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VOLUME 3, NO. 49(#103) www.northchannelstar.comServing all of the North Shore -- Channelview, Sheldon, Galena Park, Jacinto City
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Rotary distributes Christmasbaskets to the needy
North Shore holds annualChristmas Parade
THE NORTH SHORE Community held their annual Christmas Parade last Friday night,Dec. 18, with the participation of the Sheldon and Cloverleaf Fire Departments.Rodney Redford of the North Channel Assistance Ministries helped organize theparade. It started in Channelview, and ended at the Kroger Parking lot atWoodforest and Normandy. Hundreds of families followed the parade, and thencollected in the Kroger parking lot while Santa and Rudolph handed out smallgifts. Redford reported that the parade judges made the following awards: BestApparatus, Sheldon FD; Best Float, Cloverleaf Church of God; Best Theme, GrowingIn Grace; and Judges’ Choice, Boy Scout Troop 1301.
NORTH SHORE ROTARY distributed 250 full Christmas Baskets of donated food, to needyfamilies in the immediate North Shore areas. Pictured above are Rotarians John Parrottand club president Mike Williams, preparing to load one of the full baskets into cars waitingto make the distribution. The club has conducted this Holiday tradition for a number ofyears, with all the members of the club participating, by collecting and sorting the foods,packing the baskets, driving out to the community to distribute the food baskets.
NORTH SHORE MUSTANGSSTATE CHAMPIONS in OT!
NORTH SHORE 21, WESTLAKE 14
North Shore LeavesDoubters In Dust,Topples WestlakeIn OT 21-14
HOUSTON’S NRGSTADIUM – It’s the nearperfect story, a tale Holly-wood might write to be aninspirational blockbuster,only it would bear the tag“based on a true story.”
North Shore SeniorHigh School, home of theMustangs, began their sea-son with a measure of ad-versity. Under second yearhead coach Jon Kay, theMustangs won their firstgame of the season, thenlost their next three in a
row. Admittedly the losseswere to teams who werehighly ranked in the state,
making North Shore theunderdogs, but the Mus-tangs coaching staff and
players expected to winthem all. However, at 1-3,the Mustangs regrouped,
put the past behind them,and began a long, slow as-cent to the pinnacle of high
school sports. They did notlose again.
As they remained unde-feated, a feat manythought unlikely as theybattled more highlyranked foes in the playoffs,the challenges becamegreater. Dickinson wassupposed to knock themout. They didn’t. ConverseJudson, a team who sentthem home in previoussemi-final matches, washighly favored to win. Theydid not. And finally, in thestate championship gameagainst Austin Westlake,the Mustangs again foundthemselves underdogs. Butthe Mustangs never lookedor played like underdogs.
See FOOTBALL, Page 4
QB Maciah Long ran for 82 yards and two touchdowns,including the game winning touchdown in overtime. Longwas named the offensive player of the game.
The North Shore Mustangs celebrate their second statechampionship in the locker room after defeating AustinWestlake 21-14 in overtime. They won also in 2003.
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Dear Santa,I want a iPad, some
legos, super maryo bros
2, an iPad, a big RCairplan, a rockit and a
real life elf.Kurtage 9
* * *Dear Santa,May I please have an
IPad, A Wii with MarioParty, and Just Dance 3for the Wii. Love.
Merry Christmas!Mindyage 8
* * *Dear Santa,
All I want for Christ-mas is roller sckates and1 pair of ice sckates! I
can’t wate till Christmasbecause my Mom get’s aturn to see me!
Paigeage 8
* * *
Dear Santa,I want a xbox One a
Ipad, a PS4 and I want acomputer.
Jacob
age 8
* * *
Dear Santa,I wish the poor get’s
food and homes, money
and what I want forchrismas is black ops IIfor xbox 360.
Adrianage 8
* * *
Dear Santa,I wish the army could
come home and be safe.I wish my little brothercan stop being anoyiong.
Caiusage 9
* * *
* * *Dear Santa,I wish that we got
no school every dayand play my iPadevery day. I reallywant to have a partyevery day.
Andyage 8
* * *
Dear Santa,I want more
braiding string forChristmas please!
I will make youyour favorite cookiesand egg nog and i willfeed your reindeertheir favorite food!
Analiseage 9
* * *Dear Santa,I like your movie.
Santa Clause the escapeclause. I really want tosee your reindeer and atthe night I will get foodfor your reindeer. I hopethey lie it. I hope I willget my presents and Ihope you like my cook-ies.
Karianneage 8
* * *Dear Santa,What I want for
Chrimasta is thispokemon book it got allthe evlosins of thepokemon. And a miniIpad.
Emmanuelage 8
* * *Dear Santa,For Christmas I want
a smart phone, iPad, andIphone 5. I want aMicheal Jackson hat.
Merry Chris.Anna, age 9
* * *Dear Santa,I know I have not been
such a good boy thisyear. I don’t really carewhat I get for Xmas aslong as it is somethingcool. Pretty much justgive me something. Ifyou think I deserve astocking full of coal thatis fine. I wouldn’t blameyou.
Kaidenage 8***Dear Santa,
How are you doing?Well I’m doing fine. I waswishing I could have an
Ninja go Lego set forChristmas and Ninja goBook for Christmas to by
Santa.Adrian8 years old
* * *
Dear Santa,How are you
doing and how the
reindeers? and thething i want for
christmas is aphone, iphone,Magic book, tablet,
family joy, teacher’sjoy, poster, andcolors. Have a
marry christmas.HannahAge 8
* * *Dear Santa,
I want a phone, brodgames, books, Minecraftlegacy. Laptop, spy
copter, Monster jam.I hope Santa give the
homeless peole getpresints on Christmasand they get a lot of
mony. So they can havefun.
Seth
Age 8
Dear Santa,
I wish the poor get’sfood and homes,money and what I
want for chrismas isblack ops II for xbox
one.Adrianage 8
Dear Santa,I wish the army could
come home and be safe.I wish my little brothercan stop being anoyiong.
Caius, age 9
***Dear Santa,I would like to have
a wonderful Christmasand a crazy caft from
your wonderfukworkshop.
Julian
Zapata,8 yrs old
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Rep. Green hosts annualHoliday open house
Charlene Floyd, Executive Director of the Houston PoliceFoundation; LyondellBasell CEO Bob Patel; and Houston PoliceChief Charles McClelland. LyondellBasell makes a holiday donationof $70,000 to the Fire Fighters Foundation of Houston and theHouston Police Foundation. The funds will be used to purchasesearch and rescue boats, and tactical safety vests.
Company donation to beu s e d f o r p u r c h a s e o fneeded safety equipment
HOUSTON, Dec. 17,2015 – LyondellBasell(NYSE: LYB), one of theworld’s largest plastics,chemical and refining com-panies, today announced aholiday donation of $70,000that will be used to supportthe purchase of additionalsafety equipment that is onthe “wish lists” of local po-lice and firefighting agen-cies.
“At the holidays, we arecalled to focus on the needsof others. The Houston po-lice and firefighters workaround the clock, regardlessof weather conditions, oftensacrificing their own holidaycelebrations with familyand friends to keep us safe,”said Bob Patel, CEO andchairman of the manage-ment board of Lyondell-Basell. “Because safety is atthe core of our culture, wewanted to purchase neededsafety equipment on theseagencies’ ‘wish lists.’ In do-ing so, our goal is to supportour community, not just dur-ing the holidays, but everyday.”
Surrounded by severalhundred employees andjoined by Houston FireChief Rodney West andHouston Police ChiefCharles McClelland, Patelpresented $35,000 checks tothe Fire Fighters Founda-tion of Houston and theHouston Police Foundation,respectively.
Fire Fighters Founda-tion of Houston Grant
The Fire Fighters Foun-dation of Houston will usethe donation to support the
LyondellBasell Holiday donationfulfills local first responder “Wish list”
purchase of three addition-al rescue boats which can beused during search and res-cue missions, like those con-ducted during the 2015Memorial Day floods.
“When responding to in-cidents, fire fighters requirespecialized equipment, notalways covered in our oper-ating budget,” said HoustonFire Chief Rodney West.“LyondellBasell’s generousgift to the Fire FightersFoundation of Houston willbe used for equipment thatcould literally mean the dif-ference between life anddeath. This is a holiday giftthat will keep on giving.”
Police Foundation GrantThe Houston Police
Foundation will use the do-nation to purchase tacticalvests worn by officers in thefield.
“The safety of our offic-
ers is critical to keeping ourcity a safe place to live andwork,” said Houston PoliceChief Charles McClelland.“LyondellBasell’s very gen-erous support of the Hous-ton Police Foundation willnot only help our officers dotheir day jobs, but more im-portantly, to return homesafely every night.”
In addition to these spe-cific gifts, LyondellBasellwas recently recognized asone of the top 10 corporatefundraisers by the UnitedWay of Greater Houston; isone of a small group of com-panies nationally to beawarded The U.S. Presi-dent’s Volunteer ServiceAward by Junior Achieve-ment for over 10,000 volun-teer hours; and has providedover $1.1 million in grantsto local education and char-itable organizations in 2015.Pastor Robert I. Dixon, Jr., left, Helen Green, HPD Officer Anthony Waddy, State Senator Sylvia
Garcia and Lurlean Dixon at the annual Holiday Appreciation luncheon last Dec. 17.
Marlene Clowers (Cong. Green’s office), Yuroba Harris (Cong. Green’s office), Helen Green, StateSenator Sylvia Garcia, Lurlean Dixon and Derek Darnell (Sen. Garcia’s office) attended the annualHoliday Appreciation Luncheon last December 17, 2015 at the HPD East Freeway Storefront.Congressman Green hosts this event every year to thank law enforcement officers and North Channelarea community partners for their efforts throughout the year. His wife, Helen Green, was representinghim along with his staff; Congressman Grreen was not able to attend the event as there were votesscheduled.
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After scooping up a fumble, Andrew Hyacinth, with apowerful escort of fellow Mustangs, ran 95 yards for atouchdown.
Mustangs begin to celebrate as QB Maciah Long bulldozeshis way across the goal line for what would become thegame winning touchdown.
Eric Monroe knocks away pass on third down, forcing theChaparrals to punt the ball.
The Mustang defense limited Austin Westlake to oneoffensive touchdown by pressuring the opposing QB andlimiting their running backs to 19 yards rushing.
They made plays whenthey needed to, like An-drew Hyacinth scooping upa fumble and returning it95 yards for the Mustangsfirst score of the game.
And with seconds re-maining, the game in thebalance, score tied 14-14,Westlake was set to kick apotential game winningfield goal; but Zafir Mur-phy leapt above the lineand blocked the kick, send-ing the Mustangs and theirfans into a raucous frenzyand the game into over-time.
In overtime North Shoregot the ball first, and end-ed with QB Maciah Longbulldozing a one-yardtouchdown run up the mid-dle. Kicker Aaron Cuevasadded the extra point, thenit was the defenses turn.The tension mounted oncethe Chaparrals got a firstdown, but terrorizing theWestlake quarterback, thedefense shut the Chapar-
rals down. The Mustangdefense held on fourthdown and sealed the statetitle for their team andtheir town.
“East side!” they chant-ed as fans cheered. Thoughnot a fairy tale, the storydoes have a satisfying end-ing for the Mustangs. Tell-ing the tale of their successafter the game, #87, juniorAugust Thomas exultedthe secret to their success,“Hard work and dedica-tion,” he exclaimed.
A sigh of relief for fansof the North Shore Mus-tangs, the tale of the 2015high school football seasoncame to an end in a fittingovertime victory for thescarlet and white.
“I couldn’t write a bet-ter script for how thisgame ended and the waythis team has worked andimproved and competed,”said Coach Kay after thegame.
UIL 6A Div. I STATE CHAMPIONS
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2: (And this taxing was first made whenCyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3: And all went to be taxed, every one intohis own city.
4: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, outof the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto thecity of David, which is called Bethlehem;(because he was of the house and lineage ofDavid:)
5: To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife,being great with child.
6: And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accom-plished that she should be delivered.
7: And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him inswaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was noroom for them in the inn.
8: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in thefield, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9: And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory ofthe Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
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12: And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babewrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13: And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of theheavenly host praising God, and saying,
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Dear Santa,This year I would like
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Dear Santa,I want black, mint,
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Dear Santa,I wish for a recycled
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Trayveon Williams wasrecognized for his achieve-ments on and off the fieldduring Week 8 of the regu-lar high school football sea-son.
North Shore Rotary helps the needy
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NORTH SHORE ROTARIANS and helpers load a Hummer SUV with Christmas Baskets fordistribution to needy families. This annual community service distributed 250 baskets thisyear. Pictured: Amir Khan, Margie Buentello, Derrill Painter, and Debbie Planty.
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7. Avoid the followingmovies—Dirty Dozen,Gladiator, Troy and allmovies starring the follow-ing actors—Clint East-
Diamond Jim: ”How do Iknow what to
get for my galfor Christmas?”
wood, John Wayne, ChuckNorris, Steven Seagal, VinDiesel, and Tom Cruise.They don’t need to seemovies by most of thoseactors.
8. Cookbooks. Waydangerous! Do not gothere!
9. Maps, GPS or otherhoming devices, even if sheneeds them. She’ll beginby telling you somethinglike “men drive 276 milesa year while lost, ratherthan stop and ask for di-rections”. VERY risky busi-ness!
10. Any gadgets that sheisn’t going to know how touse… and for some wom-en, that’s going to cover alot of gadgets.
Jewelry is the thing tobuy her for Christmas ifthe following is true:
11. You actually love herand want to give her sometoken of your affection.
Now that was not sohard, was it?
Diamond Jim is adiamond dealer and
precious metals broker ofNTR Metals. See more at:www.pineforestjewelry.com.
If you have questionspertaining to jewelry,watches, diamonds,
precious stones, preciousmetals, and other ques-
tions related to thejewelry industry, email
9***
Dear Santa,Can I get weenii dog.
My dad lost his sharn
necklace so what I wantto give him back is his
shark and what I get ishappiness LOVE.
Ashtan Pentaro, 9 yrs
old
***
Dear Santa,No matter what you
give me, I will be very
happy. I will play with itif is a toy. If it is not a
toy, I will do whatever Ican with it. And do yourbest at taking presents to
every home in the worldtoo. Merry Christmas!
Ava Garza, 8 yrs old
* * *
Dear Santa,I wish for a recycled
world. I wish their would
be no bad people. I wishour soldiers will come
back for saftey. also Iwant for chrismis is agocart a toy hellacopter
and a skylander Giants.Will, age 8
***
Dear Santa,No matter what people
say I will always believe
in you. Will you tellRudolph that his nose is
very pretty? Anyway forChristmas I would likeyou to help people know
what the true meaning ofChristmas is. I also wanta ID T-shirt. I would also
like pens, paper, paint,and a picture of you. Ilove you.
Abigail Seale, 9 yrsold
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PERMIT NO. WQ0010831001APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION. City of Galena Park, P.O. Box 46, GalenaPark, Texas 77547, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for arenewal of Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. WQ0010831001,which authorizes the discharge of treated domestic wastewater at an annual average flow notto exceed 1,250,000 gallons per day. TCEQ received this application on March 26, 2015.
The facility is located at 1107 Fifth Street, Galena Park, in Harris County, Texas 77547. Thetreated effluent is discharged directly to the Panther Creek portion of the Houston Ship Channel(Buffalo Bayou Tidal) in Segment No. 1007 of the San Jacinto River Basin. The designated usesfor Segment No. 1007 are industrial water supply and navigation.
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PUBLIC COMMENT / PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request apublic meeting about this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide theopportunity to submit comments or to ask questions about the application. TCEQ holds apublic meeting if the Executive Director determines that there is a significant degree of publicinterest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not acontested case hearing. OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. After the deadline for submittingpublic comments, the Executive Director will consider all timely comments and prepare aresponse to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. Unless the applicationis directly referred for a contested case hearing, the response to comments will bemailed to everyone who submitted public comments and to those persons whoare on the mailing list for this application. If comments are received, the mailingwill also provide instructions for requesting a contested case hearing or reconsid-eration of the Executive Director's decision. A contested case hearing is a legalproceeding similar to a civil trial in a state district court.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACTION. The Executive Director may issue final approval of theapplication unless a timely contested case hearing request or request for reconsideration is filed.If a timely hearing request or request for reconsideration is filed, the Executive Director will notissue final approval of the permit and will forward the application and request to the TCEQCommissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting.
MAILING LIST. If you submit public comments, a request for a contested case hearing or areconsideration of the Executive Director's decision, you will be added to the mailing list for thisspecific application to receive future public notices mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk. Inaddition, you may request to be placed on: (1) the permanent mailing list for a specificapplicant name and permit number; and/or (2) the mailing list for a specific county. If you wishto be placed on the permanent and/or the county mailing list, clearly specify which list(s) andsend your request to TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.
All written public comments and public meeting requests must be submitted tothe Office of the Chief Clerk, MC 105, Texas Commission on EnvironmentalQuality, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087 or electronically atwww.tceq.texas.gov/about/comments.html within 30 days from the date ofnewspaper publication of this notice.
AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. If you need more information about thispermit application or the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program,Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea information en Espanol, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.General information about the TCEQ can be found at our web site at www.TCEQ.texas.gov.
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Christmas is a thing thatI want for school andthat is blue convers,that’s it.
Jasmine Zapata, 8 yrs old
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For Christmas I wanta plc sky viper nanodrone, shadow launchen
car copter and a furxjump jet and a xbox onethe game black ops 111.
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Dear Santa,What i want for
chrismus is a ipod with asuperman cover on theipad and a batman
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age 9
* * *Dear Santa,I want the poor people
to have a house. I wantMonster High Dolls. and
Lego Frends. And a newcloering book.
Elisa
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Dear Santa,
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SEASON’S GREETINGSFROM
NORTH SHORE ROTARY
Supporting Youth &Community Projects
throughout the North Shore
Mike Williams, President
Merry Christmasand
Happy New Year
From the Channelview FireDepartment And Commissioners of
Harris County ESD #50
Our 2015 Successful Toy Drive:
North Shore Rotary purchased the Galena ParkFFA Grand Champion Steer in 2015, supportingour Youth.
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and your family
Happy Holidays