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The talents of a local woman are taking her to places where most peo-ple can only dream about being.

Destiny Tealer, 23 of Gonzales, is a contestant on the popular TV show “America’s Got Talent,” a televised competition pitting hopefuls against each other for a shot a fame and for-tune.

Tealer was a reluctant entrant into the contest since it was her cousin, Tabitha Eldridge, that enrolled her into the competition without her knowledge.

“She was the one who actually en-tered me in it,” Tealer said. “I would

have never done it if she hadn’t gone behind my back because I get stage fright, so I usually don’t like to sing in front of a lot of people.”

The two cousins traveled to Austin on Jan. 14 for the initial audition,where they waited for sev-eral hours with other hopefuls.

“We were there from 7:30 in the morning to 3 p.m.,” recalled Tealer. “I waited in line for a long time before I got to audition, but it was worth it. It was very exciting.”

Tealer entered the audition room along with three other contestants and they took turns performing be-fore a single judge. Tealer performed a rendition of “Blessed” by Rachel

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Council givesgreen light totruck parkBy CEDRIC IGLEHART

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Headed for AustinThe Moulton Bobkittens earned a trip to the state tournament and will play Neches at 7 p.m. Friday at the University of Texas Frank Erwin Center in the Class 1A Division II semifinal. Also in a state tournament are the St. Paul Lady Cardinals, who are set to play in the TAPPS Division IV tourney Friday against Sherman Texoma Christian at 6 p.m. in Mansfield. For full coverage of area basketball playoff action, see Section C. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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Local woman earns Vegas tripfor ‘America’s Got Talent’By CEDRIC IGLEHART

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Counties seek fuel thief

Authorities in two counties are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man seen by security cameras steal-ing diesel fuel from county facilities.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek and Gonzales Co. Precinct 3 Constable Raleigh Measom are asking for as-sistance from the public in identifying the individual in the photo at right. Additional photos are available on our website at gonzalescannon.com.

Investigators advise that the subject could be from Fay-ette, Bastrop, Gonzales, Caldwell, or Travis County

This individual has been involved in several thefts in Fayette and Gonzales counties. The Sheriff’s Office is wanting to question this individual in reference to a felo-ny case. If anyone can identify this individual you can con-tact the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office at (979) 968-5856 and ask for Investigator Chris McClurg or Lt. David Beyer, or contact Measom at at 830-857-3380 or 830-788-7166. If anyone is able to identify this subject Fayette County Crime Stoppers is willing to pay up to $2,500.

Gonzales City Council on Tuesday gave thumbs-up to a rezoning request which will enable a local property owner to build a parking lot for tractor-trailer rigs, and the Council also heard the city government is working actively to provide better communcation between the city and its constituency.

Council approved a reso-lution re-zoning a property adjacent to the Tuch Tire Co. store from C-2 (Com-mercial) to M-1 (Industri-al) to enable owner Michael Tuch to pave the area for big-rig parking. The city has

seen greatly increased truck traffic during the past two years as development of the Eagle Ford Shale oil fields has progressed, and parked trucks have become an is-sue in the city, especially in the area near the county courthouse annex on Sarah DeWitt Dr. near the Tuch Tire facility.

“This is something that is certainly needed,” noted Councilman Bobby Logan.

During Tuesday’s meet-ing, Council received com-ments from a couple of citizens about the openness with which some city com-mittees conduct their meet-ings and how the city’s web-

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Alberto M. Perez

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Destiny TealerDESTINY, Page A3

A man is in custody at the Gonzales County Jail after he was arrested Tuesday in regards to a report of sexual abuse of a child.

A l b e r t o M i g u e l Perez, 30 of G o n z a l e s , was arrested by the Gon-zales Police Department after two girls - ages 10 and 13 - made an outcry of being sexually abused Tuesday afternoon. Authorities responded to the residence on College Street and took Perez into custody about 5:30 p.m., charging him with one count of sexual assault and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact. When he arrived at the jail, he was also charged with one count of possession of a prohibitive substance in a correctional facility.

Perez was arraigned Tues-day morning on those three charges and his bond was set at $160,000. As of press time, he is in custody.

Gonzales Police Capt. Al-ASSAULT, Page A3

On Sunday, Feb. 19, at about 12:35 a.m., Caldwell County deputies responded to an aggravated robbery in the 200 block of Witter Road, near Dale.

Sheriff Daniel C. Law stated the deputy found the victim had been stabbed four times during an aggravated robbery.

The victim stated he was alone in his bedroom when someone opened the front door and entered the resi-dence. When the victim con-fronted the intruder, he was attacked and stabbed twice in the back and twice in the chest as he fought the at-tacker.

The victim was able to es-cape from the attacker and flee out the back door of the

residence. The victim stated the attacker fled the scene in a gray Jeep Cherokee. The vic-tim went back inside the resi-dence and called 911. Shortly thereafter, he was treated by EMS and transported to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin.

Lockhart Police Depart-ment units and a DPS Troop-er assisted Caldwell County Sheriff’s units in locating and identifying the driver of the suspect vehicle.

David McClendon, 32 of San Marcos, was taken into custody by Sheriff’s deputies. A number of pieces of jewel-ry were found in the suspect’s pocket and held as evidence. McClendon was taken to Seton Medical Center for in-juries from an unknown inci-

dent and then transported to the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office and placed in jail.

McClendon was charged with aggravated robbery, possession of a controlled substance, and evading ar-rest/detention with a vehicle. Bond was set at $600,000.

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Thought for the Day

“These, and other grievances, were pa-tiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the na-tional constitution. We appealed to our Mexi-can brethren for assis-tance. Our appeal has been made in vain.”

—From the TexasDeclaration of

Independence, 1836

March 2, 1836On this day in 1836, Texas became a republic. On

March 1 delegates from the seventeen Mexican mu-nicipalities of Texas and the settlement of Pecan Point met at Washington-on-the-Brazos to consider inde-pendence from Mexico. George C. Childress presented a resolution calling for independence, and the chair-man of the convention appointed Childress to head a committee of five to draft a declaration of indepen-dence. In the early morning hours of March 2, the con-vention voted unanimously to accept the resolution. After fifty-eight members signed the document, Texas became the Republic of Texas.

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Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice Sheriff’s Report for Feb. 19-25:

02/19/12West, Anna Louise, 08/1978,

Cuero. Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Released on $3,000 Bond.

02/20/12Chavez, Pedro, 12/1953, Taft.

Commitment/Sentence – Driving while Intoxicated 3rd or More. Re-leased – Time Served.

02/22/12Jones, Frederick O’Neal,

12/1982, Victoria. Victoria County Warrant – Unauthorized Use of Vehicle. Transferred to Victoria County.

02/23/12

Dodds, Ladonna Nacole, 02/1986, Seguin. Local Warrant – Criminal Mischief >$500 <$1,500. Local Warrant – Resist Arrest Search or Transport. Requires $5,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

02/24/12Ramirez, Adam, 03/1972,

Waelder. Lavaca County War-rant – Theft by Check. Released on $1,000 Bond. Local Warrant – Theft of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Released on $500 Bond.

Palacios, Librado Jr., 01/1989, Gonzales. Commitment/Sen-tence – Burglary of a Building. Released – Weekender – Work Release.

Ivey, Darrell Leon, 10/1968,

Gonzales. Violate Bond/Protec-tive Order with 2+ previous Con-vicitons. Requires $7,500 Bond. Transferred to another Facility.

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

GCSO 07DPS 04GPD 06WPD 02NPD 03Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 22

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Report for Feb. 20- Feb. 26:

02/20/12Case #12-062, Att. Burglary-

Residence, 401 S. South; Disposi-tion, Investigation.

02/22/12Case #172158, Traffic Arrest,

100 Burt; Disposition, Cleared by Arrest.

Case #172156, Lopez, Manaen, 35, Yoakum, 100 Burt; Offense, No Drivers License; Disposition, Fine/$214/Rel.

02/23/12

Case #12-064, Forgery, 101 E. Gonzales; Disposition, Investiga-tion.

02/24/12Case #172087, Thwarting,

Jones, Kristie, 37, Yoakum, 900 Ir-vine; Offense, Thwarting; Dispo-sition, Fine/$579/YPD Custody.

Case #172191, Warrant Ar-rest, Jones, Kristie, 37, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense, CPF#10-490-Assault; Disposition, Fine/$533/YPD Custody.

Case #12-065, Assault-C, 100 Hutchinson; Disposition, Court Citation.

02/26/12Case #172215, Illegal entry,

Reyes-Riojas, Jose, 22, Yoakum, 805 Davis; Offense, Illegal Entry; Disposition, Rel. A.C.E, Corpus Christi.

Gonzales Municipal Court No-tice for Feb. 22: Defendants who receive a citation(s) must appear on or before the date indicated on the citation(s). Their appear-ance must be in writing, in per-son or by an attorney, and any change of address must be given to the court.

Defendants listed below have recently missed their scheduled court date and their failure to respond will result in a warrant(s) being issued for their arrest. An additional charge of violate promise to appear being added to their fine.

In addition to the original charge, there will be a warrant fee for violate promise to appear. In addition, you may be denied the renewal of your driver license from the Department of Public Safety and collection of debt fees by attorneys at law.

Justin Michael FonsecaLuis Carlos GarciaRobyn GarciTyler B. TuckerSamuel ChoppLannon D. ElkinsJohn BroussardRicardo Gonzales AlvaradoAngel Isidro HernandezJaime Zamora CarmonaNelson Rafael Lagos CastroElizabeth Castillo RosasPhil Prado MaldonadoTray Dejuan LarkinJuan Gonzalez

Veronia RodriguezMarsha Ann Hernandez Helen Agnes IveyJohn Paul CasaresJessie Taylor MikeshsGreta Kay PetersonDennis Lee GarzaCarlos NavarroDusty BartaJames Robert MayesAshley Nicole SmithMarcus W. Miller

Daniel R. FrankJustin HastingsJazmin SantosMiguel Angel Garcia

Luis Alberto HernandezBrittanie Bailey Victoria FurnaceMarty Lee VegaErnesto IzaguirreWilliam Craig Wilson The above listed defendants

need to contact the court as soon as possible at 830-672-2815. If you have any outstand-ing fines your name may make the next list.

DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from Feb. 17-23

February 17Arrested Roland Diaz, 35, of Cu-

ero. Criminal Nonsupport Court Or-dered Payment of $3,500.00. DeWitt County SO

Arrested Cassondea Dawn Scott, 33, of Cuero. Failure to Appear/Theft by Check Bond of $1,000.00. DeWitt County SO.

Arrested Maxie Tumlinson Jr, 48, of Yorktown, Capias Pro Fine/Public Intoxication. Fine of $364.00 York-town PD.

Arrested George Abe Brown II, 26, of Cuero, No Driver License Fine of $319.80: 30 days to pay, Failure to Appear Fine of 509.60: 30 days to pay. Cuero PD.

Arrested Tommy Goode, 52, of Austin. Capias Pro Fine/Public Intoxi-cation fine of $129.00. Yorktown PD.

Arrested Michael Lee Jasso, 41, of Cuero, Failure to Appear/Court Fine of $362.00: 30 Days to pay, Cuero PD.

Arrested Dina Hoffman, 40, of Cuero. Failure to Appear/Court Fine of $392.00: 30 days to pay, Cuero PD.

February 18Arrested William Mark Dean, 52,

of Yoakum, Capias Pro Fine/Speed-ing Fine of $291.00, Capias Pro Fine/Speeding fine of $231.00, Capias Pro Fine/Failure to Appear Fine of $442.00. DPS

February 19Arrested a subject on an out-

standing warrant on FM 951Arrested James Ray Gonzales, 51,

of Yorktown, Possession Marijuana < 2oz Bond of $1,200.00, Driving While License Invaild W/ Previous Conviction Bond of $1,200.00. York-town PD.

Arrested Santana Fonseca, 25, of Yorktown. Capias Pro Fine/Public

Intoxication fine of $415.00, Public Intoxation/ 30 Days to Pay. Yorktown PD.

Arrested Darwin Jamal Powell, 32, of San Antonio. Endangering A Child bond of $15,000.00, Endan-gering A Child bond of $15,000.00, Endangering A Child bond of $15,000.00, Evading Arrest Deten-tion W/ Vehicle bond of $12,000.00, Reckless Driving bond of $1,000.00, Disregard Red Light/ 30 Days to Pay, Disregard Red Light/ 30 Days to Pay. DeWitt County SO

Arrested Jason Lee Carter Sr, 29, of Cuero, Burglary of Building bond of $7,500.00. Cuero PD.

Arrested Wendy Migl, 26, of Yoa-kum, VP/Poss CS PG 1 1G<4G (Victo-ria Co.), Bond of $30,000.00, DeWitt County SO

February 20Arrested Daniel Morales-Gutier-

rez,26, of Temple, Illegal Entry, No Bond, Cuero PD

Arrested Noe Camacho-Alonso, 42, of Temple, Illegal Entry, No Bond, Cuero PD

Arrested Timothy Hays, 50, of Victoria, Manufacture Delivery of Controlled Substance PG 1 > 1G < 4 G, Bond of $50,000, Manufacture Delivery of Controlled Substance PG 1 >= 4 G < 200 G, Bond of $50,000, Yorktown PD

February 21Arrested Roger Gonzales, 40, of

Cuero, Public Intoxication, Fine of $364 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Dina Molina, 37, of Yoakum, Theft of Property by Check, Bond of $1,000, Class C / Speeding 11-15 Above Limit, Fine of $216 (30 Days to Pay), Class C/ Failure to Ap-pear on Speeding, Fine of $367 (30 Days to Pay), DeWitt County SO

February 22Arrested Winkler Thomas Allen,

49, of Austin, Motion To Revoke - Theft (Nueces Co.), No Bond. DeWitt County SO

February 23Arrested Kyle Henry, 30, of Cuero,

Disorderly Conduct (Fighting), 30 Days To Pay. Yorktown PD

Arrested Marcus Olivarez, 39, of Smiley, Disorderly Conduct (Fight-ing), 30 Days To Pay. Yorktown PD

Arrested Solis Matthew Santiago, 26, of Cuero, No License Plate/ 30 Days To Pay, Failure To Appear/30 days To Pay, Capias Pro Fine/No Li-ability Ins.- 1st

Offense Fine of $591.50, Capias Pro Fine/Disregard Stop Sign Fine of $273.00. DeWitt County SO.

Arrested Celinda Ramirez, 43, of Smiley, Disorderly Conduct (Fight-ing), 30 Days To Pay. Yorktown PD, Criminal Mischief > = $500.00 < $1,500.00, Bond Of $1,200.00, Resist-ing Arrest, Bond of $1,200.00. DeWitt County SO.

Arrested Christy Cessor, 30, of Cuero, Violation Of Probation - Bur-glary of

Habitation, Bond Of $20,000.00. DeWitt County SO.

Arrested Casey Rene Jackson, 34, of Cuero, Capias Pro Fine/ Driv-ing While License Invalid Fine of $458.20, Capias Pro Fine No Liabil-ity Ins.- 1st Offense Fine of $657.80, Capias Pro Fine/ Child 5 & Over Ride Unsecured Fine of $406.90, Theft Of Property > = $20.00 < $500.00, Bond Of $500.00. DeWitt County SO.

Arrested Jose Meneses Vega, 60, of Dennison, Revocation of Proba-tion/Driving While Intoxicated, No Bond, DeWitt County SO

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site needs an update.Roger Eberle said his

wife had presented a proj-ect to the Beautification Committee at considerable personal expense, but had seen the committee reject the idea without providing any justification. Dennis Nesser said he would like to see more of the city’s vari-ous committees reporting to council and the public, and also pointed out that many documents on the city’s website are outdated.

City Manager Allen Barnes said the city was already moving on both is-sues.

“Beginning with the

March 6 meeting, we will have at least one report from a committee at each council meeting, rotating them so you get at least two per year,” he said. “We are also in the process of com-pletely re-designing the city’s website, and we have some forms in the back of the room for the public’s suggestions.”

Those forms are avail-able at City Hall, and the website redesign will be brought before the Coun-cil for final approval.

In other business Tues-day, the Council held pub-lic hearings on the 2012-13 city budget and Gonzales

Economic Development Corp. budget.

Council also welcomed new city finance direc-tor Pam Larison, and ap-proved authorization for her to be a signatory for the city’s TexPool assets; approved a resolution au-thorizing Barnes to enter into a contract with a le-gal firm representing six other cities to negotiate a rate increase with Texas Gas Services; and passed a resolution authorizing the re-zoning of several par-cels on the the east side of Seydler St. from R-1 (Resi-dential) to C-2 (Commer-cial).

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ASSAULT: Man in custody

South Texas Poison Center shares facts on household chemicals

SAN ANTONIO — After a recent inci-dent in which children at a Gonzales day-care facility were mistakenly given diluted bleach to drink, the South Texas Poison Center wants to share the facts about the hazards of this and other household chem-icals.

At least one child last Wednesday re-portedly drank a bleach solution that con-sisted of a quarter cup of bleach per gallon of water.

“It’s nowhere near the dose that would cause a serious adverse health effect,” said Miguel Fernández, M.D., a medical toxi-cologist and the director of the South Tex-

as Poison Center. “It’s the dose that makes the poison.”

Reports of children swallowing bleach are among the most common calls to the poison center, Dr. Fernández said. But it’s rare that someone swallows enough house-hold bleach to need to go to the hospital or emergency room, and that’s especially true with a diluted bleach solution.

“We nearly always recommend that those children stay under observation at home unless there is some other factor in-volved,” said Dr. Fernández, who is also an emergency room physician and professor of surgery with UT Medicine San Antonio, the clinical practice of the School of Medi-cine at The University of Texas Health Sci-ence Center at San Antonio.

Unless someone has ingested very large amounts of household bleach, which rarely occurs accidentally, the most likely adverse effects would be stomach upset and throat irritation, Dr. Fernández said.

He made the distinction between household and industrial bleach; ingest-ing the latter can be far more serious. Smaller amounts of industrial bleach can cause nausea, vomiting, inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract and oral cavity, corrosion of tissues and gastrointestinal bleeding.

Still, Dr. Fernández says, parents should not take chances. If they suspect a child has consumed household bleach, their first call should be to the South Texas Poi-son Center at 800-222-1222. The center is

available to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and service is free, confidential and bilingual in English and Spanish.

Dr. Fernández cautions parents and childcare providers to store household chemicals securely, preferably in a high, locked cabinet or other place that is in-accessible to children. He made special mention of chemicals associated with cars, including antifreeze and windshield wiper fluid, which are far more hazardous than household bleach.

Finally, he recommends against mixing chemicals and storing them in anything other than their original containers: “Kids will drink out of something because they think the container tells them what’s in-side.”

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len Taylor said the two girls were taken to the hospi-tal for evaluation and later taken to Norma’s House (Gonzales County Regional

Child Advocacy Center) for interviewing.

Although Perez gave a Gonzales address, officials believe that he may be illegal alien from Guatemala. The investigation is still ongoing.

Lampa.All of the performers left

the room without an in-kling of how they did and it wasn’t until Tuesday when Tealer received the call telling her she had indeed qualified for a second au-dition on March 23 in Las Vegas.

“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “But having that expe-rience did push me toward wanting to do it more.”

The upcoming auditions will be among the ones that will air nationally when AGT returns this summer. Las Vegas Week has been an intermediary round be-tween the auditions and live shows that take place in a notable venue on the Las Vegas Strip. Names for this round in previous seasons have included “Las Vegas Callbacks” and “Vegas Ver-dicts”.

The Las Vegas round generally consists of acts performing a second time for the judges, who then pick select acts to move on the live shows. An act elim-inated in Las Vegas Week is not completely excluded from the live show com-petition, as several seasons have featured contestants being brought back from

this round as “wild card” acts.

Tealer plans to sing “I Hope You Dance” by Lee-ann Womack for the judges that will include Howie Mandel, Sharon Osborne and the iconic Howard Stern. If she passes through to the next round, then she will be on to Hollywood and on her way to the grand prize of a performing con-tract with a Las Vegas ca-sino and $1 million in cash.

“I’ve thought about what it would be like to win,” Tealer admitted. “When I make it my plans are to get a house and move my grand-mother (Emilia Zuniga)in because she’s my heart. She’s the one that raised me and I plan on being able to give her the world.”

Tealer, who has been singing since she was six years old, wanted to extend a special message to all of her backers.

“I just want to thank all of my family and friends for their support,” she said. “I feel like I have all of Gon-zales behind me on this all of the way.”

“America’s Got Talent” will return for its seventh season this summer. No premiere has been set, but national auditions began on Feb. 3 in Charlotte.


DESTINY: Localwoman advances

The Gonzales Economic Development Corp. gave the go-ahead Monday to a new business to locate in the city, and also authorized grants to help another local business get a facelift.

The GEDC board of di-rectors gave its approval to a grant application by Wise Products Inc. Wise presi-dent Gary Beavers told the board he plans to locate a

12,000-square-foot ware-house in Gonzales as part of his company’s expanding casket-making business.

The company is based in Honey Grove, north of the Dallas-Fort Worth Me-troplex, and has facilities already in Waco and Sweet-water.

Honey Grove was found-ed, legend has it, by Davy Crockett, who came through the area on his way to fight at The Alamo. Beavers said he is a big fan of Texas history,

“So Gonzales was just natu-rally fascinating to me.”

The grant application will require the company to add two new full-time positions a year for five years.

The board also gave ap-proval to a $10,000 Small Business Incentive Grant to Tammy Hillman, owner of The China Basket. SBIG grants are typically used to remodel or renovate busi-nesses located in the old downtown area of Gonzales.

The board also received a

grant application from Con-nie Dolezal of Shear Designs for future consideration.

During the staff reports section of the meeting, GEDC director Carolyn Gibson gave the board some welcome facts and figures. Figures from the Texas Comptroller’s office show that statewide, Texas has an unemployment rate of 7.4 percent -- but Gonzales County, as well as Lavaca County, have unemploy-ment rates considerably lower: just 4.9 percent.

Gibson also reported the City of Gonzales had also seen a substantial increase over the last year in the amount of monies collect-ed by the city’s hotel/mo-tel tax. During Fiscal Year 2010, the city collected some $155,874, but during FY 2011, she said, the city collected $243,292 -- an in-crease of nearly $100,000.

Gibson also reported that the Tourism Commit-tee is nearing completion of its smart-phone app project.

“Videotaping is finished, and once they’re done you can take a picture of the QR (Quick Response) code

with your cell phone and it will come up with the video and commentary,” about the city’s various museums, historic houses and other destination sites. “Very, very few cities in Texas have anything like this, it will help attract visitors.”

Board member Clint Hille noted the city was already receiving visitors as a result of having several structures

featured in a recent edition of “This Old House” maga-zine. “I heard the other day from a doctor from Shreve-port who said he was com-ing here after seeing that,” Hille noted.

You can see the online edition of that magazine’s feature on Gonzales at:

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Horse rescuedAnimal Care and Control responded to a possible dead horse at the HEB parking lot Feb. 22. Officer Larry Valis and a good Samaritan were able to get the horse breathing and on its feet. (Photo courtesy Gonzales PD)

The state of Texas is cur-rently involved in two court cases that raise ques-tions about the theory and practice of civil rights laws. Since 1968, the Civil Rights laws have claimed to protect Hispanics, other minorities, and women from discrimination while helping them enter the mainstream of society.

However, these laws have not promoted equal opportunity; rather, they have created a sense of en-titlement among groups, and encouraged reverse discrimination. They have also had a detrimental ef-fect on the integration of American society.

Affirmative action and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act are two exam-ples of how promoting civil rights turned upside down. In the recent case of Fisher vs. University of Texas, two students who were denied admission in 2008, hope to overturn the 2003 Supreme Court ruling that allows race to be considered in college admissions. These two white students are vic-tims — yes, victims — of reverse discrimination, otherwise known as affir-mative action.

Affirmative action refers to policies that take race and other physical features into consideration in order to benefit an underrepre-sented group or “protected class.” The justification for affirmative action is that

it helps to compensate for past discrimination, per-secution, or exploitation by the ruling class of a culture, and to address existing discrimination.

So is it good to discrimi-nate against one group to make up for discrimination against another group? And how long does this policy have to exist? How do we determine when equality is reached?

The other example of civil rights becoming civil wrongs is Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This Act forces Texas and certain other states with a “history of discrimination” to pre-clear their election laws with the Justice Depart-ment. It covers any attempt by these specific states to change “any voting quali-fication or prerequisite to voting, or standard, prac-tice, or procedure with respect to voting...” in any covered jurisdiction. Texas has to demonstrate that a proposed voting change does not have the purpose

and will not have the effect of discriminating based on race or color.

The problem is that these other states are pre-sumed guilty without any trial or specific allegation. Liberal Hispanic groups have challenged the redis-tricting of Texas based on the assumption that all His-panics vote for Democrats, and therefore districts with Democrats should be pro-tected. Since when have Democrats become a pro-tected class or synonymous with Hispanics?

When will Democrats al-low Hispanics be integrated into society politically and socially? Also, why pick on certain states and not ap-ply this law to all states? Isn’t that discriminatory and selective enforcement?

Considerations of race, ethnicity, color, national origin, gender, and sexual orientation have no place in a constitutional repub-lic. There should be equal opportunity for all with in-dividual responsibility for growth and achievement. We have been drifting to-ward a system where the government determines who participates and to what degree for 45 years, and it’s time to stop and reverse the trend. No one should get special privi-leges or protections.

About a month ago, people who thought religious institutions shouldn’t be forced to pay for things they mor-ally oppose were unre-markable, boring even. Now, they are waging a heinous War on Women.

Through the twisted logic of statism run amok, opposition to a new Health and Hu-man Services mandate forcing employers to buy insurance covering contraceptives becomes opposition to access to contraceptives altogeth-er. White House spokes-man Jay Carney calls a Senate bill to allow em-ployers to forgo buying coverage for services they oppose -- as they have throughout the na-tion’s entire history up to this point -- “danger-ous and wrong.”

Three Democratic women senators, Jeanne Shaheen (New Hamp-shire), Barbara Boxer (California) and Patty Murray (Washington), wrote in The Wall Street Journal that critics of the mandate “are trying to force their politics on women’s personal health-care decisions.” How are they proposing to do that exactly? The Catholic bishops are merely fighting to keep institutions affiliated with their church from getting coerced into par-ticipating in what they consider a moral wrong. They are the agents of a status quo that the day before yesterday wasn’t considered objection-able, let alone an assault

on women’s health. Supporters of the

mandate like the three senators cite the statis-tic from the Guttmacher Institute that 99 percent of women who have been sexually active in the U.S. have used birth control. This doesn’t sound like a country facing a crisis of contra-ception. But prescrip-tion contraceptives are expensive, the senators argue, costing as much as $600 a year. (Or, looked at another way, less than $60 a month.)

Never mind that a vast government apparatus exists to provide poor women access to contra-ceptives, from Medicaid and community health centers to Title X. There are roughly 4,500 Title X-funded clinics around the country. They are required to provide free birth control to the poor and subsidized birth control to people with incomes between 100 percent and 250 percent of poverty. They serve about 5 million people a year.

Of all the causes of the explosion in illegitimate births, limited access to contraception can’t be high on the list. At the same time that we have

seen a profusion of con-traceptives that are daz-zling in their variety, impressive in their effi-cacy and democratic in their widespread acces-sibility, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 10 percent in 1970 to 42 percent today (largely among poor women with access to govern-ment-provided contra-ceptives).

In its extension to religious institutions, the HHS mandate can only reach a very nar-row slice of the popula-tion. Women who aren’t poor enough to get gov-ernment assistance, yet aren’t well off enough to afford their own con-traception, can’t get any other help, and have no alternative but to work for an objecting reli-gious institution. On behalf of this vanish-ingly small number of women, the Obama ad-ministration is willing to risk a political back-lash and a rebuke in the courts.

If the mandate were only about extending contraception coverage, exempting religious in-stitutions would be ob-vious. But it’s more than that. It is about bringing institutions thought to be retrograde to heel, and discrediting their morality. It is kultur-kampf disguised as pub-lic health.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

(c) 2012 by King Fea-tures Synd., Inc.

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In Our ViewDon’t fly off the handle over kids’ safety

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Our erstwhile friend over at the Seguin Gazette, managing editor Chris Lykins, left a note on his Facebook page the other day after delivering his kid to Koen-necke Elementary school, and it riled up some folks.

“I’m not sure why people sit in their cars and wait until their children are inside the school doors before moving an inch,” he wrote. “What do you think is go-ing to happen those six feet? Sur-prise velociraptor attack? Cleverly disguised pit trap? An invisible dreadlocked alien on a hunting expedition as part of Predator: Koennecke?”

What’s interesting wasn’t that a few folks chimed in who agreed with his sentiment. What’s inter-esting is that a whole lot of folks who vehemently disagreed with the outrageous idea that he might actually be making light of over-protective mommies chimed in.

We’ve seen a number of other folks getting very vocally righ-teous on the subject of child

safety with a couple of recent sto-ries here in Gonzales. It doesn’t matter to them that not a single child’s health was ever in any real danger — the point, to them, is that the remote possibility of danger even existed.

Our society is already overrun with rules and regulations about child safety — and seemingly ev-ery time a child suffers an acci-dent, we fly off the handle in our haste to implement new rules and new regulations.

The bleach-water incident at the Christian Kids Day Care center is a case in point. The water in ques-tion had about the same amount

of chlorine as your average swim-ming pool — and name me a kid who hasn’t swallowed pool water. There was no one “poisoned.”

Witness the expert observation of Dr. Miguel Fernandez with the South Texas Poison Control Cen-ter: “It’s nowhere near the dose that would cause a serious adverse health effect.”

The moment the accident was detected, the day-care center did the right thing: its first call was to the poison center, and upon being told that there was no danger, fol-lowed directions. They reported the incident to their regulatory agency and informed the affected parents.

Likewise what was reported Monday at Gonzales Elementary, where some of the kids showing up for the free government break-fast were served egg biscuits, some of which showed evidence of mold on them.

As with the day-care incident, the minute the mold was detected, school personnel took the proper

action to address the issue. Par-ents were notified, the affected food was removed, children were monitored.

But we’re not talking about vast green forests of mold, just a spot. If you want green forests of the stuff, come by and look in my re-frigerator sometime.

The point is that each incident was regrettable and shouldn’t have happened — but accidents hap-pen. That’s why they’re called “ac-cidents.”

No one’s health was adversely affected. Measures were imme-diately implemented to prevent this from happening again — and some people lost their jobs.

Kids are amazingly durable. I know there are some parents out there who just can’t see it, but that skinned knee is neither a sign of improper guidance nor cause for a lawsuit.

As a thirsty 5-year-old one day years ago, I wandered into the kitchen in search of something wet. I found, to my surprise, a sink

full of nice cold water. I dipped in my cup and drank away.

My mother, returning to the room, saw what I’d done and im-mediately forced me to chug milk while she called the doctor at the clinic at Aurora AFB, Colo., to find out if I was going to die. After being reassured that the mild-concentration bleach water I’d drunk wasn’t going to perma-nently harm me, she explained patiently to me why she was fran-tic — and I learned a lesson.

We can mandate various forms of child-safety regulation, from requiring this kind of paperwork to requiring safety seats and oth-er equipment. In the end, though, all those rules and safety equip-ment can’t guarantee that a kid is “safe.”

Kids are going to suffer their share of bumps and bruises, whether you’re holding their hands or not. You can’t keep them from stubbing their toes.

The trick is to teach the lesson when they do it.

Dear Editor: It is my great pleasure to report that with

the additional financial gifts of Jerry Ja-cobs, Vicki and Paul Frenzel, Bobby Logan and Natalie Fric added to those of Dennis Nesser, Bill Sheppard, Lorenzo Hernandez, Allen Barnes, a single mother,and Don and me, we now have the $900 needed to repair the vandalized tombstones.

I can only imagine how pleased the fami-lies are whose loved ones’ tombstones were vandalized because they will now know that, yes, there are people in our world who seek to destroy, but there are people in this world who seek to build, and so with the help of those who seek to build, Mr. Joe Solansky will rebuild those tombstones

that were vandalized. I hope to publish pictures in this newspaper of the vandal-ized stones and the repaired stones, when he has completed his repairs.

If additional monies are received, I will call the donors and ask for their permission to use their financial gifts to clean these tombstones and other tombstones, as long as the money holds out. If someone wishes to discuss this with me by phone, my Cell # is 678-232-9258 and my email address is [email protected].

Thanks to both newspapers for helping us reach this goal. We couldn’t have done it without you.

JoAnn LiefesteGonzales

Mundy’s column wasright on the markDear Editor,

As a citizen, I really liked Dave Mundy’s column regarding funeral for a celebrity.

I totally agree that American’s put WAY too much emphasis on celebrities. Why we now have it included in the daily T.V. news broadcasts along with the Weather and Sports? It is so ridiculous.

If war were to come on U.S. shores, you can bet the rich celebrities will flee the country that made them rich. I also find it appalling to fly the flag at half staff for Whitney Houston; it is a mockery of what our nation stands for ... or does it?

Candice WitzkoskeGonzales


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It’s all over the news. News you at home get bombarded with but we here in Afghan-istan, here where it is hap-pening, have to search for.

Today I heard about the Afghan Army soldier that was supposed to be pro-tecting the U.S. base who turned his weapon on the U.S. soldiers, killing two and wounding four more. These are the very same sol-diers that provide security for me and my fellow dog handlers as we search and try to secure the entry con-trol points and bases over here.

When this sort of thing happens it brings home just how easy it is to have the situation go downhill in a hurry. The location I am sta-tioned at hasn’t erupted in protests other than a peace-ful demonstration of several hundred people, but the anger and hatred is just un-

der the surface. We know it could go south at any time.

Now this may not be too politically correct but I and the folks I work with are not at ease with our secu-rity. We constantly keep a close eye on the surround-ings. It is what the Army calls S.A. or Situational Awareness. Without it you are simply a news item wait-ing to happen.

To counter this, we have

found we work very close-ly together regardless of what service the handler is in. The old days of one ser-vice not associating with the other are long gone. I’m glad those days are dead and gone.

In today’s world there is just no place (or time) for it. Yes, still some good natured ribbing but we are all work-ing for the same goal. That goal is twofold. Accomplish the mission; come home when it’s done.

Where I am located, I work with Army MP ca-nine handlers and one Navy handler. What the Navy is doing in the middle of Af-ghanistan is anyone’s guess but he and I are friends and colleagues.

It is a plus that he is also a narcotics dog handler. We work together as a team pretty much all the time. Recently we have been searching the local national barracks and third coun-try worker housing. These are laborers from all over the world, but not the U.S. and not Afghanistan, hence third country.

Those days go pretty much like this. He and I get ready at about 04:00, that’s 4 a.m. for you non-military people. That means getting the dogs up and ready. They get a break of course, so we don’t have an “incident” in somebody’s room, then we head out to the search area.

We meet with the mili-tary authorities in charge of the search and show up at the search area unan-nounced about 05:00. The military with us spread out

and man each entry and exit door on the building or tent. There is the sound of doors being banged on and the laser-like beams of light from dozens of flashlights shining in all directions. All the occupants are ordered out of the building and pat-ted down as they exit.

Then it’s our turn. In go the dogs. Room by room, door by door, bed by bed, everything is searched. Now our job is to search for drugs, but we are not blind and contraband that we see gets confiscated by the mili-tary. Cell phones, wireless devices, computers, all are contraband. All can be used to trigger devices or to com-municate Intel to the very people we are trying to stop.

Also remember it is 05:00 in the morning in Afghani-stan. There are now maybe 75 people standing outside after being waken and hur-ried outside. It is also 18 de-grees and snowing.

My Navy partner and I go systematically through each room. If we make a find, it is like Christmas (for us) and a real long and bad day for someone else.

After the morning search, we head out to the ECP or Entry Control Point. This is the farthest forward point of protection and although we always have a U.S. secu-rity team with us, our main protection is Afghan sol-diers and police.

We again are searching for drugs hidden by the workers that are walking onto the FOB (Forward Operating Base). They stash it in the wire, they hide it under rocks to retrieve later, and they attempt to bring it in the base either for personal use or to sell and trade to the workers. By The Way, we see very, very little soldier involvement in the drug problem over here.

The Afghan workers do not like dogs, especially big

snarling dogs controlled by U.S. personnel (us). They are afraid of the dogs and to tell the truth we do nothing to dispel that fear. It doesn’t bother me a bit that they think we might let loose the dogs of war on them.

The search completed we return to the kennel area to, if the search was successful, log in and photograph the finds we made. If we strike out that day we will spend several hours training in de-tection or patrol (attack and bite) work. At the end of the day, we all meet back up at our camp and go over the day’s activities and resume the inter-service ribbing. There is always an unspoken sense of relaxation knowing we survived another day.

Oh, and for my partner, if he reads this. Go Army—Beat Navy!

From somewhere in the frigid hills of Afghanistan, this has been another Dis-patch From Downrange.

Dog Team MembersMembers of the dog team include (from left): MA S. Spaltro, US Navy Narcotics Dog Handler; SGT L. Washburn, US Army Explosive Dog Handler; SSG J. Sos-nowski, US Army Explosive Dog Handler; Civ. J. Harris, US Army (Ret) Narcotics Dog handler (ME); and SGT R. McNulty, US Army Explosive Dog Handler.

Drug DiscoveryThis is Naswar, the drug most commonly found in Afghanistan. It is dipped like snuff and its contents usually consist of tree bark, fine ground tobacco, and lime. It is then mixed with any of the following: hash-ish, marijuana, heroin, or methamphetamine. They sometimes use goat droppings as a binder.

Jon Harris

Jon Harris is an Army retiree, re-serve City of Gonzales policeman and former deputy constable who is currently serving as a civilian mili-tary dog handler in Afghanistan.

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Don’t let life’s distractions limit your focus on God

“Quick! Catch all the little foxes before they ruin the vineyard” - Song of Songs 2:15 (NLT)

The word for fox in He-brew is Shual. It was the word used for any wild ca-nine and was probably re-ferring to the jackal. Jackals were abundant and ran in large packs throughout Pal-estine during Old Testament times attacking livestock or destroying crops.

This scripture was brought to our attention when our son noticed how the numer-ous tasks we had undertaken were keeping us away from our original purpose. We purchased our property with a mental picture of what we believed God wanted us to accomplish here. These are the short- and long-term goals we’ve set:

1. Get debt-free and stay debt-free by paying cash for whatever we need.

2. Design and build an unconventional, low-budget home ourselves without go-ing into debt.

3. Teach others how to do what we have done through the mediums of art, music, writing and videos.

Our goals have not changed. Although, I must admit, maintaining country property on a limited budget has proven to be both chal-lenging and exhausting. Be-sides the numerous routine chores that must be done to maintain property, farm animals add a whole new dimension to those already demanding responsibilities. Owning living creatures requires that we provide proper fencing, housing and rations. In addition, animals need special attention when they labor in birth, become entangled or trapped, are in-jured, get sick, lost, or die.

Because life’s tasks require so much of our time, money and energy we have had to

learn to set priorities. There are many activities that serve very good purposes; even so, good purposes can get us off the right track. Chasing after little foxes will keep us from getting to God’s greater pur-pose---that is, the thing we were meant to do in this life. Accomplishing a god-given vision necessitates a plan of action and learning to recog-nize priorities; putting main concerns on top of the list.

So, how are we to know our purpose? I’ve noticed that God deposits a seed in each of us which sprouts into an idea that will not go away.

Slowly it develops into a vision to do something that will honor God and help others in some way. With proper attention and nur-turing this vision can bloom into an undertaking that be-comes a labor of love.

Your mission in life is your vineyard; it is the vine-yard you must guard care-fully. Begin to recognize and separate distractions from what really needs to be done. The little foxes will distract us away from our real purpose so that we will bear little or no fruit for God. The little foxes cause us to neglect what God has put in our charge. And, in time, the dream will die.

Distractions come in many forms. They can be physical or emotional af-flictions that sap away our desire to do anything. They can be emotions and thoughts that torment us, filling us with anxiety or fear; which are destructive emotions that kill our joy for life.

Paul warns us in the book of Corinthians that we can’t

be fully devoted to God when our devotions are di-vided. He says “I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best, with as few distractions as possible.” (NLT)

Keep your eyes focused on what God has given you; guard your vision well. Rid yourself of anything that distracts you away from your real purpose. The devil wants to destroy your chances to flourish and suc-ceed; he is out to ruin any-thing that starts to bloom into an idea for God and will do anything to distract you away from your pur-pose. He uses the jackals of this world to ruin your vineyard before it has time to bear fruit.

There are a million activi-ties and projects that serve good purposes; but this does not mean we have to become personally involved in every one of them. Some people see a problem and have the know-how and gumption to do something to fix it. These self-motivat-ed, action people don’t wait for others to jump in and help, they just take off run-ning.

It becomes a temptation for these personalities to do what needs to be done and put their own projects – their own God-given pur-poses – on hold for the sake of others.

I am one of these people and this is my advice from years of trial and error. You and I can’t save the world on our own. We are all on bor-rowed time and we have just so much energy to find and to complete our real pur-pose in this life.

Time waits for no one. Focus on doing what you love and do it with excel-lence.

love, eloise

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Staples, coalition laud court decision on water rightsCannon News [email protected]

AUSTIN — Texas Agriculture Com-missioner Todd Staples this week joined a broad coalition of private property own-ers’ rights advocates in applauding the decision of the Texas Supreme Court in the Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day and McDaniel water rights case.

The following are statements from Commissioner Staples and leaders of the coalition.

“The Supreme Court of Texas has again affirmed private property rights are the foundation of our liberties in the Lone Star State,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said. “The private ownership of water and land has been protected by generations of Texans and now it is our duty to continue this proud heritage.”

“For over 100 years, landowners have believed that the law gave them a vested private property right in the groundwater beneath their land and I am pleased that

the current court upheld that today,” said State Senator Troy Fraser, author of SB 332, which clarified groundwater owner-ship in Texas.

“This is another in a long line of re-cent successes defending private property rights, including key eminent domain re-forms,” Kenneth Dierschke, Texas Farm Bureau President said. “The ruling recog-nized the passage of SB 332—Texas Farm Bureau’s priority legislation on groundwa-ter ownership passed in the last legislative

session—that says a landowner’s interest in groundwater in place cannot be taken for public use without adequate compen-sation.”

“This opinion is a victory for Texas landowners and will be important for gen-erations to come,” said Joe Parker Jr., Presi-dent of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. “It also recognizes the important legislation, SB 332, that was passed by the Legislature in 2011.”

“The Texas Wildlife Association ap-

plauds the Texas Supreme Court rul-ing in this very important case, and it re-affirms the principle that the land-owner owns the groundwater below the landowner’s land as real property,” said Glen Webb, President of the Texas Wildlife Association. “This is a criti-cal principle going forward as private land stewards conserve the natural re-sources of our state for all Texans. The ruling is a victory for all Texas property owners.”

Farmers and ranchers can be granted property tax relief on their land. They may apply to the Gonzales County Appraisal District for agricultural productiv-ity appraisal, and for a lower appraisal of their land based on what it will produce, ver-sus what their land would sell for the open market.

The Texas Constitu-tion authorizes two types of agricultural productiv-ity appraisal, 1-d-1 and 1-d, named after the sections of the Texas Constitution in which they were authorized. For 1-d-1 appraisal, prop-erty owners must use the land for agriculture or tim-ber but the lands must meet the degree of intensity gen-erally accepted in the area. Owners must also show that the land is being used for at least five of the proceeding seven years. 1-d-1 appraisal does not restrict ownership to individuals and does not require agriculture to be the owner’s primary business. Most land owners apply for the 1-d-1 appraisal.

Under 1-d appraisal, the land needs to be in use for at least three years and the owner must be an individu-al versus corporation, part-nerships, agency or organi-zation. The land must be the owner’s primary source of income.

Penalties in the form of rollback tax, or the differ-ence between the taxes paid under the productivity ap-praisal and the taxes that would have been paid if the land has been put on the tax roll at market value, will be imposed if qualified land is taken out of agricultural or timber production.

For more information about productivity appraisal and application forms, con-tact the Gonzales County Appraisal District at 928 St. Paul Street, P.O. Box 867, Gonzales, Texas 78629, Telephone 830-672-2879. Information is also available on the state Comptroller’s website at www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/ or by calling the Comptrol-ler’s Property Tax Assis-tance Division at 800-252-9121 and press “2” to access the menu and then press “1” to contact the Information Services Team.

Gonzales Livestock Market ReportThe Gonzales Livestock Market

Report for Saturday, February 25, 2012 had on hand: 767 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., $230-$255; 300-400 lbs, $215-$220; 400-500 lbs, $195-$220; 500-600 lbs, $175-$195; 600-700 lbs., $134-$166; 700-800 lbs., $136-$140.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $112-$138.

Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $190-$225; 300-400 lbs, $180-$210; 400-500 lbs, $165-$180; 500-600 lbs., $147-$160; 600-700 lbs., $141-$147.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $67-$76; Cutters, $78-$92; Canners, $54-$60; Low yielding fat cows, $71-$77.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $97-$109; light weights and medium quality bulls, $74-$94.

Stocker Cows: $850-$1,150.Pairs: $975-$1,800.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.

com!

Nixon LivestockCommission ReportThe Nixon Livestock Com-

mission Inc. report had on hand, February 27, 2012, Volume, 793; Sheep & Goats, 1.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $208 to $218 to $250; 300-400 lbs., $186 to $196 to $240; 400-500 lbs, $181 to $191 to $222; 500-600 lbs, $167 to $177 to $195; 600-700 lbs, $148 to $158 to $166; 700-800 lbs, $150 to $154 to $155.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $192 to $202 to $238; 300-400 lbs, $168 to $178 to $224; 400-500 lbs, $164 to $174 to $195; 500-600 lbs, $154 to $164 to $190; 600-700 lbs, $139 to $149 to $159; 700-800 lbs, $148 to $158 to $170.

Slaughter cows: $55 to $92; Slaughter bulls: $82 to $101; Stocker cows: $850 to $1,200.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission ReportThe Hallettsville Livestock

Commission Co., Inc. had on hand on February 21, 2012, 682; Week ago, 457; Year Ago, 1,358.

The calves and yearlings were strong to higher again this week. Demand continues very good in all areas. Starting to see a few

fleshier new crop calves. Packers cows and bulls sold $1 to $2 high-er on 100 hd. Total.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $74-$95.50; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $57-$74; light weight can-ner cows, $46-$57.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $88-$103.50; utility & cutter bulls, $78-$88; lightweight canner bulls, $68-$78.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: un-der 200 lbs, $195-$255; 200-300 lbs, $190-$255; 300-400 lbs, $184-$252; 400-500 lbs, $178-$220; 500-600lbs, $158-$197.50; 600-700 lbs, $148-$168; 700-800 lbs, $138-$150. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $185-$240; 200-300 lbs, $180-$230; 300-400 lbs, $172-$225; 400-500 lbs, $165-$200; 500-600 lbs, $145-$178; 600-700 lbs, $138-$155; 700-800 lbs, $120-$138. No. 2 & 3 Steer & Bull Calves: 200-300 lbs, $120-$188; 300-400 lbs, $120-$185; 400-500 lbs, $118-$176; 500-600 lbs, $115-$156; 600-700 lbs, $110-$147. No. 2 & 3 Heifer Calves: 200-300 lbs, $118-$178; 300-400 lbs, $118-$170; 400-500 lbs, $115-$162; 500-600 lbs, $112-$145; 600-700 lbs, $105-$135.

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

Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market Report

on February 24, 2012, had 719 head.

Had 130 cows and 14 bulls. Bulls were higher. Cows sold to a strong demand. Calves were strong.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $90-$110; lower grades, $64-$76.

Packer cows: boning cows, $86-$95; cutters mainly, $66-$94; low cutters, $60-$69; fat cows, $85-$93.

Dry cows, $65-$92; young, $69-$110.

Palpated cows: $80-$111.Pairs: 13 pairs at over $1,000,

$1,065-$1,360.The calf market was very active.

Higher on the choice.Steer Calves: under 200 lbs,

$180-$265; 200-250 lbs, $200-$255; 250-300 lbs, $170-$255; 300-350 lbs, $200-$260; 350-400 lbs, $195-$235; 400-450 lbs, $185-$225; 450-500 lbs, $160-$215; 500-600 lbs, $160-$200; over 700 lbs, $105-$150.

Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $190-$265; 200-250 lbs, $215-$225; 250-300 lbs, $150-$225; 300-350 lbs, $155-$230; 350-400 lbs, $165-$210; 400-450 lbs, $175-$225; 450-500 lbs, $160-$220; 500-600 lbs, $150-$195.

Over 700 $95-$145.


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Farm Bureau DonationIn recognition of Farm Bureau Food Check-out Week, Gonzales County Farm Bu-reau president Allan Fink, and Barbara Koricanek, board member, donate funds to Betty Fussner, GCAM executive director, for use in acquiring food staples to distribute locally. Also present are volunteers Beatrice Navejar, Pauline Alvarez, and Fran DeChane. (Courtesy Photo)

Luling Chamberawards banuqetThe Luling Chamber of Commerce recently hon-ored several individuals and businesses at its an-nual awards banquet at Zedler Mill. Linda Moore was recognized as Volunteer of the Year (top left), while John Wells (above right) was named the Citizen of the Year. O.G.O Marketing (left) was named the Busi-ness of the Year. Not pictured is Albert Martinez, who was selected as Board Member of the Year. (Courtesy Photos)

On March 7 at 1:15 p.m., at the Eggleston House, the Texas Historical Commis-sion will celebrate 50 years of placing official markers in historically significant locations in Texas.

The first official Record-ed Texas Historic Land-mark (RTHL) medallion was placed at the Eggleston House in March of 1982. This circa-1840 log cabin home was the first rebuilt in Gonzales after the Runaway Scrape. This was when all citizens of Gonzales were forced to evacuate the town because it was thought that Santa Anna’s Army would come through here after the Alamo fell.

General Sam Houston ordered the burning of the town and all fled, following the Texas Army east until the victory at the Battle of San Jacinto. THC staff, his-torians, individuals present at the first RTHL designa-tion in Gonzales, and lo-cal history students will all be present at the ceremony and the public is urged to attend.

The chamber board met on Wednesday, hearing a report from Jackie Mikesh from Victoria College – Gonzales on the enlarg-ing of the campus on the property just east that was an auto dealership. She said that they will have two ex-tra classrooms there, along with welding, heating and air conditioning and elec-trical classes. There will also be a five-year anniversary celebration for the Gon-zales Campus on April 18 with a ribbon-cutting and luncheon that the public is invited to attend.

Don’t forget the March 1 celebration on Texas Heroes Square starting at 1 p.m., with fourth-grade classes and the band assisting in the program, which will be lead by Bob Burchard. Breakfast at the Old Jail will be held the next day, March 2, Texas In-dependence Day, from 6:30-9:30 a.m. Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased at the door that morning. Wayne Spahn and crew will again be cooking scrambled eggs, sausage and hashbrowns, with coffee and juice. Come celebrate with us!

The First Friday Coffee will also be held at the Old Jail that morning from 8:30

to 9:30, so come for breakfast and stay for the coffee.

The Gonzales Livestock Show & Sale will be held that weekend at the J. B. Wells Park. Those who wish to do-nate to the sale may mail or bring them to the chamber office at 414 St. Lawrence Street.

The Gonzales Livestock Show will be at the J. B. Wells Park Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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

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Approved Drilling Permits by the Tex-as Railroad Commission for the period of Feb. 1-22

February 1Lease Name: HillerWell Number: 1Total Depth: 5,578 ftAPI#: 123-32146Location: DeWitt County, 3.5 miles NW

from City of Mission ValleSurvey: T.H. BellAcreage: 140Type: Gas WellOperator: B.P. Productions Inc.

February 2Lease Name: A WallisWell Number: 1HTotal Depth: 14,000 ftAPI#: 123-32696Location: DeWitt County, 6.54 miles SE

from City of WesthoffSurvey: I RR Co.Acreage: 331.25Type: Gas WellOperator: Petrohawk Operating Com-

pany

February 3Lease Name: A WallisWell Number: 1HTotal Depth: 14,000 ftAPI#: 123-32697Location: DeWitt County, 10.11 miles

NW from City of YorktownSurvey: T. ManchaAcreage: 431.02Type: Gas WellOperator: Petrohawk Operating Com-

pany

Lease Name: C OliverWell Number: 1HTotal Depth: 13,700 ftAPI#: 123-32361Location: DeWitt County, 5.27 miles NE

from City of WesthoffSurvey: MEP&P RR Co.Acreage: 261.67Type: Oil or Gas WellOperator: Geosouthern Energy Coop-

eration

Lease Name: Taylor Unit BWell Number: 1Total Depth: 12,500 ftAPI#: 123-32575Location: DeWitt County, 10.4 miles

NW from City of YorktownSurvey: F. GonzalesAcreage: 388.07Type: Oil or Gas WellOperator: Burlington Resources O & G

Co. LP

February 6Lease Name: Mary B. JohnsonWell Number: 3HTotal Depth: 3,500 ftAPI#: 055-34940Location: Caldwell County, 1.4 miles NE

from City of LulingSurvey: J. HindsAcreage: 362.16Type: Oil WellOperator: Eagle Energy Acquistions LP

Lease Name: H Mueller 18AWell Number: 1HTotal Depth: 14,000 ftAPI#: 123-32698Location: DeWitt County, 7.91 miles

NW from City of NordheimSurvey: W H H DavisAcreage: 371.03Type: Gas WellOperator: Petrohawk Operating Com-

pany

February 7Lease Name: Tiller Briscoe DWell Number: 9HTotal Depth: 3,000 ftAPI#: 055-34995Location: Caldwell County, 5.1 miles NE


Lease Name: J.B. NorthcuttWell Number: 3HTotal Depth: 3,000 ftAPI#: 055-34994Location: Caldwell County, 7 miles NE

from City of LulingSurvey: J. HindsAcreage: 154Type: Oil WellOperator: Eagle Energy Acquistions LP

Lease Name: MerriwetherWell Number: 3HTotal Depth: 3,000 ftAPI#: 055-34952Location: Caldwell County, 1.3 miles NE

from City of LulingSurvey: A. FloydAcreage: 95.46Type: Oil WellOperator: Eagle Energy Acquistions LP

February 14Lease Name: MerriwetherWell Number: 4HTotal Depth: 3,000 ft

API#: 055-34955Location: Caldwell County, 1.3 miles NE

from City of LulingSurvey: A. FloydAcreage: 95.46Type: Oil WellOperator: Eagle Energy Acquistions LP

February 18Lease Name: Moses Baggett ‘A’Well Number: 1HTotal Depth: 3,000 ftAPI#: 055-34996Location: Caldwell County, 4.4 miles NE

from City of LulingSurvey: S. ShupeAcreage: 92.0Type: Oil WellOperator: Eagle Energy Acquistions LP

February 21Lease Name: Northcutt DyeWell Number: 3HTotal Depth: 3,000 ftAPI#: 055-34997Location: Caldwell County, 5.9 miles NE


Recent Location reports

DeWitt CountyAPI No.: 42-123-32701Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating Com-

panyLease Name: P. Frisbie AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 7.23 miles west of

NordheimSurvey Name: J. Keland, A-652Acres: 568.55

API No.: 42-123-32702Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Resources O and

G Co. LPLease Name: Barrett Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 13,300 feetDirection and Miles: 5.7 miles northwest

of YorktownSurvey Name: I RR Co, A-267Acres: 360


G Co. LPLease Name: Motl Unit AWell No.: 1Field Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 13,500 feetDirection and Miles: 8.4 miles northwest

of CueroSurvey Name: S. Pharrass, A-377Acres: 517.94

API No.: 42-123-32705Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Petrohawk Operating Com-

panyLease Name: P. Frisbie BWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 7.23 miles north-

west of NordheimSurvey Name: J Keland, A-652Acres: 320


G Co. LPLease Name: N Steinmann Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: Sugarkane (Eagle Ford)Total Depth: 13,000 feetDirection and Miles: 11.6 miles north-

west of CueroSurvey Name: H.P. Cook, A-120Acres: 604.32


G Co. LPLease Name: Lackey Land A 639 Unit BWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 12,800 feetDirection and Miles: 7.3 miles northwest

of YorktownSurvey Name: I RR Co, Section 58, A-639Acres: 320

Gonzales CountyAPI No.: 42-177-32479Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Southern Bay Operating LLCLease Name: Newtonville UnitWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 19.78 miles north-

east of GonzalesSurvey Name: P. Hope, A-252Acres: 971.57

API No.: 42-177-32480Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Rock Creek Ranch

Well No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.83 miles west of

GonzalesSurvey Name: J. McCoy, A-46Acres: 2,199.76

API No.: 42-177-32481Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Rock Creek RanchWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 8.83 miles south-

east of GonzalesSurvey Name: J. McCoy, A-46Acres: 2,199.76

API No.: 42-177-32491Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Steen-Scruggs UnitWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 11,800 feetDirection and Miles: 9.8 miles southeast

of CostSurvey Name: J. Dillard, A-177Acres: 1,226.68







API No.: 42-177-32482Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Verlander UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 10,300 feetDirection and Miles: 8.6 miles southeast

of CostSurvey Name: S.H. Gates, A-228Acres: 976.83









Lavaca CountyAPI No.: 42-285-33625

Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Effenberger UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,000 feetDirection and Miles: 5.04 miles north of

MoultonSurvey Name: A. Ponton, A-35Acres: 715.90

Approved Oil and Gas Completions for the period of Feb. 1-22

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-32380Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Warwas AWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: W. Quinn, A-394Direction and Miles: 2.69 miles north-

west of NordheimOil: 287MCF: 1,732Choke Size: 9/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 7,215Total Depth: 18,860 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,769 feetPerforations: 14,097-18,739 feet

API No.: 42-123-32478Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Lane BWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Survey Name: T. Wentworth, A-49Direction and Miles: 5.87 miles south-

east from WesthoffOil: 390MCF: 4,428Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 8,215Shut In Well Pressure: 9,015Total Depth: 19,165 feetPlug Back Depth: 19,108 feetPerforations: 13,626-19,088 feet

API No.: 42-123-32448Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern Energy Corp.Lease Name: Byerly AWell No.: 1HField Name: DeWitt (Eagle Ford Shale)Survey Name: I RR Co, Section 34, A-578Direction and Miles: 3.94 miles north-

west of NordheimOil: 486MCF: 3,867Choke Size: 12/64 of an inchTubing Pressure: 7,215Shut In Well Pressure: 7,215Total Depth: 17,345 feetPlug Back Depth: 17,150 feetPerforations: 13,967-17,150 feet

Gonzales County

API No.: 42-177-32322Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Zappe UnitWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: S. Bateman, A-1Direction and Miles: 12.2 miles south-

east of GonzalesOil: 1,027MCF: 960Choke Size: 30/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,205Total Depth: 18,400 feetPlug Back Depth: 11,231 feetPerforations: 12,046-18,234 feet

API No.: 42-177-32388Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resources Inc.Lease Name: Kerner-Carson UnitWell No.: 9HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: W. Simpson, A-426Direction and Miles: 9.9 miles southeast

from CostOil: 1,766MCF: 1,655Choke Size: 28/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,691Total Depth: 16,037 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,946 feetPerforations: 11,000-15,939 feet

Lavaca County

API No.: 42-285-33602Classification: Fld. Dev. and HorizontalOperator: Sharon Hunter Resources Inc.Lease Name: FurrhWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: P. Priestley, A-38Direction and Miles: 2.3 miles northwest

of MoultonOil: 1,154MCF: 724Choke Size: 19/64 of an inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,680Total Depth: 15,969 feetPerforations: 10,755-15,722 feet

LA VERNIA — The Gon-zales Economic Development Corporation has partnered with regional economic developers to coordinate the Governor’s Small Business Forum: Oppor-tunities of the Eagle Ford Shale on March 20 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the La Vernia High School Auditorium, located at 221 FM 775 in La Vernia.

The forum will provide an excellent opportunity for the business owners in Gonzales to benefit from information designed to assist them as they grow and expand their busi-nesses.

The Governor’s Small Busi-ness Forums are designed to educate the Texas small busi-ness community on workforce development, employee skills training and growth opportu-nities. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) will pres-ent information on employee training grants and other pro-grams available through TWC.

The event will also feature Dr. Tom Tunstall of the University of Texas at San Antonio, speak-ing about the Economic Impact of the Eagle Ford Shale, and sev-eral oil and gas industry leaders will be on hand share informa-tion on conducting business with the oil and gas industry.

A representative from Rack-space Managed Hosting will present information on tech-nology for small businesses, and a panel of experts from profit and nonprofit lending institu-tions will provide information regarding small business loans. Texas Department of Agricul-ture and USDA experts will cover information for the agri-business community.

After the informational ses-sions, several small businesses from Wilson, Karnes, DeWitt, Atascosa, Gonzales and Gua-dalupe counties will be honored with small business awards from the Governor’s Office.

Business owners, prospec-tive entrepreneurs, elected of-ficials and community leaders are encouraged to attend. Con-tact Carolyn Gibson with any questions at (830) 672-2815 or [email protected]. There is no charge to attend but in order to prepare handouts attendees are asked to RSVP to the La Vernia Municipal Devel-opment District office by email or phone to [email protected] or (830) 779-2371.

The event is a partnership of the Gonzales Economic Devel-opment Corporation, La Ver-nia Municipal Development District, Floresville Economic Development Corporation, Cu-ero Development Corporation, Pleasanton Economic Devel-opment Corporation, Karnes County Economic Develop-ment Corporation, Seguin Economic Development Corporation, and the Stock-dale Economic Development Corporation, along with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism, The Texas Workforce Com-mission, Texas Department of Agriculture, UTSA Institute for Economic Development, Wells Fargo Bank, BCL of Texas, Peo-ple Fund, and Rackspace Man-aged Hosting.

GEDC to be part of Eagle Ford forumCannon News [email protected]


2012 Waelder Livestock Show Results

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A hands-on civics lessonA civics lesson: among the attendees at Thursday’s dinner were Nixon-Smiley teacher Laura Cook and students Jake Robinson and Heather Turner. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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Market Swine:Grand Champion: Cody

Orona. Reserve Champion: Mal-

orie PuenteShowmanship: Cody

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Light Weight -1st - Cody Orona. Buyer:

Gonzales Building Center. Sale total: $2,080

2nd - Clay Orona. Buyer: Zarimar Corp. Sale total: $1,740.

3rd - Aaron Wilson

Heavy Weight -1st - Malorie Puente.

Buyer: Zarimar Corp. Sale total: $1,950.

2nd - Courtney Orona. Buyer: CATI. Sale total: $1,480.

3rd - Caleb Ibarra. Buyer: Caraway Ford. Sale total: $1,415.

4th - Marissa Ramirez. Buyer: Caraway Ford. Sale total: $1,750.

Market Lambs:Grand Champion: Zach

RamirezReserve Champion: Jd

MartinezShowmanship: Zach

Ramirez

Light Weight Class -1st - Zach Ramirez. Buy-

er: Gonzales Building Cen-ter. Sale total: $2,525

Heavy Weight Class -

1st - Jd Martinez. Buyer: Zarimar Corp. Sale total: $2,400.

Market Goat:Grand Champion: Alex

BenitezReserve Champion: Pe-

dro HernandezShowmanship - Alex

Benitez

Light Weight Class -1st - Alex Benitez. Buyer:

Sage Capital bank. sale to-tal: $2,000.

2nd - Pedro Hernandez. Buyer: Bill Walker Plumb-ing. Sale total: $1,900.

Heavy Weight Class -1st - Hailey Rincon.

Buyer: Zarimar Corp. Sale total: $1,715.

Rabbits:Grand Champion: Omar

Garcia. Buyer: CATI. Sale total: $1,735.

Reserve Champion: Ste-ven Puente. Buyer: GVTC. Sale total: $1,145.

Showmanship - Carlos Mindieta

3rd - Andre Sustaita. Buyer: crystal Cedillo. Sale total: $1,065.

4th - Carlos Mindieta. Buyer: Sage Capital bank. Sale total: $1,065.

5th - Akiyah Reyes. Buy-er: Caraway Ford. Sale to-tal: $660.

6th - Felipe Martinez. Buyer: Zarimar Corp. Sale total: $1,065.

7th - Stacy Medina. Buy-er: GVTC. Sale total: $860.

8th - Katie Benitez. Buy-er: Bill walker Plumbing. Sale total: $1,070.

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3rd - Isabel Vela. Buyer: GVEC. Sale total: $2,280.

4th - Randy Tovar. Buyer: Lindemann Fertilizer. Sale total: $1,050.

Pictures of the winners in the Waelder Livestock Show will appear along with those from Moulton, Luling, Shiner, Gonzales and Nixon-Smiley as part of our annual Lvestock Show Salute on March 22

One active swineClay Orona attempts to convince his market swine to behave during the auction in Friday’s annual Waelder Livestock Show. The Cannon will feature photos of all the winners in the Waelder, Moulton, Luling, Shiner, Gonzales and Nixon-Smiley shows in our annual Livestock Show Salute in our March 22 edition. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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G/T students explore ‘Enigmas’The students in the 4th grade Gifted and Talented class at Gonzales Elemen-tary recently completed the Texas Performance Standards Project, “Enigmas.” The students researched enigmas such as the Egyptian pyramids, the Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, the Lock Ness monster, and the Nazca Lines. Then, they created a board game or learning center to teach others about their enigma. The students are: (back row, left to right) Chris Holub, Tanner Blundell, Quinn Atkinson, Angel Sanchez, Sadie Thibodeaux, Bre Wolff, Wendy Vazquez, Sydney Clack, (middle row, left to right) Shelby Orme, Mason Ligues, Madison Blundell, Madison Stamport, Maraia Mathis, Ashlynn Stewart, Maggie Barnick, Sandra Pa-lacios, (bottom row, left to right) Krystalynn Buesing, Kiley Allen, Dylan Cantrell, Heath Henke, (not pictured) Nico Anzaldua, and Hunter Duke. (Courtesy Photo)

HOUSTON — The Hous-ton Livestock Show and Ro-deo began its 2012 scholar-ship season as 72 Texas high school seniors were each awarded a $16,000 scholar-ship to a Texas college or university.

The 62 participating Area Go Texan counties are: An-derson, Angelina, Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Calhoun, Chero-kee, Colorado, DeWitt, Falls, Fayette, Freestone, Goliad, Gonzales, Gregg, Grimes, Hardin, Harrison, Hender-son, Hill, Houston, Jackson,

Jasper, Jefferson, Karnes, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Lime-stone, Live Oak, Madison, Matagorda, McLennan, Mi-lam, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Nueces, Orange, Panola, Polk, Refugio, Rob-ertson, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San Patricio, Shelby, Trinity, Ty-ler, Victoria, Walker, Wash-ington, Wharton and Wil-liamson.

The 72, four-year, $16,000 scholarships include an ad-ditional 10 awards given at large to eligible students within the 62 counties repre-sented in the Area Go Texan

Scholarship Program.Area scholarship recipi-

ents include Brandi Mark-ert and Caitlin Markert, Caldwell County; Allyson Blakeney of DeWitt Coun-ty; Shelby Trlicek of Fayette County; Mary Menking of Gonzales County; and Bai-ley Steffek of Lavaca County.

These scholarships are part of the Houston Live-stock Show and Rodeo’s an-nual commitment of more than $18.8 million to Texas students. Since its beginning in 1932, the Show has com-mitted approximately $283 million to the youth of Texas.

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Birthday Wishes from the CoachDouglas Forshagen (left) had a special visitor come to Gonzales on Feb. 11 to help him celebrate his 99th birthday - former Texas A&M football coach Jackie Sherill. Forshagen, who graduated A&M in 1933, and Sherill have been friends for over 25 years. (Courtesy photo)

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Gonzales ISD Superin-tendent Dr. Kim Strozier said the school district is investigating how egg-bis-cuit sandwiches served to some students at the school Monday might have be-come contaminated with bread mold.

“We received a call from the school administration and went into immediate response mode,” Strozier

said. “We contacted Poi-son Control and learned that bread mold can cause a mild upper-GI infection if any student had in fact eaten it.”

Strozier said the tainted biscuits appear to have been confined to third- and fourth-grade students eat-ing breakfast at the school. The district’s automated phone system, Phone ocnnect, was used to con-tact parents of students in the affected classes Mon-day morning, and she said a second round of calls would be made Monday af-ternoon.

Strozier said that two children complained of

stomach aches, said it was unknown if those com-plaints were related to the biscuits. The parents were notified, and the children were released to their par-ents, she said.

“We’re investigating to see where it originated,” Strozier said. “Obviously student safety is our first priority. It’s just disturbing to receive any report like this.

“We’re going to find out what caused this, how this happened, and take appro-priate action.”

Strozier said the district would pass along further advisories as the investiga-tion continues.

By DAVE MUNDY

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The Gonzales County Commissioners Court held a relatively short meeting Monday morn-ing.

Gonzales County Tax Assessor-Collector Nor-ma Jean DuBose gave her monthly report, which stated the county had collected $2,778,055.46 in taxes for January of 2012. She also stated that through Jan. 82.07% of the 2011 adjusted tax levy and

rollback had been collect-ed, compared to 79.98% in Jan. 2011.

The court also heard a presentation from Oil & Gas Site Services, who was touting their cement-treated base. The com-pany asked the court to consider providing a stretch of county road for paving with their product as a “trial run” to serve as a prelude to a county contract. No action was taken.

In other business, the court:

• Received an order ap-pointing Becky Weston as the Gonzales County Au-ditor for a two-year term.

• Approved a loan agreement with Holiday Inn Express & Suites un-der the Gonzales Revolv-ing Loan Fund Program and authorized payment to Holiday Inn in the amount of $160,000 under the Gonzales Revolving Loan Fund Program for purchase of equipment.

• Approved a seismic work permit with Weems Geophysical, Inc. for Pct. 2.

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60-year membershipReceiving 60 year membership pin from Lee Vogel, Grand Vice President Fraternal was Shirley William-son. Presentation was made during the Gonzales Hermann Sons Christmas Party. (Courtesy Photo)

60-year membershipReceiving 60 year membership pin from Lee Vogel, Grand Vice President Fraternal was Leona Zella. Pre-sentation was made during the Gonzales Hermann Sons Christmas Party. (Courtesy Photo)

2011 Humanitarian AwardGonzales Lodge 175 presented the 2011 Humanitarian Award and a check to the Gonzales Memorial Hospital Auxiliaries. From left, Chuck Norris, CEO of Memori-al Hospital, Sally Brown, Pres. of Auxiliary, Raymond Zella, 2011 Pres. Presented award and Margaret Zella, 2012 Zella of Lodge 1975. (Courtesy Photo)

Blue Angels recognizedGonzales Lodge 175 presented this group of Gonzales Memorial Hospital Aux-iliaries with the 2011 Humanitarian Award and a check for their general fund. Holding award, Sally Brown, President and her group of Blue Angels. They have a gift shop and do Volunteer work for the hospital. With money from Gift Shop and Vending Machine they buy needed equipment for the hospital. (Courtesy Photo)

Reported office filings for the May 4 local elections. The last day to file is Monday, March 5:

City of CueroFor Mayor - incumbent Sara Post Meyer

City of FlatoniaNon candidates have yet been an-nounced

City of GonzalesMayor - Bob Burchard and Bob-

by Logan.District 3 Council -- Incumbent

Lorenzo Hernandez has filed for re-election.

District 4 Council — Steve Hen-dershot and Clarence Opiela have filed.

Gonzales ISDDistrict 4 — Josie Smith-

Wright has filed for re-election. District 7 — Tom Lester Jr. has

filed for re-election.

City of LulingThere are three positions open-

Council Member - Ward 4 & 5 and Mayor-at-large.

Mayor Mike Hendrickshas filed for re-election.

City of MoultonNo filings have been reported.

Shiner ISDThree candidates have filed

for two places on the Shiner ISD Board of Trustees.

Place 1 incumbent Julie Gamez has filed for re-election, while in Place 7, Max Moore and J.M. “Trey” Rankin III have filed for the seat currently held by Dr. Maurice Wilkinson.

City of ShinerCity Council (Three at-large po-

sitions) - incumbent Linda Rigby, Robert Randal (Randy) Boone.

City of WaelderCity Council - incumbent Val-

entino Hernandez has filed for re-election

City of YoakumCity Council - Place 4 incum-

bent Elorine Sitka has filed for re-election

City of NixonNo filings reported.

Nixon-Smiley CISDPlace 2 - Bud Box has filed for

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The army of Mexican dictator Santa Anna was sweeping across the land, and Texas’ ama-teur militiamen had proven thus far unable to stop him. As the delegates gathered, in fact, Santa Anna had surrounded the garrison at The Alamo in San Antonio de Bejar, was sending a second force south to intercept Col. James Fan-nin’s force trying to relieve the Alamo, and was hoping to lure Gen. Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of irregulars into a decisive pitched battle to end the rebellion.

The famous Lt. Colonel William Barret Tra-vis Letter of February 24, 1836 from the Alamo dramatically presented the crisis underway only a few days away from the Town of Washington.

The drive to establish a separate statehood for Texas had openly surfaced at the Convention of 1832. Settlers of the state, part of the state of Coa-huila y Tejas, submitted a petition to the central government under the Constitution of 1824. It was rejected.

By 1835, the Constitution of 1824 has been completely abandoned by General Antonio Lo-pez de Santa Anna. Tensions rose throughout the year, culminating Oct. 1 with the Battle of Gonzales.

The rebels enjoyed what they believed were spectacular successes — capturing Goliad on October 9, 1835 and San Antonio on December 10. Between these two events a Consultation was called at San Felipe de Austin. Delegates from the municipalities of Texas signed a document known as The Declaration of Causes on Novem-ber 7, 1835.

The original of this document signed by 57 delegates has not survived. The Declaration of Causes stopped short of declaring independence from Mexico, but did state that they had the right to withdraw from the Union since Santa Anna had abandoned the Constitution of 1824.

By the time the Convention of 1836 met at

Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, the situation in Texas had already reached a danger-ous stage. Those meeting were aware they were under a death sentence, on the direct orders of Santa Anna, who viewed the rebels as “pirates” and attempted to use international maritime law as justification for summary executions.

A total of 59 delegates signed the final Decla-ration of Independence with the additional sig-nature of H. S. Kimble as Secretary. In addition, on the back of the eleven page the document is signed by W. Wharton who had earlier been ap-pointed as a commissioner to the United States. Wharton wrote the notation that the document had been “Left at the Department of State May 28, 1836, by W. Wharton The original”

The similarities of the Texas Declaration and the American Declaration of Independence are dramatic, if only for the fact that both were writ-ten when the outcome of their respective rebel-lions were in doubt.

As the Delegates gathered on March 1st time was pressing on Richard Ellis who was appoint-ed president of the convention. A resolution was introduced appointing a committee to draw up a declaration of independence. Ellis appointed George C. Childress, James Gaines, Edward Conrad, Collin McKinney, and Bailey Harde-man to this committee.

The finished Declaration Document was ad-opted with little change by the committee and the Convention on March 2. The original docu-ment is scripted by Childress which is evident when a comparison is made with his signature on the document and with the style used on the text. The text of the Texas Declaration is typed as per each page on the Texas Declaration of Inde-pendence Content Link.

After the Declaration was completed, the Delegates continued working 17 straight days and nights to forge a new constitution and a new Republic of Texas Government. News of the fall of the Alamo reached the Convention and on March 17, and the delegates fled Santa Anna’s troops advanced to capture the new Govern-ment of Texas.

A little more than a month later, Houston’s army stopped its headlong flight after Santa Anna split his forces in an attempt to cut off the Texians’ retreat. Houston turned to face the Mex-ican dictator at the San Jacinto River — and in a matter of minutes, routed the professional Mexi-can soldiers, later capturing the dictator himself and forcing Santa Anna to sign a treaty recogniz-ing Texas independence.


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The Texas Historical Commission (THC) is celebrating 50 years of placing official Texas Historical Markers in histori-cally significant locations throughout the state, making the popular marker program itself eligible for historic recognition.

In honor of that, THC officials, along with members of the Gonzales County Historical Commission (CHC), will revisit the placing of the first official Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL) at the Eggleston House, located at 1300 St. Louis Street, in Gonzales on Wednesday, March 7 at 1:15 p.m.

Members of the Gonzales Chapter of the Daughter of the Republic of Texas and Gonzales Junior High School history stu-dents will also participate. The public is in-

vited. The Eggleston House was the first to be rebuilt after Gonzales was burned down after the Runaway Scrape.

The first official RTHL medallion was placed at the Eggleston House in Gonza-les in March 1962. Fifty years later, officials with the Gonzales CHC and THC are rec-ognizing the historic event with a ceremo-ny at the historic location and in recogni-tion of Texas Independence from Mexico.

The 1840 log cabin home was the first rebuilt in Gonzales after the Runaway Scrape, when thousands of Texans fled their homes when Antonio López de San-ta Anna began his attempted conquest of Texas in February 1836. The flight contin-ued until news came of the victory at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Texas Historical Commissionto salute the Eggleston House

Texas Land Commission-er Jerry Patterson has a term for what over-zealous federal regulators are trying to do to the Texas economy.

“We call it ‘reptile dysfunc-tion,’” Patterson quipped during Thursday’s Gonzales County Republican Party president’s Day Dinner.

The state’s top land-man-agement official told county GOP faithful that Texas will sue if the Environmental Protection Agency moves ahead with plans to place several previously-unheard-of species — including a sal-amander —on the Endan-gered Species List, thereby limiting development of vast tracts of West Texas land for oil, gas and heavy-metals ex-ploitation and production.

“Their efforts are not based on science, it’s based on litigation from radical

environmental groups,” Pat-terson said, calling those groups ‘environmental Na-zis.’ “The Obama Adminis-tration is trying to kill jobs in Texas.”

The Texas General Land Office manages some 13 million acres and annually generates in excess of $300 million in revenues for the state.

Prior to taking the Land Commissioner post, Pat-terson had served as a state senator from eastern Har-ris County, and is known as the author of the state’s Con-cealed Handgun law. The former Marine aviator and Vietnam vet said he’s used to hearing gloom and doom from the news media over Republican proposals.

“If you recall, just about every major daily newspaper in Texas, when we pushed through the concealed-carry law, they were predicting shootouts at four-way stops,

gun battles in the streets,” he said. “They were saying, ‘Oh no, you have a gun, you might defend yourself!

“Funny, that hasn’t hap-pened. The difference be-tween Republicans and Democrats is that we have the ability to have a little faith in our citizens, that they will do the right thing.”

Patterson noted the big-gest challenge for Texas Republicans in the current election cycle — aside from the fracas over redistrict-ing — is re-connecting with Hispanic voters.

“We have some very old books at the Land Office, some of them dating back hundreds of years,” Patterson said, noting among those books is an accounting from 1845 deeding land to mili-tary veterans and their sur-vivors. “In that book, hand-written, is Robert Crockett, Davy Crockett’s son. On the very next line is Juan Seguin.

“Among those lists is a list of who was an immigrant and who was a native. All the Tejanos were native, it was the Anglos who were the im-migrants then,” he said. “We have to stand firm on illegal immigration, but we cannot forget the contributions to our history made by Teja-nos.”

While not involved in the current election cycle, Pat-terson does have plans. He announced Thursday he will be seeking the GOP nomi-nation for lieutenant gover-nor in 2014.

Also among those attend-ing the event Thursday were a number of elected officials from the county and local level, as well as State Sen. Glenn Hegar, Congressional candidate Trey Roberts, 25th Judicial District Judge can-didates Steve Finch, Bill Old and Kevin Kolb, and 25th District District Attorney candidate Patricia Finch.


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Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson speaks during Thursday’s Presidents Day Dinner in Gonzales. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

New interim redistricting maps released Tuesday by a federal court will leave Gonzales County split between two congressional dis-tricts, but raised hopes the state would be able to hold its party pri-mary elections on May 29.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott applauded the changes the

court made to the maps when com-pared to the ones the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in January.

“In light of the State’s legal argu-ments, the San Antonio court only modified the Legislatively enacted plan in response to alleged Voting Rights Act violations — while leav-ing virtually all other districts as they were drawn by the Legislature. In doing so, the court properly re-jected the demands by some plain-

tiffs to draw drastic and overreach-ing interim maps,” Abbott said in a prepared news release.

The Texas House and congres-sional districts drawn by the San Antonio federal court mirrored an earlier plan approved by the Texas Legislature in dividing Gonzales County between Congressional District 27, currently represented by Republican Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi, and the new Con-

gressional District 34, which was designated as a “Hispanic major-ity” district.

The State House districts also appeared to be close to what was originally approved by the Leg-islature. Gonzales and Caldwell counties will become part of Dis-trict 17 (Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt), while DeWitt Co. will be in District 30 (Rep. Geannie Morrison), and Lavaca and Fayette Counties move

to District 13 (State Rep. Lois Kolk-horst)

The court’s map would create two new majority-minority con-gressional districts and preserves the Republican-dominated Leg-islature’s decision to split Austin into five districts, forcing U.S. Rep Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, to run in a new, heavily Hispanic district which stretches from San Antonio to Austin.

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SEGUIN — A judge ruled Tuesday there was no evidence of wrongdoing or a cover-up on the part of 25th Judicial District At-torney Heather McMinn or Sheriff Arnold Zwicke in connection with Fran-cesca “Frankie” Casseb’s 2007 drowning death, add-ing there was insufficient probable cause to believe the man who put her in the Guadalupe River was reck-less or negligent.

Senior State District Judge Doug Shaver issued the rulings at the close of two days of hearing evi-dence in a court of inquiry

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A Nixon man was killed when he was struck by a tractor-trailer last weekend.

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verses pedestrian accident near the intersection of Texas Highway 80 and 6th Street in Nixon.

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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

Christian

First 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 Mes-siah721 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 Method-ist1113 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 Fellowship

1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 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 Fellow-ship207 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 Gon-zales3.3 miles north on 183, Right on CR 235, Right on CR 236

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

Messianic JudaismCongregation Adat HaDerechMeets on Saturdays and Holy Days, 672-5953

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Lake Dunlap dam.“The court finds that

there is absolutely no evi-dence of a cover-up or any criminal conduct on be-half of the district attorney and/or the sheriff of Gua-dalupe County,” Shaver said. “The court further finds insufficient evidence of any criminal wrongdo-ing by Mr. Rollins. The court finds this event to be a tragic accident and offers its profound sympathies to the Casseb family.”

The elder Rollins’s voice broke repeatedly as he re-called the tragedy under questioning by Wilson and his own attorney, Michael Hinton of Houston.

Rollins testified he jumped from the Sea-Doo to try to help the child.

He also described the sequence of events that led to the authorities and McMinn being called to the scene. He’d seen Mc-Minn once, he believed at a gathering at his home, and perhaps a few times at the Baytown home of her former sister-in-law.

She sent McMinn, then an attorney in private practice under her previ-ous married name, Hollub.

He said he barely knew her, she’s never been his attorney and never gave him legal advice, although he acknowledged that he contributed $500 to her election campaign the next year out of gratitude for her role that night — and that he’d contributed three times as much to two schools and a church in Frankie Casseb’s memory.

“I didn’t need a lawyer,” Rollins said. “Heather was an angel. She showed up on my doorstep when our families needed help and she helped us.”

Rollins said he didn’t find out until the Seguin Gazette called him last December that a poten-tial criminal investigation had been opened, and expressed shock and sur-prise.

“From all the informa-tion I can gather, this is all politics,” Rollins said. “The emotions are raw. Anger comes to mind. When you have people such as Mrs. (Elizabeth Murray-)Kolb and Mrs. Finch using the tragic drowning of a 12-year-old girl for politi-cal purposes, it’s the lowest of the low. It angers me so much I can hardly stand it.”

Rollins was referring to local attorney Patricia Finch, who sat with Mur-ray-Kolb through part of Monday’s testimony and who is a candidate to un-seat McMinn as 25th Judi-cial District Attorney.

Murray-Kolb, who left the courtroom early Tues-day to attend commis-sioner’s court, was ordered back by Shaver to testify about why she’d sought to have the case revisited.

Under Wilson’s ques-tioning, Murray-Kolb, who is stepping out of her role as county attor-ney after 12 years and has announced no intention to seek another office, in-sisted politics had nothing to do with her decision to bring the documents to Peschel.

“It would be easy to say it’s political,” Murray-Kolb acknowledged. “But that’s absolutely false. I felt like there was a terrible viola-tion of (the Casseb’s) trust. It’s a complicated case, and there were things (in the record) that made it ap-pear the DA had lied to police.”

She also had concerns from the depositions that perhaps charges should have been filed against Rollins and that sheriff ’s deputies had not done enough to in-vestigate.

Zwicke will never be-lieve it’s not about politics.

“It’s politically motivat-ed,” Zwicke said. “To me, it’s a relief that it’s over. It’s disgusting to me that this has happened — that Gua-

dalupe County politics has resorted to this and I apologize to the citizens of Guadalupe County.

He said he was disap-pointed in Murray-Kolb, who he once respected.

“I’m upset because we wasted tax dollars here today, yesterday, and on this private investigator hoopla that she brought upon Guadalupe County,” Zwicke said. “I was up there yesterday, asking myself what a jury would think, did we make a mis-take along the way or not, and I’m absolutely certain the sheriff ’s office did not make a mistake.”

Between his work as a volunteer firefighter and a sheriff ’s deputy before be-ing elected to the county’s top law enforcement office, Zwicke noted he’s often shared in the grief of the loss of a loved one, and it’s never been easy.

“I apologize to the Casseb family and the Rol-lins family that they had to be drug through this once again after five years of trying to heal and now the wounds are open again,” Zwicke said. “I apologize on behalf of Guadalupe County for the actions of the county attorney. If she truly wanted justice, she should start in her own of-fice.”

The CannonThursday, March 1, 2012 Page B3

We need to pray harder for our troops, families

Sandi’s Country Fried News

Sandi Gandre

DROWNING: Court rules 2007incident was unfortunate accident

Continued from page B1Listen people, I know you/

we pray for our troops and their families. However, we need to start praying harder. This foolishness of killing our men and women in-side places that are secured areas, that are supposed to be the safe areas for them to stay is ridiculous. Whoever, however, let God surround them and let them learn to counteract this and find out how and why they are being infiltrated this way. There is no worse thing than being betrayed by someone whom you thought was on your side and could trust and then have lives lost because of that betrayal.

You know I was a shel-tered little girl when I start-ed school and had not been around lots of children in groups. I managed to make one friend that day and she is still my friend to this day. She is Janie Rhodes Parks from Leesville. I can imag-ine how I would have felt if she would have betrayed me, especially in that first grade setting.

I guess while I am on my “bandwagon” since March 2nd, is Texas Independence Day, I will say that we need to pray for anyone who is protecting other people in the line of duty. Texas is one of those unusual states that fought for their freedom and flew under a number of different flags. It makes Tex-as different and Cost, and Gonzales different. Go out to Cost, TX and look at the monument declaring Texas’s freedom from Mexico. We boasted of the great Texas Rangers and still do. Think about our law enforcement officers who risk their lives each day. They have to re-ally trust each other, their weapons, their vehicles, and so many other things. And while I was looking this up I ran across the fact that March 2nd was the day that Afghanistan was invaded, by Operation Anaconda. I don’t know whether that has anything to do with those stepped up attacks but it is rather coincidental.

Good luck to all the live-stock show exhibitors, buy-ers, etc. which is the same date mentioned above for those in Gonzales.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Lisa Rodriguez, Terry Bowman, Mr. Baker,

William Hudgins, Sa-brina Flores, Bill and Ma-rie Lott, Doris and Alvin Hewell; Hester Behlen, Louise Jones, Aunt Geor-gie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vick-ers, Gene Robinson, Susie Dolezal, Teresa Wilke, San-di Gandre, Carl and Vida Tindle; Rev A. C. and Ev-elyn Newman, Ruby Ruth Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Linda Nesloney, Larry Filip, Esther Lindemann, Jack Lott, Anna Lindemann, Ann and Bubba Bond; Case, Clint, and Lindsay Martin; Gloria Gass, Shirley Dozier, Larry Washington, Laura, Bobby Steen, The family of Skee Williams, The family of Jerry Gorden, The family of James Brunkenhoefer, the family of Russell Riley, Jr. and please pray our troops and their families

There is more good news about Case Martin. There are some WBC’S develop-ing which shows that the new stem cells are engraft-ing. If things keep going like this, he could possibly be on the discharge list as early as Monday, but they have to find an apartment. The cost of an apartment is high, and they are evicting patients to make room for rodeo guests in the area where they need to find an apartment. They don’t understand this and neither do I. I know that they are just about over-whelmed by all of this, and definitely need your prayers. However, we have to think about the positive in that the final outcome is a normal immune system for Case.

The Belmont Ladies Club met for the last time under this name and had their year end dinner at the Ainsworth House in Luling. It was held in a very nicely decorated secluded side room with four people to a table. We had a delightful choice of soup/salad and sandwiches or a whole sandwich and a wonderfully delightful pasta salad. There were so many

more things on the menu but these were mostly our choices. The desserts were scrumptious too. Then we drew names out of the jar for door prizes and most received beautiful stained glass wind chimes. Glenda Parker, our outgoing presi-dent received a big beauti-ful stained glass wind chime from Nancy Garnand, Vice-President. Elected President of the new formed Belmont Community Center is- Mar-cia Pinney; Vice-President, Mary Ann Day; Secretary, Glenda Parker; Treasurer, Shari Lee. Of course, we are welcoming new members. There will be no secret pals for the next year, and no bingo for the next meeting. Then the fun began when secret pals were revealed by those who had been buying these presents and hiding the fact for a full year. Per-sonally I think that Marcia better watch out. I may have to take that metal cat with the big blue belly away from her. That is just too cute. Shari Lee took her last class over at the Red Hen Pot-tery in downtown Belmont today. We reaped an extra benefit from her classes as she made each one of us a small container from her pottery class. I think that was a very nice thing to do for each of us while she was learning how to throw “mud” around.

This Samson and Dililah are sprawled out on the bed like they think they own the place. They were wait-ing at the door for me when I came home. Itsy had to be different. He popped up from behind a box. Nicki and Gracie were outside talking chatter because they wanted food. Gracie does more talking out there than ever did when she was inside. She claims domain to the roof and the ash tree. Come spring I just might let Itsy Bitsy out to talk up close and personal with Gracie and Nicki. It seems like to me that he is laying claim to the outside really well. He escaped the other day and the only place that Will could catch up with him was by his tail. It didn’t make Itsy very happy to be grabbed up by his tail but sometimes you have to re-sort to desperate measures. This was definitely turning into a desperate measure as the cat-chasing dogs were rounding the corner in a head on collision course straight for Itsy. Itsy is go-ing to have to learn at least one more thing before he is put outside and that is avoidance of the outside dogs.

Have a good week, and God Bless.

Engaged

Donalson-SuchMr. and Mrs. Paul L. Donalson of Weslaco, Texas

are pleased to announce the engagement and forth-coming marriage of their daughter, Dana Marie Donalson, to Christopher Ryan Such, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Such of Gonzales, Texas.

The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Weslaco High School. She graduated from the University of Texas in 2007, with a Bachelor of Journalism degree. Dana is employed as Audience Development Coordinator at Texas Monthly in Austin, Texas.

The groom-elect is a 2004 graduate of Gonzales High School. He graduated from the University of Texas in 2008, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Chris is employed as Congestion Reve-nue Rights Engineer at ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, in Taylor, Texas.

The couple will be married June 2, 2012 at Univer-sity United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas with a reception following at the Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria. (Courtesy Photo)

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The Heights of Gon-zales Activity De-partment is looking for a fridge/freezer to hold supplies for event refreshments. If you would like to donate or know of one that is reason-ably priced, contact Gwen Koncaba, 830-672-4530. --------------------------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

Looking for people to move to south-west Texas, about 10 to 11 miles north of Presidio, Texas. Willing to build on 10 acres, with no running water or electricity. Will be tough till get some buildings done. For more information write to R.G. Martin, 1031 Old Bynum Road, Apartment 31, Hillsboro, Texas 76645.--------------------------GENERAL LABOR

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--------------------------Taking applications for full-time posi-tion and PRN posi-tion in Housekeep-ing. Apply at The Heights of Gonza-les Nursing and Re-

habilitation Center. Please apply in per-son at 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gon-zales, TX.--------------------------

Plant OpeningsPlant Palletizers,

Packers.Benefits include:

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Apply in person at:Cal-Maine Foods,

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--------------------------Full time positions available for Re-torative Aide and Medical Records Clerk. Must be a Certified Nurse Aide in good stand-ing. Long term ex-perience preferred. Please apply at The Heights of Gonza-les, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt, Gonzales, TX.--------------------------PART TIME cashier/receptionist posi-tion. Must be able to work during the day on Saturdays and till 7pm week-days. Must be able to balance cash drawer, answer phones and greet customers and do basic office duties. Apply in person at Luling Chevrolet Buick GMC, 1088 E. Pierce St., Luling, TX.--------------------------Front Desk help wanted. - Must

speak Spanish and have at least one year of Medical Field experience. Apply in person at The Vaz Clinic, 1103 N. Sarah DeWitt or call 830-672-2424.--------------------------Experienced ma-chinist, min. 4 years. CNC Lathe, CNC Mill, Manual Lathe and Mill. Send re-sume to: Accurate Fabrication, Inc., 533 Seydler, Gonza-les, TX 78629. 830-672-3600.--------------------------

Housekeeper Wanted

Looking for a housekeeper with a minimum of 4 years house cleaning ex-perience to clean a 3,000 sq. ft., 2-story home in east Gon-zales County. Du-ties include dust-ing, vacuuming, mopping, cleaning windows/mirrors and bathrooms. Must be able to provide 3 refer-ences and speak English. Please call 713-582-0794 for more information.--------------------------LVN needed. Must have experience, must be bilingual. Apply at The Vaz Clinic, 1103 N. Sar-ah DeWitt or call 830-672-2424.--------------------------

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

J.M. Oilfield Service, a family oriented company is seek-ing professional & reliable Class A CDL employees. Re-quirements: 2 years experience tanker and must be will-ing to get HazMat

endorsement ASAP. Call 830-672-8000.--------------------------AVON Representa-tives Wanted! Great earning opportu-nities! Buy or Sell! Call 830-672-2271, Independent Sales Rep.

Multi-Family Ga-rage Sale. Lots of tools, clothing, household items, electronics. 313 E. Wallace. Friday, 8-5; Saturday, 9-Noon.--------------------------Four Family Garage Sale. Jeans, shirts, bedding, furniture and lots more. One mile passed Lex-ington Inn on 90A-Shiner Hwy, on left. Saturday, March 3rd from 8 till ?.--------------------------Garage Sale: 203 Main St. (off of Wa-ter St.) Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. 8:00 a.m. til 5:00 p.m. No early sales.--------------------------Large multi-family

yard sale March 2nd and 3rd. Saddle, antique furniture, dishes, wedding dress, treasures from grandma’s at-tic. Too much stuff to list. Hwy. 97 towards Waelder. 4023 CR 421. Will have balloons and signs.--------------------------Moving Sale. 511 E. Cone St. Friday, 2-5; Saturday and Sun-day, 8-? Aquarium, kitchen items, Lots of furniture (bed-room, couch). PS3 Games & accesso-ries, miscellaneous items.

Cement Steps. 3 step hollow core set, $125. 4 step

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Part-time position with the Revenue Collection Department. This is an entry level office/clerical position responsible for customer service and assisting customers with city-related business. Must

have knowledge of secretarial procedures, cashiering, bookkeeping, and telephone operations. Must be

efficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. High school Diploma or equivalent. A minimum of one year experience in general office or accounting experience

recommended. Hours vary from 19-38 per week. Applicant must be able to pass a pre-screen drug and

alcohol test. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all interested

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JOB SUMMARYServes as an administrative secretary to the Mayor, City Administrator and other city officials; manages, organizes and processes all official records of the City; supervises municipal elections; coordinates public meetings of staff, the City Council, and Boards and Commissions; primary telephone contact with public and performs related work as required.SUPERVISION RECEIVEDWork is performed under the general direction of the Mayor and City Administrator. This is a Type A Government Municipality. Appointed by the Mayor with concurrence of the City Council.SUPERVISION EXERCISEDNone.EXAMPLES OF DUTIESPrepares and manages agendas as directed by the Mayor and City Administrator for the Council.Compiles supporting documents for agendas, posts meeting notices, including to the City’s website.Prepares meeting minutes for approval by City Council and Mayor. Attends evening meetings of the City Council and the Mayor.Publishes all required legal notices in the official newspaper of the City within the appropriate time requirements dictated by state law.Responds to requests for information and assistance from Council, staff and citizens.Maintains records, filing, drafts and correspondence for Mayor, City Administrator and other city officials.Maintains custody of city seal and official records of the city including ordinances, resolutions, minutes of the City Council, contracts, agreements, etc. Attests to all official documents of the City.Serves as the Official Records Management Officer for all city documents; insures City is compliant with State Law.Receives on behalf of the City petitions, initiatives, referendums, recall proceedings and applications for office, and verifies all applications and petitions.Coordinates and administers elections and related matters for the City and other agencies as directed. Serves as Early Voting Election Judge.Assists in preparation and management of various budgets.Assists other departments with customer service as needed.Performs other duties as directed.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONSKNOWLEDGEKnowledge of the Texas Election Code, Texas Local Government Code and Texas Open Meetings Act; excellent knowledge of grammatical and technical writing rules and standards; knowledge of Type A Government Municipal-ity and City Ordinances; basic knowledge related to local government administration and home rule governance; knowledge of municipal election laws and duties; knowledge of basic accounting principles; knowledge of com-puter systems including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access); knowledge of document retention and records management; knowledge of secretarial and administrative practices.SKILLSExcellent oral and written communications skills including accurately recording information in precise, written form; highly skilled in computer operations using all Microsoft Office 2000 applications; skill in operating office equipment including copiers, scanners and fax machines; skill in technical writing and copy editing; excellent orga-nizational, document management and record keeping skills.MINIMUM ABILITIES Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing; ability to work well with others; ability to identify what information is needed by others for effective action; ability to deal in a fair and courteous manner with a variety of individuals; ability to demonstrate consideration of others regardless of ethnicity, gender, beliefs, or personal style; able to effecitvely record, document and process complex information in a timely manner; ability to fulfill requests or other wise provide services, accurate information, or assistance in a courteous and timely manner; ability to present a positive image of the city; ability to safeguard sensitive or confidential information from intentional or un-intentional disclosure; ability to maintain an accurate and legible record of official city business; ability to organize and conduct an efficient and honest election in compliance with State law and local ordinances; ability to set goals and accomplish same; ability to type a minumu of 40 words per minute without errors.EDUCATIONHigh school graduate or GED required. Associates Degree preferred.EXPERIENCEA minimum of five years of progressively responsible administrative secretary experience, preferably in the public sector.LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONSNotary Public CertificationCity Secretary Certification by the Texas Municipal Clerks Certification Program (within fours of employment)ADA ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONSAbility to read, analyze, and interpret reports and documents.Ability to respond effectively both orally and in writing in inquiries or complaints.Ability to effectively articulate information to management.Ability to use indpendent judgment in achieving assigned objectives.Ability to take shorthand, either electronically or handwritten.Ability to use basic mathematics.Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.Must be able to travel overnight for up to three days at a time.Must be able to sit for an extended time period.Must be able to work nights and evenings on avarage 4 times per month.

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GARAGE SALES

Washer & dryer for $150 each. 830-857-3003 or 830-437-5313. (3-15-12)--------------------------3 in 1 - Baby bed, youth bed & twin bed. $100.00 540-3382. (3-15-12)--------------------------Three weedeaters. Gasoline operated. $150 for all three. O23 Stihl Chainsaw, w/ case. $225. 361-208-3565. (3-8-12)--------------------------Walls Coveralls. Gray. Size 46 Reg. Like New. $60.00. 830-875-9397.(3-8-12)--------------------------Voit 400 GRS. Grav-ity Glider. $40.00. 830-875-9397.(3-8-12)

4 tires and Alumi-num rims. Can fit a Ford Probe or Mazda MX6. Muf-flers can fit a pickup truck, good condi-tion. Cabinet fits over refrigerator. Collectibles, sweat-ers (some with Christmas themes). Various sizes. Call Marcus Migl, 361-594-4307.(3-15-12)--------------------------Men and Women’s jackets, sweaters. Different sizes. Can be seen at 1822 St. Louis or call 672-8034.(3-15-12)--------------------------1 axle trailer, wide ramp, 12’x61/2’ for sale. Call 857-4993.(3-15-12)

For Sale: Whirlpool Washing Machine, like new. Large ca-pacity. $200. 361-208-3565.(3-15-12)--------------------------Westein Running Boards. $140. For pictures or any questions, please email [email protected].(3-15-12)--------------------------Dalhart Windberg - Winters Velvet Mantle - $250.00. Signed Affidavit of Limited Edition 12x36 in frame. Email [email protected] for pictures or any questions.(3-8-12)--------------------------Baby and Womens Clothes for sale. Cheap. Call 361-772-5566.(3-8-12)--------------------------25” Color TV & en-tertainment center. Excellent condition. 830-672-6414.(3-8-12)--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane (detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs good. $6,000 obo. Individ-ual, 830-660-2813.(3-8-12)--------------------------Power Box Asphalt Paving Machine and Roller. Good Condition. $9,900. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.(3-8-12)--------------------------Small computer desk, wood, $40.00 obo. Large play-pen, $25.00. Both in great condition. 830-203-9159.(3-1-12)--------------------------

ATTENTION TRUCKERS.

Cobra 25, NW Ltd, Classic CB, Igloo Ref. Cooler, Wave Box, Portable Mi-crowave. $50.00 each. 361-596-4502 or 361-401-0556.(3-1-12)--------------------------2 Teenagers For-mals-Party Dresses. 1 White w/spaghet-ti Strap, with rhine-stones. 1 Beige/golden color, spa-ghetti straps, gold rhinestones. Call 672-8034 or come by 1822 St. Louis.(3-1-12)

Heavy, vinyl tarps. 15’x50’. UV proof, tuff boogers. $50 each. 830-660-2813.(3-1-12)

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.

16 FT. Gooseneck Livestock Trailer. Bar Top, slide rear gate, center cut gate, re-cent farm tags. De-cent floor, Decent tires. $2,500/obo. 512-718-0482. (3-1-12)

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.

’07 Doublewide, sits on 10 ac. Homesteaded, AG exempt, chain-link fence in yard and around 10 ac. Large deck on front, small one in back. Covered dog pen, outside night light. Different types of sheds. Water Softener tanks at-tached to back of house, for inside water only. 4BR/1 Bath, LR, carpeted, rest have linoleum. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, very roomy, high ceilings all through house. Ceiling fans in all 4 bedrooms and Living room, also White block Fireplace never used, Island kitchen between kitchen & dining room w/bar-stools. Silver cabi-nets. Belmont area, Gonzales School Route. Call Candy, LREB at 210-365-2803. --------------------------2002 Fleetwood Festival Ltd. 76x16 in excellent condi-tion. 3 bedrooms and 2 bath. I am selling it for the pay off, est. $24,000. The payments with Wilson County tax-es are about $250 a month. It is located in La Vernia and needs to be moved. Call Megan, 830-477-9792.

1983 Chevy El Camino, 350 engine, 94,000 miles. As Is. Blue Book - $3,500,

$2,500/neg. 1-210-689-4016, Stan. (3-15-12)

Travel Trailers for rent. Ready for move-in. Equipped with everything you need. All you need to bring is your personal items. Call 512-963-0000 or 512-508-6221.

3BR/2BA house. $850/mo. 318 De-Witt St. No pets. 830-445-9294.(3-29-12)--------------------------1214 N. Hamilton. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, central air. Call Glo-ria Torres, 830-822-2045.(3-15-12)--------------------------Belmont-4BR/2BA for rent. Nice & clean. Master bed-room has 3 closets, tub and separate shower. Kitchen has lots of counter space and large pantry. One of the living areas has fireplace. Rent will be $1,100 a month. (that includes all water and trash pickup). Deposit is one month’s rent. I will need refer-ences and proof of income. No indoor smoking please. Outdoor pets if you build small fenced-in area. This home will be avail-able by the end of the month. A large covered deck will be built as soon as weather permits. Please call me or send e-mail. mer-cerranch@gmail .com. 830-437-5312 or 830-832-7813.(3-8-12)--------------------------For Rent. Furnished 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Den, Living Room and Kitchen. Avail-able Immediately. Call 830-672-6265 for information. (TFN)--------------------------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.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for rent, w/covered patio, w/electricity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no smok-ing. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances avail-able. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-ances. $750.00 per

month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.

Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.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.

Hello! Look Here!Caregiver CNA and CPR-certified. Look-ing for employment with an agency or to go to homes and care for the elderly. Also interested in being trained to work front desk tak-ing vitals and his-tories, or at a rehab doing range of mo-tion exercises with children or adults. I also have experi-ence working with Alzheimer’s and Hospice patients. I’m very personable, dependable, loving and caring. Have 30+ years of expe-rience as a nurse. Looking for FT work on the northside of San Antonio. Have excellent refer-ences. If interested, call 830-391-4837.(3-1-12)--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-865-0286 or 832-655-9195.--------------------------Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers,

chain saws, trucks etc.

Will mow yards. Reasonable Rates. Call for free esti-mates. 857-5147. (TFN)--------------------------Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.--------------------------Lawn care & shred-ding. Call for free estimates. 830-203-9385.--------------------------Lawn mowing ser-vice, residential & commercial. Li-ability ins., free esti-mates and low cost. No job too large or too small. 830-263-4181.

Willing to do baby-sitting at my house. 8-5 M-F. 511 Church St., 830-857-4993.

2009 40 ft. Luxury 5th wheel. Three slide outs, washer/dryer, fireplace, aw-ning, dishwasher, 2 ac’s, much more. $26,500.00 obo. 337-962-3484 or 815-764-5200. (3-15-12)--------------------------2011 Big Horn 367ORL 5th Wheel with 4 slices, load-ed, king bed, flat screen TV, electric awning, two A/C units, non-smok-er. NADA Value $82,500. 38 feet long. Great live-in trailer. Call 830-540-4058 or 830-263-9172, Price $46,000.(3-8-12)--------------------------Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.--------------------------

GREAT DEAL!1997 Kountry Star 34 ft., 5th Wheel. 2 slideouts, upgrad-ed kitchen, ducted A/H, 11 storage c o m p a r t m e n t s , ceiling fans. NADA.com/RV appraised RV at $15,900. Ask-ing $10,000. Great home for oilfield. Located in Rock-port, TX. 361-645-1009.--------------------------2004 Wildcat 5th Wheel RV. 28 ft., equipped to sleep 5, w/lrg. slide con-taining sofa & di-nette. Lots of stor-age. Adapted to pull as gooseneck. Excellent condition. Call 361-218-1880.--------------------------2004 Fleetwood RV Pecos pop-up. Like new, only pulled from dealer. $4,000. Both units located near Old Moulton. Call 857-0734 or 361-596-7317.

RV-SITES-GONZA-LES COUNTY. Large lots, long term rent-als, with laundry service available. $270/mo. + utilities, Weekly-$100; Dai-ly-$20. Pool Opens Summer. Call for in-formation. 830-424-3600.--------------------------RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.

For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for

Jeff.--------------------------2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. In-dependent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.-------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.--------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.--------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-David-son. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, beginners or ex-perienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.

English Springer Spaniel Puppies: AKC, liver/white, parents on site, just old enough to go to new owners, 1st shots and wormed, vet checked, 3 males/3 females, Super cute, $400. 830-263-1114 or email [email protected]. (3-15-12)--------------------------American Pit Bull Terrier Puppies for sale at $75 each. Only 2 female pup-pies available. Black Not Registered. Available Now. Call 830-203-1574, Ran-dy or 830-263-2808, B.J.

3 Game Roosters, free to good home. No fighters please! 512-917-4078. (3-29-12)--------------------------For Sale: Guinea Eggs. Call 830-672-7384. (3-29-12)--------------------------For Sale. Red Bran-gus Bulls and Black Brangus Bulls. 1-2 years old. No pa-pers. 830-437-5772. (3-8-12)--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------M I N I - G O A T S . (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.

Home for sale. 3/2, 3 car carport on 4 ac. with tank. $89,900. 830-875-2848.(3-8-12)--------------------------Home for sale. Las Hadas Subdivision - Between Seguin and New Braunfels on Hwy. 46. 334 Las Hadas. Spectacular riverfront estate 5BR/4.5Ba, with boat landing and 2100’ tiled covered cabana on the Gua-dalupe River. Sur-prisingly beautiful features including hardwood floors, beamed and wood-en ceilings, ex-tensive use of oak hardwood, copper covered cabinets, 2 curved stairways, Murano chande-liers, fully furnished with custom fur-niture, antiques, crystal, china, silver, wide-screen TV, sound system, and much more. Breath taking view of the Guadalupe River on Lake McQueeney. cdkproperties.com. (3-8-12)

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Applications available at:Schmidt & Sons, Inc.

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

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Victoria College Gonzales Centeris now hiring an

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The department of Instruction is hiring an Adjunct English Instructor for the Victoria

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Beautiful Stone House. 24 acres. 2 ponds, well, county water. $400,000. For Info call 713-203-2814.--------------------------Owner Finance, 3BR/1BA located at 810 E. 2nd St. in Nix-on. Asking $65,000. Please call for more information. (830) 672-5580.--------------------------FOR SALE: Seven (7) Buildings, 20 Units Multi-Family Apart-ment Complex, lo-cated at 929 Water St, on 1.595 acres in Gonzales, TX, front-age along US Hwy 183. 1, 2, 3&4 Bed-rooms. All buildings built on concrete slabs, brick veneer siding, metal roof, central heat, Paved Parking Lots and Public Utilities. For information contact: Gonzales Housing Author-ity, 830-672-3419 or [email protected]/1 home. 714 Sey-dler St. Owner Fi-nance. $75,000 or best cash offer. Call Martha, 830-556-2280. Habla Espa-nol.--------------------------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.

53.35 Improved Pasture with 3/2 older home, CA/H, on FM 1116. 5 miles from downtown Gonzales. Live Oaks, lots of new fence. After 5 p.m. call 830-437-2955 or 830-857-4242.--------------------------Home For Sale; New Construction; 2 bed/1 bath; 1504 Weimar Street; $74,900; 100% fi-nancing for quali-fied buyers; 830-203-5065.

5 Acres or more to lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for informa-tion.--------------------------6+ Acres at end of Oil Patch Lane. Zoned Commercial for $180,000. Can divide into smaller tracts. Call 210-416-0041.

Work wanted/need-ed. Man, 32 yr. old looking for steady employment. 830-203-5072. (3-15-12)

WANTED: Broken and unwanted costume jewelry, beads, buttons, and fabric scraps. I am a crafter on a very tight budget, so your “craft trash” is my treasure. Call Nikki at (512) 227-4040.(3-15-12)--------------------------Looking for Leroy Matocha 33 Vinyl Records. “Time to Dance” and “All Aboard”. Call 979-532-3117.(3-8-12)--------------------------Want to buy used tractors, running or not. Call 361-293-1633.(3-1-12)

K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. Call 830-445-9583 or 830-857-3505 for details.--------------------------APACHE STORAGE - The Store All Place is located at 2502 Harwood Rd. Gon-zales, TX. 830-203-5115.

Plumbing Repairs.All Types of Plumbing.

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281-415-6108.License #M18337

--------------------------A/C & Electrical side jobs: New installs, A/C maintenance, Condenser change-outs, Residential & Commercial at affordable prices. Please call David anytime at 830-263-1747.(3-15-12)--------------------------

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Gonzales County Offices will be closed Friday, March 2, in observance of Texas In-dependence Day.

Yoakum clean-upThe City of Yoakum is hav-

ing a clean-up day on Satur-day, March 3. Volunteers that want to help should meet at City Hall Saturday morning at 8:00 am.

American LegionThe Gonzales American

Legion Post #40 will hold their regular monthly meet-ing March 1, 5:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall. Boys State Can-didates will be interviewed. All members and prospec-tive members are urged to attend.

Scholarship meetingThe Gonzales Community

African-American Interfaith Church Scholarship Fund will be conducting its monthly business meeting on Thurs-day, March 1 at Union Lea

Baptist Church in Gonzales.The public is invited to at-

tend. For more information, call 830-857-3764.

Guitarist to ap-pear

Tony Morris, Guitarist-Composer, will perform at Gonzales Music Study Club,

at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13.

Morris, heard by radio-listeners world-wide on the Classical Guitar Alive Pro-gram, has performed at the White House, and frequently served as an adjudicator, lecturer, and adjunct guitar professor at Texas Lutheran University .

He will also speak about the PBS television program he is developing with KLRN, “American Classical”.

Please contact Jo Ann Leif-este at [email protected], or Cell #, 678-232-9258 by Friday, March 9 if you wish to attend this event but aren’t a member of this Club, as seating is limited. There is no charge.

Black HistoryProgram

The Annual Black His-tory Program sponsored by Edward Association will be Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 5:00 at Edwards Community Center. The theme this year is “Lives of Famous African

Americans Connecting the Past to the Present”.

Each church or business is asked to participate on our program by taking the as-signed personalities or event, dress the part, and tell their story (preferably no reading) in 3-5 minutes. Refreshments

will be served.For more information and/

or questions please contact the following: Wanda Fryer, 830-672-7142, William Bras-field – 830-672-6309, Tena Roaches – 830-494-5442.

Appreciation DayThe members of Union

Lea Baptist Church invite you to join us as we celebrate an Appreciation Day Program for our pastor for 5-years of dedicated services, love and caring. On Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. the Rev. Henry H. Bell, pastor of Mt. Moriah Christian Fellowship Church, San Antonio, Texas will be our Guest Speaker. We look forward to seeing you there.

Kettle Fried ChickenA 4-Piece Kettle Fried

Chicken Dinner will be held Sunday, March 11. Price is $7.50. Serving in Drive-thru lines at Shiner K.C. Park Hall, 10:30 a.m til 12:15 p.m. Tick-ets for pick-ups in Shiner available at Shiner merchants and from JCDA members. Yoakum delivery available: Buy tickets at All-Med Sales & Rental, Yoakum or call 293-1839. Pick up plates at Jahn Refrigeration, Sun., March 11, 11-12 p.m. Gonzales delivery available: Buy tickets at Gon-zales Poultry Supply or call 830-857-5448. Pick up plates at Wal-Mart Parking Lot, Sun., Mar. 11, 11 am – 12 p.m. Sponsored by Shiner Catho-lic Daughters and JCDA.

The BriefcaseThis is your special invita-

tion to join us on Tuesday, March 6 from 12:05-12:55 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church for a Brief time of Caring and Shar-ing Everything. The program “Lessons Learned in Prison” will be presented by DeLynn Thomas. Bring a brown bag lunch and a friend or two and come for this very spe-cial time of music, inspira-tion and sharing. Childcare available on request; call the church at 672-9595.

Free Movie NightFirst Baptist Gonzales will

host a free movie night. The movie is the blockbuster movie entitled “Courageous.” Everyone in the community is invited to attend. Saturday, March 10 at 7 pm. First Bap-

tist Gonzales is located at 422 Saint Paul St.

Candidate meet& greet

The Republican Women of Yoakum will sponsor a Can-didate Forum at the Shiner K.C./Legion Dining Hall, 102 South Ave G, on Tuesday, March 13, from 5-9 p.m. The event will feature a meet and greet from 5-7, followed by a forum from 7-9.

Candidates from County to Congressional level will be present. The event is open to all voters.

Chicken Fried Steak Plates will be available for $8. For in-formation, call 361-594-4258

FOTL quilt raffleCome support the 2012

Friends of the Library Fund Drive by purchasing a raffle ticket for a chance to win an Underground Railroad Quilt made by Earth Angels Quil-ters. This beautiful quilt was donated to the Friends of the Library by The Sesame Study Club. Tickets are available at the Library for $1 each or 6 for $5. Drawing will be held Monday, March 5, 2012. The winner will be notified.

Lanny Baker BenefitThe Gonzales Young Farm-

ers and the Gonzales Odd Fellows Lodge are having a pork steak plate with all the trimmings for member Lanny Baker. The benefit will be held March 25, 2012 from 11-2 at the Odd Fel-lows lodge. Directions to the lodge are turn west off St. Joseph Street on Tate Street and go 2 blocks. Donations are $7 and pre-sale tickets are until March 18, 2012 and can be bought from any Odd Fellow member, Young Farmer member, Larry Mer-cer, 830-263-0331 or Ken He-drick, 830-857-5332.

Appreciation BBQAn Appreciation BBQ Din-

ner will be held for Gonzales emergency employees and volunteers on Friday, April 20.

The dinner will be held from 4:30-7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Center of the First United Methodist Church, located at 426 St. Paul St. in Gonzales, and is being host-ed by the Gonzales Ministe-rial Alliance.

All emergency employees, volunteer and their families are invited to attend. Come and go or to go plates will be available.

For more information, con-tact Rev. Andy Smith at 830-672-8521.

Revival SlatedDo you need a lift? A new

start? Come hear a message with the power to change your life and to discover a new beginning Jesus Christ at the Little Hill Baptist Church Revival, Thursday, March 1st through Saturday, March 3rd nightly at 7:00 p.m., by hear-ing the word of God from the spirit-filled, dynamic speaker, Pastor M.C. Walker, Sr. of the East 19th Street Mission-ary Baptist Church of Aus-tin! Special musical guests invited each night. Little Hill Baptist Church Revival Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3, nightly at 7:00 p.m. LHBC – 2835 FM 1586, Ottine. For more information, call (830) 672-5959 or send an email to [email protected]

Church CookbookThe Rock Church of Gon-

zales is now accepting dona-tions for their first ever pub-lication.

“Recipes from the Rock” is a cookbook that contains recipes submitted by mem-bers of the Rock Church, as well as Christian writings and various household hints.

The church is asking for a donation of $15 for the book. All proceeds will go toward the funding of church proj-ects.

To inquire about a book or for more information, con-tact Pastor Carolyn Bolden at 830-263-0139.

70th AnniversaryEastside Baptist Church

on Seydler St. will host its 70th anniversary celebration March 25 with services be-ginning at 9:30 a.m. followed by a concert by the Seale Sis-ters. For details, contact the church at 672-2628.

Barbecue CookoffThe Gonzales VFW Ladies

Auxiliary will host its annual Barbecue and Chili Cookoff Saturday, March 17 at the post home on Harwood Road. Categories include Brisket, Chicken, Ribs, Chili

and Jackpot beans. Entry is $15 per event. Registration begin sta 7:30 a.m. For de-tails, call 254-931-5712 or 830-263-0973.

Love a LabThe Labrador Retriever is

America’s No. 1 family dog!We have so many GREAT

Labs and Lab mixes at the Gonzales Dog shelter, wait-ing for their forever homes.

These Labs have so much LOVE to give!

Instead of the usual $80 adoption fee, you can take one of these Labs home for only $50 during the whole month of February. All Labs are heartworm negative, have all current vaccinations, and have been spay/neu-tered. WHAT A DEAL!!!

Why don’t you fill your life with a Lab AND LOVE?

*For more information, please contact Gonzales Dog Adooptions @(830)445-9811/9279. Check out one of our great Labs at www.gon-zalesdog.org Also check our Facebook for more details

GLC donationsAs the holidays wind

down, the Gonzales Learn-ing Center wants to let folks know that we’re collecting gently used Christmas orna-ments, lights, artificial trees, wreaths, décor, and gift wrap for next year’s Christmas ba-zaar.

Call 830-672-8291 to make arrangements to drop off your donation at the Learn-ing Center, located at 1135 St. Paul. We can also pick up donations.

For more information, send email to [email protected].

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley

Family Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit orga-nization providing services to both residents and non-residents that are victims of domestic violence and sexu-al assault in the counties of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

GVFVS provides survivors with legal advocacy, case management, counseling, assistance with crime victims compensation and other ser-vices at no cost. For more in-formation, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.

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Specialty Physician Outpatient ClinicAudiologyHelen Ross,Hearing Specialist(830) 372-2237

CardiologyWilliam Craig, M.D.(830) 672-3845Dustin Agan, M.D.(830) 672-3845

DermatologyVicente Quintero, M.D.(866) 624-8026

NeonatologyMarisol Ortiz, M.D.(361) 575-0681

NephrologyAzhar M. Malik, M.D.(888) 576-0011Haresh Kumar, MD/Khan(361) 576-9165

NeurologyPraveen Thangada, M.D.(830) 303-1819

NeurosurgeryByron D. Neely, M.D., P.A.(979) 968-6500

UrologyRobert Ryan, III, M.D.(830) 379-8491

OncologyRohit Kapoor, M.D., P.A.210-655-0075

OphthalmologyJoseph Kavanagh, M.D.(830) 379-3937

OrthopedicsG. Steven White, M.D.(830) 379-9492Trent Twitero, M.D.(830) 379-9492

PodiatryTerri Quebedeaux, D.P.M., P.A.(830) 672-7581

PulmonologyJohn Holcomb, M.D.(210) 692-9400

SurgeryKathleen Koerner, DO, MS(830) 672-8502Lino Oballo(830) 672-8502

Wound Clinic(877) 295-2273

Located at SieversMedical Clinic:

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VFW Ladies

AuxiliaryPost #4817

3rd Annual BBQ Cook-OffSaturday, March 17, 2012

Entries include:Brisket, Ribs, Chicken, Chili and

Jackpot Beans!$15.00 (per entry) early entries turned into Dorothy Voigt at Gonzales Cannon

on or before Friday, March 16th by 4:00 p.m. or $20.00 per entry on the day

of the event!Check-In begins at 7:30 a.m. Turn in starting at 3:00 p.m.

Event will be held at the VFW Post Home on the Harwood Road in

Gonzales, Texas!Friday set-ups available First come First serve!

Members will be at the Post Home on Friday from 3-7 p.m. for those who would like

to come and sign up or set up!There will be a 50/50 drawing and

a showmanship award this year. So get creative; we

can’t wait to see what you all come up with!! All proceeds will go towards

VFW Ladies Auxiliary Local Scholarships!Please contact Donna Allen at 830-203-0716

or Dorothy Voigt at 254-931-5712 for more information!

Obituaries

Mary Loma Cheek,1927-2012CHEEK

Mary L. Cheek was born March 17, 1927 in Gon-zales, TX to the late Mr. Ed White and Della Ford. Mary passed away Satur-day afternoon February 25,

2012in Gonzales, TX. She was a great mother, grand-mother and friend. She was greatly loved and will be missed by all. She was a friendly, warm, inviting person who enjoyed spend-ing time with family.

She is preceded in death by her parents, daugh-ter Deborah Jean, brother Earl White and sister Bes-sie Bea. Mary is survived by her only son Bill Cheek of Gonzales and her three grandchildren. A Memo-rial Service will be held for family and friends at a later date. Arrangements under the direction of Buffington Funeral Home, Gonzales, TX.

The Saturn Friendship Club met at 1 p.m. on Feb. 20 in the Old Schoolhouse in Cistern.

The drive through the rural area to arrive there was en-couraging as stock tanks were full of water and water was standing in the road ditches and low areas along the way. There were even large areas of green pastures for which to give thanks. The afternoon was pleasantly warm and sunny. As country ladies, we realized that sunshine and warmth were just as impor-tant as rain to make the future grasses and spring wildflowers grow. Some early red phlox were seen in spots. Spring can’t be too far in the future.

Betty Britsch and Nancy Littlefield were hostesses for the meeting. They welcomed sixteen members and one guest. In recognition of Presi-dent’s Day, the meeting table was decorated in red, white and blue. The center piece re-sembled fireworks and shoot-ing stars. The blue and red gift bags holding door prizes were later won by Sandy Parr, Roberta Kilpatrick and Penny Snyder.

The usual before meeting socializing centered around the recent rains, new family arrivals and other happenings since the last meeting.

At 1 p.m. the meeting was called to order by the presi-dent, Roberta Kilpatrick. The club prayer was read in uni-son and the club motto stated.

The devotional given by Nancy Littlefield was based on one of her favorite scriptures, Jeremiah 29:11,”For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope (NRSV).” The verse was in re-gard to her new GPS.

Unless the GPS is told where you want to go, it just

lets you know where you are, how fast you are going and the speed limit. If you ask it to find a route for you, it does and fast. The GPS wants you to go the most direct and fastest way. Sometimes that can be a prob-lem if you prefer back roads and more leisurely, scenic routes. If the directions given by the GPS are not followed, it keeps telling the driver to turn around and go back.

Maybe that is a little bit like what God does for us. He has a plan for us but we often get off track, change our plan, or just plain get lost. That is when God looks for another plan, another way to get us to where He wants us to go. Unlike the GPS we don’t do the initial programming, God does. But God looks for ways to make our ultimate destination ex-actly what He had planned. Thank God for that!

The president thanked Nancy for the devotional and welcomed a guest Karen Siev-ers, Vivian Benton’s niece, visiting from Houston. Sec-retary/Treasurer, Mary Kelly, read the minutes of the last meeting and gave the financial report. Both were accepted as presented.

A thank you note from the Oak Manor Nursing Home in Flatonia was read thank-ing the club for the Christmas gifts that the residents appre-ciated receiving. Old Busi-ness and New Business were completed. A three member committee was appointed to review and update a set of By-Laws for the Saturn Friend-ship Club.

At this point, the hostess-es invited the members to the serving table for refresh-ments. Nancy Littlefield offered prayer. When the plates were filled with slices of both pimiento cheese and smoked turkey sandwiches, baby carrots, celery sticks, broccoli, cubes of cheddar cheese, strawberries and

blueberries with dressings and dips, the food was as colorful as it was tasty. Cup-cakes decorated with a star and drinks of choice com-pleted the meal.

When everyone had fin-ished the enjoyable refresh-ments and visiting, Nancy Lit-tlefield presented the program for the afternoon, “Signs of the Times”. She recalled some of the unusual, interesting and humorous signs she had seen in her travels.

In the United Kingdom instead of Yield, the sign said, Give Way. Some roads in East Texas were named for wildflowers. In Arkansas road signs marked Old Rocky Top Road, Looney Tunes Road, and Red Bug Lake Road. Ken-tucky signs included Granny Squirrel Gap, Kingdom Come Parkway, and Duncan Hines Hwy. Towns had names such as Quicksand, KY, and Beaver Dam, KY - “Home of 2000 happy People and a few Sore-heads”.

Some businesses and store names were, Chigger Hollow Trading Post, and Knotty and Nice Inn. Alabama had a state park named Tates Hell State Forest. Frog Suck Park was in Arkansas. Church signs such as All Faith United Methodist Church and Mt. Zion Regular Baptist Church, left her won-dering.

She read a bumper sticker that said, Jesus is Coming - Look Busy. The church sign she liked the best was found in nearby Luling it said, Jesus KNOWS Me, This I LOVE. That is so true and so won-derful. Nancy’s program was interesting , amusing and en-joyable.

Following adjournment of the meeting, several group pictures were taken. The next meeting will be on March 19 at 1 p.m. at the Cistern School-house with Sue Kalinec and Mary Kelly serving as host-esses.


By EVA BOSCAMP

Special to The Cannon

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Two area basketball teams will get at least one more game and, more im-portantly, a shot at picking up a state title.

The St. Paul Lady Car-dinals will play Sherman Texoma Christian at 6 p.m.

tomorrow in the TAPPS 2A state semifinal game at Mansfield High School.

“Getting to state and winning a title is our goal every year,” St. Paul head coach Dana Beal said. “We are not just excited about making it to state. We are exciting about our chance

to win it.”The Lady Cardinals are

a team that plays with a lot of intensity and at a high tempo.

“We need to play our game,” Beal said. “We are defense-oriented and we need to stick to that plan.”

St. Paul has always fash-

ioned its system around the collective bunch and never around a couple of players. But there are always players who put it on their shoul-ders to provide leadership and encouragement.

Seniors Marrisa Ynclan and Kali Kocian are filling that role for the Lady Car-

dinals this year.“It will need to be a total

team effort, however Kali and Marrisa will be key in this game because they have provided great lead-ership thus far,” said Beal. “The other players feed off their intensity and enthusi-asm. We will need all of our

players to step up.”St. Paul scoring oppor-

tunities will come from all over the floor.

“Our guards will need to hit their shots and that should open our post play,” Beal said.

St. Paul last attended

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Coming ThroughKendall Kristynik struggles to get around Leakey’s six-foot post Sarah Reagor during Moulton’s win at the Region IV Championship on Saturday. (Photo by Mark Lube)

By MARK [email protected]

NEW BRAUNFELS — When your game plan does not go according to plan at first, do not panic and make rash or hurried changes.

Stick to what you can do and do it.The Moulton Bobkittens were in

a bit of pickle early against Leakey Saturday afternoon in the Region IV Class 1A, Division II championship at New Braunfels Canyon High School.

The Lady Eagles had managed to get out to a couple of seven-point leads in the first frame. The Bobkit-tens continued to run their usual of-fense, which is based on possession and pass once, pass twice, pass a third time and then maybe a fourth or fifth pass before taking a shot.

“We stuck to our game plan,” Moult-on head coach John Meisetschleager said. “We love to run this offense and we did not change anything after get-ting down.”

Moulton was rewarded for their persistence with a 47-44 win over Leakey to advance to the state tour-nament for the first time since 2005.

“I very excited to be going to state,” said Megan Mitchon in was what like-ly an understatement.

The Bobkittens had to work on not letting Leakey get second and third-chance shots.

“We had to focus on blocking out so we could get the rebound and not give Leakey another shot at a bucket,” Meisetschleager said.

MacKenzie Wade, Sarah Reagor and Chastity Thompson all made shots to put Leakey up 7-0 at the start of the game.

Moulton exercised patient on of-

fense as Kendall Kristynik set up Mi-tchon for a bucket. Brandee Dolezal forced a turnover and fed Casie Zim-merman for a three-point basket and then later assisted on a Dolezal field goal to help Moulton come within 11-8.

Kristynik’s steal and layup gave the Bobkittens a 14-12 lead at the end of the first quarter.

The Bobkittens started the second frame with an 8-2 run with a bas-ket each from Dolezal and Chelsey Darilek. Zimmerman sank a three and Moulton was riding high, ahead 25-14.

Kristynik rebounded a late shot and scored right at the buzzer for a 27-18 halftime lead.

The Lady Eagles went crazy in the third box, scoring the first 11 points on plays by Keena Auld, Thompson and Wade. Moulton’s only points in the third were on a three-point play by Dolezal after she had grabbed a de-fensive board.

“We were not playing to win the game,” Meisetschleager said. “We were playing to not lose. We need to work on preserving the win.”

Down by a point, 31-30, to start the fourth quarter, Moulton jumped back into the lead, 34-33, after a pair of baskets by Darilek. The Lady Eagles then went on a 7-2 run to head out in front, 40-36.

Leakey got a free throw from Thompson to increase the lead to 42-38 with 2:17 left to play in the game. Mitchon made a free throw to close down to 42-40, and later, Michelle Holub made a bucket to bring Moult-on to within 43-42 with 55 seconds left.

Wade missed a free throw for the Lady Eagles with 32 seconds left and Kristynik grabbed the rebound. A few seconds later, Moulton took a time out and Kristynik took the ball to the net, scoring with 20 seconds left and made the three-point play for a 45-43 score.

At the other end, Thompson hit a free throw to bring Leakey to within 45-44 with 13 seconds left. The Bob-kittens were attempting to run out the last few seconds on the clock when Mitchon was fouled. She went to the line and sank both free throws put the Bobkittens ahead 47-44.

Leakey was unable to make a game-winning or game-tying basket on its next possession.

Moulton (26-10) will play Neches (32-5) at 7 p.m. Friday at the Univer-sity of Texas Frank Erwin Center in the Class 1A Division II state semifi-nal.

Region IV Class 1A Division II championship

Moulton 47, Leakey 44

Leakey: Chastity Thompson 8 2-5 18, MacKenzie Wade 4 1-4 10, Sarah Reagor 3 3-6 9, Keena Aulf 3 0-2 6, Brianna Runio 0 1-2 1. Totals 18 7-19 44.

Moulton: Kendall Kristynik 4 2-4 10, Brandee Dolezal 3 3-3 9, Megan Mitchon 2 4-4 8, Casie Zimmerman 2 2-2 8, Chelsey Darilek 4 0-0 8, Jenni-fer Crumley 0 2-2 2, Michelle Holub 1 0-0 2. 16 13-15 47.

Score by PeriodsL 12 6 13 13-44M 14 13 3 17-47


NEW BRAUNFELS — Moulton head boys basketball coach Kevin Fishbeck believes it is im-portant to be mentally tough in basketball as well as physically tough.

“I preach and stress mentality to my team,” he said, following the Bob-katz’s 53-48 win over the Fayettevlle Lions Tuesday night at New Braunfels Canyon High School in the Class 1A Division II regional quarterfinals.

“I tell the guys that the mind is the strongest thing,” he said.

Fishbeck said he knew the game would be a close one by virtue of it being a postseason matchup.

“Bottom line is, this is the playoffs and it is al-ways down to the wire,” Fishbeck said.

Being tough and pre-pared mentally allowed Moulton to put the squeeze on Fayetteville in the third quarter, in which the Lions netted just four points.

Fishbeck said by hold-ing down the Lions’ scor-ing in the third quarter, it allowed the Bobkatz to absorb the last gasps of

pressure the Lions applied in the final eight minutes.

“They hit some con-tested and tough shots,” he said. “We were mentally tough and executed the game (plan).

Moulton usually plays a pretty challenging non-district schedule and sometimes does not al-ways have the prettiest win-loss record before dis-trict begins, something in which Fishbeck does not lose sleep over.

“I have always sched-uled tough opponents for non-district because I am not worried about our record for that part of the season,” he said. “The schedule prepares us for district and beyond.”

The Bobkatz held a 16-10 lead after the first frame, but Fayetteville ral-lied for a 22-22 halftime score with a 12-6 run in the second quarter.

“I am not taking any-thing away from Fayette-ville, but we gave up too many points in the second period,” Fishbeck said. “I discussed with the team at halftime and we came out in the third and built a big lead.”

The Lions opened the game with a 6-3 advantage

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Dornak Attacks the RackMatt Dornak gets past Fayetteville’s Connor Bertsch (3) and all the way to the rim with this shot during Moulton’s win in the regional quarter-finals Tuesday night. Dornak had a game-high 16 points. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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SEGUIN - There’s an old axiom that says the third time is the charm. Unfor-tunately, it appears nobody ever told that to San Anto-nio Cole.

For the third time this season the Cougars de-feated Nixon-Smiley, this time knocking them out of the playoffs with a 44-33 win in the Region IV quar-terfinals at Seguin High School.

“The kids gave us ev-erything they had,” said Nixon-Smiley head coach Carlton McKinney. “They really battled. After losing twice to these guys in the regular season, to show up and play as hard as they did tonight shows a lot of character. I’m really proud of our kids.”

The Mustangs (27-6) stood up to every chal-lenge Cole presented them and even held the lead for most of the game’s first three periods. The fourth frame proved to be Nix-on-Smiley’s undoing as they were unable to post a single point, getting out-

scored 14-0.“We were never in a

situation where I thought we had the game in hand,” McKinney said. “I felt it was going to come down to the last possession. Up to that point, we had never let them sustain any runs.”

Everything that could have possibly gone wrong for the Mustangs did so in the fourth quarter.

Nixon-Smiley was up 33-32 with 6:05 left to play, when Ronnell Jordan jump-stopped in the lane and flipped in a shot to give Cole the lead. He drove the lane for a bucket on their next possession and a steal by Wykeyhe Walker led to another Cougar score.

Operating out of a spread offense to run some clock, Bryce King’s runner went in right before Nix-on-Smiley’s Damian Perez was called for traveling. The Cougars remained in a spread until Walker pen-etrated again for another bucket with 46 seconds left.

The Mustangs’ Robbie Mejia had a nice baseline drive and got a forced shot to go in, but he was called

for charging to put the game out of reach.

“We compounded the problem by turning the ball over,” McKinney said. “Now instead of sitting in a zone (defense), we had to go out and defend them man-to-man. We played right into their hands, but before that, we did what we wanted to do.”

“We forced them to play on the perimeter, which gave us an advantage, and we made them play de-fense for three and a half quarters. The problem is the game lasts for four quarters and we just didn’t finish as we would have liked.”

As was the case in the previous two games with Cole (29-5), Jordan led all scorers with 15 points. The only other player to score in double figures was the Mustangs’ Seth Barrow, who posted all 10 of his points in the first half.

McKinney had a special message after the game for his group of seniors, which includes Mejia, Perez, Vic-tor Coronado, Ian Bryan,

the state tournament back in 2009-10 and was dis-appointed for coming up short, so they will be primed to play after miss-ing the tournament last year.

“I feel we have as a good as chance as the other three teams in the final four,” Beal said. “

Sherman Texoma Chris-tian will center a lot of its plays around its post play-ers.

“We have to keep those post players uncomfortable and force them to work,” Beal said. “On defense, they like to play man coverage which is what we like to go up against.”

She said Sherman Texo-ma is not as big as they have been, but have won the title three times.

“I think we do great if we play like we did in the win over Kerrville Our Lady Of the Hills and keep our in-tensity high,” Beal said.

MoultonThe Moulton Bobkittens

return to the state tourna-ment for the first time since 2005.

The Bobkittens will visit the University of Texas

campus when they take on Neches at 7 p.m. at the Frank Erwin Center in the Class 1A Division II state semifinal. The Lady Tigers (32-5) have been to the state tourney every year since 2009 and feature a roster with five seniors.

Moulton head coach John Meisetschleager wants his players to see the state tournament games at the Erwin Center as ‘just another game’

“I told them the court is the same size and all the dimensions are same,” he said.

The Bob Kittens (26-10) have been able to get a look at the hardwood at the arena.

“One of the girls said that court looks just like ours,” Meisetschleager said. “I said ‘Exactly’.”

The key for Moulton to be successful in the tour-nament is to be sound on every fundamental, spe-cifically in rebounding and ball protection.

“We need to especially do well on blocking out and keeping the number of turnovers down,” said Mei-setschleager. “We have been having too many turnovers lately.”

Neches is apparently is a

big proponent of the First Amendment as they do love the press.

“They run a lot of press and will sometimes fade into a half-court man de-fense,” Meisetschleager said. “They also could run a 2-2-1 and 1-2-1-1 press. They have a lot of options on defense.”

Like all of the teams at the state tourney, Moulton has a roster full of capable players.

“I have not really had one standout player who when stifled by the opposing team, hurt the result of the game,” said Meisetschlea-ger. “I got a bunch of play-ers that can help out and I would love to have my five starters all have a great game.”

Meisetschleager said he feels with Neches’s de-fense, Moulton will likely get some open looks to try some long-range shots.

Neches is the champion of District 22-A. Their play-off run includes a defeat of Wells 78-30 in the area round, getting by Goodrich 46-45 in the regional quar-terfinals, winning the re-gional semifinal against Sa-voy 56-46, and earning the Region III title with a 44-39 victory over Saltillo.

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By CEDRIC [email protected]

Continued from page C1

STATE: Moulton girls make it back to the state tournament

Cole knocks Nixon-Smiley out with third straight win

as Brandon Scully, Trev-or Malota and Connor Bertsch knocked down some early shots. The Bob-katz shot into the lead with a jumper from Bronson Za-pata and then a Jacob No-vosad pass to Zapata for a three-point shot.

Bertsch tied the game at 8-8 after a pass from Scully. The frame concluded with an 8-2 run by the Bobkatz with Novosad assisting Ja-son Gold and then sinking his own trey after getting the ball from Tyler Swartz.

Near the end of the run, Zapata and Gold hit some free throws.

At the start of the sec-ond period, Fayetteville closed down to 16-13 and Moulton went up 18-13 on the field goal by Novosad, following a rebound on the other end by Matt Dornak.

Malota netted a pair of three-point shots to go along with a layup by Brett Rhode as the game was tied at 22-22 at halftime.

The Lions were able to take a 25-24 lead a few minutes into the third box. Then Moulton took off with an 11-1 run for the rest of

the quarter. Zapata made a jumper,

Dornak converted a layup, Novosad scored again and Dornak netted five points with a layup and a triple.

Early in the fourth quarter the teams traded free throws, and Moulton forged ahead 41-33. Plays by Swartz and Dornak put the Bobkatz ahead 49-37 with just a couple of min-utes left to play.

However, the Kings of the Jungle did not abandon their throne just yet.

Scully made a bucket and later, Bertsch converted a three-point play to bring Fayetteville to within 49-42 with just 1:04 left. A three-point basket by Scully pulled the Lions to within 49-45 with 40 seconds to play.

Novosad hit a pair of free throws to give Moulton some breathing room at 51-45 with 38 seconds left. Scully then connected on an apparent layup, but the officials waved off the bas-ket on the foul by Fayette-ville and the Bobkatz got the ball with 30 seconds remaining.

At the 16.9 mark, No-vosad made another pair

of free throws, and Logan Stoelke sank a triple near the end. Fayetteville was able to drive down the court with three or four seconds left, but could not score another basket.

The win boosts the Bob-katz to 25-8 and they will play in the Class 1A Divi-sion II regional tourna-ment on Friday against Lingleville in a Region IV semifinal game at Canyon High School, beginning at 4 p.m.

Class 1A Division II Re-gional Quarterfinal

Moulton 53, Fayetteville 48

Fayetteville: Trevor Malota 4 4-6 14, Connor Bertsch 5 3-5 13, Bran-don Scully 5 0-1 11, Logan Stoelke 2 0-0 5, Brett Rhode 2 1-1 5. Totals 18 8-13 48.

Moulton: Matt Dornak 7 0-0 16, Jacob Novosad 4 4-4 13, Bronson Zapata 5 1-2 12, Jason Gold 1 4-4 6, Tyler Swartz 1 4-4 6. Totals 18 13-14 53.

Score by PeriodsF 10 12 4 22-48M 16 6 13 18-53


MOULTON: Bobkatz hold on to reach regional tournament

Jason Gold drives past a defender during the Bobkatz’ win over Fay-etteville in the regional quarterfinals Tuesday night. Gold scored six points in the contest.(Photo by Mark Lube)

And OneRobbie Mejia gets off this shot after drawing contact from Cole’s Bryce King (10) during Nixon-Smiley’s loss in the regional quarterfinals Tuesday night. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

Lady Cards split with Schulenburg, Flatonia

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SHINER – The St. Paul softball team beat Schulen-burg Lady Shorthorns 8-5 at home on Saturday.

The Lady Cardinals led 1-0 after the first inning and extended the lead to 4-1 in the third inning. Schulenburg scored twice in the fourth inning to close down 4-3.

St. Paul scored once in the fifth inning and then took the lead to 8-1 in the sixth. Schulenburg man-aged to plate three runs in its final time to bat.

Abby Irvin took the win for St. Paul with five runs on seven hits, three walks, one batter hit and eight strikeouts.

Kylie Natal was 1-for-3 with two runs scored,

Emily Pokluda hit 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBI, Irvin was 1-for-2 with one run scored, Ju-lie Bartek finished 1-for-4 with an RBI, Lizzy Opiela was 1-for-2, Victoria Ku-sak had one run and Elise Patek went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs recorded.

The Lady Cardinals were beat by Flatonia, 9-2, on Tuesday.

St. Paul took a 1-0 lead after the third inning, and Flatonia countered with nine runs on five hits in the fifth inning.

Katie Steinhauser picked up the win for Flatonia as she had 10 strikeouts and six walks, four hits and two runs in seven innings worked.

At the plate for the Lady Bulldogs, Crystal Rodri-guez was 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run, Taylor Wil-liams hit 1-for-2 with an RBI and two runs scored, Alex Bruns went 1-for-4 with two runs and an RBI, Steinhauser went 2-for-3 with one run, and Chan-dler Fike was 1-for-3 with one run, a double and two RBI.

Irvin took the loss for St. Paul with nine runs on seven hits, one batter hit, 10 walks and 15 strikeouts.

Emily Pokluda scored one run, Loni Soefje was 1-for-3, Abby Hull 1-for-3, Victoria Kusak batted 1-for-3 with a double and one run, and Elise Patek was 1-for-3.


Sizzling Lake Austin turns in third Toyota Sharelunker of year

The Great Outdoors

Big Elk BaggedSorrelle Leigh Goodwin shot this elk in Utopia, on a guided hunt with family friend, Dan Moody, at Four Seasons Hunting (Courtesy photo)

ATHENS—So far five fish have been entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program for the 2011-2012 season, and Lake Aus-tin has produced three of them.

Wesley Hayden of Round Rock caught Toyota Share-Lunker 527 from Lake Austin on Feb. 11. Landon Glass of Jarrell caught No. 528 from the lake on Feb. 14. Brett Ketchum caught No. 526 from Lake Aus-tin on Jan. 29, starting the three-fish streak.

Hayden was fishing in four feet of 57-degree wa-ter about 2 p.m. using a jig when he hooked the 13.22-pound fish. It was 26 inches long and 21.25 inch-es in girth.

Glass caught his 13.03-pound Toyota Share-Lunker while fishing in 10 feet of 58-degree water with a Sixth Sense football jig. A scan of the fish revealed it is the same fish caught Feb. 27, 2010, by Carl Adkins of Austin, at which time it be-came Toyota ShareLunker 481. At that time the fish weighed 13.1 pounds. DNA testing at the time revealed the fish to be pure Florida largemouth.

The explosion of big fish from Lake Austin has its roots in years past.

“I believe a combination of our Florida bass stocking program and good habitat have led to great produc-tion over the years,” said Marcos DeJesus, Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-ment’s fisheries biologist in charge of managing the lake’s fishery.

“There were probably a couple of good year classes several years ago, and some of those individuals are now breaking that Share-Lunker barrier.”

Every fish entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program has a passive in-tegrated transponder (PIT) tag injected into its body cavity for tracking and can be identified if recaught. One fish from Lake Alan Henry was caught and en-tered into the program three years in a row.

Both Lake Austin fish were picked up by a Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-ment Inland Fisheries staff member from the A.E. Wood Fish Hatchery in San Marcos. Since the Glass fish is pure Florida largemouth, it will be taken to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Cen-ter (TFFC) in Athens for the duration of the spawn-ing period. DNA testing showed ShareLunker 527 to be an intergrade. Inter-

grades, mixtures of Florida and northern largemouth, are returned to the lake where caught as soon as possible.

Lake Austin will receive a portion of any Toyota ShareLunker fingerlings produced during the cur-rent season. Any lake that produces a ShareLunker receives a share of the sea-son’s fingerlings, whether any of the fish from that lake are spawned or not. These fingerlings will be the offspring of pure Flor-ida females paired with pure Florida males that are themselves the offspring of ShareLunkers.

“We feel that this selec-tive breeding process re-sults in the best possible ge-netics being returned to the lakes, increasing the chance of more trophy bass being produced in the future,” ex-plained Allen Forshage, di-rector of TFFC. “Although these big females have no doubt spawned in years be-fore they were caught, they did not necessarily mate with a pure Florida male. Everything we know about genetics tells us that the parents with the best genes produce the highest quality offspring. This is the scien-tific basis of our selective breeding program.”

Forshage also noted that the main purpose of stock-ing ShareLunker fingerlings is not to produce trophy fish for anglers to catch.

“The reason we stock these fish, and the reason we want to use only pure Florida bass in the selective breeding program, is that we know Florida bass grow bigger and faster than na-tive northern largemouths, and by stocking pure Flor-ida fingerlings from trophy fish, we will have a greater impact on the genetics of the overall largemouth population in the lake,” he said.

“In addition, since fin-gerlings from different par-ents are mixed before being stocked, these stockings help to promote genetic di-versity.”

TFFC also uses some of the ShareLunker off-spring to produce brood-fish for TPWD’s regular largemouth bass stocking program, which annually stocks millions of fish into Texas public waters.

“In this way we are intro-ducing ShareLunker genet-ics into the general large-mouth bass population,” Forshage said.

Recent advances in DNA technology now allow TPWD to determine if a

fish entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program is an offspring of a previous ShareLunker. This technol-ogy has been available only since 2005, and it takes seven to 10 years for a bass to reach 13 pounds and be eligible for the program.

“We are looking forward to the day when we get the DNA test results from a ShareLunker and can say, ‘That is one of our fish,’” Forshage said.

Anyone legally catch-ing a 13-pound or big-ger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may sub-mit the fish to the Toyota ShareLunker program by calling program manager David Campbell at (903) 681-0550 or paging him at (888) 784-0600 and leaving a phone number includ-ing area code. Fish will be picked up by TPWD per-sonnel within 12 hours.

Anglers entering fish into the Toyota Share-Lunker program receive a free replica of their fish, a certificate and ShareLunker clothing and are recog-nized at a banquet at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.

The person who catches the season’s largest entry will be named Angler of the Year and will receive a prize package from G. Loomis valued at $818. If a Texas angler catches the largest entry of the season, that person also receives a life-time fishing license valued at $1,000.

For complete informa-tion and rules of the Share-Lunker program, tips on caring for big bass, a list of official Toyota ShareLunker weigh and holding stations and a recap of last year’s season, see http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/sharelunk-er. The site also includes a searchable database of all fish entered into the pro-gram along with pictures where available.

Information on current catches, including short videos of interviews with anglers when available, is posted on www.facebook.com/sharelunkerprogram.

The Toyota ShareLunker Program is made possible by a grant to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Founda-tion from Gulf States Toy-ota. Toyota is a long-time supporter of the Founda-tion and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, pro-viding major funding for a wide variety of education, fish, parks and wildlife projects.

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Game SummaryClass 1A Region IV

quarterfinalsSan Antonio Cole 44,

Nixon-Smiley 33

SA Cole: Terrell Rob-erson 0 0-0 0, Wykeyhe Walker 1 2-4 4, Bryce King 4 0-0 10, Andre Terrell 0 0-0 0, Tyreese Davis 3 3-8 9, Julian Wilson 0 0-0 0, Will Taliaferro 0 0-0 0, Da-vid Solis 0 0-0 0, Kendrick Taylor 2 2-2 6, Ronnel Jor-dan 7 0-0 15, Marc Ramos 0

0-0 0, Justice Pierce 0 0-0 0, Andre Williams 0 0-0 0

Nixon-Smiley: Garrett Earlywine 0 0-0 0, Da-mian Perez 3 0-0 8, Jaime Moreno 3 1-2 7, Ian Bryan 0 0-0 0, Seth Barrow 4 2-3 10, Alex Hernandez 0 0-0 0, Rickey Hernandez 0 0-0 0, Robert Mejia 1 1-2 4, Mat-thew Finch 1 0-0 2, Victor Coronado 0 0-0 0, Jared Van Auken 1 0-0 2, Victor Evans 0 0-0 0

Score by PeriodsSAC 9 7 14 14 - 44NS 7 14 12 0 - 33


MUSTANGS: Fourth quarter collapse leads to playoff loss

From coaches’ reportsThe Gonzales baseball

team dropped both of its pool games in its tourna-ment on Thursday.

The Apaches lost the first game to Elgin 25-5. At the plate, Aaron Gaytan hit 2-for-3 to lead Gonzales.

Head coach Larry Wuth-rich said Gonzales strug-gled on the mound with 14 walks in seven innings and Elgin scored runs off nine of the walks.

Gonzales was defeated by Austin Travis 21-10 on Thursday evening. The Apaches also fell to Victo-ria St. Joseph, 10-2, on Sat-urday.

Tyler Janota fell to 1-1 on the season with three in-nings worked, three walks, five strikeouts, two bat-ters hit, eight hits and six earned runs.

At the plate, Gaytan was 2-for-3, Tyler Morgan went 2-for-3 with a double and Devin Benes was 1-for-2 with a double.

“We struggled with con-sistency this weekend,” Wuthrich said. “Pitchers threw behind in the count and as a result, our walks were up. Both are not char-acteristics of winning base-ball. We have some players stepping up to the plate and hitting the ball hard.”

“We talk daily about those little things that the winning teams do. Those things will be our focus.”

On Tuesday, the Apaches fell to Smithville 18-2.

The Tribe belted out a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, but Smithville struck in the second with seven runs and put up five more in third, plus three each in the fourth and fifth innings.

“Smithville was able to take advantage of 12 walks and three batters hit,” Wuthrich said.

•The Luling Eagles de-feated Lytle, 14-1, on Thursday after plating 11 runs in the third inning. Ryan Larison took the win for the Eagles with eight strikeouts. Luling racked up 11 hits with Marc Ma-gallenz getting three hits at the plate.

•The Nixon-Smiley Mus-tangs lost two and tied one last weekend in the Kenedy Tournament. The Mus-tangs tied Skidmore-Tynan 10-10. Tynan rallied from a 5-0 deficit in the bottom of the second. Each team then scored five each in the

fourth inning.Nick Pena received a

no-decision on the mound with 10 runs on five hits, seven strikeouts and five walks in six innings.

The Mustangs were edged out by Runge, 9-8, in the next game. The Mus-tangs led 6-0 going into the bottom of the fourth. Run-ge plated three runs and three more in the six for a 6-6 game. Nixon retook the lead with two runs in the top of the seventh, and Runge bounced back with three runs in the bottom of the seventh.

Raul Tovar fell to 0-2 for the Mustangs with nine runs on six hits, four walks and seven strikeouts.

Apaches struggling at season’s startBaseball Roundup

Big StickTyler Janota and the Gonzales Apaches faltered dur-ing their tournament last week. Janota fell to 1-1 on the season as a pitcher. (Photo by Mark Lube)

SAN MARCOS — Waelder coach Jarvin Hall did not want to take too many chances Saturday night against Leakey in the area round at San Marcos High School.

The Wildcats blitzed out to a 25-3 lead after the game’s first quarter and never looked back in a 53-33 win.

“We came out excited and with a lot of energy,” Hall said. “I wanted us to go fast out of the gates and strike early. I also wanted us to play quicker.”

Clay Orona sank 15 points in the quarter as he connected on a trio of three-pointers and it ap-peared that his shots were destined to drop through the net. He chalked it up to extra time he spent in the gymnasium, working on his shooting.

“I get to the gym at 6 in the morning and prac-tice shooting,” Orona said. “I will do crazy things to make it (in basketball).”

Orona said he was de-termined to get his team a win, even if he had to do a lot of the work.

“I could not let us lose (this game),” he said. “But I did not put it all on my shoulders. Our whole team works hard and I have confidence in every one of my teammates.”

The play of Waelder was so intense that the Eagles only got a handful of free

throws to go with zero field goals in the first eight min-utes. Leakey didn’t sink a shot until there was 6:38 left in the second quarter.

Hall said the perfor-mance of the team’s de-fense will be a factor in how far it can go in the playoffs.

“Defense will take you to the championship and defense will win the cham-pionship,” he said.

Orona sank a three and Cody Orona made a jumper after an offensive rebound to put Waelder ahead 5-1 after Leakey got on the scoreboard first with a Tanner Pannell free throw. Pannell made an-other free throw to cut Leakey’s deficit to 7-2.

Waelder then went on a 9-0 run as Cody Orona got a defensive board and passed to Deondrae Fields for a layup. Fields returned the favor on Waelder’s next offensive trip and Clay Orona made a pair of free throws and then sank a triple.

The Wildcats then scored the last nine points of the frame after the Ea-gles made another free throw.

Clay Orona connected on a three-point basket, and then made two more free throws. Tiburcio Blanton hit a layup and Cody Orona put back a re-bounded shot.

In the second frame, Drew Shackleford put in Leakey’s first basket and it

kicked off a 10-2 run with Pannell, Billy Chisum and Shackelford all contribut-ing.

Waelder got one field goal, a triple from Blanton, and finished the quarter with three points and a 29-14 halftime advantage.

In the third frame, Waelder outscored the Eagles 7-4 with Blanton hitting a three, and Joseph McCook and Cody Orona connecting on buckets. Leakey got a basket apiece from Chsium and Ty Pan-nell.

The Eagles opened the fourth frame with two buckets to close down to 36-22. They later battled to within 42-31.

Blanton bagged six points as the Wildcats fin-ished the game on a 11-2 run.

Class 1A Division II area round

Waelder 53, Leakey 33Leakey: Billy Chisum 5

0-0 10, Tanner Pannell 2 3-7 7, Drew Shackleford 2 0-0 4, Ty Pannell 2 0-0 4, Emilio Navarro 2 0-0 4, Sackett Holman 1 0-0 3, Miguel Contreras 0 1-2 1. Totals 14 4-9 33.

Waelder: Tiburcio Blan-ton 5 4-4 16. Clay Orona 4 4-4 15, Cody Orona 6 0-2 12, Deondrae Fields 3 0-0 7, Joseph McCook 1 0-0 2, Jeremy Gonzales 0 1-2 1. Totals 19 9-12 53.

Score by PeriodsL 3 11 4 15-33W 25 4 7 17-53

The CannonThursday, March 1, 2012 Page C5

Moulton survives late rally, beats Rochelle in semifinal

NEW BRAUNFELS — Practice makes perfect.

And the Moulton Bob-kittens needed that perfec-tion late in their Class 1A, DII regional semifinal win, 50-49, Friday afternoon at Canyon High School.

Moulton (25-10) held a 47-35 advantage with just over four minutes to go, but had to withstand a fe-rocious Lady Hornet rally that saw Rochelle score 14 of the last 17 points.

“It was difficult to defend (our lead in the last four or five minutes) but practice makes perfect,” Casie Zim-merman said. “We have practiced our defense every day, going against our good ball handlers.”

A pair of free throws by Megan Mitchon gave Moulton a 50-47 lead with 28 seconds left. At the 17-second mark, head coach John Meisetschlea-ger called a time out to dis-cuss the situation with his players.

“I told them we just have to play ball for 17 seconds,” he said. “I wanted us to fo-cus on the present and not think ahead. I wanted us to be able to hold onto the ball.”

Chelsea Darilek later got a steal and attempted to score, missing the layup.

“I did not ask Chelsea to try and score but she is always looking to get a number of points,” Mei-setschleager said.

The Bobkittens worked on similar game situations during practice sessions. Meisetschleager said things do not always work out ex-actly as planned.

“We do practice situa-tions like we had late in this game, but this one was drawn up,” he admitted.

The Bobkittens did not try to rush shots while on

offense, deploying a posses-sion-style strategy.

“We have to make a certain number of passes before we shoot,” Zimmer-man said.

“I thought we did real well in being patient on offense,” Meisetschleager said. “We have the tenden-cy to push the ball up the court which can cause us to turn the ball over.”

“With our offense, we tried to work the clock some and looking at Ro-chelle on film, it was likely they would allow us to run this offense.”

The Bobkittens turned a relatively-close game into the makings of a runaway in the third quarter as Zim-merman and Mitchon con-nected on some long-range baskets.

“Those shots were huge because both Casie and Megan had been shooting a little short recently,” Mei-setschleager said.

The baskets helped give the Bobkittens a 42-26 ad-

vantage. Rochelle answered as Kendra Walls made a jumper, and then got a steal on the opposite end and scored on the bucket. She made the free throw to convert the three-point play. Later, Brittney Stid-ham made two free throws, and the Lady Hornets were within 43-33.

Brandee Dolezal made two free throws to end the third, with Moulton hold-ing a 45-33 lead.

Rochelle opened the game with a 6-2 advantage, and withstood a Moulton run of 10-7 for the rest of the quarter. During that run, the Bobkittens got two baskets from Dolezal, a three-point bucket from Mitchon and points from Zimmerman and Kendall Kristynik.

In the second frame, Moulton used some free throws to take a 19-17 lead. Rochelle knotted the game with a shot from Stidham, off the feed from Haley Tinney.

The Bobkittens went ahead 26-19, primarily on three-point field goals from Zimmerman and Mitchon, to lead 29-22 at the break.

Region IV, Class 1A, Di-vision II regional semifinal

Moulton 50, Rochelle 49

Rochelle: Kendra Walls 5 5-7 15, Brittney Stidham 5 4-6 14, Dana Poe 2 4-4 8, Macie Campbell 3 2-2 8, Jessica Gomez 1 2-2 4. To-tals 16 17-21 49.

Moulton: Megan Mi-tchon 3 7-8 16, Casie Zim-merman 5 1-2 14, Brandee Dolezal 4 2-3 11, Kendall Kristynik 2 4-6 8, Michelle Holub 0 1-2 1, Chelsey Darilek 0 0-1 0. Totals 16 15-22 50.

Score by PeriodsR 13 9 11 16-49M 12 17 16 5-50


Nixon-Smiley defeats Taft, St. Paul advances to state

From coaches’ reports

• The Nixon-Smiley won passage to the regional quarterfinals with a 52-49 win over Taft Friday night in Pleasanton.

The Mustangs rallied from 30-26 halftime deficit, with Robbie Mejia bagging half a dozen points to lead Nixon. Seth Barrow scored 15 points, Damian Perez and Jaime Moreno sank six points and Jared Van Auken finished with one point.

•The Shiner St. Paul Lady Cardinals advanced to the TAPPS Class 2A state tour-nament with a 65-40 win over Kerrville Our Lady of the Hills Friday in Hous-ton.

The Lady Cardinals led 30-19 at halftime and out-scored Our Lady of the Hills 35-21 in the second half. Marrisa Ynclan fin-ished the game with 22 points, Kourtney Knesek bucketed 12 points, Al-exa Schaefer and Katelynn Leist netted nine points, Katie Vincent chipped in six points, Mary Adamek had five points and Bethany Pokluda sank two points.

The Lady Cardinals will face Sherman Texoma Christian in Mansfield to-morrow at 6 p.m.

•The Moulton Bob Katz advanced to the regional quarterfinals with a 43-30 win over Comstock Thurs-day in Poteet.

Bronson Zapata led Moulton (23-8)with 15

points and Jacob Novosad chipped in 10 points.

• Shiner was a 65-53 win over Evadale Thursday in Anderson-Shiro. Matt Pohler finished with 33 points and Chase Arledge contributed 18 points.

Shiner fell to Mumford 73-55 Tuesday in the re-gional quarterfinals.

“Mumford is a good team. You are not 34-0 without doing a lot of things right,” Shiner head coach Wendell Boner said.

Boner said Shiner got into a big hole early in the game, was able to cut it to 10 points by the fourth quarter and just ran out of gas.

Pohler banked in 29 points, Arledge and Trev-ian Flowers scored seven points each; Leo Baray and Evel Jones had five points each and Lucian Blaschke finished with two points.

Boner said he was proud of the season Shiner had.

“We ended it with a dis-appointing loss but we did well in advancing three rounds and winning a sec-ond straight district title,” he said.

•The Hallettsville Brah-mas squeezed by Tide-haven 66-60 in the area round on Friday after hold-ing a 33-27 halftime lead. Dalton Herrington and Trevor McGee each had 15 points for the Brahmas. Lo-gan Herrington added 11 points, Anthony Vesely and Trenton McGee chipped in 10 points, Dazaun Silgero

scored seven points, Hunt-er Mican recorded three points and Brandon Davis contributed two points.

On Monday in Ganado, the Brahmas withstood a second-half rally by Van Vleck to win 45-43. Vese-ly led Hallettsville with 16 points. Trevor McGee dropped in 14 points, Dal-ton Herrington and Mican scored five points, Silgero dropped in four points and Herrington scored one point.

Hallettsville will play in the regional tournament at 6 p.m. Friday at Seguin High School against the winner of Santa Rosa-Skid-more-Tynan game.

• Waelder saw their sea-son come to a close Tues-day when they lost to Cal-vert, 87-42. The Wildcats were down 19-16 after one period, but eventually Cal-vert pulled away and never looked back.

“We just ran into an experienced team that was full of seniors,” said Waelder head coach Jarvin Hall. “They were very deep and we just couldn’t handle their pressure. They also shot lights out and hit 11 3’s, they were just on fire.”

“We had a successful sea-son. A lot of people count-ed us out and we made a deep run. There were only 32 teams left and we were one of them.”

•The Flatonia boys fell to Holland 55-52 early last week in the Class 1A Divi-sion I bidistrict.

Waelder soars over Leakey to advance

Big Time BlantonTiburcio Blanton swoops to the goal despite the efforts of Leakey’s Tanner Pannell (10) during Waelder’s blowout win in the area round on Saturday. Blanton finished with a game-high 16 points. (Photo by Mark Lube)



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NEW BRAUNFELS — It was uncomfortable for the Flatonia Lady Bulldogs Friday afternoon against the Mason Cowgirls in the Class 1A Division 1 region-al semifinals at New Braun-fels Canyon High School.

But the Lady ‘Dogs kept their towels where they belonged in the 64-43 loss to Mason - on the backs of their bench chairs.

Flatonia head coach Jen-nifer Zbranek said the Lady Bulldogs were outside of their comfort zone in the first half and also had some jitters against a very solid Mason team.

“Mason was able to get us out of sync and we were not able to settle down,” she said. “But give credit to Ma-son. They are a great team and are well-coached.”

Senior Leanna Dunk said the Lady Bulldogs needed to do things right to have a shot to rally against Mason.

“They had a good de-fense and their shots were falling. I feel they deserve to go to state,” she said. “We had no time for little errors. We needed to go to work against Mason.”

Abigail Schacherl came off the bench for the Lady Bulldogs, providing some positive energy and five points.

“She makes her shots and she gets rebounds,” Zbranek said. “Abigail has positive effects for the team.”

But even with the non-stop effort and positive at-titudes from the players, Flatonia still came up short to the Cowgirls.

“Mason is a very athletic team,” Zbranek said. “They are good shooters and an overall good team.”

Amanda Hudson made two baskets for Mason and Star Longoria connected from long range as the Cowgirls took an 11-2 lead in the first quarter.

Flatonia got a bucket from Dunk, and later Sch-acherl grabbed an offensive rebound, scored while be-ing fouled and converted the three-point play to bring the Lady Bulldogs to within 15-7.

Mason closed out the period with the last four points as Hudson got a steal and fed Margaret Lemke, and Lemke got an-other basket a little later.

The Cowgirls opened the second frame with an 8-0 run. Flatonia put a halt to it as Schacherl passed to Bruns, who drained a three-point shot. Schacherl later made a jumper to bring Flatonia to within 31-12.

Then Mason got five points in quick succes-sion. Kaitlyn Cavness hit a three-point shot while being fouled and went to the line to convert the four-point play. She was fouled as the free throw went in, and was awarded another one, which she also made.

The Lady Bulldogs bat-tled back with 3-for-4 from the line by Jasmine Phil-lips and Taylor Williams to close the gap to 36-15. Ma-son then scored six straight before Williams assisted on a Bruns triple and Phillips made a shot to pull Flato-nia to within 42-20 at half-time.

“At halftime, I told our girls to look at the score as being 0-0,” said Zbranek. “I told them we had to keep on playing (despite the score) and the girls never gave up.”

The Lady Bulldogs

opened the third box with five of the first seven points. Mason responded with nine straight and took a 60-31 lead to start the fourth quarter.

From there, it was all Lady Bulldogs.

Williams scored af-ter grabbing an offensive board. A rebound at the other end by Dunk eventu-ally lead to a Bruns jumper. Then Williams got hot as she scored a three after the pass by Dunk, hit a jumper with assist going Bruns, and McKenna Lopez got a steal and the ball eventu-ally got into the hands of Bruns, who fed Williams for a layup. Williams com-pleted the three-point play to bring Flatonia to within 64-43.

The Lady Bulldogs can thank their district sched-ule for providing the neces-sary preparations for a long playoff run.

Zbranek said the tough district Flatonia was in helped prepare them for their playoffs, especially going up against district champion Shiner.

Dunk said the rivalry between Shiner and Flato-nia always equips the Lady Bulldogs for tougher bat-tles in the future.

“It is always awesome when we play Shiner,” she said. “Ganado also put pressure on us.”

The Lady Bulldogs fin-ish the season at 23-11, placed second in District 28-1A, won bi-district, area and regional quarterfinal championships, and were regional semifinalists.

The game marked the end of a career for seniors Kaci Pavlicek, who missed the second half of the sea-son after an injury against Shiner, Dunk and Alex

Bruns.“All of these seniors pro-

vided leadership,” Zbranek said. “After Kaci went down with an injury, Leanna and Alex stepped up and rose to the challenge.”

Region IV, Class 1A Di-vision II regional semifinal

Mason 64, Flatonia 43Mason: Margaret Lemke

7 11-14 26, Kaitlyn Cavness 5 3-4 14, Amanda Hudson 4 4-4 12, Star Longoria 3 0-0 8, Emily Ellebracht 2 0-0 4. Totals 21 18-22 64.

Flatonia: Taylor Wil-liams 6 4-7 17, Alex Bruns

3 0-0 8, Crystal Rodriguez 2 0-0 6, Abigail Schacherl 2 1-1 5, Jasmine Phillips 1 1-2 3, Leanna Dunk 1 0-1 2, McKenna Lopez 1 0-0 2. Totals 16 6-11 43.

Score by PeriodsM 19 23 18 4-64F 7 13 9 12-43

Flatonia bows out of playoffs, loses to Mason

Power DribbleTaylor Williams handles the ball against Mason’s Emily Holland during Flato-nia’s regional semifinal loss on Friday. Williams finished the game with a team-high 17 points. (Photo by Mark Lube)


Area teams compete at Edna track meet

From coaches’ reports

Gonzales and other area track teams competed in the Edna meet on Thursday.

The Gonzales Apaches boys finished in ninth place out of 12 teams. The sprint relay team of Troy Hernan-dez, Darrance James, Cory Espinosa and Donald Cart-wright came in third with a time of 44.65.

Cody Jurek was fourth in the shot put with a throw of 44-9. Cartwright was third in the 100-meter sprint in 11.19. The sprint-medley team of Espinosa, Chris Cerda, Thompson Ince and Coltin Russel was fourth in 1:42.28.

The 1600-relay team of Russell, Troy Hernandez, Ince and Cerda came in fifth with a total time of 3:46.21.

For the junior varsity boys, Francisco Diaz placed fifth in the long jump with a jump of 17-4 3/4 and placed fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 35-2½.

The team of Jaime Tellez, Diaz, Darnell Arnic and Eli Mapes placed fifth in the Sprint Medley Relay with a time of 1:51.52.

The team of Tellez, Tyshawn Erskin, Marco Rodriguez and Diaz placed fifth in the 800 Meter Relay.

For the Gonzales Lady Apaches varsity, the 800-re-lay team of Ebonique Har-ris, Donniqua Sanders, Melanie Hunt and Kelsey Hardy came in fourth with a time of 1:52.25. The sprint-medley relay of Con-tessa Baird, Sanders, Hunt and Hardy were in fourth place with a time 1:59.64.

The 1600-relay team of Harris, Baird, Hardy and Alejandra Diaz was sixth in 4:26.60. Sanders was fourth

in the 100 with a time of 12.79.

For the JV girls, Kierah Harris was third in the shot put (26-3) and fifth in the discus (61-9), and Elea Mo-lina was sixth in the shot put (24-11) and the discus (59-5).

The Yoakum boys scored 85 points, only bested by 29 points by winner Edna (114). Keith Ratley finished sixth the long jump with a height of 19-10 1 /2. Fred Thompson won the triple jump with a height of 43-8 and followed by Myron Hights (41-11). T.J. Hights came in fifth with a height of 39-10. Myron Hights also placed second in the high jump with a jump of 5-10.

Knocke came in first place in the pole vault (12-6). The Bulldogs came in second in the 400 relay in 43.91. Kutzer came in fifth in the 110 hurdles in 17.50. Blake McCracken was sixth in the 100 in 11.46. Yoa-kum finished in fifth in the sprint-medley relay 1:43.76. Kutzer came in sixth in the 300 hurdles with a final time of 44.76.

Yoakum placed fourth in the 800 relay in 1:35.71 and was second in the 1600 re-lay in 3:35.66.

•The Shiner junior high girls teams took part in the meet, with the 7th grade placing ninth with 42 points.

In the long jump, Mackinley Pilat was third with a throw of 12-10 ½. Madison Jalufka was run-ner up in the discus with a long throw of 67-6. Pi-lat was second in the high jump, reaching 4-4. Jenna Berkovsky came in fourth in the 100 hurdles with a final time of 19.96.

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The Singing Cadets started the fall of 1995 academic semester with their current director, David L. Kipp. Kipp is the 30th director of the men’s choral group. Under his lead, the Singing Cadets are staying true to their crisp military style and diverse selection of music. A Singing Cadets con-cert will include a wide variety of music. With traditional school songs as the book-ends for the show, the program consists of religious, patriotic, Broadway, popular, and novelty numbers. The Singing Cadets use their love of singing to enthusiastically spread the name of their beloved univer-sity.

The Emmy award-winning group has

members from across Texas and the Unit-ed States. Members of the Singing Cadets major in a wide range of academic fields of study and all members are actively in-volved with many other campus organiza-tions and activities. Also, since the Sing-ing Cadets is a student organization, the members volunteer their time and do not receive any academic credit for participa-tion in the group.

In the last ten years, the Singing Cadets have traveled over 35,000 miles, performed over 450 concerts and visited more than 125 Texas cities and communities. Each year includes a ten-day tour in January through nine cities and three weekend tours in the Spring that cover the Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio areas. The group often gets the opportunity to sing for many unique events and renowned individuals. Having the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library on campus often gives the group opportunities to sing for celebrities and dignitaries. The Singing Cadets have per-formed for every living president as well as other distinguished individuals such as Mikhail Gorbachev.

As well as traveling throughout the state of Texas, the Singing Cadets have also spread the Spirit of Aggieland around the globe. The group has toured to Romania, Mexico, Germany, England, Switzerland, Hungary, Australia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.

In 1996, invitations to sing in Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center took the group to New York City and Washington D.C. St. Paul’s Cathedral and Eaton College were concert sites in May of 1999, and the group revisited the United Kingdom in 2001, vis-iting Wales, Scotland and England. During the summer of 2006, the Singing Cadets were invited to sing for President George W. Bush at the White House for a ceremo-ny honoring the 2006 Winter Olympics and Paralympics teams.

A&M’s Singing Cadets setto appear at Lynn Theatre

1. Slim Bawb Udu Swamp2. Scotty Thurman And The Perfect Trouble Band Cowboys Aint Supposed To Cry3. Geezatrio Poor House4. Charlie Faye Obvious To Me5. Brian Coy And The Remaining Few Turkey On The Bottle6. Brian Coy And The Remaining Few Highest Of The Low7. Charlie Faye Whirlwind8. Beau Hinze And The Back Porch Shufflers Swamp Rabbit Boogie9. Bryan Fontenot Who I Ain’t10. Brian Lumley Cadillac Cowboy with Colby Yates11. Steve Judice Pvt. Miller’s Mama’s House12. Mo Robson Band Bitchin’ Camaro13. William Clark Green Caroline14. Beau Hinze And The Back Porch Shufflers Flathead Yellow Named Undertow15. Marina Believe In Love16. Donny Waits Black Train17. Jackson Lee Brooks Band Ballad Of A Broken Heart18. Zach Edwards Music Man19. Kat Moore Band Shadows

20. Damn Quails Fool’s Gold21. Marina Believe In Love (Remix)22. No Justice Shot In The Dark23. Josh Ward Band Jebediah Beane24. JB And The Moonshine Band Beer For Breakfast25. Charlie Faye Bottletops26. Roy Solis Corpus Christi27. Red Dvorak You Ain’t Going Nowhere (With Tim Lewelling, Steve Judice & Slim Bawb28. Roger Cowan Mexican Rose29. Roger Cowan Ol’ Black Crow

30. Roger Cowan Bottomless Bottle31. Mark David Manders Three Sheets to the Wind32. Charlie Faye Jersey Pride33. Red Dvorak Girl With The Golden Cross34. Roger Cowan Lights Of Houston35. Scott Ford Band Follow Me36. Gary Allan Alright Guy37. Pear Ratz Ozona38. Cooder Graw Come Pick Me Up39. Crazywater Ghosts Of Mineral Wells40. Bryan Fontenot Too Drunk To Be DrinkingSource: radiofreetexas.org

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Thursday, March 1Thursday Night Acous-

tic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank, 6:30 p.m. No cover.

David and Terri Church at the Yoakum Community Center, 7 p.m. Reserved tickets $15, general admis-sion 412. For ticket details, call 361-741-5081.

Friday, March 2Battle of the Bands feat.

Trevor Cole Band and Clay Crockett and the Shotgun Riders, charity concert to fight hunger, Yoakum Gin & Feed, doors open 5 p.m.

Saturday, March 3Pear Ratzs at Scooter’s,

Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.The Pale Horses with

Micky & The Motorcars at Yoakum Gin & Feed, 8:30 p.m.

Slim Bawb at Howard’s, Shiner. Doors open 7:30 p.m.

Tommy Schlein at Bel-mont Social Club.



Saturday, March 10Los Kolaches at Ole

Moulton Bank, Moulton, 9 p.m. Ticket details, 361-596-7499

Frank Foster at Scoot-er’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.

Country Magic Band at Howard’s, Shiner 7:30 p.m.



Saturday, March 17Cody Johnson with

Bubba Westly at Scooter’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

The Platters at the Lynn Theatre, Gonzales. Pre-sale tickets are available at the Gonzales Chamber of Com-merce for $20 pre-sale and they will be on sale at the door for $25.

Los Kolaches at How-ard’s, Shiner. Doors open 7:30 p.m.



Friday, March 23Andrea Marie and the

Magnolia Band at How-ard’s, Shiner. Doors open 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 24Roger Stowell at Scoot-

er’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $8.

Texas A&M Singing Ca-dets at the Lynn Theatre, Gonzales. Advance tickets available through the Gon-zales Chamber of Com-merce at 830-672-6532.

Zach Walther Band at Howard’s, Shiner. Doors open 7:30 p.m.



Friday, March 30Matt Stalling at Scoot-

er’s, Moulton, 9 p.m. Cover $10.

Lone Star Bud Miller and the Blue Ribbon Band at Howard’s, Shiner. Doors open 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 31Dana Cooper at Ole

Moulton Bank, Moulton, 9 p.m. Ticket details, 361-596-7499

Country Magic Band at Cistern Store, Cistern, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. No Cover

Saturday, April 21Charla Corn at Scooter’s,

Moulton, Details TBA.

Musicians and Venues: To add or update events, con-tact us via e-mail to [email protected].

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Shiner High School will proudly pres-ents “The History of Tom Jones,” during its annual One Act Play Dinner Theater and Silent Auction.

There will be two performances of the play on Sunday, March 25. The first will be at 2 p.m. and the second at 8 p.m. A meal will take place one hour prior to both per-formances.

Tickets for the dinner theater and silent auction will go on sale to the public on Feb. 27. They are $9 each with Corporate tables available for $100 each.

Tom Jones was a foundling, a loser from birth. Everything he touched turned to lead. A hero in his own eyes, he was a

scoundrel in the eyes of everyone else- ev-eryone except Sophia, and she wasn’t sure.

Tom, the illegitimate ward of Squire All-worthy, is in love with Sophia, the beauti-ful daughter of Squire Western. Western is a rowdy bully and he admires and envies Tom’s reputation as a brawling, womaniz-ing daredevil, but he would never allow his daughter to marry such a low-life.

Instead, Sophia is betrothed to Blifil, All-worthy’s sniveling nephew and heir. Since Tom is seduced by most of the women and cursed by all the men, it’s not surprising to find him on the gallows at the end of the play.

Reservations can be made by calling Mi-chelle Winkenwerder at 361-594-3131 ext. 460 or e-mail at [email protected].

On top of the chartSlim Bawb tops this week’s Radio Free Texas list of Top 40 requested songs with his cut “Udu Swamp.” Bawb will also be headlining the show Saturday, march 3, at Howard’s in Shiner. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. (Courtesy photo)

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, communication is

a big deal for you this week. Every time you open your mouth, you have a grand au-dience just waiting on what you have to say.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, attempt a more

lighthearted approach to a difficult situation. If you don’t let it bother you, there may be an easy solution that comes to mind much faster.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, don’t worry if the

spark seems to have sizzled out of your relationship. While there may be a bump in the road, this is by no means the end of the whole thing.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, have some fun

at work. Just because it is a means to making money doesn’t mean it has to be seri-ous and boring every day. Be creative in your methods.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23You are at the top of your

game this week, Leo. Expect to sail through projects at the speed of light. Also anticipate others turning to you for ad-vice because of the vibe you give.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Don’t expect others to be

mind readers, Virgo. If you have something to say, simply say it. It is better than going through the guessing game of your feelings.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

Libra, the simple act of expressing yourself will ease any personal issues you are keeping inside. Talking about things can help you feel more secure, as well.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, focus on keeping

yourself in great shape. Feel-ing under the weather can be taxing on the body and the spirit. Eat healthy and get more exercise.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, taking time to notice your feelings can go a long way toward mitigating stress and bringing peace of mind. It also creates other op-portunities to relax.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Capricorn, focus on fitness as the warm weather is once again right around the corner. You’ll want to look and feel your best when it comes time to enjoy the great outdoors.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

Aquarius, don’t fret too much over a situation that’s been troubling you. Realizing the situation is a great first step. Now seek the help of oth-ers to determine a solution.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20You may notice changes to

your home life, Pisces, and it may be causing anxiety. The celestial plane is creating the turmoil.

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MARCH 15Eva Longoria, Actress (37)

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MARCH 17Gary Sinise, Actor (57)

Puzzle Answers

It was 20th-century American director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist Ben Hecht who made the following sage observation: “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

If you visualize an image of John Lennon, more likely than not you’ll see him in your mind’s eye wearing a pair of round spectacles. In July of 2007, one pair of those iconic glasses was sold at auction for a whopping $2 million.

There’s nothing terribly surprising about the fact that an animated version of George Orwell’s famed novel “Animal Farm” was produced in the United States in 1954. What made this production unusual is that the movie rights were bought by, and the film was covertly funded by, the CIA. It was thought that it would be excellent anti-Communist propaganda during the Cold War.

If you’re like 12 percent of American men who are about to get married, you’ll go to a tanning bed before you make

that walk down the aisle.

You might be surprised to learn that early automobile magnate Henry Ford was a fan of soy. In the 1940s, the fabric used for the upholstery in some of his cars was made from 25 percent soy. He even owned a soy-based suit of clothing that he would sometimes wear for media events.

The Transportation Security Administration

banned cigarette lighters on carry-on luggage between 2005 and 2007. During that time, TSA screeners confiscated 22,978 lighters every day. Safe disposal of those lighters cost the taxpayers approximately $4 million every year.

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“Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.” -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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