LULING — Four people have been arrested after a Gonzales man was attacked and shot Tuesday night here.

Police Chief Bill Sala said in a news release that Luling police were called to the 400 block of East Aus-tin Street around 7:24 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a shooting. When they ar-rived, they found 26-year-old Anthony Andrew Wilson of Gonzales suffer-ing from a single gunshot wound to his abdomen and cuts to his head.

Wilson was treated by Luling EMS at the scene and later transported to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin by PHI Air Ambu-lance Service. He was re-ported in good condition Wednesday following sur-gery.

Investigators said Wilson arrived at a mobile home at

the address and was con-fronted by three males and one female subjects. Police said Wilson was beaten and then shot one time with a .22-caliber rifle.

Investigators said he then left the scene to get medical help and his attackers fled the scene.

LPD reports it later ar-rested four suspects in con-nection with the attack and recovered a .22-caliber rifle and narcotics. They later announced that four sus-pects had been arrested.

Two residents of Luling, Diaz Rashad Spender, 24, and John David Rodriguez, 24, were charged in con-nection with the attack.

In addition, officers charged Clarence Lee An-derson, 26, of Lockhart, with aggravated robbery, engaging in organized criminal activity, aggra-vated assault with a deadly

The jury trial for a local woman was staved off at the last minute af-ter she decided to change her plea.

Alice Ramos, 51 of Gonzales, en-tered a plea of guilty to a charge of murder/intoxication assault dur-ing session at the 25th Judicial Dis-trict in Gonzales Monday morn-ing. Ramos was scheduled to begin a jury trial, but her attorney Jamie

Balagia said his client had a change of heart and decided to instead plead guilty despite the absence of a plea agreement with the State.

“Ms. Ramos told me last night that she could not in good con-science allow me to try this case,” Balagia said. “She wants to take ac-countability for her actions. This is something that she decided that

she needed to do and you have to support her courage and willing-ness to stand up and be held ac-countable.”

Ramos’ charges stem from a two-vehicle crash that occurred August 25, 2012, which killed 18-year old Andrew Chet Hamm of San Marcos. At approximately 6:15 a.m. on Highway 183 about 11.5 miles north of Gonzales, a 2001 white Toyota 4Runner driven by

Ramos was traveling northbound. Authorities said Ramos crossed the double yellow lines and entered into the southbound lane, where she collided head-on with a 1999 red Chevy S10 driven by Hamm’s older brother, Scott.

Both men were airflighted from the scene and taken to Brecken-ridge and University hospitals. Scott Hamm was left crippled as a

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police are continu-ing to investigate the death of a Gonzales native whose body was found at an apart-ment complex early Sunday morning here.

Funeral services were pending Wednesday for Danny Cantu, 51, at Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales. There will be a viewing Sunday and the Rosary will be held Sun-day night at Seydler-Hill. Services were pending

at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Monday.

The Gonzales native’s body was found inside the Banyan Tree Apartments complex Sunday morning on San Antonio’s northeast side. Police are investigat-ing the death as a homicide.

Residents told report-ers from television station KSAT they hear shoot-ing late that night. Cantu’s body was found near the apartment’s mailboxes.

BASTROP — Firefighters from across Bastrop County, assisted by the Texas Forest Service, were re-ported in mop-up mode Wednes-day morning after nine identi-fied wildfires broke out across the county early in the week, at one point cutting power to parts of Smithville.

Bastrop County Emergency Management reported via Face-book the Texas Forest Service es-timated the largest fire, near the Mount Pleasant area, to be 75 per-cent contained after consuming 252 acres as of Wednesday morn-ing. Firefighters saved one struc-ture from the blaze on Tuesday, aided by aerial water spraying by

Starflight.The emergency management

office reported that power was re-stored to the Smithville area around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Residents of some areas were asked to evacuate at one point, but were allowed back into their homes Tuesday morning.

Earlier Tuesday, the fire near Smithville jumped power lines and 236 residents were reported with-out power. Crews from Bluebonnet

replaced poles and wires and ex-pected to have power fully restored by Tuesday afternoon.

Wildfires were initially reported at Highway 71 and Pine Canyon, Pine Valley off FM 304, off Shiloh Road near Smithville and at the Smithville Dump.

BCEM reported the largest of the fires, in the Mount Pleasant area, had been determined to have start-

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Youngsters involved in the Summer Theater Workshop performed “More Stories Please!” Friday at the Crystal Theatre in Gonzales. This year’s summer program wrapped up with the performance, but a number of the youthful actors will continue working as part of the Shakespeare Ninja program. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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J.L. Johnson, 1939-2013JOHNSON

J. L. was born on March 1, 1939 in Streeter, (Mason County) Texas. He worked most of his adult life for Union Texas Petroleum; where he formed many life-long friendships.

He is survived by his lov-ing wife, Rita Johnson of Rankin; two sons, Jackie Johnson and Rodney John-son and his wife Jackie; three grandchildren, Kayla, Tara, and Ryan; his brother, Douglas Johnson and his wife Gina; two sisters, Joyce Johnson, Shirley Simmons and her husband Ken, along with many nieces and nephews, all of whom he loved dearly; his sister-in-laws, Amy Gonzales and Christina Leon and their families, which always held a special place in his heart.

J. L. was active for years in the Lions Club and the Barbados Cook offs.

He faithfully attended the First United Method-ist Church in Rankin. He was welcomed Home by his Lord on Friday, July 26, 2013.

Graveside services were held at 10am on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the Rankin Cemetery with Reverend Jennifer Kelley officiating. Arrangements were under the care and direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.

Alice Marie Bachmayer,1933-2013

BACHMAYERAlice Marie Bachmayer,

79 of Gonzales, passed away Thursday, July 25, 2013. Alice was born Oc-tober 6, 1933 in Corpus Christi to Andrew Ander-son Rankin and Nellie Mc-Coy Rankin.

Alice married Glen R. Bachmayer in November of 1985 in Corpus Christi. She was a member of the Ladies Study Club and the Episco-pal Church of the Messiah in Gonzales.

Alice was a voracious reader, she loved to sew and she found joy in sew-ing dolls, dresses, quilting and knitting. She was a marvelous cook and en-joyed being a part of her children’s lives rather than a spectator. She was enthu-siastically involved in PTA, Little League and many of her children’s functions. She doted lovingly on her grandchildren and en-deared herself to them as a testament of the beauty of a grandmother’s love.

Alice was very proud of her family’s heritage. Her great grandfather mined salt from the Laguna Madre and transported the salt to the salt mill near Colonel Kenney’s Trading Post, an area which is now known as Corpus Christi.

Alice is survived by her husband, Glen R. Bach-mayer of Gonzales; daugh-

ters, Victoria Nell Cochran of Corpus Christi and Amy Amanda Hatmaker of Victoria; son, Andrew Myer Hatmaker of Corpus Christi; grandchildren, Sarah Loveless, Seth Hat-maker, Aaron Cochran, Harold Hatmaker, Hannah Moss, Gus Moss, and Krys-tal Cochran; and five great-grandchildren. Alice was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Susan Hatmaker; son, Harold D. Hatmaker, Jr.; and grand-daughter, Jamie.

A Mass of Christian Burial Liturgy was held Monday July 29 in the Epis-copal Church of the Mes-siah with Fr. Randy Melton officiating. Interment was held Tuesday, July 30 in Rose Hill Cemetery in Corpus Christi. Pallbearers were Seth Hatmaker, Cur-tis Moyer, Greg McClain, Sherman Baker, Krystal Cochran and Amy Hat-maker. Honorary pallbear-ers were Victoria Cochran and Gus Moss.

Memorials may be made to GCAM or FOGAS or the charity of one’s choice. The family received friends at the funeral home on Sun-day, July 28.

Arrangements were un-der the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, Gonzales, Texas.

Ida Mae Malatek,1924-2013

MALATEKIda Mae Malatek, 88,

of Gonzales, passed away Saturday, July 27, 2013 in Columbus, Texas. Ida Mae was born December 26, 1924 in Gonzales to Albert and Alma Tieken Bruns.

She married Joe B. Ma-latek on December 26, 1942 in Gonzales. Ida Mae was a member of St. James Catholic Church.

Ida Mae was a hard working country woman with the grit to overcome diphtheria as a youth and a rattlesnake bite received while gardening at age 40. Although she was a very gentle, kind, loving wom-an and mother, she was known to be a hard worker, and it has been said most men couldn’t keep pace with her. She would cook breakfast, clean her house, wash her laundry and still be out in the fields planting or picking cotton by dawn and in 30 minutes she would have a full dinner on the table and be back out in the field by 1 p.m.

Ida Mae must have be-lieved that adage “idle hands are the devil’s work-shop,” because she kept herself busy. She spent a great deal of time garden-ing, canning her produce and cultivating her flower beds. She tended to and worked her cattle like a well versed rancher.

Ida Mae’s only quiet time came when she had an opportunity to listen to polka music or play bingo. She picked up the game of dominoes in her later years and became an avid domino player. It could easily be said that Ida Mae Bruns Malatek carried the hard working, family lov-ing traditions of the fron-tier woman into the 20th century; she wouldn’t have

had it any other way.She is survived by her son

and daughter-in-law, Billie Joe and Linda Malatek of Columbus; grandchildren, Denise and Daniel Markle of Taylor, Todd Malatek of Columbus, Annie Malatek of Taylor, Mindy Malatek Hanak and her husband Jeremy of Glidden, and Kaylee Malatek of Colum-bus; great-grandchildren, Mia Malatek, Nicklas Ma-latek, Gunnar Hanak and Baby Gage; and dear family friends David and Tammy Kresta of Gonzales.

She was preceded in death by her husband, par-ents, daughter, Alice Fay Malatek Kirchner, broth-ers, Raymond and Vernon Bruns, and a sister, Alice Fortune.

A rosary was recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home with a Mass of Chris-tian Burial celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 31 in St. James Catholic church with Fr. Paul Raaz as cel-ebrant. Interment followed in St. James Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Daniel Markle, Todd Malatek, Jer-emy Hanak, Henry Paget, Coulton Kresta, and Dustin Ochs. Honorary pallbear-ers are David Kresta, Ron Pekar, Allen Bruns, Billy Rhodes, and Gary Malatek.

The family received friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday evening at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Hos-pice organization of one’s choice, the American Dia-betes Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

Special thanks from the Malatek family are be-stowed upon the staff of River Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center, Co-lumbus Community Hos-pital, Asera Care Hospice and Drs. Kirk Anderson and David Neisner. Servic-es are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home of Gonza-les.

Douglas James Walshak,1925-2013

WALSHAKDouglas James Walshak

was born Dec. 14, 1925 in Dilworth, the fifth child of Richard A. and Mela-nie Maurin Walshak. He passed away Sunday, July 28, 2013 in Houston sur-rounded by family after a courageous two-year battle with melanoma.

Doug enjoyed growing up in Dilworth with his broth-ers, sisters and cousins. He often reminisced about that period of his life and one of his favorite pastimes was to take someone out to the area and show them where the old homestead had been and talk about old times. Most of this discussion took place as he was driving the old gravel roads around the Dilworth and Maurin area. To him, country roads were much preferred to pave-ment.

The Dilworth School was across the road from the Walshak home. Although too young for first grade, he would go with his older siblings to school where the teacher finally gave him a desk of his own. He at-tended school there until the family moved to Gonza-

les and he graduated from Gonzales High School in 1943. He then worked at the old Piggly Wiggly grocery store until March of 1944 when he was inducted into the United States Navy.

He received his Honor-able Discharge June of 1946, after serving as an Aviation Machinist’s Mate at the Na-val Air Station in Corpus Christi. He became the fourth member of his im-mediate family to serve his country during World War II.

After his military ser-vice, he returned to Gonza-les where he worked at the Citizens National Bank of Gonzales, and then as an Assistant Manager at the CheckerBoard Feed Store. It was there that he met the love of his life, Joan Wood-fin. After several years of meeting at the water foun-tain at the feed store, they were married September 10, 1950.

Together they started a business endeavor to raise broilers and laying hens, which turned into a life-long career of farming and ranching, raising chickens, hogs, and cattle. He was the last independent broiler raiser in Gonzales County. During the time that Doug was a feed distributor for Purina Feeds, he won many awards and trips.

Over the years, Doug was a member of the Lion’s Club, Knights of Columbus, and Independent Cattle-men’s Association. He was

also instrumental in start-ing the rural water district.

Faith and family were of upmost importance to Doug. He also developed a love of travel, starting on back roads all over the county and state and con-tinuing to once-in-a-life-time trips with his family. He had a love for baseball. In the 1950’s, he played amateur ball as a catcher on the Gonzales Indians, a team in the newly organized Guadalupe Valley Baseball League. He also enjoyed fol-lowing the Houston Astros.

He is survived by his wife of almost 63 years, Joan; daughter, Pam Walshak; husband, Bubba Boehm of Houston; sons, Mike Walshak and Kay Hun-nicutt of Weimar, and Mark Walshak and wife, Jerrie, of Gonzales; six grandchil-dren, Shane Walshak and wife, Stephanie of New Braunfels, Jasen Walshak and Regina Niles of San An-tonio, Courtney Walshak and fiancé, Richard Welfel of Kyle, Jaren Walshak and Jessica McPherson of San Marcos, Jalen Walshak and Jefry Walshak of Gonzales; two step-grandchildren, Jarrid Boehm and wife Ni-cole of Gonzales, and Jen-nifer Gattuso and husband Anthony of Hutto; sisters, Murlene Enke, and Pat Bi-anchi and husband, Vince of Victoria; sisters-in-law, Jeanne Boothe of Hunts-ville, Alabama, and Lor-raine Walshak of Gonzales. He was preceded in death

by his parents; brothers, David Walshak, Richard Alton Walshak, and Law-rence Walshak; and sisters, Mildred Wilson and Edith Browne.

The family received friends on Wednesday, July 31 at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home in Gonzales with a Rosary starting at 7 p.m. The Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, August 1 at 10 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church.

A flag folding ceremony will be performed at the graveside at St. James Cath-olic Cemetery. At Doug’s request, everyone will leave the cemetery to the tune of Lee Greenwood’s “Proud To Be An American.”

Pallbearers are Doug’s nephews Dickie Walshak, David Walshak, Brian Bi-anchi, Gerard Bianchi, Ste-phen Bianchi, Ray Soefje, William Soefje, and Brett Myers. Honorary pallbear-ers are the past and present Coffee Bunch at the Cow Palace.

Memorials may be made to the Gonzales Veterans Memorial Fund, Gonzales Knights of Columbus, or the St. James Catholic Cem-etery Fund.

A special thanks to the staff of the Katy M.D. An-derson Hospital, the Meth-odist West Hospital Katy 6th floor staff, and Houston Hospice, and his local doc-tors, Dr. Eska and Dr. Craig.

Services are under the care and direction of Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home.

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Gonzales Master Gardenersannounce fall class signups

Do you like to play in the dirt? Do you love plants and gardening? Are you looking for a fun way to give back to your commu-nity? Do you enjoy meeting new people?

If you answered yes to one or more of these ques-tions, then come grow with the Gonzales Master Gar-deners and register for the fall 2013 Texas Master Gar-dener Class.

Gonzales Master Gar-deners belong to a volun-teer program sponsored by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension where they re-ceive quality educational instruction in horticulture and then serve as a teach-ing outreach and com-munity service program of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. To learn more about the organization’s activities and our involve-ment in the community, go to www.gonzalesmas-tergardeners.org and click on our monthly newsletter, “As the Garden Grows.”

The next Master Garden-er training class is sched-uled to begin Tuesday, Sep-tember 10 and run through May 27, 2014. Typically, Master Gardeners will meet from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 623 N. Fair Street in Gon-zales (next to Gonzales El-ementary School).

Master Gardeners will learn about soils, botany, irrigation systems, and plant propagation. Other topics include plant pathol-ogy, insects and pest man-agement, and landscaping. Along with 50 hours of classroom instruction, four field trips are planned to horticultural and botani-cal gardens so students can see the principles of hor-ticulture and gardening that have been learned in a practical setting.

Speakers, which include Extension and Master

Gardener specialists, col-lege professors, and sea-soned practitioners, will also discuss specialty areas such as fruit and nut trees, turf grass, vegetables, and greenhouse management. Upon completion of 50 hours of classroom in-struction and 50 hours of volunteer service, partici-pants will become eligible for certification by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension as a certified Texas Master Gardener.

To enroll, interested gardeners may either pick up an application at the Gonzales County Exten-sion Office located at 1709 Sarah DeWitt, or down-load the application from the Gonzales County Ex-tension Office website at http://gonzales.agrilife.org/files/2013/04/Master-Gar-dener-Application.pdf or the Gonzales Master Gar-dener website at www.gon-zalesmastergardeners.org.

The deadline to submit completed applications along with the registration fee of $165 is Wednesday, August 28 before 5 p.m.

Checks should be made payable to Gonzales Mas-ter Gardeners. Because the Master Gardeners work with school children in the community, persons admitted to the program must undergo a confi-dential background check conducted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. If you have questions or need additional information, please call Gail Johnson at 830-491-1996, Cindy Turner at 830-263-1363, or the Gonzales AgriLife Ex-tension office at 830-672-8531.

Extension programs serve people of all ages re-gardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, sex, reli-gion, disability, or national origin. Individuals with disabilities who require an auxiliary aid, service, or ac-commodations in order to participate in the program are encouraged to contact the County Extension Of-fice at 830-672-8531 to determine how reasonable accommodations can be made.

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BBQ Chicken Benefit

A BBQ Chicken & trimmings Benefit for Danny Cantu will be held Saturday, August 3 from 11 until sold out at 828 N. College. Proceeds go towards his funeral expenses. For more information

call Dorothy Cantu at 830-556-2879 or 830-557-7295.

Donations appreciated.

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The Lavaca County Commissioners ap-proved the renewal of its health insurance policy with the Texas Association of Counties (TAC) Health and Employee Benefits pool during a regular meeting on Monday.

The loss/ratio for this year was reportedly less than 80 percent, the best in recent years. The county is scheduled to receive a $9,629 reimbursement check from TAC’s surplus for being a client since 2001.

Lavaca Grand Jury issuesseven indictments

The Lavaca County Grand Jury met on July 10 and issued the following indictments:

• Jesse Downey, 35 of Shiner, assault bodily injury/family violence

• Daryl Konecny, 25 of Hallettsville, driving while intoxicated (third or more)

• Anthony Lucio, 45 of Yoakum, aggravated assault

• Mary Scherbeh, 33 of Shiner, abandoning a child

• Christopher Whitehead, 21 of Glidden, possession of controlled substance less than one gram

• Two other sealed indictment were issued.

Luling ISD sets goalsfor 2013-2014 school year

The Luling Independent School District Board of Trustees adopted goals for the up-coming school year during its regular meeting on Monday.

Among the goals are increasing the aca-demic proficiency of students by recruiting/retaining highly qualified and effective teach-ers, continued engagement with the commu-nity by promoting involvement and support of education, expanding the development of Ca-reer and Technology Education, and reducing the absentee rate by 25 percent.

Caldwell commissionersplan new justice center

The Caldwell County Commissioners Court received a presentation from an archi-tect detailing the plans for the new County Judicial and Service Center.

The center will be housed in the old Walmart building, which was evaluated by Steinbomer, Bramwell & Vrazel Architects of Austin. The building could be occupied by November 2014.

Braun & Butler Construction estimated the final costs at $7.5 million, up from $6.6 million three months ago. The court voted to move forward with the plans with an emphasis on trying to decrease the cost.

Obamacare may force changes in Fayette County

Fayette County Auditor Kathy Kleiber said the county could get hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties under new federal regulations in the Affordable Care Act,

also known as Obamacare.Under the new regulations, employers with

50 or more full-time employees must offer health insurance to each employee that works more than 30 hours a week. If a part-time em-ployee without health coverage averages more than 30 hours per week in any given month, the employer could be assessed a $2,000 pen-alty for each full-time employee except the first 30.

Fayette County employs 177 full-time em-ployees and 15 part-timers who occasionally work more than 30 hours per week. If hit with the penalty, the result would be a $325,000 cost for local taxpayers.

10th Amendment authority to speak at RWOY meeting

Mario Loyolla, director of the 10th Amend-ment Center at the Texas Public Policy Foun-dation, will speak and take questions on State’s rights and nullification at the next Republican Women Of Yoakum (RWOY) meeting.

Loyola began his career in corporate fi-nance law. Since 2003, he has focused on public policy, dividing his time between gov-ernment service and research and writing at prominent policy institutes. He served in the Pentagon as a special assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and on Capitol Hill as counsel for foreign and defense affairs to the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Commit-tee. Loyola also worked as a state policy advi-sor for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.

He has written extensively for national publications, including National Review, The Weekly Standard, and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on The Glenn Beck Show, CNN International, BBC Television, Radio America, and more.

RWOY meetings are held at the Yoakum Community Center, located at 105 Huck Street, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visitors are welcome. Lunch is served and freewill dona-tion is welcomed.

For more information, call 361-594-4258.

Designer to addressShiner Heritage Quilters

SHINER — The Shiner Heritage Quilters Guild has announced that talented quilt de-signer Victoria West will present a program, “Three Dimensional Blooms and Embellish-ments for Quilts and Textile Arts.”

The program will be held Tuesday, August 6 at the First United Methodist Church Fel-lowship Hall, located at 102 W. Church St. in Shiner (one block off Hwy 90A).

The presentation will challenge quilters to think outside the box and look at their work in a joyous colorful way. West will demon-strate how the use of 3-D additions will take Art Quilting in new directions. These fun dimensional elements can be applied to all types of quilts from traditional to the mod-ern.

The evening meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. and will include lots of activities such as show and tell, block-of-the-month, door prizes and light refreshments.

Visitors and new members are always wel-come. The meeting is free to the public.

For more information, call 361-594-3185.

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1st place softball was The Poachers (Courtesy photo)

1st place area go Texan Lavaca County horseshoes at this year’s Moulton Town & Country Jamboree this weekend was the team of John Meisetschleager and Mark Mitchon (Courtesy photo)

1st place washers was the team of Garrett Hurley and Rene Sandoval (Courtesy photo)

First Place Tug-A-Tractor women’s team was Melissa Davis, Brittania Darilek, Tara Kloesel, Laura Dierschke, Anjanette Pilat and Noelle Kedziora. (Courtesy photo)

It sounds really good, doesn’t it? We need a transformation in Texas schools, “one that fos-ters innovation, creativity and a thirst for learn-ing with new, more meaningful, assessment and accountability measures, rather than a system built around narrowly focused standardized tests that end up as the ‘be-all, end-all’ yardstick for a school’s success.”

We’re all in favor of improving our public edu-cation system, after all. We want students who are smart, engaged, thirsty to attack knowledge. We want to be able to look at what is going on in oiur schools and be able to say, “We’re doing this right.”

The above phrase comes from transformtexas.org, an organization run by the Texas Associa-tion of School Administrators (TASA). Interest-ingly enough, it’s almost the same language I saw used back in the mid-1990s, when the Texas Education Agency, TASA and other leaders of the education bureaucracy were promoting the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

For those who can’t read education-ese very well, it translates into four simple English words: “Send us more money.”

You’ll be happy to note that this idea of trans-forming Texas education was crafted by a select group of superintendents from across the state, gathered in “facilitated meetings” (meaning the Delphi Technique was employed). Not one sin-gle parent was involved in making this decision, no school board was consulted, the State Board of Education took no vote on it.

Kind of like how CSCOPE was developed, and we’ve seen how well that works, right?

(By the way, remember the big hullabaloo about “getting rid of CSCOPE” this spring? More than 70 percent of Texas school districts are still using it.)

Texas education has been getting “trans-formed” since at least the mid-1970s. Looking back, I recognize the elements of Transforma-tional Outcomes-Based Education being imple-mented in my junior year in high school ... and mine was a rather conservative school district. I can only imagine it started much earlier in oth-ers.

The problem is, since the beginning of the era of “transforming education,” it’s never been transformed. A few new educational fads sneak in with each “transformation,” but the basic methodology — and, more importantly, the re-sults of that transformation — never changes. We jack up spending on public education and get two new layers of administraors, and our kids get dumber.

Here’s a trick for you parents out there with kids in junior high or high school: ask them how to spell the word “there.” There’s a 90-percent like-lihood they’ll rattle out a quick answer, and it will be correct — but they’ll never ask you whether you’re asking them to spell the word “there” (that place), “they’re” (they are) or “their” (belonging to them). The word “two,” also spelled three dif-ferent ways, can generate a similar response.

That’s because spelling isn’t important in an outcomes-based system. It’s irrelevant “because we have computers to correct that now.” People know what you mean, anyway.

Therein lies the problem with an outcomes-based education: it doesn’t really educate. It’s not designed to. It’s designed to ensure perpetual high-paying employment for the education es-tablishment.

Consider the radical changes made in Ameri-can public education between the 1950s — when the U.S. education system was the best in the world, hands-down — and now, when we’re in the second echelon.

Prior to the late 1960s, most American kids left the first grade able to read almost anything in the English language; they might not understand it all, but they could pronounce the words. That’s because they were taught using old-fashioned phonics — they were taught the correlation be-tween letters and combinations of letters and the sounds those letters made.

Phonics was taught systematically: a lot of drills and skills and memorization. It was, at times, boring — but it worked.

Once a student learned how to read, then you could focus on developing comprehension. I re-call doing exactly that in the second, third and fourth grades — becoming a voracious reader and sometimes tackling material way over my head (Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” anyone?).

When American schools began “trans-forming” starting in 1968 with the creation of a federal Department of Education, all that stopped. Literacy moved into the affective (values and feelings) realm through a false methodology called Whole Language.

The idea of Whole Language is that humans learn to read the same way they learn to speak — by watching others. Instead of looking at letters and combinations of letters and reason-ing what the sounds of those letters should be, students have to learn to memorize entire words — “sight words,” the idea is called — which become increasingly familiar to read as they see the same words more often.

That is why so many of today’s kids struggle to read “at grade level”— it’s hard to com-prehend a word you haven’t committed to memory when you have no idea how it’s pro-nounced. Being able to read a passage was never a problem for those of us brought up in that old system.

The education bureaucracy has learned, and we now have “balanced literacy” — an attempt to inject a little phonics in \to what is still es-sentially a Whole Language environment. The upshot of that is it is now easier for schools to identify kids with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, get those kids labeled — and get the extra money for them.

When you hear the word “transform” used in conjunction with public education, you can bet a very expensive process is about to begin. And you can bet you won’t get a say in that process.

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‘Transforming’ Texas education? Didn’t we do that once already?

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In Our ViewMr. Holder: Come and Take ItU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

on Thursday promised to use those parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which were not overturned by a re-cent U.S. Supreme Court decision to continue to punish states —specifi-cally Texas — which are not run by Democrats, by continuing to exer-cise federal “oversight” of state and local elections.

This cannot be tolerated.The Justice Department on Thurs-

day asked a panel of judges in San Antonio to order continued scrutiny of the state’s voting rules and opera-tions, despite the Supreme Court rul-ing in June which effectively nullified what had been a requirement for the state to seek federal approval of any changes based on a history of past “discrimination.”

“Once again, the Obama Adminis-tration is demonstrating utter con-tempt for our country’s system of checks and balances, not to mention the U.S. Constitution,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry reacted in a prepared state-ment. “This end-run around the Su-preme Court undermines the will of the people of Texas, and casts unfair aspersions on our state’s common-sense efforts to preserve the integ-rity of our elections process.”

The target of this effort is to un-dermine Texas’ recently-approved Voter ID law under the nonsensi-cal presumption that it is design to “suppress” poor and minority voters. Yet that same federal government doesn’t see a problemw ith those same “suppressed” voters being required to furnish a picture ID to cash government checks, apply for government benefits — or attend speeches by the Attorney General.

Besides, while Voter ID will serve to halt the massive amount of voter fraud being perpetrated at live poll-ing locations, it won’t do anything to suppress the even larger fraud; you can still vote by mail without furnish-ing an ID card, as thousands of dead people learned in Texas last election cycle.

The Justice Department’s contin-ued bald-faced partisanship under-mines the foundation of not only the Constitution, but also our core con-cept of representative government.

It is abundantly evident the Obama Administration is unwilling to con-tinue respecting our notion of a “loy-al opposition” — anyone opposed to the policies of this administration is

considered an “enemy” and the full weight of the federal government is being brought to bear in order to bring opponents to their knees in subservience:

• Witness the fact this same Jus-tice Department has advised law-enforcement agencies around the country to consider any military vet-eran (who are most often conserva-tives) to be a “potential terrorist” and has even provided training to do ex-actly that.

• It was recently revealed the Inter-nal Revenue Service had been used to politically target conservative or-ganizations and individuals for cost-ly, aggravating audits — but there is to date no investigation by the Jus-tice Department.

• Private individuals with no con-nections to terrorism — including news agencies and reporters who have been critical of the administra-tion — have been targeted for war-rantless spying by the National Secu-rity Agency, a clear violation of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

• Holder and the Justice Depart-ment have continued to cover up the administration’s “Fast and Furi-ous” scandal, in which the federal government sent arms to Mexican drug cartels in an effort to “prove” that the guns being used by the drug lords “were bought in American gun stores,” a clear and undeniable as-sault on the Second Amendment.

Texas continues to be a major focus of politically-targeted pun-ishment from this administration, from the withholding of funding — federal taxes paid by Texans — for various programs to ludicrous rules and regulations by a legion of fed-eral agencies, particularly the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency. Every one of these federal decisions has been political in nature and specifi-cally designed to hurt the economy of the most productive and eco-nomically independent state in the union.

One hundred seventy-eight years ago, another would-be dictator at-tempted to crush the rights of Tex-ans. At Gonzales, he was told to “Come and Take It!” — and seven months later, at San Jacinto, he was forced to surrender his claim to this land.

Mr. Holder and Mr. Obama would do well to heed that lesson of his-tory.

El Conservador

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

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Our insecure presidentPresident Obama has been displaying his in-

securities and lack of leadership as never before, lately. Last week, on Friday, July 19th, Obama made a surprised visit to the White House press room and commented on the Trayvon Martin verdict which found George Zimmerman “not guilty”. His comments were filled with his per-sonal observations on racism and inequality. Five days later, on Wednesday, July 24th, he an-nounced his plans to help the economy of the nation were filled with warnings of class war-fare.

Author Stephen R. Covey once said that be-ing proactive is most important for leadership because it begins with the mind set “I am re-sponsible for me, and I can choose.” Also, Tanya Prive outlined some other leadership qualities in Forbes Magazine on 12/19/2012, which in-cluded honesty, confidence, a positive attitude, and the ability to inspire.

However, Obama seems to exhibit the “vic-tim mentality”, and projects that mind set on America. He has used race, class, gender, sexual preference, age, or whatever to claim that peo-ple are victims and not responsible or able to choose for themselves. His comments regard-ing the Trayvon Martin verdict revealed how he sees even himself as a victim of society.

Furthermore, his idea of leadership is to be negative. He criticizes, attacks, and divides.

On Wednesday, Obama warned that “so-cial tensions will rise” if Washington doesn’t take steps to reverse the growing gap between wealthy Americans and the middle class…again playing the role of “The Great Divider”. He said the nation’s social fabric will begin to fray as resentment builds among lower eco-nomic groups. Does that sound like someone who is being positive and trying to lead a na-tion, or someone who is spreading insecurity among the people?

Obama also showed his lack of leadership when he tried to be blameless for the scandals of

his Administration. He said, “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington’s taken its eye off the ball. And I’m here to say this needs to stop.”

Apparently, Obama feels the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups was phony, as was the waste of tax payer money for dance videos, and the lav-ish GSA conferences in Las Vegas, and Justice Department’s threatened subpoena of reporters’ files, and the unresolved questions surrounding Benghazi, and … well where is his sense hon-esty?

Obama’s insecurities affect us all as Ameri-cans, and they could affect us in Texas. The in-secure person will view (target) any secure and successful person or entity with envy and con-tempt. Many Americans may believe Obama’s liberal charade, but Texas has remained conser-vative and defiant… and economically success-ful. Texas has not bought what Obama and his liberals have been selling.

While we have an insecure President in D.C., we have had strong, confident leaders in Texas. But because of our success, liberals are target-ing the state through “Battleground Texas”, and only time will tell if we will elected more confi-dent conservatives, or if we will elected insecure liberals who will project their insecurities on to us as Obama has.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize qual-ity over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

—Michelle Obama

It’s a Monday in the morning and a pot of leg-lifters is simmering on the stovetop.

A common occurrence here in the Cun-ningham casa. Later, around an hour prior to dinnertime, I’ll bake up some cornbread in a cast-iron skillet. In the same skillet my late mother used to use over 50 years ago.

She did it daily, from scratch, for the old man to crumble up in a big glass of butter-milk.

I crumbled my cornbread, which was thick, hot, and yellow, up in a plate of beans. Where I would take a fork and squish the brown beans up until they were squashed considerably into a mush with the cornbread.

Boy hidee, did I take my fill of cornbread and beans each and every day back when I was young. I did. I’d get my fill until I was suf-ferin’ with comfort and damn sure enjoying my misery.

The leg-lifters simmering today are based on the way my mother fixed ‘em. With an un-healthy chunk of salt pork amid the brown beans (that’s how we referred to pinto beans in my household). And she wouldn’t put that pot of beans in the center of the kitchen table until the juice was slightly thick to give it sub-stance.

So in about three hours I’ll be heading back to a not-forgotten yesterday as I dine on my leg-lifters and cornbread come dinnertime.

In the interim I’m consuming coffee and perusing a few periodicals. It’s something I should shun on a Monday. Because what is considered news today is usually not good news. And bad news can make for a Blue Monday.

Consider the TV news broadcasts. Where the news is just a person saying “Good eve-ning” and then giving reasons why it’s not.

In my pea-brain little noggin it’s my belief too much attention is given to celebrity news. The starlets with the baby bumps, or the ones in rehab, or the pop stars with clothing mal-functions.

And America’s obsession with the Royal Family. Good grief, Charlie Brown. Babies are birthed every day worldwide. Some pre-mature, others with birth defects, among other maladies.

Parents feel blessed regardless of gender of the little tyke or tykes. But it is a family thing. And not for 24-7 coverage of a single child that will never be able to outlive those in line for the crown, much less, the Queen herself.

Murders occur daily. Blacks killing blacks. Whites slaughtering whites. Hispanics mur-dering Hispanics. There’s an olio in there also. A mixture. Yet the media will isolate a particular incident and sway public opinion prior to charges being made. Milk it like an old dairy cow that’s gone dry.

Nope, good news is hard to find. But if you scan enough items you’ll find it.

Consider:The U.S. is now No. 2 in obesity, after

Mexico. Our south of the border friends now reside in the world’s fattest nation. Due to a diet of fizzy drinks and fast food, 32.8 per-cent of Mexican adults are now classified as obese. We Americans only compare by a 31.8 percent statistic.

I’ll drink a chocolate shake to that news item.

And across the ocean a man with a rac-ing heart going 190 beats a minute was being taken in a British ambulance. The ambulance hit a pothole and sent patient Ray Lee up in the air. When he landed, the jolt reset his heartbeat to 60. Lee, 65, said, “The paramedic looked at me in disbelief.” Lee said he used to complain about local roads but now hopes they “never fill another pothole.”

I can’t cotton to Lee’s thinking on potholes. Perhaps he should come to Gonzales County and ride the county roads. No, he shouldn’t. It’d only set his pulse to pounding.

On the norm, I confess to feeling that our youth is prone to being a bit moronic. Un-derwear on display and body piercings and tattoos.

Here’s a nice item:An Indiana school district says it wasted

$300,000 last year ‘cause students are reject-ing the school’s new healthy lunch program. Designed by First Lady Michelle Obama. Stu-dents in the district are dumping vegetables and fruit in the garbage, or skipping lunch altogether, said Linda Wireman, food service director. “There are a lot of complaints and they’re going home hungry,” Wireman said.

Michelle’s menu left those kids, col-lectively, as hungry as a moth on a nylon sweater. They’re starving for spoon-fed vittles. And now, states and school districts nationwide are opting out and abandoning her lunch program. Good. It’s considered an epic fail.

Well, I tell you what. I bet this ol’ curmud-geon could conjure up a school menu that would leave the students in the lunchrooms of our nation begging for second and third helpings.

By filling their plates with brown beans and cornbread and banana pudding and watermelon slices. That would be the basic breakfast.

At dinnertime, they call it lunch in the school systems, we’d served up pure pork sausage patties and cream gravy, and butter-milk pancakes slathered in butter and syrup, and a large side of grits.

Chocolate milk would be the beverage of choice for both meals.

Bet them young’uns and whippersnappers would lap their lips over those vittles. And heck, within no time whatsoever, the U.S. could overtake the No. 1 spot as the world’s fattest nation.

Aroma of the leg-lifters is wafting over and setting the stomach to talking. So I guess it’s best I preheat the oven and prepare that batch of cornbread. To partake of a dinner of cornbread and beans.

Some say a full belly makes for a dull brain. I’m not concerned about eatin’ myself full, because I know there’s room in back for some banana pudding.

Catch you down the road, hopefully, over some good news.

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Perspectives

Recent history or distant past?

Fattening up in honor of First Lady’s bold ideas

Letters to the Editor

ScratchPad

Jim Cunningham is a former longtime Gonzales news-man and the former interim publisher of the Gonzales Cannon. He now lives in the Moulton area.

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Herman Brune

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

Looking Downfrom the Saddle

Dealing with inconsiderate, loud neighbors

The following article is an edited transcription of an interview with Alexandra Murphy heard on “The News from the Camp-house” on KULM 98.3 fm.

Brune: People have a tendency to relate current events to past history. Now, let’s visit with someone who lived a part of history.

Murphy: I am from Ger-many and was born in 1968. I grew up in West Berlin. The Wall was still standing. We were in West Berlin but that was still considered as being behind the Iron Cur-tain. Berlin was an island. During WWII the Russians overran that section of Ger-many. The Capital of Ger-many, Berlin, was now in Russian territory and they wanted to keep it. But the Allies said no. Berlin was divided into four sections. East Berlin went to Russia. West Berlin went to France, Great Britain, and the U.S. However, there was still Russian territory between West Berlin and West Ger-many.

Brune: Was it difficult to cross the Russian territory.

Murphy: Yes, you needed a passport. It took two hours to get through the first sol-dier’s checkpoint. Then it was a three-hour trip. When you left the highway you were required to again show your passport at two different checkpoints and making sure you weren’t smuggling people from East Berlin. If you looked suspi-cious they literally took your car apart.

I lived in Rouduw which was a sub-county in the southeast corner of the U.S. sector near the Wall. It wasn’t just a wall there was a strip of mines, a dog strip, and the concertina wire strip. Then there were the towers. You could see the soldiers from our backyard. Sometimes they were nice and waved while we were playing, but other times they pointed their guns to scare us. Of course, when you grow up with such con-ditions at some point you start ignoring such behav-ior.

Brune: How big was Ber-lin?

Murphy: East and West Berlin together was prob-ably about the size of Dal-las. The Allies wanted their sectors to be self-sufficient and had the Germans set up their own City Councils. But the Russian sector, East Berlin, was turned towards communism. I remember hearing cannons at night, but it was the mines. Then the next day the newspaper would say that someone tried to flee East Berlin. The joke was that a rabbit hit one of the mines. Once at a checkpoint sirens began to blare and we were ordered to stay in our car. We waited for three or four hours and never knew what happened. It was a scary way to live.

Brune: So if a person es-

caped East Berlin into West Berlin – they still had to get through Russian territory to freedom in West Germany.

Murphy: That’s right and there were undercover po-lice. My father was from East Berlin and they escaped before the Wall went up. Af-ter that, the Wall separated families and friendships.

Brune: Would you tell us some family history?

Murphy: Both of my sets of grandparents came from outside Berlin. They settled there during WWII. My paternal grandfather was in the engineer group with Wernher Von Braun. He was forced to join the Nazi regime. His dream was to create rockets to go to other planets. But he was forced to create bombs. When WWII came to an end Von Braun surrendered and asked his engineers to come to America. But my grandfather wanted to stay in Germany. He had a fine mechanics shop. In 1974 he and his sister left West Ber-lin to travel to West Germa-ny through the Russian ter-ritory. The purpose of the trip was to meet a friend and business partner. It was our common habit to call home after reaching West Germany to let fam-ily know the trip was made safely. But on this occasion we never got that phone call. That was on a Friday night. On Monday morning my grandmother received a phone call that my grand-father and his sister passed away on the highway. It took three weeks for us to be able to claim the body. But when my grandmother went to get the body she was presented with ashes. We were never told how he died.

My maternal grandfather was Paul Von Leven and he was the master gardener for the Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm. My grandmother remembers waving to the Emperor in his proces-sions. After WWI there was no need for an Emperor’s Gardner. So – they opened a nursery and were the main suppliers for the graveyards in Berlin. He and his broth-ers had a big company. In Germany the graveyards are different than in the U.S. They’re more set up like parks. People go for walks through these parks/grave-yards. West Berlin was very green and because of the limited space these places are kept beautiful. During

WWII these grandparents sold their title, the “Von”, in their name – for food. They lost the farm to Hitler, but they managed to hang on to the business and only sold it between seven and nine years ago.

Brune: Where do your parents fit in this picture?

Murphy: My Dad was born in 1945 east of Berlin. Immediately after the war, in 1946, my paternal grand-father was put in a Russian prison. My grandmother’s father put my grandmoth-er, father, and his sister in between logs on a train and smuggled them into West Berlin. My grandfa-ther got out of prison, the wall wasn’t up yet, and he walked to West Berlin to find his family.

Then for 14 months in 1948 and ’49 the Russians decided to cut off West Berlin from West Ger-many. They were trying to freeze the Allies out. This was the start of the Cold War. The only way anyone had food was the Allies airlift. They dropped food for 14 months. To this day my mother won’t eat corn-bread.

My Dad remembers LBJ being at checkpoint Char-lie in 1961 when the Wall came up. The American tanks were pointing at the Russian tanks and LBJ as-sured the Germans the Allies would not abandon Germany. So, the Berliner has always been connect-ed to America. Without America we wouldn’t be free.

When the wall came down, in1989, the Rus-sians left, and a flood of East Berliners moved west. They hurried because they couldn’t believe the Rus-sian occupation was over. East Berlin was grubby and 40 years behind in technol-ogy. The people of Germa-ny are still rebuilding East Berlin.

Dear Editor,I live on St. Peter St. and have

neighbors on Williams St. They play the drums, some days all day long.

It echoes in the back of our house and into the beauty shop in the back yard. After so many hours I have to take a pill for severe migraine headaches.

I have repeatedly called the city police to report the noise. They tell me they are within their rights within the decibel reading. Just what is the decibel reading? Don’t neighbors have any rights?

It really is a shame some of these people who think it’s so funny. Live beside them and listen to it all day, every day!

My husband even stopped by one day when they were on the porch and asked if they would please turn it down. Guess what? They played it even louder.

Perhaps this thing is another step in

losing our rights.

Mary BrzozowskiGonzales

Wake up Americansbefore it’s too lateDear Editor,

Wake up before the coffee’s gone and a whole lot more. My fellow Americans are spoilt rotten and could use an old fashioned whipping.

We push Mother Nature past what we really need leaving only burden and do-without for our kids’ and grandkids’ future.

Theres a lot we can do to alleviate this dilemma.

1. Buy in bult. Eliminate waste. Small soda bottles, water bottles, anything excessively filling our landfills that you can tote from home for drinking — make it mandatory.

2. Diaper service is a lot cheaper than

plastic diapers. Reinstate washable disapers. Only use disposable diapers for out of town trips.

3. Now be honest with yourself. What happened to carpooling? It’s more fun.

4. Be able to turn in any vehicle emitting smoke beyond belief.

5. Don’t water grass only. If there’s a water shortage in one county it should be statewide rationing. Water is vastly going bye-bye.

6. Wake up America!7. Solar power is the answer, not

oil!8. Water will be the shortage, not

oil.9. Do ya get it?10. Don’t be biased or racial. This

goes out to everyone. Get off the whipping post and bend over to do what you can (to help).

Laura Langton MaiorkaLuling

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Weather modification as it has been applied in Texas over the past 25 years involves cloud seeding to increase rain above what would have naturally oc-curred. The result of cloud seeding is referred to as pre-cipitation enhancement.

In natural rainfall, drop-lets are created from the presence of ice particles (crystals) in the cloud. These crystals are formed when freezing water contacts par-ticles of dust, salt or sand. The ice crystals form a nu-cleus around which water droplets attach to make the size of the droplet increase. When the size of a droplet increases sufficiently, it be-comes a raindrop and falls from the cloud. Cloud seed-ing is thought to increase the number of these “nuclei” available to take advantage of the moisture in the cloud to form raindrops that would not have otherwise formed. To be effective, seeding must be done at the correct time and in the correct manner.

As a cloud grows taller, the air temperature in the cloud cools and falls below the freezing point of water. This cooling effect means that the cloud droplets, which are much too small to fall as rain, are also cooled to a point where they respond to crystallization when con-tacted by an ice particle. Consequently, when there are fewer crystals to act as nuclei for raindrops, there will be less rain than would have been if more crystals were present.

There are two chemicals in use for cloud seeding – silver iodide and calcium chloride. Silver iodide (AgI) is termed “glaciogenic” be-cause its chemical struc-ture is like ice crystals. The other seeding chemical used when the cloud temperature

is too warm for forming ice is calcium chloride (CaCl). Calcium chloride is “hygro-scopic,” which means it at-tracts water.

When silver iodide is in-troduced into a cloud the number of ice crystals in-creases and the crystals con-tact water vapor causing it to freeze to the crystal. Con-siderable heat is released to the atmosphere during the freezing and crystal forma-tion phase. The released heat causes the cloud to grow taller and its vertical wind velocity (updraft) to increase. This results in the cloud being able to pull in more moist air and, thus, create more raindrops.

However, not all clouds are potential rainmakers. Generally, cloud seeding is performed with a meteo-rologist working in tandem with the pilot of the cloud seeding aircraft so that, with direction from the meteorol-ogist, the pilot can target the most promising cloud(s). The criteria used in Texas to find promising clouds, is to locate “feeder” cells near developing cloud formations which have temperatures be-low 23o F. The target cloud must also have sufficient moisture and airflow to be a candidate.

1. Silver iodide is fired into cloud using flares on planes or from the ground

2. Water droplets then at-tach to these particles

3. They fall as snow if sur-face temperatures are below or near freezing, or as rain-drops at warmer tempera-tures

4. Heat released as the droplets freeze boosts up-drafts, which pull more moist air into the cloud

Local Precipitation En-hancement

South Texas Weather Modification Association (STWMA) is a non-profit organization consisting of

several water districts and a county commissioner’s court. The association first formed in 1996 and conducted its first seed-ing mission the following year. After a decade of existence, the STWMA, based in Pleasanton, con-tinues to perform seeding operations over multiple counties (Atascosa, Bee, Frio, Karnes, Live Oak, McMullen, Wilson, Me-dina, Bandera, and Bexar) in south-central Texas. The Gonzales County Un-derground Water Con-servation District was a member of the association from 2006 to 2007. The STWMA lists its cloud seeding operations online at www.southtexasweath-ermodification.com. From this website you can view the various seeding reports and airplane flight tracks across the area.

The information provided in this article is a compilation of material from a variety of sources. For more informa-tion about this article contact the Gonzales County Under-ground Water Conservation District at (830) 672-1047.

The CannonThursday, August 1, 2013 Page A7

Weather modification techniques used in South TexasBy GREG SENGELMANN

GCUWCD General Manager

Creating a sociallyresponsible portfolio

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Gonzales LivestockMarket ReportThe Gonzales Livestock Market Re-

port for Saturday, July 27, 2013 had on hand: 1,216 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady to $1.00 high-er. Packer cows sold steady.

Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $195-$235; 300-400 lbs, $172-$180; 400-500 lbs, $155-$170; 500-600 lbs, $141-$151; 600-700 lbs., $133-$139; 700-800 lbs, $126-$129.

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

Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $175-$210; 300-400 lbs, $150-$165; 400-500 lbs, $141-$147; 500-600 lbs., $129-$140; 600-700 lbs., $121-$126.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $72-$76; Cutters, $75-$84; Canners, $61-$68; Low yielding fat cows, $69-$75.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $97-$100; light weights and medium quality bulls, $84-$93.

Stocker Cows: $950-$1,150.Pairs: $1,050-$1,725.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.com!

Nixon LivestockCommission ReportThe Nixon Livestock Commission

Inc. report had on hand, July 29, 2013, Volume, 1,433; 171 cows, 7 bulls.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $164 to $174 to $225; 300-400 lbs., $154 to $164 to $193; 400-500 lbs, $144 to $154 to $177; 500-600 lbs, $134 to $144 to $162; 600-700 lbs, $125 to $135 to $151; 700-800 lbs, $119 to $129 to $140.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $144 to $154 to $190; 300-400 lbs, $141 to $151 to $175; 400-500 lbs, $133 to $143 to $178; 500-600 lbs, $123 to $133 to $190; 600-700

lbs, $118 to $128 to $170; 700-800 lbs, $101 to $111 to $126.

Slaughter cows: $52 to $87; Slaugh-ter bulls: $87 to $97; Stocker cows: $720 to $1,080; Pairs, $1,000.

Notices: We will be closed on Sep-tember 2, 2013 for Labor Day!

Cuero Livestock Market ReportCuero Livestock Market Report on

July 26, 2013, had 1,641 head.Had 1697 cows and 17 bulls. The

packer market continued last week’s higher market pickup up another $1/cwt value. Runs are lower and packers are getting more current on getting cat-tle processed. Demand remains strong for the numbers entering the market.

The calf market was really good across the board as all classes contin-ued the upward trend that started last week. Anything under 450 lbs with any quality was $2-3-cwt higher with lighter weights up over $5/cwt. Just a good healthy competitive market on all classes.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $88-$103; lower grades, $62-$87.

Packer cows: breakers, $65-$73; boning, $65-$82; canners & cutters, $69-$91; light & weak, $40-$60.

Palpated, 10 bred cows, $80-$89.Pairs: 3 Pairs, $900 & $1,440.Steer calves: under 200 lbs, $186-

$220; 200-250 lbs, $190-$222; 250-300 lbs, $181-$214; 300-350 lbs, $178-$198; 350-400 lbs, $162-$184; 400-450 lbs, $157-$178; 450-500 lbs, $151-$165; 500-550 lbs, $147-$158; 550-600 lbs, $146-$157; 600-700 lbs, $138-$144; 700-800 lbs, $125-$131.

Bull Calves: under 250 lbs, $184-$252; 250-300 lbs, $173-$220; 300-350 lbs, $172-$208; 350-400 lbs, $153-$178; 400-450 lbs, $160-$177; 450-500 lbs, $153-$164; 500-550 lbs, $143-$159; 550-600 lbs, $136-$145; 600-700 lbs, $129-$138.

Over 700 lbs. bulls, $113-$129.Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs., $194-

$230; 200-250 lbs., $171-$210; 250-300 lbs, $156-$172; 300-350 lbs, $154-$169; 350-400 lbs, $147-$165; 400-450 lbs, $144-$154; 450-500 lbs, $135-$155; 500-550 lbs, $135-$144; 550-600 lbs, $129-$137; 600-700 lbs., $123-$130; over 700 lbs, $110-$122.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission ReportThe Hallettsville Livestock Com-

mission Co., Inc. had on hand on July 23, 2013, 1,489; week ago, 2,187; year ago, 661.

The market was stronger again this week. Heavier weight classes sold $2 to $4 higher. Lighter weights 500 lbs and down sold $4 to $7 higher. Demand very good in all areas.

Packer cows and bulls sold steady to

$1 higher on approx. 130hd. Total.Packer Cows: higher dressing utility

& cutter cows, $74-$86; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $61-$74; light weight canner cows, $50-$61.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $98-$102; utility & cutter bulls, $92-$98; lightweight canner bulls, $83-$92.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Year-lings: Steer & Bull Calves: under 200; $190-$240; 200-300 lbs, $180-$2365; 300-400 lbs, $168-$200; 400-500 lbs, $157-$182.50; 500-600 lbs, $136-$162; 600-700 lbs, $128-$148; 700-800 lbs, $124-$135. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $180-$230; 200-300 lbs, $165-$205; 300-400 lbs, $148-$186; 400-500 lbs, $136-$168; 500-600 lbs, $128-$151; 600-700 lbs, $121-$136; 700-800 lbs, $110-$124.

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

Socially responsible invest-ing means a lot of things to a lot of people. In general, it should promote the notion of ethical corporate citizenship in a world where corporate greed is often frowned upon.

As we diversify our invest-ments, we can choose to pro-mote human rights via political avenues, environmental issues via products we choose to buy or religious causes via church projects, etc. This broad term can refer to these proactive prac-tices or can imply an investment avoids companies that engage in practices we deem unethical.

Socially screened portfolios totaled approximately $3 trillion at the beginning of 2010 which represented a 34% increase since 2005.

Government controlled funds such as pension funds are under pressure by activist groups to adopt investment pol-icies that support and encour-age ethical corporate behavior, respect human rights, promote responsible employer/employee behavior and promote environ-mental concerns.

Because people have such a wide variety of values, mutual fund managers have learned to diversify the various criteria they uphold. This may lead to their having higher fees than regular funds for their addition-

al ethical research, as well as be-ing managed by smaller mutual fund companies. Socialfunds.com is a good place to start your research as you learn to diversify your portfolio.

Community investing takes the art of socially responsible investing to another personal level by streamlining your in-vestment straight to community needs. Social impact investing is the POSITIVE slant on socially responsible investing that I like to think I infuse throughout the day.

Too often donors limit their organizations and do not offer proper avenues to allocate the $700B in foundation assets. My father taught me to buy what I know and buy what I like!

Know and trust your values as you diversifY your invest-ments — both in your portfolios and your daily financial invest-ments including your time, en-ergy AND money!

With over 80 percent of current business owners being of the baby boomer genera-tion, it is imperative to focus on business transition to the new potential younger genera-tions.

More than half of these cur-rent business owners are seek-ing to retire and leave their place of business in the next five years. So, what does this mean for your community? Can your community afford to have businesses shut their doors?

Communities need sustain-able business. Without suc-cessful business transitions, a large majority of the business-es in rural communities could shut their doors, which de-creases jobs and wealth in the community. Each job in rural areas equals at least $112,705 in total economic impact.

Existing businesses (six years or older), generally sus-

tain and create higher quality and higher paying jobs, which in turns leads to a higher qual-ity of life in communities. How will your community keep these businesses open?

There are three major op-tions most business owners consider for exiting a business:

1. Sell the business.2. Family Succession.3. Sell inventory and assets

and close the doors.The most popular option

typically is to sell the busi-

ness, and this process gener-ally takes at minimum three years. Why you ask? Think financials. Lenders and other private investment firms re-quest at minimum three years of financial from the current business owner to prove the company’s health and worth.

Family succession is the second most popular option. This process can take up to seven years. First the business owner has to have a successor that is willing to take over the business, and more impor-tantly, is interested in taking over the business. Then the process of training that suc-cessor can be lengthy due to involvement and length of experience. Sadly, most fam-ily successions fail within the three years of transition.

The third option, and the least popular option, is selling the inventory and shutting the doors. Most often, this option

is a result of a death or illness to the owner or a close loved one of the business. In other words, an unforeseen circum-stance.

Without a proper exit strat-egy or plan, businesses end up leaving our communities with little to no warning, creating higher unemployment and higher leakage into other sur-rounding communities; nei-ther of which is desirable.

Seeking assistance from lo-cal organizations, such as the SBDC, can greatly improve the survivability of businesses in your community. By offer-ing counseling and training services, mostly at no cost, these business owners gain the knowledge they need to suc-cessfully transition their busi-ness, whether they are selling or purchasing. Understanding every aspect of the business is critical to surviving in today’s competitive environment.

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It’s never too early to stop by and say hi to the staff at the Gonzales Cannon! Youngsters from Christian Kids Day Care were recent visitors to the newspaper office while transiting from Vacation Bible School. (Photo by Mark Lube)

DENVER, COLO. — High Point Infrastructure Partners, which controls the general part-ner of American Midstream Partners, LP and is a portfolio company of ArcLight Capital Partners, has, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into a long-term, fee-based agreement to provide midstream services to a large independent producer in the oil window of the Eagle Ford

Shale in Gonzales CountyUnder terms of the agree-

ment, High Point will construct, own, and operate full well-stream gathering, treating, and process-ing infrastructure to gather and treat oil, natural gas, and pro-duced water. The oil and natural gas will be treated and processed at a centralized facility.

Construction of the midstream facilities is underway near Cheap-side in southern Gonzales Coun-ty, and the facility will commence initial operations in early 2014.

When fully operational, the gath-ering pipeline and treating/pro-cessing facility will have capacity for approximately 95,000 barrels per day and 15 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

The initial phase of the Eagle Ford project will be developed by High Point. High Point has granted American Midstream a right of first offer with respect to the agreement and the associ-ated facilities, and upon comple-tion of the initial phase, High Point intends to offer the assets to

American Midstream. American Midstream and High Point plan to work together to expand the system and to pursue future Eagle Ford development.

“We are excited to announce a long-term agreement to develop critical midstream infrastructure for a significant producer in the Eagle Ford Shale,” comment-ed Steve Bergstrom, Executive Chairman of the general partner of American Midstream.

“The execution of the agree-ment and the associated capital

funding are evidence of the strong support and valuable energy ex-pertise of the new owners of our general partner, which will afford us the opportunity to grow our fee-based cash flow and add geo-graphic diversity to the American Midstream platform. Providing midstream services is essential to the success of American Mid-stream’s producer customers, and looking ahead we anticipate further expansion into the Eagle Ford that will provide long-term value for our unitholders.”

Recent well location re-ports from the Texas Rail-road Commission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-33230Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: G Klein

Unit DWell No.: 2Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 5

miles E. of EcletoSurvey Name: T.C. Bell,

A-65Acres: 320

API No.: 42-123-33229Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: G Klein

Unit EWell No.: 4Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.9

miles NE. of EcletoSurvey Name: T.C. Bell,

A-65Acres: 279

API No.: 42-123-33228Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: G Klein

Unit EWell No.: 3Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.9

miles NE. of EcletoSurvey Name: T.C. Bell,

A-65Acres: 279

API No.: 42-123-33227Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: G Klein

Unit EWell No.: 2Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 4.9

miles NE. of EcletoSurvey Name: T.C. Bell,

A-65Acres: 279

API No.: 42-123-33231Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: St Clair

Unit AWell No.: 3Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 17,000 feetDirection and Miles: 10.9

miles NE. of WesthoffSurvey Name: D. Davis,

A-12Acres: 297.76

API No.: 42-123-33232Classification: Fld. Dev.Operator: Magnum Pro-

ducing LPLease Name: BockWell No.: 1Field Name: Yorktown

South

Total Depth: 7,800 feetDirection and Miles: 5.3

miles SE. of YorktownSurvey Name: J.T. Tins-

ley, A-455Acres: 112.90

Fayette County

API No.: 149-33286Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Sanchez Oil &

Gas CorporationLease Name: Prost Unit CWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,500 feetDirection and Miles: 2.1

miles SE. of FlatoniaSurvey Name: G.W. Cot-

tle, A-35Acres: 918.71

API No.: 149-33287Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Sanchez Oil &

Gas CorporationLease Name: Prost Unit CWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,500 feetDirection and Miles: 2.1

miles SE. of FlatoniaSurvey Name: G.W. Cot-

tle, A-35Acres: 918.71

API No.: 149-33288Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Sanchez Oil &

Gas CorporationLease Name: Prost Unit CWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,500 feetDirection and Miles: 2.1

miles SE. of FlatoniaSurvey Name: G.W. Cot-

tle, A-35Acres: 918.71

API No.: 149-33289Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Sanchez Oil &

Gas CorporationLease Name: Prost Unit CWell No.: 6HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,500 feetDirection and Miles: 2.1

miles SE. of FlatoniaSurvey Name: G.W. Cot-

tle, A-35Acres: 918.71

Gonzales County

API No.: 42-177-33056Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Argent Energy

(US) Holdings Inc.Lease Name: MoeskerWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,000 feetDirection and Miles: 15.8

miles NE. of GonzalesSurvey Name: R. Kelley,

A-307Acres: 585.71

API No.: 42-177-33055Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Mitchell

UnitWell No.: 14H

Field Name: Eagleville (Eagle Ford-1)

Total Depth: 12,750 feetDirection and Miles: 13

miles SE. of CostSurvey Name: M. Cog-

swell, A-144Acres: 628.37

API No.: 42-177-33057Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Rudolph

UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 12,800 feetDirection and Miles: 12.6

miles SE. of GonzalesSurvey Name: D.W.

Brandt, A-6Acres: 833.20

API No.: 42-177-32649Classification: Fld. Dev.

and Horizontal Recomple-tion

Operator: Forest Oil Corp.

Lease Name: Windwe-hen-Northcutt

Well No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 13,000 feetDirection and Miles: 9

miles NE. of GonzalesSurvey Name: Gonzales

CSL, A-230Acres: 710.25

API No.: 42-177-33052Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil

Corp.Lease Name: MorrisWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Total Depth: 13,500 feetDirection and Miles: 8.2

miles SW. of CostSurvey Name: H. Earth-

man, A-202Acres: 791.70

Lavaca County

API No.: 42-285-33716Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia

Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Pilsner

HunterWell No.: 5HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,500 feetDirection and Miles: 5

miles NW. of ShinerSurvey Name: Hrs. A.

Jones, A-210Acres: 702.01

API No.: 42-285-33715Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia

Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Pilsner

HunterWell No.: 4HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,500 feetDirection and Miles: 5

miles NW. of ShinerSurvey Name: Hrs. A.

Jones, A-210Acres: 702.01

API No.: 42-285-33714Classification: Fld. Dev.

and Horizontal

Operator: Penn Virginia Oil and Gas LP

Lease Name: Pilsner Hunter

Well No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,500 feetDirection and Miles: 5

miles NW. of ShinerSurvey Name: Hrs. A.

Jones, A-210Acres: 702.01

API No.: 42-285-33713Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia

Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Pilsner

HunterWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,500 feetDirection and Miles: 5

miles NW. of ShinerSurvey Name: Hrs. A.

Jones, A-210Acres: 702.01

API No.: 42-285-33717Classification: WildcatOperator: Esenjay Oper-

ating Inc.Lease Name: 7YWell No.: 1Field Name: WildcatTotal Depth: 9,300 feetDirection and Miles: 18.3

miles NW. of EdnaSurvey Name: H. Crooks,

A-108Acres: 426

API No.: 42-285-33719Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia

Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Technik

UnitWell No.: 7HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,500 feetDirection and Miles: 4.45

miles N. of ShinerSurvey Name: T. Toby,

A-461Acres: 704

API No.: 42-285-33718Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Penn Virginia

Oil and Gas LPLease Name: Technik

UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Total Depth: 14,500 feetDirection and Miles: 4.45

miles N. of ShinerSurvey Name: T. Toby,

A-461Acres: 704

Recent oil and gas completions according to reports from the Texas Railroad Commission

DeWitt County

API No.: 42-123-32839Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: Gunn Unit

AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: D. Davis,

A-12Direction and Miles: 11.2

miles NE. of WesthoffOil: 772MCF: 1,073Choke Size: 10/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,750Total Depth: 18,107 feetPerforations: 12,400-

17,893 feet

API No.: 42-123-32873Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern

Energy Corp.Lease Name: Nelson AWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: T. Churm-

ley, A-114Direction and Miles: 6.53

miles NW. of NordheimOil: 984MCF: 2,011Choke Size: 12/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 7,415Total Depth: 18,903 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,809

feetPerforations: 13,662-

18,697 feet

API No.: 42-123-32828Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Geosouthern

Energy Corp.Lease Name: Krause BWell No.: 7HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-2)Survey Name: F.S. Breed-

ing, A-69Direction and Miles: 2.68

miles SE. of WesthoffOil: 624MCF: 1,396Choke Size: 10/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 6,895Total Depth: 18,684 feetPlug Back Depth: 18,565

feetPerforations: 13,498-

18,298 feet

Gonzales County

API No.: 42-177-32670Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Argent Energy

(US) Holdings Inc.Lease Name: HrncirWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: L. Mallet,

A-352Direction and Miles: 18.4

miles NE. of GonzalesOil: 415MCF: 151Choke Size: 24/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 350Total Depth: 14,658 feetPerforations: 9,325-

14,658 feet

API No.: 42-177-32614Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Burlington Re-

sources O and G Co. LPLease Name: Mudd Unit

AWell No.: 1Field Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: D. Davis,

A-11Direction and Miles: 10.9

miles NE. of WesthoffOil: 879MCF: 791Choke Size: 10/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 5,730Total Depth: 18,470 feetPerforations: 12,330-

18,253 feet

API No.: 42-177-32885Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Billings

UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Hum-

phrey, A-266Direction and Miles: 7.6

miles SE. of SmileyOil: 2,318MCF: 2,396Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,051Total Depth: 15,003 feetPlug Back Depth: 14,922

feetPerforations: 11,806-

14,907 feet

API No.: 42-177-32850Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Brothers

UnitWell No.: 10HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: S.H. Gates,

A-228Direction and Miles: 9.7

miles SE. of CostOil: 1,428MCF: 1,426Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,207Total Depth: 16,036 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,954

feetPerforations: 10,956-

15,949 feet

API No.: 42-177-32851Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Brothers

UnitWell No.: 11HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: S.H. Gates,

A-228Direction and Miles: 9.7

miles SE. of CostOil: 1,346MCF: 1,166Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,147Total Depth: 16,962 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,879

feetPerforations: 11,000-

16,874 feet

API No.: 42-177-32936Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: William

UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)

Survey Name: C. DeWitt, A-180

Direction and Miles: 12.1 miles SE. of Cost

Oil: 915MCF: 1,069Choke Size: 30/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 1,230Total Depth: 16,637 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,552

feetPerforations: 12,331-

16,547 feet

API No.: 42-177-32842Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Lowery

UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Hum-

phrey, A-266Direction and Miles: 8.5

miles S. of SmileyOil: 2,681MCF: 2,737Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,223Total Depth: 15,950 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,857

feetPerforations: 11,932-

15,847 feet

API No.: 42-177-32844Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Lowery

UnitWell No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Hum-

phrey, A-266Direction and Miles: 8.5

miles S. of SmileyOil: 2,212MCF: 2,383Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,129Total Depth: 16,740 feetPlug Back Depth: 16,650

feetPerforations: 12,145-

16,640 feet

API No.: 42-177-32840Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Lowery

UnitWell No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Hum-

phrey, A-266Direction and Miles: 8.5

miles S. of SmileyOil: 2,248MCF: 2,279Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,123Total Depth: 15,262 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,177

feetPerforations: 11,922-

15,167 feet

API No.: 42-177-32894Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.

Lease Name: Billings Unit

Well No.: 3HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Hum-

phrey, A-266Direction and Miles: 7.6

miles SE. of SmileyOil: 2,604MCF: 2,650Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,154Total Depth: 15,719 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,641

feetPerforations: 11,753-

15,600 feet

API No.: 42-177-32893Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: EOG Resourc-

es Inc.Lease Name: Billings

UnitWell No.: 2HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: J. Hum-

phrey, A-266Direction and Miles: 7.6

miles SE. of SmileyOil: 2,337MCF: 3,385Choke Size: 32/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 2,206Total Depth: 15,208 feetPlug Back Depth: 15,129

feetPerforations: 11,831-

15,094 feet

API No.: 42-177-32817Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil

Corp.Lease Name: Tinsley-

Cook 2Well No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: G.W. Bar-

nett, A-110Direction and Miles: 7.7

miles SW. of GonzalesOil: 565MCF: 151Choke Size: 24/64 of an

inchPumping: YesTotal Depth: 13,403 feetPlug Back Depth: 13,274

feetPerforations: 7,326-

13,278 feet

API No.: 42-177-32769Classification: Fld. Dev.

and HorizontalOperator: Forest Oil

Corp.Lease Name: Colwell-

Rawls 1Well No.: 1HField Name: Eagleville

(Eagle Ford-1)Survey Name: Gonzales

CSL, A-229Direction and Miles: 5.8

miles SE. of SmileyOil: 452MCF: 391Choke Size: 16/64 of an

inchFlowing: YesTubing Pressure: 320Total Depth: 12,935 feetPlug Back Depth: 12,804

feetPerforations: 6,854-

12,807 feet

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Construction of major facility underway near Cheapside

HOUSTON — Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. this week announced up-dated production guidance for the second quarter and full year 2013 as well as plans to participate in up-coming conferences.

The company reported raising second quarter 2013 oil production guidance from 9,600-10,000 Bbl/d to 10,800-11,200 Bbl/d; ncreasing

2013 crude oil production growth target to 40% from 28%; raising 2013 total production growth target to 10% from 6%.

Carrizo’s results in the Eagle Ford Shale have been exceeding manage-ment’s expectations, with oil pro-duction averaging roughly 9,500 Bbl/d through the first two months of the quarter. Key drivers of the outperformance have been flatter-than-expected decline rates from new wells in a number of areas,

successful results from artificial lift installations and less well downtime than expected.

Primarily as a result of the strong Eagle Ford results, Carrizo is in-creasing its second quarter 2013 oil production guidance to 10,800-11,200 Bbl/d from 9,600-10,000 Bbl/d. For natural gas and NGLs, Carrizo is maintaining its prior guidance of 90-94 MMcfe/d, but expects production to be near the high end of the range. A summary

of Carrizo’s updated production and cost guidance is shown in the table below.

Carrizo is revising its 2013 drill-ing and completion capital expendi-ture plan to $530-$540 million from $500 million. The revised plan re-mains based on three operated rigs in the Eagle Ford Shale, two in the Niobrara Formation, and one in the Marcellus Shale.

In the Eagle Ford Shale, Carrizo is increasing planned 2013 drilling

activity by three wells as a result of increases in drilling efficiencies, and increasing planned completion ac-tivity by 35 net frac stages primarily for lease management purposes. In the Niobrara, Carrizo now expects to drill and complete 21 net wells, up from an estimate of 17-18 pre-viously. This results from increased non-operated drilling and comple-tion activity coupled with a higher working interest in a number of the company’s operated wells.

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result and still uses a wheel-chair to this day. According to the arrest affidavit, Ra-mos’ blood contained three times the legal alcohol limit and tested positive for co-caine. It was her fourth DWI-related arrest since 1990.

Judge William Old III ordered a pre-sentencing investigation on Ramos and reset her for sentenc-ing on August 27, where he will conduct a hearing before deciding her fate.

“She wants us to pres-ent a case at sentencing so the judge can get a full understanding of who she is and how she really feels about what happened,” Balagia said about his cli-ent’s intentions. “We’re trusting in the system and trusting that the court will hear both sides. Alice and her family have been grieving for over a year about what has happened to the Hamm family.”

In other developments, a bench warrant was is-sued for the arrest of

John Paul Casares after he failed to show up in court. He was scheduled to be-gin a jury trial on a charge of assault family violence stemming from an inci-dent where he got into a fight with his cousin.

Casares, 34 of Gon-zales, now has two out-standing warrants filed against him. He was al-ready wanted on a felony warrant for possession of a controlled substance that was obtained by the Gonzales Police De-partment about a week prior to a shooting inci-dent that took place last month. Casares has been named a person of inter-est in that shooting case.

At approximately 9:17 p.m. on Monday, June 10, Gonzales police of-ficers were dispatched to the area of Smith and St. Michael Street in ref-erence to shots being fired. A second call was dispatched regarding a vehicle striking other ve-hicles just east that loca-tion and upon his arrival, Officer Trey Tunis was directed by citizens living in the area to the corner of Darst and St. Michael Street, where he found a

gray Lincoln four-door in the roadway.

The driver of the Lin-coln told the officer he was heading east on St. Michael when a car came up behind him and pulled up next to him at an in-tersection as he slowed down. According to the police report, subjects in the car then shot at him.

The driver told Officer Tunis he ducked down inside the car and struck some vehicles in the pro-cess, including the sus-pect vehicle, which was described as a dark-col-ored Lincoln or Cadillac with a rear tire carrier. The suspect vehicle was located about a week later on FM 1116.

The Gonzales Indepen-dent School District added a new component to its student handbook during a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Monday.

The district updated the 2013-2014 District Student Handbook with the biggest change being the addition of random drug testing for students in grades 7-12. Anyone participating in any extracurricular activity including athletics, band, theatre arts and school-sponsored clubs, will be subject to the testing.

The new policy also ap-plies to students who drive cars on campus. In order to get a parking permit, the student and its parent will have to agree to the ran-dom testing. Additionally, it applies to students who are granted the privilege of off-campus lunch.

“GISD has a vital inter-est in maintaining a safe, secure and healthy learn-ing environment for all of our students,” said GISD superintendent Dr. Kim Strozier. “To fulfill that purpose and to be proac-tive in keeping our schools drug-free, the district has adopted a random drug testing policy.”

“Basically, we’re doing this to provide for student health and safety, under-mine the negative effects of peer pressure and en-courage students to re-ceive help if they are hav-ing a problem with drugs.”

The consequences will vary slightly but essen-tially the first finding of a positive test will result in a 30-day suspension from extracurricular activities

and mandatory atten-dance to sessions with a drug counselor.

“Of course, the parents will be notified and it’s all done confidentially,” Stro-zier said. “There will be no other disciplinary action taken because it has noth-ing to do with the Code of Conduct discipline.”

A second positive test will result in the same type of consequence as the first except the suspension period will be extended and the counseling ses-sions will be lengthened and/or intensified. A third positive test will result in exclusion from participa-tion in any extracurricular activity for the remainder of their prep career.

“If there are three posi-tives, then they won’t play or be able to drive a car on campus anymore,” said Strozier. “Now, we don’t foresee that happening because the goal is to help our students.”

The district also held a workshop for its 2013-2014 budget, which brought some well-re-ceived news.

“Because the prop-erty values have been ap-praised higher than last year, that means we will pass a balanced budget with about a million dol-lars in the black,” Strozier said. “Since we’ve been preliminarily identified as a property wealthy dis-trict, as we move forward we will have to give mon-ey back to the state in one form or another.”

The district will adopt its new budget in a meet-ing on August 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the DSDC Build-ing, located at 926 St. Lawrence Street.

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Gonzales County Commissioners on Monday gave approval to a cou-ple of waivers to enable the County Attorney and his new assistant to retain their health ensurance during the recently-legislated transition in authority.

The Texas Legislature this year approved a measure authorizing the County Attorney’s office to pros-ecute felony cases in the county. As a result, County Attorney Paul Watkins will have a new assistant

attorney from the District Attor-ney’s office joining the county team to help handle those cases and Wat-kins himself will officially become a state employee on Sept. 1.

The waivers approved by the Court will waive the normal 90-day waiting period for the assistant county attorney to become part of the county’s health insurance plan, and would allow Watkins to retain his COBRA coverage until the state takes over coverage.

In other business, County Tax Assessor-Collector Crystal Cedillo presented the annual effective and

rollback tax calculations, based on a property value of $3.929 billion. The rollback rate proposed will be $0.2145 per $100 valuation, sub-stantially below last year’s rate of $0.3554.

In other action, Commissioners approved a family exception to the county’s subdivision rules, agreed to use the county’s Time Payment Fund for purchase of two televisions for the court to replace the current projectors-and-screen setup, and approved purchase of a used 2010 pickup truck for courthouse main-tenance.

Trustees OKdrug testingBy CEDRIC IGLEHARTnewseditor@gonzalescannon.com

Gonzales Economic Development Corp. directors gave first approval Monday to a budget for 2013-14 of nearly $1 million.

Directors approved a prelimi-nary budget of $973,500 predicated on anticipated sales-tax revenues of $950,000.

The budget earmarks $250,000 for downtown development, $123,000 for workforce development, $100,000 for expansion/retention of current business and $150,000 for new busi-

ness recruiting.Also included is $100,000 for the

Small Business Incentive Grant pro-gram and $50,000 for the Main Street Facade program.

The board of directors postponed action on approving a new invest-ment policy for the GEDC because the proposed policy presented Mon-day was city-specific and could actu-ally have prohibited GEDC from per-forming some of its functions.

Clint Hille noted the investment policy as presented lumps GEDC with the City of Gonzales, and recent action by City Council has been to

give GEDC increasing responsibility for running its own affairs.

“That’s what the City Council ap-pointed us to do, exercise fiduciary responsibility,” he said.

The board directed Economic De-velopment Director Carolyn Gibson Baros to have the city’s auditor review the proposed policy to make it more EDC-specific.

Baros told directors that halfway through the current “stump budget” year, the city has already taken in 78 percent of its projected sales tax rev-enue for the period and anticipates it will exceed that projection.

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ed as a result of a lightning strike on Saturday as thun-derstorms moved through the area. Rain from the storm initially suppressed the fire, but humidity later dropped markedly and the wind increased, fanning the latent lighting flames in a tree.

The fires in the county

had consumed a total of 319 acres, according to in-formation from State Rep. Tim Kleinschmidt.

Most of the blazes were initially reported around 5 p.m. Monday.

A large part of Bastrop County was damaged or destroyed during wildfires which broke out in Septem-ber, 2011.

FIRES: Bastrop Co. blazes under control

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Lavaca County Sheriff ’s officials ar-rested a Mexican national transporting more than 450 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Sunday, Sheriff Mi-cah Harmon said.

Hugo Cesar Elizondo-Diaz, 30, of Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was ar-rested and charged with possession of

between 50 and 2,000 pounds of mari-juana.

He is being held in the Lavaca County jail.Deputies are searching for two other

people who bailed out of the vehicle at alternate U.S. Highway 77 at Mustang Creek about 11 a.m. Sunday.

A Department of Public Safety he-licopter and prison scent dogs out of Cuero and Beeville assisted with the search.

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SHOOTING: 4 arrested

weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon, tam-pering with or fabricating evidence, and giving a false report to a police officer.

Kirsten Michelle Cama-cho, 24, of Luling, was also charged with aggravated robbery, engaging in or-ganized criminal activity, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, tamper-

ing with or fabricating evidence, and giving a false report to a police officer. She was also served an ar-rest warrant filed by Hays County on a charge of Mo-tion to Adjudicate a Posses-sion of Marijuana charge, and a Class C warrant is-sued by Luling Municipal Court

All subjects have been apprehended and booked into Caldwell County Jail.

The preliminary police report on the incident indicated responding officers found Cantu lying on his back near the mailboxes at around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Officers noticed a wallet chain attached to his belt, but no wallet. Links from the chain were found on a nearby sidewalk.

The police report indicated the de-ceased man had no identification and was

identified by apartment residents.Residents told the television station it

is not uncommon to hear gunshots near the complex.

Cantu played guitar in some area bands and it was common for him to come home late in the evening, family members said Wednesday. He had been living in the San Antonio area about three years.

Police have not identified any suspects in the case.

MURDER: Suspects sought

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The Gonzales Community African American Scholarship Fund recently awarded two Gonzales High School students with $500 scholarships. Making the presentation to Darnell Arnic is president Johnny Ross Hunt. Arnic, the son of Larry and Lisa Arnic, plans to attend Victoria College and major in Kineseology. During his time at GHS he participated in the Gonzales Summer Youth Program; was active in cross country, baseball, football and track; the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; PALS-Child Guidance; and the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church Relay for Life. Also receiving a scholarship but not pictured was September S. Walker, the son of James Walker and Charlene Cockroft. During his time at GHS, Walker was vice president Gonzales FCCLA Club 12; participated in Future Scientists; Anchor Club; played Football; and also participated in FFA and 4-H. He plans to attend Texas Private University and major in pre-medicine, with plans to become an orthopedic surgeon.

Librarian Becky Villa received a donation from Madi-son Blundell and Caitlyn Blundell for Friends of the Library.

Friends of the Library Treasurer Lucy Fernandez re-ceived a check from DuBose Insurance Agency. From left is Lucy Fernandez, Tracy Gilliam, Kristien Gray, Julie Dickinson, Luz Blackwell and Heather Boscamp.

Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union presents a check to librarian Becky Villa. From left is Tammy Grasso, Amanda Schultze and Alisa Clack.

Librarian Lucy Martinez accepts a check from Joel and Laurel Ince.

Noell Ince presents a check to librarian Lucy Marti-nez. Not pictured is Noell’s husband, Mark.

Friends of the Library received a check from GVTC in the amount of $250.00. From left is Troy Dean of GVTC with Librarian Caroline Helms-Blundell.

Southern Clay Products Inc. Donation Front Row (from left) Susan Simper presents Librarian Becky Villa with a check. Back Row (from left) Joan Rich-ardson, Samantha Garcia, James McCray, Lori Benes, Jon Such and Jerrie Walshak

Dora Noyola and Jimmy Windwehen of Wells Fargo Bank present a check to Librarian Becky Villa.

Shiner Catholic School Lunch Menu

Week of August 12-16All lunches served with

milk or water. Yogurt is also offered

MONDAYBBQ on a BunRanch Style BeansTater TotsSliced pickles or onionsFruit

TUESDAYSteak FingersWhite or brown gravyWhipped potatoesGreen beansBread, Fruit

WEDNESDAYTaco SaladCheese, lettuce, tomato, ja-

lapenosTortilla chipsPinto beansFruit

THURSDAYSalisbury SteakBrown gravy, ketchupBaked riceSteamed veggie blendBread, fruit

FRIDAYFish stripsMacaroni & CheeseTossed saladCarrot sticks w/ Ranch dipBread, fruit

SCS Lunch Menus

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Ice Cream SocialThe Thompsonville Ladies Club will host

their annual Ice Cream Social on Saturday, August 3 at 6 p.m. at the Thompsonville Com-munity Center, located on County Road 423 off U.S. Highway 90.

There will be a variety of homemade ice cream and other desserts available. Donations will be accepted and the monies will be used for scholarships for area youth.

Rummage SaleThe Country Village Square Residents As-

sociation will hold their annual Rummage Sale on Saturday, Aug. 3 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. in the community room at Country Village Square Apts., 1800 Waelder Road in Gonzales. Sales will include household items, clothing and lots of miscellaneous. Proceeds will benefit the as-sociation for many projects.

School of DanceThe registration for the 2013-2014 Gonza-

les Hermann Sons School of Dance has been scheduled for Thursday, August 8, 2013 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm at the Hermann Sons Hall in Gonzales. At the time of registration, proof of membership must be shown and a registra-tion fee will be due. Students must be of prop-er age 3 through 17 on or before September 1, 2013. Classes will be set after registration. If you are interested in enrolling your child please contact Roberta at 830-203-9918, Sylvia at 830-857-3762 or Tina T. at 830-857-6418 or Tina G. at 830 857-1332.

Substitute TrainingNixon-Smiley CISD will be holding a sub-

stitute teacher training workshop Thursday, August 8, 2013, at 9am in the Nixon campus cafeteria. You must attend before becoming a substitute. New subs need to bring a driver’s license or photo id, social security card and a copy of their high school or college transcript, or GED. For more information, contact the Ad-ministration Office at 582-1536 ext. 105.

Edwards BBQ BenefitThe Edwards Association will host a benefit

barbecue from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9 at the Edwards Center, 1427 Flt. St. in Gonzales. Half-chicken plates with all the trimmings will be available for $8. A drive-through line will be available.

Beran ReunionThe 24th Beran Reunion will be held on Au-

gust 11, 2013 at the St. Joseph Parish Hall in Moulton, Texas. Registration will begin at 10:00 a.m. Dinner will be served at noon. Each fam-ily is asked to bring 1 side (dressing, vegetable, salad or desert). Fried chicken will be provided. Please be sure to invite your immediate fam-ily. If you wish, please bring an item for the auction, adult door prize, or child door prize. Please RSVP no later than July 28 to: Geor-gie Wagner at (361)596-4509, Ann Kalisek at (361)596-7049 or (361)798-8686 cell or Vince Kalisek at email 6kalisek@gamil.com.

Halliburton ReunionA good old-fashioned Halliburton Reunion

is scheduled Saturday, Aug. 17 at the St. Jo-seph’s Church Parish Hall in Moulton from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The meal will be catered this year; those at-tending are asked to bring your favorite des-serts, as well as items for the live and silent auctions.

Entertainment will be provided by the back Porch Band. Bring those sweet children, cous-ins and all!

For details, contact June Carley at 830-540-4154.

Community BingoThe Heights of Gonzales will host commu-

nity bingo at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 23. Bingo winners will receive $1 for each bingo and a $50 split for blackouts. Participants must be 55 or older or a resident of a care facility to win the black-outs.

The event is hosted by Excel Home Health, Gonzales Memorial Healthcare Systems and The Heights of Gonzales.

Chamber ElectionThe Gonzales Chamber of Commerce & Ag-

riculture will hold its annual election on Aug. 30. If you have a nomination to submit for consideration or would like to serve, contact the Gonzales Chamber office at 830-672-6532 (CTI@gonzalestexas.com) or president Sascha Kardosz (skardosz@gonzaleshealthcare.com) on or before Aug. 9.

The nominations committee is seeking 8-10 ballot nominees. Of that list, five will be select-ed to serve on the chamber board.

Moulton ReunionThe Moulton High School Reunion for all

classes will be held on October 19, 2013 at the KC Hall in Moulton. Registration and visiting will begin at 2 p.m. Dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by a short meeting. A dance will follow from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. with music by the Red Ravens. A fee of $12.50 per person in-cludes a catered meal and dance.

The classes of 1961, 1962 and 1963 will be honored as they have or are celebrating their 50th anniversary since the last reunion.

Graduating classes through the class of 1976 will receive written invitations in mid-Au-gust--but the reunion is for anyone and every-one who ever attended Moulton High School.

Those who need to provide a new address or those not identified to receive a written invitation or need more infotmation should contact Dennis Ellinghausen (361-596-7721) or e-mail ellinghausen@att.net or Tony Janak (361-596-8185). The Last reunion was held in 2010.

Child CareNeed child care? Contact Workforce Solu-

tions. The Gonzales office of Golden Crescent Workforce Solutions offers help in locating affordable child care for those who are work-ingm attending school/college or in training. You must meet eligibility requirements. For details, contact the office at 830-672-2146 or visit www.gcworkforce.org.

Al-Anon meetingAlcoholics Anonymous meets every Mon-

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

Free GED ClassesFREE GED classes, day (M T W and Th, 8 30 to

noon) and night (M and W 6 30 to 9), Gonzales Learning Center, 1135 St. Paul, 672-8291.

Free piano lessonsFree piano lessons for students 8-18 are be-

ing offered in Gonzales.There are 10 weekly lessons that take place

from 3:45-4:45 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Gonzales Public Library, lo-cated at 415 St. Matthew.

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

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

Head StartTMC Golden Crescent Head Start offers pre-

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

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

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley Family Violence Shel-

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

GVFVS provides survivors with legal advoca-cy, case management, counseling, assistance with crime victims compensation and other services at no cost. For more information, call 830-372-2780 or 1-800-834-2033.

Toastmasters meet Want to become a better communica-

tor? The Come & Speak It Toastmasters meet the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon in the Gonzales County Farm Bureau Community Room, 1731 Seydler Street in Gon-zales.

Whether you’re a professional, a student, a stay-at-home parent, or a retiree, Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communica-tion skills. Toastmasters can help you lose the

fear of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in your chosen endeavor. You’ll listen better. You’ll more easily lead teams and conduct meetings. You’ll com-fortably give and receive constructive evalua-tion.

For more information contact GK Willmann at 830-857-1109 or Gerri Lawing at 830-857-6110.

Parkinson Support GroupThis group meets the second Thursday of

every month at 10 a.m. in the Narthex of the First United Methodist Church. This meeting is free and open to the public and is facilitated by Wesley Nurse, Shirley Goss. Educational and supportive programs are offered. For more in-formation, call 672-1031.

Free Exercise ProgramsFlex & Tone is held every Tuesday and Thurs-

day, 11-11:45 in the Fellowship Hall of First United Methodist Church. These are chair ex-ercises using exercise balls, dowels and hand weights. Come on, join us, and get fit. Exercises are led by an RN with blood pressure assess-ments available.

Walk-Exercise your way to fitness is an Video exercise available at First United Methodist Church. It is offered every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 3 pm, and every Wednesday at 2 pm. This group meets for 45 minutes in the Fellowship Hall. It consists of low impact aero-bic exercises and is facilitated by Shirley Goss, Wesley Nurse. Blood pressure assessments are available at each class. Come and have great fun and socialization along with gaining fit-ness.

The Gonzales Junior High Cheerleaders attended a National Cheerleading As-sociation camp last week in New Braunfels, where they received the following awards: Spirit Stick, Best Camp Chant and Best Camp Cheer, Superior and Excel-lent Ribbons. Team members include 8th graders Kelly Christian, Haley Garza, Hailey Hernandez, Cameron Kluting, Abby Morrow, K’Leigh Pish, Taegan Thwing (not pictured), Seidy Villegas, Amerie White, Presleigh Zella, mascot Lauren Strickland and 7th graders Angelina Casares, Kacee Fink, Raven Flores, Taylor Glass, Jayden Goode, Alexis Martinez, Jolie Moreno, Ryleigh Orosco, Lindsey Ramos, Emilay Schramm, Ashlynn Tatsch and mascot Autumn Hernandez. Their sponsors are Bre Stafford and Kelly Presley. (Courtesy photo)

American LegionThe Gonzales American Legion Post #40 will hold their regular monthly

meeting on Thursday, August 1, 6:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall. All members and prospective members are urged to attend.

Saturn CemeteryThe Saturn Cemetery Association will hold a quarterly meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, August 2 at the Saturn Community Building, located on Highway 97 north.

The meeting will focus on the homecoming. All interested persons are en-couraged to attend.

For more information, call 830-540-3858.

Breitschopf-Kuntschik ReunionThe Breitschopf-Kuntschik Reunion will be held Sunday, August 4, 2013 at

the St. James Catholic Parish Hall in Gonzales. Meat will be furnished and ev-eryone is asked to bring 2 side dishes, vegetable, salad or dessert and an item for the silent auction.

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August 1, 1966On this date in 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman

began a killing rampage that left seventeen dead and thirty-one wounded in one of the worst mass murders in modern United States history. Whit-man first killed his mother in her apartment and his wife in their residence. He then went to the tower on the University of Texas campus where he clubbed a receptionist, who later died, then killed two other people and wounded two more. Gaining the observation deck at an elevation of 231 feet he began firing on persons crossing the campus and others on nearby streets, killing ten and wounding thirty-one (one died a week later). Police returned his fire from the ground while police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston Mc-Coy gained the observation deck, where they shot and killed Whitman. An autopsy revealed a tumor in Whitman’s head but medical authorities disagreed over its effect on his actions.

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July 15Reported Hindering Secured

Creditor At 600 Blk St. Paul St.July 19

Reported Assault At 2000 Blk St. Joseph St.

July 22LaPaul Deron McCallister,

23 Of Simsboro, Arrested And Charged With Assault Family Violence, And Criminal Trespass At 900 Blk Water St.

Reported Theft At 700 Blk St. Lawrence St.

Reported Burglary Habitation At 1600 Blk Huisache St.

Reported Assault At 1300 Blk Ewing St.

Reported Illegal Dumping.July 23

Stoney Rodel White, 38 Of Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Evading In A Vehicle At 1800 Blk Luling St.

Reported Assault At 200 Blk Bright St.

Reported Runaway At 800 Blk Williams St.

July 24Jeremy Lynn Navejar, 25 Of

Gonzales, Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Controlled Substance At Cone And Water St.

Reported Hit And Run Ac-cident At 600 Blk Dunning St.

Reported Burglary Habitation At 300 Blk DeWitt St.

Yoakum Police Department re-port for July 22-28:

07/22/13Case #179835, Hernandez,

Edwin, 22, Yoakum, 200 Maple; Offense(s), 1. W#23265-FTA-Poss. Cntrl. Substance, 2. W#23266-FTA-FTA-Poss. Cntrl. Substance, 3. W#4317/23160-Bond Forfeiture, 4. W#4316/23193-Bond Forfei-ture; Disposition(s), Trans/LCSO on all offenses.

Case #179848, Kifer, Chris, 51, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense(s), 1. W#05-930-No Seat Belt, 2. W#05-931-No Registration, 3. W#07-045-FTA-No Seat Belt, 4. W#07-046-FTA-No Registration; Disposition(s), 1. Fine/$124/Rel., 2. Fine $106/Rel., 3. Fine/$236/Rel., 4. Fine/$206/Rel.

Case #13-264, Theft-B, 203 US 77A S.; Complainant, Baack, Mary

Lou; Disposition, Investigation.07/25/13Case #13-271, Theft-B, 311

Hochheim; Disposition, Investi-gation.

07/26/13Case #13-268, Assault-C, 102

Capitol; Disposition, Court Cita-tion.

07/27/13Case #179906, Assist Agency/

Narc., US 77A N.; Complainant, Lavaca County SO; Disposition, LCSO Narc. Case.

07/28/13Case #13-269, Johnson, Dwan,

29, Yoakum, 105 Ellen Way; Of-fense, Disorderly Conduct; Dis-positon, Fine/$564/YPD Custody.

Case #179930, Torres, Arturo, 36, Mexico, 511 N. South; Of-fense, Detainment for I.C.E.; Dis-position, YPD Custody.

Yoakum Police Report

DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office Report from July 18-25:

July 18Arrested Clifton Johnson, 38,

of Yoakum, Possession of Mari-juana <2oz, Bond of $1,000.00, Tamper/Fabricate Evidence, Bond of $1,500.00, Cuero PD

Arrested Frederick Anzaldua, 21, of Cuero, Violation of Proba-tion on Continuous Family Vio-lence, Bond of $50,000.00, DCSO

Arrested Henry Lester Rhodes, 51, of Victoria, Motor Vehicle Safety Violation, Trial by Judge, Failure to Appear Motor Vehicle Safety Violation, Trial by Judge, Revocation of Probation on Theft of Livestock (Gonzales Co), Bond of $5,000, Cuero PD

Arrested Jesse Louis Lien-do, 29, of Yoakum, Theft of Property>=$1,500<$20K, Bond of $10,000, DCSO

Arrested Shawn Dylan Sali-nas, 18, of Yorktown, Failure to Appear, Fine of $442, Failure to Identify Fugitive Intent Give False Information, Bond of $1,000, Yor-ktown PD

July 19Arrested Karah Paige Rohan,

19, of Cuero, Possession of Con-trolled Substance Penalty Group

3 < 28G Drug Free Zone, Bond of $1,000, Possession of Marijuana <2oz Drug Free Zone, Bond of $1,000, Cuero PD

Arrested Tyree Ceasar, 36, of Yorktown, Bail Jumping & Fail-ure to Appear-Felony, No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Matthew Marin, 20, of Yorktown, Assault Causes Bodily Injury-Family Member, Bond of $5,000.00, Terroristic Threat, Bond of $1,500.00, Yorktown PD

Arrested Joseph Brooks, 23, of Yorktown, Resist Arrest/Search/Transport, Bond of $1,000.00, Yor-ktown PD

July 20Arrested Michael Vinson, 25,

of Austin, Forgery of a Financial Instrument (Kerr County), Bond of $15,000.00, Yorktown PD

Arrested Tommy Bell, 44, of Cuero, Driving While Intoxicated, Bond of $1,000.00, Cuero PD

Arrested Eric Evans, 45, of Crys-tal Springs, Public Intoxication, Fine of $355.00 (30 Days to Pay), DCSO

Arrested Elizabeth Huyck, 55, of Yoakum, Driving While Intoxi-cated, Bond of $1,000.00, DPS

July 21Arrested Ervin Lewis, 53, of Cu-

ero, Assault Causes Bodily Injury, Bond of $4,000.00, Cuero PD

July 22Arrested Marcos Perez, 35, of

Yoakum, Violate Open Container Law, Fine of $405.00 (30 days to pay), No/Expired Vehicle Registra-tion, Fine of $216.00 (30 Days to Pay), Disregard Stop Sign, Fine of $205.90 (30 Days to Pay), Violate Promise to Appear-Violate Open Container Law, Fine of $345.00 (30 Days to Pay), Violate Promise to Appear-No/Expired Vehicle Registration, Fine of $345.00 (30 Days to Pay), Violate Promise to Appear-Disregard Stop Sign, Fine of $345.00 (30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

July 23Arrested Emily Gonzalez, 23,

of Cuero, Assault Causing Bodily Injury, Bond $4,000.00, Cuero PD

Arrested Richard Jiminez, 27, of Houston, Driving While Li-cense Invalid W/ Previous Con-viction, Bond of $1,000.00, York-town PD

Arrested Marcus McDonald, 32, of Cuero, Violation of Proba-tion, No Bond, DCSO

Arrested Antonio LaFreniere, 34, of Cuero, Driving While Li-cense Invalid W/ Previous Convic-

tion, Bond of $1,000.00, Expired Registration, Fine $207.10(30 Days to Pay), Cuero PD

Arrested Joel Chipps, 20, of Cuero, Criminal Mischief >=$50<$500, Bond of $2,000.00, Cuero PD

July 24Arrested Stella Smith, 22, of

California, Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon, Bond of $100,000.00, DCSO

July 25Arrested Ollie Williams, 42, of

Cuero, Possession of Controlled Substance and Release of Surety from Bond, Bond of $20,000.00, DCSO

Arrested Damascus Walker, 34, of Cuero, Theft of Property =>$50<$500. Bond of $1000.00, DCSO

Arrested Aaron Valenzuela, 23, of Cuero, Theft of Property =>$50<$500, Bond of $1000.00, Cuero PD

Arrested James Windowsky, 37, of Yorktown, Expired Reg-istration, Fine of $251.80, York-town PD

Arrested Jose Iniquez-Qui-nonez, 52, of Cuero, Assault Fam-ily Violence, Bond of $4000.00, Cuero PD

Justin LopezGus Renteria

LOCKHART — Caldwell County authorities arrested a pair of men last week in sepa-rate burglary of a vehicle inci-dents.

Sheriff Daniel Law said that on July 19, Caldwell County Sheriff’s Deputies were dis-patched to 13321 State Park Road in Fentress for a burglary of a vehicle which had just occurred. The suspect was a white male who had left driv-ing a gold passenger car.

Deputies, while in route to the said address, observed a vehicle matching the suspect vehicle parked at the drive-way entrance to the property at 7751 State Park Road in Lockhart. A deputy stopped and when walking up to the car noticed the driver to be a white male operating a small laptop computer. In an attempt to get the driver’s attention, the deputy knocked on the driver’s side window and observed the man make a quick movement with his hands moving down towards the floor board of the

car.In observing Lopez’s reac-

tion, the deputy immediately acted in officer safety and un-holstered his duty weapon. He then ordered the man out of the vehicle and restrained him.

The on-scene investigation revealed a laptop in plain view partially under the driver’s seat. Further investigation revealed enough probable cause to ar-rest the man, who was later identified as 26-year old Justin Lopez, for the offense of Bur-glary of Motor Vehicle.

Lopez was arrested and transported to the Caldwell County Jail and remanded to jail personnel. He was magis-trated by Judge Homer Horne, who set a bond of $15,000 for the offense of Burglary of a Vehicle with previous two or more convictions, a State Jail Felony.

The investigation is ongo-ing and other charges may be pending.

On July 24, a deputy was dispatched to 34 Wanda Ct. in Martindale on a call that a burglary of a vehicle was in progress. The deputy was fur-

ther advised the complainant and an off-duty Department of Public Safety officer had the suspect subdued and awaiting his arrival.

Upon his arrival the deputy’s investigation revealed that the complainant, identified as Nickholas Pardo, was return-ing to his home accompanied by his wife and his brother-in-law who is a DPS officer. Pardo advised while turning in to his driveway, he noticed the interior light of his Toyota truck was on and a subject was standing on the passenger side of the truck with the door open looking inside for something.

Pardo further advised that

the man was caught by his brother-in-law, who took him to the ground and they both held him until the deputy ar-rived. The man, who was later identified as 23-year old Gus Renteria, admitted to the bur-glary and also admitted to bur-glary of other vehicles in the area.

Renteria was taken into cus-tody for the offense of Burglary of a Vehicle and transported to the Caldwell County Jail, where he was remanded to jail personnel. He was magistrated by Judge Alfonso Campos, who set a bond of $6,000 for the offense of Burglary of a Ve-hicle, a Class A misdemeanor.

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The gorgeous grandmas receiving makeovers at the tea party included Florence Thompson (left) and community administrator Pat Compton (above).

After three years (and lots of patience with my personal life situ-ations), I have re-turned to Soccer Academy’s Adult Residential Camp program. How-ever, it was in a brand new location — the University of California-Riverside.

I was excited because I have not been to the area (Los Angeles) since 1984, nearly 30 years and it felt like I’d never been to the area.

After a nice several-hour ride from Alamo City (via a connection in Phoenix), I landed in Ontario, which is directly east of Los Ange-les proper — and a mere 20 miles from Riverside.

I have to deviate for a sec-ond and give a message to

whoever is in charge of On-tario International Airport. Please build a small con-venience store for the Ter-minal 4 baggage claim for arriving passengers as there are no places to eat past the security checkpoints ex-cept for some vending ma-chines. But seriously, build a Subway or something.

I later met up with Jim, a camper out of Chicago, who had attended the McDaniel College camp the previous year. We were picked up by the Soccer Academy Presi-dent Paul Ellis and another

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CORPUS CHRISTI – Gonzales resident Stefanie Martinez won the Un-der-10 shot put at the Texas Amateur Athletic Fed-eration (TAAF) Games of Texas last week in Corpus Christi.

Martinez got a best throw of 25 feet, 6 ½ inches to edge out second-place Marissa Martin, who got a distance of 21-2.

“I was so proud of her. She has been to every prac-tice and really wanted to do well,” Gonzales summer track coach Cully Doyle said. “She was confident when she went into the shot put ring in Corpus and it paid off with a gold medal.”

Erika Hernandez won second in the Under 16 shot put with a throw of 39-10 ¼ and got fourth in the discus with 117-7.

“I was proud of her for the performance she had but I was really excited about her discus throw,” Doyle said. “Erika has been throwing really well in practice in both the shot put and discus by throw-ing over 40 feet in practice and well over 100 feet in discus.  I knew it was just a matter of time that it would all come together. She is a great thrower with a lot more to go.”

Reagan Luce won run-ner-up in the 18 and Under high jump with a leap of 5-4 and got seventh in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 48.03 seconds.

“Reagan is just a great overall athlete.   She works hard and wants to be great at everything she does,” Doyle said. 

Kendall Fougerat placed No. 26 in the 16 and Un-der long jump with a dis-tance 14-6 ½. Kylee Watson

placed 13th in the 8 and Under 800 with a time of 3:22.07, which was a per-sonal best.

Caitlyn Blundell came in No. 19 in 10 and Under 1600 with a time of 6:55.41 and finished No. 32 in the 800, clocked at 3:14.27. Sa-mantha Barnick placed No. 29 in the 800 with a time of 3:08.87 and finished No. 12 in the high jump with a height of 3-4.  

The 4x400 relay team of

Barnick, Blundell, Marti-nez and Mirsaydes Castillo finished the race in 5:45.95 for No. 19.  

Haley Garza finished the 14 and Under 800 with a time of 2:45.8, placing No. 24. Andi Theis placed No. 11 in the 18 and Under triple jump, reaching a dis-tance of 32-8 ¼, was No. 25 in the 100 in 14.05 and was No. 21 in the 400 prelims with a time of 1:11.07.

Taken after my hard-earned goal during the evening match on July 16 at Soccer Academy’s Adult Resi-dential Camp at the University of California-River-side. (Courtesy photo)

coach on his staff, Kenny Dyer, an ex-professional player and a regular coach at the camp at the first loca-tion in Maryland.

We picked up another camper, Jenson, at a near-by hotel and made the short, less than 30-mile trip to Riverside. During the drive, I really took in the scenery (and the traf-fic volume). I also missed a phone call from my former referee colleague, Oscar, who happened to live in Santa Monica.

We reached the campus and unloaded our stuff from the vehicle, got our keys and set our stuff down in the ‘apartments’ which consisted of a kitchen area, living area and two rooms on both sides with two to-tal bathrooms, one at each end. The fields that were to be used for the drills and games were literally right next door to the residence hall and behind them were mountains/foothills that provided a scenic backdrop for our several days of soc-cer.

After Paul told us when we would meet for the camp orientation, Jenson, Jim and myself opted to try and find the cafeteria. We were able to get lunch but had to pay because our meal plan did not start un-til dinner. Afterwards, the three of us took a long walk down through campus and off it a little.

We met the other two coaches, Mickey Feeny and Craig Scott, who was Soccer Academy’s ath-letic trainer for the camp. We met our fellow camp-ers, A.J., Mike, Matt, Ben, Charlie, Heather, Paula, “Frankie”, “Lou Lou” and Rachel.

After the meeting, we headed to the field for a short session. It was unique in that in Maryland there were never two sessions — you checked in, went to orientation, had dinner and went to the field to play.

In that opening session we did a warm up, did some stepovers and other tricks with the ball. Fol-lowing dinner in the very well-equipped Aberdeen-Inverness Residential Res-taurant (where Jenson, Jim and myself had already tested the waters), we went back on the field to play 4-v-4. I made some good passes, made some bad passes, scored a couple of ‘goals.’

A few days before the camp, Oscar had messaged me and told me I need to bring a light pair of wind pants and long-sleeved T-

shirt for the evenings. My goofy mind was thinking, “It is going to be mid-July, why would it be cold?!” I brought the items but did not wear them.

Boy, I felt stupid later.I got cold; started shiv-

ering. My fellow campers, full of concern and com-passion, asked me if I was alright. I simply responded by saying “I’m a little cold.” They told me I might have overheated and my body compensated by sweating more. I sat on the sideline for a minute or two before getting back in the game. I think I was chilly due to minor dehydration and some jet lag.

Monday (July 15) morn-ing’s session was on trap-ping and receiving. Not too difficult, but nevertheless a challenge for me personal-ly. After lunch, Jenson and I walked to the bookstore. I bought a couple of T-shirts, notebook and a water bot-tle. I am quite sure I have never paid nearly $19 for a water bottle! But I suppose that is California for you. God bless the state and the residents anyway.

The afternoon session was a lecture on defend-ing and info on offsides as some of the campers played in leagues in which it was not in effect. Following the lecture, we went out onto the field to get life-sized picture of what we had gone over in the classroom.

In the evening session, we did the same thing but in a 7-v-7 game. I person-ally felt that I had a horrible game due to some unex-plained aches and pains in both big toes whenever I put on my cleats. I could not run faster than a 100-year old turtle and the constants yells of “Mark, get back!” in an Irish ac-cent resonated off the hills northeast of the campus.

After the match, camp-ers and staff gathered out-side the dorm to relax with conversation, Corona and Fat Tire beer , and some grapes and wine provided by the ladies. At McDaniel, these drinking/snacking/visiting/smoking/listening to music social hours took place every night.

With a new location with its own traditions to be cre-ated, there was no night socializing on Sunday. And apparently the talking was a little loud as we were ap-proached by a UCR Hous-ing staff member to ask us to quiet down a little. That provided a few chuckles.

Next morning, we worked on passing using both feet. It was a little difficult for me since I am

right footed and my left is nearly useless (even when my big toe does not hurt).

The afternoon lecture we were in for a real treat. Paul Ellis’ sister, Jill, works with U.S. Soccer with the wom-en youth teams and was kind enough to come from the Home Depot Center to the camp and talk about the US Women’s program, and what their goals and philosophies are.

Shortly after, we hit the field again and my group, the beginner group, worked on shooting with the instep. The instep or laces shot is a tough one for me because my instinct or rather habit, is to strike the ball with the surface I feel most comfortable with – the inside of the foot.

Kenny instituted a rule that if you hit the ball over the goal, you had to do five pushups. I got some not-so good shots with the toes or the inside of the foot, a couple of actual instep shots and then several in-step shots that sent the ball 300 feet into the air and over the goal.

From that part of the training, I owed Kenny 30 pushups.

Later we took shots from the penalty spot and if the keeper made the save, you had to do five pushups. Only one of my shots was stopped so guess what, I owed Kenny five more pushups to up the tally to 35.

The usual evening match was moved up to 7 p.m. because the whole camp was going to one of the lo-cal bars for drinks. I played right midfield and was ab-solute crap on helping de-fend. And not a lot of help on offense because I could not sprint fast enough to save a perfect pass from a teammate from going out of bounds. I did however, make darting runs past the left back to try to get a shot on goal (probably why I did not do a good job on recov-ery as I was fatigued). I got a couple of good shots that went a little wide.

Near the end of the game, my eight-year goal drought came to end rather unexpectedly. I was doing my best to stay with the last field player in roughly the middle when our forward or center mid reached the back line. I was in agony trying not to start my run early and be caught off-sides but Matt hit a perfect through pass. I took off like a bat out of hell, reached the ball, gave it a little touch to control and shot to the keeper’s left for the goal. I fell down on my back in

celebratory madness and I got congratulated by ev-eryone including the other team. I also posted on Face-book and of course, that got a lot of hits.

Later that night, we all met up at the bar and I nursed a martini in minor celebrations.

Wednesday morning’s training was mostly on shooting although my-self and the rest of the beginner’s group worked on fakes and stepovers. I struggled with getting the stepovers right but did bet-ter in the shooting, includ-ing a couple of bending high shots that got past the keeper. I still accidentally used my inside of the foot as I am still trying to get used to striking it with the laces part.

The afternoon classroom session was on the princi-ples of attacking. Later this was followed by an on-field demonstration and drills on the concept. It ended with a short field, quick-paced, shooting-laden game.

Evening game was VERY INTENSE. My big toe(s) hampered me a little but not as much as compared to the daytime. I was mak-ing runs into the attacking third, but did a horrible job of getting back to help on defense. Sadly, no goals this time but I did get a couple of long range shots on goal and did my best impression of David Beckham on a free kick.

Okay, so not really. I kicked it too freaking low and it hit right on the edge of the wall.

Following the match, there was relaxing and so-cializing outside the dorm. No UCR housing staff had to be scrambled to serve a noise-complaint warning this time.

Final day of camp and I was kind of sad because I will be leaving the new teammates/friends that I have made through our love of soccer, desire to delay on defense, be cre-ative and learn tough ball-control tricks such as the stepover.

The morning (and final session) was half training, half game. First, I got a lit-tle bit of review on passing, trapping and dribbling. We then played our last game of the camp. Being tired from the rest of the week, I was not impressed with my performance. I made some good runs and pass-es, but as a midfielder I did a bad job of tracking back on defense due to both my fatigue and slightly aching

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ScoreboardYouth Rodeo

Results from the Texas Youth Rodeo Association 2013 State

FinalsTop five in each event

(Place, contestant, city, points)

Bareback Ridings — 1st, Lane McGehee, Victoria, 100; 2nd, Wy-att Johnson, La Grange, 90; 3rd, Kuy Rippstein, Victoria, 0.

Bull Riding — 1st, Tres Gar-cia, Premont, 100; 2nd, Alejandro Flores, George West, 90; 3rd, Brett Garza, Rivera, 80; 4th, Colby Hill, Del Rio, 70; 5th, Brandon Loya, Beeville, 60.

Chute Dogging — 1st, Spin Edwards, Magnolia, 100; 2nd, Garrett Oates, Huntsville, 90; 3rd, Cooper Hurt, Dilley, 80; 4th, Ryan Nettle, Brenham, 70; 5th, Cullen Eppright, Cost, 60.

Junior Boys Breakaway — 1st, Adam Kolton, Huntsville, 100; 2nd, Justin De La Garza, Freer, 90; 3rd, Cody Parks, Bellville, 80;

4th, Arlins Bluntzer, Robstown, 70; 5th, Blake Johnson, Orange Grove, 60.

Junior Cloverleaf — 1st, Madi-son Outhier, Utopia, 100; 2nd, Hannah Allison, Orange Grove, 90; 3rd, Mary Grace Bluntzer, Robstown, 80; 4th, Davette Steg-man, Needville, 70; 5th, Mollee Herrmann, Sandia, 60.

Junior Figure 8 — 1st, Bailey Gubert, Hungerford, 100; 2nd, Kasey Kretzchmar, East Bernard, 90; 3rd, Bailey Phillips, West Co-lumbia, 80; 4th, Emily Douglas, La Vernia, 70; 5th, Davette Stegman, Needville, 60.

Junior Girls Breakaway — 1st, Hannah Phillips, Katy, 100; 2nd, Molly Atkinson, Anderson, 90; 3rd, Kirby Rawlinson, El Campo, 80; 4th, Hannah Allison, Orange Grove, 70; 5th, Maddie Christian, Suglarland, 60.

Junior Goat Tying — 1st, Coo-per Clinton, Carthage, 100; 2nd, Jenna Bratton, Bryan, 90; 3rd, Emily Douglas, La Vernia, 80; 4th, Kirby Evelo, Boling, 70; 5th, Cas-

sidy Pineda, Caldwell, 60.Junior Poles — 1st, Mayce

Marek, Pleasanton, 100; 2nd, Bai-ley Bennight, Bastrop, 90; 3rd, Maddie Christian, Sugar Land, 80; 4th, Grace Davis, Fulshear, 70; 5th, Kirby Evelo, Boling, 60.

Junior Ribbon Roping — 1st, Janson Dawson (roper, Smith-ville)/Bailey Bennight (runner, Bastrop), 100; 2nd, Cullen Ep-pright (roper, Cost)/Elizabeth Johnston (runner, Three Rivers), 90; 3rd, Kolton Mazoch (runner,El Campo)/Kirby Rawlinson (run-ner, El Campo), 80; 4th,Connor Atkinson (runner, Needville)/Paisley Pierce (runner, Swee-ny), 70; 5th, Jesse Hines (roper, Devine)/Makenna Isbell (runner, Devine), 60.

Junior Steer Riding — 1st, Alan Morales, Eagle Pass, 100; 2nd, J.J. Dena, Quemqdo, 90; 3rd, Bran-don Lansford, Cotulla, 80; 4th, Matthew Wallace, Lufkin, 70; 5th, Gus Hohman, Uvalde, 60.

Junior Tiedown — 1st, Spin Edwards, Magnolia, 100; 2nd,

Luke Krolczyk, Cypress, 90; 3rd, Garrison Koehn, Weimar, 80; 4th, Blake Johnson, Orange Grove, 70; 5th, Justin De La Garza, Freer, 60.

Senior Cloverleaf — 1st, Hailey Kinsel, Cotilla, 100; 2nd, Shelby Herrmann, Sandia, 90; 3rd, Shel-by Bock, Boling, 80; 4th, Lindy Swaim, Tilden, 70; 5th, Marci Raley, Brenham, 60.

Senior Girls Breakaway — 1st, Jimmie Smith, McDade, 100; 2nd, Abby Herndon, Wharton, 90; 3rd, Kassie Kersh, Waller, 80; 4th, Loni Kay Lester, Gonzales, 70; 5th, Morgan Fajkus, Paige, 60.

Senior Goat Tying — 1st, Jim-mie Smith, McDade, 100; 2nd, Loni Kay Lester, Gonzales, 90; 3rd, Abby Slagle, Floresville, 80; 4th, Haley Allison, Orange Grove, 70; 5th, Hailey Kinsel, Cotulla, 60.

Senior Poles — 1st, Bridgette Ivicic, Yoakum, 100; 2nd, Abby Slagle, Floresville, 90; 3rd, Kristin Dierlam, Telferner,80 ; 4th, Jim-mie Smith, McDade, 70; 5th, Lacy Johnson, George West, 60.

Senior Ribbon Roping — 1st,

Austin Atkinson (roper, Ander-son)/Emorie Mazoch (runner, El Camp), 100; 2nd, Trenton Smith (roper, Bigfoot)/Hailey Kinsel (runner, Cotulla), 90; 3rd, Tan-ner Green (roper,Cotulla)/Kassie Kersch (runner, Waller), 80; 4th, Taylor Pavlovsly (roper, Sweeny)/Katie Whitaker (runner, Utopia), 70; 5th, Riley Meyer (roper, Wash-ington)/Alise Driggers (runner, Brazoria), 60.

Senior Tiedown — 1st, Hondo Harris, Agua Dulce, 100; 2nd, Cole Dollery, Caldwell, 90; 3rd, Cameron Loveday, Refugio, 80; 4th, Tanner Green, Cotulla, 70; 5th, Cooper Raley, Brenham, 60.

Steer Wrestling —1st, Dustin Barton, Sabinal, 100; 2nd, Charles Johnston, Three Rivers, 90; 3rd, Reid Halbert, Needville, 80; 4th, Mitchell Hutto, Utopia, 70; 5th, Taylor Pavlovsky, Sweeny, 60.

Sub Junior Figure 8 — 1st, Clay Martin, Inez, 100l 2nd, Acey Pinkston, Alice, 90; 3rd, Mason Smith, New Waverly, 80; 4th, Brooke Wanjura, Weimar, 70; 5th,

Jeri Lynn Spratlen, Marble Falls, 60.

Sub Junior Poles — 1st, Mason Smith, New Waverly, 100; 2nd, Acey Pinkston, Alice, 90; 3rd, Clay Martin, Inez, 80; 4th, Whitely Williams, Sandia, 70; 5th, Mattie Mueller, Paige, 60.

Sub Junior Cloverleaf —1st, Mason Smith, New Waverly, 100; 2nd, Acey Pinkston, Alice, 90; 3rd, Clay Martin, Inez, 80; 4th, Du-gan Chandler, Victoria, 70; 5th, Brooke Wanjura, Weimar, 60.

Team Roping — 1st, Walker Harris (header, Bracketville)/Utah Cox (heeler, Odem), 100; 2nd, Deets Davis (header, Victo-ria)/Colton Arredondo (heeler, Refugio), 90; 3rd, Wesley Vickers (header, Sinton)/Blake Johnson (heeler, Orange Grove), 80; 4th, Justin De La Garza (header, Freer)/Cole Dollery (heeler, Caldwell), 70; 5th, Mason Boettcher (header, East Bernard)/Reid Halbert (heel-er, Needville), 60.

Trey Hutchens placed No. 30 in the Boys 8 and Under long jump with a best jump of 8-8 ½ and was No. 36 in the 800 in 3:41.33.

Molly Barnick and Han-nah Lorton both qualified, but were not able to attend the meet. 

“These kids did extreme-ly well and I could not be

more proud of them. I ap-preciate their hard work and look forward to seeing them compete in the fu-ture,” Doyle said.

  “Thanks to all the par-ents and their support of the program. Thanks to J. Lynn Barnick for his help this summer. Thanks to Wells Fargo and Gonzales Elks for their sponsorship support.”

LUBE: Still California dreamin’ after breaking eight-year goal less drought

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Stefanie Martinez of Gonzales shows off the gold medal she earned at the TAAF Summer Games of Texas last week in Corpus Christi. Martinez placed first in the Under 10 shot put with a best throw of 25-6½. (Courtesy photo)

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By MARK LUBEsportseditor@gonzalescannon.com

Morales wins year end, bull riding titles

TYRA FinalsTYRA Finals

GONZALES – Last year, Eagle Pass resident Alan Morales stepped into the Maverick County State Fairground dressed in ten-nis shoes, a T-Shirt and baggy pants – not exactly the attire you would sport if you were going to take part in junior bull riding.

Morales did not expect to ride a bull, but he just hap-pened to see some young-sters in the event at the fair.

His uncle, Ricky Morales, asked him if he wanted to ride one, just for the heck of it.

“I was like I will give it a try,” Alan Morales said.

His ride lasted less than the minimum time re-quired to stay on the ani-mal for a score.

“I got hung up and stayed

on for three to four sec-onds,” Morales said.

Morales decided to stick with bull riding, doing whatever he needed to get better and have success. In his first year in the Texas Youth Rodeo Association (TYRA), Morales has won the Year-End and 2013 Finals Junior Bull Riding titles.

Coming into the finals,

Morales had taken part in 10 rodeos and two benefits, always making the eight-second ride. In the finals, Morales rode the bulls all three times.

“I went 15-for-15 and was never bucked off,” he said.

Morales had a score of 69 in the first go, 70 in the second go and tallied a 62 in the short go for a total of score of 201 to take first place.

Morales will be starting his freshman year at Eagle Pass High School next month, but plans to contin-ue competing in the TYRA.

“I will be doing it for the next four years,” he said.

During his initial year with TYRA, Morales also competed in the Texas Ju-nior High Rodeo division and was in the state finals.

Alan Morales

Finals Senior Cowboy -- Tanner Green

Finals Senior CowgirlJimmie Smith

Finals Sub CowboyMason Smith

Finals Sub CowgirlAcey PinkstonYear End Senior Cowboy -- Reid Halbert

Finals Junior CowboyJustin De La Garza

Finals Junior CowgirlBailey Bennett

Year End Sub Junior CowboyMason Smith

Year End Senior Cowgirl -- Jimmie Smith

Year End Sub Junior Cowgirl -- Acey Pinkston

Year End Junior CowboyJohn Michael Elliot

Year End Junior CowgirlDavette Stegman

Cannon News Services

The Shiner Junior League All Star team lost their opening game in the Texas East State Tournament and quickly rebounded to even-tually play in the champi-onship game.

Shiner opened the tour-nament with an 8-1 set-back to Columbus. Kassidy Bishop was 1-for-2 with one run and got on base twice, Morgan Mason hit 1-for-2 and also reached base twice. Bethany Nevlud and Kailey Williams each reached base once.

Nevlud pitched seven in-nings with five strikeouts.

Shiner rebounded with a 13-8 win over Galena Park in their next game.

Bishop was 2-for-3 with two runs and one home run. Lauren Schuette went 2-for-4 with three runs, Nevlud hit 2-for-4 with two runs and Wil-liams was 3-for-3 with one run. Schuette had four strikeouts inside the circle and Morgan Mason also pitched.

Shiner won 15-5 against Huffman to advance into

the title game. Mason was 2-for-5 with three runs, Schuette batted 3-for-5 with one run, Nevlud fin-ished 2-for-2 with three runs, Williams went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs and Madison Jalufka was 2-for-3 with two runs.

Schuette and Nevlud combined for eight strike-outs while Mason also pitched.

In the state title game, Shiner got Columbus in a rematch and Columbus took the title with an 8-0 victory.

Schuette reached base twice with Claire Patek and Williams getting on base one time each. Schuette pitched 1 2/3 innings and Nevlud worked 5 1/3 in-nings with four strikeouts and no hits.

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LUBE: Just can’t wait until next yearContinued from page B2

toes.Afterwards, I said bye to

all of my new friends and got to spend 20 minutes with two more during the ride to the airport. As soon as I checked my two bags, went through security and

picked a place to eat, I al-ready started to miss my fellow campers and the coaches but a nice sand-wich and beer at the On-tario (California) Interna-tional Airport TGI Friday sort of numbed that pain.

I have since connected with several of my team-

mates over email and other social media and hopefully will find more soon.

I loved the Los Angeles-area (or what parts of it I did see, on the ground or in the air) and I hope to see all of the campers that shared the same experience with me of testing the waters

of the UC-Riverside adult camp will be back again next year. God bless you guys.

I also hope to see some new campers and some McDaniel-only members at Riverside next year.

I’m out.

St. Paul Cardinal Football Camp participants were treated to a special surprise on Thursday, July 25 when Bo Schobel, former NFL defensive end, spoke to the area athletes about the importance of setting short and long-term goals, surrounding themselves with positive role models and encouraged them to ask for help from their family and friends towards achieving their goals. Schobel let the athletes try on his Super Bowl XLI ring, passed around his Super Bowl jersey and graciously signed autographs. Schobel, a Columbus native, was awarded a football scholarship in 1999 to Texas Christian University after a successful high school career. He excelled on the field and was named AP All-American in 2003. In 2004, Schobel was a 4th round draft pick by the Tennessee Titans and earned a Super Bowl XLI ring with the Indianapolis Colts when the Colts beat the Chi-cago Bears, 29-17. Schobel retired at the end of the 2008 season after playing for the Arizona Cardinals and Jacksonville Jaguars and returned to Columbus, where he resides with his wife and children. He was selected to the TCU Hall of Fame in 2013. Pictured are (from left): River Haynes, Walker Jackson, Schobel, Lane Walker and Zachary Davis. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)

St. Paul Football Camp 3rd-5th campers included: (sitting) Elliott Peters, Jacob Wachsmuth, Matthew Wagner, Jackson Ulcak, Trent Brown, Carson McNabb, (kneeling) Ashton Rath , Kade Leist, Caden Malinovsky,, Bryce Filip Noah Bo-edeker, Cody Hollenbach, Ethan Easterling, Jake Yackel, (standing) James Fikac, Ted Machacek, Jonathan Peters, Coby Pruett, Quinton Parker, Cade Davis and Gerard Nunez. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)

St. Paul Football Camp 6th-8th campers included: (sitting) William Knox, Weston Geiger, Reid Yackel, Matthew Malinovsky, Luke Darilek, (kneeling) Joseph Natal, Cole Brown, Austin Garcia, Walker Jackson, Garrett Knox, Lane Jackson, Zachary Davis, (standing) Jack Janecek, Andrew Wagner, Nathan Wag-ner, Conor Kresta, Jaydon Darilek, Michael Wagner, and River Haynes. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)

St. Paul Football Camp 9th-12th campers included: (sitting) Eudosio Garza, Noah Leist, Ryan Malinvosky, Ryan Bell, Alex Hull, Austin Barton, Greg Max Patek, Kameron Knesek, Nick Ritchie, (kneeling) Jed Janecek, Nathan Pilat, John Weston Davis, Sam Morrow, Reagan Beal, Marco Ynclan, Dylan Mills, Ryan Geiger, TJ Bell, (standing) Kyle Chunda, Travis Raabe, Ben Janecek, Kurt Chunda, and Kolten Knesek. (Photo courtesy of Lori Raabe)

Super Bowl Champ visits Cardinal Camp

Recent Yoakum High School graduate Keith Rat-ley had a monstrous game Tuesday night in the Texas High School Coaches As-sociation (THSCA) All-Star Football game, held at Texas Christian University’s Ammon G. Carter Stadium.

Ratley had seven recep-tions for 165 yards includ-ing a 32-yard touchdown catch and hauled in a two-point conversion for the Red team as they fell to the Black team, 39-29.

In the second quarter, Ratley helped the Red to a 14-12 advantage. Black had taken a 12-7 lead. On first down at the Red 22, Ratley hauled in a 46-yard pass from quarterback Jake Hubenak (Georgetown) to the Black 32 and caught the touchdown on the next play.

GJH cheerleader draw-ing results

The Gonzales Junior High Cheerleaders con-cluded their raffle drawing last week.

Among the prizes and winners were: Apache Wreath - Jared Dougles; $100 cash - Martha Jo Guerra; Atkinson’s pizza deal - Kyndel Zella; Glow minerals kit from Gon-zales Healthcare- Debbie Fougerat; $15 to Licorice and Lemon Drops - Pam Parker; $50 to China Basket - Melanie Svoboda; $100 to Persons and candy basket - Emily Hunt; $25 to Dairy Queen - Ann Laster; $20 to Guerra’s Grill - Erlene Zavadil; Gonzales Charm from Storey’s Jewelers - Mij Dechman; $25 to Gonzales Wholesale Nursery - Elise Low; Free haircut and style from Jane Kifer  - Linda Hall; 110-qt. Igloo from Walmart  - Lavonne Hyden; The black buck doe meat hunt - Ricky Berger; Truck strap kit and $20 to Trac-tor supply - Matt Tenburg; and Calvin Klein Lotion & Candle - Connie Welch.

Very special thank you’s were extended to BZ’s Coun-try Petals, The Christian Family, Atkinson’s pizza, Gonzales Healthcare, Lico-rice and Lemon Drops, China Basket, Person’s Flower Shop, DQ, Guerra’s, Storey’s Jewlery, Gonzales Wholesale Nursery, Jane

Kifer, Wal-Mart, Double Arrow Bow Hunting, Trac-tor Supply and Bealls.

GHS football season tickets

Gonzales High School varsity football season tick-et holders from 2012 will be able to pick up their tickets they had last year.

You will have until 4 p.m. Friday, August 16 to get your tickets. All tickets not picked up will be sold to the public starting Monday, August 19.

Price of varsity football season tickets has changed. They will be $5 per game, $25 for all five games. All tickets sold at the gate will be $6.

This year, tickets may be picked up at the new Apache Fieldhouse, locat-ed at 1546 Seydler (on the Gonzales High School cam-pus by the track). Tickets are to be purchased from 8 a.m. to noon, and from 1-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you do not wish to purchase your tickets, please call athletic secretary Anita Dement at 830-672-6641. If the fieldhouse has not been notified by 4 p.m. Friday, August 16, it will be understood that you do not want your tickets.

If you are not a season ticket holder but would like to purchase some, the tick-ets will be available starting Monday, August 19. You will have to purchase all five tickets for the home games to get the price break. Sale of season tickets will end at 4 p.m. Friday, August 23. No season tickets can be sold after tickets go on sell at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sep-tember 3 for the first home game of the season on Fri-day, September 6.

Ratley shines in All-Star game

BRIEFS

Keith Ratley

The Shiner Junior League All-Stars placed second in the Texas East State Tour-nament, held July 20-23 in Seguin. Team members include (kneeling) Claire Patek, Taylor Wenske, Kailey Williams, Kelsie Vega, Mackinly Pilat, (standing) Hannah Boring, Bailey Machacek, Morgan Mason, Madison Jalufka, Kassidy Bishop, Lauren Schuette, Hannah Nevlud and Bethany Nevlud. Not pictured is Manager Aaron Bishop, Coach Doug Nevlud and Coach Brian Wenske. (Courtesy photo)

Shiner falls in Texas East State Tourney title game

FREE GED classes, day (M T W and Th, 8 30 to noon) and night (M and W 6 30 to 9), Gonzales Learning Center, 1135 St. Paul, 672-8291. --------------------------Job Corps is cur-rently enrolling stu-dents aged 16-24 in over 20 vocational trades at no-cost! Will help students get drivers license GED or High School diploma and col-lege training if qual-ified. For more info call 512-665-7327.

CNH Paving is seek-ing professional & reliable class A CDL Drivers. Hauling belly dumps and home every night. Located in the Waelder area. For more info, call: 830-540-3377.--------------------------Mechanic Needed. Must have own tools, experience necessary with car diagnostic vehicles. Come by West Mo-tors, 1701 Sarah DeWitt Dr. for ap-

plication & bring resume.--------------------------National Lifestyle Centers in Gonza-les, TX has an im-mediate opening for a Receptionist in a professional office environment. Excel-lent interpersonal and communica-tion skills, solid cus-tomer service orien-tation, attention to detail, willingness to learn, and a dem-onstrated strong work ethic are what it takes to succeed in this entry-level position. College courses in Account-ing or business related field pre-ferred; high school diploma or equiva-lency required. Pro-ficient in Microsoft Office, time man-agement including the ability to orga-nize and manage multiple priorities, and the ability to effectively adapt to change required. Email resume and salary requirements to info@ournlc.com or fax to 830-672-1018.

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

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

Garage Sale. 703 St. Matthew, Friday & Saturday, 8-12. M-W-C Clothes, household items. Too much to men-tion.--------------------------4-Family Yard Sale. Saturday, August 3, 8-? 1022 1/2 Church St. Girls, boys, men, women & baby clothes, shoes & misc. items, some furniture.--------------------------5-Family Garage Sale. Friday & Sat-urday, 7-12 Noon. Fiddle w/case, gui-tar, aprons, dishes, tools, toys, baby clothes, M-W-C clothes, collectibles, antiques, small ap-pliances, books (Louis Lamour & Harlequin), miscel-laneous. Out on FM 2984, Joliet Road. 830-875-9446.--------------------------Templo Bethel Pen-tecostes Church, 1106 St. Peter. Fri-day & Saturday, August 2nd & 3rd, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Garage Sale, August 3, 8-4. Lg. Men’s blue jeans, 44x32 & shirts, large ladies clothes, 2X. Many other items. Buy 1 get 1 free. 1721 FM 1116. 830-437-5660.--------------------------Moving Sale. Satur-day, August 3, 8-? Everything must go. 1404 Cavett.--------------------------Saturday, August 3. On corner of Nor-wood & Ewing. 8-? Women, children, boys clothes, & oth-er items.--------------------------Yard Sale: 125 St. Paul, Saturday, 8/3/13, furniture, gas stove, M-W-C clothes, shoes, TV armoire, day bed, baby items, etc.--------------------------Huge Yard Sale. Little bit of every-thing available. From Thursday, August 1 through Sunday, August 4, beginning each day at 10 a.m. Highway 90A West, two miles from Belmont. 830-534-2823.--------------------------4-Family Garage Sale. 704 St. Mat-thew, 8-? Saturday only. Too much to mention.--------------------------Garage Sale. 626 Lois Lane. Sat., 8-12. Girls clothes, la-dies & mens, lots of household misc.--------------------------3 Family Garage Sale: 111 S. Col-lege. 9-12. Clothes, Women & chil-dren, scrapbooking items, home decor. Everything must go.--------------------------1543 Seydler St. Au-gust 3, 7:00-Noon. Clothes, shoes, household accesso-ries, miscellaneous.

Rainbow vaccum cleaner in good used condition. $100.00. 830-263-2482.--------------------------Toro Weedeater, 4 string. $75. 361-208-3565.--------------------------Restaurant Tables. Formica. 2 seats & 4 seats. $100 each. 875-3028.--------------------------Men’s used jeans - perfect for oilfield workers. Faded Glory32x32, 33x30; Rustler, 34x30, 34x34, 36x30. $5/pair. Call 830-672-1106.--------------------------22” Lawn Mower. Self propelled. Ask-ing $100. Excellent condition. 361-208-3565.--------------------------Crocheted Afghans, baby blankets, sin-gle bed spreads for sale. Can choose own colors. Can come by or call, 203-1270. Green DeWitt Apt. #138.--------------------------Dora the Explorer 20” girls bicycle with training wheels, helmet, elbow pads and knee pads. Used very little, excellent condition. $50 cash. Leave message if no answer, 830-672-1106.--------------------------Nordic Track. Great condition. $60. Shiner, 361-594-2318.--------------------------HP 2500 CM Printer. Professional Series color printer. $25 obo. 672-7546. Ar-lene or Linda.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICECITY OF GONZALES

CITY COUNCIL

The City Council of the City of Gonzales, by this instrument, notifies the public of a PUBLIC HEARING on the following project that has been presented to the City Council for their consideration:

PUBLIC HEARING regarding the proposed budget for use of City Funds for the Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2013 and ending September 30, 2014.

The City Council will hold a Public Hearing August 6, 2013 at the Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph St., to allow for public comment on this project. After consideration and the Public Hearing, the Budget will go to City Council for their approval.

The City Council encourages citizens to participate in the public com-ment and public hearing stages of all City Council projects. Citizens unable to attend meetings may submit their views to Kristina Vega, City Secretary for the City of Gonzales, by mailing them to P.O. Drawer 547, Gonzales, TX 78629. For additional information, contact the City Sec-retary office at (830)-672-2815.

I certify that a copy of the August 6, 2013, Notice of Public Hearing was posted on the City Municipal Building bulletin board on the 24th day of July 2013, at 3:00 p.m. and remained posted continuously for at least 72 hours proceeding the scheduled time of the meeting.

_________________________________Kristina Vega, City Secretary

LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE OF AN APPLICATION FOR A WATER USE PERMIT

APPLICATION NO. 12378

Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority seeks authorization to divert and use not to exceed 75,000 acre-feet of water per year from the unappropriated flows of the Guadalupe River, Guadalupe River Basin for use for municipal and indus-trial purposes within GBRA’s statutory district which consists of Hays, Comal, Guadalupe Caldwell, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, Kendall, Refugio, and Cal-houn Counties in the San Antonio, Colorado, and Lavaca River Basins, and the Colorado-Lavaca, Lavaca-Guadalupe, and SanAntonio-Nueces Coastal Basins. Applicant also seeks authorization to construct one ormore off-channel res-ervoirs in Gonzales County with a combined maximum storage capacity of 125,000 acre-feet, and to store water in the off-channel reservoir(s) for subse-quent diversion and use for municipal and industrial purposes within GBRA’s statutory district. More information on the application and how to participate in the permitting process is given below.

APPLICATION. Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, 933 East Court Street, Seguin, Texas 78155, Applicant, seeks a Water Use Permit pursuant to Texas Water Code (TWC) §11.121 and §11.085, and Texas Commission on Environ-mental Quality Rules Title 30 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §§295.1, et seq. Notice is being published and mailed to the water rights holders of record in the Guadalupe River Basin pursuant to Title 30TAC §295.151.

Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (Applicant seeks authorization to divert and use not to exceed 75,000 acre-feet of water per year from the unappropriated flows of the Guadalupe River, Guadalupe River Basin, at a maximum diversion rate of soo cfs (224,415.588 gpm) for use for municipal and industrial purposes within GBRA’s statutory district which consists of Hays, Comal, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, Kendall, Refugio, and Calhoun Coun-ties. Applicant also seeks authorization to construct one or more off-channel reservoirs in Gonzales County with a combined maximum storage capacity of 125,000 acre-feet, and to store water in the off channel reservoir(s) for subse-quent diversion and use for municipal and industrial purposes within GBRA’s statutory district.

The proposed diversion segment will be located in zip code 78629 between the following two points: 1. Upper limit of the diversion segment is located at Latitude 29-4907°N, Longitude 97-4709°W, also bearing N38°W, 4,8oo feet from the northwest corner of the Jose Maria Salinas Survey, Abstract No. 59, Gonzales County, Texas.

2. Lower limit of the diversion segment is located at Latitude 29.3488°N, Longitude 97.2891°W, also bearingS 30°W, 2,220 feet from the east corner of the Benjamin Fulcher Survey, Abstract No. 21, Gonzales County, Texas.

The application and a portion of the fees were received on August 22, 2008. Additional information and fees were received on December 11, 2008, August 11, October 29, and December 18, 2009, February 12, 2010, June 2, and July 1, 2013. The application was declared administratively complete and accepted for filing with the Office of the Chief Clerk on December 23, 2009.

The Executive Director completed the technical review of the application and prepared a draft permit. The draft permit, if granted, would include special conditions requiring streamflow restrictions. The application, technical mem-oranda, and Executive Director’s draft permit are available for viewing and copying at the Office of the Chief Clerk, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Bldg. F, Austin, TX 78753.

PUBLIC COMMENT / PUBLIC MEETING. Written public comments and requests for a public meeting should be submitted to the Office of Chief Clerk, at the address provided in the information section below, within 30 days of the date of newspaper publication of the notice. A public meeting is intended for the taking of public comment, and is not a contested case hearing. A public meeting will be held if the Executive Director determines that there is a signifi-cant degree of public interest in the application.

CONTESTED CASE HEARING. The TCEQ may grant a contested case hearing on this application if a written hearing request is filed within 30 days from the date of newspaper publication of this notice. The Executive Director may approve the application unless a written request for a contested case hear-ing is filed within 30 days after newspaper publication of this notice.

To request a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (i) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number, and fax number, if any; (2) applicant’s name and per-mit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a brief and specific description of how you would be affected by the application in a way not common to the general public; and (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the proposed activity. You may also submit pro-posed conditions for the requested permit which would satisfy your concerns. Requests for a contested case hearing must be submitted in writing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address provided in the informationsection below.

If a hearing request is filed, the Executive Director will not issue the permit and will forward the application and hearing request to the TCEQ Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. INFORMATION. Written hearing requests, public comments or requests for a public meeting should be submitted to the Office of the Chief Clerk, MC 105, TCEQ, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087 or electronically at http:/ jwww.tceq.state.tx.usjaboutjcomments.html. For information concerning the hearing process, please contact the Public Interest Counsel, MC 103, the same address. For additional information, individual members of the general public may contact the Public Education Program at 1-8oo-687-4040. General infor-mation regarding the TCEQ can be found at our web site at www.tceq.state.tx.us. Si desea informacion en Espafiol, puede Hamar al1-8oo-687-4040 or por el internet al www.tceq.state.tx.us.

Issued: July 29, 2013

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Adminis-

tration for the Estate of Marilyn Eileen Pierpont, Deceased, were issued on July 15, 2013, in Cause No. AD13-9599, pending in the County Court of Gonzales, County, Texas, to: Charlotte Knesek.

All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner pre-scribed by law.

c/o: V’Anne Huser Attorney for Charlotte Knesek119 E. 7th Street P. O. Box 567 Shiner, TX 77984

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W. B. Farm and Ranch Supply is taking applications for a

Yard Hand/Customer ServiceForklift experience desired

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Or send resumes to:2031 Water St.

Gonzales Tx 78629

Looking for a responsible individual

to feed chickens and 2 pigs and clean pens

two times per week and occasional weekends in Waelder area. Increased

responsibility and pay are a potential as

farm grows. Perfect opportunity for 4H or FFA students. Please

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Extra wide wheel chair like new. Size 10 W Genuine leather diabetic shoes, black with velcro closure. Like new therapeutic support knee hi hose for diabetics, size 3x. lge. cals. Mysectomy bra fits right or left proth-esis size 36D. 830-857-6705.--------------------------Electrolux Carpet Shampooer and 1 gallon Shampoo. $125.00. 830-857-6705.--------------------------55 Gallon metal or Plastic Drums. Volume Discounts. $5.00 each. 830-857-4321.--------------------------5-13 inch tires for a race car. They are good for a dwarf car. Good tread, like brand new. $50 to-tal. Call Brittany at 830-203-0762.--------------------------For Sale: Custom made picnic tables; made with treated lumber, with bolts and screws - will make the conven-tional table with seats attached to table; will also make tables with seat benches sepa-rate from table: 4-6 or 8 foot made for your specific needs. Call 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273 for pricing and avail-ability information.--------------------------ABOVE GROUND

POOL15’x30’ above-ground pool with deck, 48” high, needs new liner. Buyer disassem-bles, no delivery available. $1,400. Call 830-672-1106.--------------------------7 bags of shred-ded paper & vari-ous boxes. Great for packing. Call 830-519-4176 (Gonza-les).--------------------------2 refrigerators, 1 small, 1 large, King, Full Bed sets, floor lamp, night stands, table, chair. 830-672-9611 or come by Care Free Inn, Gonzales, 1804 E. Sarah DeWitt Dr.--------------------------5.0 Chest type freezer, 2 TV’s, 1 - 19”, 1 - 25”, 3 infant

car seats. Excellent Condition. Call 830-203-8633.--------------------------Kohler 15” water saver toilet, used 2 months. Paid $200, asking $100 cash. Call Barbara, 830-672-1106.--------------------------Party dresses for sale: 4 short, 2 long. Purple, yellow, gold, blue green. Also jackets, men’s jack-ets, overcoat, etc. Call 672-8034.--------------------------For sale: Singer Sewing Machine with pedal, table w/6 chairs, almost new, hand cro-cheted table cloth, large, white, an-tique 3 pc. Loveseat and other yarn cro-cheted items. Call 672-8034.--------------------------For Sale: Concrete parking curbs 6’ long 6” tall plain or painted, 16’ + 20’ long concrete cattle guard bases. Call Vic for pricing, 672-6383 or 857-3827.--------------------------MP3 Player. SanD-isk 8GB. Brand new. 437-2046.--------------------------21” RCA TV, great for kids room or 2nd TV. $75. Call 437-2046.--------------------------

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Hohner acous-tic guitar w/case. Good for student, $75. Keyboard, Ca-siotone, TT 360, $125. 437-2046.--------------------------Unicorn Collection for Sale. Call Fran-ces between 9pm-10am, 830-857-6476.

1800’S Double Bar-rell Shotgun, Rem-ington $1,500. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Antique Straight Razor display case, 18x24 (Memorabil-ia). $695. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Troybilt Trimmer with attachments (edger, tiller). 4 cycle, uses straight gasoline. $250. 361-741-2604.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------Large shower chair. 19” color TV w/stand, stand has rollers. 857-8090.--------------------------2 Lounge Chairs, 6 ft. tall headboard, bed frame, oak din-ing table, antique egg incubator, en-tertainment cen-ter, lamp stand w/drawers, booth din-ing table, planter boxes. 361-594-4307.--------------------------Large amount qual-ity items. Every-thing $85.00; worth about $300. Health problems prevent garage sale. In Lockhart. Mel, 512-376-9396.--------------------------Clavinova Yamaha Digital Piano w/bench. Under War-ranty. $2,700. Call 830-339-0111.--------------------------Used Dell Com-puter. Keyboard & Monitor. $250 cash. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------FOR SALE Used cy-

clone fencing and post. 1990 Dodge pick up with lift gate. Can be seen at GHA 410 Village Dr. Gonzales, Texas. For information call Jeanette Conques-tat 830-672-3419.--------------------------Unique BBQ Pit, Stagecoach. In-cludes Electric Ro-tisserie $275. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Stain Glass Window, white tail deer. $275. 512-917-4078.

MESQUITE BBQ WOOD FOR SALE in Gonzales County. All sizes and shapes, ready to use. (830) 672-6265.--------------------------Firewood: Pickup load is $60.00. If you haul. Delivered is $85. Call: 830-540-4430.

5x5 round bales for sale. First cutting, net wrapped, fertil-ized with poultry litter. Waelder area. 830-857-5446.

2009 Kuhn Knight model 1130 ma-nure spreader for sale. Used for only 3 cleanouts. Very good condition. $12,000. 857-5446.--------------------------For Sale: Farmall 504. $3,000. Work, 3 6 1 - 5 9 6 - 4 9 1 1 ; Home, 361-596-7494.

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

For Sale. Antique beds. Come out of old Alcalde Hotel. Pretty good shape for age. Still looks good. $100 a piece. 512-292-0070. --------------------------Piano small upright. Excellent condition. $500. Shiner, 361-594-2318.--------------------------Southwestern King-size bed w/com-plete boxsprings & mattresses. Good condition, washer/dryer, never been used, Whirlpool, High table, ce-ramic, w/4 chairs. Loveseat, leather, brown, 3 tv’s, 19”, 25” and 32”, color, white microwave cart with 2 drawers on bottom, recliner, leather, new con-ventional toaster, broiler. 830-203-8977, text or call.--------------------------3” latex mattress topper. Queen size. Like new, paid $300, asking $150. 512-921-2792.--------------------------Hospital electric bed, extra long mattress, excellent

shape, all works. $125. Most come move it. Jimmy, 830-263-4126.--------------------------Dresser, $50. Couch, $75, good shape. 1725 Seydler St. #26. Betty, 830-857-4125.--------------------------Large Oak desk w/glass topper and large wooded desk. 830-672-3626.--------------------------New Sofa for Sale. $400. Call 830-875-9422, Luling.--------------------------Couch, dresser, buf-fet. $50 each. Call 830-263-1181.

For Sale: 5 16” steel jeep rims, one with brand new Good-year Wrangler tire, P220R70/16. Will sell whole set for $135 . Or if you just want the tire off the

rim, tire will be $25. Call 830-203-9408.--------------------------‘98 GMC 3/4 ton, 4x4, auto., pickup truck, with extend-ed cab. 830-857-4242.--------------------------2004 Nissan Al-tima, 3.5, 6 cyl, AC,

Auto trans., power, cruise, gray metallic w/gray interior. One owner. $6,500. 830-540-3382.

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Competitive Pay...$9.50-$12.00/hr.(with weekly perfect attendance)

Must have proof of identity and eligibility to work in the U.S.

DEPUTY TAX OFFICE CLERK NEEDED

The Gonzales County Tax Office is currently accepting applications for a Deputy Tax Clerk.Position requires:

Excellent customer service skills including excellent communication and writing skills

Ability to manage time effectively and accurately Be proficient in all Microsoft Office programs and Adobe Acrobat Be able to multi-task, handle high stress situations such as heavy workload in a

fast paced environment adhering to mandatory deadlines. Must be able to follow directions, research problems, make decisions, and work

well with others and the general public. Ability to operate office equipment such as copier, scanner, computer, 10 key by

touch, fax, and multi-line telephone. Be able to travel for employee training and office related seminars. Some heavy lifting of file boxes up to 40 pounds with help. Knowledge of the county geographical area would be helpful.

Special Requirements: Job offer contingent upon passing a criminal background investigation. Must be bondable with bond being made to the Tax Assessor Collector.

Applications may be obtained at the Gonzales County Tax Office, located at 522 St. Matthew St. Gonzales. Only complete applications will be considered. Gonzales County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age and handicapped status in employment or the provision of services. EOE.

Driver Position. Class A CDL required. Local region. Out and back

on same shift to delivery routes. We offer a competitive wage along

with 401K, Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance.

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Bidding Requirements, Contract Forms and Conditions of the ContractINVITATION FOR BIDS

Section 00020Following is a summary of information for this Project. Bidder is cautioned to refer to other sec-tions of the Project Manual, Drawings and Addenda (Bid Documents) for further details.

The City of Gonzales, hereafter called OWNER, is requesting sealed written Bids for furnishing all labor, materials, equipment, supervision, incidentals and performing all Work required for the following Project:

City of Gonzales Water Treatment Plant Filter ImprovementsLocated at: Gonzales, Texas The Work consists of the replacement of 5 pressurized filter banks with one 85’ x 50’ gravity filter system, settled water pump station, and backwash supply pump station. Work shall include all necessary yard piping improvements, including piping reconfiguration at settling basins, upflow clarifier and backwash waste tank. Work will require a phased approach to pressure filter demoli-tion in order to maintain 60% of plant production capacity throughout all stages of construction.

Bid Documents may be purchased at LNV, Inc. 1101 S. Cap of TX Hwy. Suite C220 upon a pay-ment of $50.00 for each set of Bid Documents. Check shall be made payable to LNV, Inc.

Sealed Bids will be received at Gonzales City Hall, 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, TX 78629, and then publicly opened and read aloud.

ALL BIDS ARE DUE PRIOR TO (Local time) Friday, August 23, 2013 2:00 pm.

BIDS WILL BE OPENED AT (Local time) Friday, August 23, 2013 2:00 pm.

ALL BIDS NOT RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE DATE AND TIME SET FORTH ABOVE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR CONSIDERATION.

All Bids shall be accompanied by an acceptable Bid guaranty in an amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the total Bid, as specified in Section 00100, Instructions to Bidders.

Performance and payment bonds when required shall be executed on forms furnished by OWN-ER. Each bond shall be issued in an amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Amount by a solvent corporate surety company authorized to do business in the State of Texas, and shall meet any other requirements established by law or by OWNER pursuant to applicable law.

Minimum insurance requirements are specified in Section 00810, Supplemental General Condi-tions.

Minimum wage rates have been established and are specified in Section 00830, Wage Rates and Payroll Reporting.

Contract Time is of the essence and all Work shall be substantially completed within 300 Calen-dar Days after date specified in the Notice to Proceed, in accordance with the Bid Form, Section 00300. Final completion shall be achieved within 30 Calendar Days after substantial completion. Liquidated damages are $800 per Calendar Day for failure to substantially complete the work and $1,000 per Calendar Day for failure to achieve final completion within 30 Calendar Days after substantial completion, in accordance with the Bid Form, Section 00300.

OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all Bids and to waive any minor informality in any Bid or solicitation procedure (a minor informality is one that does not affect the competitiveness of the Bid).

A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference and the water plant site visit will be held on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 10:00 am (Local time) at 820 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales, TX 78629 Bidders are REQUIRED to attend the Pre-Bid Conference to ensure their understanding of Own-er’s bidding and contracting requirements.

The persons listed below may be contacted for information regarding the Invitation for Bid.

AUTHORIZED CONTACT PERSONS

PROJECT MANAGER: Victor Booth, P.E. Telephone: (512) 381-8333 email: VBooth@LNVinc.com PROJECT ENGINEER: James McDonald, P.E. Telephone: (512) 381-8333 email: JMcDonald@LNVinc.com

LEGAL NOTICES

AUTOS

2001 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummings Diesel Quad Cab with 5th wheel hitch, automatic,

air, cruise & electric windows & tow pkg. Runs good. Body good - no wrecks. $5,500 or best offer.

210-218-3796 or 830-540-3602.--------------------------2004 Infinity G35, 95,000 miles. Leath-er seats, sunroof, great condition, new tires. 512-775-4399.--------------------------5-13 inch tires for a race car. They are good for a dwarf car. Good tread, like brand new. $50 to-tal. Call Brittany at 830-203-0762.--------------------------2005 CTS Cadil-lac, 4-door, V-6. Brand new tires and chrome wheels. $8,800 firm. Call 830-672-1106, leave mes-sage if no answer.--------------------------For sale: Merucry Grand Marquis. Me-tallic Jade Green Ef-fect. 22 inch rims. C.D. Player. Runs great. $4,000. 830-203-8841. Thomas. Serious calls only.--------------------------1990 Chevrolet Cor-vette ZR1. Special Performance Coop. The LT5 engine is a 32 valve engine with a 16 fuel injections and twin double over head cams. Call: 830-540-4430.--------------------------Car and truck rims for sale. 15” and 14” rims. Can be used on trail-ers, trucks or older cars up to 1980. 437-2232.--------------------------2006 Chevrolet Im-pala for sale. 4-door, V6 engine, a little over 17,000 miles. Silver. One owner. Asking $13,000. 830-672-3147.--------------------------1988 Saab 900 Turbo Coup Convertible. Top work but rebuilt clutch. Good buy. $800. 830-857-5927.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - $7,500. 2nd owner pickup with low miles, cold A/C, spray-in bed liner, grill guard, towing package and more! Call Lauren at (361) 648-5049 for more info.

$1,5500 SINGLE-WIDE. Only 1, call for pix. 512-389-1210. RBI 02572.--------------------------

6 Solitaire. To be moved. Reduced to $38,500. Shiner. will pay moving costs. For more informa-tion, 361-772-2453.--------------------------Poor Boy Special, 2014, 16x72 Fleet-wood. Delivered, set, skirting, cold air. $34,900. Residential exterior. Save thou-sands. Beat the heat, our models have air conditioning. Tier-raverdehomes.com. Fayette Country Homes, Schulen-burg, 800-369-6888. Open Sundays 1-6. (RBI 32896).--------------------------Doublewide Foreclo-sure, 1680 sq. ft. Fire-place, new carpet, plywood floors, fresh paint inside and out. All new appliances. Tierraverdehomes.com. Fayette Country Homes, 800-369-6888. Open till 6pm - 7 days a week. Sun-day 1-6. (RBI 32896).--------------------------2004 Model. Large 2 bedroom, 16x68, vinyl siding/shingle roof. Delivered, set with A/C, $23,900. Tierraverdehomes.com. Fayette Coun-try Homes, 830-369-6888. Open till 6pm - 7 days a week. Sun-day 1-6. (RBI 32896)

For Rent : 3/2 mobile home in Waelder all appli-ances with CA&H. New flooring & ceiling throughout. Large parking area, oil field welcome. Call: 830-672-0000.--------------------------Roadrunner Mobile Home Park, 900 Old Shiner Rd., Yoakum. 3bedroom/1bath fully furnished mo-bile homes for rent. $775/month & $675 security deposit. 361-582-6593 or 361-798-0816.--------------------------For Sale or Lease. 3 BR Trailer House, 2 RV Spots. Leesville. 830-433-0603.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2bed, 1 bath trailer. New kitchen floor. For more information call Samantha at 830-857-5812.--------------------------

Large private bed-room for rent. Weekly or monthly, fully equipped kitchen, individual air & heat, fenced lighted parking, 32” color TV in room, cable included, ref.. in room, fully fur-nished, w/d includ-ed, utilities paid too, house cleaned once a week. Call for information, 713-501-3416.--------------------------Room for rent for working person. 1BR/1BA. Quiet neighborhood. Call 203-7146 after 4 p.m.

1BR Cottage. 1814 Sycamore. Avail-able now. Suitable for 1 & 2 people or good for Oilfield workers. Furnished, all electric. Well in-sulated. $450/mo., $300 deposit. for appointment call Elisa DeLuna, 672-9011. Shown by ap-pointment only.--------------------------In Gonzales - 2BR, 1 bath house on corner lot. Recently painted, carpet, vinyl, paneling. All electric, insulated, hi-efficiency AC/Heat, ceiling fans, appliances, tub/shower, utility room, porch. $650 + deposit & refer-ences. No pets. 830-672-2227.--------------------------HOUSE FOR RENT: Must see!!! Charm-ing 2BD/1BA re-modeled house located in country setting at 7102 FM 2091 North (Gon-zales, Texas); Ap-prox. 10 miles from Gonzales. Spacious yard, shade trees, stove/microwave, glass-tiled backs-plash, new laminate wood floors. Call (830) 672-3771 or (512) 938-9131.--------------------------

ATTENTION OILFIELDERS

4/3, 2 Living areas around Waelder Area. $800/deposit, $1,300/month. Big yard, front & back. 830-399-5313.(05-30-13)--------------------------Brand new large 2/2 upscale duplex

for rent in Gonzales, includes all kitchen appliances, 1 car at-tached garage. No smoking, No pets. $35 application fee, $1,200 per month, $1,200 Security De-posit. Contact Mon-ica with RE/MAX Professional Realty, 830-401-4123.--------------------------Brand new large 2/3 upscale two story duplex for rent in Gonzales with loft, office and fireplace, includes all kitchen appliances, 1 car at-tached garage. No smoking, No Pets. $35 application fee, $1,400 per month, $1,400 Security De-posit. Contact Mon-ica with RE/MAX Professional Realty, 830-401-4123.--------------------------Cottages for Lease. Fully furnished cot-tages for rent in Gonzales, TX. In-cludes all furniture, flat screen TV, lin-ens, kitchen items & appliances (full-size refrigerator, range, microwave, wash-er & dryer). Utili-ties paid. Weekly Housekeeping In-cluded. Month-to-Month Lease. $500 Security Deposit. Application Re-quired. 1 Bedroom, $1,300/month, 2 bedroom, $1,600/month. Call 830-351-1195. Shown by appointment.--------------------------House for Rent. 3BR/2 1/2 BA. 1536 Sq. Ft., w/2 master suites. Perfect for oilfield executive or families. In Marion. $1,100/per month. 830-914-4044.--------------------------2BR/1BA house. 765 Sq. Ft. Large deck on back. $875/mo. Marion, TX. 830-914-4044.--------------------------1ST MONTH RENT

FREE3/2’s from $595/month. Several homes available. www.silentvalley-homes.com. Lock-hart, 512-376-5874.--------------------------Cabin for Rent. 1BR/1BA. Secluded, in country. $100/nightly, Mon.-Fri. or $350/weekly. Week-end rates vary. No smokers. Call 830-857-0986 or 830-857-1418.--------------------------Completely re-modeled inside and out. 2 & 3 bed-room homes. Fully furnished. Rent by night, week or month. Fantastic n e i g h b o r h o o d . Cheaper by night than hotel room. 672-5169.--------------------------3BR/2BA large house. Fully fur-nished, beds, linens, washer/dryer, cable T.V., stove, refrigera-tor. CA/CH. Great for crew. Monthly or lease available. Home in town,

plenty of parking. 512-820-5461.--------------------------Charming 1/1 home on 2 wooded acs, w/lrg. deck in country, 77 North, paved road. $775/mo. No pets/smok-ers. 512-415-6483.--------------------------3/2 Large home on nice lot. $1,250/mo. Stove, refrigerator, included. Families or Oil Field Workers welcome. 713-501-3416.--------------------------For Rent: 2BR/2BA/2CG home on 183 N. $1,250/mo., plus deposit. Call 830-857-4458 for information.--------------------------Motel Suites. 2 bed-rooms, full kitchen, porch/small yard. $68 nightly, $310 weekly. Crews wel-come. Call JR, 512-292-0070, 512-656-0521.--------------------------House for Rent. 302 Lancaster, Moulton, TX. Nice spacious 1BR home w/ap-pliances & a large yard. Call for info. 832-633-3950.--------------------------Single Suite. Perfect for Supervisor for Oil Company. Full kitchen, washer/dryer, TV/Full cable, wireless internet. No smoking inside. No Pets. Fully fur-nished and all bills paid. Private Yard/Garage. Weekly, $280; Deposit $300. Call 512-292-0070--------------------------Home For Rent. Country Home. completely remod-eled. 2BR/1BA, CA, hardwood floors, roof for AG Proj-ect. Navarro ISD between Seguin & New Braunfels. $1,000 month, $1,000 deposit. 830-660-7351 or 830-822-5348.--------------------------

ATTENTION OIL AND GAS PIPE LINERS - CREW

HOUSING AVAILABLE

Furnished with all bills paid -- Full Kitchen - Personal bedrooms and liv-ing room. WEEKLY RATES AVAILABLE. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------

MOTEL ROOMS AVAILABLE

NIGHTLY RATESSingle nightly rates starting at $35.00 per night. Which include A/C, Micro-wave, Refrigerator, TV/Cable and fur-nished with all bills paid. Please call JR at (512) 292-0070 or (830) 672-3089.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.

Looking for a 2 or 3BR nice house in Nixon and Leesville area. Call 830-857-

1658.--------------------------Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.

Busy Restaurant with large customer base for sale in Smi-ley, Texas. Equip-ment included. Contact Nick or Do-ris, 830-587-6262, 210-373-6869 or 210-883-4271.

10 foot by 10 foot office space. Nixon, TX. 830-857-6921.--------------------------Office Space for rent - $650.00 in-cludes water and electricity. No long term contract. Con-tact Kim at Gonza-les Storage Units (next to McCoy’s). 830-672-3763.--------------------------Office Space for rent. 1500 sq. ft., with one acre for truck parking, lo-cated at 314 West Cone Street, Gon-zales, Texas. If in-terested please call (830) 672-4433.--------------------------For Rent: Office space or store front, 960 sq. ft., 1/2 block off square. Kitchen-ette, 1 ba, newly re-furbished. For more information, call 830-672-6265.--------------------------For Rent: Indus-trial Property for rent. M1 Ind. Stor-age Yard, 70x130. Church Street. 830-423-2103.--------------------------For sale or lease. 10,000 sq. ft. Bldg. with multi-level loading docks - Prime location - with offices and separate garage. Call 830-857-5448.--------------------------For Lease: Small of-fice space w/work-shop located at 339 St. George. Recently Renovated, $400/month. For more information please (830) 672-5580.

5.5 Acres for Lease/Sale. Cleared, wa-ter well, 3-200 amp loops, and 100 yds off Hwy. 80 w/good county road front-age. In Leesville between Belmont & Luling. Will subdi-vide. Would make a perfect oil field yard or residence. Call Peyton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.--------------------------Land for lease for oil field service equipment. Prime location. 4 miles N. on 183. 2 1/2 acres. Electric, water, parking, storage. Call 203-0585 or 672-6922. (TFN)

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One bedroom, one bath furnished apartment. $800 and two bedroom, two bath, $1,200. Short term ok. Gym, wahser/dryer, inter-net, all bills paid in Seguin. Call Keith, 512-757-0280.--------------------------60 hotel rooms for rent in Seguin. Laundry and meal plans available. Call Keith, 512-757-0280.--------------------------3BR, 2BA 1670+Sq. Ft. Upstairs apart-ment on Residen-tial Lot in nice area of Cuero, $1,185/mo. includes all Util. with cable and WiFi, fully furnished - incl. linens. Hotel-style kitchenette (no sink or stove), but full-size fridge, microwave & Keurig brewer. Hot plate ok, outdoor bbq w/propane & charcoal grill onsite. No pets. $750 deposit, 3 mo. lease. (361) 484-1922, leave mes-sage.

Looking for sit-ting job for a sweet lady in her home. Includes cooking and will drive for her if she needs me to. Can stay Fri-day night, Saturday night but must be home by Sunday at 3:00. Call 830-519-3044.--------------------------Sitting at night tak-ing care of elderly in their home. Ref-erences, transpor-tation. Call 361-212-8731.--------------------------Need personal service? Will clean oilfield campers, homes and apart-ments. Also offer laundry work, iron-ing and running your personal er-rands. If you need a pair of jeans or shirt ironed for the night out or last minute event and didn’t make it to the cleaners in time, give me a call (830) 203-0716. Refer-ences. Available.--------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email bar-barajp30@hotmail.com.--------------------------In Home Appliance Repair. Washer, Dry-ers, all major ap-pliances, 30 years experience. Haul Scrap Metal & appli-ances. Call Larry at 361-596-4391.--------------------------Hand for Hire, Odd Jobs Done, FREE estimates. Anything you don’t want to do, Junk hauling, Tree Removal, Lot clearing, House pressure washing, office help, ranch, farm, lawn & Flower beds, Barbed wire fence repair, gutter cleaning, I do win-dows. One call does it all. Call Terry (830) 203-1503 or (830) 857-5927.--------------------------I am looking for a private setting job around Gonzales, Cost or on 1116 (Pilgrim Road). I have 20 years ex-perience. Please call Emily, 830-437-2727; Cell, 820-263-2768.--------------------------

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Certified Nurs-ing Assistant. Not hiring but look-ing for work as a Live-in caregiver or Live Out in San Antonio or Seguin area. Have 30 + years experience. CPR certified. Lov-ing, dependanble and experienced with Home Health, Agencies, Hospice,

and have a big heart. If interested please call 830-391-4837.--------------------------For Your Specialty Cake Needs. Call Connie Komoll, 830-203-8178.--------------------------Will do house cleaning Monday thru Friday. Call 830-203-0735.--------------------------Sewing & Altera-tions. Jo West. 830-203-5160. Call between 9 a.m. & 9 p.m.

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

Will do child care in my home. Includes meals. Any age (In-fants onup). Have one opening avail-able in August. Call 830-519-3044.--------------------------I am looking for a sitter for my 6 year old daughter for before and after school a few days a week. Preferably someone who can come to my home. References and ex-perience required. Contact me at 830-203-9159.--------------------------Child care in home. I have 2 openings, Curriculum and meals included. Please call for de-tails. 830-263-0058.

2006 Keystone Out-back 30ft Sidney Addition. $14,500. 1 large slideout, nice, clean interior, king bed. 210-279-7267.--------------------------1999 Mountain Aire Motorhome - Ford V10 gasoline en-gine - Onan gen-erator - 2 slide outs - 2 A/C’s - all appli-ances in working condition - driver side door - sleeps 4-6 - no smoking or pets - VERY CLEAN interior - Call 210-884-7085 - Asking $22,000.--------------------------RV For Sale. Older unit. 5th wheel. $2,900. Contact Richard, 830-556-6905.

Travel Trailer. EV-ERYTHING fur-nished. TV. 183 N. $600/per month. Call 830-875-3028.--------------------------RV for Rent. $300/wk. Call 512-667-4356.--------------------------Travel Trailer for rent or sale. Rent is $300.00 per week with all bills paid. Will relocate to RV park of your choice and I pay the RV Rental. Or $1,000.00 per month with all bills paid. Will sell travel trailer for $55,000. Call 830-351-0943 for de-tails.--------------------------RV Space for rent. $300 month. All bills included. If in-terested please call 820-203-9255--------------------------Fully furnished Travel Trailers for rent. Will rent week-ly or monthly. Pets Allowed. $50.00 Deposit. $300 per week or $1,000 per month. Call Terry for details, 830-351-0943. Will relocate to RV Park of your choice. All utilities paid. --------------------------

Travel Trailer for rent for RV space in Smiley. All utili-ties included, good healthy environ-ment. 830-203-9255 or 361-790-6305.--------------------------30’ Travel Trailer w/2 slides for rent in RV Ranch in Gonzales. Swimming pool, laundry facilities, shower house and all bills paid. $300 a week. 830-305-6926.--------------------------28’ Travel Trailer for rent. Can be moved from job site. Call 830-305-6926.--------------------------Office or Living Trailers for lease or buy. Peyton, 512-948-5306; David, 713-252-1130.--------------------------RV Rentals available at Belmont RV Park Estates. Call Rich-ard, 830-556-6095.

2 RV spaces in town. $295/mo., 1 Mobile home space for rent, $175/mo. Call Finch Park, 672-2955.--------------------------RV Sites Available. Nixon, TX. Clean, quiet, fair prices. 830-857-6921.

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

Gruene Harley-Da-vidson is currently buying pre-owned Harleys. Looking to sell youR Harley? Call Jon Camareno at 830-624-2473.

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

Chihuahua Pup-pies. 1male, 2 fe-males. 9 wks. old. Tan colors. $100 each. 830-263-2094 if no answer, leave voice mail.--------------------------

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7 days a week. Hand/Scissor Cut. Small, $20 & $30; Medium, $35 & $40; M e d i u m / L a r g e , $45. Ask for Susan. 361-258-1505.--------------------------Precious long haired Chihuahua puppies. Pure bred. 9 wks. old. Born Thanksgiving. 1st shots & wormed. Paper trained. Males & Females. Playful and very cute. Raised in my home with a lot of love. $200/each. 1-830-560-6668.

Rabbits for Sale. With cages, with feeders & waterers. all for $300. 361-741-2604.--------------------------Brangus Bulls for Sale. 1-2 yr. old, 3-18 mos., 3-7 mos. Leesville. 281-382-9820.--------------------------Angus Bull for sale. Registered JBarB. 3 1/2 yr.old herd bull. $2,975. 361-798-6250.--------------------------Bulls for Sale. Black Angus and Black Limousin. Breeding ages. Gentle. Deliv-ery available. 979-263-5829.--------------------------19 2 year old Bran-gus Heifers with calves. $1,500 for pair. Call 830-582-1007.--------------------------FOR SALE: Pure-bred Charolais bulls

and heifers, seven months old. 830-857-4067.--------------------------Bull For Sale:* Black polled Her-eford (White face). * 21 months old. * Very gentle, home grown. * Throws a predominance of “black baldies” when crossed with black hided cows. * This breed has a history of birth-ing small calves. * Heifer calves make great replacement stock. * Can be reg-istered, if papers are important. * Price $2,500. Charles Nunes, 830-203-0477.--------------------------FOR SALE: Beautiful Bay Mare ( brood mare) 14 yrs. Ex-cellent bloodline (Three Bars & Leo). All offers consid-ered. Pics avail-able upon request: amazin_grace454@yahoo.com. Ph: #. 830-560-0238.--------------------------Fancy Feathers Bantams. Feather Duster Roos. Col-ors, pairs, $20. Will deliver to Gonzales. 512-272-5147.--------------------------For Sale: ORGANIC EGGS. Free Range chickens. $2.00 dozen. Will deliver to Gonzales weekly. 830-540-3536.--------------------------For Sale: 2 & 3 year old red & black Brangus Bulls. No Papers. Good selec-tion. Call 830-437-5772.--------------------------Black Limousin and Angus Heifers and Bulls, Gentle In-crease your wean-ing weights. Es-tablished breeder since 1971. Delivery available 979 561- 6148 .--------------------------Muscovy ducks for sale. $10.00 each. 8 3 0 - 2 6 3 - 2 4 8 2 . (TFN)--------------------------For Sale: Registered Polled Hereford Bulls. 8-22 mths old. Heifers also, 8 months to 2 years. 830-540-4430.--------------------------WANT TO BUY: Any or Unwanted Hors-es. Call Leejay at 830-857-3866.--------------------------DISPERSAL SALE. Miniature donkeys (28” to 36”), male and female, solid and tricolored, 6 mos. to 4 years. Four year olds may be registered with vet exam/affidavit. Excellent pets, loves people. Priced ac-cording to gender, age and color. 830-672-6265 or 857-4251.--------------------------Dwarf Nigerian goats (miniature), multicolored, male and female, 3 mos. to 2-3 years. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251.

Over 100 yrs. old, 1470 sq. ft. story and 1/2 house. Brand new tin roof, to be torn down or moved. 540-4263.--------------------------Beautiful cabin on 5 acres of land in mountain of Colorado, fully fur-nished, surrounded by pines and aspen.

Plenty of wildlife. $225,000. 719-836-2611.--------------------------Individual would like to buy a 3/2, minimum of 2,000 sq. ft or more house in Gonzales area. Possibly in country. Someone interested in own-er financing w/substantial down payment. 830-203-8492.--------------------------3 Bedroom, 2 bath brick home 3 miles from Gonzales on an acre. $129,000. Robin Baker, 830-305-2959. Remax Professional Realty.--------------------------Home for sale by owner. 2BDR, can be made into a 3 BDR/1BA, corner lot, storage build-ing. 1404 Cavett St., Gonzales, TX. Con-tact Jen at 830-401-9763 after 6 p.m. $65,000.00. Needs minor repairs. Good starter home.--------------------------Older couple down-sizing 15 acres (10 acres fenced), house, 3/1 1/2, Barn, ponds, trees. Wharton County. $137,000. 979-533-3262.--------------------------4BR/2BA, 1900 Sq. ft. 210 Tanglewood Trail. New appli-ances, remodeled, new master bath. 830-857-6488.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.

Lots for Lease. Conveniently lo-cated behind WHS (Waelder High School). For infor-mation call 512-299-1627.--------------------------75 Acres Gillispie Co. 10 Min. N. of Fred-ericksburg. Hwy. Frontage, Hunting, Investment or Re-tirement. $7,500 acre. swk@gvec.net--------------------------Wanted to lease land for cattle graz-ing. Must have water and fences. Contact Mitchell Hardcastle, 830-857-4544.

5 experienced hunters looking for at least 800+ acres for hunting in Westhoff area. Bill Cain, 281-684-0165.

I’m looking for a 1959 GISD year-book. Call Jimmy at 361-571-6888.

Electrical Wiring, Trouble Shooting. Repairs, New Con-struction, Remod-els, Metal Buildings. Licensed & Insured. 830-437-5747.--------------------------Belmont RV Park. Belmont Texas Pro-pane Services avail-able. Call 830-424-3600.--------------------------Affordable Welding Service. Call Stan, 830-857-6621.--------------------------Pampered Chef D e m o n s t r a t o r .

Host a Show! It’s Easy! Choose from a Cooking Show, Catalog Show, Face-book Show or if you need an item, here is my site, https://w w w.pampered-chef.biz/zavadi l . Dee Zavadil, 830-857-1495.--------------------------Lucky Shots by Dee.Need Family Por-traits, Family Re-unions, Birthdays, School Pictures, Weddings, Etc. 830-857-1495 --------------------------Plumbing Repairs.

All Types of Plumbing.

Master Plumber.Reasonable Rates.

Please Call 713-203-2814 or

281-415-6108.

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4 1/2 acres fronting US 183 just north of Gonzales. Barns, pens, water available. $269,500. Will divide - one acre mini-mum, at $65,000/ac.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~67 acres. NW Goliad. Doublewide. 3/2 with covered porches. Good barn. John Deere tractor w/implement. Mostly Mes-quite. $275,000.

68 Acres. South Cuero. Oaks, brush, hay field. Pens, well. Cross-fenced. $5,300/ac.

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

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

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

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HOMESvTHOMPSONVILLE 5641 Hwy. 90, 2 bedroom, 3 bath, interior recently painted, tile floors, includes washer/dryer, refrigerator on 2 accres......REDUCED..............................................................$114,900vGONZALES 3/2, new construction, 707 St. Francis......GREATLY REDUCED..............................................................................$199,900

ACREAGEvGONZALES COUNTY - C.R. 418, 4 1/2 miles S.E. of Waelder, 25.1 acres, good hunting, open w/nice trees, electric, septic, wa-ter well needs repair, sandy loam, stock tank. Great for horses. Metal barn appx. 30’x50’, old mobile home (no assigned val-ue.) No minerals........................................................$119,225vN.E. GONZALES COUNTY- Best little hunting place in TX! Deer, hog, dove, some turkey. 46.892 wooded acres. Se-cluded, large ranches surround property. My 9 year old grand-daughter shot her first buck last year, 8 pointer! No minerals or water rights convey. Owner/Agent..REDUCED....$5,500/acre.v25.936 acres, Henry Bymer 1/3 League, close to I10, electric nearby, sandy loam, fronts CR420...................................................$98,800

ACREAGE W/HOMEvTHOMPSONVILLE - 33 acres, 2 stock tanks, 1 water well, 4 bedrooms/2 1/2 baths, much more................$395,000

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

COMMERCIALvGONZALES - 820 Oil Patch Lane, 2.25 acres (+/-), raw land with 3 sides metal equipment shed. Utilities are available at front of property, zoned heavy commercial....................................................................$125,000vGONZALES For Lease: 10 to 20 acres, about 5 miles south of Gonzales, just off Hwy. 183.

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A few changes are com-ing this approaching season that bird hunters will find favorable and encouraging.

The U.S. Fish and Wild-life Service (USFWS) has approved a number of changes to the early migra-tory bird seasons (for duck, geese, crane and other late season birds, consult the Migratory Waterfowl Di-gest).

The September teal-only season runs September 14-29, 2013, with a daily bag limit increase to six birds. The early Canada goose season is during the same time, September, 14-29, 2013, in the Eastern Goose Zone (of which Gonza-les County is a part) with a daily bag limit of three birds.

For dove hunters, in the Central and South Dove Zones, changes are mini-mal, except for season date changes. However, for those of you who travel fur-ther south for dove hunt-ing, the USFWS has autho-rized an expansion of the Special White-wing Dove Area (SWWDA).

According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife web-site, the SWWDA will be extended along its eastern boundary to Interstate 37 from San Antonio to Cor-

pus Christi, e f f e c t i v e l y doubling its current area.

The spe-cial, four-day, w h ite - w i ng season in the S W W D A will run Sep-tember 1, 2, 7 and 8, 2013 from noon to sunset each day. Daily bag limits will be fifteen birds in the aggregate to include no more than two mourn-ing doves and two white-tipped doves. General sea-sons in the SWWDA run from September 20-Octo-ber 23, 2013 and December 20-January 20, 2013.

Dove seasons in the Cen-tral Dove Zone north of Interstate-10: September 1-Oct 23 and December 20-Jan 5. For the South Dove Zone: Sept 20-Oct 27 and Dec 20-Jan 20. Daily bag limits: 15 mourning, white-wing and white-tipped (white-fronted) doves in the aggregate to include no more than two white-tipped doves. Lawful hunt-ing hours: thirty minutes before sunrise to sunset.

Lastly, the USFWS has authorized the possession limit of all migratory game birds to be increased to

three times the daily bag limit.

For definitions of daily bag limit and possession limit, consult the Texas Parks and Wildlife website at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulat ions/f ish_hunt/hunt/definitions/ or your latest TPWD Outdoor Annual.

Safe Boating in the County

As of the writing of this article, there have been no boating accidents and no injuries or deaths associ-ated with recreational boat-ing reported in Gonzales County this summer.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank the boating community of Gonzales and surrounding areas for operating safely on the area waterways and for their cooperation with his boating safety enforce-ment efforts.

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Elks Sweetheart’s Fishing Tourney

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The Great Outdoors

Changes in store for bird hunters

The Game WardenDan

Waddell

Dan Waddell is a Texas Parks & Wildlife Service game warden in Gonzales County.

The Gonzales Elks Lodge held its inaugural Lodge Sweetheart’s Fishing Tour-nament last weekend. All proceeds from the event go to The Sweetheart Fund benefitting Elks’ children. Prizes were awarded for heaviest stringer, biggest catch and biggest gar. (Photos by DeEtte Kuntschik & Cedric Iglehart)

First Place Stringer, 68 poundsYellow Fever

Team members: Ryan Mills, Ray Raley, Matt Hillman, Ty Tinsley, Richard Thiele and J. Paul Jones

Third Place StringerLinda’s Hookers

Team members: Bobby Pakebusch, Brittney Pakebusch, Keaton Glass, Danyelle Glass, Kobey Glass and Glenn Glass

Biggest GarSample Family

Team members: Donnie Petru, Dusty Pish, Kelby Crow, Brenda Petru, Elizabeth Petru and Brandi Pish

Second Place StringerJust Us

Team members: Michael Mendel, Ethan Mendel and Will Stewart

Biggest Fish, 26 pounds. Caught by Team Just Us

SAN ANTONIO — The Texas Nationalist Movement declared the start of an ideo-logical revolution Saturday, — but Washington is not the focus of the revolt.

Politicians in Austin are.“All roads for Texas inde-

pendence lead through Aus-tin and they represent the single biggest impediment to liberty and independence for Texas,” stated TNM presi-dent Daniel Miller while ad-dressing a meeting of nearly a hundred county and re-gional coordinators at the Crockett Hotel next door to The Alamo. “We are not go-ing to show these politicians the light, we’re going to show them the door.”

“Those guys out there, they think they threw us in the garbage can (in this leg-islative session),” said execu-tive director Cary Wise. “No, they didn’t. They pissed us off.”

Members of the leader-ship team introduced the lo-cal organizers to the group’s plan to go directly after the entrenched political struc-ture in Austin.

The most fiery presenta-tion was made by the TNM’s new Political Director, Claver Kamau-Imani.

“In case you don’t know it, we’re at war,” he said. “We, as a state, as a culture, as a peo-ple, we are constantly under attack,” said Kamau-Imani, whose RagingElephants.org organization of black Texas conservatives worked with TNM in the 2012 primaries to field a slate of 18 candi-dates. “This is no hobby. Our mission is the restoration of the republic.”

Kamau-Imani said the biggest transition for the TNM is moving from an or-ganization that wants inde-pendence to one that is pre-pared to administer it.

“You have to be prepared to govern,” he said. “You can’t just run on Texas in-dependence. You have to expand your caucus beyond that. We have to be ready to govern. We have to expand our platform. This gives us greater credibility.”

Some of the stands TNM candidates may promote could include such issues as abolishment of the property tax in Texas and militariz-ing the Texas State Guard to provide border security,” he said.

“All the world has left for the cause of liberty is Texas,” said Kamau-Imani, an or-dained minister.

In the 2012 primaries, TNM and Kamau-Imani’s RagingElephants.org fielded 18 candidates and won about 30 percent of the vote de-spite being out-spent by an 8-1 margin. TNM has since formed its own political ac-tion committee, and details of stepping up funding for the 2014 race were discussed Saturday.

Also introduced Saturday was the TNM’s new Direc-tor of Membership Develop-ment, San Antonian George

Contreras. Contreras said it is important the organiza-tion continues to actively seek diversity, especially among the growing Tejano population.

“There are a lot of people who think like us out there,” he said. “Here we are in San Antonio, a city of 1.7 million people. There are people of every color out there search-ing for us. They are watching how we interact with those who stand against us.”

Contreras said people like San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro are “an embarass-ment” to Tejanos.

“They’re practicing Chi-cago gang-land politics,” he said. “They’re already wear-ing the uniform of Santa Anna’s troops, legislating ri-diculousness.”

Contreras said the most important factor in winning over the support of Tejanos and other Texans of color is to let them convince them-selves.

“You can lead someone to the facts without shoving their face in it,” he said. “Let them lead themselves to the truth. We need marchers, not sitters.”

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Dear Gonzales ISD School Family,

Summertime offers so much in terms of family time. I hope that you have had the pleasure of many adventures with your chil-dren, family and friends! Sum-mertime is also a busy time in the district. Our employees who work year-round are preparing the campuses, budgets and new staff for the students’ and staffs’ return for the new school year 2013-2014. We are so excited to start the year welcoming back our great teachers and staff as well as our new employees! We look forward to working together to make this year a special one for all of GISD.

Below, you will find notations regarding the new school year start up. Additionally, you can find news related to registration, orientations and other pertinent information on our district web-site at www.gonzales.txed.net, on facebook where we post district information, or by calling the campus directly.

• Student/Parent Handbook and Code of Conduct: All stu-dents will receive a copy of the 2013-2014 Gonzales ISD Stu-dent/Parent Handbook and Code of Conduct. This hand-book and Code of Conduct will also be available on-line by the week of August 19th, 2013. Please remember that receipt of the Student/Parent Handbook and Code of Conduct must be acknowledged in writing. The re-ceipt forms will be received with the handbook and should be returned to your child’s campus. Additionally, as part of the Gon-zales ISD Student/Parent Hand-book, there is a specific section on the GISD Drug Testing Policy for 2013-2014 with a reference to the purpose and the GISD Drug Testing Guidelines and Procedures Handbook available from the campus administrator. The GISD Drug Testing Policy requires an additional signature page related to drug testing.

• Bus Routes: Bus routes are posted at individual campuses. Bus information is available by calling 830-672-3010.

• Meet the Teacher-PK-6th grade campuses have scheduled time for Meet the Teacher. Please check dates and times on-line at our Gonzales ISD website, in the Gonzales Inquirer, the Gonzales Cannon (first week of August publications) and on the campus marquees.

• Registration- Please check dates and times on-line at our Gonzales ISD website, in the Gonzales Inquirer, the Gonzales Cannon (first week of August

publications) and on the campus marquees or by calling campuses.

• School Supplies- School Sup-plies-Grade level school supply lists have been compiled and are available online, in the Gonzales Inquirer and the Gonzales Can-non and by contacting the cam-puses. Supplies may be dropped off during Meet the Teacher night for grades PK-6.

• School Start Times- Please check dates and times on-line at our Gonzales ISD website, in the Gonzales Inquirer, the Gonzales Cannon (first week of August publications) and on the campus marquees or by calling campuses. Remember that getting to bed early helps with an early morn-ing routine and assists students throughout the learning process.

• Lunch Schedules- Please check times by contacting the in-dividual campus. For 2013-2014, Gonzales High School will have closed lunch scheduling for 9th grade students and others that may wish to have lunch on cam-pus. All incoming Freshman will receive an information letter with details concerning Freshman lunch procedures.

• First Week of School Pick-Up/Drop-Off: East Avenue Pri-mary: In an attempt to assist with first week of school traffic issues and better serve everyone we will have a staggered start time for East Avenue Primary. This start time is in effect for the first week of school August 26th- August 30st only. Staggered start times follow: 1st grade

• report to school between 7:30 A.M. and 8:00 A.M., Kindergar-ten report from 8:00 A.M.-8:30 A.M. and Pre-K report between 8:30 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. Please help out by following the stag-gered start time schedule in place for the first week only. (If you must be at work at a time that will not allow you to follow the sched-ule we understand.

• Feel free to deliver your child at the normal time from 7:30 A.M.-8:00 A.M.) Remember to report at the normal time begin-ning the second week of school.

• Immunizations: Please check out the Gonzales ISD Health

Website for immunization infor-mation.

• 2013-2014 District Calendar: Please note that the Gonzales ISD 2013-2014 Calendar can be located on the district website or in the Gonzales Inquirer or the Gonzales Cannon (first week of August). New calendars will be sent home with each student on the first day of school.

• Dress Code: Thank you for following the Gonzales ISD dress code. If you have questions relat-ed to the dress code, please refer to the Student/Parent Handbook or review it on-line at the Gonza-les ISD website.

• Attendance: School start times are communicated as out-lined above. Please review and call if you have questions regard-ing attendance. It is so helpful for students to begin the day calmly and without stress of tardiness. Arriving on time ensures that they do not miss their instruc-tional time. Please watch for additional attendance informa-tion to go home the first week of school.

• Spend time talking to your child: A little time preparing your child for the new school year is important. It is normal to experience some anxiety and ex-citement about the coming year. There will be many familiar faces and friends. Additionally, the teacher will assist with procedures and meeting new friends. Time contributed now to the impor-tance of learning and attending school will make a difference in your child’s life. Spend time each school morning and evening talking about what your child is learning at school. Ask your child to show you how to do the assign-ments he/she is working on. This is great review and practice. Ask your child about new friends and what he/she has learned about their friend’s families, like where they work and how they spend free time. Ask your child about his/her favorite teacher and why he/she would pick that one. The questions you ask are important to show your child that you value who he/she spends time with, the world of education and the time they spend learning. These are some of the most important conversations you will have with your child.

Thank you for working with us to support your child’s educa-tion. A supportive team approach is vital to the success of each in-dividual student as they learn, develop confidence and grow to be productive and caring citizens. Let’s encourage all of our students to make the most of their educa-tion!

It is turning to boiling in South Texas. The heat high is on top of us and 102 degrees is just too hot. Be sure you drink lots of flu-ids, take a break, and use common sense. This is how a hot summer is in Texas. I guess that we should be used to it by now, but each year we get thrown a new curve.

What in the world is wrong with people? It is most disturbing to have our national monuments de-faced by ugly green paint. That is so disrespectful and disgusting. I haven’t heard what the person’s reason was that did it. If people would take the time they use to think up and destroy things, and utilize that time to think about how to do good in the world, we would have a much better place to live.

PRAYER TIME: Joe Kot-wig, Mr. Bill, Jesse Esparza; Bill and Marie Lott, Louise Jones, Sandy Ingram, Aunt Georgie Gandre; Danny and Joyce Schellenberg, “Sarge” Duncan, Mildred O’Neal, Rhonda Pruett, Terrence, Aunt Frances Gandre, Barbara and Allen Wiedner, Bubba and Sara Roecker, Glenn Mikesh, Lillie Lay, Maria Castillo, Selma Vickers, Landis, Keith Glass, Teresa Wilke, Linda Denker, Case Mar-tin, Sandi Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre, Carol and husband, Margie Menk-ing, Joy Carson, Richard Hidalgo Jr., Arthur Casa-res, Morgan, Justin, Shir-ley Dozier, Marie Schauer, Esther Lindemann, Anna Lindemann, Lanny Baker, Judy Wilson, Iva (Totsie) Hodge, Bob Young, Mar-guerite Williams, the fami-ly of Louise Goss, the fami-ly of Fletcher Johnson, and our military and families,

The ice cream supper at Belmont was a great suc-cess. Someone counted around 120 people who were in attendance. There were about 25 different kinds of delicious home-made ice cream and lots of sandwiches and chips. Carol Soefje Dodgen was looking great in a cool red dress. Tom Dodgen was of great help in working on the center. The center is absolutely beautiful. It looks so nice and glow-ing. We are grateful for the help from GVEC and GBRA, and all of the ones who gave of their time from those entities. The floor was shining and great looking with a donation from Paul Allen Jr. Paul is one of the few original members of the Belmont Community Center that is still alive

when they converted the parsonage to a center. The floors were his “pet project” then. We are glad to see Mark Newmann inside and not on the roof. The Wundt Family sponsored the re-structuring of the entrance in Memory of Norman and Martha Wundt. It has two ramps and I used one with a scooter. It worked just fine. It was done with beauty and grace. We have bathrooms inside, and a whole newly refurbished kitchen with that project being sponsored by GBRA. There are totally new cabi-nets and a serving table, a new stove. I know that I have left someone out. Mike Bond and Ruddy De-Cou got used to having so much dirt thrown in their faces that they didn’t know they could live any other way. I know that many ladies painted and helped feed everyone. I expect that everyone lost their patience at one time or another, but in the true spirit of God’s Love this wonderful proj-ect got done and it is some-thing to be proud of and will last many years if taken care of properly. May God Bless each one who helped in any way and let us all en-joy the fruit of our labors.

And talking about Paul Allen Jr. being one of the older ones still living, ----yes he celebrated his 87th birthday on July 25th. He is something else. I love that man and so many others do too. He makes delicious chocolate candy, makes fig preserves, and this year with the help of Kathleen Allen picked mustang grapes and made jam and jelly. Then Donna Allen, Kathleen Allen, and Paw Paw Allen made dill pickles and bread and butter pick-les. He plants fig trees and passes them out to who-ever wants to get a start of figs. No he doesn’t act his age and aren’t we glad that he doesn’t. Betty and Allen Fink went trooping down to pick figs after the supper. We wish him many more Happy Birthdays!!!!

It was so good to see Jean Esta Towns Powers with two of her daughters Steph-anie and Natlie and a few of her grand-children. She said that she had all four of her children home for a vis-it including Richey and Mi-

cheal. We had not seen Jean Esta in so long that she and her kids had to reacquaint themselves with some of the people. She reminds me so much of Mama Jewell. She is running around just like she did with a brood of little chicks. Sorry but Jean Esta has that same mar-velous ability to take care of and love children and people, and it shows the minute you see her smiling face.

I am going to have to commend Kyle Wundt. They really gave him a hard job to do. They sat him in the corner to ride herd on all the little Wundts and then several more little one. He only got a fleeting bit of help from Sara and Angie and whoever. First off, the kids are growing so fast and getting as cute as buttons. I don’t see them often so they have changed so much that I notice the difference. I love Kyle as we all can re-member his growing up days sitting by TX Dozier in church by that old heater that would singe the hair off your arm when you lit it on Sunday morning. TX was always cold so he al-most sat on the heater and Kyle would sit further away.

Grandma Connie Bond was walking around sport-ing little Mark Shannon. I realized it after she told me; Mark is coming upon his first birthday here shortly. I just don’t think that we are going to be able to use Mark for baby Jesus this year. He has grown too much.

Pepe has been on a roll this week, He has added bug catching to his list of duties but in the process he also got a bad brain glitch. A bug fell into his water bowl. By time he got that bug out of his water there was water all over my bathroom floor and coming out the door. Being a good parent, I had just changed and filled his water bowl. But he thought that was just so fascinating, that he jumped up on the counter top and attacked my pink plastic water glass that I leave there to get a sip of water or whatever. That glass had maybe an inch or so of water in it, and Pepe sticks his head in that pink glass which of course scares him to pieces. He jumps off that counter with the pink glass and water tearing out of the bathroom into the bedroom before he got that awful pink thing off his head. If I start running that water in the lavatory, Pepe is one cautious cat. He just doesn’t know what to think about that water.

Have a good week and God Bless.

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Dr. Kimberly Strozier is superin-tendent of Gonzales ISD.

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Emmanuel Christian School is now accepting applications of new students for the 2013-2014 school year.

If you want your child to receive a quality Christian Education, Emmanuel is the place for you. Successfully educating students for more than thirty years.

Classes offered for students Pre-K thru the 12th grade.Our low student/teacher ratio ensures each student will receive

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Is it hot enough yet?

The Fifty Sixth Annual Harwood Homecoming was held on Sunday, July 14th with a nice crowd in attendance.

A covered dish meal was served at noon with a va-riety of good food brought by each family.

A program followed the meal. The chairman of the Cemetery Committee, Danny Pool, introduced the Cemetery Committee and the Community Cen-ter Committee was also in-troduced.

Johnny Seitz Wiley, 100 years old, was the oldest lady present.

Stanley McMicken from Katy, Texas was one of the oldest men present while Bruce Perry was in atten-dance from Harwood.

Jewel Short received a price for being the young-est helper when getting the building clean and ready for the big day.

Janie Fullilove traveled

from Clinton, Arkansas.Ima Gene Roycroft re-

ceived a book, donated by Dorothy Gilkey for having the largest group to attend the Homecoming.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sud-derth received a Harwood Cookbook donated by the Harwood Community Center group for being married the shortest period of time.

Willie Ray and Ann Wilkinson received a box of assorted cards donated by Peggy Duncan. They have been married for more than 50 years.

Marjorie Fairchild re-ceived a pot plant donated by the Ray Kirk family for having the most fam-ily members present while Gladys Winkle received a jar of “homemade goodies” from Sudie Pool for being the kitchen helper.

There were two special projects through the year. On October 13th, 2013 a ceremony to honor the vet-erans of the Civil War was presented by the Sons of

the Confederate Veterans and Order of Confederate Rose. There was a 21 gun salute and cannon fire to honor the Confederate and the Union Veterans.

On May 18th there was a workshop for the pres-ervation and cleaning of gravestones at the Har-wood Cemetery. Glenda Gordon handed out sheets of information on cleaning of gravestones. At the Cem-etery there was a lesson on how to identify the differ-ent stones and what chemi-cals to use on each kind.

The members of the Har-wood Cemetery Commit-tee express their apprecia-tion to those that worked to prepare the Community Center for the Homecom-ing and to the folks that at-tended.

Obituaries are still being collected of persons with Harwood connections to be included in our supple-ments to the books, Obitu-aries, Harwood Friends and the Harwood Cem-etery Gonzales Co., Texas.

Evelyn Joy WittmanMicah and Natasha Wittman announce the birth of their bundle of joy, Evelyn Joy, on July 1st, 2013. She weighed 7 lbs, 12 ounces. She is also being welcomed by grandmother, Rhonda Wittman of Gonzales and aunts, Leah and Lauren, also of Gonzales.

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

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

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

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

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

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

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

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

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

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

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

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

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

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Methodist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

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

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

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

Emmanuel Fellowship1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian Fel-lowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

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

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, a challenge arises that

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TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, you can choose from

among many paths, but this week you will have to carefully think about which way to go. Otherwise you may end up hav-ing to backtrack and start over.

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Scorpio, catch up on some overdue health screenings. There has never been a better time to get these things done, and you don’t want to put your health on the back burner.

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Sagittarius, there is only so much persuading you can do before you must let others choose their own paths. A dif-ficult conversation has you sec-ond-guessing something.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Do something for yourself this week, Capricorn. It’s a good time to treat yourself before you must devote more of your time to others in the near future.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, something has

been on your mind but you just can’t put your finger on it. For-

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It was George Bernard Shaw who made the following observation: “The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

Modern dietary trends notwithstanding, raw vegetables have not always enjoyed the healthsome reputation they now have. In medieval times, in fact, veggies would always be cooked; raw ones were considered to be bad for the humors.

Those who keep track

of such things say that the Rolling Stones’ song “Satisfaction” is played on the radio in the U.S. more than 300 times every day.

One of the most notorious magic tricks performed by professionals is catching a bullet in the mouth. It’s said to be cursed, due to the fact that, over the past 400 or so years, at least 15 magicians have died in the attempt. Some of them mistakenly used live rounds instead of blanks, and one jealous wife swapped out the blanks for live rounds. One of the earliest attempters of the trick was beaten to death by a mob who believed he

was in league with the devil. Cursed, though? If someone is trying to catch a bullet in the mouth, it hardly requires a curse to result in a violent end.

Portland, Ore., could just as easily have been named Boston, Oregon. The two men who named the town couldn’t decide which city back east should be the namesake, so they flipped a coin. Portland came up the winner.

Originally, the best man was supposed to serve as a sort of armed guard, in case the bride needed to be kidnapped from her disapproving parents.

***Thought for the Day:

“Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.” -- Dorothy Fuldheim

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