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The six month probation period for the recycling center owned by Rogelio Peralez has passed, and the Gonzales Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unani-mously Monday night to approve the business per-mit pending the outcome

of a district court hearing Friday.

“I believe the court will reverse the decision of this board,” said Eddie Escobar, an attorney representing Gonzales citizen Glenda Gordon who filed a lawsuit against the business claim-ing damages to her health and adjacent properties

SHINER — An off-shoot of the extensive energy exploration in the Eagle Ford Shale may provide a new revenue stream for the City of Shiner.

During its regular meeting Monday night, the Shiner City Council heard a presentation from TD Water Resource Man-

agement LLC to purchase the city’s wastewater. The company’s goal is to treat the wastewater to make it useable and available for fracking, the process of creating of fractures in rock by injecting fluids into them.

“We are a new company that’s more or less trying to make a Green movement in the oil and gas industry,” said Chance War-rick, the company’s representa-

tive. “We want those companies to start fracking with this water as opposed to the fresh water they’re currently using from regional aquifers.”

Warrick proposed a five-year lease with an option for a five-year extension. Shiner would get an annual payment of $2,133.43 just for the acquisition rights and could receive as much as an ad-ditional $213,342.50 yearly, de-

pending on how much water the company actually buys. The City of Shiner is currently putting out about 350,000 gallons of wastewa-ter per day.

In addition, Warrick said his company could eventually build a facility in town which would lead to the creation of new jobs for local residents. TD Water has pitched similar proposals in Dil-

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was submitted by Greg Sen-gelmann, the general manager of the Gonzales Underground Water Conservation District in response to recent public questions concern-ing drought conditions and the contitions within the underrgound aquifers in Gonzales County.

The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), which uses tem-perature and rainfall informa-tion in a formula to determine dryness, indicates that the cen-tral Texas region is currently un-der extreme drought conditions. The PDSI attempts to measure the duration and intensity of the long-term drought-inducing cir-culation patterns. Long-term drought is cumulative, so the in-tensity of drought during the cur-rent month is dependent on the current weather patterns plus the cumulative patterns of previous months. Since weather patterns can change almost literally over-night from a long-term drought pattern to a long-term wet pat-tern, the PDSI can respond fairly rapidly.

The Gonzales County Under-ground Water Conservation Dis-trict (GCUWCD) began 2011 under near normal conditions however with limited spring rain-

fall (see Table 1) the district was soon under moderate drought conditions by April and in May moved into severe drought condi-tions. The district has been under extreme drought conditions since June 2011.

The City of Gonzales has been collecting rainfall measurements since 1905. A review of the data indicates that the wettest year on record is 1919 with 54.34 inches and the driest year on record is 1954 with 11.15 inches. The av-erage annual rainfall for the city since 1905 is about 33.25 inches.

Current Water Use RestrictionsDue to the severity of the

drought some of our cities and water supply companies are cur-rently enforcing water use restric-tions. Table 2 lists the entities within our district that are under water use restrictions.

The district currently has four water supply corporations that transfer water out of the district – Schertz-Seguin Local Govern-ment Corporation (SSLGC), Canyon Regional Water Author-

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Today in Texas History October 06, 1839On this day in 1839, Reuben Ross,

standing in for Alonzo B. Sweitzer, se-riously wounded Ben McCulloch in a duel. The bad blood between Mc-Culloch and Sweitzer began during their 1839 race for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives and intensi-fied during their subsequent involve-ment in the pursuit of Indians who had raided Gonzales County. After a lengthy exchange of insults, Sweitzer’s friend Ross delivered a formal chal-lenge to McCulloch, who refused to accept on the grounds that Sweitzer was not a gentleman. Ross, however, was an acceptable substitute, and the two faced off with rifles at forty paces in a field two miles north of Gonzales. Ross, a trained duelist, shot McCulloch in the right arm, a wound that left him permanently crippled. With honor ap-parently satisfied, Ross sent his personal surgeon to tend to McCulloch and ex-pressed his regret at having “to meet so brave a man in a private encounter.”

Today’s Quote“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

George Orwell

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Going on the warpathThe entire Gonzales Elementary School gathered in front of their campus Wednesday to compete for the Apache Spirit Stick. Each class made their own decorations and wore spirit shirts for the occasion. Shown here are some little Indians circling their camp fire and preparing for the commu-nity pep rally and Friday night’s battle against the Sam Houston Hurricanes. (Photo by Nikki Maxwell)

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The Gonzales City Coun-cil opened their meeting Tuesday by proclaiming Oct. 4, 2011 as ‘Charles Windwehen Day.

As a Gonzales native and former Victoria City Man-ager, Windwehen was hired as interim city manager

in March 2011 to help the city departments maintain continuity while the coun-cil hunted for a permanent city manager. Alan Barnes was hired as the new city manager in August, with Windwehen working as a city management advisor for the past two months. Tuesday was Windwehen’s

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CUERO — DeWitt County Crime Stoppers is asking for your help in locating Matthew David Barron, 44. Barron is 5’08” with salt and pepper hair and usually wears a goatee with mustache. Barron’s last known address was in the Yorktown area.

Barron is wanted on 29 separate warrants including Violation of Probation on an Enhanced Family Vio-lence charge, 25 bad check warrants as well as $1,211 in traffic charges.

Anyone who knows whereabouts of Barron or

any crime is asked to con-tact DeWitt County Crime Stoppers anonymously 24 hours a day through our tip line at 361-275-0880. If the information leads to an ar-rest and conviction, Crime Stoppers will pay a cash re-ward of up to $1,000.

SAN ANTONIO — The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force sponsored by the United States Marshals Service is announc-ing the arrest of Lee Roy Su-arez.

Suarez was wanted by the Comal County Sheriff’s Of-fice for the homicide of Diego Saenz and aggravated assault of his brother, Vicente Saenz. On November 20, 2004, law enforcement authorities say Diego and Vicente were hang-ing out at an apartment com-plex visiting a friend of theirs. Vicente had issues with Su-arez’s cousin, and Suarez had apparently come to pick a fight in his cousin’s honor. Witnesses say the two exchanged some nasty words before Suarez split.

Authorities say that when Suarez returned, he had two other men with him. A fight ensued and in a fit of rage Su-arez took it one step further when he brandished a knife and allegedly stabbed Diego to death. During the struggle,

authorities say Vicente was stabbed in the buttocks. Unlike his brother, Vicente survived the fight and was able to iden-tify Lee Roy Suarez and his two pals who started the fight. The others, Christopher Andrew Ortiz and Adrian Guerrero, were quickly taken into cus-tody and charged. Both were convicted, sentenced and sent to prison. Up until this date, Suarez had remained a fugitive from justice.

Members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force along with Mexico authorities, Agen-cia Federal De Investigacion of Mexico City, were able to track Suarez to San Nicho-las, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Investigative efforts revealed that soon after the homicide, Suarez fled to Mex-ico, assumed another identity, was arrested on at least one occasion by Mexico authori-ties, but was released before his true identity could be de-termined. Suarez married and fathered three children.

Still, U.S. authorities con-tinued to pursue Suarez.

Suarez was again tracked to Mexico, this time to the re-gion of Monterrey, Mexico. The United States Marshals contacted the Agencia Feder-al De Investigacion. Mexico authorities worked tirelessly throughout this investigation and based upon information shared by U.S. authorities were finally able to locate and apprehend Suarez, who now awaits extradition back to Texas.

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Gonzales Police Report for the week of Oct. 3:

09/26/2011 16 Year Old Male Issued Citation To Appear In City Court Charged With Disruption Of Class At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

09/26/2011 Reported Theft At 3000 Blk Harwood Rd.

09/27/2011 Johnny Cantu 64 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 1000 Blk Cuero St.

09/27/2011 Reported Reckless Driving At 90-A East.

09/28/2011 Reported Assault At 600 Blk Tate St.

09/28/2011 Derrick Ray Dora 30 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Theft At 1600 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

09/28/2011 Reported Burglary Habitation At 1000 Blk Church St.

09/28/2011 Reported Ter-

roristic Threat At 3300 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

09/29/2011 Reported Aggra-vated Robbery At 500 Blk Jobe St.

09/29/2011 Reported Disor-derly Conduct At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

09/29/2011 Michael Brice Franks 18 Of Sinton, Texas Arrest-ed And Charegd With Possession Of Controlled Substance, Tam-pering With Evidence And Evad-ing At 1200 Blk St. Andrew St.

10/01/2011 Reported Assault At 1100 Blk St. Joseph St.

10/01/2011 Alex Juarez 33 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Assault At 200 Blk St. John St.

10/01/2011 Reported Bur-glary Motor Vehicle At 200 Blk St. Andrew St.

10/01/2011 Reported Bur-glary Motor Vehicle At 900 Blk St.

John St.10/01/2011 Reported Aggra-

vated Assault At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

10/01/2011 Juan Almazan 22 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At St. Louis And St. Joseph St.

10/02/2011 Reported Unau-thorized Use Motor Vehicle At 1400 Blk Kleine St.

10/03/2011 Reported Bur-glary Habitation At 1200 Blk St. Joseph St.

10/03/2011 Reported Assault At 500 Blk St. Paul St.

10/03/2011 Simon Cantu 68 Of Gonzales Arrested And Cha-regd With Public Intoxication At 700 Blk Seydler St.

10/03/2011 Leon Scott 32 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Assault At 2600 Blk Winding Way Drive.

The Gonzales County Sher-iff’s Office Sheriff’s Report for 09/25/11-10/01/11

09/26/11Garza, Manuel Lee, 03/1987,

Gonzales. Local Warrant - Posses-sion of Marijuana <2 oz. Requires $1,500 Bond. Local Warrant - Criminal Trespass. Requires $2,500 Bond. Local Warrant - Assault causes Bodily Injury Family Vio-lence. Requires $5,000 Bond. Re-mains in Custody.

Ormond, Lyndsey Marie, 04/1988, Yoakum. Local Warrant - Theft of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Requires $2,000 bond. Re-mains in Custody.

09/27/11Esparza, Pedro, 12/1977,

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

Olivas, Daniel Salcido, 08/1969, Houston. Local Warrant - Posses-sion of Marijuana >4 oz <5 lbs. Requires $15,000 bond. Remains in Custody.

Carrizal, Christine, 12/1967, San

Antonio. Local Warrant - Driving while Intoxicated 3rd or More. Re-mains in Custody.

Briney, Allen Keith, 01/1964, San Antonio. Local Warrant - Engage in Organized Criminal Activity. Local Warrant - Engage in Orga-nized Criminal Activity. Sentenced 20 years. Transfer to Guadalupe County.

Ellsworth, Phillip, 09/1980, New Braunfels. Local Warrant - Engage in Organized Criminal Activ-ity. Requires $75,000 Bond. Local Warrant - Engage in Organized Criminal Activity. Requires $50,000 Bond. Transfer to Guadalupe County.

Peterson, Kevin, 03/1956, San Antonio. Local Warrant - Posses-sion of a Controlled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Requires $25,000 bond. Local Warrant - Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Requires $70,000 Bond. Remains in Custody.

09/28/11Grafe, Melvin Wayne, 06/1981,

Hallettsville. Victoria County War-

rant - Criminal Nonsupport. Re-mains in Custody.

09/29/11Fahrig, Alfred Joe, Jr., 08/1978,

Nixon. Commitment/Sentence - Bail Jumping and Fail to Appear Felony. Sentenced 10 days. Re-mains in Custody.

09/30/11Munoz, John Patrick, 01/1991,

Nixon. Commitment/Sentence - Aggravated Robbery. Sentenced 10 years. Commitment/Sentence - Aggravated Robbery. Sentenced 10 years. Remains in Custody.

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

GCSO 11DPS 07GPD 09WPD 01NPD 02Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 30

Gonzales Municipal Court no-show list for Sept. 28:

Defendants who receive a citation(s) must appear on or before the date indicated on the citation(s). Their appearance must be in writing, in person or by an attorney, and any change of address must be given to the court.

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

In addition to the original charge, there will be a warrant

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

Rebecca CastilloEnrique Lopez FloresJohn Vasilio Aleman, Jr.Madison MarcusEmuil GreathouseHugo HernandezSepulveda Francisco MorenoBrandon Ray GarciaJose Alfonso Reyes-Hernan-

dezFabian Humberto MedranoAlberta IzaguirreEva GonzalezCelestino Sanchez Izaguirre

Karla D. GuardadoChristian Dion ClackCandace HookerAmy Nicole MartinezDaniel Gonzales-RodriguezRoger GonzalesIvan VillarealWilliam Edwin HellerPedro Angel FloresAndrew Jesse RamirezJames RoseSolange Alexis Martinez

The above listed defendants

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

Lavaca County Sheriff’s Office Calls for Service Sept. 26-Oct. 2:

Sept. 26Deputy Jimmie Heiman spoke

to a complainant on CR 327 in reference to criminal trespassing.

Deputy Noe Miranda was dis-patched to a location on Hwy. 90A East to assist at the scene of a one-vehicle accident. There were no serious injuries.

Sept. 27Deputy Mike Gibson was dis-

patched to a location on Hwy. 77 North in reference to a suspicious person.

Sept. 28Sgt. Mike Buchanek spoke to a

complainant on Hwy. 90A East in reference to suspicious activity. A frequent patrol was requested.

Sgt. Mike Buchanek spoke to a complainant in reference to an abandoned vehicle on CR 1H.

Deputy Chris Rosales was dis-patched to a location on CR 132 in reference to a vehicle on the roadway causing a traffic hazard.

Deputy Chris Rosales spoke to subjects in reference to threaten-ing text messages.

Sept. 30Deputy Jimmie Heiman spoke

to a complainant who had been bitten by a dog while jogging on FM 957.

Deputy Noe Miranda arrested a subject for an outstanding war-rant.

Deputy Mike Gibson was dis-patched to a location on FM 530 to assist at the scene of an acci-

dent in which a vehicle struck a cow.

Oct. 1Deputy Mike Gibson, along

with DPS Troopers Wycoff and Mercado, responded to a loca-tion on CR 132 in referenec to sus-picious activity.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman was dispatched to a location on CR 387 in reference to illegal dump-ing.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman was dispatched to Hwy. 111 to at-tempt to locate an 18-wheeler involved in an accident.

Deputy Noe Miranda was dis-patched to a location on FM 530 in reference to a grass fire. The subject was issued a citation for violating the county burn ban.

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LA GRANGE — Al-though thunderstorms rolled through the area last week, a stark re-minder that Texas is still suffering from severe drought conditions was brought home in Fayette County.

A 9-1-1 call about a grass fire in Fayette County forced some residents to evacuate but also drew a swift reac-tion from a number of agenices on Wednesday, Sept. 28, and the resi-dents were allowed to return after about three hours.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek said the sheriff ’s office received a 9-1-1 call around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday report-ing a grass fire west of

Piney Creek Rd. on FM 153 in the Winchester in the far west portion of the county. The Win-chester Volunteer Fire Department was noti-fied and mutual aid was requested from the La-Grange VFD, Texas For-est Service, South Lee County VFD and the Giddings VFD.

The Texas Forest Ser-vice also assisted by mobilizing two C-130 cargo plans and a pair of helicopters for airborne water drops, as well as responding with a task force team of two en-gines and three bulldoz-ers.

Fayette County pre-cinct I also contribut-ed to the effort with a maintainer.

County emergency management coordina-tor Janet Carrigan re-

sponded with County Judge Edward F. Jan-ecka, who immediately had the Red Cross set up a temporary evacuation shelter at Second Bap-tist Church in La Grange for residents of the Clear Lake Pine subdivision on FM 153.

The Fayette County Sheriff ’s Office and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers assisted with evacuating residents of the Clear lake Pines subdivision as a precautionary mea-sure. Korenek said the evacuees were allowed to return to their homes at 5:14 p.m.

Officials said approxi-mately 15 acres of grass, brush and pine trees were burned, but no structures were lost and there were no reported injuries.

FAYETTE COUNTY — Two men have been detained in connection with the death of a Schulenburg woman af-ter they were found parked near her body in a remote section of the county southeast of Smithville.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Kore-nek said that on Thursday, Sept. 29, at about 1 a.m., Deputies Robert Dryden and Josh Berger received a call of a suspicious vehicle in the 1200 block of Barton Creek Road about a half-mile from South Kirtley Road.

When the deputies arrived they spoke with the owner of the vehicle, identified as Moisecito (Moses) Mar-tinez, 20, of Columbus. After finding suspicious circumstances and con-ducting further investigation deputies found the deceased body of a white fe-

male later identified as Melissa Carde-nas Gutierrez, 40, of Schulenburg lying near the fence line where the vehicle was parked.

According to Sheriff Korenek, it ap-peared that Gutierrez had died several days earlier and had not been heard from since Monday evening. The cause of the death is still under investigation.

Moses was taken into custody as part of the investigation and another sus-pect, Jack Gutierrez, was arrested on probation violations. More charges are expected to be filed once the Tra-vis County Medical Examiner and the Texas Rangers complete their investi-gations.

If you have any information regard-ing this incident please call the Fayette County Sheriff ’s Office at 979-968-5856. Crime Stoppers money will be paid for information leading to a con-viction.

Two men detainedin woman’s death

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Supporting awarenessGonzales County Judge David Bird signs a proclamation Monday naming Octo-ber as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the county. With Bird at the signing are (back, from left) Arline Rinehart, Sherry Callaway, Jane Kifer, Laura Wilson, Kata-lin Szanto, Ildiko Rigney, (front) Patricia Ferrell and Cain Wyatt. (Photo by Nikki Maxwell)

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The 26th Annual Night in Old Luling (NIOL) is scheduled for Sat., Oct. 8. Area residents are invited to join in the festivi-ties in downtown Luling under the Water-melon Thump pavilions. The gala is de-signed to entertain the entire family, with food booths, game booths, entertainment and bingo.

Start the day off with a pumpkin pan-cake breakfast. Enjoy a beautiful Autumn festival that plays host to a huge cake auc-tion, cake auction, bingo, games, music, scarecrow contest and more.

The proceeds raised this year will ben-efit the Luling Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) and the Luling Girl Scouts.

The Night in Old Luling festival began in 1986, as the city’s sesquicentennial project, to raise funds to build an historic wing at the Luling Public Library. The library also received funds in 1987 and 1988, to complete the project.

Beginning in 1989, the proceeds were awarded to non-profit organizations for a number of worthwhile projects. Since the inception of the festival, 27 groups have shared in the profits from NIOL, totaling $251,768.

This year’s festivities will begin Satur-day morning with a pancake breakfast, sponsored by the cub scouts, at the pavil-ions. The pet parade will begin at 5 p.m., with pets and owners gathering in the parking lot in the 600 block of Davis St. at 4:45 p.m.

The entourage will parade west on Da-vis, to the pavilions. Anyone with well-be-haved pets is invited to participate in the parade, but will not be allowed in the pa-vilions. The final parade entry will be the Kiwanis’ Club calf, which will be raffled off during the evening.

Those attending NIOL activities are in-vited to attend the gala dressed in histori-cal costumes, Halloween costumes, or just as they are.

Lisa Brister, NIOL Board member, is in charge of the games this year an will host the 2nd Annual Turkey Call. Those who enter have a chance to win prizes. Also planned again this year is the 6th Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. Contestants are asked to bring carved, painted or dec-orated pumpkins and vie for prizes. Only real pumpkins will be eligible to compete for prizes. Entries should be in the en-tertainment area no later than 5:15 p.m. Judging is set for 5:45 p.m. The lighting of the pumpkins is scheduled for 6 p.m., followed by entertainment.

Whose who would like to perform at this year’s event are asked to contact Woody Cox, at (512) 738-7134, or email: [email protected]. Or sign up be-

fore 5:45 p.m. by the gate in the entertain-ment area. Winners of the yard-decorat-ing contest and booth-decorating contest will be announced during the entertain-ment, and this year’s sponsors will be rec-ognized.

The 5th Annual Pie Eating Contest, hosted by board member Megan Cox, will begin at 6 p.m. A cash prize will be awarded to the winner. Bingo will be from 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Prizes are donated by local merchants.

Game booths include: a dart throw, dunking booth, inflatables, clown bean bag toss, ring toss, petting zoo, pumpkin bowling, cake walk, face painting, spin the wheel, moon walk, duck pond, sponge toss, and more. Guests will also have the opportunity to have their picture taken during the evening.

A wide menu of foods are planned this year including chili, nachos, black and red cows, hamburgers, turkey legs, chalupas, sausage on a stick, BBQ buns, popcorn, baked potatoes, cakes and pies by the slice, brownies and more.

Drinks will be provided by the Women of the Church of the Annunciation (Epis-copal). Organizations which would like to participate with a food or game booth are asked to contact Woody Cox at (830) 875-5935, or Louise Watts at (830) 445-1055.

The 7 p.m. cake auction will boast 20 cakes made by local bakers known for their cooking skills. Many of these vol-unteers have baked cakes for NIOL for more than 20 years. The confections will be awards tot hose submitting the highest bids during the sale.

Directors Kelly Ogletree and Shelly Cox will host the 5th Annual ‘A Taste of Fall.’ This competition of favorite baked goods, containing fall ingredients, will be broken down into categories, including cookies, candy, jams, jelly, hot chocolate, cakes, pies, breads, and other items. First, second, and third place will be awarded in each category, and there will be a cash prize for the Grand Champion entry.

Following the contest, samples of the entries will be given out. If you don’t en-ter, but have a favorite recipe, please sub-mit copies for the recipe exchange.

The board of directors for this year’s gala are: Woody Cox - chairman, Louise Watts. Jan Whitener, Shelly Cox, Carol Voigt, Kelly Ogletree, Lisa Brister, Glen Germer, John and Tyre Wells, and John Cochran. Also serving are Kent Watts, Jr., who will be the Master of Ceremonies for the evening, bingo members Russell Latham and Paul Royall, and cake auc-tion members D’Ann Crowell and Sheryl Slaughter.

‘Night in Old Luling’ event this Saturday

WAELDER — Personnel and property was the theme for the regular meeting of the Waelder City Council Tuesday night.

Those two matters dominated the agen-da, which called for the council to go into executive session six different times to discuss them. Present for the meeting was Mayor Roy Tovar and council members Mike Harris, Valentino Hernandez and Al-fred Thompson.

The only item discussed in executive session that did not involve personnel or property was the contract with TDS for

trash service. Under the terms of the deal, the contract automatically renewed itself on Sept. 1, 2011 and will run for another three years.

Action taken in executive session re-sulted in:

* The council declining to sell city prop-erty to Justice of the Peace Jesse Almaraz

* The authorization to allow Public Works supervisor Avery Williams to re-solve personnel issues with Dolores Castro and Adolph Gonzales

* The approval of hourly raises for city employees Norma Puente and Jesus Reyna, who receive an additional $1.50 and $1.00 respectively.

Shiner Catholic School is excited to invite all alumni to this weekend’s special events on Saturday October 8.

The St. Paul Cardinals (5-1) will take on the Brazos Christian Eagles (6-0) in a TAPPS Division IV District III game at 6pm. All St. Paul High School and St. Ludmila Academy alumni will be rec-ognized during special half-time ceremonies on the field.

Your presence at the game would be an honor as we rec-ognize and thank all those who have had a part in the success of Shiner Catholic School since its founding in 1897! An exciting foot-ball game is expected as this game could very well be the

deciding factor in who takes the District III title for 2011.

History indicates that the district has been dominated by Saint Paul and Sacred Heart but Brazos Christian poses a real threat to take the crown in 2011. Last sea-son St. Paul was the district champion and Brazos Chris-tian, the runner up, followed by Sacred Heart in third place.

Brazos Christian has done a fine job building their foot-ball program which is only in its 10th year of existence while St. Paul continues to have a dominating season with new Head Coach Paul Johnston after coming off a TAPPS Division IV District III state championship last year. We ask that you come join in fellowship with your

former classmates and help cheer on the mighty Cardi-nals to victory!

In conjunction with this special alumni event, there is an Open House for the newly restored 1916 Saint Ludmila convent from 3-5 p.m., followed by the cel-ebration of the Holy Mass at Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church with Father Kirby Hlavaty at 5pm. The entire community is invited to take a walk through this great piece of history and appreciate the beauty of this 95 year old building that has been taken through Phase I of its restoration project through the hard work and generosity of many alumni, family, friends, foundations, boy scouts and this great community of believers.

Old Luling NightVolunteers man the duck-pond booth at last year’s Night in Old Luling. Proceeds from the event will go to help the Luling Animal Shelter. (Courtesy photo)

WAELDER — Waelder ISD trustees conducted a public pearing on the School Improvement Plan (SIP) during a special meeting Monday in the High School Tech-nology Room.

No members of the public were in atten-dance at the meeting, and hearing ended at 5:55 p.m.

Faith Pope gave the board a power-point presentation on Waelder ISD’s School Improvement Plan (SIP). Trustee Chris Mindieta made the motion and Avery Wil-liams seconded the motion to approve the

SIP. The motion carried unanimously.Superintendent Mark Weisner presented

a resolution to suspend portions of policy EIE (Local) for the 2011-12 school year. The policy requires students in grades 5 and 8 to meeting the passing standard on the applicable state-mandated tests in or-der to be promoted to the next grade, but many school districts around the state are suspending that policy for this year only because of the introduction of the new STAAR tests.

Mindieta made the motion and Wil-liams seconded the motion to approve the resolution, and the motion carried unani-mously.

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als in local governments have ignored the public in certain issues, even though a majority of the community expressed concerns.

Here now, we have an example of another gov-ernment, the school dis-trict, ignoring the public outcry over the misbe-havior of a teacher. If they treat this public incident with arrogant indiffer-ence, how might they treat the private and personal concerns of citizens in their district? These school officials seem to forget that they work for the people,

the taxpayers. Conservative taxpayers

are concerned that public school students are being indoctrinated with liberal ideas. This incident seems to be a good example be-cause the students came prepared to the meeting with signs and slogans.

Teachers, as public em-ployees, should teach a fair and balanced curriculum which includes conserva-tive ideas and opinions.

Citizens need to remind local governments, includ-ing school districts, that the citizens rule govern-ments. Public officials and employees must believe in the rule of law and can-not be selectively on which laws to obey, including im-migration laws.

Finally, someone tried to intimidate me personal-ly by using hate speech and name calling. If anyone thinks the Tea Party are Nazis and racists, please come to one our meetings. If you disagree with us, let’s follow President Obama’s counsel and be civil.

The average newspaper story is supposed to be written at an eighth-grade reading level — the idea having come up in the 1930s that the typical read-er works at that level. And despite modern technolog-ical changes, four decades of Whole Language or “Balanced Literacy” read-ing instruction has pre-vented that from improving any.

One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the newspaper’s responsibil-

ity to tell the truth. So here’s a truth in language any eighth-grade science student can understand: all that stuff you’re being taught about “global warm-

ing” is a hoax.(A “hoax” means it’s a

falsehood. It’s made up, but is designed to contain just enough “facts” that people who are easily led will believe it.)

The idea of “man-caused climate change” was dreamed up by En-ron. Enron was an energy trading company based

in Houston that decided they needed to create their own market. They lied a lot, which inflated the shares of their stock and made a handful of people very rich.

They decided that they would base their energy company around “green energy technology,” and drive the price of that up. In order to do that, it was necessary to convince a lot of people that it was very important, even urgent, to tear down all our old means of producing energy and use their new “green” methods.

Thus was born the idea of “climate change” — that man’s insistence on using coal and oil and all these other methods to pro-duce energy was eroding the environment at such a rapid pace that it was ac-tually causing the average temperature of the planet to increase. An increase in planetary temperatures would cause the polar ice caps to erode, raising sea levels, forcing dogs and

cats to live together — you know, the Apocalypse.

The plan was to use enough real and manipu-lated science data to con-vince a few important po-litical leaders of the need to immediately begin tearing down our means of ener-gy production and switch over to theirs. And to help do that, they helped draft a global treaty — the Kyoto Climate Change Treaty.

It was a big deal, and lots of countries signed on to it. (President Clinton even fell for it, but then again, he also fell for Monica Lewin-sky.) The problem was that the U.S. Congress didn’t fall for it, and refused to ratify (sign) the treaty.

When the U.S. — the major market Enron was expecting to sell to — re-fused to fall for the hoax, the people who had invest-ed in Enron began asking questions. Like a house of cards, all the lies unrav-eled and the price of En-ron stock plummeted. The company collapsed. Enron went belly-up, thousands lost their jobs and hun-dreds of investors lost ev-erything they owned.

Not to worry, however: someone was there to pick up the pieces and revive the hoax.

Enter former Vice Presi-dent Al Gore, who sees the hoax of man-caused cli-mate change as the perfect opportunity to make vast

sums of money. He comes up with a way to use gov-ernment to force the public to pay for the transition to “green” energy — by taxing us for our “carbon foot-prints.”

He forms a consortium of investors to sell “car-bon credits” — effectively, gover nment-approved economic blackmail. He crafted the plan, I’m sure, from the comfort of his rambling mansion, which has a monthly electric bill of $14,000 — or perhaps on his private jet.

Buying in big to the plan is General Electric. You remember them, they used to make toasters and lightbulbs. These days, they have decided to invest heavily in green energy de-vices — thus, they also have a prime stake in “proving” that man-caused global cli-mate change is real.

Guess where the funding for the fake scientific studies which have “proven” global warming comes from?

And lest we think that it’s all a political argument, I’m sure you’ll remember that about a year ago, a British newspaper uncovered e-mails from the “respected scientists” whose data was used to concoct the whole story of man-caused global warming. Those e-mails spelled out in no uncertain terms that they knew they were crafting a lie.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, a government teacher from Kennedy High School in San Antonio disagreed with my position on the Dream Act and called me a “Nazi.” The incident hap-pened during a town hall discussion on the Dream Act sponsored by Texas Public Radio. The incident was videoed and received national attention. What is interesting is how the Edgewood school district, a local government, has re-acted to the matter.

Here was a public em-ployee who is entrusted with teaching government to young people, but then publicly advocates anarchy, or at least selective enforce-ment of the law of the land.

He confused the prin-ciple of support for the rule of law with the ideology of National Socialism. He misrepresented those con-cepts in front of the

very students whom he teaches, and then engaged in immature and inappro-priate name-calling as if it was an acceptable form of public discourse and de-bate.

It is one thing to voice a personal opinion, re-gardless of its popularity, in a public forum, but it is another for govern-ment teacher to direct hate speech at a tax payer in public, in front of students.

But the facts and his behavior seemed lost on the school superintendent and board. Even though the Edgewood School district has received hun-dreds of calls to discipline the teacher, they have indi-cated that no action will be taken against the teacher, other than a slap on the hand. This is not surpris-ing.

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Time for a little 8th-grade science lesson: man-caused global warming is a hoax

Liberal teacher quick to resort to hate speech

We have a sign on our newsroom door that says, “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” Well, I was reminded of how true that is this week when I heard about something that Janeane “I can’t get another acting job because I am a whiny, irrele-vant, white-guilt, man-hater” Garofalo said about people who support Herman Cain for president of the United States.

There she was, on CNN’s ‘Countdown with Kieth Oberman,’ calling all conservatives — Republicans, Tea Partiers, and basically anyone else who believes in God, traditional marriage and hates paying more taxes — a racist!

Garofalo is such a crazy idiot I hardly know where to begin.

She said any white person who votes for Cain is only doing it to cover up the fact that they are racist.

Really? WHAT The...?So, let me get this straight. It doesn’t matter

that he has bachelors and masters degrees, or that he is an extremely successful businessman who earned his way out of a childhood of pov-erty to become a self-made millionaire?

All that matters is that he is black, so obvious-ly white people will only vote for him because he is a black conservative who will hide our racist feelings from the rest of the world. GIVE ME A BREAK!

Will some people consider him an “Uncle Tom” for selling out and not playing the race card, of course they will. Its natural for some people to resent the success of others because it forces them to take a hard look at themselves and what opportunities they did or did not fol-low through with.

Cain is a prime example of how each person determines which direction their life is going to take. No matter what circumstances you are born into, your individual determination, self-discipline and tenacity will help you climb out of it.

Its sad and pathetic that so many people think the same way as Garofalo, particularly black people who should respect Cain’s positive attitude and accomplishments as a refreshing break from the stereotype exploited on televi-sion and in Hollywood. Do you want your chil-dren, no matter what color they are, to exem-plify the behavior of Cain or Snoop-dog? Both of them are millionaires, but one of them is a gangbanger who did time in prison. Hhmmm, that’s a tough one, huh.

The first time I heard Cain speak was during the GOP presidential candidate de-bate last week. As I listened to the comments from each candidate, his responses and explanations for his position on issues resonated the most with me personally. I was impressed with his sensible answers and confident char-acter.

On Saturday Night Live last week, they opened the show with a ten minute spoof of that presidential debate. Even on the comedy show, ‘Cain’s answers made more sense to me than our current president’s.

Like millions of other Americans, I will watch the presidential race unfold and take my time before deciding who I will vote for in No-vember 2012. But if the election was held next week, instead of next year, I can honestly say I would vote for Herman Cain.

And not because he is black. And no, I am not a closet racist with a white hood at home under my bed just trying to prove something. Good grief, I don’t care what color he is, or what kind of cereal he eats for breakfast!

I would vote for Cain because he is an intel-ligent, fiscally responsible, American citizen, with a strong business background and unique personal perspective, who I believe can lead our country out of the dark pit of financial despair we have been dragged into against our will for the past three years.

I agree completely with his rejection of Obamacare and a socialist form of national health care. Cain survived stage IV liver and colon cancer in 2006, and says, “We don’t have a health care crisis in America, we have a health care cost crisis in America, and ‘Obamacare’ would have killed me. I’d be dead.”

He also opposes the interference of Muslim Shariah law with the American legal system. AMEN! Finally someone not afraid of speak-ing the truth and standing up for what 99 per-cent of our country believes in.

Get ready for battle folks. This presidential race is going to get very ugly, with more mud slinging and wounded egos than ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

Say what you want Janeane Garofalo, and all the other Hollywood hypocrites who don’t re-ally understand what the word “racist” means and abuse it to suit their pseudo-political bab-ble. I support your freedom of speech. But I don’t support your freedom of stupidity. Get a clue.

Dear Editor,Harry Truman was a successful business-

man and a proven leader. As President he knew what to do and how to take care of business. Politicians are nothing more than politicians. They have proven they know nothing about running or taking care of a business.

America is fortunate to have a business-man running for President. Herman Cain is a successful businessman and leader. Perhaps Herman Cain can run Washington D.C. like a business.

Other countries will follow our lead and elect businessmen instead of ignorant politicians to run their country like a business. It’s amazing how a little common sense can go a long way.

Rick SulikGonzales

Why are we stillselling water?Dear Editor,

Well, here we are! Texas is experiencing the worst drought and heat wave in American his-tory and we in Gonzales County are smack dab in the middle of it!

The city of San Antonio is hovering near stage 3 restrictions; other cities have mandated restrictions to their water usage. Houston is draining Lake Conroe for drinking water. The water level in Lake Conroe has dropped so low that many of the boat ramps are unusable. Lake Travis, near Austin, looks like the surface of the moon. Closer to home, the City of Gonzales has elevated to 2nd stage restrictions and well levels all over the county are dropping, especially in the Nixon/Smiley area, where many wells have dropped so severely it has been necessary for

those people to re-drill their wells.Why? Well the drought certainly is part

of the reason, but the biggest reason is the exporting of water from Gonzales County aquifers by certain big water companies, such as Shertz/Seguin (SSLGC) and Canyon Regional (CRWA). The city of Shertz has no water restrictions imposed. Why? Because they get all the water they need from Gonza-les County with no restrictions.

Why no restrictions? Because the govern-ing organization which monitors the water resources in Gonzales County, the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District (GCUWCD) does not feel it needs to conserve Gonzales County water resources.

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Life is a misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. — Fred Allen

They say death and taxes are a given. Not so.

‘Cause you can evade taxes. Or try. But you can’t avoid death. Not even if you try. Cryogenically, even.

And that’s life. Or the way it is. You know, folks have always

cottoned to commenting about death. Very seldom can a body go a day that he or she doesn’t run into someone noting, “Did you hear Old Man Bearden passed last night?” Or recalling a burial of the past. “Nah, I remember. It was the day after the 4th and they were coming back from the beach and his car rear-ended that bread truck outside of Refugio. Mary Beth was killed instantly and Sam-my Gene died two days later in the hospital.”

When I first set foot and started receiving mail in Gonzales, it was a habit of mine to have a daily dose of coffee at the Alcalde. A neat gathering place, at the time, to sip and smoke and joke and even get serious, at times.

I had just begun a publisher gig at the only paper in town. At the time. It had gone from a daily to a twice-a-week paper several years prior to my arrival. A number of patrons would declare to me. “I declare. I do miss the paper when it came out every day. Because we

could keep up with the obituaries.”And I would declare right back.

“Why rely on a daily paper to stay up to date on deaths? In a small town, and Gonzales is certainly no exception, nearly-normal people are apt to know you’re dead before you wake up dead!”

I mean, good night, it’s not like you’re gonna read an obit and then gonna see ‘im at the coffee shop and say “I saw you made the newspaper.” And in little towns news travels faster than it can get printed.

Let me digress to an earlier era. I grew up in a little town of 1,300 or 1,600 depending on which decade the census was taken. The popula-tion fluctuated quite a bit. It was rural and a lot of migrants filtered in and out working the cotton and corn fields, and harvesting water-melons.

And I confess more people died in that little burg than the number of graduating students who would bother to stay. And continue to

call home. What I recall in the 19 and 50s

and even into the 60s was the custom concerning deaths and funerals.

This was before Emergency Medical Services (EMS) came into existence.

So the local funeral homes (there were two of ‘em) would run an ambulance service. Utilizing its hearse to do double duty. A nice fancy, shiny and chrome embel-lished Caddy or Packard. The fu-neral director would make runs to homes and accident scenes and anyplace a body, dead or still alive, was located that needed trans-porting.

And when a person, regardless of their status in the community, died a notice would be placed on all the store windows detailing the details of the upcoming fu-neral. Also, a family member or friend would sit up with the body each night. Now that’s what I call moonlighting.

Some say the custom goes back

to olden days of superstitions and fears. Relatives thought that if the body was alone the devil might rush in and take the body away. Apparently for those who were suffering such an emotion had the bejesus frightened out of ‘em.

Can’t blame them. The boogie-man has always bothered me, too. I’ve witnessed first hand bodies placed in body bags … oft’ times in parts.

Anyway, it’s my belief that life is only questioning if you’re doing the right thing but never know-ing the answer. And that there is no logical end in living and dying. Ramifications are too complex. As we leave this world breathless, not even with a whisper.

So we must realize that life is not all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

And I conclude that if we could only live healthy, productive and responsible lives we could be worry free, but bored to death … down the road.


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If life were worry-free, we’d be bored to death

Rick Perry’s border problem

Maybe it’s time for a non-politician

RichLowry

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review and a syndicated columnist for King Features Syn-dicate.

Rick Perry stumbled through much of the last Republican debate, but not when speaking about immigration. He issued a clarion condemnation of critics of his state’s policy of giving the children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition to college. Such naysayers, Perry declared, lack “a heart.”

The Texas governor prides himself on his distinctness from George W. Bush, yet on this issue he sounds just like him: scolding his party for its lack of compassion for immigrants coming here to make a go of it. If Perry had wanted to avoid raising the hackles of Republicans with the imputation of heartlessness, he could have borrowed the staple Bush line: “Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande.”

Neither, more relevantly, does the desire to find a job. What Perry portrays as the great American job machine in his state has mostly benefited people who aren’t Americans, according to a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies. This significant caveat to the Texas Miracle raises the larger question of why the country has continued to welcome millions of new immigrants during the past few years while shedding millions of jobs.

In Texas, the study finds, 81 percent of the jobs created since 2007 have gone to immigrants who arrived in the United States since 2007. Ninety-three percent of these immigrants aren’t citizens. An estimated 50 percent are illegal immigrants.

If providing ready employment opportunities for non-Americans seems awfully cosmopolitan for the man who is supposed to be a famous rube from Paint Creek, it’s the Texas way. In welcoming all comers, Perry can do the bidding of a business community that wants the immigrant labor and simultaneously appeal to the Hispanic vote. If anyone should think to complain that he’s soft on illegal immigration, well, now, that’s why God created the pointless gesture, isn’t it?

Perry can ostentatiously send Texas Rangers to the border and lambaste the federal government’s failures, but none of it matters if it’s relatively easy for illegals to find a job. Another border state, Arizona, implemented an e-verify system requiring employers to check the immigration status of prospective employees. It led to a dramatic reduction in the population of illegals, many of whom have, no doubt, decamped to Texas. So long as he doesn’t implement e-verify, Perry is shooting holes in the bottom of U.S.S. Enforcement and demanding that the feds bail faster.

It would be much too simplistic to say that every new immigrant employed in Texas took his job from a native. On the other hand, it would be much too Pollyannish to deny that there must be crowding out, especially of natives who don’t have a college degree. At least Texas has been creating jobs. The country has lost about 7 million jobs since the onset of the recession in 2007 and continued to import another 1 million new immigrant workers a year, and 200,000-300,000 illegal immigrants on top of them. In August, monthly job growth ground to halt, yet we’re welcoming some 100,000 new immigrants a month.

Is it heartless to wonder why this makes any sense?

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

(c) 2011 by King Features Synd., Inc.

Medicare enrollment begins and ends early this year. The annual period to sign up or make changes to your plan begins on Oct. 15, 2011, a month early. The most important change is the cutoff date: Circle the date on your calendar, because the enrollment period now ends on Dec. 7, 2011. This way youÕll have your card at the beginning of the New Year.

As always, you only have this one time per year to make any changes to your coverage for 2012. Changes can include Medicare Advantage, your drug coverage, Medigap supplemental or your regular Medicare.

There are a number of changes youÕll need to figure into your decision-making:

-- Drug coverage (Part D) will cost a bit more. At this point, however, they donÕt know how much that will be for the premiums and deductibles, but you can find out at the website or phone number below.

-- Part B premiums will increase a bit as well. Watch the news, as the cost of living adjustments (COLA) are generally announced sometime in October each year.

-- “Doughnut hole” coverage has a few changes. When you reach the limits of

coverage, you’ll get a 14 percent discount on generic drugs and a 50 percent discount on brand names.

No matter what type of plan you have, beware. There could be changes to all parts of your coverage. Be sure to check the fine print so you know what you’re getting.

Read your Annual Notice of Change carefully. To learn more about all the changes, go online to www.medicare.gov and look for the publication called “Medicare & You 2012.” To find a plan in your area, click on Resource Locator, then scroll down to Medicare Plan Finder. You also can call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227).

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].

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GonzalesThe Gonzales Livestock Market

Report for Saturday, October 1, 2011 had on hand: 1,282.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold steady in a very active market. Packer cows sold steady.

Stocker-feeder steers: medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $121-$138; 300-400 lbs., $141-$147; 400-500 lbs., $131-$138; 500-600 lbs., $127-$129; 600-700 lbs., $119-$126; 700-800 lbs., $112-$115.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs., $92-$111.

Stocker-feeder heifers: medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $119-$124; 300-400 lbs., $123-$126; 400-500 lbs., $114-$121; 500-600 lbs., $111-$115; 600-700 lbs., $111-$113.

Packer cows: good lean utility and commercial, $41-$49; cutters, $51-$58; canners, $34-$39; low yielding fat cows, $48-$57.

Packer bulls: yield grade 1 & 2,

good heavy bulls, $63-$69; light weights and medium quality bulls, $59-$61.

Stocker cows: $525-$875.Pairs: $775-$1,000.Thank you for your business!

View our sale live at cattleusa.com.

NixonThe Nixon Livestock Commis-

sion Inc. report had on hand, Oc-tober 3, 2011, Volume, 1,372.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $114 to $124 to $160; 300-400 lbs, $116 to $126 to $150; 400-500 lbs, $110 to $120 to $137; 500-600 lbs, $106 to $116 to $129; 600-700 lbs, $104 to $114 to $125; 700-800 lbs, $92 to $102 to $122.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $92 to $102 to $128; 300-400 lbs, $105 to $115 to $142; 400-500 lbs, $105 to $115 to $135; 500-600 lbs $105 to $115 to $133; 600-700 lbs, $100 to $110 to $121; 700-800 lbs, $95 to $108 to $111.

Slaughter cows: $34 to $64;

Slaughter bulls: $40 to $72; Stock-er cows: $355 to $785; Pairs, $500-$980.

HallettsvilleThe Hallettsville Livestock

Commission Co., Inc had on hand on September 27, 2011, 3,083; week ago, 2,280 year ago, 1,571.

Better quality classes of calves sold fully steady and very active. Light weight calves and plainer quality calves continue to struggle.

Packer cows and bulls sold fully steady and active with several out of state buyers on hand for 843 total hd.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $48-$60; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $34-$48; light weight can-ner cows, $20-$34.

Packer Bulls: Heavyweight bulls, $64-$70; Utility & cutter bulls, $58-$64; light weight canner bulls, $52-$58.

Stocker and feeder calves and

yearlings: No. 1 steer & bull calves: under 200 lbs, $115-$147.50; 200-300lbs, $115-$157.50; 300-400lbs, $115-$157.50; 400-500lbs, $112-$138; 500-600lbs, $110-$133; 600-700lbs, $107-122; 700-800lbs, $102-$117. No. 1 Heifer calves, under 200 lbs, $110-$135; 200-300lbs, $110-$140; 300-400lbs, $112-$138; 400-500lbs, $110-$128; 500-600lbs, $106-$118; 600-700lbs, $100-$113; 700-800lbs, $90-$102. No. 2 & 3 steer & bull calves, 200-300lbs, $88-$120; 300-400lbs, $85-$117; 400-500lbs, $84-$115; 500-600lbs, $82-$113; 600-700lbs, $80-$109. No. 2 & 3, heifer calves, 200-300lbs, $84-$112; 300-400lbs, $83-$111; 400-500lbs, $80-$108; 500-600lbs, $78-$105; 600-700lbs, $76-$100.

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

CueroCuero Livestock Market Report

on September 30, 2011 had 2,170 head.

Had 445 cows and 18 bulls. Bulls were lower. Cows were about steady but there were more weak cows.

Packer bulls: heavy weights, $60-$62.50; lower grades, $50-$61.50.

Packer cows: boning cows, $55-$57; cutters mainly, $35-$50; few, $50.50-$54; low yielding cut-ters, $30.50-$41; canners, $20-$34.50.

Dry cows, $35-$56; young, $31-$70.

Cow and calf pairs, $695-$860.Early Sales: steers, under 200

lbs, $148-$175; 300-350 lbs, $143-$165; hefers: 500-600 lbs, $118-$123; steers: 500-600 lbs, $119-$128; 600-700 lbs, $120-$124; heifers, 600-700 lbs, $105-$108.

FOGAS (Friends of Gonzales Animal Shelter) has secured a $5,000 grant from the ASPCA (Ameri-can Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals) to provide hay to some of the starving horses and other equines in our com-munity. “When we learned of the ASPCA’s special Hay Bale Out program for at risk equines, we immedi-ately applied”, stated FO-GAS spokesperson Judith Tor. “Our local grazing has been devastated by this extensive drought,” con-tinued Tor, “and then the historic Bastrop fires de-stroyed even more pastures and hay. If any community in the country needed this help, it is ours!”

This Hay Bale Out pro-gram is targeted to the Tex-as/Oklahoma area and is part of ASPCA’s emergency grants program. “Right now we are locating good quality hay and identify-ing the approximately 50

equines this grant will help. We’re currently contacting owners who have partici-pated in our FOGAS Horse Health Day program over the past two years. Our in-tention is to maximize the impact of this very gener-ous grant from the ASP-CA,” said Tor.

FOGAS is a 501c3 chari-table organization founded in 2004. Since our incep-tion, FOGAS has spayed/neutered over 2600 shelter orphans and another 2500 pets owned by residents of our Community. We have also re-homed over 4000 cats and dogs. These spay/neuter surgeries were done with no cost to the own-ers, the City of Gonzales or Gonzales County. Due to these efforts the City of Gonzales was able to achieve “no kill” shelter sta-tus almost 3 years ago!

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was the first humane society to be established in North America and is, today, one of the largest in the world.

The organization was founded by Henry Bergh in 1866 on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and respectful treatment at the hands of humans, and must be protected under the law.

Thursday night we got some welcome rain, along with some electrical storms and unwelcome power fail-ures, but it left us with a beautiful day to start Come & Take It. Some trivia for you:

There were 108 ven-dors and we turned some away. There was 6,075 feet of parade en-tries. Now it’s on to oth-er events, so get ready.

The Pilgrim Coun-try Opry will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8 at the Pilgrim Communi-ty Center on FM 1116. The menu will include fried fish, french fries, hush puppies and cole slaw for $6 per plate, with serving from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and mu-sic starts at 7 p.m. for a $4 admission. Music is by the Pilgrim Heirs

Band, including Vernon Whitehead, Winston O’Neal, Jim McWhort-er, with special guest appearances by Peggy Vincent, Hardy Jones, Nathan ‘Snake’ Gordon. For more information you can call Cal Taylor at 830-534-8499 and for hall rental, call Plow-man Whiddon at 830-437-2316.

The next weekend the fun moves to Nixon on Oct. 14 and 15 for the Wild Hog Cook Off.

Friday night there will be a margarita and salsa contest, with music by the Clint Martin Band and the whole thing starts of-ficially at 7 a.m. on Saturday. There will be a 5KHog Run/Walk; kids’ games, including pig scramble, mutton bustin’, hog tying, goat slapping and tying.Judging begins at 10:30

a.m., the live auction is at 1 p.m., wild pig races at 2:30, the ranch rodeo starts at 5 p.m. with South Texas Ranch Rodeo final qualifying events. There will be a dance at 9 p.m. with Jukebooks Rodeo. For more information call Harold Rice at 830-534-6682.

Texas Jr. High and High School Rodeo events will be here Sat-urday and Sunday.


FOGAS secures $5K grant for horse Hay Bale Out program

Barbara Hand is the Executive Di-rector of the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce.

Around the Chamber Office

BarbaraHand

Another successful CATIin the books, now it’s timefor a new batch of events

P.O. Box 565 • Gonzales, TX 78629Dave Shelton Mobile 830-857-5394

Mike Brzozowski Mobile 830-857-3900

Office 830-672-2845

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

Fehner & Son Grain Co.

A & S RECYCLING1819 N. State Hwy. 97Gonzales, Texas 78629

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Area Livestock Reports

Sean Kendrick, owner

National 4-H weekGonzales County Judge David Bird signs a proclamation honoring National 4-H Week in Gonzales County Oct. 2-8. Pictured from left are Kathleen Knesek, Cul-len Epright - Treasurer, Kristofer Knesek, Lauren Campion - President, Gretchen Singleton, Derrick Davis - Vice President, Haley Clampit - Secretary, and Ashlynn Tatsch. (Courtesy photo)

Gonzales County DeedsGonzales County Courthouse

DeedsSeptember 1-30Tieken, Evelyn to Tieken,

Gregory C., Tieken, Rodney P., Parker, Beverly G., Hindman, Rosemary S. and Tieken, Wesley, w/d, Undiv. Int. in Lt. 2, Gloor’s Re-Subdvn of Tate Addn, Gonzales.

Tieken, Max and Tieken, Evelyn to Tieken, Evelyn, w/d, Lt. 2, Gloor’s Re-Subdvn of Tate Addn, Gonzales.

Catarina Salt Water Disposal, LLC to Bastian, Allan, w/d, 256.11 Acres, John Oliver Svy, A-52 & Property in Karnes County.

Spacek, Margaret Faye Buchanan and Spacek Jr, Frank J to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 150 Acres, Robert Sellers Svy, A-419.

Farmer, Bryce Edward (Trustee) and Farmer Family Trust, Marilyn R. to Gillum, Phyllis Elaine, Farmer, Bryce Edward and Farmer, Paul Reed, w/d, Various Lts in Gonzales & 153.03 Acres & an undiv. Mineral Int. in 109.50 Acres, C Mason & F Taylor Svys.

Dube, James to EOG Resources, Inc., o/l, 146.812 Acres, Jean Humphrey Svy, A-266.

Kittel, Brad W and BWK Holdings, LLC to Belmont Rentals, w/d, .0124 of an Acre (Pt. Lt. 5, blk. 48) Orig. Inner Town Gonzales.

Ford Jr, Don Henry and Ford, Leah Dawson to Walker, Richard L. and Walker, Wilhelmina H., w/d, Undiv. Int in 0.4113 of an acre, Winslow Turner Jr. Svy, A-77.

Walker, Richard L. and Walker, Wilhelminia H to Kirkpatrick, Karen L, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 0.4113 of an acre, Winslow Turner Jr. Svy,

A-77.Brzozowski, Ernest M. and

Brzozowski, Connie J to Diamond M Drilling & Exploration, o/l, 57.48 Acres, Svy. Not Shown.

Campion, Rickey L. and Campion, Janie Lee to Diamond M Drilling & Exploration Co., o/l, 70.574 Acres, Jesse Strother Svy, A-427.

Hagar, Lottie Bea to Ford, Don and Ford, Nancy, o/l, Undiv. Int. in 12.00 Acres, Eli Mitchell Svy, A-337.

Cox, Robert L to Ford, Don and Ford, Nancy, o/l, 4.130 Acres, Andrew Zumwalt Svy, A-503.

Cox, Betty J. Barnick to Ford, Don and Ford, Nancy, o/l, 4.130 Acres, Andrew Zumwalt Svy, A-503.

Cox, Lauren Beth, to Ford, Don and Ford, Nancy, o/l, 4.130 Acres, Andrew Zumwalt Svy, A-503.

Porter, James S. to Porter, Lynda K., w/d, Undiv. Int. in 15.07 Acres, Charles Fordtran Svy, A-209.

Porter, James S. to Porter, Lynda Kay, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 42.56 Acres, Charles Fordtran Svy, A-209.

Porter, James S. to Porter, Lynda Kay, w/d, Undiv. Int. in 42.56 Acres, Charles Fordtran Svy, A-209.

Porter, James S. to Porter, Lynda Kay, w/d, Undiv.int in Pt. Lts. 1-2, Blk. 15, RG 2 & Pt. Lts. 3-4, Blk. 15, RG 3, Orig. Outer Town Gonzales.

Harvey, Morris L. and Harvey, Pamela S to Pena, Edward Douglas and Pena, Tina Nichole, w/d, Lt. 14, Glenn Heights Addn, Nixon.

Smith, Lisa Marion (Indiv & Extrx), Smith, Eugene (Estate) and Smith, Elizabeth Michelle to Collum Jr., Randall L. and

Collum, Elizabeth A, w/d, 95.09 Acres, Allen B Williams Svy, A-73.

Monathan, James C. and Monaghan, Elaine to Lowry, Andy K. and Lowry, Brenda, w/d, 30.00 Acres, S Y Reams Svy, A-397.

Keck, Ann to DeLeon, Antonio, w/d, 0.15 Ac Pt. lt. 6, blk. 7, Original Inner Town of Gonzales.

Gray, Kathy Nora Robinson to Forest Oil Corp., o/l, 46.799 Ac R. Sellers Jr. A-419.

Bruns, Harold E., Bruns, Billie, Bruns, Louis H. and Bruns, Ruth Darlene to B-3 Land, Ltd, w/d, 688.6 Ac R H Wynn League & Richard Bill League.

Bruns, Thomas Harold to B-3 Land, Ltd., w/d, Und. Int. 492.59 Ac W Newman A-362 & R H Wynn League.

Finn, John Elvis and Finn, Dorin Ann to Wexco Resources, LLC, o/l, 189.47 Ac J J Tejada A-448 & A-316, J Roden A-265 Wilson Co.

Schofield-Harper, Mary Margaret to U.S. Shale Energy, LLC, o/l, 203.244 Ac W A Hall A-270.

Cooper, Ann Katherine (Ind. Extrx & Custodian), Mitchell, Alvin (Dec ‘d), Mitchell, Odelia (Dec’d) and Muse, Steven Christopher to Izaguirre, Antonio and Izaguirre, Alberta, w/d, 0.187 of an acre Pt. Lt. 16 RG 2 East of Water St. Orig. Outer Town of Gonzales & Pt. Lt. 12, King’s 5th Addn, Town of Gonzales.

Veit, Sammie Kay to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 40.00 Acres, Gonzales County Schl Land Svy, A-229.

Mahan, Jodie Lynn to Forest Oil Corporation, o/l, 40.00 Acres, Gonzales County Schl Land Svy, A-229.

Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance, Inc. to Pena, Joe M., w/d, Lts. 9-10, Blk. 15, Colley’s 1st Addn, Smiley.

Schaefer, Virginia Ann and DuBose, James David to Diamond M. Drilling & Exploration Co., o/l, 60.00 Acres, Jesse Strother Svy, A-427.

Meza, Georgia M. to Venable, Michael and Venable, Sylvia, w/d, Lt. 10, Blk 47, Waelder.

Almaraz, Jesusa Molina to Rosas, Gilbert, w/d, Lt. 9, Blk. 48, Waelder.

Floyd, John C. to Diamond M Drilling & Exploration Company, o/l, 116.28 Acres, Eli Mitchell A-337 & Andrew Zumwalt A-503, Svys.

Tieken, Patsy Ann (Indiv. & Extrx) and Tieken, John Henry (Estate) to Kelley, Joe Mark and Kelley, Ruby M., w/d, 2.50 Acres, Eli Mitchell Svy, A-337.

Assumed NamesMata, Arturo F and Mata, Cruz

- A&S Recycling, Gonzales.Low, W.R. and Low, Jo Ann -

L&M Onsite Catering, Cost.Maulone, Sylvia F, Maulone,

Gabriela and Maulone, Gianna - Victory Cleaners, Gonzales.

Marriage LicenseBailey, Cadence H. and

Williamson, Sarah E.Rodriguez, Ricky and Short,

Jackie.Castillo Jr., Randy H and

Myers, Jerri K.Granados, Jr., Miguel A and

Barba, Charlotte L.Nesloney, Chase E. and Valenta,

Brittnie G.Clark, Lajuana C. and

Hardaway, Shayla T.


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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

New Life Assembly of GodCorner of Church St. & Jessie Smith St. Gonzales

Baha’i FaithBaha’i Faith621 St. George St. Gonzales

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Efeso Igesia BautistaHwy. 87 Smiley

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 Bap-tist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

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 Mes-siah721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-3407

EvangelicalLa Os del Evangelio Mission Capilla del PuebloW. Central at 87 Nixon

Full GospelCamp Valley Full Gospel7 mi N of Nixon on Hwy 80

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

Harwood Methodist Church North 2nd and North Gonzales, Har-wood

Henson Chapel United Meth-odist1113 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 FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

New Life Temple for Jesus ChristBelmont, Corner of Hwy 466 & Hwy 80

River of Life Christian Fellow-ship207 Steele St., Smiley 830-587-6500

Two Rivers Bible Church1600 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Ste 210, Gon-zales

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

Life Changing Church of Gon-zales3.3 miles north on 183, Right on CR 235, Right on CR 236

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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

Places of Worship

RodRigueZBody ShopP.O. Box 8101839 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales, TX 78629

Phone: 830-672-6715Fax: 830-672-6717

Email: [email protected]

Family Dentistry of GonzalesGentle Quality Care

606 St. LouisGonzales, TX 78629

Office 830-672-8664Fax 830-672-8665

Logan Insurance AgencyHOME AUTO FARM

COMMERCIAL BONDS

Jim Logan516 St. PaulPO Box 100

Gonzales, Texas 78629

Travis Treasner(830) 672-6518

Fax: (830) 672-6368Cell: (512) 376-0773

Dry FertilizerCustom Application &

Soil TestingSTEVE EHRIG830-263-1233

P.O. Box 1826Gonzales, TX 78629

Morgan Mills830-857-4086

HOLIDAY FINANCECORPORATION

506 St. Paul St. • Gonzales, TX 78629(830) 672-6556

Luxury Motors830-672-7500113 US Hwy. 90A EGonzales, Tx 78629

SATURN SALES & SERVICEJames Miller

4421 Hwy. 97E, Gonzales

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P.O. Box 565 • Gonzales, TX 78629Dave Shelton Mobile 830-857-5394

Mike Brzozowski Mobile 830-857-3900

Office 830-672-2845Fax 830-672-6087

Brandi VinklarekDirector

(830)672-2065921 St. Peter St. & 1214 St. Louis

830-672-6865 or 830-672-2065“Train a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6

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Where You Belong! Gieser Insurance Agency941 St. Joseph

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Toll Free: (800) 358-5298Lisa G. GaspardAgency ManagerTDI #001113854

Leticia M. CenottiAgency ProducerTDI #001243345

Reyna’s Taco Hut1801 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Gonzales, TX

830-672-2551Next to the Courthouse Annex

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & DinnerMon.-Sat. 5 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sun. 5 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Home of the “Silverado”Authentic Mexican Food Including Caldo & Menudo

Ilene B. GohmertCertified Public Accountant

409 St. George St. • Gonzales830-672-5030 • 830-672-2483 (Fax)

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Community Health CentersOf South Central Texas, Inc.

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Greetings in the name of the Lord, I Pray that you all are well and blessed. Somehow we skipped these two verses due to coverage of the Bastrop fires. Let’s pick up our study of Romans 8 in verses 29-30.

Romans 8:29-30 “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He pre-destined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justi-fied, He also glorified.”

These two verses are two of the most debated and misused verses in all of scripture. In order to grasp what Paul is say-ing here we must first understand that they are not expressions of theol-

ogy or philosophy. If this were the case then by ap-plying logic one could deduce that God chose some people and not oth-ers. What Paul is express-ing here is simply the Christian experience of one who chose to believe the Gospel and accept God’s gift of salvation through Christ.

When we look at our Christian experience we must draw one conclu-sion. We did not have anything to do with it, and God has everything to do with it. Jesus was born; He lived a sin free life on behalf of all man-kind,

He suffered and died on a cross for the sin of all men, and He defeated death, hell and the grave and was resurrected. We had nothing to do with this, it was all God. Then we either read this story in the Bible or we heard some one share it. It moved on our heart and conscience, this was not our doing it was the Holy Spirit.

Then we realized that while we were destined to be sinful Christ still came and died for us. [Romans 5:8] Then we realized how much He must love us to do this for us. Then we made the choice to surrender our lives to Him and receive forgiveness and salvation. It was all God. Our only part was/ is to choose to believe or not to believe.

Paul is not talking about all of humanity, only those who choose to receive Christ. This is designated by the phrase “conformed to the image of His Son.”

As we well know and is

very evident in our world today, not all come to know Jesus. What God predestined here is that those who choose to re-ceive Christ will be ad-opted into His family and conformed to the image of His Son. The calling Paul refers to in verse 30 is simply those who heard God’s call to salvation. At one point or another all mankind has heard God call them to Himself, some hear and are saved and some don’t and are condemned.

Those who hear the call and choose Christ are justified by Jesus’ Blood. Justified means to be made righteous, once again we can see that it isn’t what we do, it is what He did. Our sins were placed on Jesus and in return His righteous-ness was placed on us. So finally by this justifica-tion we are glorified. This word speaks of a future tense and therefore we can call it done here in this time. In other words it is a done deal Hallelu-jah! Glory in this case is our assurance that we will spend eternity in Heaven. Paul is merely showing us the progressive steps to dwell in Glory forever.

We hear the call to re-pentance; we are justified by the blood of Christ and Praise God we now will spend eternity in Glory worshipping Him. Wow, how could someone not accept so great a love? With that I will close this week and let this wonder-ful promise soak in to my spirit and my heart. I pray you will do the same, and as always be sure to en-joy God at the church of your choice this weekend. Amen and Amen…

At the age of fourteen, in my eighth year in school, my mother had several strokes and fell into a coma. She laid unconscious in that hospital bed for over a month, and one day she woke up with a body that refused to move. Her entire left side, from her face to her foot, was paralyzed. I can only imagine the emotions that she was experiencing, and the thoughts that were going through her mind.

I’d always known her to be an active and happy in-dividual; always finding the light side of things and laughing about something (many times at herself), al-ways humming or singing one of her favorite tunes. Up until the day of the stroke she had worked full time, kept a fantastic flower and vegetable garden, was a fastidious housekeeper, attended church devotedly, was a great cook, talented seamstress, and was a dedi-cated wife and mother.

She was an avid reader who took the time to read to me on a nightly basis. Old Yeller, Jane Eyre, Peony, and Great Expectations are only a few of the books she intro-duced me to. My fondest childhood memories are of the times we spent together enjoying nature. We’d sit outside under the stars hav-ing conversations about anything and everything. I learned the importance of sharing my thoughts with others because of her abil-ity to share hers with me. She taught me the value of learning something new ev-

ery day. I knew her as the rock who would always be there for me, come what may.

But, a stroke stole my mother from me. And suddenly, I was the care-taker. For months after the coma, she was unable to do anything for herself. She couldn’t even talk. When she finally regained her abil-ity to speak, her words were slurred and barely recogniz-able.

From my eighth grade until after graduation I tended to Mom the best way I knew how. At the age others were experiment-ing with their dating tech-niques, I was learning the meaning of unconditional love.

Although she rarely com-plained, the frustration and sadness she felt was appar-ent by the welled up tears in her eyes; in spite of it all, she always managed to give me a crooked smile anyway. It broke my heart to watch her struggle to be indepen-dent again. The most pain-ful memories I have of this time in my life, were of her attempts to walk on her own. Time after time she would end up on the floor. Instinctively, I would run to her aid, but she would always insist on getting up by herself. Watching her writhe about on the floor

until her good hand could take a firm hold of her use-less limbs, was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. It seemed like an eternity before she could get up to a seated position, because her side dangled heavily and would pull her down every time she would get half-way up. No matter how long it took, she never quit trying.

People pitied her because her body was crippled. They thought she was use-less and unproductive be-cause she was unable to function as she once had. Little did they know what dwelt inside of that woman. I am sure she saw the pity in their eyes. Yet, she never let other people’s negative remarks, or their body lan-guage influence how she felt about life, or about herself. Grace refused to be labeled an invalid and fought hard to stay positive; determined to live a full life despite her dire circumstances. And, she did.

Mom never regained the use of her side. Nev-ertheless, she learned to cook, wash, hang clothes out to dry, and even iron with her one good hand. It was amazing to see how she would invent ways to compensate for the loss of her limbs. The most im-pressive part was that she laughed at herself, and sang through it all. When things really got tough she’d look me straight in the eye and say “Life is great, if you don’t crumble.”

One thing I’ll never for-

get was how she’d begin each day. As soon as her eyes opened, the first thing out of her mouth was, “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” It still amazes me that in spite of her condition she remained grateful.

So now, whenever I begin to gather my party favors to throw myself a pity party, I remember my mother’s at-titude and try my best not to crumble. Watching my mother, day in and day out trying to be better; watching her daily resolve not to ever give up, taught me a valu-able life lesson. It is a fact that bad things do happen to good people. We’ve all had our share.

We may have been vic-timized, and sometimes it takes time to recover from physical and emotional trauma. However, remain-ing a victim, is our op-tion. Happiness is always a choice.

With her as an example, how can I allow myself to whine and complain about anything? For that matter, with Christ as our example, how can any of us grumble?

What we believe is in-grained in our hearts. The words we speak and the things we do show others what is in our hearts. Let’s make sure our beliefs are good because we’re some-one’s teacher, whether we realize it or not.

Someone is watching you. What lessons are you teaching?

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Celia Sanchez Helland was born April 11, 1921 in Gonzales, Texas. She went to be with the Lord on Sept. 25, 2011.

She is survived by her loving family: her husband, Gerald (jerry) Helland) of San Antonio; sister, Milda DeLeon and husband Belen of Gonzales; brother, Paul Sanchez Jr. and wife Tillie of Katy; niece Yolanda Ca-nales and husband Miguel; nephew, Mike (Mikee) Ca-nales of San antonio; and numerous other nephews and nieces.

Visitation was held Wednesday Sept. 28 at Mis-sion park Funeral Chapel South. A Rosary was re-cited on Wednesday at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church with the Mass cele-brated. Interment followed at St. James Cemetery in Gonzales.

Arrangements with Mis-sion Park Funeral Chapels South, 1700 Soiuth East Military Drive, San Anto-nio Texas 78214, 210-924-4242.

Sarah Ann Malatek, 1939-2011

MALATEKSarah Ann Malatek, 72,

of Gonzales, passed away Thursday September 29, 2011. She was born Sep-tember 4, 1939 in Nixon to Charles and Thelma Pass-more Herber. Sarah mar-ried Edward Lee Malatek on December 23, 1964 in Gonzales. She was a very warm hearted woman who would do anything for someone in need. She was a great cook and thorough-ly enjoyed preparing a Thanksgiving feast for her loving family. Her chil-dren will miss her sweet bread, pig-feet and beans and smothered liver and onions. She was a hard working homemaker and mother; clothes had to be washed and folded her way to be done properly. Early mornings with a cup of coffee and listening to the news was her favorite time of the day; she enjoyed the peacefulness of morning and the beauty a sunrise can bring. Sarah loved to listen to John Zavadil’s radio show and enjoyed calling in and speaking to John as well. She was a lov-ing grandmother and her grandchildren will forever remember their MeMaw. Sarah is survived by her daughters, Cindy Crumley of Buda, Teri Malatek and her husband Chris Vil-lagram of Gonzales, sons, Bruce (Bubba) Malatek and his wife Gloria, Dar-rell Malatek all of Gonza-les and a sister, Jane Wilke (Edward) of Edinburg, 9 grandchildren and 3great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, sisters, Catherine and Patsy Her-ber and brother, Charles Edward Herber.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday October 4, 2011 in Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home with Rev. Clint Lowry of-ficiating. Interment fol-lowed in St. James Catho-lic Cemetery. The family received friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Fu-neral Home. Services are under the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Funer-al Home.

William Tecumseh Miller, Jr., 1916-2011

MILLERWilliam Tecumseh

Miller, Jr. (also known as “W.T.” or “Bim”) went to his Lord and Savior on October 1, 2011. He was born the fifth of six chil-dren on August 12, 1916, in Gonzales to William Tecumseh Miller and Louise Estelle Robinson Miller. Bim graduated from Gonzales High School and received a B.B.A. from the Univer-sity of Texas in 1939. He entered the United States Marine Corp on December 15, 1942, and served in both WW II and Korea. He retired as a Lieutenant Colo-nel on January 31, 1964. Bim obtained his legal education from George Washington University Law School and the Uni-versity of Texas School of Law, being admit-ted to the State Bar of Texas in 1965. Follow-ing in the footsteps of other family members, he practiced law in Gon-zales from that time on. On November 25, 1949, Bim married Jean Lee DeCoss with whom he shared many happy years. He was a life long member of the Presby-terian Church of Gon-zales and an ordained Elder. For many years he enjoyed singing in the choir and served on nu-merous church commit-tees. Putting his whole heart into his roles, he acted in at least two Crystal Theater produc-tions. He was a member of the Gonzales Cham-ber of Commerce, the Masonic Lodge, Music Study Club, and City of Gonzales Library Board. As an advocate for the welfare of animals, he was a founding member of the Friends of Gonza-les Animal Shelter and continued to serve on its Board. He enjoyed walk-ing his schnauzers, play-ing tennis, traveling, and reading.

Bim is survived by one son, William Tecum-seh Miller, III of Ohio, one daughter, Catherine Miller of Kentucky, niece Mary Louise Clark of Georgetown, Texas, spe-cial friend Ellen Gray of Gonzales, and numerous other nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends who will miss his sharp intel-lect, strong will, deter-mination, never-ending wit, and sweet smile. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife named above, his broth-ers, Lewis R. Miller and Robert L. Miller, and sisters Maude Cloakey, Sarah Elizabeth Moore and Louise Elliott.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Pres-byterian Church of Gon-zales in the near future. In lieu of flowers, me-morials can be made to the Presbyterian Church of Gonzales or the Friends of Gonzales Animal Shelter.

Arrangements are be-ing handled by Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.

The Leesville Country Fair is this next weekend Octo-ber 8th starting at 10AM. It has finally arrived. It is time to head them up and move them out toward the old Methodist Church grounds in Leesville, TX. Come rain or come shine. There are covered pavilions. There is food. There will be live enter-tainment from the Texans, a band led by Dennis Richter. Dennis has played music ever since he was young just like Bobby. Bobby O’Neal lost his voice and a person with no voice simply can-not sing. Now that we have clarified that, there are two lovely handmade king sized quilts that were stitched by the Happy Quilters. One will be raffled off and one will be auctioned off. There will be another raffle and there will be another auction. This can get pretty wild at times. You just have to be there to ap-preciate this event. There are cookbooks for sale with deli-cious recipes in them. There is a country store. Then there is a moonwalk, and a sand-box, and a petting zoo. I think there might even be a goat or two thrown in for fun. This all benefits the Leesville Cemetery and a $1000.00 Scholarship to a graduating Senior. Come and join in the fun and support your com-munity in this fundraiser.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Kenneth Crum-ley, Gilby, Roy Wright, Lynn (who is Rudolpho and Edna Garza’s daughter as well as Rudolpho and Edna: Elson Schreiber, Kathryn, Dena Black, Karen Roecker Ma-han, Mary Jane Keith, Sabri-na Flores, Mr. Washington, Bill and Marie Lott, Laddie Studler, William Fink, Doris and Alvin Hewell; Whitney,

Chasidy, Mildred O’Neal, Lisa Rodriguez, Debbie and Bill Read, Aunt Geor-gie; Joyce Schellenberg, Pete Kallies, Lillie Lay, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Lou-ise Rossow, Selma Vickers, Teresa Wilke, Sandi Gandre, Carl and Vida Tindle; Aunt Betty Gandre, Anna Lin-demann, Ann and Bubba Bond; Shirley Dozier, Britt Hindman, Scott Hindman, the family of Roland Barth-els, the family of Annie Kot-wig, family of John Conlin, the family of Ruby Elizabeth Null; the family of Lawrence Walshak, the family of Joe Keith, and our troops and their families, and RAIN--and we do need lots more. This was just a taste.

I wanted to update you on a few things. Marcia and Spike Pinney are home from Utah after the funeral of her father. She said the foliage and grass is lush and green. The creeks and rivers are overflowing. They had pouring rain dur-ing the service. It stopped during the graveside service and started raining again when they got back inside the church. Marcia said that she wanted to bring some rain back with her so bad that it hurt. It was so beautiful and green. Sean Weda, our Ma-rine, and Kenneth Vickers’s grandson is back in the USA alive and well from his jaunt over in Afghanistan. Thank you God. Elson Schreiber had his leg amputated above his ankle and I understood they got all of the cancer. He

is waiting for his prosthe-sis and thanks you for your prayers. Landis Kern is tak-ing a new kind of treatment for his cancer. They take the blood out of his left arm and separate all of the white cells out of it and pump it right back into his left arm. This is done on a Friday and is shipped off to California. On Monday it is received back at M. D. Anderson and injected back into his arm to travel in his bloodstream hopefully to go along killing cancer cells with his own changed white cells. Each year we have those who pledge so much for each one who walks for cancer. This is the great part. This money that you are giv-ing here in Gonzales is going directly to help Landis with this new kind of therapy. Also if Kenneth Crumley’s mela-noma keeps shrinking in the manner that it has been, then he will be a candidate for this kind of treatment too. It is great to know where the money that we are donating here is going.

I talked JoAnn Liefeste into coming out to the Belmont Social Club on Saturday night to indulge in listening to Tommy Schlein perform. Heavens to Betsy, by the time we got there, JoAnn was so wound up that I thought I was going to have to wire her to her chair so she would not float off up in the ceiling someplace. That was okay be-

cause there were a lot of oth-ers about to float off some-where too. We decided that Tommy could have given El-vis Presley a run for his mon-ey but that we are glad that he didn’t because then we would not have had him singing on stage in front of us at the Bel-mont Social Club. We are just a little selfish. You missed it if you didn’t stay until the end when Tommy’s whole family including his ninety year old mother, his wife, his wife’s oldest sister, his young-est daughter, and his young-est grandson were all in front line dancing. Then there were several friends who joined in when he played the twist and they did the twist. His moth-er didn’t do the twist but she didn’t stop dancing either. I laughed so hard that my sides ached. This next Satur-day night is John Hansen and Legends in Time. I know he can sing but I have not heard his band. I hear that he plays mostly country.

The pumpkins have ar-rived at Monthalia United Methodist Church. I guess that means that the pump-kin patch is open for busi-ness. They arrived in the middle of Come and Take It but somehow enough peo-ple were around to unload them.

The Belmont Ladies Club had their regular meeting with Marcia Pinney pre-siding since Glenda Parker

was suddenly ill. We signed a Get Well card for Shirley Dozier and decided to send one to Dena Black after the extraction of her teeth and hospital stay. Several other items of business were dis-cussed, refreshments were served by Nancy and Shari. Sandi, Dena, and Kathleen serve next month. Then Bingo was played with in-teresting prizes and a worn out Bingo machine. Shari Lee vowed to do something

about this stupid machine. Rhonda Mercer was not present but it was acknowl-edged she had a new grand-son, Levi.

I am as tired as my crit-ters. My head is full of sinus and I can’t think. So just for-give me if I have said some-thing impertinent because my eyes feel like sawdust and my ears are going ping.

Have a good week, don’t text and drive, and God Bless.


Dr. Donna Campbell

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This years entertainment we welcome The Hope Weaver Variety Show featuring

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Sandi Gandre

NEW BRAUNFELS — Dr. Donna Campbell announced Monday her intention to seek the Republican nomination for Texas Senate, District 25 in or-der to fill a void of conservative leadership.

Campbell ran unsuccess-fully to unseat Congressman Lloyd Doggett in last year’s congressional races, carrying every county but one — Travis County — in that district. She will oppose incumbent seven-term Republican state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, who is viewed as a moderate by most party mem-bers.

The 25th District includes Guadalupe, Hays, Comal and parts of Bexar and Travis coun-ties.

Campbell had said for months she intended to run against Doggett again, but the

redistricting plan approved by the Texas Legislature moved Doggett into a district where he would face a significant hurdle from his own Democratic par-ty as well. Much of Doggett’s current district moved into the district now represented by Republican Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi.

As a medical doctor, mother of four children, and devoted conservative activist, Campbell said she brings a real-world perspective to the race.

In announcing her candi-dacy, Campbell stated, “Texas embodies the conservative dream in America. The voters of Senate District 25 deserve to have a Senator who accurately represents their conservative values. The call for limited gov-ernment, fiscal responsibility, and unwavering family values cannot be ignored any longer.”

“Texans deserve better than lip service to conservatism,”

Campbell continued.” “As a State Senator I will fight to keep Texas from looking more like Washington. Protecting inno-cent life and tackling the fiscal hurdle that is facing our state this next biennium are some of my priorities during the next legislative session.”

Former Hays County pre-cinct chair Jim Clements en-dorsed Campbell, saying “The principles Donna Campbell

stands for are aligned with the conservative values of the vot-ers of SD 25. I’m overjoyed by her candidacy and look for-ward to working on her cam-paign.”

Conservative activist Mi-chelle Lockhoof also said of Campbell, “Donna Campbell is pro-life, and supports fis-cal sanity—both of which are lacking in Austin today. We need to elect Donna to ensure conservative representation in the State Senate.”

Hays County precinct chair Brian Mcauliffe gave his full support to Campbell’s can-didacy as well. “Donna has proven to be resolute advocate for the conservative values of Texas voters. We need some-one of her character in the State Senate.”

Donna is board certified in both ophthalmology and emergency medicine. Donna and her husband, Stan, have beautiful daughters and live in the city of New Braunfels.

Area AggiesFive area high school graduates attending Texas A & M University and scheduled to graduate May 2012, received their class rings Friday. From left, Anna Windwehen (GHS), Charlie Campion (GHS) and Chris-ten Fehner (GHS). Not pictured: Tom Raabe (Shiner St. Paul) and Mark St. John (GHS). (Courtesy Photo)

Campbell will seek state Senate seat

The Republican Party of Gonzales County is plan-ning an auction and tag sale fund-raiser Dec. 10 to raise money to donate to victims of the Bastrop County fires and is seeking donations for the sale.

Party leaders in the county are seeking dona-tions of all types of items save clothing to include in the fund-raiser, particu-larly housewares and fur-nishings.

Items can be dropped off at 810 St. Paul St. in Gon-zales from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday and Friday and from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat-urday. Items can also be dropped off in Nixon at 801 N. Franklin St. after 9 a.m. weekdays.

Should you have no way to get to these locations or need help transporting goods, call 830-582-1540 to arrange for pickup.

While the outpouring

from the public in response to the devastating fires has been tremendous, officials handling the relief efforts in Bastrop County have indicated that the best way for those interested to help is by donating cash or gift cards. Gonzales County GOP chairman Ray Hause said all proceeds of the sale will be turned over to the Bastrop Ministerial Alli-ance, the agency handing donations.

County Republicans plan auctionto raise funds for Bastrop victims


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LA VERNIA — The La Vernia Municipal Development District (La Vernia MDD) is hosting a grand opening party open to lo-cal businesses, community leaders and the general public. The event is scheduled on Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 3-6 p.m., at the La Vernia MDD office located on 115 W. Chihuahua St, across from City Hall and next to Wells Fargo Bank. The event features comments from State Representative John Kuempel, representatives from the offices of Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, and Wilson County Judge Marvin Quinney, and La Vernia Mayor Har-old Schott.

The city council appointed the La Vernia MDD board of directors after the citizens

of La Vernia voted in favor of a referen-dum supporting economic development. The board members include President-D. Bradford Beck, Vice President-Randy Leon-ard, Treasurer-Rod McGrew, and members Rhonda Ford and Tim Brooks. In early 2011, the M.D.D. board voted to hire Executive Di-rector, Jennifer Kolbe. Kolbe brings 17 years of experience to La Vernia which includes starting economic development programs in Seguin and built a successful program within the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative.

For more information about the Grand Opening or La Vernia Municipal Develop-ment District, please call Jennifer Kolbe at (830) 779-2371 or email Jennifer at [email protected].

last day on the job.“We appreciate everything

you have done for us,” Mayor Bobby O’Neal said. “You have established paths for greater continuity and leadership within the city.”

“This is a great community and I think you have a very bright future,” Windwehen said. “You have a wonderful team of people here, and I appreciate the opportunity to have served here briefly.”

Several citizens spoke dur-ing public comment, including Aline Wallace who asked for the city’s help in repairing $900 in damaged monuments in the city’s cemetery. Wallace tear-fully asked the council to con-sider installing lighting in the cemetery to deter and prevent further vandalism.

“Its very heartbreaking to see the monuments of some-one’s loved ones so violently broken,” Wallace said. “We are going to have to ask the com-munity to help donate toward this because I don’t know if any of the family members are still living here.”

She said there is more vio-lence happening in other cem-eteries throughout the com-munity.

“There’s kids going into Memorial Park at night, leav-ing beer cans there,” she said. “There’s no lighting there ei-ther, so maybe GVEC can help with that and we can get a sign prohibiting anyone there after dark except for family mem-bers visiting graves.”

She also asked that city po-lice patrol around the cemeter-ies more to prevent the vandal-ism.

Mike Hansen spoke to the council against the city’s live-stock ordinance and a fee and seizure of animals when it is violated.

“You keep chipping away at our liberties and freedoms,” Hansen said. “You can’t take away my God given right to

have horses. There aren’t any starving horses in Gonzales, and these fees aren’t fair.”

Jo Ann Leifeste requested a copy of the city’s recently com-pleted audit be placed in the library, and questioned the lack of detail regarding J.B. Wells Park.

“I went though every page of it and I didn’t see any reference at all to J.B. Wells Park,” Leif-este said. “I know there is an investigation going on about that, and I heard about a sepa-rate audit just in regard to J.B. Wells, so I hope we will be able to view that also.”

Dennis Nesser asked the council to pick one day and time for each meeting.

“It makes it easier for people to attend if its at the same day and time,” he said.

He also discussed Gonzales’ Museum District.

“We’ve suddenly gone from a designation of a museum district to a regulatory district,” Nesser said.

He explained that he and other citizens were told by the main supporters of the museum district that it was nothing more than, “getting some names on streets so we could get more ad-vertising.”

“If this thing is going to come into a case of law, and it has, and its going to hinder (businesses), then I request you remove that district (identity),” Nesser con-tinued. “There is no reason for this to become regulatory if it is supposed to be in name only.”

He also expressed concern about the J.B. Wells concession stand contract, and asked for J.B. Wells to be separated in the budget.

Judith Torr encouraged the council to pass the livestock or-dinance with penalties for a lack of care and enforce it immedi-ately.

“Despite what Mr. Hansen thinks, I believe that the majority of the citizens agree that the care for the horses be decent care,” Torr said, adding that in some cases, the care is not even mini-

mal, and if the first ordinance had been enforced, penalties would not be necessary.

“Recently some pressure has been applied to these people and some of the horses have disap-peared,” Torr said. “If everybody acted properly and took care of their animals there wouldn’t be a need for an ordinance. There’s been extensions and grace pe-riods, and these people are thumbing their noses at your or-dinance because it has not been enforced.”

Executive Director of the Gonzales Chamber of Com-merce Barbara Hand thanked the city employees and volun-teers for helping with the 2011 Come And Take It celebration.

The council unanimously approved penalties for the live-stock ordinance, citing that up to $2,000 in fines can be charged for violations, and animals may be seized by the city if correc-tions are not made.

City Attorney Jackie William-son told the council that when the initial livestock ordinance was drafted last year (not by her) that there were some mistakes. She said she didn’t realize it was not an enforceable ordinance in court until the first citations were issued for violations.

“It was originally written as a zoning ordinance, not as an enforceable ordinance,” she ex-plained. “There were no actual changes to the restrictions and requirements, I have added it to our animal control ordinances now so we can enforce it in court.”

The council endorsed two small business grant applications approved by GEDC recently, for Laurell Ridge Inn and Antiques, and Running M Bar and Grill. The grant amounts are each a 50 percent match with a maximum of $25,000.

The council also agreed to vote on candidates nominated by other governmental bodies, for the Gonzales County Ap-praisal District.

Williamson said AV-Tech Oil & Gas, LLC is seeking an-other oil, gas and mineral lease

with the city, explaining that a cashiers check was already deliv-ered in $29,612.

On Windwehen’s recommen-dation, the council voted unani-mously to raise the water rates to help fund improvements to the city’s water plant.

“We have more issues, includ-ing water pressure throughout the city,” Windwehen said.

According to Windwehen, Gonzales has a lower rate than most of the state, but no funds set aside to help the city’s capital improvement plans, such as the water plant.

“We’ve known for a while we needed to do this, and I reco-mend we phase out industrial rates over the next 2-3 years,” he said. “Paying less for the more water you use is an obsolete phi-losophy now.”

Details about that rate in-crease will be researched and published in the Oct. 13 issue of The Cannon.

The council approved redis-tricting plan #2, as was presented to them during a called meeting two weeks ago.

“Not everybody is going to be happy with it either way you go,” O’Neal said.

The city’s 2011 audit findings were presented to the council by Jerry Floyd, of Floyd and Gindler.

“The financial statements are clean in our opinion. That doesn’t mean there aren’t errors, but we consider those as minor,” Floyd said. “We did have some concerns with the compliance section of the report.”

He said there are some find-ings with internal control in the city, including going over budget in general fund expenditure cat-egories.

“The other was the income controls at J.B. Wells Park were not operating as they were de-signed,” Floyd said. “And we are concerned with the lack of segre-

gated duties within the munici-pal court. These are significant deficiencies but not a material weakness.”

Councilman Lorenzo Her-nandez commented about the lack of information regarding J.B. Wells operations. Floyd said the information is condensed into functions, due to limited space in the report.

Barnes responded during his manager report, stating, “No matter how small, its our duty to take this to heart and correct our deficiencies,” he said. “We do have some proposed financial policies that we are considering.”

In reference to J.B. Wells, Barnes said he hopes to have a new concessionaire by January 2012.

“Its taken us a while to find a request for a proposal for J.B. Wells,” he said. “The city should not be in the restaurant business and we had conditions there that were less than desirable.”


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SHINER: Considers water sales


Cutaway graphic showing the aquifers in Gonzales County.

WATER: How the drought is affecting the countyity (CRWA), Aqua Water Supply Cor-poration (Aqua WSC), and San Antonio Water System (SAWS). To date, only the SSLGC, CRWA, and Aqua WSC are ac-tively transporting water. SSLGC trans-ports water to the City of Seguin and the City of Schertz. CRWA transports water to the City of Marion, City of Cibolo, East Central SUD, Green Valley SUD, Springs Hill WSC, Crystal Clear WSC and Bex-arMet Water District. Aqua WSC trans-ports water to rural Bastrop and Caldwell County customers. All but one of these end users is currently under some stage of water use restrictions as shown in Table 3 below.

Aquifer ConditionsThe GCUWCD monitors groundwater

levels in a total of 131 wells in the Wilcox, Carrizo, Queen City, and Sparta aquifers throughout the District three times a year (January, June, September). The map be-low shows the district boundary, the loca-tions of the aquifers where they outcrop at the surface, and the locations of the groundwater observation wells.

Water level data from the thirteen Sparta Aquifer observation wells indicate water levels ranged from +1.87 ft (increase) to -13.29 ft (decrease) from January to Sep-

tember 2011, water levels in the Queen City aquifer (34 wells) ranged from +0.58 ft to -16.98 ft, water levels in the Carrizo Aquifer (77 wells) ranged from +1.73 to -28.17 ft, and water levels in the Wilcox Aquifer (7 wells) ranged from +1.52 ft to -12.21 ft.

The largest water level decreases in the Carrizo Aquifer were located just north of the City of Nixon where the greatest pumpage in that aquifer occurs. The water level in observation well 67-43-105, which is located within this area of pumpage, was measured at 59.18 ft below ground surface in September 2011. This is a decrease of about -49.56 ft from the initial water lev-el measurement in September 2002. So, what do these water levels tell us about the state of the Carrizo Aquifer in this area of the district?

The cross-section below shows the ap-proximate depths of the Carrizo aquifer, the location of observation well 67-43-105, and the historical water levels. The top of the Carrizo Aquifer in this area is located about 800 feet below ground surface and the aquifer is about 700 feet thick. The wa-ter is under artesian pressure in this well and currently stands at 59.18 feet below ground level. As can be seen in the cross section, although the artesian pressure has declined the Aquifer sands remain fully saturated and there is still over 800 feet of

water in the well.Groundwater modeling conducted

by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) indicates that over a 50 year planning period the water level in the Car-rizo Aquifer in this area of the district will decline approximately 130 feet from year 2000 levels if the district meets its manage-ment plan goals. In 2060, the model pre-

dicts the water level in this well to be about 140 feet below the top of the casing leaving over 650 feet of water in the well and the aquifer sands in this area would still re-main fully saturated.

If you have any questions concerning the current drought conditions or water level data presented in this article contact the GCUWCD at (830) 672-1047.

ley, Eagle Pass, Hallettsville, Karnes City, Schulen-burg and Seguin.

“We think it’s a win-win,” said Warrick. “It allows the City to make money on something they haven’t been making money off of.”

Councilperson David Schroeder expressed a concern about how such a deal would adversely af-fect the ranchers located downstream.

“The only water going into that creek comes from us,” he said. “These are people who have been around a long time that come into town and spend money with us. I think we have an obligation to them too.”

Shiner’s public works supervisor, Emil Sembera, said he would like to see a more detailed rendering of how the company is expecting to operate.

“I think the City would need to see some kind of plan of how you’re going to set up,” he said. “It would help to know how you’re going to do every-thing before we see a contract because the space is so limited by the plant.”

The council eventually told Warrick that if he would present a contract, then the City would take

a look at it and proceed from there.During the Municipal Court Report, Judge Rob-

ert Penley told the council that 157 cases had been filed to date by the Shiner Police Department. The number is 49 more than ever before for this period and at the current pace, the court would hear over 200 cases in a year for the first time. Penley also praised the police for the quality of the cases, as they have resulted in only one appeal.

“When you’re not getting appeals that means someone is doing the right thing,” he said. “The po-lice department has been filing good cases.”

In other business, the council:* Approved the levy roll of $363,599.45 for 2011

tax year.* Approved a request from the Shiner Public Li-

brary to hold a Breakfast With Santa event on Dec. 10 from 9-10:30 a.m.

* Designated Mayor Fred Hilscher as the nomi-nee to the Lavaca County Central Appraisal Dis-trict Board of Directors.

* Tabled an interlocal agreement with the Shiner Independent School District regarding the down-town tennis courts due to concerns about certain terms of the deal.


from the recycling center. The court date was orig-inally set for last month, but was then rescheduled for Oct. 7 at the Gonzales County Courthouse.

“I also represent the museum district,” Escobar said. “We’re seeking a temporary injunction while this case is pending. That is the first step in this process.”

He claimed there was a procedural problem with the application in April, and zoning issues at the business location, 1204 St. Louis Street.

“This business is in a C-1 zone and is typically in an M-1 zone,” Escobar said.

He said he represents citizens in the radius of the business, and that the recycling center is creat-ing pollution and noise.

“We can save a lot of time and money if you do the right thing, and deny further use of that loca-tion as a recycling center,” Escobar said.

Zoning board member Hector Porras asked for a status on the business’ compliance during the six month probation period.

“I haven’t heard any complaints about the recy-cling center since it opened for business,” said Sam Lewis, City of Gonzales code inspector. “I’ve gone by several times to check it, and its always been clean, and I’ve never heard noise coming from it and no objections from any of the neighbors.”

“He’s complied with everything we’ve asked of him,” said alternate board member Isaac Anzald-ua. “I’ve spoken to the daycare next to it and it doesn’t disrupt them. I haven’t heard about any dangerous conditions there.”

He pointed out that two other businesses lo-cated half a block from the recycling center have trash and scrap metal around their properties.

“We make no mention about them being in this historical district at all, so I don’t know if someone is being singled out, but the general consensus and my opinion is that if he’s complied with everything we (the city) have asked from him, I don’t see how we can decline his permit at this point.”

The application was recently reformatted to in-clude the property owner’s signature.

In other business, the board approved a setback variance for Gonzales citizen Herb Karnau, al-lowing him to build himself a new home at 1606 St. Michael Street. In 2009, there was a fire on the property destroying more than half of the previ-ous house. Shortly afterward, Karnau purchased the lot to build a one-story brick house, and has since cleaned the lot to prepare it for construction.

The setback request was just for a couple of feet, leaving 25 feet from the house to the property line.

“It looks a lot better than that property did be-fore,” said ZBOE President Vicki Frenzel. “I don’t see any other way you can fit your house plan on

the lot without doing this.”The ZBOE discussed several horse applications

that are not in compliance with the city’s livestock ordinance.

“We haven’t been able to enforce it, (the ordi-nance),” said Gonzales City Secretary Candice Witzkoske. “The city council will be voting on an amendment to this ordinance Tuesday to approve a fee for non-compliance, and I don’t see why it won’t be approved.”

She said one of the horse owners is a single fa-ther who has asked for some more time to be in compliance with the law, and extend one of his pens.

“He misunderstood what size the covered area needs to be for his horse,” Lewis said. “He just asked for a little more time to fix it.”

Frenzel said the deadline to be in compliance was June 1, 2011.

“They’ve had an extra four months since then to become compliant,” she said.

“And I think it’s because word got around that we couldn’t enforce the ordinance,” Witzkoske said. “Nothing has changed as far as the livestock ordinance requirements. It has to be a 15 by 15 pen and a 30 by 30 exercise area, and vaccinations are required. The only thing that is changing (with the ordinance amendment) is that penalties are being included.”

One of the applicants not in compliance, Ar-mando Izaguirre, attended the zoning board meeting.

“He has his pens but his horses are tied to trees without access to water,” Witzkoskesaid.

In Spanish, Izaguirre explained that his two horses keep knocking over the water buckets. He asked for more time to set the tub up so it can’t be moved.

The board voted to give Izaguirre a 30 day ex-tension to be in compliance with the ordinance, or he will be fined and the horses will be seized.

On behalf of the First Baptist Church, Paul Neuse asked the board to approve a plan for a new lighted sign.

“It’s my understanding that a portion of the sign is LED and internally lit, which requires a vari-ance,” Neuse explained.

The sign will be in the same location as the cur-rent one, and the dimensions of the foundation will be the same.

Lewis said there is a precedent for internally lit signs in the city limits. “HEB, Wells Fargo, Bealls and several downtown have been granted vari-ances for this. They usually just need a timer on them so they aren’t on all night.”

The board approved the new sign design, which allows room for a church service schedule, and the cross will be lit at night.


ZONING: OKs recycling center

COUNCIL: Expresses gratitude to Windwehen for his service

Leesville FairThe TEXXAS Band will headline the entertainment at

the Leesville Country Fair, the annual fund raiser for the Leesville Cemetery and the Leesville scholarship fund. Festivities begin at 10 a.m. Oct. 8 and include an auction, silent auction and raffle drawing, a country store and flag presentation as well as lots of kid-friendly activities.

Interface Scholarship FundThe Gonzales Community African American Interface

Church Scholarship Fund will be conducting its Monthly Business Meeting the first Thursday of each Month. The next meeting is scheduled for October 6 at 7:00 p.m. at The Union Lea B/C, Gonzales. The public is invited. Contact Eugene Wilson Sr. for information at 830-857-3764.

American LegionThe Gonzales American Legion Post #40 will hold their

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

Cancer Benefit 5KThere will be a 5K Run/Walk Saturday, Oct. 15 at the

Livestock show Barn in Nixon to help raise funds for Nix-on-Smiley CISD educator Janna Wheat.

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Race begins at 8 a.m.Wheat is a dedicated educator at Nixon-Smiley CISD.

Janna was recently diagnosed with cervical cancer, and the event will aid in raising money to help with her treat-ment expenses.

Janna has two daughters, Katey and Erin, and is the daughter of Nathan and Dixell Wheat. She has been an advocate for the children in our community and a tire-less volunteer with the Nixon-Smiley Livestock Show.

A $15 donation to participate in the 2011 Run/Walk includes a t-shirt that will be available on Friday, Oct. 14th. Please include a phone number or your child’s campus/teacher to help with pre-delivery. Deadline to order a t-shirt is Monday, October 3rd. Make checks pay-able to Nixon-Smiley CISD. School contact is Linda Parks (830 582 1536 ext. 0107).

Donations will be accepted at registration on race day.

Deputy Send-OffDeWitt County Sheriff’s Office will host a send-off

for Deputy Larry Robles at the sheriff’s office starting at noon Oct. 14. Robles is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps for 14 years and has been serving with the Sheriff’s Department since 2009.

Saturn HomecomingMark down Sunday, October 9 for the Saturn Home-

coming. For a day of reunion, fellowship, and renewing friendship. Bring your favorite covered dishes. This is a day of fun. An auction will be held.

Annual LutherfestHoly Cross Lutheran Church of Yoakum will host its

8th annual Lutherfest starting at 9 a.m. Oct. 16 at the Yoakum Community Center. A Picnic Stew with sausage and sides will be available from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. for $7. Music will be provided by Los Kolaches. A live auction begins at 12:30 p.m..

Leap of the HeroesSkydive San Marcos will host the Wounded Warriors

Leap for the Heroes II from 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. Volunteers will donate toward giving our Wounded Warriors a tandem skydive. For details, contact the Travis County Sheriff’s Department at 512-854-9758.

Stroke ScreeningsTwo stroke-screening events are scheduled in Yoa-

kum on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Holy Cross Lutheran Church,

605 South Highway 77A, and on Friday, Oct. 21 at the Yoakum Community Center. Pre-registration is required for the second event; please call 800-324-1851 to register.

Come and Spike ItFriends of the Gonzales Learning and Career Center

are organizing the annual Come and Spike It volleyball tournament as a benefit for the Center which provides free GED and English as a Second Language classes to adults living in our area.

Come and Spike It is scheduled for Saturday, October 22, with teams registering at 4 pm and a captain meet-ing at 5:30. Play starts at 6 pm— and may continue as late as 6 am, depending on how many teams enter.

The tournament will be held at the volleyball courts in Independence Park, near downtown Gonzales. This will be a co-ed tournament, with teams of 6-8 players. Play-ers under 18 must provide a minor release form signed by a parent turned in with the team roster. The cost to play will be $160, or $140 if the registration and payment turned in by October 15 (if registration and payment are mailed, the envelope must be postmarked no later than Oct 15, 2011 in order to receive the pre-registration price). Prizes will be t-shirts for the first three teams in AA, A, B and C divisions. This will be a double elimination tournament.

For more information, teams are asked to contact the Gonzales Chamber of Commerce at 830 672-6532 or Ann Gaines Rodriguez at 830 263-2027 or 830 672-8291..

Relay for LifeThe planning committee for the 2012 American Can-

cer Society Relay For Life of Gonzales County has sched-uled it next meeting for Monday, October 12, at 5:15 p.m. at Abiding Word Lutheran Church, 1310 St. Louis. It is not too late for volunteers who are committed to the cause and are willing to be part of the planning team to attend this meeting to learn more about Relay and upcoming events and fundraisers. The Pink Ribbon Brunch set for Saturday, October 22, will be the main topic of discus-sion. Tickets are now available for a donation of $10. Purchase tickets at First Lutheran Church office or from Relay team participants.

For more information, please contact Arline Rinehart (672-2077) or Patty Stewart (672-7581), event co-chairs.

Senior BingoThe Gonzales Anchor Club will host Senior Citizen

Bingo at Country Village Square Tuesday, October 18, from 4:30-5:30 pm. A light meal will be served and all Senior Citizens are invited to attend.

BriefCASE meetingThe BriefCASE of First Baptist Church met Tuesday,

October 4. Sherry Poe of Christian Women’s Job Corps presented the program. She told of the accomplish-ments CWJC has made since its beginning two years ago. The fourth class will graduate in November and the five graduates were present.

CWJC is a non profit organization that encourages women to a fresh start in life using Christian principles. The women are encouraged to set goals for their lives by furthering their education and readying themselves for the job market, always relying on Christ as their strength.

Saturn Cemetery citedThe Texas Historical Commission recently designated

Saturn Cemetery as a Historic Texas Cemetery. The dis-tinction means the cemetery has been legally Cemetery Program, an important step in ensuring its preservation.

Dedication ceremony commemorate this historic designation and the placing of the medallion at the Sat-urn Cemetery will be held at 11:15 on Oct. 9 at Saturn.

Master GardenersThe Gonzales Master Gardeners will be holding a

fund-raising rummage sale Saturday, Oct. 22, from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. at 623 N. Fair Street, next to Gonzales Elemen-tary School. The sale will benefit the Gonzales Master Gardener’s community projects and horticulture educa-tion programs for school children and the general public. Furniture, electronics, art work, household items, quilts, seasonal and decorative décor, toys, books, lawn and garden tools and more along with a variety of indoor and outdoor plants will be available for purchase.

Book Club to meetThe Gonzales Book Club meets on the third Thursday

of the month. This month’s meeting will be on Oct. 20, from 10-11am at Liford’s Books and Fine Art to discuss “Horseman Pass By” by Larry McMurtry. Everyone is wel-come and invited to attend. Please join us!

Hermann Sons to meetGonzales Hermann Sons Lodge #175 will meet Mon-

day, October 17 at 5:30 p.m. in the lodge home. Meal will be provided. Members Please come.

Autism MeetingGonzales Independent School District will hold

a parent autism training on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the District Staff Development Center located on the Gonzales Junior High School Campus. The topic for this meeting will be the Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters Project, which involves coaching parents in play-based interventions for autis-tic children, particularly those ages 6 and below. A gate near the band hall on St. Louis Street will be open for entry to the training. For additional information, please call James Alford or Erin Lindemann LaBuhn at 830-672-6441.

Senior Citizens CenterThe Gonzales Senior Citizens Center would like to in-

vite anyone over 60 years of age to come and eat with them at 604 St. Michael St., Monday thru Friday. The cen-ter is open from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The centers will be closed Monday, Oct. 10, in observance of Columbus Day.

We serve a hot delicious 1/3 RDA delicious meal noon

each day. The cost of the meal is a $2.00 voluntary dona-tion that is applied to the total cost of the meal.

We would like some suggestions for activities that you would like to see at the Gonzales Center.

I would also like to remind you that we have Senior Citizen Centers in Waelder, Smiley and Nixon. For more information about our activities, please call me, Helen Richter at 672-2613.

For general public transportation call 672-7014 or 672-6469, and talk to Kari or Bobby. Please make your reservations as soon as you know you need transporta-tion because it is on a first come first serve basis.

Matejek reunionThe 32nd annual Matejek Reunion will be held Oc-

tober 23, 2011 at the Yorktown Fire Station Auditorium located at 107 West Main Street in Yorktown. Everyone is asked to bring enough food for their family, item or items for the auctions. Tea, coffee, bread and eating utensils will be furnished.

The doors will open at l0:00 AM; a noon meal will be served, continuing with a business meeting at which time cash prizes will be awarded. A Live and Silent Auc-tion will follow to raise money for the next reunion.

If you need more information contact Cindy Matejek at 361-564-3660 or Sharon Matejek at 361-564-3851.

Livestock show validationLamb and goat validation for the Gonzales Livestock

Show will be held Wednesday, Oct. 12 at the JB Wells Show Barn.

Lambs will be 5-6 p.m. Goats will be 6-7 p.m. Market and breeder animals must be validated at this time.

First Shot CookoffFirst Shot Cook-Off meeting will be Wednesday, Octo-

ber 12 at 5:30 p.m. at DuBose Insurance. For information contact Sissy or Shirley.

Oddfellows BarbecueGonzales IOOF #38 is holding its annual smoked

chicken, sausage, turkey and ham sale. Orders will be turned in by Nov, 15 and will be picked up/delivered on Dec. 14. Prices include smoked chicken (about 3 pounds) at $8 each, smoked sausage (3-pound packages) at $10 each, 8-10 pound smoked turkeys for $21 each and smoked hams (5-6 pounds each) for $25 each. For details contact an Oddfellows member or call 830-263-0331.


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CATI Game Contest Winners

Above, the winners of the Chicken Flying Contest. Left, Lindsey Lohan breaks the flight record, while (below) another chicken tries its luck escaping the soup-coup pot..Photos by Nikki Maxwell

Eating ContestsCheeseballs (grades 2-4)

First Place: Noah GarzaSecond Place: Savannah HeximerThird Place: Samantha Kuntschik

Cheeseballs (grades 5-6)

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Hot Dogs (grades 7-8)

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Washers TournamentFirst Place: The Rust Buckets

Chicken Flying Contest

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First Place: Mason Matejcek, 14, with “Lindsey Lohan” flying a distance of 318 feet, 8 inches, and setting a new CATI chicken flying record.

Second Place: Shandon Baker, 9, with “Vegas Gambler” flying a distance of 140 feet, 3 inches.

Third Place: Tanner Hardcastle, 13, with “Silver Bullet” flying a distance of 56 feet, 3 inches.

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J.M. Oilfield with “Flucky” flying 2 feet.

Best Chicken Name:

Fran Bickler and Nancy Faye with their chicken “My Friend Fran’s Flappin Fryer Flyer” which flew 39 feet.

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First Place Taste and Presentation: Jenny and Dane Needham, Scott Friedrich, Philip Storey, Mark Yackel and Mitch Hardcas-tle. Sponsored by Southern Livestock

Second Place Taste: Jan Gray, Josh Gray and Pete Peterman. Sponsored by Graham Land and Cattle.

Third Place Taste: Michael Esparza, Janice Whiddon, Collyn Whiddon, Crystal Borrer, Hadley Borrer and Gabriel Molina.

Booth Showmanship: Chili Peper Cookin Team — Paul and Lisa Wagner, Bunny Wagner, Katie Belcher, Katy Pullin, and Deliah Acres.

2011 CATI Cook-Off Winners

2011 Texas Chili and Bean Cook-Off

First Place Chili and People’s Choice Beans: The Big Kahuna’s — Lorine Car-rizales, Joe Carrizales, Missy Ostrander, Horace Greathouse, Twila Cornett, Bobby Cornett and Michelle Greathouse.

Third Place Chili, Second Place Showmanship, and Second Place Beer Drink-ing Chili: The Cannonballers — Randy Harkey, Danya Harkey, Michael Meeh and Debbie Toliver

First Place Beans, Second Place Chili: Spicey Jane — Kellie Connell, Ron Con-nell, Jane Kifer and Kenny Hodges.

Second Place Beans: Just Beans — Mark Lindenmann and Steve Breitschopf

Third Place Beans: Family Tradition — Chad Basquez, Melissa Fogle, Neally Basquez, Debra Fogle and Jerry Fogle.

Showmanship: The Chili Pepper Cooking Team — Katie Belcher, Paul Wag-ner and Lisa Wagner.

The People’s Choice Chili: The Midevil Chili — Richard Hobbs and Jake Hobbs.

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Winners of the Come And Run It 5K Run/Walk were: Contessa Baird, Christine Rodriguez, Lori Behlen, Will Malatek, Carson Reese, Noel Reese, Kasey Spahn, Smokey Spahn, Gilbert Chavez, Sadie Thibadeaux, Kendra Cavit, Shawntel McCune, Manuel Zepeda, Toni Moltz, Morgan, Shannon Sample, Brian Sample, Kelly Caraway, Cowboy T., Graciela Hernandez, Eli Sampletonsh, Jesse Casares, Roland Medellin, Alfonso Ontiveros, El Guero, Dennis Sweezea, George Perry, Courtney Faulkner, Bo Faulkner, Carolyn Markham, Sheri Panus and Cynthia Pedersen. Photo by Mark Lube

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Flatonia’s Colby Mica was one of six Texas high school football stars who were recognized as the Built Ford Tough Texas High School Football Players of the Week for Week 4.

Playing at quarterback and safety for the Bulldogs, Mica led his team to a heart-pounding 41-40 win over Thrall. He completed 19 of 31 passes for 306 yards and four touchdowns, the last in overtime to seal the vic-tory. When Flatonia lined up for the game-winning PAT, Mica was the long-snapper. He also rushed 14 times for 117 yards, made seven tackles on defense, and even picked off a key in-

It’s been said success is the byproduct of preparation and execution. If you take that definition and combine it with faith, humility and determination, then you get a perfect characteriza-tion of Rockeem Col-lins.

While the city of Gonzales was cel-ebrating “Come and Take It” last weekend, the former Apache was living by those words. Midway dur-ing the fourth quarter of last Saturday’s game against Texas A&M-Commerce, Collins got an interception and took it 34 yards for a touchdown to help preserve a 39-21 win for Texas A&M-Kingsville.

As much as that takeaway meant for the Javelinas’ present, it also had a huge impact on their past. It was Collins’ second inter-ception return for a touchdown in as many

There may be no other Class 3A team in Texas that is as big as the San Antonio Sam Houston Hurricanes.

The Gonzales Apaches have some size; it just does not com-

pare with the size of Sam Hous-ton. The Hurricanes have three linemen that are 300 pounds or more.

“We are big,” Apache head coach Ricky Lock said. “Sam Houston is bigger,.”.

The Apaches will host Sam Houston — a squad which is lad-

en with Division I talent, includ-ing four players that have already committed — at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Apache Field.

Lock said everything the

Apaches do will play some role in the outcome of the game.

“Every down and every play will count in this game,” he said. “Little things are going to mat-ter in this game. We must have no missed tackles and no missed blocking assigmnents.

“We need to play our best game

of the year.”The Hurricanes base their of-

fensive system out of the I-forma-tion. Sam Houston has improved ball security from last season.

“A year later, they have no turn-overs on offense,” Lock said.

The Hurricanes are led by

YOAKUM — There are two games on the slate this weekend whose outcomes will go a long way in determining the play-off representatives for District 28-3A. One of those games feature the Yoakum Bull-dogs, who will travel to battle at La Vernia.

The Bulldogs (4-2, 1-1) have been the surprise team so far with big wins at Co-lumbus and Hallettsville, and a home upset of state-ranked Edna. Yoakum has man-aged to fill up the win column in spite of posting average statistics. The Bulldogs only rank fourth in district in offense with 256.7 yards per game and fifth in scoring at 20.3 points per game.

“What we’ve done has just been a trib-

ute to our kids,” said Yoakum head coach Brent Kornegay. “They play hard and I feel like if you play hard every week, then you have a chance. They’re believing in a lot of things that we’re doing and the bottom line is we’re getting better every week. That’s key to me because you don’t want to peak too early.”

Both squads from Shiner open district play this week as Shiner hosts Ganado Friday and St. Paul plays home to Brazos Christian on Saturday

In other action, the Luling Eagles come off their bye week and head to Lago Vista who has won four of five games, Nixon-Smiley travels to Three Rivers, Hallettsville hosts Hempstead and Flatonia is home to Yorktown and Sacred is home to Bryan St. Joseph Saturday.

With district play beginning this weekend for the five remain-ing schools who weren’t dis-cussed in my last column, here’s my assessment of their seasons thus far and my predictions of their playoff prospects.

FlatoniaThey were the early season

posterboys for hard luck after blowing first-half leads in their first two games and going on to lose by a total of nine points. But with a crushing defeat of lowly Bloomington, a quality win over St. Paul and a thrilling comeback

victory at Thrall, it appeared the Bulldogs were ready to make a playoff run. That could still be the case despite being saddled with a

3-3 record after last week’s four-turnover performance in the 29-13 loss to Burton.

Quarterback Colby Mica is ar-guably the most talented player in the area and he has several weapons at his disposal including Zane Ponder, Mitchell Mica, Cole Robbins, Will Bruns and Dalton Griffin.

They open district by host-ing a beatable Yorktown team. If they can split in their games with Shiner and Louise, then they could very well be head-ing into the regular season finale

with top-ranked Ganado with the 15-A DI title on the line.

I’m really high on this team and if they played in another district, I would make them a shoo-in for the postseason. However this is not a fantasy column, so I have to take a more realistic approach with Flatonia falling just short of a title but still snagging a playoff berth. Predicted final record: 6-4 overall, 2-2 district.

Hallettsville Sacred HeartIt looks like another year has

meant yet another winning sea-son for Sacred Heart. The tradi-

tion-rich program has won 10 state championships with the last six coming under the watch of head coach Pat Henke, one of the best coaches in the entire re-gion. The Indians are 6-0, which includes quality wins over Yor-ktown, at Flatonia, and versus Nixon-Smiley.

Sacred Heart has a full comple-ment of good players including Sterling Hrncir, Matt Holub, Jar-ed Krischke and Regan Hall, and Henke doesn’t allow the Indians to do things to beat themselves.

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Battle for Supremacy

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Bulldogs look to firm status as a playoff-caliber squad

Former Apache ties A&M-Kingsville recordTexas A&M-Kingsville’s Rockeem Collins (36) defends a pass during the Javelinas’ game with West Texas A&M on Sept. 19 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. The former Gon-zales High School standout recently tied a school record previously set by NFL Hall of Famer Darrell Green. (Photo courtesy Texas A&M-Kingsville Sports Information)

Linebackersget readyfor a ‘war’

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Flatonia QBMica earnsWeek 4 honor

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ROUNDUP, Page C8 Flatonia’s Colby Mica

Last year, the Gonzales defense felt it was the one getting pushing around a lot.

This year, paced by their hard-hit-ting linebackers Hunter Noack and Landon Lock, the Tribe defense is much improved.

“We have stepped up since last year,” senior inside linebacker Land-on Lock said. “We all are stronger than we were last year.”

“We know what it is like to play with each other and we have come together as a team.”

“(Last year) we got pushed around so much and now we are stron-ger,” ILB mate Hunter Noack said. “Teams cannot really push around that much.”

The Apache linebackers are some of the more intense players on the defensive side of the football.

Lock said his nickname from last year was ‘Controlled Chaos’.

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State-ranked Shiner and Flatonia met up in a 29-1A match on Tuesday, and the Lady Bulldogs scored a big upset win in the first clash between the two local Class 1A powers. Flatonia won 3-1 (25-17, 18-25, 26-24, 25-18).

For Shiner, LaNeisha Hunt had 18 kills; Cassie Stafford had 34 assists; Ryah Michalec had 29 digs; Emmalie Berkovsky and Amanise Coleman had three blocks, and Kaylyn Benes had three aces

Shiner St. Paul swept Clear Lake Christian 25-11, 25-16, 25-21 on Thursday. Marrisa Ynclan had 13 kills; Kourtney Knesek had 20 assists; Katie Denson had four aces and a pair of blocks, and Madison Kurtz had eight digs.

St. Paul is 7-0 in dis-trict and has clinched a first-place seed for the district tournament.

• Hallettsville Sacred

Heart defeated Texas School for the Deaf in three sets (25-14, 25-12, 25-15) on Thursday. Adrienne Klimitchek had nine kills and seven digs; Caitlin Orsak had one block; Shelby McEl-roy had 10 assists; Kelsie Buchanan had seven digs and four aces with Amber Labay getting one block.

“TSD played a good match against us and we played better than we have been playing,” In-dianette coach Wanda Orsak said. “It is always hard to play in their gym. We kept our focus and played hard, which is something we have been struggling with.”

New Braunfels Chris-tian defeated Sacred Heart 3-1 (20-25, 25-22, 25-13, 25-17) on Tues-day. Klimitchek had 10 kills and two blocks; Bu-chanan had four aces; Kirsten Heger had eight digs; McElroy had 24 as-sists and Robyn Pavlicek had two blocks.

“After winning the first game and being up 17-12

in the second there was no excuse for us to quit playing and let them win,” Orsak said. “When they came back and beat us in the second game they had all the momentum to car-ry them through the next two games. We are now in a three-way tie for second place.”

Sacred Heart is 14-15, 8-3.

• Flatonia improved to 3-0 in district with a 25-22, 25-10, 25-20 sweep of Ganado on Sept. 27. Courtney Mica and Lean-na Dunk had three aces each; Dunk had 11 kills; Alex Bruns had 18 assists; Mica had 17 digs with Bruns, Dunk, Chandler Fike and Abigail Rodri-guez getting a block each.

• The Nixon-Smiley

Lady Mustangs fell to Marion 3-0 (27-29, 12-25, 8-25) on Friday. Dev-on Tristan had six kills; Brooke Gordon had sev-en assists; D’Laine Pala-cio had 12 digs and Abi-gail Scarbrough had two blocks.

The Lady Mustangs are 3-3 in district play.

On Tuesday, Luling beat the Lady Mustangs 3-1 (25-21, 25-21, 17-25, 25-22).

For Nixon, Tristan had 10 kills and two blocks, Gordon had 14 assists; Jessica Flores had 10 digs and Hailey Boatwright had three aces. Nixon is 3-4 in district.

•Yoakum swept Poteet 25-12, 25-12, 25-10 to improve to 6-1 in district. Leslie Seidenberger had

10 kills; Camille Desmet had four aces, seven digs and 24 assists; Ashton Henkes had five blocks. The Yoakum junior var-sity won 2-0.

• Cuero swept Sam Houston 25-14, 25-11, 25-10 on Tuesday. Abby Shepard had eight kills; CayCay Toot had eight aces; Tiffany Shellen-barger had 19 assists and six digs; Emily Olsovsky and Emily Valenta had one block each. Both the Cuero freshmen and JV teams won.

Cuero is 4-3 in district play.

•The Luling Lady Eagles volleyball team had two District 29-2A matches during week of Sept. 26 to complete the first round of district

play. On Sept. 27, the Lady Eagles played at San Antonio Cole, winning 25-14, 25-16, 25-15.

The victory put the Lady Eagles at 2-3 in dis-trict action. On Sept. 30, Luling hosted Universal City-Randolph. Luling won 25-18, 24-26, 25-22, 18-25, 15-11 to even their record at 3-3.

• East Bernard swept Hallettsville 25-22, 25-22, 25-20 on Tuesday.

Cassidy Targac had 10 kills and three aces; Cheyenne Dowdy had six blocks; Lauren Jones had 13 assists and Madison Schindler had nine digs. The Lady Brahmas are 19-14 and 5-3. Halletts-ville won the JV match and East Bernard won the freshmen match.

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Turning it awayGonzales’ Brittany Pakebusch gets up to deflect a La Vernia kill attempt as teammate Danyelle Glass (5) closes in. (Photo by Mark Lube)

Volleyball RoundupFlatonia upends state-ranked Lady Comanches

Lady Apaches end round on high note

Lady Bears pass GonzalesBy MARK LUBE

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The Lady Apaches played well on de-fense Tuesday night against the La Ver-nia Lady Bears, but it was not enough to defeat La Vernia as the visitors came out on top 3-0 (25-15, 25-19. 25-21 at Gonzales High School Special Events Center.

“I think we were better on defense but our passing game was down to-night,” said Jessica Cantu. “We played hard in the first and set sets, then let loose in the third and it went downhill.”

Lady Apache head coach Kim Payne said the team did a better job of block-ing.

“We got kids on blocks tonight and we have not blocked all that well all season,” she said. “Our defense was also better. I feel it is our top spot.”

“The girls never gave up and played hard.”

Payne said if Gonzales can have that kind of effort consistently, they will be fine.

“If I can get this kind of effort from here on out and we just play our game, we should do fine,” she said.

Gonzales must run the tables for the rest of the season for a chance to make the postseason.

“We have to win out to have a good shot at making the playoffs,” Payne said. “And we need some upsets from other games to help us out.”

She mentioned Cuero or Yoakum getting a win against Pleasanton, with Gonzales winning out, would send the Lady Apaches against Pleasanton in a playoff for third place in the district.

Gonzales hosts San Antonio Sam Houston tomorrow starting at 5 p.m.

“They have improved and we will not take them lightly just because we defeated them the first time around,” Payne said.

In the first set, Allison Raley and Shayla Simper combined on a block to give Gonzales a 4-3 lead.

La Vernia rallied to go on top but the Lady Apaches stayed close behind as Danyelle Glass and Jessica Cantu

scored a couple of points with their efforts. La Vernia surged ahead, 17-11 and held the Lady Apaches to four points the rest of the way.

In the second set, Brittany Pak-ebusch made a play to help keep La Vernia in check with just a 9-8 lead be-fore the Lady Bears scored five of the next six.

Carly Bozka got an ace to help close the gap down to 16-13. La Vernia got several plays from Natalie Baker for 24-18 lead. Glass got a kill to delay the second-set victory for La Vernia for another serve but a serve error pro-vided the winning point.

In the third game, Gonzales re-mained in contention early until La Vernia took a 12-2 run after leading 13-7 for the win.

Glass had six kills for the Lady Apaches while Raley and Shayla Sim-per had four each; Cantu had eight assists; Raley had three blocks; Cantu had eight digs, Morgan Simper had seven and Bozka had five digs. Bozka had one ace.

POTEET —The Lady Apaches volleyball team ended the first round of dis-trict play on a great note. They defeated the Poteet Ag-ates 3-1 (25-16, 25-27, 25-17, 25-23) Friday night in Poteet.

The victory improves Gonzales to 2-4 in district competition.

“I think getting a win against Poteet provided us with lots of momentum as we go into (this week’s games) with La Vernia and Sam Houston,” Shayla Sim-per said. “The win gave us a confidence boost and made us believe that we can win, you just have to put your heart to it and play with all of your heart and the outcome will be great as seen from Friday night’s game with Po-teet.”

The Lady Apaches played in front of the home crowd this week (Tuesday’s match against La Vernia and tomor-row against Sam Houston.

“I believe our team will use this momentum well going into the next several matches, especially our next two home games because our team now sees that we are capable of winning no matter what. You just have to put your mind and heart to it and play like ever point is game point,” Shayla Simper said.

The Lady Apaches opened up a 9-2 lead in the first set, courtesy of blocks from Shayla Simper and Allison Raley and the serving of Morgan Simper.

Poteet was able to pull back a couple of points, and the Lady Apaches responded with a couple of good serves from Kiley Braune.

Later, plays from Shayla Simper, Danyelle Glass and Brittany Pakebusch, com-bined with a great service run from Raley, helped spur Gonzales to the win in the first set.

In the second set, a pair of early aces by Emily Ak-ers helped give Poteet a 10-8 advantage. The teams traded leads until a couple of mis-cues by the Agates helped Gonzales get ahead 18-16 and later, 23-20.

A kill from Glass gave Gonzales a 25-24 window but a couple of miscues and two kills from Akers gave Po-teet the win in the second set.

At the start of the third set service from Morgan Simper and Braune, along with plays from Glass, Raley and Lyn-nea Fink boosted Gonzales to a 14-5 lead.

Poteet battled to trail just 19-14 but soon was pounded with service from Raley and Glass’s kill on game point.

The Lady Apaches won the match with a close 25-23 result in the fourth set.

By MARK LUBE

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POTEET —The Apache football team and a lot of the fans were singing to head coach Ricky Lock following his team’s Dis-trict 28-3A 55-0 win over the Poteet Aggies.

No, it was not his birth-day on Friday, but it was another significant mile-stone: his 100th career win as a high school football coach.

The third-year Apache coach put the accomplish-ment in perspective as he started preparing his team for its next game.

“It is just another win,” Lock said. “It will be a big week next week. It is going to be huge.” The Apaches will host the Sam Hous-ton Hurricanes, the larg-est team the Tribe will face this year.

“It will be interesting. They have not played com-petition that is as solid we have been,” he said. “It will be at our place on the res-ervation, which is a tough place to play at. They have four (prospective Division 1 college) players on their team.”

The Apaches led 7-0 af-ter one quarter but scored five touchdowns in the second frame for a 42-0 halftime lead.

Gonzales played a lot of second-string players on both sides of the ball in the second half.

“It is great because those guys practice and it was a great opportunity to show-case some talent,” Lock said. “They did very well tonight and I am proud of

them.”Lock said D.J. Gonza-

les ran well, the offen-sive line players did well, quarterbacks Jon Anthony Casares and Matt Hillman played great by combin-ing to complete all three Apache passes. He also commended the running of Landon Lock, Cecil Johnson and Zack Lopez.

“All of our running backs ran the ball well,” Lock said. “We have a good scheme.”

It would be a challenge for Gonzales to stay fo-cused on the Poteet game, with the massive shadow of the Sam Houston con-

test looming.“We tell them to focus

on one game at a time and I know it was hard because all they have been hearing is about next week against Sam Houston,” Lock said. “I feel right now we are playing well and have made lots of progress but there is always something you can do better.”

Hillman saw plenty of reps at quarterback and extra-point kicker after only playing a few plays of the Sept. 23 against Yoa-kum due to a shoulder in-jury.

Lock said tight end Cameron Smith had a mi-

nor injury and was held for part of the game to make sure he is healthy for Sam Houston.

The Apaches scored on their first three offensive possessions of the sec-ond period and also ran an interception back for a touchdown in the first half.

After getting a turn-over on downs at the start, Gonzales marched 60 yards in four plays, getting a 45-yard run Johnson and 3-yard touchdown run by Lock. Hunter Noack picked off Ruben Reyes on the next drive and got to the Aggie 35. A few plays

later, it was Johnson from 24 yards and Hillman’s point after for a 21-0 half-way through the second frame.

The Tribe took advan-tage of a shanked punt to drive 42 yards in two plays: a 21-yard run by Johnson and Hillman throwing a 21-yard touchdown pass to Casares.

The next drive for Po-teet, Donald Cartwright picked off a pass at the 35 and scored.

Gonzales made it 42-0 with 2:38 to play with a 68-yard drive in just over two minutes. Hillman found Adrian Molina for a 23-

yard pass and later it was Lopez from the 18.

Gonzales opened the third quarter with Cart-wright returning the kick-off 64 yards to the Poteet 8, where Lock scored on the next play for his second of the night.

The Apaches wrapped up scoring early in the fourth. D.J. Gonzales had a 25-yard run down to the Aggie 38 and a facemask penalty moved the ball to the 23. Gonzales burst out a 20-yard run to the 3 but lost yards on two straight plays before getting for-ward to the 1 where Hill-man scored on a sneak.

Gonzales 55, Poteet 0Gonzales 7 35 7 6—55Poteet 0 0 0 0—0Scoring Summary

G-Landon Lock 3 run (Matt Hill-man kick)

G-Cecil Johnson 8 run (Hillman kick)

G-Johnson 24 run(Hillman kick)G-Jon Anthony Casares 21 pass

from Hillman (Hillman kick)G-Donald Cartwright 35 intercep-

tion return (Hillman kick)G-Zack Lopez 18 run (Hillman kick)G-Lock 8 run (kick blocked)G-Hillman 1 run (Hillman kick)

Team Stats Gon PotFirst downs 20 6Rushes-yards 45-371 29-23Passing 3-3-0 8-24-2Passing yards 56 89Punts-average 1-29 6-28.66Fumbles-lost 1-0 2-0Penalties-yards 1-15 3-25

Individual statsRushing— Gonzales:Cecil John-

son 13-161, D.J. Gonzales 14-120, Landon Lock 7-78, Zack Lopez 1-18, Cory Espinosa 1-5, Jerald Smith 1-4, Tyler Morgan 1-2, Matt Hillman 1-1, Jon Anthony Casares 5-(-4), Jessie Ramirez 1-(-14). Poteet:Derrick San-tos 9-33, Mathew Chapa 7-8, Kris Guzman 7-0, Ronald Sanchez 2-(-1), Ruben Reyes 4-(-17).

Passing — Gonzales Hillman 2-2-0 44, Casares 1-1-0 12. Poteet: Reyes 8-24-2 89.

Receiving — Gonzales: Adrian Molina 1-23, Casares 1-21, Cameron Smith 1-12. Poteet: Kris Guzman 2-22, Frank Guzman 2-11, Eric Perez 1-33, Ricky Guerra 1-10, Sanchez 1-8, Pat-rick Vega 1-5.

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Friday Night LightsApaches take care of business, 55-0

The run stops hereGonzales’ Alejandro Hernandez (1) puts the breaks on Poteet’s Frank Guzman (22) during Friday’s contest. (Photo by Mark Lube)

By CEDRIC IGLEHART

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Getting through the lineNixon-Smiley’s Jaime Moreno (10) battles to get through the line during the first quarter of Friday’s contest. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

NIXON — Failing to capi-talize on the momentum of last week’s overtime win at Dilley, the Nixon-Smiley Mustangs ran into an offen-sive buzzsaw and lost at home to Poth, 51-14.

The Pirates (6-0, 2-0) had six plays over 25 yards in the first half, five of which went for scores, and tallied the first 44 points of the game before cruising on to victory.

“I was really proud of our boys,” said Poth head coach Andrew King. “We talked about getting off to a fast start because we knew if we let them stay in it, it would be a battle. I was proud of our exe-cution, we had some big plays and I was glad to see that.”

Poth rolled up 528 yards of total offense, almost doubling

the Mustangs’ 259. “Our defense did a really

good job,” King said. “We talk-ed all week about being disci-plined on that side of that ball and the guys really focused on their keys. We knew what plays were coming and the kids did a good job of putting it all together.”

Overall it was a disappoint-ing performance for Nixon-Smiley, who fell to 1-1 in dis-trict and 3-3 on the season.

“We just didn’t come ready to play,” said Mustang head coach Carlton McKinney. “I’m at a loss as to why be-cause we had such a great win last week. Playing the number one team in district at home, we had a great opportunity to take advantage of but we came out flat and laid an egg with so much at stake. The good thing is we’re still in a position to help ourselves, but we let one

get away tonight.”Branden Lyssy completed

four of his six passes for 206 yards, all of which went for scores, and also ran for a touchdown to lead Poth. Phil-lip Garza rushed for a game-high 161 yards and also found the end zone four times.

“The disheartening part about it is we knew they were explosive, but we let the guys we were keying on make some plays,” McKinney said. “We had guys in position, but we just didn’t make the plays. When you’re trying to play championship football, you have to make plays. We had opportunities, but we just didn’t do it.”

Poth scored often and early, with Lyssy throwing touchdown passes in their first six plays - a 44-yarder to Garza on their fourth play and an 81-yarder to Antonio

Cantu. The Mustangs went three

and out to follow and put themselves in greater peril when a punt went off the side of Jamie Moreno’s foot and went for a negative gain of one yard to give the Pirates a first and 10 at the Nixon 38. On the next play, Lyssy con-nected with Garza for a 37-yard score.

Another Nixon three and out was followed by a four-yard Poth drive that culmi-nated with a 44-yard pass to Zachary Lyssy.

The Mustangs went three and out again on the ensu-ing possession and Poth only needed five plays before Branden Lyssy ran the ball in from three yards out.

Nixon-Smiley began their next drive with a false start penalty and four plays later, they punted the ball 40 yards away to pin the Pirates at their own nine-yard line.

But a direct snap to Garza went for 91 yards and Poth held a commanding 44-0 lead midway through the second quarter.

Miguel Hernandez re-turned the kick 30 yards to the Nixon 45 and the Mus-tangs hit paydirt 10 plays later, when Jared Van Auken powered it in from a yard out.

Poth put up their final score of the night on their ensuing possession when Garza capped a five-play drive with a two-yard scor-ing plunge.

The Mustangs garnered a score for pride in the fourth quarter when their time-consuming 22-play march ended with a two-yard run by Alex Hernandez, who converted the extra point kick to account for the game’s final score.

Poth 51, Nixon-Smiley 14Poth 22 29 0 0—51

Nixon-Smiley 0 7 0 7—14Scoring Summary

P - Phillip Garza 44 pass from Bran-den Lyssy (Lyssy kick), 10:40

P - Antonio Cantu 81 pass from Lyssy (Lyssy pass to Garza), 5:12

P - Garza 37 pass from Lyssy (Lyssy kick), 2:44

P - Zachary Lyssy 44 pass from Lys-sy (Lyssy pass to Tyler Kallies), 11:12

P - Lyssy 3 run (Lyssy kick), 8:05P - Garza 91 run (Lyssy kick), 7:14N - Jared Van Auken 1 run (Damian

Perez kick), 2:53P - Garza 2 run (Lyssy kick), 1:00 N - Alex Hernandez 2 run (Hernan-

dez kick), 1:13Team Statistics Poth NS First downs 10 14Rushes-yds 2 8-322 54-220 Passing yds 206 39Passes 4-6-0 2-10-0Punts-avg 0-0 5-22.8Penalties-yds 3-20 3-25 Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -Poth: Phillip Garza

8-161, Blake Lyssy 4-79, Branden Lyssy 6-62, Cainan Paine 8-18, Zach-ary Lyssy 2-2. Nixon-Smiley: Jared Van Auken 18-76, Alex Hernandez 16-54, Jaime Moreno 6-32, Miguel Hernan-dez 7-31, Matthew Finch 6-24, Victor Coronado 1-3.

PASSING - Poth: Branden Lyssy 4-6-206. Nixon-Smiley: Jaime Moreno 2-10-39.

RECEIVING - Poth: Phillip Garza 2-81, Antonio Cantu 1-81, Zachary Lyssy 1-44. Nixon-Smiley: Garrett Ear-lywine 1-32, Miguel Hernandez 1-7.

By MARK LUBE

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weeks, tying the school’s career record previously set by Wash-ington Redskins great and NFL Hall of Famer Darrell Green.

“God blessed me to get them,” said Collins about his record-setting pair of pick-sixes. “I al-ways prepare by watching a lot of film and He rewarded me in those last two games. I knew what the other teams’ tendencies were so I when I saw the plays, I was able to read them perfectly.”

It’s been an interesting past two years for Collins, who was a two-time all-district and aca-demic all-district defensive back at Gonzales High School. He helped lead the Apaches to the state quarterfinals as a junior and finished his prep career with 141 tackles and over 1,000 yards rushing. His play earned him the distinction of being named one of the Players to Watch by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football maga-zine.

“In high school I always knew I would play college ball,” Col-lins said. “There were some op-portunities that slipped by me, but I knew I could make it.”

Finding himself with no vi-able college football home after graduation, Collins decided to walk-on at A&M-Kingsville two springs ago. It was an ambitious choice to make. A perennial Division 2 power, the Javelinas were coming off a 9-3 season and

had just claimed their 27th Lone Star Conference championship. To complicate matters further, Collins’ position was manned by DeIra Glover, a three-year start-er and D2 All-American.

“Rockeem came out and did a really nice job,” said A&M-Kingsville head coach Bo At-terberry. “He ended up earning himself a scholarship and was able to play a little bit last year. We really liked what we saw.”

Collins appeared in 11 games as a freshman, playing as a backup to Glover and on special teams. He had two tackles and broke up a pass against Texas A&M-Commerce, then added two tackles in the regular sea-son finale against Southeastern Oklahoma.

“When I got here, I knew I would have some big shoes to fill,” Collins said. “I realized play-ing behind DeIra was just a step-ping stone and an opportunity for me to learn. I just watched him last year to see what I would have to do this year. After that, it was just a matter of constantly competing until I earned a start-ing spot.”

Standing at 5-9 and 190 pounds, the soft-spoken Col-lins is a man of few words on the field but his “rock” solid play has spoken volumes. He has started all five games this year and re-corded 18 total tackles (7 solo with two for losses), four passes

defensed, two others broken up, a forced fumble and half a sack.

“I think he learned quite a bit last year and now he’s stepped right in and is doing a good job for us,” said Atterberry. “Rock-eem is a lot like DeIra was. He’s around the ball a lot and is al-ways creating plays. He’s very athletic obviously, but I’m more impressed with his focus. He prepares really well and that’s one of the things that puts him in position to make the plays he does. He studies a lot and it’s im-portant to him.”

Not only is he now in great position to shatter the record he tied last week, but his 89 intercep-tion return yards put him within striking distance of breaking the school’s single season record of 172 set by Eddie Moten in 2002.

“I became aware of the records a little while ago,” Collins said. “I don’t worry about them much, I just want to play every game like it’s my last. I’m not going to settle for just being OK and breaking records. I want to be great and help my team get wins in the best way I can.”

While Collins chooses to downplay his extraordinary ac-complishments, you can be sure the rest of the D2 football world has taken notice.

“At the rate he’s going it won’t be long before other teams will start going away from him,” At-terberry said. “He’s off to a great

start and I’m proud of what he’s done at this point. I’m sure Rock-eem will continue to work hard and stay focused so he can make even more plays.”

The Javelinas are currently 3-2, a disappointing mark because they were ranked seventh in the nation in the American Football Coaches Association preseason poll. Last week’s win over A&M-Commerce halted a two-game losing skid that consisted of a heart-breaking 42-38 defeat at Midwestern State and a 42-21 loss to West Texas A&M at pres-tigious Cowboys Stadium in Ar-lington.

“I believe we have some of the most premier athletes in the nation,” said Collins about his teammates. “Sometimes in life we need that minor setback to pave the way for a major comeback.

We needed to get knocked down off our pedestal to realize that we have to work hard for everything we get because nothing is given to you. We’re not done, we’re going to just keep balling out.”

The son of Donna and Robert Smith, and Ricky Collins, Rock-eem is studying sports manage-ment and marketing. Drawing on his own personal journey, he offered a few pearls of wisdom for all of the young athletes looking to follow in his impressive foot-steps.

“Just make sure you keep God first in your life and your fam-ily second,” said Collins, who is a member of the Rock Church in Gonzales. “You also have to always make sure you stay in-volved with your team and let your performance speak for it-self.”


Football RoundupFriday Night Lights

Cards edge Regents; Shiner zaps Ben BoltFrom coaches’ [email protected]

The St. Paul Cardinals won a battle between two reigning state champions Friday by beating Austin Regents 25-21, while Shiner, Yoakum and Hallettsville all recorded morale-boosting wins in area football action.

St. Paul, the reigning TAPPS Class 2A champ, scored three first-half touchdowns and made them stand up in a defen-sive second half f\to turn back Austin Regents, the defending 3A champ.

Shiner, meanwhile, got its final non-district tuneup in style by handing the Ben Bolt Badgers their first set-back of the season, 27-23. Also getting big wins were Yoakum, which rolled up 33 first-half points en route to a 53-7 pasting of Pleasan-ton; Cuero, which held off La Vernia 22-18; and Hal-lettsville, which downed Rice Consolidated by a 20-14 score.

The Sacred Heart Indi-ans remained unbeaten by cruising past Louise by a 33-8 score, while Burton brought Flatonia back to earth by a 27-19 score.

St. Paul 25,Regents 21

Martin Kennedy re-turned the opening kickoff 80 yards for a score and the Cardinals never looked back in defeating Regents.

A 40-yard TD strike from Dakota Hybner to Justin Natal made it 14-0 for the Cardinals before Regents came back on a 55-yard scoring bomb from Andrew Meynig to Cole Gilmore. But St. Paul made it 22-8 at intermission when Adam Hollenbach broke loose on a 24-yard scoring run.

In the second half, Re-gents got scoring runs from Douglas and Andrew Meynig but couldn’t over-come the Cardinal lead, and St. Paul added a 23-yard Cole Hybner field goal for the final margin.

St. Paul 25, Regents 21St. Paul 14 8 0 3--25Austin Regents 8 0 7 6--21

Scoring SummarySTP-Martin Kennedy 80 kick return

(Cole Hybner kick).STP-Justin Natal 40 pass from Da-

kota Kresta (Cole Hybner kick).REG-Cole Gilmore 55 pass from

Andrew Meynig (Andrew Meynig run).STP-Adam Hollenbach 24 run (Jus-

tin Natal run).REG-Douglas Meynig 21 run (Ethan

Kim kick).STP-Cole Hybner 23 field goal.REG-Andrew Meynig 7 run (kick

failed).Team Statistics Aus St.First Downs 19 12Yards Rushing 39-188 40-158Yards Passing 170 194Passes 10-29-2 8-18-2Punts 1-32 3-81Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-0Penalties-yards 10-65 8-73

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- St. Paul, A. Hollenbach

13-75, M. Kennedy 10-57.PASSING -- St. Paul, D. Kresta 18-8-

194-2.RECEIVING -- St. Paul, J. Natal 5-158,

A. Hollenbach 3-36.

Yoakum 53,Pleasanton 7

YOAKUM -- The Yoa-kum Bulldogs erupted for four second-quarter touch-downs Friday to bury the Pleasanton Eagles.

Yoakum scored first on Reagan Jacobs’ 5-yard run, but Pleasanton came back to grab the lead on a conver-sion kick early in the second quarter following a 2-yard run by Elijah Engelmann. Less than 30 seconds later, however, Bulldog quarter-back Jeffrey Harrison broke loose for a 33-yard scoring dash and the Bulldogs were suddenly on fire.

Harris followed midway through the second period by connecting with Freddy Thompson on a 65-yard scoring play, then Terrance Highs scored on a 10-yard run. Harris teamed with Blake McCracken for a 32-yard TD pass late in the quarter for a 33-7 halftime lead.

A fumble recovered in the end zone by Rex Kuztler padded Yoakum’s lead, and the Bulldogs closed it out with two more scoring runs from Myron Hights of 29 and 3 yards.

Yoakum 53, Pleasanton 7Pleasanton 0 7 0 0-- 7Yoakum 6 27 13 7--53

Scoring SummaryYOA: Reagan Jacobs 5 run (Kick

failed)PLEA: Elijah Engleman (kick good)YOA: Jeff Harrison 66 run (pass

failed)YOA: Freddy Thompson 65 pass

from Harrison (Harrison run)YOA: Terrance Hights 10 run (Kick

failed)YOA: Blake McCracken 32 pass

from Harrison (Harrison kick)YOA: Rex Kuztler fumble recovery

(kick failed)YOA: Myron Hights 28 run (Harrison

kick)YOA: Hights 3 run (Harrison kick)

Team Statistics Yoa PleFirst Downs 18 17Yards Rushing 40-440 28-148Yards Passing 192 202Passes 4-6 20-40Punts N/A 3-51Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-1Penalties-yards 7-63 4-38

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Yoakum, R. Jacobs 8-39,

B. McCracken 4-86, M. Hights 2-32, T. DeWeese 2-15, T. Hights 12-90, J. Harri-son 10-158. Pleasanton, M. Sorola 1-4.

PASSING -- Yoakum, J. Harrison 5-3-130, T. Hights 1-1-65. Pleasanton, L. Walters 40-20-202.

RECEIVING -- Yoakum, B. McCrack-en 3-65, T. DeWeese 1-8, F. Thompson 1-65, K. Mikulik 1-65. Pleasanton, M. Sorola 6-35, Z. Llamas 3-31.

Shiner 27,Ben Bolt 23

BEN BOLT — The Shiner Comanches ground their way to a 27-23 win over the previously-undefeated Ben Bolt Badgers Friday, surviv-ing seven fumbles with a gritty defensive effort that held the host team to just 229 total yards.

The Comanches came from behind to take a 14-9 lead after Gabriel Ramirez returned the opening kick-off 95 yards for a score. Ja-cob Stafford’s 13-yard TD run tied the game after a quarter, and Max Huth’s fumble recovery in the end zone put Shiner in front.

Shiner extended its lead in the third period on a 15-yard run by Caleb Cur-tis, but Ben Bolt closed the gap on a 10-yard jaunt by Andres Alaniz late in the period.

With time running out in the contest, however, Staf-ford iced the win for the co-manches when he scoreed on a 12-yard run with 1:02 remaining in the contest. The Badgers narrowed the margin on the game’s final play on a 10-yard TD pass to Alaniz from Frankie Gal-van.

Shiner 27, Ben Bolt 23Shiner 7 7 6 7—27Ben Bolt 7 2 6 8—23

Scoring summaryBBO -- Gabriel Ramirez 95-yard

kickoff return (R. Lovie kick), 11:50, 1st.SHI -- Jacob Stafford 13-yard run

(Luke Blaschke kick), 08:58, 1st.SHI -- Max Huth Fumble recovery

(Luke Blaschke kick), 03:27, 2nd.BBO -- Safety, 01:37, 2nd.SHI -- Caleb Curtis 15-yard run (kick

failed), 06:39, 3rd.BBO -- Andres Alaniz 10-yard run

(kick failed), 02:25, 3rd.SHI -- Jacob Stafford 12-yard run

(Luke Blaschke kick), 01:02, 4th.

BBO -- Andres Alaniz 10-yard pass from Frankie Galvan (Andres Alaniz run), 00:01, 4th.

Team Stats Shiner Ben BoltFirst downs 18 12Rushes-Yds 51/268 19/109Passing Yards 54 120Passes 3-3-0 8-26-0Punts-Avg 1-50 2-40Fumbles/Lost 7/1 1/1Penalties-yards 7-75 5-40

Individual StatisticsRUSHING: Shiner, Jacob Stafford

17-104, Marlon Wallace 14-55, Ca-leb Curtis 9-65, Zach Lawrence 8-39, Carcus Coleman 2-7, Trevian Flowers 1-(-2). Ben Bolt, Gabriel Ramirez 14-91, Andres Alaniz 1-10, Frankie Galvan 2-4, Ivan Gonzales 1-2, Albert Gonzales 1-2.

PASSING: Shiner, jacob Stafford 3-3-0-54. Ben Bolt, Frankie Galvam 3-7-0-39, Albert Gonzales 5-19-0-81.

RECEIVING: Shiner, Luke Blaschke 2-29, Trevian Flowers 1-25. Ben Bolt, Andres Alaniz 3-53, Gabriel Ramirez 3-53, John Cavazos 1-11, Chris Cantu 1-3.

Hallettsville 20,Rice Cons. 14

ALTAIR--The Halletts-ville Brahmas stormed back from a 14-0 deficit to upend the Rice Consolidated Raid-ers Friday and secure an im-portant district win.

The Raiders grabbed a two-touchdown lead early on a 2-yard run by James Garner and a second-quar-ter TD strike of 48 yards from Lorenzo Anderson to Jamikel Dancy. Hallettsville came back on the kickoff following the second TD, however, when Dalton Har-rington went the distance for a 94-yard score.

A third-quarter inter-ception return of 10 yards by Braden Kahanek got the Brahmas to within two points before Nate Kowalik hit Trevor McGee with a 16-yard scoring pass with 1:07 left in the third period to move Hallettsville in front for good.

Hallettsville 20, Rice Cons. 14Hallettsville 0 6 14 0--20Rice Consolidated 7 7 0 0--14

Scoring SummaryRC-James Garner 2 run (Christian

Samaneigo kick)RC-Jamikel Dancy 48 pass from

Lorenzo Anderson (Samaneigo kick)H-Dalton Harrington 94 kick off re-

turn (Kick failed)H-Braden Kahanek 10 int. return

(Kick failed)H-Trevor McGee 16 pass from Nate

Kowalik (McGee pass from Kowalik)Team Statistics Ric HalFirst Downs 11 9Yards Rushing 33-83 25-24Yards Passing 153 115Passes 12-32-2 7-18-0Punts 6-240 5-166Fumbles-lost 1-0 3-2Penalties-yards 10-75 6-35

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Rice Consolidated, L.

Anderson 8-9, S. Barrios 2-8, E. Grounds

2-11, J. Garner 17-54, J. Adams 1-2. Hal-lettsville, T. Smith 8-6, C. Evans 4-1, T. Schindler 2-7, J. Reeves 1-1.

PASSING -- Rice Consolidated, L. Anderson 32-12-153-2. Hallettsville, B. Kahanek 13-3-61-0, Nate Kowalik 4-5-0-59.

RECEIVING -- Rice Consolidated, E. Grounds 5-51, C. Wiese 3-41, J. Dancy 2-57, S. Torres 1-4. Hallettsville, T. Mc-Gee 3-45, A. Vesely 2-25, D. Herrington 1-15.

Burton 29,Flatonia 18

BURTON — The unbeat-en Burton Panthers got four touchdowns from running back Juwan Mathis, but had to battle before pulling away from the Flatonia Bulldogs Friday for a 29-13 win.

The Bulldogs struck first when Colby Mica returned a Burton fumble 58 yards for a score, but Mathis had scoring runs of 52 and 2 yards to send the Panthers to intermission with a 15-7 lead.

Mathis had a 64-yard TD run in the third period and added a 75-yard score on a punt return before the Bull-dogs narrowed the gap on a 71-yard pass play from Will Bruns to Zane Ponder.

Burton 29, Flatonia 13Flatonia 7 0 6 0 --13Burton 8 7 14 0 --29

Scoring SummaryFLA-Colby Mica 58 fumble return

(Will Burns kick)BRT-Juwan Mathis 52 run (Andy

Gibson pass from James Fisher)BRT-Juwan Mathis 2 run (Andy Gib-

son kick)BRT-Juwan Mathis 64 run (Andy

Gibson kick)BRT-Juwan Mathis 75 punt return

(Andy Gibson kick)FLA-Zane Ponder 71 pass from Will

Bruns (run failed)Team Statistics Bur FlaFirst Downs 11 7Yards Rushing 28-222 36-97Yards Passing 62 126Passes 3-16-1 4-13-2Punts 2-75 4-124Fumbles-lost 5-4 2-2Penalties-yards 7-54 8-65

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Burton, A. Gibson 3-21,

J. Mathis 15-206. Flatonia, W. Brunes 8-3, D. Griffin 8-16, A. Manzano 6-10, M. Mica 13-66, Z. Ponder 1-2.

PASSING -- Burton, A. Gibson 3-0-0-1, J. Mathis 13-3-62-0. Flatonia, C. Mica 2-0-0-1, W. Brunes 11-4-126-1.

RECEIVING -- Burton, B. Green 2-35, A. Gibson 1-27.

Cuero 22,La Vernia 18

CUERO — Logan Goe-bel’s 8-yard scoring run in the third quarter provided the margin of victory as the Gobblers came from behind to up end the La Vernia Bears, 22-18.

The Bears jumped out to a 15-0 lead early in the game

on a 13-yard TD pass from Vince Gill to Jost Rutledge and a second TD pass of four yards from Jose Saha-gun to Jake Wiatrek.

The Gobblers came back in the second quarter to tue the game, however. D’Anthony Hopkins broke loose for a 30-yard scoring run to make it 15-7, then Layne Balfans scored on a 2-yard run and Hopkins made a conversion pass to Stoney Schoenfeld to knot the score.

La Vernia got a 23-yard field goal from Alex Dews in the fourth period, but that was as close as the Bears could get.

Cuero 22, La Vernia 18La Vernia 15 0 0 3 --18Cuero 0 15 7 0 --22

Scoring SummaryL - Josh Rutledge 13 pass from

Vince Gill (Aaron Grubb run)L - Jake Wiatrek 4 pass from Jose

Sahagun (Alec Dews kick good)C - D’Anthony Hopkins 30 run (Lo-

gan Goebel kick good)C - Layne Balfanz 2 run (Stoney

Schoenfeld caught pass from Hopkins)C - Goebel 8 run (Goebel kick good)L - Alec Dews 23 field goal

Team Statistics Cue LaFirst Downs 12 11Yards Rushing 51-200 36-149Yards Passing 13 62Passes 2-2-0 7-13-0Punts 2-89 6-285Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-0Penalties-yards 2-15 3-20

Individual StatisticsRUSHING -- Cuero, V. Davis 7-21,

L. Goebel 6-34, D. Hopkins 10-67, S. Schoenfeld 10-49, R. Gray 1-5, L. Bal-fanz 1-2, A. Bustos 1-(-2). La Vernia, A. Grubb 12-43.

PASSING -- Cuero, S. Schoenfeld 2-2-13-0. La Vernia, A. Grubb 1-0.

RECEIVING -- Cuero, D. Hopkins 2-13. La Vernia, A. Grubb 2-31.

Sacred Heart 33,Louise 8

HALLETTSVILLE — Quarterback Jared Krischke scored three touchdowns and sterling Hrncir rushed for 153 yards as the Hal-lettsville Sacred Heart In-dians remained undefeated with a 33-8 win over Louise.

Krischke hit Cole Wick for touchdown passes of 10 and 63 yards. The quarter-back also scored on a 19-yard run. Krischke finished 4 of 8 passing for 115 yards and one interception.

Hrncir carried 21 times for 153 yards and scored on a short run as the Indians improved to 6-0.

Quarterback Angel Garza hit Colton Courville with a 14-yard TD pass for the lone score for the Hornets.

terception.“When Colby is out there, it’s

like having an extra coach on the field,” said Flatonia head coach Chris Freytag. “He’s always out on the field, even on special teams. I trust him implicitly. He does all of the signal-calling on offense and defense, and when he audibles at the line of scrimmage I have full confidence in him.”

Talk about leadership. When wildfires struck in nearby Bastrop

a few weeks ago, Mica helped to organize a fund-raiser that pro-duced $3,000 to help fire victims. In addition to his fund-raising ef-forts, he’s also highly active with the Fellowship of Christian Ath-letes and the Future Farmers of America.

Mica owns a 3.3 GPA and is a virtual one-man athletic depart-ment, winning all-district honors in four sports (baseball, football, track, and basketball) and all-state honors as a catcher on the diamond.

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MICA: Flatonia QB honored

“As linebackers, we go fast and hard, 100 miles an hour, to get to the play to get on the tackle,” Lock said. “Everybody else on the defense does the same thing. Every single play.”

“I try to play aggressive and read what the opposing offen-sive line is doing. Once I see what they are doing, I try to fill in the holes and make the tackle,” Noack said.

Noack and Lock said they play with their instincts and do not think so much when mak-ing a defensive play.

“Playing defense is more about your instincts and less about thinking a lot,” Lock said. “You go with what your heart says.”

He said playing with instinct is something a player will learn over the years.

“With experience, you will notice tendencies and where the ball is going, you will get to the ball faster than if you just wait. You cannot hesitate; you have to get there,” Lock said.

“You see what the offensive linemen are doing and you know what the offense is run-ning.”

Noack, Lock and the rest of the defense will need all of their strength, experience and in-stinctive aggressive play come Friday at Apache Field when the undefeated — and gigantic — Sam Houston Hurricanes come to town.

“It is going to be a tough dog-fight,” Lock said. “Sam Hous-ton keeps talking about how many division-1 college offers their guys have gotten and that is natural for them, but I feel we can outwork any team.”

“We will compete with them and we have a lot of heart. That is what it will come down to; who wants the game more.”

Gonzales fell in a close game to the Hurricanes last year, 12-8, and that is providing motiva-tion for the Apaches.

“We want it bad after los-

ing to them last year,” Lock said. “We have them at home. The stands will be packed and in our favor. It is going to be a war.”

Lock said the Tribe would have had a greater chance at the playoffs if they had beat-en Sam Houston.

“We had to make up for the loss in our other games to make the playoffs but we did not,” he said. “It would mean a lot to win this game.”

Lock encouraged all the fans to come to the game and give their support to the team.

“Nobody has been able to beat us at home,” he said.

The Apaches have shut out their opponents at home.

“No one has scored any points on us at home and we are going to defend that trend,” Noack said. “We are going to defend our home field like the Alamo.”

quarterback Jhurell Jackson who is a smart player.

“He makes good decisions and does not turn the ball over,” Lock said.

Jackson’s favorite receiver to throw to is Leo Thomas, Jr. who has already commit-ted to play football for the University of Arizona.

The Hurricanes’ main running weapon is running back JeQuan McBride.

“He is a small guy who can fly,” Lock said.One of the main blockers for Sam Hous-

ton will be 6-6, 280-pound tight end Javon-te Magee, who has received over 50 offers from Division I schools.

Lock said the Hurricanes are as fast as they are big.

“Our defense will have to bottle up that speed,” he said. “We will have to eliminate the big play.”

Sam Houston will run the 4-2-5 and split systems on defense which is similar to the

Gonzales scheme.Key players are Thomas, Jr. at free safety

and lineman Ralphael Green, who is 354 pounds.

The Apache offense must stay on the field and control the ball.

“We need to make first downs, and pos-sess and drive the football,” Lock said. “We need to take away their chances (on of-fense).”

Lock said home field advantage will pro-vide a boost for the Apaches.

“If there is ever a time we need our fans, this is it,” he said. “We will be considered the underdogs but our kids will play as hard as they can.”

Following this match, Gonzales will have three games left while the Hurricanes will play four more.

“I feel the winner of this game will be sit-ting in a good position (to win the district) but there is lot of football to play after this contest,” Lock said.


Gonzales named ‘Army Strong’for Class 3A following victory


APACHES: Hurricanes present a ‘big’ challenge


MigratoryBird Report

Soccer season underwayGonzales Youth Soccer League player Savannah Hex-imer sings the National Anthem Sept. 17 during open-ing ceremonies for the league. (Photo by Mark Lube)

BACKERS: Defensive leaderslead Apaches vs. Sam Houston

Hunter Noack Landon Lock

The Gonzales Apaches have been selected the “Army Strong Team of the Week” among Class 3A teams in Texas following last week’s 55-0 win over Po-teet.

The announcement was made by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Maga-zine website at www.texasfootball.com.

The Apaches, who were also named the “Army Strong” team of the week

last season, were cited for allowing Po-teet just 124 yards of total offense, while both Cecil Johnson and D.J. Gonzales rushed for more than 100 yards to give coach Ricky Lock his 100th win as head coach.

Other honorees included San Anto-nio Warren (Class 5A), Magnolia West (Class 4A), Eastland (Class 2A), Ga-nado (Class 1A) and Aquila (Six-Man).

Scramble winners Sept. 28Taking first place in the weekly Wednesday Scramble at Independence Park Golf Course Sept. 28 was the team of Landon Allen, Gus Bloundt, Casey Mims, Rhett Gideon and Clay Harris. (Courtesy Photo)

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Central Zone Dove: Whitewings continue to find corn and milo fields in and around San Antonio, though hunter participation is down since the opener. New birds showed last week around Katy, Brookshire and Columbus. Beaumont and Dayton fields saw an influx of mourning doves with the cooler temps. Hankamer is holding more mourning doves than whitewings. Many hunters along the coast have said they haven�t seen whitewing numbers like seasons past. Stephenville, Brownwood and Waco fields have been best around available water in the afternoon. The season runs through Oct. 23. Prospects are fair.

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Waterfowl Migration: Shallow flats on East Texas reservoirs have held birds. More specklebellies should show this week. Duck and goose season opens Nov. 5.

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GONZALES APACHESRecord: 6-0, 2-0

A 26 at CC Miller W, 42-6S 02 Luling W, 35-0S 08 at Austin Lanier W, 45-7S 16 at Columbus W, 41-27S 23 Yoakum* W, 33-0S 30 at Poteet* W, 55-0O 07 Sam Houston*O 14 OpenO 21 at Pleasanton*O 28 La Vernia*N 04 at Cuero*

YOAKUM BULLDOGSRecord: 4-2, 1-1

A 26 at Columbus W, 19-16S 02 La Grange L, 0-6S 09 at Hallettsville W, 29-14S 16 Edna W, 21-13S 23 at Gonzales* L, 0-33S 30 Pleasanton* W, 53-7O 07 at La Vernia*O 14 Cuero*O 21 OpenO 28 at Poteet*N 04 Sam Houston*

CUERO GOBBLERSRecord: 2-4, 2-0

A 26 at Wimberley L, 6-34S 02 at Liberty Hill L, 7-14S 08 at Bellville L, 13-21S 16 Calhoun L, 0-35S 23 at Pleasanton* W, 23-8S 30 La Vernia* W, 22-18O 07 Open*O 14 at Yoakum*O 21 Poteet*O 28 at Sam Houston*N 04 at Gonzales*

POTEET AGGIESRecord: 0-6, 0-2

A 26 at SA CentCath. L, 13-21S 02 Dilley L, 20-39S 08 at Carrizo Spr. L, 21-27S 16 Waco Robinson L, 21-49S 24 at Sam Houston*L, 0-74S 30 Gonzales* L, 0-55O 07 at Pleasanton*O 14 La Vernia*O 21 at Cuero*O 28 Yoakum*N 04 Open*

LA VERNIA BEARSRecord: 1-4, 0-1

A 26 OpenS 02 Canyon Lake L, 23-34S 09 at Giddings L, 7-45S 16 at Wimberley L, 6-49S 23 Bandera W, 63-34S 30 at Cuero* L, 18-22O 07 Yoakum*O 14 at Poteet*O 21 Sam Houston*O 28 at Gonzales*N 04 Pleasanton*

PLEASANTON EAGLESRecord: 1-5, 0-2

A 26 SA Edison W, 41-8S 02 at SA Jefferson L, 32-44S 09 SA Lanier L, 12-17S 16 at Aransas Pass L, 33-34 S 23 Cuero* L, 8-23S 30 at Yoakum* L, 7-53O 07 Poteet*O 13 at Sam Houston*O 21 Gonzales*O 28 OpenN 04 at La Vernia*

SAM HOUSTON HURRICANESRecord: 5-0, 1-0

A 26 SABrackenridge W,45-13S 02 at SA Southside W, 58-7S 09 SA Brennan W, 26-13S 17 at SA Edison W, 48-10S 24 Poteet* W, 74-0S 30 Open*O 07 at Gonzales*O 13 Pleasanton*O 21 at La Vernia*O 29 Cuero*N 04 at Yoakum*

NIXON-SMILEY MUSTANGSRecord: 3-3, 1-1

A 26 at Flatonia W, 36-33S 02 Bloomington W, 33-3S 09 at Yorktown L, 13-20S 16 at Sacred Heart L, 20-35S 23 at Dilley* W, 43-42S 30 Poth* L, 14-51O 07 at Three Rivers*O 14 Karnes City*O 21 SA Brooks*O 28 Stockdale*N 04 Open

DILLEY WOLVESRecord: 4-1, 0-1

A 26 Charlotte W, 62-13S 02 at Poteet W, 39-20S 09 La Pryor W, 37-0S 16 at Cotulla W, 42-13S 23 Nixon-Smiley* L, 42-43S 30 OpenO 07 at Poth*O 14 Three Rivers*O 21 at Karnes City*O 28 SA Brooks*N 04 at Stockdale*

POTH PIRATESRecord: 6-0, 2-0

A 26 Marion W, 8-7S 02 at Falls City W, 49-6S 09 at George West W, 22-21S 16 Natalia W, 49-13S 23 Stockdale* W, 26-7S 30atNixon-Smiley*W, 51-14O 07 Dilley*O 14 OpenO 21 at Three Rivers*O 28 Karnes City*N 04 at SA Brooks*

STOCKDALE BRAHMASRecord: 3-3, 1-1

A 26 Falls City W, 34-14S 02 Jourdanton L, 22-28S 09 at St. Paul L, 34-38S 16 Odem W, 49-28S 23 at Poth* L, 7-26S 30 Three Rivers* W, 45-27O 07 at Karnes City*O 14 SA Brooks*O 21 OpenO 28 at Nixon-Smiley*N 04 Dilley*

THREE RIVERS BULLDOGSRecord: 4-2, 1-1

A 26 George West W, 21-20S 02 Natalia W, 48-22S 09 at Jourdanton L, 14-55S 16 at Kenedy W, 35-21S 23 SA Brooks* W, 55-0S 30 at Stockdale* L, 27-45O 07 Nixon-Smiley*O 14 at Dilley*O 21 Poth*O 28 OpenN 04 at Karnes City*

KARNES CITY BADGERSRecord: 2-3, 1-0

A 26 at Kenedy L, 12-13S 02 at Marion L, 0-21S 09 at UC Randolph W, 10-7S 16 Luling L, 19-41S 23 OpenS 30 SA Brooks* W, 51-0O 07 Stockdale*O 14 at Nixon-Smiley*O 21 Dilley*O 28 at Poth*N 04 Three Rivers*

SA BROOKS TIGERSRecord: 1-5, 0-2

A 26 at Runge L, 8-14S 02 at SM Baptist L, 6-35S 09 Center Point L, 7-28S 16 at SA St. Gerard W, 34-0S 23 at Three Rivers* L, 0-55S 30 at Karnes City* L, 0-51O 07 OpenO 14 at Stockdale*O 21 at Nixon-Smiley*O 28 at Dilley*N 04 Poth*

LULING EAGLESRecord: 2-3

A 26 Navarro L, 22-43S 02 at Gonzales L, 0-35S 09 at Woodsboro W, 48-0S 16 at Karnes City W, 41-19S 23 Canyon Lake L, 56-28S 30 OpenO 07 at Lago Vista*O 14 at Comfort*O 21 Ingram Moore*O 28 at Marion*N 04 Blanco*

LAGO VISTA VIKINGSRecord: 4-1

A 26 La Pryor W, 52-0S 02 at E. Memorial W, 45-0S 09 at Wac.Robinson L, 54-61S 16 Austin Reagan W, 65-0S 23 at San Saba W, 34-16S 30 OpenO 07 Luling*O 14 at Ingram Moore*O 21 Marion*O 28 at Blanco*N 04 Comfort*

INGRAM MOORE WARRIORSRecord: 0-5

A 26 at Natalia L, 21-28S 02 UC Randolph L, 14-55S 09 at Harper L, 26-45S 16 at Crystal City L, 34-42S 23 Mason L, 0-56S 30 OpenO 07 at Blanco*O 14 Lago Vista*O 21 at Luling*O 28 at Comfort*N 04 Marion*

MARION BULLDOGSRecord: 4-1

A 26 at Poth L, 7-8S 02 Karnes City W, 21-0S 09 at SA Cole W, 48-0S 16 UC Randolph W, 53-0S 23 OpenS 30 Goldthwaite W, 41-7O 07 Comfort*O 14 Blanco*O 21 at Lago Vista*O 28 Luling*N 04 at Ingram Moore*

COMFORT BOBCATSRecord: 3-2

A 26 Lytle W, 49-6S 02 Skdmore-TynanW, 28-14S 09 Mason L, 24-48S 16 at F’ricksburg W, 31-24S 23 Boerne L, 21-41S 30 OpenO 07 at Marion*O 14 Luling*O 21 at Blanco*O 28 Ingram Moore*N 04 at Lago Vista*

BLANCO PANTHERSRecord: 2-3

A 26 at Canyon Lake L, 7-14S 02 at Lexington L, 7-32S 09 Somerset W, 36-7S 16 at SA Christian W, 36-34S 23 Sonora L, 9-16S 30 OpenO 07 Ingram Moore*O 14 at Marion*O 21 Comfort*O 28 Lago Vista*N 04 at Luling*

HALLETTSVILLE BRAHMASRecord: 2-4, 1-1

A 26 at Ganado L, 7-32S 02 Refugio L, 21-64S 09 Yoakum L, 14-29S 16 at Palacios W, 21-17S 23 Edna* L, 36-47S 30 at Rice Cons.* W, 20-14O 07 Hempstead*O 14 OpenO 21 at Van Vleck*O 28 Hitchcock*N 04 at Industrial*

EDNA COWBOYSRecord: 5-1, 2-0

A 26 Needville W, 42-7S 02 George Ranch W, 34-18S 09 Boling W, 48-7S 16 Yoakum L, 13-21S 23 at Hallettsville* W, 47-36S 30 Van Vleck* W, 65-12O 07 at Hitchcock*O 14 Industrial*O 21 OpenO 28 at Rice Cons.*N 04 Hempstead*

VAN VLECK LEOPARDSRecord: 1-4, 0-2

A 26 Schulenburg L, 8-55S 02 at Louise W, 22-16S 09 at Weimar L, 8-27S 16 OpenS 23 Industrial* L, 20-34S 30 at Edna* L, 12-65O 07 Rice Cons.*O 14 at Hempstead*O 21 Hallettsville*O 28 OpenN 04 at Hitchcock*

HITCHCOCK BULLDOGSRecord: 3-2, 1-0

A 26 at Clear FallsJV L28-33S 02 Danbury W, 19-0S 09 Tomball Luth. L, 21-28S 16 Lutheran South W, 47-7S 23 OpenS 30 at Industrial* W, 22-20O 07 Edna*O 14 at Rice Cons.*O 21 Hempstead*O 28 at Hallettsville*N 04 Van Vleck*

HEMPSTEAD BOBCATSRecord: 5-0, 1-0

A 26 OpenS 02 at Stafford W, 24-23S 09 at Austin Reagan W, 77-0S 16 Brookshire Royal W, 28-0S 23 at Rice Cons.* W, 18-7S 30 Hou. St. John’s W, 31-7O 07 at Hallettsville*O 14 Van Vleck*O 21 at Hitchcock*O 28 Industrial*N 04 at Edna*

RICE CONS. RAIDERSRecord: 2-3, 0-2

A 26 at Refugio L, 7-26S 02 Somerset W, 62-22S 09 at Columbus W, 22-14S 16 OpenS 23 Hempstead* L, 7-18S 30 Hallettsville* L, 14-20O 07 at Van Vleck*O 14 Hitchcock*O 21 at Industrial*O 28 Edna*N 04 Open

INDUSTRIAL COBRASRecord: 4-2, 1-1

A 26 at Shiner W, 20-7S 02 Ganado L, 13-33S 09 at Tidehaven W, 42-6S 16 Somerville W, 33-7S 23 at Van Vleck* W, 34-20S 30 Hitchcock* L, 20-22O 07 OpenO 14 at Edna*O 21 Rice Cons.*O 28 at Hempstead*N 04 Hallettsville*

SHINER COMANCHESRecord: 2-4

A 26 Industrial L, 7-20S 02 Brazos W, 53-10S 09 at Schulenburg L, 14-21S 16 at Weimar L, 14-19S 23 Navarro L, 21-48S 30 at Ben Bolt W, 27-23O 07 Ganado*O 14 at Yorktown*O 21 Flatonia*O 28 OpenN 04 at Louise*

FLATONIA BULLDOGSRecord: 3-3

A 26 Nixon-Smiley L, 33-36S 02 Sacred Heart L, 27-33S 09 Bloomington W, 26-2S 16 at St. Paul W, 21-17S 23 at Thrall W, 41-40S 30 at Burton L, 13-29O 07 Yorktown*O 14 OpenO 21 at Shiner*O 28 Louise*N 04 at Ganado*

YORKTOWN WILDCATSRecord: 2-3

A 26 at Sacred Heart L, 19-22S 02 at Agua Dulce W, 55-0S 09 Nixon-Smiley W, 20-13S 16 at Falls City L, 37-40S 23 Kenedy L, 31-33S 30 OpenO 07 at Flatonia*O 14 Shiner*O 21 at Louise*O 28 Ganado*N 04 at SA Cornerstone

LOUISE HORNETSRecord: 1-5

A 26 at Danbury L, 13-35S 02 Van Vleck L, 16-22S 09 at Burton L, 8-49S 16 Woodsboro W, 48-0S 23 San Mar. Baptist L, 14-33S 30 at Sacred Heart L, 8-33O 07 OpenO 14 at Ganado*O 21 Yorktown*O 28 at Flatonia*N 04 Shiner*

GANADO INDIANSRecord: 6-0

A 26 Hallettsville W, 32-7S 02 at Industrial W, 33-13S 09 at East Bernard W, 22-21S 16 Tidehaven W, 42-0S 23 George Ranch W, 41-7S 30 Palacios W, 28-7O 07 at Shiner*O 14 Louise*O 21 OpenO 28 at Yorktown*N 04 Flatonia*

ST. PAUL CARDINALSRecord: 5-1

A 26 at Pettus W, 28-24S 02 at Cornerstone W, 59-0S 09 Stockdale W, 38-34S 16 Flatonia L, 17-21S 24 Bryan St.Joseph W, 70-13S 30 at Aus. Regents W, 25-21O 08 Brazos Christian*O 14 OpenO 21 at St. Gerard*O 29 at Sacred Heart*N 04 St. Dominic Savio*

SACRED HEART INDIANSRecord: 6-0

A 26 Yorktown W, 22-19S 02 at Flatonia W, 33-27S 09 at Faith West W, 33-19S 16 Nixon-Smiley W, 35-20S 23 at Hyde Park W, 43-28S 30 Louise W, 33-8O 08 Bryan St. JosephO 14 at SA St. Gerard*O 21 St. Dominic Savio*O 29 St. Paul*N 04 at Brazos Christian*

SA ST. GERARD ROYALSRecord: 0-6

A 26 at Nuec.Canyon L, 6-56S 02 CP Summit L, 19-66S 09 SA Cornerstone L, 12-13S 16 SA Brooks L, 0-34S 23 D’Hanis L, 6-57S 30 at Sabinal L, 0-62O 07 at St. Dominic Savio*O 14 Sacred Heart*O 21 St. Paul*O 28 at Brazos Christian*N 04 Schertz John Paul II

ST. DOMINIC SAVIORecord: 1-4

A 26 at C.TexChrist. W,20-13S 01 Texas Sch. Deaf L, 0-13S 09 San Marc. Baptist L, 0-42S 16Texas Christian L, 20-27S 23 OpenS 30 Somerville L, 0-64O 07 SA St. Gerard*O 14 Brazos Christian*O 21 at Sacred Heart*O 28 Dallas HomeschoolN 04 at St. Paul*

BRAZOS CHRISTIAN EAGLESRecord: 5-1

A 26 Cypress Christ. W, 12-10S 02 Snook L, 7-27S 09 at Tx. Sch. Deaf W, 54-29S 16 St. Joseph W, 39-6S 23 Wdlands Christ W, 63-36S 30 at Faith West W, 48-21O 08 at St. Paul*O 14 at St. Dominic Savio*O 21 OpenO 28 SA St. Gerard*N 04 Sacred Heart*

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In district play, Yoakum re-bounded from a shutout loss at Gonzales by routing Pleasanton last week 53-7. Quarterback Jeffrey Harrison threw for 138 yards and two touchdowns, and also ran for 158 yards and another score in that victory.

“Jeff gets better every week and I thought he played really well against Pleasanton,” Kornegay said. “He made all of the right reads in the veer and in the passing game. A lot of that is attributed to our of-fensive line, but at the same time, he’s progressing as the season goes along.”

Harrison has a whole kennel full of help on offense including Blake McCracken (220 yards rushing, 109 receiving, 4 total TD), Fred Thompson (237 yards receiving, TD), Andrew Jimenez (231 yards rushing, 4TD) and Kyle Mikulik (103 yards receiving, TD).

On defense Yoakum is giving up 345.2 yards and 14.8 points per game, mostly because they seem to have an active player at each level. They have three players averaging over 8 tackles a game including linebacker Rico Moya (8.5), nose guard Rico Perry (8.3) and defen-sive back Timmy Blakeney (8.3).

In addition, defensive back Keith Ratley is among the district lead-ers with two interceptions and six passes defensed.

“We’ve got a lot of kids who run to the football,” Kornegay said. “We’re not very big, but we do have some speed. Our kids are playing really aggressively right now and I think that’s the key.”

La Vernia is comparable to Yoakum statistically, but the wins haven’t come nearly as frequently. The Bears (1-4, 0-1) are ranked fifth in total offense and third in scoring offense at 252 yards per game and 23.4 points per game, respectively.

Ganado at ShinerThe Shiner Comanches open

their district campaign with a home game against the Ganado Indians.

Shiner halted a three-game skid with a 27-23 win over Ben Bolt last week. Ganado ran the tables in their six-game non-district sched-ule, surviving East Bernard 22-21 back in September to keep the streak intact.

The Comanches will need to exe-cute their running game extremely well and keep the Indian offense off the field while the defense will need solid tackling to contain Indian of-fensive backs Josh Labay, Tyler Gorman and Trey Thedford.

Ganado key players on defense are end Case Silliman, linebacker Cade Cihal and lineman Roman Leal.

Brazos Christian at St. PaulThe St. Paul Cardinals open dis-

trict play against Brazos Christian.The Cardinals are 5-1 and Eagles

are 6-0, and are both contenders for the district championship.

The Cardinals’ offense will have to make sure they execute and block well to produce on offense and play hard on defense.

Key players for Brazos Christian are RB-LB Brad Brown, C-DT Aar-on Mitchell, WR/RB Jaxton Mc-Nair and QB Gentry Gale.

Nixon-Smiley at Three RiversThe Mustangs will look to re-

cover from a 51-14 pounding at the hands of Poth one week after their overtime win against Dilley.

Three Rivers is 4-2 but 1-1 in dis-trict after blowing out San Antonio Brooks 55-0 and falling to Stock-dale 45-27.

The Bulldog offense will be led by running backs Troy Chowns, Gage Crawford and Kaleb Gee. Players to watch on defense will be lineman T.J. Rodriguez and defen-sive back Albert Moreno.

Luling at Lago VistaThe Eagles are coming off a bye

week and were routed 56-28 on Sept. 23 in their most recent action.

The Vikings are 4-1 on the sea-son after opening with wins against La Pryor and Austin Eastside Me-morial. The Vikings fell to Waco Robinson but rebounded with wins against Austin Regan and San Saba.

Key players for Lago Vista are QB Garrett Swann, NG Donald Hopkins, DT Maurice Aguirre and CB Dylan Haines.

The Eagles will need to limit the production of Swann and tackle well on defense. On offense, they will need to improve their offensive execution and put more points on the board.

Hempstead at HallettsvilleThe Brahmas evened their dis-

trict record at 1-1 after defeating Rice Consolidated 20-14.

The Bobcats are unbeaten in five games including beating Rice Con-solidated 18-7 to open district play.

Hempstead has a balanced attack with 174 passing yards a game and 211 yards rushing. Obie Wilder is the leading passer with 753 yards on the season and Archie Taylor is the leading rusher with 350 yards. Devonta Curtis had 13 catches for 405 yards. The defense is paced by

linebacker Brian Glover.

St. Joseph at Sacred HeartThe Indians close out non-dis-

trict against the Eagles after win-ning their first six games.

The Eagles’ offense will be paced by running back Tate Brightwell and quarterback Luke McClure. Key players on defense are end Spencer Gray, linebacker Lucus Lipscomb and linebacker Matt Krause.

Sacred Heart will need to have sustained long drives and good ex-ecution while the defense will need to gain more experience in tackling well.

Yorktown at FlatoniaLast week, the Bulldogs had a

three-game win streak snapped by a 29-13 loss to Burton. The Wild-cats have lost two in a row.

Flatonia will need stellar play from signal caller Colby Mica while the defense will need to tackle well and prevent large gains on either the ground or through the air.

Jayden Barefield leads the York-town offense as he has rushed for 371 yards and five touchdowns on the year.

Key defensive players are line-backers Derek Franke, Lane Strieber and Cody Lubyinesky.

The Gonzales Cannon Thursday,October 6, 2011Page C8

ROUNDUP: Bulldogs rebound big; Shiner hosts IndiansContinued from page C1

IGLEHART: Predicting the playoff possibilitiesI would be stunned if either Sacred Heart or

St. Paul are anything but undefeated in district when they meet on Oct. 29. If that’s the case, then the winner will take the Division IV District 3 crown but the loser will still represent the district in the playoffs, likely as its runner-up. Predicted final record: 9-1 overall, 4-0 in district.

LulingThe Eagles are 2-3, but I wouldn’t have held

it against them if they were winless at this point in the season. Their non-district slate was killer and they opened with losses to quality 3A schools Navarro and Gonzales, but bounced back against perennial powers 1A Woodsboro and 2A Karnes City before they were whacked at home by Canyon Lake, another state-ranked 3A school.

Billy Medford literally does it all for Luling and is one of the top scoring leaders in the region with 58 total points. But the Eagles have also started to develop other potent weapons in quar-terback Trayden Staton, running back Brendon Cubit, and wide receivers Vince Garcia and Ty

Anderson.Luling will know exactly how it measures up

when they open district Friday against league favorite Lago Vista. The question is how well can they navigate the rest of a tricky schedule that in-cludes tough games at Comfort, at Marion and against Blanco.

I think the potential is there for Luling to get a playoff spot, but the district is so tough it’s hard to say for sure. Predicted final record: 5-5 overall, 3-2 district.

ShinerThe Comanches seemed to be on the same

path that got them into the playoffs last year, when they were 1-5 heading into their district opener. There were high expectations for Shiner this season after going three rounds deep in the 2010 postseason, but despite the return of 14 starters, the preseason #10 Comanches have ex-perienced some growing pains.

Shiner’s defense has held up relatively well against some very good teams in losses to In-dustrial, Schulenburg, Weimar and Navarro. Unfortunately the offense has taken some time to come together under new quarterback Jacob

Stafford, and in spite of outstanding backs Evel Jones and Marlon Wallace, the Comanches have had problems holding on to the ball in their first five games.

The team got a huge boost last week in its 27-23 victory at Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco. They still fumbled seven times, but only lost one in rush-ing for 268 yards and three touchdowns out of that traditional Shiner veer. The defense did an outstanding job of slowing down a prolific Bad-ger team who was averaging 52 points per game, and held their all-state receiver Andres Alaniz to just three catches.

Their district opener with Ganado should be a knock-down, drag-out brawl and win or lose, it could very well become a catalyst for a reversal of fortunes much like it did last year. The home game with Flatonia could prove difficult, but the Comanches should knock off vulnerable Yorktown and scrappy Louise on the road to get back into the playoffs. Predicted final record: 5-5 overall, 3-1 in district.

Shiner St. PaulThere were a lot of questions surrounding the

defending TAPPS Division IV state champions

before this season began. How much would the departure of Jake Wa-

chsmuth affect the Cardinals? How would the team respond to new coach Paul Johnston and his radically different offensive scheme? Could they effectively fill the holes in their offensive and defensive lines after losing all-state players to graduation? Who would take over for all-state quarterback Devin Pesek?

The Cardinals have found answers to most of those questions and are in the process of finding solutions for the others. Even though there are still a few bugs to be worked out in Johnston’s spread offensive attack, St. Paul has gotten off to a 5-1 start.

After a 21-17 loss to Flatonia, the Cardinals looked like last season’s world beaters by scor-ing 70 points in back-to-back TAPPS contests. They have a stout opponent in Saturday’s district opener with Brazos Christian and then the huge game at Sacred Heart two weeks later. If they can find a way to win both, then the only question left will be how many rounds deep will the Car-dinals go in the playoffs? Predicted final record: 8-2 overall, 3-1 in district.


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Thursday, October 6, 2011

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She wasn’t part of the scheduled entertainment during Sunday’s Come and Take It Festivities, but when asked to fill in for a spell while the Shiner Hobo Band took a breather, Gonzales High student Brandi Behlen was ready to croon. The Come and Take It festival this year featured a number of acts based in this area, including the Shiner Hobo Band and Brandi, to showcase local musical talent. (Courtesy photo)

LaVernia girl to compete

Unexpected but Enjoyed


Ticket sales start on Oct. 10for Gaslight Dinner comedy

Taylor Finch

Cast preparing for Nunsense at Crystal

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Nunsense at the Gonzales Crystal Theatre offers a lot more fun than just your run of the mill nonsense. The rousing, raucous musical comedy will take stage Friday, Oct. 28 debuting a three-weekend run of performances stretching through Saturday, Nov. 12.

The show’s director Diane Malone, artistic director of the Classic The-atre of San Antonio, is enthusiastic about the fresh, dedicated and talented Gonzales area cast she has assembled for this upcoming production of Nun-sense.

The delightful cast of singing, danc-ing, wisecracking sisters of the slightly- diminished order of The Little Sisters of Hoboken will step into the spotlights for this Crystal production. This production showcases some of Gonzales’ rich vein of local talent, including the show’s musical director, Noell Ince, as she strides into the role of Sister Mary Hubert after a decade of dodging the spot light at the Crystal. Noell is joined by another local song-bird sister who has managed to avoid center stage for far too long, Sarah Liberti. Sar-ah steals scene after scene as she portrays the delightfully dippy, every-day-is-a-new-world Sister Mary Amensia.

In her long-awaited return to the Crystal stage, Delise Koone of Shiner — long-remembered and last seen as Golde in The Crystal Theatre produc-tion of Fiddler on the Roof, takes stage as the tough and tumble Sister Mary Robert Ann. Delise’s solos are show-stopping numbers, as always.

Lighting up our laughs is the unflap-pable Reverend Mother, Sister Mary

Regina, played ever so skillfully by Vickie Westergren of Yoakum. Crystal audiences will remember Vicki’s color-ful rendition of the McDonald’s lady in Talking With at the Crystal in the fall 2009 season.

Vicky has introduced another de-lightful talent from the Yoakum area under the veil of Sister Mary Leo, played by Andriana Varela. Andriana, although certainly no stranger to the stage, will make her Crystal debut as she dances her way into audiences’ hearts.

Mark your calendars for this funny, funny show. Nunsense will light up the Crystal stage with great music, wonderful voices, and tons and tons of laughter starting Friday night, Oct. 28. The production runs weekends through Nov. 12.

Tickets go on sale Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. Starting Monday, patrons will finally be able to buy tickets online at gonzalescrystaltheatre.org. Tick-ets can also be purchased Monday through Friday by contacting the Gon-zales Chamber of Commerce at 830-672-6532.

Ticket sales for the hi-larious fall production, “Whose Wives Are They Anyway?” at the Shiner Gaslight Dinner Theatre will begin on Monday, Oc-tober 10th for season tick-ets holders. Regular ticket sales will begin on Monday, October 17th. Please call 361-594-2079 between 8:30 am – 4 pm on weekdays for reservations.

The play dates are: No-vember 4, 5, 6, and 9 (Wed), 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20.

Doors open for evening performances at 6:30 pm, the meal is at 7, and the play begins at 8:00. All Sundays are matinees and doors open at 12:30 pm, the meal is at 1:00, and the play begins at 2:00.

“Whose Wives Are They Anyway?” is comical farce that involves the antics of two vice-presidents of the Ashley Maureen Cosmet-ics Company, who have planned a weekend off before their new C.E.O. arrives on Monday. With their wives safely off on a shopping spree in New York

City, they check into The Oakfield Golf and Coun-try Club intending to “golf their brains out.” They un-expectedly encounter their new boss, Ms. Hutchison, who insists on meeting the wives, commenting blithely “no one who went golfing for a weekend without his wife would ever work for me.” So ... David and John have to produce wives. In-evitably everything goes wrong and hilarious chaos ensues.

Jason Keel is the direc-tor and Patti Morales will assist.

Taylor Finch of La Ver-nia was recently selected to participate in the 2011 Miss Pre-Teen San Antonio pag-eant competition that will take place on October 16.

Taylor learned of her ac-ceptance into this year’s competition when the pag-eant announced their selec-tion on Monday afternoon. She submitted an applica-tion and took part in an interview session that was conducted by this year’s San Antonio pageant coor-dinator.

Taylor will be competing for her share of thousands

of dollars in prizes and spe-cialty gifts that will be dis-tributed to contestants. She will be participating in one of four divisions that will have young ladies between the ages of 7 and 19 com-peting in modeling rou-tines which include casual and formal wear.

Most important, Taylor will display her personal-ity and interviewing skills while interviewing with this year’s San Antonio judging panel. Personal-ity is the number one as-pect that each contestant is judged on during all phases

of competition.Taylor is sponsored by

Finch Funeral Chapels, L.L.C.


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EL CAMPO – The El Campo Prairie Days Festi-val showcased acts which had won a local contest sponsored by radio sta-tions throughout the state enabling each to perform at the state level competition of America’s largest country music talent search. Surpass-ing the competition at the 30th Annual Texaco Coun-try Showdown Central Texas State Final, Kimberly Dunn proved worthy of the state title and $1,000.

Kimberly Dunn, repre-senting radio station KORA of Bryan, began writing her stories into songs at a young age. Kimberly Dunn stated, “It’s something that comes really naturally to me. I love to write. I write what I expe-rience and what I observe. I feel like a lot of people can relate to what I write about: life and love.” Not only does she compose her own music, she also taught herself to sing and play multiple instru-ments. At the Central Texas state competition, Kimberly Dunn performed original songs, I’d Rather and Randy Rogers.

Other sponsoring radio stations were: KASE Austin,

KTTX Brenham, KORA Bryan, KULP El Campo, KCTI Gonzalez, KBUK La-Grange, KCYL/KACQ Lam-pasas, and KUSJ Temple.

On Nov. 5, Dunn will compete in the Southwest Regional Final at Shuler The-ater in Raton, NM to deter-mine if she will advance to the National Final. Regional Winners will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Nash-ville to compete for $100,000 and the coveted title, “Best New Act in Country Music.”

Annually, over 450 radio stations across the country sponsor local contests.

Winners advance to their

state events where prizes in-clude $1,000 and the oppor-tunity to compete in one of five Regional events. The five Regional Winners receive an all-expense-paid trip to the National Final in Nashville to compete for $100,000 and the coveted title, “Best New Act in Country Music.”

Each year, more than 50,000 artists compete throughout the U.S. Past Local, State, and Re-gional Winners include: Mar-tina McBride, Garth Brooks, Miranda Lambert, Neal Mc-Coy, Sara Evans, Brad Paisley and Billy Ray Cyrus. Visit www.texacocountryshowdown.com for more information.

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Gaslight Theatre awardsThe Shiner Gaslight Board of Directors is pleased to recognize the award win-ners during the 2009 and 2010 seasons at the theatre. Pictured are (l to r) Jim Winkenwerder (holding Baby Alena)--Lamplighter Backstage Award for Moon Over Buffalo; Connie Lankford-- Lamplighter Backstage Award for Leading La-dies; Millie Reagh—Sister Michelle Excellence Award for Moon Over Buffalo; Bobby Kneifel—Sister Michelle Excellence Award for Leading Ladies; Janie Cim-rhanzl—Lamplighter Out-Front Award; Cindy McIntosh—Lamplighter Out-Front Award. Other award winners not pictured are: Best Adult Debut: Tama Disharoon for Cemetery Club; Gabe Adamek for Leading Ladies; Best Youth De-but: Jack Matusek for The Wizard of Oz; Kaci Pesek for Where Were You When the Tardy Bell Rang? The Gaslight Board thanks Wendel’s Jewelry for the donating the plaques and trophies for these awards. (Courtesy photo)

Open Oct. 7 through Nov. 208 acre cornfield maze, giant hayslide and jumping pillow, hay rides, corn

cannon, mini mazes, and more!

Special events: Sat., Oct. 8, 4th Annual Tractor Show by the South Texas Wheel Spinners

and Crank Twisters; also Helicopter Rides! $30 per person, 3 people per ride, bird’s eye view of

the maze and farm.

Haunted Trail opens Oct. 14 and runs every Fri. and Sat. in Oct. after that.

For admission prices and more info, check out www.RockyCreekMaze.com

or “Like” us on Facebook.

Thursday, October 6Thursday Night Acoustic Jam, Ole Moulton

Bank, Moulton, 6:30 p.m.-midnight, call 361-596-7499 for info

Friday, October 7Curtis Grimes at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton.

Tickets $8.Best Friends, Debbie and Sallie, at Belmont

Social Club, Belmont.Kyle Wayne Kutscher Band at Guadalupe

County Fairgrounds, Seguin. Tickets $15 at the gate.

Clint Taft and the Buck Wild Band at Guadal-upe County Fairgrounds, Seguin. No cover.

Scott Taylor Band at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, 8-10 p.m.

Pat Green Band at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, 8-10 p.m.

Saturday, October 8TEXXAS at Leesville Country Fair, Methodist

Church Grounds, Leesville. Events begin at 10 a.m.John Hansen Band at Belmont Social Club,

Belmont.Mickey y Sus Carnales with Conjunte Rome

at Guadalupe County Fairgrounds, LULAC Scholar-ship dance, Seguin. Tickets $15 at the door.

Kevin Fowler Band at Guadalupe County Fair-grounds Arena, Seguin. Tickets $15 at the gate.

Dolly Shine at Riley’s Tavern, New Braunfels, doors open 8 p.m.

Doug Blank Band at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, noon-2 p.m.

The Knight Girls at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, 2-4 p.m.

Dolly Shine at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, 4-6 p.m.Midnight River Choir at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cu-

ero, 6:30-8:30 p.m.Granger Smith at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, 9-11

p.m.Cody Canada and the Departed at Cuero Tur-

keyfest, Cuero, 11 p.m.-1 a.m.

Sunday, October 9Justin Grant, Stephen Chase and Phillip Grif-

fin at Cuero Turkeyfest, Cuero, noon-4 p.m.



Friday, October 14Zack Edwards at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton.

Tickets $8.Best Friends, Debbie and Sallie, at Belmont

Social Club, Belmont.Pale Horses at the Nixon Wild Hog Cookoff,

Nixon Show Barn, 8-9:30 p.m.Clint Martin at the Nixon Wild Hog Cookoff,

Nixon Show Barn, 10 p.m.-midnight, Tickets $7 at the door.

Saturday, October15Jarrod Bingham at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoa-

kum.Deep Water feat. Wyatt Arp at Belmont Social

Club, Belmont.Jukebox Rodeo at the Nixon Wild Hog Cookoff,

Nixon Show Barn, 9 p.m.

Sunday, October 16Los Kolaches performing at 8th annual Luth-

erfest, Yoakum Community Center. Events begin 9 a.m.



Friday, October 21Best Friends, Debbie and Sallie, at Belmont

Social Club, Belmont.

Saturday, October 22Bri Bagwell at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.Kerr Creek Band at Belmont Social Club, Bel-

mont.



Friday, October 28Pale Horses at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton.

Tickets $8.

Saturday, October 29Halloween Costume Contest at Yoakum Gin &

Feed, Yoakum.

Thursday, November 3Thursday Night Acoustic Jam, Ole Moulton


Friday, Nov. 4Cody Johnson w/Trevor Cole Band at Scoot-

er’s Dancehall, Moulton. Tickets $10.

Saturday, Nov. 5Scott Taylor at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.

Saturday, Nov. 12Nightrider at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.

Saturday, Nov. 19Jake Kellen at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum.Mark McKinney at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moult-

on. Tickets $10.

Wednesday, Nov. 23Midnight River Choir at Yoakum Gin & Feed,

Yoakum.

Friday, Nov. 25Clay Wilson Band at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoa-

kum.J.D. Newbury at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton.

Tickets $10.Musicians and Venues: To add or update events,

contact us via e-mail to [email protected].

Leesville Country FairAnnual Fund Raiser for Leesville Cemetery

Provides $1,000.00 Scholarship for Local High School Student

Featuring Live Entertainment by:

TEXXAS

Saturday, October 8, 2011• 10:00 AMMethodist Church Grounds

Leesville, Texas

Come join the fun with friends and family!A day of fun, food and entertainment.

• Auction, Silent Auction and Raffle Drawing• Country Store, Flag Presentation• For the Kids - All FREE: Bouncer Moon Walk, Animal Ex-hibits, Face Painting, Craft Activity Table, Bean Bag Toss, Fish Pond, Fire Truck and Police Car

Plenty of Eats and Drinks(no alcoholic Beverages)

Rain or Shine - 2 covered Pavilions

Found: Wedding Ring left at Wal-Mart. Call (830) 445-6597 and describe.--------------------------Lost - 5 Donkeys. 1 Black, 4 white. I-10, 304, Hensling Lane area. 830-437-2952.

The Heights of Gon-zales Activity De-partment is looking for a fridge/freezer to hold supplies for event refreshments. If you would like to donate or know of one that is reason-ably priced, contact Gwen Koncaba, 830-672-4530. --------------------------Gonzales Learning Center seeking do-nations of caps and gowns. Call 830-672-8291 for infor-mation.--------------------------Job Corps is cur-rently enrolling stu-dents aged 16-24 in over 20 vocational trades at no-cost! Will help students get drivers license GED or High School diploma and col-lege training if qualified. For more info call 512-665-7327

Automotive & Die-sel Repair Business looking for Service Writer/Clerical Help M o n d a y - F r i d a y, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. Please send resume to: P.O. Box E, Gon-zales, Texas 78629.--------------------------Sleep Inn of Gon-zales, looking for a Front Desk Agent. Evening position, 3 p.m. - 11 p.m. Expe-rience preferred but not required. Must be a H.S. graduate. Apply in person at 2138 Water Street, Hwy. 183. Applica-tions available at front desk.--------------------------Immediate Open-ing. Records Clerk. Detailed Oriented & Computer Liter-ate. Bilingual Pre-ferred. Benefits include: Vacation, Sick Leave, Hosp. Ins., Dental, Vision, 401K, Retirement. Apply in person at: Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., 748 CR422, Waelder, Texas 78959 or fax or email resume with references to: Fax: (830) 540-3996; Email: [email protected] Open-ing. Food Safety Compliance. Must be computer liter-ate & have HACCP & Food Safety Knowl-edge. Bilingual Preferred. Benefits include: Vacation, Sick Leave, Hosp. Ins., Dental, Vision,

401k, Retirement. Apply in person at: Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., 748 CR422, Waelder, Texas 78959. Or fax or email resume with references to: FAX: (830) 540-3996; EMAIL, [email protected] position available for Week-end RN Supervisor. Long Term Care ex-perience required. Please apply in per-son at The Heights of Gonzales Nurs-ing and Rehabilita-tion Center, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales, TX.-------------------------- Part-time position available for MDS Coordinator. Must be Licensed Voca-tional Nurse with knowledge of MDS in Long Term Care. Please apply in per-son at The Heights of Gonzales Nurs-ing and Rehabilita-tion Center, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales. TX.--------------------------Full-time position with benefits avail-able for House-keeping/Building Supervisor. Man-agement experi-ence required. Please apply in per-son at The Heights of Gonzales Nurs-ing and Rehabilita-tion Center, 701 N. Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales, TX.--------------------------

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.

2 family garage sale, Sat., Oct. 8, 7 a.m - 12 p.m. 612 Oakland. Misc. items, girl, boy, and adult cloth-ing, baby bed mat-tress, headboards, Xmas items, picture frames, desk, rug, cookbooks.--------------------------8 family garage sale. Oct. 7-9. too much to name. 14628 East State Hwy. 97, Waelder. Coming from Gon-zales its 1/2 mile from I-10 on left.

2 TV’s - 32” - $40; 21” - $25. Both color, very good picture. Call 672-8390.--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy Winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane (detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs Good. $8,000/obo. Indi-vidual. 830-660-2813.--------------------------Power Box Asphalt Paving Machine and Roller. Good Condition. $9,900. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.--------------------------Small computer desk, wood, $40.00 obo. Large play-pen, $25.00. Both in great condition. 830-203-9159.

For Sale: pickup bed utility trailer, $125. (830) 377-8814.--------------------------Deer Hunters: For sale; feeder and feeder parts; cam-eras etc. 830-857-5720 --------------------------

ATTENTION TRUCKERS.

Cobra 25, NW Ltd, Classic CB, Igloo Ref. Cooler, Wave Box, Portable Mi-crowave. $50.00 each. 361-596-4502 or 361-401-0556.--------------------------For Sale: Used 2x4’s. Call 263-1181 for in-formation.--------------------------Radio Controlled “R/L” model air-plane kits. Kits are complete. En-gine and radio sold separate. Kits range from $5.00 to $15.00. Call for de-tails, 512-431-0823.--------------------------Like new, 26” Men’s 21 spd., $50 obo. Call Theresa at 830-203-5212.--------------------------2000 Buick Century, large capacity Es-tate Clothes Dryer, Kingsize mattress & standard box spring. 857-8090.--------------------------2 Teenagers For-mals-Party Dresses. 1 White w/spaghet-ti Strap, with rhine-stones. 1 Beige/golden color, spa-ghetti straps, gold rhinestones. Call 672-8034 or come by 1822 St. Louis.--------------------------Heavy, vinyl tarps. 15’x50’. UV proof, tuff boogers. $50 each. 830-660-2813.--------------------------6 oak restaurant booths w/copper inlaid tops. Large

round folding ta-bles w/6 armchairs. Contact Tommy, 830-351-1263.--------------------------Excellent condition. 20” push mower, weed eater, $125/both. 361-741-2604, Yoakum.--------------------------Maytag Washing Machine. $150.00. Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------FOR SALE: 35mm Minolta SLR Film Camera, 3 lenses, strobe, filters, tri-pod, case. $75.00. Call 830-822-6857.--------------------------For sale: Float tube for fishing, like new. $50 obo. Also elec-tric trolling motor-make offer. 857-5720.--------------------------Baby bed for sale. $60. Call 254-931-5712.--------------------------Electric Hospital Bed, $300. 12 func-tion exercise bi-cycle, $65. Prices Negotiable. 830-582-1120, Nixon.--------------------------Insulated 6x8 stor-age building. Like new. Used as a pro-duce cooler. $1,000. Call 512-227-6950.--------------------------Proform Treadmill. Model 380CS. Pro-grammable, in-cludes built-in fan, speaker for IPOD radio. Like new con-dition. $350/obo. Contact Liz, 830-263-2103.--------------------------Radio Control Air-plane parts/kits. If I don’t have it, I can get it. Lockhart, TX.

Call 979-393-8642.--------------------------Whirlpool Heavy Duty Gas Dryer. Good condition. $75. Can be seen at 511 Church St. 830-857-4993.--------------------------For Sale: 3 pt. Chip-p e r / S h r e d d e r , never been used, $600. Also Windmill Seeder, $250. 830-540-4971.--------------------------For Sale: Thomas Playmate with Col-or Glo Chord Organ. Good condition. All instruction books included. Call Sue,

672-2192.--------------------------Utility trailer. All wired for lights. Current tag. $575. 512-917-4078.--------------------------Hats from the mak-ers of Koozie-Nor-wood 48 @ 192.08 “plus” transporta-tion charges. 4 color heat transfer. Color of hats - Red, yellow, pink, green, bone, khaki, or-ange, black navy and royal. That’s only $4.00 a hat. DBK Advertising. 830-437-5142 or 830-857-0876.

Prayer Shawl, 38x72, handmade, $75.00. Animal or bird cage, utility wire, 14x18, $60.00. 512-917-4078.--------------------------FREE 3 haul Fiber-glass boat, 16 ft. Needs work & no leaks. Call for infor-mation. 830-540-3574.--------------------------Fullsize Mattress & Box Springs, $100. Queensize Mattress and Box Springs, $175. Both in ex-cellent condition & sanitized. 830-672-3728.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGTO DISCUSS WAELDER ISD’S

State Financial Accountability Rating (FIRST)

Waelder Independent School District will hold a public meeting at 5:45 p.m. October 17, 2011 in the High School Tech Room, 109 N. Ave. C,

Waelder,TX.

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss Waelder ISD’s rating on the state’s financial accountability

system.A Regular Meeting of the WISD Board of Trustees

will follow immediately after, with no break.

Ordinance No. 2011-27

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GONZALES, TEXAS, AMENDING SECTION 2.107 OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GONZALES, TEXASREQUIRING A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT FOR KEEPING OF LIVESTOCK WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY; ESTABLISHING SEVERABILITY; ANDESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE ORDI-NANCE.

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County Elections Administrator

Gonzales County is accepting applications for the position of Elections Administrator. Prior experi-ence or knowledge of voter registration and election function duties preferred. Applicant should have management, supervisory and budgetary experience and applicant must be detail oriented with strong computer skills and have the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Applications and a job description may be obtained from the Gonzales County Auditor’s offi ce located at 414 St. Joseph Street, Suite 203, Gonzales, Texas between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. or on the web at www.co.gonzales.tx.us. Only complete applica-tions accompanied by a resume` will be considered. Applications must be received no later than Monday, October 17, 2011.

A drug and alcohol screen test will be required. Gon-zales County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age and handicap status in employment or the provision of services.

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MISC. FOR SALE

2 young ladies black jackets size 14. One is leather. 672-8034.

Old Readers Di-gests for Sale. Call 830-672-3362.--------------------------Autograph picture of Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay (60’s), Certificate of Au-thenticity (11x16), $1,400. Yellow Lab Stud Service. (806) 577-3962.--------------------------Beautiful hand-made “orange poinsettia” pottery bowl. Large. Great gift. $35. Call (512) 917-4078.--------------------------Pecans for Sale. This year’s crop. Shelled, Halved. $10/1 lb. bag. 512-417-3032.--------------------------Culligan Water Softner and Rust Remover, old cars, elect. water heater, 2001 Fiber Truck bed w/key, Hay Bal-ers, Bar B Q pipe. 830-437-5759.--------------------------2 pipe BBQ pits for sale. Ozarka Water cooler with bottle.

Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------128 used letter-size hanging file folders, most have colored tabs, excellent con-dition. $30 cash for all or $7 per 25. 830-672-1106.--------------------------Computer, printer & desk, all $400. Stamina #4755 ex-ercise machine. Like new condition. $100/obo. 672-2267.--------------------------4 tires. LT2457QR17 in good condition. $100 obo. 830-672-2075.--------------------------Metal Bench, $150; Organ, $50; School desk & books of all kinds. Just out of Moulton on 532. Call 361-596-4403.--------------------------Tanning Bed for Sale. 1996, 24SF. $300. Children’s wardrobe, good condition. $300. 672-7127.--------------------------Beautiful Vintage water color paint-ing, landscape & water. 12x19. $375. Antique very or-nate picture frame. 16x20, $295. Call 512-917-4078.--------------------------Dalhart Winberg original oil paint-ing, landscape, $3800 (512)917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Picnic tables built with treated 2x6 lum-ber with bolts and screws. No nails. 4, 6, and 8 foot sizes available. For more

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Dozer BD2G - Mit-subishi, 40hp, good condition, sell $9,800 or trade for larger. Call after 5 p.m. 361-594-3668.--------------------------For Sale: 4 bale hay hauler. $1,000. (830) 437-2826.--------------------------For Sale: Case 970 tractor, new rear tires. $5,000. (830) 377-8814.--------------------------John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall and 1988 Wrangler, new motor. Sahara special Make offer on Jeep and Tractor. Call 857-1781.--------------------------For Sale: Cat D6C Dozer, power shift, hydraulic single blade, Hyster Winch w/cable, brush cab, extra set tracks pads. 830-437-5759.--------------------------Ford 3000 Tractor. Diesel. $4,800. Call 830-203-9385.--------------------------1977 WW 2-horse straight load bum-per pull. Good con-dition - ready to haul. Asking $2,000. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------Old western saddle,

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Solid wood double bookcase head-board, $50. 36x62 Solid Wood table, $40. 672-8390.--------------------------Bar Stools, 2-24” dark w/rattan cane, swivel seats, nice. $35.00 each. 2-24” V-finish ladder back w/woven seats. $15.00 each. 830-263-1702.--------------------------Beautiful 6 month old dark brown all leather sofa & lo-veseat, 4 recliners built in. Very com-fortable. Need to sell, too large for room. Store will not take back. They are custom made. Paid $4,000, will take $3,000 for them. Call 672-3613.--------------------------Cargo style sofa. $100.00. Call 361-772-5859.--------------------------Custom Designed Western motif 3 panel decorative screen, 54”x78 1/2’, horses, brands & leather look, $395. 512-917-4078.--------------------------For sale antique set twin beds, antique wardrobe, table with chairs, sofa and two matching chairs. 830-672-7347.--------------------------For sale 3 piece an-tique loveseat, lamp’s new and used mo-

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3/2, Singlewide Mo-bile Home. All elec-tric, excellent con-dition. Also, Zenith 25 in. console TV and 25 inch color TV. All in excellent condition. Call 830-672-6414.--------------------------For Sale: 3br/2ba Fleetwood Mobile Home. 1,728 sq. ft. New roof, lami-nated wood floors, new windows, new furnace and door. Antique bath tub. 85% completely new remodeling throughout house. Must sell fast and be moved. Reduced $18,000/obo. Call 830-445-9889.--------------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Doublewide Mo-bile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home is in need of repair. New water well. There are two septic tanks on property. Asking $56,000. Call 830-2000 .

Merrcury Grand Mar-quis LS. Loaded, 146, 284 miles. $3,000. 830-437-2961.--------------------------For Sale: Bully Brand Sidesteps. Stainless steel for a crew cab Silverado, new body style. Asking $200 OBO. 830-857-5598.--------------------------For Sale: ‘94 Cadillac DeVille. $600. Call Luis, 361-433-2356.--------------------------4 20” Series Wheels from a 2008 Toyota Tundra truck. Asking $800/obo. Call 830-857-6434.--------------------------For Sale: 1981 Chevy dually, 10’ dump bed, $1,800. 1986 Chevy dually, welding bed, $1,800. 1970 Ford gravel truck, new brakes, $1,000. 1965 Chevy 1/2 ton pick-up, flat bed, $600. Call (830) 377-8814.--------------------------Grill Guard and Run-ning Boards for 2002 Durango. Westin Brand, excellent con-dition. $300. Call 830-560-0238.--------------------------For Sale. Older Buick Regal Sport Car. En-gine is gone. Body, tires are almost new. Air condition system is new. Make me an offer. 361-594-2129. Shiner, County Rd. 299, Box 577.--------------------------1988 Wrangler, new motor. Sahara special and John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall. Make of-fer on Jeep and Trac-tor. Call 857-1781.

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3/2, like new 1,800 sq. ft in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------For Lease: House in country, 8 miles from town. 2BR/2BA, central A/C. 672-3934 or 263-0613 or 857-0139.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for

rent, w/covered patio, w/electric-ity. Lots of trees, quiet. No pets, no smoking. $650/mo + dep. 1st and last months. Appliances available. Luling area. 210-386-1399.--------------------------Home in Seguin for Rent. Two bedroom, one bath. Com-pletely updated with all new appli-ances. $750.00 per month and $750.00 deposit. Call Deb-bie at 830-445-9583 for details.--------------------------House in country for rent. 3/2, nice yard. 361-594-3233 or 830-857-4364.

Little Miss Dawn’s Cleaning ServicesResidential, RV. Janitorial Services, Carpet Cleaning, Window Cleaning, Floor Maintenance, Laundry & Iron-ing. At reasonable Rates. Licensed & Bonded.(512) 508-6221. --------------------------I want to share my gift of making a room come alive. I can see the room and vision what I can do. Clean pic-ture frames, knick-knacks, move fur-niture around. If thats what it takes to make my vision come alive. Guar-anteed you will be enchanted. Just give me a try, give Laura’s Gift a call. 830-203-5180. Free estimates on site.--------------------------You Vacation, I’ll take care of the place. Includes pets, yard, grand-ma. References. Ma-ture lady. Gonzales, 512-296-4845.--------------------------Do you need your house cleaned? No job is too small or too big. $10-$15/hr. Available M-S. Call Brittany Balderas at 445-0703. --------------------------House cleaning services available. Reasonable rates. Servicing Gonzales and surrounding areas. References available. Call Bar-bara at 979-777-8710 or email [email protected] Care Giver excellent ref-erences available for private setting in home hospital and nursing home. Day and night. 361-865-0286 or 832-655-9195.

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Dennis Fojtek (Me-chanic), Moulton, Tx. 713-408-9388. Repairs the follow-ing: tractors, lawn mowers, tillers, chain saws, trucks etc.--------------------------Private Caregiver. 20+ years experi-ence. Hospice certi-fied. Looking to do private duty, cook, clean, drive. 361-772-2011.--------------------------Ironing done, in my home can pick up & deliver. References if needed. Call Lou-ise (830) 582-1120.--------------------------Will clean your house. I’m depend-able and have refer-ences. Call Mary at 830-672-4691.--------------------------All-around handy-man available. I also build sheds, 16x8 tool shed. Call 830-857-1959.--------------------------Building Demoli-tion – House, barns, etc. 830-263-0663 or 830-203-0540.--------------------------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.

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

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A/H, 11 storage c o m p a r t m e n t s , ceiling fans. NADA.com/RV appraised RV at $15,900. Ask-ing $10,000. Great home for oilfield. Located in Rock-port, TX. 361-645-1009.--------------------------2004 Wildcat 5th Wheel RV. 28 ft., equipped to sleep 5, w/lrg. slide con-taining sofa & di-nette. Lots of stor-age. Adapted to pull as gooseneck. Excellent condition. Call 361-218-1880.--------------------------2004 Fleetwood RV Pecos pop-up. Like new, only pulled from dealer. $4,000. Both units located near Old Moulton. Call 857-0734 or 361-596-7317.--------------------------1990 25ft Dutch-man travel trailer for sale. Fifth wheel hitch, queen size bed and couch, rear bathroom with closet, gas stove and microwave, new tires. Gonzales area, $4,000. 830-857-4750.--------------------------1976 Ford Eldorado Motorhome. V-8, super clean, good motor & A/C. New refrigerator. $3,700/obo. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.--------------------------24 ft. 2006 bought in 2007. Zeppelin Travel Trailer w/slide out; Lg. corner shower, qn. bed, m/w, stove, refrig-erator, sat./cable prep, tires 2-yrs-old. $9,800; located near Gonzales. Call 936-203-4378 or 936-594-9809.--------------------------FOR SALE: 25 ft. 5th wheel travel trailer with 5th wheel hitch. Good condi-tion. Microwave, stove, refrigera-tor, sleeper couch, queen bed. Asking $4,000. Call 830-437-2359.--------------------------1996 Pace Arrow. Ready to travel. Good condition. Runs well. 830-660-3883.--------------------------2009 38’ Landmark. 3 slide-outs. Like new. King size bed. Great Buy. $39,900. 830-437-5211.

RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------Fire Fox Go Cart, 1 seater, very good condition. $375. Call after 5 p.m.

361-594-3668.--------------------------For Sale: Motor-cycle trailer, $100. (830) 377-8814.--------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.--------------------------Harley Sportster, 883 Custom, 2005 model. Hwy. guard bars, detachable windshield, saddle bags, windshield bag. Yellow custom paint, garage kept, excellent condition, never laid down. 9K miles, tires excel-lent, new battery & new rear tire. $5,200.00 FIRM. Call 830-560-0238.--------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.--------------------------Enduro 55 lb. Thrust Minn Kota used 1 hour. $150. 916 Qualls St., Gonzales.--------------------------Boat Fender and life vests. $5 to $10 each. 916 Qualls St., Gonzales.--------------------------For Sale: 2007 Hon-da Shadow, VT 750 C2, 3,902 Miles. Like New condition. $3,000.00. Call after 5:00 p.m. M-F. 830-540-3555.--------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-David-son. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, beginners or ex-perienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2-RV Parking Sites, shade trees, all hook ups. 5 miles East Gon-zales. $350/mo. Call 263-0292.--------------------------5 RV Spots for rent. $350/mo. Electric, sewer hookups, wa-ter all included in price. Off 90A and Kelly Loop. For in-formation call 830-857-3112.

2003 Dyna Super-Glide Harley 100 yr. Anniv. Gold Key ad-dition windshield, backrest, forward controls. Great con-dition. $7,500. 830-875-2278.--------------------------Having Fun with piano lessons with Shelia Wright 1622 N. College St. Youth and Adults Flexible Schedule (830) 672-2719.

Chihuahua pup-pies, 6 wks. old. 1 male, 1 female. $100. also 3 month. APR Longhair male. $125. 210-379-0771.--------------------------Adorable Longhair Chihuahua puppy, last one, is looking for a new home, male, 9 wks, pure bred, health, play-ful, raised in home with a lot of love. 1st shots, wormed. $125. 830-875-9519.--------------------------Dobermans. AKC Registered, Black/Tan, Born 7-2-11, 4 females. Warlock Breeding. Shots & Wormed, tails and dewclaws, $150. 830-857-3232.--------------------------For Sale: Dog car-rying cage. Asking $40.00. Call 361-208-3565.--------------------------AKC German Short-hair pointer pup-pies for sale. Great hunters & family companions. Male - $200; female - $250. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Pups For Sale. Great Pyrenees, (1/8 Ana-tolian). Call Sammie Gibson at (830) 203-8666.--------------------------Very cute Rat Terrier puppies. 6 wks old. $75. 830-203-0470.--------------------------Tiny Chihuahua puppies. 8 wks. Registered. S/W, ti-ger striped, Apple Head. $150-$175. 210-379-0771.--------------------------Cocker Spaniels AKC, 3 males, shots & wormed. $250.00.

830-540-4368 or 830-203-8511.--------------------------2 Great Dane pup-pies. Asking $225. 857-5147.--------------------------Rhodesian Ridge-back and lab mix puppies. With ridges $50. They are blond, brown and tan. Without ridges, $25. Will be big dogs around 75-100 lbs. Call Leia Dalton at 830-263-2570.--------------------------AKC Bichon Pup-py’s. Shots and wormed. Females, $500; Males, $450. 830-540-4368. 830-203-8511, cell.--------------------------Turn your favorite pet photo into a work of art! Artist Brenda Shannon, Pastel or Acrylic. Great gift idea. (512) 917-4078.--------------------------5 Cockatiels. 2 years old. Yellow and gray. $50 each. Call 830-534-5930.

Polish crested Blue Legged Bantam Chickens. 512-272-5147.--------------------------HACCP Trained per-son need to help write HACCP plan for poultry. 830-339-0419.--------------------------Boer Goats for Sale: 1 Billy, 6 mths. 1 Nannie, 6 mth & 5 Adult Nannies. Sell as package deal or individual. 830-560-0238.--------------------------Baby Guineas. $2.00 each, your choice. Multiple colors. 8 3 0 - 5 4 0 - 4 0 6 3 . Leave number, will return call.--------------------------For Sale: Guinea eggs for setting. Call 830-672-7384.--------------------------For Sale: Sorrel Gelding, 10 yrs. old. Big, strong, sound ranch horse. Very good looking. Needs a strong rid-er. Gentle, calm dis-position. $850/firm. Call 361-596-4954.--------------------------

Black Limousin & Black Angus Bulls. Also Heifers. Gentle. Increase your wean-ing waits. Delivery available. 979-263-5829.--------------------------Reg. Polled Her-eford Bulls. One year to 3 1/2 years, $1,100-$1,500. Also Reg. Heifers, 1 yr. olds. $650-$850. Call 830-540-4430.--------------------------For Sale. 3 black Brangus Bulls, 1 red Brangus Bull. 2 yrs. old. No papers. $1,200/each. 830-437-5772.--------------------------For Sale. Female mare, 6 yrs. old. $500. Please call if interested. 713-203-2814.--------------------------Riding lessons in Gonzales. My horses or yours. For more information please call, 830-203-0470. --------------------------APHA flashy mare for sale. Broke to ride. FMI please call 830-203-0470. $1750.00. Used in Playdays/trailride.--------------------------Pretty Reg. A.Q.H.A. Cremello Colt, 6 months old. Great c o n f o r m a t i o n . Good bloodline - Hollywood Gold & King. $500.00. 830-437-5671 or 830-857-4591.--------------------------Longhorn young bulls and heifers for sale. Foundation genetics. Yard art or breeders. Gold Star Longhorns, Bob Tinstman, 830-540-4591.--------------------------For Sale: Black An-gus Bulls. 1 1/2 yrs. old. $1200-$1500. 830-437-5772.--------------------------Yearling smoky grulla dun filly (solid). Has halter on and has been trailered. Asking $600 OBO. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------17 year sorrel paint with blue eye. Originally trained

in western pleasure - used for trail rides. Asking $1,200. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------7 year dun paint. Well trained, ready to finish your way. Asking $2,000. (830) 857-5695.--------------------------White Leghorn chickens, $7.00 each. 830-857-4580.--------------------------M I N I - D O N K E Y S . Great pets, loves people. All ages and colors, some “cross” designs, 36” tall. 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.--------------------------M I N I - G O A T S . (Dwarf Nigerians) 18” to 24” tall. Good weed eaters. Fun to have around. Beautiful silver and white herd sire. (7 left) 830-672-6265, 830-857-4251, 830-672-5152.

511 Williams, Up-dated, 2BR/1BA, central A/C & Heat. Insulated. Wood floors throughout, kitchen & shower hard tile. Nancy, Stobaugh, Realtor, 512-297-8500, Sale or Lease.--------------------------Brick Home for Sale. 4BR/3BA, 1513 St. Michael Street on about 1 acre. Lots of trees. 830-857-5231 or 830-857-5236.--------------------------House for Sale/To Be Moved: 3BR/1Ba frame house, pier & beam foundation, central A/H. Buyer responsible for moving house from property, $6,000. 830-857-4172.--------------------------Two story, eleven room home which includes three bed-room, two baths. Apprx. 2,500 sq. ft. on about an half acre. Corner lot, zoned for residen-t ia l /commercia l . Luling. $150,000. 830-875-6975.53.35 Improved Pasture with 3/2

older home, CA/H, on FM 1116. 5 miles from downtown Gonzales. Live Oaks, lots of new fence. After 5 p.m. call 830-437-2955 or 830-857-4242.--------------------------Home For Sale; New Construction; 2 bed/1 bath; 1504 Weimar Street; $74,900; 100% fi-nancing for quali-fied buyers; 830-203-5065.--------------------------House for Sale. 3BR/1 bath or 2 BR and dining room, carport & storage building in back. Phone, 830-203-5181, good bargain.--------------------------3BR/2BA at 1609 Gardien St. 1,400 sq. ft, 2 living areas, lg. fenced yard. $94K. 830-203-1874.--------------------------4BR/1BA, privacy fenced-in yard. 1000 Cuero St., Gonzales. Open lot in front of house, carport. Good con-dition. About 20 yrs. old. $75,000. Call 830-203-0389 for information.

5 Acres or more to least. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile from City limits off 183 South. Call 830-263-4888 for infor-mation.--------------------------For Sale: 37 acres land. North of Waelder, TX. FMR 1296. Contact Info. 830-237-9227.--------------------------6+ acres at end of Oil Patch Lane. Zoned Commercial for $180,000. Can divide into smaller tracts. Call 210-241-8061.--------------------------Small acreage for sale or lease on US 183 just North of US 90A in Gonzales. Great for oilfield, etc. 830-203-0470.

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FARM & RANCHvWAELDER 97.44 acres, 4BR ranch house, great house, oil/gas income, Ranching/Investment............................................$750,000vGONZALES 28 acres, 2 story, 3BR, 2 Bath custom built home..............................................................................................$375,000

ACREAGEvTHOMPSONVILLE 10 ac. fronting CR 240........ $4,900.00/ac.vRED ROCK 181 acres......................................................$895,000

COMMERCIALvGONZALES 2.25 acres fronting Oil Patch Lane. Raw land includes metal shed and fencing............................................................ $50,000vGONZALES One acre fronting Oil Patch Lane withwater, phone and elec. ready for hook-up....................................................$50,000vGONZALES 7.62 acres w/access to Sarah DeWitt. Bank Foreclosure, great investment.....................................$42,000vWAELDER Poultry Farm. 4 breeder hen houses, 50 acres, mo-bile home.........................................................................$1,250,000

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Approximately 10 acres for lease in Gonzales. Great for commercial busi-ness. For more info please call 830-203-0470.--------------------------For Sale: 7.3070 Acres w/1973 Doublewide Mo-bile Home. 14 mi. South, FM 1117 in Seguin, TX. Mobile home is in need of repair. New water well. There are two septic tanks on property. Asking $56,000. Call 830-401-0147.--------------------------Lot for Rent. $100/month. 70’x130’ on Church St. Call 830-423-2103.--------------------------25 acres for sale. I-10 & 304 area. Abundant wild-life, great hunting, pond, nice home-site. $4,500/acre. Call 713-203-2814 for information.

Looking for a good, used 3 wheel bike for adult. Call Paula

at 672-3747.--------------------------The Heights of Gon-zales Activity De-partment is looking for a fridge/freezer to hold supplies for event refreshments. If you would like to donate or know of one that is reason-ably priced, contact Gwen Koncaba, 830-672-4530.--------------------------Professional Art-ist needs coastal round bales of hay. Will barter for art-work. Brenda Shan-non, 512-917-4078.--------------------------Wanted: Any make rifle, caliber 22-250. Call 830-857-1781.--------------------------I want to buy a used shower stall & kitchen cabinets. 830-437-5659--------------------------WANTED: Old, bro-ken and unwanted costume and vin-tage jewelry, chain necklaces/belts and loose beads. I am a crafter who loves beading and mak-ing jewelry, and

can’t afford new, full price beads. I will make an offer. I am in Gonzales. Please help me with my hobby. YOUR TRASH IS MY TREA-SURE! Call (512) 227-4040 today.--------------------------Wanted: Heavy duty metal shelv-ing, 6-7 ft. tall, 3-5 ft. long, 12-24 inch-es deep. 832-419-5275.--------------------------Looking for a nice house in or near Gonzales. 940-284-4255.--------------------------Small family owned trucking company looking to lease or purchase 5-15 acres in Gonzales or surrounding area. Prefer w/shop or building. Call 501-589-5097.--------------------------Wanted: Looking for Deer Lease to pay by the day. 361-596-7792.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.

K&S Storage Units922 St. Peter, Gon-zales, Texas. Units are available for rent with specials. First Month $10.00 - Move in special for month of August and September!!! Call 830-445-9583 or 830-857-3505 for details.--------------------------APACHE STORAGE - The Store All Place is located at 2502 Harwood Rd. Gon-zales, TX. 830-203-5115.

Buy loose gem-stones and allow us to custom design your upcoming gift. Over 1,000 cts. to choose from. Call 979-743-5840.--------------------------Hello. Need some-one to fill in for an absent employee for a day or two. Maybe I can help. I’m 54, female, co-owner auto shop, 16 yrs, Dental Asst. 3 yrs, Photogra-pher, newspaper & aerial, weddings,

etc, great with the public & full of com-mon sense. 24 hr. prior notice. Will be glad to drop by be-fore hire. Laura Gift, 830-203-5180.--------------------------JCK Services. Tree shearing, brush stacking, stump treatment, small brush grubbing. Call Jeff (830) 263-1016 or Wayne, (830) 857-3611.--------------------------A/C & Electrical side jobs: New installs, A/C maintenance, Condenser change-outs, Residential & Commercial at affordable prices. Please call David anytime at 830-263-1747.--------------------------Ranch Hand Work. Rounding up cattle, fence work. Willing to learn. Call Steven & Gerald, 512-538-8950.--------------------------Need help with lawn or pool? Please call Gene Kridler at 830-857-1576.--------------------------Mobile Massage is now serving Gonzales & Luling. Specializing in Therapeutic Mas-sage for pain in lower back, neck, knees etc. Also corporate chair massage. 13 years experience. LMT Steve Turner, Lic. # MT021213. Call 8 3 0 - 8 5 7 - 0 2 7 0 . “Let me help get-ting you mobile.”--------------------------

Brush Busters.Bobcat, w/tree cut-ter attachment, land clearing, mesquite spray-ing, fence building, misc. odd end jobs. Reasonable Rates. Call James at 512-738-0848.--------------------------Electrical wiring, t r o u b l e s h o o t -ing & Repairs, new construction, a d d i t i o n s , m e t e r loops, ceiling fans, metal buildings, panel upgrades, etc. 830-437-5747.--------------------------Photographer - Pro-fessional, Afford-able, and Conve-nient. Specializing in families, children and maternity pho-tography sessions.

Or relax and enjoy your special day by hiring “Memo-ries by Maxwell” to shoot your birth-d ay / a n n i ve r s a r y party, retirement ceremony, wed-ding, baptism, or other memorable event. Call Nikki

today to schedule your event or ses-sion. (512) 227-4040. Located in Gonzales. Will travel to events within surrounding area.--------------------------

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AUCTIONS AUCTION 6.6+ ACRES commercial tract Tuesday, Oct. 18th, Jolly, Texas. Excep-tional interstate and highway location. Eddie Haynes; Broker Craig Buford. 1-405-833-9499, TX#13500. www.eddiehaynesinc.com

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESTHINK CHRISTMAS -START now! Own a Red Hot, Dollar, Dollar Plus, Mailbox or Dis-count Party Store from $51,900 worldwide. 100% turnkey; 1-800-518-3064; www.DRSS24.com

DRIVERS$5,000 SIGN-ON Bonus! Great pay, tons of South Texas work. Frac Sand hauling; Must have tractor, pneumatic trailer and blower. 1-888-880-5918

CDL DRIVERS wanted to deliver Semi’s from either Garland or Laredo. Flexible schedule; daily settlements; 17 reload locations. www.qualitydriveaway.com or 1-866-764-1601

COMPANY DRIVERS enjoy consistent miles, great equipment, paid vacation. Offering new pay package, excellent bonuses. Now hiring for OTR positions, teams and PT positions. Call today! 1-888-730-9312

DRIVER-$2000 Sign-on bonus! Start a new career. 100% paid CDL training! No experi-ence required. CRST Expedited. 1-800-326-2778, www.joinCRST.com

DRIVER-DAILY PAY! Hometime choices: Express lanes 7/ON-7/OFF, 14/ON-7/OFF, weekly. Flexible schedules. New trucks, CDL-A, 3 months recent experience required. 1-800-414-9569. www.driveknight.com

DRIVERS-SW REGIONAL and TX/LA (57’) lanes with great hometime, steady miles and competitive pay. Required CDL-A with 1 year recent experience. 1-800-483-5182. www.LKAM.com

DRIVERS-NEW PAY increase for tank drivers. Lots of freight, great miles, 3 weeks paid vacation, incentives, insurance and 401(K). Food grade prod-ucts. CDL-A and 1 year OTR experience required. Call 1-877-882-6537. www.OakleyTransport.com

DRIVERS-OWNER OPERATORS and Fleet drivers Texas and Oklahoma with CDL-A. $3,000 Sign-on bonus! $1.28 per mile. Return to Texas every 6-8 days. Call 1-800-765-3952

EXPERIENCE FLATBED DRIVERS: Regional opportunities now open with plenty of freight and great pay. 1-800-277-0212 or www.primeinc.com

PAID CDL TRAINING! No experience needed. Stevens Transport will sponsor the cost of your CDL training. Earn up to $40K first year and $70K third year. Excellent benefits! EOE, 1-800-333-8595, www.becomeadriver.com

TOP PAY on excellent runs! Regional runs, steady miles, frequent hometime, new equipment. Automatic detention pay. CDL-A, 6 months expe-rience required. EEOE/AAP; 1-866-322-4039 www.Drive4Marten.com

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FINANCIAL$500 LOAN SERVICE; No credit refused, fast and secure. Easy on the budget. Payments spread out over three months. Toll free: 1-855-626-4373. LoanHere.com

$$$ I’M A CPA and don’t do taxes. No market risk, retire rich, monthly income. 6% tax free return. 9% yield @ 30% tax bracket, liquid. Tazeen Khan, CPA 1-877-535-4866 Web# 25065375; www.afterretire.com

HELP WANTEDWANTED: LIFE AGENTS Earn up to $500 a day. Great agent benefits, commissions paid daily, liberal underwriting. Leads, leads, leads. Life insurance, license required. Call 1-888-713-6020.

LEGALDID YOU USE the osteoporosis drug Fosamax (Alendronate)? If you experienced a femur fracture (upper leg),you may be entitled to com-pensation. Contact Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727

DIVORCE with or without children $99.95. Includes name change and property settlement agreement. Free information, save hundreds. Fast and easy! Call 1-888-789-0198; 24/7

JOB TRAININGAIRLINES ARE HIRING Train for high paying aviation career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified, job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance, 1-877-523-4531

REAL ESTATEABSOLUTELY THE BEST VIEW Lake Medina/Bandera 1/4 acre tract, central W/S/E, RV/motor home/house, OK only $830 down $235 month (12.91%/10yr), Guaranteed financ-ing, more information call 1-830-460-8354

AFFORDABLE RESORT LIVING on Lake Fork. RV and manufactured housing OK! Guar-anteed financing with 10% down. Lots starting as low as $6900, Call Josh, 1-903-878-7265

676 ACRES Reeves County, 15 Miles North Pecos, river frontage. Call Jack 214-755-6224.

$ 1 0 6 M O N T H BU Y S l a n d fo r RV, MH or cabin. Gated entry, $690 down, ($6900/10.91%/7yr) 90 days same as cash, Guaranteed financing, 1-936-377-3235

10.1 ACRES, SOUTH Texas brush county, north of San Diego. Deer, hogs, and quail. Private roads, locked gate; $29,500 long term owner financing. Several to choose from. 1-866-286-0199. www.westerntexasland.com

NEW MEXICO- New offer lender short sale, Sacrifice 140 acres just $59,900. Spellbinding ranch at 6000 ft. elevation. Mature tree cover, beautiful physical characteristics on year-round road with electric. Special financing offered by lender as low as 2.75% fixed. Call NMRS, 1-866-414-0535.

WEST TEXAS Deer, dove, and quail. Panther Canyon Ranch #11, 186+ acres, $265/acre. Meyers Canyon Ranch #53, 178+ acres, $295/acre. Owner financed or TxVet. 1-210-734-4009; www.westerntexasland.com

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CANNON KID’S CORNER

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, reflect on happy times and then try to recreate that feeling when you are expe-riencing moments of stress this week. This might offer some welcome relief.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, a conflict of interest leads you on a wild goose chase to find something that everyone will agree upon. Opinions are strong so don’t expect this to be easy.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, success takes lots of hard work and you need to recognize you can’t please everyone. But it is a good goal to work toward for the next few days.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Rethink your plan of attack, Cancer. While the idea has merit, there are some big gaps between ideas that can lead to too much confu-sion. Go back to the drawing board.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, step back from a dif-ficult situation and you will get a better idea of the big-ger picture. Things are not as important as you once be-lieved. Time for fun arrives on Thursday.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, shopping strictly for the best bargain might not be the best approach. The deal actually could be too good to be true. Factor in all the information.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Sometimes you don’t think

before you speak, Libra. Avoid blurting out the first thing that comes to mind. Friends and family may forgive you, but coworkers might not.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Big plans are in the works that will require your su-preme organizational skills, Scorpio. Others actually look to you to plan all of their events because of your talents.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, baiting someone into an argument seems to be your modus operandi this week. This is certainly no way to win favors with anyone. Think this tactic

through.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, save some time for romance and relaxation. A special someone could be feeling neglected lately and will need some quiet time with you.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Accept help graciously, Aquarius. Such help is not always easily offered. There will be a few hectic moments this week, but otherwise the next few days will be calm.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, a remarkable insight comes to you and you can-not contain your elation over it. Spread the word ... fast!

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

OCTOBER 9Bryan Routh, Actor (32)

OCTOBER 10Brett Favre, Athlete (42)

OCTOBER 11Emily Deschanel, Actress (35)

OCTOBER 12Hugh Jackman, Actor (43)

OCTOBER 13Jerry Rice, Athlete (49)

OCTOBER 14Usher, Singer (32)

OCTOBER 15Emeril Lagasse, Chef (52)

Puzzle Answers

It was American artist and illustrator Florence Scovel Shinn who made the following observation: “The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”

In 1811 and again in 1812, earthquakes caused the Mississippi River to temporarily reverse course.

You might be surprised to learn that about a million Americans say they drink Coca-Cola for breakfast.

Dominique Bouhours, a Frenchman who lived in the 17th century, was a priest, an essayist and a grammarian. The love of language may have been closest to his heart, though; it’s been reported that the final words he uttered on his deathbed were, “I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.”

The beaver is a rodent.

If you’re like the average adult, when you’re sitting in a relaxed position, you inhale about one pint of air with every breath.

The United States isn’t the only country that has an accolade to recognize excellence in the film industry. Here the awards are known as the Oscars, but other nations have their own names for the awards: In Canada they’re known as Genies, in France they’re Cesars, in Russia they’re called Nikas, in Mexico they’re Golden Ariels, in Spain they’re known as Goyas, and in the United Kingdom they’re called Orange British Academy Film Awards.

Those who study such

things say that millions of trees are planted accidentally when absent-minded squirrels forget where they buried their nuts.

In ancient Rome, if you had a hooked nose you were considered to be a born leader.

***Thought for the Day:

“Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.” -- Calvin Coolidge

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