by head coach Kimberly Dudley, who has been in that posi-tion for 17 years.

Like any high school ath-lete that will do their sport at the collegiate level, Glass is expecting different and tougher routines in college cross country.

“I will probably have a

lot more mileage in train-ing and the race distances are longer,” she said.

Glass said her academic plans are to pursue a degree in Elementary Education.

Glass was more than just one runner adding to Luling tradition of cross country and track excel-lence.

She competed on the volleyball team and had

an outstanding basketball career, setting or breaking a couple of scoring and re-bounding records.

Glass will really miss be-ing around loved one and fans.

“I’ll miss my family, team, Coach Barnett and running cross country at Luling,” she said.

Family members surround Carly Glass last Wednesday at her signing of a national letter of intent to run cross country for Division II school West Texas A&M. Seated from left is Carl Glass, Sr., Jo Anna Glass, Carly Glass, Luling cross country coach Michael Barnett, Pres-ley Belsher. Standing from left is Danny Belsher, Robin Belsher, Vanessa Glass and Jayda Glass. (Photo by Mark Lube)


Yoakum tournament last Thursday and Friday.

Varsity boys doubles Josh Estrada and Zack Hernan-dez took second place to Victoria West’s Beneet and Charoepeanlert. Boys dou-bles team Francisco Diaz and Gareth Fowler took fourth place overall after falling to Columbus’s Wei-do and Castro 8-5.

The varsity girls double team of Alejandra Diaz and Shenan Owen won fourth place.

In junior varsity girls doubles, Alyson Solis and A’lora Rother won third place in a match against Lu-cero Luna and Juana San-chez. In boys doubles, Rene Bibas and Eli Whitescarver took third place.

Lifegate Golf Tourney slated

The 11th annual Lifegate Falcon Athletics Golf Tour-nament is on for Saturday, May 18th at Starcke Park Municipal Golf Course in Seguin.

A field of 64 or more golfers is expected to par-ticipate and enjoy the fun

to help Lifegate Christian School raise funds for the school’s varsity, junior high and physical education ath-letic activities.

The tournament is a four-person Florida Scramble, with an 8 a.m. start. Reg-istration starts at 7:30 a.m. Lunch and beverages will be provided. There are still team and individual player openings available. Hole and other sponsorship op-portunities also are avail-able.

Golfers can register in advance by calling John Ra-bon at the school, 830-372-0850 (e-mail: [email protected]) or on the day of the tournament, space permitting.

Golfers compete for team and individual priz-es, including $150 to each member of the winning net score team. Other prizes will be given to lowest gross score and longest drive. Soechting Motors is again sponsoring the “Hole-in-One” contest hole, where the winner can drive off in a 2013 GMC truck valued over $20,000. Other spe-cial prize contests are also planned. Sponsors can

contact Brad Akin at (830) 582-1511 (e-mail: [email protected])

Lifegate athletes will be on hand to help out duffers with “Mulligan” tickets for $5 each. Other contests will be announced at tour-nament registration.

Malatek Catfish Tour-ney set

The 9th Annual Alvis Malatek Catfish Tourna-ment will take place on March 21-23 at Boomer’s Sports Bar.

The event is a fundraiser for two scholarships that will be given to Gonzales County seniors. Fee is $25 per person and all proceeds go to the scholarship fund.

All members of a team must be signed up by mid-night on March 21 and must fish out of the same camp in public waters in Gonzales County. Lines can be put out prior to the tournament, but cannot be baited. If baited prior to daybreak on March 21, team will be forced to for-feit.

For more information, call 830-672-6098.

BRIEFS: Golf tournament scheduled for Lifegate


Moulton nips Waelder to claim district championship

WAELDER – The Moult-on Bobkatz earned another district title by beating longtime rival Waelder, 56-54, Tuesday night.

Bobkatz head coach Kev-in Fishbeck continued to add fuel to the fiery rivalry by picking up his third con-secutive win over Waelder after losing seven straight.

“First and foremost, I want to congratulate our kids and their kids,” he said. “This was typical Moulton-Waelder basketball. Rank-ings and seedings go out the window when we play each other.”

The loss gave Moulton a season sweep over Waelder, who are led this season by first-year head coach David President.

“Tonight was a tough one for the guys because we have four seniors who wanted to get this win,” he said. “The main thing is now we have to regroup and get ready because it’s playoff time. We’re going to get after it because we know what’s at stake.”

“We started the begin-ning of the year being up and down, but now we’re starting to peak. Moulton is a great ball club and I expect them to get all the way to the regional tourna-ment. Depending on how the chips fall, hopefully we will see them there.”

Bronson Zapata had a game-high 22 points for Moulton, who also got a double-digit perfor-mance from Matt Dornak. Waelder’s Clay Orona was red-hot from downtown and drained five three-pointers for a team-high 15 points.

Moulton came out fir-ing on all cylinders to open the game. Tyler Swartz got the first bucket, stole the ball and converted at the other end to give the ‘Katz a quick 4-0 lead. Matt Dor-nak added a layup before Deondrae Fields stopped the run to make it 6-2 at the five-minute mark.

Following a Bronson Zapata jumper, Dornak dropped in a three and a steal by Dallas Rothbauer led to an easy score to put Moulton up 15-2. Waelder’s Jeremy Gonzales made a

runner from the elbow and Zapata’s shot gave Moulton a 20-4 lead at the end of the first.

Early in the second peri-od, a jumper from Dornak and a three by Zapata in-creased the Bobkat advan-tage to 26-8. Waelder got back into the game, led by two triples from Orona to make the score 28-14 with 4:11 left in the half.

Zapata connected on another bomb before Matt Orsak stuck back his own miss. Zapata closed the period with a jumper and Moulton was up at half-time, 37-17.

Waelder got a boost from their signature full court press and after a dribble drive by Fields, Orona was true from beyond the arc to make the score 43-30. The Wildcats continued to come back and thanks to trifectas from Tiburcio Blanton and Caleb Ibarra, they cut the lead down to four points by the period’s end.

Blanton got back-to-back layups on assists from Orona and Jeremy Gonza-les to tie the game before Blanton’s short jumper gave

Waelder its’ first lead at 49-47.

The Bobkatz pushed back in front and after free throws from Rothbauer, they led 52-49 with three minutes left. Waelder’s Jo-seph McCook banked one in from the lane to make the score 54-51, but Dor-nak got a layup on the

other end to account for Moulton’s final score.

With less than a minute to play, Fields drove the lane and got the hoop and the harm. His free throw made the score 56-54, but Moulton held on for the win.

Game Summary

Moulton 56, Waelder 54M 20 17 8 11–56W 4 13 24 13–54Moulton: Bronson Zapata 7 4-4

22, Matt Dornak 6 0-1 14, Dallas Rothbauer 3 0-2 6, Matt Orsak 1 0-0 2, Tyler Swartz 3 2-2 8, Jaydon Nieto 2 0-0 4.

Waelder: Jeremy Gonzales 2 2-3 6, Caleb Ibarra 1 0-0 3, De-ondrae Fields 4 3-4 11, Tiburcio Blanton 4 2-2 11, Joseph McCook 2 2-2 6, Juan Gonzales 1 0-0 2, Clay Orona 5 0-0 15.

By CEDRIC [email protected]

Waelder’s Tiburcio Blanton faces off with Moulton’s Dallas Rothbauer during the Bobkatz win Tuesday night. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

Built Ford Tough Texas High School Players of the Week Cecil Johnson of Gonzales High School and Adam Hollenbach of Shiner St. Paul High School attended the Built Ford Tough Texas High School Player of the Year Banquet at Cowboys Stadium Satur-day Feb. 9 in Arlington.

The banquet, which hon-ors this year’s Player of The Week seniors, is put on each year by Ford Motor Company and Fox Sports Southwest. It recognizes each senior winner and se-lects one individual from each classification to be the Player of The Year.

Both of the local senior winners were recognized for their achievements on and off the field. Although neither won the prestigious Player of The Year award for their division, just be-ing able to attend and being selected Player of The Week was quite an achievement itself.

The banquet consisted of a tour of Cowboys Sta-dium, a sit down dinner in the Cowboys locker room, and awards ceremony in the Cowboys locker room. Among the speakers were

Randy Rodgers of Randy Rodgers Recruiting, Ric Renner from Fox Sports, and linebacker Sean Lee of the Dallas Cowboys.

This year’s Cannon Co-MVP’s have a lot to be proud of and represented

our area with class. The banquet was filmed

by Fox Sports and will be aired on Fox Sports South-west on Sunday, Feb. 24 at 10 p.m., Monday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m.

Adam Hollenbach (left) and Cecil Johnson recently attended the Built Ford Tough Texas High School Player of the Banquet. (Courtesy photo)

Local high school football stars attend Built Ford Tough event

Shiner wraps up share of district title

SHINER — It has started to become a tradition for the Shiner boys basketball team.

The Comanches (7-5, 6-1) rallied against Wei-mar, 45-37, Friday in Shin-er for their third district undisputed or shared title in a row and their fourth in five years.

“This feels really good right now,” senior Evel Jones said. “We have prac-ticed hard for this.”

The Comanches closed out the regular season at Louise on Tuesday, win-ning 60-34 to claim the title outright. Shiner will play at Yorktown on Monday at 6 p.m. in a playoff practice game.

Current Shiner head coach Noe McCarthy said the efforts of his predeces-sors laid the groundwork for the success of the Shiner Cagers.

“Coach Bone (Wendell Boner) and Coach (Billy)

Turek got our tradition go-ing,” he said.

Shiner and Weimar end-ed the first frame with a 15-15 tie. The Comanches had nine points from Jones, and three from Kris Patek and Justin Stovall. Ja’Kye Harris and Ortis Newhouse buck-eted four points each for the Wildcats.

The second frame had sparse scoring as Weimar held a 9-6 advantage and was lead by five points from Torre Johnson. Caleb Kalich sank four points for the Comanches and Patek hit two free throws to finish with two points.

The scoreboard became very unfriendly toward the ‘Cats during the third frame. They literally missed every single field-goal at-tempt they made and were held to one point coming on a free throw from Jacob Sedlar.

The Comanches spaced out three baskets to go ahead 28-24 — a jumper from Jones, Stovall scoring on a layup after getting a re-

bound on the opposite end of the court and Chad Neu-bauer draining a triple after the feed from Cole Strauss.

Near the end of the pe-riod, Strauss got an of-fensive board and hit the second-chance shot to put the Comanches ahead 30-25 to head into the fourth quarter.

“We played better de-fense in the second half. We contested a lot of Weimar’s shots,” McCarthy said. “We gave up too many inside re-bounds.”

Shiner also made im-provements in their offen-sive production.

“A few of our shooters were able to wiggle through the defense and get open,” he said.

“After halftime, we cut down on the turnovers, passed the ball around and made our open shots,” Jones said.

An early fourth-quarter steal and score by Stovall was answered by a put-back shot by Newhouse. Jones made a free throw, and he

got a steal and converted a layup.

After Weimar had made another shot, Stovall got two baskets to send Shiner ahead 39-29. A Neubauer free throw extended that lead by a point.

The ‘Cats then went on a 6-0 run to be down just 40-35. A triple by Jones sent Shiner on a 5-2 run to close out the game.

The win was also the 300th for McCarthy, who has also coached at Somer-ville, Bellville and Fayette-ville before making his way to Shiner.

Game SummaryShiner 45, Weimar 37W 15 9 1 12-37S 15 6 9 15-45Weimar: Ortis Newhouse 5 0-2

10, Juwana Almedia 2 0-0 5, Jacob Sedlar 2 1-2 5, Torre Johnson 2 0-0 5, Ja’Kye Harris 2 0-0 4, Payton Wells 2 0-0 4, Clay Kansteiner 0 2-3 2, Seth Chadwick 1 0-1 2. To-tals 16 3-12 37.

Shiner: Evel Jones 6 1-2 17, Jus-tin Stovall 5 2-4 13, Kris Patek 1 2-2 5, Caleb Kalich 2 0-0 4, Chad Neubauer 1 1-2 4,Cole Strauss 1 0-0 2. Totals 16 6-10 45.


Jacey Pawelek pulls the trigger on a jumper over some tight defense during St. Paul’s 70-57 win over John Paul II. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)

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LOST: Black cushion on 97 or 304. Call 830-857-3023.--------------------------FOUND: Female Border Collie found at Cannonade Ranch field, close to Southern Clay Pit. No tags, chain was hooked on. Please call 540-4365.

FREE GED classes, day (M T W and Th, 8 30 to noon) and night (M and W 6 30 to 9), Gonzales Learning Center, 1135 St. Paul, 672-8291. --------------------------Job Corps is cur-rently enrolling stu-

dents aged 16-24 in over 20 vocational trades at no-cost! Will help students get drivers license GED or High School diploma and col-lege training if qualified. For more info call 512-665-7327.

Primrose Oil Com-pany, an organiza-tion since 1916, seeks sales reps for commercial, indus-trial, agricultural and construction accounts. Excel-lent commissions, opportunity for advancement w/benefits. Training

provided. Email resume to Shawn Choate at [email protected] for info packet. --------------------------Green Acres Nurs-ery is accepting applications for a Full-Time Nursery Sales Person. Quali-fications include: 3+ years experience with Plants and/or garden center care, outgoing personal-ity, English speak-ing, ability to lift 50+ pounds on a regular basis. Apply in person at Green Acres Nursery, 1509 East SH 97 in Gon-zales.--------------------------

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Position - Palmet-to State Park

Posting #13-00001

Assist with opera-tion and mainte-nance of park facilities, equip-ment, vehicles, and grounds. Operate mowers, trimmers, power tools, trac-tors, vehicles, etc. Assist with reser-vations, registra-tions, and revenue collection. 4 days per week @ $9.87 per hour. For ques-tions call 830-672-3266. Applications

are online at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/jobs. EEO--------------------------Part-time position in Housekeeping available at The Heights of Gonzales Nursing and Reha-bilitation Center. Please apply in per-son at 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gon-zales, TX.--------------------------

Oil Field Help Wanted

Stallion Construc-tion is looking for Fork Lift Operator, Crew Pusher and Roustabouts. Call 830-583-6925 for applications or fax resume to 361-771-4611.--------------------------Full-time position available with ben-efits for Assistant Director of Nurses. Must be Licensed Vocational Nurse or Registered Nurse and have long term care experience. Please apply in per-son at The Heights of Gonzales Nurs-ing and Rehabilita-tion Center, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales, TX or send resume to [email protected] and Part-time positions avail-able for Certified Medication Aides. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. For more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------Full-time and Part-time positions available for Certi-fied Nurses Aides. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. For more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------Full-time and Part-time positions avail-able for Licensed Vocation Nurses. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. For more information please call 830-672-4530.

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

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

Multi-Family ga-rage sale. Lots of women’s and men’s clothes and acces-sories. Home decor and kitchen items. Saturday, February 16th. 3807 US Hwy. 90A east. 8 a.m.-??

For Sale: Pogo Stix, orange, 10-yrs & up, $10.00. UT Col-or Western Jacket, pants, culottes, cute, Size 8, $15.00. Go UT Longhorns. 830-263-4608--------------------------For Sale: Mattress Set, floor lamps, freezer. Come by Care Free Inn, Gon-zales, 1804 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr.--------------------------5.0 Chest type freezer, 2 TV’s, 1 - 19”, 1 - 25”, 3 infant car seats. Excellent Condition. Call 830-203-8633.--------------------------Kohler 15” water saver toilet, used 2 months. Paid $200, asking $100 cash. Call Barbara, 830-672-1106.--------------------------For Sale: BGR 14 Series Bottom Mounted Swing Glass Door Refriger-ator by Master Built. Contact Carolyn at Gonzales Poultry. 672-7954.--------------------------Party dresses for sale: 4 short, 2 long. Purple, yellow, gold, blue green. Also jackets, men’s jack-ets, overcoat, etc. Call 672-8034.--------------------------For sale: Singer Sewing Machine with pedal, table w/6 chairs, almost new, hand cro-cheted table cloth, large, white, an-tique 3 pc. Loveseat and other yarn cro-cheted items. Call 672-8034.--------------------------Ranch Hand grill guard for 2000-2006 Ford Pickup,

1/2 ton or 3/4 ton. Good condition. $250. Call 830-540-4277.--------------------------DynaVoxV series 5. Communication de-vice - has keyboard, m o u s e , c h a r g e r, case. Works great. new $8,000. Can go on internet, read ebooks, play music, download pictures & programs. Ask-ing $1,000. Good for autistic children or speech impaired children or adults. kathy, 830-857-6646.--------------------------Golf Clubs. 2 sets w/bag. $50 each. Great for aspiring Tigers. Call 437-2046.--------------------------Horse blanket great condition paid $70 asking $45 obo, treadmill, good condition, works, asking $125 obo. Call or text, (830) 857-6487.--------------------------For Sale: Concrete parking curbs 6’ long 6” tall plain or painted, 16’ + 20’ long concrete cattle guard bases, cattle feed troughs. Call Vic for pricing, 672-6383 or 857-3827.--------------------------MP3 Player. SanD-isk 8GB. Brand new. 437-2046.--------------------------For Sale: Brush Guard for 2004 1/2 ton Chev. Pickup $50 and 36” Whirl-pool used Gas Range, $50. 361-594-2507.--------------------------21” RCA TV, great for kids room or 2nd TV. $75. Call 437-2046.--------------------------

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Hohner acoustic guitar w/case. Good for student, $75. Keyboard, Casio-tone, TT 360, $125. 437-2046.--------------------------Unicorn Collection for Sale. Call Fran-ces between 9pm-10am, 830-857-6476.--------------------------Wicker Screen Room divider, red poppy design. $45. Lg. rattlesnake skin, mounted on panel, $150. Camp-ing travel pot, $20, Antique Bathtub, $550. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Troybilt Trimmer with attachments (edger, tiller). 4 cycle, uses straight gasoline. $250. 361-741-2604.--------------------------

For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has rollers. 857-8090.--------------------------2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, antique egg incubator, en-tertainment cen-ter, lamp stand w/drawers, booth din-ing table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.--------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Every-thing $85.00; worth about $300. Health problems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.--------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.--------------------------Used Dell Com-puter. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jeanette Conques-tat 830-672-3419.--------------------------Upright piano for sale. Great for kids starting piano les-sons. All keys works. Needs to be tuned. $100. Call 830-832-5965.--------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Ro-tisserie $275. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Gasoline operated Hedger, $125; 5 HP Tiller, $200. Both in excellent condition. 361-208-3565. --------------------------Electric Hospital bed, $150. 582-1120. --------------------------Stain Glass Win-dow, white tail deer. $275. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Headache Rack, Bumper Hitch, Aluminum Run-ning Boards, 5 office desks, Lift Chair, An-tique Bed, Leather Sofa Bed. 1109 FM 532 West, Shiner. 361-596-4403.

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Air Framing Nailer. Contractor Series. $75.00. Call 361-741-2604.

Firewood: Pickup load is $60.00. If you haul. Delivered is $85. Call: 830-540-4430.--------------------------For Sale: Post Oak Firewood - year old - size and quantity to fit your need. De-livery available. Call for prices, 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273.--------------------------

Fertilized Coastal mix square bales. $7.50. Call 540-3923.

Want to Buy: Oliver 60 Tractor. V.A.C. Case Tractor. Run or Not. 361-293-1633.--------------------------5 Bale Hay King Trailer & Bale Flip-per Loader. Load hay without getting out of truck. Video on baleflipper.com. $13,500. 512-565-5927.

Table with 4 chairs, Loveseat, South-western design, Queen size bed w/mattress & box-springs, Girls white iron daybed, mat-tress, boxsprings, pop up unit, matching white desk, white china cabinet. All excel-lent condition. 830-203-8633.--------------------------Large china cabi-net, $200.00 . 830-672-2604.--------------------------Large Oak desk w/glass topper and large wooded desk. 830-672-3626.--------------------------New Sofa for Sale. $400. Call 830-875-9422, Luling.--------------------------Couch, dresser, buf-fet. $50 each. Call 830-263-1181.--------------------------7 pc. dinette, $95; coffee and end table, $75; Rol-laway Bed, $35; 37” TV, $15; 2 office re-ceptionist chairs, couch, table, etc. 361-596-4096. ---------------------------For Sale: Queensize mattress set, $200; complete desk w/hutch, $30; Dining Room table with 4 high back chairs, solid wood, $300; Low back swivel re-cliner rocker, $150. Call 672-3728.--------------------------Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions, $175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.

1990 Chevrolet Cor-vette ZR1. Special Performance Coop. The LT5 engine is a 32 valve engine with a 16 fuel injections and twin double over head cams. Call: 830-540-4430.--------------------------Car and truck rims for sale. 15” and 14” rims. Can be used on trail-ers, trucks or older cars up to 1980. 437-2232.--------------------------2007 Ford Escape, 150K miles - mostly highway. Well main-tained - Runs Great. 830-832-3163.--------------------------“SIMPLY THE BEST deals on new Chevro-lets and GMCs AND over 100 used ve-hicles with financing to fit most credit situ-ations. Grafe Chevro-let GMC, Hallettsville, TX 800-798-3225

or 361-798-3281 or GRAFECHEVYGMC.COM”--------------------------For Sale: 1995 Ford F-250, Ext. Cab, 4x4, V-8, Automatic Trans-mission, Heavy Duty, Good Work Truck, Good condition, 830-672-2192.--------------------------2006 Chevrolet Im-pala for sale. 4-door, V6 engine, a little over 17,000 miles. Silver. One owner. Asking $13,000. 830-672-3147.--------------------------1988 Saab 900 Turbo Coup Convertible. Top work but rebuilt clutch. Good buy. $800. 830-857-5927.--------------------------1972 Chevy Half Ton Pickup. Rebuilt drive train except rear end. All original. 29K En-gine, 50K Transmis-sion. 3/4 rear springs. $1K. 830-857-5927.--------------------------2008 Mustang GT with Shelby package and low miles (48K), 22” chrome wheels with performance tires, 5-speed manual transmission, leather interior, Shaker 500 sound system with 6 CD/MP3 changer, and auto windows. $25,000 OBO. Call or text 830-263-1212.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - $7,500. 2nd owner pickup with low miles, cold A/C, spray-in bed liner, grill guard, towing package and more! Call Lauren at (361) 648-5049 for more info.--------------------------Tires for Sale. 4 brand new tires - 255-35-ZR20 Nitto Extreme ZR with Rims - Mar-tin Bros 20” universal rims. $500. 830-857-1340.

Do Not Wait on your tax refund get pre-qualified; Se-lect you’re home from Single, Dou-ble, New or Used. Fayette Country Homes, 800-369-6888. Open till 6pm, 7 days a week. (RBI 32896)--------------------------Large Selection of Repo’d Double-wides 3 & 4 bed-room, Clean, De-livered, Set with Air-Save Thou-sands. Fayette Country Homes, Schulenburg, 979-743-6192. Open Sundays 1-6. tier-raverdehomes.com (RBI 32896)--------------------------Land and Home Sheridan. 2003 American Home-star 28x56 NICE...Must See. Fayette Country Homes, Schulenburg, 979-743-6192. Open Sundays 1-6. (RBI 32896).--------------------------3bedroom/2 bath-room singlewide available. $27,900. Call if in need of housing. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.--------------------------OILFIELD HOUS-ING - 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with washer and dryer,

office spaces, must see to appreci-ate. 830-305-6926. RBI#36486.--------------------------Between 4-5 Acres for Sale. Double-wide. Excellent con-dition. Hwy. front-age. 3BR, all electric, all appliances. Call 830-857-1026.

Roadrunner Mobile Home Park, 3 bed-room/1 bath, fully furnished Mobile Homes for Rent. “MOVE IN SPE-CIAL”. $675 for the first three months, $775 the fourth month and after! $675 for deposit. More information: 361-293-3420/361-582-6593/361-798-0816, 900 Old Shin-er Rd. Yoakum, Tx. --------------------------For Sale or Lease. 3 BR Trailer House, 2 RV Spots. Leesville. 830-433-0603.--------------------------Mobile Homes for rent, 3 b e d ro o m / 1 b at h , fully furnished. 900 Old Shiner Rd, Yoa-kum. 361-582-6593.--------------------------Mobile Homes for rent: 3 b e d ro o m / 1 b at h , fully furnished, some homes have Wi-Fi. 900 Old Shin-er Rd., Yoakum, 361-582-6593 or 361-798-0816.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2bed, 1 bath trailer. New kitchen floor. For more information call Samantha at 830-857-5812.

Room for rent for working person. 1BR/1BA. Quiet neighborhood. Call 203-7146 after 4 p.m.

Home for Lease: 624 Qualls, Gonza-les. 3/2, remodeled, must pass credit, employment and rental check. for in-formation and ap-plication, call 713-825-9532.--------------------------Completely re-modeled inside and out. 2 & 3 bed-room homes. Fully furnished. Rent by night, week or month. Fantastic n e i g h b o r h o o d . Cheaper by night than hotel room. 672-5169.--------------------------2 room river cot-tage on Lake Gon-zales. Partially fur-nished. You pay for electricity. $500/+ deposit. Bob, 830-203-9790.--------------------------3/2 house for rent in Gonzales. $1,350/mo., $1,350/sec. de-posit. Call 830-401-4123.--------------------------3/2, house for rent. Living room, Den, Kitchen. 5 miles S. on FM 3282. $800/mo., $800/Dep. Call 437-2370.--------------------------3BR/2BA large house. Fully fur-nished, beds, linens,

washer/dryer, cable T.V., stove, refrig-erator. CA/CH. Great for crew. Monthly or lease available. Home in town, plenty of parking. 512-820-5461.--------------------------Charming 1/1 home on 2 wooded acs, w/lrg. deck in coun-try, 77 North, paved road. $775/mo. No pets/smokers. 512-415-6483.--------------------------3/2 Large home on nice lot. $1,250/mo. Stove, refrigerator, included. Families or Oil Field Workers welcome. 713-501-3416.--------------------------For Rent: 2BR/2BA/2CG home on 183 N. $1,250/mo., plus deposit. Call 830-857-4458 for information.--------------------------3BR/2BA Brick house for rent. 1 mile North of Yoa-kum. AC, washer, dryer. Large access driveway in & out for truck parking for large bobtails. Oak grove, great for BBQ’s and enter-taining. Available Now. Call 361-293-6619, leave mes-sage.--------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 830-857-5727.--------------------------For Rent in Luling. 3 bed, 1 bath, Cen-tral Air & heat. $850/month, $600/deposit. 830-832-3163. Earl Landry.--------------------------House for Rent. 302 Lancaster, Moulton, TX. Nice spacious 1BR home w/ap-pliances & a large yard. Call for info. 832-633-3950.--------------------------Single Suite. Perfect for Supervisor for Oil Company. Full kitchen, washer/dryer, TV/Full cable, wireless internet. No smoking inside. No Pets. Fully fur-nished and all bills paid. Private Yard/Garage. Weekly, $280; Deposit $300. Call 512-292-0070--------------------------Home For Rent. Country Home. completely remod-eled. 2BR/1BA, CA, hardwood floors, roof for AG Proj-ect. Navarro ISD between Seguin & New Braunfels. $1,000 month, $1,000 deposit. 830-660-7351 or 830-822-5348.--------------------------

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

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

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

Secluded, wood-ed, and wildlife: 3BR/2Ba Double-wide, fireplace, lg. covered front porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, livestock capabili-ties; on 5 acres with gravel base truck yard. 12 miles North of Gonzales on CR 284. $1,000. Taking App’s now. Avail-able March 1st. 979-292-6154 or 979-798-5398.--------------------------12 acres/house/of-fice with Hwy. 80 frontage between B e l m o n t / N i x o n near Leesville. Will subdivide. For sale or lease. Would make a great oil field yard or resi-dence. Call Peyton, 512-948-5306; Da-vid, 713-252-1130.--------------------------Land for lease for oil field service equipment. Prime location. 4 miles N. on 183. 2 1/2 acres.

Electric, water, park-ing, storage. Call 203-0585 or 672-6922. (TFN)

Efficiency apart-ment. EVERY-THING furnished. Pots, Pans, towels, TV. 183 N. $600/per month. Call 830-875-3028.--------------------------Two 2 BR. Apts. Fully furnished, Wi-Fi/Ca-ble, covered park-ing. Good neigh-borhood. Fully equipped kitchen, bathroom. 672-6265 or 857-4251.--------------------------3BR, 2BA 1670+Sq. Ft. Upstairs apart-ment on Residen-tial Lot in nice area of Cuero, $1,185/mo. includes all Util. with cable and WiFi, fully furnished - incl. linens. Hotel-style kitchenette (no sink or stove), but full-size fridge, microwave & Keurig brewer. Hot plate ok, outdoor bbq w/propane & charcoal grill onsite. No pets. $750 deposit, 3 mo. lease. (361) 484-1922, leave mes-sage.

House cleaning ser-vices available. Rea-sonable rates. Ser-vicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References avail-able. Call Barbara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Home Appliance Repair. Washer, Dry-ers, all major ap-pliances, 30 years experience. Haul Scrap Metal & appli-ances. Call Larry at 361-596-4391.--------------------------Hand for Hire, Odd Jobs Done, FREE estimates. Anything you don’t want to do, Junk hauling, Tree Removal, Lot clearing, House pressure washing, office help, ranch, farm, lawn & Flower beds, Barbed wire fence repair, gutter cleaning, I do win-dows. One call does it all. Call Terry (830) 203-1503 or (830) 857-5927.--------------------------I am looking for a private setting job around Gonzales, Cost or on 1116 (Pilgrim Road). I have 20 years ex-perience. Please call Emily, 830-437-2727; Cell, 820-263-2768.--------------------------

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Certified Nurs-ing Assistant. Not hiring but look-ing for work as a Live-in caregiver or Live Out in San Antonio or Seguin area. Have 30 + years experience. CPR certified. Lov-ing, dependanble and experienced with Home Health, Agencies, Hospice, and have a big heart. If interested please call 830-391-4837.--------------------------Camera work for businesses, pro-motional uses, editing titles. 830-263-0909. [email protected] Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.--------------------------Will do house clean-ing Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.--------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5160. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.


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Apply today - Start today!Production/Poultry Processing: • Back Dock Hanger • 2nd Processing • Sanitation (Nights) Mon.-Fri., 8-10 hr. days Holmes Foods Feed Mill:2170 FM 108, Gonzales, TX (830) 672-9100 • Driver - CDL, Class BMust have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the U.S. Drug screening as applicable to position.

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Human Resources603 W. Central, Hwy. 87, Nixon, Texas830-582-1619 for more information.Si Habla Espanol

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603 W. Central, Hwy. 87, Nixon, TexasSi Habla Español

Production / Poultry Processing:NOW HIRING!!

Supervisor Responsible for managing processing of department.

Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage optimum performance

Responsible for planning and allocating resources to effectively staff and accomplish departmental productivity and quality goals.

Plan, evaluate and improve the effi ciency of processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, effi ciency and output of department.

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Class A CDL with HazMat/Tanker EndorsementsMust be at least 25 years of age

Insurance, 401K and vacation included

Applications available at:Schmidt & Sons, Inc.

2510 Church St. • Gonzales, Texas 78629www.schmidtandsons.com

(830) 672-2018 • John Clark @ ext. 112

has immediate openings forPERSONAL CARE

ATTENDANTSto care for the elderly and disabled in their homes in

the Lockhart, Luling area. Must be 18+, will train the

right candidate. Great 401K Plan available to all

employees. Please call Diane or Shelly @

512-835-6150 or toll free 877-635-6150.

Or apply online atwww.outreachhealth.com

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SAFETY TECHNICIANHolmes Foods, Inc. is seeking a Safety Tech-nician for our Poultry Processing Plant in Nix-on, Texas. Candidate must have the follow-ing qualifications: safety training, knowledge of OSHA 1910 Safety Regulations, first aid, able to work flexible hours, and be self-moti-vated. Bilingual is preferred. Interested appli-cants should fax resume to Jimmy Newman, at (830)582-1767 or call (830)582-1551, ext. 226 to set up an interview.

City of Flatonia

The City of Flatonia is accepting ap-plications for Water & Waste Sr. Tech-nician. Duties will include but are not limited to assisting in the maintenance of all city utilities. Qualified appli-cants must have 2-3 years of experi-ence in all phases of municipal water line installation and maintenance. Ap-plicants who possess Class ‘C’ water/waste water licenses from TCEQ pre-ferred or ability to obtain “C” water and wastewater licenses within 1 year.

Please come by City Hall (125 E. South Main) for more information or to pick up an application or check http://www.destinationflatonia.com/business-employment_opps.html for more information and an application. EOE.

Texas Elks Childrens Services is look-ing for an energetic, enthusiastic LVN to work for a total of 8 weeks during our 2013 summer camp program for special needs children. Pay is $550 per week. All meals, snacks, and room and board are provided and if you have children above the age of 4, they are invited to attend camp with you and participate in all activities with our campers at no charge.

We camp in style at our top notch facil-ity. All handicapped accessible, heated and air conditioned rooms. Located in Ottine, near Palmetto State Park, 10 miles south of Gonzales off of Highway 183. Staff has every Friday evening and Saturday off in which you may go home if you choose, or stay on site and relax, or partake in a variety of local area activities. For inquiries, please email us @ [email protected].

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

I am looking for a sitter for my 6 year old daughter for before and after school a few days a week. Preferably someone who can come to my home. References and ex-perience required. Contact me at 830-203-9159.--------------------------Mom, let Jumping Jelly Beans be your drop in child care answer. Go shop-ping, run errands or have a great evening out while your mind is at ease knowing your child is safe and happy. Standard drop in hours apply: day, evening and night. Let’s talk! Refer-ences and resume’ available. 830-519-4012--------------------------Child care in home. I have 2 openings, Curriculum and meals included. Please call for de-tails. 830-263-0058.

1999 Mountain Aire Motorhome - Ford V10 gasoline en-gine - Onan gen-erator - 2 slide outs - 2 A/C’s - all appli-ances in working condition - driver side door - sleeps 4-6 - no smoking or pets - VERY CLEAN interior - Call 210-884-7085 - Asking $22,000.--------------------------203 Big Sky 38’ Fifth wheel Travel Trailer. 3 slideouts, very, very nice. 3 1/2 yrs. Bumper to bum-per warranty left. $17,900. Call 512-914-8347.--------------------------RV For Sale. Older unit. 5th wheel. $2,900. Contact Richard, 830-556-6905.--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.

Travel Trailer. EV-ERYTHING fur-nished. TV. 183 N. $600/per month. Call 830-875-3028.--------------------------RV for Rent. $300/wk. Call 512-667-4356.--------------------------Travel Trailer for rent or sale. Rent is $300.00 per week with all bills paid. Will relocate to RV park of your choice and I pay the RV Rental. Or $1,000.00 per month with all bills paid. Will sell travel trailer for $55,000. Call 830-351-0943 for de-tails.--------------------------RV Space for rent. $300 month. All bills included. If in-terested please call 820-203-9255--------------------------Fully furnished

Travel Trailers for rent. Will rent week-ly or monthly. Pets Allowed. $50.00 Deposit. $300 per week or $1,000 per month. Call Terry for details, 830-351-0943. Will relocate to RV Park of your choice. All utilities paid. --------------------------Travel Trailer for rent for RV space in Smiley. All utili-ties included, good healthy environ-ment. 830-203-9255 or 361-790-6305.--------------------------30’ Travel Trailer w/2 slides for rent in RV Ranch in Gonzales. Swimming pool, laundry facilities, shower house and all bills paid. $300 a week. 830-305-6926.--------------------------28’ Travel Trailer for rent. Can be moved from job site. Call 830-305-6926.--------------------------Office or Living Trailers for lease or buy. Peyton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.--------------------------RV Rentals available at Belmont RV Park Estates. Call Rich-ard, 830-556-6095.

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

1996, 18.5’ Baymas-ter Center Console Boat, 120 Horse Force Mercury Mo-tor with Jack Plate, Lourence GPS Map-p i n g - S o n a r - Fi s h Finder, Marine Ra-dio. $7,000.00. Con-tact 830-263-2920.--------------------------For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for Jeff.

2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. In-dependent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.

Free Puppies. Five Lab/Cocker Spaniel Mix. 830-857-0459.--------------------------Precious long haired Chihuahua puppies. Pure bred. 9 wks. old. Born Thanksgiving. 1st shots & wormed. Paper trained. Males & Females. Playful and very cute. Raised in my home with a lot of love. $200/each. 1-830-560-6668.--------------------------Free kittens. Call 361-594-4307.--------------------------

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Half Lab, Half Pyr-enees. Free to good home. 830-203-1733 or 830-540-4485.--------------------------We stock Sportmix Dog and Cat Food, Demon WP for those ants and scor-pions. Livestock show contestants, we carry feed-ers, waterers, heat lamps, access for show birds. Gonza-les Poultry Supply, 1006 St. Paul Street, 672-7954.(TFN)

For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------For Sale: 2 & 3 year old red & black Brangus Bulls. No Papers. Good selec-tion. Call 830-437-5772.--------------------------Black Limousin and Angus Heifers and Bulls, Gentle In-crease your wean-ing weights. Es-tablished breeder since 1971. Delivery available 979 561- 6148 .--------------------------Nanny Boer Goats (adult). Ages: 1yr-4yr. Pkg. Deal (4). $320.00. 830-560-0238 to request photos..please send an email request to [email protected] or text me at above num-ber.--------------------------Muscovy ducks for sale. $10.00 each. 8 3 0 - 2 6 3 - 2 4 8 2 . (TFN)--------------------------Laying Hens, $10.00. 512-718-0482.--------------------------For Sale: Registered Polled Hereford Bulls. 8-22 mths old. Heifers also, 8 months to 2 years. 830-540-4430.--------------------------WANT TO BUY: Any or Unwanted Hors-es. Call Leejay at 830-857-3866.--------------------------For Sale: Baby & Young Adult Ducks. Mix Breeds. Cost $3.50-$20.00 each. Call 830-857-6844, ask for Tammy Ste-phens.--------------------------DISPERSAL SALE. Miniature donkeys (28” to 36”), male and female, solid and tricolored, 6 mos. to 4 years. Four year olds may be registered with vet exam/affidavit. Excellent pets, loves people. Priced ac-cording to gender, age and color. 830-672-6265 or 857-4251.--------------------------Dwarf Nigerian goats (miniature), multicolored, male and female, 3 mos. to 2-3 years. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251.

House for sale by owner. 2BR/1Bath CA/H. $65,000. 830-234-3415 or 830-279-7900.--------------------------Low Down on a 3/2/1136sq ft. home. Asking $79,800 w/ only $800 down. 202 East Lee Smiley, TX. Call Mr Smith, 855-847-6806. --------------------------3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road. 830-445-9131.--------------------------FOR SALE BY OWN-ER: 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, single story home in Gonzales. Beautiful wet bar and gourmet kitch-en with granite counter tops. Large pantry utility room. 2 car garage with workshop, nice pool and spa, huge covered porches. All on or nearly 1/2 acre. $249,000. Call 210-844-4963.--------------------------Older couple down-sizing 15 acres (10 acres fenced), house, 3/1 1/2, Barn, ponds, trees. Wharton County. $137,000. 979-533-3262.--------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood Trail. New appli-ances, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commercia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.

Modern home on 165-acre ranch located between

Gonzales and Shin-er on paved road FM 443. Highly im-proved with scat-tered oak trees, improved grasses, hay field, cross fencing and stock tank. Recently up-dated 2,300 square foot home, 3BR, 2BA, two live-in areas. Property in-cludes large hay barn, equipment building shop and cattle pens. Shiner ISD. Possible owner financing available. 361-648-4090 or 361-935-1109.

30 Beautiful Acres for sale in Gonzales County, with 1/4 minerals. $6,000/per acre. Diane, 512-655-3293.--------------------------30 acres with 10 mile views in Gonzales County. Fenced with roll-ing hills, large tank, pond, hardwoods, Tifton 86 grass. $150,000 (713)202-2485. --------------------------Wanted to lease land for cattle graz-ing. Must have water and fences. Contact Mitchell Hardcastle, 830-857-4544.--------------------------90x60 lot for sale. For more info, call Jose at (936) 488-8115.--------------------------5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for informa-tion.

Wanted: Old work western boots. 830-672-7384.--------------------------Wanted: Used 10-24 Gun Fire Safe. 361-798-0482.

Pampered Chef D e m o n s t r a t o r . Host a Show! It’s Easy! Choose from a Cooking Show, Catalog Show, Face-book Show or if you need an item, here is my site, https://w w w.pampered-chef.biz/zavadi l . Dee Zavadil, 830-857-1495.--------------------------

Lucky Shots by Dee.Need Family Por-traits, Family Re-unions, Birthdays, School Pictures, Weddings, Etc. 830-857-1495 --------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

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Master Plumber.Reasonable Rates.

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Owner830-263-1633

1026 St. Paul St., Gonzales

Window Tinting, Commercial.

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HOMESvWAELDER 5641 Hwy. 90, 2/2 on 2 accres........................$117,000vGONZALES 3/2, new construction, 707 St. Francis.............$229,000

FARM & RANCHvWAELDER 97.44 acres, 4BR ranch house, great house, oil/gas in-come, Ranching/Investment...... REDUCED TO SELL!............$650,000

ACREAGEv25.936 acres, Henry Bymer 1/3 League, close to I10, electric nearby, sandy loam, fronts CR420...................................................$98,800vHARWOOD Manufactured home in excellent condi-tion, about 1900 sq. ft., 3bed/2bath, large kitchen, locat-ed on 5 acres with many oak trees. County water and GVEC elec. Ready for move in. Fronting Hwy. 304, 2 miles north of Hwy. 90 and about 16 miles from Gonzales. Owner/Agent. Price............................................................................................$110,000vWAELDER- 10 acres, has utilities.......................................$65,000

LOTSvFLATONIA- 2 lots (one corner) 100x125............$11,000 for both

COMMERCIALvGONZALES - 820 Oil Patch Lane, 2.25 acres (+/-), raw land with 3 sides metal equipment shed. Utilities are available at front of property, zoned heavy commercial....................................................................$125,000vGONZALES Income producing poultry Breeder Farm with 50 ac in-cludes Tyson contract and 1600 sq. ft. home...owner/agent.....$1,100,000vGONZALES For Lease: 10 to 20 acres, about 5 miles south of Gonzales, just off Hwy. 183.

FOR RENTvONE BEDROOM COTTAGE IN THE COUNTRY. $600/mo, $1,000 security deposit, 650 credit rating, two years consecutive employment,outside pets only (no cats inside!). CR 420, Gonzales County.

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57 Acres just north of I-10 Near Waelder. Brush, oaks, hay fields, 2 tanks, 3/2 home, barn w/electricity, apartment. Equipment. Part minerals. $275,000.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~198 Acres, Atascosa County, West of Flo-resville. Huge Creek Bottom, 2 tanks, water meter, shallow well, electricity, oaks, elms, persimmon, mesquite, black brush. Could this be your new hunting spot? $2,895 per acre. Might divide into two tracts.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~260 to 861 Acres. NW Corpus Christi. Lake, Barn, Pens, 2 water wells. Great cat-tle place. Paved corner. Excellent for Sub-dividing. Price $2,750 to $3,500 per acre.

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ASSISTANT MANAGERAssistant Manager needed by the Gonzales Branch of World Finance. Valid driver license and auto re-quired. This is a Manager Trainee po-sition and a career opportunity that offers excellent salary and a complete fringe benefit package. Promotion to Manager possible within 15 months. No experience necessary.

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W. B. Farm and Ranch Supply is now hiring

SalespersonSkills needed: Product Knowledge, Computer Skills (General), Customer Service oriented, Full time, Guaranteed! 40 hours per week.

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The weather is absolutely gorgeous today. When yes-terday started out, it was okay, but it quickly deterio-rated. Half the people went to work with no jacket and were somewhat on the cold side by lunch time. I hope Thursday is a great day be-cause it is Valentine’s Day. Kids if you can’t afford a bought card, just fold up a piece of paper and draw a big heart on it with a red crayon. Then put “I love you.” on it. I guarantee that whoever receives it, espe-cially if it is Mom or Dad, will think it’s wonderful.

The following people need your prayers and en-couragement: Joe Kotwig, Paul Villareal, Mr. Bill, Jesse Esparza; Mariessa, Ben Richter, Bill and Marie Lott, Louise Jones, Aunt Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Velma and Bobby Bullard; Mildred O’Neal, Rhonda Pruett, Matt McGrew.Terrence, Aunt Frances Gandre, Kathryn, Glenn Mikesh, Fletcher Johnson, Maria Castillo, Selma Vick-ers, Landis, Keith Glass, Timothy and Jack Black, Teresa Wilke, Linda Den-ker, Case Martin, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Betty Gan-dre, Bill Bassett, Carol and husband, Marcie and Blaine Welker, Shirley Doz-ier, Marie Schauer, Esther Lindemann, Anna Linde-mann, Mary and Pete Ca-marillo, Matt Pohler, Lanny Baker, Bob Young, Lucy Jones, Ann Bond; Margue-rite Williams, Todd, Rita, the family of Linda Free-man, our troops and their families, and please God we need some rain and the people up North of us need some warmer weather.

We need some extra prayers for Mr. Bill Lott. I hear he has pneumonia. Now that is some nasty stuff. It takes a lot coughing and getting breathing treat-ments with antibiotics to

get over pneumonia. When it gets way down there in the lungs, it is hard to get it back out. I have had pneu-monia several times and it is just rough. Keep on fight-ing Mr. Bill.

Well I heard that Keith Glass is getting out of the house. He is enjoying being driven around the coun-tryside and visit different places in Gonzales. How-ever, I heard that the place he likes to visit best is the cows and have a talk with them. Now if Keith is talk-ing to the cows, you know that he has improved a lot. It is a good thing that he got to come home to Gonzales because I would image they would have thought he was crazy if he started talking to cows up there. In Gonzales you are considered crazy if you don’t talk to the cows.

Well the doctor says that I have inflammatory ar-thritis connected with my Crohn’s Disease in my right hand. He wants to start me on a new medicine that just about scares me to death, but I don’t have many op-tions to choose from. I asked about Glenn Mikesh. He is doing fairly well. He still has trouble with swal-lowing and has to watch it very carefully. He was fix-ing to have cataract surgery last week.

We need to wish a big Happy Anniversary to Buster and Gladys Linde-mann on the 16th, a be-lated anniversary to Betty and Allan Fink of February 5th, and Stanley and Sandy Froehner right in there somewhere, and Will and I on the 18th of Feb. Now

I know Mr. Bill Lott needs to get well. His birthday is Feb. 12th. Jason Pape has a birthday on the 13th and Mary George Perriman has one on the 18th.

In line with subject above, there was a couple that I expect pushing eighty sitting in the doctor’s office. We started a conversation that led to the question as to how long they had been married. It turned out that day was their 55th anni-versary. They had tied the knot up in Pampa, TX up near Abilene. The Mr. said that it was very cold, that it was sleeting and snow-ing. The Mrs. said that it was the Justice of Peace and one witness and that was it. Her sister was sick and her mother couldn’t leave her sister. He said that his fa-ther said something to the effect that he couldn’t stand to see a grown man cry and that is what he would do, so he wasn’t coming to the wedding. They were sitting there holding hands. She said “We are just as happy and in love as much as we were that day.” I say that it is wonderful, but I am truly thinking that a lot of young people today are starting out just like they are, but they aren’t staying in love and married through the rough spots. It made me rather nostalgic since it is near Valentine’s Day.

Twerpt was well on her way running down the bed to tackle Samson when I put my arm out in front of her. I didn’t mean to do it but she hit my arm and absolutely turned a flip. Samson jumped up and stared at me and then at Twerpt. He did not know what happened. It scared me. I checked out Twerpt but she was okay. She truly has nine lives. However, the older she gets, the more ac-cidents we manage to have.

Have a good week, and God Bless.


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The community is in-vited to a special night of fellowship, food, and fun on Saturday, March 9 at the American Legion Hall.

Faith Walkers, the Relay For Life team from First Lutheran and Abiding Word Lutheran Churches,

will host an evening of en-tertainment featuring the local group, Jewell’s Jewels.

This great opportunity to enjoy a hearty meal of chili, cornbread, beans, and dessert plus a lively coun-try western show featuring your friends and neighbors

will benefit the American Cancer Society Relay For Life 2013.

The hall will open at 6 p.m. with the meal served at 6:30 p.m. and the excit-ing show to follow. You will want to get your tickets early.

A limited number of tickets for the meal and show are available for $12 each at the First Lutheran Church office, the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce of-fice, Halamicek’s Auto Sup-ply and from team mem-bers.

For more information, contact Arline Rinehart at 672-2077.

Wehde speaks on enrollmentMember Larry Wehde gave Rotary Club program on current trends in GISD en-rollment and property values. He is pictured here with president Brian Fees. (Courtesy photo)

Lion Jim Fox of the Weimer Lions Club was the guest speaker at the Monday, Feb-ruary 11th meeting of the Noon Lions Club. Lion Fox is currently chairman of the World Services for the Blind program in District 2-S5. He gave a power point program that depicted a proposed campus wide renovation project of the WSB facilities in Little Rock, Arkansas. The present campus is able to train only about 100 blind participants while the proposed new facility will house and train an es-timated 300. Lion Fox said the expansion cost has not yet been determined but a building fund is in progress. Lion Fox is pictured above (right) with Lion Herb Karnau, program chairman. (Courtesy photo)

Faith Walkers plan Relay fundraiser

Seguin Oakwood Art League announces their call for entries for the upcoming art show featuring local and regional watercol-or artists. The show will take place March 1through April 30 with a reception Thurs-day March 7 from 5-7 PM. Cash awards will be given as well as a raffle for gift cer-tificates.

The submission for entry will take place at the Seguin Oakwood Art League gal-lery located at 109 N. River St. in Seguin on Friday, March 1 between 4 and 6 PM. A $10.00 fee for members and $15.00 fee for non members will be charged for each entry.

The competition and exhibit is open to

all artists, ages 18 and over. The artwork must be water media, suitably framed and wired for display. A complete copy of the rules and application form can be located on seguinartleague.blogspot.com or by contacting show chair Roger Betschler at 830 372-4479.

The Seguin Oakwood Art League is ded-icated to encouraging emerging and evolv-ing artists of all ages in Guadalupe County and surrounding areas.

Membership is $20 and $10 for students. A complete list of our events for 2013 is available on seguinartleague.blogspot.com. Visit our gallery Wednesday – Saturday at 109 N. River in Seguin.

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Education is key to the development of our com-munity and our state. On Feb. 28, Ken Mercer, who was elected to the Texas State Board of Education, will give a presentation at the monthly meeting of the Guadalupe County Repub-lican Women.

The meeting begins at 11:30 at the Silver Center,

510 E. Court St. in Seguin. Mercer is a project man-

ager and senior software engineer from San Antonio and is a former Texas State Representative. He served the State House Commit-tees on Higher Education, Transportation and Ad-ministration.

Active on the Board of Education as a leader on committees including School Initiatives, Com-mittee on Instruction and the Textbook fund, he is recognized as a Champion of Texas Family values and

raising the bar on educa-tion standards.

Mercer received two de-grees from the University of Texas and He also holds a Master’s of Business Ad-ministration in Finance and Management from St. Mary’s University.

The meeting is free to the public and lunch is pro-vided at no charge for first time visitors. Contact Nor-ma Colunga at (830) 305-6991. More information is available on the GCRW website www.guadalupe-county-rw.com.

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Bridgette Marie Tomas and Houston Burnett ex-changed wedding vows at a double-ring ceremony on November 17, 2012 at St. James Catholic Church in Gonzales, Texas with Father Paul Raaz officiating.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby To-mas and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon and Mr. and Mrs. David Burnett. Bridgette is the granddaughter of Ruby Kapavik and the late Ernest Kapavik and the late Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Tomas. Houston is the grandson of Kathryn Caraway and the late Bubba Caraway and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bur-nett.

The bride was escorted by her father, Bobby To-mas, and wore a ball gown of Oleg Cassini. The tulle ball gown featured a sweet-heart neckline with a fitted bodice, and was accented with an on-trend embel-lished one shoulder detail. Ornate beaded lace appli-ques adorned the bodice and full ball gown skirt, which had a chapel length train. To compliment the gown, the bride wore a soft white illusion veil and blusher. She carried a beau-tiful hot pink bouquet of topaz roses, flown in from Columbia, some of which were accented with pearl detail. The bouquet was wrapped in white satin rib-bon, and the bride carried a white, lace handkerchief, from her baptism.

Matron of honor was Amy Loehman, sister of the bride. Bridesmaids were Kacey Butler, Jessica Gonzales, Courtney Pat-teson, Chelsi Robinson, Stephanie Fehner, Lind-say Martin, Holly Danz and Connor Caraway. The

bridesmaids each wore a black strapless bubble hem dress, designed in luxuri-ous flat taffeta. The dresses had a short skirt with a matching sash ruched at the waist. Each bridesmaid carried a beautiful bouquet of a dozen hot pink topaz roses, elegantly tied with black ribbon. Reagan Ma-rie Loehman, niece and God daughter of the bride, served as the flower girl and wore an ankle length tulle gown. The gown fea-tured spaghetti straps and was embellished with crys-tal accents and a full tulle skirt. She carried a white basket filled with hot pink rose petals.

The best man was Clay Burnett, brother of the groom. Groomsmen were Blaine Hill, Bret Hill, Jef-fery Patteson, Bryce Wa-gener, Jason Tomas, Clint Martin, Reid Loehman, Matthew Embrey and Brandon Hamm. Kade Dixon, brother of the groom, served as the ring bearer, and he carried a white pillow, which held the wedding bands. Ush-ers were Brandon Fehner, Lee Jay Hartsell, Cook Mil-lington and Ty Tinsley. The groom wore a traditional black tux with a white vest and tie, while the grooms-men and ushers wore tra-ditional tuxes with black vests and ties. Bouton-nieres were made of hot pink topaz roses.

The bridal party entered the church to “Wanted” by Hunter Hayes.

The Mother-of-the-Bride wore a two-piece navy gown with jacket. It was outlined in rhinestones and designed by Alex Evenings. She was escorted by the father-of-the-bride to her seat. The Mother-of-the-

groom wore a knee length, champagne flat satin dress with pencil skirt by Calvin Klein. The bodice had an off the shoulder neckline accented with rosettes. She was escorted by her sons, Houston and Clay Burnett, along with her husband, John Dixon. Both of the mothers carried a smaller version of the bridesmaids bouquets.

Music ministers were Jo Ann Hajovsky as organist and Amanda Frederick, as vocalist. Ministers of Com-munion were Lorie Strobel and Ernestine Sutherlin, aunts of the bride. Wit-nesses were Betty Fehner, aunt and Godmother of the bride, and Kevin Cara-way, uncle of the groom. Scripture readings dur-ing the mass were read by Christen Ince and Robin Kapavik. Altar servers for the ceremony were Joseph Kapavik and Tyler Strobel. Program attendants were Lauren Strobel and Mor-gan Strobel.

Pews in the church were decorated with mason jars, hung by pink ribbon and filled with a dozen fresh hot pink topaz roses. There was a beautiful arrange-ment of gladiolas and roses behind the altar. Two can-delabras flanked the sides of the altar. Arrangements in the church were created by Ginger Broughton of Cuero.

The reception was held at Zedler Mill Pavilion in Luling, Texas. Donna and Phil Koehler were in charge of the decorations, and were assisted by Caro-lyn Kocian and Steve Hen-dershot, who were heads of the house party. Center-pieces on the tables were fresh pink topaz rose-filled mason jars, atop rustic

barn wood, on white linen tablecloths. The barn wood was surrounded by votive candles and pink wrapped butter mints. Outside, guests enjoyed a S’mores and candy bar.

Werner’s Catering of Shiner, Texas catered the meal consisting of chicken fried steak, mashed pota-toes, gravy, green beans, corn and a fresh dinner roll. Appetizers that the guests enjoyed before the catered meal included a wheel of sharp cheddar cheese, which sat on a cus-tom built barn platform, assorted crackers, Chex mix, and homemade ko-laches, by Weikel’s Bakery in La Grange, Texas. Patti Lindemann, aunt of the bride, served punch. The bride’s cake was a five-tier wedding cake covered with white butter cream frost-ing, and adorned with ed-ible pearls and white satin ribbon. To complete this beautiful cake, the tiers were separated by fresh pink topaz roses, totaling 100 flowers. The cake was placed on a silver square cake plateau. For the en-joyment of their guests, Bridgette and Houston chose four different flavors of cake; strawberry, white chocolate, champagne and vanilla, each with a differ-ent filling. The cake was topped with a rhinestone “B”. Houston chose a two-tier Italian cream and choc-olate cake, covered with chocolate butter cream frosting in a basket-weave design. The cake featured chocolate dipped straw-berries and edible shotgun shells. An edible wooden plaque with the phrase “We Interrupt This Hunt-ing Season for a Wedding” was placed on top of the

tier, signifying the groom’s favorite hobby. The couple chose Italian cream with coconut filling and choco-late cake with a caramel pecan praline filling for the groom’s cake. The bride’s cake was served by Kathy Frederick, Erin La Buhn, and Tricia Kapavik. The groom’s cake was served by Brittany Hill and Stephanie Hill.

After the meal the guests enjoyed a Grand March led by Ernestine and Kevin Sutherlin and Carrie and Jay Tinsley. The bride and groom enjoyed their first dance to Lee Brice’s “A Woman Like You.” After-wards, the bride and her daddy had the traditional father-daughter dance to one of their favorite songs, “Silver Wings” by Merle Haggard. The groom and his mother then danced to

Trace Adkins’ “And Then They Do.” All of the music was provided by DJ Gordon Land of Kingsbury. After enjoying the night dancing and visiting with guests, the bride and groom de-parted as guests tossed fresh pink rose petals. Houston and Bridgette enjoyed an amazing honeymoon in the Grand Cayman Islands.

On the eve of the wed-ding a rehearsal dinner was hosted by the groom’s mother and step-father at Two Rivers, where guests enjoyed a catered meal of grilled chicken and shrimp alfredo, salad, fresh bread and homemade red velvet cake, a favorite of the bride and groom. Catering was prepared by Mik’s Cater-ing of Schulenburg, Texas. Houston and Bridgette have made their home in Gonza-les, Texas.

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Mr. and Mrs. Houston Burnett

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, be on your best behavior

this week. Acquaintances both new and established will have their eyes on you, and it is essential that you make a good impression.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, although you may not be

able to see into the future, you can plan for what may happen in the next few days. Now is the perfect time to check in with friends.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, get all of your work

ducks in a row because you want to ensure you are up for the next promotion or pay increase. Now could be the time to make work

your top priority.CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22You may find that you have an

easy time of reading people this week, Cancer. Use this trait to your advantage to find out how certain people feel about your new ideas.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, don’t get too excited when

things seem out of whack this week. Keep calm and find out how you can set things on the right course. Lead by example, and oth-ers will follow.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, try not to participate in

any new activities this week. You are already over-extended. Clear your to-do lists before you take on any other responsibilities.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Show others how good their lives

can be if they just follow a little of your own advice and take cues from what you have done already,

Libra. Expect a few converts.SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, you may be more fo-

cused on your fantasies and dream life than what is going on in your real life for the next few days. Just don’t wander around in a fog for too long.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, it may be hard to con-centrate this week, especially with so many ideas floating around in your head. But do your best to stay focused.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricron, lend a helping hand

when you see an opportunity to do so. Donate your time to someone in need or help a friend or family member complete a project.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, clarify your needs and

wants. Until you can delineate be-tween these factors you may be spending unnecessarily, which is not what your budget needs.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, it may take a few days for

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It was British author Oscar Wilde who made the following sage observation: “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

Those who study such things say that if you drink 100 cups of coffee in a row, it’s likely to kill you.

You might have heard that George Washington’s dentures were made of wood, but in fact, they were made of hippopotamus ivory.

In 1900, a prairie dog colony was found in Texas. That’s not surprising -- prairie

dogs are fairly common in Texas -- but this colony was unique. Researchers say it was the largest colony ever discovered, providing a home to 400 million prairie dogs and stretching over 25,000 square miles.

If you’ve read “Alice in Wonderland” or seen any of the numerous adaptations of it, you probably know about the Mad Hatter. But did you ever wonder why he was mad? It seems that haberdashers (those who make hats) at one time used mercury to cure the felt they needed for the hats. Long-term exposure to mercury causes madness, hence the

phrase “mad as a hatter.”

Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born a citizen of the United States.

To earn a world record, a woman named Sonya Thomas ate 65 hard-boiled eggs in 6 minutes, 40 seconds.

The female long-tailed shrew gives birth to exactly one litter of pups in her lifetime -- and promptly dies.

Our modern word “salary” comes from the Latin “salarium,” or “salt money.” Salarium was the monthly wages given to Roman soldiers in ancient times -- paid in salt.

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