gonzales cannon newspaper

The Texas Legislature is likely to re-store funding to help public schools keep up with a 10-percent growth rate in their upcoming session, but the likelihood of a plan to conserve and develop water re-sources statewide is unlikely to advance beyond the financing stage in this session, the area’s state representative told constitu-ents in Gonzales Wednesday.

State Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt, whose 17th District includes Gonzales and sev-eral other primarily rural Central Texas counties, told a gathering at the Gonzales City Hall that lawmakers should be able to restore funding in education.

“I feel sure we’ll restore $4-5 billion in education funding,” he said. “A lot of people said we ‘cut’ funding last session, but what we actually did was not fund the growth. Texas’ student population is growing at 10 percent a year, so that was significant for a lot of schools.”

Kleinschmidt said the Legislature will also probably look hard at backing off on certain requirements which were intended to increase accountability but instead have created massive stress for both educators and students.

“I’ve had some people propose test-ing 25-40 days a year,” Kleinschmidt said. “That’s ridiculous. That’s a huge number of days that kids are not in the classroom. I

WAELDER — The Waelder City Council set a rental fee for a new health clinic, which will be housed in the city’s proposed up-coming fire department

building, but the decision was far from well-received.

Councilman Rocky Quintero Jr. questioned the terms of the deal, which will be a one-year lease with Gonzales Healthcare Sys-tems for use of 2,000 square

Weather Watch

Business...........................Arts/Entertainment....Oil & Gas...........................Classifieds..........................Comics.............................For the Record.................Faith......................................In Our View........................Family...............................Region..............................Puzzle Page......................Photo Phollies................Sports..................................Obituaries.......................

A7A3A9B5

B10A2B8A4A5A3B9

A10B1

A11

Inside This Week:

“Come and Hear It!”Tune in to radio station

KCTI 1450 AM at 8 a.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Tuesday for weekly updates from Gonzales Cannon General manager Dave Mundy with KCTI personality Egon Bar-thels.

Energy WatchNymex Oil

Futures $92.93/bblNymex Gas

Futures $3.10

Lucas Energy Inc. “LEI”$1.55

Wednesday’s Prices

Hey, Baby!

Master-planned community in Gonzales?Council OKs amendment to pave way for new subdivisionBy DAVE MUNDY

[email protected]

WAELDER, Page A6

Gonzales Healthcarefetes first baby of 2013

Expect revived school funds, but no statewide water plan this year, Kleinschmidt says

GONZALES, Page A6

KLEINSCHMIDT, Page A6

Local residents take their cause

to the LegislaturePage A3

Apaches turn back late rally

for winPage B1

CannonThe Gonzales

Vol. 4- Issue 16Reporting regional news with Honesty, Integrity and Fairness

**50 Cents**Subscribe Today

Call (830) 672-7100

Gonzales ’ only loc ally- owned newspaper • w w w.gonzalesc annon.com Thursday, January 10, 2013

THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED

Serving: Gonzales • Nixon • Smiley • Moulton • Shiner • Waelder • Yoakum• Luling • Flatonia • Hallettsville • Cuero • And More

High-65 Low-44

Ptly Cloudy

High-73 Low-61

Ptly Cloudy

High-66 Low-42

Scat T-storms

High-44 Low-36Showers

High-47 Low-34Cloudy

High-48 Low-34Cloudy

High-49 Low-36Showers

Dr. Azeema Moosa with Mom Toni Williams and 2013’s First Baby, Holden Savior Williams. (Courtesy Photo)

Waelder strikes deal for new clinic, nixes plans with County

Gonzales Healthcare Systems is proud to an-nounce the first baby of 2013. A 7-pound, 8-ounce baby boy measuring 53.34 centimeters long, took his first breath the sec-ond day of the New Year. Holden Savior Williams, the 2013 New Year’s Baby, was born at 12:05 a.m. at Gonzales Memorial Hos-pital on January 2, 2013 to Toni Williams, of Luling.

Holden Savior Williams was delivered by Azeema Moosa, MD. While there was a tinge of excitement at Holden being the first baby of the New Year, the family’s concern was that he was healthy. The nurs-es in the OB Department

said they were excited to be able to play a part in bringing Holden into this world.

Williams said she and her son are doing just fine. Holden will be wel-comed home by three sis-ters, Harley, Haylee and Haven. All three are very excited to have a baby brother.

Baby Holden received a bag full of gifts from Gon-zales Healthcare Systems and the Gonzales Memo-rial Auxiliary in recogni-tion the “First Baby of the New Year”. “They did a wonderful job taking care of my son and me,” Toni said of the ladies on the ward, as did Dr. Moosa.

By DAVE MUNDY

[email protected]

Become a subscriber today!Annual subscriptions are just

$25 per year. Call 830-672-7100.

Gonzales Strikes Gold

Several recent demo-graphic and economic studies have indicated ma-jor population growth may be in store for the City of Gonzales over the next few years, and those projec-tions got their first hard evidence during Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

Council approved an amendment to the city’s

subdivision ordinance add-ing a section for “Planned Unit Development.” City manager Allen Barnes told the council the term is very familiar to city personnel in high-growth regions.

“A lot of people don’t recognize what that ‘PUD’ is, but they know the term ‘master-planned commu-nity,” Barnes said.

A developer is in the pro-cess of doing due diligence

Gonzales Mayor Bobby Logan and City Manager Allen Barnes show off the Gold Award for Fiscal Transparency awarded by the State Comptroller’s Office to the city Tuesday. The award recognizes public transparency in city financial reporting. Gonzales got a grade of 19 of 20 possible points, and the city is one of only 84 Texas cities out of 1,215 studied to receive the award. Barnes credited the award to a superior effort from Financial Director Pam Larison and her department for “working their butts off for this.” (Photo by Dave Mundy)

By CEDRIC [email protected]

State Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt gestures during his Town Hall meeting in Gonzales Jan. 2. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

830-672-8585www.SageCapitalBank.com

Rehabilitation...

Touchstone Rehabilitation

provides com

prehensive elder

Rehabilitation Services including Speech, Occupational and

Physical Therapies administered by state licensed profession-

als under the supervision of a physician.

The Cannon Thursday, January 10, 2013Page A2

By CEDRIC IGLEHART

[email protected]

Water board looks at Yegua Jackson aquifer

Thought for the Day“I didn’t drive eleven hours across Texas to watch my cholesterol.”

—Robb Walsh, food writer and author of “Legends of Texas Barbecue.”

January 10, 1901On this day in 1901, the Spindletop oilfield was dis-

covered on a salt dome south of Beaumont, marking the birth of the modern petroleum industry. Pattillo Hig-gins, the “prophet of Spindletop,” and others had tried for years to find oil on Spindletop Hill, but with no success. In 1899, however, Higgins hooked up with Anthony F. Lucas. Despite negative reports from contemporary ge-ologists, Lucas remained convinced that oil was in the salt domes of the Gulf Coast. On January 10 mud began bubbling from a well that Lucas had spudded in the pre-vious October. The startled roughnecks fled as six tons of four-inch drilling pipe came shooting up out of the ground. After several minutes of quiet, mud, then gas, then oil spurted out. The Lucas geyser, found at a depth of 1,139 feet, blew a stream of oil over 100 feet high un-til it was capped nine days later. The discovery of the Spindletop oilfield had an almost incalculable effect on world and Texas history. Investors spent billions of dol-lars throughout the Lone Star State in search of oil and natural gas.

Today inTexas

History

J B Wells Upcoming Events Sponsored by

Gonzales Livestock MarketP.O. Box 565 • Gonzales, TX 78629

David Shelton Mobile 830-857-5394Mike Brzozowski Mobile 830-857-3900

Sale every

Saturday

at 10am

Office 830-672-2845 Fax 830-672-6087with live webcast @ www.cattleUSA.com

January 12th-13th

Jr. High/High School Region 6 Rodeo

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 information. All meetings are open.

Geronimo danceThe Good Ole Boys Band will be playing traditional country dance

music at Geronimo VFW Post 8456, 6808 N Highway 123, Geronimo on Sunday, January 13, from 3-6:30 PM. Kitchen/doors open at 2 PM. $7 donation. Always smoke free and open to the public. Info 830-303-9903/379-9260.

Retired teachersAll education-related retirees are invited to Gonzales County Retired

Teacher’s Association’s January 15th meeting at Café on the Square at noon. Call Ann Laster (672-7609) for info or to reserve a meal.

The Gonzales County Under-ground Water Conservation District (GCUWCD) took the first steps to-ward acquiring possession of another water system during its regular meet-ing Tuesday evening.

The district’s board of directors voted to file a petition with the Tex-as Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to include the Yegua Jackson Aquifer under GCUWCD’s jurisdiction.

“We don’t control this aquifer so we can’t provide much help to the land-owners out there,” said GCUWCD general manager Greg Sengelmann. “If say for instance they thought their water levels were going down, then we are able to monitor for them but we don’t have any authority to permit those wells if we decided we needed to permit them. They are in our dis-trict, but we don’t have any authority over them.”

In another agenda, a question arose over an item that appeared on the list of bills to be paid by the district’s Well Mitigation Fund.

A charge of $12,133 from Drillink, Inc. for services related to work done on Well F101 was objected to by di-rector Barry Miller, who said the company was not an approved driller.

“This would be an absolute viola-tion of our agreement with the miti-gators,” said Miller.

Director Bruce Tieken, who con-ducted the meeting for a present but ailing president Bruce Patteson, said he was under the impression the well work was part of an emergency situa-tion. Miller replied by saying in part, “nothing could be further from the truth.”

A motion to pay the WMF bills, which also included a $220 rent pay-ment, failed 3-1 with Tieken abstaining. Another motion to pay the rent pay-ment only was made by Miller and it passed unanimously.

During his manager’s report, Sengel-

mann announced he had recent meet-ings with area entities in regards to water availability for economic devel-opment. The outcome of meetings with representatives from the cities of Nixon, Smiley, Waelder and the Gonzales Eco-nomic Development Corporation pro-jected no new water needs for 2013.

Sengelmann also reported that as of January 1, the Palmer Drought Index indicated that we are in severe drought conditions.

In other business, the board:• Selected Link Benson to replace

David McMullen as the district’s well mitigation manager. Benson will of-ficially take over for the outgoing McMullen, who is leaving to pursue interests, on January 21. The board expressed their thanks to McMullen, who pledged to continue to help out whenever possible.

• Set January 29 as the hearing date for the Texas Water Alliance, Ltd. permit application. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Gonzales County Courthouse.

GBRA directors select new officers at meetingSEGUIN — At the De-

cember meeting in Seguin, the Guadalupe-Blanco Riv-er Authority (GBRA) Board of Directors elected board officers for 2013.

Oscar Fogle of Caldwell County will serve as chair, Grace Kunde of Guadalupe County will serve as vice-chair, and Tommy Mathews of Kendall County will serve as secretary/treasurer.

Fogle, a resident of Lock-hart, serves as chair of the Agricultural Advisory Committee for the Caldwell County Appraisal District, serves on the Executive Committee of Envision Central Texas, serves on

the Steering Committee of the Plum Creek Watershed Partnership, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust, is an active member of the Caldwell County Re-publican Party, and is a life member of the National Rifle Association and Texas State Rifle Association.

Fogle attended Texas A&I University, now Texas A&M-Kingsville. He is a past president of the Texas A&I Alumni Association, and served for 16 years on the Board of Trustees for the Texas A&M-Kingsville Foundation.

Fogle and his wife, Susie, own and operate Oak Hill Ranch, where they have a commercial cattle business

and employ several wildlife management practices. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force and retired from a career with Exxon Corporation. As a member of Exxon’s International Oil Spill Response Team, Fogle was a deputy taskforce com-mander during the Exxon Valdez oil spill clean-up op-erations.

Kunde earned her bach-elor’s degree in accounting from Texas Lutheran Uni-versity and her law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law. She is a pri-vate practice attorney in Seguin and a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, the San Antonio Bar Association, and the Guadalupe County Bar As-sociation.

Kunde, who lives in New Berlin, volunteers her time to church, civic, and politi-cal activities. She is a mem-ber of the Seguin Rotary Club, a member and former president of the Guadalupe

County Republican Wom-en, a former Guadalupe County Republican Party precinct chair and is a for-mer member of the Board of Trustees of the Guadal-upe-Blanco River Trust.

Kunde previously served on the Board of Directors for the Comal County Chil-dren’s Shelter as treasurer and president and a mem-ber of the Advisory Board.

Mathews, a resident of Boerne, is president of Westward Environmental, Inc. and a member of the National Registry of Envi-ronmental Professionals, Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists, Associated General Contractors of Texas, and Texas Hot Mix Asphalt Pavement Asso-ciation, and president of the

Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District.

Mathews is past board chair of the Allied Division of the Texas Aggregate and Concrete Association, and a past board member and past secretary of the Nation-al Stone, Sand and Gravel Association. He is also past president of the Hill Coun-try Alliance of Groundwa-ter Conservation Districts, past citizen representative of the Lower Guadalupe River Water Supply Project Advisory Forum, and past board secretary of the Win-ston School San Antonio Board. Mathews received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity University.

Fogle, Kunde, and Mathews are appointees of Governor Rick Perry. Oth-

er members of the GBRA board of directors are Rusty Brockman, Comal County; Myrna McLeroy, Gonza-les County; James L. Pow-ers, Hays County; Dennis Patillo, Victoria County and Frank Pagel, Refugio County.

The GBRA was estab-lished by the Texas Legisla-ture in 1933 as a water con-servation and reclamation district. GBRA provides stewardship for the water resources in its 10-county statutory district, which be-gins near the headwaters of the Guadalupe and Blanco rivers, ends at San Antonio Bay, and includes Kend-all, Comal, Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Gonzales, De-Witt, Victoria, Calhoun, and Refugio counties.

Cannon News Services

[email protected]

Scrunched in the back seat of Norman Silliman’s SUV, Lory Scott of Shiner considered the question and then looked into the

television camera poised just a foot from her face.

“Well, I don’t like be-ing wet. I don’t like being cold,” she said. “So this just

proves how much I believe in this.”

Scott and Silliman, along with Gonzales County’s Tommy Kidd, Cuero’s Da-vid James and Gonzales Cannon General Manager Dave Mundy — who serves as the Texas National-ist Movement’s Gonzales County Coordinator — joined Nationalists from across the state in making the trip to Austin on a cold-rainy day Tuesday to greet the newly-seated Texas Legislature with a message: it’s time for Texas to resume its status as an independent nation.

The group also told an international audience not only about their cause, but also about Gonzales: they were shadowed by a crew from the German news network ADP, based out

of Washington and head-quartered in Hamburg, Germany.

The team of producer Hillery Gallasch, corre-spondent Stefan Niemann, cameraman Felicitas Klopp and sound tech Robin Neu-mann, arrived in Gonzales Monday evening to begin putting together a news documentary on the Texas Nationalist Movement for their German audience.

“People in Germany love (President Barack) Obama, but they also love Texas, so they are very curious about this,” Niemann said.

Kidd, a former peace of-ficer, related that he’d spent some time in Germany himself, while the German crew was impressed with Silliman’s assertion that he moved to Texas from Cali-fornia four years ago be-cause of the Texas business climate. Both have ranches in the county.

After an hour’s worth of interviews with Kidd, Silliman and Mundy at an improvised studio at the of-fices of The Cannon news-paper, the group grabbed dinner at the Running M Bar & Grill — where the Germans were pleased to discover Shiner Bock and get a quick history on Gon-zales and Central Texas history and the prominent role played by settlers from Germany throughout the region from not only the Nationalists, but from oth-er patrons of the restaurant.

“We had a chance to see the museum. Most Ger-mans know about Texas, but not much about the Texas Revolution. It is very impressive the way people here are so interested in their history and culture,” Niemann noted.

The three Gonzales County residents were joined by Scott and James for Tuesday’s trip to Aus-tin, where they met up with several hundred other Nationalists from around the state for a short rally in miserable conditions. Rally participants heard three short speeches from TNM leaders Cary Wise, Daniel Miller and Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani.

“What you are about to do isn’t just a patriotic thing, it’s a holy thing,” said

Claver, who also heads up ragingelephants.org, a con-servative African-Ameri-can organization. “If you go into this building with a spirit of emancipation, you are doing unpopular with those plutocrats in there. You are getting on the cross yourself.”

Miller, the TNM presi-dent whose organization has experienced explosive growth since the Novem-ber elections, said Tues-day’s rally by his group rep-resented a new direction.

“In the past, we’ve come out here and waved our flags, made our speeches and made some noise,” he said. “Today, it’s no more meet, geet and retreat. We are going in there to flex our muscle.”

The rally then split into several groups and went into the capitol building to present selected legislators with a proposal for a non-binding referendum on in-dependence.

The Gonzales, Shiner and Cuero crew was part of a group led by TNM re-gional coordinator Tammy Blair which went to present its proposal to newly-elect-ed State Sen. Dr. Donna Campbell.

Before winning her state Senate seat, Campbell

had unsuccessfully cam-paigned for Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s seat and had overwhelmingly car-ried Gonzales, DeWitt and Lavaca counties, so the local residents were very familiar with their tar-geted legislator. Another pair of Gonzales County residents, Jack and Bar-bara Fitzpatrick, were also on-hand when Campbell exited the Senate floor and was surprised by the size-able crowd of well-wishers awaiting her.

“I think it’s exciting, be-cause we were able to take a strong grass-roots cam-paign with no political background, and we won with our conservative val-ues,” Campbell said. “I feel like we will have the most conservative State Senate in Texas history.”

Campbell and her staff promised to review the Nationalists’ proposal and the senator said she would continue to work to defend Texas from federal intru-sion.

“We need to fix our prob-lems rather than kicking the can down the road,” she said. “We need to continue to defend state sovereignty because that is what made Texas strong.”

The CannonThursday, January 10, 2013 Page A3

Local Nationalists carry message to Austin — and Germany

110128 IH 37Pleasanton, TX 78064

For the Best Deals AroundContact

Larry HarlanSales Consultant

Cell - 830-570-4217Office - 888-499-1955

2012 Ram 1500 Sport

2013 Ram 1500 Outdoorsman

Find us on Facebook!

510 St. Paul St. Gonzales

The Lynn Theatre

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (R)Friday, Jan. 11- 7:15 p.m., 9:15 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 12- 4:15-7:15-9:15Sunday, Jan. 13- 4:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m.Monday, Jan. 14- 7:15 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 15- ClosedWednesday, Jan. 16- 7:15 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 17- 7:15 p.m.

The Guilt Trip (PG-13)Friday, Jan. 11- 7 p.m., 9 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 12- 4-7-9 p.m.Sunday, Jan. 13- 4 p.m., 7 p.m.Monday, Jan. 14- 7 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 15- ClosedWednesday, Jan. 16- 7 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 17- 7 p.m.

Now PlayiNg

Norman Silliman of Gonzales County carries the Come and Take It flag, while Shiner’s Lory Scott flies the San Jacinto Flag during the rally. (Photo by Dave Mundy) Cuero’s David James displays the Goliad Flag as he

and Gonzales County’s Tommy Kidd chat with a Texas Ranger during Tuesday’s event. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

The cold and rain didn’t keep several hundred Texas Nationalists from rallying in the North steps of the state capitol Tuesday. Following several local residents participating in the event was a German media team from the ADP Network, including correspondent Stefan Niemann (right photo, in orange) and cameraman Felicitas Klopp (standing in grey jacket). The German team had the chance to spend the evening in Gonzales Monday and getting a quick history lesson about the historic town. (Photos by Dave Mundy)

Newly-seated State Sen. Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels) receives well-wishes from Texas Nationalist Tammy Blair (foreground) — and a request to consider authorizing a non-binding referendum vote on Texas independence. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

In 1961, President Eisenhower first used the term “military in-dustrial complex”, to describe a self-perpetuating industry that used public funds to feed itself. This can also describe today’s “education industrial complex” (Complex) which uses the policy and monetary relationships be-tween legislators, teachers’ unions, and the education industry (yes, industry) to support and promote themselves and their agenda.

The failed education system in Texas and in America is a direct result of the Complex furthering its agenda, instead of teaching children.

The painful fact is that public schools and colleges do not care who or what they teach, as long as they justify the existence of the Complex. Public schools are used as conveyor belts to feed colleges and universities, yet we ignore the fact that not everyone should or needs to go to college.

Vocational training is viewed by liberals and the educational industrial elite with snobbish dis-dain. Students are misled to as-sume that any college education will lead to financial success and happiness. In Texas, Hispanic lib-erals want (demand) all Hispanics to go to college and ignore voca-tional training.

Red tape and bureaucratic ad-ministration have become a favor-ite form of defense for the Com-plex, too. Administrators at the federal and state level have bound the schools up with red tape and reporting requirements, while teaching has become secondary. There are dueling accountabil-ity systems, about fifteen differ-ent metrics, and a multitude of regulations that must be followed. Those regulations are supposed to produce better students, but they only create a worse learning envi-ronment.

The Complex also tries to cre-ate “equality” in student results to cover its failures. But all the regu-lations in the world will not help a student who doesn’t want to learn, or who can’t learn. They only hurt the ones who can and want to learn.

Before legislators in Austin are stampeded by the Complex’s lobbyists, we need to figure out what we want the education sys-tem to accomplish. Do we want to produce widgets for the edu-cation industry, or do we want more productive members of so-ciety who can eventually support themselves and their families?

We need an education system that spends most of its money teaching students, rather than administering regulations.

We also need to accept the fact that not everyone needs to go to college. Higher education is not the only measure of success and it should not create a social stigma for those who don’t attend college. We must stop shoving round pegs in square holes be-cause this has become expensive and economically self-destruc-tive.

There is an “educational indus-trial complex” that works for its own good, and not for the benefit of students, parents, or teachers. We must recognize it and fight it. Education must have a purpose and cannot exist only for its own sake.


In Our View

In Our View‘Educational-Industrial Complex’ is hurting Texas

Public notices should stay public in the newspaper

El Conservador

George Rodriguez is a San Antonio resident. He is the former President of the San Antonio Tea Party, and is now Executive Director of the South Texas Political Alliance.

GeorgeRodriguez

THE GONZALES CANNON (USPS 001-390) is published weekly each Thursday by Gonzales Cannon Inc., 618 St. Paul Street, Gonzales, TX 78629. Periodicals Postage Paid at Gonzales, TX 78629. A one year subscrip-tion costs $22 in Gonzales County, $24 for out-of-county, and $30 for out-of-state.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Gonza-les Cannon, PO Box E, Gonzales, TX 78629.

An erroneous reflection upon the charactor, standing or reputation of any firm, person or corporation, which appears in the columns of this newspaper will be cor-rected upon due notice given to the publication at The Gonzales Cannon office. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Phone: (830) 672-7100. Fax: (830) 672-7111. Website:www.gonzalescannon.com.

The Gonzales CannonBOARD OF DIRECTORSBilly Bob Low • Chairman

Dave Mundy - Editor & General Manager

[email protected]

Cedric Iglehart - News [email protected]

[email protected]

Debbie Toliver - Advertising Director [email protected]

Dorothy Gast - Business [email protected]

Mark Lube - Sports Editor [email protected]

Sanya Harkey - Circulation/Classifieds [email protected]

Letters to the [email protected]

Randy Robinson, Vice ChairmanMary Lou Philippus, Secretary

Myrna McLeroyAlice Hermann

Dances withChihuahuas

Dave Mundy

General Manager

Someone dropped a Facebook post on us the other day which I find par-ticularly distressing.

The comment was one of several critical of the way we do things here, which in itself is fine. We use our Facebook account to communicate with readers in an informal fashion and to promote the paper, and always welcome critique.

I won’t quote the comment because it would identify the commenter, but the gist of the statement was that we shouldn’t go publishing details about crime events because, well, everyone knows those people and accepts that they are that way. It’s not the paper’s to get the thugs off the street, because they’re our friends and family.

Besides, another commenter added, the fact that those guys have been in jail before is not a big deal. Every-one’s been there, it’s not the end of the world.

Is it just me, readers, or is there something disturbingly wrong with that attitude?

I’ll never win any prizes as the Most Moral Man on the Block, but I suspect my moral upbringing was slightly dif-ferent than what our comments claim “everyone in Gonzales” has experi-enced.

In the world I grew up in, going to jail for committing a crime was so-cially unacceptable. People avoided thugs and drugs.

We took crime more seriously then.Get caught with a joint, and it wasn’t

a written ticket with a small fine — it was a prison sentence. More than a joint, and it was a life sentence.

Good girls didn’t date thugs, be-cause good fathers didn’t let their daughters date them. A very dear friend of mine once had a father chase him off the property with a shotgun, because my friend had been charged — although not convicted — of disor-derly conduct for being involved in a scuffle the previous week.

Employers with integrity wouldn’t hire you if you had a jail sentence on your record. And respectable busi-nessmen wouldn’t even you them in their establishments if they knew you were on probation or parole.

If you had a record, you didn’t brag about it. You learned to be quiet and unassuming, if you wanted to stay out of jail, because the local cops knew who you were, and you knew they were always watching.

There was no special jobs-train-

ing program for criminals, no Food Stamps, no Social Security benefits. Commit a crime and you sentenced yourself to a lifetime of hard labor at low wages.

The only way to re-establish your-self in society was to honorably serve in the military. Nowadays, they don’t want you.

Nor was this attitude limited to wholly criminal actions. Getting swats in school, or detention, or even the dreaded ISC (Independent Study Class) — it was not only humiliat-ing on a short-term basis, the conse-quences were lasting.

Get in trouble in school and you did NOT play on Friday night — or any night after that. You were NOT allowed to go to the dance. The coun-selors did NOT recommend your name to the good colleges and the scholarship committees.

Nowadays, we’ve made games of grand theft auto and assassination. We glorify criminals: we rap anthems to them, we allow our children to dress like them and imitate their speech and mannerisms.

We have, as a society, lost touch with the morality which made ours a superior civilization.

The good news is that, near as I can tell, the commenters who left their thoughts on our Facebook page do not represent the greater community of Gonzales.

We have a lot of people in this town who, like me, were raised to believe that personal conduct is not a trivial matter and carries long-term conse-quences. They were raised with the belief that rather than “waiting for the police,” we should step forward and call attention to wrongdoing when we see it, and take action where we can.

Crime — whether petty shoplifting or cold-blooded murder — is evil. It is our job as the community’s watchdog to combat evil.

As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

A Texas legislator has filed a bill that would give governmental bodies the op-tion of posting their public notices on their own government-controlled websites in-stead of printing them in newspapers. This poses a serious threat to government trans-parency and is antiethical to conservative government, and should be quickly killed.

State Rep. Jonathan Strickland (R-Hurst) has proposed the bill, which would enable government entities to post required legal notices on their websites instead of requir-ing them to print those notices in a news-paper of general circulation in the area.

The point of publishing these notices is to inform the citizenry. Very few Texans make it a practice to go to the website of their city, county, school district or other taxing entity to search for legal notices which may have been posted there. And let’s be truth-ful: most of the news media are already far ahead of government entities in the build-ing and maintenance of websites which are generally far more user-friendly, accessible and up-to-date.

Strickland’s bill also assumes blindly that Internet access is universal and used by all citizens. It pointedly is not. While some of our readers are “e-subscribers” and access The Cannon exclusively on the Web, most remain print-only subscribers who see only the print edition.

Restricting public notices to only gov-ernment agencies’ web sites would disen-franchise those readers who either do not have Internet access or don’t use a comput-er. Minorities, the elderly, the disabled and those in rural communities are statistically less likely to have online capability.

Newspapers like The Cannon publish the notices both in print and in their on-line editions (at no extra charge), and the notices are conglomerated on a statewide website operated by the Texas Press Asso-ciation. Newspapers are required by law to charge their lowest classified rate for pub-lic notices.

Nor are these public notices sucking any-one’s treasury dry: the cost of printed no-tice is minimal when compared to other government expenditures. For example, in 2011 Texas counties spent an average of 0.00533 percent of their budgets on legal notices regarding procurement.

In most Texas communities, the local newspaper remains the primary source for local news and the primary watchdog over local government. Allowing those governments to “hide” public notices by publishing them only on government-run websites heightens the possibility of waste, fraud and nepotism.

We urge our elected representatives to work to defeat HB 335.

Good men cannot sit idly by as evil destroys our community

To the Editor:Texans deserve Representative David Simpson for Texas

House Speaker.The record shows that current House Speaker Joe Straus is

key instrument of the Austin “crony-corporatist network” along with Governor Rick Perry and David Dewhurst. Together, they have manipulated legislative rules to shelve popular bills like David Simpson’s “TSA Anti-Groping Bill”, in spite of having suf-ficient votes to pass both houses. Straus called this popular bill a “publicity stunt”.

After the 2012 elections, profanity-laced emails out of Speaker Straus’ office were leaked showing his true colors – referring to grassroots political activists as “idiots” and “(bleeps)” Straus is so unpopular among the Republican grassroots that he was booed loudly when his name was mentioned at the State Republican Convention.

Rep. David Simpson is a statesman, a fair dealer, and a leader in protecting the Rights of all Texans. The board of the Repub-lican Liberty Caucus of Texas has unanimously endorsed Simp-son. Time is short and the stakes are high this legislative session. I urge all Texans to contact our State Representatives to encour-age their strong support for David Simpson for Texas House Speaker.

Sam Brannon,San Marcos

To The ediTorSimpson for Speaker

SHS needsstage propsThe Shiner One Act Play is get-

ting ready for the 2013 competi-tion season and we are in need of the following items for our show. If you are interested in donating any of the below items please contact Michelle Winkenwerder

or Linda Truman at Shiner High School (594-3131 ext. 460 or [email protected] or [email protected]).

Items needed are: 3 “Old school” bicycles; small wooden kitchen table; 4 wooden chairs; Winged back chair; “old school” radio; air raid siren; old painting in a frame ; wooden bowl; lantern;

wooden rolling pin; old clock; sailboat; bust or statue; Christ-mas tree; Captain wheel; Christ-mas Nutcracker; Old Books.

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.

Piano lessonsFree piano lessons for stu-

dents 8-18 are being offered in Gonzales.

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

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

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

Head StartTMC Golden Crescent Head

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

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

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family

Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit organization provid-ing services to both residents and non-residents in the coun-ties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

For more information, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.


‘Mr. John’ steps aside Longtime Gonzales radio personality “Mr. John” Za-vadil is ending his affiliation with radio KCTI 1450AM, program director Egon Barthels announced Tuesday. Mr. John is known for his participation in many com-munity events, seen here cutting the rug at at last year’s Main Street Concert Series.

Zavadil to leave KCTI

2138 Water Street/Hwy. 183, Gonzales, Texas 78629Phone 830.672.1888 ~ Fax 830.672.1884

www.SleepInnGonzales.com

BY CHOICE HOTELS

113 US Hwy. 90A East, Gonzales

830-672-7500

Luxury Motors

‘02 Ford Focus SEAll

electric, gas saver

Only $7,250 ttl$1,500 Down

‘03 ExpeditionAll

electric, sun roof,

DVD Player.

Nice Ride

$2,500 Down

$9,850 ttl

Community CalendarE-Mail Your local information to: [email protected]

Longtime Gonzales ra-dio personality “Mr. John” Zavadil, the host of one of the longest-running radio programs in Texas, is end-ing his affiliation with Ra-dio Station KCTI 1450AM, Program Manager Egon Barthels announced Tues-day.

“It was a personal deci-sion by Mister John to re-lieve himself from his posi-tion at KCTI-AM 1450 and he will be dearly missed by all of us,” Barthels said in a statement to the public read on the air and released in a Facebook message.

“First, I want to thank John for his many years of service to KCTI-AM 1450

and the Gonzales County community. We have en-joyed many great moments with Mr. John as host of the 1450 Polka Club and we are honored to say it has been one of the longest running polka shows in Texas and in the radio industry; that ac-complishment is truly rare in the radio business. Mr. John was also a huge asset in helping gather commu-nity news, rainfall reports, birthdays and anniversa-ries, obits as well as helping with other day to day op-erations at the station. Not to mention his connection with his faithful listeners of the 1450 Polka Club,” Bar-thels added.

University of Houston-Victoria Small Business Development Center will be hosting no-cost interac-tive workshops in Gonza-les. On January 11, they will have “Starting Your Own Business,” and on January 29 it will be “Federal Taxes for Small Businesses and Home-Based Tax Breaks.” Call 877-895-7232 for more information.

• The December-January Calf News magazine has a article on Graham Land & Cattle, located in Gon-zales County. Dr. Charles Graham bought the feed yard in 1987 from the Har-rell Bros. The feed yard has a capacity of 30,000 head. Graham L&C owns about 3,800 acres of ranch land for stocks production and can backround about 15,000 head for custom-ers. Jay Gray is the general manager. For on the article South Texas Strong got www.calfnews.net.

• First Friday Coffee was held Friday hosted by Hill-crest Homes of Texas. Win-ner of the drawing was Te-resa Brzozowski. The next Coffee will be hosted by Storey Jewelers on Febru-ary 2.

• The new owners of the Care Free Inn are Peter Sa-vani and his family. Please stop by to welcome them to Gonzales.

• The Community Com-mittee will meet Tuesday.

• J.B. Wells Park- Satur-day & Sunday Jr. High and High School Region 6 Ro-deo.

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

Around theChamber Office

BarbaraHand

Interactive workshopscoming this month

Pet the Python?On Jan. 3, Mike Hicks from Capital of Texas Zoo in Cedar Creek presented a 45-minute show at Shiner Nursing and Rehabilitation. The show featured a re-ticulated python named Julius Squeezer along with friends Becky the kikachu, a wallaby, an African grey parrot, a blue-tongued skink and Madagascar hissing coach roaches. The experience provided residents with the opportunity to inter-act with animals you would most likely only see at the zoo. Pictured is resident Evelyn Franks showing her resolve by petting an exotic python. “I’m afraid of snakes but I wanted to touch him,” she said. “It was cold and dry but felt like sat-in.” Shiner Nursing and Rehabilitation hosts daily activities for their residents. If you need activities information or would like to volunteer, call Karen Austin at 361-594-3353. (Courtesy photo)

Republican executives to meet in GonzalesFor a day, at least, the Republican

Party’s state brain-trust will be head-quartered in Gonzales.

The State Republican Executive Committee, consisting of represen-tatives from state senate districts around the state, will meet at First Lu-

theran Church’s Fellowship Hall from 9 a.m.-2 :30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19. The meeting is being hosted by State Sen. Glen Hegar.

The committee members will be fo-cusing on “how to follow legislation” during the meeting. This should be

helpful as we begin this 83rd Session of Texas Legislature.

Gonzales is part of the 20-county State Senate District 18, whose two representatives on the SREC are Ben Zedler and Becky Berger.

will support much less testing.”Kleinschmidt said the development of a

state water plan to drive growth in Texas is also a priority, but the hard part will be developing infrastructure for it.

“We’ll be looking at the beginnings of a state water plan, mostly looking at a fund-ing mechanism,” he said. “I think we’re looking at something like $50 billion over five years. We’re looking at a broad range of solutions.”

Kleinschmidt gave assurances that it is unlikely the state will eliminate single-county groundwater conservation districts to create aquifer-based districts.

“There’s some logic to it, from a conser-vation standpoint, but I don’t see a strong push to accomplish that.”

The vice chairman of the Land & Re-source Management Committee and a member of the Agriculture Committee, Kleinschmidt touched on a number of is-sues of importance to farmers and ranchers in his district. He is a Lee County rancher and attorney.

He noted that the state’s large metropoli-tan areas have the numbers to “bully” rural areas on a lot of issues, but noted: “We’ve got all the water and food, they need us.”

Nonetheless, transportation funding — particularly to help counties like DeWitt and Gonzales which have seen county roads badly deteriorated by oilfield traffic — is going to be hard to pry away from the metro areas, he said.

“We don’t have a funding mechanism in place that can help the counties,” he said.

He said a number of counties are join-ing forces behind the leadership of Dewitt

County Judge Daryl Fowler, but admit-ted that “We’re already behind the curve on that. I’d like to see more public-private partnerships.”

Kleinschmidt addressed a number of federal/state conflicts, including Obam-acare and the possibility of a push for Texas independence.

“My preference would be that the fed-eral government bloc-grants (Medicare) money to the states and let us administer it, because it’s a nightmare from a (state) budget standpoint,” he said.

He said that state-sovereignty issues will continue to be a battleground.

“They’re (Obama administration) very punitive in nature,” he said. “Medical care, transportation funding, unemployment — it’s gonna be a constant fight. Our Attor-ney general has done a great job of pushing back to keep the feds off our backs.

“We’ve got a very strong push for 10th Amendment rights,” he said. “It’s not a lit-tle issue, it’s a big issue.”

Nonetheless, he said, he did not see in-dependence as a “legal” option.

feet of space at the rate of $600 per month. Quintero pointed out the fact that

Waelder was charging Gonzales County $550 per month for the current facility that houses Constable Precinct Three Raleigh Measom, a structure easily three times smaller than the proposed clinic.

“I would like to find a way to be a little bit more consistent in what we charge whoever is seeking commercial property in Waelder,” said Quintero.

Councilman Alfred Thompson made a motion to set up the one-year lease for the clinic and it was seconded by Council-man Robert Tovar. Valentino Hernandez abstained from the vote and the motion passed 3-1-1 with Quintero opposing.

The council’s next decision proved to be even more volatile as they pulled the plug on a controversial land deal with Gonzales County.

The council agreed not to sell two acres of a 14-acre tract, located on Highway 90 just southeast of town, to the county. The location was to mark the potential new of-fices for Measom and Justice of the Peace Precinct Three Jesse Almaraz.

Mayor Mike Harris said that since the topic was first brought to the council, membership changes and other circum-stances had resulted in a change of heart.

“At that time, we had no companies beat-ing down our door looking to move here,” he said. “I feel like we should keep it and use it for economic development like we planned.”

Rancor soon arose over the perceived difference in the two business deals. Mea-som, who said the council previously agreed to sell the two acres at $4,500 per, couldn’t believe they were now reneging.

“You’re just treating the clinic one way with a brother-in-law deal, but when the County comes to you for property then it’s a different deal,” he said. “You’re wanting to not sell to us when you’ve already agreed that you would.”

“It’s strange because I thought once the council agreed to something, then that’s the way it would be. Why is the council treating the hospital district better than the County?”

Quintero made a motion to sell the land to Gonzales County at its appraised value, and it was seconded by Thompson. The motion failed 3-2, causing Measom to ex-press his disappointment.

“Just for everybody’s knowledge, it (the new office) doesn’t have to be in this city

at all,” he said. “The precinct is pretty large, but it’s always been my feeling to have it here to better serve the people here.”

Measom spoke to The Cannon following the meeting in a brief conversation during which he weighed his options.

“If they don’t want me here, then I can move my office to Harwood,” he said. “Ob-viously, the judge can too.”

Measom’s office is currently housed in a renovated FEMA trailer adjacent to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, while Almaraz’s office and staff are housed in the Waelder Community Center. Both officials detailed the deficiencies in their work spaces during a meeting of the Gonzales County Com-missioners Court last August.

“His offices are split by a public hallway,” Measom said of Almaraz. “His clerks, if they want to go to the bathroom, they have to walk out to a public room, that’s a secu-rity problem.”

Almaraz pointed out that because of space constraints, some of his filing cabi-nets actually have to be kept in the hallway, which is open to public traffic.

“It’s not how you’d like it,” he said.The contentious meeting Tuesday night

hit another note of discord when the coun-cil considered two separate mobile home applications from Hernandez and Holly Brister.

The latter’s application was approved first with little resistance, but Hernandez’s came under scrutiny.

Quintero produced a document stating Hernandez had moved his mobile home onto the proposed site at least five days pri-or to filing the application, thus violating the city’s new ordinance.

“That was a major infraction,” Quintero said. “I don’t know when we’re going to start doing things right around here.”

Hernandez disagreed and stated he ap-plied for his mobile home permit before their new ordinance took effect, meaning no penalties should be assessed.

“I’m not looking for penalties,” said Quintero. “Even the old ordinance said you have to put in for an application before you bring the home in.”

During this time, Harris stifled the de-bate and offered his opinion.

“I think we said we can’t do one person differently from others,” he said. “We’ve done it before but we can start new with the new ordinance.”

Thompson made a motion to accept Hernandez’s application, and it passed 3-1 with Hernandez abstaining and Quintero opposing.

on a property off State Highway 97 on the city’s north side, Barnes said. While the developer isn’t ready for a formal an-nouncement yet, the initial plans call for a community of some 200 new homes, an apartment complex of some 200 units and a small commercial/retail plot.

Barnes said the developer was await-ing the approved ordinance amendment, which allows the construction of the dif-fering building types within the same zoned area, and would probably formally embark on the project within 90 days.

Tuesday’s meeting also saw the city re-establish several boards and advisory committees with a revised and rewritten boards and committees handbook which the city hopes will spur more involvement from citizens.

The Beautification Advisory Commit-tee was re-established, while the Cem-etery Committee was given authority over all three city cemeteries. Also revived and redefined was the Museum Committee, while the city established a Parks and Rec-reation Advisory Board and a J.B. Wells Park Advisory Board.

Those volunteering to serve on the various boards will be allowed to serve on only one board at a time, although City Council could later amend that provision.

Council also approved a revised land-scaping project for Texas Heroes Square. The project will include the elimination of some pear trees which are diseased, as well as replacement of a pecan tree.

“We’ll replace a tree that was, well, planted by a squirrel,” said David Dement, who headed the landscape design project. “We’ll replace it with a cutting from the original pecan tree used by Gov. Hogg when he declared that the State Tree of Texas.”

The project also calls for the erection of a wall or curb in a star shape surrounding the Texas Heroes Monument. Inscribed on the wall will be the names of the “Immortal 32” heroes of Gonzales who responded to Travis’ call for aid from The Alamo, as well as the names of the nine men from Gon-zales who were already at The Alamo. Also planned is the planting of a graft from the Sam Houston Oak, which Dement said he hopes will eventually grow into a beautiful scenic canopy over St. Joseph St.

Council also reappointed Kacey Linde-mann Butler, Egon Barthels and Connie Dolezal to the Main Street Advisory Board and appointed Susan Webber, Melissa Tay-lor, Michelle London and George Wilhelm to terms on the board.

The Council also approved a staff pro-posal to create a Special Projects Manager. Barnes explained the position would effec-tively head up customer service for the city, responding directly to residents on many trouble calls and then following up to en-sure the issues are resolved.

In other action Tuesday, Council:• Approved a license agreement between

the city and Dorothy Ploeger for a property easement into a street easement;

• Approved the city’s Goals and Objec-tives Draft;

• Approved the parade route and street closures for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade on Jan. 21;

• Approved closures for the annual Gon-zales Master Gardeners Plant Sale March 23;

• Tabled action on a porposed contract to remove sludge from the city’s Water Treatment Plant to study whether the proj-ect could be accomplished by city crews more economically;

• Terminated the city’s contract for in-formation technology with Texas Technol-ogy Consultants Inc.


Continued from page A1

WAELDER: Pulls deal with county


Middle Buster RoadGonzales, Texas 78629

830-672-2777 830-672-2888hiexgonzales.com

[email protected]

www.facebook.com/holidayinnexpresssuitesgonzales

Welcome!Welcome to our

New Subscribers!Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Rossow, San Antonio

John Thundiyil, Gonzales

Birthdays this weekJanuary 10thRaegan TiekenJanuary 14th

Braycie Vickery

GPD adds new policemanGonzales Mayor Bobby Logan, left, swears in Trey Tunis as the city’s newest police officer. (Photo by Dave Mundy)


GONZALES: Council clears path forpotential master-planned community

KLEINSCHMIDT: Will back effortto decrease state-mandated testing

I am going to draw your attention to Matt Pohler. Matt is a young man whose story has been on the front page of the Victoria Advo-cate because the people of Shiner went all out to raise money to defray the ex-penses that he is incurring from treating acute lym-phoblastic leukemia. They raised $70,000.00 on their January 6th benefit. How-ever, chemo, blood transfu-sions, trips to MD Ander-son, and motels are all very costly.

I first became acquainted with Matt when his family came to eat at the Belmont Social Club. They were cel-ebrating his sister’s birthday and a win of Matt’s baseball team. I interviewed Matt then and was so impressed with this young man’s man-ners, his courtesy, his dedi-cation to his studies and his sports-baseball and golf-his respect for his family-his humility. I followed him after that and was over joyed when he received a golf scholarship to Victo-ria College. When I heard that Matt had Leukemia, I just did not want to believe that I had heard correctly. But Matt does have ALL, and he is hitting it head on just like everything else. Please go to MattPohler.org and read the updates and read how you can help by buying T-shirts etc.or send your prayers. Matt’s mother says that when she asks for your specific prayers when something is wrong, she feels the problem starting to become fixed. Your prayers don’t cost a penny but are worth millions.

The following people need your prayers and encouragement: Joe Kot-wig, Paul Villareal, Glenn Malatek, Mr. Bill, Jesse Esparza; Bill and Ma-rie Lott, “Sarge” Dunkin; Louise Jones, Aunt Geor-gie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Velma and Bobby Bullard; Mil-dred O’Neal, Pastor Lundy Hooten, Terrence, Aunt Frances Gandre, Kathryn, Glenn Mikesh, Maria Cas-tillo, Selma Vickers, Lan-dis, Gene Robinson, Keith Glass, Timothy and Jack Black, Teresa Wilke, Linda Denker, Case Martin, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Carol and husband, Shir-ley Dozier, Marie Schauer, Esther Lindemann, Anna Lindemann, Mary and Pete Camarillo, Mandy and Wm. (Ressie) Brietschopf, Lanny Baker, Dixie and Pete Basquez, Bob Young, Lucy Jones, Ann Bond; Marguerite Williams, Todd, Rita, and the family of Wil-liam Fink, And our troops and their families. Thank

you God for the rain, and we still pray for more.

We are having a lot of people who are having re-spiratory problems. Take care of it before it becomes something bad. We are glad that you are feeling bet-ter Wade Wilson. And we hope that you are too L. A. Lindemann. I don’t know whether we are just having to deal with stubborn men or whether we have some women included in this streak of stubbornness.

Happy Birthday Erin Al-len. When you are young like Erin you want to run around, shout and cel-ebrate. It is later on that you start shutting it down about the birthdays. Happy Birthday also to Jennifer Soefje, Jan Lindemann, and Joyce Daniels Broz. Tom Lindemann turned another year older on the first. You know I sat beside him over at the live nativity scene at Belmont and he didn’t look like was going to be an-other year older any time soon. Grandkids, nephews and nieces are making him young. Right now Tom is having the best time of his life.

Scottie-Beth Baker really did a nice job of the Mon-thalia newsletter with all of the great pictures and cap-tions. I am glad that Scot-tie and Mike enjoyed their vacation trip and made it safely home.

Thanks to Kerry Odom for sending out email wish-es to all of the Soefje kin. For those who do not get emails, he sent out wishes through the Soefje Face-book private account for New Year’s Greetings. It was neat to get wishes floating from all over the country.

Dililah thinks that this is good sleeping weather. In fact she decided she should tell me about that in the middle of the night by jumping up on my pil-low and starting up her loud purr. Now when that cat really decides to purr it is worse than Will when he snores. Snoring and purr-ing usually puts me to sleep but this was not in sync with my sleeping and I had to get that big powder puff of a kitty out of my bed and otherwise disposed for the night in order to try to fin-ish my night of sleep. So in the bathroom she went.

Have a good week, and God Bless.


Show your loveby helping Matt

Sandi’s Country Fried News

Sandi Gandre

Area Livestock Reports

Personal Loans from

$200.00 to $1,258.00*Call or Stop by Today! • We Prepare Taxes!

Empty stocking?Let Us Help You Fill It!

612 N Saint Joseph St • Gonzales TX • 78629(830) 672-7967

0694

*All loans are subject to our liberal credit policy and credit limitations, if any, and require verifiable ability to repay.

UHV-SBDC offers workshops

•Grains •Custom Mix Feed •Liquid Feed •Cattle Cubes

•Liquid Fertilizer •Pellet Feed •Spraying

1922 Co. Road 197Gonzales, TX 78629Phone: 830-672-3710

James Fehner -- Cell 830-857-3638Jimmy Fehner -- Cell 830-857-3636

Fehner & Son Grain Co.

GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE

M-F 7:30AM-5:30PM & SAT 8AM-5PM • Closed Sundays2031 Water St. • Hwy 183 North, Gonzales, TX • 830-672-7997

ACCEPTING VISA, AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTER CARD, AND DISCOVER

Come see us at W.B. for your next building project. We are your local

Lumber and Building material specialist. Free Estimates, Job pricing, Contractor pricing. Free delivery in most areas.

Spruce Lumber, Yellow Pine Lumber, Treated Lumber

Plywoods, Insulation, Sheetrock, Metal Roofing,

Owens Corning Shingles, OSB

The Gonzales Master Gardeners club received a grant from Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) in the amount of 2,449,95 to construct a rain water har-vest tank. From left is David DeMent, Dwight Sexton, Tommy Schulte of GBRA and Gail Johnson. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Gonzales LivestockMarket ReportThe Gonzales Livestock Market Report for

Saturday, January 5, 2013 had on hand: 581 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady. Packer cows sold $1-$2 higher.

Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $195-$235; 300-400 lbs, $180-$190; 400-500 lbs, $152-$175; 500-600 lbs, $140-$150; 600-700 lbs., $131-$136; 700-800 lbs, $128-$130.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $91-$105.Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large

frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $170-$195; 300-400 lbs, $160-$170; 400-500 lbs, $138-$155; 500-600 lbs., $124-$138; 600-700 lbs., $120-$123.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and com-mercial, $68-$72; Cutters, $75-$87.50; Can-ners, $54-$66; Low yielding fat cows, $68-$76.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $89-$99.50; light weights and medium quality bulls, $83-$87.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,275.Pairs: $1,050-$1,375.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.com!

Nixon LivestockCommission Report

The Nixon Livestock Commission Inc. re-port had on hand, January 7, 2013, Volume, 865.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $171 to $181 to $235; 300-400 lbs., $171 to $181 to $220; 400-500 lbs, $153 to $163 to $190; 500-600 lbs, $144 to $154 to $178; 600-700 lbs, $125 to $135 to $157; 700-800 lbs, $111 to $121 to $144.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $157 to $167 to $193; 300-400 lbs, $144 to $154 to $220; 400-500 lbs, $130 to $140 to $193; 500-600 lbs, $128 to $138 to $177; 600-700 lbs, $118 to $128 to $147; 700-800 lbs, $108 to $118 to $137.

Slaughter cows: $55 to $86; Slaughter bulls: $76 to $95; Stocker cows: $800 to $1,100; Pairs, $1,225.

Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market Report on January

4, 2013, had 654 head.Next week – January 11, 2013 we will have a

complete ranch dispersal consisting of 150 cows. Those without calves will be palpated. These are good crossbred cows of all ages.

Had 87 cows and 14 bulls. The packer mar-ket was higher for the second time in a row. Small number of cows and bulls helped the stronger prices. Pretty much about $2/cwt across the board higher.

The calf was steady to a little higher than the last sale on 12-14-12. A lot of buyer interest on

all weights. A good rain would help. Not very many calves under 400 lbs. Heifers were very solid and good thin steers were really selling well as much as 2-3$/CWT HIGHER.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $87-$100.50; lower grades, $67-$85.

Packer cows: breakers, $65-$77; boning, $65-$82; canners & cutters, $66-$84; light & weak, $40-$55.

Palpated dry Cows only 5 were bred-quality was low, $73-$86.

Pairs: One, $1,260..Steer calves: under 200 lbs, none; 200-250

lbs, None; 250-300 lbs, None; 300-350 lbs, None; 350-400 lbs, none; 400-450 lbs, Only 3 hd.; 450-500 lbs, $150-$165; 500-550 lbs, $140-$151; 550-600 lbs, $144-$154; 600-700 lbs, $140-$148; 700-800 lbs, $127-$135.

Bull Calves: under 250 lbs, None; 250-300 lbs, None; 300-350 lbs, None; 350-400 lbs, $160-$174; 400-450 lbs, $167-$172; 450-500 lbs, $154-$164; 500-550 lbs, $152-$161; 550-600 lbs, $142-$155; 600-700 lbs, $132-$145.

Over 700 lbs. bulls, $105-$126.Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs., None; 200-

250 lbs, None; 250-300 lbs, None; 300-350 lbs, None; 350-400 lbs, $146-$160; 400-450 lbs, $138-$147; 450-500 lbs, $137-$192 (Wht. Bra Hfrs.); 500-550 lbs, $136-$157.50; 550-600 lbs, $135-$149; 600-700 lbs., $127-$134; over 700 lbs, $109-$126.

.

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University has named its honor students for the fall semester, recognizing them for outstanding aca-demic performance.

The Dean’s Honor Roll rec-ognizes students taking at least 15 semester hours during the fall semester who have main-tained a 3.75 or higher grade point (GPR) out of a possible 4.0. A second designation, “Distinguished Student,” rec-ognizes those who earned a 3.5 to 3.74 GPR while taking at least 15 hours for the fall semester.

Among those recognized on the Dean’s Honor Roll were:

Alexandra Bruns, freshman, Flatonia; Alex Hernandez, junior, Flatonia; Haley Janota, senior, Shiner; Lindsey Kuck, sopho-more, Luling; Miranda Lambert, junior, Luling; Mary Menking, sophomore, Gonzales; Andrew Moehlman, senior, Yoakum; Laura Moehlman, junior, Yoa-kum; Justin Pesek, senior, Shiner; Katelyn Shaak, junior, Nixon; Ashley Shimek, junior, Shiner; and Stephanie Tobola, senior, Hallettsville.

Those recognized as Distin-guished included: Kelly Garrett, freshman, Cuero; Eric Jalufka, senior, Moulton; Hannah Mar-cak, senior, Shiner; Bryce Mica, senior, Flatonia; Brandon Pesek, junior, Shiner; Garet Pustejovsky, senior, Hallettsville; Ethan Svet-lik, senior, Hallettsville; and Al-exander Talbert, junior, Yoakum.

The University of Hous-ton-Victoria Small Business Development Center will host several no-cost inter-active workshops at their Gonzales office, located at Randle Rather Bldg. 427 St. George Street, Ste. 303, in Gonzales.

On January 11, the UHV SBDC Gonzales office will be holding an interactive workshop “Starting Your Own Business”. Kacey Lin-demann Butler, Certified Senior Business Advisor III, will present this workshop from 10 a.m.-noon at the SBDC Gonzales office at the Randle Rather Bldg. 427 St. George Street, Ste. 303, in Gonzales.

Attendees will learn about the fundamental elements of starting a small business. The workshop is designed to help attendees get a great start in business. Before in-vesting time or money into a new business, attend this workshop and learn what it takes to start a business.

On January 29, “Federal Taxes for Small Businesses & Home-Based Tax Breaks” will be offered at the UHV SBDC Gonzales office. From 12:30-2:30 pm, this no-cost interactive workshop will provide information on for start-ups and existing small businesses about federal taxes for small businesses and home-based tax breaks. Presenter David Plemons, CPA of Plemons CPA, will

lead the seminar covering federal tax responsibilities and your small business.

The UHV SBDC offers assistance on starting, grow-ing and financing a business; contracting opportunities; and recovering from disas-ter. It also helps new busi-nesses start and existing businesses expand through a combination of consult-ing and training in areas like market identification, raising capital and develop-ing a business plan. Most of

its services are free to area small business owners. The center serves Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Gonza-les, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Refugio and Victo-ria counties.

To register for a work-shop, call the SBDC at 361-485-4485 or from outside the Victoria calling area 877-895-SBDC (7232). Or register through our website, sbdc.uhv.edu - just follow the training links.

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice Sheriff’s Report for Dec. 30-Jan. 5:

01/01/13Girndt, Aaron Lee, 06/1992,

Victoria. DUI-Minor. Released on Order to Appear.

01/04/13Brady, Crystal Lynn, 09/1981,

Kyle. Local Warrant – Theft of Property >$20 <$500 by Check.

Requires $1,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.

Gonzales, Mario, 06/1959, Houston. Commitment/Sen-tence – Driving while Intoxicated 3rd or More. Remains in Custody.

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

GCSO 07DPS 03

GPD 08WPD 01NPD 03Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 01GCAI 00Total 23

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Report for De-cember 31, 2012 thru January 6, 2013

12/31/12Case #12-520, Violate City Or-

dinance, 409 Airport Rd.; Com-plainant, The State of Texas; Dis-position, Investigation.

01/01/13Case #13-001, Mendoza,

Efrain, 23, Yoakum, 1000 N. South; Offense, Public Intoxica-tion; Disposition, Fine/$564/Rel.

Case #13-002, Burglary-Vehi-cle, 209 Clark; Disposition, Inves-tigation.

Case #12-003, Burglary-Vehi-cle, 302 Ward; Disposition, Inves-tigation.

01/02/13Case #13-004, Burglary-Build-

ing, 801 N. South; Complainant, Kacir, Patrick; Disposition, Inves-tigation.

Case #176799, YPD Detention, 900 Irvine; Complainant, City of Yoakum; Disposition, Cleared by Arrest.

Case #12-447, Mayberry, Drak-kar, 21, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Of-fense, Criminal Mischief-C; Dis-position, Fine/$314/Rel.

Case #12-448, Mayberry, Drak-

kar, 21, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Of-fense, Assault-C; Disposition, Fine/$314/Rel.

01/04/13Case #13-005, Rosales Scott,

25, Yoakum, 600 Blk. Hopkins; Offense, Evading Arrest; Disposi-tion, Trans/DCSO.

Case #176826, Murphy, Al-berta, 43, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense, YPD/DPS Detention; Disposition, Fine/$550/Rel.

Case 12-232, Warrant Arrest (1) Murphy, Alberta, 43, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Disposition, Fine/$639/Rel.

Gonzales Co. Sheriff’s Office Report

Yoakum Police Report

Local studentsearn honorsat Texas A&M


The Gonzales CannonDisplay Advertising Deadlines

The Gonzales Cannon goes to press on Wednesday each week, with news rack distribution on Thursday and mail

distribution on Friday.

Placement order deadline is 5 p.m. on Monday for the following Thursday’s edition.

Package advertising (print and web) rates are available; ask for details.

Deadline for first proofs and copy changes to existing advertisements is noon on Monday preceding publication.

Final deadline for corrections for each week’s edition is 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

To schedule your ad, contact Debbieat 830-672-7100.

Featuring Home-Grown Businesses

Regional Business DirectoryWant to list your business

here? Call Debbie at 830-672-7100

Don’t forget about our online advertising too!

gonzalescannon.com

Wide Selection of Liquor, Wine, Liqueurs and Beer!

Special Orders Welcome!Gift Baskets made to order!

(830) 672-3107730 Seydler, Gonzales, Tx

78629

B&J LiquorD&G Automotive & DieselWrecker Service

830-672-6278134 Hwy. 90A • Gonzales, TX 78629

Glenn & Linda Glass, Owners

Sale every Saturday at 10amwith live webcast @ www.cattleUSA.com

Dave S. Mobile 830-857-5394

Mike B. Mobile 830-857-3900

Office 830-672-2845

Fax 830-672-6087

P.O. Box 565 • Gonzales, TX 78629

Hallettsville Livestock Commission Co.

Where your livestock brings top $$$ everytime!

AUCTION SALE EVERY TUESDAY

Call 361-798-2542We appreciate your business!

FREEESTIMATES

ALL MATERIALS

HAULED

Construction Company

Sub-ContractorSpecializing in Site Work

Foundation Pads-Road Work-DemolitionStock Tanks-Brush Clearing

221 Private Rd 2003 • Gonzales, TX 78629Office 830-437-2873 • Fax 830-437-2876David Ehrig 830-832-6063 Bubba Ehrig 830-832-5094

FREEESTIMATES

Septic SystemInstallation

Office 830-437-2873Fax 830-437-2876

Larry Ondrusek dOzer service

Root Plowing - Root Raking - Discing and Tank Building.

35 Years Experience working in Gonzales and Surrounding Counties.

Call:361-594-2493

NixoN Livestock commissioN

Sale Every Monday 10:30 a.m.All Livestock Bonded and Insured

W.E. “Buck” BUTLERNixon, Texas830-582-1052

Hwy. 87 E., Nixon830-582-1561 or

830-582-1562

MANAGERGARY BUTLER

830-582-1944

Vic’s Concrete Finishingand Backhoe Work

Any type concrete work. Commercial & Residential

We don’t do cheap work; We do quality work

Free Estimates830-672-6383

25 years experience • 2-5 man crewConcrete • Cattle Guard Bases

Let Us Build Your New HomeCustom Residential & Commercial Builders

Re-Roof • Vinyl Siding • Metal BuildingsRemodeling • Concrete Works

Plumbing • Trenching • Backhoe ServiceServing the area since 1948 General Contractors • Shiner

(361) 594-3853 • 594-4311www.mrazlumber.com

Open: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.Saturday, 8 a.m - Noon

The Gonzales Cannon

618 St. Paul, GonzalesPhone: 830-672-7100

Fax: 830-672-7111www.gonzalescannon.com

Honesty Integrity Fairness

Deadline nearing for GVEC Youth Tour competition

Magnolia Materials830-875-9088

1951 S. Hwy. 80 (Magnolia Ave)Luling, Texas 78648

Hours: Monday Thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Saturday, 8:00 am to Noon

Bulk Materials. Order by the yard or by the ton. Delivery available.

Sand, Gravel, Topsoil, Base Material, Mulch, Mushroom Compost

Crushed Granite, Slag. Also Check out our Flagstone and Cut Limestone

KING RANGER THEATRESHwy 123 Bypass & E. Walnut St., Seguin

Fri., Jan. 11 thru Thur., Jan. 17 - all Shows $5.00 Before 6:00 • Adult $7.50 Child & Senior $5.50 • Open Daily @ 12:45ROCKING CHAIR STADIUM SEATING•WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ALL DIGITAL SOUND • HEARING IMPAIRED SOUND

$2.00 UPCHARGE FOR 3D MOVIES • Visit us @ KingRanger.com

a HauntEd HouSE (R)

1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30

django uncHainEd (R)

5:15, 8:30

monStErS inc. (G)

1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00tEXaS cHainSaW 3-d (R)

1:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00

promiSEd land (R)

1:00, 3:10

jacK rEacHEr (PG-13)

1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30

gangStEr Squad (R)

1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15

parEntal guidancE (PG)

1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30

tEXaS cHainSaW 2-d (R)

3:00, 9:30zEro darK tHirty (R)

1:15, 5:00, 8:15

HoBBit 2d (PG-13)

1:00, 4:30, 8:30


[email protected]

Moeller ConstruCtion, llC“Your Quality Builder”

Entrances w Decorative Gates w Farm WeldingCattle Pens w Metal Buildings w Custom Homes

Remodeling w Trim & Finish w Concrete Work w Decks

Joshua Moeller361-772-7575 • [email protected]

P.O. Box 202 • Moulton, TX 77975

Kessler Appliance Repair

Bill Kessler830-203-0002

Paul Kessler512-431-581

830-263-0577 Day or [email protected]

Homes & References in Gonzales County

Johnny Johnson LuLing, Texas

Applications are now be-ing accepted for the Gua-dalupe Valley Electric Co-operative’s (GVEC) Youth Tour competition.

The contest, open to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors, will give four deserving students the op-portunity to visit Washing-ton, D.C. for a week during June 2013.

The contest and trip are part of the national Elec-tric Cooperative Youth Tour hosted each year by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). It’s an unforget-table, all-expense-paid trip giving students the oppor-tunity to learn more about our country’s heritage, the federal government and the role electric co-ops play in the economy.

While in D.C., students will visit many of the na-tion’s exciting museums, memorable landmarks and breathtaking memorials. They will also take a trip to Capitol Hill to visit their Congressional representa-tives.

“GVEC believes it’s im-portant to sponsor our members’ students because they are the future lead-ers of our communities,”

says Lindsey Lyde, GVEC Corporate Services Divi-sion Manager. “It’s a great opportunity for our young people to learn about our nation’s history, meet our elected representatives, and experience first-hand what it is like to be part of his-tory in the making.”

Last year’s tour winners, upon arriving back home, described the experience as “life-changing.” They agreed that it was an in-credible learning experi-ence in which they gained a new perspective on what it meant to be a U.S. citi-zen, while making lifelong friends with other students from across the country.

Students can find more details on how to earn one of four sponsored spots at www.gvec.org. The contest deadline is Tuesday, Janu-ary 15, and is open to all sophomores, juniors, and seniors whose parent or guardian is a member of GVEC and lives in a resi-dence served by GVEC. Children of GVEC em-ployees and directors are not eligible to apply.

For more information, contact Dawn Southwell at 830-386-4415 or 800-223-4832. You may also send an email to [email protected].


Oil & Gas Activity Report

Oil & Gas

DuBose Insurance Agency

826 Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales, TX 78629

Oil & Gas Reports Page Sponsored by

(830) 672-9581 www.JDCOins.com

Gonzales County Records


Recent well location reports from the Texas Railroad Commission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-33002Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating CompanyLease Name: Fisher BWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 6.24 miles southwest of

WesthoffSurvey Name: W.S. Leyell, A-311Acres: 544

API No.: 42-123-32990Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating CompanyLease Name: S. Witte AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 1.36 miles northeast of

YoakumSurvey Name: R. Sinclair, A-429Acres: 558.39

API No.: 42-123-32988Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating CompanyLease Name: Fisher CWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 6.25 miles southwest of






API No.: 42-123-32973Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating CompanyLease Name: Zgabay AWell No.: 10HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 6.85 miles northeast of

WesthoffSurvey Name: M. Cogswell, A-109Acres: 687.92


WesthoffSurvey Name: W.S. Leyell, A-311

Acres: 544



API No.: 42-123-32998Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resources O and G

Co. LPLease Name: Gohlke Unit AWell No.: 2Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 3.7 miles northwest of

NordheimSurvey Name: F. Leal, A-304Acres: 642.43

API No.: 42-123-32995Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 1Well No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.9 miles east of

WesthoffSurvey Name: S.R. Lester, A-312Acres: 750.02

API No.: 42-123-32996Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 1Well No.: 7AHField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.9 miles northeast of


API No.: 42-123-32994Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 1Well No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.89 miles northeast of


API No.: 42-123-32997Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 1Well No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.7 miles southeast of

GonzalesSurvey Name: S.R. Lester, A-312Acres: 750.02

API No.: 42-123-32991Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 1Well No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.88 miles northeast of


API No.: 42-123-32993Classification: Fld. Dev. and Horizontal

Operator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Oro Negro Unit 1Well No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2.89 miles northeast of


API No.: 42-123-32964Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Pioneer Natural Res. USA Inc.Lease Name: Barrow 01Well No.: 02HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 21,000 feetDirection and Miles: 3.03 miles southeast of

NordheimSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 33, A-254Acres: 520.77





API No.: 42-123-33001Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Matador Production CompanyLease Name: Matador Cowey OrcaWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,701 feetDirection and Miles: 17.6 miles northeast of

RungeSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 11, A-270Acres: 301.85

API No.: 42-123-33000Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: NFR Energy LLCLease Name: Hoermann UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 13,600 feetDirection and Miles: 6.9 miles northwest of

YoakumSurvey Name: SA and MG RR Co, A-450Acres: 654.90

Gonzales County

API No.: 42-177-32826Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Medina UnitWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 14.56 miles southeast

of GonzalesSurvey Name: J.D. Clements, A-9Acres: 1,042.18

API No.: 42-177-32810Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Lord C UnitWell No.: 1H

Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,700 feetDirection and Miles: 11.7 miles east of SmileySurvey Name: A.W. Hill, A-247Acres: 1,113.51

API No.: 42-177-32812Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Lord C UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 11.7 miles east of SmileySurvey Name: A.W. Hill, A-247Acres: 1,113.51

API No.: 42-177-32811Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Lord C UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,700 feetDirection and Miles: 11.7 miles east of SmileySurvey Name: A.W. Hill, A-247Acres: 1,113.51

API No.: 42-177-32823Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: S. King No. 1H UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 9.8 miles southeast of

CostSurvey Name: S.H. Gates, A-228Acres: 290.96

API No.: 42-177-32807Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Lefevre UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,600 feetDirection and Miles: 1 mile east of Glaze CitySurvey Name: J.D. Clements, A-9Acres: 961.47

API No.: 42-177-32824Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Baird Heirs UnitWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 0.01 miles southeast of

SampleSurvey Name: B. Davis, A-189Acres: 533.56

API No.: 42-177-32820Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Baird Heirs UnitWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 0.01 miles southeast of

SampleSurvey Name: B. Davis, A-189Acres: 533.56

API No.: 42-177-32825Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Vernon UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 7.9 miles south of Smi-

leySurvey Name: J. Dunbaugh, A-197Acres: 490.63

API No.: 42-177-32816Classification: Fld. Dev. and Horizontal

Operator: Forest Oil Corp.Lease Name: Tinsley-Cook 1Well No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 13,500 feetDirection and Miles: 7.7 miles southwest of

GonzalesSurvey Name: G.W. Barnett, A-110Acres: 500.26

API No.: 42-177-32817Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil Corp.Lease Name: Tinsley-Cook 2Well No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 13,500 feetDirection and Miles: 7.7 miles southwest of

GonzalesSurvey Name: G.W. Barnett, A-110Acres: 480.48

API No.: 42-177-32822Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Hunt Oil CompanyLease Name: O. Borchers CWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 18,000 feetDirection and Miles: 9.2 miles east of Gon-

zalesSurvey Name: A. Denton, A-12Acres: 521.30

API No.: 42-177-32819Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Garza-Kodack Unit No. 1Well No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 6.72 miles southeast of

GonzalesSurvey Name: T. Jackson, A-31Acres: 181.07

API No.: 42-177-32821Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Dubose Unit No. 1Well No.: 2Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 5.59 miles southeast of

GonzalesSurvey Name: T. Jackson, A-30Acres: 397.49

API No.: 42-177-32814Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Tidal Petroleum Inc.Lease Name: JamWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 9,100 feetDirection and Miles: 6 miles southeast of

WaelderSurvey Name: L. Mallet, A-352Acres: 326.75

Lavaca County

API No.: 42-285-33682Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: RBK UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 18,600 feetDirection and Miles: 5 miles northeast of

ShinerSurvey Name: J. Kent, A-273Acres: 502.85

Recent oil and gas completions according to reports from the Texas Railroad Commis-sion

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-32854Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Marathon Oil EF LLCLease Name: Ann Friar ThomasWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: J. McCoy Jr., A-30Direction and Miles: 8.3 miles southwest of

YoakumOil: 670MCF: 4,524Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,792Total Depth: 18,640 feetPerforations: 13,399-18,529 feet


Co. LPLease Name: Gwosdz Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Survey Name: T. Mancha, A-326Direction and Miles: 15.5 miles northwest

of CueroOil: 685MCF: 2,061Choke Size: 20/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 5,668Shut In Well Pressure: 6,898Total Depth: 18,486 feetPerforations: 13,201-18,278 feet


Co. LPLease Name: Schlenker Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: P. Pate, A-386Direction and Miles: 14.2 miles northwest

of CueroOil: 907MCF: 1,146Choke Size: 10/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 6,280Total Depth: 16,578 feetPerforations: 12,700-16,365 feet


Co. LPLease Name: Motl Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Survey Name: S. Pharrass, A-377Direction and Miles: 8.4 miles northwest of

CueroOil: 751MCF: 3,479Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 6,335Shut In Well Pressure: 6,915Total Depth: 18,837 feetPerforations: 13,656-18,612 feet


Co. LPLease Name: Jansky Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Survey Name: I RR Co, Section 56, A-518Direction and Miles: 4.2 miles southeast of

EcletoOil: 626MCF: 2,716Choke Size: 20/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 6,570Shut In Well Pressure: 7,378Total Depth: 19,214 feetPerforations: 13,542-18,977 feet

Gonzales County Courthouse DeedsDecember 1-31Hinze, Lloyd H. (Trustee), Hinze, Vicki K.

(Trustee), Hinze Trust, Lloyd H. and Hinze Trust, Vicki K. to Forest Oil Corpration, 0/l, 202.70 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Robert A Pace A-382 Svys.

Alexander, Raymond (Indiv. & Extr) and Alex-ander, Rosene L. (Estate) to Alexander, Raymond, w/d, 20.00 Acres, M Putman A-393 & A B Ham-mett A-281 Svys.

Campbell, Eugenia H. to Campbell, Douglas M., w/d, Undiv. Int. In 369.00 Acres, William Page Svy, A-54.

Campbell, Eugenia H. to Campbell, Eugenia H., w/d, Undiv. Int. in 369.00 Acres, William Page Svy, A-54.

Campbell, Eugenia H. to Campbell, Douglas M., w/d, Undiv. Int. in 369.00 Acres, William Page Svy, A-54.

Knippa, Darnell R. and Knippa, Lynette R. to Knippa, Darnell R. (Trustee), Knippa, Lynette R. (Trustee) and Drklrk Living Trust, w/d, 200.20 Acres, R H Wynn Svy, A-474.

Mudd, Dennis R. to ACR Partnership, Ltd., w/d, Undiv. Int in 349.6958 Acres, Daniel Davis Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Lester Sr, Thomas E. and Lester, Pamela Mar-rou to TP, Ltd., w/d, Int. in 320.18 Acres, A M Gre-nage A-222 & Richard Bibb A-104 Svys.

Henry Jr, Walter H. to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 487.91 Acres, Gonzales Co. Schl. Land A-229, Byrd Lockhart A-38 & R L Breeding Jr A-102 Svys.

Rafter D Investments, Inc to Ramirez, Benja-min and Ramirez, Peresa M, w/d, 0.241 of an Acre (Lt. 5 & Pt. Lt. 6) Tejada Subdvn, Nixon.

Taylor, Randel C. and Taylor, Joyce to DJRJ Properties, LLC, w/d, 91.46 Acres, Patrick Lynch Svy, Gonzales & Guadalupe Counties.

Bouldin, William B. (Trustee), Bouldin, Mary L. (Trustee) and Bouldin Trust to Bouldin, William B. and Bouldin, Mary L., w/d, Int. in 2,209.00 Acres, Isaac Roberts, T G Weeks & “G W Brazeale Svys.

Gordon, Debra to Alvarez, Roberto, w/d, 0.9043 of An Acre (Pt. Blk. 68) Schleicher’s Sub-dvn, Nixon.

Elbo Ranch, Ltd. to Ratton, Kenneth Lee and Rubio-Ratton, Cynthia, w/d, 25.00 Acres, James W. Nichols A-365 & Jesse Robinson A-57 Svys.

Brown, Rebecca B. (Atty-In-Fact) and Brown, Alma Nell to Vasquez, Hermilo, w/d, Lt. 4, Blk. 17, Nixon.

Simpson, Thomas Randolph and Simpson, Patricia to Forest Oil Corp., o/l, 132 AC J Tumlin-son A-444 & Gonzales Co. School Land A-230.

Aros. Lemmetj W to IEI Warehouse Manager, w/d, Lt. 12 Blk. 1 Norwood Heights Addn City of Gonzales.

Walker, Virgie L., Jalufka, Virgie Lee Ford (FKA) and Walker, Graham to Forest Oil Corp, o/l, 8.648 Ac AM Grenage A-222 & C Sherrill A-432.

Avant, J C and Avant, Bradley F to Forest Oil Corp, o/l, 6.71 Ac Am Grenage A-222.

Kelly, Sue Lue Smith to Kelly Family Ranch Ltd., w/d, 1844.73 Ac No Survey Named (Vol 770 Pg. 474.)

Cook, John L. and Cook, Nancy Jo to C-B Land & Cattle Ltd, T Bar K Land & Cattle Ltd, Cook, John L Jr, Ltd and Parks, Linda Cook Ltd., w/d, Un-derground Water 15 Tracts Various Surveys.

Cook, John L and Cook, Nancy Jo to Cook, John L Jr, Ltd, w/d, 963.68 N Ac R L Breeding A-102, G W Brazeale A-87 & W Horton A-257.

Cook, John L and Cook, Nancy Jo to Parks, Linda Cook Ltd, w/d, 4 Tracts in Various Surveys.

Cook, John L and Cook, Nancy Jo to C-B Land & Cattle Ltd., w/d, 992.67 Ac G W Barnett A-235 N. James A-298, T G Weeks A-475, W Hor-

ton A-247.Cook, John L and Cook, Nancy Jo to T Bar K

Land & Cattle, Ltd., w/d, 6 Tracts B Lockhart A-38.King, Richard to Forest Oil Corp, o/l, 71.293

Ac Gonzales Co. School Land A-230 & C Fordtrand A-209.

McCamant, Karen to Forest Oil Corp, o/l, 202.70 Ac Gonzales Co. School Land A-230 & R A Pace A-382.

State of Texas General Land Office to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 3.60 AC P Pate (US Hwy. 87)

Davis, Giner L. and Davis, Wilbon to Slay, Betty, w/d, 0.16 AC Pt. Lt. 7 * 7 town of Nixon.

Watts Jr, James W. to Watts Jr, James W. (Trustee), Jim Watts Family Trust and Watts Fam-ily Trust, Jim, w/d, 85.991 Acres, Stephen Smith Svy, A-62.

Watts Jr, James W. to Watts Jr, James W. (Trustee), Tim Watts Family Trust and Watts, Fam-ily Trust, Jim, w/d, 217.45 Acres, Stephen Smith Svy, Guadalupe & Gonzales Counties.

Ritchie, Wilson Orestus and Ritchie, Diane Caraway to Ritchie Qualified Personal Residence Trust, w/d, 198.692 Acres, Hardy W B Price Svy, A-370.

Ritchie, Wilson Orestus and Ritchie, Diane Caraway to Wilson O. Ritchie Trust and Ritchie Trust, Wilson O., w/d, 547.475 Acres, Byrd Lock-hart A-38, WM A Farris A-208, J A Winn A-465, WM Bryan A-140 & HWB Price A-370 Svys.

Stamps, Kyle, Stamps, Paula and Dey, Deb-bie to Kelly, Gary and Kelly, Patricia, w/d, Lt. 8 & Pt. Lt. 3, Blk. 5, Badger’s Addn, Gonzales.

Clark, William R. and Clark, Anne J. to Shock, Jace W., w/d, 0.675 of an Acre (Pt. Lt. 1) Lakeside Subdvn, Ed Dickinson Svy, A-19.

Bramlet, Richard to Jamison, Allan K. and Jamison, Debra R., w/d, 169.906 Acres, J W Nich-ols A-365 & Elijah Tate A-70 Svys.

Newman, Robert Mark to Newman, Robert Mark, w/d.

Taylor, Richard (Trustee), Taylor Revocable Living Trust, Burns and Taylor Revocable Liv-ing Trust, Adeline to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 202.70 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land A-230 & Robert A Pace A-382 Svys.

Taylor, Richard to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 202.70 Acres, Gonzales County Schl Land A-230 & Robert A Pace A-382 Svys.

Massey, Robert Louis and Massey, Maria Lamar to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 28.15 Acres, John Tumlinson Svy, A-444.

Georg, Sharon L. (Extr) and Georg, Clarence F. (Estate) to George, Sharon L. (Trustee) and Georg Family Trust, Clarence F., w/d, Undiv. Int. in 426.795 Acres, Thomas M. Hardeman Svy, A-262.

Marek, David L. and Marek, Helen to Marek, Steven D., w/d, Lts. 4-6 & Pt. Lt. 7, Blk. 12, River-crest Place Addn, Gonzales.

Buckley, Helen S. (Trustee) and Buckley Re-vocable Trust, Helen S. to Buckley, Helen S., w/d, Undiv. Int. in 16.44 Acres, J McCoy Jr, J Livergood & J M McCoy Svys, Gonzales & Fayette Counties.

Burnett, Vida S. to Vida Burnett Family, LP and Burnett Family LP, Vida, w/d, 64.80 Acres, Andrew Lockhart A-320 & James Tennell A-453 Svys.

EP Energy E&P Company, L.P. to EOG Re-sources, Inc., o/l, 476.00 Acres, George Gwinn Svy, A-223.

Gill, Opal Lee to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, 0.75 of an Acre, James Billins Svy, A-128.

Gill, Dennis H. and Gill, Opal Lee to John Clark Ranch, Ltd and Clark Ranch Ltd., John, w/d, Int. in 490.46 Acres, Mary Cogswell Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Gill, David Dennis (Trustee), Gill Land Trust,

David Dennis and David Dennis Gill Land Trust to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 490.46 Acres, Mary Cogswell Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Womack, Sheri Miller (Trustee) and Womack Trust U/A to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 490.46 Acres, Mary Cogswell Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Midkiff, Carol Ann Miller (Trustee) and Mid-kiff Trust U/A to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 490.46 Acres, Mary Cogswell Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Gill, John Howard (Trustee), John Howard Gill Land Trust U/A and Gill Land Trust U/A, John Howard to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 490.46 Acres, Mary Cogswell Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Womack, Sheri Miller (Trustee) and Womack Trust U/A to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 236.00 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Gill, David Dennis (Trustee), David Dennis Gill Land Trust U/A and Gill Land Trust U/A, Da-vid Dennis to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 236.00 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Midkiff, Carol Ann Miller (Trustee) and Mid-kiff Trust U/A to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 236.00 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Gill, John Howard (Trustee), John Howard Gill Land Trust U/A and Gill Land Trust U/A, John Howard to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 236.00 Acres, A W Hill Svy, A-247.

Miller, W H and Miller, Edna Joan Clark to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, Int. in 490.46 Acres, Mary Cogswell Svy, Gonzales & DeWitt Counties.

Miller, Edna Joan Clark to John Clark Ranch, Ltd. and Clark Ranch Ltd, John, w/d, 0.75 of an Acre, James Billings Svy, A-128.

Jarmon Sr, Hubert T to HTJ Family Interests, LP, w/d, Mineral Int. in 50.082 Acres, James B Blalock Svy, A-49

Jarmon Sr, Hubert T. and Jarmon Jr, Hubert T to HTJ Family Interests, LP, w/d, Int. in 72.00 Acres, Christopher C DeWitt Svy, A-180.

Rawls Jr, John Winston to Rawls Jr, John Winston (Trustee) and JW&MRawls Supplemen-tal Needs Trust, w/d, Int. in 538.40 Acres, Sarah Hendricks A-261 & Gonzales County Schl Land A-229, Svys.

Northcutt, Linda and Northcutt, Johnny to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 6.677 Acres, Charles Fordtran Svy, A-209.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 15.899 Acres, William Johnson Svy, A-290.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 597.394 Acres, Eliza DeWitt Svy, A-13.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 73.438 Acres, William Johnson Svy, A-290.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-

cable Trust, w/d, 228.2077 Acres, A M Grenage A-222, WM J. Bryan A-107 & D B Dillard A-184 Svys.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 414.816 Acres, Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 95.803 Acres, W M Johnson Svy, A-290.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 122.19 Acres, Eliza DeWitt Svy, A-13.

Ford, Don H. and Ford, Nancy M. to Ford Family Irrevocable Trust, Don Henry, Ford Fam-ily Irrevocable Trust, Nancy Lee Merrill and Don Henry & Nancy Lee Merrill Ford Family Irrevo-cable Trust, w/d, 587.03 Acres, Jose Maria Salinas Svy, A-59.

Cook, John L. and Cook, Nancy Jo to Man-ford Ranch, La Rue Cook Ltd and La Rue Cook Manford Ranch Ltd, w/d, Und. Int. 371.2 Ac I Rob-erts A-399, G W Brazeale A-97 & T G Weeks A-475.

Manford Ranch, La Rue Cook Ltd, La Rue Cook Manford Ranch Ltd to Cook, John L and Cook, Nancy Jo, w/d, Und Int. 581 Ac G W Barnett A-135, N James A-298, T G Weeks A-475.

Cook, John L and Cook, Nancy Jo to C-b Land & Cattle Ltd, w/d, Und Int. 581 Ac G W Bar-nett A-135, N James A-298 & T G Weeks A-475.

King, Alice G (Trustee), Elmer H. Goebel Mari-tal Deduction Trust and Goebel, Elmer H Marital Deduction Trust to King, Alice G., w/d, Und Int. 299.4 AC A W Hill A-247.

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Alice G (Trustee), King, Shelby S (Trustee), Jacqueline D. Almaguer, Humphrey Trust and Humphrey, Jacqueline D Almaguer Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 299.4 Ac A W Hill A-247.

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Alice G (Trustee), King, Shelby S (Trustee), Jacqueline D. Almaguer, Humphrey Trust and Humphrey, Jacqueline D Almaguer Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 265.9 Ac (Zappe Tract).

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Alice G (Trustee), Jacqueline D. Almaguer, Humphrey Children’s Trust and Humphrey, Jacqueline D Almaguer Children’s Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 265.94 Ac (Zappe Tract).

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Alice G (Trustee), King, Shelby S (Trustee), Randolph Lee Almaguer Trust, Almaguer, Randolph Lee Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 252.51 Ac (Poth Tract).

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Alice G (Trustee), Randolph Lee Almaguer Children’s Trust, Almaguer, Randolph Lee Children’s Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 252.51 Ac (Poth Tract).

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Alice G (Trustee), King, Shelby S (Trustee), David Ross Almaguer Trust, Almaguer, David Ross Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 60.867 Ac (No Survey named).

King, Alice G and King, Shelby S to King, Al-ice G (Trustee), King, Shelby S (Trustee), Michael Anthony Almaguer Trust, Almaguer, Michael An-thony Trust, w/d, Und. Int. 60.867 Ac (No Survey Named).

Ploeger, Leslie Jr (Ind. & Trustee), Menning, Mary Ann (Trustee), Walshak, Dorothy Lee Ploeger, Ploeger, Sally Jane Trust #1, Menning, Mary Ann Trust #1, Ploeger, Mark Trust #1, Lain,

Patti Ploeger Trust #1 and Marshall, Dorothy Lee Ploeger to Ploeger, Mark, w/d, 10.0 Ac Pt. Lt. 14, 15, & 16 RG 6 East of Water St. Orig. Outer Town of Gonzales.

Ploeger, Leslie Jr (Ind, Co-Extr & Suc Trustee), Ploeger, Dorothy Dec’d, Ploeger, Sally Jane Trust #1, Menning Ann (Co Extr & Suc Trustee), Ploeger, Mark Trust #1, Lain, Patti Ploeger Trust #1, Bernadine Ploeger, Walshak, Dorothy Lee Ploeger and Marshall, Dorothy Lee Ploeger (FKA) to Mohrmann, John and Mohrmann, Iris, w/d, 12.193 AC & Easement Pt. Lt. 4 & 5 AllLt. 6 RG 9 East of Water St. Orig. Outer Town of Gonzales.

Spencer-Lee, Erica Ann Bammel, Knott, Stephanie R. Bammel and Bammel, Christopher Lee to Blue Tick Land & Cattle LLC, Lucas, James and Williams, Patrick, w/d, 124.306 AC J Adkin-son A-89.

Guerrero, Eric and Guerrero, Emma to Zum-walt, Casey and Zumwalt, Sylvia, w/d, 9.95 AC Tract 4 Oak Run Subd.

Hagan, Kenneth R. to Hagan Family, Ltd, w/d, Mineral Int. in Abraham Dillard A-161 & WM P. Stapp A-67 Svys (Munson Ranch, Hawn Holt & Dixon Allen Units)

Hagan, Kenneth R. to Hagan Family, Ltd, w/d, Mineral Int. in 832.44 Acres, B Davis, I Baker, F. Happell, O. Hudson, A F Mason & P Pate Svys, (Cornfield Unit).

Guerra, Lydia to Vigil, Edward, w/d, Int. in Lts. 4-5, Blk. 1, Lowery & Ware Addn, Nixon.

Caskey, Leona to Caskey, Mark E. and Caskey, James D., w/d, 177.500 Acres, Gonzales County School land Svy.

Spyglass-Red River LP #1 to Tri-Force Ex-plorer I, L.P., w/d, Property Located in Grayson County.

Cole, David J. and Cole, Bobbie J. to Cole Family Ranch, LP, w/d, Mineral Int. in 125.40 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-39.

Prather, Larry and Prather, Kay to L6K Family Interests, LP, w/d, Mineral Int. in 96.00 Acres, Wil-liam Hill & George Blair Svys.

Guerra, Arnulfo and Guerra, Ruth to A R Holdings, w/d, 1.293 Acres (Pt. lts. 14-15, RG 1) East of Water Street, Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Atkins, Heidi to Hinton, Susan Holloway, o/l, 60.00 Acres, Robert Sellers Svy, A-414.

Barley Ranch Limited to Moraw, William Reed and Moraw, Nicole, w/d, 97.44 Acres, Henry Bymer A-105 & John H. Livergood A-322 Svys.

Eberle, Margaret S., Eberle, Willye Margaret (AKA) and Frenzel, Victoria, (Atty-In-Fact) to Neu-se, Paul E and Neuse, Dianne M., w/d, Lts. 17-19 & Pt. Lt. 20, Blk. 12, Rivercrest Addn, Gonzales.

Cole, Roberta Joyce to Worthington, Jerry Lon (Estate), Reid, Wanda (Extr) and Worthing-ton, Genevieve (Extr), w/d, 50.991 Acres, Samuel Coplinger Svy, A-153.

Worthington, Jerry Lon (Extr), Reid, Wanda (Extr) and Worthington, Genevieve (Extr) to BMS Ranch LLC, w/d, 50.991 Acres, Samuel Coplinger Svy, A-153.

Lamza-McDonald Revocable Living Trust to Wray Properties, L.L.C., w/d, 0.954 of an Acre, Juan Jose Tejada Svy, A-448.

Colwell Jr, Sidney Verne (Trustee), Shepard, Jennifer T. Colwell (Trustee) and Colwell Blind Trust U/A to Colwell, Sidney Verne, w/d, 960.858 Acres, Gonzales Co. Schl. Land, Bird Lockhart, D O Warrant & M Arriola Svys.

Kosarek, Gail Weber and Kosarek, Eugene M. to Kosarek, Gail Weber (Trustee), Kosarek, Eu-gene M. (Trustee) and Triangle T Gail – Bennette Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. In 795.75 Acres, George W. Petty A-380 & Thomas Wright A-472 Svys.

Kosarek, Gail Weber and Kosarek, Eugene M. to Kosarek, Gail Weber (Trustee), Kosarek,

Eugene M. (Trustee) and Triangle T Gail – Karen Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. In 795.75 Acres, George W. Petty A-380 & Thomas Wright A-472 Svys. Kosarek, Gail Weber and Kosarek, Eugene M. to Kosarek, Gail Weber (Trustee), Kosarek, Eugene M. (Trustee) and Triangle T Gail – Kelli Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. In 795.75 Acres, George W. Petty A-380 & Thomas Wright A-472 Svys.

Bouldin, William B. (Trustee), Bouldin, Mary L. (Trustee) and Bouldin Trust to Bouldin, William B., w/d, Int. in 2.209 Acres, Isaac Roberts, T G Weeks & G W Brazeale Svys.

Bouldin, William B. (Trustee), Bouldin, Mary L. (Trustee) and Bouldin Trust to Bouldin, William B., w/d, Int. in 1,240 Acres, John McCoy & Joseph McCoy Svys.

West, Ferd, West Sr, Ferd (AKA) and West, Au-drey to West, Mark D., w/d, Lt. 5, Blk. 5, Davidson Hill Addn, Gonzales.

Slater, Duane D. (Devisee) and Bunde, Julian C. (Estate) to Patteson, Dennis V. and Patteson, Vicky G., w/d, Lts. 1 & 4, Blk. 6, Revised Plan of Ottine.

Patteson, Dennis V. and Patteson, Vicky G., to Pekar, William J. and Pekar, Laura Lyn, w/d, Pt Lts. 1 & 4, Blk. 6, Revised Town of Ottine.

Fink, Allan F. and Fink, Elizabeth Ann to Fink, George Allan, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 220.74 Acres, Gonzales County Schl. Land Svy, a-230.

Lawrence, Sue Anne Colston (Trustee), Law-rence Exempt Trust, Sue Colston, Colston Jr, Billy Charles (Trustee), Colston Jr Exempt Trust, Leslie Allen (Trustee), Colston Exempt Trust, Leslie Allen, Bruce, Evelyn Kay Colston (Trustee) and Bruce Exempt Trust, Evelyn Kay Colston to 3-E Land, L.L.C., w/d, 165.45 Acres, Byrd Lockhart Svy, A-36.

Krauss, Donna Marie, Krauss, Doyle, Krause, Connie R., Krause, Ben A., Stancik, Janis K. and Stancik, David to Roitsch, Roger William and Roitsch, Landa M., w/d, 672-088 Acres, Adam Zumwalt Svy, A-84 & Pt. Rgs. 5-10, West of Water Street.

Sciba, Cathy Culpepper to Sciba, Cathy Cul-pepper (Trustee) and Sandies Mineral Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 1,015.359 Acres, R Sellers A-414, S Cavett A-172, C J Clements A-173 & J Bostick A-137 Svys.

Sciba, Cathy Culpepper to Sciba, Cathy Cul-pepper (Trustee) and Sandies Mineral Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 1,015.359 Acres, R Sellers A-414, S Cavett A-172, C J Clements A-173 & J Bostick A-137 Svys.

Sciba, Cathy Culpepper to Sciba, Cathy Cul-pepper (Trustee) and Sandies Mineral Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 1,782.73 Acres, Various Svys.

Sciba, Cathy Culpepper to Sciba, Cathy Cul-pepper (Trustee) and Sandies Mineral Trust, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 1,782.73 Acres, Various Svys.

Ortman, Sue C. to Lazy E-Minerals Ltd, w/d, Mineral Int. in 1,831.724 Acres, Various Svys.

Ortman, Sue C. to Lazy E-Gonzales Ranch, Ltd., w/d, Int. in 1,831.724 Acres, Various Svys.

Townsend, Ann Helen to Townsend Circle T Ranch, Ltd., w/d, Int. in 1,146.87 Acres, Beall, Toby, Jaeger, Patrick, Ward, Henderson & Tumlin-son Svys, Gonzales & Caldwell Counties.

Marriage LicenseKelley, Brian L. and Patteson, Leslie D.Cruz, Jose A. and Sanchez, Mary D.Lamza, Keith Ryan and King, Nikkie Lynn.Assumed NamesJackson, Elbert W. and Jackson, Glenn – E.J.

Backhoe Serv., Gonzales


More ‘Christmas Babies’

Phacebook Photo Phollies

The Cannon’s

Become a friend of The Gonzales Cannon on Facebook and post your favorite photos to our page! We’ll feature a few each week as part of our “Phacebook Photo Phollies!”

Colt and Ryder Robinson! It was Ryder’s First Christ-mas! — Posted by D’Anna Culak Robinson

The #1 weight loss product on the market. Call and hear what everyone is ranting and raving about!!! Plexus Slim is All-Natural, Diabetic Friendly and Safe for Children.

It regulates blood sugars, regulates cholesterol, good for arthritis, fibromyalgia. Promotes better sleep, helps with migraines, anxiety and gives you natural energy.

ARE YOU AWARE OF THE DAMAGE THAT PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION/OVER THE COUNTER MEDICATION IS DOING TO YOUR BODY?

New products added to our line are:

• Fast Relief capsules and cream (All natural with no side effects.)• Plexus 96 Protein shake (A yummy tasting non gritty drink that is full of vitamins and

15g of protein. Great for breakfast or a meal on the go)

Contact your Plexus Ambassador for details on how to get started for only $34.95

Shelly Stamport - 830-857-0209www.plexusslim.com/shellys

Shelly December 2012 Shelly December 2010

Devyn Rangel and Cody Calzado Supporting the Oregon Ducks! Oregon Vs Kansas State — Posted by Rebecca Maldonado

A little mudding on New Years Eve — with Danyelle Glass. — Posted by Linda Pekar Glass

This deer hunting is the life! — Posted by Donnie Petru

Me ;) — Posted by Angelina Hernandez

Guess where I am! — Posted by Brandi Behlen

Salomon Israel Flores Born 12-19-12. Mom: Ana Flores

Miguel Angel Cruz Angel born 12-19-12. Mom: Paula Angel Briones.

Katy Elizabeth Gonzales born 12-23-12. Mom: Karina Velasquez Vazquez.

Carson Cruz Landreth born 12-21-12. Mom: Shelby Landreth.

Aaron Benjamin Castillo born 12-30-12. Mom: Maria Laureano Rosales

AyVarie Marie Bates born 12-26-12. Mom: Vanessa Bates.

Matthew James Huff born 12-27-12. Mom: Megan Huff.

Elizabeth Juliett Lopez born 12-28-12. Mom: Maria Retiz-Rios

Sundowners 4-H Club had their monthly meeting on January 8 at the First United Methodist Church.

FUMC Pastor Andy Smith gave a message about the his-tory of Christianity and the cities some of the events in the bible took place.

Members were also en-couraged to sell tickets for the Gonzales County 4-H Adult Leader’s Annual Raffle. Items include ½ processed calf, donated by Graham Land &

Cattle Company; two pal-lets of Saint Augustine grass, donated by King Ranch, Inc. – Cannonade Division; Iron Fire Pit, donated by Gonza-les Manufacturing Company; Deer Feeder timer & corn, donated by E-Barr Feeds and Fehner & Son Grain Com-pany; Night Out in Gonzales, donated by Running M Bar & Grill and The Lynn Theater; Car Care Package, donated by Tiger Tote/The Tote Food Stores and Tuch Tire Service;

Posh Pooch Package, donated by Guadalupe Valley Vet-erinary Clinic and Glen & Jo Sachtleben; and a decorative cross, donated by The China Basket.

The drawing will be held on March 2. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased by contacting Texas AgriLife Extension – Gonzales County Office at 830-672-8531 or by sending email to [email protected] or any Gonzales County 4-H member.

Sundowners 4-Hers hold meeting

D&G Automotive & DieselWrecker Service

830-672-6278 Business 830-857-5383 After Hours

134 Hwy. 90A W • Gonzales, TX 78629Glenn Glass, Owner

Mon.- Fri. 8:00 am - 5:30 pm

24 Hour Towing/Accident Recovery

Lockout Services includes Light, Medium and Heavy Duty Towing and

Service Calls, Light, Medium and Heavy Duty Mechanic DOT &

State Inspections


Obituaries

Seydler-Hill Funeral Home“Proudly Serving the Gonzales Area Since 1914”

906 St. Paul, Gonzales830-672-3232

Jake Cowey, 1926-2013

COWEYJake F. Cowey, was born

on April 26, 1926 in Gon-zales County and went to be with our Lord surrounded by his family on January 3, 2013.

He loved his dogs, ranch-ing and taking care of his cattle. In his early years, he loved coyote hunting with his friends and nephews. He was a gardener from childhood on from peanuts and watermelons to turkeys and corn. He loved picking and giving it to family and friends.

In early years, he worked in oilfield with Cleatus Land and later building homes with Dick Seay and his brother Hilmar “Buster” Cowey. He served in the United State Army.

He is survived by his sis-ters, Jessie L. O’Shay, Edna Mae Grimm and husband, Edgar; brother, Herman Cowey, Sr. and sisters-in-law, Doris Cowey and Helen Shows; numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Cowey, Sr. and Helen (Lange) Cowey; brothers, Robert Cowey, Jr., Hilmar Cowey, Sr., Leroy Cowey, Sr., James W. Cow-ey; sister, Hilda Mondin; brothers-in- law, John Mon-din, Arno Grimm, Don

O’Shay; sisters-in-law, Alma Cowey and Evelyn Cowey; and nephews Edward Lee Mondin, Alvin Lee Cowey and Leroy Cowey, Jr.

The family would like to thank the staff at Remark-able Health Care and Drs. David and James Rider for their care of Jake.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, January 5 at Tres Hewell Mortuary Chapel with Pastor Frank Willoughby officiating. In-terment followed at Dugger Cemetery. Serving as pall-bearers were Albert Cowey, Arno Wayne Grimm, Ste-phen Cowey, Hilmar Cow-ey, Jr., Glen Cowey and Col-lin Cowey.

In lieu of flowers, memo-rial contributions may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, P. O. Box 50, Memphis, Tennessee, 38101. You are invited to sign the guest book at www.treshewell.com.

Arrangements were un-der the direction of Tres Hewell Mortuary, 165 Tor Dr., Seguin, Texas, 78155, 830-549-5912.

Jacob Basquez,1983-2012

BASQUEZJacob Pilar Basquez, 29

of Seguin, passed away

Monday, December 31. Jacob was born March 18, 1983 in Gonzales to John Edward and Christi Lynn Cooney Basquez. Jacob was a member of Em-manuel Fellowship Church in Gonzales and had been working in construction with Shane Springs Con-struction Company.

Jacob enjoyed his work; he liked working with his hands. Along with building grain bins, he also helped work the pens of Fallow and Red deer. Jacob was a loving soul; he gave of himself freely and enjoyed helping other people. He found pleasure in fish-ing and hog hunting, but he loved riding his horse “Snake,” though in the be-ginning these rides were seldom pleasurable, Jacob and Snake developed a mu-tual respect and love for one another which made the time spent together that much more gratifying. As stated, Jacob was a loving soul, he loved his family, he adored his son, he pas-sionately loved his fiancée Michelle and in turn had found the Loving Grace of Jesus Christ which had cleansed his spirit and set him in a righteous path.

Jacob is survived by his son, Braxden Rawlins Basquez of Ingleside; his fiancée, Michelle Rene Bo-edeker of Seguin; mother, Christi Lynn Basquez of Gonzales; father, John Ed-ward Basquez and step-mother Patricia of Luling; grandparents, Pete and Di-xie Basquez of Waelder and David Frances Kuntschik of Gonzales; brothers, Aar-on Christopher Magallanez and his wife Courtney of Wichita Falls, Kalob Ben-jamin Basquez and Cam-eron David Basquez both

of Gonzales; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and a niece. He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Cherie Jo Kuntschik.

Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, January 5 in Emmanuel Fellowship Church with Pastor Lynn Wilson offici-ating. Interment followed in Waelder Cemetery. Pallbearers included: Eric Kuntschik, Cass Rath-mann, Lynn Richter, Jr., Jace Opiela, Eric Pettijohn, Chris Salas, Mike Roach and Aaron Hernandez. Honorary pallbearers in-cluded: Ryan Mills, Albert Ramos, Scott Cuvelier, Phillip Longoria, Charles Zella, B.J. Harkey, Jr., Jor-dan Othold, Tim Gray, Brandon Roach, Robert Longoria and John Ryan Armstrong.

The family received friends from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday at Emman-uel Fellowship Church. Arrangements are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Ruby McMickle, 1928-2012

McMICKLERuby Kathryn Mc-

Mickle, age 84 of Gon-zales, passed away on Tuesday, January 8 at Texan

Nursing and Rehab. Ruby was born on August 12, 1928 in Gonzales County to Jasper Robert and Al-ice Fannie (Boatright) Brooks. She lost her moth-er when she was nine years old. From that time on, she had to be mother and big sister to the rest of her four siblings.

She married Parker Mc-Mickle, the love of her life, on January 30, 1946 in Gonzales. They had two daughters, Martha Alice and Mary Dianne. Ruby was a devoted Christian woman of the Baptist faith and a homemaker for her family for many years.

As Parker’s health failed, Ruby became his de-voted caretaker until he entered the nursing home in 1982. She went faith-fully every day until he died in March, 1983.

After his death, she vol-unteered at the nursing home for over 15 years until her health made it impossible for her to do so any longer. Everyone at the nursing home called her “Miss Ruby”. She always had a smile for everyone and helped out wherever she was needed.

Ruby was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She loved her family and was so proud of each one of them. She will be truly missed.

She is survived by her two daughters, Martha Hull of Gonzales, and Dianne Trent and hus-band Jackie of Sweetwa-ter. Also surviving are two granddaughters, Marcie Crisp and husband Curt and Heather Boscamp and husband Caleb; two great grandsons, Con-nor Ray Crisp and Coda Boscamp; one great granddaughter, Ca-leigh Boscamp; one brother, Elder Brooks; one sister, Rosetta Jobe; and numerous niec-es, nephews, cousins, and many friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Jasper and Alice Brooks; her husband, Parker Mc-Mickle; son-in-law, Clay Hull; one brother, Melvin “Junior” Brooks; and one sister, Doris McMeans.

Graveside services will be held 10 a.m. Friday, January 11 at Gonzales Memorial Park with Rev. Chester McCown offici-ating. Burial will follow.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday, Janu-ary 10 from 5-7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memo-rials may be made to Odyssey Hospice, 1911 Corporate Drive, Suite 104, San Marcos, Texas 78666. Services are un-der the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

Clifford Warren Compton

COMPTONClifford Warren Comp-

ton, 70 of Gonzales passed away Tuesday, January 8. He was born in Sasakawa, the son of Charles and Olah Mae Jozwiak Compton.

He was the retired owner of Compton Maintenance and Management. He was a veteran and served with the U.S. Army. He married Pat-sy Ann Brinkley on August 22, 1964 in Houston. He was a member of the Em-manuel Fellowship Church.

He enjoyed collecting, re-pairing and shooting guns, was an avid fisherman, hav-ing fished in most every area lake, river and pond. He es-pecially enjoyed time with his beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife, Pat Compton of Gonzales; son, Chris Compton and wife Deb of San Antonio; daughters, Becky Compton of Seguin and Misti Du-boise of Lockhart; sister, Nanette Moore and hus-band Glenn of Tulsa, OK; brothers, Charles Compton of Gonzales, Mike Calhoun and wife Rita of Oklahoma City, John Jozwiak and wife Wanda of Louisiana and Odus Compton and wife Paula of Shawnee, OK; grandchildren, Shawn Springfield and wife Can-dice, Niki King and hus-band David, Travis Stan-ford, Chase Springfield, Austin Duboise, Kavan Duboise, Kaylee Duboise, Cody Compton and Bran-di Compton; and great-grandchildren, Lauren Springfield, Kenzie Spring-field, Lynnie Compton and Weslee King.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Bobby Cal-houn.

The family will receive friends Sunday, January 13 from 5 until 7 p.m. at the Emmanuel Fellow-ship Church in Gonzales. Memorial services will be 3 p.m. Monday, January 14 at the church with Pas-tor Lynn Wilson officiat-ing. Honorary pallbearers include Upton Ruddock, Lorenzo Hernandez, Shawn Springfield, Donnie Hines, David King, Tony Llamas and Chad Hallibur-ton.

Arrangements under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, 906 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 830-672-3232.

‘Polka Spirit’ setFirst Lutheran Church invites the community to join them on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 10:30am for a polka style Holy Communion service led by “POLKA SPIRIT” from Shiner. Musicians leading the service will be Ronnie Bruns – accordion, Sharon Jaks – guitar, Stephen Krupicka - tenor sax, Tammy Guettner – mandolin and Chase Schroeder – tuba. Come and invite your polka loving friends. First Luther-an Church has open communion and all who are baptized and believe in Jesus Christ are invited to the Lord’s Table.

Hillcrest Homes of Texas held First Friday Coffee Friday morning at Victoria College-Gonzales Center. Representing Hillcrest Homes of Texas areRobert Hill (center) and Dustin Hill (right) . On left is Gonzales Chamber of Commerce Bar-bara Hand. Hillcrest Homes of Texas is based out of La Grange and maintains an office in Gonzales. (Photo by Mark Lube)


2013 Relay For Life of Gonzales CountyApril 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM

JB Wells Show BarnGreetings from the Relay For Life Committee,

On April 5, 2013, Gonzales County will hold the 11th annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life at the J.B. Wells Show Barn. Our theme will be “Celebrating HOPE Year ‘Round” because cancer knows no seasons and takes no holidays. To victims and sur-vivors, hope springs eternal as we continue to fight to find a cure for cancer.

At every Relay we celebrate with the cancer survivors as they take their victory lap, we remember those who lost their cancer battle as we light the luminarias, and with the continued generous support of our donors we are able to continue fighting back against the disease with research, education, advocacy, and patient services.

Many of you have been involved with the Relay For Life of Gonzales County in the past and for that we thank you and sincerely ask for your continued support. For those of you who have not been involved in previous Relays we invite you to join us. Becoming a sponsor for Relay For Life is a great way to get involved in the fight to eliminate can-cer for you, your family, and your friends and also show support of our annual event.

If you have any questions about sponsorship, please call Arline Rinehart (830-672-2077), Jo Ann Low (830-857-5585) or Carla Faltisek (830-857-0993). The planning committee thanks you for your dedication to and support of Relay For Life of Gonzales County. You continue to make our event the success it has proven to be.

REMEMBER: There is NO finish line until we find a cure!

No matter how you take part in Relay, one thing is clear: with every step you take, you are helping the American Cancer Society save lives. With your help, we aren’t just fighting one type of cancer - we’re fighting for every cancer in every community. Each person who shares the Relay experience can take pride in knowing that they are working to create a world where disease will no longer threaten the lives of our loved ones or claim another year of anyone’s life.

Did you know...That in the first ten years of having Relay For Life of Gon-zales County, a total of $959,388.01 has been raised? That means with the 11th annual Relay For Life, we will become a MILLION-DOLLAR EVENT! With your help and support that will be a reality!

Late in the first half, things were going pretty well for the Gonzales Lady Apaches basketball team Tuesday night against Gid-dings.

They were playing well and held a 24-16 lead against the Lady Buffaloes, and most importantly, were playing with a lot of inten-sity. Then Gonzales might have gotten a little fatigued and Giddings was able to take advantage with a 13-0 run to end the second quarter.

Gonzales fought back in the third to go into the fourth with a tie game, but Giddings held them to just four points in the last eight minutes to win, 54-47, in a District 26-3A contest.

“We were very intense in the first and second quar-ters. We had our foot on the gas pedal and were going all out,” Gonzales head coach Kent Smith said. “Then we got tired and made some fatigue errors. Giddings was then able to pass us by after we had to take our foot off the gas pedal.”

Missed chances at the of-fensive end were also a little problematic.

“We missed a lot of sec-ond free throws,” Smith said. “We would miss the back end of two shots. Making those free throws would have kept us in the

ball game. We have been increasing our converted free-throw percentage in practice.”

The Lady Apaches opened the contest with a 4-0 lead on a Jade McCook free throw and a triple by

Taylor West. Giddings was able to close down to 4-3 and Gonzales heated up with five straight on free throws by Kelsey Hardy, and baskets by McCook and Renee Camarillo.

Giddings then made a

four-point run with shots by Nadia Rogers and Chris-tina Nolen. A McCook bas-ket followed free throws by Hardy and Cassidy La Fleur to help put Gonzales ahead, 13-11 at the end of

Sports The Cannon

Thursday, January 10, 2013

BGonzales holds off late rally to down Canyon Lake

Fatigue gets the better of the Lady Apaches in district loss to Giddings

Sports page sponsored by:

Holiday Finance Corporation830-672-6556 • 1-888-562-6588 • 506 St. Paul., Gonzales, TX. 78629

Serving Texas for over 40 Years!

Loans Up to $1,300.00

To get over the Holiday Crunch!

Keep up with all the local sports at our web site:

gonzalescannon.com

By MARK [email protected]

Locals fare well at A&M indoor meet

LADY APACHES, Page B2

GONZALES – Players sometimes feed off the de-meanor of their head coach and his staff.

First-year head coach Raymond Lopez remained mostly unnerved when the Canyon Lake Hawks took their first lead since the first quarter with slightly under five minutes left in the game, and the Apaches went to work, holding off Canyon Lake, 49-46, Mon-day night at the GHS Spe-cial Events Center.

“As a coach, you have to remain calm,” Lopez said. “I told the players they had to play hard for the next four minutes and we would be fine.”

A 34-29 lead for the Apaches early in the fourth quarter was slowly whittled away by the Hawks. Chan-dler Faulkner sank a pair of free throws, and later got an offensive rebound and a layup to bring Canyon Lake within 34-32.

Doug Hubnik made two free throws to knot the game at 34-34 and Gon-zales went back ahead as Jared Smit assisted on a Tyshawn Erskin bucket. Andrew Riali drained a long-range shot to put the Hawks ahead 37-36 with

about 4:58 to play.Gonzales went ahead on

the field goal by Smit and Canyon Lake countered with a bucket from Caleb Krieger. Cameron Smith put Gonzales ahead 40-39 and then he came up with a turnover, eventually lead-ing to a Smith basket to put the Apaches up 42-39.

Riali hit a three at the 2:06 mark to tie the game at 42-42; the Apaches took the 46-43 lead with about a minute left as Smith made another basket and Er-skin made a couple of free throws. Paul Davis tied the game with a three-point basket with 56 seconds left.

After missed shots by both squads, Erskin sank two free throws for a 48-46 advantage with 18 seconds to go. Canyon Lake went to the line with four sec-onds left on the clock and a chance to tie the game, but missed both free throws.

Smith grabbed the ball and tried to run out the remaining time but was fouled, and made one of two free throws with 2.31 seconds left for the final margin of 49-46.

The teams traded leads several times in the open-ing quarter of the game. After going ahead 4-3 on a bucket from Derek Hunt, Gonzales extended the

lead to three as Smith re-bounded a missed shot and scored. The Hawks then got four straight and Gonzales got a Smit bucket and free throw from Erskin to lead 9-7 after one.

Baskets from Hunt and Darrance James helped push the Apaches to a 14-9 lead in the second quar-ter. Gonzales then scored seven of the next 12 points and held a 21-14 lead at halftime.

Canyon Lake closed the gap a little to five points in the third period, 23-18, as Davis and Javi Mendez scored a basket after secur-ing a steal. Gonzales then scored eight of the next 15 for a 31-25 lead.

Canyon Lake then closed down to 31-27 as they got more points off a turnover and went into the fourth box, down by four points.

The win improved the Apaches to a 4-16 overall record, heading into to-morrow’s district opener at Yoakum.

Lopez put the the win-loss record in perspective, saying most of the losses came to Class 4A and 5A schools, and that the games against fellow 3A schools always seemed to be close ones.

Game Summary

Gonzales 49, Canyon Lake 46CLF 7 7 13 19-46G 9 12 10 18-49Canyon Lake: Doug Hubnik 3

3-6 10, Paul Davis 3 3-6 10, An-

drew Riali 3 1-2 9, Caleb Krieger 4 0-0 8, Chandler Faulkner 1 3-4 5, Javi Mendez 2 0-0 4. Totals 17 8-18 46.

Gonzales: Cameron Smith 5

7-11 17, Tyshawn Erskin 2 5-6 9, Jared Smit 4 0-1 8, Derek Hunt 4 0-0 8, Darrance James 3 0-3 6, Chris Garcia 0 1-3 1. Totals 18 13-24 49.

By MARK [email protected]

Jared Smit drives inside to the paint Monday night during Gonzales’ 49-46 win over Canyon Lake. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Jade McCook tries to shoot over the reach of Giddings’ Becky Blakney during the Lady Apaches close district loss. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Cannon News ServicesSeveral local athletes

took part in the Texas A&M High School Clas-sic indoor track meet on Saturday.

Luling’s Kristaly Munoz was fourth in her section in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11 minutes, 39.61 seconds.

Also of Luling, Ryan Flores was eighth in Sec-tion 1 of the boys’ 3200 in 9:55.68 and Danny Cas-tillo was No. 10 in 10:04.87

Elizabeth Neuse of the Gonzales Track Club was

sixth in Heat 2 of the girls’ 60 hurdle preliminaries with a time of 11.16 and Kendall Fougerat was sev-enth in Heat 10 in 11.80. In the girls’ 60, Bailey Connell placed eighth in Heat 8 with a time 8.86

The 1600-relay team of Morgan Simper, Kriss-lyn Sexton, Lindsey Ak-ers and Kendall Fougerat placed third in Section 1 in 4:45.17.

Akers came in sixth place in Flight 2 of the girls’ long jump with 15 feet, 1.5 inches.

Kristaly Munoz of Luling (pictured right) highlighted a strong showing of local athletes by finishing fourth in her section’s 3,200-meter run. She ran it in 11:39.61. (File photo)

the first frame.Gonzales floored it to

start the second quarter — Danielle Flowers made a jumper, Ashley Malatek converted two field goals and Hardy made a bucket for a 21-14 lead. The Lady Buffaloes’ only points dur-ing the run was a three-point basket by Hannah Michel.

Giddings struck back after Gonzales went ahead 24-16 as the visitors ended the quarter with a 11-0 run on a basket by Tira Mack and five points on two bas-kets in quick succession by Brittany Richard. No-len made a free throw and Richard hit another three-point basket to give Gid-dings a 27-24 halftime lead.

A two-point shot by Tamica White and Hardy three gave Gonzales a quick 29-27 advantage early in the third frame. Giddings managed a tie but Hardy put Gonzales back on top, 32-29, on another three-point basket.

The Lady Buffaloes then went on a 10-2 run and had the lead for most of the re-maining part of the period until Hardy hit a three at the buzzer to tie the game at 43-43 to head into the fi-nal period.

Giddings outscored Gonzales 11-4 in the final eight minutes with Hardy scoring Gonzales’ first points of the quarter with about two minutes left to play. McCook and Ca-marillo finished the quarter with a point each. Richard scored five points to pace Giddings.

The Lady Buffaloes im-prove their record to 16-8 and 2-0 in District 26-3A while the Lady Apaches are 0-2 in district and 3-20 overall.

Game SummaryGiddings 54, Gonzales 47GID 11 16 16 11-54GON 13 11 19 4-47Giddings: Brittany Richards 4

7-8 17, Becky Blaknes 5 0-0 10, Hannah Michel 3 1-4 8, Genesis

Holmes 2 1-4 5, Christina Nolen 1 1-2 3, Ashton Allee 1 1-1 3,Na-dia Rogers 1 0- 2 2, Tira Mack 1 0-0 2, Madison Smith 1 0-0 2, Tori Moore 0 2-4 2. Totals 19 13-25 54.

Gonzales: Kelsey Hardy 5 5-9 18, Jade McCook 4 2-6 10, Taylor West 1 2-2 5, Ashley Malatek 2 0-0 4, Tamica White 2 0-0 4, Renee Camarillo 1 1-2 3, Danielle Flow-ers 1 0-2 2. Cassidy La Fleur 0 1-2 1. Totals 16 11-23 47.

The Cannon Thursday, January 10, 2013Page B2

ScoreboardBasketBall

BOYSDistrict 26-3A Standings

District Overall La Grange 0-0 13-6Cuero 0-0 10-9Giddings 0-0 9-9Smithville 0-0 11-7Yoakum 0-0 5-15Gonzales 0-0 4-16Last game results – La Grange 67, Rockdale 63; Smithville 68, Georgetown Gateway Prep 46; Waelder 58, Yoakum 51; Gonzales 49, Canyon Lake 46; Cuero 69, Sinton 49Friday’s game schedules – La Grange at Giddings, 7:30 p.m.; Cuero at Smithville, 7:30 p.m.; Gonzales at Yoakum, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Cuero at Gonzales, 7:30 p.m.; Smithville at Giddings, 7:30 p.m.; Yoakum at La Grange, 7:15 p.m.

BoxscoresLuling 64, Yoakum 60 (OT)

Yoakum 8 20 13 12 7–60Luling 10 7 17 19 11–64Yoakum: Blake McCracken 2, Joe Mireles 8, TJ Hights 11, Heath Kristek 12, Timmy Blakeney 6, Keith Ratley 7, Chase Hermes 3, Tre’Vonte Hights 7, Terrance Hall 4Luling: Ryan Larison 10, Josh Alvarez 7, Keeton Coe 12, Juan Ordonez 2, Kelvin Larkin 5, Reece Franks 2, Rene Casares 6, Shaft Cubit 2, Brendon Cubit 18

District 28-2A Standings District Overall Hallettsville 3-0 14-5Stockdale 2-0 14-9Nixon-Smiley 2-1 4-13Schulenburg 1-1 14-6Poth 1-2 11-4Luling 0-2 8-7Karnes City 0-3 2-10Last game results – Stockdale 51, Poth 47Friday’s game schedules –

District 29-1A, DI Standings District Overall Flatonia 0-0 5-15Weimar 0-0 2-4Shiner 0-0 1-4Louise 0-0 0-7Ganado 0-0 0-7Last game results – Waelder 50, Flatonia 47; Victoria St. Joseph’s 79, Shiner 51Friday’s game schedules – Louise at Ganado, 6:30 p.m.; Weimar at Flatonia, 7:00 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Ganado at Shiner, 6:30 p.m.; Flatonia at Louise, 6:30 p.m.

BoxscoresVictoria St. Joseph 79, Shiner 51

S 18 13 12 8-51VSJ 22 15 19 23-79Shiner: Evel Jones 16, Justin

Stovall 11, Rigo Baray 9, Kris Patek 7, Caleb Kalich 6, Caleb Murrile 2

Waelder 50, Flatonia 47F 13 13 4 17-47W 12 8 15 15-50Flatonia: Colby Craig 3 3-7 10,

Zane Ponder 5 0-0 10, Zach Kalina 5 0-0 10, Will Bruns 1 6-8 8, Evan Butcher 2 1-1 5, Casen Novak 1 0-0 2, Matthew Kozelsky 1 0-1 2. Totals 18 10-17 47.

Falls City 67, Shiner 38Shiner 7 8 15 8–38FC 22 16 9 20–67Shiner: Evel Jones 1 1-2 3, Kris Patek 5 0-0 11, Cole Strauss 1 0-0 3, Chad Neubauer 2 0-0 3, Justin Stovall 2 0-0 5, Matthew Foster 0 0-0 0, Colby Jahn 1 0-0 3, Rigo Baray 2 1-2 5, Caleb Kalich 1 2-5 4, Caleb Murille 0 0-0 0. Falls City: Phillip Lyssy 2, Dylan Cheatham 10, Dean Gaskamp 15, Royce Leonhardt 3, Stephen

District 31-1A, DII Standings District Overall Moulton 0-0 12-9Waelder 0-0 7-6Austwell-Tivoli 0-0 0-5Nordheim 0-0 0-8Prairie Lea 0-0 0-1Friday’s game schedules – Moulton at Austwell-Tivoli, 7:15 p.m.; Nordheim at Waelder, 7:15 p.m.; San Marcos Hill Country at Prairie Lea, 7:15 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Austwell-Tivoli at Nordheim, 7:30 p.m.; Weimar at Moulton, 6:30 p.m.; Waelder at Prairie Lea, 7:30 p.m.

Hallettsville at Nixon-Smiley, 7:30 p.m.; Stockdale at Schulenburg, 7:30 p.m.; Luling at Poth, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Stockdale at Nixon-Smiley, 8 p.m.; Karnes City at Poth, 7:30 p.m.; Luling at Schulenburg, 7:30 p.m.

Continued from page B1

LADY APACHES: Started off strong but only manage to garner four points in pivotal fourth quarter

GIRLSDistrict 26-3A Standings

District Overall Smithville 2-0 17-7Giddings 2-0 16-8Yoakum 1-1 16-8La Grange 1-1 6-13Cuero 0-2 4-19Gonzales 0-2 3-20Last game results – #15 Smithville 61, La Grange 24; Yoakum 60, Cuero 23; #17 Giddings 54, Gonzales 47Friday’s game schedules – Gonzales at Yoakum, 6:15 p.m.; Cuero at Smithville, 6:30 p.m.; La Grange at Giddings, 6 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Cuero at Gonzales, 6:15 p.m.; Smithville at Giddings, 6 p.m.; Yoakum at La Grange, 6:15 p.m.

District 28-2A Standings District Overall Poth 5-0 17-4Schulenburg 4-1 13-5

District 29-1A, DI Standings District Overall Ganado 2-1 16-3Shiner 2-0 20-3Louise 0-2 0-5Weimar 1-1 21-7Flatonia 0-2 2-23Last game results – Weimar 51, Ganado 41; Shiner 64, Louise, 19;

Victoria St. Joseph 53, Flatonia 20 Friday’s game schedules – Louise at Ganado, 4 p.m.; Weimar at Flatonia, 6:15 p.m.; Victoria COBRA at Shiner, 6 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Ganado at Shiner, 4 p.m.; Flatonia at Louise, 6 p.m.; Moulton at Weimar, 6:30 p.m .

BoxscoresShiner 49, Weimar 47

Weimar 8 12 9 18–47Shiner 12 12 12 13–49Shiner: Hannah Koenning 6, LaNeshia Hunt 12, Julianna Rankin 2, Kristin Schacherl 4, Meagan Chumchal 2, Amanise Coleman 19, Shamyra Coleman 4

District 31-1A, DII Standings District Overall Moulton 2-0 12-11Prairie Lea 1-1 10-4Austwell-Tivoli 0-0 4-4Nordheim 0-0 0-2Waelder 0-2 0-10Friday’s game schedules – Moulton at Austwell-Tivoli, 6 p.m.; Nordheim at Waelder, 6 p.m.; San Marcos Hill Country at Prairie Lea, 6 p.m.Tuesday’s game schedules – Austwell-Tivoli at Nordheim, 6 p.m.; Weimar at Moulton, 5 p.m.; Waelder at Prairie Lea, 6 p.m.

BoxscoresMoulton 69, Waelder 12

M 19 22 12 16-69W 7 0 3 2 -12Moulton: Megan Mitchon 6 1-2

15, Malori Mitchon 6 1-2 14, Beth-any Brauer 5 2-3 13, Ashley Gabler 6 0-0 12, Taylor Bohuslav 2 1-2 6, Megan Euceda 2 0-0 5, Amanda Berckenhoff 1 0-0 2, Graisyn Nieto 1 0-0 2. Totals 29 5-9 69.

Waelder : Porter 2 1-2 5, Garcia 2 0-0 4, Nichols 1 1-2 3. Totals 5 2-6 12.

Moulton 54, Prairie Lea 23PL 0 4 6 13-23M 10 17 16 11-54Moulton: Megan Mitchon 6 0-1

Here are the latest state girls rankings according to the Texas

Girls Coaches AssociationClass 3A

1. Lubbock Cooper, 2. Kennedale, 3. Navasota, 4. Mexia, 5. Celina, 6. Fairfield, 7. Krum, 8. Shallowater, 9. Liberty Eylau, 10. Abilene Wylie, 11. Emory Rains, 12. West Oso, 13. Mineola, 14. Lubbock Estacado, 15. Levelland, 16. Smithville, 17. Princeton, 18. Giddings, 19. Sour Lake Hardin Jefferson, 20. Geronimo Navarro

Class 2A1. Merkel, 2. Brock, 3. Jarrell, 4. Franklin, 5. Poth, 6. Canadian, 7. Nixon-Smiley, 8. Comanche, 9. Cisco, 10. Tuscola Jim Ned, 11. Brady, 12. Alvord, 13. Tatum, 14. Winnsboro, 15. Olton, 16. Centerville, 17. Idalou, 18. Goliad, 19. Teague, 20. Crawford

Class 1A, Division I1. Martin’s Mill, 2. Slocum, 3. Martinsville, 4. Plains, 5. Santo, 6. Shiner, 7. Kerens, 8. Hico, 9. Port Aransas, 10. LaPoynor, 11. Muenster, 12. Evadale, 13. Falls City, 14. Colmesneil, 15. Smyer, 16. Weimar, 17. Panhandle, 18. Zavalla, 19. San Saba, 20. Sam Rayburn

Class 1A, Division II1. Evant, 2. Frost, 3. Lipan, 4. Knippa, 5. Dodd City, 6. Saltillo, 7. Whitharral, 8. Round Top-Carmine, 9. Rochelle, 10. Strawn, 11. Baird, 12. Hartley, 13. Chireno, 14. Cross Plains, 15. Garden City

Rankings

Howard’sA C-Store with (More)

1701 N. Ave. EShiner

361-594-4200

LiveMusic

DraftBeer

Beer - Bait - Ammo

13, Bethany Brauer 5 0-0 11, Mi-chelle Holub 3 0-0 7, Graisyn Nieto 2 2-2 6, Paige Bartos 2 1-3 5, Megan Euceda 2 0-0 4, Ashley Gabler 2 0-0 4, Malori Mitchon 1 0-0 3. Totals 23 4-10 54

Prairie Lea: Hardaway 6 2-6 14, Rivas 3 0-4 6, Newton 1 0-0 3. To-tals 10 2-10 23.

Harlos 13, L. Jimerson 4, T. Moore 2, C. Hoodsman 7, Eric Wiatrek 11Three-point goals – Shiner: 5-19 (Patek, Strauss, Stovall, Jahn, Baray). Rebounds – Shiner: 36 (Kalich 9). Assists – Shiner: 6 (Strauss, 2, Stovall 2). Steals – Shiner: 1 (Patek).

Nixon-Smiley 3-2 16-5Karnes City 3-3 18-5Hallettsville 2-3 13-11Stockdale 1-4 16-9Luling 0-5 5-17Last game results – Schulenburg 50, Hallettsville 38; #3 Poth 77, Stockdale 32; Karnes City 60, Luling 29Friday’s game schedules – Luling at Poth, 7:45 p.m.; Stockdale at Schulenburg, 6:30 p.m.; Hallettsville at Nixon-Smiley, 6:15 p.m. Tuesday’s game schedules – Luling at Schulenburg, 7:45 p.m.; Karnes City at Poth, 6:30 p.m.; Stockdale at Nixon-Smiley, 6:30 p.m.

BoxscoresSchulenburg 41,

#7 Nixon-Smiley 22NS 0 6 10 6-22S 12 13 6 10-41Nixon-Smiley: Alena Alvarez 9,

Hailey Boatright 5, Savannah Mar-tinez 3, Kelby Henderson 3, Abigail Scarbrough 2.

Schulenburg: Connor 15, Smith 10, Gabler 8, Mikesky 6, Lewis 2.

#3 Poth 74, Hallettsville 32Hallettsville 12 8 4 8–32Poth 15 28 22 9–74Hallettsville: Shatiara Runnels 2, Heather Henneke 5, E. Wick 6, K. Landmad 2, C. Silgero 2, K. Howell 7, L. Hickson 4Poth: Micah Weaver 8, Ashley Fuller 15, Kelli Kolodziej 7, Annika Eckel 4, Jennifer Kruse 8, Devon Dylla 13, Justine Quintanilla 9, Danielle Felux 4, Dominque DeHoyos 6

Shown (clockwise from right): Cassidy LaFleur lines up a three-point shot, Ashley Malatek brings the ball into Giddings territory, and Kelsey Hardy (14) prepares to pass to an open teammate against pressure. (Photos by Mark Lube)

The CannonThursday, January 10, 2013 Page B3

830-303-4546

www.soechtingmotors.net

Authorized Sales & ServicePre-Owned Vehicles

Daily RentalsRepair Body Shop

2013 GMC Sierra 1500

Soechting Motors, Inc.“In Business over 50 years”

5.3L, 8 cyl, auto.

603 E. Kingsbury Street, Seguin, TX

Hallettsville dominates All-District football picksSmith, Wright touted as District 14-2A, DI MVPs

Cannon News ServicesHallettsville senior run-

ning back-defensive line-man Teidrick Smith played a role in leading the Brah-mas to 12-1 season and outright district champi-ons. He has been named the Overall Most Valuable Player for District 14-2A, DI.

Smith ran for 1,531 yards on the year and scored 23 touchdowns, and gained a little over 10 yards each time he carried the football. His fellow senior teammate Quinton Wright was cho-sen as Defensive MVP.

14-2A, Division I All-District Team

Overall MVP: Teidrick Smith, senior

Offensive MVP: Will Smith, Hempstead, sopho-more

Newcomer of the Year: Todd Nicholas, Rice, soph-omore

Defensive MVP: Quin-ton Wright, Hallettsville, senior

First Team OffenseQuarterback: Carson

Schindler, Hallettsville, se-nior

Tight end: De’Andre Glover, Hempstead, senior

Center: Will Wallace, Hallettsville, senior

Running back: Domi-nique Gosson, Edna, se-nior; Desmond Jordan, Hempstead, senior; Will Knopp, Industrial, senior; Teidrick Smith, Halletts-ville, senior.

Receivers: Londray Brown, Edna, senior; Jima-rio Grounds, Hallettsville, senior; Trenton McGee, Hallettsville, sophomore; LaQuinton Sargent, Hemp-stead, senior; A.J. Rosas, Industrial, senior; Zach Garcia, Palacios, senior; Everitt Grounds, Rice, se-nior

Offensive line: Josh Rob-erts, Hempstead, junior; Chris Frey, Hempstead, junior; Jordan Branum, In-dustrial, senior; Anthony Norman, Edna, junior; Logan Robinson, Edna, se-nior; Ryan Hoffman, Hal-lettsville, senior; Kyle Leo-pold, Hallettsville, junior

Utility: Anthony Garcia, Palacios, senior

Kicker: Zach Garcia, Pa-lacios, senior

First Team DefenseDefensive MVP: Quin-

ton Wright, Hallettsville, senior

Defensive line: Teidrick Smith, Hallettsville, senior; De’Andre Glover, Hemp-stead; Tyler Kozel, Hemp-stead, senior; Evan Gregg, Industrial, junior; DeMar-cus Tillman, Rice, senior; Guy Dodson, Edna, junior; Darnelius Norman, Edna, sophomore; Troy Murphy, Hallettsville senior.

Linebackers: David Aparicio, Palacios, senior; Jimmy Foster, Rice, senior; David John Kallus, Edna, junior; Justin Reeves, Hal-lettsville, junior; Jesse Jay Watson, Hempstead, senior; Brian Knowles, Hempstead, senior; Will Knopp, Industrial, senior

Defensive backs: DeRod-erick Jones, Edna, senior; Logan Herrington, Hal-lettsville, junior; Reagan McAda, Hallettsville, se-nior; Deondre Lee-Toler, Hempstead, junior; A.J. Rosas, Industrial, senior; Kevin Brown, Palacios, se-nior; Jamikel Dancy, Rice, senior

Punter: DeQuan Cantu, Edna, senior

Return Specialist: Brian Knowles, Hempstead, se-nior; Justin Semora, Rice, senior; Kevin Brown, Pala-cios, senior

Special Teams expert: Austin Kelley, Edna, junior; Drew Haas, Hallettsville, junior; Jason McClarnon, Hempstead, senior

Second Team OffenseQuarterback: DeQuan

Cantu, Edna, seniorTight end: Logan Her-

rington, Hallettsville, ju-nior

Center: Hugo Cruces, Edna, senior

Running back: James Garner, Rice, senior; Jamikel Dancy, Rice, se-nior; Tim Sheppard, Hal-lettsville, junior; Michael Wolfe; Chris Garcia, Pala-cios, junior;

Receiver: Brian Knowles, Hempstead, senior; Bryan Franz, Industrial, senior; Kevin Brown, Palacios, se-nior; Cullen Wiese, Rice, senior; Traylon Davis, Edna, senior; Quinton Kubenka, Edna, senior

Offensive line: Anthony Holbrook, Palacios, junior; Logan Young, Rice, senior; Ron McGrew, Rice, junior; Clayton Miller, Edna, se-nior; Quinton Wright, Hal-lettsville, senior; Troy Mur-phy, Hallettsville, senior; Trey Hallman, Hempstead, senior; Chad Caldwell, Hempstead, junior

Utility: Daylin Dixon, Hallettsville, senior

Kicker: Sam Barrera, Hallettsville, senior

Second Team OffenseDefensive line: Dustin

Hempel, Industrial, junior; James Garner, Rice, se-nior; Timirron Williams, Edna, junior; Tyler Steffek, Hallettsville, junior; Fred Tompkins, Hempstead, sophomore; Luis Guerra, Hempstead, senior

Linebackers: Luther Cole, Rice, sophomore; Ja’Reel Stovall, Rice, senior; Kristin Grifaldo, Edna, se-nior; Reid Leopold, Hal-lettsville, sophomore; Alex-is Jasso, Hempstead, junior; Justin Marin, Hempstead, junior; Trenton Thetford, Industrial, junior; Dylan Brune, Palacios, senior

Defensive back: Jima-rio Grounds, Hallettsville, sophomore; Trenton Mc-Gee, Hallettsville, sopho-more; DeMario Perez, Hempstead, junior; Mi-chael Wolfe, Hempstead, senior; Everitt Grounds, Rice, senior; JaQuad Mc-Grew, Rice, sophomore; DeOntae Jones, Hemp-stead, sophomore; Weston Muschalek, Edna, senior

Punter: Jamikel Dancy, Rice, senior

Tiedrick Smith Quinton Wright

Carson Schindler

Jimario Grounds

Trenton McGee

Troy Murphy

Justin Reeves

Kyle Leopold

Reagan McAda

Ryan Hoffman

Will Wallace

This interview is in re-sponse to questions con-cerning Texas Parks and Wildlife funding, expen-ditures, and increasing license costs. TSA mem-ber and Columbus High School student Aaron Weishuhn participated in this question and answer session with Deputy Exec-utive Director TPW Gene McCarty.

Brune: You’re one of TPW’s main bean-coun-ters, correct?

McCarty: I work with the agency’s budgets and the legislative budget board that is the over-sight entity that helps us through the legislative process.

Brune: Aaron, what is your part in today’s inter-view?

Weishuhn: I’ll use the information from today’s discussion in a 4-H proj-ect.

Brune: Okay, please ask Mr. McCarty the first question.

Weishuhn: There are $6 billion being spent by hunters in Texas. How is this money generated?

McCarty: That number is an estimated total eco-nomic impact. It includes food, ammunition, ap-parel, guns, fuel, and all the associated costs that hunters are contributing to the state’s economy.

Weishuhn: What then is the proper breakdown that reflects a return for hunters’ investments?

McCarty: A sub-set of the $6 billion is the hunting license fees. That accounts for about $90 million a year (hunting and fishing). These fees are used to manage the resource. They are used to provide quality hunt-ing and fishing to the sportsmen of Texas. This includes management structures, law enforce-ment initiatives, public lease programs, and ev-erything TPW does to promote sport hunting in Texas.

Weishuhn: Knowing that so much money is being spent on hunting and fishing, has license sales increased?

McCarty: License sales have been flat. We’ve historically had three million hunters and fish-ermen in Texas. There are about one million hunters and two million fishermen. However as sportsmen know, the cost of licenses has increased and that reflects the cost of running the agency, wildlife management, law enforcement initiatives, etc.

Brune: Please elaborate about expenditures that drive up license prices?

McCarty: Agency costs such as rising salaries, fuel, vehicle costs, cost of maintaining fish hatch-eries, rising energy costs – all drive up the cost of wildlife management. We get no state tax dollars or

legislative general reve-nue funds for wildlife. We are self sufficient. All our wildlife management rev-enue comes from hunting and fishing licenses. So, as our costs go up so do the costs of the license.

Brune: The cost of a Lifetime Combo Hunt-ing & Fishing License has jumped from $1,000 to $1800. A Lifetime Hunt-ing license and a Lifetime Fishing license are each $1,000. How does TPW account for the sudden jump in prices?

McCarty: Those fees go into an endowment system which is designed to recoup the actual costs of regular licenses over a period of time. As other licenses went up, the life-time licenses did not. The payout was meant to be the same as the total of buying hunting and fish-ing licenses over a 20-year period. Instead the price had shifted to being about a 12-year payout. So the decision was made to bring the cost of life-time licenses back in line with the 20-year payout plan.

Brune: Please explain Fund 9.

McCarty: Fund 9 is the actual mechanism that collects hunting and fish-ing licenses, boat regis-tration fees, and some oil and gas revenues. It totals approximately $129 mil-lion. Revenue for state parks goes into Fund 64. Within Fund 9 are the sub-accounts from the various hunting and fish-ing stamps that must go to the dedicated purposes of each particular stamp. So we have segregated fees that are then bud-geted to their intended places.

Brune: Part of an ongo-ing controversy is that the legislature does not allo-cate the entirety of Fund 9. Why do they withhold funds, or rather, if sports-men support conserva-tion through license fees, then why does the legis-lature not release the en-tirety of that money?

McCarty: Fund 9 is a protected account with significant balances. At the end of this biennium we will have $65 million that will not be appropri-ated or spent. But it’s not going anywhere. As this economy turns around we’ll be able to go to the legislature and ask that those monies be turned

TPW director takes time to clear the air

Herman Brune

Herman Brune is a freelance writer, radio personality and author based in Colorado County.

Looking Downfrom the Saddle

BRUNE, Page B4


The Great Outdoors

The following are the Unofficial Weekly Results of the 31st Annual Shiner Businessmen’s Club Shiner

Area Big Buck ContestAs of January 7, 2013

Each County has Adult Division County Leaders: A-1, A-2, A-3 and

Youth Division County Leaders: Y-1, Y-2, Y-3

Colorado CountyA-1. Lee Mueller of Weimar,

10-pointer, 16 1/2-inch spread, 10 1/2-inch R1 tine, 9 1/8-inch R2 tine, 11 1/8-inch L1 tine, 8 7/8-inch L2 tine, 66 1/8 total points;

A-2. Elijah Smith of Weimar, 10-pointer, 16 1/4-inch spread, 4 1/2-inch R1 tine, 10 1/4-inch R2 tine, 10 7/8-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 61 5/8 total points;

A-3. Tony Janda of Weimar, 10-pointer, 15 1/2-inch spread, 8 5/8-inch R1 tine, 9 3/4-inch R2 tine, 7 1/2-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 61 1/8 total points

Dewitt CountyA-1. Dustin Braden of Yoakum,

8-pointer, 20 1/2-inch spread, 12 -inch R1 tine, 7 3/8-inch R2 tine, 12 1/2-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 70 1/8 total points;

A-2. Nancy Egger of Westhoff, 8-pointer, 18 5/8-inch spread, 11 1/4-inch R1 tine, 8 5/8-inch R2 tine, 11 1/4-inch L1 tine, 8 5/8-inch L2 tine, 66 3/8 total points;

A-3. Kurt Gaebler of Victoria, 10-pointer, 17 3/4-inch spread, 7 3/4-inch R1 tine, 10 3/8-inch R2 tine, 10 -inch L1 tine, 10 1/4-inch L2 tine, 66 1/8 total points.

Y-1. Chase Blackwell of Cuero, 10-pointer, 19 3/4-inch spread, 10 1/4-inch R1 tine, 9 -inch R2 tine, 10 3/4-inch L1 tine, 9 3/8-inch L2 tine, 69 1/8 total points;

Y-2. Mason Nagel of Meyersville, 9-pointer, 15 5/8-inch spread, 9 7/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/2-inch R2 tine, 10 5/8-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 64 3/8 total points;

Y-3. Kyle Kotara of Lavernia, 8-pointer, 17 -inch spread, 9 3/4-inch R1 tine, 6 3/4-inch R2 tine, 8 5/8-inch L1 tine, 6 7/8-inch L2 tine, 57 total points.

Fayette CountyA-1. Kathy Pagans of Katy,

8-pointer, 19 1/4-inch spread, 12 7/8-inch R1 tine, 12 -inch R2 tine, 12 3/4-inch L1 tine, 12 1/8-inch L2 tine, 77 total points;

A-2. Jarrod L. Von Minden of

La Grange, 10-pointer, 17 -inch spread, 9 1/4-inch R1 tine, 10 3/4-inch R2 tine, 11 5/8-inch L1 tine, 11 3/4-inch L2 tine, 70 3/8 total points;

A-3. Bruce Mozisek of La Grange, 8-pointer, 16 1/2-inch spread, 11 7/8-inch R1 tine, 9 3/4-inch R2 tine, 12 1/8-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 68 total points.

Y-1. John N. Blaha of Weimar, 12-pointer, 17 -inch spread, 12 1/8-inch R1 tine, 8 1/8-inch R2 tine, 11 3/4-inch L1 tine, 6 5/8-inch L2 tine, 67 5/8 total points;

Y-2. Dakota Zapalac of La Grange, 12-pointer, 17 7/8-inch spread, 8 3/4-inch R1 tine, 5 1/4-inch R2 tine, 7 5/8-inch L1 tine, 6 1/4-inch L2 tine, 57 3/4 total points;

Y-3. Kaylie Zapalac of La Grange, 8-pointer, 15 5/8-inch spread, 7 5/8-inch R1 tine, 6 1/2-inch R2 tine, 8 1/4-inch L1 tine, 7 -inch L2 tine, 53 total points.

Gonzales CountyA-1. Daniel J. Gray of Hunt,

10-pointer, 20 1/4-inch spread, 12 1/2-inch R1 tine, 10 -inch R2 tine, 12 3/4-inch L1 tine, 9 -inch L2 tine, 74 1/2 total points;

A-2. Daniel Sullivan III of Waelder, 11-pointer, 21 1/4-inch spread, 11 1/8-inch R1 tine, 10 1/8-inch R2 tine, 10 3/4-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 74 total points;

A-3 Josh Turk of Shiner, 13-point-er, 17 3/4-inch spread, 10 3/8-inch R1 tine, 8 7/8-inch R2 tine, 12 -inch L1 tine, 8 7/8-inch L2 tine, 70 7/8 total points.

Y-1. Caleb Valchar of Schul-enburg, 11-pointer, 17 1/2-inch spread, 12 -inch R1 tine, 9 3/4-inch R2 tine, 12 3/8-inch L1 tine, 9 -inch L2 tine, 71 5/8 total points;

Y-2. Tyler M. Hendershot of Gonzales, 10-pointer, 22 3/4-inch spread, 6 5/8-inch R1 tine, 9 7/8-inch R2 tine, 6 7/8-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 65 7/8 total points;

Y-3. Gary Blake Kohler of Hock-ley, 9-pointer, 17 3/4-inch spread, 7 5/8-inch R1 tine, 9 3/4-inch R2 tine, 8 3/8-inch L1 tine, 10 1/4-inch L2 tine, 62 3/4 total points.

Lavaca CountyA-1. Aaron Gaertner of Moulton,

8-pointer, 17 1/4-inch spread, 13 -inch R1 tine, 10 1/8-inch R2 tine, 12 1/8-inch L1 tine, 10 1/2-inch L2 tine, 71 total points;

A-2. Marvin Grahmann of Hal-lettsville, 8-pointer, 19 3/8-inch spread, 10 -inch R1 tine, 8 3/8-inch R2 tine, 10 1/4-inch L1 tine, 8 5/8-

inch L2 tine, 64 5/8 total points;A-3. Milton Haas Jr. of Halletts-

ville, 8-pointer, 17 7/8-inch spread, 9 1/2-inch R1 tine, 7 5/8-inch R2 tine, 10 -inch L1 tine, 8 -inch L2 tine, 61 total points.

Y-1. Jackson Ulcak of Shiner, 7-pointer, 15 3/4-inch spread, 9 7/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/8-inch R2 tine, 9 1/2-inch L1 tine, 8 1/2-inch L2 tine, 59 3/4 total points;

Y-2. Bryan Trojcak of Yoakum, 10-pointer, 16 3/4-inch spread, 4 3/4-inch R1 tine, 8 3/8-inch R2 tine, 8 7/8-inch L1 tine, 5 -inch L2 tine, 53 3/4 total points;

Y-3. Malorie Harvey of Shiner, 8-pointer, 17 1/4-inch spread, 9 -inch R1 tine, 4 1/8-inch R2 tine, 7 1/4-inch L1 tine, 6 1/4-inch L2 tine, 51 7/8 total points.

(NOTE: Texas Open Divisions have Adult Division Leaders Only)

Texas Open - North ZoneA-1. Ervin Bludau Jr. of Halletts-

ville, in Victoria County: 10-point-er, 17 3/4-inch spread, 10 1/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/2-inch R2 tine, 9 7/8-inch L1 tine, 9 3/8-inch L2 tine, 66 5/8 total points;

A-2. Greg Wagner of Shiner, in Edwards County: 11-pointer, 16 1/8-inch spread, 8 5/8-inch R1 tine, 9 5/8-inch R2 tine, 9 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 64 3/8 total points;

A-3. Eric Bludau of Hallettsville, in Goliad County: 8-pointer, 18 7/8-inch spread, 9 1/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/4-inch R2 tine, 9 7/8-inch L1 tine, 9 -inch L2 tine, 64 1/8 total points.

Texas Open - South ZoneA-1. Frank A. Wojtek of Rich-

mond, in Maverick County: 13-pointer, 25 1/8-inch spread, 11 5/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/2-inch R2 tine, 10 1/8-inch L1 tine, 9 5/8-inch L2 tine, 79 total points;

A-2. Erwin J. Ckodre of Gonza-les, in Atascosa County: 12-pointer, 22 1/4-inch spread, 9 3/4-inch R1 tine, 9 5/8-inch R2 tine, 8 1/2-inch L1 tine, 8 7/8-inch L2 tine, 71 total points;

A-3. Michael Bernshausen of Shiner, in Maverick County: 8-pointer, 19 5/8-inch spread, 12 7/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/2-inch R2 tine, 12 1/2-inch L1 tine, 7 1/2-inch L2 tine, 70 total points.

Shiner Big Buck Contest

SEGUIN – Flows from Canyon Reservoir tempo-rarily were increased early Sunday when a GBRA op-erator inadvertently opened a valve to 85 percent.

Because Canyon Reser-voir is at or below its con-servation pool of 909 mean sea level, releases from Canyon are made through a by-pass valve at Guadal-upe-Blanco River Author-ity hydroelectric plant. The by-pass valve operates on percentages — 0 percent is closed and 100 percent is fully opened. The valve can be set at any percent be-tween 0 and 100 to release the required river flow.

At 5 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, GBRA was to increase the release from Canyon Res-ervoir by 10 cubic feet per second (cfs). That required the Control Room Opera-tor in Seguin to enter a by-pass valve set point of 8.5 percent. However, the deci-

mal was not entered and the valve was opened to 85 percent.

The error was realized and corrected around 8:30 a.m. Therefore, anyone on the Guadalupe River down-stream from approximately 7 to 9 a.m. would have ex-perienced increased flows. The Sattler USGS gauge ex-ceeded 400 cfs during this time.

The GBRA was estab-lished by the Texas Legisla-ture in 1933 as a water con-servation and reclamation district. GBRA provides stewardship for the water resources in its 10-county statutory district, which be-gins near the headwaters of the Guadalupe and Blanco rivers, goes on to San Anto-nio Bay, and includes Kend-all, Comal, Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Gonzales, De-Witt, Victoria, Calhoun, and Refugio counties.

Matthew Moccia of Manchaca caught Toyota ShareLunker 539 from Lake Dunlap on December 30. The fish measured 26.25 inches in length and 23.25 inches in girth. (Courtesy photo)

Lake Dunlap ShareLunkerCanyon releasesinadvertently raised on Sunday

over to us. Brune: Do parks gener-

ate much revenue, and how much is brought in by sales tax of outdoor products?

McCarty: Parks do gen-erate revenue and they also receive a portion of the monies raised by the sport-ing goods sales tax. We also have a portion of the unclaimed motorboat fuel tax. That tax was meant for highways, but most folks don’t reclaim that tax when they fill their motorboats so it goes to TPW. We also get $40-45 million a year in federal funds that go di-rectly to conservation and

restoration programs for wildlife, coastal fisheries, and inland fisheries.

Weishuhn: Has revenues gone up since the imple-mentation of antler restric-tions?

McCarty: In the last five years we’ve seen hunting li-censes on a slight increase. I don’t know that it can be attributed to the antler restrictions. But you can certainly say that antler restrictions aren’t causing hunting license sales to de-cline. Whether it concerns fishing slot regulations or antler restrictions, we see that as the resources im-prove people enjoy hunting and fishing more.

Continued from page B3

BRUNE: Q&A with McCarty on TPW hot issues

The following items are com-piled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforce-ment reports:

An Oily SituationA Reeves County game war-

den received a call from Ward County regarding some illegal hunting taking place near an oil rig. The caller said the three out-of-state hunters were driving the oilfield roads shooting dove from their vehicle.

The warden responded to the call that night after the men got off work and saw them cruising the roads, but not shooting. Af-ter the vehicle disappeared, the warden waited at the rig to talk to the three men and confirm the hunting story.

After some discussion, the three men admitted to shoot-ing dove on the oilfield roads with a pellet gun. The men were charged with hunting without a license and hunting dove by il-legal means.

Covering for a CousinA Williamson County game

warden was patrolling a new section of a farm-to-market road that dissects several ranches that is not yet open to the public when he spotted a vehicle inside a ranch with a subject stand-ing nearby drinking a beer. The warden watched the individual for about 15 minutes before he heard a gunshot in the distance beyond the truck.

When the subject spotted the warden, he immediately got out his phone and appeared to

calling someone. The warden started his truck and continued down the road giving the subject the perception that he was leav-ing. After waiting down the road for a while, the warden returned to the location where the subject was parked and spotted another male with his son near the truck shooting at several doves well af-ter sunset.

The warden parked his truck and walked several hundred yards to make contact with the hunters. When he arrived, the hunter with his son was no lon-ger there. The lone hunter was in compliance with state laws and told the warden that the other man was his cousin and was heading back to the house. The man was stalling answering questions about the other hunter as if buying time for his cousin’s escape.

The warden was able to make it back to his patrol truck, drive to the front of the property, and find the hunter before he got away. As the warden tried to conduct a compliance check on the man, he denied hunting and became verbally aggressive. The warden advised Williamson County of the situation and re-quested back up.

When two deputies arrived, the man became more compli-ant, admitted to hunting and said he hid his shotgun in his cousin’s truck. It was discovered that the man not only shot at a dove after sunset, but he did not have a hunting license, or iden-tification.

Game Warden Field Notes

FOUND: Female Border Collie found at Cannonade Ranch field, close to Southern Clay Pit. No tags, chain was hooked on. Please call 540-4365.--------------------------FOUND: Stray calf found in Belmont area. 830-424-3685.

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.--------------------------

Shiner ISD is accept-ing applications for a Bus Driver to drive a morning and af-ternoon route. An application can be obtained online at www.shinerisd.net or picked up at the Administra-tion Office. Please submit the applica-tion by mail to PO Box 804, Shiner, TX. 77984 or by fax to 361-594-3925. For more information please contact Trey Lawrence at (361) 594-3121. Shiner ISD EOE.--------------------------The Nixon-Smiley CISD is accepting applications for professional and support positions. Review and apply for available posi-tions at: www.nix-onsmiley.net.--------------------------Full-Time position requiring a self-mo-tivated person with a strong work ethic, positive attitude,

good people skills, a high-school diplo-ma (or equivalent), and a clean driving record. Apply in person, with a copy of your resume, at NAPA - Kessler’s Auto Supply, 717 St. Joseph, Gonzales. Ask for Crystal.--------------------------General Shop help - Long Term Em-ployment. Mature individual, Team player with me-chanical skills, Valid Driver license. Con-crete work experi-ence. Apply at Capi-tol Monument or call 830-672-7929.--------------------------Full-time 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.--------------------------Progress Drilling Inc. accepting re-sumes for all Oil Field Positions. (Pushers, Drillers, Derrick Hands, Floor Hands). Please apply in person at 1575 Magnolia, Luling, 78648. Work reference a must. Previous experi-ence a plus. Please call office for any other questions. 830-875-3442.--------------------------Windsor Nursing and Rehab is look-ing for a few good Certified Nurse Aides. Please stop by 1219 Eastwood, Seguin to complete an application.--------------------------Certified Medica-tion Aides needed at Windsor Nursing and Rehab. Please stop by 1219 East-wood, Seguin to complete an appli-cation.--------------------------Windsor Nursing and Rehab is cur-rently accepting applications for FT and PRN LVN’s. Please stop by 1219 Eastwood, Seguin to complete an ap-plication.--------------------------OakCreek Nursing & Rehab. is cur-rently accepting applications for the following positions. CNA Staff, 6am-2pm, 10pm-6am. PRN Medical Aide &

CNA’s. Please apply in person at 1105 N. Magnolia, Luling, TX 78648.--------------------------General Contrac-tor/Heating and Air Conditioning - looking for full-time experienced and non-experienced labor. Must have transportation to and from work. Call 830-857-1355.--------------------------

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

Seeking profession-al & reliable Class A CDL Drivers. Haul-ing Belly Dumps. Located in Gonza-les & Harwood area. Call 830-540-3377.--------------------------

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.

3 family garage sale: 125 St. Paul, Sat., Jan. 12, 8-? Some furniture, winter clothing, jackets, heaters, futon, etc.

Zero turn lawn-mower. Gravely ZT Model 1844XL. Kohler Gasoline Engine. 44” Cut 183hrs, $1,500. 361-596-7575.--------------------------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.--------------------------A/C Lincoln welder 220V with welding leads. $150.00. Lit-tle boys red bicycle, good condition, $20.00. In Gonzales. 210-289-0238.--------------------------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.--------------------------Radio Controlled Aircraft. There are 7 unopened kits, 5 radios, and several big boxes of acces-sories and parts. All for $200 obo. 512-308-9648.--------------------------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.--------------------------Progressing Chron-ic Illness. Increasing Medical Bills. Must sell everything pos-sible. Used, good condition, Corning Ware Cookware, Bakeware, Dishes, H u m m i n g b i r d Collection; Grape Table & kitchen items; New, never used appliances, make-up mirror; Paula Young wigs. Also used daybed, sofa & coffee table. 830-203-8529 M-F, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday anytime.--------------------------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

Peavy Patriot Bass Guitar w/soft case, $150. Peavy Ba-sic 60 Bass Amp 150w, $125. Hoh-ner acoustic guitar w/case. Good for student, $75. Key-board, Casiotone, TT 360, $125. 437-2046.--------------------------Unicorn Collection for Sale. Call Fran-ces between 9pm-10am, 830-857-6476.--------------------------5,000 lb. Mobile creek feeder for sale. 437-2927.--------------------------Wicker Screen Room divider, red poppy design. $45. Lg. rattlesnake skin, mounted on panel, $150. Camp-ing travel pot, $20, Antique Bathtub, $550. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Cage large, off the ground. By 2ft, cage size about 3 1/2 ft. front, 2 ft. deep. 2-3 ft. high. Tray slides out end on bottom for cleaning. Has top large opening & side opening. Clean can be put in house. $65.00 firm. 830-263-4608 anytime.--------------------------Medium size bird cage, slide out bot-

tom to clean trays to feed & water & extras. Aqua Green. $25.00. 830-263-4608.--------------------------Baby walker, eating tray combo and it is a red race car, plays tunes and lights up. Ages 6 months-1 1/2 year baby. Cool must see! $40.00. 830-263-4608, day-time or evening.--------------------------Troybilt Trimmer with attachments (edger, tiller). 4 cycle, uses straight gasoline. $250. 361-741-2604.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has rollers. 857-8090.--------------------------2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, antique egg incubator, en-tertainment cen-ter, lamp stand w/drawers, booth din-ing table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.--------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Every-thing $85.00; worth about $300. Health problems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.--------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.--------------------------Used Dell Com-puter. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jeanette Conques-tat 830-672-3419.--------------------------Upright piano for sale. Great for kids starting piano les-sons. All keys works. Needs to be tuned. $100. Call 830-832-5965.--------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Ro-tisserie $275. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Gasoline operated Hedger, $125; 5 HP Tiller, $200. Both in excellent condition. 361-208-3565. --------------------------Electric Hospital bed, $150. 582-1120. --------------------------Stain Glass Win-dow, white tail deer. $275. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Headache Rack, Bumper Hitch, Aluminum Run-ning Boards, 5 office desks, Lift Chair, An-tique Bed, Leather Sofa Bed. 1109 FM 532 West, Shiner. 361-596-4403.--------------------------Air Framing Nailer. Contractor Series. $75.00. Call 361-741-2604.

The CannonThursday, January 10, 2013 Page b5

HELP WANTED

LOST & FOUND HELP WANTED

HELP WANTEDHELP WANTED

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

NOTICES

Call 672-7100 to place your

free garage sale ad.

MISC. FOR SALE

MISC. FOR SALEHELP WANTED

GARAGE SALES

MISC. FOR SALE

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

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

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

EquipmEnt OpEratOr

WANTED:

CDL DRIVERS NEEDEDBobtail Truck Driver

Day & Night Positions AvailableRequirements:

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

-----EXTRA INCOME-----$500 TO $1,000 a month, part-time.....IS THIS

REALLY POSSIBLE!?Not only is it possible, it is HAPPENING right now, right here in Gonzales. If you would like to develop a secondary stream of income, while keeping your full-time job, keep reading. Na-tional Lifestyle Centers, Inc., located at 501 St. James is helping people buy items at wholesale prices rather than paying the high retail prices they HAVE been paying. People are ecstatic over their savings and the service they are receiving!

We are looking for some key individuals who have a great personality and an even greater work ethic to help us expand in this area. Call us at 830-672-9444 to set up an appointment for an interview. Please use the promo code: 1777 when you call and our Vice President of Sales will call you back to schedule your appointment.

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

Call Human Resources at 830-582-1619 for more information or email resume to: [email protected]

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

Production / Poultry Processing:

NOW HIRING!!Supervisor

Responsible for managing processing of Dapec department.Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and

encourage optimum performanceResponsible for planning and allocating resources to effectively staff and accomplish departmental

productivity and quality goals.Plan, evaluate and improve the efficiency of processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality,

efficiency and output of department.Day Shift

Monday - FridayCompetitive pay /BOE

Excellent benefits: Health, Medical, Vision, 401K

HELP WANTEDHELP WANTED

Best Western RegencyInn & Suites

1811 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr., GonzalesSeeking a

Front Desk Clerk.Computer experience required. Applications may be picked up,

at the front office. No phone calls, please.

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.

Apply in person at623 N. St. Paul

EOE M/F

MISC. FOR SALE

The Cannon Thursday, January 10, 2013Page b6

Oak logs ranging from 6 ft. to 16 ft.in length. Diameters range from 8 in to 18 in. There are about 7 logs. ALL FREE in Bastrop area. 512-308-9648.--------------------------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.

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. Can be seen on Craig’s List. Call 830-875-9422.--------------------------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.

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.--------------------------2011 Jeep Wran-gler Sport. 10K plus miles, 3.8V6, w/6 speed trans-mission, sunroof, 17” wheels. Free oil changes for 3 years, hasn’t been off road, except beach. Good condition. Still under war-ranty. $1,000 down, assume payments. For more informa-tion, call 830-203-9408.--------------------------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.

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.

For Sale or Lease. 3 BR Trailer House, 2 RV Spots. Leesville. 830-433-0603.--------------------------Mobile Homes for rent, 3 bedroom/1bath, fully furnished. 900 Old Shiner Rd, Yoa-kum. 361-582-6593.--------------------------Mobile Homes for rent: 3 bedroom/1bath, fully furnished, some homes have Wi-Fi. 900 Old Shiner Rd., Yoakum, 361-582-6593 or 361-798-0816.--------------------------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.

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.--------------------------2BR/2BA 1,750SF (+/-) home for lease to a family of four. Located on ranch 7 mi. north of Gonza-les. CA/H, full kitch-en w/appliances. $900/mo + deposit. Email [email protected]/2BA large house. Fully fur-nished, beds, lin-ens, washer/dryer, cable T.V., stove, refrigerator. CA/

CH. Great for crew. Monthly or lease available. Home in town, plenty of parking. 512-820-5461.--------------------------Newly renovated home in Shiner for rent. 3/1, CA/H, wood floors, lg. BR’s. $850/mo. Bro-ker/Owner, 512-217-3171.--------------------------Charming 1/1 home on 2 wooded acs, w/lrg. deck in country, 77 North, paved road. $775/mo. No pets/smok-ers. 512-415-6483.--------------------------3/2 Large home on nice lot. $1,250/mo. Stove, refrigerator, included. Families or Oil Field Workers welcome. 713-501-3416.--------------------------2 and 3 Bedroom houses for rent. $650 & up + de-posit. Current ref-erences a must. Furnished or un-furnished. Call 830-672-5169.--------------------------For Rent: 2 B R / 2 B A / 2 C G home on 183 N. $1,250/mo., plus deposit. Call 830-857-4458 for infor-mation.--------------------------3BR/2BA Brick house for rent. 1 mile North of Yoa-kum. AC, washer, dryer. Large access driveway in & out for truck parking for large bobtails. Oak grove, great for BBQ’s and enter-taining. Available Now. Call 361-293-6619, leave mes-sage.--------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 830-857-5727.--------------------------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.--------------------------

ATTENTION OIL AND GAS PIPE LINERS - CREW

HOUSING AVAILABLE

Furnished with all

bills paid -- Full Kitchen - Personal bedrooms and liv-ing room. WEEKLY RATES AVAILABLE. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------

MOTEL ROOMS AVAILABLE

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

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

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

3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, decks, 12x16 storage, carport, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past Halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road. 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, parking, storage. Call 203-0585 or 672-6922. (TFN)

Apartment and travel trailer. EV-ERYTHING fur-nished. $600 per month for one per-son. All bills paid. Loccated on 183 North. 830-875-3028.--------------------------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.

In 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.--------------------------Looking for a pri-vate sitting job with an elderly person. Can cook and do light house keeping around Gonzales. Please call Emily, 830-437-2727; Cell, 820-263-2768.--------------------------

LOOKING FOR A JOB

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].

For Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.--------------------------Will do house cleaning Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.--------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5160. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.

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

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.

CLASSIFIEDS

HAY FOR SALE

CHILD CARE

Call 672-7100 to advertise your ad in the Classifieds.

FOR LEASE

HOME SERVICES

HOME SERVICES

HELP WANTED

AUTOS

HELP WANTED

FURNITURE

HOMES FOR RENT

HELP WANTED

HOMES FOR RENT

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

ROOM FOR RENT

LAWN & GARDEN

FIREWOOD

FARM EQUIPMENT

HELP WANTED

Call 672-7100 to subscribe.

MOBILE HOMES

HOMES FOR RENT

COMMERCIALFOR RENT

MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT

AUTOS

WANT TO RENT

HELP WANTED

Plant Openings Plant Palletizers & Cleanup Positions

Benefits include: Vacation, Sick Leave, Hosp. Ins.,

Dental, Vision, 401K, ESOP. Apply in person at:

Cal-Maine foods, Inc., 1680 CR431 or 748 CR 422,

Waelder, Texas 78959. Mon-Friday, 7-4 pm. Telephone number

830-540-4105/830-540-4684.

Now Hiring

Apply today, Start today!!!

Production/Poultry Processing: • Maintenance • Back Dock Hanger • Back Dock Driver w/ Class A CDL • 2nd Processing • Sanitation (Nights)

Mon.-Fri., 8-10 hr. days

Must have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the U.S. Drug screening as applicable to

position.

~

Human Resources603 W. Central, Hwy. 87, Nixon, Texas

830-582-1619 for more information.Si Habla Espanol

Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms has immediate full-time positions available for

Various Positions. New entry level wages.

We offer 401K, Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance. Apply at Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms, Inc., County Road 348, Gonzales, TX. 830.540.4516. KPMF is

an EOE

Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms solicita personal de tiempo completo

inmediatamente en Diferentes areas. Nuevo Sueldo Inicial.

Ofrecemos el plan 401K, Vacaciones, Seguro de Salud, Dental, de Visión y de Vida.

Interesados favor de aplicar en Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms, Inc.,

Country Road 348, Gonzales, TX 830.540.4516. KPMF es un Empleador con

Igualdad de Oportunidades (EOE)

`

Check out this opportunity to join the best company in the region. We are an international company, an industry leader, a friendly place to work, and we have great benefits.

You need a high school diploma or GED and the ability to: • Learn operation of plant processing equipment • Demonstrate communication skills, initiative and judgment in problem-solving • Work 12-hour rotating shifts • Work safely, following rules and procedures • Learn to drive a forklift • Lift up to 55 lbs on a frequent basis

**Preference will be given to applicants who have: • 1-2 years trade school education • 2 years of industrial or plant work experience • Supervisory potential • Forklift experience

All applicants must apply through their local Texas Workforce Solutions Office. Be sure to request an application for

Southern Clay Products, Inc.

Southern Clay Products, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ORGANO OPERATORSouthern Clay Products, Inc.

in Gonzales, TX

Victoria College Gonzales Center

is hiring an evening part-timeCampus Security Officer

Position is responsible for campus security, crime prevention and in-vestigation, emergency prepared-ness and response, campus rules and regulations enforcement, asset pro-tection, and building access control. Position reports to both the Victoria College Chief of Police and Gonza-les Center Campus Manager. Non-benefit eligible position with part time evening hours. Hourly range is $10.58 - $11.06. For more details please see the job posting at - www.victoriacollege.edu/jobsatvc

or call 1-830-672-6251. EOE

Hair It Is & Co.1402 St. Louis,

Gonzales, TX 78629830-672-3904

Now have openings for

Hair Stylist & Nail Tech

For more information contactTara Kuntschik, Owner

APTS. FOR RENT

CHECK OUT OUR MOVE-IN SPECIAL!

EFFICIENCY APARTMENTS FOR THE ELDERLY 62 OR OLDERAVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

* Rent based on income* Garden Style Apartments* Private Entrances* Individual Flower Bed Available* Carpeted & Air Conditioned* Water, Sewer & Trash Paid* Miniblinds, Ceiling Fan, Range, Refrigerator furnished* Maintenance/Management/Service Coordinator on site

COUNTRY VILLAGE SQUARE APARTMENTS1800 Waelder Road - Gonzales, TX (830) 672-2877

8 am - 5 pm, Tuesday-Friday

APTS. FOR RENT

FOR LEASE

APTS. FOR RENT

CHILD CARE CHILD CARE

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 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.--------------------------

--------------

Travel Trailers for rent. Located at J.B. Wells, Gonza-les, Texas. Cheaper than motel. Clean, fully furnished, 32 ft. trailers. $300/ a week. Please call for more info & rates. Pug @ 512-963-0000 or Dawn @ 512-508-6221.

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

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

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

2 female Chihua-hua’s for sale. 7 weeks old. One brown, one white. $50 each. Call 830-557-0622.--------------------------Free kittens. Call 361-594-4307.--------------------------Free dog to good home. Large female dog, brown, tame, gentle. Chip paper work with her. Call 830-481-4707.--------------------------

PuppiesHalf Lab, Half Pyr-enees. Free to good home. 830-203-1733 or 830-540-4485.--------------------------We stock Sport-mix Dog and Cat Food, Demon WP for those ants and scorpions. 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.--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------M I N I - G O A T S . (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.

House for sale by owner. 2BR/1Bath CA/H. $65,000. 830-234-3415 or 830-279-7900.--------------------------Low down, 3/2/1,136 sq. ft. Only $85,600 w/$1,600 dn. 202 East Lee St., Smiley. Call Mr. Smith, 855-847-6806. --------------------------

3bd/1ba home on 0.985 acres for sale in Nixon. 1,048 sq. ft. with additional 400 sq. ft. attached deck. Recently re-modeled, CA/H, all appliances stay! Asking $79,000. Call 830-203-9383.--------------------------3BR/2Ba Double-wide, lg. covered porch, 2 decks, 12x16 storage, car-port, all appliances, on 5 acres with gravel based truck yard. On CR 284 past halliburton & Oil Tanker Rail Road. 830-445-9131.--------------------------3BED, 1 Bath House For Sale! 0.985 acres on Hwy. 80, 8 miles north of Nixon, TX. 78140. 1048 sq. ft with 400 sq. ft. deck attached. Recently remodeled. Central Air and Heat. Appli-ances stay! $89,999. Ph. 830-203-9383. No owner financing available.--------------------------FOR SALE BY OWN-ER: 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, single story home in Gonza-les. Beautiful wet bar and gourmet kitchen with gran-ite counter tops. Large pantry utility room. 2 car garage with workshop, nice pool and spa, huge covered porches. All on or nearly 1/2 acre. $249,000. Call 210-844-4963.--------------------------Older couple down-sizing 15 acres (10 acres fenced), house, 3/1 1/2, Barn, ponds, trees. Wharton County. $137,000. 979-533-3262.--------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood Trail. New appli-ances, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commerc ia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.

Modern home on 165-acre ranch located between

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

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 Equipment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for information.

Wanted: Old work western boots. 830-

672-7384.--------------------------Want to Buy: Used Headgate for cattle. 361-798-0482.--------------------------WANTED: Acetylene Gas Regulator for welding torch. 437-2232.

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

All Types of Plumbing.

Master Plumber.Reasonable Rates.

Please Call 713-203-2814 or

281-415-6108.License #M18337

--------------------------No Limit

AccessoriesDavid Matias,

Owner830-263-1633

1026 St. Paul St., Gonzales

Window Tinting, Commercial.

Call for appointment.


CLASSIFIEDSRV’S FOR SALE

BOATS FOR SALE

WANTED

MISC. SERVICES

RECREATION

Call 672-7100 to advertisie your classified ad.

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

FARM & RANCH

MISC. SERVICES

LIVESTOCK

TRAVEL TRAILERS FOR RENT

FARM AND RANCH

LAND

TRVl.TRAIL. RENT

PETS

LIVESTOCK

RV SITESFOR RENT

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE:All real estate advertising in this newspaper is sub-

ject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention or discrimina-tion.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any ad-vertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings ad-vertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free tele-phone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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, san-dy loam, fronts CR420...............................................................$82,995vHARWOOD 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 - 2.25 acres +/-, part of 820 Oil Patch Lane......$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.

(855) TX4SALEwww.providenceproperties.net

SOLD

RESIDENTIAL LISTINGS:775 Robert St...........Seguin........$39,5001504 Weimar................................$69,900

1223 N. Sarah DeWitt...pool..........$249,900

New Subdivision - Lou’s Garden2030 Yellow Rose Way........from $129,9001302 Lantana Court........from $140,000’s

1316 Lantana Ct.............from the $140,000’s1319 Lantana Ct.............from the $160,000’s1301 Lantana Ct.............from the $150,000’s2002 Yellow Rose Way...........from $129,900

Call About

other Homes

in Gonzales!

Lots in Phase One Now Available

830-519-4132 830-857-5700

501 St. JamesGonzales, TX

SOLDSOLD

830-857-0222

The A & M Team

[email protected]

Serving Gonzales and Central TexasHomes/Residential

Rivercrest home, pool, perfect condition......... ...........................................................$279,000Duplex: A+ condition, rented............. $92,000New on Mkt: 10 acs., perfect home, pri-vate.....................................................$249,900Brick office bldg, downtown. ............$114,000Lot - Live Oak......................................$8,000

LandNEW: 100 acs., I 10 access, wooded/open,...............................................................$6,500/ac.NEW: 56+ acs., commercial/residential site, Hwy. 97 & FM 108,........................$10,000/acNEW: 31 acs., Co. Rd. 341, city water avail., minerals, trees,.................................$7,500/ac.90 A East, 35 acs., + home................$395,000

Homes3.7 ACS. 4BR, 3BA, 2LV.................. $150,000306 McClure - 3BR, 1 Bath................$65,0001618 St. Peter - Home and extra lot....$70,000473 Crockett Lane-Settlement - 3 bd., beautiful property..................................$258,0001602 Water St.-commercial/rental....$150,0002342 FM 108, 3 bd.,2 story home.....$145,000792 90-B - Lakefront..............................$89,000312 Cr. Rd. 471, Lakefront + ,3 bd., 1.5 acre lot............................................$150,000

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

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

Shirley [email protected]

Lynnette [email protected] Hardcastle - 830-857-3517 Jymmy K. Davis - 512-921-8877

Our friendly staff can be reached by:Phone: 830-672-2522 or

Fax: 830-672-4330

Serving Gonzales and Central Texas

BREITSCHOPFCOOPER REALTY

CONTRACTCONTRACT

Shirley Breitschopf830-857-4142

Lynnette [email protected]

Carol Hardcastle 830-857-3517

You can reach our staff by calling:

Phone: 830-672-2522

SALE PENDING

COMMERCIALFOR SALE

Commercial Property for Sale418 St. Andrew - 1,900 sf of multiple Offices/Commercial with high traffic exposure. H&R Block Building. Great for Commercial Tax Ser-vice Businesses. Plumbed for beauty salon, or dialysis center. Great windows, frontage, and log history of occupancy and successful busi-nesses. $95,000.

513 St. George - Downtown square area, Stand alone Commercial/Office/storage space (approx. 6,000 sf as 3 structures) w/large closed in side yard. Great for restaurant, store, or small offices. Ready for in-novational renovation. $135,000

617 St. Paul - 5000 Sq. Ft. Retail Commercial. Old Gordon’s Auto Parts Building, AC & Offices up front. 1,500 sq. ft, warehouse in back. Access from Alley’s Big Space in Back. $125,000.

619 St. Paul - 2000 Sq. Ft. Front & Rear Access. Big Open Space. Waiting for new business. Adjoins w/door to 617 St. Paul. $35,000.

Serious inquiries onlyContact Brad at 512-636-6756 or 830-875-2500

[email protected]

COMMERCIALFOR SALE

COMMERCIALFOR SALE

Call for an estimateSAVE YOUR

MONEY!

Insulation Services

CONTRACTORS & HOMEOWNERS

We handle Foam, Fiberglass & Spray On

979-242-3976

Locally owned & operated. 23+ years of

experience

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

RV’S FOR SALERV SITES

FOR RENT

RV-SITESGONZALES COUNTY.

Large lots, long term rentals, with laundry

service available. $300/mo. including

utilities, Pool Open.

830-424-3600.

Belmont RV Park

Special Rates for Winter Months

Queen Bed & Bunks..Full Kitchen & Bath. Like New. Financing. See atwww.txtraveltrailers.com.

979-743-1514 or 800-369-6888

28 ft. BPull TT’s $6,450.

Ask for CASH price.

RV’S FOR SALE RV’S FOR SALE

Call The

Gonzales Cannon to place your FREE

Garage Sale Ads here.830-672-7100

or fax to830-672-7111

or email to:[email protected]

WANTED


FaithFamily Dentistry of Gonzales

Gentle Quality Care

606 St. LouisGonzales, TX 78629

Office 830-672-8664Fax 830-672-8665

HOME • AUTO • FARM • COMMERCIAL • BONDS

Travis Treasner(830) 672-6518

Fax: (830) 672-6368Cell: (512) 376-0773

Logan Insurance Agency

Dry FertilizerCustom Application &

Soil TestingSTEVE EHRIG830-263-1233

P.O. Box 1826Gonzales, TX 78629

Morgan Mills830-857-4086

HOLIDAY FINANCECORPORATION

506 St. Paul St. • Gonzales, TX 78629(830) 672-6556

SATURN SALES & SERVICEJames Miller

4421 Hwy. 97E, Gonzales

830-540-4285 • 830-540-4422

921 St. Peter St.830-672-6865

“Train a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.”Proverbs 22:6

FARMERS INSURANCE GROUPGets You Back

Where You Belong! Gieser Insurance Agency941 St. Joseph

Gonzales, Tx 78629830-203-5325

Toll Free: (800) 358-5298Lisa G. GaspardAgency ManagerTDI #001113854

Leticia M. CenottiAgency ProducerTDI #001243345

Reyna’s Taco Hut1801 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, TX

830-672-2551Next to the Courthouse Annex

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & DinnerMon.-Sat. 5 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sun. 5 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Home of the “Silverado”Authentic Mexican Food Including Caldo & Menudo

Ilene B. GohmertCertified Public Accountant

409 St. George St. • Gonzales830-672-5030 • 830-672-2483 (Fax)

FREE ESTIMATES

ALLMATERIALS

HAULED

Construction CompanySub-Contractor

Specializing in Site WorkFoundation Pads • Road Work • Demolition

Stock Tanks-Brush ClearingOffice 830-437-2873

David Ehrig 830-832-6063 Bubba Ehrig 830-832-5094

701 North Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, TX, 78629 830-672-4530

County Road 348, Gonzales, TX. 830-540-4516.

Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms

Call Debbie or Dot at 672-7100 today to reserve your sponsorship

on the Worship Page for ONLY $10 per issue.

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

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

HOUSE FOUNDATIONS • STAINED CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS • SIDEWALKS • DIRT WORKALL YOUR CONCRETE NEEDS

Tony’s ConCreTe Finishing& MeTal Building ereCTionCraftsmanship You Can Finally Afford

No One Beats Our Price • Free Estimates • InsuredCell 830-857-0488Office 830-672-1821 Tony Fitzsimmons,Owner

Soncrest Eggs925 Saint Andrew

Gonzales

672-4433

BUFFINGTON FUNERAL HOME520 N. Ave CP.O. Box 64

Shiner, TX 77984Phone

(361) 594-3352Fax

(361) 594-3127

424 St. Peter St.Gonzales, TX

77984Phone

(830 672-3322Fax

(830) 672-9208

David S. Mobile 830-857-5394Mike B. Mobile 830-857-3900

Office 830-672-2845Fax 830-672-6087

M-F 7:00 to 5:30 Sat. 9:00 to 3:00

The Romberg House

Assisted Living Residence

Melanie Petru-Manager210 Qualls Street, Gonzales, TX 78629

[email protected]/license #030010


Puzzle Page

(830) 672-2317

Mohrmann’s Drug StoreGet your prescriptions in minutes

Competitive Pricing413 St. George • Gonzales, TX 78629Fast, friendly

service!

CANNON KID’S CORNER

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, you may have to work

a little harder to get what you want, but the results will be worth it. Focus your attention on making a name for yourself in the business sector.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21There is no stopping you

when you have a goal in mind, Taurus. Although you may be ambitious, just be mindful of other people in your path as you go.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Be honest with your feel-

ings this week, Gemini. Some-one close to you is interested

in learning more about the way you operate. This could strengthen a friendship.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Don’t bite off more than you

can chew, Cancer. Otherwise you could be left with a long to-do list and not enough en-ergy to get the job done. Con-sider paring down tasks.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, although you may

have rest and recreation on the brain, celestial forces are pushing you in the oppo-site direction. Busy days are ahead, so rest later.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22You have put too much ef-

fort into something to aban-don your plans now, Virgo. Rethink quitting early on. Maybe a friend can carry you over the finish line.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

Surround yourself with lots of friends when you cannot have family near, Libra. This will help keep feelings of lone-liness from creeping in during quiet moments.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, you may need to

concede to a difference of opinion this week when you simply cannot resolve some-thing amicably. Redirect at-tention on a craft or pastime.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, sometimes you tend to be brutally honest with others. While honesty is an admirable trait, this week you may need to censor what you say to avoid hurt feelings.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Taking a circuitous route will land you at the finish a little behind others, Capri-corn. But you will get to the end nevertheless. Trust your instincts with this one.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, you probably

won’t be able to rest your mind until you square away all of your finances and make a budget for the new year. Take on the job this week.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Introspection leads you on

a mini-quest to find a creative outlet, Pisces. Play to your strengths and some ideas will surface.

“Making a difference one life at a time since 1966”

Most insurances accepted, we welcome Medicare - Medicaid.(No one is turned away for inability to pay.)

Mon.-Thurs. 8-5, Fri., 8-5Saturday - ClosedSunday - Closed

Community HealthCenters

Of South Central Texas, Inc

830-672-6511 Fax: (830) 672-6430

228 St. George Street, Gonzales, Texas 78629

Crossword Sponsored By:

Puzzle AnswersOn Page B10

Cannon Crossword


Cannon Comics

It was humorist Jerome K. Jerome who made the following sage observation: “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

Though it is unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable, there is a law on the books in Tennessee which prohibits duelists, preachers and atheists from being elected to public office.

According to most history books, the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, S.C., in April of 1861, but that’s not entirely true. The first shots of the war between the North and the South actually were fired in January of that year in Pensacola, Fla., where a garrison of Union troops was stationed at Fort Barrancus. A contingent of Florida and Alabama troops marched on the fort with the intent to throw out the Yankees in their midst. However, the Southerners’ dedication to the cause was somewhat lacking; as soon as the Union soldiers fired

at them, they beat a hasty retreat.

Those who study such things say that the average lightning bolt has a temperature of approximately 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. For comparison, the sun’s average temperature is only 10,000 F.

If you’ve ever been told to shut your pie-hole, you might have wondered where the expression came from. The term was first used in 1983, in the film version of Stephen King’s horror novel “Christine.”

***Thought for the Day:

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” -- Jim Henson

(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

Puzzle AnswersFrom Page B9

Small Cars: $34.95 per day

Mini Van: $44.95 per day

Mid/Full Size: $44.95 per day

Lg. Van: $79.95 per day

Trucks & Lg. Sizes: $69.95 per day

1701 Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales • 830-672-7323 Se Habla [email protected]

Service Department10% OFF on a 5 qt. Oil/Filter

Change & tire rotation(additional oil has no discount)

Bring this ad in to receive discount

West Towing

Cell - 830-351-1152 830-672-7323

West Auto Rental West Services West Towing

gonzales cannon newspaper

Documents