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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 4 No. 27
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THE REVOLUTION PART I I
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July 2, 2014
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Queens and Marshall -Rodeo Celebrities by Julie Becker
old daughter of Don and Jeannie Jacobs. Haley has ridden for the last two years in the RCJHC playdays and is an accomplished rider. Haley has been riding horses since she was four years old. She said she fell in love with riding from the first rodeo her mom took her to! She enjoys the competition but also enjoys taking a horse that does not know all of the patterns and training them so she can use them in rodeos. Haley will be a freshman this year and her goal is to attend Texas A&M University and become a large animal veterinarian. Kelyn Gass is the 2014 Little Miss RCJHC and is the 6 year old daughter of Tray and Erin Gass. This summer she is participating in the RCJHC riding activities on Thursday nights at the RCJHC Arena. Kelyn is the granddaughter of longtime RCJHC members Don and Carrie Gass. Diane Foshee has been chosen by the RCJHC to serve as the 2014 RCJHC July Jubilee Grand Marshall. She and her late husband George have been huge supporters of the RCJHC for many years. They enjoyed the country life so much they retired to Leakey full time in 1998. They were longtime members and officers of the Friends of Garner
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Real family linked a score of U.S. Navy honors Master Chief Petty Officer Scott Bond with families Retirement Ceremony 2014 Rodeo Queen Haley Jacobs and Little Miss Rodeo Queen Kelyn Gass
Haley Jacobs is the 2014 Real County Junior Horse Club July Jubilee Rodeo Queen. She is the 14 Year
2014 RCJHC Grand Marshall Diane Foshee
and have held active positions in many organizations focused on children for many years. The members of the Real County Junior Horse Club are proud to say Thank You to Diane Foshee! And Congratulations to Haley and Kelyn!
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Buy Him A Beer – Go To Jail ............................ Page 5
TEXAS VS MEXICO
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Dub’s Corner ............................ Page 4
Master Chief Petty Officer Scott Bond presenting flag to his son, Mack.
A retirement ceremony honoring U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Scott Bond was held June 26 at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Fla.
Chief Bond, a recent resident of Concan, TX. entered the Navy from Emporia, Kan., in 1993, and upon completion of recruit training at boot camp at San Diego, Calif., he attended the Defense Language Institute/ Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif. After graduating Basic and Intermediate Spanish courses, he completed Naval Aircrew Candidate School and was assigned to Naval Security Group Activity, Key West, Fla., as an Airborne Direct Support Operator. Master Chief Bond completed a surface/subsurface directs Support tour of duty at Naval Security Group Activity Medina in 1996 followed by two more tours of aircrew duty at Naval Security Group Detachment Brunswick, and participated in Operations Allied Force, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. In 2005, he was re-assigned to San Antonio at Navy Information Operations Command, Texas as the Fleet Information Operations Center Leading Chief Petty Officer and later as the Training Department Head and Senior Language Authority. During that time, he and his wife, the former Pamie Maguire of Leakey, resided in Concan before his transfer to Pensacola. Upon retirement, Master Chief Bond served as the Operations Officer of Navy’s Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture aboard Corry Station. He holds warfare specialist qualifications in Information Warfare, Air Warfare, Submarines and was a qualified Naval Air crewman.
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INDEX State News .................... Page 2 Legals/Jail Register ...... Page 3 Community News ......... Page 4-6 Feature Story ................. Page 7 Obituaries ...................... Page 8 Classifieds ..................... Page 12
Today’s Weather
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Ramon Cortez of Hondo was in the Army from 1942 to 1946. Drafted, he received his training near Riverside, CA, then on to Camp White, Oregon, in the Agate Desert, which had the misfortune to be referred to as the Alcatraz of boot camps, then trained at Camp McCoy for combat tactics. Finally he was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, near Richmond. In Camp Lee, he was one of many prison guards for 12,000 German prisoners of war. It was there that Ramon picked up quite a bit of the German language, which he can still recall to mind. He spouted off a joke, half in German, half in English, one half of which I did not understand! Many of the German prisoners became U S citizens after the war because of the good care they were given, as opposed to POWs in other countries. According to the Associated Press, the
His personal awards include the prestigious Defense Meritorious Service Medal, The Air Medal (two Strike/two Individual Action), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards) and various unit and campaign awards. During the ceremony, Master Chief Bond shared an emotional speech thanking the Navy for the many opportunities and challenges and gave special thanks to his wife and family members for their support, sacrifices and encouragement noting during his last deployment, he left behind his infant son. Members of the U. S. Navy including fellow Master Chiefs attended the ceremony along with Master Chief Bond’s parents, Ralph and Monica Bond and siblings from Emporia, Kansas, his in-laws, Art and Penny Maguire of Leakey, TX. and many friends. A reception was held at the Chief’s Club. Scott is currently residing in Pensacola with his wife and their 6 year old son, Maguire (aka Mack).
by Billie Franklin
German and Italian POW camps are an “all but forgotten part of history.” He went on the G I bill to school for a while and was on a milk delivery route. His brother-in-law taught him about electrical work and under his teaching, Ramon became an electrician. His company was Cortez Electric, located in Hondo. Most of his work involved new homes, building the middle loop on poles and electricity to houses. He retired because of his age, which made it unsafe for him to use ladders any longer. On August 31, he will celebrate his 91st birthday.
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July 4th & 5th Crawfish Boil At The Buckhorn!! until it’s gone!