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Four men who are facing several felony charges, including capital murder, had their cases heard in the 2nd 25th District Court Wednesday morning in Gonzales.
Parris Brown of Hallettsville, Rob-ert Garcia Jr. of Cuero, Desmond Pat-ton of Cuero and Larvell Roy of Cu-ero had their cases reset for May 22 by Judge W.C. Kirkendall. Each man is facing a charge of capital murder
of multiple persons and three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon stemming from an incident that took place last October at a Gon-zales night club.
Frederick Lamon Smith, 39 of Gonzales, died on Oct. 7 after he was struck by gunfire in the 1400 block of Kliene, across the street from The Ebony Club. Taylon Edow Porter, 23 of San Marcos, was also shot and transported to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, where he eventually suc-cumbed to his injuries. The men were
two of four people who were injured during the incident.
A fifth man, Rashad Rudolph of Cuero, was also arrested in connec-tion to the incident. He is facing three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one charge of tam-pering or fabricating physical evi-dence with intent to impair investiga-tion and one charge of murder. His case was reset to April 19.
In other court proceedings, Alice Ramos had her case reset for April 3.
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By DAVE MUNDY
Gonzales schools can look at an annual student population growth of from 3-5 percent over the next several years, numbers which will strain the district’s existing facili-ties, GISD trustees were told dur-ing a workshop meeting Monday.
Steven Stewart of Deskmap Sys-
tems presented an overview of a demographic study commissioned by thye district, and told the school board that without expansion of existing facilities the district could be up to a thousand students over capacity by 2017.
“As you see the oil industry move from the exploration and drill-ing stage into the production and management stage, you’re going
to have a lot move people moving here permanently,” Stewart said. “You’ll have a real challenge here anticipating the needs, especially at the elementary level.”
Stewart presented trustees with both a conservative estimate of growth and a moderate estimate which assumes more rapid indus-trial development.
The more conservative growth
scenario indicates a more tra-ditional pattern of early-grade (pre-k/kindergarten/first grade) enrollment increases which move through the system. The “crunch” on the numbers in that scenario would first impact East Avenue Primary, where renovations have just been completed to expand the cafeteria but the district has
By DAVE MUNDY
Madison Kalina gets a big, wet “kiss” from the steer being shown by her brother Dillon Friday night at the Shiner FFA Livestock show. Make sure to grab a copy of The Cannon’s March 21 edition for photos from all the winners in the Gonzales, Waelder, Shiner and Nixon-Smiley Livestock shows. (Photo by Mark Lube)
Make plans for Friday and Saturday to stop by the annual Ragin’ Cajun Throwdown in downtown Luling. See Pages A10 and A11 for a preview of this year’s event!
Gonzales City Council on Tuesday moved to formal-ize an agreement which has been in place for years with Southern Clay Products over the amount of chlo-rides in water discharged from the facility.
Council approved a reso-lution authorizing City Manager Allen Barnes to formalize an agreement with the company allowing for the discharge of from 1200-1800 parts per million (ppm) of chlorides in water processed through city lines. Barnes told the Council the agreement formalizes policy which has been in place for some time.
“They asked for this agreement,” he said. “Their level of discharge has been consistent over the last 20 years. Higher chlorides cause us to adjust our pro-cesses, but it’s something that we’ve been doing for 20 years already. This really changes nothing from the city’s perspective aside from about $80,000 we’ll be get-ting that we weren’t getting before.”
City Attorney Jackie Wil-liamson told the council the agreement is effectively the same as one first negotiated in 2007 but never brought to the council for approval.
Council also approved the city’s “stub budget” for April 1-Sept. 30 for this year. The
NIXON — The annual Nixon-Smiley Livestock Show and Sale kicks off Friday, wrapping up the livestock show season for local agriculture students.
Friday’s events begin with the judging of crafts starting at 3 p.m. at the Nixon-Smiley Livestock Shown Barn on High-way 87. Cake judging begins at 3:30, followed by the craft and cake judging awards in the arena at 7 p.m.
Judging of Ag Mechanics projects be-gins at 7:15 p.m. Friday in the Ag Me-chanics area, with judging of broilers getting underway in the arena. Turkeys, market rabbit and fryer rabbit judging
will follow the broilers in the arena.Saturday’s events get underway in the
arena at 9 a.m. with judging of market hogs, followed by market lambs, mar-ket goats, market steers, breeder hogs, breeder goats, breeder heifers and com-mercial heifers at the commercial heifer pen.
After a brief intermission following the judging, the 4-H Clover “Pee-Wee” Showmanship classes will take the ring for a demonstration.
The annual buyers party gets under-way at 5 p.m., followed by the auction at 6 p.m. with Joey Tomlinson.
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AUSTIN— State. Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt is the Policy Chairman of the House Republican Caucus and this week the caucus met to discuss the Medicaid System.
At this meeting the de-cision was made by the Republican Caucus of the Texas House of Representa-tives to oppose expansion of the Medicaid system un-der the Affordable Care Act in its current form. Caucus members expressed their support for Texas-based solutions that allow for in-novations, such as man-aged care, within the ex-isting Medicaid program, and a focus on job creation,
which is the most meaning-ful path to affordable health care.
“Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected the unsustainable expan-sion of our current Medic-aid program,” Kleinschmidt said in a news release. “We have chosen sound fiscal policy over the federal gov-ernment’s empty promises to Texas taxpayers.”
According to the Health and Human Services Com-mission, the Texas Medicaid program consumes more than a quarter of the state budget. Expanding Medic-aid would add 1.1 million people to the existing case-load in Texas, costing the state an estimated $8.8 bil-lion over the next decade.
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March 7, 1923On this day in 1923, an earthquake struck El Paso and
resulted in the only death associated with a Texas quake when an adobe house collapsed on a man in neighboring Cuidad Juárez. Even though earthquakes are not common in the Lone Star State, more than 100 recorded tremors have occurred since 1847. Most have been of low magni-tude and caused either by relief of tectonic stress along fault lines or by well injections connected with oil and gas field operations. Many of the quakes have hit West Texas and the Panhandle. One such occurrence in 1929 destroyed the ho-tel at Lobo in Culberson County, but the largest earthquake to shake Texas hit Valentine in Jeff Davis County in 1931 and measured roughly 6.0 on the Richter Scale. Other notable historic quakes shook Seguin (1847), Creedmore (1902), Hempstead (1910), and Mexia-Wortham (1932). In 1995 an earthquake measuring 5.7, the second largest in Texas his-tory, rocked Alpine.
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What a wonderful week Gonzales Elementary students had thanks to Alma Trevino, the school’s librarian. Last week they celebrated the birthday of the re-nowned author, Dr. Se-uss, by having commu-nity members, business leaders, school board members, parents and staff reading throughout the day from his books. Mrs. Trevino, personally, made “Cat in the Hat” hats for the entire staff, and the cafeteria staff prepared green eggs and ham in his honor.
Here is the Gonzales Police De-partment Report for the period of Feb. 24-March 3:
Feb. 24Reported Theft At FM 532.Feb. 2516-Year Old Male Issued Ci-
tation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
16-Year Old Female Issued Citation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah DeWitt Dr.
15-Year Old Male Issued Ci-tation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 400 Blk College St.
Feb. 26Reported Theft At 1600 Blk St.
Louis St.Reported Assault At 400 Blk
College St.Reported Assault At 1100 Blk
Sarah DeWitt Dr.Feb. 27Reported Assault At 1800 Blk
Sarah DeWitt Dr.Reported Assault At 700 Blk St.
Paul St.Feb. 2815-Year Old Male Detained
And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana And Was Transported To The Guadalupe County Deten-tion Center.
Reported Theft/Criminal Tres-pass At 1900 Blk St. Joseph St.
Reported Criminal Mischief At 400 Blk Smith St.
March 1Reported Hit And Run Acci-
dent At St. Paul And 90-A.Reported Theft At 800 Blk Cu-
ero St.Reported Criminal Mischief/
Disorderly Conduct At 2300 Blk CR 197.
March 2Sam Adam Wyatt, 47 Of Gon-
zales, Arrested And Charged With Driving While Intoxicated At 900 Blk St. Lawrence St.
March 3Reported Theft At 1800 Blk
Church St.Reported Theft At 1600 Blk
Sarah DeWitt Dr.
Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff’s Report for Feb. 24-March 2:
02/25/13Laredo, Florentina Jo, 06/1975,
Gonzales. Austin Parole Warrant – Sexual Assault. Remains in Cus-tody.
Alvarez, Raymond Ray, 04/1972, New Braunfels. Local Warrant – Fleeing Police Officer. Requires $2,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.
Macy, Myles Nicholas, 09/1986.Gonzales. Assault causes Bodily Injury Family Violence. Released on $1,500 Bond.
02/26/13Bolton, Jake Cobey, 05/1978,
Gonzales. Local Warrant – Crimi-nal Mischief >$500 <$1,500. Re-quires $2,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.
Staton, Mary Kathryn, 08/1982, Luling. Local Warrant – Criminal Nonsupport. Remains in Custody.
02/27/13Woodberry, Dante Trevon,
05/1992, Houston. Local Warrant – Possession of Marijuana <2 oz. Requires, $1,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.
03/01/13Zahn, Shawna Chere, 06/1973,
Gonzales. Commitment/Sen-
tence – Driving while License Invalid with Previous Conviction/Suspension without Financial Responsibility. Released – Week-ender/Work Release.
O’Neal, Amber Ruth, 04/1990, Bebe. Local Warrant – Permit Unlicensed Driver to Drive. Re-quires$189.00 Fine. Released on Time Served.
Hunt, Joshua Lemont, 06/1989, Clute. Local Warrant – Theft Sto-len property >$20K <$100K. Re-quires $30,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.
03/02/13Macias, Katherine Lauren,
04/1987, Luling. Commitment/Sentence – Possession of Mari-juana >4 oz <5 lbs. Released – Weekender/Work Release
Total Arrest, Court Commit-ments, other agency arrest and processing’s:
GCSO 11DPS 07GPD 01WPD 00NPD 03Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 22
Gonzales City fireman Darrell Hull reads one of Seuss’ classic stories to a group of students. (Cour-tesy photo)
Teachers Sequoya Janacek and Suzanne Longoria flank GISD Superintendent Dr. Kim Stozier. (Courtesy photo)
Pictured are 4th grade teachers (top row, from left): Bryan Molina, Nicole Nerada, Robert Gilliam, Sarah Menking, Lorie Eames, Grace Watkins, Michelle Wer-ner, Tamela Baker, (bottom row) Jenna Mills, Chris-tine Presley, Janica Arellano and Jean Hoghoughi. (Courtesy photo)
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MOULTON — A San Juan man died Feb. 28 when he was struck by a falling pipe at a drilling site out-side Moulton, the Lavaca Co. Sheriff ’s Office reports.
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said Raul Segura Jr., 30, was struck about 9:22 p.m. when the pipe fell whilebeing hoist-
ed by workers at the site on County Road 274, just east of County Road 274A. Segura was pronounced dead at Yoakum Commu-nity Hospital by Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Carol Renner. The judge ordered an autopsy be performed by the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office in Austin.
Segura was working at the site for C&J Speciality Rental Tools, of Houston.
SEGUIN — A former as-sistant district attorney has been sentenced in a case of misdemeanor assault.
Lew A. Bechtol II was first assistant district attorney on the staff of District Attor-ney Heather McMinn until shortly after his arrest April 12, 2012 on a charge of as-saulting his fiance at a home they shared.
Bechtol, 49, pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to assault causing bodily injury/family violence in court Monday morning,
and Guadalupe County Court-at-Law Judge Frank Follis ordered him to serve 18 months probation with deferred adjudication.
Terms of the plea agree-ment also called for Bechtol to pay a $500 fine, court costs of $212 and to relin-quish his license to practice law for three months. He also will be required to at-tend weekly classes in a 26-week program for family violence offenders.
First Assistant County At-torney Jane Davis said she was appointed by County Attorney David Willborn as special prosecutor for the case because Bechtol and
Willborn were coworkers and friends when both were serving as assistant district attorneys. Davis did not know Bechtol prior to her appointment as special pros-ecutor.
“It’s important that no one is above the law, even former friends and assistant district attorneys,” Davis said after Monday’s proceedings.
McMinn commended Willborn’s office for their work on the case.
“I think the county attor-ney’s office did a good job of following through and pros-ecuting him,” she said.
Once hearing about the complaint against Bechtol,
McMinn said she took im-mediate action.
“When we initially found out he had charges pending and an investigation pending, he was put on suspension,” she said. “Once I was briefed about the investigation by the Texas Rangers and the New Braunfel’s Police Department Mr. Bechtol was terminated.”
Davis indicated that a grand jury had declined to return a felony indictment against Bechtol. She added that the defendant’s no-con-test plea would not prevent the case from being cited as enhancement if there were any future offenses of assault/family violence.
By BOB THAXTONof the Seguin GazetteSpecial to The Cannon
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Ceremonies honor41 men of Gonzaleswho died at AlamoBy DAVE MUNDY
Gonzales Immortals Day
A group of more than 100 Gonzales residents were on-hand Friday for ceremonies honoring the sacrifice of 41 men from Gonzales defending Texas freedom at the Ala-mo.
Many of those attending are distant relatives of the nine garrison members and the “Immortal 32” who rode into the old mission on March 1, 1836 to join the besieged gar-rison, facing certain death at the hands of a thousands-strong Mexican army.
Texas folk musician K.R. Woods entertained the gath-ering and a large number of Alamo visitors with several musical selections honoring the “Come and Take It” spirit of Gonzales and The Alamo’s 182 defenders, including a reading of a letter sent from the Alamo by Gonzales’ Isaac Millsaps. He then read the text of the famous “Victory or Death” letter written by William Barrett Travis, which re-turned to the Texas shrine last week for the first time in 177 years.
Karen Thompson, president general of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, saluted the “Immortal 32,” who rode through the Mexican lines in answer to Travis’ appeal for aid to arrive at The Alamo at 3 a.m. on March 1, 1836.
“They saw what the odds were,” she said. “They could have gone back home, but they didn’t ... they stayed.”
Gonzales Mayor Bobby Logan presented the DRT and the Sons of the Republic of Texas with the city’s “Come and Take It” flag.
City Manager Allen Barnes told the story of the Battle of Gonzales which began the Texas Revolution, then read the roll of the nine Gonzales men who were part of the gar-rison of The Alamo when the siege began.
Jim Massengill of the SRT and Jason Chall then read the roll of the 32 men who rode from Gonzales in response to Travis’ call. As each name was read, relatives in the Gon-zales delegation visiting answered “Here!” to signify their connection.
As tourists lined up at the door of the Chapel to view Travis’ Letter, ceremonies on the plaza at The Alamo Friday honored the 41 men from Gonzales who died defending the old mission in 1836. Folk songman K.R. Woods (left) entertained a group of more than 100 residents from Gonzales with several songs about the valor of The Alamo’s defenders.
Gonzales Mayor Bobby Logan exchanges one of the city’s “Come and Take It” flags with Karen Thompson, president general of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who in turn presented Logan with a flag which has flown over The Alamo.
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The highlight of the ceremony was the somber roll call of the names of the 41 men from Gonzales who fell at The Alamo. City Manager Allen Barnes (top) read the names of the nine Gonzales men who were part of the original garrison, while Jim Massengill (center) and Jason Chall (bottom) called the names of the “Immortal 32” who formed the only relief force to answer the call for aid made in Travis’ Letter. As each name was read, descendants of those men answered “Here!” in response.
SAN ANTONIO — To Texans, this is holy ground.
I arrived at The Alamo a couple of hours before the scheduled 5 p.m. ceremony honoring the “Gonzales Immortals” on Friday, primarily to drop off a couple hundred copies of our special commemorative to pass out to visitors, but also because I wanted some time to fully explore the site myself.
Much like the historic sites here in Gonzales, I learn more every trip I make to The Alamo.
Most folks, for example, see the profile of the chapel in photos and artwork and assume that is “The Alamo.” The reality is that the cha-pel was only a small part of the larger mission, and in fact most of what now comprises the park actu-ally sat outside the main walls that 186 defenders held against Santa Anna’s army.
That famed arching front of the chapel? That was actually built by engineers from the U.S. Army in the late 1840s during the war be-tween the U.S. and Mexico, when the site was turned into a store-house.
I took the time to view most of the exhibits housed in the Long
Barracks, to track down and view each marker and plaque, to com-mit those facts to memory as my way of honoring the fallen.
Most of the fighting and dying actually took place in an area now covered by high-rise shops and a courthouse. It is believed that the ashes of the Alamo’s defenders were likely excavated as part of the construction of those buildings de-cades ago.
The main courtyard of the origi-nal site is now called “Alamo Plaza.” The San Antonio city government wants to defile that sacred ground by turning it into a circus.
Visitors to the site and the Plaza who wander the area hoping to glimpse something of historical significance are just as likely to wander into wax figures, bearded
ladies, vegetarian protesters or car-nival barkers. They have to be care-ful to avoid the Yuppies cruising around on Segways who dominate the public sidewalks.
In particular, developers want to turn what was the West Wall into a hideous commercial enterprise complete with a trolley system — as if the booming of video games from an arcade across Alamo Street and from passing vehicles of irreverent punks were not blas-phemy enough.
The Alamo is under siege again, it would seem. And, as in 1836, small bands of Texans have heard the call to defend it.
One such group is the Alamo Plaza Restoration Project/The Tex-as History Center at Alamo Plaza, Inc. at www.alamoplazaproject.com. They’re engaged in fighting to retain the dignity and reverence which should surround the site.
There’s also Friends of the Ala-mo at www.friendsofthealamo.org, a slightly newer organization with many of the same goals of oppos-ing the crass commercialism.
Even the Texas Nationalists host a monthly vigil at the site to mark their protest against the city’s plans.
What we know was The Alamo today, of course, couldn’t be there had it not been for the DeZavala Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the daugh-ter of a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto by the name of Clara Driscoll. Driscoll led the fight start-ing in 1903 to raise funds needed for the purchase of the site and res-toration of as much of the property as could be claimed, and her check-book filled in the coffers whenever the DRT’s efforts came up short until the Texas Legislature in 1905 approved $65,000 to purchase the site.
It took another seven years of legal wrangling before Driscoll’s vi-sion of a site that properly honored the sacrifice made there began to take its final shape.
Perhaps most interesting is that, even with management and funding shortcomings over the years, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas have never al-lowed the lure of commercialism to deter them from the path of dignity and reverence. No one, neither Texan nor tourist, has ever been charged a single cent to walk through the most sanctified
grounds in Texas. I grew up in the shadows of the
San Jacinto Monument in Deer Park. Sadly, you could poll every person in that town and I’d haz-ard a guess that fewer than half could tell you what that monu-ment represents; most assume it has something to do with the Battleship Texas.
One of the things which has always impressed me most about Gonzales is about how history and heritage permeates everything here. Almost every building and house in town has a story. People revere their heritage here.
A big pat on the back needs to go out to Nathan Neuse, president of the GEDC, for coming up with the idea for the “Gonzales Immor-tals Day” as part of the return of Travis’ Letter — and to the City of Gonzales for embracing it so en-thusiastically. A great many peo-ple who’d never heard of Gonzales learned a lot about it on Friday.
The Travis Letter is scheduled to return to the State Archives today, perhaps for decades. But I think that perhaps we in Gon-zales should make a March 1 pil-grimmage an annual thing.
Some guys have it, and some don’t. I’m referring to that special quality that makes powerful institutions want to throw fistfuls of dollars at them in senseless acts of high-priced benefi-cence.
Jack Lew has it like nobody’s busi-ness. You might think the bespectacled treasury secretary nominee is just an-other brainy budget wonk and miss the animal magnetism that makes his employers lose all sense of financial proportion around him, paying him astronomical sums, forgiving his loans and granting him generous golden parachutes.
Yes, Jack Lew is a rare talent -- at the art of getting paid.
He left the Clinton administration, where he served as director of the Of-fice of Management and Budget, for what turned out to be the extremely lucrative field of nonprofit education. At New York University, he made more than $800,000 in 2002. According to his W-2, examined by staff on Capi-tol Hill, he made $1.2 million in total compensation in 2006.
Even for Jack Lew, housing in New York City can be expensive. Not to worry. New York University provided him a loan for housing. The trouble with loans is that they have to be paid back. Not to worry. All is forgiven if you are Jack Lew, especially your loans. According to Lew, the university for-gave the loan of some $1.4 million “in equal installments over five years.”
Upon leaving NYU, Lew received what he describes as “a one-time sever-ance payment upon my departure.” He wasn’t fired, usually the occasion for severances. He simply left and got paid for the act of leaving. Hey, that’s Jack Lew -- he gets paid when he stays and gets paid when he goes.
He went to Citigroup, which NYU had made its primary private lender for student loans in exchange for a cut of
those loans. (Coincidences happen to everyone, including Jack Lew.) In 2008, as the bank nearly blew up and laid off one-seventh of its employees, Lew ran its disastrous Alternative Investments unit -- and got paid $1.1 million.
The bank had to be bailed out by the federal government, but it couldn’t stop paying Jack Lew. The journalist Jonathan Weil of Bloomberg has un-earthed Lew’s contract at Citi. It said, reasonably enough, that he wouldn’t get his “guaranteed incentive and re-tention award” if he left the company. It made an exception, though, if Lew left to get “a full-time high level posi-tion with the United States government or regulatory body.”
Jack Lew being Jack Lew, he left Citi to become deputy secretary of state, on his way to resuming his duties at OMB, then becoming the chief of staff to the president, and now secretary of the treasury. And, of course, he got paid.
The cynics talk of crony capitalism. The scoffers hint of special favors for the politically connected. The good-government types worry about the unseemliness of a too-big-to-fail Wall Street bank giving one of its executives an incentive to become a high-rank-ing government official. Maybe they should give it a rest and simply stand back and marvel at the moneymaking machine that is Jack Lew. Lesser mor-tals criticize and cavil. He gets paid.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
While President Obama is lobbying the public to stop the Sequestration, he forgets that it is his law. It was passed by Congress and he signed it in 2011 at the height of the “raising the debt limit” de-bates.
Sequestration was Obama’s idea and recommendation because he was not willing to honor any of the “reduced spending” recommendations from Simpson-Bowles committee. He con-vinced certain Republican House mem-bers to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for more time to debate on how to reduce spending and what should be cut.
However, in this law there are specific items like a $500 billion reduction in the Defense Department budget which is a “Republican sacred budget cow” in addition to others. Apparently, Obama felt safe that the Sequester would never happen and he played political “chicken” with House Republicans.
Since 2011, Obama has continued to show his bad faith by not proposing meaningful spending cuts, and we have had one legislative crisis after another including “the fiscal cliff” drama last December. In the meantime, some GOP House members have caved to Obama by raising taxes and getting very little in spending cuts, by agreeing to avoid the Fiscal cliff, and by deferring to March 1st 2013 the issue of Sequestration.
Now, Obama is again playing “chicken” and he does not want to reduce spending unless House Republicans raise taxes or eliminate more deductions on the “rich” which will ultimately affect the middle class.
Obama never expected the House Re-publicans to play poker with him, as they are now forcing him to come up with
“meaningful spending cuts” or let the Sequester Law become effective March 1.
We support the Tea Party legislators that have held the line and said “let the Sequester happen”. Unfortunately, this is the only way Obama will be forced to make the spending cuts that are the law, and which are needed to avoid another down grade in the government debt rat-ing.
If the Sequester does happen, and if Obama does NOT start making the spending cuts called for in the law, then he will be breaking his own law. Obama and his supporters are trying to scare the American public, specifically the unin-formed voters, in hopes that they will panic and put pressure on the House Re-publicans to cave again to Obama.
The Sequestration is Obama’s law and he should deal with it. He can give gov-ernment agencies authority to move money around for priorities. But appar-ently he prefers to play politics and scare people instead governing.
George Rodriguez is president of the South Texas Political Alliance and can be followed on Facebook at “El Conserva-dor”.
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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 Politi-cal Alliance.
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Herman Brune
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Looking Downfrom the Saddle
State infrastructure needs vs. NIMBY resistanceAn edited radio interview
transcript with Robert Cul-lick, PR consultant for water and transportation, heard on KULM 98.3 “News from the Camphouse:”
Brune: Mr. Cullick is a retired communications director for the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), and though we may have different views, we have similar interests.
Cullick: Yes, it is a hard reaching consensus on these topics. But they are high on the list of Texas needs.
Brune: It deserves men-tion that Mr. Cullick once did me a great kindness. He gave me a book, an autobi-ography of Alvin Wirtz. This is a story about a man born in Columbus, Texas, around 1886 who created the LCRA, was friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and mentored Lyndon B. John-son. This book tells that the Buchanan Dam began as the Hamilton Dam. It was a private sector en-terprise that busted dur-ing the Great Depression. Then instead of helping the private sector, FDR, Wirtz, Buchanan, and LBJ turned it into a Public Works. The book also outlines the inner-workings of gov-ernment that created the
public works, as well as, the blueprint to stuff ballot boxes in South Texas pre-cincts to further LBJ’s po-litical career. In retrospect after reading this book it’s obvious that Mr. Cullick and I derived 180 degree conclusions from the same readings.
Cullick: I believe that’s true. We may be 180 de-grees different on the inception of the LCRA. However, I do believe the government should work for the people. I believe the government is responsible for defense, safety, and the market place. But after that we ‘re going to be able to stay on top of China, India, and the rest of the world if we invest in infrastructure – and that means tax dol-lars and government ac-tion.
Brune: Well for Texas, that’s what they’re talking about in this session. Leg-islators are talking about spending money on water and transportation infra-structure. The water in-frastructure they refer to is concerning a funding mechanism to implement the new Texas Water Plan.
Cullick: That’s the most exciting thing to happen in a while. There’s been a water plan brought up ev-
ery couple of years but not implemented. The price tag for the proposed plan is $52-54 billion, and there has never been state fund-ing. So, until you put the dollars behind the plan, you’re not getting any more water. It’s been interest-ing how the drought has changed the minds of law-makers to implement a wa-ter plan.
Brune: The discussion about water has somewhat shifted to water conserva-tion. How does that relate to your public relations business?
Cullick: I work in an area called NIMBY, or Not In My Back Yard. That is the response most people give to infrastructure the state needs. For example, a few years ago the idea of off-channel reservoirs was brought up in Colo-
rado County and we saw incredible residence. It would greatly improve the amount of water for rice farmers, but the folks in Colorado County didn’t want it.
Brune: Whoa, the prob-lem at the time included a study with the San Antonio Water Supply (SAWS) and the LCRA. Folks were con-cerned about co-mingling groundwater and surface water, and the inter-basin transfer of water needed for agriculture in Colorado County to San Antonio. Along about the same time, people were trying to dis-cern whether to implement a Groundwater Conserva-tion District. State govern-ment was asking for a lot of trust. Without SAWS peo-ple are more ready to ac-cept off-channel reservoirs for rice farmers.
Cullick: The drought has chased much misinforma-tion out of the air-waves. We built reservoirs across the state in the 1950’s. There aren’t many more locations for reservoirs in Texas. So, we must find ways to stretch what we have for population growth. That means it makes sense for rural areas to participate in needed water supply de-velopment plans. We can’t
sit still and keep inviting more people to Texas. We need enough water for ev-erybody.
Brune: You mentioned your public relations busi-ness includes transporta-tion.
Cullick: Yes, everyone coming to Texas brings at least one car, and the state has had a problem with funding. Consider that highway taxes on gas haven’t gone up. But the car in your garage prob-ably gets better mileage than cars did a few years ago. That means there is less money going to build and maintain highways. So, if we don’t raise taxes the next option is tolls.
Brune: Aren’t toll roads the tool of urban metro transit authorities?
Cullick: Yes, metro-politan planning associa-tions implement most toll roads. They’re responsible for solving transportation problems on a local urban basis. They also receive fed-eral and state money - but it isn’t enough. Tolls have been necessary. Around Austin, the existing roads are remaining free. The new roads are being tolled.
Brune: How does a Pub-lic Relations company sell ideas about water or trans-
portation to the public?Cullick: You listen to
people. People think we’re pushing a message, but that’s the least good way to reach folks. People will tell you their concerns if you listen. Then unless you address their issue, there will be no discussion. After that, people will either put up a defense or they’ll say, “I’ll meet you half-way”. We all live in a commu-nity where we do better if we meet each other half-way. People must come together to solve problems. Unfortunately, the environ-ment in the United States is somewhat hostile to that idea. However, I’ve found that if you can get people to discuss issues they will meet you half-way.
Brune: I hear your point but realize that landowners and taxpayers can’t contin-ually compromise. How do you send your message?
Cullick: The legislature should see that Lake Travis and Buchanan are 44 per-cent filled. Further west the lakes are less than one per-cent full. The cities of West Texas understand conser-vation. People are willing to protect their lakes. Give people good information and they will usually man-age the problem.
Letters to the editor
Government pay, private payDear Editor,
According to the CBO, the federal government em-ploys a lot more workers with doctorates or profes-sional degrees than private sector companies do (7 per-cent of the workforce vs. 3 percent of the workforce). Nonetheless, when you look at the overall number, they figure that the fed-eral government’s payroll is 16 percent higher than it
would be if it paid its work-ers private sector scales.
If the government would reduce compensation to that of the private sector. Since these make more they should be able to afford it. I did not notice this among the suggested cuts outline by the administration. Just a simple thought.
James RyanGonzales
EDITOR’S NOTE: We initially ran the Martins’ tale in last week’s paper, but in the editing process some of the details of their story got swapped around on the timeline. We’re re-running this edited verion of an inspirational story:
The following story is about one of those things that
“only happens to other people.” But this time it happened to us. God has blessed us with three wonderful children, and sometimes we have almost felt guilty because our family has not suffered the tragedies of others.
Our youngest grandson, Case Martin, was born on May 28, 2011. We could not have been happier. However, dur-ing the first week of December 2011, a doctor at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio told us Case had a se-rious kind of pneumonia. A few days later another doctor told us Case had Severe Combined Immune Deficiency, better known as SCIDS--the “Bubble Baby” syndrome. Case was born with almost no immune system. A pedi-atric respiratory and a pediatric intensive care specialist were in charge of the treatment plan for Case’s pneumo-nia. Case was receiving four strong antibiotics to combat the pneumonia. However, there was no improvement. A few days later the pediatric respiratory specialist came into Case’s room with his head down and told us he did not know if Case was “going to make it”.
We cried awhile and prayed. Case was already on the prayer chain at our church. The prayer chain was expand-ed by the Southwest Methodist Conference, family and church family. As a result, the prayer chain increased in numbers of people and territories covering the country from Brownsville to Maryland to Germany. Christians of all denominations were praying for Case to recover. About 10 days later, the pneumonia began to slowly im-prove. Our prayers were being answered. We praised the Lord, gave Him our thanks, and spent more time on our knees.
An immunologist conferred with Case’s family. He talked to us about SCIDS. He said SCIDS was treatable as soon as Case regained some strength. SCIDS is a rare condition. In the 1980s a boy with this condition lived in a bubble for 14 years at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. The immunologist told Case’s parents, Clint and Lindsay Martin, they needed to make a decision as to what hospital in Texas would treat Case for SCIDS.
Case and his mother were flown by an ambulance Lear Jet to Houston. He was admitted to intensive immune care in Texas Children’s Hospital a few days before Christmas 2011. The immunologist would not begin the treatment process for SCIDS until Case’s lungs were more improved from the damage done by the pneumonia. Case also had to continue to regain strength.
On February 8, 2012, Case was finally moved to the im-plant floor. The treatment process for SCIDS was imple-mented. Case was given stem cells derived from the um-bilical cord blood of a new born baby girl. The stem cells had been donated to a donor bank. These cells were an
exact match. The donor and Case could have been sister and brother. God was continuing to answer our prayers.
The stem cells told Case’s bone morrow how to make the immune cells. A few days later, the immunologist told us the stem cells were beginning to do their job. Case and his parents lived in a small room for three months plus one week at Texas Children’s Hospital. They were isolated from the outside world. Clint who had began making a name for himself in Texas country music gave up his mu-sic career to be with his wife and son. Case and his parents returned home around the middle of May.
Case has frequent check-ups in Houston. There has been a steady improvement in his immune system. The intervals between the check-ups have increased over time. During the February check-up, the immunologist assured Case’s mother he would make a full recovery and lead a normal life. The immune system should be fully devel-oped by February 2013.
This has been a difficult journey, especially for Clint and Lindsay. They lived in a hospital room twenty-four hours a days, seven days a week from December 1, 2011 to March 8, 2013. Nobody else could stay with Case for fear of giving him an infection. They prayed and held on to their faith. This stressful experience has bonded their marriage and given them a solid foundation in the power of prayer. Someone once said, “A family that prays togeth-er stays together.”
Case loves toys, dogs, the out of doors, and riding in a pickup truck. He easily makes friends with everyone. God has blessed us. Our lives have changed because of Case’s ordeal. We have seen the power of prayer. Our family and friends bought t-shirts; printed on the front is “Case’s Army,” and printed on the back is a verse from Jer-emiah, chapter 29, verse 11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “ plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
God has answered our prayers. We praise Him and re-joice because of His unending love and mercy.
God is all-knowing and all-powerful. He gave us His Son, Jesus. Jesus, in turn, gave us the sure knowledge that if we believe in Him, the Father, and the Holy Ghost we will know salvation and have eternal life. What a gift!
God’s love and healing power have made it possible for Case to take his place in our family tree. We know we could not have survived this ordeal without God’s help and the support of our extended family, church, and many friends. Through all of this trial, we are reminded of the man who walked with Christ on a sandy beach. The man was going through a terrible ordeal. He finally no-ticed only one set of footprints instead of two. When he asked Christ why He left the man, the Lord said that He never abandoned the man, He carried him. Sam and I were carried much of the way during this situation! After all, Jesus has promised to never leave us.
We urge everybody to pray at least once a day. We should all be thankful and be good stewards for what God
has given us.We should generously give our time and money to the
kingdom of God. God will reward you ten fold for what you give to Him. God is there when you need Him and we need Him in our lives at all times.
We trust God and praise the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
God answers prayer: the story of Case MartinGuest Commentary
Carol and Sammy MartinCarol and Sammy Martin are Gonzales County residents and the parents of Clint Martin. Their grandson, Case, was born with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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A composite (above) shows the difference between Case at about six months old (bottom) and one year (top). Below, Case Martin has a normal happy, healthy 20-month-old.
The Cannon Thursday, March 7, 2013Page A6
GISD: Study shows districtcan expect student growth
Plans begin taking shape for annual Jim Price Cleanup
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CITY: Council approvessix-month ‘stub’ budget
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CASES: Judge resets hearings
Gonzales native making nameas Navy broadcast journalist
During Tuesday’s Gonzales City Council meeting, the new director of the Gonzales Memorial Museum was introduced.
Illinois native Marlaina Haberman said she is excited about taking the post and looks forward to a long association with the Gonzales landmark.
“It’s definitely a big adjustment for me, but everyone has been very welcoming and loving,” she said. “Gonzales is a whole lot like my home town, a little town, so it feels like home.”
Marlaina Haberman
Gonzales welcomes new Memorial Museum director
already scheduled two portable classrooms for installation.
Under a moderate growth pattern, he said, an influx of families would include more older children, with a much sharper impact on the district’s four other cam-puses.
“At the secondary level, it doesn’t look too bad at the junior high and high-school campuses under the conservative scenario until about 2017,” Stewart said. “But if you experience the more moderate level of growth, that impact becomes more pro-nounced.”
The moderate projection shows Gonza-les High School growing to an enrollment of 981 students — under current Univer-sity Interscholastic League guidelines, that would move Gonzales into the Class 4A ranks. If those number increases occur, it would leave the district’s two secondary campuses about 335 students over capacity.
Stewart said his study had taken a very close look at two current developments and at potential future housing develop-ments in the area.
“I think you’re going to continue to see developers taking a look at what’s going on in the Eagle Ford,” Stewart said. “The de-veloper of the 1835 Village (off State High-way 97) has done extensive research. They have done their due diligence, and they see
the opportunity. They’re getting ready to put millions of dollars into the infrastruc-ture, and they don’t do that lightly.
“You’re going to see a lot more develop-ers doing that in the near future.”
In addition to zones in and adjacent to the City of Gonzales, Stewart said his study showed student growth in a couple of un-expected areas: the Harwood area and the portion of GISD south of the city along U.S. Highway 183.
“You may want to keep an eye on devel-opment in those areas as well,” he said.
During Monday’s regular board meet-ing which followed the workshop, trustees heard a report from East Avenue principal Christi Leonhardt and assistant principal Stephanie Camarillo on the growth o fthe district’s Dual Language program.
The dual language program places stu-dents in an environment where they learn — and receive instruction in — both Eng-lish and Spanish. The program began last year with kindergarten students and grew this year to include a total of 108 students in Pre-K, kindergarten and first grade. Na-tive speakers of one language are paired with native speakers of the other for many activities.
The district is preparing to extend the program into second grade next year. Par-ents who wish to have their children tested and enrolled in the program can apply when they enroll in kindergarten or Pre-K.
$10.26 million six-month budget will en-able the city to adjust its budget cycle from an April-to-April format to the Oct. 1 bud-get cycle used by most other municipali-ties.
Barnes said that budget calculationbs anticipate an income of some $10.85 mil-lion, with the difference of about $600,000 resulting from utilities funds. The budget will be made available on the city website at cityorgonzales.org.
In other action Tuesday, Council ap-proved the award of a contract for infor-mation technology services to IT to the Rescue. The city had previously awarded that contract to another company, but that business mysteriously shut down about two months ago and IT to the Rescue, run by local resident Dennis Nesser, has been providing services to the city on a non-contract basis since February.
Council also:• Approved the tax re-sale of a property
located on Lot 2 Block 1, Burchard’s Ad-dition;
• Gave approval for the city finance de-partment to make disbursements to sev-eral organizations as part of the six-month budget, including the Gonzales Youth Cen-ter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Gonzales County Restoration Association, GCAM and Gonzales County Senior Citi-zens;
• Approved use of Confederate Square on March 29 for an outdoor revival meet-ing conducted by Life Changing Church;
• Approved a request by the Apache Band Boosters for a route to be used in a fund-raising 5K run on jan. 25, 2014;
• Approved re-appointments to the Golf Course Advisory Board, Gonzales Eco-nomic Development Corp. and the Zoning Board of Adjustments;
• Approved the second reading of an or-dinance granting a franchise agreement to the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative;
• Approved posting the speed limits on Spur 131 at 40 mph.
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Ramos is facing one charge of murder and another charge of intoxicated assault with a vehicle in connection with a two-ve-hicle crash last August that killed 18-year old Andrew Chet Hamm of San Marcos.
At approximately 6:15 a.m. on Highway 183 about 11.5 miles north of Gonzales, a 2001 white Toyota 4Runner driven by Ra-mos was traveling northbound. Authori-ties said Ramos crossed the double yellow lines and entered into the southbound
lane, where she collided head-on with a 1999 red Chevy S10 driven by Hamm’s older brother, Scott.
Both men were airflighted from the scene and taken to Breckenridge and Uni-versity hospitals. Scott Hamm was left crip-pled as a result and still uses a wheelchair to this day.
According to the arrest affidavit, Ramos’ blood contained three times the legal al-cohol limit and tested positive for cocaine. It was her fourth DWI-related arrest since 1990.
NAVAL AIR FACILITY, Japan – Each week Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi leadership recognizes one Sailor who has shown ex-emplary skill and work eth-ic within their respective work centers.
Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kegan Kay, of NAF Atsugi’s Public Affairs Office, was among the newest to receive the Sailor of the week honor.
“I am grateful toward my co-workers and chain of command that they felt that I have done a good enough job to have distinguished myself even slightly above others to earn this title,” she said.
Kay, a native of Gonza-les, graduated from Gon-zales High School in 2005, went on to earn an associ-ate degree in multimedia in 2007 from ITT Technical Institute, and is working on a degree in visual ef-
fects from the Academy of Art University in San Fran-cisco.
According to Kay’s lead-ership, the same determi-nation and effort that Kay gave to her academic stud-ies is now being put to good use in her duties as a Sailor and mass communication specialist.
“With a little more than two years in the Navy, Kay has consistently demon-strated her knack for ac-curately and creatively telling the story of the Navy and Atsugi through images while representing the highest standards of naval photography,” said NAF Atsugi Deputy Public Affairs Officer Joan Price, Kay’s supervisor.
Kay’s responsibilities include preparing and writing news and feature articles, photographing events for publication and historical documentation, and operating computer-based graphics software and desktop publishing
systems to create logos and designs for various depart-ments around base.
Although Kay’s initial reason for joining was based on education and finances, she said she has also picked up some valu-able traits during her time in service.
“Since I’ve joined the Navy, I feel I’ve become more self reliant,” she said. “I’ve gained a sense of where I want to go in the future and what is impor-tant to me.”
During her down-time, Kay enjoys reading, drawing, writing letters and keeping up with vari-ous television shows such as “Doctor Who”.
“When I have time, I enjoy writing postcards and letters to my friends and family back home,” she said. “I prefer hand-written mail over elec-tronic mail.”
Along with being hon-ored as Sailor of the Week, Kay was featured as a guest host for the base’s weekly show Captain’s Call with the NAF Atsu-gi’s Commanding Officer Capt. Steven Wieman and Command Master Chief Carlton Duncan.
“Kay is an extremely reliable reporter who has covered numerous events, capturing the essence of the NAF Atsugi mission and cultural presence in Japan,” said Price. “Regu-larly volunteering to work late hours, weekends and holidays in order to cap-ture these images, Kay epitomizes the answer to the question, ‘What have you done for your Navy today?”
Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kegan Kay sits between Capt. Steven Wieman, commanding officer of Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi and Command Master Chief Carlton Duncan during the filming of the weekly Captain’s Call. Kay was recognized as Sailor of the week during the show’s filming in the public af-fairs shop NAF Atsugi’s headquarters. (US Navy Photo)
Kegan Kay (right) receives a letter of commendation from Capt. Steven Wieman, commanding officer of Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi recognizing her as Sailor of the Week. (US Navy Photo)
Cannon News Services
The annual Jim Price Cleanup in Gonzales is scheudled for April 20, with new contests to motivate participants and provisions being made to accept even more refuse for disposal.
The event is named for longtime Gonzales resi-dent Dr. Jim Price, who was known to carry garbage bags on his morning jogs and pick up trash along the route.
This year’s event will ac-cept tires, and negotiations are underway for a dump-ster specifically to handle
electronics such as old or broken computers and tele-visions.
Spot pickups will also be available for those who need them by contact-ing the City of Gonza-les in advance. The city’s Public Works site will be open Thursday, Friday and Staurday for the event.
The city’s news media has jumped on board to spon-sor contests for students promoting the event. The Gonzales Inquirer is host-ing a poster contest for high-school students, while
The Gonzales Cannon will host an essay contest for junior-high students. In-terested students can check the advertisements in each paper to learn how to enter and win. H-E-B has agreed to furnish gift cards for winners.
The Jim Price Cleanup Committee is looking for groups or teams that want to “adopt” certain areas of town for cleanup on April 20. For details, contact Carolyn Baros or Barbara Friedrich at City Hall at 830-672-2815.
Southern Clay Products became a Premiere Sponsor for Gonzales Main Street 2013 Summer Concert Series & July 4th Star Spangled Spectacular on Tuesday. Jon Such presented the check from Southern Clay to Del DeLos Santos, Gonzales Main Street chairman and board members. Among those pictured are Southern Clay employees Jon Such, Samantha Garcia, Carolyn Holt, Joan Richardson, Lau-rie Benes, James McCray, Isabel Frias and John Boothe, and Gonzales Main Street Board members Michelle London, Barbara Friedrich (Main Street Administrator), Debbie Toliver, Del DeLos Santos, Melissa Taylor and baby. (Photo by Cedric Igle-hart)
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By CAROL DuBOSE
Soecial to The Cannon
GDA Report
Master Gardenersplan annual sale
GONZALES V.F.W. AUXILIARY POST 4817
ANNUAL COOK-OFF
CHILI - JACKPOT BEANS - BBQ CHICKEN - RIBS - BRISKET -
& SHOWMANSHIP
Saturday, March 16, 2013 @ The Gonzales V.F.W. Hall on the Harwood Road
RULES
1. Set up time is 7-11 a.m. Start cooking as soon as you check in at the registration table. The registration table will be located inside the V.F.W. Hall.
2. Entry fee is $15 per team/per entry. Deadline to enter is Friday, March 15, 2013 by 7 p.m. at the V.F.W. Hall or you can call Dorothy Gast, 254-931-5712.
3. ALL entries turned in the day of the event will be $20 per team/per entry. 4. You must cook at least 2 lbs. of chili/2 lbs. of beans. Pre-cooked or seasoned chili or beans are NOT
allowed. Pre-soaked beans in water is acceptable. You can preseason your Brisket, Chicken, Ribs. 5. You must furnish your own supplies. 6. Plaques will be given for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place in the Chili, Chicken, Brisket, Ribs Category. A plaque will be
given for the Jackpot Beans and Showmanship. 7. All entries must be turned in at the registration table by the head cook. 8. Times for turn in are 2 p.m. for Chili, 2:30 p.m. for Beans, 3:30 p.m. for Chicken, 4:30 for Ribs and 5
p.m. for the Brisket. 9. Winners will be announced as soon as the judges are finished. 10. Each team is responsible for cleaning up their area. Please pick up ALL trash around your area. 11. The V.F.W. is NOT responsible for THEFT, DAMAGES or ACCIDENTS.
ENTRY FORM
Team Name:
Head Cook/Phone Number:
Team Members:
What are you cooking::______________________________________________________________________________________
Are you participating in the SHOWMANSHIP Award?___________________________________________________
Are You Paying With Cash or Check?_____________________________________________________________________
For info contact Dorothy Gast, 254-931-5712 or Michelle McKinney, 830-263-0973 All proceeds will go towards the V.F.W. Scholarship Fund.
50/50 Drawing
BreakfastTacos
Good Cold Beverages at the bar
The Sesame Study Club met recently at the Episcopal Church with Mrs. Ronnie Menking serving as hostess.
Members enjoyed re-freshments consisting of pound cake with cream strawberries and blue-berries, nuts, and coffee.
Mrs. Menking intro-duced Mrs. Richard Crozier who presented an interesting and infor-mative program on “The History of the Episcopal Church of the Messiah.” The church building was erected in 1880-1881. It is believed to be the old-est public building in the city used continuously for its original purposes.
Mrs. Ralph McGarity presided over the busi-
ness meeting. Several committees were heard from. The club collect was given.
Mrs. Greg Griffin in-troduced the slate of officers for the 2013-14 Sesame Study Club. President, Mrs. Ronnie Menking, Vice Presi-dent, Miss Swann Reid, Recording Secretary, Ms. Serene Eaves, Corre-sponding Secretary, Mrs. Thomas Tiller, Treasur-er, Mrs. Marvin Barta, Librarian, Mrs. Darren Schauerr, Press Secre-tary, Mrs. Billy McPear-son, Parliamentarian, Mrs. Ralph McGarity.
Mrs. Menking gave a book review on Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. She
gave a review of one of the chapters “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crash-es.”
The next meeting will
be held on March 27 at the home of Mrs. Con-rad McCullough with Mrs. McGarity serving as co-hostess.
Pilot Club of Gonzales News
The Pilot Club of Gon-zales, Texas, Inc. met Wednesday at Riverside Community Center for a program meeting at which Sandra Holmes, RN was honored as Gon-zales High School An-chor Club Advisor. Mrs. Holmes who works as the School Nurse, also uses many hours and much energy being the Advisor to GHS Anchor Club, or-ganizing and enlisting the Anchor Club members in fund raising through out the fall with a concession stand. All the food sup-plies must be purchased and brought to the stand in early evening, the lists of workers both stu-dent and adult volunteers must be gathered and after each home game, there is clean-up time.
Other parts of her work with Anchors include ad-vising students at their noon time meetings, ad-vising them as they ap-ply for the scholarships awarded by the Pilot Club. Additionally, she helps organize the teams for shifts to work at Gon-zales Come and Take It Days, selling soft drinks to the crowds attending the weekend celebration.
Sandra is admired and loved by the youth and it was very obvious as a pa-rade of young folks came forward to speak in her behalf nominating her as Anchor Advisor of the Year in the Pilot Club. All three of the Holmes’ adult children have been out-standing members of the GHS Anchor Club and husband Rick has also invested time and energy helping in Anchor Club.
Another part of the program was information and promotion about Gonzales County’s Relay for Life which is nation-ally sponsored by the American Cancer Society ; the event here will be April 5th and over night onto the 6th, with local survivor chairman Joyce Gibson. There will be a Gonzales County Sur-vivor Dinner April 1st at First United Method-
ist Church and the main event will be held at the J.B. Wells Show Barn. Luminaries lighting the walk, in honor of sur-vivors or in memory of honorees, are available now from volunteers, Arline Rinehart, Joyce Gibson, Patti Stewart, Carla Faltisek, and Mela-nie Wright. We are urged to call and make our do-nations a part of this gar-gantuan national effort to fund the American Cancer Society’s efforts to combat the ‘Big C’. There are 10 facets of the help afforded through donations we make, we heard about from Ms. Kari Birner, American Cancer Society representa-tive from the Austin office. “Having cancer is hard.......Finding help shouldn’t be” states the flyer listing the ways we may be helped be-cause our donations have made this possible.
Saturday, March 16th, 9-4at Green Acres Nursery
Tree Sales! Door Prizes!
Fun forthe Kids
Dogs &
Suds
Pool
Displays Plant Sales
Freebies!
Find us on
“Green Acres
Nursery”
One Day Only Tree Sale15 Gallon Trees - $50 More than 100 at this price!
30 Gallon Shade Trees - $100
1590 East State Hwy. 97, Gonzales (830) [email protected]
Sandra Holmes
Sesame Study Club News
The Gonzales Master Gardener 3rd Annual Plant Sale will be held Saturday, March 23 at Texas Heroes’ Square from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Hundreds of plants in-cluding vegetables, herbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and houseplants will be available for purchase propagated and grown by the master gardeners as well as other local grow-ers. Master Gardeners will
be present to answer ques-tions, offer suggestions, and give advice on the various plants being sold.
Other activities include a silent auction of garden related items, children’s ac-tivities and food and drink will be available for pur-chase. Proceeds go to sup-port community education projects.
For more information, contact Cindy Turner at 830-263-1363.
Gonzales Dog Adoption: February 2013 report:
Total Intake: 43 dogs ( 37 from the City & 6 from the County)
Total Number Saved: 54Reunited with the owner:
3Adopted by GDA: 35!!!—
MORE than a dog per day!!!!
Transfered to the other rescues: 14
Note: February’s intake number is just a bit higher than average, BUT once again, THANKS to PAWS Shelter & Humane Society & Dorothy O’Connor Pet Adoption Center! Total 14 dogs that were saved by these two wonderful Hu-mane Societies!!
Our adoptions went so WONDERFULLY! So many dogs, especially so-called, NOT-EASY-TO-ADOPT ones like the BIG dogs, BLACK dogs, AND PETbull mixes, found
FABULOUS FOREVER HOMES!! Thank you VERY much to ALL the wonder-ful adopters!!! 35 adoption is SUPER especially for a tiny shelter in rural town!!
Last but not least, we have to express a very SPE-CIAL THANKS to our Facebook supporters! This number (including 3 dogs who were happily reunited with their owners) would NEVER EVER have hap-pened without YOU!!
Please keep in mind that these dogs were able to get out of our shelter ALIVE, because of EACH ONE OF YOU, who spread the word for them buy liking and sharing the postings!!! Thank you, thank you and THANK YOU!!!!
P.S. Why ,oh why?? We still have Wayne, the gor-geous White German Shep-hered! He is hoping that he can join the number of “ ADOPTED” this month!!!
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FaithFamily Dentistry of Gonzales
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Office 830-672-8664Fax 830-672-8665
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Fax: (830) 672-6368Cell: (512) 376-0773
Logan Insurance Agency
Dry FertilizerCustom Application &
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P.O. Box 1826Gonzales, TX 78629
Morgan Mills830-857-4086
HOLIDAY FINANCECORPORATION
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SATURN SALES & SERVICEJames Miller
4421 Hwy. 97E, Gonzales
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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
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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew
First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon
New Life Assembly of GodCorner of Church St. & Jessie Smith St. Gonzales
Baha’i FaithBaha’i Faith621 St. George St. Gonzales
BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales
County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley
Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales
Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959
First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales
First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon
First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley
First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder
Greater Palestine Baptist ChurchS of 90-A (sign on Hwy 80)
Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon
Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office
Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon
Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder
Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121
Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales
Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe
Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton
Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales
Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales
San Marcos Primitive Baptist Church4 Miles west of Luling on Hwy. 90P.O. Box 186, Luling830-875-5305
Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero
St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont
Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder
Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner
Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales
Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon
CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales
Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales
St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon
St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder
St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley
ChristianFirst Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)712 Crockett, Luling
Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales
Church of Christ (Iglesia de Cristo)201 E. Second St. Nixon
Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon
Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales
Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales
New Way Church of God in Christ514 St. Andrew, Gonzales
EpiscopalEpiscopal Church of the Messiah721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-3407
EvangelicalLa Os del Evangelio Mission Capilla del PuebloW. Central at 87 Nixon
Full GospelCamp Valley Full Gospel7 mi N of Nixon on Hwy 80
Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales
LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales
Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis
MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A
Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121
First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales
First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon
Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia
Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon
Harwood Methodist Church North 2nd and North Gonzales, Har-wood
Henson Chapel United Methodist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales
Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97
Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87
Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97
Webster Chapel A.M.E.1027 Church St. Gonzales
Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales
Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales
Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales
Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn
El Centro Cristiano “Agua Viva” of WaelderSun. Worship 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m.
Emmanuel Fellowship1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales
Encouraging Word Christian Fel-lowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville
Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales
Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales
New Life Temple for Jesus ChristBelmont, Corner of Hwy 466 & Hwy 80
River of Life Christian Fellowship207 Steele St., Smiley 830-587-6500
Two Rivers Bible Church1600 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Ste 210, Gon-zales
Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales
PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon
Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales
Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales
Life Changing Church of Gonzales3.3 miles north on 183, Right on CR 235, Right on CR 236
Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116
Presbyterian Church of Gonzales414 St. Louis, Gonzales
Messianic JudaismCongregation Adat HaDerechMeets on Saturdays and Holy Days, 672-5953
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Belle Oaks Inn and Boothe House Bed & Breakfast, both located in Gonzales, will be host-ing a Book Lovers Week-end March 15-17. The highlight of the weekend
will be an author’s lunch at Boothe House, 706 Saint George Street, on Saturday, March 16, at 1 p.m.
Romance authors Sasha Summers (San Antonio) and Melanie Macek (Vic-toria), Cookbook and Children’s author Debbie Roppolo (San Marcos),
and Fantasy and YA au-thor Jenni James (Farm-ington, New Mexico) will be our guests of honor at the lunch, and will be spending the after-noon discussing books, reading, and the writing process with attendees. Ms. James will also be in town to to speak to area schools about her love of reading and writing.
Michelle London, the innkeeper at Belle Oaks Inn and Boothe House, invites guests to bring books to read and/or swap, and is looking for-ward to a weekend of sharing good food and conversation with other book lovers.
The lunch is $15 for overnight guests or $25 for the luncheon only, and includes a book bag filled with books, pens, and other gifts for each guest to take home.
Call Belle Oaks Inn at 830-857-8613 to RSVP for lunch or to make reservations for an over-night stay.
This blasted wind has returned with a vengeance and so far has not brought a drop of rain with it. A per-son had better glue on the toupee or wig or hat because it just might take a hike. It seems like last week end was a good time for fishing. Justin Komoll caught a nice size catfish. Our son-in-law caught four catfish that were a lot bigger than his in the Guadalupe River. Another guy fishing from a boat in front of Paw Paw Allen’s part of the river caught a good size fish too. However that poor river is rapidly shrinking. Rain please!
Due to work being done on the Belmont Commu-nity Center, the date for the next club meeting have been changed to March 19th at 2pm. The meeting will be held at the center. At this meeting the March 23rd pot luck dinner for GBRA will be discussed. The date for the annual fund raising Rummage Sale has been rearranged and set for May 4th. Work is being done on the center and the foundation in the kitchen was really worse than ex-pected. I think all of the above still stands. GBRA is moving right along and will probably be demonstrat-ing the kitchen this week. So Wednesday everything is being removed from the kitchen.
Your prayers and thoughts are needed for the following: Joe Kotwig, Mr. Bill, Jesse Esparza; Mariessa, Bill and Marie Lott, Louise Jones, Sandy Ingram, Aunt
Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, “Sarge” Duncan, Mildred O’Neal, Rhonda Pruett, Matt Mc-Grew.Terrence, Aunt Fran-ces Gandre, Glenn Mikesh, Fletcher Johnson, Maria Castillo, Selma Vickers, Landis, Keith Glass, Timo-thy and Jack Black, Teresa Wilke, Linda Denker, Case Martin, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Bill Bassett, Carol and husband, Mar-cie and Blaine Welker, The Bullards, Shirley Dozier, Marie Schauer, Esther Lin-demann, Anna Lindemann, Mary and Pete Camarillo, Matt Pohler, Lanny Baker, Joy, Bob Young, Lucy Jones, Stanley Burris, Ann Bond; Marguerite Williams, Todd, Rita, Melda Rios who lost her brother; our military and their families, and a good soaking rain
This time Sean Allen talk-ed Pastor Paul into going to see Travis’s Letter at the Alamo. I imagine that they had a good time together on their Saturday excursion.
I had been very worried about Tommy Schlein. He had not called or emailed and I was sure that he was sick. Tommy can really put on a show when he sings. He performs and captures the whole audience with
that beautiful voice of his. He rather enchants the la-dies. But anyway he had a post traumatic concussion. The means he hit his head too hard and it boomer-anged on him. That condi-tion is hard to explain so you will have to look it up. I am so glad that he is well enough to perform again and wish that he could get a gig back in this area. Look up more about Tom-my on his website www.goodolesongs.com
I don’t know how they think up what they are go-ing to cook on these TV cooking shows, but I just wonder how many of us are really going to cook duck. Gee whiz, that is the first thing that I have on my list when I hit that gro-cery store is to peruse the “duck aisle”. Man, I don’t even know if our stores stock duck on the produce aisle.
Oh well, I am back to reality here with some wonderful breaded mush-rooms over at the Belmont Social Club with Best Friends playing on Friday night. Hunter Hewell has now turned directions from the George’s Strait and Jones and gone on to Merle Haggard. Silver Wings was very good. He attends Lifegate Chris-tian School. He also ob-tained a One rating in Choral Competition this last week. This means that Hunter along with several others are going to state for a solo competition. We wish them well.
Then I don’t know why but Best Friends showed up again Saturday night. If I would have known that, I would have revved up my energy and trooped over just to listen to them.
Happy Anniversary, just a little late, to Janice and Fred Martin. They cel-ebrated by going out to eat
at Longhorn Steak House. We wish you many more happy years together.
Kathleen Allen has only a few relatives left. One is Aunt Pauline Briden-baugh who is 91 years old and lives out in a retire-ment home in Redlands, CA. When Kathleen could not reach her by phone after calling for a number of days, she nearly went into a panic. She finally found Aunt Pauline who had fallen and had been transferred to the twenty-four hour care part of the facility. Luckily she did not break any bones, but maybe we should say a few extra prayers for Aunt Pauline.
Gracie, one of the out-side cats, is a beautiful solid grey. Gracie claims no one as her friend. I was watching her from the kitchen window as she snuck up on what looked like to me was a mouse in a pile of brush. It was poet-ry in motion to watch her. She was so graceful and lithe with her movements. Nicki-D was watching her from his wooden box. As soon as she made her catch Nicki went to harass her. Nicki and Gracie of course don’t get along. So I went outside and gave Nicki and the other critters some food so that they would not bother Gracie and her catch. Animals are so very soothing to watch.
Have a good week and God Bless.
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We need rain for that shrinking river Sandi’s Country
Fried News
Sandi Gandre
Middle Buster RoadGonzales, Texas 78629
830-672-2777 Fax: 830-672-2888hiexgonzales.com
www.facebook.com/holidayinnexpresssuitesgonzales
Local B&Bs plan to hostBook Lovers Weekend
Engagements
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE--GONZALES COUNTYFriday, April 5, 2013
Hope shines brightest during the Luminaria Ceremony for each light honors someone who has battled or is battling cancer. Each light commemorates a treasured
relationship. Luminarias light the path of hope!Please join us at the J. B. Wells Show Barn for the ceremony.
Yes, I would like to light the path of hope by purchasing a luminaria on someone’s behalf.
Please PRINT the following information.My gift in honor of Qty. Price Each Total $5 $ $5 $ $5 $ $5 $Extra Donation ---------- --------------- $AMOUNT ENCLOSED: CASH CHECK $
Purchased by_________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________City/State/Zip________________________________________Phone______________________________________________
Please make checks payable to AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYPlease mail this form and donation to:
Patty Stewart, c/o Gonzales Healthcare SystemsP. O. Box 587, Gonzales, TX 78629
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Hair It Is & Co.
1402 St. Louis, Gonzales, TX 78629830-672-3904
Call her today for waxing, color, hilites, perms, cuts &
more.Appointments & walk Ins.
WelcomesNatalie Horner,
Cosmetologist
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813 ST. JOSEPH ST.GONZALES, TX
830-672-GIFT 4438Hours: Wed.-Sat. 10-5
Kelsie Smith&
Lance RemschelMarch 23, 2013~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kacie Brzozowski&
Jeremy HenkeApril 13, 2013
Finch-KidwellMr. and Mrs. Larry D. Finch together with Mr. Tim
Kidwell and Ms. Chriss Kidwell announce the ap-proaching marriage of their children, Sarah Eliza-beth Finch and Shawn Christian Kidwell.
Sarah, a graduate of Gonzales High School, gradu-ated from Texas A&M University where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. She also earned her Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston at Clear Lake. She is presently employed with NASA as a lead manage-ment analyst in the Office of the Chief Financial Of-ficer at the Johnson Space Center. Shawn graduated from Southwest Texas State University with a Bach-elor of Science in Computer Science and also earned his Master of Business Administration from the Uni-versity of Houston at Clear Lake. He is employed with Lockheed Martin as a technical lead for Avionics In-tegration at the Johnson Space Center.
The couple will be married in a formal ceremony on Friday, April 19, at Butler’s Courtyard in League City, Texas.
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Mr. Taco
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Ragin’ Cajun Throwdown
Dr. ZogSaturday 3-7 p.m.Born and raised in Port Arthur, a hotbed of good times
zydeco music. Zog took his swampadelic style of music to Austin in 1989 and began performing at the roadhouses and festivals of Central Texas. He has a deep fried understanding of roots music and plays music to funkify the good folks with fun, upbeat music with a positive message. Put on your alliga-tor shoes and crawfish shuffle to our funky zydeco grooves.
Listening to the music of the Dr. Zog band is like traveling to Cajun country. This upbeat, positive music with a driving beat takes your taste buds and heart to Louisiana and South-east, Texas where gumbo, crawfish, and beer abound.
Dr. Zog will take the stage Saturday from 3:00 – 7:00 PM.
Whiskey SinFriday 7-11 p.m.Whiskey Sin was formed for the love of music. With
many years’ experience between the members of the band, it is definitely something you will not regret or for-get. Whiskey Sin delivers an electric mix of Country and Southern Rock, as well as original music to covers that you can tap your foot to.
Whiskey Sin will take the stage Friday evening from 7:00 – 11:00 PM to provide entertainment as cooks arrive and setup for dessert entries.
This Year’s Ragin’ Cajun Throwdown Entertainment Lineup
Cher La Bas(Shah Lah Bah, phonetically; My Baby’s
Over There, in English)Saturday 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Cher La-Bas is a full-fledged, authentic, dance-style,
Louisiana-inspired Cajun band from San Antonio, TX and plays for many Cajun Festivals and Events, and always ready for a good time! Playing a driving Cajun rhythm, with Chanky Chank Cajun accordion, fiddle, bass guitar, drum, rhythm guitar, rub-board, and Cajun French vo-cals while throwing in a little Old-Time Texas Country and 50’s- 60’s Swamp Pop keeps folks up and dancing and drinking for the entire evening.
Cher La-Bas will take the stage Saturday from 11:00 – 2:00 PM.
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Gonzales Cannon Gen-eral Manager Dave “Emeril” Mundy slaved all day over a hot stove during last year’s Ra-gin’ Cajun Throwdown. He’ll head up The Can-non Cookers again on Saturday — Come and Eat It!
Howard’sA C-Store with (More)
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361-594-4200
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941 St. JosephGonzales, Tx 78629
830-203-5325Toll Free:
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Ragin’ Cajun Throwdown
It’s time for this year’s Ragin’ Cajun Throwdown in Luling on March 8-9.
The Rajun’ Cajun Throwdown is a Cajun style cook-off with entries in Gumbo, Jambalaya, Open (anything Cajun inspired), Bloody Mary, Dessert and Showman-ship categories. The event also features a great enter-tainment lineup, Craw-fish by the pound and a vendor area. Come have a good time with us!
We’re having a street party in Downtown Luling! Come join us in the 300-500 blocks of Davis Street. Need direc-tions? Go ahead and plug 421 E. Davis in your GPS and “poof!” you’ll be at the festivities!
The main event will
happen on Saturday, March 9; however teams will start arriving Friday evening for early check-in, Dessert turn in, and entertainment by Whis-key Sin from 7 – 11 p.m.
Luling Main Street cre-ated this event two years ago in an effort to attract more people to our little town and enjoy a day of food and fun. Luling Main Street is a non-profit organization that helps create Economic Devel-opment through historic preservation.
As a non-profit organi-zation, fundraising is al-ways a big part of “staying alive.” The Rajun’ Cajun Throwdown was created to help fund the many projects and events put on by Luling Main Street
in a continuing effort to promote and revitalize our historic main street district.
Profits from each year’s event are earmarked to go towards a specific project in the main street dis-trict. The first two years have helped to fund the Magnolia Mural project welcoming people to our great town.
The 2012 1st Place Gum-bo was served up by Lease Crue (received $500 cash, plaque, tro-phy, embroidered apron, goodie bag)
The 2012 1st Place Jam-balaya was made by Team Stir Crazy (received $100 cash, plaque, tro-phy, goodie bag)
Teams get ready for anothergreat Cajun-style cookoff
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Seventh-grade students from Gonzales Junior High joined community members on Feb. 28 in ceremonies at Texas Heroes’ Square in Gonzales saluting Texas Independence Day. Hannah Rowland and Adrian James (top left) led the Pledge to the Texas Flag, then Lauren Strickland and Corey Anzaldua presented a wreath at the base of the monument honoring Gonzales’ heroes of the Texas Revolution. Sheriff Glenn Sachtleben read the names of the “Gonzales Immortals” (top) before finishing the event by firing the replica Gonzales cannon. (Photos by Dave Mundy)
AUSTIN — Increasing oilfield traffic in the north-ern reaches of The Cannon’s covaerage area is being at-tributed for sharp increases in sales-tax collections for three municipalities, while Gonzales’ monthly check dipped slightly for the first time in more than a year according to figures re-leased Tuesday.
Texas Comptroller Su-san Combs on Tuesday re-leased figures showing lo-cal municipalities’ shares of state sales tax revenues. The figures show sharp increas-es for Flatonia, Moulton and Shiner, while Gonzales experienced a 0.64 percent decrease over 2012 figures.
Flatonia saw the biggest jump in revenues, with a March check for $32,641 representing an increase of more than 89 percent over 2012 figures. Shallow-drill-ing technology has opened many areas in southern Fayette and northern Lava-ca and Gonzales counties to oil exploration activities previously limited to areas south and west of Gonzales.
Moulton’s March check for $14,962 represents 33 percent jump over 2012 numbers,w hile Shiner’s check for $23,913 is an in-crease of almost 18 percent over its March 2012 alloca-tion.
Gonzales, which had seen steady increases in
monthly sales tax checks for more than a year, will get a check for $137,229, slightly below last year’s $174,360 figure.
Two other Gonzales County municipalities will still see significant increas-es, however. Smiley’s March check for $1,851 represents a 58.38 percent increase ovcer last year, while Nixon will get a check for $29,935, up 20.77 percent over last year.
Sales in Luling rose
slightly, with a March check for $104,934 representing a 0.23 percent increase. Cuero’s March check for $209,939 is about 10 per-cent ahead of last year’s fig-ures.
Hallettsville’s share of state sales taxes will be $80,020, some 4.65 percent ahead of last year.
Two other locations also saw slight decreases in their shares of the state sales tax. Yoakum’s March check for
‘Reclaimed’ water may help meetneeds for population, oilfields
Business The Cannon
Thursday, March 7, 2013
BFlatonia feels upswingin oilfield, sales taxes
SALES, Page B2Gubernatorial approvalIn honor of Texas Independence Day, Brewmaster Jimmy Mauric delivered the first cases of the new Shiner Premium to Texas Governor Rick Perry. This was not the first delivery of Shiner Beer to the Capitol and it won’t be the last. Twenty-two different men and women have held the office of Governor of Texas since the Spoetzl Brew-ery was founded in 1909. Quite a few among them were fans of Shiner Beers. We’re honored by that and proud to be Texas’ oldest independent brewery. (Courtesy Photo)
Come and Hear ItThe Gonzales Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture would like to welcome our newest member, Pat Ke-ating! You can now purchase his album Gringeaux featuring his song “Come & Take It” “Never Been to Mexico” and “A Texan’s Prayer” for $15 dollars. ALL proceeds go to The Fisher House in San Antonio. Stop by the Chamber and pick up your copy today!
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As Texas grapples with rapid population growth and dwindling water supplies, a Bry-an company plans to save the state 7.6 billion gallons per year by providing an alternative source of water for oil and gas companies to use.
Alpha Reclaim Technology, LLC aggre-gates treated wastewater (or effluent) from a growing list of more than 20 municipali-ties across the state, and markets it for use in hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking.” As a result, oil and gas companies can reduce their use of freshwater to support drilling operations, and more freshwater is available for use as drinking water. The reuse of effluent for such activities advances a Texas
Water Development Board goal of increasing the long-term Texas water supply.
In addition to preserving freshwater re-sources, using effluent in the oilfield is ad-vantageous because it is both competitively priced with freshwater and significantly less expensive than desalinating brackish water or treating recycled flowback water.
Moreover, using effluent provides a reve-nue source for local communities. Cities such as Karnes City will be able to use the revenue from effluent sales for projects such as school improvement, tax cuts or infrastructure de-velopment.
Alpha celebrated the opening of its first facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, March 1, in Karnes City. For more information, visit Alpha’s website at www.alphawater.com.
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$90,043 is 1.85 percent un-der its 2012 numbers, while Waelder’s check for $1,646 is about 5.5 percent below 2012.
Combs said that state sales tax revenue in Febru-ary was $2.08 billion, up 3.7 percent compared to Feb-ruary 2012.
“Sales tax revenues con-tinue to grow, but at a more moderate pace compared to recent months,” Combs said. “The latest increase was led by receipts from the construction and res-taurant sectors. Collections
from other major sectors such as oil and natural gas-related businesses and manufacturing remain at high levels.”
Combs will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts their March local sales tax allocations total-ing $531.3 million, up 12.2 percent compared to March 2012.
The sales tax figures rep-resent January sales report-ed by monthly tax filers as well as sales by businesses that report tax on a quar-terly or annual basis.
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SHINER/MOULTON — In every community, there are people who go above and beyond their usual work to make a significant difference in the lives of thousands. These advocates can come from every discipline, but many times they are social workers.
Social Workers often work in positions and or-ganizations that allow them to see the full impact of the human condition in a com-munity. Many are driven to
work, launch and lead efforts that address the root of such problems. These dedicated individuals are who the Na-tional Association of Social Workers (NASW) seeks to honor every March dur-ing National Professional Social Work Month.
The theme for this year’s celebration is “Weaving Threads of Resilience and Advocacy,” NASW Ex-ecutive Director Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH states the 2013 Social Work Month theme “emphasizes the value of using personal strengths and self-advocacy
to manage serious life chal-lenges or transformations.”
“Social workers strive every day to help millions of people function better in their environments and change environments that may limit individuals, fami-lies and communities.”
For example, in Shiner and Moulton, Social Worker Mike Cruz, with the Shiner and Shady Oak Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers, is working to provide com-prehensive medically related Social Services designed to assist residents to attain or maintain the highest prac-
tical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. This includes assisting resi-dents in maintaining or improving their abilities to manage their everyday physical, mental, and psy-chosocial needs.
Cruz reports, “both the Shiner and Shady Oak Nurs-ing and Rehabilitation Cen-ters are committed to caring for our Shiner and Moulton friends and neighbors. The two facilities are managed by a top rate inter-disciplin-ary team (Medical Doctor, Nursing Staff, Dietary Plan-ning, Therapeutic Interven-tions, and Assisted Daily Living Support Staff) which facilitate both long term and short term treatment needs and interventions. In ad-dition, both facilities strive to create an environment
for healing which promotes health, comfort and well-being for each resident to at-tain their highest medial and personal goals.”
“Our communities thrive when everyone has the ongoing opportunity to lead a productive and fulfilling life,” says NASW President Jeane Anastas, PhD, LMSW. “For more than 100 years, the social work profession has made the psychosocial well-be-ing of the most vulnerable its top priority because ev-eryone deserves to dream bigger.”
This is evident in the resource both facilities (Shiner and Shady Oaks Nursing and Rehabilita-tion) have become to their communities which social work has played a role.
The practice of social work promotes the goal of transformation and is holis-tic in nature. Many profes-sional social workers, just like Mike Cruz, are on the frontlines, responding to human needs such as aging, homelessness, poverty, fam-ily break-up, mental illness, physical and mental disabil-ity, alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence and much more.”
For more information re-garding how to become a So-cial Worker you can contact Mike Cruz with the Shiner and Shady Oak Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers, 361-594-3353 or 361-596-7373.
For more information about Social Work Month 2013 or the social work pro-fession, visit SocialWork-Month.org.
The Gonzales Chamber of Commerce & Agricul-ture met February 27, with President Sascha Kardosz presiding.
The board made the final plans for the Texas Inde-pendence Celebration and Breakfast at the Old Jail. Also discussed was a new fundraiser and a commit-tee was appointed to review the membership dues.
• Last Wednesday, we had 7th graders from Tyler that spent time at the Old
Jail Museum and the Me-morial Museum guided by Paul & Vickie Frenzel. On Friday, a group of students
toured the Memorial Mu-seum.
• The Gonzales Country Music Show will be held Thursday, March 7 at the Crystal Theater in Gon-zales. Show time is 7 p.m. Tickets are $6.
• The Texas Highways March issue has a story “OR We Shall Perish,” which discovers the Texas Independence Trail and relives the struggle for free-dom by Gene Fowler. There is a picture of the Come & Take It Cannon. He also tells about the Memorial Museum and the Come & Take It Celebration.
• Daylight Savings Time starts on Sunday March 10, so remember to turn your clocks forward on Saturday night before you go to bed.
• You are reminded that the Spend Bucks certifi-cates expire on March 31, so be sure to redeem them before that date.
• We thank all that came out and had breakfast will us last Friday. Thanks to all who worked, the cooks and servers, the businesses who donated the eggs, sausage, potatoes, and taco sauces.
• The J. B. Wells Park will have the Jr. High and High School Region Six Rodeo on Saturday and Sunday.
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Tyler students visit, learn moreabout Gonzales’ rich history
Business
Barbara Hand is the Execu-tive Director of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce.
Around theChamber Office
BarbaraHand
Employee of the QuarterThe Gonzales Healthcare Systems Employee of the Fourth Quarter for 2012 is Susan Harris. Susan is a Licensed Vocational Nurse at Memorial Hospital Home Health Agency. She has worked for Gonzales Healthcare Systems for the past twelve years. As a nurse, Susan takes wonderful care of the patients assigned to her and completes her documentation in a timely and complete manner, while carrying an above-average number of visits. She is a great team player and al-ways picks up the extra load when help is needed, and does so with a smile on her face. Mary Jane will receive a plaque from GHS, a check for $100, eight hours of paid time off, a Cross Pen from Reese’s Print Shop engraved by Storey Jewel-ers; and a balloon bouquet from Person’s Flower Shop. (Courtesy Photo)
Breakfast at the Old JailThe annual “Breakfast at the Old Jail” event took place Friday at the headquar-ters of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture. Here, Charlie Gray and Kaci Butler help prepare carry-out plates of scrambled eggs, sausage and tortillas for waiting customers. (Courtesy Photo)
Local rehab centers honor March as Professional Social Work MonthCannon News Services
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Gonzales County Courthouse Deeds
February 1-28John Paul Jones Oil Company,
Inc. and Jones Oil Company Inc., John Paul to Magnablend, Inc., w/d, 11.148 Acres (Pt. Lts. 19-20, Rgs 4-5) Outer Town Gonzales.
Schmidt & Sons, Inc. to Magnablend, Inc., w/d, 6.00 Acres, Orig. Outer Town Gonza-les.
Emery, Edythe to Andrade, Aquilino, Andrade, Cynthia and De Olaiz, Mirta Andrade, w/d, Lt. 45, Settlement at Patriot Ranch,
Unit 1.Guerra, Arnold and Guerra,
Ruth to Schmidt III, Henry C., w/d, Lt. 1, Blk. 1, Highview Addn, Gonzales.
SRP Sub, LLC and SPT Real Estate Sub III, L.L.C. (FKA) to SRP TRS SUB, LLC, w/d, Pt. Lts. 5-6, Blk. 1, Davidson Hill Addn, Gonzales.
Gaytan, Robert, Martinez, Yvonne, Perez, Anna, Alvarado, Angela, Alvarada Jr, Michael and Alvarado, David to Garcia, Guill-ermo Moreno, w/d, Property in J J Tejada Svy, 100 feet 150 feet.
Garcia, Joe to Garcia, Isidro and Garcia, Luz Maria, w/d, Pt. Lts. 7-10, Blk. 31, Waelder.
Powertherm Co., Inc. to Den-Gar Enterprises Limited, w/d, 204.11 Acres, James B Patrick Svy, A-55.
Jansky, Carolyn and Jansky, Donald Gene to CDJ Ranches, Ltd., Jansky, Carolyn (Trustee) and CDJ Management Trust, w/d, 210.00 Acres, David W. Brandt Svy, A-16 & Property in Lavaca & Victoria Counties.
Peck, Jeffrey and Peck, Anna to Alvarez, Jose, w/d, Lts. 7-8, Blk.
79, Schleicher’s Addn, Nixon.Marriage LicenseAlmaguer, Celso Hernandez
and Riojas, Anita.Hecox, Kyle P and Guerrero,
Alicia R.Blundell, Leslie S. and Hicks,
Donna C.Barnhart, Robert L. and Whid-
don, Holly N.Yoakum, James and Currie, Ja-
net G.Hill, Andre Leon and Conk-
ling, Nancy Elizabeth.Assumed NamesTorres, Gloria A. – Torres In-
surance Services, Gonzales.Breitschopf, Shirley – Bre-
itschopf-Cooper Real Estate, Gonzales.
Nuinez, Joe and Nuinez, Carol – Scrap Iron Ranch, Smiley.
Van Kirk, Christopher – VK Production, Gonzales.
Cantu, Samuel – Samuel Cantu Photography, Gonzales.
Long, Shannon and Long, Heath O. – Visionary Swine Ge-netics, Flatonia.
Cannon News Services
Recent well location reports from the Texas Railroad Com-mission
DeWitt County
API No.: 42-123-33061Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-
ing CompanyLease Name: P. Frisbie BWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.29 miles
NW. of NordheimSurvey Name: A. Strickland,
A-665Acres: 320
API No.: 42-123-33060Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-
ing CompanyLease Name: P. Frisbie BWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.29 miles
NW. of NordheimSurvey Name: A. Strickland,
A-665Acres: 320
API No.: 42-123-33059Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-
ing CompanyLease Name: P. Frisbie BWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.29 miles
NW. of NordheimSurvey Name: A. Strickland,
A-665Acres: 320
API No.: 42-123-33062Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-
ing CompanyLease Name: Hamilton AWell No.: 7HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feet
Direction and Miles: 5.38 miles SE. of Westhoff
Survey Name: W. Simpson, A-431
Acres: 501.99
API No.: 42-123-33063Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operat-
ing CompanyLease Name: Hamilton AWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 5.37 miles
SE. of WesthoffSurvey Name: W. Simpson,
A-431Acres: 501.99
Gonzales County
API No.: 42-177-32894Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Billings UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,800 feetDirection and Miles: 7.6 miles
SE. of SmileySurvey Name: J. Humphrey,
A-266Acres: 471.37
API No.: 42-177-32889Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: HamiltonWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-1)Total Depth: 11,800 feetDirection and Miles: 10 miles
SE. of CostSurvey Name: J. Oethkin,
A-369Acres: 439.20
API No.: 42-177-32892Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Nichols UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-1)Total Depth: 13,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2 miles E.
of Glaze CitySurvey Name: J.D. Clements,
A-9Acres: 1,063.10
API No.: 42-177-32891Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Nichols UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-1)Total Depth: 13,000 feetDirection and Miles: 2 miles E.
of Glaze CitySurvey Name: J.D. Clements,
A-9Acres: 1,063.10
API No.: 42-177-32890Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Sydney UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-1)Total Depth: 11,250 feetDirection and Miles: 5.5 miles
SE. of SmileySurvey Name: G. Gwin, A-223Acres: 520.32
Lavaca County
API No.: 42-285-33692Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Mascot Oil Com-
panyLease Name: Sari UnitWell No.: 1Field Name: Campbell CreekTotal Depth: 10,200 feetDirection and Miles: 4.6 miles
N. of HallettsvilleSurvey Name: W. Ponton, A-36Acres: 105.42
Recent oil and gas comple-tions according to reports from the Texas Railroad Commission
DeWitt County
API No.: 42-123-32811Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Rosetta Resources
Operating LPLease Name: Klotzman Unit AWell No.: 7Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: I. Baker, A-89Direction and Miles: 5.9 miles
SW. of SampleOil: 51
MCF: 1,583Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 6,000Total Depth: 15,681 feetPerforations: 12,654-15,624
feet
API No.: 42-123-32809Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Rosetta Resources
Operating LPLease Name: Klotzman Unit AWell No.: 5Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: I. Baker, A-89Direction and Miles: 5.9 miles
SW. of SampleOil: 1,304MCF: 1,500Choke Size: 14/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 500Total Depth: 15,526 feetPerforations: 12,577-15,392
feet
API No.: 42-123-32775Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Rosetta Resources
Operating LPLease Name: Klotzman Unit AWell No.: 3Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: J.E. Ross, A-403Direction and Miles: 5.7 miles
SW. of SampleOil: 1,564MCF: 1,941Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,900Total Depth: 18,048 feetPerforations: 12,765-17,837
feet
Lavaca County
API No.: 42-285-33660Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Eagle Ford Hunter
Resources Inc.Lease Name: Rhino HunterWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: A. Ponton, A-35Direction and Miles: 4.3 miles
SW. of MoultonOil: 2,036MCF: 1,113
Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,250Total Depth: 17,905 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,732 feetPerforations: 11,654-17,679
feet
API No.: 42-285-33657Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Eagle Ford Hunter
Resources Inc.Lease Name: Zebra HunterWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: A. Ponton, A-35Direction and Miles: 4.3 miles
SW. of MoultonOil: 1,995MCF: 898Choke Size: 16/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 3,000Total Depth: 16,980 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,771 feetPerforations: 11,755-16,718
feet
API No.: 42-285-33651Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Eagle Ford Hunter
Resources Inc.Lease Name: Moose HunterWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: W. Chase, A-9Direction and Miles: 2.1 miles
SW. of MoultonOil: 1,509MCF: 1,004Choke Size: 17/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,925Total Depth: 17,134 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,873 feetPerforations: 11,733-16,824
feet
API No.: 42-285-33674Classification: Fld. Dev. and
HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil
and Gas LPLease Name: Technik UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle
Ford-2)Survey Name: T. Toby, A-461Direction and Miles: 4.45 miles
NW. of ShinerOil: 1,136MCF: 1,853
The Eagle Ford Shale drill-ing rig count settled at 245 units running this past week. La Salle County still leads with 33 rigs running.
Judging by announcements from operators, we should ex-pect to see the rig count decline throughout 2013. Operators have dropped the average drilling time from 33 days to just 16 days cur-rently. That would indicate the
same number of wells could be drilled with less than half the number of rigs that were active at the peak (260+). To date, smaller operators have stepped in and increased their drilling efforts as the largest players have dropped rigs. We’ll see more of the same in 2013, but I suspect we’ll see a rig count closer to 200 than 250 in the coming months.
The biggest announcement of the week came from Net Mid-stream. The company plans to build a 124-mile, 42-inch natu-
ral gas pipeline from the Agua Dulce Hub in Nueces County to the border near Rio Grande City in Starr County. The pipeline will potentially export up to 2.1 Bcf/d, which would more than double current exports to Mexico.
The natural gas rig count was 28 this past week. That’s one above the Eagle Ford record low set last week. Natural gas prices traded up during the week to $3.47/mmbtu on Friday after-noon. Colder weather and more recent outages at nuclear plants
have helped support natural gas prices.
The oil rig count fell three to 216 running in the area. WTI crude futures traded down on the week to a little more than $90 per barrel. Eagle Ford crude prices traded at $101.12/bbl on the 28th of February. Eagle Ford light crude and condensate in the area traded at $88.50 and $87.50, respectively.
There are 201 horizontal rigs running in the region. Ten rigs in Webb County were reclassi-
fied this week from horizon-tal to directional. That change almost accounts for the entire drop in horizontal drilling this past week.. An injection well is being drilled in Karnes County.
La Salle County leads devel-opment with 33 rigs running. DeWitt (26), Gonzales (25), Karnes (25), Webb (25), Mc-Mullen (24), Dimmit (21), Live Oak (15), Atascosa (9), Leon (7), Wilson (7) and Lavaca (5) round out the top counties in the region.
LOST: Yellow gold ring. 1 ctr. diamond. Small baguettes. Reward offered. Call Joyce Schellenberg, 540-4318 or 857-1574.--------------------------LOST: Black cushion on 97 or 304. Call 830-857-3023.
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.
Oil Field Help Wanted
Stallion Construc-tion is looking for Fork Lift Operator, Crew Pusher and Roustabouts. Call 830-583-6925 for applications or fax resume to 361-771-4611.
Full-time and Part-time positions avail-able for Certified Medication Aides. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. For more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------Full-time and Part-time positions available for Certi-fied Nurses Aides. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. For
more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------Full-time and Part-time positions avail-able for Licensed Vocation Nurses. Excellent benefits included. Please ap-ply at The Heights of Gonzales, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, Texas. For more information please call 830-672-4530.--------------------------
CDL DRIVERS WANTED
J.M. Oilfield Service, a family oriented company is seek-ing professional
& reliable Class A CDL employees. Re-quirements: 2 years experience tanker and must be will-ing to get HazMat endorsement ASAP. Call 830-672-8000.--------------------------AVON Representa-tives Wanted! Great earning opportu-nities! Buy or Sell! Call 830-672-2271, Independent Sales Rep.
Huge Annual Rum-mage Sale. Spon-sored by Shiner Catholic Daughters. Shiner K.C. Park Din-ing Hall. Fri., March
15, 5-7 PM and Sat., March 16, 8-10:00 AM. Hundreds of Bargains! Special 25 cents section!--------------------------Garage Sale. Satur-day, 8-? 112 St. Mat-thew.--------------------------Yard Sale: Sat., 8-12, corner of Norwood & Ewing. Clothes.--------------------------Huge Plant Sale. Country sheik items. Shiner City Wide Garage Sale., Saturday, March 16, 8am. corner of 15th & Hwy. 90A, Shiner, Tx. For more infor-mation, call 979-966-3263 or 361-594-4258.
7 bags of shred-ded paper & vari-ous boxes. Great for packing. Call 830-519-4176 (Gonza-les).--------------------------Poulan Weedeater, $50; Poulan Leaf Blower, $50. Excel-lent condition. 361-208-3565.--------------------------For Sale: Pogo Stix, orange, 10-yrs & up, $10.00. UT Col-or Western Jacket, pants, culottes, cute, Size 8, $15.00. Go UT Longhorns. 830-263-4608--------------------------
For Sale: Mattress Set, floor lamps, freezer. Come by Care Free Inn, Gon-zales, 1804 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr.--------------------------5.0 Chest type freezer, 2 TV’s, 1 - 19”, 1 - 25”, 3 infant car seats. Excellent Condition. Call 830-203-8633.--------------------------Kohler 15” water saver toilet, used 2 months. Paid $200, asking $100 cash. Call Barbara, 830-672-1106.--------------------------For Sale: BGR 14 Series Bottom Mounted Swing Glass Door Refriger-ator by Master Built. Contact Carolyn at Gonzales Poultry. 672-7954.--------------------------Party dresses for sale: 4 short, 2 long. Purple, yellow, gold, blue green. Also jackets, men’s jack-ets, overcoat, etc. Call 672-8034.--------------------------For sale: Singer Sewing Machine with pedal, table w/6 chairs, almost new, hand cro-cheted table cloth, large, white, an-tique 3 pc. Loveseat and other yarn cro-cheted items. Call 672-8034.
Ranch Hand grill guard for 2000-2006 Ford Pickup, 1/2 ton or 3/4 ton. Good condition. $250. Call 830-540-4277.--------------------------DynaVoxV series 5. Communication de-vice - has keyboard, m o u s e , c h a r g e r, case. Works great. new $8,000. Can go on internet, read ebooks, play music, download pictures & programs. Ask-ing $1,000. Good for autistic children or speech impaired children or adults. kathy, 830-857-6646.--------------------------Golf Clubs. 2 sets w/bag. $50 each. Great for aspiring Tigers. Call 437-2046.--------------------------Horse blanket great condition paid $70 asking $45 obo, treadmill, good condition, works, asking $125 obo. Call or text, (830) 857-6487.--------------------------For Sale: Concrete parking curbs 6’ long 6” tall plain or painted, 16’ + 20’ long concrete cattle guard bases, cattle feed troughs. Call Vic for pricing, 672-6383 or 857-3827.--------------------------MP3 Player. SanD-isk 8GB. Brand new. 437-2046.--------------------------
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LOST & FOUND HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
GARAGE SALES
ESTATE AUCTION
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Driver Position. Class A CDL required. Local region. Out and back
on same shift to delivery routes. We offer a competitive wage along
with 401K, Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance.
Apply at Kitchen Pride Mushroom
Farms, Inc., County Road 348, Gonzales, TX.
830.540.4516KPMF is an EOE
Victoria College Gonzales Center
Part Time Groundskeeper
Position will be responsible for maintaining the Gonzales
Center campus grounds as directed. Work is primarily
outdoors and may involve the use of power equipment. This position also serves as backup to the Custodial staff therefore
occasional custodial duties will be performed. Starting
pay range is $10.75 - $11.50 an hour.
www.victoriacollege.edu/jobsatvc or call 1-830-672-6251. EOE
HELP WANTED HELP WANTEDLEGAL NOTICES
EFFECTIVE NOW ALL SERVICE ADS WILL START BEING CHARGED FOR. FOR 25 WORDS OR LESS IT WILL BE $5.00
A WEEK; ANYTHING OVER 25 WORDS IT WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL .25 CENTS PER WORD.
For Thursday due Tuesday at 5:00 p.m.
HELP WANTEDHELP WANTED HELP WANTED
Gauger NeededLooking for a qualified person who
desires fulltime employment with an established company in Flatonia.
This position requires some knowledge of the oilfield in lease/well operations. You will be trained by an experienced supervisor during a 4 to 6 week period. The job does require some physical work and you must be
capable of following instructions.Applicants must live within 30
minutes of Flatonia and must have a clean driving record. Apply at our Flatonia office located at 2033 FM
609 between 9AM and 4PM, Mon.-Fri. Any questions, call
361-865-2142.
HELP WANTED
Sun., March 1010:00 a.m.
801 CR 488,Gonzales
www.IntegrityAuctions.biz
Furniture, Jewelry, Tools,
Art, Collectables, Glass,
Household & Outdoors
13% B.P., CC, Cash or Checks
J. MolnoskeyAuctioneer #15091
512/557-3333
ESTATEAUCTION
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For Sale: Brush Guard for 2004 1/2 ton Chev. Pickup $50 and 36” Whirl-pool used Gas Range, $50. 361-594-2507.--------------------------21” RCA TV, great for kids room or 2nd TV. $75. Call 437-2046.--------------------------
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Hohner acous-tic guitar w/case. Good for student, $75. Keyboard, Ca-siotone, TT 360, $125. 437-2046.--------------------------Unicorn Collection for Sale. Call Fran-ces between 9pm-10am, 830-857-6476.--------------------------Wicker Screen Room divider, red poppy design. $45. Lg. rattlesnake skin, mounted on panel, $150. Camp-ing travel pot, $20, Antique Bathtub, $550. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Troybilt Trimmer with attachments (edger, tiller). 4 cycle, uses straight gasoline. $250. 361-741-2604.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has rollers. 857-8090.--------------------------2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, antique egg incubator, en-tertainment cen-ter, lamp stand w/drawers, booth din-ing table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.--------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Every-thing $85.00; worth about $300. Health problems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.--------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.--------------------------Used Dell Com-puter. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jeanette Conques-tat 830-672-3419.--------------------------Upright piano for sale. Great for kids starting piano les-sons. All keys works. Needs to be tuned. $100. Call 830-832-5965.--------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Ro-tisserie $275. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Gasoline operated Hedger, $125; 5 HP Tiller, $200. Both in excellent condition. 361-208-3565. --------------------------Electric Hospital bed, $150. 582-1120. --------------------------Stain Glass Window, 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.--------------------------
Firewood: Pickup load is $60.00. If you haul. Delivered is $85. Call: 830-540-4430.--------------------------For Sale: Post Oak Firewood - year old - size and quantity to fit your need. De-livery available. Call for prices, 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273.
Fertilized Coastal mix square bales. $7.50. Call 540-3923.
Want to Buy: Oliver 60 Tractor. V.A.C. Case Tractor. Run or Not. 361-293-1633.--------------------------5 Bale Hay King Trailer & Bale Flip-per Loader. Load hay without getting out of truck. Video on baleflipper.com. $13,500. 512-565-5927.
Table with 4 chairs, Loveseat, South-western design, Queen size bed w/mattress & box-springs, Girls white iron daybed, mat-tress, boxsprings, pop up unit, matching white desk, white china cabinet. All excel-lent condition. 830-203-8633.--------------------------Large china cabi-net, $200.00 . 830-672-2604.--------------------------Large Oak desk w/glass topper and large wooded desk. 830-672-3626.--------------------------New Sofa for Sale. $400. Call 830-875-9422, Luling.--------------------------Couch, dresser, buf-fet. $50 each. Call 830-263-1181.--------------------------7 pc. dinette, $95; coffee and end table, $75; Rol-laway Bed, $35; 37” TV, $15; 2 office re-ceptionist chairs, couch, table, etc. 361-596-4096. --------------------------For Sale: Queensize mattress set, $200; complete desk w/hutch, $30; Dining Room table with 4 high back chairs, solid wood, $300; Low back swivel re-cliner rocker, $150. Call 672-3728.--------------------------Small round dining table with leaf, ex-tends to oval. $50. Vintage pub table with extensions, $175. Black metal futon with mattress & cover. Like new. $75. 830-540-3382.
1990 Chevrolet Cor-vette ZR1. Special Performance Coop. The LT5 engine is a 32 valve engine with a 16 fuel injections and twin double over head cams. Call: 830-540-4430.--------------------------Car and truck rims for sale. 15” and 14” rims. Can be used on trail-ers, trucks or older
cars up to 1980. 437-2232.--------------------------“SIMPLY THE BEST deals on new Chev-rolets and GMCs AND over 100 used vehicles with fi-nancing to fit most credit situations. Grafe Chevrolet GMC, Hallettsville, TX 800-798-3225 or 361-798-3281 or GRAFECHEVYGMC.COM”--------------------------For Sale: 1995 Ford F-250, Ext. Cab, 4x4, V-8, Automatic Trans-mission, Heavy Duty, Good Work Truck, Good condition, 830-672-2192.--------------------------2006 Chevrolet Im-pala for sale. 4-door, V6 engine, a little over 17,000 miles. Silver. One owner. Asking $13,000. 830-672-3147.--------------------------1988 Saab 900 Turbo Coup Convertible. Top work but rebuilt clutch. Good buy. $800. 830-857-5927.--------------------------1972 Chevy Half Ton Pickup. Rebuilt drive train except rear end. All original. 29K En-gine, 50K Transmis-sion. 3/4 rear springs. $1K. 830-857-5927.--------------------------2008 Mustang GT with Shelby package and low miles (48K), 22” chrome wheels with performance tires, 5-speed manual transmission, leather interior, Shaker 500 sound system with 6 CD/MP3 changer, and auto windows. $25,000 OBO. Call or text 830-263-1212.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - $7,500. 2nd owner pickup with low miles, cold A/C, spray-in bed liner, grill guard, towing package and more! Call Lauren at (361) 648-5049 for more info.--------------------------
--------------Tires for Sale. 4 brand new tires - 255-35-ZR20 Nitto Extreme ZR with Rims - Mar-tin Bros 20” universal rims. $500. 830-857-1340.
Save Thousands, Gi-ant Clearance Sale on all Models, New-Used-Trades. Special Financing Available. Fayette Country Homes, Schulen-burg. 979-743-6192. Open Sundays 1-6. tierraverdehomes. com. (RBI 32896).--------------------------Oil Field Specials-2 or 3 bedrooms Single-wides or 8x28 Travel Trailers. Lowest Prices in South Central Tex-as. Fayette Country Homes, Schulen-burg, 979-743-6192. Open Sundays 1-6. (RBI 32896)--------------------------Cheaper in The Country - New - Used-Trades. Featuring Clayton, Fleetwood & The Custom Built Tierra Verde Homes. Fayette Country Homes, Schulen-
burg, 800-369-6888. Open Sundays, 1-6. (RBI 32896).--------------------------TRADE YOUR OLD
HOME TODAY!We pay top dol-lar for trades! No money down! Sin-glewides, Double-wides, Triplewides, Park Models, Cedar Cabins! Call now 8 3 0 - 6 2 0 - 4 5 0 0 . RBI#36649.--------------------------
USED SINGLEWIDE
Like New! - Super Nice Shape! Only $17,900. Call now 8 3 0 - 6 2 0 - 4 5 0 0 . RBI#36649.--------------------------
EARLY BIRD TAX REFUND!
Don’t wait to buy your home! Got taxes coming back? Get started now while interest rates are 3.85%. Call now 830-620-4500. RBI#36649.--------------------------WHOLESALE USED
DOUBLEWIDE2011 - Like New - ONLY $64,900. 4/2 28x64! Call now 8 3 0 - 6 2 0 - 4 5 0 0 . RBI#36649.--------------------------FANTASTIC 4BR on
4.6 ACRESBeautiful - land and home package. This home is super nice. Very private! comes with a barn and fenced! Call now 830-620-4500. RBI#36649.--------------------------
OIL FIELD HOUSING!
M a n u f a c t u r e d homes that sleep up to 16 men - C O M F O R TA B LY ! READY NOW! Call now 830-620-4500. RBI#36649.--------------------------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.
Trailer House for rent. 3br & 1 1/2 bath. Smiley area. 830-857-0707.--------------------------Roadrunner Mobile Home Park, 3 bed-room/1 bath, fully furnished Mobile Homes for Rent. “MOVE IN SPE-CIAL”. $675 for the first three months, $775 the fourth month and after! $675 for deposit. More information: 361-293-3420/361-582-6593/361-798-0816, 900 Old Shin-er Rd. Yoakum, Tx. --------------------------For Sale or Lease. 3
BR Trailer House, 2 RV Spots. Leesville. 830-433-0603.--------------------------Mobile Homes for rent, 3 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.
For Lease - 504 St. Michael. Well kept 2BR/2Bath cor-ner lot. Lg. fenced rear yard. $1,000/month. 512-614-8003.--------------------------HOUSE - 1 bed-room, 1 bath. AC/Heat, appliances, carpet, panelilng. W/D connections, tub & shower, porch. No pets. $600 + deposit & references. 830-672-2227.--------------------------Cabin for Rent. 1BR/1BA. Secluded, in country. $100/nightly, Mon.-Fri. or $350/weekly. Week-end rates vary. No smokers. Call 830-857-0986 or 830-857-1418.--------------------------Completely re-modeled inside and out. 2 & 3 bed-room homes. Fully furnished. Rent by night, week or month. Fantastic n e i g h b o r h o o d . Cheaper by night than hotel room. 672-5169.--------------------------2 room river cot-tage on Lake Gon-zales. Partially fur-nished. You pay for electricity. $500/+ deposit. Bob, 830-203-9790.--------------------------3/2 house for rent in Gonzales. $1,350/mo., $1,350/sec. de-posit. Call 830-401-4123.--------------------------3BR/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.--------------------------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.--------------------------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.--------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 830-857-5727.--------------------------House for 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.
Office Space for rent. 1500 sq. ft., with one acre for truck parking, lo-cated at 314 West Cone Street, Gon-zales, Texas. If in-terested please call (830) 672-4433.--------------------------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.--------------------------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.
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)
Efficiency apart-ment. EVERY-THING furnished. Pots, Pans, towels, TV. 183 N. $600/per month. Call 830-875-3028.
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603 W. Central, Hwy. 87, Nixon, TexasSi Habla Español
Production / Poultry Processing:NOW HIRING!!
Supervisor Responsible for managing processing of department.
Responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies that enable and encourage optimum performance
Responsible for planning and allocating resources to effectively staff and accomplish departmental productivity and quality goals.
Plan, evaluate and improve the effi ciency of processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, effi ciency and output of department.
Day ShiftMonday - Friday
Competitive pay /BOEExcellent benefi ts: Health, Medical, Vision, 401K
SAFETY TECHNICIANHolmes Foods, Inc. is seeking a Safety Tech-nician for our Poultry Processing Plant in Nix-on, Texas. Candidate must have the follow-ing qualifications: safety training, knowledge of OSHA 1910 Safety Regulations, first aid, able to work flexible hours, and be self-moti-vated. Bilingual is preferred. Interested appli-cants should fax resume to Jimmy Newman, at (830)582-1767 or call (830)582-1551, ext. 226 to set up an interview.
Apply today - Start today!Production/Poultry Processing: • Back Dock Hanger • 2nd Processing • Sanitation (Nights) Mon.-Fri., 8-10 hr. days
Holmes Foods Feed Mill:2170 FM 108, Gonzales, TX (830) 672-9100 • Driver - CDL, Class B
Holmes Foods Hatchery5628 FM 1116, Gonzales, TX830-672-9140 • General Labor • Bus Driver - Class A or B CDLMust have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the U.S. Drug screening as applicable to position.
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Maintenance10pm-6am
Buc-ee’s #15114 Hwy. 90A,
Gonzales, Texas 78629http://bucees.com/careers.html
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
Day and Night Transport DriversJohnson Oil Company,
a family-owned oil and gas distributorship in business for over
54 years is currently hiring for Day and Night Transport
Drivers - Three years over the road driving experience preferred and a current Class A CDL with HazMat and Tanker endorsements required.
Competitive compensation with night and holiday pay
differential. Potential annual earnings of $70,000 with limited overnight travel. Sign on bonus available to qualified applicants.Benefits include two weeks paid vacation, health insurance and 401(k). Applications may be
picked up and returned to Johnson Oil Company, Attn: Mike Burke,
1113 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr,
Gonzales, TX or faxed to
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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.
Need personal service? Will clean oilfield campers, homes and apart-ments. Also offer laundry work, iron-ing and running your personal er-rands. If you need a pair of jeans or shirt ironed for the night out or last minute event and didn’t make it to the cleaners in time, give me a call (830) 203-0716. Referenc-es. Available.--------------------------House cleaning ser-vices available. Rea-sonable rates. Ser-vicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References avail-able. Call Barbara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected]
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.--------------------------I am looking for a private setting job around Gonzales, Cost or on 1116 (Pilgrim Road). I have 20 years ex-perience. Please call Emily, 830-437-2727; Cell, 820-263-2768.--------------------------
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and have a big heart. If interested please call 830-391-4837.--------------------------Camera work for businesses, pro-motional uses, editing titles. 830-263-0909. [email protected] Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.--------------------------Will do house clean-ing Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.--------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5160. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.
Willing to mow lawns in morning or evening. Also will do weedeating. Not affiliated with any company’s. 830-263-0909.--------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Will also mow oilfield yards or large oil re-lated businesses. Li-ability ins., free esti-mates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.(TFN)
I am looking for a sitter for my 6 year old daughter for before and after school a few days a week. Preferably someone who can come to my home. References and ex-perience required. Contact me at 830-203-9159.--------------------------Mom, let Jumping Jelly Beans be your drop in child care answer. Go shop-ping, run errands or have a great evening out while your mind is at ease knowing your child is safe and happy. Standard drop in hours apply: day, evening and night. Let’s talk! Refer-ences and resume’ available. 830-519-4012--------------------------Child care in home. I have 2 openings, Curriculum and meals included. Please call for de-tails. 830-263-0058.
1999 Mountain Aire Motorhome - Ford V10 gasoline en-gine - Onan gen-erator - 2 slide outs - 2 A/C’s - all appli-
ances in working condition - driver side door - sleeps 4-6 - no smoking or pets - VERY CLEAN interior - Call 210-884-7085 - Asking $22,000.--------------------------203 Big Sky 38’ Fifth wheel Travel Trailer. 3 slideouts, very, very nice. 3 1/2 yrs. Bumper to bum-per warranty left. $17,900. Call 512-914-8347.--------------------------RV For Sale. Older unit. 5th wheel. $2,900. Contact Richard, 830-556-6905.--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.
Travel Trailer. EV-ERYTHING fur-nished. TV. 183 N. $600/per month. Call 830-875-3028.--------------------------RV for Rent. $300/wk. Call 512-667-4356.--------------------------Travel Trailer for rent or sale. Rent is $300.00 per week with all bills paid. Will relocate to RV park of your choice and I pay the RV Rental. Or $1,000.00 per month with all bills paid. Will sell travel trailer for $55,000. Call 830-351-0943 for de-tails.--------------------------RV Space for rent. $300 month. All bills included. If in-terested please call 820-203-9255--------------------------Fully furnished Travel Trailers for rent. Will rent week-ly or monthly. Pets Allowed. $50.00 Deposit. $300 per week or $1,000 per month. Call Terry for details, 830-351-0943. Will relocate to RV Park of your choice. All utilities paid. --------------------------Travel Trailer for rent for RV space in Smiley. All utili-ties included, good healthy environ-ment. 830-203-9255 or 361-790-6305.--------------------------30’ Travel Trailer w/2 slides for rent in RV Ranch in Gonzales. Swimming pool, laundry facilities, shower house and all bills paid. $300 a week. 830-305-6926.
28’ Travel Trailer for rent. Can be moved from job site. Call 830-305-6926.--------------------------Office or Living Trailers for lease or buy. Peyton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.--------------------------RV Rentals available at Belmont RV Park Estates. Call Rich-ard, 830-556-6095.
RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.
1996, 18.5’ Baymas-ter Center Console Boat, 120 Horse Force Mercury Mo-tor with Jack Plate, Lourence GPS Map-p i n g - S o n a r - Fi s h Finder, Marine Ra-dio. $7,000.00. Con-tact 830-263-2920.--------------------------For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for Jeff.
2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. Inde-pendent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.
CKC Registered Min-iature Dachsund Puppies. 1st shots & wormed. $225. Call 830-888-0165.--------------------------Free Puppies. Five Lab/Cocker Spaniel Mix. 830-857-0459.--------------------------Precious long haired Chihuahua puppies. Pure bred. 9 wks. old. Born Thanksgiving. 1st shots & wormed. Paper trained. Males & Females. Playful and very cute. Raised in my home with a lot of love. $200/each. 1-830-560-6668.--------------------------Free kittens. Call 361-594-4307.--------------------------
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)
Fancy Feathers Bantams. Feather Duster Roos. Col-ors, pairs, $20. Will deliver to Gonzales. 512-272-5147.--------------------------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 .--------------------------Muscovy ducks for sale. $10.00 each. 8 3 0 - 2 6 3 - 2 4 8 2 . (TFN)--------------------------Laying Hens, $10.00. 512-718-0482.--------------------------For Sale: Registered Polled Hereford Bulls. 8-22 mths old. Heifers also, 8 months to 2 years. 830-540-4430.--------------------------WANT TO BUY: Any or Unwanted Hors-es. Call Leejay at 830-857-3866.--------------------------For Sale: Baby & Young Adult Ducks. Mix Breeds. Cost $3.50-$20.00 each. Call 830-857-6844, ask for Tammy Ste-phens.--------------------------DISPERSAL SALE. Miniature donkeys (28” to 36”), male and female, solid and tricolored, 6 mos. to 4 years. Four year olds may be registered with vet exam/affidavit. Excellent pets, loves people. Priced ac-cording to gender, age and color. 830-672-6265 or 857-4251.--------------------------Dwarf Nigerian goats (miniature), multicolored, male and female, 3 mos. to 2-3 years. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251.
3/2, CA/CH, on 5.42 Acres, 75 miles West of San Antonio. Ex-tra Large garage. Call for information, 830-494-4102.--------------------------House for sale by owner. 2BR/1Bath CA/H. $65,000. 830-234-3415 or 830-279-7900.--------------------------Low Down on a 3/2/1136sq ft. home. Asking $79,800 w/ only $800 down. 202 East Lee Smiley, TX. Call Mr Smith, 855-847-6806. ---------------------------Older couple down-sizing 15 acres (10 acres fenced), house, 3/1 1/2, Barn, ponds, trees. Wharton County. $137,000. 979-533-3262.--------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood Trail. New appli-ances, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.---------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commercia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.
Modern home on 165-acre ranch located between Gonzales and Shin-er on paved road FM 443. Highly im-proved with scat-tered oak trees, improved grasses, hay field, cross fenc-ing and stock tank. Recently updated 2,300 square foot home, 3BR, 2BA, two live-in areas. Property includes large hay barn, equipment build-ing shop and cattle pens. Shiner ISD. Possible owner fi-nancing available. 361-648-4090 or 361-935-1109.
25 Acres on Paved Road. FM 443 in Gonzales County. Land has pasture, live oaks, stock tank. Land needs to be surveyed. 361-648-4090.--------------------------
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30 Beautiful Acres for sale in Gonzales County, with 1/4 minerals. $6,000/per acre. Diane, 512-655-3293.--------------------------30 acres with 10 mile views in Gonzales County. Fenced with roll-ing hills, large tank, pond, hardwoods, Tifton 86 grass. $150,000 (713)202-2485. --------------------------Wanted to lease land for cattle graz-ing. Must have water and fences. Contact Mitchell Hardcastle, 830-857-4544.--------------------------90x60 lot for sale. For more info, call Jose at (936) 488-8115.--------------------------5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile
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HOMESvWAELDER 5641 Hwy. 90, 2/2 on 2 accres........................$117,000vGONZALES 3/2, new construction, 707 St. Francis.............$229,000
FARM & RANCHvWAELDER 97.44 acres, 4BR ranch house, great house, oil/gas in-come, Ranching/Investment...... REDUCED TO SELL!............$650,000
ACREAGEv25.936 acres, Henry Bymer 1/3 League, close to I10, electric nearby, sandy loam, fronts CR420...................................................$98,800vHARWOOD Manufactured home in excellent condi-tion, about 1900 sq. ft., 3bed/2bath, large kitchen, locat-ed on 5 acres with many oak trees. County water and GVEC elec. Ready for move in. Fronting Hwy. 304, 2 miles north of Hwy. 90 and about 16 miles from Gonzales. Owner/Agent. Price............................................................................................$110,000vWAELDER- 10 acres, has utilities.......................................$65,000
LOTSvFLATONIA- 2 lots (one corner) 100x125............$11,000 for both
COMMERCIALvGONZALES - 820 Oil Patch Lane, 2.25 acres (+/-), raw land with 3 sides metal equipment shed. Utilities are available at front of property, zoned heavy commercial....................................................................$125,000vGONZALES Income producing poultry Breeder Farm with 50 ac in-cludes Tyson contract and 1600 sq. ft. home...owner/agent.....$1,100,000vGONZALES For Lease: 10 to 20 acres, about 5 miles south of Gonzales, just off Hwy. 183.
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18 AC - 5224 Sandy Fork Rd, Harwood - 3BD/2BA home perfect for the country getaway! 2 car detached garage, 30x40 run-in shed. Large tank, fully fenced. Mature trees. $244,500.14 AC - 1491 Highsmith Rd, Luling - Partially cleared and wooded. 3BD/2BA home with stained concrete and additional living/bonus room. Detached storage building. $245,000.
Land79.5 AC CR 281, Harwood - Partially wooded and cleared land with partial fenc-ing. Co-op water and electricity available. 1 tank and hand dug well. Country Road frontage on 2 sides. $360,000.108.88 AC - Gonzales County - Beautiful tract with combination wooded and pasture land. Panaromic views, 4 tanks, fenced, well, electricity, Fully fenced, partial high fence. REDUCED $410,400. $4,000/acre.RV Park - 10.5 AC - Great location just off IH-10, mature trees and nice tank. Site has been engineered for 54 unit RV Park. 18 AC - 5224 Sandy Fork Rd, Harwood - 3BD/2BA home perfect for the country getaway! 2 car detached garage, 30x40 run-in shed. Large tank, fully fenced. Mature trees. $244,500.14 AC - 1491 Highsmith Rd, Luling - Partially cleared and wooded. 3BD/2BA home with stained concrete and additional living/bonus room. Detached storage building. REDUCED $238,000. $245,000.43 AC - 2198 Sandy Branch Rd., Harwood - Secluded with partial high fence, large tank, rustic cabin. Beautiful views. REDUCED $266,600.111 Acres, Creek Rd - Dripping Springs - Scenic property offers partially cleared and wooded land located on high bluff with Onion Creek frontage. Min-erals convey. $1,900,000.
Residential114 Glendale, Luling - NEW LISTING - Open and inviting floor plan featured in this 3BD/2.5 BA home with many updates throughout. Fenced yard with patio and deck area. Efficiency apartment great for guests or rental income. $192,000.532 Domino Five - NEW LISTING - Guadalupe River Frontage! 3BD/2BA home on approx. 1/3 acre. nice deck & stairs leading to water. Come enjoy the good life! $198,500.960 S. Pecan - Modern, custom 4BD/3BA secluded home on 1 acre home on 1 acre backs to wet weather creek. Open floor plan, security and surround wired. REDUCED $338,000. $340,000.3400 SM HWY, Luling - Large, 4BD/2.5BA on 1.5 acres just outside of town. Spacious kitchen open todining and living. Co-op water & electricity. $135,000.214 E. Crockett, Luling - Charming, move-in ready 3BD/2.5Ba features large den area and beautiful yard. Detached building approx. 650 sq. ft. ideal for stor-age or commercial space. REDUCED $172.000. $185,000.189 CR 280, Harwood - 3BD/2BA home with sunroom and covered porch to enjoy the country views! Storage building. $79,500.The Settlement at Patriot Ranch - 2BD/2BA Main Home on 3 AC - 473 Crock-ett Lane - views offered with this 2BD/2BA main home and detached efficiency guesthouse. 2 car carport. $239,000.
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Gonzales Livestock Market ReportThe Gonzales Livestock
Market Report for Satur-day, March 2, 2013 had on hand: 514 cattle.
Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady. Packer cows sold steady.
Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $220-$255; 300-400 lbs, $190-$210; 400-500 lbs, $175-$185; 500-600 lbs, $148-$170; 600-700 lbs., $137-$145; 700-800 lbs, $133-$135.
Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $91-$105.
Stocker-feeder heif-ers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $185-$210; 300-400 lbs, $168-$175; 400-500 lbs, $155-$165; 500-600 lbs., $138-$145; 600-700 lbs., $126-$131.
Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $68-$74; Cutters, $79-$96; Canners, $61-$67; Low
yielding fat cows, $68-$76.Packer bulls: Yield grade
1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $94-$112; light weights and medium quality bulls, $84-$91.
Stocker Cows: $950-$1,150.
Pairs: $1,050-$1,700.Thank you for your busi-
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Nixon Livestock Commission ReportThe Nixon Livestock
Commission Inc. report had on hand, March 4, 2013, Volume, 530.
Steers: 200-300 lbs, $173 to $183 to $245; 300-400 lbs., $174 to $184 to $230; 400-500 lbs, $159 to $169 to $193; 500-600 lbs, $147 to $157 to $185; 600-700 lbs, $129 to $139 to $157; 700-800 lbs, $109 to $119 to $138.
Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $171 to $181 to $200; 300-400 lbs, $161 to $171 to $210; 400-500 lbs, $144 to $154 to $200 500-600 lbs, $127 to $137 to $153; 600-700 lbs, $119 to $129 to $150; 700-800 lbs, $100 to $110 to $120.
Slaughter cows: $55 to $91; Slaughter bulls: $87 to 104; Stocker cows: $850 to $1,200; Pairs, $900-$1,600.
Notices: We will be closed April 1, 2013 for Easter.
Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market
Report on March 1, 2013, had 425 head.
Had 67 cows and 8 bulls. The packer market was stronger on all classes on a limited supply of cows and bulls has made for a highly competitive market.
The calf market was steady as much as can be seen by the small size of this sale. Lighter thin calves continue to command a premium while losses at feedlots have given an un-dertone to heavier weight calves. The heifer market is dominated by replacement orders and continues to be higher each week. Shows in central US have given hope for grass and this drives the demand for light calves..
Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $91-$107; lower grades, $67-$84.
Packer cows: breakers, $65-$75; boning, $65-$82; canners & cutters, $82-$97; light & weak, $55-$70.
Palpated 14 head bred, $90-$108.
Pairs: (one pair bought), $1,310.
Steer calves: under 200 lbs, none; 200-250 lbs, None; 250-300 lbs, $207.75-$222; 300-350 lbs, $186-$196; 350-400 lbs, $176-$193; 400-450 lbs, $158-$176; 450-500 lbs, $144-$175; 500-550 lbs, $138-$173; 550-600 lbs, $143-$150; 600-700 lbs, $142-$144; 700-800 lbs, $125-$131.
Bull Calves: under 250 lbs, $225-$260; 250-300 lbs, $212-$220; 300-350 lbs, $184-$196; 350-400 lbs, $176-$191; 400-450 lbs, $174-$189; 450-500 lbs, $159-$184; 500-550
lbs, $153-$174; 550-600 lbs, $146-$162; 600-700 lbs, $132-$139.
Over 700 lbs. bulls, $120-$125.
Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs., None; 200-250 lbs, $207-$208; 250-300 lbs, $175 & $189; 300-350 lbs, $170-$208; 350-400 lbs, $162-$178; 400-450 lbs, $151-$182; 450-500 lbs, $144-$174; 500-550 lbs, $145-$184; 550-600 lbs, $139-$170; 600-700 lbs., $128-$154; over 700 lbs, $114-$120.
Hallettsville LivestockCommission ReportThe Hallettsville Live-
stock Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on Febru-ary 26, 2013, 675; week ago, 1,018; year ago, 831.
The market was mostly steady this week. Some fleshier types were $2 to $3 lower. Demand remains very good for the better quality and better condi-tioned classes.
Packer cows and bulls sold $2 to $3 higher again this week on approx. 100hd. total
Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $76-$94.50; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $66-$79; light weight canner cows, $54-$66.
Packer Bulls: heavy-weight bulls, $104-$112.50; utility & cutter bulls, $93-$104; lightweight canner bulls, $84-$93.
Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200; $220-$255; 200-300 lbs, $215-$235; 300-400 lbs, $185-$210; 400-500 lbs, $168-$192; 500-600 lbs, $143-$182; 600-700 lbs, $130-$157.50; 700-800 lbs, $123-$135. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $200-$245; 200-300 lbs, $180-$220; 300-400 lbs, $162-$188; 400-500 lbs, $143-$172; 500-600 lbs, $128-$156; 600-700 lbs, $121-$132; 700-800 lbs, $117-$123.
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Garrett Remschel (left) and Ty Tinsley placed first in the wildlife class at the re-cent San Antonio Livestock Exposition. They built a Wildlife Observation Blind for their project and won a Lincoln 140 welding machine, Miller Digital Auto-darkening welding hood, Victor Cutting Torch set, 1 dozen welding gloves and other miscellaneous items. The Wildlife Observation Blind is part of the Gonza-les Future Farmers of America raffle. (Courtesy photo)
Gonzales FFA held their annual drawing during the sale at the Gonzales Live-stock Show. The winning tickets belonged to Blaine Hill - Wildlife Observation Blind, Kelsey Fougerat - 36” Fire Pit, Katie Keyser - Deer Corn Feeder, and Wil-helmina Walker - Texas Bird Bath Cooker. The Gonzales FFA would like to thank all that supported them in their fundraiser, which saw a record number of sales this year. Pictured (from left) are: Ty Tinsley; Ryan Lee, who sold the winning tick-et; winner of the Wildlife Observation Blind Blaine Hill; and Garrett Remschel. Tinsley, Lee and Remschel plan on showing the blind at the annual Texas A&M-Kingsville Ag Mech show as well as the Blinn Jr. College Ag Mech show later this spring. (Courtesy photo)
COLLEGE STATION – With consumer interest heightening about where food comes from, grass-fed beef producers will have the opportunity to learn more about marketing opportu-nities as well as production trends during a May 30-31 conference in College Sta-tion.
Dr. Rick Machen, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service beef cattle specialist in Uvalde, said producers can learn about all aspects of grass-fed beef production techniques at the confer-ence, which will be held at the Rosenthal Meat Science Building on the Texas A&M University campus.
“One of the highlights will be Dr. John Andrae, Extension forage specialist from Clemson (University),” Machen said. “Among U.S. grass-fed livestock produc-ers, John is well-recognized for his ‘sustainable systems’
approach to forage produc-tion and grazing manage-ment. Given the ongoing drought across much of the South Central U.S., sustain-able forage production is atop everyone’s items- of-interest list.
“Though we’ve talked about it before, a significant emphasis in this year’s con-ference will be the impor-tance of a sustainable — both quantity and quality — for-age supply. Perhaps the most difficult part of a grass-fed beef production system.”
The conference will cover a broad range topics pertain-ing to grass-fed beef produc-tion and is open to both beef producers and consumers.
A live carcass fabrication demonstration will be fea-tured the second day.
Cost is $250 through May 15 and $300 after. Three continuing education cred-its will be offered to Texas Department of Agriculture
pesticide applicators license holders. To register online, visit https://agriliferegister.tamu.edu/ and enter key-word “grassfed” or call 979-845-2604.
The conference is spon-sored by AgriLife Extension and funding from Sustain-able Agriculture Research and Education.
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Luminarias are Lights of Hope to fight back
The heart of Relay is honoring our cancer survivors. You are our symbol of hope! Please join us to help celebrate and honor your cancer survivorship!
2013 Relay For Life of Gonzales County Survivor DinnerMonday, April 1, 2013 at 6 p.m.First United Methodist Church426 Saint Paul Street, Gonzales, TX 78629
Survivor and 1 guest’s meal is includedPlease RSVP by March 15th by contacting:Survivor Chair: Joyce GibsonPhone: 830.203.0047Email: [email protected] visit our website at www.relayforlife.org/gonzalestxto register as a survivor!
Relay for Life of Gonzales Co. is April 5th, 2013at JB Wells. For more information visit:www.relayforlife.org/gonzalestx
Morning Basketball Sports Camp, must pre-register.Pre-register to FBC office by phone,672-9595 or www.fbcgonzales.org
First Baptist Church2 Day Prayer Vigil by teams of Prayer Warriors
ScheduleSunday, March 10th, 8:30am, 11am & 6:30pm
Monday, March 11th, 9-12 Noon, Basketball Sports Camp at Gonzales Jr. High Gym
Noon service with lunch 12:05-12:55pm6:30pm Evening Service
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At every American Cancer So-ciety Relay For Life event, par-ticipants spread the message of HOPE as we all gather to “Cel-ebrate. Remember. Fight Back.”
During opening ceremonies, survivors are recognized for their stories of inspiration as we celebrate with them. Shortly af-ter dark during the Luminaria Ceremony, we remember not only survivors and those recently diagnosed or still battling can-
cer but also those who lost their cancer battle. During the event, we also make the commitment to fight back against a disease that shows no partiality and has af-fected far too many lives.
Even though our 2013 Relay event timeline will be shorter be-cause of our participation in the ACS timeline case study, we will continue to “Celebrate. Remem-ber. Fight Back.”
At Relay For Life 2013 on
April 5, the walking path will be lined with luminarias--lights of HOPE. It is always important to take time to reflect and remem-ber. The Luminaria Ceremony at 9 p.m. gives participants that opportunity. The community is urged to purchase luminarias early to allow time for processing the orders. Please note that lumi-narias purchased prior to April 4 will be arranged alphabetically around the track.
Due to time constraints on the day of Relay, purchases of lumi-narias that day will probably re-sult in those late orders not being placed around the track in alpha-betical order.
Luminaria order forms are available from RFL team mem-bers and are also printed in your local newspaper. Luminaria pur-chases can also be made online with a credit card at www.re-layforlife.org/gonzalestx. When
making the luminaria purchase online, one can designate the donation for a team or team par-ticipant. Each luminaria is a $5 donation.
The 2013 Relay For Life of Gonzales County committee thanks the citizens of Gonzales County for supporting this event. Please join us in “Celebrating HOPE Year ‘Round” on Friday, April 5, beginning at 6 p.m. at the J. B. Wells Show Barn.
The Leah R. and Alfred E. Schaefer Charotable Foundation presented a $15,000 donation to the Gonzales County Relay for Life. At the presentation are, from left, Relay for Life’s Carla Faltisek, JoAnn Low, Arline Rinehart and Foundation board members Paul Neuse, Sheila Elstner, Charlie Gray and Larry D. Finch. Not pictured is board member Bryan Denman.
The 4-L RV Park presented a $500 donation to the Gonzales County Relay for Life event. Presenting the check to Relay’s Carla Faltisek, Jo Ann Low and Arline Rinehart are 4-L’s Kenna Lucas and Tameca Harper.
San Antonio Water Systems presented a $2,000 donation to the Gonzales County Relay for Life event. Presenting the check to Relay’s Carla Faltisek, Jo Ann Low and Arline Rinehart is SAWS representative Ken Holt.
Texan Nursing and Rehabilitation presented a donation to the Gonzales County Relay for Life event in honor of the late Louis Kuntschik, one of this year’s honorees. Presenting the check to Relay’s Carla Faltisek, Jo Ann Low and Arline Rinehart and Louis’ son Brett Kuntschik are Texan Nursing’s Mary Eurestes, Janie Flores, Melanie Wright and Joe Camacho.
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GONZALES – The Gon-zales High School pow-erlifting team has earned more success as two Lady Apaches lifters will com-pete at state on March 15-16, while the Apaches will have five headed toward regionals in Kingsville on Saturday.
Last Saturday, seniors Elea Molina and Laci Lock, along with freshman Erika Hernandez, competed at the girls regional meet in Kingsville. To qualify for a state, a lifter needs to finish in the top two spots or by posting the qualifying total for their weight class.
Hernandez said going to state as a freshman shows the success of the GHS pro-gram. She came in second in the 275-pound class with a 375 squat, 155 on bench press and 350 on deadlift, for a total of 880 pounds.
“I think I did really good for a freshman,” she said. “State is going to be more competitive than what re-gionals were.”
Hernandez said she is looking for a 980 or 995 at total with around 400 squat, 185 bench, and 360
on deadlift.“Hopefully, I can win
state for the whole school,” she said.
Molina advanced to state as she totaled 745 (305 squat, 145, bench, 295 deadlift), the qualifying minimum for the 165 class.
“I think I did pretty good. I increased the weight on my squat,” she said. “But I did not do what I wanted to on the bench press or dead-lift. I am happy I got the qualifying total for state.”
This will not be Molina’s first rodeo as she competed at state last year. She came in ninth place in the 165 class with a 300 squat, 135 bench and 310 deadlift for 745 total.
“I am ready to practice and get better, and get a medal at state,” Molina said. “I want to squat 310, bench 155 or 160, and at least 360 deadlift. I am shooting for an 880 total.”
Laci Lock lifted 275, 120 and 265 for a 660 total, fin-ishing in sixth place in the 132 but shy of the qualify-ing total of 695.
Josh Estrada, Jaime Tellez, Jose Contreras, Ty-ler Wells and D.J. Gonzales will all compete in the re-gional meet this weekend
in Kingsville.Estrada is the top ranked
lifter in the 114 class. Wells is currently sitting in ninth in the 132 class, Tellez is seventh in 181, Contreras holds eighth in 220 and Gonzales is fourth in 165.
Several of the boys lifters are in powerlifting for the first time.
“It is a new thing for me. An extra-curricular activ-ity,” Wells said.
He said he is expecting regional to be a normal meet with “a bunch of peo-ple lifting.”
Wells is working towards a 370 on squat, 190 on bench and 375 on deadlift. As a first-year lifter, he said the sport is very athletic.
Tellez is also a first-year lifter.
“It feels exciting to make it to regionals in my first season of powerlifting,” he said. “It is new stuff. I have learned a lot in powerlift-ing. At regionals, there will be a lot more competition and the lifters will be stron-ger.”
Tellez said he will have to get about 530 on squat, 260 on bench and 490 on deadlift.
Contreras is also headed to regionals for the first
time.“It is amazing to be going
to regionals and I am ex-cited to be going,” he said. “The competition will be pretty hard at regionals.”
Contreras said he is look-ing to lift a total of 1400, with 540 on squat, 260 or 265 on bench press and over 500 on deadlift.
Gonzales is making his second trip to regionals.
“I am glad I am going. I have been working really hard at lifting,” he said. “I pride myself on qualifying for regionals.”
Gonzales said he is seek-ing a trip to state after coming in fourth place at regionals last year. He said he will have to squat 520, bench 270 and deadlift 505 for a shot at state.
Gonzales said he was happy that Contreras, Tellez, Estrada and Wells will be accompanying him on the trip.
Also going to region-als will be Yoakum’s Wil-lie Hights who is the top-ranked lifter in the super heavyweight in the regional and Thomas Von of Cuero, who is sitting at third in su-per heavyweight division.
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GHS’ powerlifting season continues with athletes going to boys regionals this weekend and girls going to state March 15-16. Pictured are: (bottom, from left) Lady Apache state qualifiers Erika Hernandez and Elea Molina, (middle row), boys’ regional lifters Jaime Tellez, Tyler Wells and Jose Contreras, (top row) and D.J. Gonzales. Not pictured is Josh Estrada. (Photo by Mark Lube)
YOAKUM —Three as-pects of the game of base-ball are crucial in winning games — pitching, defense and hitting.
The Yoakum Bulldogs did well on all three in a 4-0 win over Hallettsville Saturday evening in the Yoakum Tournament.
“Against Needville (Thursday), we got seven hits but walked nine and hit two. We got good hits against Boling (Friday), and pitched and hit well against Shiner St. Paul (Friday). We combined all three against Hallettsville,” Yoakum head coach Bob-by Nicholson said.
The Bulldogs commit-ted no errors and limited hot-hitting Hallettsville to just four hits. Yoakum cranked out nine hits in-cluding a solo home run by pitcher Timmy Blak-eney, who also took the win on the mound by striking out nine Brahma batters.
“He threw 76 pitches in seven innings and that is an impressive perfor-mance,” Nicholson said.
“Hallettsville is a great hitting team and we were able to limit the amount of hits they got to four.”
“I thought Timmy Blak-eney outcompeted us,” Brahmas head coach Cal-vin Cook said. “Facing a pitcher like that will help us when it comes to dis-trict. The lesson we take from this game is you better come ready to play or this game will humble you.”
Carson Schindler start-ed the top of the first with a leadoff single but a string of Yoakum defensive play-ers, including catching Schindler stealing second, resulted in a quick inning.
Yoakum leadoff bat-ter Blake McCracken got a base hit and moved to second on the sacrifice groundout by Reagan Ja-cobs. Keith Ratley’s single sent McCracken scurry-ing all the way to home plate for the 1-0 lead. The Brahmas then turned the double play when Troy Kacir flew out to second baseman Reagan McAda, who then teamed up with first baseman Will Wallace
St. Paul competitive in baseball opener
YOAKUM — Cardi-nals head baseball coach Cole Franco was expect-ing some first-game jit-ters Thursday afternoon against La Grange in the Yoakum Tournament.
He was also expect-ing St. Paul to come out and battle in their season opener. Franco was not let down on either account as St. Paul competed tremen-dously in a close 10-9 loss to the Leopards.
“We were fighting hard,” Franco said. “I wanted the guys to compete and I felt they did. They gave 110 percent effort. Our pitch-ers, Jared (Markham) and Adam (Hollenbach), did well. On defense, we have a couple of things we will need to work on.”
“We had first-game nerves but I feel a lot of good things will come lat-er on in the season.”
The Leopards got down to business immediately as Tanner Fritsch made contact and got to third on the error. That miscue turned into a 1-0 lead for La Grange as Austin Co-lon grounded out to sec-ond baseman Hollenbach for the fielder’s choice that allowed Fritsch to head home.
Over the next several innings, St. Paul got hits
from Mitchell McElroy and Tanner Davis but did not score.
The Leopards added a single run in the fourth inning with Kolby Kolek starting things with infield single. He went to second on the hit by Landon Ger-ik. Runner Ty Besida was thrown out at second on the fielder’s choice that let Kolek score.
St. Paul got energized in the bottom of the fourth as Cole Hybner reached on a walk and two batters later, Dakota Kresta got a base hit. Tyler Morgan’s single scored Hybner, McElroy was walked and Laddie Patek flew out to first base for two away. Markham got a base hit to score Kresta and Davis was walked with bases loaded to score Morgan to put St. Paul ahead 3-2.
In the top of the fifth, La Grange got five hits and two St. Paul errors to score eight runs for the 10-3 lead.
The Leopards’ job was far from done as St. Paul came right back in the bot-tom of the inning. Hybner was hit by the pitch and Hollenbach picked up a walk. Kresta drew the walk to fill up the bases and La Grange inserted Fritsch to replace fellow reliever Rustin Heger, who had pitched the final out
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By MARK [email protected]
South Texas Express 14U select softball team will be holding open tryouts at 4 p.m. March. 17 at the Shin-er softball field at Green Dickson Park.
Any girls between the ages of 12-15 are welcome to try-out. The athlete must not be 15-years-old before January 1, 2013.
The team will be coached by Bo Dees, a former Aces Express coach in Sugarland and instructor at Texas A&M softball camp for the past 12 years who has nine years head coaching expe-rience and currently is an assistant softball coach in Yoakum.
For more information, contact Dees at 806-340-8828 or [email protected].
Tri-County X-Plosion Softball camp
The Tri-County X-
Plosion Softball team will be holding their 1st An-nual Spring Softball Camp March 23 at the Halletts-ville Little League Com-plex.
Camp highlights include hitting philosophy, cor-rection of common flaws, drills to take home, cre-ating power, short game, mental game, slow-motion swing analysis, proper overhand throwing me-chanics, ground ball and fly ball techniques, proper footwork, team defense/sit-uations and base running.
There will be two parts to the camp: one for ages 8-12 from 8 a.m. until noon. Check-in will be at 7:30 a.m. The second part will
run from 1:30-5:30 p.m. for players ages 13-18.
Fee for the camp is $50 with slow-motion swing analysis an additional $25. Swing analysis is limited to a certain number of camp-ers per session.
Advance registration is required because of the number of participants is limited to insure quality of instruction.
Make checks payable to Tri-County X-Plosion Soft-ball Inc. Return completed registration form and pay-ment to P.O. Box 729, Hal-lettsville, Texas 77964 by March 18. For more infor-mation contact, 361-798-1700.
Guest instructor will be Martin Rubinoff. He is a former hitting coach/instructor with the Aus-tralian Women’s National Team, hitting consultant
to the Japan Women’s Na-tional Team and Japan Shokkei Toyota Women’s professional softball team. Rubinoff also serves as lead hitting instructor for Riverside College, Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State- Ful-lerton. He is the owner of Martin’s Field of Dreams in Waco.
Coach Rubinoff will hold a free coach’s clinic at the Hallettsville Little League Softball field on March 24 from noon to 2 p.m. The clinic will cover coaching methodology, coaching mindset, hitting and field-ing drills, practice organi-zation, parent education, player motivation and iso-lating/improving player mechanics.
Gonzales softball wins three at Georgetown Tour-ney
The Gonzales Lady Apaches won three and tied one in the Georgetown Tournament held Feb. 21-23.
Gonzales blasted Austin Lanier, 18-0, in the Lady Apaches’ opening game.
Pitcher Lindsey Akers had seven strikeouts in three innings. The Lady Apach-es were led on offense by Shayla Simper, Kristeny Magallanes, Carly Bozka, Kortney Wishert and Sibil Philippus.
in the fourth. St. Paul welcomed He-
ger with a two –run double by Morgan. Patek brought Morgan home on the base
hit to bring the Cardinals to within 10-7.
In the bottom of the sixth, Hybner reached on the error and was doubled in by Hollenbach, who con-tinued to third on a balk.
Later, Morgan grounded out to the shortstop to score Hollenbach for the game’s final run.
La Grange 10, Shiner St. Paul 9LG 1 0 0 1 8 0 x-10 9 2SP 0 0 0 3 4 2 x- 9 9 3
LG: Kyle Ottman, Rustin Heger (4), Tanner Fritsch (5) and Land-on Gerik. SP: Jared Markham, Adam Hollenbach (6) and Dakota Kresta. W — Heger L —Markham. 3B — LG: Fritsch. 2B — SP: Hol-lenbach, Tyler Morgan
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BaseBallLinescores
Nixon-Smiley TournamentSkidmore 8, Nixon-Smiley 3S 3 0 0 0 0 0 2-5 8 1 NS 1 0 2 0 0 0 0-3 7 0
Nixon-Smiley 10, Austin Eastside 7AE 1 4 0 2 0 x x- 7 4 1NS 8 2 0 0 x x x-10 7 2 Nixon-Smiley 10, Somerset 9S 2 2 1 4 0 x x- 9 5 3NS 2 0 0 0 8 x x-10 6 7
Sacred Heart TournamentSchulenburg 7, Flatonia 1
S 3 0 2 0 0 1 1-7 8 0F 0 0 0 1 0 0 0-1 0 3Schulenburg 13, Flatonia 3
S 2 3 4 1 3 x x-13 6 3F 3 0 0 0 0 x x-3 5 2
Flatonia 5, Hallettsville Sacred Heart 4
F 0 0 0 4 0 1 x-5 4 2SH 1 0 1 0 2 0 x-4 7 3
Flatonia 9, Weimar 5F 1 0 5 1 0 2 x-9 8 4W 2 0 1 1 01 1 x-5 6 6
Other area gamesKarnes City 16, Nixon-Smiley 4
NS 0 1 0 0 3 x x- 4 4 5KC10 1 4 1 x x x-16 11 2
Here are the results from the Yoakum Tom-Tom Relays
(Area athletes only)Varsity Girls1600 — 1st, Kristaly Munoz,
Luling, 5:25.66; 2nd, Carley Glass,
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soFTBallArea scores
Schulenburg TournamentHouston Episcopal 4, Flatonia 1
Flatonia 15, Marion 2Flatonia 13, Brazos 3
Flatonia, 5, Somerville 2
Luling, 5:34.41; 3rd, Natalie Jack-son, St. Paul, 5:45.74.
200 —3rd, Missy Odom, Cuero, 28.6; 4th, Patterson, Luling, 28.65.
3200 — 1st, Munoz, Luling, 11:26; 2nd, Glass, Luling, 11:34; 3rd, Jackson, St. Paul, 12:18.
400 — 5th, Villafranca, Cuero, 1:04.53.
400 Relay — 3rd, Yoakum, 52.19; 6th, Gonzales, 52.78.
800 — 3rd, Villafranca, Cuero, 2:34.2; 4th, Bordovsky, Yoakum, 2:36.51
800 Relay — 2nd, Yoakum, 1:52.03; 3rd, Cuero, 1:53.08; 6th, Gonzales, 1:54.68.
100 Hurdles — 4th, Bailey Con-nell, Gonzales, 17.49; 5th, Rodri-guez, Cuero, 17.54.
300 Hurdles — 3rd, Rodriguez, Cuero, 52.12; 5th, Kendall Fougerat , Gonzales, 55.06; 6th, Elizabeth Neise, Gonzales, 55.12.
Long Jump — 5th, Odom, Cu-ero, 15-6 ¾.
Shot Put — 1st, Johnson, Yoa-kum, 33-7 ½ ; 2nd, Celine Mark-ert, Yoakum, 33-3 ½ ; 3rd, Patton Cuero, 31-11; 4th, Jaccari Hights, Yoakum, 31-6 ½ .
Discus — 1st, Zinke, Cuero, 101-2; 2nd, Markert, Yoakum, 97-5; 3rd, Hights, 92-4; 5th, Patton, Cuero, 81-1 ½.
Triple Jump —4th, Patterson,Luling, 32-4.
High Jump — 3rd, Lesley Se-idenberger, Yoakum, 5-2.
Pole Vault — 1st, Lexi Williams, Yoakum, 10-6; 3rd, Danyelle Glass, Gonzales, 9-6; 4th, Morris, Yoakun, 9-0.
1600 Relay — 1st, Cuero, 4:15.69; 3rd, Yoakum, 4:21.97.
Team Results — 2nd, Yoakum, 100; 3rd, Cuero, 74; 6th, Luling, 44; 10th, Gonzales, 17; 12th , St. Paul, 12, 13th, Luling B 0.
Varsity Boys100 — 3rd, Blake McCracken,
Yoakum, 10.99; 5th, Moore, 11.43.1600 — 1st, Jose Campos,
Luling, 4:38; 3rd, Danny Castillo, Luling, 4:46.55; 4th, Ryan Flores, Luling, 4:47.02
200 — 1st, Ty Anderson, Luling, 23.23; 4th, Hunter Smith, Yoakum, 5th, Tyshawn Erskin, Gonzales, 11.34; 5th, Moore, Luling, 11.43.
3200 — 1st, Flores, Luling, 9:59; 2nd, Castillo, Luling, 10:03.
400 — 2nd, Tre’Vontae Hights, Yoakum, 51.47; 3rd, Linn, Yoakum, 54.93.
400 Relay — 2nd, Yoakum, 44.36; 3rd, Cuero, 44.44; 4th, Gon-zales, 44.55; 5th, Luling, 45.03.
800 — 2nd, Lopez, Yoakum, 2:07.58.
800 Relay — 2nd, Cuero, 1:33.05; 3rd, Gonzales, 1:33.41; 4th , Yoakum, 1:34.64; 6th, Luling, 1:37.72.
110 Hurdles — 2nd, He, Cuero, 15.59; 3rd, Kaiser, Yoakum, 15.71; 5th, Horton, Cuero, 16.92.
300 Hurdles — 3rd,Resenez, 43.05; 4th, Rosales, Yoakum, 43.34; 5th, Horton, Cuero, 44.74; 6th, Kai-ser, Yoakum, 44.79.
Long Jump — 1st, Tre’Vontae Hights, Yoakum, 21-2 ¼ ; 5th, Mc-Cracken, Yoakum, 19-10.
1600 Relay — 1st, Yoakum, 3:31.71; 4th, Gonzales, 3:38.82; 5th, Cuero, 3:44.12.
Shot Put —2nd, Blake Reeves, Cuero, 47-10; 4th, Willie Hights, Yoakum, 43-0; 5th, Zach Perez-Clack, Gonzales, 42-10.
Discus —1st, Brzozowski, Yoa-kum, 127-6; 2nd, Perez, Gonzales, 122-3 ¾ ; 6th, Camarillo, Yoakum, 108-3.
Triple-Jump — 1st, Tre’Vontae Hights, Yoakum, 42-8 ½; 3rd, My-ron Hights, Yoakum, 41-6 ½; 6th, Mathis, Cuero, 37-5.
High Jump — 1st, Anderson, Luling, 6-8; 2nd, Tre’Vontate Hights, Yoakum, 6-2; 4th, Keeton
Coe, Luling, 5-10; 5th, Rosales, Yo-akum, 5-10; 6th, Cubit, Luling, 5-6.
Pole Vault — 1st, Cole Knocke, Yoakum, 14-0; 3rd, Keith Ratley, Yoakum, 12-0; 5th, Smith, Yoa-kum, 12-0; 6th, Thompson, Gon-zales, 11-0.
Team Results — 1st, Yoakum, 164; 3rd, Luling, 71; 5th, Cuero, 53; 8th, Gonzales, 41; T10th , Luling B, 0; T10th , St. Paul, 0.
JV Girls100 — Gray, Gonzales, 12.87;
4th, Klutzer, Yoakum, 13.51.1600 — 1st Richardson, Luling
B, 6:16.53; 6th, Castillo, Luling, 6:35.29,
200 — 1st, Kutzer, Yoakum, 29.97; 3rd, Clark, Cuero, 30.52.
3200 —3rd, Avila, Luling, 13:38; 4th, Drabek, Luling, 13:46; 6th, Richardson, Luling B, 14:04.
400 — 1st, Anzualda, Yoa-kum, 1:09.07; 3rd, Perez, Yoakum, 1:10.82.
400 Relay — 2nd, Cuero, 56.01; 6th, Gonzales, 59.65.
800 — 1st, Anzualda, Yoakum, 2:46.48; 3rd, Melanie Wagner, 2:58.
800 Relay — 2nd, Cuero, 2:01.51.
100 Hurdles — 2, Haob, Gon-zales, 19.57; 5th, Cassidy Thomas, 20.4; 6th, Campbell, Cuero, 20.51
300 Hurdles — 4th, Thomas, St. Paul, 58.17; 6th, Haob, Gonzales, 1:00.03.
Long Jump — 1st, Clark, Cuero, 15-5 ½; 6th, Franklin, Gonzales, 13-1.
1600 Relay —2nd,St. Paul, 4:45.02; 4th, Yoakum, 4:53.62; 6th, Gonzales, 5:20.31.
Shot Put — 5th, Gray, Gonzales, 28-1 ¼ ; 6th, Britton, Yoakum, 27-10 ¾ .
Discus — 3rd, Ellis, Cuero, 80-5 ½; 6th, Brannan, Cuero, 76-2.
High Jump —2nd, Molly Bar-nick, Gonzales, 4-10; 4th, Vaught, Cuero, 4-6; 6th, Echols, Gonzales,
4-4.Pole Vault — 1st, Haob, Gonza-
les, 6-6; 2nd, Ince, Gonzales, 5-0.Team Results — 3rd, Cuero, 70;
4th, Gonzales, 59; 5th, Yoakum, 49; 7th, St. Paul, 28; T12th , Luling , 11; T12th , Luling, 11.
JV Boys100 —1st , Ramirez, Gonzales,
11.55.1600 — 1st, Zamora, Luling,
5:14.85; 4th, Rodriguez, Luling, 5:40.79; 5th , Moreno, Gonzales, 5:44.28; 6th, Mason Matias, St. Paul, 5:47.
200 — 1st, Rodriguez, Gonzales, 24.39.
3200 — 1st, Zamora, Luling, 11:01; 2nd, Guerrero, Luling, 11:14; 5th, Rodriguez, Luling, 11:36.
400 — 1st, Zavesky, Cuero, 56.62; 3rd, Maciel, Yoakum, 58.74.
400 Relay —2nd , St. Paul, 47.09; 3rd, Gonzales, 47.13; 5th, Cuero, 48.0.
800 — 1st, Guerrero, Luling, 2:17.43; 6th, Marco Ynclan, St. Paul, 2:23.14
800 Relay — 1st, Gonzales, 1:39.8; 5th, Yoakum, 1:45.3; 6th, Cuero, 1:45.39.
110 Hurdles —1st, DeBault, Yoakum, 16.34;2nd , Eldridge, Yoakum, 16.93; 6th, Walker, Cuero, 18.36.
300 Hurdles — 1st, DeBault, Yo-akum, 44.33; 5th, Eldridge, 48.04; 6th, Belicek, Yoakum, 48.12.
Long Jump — 1st, Ramirez, Gonzales, 19-2; 6th, Garza, Yoa-kum, 17-1.
1600 Relay — 2nd, Cuero, 3:53.15; 3rd, Gonzales, 3:58.15; 4th, Yoakum, 3:58.23.
Shot Put — 1st, Trevino, Cu-ero, 37-5 ½ ; 2nd, Damien Airhart, Gonzales, 37-4; 3rd, Ogelby, Cuero, 37-3; 4th, Johnson, Cuero, 36-10 ½ ; 5th, Jacobs,, Yoakum, 36-1 ½;6th, Bridges, Yoakum, 36-1.
Discus — 1st, Munoz, Cuero,
112- ¼ ; 3rd, Johnson, Cuero, 94-3; 5th, Ogelby, Cuero, 89-8; 6th, Can-seco, Yoakum, 87-3.
Triple Jump — 6th, Palomo, Luling, 35-3.
High Jump — 1st, Walker, Cu-ero, 6-1; 6th, Beach, Cuero, 5-4.
Pole Vault — 1st, Eldridge, Yoa-kum, 13-0; 2nd, DeBault, Yoakum, 11-6.
Team Results — 2nd, Gonzales, 84; 3rd, Cuero, 82; 4th, Yoakum, 72; 7th, Luling, 45; 9th, St. Paul, 18; 14th, Luling B, 0.
Flatonia Junior High meet7th girlsLong Jump — 2nd, Patek, Hal-
lettsville, 12- 10 1/2 ; 3rd , Berence Cruz, Shiner, 12- 10 ½ ; 6th, Bailey Machacek, Shiner, 12-1 ¾
Shot Put — 1st, Clay, St. Paul,29-0; 2nd, Henrichs, Hallettsville, 27-0; 3rd. Selph, Hallettsville, 26-0.
Discus —1st, Selp, Hallettsville, 63-7 3rd, Bethany Nevlud, Shiner, 57-5; 4th, Kailey Williams, Shiner, 57-0; 6th, Clay, St. Paul, 53-10.
Triple Jump — 6th, Johnson, St. Paul, 22-6.
High Jump — 1st, Machacek, Shiner 4-0; 2nd, Wagner, St. Paul, 4-0;4th, Aston, Hallettsville, 3-10; 5th, Kubenka, St. Paul 3-8; 6th, Malatek, St. Paul, 3-6.
2400— 2nd, Schulz, Halletts-ville, 10:55.61; 3rd, Klimitchek, Hallettsville, 10:55.98; 4th,Greta Grosenbaucher, Shiner, 10:57; 5th, Brooke Kloesel, Shiner, 11:07; 6th,Cruz, Shiner, 11:32.
100 — 1st, Nevlud, Shiner, 14.29; 2nd Patek, Hallettsville; 3rd, Jeterlina, Hallettsville, 14.75; 5th, Clay, St. Paul, 15.11.
200 — 1st, Jasmin Lopez, Shiner, 31.31; 2nd, Henrichs, Hallettsville, 31.43; 5th, Patek, Hallettsville, 32.15; 6th, Sammy Kremling, Shin-er, 32.16.
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Yoakum High School held its annual Tom Tom Relays last Saturday, where several area schools competed. Pictured (from left): Danyelle Glass of Gonzales competes in the pole vault, Gonzales’ Tyshawn Erskin com-pletes an attempt in the triple jump, and Bailey Connell of Gonzales takes a big leap during the long jump. For more photos and complete results, visit www.gonzalescannon.com. (Photos by Mark Lube)
YOAKUM — For four innings, the Needville Blue Jays were having a tough outing against the Yoakum Bulldogs. They had no runs and had been held to just one hit.
In the end, they managed to squeeze out a 4-3 win in six innings Thursday night at the Yoakum Tourna-ment.
In the top of the fifth inning, Needville got one base hit, but managed to score a trio of runs to erase a 2-0 deficit. The ‘Dogs came back in the bottom of the inning to knot the game at 3-3, but the Blue Jays scored the go-ahead run in the top of the sixth.
Three of the runs for Needville were of the un-earned variety as Yoakum walked some batters and had a couple of defensive errors.
“We walked a lot of bat-ters,” Yoakum head coach Bobby Nicholson said. “We are horribly lucky that it (score) was only 4-3. In the top of the sixth when it was 3-3, we made it error letting the batter on base.”
The runner later scored the game-winning run.
Nicholson said it was
easier to score runs when you get on via walks or oth-er miscues. Yoakum walked about a dozen in a double header against Edna earlier in the week.
“In my opinion, you can-not walk a lot of batters and win the ball game,” he said.
Yoakum did have a bright spot at the plate with six hits.
“We hit the ball well,” Nicholson said.
The ‘Dogs took the early lead in the bottom of the first when Blake McCrack-en got a two-base error and moved to third on the sacrifice by Reagan Jacobs. McCracken went home on the sacrifice flyout by Keith Ratley to right field.
Yoakum got two base runners in the second in-ning with Shawn Brandt getting hit by the pitch and Will Thurmond getting a single but did not plate any runs.
The ‘Dogs opened the bottom of the third as Mc-Cracken laid down a bunt and beat the throw. Need-ville then got two straight outs on fly balls. Troy Kacir
scored McCracken on the base hit and Yoakum held a two-run cushion.
In the top of the fourth, save for a walk, Yoakum kept Needville off the bas-es. In the bottom of the inning, Brandt was again hit by the pitch and Chase Hermes smacked a double into left field, but Yoakum did not plate a run off those chances.
The Blue Jays took a 3-2 lead in the top of the fifth as Cody Labay struck out on the leadoff. Bryan Byrd and Chad Ramsey both picked up a walk. Byrd went home on the double by Sameer Khatri. Later, Ramsey and Khatri advanced home on passed balls.
Needville’s defense got three up and three down in the bottom of the fifth to end the contest.
Needville 4, Yoakum 3N 0 0 0 0 3 1 x-4 3 3Y 1 0 1 0 1 0 x-3 6 2N: Collin Schant and Sameer
Khatri. Y: Blake McCracken, Will Thurmond (5), Timmy Blakeney (6) and Shawn Brandt. W — Schant. L —Blakeney. 2B — N: Sameer Khatri. Y:Chase Hermes
Gonzales then battled Salado to a 5-5 draw.
Tori Lester pitched for Gonzales with one strike-out. Morgan Simper, Shay-la Simper and Magallanes led Gonzales at the plate.
The Lady Apaches pounded Austin Travis, 12-2, in the next game. Akers got seven strikeouts in the win. Lady Apache leading hitters in the game were Lester, La Fleur, Bozka, Philippus and Kortney Wishert.
Gonzales then blanked the Leander junior varsity, 10-0. Akers earned another win inside the circle with five strikeouts, and Philip-pus, Magallanes, Shayla Simper, Carly Bozka and Cassidy La Fleur got key hits for Gonzales.
The Lady Apaches played at Sealy on Feb 26, falling in a close 5-3 game. Akers pitched against the Lady Tigers, and key hitters for Gonzales were Akers, Bozka and La Fleur; Ma-gallanes added a home run.
Gonzales boys golf team wins Victoria St. Joseph Tournament.
The Apaches golf team won the Victoria St. Joseph Tournament with a 689 total, carding 343 in the first round and 346 in the second round. Runner-up Victoria East totaled 730.
Ryan Lee won first med-alist as he shot a 79 in the first round and 81 in the second round.
Good outing for Apache netters in La Vernia
The Gonzales Apaches tennis team competed in the La Vernia Tournament last Thursday and Friday.
On junior varsity, Rene Bibas and Eli Whitescarver placed third in boys dou-bles. Devin Contreras won the consolation bracket for boys singles, Dora Ro-driguez won the consola-tion bracket for girls sin-gles, and Anahi Ortiz and Eduardo Ruvalcaba placed second in mixed doubles.
On varsity, Josh Estrada and Zack Hernandez placed third in boys doubles, Alex Finch placed third in girls singles, Fernando Ontive-ros finished fourth in boys singles, Lucas Hurt and Lo-gan Hurt placed second in the consolation bracket in boys doubles, and Shenan Owens and Alejandra Diaz placed third in girls dou-bles.
Local cagers win places on All-District teams
Lady Apache Jade Mc-Cook was chosen for the First Team All-District 26-3A Team.
Kelsey Hardy made Sec-ond Team, with Renee Ca-marillo and Ashli Malatek receiving Honorable Men-tions.
Savannah Martinez and Alena Alvarez of Nixon-Smiley were selected to the First Team 28-2A All-District squad. Hai-ley Boatright and Megan Guerreo made the Second Team while Jennifer Flores
and Abby Scarbrough got Honorable Mentions.
Shiner St. Paul’s Colby Schrade made the First Team for TAPPS All-Dis-trict 2A-5 team. His team-mates Dakota Kresta and Dylan Barton received Sec-ond-Team honors. Adam Hollenbach, Austin Horne and Marco Ynclan were Honorable Mentions.
The Shiner Comanches had Evel Jones named as 29-1A District MVP and Justin Stovall as Newcomer of the Year.
Caleb Kalich was named to the First Team, Cole
Strauss and Chad Neu-bauer were Second Team recipients, and Kris Patek received an Honorable Mention. Strauss, Matt Foster, Caleb Murrile and Colby Jahn was named to the Academic All-District team.
On the 28-2A All-Dis-trict Boys Team, Jimario Grounds of Hallettsville was named Offensive MVP and teammate Dalton Her-rington was Defensive MVP.
Sam Moore of Nixon-Smiley won Newcomer of the Year.
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State-ranked Needville run rules Gonzales in five
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for the tag out on Ratley to retire the side.
Blakeney opened the top of the second with two straight strikeouts and Tait Schindler tripled into left field. He did not advance home as Blakeney picked up another strikeout to end the inning.
To start the bottom of the inning, Blakeney blast-ed a shot over the wall be-tween center and right to give Yoakum a 2-0 lead. Ryan Kvinta followed with a double and moved to sec-ond on the sacrifice by Will
Thurmond. Chase Hermes’ single down the first-base line into right field brought Kvinta home for Yoakum’s third run.
The ‘Dogs brought home one more run in the third inning as Reagan Jacobs singled and later got to sec-ond on a passed ball. The Brahmas then got two outs on a fly ball and strikeout. Jacobs went home on the base hit by Blakeney.
The Brahmas had a chance to end the shutout a couple of times in the last three innings.
In the top of the third, Wallace reached on a field-
er’s choice and continued to second on the hit by Nate Kowalik. In the fifth in-ning, Dylan Kerr smacked a one-out double but got no further as Yoakum ral-lied for two quick outs. In the seventh, Tait Schindler eventually made his way to third but was later caught trying to steal home.
Yoakum 4, Hallettsville 0H 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 4 0Y 1 2 1 0 0 0 x-4 9 0H: Carson Schindler and Dylan
Kerr. Y: Timmy Blakeney and Shawn Brandt. W — Blakeney. L — Schindler. HR — Y: Blakeney 3B — H: Tait Schindler 2B — H: Kerr. Y: Ryan Kvinta
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YOAKUM: Blakeney does work on the mound, plate
Blake McCracken dives into home plate ahead of the throw during Yoakum’s win over Hallettsville. (Photo by Mark Lube)
YOAKUM — There was the bad and the good for the Gonzales Apaches as they played their final game of the Yoakum Tour-nament in a 10-0 loss to state-ranked Needville Sat-urday night.
The Apaches made a couple of untimely errors in the bottom of the second inning that led to Needville bringing in four runs. The Blue Jays brought in four more runs, three of them unearned, in the bottom of
the fourth. The Apaches did swing
for half a dozen hits at the plate although no runs were scored.
“Every day we work on our approach at the plate,” Apaches head coach Larry Wuthrich said.
Gonzales will need to correct the errors to have more success in game.
“We will need to shore up the areas where we are weak and continue to im-prove our areas of strength,” Wuthrich said. “We have a group of hard-working players who will keep their
noses to the grindstone.”In the top of the first,
Devin Benes got a two-out single for the game’s first hit but Needville caught a flyball in center field to re-tire the side.
For Needville, Cody Labay got a bunt single and was moved to second on the sacrifice by Chad Ramsey. Sameer Khatri hit a flyball to shortstop Aaron Gaytan for the final out.
Needville’s defense had three up and three down in the second inning. The Blue Jays’ second and third batters in the second in-
ning, Collin Schaaf and Chet Prihoda, both got walks. Joseph Pesl knocked the ball back to Gonzales pitcher Trey Kridler and Kridler threw to Gaytan for the fielder’s choice on Brent Buzek, the runner for Prihoda, allowing Schaaf to third and Pesl on base. Cooper Weatherley got the infield to score Schaaf and next, Labay’s hit up the middle brought Pesl home for the 2-0 Needville lead.
In the top of the third, Gaytan and Kridler picked up two-out hits but did not get any runs in.
In the bottom of the in-ning, Ramsey had a shot out to center field that was mishandled by the Apach-es, allowing Ramsey to reach second. Khatri was walked and the bases were loaded on the error on the ball by Colton Sulak.
Schaaf then launched a hit into right field, getting a three-run triple to give Needville a 5-0 lead. Schaaf later went home on the sac-rifice groundout by Joseph Pesl.
The Blue Jays brought home four more runs in the fourth on two walks, one
batter hit, one error, two hits and a sacrifice flyball.
The Apaches stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the fifth to try to plate one run to prevent the run rule from being enacted. Zach Akers singled with two outs, followed by hits from Gaytan and Kridler. Kridler was later thrown out for the final out.
Needville 10, Gonzales 0G 0 0 0 0 0 x x- 0 6 3N 0 2 4 4 x x x-10 7 0G: Trey Kridler, Joe Carrizales
(4) and Devin Benes. N: Colton Sulak and Chet Prihoda. W — Su-lak. L — Kridler. 3B —N: Collin Schaaf
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Blue Jays launch comeback rally to down host Yoakum
Country Music ShowThe Gonzales Country Music Show is
scheduled Thursday at the Crystal Theatre in Gonzales starting at 7:30 p.m.
This month’s show will feature guest per-formers Harold Watt, Priscilla Speed and Nikki Vincent, along with the local house band of Robert Remschel, Johnny Hoffpauir, Rodney Smith, Wendell O’Neal, Garry Swanson and Dave Demeney.
Interface FundThe Gonzales Community African Ameri-
can Interface Church Scholarship Fund will be conducting its Monthly Business Meeting the first Thursday of each Month. The next meet-ing is scheduled for March 7, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Union Lea B/C of Gonzales, Texas. The public is invited. For information contact Eu-gene Wilson Sr., (830) 857-3764.
Parent TrainingGonzales Independent School District will
host a parent autism education session from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 7th. The meeting will be held inside the DSDC build-ing. Please enter through the gate on St. Louis Street. The Gonzales Pilot Club will present Project Lifesaver, which is designed to help families locate missing persons who are au-tistic or who have Alzheimer’s. For additional information, please contact James Alford, Erin LaBuhn, or Jennifer Gay at 830-672-6441.
American LegionGonzales American Legion Post #40 will
hold its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 7 at the Legion Hall. Boys’ State candidates will be interviewed. All members and prospective members are in-vited to attend.
WPA meetingDr. Calvin Finch of Texas A&M University’s
Water Conservation and Technology Center will be the featured speaker during the March 12 meeting of the Water Protection Associa-tion at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 1222 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr. in Gonzales.
The event is open to the public.
ACS benefitAmerican Cancer Society Benefit is being
sponsored by the Lutheran Churches’ Faith Walkers with Jewell’s Jewels providing the entertainment in conjunction with a western style meal. March 9, at the American Legion Hall in Gonzales at 6:30 p.m. $12 tickets are available from the Chamber of Commerce, Halamicek’s, or The First Lutheran Church of-fice. Don’t miss this opportunity for fun and all proceeds go to The American Cancer So-ciety.
Country DanceTKMB SPONSORING 4th ANNUAL ELEC-
TRONICS RECYCLING - KMB’s 4th annual e-cycle event will be held on Saturday, March 16 from 9 a.m. - noon at the City of Moulton Wastewater Facility. Accepted items: comput-ers, peripherals (keyboards, mice, etc.) lap-tops, speakers, scanners, headsets, printers, fax machines, external hard drives, pen drives, ethernet cables, telephone cables, power ca-bles, video game consoles and controls, VCRs, stereos, stereo receivers and speakers, DVD and CD players, and turn tables.
Not accepted: TVs, household appliances or power tools.
Gospel WeekendThe Delhi Baptist Church, 6172 State Hwy
304 in Rosanky, is proud to sponsor a Gospel Weekend with Sam Craig and the Delhi choir. There will be inspiring preaching and up lift-ing music please plan to come join us.
Country DanceSam Bentley Band will be playing true
country dance music at the Geronimo VFW Post 8456, 6808 N Highway 123, Geronimo, March 10, 3-6:30 PM. Open Seating. $7.00 do-nation. Kitchen/door opens at 2 PM. The hall is smoke free and always open to all. Info 830-303-9903/830-379-9260.
Retired TeachersAll education – related retirees are invited
to Gonzales County Retired Teachers Asso-ciation’s March 19 meeting at noon at Café-on-the-Square. Call Ann Laster (672-7609) to reserve a meal or for information.
Garden Open HouseThe Gonzales Master Gardeners would like
to invite the public to join them at the WIC Garden Open House on March 19th from 3-6 p.m. For details, contact Cynthia Green at the WIC office.
Coloring ContestThe Gonzales Public Library will host their
annual Easter Coloring Contest starting Mon-day, March 11. The contest is open for kids ages 3-10. Contest pages are avaiolable at the Library.
All entries need to be returned to the Li-brary by Friday, March 22. Winners will be notified before Easter to pick up their prizes.
Country SoundsAl Sulak’s Country Sounds (country-west-
ern/polka) will be playing at Turner Hall near Yoakum on Saturday, March 9 for a Dance Club #90. The dance is open to the public from 8 p.m.-midnight, admission $10. For in-formation, call Wilburn Pargmann at 361-293-5576.
Jim Price CleanupThe Annual Jim Price Community-Wide
Cleanup in scheduled in Gonzales Saturday, April 20. The event will be held at Apache Field, 456 Tate Street. Tire and electronic dis-posal are being added to the event this year.
Biblical healthBiblical Principles of Health Conference
at Sleep Inn Conference Room, Saturday March 9, from 9-5, will explore what the Bible teaches about healthcare and healing. Tom and Sandy Schmidt will be teaching the con-ference based on the book, A More Excellent Way by Henry Wright. Call Sandy Schmidt at 210-722-7990 or Sherry Poe 830 857 4960 for more information. Reegistration needed to reserve place in limited seating.
Texas NationalistsGonzales County members of the Texas Na-
tionalist Movement will host an information meeting for the public starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March16 at Boomer’s Sports Bar, 2513 Harwood Road in Gonzales. Gonzales County Coordinator Dave Mundy will explain the organization’s beliefs, core principles and goals, and members will also be available to answer questions from anyone interested in learning more about the group.
Historical CommissionThe Gonzales County Historical Commis-
sion is accepting applications form county residents wishing to serve a two-year term on the commission for 2013-14. Applica-tions received by Feb. 22 wil be reviewed and appointments made by Gonzales County Commissioners Court at its regular March meetings.
Application forms may be picked up at the Gonzales County Archives, 1709 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, or by contacting chairperson Glenda Gordon at 512-924-5850, [email protected], or secretary Pat Mosher at 830-672-7970, [email protected].
Al-Anon meetingAlcoholics Anonymous meets every
Monday and Friday at 8 p.m. at the Epis-copal 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.
Free GED ClassesFREE GED classes, day (M T W and Th, 8
30 to noon) and night (M and W 6 30 to 9), Gonzales Learning Center, 1135 St. Paul, 672-8291.
Free piano lessonsFree piano lessons for students 8-18 are
being offered in Gonzales.There are 10 weekly lessons that take
place from 3:45-4:45 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Gonzales
Public Library, located at 415 St. Matthew.Registration must be done at the library
by a parent or legal guardian and library membership is required. No telephone reg-istrations will be accepted.
For more information, call the library at 830-672-6315.
Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family Violence
Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit organi-zation providing services to both residents and non-residents that are victims of do-mestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.
GVFVS provides survivors with legal ad-vocacy, case management, counseling, as-sistance with crime victims compensation and other services at no cost. For more in-formation, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.
Toastmasters meetCome and Speak It Toastmasters Club
meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, from 12-1 p.m. at the Gonzales County Farm Bureau Community Room, lo-cated at 1731 Seydler Street.
The Toastmasters environment is friendly and supportive whether you are a profes-sional, student, stay-at-home parent or re-tiree, Toastmasters can give you the skills and confidence you need to express your-self in any situation.
For more information contact Club Presi-dent GK Willmann at 830-857-1109 or send email to [email protected], or Gerri Law-ing at 830-857-1207 or [email protected].
Parkinson Support GroupThis group meets the second Thursday
of every month at 10 a.m. in the Narthex of the First United Methodist Church. This meeting is free and open to the public and is facilitated by Wesley Nurse, Shirley Goss. Educational and supportive programs are offered. For more information, call 672-1031.
Free Exercise ProgramsFlex & Tone is held every Tuesday and
Thursday, 11-11:45 in the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church. These are chair exercises using exercise balls, dowels and hand weights. Come on, join us, and get fit. Exercises are led by an RN with blood pressure assessments available.
Walk-Exercise your way to fitness is an Video exercise available at First United Methodist Church. It is offered every Mon-day, Tuesday, and Thursday at 3 pm, and ev-ery Wednesday at 2 pm. This group meets for 45 minutes in the Fellowship Hall. It con-sists of low impact aerobic exercises and is facilitated by Shirley Goss, Wesley Nurse. Blood pressure assessments are available at each class. Come and have great fun and socialization along with gaining fitness.
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Relay VolunteersThe Texas Independence Relay is looking for Volunteers! Each Volunteer will have a 4 to
5 hour shift. If you would like to be a part of this fantastic event, please contact Georgina Biehl [email protected]. Don’t miss out on this golden opportunity!
TIR has teamed up with Team Red, White & Blue for this year’s event! Team RWB (www.teamrwb.org) is a non-profit that cares for returning veterans when they return home from combat, and we are very pleased to be able to partner with this cause! This would be a great opportunity for HS Juniors and seniors looking for those volunteer hours needed for college, or younger kids (and a parent(s)) in Boy Scouts or JROTC that would get to spend time with a veteran, and also VFW and American Legion folks!
VFW Auxiliary CookoffThe Third Annual VFW Auxiliary Post 4817 Cookoff is scheduled Saturday, March 16 at
the Gonzales VFW Post, 3302 Harwood Road. Categories include barbecue chicken, ribs and brisket as well as showmanship. There is a $15 entry fee per category, and early entry deadline is 7 p.m. March 15 at the VFW Hall. RVs will be welcome. Entry forms are available at the Gonzales Cannon office at 618 St. Paul. Proceeds will benefit the Scholarship Fund. For details, contact Dorothy Gast at 254-931-5712, Michelle McKinney at 830-263-0793 or Linda Payne at 512-426-1207.
Lecture SeriesThe Gonzales Church of Christ, located at 1323 Seydler Street in Gonzales, will be host-
ing a series of five (5) lectures on the theme of “Jesus: The People Person”, February 22nd-24th. Friday, Feb. 22nd at 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 23rd at 5:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m. and on Sunday, Feb. 24th, at 10:30 a.m. and at 6:00 p.m. Everyone is cordially invited.
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JANAKSheryl Lynn Janak of
Moulton passed away Thursday, February 28, 2013 at the age of 41. She was born in Weimar on August 9, 1971 to Murlene Redding Simper and the late Robert Lee Simper, Sr.
Sheryl was tragically taken from us in this life. Though her time with us was too short, her impact on our lives will remain for years to come. She was not only a wife and friend but a loving daughter, sis-ter, godmother, aunt, and a second mother to many in her family.
Sheryl was a true lov-ing angel to everyone who entered her life. She took immense pride in her work at Lone Star Bank. She con-sidered the bank her sec-ond home and those she worked with as her family.
She is survived by her husband, Kenward Janak of Moulton; mother, Murlene Simper of Moulton; sis-ters, Mandy Simper and the late Adam Windwehen of Victoria, Tiffany Sim-per and partner Cynthia
of Live Oak, and brother, Bobby Simper, wife April, and nephew Nicholas of Moulton.
She will also be greatly missed by her mother in law, Dolores Janak and the late Sylvester Janak; her brother-in-laws Wayne Janak and Dale Janak; her sister in law, Joane Janak, and her niece and nephews all of Moravia.
She is preceded in death by her father, Robert Lee Simper, Sr. (2001).
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, March 4 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with Fa-ther Gabriel Masion offi-ciating. Burial followed at the Moravia Catholic Cem-etery.
Pallbearers were Wayne Janak, Keith Simper, Paul Pilat, Brandon Janecek, David Kapavik, and Kevin Knesek. Honorary pall-bearer was her nephew, Nicholas Simper.
Words of comfort may be shared with the fam-ily at www.smithfuneral-homemoulton.com. Ar-rangements were made by
Smith Funeral Home, 404 West Bobkat Drive, Moult-on, Texas 77975.
Richard Johnston,1940-2013
JOHNSTONRichard Newell John-
ston, 72 of Gonzales, left this world to become part of God’s heavenly body of light on Monday, March 4, 2013.
Richard was born No-vember 4, 1940 in McMa-han to Myrl and Hender-son Johnston. Over the course of a lifetime, he progressed to owning and operating one of the largest pest control companies in
Colorado. His life was full of successes and achieve-ments including family and friends.
Richard leaves behind the mother of his chil-dren, Carolyn Halverson of Montana; daughter, Stacy Lynn Brown and husband Mike of Dallas; sons, Kevin Newell Johnston and wife Carrie of Georgetown and Mark Johnston and wife Kelly of Austin; brother, Maness Ross Johnston of Gonzales; sisters, Myrlene Jack of Elgin and Bonnie Starr of Rockport; eight grandchildren and one great-granddaughter; six nieces and nephews and six great-nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. Friday, March 8. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, March 9, 2013 at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home with Reverend Steve Faulkner officiating. Burial will fol-low at the Saturn Cemetery.
Pallbearers include Har-vey Massey, David John-ston, Raul Zapata, Clay Boscamp, Kevin Hicks and Griff Robinson. Honor-ary pallbearers are Sandra Murray and Vicki Hicks.
In lieu of flowers memo-rial contributions may be made in Richard’s memory to the Diabetes Foundation of your choice. Arrange-ments under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home 906 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 830-672-3232.
Juan Camarillo, 1934-2013
CAMARILLOJuan Camarillo, 78, of
Gonzales, Texas passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at DeTar-Navarro Hos-pital in Victoria, Texas.
Funeral Mass was under the direction of Buffington Funeral Home in Gonzales, Texas and was held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at Sacred Heart Catho-lic Church in Gonzales, Texas with Father Paul Raaz officiating. Cremation Rites followed. A Rosary was re-cited at 7:00 pm on Satur-day, March 2, 2013 at Sacred
Heart Catholic Church in Gonzales, Texas with Deacon Terry Brennan officiating.
Juan was born March 30, 1934 in Gonzales, Texas. He was the son of Ascencion and Herlinda Camarillo. He married Juanita Zertuche in Gonzales, Texas in 1957. Juan loved having BBQs and drinking his beer while lis-tening to Norteno Music. He loved his children. Juan Mar-ried Ruth Ganoe in Gonza-les, Texas in 1989. He was a “Jack of all Trades” who could take care of his garden and ef-ficiently operate 18 different pieces of heavy equipment.
Juan is survived by Ruth, his loving wife of 26 years, four sons; Carlos A. Camaril-lo and his wife, Veronica Sue of Gonzales, Texas, Andres and his wife, Isabel of Kyle, Texas, Freddy Camarillo and his wife, Yvette of Freind-swood, Texas, Juan C. Ca-marillo of Austin, Texas, six daughters; Linda Bazan and her husband, Gerald of Gon-zales, Texas, Carmen A. Rive-ra and her husband, Ricky of Gonzales, Texas, Rosa E. Bel-tran and her husband, Eli of Georgetown, Texas, Rita D. Velasquez and her husband, Lupe of Austin, Texas, Dora Leticia Gomez of Gonzales, Texas, Mary Lou Jaramillo and her husband, Jesse of Richmond, Texas, twenty-six grandchildren, five great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Ascencion and Herlinda Camarillo, his step-mother, Nicholas Ca-marillo, and his brother, San-tos Camarillo.
To join the family in cel-ebrating Juan’s life, please log onto www.buffingtonfuner-alhomegonzales.com
MARTINEZMatilde Martinez, March
14, 1914 - February 27, 2013Psalm 23:4Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Matilde Martinez at the age of 98, a devoted spouse, mother, sister, grandmoth-er, great grandmother, and
great-great grandmother peacefully passed away and went to eternal rest with our Lord on February 27, 2013.
Always calling Waelder, Texas her home she lived in Austin, Texas for a number of years before returning to her beloved hometown. While in Austin she worked in cleaning services for IBM.
She had a passion for quilting, cooking and gar-dening.
She was preceded in death by Sebastian, her beloved husband; daughter Esperan-za Canales, daughter Raquel Martinez, and son Jose P. Martinez.
Matilde is survived by daughter Amelia Alvarado and husband Amador; daughter Natividad Tovar and husband Joe; son, Rob-ert Martinez; daughter in law Esperanza Martinez; son in law Max Canales, 24 grand children, 33 great grand children, and 20 great-great grand children.
Recitation of the holy rosary will be celebrated 7:00 PM March 1, 2013 at Buffington Funeral Home, 424 St. Peters St., Gonzales, Texas.
Funeral mass followed by rites of Christian Burial was celebrated at 10:00 AM March 2, 2013 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Waelder, Texas. Internment followed at Waelder Community Cemetery.
Pallbearers were grand-sons: Alex Martinez, Gilbert Tovar, Joshua Tovar, Edward Tovar, Alfredo Vargas, Her-man Canales.
Honorary pallbearers: Randy Martinez, Alfonso Vargas, and Ray N. Flores.
The family wishes to say thank you to Gonzales Me-morial Hospital staff, The Heights of Gonzales staff, Max Canales, South Texas Hospice, and Dr. Thomas for their assistance and care.
Arrangements by Buffing-ton Funeral Home, 424 St. Peters Street, Gonzales, TX. Telephone 830-672-3322.
To join the family in cel-ebrating Matilde’s life, please go to www.buffingtonfuner-alhomegonzales.com
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Obituaries
Catholic Daughters fundraiser set
Seydler-Hill Funeral Home“Proudly Serving the Gonzales Area Since 1914”
906 St. Paul, Gonzales830-672-3232
THANK YOU!To everyone who was there in my time of need
when I had my heart attack.Karen Walker Carroll, Gonzales EMS - Jim Russell, Robert McCauley & everyone, Fire
Department, SO, PD, Gonzales Healthcare ER doctors & staff, Air Flight, Methodist Texsan
Hospital doctors & staff. To my family and friends who were there by mine and Mabel’s side. To all
the churches and everyone for all the prayers, phone calls and visits - Thank You - God is Good!
Appreciate Life & the ones you love you never know when it might be your time.Thank you - Ben & Mabel Richter
Thank YouWe would like to gratefully thank Dr. Terry Eska, nurses and
staff at Gonzales Memorial Hospital, nurses and staff of Accolade Hospice of Yoakum, nurses and staff of The Heights,
Revs. Andy Smith and Chad Chamness, and Tim Markham and staff of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home for the care and compassion
given our loved one during his illness and time of passing.
Heartfelt thanks also go out to everyone for the prayers, visits, food, flowers, memorials, and sympathy shown us during this
sad time. A special thanks also to the members of the First United Methodist Church for providing the meal after the
service.
William P. (Bill) Mercer was a devoted husband, loving father, grandfather and great-grandfather, a true patriot and friend,
and he will be greatly missed.
Thank you all, and God Bless.
The Family of William P. (Bill) Mercer
Josephine, Larry & Beth, Jo Ann, Clay & Tamela, Michael & Kristi, Sarah & James, Linda & L.R., and his great grandchildren
4-Piece Kettle Fried Chicken Dinner
Sunday, March 10, 2013Shiner K.C. Park - $8.00/plate
Sponsored by Shiner CDA and JCDABuy Tickets for Gonzales Delivery
at Gonzales Poultry SupplyPick-up Pre-ordered Plates
in GonzalesAt Wal-Mart Parking Lot11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon,
March 10
SHINER — The Catholic Daughters and Junior Catholic Daughters of Shiner are spon-soring a kettle fried chicken dinner at the Shiner K.C. Park. Menu includes four pieces fried chicken, giblet rice and green beans. Tickets are $8.00 each. Serving in Shiner will be in drive-thru lines from 10:30 AM until 12:15 PM (or until sold out).
Tickets for Shiner pick-up are available from Patek’s Gro-cery and Quality Pharmacy in Shiner or from JCDA mem-bers.
Delivery is also available to Yoakum and Gonzales with advance tickets only.
Yoakum patrons can pur-chase tickets at All-Med Sales & Rentals, Yoakum, or by call-ing Jo Ann at 361-293-1839. Plates are to be picked up at Jahn Refrigeration parking lot
on Sunday, March 10, from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Gonzales patrons can pur-chase tickets at Gonzales Poultry Supply or by calling 830-857-5448. Plates are to be picked up at Wal-Mart park-ing lot on Sunday, March 10, from 11 am – 12 pm.
Annual Rummage Sale, March 15 & 16, 2013
The Shiner Catholic Daugh-ters are sponsoring their An-nual Rummage Sale on Friday, March 15, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 16, from 8:00-11:00 a.m. at the Shiner K.C. Park Hall. This is tradi-tionally a huge sale with hun-dreds of bargains to choose from, including a special 25 cents room.
Proceeds from these proj-ects help fund scholarships and other charitable projects of the Catholic Daughters.
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