Cannon July 3 2014

Independence Day
Weekend will see a trio of

freworks shows scheduled
in Gonzales, Waelder and
Shiner, with musical en-
tertainment and lots of fun
and games.
Te annual Fourth of July
Spectacular is scheduled
Friday in Gonzales, with
participants in the barbecue
and beans cookof start-
ing to arrive as early as 6
a.m. and freworks starting
around 10 p.m. following a
full day of activities.
Also on tap Friday is
the annual Waelder Lions
and Leo Club July 4th Big
Bang Fireworks Show at the
Waelder Lions Park Soc-
cer Field. Te big freworks
show is scheduled to start
around 8:30 p.m.
In Shiner, meanwhile, the
Half Moon Holidays step
of Friday with vendors, fun
and music. Shiner will host
its freworks show on Sat-
urday preceding main stage
entertainment headliner
Charlie Robinson at 9:30
p.m.
Competition in beans,
ribs, chicken and brisket is
scheduled on Confederate
Square in Gonzales Friday
morning, with the Beans
turn-in at 1:30 p.m., ribs at
WAELDER Waelder City Coun-
cil on Tuesday gave its fnal approval
to a development agreement and land
transfer to Gonzales Healthcare Sys-
tems to build an improved medical
clinic.
Te hospital plans to build a new
3,000-square foot facility in Waelder,
and Tuesdays action authorized May-
or Becky Ayala as signatory transfer-
ring 3.63 acres of land granted to the
city in 2003 by George Stone.
Connie Kacir, the executive direc-
tor of Gonzales Healthcare Systems
Foundation, said the hospital has
committed to expanding services for
the Waelder clinic by hiring a new full
time nurse practitioner. Hopes are to
move into the new building in early
2015.
Kacir said the new building would
also allow the clinic to house ofces
for specialty doctors like cardiolo-
gists, podiatrists, endocrinologists
and opthalmologists, as determined
by the needs of the community. In
addition, the hospital would like to
encompass a pharmacy because de-
Gonzales County Sherifs Ofce depu-
ties this week announced the arrest of two
subjects in a string of copper and battery
thefs occurring at area oil-well sites, pri-
marily in the Cheapside area.
According to Lieutenant Matt Atkin-
son, the thefs started approximately four
months ago and were primarily located in
the southern half of the county from the
Cheapside area to the Lavaca County line.
Atkinson said that due to large number
of thefs, the sherifs ofce saturated the
area with as many deputies as possible to
facilitate an arrest, and that efort paid of
on June 26.
At around 3:30 a.m. on June 26, Depu-
ty Floyd Toliver conducted a trafc stop
on a vehicle on County Road 192. Upon
speaking to the vehicle occupants, Deputy
Toliver became suspicious and contacted
Sergeant Investigator Dennis Jahns, who
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Gonzales
Kaitlyn Cappleman beams as she assumes her
throne as the new Watermelon Thump Queen during
ceremonies in Luling on Friday. More coverage of
Thump activities, Page A3. (Photo by Colton Filip)
Waelder approves land for clinic
City hits the
expo center
reset button
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GEDC, Page A6
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JULY 4, Page A6
Italian restaurant
nears completion;
new hotel planned
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Gonzales Co.
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Rodney Cooper
Elida Reyna belts out one of her hits to an enthusiastic crowd during Fridays
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Te City of Gonzales is
hitting the reset button on
its plans for a multi-pur-
pose center.
City Council delayed ac-
tion Monday on potentially
selling bonds for a pro-
posed facility at JB Wells
Park in order to continue to
receive citizen input about
the size, purpose, cost and
scope of the project afer
difering groups of citizens
voiced various objections.
During a Town Hall
meeting following the
Councils action, City Man-
ager Allen Barnes told sev-
eral dozen attendees the
city was going to re-set the
clock on this project.
Tere has been some
misinformation put out
about this project, he said.
And I dont think the city
has done a good job dis-
seminating information ...
and thats my fault.
Barnes blamed what he
termed scope creep
small additions to what
was originally proposed
for growing the size and
scale of what was originally
planned as a center to host
small to medium commu-
nity gatherings.
What I want to do to-
night is re-set the clock on
this project. We want to
know what you the citizens
One of the renovation
projects in downtown Gon-
zales is nearing completion,
and the operator of the
citys newest restaurant said
Monday hes very enthusi-
astic about opening here.
We want to try and
make the best atmosphere
possible, Gasper Lekgega,
operator of the new Bella
Tavoli Italian restaurant,
told the Gonzales Eco-
nomic Development Corp.
Board of Directors dur-
ing Mondays meeting. Te
restaurant is scheduled to
open the frst of August in
the Old Dilworth Building
at the corner of St. Joseph
and St. George streets.
We have had a lot of cli-
ents from Gonzales come
to our restaurant (Bella
Sera) in Seguin, Lekgega
said. He told GEDC direc-
tors that Bella Tavoli means
beautiful table, and we
hope to bring a beautiful
menu to Gonzales.
Ive eaten at the one
in Seguin, noted director
Dennis Nesser. Im look-
ing forward to it.
Te Bella Tavoli project is
one of several new restau-
rant and business projects
which are benefting from
GEDC funding. Economic
Development Director Car-
olyn Gibson-Baros gave di-
rectors an update on several
current and new projects as
part of the meeting.
A new funding applica-
tion has been received for
potential small business
incentive grant in August
for Whites Air Condition-
ing, which will move into
the retail space previously
occupied by Bloomin Cre-
ations on St. Paul St.
Te Baker Boys Barbecue
project is delayed because
Michael LaFour
Vlasta W. Polasek,
1929-2014
POLASEK
Vlasta W. Polasek,
85, of Gonzales, passed
away Wednesday, June
25, 2014. Vlasta was
born March 28, 1929 in
Gonzales to Anton Ma-
latek and Julia Polasek
Malatek. Vlasta was a
member of St. James
Catholic Church. She
married Burnart Polasek
on September 24, 1946 in
Moulton.
Vlasta worked process-
ing chickens for Ameri-
can Poultry in Gonzales
before settling in as a
homemaker to care for
her family. Vlasta en-
joyed and was memora-
bly proficient in making
homemade bread and
rice pudding. Attending
dances was a family affair,
Vlasta and Burnart en-
joyed dancing and their
children quickly picked
up all the steps to polkas,
waltzes and two-steps.
Vlasta was fond of work-
ing in her flower and veg-
etable gardens. She had
an amazing gift to grow
things and once ate an
orange outside, planted
a seed from that orange
in her yard and in time,
up sprouted a healthy
orange tree. Vlasta en-
couraged her children to
develop and strengthen
their faith; she valued
family and enjoyed hav-
ing all the family togeth-
er for holidays, trips to
the beach in Freeport or
at her home on Friday
nights for fried chicken
and games of uno. She
cherished her grandchil-
dren and the loving mem-
ory of Memo will live
on in their hearts forever.
Vlasta is survived her
daughters and sons-in-
law, Patricia Miller of
Gonzales, Doris and Bo
Hofferek of Victoria,
Irene and Michael Oakes
of Gonzales, Lorene and
Paul Gast of Gonzales,
sons and daughters-in-
law, Bennie, Jr. and Di-
anna Polasek of Moulton,
Leroy and Bobbie Jean
Polasek of Gonzales, 13
grandchildren, 23 great-
grandchildren and 3
great-great grandchil-
dren. She was preceded
in death by her husband,
parents, sisters, Car-
rie Michulka, Herminia
Malatek, brothers, Eddie
Malatek, Sr., Julius Ma-
latek, Joe Malatek, Stan-
ley Malatek, Anton Ma-
latek, Jr., August Malatek,
Henry Malatek and a
granddaughter, Julie Ma-
rie Polasek.
The family received
friends from 5 to 7 p.m.
Friday evening at the fu-
neral home. A rosary was
recited at 9 a.m. Satur-
day, June 28, 2014 in St.
James Catholic Church
with a Mass of Christian
Burial at 10 a.m. with Fr.
Paul Raaz as celebrant.
Interment followed in St.
James Cemetery. Pall-
bearers were: Kourtney
Lehnert, Matthew Oakes,
Taylor Boone, Greg Po-
lasek, Tyler Vierig, and
Michael Garcia. Honor-
ary Pallbearers were: her
grandchildren. Memo-
rials may be made to St.
James Catholic Church,
417 N. College, Gonza-
les, Texas 78629, Gentiva
Hospice, 1911 Corporate
Drive Suite 104, San
Marcos, TX 78666-6171,
or the Alzheimers Foun-
dation of America, 322
Eighth Ave., 7th fl., New
York, NY 10001. Services
were under the care and
direction of Seydler-Hill
Funeral Home.
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Mary Floyd, 1920-2014
FLOYD
Mary Floyd, 94, of Gon-
zales, formerly of Shiner,
passed away Tursday,
June 26, 2014. Mary was
born February 18, 1920 in
Gonzales County to Frank
and Cecilia Simersky Volf.
She had been a member of
the Shiner Baptist Church.
Mary married Vernon
Floyd on December 7, 1937
in Gonzales.
Mary was the youngest of
six daughters born to Frank
and Cecelia Volf. Growing
up on a family farm she saw
frst hand the fruits of hard
work and the benefts of
caring for one another. Af-
ter marrying at the age of 17
she was a homemaker, car-
ing for her children, house
and husband and worked
faithfully by his side in
the felds. She maintained
gardens of vegetables and
fowers and canned the
gardens produce. Mary
loved to cook and she wast-
ed very little. She taught
her grandchildren how to
catch chickens, pluck and
prepare them for the table.
Naturally Mary saved the
chicken feet for her chicken
and dumplings, morsels
her husband considered
delicacies. She delighted in
listening to John Zavadils
polka hour on the radio and
wouldnt miss a Lawrence
Welk television show even
though they might have
been re-runs many times
over. Mary lived her life by
example for her children
and grandchildren, she was
honest and hard working,
her faith in God was strong
and through lifes tragedies
and hardships she never
gave up hope.
Mary worked for 20
years at both the Holmes
Hospital and Gonzales Me-
morial Hospital as a nurses
aid. Caring for others came
naturally to her and help-
ing others was a reward
within itself. She cared for
her elderly father and sister
as age and illness required
the special care and love
only Mary could ofer. Te
memory of Mary Floyds
unselfsh love and compas-
sion will forever be cher-
ished by those who loved
and knew her.
Mary is survived by her
daughter and son-in-law,
Mary Ann and Norman
Grimm of Seguin, sons
and daughter-in-law, Don
Wayne Floyd of Wharton,
David Allen Floyd, Sr.,
and Diane of Gonzales, 9
grandchildren and numer-
ous great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, parents,
and sisters, Julia Havel,
Cecelia Hanzlik, Angeline
Malatek, Petrolina Barta
and Millie Volf.
Funeral services were
held at 10 Monday, June
30, 2014 in Seydler-Hill Fu-
neral Home with Dr. Chris
Irving ofciating. Inter-
ment followed in Gonzales
Memorial Park. Pallbear-
ers were: Lorne Dale Barta,
Max Barta, Scott Barta, Joel
Fohn, Angel Perez, and E.T.
Gibson. Honorary Pall-
bearer was: Derek Floyd.
Te family received friends
at the funeral home from
5 to 7 p.m. Sunday in the
funeral home. Memorials
may be made to the Fist
Baptist Church Helping
Hands Fund, P.O. Box 83
Gonzales, TX 78629 or the
charity of ones choice. Ser-
vices were under the care
and direction of Seydler-
Hill Funeral Home
Elks aid GCAM
The Elks Lodge donated to the Gonzales Christian Assistance Ministry which was
made possible through a grant from the Elks National Foundation. Pictured from
left are Karin Swenson, Dora Soefe, Linda Hunter, Lupe Saldana, Gail Moody,
Juan Gaytan and Bob Day.
Pictured are Judy Parks, Family Advocate; Ann Alexander, Executive Director;
Deane Novosad, Forensic Interviewer.
Normas House has been
awarded re-accreditation by
National Childrens Alliance
following an extensive applica-
tion and site review process. As
the accrediting agency for Chil-
drens Advocacy Centers (CAC)
across the country, National
Childrens Alliance awards
various levels of accreditation
and membership to centers re-
sponding to allegation s of child
abuse in ways that are efective
and efcient, and put the needs
of child victims of abuse frst.
Accreditation is the highest lev-
el of membership with National
Childrens Alliance and denotes
excellence in service provision.
Accredited CACs must un-
dergo a re-accreditation process
every fve years to ensure that
best practices are continually
being applied. With accredita-
tion standards being updated in
2010, re-accreditation this year
refects Normas Houses com-
mitment to providing evidence-
based methods of practice.
Normas House, ofcially
known as Gonzales Regional
Childrens Advocacy Center,
Inc. has served child victims of
abuse since 2000 from Gonza-
les, Lavaca and surrounding
counties. Children seen are
referred by law enforcement
investigators or Child Protec-
tive Services. Staf at Normas
House provides a specialized
forensic interview of the child
and works with investigators to
learn the truth of alleged abuse
without inficting additional
trauma on the child. Healing
services are then ofered to help
turn victims into survivors.
As an Accredited Member of
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Normas House is dedicated
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Ann Alexander, the Execu-
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we recognize the importance
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Reigning Watermelon
Tump Queen Carina Reyes
relinquished her crown to
the new Queen Kaitlin Cap-
pleman during the Corona-
tion Ceremony Friday. Te
weekend was full of food,
fun, and live music. Some of
the headlining names that
hit the stage included Wade
Bowen, Kevin Fowler, and
Te Texas Unlimited Band.
Tere were many rides and
attraction and family events
such as the Tump Parade,
and the various watermelon
contests and seed spitting
competitions.
Te Winners of the seed
spitting contests included:
Adults
1st Josh Segura-29, San
Antonio 55 11
2nd Preston Fredrich-25
Missouri City 49 1
3rd Walter Nickells-50
Luling 48 0
Ages 1-5
1st Tatum Walker-4 Delhi
21 4
2nd Ada Coulter-3 Luling
15 9
3rd Brody Butler-5 Austin
14 9
Ages 6-11
1st Abbi Allen-11 Coleman
34 4
2nd Dj Sanders-8 Luling 30
7
3rd Weston Phillips-7 Lock-
hart 29 11
Ages 12-17
1st Clayton Hinckley-14
Lockhart 38 5
2nd Elizabeth Camacho-13
Hondo 37 3
3rd Jordan Brown-17
League City
Adult Team
1st Los Sandias Barrachos
2nd La Familia
3rd Nickells with Whit
Children Team
1st Champs
2nd Bastrops Finest
3rd East Texas Twisters
Watermelon Auction
Name, Weight, Total:
Mike Donaho, 59.9lbs,
$12,500
Curtis Gibson, 49.8lbs,
$6,000
Jennifer, Allyson, Ashlee &
Zac Watts, 46.6lbs, $4,000
J.D. Rice, 46.0lbs, $2,100
Robert Leck & Chris Robin-
son, 45.7lbs, $2,000
Brandon Collins & Doug
Bohanan, 43.8lbs, $1,650
C.J. & Karen Ingram,
43.6lbs, $6,350
Rudolfo Hernandez,
42.1lbs, $2,750
Eugene Robinson, Sr. and
Jr. and Travis, 42.1lbs,
$4,000
Rusty and Amanda Martin,
39.1lbs, $4,550
Joey Mikesh, 38.8lbs,
$2,000
Allen Watts, 35.6lbs, $2,000
Buck Holcomb, 33.3lbs,
$23,0000
Stanley White, 31.6lbs,
$3,500
Brownie Webb & Walter
Reynolds, 25.4lbs, $5,250
Anticipation and
celebration were
words of choice
during the annual
W a t e r m e l o n
Thump, from the
annual Queen
Contest (above) to
the seed spitting
to the Watermelon
Auction.
Photos by
Coltin
Filip
It is interesting how the events in the
Texas Rio Grande Valley are being de-
scribed by the mainstream media and by
politicians. Tey call it a humanitarian
crisis while they avoid the word inva-
sion.
By calling it a humanitarian crisis,
politicians and the media emphasize the
compassion for the illegal aliens who be-
come victims of a failed U.S. immigra-
tion policy which needs to be fxed, or re-
formed.
On the other hand, by avoiding the use
of the word invasion the mainstream
media doesnt upset the American public
with an accurate description of the event,
and the politicians dont ofend potential
Latino voters.
But regardless of what it is called, hun-
dreds of thousands of illegal aliens have
entered our country since January, and
many more continue to enter daily.
Te fact is that the federal government
has failed to control our national borders.
Stopping and deporting illegal aliens con-
tinues to be the responsibility of the Bor-
der Patrol, but because President Obama
has played politics with immigration law
enforcement, any illegal aliens that are
apprehended are being released.
In Texas, the state government is at-
tempting to address the illegal entry of so
many aliens, but this appears to be more
political theater than substantive action.
Texas law enforcement will be stopping
the criminals, but not detaining (never
mind deporting) illegal aliens.
For example, if a criminal (drug or
human smuggler) is caught with 10 ille-
gal aliens, he is arrested but the illegals
are released. Tis does not equal border
security or immigration law enforcement.
But then againits not an invasion.
Because it is a humanitarian crisis,
federal money will be spent in bundles.
Te mainstream media and the politicians
will scramble to be good humanitarians.
We can be sure there will be some sort
of executive action by Obama on behalf
of these illegal aliens, and of course, the
American taxpayer will pay for it.
Te majority of these adult illegal aliens
are poor and uneducated, and many are
single women with children. Tey will
need long term social services and pub-
lic assistance for housing, food, and
medicine. Te unaccompanied minors
will have the same needs as the adults,
plus education and adult supervision. We
can anticipate the politicians creating a
new and expanded version of the Dream
Act for them.
Barack Obama promised to funda-
mentally change America. Te rule of
law does not exist for him. In a game of
football, you must go 10 yards to get a frst
down while he just has go 5 yards. For
the past six years, his Administration has
picked and chosen what laws to uphold
and which to ignore on every front in-
cluding immigration.
By calling this crisis a humanitar-
ian crisis, liberals hope to create a sense
of guilt in the American public to lessen
the opposition to their spending of more
tax payer money. Tat may work. Hope-
fully people will realize that what we truly
need is to protect Americas borders and
enforce immigration lawswhich means
stop the invasion and deport the illegal
aliens.
One of the great things about
being able to write a weekly col-
umn is that I get to unload a lot
of personal opinions, in public
and thanks to the print medium
they get to carry a little weight.
Its a great source for stress re-
lief and at the same time intel-
lectually stimulating. You have
to fgure out how to say what you
feel in family-friendly fashion
and make it sound as if youre
actually an authority on the mat-
ter. If youre ever looking for a
way to vent lifes frustrations, I
highly recommend buying your-
self a newspaper and penning a
column.
All the little frustrations of life
are fodder for the venomous pen
of the newspaper column writer.
Tick me of with poor customer
service? Ill zing you. Cut me of
in trafc? I will own you. Disturb
my Sunday afernoon with your
boom car? We will play games,
thing.
Occasionally, however, the task
of column-writing takes on an
even more enjoyable aspect when
you are mean enough to open up
a can full of very angry worms.
Over the years, Ive ticked of
a number of individuals, corpo-
rations, organizations, govern-
ment agencies and small foreign
nations with of-hand remarks
poking fun at them. And Ill own
that, being impish, it was usually
intentional.
An of-the-cuf remark can
awaken sleeping giants. We col-
umn-writers quickly learn who
has thin skin, from academics to
drug dealers, politicians to enter-
tainers.
Cowboys fans, for example.
NASCAR fans, most certainly.
But especially with the current
fervor over the World Cup, they
all pale in comparison to soccer
fans.
Te beauty of picking on soc-
cer fans is that you dont even
have to break a sweat composing
a sophisticated barb. All you have
to do is say: Soccer is boring.
Its guaranteed to spawn a food
of Letters to the Editor.
Honestly, I really dont hate
soccer. I played it as a club sport
my last two years of high school
and in college intramurals. I
wasnt lacking in fne motor skills
like I was in baseball, lacking in
size like I was in football, lacking
in coordination like I was in ten-
nis, lacking in height like I was in
basketball and lacking in speed
like I was in track.
But being a patriotic Texan and
an American, I noticed years ago
that soccer fans were ... diferent.
Tey are very passionate about
their sport. And they have very,
very thin skin.
Its entertaining to watch them
boil over.
Soccer is boring.
I mean, if I wanted to watch
grown men trying vainly to score
for 90 minutes, Id park it on St.
Joseph St. some Sunday afer-
noon and watch the middle-aged
illegal aliens cruising back and
forth trying to pick up the teen-
age girls.
Te growth of soccer is at
least partially to blame for the
wimpifcation of America. Tis
all began back in the 70s when
a bunch of overprotective mom-
mies decided that real sports like
football were too dangerous and
competitive.
Ever see a football mom get
all riled up for anything oth-
er than a clipping penalty? Of
course not. Tey understand
that scrapes, bruises and broken
bones are part of growing up and
becoming a man.
Compare that to the outraged
panic of a soccer mom when
you suggest that perhaps teaching
kids to be competitive will give
them an edge in the real world.
Have you ever heard of Fun,
Fair, Positive Football? Of
course not. Football is about win-
ning. Football does not celebrate
ties: football has Sudden Death
Overtime.
As Vince Lombardi growled:
Winning isnt everything. Its the
ONLY thing.
Yet for all the manliness and
traditional competitive American
values of football, its an activity
that teaches good sportsmanship.
NFL fans riot following close
victory. Read no newspaper
headline. Ever.
Soccer fans tend to follow
the Politically Correct herd.
Ever wondered who in Texas
would actually buy a Smart Car?
Look closely, youll fnd a FA
Munchausen or Roll Barce-
lona! bumper sticker in place of
the Gig Em! or Hook Em!
stickers on the vehicles driven by
real Texans.
(When yall soccer folks arrive
to throw bricks through the win-
dows at Te Cannon ofce, please
remember to aim slightly to your
lef so you dont hit Sanya. Shes
innocent in all this.)
The Cannon
Thursday, July 3, 2014
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In Our View
Is it a humanitarian crisis, or a contrived invasion?
Imp in print: Soccer fans are so much fun to pick on
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El Conservador
George Rodriguez is a San Antonio resident. He is the
former President of the San Antonio Tea Party, and
is now Executive Director of the South Texas Politi-
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Jim Cunningham is a former longtime Gonzales news-
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Jim Cunningham
1973: Te year that changed everything we do
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you
buy for work and driving through trafc in a
car that you are still paying for in order to
get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant
all day so you can aford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman

Im way past the age of being old enough to
be a grandfather. And I am one. A grandpa.
So it is okay-dokey for me to let my mind
wander. To let a grandkid know how it was
back when I was young.
So Jillian (thats my granddaughter). Here
goes. Te time was the simple era of the 19 and
50s. A pack of Marlboro cigarettes were a quar-
ter. Ditto for a gallon of gas.
And a fella could get a six-ounce Grapette
sody water in a returnable bottle for a nickel to
quench his thirst, too. At the time.
Nowadays a pack of even generic smokes
is around fve dollars. Gasoline is running
up there toward the four dollar mark. And a
school teacher waltzes through the hallways of
limited learning toting a 128-ounce cup of diet
cola (also known as belly wash) to bloat her
bladder.
No lets regress and stress out into 70s. When
the world as we knew it went into oil shock.
Tanks to those gaseous galoots called the Ar-
abs. It was in 19 and 73 and the Arab members
of OPEC announced they were enacting an oil
embargo. No longer shipping to countries that
supported Israel in its to-do with Egypt.
It is said that at the time, we, the good Ol U.
S. of A. took it for granted that petroleum was
plentiful and cheap. Well, let me tell you Telma
Lou Betty Is, and you too, Freddie Mac: OPEC
hit those of us who love to steer the pavement
and get behind the wheel to see the USA in our
Chevrolets over the head with a Louisville Slug-
ger. By cutting back oil production and placing
a suppression on shipments to the West.
Resulting in long lines at the gas pumps.
I was living and loving in San Marcos at the
time. Was a silent partner with a fella by the
name of Kent Finlay in a little live entertain-
ment venue called Cheatham Street Ware-
house.
CB radios were the rage and novelty of the
time. So Finlay and I both concurred that
wed just die if we didnt have one in our cars.
To avoid a trip to the undertaker, we became
CBers.
On any given Sunday we would take to
cruisin. Te Hill Country, Gulf Coast, an East
Run to Te Fair in Lott for western shirts, a new
Stetson, boots. Wherever.
In separate autos. Naturally. To justify keep-
ing in contact via CB radio. Stopping to eat a
chicken-fried steak at an out of the way diner.
Or to sip and listen to pickers at a country beer
joint.
Ten in 73 the embargo hit. I recollect wait-
ing in a line, with the motor motoring, and A/C
at full blast, for 30 minutes to an hour to have
fve gallons of Phillips 66 gas pumped into the
tank. So we could venture out to Baby Head or
Sweet Home or New Dime Box, and if desper-
ate, even a city the size of Austin.
Finlays a musician. And at the time, to be-
come a big country and western singing star,
he attempted to get arrested several times. Tat
was the in thing for a few C&W outlaws back
then. Doing jail time and then singing about it
on the radio and jukeboxes.
Anyway, Finlay turned his nose up at author-
ity. And tried in vain to get collared by the cops.
Why, he went so far as trying to pump leaded
gasoline in his unleaded Malibu Chevrolet.
And went so far as trying to top the tank which
was a hard time no-no at the time. If caught. He
never was.
Anyway, most nearly normal folks fgure
the energy crisis of the 70s was caused by our
reliance on foreign oil. And that that acceler-
ated the movement in the U.S. to advocate en-
ergy conservatism and seek alternative energy
sources.
And gas went from leaded to unleaded.
Also it gave us the Pinto and Gremlin and
Vega and Pacer. So to hell with OPEC. Energy
experts claimed those little autos were the an-
swer. But the unfortunate drivers that pur-
chased them were lef wondering what was the
question.
It also ushered in the compacts from Japan
and elsewhere and sent the Big Tree (Chrys-
ler, GMC and Ford) in Detroit on the defensive.
Where they remain even today.
In 19 and 74 the OPEC oil embargo ended
but we were lef with a 55 mile-per-hour speed
limit. It lasted to the late 90s. And because of
the gasoline shortage, daylight saving time was
enacted.
But the year was good for something. Nixon
was removed from ofce. And it gave us the
string Bikini and thats a fashion we fellas fg-
ure is fashionable.
Today we arent waiting in long lines at the
self-service pumps. But were paying a major
league price to get to where were going.
Tanks to the mismanagement of the
Obama Administration and whats been esca-
lating in Iraq the last few weeks.
Yes, Jillian, it takes a pile of pennies to make
a living. To pay for the name brand underwear
and relaxed ft chinos. To make payments on a
$35,000 vehicle and a mortgage on the abode.
And big bucks to get from here to there no
matter where one is heading down this oh,
so uncertain road.
The Cannon
By JEAN HRINCIRIK
Special to The Cannon
Father Simon celebrates 50th year as a priest
In Your View
They can aford a soccer team, but
not take care of their own children?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Did you get the message Friday?
Dear Editor,
Okay, okay: I know that we here in this
country have our opinions on football ver-
sus soccer. You either hate it or love it, and I
get it. I fnd it laughable how people will ar-
gue that point as they kick the ball back and
forth in an arguably boring or exciting
match, depending on how you see it.
However, some of us see it in a to-
tally diferent way. As we watch a match on
TV, our border is PURPOSELY being in-
vaded. We have a man made intentional
humanitarian crisis on our hands we are
told, because we are a good people and care
about others. Our federal government is
practicing overt lawlessness while our state
government does nothing of consequence!
Many know that this invasion of illegal im-
migrants has been in the works for several
years. Just ask a FEMA worker in San Anto-
nio who started preparing the facilities to
house children well over a year ago. So, for
those who see this going on at the same time
as the match, what do we see?
We see central and south American
countries whose people are entering our
country illegally because of poverty, paying
for an international soccer team from their
country to travel the world and kick a ball.
We see 70,000 plus supporters from those
countries fll two stadiums to watch their
team. We think of the money spent by those
spectators to fy, hotel up, party, and what-
ever else goes on there. Could that money
have been spent for humanitarian reasons
in THEIR OWN COUNTRY? All the while
we here are told we must be benevolent and
take care of those from that country who
break our laws. Wow, Mexico just happens
to be playing now and the stands are a sea of
green. I wonder if they all got there legally?
Ive been to Brazil ... ya need a passport and
a visa! Just talking and seeing the game dif-
ferently!
We see it this way. If you can aford to
pay for a soccer team, or you can aford to
travel the world to watch it, take care of your
own darned people! Take care of your own
poverty! Take care of your own lawlessness!
We have enough to handle with our own
darned government! State and federal!
Yea, we see it diferently when you think
about these things and look at the crowd
Makes a penalty kick a little less exciting,
doesnt it? Wake up, Texas! If we keep go-
ing down this road, there will be nothing to
celebrate!
Cary Wise
Hondo
Dear Editor,
Amazing! Provide a band which plays the
music people want to hear and which does
a professional job and the people will come!
What a turnout for the last Friday Night
Concert! What a concert!
As I predicted, the Tejano music lineup
was what people wanted and they supported
it in great numbers. I arrived about 6 p.m.
because I wanted to see the setup process.
I was intercepted by six people from Cuero
who recognized me from my performing
down there recently. Tey were all excited
about the concert and traveled all the way
to Gonzales.
By 6:45 p.m. there were more people in
attendance waiting for Lucky Joe to take the
stage than the total of all the previous three
weeks attendance combined. By the time
Elida Reyna tood the stage, the place was
jammed. What a show she put on! I tried to
count the crowd, but the people were mov-
ing around too much and I couldnt get past
500, and that was jus those people next to
the state. I estimate the crowd to be 1,500 to
2,000 maybe more.
Tis could have happened each week if
the proper entertainers providing the prop-
er musical entertainment were hired. I hope
the Friday Night Concert organizers get that
message. You cant have people who dont
know music or the music business in charge
of hiring the bands.
Lets get the some people who know what
they are doing. Stop taking advice from
people who dont have a clue about what the
people in Gonzales want.
I would also hope that the companies
who so generously donate their money to
pay for these entertainers demand a better
accountability for their money.
Pat Rosato
Cost
Fify years ago, June 7, 1964,
Father Simon Brzozowski,
M.S.F, newly ordained in the
St. Louis Cathedral by Cardi-
nal Ritter, came to his home-
town parish to celebrate his
First Mass.
Father Simon returned to
St. James this year to celebrate
a Mass of joy and thanksgiv-
ing on the golden anniversary
of his priesthood. As Father
Simon told the congregation,
Fify years makes a lot of dif-
ference. As I processed down
the aisle, I saw new faces, older
faces and of course many
are no longer with us.
Preparations began for this
great celebration in early De-
cember of last year. Coordina-
tion among the local Catholic
communities, the Order of the
Missionaries of the Holy Fam-
ily, and the S. P. Brzozowski
family culminates, fnally, on
the great feast of Pentecost.
Father Simon marveled that
it came to be this celebration
day also. Preparation! Chal-
lenges! Excitement! Nothing
stops time the day is here!
At midnight in Donna,
parishioners of St. Josephs
Church, where Father Simon
currently resides, were board-
ing a bus to come to their Fa-
ther Simons celebration in his
hometown of Gonzales.
Early arrivals were eagerly
waiting. Tey brought with
them the gold and red vest-
ments Fr. Simon would wear.
Teir eforts and terric spirit
paled ours in comparison. We
were hardly awake.
Our Fourth Degree Knights,
always so impressive, greeted
our guests. As I complimented
one lady without hesitation
she remarked, For him,
wed do this in a minute any-
time. Wow! Can you imagine
the smile on Jesus face at that?
Te clock was ticking. Te
sacred music concert of praise
and thanksgiving was to start
at 9 a.m. Sound system, check.
Choir in place. Soloists, accom-
panists. Music in order?
Pianist LeAnne Swick very
gently opened our eyes a little
more with, Pierre Cansponis,
O Quam Servus Est. (May
I share a little story with you
here? I chose this music be-
cause it sounded so beautiful
to me, and, then I learn the title
means, What a Servant Is He.
I dont think I was the only one
choosing do you?)
Next on the program, Fa-
ther Simons great-niece, Mary
Katherine Shimell of Penn-
sylvania, sang Cesar Francks,
Panis Angelicus (Food of
Angels). A sweeter voice would
be hard to nd.
As LeAnne Swick sang Da-
vid Foster and Carol Bayer
Sagers, Te Prayer, someone
near whispered, Incredible!
Oh yes! Te teneramente
then the surging power! You
know, when a singer gets up
there where you cant go!
Our emotions are allowed
to gear down, as LeAnne then
plays Quiet Reections by
Boesinger. Fullling a special
request, LeAnne sang Malottes,
Te Lords Prayer, blessing all
beautifully!
Mary Katherine closes the
concert with Franz Schuberts,
Ave Maria. I dont think there
was an untouched heart in the
house.
At this time, Agnes Darilek
presented a tribute to Fr. Si-
mon, reciting the Hands of
Holy Orders, written by Larry
and Mary Sue Ek and Bob and
Rita Brooke. We are certain all
present joined their hearts with
Agnes to express our love for
all the things Father Simons
anointed hands have done all
these years including those
anointed into paradise. Te St.
James Choir sang sofly, Holy
Hands. We fnished just in
time the church bells were
ringing. Time for Holy Mass
to begin.
Te altar held seven votive
candles, set above each gif
of the Holy Spirit: wisdom,
knowledge, right judgment,
wonder and awe, understand-
ing, reverence and courage.
Red carnations anked the
tabernacle with a oral ar-
rangement of exquisite red
roses at the pulpit.
At each end of the altar,
beautiful arrangements of red
gladiola, and red carnations
were seated on gold-draped
pedestals. Today the owers
for this occasion were placed
by the S.P. Brzozowski family.
Mr. Greg Tieken, always of
such cheerful voice, welcomed
all attending. Te Yoakum
Assembly of Fourth Degree
Knights silently moved into
place, lifed their swords in an
arch, and the processional be-
gan, all singing, Come Holy
Ghost!
For todays Pentecost cel-
ebration, Kathleen Demners
Mass of Joy was sung. Te
organist-director, Jo Ann Ha-
jovsky, was leading and the
cantor for the day was Kermit
Tiele.
Leading the procession were
cross-bearer, Rafael Bibas; altar
server, Gerado Nunez; candle
bearers, Rene Bibas and P.J. De-
Luna; Deacon Terry Brennan;
Rev. Paul A. Raaz, pastor of the
Catholic communities of Gon-
zales and Wealder; Very Rev.
Philip Sosa, M.S.F., provincial
superior of the missionaries of
the Holy family, North Ameri-
can Province; Rev. Alberto Tre-
vino, MSF, Director of Forma-
tion for the Missionaries of the
Holy Family and the Celebrant
Rev. Simon Brzozowski, M.S.F.
in gold and red vestments gif-
ed to him from Poland.
Te St. James choir and con-
gregation sang the Penitential
Rite, the Kyrie of the Mass of
Joy, followed by the resound-
ing, Glory to God!
James Brzozowski, brother
of Father Simon, presented
the First Reading Acts 211-11,
painting in words a portrait
of the frst Pentecost. Ten,
led by the choir, the responso-
rial Psalm 104 was sung. Lord,
send out your Spirit and renew
the face of the Earth! Cantor,
Kermit Tiele sang the verses.
Te Second Reading: 1
Cor. 12: 3b,7,l2-13 was read by
James Brzozowski telling us,
Brothers and sisters, no one
can say, Jesus Is Lord, except
by the Holy Spirit.
Ten all sang the Pentecost
sequence hymn, Come Holy
Spirit, On Us Shine.
Te Gospel taken from John
20: 19-23 was given by Deacon
Terry Brennan. Te Gospel
revealed the disciples were
locked in a room from fear but
Jesus, nevertheless, comes and
stands in their midst and says
to them endearingly, Peace
be with you. He shows them
his hands, his side. Tey re-
joice! Te risen Lord is in their
midst! Jesus says to them, As
the Father has sent me, so, I
send you...
Te Very Rev. Philip Sosa
gave the homily expressing the
greatness of the frst Pentecost,
the importance of the Holy
Spirit helping the apostles at
the birthday of the church and
will do so all through history.
Te Mass continued with the
profession of faith and the gen-
eral intercessory prayers.
At the ofertory, the hymn,
Sweet Sweet Spirit was sung.
Escorted by the Fourth De-
gree Honor Guard, Robert
and Kathryn Brzozowski and
Lawrence and Mary Agnes
Brzozowski brought up the
gifs. For the Liturgy of the Eu-
charist, the Holy, Holy, Mass
of Joy was sung.
At the consecration, the
Fourth Degree Knights ap-
proached the altar and present-
ed their plumed chapeaus in a
reverent slow forward salute
to their Lord as the celebrant
of the Mass elevated the host
and chalice. Ten all prayed
together, the Lords Prayer and
ofered each other a sign of
peace.
Te Lamb of God peti-
tions of mercy and peace were
sung. As the people received
communion, the St. James
Choir sang, Holy Spirit, Come
to Me and Eat Tis Bread.
Afer all had received com-
munion and were seated in
quiet meditation, Brenda, Cait-
lin and Rachel Pinkston, niece
and great-nieces of Father Si-
mon, reminded us in song to
Pass It On.
Te Mass concluded with
the priest blessing the people,
May almighty God bless you,
in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Te recessional was the ever-
renowned, Holy God, We
Praise Ty Name.
Ten we proceeded to the
parish hall. As guests entered
they were registered by Fa-
ther Simons niece, Anita Van
Auken of Nixon. Te registry
table was laid with a crochet
work used at Father Simons
25th Jubilee; a tablecloth made
by his mother, Mary Brzo-
zowski. Guests were ofered
a keepsake Bible marker, a
memento, depicting Father Si-
mons ordination. Guests were
then directed to a refreshment
table, serving cofee, raspberry
lemonade and small cups of
snacks.
Numerous dining area tables
were decorated in ivory cover-
ing, each holding a oral, silk,
arrangement of yellow roses,
lily of the valley with compli-
ments of gold interspersed. A
50th anniversary greeting was
placed in the center.
Te head table was skirted
with gold covering, holding a
centerpiece of a delicate cro-
cheted heirloom, a work made
by Father Simons mother
many years ago. Tereon, a
cake made by Peggy Janota,
congratulating Fr. Simon on
his 50th anniversary.
Te cake, an ivory iced
confection, was decorated
with a jeweled golden chalice.
Too beautiful to eat! Te cake
was fanked by a lit taper on
each side and was served by
Leona Brzozowski, Father Si-
mons sister-in-law.
Another table held a fam-
ily heirloom Father Simons
mothers family brought with
them from Poland a cru-
cifx set upon a hard-carved
pedestal, a most treasured
item in their one lone trunk
of belongings when the Wos-
tal family came to America
in 1906. A photo album held
photos of many family trea-
sures Father Simon as a
youth, etc.
Also on this table was a
unique basket with a beauti-
ful, sof lining created by Bea
Maddox to hold cards of con-
gratulations for Father Simon
to cherish.
A video of scenes of the
ordination was shown with
Father Sosa explaining the
ordination procedures as
Cardinal Ritter ordained
the 32 candidates March 14,
1964. As the scene showed
the candidates lying prostrate
on the foor before the Cardi-
nal, Father Sosa commented,
Tey are not sleeping. Tey
are actually giving their lives
to God. What a powerful,
beautiful moment. It gives
you a chill!
Soon we learn everything
is ready. Father Simon bless-
es all and the gifs of food.
Caitlin and Rachel Pinkston,
great nieces of Father Simon
served the head table their
lunch.
Seated at the head table was
the master of ceremonies,
James Brzozowski, his wife
Leona; Father Sosa; Father
Simon, Father Paul Raaz and
Sister Odelia Korenek of the
Sisters of Divine Providence.
Sister Odelia Korenek, sister
of Leona Brzozowski, heads
Blessed Sacrament Academy
in San Antonio.
Te menu, served by Mar-
tha Jo and Robert Guerras
Catering consisted of tender
roast beef, grilled chicken
breasts and mashed pota-
toes, brown gravy, a vegetable
medley, fruit salad, rolls and
iced tea. Parish members
provided wonderful desserts.
Te guests aboard the
chartered bus from Donna
were encouraged to take
plates of food with them for
the return trip. Our guests
were from various places:
Texas, Missouri, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania and
Florida.
It was a great and beauti-
ful day! Many embraces and
greetings. Faces too seldom
seen. And now the goodbyes,
the day was coming to an
end. Te lovely decorations
were being removed, chairs
put away, tables lef bare.
As I walked to my vehicle,
the parking lot was now emp-
ty. Te tears began to ow.
Te kind of tears you like, the
day was so beautiful.
Slowly, carefully, more
tired than Id ever been, bless-
edly tired, I drove home, the
heart whispering like the
wheels turning, Tank you
everyone thank you for
this beautiful day, a beautiful
day of history.
Father Simon Brzozowski
mographics refect that 37.7 percent of the
Waelder population does not have trans-
portation.
Te Council also took time during the
meeting to salute the service of librarian
Doris Burney. Council members Valentino
Hernandez and Peggy Blackmon were ap-
pointed to a committee to fnd a new li-
brarian.
Discussion also occurred on whether or
not to transfer the funds between Library
accounts to the Waelder Public Library
checking account.
Also during the meeting, a motion was
passed to Appoint Crystal Cedillo RTA
(Gonzales County Tax Assessor/Collector)
to Calculate and Prepare the 2014 Efective
and Rollback Tax Rates for the city.
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responded to the scene.
Afer a short investigation, two male
subjects identifed as 38 year old Michael
LaFour of Manvel and 27 year old Rodney
Cooper of La Porte agreed to come to the
sherifs ofce for questioning. LaFour and
Cooper admitted to being involved in mul-
tiple copper and battery thefs in Gonzales
County and were subsequently charged
with Tef of Copper.
Both were taken to Gonzales County
Jail where they are currently being held on
$7,500 bond each.
Atkinson said that the investigation is
on-going and additional charges are ex-
pected. He added more than 25 cases are
expected to be cleared by these arrests, and
it was through the diligence of the sherifs
ofce patrol and investigation divisions
that these cases were solved.
Atkinson advises all Gonzales County
residents to be aware of their surround-
ings and report any suspicious activity to
their local law enforcement or the Greater
Gonzales County Crime Stoppers at 830-
672-TIPS.
one of the principals in that business has had
to undergo surgery, she said, but plans are
still to see that facility on Sarah DeWitt Dr.
operating possibly on at least a limited basis
by the end of the year.
We have received plans for another hotel
as well, Gibson-Baros said. Te Extended
Stay Motel would add another 67 rooms to
the citys capacity, giving Gonzales a total of
647 hotel rooms available. She said that a sur-
vey of existing facilities indicated a regular
occupancy rate of 70-80 percent most weeks.
Also reviewed was the Main Street Facade
Grant program, which helps downtown
businesses rehabilitate storefronts.
We have created a monster, but its a
good monster, with the grants, Gibson-
Baros said.
Main Street director Barbara Friedrich
said several businesses are considering ap-
plying for the grants, but the current pro-
gram is full until the new budget year begins
in October.
Director James Ryan suggested Main
Street continue to accept funding applica-
tions and that GEDC would take up those
requests when it begins fnalizing its budget
for the coming year. GEDC directors also
held their frst budget workshop at the close
of Mondays meeting.
GEDC president Nathan Neuse reported
that work is also progressing on the 513 St.
George St. property which will eventually
house the GEDC ofces as well as business
incubator ofces low-rent ofce space for
small start-up operations.
2, chicken at 3 and brisket at 4.
Vendors begin setting up at 10 a.m., and
Bill Pekar and the Rainey Brothers Band
take the main stage with toe-tapping coun-
try music from 2-6 p.m.
Te annual Cannon Goofy Games will
help provide fun for the whole family, with
Schlitterbahn tickets up for grabs for the
winners. A Womens Patriotic Hat contest
kicks of the fun at 3:30 p.m.. My Mama
Told Me... for kids under 13 and Stuf My
Daddy Says for kids 13-19 is scheduled for
4:30 p.m., and the hilarious Mens Bikini
Contest will send people scurrying for cover
at 5 p.m.
Te days events also includes a Water-
melon Eating Contest at 4 p.m.
Kids will also want to stop by the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars booth to register for
free bicycles to be given away by the VFW,
VFW Ladies Auxiliary and Gonzales Elks.
A decorated bike parade and the bike give-
away will take place at 6 p.m.
Te Emotions will take the main stage to
entertain from 7-11 p.m. with the freworks
show the biggest between Houston and
San Antonio scheduled for 10 p.m.
Tere will be a special drawing at halfime
of the Waelder show. Tickets are available
from any Waelder Lion Club or Leo Club
Member for $1 each or 6 for $5. 1st Prize is
$300; 2nd Prize Mr. B Fireworks Artillery
Kit; 3rd Prize - $100; 4th Prize - $75; 5th
Prize Box of J Bar B Hamburger Patties;
6th Prize - $50; 7th Prize - $25. You do not
have to be present to win!
In Shiner, the ever-popular Dunk Tank is
back for this years Half Moon Holidays at
Green Dickson Park. Te carnival, biergar-
ten and vendors open for business at noon
on Friday, and afernoon events include a
horseshoe tournament and salsa and mar-
garita making competition. Te Chad Sullin
Band opens the evening entertainment at
8:30 p.m., with the Rankin Twins headlin-
ing the evening show from 10:30-midnight.
Saturdays events include a 5K/10K fun
run starting at 7:30 a.m., followed by a pa-
rade through downtown. Te washers tour-
nament kicks of at 1 p.m., and pie judging
turn-inn is at 4 p.m. flowed by an auction
at 5.
Shiners own Los Kolaches kick of the
evening musical entertainment at 6 p.m.,
followed by Zane Williams at 8. Te Spoetzl
Brewery Fireworks Show is scheduled for
9:30 p.m., followed by Charlie Robison on
the main stage at 10.
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FOURTH: Independence Day
celebrations scheduled here
GEDC: Update on projects
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want in this project, he said.
What emerged from comments from the
audience indicated several diferent fac-
tions: some who want the center built at
the park on land already owned by the city,
some who want it built on the citys north
side closer to where current development is
happening, and some who dont want any
development at all.
Barnes did his best to address a couple
of skewed perceptions which he felt might
be responsible for some of the opposition: a
management company which has a consult-
ing contract with the city for the develop-
ment of the center, and the proposed fund-
ing source for the center.
Our only contract with Venue Works
(management company)is a $28,000 or so
contract for the design of the facility, he
said. Te company has suggested a larger
facility than the one originally envisioned,
stafed by a dozen or more people, but
Barnes said its doubtful the city would take
those suggestions.
Eberle questioned the source of funding
for the construction and operation, and
Barnes explained that half the funds would
come from the citys hotel-motel tax and the
other from the citys economic development
tax. Te City Council has pledged to back
bonds sold for the project with ad valorem
taxes in order to obtain a better bond rat-
ing and interest, but ad valorem taxes would
only be used if there were an economic
crash which dramatically decreased those
development funds.
Te location of the facility at JB Wells
Park had its supporters and detractors, and
Barnes said the only reason current plans
called for it to be built there was the fact the
city owns the land.
Don and JoAnn Liefeste were among
those pushing to locate any such facility
away from the park, asserting that the Texas
Parks & Wildlife Dept. and the Texas His-
toric Commission must give their approval
before the project could get started.
JoAnn and I are related to JB Wells and
we have read his will, Don Liefeste said.
Nowhere in that will did I see a huge event
center sitting out there next to that (Santa
Anna Mound).
TPW and THC have concerns that have
not been addressed, because it was prema-
ture to contact them, Barnes said. Tey
like to see a fnal idea. We have a meeting
with them next week and we hope theyll tell
us were on the right track or not.
Suzanne Sexton said the JB Wells will did,
however, provide for eventual construction
of a civic or recreation center on the site.
Te southern location also has the dis-
advantage of being a few miles away from
rooming for convention or trade show visi-
tors. By the end of the current year, Gonza-
les will have nearly 650 hotel rooms of vari-
ous types, but the citys lodging facilities are
usually at 70-80 percent full.
Don and I went to the Bastrop center,
JoAnn Liefeste said, and she said the big-
gest mistake they made was not locating it
near a motel. I understand there is fve acres
of land next to LaQuinta (on Highway 183,
near Sarah DeWitt Dr.) that is available.
Barnes said he is aware of at least two de-
velopers who are considering buidling ho-
tels near the park site, but was not certain
about how advanced those plans might be.
Mrs. Liefeste also questioned why the city
has not approached other entities, particu-
larly Gonzales County and Gonzales ISD, to
partner in the project.
Richard Green said the JB Wells com-
plexs location south of the Guadalupe
River bridge creates a psychological divide
which tends to keep visitors at the park in-
stead of visiting downtown and local busi-
nesses.
I dont understand why were locating
this next to the arena, Green said. What
makes us think we can manage this any bet-
ter than we manage the arena? Te arena
loses money every year.
A number of commenters ofered ideas
about what kinds of events they would like
to see the facility host.
We need a place locally to hold prom,
Paul Neuse said, so the kids dont have to
go out of town.
Roger Eberle suggested the facility in-
clude built-in multimedia rooms for small-
to medium-sized businesses and groups to
hold training or breakout sessions.
Another suggestion was to make the
center available to other municipal govern-
ments during natural disasters such as hur-
ricanes, and Barnes noted the design of the
main auditorium also called for the inclu-
sion of portable walls, which could be used
to subdivide the main meeting area into
several smaller rooms.
James Ryan said hed like to see small-
scale agricultural trade shows at the site
and small to medium-sized market
shows such as one hosted annually cur-
rently at the JB Wells Pavilion.
I would like to see gun shows and trade
shows, Bill Sheppard said. We dont want
to over-build but we also dont want to un-
der-build and have to come back 10 years
later and add on.
Te conceptual design provided by ar-
chitect Tim Gescheidle provides for an
area for potential expansion.
Others, however, said the center should
be strictly for local residents use.
We shouldnt think about bringing in
outside groups like trade shows, Don Lief-
este said.
Te conceptual design for a
33,000-square-foot center includes a small
stage, and Barnes said the center would
probably not be a concert venue.
A normal show stage is 40 feet by 60
feet, he said. You put a 40 by 60 stage in
here and you take up one-quarter of the
space.
Ryan said the city is already relatively
well-served by available outdoor locations
for concerts.
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TOWN HALL: Residents give
thoughts on expo center idea
Gonzales City Manager Allen Barnes listens to comments from the Town Hall
audience Tuesday. (Photo by Dave Mundy)
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COLLEGE STATION
Local Chambers of Com-
merce from across the state
of Texas convened Mon-
day night June 23, for the
TCCE Annual Excellence
Awards. Te awards honor
organizations for excep-
tional eforts in marketing,
communications and me-
dia outreach. Awards are
judged in 7 separate catego-
ries: Social Media Market-
ing and Communications,
Brochures, Chamber Map,
Magazine or Community
Guide, Print /Electronic
News, Outstanding Cham-
ber Website, and Outstand-
ing Traditional Marketing
Campaign.
In the category of the
Social Media Market-
ing and Communications
the Gonzales Chamber of
Commerce & Agriculture
was honored as the best in
Texas, winning frst place
for its Facebook, Pinter-
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pages.
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category Print /Electronic
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competitive process, said
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Vice-Chairman of Com-
munications and 2014 Me-
dia Awards Chair. Tis
year we had a record num-
ber of entries from around
the state. Rest assured the
winners tonight faced stif
competition from fellow
chambers of commerce.
Teir victory truly indi-
cates the Gonzales Cham-
ber of Commerce & Agri-
culture is the best in 2014
in their Social Media Mar-
keting and Communica-
tions.
Te overall competition
had more than 225 entries
from which the best were
judged by panels of experts
in the specifc feld around
the state. Tis prestigious
honor demonstrates the
phenomenal work done by
organizationally and in the
community said Bruce
Partain, 2014 TCCE Board
Chairman and President/
CEO of the Nacogdoches
County Chamber of Com-
merce.
One of the primary re-
sponsibilities for a cham-
ber is to promote the or-
ganization, community
and that chambers mem-
bers, said Eddie McBride,
TCCE Incoming Chair and
President of the Lubbock
Chamber of Commerce.
By winning this award
can be held up as an exam-
ple of the best at promoting
the chamber, its businesses
and providing excellent
information to people in
Gonzales County.
Te Texas Chamber of
Commerce Executives
(TCCE) is the profession-
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professional staf in the
state of Texas. Established
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the nation.
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resources TCCE provides
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Gonzales Livestock
Market Report
The Gonzales Livestock Mar-
ket Report for Saturday, June 28,
2014 had on hand: 840 cattle.
Compared to our last sale:
Calves and yearlings sold steady.
Packer cows sold steady.
Stocker-feeder steers: Medi-
um and large frame No. 1: 150-
300 lbs., $310-$340; 300-400 lbs,
$270-$315; 400-500 lbs, $250-
$295; 500-600 lbs, $215-$240;
600-700 lbs., $197-$205; 700-
800 lbs, $190-$195.
Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs,
$135-$155.
Stocker-feeder heifers: Medi-
um and large frame No. 1: 150-
300 lbs, $255-$325; 300-400 lbs,
$230-$245; 400-500 lbs, $205-
$225; 500-600 lbs., $195-$210;
600-700 lbs., $175-$185.
Packers cows: Good lean util-
ity and commercial, $91-$98;
Cutters, $101-$117; Canners,
$75-$84; Low yielding fat cows,
$90-$97.
Packer bulls: Yield grade 1 &
2, good heavy bulls; $120-$135;
light weights and medium qual-
ity bulls, $105-$110.
Stocker Cows: $950-$1,800.
Pairs: $1,250-$2,000.
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Nixon Livestock
Commission Report
The Nixon Livestock Com-
mission Inc. Report had on
hand, June 30, 2014, Volume,
569; 68 cows, 16 bulls.
Steers: 200-300 lbs, $284 to
$294 to $335; 300-400 lbs., $268
to $278 to $325; 400-500 lbs,
$242 to $252 to $290; 500-600
lbs, $218 to $228 to $250; 600-
700 lbs, $197 to $207 to $233;
700-800 lbs, $154 to $164 to
$213.
Heifers: 200-300 lbs, $223 to
$233 to $275; 300-400 lbs, $244
to $254 to $285; 400-500 lbs,
$225 to $235 to $275; 500-600
lbs, $204 to $214 to $240; 600-
700 lbs, $183 to $193 to $225;
700-800 lbs, $167 to $177 to
$190.
Slaughter cows: $77 to $128;
Slaughter bulls: $106 to $137;
Stocker cows: $900 to $1,800.
Pairs: $2,000 to $2,425.
We will be open on July 7,
2014.
Hallettsville Livestock
Commission Report
The Hallettsville Livestock
Commission Co., Inc. had on
hand on June 24, 2014, 1,463,
week ago, 1,322, year ago, 1,396.
The market was stronger
again this week. Better qual-
ity classes sold $3 to $6 higher
in all weight classes of calves
and yearlings. More benefcial
rainfall has pasture conditions
much improved.
Packer cows and bulls sold $2
higher on approx. 220 hd. total.
Packer Cows: higher dressing
utility & cutter cows, $93-$117;
lower dressing utility & cutter
cows, $79-$93; light weight can-
ner cows, $65-$79.
Packer Bulls: heavyweight
bulls, $122-$133; utility & cutter
bulls, $114-$122; lightweight
canner bulls, $100-$114.
Stocker and Feeder Calves
and Yearlings: Steer & Bull
Calves: under 200; $285-$350;
200-300 lbs, $275-$322.50; 300-
400 lbs, $252-$325; 400-500 lbs,
$218-$290; 500-600 lbs, $198-
$255; 600-700 lbs, $194-$230;
700-800 lbs, $185-$217.50. Heif-
er Calves: under 200 lbs, $270-
$315; 200-300 lbs, $260-$300;
300-400 lbs, $220-$288; 400-
500 lbs, $212-$248; 500-600 lbs,
$191-$226; 600-700 lbs, $181-
$215; 700-800 lbs, $164-$195.
We will have a sale Tuesday,
July 1st.
If we can help with marketing
your livestock, please call 361-
798-4336.
Cuero Livestock
Market Report
Cuero Livestock Market Re-
port on June 27, 2014, had 707
head.
Had 79 cows and 9 bulls. The
packer market was again strong
on a short supply. Was consis-
tent with last weeks gains. Time
to sell any cull cows or bulls.
The calf market was higher
across the board by an aver-
age of $8/cwt. Favorable corn
growing weather as well as im-
proving grass conditions and
a strong demand for limited
numbers has pushed the calf
market to another week of re-
cord all time highs for the fourth
week in a row.
Packer Bulls: Hvy. Wts., $100-
$133; lower grades, $80-$110.
Packer cows: breakers, $68-
$80 boning, $67-$87; canners &
cutters, $82-$125; light & weak,
$40-$65.
Palpated, 9 head bred, $per
cwt, $120-$144.
Pairs: 5 pair, $1,500-$2,450.
Steer calves: under 200 lbs,
None; 200-250 lbs, None; 250-
300 lbs, $307-$312; 300-350 lbs,
$287-$302; 350-400 lbs, $275-
$306; 400-450 lbs, $259-$300;
450-500 lbs, $245-$280; 500-
550 lbs, $234-$252; 550-600 lbs,
$224-$244; 600-700 lbs, $212-
$226; 700-800 lbs, $177-$200.
Bull Calves: under 250
lbs, $309-$345; 250-300 lbs,
$315-$323; 300-350 lbs, $294-
$317.50; 350-400 lbs, $282-
$304; 400-450 lbs, $260-$280;
450-500 lbs, $248-$270; 500-
550 lbs, $234-$247; 550-600 lbs,
$218-$230; 600-700 lbs, $203-
$221.
Over 700 lbs. bulls, $181-
$200.
Heifer Calves: under 200 lbs.,
$323-$355; 200-250 lbs, $288-
$336; 250-300 lbs, $270-$310;
300-350 lbs, $267-$298; 350-
400 lbs, $239-$263; 400-450 lbs,
$235-$268; 450-500 lbs, $231-
$265; 500-550 lbs, $220-$258;
550-600 lbs, $217-$262; 600-
700 lbs., $194-$210; over 700
lbs, $173-$196.
Area Livestock Reports
Gonzales County Courthouse
Deeds
June 1-30
Ehlinger, Herbert H. and Eh-
linger, Vivian A. to Ehlinger, Her-
bert H. (trustee) and Ehlinger,
Stephen E. (trustee), w/d, Sur-
vace only 107.0 Ac. Gonzales
County School Land A-229.
MTHS Properties LLC to Mam-
marella, Phillip Allen and Mam-
marella, Krystal Elaine, w/d, Lt.
19 High Ridge Meadows Phase
1.
JH Lamp Properties LP to
Shepard, Perry Glen and Shepa-
rd, Michelle B., w/d, 548.71 Ac J
Robinson A-57.
Chandan, Sanjiv and Chan-
dan, Renu to Dave, Vijay K., w/d,
1.005 Ac J B Patrick A-55.
Floyd, John Christopher Jr,
Floyd, Jerome Carl, Floyd, James
Conrad and Bradley, Joanne Can-
dace Floyd to Poe, Thomas L. and
Poe, Janelle F., w/d, 111.20 Ac &
Easement A Zumwalt A-503.
Rafter FC Development, Inc.
to Rafter FC Homes, Inc., w/d, Lt.
28, Blk. 1, Lous Garden Subdvn,
Gonzales.
Kirksey, Patricia Joan to Hail,
Tom L., o/l, 490.70 Acres, A Zum-
walt, J McCoy & J Stifer Svys,
Gonzales & Fayette Counties.
Action Gonzales, LLC and
Management Action Gonzales,
LLC (DBA) to Gonzales Touch-
stone, LLC, w/d, 0.432 of an Acre
(Pt. Lt. 1), Cartwheel Subdvn,
Gonzales.
Coleman, Stefan to EOG Re-
sources Inc., o/l, Und Int. 80 AC
B Lockhart A-36.
Hyatt, Randall Lee to EOG Re-
sources Inc., o/l, Und Int 78.5 AC
S. Gates A-228.
Hampton-Clark, Edna Lea to
EOG Resources Inc., o/l, Und Int
80.0 Acres B Lockhart A-36.
Hanley, Gwendolyn to EOG
Resources Inc., o/l, Und Int. 80.0
Acres B Lockhart A-36.
Patteson, James to Wilson,
Ellis Stevens, w/d, 20.41 Ac. J A
Winn A-465.
Kelly, James Goss to Schauer,
Brian L. and Schauer, Mamie I.,
w/d,k 164.322 AC & Easement
E S Hankins A-272 & W Turner R.
A-77.
General Land Ofce State of
Texas to Penn Virginia Oil & Gas
LP, o/l, 14.24 AC B D McClure
A-41.
Salcher, Dolores Gant to Sal-
cher, James Neal, Salcher, Ger-
ald Wayne to Ludford, Evelyn
and Salas, Sally, w/d, 11.452 Ac
D. Davis A-11.
The Cannon
Contractor James McMains re-hangs the sign at
the old domino parlor on St. Paul St. in Gonzales
Wednesday for the frst time in more than 15 years.
Owner/developer Doug Phelan is restoring the parlor
to much of its original decor as part of a new bar and
grill expected to open this fall. (Photo by Dave Mundy)
Gonzales Co. Sherifs Report
Yoakum Police Report
For The Record
GVEC to share $3M
in capital credits
July 3, 1907
On this day in 1907, Pedro (Don Pedrito) Jaramillo, curandero or
faith healer, died in South Texas. He was born of Tarascan Indian
parents near Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in the mid-nineteenth
century. He moved to South Texas as a young man in 1881 and
settled on the Los Olmos Ranch, in the area of what is now northern
Brooks County. He later related that when he was still a poor laborer
in Mexico he suffered an affliction of the nose. One night he was in
such pain that he went out into the woods to a pool of water. He
lay down and buried his face in the mud at the edge and remained
there for three days. When he had cured himself he returned to his
house and fell asleep. A voice awakened him and told him that he
had received the gift of healing from God. He began his practice as
a faith healer almost immediately, prescribing the first thing that he
thought of and making no charge for his services. At first he treated
only close neighbors, but soon he began visiting ranches through-
out the region between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.
Dressed as a Mexican peasant, wearing heavy shoes, a sombrero,
and a cowboy vest, he either walked or rode a donkey on his heal-
ing missions. As his fame spread, an increasing number of patients
came to his home. Most were poor Mexican Americans, and often
Don Pedrito would provide the remedies he prescribed. He con-
stantly received money through the mail in the form of donations,
usually in the amount of fifty cents or a dollar. He made generous
donations to several area churches and to the constant stream of
poor people visiting his ranch. He bought food in wagonloads and
kept his storeroom well stocked. More than $5,000 in fifty-cent piec-
es was found at his home when he died. Don Pedrito never married,
but he adopted two boys. He was buried in the old ranch cemetery
near Falfurrias. His resting place has become a shrine and is visited
by several hundred persons yearly. A biography of him, Don Pedrito
Jaramillo: Curandero, was written in Spanish by Viola Ruth Dodson
and published in 1934.
Today in
Texas
History
Gonzales Police Report
What will the believer become in the aferlife?
Clint
Lowery
Clint Lowery is
pastor of Memo-
rial Heights Baptist
Church in Gonzales.
Pastors Corner
Tere continues to be a great
interest in the subject of angels
and the aferlife. Some have
wrongly assumed that afer death
we become angels.
Tis belief is sometimes tied to
a Biblical text taken from Mat-
thew 22. Here is the text in part,
Te same day the Sadducees,
who say there is no resurrection,
came to Him and asked Him, say-
ing: Teacher, Moses said that if a
man dies, having no children, his
brother shall marry his wife and
raise up ofspring for his brother.
Now there were with us seven
brothers. Te frst one died af-
ter he had married, and having
no ofspring, lef his wife to his
brother. Likewise the second
also, and the third, even to the
seventh. Last of all, the woman
died also. Terefore, in the resur-
rection, whose wife of the seven
will she be? For they all had her.
Jesus answered and said to them,
you are mistaken, not knowing
the Scriptures, or the power of
God. For in the resurrection they
neither marry nor are they given
in marriage, but are like angels of
God in heaven. (Matthew 22:23-
30)
In this text Jesus is responding
to the Jewish sect called the Sad-
ducees. Te Sadducees denied
both the resurrection and the
existence of angels. In this ex-
change they were attempting to
trap Jesus into saying something
erroneous about the aferlife.
Teir plan was tied to the ancient
Jewish practice called Levirate
marriage.
Levirate marriage meant that
when a young lady was widowed
and without children, it became
the responsibility of the deceased
husbands brother, or next of kin,
to take the widow in marriage. In
this way the tribal name, family,
and inheritance would be kept
intact and the widows needs pro-
vided for. Tis became part of the
Mosaic Law. You may read about
it in Deuteronomy 25:5-6.
Notice, that Jesus said, in the
resurrection we will be like an-
gels of God. Tis does not mean
that we become an angel at death.
You are not an angel, nor am I.
You never have been an angel.
You will never become an angel.
It simply means this. Tere are
some things about the nature of
angels that we will share in the
life to come. Evidently angels do
not marry and procreate, nor do
they die. We will share that kind
of nature with angels.
Marriage is a wonderful gif or-
dained by God. But marriage is
temporary and earthly. Marriage
is frst of all a picture of Christ
and His love for the church. In
heaven we will no longer need
that picture. Seeing that we will
know even as are known. We
will be able to explore the depths
of His love face to face and will no
longer need a picture or shadow.
I know that some are really sen-
timental about some day being
reunited to a deceased spouse in
heaven. No doubt we will see and
know one another in heaven. But
the relationship will not be one of
marriage. As Jesus plainly said,
In the resurrection they neither
marry nor are they given in mar-
riage. In heaven there will be no
exclusive relationships, because
everyone will be perfectly related
to each other.
So what will the Believer be-
come in heaven? A glorifed child
of God ftted for heaven with a
new body. Te battle against sin
will be forever and ever fnished.
We will remain a created being of
the Almighty the Creator. Tere
we will worship and serve Him in
unbroken fellowship for all eter-
nity. We will not become an angel.
However, we will be everything
God has created and designed us
to be. What more could we want?
Blessings to you.
Gonzales Police Report News Release Week Of
June 30:
06/20/2014 Reported Burglary Motor Vehicle At
900 Blk St. Joseph St.
06/23/2014 Reported Tef At 1800 Hwy 97.
06/23/2014 Reported Tef At 700 Blk St. Paul St.
06/24/2014 James Edward Rickman Jr 37 Of Gon-
zales Arrested And Charged With Assault At 2000 Blk
St. Joseph St.
06/24/2014 Ryan Anthony Canales 17 Of Gonzales
Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana
At Mcclure And St. Matthew St.
06/24/2014 Josette Swick Dave 47 Of Cost Tx Ar-
rested And Charged With Tef At 1100 Blk Sarah
Dewitt Dr.
06/24/2014 Reported Forgery Passing Of Counter-
feit $10.00 Bill At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.
06/24/2014 Reported Forgery Passing Of $50.00
Counterfeit Bill At 1800 Blk St. Joseph St.
06/25/2014 Tommy Brian Deberry 45 Of Smiley
Tx Arrested And Charged With Aggravated Assault,
Evading, And Resisting At Fair And St. Lawrence St.
06/25/2014 Reported Unauthorized Use Motor
Vehicle At 800 Blk St. Peter St.
06/25/2014 Steven Tyrone Russell 25 Of Lockhart
Tx Arrested And Charegd With Possession Of Con-
trolled Substance At 1600 Blk Huisache St.
06/25/2014 Reported Tef At 1800 Blk Sarah De-
witt Dr.
06/25/2014 Reported Assault At St. Vincent St And
Hamilton St.
feit $50.00 Bill At 1800 Blk St. Joseph St.
06/26/2014 Steven Tyrone Russell 25 Of Lockhart
Tx Arrested On Outstanding Warrants Charged With
Burglary Habitation, Assault, And Evading Which
Was Reported On 06/24/2014.
feit $50.00 Bill At 500 Blk St. Louis St.
06/28/2014 Raynaldo Flores 111 19 Of Gonzales
Arrested And Charged With Evading At 1300 Blk
College St.
06/28/2014 Joe Garza Jr 28 Of Gonzales Arrested
And Charged With Burglary Of A Building, Posses-
sion Of Marijuana, And On Outstanding Warrant
For Unauthorized Use Of Motor Vehicle Which Was
Reported On 06/25/2014 At Qualls And College St.
feit $20.00 Bill At 1300 Blk Seydler St.
06/29/2014 Reported Forgery Passing Of Couter-
06/29/2014 Reported Tef At 1800 Blk Church St.
06/29/2014 Julio Joshua Proa 22 Of Gonzales Ar-
rested And Charged With Forgery Afer Attempting
To Pass A Counterfeit $20.00 Bill At 1300 Blk St.
Louis St And Was Charged With Tampering With
Evidence.
06/29/2014 Juan Ortiz Lopez 22 Of Gonzales Ar-
rested And Charged With Possession Of Marijuana
And Tampering With Evidence At 1300 Blk St. Louis
St.
Luling Police Report
Yoakum Police Department report for June 23-29:
06/23/14
Case #14-242, Tef-B, 803 Mathew; Disposition,
Investigation.
Case #14-243, Criminal Mischief-A, 618 OConner;
Disposition, Investigation.
06/26/14
Case #14-244, Burglary-Building, 507 Tozik; Dis-
position, Investigation.
06/27/14
Case #14-245, Burglary-Residence, 104 Turner;
Disposition, Investigation.
Case #14-222, Warrant arrest, Burns, Billy J., 32,
Yoakum, 106 Tiele; Ofense, Deceptive Business
Practice; Disposition, No Bond/Trans/DCSO.
Case #184752, Warrant Arrest, Williams, Neil
S., 19, Houston, Dunn @ E. Schleicher; Ofense,
W#1386968-Poss. Control Substance; Disposition,
No Bond/Trans/DCSO.
Case #14-246, Assault-C, 611 US 77A N.; Disposi-
tion, Investigation.
06/28/14
Case(s) #14-247, #184757, Lay, Christopher, 30,
Yoakum, 103 Austin; Ofense(s) 1. Assault-A(F/V), 2.
W#14-016-Expired License Reg., 3. W#14-212-FTA/
Bail Jumping, 4. W@14-869-Speeding, 5. W#14-210-
FTA-Bail Jumping, 6. W#14-870-No Insurance, 7.
W#14-211-FTA/Bail Jumping; Disposition, 1. Trans/
LCSO, 2. Fine/$166/Trans/LCSO, 3. Fine $216/Trans/
LCSO, 4. Fine/$218.10/Trans/LCSO, 5. Fine/$216/
Trans/LCSO, 6. Fine/$289/Trans/LCSO, 7. Fine/$216/
Trans/LCSO.
Case #14-248, Tef-B, 449 Fink; Disposition, In-
vestigation.
Case #184769, Warrant Arrest (2), 101 E. Gon-
zales; Complainant, City of Yoakum; Disposition,
Cleared by Arrest.
Case #14-249, Horsley, Ryan, 18, Shiner, 101 E.
Gonzales; Ofense, Poss-Substance Penalty Group
2-A; Disposition, Trans/LCSO.
Case(s) #14-249, #14-250, Evans, Payton, 18, Yoa-
kum, 101 E. Gonzales; Ofense(s), 1. Poss-Substance
Penalty Group 2-A, 2. Poss-Substance Penalty Group
1; Disposition(s), 1. Trans/LCSO, 2. Trans/LCSO.
Case #184769, Warrant Arrest, Evans, Payton, 18,
Yoakum, 101 E. Gonzales; Ofense(s), 1. W#13-862-
Disobey Stop Sign, 2. W#14-154-FTA/Bail Jumping;
Disposition(s), 1. Fine/$197.10/Rel., 2. Fine/$214/Rel.
06/29/14
Case #14-251, Disorderly Conduct, 302 Hope; Dis-
position, Court Citation.
Luling Police Dept. arrest report for June 21-30:
06/23
14-0219, Manuel Rodriguez IV, 30, 700 Blk. E. Austin
St. Luling, charged with delivery of marijuana <=1/4 oz.
in drug-free zone, tamper/fabricate physical evidence
with intent to impair, possession controlled substance PG
1>=1G <4G
06/24
14-0220, Lena Marie Ferguson, 22, 400 N. Walnot Ave.
61, Luling, warrant arrest, trafc or other warrant, poss.
drug paraphernalia
06/25
14-0221, Jessica Marie Natal, 40, I-10/Hwy 80, Luling,
Warrant (Failure to appear)
14-0224, Derrick ONeal Johnson, 27, 130 Hays St.-
Seton Edgar B. Davis Hospital, public intoxication
06/28
14-0225, Travis Leon Robinson, 23, 1000 Blk. N. Mag-
nolia, Luling, Warrant Service (All ofenses against family)
14-0228, Sammy Ray Whited Jr., 25, 104 S. Magnolia
Ave/Tiger Tote, Luling, Public intoxication
14-0229, Isaac Rene Renteria, 17, 100 Blk. Kelly Ave,
Luling, Warrant (Other)
14-0230, Marcelino Alvarez, 45, 500 Blk. E. Davis St.
Luling, Public Intoxication
06/29
14-0231, Justine Roy Sanders, 39, 400 Blk. E. Davis
St. Luling, Public intoxication, Abandon/endanger child
criminal negligence
14-0232, Jerry R. Villareal, 32, 800 Blk. N. Magnolia
Ave., Luling, Public intoxication
14-0233, Devin Casey Clark Nethery, 18, 104 S. Mag-
nolia/Tiger Tote, Luling,k Possession Controlled Sub-
stance PG 1<1G
14-0234, Rogelio Angel, 19, 104 S. Magnolia/Tiger
Tote, Luling,k Possession Controlled Substance PG 1<1G
14-0235, Jefery ONeal Cleveland, 28, 1200 N. Magno-
lia/Eagle Disposal, Luling, Possession of drug parapher-
nalia
14-0236, Alton Carl Townsend, 37, 1200 N. Magnolia/
Eagle Disposal, Luling, Possession of drug paraphernalia
14-0237, Jasmine Iris Green, 25, 1000 Blk. San Marcos
Hwy, Luling, Unlawfully carrying a weapon, driving while
intoxicated MB, driving while license suspended/invalid
14-0238, Leodis Cooks Jr., 27, 1000 Blk. San Marcos
Hwy, Luling, Unlawfully carrying a weapon, failure to
identify
14-0239, Janson Lee Taxton, 41, 400 Oakview Rd,
Luling, Tef $500 or more <$1000
Gonzales County Sherifs Ofce report for June
22-28:
06/23/14
Hernandez, Michael Christopher, 01/1977, Gon-
zales. Local Warrant Burglary of a Building. Local
Warrant Possession Controlled Substance PG 1 <1
G Drug Free Zone. Local Warrant Driving while
License Invalid. Released on Order to Appear. Trans-
ferred to Comal County.
06/25/14
Espinoza, Deana Kaye, 07/1965, Port Lavaca.
Local Warrant Tef of Property >$20 <$500 by
Check. Requires $1,500 Bond. Wilson County War-
rant Tef of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Re-
quires $15,000 Bond. Fayette County Warrant Tef
of Property >$20 <$500 by Check. Requires $1,300
Bond. Remains in Custody.
06/26/14
LaFour, Michael Jared, 03/1976, Manuel. Tef of
Material Alum/Bronze/Copper/Brass <$20K. Re-
quires $7,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.
Cooper, Rodney Eugene, 03/1987, Pasadena. Tef
of Material Alum/Bronze/Copper/Brass <$20K. Re-
quires $7,500 Bond. Remains in Custody.
Ramos, Albert, 08/1972, Gonzales. Commitment/
Sentence Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1
>1G <$G. Released Weekender/Work Release.
06/27/14
Patek, Rodd Clayton, 09/1985, Hallettsville. Com-
mitment/Sentence Driving while Intoxicated w/
Child under 15 YOA. Released Weekender/Work
Release.
Ross, Christopher Paul, 12/1992, Shiner. Commit-
ment/Sentence Aggravated Assault causes Serious
Bodily Injury. Released Weekender/Work Release.
Acosta, Rosaria Janet, 04/1980, Gonzales. Com-
mitment/Sentence Injury Child/Elderly/Disable w/
Intent Bodily Injury. Commitment/Sentence Injury
Child/Elderly/Disable w/Intent Bodily Injury. Re-
leased Weekender/Work Release.
06/28/14
Sepulveda, Justin, 07/1988, Gonzales. Local War-
rant Driving while License Invalid. Requires $515.00
Fine. Local Warrant Display Expired Registration.
Requires $165.00 Fine. Local Warrant Driving while
License Invalid. Requires $515.00 Fine. Released on
Pay Plan.
Hernandez, Jimmy, Jr., 06/1962, Stockdale. Local
Warrant No Valid Inspection Certifcate. Requires
$165.00 Fine. Local Warrant No Drivers License
Issued. Requires $315.00 Fine. Released on Order to
Appear.
Total Arrest, Court Commitments, other agency
arrest and processings:
GCSO 10
DPS 07
GPD 11
WPD 00
NPD 05
Constable 00
DWCSO 00
DEA 00
TPW 00
GCAI 04
Total 37
Te Board of Directors of
the Guadalupe Valley Elec-
tric Cooperative (GVEC) is
pleased to announce a re-
fund of $3 million in capital
credits will be distributed in
July to GVEC members.
Te amount of refund
for each member is based
on the amount of electricity
the member has purchased.
Member bills will be cred-
ited for refunds less than
$25. For refunds more than
$25, members will receive a
check by mail.
GVEC is a strong util-
ity that earns a margin each
year. Municipal utilities typ-
ically transfer these funds to
their general accounts, and
investor-owned utilities pay
dividends to shareholders.
GVECs cooperative form
of ownership allows it to re-
turn a portion of the utilitys
margin to GVECs member-
owners when fnancial con-
ditions allow.
Tis sharing of the posi-
tive fnancial performance
of GVEC with member-
owners is just one of the
benefts that make the coop-
erative form of business so
unique.
Te Board of Direc-
tors would like to thank the
membership for their sup-
port and participation as
member-owners of GVEC,
says Board President Lewis
Borgfeld. We continually
strive to make prudent de-
cisions and are very pleased
when we are able to put
money back into the pockets
of our member-owners.
If GVEC members have
questions, they can call
800.223.4832 to speak with
a Customer Service Repre-
sentative, visit www.gvec.
org<http://www.gvec.org>,
or view their July issue of
Texas Co-op Power maga-
zine.
GVEC is an electric co-
operative that serves over
74,000 meters across 13 Tex-
as counties. Te service area
spans 3,500 square miles
across South Central Texas.
Te headquarter ofce is lo-
cated in Gonzales, with four
area ofces in the cities of
Schertz, Seguin, La Vernia
and Cuero.
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Representatives from Sleep Inn & Suites present Li-
brarian Becky Villa with a donation for Friends of the
Library. Pictured left to right: Jillian Aguilar, Martha
Canales, Becky Villa (Librarian), Andrew Rodriguez,
and Linda Ramirez.
Paul Neuse of Storeys Jewelry presents a donation
to Friends of the Library Vice President Janie Pineda.
Representatives from BYK Additives and Instru-
ments present Friends of the Library Vice President
Janie Pineda with a donation. Pictured left to right:
in back, Arturo Nodal, Joan Richardson, Carolyn Holt,
and in front, FOL VP, Jon Such, Angela Escalante, and
Samantha Garcia.
The Gonzales Public Library had their frst Summer
Science Spectacular June 28. We had a great turn out
with stations set up for the kids to learn about sci-
ence and create projects they could take home. We
would like to thank the Gonzales County Texas A&M
AgriLife Extension, Gonzales Dog Adoptions, Gon-
zales Fire Department, Texas State Troopers, All the
Volunteers and everyone who attended the 1st Sum-
mer Science Spectacular for making it such a won-
derful success!
Science Fair at Gonzales
Public Library
Catholic Daughters Fr.
Pete Roebucks Court 2140
met at on June 24, 2014 at
St. James Parish Hall. Te
Opening Prayer was said
by Bonnie San Miguel. Te
Pledge of Allegiance was
said by members. During
the meeting, the Pro-Life
Prayer and the prayer for
the Armed Services were
said.
Te new ofcers, Debbie
Aleman, Regent; Bonnie
San Miguel, Vice-Regent;
Shirley Hodges, Financial
Secretary; Pam Parker, Sec-
retary; and Carrie Tinsley,
Treasurer, were installed by
Virginia Olsovsky District
30 Deputy. Tese were also
given a blessing by Fr. Paul.
Te monthly birthday
party was held at the Tex-
an and Bingo was held at
the Heights. Patsy Darilek
led the Sunday Rosary . A
thank you note was read
from Sophie Oliver. Te
Vacation Bible Sessions
were held during the week
of June 9th. CDA fed 130
on Monday of that week.
Fr. Simon Brzozowski
Fifieth Ordination Anni-
versary was held June 8th
and CDA members provid-
ed desserts and help serve
during the reception.
Te Colby Glen Brown
Golf Tournament was suc-
cessful and awarded eight
$1,200 Scholarships.
Under new business,
the Nunez family is hav-
ing problems due to Mrs.
Nunez having 2 strokes and
surgery and being unable
to work. Our Court is giv-
ing them a $200 donation
and we have been asked to
contact our Congressman
because they are also facing
immigration problems.
Kennon Brunkenhoefer
won the door prize. Te
August 26th meeting will
be a Salad Supper. Kennon
Brunkenhoefer will do the
Prayer.
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Gonzales Book Club News
J B Wells Upcoming Events Sponsored by
Gonzales Livestock Market
P.O. Box 565 Gonzales, TX 78629
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Mike Brzozowski Mobile 830-857-3900
Sale every
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Last Call on July Trips!!!
Overnight Coushatta Bus Trip July 13 & 14
$69.00 pp/db, bus, hotel-Coushatta Inn, $23 free play on players card. Departs
downtown Luling at 7 a.m. and Franks in Schulenburg at 7:45 a.m. Reserve your
seats NOW!!
Turnaround -- One Day trip to Texas Only
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July 25th - $35 pp/dbl, Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino, $20.00 free play. Departs
downtown Luling at 7:00 a.m. returns approximately 8:30 p.m. Seats must be
reserved and paid in advance.
Overnight Choctaw, Durant Oklahoma,
August 3&4
$99 pp/dbl, bus, hotel tower, $10 free play & discounted buffet. Departs downtown
Luling at 7 am picks up in Georgetown 8:15 a.m. Limited spaces available from
Luling.
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520 St. Paul, Gonzales
OPEN FOR LUNCH
Kitchen Hours: Mon.-Fri. - 11am-9:30 pm;
Saturday - 6:30 pm-9:30 pm
830-672-3647 - Bar; 830-857-5194 - Marlene, owner
July 4th
Bar will be open during day
and Kitchen will open at
5:00 p.m.
Delivery of Channel Catfsh, Bass, Hybrid Bluegill, Redear Bream,
Coppernose Bluegill, Fathead Minnows, Black Crappie and Grass Carp are
available for Pond & Lake Stocking.
A permit 10 days notice are required for the purchase of Triploid Grass Carp.
Thursday, June 12th 3:00-4:00pm
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Walk a mile in my shoes!
After her opening matinee performance of Shakespeares Twelfth Night at the
Crystal Theatre at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, local youngster Angelica Mathis (above,
right) will be able to answer the age-old question of how it feels to walk in some-
one elses shoes. Angelica portrayed the shipwrecked maiden, the lovely Viola,
for the last two Shakespeare at Winedale seasons. This year at Camp Shake-
speare, she is portraying her rescuer in those shipwreck scenes, the Captain. The
3:30 matinee performance at the Crystal Theatre is free to the public as part of
the Crystal Theatres Young Program.
Te Gonzales Book Club
met Turs. June 19, to
discuss Mrs. Poe by Lynn
Cullen. Tis is an histori-
cal novel about the love af-
fair between Mrs. Frances
Osgood and Edgar Allen
Poe. Mrs. Osgoods hus-
band has lef her and their
two daughters and she is
living with friends in New
York. She is an aspiring
poet and determined to
make a living as a writer.
Te setting is New York
in 1845 and she attends
conversaziones, popular
among the upper class at
that time. Tese are held at
Mrs. Fullers home where
important writers such as
Longfellow, Wordsworth,
and Poe gather to discuss
literature and important
happenings of the time.
Mr. Poe and Mrs. Poe at-
tend these conversaziones
and he is asked to read his
poem Te Raven at all of
them. Mrs. Osgood is at-
tracted to him immedi-
ately.
Virginia Poe was 13 when
Mr. Poe married her and is
23 and still young and child-
ish in this novel. She coughs
constantly with consump-
tion and is sickly. She insists
that Mr. Poe invite Mrs. Os-
good over to visit her. Tis
happens several times in the
novel. Mr. Poe walks her
home and they talk and firt
quietly. Mr. Poe and Mrs.
Osgood do spend the night
together, once, in Boston
at a literary meeting, regis-
tered as Mr. and Mrs. Poe.
Our discussion began
with the reading of Te
Raven. It was a great re-
minder of Poes talent. Ten
throughout the discussion
we decided Mrs. Poe was
indeed the appropriate title
for the novel because al-
though she is not the main
character, her actions stand
out as she was seemingly
sabotaging Mrs. Osgood
in little ways. For instance
there was a photographic
session and everyone was to
be absolutely still for their
photo, When it was Mrs.
Osgoods turn, Mrs. Poe has
a coughing spell and Mrs.
Osgood moved her head,
thus a headless photograph.
Oh no, did I spoil it? asks
Mrs. Poe. Another time
they were on a family pic-
nic and were out on a boat.
Mrs. Poes hat falls into the
water, Mrs. Osgood reaches
for it and falls (was pushed?)
into the water. Tere are
several instances like these
throughout the novel. We
decided she knew of the at-
traction between Mrs. Os-
good and Mr. Poe and was
going to be with her hus-
band whenever possible,
inviting Mrs. Osgood as a
friend into her home, going
to the conversaziones, and
with her sickness. Tere
are a few other distinctive
characters whose relation-
ships with Mrs. Osgood we
discussed, as well as their
unusual style of dress.
The novel has a sur-
prising ending and tells
of the true historical
dates and reasons for the
deaths of Mrs. Poe, Edgar
Allen Poe, and Mrs. Os-
good. It also gives a rea-
son for some of the poor
reputation Poe had, and
still has, which is based
on a biased biography of
Rufus W. Griswold.
We also chose books for
the next fve months:
July: Te Invention of
Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Aug: Te Orphan
Train by Christine Baker
Kline
Sept: Giant by Edna
Ferber
Oct: Longbow by Joe
Baker
Nov: Te Tigers Wife
by Tea Obreht
Our next meeting will be
on July 17 from 10-11 am
at Lifords Books and Fine
Art. We will discuss Te
Invention of Wings by Sue
Monk Kidd.
By CAROLYN MIKESH
Catholic Daughters News
By CONNIE KRIDLER
The Victoria College Gonzales Center is pleased to
recognize the following students as graduates of the
summer 2014 Commercial Trucking Driving Course:
(L-R) John Zamora, Jay Maddox, VC Instructor,
Zackery Kotzebue, Robert Thompson, and Kingsley
Green pictured with his son. These students success-
fully completed the CDL course and passed all DPS
testing requirements.
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Page A12
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legendary Tejano Grammy winner Elida Reyna y Avante and upcoming artist Lucky Joe. Both artists did a
great job of playing to an enthusiastic audience. (Photos by Dave Mundy)
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New Gonzales sofball coach Sam
White has already been living in Gon-
zales for the last two years as his wife
is a teacher with GISD.
When the head sofball job opened
up recently, it only made sense for
White to apply for and accept the job.
During the past two years, White
has been teaching and serving as head
sofball coach at Nixon-Smiley ISD
and before that, he had been working
up in the Dallas area.
Living in Gonzales and taking
the head sofball coach will allow me
to connect with the community in
which I live in, he said. With Little
League and Junior League in Gon-
zales, Ive already started attending
games, trying to get to know the par-
ents and players.
White goes from one team to an-
other team that are in similar boats.
Gonzales and Nixon are in simi-
lar situations with their sofball pro-
grams, with neither having a post-
season appearance for some time.
But they are also in diferent situ-
ations, one being more participation
among the Gonzales players through
various youth club teams.
Te players in Gonzales are on
travel teams, select ball and playing
all-star ball, and taking part in sum-
mer leagues, White said.
White will inherit a young team in
2015.
For many of them, 2014 was their
frst exposure to varsity sofball, he
said. When you are freshman and
sophomores playing teams that are
flled with juniors and seniors, it is a
challenge.
Tey are going to be a year older
and that is good.
White said the key thing will be get-
ting the players from the 2014 team to
trust him and his philosophy.
My philosophy is pretty simple:
we are going to play hard, he said.
Every time we go out, we are not just
going to expect to compete; we are
expecting to win. Another part of my
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stress team unity, enjoyment
Yoakum grad
McCracken
signs with UHV
to play baseball
Afer trying out and not
making the team for the
football, baseball and track
programs at Sam Houston
State University during his
freshman year, Yoakum
graduate Blake McCracken
thought he would probably
not take part in collegiate
athletics.
However, it appears God
has other plans for the four-
sport standout 2013 Bull-
dog. McCracken recently
signed to play baseball for
the University of Houston-
Victoria this upcoming
school year, where he will
be a sophomore.
McCracken said he did
have ofers to play at small-
er schools but decided to
forego those to take a shot
at a Division I or II pro-
gram.
Afer my senior year in
high school, I had ofers
to go play at small schools,
but I wanted to try my hand
at a Div 1 or Div 2 school,
he said. Tat experience
helped me in the long run
and I cant say I didnt try.
So signing afer my senior
year is very humbling.
He admitted he felt down
afer unsuccessful tryouts at
SHSU, not having a sport to
participate in.
I was very down on
myself, almost to the point
where I wanted to quit
school. School was pretty
much boring without hav-
ing a sport to look forward
to afer class. Yes, there was
Intramurals, but I wanted
real a competitive sport
that meant something, Mc-
Cracken said. I grew up my
whole life around sports,
and Intramurals wasnt the
same.
At a weekend dance
event, he ran into a former
club teammate and current
member of the UHV pro-
gram, Dylan Blaha.
At the time, McCracken
was planning to transfer to
Trinity University in San
Antonio to play on the foot-
ball team.
Blaha encouraged him to
consider playing baseball at
UHV.
He asked what weremy
plans next year as far as
playing. I said to him that
I was going to play football
at Trinity University (San
Antonio). He then said
to me, why dont you try
out for the UHV baseball
team? I thought to myself,
one, its closer to home and
two, its a whole lot cheaper
than Trinity, which is a pri-
vate college. So I told him
I would defnitely consider
it, McCracken said.
A couple of days later,
McCrackens father, Mike
McCracken, emailed UHV
head coach Terry Puhl and
let him know of Blakes in-
terest.
Puhl got back to Mike
McCracken and asked if
Blake McCracken could at-
First-year Indianette
coach leads team
to state title game
By MARK LUBE
Former Bulldog takes unique
path to collegiate baseball
MCcRACKEN Page B2
First-year Sacred Heart
head coach Derick Janak
had just one returning se-
nior from last years TAPPS
1A/2A state semifnalist
team and had to work in
several underclassmen to
the varsity level. Tings
came together for the In-
dianettes as they did one
game better than last year,
playing in the state cham-
pionship game, falling to
Waco Vanguard in a 14-in-
ning, 7-4 result. Janak has
been named Gonzales Can-
non Sofball Coach of the
Year afer leading the India-
nettes to that hard-fought
state title game.
While the Yoakum Lady
Bulldogs were probably a
little disappointed to have
not made the state tour-
nament and ended their
season in the area round
against Navarro, they still
had a very solid season.
And it was helped by multi-
sport senior frst baseman-
Callie Witte, who has been
named Gonzales Cannon
Sofball Player of the Year.
At the plate, Witte had
.544 average on 103 at-bats
with 30 runs, 56 hits, 30
RBIs, six doubles, six triples
and three home. On de-
fense, she had a felding of
.997 with 132 put-outs, 17
assists and just four errors
on the year.
2014 All-Cannon Sofball
Team
Coach of the Year: Der-
ick Janak, Hallettsville Sacred
Heart
Player of the Year: Callie
Witte, sr, Yoakum
Callie Witte, sr, Yoakum.
Te G-Town Striders had fve athletes qualify for the
AAU Junior Olympics meets at a qualifying meet held
recently in Converse.
Mayra Ganados qualifed in the 3,000-meter run
with a seventh-place fnish as well as the 1500 as she
was in eighth place; Keaundra Cray won the discus
and qualifed in the shot put for third place; Khelsea
Cray came in third place in the discus; David Sexton
qualifed in the 1500 in his age group with eighth place;
Jeremiah Hastings fnished his 1500 in eighth place to
qualify.
Other results for the Striders were Keaundra Cray
coming in No. 31 in the 100; Yasmin Mayberry fnish-
ing tenth, Brycen Shleton coming at No. 34 and Scotty
Upshaw in at No. 35.
Khelsea Cray came in No. 18 in the 800 and
LeAnndrea McCarty was at No. 11. Sexton was No. 12
and Hastings was No. 11.
Jalen Miller was seventh in the shot put and Upshaw
was eighth.
Keaundra Cray was No. 50 in the 200; McCarty was
No. 31, Mayberry was No. 18 and Shelton was No. 31.
McCarty was No. 29 in the 400, Mayberry was No.
34 and Shelton was No. 24. Tyvione Roaches placed
eighth place in the shot put.
Striders sending fve to Junior Olympics
All-Cannon Softball
SOFTBALL Page B2
Monster Truck show
Monster truck fans were treated to displays, jaw-dropping stunts and the roar of big, big trucks
with big, big, big tires Friday and Saturday at the Lone Star Promotions Monster Truck Nationals
at JB Wells Gonzales Arena. (Photos by Mark Lube)
544 batting average, 103
AB, 30 runs, 56 hits, 30 RBIs,
6 dbles, 6 triples,
3 HR, 7 So on the season,
.565 OBP, .805 slug%, 1.371
OPS Fielding %.977, 156 TC,
132
PO, 17 Assists, 4 errors on
the season
Career Stats: .487 BA, 261
AB, 71 runs, 110 hits, 75 rbis,
20 doubles, 11 triples, 3 hr,
.495 OBP, slg% .713; felding
% of .955, 246 TC, 21 assists,
14 errors for the 3 year letter-
man. Was selected to the 2014
TGCA ALL-STAR Game in
Volleyball, All-State in Volley-
ball. Academic All District all
fours years, 1st team All Dis-
trict Outfelder (2011-2012),
1st team Infelder (2014)
She is a 3 sport standout at
Yoakum High School- She
was Academic All-District;
All-District CO/MVP Setter;
Victoria Advocate All-Area
Honorable Mention; Texas
Sports Writers Association
Honorable Mention All-State;
Gonzales All-Cannon Setter.
All State Volleyball, Basketball
2014
Pitchers
Ce Ce Darilek, soph, Shiner,
AVG-.452, AB-93, R-5 (used
CR), H-42, 2B-9, 3B-4, HR- 0,
BB- 20, RBI- 24, K- 14;Pitch-
ing- 21-8, IP- 166.1, H-142,
R-104, ER- 61,BB-82, K-173,
ERA- 2.57.
Rachel Saulnier,sr, Halletts-
ville Sacred Heart. Pitching:
9 wins 4 Losses, ERA 1.47, 64
innings pitched
with 51 Ks and an average
of 5.87 Ks per 7innings, threw
frst shutout in the State Semi-
Finals against
Shiner St.Paul, also played
frst base. Batting: Average of.
373, 72 at Bat,s had 26 runs, 26
hits (8 doubles and 3 triples)
with 20 RBIs, On base % of
.489 and a Slugging % of 492.
CoCo Caraway, soph, Hal-
lettsville, 19-2 District Defen-
sive MVP.
Abby Irvin, jr, Shiner St.
Paul
Kaci Collier, soph, Luling
Miranda Corrila, jr, Nixon-
Smiley
Tori Lester, soph, Gonzales
Catchers
Reagan Renken, sr, Yoa-
kum .541 Batting Average;
98 AB, 53 Hits, 40 runs,
40 RBIs, 11 doubles, 4
triples, 14 Home Runs, OBP
.595, Slg % 1.102, OPS %
1.697; Fielding %- .995, 208
TC, 193 PO, 14 Assists, 1 error
on the year. 39 SBA
and 7 SB against her, Caught
Stealing % was .820.Selected
to Play in the Victoria All Star
Red Team. Was selected as
All-State Catcher in 2013
Career Stats: 2011-2014
.482 Batting Average, 65 BB,
57 SO, 145 RBIs, 210 Hits, 112
Runs, 18 HR, 5 triples, 40 dou-
bles. Fielding Stats: .992, 490
TC, 45 Assists, 8 errors, CS%
of .600. 1st Team DH (2011-
District 28-3A), 2nd team
Catcher (2012- District 28-
3A), 1st team Catcher 26-3A,
All State Catcher 2013, Victo-
ria Advocate 1st team Catcher,
Received MVP of the
Seguin Tournament(28 team
tourn.) hitting 10 home runs
in 6 games, and went 16 for 20
in the tournament (2014), All
Tournament Selection in Vic-
Local 1A baseball teams
Shiner and Flatonia domi-
nated the 28-1A All Dis-
trict superlatives following
deep playof runs, with the
Comanches reaching the
regional semifnals and
Flatonia going all the way
to the 1A state title game.
Shiner senior Jacob Staf-
ford won Most Valuable
Player; Flatonia sopho-
more Casen Novak won
Ofensive MVP; Bulldog
senior Will Bruns and
Comanche junior Blake
Michalec received the De-
fensive MVP. Flatonia had
freshman Easton Migl and
Shiner had freshman Bran-
don Cerny both named as
Newcomer of the Year.
Flatonia players making
the First Team are junior
pitcher Marcus Mica, se-
nior pitcher Mitchell Mica,
freshman infelder Kadden
Mikulik and junior out-
felder Gus Venegas.
Bulldogs making the
Second Team is sophomore
pitcher Nick Flores, sopho-
more infelder Livan Ce-
dillo and senior outfelder
Wyatt Wehmeyer.
Comanches chosen for
the First Team is sopho-
more pitcher Ty Condel,
sophomore catcher Caleb
Murrile, junior infelder
Dillon Kalina, freshman
outfelder Ty Boedeker and
junior utility Tyler Patek.
Shiner selections from
the Second Team is junior
outfelder Ryan Bickham.
28-1A All District
MVP Jacob Staford,
sr, Shiner
Ofensive MVP Casen
Novak, soph, Flatonia
Defensive MVP Will
Bruns, sr, Flatonia; Blake
Michalec, jr, Shiner
Newcomer Easton
Migl, frosh, Flatonia; Brody
Gall, frosh, Weimar; Bran-
don Cerny, frosh, Shiner.
First Team
Pitcher Marcus Mica,
jr, Flatonia; John Blaha, jr,
Weimar; Mitchell Mica, sr,
Flatonia; Ty Condel, soph,
Shiner; Cameron Martinez,
jr, Ganado.
Catcher Chris Kutac,
jr, Louise; Caleb Murrille,
soph, Shiner.
Infeld Kadden Mi-
kulik, frosh, Flatonia; Dil-
lon Kalina, jr, Shiner; Seth
Helmcamp, sr, Weimar;
Blaine Machicek, soph, Lou-
ise; Caleb Schendel, sr, Yor-
ktown; Clay Vesely, sr, Ga-
nado.
Outfeld Ty Boedeker,
fresh, Shiner; Gus Venegas,
jr, Flatonia; Dayton Mil-
ner, soph, Weimar; Jase Bill,
soph, Louise; Chase Svatek,
jr, Ganado.
Utility Tyler Patek, jr
Shiner
Designated Hitter Ryan
Almanza, jr, Weimar
Second Team
Pitcher Regan Bill-
ing, frosh, Yorktown; Tan-
ner Sembera, frosh, Weimar;
Nick Flores, soph, Flatonia;
Hunter Koudela, jr, Louise.
Catcher Cullen Mau-
pin, frosh, Weimar; Milam
Eckhardt, soph, Yorktown.
Infeld Damian
Ramirez, frosh, Yorktown;
Kody Poulton, frosh, Gana-
do; Livan Cedillo, soph, Fla-
tonia; Carson Hollas, jr, Wei-
mar; Ty Tucker, soph, Louise;
Clay Gonzales, jr, Louise
Outfeld Ryan Bick-
ham, jr, Shiner; Michael
Hibbard, soph, Louise; Cy
Strieber, frosh, Yorktown;
Wyatt Wehmeyer, sr, Fla-
tonia; Chris Arriaga, sr, Ga-
nado.
Utility Greyson Ulrich,
sr, Weimar.
Designated Hitter
Tomas Parks, sr, Ganado.
tend a practice later that
week.
So that Friday afer my
classes, I drove down from
Huntsville to Victoria and
practiced with the team. It
wasnt a tryout so-to-say,
I just did drills with the
team as I was the only one
there not on the team. Af-
ter, coach Puhl told me I
have a spot on the roster if
I decide to come to school
there. And of course I said
yes, Blake McCracken
said.
He has been doing things
over the summer to get
ready to be a player on the
Jaguar squad.
I have been playing in
a community league and
working out. Ive also been
going to the batting cages
throughout the weeks.
During the school year, I
was still working out too
at the rec center at SHSU,
Blake McCracken said.
His goals for his frst
year on the team is to earn
a starting spot and help
UHV make a return trip to
the National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) World Series.
Blake McCracken does
have a rather unique long-
term goal he wants to
set the UHV record for ca-
reer stolen bases before he
graduates.
Te success in the early
stages of the UHV pro-
gram existence, the experi-
ence and knowledge of the
coaching staf and proxim-
ity to Yoakum are Blake
McCrackens reasons for
selecting UHV.
He will play either in-
felder (second base) or in
the outfeld for the Jaguars.
Coach Puhl loved my
speed and that I could play
anywhere on the feld he
plugged me into, Blake
McCracken said.
He wants to major in
kinesiology but UHV cur-
rently does not ofer the
major but is working to
bring it in. Blake McCrack-
en wants to pursue a career
in teaching and coaching
afer leaving college.
He said he would have to
improvise his major path
for the time being.
I will major in educa-
tion, or something to do
along the lines of history
or geography, Blake Mc-
philosophy involves build-
ing relationships. Being a
part of high school sofball
is being a team.
White wants the Gon-
zales teammates to make
memories and enjoy the
experiences of their sport
together.
It is one thing to be a
player on a team but you
have to enjoy it, he said. If
the girls are not enjoying
being with each other, play-
ing and working as a team
then we will be missing op-
portunities to build lasting
memories.
Te Lady Apaches will
be in a new district (26-4A)
next season with familiar
foes Yoakum and Cuero
while adding Canyon Lake
Fischer, Geronimo Navarro,
La Vernia and Wimberley.
It will be a tough dis-
trict but our goal is to win
ball games to put us in a
position to compete for a
district title, White said.
We want to make the play-
ofs. Another goal I have is
I want the girls to compete
hard in every game. I want
them to have a belief they
can win. A third goal is to
build a junior varsity pro-
gram. I think is a JV team
is crucial to build for the fu-
ture. I cannot have girls sit-
ting on the bench and in the
stands not getting reps or
playing time. Starting play-
ers young is a huge thing
for me. I want to get them
started with summer camps
and getting middle-school
age girls to transition into
high school sofball.
White stressed to get ath-
letes to stay with the pro-
gram all four years of high
school to provide the team
with senior leadership.
He said he is very excited
about the returning pitch-
ers, sophomore Carla Tor-
res, junior Tori Lester and
with sophomore Jaycie Bur-
ton.
Tey can keep us in ball
games, White said.
Juniors Kristen Ma-
gallanes and Gretchen
Singleton along with soph-
omores Skylea Tatsch, Ken-
dra Williams, Shania Lloyd
and Sheridan Tate will help
White in his frst year even
more.
It will be a challenge
and a good thing, he said.
Tere is still a learning
curve for them dealing with
varsity pitching, the speed
and the skill level playing
teams like La Vernia, Wim-
berley and Navarro.
White will coach fresh-
man volleyball and will
likely teach World Geogra-
phy or another Social Stud-
ies class.
The Cannon
Thursday, july 3, 2014
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Yoakum 2013 graduate Blake McCracken signed a letter of intent to play base-
ball for the University of Houston-Victoria on Friday. Pictured left to right: is
Yoakum athletic direcotr Brent Kornegay, Yoakum head baseball coach Bobby
Nicholson, UHV assistant baseball Coach Doug Heinold, Michael McCracken (fa-
ther) and Yvette McCracken (mother) Seated: Blake McCracken signing his letter
of intent. . He attended Sam Houston State this past year and is transferring to
UHV to play baseball. Blake was a three-year letterman for Yoakum. Sophomore:
All State Utility 3rd team; 1st team All-District. Junior: All State Honorable Men-
tion 3rd Base; 1st Team All-District Senior: All-District 1st Team 3rd Base Played
every position at Yoakum except 1st Base. (Courtesy photo).
SOFTBALL Page B4
Wednesday Scramble winners.
June 18 Wednesday Scramble winners: First
Place: Phil McCaskill, Wiley Blume, Jason Con-
del, Denise Sandelovic, and Butch Jackson. Sec-
ond Place: Kirk Boggess, Larry McMllan, Keith
Pope, DeAnn Atkinson, Ryan Atkinson
and Jim Cannan. (Courtesy photos)
WHITE: Coached
at NS for two years
Dogs, Comanches take over District 28-1A superlatives
MCcRACKEN: Discussion with former team-
mate leads to opportunity in NAIA collegiate baseball
SOFTBALL: Witte wins Player of the Year award
The Cannon Thursday, July 3, 2014
Page B3
Fourth of July sofball
tournament in Yoakum
Te 4th of July Sofball
Bash will be Saturday and
Sunday in Yoakum. Mens
and IncrediBall Co-Ed.
ASA Modifed. $125 per
team. Entry deadline is July
2. Call 361-655-2909 for
more information and/or
to register a team.
35th Annual Half Moon
Holidays Fun Run
Te 35th Annual Half
Moon Holidays Fun Run
5K/10K will be Saturday at
Shiners Green Dickerson
Park, with on-site registra-
tion starting at 6:30 a.m.
and the race starting at
7:30. Te fee is $30 if reg-
istered before June 25 and
$35 afer. All participants
will receive a T-Shirt.
Online registration
is available at www.ath-
leteguild.com/node/3895/
signup. For more in-
formation, contact
Lindsey Morkovsky at
361-772-1885 or Court-
ney Morkovsky at 361-
649-8176, or email to
lmorkovsky@lonestarbank.
com.
TA Football combine on
July 19
TA Scouting will be
hosting a combine for high
school football players in
grades 9-12 and 2014 grad-
uates who have not signed
with a collegiate program.
Te combine will take place
at Jarrell High School (I-35
20 miles north of Austin at
Exit 275), starting at 8 a.m.
July 19.
Tere will be a recruiting
seminar and skills test (40,
shuttle, bench press, broad
jump, 1-on-1s). Te com-
bine report and results will
be viewed by over 700 col-
lege coaches.
Fee is $55 and you can
register online at tascout-
ingscoop.com. No on-site
registration will be avail-
able. For more information,
contact 254-493-7451.
Lady Apaches volleyball
camp
Te Gonzales Lady
Apaches volleyball camp
will be July 21-24, from
8:30-11:30 a.m. for players
in grades 4-9. Campers will
be taught fundamentals
and team strategies. Camp-
ers will need to wear T-
Shirts, gym shorts and gym
shoes. Cost per camper is
$30 and there will be open
registration 30 minutes pri-
or to the start of camp. Fee
includes camp T-Shirt and
instruction.
Moulton Jamboree 5K
Run/Walk and Kids Jam
Race
Te Moulton Jamboree
5K Run/Walk and Kids Jam
Race will be held July 26
behind TK Personal Fitness
and Kloesel Construction
at 212 W. Moore Avenue
in Moulton. Packet pick-
up and onsite registration
will start at 7 a.m. and the
5K will start at 8. Te Kids
Jam Race will be at 8:15.
Te course will be an out-
and-back along a paved
country road with water on
the route and refreshments
at the fnish line. Fee is $20
per runner/walker by July
11 and $25 afer. Kids race
is $10. Race T-Shirts are
guaranteed if fee is paid by
July 11. For more informa-
tion, contact Tara Kloesel
at tarakloesel@gmail.com
or 979-450-5319.
Gonzales Apaches foot-
ball camp
Te Gonzales Apache
2014 football camp will be
held July 28-30, from 8:30-
11:30 a.m. at the Gonzales
football practice feld for
athletes in grades 3-9. Te
camp will feature instruc-
tion on fundamentals,
skills and techniques; com-
petition games and 7-on-7
tournament; awards and
Gonzales HS football phi-
losophy and attitude.
Te sample schedule for
players in grades 2-6 will
be stretching, speed drills,
testing (height, weight,
vertical jump and 40-yard
dash), water break, indi-
vidual ofense, individual
defense and 7-on-7/other
competition.
Grades 7-9 will have their
workouts structured like
football practice. Ofensive
and defensive schemes that
will be ran this fall will be
taught.
Campers should have
shorts, T-Shirt, football
shoes and flled water bot-
tle.
Cost is $30 per camper
which includes awards and
camp T-Shirt. Registration
can be mailed to Coach
Kodi Crane, PO Drawer M,
Gonzales, TX 78629.
For more information,
contact Coach Crane at
830-857-0309.
Apache football sea-
son ticket pickup starting
Aug. 4
Starting Aug. 4, varsity
football season ticket hold-
ers from 2013 will be able
to pick up their tickets that
they had last year. You will
have until 4 p.m. on Aug.
22 to get your tickets. All
tickets not picked up will
be sold to the public start-
ing Aug. 25. Te price of
varsity football tickets will
be $5 per game and $25
for all fve games. All gen-
eral admission tickets sold
at the gate will be $5 ac-
cording to the new District
15-4A. Tis years tickets
may be picked up at the
Apache Fieldhouse at the
high school and tickets can
be purchased from 8 a.m.
to noon and from 1-4 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
If you do not wish to pur-
chase your tickets, please
call Anita Dement at 672-
6641. If the feldhouse been
not notifed by 4 on Aug.
22, it will be understood
that you do not want your
tickets. If for some reason
you cannot get to the feld-
house to pick up your tick-
ets, please call and make
arrangements to get them
at a later date. If you are
not a season ticket holder
but would like to purchase
season tickets, the tickets
will be available starting
Aug. 25 and the sale of sea-
son tickets will end at 12 on
Aug. 29. No season tickets
can be sold afer tickets go
on sale at 8 a.m. Sept. 2
for the frst home game on
Sept. 5.
The Cannon
Thursday, july 3, 2014
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Sports
Sports
Briefs
Softball: Shiner, Shiner St.
Paul, Sacred Heart all make deep
playoff runs in 2014 season
Gonzales football season tickets can be picked up on August 4
Softball, youth football camps
Gonzales Independent School District held a softball camp last week at the Lady
Apache Softball Field. New Gonzales head softball coach Sam White held softball
camp (left and middle photos) for players in grades 3-9 l Fielding, hitting, pitch-
ing, base running and more was covered in the two-day seminar taught by White
and several Little League softball coaches with assistance from members of the
high school team. Right, young football players prepared for the upcoming sea-
son of youth football with participation at the Gonzales County Youth Football
League (GCYFL) last week at the felds south of Apache Stadium. (Photos by Mark
Lube)
toria Crossroads and Seguin Tournament
(2013).
Tamara Hajeck, jr, Shiner. ., AVG- .420,
AB-112, R- 29, H- 47, 2b- 9, 3B-4, HR-2, BB-
20
RBI- 26, K-11, SB- 14 of 14. Trew out 14
of 35 runners.
Emily Harper , jr, Hallettsville Sacred
Heart. Stats- Batting: Average of .464, 74 at
bats with 41 Runs, 34 hits ( 2 doubles) with
9 RBIs, On Base % of .545 and a Slugging %
of 474 Lead-of batter with many stolen bases
and also threw out several runners on the
base pads.
Infelders
Faith Hagan, jr, Yoakum. Batting
Average .376, 93 AB, 16 Runs, 35 Hits, 13
RBIs, 8 Doubles, 1 triple, .458 OBP, .483
Slg%, .942 OPS. Fielding Stats: .900, 97 TC,
50 PO, 37 Assists, 8 Errors, 5 Double Plays
Julianna Rankin, sr, Shiner. AVG- .500, AB-
100, R- 33, H- 50, 2B- 22, 3B- 2, HR-6, BB-11
RBI- 49, K- 10. Only 5 errors on the season.
Kristin Schacherl, sr, Shiner,, AVG- .356,
AB- 104, R- 36, H- 37, 2b- 7, 3b- 2,Hr- 0, BB-
17,
RBI- 22, K- 5 No errors thru District and
all playof games.
Kristen Popp, jr, Hallettsville Saced Heart.
Stats- Batting: Average of. 394, 78 at bats with
22 Runs, 30 hits ( 3 doubles) with 13 RBIs, On
Base % of .401 and a Slugging % of 408.
Madison Etzler, soph, Hallettsville Sacred
Heart.Stats- Batting: Average of. 476, 64 at
bats with 38 Runs, 31 hits ( 2 doubles) with
10 RBIs, On Base % of .597 and a Slugging
% of 524.
Morgan Mason, Shiner St. Paul
Outfelders
Sheyanne Chumchal, jr, Yoakum. 2014
Stats: .514 Batting Average, 107 AB, 55 Hits,
30 runs, 26 RBI, 7 doubles, 7 triples, 2 HR,
8 Walks, 11 SO on the season. OBP .546,
Slg%.766, OPS 1.312, stole
11 of 13 bases this season. Fielding % of
.921 , 38 TC, 35 PO, 0 Assists, 3 Errors on the
year.
Camille Grahmann, soph, Hallettsville,
.539, 28 SB and 60 runs
Emily Pokluda, Shiner St. Paul
Cassidy La Fleur, sr, Gonzales
Utility
Olivia Bohuslav, jr, Hallettsville Sacred
Heart, pitcher/frst bases- Pitching: 6 wins 4,
ERA 1.02, 60 Innings Pitched with 58 Ks and
an average of 6.73 Ks per 7 innings. Batting:
Average of .379, 77 at bats with 32 Runs, 29
hits ( 7 doubles and 2 triples) with 14 RBIs,
On Base % of .476 and a Slugging % of 502
Tori Ramert, soph, Yoakum, pitcher/frst
base 2014 Stats: .438 Batting avg. 80 AB, 22
Runs,
35 Hits, 16 RBIs, 8 dbles, 1 triple, 1 HR.
.965 Fielding % was .965, 57 TC, 41 PO,
14 Assists, 2 errors Pitching Stats: 124 Hits,
2.75 ERA , 12 wins 7 Losses, 81
Runs, 59 Earned, 47 BB, 132 SO, Oppo-
nents BA was .256.
Kendyl Lange, frosh, Hallettsville,.446,
Newcomer of the year
Tianna Heller, frosh, Luling
Katie Steinhauser, sr, Flatonia
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Thursday, July 3, 2014 Page B5
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Assemblies of God
Gonzales Family Church
Assembly of God
320 St. Andrew
First Assembly of God
509 E. 3rd St. Nixon
New Life Assembly of God
Corner of Church St. &J essie Smith
St. Gonzales
Bahai Faith
Bahai Faith
621 St. George St. Gonzales
Baptist
Clark Baptist Church
F.M. 794, Gonzales
County Baptist Church
Hwy. 87 Smiley
Eastside Baptist Church
Seydler Street, Gonzales
Elm Grove Baptist Church
4337 FM 1115
Waelder, Texas 78959
First Baptist Church
403 N Texas Nixon
Hwy 108 N Smiley
406 N Ave E Waelder
Greater Palestine Baptist Church
S of 90-A (sign on Hwy 80)
Greater Rising Star
Baptist Church
3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon
Harwood Baptist Church
North of Post Offce
Iglesia Bautista
Macedonia
201 S Congress Nixon
Iglesia Bautista Memorial
Hwy 97 Waelder
Leesville Baptist Church
E. of Hwy 80 on CR 121
Memorial Heights Baptist
Church
1330 College Gonzales
Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church
100 Capes Gonzales
Oak Valley Baptist Church
Hwy. 97 Bebe
Old Moulton Baptist Church
2287 FM 1680, Moulton
Primitive Baptist Church
1121 N. College Gonzales
Providence Missionary Baptist
Church
1020 St. Andrew Gonzales
San Marcos Primitive Baptist
Church
4 Miles west of Luling on Hwy. 90
P.O. Box 186, Luling
830-875-5305
Stratton Primitive Baptist
FM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero
St. James Baptist Church
Hwy 80- North of Belmont
Saint Paul Baptist Church
SE 2nd St. Waelder
Shiner Baptist Church
Avenue F and 15th Street, Shiner
Union Lea Baptist Church
St. Andrew St. Gonzales
Union Valley Baptist
Church
FM 1681 NW of Nixon
Catholic
St. James Catholic Church
417 N. College, Gonzales
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. J ohn St. Gonzales
St. Joseph Catholic Church
207 S. Washington, Nixon
St Patrick Catholic Church in
Waelder
613 Highway 90 East Waelder
St. Phillip Catholic Church
Hwy 87 Smiley
Christian
First Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
712 Crockett, Luling
Churches of Christ
Church of Christ
1323 Seydler St. Gonzales
Church of Christ (Iglesia de Cris-
to)
201 E. Second St. Nixon
Church of Christ
E. 3rd &Texas, Nixon
Churches of God
Community Church of God
1020 St. Louis, Gonzales
Gonzales Memorial Church of
God in Christ
1113 Hastings, Gonzales
New Way Church of God in Christ
514 St. Andrew, Gonzales
Episcopal
Episcopal Church of the Messiah
721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-
3407
Evangelical
La Os del Evangelio Mission Ca-
pilla del Pueblo
W. Central at 87 Nixon
Full Gospel
Camp Valley Full Gospel
7 mi N of Nixon on Hwy 80
Full Gospel Church
1426 Fisher, Gonzales
Lutheran
First Evangelical Lutheran
1206 St. J oseph, Gonzales
Abiding Word Lutheran Church,
LCMS
1310 St. Louis
Methodist
Belmont United Methodist
Hwy. 90-A
Dewville United Methodist
West of FM 1117 on CR 121
First United Methodist
First United Methodist
410 N. Franklin, Nixon
Flatonia United Methodist
403 E North Main, Flatonia
Harris Chapel United
Methodist
S. Liberty St. Nixon
Harwood Methodist Church
North 2nd and North Gonzales, Har-
wood
Henson Chapel United Methodist
1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales
Monthalia United Methodist
CR 112 off 97
Smiley United Methodist
1 blk S. of Hwy 87
Waelder United Methodist
2 blks fromHwy 90 &97
Webster Chapel A.M.E.
1027 Church St. Gonzales
Non-Denominational
Agape Ministries
512 St. J ames, Gonzales
Living Waters Fellowship Church
605 Saint J oseph St. Gonzales
Bread of Life Ministries
613 St. J oseph, Gonzales
Cowboy Church
of Gonzales County
J .B. Wells Showbarn
El Centro Cristiano Agua Viva
of Waelder
Sun. Worship 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m.
Emmanuel Fellowship
1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales
Encouraging Word Christian Fel-
lowship
Hwy. 80 in Leesville
Jesus Holy Ghost Temple
1906 Hickston, Gonzales
Lighthouse Church of Our Lord
1805 Weimar, Gonzales
New Life Temple for Jesus Christ
Belmont, Corner of Hwy 466 &Hwy
80
River of Life Christian Fellowship
207 Steele St., Smiley 830-587-
6500
Two Rivers Bible Church
1600 Sarah DeWitt Dr., Ste 210,
Gonzales
Inter-Denominational
Faith Family Church
1812 Cartwheel Dr., Gonzales
Pentecostal
Faith Temple
Hwy 80 (N. Nixon Ave.) Nixon
Holy Temple of Jesus Christ No. 2
1515 Dallas, Gonzales
Temple Bethel Pentecostal
1104 S. Paul, Gonzales
Life Changing Church of Gonza-
les
3.3 miles north on 183, Right on CR
235, Right on CR 236
Presbyterian
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church
CR 210 off FM 1116
Presbyterian Church of Gonzales
414 St. Louis, Gonzales
Messianic Judaism
Congregation Adat HaDerech
Meets on Saturdays and Holy Days,
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Roofng to Concrete
Te Fourth of July is
HERE. To some it is just a
time of BBQ with get togeth-
ers of people shouting and
laughing eating and drinking
a little too much BEER. Ten
Joe got mad at what Jorge
said and they both got mad
at Pokey and his bunch down
the street because of Carmen
going of with him last night.
Ten all of a sudden things
got hot especially since a Po-
lice Cruiser showed up. Our
War for Independence was
fought mostly in the East in
bitter cold with uniforms that
had holes in them. Teir ra-
tions were provided by the
ones that they could fnd at
the settlers houses. A lot of
those houses had already
been razed by the pilfered by
the British soldiers, some had
been burned, and the settlers
had been run out of their own
houses. Teir cows, horses,
and other animals were taken
one way or the other. George
Washington did all that he
could as their leader dipping
into all the places he could for
his troops to get medical sup-
plies too. Tey fought a hard
war to gain our indepen-
dence from Britain. It wasnt
until later that our founding
fathers wrote our Declara-
tion of Independence. It took
them a long time to write that
too. Great thought was put
into the Declaration for Inde-
pendence. It is something we
need to be proud of and we
need to realize how impor-
tant it is, and Yes we need to
celebrate it correctly.
Te Brotherhood Schol-
arship BBQ will be held on
July 11th from 5-7, at $8.00
a plate, plus a silent auction.
To donate a silent auction
item, please contact Scottie
Baker at 437-2777. Scottie is
still down on bended knee for
your items.
Te Belmont Community
Center group has also de-
cided to put together a cook-
book. A cookbook as not
been printed for the Belmont
area in ages. Kathy Collins is
going to be the person. SEND
YOUR RECIPE TO ekath-
elean@ymail.com
A Mailing Address: Kathy
Collins, 475 Collins Lane,
Kingsbury, Tx 78638-------
Send In Your Favorite Tat
Grandma Gave You
Hold the following peo-
ple in prayer: Judy Wilson,
Rhonda Pruett; Linda Denk-
er; Case Martin; Landis Kern;
Joe Kotwig, David ONeal,
Gene Robinson; Aunt Geor-
gie Gandre, Aunt Frances
Gandre, Aunt Betty Gandre,
Ben and Mabel Richter; Lad-
die, Sandi Gandre, Joyce and
Danny Schellenberg; Esther
Lindemann, Teresa Wilke,
Anna Lindemann, Millie,
Mr. Bill Lott, Marie Schauer,
Bob Young, Marilyn Qualls,
Lillie Lay; Shirley Dozier;
Bob Brown; Marissa, Bub-
ba, Sarge Dunkin; Pedro;
Dorothy Svoboda; Rosie,
Clay, Nancy, Maynard; De-
nise, Louise Jones; Margie
Menking; Jimmy Kelley; Jesse
Esparza; the family of Mary
Carolyn Persons; pray for
our troops; give our country
guidance for the roaring vio-
lence in Iraq; give thanks for
the rain and we could take
some more, and a peace of
some sort to the confict in
Ukraine.
We had a delightful wel-
come back the preacher day
over at Monthalia UMC
Sunday. Sean Allen was the
speaker over at Monthalia
and did a good job at his en-
deavor. Pastor Paul got a very
good rest. Carol, Lois Will-
manns, niece sang a beauti-
ful meaning song. She has a
beautiful voice and she could
visit a while longer and do
another song or two. Next
Billy Mitchell came from the
Texan Nursing Home and
with help from Ellen and Al-
lan Fink. Ten he did a poem
by himself.
Aferwards there was pot-
luck in the parish hall with
the brisket and ribs from
Young Farmers being the
main dish and the others
bringing good food and the
ladies getting it all put togeth-
er. It was so great to get time
to say hello to Mrs. Joy Car-
son and steal a hug from her
and with a little one from Mr.
Clifon. It was great to see Mr.
Bob Young hanging in there
and looking really good. Bob
is one of those special people
along with Mr. Clifon.
Well over in Belmont stop
by the Rather Store and cast
an eye inside. Richard Walker
called the other day and said
that he is ready for VEN-
DORS> and he needs some
help from people who do
homemade crafs. Ten he
needs help from one or two
people who just want to sell
the necessities of life like milk
and break, and a candy bar(
I consider that a necessary
item). His phone numbers
are 830-424-3600 and 830-
556-6905. He needs some
idea people and may need
vending machine at the mo-
ment. He needs ideas. Rob
Ford he needs you to call him
for a minute conference.
I decided to splat myself on
the pavement in the parking
lot of Home Depot. Tat was
one of worst of my ideas that
I had in my life. I dont think
it bears repeating.
Scooter has one fea. I saw
it. It was on the tip of his tail.
It is an extraordinary sight
to see Scooter going around
and around in circles chas-
ing his tail. I took a swipe
at that fea but I didnt get
it. I guess the next step is to
sqelch my amusement and
put some nice fea control on
my dog.
Have a good week, and
God Bless.
The Cannon
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Sandis Country
Fried News
Sandi
Gandre
Te big holiday is fnally here!
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
E-mail your local information to: newseditor@gonzalescannon.com
JULY 7-11
GISD end of course tests
There will be EOC and TAKS re-testing at the high school next
week, July 7-11. Testing will begin at 8 a.m. each day. All test-
ing will take place in the main building, rooms 244-256 in the
science hall.
The testing schedule is: Monday- EOC ELA 1; Tuesday- EOC
ELA 2 and TAKS Math; Wednesday- EOC Algebra 1 and TAKS Sci-
ence; Thursday- EOC Biology; Friday- EOC US History
JULY 11
Scholarship Dinner
Monthalia United Methodist Annual Brotherhood L.A. Lin-
demann, Jr., Scholarship Dinner. Barbeque Chicken Dinner.
Friday, July 11, 2014. Serving Time 5:00-7:00. Plates $8.00. Dine
In or Take Out.
JULY 12
Farmers Market Resumes
There will not be a farmers market July 5th but will resume
July 12th each Saturday through the end of July. The market is
held from 9 a.m.-noon at Laurel Ridge Antiques, 827 St. Joseph
Street. Home Grown Vegetables, baked and canned goods,
eggs, other homemade or grown products and plants. Other
Vendors(no fees) welcome, call Sandy 713-408-4198 or john-
sandy.llewellyn@gmail.com
JULY 13
Harwood Reunion
The Harwood Homecoming is scheduled for Sunday, July 13
at the Harwood Community Center. A covered dish meal will
be served at noon, you are asked to bring a meat and vege-
table dish or dessert, enough to feed your family and guests.
The Homecoming is a project to raise money for the upkeep
of the Harwood Cemetery. Donations may also be sent to the
Harwood Cemetery Association, 63 South Second Street, Har-
wood 78632.
JULY 14-18
First Methodist VBS
First United Methodist Church of Gonzales invites Children
to Vacation Bible School Weird Animals, Where Jesus Love-is-
One-of-a-Kind!from July 14-18, 5:30 8:30pm each day. Weird
Animals VBS is for Kids age 3 to exiting 6th grade. T-shirts
$5.00. For more information, 672-8521
JULY 15
Souvenir Program Deadline
The deadline for submitting items for the Apache Booster
Club 2014-15 All Sports Souvenir Program has been extended
to July 15th. Please stop by the feld house or high school front
ofce to pick up a form. Questions can be directed to Jami Ow-
ens at 830-624-5515.
JULY 18-20
Class of 1989
The Gonzales High School Class of 1989 25 Year Reunion will
be the weekend of July 18-20 at The Gonzales Venue, 1520 St.
Louis St. The main event will be at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, July
19. Cost is $40 per person. If anyone has any questions they
can contact Scott Dierlam at 830-672-9661, email Greg Webb
at gwebb@gvec.net or check out the Gonzales High School
Class of 1989 Facebook page.
JULY 30-31
NSCISD REGISTRATION
Registration for all students at all grade levels (including PreK)
will be held in the High School Practice Gym: on July 30, 10
a.m.-6 p.m.; and July 31, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. All students must
register. Parents will need to birth certifcate, shot records, so-
cial security card, and parents driver license. If new to district
they will also need report card (if possible) from old school and
proof of residence.
AUGUST 3
Brietschopf-Kuntschik Reunion
The annual Breitschopf-Kuntschik Reunion will be held Aug.
3 at the Knights of Columbus Hall on the Shiner Highway. The
Frank and Agnes Kuntschik Family will host the reunion. Meat
will be furnished, each family is asked to bring a vegetable or
dessert. Meal will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a business
meeting. For details, call Mary Gayle at 830-437-2076.
JULY 12
Free Compost Program
The Gonzales Master Gardeners will pres-
ent a free public program on compost and
its efect on soils on Saturday July 12, 2014
at 10:00 am at the Fair Street Building, 623
N. Fair Street, (next to Gonzales Elementary
School) in Gonzales. The speaker will be
Gonzales Master Gardener Specialist Gail
Johnson. Mrs. Johnson is a certifed Com-
post Specialist. Her lecture will explain
the efects of compost on soil and how to
make compost at home. She will ofer step
by step instructions on building your own
compost maker.
Compost is partially decomposed organic
matter made from once living material. It
is a key component to building a soil that
will provide a healthy environment for your
plants. Even the poorest soil can produce
quality plants with the right compost. Com-
post can be efectively made at home in the
average garden with just a little know-how.
JULY 14
Hermann Sons Lodge
The Gonzales Hermann Sons Lodge #175
will be meeting at the Hermann Sons Hall
in Gonzales, Texas, Monday, July 14, 2014 at
6:00 p.m.
Presentation of scholarship awards and 50,
60 & 70 Yr. membership award pins will be
after a catered meal honoring these. For de-
tails, call 830-263-0395.
JULY 15
Gonzales Co. Citizens Coalition
The Gonzales County Citizens Coalition
will meet at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, July 15 in
the Gonzales City Hall chamber. If you want
breakfast or drinks, please bring your own.
There will be a report from the GC3 SUSAN-
NA outdoor musical theatre group, which
meets on Monday, July 7 at 8:30 a.m. in the
Victoria College Gonzales Branch class-
room.
Gonzales Retired Teachers
All education-related retirees are invited to
attend the Gonzales County Retired Teach-
ers Association meeting July 15 at noon at
Cafe on the Square in Gonzales. Reserva-
tions for the meal can be made by calling
Pat Cochran at 672-4789 or Cheryl Mead-
ows at 672-7711. This meeting will honor
colleagues who have passed away in the
last year.
Lost all white male
English Retriever.
Name - Indy 2 yrs.
Old. Lost in Saturn
area, he has a chip.
949-878-0508.
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Lost Chihuahua.
Weighs about 2.5
lbs, tan with black
stripe down back.
Wearing a pink col-
lar, answers to Bella.
Last seen when
let out of house
for potty break in
Green DeWitt Vil-
lage Apartments.
Please call 263-
0498, she is very
special to owner.
Need a lifeguard
for private parties!
For information call
830-445-0483.
Guitarists, vocal-
ists, musicians,
percussion, audi-
tions at Faith Fam-
ily Church, 361-
935-8878.
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Busco por una pare-
ja de baile. Busco
por una mujer que
quiere bailer.Una
que sabe como
bailar o que quiere
aprender bailes. Yo
bailo swing, hus-
tle, tango , waltz,
2 step, salsa, me-
ringue, cha cha, y
unos oltros bailes.
Llamame a 832 235
9662 Soy America-
no y hablo Espanol.
me llamo John.
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Female dance part-
ner wanted. Must
be someone that
wants to dance.
May know how to
dance or may not.
All kinds of dance.
Willing to train.
Contact John at
832-235-9662.
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FREE GED classes,
day (M T W and Th,
8:30 to noon) and
night (M and W
6:30 to 9), Gonza-
les Learning Center,
1135 St. Paul, 672-
8291.
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Job Corps is cur-
rently enrolling stu-
dents aged 16-24 in
over 20 vocational
trades at no-cost!
Will help students
get drivers license
GED or High School
diploma and col-
lege training if qual-
ifed. For more info
call 512-665-7327.
DIESEL ENGINE
MAINTENANCE
MECHANIC
In this position
you will perform
routine preven-
tive maintenance
and repairs on all
delivery vehicles
and service equip-
ment. This includes
a feet with both
diesel and gasoline
engines used in
the delivery of fuel
and lubricants. This
involves truck com-
ponents, pumping
and mechanical
equipment. You
will be responsible
for diagnosing mal-
functions and oper-
ating defects, mak-
ing the necessary
repairs when pos-
sible, installing new
or reconditioned
parts, and testing
repaired units.
This position re-
quires a high school
diploma, GED, or
equivalent and
technical school
training in a related
feld. Must possess
specialized experi-
ence in diesel, auto-
motive and/or ma-
chinery repair and
maintenance. Must
have a Class B CDL.
Competitive sal-
ary commensurate
with ability. Paid va-
cation and holidays,
health insurance
and 401K. Apply at
2510 Church Street.
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Mr. Taco is now hir-
ing for all positions.
Apply in person at
726 Sarah DeWitt,
Gonzales.
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CDL DRIVERS
WANTED
J.M. Oilfeld 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.
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AVON Representa-
tives Wanted! Great
earning opportu-
nities! Buy or Sell!
Call 830-672-2271,
Independent Sales
Rep.
Temple Bethel
Church, Friday and
Saturday, 8-3 at
1104 St. Paul St., in
Church Reception.
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Yard Sale. 4 families,
Sat., July 5, 7:30-?
1022 1/2 Church St.
Lots of girls, boys,
toddlers, ladies &
men clothes, shoes
& misc. items. No
Presales.
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Estate Sale. 502
Saint Vincent, Gon-
zales, Texas 78629.
July 5th, 8:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m. Lots of
Vintage Items.
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Garage Sale. Satur-
day, July 5, 8-12. 487
CR 342 (Kelly Loop).
Furniture, clothes,
toys, household
items.
--------------------------
Moving Sale: Friday,
July 4th & 5th, 8-12.
108 St. Peter. M-W
plus size clothes,
furniture & more.
Everything must
go.
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Garage Sale: Satur-
day, July 5th, 8-12.
1607 Walnut St.
(Across from EMS).
Ladies & Mens
Wear, kitchenware
& misc. Good con-
dition, reasonably
priced.
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2-Family Yard Sale:
904 St. Michael. Sat-
urday, July 5th, 8-1.
Clothes, antiques,
furniture, knick-
knacks.
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HUGE HUGE
Yard Sale!!!!!
Saturday, July 12 - 8
am - 1:00 pm. 2 mi.
on 97W towards
Cost, 4th house on
right. Furniture, ex-
ercise equipment,
Cars toddler bed,
lots of toys, beauty
products, baby,
children, men &
women clothes
- Name brands,
shoes, purses, jew-
elry, dishes - just
too much to men-
tion - come get a
Bargain.
Bakerss Rack, Choc-
olate Finish, w/4
shelves & wine rack.
Excellent condi-
tion. Original price,
$229, asking $75.
361-596-7466.(07-
03-14)
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For Sale: Scotts Rid-
ing Lawn Mower.
$250. 263-0024.
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Mini Honda Gas til-
ler. $150. Excellent
condition. 361-208-
3565.
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15x30 above
ground swimming
pool w/flter & mo-
tor. Needs liner.
$1,735. Elna Elec-
tronic Sewing Ma-
chine, $7450. Two
Alto Saxes, one Ten-
or Sax, one Clarinet,
Sump pump, $50.
Play pen, $21. Foot
Stool heavy wood
fowered uphol-
stery, $50. Comput-
er desk, $50. Ham-
mond Organ, $375.
17 Cu Ft. Upright
Freezer, $250. Flow-
ered Easy Chair.
$35. Sheila Wright,
672-2719 or 203-
0175.
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2 gas weedeaters in
excellent condition.
$100/both. 361-
208-3565.
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Washer, Dryer, Mi-
crowave $400 for
all. Call 830-481-
4707.
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For Sale: John
Deere LT150 riding
lawn mower. 361-
772-8611.
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Riding lawnmower.
MTD, 42 cut. Ex-
cellent Condition.
$500. 361-208-
3565.
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Musical
Equipment
PA System. Kus-
tom 8 Ch. 400 Watt
System, 2 15 Sp-
krs, 1 12 Monitor
Spkr. Stands. Lots
of wires, 4 micro-
phones w/cables.
Mic stand with
gooseneck, $1,200.
Call 830-437-2046.
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Christmas Tree -
artifcial 7 ft. Loads
of lights, garland,
ornaments. $75.00.
830-437-2046.
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Baseball Cap Col-
lection. Never
worn. 200 assorted
Busi ness/ school
etc. with Storage
carrying cases.
Will sell in lots of
50, $2.00 each. In-
cludes carrying/
storage case. 830-
437-2046.
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For Sale: 30 ft. steel
angled steel truss-
es. Very heavy duty.
For barns and steel
structured build-
ings. $500 a piece.
Call 713-449-7464.
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2 man paddle boat.
Call Larry with
inquiry. 830-857-
5142.
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Kuhn 800 lb Heavy
Duty Disc Mower. 3
point hookup. Lo-
cated in Moulton.
361-401-0676.
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Pergo laminated
fooring, locks to-
gether, glue not
necessary. Approx.
110 sq. ft. uncut -
135 sq. ft. total with
cut pieces. Good
to VG. Pickup only.
$100. Call Chico,
830-263-1445 or
830-263-2103.
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PTO Irrigation
Pump - New $3,500,
will sell for $1,500.
Call 830-263-4126.
--------------------------
Low Boy Trailer.
5x10. $625. 361-
208-3565 anytime.
--------------------------
For Sale. 140 joints
of 2 3/8 pip. $5,600
frm. 830-480-8098.
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For Sale: Modern
Coke Vending Ma-
chine. Cans, Bottles,
adjustable bin.
Bill changer. Runs
great. $425/obo.
830-339-9087.
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Juicer - Jack Lalane.
Used 5 times. $60.
Perfect condition.
830-263-2482.
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Food Lovers Diet
Kit as seen on TV.
Meals, $120, will sell
for $60. 830-263-
2482.
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Beautiful size 5,
Girls dresses, jeans,
tops, leggings,
etc. for sale. Name
Brands. Like new.
Very Reasonable.
830-540-3382.
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New Crop Paper-
shell Pecans avail-
able. In-shell, $2.50
lbs or Cracked,
$3.00 lb. Contact
Jason Pape, 830-
203-0084 or Jenni-
fer Pape, 830-203-
0602.
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Craftsman leaf
blower. 200 mph
air blower. $65. 361-
293-3565.
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Antique claw foot
tub. Pretty good
shape. $200 frm.
512-656-0521.
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For Sale: Dometic
Retractable Awning
for Travel Trailer.
New arms. 20 ft.
long, 20 ft. wide.
$575/obo. 830-857-
5720.
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Longwheel base
shell, for pickup,
like new. $500. 361-
865-3727.
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Good used 2 - 17
tires. 2 - 16 1/2
wheels with tires.
Truck tubeless -
fts Ford, Dodge or
Chevrolet -8 hole.
Two bolt on bum-
per hitches with
balls. One steel
plate with ball for
gooseneck hook-
up. Parking space
for travel trailer.
Electric & water. Call
672-2335 or 478-
607-1178.
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16 Rim, 8 holes,
2 new 14 tires, 2
used 14 tire & rim,
1 used 15 tire and
rim. Oak Dining Ta-
ble. 361-594-4307.
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Greenhouses for
Sale, 30ftx100ft, as
is where, you pick
up, at Harwood, in-
tersection of 90 &
304. Contact: 281-
788-7500.
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National Geograph-
ics in leather bound
slip cases. 1982-
2000 & maps. Make
an ofer. Call 437-
2046.
--------------------------
Toro Weedeater,
4 string. $75. 361-
208-3565.
--------------------------
Restaurant Tables.
Formica. 2 seats &
4 seats. $50 each.
875-3028.
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Mens used jeans -
great condition. $5/
pair. 32x29, 32x30,
32x32, 35x30,
35x32, 36x30.
One pair 32 waist
shorts. Call 830-
672-1106.
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Crocheted Afghans,
baby blankets, sin-
gle bed spreads for
sale. Can choose
own colors. Can
come by or call,
203-1270. Green
DeWitt Apt. #138.
--------------------------
Assembled Dora
20 bicycle with
training wheels,
helmet, elbow and
knee pads. Used
very little. $60. Call
830-672-1106.
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HP 2500 CM Printer.
Professional Series
color printer. $25
obo. 672-7546. Ar-
lene or Linda.
--------------------------
55 Gallon metal
or Plastic Drums.
Volume Discounts.
$5.00 each. 830-
857-4321.
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For Sale: Custom
made picnic tables;
made with treated
lumber, with bolts
and screws - will
make the conven-
tional table with
seats attached
to table; will also
make tables with
seat benches sepa-
rate from table: 4-6
or 8 foot made for
your specifc needs.
Call 830-540-4776
or 830-857-3273 for
pricing and avail-
ability information.
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7 bags of shred-
ded paper & vari-
ous boxes. Great for
packing. Call 830-
519-4176 (Gonza-
les).
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EquipmEnt OpEratOr
J.B. WElls park
Essential Job Functions:
Report any unsafe conditions in or on park grounds to
department supervisor.
Mow park and facility grounds, clean stalls.
Weed eat, trim trees, water and landscape property.
Pick-up trash and clear debris from park grounds.
Clean restrooms in Arena and Show Barn, set up pens.
Prepare and maintain rodeo arena, volleyball courts and
feld.
Minor repair and maintenance on equipment as needed.
Paint and repair park structures.
Repair and maintain mowing and trimming equipment.
Provide general up-keep of the department equipment.
Is responsible for public funds.
Assist other departments if necessary.
Must be available for duty on weekends during events
scheduled.
Is responsible for City vehicles, tracts, mowers, edger,
weed eaters, chainsaw and painting equipment.
Maintain vehicle and equipment records, work orders,
fuel slips, employee time-sheet and overtime authorization forms.
Other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
Skill in providing excellent customer service to per-
sons of all ages, regardless of social or economic backgrounds
Must be familiar with mower, tractor, equipment and
general maintenance
Must refer to work orders, equipment gauges, repair
manuals and employee handbook
Must be able to work with persons from all social groups
Required Education, Experience, and Certifcations:
High School Diploma or equivalent
Grounds and general maintenance skills are necessary.
Continuing education training and workshop attendance
required periodically.
Must have a valid Texas Driver License.
Must be able to pass criminal history background check, pre-em-
ployment drug screen and pre-employment physical.
Applications for employment may be found at www.cityofgonza-
les.org or at the City of Gonzales-City Hall 820. St Joseph. Please
submit applications- Attn: Laura Zella at 820 St Joseph or PO Box
547, Gonzales, TX 78629. Position will remain open until flled.
The City of Gonzales is an equal opportunity employer.
The historic Alcalde Hotel
will be hosting a
Job Fair on July 10th & 12th,
10-2 p.m.
In anticipation of the Grand
Re-Opening, The Alcalde will be
offering employment opportunities for
Hospitality Staff, Housekeeping,
FOH Manager, Kitchen Staff &
Wait Staff.
This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a
winning team.But in light of renovation in
progress, we ask that applicants refrain from
applying prior to the Job Fair.
Full Time CDL-A-X
Crude Oil Transport
Drivers Needed.
Local Hauling-Home
Daily, Well Maintained
Fleet, Weekly Paycheck,
Paid Orientation/
Training, Vacation, 401K,
Life, Medical, Dental,
Vision. Minimum of 12
months T/T or Tanker
experience required. Call
Lori Hernandez
800/737-9981 or visit us
online at
www.MIPE.com
HELP WANTED HELP WANTED
CDL Driver
Local Area, Home every Night
Benefts include:
Vacation, Sick Leave, Hosp. Ins.,
Dental, Vision, 401K, ESOP.
Apply in person at:
Cal-Maine foods, Inc.,
1680 CR431
Waelder, Texas 78959.
Mon-Friday, 7-4 pm.
Telephone number
830-540-4105
EMAIL: lmbaker@cmfoods.com
Sun., July 13
10:00 a.m.
801 CR 488,
Gonzales, TX 78629
www.IntegrityAuctions.biz
Lg. Coin Collection,
Furniture, Nautical,
6x12 Trailer, Tools,
Crocks, Detonator,
Advertising, Hunting &
Fishing & More.
Pottery Auction
9:00-10:00 am
13% B.P., Credit
Cards, Cash or Checks
James Molnoskey
Auctioneer TX#15091
512/557-3333
9th Annual
Independence
Antiques, Primitives &
Collectibles Auction
NOTICES
Party dresses for
sale: 4 short, 2 long.
Purple, yellow, gold,
blue green. Also
jackets, mens jack-
ets, overcoat, etc.
Call 672-8034.
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For sale: Singer
Sewing Machine
with pedal, table
w/6 chairs, almost
new, hand cro-
cheted table cloth,
large, white, an-
tique 3 pc. Loveseat
and other yarn cro-
cheted items. Call
672-8034.
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For Sale: Concrete
parking curbs 6
long 6 tall plain or
painted, 16 + 20
long concrete cattle
guard bases. Call
Vic for pricing, 672-
6383 or 857-3827.
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Unicorn Collection
for Sale. Call Fran-
ces between 9pm-
10am, 830-857-
6476.
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1800S Double Bar-
rell Shotgun, Rem-
ington $1,500. Call
512-917-4078.
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Antique Straight
Razor display case,
18x24 (Memorabil-
ia). $695. Call 512-
917-4078.
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Troybilt Trimmer
with attachments
(edger, tiller). 4
cycle, uses straight
gasoline. $250. 361-
293-3571.
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For Sale: ORGANIC
EGGS. Free Range
chickens. $2.00
dozen. Will deliver
to Gonzales weekly.
830-540-3536.
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Large shower chair.
19 color TV w/
stand, stand has
rollers. 857-8090.
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2 Lounge Chairs, 6
ft. tall headboard,
bed frame, oak din-
ing table, antique
egg incubator, en-
tertainment cen-
ter, lamp stand w/
drawers, booth din-
ing table, planter
boxes. 361-594-
4307.
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Large amount qual-
ity items. Every-
thing $85.00; worth
about $300. Health
problems prevent
garage sale. In
Lockhart. Mel, 512-
376-9396.
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Clavinova Yamaha
Digital Piano w/
bench. Under War-
ranty. $2,700. Call
830-339-0111.
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FOR SALE Used cy-
clone fencing and
post. 1990 Dodge
pick up with lift
gate. Can be seen
at GHA 410 Village
Dr. Gonzales, Texas.
Jeanette Conques-
tat 830-672-3419.
MESQUITE BBQ
WOOD FOR SALE
in Gonzales County.
All sizes and shapes,
ready to use. (830)
672-6265.
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Firewood: Pickup
load is $60.00. If you
haul. Delivered is
$85. Call: 830-540-
4430.
We deliver good
coastal round bales:
$75-$100. Coastal
mix cow hay, 1278
lb bales - $70. John
Bankston, Milano,
512-455-6331.
For Sale: 300 gallon
Imperial Skid Tank.
$375. 830-433-
1176, Seguin Area.
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For Sale: 4 farm
trucks, $2,000 each,
or $7,000 for all. Call
325-200-9997.
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Ford 8N Tractor w/
disk, plow, buster.
$3,500.00. 361-293-
3571.
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Want to Buy: Oliver
60 Tractor. V.A.C.
Case Tractor. Run or
Not. 361-293-1633.
5 Bale Hay King
Trailer & Bale Flip-
per Loader. Load
hay without getting
out of truck. Video
on balefipper.com.
$13,500. 512-565-
5927.
For Sale: 7 pc. Bas-
sett dining room ta-
ble. $400. 263-0024.
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Big solid oak law-
yers desk. $50. 830-
672-3089.
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Beds & furniture for
sale. 512-656-0521.
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High table, ceramic,
w/4 chairs, Love-
seat, 3 tvs, 19,
25 and 32, color,
white microwave
cart with 2 drawers
on bottom, recliner,
cloth new con-
ventional toaster,
broiler, white day
bed w/trundle bed,
both mattresses,
white childs desk,
chair, leather with
foot rest. 830-203-
8977, text or call.
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3 latex mattress
topper. Queen
size. Like new, paid
$300, asking $150.
512-921-2792.
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Dresser, $50. Couch,
$75, good shape.
1725 Seydler St.
#26. Betty, 830-857-
4125.
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Large Oak desk w/
glass topper and
large wooded desk.
830-672-3626.
For Sale: 4 farm
trucks, $2,000 each,
or $7,000 for all. Call
325-200-9997.
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2001 Mitsubishi
Spider convertible.
Runs great. $3,900/
obo. 512-738-7134.
--------------------------
Ford Fusion, 2013.
Only 7K miles. Ex-
cellent condition.
$17,500. 830-437-
2046.
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2007 Chevy Equi-
nox, 45,000 miles.
$12,000. 2005 PT
Cruiser, Convert-
ible, 100,000 miles,
$6,000. Call 830-
203-0502.
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Suzuki Japanese
mini truck. 35,450
miles, spray lined
bed, lifted, 4x4.
Needs some atten-
tion to fuel intake,
but should be easy
fx. Great for ranch
or hunting. $2,000.
361-771-5483.
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2004 Infnity G35,
95,000 miles. Leath-
er seats, sunroof,
great condition,
new tires. 512-775-
4399.
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For sale: Mercury
Grand Marquis. Me-
tallic Jade Green Ef-
fect. 22 inch rims.
C.D. Player. Runs
great. $4,000. 830-
203-8841. Thomas.
Serious calls only.
One bedroom mo-
bile home. Almost
new. One bathroom,
on 10 acres of land,
cow pens, arena,
electric gate, shed,
very nice. 6545 Hwy.
304. 830-203-1953.
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For sale: Doublewide
Mobile Home, 3BR/2
full baths. Good Con-
dition. 830-203-8977.
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Belmont RV Park. We
have FEMA trailers
for sale. From $2,500
& up or rent to own.
Please call 830-424-
3600.
Doublewide home.
4BR/2BA, large
living room, din-
ing room, kitchen
and ofce. 1 mile
past Lexington
Inn on Hwy. 90A-
East (Shiner Hwy.).
Ready to rent on
June 15th. Call 830-
672-2151 or 830-
857-5654.
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Mobile home for
rent in Waelder.
3BR/1BA. Please
contact Grace, 830-
399-5313.
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Mobile Homes
for rent - 3
bedroom/ 1bat h,
$695; 2 bedroom/2
bath, $695; 3 bed-
room/2 bath, $895,
all are fully fur-
nished, air/heat, PT
Security Guard. 900
Old Shiner Rd., Yoa-
kum, 361-582-6593.
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For Sale or Lease. 3
BR Trailer House, 2
RV Spots. Leesville.
830-433-0603.
Room and Bath for
rent. Single person
only. Reasonably
Priced. Call 672-
8034.
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Room for Rent -
1BD/1BA, private
entrance. 830-857-
4162.
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Attn: Oil Field Work-
ers. Wymans Room-
ing House has 4
large furnished
bedrooms for rent.
Fully equipped
kitchen, covered
patio w/BBQ pits &
much more. $375/
wk. 713-501-3416.
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Room for rent for
working person.
1BR/1BA. Quiet
neighborhood. Call
203-7146 after 4
p.m.
H G o n z a l e s H
House - 1BR - 1BA.
AC/Heat, Insulated,
all electric, ceiling
fan, appliances, car-
pet, paneling, tub/
shower, w/d con-
nections, porch,
storage shed. No
smoking inside
unit. No pets. $600
monthly + deposit
& references. 830-
672-2227.
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1BR unfurnished.
1814 Sycamore.
Young couple. Rent
$500/ Deposit $300.
Contract required.
For more informa-
tion call 830-672-
9011.
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For Rent In Shiner,
3bed 1 bath, nice,
quiet neighbor-
hood, 509 West
9th, $850 rent plus
deposit. 830/832-
3163
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3/1, large carport,
plenty of storage,
downtown. $950/
mo., $1,200/dep.
830-672-3089.
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2/1 St. George St.
With yard & porch.
Great location.
$550/monthly. 830-
672-3089.
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ATTENTION
OILFIELD WORK-
ERS
4br home, 2 living
rooms, 3 baths. Sits
on 2 1/2 acres. For
information, con-
tact Grace, 830-399-
5313.
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Beautifully
furnished home
for rent
Completely fur-
nished 3BR/2 full
bath home for rent
in downtown Gon-
zales, Tx. Beauti-
ful executive style
master bedroom
with 2 additional
bedrooms. Hme
is furnished to ac-
commodate up to 7
people total. All ap-
pliances including
refrigerator, range,
full-size washer and
dryer, microwave
oven, cofee maker,
toaster oven and
all kitchen supplies
included. All towels,
sheets, linens also
included. House-
keeping service and
all utilities, cable TV,
high speed inter-
net included. Short
term and long term
lease available.
$3,500-$4,000 per
month depending
on number of peo-
ple and lease terms.
Security deposit
and application re-
quired. Please call
437-386-0929 for
more information.
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Nixon Area. 3/2, like
new, CA/CH, wash-
er/dryer hookups.
$1,000 per month.
830-857-6921.
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House in the coun-
try for rent. Three
bedrooms and two
bathrooms. See to
appreciate. Security
deposit and one
months rent. One-
year lease. Call 361-
594-3233.
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Attention Oil
Companies
Furnished 4br
house, sleeps 5.
Ready for move-in.
Fully equipmmed
kitchen, covered
patio, fenced,
lighted parking, in-
dividual air & heat,
32 fat screen TVs
& Refrigerators in
each room. Must
see. 713-501-3416.
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2BR houses for rent.
No Pets. Month to
Month. Call 830-
672-3089.
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2 bedroom, 1 bath
house in Gonza-
les for rent. Fridge,
Microwave, Stove
and can be fully fur-
nished. Remodeled
last year with new
hardwood foors,
Central Air, bath-
room tile, $1,050/
mo. 830-542-9743.
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Ofce Space w/Liv-
ing area to rent in
the center of town
(On the Main Hwy).
Call (830) 672-5738.
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HOUSE FOR RENT:
Must see!!! Charm-
ing 2BD/1BA re-
modeled house
located in country
setting at 7102 FM
2091 North (Gon-
zales, Texas); Ap-
prox. 10 miles from
Gonzales. Spacious
yard, shade trees,
stove/microwave,
glass-tiled backs-
plash, new laminate
wood foors. Call
(830) 672-3771 or
(512) 938-9131.
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ATTENTION
OILFIELDERS
4/3, 2 Living areas
around Waelder
Area. $800/deposit,
$1,300/month. Big
yard, front & back.
830-399-5313.(05-
30-13)
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Cottages for Lease.
Fully furnished cot-
tages for rent in
Gonzales, TX. In-
cludes all furniture,
fat screen TV, lin-
ens, kitchen items &
appliances (full-size
refrigerator, range,
microwave, wash-
er & dryer). Utili-
ties paid. Weekly
Housekeeping In-
cluded. Month-to-
Month Lease. $500
Security Deposit.
Application Re-
quired. 1 Bedroom,
$1,300/month, 2
bedroom, $1,600/
month. Call 830-
351-1195. Shown
by appointment.
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House for Rent.
3BR/2 1/2 BA. 1536
Sq. Ft., w/2 master
suites. Perfect for
oilfeld executive or
families. In Marion.
$1,100/per month.
830-914-4044.
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2BR/1BA house. 765
Sq. Ft. Large deck
on back. $875/mo.
Marion, TX. 830-
914-4044.
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1ST MONTH RENT
FREE
3/2s from $595/
month. Several
homes available.
www.silentvalley-
homes.com. Lock-
hart, 512-376-5874.
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Cabin for Rent.
1BR/1BA. Secluded,
in country. $100/
nightly, Mon.-Fri. or
$350/weekly. Week-
end rates vary. No
smokers. Call 830-
857-0986 or 830-
857-1418.
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Completely re-
modeled inside
and out. 2 & 3 bed-
room homes. Fully
furnished. Rent
by night, week or
month. Fantastic
ne i ghbor hood.
Cheaper by night
than hotel room.
672-5169.
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3BR/2BA large
house. Fully fur-
nished, beds, lin-
ens, washer/dryer,
cable T.V., stove,
refrigerator. CA/
CH. Great for crew.
Monthly or lease
available. Home
in town, plenty of
parking. 512-820-
5461.
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Charming 1/1
home on 2 wooded
acs, w/lrg. deck in
country, 77 North,
paved road. $775/
mo. No pets/smok-
ers. 512-415-6483.
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For Rent:
2 B R / 2 B A / 2 C G
home on 183 N.
$1,250/mo., plus
deposit. Call 830-
857-4458 for infor-
mation.
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Motel Suites. 2 bed-
rooms, full kitchen,
porch/small yard.
$68 nightly, $310
weekly. Crews wel-
come. Call Mike,
512-292-0070, 512-
656-0521.
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House for Rent. 302
Lancaster, Moulton,
TX. Nice spacious
1BR home w/ap-
pliances & a large
yard. Call for info.
832-633-3950.
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Single Suite. Perfect
for Supervisor for
Oil Company. Full
kitchen, washer/
dryer, TV/Full cable,
wireless internet.
No smoking inside.
No Pets. Fully fur-
nished and all bills
paid. Private Yard/
Garage. Weekly,
$280; Deposit $300.
Call 512-292-0070
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ATTENTION OIL
AND GAS PIPE
LINERS - CREW
HOUSING
AVAILABLE
Furnished with all
bills paid -- Full
Kitchen - Personal
bedrooms and liv-
ing room. WEEKLY
RATES AVAILABLE.
Please call Mike at
(512) 292-0070 or
(830) 672-3089.
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MOTEL ROOMS
AVAILABLE
NIGHTLY RATES
Single nightly rates
starting at $35.00
per night. Which
include A/C, Micro-
wave, Refrigerator,
TV/Cable and fur-
nished with all bills
paid. Please call
Mike at (512) 292-
0070 or (830) 672-
3089.
Looking for a 2 or
3BR nice house in
Nixon and Leesville
area. Call 830-857-
1658.
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Looking for a nice
house in or near
Gonzales. 940-284-
4255.
3BR/2 full bath-
rooms, large living
room, large dining
room, large kitch-
en, house. Fully
furnished, washer,
dryer, stove, micro-
wave, deep freezer,
everything: screen
TVs in all rooms: 2
car garage, 2 acres
of land: looking for
a roommate to help
out with bills. $450
all bills paid. Con-
tact 263-4660.
Busy Restaurant
with large customer
base for sale in Smi-
ley, Texas. Equip-
ment included.
Contact Nick or Do-
ris, 830-587-6262,
210-373-6869 or
210-883-4271.
Commercial for
Rent. 826 St. Peter
Street for ofce or
retail only. 12x20.
$ 5 0 0 / i n c l u d e s
utilities. Deposit
required. 830-857-
1324.
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Ofce space for
rent. 19x15. Private
entrance, Wi-Fi,
Electricity included.
512-694-6430.
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Ofce space for
rent. 10x10 space
in Nixon. Furniture
included. 830-857-
6921.
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For Rent: Ofce
space or store front,
960 sq. ft., 1/2 block
of square. Kitchen-
ette, 1 ba, newly re-
furbished. For more
information, call
830-672-6265.
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For Rent: Indus-
trial Property for
rent. M1 Ind. Stor-
age Yard, 70x130.
Church Street. 830-
423-2103.
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For sale or lease.
10,000 sq. ft. Bldg.
with multi-level
loading docks -
Prime location
- with ofces and
separate garage.
Call 830-857-5448.
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For Lease: Small of-
fce space w/work-
shop located at 339
St. George. Recently
Renovated, $400/
month. For more
information please
(830) 672-5580.
5.5 Acres for Lease/
Sale. Cleared, wa-
ter well, 3-200 amp
loops, and 100 yds
of Hwy. 80 w/good
county road front-
age. In Leesville
between Belmont
& Nixon. Will subdi-
vide. Would make
a perfect oil feld
yard or residence.
Call David, 713-252-
1130 ; Peyton, 512-
948-5306.
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Land for lease for
oil feld service
equipment. Prime
location. 4 miles N.
on 183. 2 1/2 acres.
Electric, water,
parking, storage.
Call 203-0585 or
672-6922. (TFN)
1BR/1BA, down-
town. $350/mo.
830-672-3089.
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Efciency Apart-
ment. Lake Gon-
zales. Weekly and
monthly rates.
Utilities. TV pro-
vided. No pets.
non-smoking. Bob.
830-203-9790. Have
pictures.
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Apartment, com-
pletely redecorated,
fully furnished, Wi-
FI & Cable. 2BR/2BA,
w/d, covered park-
ing, nice neighbor-
hood, minimum 6
month lease, de-
posit & 1 month
rent in advance.
Available on March
24, rent starts April
1st. Monthly rent
+ utilities. Call for
appointment, 830-
672-6265.
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BLUEBIRD LOFTS
- Three units avail-
able, 2 bed/1 bath,
$1,125 to $1,185/
mo., $1,000 depos-
it. Granite counter-
tops, stainless steel
appliances, custom
cabinetry, hard-
wood foor, fully-
tiled bathrooms,
central air/heat,
washer/dryer hook-
ups. No pets. No
smoking. ALL NEW!
(512) 576-5868.
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One bedroom, one
bath furnished
apartment. $800
and two bedroom,
two bath, $1,200.
Short term ok. Gym,
wahser/dryer, inter-
net, all bills paid in
Seguin. Call Keith,
512-757-0280.
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60 hotel rooms
for rent in Seguin.
Laundry and meal
plans available.
Call Keith, 512-757-
0280.
Need your home
cleaned for summer
time? Call Nancy,
830-339-0727.
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Lady will do house-
work, cooking,
cleaning, babysit-
ting, taking care of
elderly people. Ref-
erences. 361-212-
8731.
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CLASSIFIEDS
HELP WANTED
ROOM FOR RENT
APTS. FOR RENT
HELP WANTED
FURNITURE
COMMERCIAL
FOR RENT
FARM EQUIPMENT
HAY FOR SALE
FARM EQUIPMENT
MOBILE HOMES
HOMES FOR RENT
HOMES FOR RENT MISC. FOR SALE
MHs FOR RENT
FOR LEASE
HOME SERVICES
HELP WANTED
FOR LEASE
AUTOS
FIREWOOD
WANT TO RENT
APTS. FOR RENT
COMMERCIAL
FOR SALE
HELP WANTED
ROOMATE
WANTED
is now hiring.
Looking for
Experienced Slick Line
Operators, Sales Personnel.
Call for more information
361-293-6385
Part Time Instructor
Needed for
Certifed Nurse Aide Training
Victoria College is hiring part time
instructors to teach the Certifed
Nurse Aide Course in Victoria, Port
Lavaca, Cuero and Gonzales
locations. Must be a licensed LVN
or RN with the State of Texas and
have one year recent experience in
Long Term Care. Previous
teaching experience preferred. To
complete the VC on line application
visit VictoriaCollege.edu>Quick
Links>Jobs at VC. E.O.E
Plant Openings
Plant Palletizers &
Cleanup Positions
Benefts include:
Apply in person at:
1680 CR431 or 748 CR 422,
Mon-Friday, 7-4 pm.
Telephone number
830-540-4105/830-540-4684.
W. B. Farm and Ranch
Supply
Delivery Driver Needed
Class A CDL Required.
NO PHONE CALLS ACCEPTED
Apply within
2031 Water St.
(Hwy 183 N)
Gonzales Tx 78629
CRUDE OIL TRUCK DRIVERS
Texas Gathering Company is now
hiring
DAY/NIGHT shift CRUDE
HAULERS
in the Luling area. Must have
minimum 2 years crude hauling
experience. Need Hazmat and
Tanker Endorsements plus TWIC
card. We offer insurance and 401(k)
benefts. To fll out an application,
go to TexasGatheringCompany.com.
Luling ISD
$4,000 Stipend for
High School English II
Teacher.
Go to the Luling ISD home
page for more information
http://www.luling.txed.net/
Help Wanted
Small, family oriented, independently
owned parts store needs someone
open-minded, willing to learn and grow
with the business as it expands. Must be a
self-motivated, go-getter, people person.
Also needs to be neat, organized, detail
oriented, and able to multi-task with ease.
Lifting of up to 65 pounds is occasionally
required. Apply in person, with resume, at
717 St. Joseph Street, Gonzales.
See Crystal.
MHs FOR RENT HOMES FOR RENT HOMES FOR RENT
DBK Advertising
Checkbook bal-
ancing, document
preparation, Word-
Perfect Works 8,
Color or Black and
white - all done on
compter. Cheap.
DanielKeith@hot-
mail.com, preferred
or DanielKeith564@
yahoo.com. Call
437-5142.
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Looking for sit-
ting job for a sweet
lady in her home.
Includes cooking
and will drive for
her if she needs
me to. Can stay Fri-
day night, Saturday
night but must be
home by Sunday at
3:00. Call 830-519-
3044.
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Sitting at night tak-
ing care of elderly in
their home. Refer-
ences, transporta-
tion. Call 361-212-
8731.
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House cleaning
services available.
Reasonable rates.
Servicing Gonzales
and surrounding
areas. References
available. Call Bar-
bara at 979-777-
8710 or email bar-
barajp30@hotmail.
com.
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In Home Appliance
Repair. Washer, Dry-
ers, all major ap-
pliances, 30 years
experience. Haul
Scrap Metal & appli-
ances. Call Larry at
361-596-4391.
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Hand for Hire. Call
Terry, (830) 857-
5927.
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I am looking for a
private sitting job
around Gonzales,
Cost or on 1116
(Pilgrim Road). I
have 20 years ex-
perience. Please
call Emily, 830-437-
2727; Cell, 820-263-
2768.
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Will do house clean-
ing Monday thru
Friday. Call 830-
203-0735.
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Sewing & Altera-
tions. Jo West.
830-203-5160. Call
between 9 a.m. & 9
p.m.
Lawn mowing ser-
vice. No job too
big or small. Call
830-263-0383 for
free estimate. Also
do weed spraying
around fences. Will
beat any price. Gon-
zales area.
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Willing to mow
lawns in morning
or evening. Also will
do weedeating. Not
afliated with any
companys. 830-
263-0909.
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Lawn mowing ser-
vice, residential &
commercial. Will
also mow oilfeld
yards or large oil re-
lated businesses. Li-
ability ins., free esti-
mates and low cost.
No job too large or
too small. 830-263-
4181.(TFN)
Teenager looking to
babysit part-time,
infants & small chil-
dren. Will take care
of at your home or
my home. Call for
more information,
263-2789.
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Will do child care in
my home. Includes
meals. Any age (In-
fants onup). Have
two openings avail-
able. Call 830-519-
3044.
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I am looking for a
sitter for my 6 year
old daughter for
before and after
school a few days
a week. Preferably
someone who can
come to my home.
References and ex-
perience required.
Contact me at 830-
203-9159.
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Child care in home.
I have 2 openings,
Curriculum and
meals included.
Please call for de-
tails. 830-263-0058.
29ft RV for rent or
sale. RV will includ-
ed free wif and all
bills paid. Please
call 361-571-6872
for any information.
--------------------------
Mayfower RV for
sale. Call 512-667-
4356.
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2004 Teton Fifth
Wheel. If you need
a fulltime home
this is it. 36 foot,
three slide custom
Teton. Tetons were
designed to be full
time homes. Super
insulated against
the heat and cold.
Two 15K ACs/heat-
pump, and gas
furnace. Trailer has
separate washer
and dryer. 6.5KW
Onan generator.
10K axles with full
air ride suspension.
17.5 inch low boy
commercial tires
and wheels. 26,000
lb air ride hitch.
Custom rear hitch
can pull a 5,000 lb.
car. Roof satellite
dish and pre-wired
for solar. All cabi-
nets are solid oak.
Solid oak doors. Co-
rian counter tops.
Comes with two
fat screen digital
TVs. Living room
has leather Lazy-
boy love seat and
matchint recliner.
Original owner.
Non smoker and no
pets. Unit has been
in garage except for
trips. $35,000. Call
830-534-9638.
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2013 Crossroad
Texas Longhorn
Edition, 32 ft., bum-
per pull, slide outs,
$25,000 obo. Call or
text, 830-275-3269.
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For Sale: 2010 RV.
Keystone Springda-
le. 291RK-SSR Travel
Trailer. All electric.
Fully Furnished. TV,
Microwave, Cook
Stove, Refrigerator,
Oven. Used very
little. Just like new.
$15,000. Can see at
820 Oil Patch Lane.
830-672-6383.
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For Sale: Dometic
Retractable Awning
for Travel Trailer.
New arms. 20 ft.
long, 20 ft. wide.
$575/obo. 830-857-
5720.
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04 Coachmen, 26.
1 slide-out. Goose
hitch-ball, excellent
shape, new awning.
Call 830-857-3677.
29ft RV for rent or
sale. RV will includ-
ed free wif and all
bills paid. Please
call 361-571-6872
for any information.
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30 ft. travel trailer
for rent one mile
from town on Hwy.
97 east. Rent is $300
a week or $1,000
a month with a
$500.00 deposit for
monthly rent. All
utilities paid, fully
furnished, Direct
TV, full bathroom,
private area and
great parking. Call
830-857-3538 or
830-857-4491 to
have a look or more
information.
--------------------------
RV Space and RV
trailer for rent. All
bills included with
Dish Network. 830-
203-9255.
--------------------------
RV for Rent. $300/
wk. Call 512-667-
4356.
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Travel Trailer for
rent or sale. Rent is
$300.00 per week
with all bills paid.
Will relocate to RV
park of your choice
and I pay the RV
Rental. Or $1,000.00
per month with all
bills paid. Will sell
travel trailer for
$55,000. Call 830-
351-0943 for de-
tails.
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RV Space for rent.
$300 month. All
bills included. If in-
terested please call
820-203-9255
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Fully furnished
Travel Trailers for
rent. Will rent week-
ly or monthly. Pets
Allowed. $50.00
Deposit. $300 per
week or $1,000 per
month. Call Terry
for details, 830-351-
0943. Will relocate
to RV Park of your
choice. All utilities
paid.
--------------------------
Travel Trailer for
rent for RV space
in Smiley. All utili-
ties included, good
healthy environ-
ment. 830-203-
9255 or 361-790-
6305.
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30 Travel Trailer w/2
slides for rent in RV
Ranch in Gonzales.
Swimming pool,
laundry facilities,
shower house and
all bills paid. $300
a week. 830-305-
6926.
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28 Travel Trailer for
rent. Can be moved
from job site. Call
830-305-6926.
--------------------------
Ofce or Living
Trailers for lease or
buy. Peyton, 512-
948-5306; David,
713-252-1130.
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RV Rentals available
at Belmont RV Park
Estates. Pool, Laun-
dromat. Call Rich-
ard, 830-556-6905.
RV Space for Rent.
All bills included
with Dish Network
or Travel Trailer for
Rent with all Bills
included with Dish
Network. Please call
830-203-7250 or
830-431-4169.
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One R/V site avail-
able. $450 per
month includes
utilities. For more
info call 830-857-
1418 or 830-857-
0986.
--------------------------
Private RV or Travel
Trailer Parking Spot.
All hookups are in
place and ready
to call your home.
Fencing on three
sides. Located on
corner lot with
shade trees. Has
pad for home to be
parked on. $300
per month with
$100 Deposit. All
bills paid. Located
at Luling. This is a
private lot, no RV
park. Call 830-263-
4356 or 830-560-
6963 for showing
and details.
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Six RV Hookups for
long term lease at
Harwood. Intersec-
tion of Hwy. 90 and
TX 304. Contact:
281-788-7500.
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2 RV spaces in town.
$295/mo., 1 Mobile
home space for
rent, $295/mo. Call
Finch Park, 672-
2955.
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RV Sites Available.
Nixon, TX. Clean,
quiet, fair prices.
830-857-6921.
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Pontoon boat.
Good seats, good
stereo, good trailer.
Motor needs 90
Force Powerhead.
$2,500. 830-857-
5106.
Harley Davidson
- 2007 Dyna Low-
rider with pulled
bafes. Blue/Grey
7700 miles. Blue
Book Price - $9,440.
Harley Davidson
- 2009 883L Sport-
ster 700 miles -
Burnt Orange. Blue
Book - $5,190. Will
negotiate. Call 830-
875-9126 for more
information, 8-5pm.
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Gruene Harley-Da-
vidson is currently
buying pre-owned
Harleys. Looking
to sell your Harley?
Call Jon Camareno
at 830-624-2473.
2006 Land Prides
4x4 Recreational
Vehicle For Sale.
Approx. 200 hours.
Honda Motor. In-
dependent Suspen-
sion. Windshield
and Roof. 4x4. Ask-
ing - $4,950.00 in
very good condi-
tion. Call 830-857-
4670.
Registered Border
Collies. 2 females,
$300. 11 weeks old,
shots. Call 361-774-
3030.
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2 males, 1 fe-
male Wire Haired
Dachsunds pup-
pies. 1st shots &
wormed. $200. 830-
263-4602.
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Precious purebred
Chihuahua pup-
pies. 8 wks. Very
cute & loves to play.
1st shots & wormed,
paper trained.
Raised in my home.
$150 each. 830-
560-6668.
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Free: Red Heeler, fe-
male, fxed. Needs
nice home. Call 830-
481-4707.
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Got land? Want a
dog? FREE female
boxer/pit mix, brin-
dle color, about 1
year old. Gentle
and friendly. Good
watchdog. Near
Palmetto State
Park. Call 1-210-
274-2209.
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ANUE Pet
Grooming.
7 days a week.
Hand/Scissor Cut.
Small, $20 & $30;
Medium, $35 & $40;
Me di um/ L a r ge,
$45. Ask for Susan.
361-258-1505.
WANTED
Looking for feedlot
cowboy to put han-
dle on saddle mule.
361-362-3735.
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Texas Longhorn
Calves. Born Nov.
2013. Bull, white
with dark speckles.
Two bulls, red and
white. heifer, dark
brown/black head
and spots. Herd sire
and mamas have
great horns, gentle
dispositions. 830-
540-4591.
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Goats for Sale. Call
361-208-3565.
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Hay for sale. Square
bales. $7.00 per
bale. 830-857-4073.
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Angus Bull. 3 - 18
months old Bulls; 1
26 month old bull.
Call 830-263-0808.
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Free Donkeys. 361-
772-7655 after 6
p.m.
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2006 Blue Roan
handcock mare.
14 hands. Stocky
built. Has worked
cows, arena rop-
ing. Pastured for 1
year. Needs to go to
work. $1,200. 361-
771-5483.
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For Sale: Black &
Red Brangus Bulls.
2 & 3 yrs. old. Good
selection. No pa-
pers. 830-437-5772.
(9-19-13)
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Rabbits for Sale.
With cages, with
feeders & waterers.
all for $250. 361-
293-3571, house;
361-208-3565, cell.
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Bulls for Sale. Black
Angus and Black
Limousin. Breeding
ages. Gentle. Deliv-
ery available. 979-
263-5829.
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Bull For Sale:
* Black polled Her-
eford (White face).
* 21 months old. *
Very gentle, home
grown. * Throws
a predominance
of black baldies
when crossed with
black hided cows.
* This breed has
a history of birth-
ing small calves. *
Heifer calves make
great replacement
stock. * Can be reg-
istered, if papers are
important. * Price
$2,500. Charles
Nunes, 830-203-
0477.
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FOR SALE: Beautiful
Bay Mare ( brood
mare) 14 yrs. Ex-
cellent bloodline
(Three Bars & Leo).
All ofers consid-
ered. Pics avail-
able upon request:
amazin_grace454@
yahoo.com. Ph: #.
830-560-0238.
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Fancy Feathers
Bantams. Feather
Duster Roos. Col-
ors, pairs, $20. Will
deliver to Gonzales.
512-272-5147.
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For Sale: ORGANIC
EGGS. Free Range
chickens. $2.00
dozen. Will deliver
to Gonzales weekly.
830-540-3536.
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For Sale: 2 & 3 year
old red & black
Brangus Bulls. No
Papers. Good selec-
tion. Call 830-437-
5772.
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Black Limousin and
Angus Heifers and
Bulls, Gentle In-
crease your wean-
ing weights. Es-
tablished breeder
since 1971. Delivery
available 979 561-
6148 .
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DISPERSAL SALE.
Miniature donkeys
(28 to 36), male
and female, solid
and tricolored, 6
mos. to 4 years.
Four year olds may
be registered with
vet exam/afdavit.
Excellent pets, loves
people. Priced ac-
cording to gender,
age and color. 830-
672-6265 or 857-
4251.
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Dwarf Nigerian
goats (miniature),
multicolored, male
and female, 3 mos.
to 2-3 years. 830-
672-6265, 830-857-
4251.
FOR SALE BY OWN-
ER IN RIVERCREST
AREA: 2 BD/1 Ba
rock home, sprin-
kler system, privacy
fence, 2 car garage.
1514 Saint Matthew
Street. Call 830-203-
9383 for informa-
tion.
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For Sale by owner.
5,500 ac - 4 miles
North Langry with
2 miles Pecos River.
Road to river - excel-
lent hunting & fsh-
ing. 1/2 of owned
minerals to convey
to buyers. 4BR/2BA
Rock Home. $850/
Ac. Call 830-703-
9990(7/3/14).
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House for Sale:
2BR/1BA, hard-
wood foors, large
kitchen, pantry.
Sold with or with-
out large lot in
back. Large fenced
lot. 210 Crisswell,
Yoakum, TX. 361-
596-4497.
--------------------------
Home and land
with minerals for
sale. 2400 sq. ft.
3BR/2bth rock
home built in 2008.
Large oak trees with
improved pasture,
guest house w/
outbuildings, small
horse barn, stock
tank, county water,
cross fenced, will
convey some min-
erals, $450,000. To
view call 830-857-
0986.
--------------------------
3 bedroom, 1 bath
home on 12.3 acres
for sale. Large oak
trees and creek on
property. $185,000.
830-857-3960 or
857-5515.
--------------------------
Property for sale in
Leesville. 2 mobile
homes, 1 mobile
home, 3Br/1Ba &
2Br/2Ba and 2 full
RV Spaces on 1.9
Ac. Asking price
$65,000. Back lot
fenced in on 4 sides.
Rebecca Hodge,
830-263-0603.
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Required to calibrate all instrumenta-
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schematics
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conduit, and cable
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electronic control equipment
Demonstrate communication skills, ini-
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procedures
Be on an On Call schedule
Preference will be given to
applicants with:
2 years instrumentation and control
degree
All applicants must apply through their local Texas Workforce Solutions Offce.
Request an application for BYK Additives Inc.
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BYK Additives Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Person needed.
Building material knowledge, computer
skills, and cash handling experience a must!
Apply within
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Beautiful ranch
style home built
in 1996. 3 large
bedrooms, 2 1/2
bath, approx. 2765
square feet on 13.55
acres with scenic
views all around.
Property borders
larger ranches.
Recent upgrades
include granite
counters, new
wood foors, inte-
rior/exterior paint,
GE Cafe appliances,
new light fxtures
and doors, new ac
and water heater
within past 2 years.
Would make excel-
lent horse property.
Has County water.
Out shed and chil-
drens playhouse
with electricity. Ag
exempt for low tax-
es. 18 miles north
of Gonzales of 304.
One hour East of
San Antonio, one
hour south of Aus-
tin, and two hours
west of Houston.
Close proximity to
Interstate 10. Excel-
lent deal at 348,000.
Sorry, no owner f-
nance. If seriously
interested please
call 956-202-5629
or email awalk-
er1288@gmail.com.
May consider 2 year
minimum lease.
--------------------------
House for Sale.
Beautiful Historic
home for sale. 713
St. John. Give me
a call if interested.
713-425-9345.
--------------------------
Individual would
like to buy a 3/2,
minimum of 2,000
sq. ft or more
house in Gonzales
area. Possibly in
country. Someone
interested in own-
er fnancing w/
substantial down
payment. 830-
203-8492.

by Owner. 6700 Ac.
with approx. 7 mi.
of Pecos River that
has excellent fsh-
ing and hunting.
There is 1100 ac
that is not fenced
out of my prop-
erty that you get
free use of. Actual
Ac. for sale is 5,600
Ac at $800.00/Ac.
Will convey 1/2 of
owned minerals
which is about 50%
owned. Ranch lo-
cated at Langtry, Tx.
Call 830-703-9990.
(6-5-14)
--------------------------
$2,500 for property
to unload rail ties.
Contact (325)200-
9997.
--------------------------
5.5 Acres for Sale or
Lease. Cleared, wa-
ter well, 3-200 amp
loops, and 100 yds
of Hwy. 80 w/good
county road front-
age. In Leesville
between Belmont
& Nixon. Will subdi-
vide. Would make
a perfect oil feld
yard or residence.
Call David, 713-252-
1130 ; Peyton, 512-
948-5306.
--------------------------
170 Acres - For Sale
by owner. FM 443.
Outside of Hoch-
heim/Dryer area.
210-867-8851.
--------------------------
Lots for Lease.
Conveniently lo-
cated behind WHS
(Waelder High
School). For infor-
mation call 512-
299-1627.
WANTED
Looking for feedlot
cowboy to put han-
dle on saddle mule.
361-362-3735.
Gips Kustom
Shredding
For more informa-
tion or estimate call
361-208-3306.
--------------------------
Need a lifeguard
for private parties!
830-445-0483.
--------------------------
Mobile Mower
Repair
Ofering tune-ups,
repairs & parts for
most brands in
my trailer, at your
home. Evenings
and Saturdays.
Tune-ups start at
$30+ parts. 830-
857-4580, Jacob.
--------------------------
Belmont RV Park.
Propane Services.
Call 830-424-3600
or 830-556-6905.
--------------------------
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857-1495.
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Lucky Shots by Dee.
Need Family Por-
traits, Family Re-
unions, Birthdays,
School Pictures,
Weddings, Etc. 830-
857-1495
--------------------------
Plumbing Repairs.
All Types of
Plumbing.
Master Plumber.
Reasonable Rates.
Please Call
713-203-2814 or
281-415-6108.
License #M18337
--------------------------
No Limit
Accessories
David Matias,
Owner
830-263-1633
1026 St. Paul St.,
Gonzales
Window Tinting,
Commercial.
Call for
appointment.
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SMITH RANCH INVESTMENTS
Randy Smith, Broker
830-672-8668
152 Acres. Southwest of Gonzales on FM 1116.
Hilltop, stone, 3/2.5, pool, hot-tub, patio. Good
grazing & oaks & brush for wildlife. 2 stock tanks.
1,035,000
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
424 Acres. Cheapside. Pens, tanks, some oaks.
$3,850 per acre.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
250 Acres. South Goliad. Good oaks, brush, and
grazing. Well fenced and watered. Paved road
just off US 183. $3,975/ac. with 1/8 minerals. Not
leased.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
106 Acres. Rockport. Minutes to water, fne din-
ing. Good oaks, coastal bermuda. Nice home
plus modular home. Some minerals. $1,400,000.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62 Acres. South Cuero. Oaks, brush, hay feld.
Pens, well. Cross-fenced. $5,300/ac.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
198 Acres, Atascosa County, West of Flores-
ville. Huge Creek Bottom, 2 tanks, water meter,
shallow well, electricity, oaks, elms, persimmon,
mesquite, black brush. Could this be your new
hunting spot? $2,895 per acre. Might divide into
two tracts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
260 to 861 Acres. NW Corpus Christi. Lake,
Barn, Pens, 2 water wells. Great cattle place.
Paved corner. Excellent for Subdividing. Price
$2,750 to $3,500 per acre.
SOLD
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Operator Job Requirements:
- A high school diploma, or GED, and
- the ability to learn how to operate plant processing equipment
- able to work rotating shifts and/or weekend work
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18 AC - 5224 Sandy Fork Rd, Harwood - 3BD/2BA home perfect
for the country getaway! 2 car detached garage, 30x40 run-in shed.
Large tank, fully fenced. Mature trees. $244,500.
Land
v40.35 Ac, HWY 304 & IH 10 Access - NEW LISTING- Approximately 1,078 feet frontage. Well, Septic, and
Electric in place. Great opportunity! $349,900.
vFM 86 & Abigail Lane, Luling - Picturesque 10 and 13 acre tracts with mature Oaks scattered throughout.
Restricted area allows for the perfect home site or recreational area. Site built homes only - minimum 1,300 sq.
ft. Ag exempt. 13.117 Ac w/pond - $78,700.
vSettlement at Patriot Ranch - 3-27 acre site built home sites. Beautiful countryside and wildlife views.
Electricity available. Paved roads, well/septic required.
vRV Park - 31.117 Ac, HWY 90 IH 10 Access - Just off Interstate 10 - many possibilities with HWY 90 and
Arrow Lane frontage. City utilities available. Site has been engineered for 54 unit RV Park on 10.5 acres if
desired. Offered at $900,000.
Commercial
830-875-5866
v17010 IH-10, HARWOOD - NEW LISTING - Large, approx. 2,331 sq. ft. 3 BD/2.5BA/3 car garage open foor
plan home on approx. 33 acres. Kitchen open to breakfast area, dining and large living. Screened and open
porches. Large shop, 2 hay barns, pens, 4 ponds and beautiful Countryside views. Fenced and cross-fenced.
This property is a must see! OFFERED AT $325,000.
v215 S Oak - Large, 3 BD/2.5 BA home located on half of a city block for 0.7 acre! Large den and formal din-
ing areas feature 2 wood burning freplaces. Upstairs features private entrance for income producing space if
desired. Open lot to enjoy garden, pool, or build income producing structure. REDUCED $199,900. $209,500.
We have 2 & 3 bedroom homes for lease also. Call for more info.
NEW LISTING - Majestic country-side property and custom home on approx. 124 acres! 3BD/2.5 BA home
with detached 2 car garage. Recent, full remodel to home offers remarkable custom detailing throughout.
Spend your evenings winding down on the covered patio, next to the pool, and gazing out onto the fowing
felds. Approx. 35% wooded areas and 65% open pastures including a beautifully constructed horse barn,
large shop, storage sheds, irrigation tank, good fencing, and water to all pastures. $1,070,000.
5143 CR 283
Located approximately 7miles South of IH-10 in Gonzales County, this
picturesque hunting and recreational property has a wow factor! Property
features nice elevation spots offering beautiful views, 2 water wells - located
on the North and South portions of property, small cabin and older chicken
house. The landscape is mostly brush land with a variety of native brush and
tree species making for an ideal habitat for wildlife. The brush is heavy with a
well maintained Sendero system. Offered at $1,225,303.
NEW TO THE MARKET. 269.69 Acres - Hwy. 80S. Belmont
SOLD
20 Acres - Waelder - Approximately 3,160 sq. ft.
3BD/2.5 Ba main home with attached 2 car garage.
Detached 1 bedroom Casita featuring full bath,
additional 2 car garage. Spend your evenings
winding down on the large covered patio or 2nd
story balcony. Property includes horse barn with
additional furnished living quarters. Possible sale
w/124 acres total. FOR LEASE @ $5,800/Month
fully furnished.
627 Lois Lane
GONZALES - 3bd/2ba home features open living,
dining, and kitchen area. Large utility room with
storage space. One car carport and fenced backyard.
$1,250/Month.
The Settlement at Patriot Ranch - Approx. 5,249
sq. ft. custom home on 10 acres at approx. 520
elevation, 3 BD/4BA/3 car garage with media room,
dry sauna, steam shower, mud room, utility room,
and storage galore! Great room with gourmet kitchen.
Covered patio set up for outdoor kitchen. $650,000
547 Power Ridge
Commercial Lease. 2 story metal offce building on
1.18 acres. Reception, 2 offces, offce/break area
with small kitchen area and shop. Shop area with
side overhead door and 1/2 bath area. Conveniently
located between Luling and Gonzales. Reduced
$2,000/month
7341 US Hwy 183
FOR LEASE
456 CR 413A
17515 E. IH 10
Great opportunity for investors or to move your
business to the Interstate. Approx. 9,000 sq. ft. metal
building on 5 fenced acres. Total of 18.764 acres
located at the corner of IH 10 and CR 217.
$590,000
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It was civil-rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. who
made the following sage
observation: Nothing in
the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
In 1811, London became
the first city in the world
to reach the milestone
population of 1 million.
If youre like one-third of
American men, youd like a
shot at hosting The Tonight
Show.
You might think that hot
dogs are a relatively recent
food offering, but youd be
wrong. The first sausages were
created more than 3,500 years
ago when ancient Babylonians
began stuffing spiced meat
into the intestines of animals.
If you hear the word Bilbo
you might think of a famously
adventurous hobbit, but a
bilbo also is a finely tempered
Spanish sword.
Elvis Presley reportedly was
worth $10 million when he
died in 1977.
In Western medicine in the
19th century, experts believed
in a phenomenon called
maternal impressions, which
posited that what a pregnant
woman looked at could
influence the appearance of
her child. This belief set off
a rush of pregnant Parisian
women heading to the Louvre
to gaze at the lovely artworks,
hoping to give birth to
attractive babies.
If you were at a certain
street corner in Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, on a certain day in
1962, you would have seen a
startling thing: After plunging
through the atmosphere, a
21-pound chunk of the Soviet
Sputnik IV spacecraft made
impact at the corner of Park
Street and North 8th Street.
Half of first-time marriages
in Kentucky involve teenagers.
Those who study such
things say that after Paul
Revere made his famous
midnight ride, he billed the
Massachusetts state house 10
pounds, 4 shillings to cover his
expenses.
***
Thought for the Day: A
mathematician is a device for
turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos
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