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“United in gratitude” : Fort Bend Interfaith Community holds Thanksgiving service

Fort Bend Interfaith Community representatives at Thanksgiving service.

— Photo by Ejaz Karmali The Fort Bend Interfaith Ranch Road in Missouri City on Catholic Church, Maryam Community held a Thanks- Nov. 19.

Mosque of the Islamic Society giving service, “United in Participating faith comm- of Greater Houston, St. Gratitude,” at St. Angela Merici unities included Congregation Laurence Catholic Church, Catholic Church on Sienna Beth El, St. Angela Merici The Baha’i Community, New

‘Radical experiment’ in ‘identity politics’

By SESHADRI KUMAR Sri Preston Kulkarni was a little known name in December 2017.

The name figured in the Texas State Democratic Party list of candidates among those who filed to run for the March primary election in the Texas Congressional District 22 race, with four others.

The name Kulkarni piqued my interest because it is a distinctly Indian ethnic name.

Initially, I could not find a telephone number or address for Kulkarni. He remained an anonymous candidate for a few days thereafter, but his political fortunes turned for the better when he managed to get the support of a Hindu group. He soon became a standard fixture in all Hindu group and Indian gatherings and became a de facto “Hindu” candidate. His campaign finance report may vouch for that.

Kulkarni also assiduously courted Muslim voters. He turned his campaign strategy of attracting ethnic, immigrant population into a new art of politics. Politicians from both the parties have been doing the same overtly and covertly for many years. Kulkarni campaigned in 16 languages, not including English. Media reports hyped the narrative as a “radical experiment” and lauded his “identity politics” as an innovative, winning formula.

Kulkarni campaigned on “Making America Decent Again,” a clear expression of his anti-Trump sentiment. He also claimed he was not a politician, and campaigned on core human values, namely “reason, respect

and compassion.”

Kulkarni’s campaign constantly harped on “diversity” and America’s racist past, hitting the hot button issue of immigration, while implying Republicans are anti-immigrants and racists.

Numerous press releases from his campaign stressed this point. The most egregious one pertains to the discovery of a burial ground on a Fort Bend ISD construction site in Sugar Land. The school district announced the discovery of bodies buried on the site in April. They are believed to the bodies of those who worked in sugar plantations under the convict leasing program in the late 1800s. In July, the school district and Texas Historical Commission gave further details about the burial ground and indicated future plans to give proper burial to the unknown at a different site.

The Kulkarni campaign seized on this news and issued the following statement on July 20, 2018: 95 African American bodies unearthed in Sugar Land is a ‘painful reminder’ of ‘systemic discrimination’ in the justice system “This discovery is a painful reminder that racial oppression and violence are part of the history of our community, and have shaped the development of our current criminal justice system, which continues to incarcerate more people than any other country on earth, and disproportionately people of color. We cannot erase the mistakes of the past, but we can chart a course for a better future

by addressing the systemic discrimination that still exists today and committing to serious criminal justice reform.”

Another press release: Kulkarni Speaks Out Against Muslim Ban Supreme Court Ruling “Today, the Supreme Court upheld the President’s xenophobic “Muslim Ban” that discriminates against individuals predominantly because of their faith or national origin. The travel ban, rooted in bigotry, serves as an outright attack against the American Muslim community. We have seen recent Supreme Court decisions that limit women’s reproductive rights, make it difficult for people to vote, and let lower courts continue the practice of gerrymandering.

With each ruling, we see the further degradation of our civil liberties, an alarming trend that this administration is acutely aware of. These decisions threaten our place as a beacon of freedom and justice for all.”

Now, Kulkarni could not unseat incumbent Republican Congressman Pete Olson.

But, he continued his “fight racism” project by campaigning for Democrat Mike Espy for U.S. Senate from Jackson, Mississippi.

If the Kulkarni campaign had turned out massive Asian American voters because of his innovative approach, why did he lose the election?

Whether the Asian American voter turnout has been higher than before is yet to be ascertained. Assuming that it is true, still Kulkarni lost because See POLITICS, Page 3

Hope Lutheran Church, Brand Lane Islamic Center, The Sikh Community, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, St. Paul Presbyterian Church, the Hindu Community, His Highness The Agha Khan Council, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Christ Church Sugar Land UMC and St. Martin Lutheran Church.

Fr. John Cahoon of St. Angela Merici Catholic Church welcomed the gathering and led with an invocation.

Imam Mohammad Ahmad Khan of Maryam Mosque of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston read a verse from the Holy Quran: “As for those who say, “Our Lord is God,” and then stay firm, the angels come down to them and say, “Have no fear or grief, but rejoice in the Good News of Paradise, which you have been promised. We are

your allies in this world and in the world to come, where you will have everything you desire, anq ask for as a welcoming gift from the Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.” .... Good and evil cannot be equal. Repel evil with what is better and your enemy will become as close as an old and valued friend, but only those with great patience, only those who are blessed with great righteousness, will attain to such goodness.”

Pushpa Desai of Missouri City representing the Hindu community read from The Upanishads: “Let us together be protected and let us together be nourished

by God’s blessings. Let us together join our mental forces in strength for the benefit of humanity. Let our efforts at learning be luminous and filled with joy, and endowed with the force of purpose. Let us never

be poisoned with the seeds of hatred for anyone. Let there be peace and serenity in all the three universes.”

Rabbi Josh Lobel of Congregation Beth El, rendered “A litany of Thanksgiving.”

Participants in the program included Rev. Will Starkweather, St. Martin Lutheran Church; Rev. Dr. C. Chappell Temple; Christ Church Sugar Land (UMC); Cantor Renee Wag Halter; Mary Thompson; Rev. Chris Michaelis, New Hope Lutheran Church; Murad Ajani,Ismaili Jamatkhana; Dr. Ghasem Bayat, Baha’i Community; David Hruska,The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;Rev. Dr. Dan King & Lindi Kahn, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Thoreau/Richmond Campus.

Missouri City’s runoff election begins

By SESHADRI KUMAR Early voting has begun in the runoff election in Missouri City.

Election will be held on December 8, to elect Mayor and City Councilmember AtLarge Position 2.

Candidates on the ballot for mayor are Yolanda Ford and Allen Owen.

City Councilmember AtLarge Position 2 candidates are Susan Soto and Chris Preston.

The early voting period will be held from Monday, November 26 to Tuesday, December 4.

The city council election is nonpartisan, meaning the candidates do not run for office on the basis of their political affiliation. However, this time the Fort Bend County Democratic Party has openly promoted Yolanda Ford and Chris Preston on the party’s Facebook page.

On top of it, Ford and Preston, also have been promoted by Qaisar Imam of Sugar Land, a Democratic Party activist from the Muslim community. He along with a Muslim elderman, posed for a picture with the two candidates outside the Brand Lane mosque and posted on Facebook.

Allen Owen, on the other hand, has been endorsed by local Congressmen from both the parties, Democrat Al Green and Republican Pete Olson.

Owen has also earned the endorsement of several local and state elected officials, Missouri City police officers and firefighters, among others.

Owen’s top priorities are to ensure that Missouri City is “continued to be rated as one of the safest and best

Ford cities in America to live; continues to see our economic development bring in new businesses and employment opportunities for our citizens; and see us continue to look for opportunities to redevelop the outdated corridors, fiscal responsibility, economic development, redevelopment of major corridors and improving quality of life.

“We’ve worked hard with City Council, its economic development team and local businesses to attract many hundreds of millions of dollars in new business, including 31 major companies that have moved their headquarters to Missouri City, leading to thousands of new jobs and to Missouri City being voted as one of two Texas cities of the top 50 cities in the USA to live in,” Owen said.

“I’m particularly proud of our continuing push by City Council to improve public safety. We recently have opened fire houses and approved pay raises for Police and Fire Forces and all city workers. We’ve hired Missouri City Motorcycle Police Officers,” he said.

Owen In spite of struggling economic conditions in other areas, “Missouri City home values have jumped many times and are one of the best buys in the area, because of our proximity to Houston, the Texas Medical Center, Energy Corridor and the Port of Houston.”

On the Texas Parkway corridor, Owen said, “The City has budgeted beautification projects for the Texas Parkway corridor as well as additional extensive plans for City Hall.

We will continue to do our part to promote economic development along not only Texas Parkway, but Cartwright and Highway 1092 as well.

With the opening of the library expansion later this year, we want to have our work under way.

“Some people continue to criticize the purchase of Quail Valley Country Club, but forget that the voters actually approved that purchase by the largest margin of favorable vote of any issue we have ever had on a ballot. Had we not, I can not imagine what property values would be all over the See MAYOR, Page 3

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NEWS The Sounds of Singing Boys at the Fort Child Advocates of Fort Bend’s Bend Boys Choir’s Christmas Musicale Christmas Home Tour Dec. 7 & 8

Boy ‌ can they sing! This is the Fort Bend Boys Choir’s theme for their 37th performance season and you can definitely witness for yourself that they CAN sing at their annual Christmas Musicale concert on Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church-Missouri City. Three treble choirs – Training, Town and Tour – will be showcased along with Music Magic, the organization’s class of six and seven year olds. Start your holiday season o with the festive, joyous sounds of these singing boys! Tickets are available on the choir website or at the door. Adult admission is $15.00 and children 12 and under are $5.00.

All proceeds from the Christmas Musicale are used for program support, operational expenses and scholarships. Learn more about the Fort Bend Boys Choir including what it takes to be a choirboy by visiting their website at www.fbbctx.org or calling (281) 240-3800.

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You can make a dierence fully decked out for the holi- Children’s Advocacy Center for children and get into the days and a whimsical house (CAC) increased 25% in 2017 holiday spirit by purchasing in Lakes of Williams Ranch alone and has increased 58% tickets and attending the 27th featuring a home theater with in the last ďŹ ve years. In fact, by annual Child Advocates of a performance ready stage, a August 31, we had conducted Fort Bend Christmas Home secret hideaway with get-away more forensic interviews for children who made outcries Tour which is set for Decem- slide and a 2-story waterfall. “Rounding out the Tour of abuse than in all of 2017,â€? ber 7 and 8.

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One ticket allows entry to Home Tour is one of Child Adbefore are guaranteed to see all homes during tour hours, vocates of Fort Bend’s largest something new each year. “The 2018 Tour homes are allowing busy guests to see the fundraisers. In fact, 94% of the sure to delight,� stated Child Tour all at once or visit a few money raised by the tour goes Advocates of Fort Bend De- homes each day, depending on toward programs and services.

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NEWS

Missouri City’s new councilmembers take oath of office

Outgoing council member Jerry Wyatt, left, was recognized for more than 33 of years of service to the city by Missouri City Mayor Allen Owen at the Nov. 19 city council meeting.

Photos courtesy City of Missouri City.

Presiding Judge Debra Sinclair administered the oath of office to Vashaundra Edwards (left) for the City Council At-Large Position # 1 at the Nov. 19 city council meeting.

Edwards replaces Wyatt on the city council.

Missouri City City Council appointed Reginald Pearson as the new District A Council member after interviewing six candidates during the Special Meeting. He was sworn in by Mayor Allen Owen after the Regular City Council Meeting. Pearson succeeds Councilwoman Yolanda Ford who is running for mayor. Pearson has been a member of the city planning and zoning commission.

Left, Mayor Allen Owen administers the oath of office to Reginald Pearson.

Politics From Page 1 part of Fort Bend County, and some parts of Brazoria and Harris Counties.

That the overall voting figures in these Asian American precincts in 2018 was less than that in 2016 suggests that the Kulkarni formula may not have brought more Asian Americans to the voting booth, though more of them voted for Kulkarni.

The Asian American Population is not spread out in all three counties uniformly. In Fort Bend, they are concentrated in three or four voting precincts like New Territory, Telfair, Avalon and Riverstone in Sugar Land and Missouri City.

Kulkarni won in these precincts handsomely, but not enough to overtake Pete Olson elsewhere.

A major Democratic Party precinct is in Missouri City, but that is in Congressman Al Green’s Dist. 9 constituency.

Thus, Kulkarni’s winning formula could work only in certain precincts where Hindu and Muslim populations are in a majority.

An unintended consequence of Kulkarni’s campaign is that it brought victory to the Democratic Party slate countywide, while he himself did not benefit from the strategy.

Those who voted for Kulkarni and those who voted straight for Democrats, did not realize that every Republican countywide would lose.

The precincts comprising a majority of Hindus and Muslims in Sugar Land had already demonstrated that they are against Trump and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. However, at that time, they voted for Republican candidates in down ballot.

There was no wave in 2018 in Fort Bend County and voter turnout was lower than in 2016.

In 2016, straight Democrat votes were 103,630, while

96,020 voted straight Republican.

And about 59,000 voted individually. In the 2016 presidential election, voter turnout in Fort Bend was 65.28 percent.

In 2018, a total of 89,491 people voted straight Democratic and 81,288 voted straight Republican.

Another 86,279 people voted individually. The total voter turnout was 59.34 percent, six percentage point less than in 2016.

A comparison of voting figures in the Dist. 22 race in 2016 between Pete Olson and Democrat Mark Gibson and in 2018 between Olson and Kulkarni provides an interesting insight. Olson got lesser votes in these precincts in 2018 than in 2016. Kulkarni got less votes in 2018 than Gibson in 2016 in many precincts.

For example, in Telfair (Pct.4135), Olson got 2,600 votes in 2016 and 1,484 this year. Gibson got 2,711 votes in 2016, but Kulkarni got 2,511 this year. Here 1,119 voted straight Republican and 1,712 straight Democrat.

In New Territory (west) (Pct. 4124), Olson got 1,017 in 2016 and 779 now. Gibson beat Olson in 2016 with 1,471 votes and Kulkarni got even more, 1458 votes now. Here 570 people voted straight R and 1,096 voted straight D. There is one small precinct within New Territory (4026) which gave 1,328 votes to Olson in 2016, gave him only 962 this year. Gibson got 826 in 2016 and Kulkarni got 954. Here 702 people voted straight R and 648 straight D. In Commonwealth/Avalon area (Pct.4129), Olson got 1909 votes two years ago and 1,701 now. Kulkarni got 2055 votes now and Gibson 1,330 in 2016, marking about 200 votes loss for Olson and about 77 votes gain for Kulkarni.

Here 1,146 votes straight R and 1,353 straight D. Aliana (4126) provides a different picture. Though it is a Democratic precinct,

both Olson and his opponent got lesser votes than in 2016.

Gibson won this precinct in 2016 with 2,183 votes to 1,376. Kulkarni won this precinct with 1,230 votes to Olson’s 728.

In another section of Aliana, (Pct.4147), Olson got 688 votes in 2016 and 632 now. Kulkarni improved Gibson’s tally of 1,081 votes to 1,710 this year.

Riverstone (4065) returned Kulkarni with 1,765 votes to Olson’s 1,234. Two years ago, Olson won this precinct with 1,540 votes to Gibson’s 1,354.

Turning to the Republican precincts, in Greatwood (1128), Olson won this time with 1,497 votes to Kulkarni’s 702. Two years ago, Olson got 1,772 votes here and Gibson got 611.

In another section of Greatwood, (1120), Olson got 1,381 votes this time against 675 for Kulkarni. Two years ago, Olson received 1,696 votes in this precinct to Gibson’s 557.

Sugar Creek and Sugar Lakes in Sugar Land continue to be Republican precincts. In Sugar Creek, Olson got 1,460 votes to Kulkarni’s 646. Two years ago, Olson got 1,692 and Gibson 515.

In Sugar Lakes, Olson got 843 votes this time and Kulkarni got 518. In 2016, Olson got 979 votes and Gibson 426.

The Republican turnout in 2018 has been lower and Democrats increased their numbers slightly. All these years, Democratic turnout has been low, giving rise to a false sense that there are less Democrats than Republicans in Fort Bend.

But, in 2020, in the absence of straight ticket voting, individual candidates will have a better chance of getting votes, than being a Republican or Democrat.

Again, if Republicans do not turn out in more numbers, Democrats will continue their victory.

Missouri City approves church on Fifth Street@ Independence Blvd.

By BARBARA FULENWIDER Missouri City City Council at its Nov. 19 meeting approved a specific use permit (SUP) to allow the location of a church on a two-acre site southeast of the intersection of Fifth Street and Independence Boulevard.

The request for the SUP came from Osagie John Okpamen who was at the council meeting to request some changes for a “place of assembly.” The building Okpamen proposed is 14,780 square feet and will include a children’s outdoor play area and a sanctuary for approximately 300 people.

Prior to the city council meeting, Otis Spriggs, director of development services, gave the Planning and Zoning members some background on the acreage the church wants to use. He said the property was annexed by the city in 1959 and in 1981 was zoned patio cluster residential district.

Fourteen years later, in 1995, part of the property was zoned LC-3 and another part LC-2, which split the property. Spriggs said staff recommended approving the place of assembly because the area is in accordance with the requirements of the LC-2 zoning.

At council’s Nov. 5 meeting, Jennifer Thomas Gomez, planning manager, told council members the retail/commercial will not go away and that the church does have a site plan that coincides with the city’s development plans. She also said a lot of attention is being paid to the area regarding development.

Then Gomez spoke to the SUP about deviations for two areas that Okpamen requested. One was having wood flooring rather than masonry and the other was the height of the cross on the worship center. She said, “We require masonry materials be used on all the walls and interior surfaces. We wanted to make sure we were clear in terms of what the material proposed is.

They provided an explanation of the materials they want to use and it is a concrete based material.”

Then she went on to talk about the cross, which also does not adhere to city ordinances. Gomez said the cross is considered a sign so cannot be higher than the roof. What she proposed to council was for them to consider the cross a steeple, which could be above the roof but still has parameters and height limitations. Okpamen said the roofline is 25 feet high and the cross is another 3 to 5 feet above that.

The motion to adopt the SUP changes and therefore approve the assembly was made on first reading by Councilman Chris Preston and seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Yolanda Ford at the Nov. 5 meeting. At council’s Nov. 19 meeting, the item was on the consent agenda for a second and final reading. The SUP was granted to permit the location of a place of assembly and provide for an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan.

Morales appointed to Texas Juvenile Justice Board

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Vincent Morales, Jr. to the Texas Juvenile Justice Board for a term set to expire on February 1, 2019. The board is charged to develop and implement rules to govern the department, executive director, and staff and to establish the mission and set goals for the department to emphasize keeping youth in home communities while balancing rehabilitative needs with public safety. Vincent Morales, Jr. of Rosenberg is a Fort Bend County Commissioner for Precinct 1. He was previously elected Mayor of Rosenberg and was vice president of GreenScapes Associates, LLC. He serves as president of Fort Bend PAWS, benefiting Fort Bend County Animal Services, and previously as a board member for West Fort Bend Management District, Child Advocates of Fort Bend, Lamar Education Awards Foundation, and Central Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce. Morales attended the University of Houston.

Mayor From Page 1 City. As a result though, that 400 acre City Park that was saved, has helped increase home value 12-14% each year. Yes, there are golf courses, a City Centre, and MacNaughton Park included.

The City Centre was the site of 122 non-golfing events this past year and 66,000 rounds of golf.

It belongs to the Citizens and is being used by civic groups, schools, anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, and many other celebrations that we never had a facility to do that in.”

Yolanda Ford’s campaign platform is “A New Vision, A New Direction” and she believes “it is time for new leadership.”

“Missouri City has been overshadowed by its neighboring Cities as a result of a weak commercial base, poor development strategies, transfer of sales tax funds to metro and by not having a long range plan to assume control of its utilities.

It is time for new leadership that is innovative and experienced in municipal government to bring a new vision and new direction that will grow and advance our City to the next level,” according to Ford.

“Missouri City will become a culturally, diverse destination with town centers, restaurants, premier shopping, business centers, and much more. I have developed a plan that provides the framework for the new vision

Morales that the City and residents will map and build together.”

Ford’s top priorities are to “increase city revenue by increasing the retail and commercial base and exploring the potential to control public utilities; provide economic opportunity for small business and entrepreneurs with tax incentives; implement smart development strategies by encouraging developers to build destination locations, such as town centers and mix-use development that would attract Missouri City residents and other citizens to visit Missouri City ; and build a more equitable and unified City that is culturally diverse, redeveloped, transparent, safe and fiscally responsible.”

HCC student rises from homelessness to documentary producer Using her own experience with life on the streets, a Houston Community College student has produced a documentary she hopes will create understanding and compassion for America’s homeless.

Justice Butler’s documentary, “Invisible,” shares the stories of students who once found themselves without homes and focuses on their harrowing experiences, and the lessons they learned. “It’s called ‘Invisible’ because that’s how we see the homeless,” Butler explains. “But those people aren’t invisible. They could be you tomorrow. That’s the message I want people to receive.”

Butler believes she is the perfect person to deliver that message. As a young woman, she envisioned

a bright career in radio and entertainment. “I thought I knew my future,” Butler says.

Instead, she fell on hard times.

Butler ran out of money, out of food, out of shelter. “Turns out I didn’t know my future,” Butler recalls. “I became homeless.”

Butler lived in despair, but never completely lost faith in herself.

Friends, former HCC students, convinced her to enroll at the college. “So, that’s what I did,” Butler says. “I came to HCC and that’s where this journey started for me.”

Butler’s journey took her to film classes at HCC and a conference on student homelessness at Temple University in Philadelphia.

She learned her situation was not unique. So, with encouragement

from an HCC professor and fellow students, she decided to make a documentary about student homelessness.

Butler says the documentary was well-received at a Temple University screening and is being entered in film festivals. She hopes to schedule public screenings early next year. Butler plans to graduate from HCC in May, 2019 and views “Invisible” as her legacy to inspire other homeless students to make the most of their talents.

“I really want to make sure that when I leave, we have students more involved in shaping their lives,” Butler says. “We know what we need and “Invisible” allows others to see what we need as well.”

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MIKE’S MONOLOGUE

Water Buffalo

By MICHAEL GRANTO The Marines yelled as loud as they could. They waved, they hollered, they screamed.

But it didn’t do any good.

The old man kept walking across the rice paddy behind his water buffalo, not hurrying, just as he had for decades, not concerned about much besides his buffalo and his rice.

The Marines kept yelling, trying to get his attention. They were a minesweep detail, a detail that left the wire at first light every day, and swept their assigned section of road, making sure it got swept before the traffic rode the road.

The problem, as the Marines saw it, was that the old man and his water buffalo appeared to be headed toward a section of road they had not yet swept.

All kinds of protocols said that nobody or thing should walk or drive or otherwise travel on or across unswept portions of the road, because of booby traps buried in or near the road, or other sorts of unpleasant surprises.

They yelled because they wanted him and his buffalo to stop long enough for them to sweep past the point where it appeared he was going to cross the road. They were getting closer to him, but it was clear he and his buffalo would get to the road before they did.

“Sarge, why the hell isn’t he stopping?!”

Sergeants are, of course, repositories of all manner of knowledge, and are routinely expected to have answers to questions like that.

“Damned if I know, Posada.

Just keep yelling, and waving your arms. We need to get him to stop or slow down.”

Andersen yelled, “Sarge, that s** of a b***h ain’t slowin’ down one damn’ bit.!”

The engineer sergeant ordered, “Sweepers, maintain your pace and your sweep; I don’t want one of us stepping on something we missed because we hurried.”

The infantry sergeant whose squad was along with them for security, caught up and asked, “How big a problem is this?”

The engineer sergeant shrugged, and replied, “Well, we can’t get ahead of our sweepers, ‘cause we don’t want to step on mines or booby traps, and we’d sure like it if he’d listen to our hollerin’ and stop until we sweep ahead of where he’s going.”

“What if he doesn’t?” said the infantry sergeant.

“Well, probably nothing; it’s been a while since we’ve had an incident on this road, but taking chances is a good way to get to not go home.” said the engineer sergeant.

“Roger that,” the infantry sergeant smiled.

“Say, not for nothin’, but did you bring an interpreter?” asked the engineer sergeant.

“Yeah, that’s him on the left flank with the blooper. Name’s Fredricks,” replied the infantry sergeant.

“Sarge, he’s not Vietnamese.”

“Yeah, but he’s been to language school, and from what I’ve seen so far, he knows what he’s doing.”

“Good enough.” replied the engineer sergeant.

Right about then there was a helluva blast.

Once the dirt, and mud, and rice plants, and water buffalo pieces quit raining down, it was apparent, even from a distance, what happened.

The buff had stepped right into the vehicle track, and there had been a heavy-duty explosive device planted right in that vehicle track, right where you’d put your right front tire if you were driving.

That mine was meant for a vehicle, not for personnel. It sure did a job on the buffalo.

The creature’s left front leg was shattered, and its chest was shredded. It was dead, for sure. If it had been an antipersonnel mine, we’d have had to put him down, because while it would have hurt him past healing, it would not have killed him.

“Third squad! Face outboard, and keep your attention on that treeline!” bellowed the infantry sergeant.

“Sweepers! Maintain your

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Granto pace and your sweep!” bellowed the engineer sergeant. Sergeants are sort of expected to bellow something at moments like this.

Bellowing sort of comforts the troops, we feel. Besides, it gets their attention. “There’s nothing we can do for the buffalo, and if the old man starts to move off, let him go.”

By now, several of the infantry and engineer troopers were letting loose with some pretty creative streams of profanity.

“Can you get your interpreter, sarge?” asked the engineer sergeant.

The infantry sergeant called for his interpreter, who started loping over to his sergeant.

“Make sure he stays behind the line of sweepers, sarge,” said the engineer sergeant.

“Fredricks! Stay behind the sweepers!” bellowed the infantry sergeant. Infantry sergeants bellow, too. Quite well, actually.

The interpreter arrived to the sergeants, and waited for instructions.

“Listen,” said the engineer sergeant, “It’ll be several minutes before we get up to the old man and his buffalo, but when we do, I’ll need Fredricks to ask a him few question, okay?”

“Got that, Fredricks?” inquired the infantry sergeant.

“Got it, sarge” said Fredricks, with a nod of his head.

Then the infantry sergeant said, “The smoking lamp is lit!” and almost everyone lit a cigarette.

The engineer sergeant got his radioman Henderson, to radio back to battalion, and advise them what the situation was. A few minutes later, the radioman advised his sergeant, “Battalion rogers your comm, sarge. They said some intel types are coming. They want to examine the crater the mine left.” He chuckled as he said this.

“What’s funny?” asked the engineer sergeant.

Henderson smiled, and said,

“I think they just want some real battlefield pictures, sarge.”

Both the infantry and the engineer troops who heard this started laughing.

They shortly arrived at the old man’s location, and the engineer sergeant halted both squads after the sweepers got about twenty yards past the buffalo.

They approached the old man, who simply stared, stonefaced, at his buffalo. Well, at what used to be his buffalo.

The interpreter evidently gave some sort of respectful greeting, because the old man’s face registered almost pleasant surprise that a Marine would be addressing him in his own language. He returned some sort of greeting to the interpreter.

The old man wore the usual: A conical straw hat, some sort of baggy used-to-be-white over-shirt, and your basic, traditional black pajama pants.

He was a little more muscular than most Vietnamese men, especially men of his apparent age, around the shoulders and arms, and his hands seemed a little too big for the rest of him.

The thing that struck the Marines the most was his face and eyes. His face looked like it was hewn from a solid block of granite, all flat planes and sharp corners, and his eyes were unwavering black lasers.

Whoever this old man was, he was one tough son-of-a-gun.

“Fredricks,” the engineer sergeant said, “Ask him if he heard our yelling a while ago.

And why didn’t he stop?”

Fredricks did his interpreter thing, and the old man answered, not looking at Fredricks, the man who had spoken to him, but looking directly at the engineer sergeant.

It seemed to be a long answer.

Fredricks translated, “He heard your yelling, but, he says, you are in his territory, and he doesn’t need any G-dam Marines’ permission to walk it. That’s just about the way he said it, Sergeant” said Fredricks.

“Just about?” asked the engineer sergeant.

“Sarge, there was, um, some stuff in there about your ancestors. And the ancestors of all the Marines here.” said Fredricks.

“Really. Mighty ballsy of

him, considering he’s in the presence of a couple dozen armed men.” said the infantry sergeant, with a smile. Marines admire ballsy guys.

“Yes, and there was a little more.” muttered Fredricks.

“More? Okay, Fredricks, let’s have the ‘more’” said the engineer sergeant.

Fredricks took off his helmet, hung it on his canteen, and ran his hand through his hair before he answered.

“Sergeant,” he said, “This old guy said this road was his, not yours, and he said it was his father’s road before it was his, and it was his grandfather’s before it was his father’s. He said he’s lost one son to the Viet Minh, another son to the French, and a son and a grandson to you Americans, and now, this buffalo. He said his people were going to make you leave his country, no matter how many guns and airplanes you have. He said his people are Vietnamese, and they will remain Vietnamese, long after you and your sons are dead.”

The engineer sergeant looks around before answering. He spotted a jeep coming up the road, and thought he saw his battalion’s markings on it. That would be the intel guys.

The other Marines had seen it, too, and could immediately tell that the Marines in the jeep were not line grunts. They were too well barbered, their uniforms were too clean, and their boots too polished.

The engineer sergeant turned to Fredricks, and said, “Fredricks, use a respectful form of address, ‘cause I know that’s big with these folks, and tell this man I’m actually sorry about his buffalo. And then I want you to tell him just like this: Tell him that I do not have the power to replace his sons, though I grieve for his losses, but that we can replace his water buffalo. If he will consent to ride back to battalion in this jeep, with those two Marines, they will take him to S-1, to someone who will be authorized to give him payment for the buffalo.”

“Henderson!” called the engineer sergeant. “See if you can get Gunny Wharton on that radio. Tell him who needs to talk to him.”

Every Marines knows that you really need something,

you need to get to the gunnery sergeant.

The intel types were more interested in the crater left by the explosion, than in the buffalo, which meant they were after more than battlefield pictures.

They had a tape measure, and seemed to measure that crater six ways to Sunday. They had a camera, and took some pictures, too.

When Gunny Wharton came on line, the engineer sergeant gave him a condensed version of what the old man had said, leaving out the references to ancestors. He said he’d like to get the man paid for his buffalo, and he’d appreciate it if the gunny could arrange a ride for the old guy back to his buffalo.

Gunny Wharton said, “There anything special about this fella?”

“Gunny,” started the engineer sergeant, “Well, Gunny, I wouldn’t normally say this, but you could be looking at your twin; Vietnamese twin, sure, but twin nonetheless.”

“Well!” said Gunny Wharton, “If he’s that good a man, I just might take that sumbitch down to the Staff NCO Club and buy him a beer. Or two.

Wharton out.”

The engineer sergeant made it clear to the intel types that they were both responsible for delivering the old guy directly and personally to Gunny Wharton.

The intel guys collected the old guy, the infantry sergeant got his squad ready to move, and the engineer sergeant got his section ready to move.

The engineer sergeant bellowed, “All right, people, the intermission is over, and the mission takes over, Step off and sweep, and do not try to make up lost time. If there’s another one of those booby traps on this road, I do not want one of us to find it like that buffalo found it.”

(Granto is a United States Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, awarded the Purple Heart. For over 24 years, he worked for the University of Miami Medical Campus Security Department, and retired in 2014. He moved to Missouri City, with his wife to be closer to her daughter. He can be reached at mikegranto@ hotmail.com.)

LETTER

Clairvoyance in Red Light Camera cases To the Editor: I attended the Texas Supreme Court on November 1, 2018 when the red light camera issue was orally argued.

I am the white haired gentleman directly behind the speakers in this 44-minute video: http://www.texasbarcle.com/CLE/SCPlayer. asp?sCaseNo=17-0713 The legalese of the discussion was truly mind boggling.

The only thing that was clear to me was a question posed by one of the justices at time 07:50.

Apparently this justice is of the opinion that red light camera violations are probably

either deliberate or the result of unacceptable carelessness.

Attorney Bowman tried to correct the biased nature of this question, but the fact was not driven home that these red light cameras punish vehicle owners for allowing many drivers in Texas to be entrapped by a red light camera for inadvertently violating a red light by a fraction of a second.

There are two underlying issues here. The first is why punish the vehicle owner when he or she may not be the offending driver?

The second was punishing the inadvertent violation of the

red light law by a fraction of a second.

Is this technical violation of the red light reasonable?

Automated red light camera enforcement does not permit leniency.

No allowance is made for the inability of humans to make a precisely correct stop or go decision every time a green traffic light turns yellow.

Because the yellow period is loosely defined by the signaling regulations, clairvoyance is required for drivers to know exactly how long the traffic light will remain yellow, whether or not the light will turn red before

the vehicle will enter the intersection and what the stopping distance is going to be.

This second question was not addressed during these proceedings, but it is clear that automated enforcement is incapable of taking into account the frailty of human judgement.

That is what juries are for and no juries are allowed by the red light camera statutes.

Hopefully the Supreme Court will find them unconstitutional.

That decision should be rendered within the next six months.

H. F. Van Der Grinten Sugar Land

H-GAC program offers funding needed to upgrade fleets and improve air quality The Houston-Galveston region is home to nearly seven million residents.

It’s a bustling metropolis and with one of the largest ports in the country, the area has approximately 100,000 highemitting and heavy-duty diesel trucks move through the region annually. With so many trucks on the road, consequences of poor air quality are heightened affecting air quality standards.

Replacing heavy-duty diesel trucks helps the region reach federally mandated air quality goals, but it can be expensive.

The Houston-Galveston Area Council’s (H-GAC) Clean Vehicles program provides grants to local governments, school districts, and businesses

to accelerate the replacement of high-emitting and heavy-duty diesel trucks, equipment, and buses with new, lower emission vehicles.

Any business or organization operating a fleet with 75% in the transportation management area or establishing alternative refueling infrastructure, is an ideal candidate for the program.

Since 2000, more than 350 companies utilized grants to improve their operations and helped improve air quality by reducing emissions by 3700 tons of NOx. Jetco Delivery is one of many companies benefiting from H-GAC’s Clean Vehicles program.

“We turned over our older model trucks using the Clean Vehicles program and we’ve been able to increase efficiency.

We cut costs by saving on fuel and maintenance, which helped up increase profit,” said Kyle Kristynik, President of Jetco Delivery, the official equipment transportation company of the Houston Texans.

“We view being a good steward of our environment as a part of our mission and working in this region we take every chance we can to lower our carbon footprint,” he added.

The Clean Vehicles program currently has $10 million available for qualifying candidates.

Companies that utilize these grants could potentially reduce

emissions and significantly improve air quality.

“We encounter some hesitation from potential beneficiaries of this program,” said Robert Veazie, Program Manager for the Clean Vehicles program.

“It’s government funded, so some owner-operators think there must be a catch. If you meet a few basic qualifications, you turn over your older model truck and we help you get money towards a new one.

That’s it,” he added.

For more information on H-GAC’s Clean Vehicles program visit www.hgaccleanvehicles.com or send an email to cleanvehicles@h-gac.com.

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BalletForte presents “The Nutcracker” Dec. 7-9

Pre-professional ballet company BalletForte presents its annual full-length, traditional Nutcracker ballet at the Stafford Centre Dec. 7-9, featuring a cast of more than 100 dancers from the local area.

It’s the perfect family outing during the holiday season with tickets starting at just $12 and ample and free parking at the Stafford Centre.

Performances of “The Nutcracker” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday,

Dec. 8; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9. Tickets are available at www.balletforte.org.

The Stafford Centre is located at 10505 Cash Road, Stafford.

Directed by Michael Banigan and Dianne Jarrell, BalletForte provides a training ground and professional quality performance opportunities for serious dancers from the Houston area. Ballet-Forte Company members audition for and are accepted to attend summer programs offered by

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professional ballet companies nationwide.

In addition to the public performances, the Company offers two performances for students from Title 1 schools in the area during the school day on Friday, Dec. 7.

BalletForte is a nonprofit organization and all donations to the organization are taxdeductible.

For more information or to buy tickets, call 281-7997554 or visit www.balletforte. org.

Flood Protection Bill signed into law President Trump signed America’s Water Infrastructure Act (WRDA) into law, U.S. Rep Pete Olson, said in a recent message to his constituents.

“This critical law helps Houston by investing in our ports, channels, locks, flood protection and critical infrastructure projects that support our waterway transportation systems.

It also includes an amendment I wrote to expedite previously authorized Army Corps of Engineers projects in areas impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. After three years of historic flooding - including Harvey - the sooner our communities can begin rebuilding, the sooner we will be prepared for future storms.”

New Trade Agreement With Mexico & Canada “President Trump announced that the U.S. reached an agreement on a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). I am currently reviewing the details and I hope this agreement

will mean a renewed, longlasting deal that benefits all Americans and creates an even stronger economy through free trade between our three nations. In Texas alone we have two million trade-related jobs with 380,000 of those jobs depending specifically on trade with Mexico. Trade is the backbone of our economy and it is crucial that America enters into beneficial trade agreements with other countries.

CYAC Students Learn from Memorial Hermann We had a great second meeting of our 2018-2019 Congressional Youth Advisory Council (CYAC). The CYAC is a select group of high school students that meets during the school year for roundtable discussions, special guest speakers and a mock Congress.

Memorial Hermann showed us their Life Flight program.

We also heard from guest speakers Ashlea Quinonez, Rachel Kemp, Leslie Norman, Dr. Melissa Kwan and Jason Glover, who shared how they started working in the medical

field. The CYAC gives students an opportunity to meet with industry leaders, like folks at Memorial Herman. It’s also an opportunity to learn their priorities to better represent our youth in Congress.

Accompanied by Olson, CYAC students visited Memorial Hermann and learned about their Life Flight program.

Supporting Local Veterans Olson said he joined local veterans at VFW Post 3903 in Rosenberg to provide an update on his support of veterans in Congress. Last month, President Trump signed a spending bill that Congress passed, which included $86.5 billion for VA funding, the largest amount ever, to improve care for our veterans.

“We also discussed issues that directly impact their lives, like care at the VA. As a Navy veteran, a top priority is caring for our veterans after battle.”

Olson and local veterans discussed his work in Congress to help improve care for veterans .

FBJSL scholarship applications due by Feb. 1st

Couple ‘pays it forward’ with gifts to UHCL-Pearland Campus

2018-2019 Beneficiary Review Committee (back to front): Kelly Evans, Misty Gasiorowski, Heather Scantlin, Lori Gier, Jenny Nelson, Stephanie Reilly, Pam Spencer; Melissa Arcache (not pictured).

Pearland residents Nizam and Jesmin Meah pledged $300,000 in two significant donations to University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Pearland Campus. Through their Meah Family Foundation, they committed to a gift of $200,000 to equip the nursing simulation lab in UHCLPearland Campus’ new Health Sciences and Classroom Building, which opens this spring. A naming gift of $100,000 will benefit the expansion of UHCL’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities onto the Pearland Campus. The new health sciences facility is pictured behind the couple.

OakBend Medical Center celebrates #GivingTuesday

This #GivingTuesday OakBend Medical Center will celebrate giving by donating all funds donated to the hospital’s Vision 2020 campaign. #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide. Following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, this year’s #GivingTuesday will take place on November 27th and will kick off the giving season by inspiring people to collaborate and give back.

“Giving Tuesday 2018 donations will support OakBend’s Vision 2020 campaign.

Vision 2020 has provided for improvements to OakBend’s

flagship campus on Jackson Street in Downtown Richmond including a full renovation of both the fourth and fifth floors, updates to the exterior of the building, and multiple projects in the emergency department and skilled nursing unit. More than 1,000 donors have supported Vision 2020 to-date, contributing more than $4.4 million,” stated OakBend Medical Center’s Director of Development Alicen Swift.

Founded in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y – a community and cultural center in New York City − #GivingTuesday inspired millions of people to give back and support the causes they believe in. Over $300 million was raised online to benefit a tremendously broad range of organizations, and much more was given in volunteer hours, donations of

food and clothing, and acts of kindness.

“We are incredibly inspired by the way the #GivingTuesday community has embraced this concept for a worldwide movement,” said Henry Timms, founder of #GivingTuesday and Executive Director of 92Y. “As we prepare for November 27, we’re energized and encouraged by the community’s generosity. The levels of creativity, effort and the quality of the new ideas people have contributed and shared are phenomenal.”

Those who are interested in joining OakBend Medical Center’s #GivingTuesday initiative can visit www.oakbendmedcenter.org. For more details about the #GivingTuesday movement, visit the #GivingTuesday website (www. givingtuesday.org).

Are you a female high school senior or adult resident of Fort Bend County who is planning to pursue higher education? If so, you may qualify for assistance through the Fort Bend Junior Service League (FBJSL) scholarship program.

Each year, the FBJSL awards up to four $1,000 Volunteer Scholarships and one $2,000 New Beginnings Scholarship.

The Volunteer Scholarships are awarded to female high school seniors in Fort Bend County who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in volunteerism and community service. Recipients must

have completed at least 100 hours of high school community service, have a minimum GPA of 2.5, and plan to attend an accredited two or four year college or university.

The New Beginnings Scholarship is offered to help Fort Bend County females improve their career opportunities by furthering their education. Recipients must have been accepted into an accredited college, university, or vocational school after having taken a break in their education and establish financial need.

Qualified applicants can learn more about these scholarships and obtain a copy of

the applications by visiting the FBJSL’s website at www. fbjsl.org. Applications and supporting documentation will be accepted until February 1, 2019.

The FBJSL is a non-profit organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, to developing the potential of women and to improving the Fort Bend County community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable as well as providing an atmosphere of friendliness, goodwill and camaraderie for all members.

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital earns eighth “A” in a row for patient safety

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety and transparency in the U.S. health care system, recently released the Fall 2018 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which assign A, B, C, D and F letter grades to hospitals nationwide. Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital was one of 855 hospitals to receive an “A” for its commitment to reducing errors, infections and accidents that can harm patients.

“Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grades recognizes hospitals like Houston Methodist Sugar Land that focus on advancing patient safety. This ranking provides an important resource for patients, and

a benchmark for hospitals, to determine how care at one hospital compares to others in a region,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “Hospitals that earn an A Hospital Safety Grade deserve to be recognized for their efforts in preventing medical harm and errors.”

Developed under the guidance of a national expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice a year.

The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.

“Patient safety is central to our mission, and we are proud of our results,” said Chris Siebenaler, regional senior vice president and chief executive officer at Houston Methodist Sugar Land. “Our success depends on the daily actions of our physicians, nurses, technicians and other staff members. Receiving our eighth consecutive ‘A’ grade since 2014 shows that we are making a significant difference in keeping our patients safe while under our care.”

Visit hospitalsafetygrade. org to see Houston Methodist Sugar Land’s full grade, and to access consumer-friendly patient tips for staying safe in the hospital.

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NOTICE OF CONSTABLES SALE STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF FORT BEND § By virtue of an Order of Sale dated OCT 11, 2018, delivered pursuant to a Judgment issued out of the 458th District Court of Fort Bend County, Texas, said judgment rendered in favor of THE COMMONWEALTH CIVIC ASSOCIATION, INC., plaintiff, and against SUSAN STIFFLEMIRE and LANCE STIFFLEMIRE, defendant, in Cause No. 18-DCV-248784 for the sum of THIRTEEN-THOUSAND-– SIX-HUNDRED- THIRTEEEN DOLLARS AND 67/100’s CENTS ($13613.67), plus fees for posting notices, publishing, and all costs of executing sale. I did on the 22ND day of OCT, 2018, at 2:00 PM, levy upon the following described tract of land in Fort Bend County, Texas, as the property of SUSAN STIFFLEMIRE AND LANCE STIFFLEMIRE, defendant(s), towit: LOT 13, IN BLOCK 3 , OF SUTTON FOREST, SECTION TWO, A SUBDIVISION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN SLIDE NOS. 1249/B AND 1250/A@B,OF PLAT RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS 5307 CAMBRIDGE ST SUGAR LAND, TX 77479 and on DEC 4, 2018, being the first Tuesday of said month, between the hours of 10:00 o’clock a.m. and 4:00 o’clock p.m., at 301 JACKSON ST, FORT BEND COUNTY TRAVIS BLDG RICHMOND TX. I will offer for sale and sell at public auction for cash, all the right, title and interest of SUSAN STIFFLEMIRE AND LANCE STIFFLEMIRE, defendant, in and to said property.

LOCATION:FORT BEND COUNTY TRAVIS BLDG, 301 JACKSON ST 1ST FLR MEETING RM, RICHMOND, TX 77469 DATE: DEC 4, 2018 TIME: APPROX. 11:00 AM

BY Sergeant M. Kutach

Warning signs of fraud this Holiday season

LOCATION/DATE: The City Council of the City of Missouri City will hold a public hearing on Monday, December 17, 2018, at the City Council Chambers – 2nd Floor, City Hall Building, 1522 Texas Parkway (FM-2234), Missouri City, Texas at 7:00 p.m.

PURPOSE: To receive comments for or against a request by Clinton Wong, President, Hannover Estates, Ltd and Sunlake Ltd to amend the regulations and restrictions of PD, Planned Development District No. 81 to allow for a mixed use development to include commercial, retail, townhomes and multifamily residential developments, and to the extent such rezoning deviates from the Future Land Use and Character map of the Comprehensive Plan, to provide for an amendment therefrom.

SITE LOCATION: PD No. 81 is located north of the intersection of Fifth Street and FM 1092, southeast of the intersection of Lexington Boulevard/Independence Boulevard and FM 1092, and west of the FBISD Armstrong Elementary School. PD No. 81 includes undeveloped acreage and a Starbucks at 1321 FM 1092 and a Take 5 Oil Change at 1405 FM 1092.

SITE LEGAL DESCRIPTION: The subject site can be described as being an approximate 31.983 acres of land, out of the residue of that certain tract of land called 94.384 acres conveyed to Sunlake Limited from Memorial Herman Hospital System by deed dated May 5, 2000, filed for record under Fort Bend County Clerk’s File No. 2000044439, being situated in the William T. Survey, A-64, Neal Survey, A-64, Fort Bend County, Texas, being out of a called 14.34-acre tract described in deed recorded under Fort Bend County Clerk’s file number 9608676. A portion of the above being all of the Sunlake Addition recorded as instrument number 20170098 in the Fort Bend County, Texas Official Public Records.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Additional information and a map of the subject site are available for review at City Hall, Missouri City, Texas on Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You may call 281-403-8600 or email the Development Services Department-Planning Division at planning@missouricitytx.gov for further information. < 1 :$

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The above sale to be made by me to satisfy the above described judg ment for $2,552.90, SAID AMOUNT BEING CHARGED AS A CONTINUING LIEN; REASONABLE AND NECESSARY ATTORNEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FEES OF $2,699.00 IN LEGAL SERVICES RENDERED AND $901.95 IN EXPENSES/COSTS INCURRED; INTEREST ON ALL AMOUNTS AWARDED IN THIS JUDGMENT AT THE RATE OF 5% PER ANNUM FROM THE DATE OF THIS JUDGMENT UNTIL PAID IN FULL., TOGETHER WITH THE INTEREST THAT MAY BE DUE THEREON, AND THE FURTHER SUM OF $0.00, dollars, in favor of THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof.

Wayne K. Thompson Constable Fort Bend County, Pct. 3.

By David Rivera, Deputy November 8,2018

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DATE OF SALE: DECEMBER 4, 2018 TIME OF SALE: APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: 301 Jackson Street, William Travis Building, 1ST Floor Meeting Room in the City of Richmond, Tx 77469 TERMS OF SALE: CASH CREDIT- $0.00

CONSTABLE SALE Under and by virtue of a Writ of Execution and/or Order of Sale issued on October 1, 2018 by the 268th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Fort Bend County, Texas in Cause# 16-DCV-236977 in favor of the plaintiff- THE VICKSBURG COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, recovered judgment amount for the sum of $ 15,963.87 ++++costs as taxed on said execution and/or order of sale and further the sum of executing the same. I have levied on October 1st, 2018 and will offer for sale on the day of December 4, 2018 at the County Court house steps of Fort Bend County, Texas in the city of Richmond, Texas between the hours of Ten Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock A.M. and Four Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock P.M., and all rights, title, interests, and claims which the said Defendant (s)- SCOTTY JONES AND CAROLYN JONES had of in or to the following described Real Property situated in Fort Bend County, Texas; Legal Description: LOT 61, BLOCK 05, REPLAT OF VICKSBURG, THE VILLAGE OF CUMBERLAND, A SUBDIVISION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN SLIDE NOS. 66/B AND 645/A&B OF THE PLAT RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, AS MODIFIED BY AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO OR REPLATS THEREOF. TERMS: CASH TIME: SALE TO BE HELD AT OR ABOUT 10:00 A.M. PLACE: 301 JACKSON ST., WILLIAM TRAVIS BUILDING, 1 sr FLOOR MEETING ROOM, RICHMOND TEXAS 77469.

Gary Majors, Constable Fort Bend County Precinct Two By: Sergeant C. McRae #132 Deputy Constable

TREVER J. NEHLS Constable Pct. 4 Fort Bend County, Texas

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CONSTABLES SALE Notice is hereby Given, that by virtue of a certain ORDER OF SALE Issued by the Clerk of the 400TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court of FORT BEND County, on the 5TH day of OCTOBER, 2018, in a certain cause number 17-DCV-247592 wherein THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC plaintiff, and HUY D HUA defendant, in which cause a judgment was rendered on the 12TH day of MARCH, 2018, in favor of the said plaintiff THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC against said defendant HUY D HUA, for the sum of $2,552.90, SAID AMOUNT BEING CHARGED AS A CONTINUING LIEN; REASONABLE AND NECESSARY ATTORNEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FEES OF $2,699.00 IN LEGAL SERVICES RENDERED AND $901.95 IN EXPENSES/COSTS INCURRED; INTEREST ON ALL AMOUNTS AWARDED IN THIS JUDGMENT AT THE RATE OF 5% PER ANNUM FROM THE DATE OF THIS JUDGMENT UNTIL PAID IN FULL., TOGETHER WITH THE INTEREST THAT MAY BE DUE THEREON, AND THE FURTHER SUM OF $0.00, I levied upon, and will, on the 4TH day of DECEMBER, 2018 within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the right, title and interest of HUY D HUA in and to the following described REAL property, levied upon as the property of HUY D HUA to wit: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: LOT 08, BLOCK 02, OF KING LAKES, SECTION 7, AN ADDITION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN THE MAP RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, UNDER CLERKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FILE NO. 20100054, AS MODIFIED BY ANY SUPPLEMENTS THERETO OR REPLATS THEREOF.

CONSTABLE SALE Under and by virtue of a Writ of Execution and/or Order of Sale issued on September 10,2018 by the 240th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Fort Bend County, Texas in Cause# 17-DCV-238482 in favor of the plaintiff - NORTH MISSION GLEN ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Plaintiff, recovered judgment amount for the sum of $12,657 .24++++ costs as taxed on said execution and/or order of sale and further the sum of executing the same.

I have levied on September 10TH, 2018 and will offer for sale on the day of December 4, 2018 at the County Court house steps of Fort Bend County, Texas in the city of Richmond, Texas between the hours of Ten Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock A.M. and Four Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock P.M., and all rights, title, interests, and claims which the said Defendant (s)Ricardo Valencia and Yelila Valencia had of in or to the following described Real Property situated in Fort Bend County, Texas; Legal Description: LOT NINETEEN (19), IN BLOCK ONE (1 ), OF MISSION GLEN ESTATES, SECTION FOUR (4), A SUBDIVISION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED UNDER SLIDE NO. 1537/A OF THE PLAT RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS TERMS: CASH TIME: SALE TO BE HELD AT OR ABOUT 10:00 A.M. PLACE: 301 JACKSON ST., WILLIAM TRAVIS BUILDING, 1 st FLOOR MEETING ROOM, RICHMOND TEXAS 77469.

Gary Majors, Constable Fort Bend County Precinct Two By: Sergeant C. McRae #132 Deputy Constable

with MCI make four times the ďŹ nancial errors than agematched peers without that condition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When elders suďŹ&#x20AC;er a signiďŹ cant loss due to fraud, we call this wealth shock, resulting in a life or death situation.

A recent study showed that persons who lost 75 percent of their net worth, experienced a 50 percent increase in allcause mortality over the next two years,â&#x20AC;? Roush added.

Scam artists can strike any time of year, but Roush advises that caution should be heightened even more so during the Holiday Season.

If you believe a scam has occurred, or if you are simply suspicious that someone is trying to defraud you or a loved one, ask for help from someone you trust and then report the incident immediately to Adult Protective Services and/ or to appropriate law-enforcement agencies such as the local police or district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oďŹ&#x192;ce.

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suggests following these tips: â&#x20AC;˘Always shop with a trusted family member or friend â&#x20AC;˘Protect your ID and credit cards â&#x20AC;˘Be aware of your surroundings â&#x20AC;˘Only shop on trusted websites â&#x20AC;˘Do not give any personal information to individuals over the phone â&#x20AC;˘Be wary of who you let in your house â&#x20AC;˘Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer phone calls or e-mails from numbers or senders you do not recognize According to Roush, elder adults lose over $3 billion dollars a year to fraudulent schemes. In addition to losing their money, it can become a clinical issue for individuals and their healthcare providers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When older people lose signiďŹ cant sums of money, they generally donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time to recoup losses and may have to choose between paying for out-of-pocket healthcare and their household bills.

If this happens they may not take the medicines they should be taking because they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aďŹ&#x20AC;ord to buy them. They may also not be able to aďŹ&#x20AC;ord the nutritious food that costs more than fast food. Some canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even aďŹ&#x20AC;ord the therapies they need, and so on,â&#x20AC;? he said.

As we age, some elders experience decline in executive functioning capacity, which can aďŹ&#x20AC;ect their ability to make ďŹ nancial decisions.

In fact, 40 percent of elders over the age of 75 have either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. Persons

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The holidays are all about giving back.

Unfortunately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a time when scam artists are working hard to take advantage of anyone who will fall for his or her tricks, and the elderly are usually targeted and are more at risk.

An expert at Baylor College of Medicine shares tips on what to look for when dealing with a fraudster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most important thing to understand is that everyone is at risk of falling victim to fraud, not just older adults,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Robert Roush, professor of medicine-geriatrics at Baylor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, elders are more susceptible because typically they are more trusting than younger people and many live alone so when professional scammers call they may feel comfortable talking to a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voice.â&#x20AC;?

The best way an older adult can defend themselves from seasonal scams is to know which holiday shopping traps to avoid.

When shopping for the perfect present, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online or at the stores, Roush

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FIRST COLONY LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RULES AND PENALTIES Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of First Colony Levee Improvement District (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Districtâ&#x20AC;?) at a meeting held on November 9, 2018, adopted (1) an Order Establishing Rules and Regulations Regarding Use of District Rights-of-Way containing certain rules and regulations regarding the use of District owned or controlled rights-of-way or easements upon which such improvements are located; and (2) a Stormwater Guidance Manual containing rules and regulations related to the proper use and maintenance of the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storm sewer system, including prohibitions on illicit discharges, pollutant discharges from construction sites, and pollutant discharges from post-construction sites.

Violation of any of the rules contained in the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stormwater Guidance Manual is considered a violation of the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Order Establishing Rules and Regulations Regarding Use of District Rights-of-Way and will subject the violator to penalties as outlined in the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stormwater Guidance Manual or Order Establishing Rules and Regulations Regarding Use of District Rights-of-Way, including a fine of up to $10,000 per breach and/ or day, payment of any costs or damages resulting from the violation, and civil and criminal legal action. A copy of the Order Establishing Rules and Regulations Regarding Use of District Rights-of-Way and the Stormwater Guidance Manual are on file at the principal office of the District, Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP, 3200 Southwest Freeway, Suite 2600, Houston, Texas 77027, where they may be read in full. /s/Scott Jacobson President, Board of Directors FORT BEND COUNTY LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 19 NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RULES AND PENALTIES Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Fort Bend County Levee Improvement District No. 19 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Districtâ&#x20AC;?), at a meeting held on October 19, 2018, adopted a Stormwater Guidance Manual providing rules and regulations for compliance with the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stormwater Management Program by all of the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stormwater system users.

The purpose of the rules and regulations is to reduce the discharge of pollutants to protect water quality, pursuant to the Clean Water Act and the Texas Water Code.

Violation of any provision contained in the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stormwater Guidance Manual may subject the violator to charges, fees, penalties, termination of water and sewer service, and/or payment of any costs or damages resulting from the violation.

A copy of the Stormwater Guidance Manual is on file at the principal office of the District, The Muller Law Group, PLLC, 202 Century Square Boulevard, Sugar Land, Texas 77478, where it may be read in full. /s/ James W. Green President, Board of Directors

THE STATE OF TEXAS CITATION BY PUBLICATION You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on Monday next following the expiration of forty-two days from the date of issuance of this citation, same being December 17, 2018 a default judgment may be taken against you.

The case is presently pending before the 400TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Fort Bend County sitting in Richmond, Texas. It bears cause number 17-DCV-247447 and is styled: Dwayne J. Briscoe vs. Melvin Vigo Rivera The name and address of the attorney for PLAINTIFF OR PETITIONER is: CALEB D VILLARREAL THE KOKS FIRM 502 FAIRDALE FRIENDSWOOD TX 77566 281-210-2457 The nature of the demands of said PLAINTIFF OR PETITIONER is as follows to-wit: WHEREFORE, MR. BRISCOE REQUESTS THAT DEFENDANT BE CITED TO APPEAR AND ANSWER AND THAT ON HEARING THE COURT ENTER JUDGMENT: 1. DETERMINING THE SHARE OF EACH JOINT OWNER OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN. 2. MR. BRISCOE SEEKS A DETERMINATION THAT SUCH PROPERTY AND THE SALE PROCEEDS THEREFROM BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE PARTIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE INTERESTS IN THE PROPERTY AND RETAINING SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO PAY ANY TAXES OR FEES. 3. APPOINTING A RECEIVER TO SELL THE PROPERTY AT A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SALE, FOR CASH, SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION BY THIS COURT UPON SWORN REPORT OF SUCH SALE. 4. ORDERING DEFENDANT TO REIMBURSE MR. BRISCOE FOR ONE-HALF (1/2) OF THE EXPENSES RELATED TO THE PROPERTY FROM JULY 2014, UNTIL DATE OF JUDGMENT TO MR. BRISCOE. 5. AWARDING MR. BRISCOE RECOVERY OF COSTS, FEES, INTEREST AND SUCH OTHER RELIEF TO WHICH MR. BRISCOE MAY BE JUSTLY ENTITLED. If this Citation is not served, it shall be returned unserved.

Issued under my hand and seal of said Court, at Richmond, Texas on this the 30th day of October, 2018.

ANNIE REBECCA ELLIOTT, DISTRICT CLERK FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS Physical Address: 1422 Eugene Heimann Circle, Room 31004 Richmond, Texas 77469 Mailing Address: 301 Jackson Street Richmond, Texas 77469 By: Deputy District Clerk Salena M. Jasso Fort Bend County, Texas

CONSTABLE SALE Under and by virtue of a Writ of Execution and/or Order of Sale issued on September 20,2018 by the 400th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Fort Bend County, Texas in Cause# 17-DCV-242253 in favor of the plaintiff- NORTH MISSION GLEN ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Plaintiff, recovered judgment amount for the sum of $11,185 .15++++ costs as taxed on said execution and/or order of sale and further the sum of executing the same.

I have levied on September 20TH, 2018 and will offer for sale on the day of December 4, 2018 at the County Court house steps of Fort Bend County, Texas in the city of Richmond, Texas between the hours of Ten Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock A.M. and Four Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock P.M., and all rights, title, interests, and claims which the said Defendant (s) Gina L. Penn had of in or to the following described Real Property situated in Fort Bend County, Texas; Legal Description: LOT TEN (1 0), IN BLOCK ONE (1 ), OF MISSION GLEN RESERVES, SECTION THREE (3), AN ADDITION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED UNDER SLIDE NO. 1302/B OF THE MAP/PLAT RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS. TERMS: CASH TIME: SALE TO BE HELD AT OR ABOUT 10:00 A.M. PLACE: 301 JACKSON ST., WILLIAM TRAVIS BUILDING, 1 sr FLOOR MEETING ROOM, RICHMOND TEXAS 77469.

Gary Majors, Constable Fort Bend County Precinct Two By: Sergeant C. McRae #132 Deputy Constable

CONSTABLES SALE Notice is hereby Given, that by virtue of a certain ORDER OF SALE Issued by the Clerk of the 400TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court of FORT BEND County, on the 8TH day of OCTOBER, 2018, in a certain cause number 17-DCV-247591 wherein THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC plaintiff, and MANOHARAN K ARUNKUMAR AND BHAGAVATHIPERUMAL PRASANNAKUMARI JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY defendant, in which cause a judgment was rendered on the 23 day of APRIL, 2018, in favor of the said plaintiff THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC against said defendant MANOHARAN K ARUNKUMAR AND BHAGAVATHIPERUMAL PRASANNAKUMARI JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY, for the sum of $3,141.09 ; SAID AMOUNT BEING CHARGED AS A CONTINUING LEIN IN FAVOR OF THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.; INTEREST ON ALL AMOUNTS AWARDED IN THIS JUDGMENT AT THE RATE OF 5% PER ANNUM FROM THE DATE OF THIS JUDGMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE INTEREST THAT MAY BE DUE THEREON, AND THE FURTHER SUM OF $0.00, I levied upon, and will, on the 4th day of DECEMBER, 2018 within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the right, title and interest of MANOHARAN K ARUNKUMAR AND BHAGAVATHIPERUMAL PRASANNAKUMARI JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY in and to the following described REAL property, levied upon as the property of MANOHARAN K ARUNKUMAR AND BHAGAVATHIPERUMAL PRASANNAKUMARI JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY to wit: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: LOT 02, BLOCK 01, OF THE KING LAKES, SECTION 3, AN ADDITION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN THE MAP RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, UNDER CLERKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FILE NO. 20100003, AS MODIFIED BY ANY SUPPLEMENTS THERETO OR REPLATS THEREOF. DATE OF SALE: DECEMBER 4, 2018 TIME OF SALE: APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: 301 Jackson Street, William Travis Building, 1ST Floor Meeting Room in the City of Richmond, Tx 77469 TERMS OF SALE: CASH CREDIT- $0.00 The above sale to be made by me to satisfy the above described judg ment for $3,141.09 ; SAID AMOUNT BEING CHARGED AS A CONTINUING LEIN IN FAVOR OF THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.; INTEREST ON ALL AMOUNTS AWARDED IN THIS JUDGMENT AT THE RATE OF 5% PER ANNUM FROM THE DATE OF THIS JUDGMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE INTEREST THAT MAY BE DUE THEREON, AND THE FURTHER SUM OF $0.00 dollars, in favor of THE COMMUNITY OF KING LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof.

Wayne K. Thompson Constable Fort Bend County, Pct. 3.

By David Rivera, Deputy November 8,2018

CONSTABLE SALE Under and by virtue of a Writ of Execution and/or Order of Sale issued on September 10,2018 by the 240th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Fort Bend County, Texas in Cause# 17-DCV-238482 in favor of the plaintiff - NORTH MISSION GLEN ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Plaintiff, recovered judgment amount for the sum of $12,657 .24++++ costs as taxed on said execution and/or order of sale and further the sum of executing the same.

I have levied on September 10TH, 2018 and will offer for sale on the day of December 4, 2018 at the County Court house steps of Fort Bend County, Texas in the city of Richmond, Texas between the hours of Ten Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock A.M. and Four Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock P.M., and all rights, title, interests, and claims which the said Defendant (s)Ricardo Valencia and Yelila Valencia had of in or to the following described Real Property situated in Fort Bend County, Texas; Legal Description: LOT NINETEEN (19), IN BLOCK ONE (1 ), OF MISSION GLEN ESTATES, SECTION FOUR (4), A SUBDIVISION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF RECORDED UNDER SLIDE NO. 1537/A OF THE PLAT RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS TERMS: CASH TIME: SALE TO BE HELD AT OR ABOUT 10:00 A.M. PLACE: 301 JACKSON ST., WILLIAM TRAVIS BUILDING, 1 st FLOOR MEETING ROOM, RICHMOND TEXAS 77469.

Gary Majors, Constable Fort Bend County Precinct Two By: Sergeant C. McRae #132 Deputy Constable CONSTABLES SALE Notice is hereby Given, that by virtue of a certain ORDER OF SALE Issued by the Clerk of the 240TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court of FORT BEND County, on the 17TH day of OCTOBER, 2018, in a certain cause number 17-DCV-243883 wherein COMMUNITY OF BRADFORD PARK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. plaintiff, and MARLEN EVELYN MENDOZA, AND FIDEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY defendant, in which cause a judgment was rendered on the 22ND day of AUGUST, 2018, in favor of the said plaintiff COMMUNITY OF BRADFORD PARK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. against said defendant MARLEN EVELYN MENDOZA, AND FIDEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY, for the sum of $4,076.65; AS PAST DUE ASSESSMENTS INTEREST, COST OF COLLECTION AND EXPENSES; THE ADDITIONAL SUM OF $3,279.41 FOR REASONABLE AND NECESSARY ATTORNEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FEES; ALL COST OF COURT HEREIN EXPENDED IN THE AMOUNT OF $335.00; POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5% PER ANNUM ON THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE JUDGMENT AWARDED HEREIN FROM THE DATE HEREOF UNTIL PAID., together with all costs of suit, I levied upon, and will, on the 4TH day of DECEMBER, 2018 within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the right, title and interest of MARLEN EVELYN MENDOZA, AND FIDEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY in and to the following described REAL property, levied upon as the property of MARLEN EVELYN MENDOZA, AND FIDEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ, JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY to wit: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: LOT THIRTEEN (13) M125 IN BLOCK SIX (6) OF BRADFORD PARK SEC ONE (1), A SUBDIVISION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED MAP AND/OR PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN THE MAP RECORDS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS, IN MAP 526Q, PAGE Z-042, LOCATED AT 19318 DESERT CALICO LN, RICHMOND TEXAS 77407-2562 DATE OF SALE: DECEMBER 4, 2018 TIME OF SALE: APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: 301 Jackson Street, William Travis Building, 1ST Floor Meeting Room in the City of Richmond, Tx 77469 TERMS OF SALE: CASH CREDIT- $0.00 The above sale to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $4,076.65 ; AS PAST DUE ASSESSMENTS INTEREST, COST OF COLLECTION AND EXPENSES; THE ADDITIONAL SUM OF $3,279.41 FOR REASONABLE AND NECESSARY ATTORNEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FEES; ALL COST OF COURT HEREIN EXPENDED IN THE AMOUNT OF $335.00; POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5% PER ANNUM ON THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE JUDGMENT AWARDED HEREIN FROM THE DATE HEREOF UNTIL PAID., in favor of COMMUNITY OF BRADFORD PARK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof.

Wayne K. Thompson Constable Fort Bend County, Pct. 3.

By David Rivera, Deputy November 8,2018

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COMMUNITY NEWS Catch Disco Fever with Johnson Development sponsors Fort Bend Education Foundation Men Who Cook

Johnson Development will be the title sponsor for the Lamar Educational Awards Foundation’s (LEAF) largest annual fundraiser, Men Who Cook 2019, set for Feb. 16 at Safari Texas Ranch. “We are so thankful to have Johnson Development as the presenting sponsor for 2019,” said Chip Sutton, LEAF board president. “Their enthusiastic support of the students in our school district and of the area’s overall economy shows their commitment to our community.” Johnson Development has three neighborhoods in Lamar CISD, Cross Creek Ranch, Jordan Ranch and The Veranda. Proceeds from the evening will be used by LEAF to support ideas and classroom projects proposed by Lamar CISD teachers that would otherwise go unfunded. LEAF also offers scholarships to graduating Lamar CISD seniors and to paraprofessionals working on their teaching certificates. For information on becoming a sponsor, volunteer or even become a cook for the event, please contact Janice Knight at (832)-2230334, www.leafgrants.org, or like us at Lamar Educational Awards Foundation on Facebook.

Above, Cross Creek Ranch General Manager Rob Bamford, The Veranda General Manager Trey Reichert and Jordan Ranch General Manager Steve Sams get prepared for Men Who Cook. All three neighborhoods attend schools in Lamar CISD.

Harvest Green Farmers Market returns Dec. 8

The rain-or-shine weekly farmers market in Harvest Green returns with a grand opening celebration 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 8, at 8939 Harlem Road. Shoppers can find a bounty of fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables, as well as fresh eggs, meats and cheese from ethical handlers. Honey, preserved foods, flowers, plants and gifts — all locally sourced — will also be featured. There will be a vine maze and a new playground to explore. The first 200 guests will receive a free Harvest Green bag to take their farm-fresh goodies home in. For more information, visit https://www.harvestgreentexas.com.

Snow, fun forecast in Jordan Ranch Dec. 8

Families can enjoy 70,000 pounds of snow and holiday cheer — not to mention a chance to meet Santa and the missus — during Snow Fest, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Jordan Ranch. The winter salute happens at the community’s model home park, 2422 Sandhill Crest Lane, with a free day of chilly fun that includes a three-lane slide, DJ, performing elf, ice carvers, face painters, a trackless train, 76-foot obstacle course and more. A giant snow globe offers the perfect spot for holiday photos. Hot chocolate, cookies and 12 model homes will keep everyone warm. The event is free and open to the public. For more information about Jordan Ranch, visit www.jordanranchtexas.com.

Fort Bend Education Foundation Gala Committee Chairs: 1st row L-R: Renu Narang, Liz Furman, Mindy Cabble, Mary Favre. 2nd row L-R: Fran Steele, Michelle DeMora, Co-Chair Laura Winters, Co-Chair Stacy Bynes, Carol Scott, Melissa Bohnsack, Nappinnai Natarajan, Veronica Sopher. 3rd Row L-R: Lynn Halford, Peggy Jackson, Terri Wang, Laura Stoltenberg, Carrie Diaz, Jessica Kij, Carol Evans, Shefali Jhaveri, Seeju Dupre, Lisa Kulhanek. Not pictured: Sonal Bhuchar, Giulia Hattan, Kay James, Kathy Keene, Jenni Leonetti, Laura McGregor, Sapana Patel, Jasmine Raziuddin. —Photo courtesy of Mary Favre and Jasmine Raziuddin.

The Fort Bend Education Foundation is pleased to announce its theme for the 26th Annual Gala to be held on March 2, 2019, at the Sugar Land Marriott Town Square.

Gala Co-Chairs Stacy Bynes and Laura Winters are psyched with this year’s theme “Disco Fever” presented by Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott, L.L.P. Enter into the age of 8-tracks, cassettes and stereos – not to mention synthesizers – as we celebrate 26 years of success of the Fort Bend Education Foundation

and thank the community for their generous support.

Can you feel it? Oh, what a feeling! Fuel the fever while dining on a magical meal. After, shake your booty and get down as you boogie to the music of Password.

As the disco ball turns, get your groove on as you bid on auction items presented

by Commissioner James Patterson. Keep your bid strong and keep it stayin’ alive as you bid high and bid often. Or, get syncopated with friends for a bid that will create an inferno!

Leave the discotheque feeling fine in your efforts to support the Fort Bend Education Foundation as the Disco King or Queen you were meant to be! Planning is now in progress. Information regarding sponsorships, auction donations and individual tickets is available at www.fortbendisd. com/foundation.

The Fort Bend Education Foundation’s mission is to enrich and enhance the quality of education for all Fort Bend ISD students through its grant programs.

Welcome Dr. DelValle!

Pediatrician at Missouri City Make an Appointment: 281-342-4530

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NEWS Dew House Annual Wassail

Snowfest Festival, Santa Shuffle & Parade, Bingo, Tots & Crafts, Lacrosse, Tennis, Senior Holiday Party

DeWalt Heritage Center/Dew House annual Wassail will be Sunday, Dec. 2, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dew House Elf Cade Engleman helped place the popcorn strings on the Dew House Christmas Tree in preparation for the free-to-the-public Annual Wassail where Donald J. Leonetti Elementary and Jan Schiff Elementary students will perform seasonal carols. Santa will be on the front porch to visit with kids of every age. Cookies and hot wassail will be served courtesy of sponsors HEB Sienna Market, Leonetti Graphics and Certainty Home Loans. The historic Dew House is located at the back of Kitty Hollow Park--going South on Highway 6, the park is on the left side just past the Sienna HEB Entrance light.

Continuing 35 years of holiday tradition, Missouri City is preparing to host its annual Snowfest Festival, Santa Shuffle and Parade.

The two-day event will kickoff with the Snowfest Festival on Friday, Dec. 7 in the City Hall Complex, 1522 Texas Pkwy.

Pre- event entertainment featuring dance performances and an honor choir, will begin at 5:30 p.m.; a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks show will follow

afterward.

From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., guests are invited to enjoy various event activities such as moonwalks, photos with Santa, the famous three-lane snow hill, wandering performers and more.

Then on Saturday, Dec. 8 staff will host the annual Snowfest Shuffle at 8:15 a.m. at the Recreation and Tennis Center, 2701 Cypress Point Dr. Runners of all levels and ages are invited to

participate.

To enter, runners must donate an unwrapped toy for the Police Department’s Blue Santa Toy Drive; the race will end at the Recreation and Tennis Center where participants will enjoy a special celebration. Following the Shuffle, the Snowfest Parade will begin at 9 a.m. at Public Safety Headquarters located at 3849 Cartwright Rd. The two-mile long convoy will feature floats decorated in holiday

themes, various organizations on foot and a special appearance by Santa. Roads will close at 7:30 a.m. along the route; to register for the parade, email kfrye@missouricitytx.gov. The registration deadline is Dec. 3.

Volunteer opportunities are available. Residents who would like to join the Municipal Volunteer Program may email volunteer@missouricitytx.gov or call 281.403.8530.

sor Sheba Akhtar will talk about Gothic architecture and art, which flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages, originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the 16th century. Hear about how characteristics of the Gothic period, including urbanization, economic prosperity, professional guilds, the

crusades (1095-1291), and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, influenced the design of structures such as the Basilica of St. Denis, Chartres Cathedral, and Notre Dame Cathedral. Akhtar will also talk about Abbott Suger and the incorporation of stained-glass windows in structures.

Akhtar received her Master

of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and taught art and architecture history for 20 years. She has practiced as an architect in the United States, England, Scotland, Jordan, and Pakistan. She is the author of “Of Colour and Form” and numerous articles on art and architecture. The series will continue in January

and February with programs on Renaissance Art and Impressionism.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Sugar Land Branch Library at 281238-2140 or the library system’s Communications Office at 281-633-4734.

Gothic Cathedrals Fort Bend County Libraries’ Sugar Land Branch Library will have an educational series focusing on “Art & Culture.” The first program in the series, “Art & Culture: Gothic Cathedrals,” will take place on Saturday, December 15, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, in the Meeting Room of the library, located at 550 Eldridge.

In this segment in the series, former architecture profes-

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