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Scouts aviate meritsFor many, it was their first flight.

For one, it confirmed his desire to one day become a pilot.

There was a sea of tents just off the tarmac at Orange County Air-port this weekend where scouts spent the night learning about the airport; cooking pancakes the next morning, enticing pilots to land at the airport.

Local Scouts gathered at the air-port this weekend to complete re-quirements for their aviation mer-it badge. Boy Scout Troops 1 and

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Debby SchamberFor The Record

Michael Hoke, Director of Shangri La Botani-

cal Gardens and Nature Cen-ter, has announced he will be retiring as of Thursday, but his mission of educating and making the world better place to live will continue.

Following his retirement, Hoke who is on the board of The Big Thicket Association will work to get the program off the ground.

During the summer, he will work with 8th grade students who are involved in the Sci-ence Superstars program. The eighth graders will receive motivational and science training and then be able to go to area shopping malls, muse-ums and elementary schools to show what they have learned and encourage others to do the same.

Hoke is the Founder and di-rector of DuPont Science Su-per Stars: More than 30,000 elementary students were im-

pacted by this program in its seven years of operation. The program ceased when Hoke retired from the school dis-trict in 2002.

Hoke, who has been an edu-cator for more than 30 years, will also pick up the program he started in 1978. He will re-vive the Bios program, which is known as a “school on wheels”, by 2014. This sum-mer science program has tak-en more than 2000 area stu-dents on science experiences through the southwestern U.S. Students are taught a va-riety of science disciplines along with taking part in a sci-ence Olympiad which empha-sizes problem solving.

It has been through this program other students have followed their dreams and reached for the stars. Former notable alumni include Ste-phen Lee, of Orange Savings Bank, and Krispen Walker, of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

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Abigail Blowers and Adrian Willingham in the back seat and Faith Blowers in the front seat give thumbs up as they get ready to take their flight with pilot Tom Foreman. RECORD PHOTO: Penny LeLeux

Excitement builds for thecoming Bassmaster SeriesArea city officials are gear-

ing up for the Bassmaster Elite Series, Sabine River Challenge, which is coming to Orange March 14th through 17th.

Darlene Zavada, of the Or-ange Convention and Vistors Bureau, is no exception and has brought mountings of bass her husband caught in 1988 and 1990 to the CVB. Zavata is no stranger to bass fishing. Southeast Texas has been a hot spot for fishing for many years.

Darlene Zavada’s husband, Bob, was a member of the Orange County Bass Club in

1973. The 60 members fished monthly. Local fisherman of-ten turned to Bob Zavada, who owned a tackle shop in Pinehurst, for fishing advice.

Darlene Zavada knows the fisherman coming to partici-pate in the Bassmaster Elite Series will have their work cut out for them. Locally, the bass tend to be small com-pared to those caught in lakes such as Sam Rayburn Lake. However, the minimum length allowed by law is 14 inches. Professional fisher-men will certainly strive to surpass the minimum in or-der to win the tournament.

“It will certainly be a chal-lenge,” Darlene Zavada said. Each particpant will leave from the City of Orange boat

launch. They are required to fish in the areas which can be reached by boat. Most of the participants are from out of state and some have begun to arrive to see what they area waters have to offer. But, dur-ing the time referred to as “dead water” they will not be allowed to fish in this area at all until the day of the tour-nament.

All are striving for excel-lence as they use the perfect bait, such as an artificial lure, made from soft or hard plas-tics. Some participants have sponsors which provide a boat, lures, or both in order to get their name out there.

Bob Zavada has caught many bass fish. Some have been mounted and can currently be seen at the Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau. RECORD PHOTO: Debby Schamber

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Area business leaders head to the capitol for Golden Triangle Days Staff Report-For The Record

Chambers of Commerce across Southeast Texas have worked months to coordinate the trip most business leaders look for-ward to every two years, Golden Triangle Days in Austin.

Golden Triangle Days in Austin is a three day long event of area delegates who gather at the capitol to build relationships between Southeast Texas’ businesses as well as state officials, agency directors and their staff members.

“We are living in a very interesting time,” says Greater Beau-mont Chamber of Commerce President, Jim Rich, “we can only hope that Golden Triangle Days is a tool for businesses in South-east Texas to come together and make an impact on the decision makers in Austin.”.

The Golden Triangle Days in Austin 2013 agenda includes visits from local legislators, commission heads and presentation of resolutions. Delegates will also have an evening of fun with performances from Blue Broussard and Josh Abbott Band.

For more information, please contact your local Chamber.

Little Cypress Lions Club, Orange Service League, Garth House, The Rainbow Room, Orange Christian Services, Salva-tion Army and the Ameri-can Red Cross were recog-nized in a proclamation by Orange County Commis-sioners’ Court designating March 8 as “Orange Coun-ty Charities Day.”

Little Cypress Interme-diate and Little Cypress Elementary will hold their annual blood drive and walk on that day to raise money for these charities. “The seven charities were selected because they were the ones our school district routinely turns to when the families have problems and so we really appreciate them stepping out on our behalf,” stated Kelly Mead-ows, nurse for LCI and chairman of the event.

“We are praying for good weather,” They are hoping to have around 1500 par-ticipants with friends and family members invited by students. For blood dona-tions they are shooting for 100 pints.

Patrick Beebe brought to commissioners’ court the unforeseen need to buy new radios due to the new FCC Narrow Band Radio requirements. Beebe had at first thought the radios he currently had would ful-fill the need because they were programmable, but discovered the equipment was not programmable within the allowed bands. The new radios would cost $7,500. The department is currently under budget for chemicals.

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In an instant, the life Sandy Nugent had known was gone after an intoxicated driver struck head-on the vehicle carrying her two daughters Cristin. 12, and 11-year-old Katie Grubbs.

In November 2010, Cristin and Katie were going back to their father’s house after going to a football game. A woman driving a Dodge Durango, crossed the center line on Highway 105 in Vi-dor striking the Lincoln Continental. Their father, Grant Grubbs, called Sandy on the phone to tell her they had been in a “bad wreck.”

In the background, Sandy could hear the sirens. She rushed to the hospital. But, Cristin and Katie, never arrived because they were killed at the scene. When she heard the news, Sandy dropped to her knees sobbing.

“Having to walk out of the hospital without the kids was dev-astating,” Nugent said.

Toxicology reports would later indicate the driver of the Du-rango was high on muscle relaxants and anxiety medication.

The driver admitted that before the wreck she had taken pain medication too.

The driver would later receive 8 years in prison to be served consecutively. She could have received up to 40 years on the sec-ond degree felony charges which carry up to 20 years each in prison.

Nugent waited to have children in search of the perfect time. At the age of 30 she had Cristin and a year later Katie was born.

“They were everything I lived for and why I am here,” Nugent said.

Since their death, Nugent had trouble dealing with her grief and began to dwell on things she would never experience.

“She got a minimum of 8 years and a maximum of 16 years,” Nugent said. “I got two life sentences.”

With the loss of her daughters, Nugent said she will miss the milestones in their lives such as prom, graduation, marriages and becoming a grandmother.

“She gets all of that,” she said of the offender who will be able to be with her children upon her release from prison.

“The numbness wore off and the pain was 10 times worse,” Nugent said.

Nugent’s life was bombarded with “whys” and “what if ’s.”Nugent was feeling particularly overwhelmed with her life,

when she wrote to Oprah Winfrey. She thought she would receive a response by email or possibly

be able to talk to someone on chat line. But, instead, a producer of the show called Nugent. At first she thought it was a prank until the person calling began talking about what Nugent has written in her letter. Over the next few months, she had several more conversations. Finally in Oct. 2012, she was invited to be on a taping in Houston of the “Life Class.” A week before the show, they came to Nederland to tape some video about her sto-ry.

The guest on the show was Pastor Rick Warren author of ‘The Purpose Driven Life.” During the show, Oprah and Warren spoke a bit about his book. They showed the video and Nugent was asked to stand. As she did, she wiped a tear from her eye.

Warren identified her problem as being in “survival mode” to which Nugent agreed. She also explained how she felt cheated out of a life as a mother and the things she would no longer be able to experience with her children.

“You don’t get over grief, you get through it,” Warren said to her. “Fear and resentment will hold you back.”

He added, grief is a good thing. “For your sake, you have to let it go and you have to forgive

her,” Warren said.After the show, she had the opportunity to further talk to

Warren. A few weeks later, Oprah was viewing the show before it aired

and called Nugent. They talked about 45 minutes, Nugent said. ‘She is amazing,” Nugent said. The talk with Oprah in conjunciton to being on the show and

talking to Warren enabled Nugent to determine she needed to find her purpose in life. She had to decide what would best serve her life and the legacy Cristin and Katie left behind.

Oprah encouraged her during their talk to open her heart and let it go.

Before the show, Nugent thought she had nothing. Now, she has regained her life and found her purpose.

“All that negativity was consuming me,” Nugent said. “ I thought I had nothing and never would.”

Nugent said she had to “let it all go.”“I can’t change those things... what happened, what she was

sentenced,” she said. Nugent also realized her husband Wes and her step-daughter

were actually there for her all along. “Once I realized that, we get along good now,” Nugent said. She had started a foundation, the Cristin and Katie Grubbs

Foundation and is pushing it forward in hopes of stopping some-one before getting into a vehicle intoxicated and hopefully sav-ing a life and bringing awareness. The foundation will provide scholarships to area high school students. To be eligible for the scholarship, the student must write an essay stating how intoxi-cated driving has affected them and what they are doing to raise awareness. They must also participate in school activities.

In addition, Nugent has given permission to the Texas Depart-ment of Public Safety to use photos of Cristen and Katie to put a face on driving while intoxicated.

For the first time in a long time, “I feel a peace within me,” Nu-gent said.

Nugent also realized grief is not something a person can just get over.

“I don’t like to say moving on,” Nugent said. “I like to say, a new journey.”

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Katie and Cristin Grubbs with their mother, Sandy Nugent, during happier times and before the girls were tragically killed by an in-toxicated driver in November 2010.

American Legion to host lunch fundraiserThe American Legion Post 49, located at 108 Green Ave in

Orange, will host a plate lunch fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 7. Cost is $8. The meal will consist of brisket, link, potato salad, beans, bread and dessert. Walk in’s are welcome and delivery is available. Please call 409-886-1241.

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Some of the participants in the series have been on the lo-cal waterways searching for the perfect place to fish. They will put their knowledge to the test.

According to Zavada, it de-pends on the water conditions and things such as the time of year to determine where a bass may be located.

“After fishing for a while, you know where to go,” she said.

After bass reach a certain stage in their life, they develop cataracts. With their limited vision, a fisherman needs to make a noise or some kind of movement with their equip-ment to attract a bass to bite the hook.

Officials with the Bassmas-ter Elite Series did not want the boat launch closed on the day of the event and specta-tors are encouraged to come watch.

The tournament will begin Thursday, March 14 with 102 participants who have previ-ously qualified to compete. Each day, the weigh-in will be conducted at 3 p.m. After ev-eryone has weighed-in with the top fish they caught on the second day, the number of participants will be cut in half leaving those who lead to con-tinue. At the end of the third day of the tournament, anoth-er half will be eliminated. On Sunday, at 3 p.m., the winner will be declared.

While they fish, there have been several activities planned. The Art in the Park has been moved up one week and is now scheduled for March 14. Other activities in-clude, a free concert with Neal McCoy, fireworks show, a car-nival with rides and food booths, a catch and release tank for children, plus much more. Also for entertainment is the laser light show at the Lutcher Theater. People will have the chance to get auto-graphs and meet the fisher-men. In addition, people can tour the museum, Shangri La or the W.H. Stark House.

Darlene Zavada wants to in-vite everyone to come and join in the fun.

The Orange County Bass Club in 1973 had 60 members who fished monthly. They fished along the Sa-bine River and other waterways in Southeast Texas.

and 62 and Sea Scout Explor-ers Ship 2012, the “Altair” had 37 scouts in attendance along with numerous scout masters and chaperones.

Scout Master Troop 62 Dennis Blowers planned the event. “We’re working on our Aviation merit badge and part of the selected requirements is to take a flight in a small aircraft; perform a preflight inspection; visit an airport; understand the instruments of the aircraft, how the flight surfaces work and those types of things. The boys have been working on it all January and February,” said Blowers. “Sa-bine Aviation sponsored us with the fuel and two pilots and two airplanes to take the scouts up to satisfy that one requirement.”

Tom Foreman, owner of Sa-bine Aviation, and Lee Rector took scouts on short flights in their planes three at a time. Several scouts said it was scary at first, but it didn’t take long to get over their fears.

Jordan Garcia said, “I loved it, it was fun.”

Shannon McDonald’s first thoughts when getting off the plane were, “It was cool. I was scared at first, but I’m not any-more.”

“It was amazing. To get the experience of flying, it was awesome,” said Aaron Blow-ers. “It was the first time I’ve ever been off the ground.”

Raymond Bandeau said it was scary until you get used to it.

“These kids love it,” said Vickie Foreman, Tom’s wife. “I hope they do this every year.”

Dennis Blowers was pleased with the participation of pilots and passengers of about 10-12 plans that flew in from sur-rounding airports so scouts could observe landings and take-offs. Several local pilots that hanger their planes at the airport also came to support the scouts.

David Olsen and members of the ExxonMobil Flying Club flew in joined by friend and flight instructor from Beaumont, John Parigi.

Scoutmaster Blowers said, “They spent a lot of time with

the boys this morning, going over the airplane. They let the boys get in the airplane and showed them all the controls and the engine.”

“There’s an 11-year-old here that wants to be a pilot,” said Parigi.

The pilots were especially impressed with young Robert Simpson, a member of Troop 62. They were amazed at the knowledge and enthusiasm he had at such a young age.

“I’d like to have him when he gets a little older,” said Pari-gi. He told Robert he can take flying lessons at any age, but he has to be at least 16 to solo. His advice for the future pilot was to train in the meantime with Microsoft’s Flight Simu-lator. Parigi said when you get stuck on the flight simulator you can pause it and take time to figure the problem out, but you can’t do that in a plane while in the air.

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When not working on his various projects, Hoke will also do some consulting work at area nature centers.

Walter Riddle, President and CEO of the Nelda C. and Lutcher Stark foundation, who spoke Monday at the reception for Hoke at Shangri La, said of Hoke, “People automatically associate Hoke with Shangri La.”

Riddle added, it was Hoke who has an idea in the 1990s for a nature classroom.

The pair made a connection with landscape architects for what would become Shangri La in August 2002.

“Here we are today in spite of various hardships,” Riddle said. “There was a hurricane with severe winds, a fire, and then another hurricane with flooding.”

Riddle announced the foun-dation will make a contribu-tion of the Big Thicket Associ-ation in honor of Hoke. They also plan when the new pon-toon boat is put into service at Shangri La, it will be chris-tened, “The Michael Hoke.”

“Without a doubt he will not be forgotten, “Riddle said.

An interim director will ful-fill Hoke’s duties until another director can be hired.

Hoke said to the crowd, he could have not done it without the staff, volunteers, members and the support of the founda-tion.

“Ninety-five percent of what we proposed is now Shangri La today,” he said.

Hoke added, he wanted ev-eryone to “be kind to their world.” In conclusion, he quoted one of his favorites, Dr. Seuss.

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because we did it,” Hoke said.

Since joining the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foun-dation on Aug. 1, 2002, he has given his knowledge and ex-pertise in environmental and educational issues in further-ing and facilitating the devel-opment of the Shangri La by the Stark Foundation.

Hoke holds advance degrees in science, education and edu-cational supervision. He has taught students from pre-K to college levels. Since 1978, he has originated and directed programs related to science

and the environment.Several of these programs

are currently sponsored by Shagri La. His management experience also includes facili-tating programs at several ma-jor universities through Na-tional Science Foundation grants and summer institutes.

In addition, Hoke was a sci-ence teacher and department chair for the West Orange-Cove CISD for 31 years.

Hoke was the founder and coordinator of the Nature Classroom which introduced more than 3,500 area students a year to the wonders of the natural world through hand-on experiences in a Cypress/Tupelo Swamp.

His list of accomplishments also includes being the found-er and director of EcoRangers: This program paralleled the Super Star program with the exception it used seventh grade presenters and high-lighted ecological concepts,

There is no doubt in the fu-ture, Hoke will continue to teach all who meet him the importance of taking care of the world we live in and how to make it a better place.

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IT’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

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AND THE WORLD TURNSBack in January, I said not to be fooled by an early false spring,

that I expected cold weather in late February and early March. Hopefully, it will skirt a freeze but stay above it. Expect big hap-penings all over the globe in the next few days.*****Sen. Chuck Hagel, on a 58 to 41vote was confirmed Tuesday by the Unit-ed States Senate to be Defense Secretary. A war hero, and very qualified, Hagel was exposed to undue hassle by some radical senators. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose dad was one of Castros’ top aids, and who himself was born in Canada and never served in the military, was the most crude and rude. Both Texas sena-tors opposed Hagel‘s nomination. To the victor goes the spoils. Do you believe that will help Texas get defense contracts or stop base shut downs or downsizing? In some smart states, at least one senator supported Hagel.*****Pope Benedict resigns Feb. 28, the first Pope to resign in over 600 years. Blunders, scan-dals and claims of mismanagement said to plague the Vatican. The next Pope will meet many challenges. Pope Benedict’s in-tellect and successful role as a spiritual leader for the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics is not in doubt. When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI, it was a nod to sixth century St. Benedict of Nursia, who had lived for several years in a cave in Italy. On Thursday at twilight, Pope Benedict XVI will board a helicopter and fly off into retirement, renouncing the throne. Within days, the Cardinals will huddle in the Sis-tine Chapel to pick one of their own as the new Pope. That is known as a conclave. Before Polish native John Paul II, the Pope before Benedict, 45 Popes, back to 1522, were all Italians. Ex-perts believe that the new Pope will also be Italian. Pope Bene-dict will live nearby at Castel Gandolfo for the remainder of his life.*****Billboard says Kree Harrison surged to the top in last week’s competition. Billboard writer Kevin Rutherford said about Kree, who sang ‘Up to the Mountain,’ “Finally, someone I can talk about with growing admiration. Harrison really jumped out for the first time as a real contender. Vocally, she’s one of the best, with a voice that tends toward country but could go many ways. The only thing I’m waiting for is the stage presence. If she wants to win, she’ll need to connect with the audience a bit more than she did. After what I’ve seen so far, she’s golden.” Family members assure us that once she goes to playing to the call-in audience, she will turn on the charm. She will perform again once the 10 females have been chosen. Kree was chosen to be in the top 10 when she was one of the first five picked. Five more will be picked this week. Ten boys and ten girls will compete to be American Idol.****I’ve got to move on. Please come along, I promise it won’t do you no harm.

‘SEQUESTER ARRIVES FRIDAY, MARCH 1If the budget war between President Obama and a divided

congress is not solved, it will likely affect all our lives. It could hamper economic growth, drive up unemployment and test the military‘s ability to respond to threats at home and abroad. Across-the-board spending cuts totaling $85 billion a year, $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction in 10 years. The effect of the Seques-ter would be severe and go right to middle-class families. Obama and Democrats want to keep Medicare and Social Security in-tact, Republicans want cuts or privatizing. There is no expec-tations that congress will compromise before Friday. I believe both sides will gamble and risk it for a month, that would move the deadline another 30 days. The country can’t grow under the $85 billion cuts. President Obama and congress has already cut $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions since 2011. We need a balance between cuts and tax revenue, a move the congress is not will-ing to do. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan campaigned on closing loop holes, now Speaker Boehner can’t get his caucus to agree to one loop hole.

TEXAS LEADS NATION IN OIL, GAS PRODUCTIONI don’t want to get on my soap box about high gas prices but it

still doesn’t make any sense. No reason for $3.59 a gallon gaso-line. Texas is awash in oil and gas, with drilling in fields across the state. Texas recently has 839 drilling rigs operating. That’s half of all rigs in the U.S. and 22.7 percent of all rigs worldwide. Most rigs are working in five regions of the state. Permian Basin, in West Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas, the Granite Wash, in the Panhandle, the Barnett Shale, in North Texas and the Haynesville Shale, in East Texas. Any direction you go Texas is flush in oil and gas, so the question remains, why are we get-ting raped at the pump by Big Oil? There’s a frenzy to sell more U.S. natural gas overseas. Next will be a much bigger battle to start selling domestic crude to foreign customers. America is on track to surpass Saudi Arabia in daily crude production. They charge 35 cents at the pump, as we head to $4.

SURVIVING THE ACADEMY AWARDSThe 85th Academy Awards didn’t disappoint me. Four hours

of red carpet and acceptance speeches were about as boring as I expected. The Oscar is the big prize. Best Movie, “Argo” eased out ‘Lincoln.’ Best Actress, Jennifer Lawrence, for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook;” Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis for “Lincoln;” Best Supporting Actress, Anne Hathaway, “Les Mis-erables;” Best Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained;” Best Director, Ang Lee for “Life of PI;” Ben Af-fleck was director of “Argo” did not get a nomination, so “Argo” as best picture was a vindication. First Lady, Michelle Obama, made the best picture presentation from the White House. Seth MacFarlane, from The Family Guy, did a better hosting job than I expected. William Shatner, in the show opener, was in char-acter as Capt. Kirk, from “Star Trek.” Some of the ladies were beautiful and didn’t show as much skin as in years passed.

CONDOLENCESWe were sad to learn about the death of Ryan Michael Win-

free, age 13, who passed away Sunday, Feb. 24, at his home.

Service was held Tuesday, Feb. 26. Our sincere condolences to parents Will and Carol Winfree and their family. Ryan was pro-ceeded in death by grandfathers Lester “Buckshot” Winfree and Wade Reese. Please see obituary.*****We were also sorry to learn that Charles Lee Pratt, 77, died Monday, Feb. 25, at 4 a.m. Service will be held Monday, March 2, at 2 p.m. at Rosewood Funeral Home in Humble. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Edith (Edee), son Charles Pratt Jr., grandsons Phillip Wayne and Chris Pratt and great grandson Aiden Rossettie. Charlie will be buried next to his daughter. Charlie was an Army veteran who was awarded the Sniper Award in Korea. He loved his fam-ily, John Wayne movies and his two dogs. He was a friend. May he rest in peace.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME10 Years Ago-2003

Temperature, 42 degrees, wind blowing between 20 to 25 miles per hour, it’s a full moon. The weather has been up and down like a yo-yo. Many people are sick. It rains almost daily, three more inches yesterday. Neighbor Cox won’t stick his nose out. He stares out the window wondering when it will be dry enough to plant a spring garden. (Editor’s note: History repeats itself it seem.)*****The headline in the Houston Chronicle reads, “Millions worldwide protest U.S. war with Iraq.”*****Gas at the pump expected to hit $2 by the end of the year. *****The first Mardi Gras parade comes to Orange Feb. 28. Stephen Lee and Randy Jarrell are co-chairmen. *****Actor Sidney Poitier turned 76 last week, Feb. 20. (Editor’s note: That means today he is 86.)*****Michael Waltrip won the Daytona 500. He’s Darrell’s younger brother. *****The 28th annual Gumbo Cook-off will be held May 2 and May 3. Monte Marphew is this year’s chairman. *****Specials at Danny’s and K-Dan’s are ground round, $1.79 lb. Cajun Boudain made fresh several times daily, $1.59 lb. Gold-en ripe bananas, 38 cents per pound. (Editor’s note: Over the last 10 years the price for bananas at these two markets has not gone up. Bananas are still 39 cents per pound.)*****The Home Builders Association of South East Texas named Mike Johnson, “Home Builder of the Year.” Johnson, 44, a native of Bridge City, owner of a home building company, has been framing houses since he graduated from high school in 1976. “My dad is a carpenter and his dad was too,” Johnson said, “I’ve been exposed to carpenter work at all levels growing up. My dad, Charles, is a hard worker who insisted we work hard as youngsters.”*****Louis Dugas has cataract eye surgery. He says, “After my operation, I thought the world had been repainted in living color.”

35 Years Ago-1978A drive to raise funds to pay for the 24,000 square foot Bridge

City Community Center has been launched with a number of events slated. Residents will seek to raise $200,000 for the struc-ture. *****Jeanne Wood, Bridge City High speech and drama teacher, has been chosen Woman of the Year by BP&W Club. Guest speakers were Glenn Pearson, superintendent; several former students; and her husband, J.R. Wood. Juliet Patton, club president, introduced the guest. Sue Pate read letters of praise. Special guest was her mother, Mrs. J.H. Reistemeyer of Leavenworth, Kan. *****Sen. John Tower spoke to a group of area residents at the Orange House Hotel. He called for continued control of the Panama Canal by the U.S. *****Attention, Buddie Hahn is running for Vidor school board. He is taking on incum-bent Joe B. Foster. *****Vidor Mayor Robert Watts publicly en-dorses Judge Grover Halliburton for the job of 260th District Court. Halliburton is facing Judge Don Burgess.*****Harold Beeson and Bill Maddox have received word from Follett Pub-lishing Co. that their book, “Rage and Patches,” will be released Sept. 4. A Hollywood production company has taken an option of the screen play Beeson has written from the book. *****Ken Johnson holds grand opening of Pinehurst Pharmacy on Strick-land Drive. *****Pat Clark and Sharon Bearden dressed as an-gels in the Follies. Bearden insisted on wearing his boots. What a sight.*****County Judge Pete Runnels proclaimed Monday, Feb. 20-26, as Orange Bowling Week in conjunction with National Bowling Hall of Fame Week.*****J.R. Harrington Sr. died Sun-day. He had lived in Bridge City since 1949. He is survived by his wife, daughter Virginia, sons J.R. and John, and brother Sen. D. Roy Harrington.*****James Briggs Sr. named bailiff of the newly created 260th District Court.*****Sheila Beeson and Roy Dunn interviewed Kris Kristofferson and Muhammad Ali from Ali’s suite at the Las Vegas Hilton. Dunn also received a call from Leon Spinks from the Ail-Spinks fight. Dunn’s partner in Triangle Press, Gene Wright, is attorney for Ali and arranged the interviews. Larry Messier, president of Olympic Inc. and a Canadian friend of Wright’s arranged the Red Foxx and Spink interview.

40 Years Ago-1973John McDonald elected chairman of the board and chief ex-

ecutive officer of Livingston Shipbuilding. *****Connie Jarell, a beautiful Bridge City High senior, received a four-year twirl-ing scholarship to McNeese State.*****Jerry Wimberley accuses Richard Gandy of stealing fish from a trot line.*****Charlie Wickersham marries the lovely Maurine at 7:30 a.m.*****Dr. Lombardi checked out Judge Grover Halliburton’s heart after it flared up. Doc. Says the heart is in the right place and not too black. *****Bridge City banker Fred Gregory raised hell with Hu-bert Marshel for depositing horse droppings on the new carpet in his newly remodeled office. *****Helen Dunlap was named Woman of the Year at Wayside Inn banquet. BP&W members who arranged the program are president Helen Moore; Mrs. Al-bert Gore, Mrs. Gene Rutledge, Mrs. Joe VanBreeman, Mrs. Jack Pulliam, Mrs. Carl Mozingo and Ms. Jesse Evans. Mrs. Dunlap is currently in charge of teaching and training voca-tional nurses at Stillwell Technical Center.*****Orange beauty Claudia Conway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Conway, was selected with 47 other Apache Belles to go to Mexico City. They will perform for the University of the Americas at the Na-tional Basketball games.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEKJeffrey Fregia, Beth Lee, Ellen Nickum, Bailey Noah, Beth

Mathews, Butch Choate, David Claybar, Gretta Brinson, James Wilkinson, Lindsey Moreau, Sarah Havens, Allisha Bonneaux, LaVerne McDonald, Anna Marshall, Randy Lowe, Bob Moore, Amy Ball, Kathy McKenzie, Kurt Reeves, Royce Pendergast, Ginger Romero, Logan Dubose, Will Brinson, Kevin Jones, George Cassidy, Jennifer Thomas, John Gooch, Louise Hamilton, Monica Wilson, Robert Foster, Aiyana Bland, Kay Butler, Craig Nugent, Apryl Carter, Tommy An-drus, Brittany Waguespack, Franklin Scales, Lola Duncan, Lori Bonds, Joan Broussard, Andy Pryor, Donna Sullivan, Carolyn Miller, Vickie Parish, Darrell Evans, Jo Young, Fran-ces Brood, Travis Reeves, Barron Nimitz, Carolyn Sheppard, Cathy Kimbrow, Lenzi Childress, Carolyn Hillsten and Don Bayliss.

A FEW HAPPENINGSJimmy Johnson won the Daytona 500 for the second time.

Danica Patrick, who came in eighth, made history as the first woman to win the pole and the only woman to lead the race. There were several multiple crashes but none approached the magnitude of the wreck Saturday that injured over two dozen fans in the grandstands in the second tier series. I’m amazed

that more drivers are not killed when you see cars going at 200 mph, crash and totally destroy the auto. Dale Earnhardt was the last killed 12 years ago.*****We were glad to see that coach Toby Foreman finally landed the head football coaching job that he had been seeking for sometime. He had applied for several jobs in the past. He landed the 4-A Central job. He is well prepared to be a head coach, he learned the ropes early as an assistant of West Orange-Stark, under Coach Dan Hooks and his dad, Mark Forman, plus he has been successful in other programs. I’d bet he will be a successful head coach. He has the desire and drive and it’s been his passion and dream. Go get um’ Toby. *****Re-modeling and new construction is under way at Peggy’s on the Bayou. Richard is closing in the front porch, allowing for more customer space. It’s amazing how far they have come, starting with a bare piece of swampland that has taken years to fill. The food and scenery is great. *****A little local history about Lamar football you may not be aware of. Orange High’s Sammy Car-penter, while at Lamar in 1951 to 54, rushed 444 times for 2,703 yards. He scored 33 touchdowns or 198 points, which might still be a record. What is amazing, he played on bad teams that won 12 and lost 27. *****Wendell Hebert, longtime Bridge City CPA, who now lives in Austin, was Lamar’s quarterback from 1959 to 1962. He completed 192 passes for 23 touchdowns and 2,962 yards. His team won 31 games, losing only 12, the best four year record in Lamar’s history. The coach was J.B. Higgins. Wen-dell played high school for the Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson Yellow Jackets. He married Jessie Day. Jessie was very active in Bridge City civic affairs and served on the BCISD school board. *****This past weekend, in 1958, snow blanketed the area. That was 55 years ago but I often run into people who mention that heavy snow. *****A few folks celebrating their special day. Our longtime friend, who came to Bridge City many years ago, mar-ried Bill and is now involved in aNe Insurance, Ellen Nickum, celebrated Feb. 27.***Also celebrating that day is Gretta Brin-son, Married to Darrell, who was the Record editor a few years ago. They moved to Houston from Deweyville and I lost track of them but I know they keep up with area news on our website. We send best wishes. ***Butch Choate and David Claybar both celebrated Feb. 27. ***Celebrating on Feb. 28 are Randy Lowe, Ginger Romero and Kathy McKenzie. This also was the day operation Desert Storm ended in 1991. It started just four days earlier on Feb. 24. ***On Feb. 29, our buddy Logan Dubose, who has been a fan of this column since he learned to read, cel-ebrates. I think but am not sure that Logan will be 18. Hard to believe also celebrating on Feb. 29 is Will Brinson, who went to college when he was only 15. Happy birthday guys. ***March 1 is a special day for Louise Hamilton, Robert Foster and Jen-nifer Thomas. ***March 2, is Texas Independence Day, 177 years ago. It’s also the day our longtime friend, Moe Litton gives up his independence. That’s the day he takes a bride. We wish a long, happy life. ***Celebrating birthdays March 2 are Craig Nugent and Tommy Andrus. ***On March 3, Franklin Scales, a friend of many years celebrates. His uncle Cecil Scales was just one of his many Scales relatives. ***Also happy birthday to Don-na Sullivan and Lola Duncan. ***On March 4, Carolyn Shep-pard, former teacher and Buddy’s better half celebrates. ***Vick-ie Parish, Travis Reeves and Jo Young also celebrate on that day. ***On March 5, Don Bayliss and Lenzi Childress celebrate. ***Next Wednesday, March 6, is coach Sam Moore’s special day. He knows baseball and teaches it at “The Zone.”***Belated happy birthday to our production manager, Chris Menard, who celebrated his 35th Thursday, Feb. 21. The former Army veteran is highly educated in the field of computer communications and we are fortunate to have him here at The Record.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEKDa mob in New Orleans wat controls da video poker games

in Louisiana, found out dat dere bookkeeper in Lafayette had cheated dem out of millions. Da bookkeeper, Clarence Guilbeaux, is a deaf-mute, dats why dey hired him in da first place. He would not be able to testify against dem for wat he heard.

Da mob sent Bruno, dere best hench man to confront Clar-ence. He brought Lafayette lawyer, Joe Landry, wit him be-cause he knew sign language, him. Da mobster tells da law-yer, “Axe him where da money is?” Lawyer Landry, using sign language axe Clarence, “Where’s da money?”

He signs back, “I don’t know watt you talking bout me.”Da Mobster pulls out his pistol and puts it to Guillbeaux’s

head and says, “Axe him again or I’ll kill him?”Lawyer Landry signs da message to Clarence. He started

trembling and signs back, “Okay, you win, da money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind da shed at my cousin Sostan’s house.”

Da mob man axe, “Wat did he say?”Lawyer Landry replied, “He says you don’t got da balls to

pull da trigger you.”

C’EST TOUTHigh school sports has really gone into full swing in both

baseball and lady softball, with tournaments all over the place. Coach Chad Landry’s Bridge City Cardinals have been log-ging many highway miles. Last weekend was spent at a tourna-ment at Rockdale. The Cardinals recorded four strong wins but dropped two. Monday they were on the road again, a special trip for the youngsters against College Station High, played  at Texas A&M’s Blue Bell Stadium. Bridge City hammered out a 9-6 win, returning late Monday night. Starting Thursday, Bridge City will play in the LCM ‘Don Gibbon’ tournament through Satur-day. All other Orange high school baseballers will be playing in tournaments.*****To my knowledge this is a first but it may not be. David Rainey, an Orangefield Bobcat, will be signing a soccer scholarship at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 1, in the lobby of the new gym. Everyone is invited to come celebrate David’s accomplish-ments. Coach Josh Smally is Orangefield Athletic Director. I’m sure that this is the first time that Smally, a Bridge City boy, has been involved in a soccer scholarship. Congrats David.*****Over at West Orange-Stark, sophomore Deionte Thompson has been recruited by coach Nick Saban to play football with national champions Alabama. Thompson must first complete two more years of high school. Alabama is picking players young. They also recruited a 14 year old, eighth grader. He is 6 ft. 2 in. and weighs 220 pounds. Next year he goes into high school. If you have the opportunity attend a high school event. These young-sters will amaze you with their talent. Both girls and boys. It’s great entertainment.*****The Wednesday Lunch Bunch will dine at Robert’s. You are invited to share fellowship and break bread with interesting, fine folks.*****Take care and God bless.

BCISD schools to host annual Open HouseBridge City Middle School will be holding its annual Open

House from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 4. The BCMS choir will be performing a few numbers for the listening plea-sure of those in attendance. All the teachers will be available to meet with and discuss. Information about the interventions pro-vided for Title I students/parents. Come out and join in this fun evening.

Bridge City Elementary is pleased to announce that our Open House will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5. All classrooms will be featuring student work on display for parents. The Pre-k classes are “springing” into the new season by learn-ing about plants and the weather. Kindergarten and first grade classes are welcoming parents with their Texas theme. Their Kindergarten “cowboys and cowgirls” will be making their own stick horses for this event and first grade classes will show off their “Deep in the heart of Texas” portfolios. Second grade stu-dents will have an “All about me” theme, where parents are en-couraged to guess who is who in self-portraits and shadow sil-houettes. Their Title I teachers will host a parent meeting that will feature fun learning games parents can do with their child to promote reading and math.

Bridge City Intermediate will be holding its annual Open House from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 7. All classrooms will be open and feature student work on display for families to view. Our Title I teachers will have information available to stu-dents on how to help your child in math and reading. We look forward to seeing all of you.

Bridge City High School will hold the Annual Fine Arts Exhi-bition and Open House on Thursday, April 11.

OF-BC alumni football game set for March 2Orangefield will be hosting an alumni football game Satur-

day, March 2 between the Bobcats and the Bridge City Cardi-nals. The game will be held at 7:30 p.m. and ticket prices are $8 for 18 and up, $6 for ages 7-17 and kids 6 and under are free.

This is a full page game that promises to be exciting and fun to watch. The game is being on by the Texas Alumni Football, check out their website at www.AlumniFootballUSA.com for more information. The community is invited to go support the “old guys” relive their glory days...or at least try.

American Legion to host lunch fundraiserThe American Legion Post 49, located at 108 Green Ave in

Orange, will host a plate lunch fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 7. Cost is $8. The meal will consist of brisket, link, potato salad, beans, bread and dessert. Walk in’s are welcome and delivery is available. Please call 409-886-1241 after noon on Wednesday, march 6 and before 9 a.m. on Thurs-day, March 7 for orders and deliveries.

Lutcher Stark 1953, 1955 class reunionThe Lutcher Stark High School classes of 1953 and 1955

will host a reunion Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 at the Sunset Grove Country Club, located at 2200 West Sunset Drive in Orange. Any classmates who graduated in the 1950’s are welcome to attend. Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP no later than March 15. Please contact Wayland Payne at 409-886-2548.

Master Gardeners monthly meetingThe monthly meeting of the Orange County Master Gar-

deners will be held Thursday, March 14, 2013 at the Salvation Army building on the corner of MLK and Strickland in Orange. A potluck supper will begin at 6 p.m. and the business meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. At the end of the meeting door prizes will be drawn. Any one interested in gardening is welcome to attend.   Their meetings are held the second Thursday of each month. Please visit their website http://txmg.org/orange for more information.

Orangefield Cormier Museum to open March 16

The Orangefield Cormier Museum will be open Saturday, March 16, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

VFW Post 2775 to host Desert Storm slide show

VFW Post 2775 will present a slide show commemorating Op-eration Desert Storm at 6 p.m. on March 21 in the VFW Hall, located at 3503 Hwy 87 North in Orange.  The public is invited to attend. For further information, contact John Clark at 883-0264.

AARP income tax assistance available The AARP Tax Filing Assistance Program will be offered

starting at 12:15 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday through April 15, 2013 at the Orange Public Library. Trained volunteers will be available from 12:15 to 4 p.m.

Anyone seeking assistance should bring the following:All W-2 and 1099 Forms, including Social Security Benefits

statements;Records of Capital gains and losses;Receipts of medical expenses, taxes paid, interest paid, contri-

butions, causality and theft losses, job expenses, sales tax re-ceipts for major purchases and Social Security cards for depen-

dents;A copy of their 2011 tax return to help the volunteers prepare

the 2012 return.Electronic filing will be available. No tax return will be started

after 4 p.m.

Orange K of C to host fish fry St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus Orange Council 1680 will sell

delicious fried and baked fish dinners, dine in or take out, from 5 to 7 p.m. on all Fridays in Lent, except Good Friday, in the par-ish hall. 

Meals consist of fish, French fries, coleslaw, tartar sauce, cock-tail sauce, ketchup, tea, water and dessert.  Cost is $8 for 3 pieces of fried or baked filets; $7 for 2 pieces fried.  All are invited to ex-perience Council 1680’s renowned fish taste.

BC Knights of Columbus to offer fish dinnersBridge City Knights of Columbus will offer fish dinners (fried

catfish, cole slaw, hush puppies, fries) through Friday March 22. Serving between 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. $8 per plate. Dine-in or takeout. Large order delivery is available call 735-5725.  

OC Relay for Life to hold monthly Team Cap-tain meetings

The Orange County Relay for Life will holding monthly Team Captain meetings at the Lamar State College – Orange Wilson Building, Room 101. 

Team captain meetings are scheduled for: Monday, March 25 and Monday, April 22.

All Team Captain meetings are directed at planning for the Orange County Relay for Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, which will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., May 3 – 4, 2013 at Bridge City High School. This year’s theme is “A Little Bit of Texas, A Whole Lot of Hope.”

Individuals or teams interested in becoming involved with this event are invited to attend the meeting and register on-line at www.OrangeCountyRelay.org

Master Gardener Spring Plant SaleThe Orange County Master Gardeners Annual Plant Sale will

take place at Cormier Park on FM 1442, in Orangefield. The gates will open at 8 a.m. and will close at noon on Saturday, April 6. There will be a large variety of plants for your choosing includ-ing perennials, bedding, tropical, vegetable, herbs, some trees, houseplants and Texas Super Star plants. An “Ask the Master Gardener” booth will be set up for your questions. For more in-formation please visit their websitehttp://txmg.org/orange

Eagles offer pool tournament and hall rentalThe Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2523, located at 803 N.

28th St. in Orange, will host their monthly barbecue on Thurs-day, Feb. 28. The menu is brisket, link, potato salad, baked beans, bread, cookie with all the trimmings for $8. The orders may be called in before 5 p.m. Wednesday or picked up at the Eagles Lodge on Thursday. To place an order or for more information contact Sharon Bodin at 735-8662 or cell 719-7793

They are also offering several classes, activities and fundrais-ers. scrapbook classes are held at 4 p.m. each Tuesday. The com-munity is invited.

Free genealogy classes are offered at 4 p.m. each Wednesday. Food will be available.The Eagles will have tables ready to play 31 on Saturdays from

4 p.m. until closing. Enjoy drink specials and meet our members.The Eagles have new hours of operation. They will now be

open on Monday’s at 4 p.m. The hours for the rest of the week re-main the same.

Patrons will now enjoy free pool, free popcorn and drink spe-cials Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during special hours.

For more information on any of the activities or rent the hall contact Sharon Bodin at 409-735-8662 or 409-719-7793.

Weight management classes offeredIt’s not too late to join the weight management and diabetes

prevention classes offered Wednesdays at Baptist Orange Hospi-tal. The 16 week course that began Jan. 9 will continue through May 8. Afterwards there is a commitment to monthly support group classes for a year.

The cost is $5 per person per class. Scholarships are available. Classes will educate adults to make healthier choices one day

at a time. Look and feel better and learn nutrition for the preven-tion of diseases. Call AgriLIFE extension office at 409-882-7010 to pre-register. Classes meet in the fifth floor classroom at the hospital.

Local AAUW to host book driveThe Orange Branch of the American Association of University

Women (AAUW) is beginning their annual book drive to collect “gently used” books for their scholarship fund. All books, fiction, non-fiction, hardbound or paper back are acceptable. Books may be delivered to the Mann Insurance Agency located at 1505 Park Avenue at 15th Street during regular business hours. If unable to deliver the books, you may call 886-5739 or 886-2194 to arrange for pickup.

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Loretta Pearl TillmanOrange

Loretta Pearl Tillman, 80, of Orange passed away Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, at Vidor Health and Rehab.

Born in Vinton, La. on April 7, 1932, Loretta was the daughter of Sydney and Hazel (Mitchell) Caruthers.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Herman “Richard” Tillman; sister, Faye Hantz; and grandson, Ricco Maggio. Loretta is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia Welch and William Ba-con of Bridge City, Gwen and Andrew Romero of Cleveland, Texas and Janice and Samuel Maggio of Vinton, La.; and son and daughter-in-law, Clement and Cathy Tillman of Orange-field.

Loretta is also survived by her grandchildren, Floyd “Lee” Mar-tin, Trisha “Tova” Welch, Hazel Ruth Nelson, Jeremy Joseph James, Roy Thomas Bowden, Carlo Maggio, Kim Trahan Mag-gio, Rocky Tillman and Lisa Ferrigno; great-grandchildren, Keegan Martin, Vaydon Abrego, Marqus Abrego, Carly Nelson, Macy Bowden, Samantha Tra-han, John Trahan, Honor Kate Maggio, Aidan Ferrigno and Zachary Ferrigno; and sisters and brothers, Audrey Richard, Sue Jeffers, Dwight Caruthers and wife, Dee Dee, Norman Ca-ruthers, and Ruby Frazier and husband, Herchel.

A Memorial Service will be held at a later date. Arrange-ments were held under the direc-tion of Claybar Funeral Home in Orange.

Charles PrattOrange

C h a r l e s Pratt, of Or-ange, passed away at 4 a.m. on Mon-day, Feb. 25, 2013.

A funeral service will be held on at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at Rosewood Fu-neral Home in Humble, Texas.

Charles, an American hero, won a sniper award during the Korean War and was an avid fan of John Wayne.

Charles is survived by wife, Edith Pratt of Orange; son Charles Lee Pratt Jr.; grand-daughter Brandi Rossettie; grandsons Phillip Wayne Pratt and Chris Pratt; and great grand son Aiden Rossettie.

Ryan Michael WinfreeOrangefield

Ryan Michael Winfree, 13, of Orangefield, passed away Sun-day, Feb. 24, 2013, at his home.

Funeral Service were Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at Winfree Bap-tist Church. with Pastor Keith

Royal, of Winfree Bap-tist Church, and Pastor Paul Fregia, of Pecan Acres Baptist Church in Vi-dor, officiating. Burial followed at Antioch Cemetery in Buna.

Born in Houston on June 16, 1999, Ryan was the son of Wil-liam Edward Winfree and Carol Lynn (Reese) Winfree. Ryan enjoyed going to school and spending time with his family.

He was preceded in death by his grandfathers, Lester Winfree and Wade Reese; and great-grandparents. Ryan is survived by his parents, Will and Carol Winfree of Orangefield; brother, Jesse Winfree of Orangefield; maternal grandmother, Beatrice Chapman of Spurger; paternal grandmother, Barbara Winfree of Orangefield; and numerous aunts, uncles and lots of family and friends.

Drew McCall, Jimmy Wilker-son, John Gordon, Chris Pickard, Kent Dosch and Jimmy Williams served as pallbearers. Honorary Pallbearers were Todd Anthony, Kirk Dillard, Paul Neely, Roger Holtkamp and Bobby Cormier.

The family wishes to thank Ryan’s life skills class at Orange-field Elementary, his teacher aides, and teacher, Lisa McCall.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Life Skills Class of Orangefield Elementary, P.O. Box 228, Orangefield, Texas 77639.

Arrangements were held un-der the direction of Claybar Fu-neral Home in Orange.

Paul OdomVidor

Paul Odom, 67, of Vidor passed away on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 at St. Eliza-beth Hospital in Beaumont.

A funeral service was held on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Dorman Funeral Home. Burial followed at Autumn Oaks Memorial Park in Orange.

Paul was native of San Au-gustine. He was born on Sept. 27, 1945 to parents Dorothy Mae (Simmons) and John Kelba Odom. He had lived most of life in the Vidor area and was a member of Maplecrest Baptist Church. Paul was employed with Gerdau-Ameristeel Steel Mill in Rose City from September 1976 until May 2006 as a Millwright/Welder. He enjoyed garden-ing, old model cars, family cook outs and listening to Christian and Zydeco music. Paul loved spending time with his family and friends, who will dearly miss him.

He was preceded is death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Odom; wife, Darlene Gayle

Odom; son, Johnny Paul Odom; sisters, Anita Dugas, Dorothy Duggins, Joan Foux; brother, Johnny R. Odom.

Paul is survived by his chil-dren, Hershel D. Odom and wife Hollie of Vidor, Darla Odom of Vidor, Diane DeRamus and hus-band Michael of Orange; sisters, LaNece Hayes of Vidor, Tera Polk of Beaumont, Melba Odom of Vi-dor; brothers Kenneth Odom of Vidor and James Odom of Vidor. Also left to cherish his memory are his grandchildren, Wesley DeRamus, Darlin Brucia, Sara Odom, Amber DeRamus, Kelby Odom, Whitney DeRamus, Jo Jo (DeRamus) Amik, one great grandchild on the way and his large extend family at Gerdau-Ameristeel Steel Mill.

James “Jim” Hasty Jr.Orange

J a m e s “Jim” Hasty Jr., 80, of Or-ange, passed away Thurs-day, Feb. 21, 2013, at Har-bor Hospice in Beaumont.

F r i e n d s were invited to a visitation Mon-day at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. A eulogy was given by Gilbert Mazzola.

Born in Smithville, Ga. on Dec. 4, 1932, Jim was the son of James Leslie Hasty Sr. and Mary Charles (Davis) Lewis. He served in the U.S. Army during the Ko-rean War and was stationed in Berlin, Germany. Jim retired from Inland Orange.

He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Sherry McLeod; and brother, Ronnie Hasty. Jim is survived by his wife, Claudia (Hastings) Hasty; sons, Scott Hasty of Orange, Ben Hasty and wife, Teresa of Webster, Texas, and Sam Hasty of Orange; and daughter, Hope Hasty Payne and husband, Artie of Dickinson, Texas.

Jim is also survived by his grandchildren, Michael and wife, Lori Elle, Robert, Amanda and husband, Jason, Emily, Dustin and girlfriend, Angela, Brittany, Cody, Damon, Taylor and Cori; great-grandchildren, Layne, Kolden, Kayla and James; broth-er, Terry Hasty and wife, Ann and sister-in-law, Pandy Hasty of Valdosta, Georgia.

The family wishes to express their appreciation to the staff of Harbor Hospital for the care and compassion they provided.

Dr. Frances Ann Lavergne Tomball

Dr. Frances Ann Lavergne, 68, of Tomball, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at her home.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, Feb. 25, at St. Mary Catholic Church with the Rev. Joseph P. Daleo officiat-ing. Burial will follow at St. Mary

Cemetery in Orange.

Born in Or-ange on Aug. 9, 1945, Fran-ces was the daughter of Leo and Rosa ( C o m e a u x ) L a v e r g n e . She received her Doctorate in El-ementary Curriculum from Texas A&M University and retired from Tomball ISD where she was Di-rector of Special Services.

Preceded in death by her par-ents and sister, Mariam Lince-cum; Frances is survived by her sister, Alice McCray and hus-band, Wayne of Orange; nieces and nephews, Karen Moore, Phyllis Hamilton, Roger Lince-cum, Homer Lincecum, Michael Howard, Gina Farrell and Clanc-ey McCray; and numerous great nieces and great nephews.

Wilda Emma MartinBridge City

W i l d a Martin, 84, of Bridge City, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.

Funeral Mass was held Friday, Feb. 22, at St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City with the Rev. Steven Leger officiating. Burial followed at Orange Forest Lawn Cemetery in West Orange.

Born in Port Arthur, on Dec. 24, 1928, Wilda was the daugh-ter of Edward and Olive Maloz Rau. She attended St. Mary’s Catholic School and gradu-ated in 1947. Wilda then married Lewis Martin of Port Arthur on Feb. 24, 1951. They celebrated 61 years together. Wilda and Lewis built their home in Bridge City, Texas in 1953. She was a homemaker and very involved in her children’s activities. Wilda was a Room Mother and also a Campfire Leader. She enjoyed camping with her family for many years. Wilda and Lewis

enjoyed traveling and took many train trips. She was a member of St. Henry’s Catholic Church in Bridge City since 1953 and be-longed to the Alter Society for many years. Lewis and Wilda were most proud of volunteering for the 1983 church remodeling. Wilda was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother and will be missed very much.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son, Fran-cis Edward Martin; sisters, Verna Blankenship and Velma Majors; and daughter-in-law, LuAnne Martin.

Wilda is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Anna and Conrad Graffagnino; son, Willie Ray Martin of Streator, Ill.; grandchildren, Rachel Bowden, Michael Graffagnino, Grace and Marguerite Martin; great-grand-daughters, Aireana, Destiny, and Sadie; sisters-in-law; Claire Daigle and Lucille Dionne; and many nieces and nephews.

Conrad and Michael Graffagnino, Mike Guidroz, Willie Martin, Charles and Gerald Blan-kenship served as pallbearers.

Mildred Brooks MolleyOrange

M i l d r e d Brooks Mol-ley, 92, of O r a n g e , died Tues-day, Feb. 19, 2013, at Park Manor Nurs-ing Home in Conroe.

Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. 22, at Claybar Fu-

neral Home in Orange with the Rev. Tom Phelan officiating. Burial followed at St. Mary Cem-etery in Orange.

Born in Newton, on July 26, 1920, Mildred was the daughter of Will Brooks and Susie (Whit-man) Brooks. She was a mem-ber of St. Mary Catholic Church, the LaDonna Club, and was the former owner of Molley’s Poodle Grooming.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Joe Mol-ley; and children; Joseph “JoJo” Molley, Jerry Molley, and Janice (Molley) Weber.

Mildred is survived by her chil-dren; James Molley and wife, Ginger, Joanna Molley; grand-children, Gina Molley Puckett and husband, Ronnie, Johnny Molley, Mike Schexnider, Ka-tina Schexnider Aucoin and husband, Chad, Jessica Molley Minnis and husband, Chris, Jo-lena Molley Lofton and husband Ryan; step-grandchildren, Mike Molley and Cathy Molley; great-grandchildren, Cole Puckett, Sadie Aucoin, Sawyer Lofton, Rylee Lofton, Mason Minnis, Kingston Borland; and her sister, Helen English.

Johnny Molley, Mike Schexnider, Ronnie Puckett, Robin Molley, Vincent Books, Marvin Spanier, Mike Magnuson, and James Molley Jr. served as pallbearers.

The family wishes to express their appreciation to Pinehurst and Park Manor Nursing Homes and Rose of Texas Hospice for taking such wonderful care of our mother and grandmother.

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n Growing up in a broken home, raised by my mother, I looked forward to the years ahead that I would spend learning from and about my dad.

It was about three hours before daylight on Feb. 19, 1959, when I climbed behind the wheel of Clay’s big, black Lincoln. I had allowed myself enough time to drive from our place on the Bra-zos River in Burleson County to arrive at Dallas hospital before 9 a.m. I made my way from our Avalon Ranch down the Brazos Bottom Road that came out at Hearne on Highway 6. I pulled into a family restaurant at Calvert, grabbed a quick bite and coffee. The sky was dark, and the temperature had been dropping. At Bremond, I made the choice to take Highway 14 instead of following Highway 6 into Waco.

A few miles down at Kosse, I started noticing a few snowflakes. By the time I came across Groes-beck, the white stuff was really starting to fall. I had never driven in this kind of weather before. I would try the bright lights and then the dim ones. Neither worked very well. The traveling was scary enough but by the time I got to Mexia, it was plum frightening. Daylight was peeping through and everything was covered with the snow that was coming down in dump truck loads. I couldn’t see ahead or behind. My hands dripped with sweat. I debated whether or not to stop or press on. I creeped along for the next two hours. It was 9 a.m., the time I was due in Dallas when I made a pit stop. The snow had eased up some but at Ennis; I figured I was still an hour and a half away from downtown Dallas.

My dad, Clay, was scheduled to have surgery at 9 a.m. Under normal conditions, I would have been there with time to spare. A call the previous evening had told me dad wanted to talk to me before he went into surgery. A few years before he had suffered a couple of heart attacks. Up until three days before, he had been in Bryan’s St. Joseph Hospital. A gallstone had slipped into an extra duct of his gallbladder. I’m told the extra duct is consistent in the Dunn bloodline.

The last time I had seen him was before my uncles had force-fully removed him from St. Joseph and moved him to Dallas. He was jaundice, yellow as a lemon. Dr. Andreus, his heart doctor, wouldn’t release him, saying his heart couldn’t withstand gall-bladder surgery.

I’d never driven in Big D before. Snow covered everything. Just

before 11 a.m. I walked into the hospital. The surgery had been postponed waiting for my arrival. Being Clay’s only child, they wanted me to sign some papers, plus Dad wanted to talk to me first. The doctors assured me that three EKG’s showed his heart would be fine for the two-hour operation.

Dad wanted me to get an attorney; there was something he needed to take care of. I assured him of the doc-tors’ confidence that everything could wait. He said he needed to have a talk with me. I told him we would go to Arizona for his recovery and would have plenty of time to talk. He was prepped and ready.

I walked alongside while they wheeled him in to the operating room. At the two big doors, they said that was as far as I could go. With my hand on his, I wished him good luck. He responded that he would never make it through the opera-tion. He looked me in the eyes and said, “You’ve got two strikes against you. One is being my son; the other you’ll find out about.

Three of my uncles and I waited. One I had never met before. I didn’t know the Dunns very

well then. Dad and I, until recently hadn’t spent much time to-gether. I looked forward to the times ahead to-gether. Clay had done Mom and me wrong. We had struggled through some hard times and often near starvation. He had thought if times were hard enough, she would give me up. I held some resentment towards him for that.

The operation ran longer than expected. After three hours, a nurse came out and told us the operation had been a success and they were sewing Dad up. The doctor would be out to talk to us soon. A couple of my uncles left to return to their office.

Dad was a black sheep. His brothers owned Dunn Brother’s Pipeline Stringing Co., the largest of its kind with nearly 500 trucks. Their slogan was, “Around the nation, it much be Dunn.” They strung the Alaskan Pipeline and operated in all the 49 states.

At age 14, Clay had ridden a donkey from his home in Sipes Springs, near Rising Star, to Co-manche where he got a job with the telephone

company. He strung wire and post all the way to Houston and eventually to Port Arthur. Clay had the most fas-cinating and colorful life of anyone I’ve ever known, bar none.

After about 45 minutes, the doctor came out to talk to my Uncle Hobby and me. The operation, he said, had been a success but while sewing him up his heart had stopped. They had cut into his chest and had hand-massaged his heart, but it wouldn’t respond. They had pronounced him dead at age 65. I thought about what could have been. His last words ran through my head.

In a couple of days, we laid Dad to rest in the little cemetery on the hill in Sipes springs with his mom, dad and siblings, who had preceded him. He was born just a half-mile away.

The Dunns had blazed quite a trail, starting with my grand-father, Allen. Clay often spoke of his last ride being to Sipes Springs. Over the years, I’ve made several pilgrimages on Feb. 19, to visit the burial site of my Irish bloodline.

Fifty-four years have passed since that cold February day. Sev-eral years have gone by since I last visited the gravesite where so much of my roots are buried. I often wonder what might have happened if Dad would have lived a few years. How my vocation would have changed. Instead of publishing, I’m sure the highway would have led in another direction. On that February day, in that snow storm, I extended Clay’s life by two hours. Even today I miss the times that might have been.

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Stopping my work for a refreshing drinkI heard words next door that made me think,

Angry words spoken with a shouting voiceThe words were cruel and terribly harsh.

Unkindly words can do regrettable harmWhen all that is needed is a loving arm,

So much of the language that others hearBring only heartache and a fallen tear.

“Get out of here, and don’t come back!”Son leaves home with a small backpack,

“You’re not even worth one copper cent!”Daughter hears this, her heart is rent.

Harmful words are just too often usedThey never will help, they only abuse,Shameful words hurt the girl and boy

Life then seems hopeless, there is no joy.

Let’s help the troubled and wayward kidSpeak words of goodness as our Savior did,Be kind and loving, and always observant

We’ll hear, “Well done my faithful servant.”

My reflections of the day Dad died 54 years ago

Clay Dunn

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“I’ve seen every Irish dancing program since 2003 and this is my favorite,” said Helen Clark at the Lutcher Theater’s presentation of “Rhythm of the Dance.”

It was a nice balance between all three aspects of the program: the step dancers; a six piece band consisting of the harp, flute, fiddle, guitar, Irish uilleann pipes and the concertina; and three tenors.

The beautiful Celtic knot work on the backdrops and the music brought me back to my SCA days.

I don’t think my foot stopped tapping the entire show. It made me want to do a little folk dancingWhen the possibility of this show came to the Lutcher about a month ago, Theater Director

Jim Clark said his patrons would love it. From their reaction to each piece, that was evident and accurate. Thunderous applause greeted the end of each offering. The audience eagerly clapped to the music each time they were beckoned to do so by the performers.

I don’t know what the balcony looked like, but the orchestra was close to sold out, which is not bad considering the short time they had to sell the production.

It looked like Orange was happy to see a little green from the Emerald Isle before St. Paddy’s Day.

If you missed the show, I’ve been told it will be on PBS on the 17th of March.

“Rhythm of the Dance” had toes tapping

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Orangefield Bobcat pitcher Tryce Howard pitches a 13-3 win against Dewyville in tournament action at Lumberton. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

Last week when the 21st Annual Willie Ray Smith Awards for the area’s best offensive and defensive high school football players for the 2012 season were announced, something very different occurred—Vidor’s Montana Quiran-te was named for both prestigious honors.

That seemed to be the topic of conversation Thursday at many wa-ter coolers, workout stu-dios and lunch counters around Southeast Texas.

And not to take any-thing away from the young man who was the double recipient, but the majority of high school football fans really be-lieved the two separate honors should go to two different people.

However, I strongly defend the decision because Mr. Quirante is quite an impressive individual, both with the pads on and when he’s not on the field. He obviously was a great leader of his Vidor Pirate football team and is quite a guy in street clothes, too.

Instead of listening to all the propaganda delivered by college recruiters about why he should choose their institution at the next football level, Quirante plans to participate in a two-year mission trip with his church and then walk on to a major football school like Brigham Young, which understands his fu-ture plans completely.

I understand his plight and situation also because something similar happened to me when I was 12 years old.

I was fortunate to have played shortstop for the Schenectady (N.Y.) all-star team that eventually won the 1954 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. It was quite an honor to know I contributed to the success of our world championship team.

A month after the celebrating of our

Tournament action baseball is in full swing for The Record’s area teams. After the first round of tournaments on the road last week the second round begins on Thursday with Orange County squads hosting tournaments back here at home.

The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears will host the annual Don Gibbens Baseball Tour-nament. The Orangefield Bobcats and West Orange-Stark Mustangs join to host the Or-angefield-WOS Certa Bearden Tournament at both locations.

The Don Gibbens Tournament will begin at 10:30 a.m. as the Bridge City Cardinals take on the Jasper Bulldogs. Lumberton and Silsbee play at 1 p.m. The big show down will take place at 3:30 p.m. as the hosting LCM Bears take on the Bridge City Cardinals. To conclude the first day of action LCM takes on Lumber-ton at 6 p.m.

Day two of the tournament pits Lumberton and Bridge City at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Silsbee faces Jasper at 1 p.m. followed by LCM and Silsbee at 3:30 p.m. The Bears conclude day two with tournament action against Jasper at 6 p.m.

Don Gibbens championship rounds begin on Saturday morning. Jasper and Lumberton take the field at 10:30 a.m. Bridge City takes on Sisbee at 1 p.m. with the championship game scheduled for 3 p.m.

Tournament action in the Orangefield-WOS Certa Bearden Tournament will be played at both locations. On Thursday in Oranghefield Hamshire-Fannett and Deweyville take the field at 12:30 p.m. The Bobcats take on East Chambers at 3:30 p.m. and Orangefield play Kelly at 6 p.m.

Meanwhile at WOS on Thursday the Mus-tangs will face PA Memorial at 12:30 a.m. and

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Eric Truncale steals second base as the Orangefield Bobctas defeat Deweyville 13-3. RECORD PHOTOS: Mark Dunn Orangefield Bobcat shortstop Braxton Smith throws to first for an out against Deweyville.

the Mustangs take on Kirbyville at 3 p.m.OF/WOS Tournament action resumes on Friday with Dew-

eyville and East Chambers starting at 12:30 p.m. in Orangefield. Deweyville and Kirbyville play at 3 p.m. The Bobcats cap off the day against Kirbyville at 5:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, at WOS on Friday, the Mustangs take on Kelly at 12:30 p.m. and Hamshire-Fannett will face PA Memorial at 3 p.m.

Saturday tournament action resumes at both locations. In Or-angefield Kelly plays PA Memorial at 11 a.m. followed by Or-angefield vs. PA Memorial at 1:30 p.m. At WOS East Chambers plays Kirbyville at 11 a.m. East Chambers will play Hamshire-Fannett at 1:30 p.m. and the Mustangs take the field against Kir-byville at 4 p.m.

Orangefield’s varsity baseball team traveled to Lumberton this past weekend and went 1 – 2 in the tournament. The Bob-cats lost the first game to Hamshire-Fannett 12 – 0, with Eric Truncale and Cody Angelle getting the only hits for the Bobcats. Blake Permenter took the loss on the mound. The Bobcats then defeated Deweyville on Saturday 13-3, with Sophomore Tryce Howard pitching a complete game, allowing only 3 runs on 5 hits, with 6 K’s. At the plate both Eric Truncale and Cody An-

gelle were 2 for 3. The Bobcats then finished up the tournament loosing 5 -3, in a hard fought battle to the host team, the Lum-berton Raiders. Braxton Smith took the loss, allowing 4 runs, on 6 hits, with 6 K’s. At the plate Ryan Gunstream went 2 for 2, Kurt Haggard went 2 for 3, and Garret Morrell scored 3 runs.

The Bridge City Cardinals had an excellent week winning first place in tournament action at the famed Texas A&M Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park in College Station.

OF-BC alumni football game March 2Orangefield will be hosting an alumni football game Saturday,

March 2 between the Bobcats and the Bridge City Cardinals. The game will be held at 7:30 p.m. and ticket prices are $8 for 18 and up, $6 for ages 7-17 and kids 6 and under are free.

This is a full page game that promises to be exciting and fun to watch. The game is being on by the Texas Alumni Football, check out their website at www.AlumniFootballUSA.com for more information. The community is invited to go support the “old guys” relive their glory days...or at least try.

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Staff Report-For The RecordDallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will not join Dan Snyder if

the Washington Redskins owner files a lawsuit to prevent the start of free agency while challenging the salary-cap penalties imposed on both franchises by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last year.

“We are not involved and we won’t become involved,” a Cow-boys source said.

The Washington Post reported that the Redskins are consid-ering going to court to seek an injunction to delay the start of free agency while the team attempts to resolve a cap penalty levied against it by the NFL last year, attempting to recoup some of the lost cap space.

Free agency is set to begin after 4 p.m. ET on March 12, when the 2013 league year officially begins.

The NFL stripped the Redskins of $36 million in cap space that the team split over two seasons. The Cowboys lost $10 mil-lion in cap space. The two teams challenged the penalties last year but an arbitrator dismissed their grievances.

The league took issue with how the Redskins, Cowboys, New Orleans Saints and Oakland Raiders restructured contracts to take advantage of a year of uncapped salaries in the NFL during the 2010 season.

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10-straight victories en route to the world championship sub-sided, our league held its annual banquet where awards for the season were handed out.

I nearly passed out when my name was announced as the league’s Most Valuable Player. And many of my all-star team-mates had puzzled looks on their faces, too.

Nine years later in 1963 after completing my senior year and four years of baseball eligibility at McNeese State in Lake Charles, the same thing happened again to my surprise and I received the Most Valuable Player Trophy at the Cowboys Ath-letic Banquet.

Several years later I was visiting my parents in Schenectady and my younger brother Dick and I decided to play golf at the Municipal Course where we both learned how to play.

It was a beautiful day which meant the golf course was crowd-ed to the hilt and we had quite a long wait before we could tee off. Lo and behold, the starter at the golf course was none other than Mike Maietta, our Little League manager who not only won our way to Williamsport, but he also took two other teams there.

Mike was retired from the General Electric Company and with his love for talking sports with people, being the starter at the golf course was a perfect job for him.

He was happy to see me and then he put his arm on my shoul-der and asked in a quiet voice, “Kazzy,” that’s what he called me and also my dad when they played ball together, “did you ever wonder why we named you our MVP?” I told him it had been bugging me for almost 20 years.

“You know you weren’t the biggest home run hitter we had on that ’54 team, and you didn’t have the highest batting average and with that wild arm of yours you certainly weren’t our best defensive player, either,” the now-gray-headed baseball genius continued.

“You were what I consider the team clown, which wasn’t bad,” he added. “You kept the guys loose with some of your off-the-wall expressions, especially your chatter on the infield to en-courage our pitchers.

“When the inning started you would holler for the pitcher to get that leading lady out. With one out you would hold up one finger and say ‘One dead, two dying’. When the pitcher got into a jam you would holler for him to bow his neck. If the opponent had a runner on first base you would tell the pitcher to throw his ground-ball pitch so we could get two.

“The guys on the team picked up on that and played a lot more relaxed and that certainly made my job and our coaches jobs a lot easier.

“I remember when our bus had just gotten into the city limits of Williamsport and the driver didn’t know how to get to Ly-coming College where all the teams stayed during that week.

“The bus driver saw a policeman and asked him how to get to the college. The cop said to take a right turn at the third red light. And you immediately asked, ‘What if the light isn’t red?’ I know you were serious because we never used that expression when giving directions. We would always say the third traffic light or go five blocks and turn right.

“Anyhow, the sports writer from our hometown newspaper happened to be on the bus and wrote about your comment and two days later, it appeared in every newspaper in the country.

Things like that are what made you valuable to our team, besides being a real good player,” Mike concluded and added, “You’re up on the No. 1 Tee.”

So besides being an outstanding football player on both sides of the ball Montana Quirante also displays that great big smile that probably keeps his Vidor Pirate teammates loose and makes them play the game better with him on the field leading the way.

KWICKIES…The Houston Astros still haven’t suffered a de-feat after two spring training exhibition games in the Grapefruit League. New manager Bo Porter is a firm believer in running and so far the Astros have successfully swiped six bases in the two games. Houston beat Philadelphia 8-3 Saturday and then came back from an early five-run deficit to tie the New York Mets 7-7 Sunday. Monday they played the St. Louis Cardinals and faced big Adam Wainwright, who started for the Redbirds. The Astros’ streak ended as the Cards won 10-2.

Adam Kuchar ran the table last weekend in the Accenture Match Play Championships, defeating fellow American Hunter Mahan in the finals 2 to 1. Australian Jason Day, who lost to Kuchar in the semifinals, defeated England’s Ian Poulter 1-up in the consolation finals.

And while on the topic of professional golfers, Orange’s Scott Sterling finished nine strokes behind winner Kevin Foley in the Web.com Tour Panama Claro Championship held last weekend at Panama City. Sterling had a three-under par 281 and collected a check for $3,753.

Danica Patrick made auto racing history last week by winning the pole position for Sunday’s running of the Daytona 500 but finished eighth behind winner Jimmie Johnson, who started the historic race in the No. 9 position. Patrick, who was the first woman to win the pole, also became the first woman to lead the race. She ran inside the Top Ten during most of the race and kept pace with the field. She picked up $357,464 for her eighth-place finish.

West Orange-Stark sophomore defensive back Deionte Thompson verbally committed to play his college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, which has won three of the last four Bowl Championship Series national titles. Last season Thomp-son was credited with 55 tackles and six interceptions for the Mustangs. Although verbal commitments are non-binding, Thompson was happy that ‘Bama Head Coach Nick Saban made the scholarship offer.

Orange Community Christian is the only local team still alive in the state basketball tournament. The Lions roared past San Antonio Castle Hill 62-47 last week and met Edinburg Harvest Tuesday at Alvin for the TAPPS 1A Regional championship. Other area teams still playing include the Silsbee Tigers (25-9)

who met Houston Yates (29-4) Tuesday in the Class 3A regional quarterfinals, Beaumont Ozen (22-10) which met Crosby and Nederland (27-9) which played Georgetown Tuesday in the Class 4A regional semifinals. East Chambers (23-9) took on Hitchcock (24-5) in the Class 2A regional semifinals Tuesday.

The Lamar baseball team continues to impress in the early go-ing, winning three games of a four-game series over the Wash-ington Huskies last weekend to jump their record for the early season to 7-2. The Cardinals swing back into action Friday at 6:30 p.m. against Columbia of the Ivy League at Vincent-Beck Stadium in Beaumont.

The Lamar Lady Cardinals softball team won the consola-tion title by nipping Utah State 2-1 Sunday behind Tina Schulz’ strong mound performance in last weekend’s Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational. The Lady Cards (5-7) will meet Tulsa (11-4) in the opening round of the UT-Arlington Tournament at 5:05 p.m. on Friday.

JUST BETWEEN US…It’s hard to keep a good man down and I knew it would be just a matter of time before Toby Foreman would land a head coaching job at a big school. Well, it happened last week when the former West Orange-Stark player and later offensive coordinator was named to the Beaumont Central High School head football coaching position. Toby has been around high school football since he first learned to walk, assisting his dad, Mark as the Mustangs’ ball boy until he was big enough to play. And being around the Mustang football program dur-ing most of his young life, Toby heeded the advice of Mustangs’ long-time head coach Dan Hooks, whose motto for coaching has always been “Love your kids.” Toby has had success at every level in his coaching career because of the rapport he has with his players. That should continue with the Jaguars this spring.

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switching gears a little and taking advantage of the spawn on Rayburn and Toledo Bend over the next two months as you will be hard pressed to find a day when the wind isn’t howling or it is calm, but the water clarity has paid the price. Regardless of wind direction or strength, there is always a protected shoreline or creek to fish even if you have to trailer around the lake. More importantly, you will still be fishing prime water rather than just hiding and out and fishing the only water available.

The best news of all is that the bass are currently as over weight as they will be all year long and they are aggressive. And, while most bass fishermen are comfortable with the catch and release concept that affords them a legitimate shot at a double digit fish, it is equally easy to catch smaller bass for a fish fry at the camp.

Over the past three days I received emails or pictures on my phone of six bass over nine pounds that were caught the previ-ous week on either T-Bend or Rayburn. I thought it was a little unusual that five of the six were caught on Toledo Bend.The largest weighed 11 pounds 6 ounces and the smallest weighed nine pounds seven ounces.

While it is the ultimate fishing thrill to catch any bass that size, the fact that all of these fish were caught in six feet of water or less really gets the adrenalin flowing. Three of the bass were

caught by fishermen Whacky Worming. Two of them were fish-ing with a Zoom Senko and the other was using one of the new Bass Assassin Lit’l Tappers.

The largest of the six bass ate a Berkley Havoc jerk bait while one of the 10’s ate a cherry bomb Trap and the other fell for a black Strike King spinnerbait. The folks that caught the 10-6 on the spinner bait also caught six more bass between five and sev-en pounds. The part of their report that may not appeal to you is that they caught all of these fish after dark on a very chilly night!

We are looking at significantly cooler weather for the upcom-ing weekend, but these big spawning fish are not going to move far this late in the game. They may not be aggressive, but they will simply move into the nearest cover that provides a little more warmth and they will still bite. Slowing your retrieve and making multiple casts to the same area will serve you well once the front passes through.

The Triangle Tail Chasers will kick off the 2013 season with an Open Tournament on Saturday, March 9 .They will deviate just a bit from their usual format in that this will be a “trout only” event with each team allowed to weigh in three trout with only one over the 25-inch mark.

The entry fee is $120 per team and a team can consist of one to three fishermen. The tournament will be held out of Port Neches Park with the Captain’s meeting to be held the night be-fore at Daley’s Hunt N Fish. Along with the prize money there will also be some very nice door prizes drawn for as well.

The club’s first regular event of the year is set for March 27 .All of the regular season events are “slam” tournaments. Each team can weigh in two trout, two reds and two flounder. You can get more information concerning this event and dates for upcoming tournaments by going to their website at triangletail-chasers.com on the net.

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Chris Romano opted for Lake Falcon last week and it paid off with this 11 pound bass! RECORD PHOTO: Capt. Dickie Colburn

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It is always the intent of any fisherman to do battle with a mighty fish, a giant of epic proportions that will live forever in memo-ries for years to come. For most folks who do not regularly in-habit offshore waters your choices of re-ally big fish to catch are rather small. The occasional redfish of 35 to 40 inches are often the biggest boys in the neighbor-hood next to alligator gar or maybe a big catfish. You can add another name to the list of heavyweights that are mak-ing a name for themselves this year, black drum.

Under normal everyday con-ditions black drum inhabit our surrounding waters in re-spectable numbers most of the year. Generally the drum that are found on the north end of Sabine Lake and in the Sabine River are usually anywhere from 12 to 20 inches long.

During the past several sea-sons while fishing the Sabine river and Intracoastal canal I have had at least a dozen of these big black drum over 40 pounds caught by clients while fishing live shad. Let me say this, “ A drum that size is a real deal workout any way you look at it”.

These huge fish are nor-mally found closer to the jet-ties and out in the gulf, but at times when we have no fresh-water coming down the riv-ers and the saltwater backs up

daily it is not surprising to see these giant fish all over the place. On a run out to the jetties I stopped to watch a fisherman do battle with one

of these huge fish. Slow powerful runs kept

the rod bent nearly in two as the great fish worked the drag system over for more than 20 minutes. My clients and I were amused by the fight and gave out encouraging words and congratulations

as the fish finally was brought to the boat. Perhaps the best description of what happens when you hook one of these giants is to compare them to hooking a runaway golf cart, they won’t outrun you but you just can’t stop them either when they decide to pull.

Big black drum can be caught on a variety of baits, shad, mullet, or shrimp are good options but the best bet for these huge fish is crab. Big black drum are suckers for a piece of crab fished on or near the bottom. Popular rig-ging for this method consists of hooking a 1/4 of a whole crab onto a 3/0 or 4/0 live bait hook that is tied to a 1/2 ounce weighted Carolina rig with 18 to 24 inches of leader.

Some fishermen really beef up their tackle by using 20 to 25 pound test monofilament and big heavy rods, use your own discretion and just re-member what they say about chasing a bear with a switch.

Some of the more humorous battles I have witnessed where black drum were involved hap-pened down on the Causeway

reef in the middle of a fleet of boats chasing trout. It never fails when you start fishing a little deeper water somebody on the boat will hook up with one of these brutes and the rodeo begins. Trying to coax a big fish in and around other boats without hanging up on other lines or breaking off on oyster is a challenge to say the least.

The only way this scene gets any crazier is when you hook up with a jack crevalle in the same area, the jacks pull just as hard only they run a little farther away which means you involve more boats and more people. As long as you are a spectator it’s awful funny, when you are the poor guy try-ing to make sense out of the whole thing when one of these big fish bites it gets somewhat stressful but in a good way.

Hooking up and landing a fish in the 40 to 50 pound class is real treat for any fisherman, especially those of the inshore ranks. Big fish like these don’t come around often and the spring is one of the best times all year to tangle with a really big fish. As the water warms up in the coming months the big fish will become a little more scarce and the “slot sized” fish will take their place. The smaller drum are excellent ta-ble fare and should not be dis-counted as just another fish, they hold their own along side french fries with the best of them. Overall the black drum provides many opportunities and should not be discounted as a lesser fish because they re-ally give you plenty of bang for your buck.

Orange Savings Bank Presi-dent and CEO Stephen Lee is pleased to announce today that the bank has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with First Financial Bankshares of Abilene. Pend-ing regulatory approval, the merger is expected to finalize in the second quarter of 2013.

“Joining the First Financial family will mean new and ex-panded products and services for our customers while al-lowing us to maintain our fo-cus on serving the local com-munity and making decisions on a local basis”, said Stephen Lee, President and CEO. “Our bank will continue to have the same friendly people and the same commitment to being involved in the community, but with the added resources of one of the most respected community banking institu-tions in the Country. With this merger we will be able to accelerate our growth in the Beaumont market and throughout Southeast Texas.”

Chairman Tommy Gunn added, “The traditions estab-lished by Orange Savings Bank

for over 55 years of unique customer service, community involvement, and truly per-sonal banking relationships will continue unabated with this merger. We are merging with a bank that has over 100 years of banking experience and has the same philosophy and approach to banking as we do and has consistently been rated as one of the lead-ing community banks in the nation for a significant period of time. The local board of di-rectors of OSB will continue to be in place and actively in-volved in the local decision making process of the bank. It will continue to be banking as usual and both our exist-ing and future customers can expect positive enhancements in all areas of banking services and technology.

I can assure our local con-stituents that the history, tra-ditions, personnel, policies and commitment to our com-munity that has established Orange Savings Bank as the premier bank in Southeast Texas will continue with First Financial.”

“We are very excited about this opportunity to expand our company into this vibrant region of Texas,” said F. Scott Dueser, Chairman, President and CEO of First Financial Bankshares. “Orange Savings Bank has experienced solid growth in assets and earn-ings, is the number one bank in its home market of Orange County with a 40 percent de-posit market share, and has excellent growth potential in the Beaumont/Port Arthur markets. We are most im-pressed with their manage-ment and board, who share our same values, philosophies and commitment to outstand-ing customer service. We look forward to helping take the flying pig to new heights.”

Orange Savings Bank is joining a financial holding company that operates 11 re-gional banks with 55 locations in Texas. The company is list-ed on the NASDAQ Global Se-lect Market under the trading company FFIN.

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Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bear freshman distant runner Brooke Manuel takes the Gold Med-al in the 800 meter and 1600 meter runs during the Lumberton Relays.

It was the LCM freshman’s first varsity wins. Brooke ran a 2.34 in the 800 meter and a 5:59 in the mile to win the events.

Other winners from LCM include Zoe Casteel who took first place in the pole vault, Josie Nimitz took first in the long jump and Alexis Sezer took first in the 100-meter dash.

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CHURCH BRIEFS

Harvest Chapel to host gospel singing March 1

Everyone is welcome to join the Harvest Chapel gospel sing-ing at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 1 at the church, located at 1305 Ir-ving Street in West Orange. They are a church where everyone is someone but Jesus Christ is Lord. Members at Harvest Chapel would love to sit and visit. It is a full gospel church where the power of the Lord is real. Please see their directly listing for their service schedule.

El Bethel Missionary Bapt. to host fish fryThe El Bethel Baptist Church will be selling fish dinners from

10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1 at the church building, located 704 N. 12th Street in Orange. The meals will cost $7 each and include fried cat fish, potato salad, baked beans, cake and bread. Dine-in or take out. Deliveries are available if order-ing five or more orders. Please call the church at 883-8996, 988-9002 or 670-5764.

Starlight COGIC to host WIND RetreatRegistration is underway for WIND Retreat 2013, sponsored

by the Women’s Dept. of Starlight Church of God in Christ. The Retreat is scheduled for April 12-14 at the Omni Houston West Hotel. The theme is Joy! Psalms 16:11.  Special Guest include Pastor Elaine Benson of Houston; Evangelist Phyllis Thomas of Sacramento, Calif. and Psalmist Linda Broussard from Starlight. Registration includes two nights stay in a luxury hotel, two full meals, conference bag and material. Registration fees: are Single $325 pp; Double $220 pp; Triple $185 pp; Quad $170 pp; and Teen Girls $99 (based on two adults in room). A deposit of $75 is

due by Friday, March 15 and the balance is due no later than Monday, April 1, 2013. For more information call 409-886-4366. Evangelist Josie Lindsey is Director of Women Ministries at Starlight.

First UMC to host MOPS The local Mothers of Preschoolers group (affectionately

known as MOPS) invites you to join them one Tuesday a month 9:30 a.m. to noon September through May in the First United Methodist Church Praise Center located on the corner of 5th and Pine. 

MOPS is designed to nurture EVERY mother with children from infancy to kindergarten through guest speakers, mentor moments, creative activities, breakfast, discussion time, play groups and more. 

Members come from all walks of life, but share one desire---to be great moms!  You don’t have to be a Methodist, just a mom. Free childcare is provided during meetings.  For more informa-tion and dates, please contact FUMC Orange at 409-886-7466 or find more information on the web at www.mops.org or www.fumcorange.org.

St. Paul UMC to sell cookbooksSt. Paul United Methodist Church is selling homegrown, local

cookbooks. All of the recipes come from members. The cook-book has tried and true recipes. The cost is $20 and all proceeds go to our mission funds. Please call the church 735-5546 or come by from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and pick up a copy.

St. Francis offers Lenten fish dinnersSt. Francis of Assisi Knights of Columbus Council 13825 will

sell fish dinners from 5 to 7 p.m. on the following Lenten Fri-days: Feb. 22, March 1, 8, 15 and 22, in the San Damiano Center (behind the Church) located at 4300 Meeks Drive.

Dinner includes two pieces of fish, french fries, hushpuppies, coleslaw, drink and dessert for $8. Dine in or take out.

Formally Trinity Lutheran Church of Orange and St. Mark Lutheran Church of Bridge City has consolidated and formed a new church. They are proud to announce their new name is Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, located at 945 W. Round-bunch Road. They will celebrate their new union during a 10 a.m. worship service on Sunday March 3, with a meal to follow and the community is invited to join.

 At Good Shepherd, people of all faiths are welcome. Luther-ans place their belief and faith in Christ Jesus. Because His word teaches us He is a caring, compassionate, and loving God, who loves unconditionally, and He will forgive us of our sins.

Their traditional Sunday morning worship service will be held 9:00 a.m., with a contemporary service at 11 a.m., Sunday school for all age’s starts at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday nights is for the young at heart. Services begin at 6 p.m. with a meal and en-joy games, fun, and devotion time at 7 p.m.

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The Stark Museum of Art will offer youth art classes through its Art Quest program in the week of March 12-15, during the spring break of Orange County public schools. The classes will be available for students in grades 1-5.

Art Quest participants will learn about the paintings and sculptures at the Museum and gain hands-on experience creat-ing art. Advance registration is required and application forms are available for download online at www.starkmuseum.org or at the Information Desk in the Museum during regular hours. Application forms are due by March 5, and class space is limited. Each class takes place over two half-days. The fee per class is $20 for general public or $10 for STARK Cultural Venues members at Dual level and above.

“Cool Collage” will be offered for children in grades 1-2 on March 12 and 13 from 9:00 a.m. through noon. Participants will explore and combine different media to create their own works of art. The Museum will offer the “Western Adventure” art class for children in grades 3-5 on March 14 and 15 from 9:00 a.m. through noon. This class will create works inspired by western art in the Museum using materials such as clay, shaving cream, and pastels. The lead teacher will be Hannah Fuller, Education Intern, and Museum Docents will assist with the art teaching.

Hannah Fuller, Education Intern at the Stark Museum of Art, encourages local families to sign up for Art Quest soon: “We are very excited to offer extra-curricular art classes for children once again this spring. Classes fill quickly, so we encourage families to apply as soon as possible and to make sure the ap-plications are completely filled out.” Fuller says that classes will be kept to a maximum of 20 students each, and sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, Stark Mu-seum of Art is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Admission is free for STARK Cultural Venues members.  Admission fees for the Stark Museum of Art are six dollars for adults; five dollars for seniors (age 65 and up), students (with ID), and youth (age 10-17); two dollars for chil-dren (age 4-9); and free for toddlers (age 3 and under).  Group tours are available by appointment. For more information call

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Art classes will offer creative fun for children grades 1-5 during spring break.

DuGood gives back over $127,000 to members, local charities

DuPont Goodrich Federal Credit Union (DuGood) was very excited to announce the results of its 2012 “DuGood by Giv-ing” campaign. Thanks to the support of its members, the credit union was able to give back over $127,000 to members and local charities. During the campaign, anyone who financed a qualify-ing loan received $250 cash back. Plus, the credit union donated an additional $250 to a local charity of the member’s choice.

Charities include the Julie Roger’s Gift of Life Program, CASA, Some Other Place, the Hope Center, The ARC of Greater Beau-mont, Meals on Wheels, and more. The campaign started the first of October and ran through the end of the year. This cam-paign goes hand in hand with the credit union philosophy of people helping people and DuGood’s commitment to giving back to communities it serves.

A reception and check presentations was held on Friday, Feb. 22, at the credit union’s Nederland location at 4008 N. Twin City Hwy. Representatives from the benefiting charities were on hand to accept the checks, presented by DuGood’s Board of Directors.

For more information visit www.dugoodbygiving.org.

Orange Community Band to meet every Thursday

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

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

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

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

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St. Paul United Methodist Church

1155 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City

409- 735-5546Pastor Brad Morgan

office@stpaulfamily.orgSun. Mornings: Worship Experience - 8:15 a.m.;

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 10:45 a.m.

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Trinity Baptist Church

1408 W. Park Ave. @ 14th Street, Orange

Office: 886-1333 Pastor Dr. Bob Webb

Worship Leader Dan CruseSun. Morning

Worship 11 a.m.Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

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402 W. John Ave.409-883-2611

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Living Word Church

Hw 87 & FM 1006, Orange409-735-6659

www.livingwordtx.orgSamuel G.K. - Pastor

Joseph Samuel - Asst. PastorSun. Service - 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wed. Service - 7 p.m.Come As You Are!

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3810 MLK Drive, OrangeLead Pastor: Ray McDowell

Music Pastor: Bruce McGraw

Youth Pastor: Michael PiggChildren’s Pastor: Rebekah

Spell Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Celebration Service 10:45 a.m.

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

Everyone Welcome!

First Baptist Church of Bridge City

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

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

Rev. Bob Boone, PastorSunday Schedule: Traditional

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

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

Discipleship Classes - 5:30 p.m.

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First Christian Church of Orangefield

4234 FM 408 (between BC & Orangefield) 409-735-4234

Minister Jim HardwickSunday School: 9 a.m.;

Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday: Prayer & Bible Study 7 p.m.

Nursery providedFor a ride, call 735-4234

Cowboy Church of Orange County

673 FM 1078 Orange409-718-0269

E. Dale Lee, Pastor Sunday Worship Service

10:30 a.m. “Round Pen” (Small Group)

Studies: Ladies & Men’s group:

7 p.m. Mondays, Come as you are!

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Echo Church

1717 FM 3247, Orange409-735-8580

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

Praise & Worship - Contemporary music!

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West Orange Christian Church

900 Lansing Street, W.O.

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

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ORANGEFIELD ISD, 2.6 ACRES with culvert, drive, and padsite. Water and sewer can be added to financ-ing, livestock and mobiles OK, Owner financing guar-anteed. COUNTRYLAND PROPERTIES LLC. 409-745-1115.

33’ TRAVEL TRAILER on 50’ x 100’ lot in Gillcrest. T.T. is less than 2 yrs. old, like new, never used, has 2 slide outs, Queen bed, Lg. shower, media center w/ TV, call for more details @ 594-8112.

ALMOST AN ACRE IN OFISD, septic, $25,000, (409) 499-2128.ß

20 ACRES (APPROX.) on Bower Drive, near the school.

Recently reduced and now priced at just $155K! Call Libby @ 409.724.MOVE (6683) for details or email lib-bymitchell@gt.rr.com for more information about this or ANY property in Orange County.

M.H. SALESWANTED USED MOBILE HOME in excellent shape. Large single wide or double wide. Windzone 2 Cash sale. 735-9504.

EMPLOYMENTLOCAL PLUMBING COM-PANY wants to hire an expe-rienced service plumber. License not mandatory Must pass drug screen & ISTC. Valid drivers License required. Potential for promotion. 313-2870.

THE RAPE AND CRI-SIS CENTER is in need of Volunteer Advocates to offer intervention on our 24 hour hotline, and in direct services to sexual assault survivors. Training is provided and cer-tified through the office of the Attorney General. If you are interested please call the Crisis Center ar (409) 832-6530 to set up an interview. Thank You, Make A differ-ence, become a volunteer!

APPLIANCESUSED APPLIANCES, start-ing at $99.95 & up, Harry’s Appliances, 302 10th. St. (10th. & main), Orange, We buy used appliances, 886-4111.

WHIRLPOOL DOUBLE DOOR refrigerator, water and ice in door, $75; Lg. all wood entertainment center, really nice, $75, (409) 499-2128 or 745-2154.

FURNITURELARGE COUCH, made by Townsend, good cond., brownish grey, $50, (409) 594-8112.

MISCELLANEOUSJUGG’S PITCHING MACHINE, like new, auto feeder, throws 30 - 90 MPH, fast & curve balls etc., paid $2,500, used very little, will sell for $1,000 for all, perfect cond., great buy! (409) 474-2855.

ANY AMOUNT AND SIZE old ammunition wanted. 330-7882

FOR COLLECTORS ONLY. Texaco collection for sale. Call Edee Pratt at 409-670-9272 to view collection.

5 TON M.H. A/C COMPRESSOR UNIT, with inside lines, $400, 221-7313.

SERVICEWILL SIT WITH ELDERLY, and do light housekeeping, (409) 670-9272 or 730-3143.

ENCHANTED CREATIONSLet Us Clean Your Palace!Affordable Experienced

We go the extra mile to please

• Dusting • Laundry • Ovens PACKAGE RATES AVAILABLE

(409) 344-2158www.hotbiz.ws/CLEAN

REFERENCES

PETSBEAUTIFUL PEKINESE PUPPIES! Ready Feb. 6. Black and white, 3F and 1 M, 3 small and 1 teacup, photos available, $400 small, $600 teacup, (409) 504-8879.

GREAT PEKINESE PUPPY for sale, beautiful, 6 M old, female, $125, (409) 499-2128.

LOST! GREY STRIPED CAT w/ orange belly, affection-ate, large male, help him find his way home in BC, near Fernwood and Rosehurst, (409) 735-3590.

WANTED! WHITE LONG HAIRED Kitten. (409) 767-0470.

THE RECORDCommunity Classifieds

Call 735-5305• Penny Record Office: 333 West Roundbunch, Bridge City

• County Record Office: 320 Henrietta, OrangeNote: Offices Closed On Wednesday

• Just $10 For A 30 Word Ad In Both Papers And The Web• Classified Newspaper Deadline: Monday 5 P.M. For Upcoming Issue• You Can Submit Your Ad ANYTIME Online At TheRecordLive.com

Your ads published in both newspapers,the County Record and the Penny Recordplus on our web site TheRecordLive.com

R&R RV PARKBridge City

3/2 M.H., real nice, all appliances inc. dish washer, concrete parking and patio.Fema - 1/1 M.H ., Concrete Patio, ample parking.

(409) 697-2552

Apply Online at www.gulfmarkenergy.com

Drivers: Earn More Green in 2013!

Call: 800–577–8853

eoe

Excellent Pay & Benefits + 401K Sign-on Bonus for Experienced Drivers

No Over the Road, you’re home daily

Run Regular Shifts in Beaumont.CDL-A w/ “X” Endorsement Needed

Tanker Experience Preferred

302

Orange’s Oldest Hometown Appliance Dealer

HARRY’SAPPLIANCE & SERVICE INC

FREELOCAL

DELIVERY Since1963

Big Selection of Reconditioned AppliancesAll Used Appliances Sold with Warranty

302

302

302302

302302

302 N. 10TH. Street 886-4111 FINANCINGAVAILABLE

• FREEZERS • DISHWASHERS • REFRIGERATORS• WASHERS/DRYERS AIR CONDITIONERS • RANGES

We Sell Parts For All major Brands ~ We Service What We Sell

TERRELL’S 738-5001

Insured & Bonded

Tree Removal, Tree Trimming, Haul Offs and

Stump Grinding.

CREDIT CARDS ARE WELCOME; NO CHECKS

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

CLIP THIS AD FOR A DISCOUNT!

OPEN MON-FRI1 TO 5 P.M.

A&G FASHIONS

HERE’S MY CARD!735-5305 or 886-7183

Card Ads Only $25 Per Week(Save $4 weekly over a 2x2, 4 week minimum)

Bring your info to 333 W. Roundbunch Rd., BC,

or 320 Henrietta, Orange

GET A GOOD DEAL HERE!

GARAGE SALESSAT., 245 BLUEBERRY, BC, 8 till 2. Huge 3 family sale! Furniture, men’s / women’ and chil-dren’s clothes, household items, nice all wood entertainment center, lots of everything new and old.

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH AT 401 37TH STREET IN ORANGE, TX will have a garage sale on Saturday, March 2nd, from 8am-2pm. It will be indoors,rain or shine. No pre-sales. Come early and shop. We will have a wide vari-ety of items including TV’s, VCR’s, typewriters, printers, small kitchen appliances, microwave, dishes, catering glassware, collectibles, linens, baby items, some furniture, games, toys, lug-gage, rod & reels, golf clubs, lamps, Christmas and craft items, jewelry, books, knick-knacks and so much more.

1 temp positions; 10 months; job to be-gin 4/10/13 through 2/10/14; Duties: to operate tractors with in the hay fields with cutting, raking, bailing, and storing of the hay. General Farm Work. $9.50 per hour; OT varies, not guaranteed; 3 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to the work-site will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employment offered by Mr. Money of Leesville, L.L.C. dba: Planta-tion Farms located in Alexandria, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview (318) 443-9143 or may apply for this position at their nearest SWA office located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

1bd/1ba,All hardwood floors with

fireplace. All appliances

included, plus w&d. No

utilities paid. $550/mo. $500 dep.

Call Christine: 779-6580.

Apartment in Orange

6B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 27, 2013

NICE BRICK ORANGE HOME on corner lot, 3/2/2, 2404 Post Oak Lane, LCMISD, garden room overlooking back yard, family room (17’x19’), 2 walkins in master bdrm. , shower and jetted tub in master bath, open concept kitchen and breakfast room, fireplace, tile / laminated and carpeted floors, fenced back yard, 2 cooling systems, $215,000, for more info call Edee @ (409) 670-9272. (RE-DUCED TO $205,000)

StakesElectricStakes

ElectricResidential & Commercial

Free estimates specializing

in older home rewires.

409-735-4171 or 409-749-7873

cstakes@stakeselectrical.com

License #’sCustomer: # 25151

Master: # 14161

HOME RENTALS4/2 1/2/2 BRICK tile through-out, Granite, fenced yard w/ Lg covered patio, BCISD, $1,200 monthly w/ $1,000 dep., (409) 735-2030.

BRIDGE CITY 3/1/2, very comfortable home, fenced yard, nice quiet street, spa-cious and clean. $850 Monthly + $850 Dep., (409) 735-3369, leave message. (3/15)

1 BEDROOM LOG CABINS in Mauriceville, real cute and in the country, $500 monthly + dep., (409) 735-2030.

3/2/2 IN BCISD, fenced in back yard, $1,450 monthly + $1,450 dep., (409) 474-2259.

3/2/2 IN BRIDGE CITY, w/ carport, all elec., like new, $1,350 + dep., 735-2660.

OFISD 3/2/2, 3625 McGill, next to Post Office, $700 monthly + $500 dep., (409) 882-4706.

3/2, WASHER/DRYER

HOOKups, side by side frid, range at 509 3rd St. in Org. $695/mo. Call 409-670-6166.

2/1/CP IN BRIDGE CITY, asher / Dryer hook-ups, No pets & No smoking$750 monthly + dep., (409) 735-3754 or 719-2725.

BRIDGE CITY 4 BEDROOM, CA/H, fenced back yard, $800 monthly (1st. & last), References Req., (409) 474-2855.

BEACH CABIN STYLE HOUSE in BC w/ covered deck and view of private lake, 2/1, carpet, ceiling fans, stove & refrig., W/D hookups inside home, covered parking for 2, Lg. storage roomNo Pets, $900 monthly + $400 dep., (409) 735-8288 after 4, or leave message. (3/6)

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

2/1 AND 3/1 AND 3/2 IN OFISD, 1 block from schools, Large lot, W./D hookups, No Pets, $400 and $550 and $650 monthly + dep., (409) 720-8699 or 735-6701. (3/6)

3/2 M.H. IN BC, in Shady Estates, CA/H, laundry room, stove & refrig., appliances, clean inside and out, excel-lent cond., $725 monthly

(includes water and garbage) + (1st. & last), References Req., 474-2855 or 474-2252.

2/1 IN BCISD, new carpet & cabinets, $450 monthly + dep.; ALSO 250 Yamaha dirt bike, runs and looks brand new, rarley used, $1,200 OBO, (409) 221-0798.

3/1.5/1 IN BCISD, 890 Carolina, nice neighborhood, wood floors, stove, W/D hook-ups in garage, back patio w/ built-in grill, fenced back yard, No pets or HUD, $775 month-ly + dep., (409) 735-3604.

HOME SALES3/2/2 BRICK IN BCISD, CA/H, on 3/4 acre lot, (409) 735-7680.

NICE BRICK ORANGE HOME on corner lot, 3/2/2, 2404 Post Oak Lane, LC-MISD, garden room overlook-ing back yard, family room (17’x19’), 2 walk ins in master bdrm. , shower and jetted tub in master bath, open concept kitchen and breakfast room, fireplace, tile / laminated

and carpeted floors, fenced back yard, 2 cooling sys-tems, $205,000, (Reduced to $205,000) for more info call Edee @ (409) 670-9272.

4/1 W/ COVERED CAR-PORT, #12 circle G in Orange, Lg. family, dining and den, wood floors under carpet, workshop, backyard privacy fence, enclosed patio, corner lot, vinynal siding, (409) 886-3545 or 330-0437.

LAND & LOTSINCOME TAX REFUND? YOUR TIME TO BUY LAND IS NOW! INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE. GUARANTEED OWNER FINANCING WITH LOW DOWN PAYMENT. CALL TODAY FOR OUR FULL INVENTORY! C O U N T R Y L A N D PROPERTIES LLC. 409-745-1115.

ALMOST 1 ACRE LOT, OFISD, septic, $30,000, (409) 499-2128.

ORANGEFIELD ISD, 2.6 ACRES with culvert, drive, and padsite. Water and sewer can be added to financ-ing, livestock and mobiles OK, Owner financing guar-anteed. COUNTRYLAND PROPERTIES LLC. 409-745-1115.

33’ TRAVEL TRAILER on 50’ x 100’ lot in Gillcrest. T.T. is less than 2 yrs. old, like new, never used, has 2 slide outs, Queen bed, Lg. shower, media center w/ TV, call for more details @ 594-8112.

ALMOST AN ACRE IN OFISD, septic, $25,000, (409) 499-2128.ß

20 ACRES (APPROX.) on Bower Drive, near the school.

Recently reduced and now priced at just $155K! Call Libby @ 409.724.MOVE (6683) for details or email lib-bymitchell@gt.rr.com for more information about this or ANY property in Orange County.

M.H. SALESWANTED USED MOBILE HOME in excellent shape. Large single wide or double wide. Windzone 2 Cash sale. 735-9504.

EMPLOYMENTLOCAL PLUMBING COM-PANY wants to hire an expe-rienced service plumber. License not mandatory Must pass drug screen & ISTC. Valid drivers License required. Potential for promotion. 313-2870.

THE RAPE AND CRI-SIS CENTER is in need of Volunteer Advocates to offer intervention on our 24 hour hotline, and in direct services to sexual assault survivors. Training is provided and cer-tified through the office of the Attorney General. If you are interested please call the Crisis Center ar (409) 832-6530 to set up an interview. Thank You, Make A differ-ence, become a volunteer!

APPLIANCESUSED APPLIANCES, start-ing at $99.95 & up, Harry’s Appliances, 302 10th. St. (10th. & main), Orange, We buy used appliances, 886-4111.

WHIRLPOOL DOUBLE DOOR refrigerator, water and ice in door, $75; Lg. all wood entertainment center, really nice, $75, (409) 499-2128 or 745-2154.

FURNITURELARGE COUCH, made by Townsend, good cond., brownish grey, $50, (409) 594-8112.

MISCELLANEOUSJUGG’S PITCHING MACHINE, like new, auto feeder, throws 30 - 90 MPH, fast & curve balls etc., paid $2,500, used very little, will sell for $1,000 for all, perfect cond., great buy! (409) 474-2855.

ANY AMOUNT AND SIZE old ammunition wanted. 330-7882

FOR COLLECTORS ONLY. Texaco collection for sale. Call Edee Pratt at 409-670-9272 to view collection.

5 TON M.H. A/C COMPRESSOR UNIT, with inside lines, $400, 221-7313.

SERVICEWILL SIT WITH ELDERLY, and do light housekeeping, (409) 670-9272 or 730-3143.

ENCHANTED CREATIONSLet Us Clean Your Palace!Affordable Experienced

We go the extra mile to please

• Dusting • Laundry • Ovens PACKAGE RATES AVAILABLE

(409) 344-2158www.hotbiz.ws/CLEAN

REFERENCES

PETSBEAUTIFUL PEKINESE PUPPIES! Ready Feb. 6. Black and white, 3F and 1 M, 3 small and 1 teacup, photos available, $400 small, $600 teacup, (409) 504-8879.

GREAT PEKINESE PUPPY for sale, beautiful, 6 M old, female, $125, (409) 499-2128.

LOST! GREY STRIPED CAT w/ orange belly, affection-ate, large male, help him find his way home in BC, near Fernwood and Rosehurst, (409) 735-3590.

WANTED! WHITE LONG HAIRED Kitten. (409) 767-0470.

THE RECORDCommunity Classifieds

Call 735-5305• Penny Record Office: 333 West Roundbunch, Bridge City

• County Record Office: 320 Henrietta, OrangeNote: Offices Closed On Wednesday

• Just $10 For A 30 Word Ad In Both Papers And The Web• Classified Newspaper Deadline: Monday 5 P.M. For Upcoming Issue• You Can Submit Your Ad ANYTIME Online At TheRecordLive.com

Your ads published in both newspapers,the County Record and the Penny Recordplus on our web site TheRecordLive.com

R&R RV PARKBridge City

3/2 M.H., real nice, all appliances inc. dish washer, concrete parking and patio.Fema - 1/1 M.H ., Concrete Patio, ample parking.

(409) 697-2552

Apply Online at www.gulfmarkenergy.com

Drivers: Earn More Green in 2013!

Call: 800–577–8853

eoe

Excellent Pay & Benefits + 401K Sign-on Bonus for Experienced Drivers

No Over the Road, you’re home daily

Run Regular Shifts in Beaumont.CDL-A w/ “X” Endorsement Needed

Tanker Experience Preferred

302

Orange’s Oldest Hometown Appliance Dealer

HARRY’SAPPLIANCE & SERVICE INC

FREELOCAL

DELIVERY Since1963

Big Selection of Reconditioned AppliancesAll Used Appliances Sold with Warranty

302

302

302302

302302

302 N. 10TH. Street 886-4111 FINANCINGAVAILABLE

• FREEZERS • DISHWASHERS • REFRIGERATORS• WASHERS/DRYERS AIR CONDITIONERS • RANGES

We Sell Parts For All major Brands ~ We Service What We Sell

TERRELL’S 738-5001

Insured & Bonded

Tree Removal, Tree Trimming, Haul Offs and

Stump Grinding.

CREDIT CARDS ARE WELCOME; NO CHECKS

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

CLIP THIS AD FOR A DISCOUNT!

OPEN MON-FRI1 TO 5 P.M.

A&G FASHIONS

HERE’S MY CARD!735-5305 or 886-7183

Card Ads Only $25 Per Week(Save $4 weekly over a 2x2, 4 week minimum)

Bring your info to 333 W. Roundbunch Rd., BC,

or 320 Henrietta, Orange

GET A GOOD DEAL HERE!

GARAGE SALESSAT., 245 BLUEBERRY, BC, 8 till 2. Huge 3 family sale! Furniture, men’s / women’ and chil-dren’s clothes, household items, nice all wood entertainment center, lots of everything new and old.

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH AT 401 37TH STREET IN ORANGE, TX will have a garage sale on Saturday, March 2nd, from 8am-2pm. It will be indoors,rain or shine. No pre-sales. Come early and shop. We will have a wide vari-ety of items including TV’s, VCR’s, typewriters, printers, small kitchen appliances, microwave, dishes, catering glassware, collectibles, linens, baby items, some furniture, games, toys, lug-gage, rod & reels, golf clubs, lamps, Christmas and craft items, jewelry, books, knick-knacks and so much more.

1 temp positions; 10 months; job to be-gin 4/10/13 through 2/10/14; Duties: to operate tractors with in the hay fields with cutting, raking, bailing, and storing of the hay. General Farm Work. $9.50 per hour; OT varies, not guaranteed; 3 months experience in job offered required. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transportation and subsistence expenses to the work-site will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employment offered by Mr. Money of Leesville, L.L.C. dba: Planta-tion Farms located in Alexandria, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview (318) 443-9143 or may apply for this position at their nearest SWA office located at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

1bd/1ba,All hardwood floors with

fireplace. All appliances

included, plus w&d. No

utilities paid. $550/mo. $500 dep.

Call Christine: 779-6580.

Apartment in Orange

6B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 27, 2013

NICE BRICK ORANGE HOME on corner lot, 3/2/2, 2404 Post Oak Lane, LCMISD, garden room overlooking back yard, family room (17’x19’), 2 walkins in master bdrm. , shower and jetted tub in master bath, open concept kitchen and breakfast room, fireplace, tile / laminated and carpeted floors, fenced back yard, 2 cooling systems, $215,000, for more info call Edee @ (409) 670-9272. (RE-DUCED TO $205,000)

StakesElectricStakes

ElectricResidential & Commercial

Free estimates specializing

in older home rewires.

409-735-4171 or 409-749-7873

cstakes@stakeselectrical.com

License #’sCustomer: # 25151

Master: # 14161

A U T O S‘93 LINCOLN TOWN CAR,executive series, cold A/C and all works,$1,800, (409) 745-2154 or 499-2128 & leave message.

T R AV E L T R A I L -E R S

‘08 LARADO T.T., 31’, 8’ slide out, roof A/C&H ducted, queen bed, great cond., $14,500, (409) 679-5506.

‘T R U C K S & VA N S

‘‘11 FORD F-150 LARIOT, loaded, very few miles, clean, (409) 886-1896.

P A R T STIRES OFF DODGE CHARGER, used 10 months, set of 4 Toyo 225/60R18, $400 OBO, (409) 746-3271.

NOTICE TO IMPLEMENT REVISED FIXED FUEL FACTOR Entergy Texas, Inc. hereby publishes NOTICE that, pursuant to Section 36.203 of the Public Utility Regulatory Act (codified in Tex. Util. Code) and P.U.C. Subst. R. 25.237(A)(3)(B), it filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (the “Commission”) on February 19, 2013 a tariff to implement a revised fixed fuel factor. All of Entergy Texas’ retail customers whose fuel charges are calculated under the Texas fixed fuel factor tariff – including but not limited to Residential, Small General Service, Large General Service, Large Industrial Power Service, and Street and Outdoor Light-ing Service – will be affected by the Commission’s approval of the revised fixed fuel factor. The revised fixed fuel factor, if approved, will affect only the fuel portion of the rates charged by Entergy Texas and will have no effect on non-fuel base rates. Entergy Texas seeks Commission approval to revise the fixed fuel factor ef-fective with the first billing cycle of the March 2013 billing month. Entergy Texas pro-posed that the fixed fuel factor be changed pursuant to a semi-annual filing to be made each February and August, with revised fuel factors to be effective with the first bill-ing cycle of the March and September billing months, pursuant to a methodology that changes the fuel factor based upon changes in the published price of natural gas. This methodology was authorized for use in Docket No. 32915.The revised fixed fuel factor, differentiated by voltage level, is as follows: FACTOR BY VOLTAGE LEVELS Delivery Voltage Fixed Fuel Factor Secondary $ 0.0352522 per kWh Primary $ 0.0343350 per kWh 69kV/138kV $ 0.0331235 per kWh 230kV $ 0.0325654 per kWh

The revised fuel factor would result in an increase in Entergy Texas’ annual Texas retail fuel and purchased power revenues by approximately $15.1 million, or 2.9%, on an annual basis. Compared to the fixed fuel factor approved by the Com-mission effective September 2012, a residential customer using 1000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per month would see an approximate increase of 1.1% annually, or $ 0.96 on average per month, on his/her electric bill. The fixed fuel factor rate is designed to pass through to customers the actual fuel costs incurred by Entergy Texas to serve customers. Entergy Texas is not allowed to make a profit on fuel costs. Amounts collected from affected customers pursuant to the revised fixed fuel factor will be subject to final review by the Commission in Entergy Texas’ next applicable fuel reconciliation proceeding before the Commission. Entergy Texas expects the revised fixed fuel factor to be in effect for the billing period of March 2013 through August 2013. Persons with questions or who want more information on this petition may contact Entergy Texas at Attn: Customer Service – Fuel Factor, 350 Pine Street, Beaumont, Texas 77701, or call [1-800-368-3749 (select option 4, then press 4, then press 2, then press 2, then press 1)] during normal business hours. A complete copy of this petition is available for inspection at the address listed above. The Commission has assigned Docket No. 41234 to this proceeding. Persons who wish to formally participate in this proceeding, or who wish to express their comments concerning this petition should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Office of Customer Protection, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call (512) 936-7120 or toll-free at (888) 782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individuals with text telephones (TTY) may call (512) 936-7136 or use Relay Texas (toll-free) 1-800-735-2989.ENTERGY TEXAS, INC.

3 Columns x 7”, 21 Column Inches21 @$8 = $168

Entergy Fuel Factor ~ The Record Newspapers ~ Bill 2/25/13 4:51:33 PM

APPLICATION OF ENTERGY TEXAS, INC., ITC HOLDINGS CORP., MID SOUTH TRANSCO LLC, TRANSMISSION COMPANY TEXAS, LLC, AND ITC MIDSOUTH, LLC FOR APPROV-AL OF CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF TRANS-MISSION BUSINESS, TRANSFER OF CER-TIFICATION RIGHTS, CERTAIN COST RE-COVERY APPROVALS, AND RELATED RELIEF

On February 19, 2013, Entergy Texas, Inc. (“ETI” or “the Company”), ITC Holdings Corp. (“ITC”), Mid South Transco LLC, Transmission Company Texas, LLC, and ITC Mid-south, LLC filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (“PUCT”) their Application for approval of proposed transactions to transfer ownership and control of ETI’s transmis-sion assets to a subsid-iary of ITC (“Application”), pursuant to Public Utility Regulatory Act (“PURA”) §§ 39.915 and 39.262, which require, among other things, PUCT re-view of transactions in which operational control of a utility is transferred, PURA § 14.101, which requires PUCT review of certain sales, transfers and mergers, and PURA § 37.154, which requires PUCT approval of the

transfer of a certificate of convenience and ne-cessity (“CCN”) or of rights held under a CCN.Approval of the Applica-tion would result in the transfer of ETI’s transmis-sion assets and business and related CCN rights to a subsidiary of ITC as well as a corporate reorgani-zation of ETI within the Entergy Corporation cor-porate structure. The ITC subsidiary will assume ownership and operation of ETI’s transmission as-sets that are at or above 69kV. ETI also will change corporate form and con-tinue to own and operate generation and distribu-tion assets and provide retail electric service in its certificated service area. Approval of the Applica-tion will affect all of ETI’s customers in all areas of its service territory, but it will not have any immedi-ate effect on ETI’s retail electricity rates. ETI is not seeking modification of its rates in the Applica-tion, but is proposing a mechanism be approved to address rate impacts of the transaction that would be implemented in a separate proceeding.The PUCT will review the Application, establish an intervention date for inter-ested persons, and deter-mine whether the Applica-tion should be approved. The PUCT’s proceeding to review the Application

has been assigned Dock-et No. 41223. The dead-line to intervene will be March 21, 2013. It is antic-ipated that the PUCT will issue a decision not later than the 180th day after the Application is filed. A prehearing conference is expected to be held in Austin, Texas shortly after the intervention deadline. Persons who wish to intervene in or comment upon these proceedings, or obtain further informa-tion, should contact the Public Utility Commission of Texas, P.O. Box 13326, Austin, Texas 78711-3326, or call the PUCT’s Office of Consumer Protection at 512-936-7120 or 1-888-782-8477. Hearing and speech-impaired individ-uals with text telephones (TTY) may contact the PUCT at 512-936-7136 or use Relay Texas (toll-free) 1-800-735-2988. All communications should refer to Docket No. 41223. Persons with questions or who want more information about this Application may con-tact Entergy Texas at 350 Pine Street, Beaumont, Texas 77701, or call 1-800-368-3749 (select op-tion 4, then 4, then 2, then 2, then 1) during normal business hours. A com-plete copy of the Appli-cation is available for in-spection at the Company address listed above.

6.5 Inchs x 3 Columns ~ 19.5 C.I.19.5 X $8 = $156.00

ITC Holdings ~ The Record Newspapers ~ Bill 2/25/13 4:52:49 PM

TRACTOR WORK BY DANNY COLE

• Dirt / Shell Spreading• Bushhogging• Garden Tilling

• New home pads Prepared • Sewer / Water / Electrical

Lines DugHome 735-8315Cell 670-2040

Actual size: 1x9.5”

To be published inThe Record Newspapers

04/28/2010

******PLEASE FAX ANYCORRECTIONS BY

5 P.M. TODAYto 735-7346

Thanks,Debbie

CIVIL CITATION - CCVPUBWD

THE STATE OF TEXAS

TO: Taylor Bandy Respondent, NOTICE:

YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of forty-two days from the date of issu-ance of this citation and petition, a default judgement may be taken against you.

You are hereby commanded to appear by filing a written answer to the Plaintiff's Petition at or before 10 a.m. on the Monday next after the expiration of forty-two days after the date of issuance of this citation the same being APRIL 8, 2013.

Said ANSWER may be filed at the District Clerk's Office at the Orange County Courthouse, 801 W. Division Ave., or by mailing it to 801 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas 77630.

Said PLAINTIFF'S ORIGINAL PETITION was filed and docketed in the Honorable 260th District Court of Orange County, Texas at the District Clerk's Office at the Orange County Courthouse, 801 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas on APRIL 14, 2010 in the following styled and numbered cause:

The suit requests DEFENDANT CITED TO APPEAR AND ANSWER

CAUSE NO. 120294-C

Brittney Williams and Taylor Bandy et al

The name and address of the attorney for Plaintiff other-wise the address of Plaintiff is:

JONATHAN C JUHAN985 I-10 N STE 100 BEAUMONT, TEXAS 77706ISSUED AND GIVEN under my hand and seal of said Court

at Orange, Texas, February 19, 2013.VICKIE EDGERLY, District ClerkOrange County, TexasBy: Charlean LindseyDeputy

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CIVIL CITATION - CCVPUBWDTHE STATE OF TEXAS

TO: Galen Eugene CollinsRespondent, NOTICE:

YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of forty-two days from the date of issu-ance of this citation and petition, a default judgement may be taken against you.

You are hereby commanded to appear by filing a written answer to the Plaintiff's Petition at or before 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next after the expiration of forty-two days after the date of issuance of this citation the same being MARCH 18, 2013.

Said ANSWER may be filed at the District Clerk's Office at the Orange County Courthouse, 801 W. Division Ave., or by mailing it to 801 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas 77630.

Said PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED ORIGINAL PETITION was filed and docketed in the Honorable 163rd District Court of Orange County, Texas at the District Clerk's Office at the Orange County Courthouse 801 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas on SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 in the following styled and numbered case:

The suit requests DEFENDANT BE CITED TO APPEAR AND ANSWER THIS PETITION CAUSE NO. 110224-C

Gates vs Galen Eugene Collins

The name and address of the attorney for Plaintiff otherwise the address of Plaintiff is:

CHRISTOPHER SMITHPO BOX 189 ORANGE, TEXAS 77631

ISSUED AND GIVEN under my hand and seal of the Court at Orange, Texas, on January 31, 2013.

VICKIE EDGERLY, District ClerkOrange County, Texas

By: Charlean Lindsey Deputy

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CIVIL CITATION - CCVPUBWDTHE STATE OF TEXAS

TO: Walter TraylorRespondent, NOTICE:

YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of forty-two days from the date of issu-ance of this citation and petition, a default judgement may be taken against you.

You are hereby commanded to appear by filing a written answer to the Plaintiff's Petition at or before 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next after the expiration of forty-two days after the date of issuance of this citation the same being MARCH 18, 2013.

Said ANSWER may be filed at the District Clerk's Office at the Orange County Courthouse, 801 W. Division Ave., or by mailing it to 801 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas 77630.

Said PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED ORIGINAL PETITION was filed and docketed in the Honorable 260th District Court of Orange County, Texas at the District Clerk's Office at the Orange County Courthouse 801 W. Division Ave., Orange, Texas on November 9, 2012 in the following styled and num-bered case:

The suit requests DEFENDANT BE DULY CITED AND REQUIRED TO APPEAR AND ANSWER CAUSE NO. 120372-C

Patsy Fleming et al VS Erica Blackwell et all

The name and address of the attorney for Plaintiff otherwise the address of Plaintiff is:

JONATHAN C JUHAN985 I-10 NORTH STE 100 BEAUMONT, TEXAS 77706

ISSUED AND GIVEN under my hand and seal of the Court at Orange, Texas, on February 1, 2013.

VICKIE EDGERLY, District ClerkOrange County, Texas

By: Charlean Lindsey Deputy

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NOTICE TO ALLPERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY ANN DICKERSON, DECEASED

Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of SHIRLEY ANN DICKERSON, Deceased, were issued on the 22nd day of February, 2013, in Cause No. 16415, pending in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, Probate Division to: DEANNA BURKHART.

The residence of such ExecutRIX is PO Box 881, Bullard, TX 75757.

All persons having claims against this estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.DATED Febraury 22, 2013

Deanna BurkhartDEANNA BURKHARTIndependent Executrix

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