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The accused killer of a lo-cal man has been released on bond.

Tyrone Milton Mitchell, 36 of Gonzales, who was charged with murder in the Monday shooting death of Dyron James Green, was arraigned on $50,000 bond set by precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Deidra Voigt and released after posting that bond Tuesday.

The Gonzales County Sheriff ’s Office respond-ed to a call advising of a shooting at approximately 9:06 a.m. Monday morn-ing. When they arrived on the scene at 1243 FM 1116, they found Green with an

apparent gunshot wound to the chest.

Green, 34, was immedi-ately trans-ported to G o n z a l e s M e m o r i a l H o s p i t a l , where he was pro-nounced as d e c e a s e d . G o n z a l e s County Sheriff Glen Sa-chtleben said Mitchell was identified as the shooter and taken into custody without incident in less than 30 minutes after the crime occurred.

“There were witnesses to the shooting and Mr. Mitch-ell is an employee at the site

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Accused killerout on bond

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GVTC CEO Ritchie Sorrells speaks to a delegation of city and news media officials from Gonzales during Monday’s a n n o u n c e m e n t the company will expand its high-tech fiber-optics telephone, inter-net and cable TV services to the city starting next sum-mer. (Photo courtesy GVTC)

‘On the cusp of tremendous growth’GVTC announces plans to bring fiber optics to city

SHOOTING, Page A3

Christmas Lighting Contest tonightJudging in the Spade and Trowel Garden Club’s annual Christmas Lighting Con-test, which is co-sponsored by the City of Gonzales is set from 6-10 p.m. Thurs-day by out-of-town judges. Pictured (from left) are club president Suzanne Vrana, Patty McCullough, Carol Hardcastle and Barbara Thigpen. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

SMITHSON VALLEY — GVTC announced plans Monday to invest $7 million to expand its fiber optics network into the city of Gonzales by mid-2012 — making Gonzales part of the five percent of commu-nities its size around the country with fiber optics.

Construction is underway and the company expects to begin con-

necting customers by July 2012.GVTC CEO Ritchie Sorrells pro-

vided details of the plan to a del-egation from Gonzales that visited the company’s Smithson Valley corporate headquarters on Mon-day.

The delegation included City Manager Allen Barnes, Council Members Bobby Logan and Gary Schroeder, who also is employed by GVTC. Other delegation mem-bers were Barbara Hand, Gonzales

Chamber of Commerce executive director, Egon Barthels, KCTI-AM program director, Brenda Adams, publisher, The Gonzales Inquirer and Dave Mundy, general man-ager/editor, The Gonzales Cannon.

GVTC will offer its complete suite of services to Gonzales resi-dents and businesses, including high-definition cable television, broadband with up to 80/20 Mbps Internet connection speeds, phone and security monitoring. Custom-

ers will also have the option to bundle up to four of GVTC’s prod-ucts for greater convenience and better pricing.

“This project is outside our nor-mal footprint,” Sorrells said. “When Gary Schroeder made a passionate statement about filling a void in Gonzales, that was the intangible endorsement we were looking for.”

Sorrells said the cooperative sees Gonzales as a community about to

Gonzales Police on Monday released an art-ist’s sketch of a man being sought in connection with the armed robbery of Guer-ra’s Grill Tuesday evening and sounded a call for pos-sible additional witnesses to step forward with informa-tion.

Chief Tim Crow sent an alert out to citizens via GPD’s Facebook page that Guerra’s was robbed at gun-point at about 5:47 p.m. Tuesday while the restau-rant’s management was at the Gonzales City Council meeting.

Witnesses told police the gunman pointed a revolver at the counter person and demanded money.

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ROBBERY, Page A3

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Board wants to keep oil, water from mixingOil and water don’t mix —and the

Gonzales County Underground Wa-ter Conservation District is hoping to keep it that way.

The GCUWCD board of direc-tors on Tuesday gave authorization to general manager Greg Sengelmann to file objections on its behalf to propos-als from two oil and gas producers to inject residue from the hydraulic fracking process into a brackish aqui-fer located just below the primary

aquifer used for supplying the City of Gonzales with water, and moved ahead with plans which would enable the district to at least monitor most of the water wells being used in the fracking process.

Sengelmann told the board that the two salt-water disposal wells have also drawn opposition from the City of Gonzales, and that the concern for the district and the city is that inject-ing the fraccing residue into forma-tions underneath the Carrizo aquifer could force brackish water upward into the potable supply.

“There is a risk to the underly-ing freshwater formations,” county resident Barry Miller told the board during the public-comment portion of the meeting. “These wells in the Wilcox (aquifer) need to be halted immediately.”

The district has no authority to stop the wells on its own, board president Emmett Baker noted, but can file its protest with the Texas Railroad Com-mission.

The district is hoping to accomplish its goal of protecting the water supply without sending the wrong message

to oil and gas producers, who are us-ing generally brackish water in the hydraulic fracking process which is creating an economic boom in Gon-zales County via the Eagle Ford Shale formation.

“I just hope you can be easy on the oil companies,” former Smiley mayor Donnie Janicek advised during pub-lic comment. “We don’t want to run them off.”

The primary purpose of the reg-istering and monitoring of the wells used for fracking is to enable the

By DAVE MUNDY

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Gonzales Co. Sheriff’s Office Report

Thought for the Day

“‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the pro-ductive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

Robert A. Heinlein

December 15, 1855On this day in 1855, troopers of the Second United States

Cavalry Regiment entered Texas for the first time. The Sec-ond, one of four new regiments approved by Congress in the spring of 1855, was organized specifically for service on the Texas frontier. The regiment’s officers were hand-picked by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis; thus the elite regiment was known as “Jeff Davis’s Own.” The Second Cavalry re-mained in Texas until the Civil War. The regiment was known for the outstanding quality of the sixteen general officers it produced in the 6½ years of its existence. The Second sup-plied one-half of the full generals of the Confederate Army: Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Edmund Kirby Smith, and John Bell Hood. The Second Cavalry was Lee’s last com-mand in the United States Army.

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Gonzales County Sheriff’s Of-fice Sheriff’s Report for 12/04/11 – 12/10/11

12/08/11Aguilar, Jessy Albert, 07/1990,

Bridgeport. Local Warrant – Theft of Property >$500 <$1,500. Re-leased on $2,500 Bond.

Rogers, Jacob Ryan, 11/1994, Gonzales. Burglary of a Habita-tion. Requires $7,500 Bond. Lo-cal Warrant – Theft of Firearm. Requires $3,500 Bond. Remains

in Custody.Larkin, Tray Dejuan, 01/1994,

Gonzales. Burglary of a Habita-tion. Released on $7,500 Bond. Local Warrant – Theft of Firearm. Released on $3,500 Bond.

12/09/11Tello, Jesse, Jr. 05/1969, Gon-

zales. Fayette County Warrant – Manufacturing Delivering Con-trolled Substance PG 1 >1G <4G. Transferred to Fayette County.

Total Arrest, Court Commit-

ments, other agency arrest and processing’s:

GCSO 04DPS 01GPD 06WPD 02NPD 02Constable 00DWCSO 00DEA 00TPW 00GCAI 00Total 15

Gonzales County Court Notice for the date of Dec. 8, 2011:

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 ad-dress must be given to the court.

Defendants listed below have recently missed their scheduled court date and their failure to re-spond 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 addi-tion, 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.

Leslie Michelle Robinson - Theft of PropertyClifton Edward Grantham - Possession of Mari-

juana The next County Court date is January 12, 2012.

If these people come on this date a warrant will NOT be issued. For further information, you may contact the County Attorney’s office at 830-672-6527.

Yoakum Police Department Weekly Incident Report for Dec. 5-11:

12/05/11Case #11-466, Runaway (C.I.N.S.),

Juvenile Male, 14, Yoakum, 505 W. Hugh; Offense, Runaway (C.I.N.S.); Disposition, Rel/Guardian.

12/06/11Case #11-467, Runaway (C.I.N.S.),

Juvenile Male, 12, Yoakum, 204 E. Schleicher; Offense, Runaway (C.I.N.S.); Disposition, Rel/Guardian.

Case #11-468, Deadly Conduct, 406 W. Grand; Investigation.

Case #11-469, Burglary-Vehicle, 318 Mathew; Disposition, Investiga-tion.

Case #11-470, U.U.M.V., 601 W. Hickey; Disposition, Investigation.

Case #11-471, Burglary-Building, 401 Irvine; Disposition, Investigation.

12/09/11Case #11-472, Shorts, Charles,

28, Yoakum, 500 Blk. Coke; Offense, Evading Arrest Detention; Disposi-tion, Trans/DCSO.

Case #11-473, Hunter, Anthony, 27, Yoakum, 500 Blk. Coke; Offense, Hinder Apprehension/Prosecution; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

Case #171078, Warrant Arrest, Jones, Cashet, 18, 520 Boyle; Offense, CPF#11-301-Failure to Attend; Dispo-sition, Fine/$589/YPD Custody.

12/10/11Case #170925, YPD Detention,

Jones, Cashet, 18, Yoakum, 900 Irvine; Offense, Failure To Attend; Disposi-tion, Fine/$564/YPD Custody.

12/11/11Case #11-474, Jacob, Larry, 50,

Yoakum, 506 Burt; Offense, Public

Intoxication; Disposition, Fine/$364/Rel.

Case #11-475, Casillas, Eric, 25, 105 Ellen May; Offense, Resist Arrest/Search; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

Case #11-475, Traffic Arrest (3), Casillas, Eric, 25, 600 Blk. W. Gonzales; Offenses, (1st) No Driver’s License, (2nd) No Valid Inspection Sticker, (3rd) No Insurance; Disposition, (All 3), Bond/$500/Rel.

Case #11-476, Rosales, Scott, 24 Yoakum, 112 Houston; Offense, Public Intoxication; Disposition, Fine/$364/Rel.

Case# 11-477, Maciel, Matthew, 26 Yoakum, 900 Blk. Dunn; Offense, Unlawful Poss F/A Felon; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.

Case #11-478, Burglary-Building, 709 Nelson; Disposition, Investiga-tion.

Lavaca County Sheriff ’s Of-fice Calls for Service from Dec. 5-11

December 5Deputy Jimmie Heiman

spoke to a subject on CR 122 in reference to an animal com-plaint.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman was dispatched to a location on CR 132 in reference to a suspicious vehicle.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman spoke to a complainant in Moulton in reference to inci-dents of credit card abuse and theft.

December 6Deputy Jimmie Heiman

spoke to a complainant on FM 1295 in reference to credit card abuse. The incident is being in-vestigated.

December 7Deputy Mike Gibson was

dispatched to a location on CR 132 in reference to a suspicious person.

Deputy Allen Rutledge was dispatched to a location on CR 302 in reference to a complaint of loud music.

Chief Deputy JR Peters spoke to a complainant on CR 132 in reference to suspicious activity.

Deputy Chris Rosales was dispatched to a location on CR 372 in reference to an alarm

sounding. The residence was searched and found to be se-cure.

December 8Deputy Allen Rutledge spoke

to a complainant on CR 139 in reference to an assault.

Deputy Allen Rutledge was dispatched to a location on CR 132 in reference to a theft.

December 9Deputy Jimmie Heiman was

dispatched to Hwy. 77 North in reference to a reckless driver.

December 10Deputy Noe Miranda was

dispatched to a location on FM 530 in reference to suspicious activity.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman spoke to a patient at Yoakum Community Hospital in refer-ence to a dog bite.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman spoke to a subject on CR 15A in reference to a dog bite victim.

December 11Deputy Jimmie Heiman was

dispatched to a location on CR 132 in reference to a suspicious vehicle. The vehicle had been stolen out of Houston and was left abandoned.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman was dispatched to a location on FM 318 in reference to an injured deer.

Deputy Jimmie Heiman was dispatched to a location on Hwy. 90A West in reference to a suspicious person.

Deputy Noe Miranda was dispatched to a location on CR 1G in reference to a disturbance.

Deputy Noe Miranda was dispatched to a location on CR 180A in reference to a disturbance.

Norma’s Open HouseThe Gonzales Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture held a ribbon-cutting cer-emony for the Gonzales Regional Children’s Advocacy Center, commonly known as Norma’s House, on Tuesday, Dec. 6. The ceremony was part of the center’s Open House event, which featured guided tours of the facility and a Meet & Greet with their Board of Directors. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

SAWS supports Blue SantaSan Antonio Water Systems recently donated $250 to the Waelder Police Department’s Blue Santa pro-gram. Pictured are Ken Holt, SAWS Regional Out-reach coordinator and WPD secretary Annie Jack-son. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

Supervisor recognizedFayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reports that Lieutenant David Beyer received the annual “Super-visor of the Year” award which was presented at a quarterly deputies meeting on Wednesday, Decem-ber 07, 2011. “ Lt. Beyer has been an asset to our of-fice as well as the citizens of Fayette County ” accord-ing to Sheriff Korenek. Lt. Beyer has been with the Sheriff’s Office since January 2005 and is responsible for the Narcotics Unit, Investigations, and Patrol Di-vision. Prior to coming to work for Sheriff Korenek, Lt. Beyer worked for the Lavaca County Sheriff’s Of-fice for 13 years. Lt. Beyer has also been in charge of the Deputy Santa program in Fayette County for the past 7 years, and before leaving Lavaca County he also ran the Deputy Santa program for 10 years, which means he has spent the past 17 years giving to needy children. Lieutenant Beyer and wife, Sheri, have three children, Nathan, Kylee, and Seth. Also winning an award was Reserve Investigator Ted-dy Thomas. Deputy Thomas won the “Reserve Inves-tigator of the Year” award for 2011. Deputy Thomas retired from the Houston Police Department after spending twenty six years in the Homicide division prior to him and his wife relocation to Fayette Coun-ty. Although a reserve(non-paid) deputy, Thomas comes to work everyday assisting with calls and on-going investigations. (Courtesy Photo)

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek reports a routine traf-fic stop on Friday resulted in high speed chase and later in the recovery of a stolen vehicle.

Sheriff Korenek reports that Deputy David Smith was on Interstate 10 near Flatonia working traffic and attempted to detain a westbound vehicle for a traffic violation. The grey Dodge pickup failed to yield and a pursuit began ending as the vehicle ran off the roadway and crashed into a wooded area nearby. The Hispanic male driver exited the vehicle and appeared unharmed as he fled into the woods.

The 2002 Dodge pickup was displaying a cancelled plate and had damage to the door lock and ignition. Deputy Smith followed up on his sus-picions and when a check was ran on the vehicle identifica-tion number, it was confirmed as stolen on 11/18/2011 from Houston.

experience major growth.“We think that with all the oil and every-

thing, the area is on the cusp of tremen-dous growth,” he said. “This will be a major impact to businesses in the city.”

Though it hasn’t yet offered service inside the Gonzales city limits, most residents are familiar with the company. GVTC has operated around Gonzales since it was formed as a telephone cooperative in the early 1950’s. GVTC has maintained an of-fice in Cost, about eight miles southeast of Gonzales, for more than 30 years. GVTC and The GVTC Foundation are also long-time supporters of the Gonzales Junior Livestock program and various other non-profit organizations in the city.

“We’ve been part of the Gonzales com-munity for a long time and expanding into the city is a natural progression for GVTC as we move to the next level,” Sorrells said. “Gonzales residents want another option for their communications needs and we’re confident our world class fiber network, along with our commitment to superior customer service, will earn us many new customers.”

GVTC’s expansion also means a boost to the Gonzales economy. The company will open a spacious, new customer store at prominent location in downtown Gonza-les. GVTC will hire a staff of five customer service representatives for the Gonzales store, including a supervisor.

“I look at GVTC as a partner; this allows us to sell your technology based on the at-tributes of our community,” Allen Barnes, Gonzales city manager, said. “GVTC could have selected other communities to ex-

pand and we appreciate the company se-lecting Gonzales.”

“This announcement is going to make a difference in our economic development,” Barbara Hand, Gonzales Chamber of Com-merce executive director, said. “Businesses looking to relocate here know we will have this technology available and that’s likely to make a difference.”

To focus on its Gonzales expansion, GVTC closed walk in customer service at its Cost store back in September.

GVTC provides its communications ser-vices throughout out an 11 county, 2,000 square mile territory. The company also announced in September 2011 it was ex-panding its fiber network into the city of Blanco.

GVTC is a full-service communications provider offering high-speed Internet, digital cable TV, phone and home security monitoring across 2,000 square miles of South Central Texas. GVTC was the first company in the region to deploy fiber-to-the-home technology and through its next-generation fiber network has the fast-est Internet speeds in its service area.

The company was named Business of the Year by the Boerne, Canyon Lake and Bulverde-Spring Branch Chambers of Commerce. It was also selected the past four years as a Broadband Communities magazine Top 100 broadband provider, recognized by the San Antonio Express-News and San Antonio Business Journal as an exemplary employer, given the Fiber-to-the-Home Council’s Chairman’s Award, received a NTCA TeleChoice Award and twice named winner of the Broadband Multimedia Marketing Association’s Mar-keting Excellence Award.

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GISD declares track, tennis court repairs ‘emergency’

High-tech headquartersGonzales City Council member Bobby Logan and KCTI radio personality Egon Barthels get an overview of the GVTC control center during Monday’s tour of the company head-quarters. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

GCUWCD: Plans to monitorwells used in fracing process

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The suspect is described as a Hispanic male around 5’8” tall with a stocky build, with curly dark hair, a 3-4 days’ growth of beard, with medium-complexion skin. He was reported wearing a green camouflage Army jacket, blue jeans, and a turquoise bandana and was reportedly a smoker.

The man was seen fleeing down St. Law-rence St. in the vicinity of Diamond Gym near the GISD administrative offices. Po-lice are hoping parents arriving for the an-nual Gonzales Elementary Christmas play at the auditorium across the street may have seen the man or witnessed someone in the area.

“We’re hoping that some of the parents arriving for the play between 5:45 and 6 p.m. may have seen something,” GPD Cap-tain Alan Taylor said.

Taylor said Tuesday the investigation is continuing and police are still round-ing up clues in the case. He said it is “too early to tell” if Monday’s robber is possibly the same person involved with the Nov. 1 armed robbery of D&D Liquor Store in Gonzales.

“We’re looking at the videos of both of these, but I couldn’t really comment right now,” Taylor said.

If you have any information regarding this or any other case please contact 830-672-8686 immediately.


GVTC: Planning $7 millioninfrastructure in Gonzales

Gonzales school trustees on Monday voted to declare repairs to the high-school track and tennis courts an emergency pri-ority in the hopes that both can be ready for use by the time the spring seasons start.

Deputy Superintendent Larry Wehde told the board that this year’s drought has aggravated several existing faults with the two facilities and now poses a safety haz-ard.

“There are some sections of the track where the (synthetic track) material has pulled away from the curb,” he said. De-claring the situation an emergency will al-low the district’s administration to bypass the traditional bidding process to engage a contractor to begin those repairs immedi-ately and hopefully have the facilities ready by the time track and tennis seasons begin in late February.

Wehde said the district had already been

in contact with the firm which had per-formed previous repairs on the facilities and had gotten a proposal to repair the track for about $20,000, or refurbish the track for about $90,000, with a five-year guarantee. Under questioning by board members, he said it was likely the district would probably have to spend additional funds for repairs over the next five years without that guarantee.

“My gut feeling is, you go with the 90 and get that five-year guarantee,” board president Glenn Menking said.

The Board also got an update on con-struction plans for renovations at East Av-enue Elementary and learned the district may have to make contingency plans in case the renovations to the school’s cafete-ria cannot enable the cafeteria area to be ready for occupation by the time classes start next year.

Wehde told trustees the district has looked at the possibility of using every-thing from the school library to the gym

to an extra-wide hallway in the building to house the lunchroom until renovations are complete, but that the best solution may be to add two portable buildings to the cam-pus temporarily.

Trustee Sue Gottwald asked whether the district might consider reconfiguring grade levels to ease the number of stu-dents at the school, but Wehde said doing so might create a similar issue at Gonzales Elementary or North Avenue Intermedi-ate. “The ripple effect (of student popula-tion growth) will follow you from grade to grade,” he said.

The board also reviewed the district’s annual state accountability and federal accountability reports. The district’s three elementary campuses all received “Recog-nized” ratings this year, but trustees Ross Hendershot III and Josie Smith-Wright expressed their concern over a distinct drop-off in student performance from the elementary and junior high grades to ninth grade.

Director of secondary curriculum Ron Bragg told trustees the drop-off is mirrored across the state, but the district is placing a special emphasis on ninth-grade perfor-mance this year in advance of a change in the state performance measurements.

Smith-Wright said she was particularly concerned about the dropoff in perfor-mance in math and science.

“I thought that was the whole purpose of C-Scope (curriculum),” she commented.

The district did earn Gold Performance Awards in a number of areas, including college readiness, recommended high-school program participation and the Texas Success Initiative in English-Lan-guage Arts. Gonzales Junior High earned Commended status, while North Avenue earned Commended status in one core subject area and all three elementary cam-puses were recognized for making signifi-cant improvements among demographic sub-populations in several areas.

where it happened, so he was well-known there,” said Sachtleben.

“We got his address from our files and sent units to his residence on West Main, where we found him and he sur-rendered.”

Several area law enforcement agencies assisted on the case including the Gonza-

les Police Department. Voigt ordered an autopsy in the case and Green’s body was sent to the Travis County Medical Exam-iner’s Office, where it will be autopsied.

The motive for the shooting remains unknown, but the investigation is still ongoing.

“We don’t consider a case like this to be closed until someone has been tried in court,” Sachtleben said.


SHOOTING: Accusedkiller released on bond

By DAVE MUNDY

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Volunteer of the MonthEarleen Hudson has been chosen as the Volunteer of the Month for December by Gonzales Dog Adoptions. The amazing and energetic senior goes to the center twice a week and assists with various duties including office cleaning and laundry. (Courtesy photo)

Noon Lions announce annual gift winners

The Gonzales Noon Lions Club held a drawing for winners of its Gift Certificate Giveaway at its regular business meeting Monday, Dec. 5.

The gift certificate giveaway was held this year in place of the clubs usual “Not So Turkey” giveaway since the club felt there were already a number of turkey giveaway programs in place for the holi-day season.

Awarded to winners were: a $100 gift certificate from Hearty Gourmet - B. Glass; a $50 gift certificate from Storey

Jewelers - Becky Martinez; a $50 gift certificate from Laurel Ridge - Misty Malatek; a $30 gift certificate from HEB - Evelyn Gottwald; a gift certificate from Personal Impressions - Jo Sachtleben; and a pair of tickets to see “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the Crystal Theatre, valued at $36 - Janet F. (No last name given on ticket).

Lion Loretta Shirley, chairman for the event, announced that the Noon Club re-alized approximately $1,200 from the cer-tificate giveaway, with the proceeds going to various Lions charities.

trict to keep tabs on water usage and its effect on potable-water supplies, Sengelmann told the board.

“We just need to get that construction log to see how deep they are and get usage rates,” he said. He added that many of the wells are in the non-potable geologic formations which are not regulated by the district.

Water wells drilled for the oil and gas ex-traction process are exempt from registration rules as long as a drilling rig is on the property, but the board’s legal advisor, J.D. Head, told directors that most wells used in the fracking process no longer have rigs on the property and therefore are not exempt.

“The exemption doesn’t apply if the rig’s not there,” he said. “Under your rules, it’s required they be registered.”

The board voted to authorize Sengelmann to require registration and usage monitoring for public-use wells being used to supply wa-

ter for the fracking process, as well as for wells which are otherwise exempt, such as irriga-tion and livestock wells, when they are used to sell water for the fracking process. Directors tabled a proposal to require amendments to the permits of certain public-use wells, such as those of the county’s municipalities and water transporters, pending further legal study.

The board also voted to table action on as-sessing fees for transporting water outside the county for fracking purposes. Sengelmann said that attempting to measure such usage by the truckload “would be a nightmare.”

In other action Tuesday, the board estab-lished election locations for the May 12, 2012 elections and opted to continue holding elec-tions in even-numbered years. Changes to election laws governing balloting by mail for the military, in particular, is forcing many local governments to look at changing their traditional May election dates because of a re-quirement to allow 45 days between elections and runoffs.

President Obama swore to uphold the Constitution but he ig-nores it at every oppor-tunity.

The first example is “Obamacare” in which the federal govern-ment requires everyone to purchase a product or face a penalty. Fur-thermore, it allows for the President to act in a capricious manner by granting waivers at his discretion without set or firm rules. We have al-ready seen a case where Congresswoman Pelo-si’s (D-CA) friends got

waivers while others not connected to the liberal establishment in D.C. did not.

A second example is the Chrysler/General Motors bailout. The Constitution does not give Obama the power to shut down and reor-ganize private corpora-tions, or name a new board of directors and CEO, or nullify bonded debt to private investors and place the unions (his political support-ers) ahead of the prime investor/bond holder (the tax payer). But he did it.

A third example is the Dodd-Frank which the Obama Administration supports and imple-ments. The law allows the government to de-cide which private invest-ment actions are legal and legitimate. This law interferes with a person’s right to dispose of pri-vate property or invest it as they see fit. This law takes the federal gov-ernment deep into the private decision-making process of individuals. The Constitution never intended for the federal government to interfere, let alone micro-manage, free enterprise.

The Constitution also requires Obama to ex-ecute all laws equally. However, he chooses to

ignore immigration laws and marijuana laws, and chose not to prosecute black extremists who in-timidated voters, an act that would not be tolerat-ed if committed by white extremists. Furthermore, Obama has yet to say or do anything about his Attorney General, Eric Holder on the the “Fast and Furious” case. Never mind that the hearing has clearly shown that Con-gress was lied to by Hold-er and his Justice Depart-ment officials.

There are several other examples of how Obama has ignored the Constitu-tion. He and his support-ers apparently care more about promoting and furthering their liberal agenda than in playing by the rules of Constitu-tion. Could it be that in the court of public opin-ion and civil debate their ideas don’t hold water?

The Occupy Wall Street crowd, Obama’s “tea par-ty”, is the best example of what Obama’s America can look like. The crowd resembles the rioters of the French Revolution rather than the patriots of the America Revolution.

Obama refuses to talk to Republicans in Con-gress, or listen to anyone who disagrees with him. He will not hear the people who spoke loudly at the ballot box in 2010 when he lost his liberal majority in the House. We have a new breed of administrator… one who feels he know bet-ter than the little people who he governs.

Obama does not care about the Constitution he is supposed to protect and defend, and Ameri-cans must remember that as November 2012 approaches.


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In Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, the football gods have of-fered up a star that every father in America should be grateful for (provided they don’t root for a rival team in the AFC West).

Tebow is respectful, wholesome and a man of God. He has no obvious failings besides an inac-curate throwing arm. If Disney were to concoct the plot of a movie about an altogether admirable young man who joins the NFL and is scorned by all the experts for his unorth-odox style, yet wins week after week, Tebow would play the lead. In fact, at this point Disney could make it a documentary.

Nonetheless, Tim Tebow is considered “con-troversial.” It’s now cut-ting edge to be a straight arrow. It’s countercultural

to be an outspoken Chris-tian. A player who em-bodies everything meant by the cliche “role model” is for his critics a figure of fun, or even hatred.

Tebow is widely mocked for “Tebowing,” praying on one knee be-fore or during games. Tebow didn’t originate the practice, or single-hand-edly bring religion to the NFL. If there’s one staple of professional sports in America, it’s players say-ing prayers and acknowl-edging God.

An evangelical Chris-tian, Tebow wears his faith on his sleeve. He does this out of a sense of obligation to his faith. It is ultimately a statement of modesty and as such, profoundly out of step with a culture of self-glorification and ostentation in our sports and in our society.

Peter King of Sports Il-lustrated calls Tebow “the most polite interview in NFL history.” When he talked to him after the quarterback engineered a comeback against the Minnesota Vikings, he asked Tebow if anyone had said anything mem-orable after the game. Tebow told King he had been able in a post-game TV interview to say the name of Blake Appleton, a child with cancer. “That’s what I’m proud of today,” Tebow noted, before con-

cluding the interview: “Have a good day, Mr. King. And God bless you.”

Raised by missionar-ies and home-schooled, Tebow sets off cultural tripwires. He says he’s a virgin. Feminists were outraged by a gently pro-life Super Bowl ad he did with his mom about her troubled pregnancy when she was carrying him. But as writer Daniel Foster notes, what is most off-putting to some people about Tebow is his utter lack of irony and sheer earnestness. Doesn’t he know life isn’t a 1950s sit-com? You can almost hear his critics urging him, “Shut up already about God, and please start fail-ing.”

By any reasonable stan-dard, though, Tebow is a blessing. He won’t be get-ting arrested for groping a woman at a Halloween party (Julian Edelman), for accidently shooting himself with the Glock he smuggled into the dance club (Plaxico Burress) or for running a dog-fight-ing ring (Michael Vick). He won’t be taking perfor-mance-enhancing drugs. He may or may not con-tinue his success on the field, but he will do every-thing he can to respect his teammates and his God.

Here is a prominent player who will almost certainly never require fathers to make awkward explanations to their kids about some spectacular scandal. Rejoice, America, rejoice.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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After long and thoughtful con-sideration, I have decided to throw my name into the ring and run for the office of President of the United States.

I figure that way I can brag about things the current candidates lie about. For example, it’s been years since I’ve been involved in a good sex scandal.

(That’s assuming I could get in-volved in one; the wife says she’s not worried about me philandering, since I’ve probably forgotten how.)

Someone commented the other day that the only way to find out what skeletons are in your closet is to enter the GOP presidential race. Anything you’ve ever done wrong, and some that you’ve done right, will eventually come out and get twisted into a dagger to stab you in the back.

I figured I’d save my fellow can-didates, the leftist mainstream news media and all the other character as-sassins out there the time by telling you up-front about all my past evil deeds and bad habits:

• Yes, when I was younger, I

smoked wacky weed a few times. Unlike Bill Clinton, I inhaled.

I had to quit, though, because like many of my fellow Americans, THC has a particular effect on me: when I did doobies, I cleaned out refrig-erators. It came down to simple eco-nomics: I couldn’t smoke dope and still pay my grocery bills.

• I am a shameful pen-purloiner. If you allow me to borrow a pen to scribble notes or fill out a form, your chances of seeing it eventually go into my pocket are very high — especially if it’s one of those neat micro-ball pens.

I have the same tendency where candy dishes are sitting on the edge

of desks. I’ve been known to clean them out during an interview, espe-cially if they’re stocked with those mini-Tootsie Rolls.

• Before the Religious Right folks get the chance to chime in, I’ll fess up-front that I don’t spend a lot of time in church, and haven’t since an early age. I was born a Baptist and grew to become an agnostic.

I still speak regularly with God, al-though our conversations tend to in-volve moving other vehicles around when I’m on the road, or sometimes asking divine intervention right be-fore payday. I’m happy to report that He does answer prayers even from those who don’t regularly participate in organized services.

• Here’s one bit of information I know the Character Assassination Team is frothing at the mouth to deliver: yes, at one time I was a semi-professional glamor photographer. What that means is that yes, I took photos involving ladies wearing less than full costume — and that I didn’t make a whole lot of money doing it.

I had a very strict “no-touchee-

the-model” policy, which made me popular with the models (and my wife), but had me taking a lot of very cold showers.

Somehow or another, many of the ladies I worked with used my photos to get their feet in the door (so to speak) with everything from major modeling agencies to major magazines, and wound up getting famous. I barely covered expenses.

I swear, that’s the story of my life.• The moralists out there are also

waiting for this little tidbit: yes, I was at one time a “drag queen.” My costume one Halloween at Walmart was the “Miller Light Ladies’ Pool Champion.”

I don’t think I fooled anyone into thinking I was an especially-butch-looking support manager, except maybe for the strange old man who followed me around the store all night.

• I believe in profiling. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call it a “duck” until it shows me otherwise. I think it’s something we all do, and may be one reason many people use the

word “cretin” in the same sentence as my name.

Thus, if you want to imitate a gang member, for example, that’s what I’m going to refer to you as. Nothing per-sonal, and that IS the image you’re projecting, right?

• I have a foul temper that scares people when it’s roused. Fortunately, that’s about the extent of it; it’s been decades since I was last involved in an actual physical confrontation.

It’s a habit that I’m happy to say I learned from my chihuahuas: bark loud enough and fiercely enough and you’ll send most poetential bul-lying enemies scurrying away with their tails between their legs.

No doubt you’ll eventually find all my skeletons featured in the Huff-Post or Texas Tribune or maybe highlighted on The View — but re-member, I was up-front and truthful about it all.

If you’d like to make sure my cam-paign gets off the ground, remember you can only donate $2,000 as an individual ... so make sure to create a PAC first.

Merry Christmas friends and family, I pray that you are well and full of joy un-speakable that this season brings.

I know that this is a very busy time of year with shop-ping, wrapping, baking, and attending cantatas, parties and the like. But I want to take a moment to slow down a minute and concentrate on the Reason for this season, Jesus Christ. The One true and good thing in our lives without Whom we would have been consumed long ago.

In the Gospel of Luke the second chapter, we find the shepherds in the fields keeping watch over their flocks and they receive a di-vine visit and revelation as to the birth of Christ. After the Angelic host shared the Good News and revealed the location where they could go see for themselves, Verse 14 reads, “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill to-ward men!”

Peace and goodwill, something we don’t hear enough about these days. Peace and goodwill are not sensational enough to sell newspapers or to cause us to watch a particular news station. Violence and may-hem, misfortune and strife are what sell. This is what the secular world craves, so this is what the secular me-dia peddles.

It is the Word of God that truly can bring peace and good will. So let’s take a look at some of the aspects

of peace as revealed to us in Scripture.

One of the definitions of peace, and the one I want to use here is a state of mutual harmony between people or groups, especially in per-sonal relations. This peace is many faceted. This peace can bring comfort.

We see in Luke 2:8-10 that the shepherds were terrified. The angels told them not to be afraid. They promised good news, and in this the men found com-forting peace. We see in this instance and in 2 Corinthi-ans 1:4 that comfort comes from God, “who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to com-fort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

This peace can bring sal-vation. In Luke 2:11, “for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” In this passage we see three different titles given to Jesus. First, He is called Savior, Who came to take away the sins of the world. Hallelujah!

Second, He is called Christ which means “Anointed One,” Anointed by the Fa-ther to bring Good News to the afflicted, to bind up the

brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Hallelujah! Third, He is called Lord. This particular title is the one most overlooked.

Let’s define Lord, it means a person who has authority, control, or power over oth-ers; a master, chief, or ruler. Wow, let that soak in a min-ute. Getting saved is not all there is to it, it’s more than fire insurance. Jesus wants to be Lord as per the above definition.

Anything less will cause you to dwell in a half-way state where, sadly friends there is no peace. He gave you His ALL and most peo-ple professing to be Chris-tians only give Him a por-tion.

I’m talking about your life, not money or service. This is something I am learning as I walk out my new life in Him. The more control I relin-quish, the better off I am. He was before us, He knows the beginning from the end, He is above all, and so He sees and knows everything.

I beseech you if you don’t know Christ as Lord; start to allow Him to guide ALL areas of your life. If you don’t know Him as Savior, ask Him to come into your heart and make Him Lord of your life. Then you will know peace that surpasses all understanding. No Jesus, No Peace, Know Jesus, Know Peace.

May the peace of Christ dwell richly in you this Christmas season.


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Under His WingsPatrick

Whitehead

Affordable housing in Gonzales

December is an exciting month

Why soda fizzes and chickens don’t fly

Two questions on “fizzing”Q: Why does sodawater fizz?A: Sodawater, sodapop, soda, soft drinks,

tonic (if you are from the upper East coast) are all carbonated beverages. During the bottling process, carbon dioxide gas - the same gas that we breathe out - is bubbled into the flavored water.

Under high pressure, up to seven times what pressure that the air is pushing on us, much more gas can be held. When the top is opened, the pressure is released and the dissolved carbon dioxide gas starts to come out as little bubbles. When they pop, we hear the fizzy sound. After a few hours, most of the gas is released and we say that the soda is ‘flat’.

Q: Why does Splenda fizz when put in coffee?

A: I had to do a little digging on this one, but it is pretty cool.

Splenda is a brand name for an artifi-cial sweetener called sucralose. It is much sweeter than sugar, so in order to get it to measure out like sugar, a different sweet-ener called maltodextrine is needed to “in-flate” it.

Maltodextrine is made from starch and is “whipped up” to make the extra room needed for the Splenda. When dissolved, the maltodextrine collapses and releases air that was trapped in it. The little bubbles look similar to the fizz from sodawater.

Talking a little chickenQ: Why don’t chickens fly?A: Apparently you haven’t been to our

chicken flying contest and Come And Take It. Chickens can fly, just not very far. Over the years, people have been keeping the chickens that have the biggest pecs. (There is a pun in there somewhere).

Big pec chickens have big pec chicks. The pecs I am talking about are the pectoralis muscles, which are the chicken breasts if you are only used to seeing chicken in a box. The bigger pectoralis muscles actually

hurt the chicken’s ability to fly. The same thing goes for the turkey you

buy at the store. The more we want larger pieces of chicken to eat, the less ability the next generation of chickens will have to fly.

I see dead peopleQ: Is it true that people’s hair keeps

growing after they die?A: Nope, sorry. Even though “Raiders of

the Lost Ark” and “Creepshow” have great hair growing skeletons in them, it doesn’t happen that way.

Dead person means dead hair follicles. What really happens is that when the de-caying process occurs, water leaves the body and the skin shrinks, exposing more of the hair shaft.

An example I heard used a tree growing out of a swamp. If you measured from the surface of the swamp to the top of the tree, you might have a 20-foot tall tree. During a drought, the swamp level goes down, so when you measure the tree again, it might be 25 feet tall.

If the water level goes back up, does that make the tree shrink? Same thing with hair and fingernails. If you could do a Dr. Frankenstein, and somehow reanimate the dead, putting water back in the monster would make the hair and nails appear to shorten.

Be sure to send your science related ques-tions to [email protected]

Science Guy

Steve Scott is a former science teacher at Gon-zales High School.

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Dear Gonzales ISD School and Commu-nity Family,

The holiday season is certainly in the air! It has been fun to watch the students’ per-formances. The joy in their faces warms the heart and continually reminds us of the rea-son that we are here. It is great to see the com-munity and school connection in the many activities of the season.

This is an exciting month in many ways. We honor our Recognized Campuses this month! To achieve Recognized Status, a cam-pus must have earned a standard of passing percentages designated at 80% or above for each content area of Math, Science, Language Arts/Writing and Social Studies. Additional-ly, categories of student populations are held to the same standard and the percentile must be met for each student population. For 2011 Accountability results reported on the Spring TAKS exams, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has named North Avenue Intermedi-ate, Gonzales Elementary and East Avenue Primary as Recognized Campuses. This is the next to the highest rating that a campus can earn. We are so proud of their hard work! The success of each student, staff member and parent is commended. We further com-mend our Gonzales Junior High School for high results, growth in all subjects and nar-rowly missing the Recognized Status and our Gonzales High School for exceptional results in English Language Arts and Social Studies. All campuses are working toward Exempla-ry. Thank you to the staff, students, parents and community.

At the same time GISD showcases Recog-nized Campuses, the district campuses have also earned numerous GOLD Performance Awards from the TEA. GISD earned GOLD performance awards for College Ready Graduates, Recommended High School Program, and the Texas Success Initiative in English Language Arts. Gonzales Junior High School earned GOLD Performance Commended award for numbers of stu-dents passing Social Studies. North Avenue earned GOLD Performance Commended on Science and Comparable improvement in Mathematics. Gonzales Elementary earned GOLD Performance Comparable Improvement in Mathematics and Reading/English Language Arts and was paired with East Avenue for the same results.

The coming semester we will see many changes to the Texas assessment program. The new STAAR testing system is in place for students in grades 3-9. Students will be completing exams with higher expectations related to the amount of high level intellec-

tual behavior as seen in the analysis, evalua-tion and creation levels of Bloom’s Taxono-my. A graphic of Bloom’s Taxonomy can be seen at http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm . Our 9th graders will take the first round of End of Course (EOC) exams. Our implementation of Project Based Learning (PBL) experienc-es is directly related to higher level thinking and transference of knowledge as students must internalize and present new informa-tion through projects that are more aligned to the real world and workforce needs. I commend our teachers for their dedica-tion and hard work in aligning the learn-ing standards with some great PBL projects this year. We look forward to expanding our PBL implementation for sophomores in the coming year beginning Fall 2012.

Educators have a most wonderful job of facilitating knowledge. The responsibility is an awesome one that is taken with care and dedication to enhancing and extend-ing students’ current knowledge levels. The joy of witnessing gains in reading and math skills is balanced with the challenge to beat the barriers that are imposed by poverty, school finance and factors that define an individual as at risk for not gaining success educationally. Educators in GISD welcome the chance to extend learning, break down barriers to learning and allow children to engage in learning. While the rigor of the curriculum, assessment and scheduling be-comes more challenging; educators contin-ue to unite in partnership to ensure that our children succeed. Author Jim Collins wrote about moving from good to great. He wrote that “good” is truly the worst of enemies to becoming “great”. We can’t become com-placent, but must work daily in a continu-ous effort to offer our students the greatest education! We are privileged and excited to work in partnership with you as parents or community members. Our teamwork em-bellishes the many opportunities that we provide to students.

Superintendent’s Letter

Dr. Kimberly Strozier is superintendent of Gon-zales ISD.

Dr. KimStrozier

Peace and goodwill for the holiday season

Dear Editor:My husband and I knew of

the great need for affordable apartments in Gonzales sev-eral years ago when we tried for months to find one. We know since then with the oil boom going on in Gonzales County, the situation is even more urgent.

Michael Mekhail of Hous-ton, is the owner of the build-ing that at one time housed the Cartwheel Nursing Home. It has 40,000 sq. ft. of space, on 2-1/2 acres of land, 60 rooms, each with it’s own bathroom, 120 beds plus a living area and an office. It has a fully equipped kitchen, and dining area and could have a Cafe in it. It could be developed for a Motel, Apart-ments, a Nursing Home, or an Assisted Living Home. The property could be for lease or sale.

The location of this build-ing is next-door to Walmart on Hwy 90A in Gonzales.

If anyone is interested in helping Mr. Mekhail to de-velop this property and make

more affordable apartments available in Gonzales, please contact him at [email protected] or by phone at 832-283-4483.

JoAnn LiefesteGonzales

Waelder’s issueswith police dept.Dear Editor,

I remember seeing an ar-ticle in a previous issue of the newspaper where Chief Jim-my Taylor had boasted how under his watch, the Waelder Police Department had be-gun to investigate criminal activity. In the same article, he had incorrectly stated that the previous police admin-istration had not fulfilled its obligation in fighting crime or investigating criminal in-cidents.

Its seems odd to me that Chief Taylor would have made those remarks about the previous administration while knowing that through-out Chief Stamps’ tenure, the

City Council had never re-ceived any type of complaint about Chief Stamps’ perfor-mance or Waelder PD’s lack of community service. Now comes these two individuals who have been wronged by Taylor and his men.

The previous administra-tion DID do its job and the leader of the department pri-or to Chief Taylor was much more dedicated to quality po-lice service than the current “chief”.

How can I make that state-ment? Because the proof to support my words are right in front of us in the form of the current complaints against the Waelder Police Depart-ment and the careful review of Jimmy Taylor’s perfor-mance over the last year.

This is a sad day for Waelder’s citizens and Jimmy Taylor should resign in the best interest of the citizens.

Charles Dale WalkerWaeldervia gonzalescannon.com


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Gonzales LivestockMarket Report

The Gonzales Livestock Market Report for Saturday, December 10, 2011 had on hand: 1,488 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings sold to $6 higher. Pack-er cows sold steady to $2-$3 higher.

Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $165-$210; 300-400 lbs, $173-$205; 400-500 lbs, $154-$171; 500-600 lbs, $142-$154; 600-700 lbs., $136-$139; 700-800 lbs., $127-$131.

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

Stocker-feeder heifers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $165-$178; 300-400 lbs, $154-$161; 400-500 lbs, $144-$149; 500-600 lbs., $124-$134; 600-700 lbs., $119-$122.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $44-$54; Cutters, $58-$74; Canners, $36-$41; Low yielding fat cows, $54-$66.

Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 & 2, good heavy bulls; $76-$85; light weights and medium quality bulls, $66-$72.

Stocker Cows: $425-$900.Pairs: $725-$1,050.Thank you for your business!!View our sale live at cattleusa.com!Christmas Holiday Schedule:Last Sale for Year 2011 will be De-

cember 17th.No Sale on December 24th and

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Nixon LivestockCommission Report

The Nixon Livestock Commission

Inc. report had on hand, December 12, 2011, Volume, 1,744.

Steers: 200-300 lbs, $151 to $161 to $200; 300-400 lbs., $150 to $160 to $195; 400-500 lbs, $142 to $152 to $186; 500-600 lbs, $132 to $142 to $163; 600-700 lbs, $126 to $136 to $142; 700-800 lbs, $104 to $114 to $127.

Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $131 to $141 to $178; 300-400 lbs, $131 to $141 to $178; 400-500 lbs, $122 to $132 to $170; 500-600 lbs, $113 to $123 to $142; 600-700 lbs, $106 to $116 to $124; 700-800 lbs, $92 to $102 to $116.

Slaughter cows: $47 to $60 to $78; Slaughter bulls: $60 to $75 to $86; Stocker cows: $665 to $968; Pairs, $550.

Notices: Last sale of 2011 is on De-cember 19, 2011.

Hallettsville LivestockCommission Report

The Hallettsville Livestock Com-mission Co., Inc. had on hand on December 6, 2011, 1,449; Week ago, 1,799.

Better quality classes of calves and yearlings sold $4 to $10 higher. De-mand extremely good in all areas.

Packer cows and bulls sold $2-$3 Higher on approx. 290 hd. total.

December 20th will be the last sale for the year. No sales Dec. 27th or Jan. 3rd.

Packer Cows: higher dressing utility & cutter cows, $56-$74; lower dressing utility & cutter cows, $45-$56; light weight canner cows, $30-$45.

Packer Bulls: heavyweight bulls, $71-$83.50; utility & cutter bulls, $64-$71; lightweight canner bulls, $57-$64.

Stocker and Feeder Calves and Yearlings: Steer & Bull Calves: un-der 200 lbs, $145-$190; 200-300 lbs, $150-$197.50; 300-400 lbs, $152-$197.50; 400-500 lbs, $145-$205; 500-600lbs, $130-$167.50; 600-700 lbs, $126-$147; 700-800 lbs, $118-$133. Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs, $140-$180; 200-300 lbs, $135-$175;

300-400 lbs, $135-$162.50; 400-500 lbs, $128-$154; 500-600 lbs, $122-$146; 600-700 lbs, $118-$128; 700-800 lbs, $102-$116. No. 2 & 3 Steer & Bull Calves: 200-300 lbs, $108-$152; 300-400 lbs, $105-$150; 400-500 lbs, $102-$143; 500-600 lbs, $100-$132; 600-700 lbs, $95-$125. No. 2 & 3 Heifer Calves: 200-300 lbs, $105-$12538; 300-400 lbs, $103-$136; 400-500 lbs, $100-$125; 500-600 lbs, $95-$118; 600-700 lbs, $92-$118.

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

Cuero LivestockMarket Report

Cuero Livestock Market Report on December 9, 2011 had 2,518 head.

Had 436 cows and 27 bulls. Bulls and cows were $3.50 to $4 higher than two weeks ago.

Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $68-$79.50; lower grades, $65-$73; one stocker, $41.50-$65; two stockers, $84-$86..

Packer cows: boning cows, $65-$74.50; cutters mainly, $42.50-$66; few, $67-$73; low yielding cutters, $39-$49; few, $50-$55; canners, $30-$42.

Dry cows, $42-$65.50; young, $45.50-$86.

Palpated much higher but better quality: big deal: $98. 8 at $127. 4 at $115. Deals at $80 to $92. One deal dollared out at $1,467 per head.

The calf market was again very ac-tive with last week’s highs as all class-es were at least as high as last week’s huge increase in all prices.

Steer Calves & bull cfs: 250-300 lbs, $141-$200; 300-350 lbs, $124-$200; 350-400 lbs, $141-$192; 400-450 lbs, $122-$185; 450-500 lbs, $139-$171; 500-600 lbs, $105-$161; 600-700 lbs, $119-$130. Heifers: 200-250 lbs, $120-$159; 250-300 lbs, $120-$176; 300-350 lbs, $120-$165; 350-400 lbs, $115-$165; 400-450 lbs, $111-$169; 450-500 lbs, $111-$139; 500-600 lbs, $115-$136; 600-700 lbs, $109-$123.


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La Nina effectNational Weather Service meteorologist Paul Yura explains the effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon on Texas weather. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

Is the drought ever going to end?National Weather Service warning co-

ordination meteorologist Paul Yura told members of the Gonzales County In-dependent Cattlemen’s Association that while this year’s drought has been bad, we’ve seen worse — and clued members in on some important information about what drives Texas weather.

“1954 was the worst drought ever in Gonzales County,” Yura said. “For the year, we’ve had 15 inches of rain. That’s about 20 below normal, but what we’ve seen in the last few weeks and are likely to see during the holidays should put us ahead of 1954 by the end of the year.”

Two weather phenomenae, Yura ex-plained, drive rainfall totals in Texas: trop-ical activity during the summer months, and the El Nino/La Nina effect in the Pa-cific Ocean during winter months.

“Hurricane activity is the primary indi-cator of rain in Texas,” he said. “In the win-tertime, it is the El Nino/La Nina effect, but the summertime is wholly about the tropi-cal systems.”

Yura explained that the El Nino/La Nina effect is caused by the temperature of wa-

ter near the equator in the Pacific Ocean. When the region warms the water, it pro-duces the El Nino effect, bringing lots of moisture to the western U.S. and Mexico — and Texas. When the water is cooler, we get La Nina ... and drought.

“El Nino produces fewer hurricanes on the West Coast, while La Nina produces more, and we usually get some of the rem-nants of those storms as winter rainfall,” he said. “We totally missed out on that this year. The drought sucked the life out of ev-erything.”

The drought also fed on itself this year, he said. As plant life dried up, the relative humidity dropped, eliminating a key com-ponent for driving rain showers.

“People talk about how humid it is in Houston, but if you really want to experi-ence discomfort, stand in the middle of a corn field in Iowa in the summer,” he said. “Plants give off humidity, and that is one of the things that helps create rain.”

Yura urged members to join the Com-munity Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (COCORAHS) to report rainfall totals locally to help forecasters, including the NWS, improve the accuracy of their predictions.

“That information is gold for us meteo-rologists,” he said.

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Several of the area’s mu-nicipalities will see double-digit increases again in their shares of state sales tax rev-enue this month, the office of Texas Comptroller Su-san Combs announced this week.

The continued economic impact of the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas field devel-opment on the region con-tinues to be felt at the retail level, where eight of the 11 municipal governments in The Cannon’s coverage area in Gonzales, Lavaca, DeWitt, Fayette and Caldwell coun-ties saw monthly increases of 20 percent or better.

Leading the way on those increases is the city of Cuero,

which will receive a Decem-ber check for $201,333, up some 77.5 percent from a year ago. The city of Gon-zales will also get a six-digit check, $162,184, up 31.83 percent from 2010 figures.

The checks for December represent retail sales which occurred in October.

Also seeing consider-able increases are Luling ($113,740, up 20.86 per-cent); Nixon ($$21,416, up 47.05 percent); Hallettsville ($76,536, up 16.06 percent); Moulton ($11,089, up 38.84 percent); Shiner ($23,066, up 49.28 percent); and Yoakum ($85,828, up 28.56 percent).

Two local governments saw slight decreases in rev-enues. Flatonia’s Decem-ber check for $15,191 is 9.9 percent under 2010 figures,

while Waelder’s check for $1,937 is down almost 7 per-cent from last year. The city of smiley’s check for $694.10 represents a 38 percent de-crease from a year ago.

Combs reported that state sales tax revenue in No-vember was $2.07 billion, up 12.2 percent compared to November 2010. State sales tax revenue has now increased for 20 consecutive months.

“Sales tax revenue in all major economic sectors improved over a year ago,” Combs said. “While sales tax receipts associated with oil and natural gas produc-tion remains the strongest source of growth, there were strong increases from the consumer-driven sectors of retail trade and restaurants.”

Chamber welcomes new businessThe Gonzales Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture held a ribbon-cutting cer-emony at 4L RV Ranch on Dec. 13. The new business offers 88 full hook-ups for RVs and a state-of-art facility that includes several bathrooms and a full-sized laundry room. Among those in attendance were (from left) 4L employee Tameca Harper (holding ribbon), owners Stephen and Kenna Lucas, and 4L employee Lee Ann Wyant. (Photo by Cedric Iglehart)

With the recent ap-proval of an inter-local agreement by the Gon-zales City Council, the Fair Street Exploratori-um Cooperative is in the process of transitioning the facility into an early childhood learning and adult education center. The cooperative is a col-laboration of the City of Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas Agri-life Extension of Gonzales County, Gonzales Inde-pendent School District and the Gonzales Master Gardeners.

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the new Fair Street Ex-ploratorium is to provide a living laboratory and educational opportuni-ties for teaching people about harvesting rain-water and incorporating sustainable landscaping. The rainwater harvest-ing program will seek to strike a balance between

the amount of water col-lected and stored and the surrounding landscape by incorporating water wise plants, minimal turf grasses, drip lines, and lots of mulch.

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be designed as a model “Gonzales Yard” dem-onstrating the use of na-tive and drought-tolerant plants (e.g. Texas Super-stars), xeriscaping, mi-cro-irrigation, compost-ing, and recycled mulch, as well as incorporating a demonstration garden. Building renovations will include an observation deck over-looking the

garden for an improved learning environment.

Rainwater Harvesting System

The rainwater har-vesting system design will essentially consist of four main compo-nents; 1) a capture sys-tem (roofs and gutters), 2) a filter system (debris screens), 3) a storage system (tank), and 4) a delivery system (pipes and valves). Rainwa-ter falling on the roof will be captured by the gutters which are con-nected to downspouts. The downspouts will channel water by gravity feed through a filtration

system and then to the storage tank. The first several hundred gallons of rainwater, which con-tain impurities from the roof, will be diverted away from the storage tank. Stored water in the tank will be gravity fed to the surrounding land-scape and demonstration garden. A gauge on the tank will allow the water system to be continually displayed and monitored so students can monitor how much water is col-lected and used.

The roof area of the building is large enough that a 1-inch rain can generate about 1,400 gal-lons of run-off. In South

Central Texas a normal rainfall year could yield up to 47,000 gallons of water. Obviously there is not enough space for 40,000 gallons of water storage so calculations will have to be made to assess the amount of wa-ter required to sustain the landscape through a typical Texas drought period.

The Fair Street Ex-ploratorium is located at 623 North Fair Street, adjacent to the Gonza-les Elementary School. Contact the Gonzales County Underground Water Conservation District or the Gonzales Master Gardeners for more information on rainwater harvesting and water-wise landscaping.


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Shelter donationTony Fitzsimmons (Tony’s Concrete finishing) and Spank Concrete along with materials donated from WB Farm & Ranch Supply and Gonzales Building & Lum-ber provided the dogs with a wonderful Christmas gift of a new cement pad for the outside kennels and put in a powerful trough drain at the new Gonzales Dog Adoptions shelter. (Courtesy Photo)

Odd Fellows Food DonationThe Gonzales Odd Fellows Lodge #38 I.O.O.F. made a donation to Santa’s Help-ers and to the GCAM Food Drive on Dec. 9. Funding for this donation came from the support of the community during Winterfest by supporting the lodge’s food booth. Pictured are (back row from left): Noble Grand Derek Grahmann present-ing checks to Harold Bruns, Barbara Kuck, Tammy Peterman,Dora Soefje (GCAM), Norma Ehrig ( Santa’s Helpers), (front row) Lupe Saldana, Betty Fussner (GCAM), and Irma L. Nunez. (Santa’s Helpers) (Courtesy photo)

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VC Career DayTwenty eager seventh and eighth grade students from Gonzales Junior High School attended the annual Health Career Academy on Friday, Nov. 18. This academy provides students with an interactive, hands-on experience in the health-care industry, while introducing them to a variety of career choices. These students enjoyed a half day at the Gonzales Memorial Hospital, where they visited a variety of stations like radiology, respiratory therapy, and OB. During the afternoon, these students also traveled to The Victoria College Gon-zales Center and participated in stations with the current students in the nurs-ing program. This academy left the GJHS students feeling more knowledgeable and excited about the health career professionals they dream of becoming. The Health Career Academy is made possible through the partnership of the Pecan Valley AHEC, Gonzales Healthcare Systems, Gonzales Junior High School, and The Victoria College Gonzales Center. (Courtesy Photo)

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LULAC toy driveGonzales County LULAC

Council #4393 is sponsor-ing a toy and food drive to Santa’s Helpers & GCAM for the many needy children and families in Gonzales County for Christmas now thru Fri-day, Dec. 16. ! Items such as new toys, warm cloth-ing, blankets, and heaters are being requested by the families. Monetary donations are also accepted. Donation boxes are located at: R&E Recycling (1204 St. Louis) & Guerra’s Grill 1303 St. Law-rence). Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m-1 p.m. Let’s help make this Christmas the best one yet for all the children and their families. Remember the season for the season!

Please contact Bonnie Mar-tinez @ 830-263-0837 or Ed-die Reyes @ 830-445-9419 or any LULAC member. LULAC and Santa’s Helpers are both non-profit organizations. All donations are tax deductible.

Delhi VFDfundraiserDelhi Volunteer Fire De-

partment’s biggest fund-raiser ever is on Dec. 17 at the Delhi Community Center, 6108 State Hwy 304. from 4-6pm Please come out to join us for an evening of home cooked chili, gun raffle drawing, silent auction and a ton of fun!

Holiday bake saleNixon 4-H will hold its

holiday bake sale starting at

noon Dec. 20 in front of Su-per S foods.

Christmas danceGonzales LULAC Council

#4693 having a Sponsored Christmas Dance, Saturday, December 17, 2011 at Her-mann Sons Hall, Gonzales, Texas. For Toy Drive to aid Santa’s Helpers. Dance starts at 8:30 pm to 1:00 a.m. Do-nation will be accepted of a New Unwrapped Toy in the amount of $5.00 or more!!! Or $5.00 at the door. Let’s make this Christmas the best one yet for all the children and their families. Remember the reason for the season!

Helping HandsIf you are in need of a

meal, Helping Hands, a non-

profit, multi-church ministry would like to bless you with a free lunch. Meals will be dis-tributed Saturday, December 17th beginning at 11 a.m. in the GCAM parking lot lo-cated at 708 St. Louis Street. Volunteers and donations are welcome. Contact Linda at 361-275-1216.

CandlelightservicePilgrim Presbyterian

Church on CR 210 will host the annual candlelight ser-vice at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18. Everyone is invited to attend and stay for refresh-ments and fellowship.

There will be no 11 a.m. service that day, but there will be the regular 11 a.m. service on Christmas day.

Gonzales 4-HplaydayGonzales County 4-H

Horse Committee & Coun-try Friends Together Again presents: Playday/Horse-show/Fundraiser. JB Wells Arena, Gonzales. Dec. 17. Register at 9 a.m. Perfor-mance events start at 10 a.m. Speed events not to begin before 1 p.m. High

point and Reserve Awards !!! (some age groups are Jackpot). Age Groups: Lead-line, 8 & under, 9-13, 14-18, 19 & over. Speed classes: Cloverleaf Barrels, Straight Barrels, Poles, and Stake Race. Performance Class-es: Halter, Showmanship, Western Pleasure, Western Horsemanship, Trail. $8/event or $50 all day fee. Af-ter show Exhibitions (Bar-rels) - $5 each. For more in-formation and rules please call: Clarice 979/777-3643; Amy, 830/203-0470.

Lessons andCandlesPilgrim Presbyterian

Church will be observing their annual Lessons and Candles service Sunday, Dec. 18, at 6:p.m. There will be no morning service that day. There will be special music as well as Christmas Carols. The church is locat-ed at 621 CR 210 off of FM 1116 in Gonzales County. Everyone is invited to come and participate in the ser-vice with refreshments and fellowship to follow. There will be regular services on Christmas Day and New

Year’s Day at 11:00 a.m.

Violence shelterThe Guadalupe Valley

Family Violence Shelter, Inc. (GVFVS) is a non-profit organization providing ser-vices to both residents and non-residents that are vic-tims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the counties of Gonzales, Gua-dalupe, Karnes and Wilson.

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

Gonzales Senior Citizens CenterThe Gonzales Senior Citi-

zens Center would like to invite anyone over 60 years of age to come and eat with them at 604 St. Michael St., Monday thru Friday. The center is open from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

We serve a hot delicious 1/3 RDA delicious meal noon each day. The cost of the meal is a $2.00 volun-tary donation that is ap-plied to the total cost of the meal.

We would like some sug-gestions for activities that you would like to see at the Gonzales Center.

I would also like to re-mind 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 trans-portation 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.


A SpecialMemorialOf Thanks

The Gonzales Public Library Board wishes to recognize William Tecumseh Miller, Jr. (also fondly known as “W.T.” or “Bim”) for 21 years of devoted service on the library board. Bim’s dedication over those years helped shape the library into the heart of the community that it is today. His wit, charm, and love for this community will be sorely missed.

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2011 SponsorsThanks to these Come & Take It sponsors$88,368.72 went back into our communitySan Antonio Water SystemRandolph Books Federal Credit UnionJM Oilfield ServiceHEB Food StoresGVECKitchen Pride MushroomsTexas Gas ServiceAllied WasteMcDonaldsGuadalupe-Blanco River AuthorityBudweiserCal-Maine FarmsSouthern Clay ProductsAdams Extract & Spice LLCHolmes Foods Inc.Scott Dierlam Ins.Ilene Gohmert CPAWright DistributingFarm BureauNew Beginnings ChurchGonzales First Shot Title LLC

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ObituariesDUBOSE

John Steen DuBose passed away on December 10, 2011. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Jerry Kay DuBose; daughters Cheryl Jo “Peanut” Du-Bose and grandson Phillip Kuemmel of Pflugerville and Sara Denyce “DeeDee” DuBose and grandson PFC Tyler Montana Brown. Other survivors include David V. DuBose, nephew; two great nephews and one great niece; and many spe-cial cousins and his special adoptive family that took care of him: Jane Hartfield, Julia Malatek, Robin Hunt, Beverly Martinez, Dora

Rodriguez and Stacy Tuch. He was preceded in death by his parents, John Steen and Willie Vaughn Bright DuBose; two brothers, Da-vid Joel and Joe Vaughn DuBose; and a great niece, Rebecca Jean DuBose. Graveside services will be held at the IOOF cemetery the week after christmas. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions to any special charity can be made. The family would like to give special thanks to Accolade Hospice of Yoakum. We were able to take care of him due to the amazing compassion and caring ability of this orga-nization.

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Courthouse tourGonzales Cub Scout Pack 261 Wolves and Webelos went for a night tour of the Gonzales County Courthouse which helped them earn their citizenship beltloop. Judge David Bird guided the boys throughout the courthouse discussing the history and the mysteries of the courthouse. All of the boys were in awe of the main courtroom and a little curious about the stories of the basement. Pictured with Judge Bird are (center, from left): Quinn Atkinson, Christopher Holub, Jona-than Lerma, Diego Diaz de Leon, Anthony Medina, Dylan Buford, (front) Nico Anzaldua, Noah Gonzales, Joshua Kenning, Hunter Gonzales, Kyle Krum, Isac Espinoza) (Courtesy Photo)

Santa Paws visits GonzalesSanta Paws 2011 - Gonzales Dog Adoptions (GDA) took pictures of dogs and their families with Santa on Saturday at Tractor Supply in Gonzales. For only a $10 donation, a color 8”x10” photograph of pets and/or children, were printed for the patrons within minutes. All proceeds benefit the non-profit organization and help feed and care for the more than 130 homeless dogs of Gonzales at the shelter. Also, the shelter needs donated blankets and towels to help keep the dogs warm during this cold season. For more information on how you can help, contact GDA at: [email protected], (830) 542-2212, or visit their website: www.gonzalesdog.org. (Courtesy Photo)


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The East Avenue Primary School 1st Graders presented the Christmas musical “The Littlest Christmas Tree” on Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Junior High auditorium. The musical was writ-ten by Teresa Jennings and directed by Mrs. Rena Gray, the EA music teacher. It is the story of how a group of Christmas trees who thought Christmas was all about them, learned from one little tree the true meaning of Christmas – love, caring, sharing, friends, laughter, hope, and joy. This year, the 1st graders were divided into 2 groups, each giving a separate performance, which relieved the overcrowding on the stage and in the auditorium. Family and friends were able to find a seat and find their student on the risers! Pic-tured here are (top) Elves - Kaylee Cox, Julianna Martinez, Anazhia Clack; (below) Santa - Koby Glass, Mrs. Claus - Kend-all Narro; (top left) Little Tree - Lauren Johnson; and (bottom left) Little Tree - Leonardo Moreno. (Courtesy photos)

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NIXON — The Nixon city council was informed at its regular monthly meeting this week that a meeting Wednesday after-noon will bring about the completion of grant stipulations required by the state of Texas from Lazarus, the previous owner of the oil refinery.

The council was told that all monies will have been paid and the quota of local em-ployees will have been met, and the city of Nixon expects to officially be released from pending and limiting obligations by Jan. 1.

Ann Alexander, administrator for Nor-ma’s House, was present to express ap-preciation to the council for its continued

support. She reported that the Gonzales Regional Children’s Advocacy Center was able to serve six local children during the past year and that three are currently re-ceiving therapy.

Related to a presentation during last month’s meeting, council members ex-pressed concerns and matters unclear to them regarding establishing a recycling program in the city. A majority of mem-bers expressed an interest in finding cities the size of Nixon that have experienced successful recycling for the purpose of evaluating their programs. The possibili-ties will continue to be considered and studied with an immediate concern being disposing of tires.

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NIXON — The Nixon-Smiley Consoli-dated School District held a public hearing Monday night to present the 2010-11 Aca-demic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS).

The AEIS is a report generated annu-ally by the Texas Education Agency and is based on a wide range of information on the performance of students in each school and district in Texas. The performance

indicators include Texas Assessment of Knowledge Skills (TAKS) results by grade, exit-level TAKS cumulative passing rates, attendance rates and college readiness in-dicators.

The district earned an academically ac-ceptable accountability rating for 2011.

“There were some places where we may have stumbled a little bit,” said NSCISD Su-perintendent Dr. Cathy Booth. “But for the most part, you can see we held our own.”

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Do you know how Relay For Life began? In 1985 Relay For Life was started by Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon in Tacoma, Washington, who wanted to enhance the income of his local Ameri-can Cancer Society office and to show support for his cancer patients. A marathon runner, Dr. Klatt decided to run the track for 24 hours; his friends paid twenty-five dollars to run or walk 30 minutes with him. That first event raised $27,000! As he ran, Dr. Klatt envisioned how he could get others involved; he later pulled together a small com-mittee to plan the first Relay event with teams known as the City of Destiny Classic 24-Hour Run Against Cancer. Because “cancer never sleeps,” the American Cancer Society Relay For Life is an overnight event that can last as long as 24 hours in some communities.

While every Relay event has its own personality depending on the needs and desires of the commu-nity, there are some key elements that every Relay must have. At every Relay we celebrate the lives of those who have fought or are fighting cancer; we remember the lives of those who have fallen victim to cancer; and we fight back by committing to be mindful of preventive health measures, to get regu-lar checkups and cancer screenings, to take patients to treatments, or do whatever it takes to fight this disease. At the end of opening ceremonies, Relay events are kicked off with the Survivors Lap, an inspirational time that allows everyone to see how many lives locally are helped through Relay. The Luminaria Ceremony is a beautiful and moving ceremony that begins after dark; candles are light-ed and names are read recognizing those who are fighting or have fought cancer. During the Fight Back Ceremony we make a personal commitment to save lives by taking up the fight against cancer.

When someone asks you to be a Relay For Life Volunteer, you may claim that you don’t have time to commit or some other excuses why you cannot help in this fight against an awful disease. You say you don’t have time, money, or resources to help in what seems to be a never-ending war. However, you might reconsider after watching the video “What $5 Can Do.” Your eyes will be opened to many opportunities in front of you. $5 is an amount that many of us can afford to give, and it makes a real impact when put to use in the fight against cancer. Coincidentally, $5 is also how much it costs to purchase a luminaria, a candle to help you honor or remember someone who has or had cancer. Spending an hour twice a month to help the local Relay For Life committee plan the event, serving as a team captain, or taking two minutes to buy a ticket, or a meal, or a luminaria at a Relay For Life team fundraiser can each make a significant impact. A few minutes hear, and a few dollars there really adds up to huge differences in the lives of people in this community.

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Cannon Live Music Calendar

Thursday, Dec. 15Thursday Night Acoustic Jam at Ole Moulton Bank,

6:30 p.m. No cover.

Friday, Dec. 16Doug Stone at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton. Tickets

$15.Chad McBride and the Drifters at Yoakum Gin &

Feed, Yoakum, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17Broke 60 at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton. Tickets $8.Rich O’Toole with special guest Clint Martin at

Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.Andrea Marie and the Magnolia Band at Howard’s,

Shiner, 8 p.m.Texxas at Watterston Hall, Watterston, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.Scotty Decker and Family at Pardners Dancehall,

Gonzales, 8 p.m.-midnight

Tuesday, Dec. 20Dolly Shine at Legend’s Sports Bar & Grill, Austin, 8

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6:30 p.m. No cover.

Friday, Dec. 23Pale Horses at Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton. $8

cover.Scott Taylor Band at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9

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6:30 p.m. No cover.

Friday, Dec. 30Cloverside at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9 p.m.-1

a.m.Bill Pekar Band at pre-New Year’s Eve party at Bel-

mont Social Club, Belmont. Advance tickets available.

Saturday, Dec. 31New Year’s Eve Party feat. Texxas at American Le-

gion Hall, Flatonia, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.New Year’s Eve Party feat. Jarrod Birmingham at

Scooter’s Dancehall, Moulton. $15 cover.New Year’s Eve Party feat. The Washers at Yoakum

Gin & Feed, Yoakum.

Friday, Jan. 6John David Kent at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9

p.m.-1 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 7Granger Smith at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9

p.m.-1 a.m.Clint Martin Band at Watterson Hall, Red Rock, 9

p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 21Phil Hamilton at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9

p.m.-1 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 27Bri Bagwell at Yoakum Gin & Feed, Yoakum, 9 p.m.-1

a.m.Leo DeSanto at Belmont Social Club, Belmont. Ad-

vance tickets available.

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Contemporary country star Doug Stone (“I’d be Better off (In a Pine Box)”) headlines the entertainment this weekend at Scooter’s Bar in Moulton. Tickets are $15 and will be available at the door.

While Stone made his name as a lonesome baritone balladeer, though he’s also adept at hard uptempo country.

Stone was born and raised in Newnan, GA, and learned guitar from his mother — also a country singer — starting at age five. As a teenager, he performed in skating rinks in his hometown and later moved on to playing area bars while working long hours as a mechanic during

the day. Stone was already several

years past 30 when a Nashville-based manager saw his act and helped him finally land a record deal with Epic. His self-titled debut was released in 1990 and broke him in a big way with the despairing lead single “I’d Be Better Off (In a Pine Box),” which shot into the country Top Five.

Stone landed three more Top Ten hits from the album, including “Fourteen Minutes Old,” “These Lips Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye,” and his first number one, “In a Different Light.” He quickly completed a follow-up album, I Thought It Was You, for release in 1991, which confirmed his

downtrodden persona and became his second straight million-seller on the strength of three Top Five hits: the title track, “Come in Out of the Pain,” and a second number one in “A Jukebox with a Country Song.”

Shortly before the release of his third album, From the Heart, in 1992, Stone underwent quadruple bypass surgery; he recovered in time to issue the holiday album The First Christmas by year’s end.

Meanwhile, From the Heart kept spinning off one hit after another: “Warning Labels” and “Made for Lovin’ You” went Top Ten, and both “Too Busy Being in Love” and “Why Didn’t I Think of That” topped the charts.

Stone continued his frantic hitmaking pace with 1993’s More Love, which contained three Top Ten smashes in “Addicted to a Dollar,” “I Never Knew Love,” and the title track. Like From the Heart, More Love went gold, and Stone followed it in 1995 with

the compilation Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, whose newly recorded “Little Houses” went Top Ten.

Later in the year, Stone returned with Faith in Me, Faith in You; while it featured hits in the title track and “Born in the Dark,” nothing reached the Top Ten. To make matters worse, his health problems continued: in December 1995, he suffered a near-fatal heart attack, and the recuperation time put the recording of his next album on hold.

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Doug Stone

I got to talk with some church members of the Belmont United Methodist Church this weekend and I don’t know whether we are going to have an outdoor nativity scene because of the weather, but they are still going to try. I noticed some people had stopped and were taking pictures of the manger scene. It does look so wonderful sitting beside that beautiful little white church. Mike Bond certainly did a great job building the stable and the manger. Mike pointed out to me that they had just gotten the lighted cross up on the church and that they thought that they just were going to leave that up year round. I think that is a grand idea. They still had the wreath to put up on the wall.

On Dec. 18, if all goes well we will have church outside with the Christmas story be-ing read as the live Nativity scene is being formed ac-cordingly. I have only seen this happen a couple of times but it is a moving site as real people and real animals come in making normal people and animal noises. The beautiful HANDMADE costumes have been made by Joannie Garcia and Con-

nie Bond. Jackie Kidd and Gail Schauer ordered the lawn art. They could only afford three pieces this year. Hopefully by next year we can afford more pieces. Shari Lee, Sharon Bettis, Con-nie Bond, and Gail Schauer worked hard and made new Chrismons for the Christ-mas tree. Randy Meyers got the program together. Mike Bond built the stable and the manger. It took all of the church members plus some more to get all these projects done and as you can see the results of their efforts so far have been beautiful.

This will end with a can-dlelight service and refresh-ments in the community center. Please try to attend. Think of how many people have put so much hard work into this project for all of these months. It will only take up a couple hours of your time. If you need a ride because you cannot drive at

night, call someone and ask them to bring you. Let your neighbors know. Christ, our Savior, was born and we all need to celebrate the birth of Jesus. This world has be-come a very troubled place and Jesus is about the only true and stable thing that we can count on.

Come and celebrate the birth of Jesus, sing hallelujah He is the new born king!

The same day, but dur-ing the regular church time, 10:30, the Monthalia United Methodist Church will have their Christmas program. I know that there will be a lot of specials on different in-struments. Santa will still be handing out goody bags.

It is time to remember those in our community who should be placed on our “shut-n” list. Please let Jackie Kidd (437-2810) or Gail Schaurer (437-2899) know the names and addresses of those who need to be re-membered this year as well if the person is a diabetic. Items for the gift bags and monetary donations for this outreach ministry are greatly appreciated.

December 24th, “Come and Go” Communion Ser-vice 5-6 PM at the Monthalia United Methodist Church. It

is hard for me to get into my head that Christmas Eve is on a Saturday this year.

Please lift the following people up in your prayers: Joe Kotwig, Kenneth Crum-ley, Rudolpho and Edna Garza, Elson Schreiber, Kathryn, Dena Black, Karen Roecker Mahan, Sabrina Flores, Bill and Marie Lott, Doris and Alvin Hewell; Debbie Soefje, Lisa Rodri-guez, Hester Behlen, Lou-ise Jones, Aunt Georgie; Danny and Joyce Schellen-berg, Pete Kallies, Mildred O’Neal, Doug Walshak, Selma Vickers, Gene Rob-inson, Blaine Welker, Susie Dolezal, Bo Shows, Teresa Wilke, Melissa Munoz and family, Sandi Gandre, Carl and Vida Tindle; Rev A. C. and Evelyn Newman, Aunt Betty Gandre, Anna Lin-demann, Ann and Bubba Bond; Case Martin, Shirley Dozier, the family of Tom Dolezal, The Family of Joyce (Sis) Thurmond Whitworth, The family of Patty Benton, The family of Lillian Balado, All of our troops, their fami-lies, and friends all over the world; and RAIN and we give thanks so much for the rain that we have received.

We need to say many prayers for Case Martin, the son of Clint and Lindsay Martin. He has been in a San Antonio battling pneumo-nia. Case is only six months old. He had an ear infection in October and didn’t get rid of that before he devel-oped something peculiar in his lungs. They took him in an ambulance to Santa Rosa Hospital. He has been there ever since. They have found that little Case is like the “bubble boy”. He does not have any immune sys-tem. We need your big time prayers for Case to recover from his pneumonia. When this happens, they will inject him with T cells that will hopefully make him an im-mune system. You can keep up with Case at www.Car-ingbridge.com This is a site that the Santa Rosa Hospital has developed for its patients so that people can tell every-one how they are progress-ing. So go to that site and type in casemartin and fol-low directions.

These women must have timed things right because they needed a last minute tax exemption.

They had all these last minute babies in Decem-ber. I didn’t realize that Di-ane Westmoreland was also celebrating her birthday the other night at Belmont So-cial Club when Karen Smith was celebrating hers. It was one of those monumental birthdays. Saturday night

the Brushy Creek Boys sang Happy Birthday to Will, the husband, and to Sean Al-len and to several others. Wade Wilson has a birth-day on December 16th too. Hazel and Bill Bassett had a Wedding Anniversary on December 10th. This weekend of the 16th on Friday the Best Friends will be there and Deep Water will be there on Saturday. Then next week Friday Best Friends on the 23rd and on the 24th Christmas Eve the Belmont Social Club will be closing at 3PM. I don’t know about you but this year has Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve landing on Saturday and this is just ab-solutely warping my mind.

We had a special night at Belmont as we got to hear Jackie Sue with her big guitar. It seems that Jackie Sue has been writ-ing and singing songs for most of her life and has be-come a regular attendee of the Belmont UMC. Several church members came just to hear her sing and boy can she ever sing and play that guitar!!! She made those Brushy Creek Boys work to keep up with her. They had barely practiced with her before the show. I hope that she will come back again to sing and that maybe she will sing in church. She said that she taught 7th grade in Dripping Springs for a number of years and af-ter you had done that, you were not afraid of anything. I guess I have to agree with that assessment.

Will and I will be enjoy-ing the company of the Wesleyan Circle tonight at the First United Method-ist Church in Gonzales. We always enjoy going there to see Aunt Georgie Gandre especially. Tonight I think that we will be particularly thankful that one of the members, Dick Goss, has made it through the year. He gave himself, his family, and his friends quite a scare with his heart situation. The whole bunch enjoys good food and fellowship with singing and Bill Meadows and Will leading the singing and playing the guitars.

I don’t know whether Samson has a death wish or

what today, but if that big cat doesn’t start behaving he might be on the list for cat behavior therapy. I have one of those roll around carts like you put tea glasses on etc. only I have a stack of scrapbooking papers on mine. Now I have been cut-ting and snipping on those papers, and you can imag-ine what a total mess that would make if Samson or anyone knocked if off on the floor. That is just what that big kitty wants to do is crawl in between there to do something or another. I have told him “NO” three times and three times is not a charm. I have moved this cart from the right side of this chair to the left side of this chair and you would think that I rearranged the Rocky Mountains or some-thing. Dililah has been talk-ing “trash” to me about this for two hours and rolling her head backward around in circles like an old owl. Hugo demanded to be put on the headrest and Twerpt thought it was the last day on earth and gave me such aw-ful looks that I finally put the poor critter on my lap along with my laptop. Merciful heavens I don’t know what to think about educated critters. I have a picture of Dililah and Samson that I think are suitable for print-ing so I will see if they can be squeezed into this printing.

I laugh with Wade and Lola Wilson because they rescued three kittens when the Mama of the kittens was hit by a car and died. Lola did most of the work and Kathleen and I were advi-sors. We realized that they had gotten attached to those kittens, Josie, Jon Boy, and Jake. They turned out to be beautiful cats and fill their lives with laughter. Kathleen was here when I put my oxy-gen on Itsy Bitsy and she was wiping dirt out of his mouth and nose and trying to do the other part of CPR. Itsy had been mauled by a big German Shepherd dog, and he was so little that he fit in the palm of our hands. So now we enjoy our miracle cats, but we don’t need any more.

Have a good week and God Bless.

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Samson (left) and Dililah

Sandi’s Country Fried News

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NIXON: Discusses funding for possible new fire truck

Outdoor nativity set at Belmont UMC this weekend

Approval was given to a request by Nixon-Smiley CISD to place two signs on Franklin Street and on Roosevelt Street just before turning onto Rancho Road that state, Entering School Zone. An additional two signs stating 15 MPH on Rancho Road were also approved. Changes requested for highway 80 will have to be referred to Tx-Dot, since it is a state highway.

Mark Mendez, Nixon Fire Chief, report-ed on his research in attempts to find a fire truck that would fit the immediate needs of the fire department. With money be-ing tight, he was in hopes that the council would agree to split the costs. Again, with money being tight, it was suggested that if he found a vehicle worthy of consider-ation and could manage the initial costs through his budget, the city would make every effort to cover or help him out with the second year of payments. Everybody agreed they are not interested in purchas-ing “junk.”

During the city administrator’s report, George Blanch warned council members

to expect a request for hikes in electricity and gas charges to residents at the begin-ning of the new year. He anticipates a col-lective increase of $4.50 per month, per household.

Police chief Chris Almaguer reported six arrests and 101 court summonses for a to-tal of $4,805 collected in fines. In addition, ordinance compliance officer Mike Villar-real issued notices at 66 different addresses and seven citations for non-compliance.

The volunteer fire department answered calls for five grass fires, five wrecks, and they assisted seven EMS calls.

After an executive session, the council voted to approve allowing no trucks on the 100 block of West Second Street, but to allow trucks use of the city streets that encompass the Valero Happy Sac estab-lishment. It was also approved to enforce a speed limit of 20 MPH on all city streets, unless signs are posted otherwise.

Council members present at the Decem-ber meeting were Mayor Bonnie Chessher, Cindy Pieprzica, Dorothy Riojas, Hector Dominguez, and George Pena. John Mer-cier did not attend.

The AEIS provided a breakdown of in-formation that went back a decade in order to identify district trends. One of the most interesting things measured was the stu-dent demographics, which show a steady increase in the number of Hispanic stu-dents.

Hispanics now make up 73.2 percent of the student population, while Whites are down to 25.2 percent and African-Amer-icans to just one percent.

“If you look at how our demographics have changed, I think you will find that we mirror the state closely,” Booth said. “It absolutely changes the way we teach some things.”

The report also stated that 83.2 percent of the students are classified as economi-cally disadvantaged and 50.2 percent as at-risk.

“Line up five children from our district and four of them are living in poverty,” said Booth. “It definitely affects the way we teach.”

The district is outperforming the state norm in nearly every TAKS testing indica-tor for third graders, but is generally below the state average in the other grades. The district also posted excellent numbers in attendance (96%) and dropout rate (0.2%),

and the four-year completion rate for the Class of 2010 was an impressive 95.6 per-cent.

The report did however, identify a dis-turbing trend in the college entrance test-ing results for Nixon-Smiley seniors, who posted an average score of 849 on the SAT and 17.6 on the ACT.

Not only are those scores down slightly from last year, but they fall short of the state average of 985 and 20.5 respectively. Additionally, only 2.7 percent of last year’s seniors scored at or above the testing cri-terion.

“It’s an embarrassing number,” Booth said. “Obviously it’s something we need to focus on more.”

The AEIS can be found in its entirety online at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfre-port/aeis/.

In another agenda item, Booth gave a report on the district’s Highly Quali-fied Teachers, who are defined as ones with full certification, a bachelor’s degree and demonstrated competence in subject knowledge. Currently all of the classes be-ing taught at Nixon-Smiley Elementary and Nixon-Smiley High School are being done by highly qualified teachers. The per-centage at Nixon-Smiley Middle School is 97.37.

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N-SCISD: Trustees reviewresults of AEIS reporting

Moulton VFW Essay WinnersThe winners of the Moulton VFW Post 6971’s Essay Contest were recognized on Dec. 11 during a dinner held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Moulton. Pic-tured with post representative Steve Fojtik and auxiliary president Anna Bartos are the winners in the 6th-8th grade category (top): James Wenske - 1st place, $100 cash prize; Gage Darilek - 2nd place, $50; and Macie Simecek - 3rd place, $25. Winners in the 9th-12th category (bottom photo) were: Brandee Dolezal - 1st place, $200; and Dylan Beyer - 2nd place, $150. (Photos courtesy of JIm Cun-ningham)


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Waelder Housing Authority is accept-ing applications for full-time and part-time Main-tenance Position. Only qualified ap-plicants need apply. MUST have work-ing knowledge of Electrical repairs,

Plumbing repairs, Sewer lines and Lift Station, ability to maintain apart-ment units in clean, decent and safe condition. Operate lawn equipment, floor equipment, receive and docu-ment service re-quest. Good people skills a plus. Must be able to pass both criminal and drug history. Apply at WHA Office lo-cated at 220 North Avenue A, Waelder, Texas. Call 830-203-0009 for additional information.--------------------------Medical Billing Clerk needed at The Vaz Clinic, 1103

N. Sarah DeWitt. Wages negotiable. Two years experi-ence. Looking for experience in com-munication with in-surance companies. Stop by for applica-tion or can email resume to THE VAZCLINICPA@ stx.rr.com. 672-2424.--------------------------W. B. Farm and Ranch Supply is taking applications for a Full time Truck Driver.Local Delivery Zone

Class A or B CDL required

Forklift experience required

Apply in personNO PHONE CALLS

ACCEPTEDW. B. Farm and Ranch Supply2031 Water St. (Hwy 183 N)

Gonzales Tx 78629 --------------------------WRITERS NEEDEDThe Cannon, your regional weekly for Gonzales and sur-rounding counties, is taking applica-tions for regional c o r r e s p o n d e n t s in Luling, Waelder,

Moulton, Shiner, Flatonia, Halletts-ville, Yoakum, Cu-ero, Smiley and Nixon to cover everything from meetings to feature stories to sports. Pay is on a per-assignment basis. Please contact Gen-eral Manager Dave Mundy at [email protected] 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.--------------------------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.

CDL DRIVERS WANTED

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

Garage Sale: Satur-day, December 17, 2011 from 8:00a.m.-12:00p.m. at 210 Tanglewood Trail. Items include baby and toddler boy/girl clothes and shoes, women’s clothes and shoes, toys, and house-hold items.--------------------------Yard/Moving Sale. Friday afternoon, Saturday & Sunday from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 511 E. Cone St., across from TurnAround Tavern. Furniture, appliances, video games, clothes, etc. Moving out of state. Too much stuff to move, selling all.--------------------------Garage Sale Satur-day, Dec. 17, 9-4 in Cost at Cost Store. Furniture, linens, household items, lots of Christmas decorations and much more.

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-BID NOTICE-The Gonzales Independent School District is requesting competitive sealed propos-als from qualified contractors for the GONZALES ISD – CAFETERIA RENOVATION & MISCELLANEOUS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. Proposals will be received until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 17, 2012, at the Gonzales ISD Administration Office, 926 Saint Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-9551. Proposals shall be clearly marked “Gonzales ISD Bid Proposal – Cafeteria Renovation & Miscellaneous Construction Project”. Proposals will be publically opened and read at the time and date mentioned. No proposal may be changed, amended or modified after the same has been submitted or filed in response to this notice. A proposal may be withdrawn, however, and resubmit-ted any time prior to the time set for receipt of proposals. Gonzales ISD has the right to accept or reject any bid or to waive any technicality which may be in the best interest of the school district.

Gonzales ISD will also be enforcing any and all applicable laws and regulations regarding criminal background checks required by the school district and/or State of Texas. Such re-quirements including company employee finger printing, will be enforced prior to access-ing school campus related to construction or otherwise during entire construction period.

A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 4, 2012, at the East Avenue Campus. All interested bidding contractors must attend or have a qualified representative present.

Included in the construction but not limited to will be:

Demolition Aluminum WindowsMisc Site Work Flush Laminated Wood DoorsSite Utilities Glazed TileAsphalt Paving DrywallConcrete Sidewalks Wall and Floor TileMetal Canopies Wall CoveringConcrete Foundations Glass & GlazingDrilled Concrete Piers Toilet PartitionsStructural Steel Framing MillworkMetal Roof Retrofit System Display BoardsPre-Finished Metal Wall Panels FlooringStanding Seam Metal Roofing Suspended Ceiling SystemMetal Studs PaintingMasonry Veneer SignageInsulation Food Service EquipmentAluminum Curtain Wall Systems HVACAluminum Storefronts ElectricalHollow Metal Doors & Frames Plumbing

The work will be awarded to under a single lump sum contract for all general construction work.

For plans and specifications contact the Architect, TSG Architects AIA, 427 Saint George, Suite 300, Gonzales, Texas 78629, (830) 672-7801. A current, completed AIA A305 will be required upon receiving plans and specs. General Contractors may obtain two (2) refund-able sets and MEP Sub-Contractors may obtain one (1) refundable set after receipt of $200.00 per set, plus postage and handling if applicable. A CD of the construction docu-ment set is available for a nonrefundable deposit of $50, which includes shipping. Plans may also be available for review at the Gonzales Independent School District’s office in Gonzales.

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ORDINANCE NO. 2011-30

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2011-22 REGULATING GARAGE SALES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.


AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GONZALES, TEX-AS, ADOPTING A FEE SCHEDULE FOR DUMPING OF WASTE AT THE CITY OF GONZALES WASTEWATER PLANT.


AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GONZALES, TEXAS, ALTERING AND AMENDING SECTION 16 OF A SANITATION ORDINANCE PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUN-CIL OF THE 7TH DAY OF MAY 1951, AND REVOKING PARTS THEREOF.

“Waelder ISD will hold a Public Meeting to present the 2010 - 2011 AEIS report and AYP results at 5:45 Monday, December 19, 2011, at the High School Tech Room, 109 N Ave C, Waelder, TX. The Regular Monthly School Board Meeting will follow at 6:00 pm”.

Please be informed that effective January 15,

2012, Texas Mini Storage, located at 1821 E. Sarah DeWitt Drive,

in Gonzales will be going out of business. Please

contact us at (830) 672-6790 or

[email protected]

for further information.

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Estate Sale by ap-pointment, email: d k n o s h o e s 4 @gmail.com to schedule. Antiques, cedar chest, paint-ings, teak bar, vic-torola, glassware, paintings, table with iron chairs, one iron bedframe, two sewing ma-chine topped with marble, coffee table with two match-ing barnwood end tables, hall table, antique tools, barn-wood desk,old teacher’s desk, knick-knacks, de-cons bench, bronze fountain and many other items.

1 axle trailer, wide ramp, 12’x61/2’ for sale. Call 857-4993.--------------------------New natural gas space heater. Ex-cellent condition. $65.00. Call any-time, 361-208-3565, Yoakum.--------------------------For Sale: Whirlpool Washing Machine, like new. Large ca-pacity. $200. 361-208-3565.--------------------------Westein Running Boards. $140. For pictures or any questions, please email [email protected] Windberg - Winters Velvet Mantle - $250.00. Signed Affidavit of Limited Edition 12x36 in frame. Email [email protected] for pictures or any questions.--------------------------Baby and Womens Clothes for sale. Cheap. Call 361-772-5566.--------------------------25” Color TV & en-tertainment center. Excellent condition. 830-672-6414.--------------------------For Sale: Hydrau-lic Motor Lift, Hy-draulic Transmis-sion Jack, 2 motor stands, Large Air Compressor, Fridgedair, double door ice box, Elec-tric stove (range), 9 months old, Shop Grinder & vice w/table and numer-ous other tools etc... Prices are negotia-

ble. Call for prices. 830-857-4997--------------------------1979 International 5 ton Ramsy winch, rolling tailboard, Hydraulic Crane (detached), down riggers. Like new tires. Runs good. $6,000 obo. Individ-ual, 830-660-2813.--------------------------MUST TAKE IT ALL! Barbie Dolls, some still in packages, purses, games, kitchen items, VHS tapes (new & used), more! All for only $100! Call 713-449-8861.--------------------------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.--------------------------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.--------------------------Like new, 26” Men’s 21 spd., $50 obo. Call Theresa at 830-

203-5212.--------------------------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.--------------------------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.--------------------------Whirlpool Heavy Duty Gas Dryer. Good condition. $75. Can be seen at 511 Church St. 830-857-4993.--------------------------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.--------------------------Commercial, Martin Luther King, Desk and many other calendars with your chosen informa-tion. Personal ser-vice at your busi-ness. Spread your website or business information all over South Texas. 830-437-5142 or cell, 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.--------------------------2 young ladies black jackets size 14. One is leather. 672-8034.--------------------------Old Readers Digests 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 poin-settia” pottery bowl. Large. Great gift. $35. Call (512) 917-4078.--------------------------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.--------------------------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 painting, landscape, $3800 (512)917-4078.--------------------------For Sale: Picnic ta-bles built with treat-ed 2x6 lumber with bolts and screws. No nails. 4, 6, and 8 foot sizes available. For more details call 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273. De-livery Available.

For Sale: Post Oak Firewood - year old - size and quantity

to fit your need. De-livery available. Call for prices, 830-540-4776 or 830-857-3273.

Heavily fertilized, horse quality, coast-al square & round bales. Bebe, Tx. 210-326-6053.

John Deere 350 C Dozer. 90% Condi-tion Overall and 1988 Wrangler, new mo-tor. 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, needs repair $150 (512) 917-4078.--------------------------2 wheel trailer. Call Robert at 830-203-0540.

6 pc. Solid Oak Bed-room Set. $500/OBO. Call 361-772-5566.

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.--------------------------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 3 piece an-tique loveseat, lamp’s new and used mo-bile chair with bat-teries. 1827 St. Louis 830-672-8034.

Late 1970’s Mobile for sale. 2BR-1BA. Great remodel-ing project. 12x48. Plumbing good. No electric. Livable condition. Some material included. Ready to be moved. $.1500 firm. 512-718-0482.--------------------------2002 Fleetwood Festival Ltd. 76x16 in excellent condi-tion. 3 bedrooms and 2 bath. I am selling it for the pay off, est. $24,000. The payments with Wilson County tax-es are about $250 a month. It is located in La Vernia and needs to be moved. Call Megan, 830-477-9792.

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Full-time position at Independence Golf Course. Oversee all activities

related to the ongoing maintenance of the golf course, grounds and equipment. The candidate should also have a good hands-on knowledge of golf course maintenance practices particularly on: -Greens, tees & fairways.-Irrigation, fertilizer/pesticide/fungicide applications, -Equipment operation, servicing and

repair of golf course machinery. Benefits for full-time employees include health insurance, retirement program and paid leave.

Applicant must be able to pass a pre-screeni drug and alcohol test. The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all interested

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’07 Doublewide, sits on 10 ac. Homesteaded, AG exempt, chain-link fence in yard and around 10 ac. Large deck on front, small one in back. Covered dog pen, outside night light. Different types of sheds. Water Softener tanks at-tached to back of house, for inside water only. 4BR/1 Bath, LR, carpeted, rest have linoleum. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, very roomy, high ceilings all through house. Ceiling fans in all 4 bedrooms and Living room, also White block Fireplace never used, Island kitchen between kitchen & dining room w/bar-stools. Silver cabi-nets. Belmont area, Gonzales School Route. Call Candy, LREB at 210-365-2803. --------------------------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 830-401-0147.

1995 Ford F350 Du-ally 2x4, 460, 5 spd. Runs good. $3,500 obo. 830-857-3325.--------------------------1977 Chevy 1/2 ton, 2 wd, 4 spd, special ordered. Original owner. $3,000 obo. 830-857-1506.--------------------------1995 Z71 Ext. Cab, 4x4, 350 engine, auto, tilt wheel, cruise, receiver hitch,

bedliner, bed rails, toolbox. $1,600. 830-460-0995.--------------------------2006 Corvette, 16,000 miles. Very Clean. $33,000. Call 830-672-7040.--------------------------1997 Chevrolet 1500, short bed, V6, 128,000 miles. $2,600. Call 830-672-7040.--------------------------4 20” XD Series wheels from a 2008 Toyota Truck. Asking $800/obo. Call 830-857-6434.--------------------------For Sale: ‘94 Cadillac DeVille. $500/obo. Call Luis, 830-339-0645.--------------------------Mercury Grand Marquis LS. Load-ed, 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. Like new. 830-857-5598.--------------------------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.--------------------------“SIMPLY THE BEST deals on new Chev-rolets and GMCs AND 3 over 100 used vehicles with financ-ing to fit most credit situations. Grafe Chevrolet GMC - Hal-lettsville, TX - 800 798-3225 or 361-798-3281.”

1989 Ford Conver-sion Van. Super clean interior, good motor & A/C, transmissions slips, $1,900 firm. 830-437-5659 or 857-6565.--------------------------2000 Jeep Wrangler SE Sport 2D, New Tires and New Sony Stereo. 107,000 miles. Great Condi-tion. Asking $7,000 obo. Call 361-865-3353.--------------------------For Sale: 2001 Crown Victoria Ford, price $3,250. Call 830-587-6230 or 830-857-5559.--------------------------1998 Chevrolet, heavy 1/2 ton 4WD, 350CC engine. New AC. $5,000. Call 830-203-0147.--------------------------Van for Sale. $3,800 OBO. 2001 Oldsmo-bile Silhouette. Well-maintained, very clean. 181,000 miles. Great for family or hauling van. Call 512-905-8226.--------------------------2,000 F-250, Power-stroke, Ford Diesel truck, Hunter Green, Tow Ball, Bedliner, CLEAN, 182K Miles. Power windows, locks. $6,500 cash. (512) 917-4078.--------------------------2005 Yamaha V-Star Classic with Silvera-do Package. Lots of extras. 1995 F-250 4x4 Supercab Diesel 5-speed. 281-330-9417.--------------------------2009 Honda Trail-wagon, w/dump bed, headlights, re-ceiver hitch & seat belts. 2wd w/rear dif-ferential. $2,500. For more information, 672-8580.--------------------------2007 Saturn Ion, 56,000 Miles $5000 worth of perfor-mance parts. $9000 OBO 830-203-0282.--------------------------For sale: 1998 GMC P/U, V8 automatic, 2D Extended Cab, 181K miles, bed liner, tow-package, $3,800. 830-203-0287.

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

For Rent to oilfield or pipeline work-ers 2BR/1BA, CH/A, furnished kitchen in Yoakum. Call 361-293-6821.--------------------------3/2, like new 1,800

sq. ft. in Nixon. $1,000/mo. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------2BR/2BA house for rent, w/covered patio, w/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.

I’m looking for a home to rent in the Gonzales area. If you have a prop-erty or something available to look at, please give me a call, 361-571-3466. Egon Barthels.--------------------------Needed: I need to rent a 2 bed or 3 bedroom apart-ment or house in Gonzales or Luling area. Please call 830-822-5076.

For sale or lease. 10,000 sq. ft. Bldg. with multi-level loading docks - Prime location - with offices and separate garage. Call 830-857-5448.--------------------------For Lease: Small of-fice space w/work-shop located at 339 St. George. Recently Renovated, $400/month. For more information please (830) 672-5580.

HEY LOOK HERE!Are you looking for a job to help you supplement your income? A reward-ing job caring for someone in their home who has Al-zheimers Disease. Do you have refer-ences and experi-ence and do you have a big heart? Then call me, it’s a rewarding job and it will make you feel awesome to know you’ve helped someone else. Call 830-391-4837.--------------------------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.--------------------------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 esti-mates 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.

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

Ford Motorhome. 44,000 orig. miles. All working. $2,995. 830-857-6565.--------------------------

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

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.--------------------------RV Sites Available in Nixon. $350/mo. in-cludes utilities. Call 830-857-6921.--------------------------FOR RENT: 2-RV Parking Sites, shade trees, all hook ups. 5 miles East Gon-zales. $350/mo. Call 263-0292.

For Sale or Trade: 27’ Sailboat, Beam 8’, fiberglass. 361-561-3335. Ask for Jeff.--------------------------2006 Land Prides 4x4 Recreational Vehicle For Sale. Approx. 200 hours. Honda Motor. In-dependent Suspen-sion. Windshield and Roof. 4x4. Ask-ing - $4,950.00 in very good condi-tion. Call 830-857-4670.--------------------------2008 Honda Four-trax with only 250 miles $3,500 o.b.o. 830-857-5236.--------------------------2 80CC Kawasaki 4-wheelers for sale. $900/each. Call 830-534-4996.--------------------------2006 Buell Blast 500cc bike. Made by Harley-David-son. Only 2,100 miles. Gets 62 miles to a gallon. Great fun, easy to ride, beginners or ex-perienced. $2,500 obo. Located near Old Moulton. Cell, 830-857-0734, after 6, can call 361-596-7317.--------------------------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.

Free to good home. Chihuahua dog, female, 4 yrs. old., spayed. Papers. Call 830-481-4707.--------------------------Chihuahua puppies for sale. 7 wks. old. 1 male, 3 females, $100. Call 830-203-8899 for more infor-mation.--------------------------Adorable Longhair Chihuahua puppy, last one, is looking for a new home, male, 9 wks, pure bred, healthy, 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.--------------------------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.

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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.--------------------------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.

Free Donkeys. 3 full grown females, 1 - 1 yr. old female, 1 - 1yr. old male, 1 full grown male. 830-263-0378, leave message.--------------------------Looking for a Jack & a Jenny. Call 830-460-0995.--------------------------For Sale: Two Reg-istered Hereford Bulls. One 5-year old herd bull and one 18-month old. Call 830-857-0560.--------------------------Banty’s For Sale. 3 roosters, 7 hens. $5.00 each. 512-917-4078.

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.--------------------------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. Gen-tle. Increase your weaning 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.

Owner Finance, 3BR/1BA located at 810 E. 2nd St. in Nix-on. Asking $65,000. Please call for more information. (830) 672-5580.--------------------------FOR SALE: Seven (7) Buildings, 20 Units Multi-Family Apart-ment Complex, lo-cated at 929 Water St, on 1.595 acres in Gonzales, TX, front-age along US Hwy 183. 1, 2, 3&4 Bed-rooms. All buildings built on concrete slabs, brick veneer siding, metal roof, central heat, Paved Parking Lots and Public Utilities. For information contact: Gonzales Housing Author-ity, 830-672-3419 or [email protected]/1 home. 714 Sey-dler St. Owner Fi-nance. $75,000 or best cash offer. Call Martha, 830-556-2280. Habla Espa-nol.--------------------------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.--------------------------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 lease. For Storage or Oilfield Equip-ment etc. 1 1/2 mile from city limits off 183 S. Call 830-263-4888 for informa-tion.--------------------------6+ Acres at end of Oil Patch Lane. Zoned Commercial for $180,000. Can divide into smaller tracts. Call 210-416-0041.--------------------------Small acreage for sale or lease on US 183 just North of US 90A in Gonzales. Great for oilfield, etc. 830-203-0470.

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 Leroy Matocha 33 Vinyl Records. “Time to Dance” and “All Aboard”. Call 979-532-3117.--------------------------Want to buy used tractors, running or not. Call 361-293-1633.--------------------------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.--------------------------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.

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.--------------------------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, troubleshooting & Repairs, new con-struction, addi-tions, meter 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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vGONZALES 1704 Donovan, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath..................$169,500vGONZALES New home under construction, complete by 10/25/11. Home has 3bed/2baths, metal roof, double pane windows, pec plumb-ing system, HUGE monster size lot with large trees, great location, 711 St. Frances, Gonzales...............................................................$159,500vTHOMPSONVILLE 2BR/1BA home on 30 ac. Recent new metal roof, remodeled and updated. On CR 240 in Thompsonville..$199,500

FARM & RANCHvWAELDER 97.44 acres, 4BR ranch house, great house, oil/gas in-come, Ranching/Investment.....................................................$750,000vGONZALES 28 acres, 2 story, 3BR, 2 Bath custom built home......................................................................................................$375,000

ACREAGEvREDROCK Good homesite, hunting, and investment opportunity. Property includes producing oil well and Seller will negotiate the sale of mineral rights.......................................................................$895,000

COMMERCIALvGONZALES 5 ac in city of Gonzales with access to RR track. All city utilities are available.................................................................$100,000vGONZALES For Lease: 10 to 20 acres, about 5 miles south of Gonzales, just off Hwy. 183.vGONZALES One acre fronting Oil Patch Lane with water, phone and elec. ready for hook-up.......................................................$50,000vWAELDER Poultry Farm. 4 breeder hen house, 50 acres, mobile home.........................................................................................$1,250,000

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Homes/Residential7 + Acres. & home...........................$240,000New: 1720 St. Vincent, ....................$275,000Lot - Live Oak....................................$8,000507 St. Michael, 3 bd., 2 ba..............$78,000New: 2 lrg. lots - Hopkins......$15,000/eachDuplex, + 2 M/H set up, Moulton.....$56,0001602 Water St.-commercial/rental..$150,0002342 FM 108, 3 bd., 2 story home..$145,000

Land4 acs with extra nice redone home...$155,00070 acs., wooded, hills, game, tanks.........................................................$420,000153 acs., FM 2091...........................$795,0008.7 acs., city limits...........................$120,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town...............................................................$12,000/Ac.,4+ Acres, city..................................$125,0006 Acres, 183 N., city.......................$225,000

Homes3.7 ACS. 4BR, 3BA, 2LV.................. $150,000306 McClure - 3BR, 1 Bath................$65,0001618 St. Peter - Home and extra lot....$70,000473 Crockett Lane-Settlement - 3 bd., beautiful property..................................$258,0001602 Water St.-commercial/rental....$150,0002342 FM 108, 3 bd.,2 story home.....$145,000792 90-B - Lakefront..............................$89,000312 Cr. Rd. 471, Lakefront + ,3 bd., 1.5 acre lot............................................$150,000

Land11.2 acs., Hwy 90. Gast Rd.......$5,300/Ac.CR 228 - 15 acs., M/H, trees................$87,500153 acs., FM 2091.........................$795,00061 acs., perfect homesite.................$4,990/Ac.3.94 acs., Settlement.......................$65,00010 acs., Settlement.........................$79,0002-4 acs., Sarah DeWitt............$25,000/Ac.1 ac. Seydler St...............................$25,0008.7 acs., city limits........................$120,00058 acs., trees, potential, edge of town................................................................$12,000/Ac.

CommercialLot - Live Oak..................................$8,000401 St. George-approx. 3400 sq. ft........................................................................$170,000

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Assemblies of GodGonzales Family Church Assembly of God320 St. Andrew

First Assembly of God509 E. 3rd St. Nixon

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

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

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

Greater Palestine Baptist ChurchS of 90-A (sign on Hwy 80)

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

San Marcos Primitive Baptist Church4 Miles west of Luling on Hwy. 90P.O. Box 186, Luling830-875-5305

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

Christian

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)712 Crockett, Luling

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

Church of Christ (Iglesia de Cristo)201 E. Second St. Nixon

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

New Way Church of God in Christ514 St. Andrew, Gonzales

EpiscopalEpiscopal Church of the Mes-siah721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-3407

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

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

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

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

Henson Chapel United Method-ist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

Webster Chapel A.M.E.1027 Church St. Gonzales

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

El Centro Cristiano “Agua Viva” of WaelderSun. Worship 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m.

Emmanuel Fellowship

1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian FellowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

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

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

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

Inter-DenominationalFaith Family Church1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales

PentecostalFaith TempleHwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon

Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 21515 Dallas, Gonzales

Temple Bethel Pentecostal1104 S. Paul, Gonzales

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

Presbyterian Pilgrim Presbyterian ChurchCR 210 off FM 1116

Presbyterian Church of Gon-zales414 St. Louis, Gonzales

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

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On Dec. 5, members of the Saturn Friendship Club met at the Cistern School-house for their Christmas Party and December meet-ing.

Sandy Allen and Barbara Vinson served as hostess-es. The meeting table was covered with a Christmas theme cloth. There were four small replicas of a San-ta’s boot holding Christ-mas arrangements spaced around the table. These

were later awarded as door prizes.

Everyone was in a fes-tive mood as they depos-ited their Secret Pal gift in the appointed place and left their favorite holiday treat on the food serving table. There was large box to receive the wrapped gifts members had brought for residents of local nursing homes.

When everyone had ar-rived, members were in-vited to fill their plates to overflowing with the many choices of different tempt-ing favorite treats.

Nancy Littlefield offered a prayer and the feasting began. This took quite a while because there were so many good things to sam-ple. Soft drinks and coffee were also served.

Following the meal the meeting was called to order by the president, Roberta

Kilpatrick. The club prayer was recited in unison and the motto ”To make the best better” was stated. Nancy Littlefield brought the de-votional “Advent Wings,” written by Wilda Morris from Miles Ahead: Devo-tionals for Older Adults. The devotional was based on Luke 2:10, “But the an-gel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for see - I bring you good news of great joy for all people.’”

According to an ancient legend, birds originally didn’t have wings, which caused them to be fearful because of their size. When they explained to God how vulnerable they felt, God gave them wings. All too soon the birds realized that the bone and feathers of the wings proved to be a bur-den, making them awkward and feel even more vulner-able. Taking their problem back to God, God said,” If you learn to use them , they will help you to fly”.

Sometimes the season of Advent seems to be a bur-den for us humans. What with all the list of things to do and the rushing to get them done, we wonder if decking the halls is worth the effort. Instead of sing-ing carols, we want to cry.

Here the writer states,”When I calm down, I remind myself that Ad-vent is not intended to be a burden, I ask God to teach me to use Advent as it was intended. Which things on my to-do list can be dropped or postponed - and which ones are really important? Which help me remember the good news of great joy proclaimed by the angels that first Christ-mas? Which are done from a sense of obligation and which take wings as acts of love?”

Let this be a season of loving and joy. Let us con-centrate on those things that honor The Christ Child and express our com-passion to others.

Roll Call was answered with what favorite holiday food we look forward to having at this season of the year. What a strange assort-ment were named, They in-cluded tamales, fruit cake, peppermint, turkey, stuff-ing, a sister’s pumpkin pie, pecan pie, a grandmother’s stuffed celery, and a special fruit salad. But the major-ity of answers were “every-thing” and even everything and more!

The minutes of the No-vember meeting were read and approved. The financial statement was accepted. The treasurer announced she had mailed a generous

check to Santa’s Helpers of Gonzales County. The president thanked every-one for the individual do-nations made by members to the “Love Offering”. It was added to the amount sent from the club treasury. She said there were over 400 children in the county that would have a brighter Christmas because of San-ta’s Helpers.

Other new business concerned the 2012 years books and yearly dues. The 2011 officers of the club were asked to serve for an-other year.

They are President, Ro-berta Kilpatrick; Vice President, Georgia Brun-ner; Secretary/Treasurer, Mary Kelly; Cheerleader, Della Mae Urban; Devo-tional Leader, Nancy Lit-tlefield; and Reporter, Eva Boscamp.

Roberta Kilpatrick was recognized as Birthday Lady for December. The Birthday Song was sung and she received a gift from her Secret Pal. Sue Kalinec, who along with her husband operate the Cistern Schoolhouse, was presented a gift certificate in appreciation for all she had done to help the club this year.

The president was pre-sented a beautiful Poinset-tia plant from the club in appreciation for her serv-ing as president in 2011.

Roberta read a poem, “A Favorite Recipe” written by Helen Steiner Rice. It listed Kindness, Love, Faith, and Thanks as the ingredients to have lots of Angel Food all year long. At that point the business meeting end-ed.

Two brain teasing games were played. Mary Kelly and Vivian Benton were awarded prizes for be-ing the winners. The time everyone had been wait-ing for arrived. Secret Pal gifts were handed out and opened one at a time.

Lively conversation, sur-prised expressions, smiling faces and squeals of delight followed the opening of each gift and learning who the Secret Pal in 2011 had been. Members then drew names for Secret Pals for 2012.

Members continued to visit for some time as they relished the warmth and blessings of friendship. All too soon, it was time to end the enjoyable after-noon.

The first meeting in 2012 will be on Jan. 16 at 1 PM at the Cistern Schoolhouse with Elizabeth Brosch and Libby Hopkins serving as hostesses.

The word vocation comes from the word “Vocare”; which means to call.

There is a definite place God calls us to be; a vocation that will fulfill a specific God-given purpose in our lives. We were designed for a rea-son; our lives were intended to matter. Do you know your purpose?

Frederick Buechner once said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep hunger meet.” The call-ing God has for us pulls at our hearts toward a particular job, profession, occupation, trade, art, or craft.

God gently nudges us to-ward it one step at a time. If gentle nudging doesn’t work, He has been known to push us toward it, even if it leaves a bruise. But, the benefits are well worth the temporary pain.

How can we be sure we are hearing from God? We can’t be sure if we don’t recognize His voice. To recognize God’s call and step into your voca-tion it is essential to know God’s character, and the way He has consistently operated in your life in the past.

God speaks volumes to you and me daily; probably not as He did in the days of the Bible when He was proving who He was to mankind. So, in all probability there won’t be a burning bush experience.

He won’t speak audibly in a spectacular way to convince us that it is God. He speaks to us through others, through our circumstances, through nature, through dreams, through visions, and through scripture. And, He also speaks directly to our mind.

But His voice is not the only one we hear. The in-audible voices we hear in our mind come from one of three sources: Our own inner thoughts, Satan influencing our thoughts, or God.

This is how to tell which voice you are hearing. You

will recognize the devil’s voice because it condemns. Con-demnation makes us feel that we are bad or worthless. Con-demnation causes us to run away from God in an attempt to hide our shame and guilt.

That is what happened to Adam and Eve in the Garden when they listened to the dev-il. Self-pity and self-condem-nation come from the devil. We should always resist these impulses.

The devil will also try to talk us into dwelling on thoughts that are opposed to what is right. Those who are spiritual, but don’t have a relationship with God, are on dangerous ground. They may cause oth-ers harm because “God told them to do it”. The devil’s voice coaxes us to do something wrong—against what the Bi-ble says we should do—in an attempt to cause us spiritual, physical or emotional harm.

The devil knows scripture and will try to use it against you by twisting the truth to make things seem alright. Know scripture well; it is your weapon against the schemes of the devil. Read Matthew 4 to see how Jesus was able to overcome the devil.

God’s voice is a still, small voice in your mind that may sound much like your own inner thoughts; however, His voice is more like a feeling deep down in your spirit that leads you in one direction in-stead of another. When God talks to us He causes us to just know what should or should not be done. Through this in-tuition, or what some people call a hunch or conscience, we just know that we know. And, through experience, we dis-cover that whenever this inner prompting is ignored we will end up in a bad situation.

One of God’s character traits is love; so His voice will always encourage us, always build us up, and always keep us from harm. His voice also convicts us. Conviction is dif-ferent than guilt or shame.

Guilt causes us to run from God and hide. Conviction brings us to a point that we recognize what we are doing is wrong and makes us want to stop. We change our behavior out of love for God, not out of fear of punishment.

God’s voice will never lead you to do anything that is against scripture. But, if you don’t know what the Bible says, you won’t know what God expects of you. Getting to know God means know-ing His written Word—God and His Word cannot be sepa-rated. We will know God by learning what God has said about Himself in scripture. We won’t know God’s voice from anyone else’s until we’ve become familiar with it.

There is a story in the bible about a man called Samuel. God kept calling Samuel in order to lead him into his purpose, but Samuel kept re-sponding to the wrong voice. You see, Samuel did not yet know God and was not fa-miliar with His voice. Once Samuel learned to recognize the voice of God he was able to respond to his calling.

There is a purpose for your life too—will you recognize God when He calls you?

Love, Eloise


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Giving back to IWBSFor the past 8 years a group from the St. Paul class of ‘89 have been giving the IWBS Sisters a Christmas gift to show their appreciation from their days at St. Ludmila. They purchase and deliver Shiner Strudels just in time for the Christ-mas Holidays. This year they delivered 39 strudels to the sisters assuring they would have a good supply of homemade goodies. All the Sisters in the IWBS Motherhouse in Victoria are very appreciative of this gesture but the Sisters that have taught in Shiner often say “we get a little taste of Shiner again”. The former students enjoy this once a year visit with the sisters and are happy to give some-thing back to them.Pictured are (from left) Sr Elaine, Philip Pilat(‘89), Halle Pilat, Bobby Kneifel(‘89), Gracie Pilat, Noah Leist, Kade Leist, Sr Sylvia, Sr. Frances Cab-rina, Sr Marietta, Monica Peters(‘89), Sr Ana Marie, Denise (Siegel) Leist(‘89), St Esther, Jennifer Pilat and Charlie Pilat. Other Alumni from the class of ‘89 not in the photo are Dwayne Maly, Clarice (Thibodeaux) Butler. (Courtesy Photo)

How to recognize itwhen God calls you

The Music Study Club, a part of the Texas and Na-tional Federation of Mu-sic Clubs, met Thursday evening December 8 for banquet and Christmas celebration in the narthex of First United Method-ist Church . Pres. Shirley Spoon called the meeting to order and asked Herb Kar-nau to lead the Federation Hymn and TOGETHER WE SING. All joined to sing with Vida Burnett at the piano, the Christmas carol “Rise Up Shepherd and Follow” and the carol story was related.

Pres. Spoon then asked the Invocation and mem-bers and their guests en-joyed the banquet. Ta-bles decorated by Social Com. members Sarah and Charles Patterson were laid with white linen and cen-terpieces of puddled gold satin topped with golden filigree topiary trees and

swirls of red and gold star garlands accented by red velvet poinsettias.

Dinner, catered by Just Desserts, was fruit glazed pork tenderloin, broccoli-rice casserole, green salad with orange slices and pomegranate vinaigrette, green beans with lemon, poppy seed dinner rolls and a rich vanilla Bundt cake topped with cherry and orange sauce, iced tea and coffee.

Dinner was beautifully set with lovely Christmas music surrounding us as we dined.

After dinner, Pres. Spoon led carol singing with Vida Burnett at the piano as all joined making harmony in a program of member-selected Christmas car-ols; many were ancient unfamiliar songs which we learned, all found in a small hymn booklet used by carolers in the Lutheran church in Shiner. The meet-ing closed with speaking the NFMC Collect.

Music Study Clubcelebrates holidayBy CAROL DUBOSECannon Correspondent

By EVA BOSCAMPCannon Correspondent


2011 Cocoa Carols in Luling

This year’s “Cocoa Carols” in Luling kept many downtown businesses open late Friday. A group of students from Luling High School served as the evening’s caroling entertainment, shown (above) at Brushy Creek Outfitters, while Lindsey Per-ryman entertained visitors to Twin Palms. (below center). The Luling Main Street Board presented the coveted “Cocoa Cup” to The Coffee Shop in downtown Luling, for winning the People’s Choice award (below left). Their secret recipe was described as being a “spicy cocoa.” Also on hand, of course, was Santa Claus. (Photos by Dave Mundy and Nikki Maxwell)

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Driving the laneYoakum’s Rae Rae Samuel drives the lane as Gonzales’ Donniqua Sanders (10) tries to draw a charge and Vancheska Russell guards the backside. (Photo by Mark Lube)

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Four Apaches earn spotson 3A All-State team

A quartet of Gonzales Apaches were selected to the Texas Associated Press Sports Editors Class 3A All-State Team. Cody Jurek received an Honorable Men-tion as offensive lineman while defensive backs Jon Anthony Casares and Zack Lopez, and linebacker Landon Lock re-ceived Honorable Mention on defense.

The Apache selections were joined by Cuero’s Logan Goebel who received an Defense Honorable Mention as punter.

The Apaches went 11-1, with a 28-3A championship, bi-district championship and were area finalists.

The Gobblers finished the season 3-7.

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The Gonzales Lady Apaches gave head coach Andre D’Aversa reason to be optimistic a little.

Gonzales opened District 28-3A play Tuesday night at GHS Special Events Center with a 53-39 loss to rivals and No. 9 Yoakum Lady Bulldogs.

Gonzales (5-14, 0-1) was level with the Lady ‘Dogs at halftime 24-24 and trailed just 38-33 to start the fourth quarter.

Yoakum (15-2, 1-0) pulled away in that last box with a 15-6 run.

“We did a lot of things right,” D’Aversa said. “We handled trapping better. We handled Yoakum’s press and we tried to take a lot of charges.”

“We had lots of patient of-fensive sets.”

The Lady Apaches’ strug-gle on crashing the boards was still top concern for D’Aversa.

“Rebounding was the main killer tonight,” he said. “Everything else was good.”

Lady ‘Dog head coach Shawn Griffin said Yoakum did not play very intense at the start.

“We have some work to do,” he said. “We came out dead in the first half and picked it up in the second because we are a second half team.”

Yoakum opened the game with a 6-3 advantage as Rae Rae Samuel took a pass from Ashtyn Henkes and

scored, and soon Samuel re-turned the favor to give the Lady ‘Dogs a 4-0 lead.

Vancheska Russell assist-ed on a Jessica Cantu bucket and then made a free throw.

A bucket by Henkes gave Yoakum an 8-3 window.

Brittany Pakebusch con-verted a three-point play after an offensive rebound and Gonzales knotted the game as Mariah Hastings fed Russell for a jumper.

Shervante Caldwell scored on basket to help give Yoakum an 11-8 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Jaccari Hights grabbed an offensive board and turned it into two points to start the second box.

A Hastings triple helped to close the gap to 13-12, and a little later, a Hast-ings pass into the hands of Taylor West on the outside turned into three-point at-tempt which was good to tie the game at 15-15.

Russell scored after a West feed to give Gonzales a 17-15 advantage.

The Lady ‘Dogs got a triple and then a jumper in-side from Samuel to go on top 24-21.

They looked poised to take that margin into the locker room at halftime.

Except for a West pass to Hastings who dribbled downcourt and sank a three at the buzzer for the 24-24 game.

The Lady ‘Dogs opened the third period with a 6-0 run and Gonzales cut the lead in half after a Donni-qua Sanders trey.

Yoakum then scored an-other six straight and Gon-zales closed down to 38-33 at the end as West convert-ed two three-point shots, after feeds from Sanders and Loni Lester.

Yoakum scored the first five points of the fourth quarter and never slowed down.

• The Gonzales junior varsity edged Yoakum 40-36.

• Last weekend, the Lady Apaches split four games in the South San Antonio Tournament. They fell to South San Antonio 50-30 (Friday) and Southwest 62-39 Saturday. Gonzales beat Holy Cross 46-37 to start things on Thursday and got past McCollum, 51-44, on Saturday.

Yoakum 53, Gonzales 39Yoakum: Samuel 7 1-10 16, Hights 6

3-3 15, Henkes 6 1-4 13, Caldwell 2 2-2 6, Jones 1 1-2 3, Pawelek 0 0-2 0. Totals 22 8-23 53.

Gonzales: West 3 2-2 11, Sanders 4 2-8 10, Hastings 2 1-2 7, Sanders 1 1-2 4, Pakebusch 1 1-1 3, Cantu 1 0-0 2, Stafford 1 0-0 2. Totals 13 7-15 39Yoakum 11 13 14 15—53Gonzales 8 16 9 6—39

Rebounds: Yoakum 38 (Jaccarri Hights 16, Rae Rae Samuel 7, Ashtyn Henkes 4, Shardae Jones 4, Carleshia Robinson 3, Shervante Caldwell 1, Jacy Pawelek 1, Calle Witte 1, Morgan Long 1), Gonzales 30 (Vancheska Rus-sell 10, Brittany Pakebusch 7, Mariah Hastings 7, Taylor West 3, Jessica Cantu 1, Bre’Ana Stafford 1, Loni Lester 1). As-sists: Yoakum 16 (Henkes 6, Hights 3, Samuel 2, Long 2, Robinson 2, Caldwell 1), Gonzales 12 (Hastings 3, West 3, Lester 2, Russell 1, Stafford 1, Jessica Cantu 1, Donniqua Sanders 1). Steals: Yoakum 13 (Samuel 3, Witte 2, Caldwell 2, Robinson 2, Hights 2, Henkes 1, Jones 1), Gonzales 7 (Hastings 4, Rus-sell 2, Sanders 1). Blocks: Yoakum 6 (Hights 3, Henkes 1, Samuel 1, Long 1), Gonzales 1 (Russell 1). Three-point bas-kets: Yoakum 1 (Samuel 1) , Gonzales 6 (West 3, Hastings 2, Sanders 1).

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The Nixon-Smiley Mustangs beat Devine 56-31 Tuesday to improve to 13-1. Damian Perez sank 15 points; Robbie Mei-ja had 12 points; Jaime Moreno and Seth Barrow scored 10 points each; Matt Finch added six points; Victor Evans put in two points and Ricky Hernandez contributed

one point.•The Nixon-Smiley Lady Mustangs fell

to Marion, 48-42, on Tuesday to open district play. Jazmin Erskin bagged 10 points; Jennifer Flores sank nine points and Megan Guerra bucketed eight points. Kelby Henderson and Savanah Martinez put down five points; Abigail Scarbrough scored three points and Alena Alvarez

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Fast start helps ‘Dogscharge past Wildcats

‘Cats upend St. Gerard

Cuero wakes up Luling

Driving the baselineYoakum’s T.J. Hights battles to get past Waelder’s Clay Orona (23) during second-round play in the Yoakum Classic. (Photo by Mark Lube)

ROUNDUP: Shiner boys,girls claim hoops wins

chipped in two points.• The Shiner Lady Comanches beat

Kenedy 72-12. Amanise Coleman brought down 14 points; Stacey Perez recorded 13 points and Ryah Michalec bagged 10 points.

• The Sacred Heart Indianettes defeated Victoria Cobra 65-44. Adrienne Klim-itchek deposited 16 points, Jayce Orsak had another 12 points and Arianne Kube-na sank 11 points.

• The Cuero Lady Gobblers were edged by Rice Consolidated 35-33. Abbey Shep-pard bagged 18 points to pace Cuero.

•The Edna Cowgirls squeaked by Flato-nia 59-54.

Taylor Williams had 23 points for the Lady Bulldogs; Kaci Pavlicek and Alex Bruns had 10 points each with Abigail Scarbrough dropping eight points and Leanna Dunk chipping in two points.

• The Shiner Comanches beat Round Top-Caramine 62-36. Matt Pohler had 15 points and Evel Jones scored 12 points. Leo Baray bagged 11 points; Lu-cian Blaschke bucketed six points; Chase Arledge netted five points; Trevion Flow-ers had three points, with Derek Duke and Cole Strauss scoring two points

• The Moulton Bob Katz took care of business against Fayetteville 60-47. Jacob Novosad led all scorers with 23 points and Matt Dornak bagged 14 points.

• The Sacred Heart Indians fell to Vic-toria Cobra 70-49. Cole Wick dropped in 17 points; Scott Stoner contributed 14 points and Nathan Hollas sank 11 points.

• The Luling Eagles fell to Yorktown 78-75. Darion Sayles dropped in 34 points and Josh Alvarez had another 17 points.

• The Yoakum Bulldogs fell to Goliad 60-49. Joe Mireles and TJ Hights banked in 14 points each

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YOAKUM — Coaches love to see their teams start fast and on the right foot at the start of a game. They also wish to see the team follow up on that early energy for the rest of the game.

The Yoakum Bulldogs raced out to a hot start then cooled off slightly later as they dispatched the Waelder Wildcats, 77-55, Thursday afternoon in the Yoakum Holiday Classic

Yoakum head coach Myke Ortiz said the Bull-dogs came fast out of the gates but slowed down a little in the late stages.

“I thought we came out with a lot of intensity,” Yo-akum coach Myke Ortiz said. “We need to work on finishing games.”

Wildcats coach Jarvin Hall said his team got in a big hole early on.

“We did not handle the early pressure,” he said. “We were fighting against 15, 20 point holes.”

Hall said his team made a lot of ‘fundamental’ mis-takes in the game.

The ‘Dogs opened the game with a 13-3 advantage as Troy DeWeese made two short-range baskets, Joe

Mireles drained a three af-ter the pass from DeWeese, Heath Kristek made a jumper and Tre Hights hit two jumpers.

Waleder got a free throw from Clay Orona and a bucket by Cody Orona dur-ing that time.

Yoakum then went on a 10-0 run to end the frame with Hights hitting two more baskets and Blake McCracken converted a three-point shot.

Down 28-5 in the sec-ond quarter, Waleder woke up a little —Clay Orona made an unassisted layup and Arthur Aguilar made a jumper after a feed from Jeremy Gonzales.

Yoakum then got a three-point bucket from Mireles and the ‘Cats countered with a triple from Clay Orona to close down to 31-10.

Yoakum got a basket from Kristek and then he also converted a three-point play. McCraken as-sisted on the score from TJ Hights and the ‘Dogs went ahead 38-14.

Waelder mad a run at the end of the period with Clay Orona and Gonza-les knocking down three as Yoakum went into the locker rooms with a 44-21 advantage.

Waelder started third-period action with a 7-2 run and the ‘Dogs respond-ed with seven straight points of their own.

Close to the end of the third, the teams exchanged tripes: McCracken con-nected for Yoakum and Gonzales hit a pair of three for Waelder as Yoakum led 62-40 to enter the last eight minutes.

Both teams bagged 15 points each in the last quar-ter. TJ Hights bucketed sev-en points for the ‘Dogs and Cody Orona sank the same amount for Waelder.

Yoakum 77, Waelder 55Waelder: Clay Orona 5 6-8 19, Jer-

emy Gonzales 4 2-2 14, Cody Orona 4 3-3 11, Caleb Ibarra 2 0-0 6, Deondrae Fields 1 1-2 3, Arthur Aguilar 1 0-0 2. Totals 17 12-15 55.

Yoakum:Heath Kristek 8 3-4 23, T.J. Hights 8 2-2 18, Tre Hights 6 0-0 12, Troy DeWeese 5 0-0 10, Joe Mireles 2 0-0 6, Blake McCracken 2 0-0 6, Fred Thompson 1 0-0 2. Totals 34 5-6 77.Waelder 3 18 19 15—55Yoakum 23 21 18 15—77

Rebounds: Waelder 17 (Cody Oro-na 6, Joseph McCook 5, Clay Orona 3, Gonzales 2, Fields 1), Yoakum 31 ( Kristek 9, Tre Hights 7, TJ Hights 7, DeWeese 4, Mireles 2, McCracken 1, Thompson 1). Assists: Waelder 9 (Clay Orona 2, Gonzales 2, McCook 2, Fields 2, Aguilar 1), Yoakum 19 (Tre Hights 4, DeWeese 4, TJ Hights 4, Thompson 3, Mireles 1, Kristek 1, John Patek 1, McCracken 1). Steals: Waelder 4 (Clay Orona 2, McCook 1, Cody Orona 1), Yoakum 14 (Kristek 3, TJ Hights 3, Mireles 2, Tre Hights 2, DeWeese 2, Thompson 2). Blocks: Yoakum 3 (TJ Hights 1, Tre HIghts 1, Chase Hermes 1). Three-point baskets: Walder 9 (Gonzales 4, Clay Orona 3, Ibarra 2), Yoakum 4 (Mireles 2, McCracken 2).

By MARK LUBE

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Launching oneLuling’s Byron Martin (2) launches a three-point shot over Cuero defenders Dari-us Mathis (1) and John Aguilar (23) during Thursday’s action in the Yoakum Clas-sic. (Photo by Mark Lube)

YOAKUM — It was the best game so far for the Cuero Gobblers basketball team.

The Gobblers kicked off the Yoakum Holiday Clas-sic late Thursday morning with a 64-39 win over some fellow fowls, the Luling Eagles.

“I thought we were more awake than they were,” Cu-ero head coach Colin Toot said. “We have made a lot of improvement and this was our best game by far.”

He said the team did bet-ter on ball protection, im-proved its shooting and got better performances from the point guards and post players.

Eagles head coach Clint Anderson said at this point in the season, his team is young and inexperienced.

It was the Eagles who started things in the first frame with a 5-2 advan-tage as Darion Sayles took a pass from a Byron Martin and sank a triple and short-

ly afterwards, scored on a layup after getting a steal.

The Gobblers then ral-lied for six straight points as John Aguilar made a la-yup followed by one from Darius Mathis.

Mathis later passed the ball to Austin Means for a successful short jumper.

Germain Corpus took advantage of a pass from Martin to bring the Eagles to within 8-7 but Cuero ended the frame with a 4-0- run.

The Gobblers went on a 12-2 run for most of the second frame, with Rory Washington, Jacarries Johnson, Colby Ebrom, Devante Holemen and D’Anthony Hopkins all connecting on shots.

Luling converted 4-of-8 free throws down the stretch and got buckets by Juan Ordonez to trail Cu-ero 30-17 at halftime.

Martin sank a couple of triples for Luling early in the third frame to keep the deficit at 13 points, 36-23. Marc Magallanes made a bucket later to close the gap

to 36-25.Cuero then ended the

period on a 11-3 run to hold a 47-28 lead.

The Gobblers closed the game with an identical 17-11 scoring advantage in the fourth quarter.

Cuero 64, Luling 39Cuero: Austin Means 4 2-3 10,

Devante Holemen 5 0-0 10, John Aguilar 4 0-3 8, D’Anthony Hopkins 4 0-0 8, Jacarrus Johnson 3 1-2 7, Colby Ebrom 3 1-2 7, Rory Washington 3 0-0 6, Grant Diebel 3 0-0 6, Darius Mathis 1 0-0 2, Caleb Harvey 0 0-2 0. Totals 30 4-14 65.

Luling:Byron Martin 4 4-5 14, Dar-ion Sayles 4 0-0 10, Juan Ordonez 3 1-3 8, Germain Corpus 1 0-0 2, Marc Mallganez 1 0-0 2, Ryan Larison 1 0-1 2, Brian Guerrero 0 1-2 1, Keeton Coe 0 0-2 0, Josh Alvarez 0 0-2 0. Totals 14 6-14 39.Cuero 12 18 17 17-64Luling 7 10 11 11-39

Rebounds: Cuero 41 ( Aguilar 7, Ebrom 7, Means 5, Diebel 5, Hopkins 4, Johnson 3, Harvey 3, Holemen 3, Washington 3, Robert Gray 1), Luling 23 (Coe 6, Larison 4, Alvarez 4, Porfirio 2, Guerrero 2, Ordonez 2, Corpus 1). Assists: Cuero 20 ( Holemen 6, John-son 4, Mathis 4, Guerrero 2, Diebel 1, Hopkins 1, Washington 1, , Ebron 1), Luling 9 (Martin 4, Alvarez 2, Guer-rero 1, Sayles 1, Coe 1). Steals: Cuero 5 (Means 1, Hopkins 1, Holemen 1, Johnson 1, Diebel 1), Luling 9 (Alvarez 3, Sayles 2, Coe 1, Martin 1, Porfirio 1, Larison 1). Blocks: Cuero 5 Wash-ington 2, Harvey 1, Gray 1, Means 1), Luling 1 (Porfirio 1). Three-point baskets:Luling 5 (Sayles 2, Martin 2, Ordonez 1).

YOAKUM — Waelder Wildcats coach Jarvin Hall knows his team is young and has a long way to go.

The Wildcats won their first game in the Yoakum Holiday Classic against San Antonio St. Gerrard, 48-44.

Waelder held a strong advantage after the first quarter, 16-2, and 30-15 at halftime.

The Wildcats were able to make some plays in the second half to withstand a comeback attempt by the Royals, mainly on a flood of three-point baskets.

“We survived this game. We are still a young team and made mistakes that a young team will make,” Hall said.

“We have lost three games by a total of five posses-sions,” he said. “We must learn how to close out a game.”

Cody Orona, Jeremy Gonzales and Clay Orona all sank baskets in the first quarter to help give Waelder a 16-0 lead, including threes

by Clay Orona.The Royals missed shots

for most of the quarter, but avoided the shutout as Davonte Walker got an of-fensive rebound and scored around the 1:19 mark of the first quarter.

In the second frame, the Wildcats went up 21-4 and St. Gerrard started show signs of life. Rosco Parsons made a tres followed by a bucket from EMF Smith.

Gonzales and Caleb Ibar-ra provided the final seven points for Waelder as they led 30-15 at the intermis-sion.

The Royals opened the third quarter with a 5-3 run to close the gap to 33-22.

Using a pair of three-point shots, St. Gerrard then scored 10 straight and was down a mere point, at 33-32.

Waelder made a 9-2 run to end the frame, getting seven points from Clay Orona.

A Parson’s triple with 49 seconds left brought the Royals to within 42-41.

Waelder got a little

breathing space with an Ibarra two-point shot to go up 44-41.

Joseph McCook made two free throws and the ‘Cats held a 46-41 advantage with just a few seconds left.

Parsons drained another three to close down to 46-44 with under a full second left.

However, St. Gerrad committed a foul trying to win the ball back and Clay Orona sank two free throws to seal the game.

Waelder 48, St. Gerrad 44Waelder: Clay Orona 6 2-2 17, Cody

Orona 4 3-4 11, Jeremy Gonzales 3 2-2 9, Joseph McCook 0 4-4 4, Caleb Ibarra 2 0-0 4, Deondrae Fields 1 1-2 3. 16 12-14 48.

St. Gerrard: Rosco Parsons 6 1-4 16, Ty Spring 6 0-0 16, Davonte Walker 3 0-0 6, EMF Smith 1 0-0 2, Horacio Merrill 1 0-2 2, Ronell Davis 1 0-0 2. 18 1-6 44.Waelder 16 14 12 6-48St.Gerard 2 13 19 10-44

Rebounds: Waelder 31 (McCook 9, Fields 8, Cody Orona 6, Clay Orona 5, Gonzales 2, Ibarra 1), St. Gerrard 23 (Smith 8, Walker 4, Parsons 4, Merrill 3, Spring 2, Glen Jackson 1, Ronell Davis 1). Assists: Waelder 13 (Clay Orona 6, Gonza-les 5, Jacob Ramirez 1, Cody Orona 1), St. Gerrard 12 (Parsons 4, Jackson 3, Smith 2, Walker 1, Spring 1, Merrill 1). Steals: Waelder 6 (Gonzales 2, Clay Orona 2, McCook 1, Clay Orona 1), St. Gerrard 16 (Parsons 7, Spring 3, Smith 3, Walker 2, Jackson 1). Blocks: Waelder 1 Fields 1), St. Gerrard 1 (Smith 1). Three-point baskets: Waleder 4 (Clay Orona 3, Gonzales 1), St. Gerrard 7 (Smith 4, Parsons 3).

By MARK LUBE

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By MARK LUBE

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The CannonThursday, December 15, 2011 Page C3

Weekend Basketball Roundup

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The Shiner girls varsity fell to host Go-liad in the Goliad Tournament, 46-22 over the weekend of Dec. 9-10. Julianna Rankin bagged eight points; Stacey Perez buck-eted five points; Jordan Pietsch scored four points; Ciara Harper sank three points and Lauren Oden finished with two points.

The Lady Comanches battled back, edging El Campo 45-41. LaNeshia Hunt bagged 14 points; Amanise Coleman sank eight points; Ryah Michalec recorded five points Oden and Harper sank four points; Hannah Koenning and Pietsch recorded three points with Rankin and Perez bank-ing in two points. The Lady Comanches de-feated Hallettsville 37-26 on Saturday. Hunt sank 11 points; Oden scored 10 points; Me-gan Chumchal and Pietsch had four points; Perez, Coleman, Michalec and Rankin fin-ished with two points.

On Friday, Shiner edged Cuero 33-32. Hunt got 15 points; Michalec added five points; Coleman and Perez sank four points; Harper had three and Rankin fin-ished with two points. Madeline Davis scored 15 points for the Lady Gobblers.

•The Lady Mustangs opened the Poteet Tournament on Thursday with a pair of wins.

The Lady Mustangs pounded Jourdanton 59-25.

Hailey Boatright bagged 11 points, Sa-vannah Martinez scored another 10 and Abigail Scarbrough registered seven points. Alena Alvarez and Jazmin Erskin dropped in six points each; Megan Guerra, Kelby Henderson. and Jennifer Flores chipped in five points each while Brooke Hester and D’Laine Palacio finished with two points each.

Nixon then held off the hosts 44-34. Flores led with 10 points; Scarbrough bagged eight points; Henderson scored six points; Boatright contributed five points; Guerra recorded four points; Erskin scored three points with Alvarez, Palacio, Lauren Trigo and Martinez bagging two points each.

The Lady Mustangs fell to Navarro, 58-28, on Friday. Palacio registered five points; Martinez had four points; Guerra, Flores, Henderson and Erskin had three points each; Hester and Scarbrough brought down three points each and Alvarez scored one points.

Nixon finished in fourth place as Devine squeaked by in the third-place game, 43-39. Scarbrough finished with eight points; Er-skin scored seven points; Flores, Henderson and Palacio bagged five points each; Alva-rez, Guerra, Martinez and Hester scored two points each with Boatright scoring one point.

Scarbrough was selected to the All-Tour-nament team.

•The Shiner St. Paul Lady Cardinals de-feated Burton, 48-36, Thursday in the Fay-etteville Tournament.

Marissa Ynclan bagged 17 points to lead St. Paul and Katelynn Leist deposited 12 points. Kourtney Knesek and Kali Kocian sank four points each; Kymberline Malatek, Katie Denson and Mary Adamek scored two points each.

The Lady Cardinals scored a 43-38 win against La Grange. Ynclan sank 15 points; Bethany Pokluda had another eight points;Leist bagged six points; Kocian contributed five points; Denson sank four points; Adamek had three points and Alexa

Schaefer finished with three points.St. Paul polished off Burton 48-36. Ynclan

contributed 17 points and Leist scored 12 points. Schaefer had seven points; Knesek bagged four points with Kocian, Denson, Adamek and Malatek bucketing two points a piece.

Later on Friday, the Lady Cardinals were edged by the hosts 53-42. Ynclan sank 16 points; Kocian scored eight points; Knesek and Pokluda scored four points; Denson and Adamek contributed three points each while Schaefer and Leist bagged two points.

St. Paul rebounded with a 64-48 win over Mumford. Ynclan bagged 18 points; Adamek and Leist sank 12 points each. Knesek had nine points; Schaefer had six points; Pokluda scored four points and Ko-cian bucketed three points.

• The Yoakum Lady Bulldogs defeat-ed Goliad 30-18 Friday. Rae Rae Samuel bagged 10 points and Ashtyn Henkes reg-istered eight points. The Lady’ Dogs fell to Wodonga, 66-42, on Saturday. Samuel had 15 points and Jaccarri Hights sank 11.

• The Moulton girls lost to Navasota 44-26 Thursday in the Rice Tournament. Brandee Dolezal scoed 14 points while Megan Mitchon bagged six points. Chelsey Darilek, Paige Bardos and Jennifer Crumley scored two points each.

Moulton got past Richmond George Ranch, 49-23. Mitchon sank 18 points and Darilek bagged 10 points. Dolezal sank eight points; Chelsea Gabler scored five points; Tasha Zidek scored three points and Crumley sank two points; Casey Zimmer-man finished with three points.

Needvile beat the Kittens, 57-31, Satur-day in the tournament. Mitchon led with 13 points and Dolezal bagged nine points.

On Saturday, Moulton fell to Rice Con-solidated, 45-29. Mitchon and Darilek chipped in 10 points each.

The Moulton JV edged Victoria Cobras 39-28 behind 11 points from Ashley Gabler.

• The Lady Comanche junior varsity played in the Weimar Tournament last weekend.

Shiner beat Columbus, 34-13. Sha-myra Coleman led with 21 points bagged; Mercedes Hunt scored four points; Sarah Koenning sank three points, and Tabitha Blaschke, Destiny Chumchal and BJ Mathis finished with two points each. Shiner de-feated Flatonia 34-18. Coleman deposited eight points; Jennifer Hartl sank six points; Koenning and Hunt bucketed five points each; Chumchal chipped in four points; Mathis, Abigail Abernathy and Blaschke finished with two points each.

The Lady Comanches edged St. Paul 29-21. Coleman bagged 10 points, Mathis and Chumchal finished with six each; Hunt scored three points with Koenning and Hartl recording two points each.

Shiner defeated the hosts, 33-19, with Koenning leading the Lady Comanches with eight points. Blaschke bucketed six points; Hunt bagged five points; Chumchal and Mathis bucketed four points each while Alex Flynn, Hartl and Coleman sank two points.

The Lady Comanches were edged by Victoria West, 42-37. Mathis paced Shiner with 11 points in the book; Hunt and Cole-man scored six points; Hartl brought in five points; Flynn bagged four points; Koenning put in three points and Blaschke added two points.

Shiner fell to Yoakum, 33-14. Hartl bagged four points; Coleman scored three

points; Flynn, Koenning and Hunt dropped in two points with Blaschke chipping in one point.

•The Luling Lady Eagles took on La Grange on the road on Dec. 6, coming up short 51-38. Adriana Morales led the Lady Eagles on the scoreboard with 16 points and Maria Castillo sank nine points. Luling started play Thursday in the Canyon Lake Tournament, opening with Universal City-Randolph. The Lady Ro-Hawks held on for a 40-38 win. Morales had 11 points and Cas-tillo scored 10 points for Luling. In its next game Thursday, the Lady Eagles downed Johnson City 51-42. Castillo led with 16 points and Hannah Clark bagged 11 points. The win advanced the Lady Eagles to the consolation title game for the third time in three tournaments. Luling took on Blanco, falling 51-38. Castillo scored 10 points and Clark chipped in eight points.

Luling is 7-8 on the year..• Sacred Heart girls fell to New Braunfels

Christian, 54-30, on Thursday. Adrienne Klimitchek bagged eight points for the In-dianettes.

• The Hallettsville Lady Brahmas defeat-ed Orange Grove on Friday, 38-32. Heather Henneke bagged eight points and Lauren Jones contributed seven points.

• The Lady Gobblers ran away from Mathis, 47-19, on Friday. Abby Sheppard led Cuero with 14 points and Davis sank eight points.

Cuero fell short to Industrial, 33-24, on Saturday. Sheppard led the Lady Gobblers with eight points in the game.

• The Moulton Bob Katz beat Thrall, 48-28, in the Lexington Tournament Thursday. Bronson Zapata chipped in 16 points; Matt Dornak sank 10 points; Jacob Novosad pro-duced nine points; Jason Gold put down seven points; Douglas Fojtik had four points and Dylon Beyer scored two points.

Moulton fell to Taylor, 49-42, in the semi-final. Novosad had 16 points and Zepada scored 13 points.

The Bob Katz won third place by beat-ing Dime Box 50-41. Novosad produced 18 points and Zepada had another 12 points.

• The Nixon-Smiley Mustangs defeated Pleasanton, 49-26, Thursday. Seth Barrow dropped in 13 points and Robbie Meija recorded 12 points; Matt Finch bagged 10 points; Jaime Moreno bucketed six points; Alex Hernandez recorded four points and Jared Van Auken scored two points.

•The Hallettsville Brahmas opened the Industrial Tournament with games against Goliad and Shiner on Thursday.

The Brahmas beat Goliad, 63-55. Trevor McGee bagged two dozen points and Dal-

ton Herrington put down 15 points.Hallettsville scrapped by the Comanches

59-58.Trevor McGee recorded 24 points and

Herrington chipped in 12 points. For Shiner, Brent Pohler led all scorers with 39 points scored.

On Friday, the Brahmas beat Blooming-ton, 86-42. Trevor McGee knocked down 23 points and Herrington bagged 15 points and Anthony Vesely chipped in 12 points.

On Saturday, Hallettsville beat the hosts 62-52. Trevor McGee banged in 20 points, Dazaun Silgero dropped in 15 points and Vesley put down 10 points.

•Shiner defeated Bloomington 55-37. Pohler had 14 points, Evel Jones scored 15, Travian Flowers bagged 10 points.

The Comanches defeated East Bernard 61-32 on Saturday. Pohler finished with 22 points; Leo Barary has 11 points; Flowers deposited 10 points; Jones had six points; ; Lucian Blaschke and Derek Duke bagged four points; Zach Lawrence scored two points and Kris Patek had two points.

In action in the Industrial Tourna-ment Friday, the Comanches fell in a close game to Goliad, 60-58. Pohler turned in a 29-point effort and Jones bagged 11 points.

• In the Yoakum Tournament, the host Bulldogs knocked out Brooks Academy 66-43 Thursday. Joe Mireles scored 19 points, Heath Kristek had another 10 points, Chase Hermes and TJ Hights had nine points, Freddy Thompson sank six points and Troy DeWeese had four points. Victoria St. Jo-seph got by Luling 67-53. Darion Sayles had 22 points, Byron Martin bagged 17 points, Josh Alvarez bucketed six points, Juan Or-donez scored four pints with Keeton Coe and Ryan Larison sank two points.

Cuero was edged by Schulenburg. John Aguilar paced the Gobblers with 14 points and Colby Ebrom scored 11.

St. Joseph defeated Waelder in the semi-finals on Saturday. Clay Orona sank 28 points; Jeremy Gonzales put in seven points; Deondrae Fields had five points and Cody Orona chipped in four points.

St. Joseph took down Yoakum 46-30 in the title game.TJ Hights and Kristek led the ‘Dogs with nine points each.

In other action, St. Joseph beat Cuero 61-49 Friday. Rory Washington sank 16 points for the Gobblers and Austin Means had 11 points. Yoakum won against St. Gerrard 66-35. Hermes sank 20 points, Mireles depos-ited another 15 points;TJ Hights put down 10 points with Kristek and Blake McCrack-en recording six points each. The Bulldogs also defeated Schulenburg 44-38 with 23 points by Mireles.

Local teams fare well in tournament actionFrom coaches’ reports

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The Gonzales Junior High 7th grade B team Apaches defeated the Yoakum Bull-dogs 20-4 Dec. 8 playing great defense. The scorers were: Brenden Hastings with two points, Tristan Riley with six points, Brandon Gomez with four points, Cody Oaks with two points, Joseph Gonzales with four points and Micah Medellin with two points. Their record is now 3-1.

•The 7th grade A team Apaches defeated the Yoakum Bulldogs 35-20, improving their record to 3-1. Scorers were: Aaron Hunt with 10 points, Joshua Calvin with eight points, Joshua Haynes with three points, Wayne Fowler with three points, Matthew Grauke with two points, Mason Galvan with four points, Wade Miller with four points and Jason Vasquez with two points.

•The 7th grade B team Lady Apaches de-feated the Yoakum Bulldogs Dec. 8

Jasmine Steemer was top scorer with six points.

•The 7th grade A team Lady Apaches defeated the Yoakum Bulldogs. Great ef-fort by the whole team with Mary Hastings leading with 14 points.

•The 7th grade B team Apaches defeated the Pleasanton Eagles 11-10 Dec. 1. Some of the top players were Brandon Hastings with four points, Tristan Riley with four points, Brandon Gomez with two points and Micah Medellin with one free throw that was the game winner. Their record is 2-1.

•The 7th grade A team defeated the Pleasanton Eagles, 33-20, with some great rebounds by Wayne Fowler, Wade Miller, and Dawson Hull. Fowler alos added two points, Miller put up 6 points and Hull put up eight points. Cameron Glass scored one point and played great defense with four steals. Other scorers were Aaron Hunt with seven points, Paul Villareal with one point and Joshua Calvin with nine points.

•The 8th grade A team played a great game, defeating Pleasanton 61-21 Dec. 1. High scorer was Sam Moore with 24 points, followed by Alyas Ramirez’s 14 points and Kyle Robbins chipped in 8 points. Colby Cantu helped with five points, Jonathan Banda scored four points and Tyree Lamp-kin and Marco Inclan each finished with two points.

•The 8th grade B team Apaches played a close game, losing 11-10. Scorers were Roger Reyna with four points, Robbie Lar-edo with four points and Landon Black-well with two points.

•The Lady Apache 8th grade A basket-ball team took second at the first Annual Apache Tournament held on Dec. 3 The Lady Apaches scalped Luling, 44-8, in the first game, but fell to Yoakum for the championship title. Scorers for the game were: Yasmine Gallegos, Molly Barnick, Destiny Gomez, Samantha Blaylock, and Erica Hernandez who scored a whopping total of 44 points.

•The 8th grade girls basketball teams fell short to the Pleasanton Eagles Dec. 1. The B team, however, did fight thru a two-minute overtime to be defeated by a basket. Scorers for the night for the A team were: Margaret Gonzales, Molly Barnick, Keandra Cray, Erica Hernan-dez, Samantha Blaylock. B team scorers were Tesha Landry with eight points and Tori Lester with six points.

•The Lady Apache 8th A and B teams fell short to the La Vernia Bears Nov. 21. Scorers for the night were: Tori Lester, Hayden Martin, Yasmine Gallegos, Aly-son Solis, Keandra Cray, Erica Hernan-dez and Sara Swanson.

•The Lady Apache A and B teams fell short to the Cuero Gobblers Nov. 10. Scoring players of the game were:Erica Hernandez with seven points and Kim-berly Garcia, Ashley Haub, Margarita Gonzales and Alyson Solis each with two points. Keandra Cray added a free throw.

Junior High BasketballGJH squads capture winsin contests with YoakumFrom coaches’ reports

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SEGUIN — The Guadal-upe-Blanco River Trust (GBR Trust) recently purchased 170 acres in Calhoun County immediately adjacent to the existing 646-acre Hog and Schwing’s Bayou Preserve.

With funding provided from the Coastal Impact As-sistance Program (CIAP) through the Texas General Land Office (GLO), the GBR Trust acquired an important parcel of wetlands and wild-life habitat that will link the original preserve property to the Guadalupe Delta Wildlife Management Area admin-istered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD).

The property lies in an area of the state important to both migratory and resident wild-life species and is just as im-portant for the water quality for the bays and estuaries just downstream.

This area of the Texas Coast is winter home to large num-bers of waterfowl who migrate up and down the Central Flyway and also supports en-dangered species such as the Whooping Crane.

“We are very pleased to be able help conserve the wildlife and wetland resource of the Texas Coast through this ac-quisition” said Roger Welder, Board President of the Gua-dalupe-Blanco River Trust.

The GBR Trust purchase of the 170-acre tract was made possible through the CIAP, which is a federally funded program managed nationally by the Department of Interior. The CIAP program, admin-

istered in Texas by the GLO, provides a portion of federal royalties on oil and gas pro-duction back to the states for coastal projects, including the conservation of important wildlife habitats and wetlands.


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27th Annual Shiner Business-men’s Club Shiner Area Big Buck Contest results Week 6 - As Of De-cember 12, 2011

Gonzales County1. Eugene M. Potter of Dale,

12-pointer, 17 3/4-inch spread, 10 1/8-inch R1 tine, 9 5/8-inch R2 tine, 8 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 5/8-inch L2 tine, 67 3/8 total points; 2. Jana P. Tomlin-son of Sealy, 12-pointer, 16 1/8-inch spread, 9 7/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/4-inch R2 tine, 10 1/8-inch L1 tine, 9 7/8-inch L2 tine, 67 1/4 total points; 3. Ronald Binz of Cuero, 9-pointer, 16 3/4-inch spread, 11 1/8-inch R1 tine, 8 3/8-inch R2 tine, 11 1/8-inch L1 tine, 8 5/8-inch L2 tine, 65 total points;4. Henry Kalich of Shiner, 8-pointer, 15 1/4-inch spread, 9 3/4-inch R1 tine, 10 1/4-inch R2 tine, 9 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 62 1/4 total points.

Colorado County1. Shane Pesak of Weimar,

10-pointer, 17 5/8-inch spread, 10 1/4-inch R1 tine, 9 1/2-inch R2 tine, 11 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 1/8-inch L2 tine, 67 3/4 total points; 2. Darren Bailey of Houston, 13-pointer, 18 3/4-inch spread, 9 1/8-inch R1 tine, 6 3/4-inch R2 tine, 8 3/4-inch L1 tine, 6 -inch L2 tine, 62 3/8 total points; 3. Kevin Hinze of Weimar, 10-pointer, 16 1/4-inch spread, 8 1/2-inch R1 tine, 8 3/4-inch R2 tine, 8-inch L1 tine, 9-inch L2 tine, 60 1/2 total points 4. Edward Friedrich of Hock-ley, 11-pointer, 18 -inch spread, 7 1/2-inch R1 tine, 8 1/4-inch R2 tine, 6 3/4-inch L1 tine, 8 1/2-inch L2 tine, 60 total points.

Dewitt County1. Paul Gaida of Yorktown,

10-pointer, 17 1/8-inch spread, 11 3/4-inch R1 tine, 10 3/8-inch R2 tine, 11 1/2-inch L1 tine, 10 7/8-inch L2 tine, 71 5/8 total points; 2. Virgil Brown of Cuero, 10-pointer, 16 3/8-

inch spread, 10 7/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/4-inch R2 tine, 11 1/2-inch L1 tine, 8 3/4-inch L2 tine, 66 3/4 total points; 3. Travis Voskamp of Halletts-ville, 9-pointer, 19 1/8-inch spread, 12 3/8-inch R1 tine, 6-inch R2 tine, 9 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 -inch L2 tine, 64 3/4 total points; 4. Marty Bludau of Hallettsville, 10-pointer, 16 -inch spread, 9 1/2-inch R1 tine, 8 1/2-inch R2 tine, 10 3/8-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 64 1/8 total points.

Lavaca County1. Paul Hanslik of Hallettsville,

14-pointer, 14 7/8-inch spread, 10 1/4-inch R1 tine, 9-inch R2 tine, 10 1/8-inch L1 tine, 9 1/4-inch L2 tine, 67 1/2 total points; 2. Herschel Schulte of Hallettsville, 13-pointer, 11 3/8-inch spread, 7 7/8-inch R1 tine, 8 3/4-inch R2 tine, 14 3/4-inch L1 tine, 9 1/8-inch L2 tine, 64 7/8 total points; 3. Richard Stavinoha of Moulton, 11-pointer, 16 1/8-inch spread, 10 1/4-inch R1 tine, 8-inch R2 tine, 8 1/2-inch L1 tine, 8 3/8-inch L2 tine, 62 1/4 total points;

4. Clarence S. Brown of Halletts-ville, 10-pointer, 19 3/4-inch spread, 9-inch R1 tine, 5 5/8-inch R2 tine, 9-inch L1 tine, 8 1/8-inch L2 tine, 61 1/2 total points.

Fayette County1. Joey Krnavek of West Point,

12-pointer, 16 7/8-inch spread, 9 3/4-inch R1 tine, 8-inch R2 tine, 5 3/4-inch L1 tine, 17 3/4-inch L2 tine, 70 1/8 total points; 2. Andrew Bockholt of Richmond, 12-pointer, 16 1/2-inch spread, 10 5/8-inch R1 tine, 8 5/8-inch R2 tine, 9 7/8-inch L1 tine, 9 -inch L2 tine, 66 5/8 total points; 3. Patrick Machala Jr. of La Grange, 9-pointer, 18 7/8-inch spread, 7 5/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/8-inch R2 tine, 10 1/2-inch L1 tine, 8 5/8-inch L2 tine, 63 3/4 total points; 4. Brett Janecka of Engle, 10-pointer, 16 1/4-inch spread, 8 3/4-inch R1 tine, 9 1/8-inch R2 tine, 8 5/8-inch L1 tine, 9-inch L2 tine, 61 3/4 total points.

Texas Open - North Zone1. Christina Baranowski of Yoa-

kum, 13-pointer, 19 5/8-inch spread, 9 1/4-inch R1 tine, 9 3/4-inch R2 tine, 11-inch L1 tine, 7 3/4-inch L2 tine, 70 3/8 total points; 2. Brock Moody of Victoria, 13-pointer, 20 3/4-inch spread, 9 -inch R1 tine, 7 1/2-inch R2 tine, 9 1/4-inch L1 tine, 6 7/8-inch L2 tine, 66 3/8 total points;3. Frank Bludau Jr. of Hallettsville, 8-pointer, 16 7/8-inch spread, 10 3/8-inch R1 tine, 8 7/8-inch R2 tine, 10 7/8-inch L1 tine, 9 1/4-inch L2 tine, 64 1/4 to-tal points.

Texas Open - South Zone1. Frank A. Wojtek of Richmond,

18-pointer, 26 3/8-inch spread, 11-inch R1 tine, 10 5/8-inch R2 tine, 10 3/4-inch L1 tine, 11 1/4-inch L2 tine, 88 total points; 2. Travis L. Orsak of Bulverde, 15-pointer, 19 3/8-inch spread, 12 7/8-inch R1 tine, 11 1/2-inch R2 tine, 10 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 -inch L2 tine, 78 total points; 3. Leon Grones of Hallettsville, 12-pointer, 18 1/2-inch spread, 11 3/4-inch R1 tine, 12 3/8-inch R2 tine, 10 3/4-inch L1 tine, 11 5/8-inch L2 tine, 77 total points.

17 & Under Youth Division1. Ben Mercer of Gonzales,

9-pointer, 19 1/4-inch spread, 10 1/8-inch R1 tine, 9 7/8-inch R2 tine, 9 1/2-inch L1 tine, 12 5/8-inch L2 tine, 70 3/8 total points; 2. Jerod Moeller of Shiner, 11-pointer, 16 3/4-inch spread, 11 3/8-inch R1 tine, 9 1/4-inch R2 tine, 10 7/8-inch L1 tine, 10 1/4-inch L2 tine, 69 1/2 total points; 3. Brice Bernshausen of Shiner, 9-pointer, 14 5/8-inch spread, 10 1/8-inch R1 tine,9 1/8-inch R2 tine, 9 1/4-inch L1 tine, 9 3/4-inch L2 tine, 61 7/8 total points; 4. Kellen S. Opela of Hallettsville, 11-pointer, 14 7/8-inch spread, 9-inch R1 tine, 8 1/8-inch R2 tine, 9 1/4-inch L1 tine, 8-inch L2 tine, 60 1/4 total points.

8-pointer on his first tryNine year old, Luke Simper, shot his first deer while hunting with is Dad, Cody Simper, on his grandpa’s land outside of Gonzales. The buck had eight points and a 15 inch spread.(Courtesy Photo)

GBR Trust acquires habitat

The game warden in Gonzales County is seeking the identities of the above-pictured individuals who are wanted for questioning regarding alleged trespass and poaching offenses committed against a property owner near Smiley on Saturday, Oct. 29. If you have information regarding the identities of these men, please call the Texas Wildlife Crime Stoppers Program (Operation Game Thief) hotline at 1-800-792-GAME (4263).

The game warden in Gonzales County is seeking information on the poaching of this nine-point, 21-inch, white-tailed buck deer. The deer was shot while standing on private property (state jail felony) from a vehicle parked on CR 131 near Nixon, on Sunday evening, Dec. 4 at approximately 5:45 PM. Witnesses say the suspect was driving a dark-colored Chevrolet or GMC pickup, possibly a 3/4 –ton or four-wheeled drive (4WD), with exceptionally loud exhaust. If you have information regarding this alleged crime, including the vehicle used and/or the identity/identities of the person(s) involved, please call the Texas Wildlife Crime Stoppers Program (Operation Game Thief) hotline at 1-800-792-GAME (4263).

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, this week you’ll need to operate under the “use-it-or-lose-it” way of thinking. Don’t sit on any resources, in-cluding your time. Get active and be productive.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21You may need to call in a few favors from friends, Taurus. There is a hurdle you need to get over and it likely will not get done alone. Pisces could be the person you seek.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, sometimes others simply don’t understand you, and deep down inside you may just like it that way. You continue to bring an air of mystery to the week.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, it will take some time, but you will finally be able to convince someone to heed your advice. It will take all of your persuasive power to do so.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, avoid letting your guard down after something falls in your favor. You will need to redouble your efforts to make sure things keep going swim-mingly.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, it’s wise to open your eyes a little wider and see where things are going right or wrong for you. Making the same choices over and over won’t lead to progress.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, a change of scenery

could help bring a new per-spective to something that has been on your mind. Get out of town for a few days and enjoy the respite.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, it’s time to put that creative energy to good use. Now could be the time to spearhead a project that has your name written all over it. Start drawing up ideas.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, there are plenty of ways to enjoy a wonder-ful birthday celebration, but the most ideal could simply be surrounding yourself with family and friends this week.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Take a cue from someone close that less is more when you’re caught in the middle of a squabble, Capricorn. Keep your opinions to yourself for the time being.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, there may be a few bumps along the way, but this week figures to be peaceful and relaxing. Plus, your fi-nancial situation is steadily improving.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, use your cache of en-ergy to plow through projects at work and free up some time for fun for the weekend into next week.

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Puzzle Answers

It was American inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison who made the following sage observation: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

If you’re planning a trip to Peru to ring in the new year, you might want to bring along some yellow underwear. In that country it’s considered lucky to wear it on the first day of the new year.

Another story to add to the file on clueless criminals: In 2010, two men in Portland, Ore., went to a supermarket and started removing price tags from items and filling their backpacks with the loot. However, they didn’t even make it out of the store with their ill-gotten gains. It seems that the would-be crooks decided to do their shoplifting during a “Shop With a Cop” promotion, and there were 60 police officers already in the store -- in uniform.

You may be surprised to learn that the Statue of Liberty is not located in New York. While it

is on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it’s technically within the territorial waters of Jersey City, N.J.

If you’re going to be traveling to California anytime soon, you might want to keep this in mind: In that state, shooting game from a moving vehicle is illegal -- unless the animal you’re aiming for is a whale.

A baseball will travel farther on a hot day than on a cold one.

The oldest bakery yet uncovered was found by archaeologists digging in the Egyptian city of Giza in 2002. They say that the baking trays, bread molds and ovens there date back to 2500 B.C., right around the time the pyramids were being built.

***Thought for the Day:

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” -- Mark Twain

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