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County, deputies work on new contract the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Employees’ Association. “I think it’s certainly in the county’s best interest, certainly in the taxpayers’ best interest for the county to
come to an agreement with us.” The two sides were actually scheduled to begin bargaining Tuesday, according to a commissioners’ court agenda posted by the county late last
week. But before they could try to bargain, they first had to have a grievance hearing before arbitrator Norman Bennett of McKinney. LeBouef’s association filed
a grievance against the county last fall after commissioners voted to reduce the county’s contribution to future retirees’ health care. COUNTY BUSINESS Page 3A
Orange Train Depot open house set May 7
Sgt. Jimmy LeBouef, president of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Employee’s Association, listens as attorney Bettye Lynn poses a question during a grievance hearing Tuesday at the Orange County Administration Building. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers
Dave Rogers For the first time since Sept. 1 of last year, Orange County and its sheriff deputies’ union are scheduled to meet today to see if they can hammer out a replacement
for a collective bargaining agreement that expired in 2013. Bargaining is set to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Commissioners’ Courtroom, both sides say. “I’m always hopeful,” said Jimmy LeBouef, president of
Guidry leaves Orange council Dave Rogers
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The City of Orange will hold its regular election for city council on May 6. Then it will hold another not long after. This will be to replace Wayne Guidry, District 2, who announced Tuesday morning a new job will force a move. And Guidry’s departure – to become superintendent of schools in Hubbard, Texas, a small district located northeast of Waco – will leave a vacancy in West Orange-Cove schools. Guidry, a former sports standout at Orangefield High and the University of Texas,
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has been WO-C’s executive director of operations. He has been named “lone finalist” for the Hubbard ISD job, in accordance with state law, and will be starting on his new job on April 28. “We’re excited, and sad to leave the area at the same time,” said Guidry, who has worked 15 years in education. He has been a teacher, a principal and is in his sixth year as a WO-C administrator. “I’ve loved my being at West Orange. I’ve seen a lot of good things in six years. I think it’s prepared me,” he said. Hubbard ISD, he said, has about 380 students and competes in UIL Class A. “My interest right now is those 380 students,” he said. “I’m going to put everything I’ve got into it.” Council members wished Guidry well Tuesday. Essie Bellfield even “scooped” Guidry’s news when she said, “I regret seeing Dr. Guidry leave, but I enjoyed working with him,” before Guidry made his announcement. Shawn Oubre, Orange’s city manager, said, “It’s been a pleasure working with you, Dr. Guidry. You helped grow me.” Guidry returned the compliments. “I want to thank you guys for your service,” he said to council members and city staff, “and I want to thank the community. “You taught me it’s not about Wayne Guidry, but about the opportunity provided to me by the people. Thanks for embracing me and my family.” Oubre said that because Guidry has nearly two years left on his term, an election is required to fill his seat. City council will have 10 days to call an election after receiving Guidry’s letter of resignation (he hadn’t turned on in as of Tuesday morning), then 50 days from that time to hold a special election, Oubre said. Also at Tuesday’s meeting, longtime civic volunteers Sandra Cash and Sandra Hoke GUIDRY Page 3A
Orange native Carrie Woliver has led the drive to save and repurpose Orange’s Southern Pacific Train Depot on Green Avenue. An open house is set for 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 7. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers
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The Orange Train Depot Museum will hold an open house from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 7. Dignitaries will make speeches at 2:30 p.m., docents will give guided tours and tell some of the history of the gateway to the city that dates back to 1902. The event will include art. Youngsters will provide entertainment in the form of singing and dancing, and they’ll be entertained by a kiddie train ride. Meanwhile, Carrie Woliver will realize another step toward realizing a dream she stumbled into a decade ago.
“What have I gained from this?” the 1959 Lutcher Stark High graduate said a few days ago. “It’s just been an incredible fun project to do. It was a time in my life, all of my background and what I’ve been able to put into this. The neat thing was doing something for my hometown and being surrounded by my old friends that I hadn’t been around.” Woliver left her hometown and made a life in Houston in television production. Then she cleaned out some family heirlooms and discovered some of her grandparents’ diaries describing live on Orange’s Pine Street, two blocks from the train depot,
100 years ago. Woliver had spent a lot of time at her grandparents Orange home as she grew up several decades later. The train station was a favorite place for her as a child. Reading her grandparents’ entries that included plenty of riding the train near and far and meeting friends at the station inspired her to put together a book about that time in the life of Orange, as seen through her family’s eyes. She named the 2012 book “The Train Stopped in Orange,” even included an old photo of the train station on the cover. The she came back to her hometown for a book signing
and saw the building at 1210 Green Avenue. “My husband and I were shocked at the status of that depot,” she said. “It was such an eyesore.” One thing led to another She and Ron purchased the property, then donated it to a group she formed with some old and new friends, Friends of the Orange Depot. “We decided to have a big meeting,” Woliver recalled. “’Anybody interested in saving the depot should come to the Orange library,’ we said. “We must have had about 50 people show up, some of them very influential. We ORANGE TRAIN Page 3A
Barber cuts it close for friends Dave Rogers
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The pot brews pretty early at Ray’s house. “I get up at 3:15 in the morning, fix my coffee and at 5:15 I’m in here, cutting hair. I look forward to it. I get to visit with my friends every day.” The men who patronize Ray’s Barber Shop at 2120 Texas Avenue in Bridge City aren’t customers. They’re Ray LeLeux’s family. “I’ve been here so long, I’m on my fourth generation,” the 72-year-old barber said as he finished up a trim for James Riley. “I cut his daddy’s hair, his hair, his son-in-law’s hair and now his grandkid’s hair,” Ray said. Riley said he usually stops by Ray’s Barber Shop on his way to work, once every three weeks or so. “Usually, I’m the first one
here in the morning,” Riley said. “He opens at 5 and I’m usually here at 5:15. I’ve been a satisfied customer for probably 40 years.” As Riley rises from the chair and checks out Ray’s handiwork in a mirror, he tells the barber: “Looks good. You made me a movie star.” Ray’s ready for the compliment. “Send me a card from Hollywood,” he tells Riley. LeLeux is a native of Kaplan, Louisiana, southwest of Lafayette. He came to Bridge City because his brother and sister lived here first. After graduating from Beaumont’s Liberty Barbers College, he has been a barber in Bridge City for 47 years, 45 at the same location on Texas Avenue. He and wife Linda were
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Ray’s Barber Shop, with owner Ray LeLeux cutting Jeff Smith’s hair, has been operating for 45 years in the same location on Texas Avenue in Bridge City. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers
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Shangri La Botanical Garden’s Eco-Fest and Butterfly Release Staff Report For The Record
terpretation of Adams Bayou, associated habitats, wildlife, and a brief historical overview of portions of Shangri La Gardens and the local community. This abbreviated tour takes approximately forty-five minutes. Note special pricing below.
Each year in April, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center celebrates Earth Day with an Eco-Fest celebration and Butterfly Release. Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm is a day full of family fun that highlights sustainability and natural history. Local and regional organizations as well as businesses host booths that provide information about earthfriendly products, services, and opportunities. Games, activities, and engaging presentations provide entertainment for the whole family. Enjoy the gardens in full bloom and view baby birds in their nests on Ruby Lake. Outpost Tours and strolls through the garden provide relaxing escapes from the hustle and bustle. The day culminates with an awe-inspiring Butterfly Release at 3:30 pm. This year Entergy is generously sponsoring the Butterfly Release, which symbolically celebrates our appreciation and value for the biodiversity that inhabits our fragile planet.
Butterfly Release (3:30 pm) – Sponsored through the generosity of Entergy, visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to participate in the release of over a thousand native butterflies into the gardens at Shangri La Gardens. (Butterflies available to children first
while supplies last.) Special Event Pricing: General Admission $8 adults; $5 for students & seniors; Stark Cultural Venues Members free. Outpost Tour Admission $3.
A schedule of events taking place throughout Eco-Fest: Family friendly games and activities (10:00am-3:00pm) - Youngsters celebrate Eath Day at Shangri La Botanical Gardens Take part in the exciting fam- by releasing butterflies during Eco-Fest. ily friendly games and activiUp-Close with Nature ties throughout the garden. “Ukulady’s Man” Hager on the (11:00 am – 1pm) - Walk-up There will be face painting, Great Lawn Stage. Raffles (10:30, 11:30, 12:30, visitors will discover which ring toss, pet rock painting, 1:30 & 2:30) - Don’t forget to critters are active at Shangri flower pot ring toss, seed planting, garden bingo (scav- pick up a new ticket each hour. La Gardens during Spring. enger hunt), fishin’ frenzy, Winners will be announced Stop by and see several live anthroughout the day at the imals and learn about their beand much more! Story Time (11:15am Great Lawn Stage. Must be havior and habitat. Outpost Tours (10am, -11:45am and 2:00pm-2:45pm) present to win. 10:15am, 10:45am, 11am, Gator Country (10:30 am - Join us as our special guests read some of their favorite 11:00 am, 12:00 pm - 12:30 11:30am, 11:45am, 12:15pm, 1pm,1:15pm, pm, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm) - Come 12:30pm, stories! 1:45pm, 2pm, 2:30pm) - A see a live alligator and other Musical Performance (12:00 pm - 3:00 pm) - Enjoy interesting reptiles from the knowledgeable guide leads the Outpost Tour and provides inthe musical stylings from Sean Gator Country professionals.
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CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Outpatient Center Mid County The wait is almost over. The CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Outpatient Center Mid County is nearing completion. This Spring, we’ll proudly open our doors to a whole new way for our community to truly live well.
Workforce board members and city officials celebrate the new Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas location at 510 Park Street in Beaumont.
Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas Hosts Awards Presentation Staff Report For The Record
Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas honored the 2016 outstanding employers, job seekers, sponsors and partners at its Board Meeting, held Tuesday, April 4 in Beaumont. The Honorable Jeff Branick, Jefferson County judge and Workforce board lead chief elected official (CEO), was the guest speaker. The Workforce board recognized area employers for their contribution to the workforce system through implementation of innovative initiatives which positively affected workers and local communities. Team Fabricators LLC was recognized as 2016 Employer of the Year while American Valve and Hydrant Manufacturing was recognized as 2016 Small Employer of the Year. The Workforce board also recognized the sponsors and partners for the 2nd Annual Youth Career Expo held last September at Ford Park. Platinum sponsors of the event recognized were Industry of Southeast Texas (ISET) and International Safety Training Council (ISTC). Gold Sponsors recognized were Exxon Mobil and Lamar University. Silver sponsors included 5Point Credit Union, Entergy Texas, Golden Triangle Business Roundtable (GTBR), Lamar Institute of Technology (LIT), Lamar State College-Orange, Lamar State College Port Arthur, Triple “S” Industrial Corporation, UA Plumbers Local Union 68, The Lee Group, and IBEW Local 479. Partners for the Youth Career Expo recognized were Region 5 Education Service Center, Southeast Texas Human Resource Association (SETHRA), Junior Achievement of the Golden Triangle (JA) and Texas Workforce Solutions
Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Workforce Solutions Center staff were also recognized for performance in unemployment claimants. The group received the 2016 Outstanding Contractor Performance award and a $30,000 award from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) for putting unemployment claimants in Southeast Texas back to work in an expedited period, saving the state and businesses tax dollars. Three Southeast job seekers were recognized for their successful partnership with the workforce to overcome barriers in their journey to self-sufficiency. Those 2016 Job Seekers of the Year are Stephanie Martin, Markendria Hebert and Dr. Michael Schmurr. After the Awards Presentation, the Board and the Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly relocated Beaumont Workforce Solutions Workforce Center, the Regional Solutions Call Center, and the Board Administrative offices at 510 Park Street. Becky Ames, mayor, City of Beaumont and board CEO, officiated the ribbon cutting, along with Sue Daniels, board chair, and Marilyn Smith, executive director. Workforce staff provided guided tours to guests. The Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas Board is a business-led group of volunteers that evaluates and oversees the delivery of all workforce training and employment services in Hardin, Jefferson and Orange Counties. Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas brings together a myriad of programs for easy access for employers and job seekers. For more information, please contact the Board’s administrative offices at 409-719-4750.
New Services Specific to Mid County: n 24/7 Emergency Center n Fully Staffed Women’s Center With a direct link to CHRISTUS Southeast • Mammography Texas St. Elizabeth and St. Mary • Bone Density Screenings • Breast Ultrasounds n Full-service Imaging Center • MRI n Outpatient Therapies • CT • Physical Therapy • Ultrasound • Speech Therapy • Vascular • Occupational Therapy • Fluoroscopy • Hyperbaric/Wound Care Center n Sports Medicine/Concussion Center n In-house Laboratory Services Sports Medicine and the area’s only certified Concussion Center
CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Outpatient Center Mid County is located at Hwy 365 and 9th Avenue.
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Carrie Woliver is seen inside the Orange Train Depot. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers
Guidry leaves council called on the city to begin enforcing its littering ordinance. The identified themselves as “The Trashy Ladies” and held signs reading “Enforce Litter Ordinances” and “$200 Fine For Littering.” They read the
Previously, the county had paid 100 percent of the lifetime health insurance cost for a retiring employee who had worked at least eight years for the county and a total of 20 for it and other state and federal agencies, such as law enforcement or schools. That was changed so the county will only pay 100 percent for 20-year county employees and on a sliding scale down to 25 percent of costs for eightyear employees. “They’re saying that commissioners’ court doesn’t have the authority to alter retirement benefits for union members,” County Judge Stephen Brint Carlton said. So Tuesday, the courtroom played host to the hearing. LeBouef and Carlton each spent more than two hours being questioned by the attorneys for each side, with Gregory Cagle of Houston representing the union and Bettye Lynn of Fort Worth representing the county. Carlton guessed it will be 60-90 days before Bennett rules on the grievance. Both sides will have several weeks to submit legal briefs to Bennett; each side will have several more weeks to review and respond to the other’s briefs and then Bennett will have a period to consider his final ruling. A collective bargaining agreement (CBA for short) defines conditions of employment – wages, working hours and conditions, overtime, vacations and benefit – and procedures for dispute resolution. Orange County last signed a CBA with its deputies in 2009, before any member of the current commissioners’ court was seated, and it expired in the fall of 2013. Only Precinct 4 Commissioner Jody Crump was in office then. The CBA covers deputies, dispatchers and jail nurses, but not secretarial or administrative, about 140 people in all, says Christy Khoury, county treasurer. With negotiations for a replacement contract unsuccessful, the old one has been in force since. Carl Thibodeaux, former county judge from 1996-2015, said negotiations on a new CBA never got anywhere because the union had no reason to change the old one. “The key problem during negotiations was the socalled ‘evergreen clause,’ Thibodeaux said. “The evergreen clause never expired, so the contract they’re under now can stay in effect forever. “Counsel for the court advised us the evergreen clause was illegal. The union claimed the evergreen clause was legal.” The county filed suit against the union and the
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city ordinance and Cash said they were “shocked and awed” when police officers, including chief Lane Martin, told them they couldn’t stop littering. “As a result, what we see every day is a trashy city,” Cash
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signed up 10 board members at that meeting. We saw, as time went on, that everybody wanted to save that building.” The group raised $500,000 to fix it up and with the help of architect Rob Clark of Beaumont and contractor Jack Elliott of Jack Built, the building has been restored. While the outside is done, showing its original colors, Woliver said, the final phase will be complete when it is filled with museum exhibits. They will highlight the industries that powered Orange in the 20th century – transportation, lumber, shipbuilding and petrochemicals. “We have to raise funds for those exhibits,” Woliver said. “We expect to be able to do that in the next six to eight months, and be able to open as an exhibit in the fall of 2018.” In the meantime, the depot will be available for meeting and other event rentals. Call 409-886-1970 for more information.
said. “What good is an ordinance if it’s not enforced?” “We teach our children to pick up trash,” Hoke said. “We should expect no less from the city of Orange.”
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standoff has continued. Cagle, the attorney for the deputies’ union, says his side was willing to negotiate and had offered to give up 11 percent of its pay and benefits package. Much of that had to do with agreeing to a change the county made in 2013 on how it handles health insurance for employees’ dependents. Before the 2014 budget was passed, the county paid 60 percent of its employees’ health insurance cost for dependents, but that was switched to 40 percent. Cagle said rather than accept those concessions by the union, the county brought suit. Carlton, the current county judge, points out that the CBA is a three-legged agreement with commissioners’ court working with the union on pay and benefits while the county sheriff, Keith Merritt, must agree with the CBA’s work conditions and dispute resolution. Merritt says he wants the “just cause” portion of the CBA eliminated. That blocks him from firing a deputy at will. “The sheriff wants to be able to hire and fire at will,” Carlton said. “’Just cause’ and ‘no cause’ are like pro-life. It’s one or the other, there’s no middle ground.” While Carlton has taken up Thibodeaux’s concern with the “evergreen” clause and Merritt is adamant about getting rid of “just cause,” LeB-
ouef says “maintenance of standards” is a sticking point for the union. “Maintenance of standards says as long as we’re under contract [with 2009 CBA] you can change everybody else, but it does not affect us. Recently they changed the medical benefits for retirees,” he said prior to Tuesday’s grievance hearing.
Barber cuts it close married “50 years, 6 months and 13 days,” Ray said, before she died in 2015. The couple had no children. “My wife and I did a lot of cruises,” he said. “It was so much fun, we’d come back from one and she’d get on the computer, trying to find another cruise. “We’d sit on the porch and discuss the memories we’d be making, so when one of us was gone, we’d have the memories we were making.” LeLeux helped care for his sixter, Viola Watson, before she passed away recently. Starting his barbering career in 1970 was a semi-questionable decision, seeing as how long hair was the trend and barbers were going out of vogue. But Ray adapted. “I did shampoos, razor cuts and blow dry,” he said. “Then, in the 80s, kids got into getting their football numbers engraved in their hair. Or a five-point star because they made the all-star team in baseball. “Some of them wanted a Nike swoosh.” Ray was happy to obilige. “One reason people don’t want to be barbers is we don’t have pensions and benefits,” he said. “Kids today, those that want to work, they want a job with beneifts. “Being a barber, you’ve got no benefits. You have to make
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it through the door with customers.” LeLeux never had a shortage of customers. “I notice I don’t have to tell him how to cut my hair,” longtime customer Jeff Smith said. “You don’t get that any more.” His early hours work for him. “I like getting up early and coming to work,” LeLeux said. “The working man’s at work during the day, so he’s got to come in early. And the guy who works nights, he’s got to come in early. “About the time I get through with the working
man, the retirees come in.” LeLeux is open only Tuesdays through Thursdays. “That’s all the body can handle,” he said. “I don’t take a lunch hour, and at 4 p.m., I turn the shade and lock the door. “I put in about 36 hours in three days. This is all the old man can handle.” But he has no plans to change the routine. “People always ask me when I’ll retire. I don’t want to retire,” LeLeux said. “I get to visit with the friends I’ve had for years, and I get paid for it.”
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From The Creaux’s Nest COURSE OF HISTORY CHANGED THROUGH SHENANGANS A lot of things have been going on in Washington but none more significant than the appointment of the 113 Supreme Court judge. If you are 21 years old, the new judge, Neil Gorsuch, will probably be on the court your entire adult life, until the day he retires. His appointment came about by the Senate changing the rules, in a historical move, for the first time they appointed a Supreme Court judge just with a simple majority of 52 votes, not the 60 votes required throughout our history. The appointment gives the GOP a strong position for decades to come. The seat really should have belonged to a Democratic appointee, however, the Republican controlled Senate sat on the nomination for 10 months without even giving the nominee a hearing. They stalled until President Obama’s term in office expired and then changed the course of history. They changed the rules to get their judge. Someday that will come back to bite them. President Donald Trump has yet to sign one piece of major legislation with just a couple of weeks left in his first 100 days. He’ll get credit however for the shenanigan that got Judge Gorsuch on the court. It’s apparent that Trump’s only accomplishment was done through shenanigans. That’s very Trump like.*****I’d best get going. Come along, I promise it won’t do you no harm. ASSAD GIVES TRUMP NEEDED BREAK A few weeks ago, I wrote that Donald Trump’s favorability numbers were going down and would get worse. The only way he could probably stop the erosion would be to drop a few bombs on North Korea. Well, as luck would have it, Syrian president, Bashar Assad, gave Trump the opportunity he was looking for. Assad used a chemical weapons attack against his own people, killing 86, including children. Trump knew the world, other than Russia, would condemn the move. Trump quickly ordered a cruise missile strike that did very little damage to a small airport strip. The Syrian Air Force was able to use the strip for their jets the next day. If the attack was meant to put fear in our adversaries I doubt it scared anyone. The Trump administration even warned Russia to move their troops before the attack. You know Putin told Assad what was coming. Anyway, it accomplished what it was designed to do, stop Trump’s unfavorable numbers from falling to the 20’s. Here is a small sampling of what the most reliable poll, the Quinnipiac University, found in its national poll just before the air strike on Syria, April 4. Trump had a negative 35-57 percent job approval. His personal qualities are mostly negative. On Honesty: Not Honest, 61 percent; Honest, 31 percent. Leadership skills, Not Good, 55 percent to 40 percent; Level Headed, Negative, 66 percent to 29 percent; Cares about average Americans, Does not, 57 percent to 39 percent. Is a strong person, Is Not, 57 percent to 39 percent; Intelligent, Is Not, 60 percent to 35 percent; Shares our values, Does Not, 61 percent to 34 percent.; 52 percent say they are embarrassed to have Trump as president. 27 percent say they are proud. Trump gets 64 percent to 28 percent disapproval on Health Care; 61 percent to 29 percent disapproval on his handling of the Environment; On handling the Economy he gets 48 percent approval, 41 percent disapproval. On his handling of Immigration Issues he gets a negative 57 percent to 39 percent positive. These samplings show how far Trump’s approval had fallen since March. He’s the only president in history to have a below 50 percent favorability in his first 100 days. Assad’s stupid move to poison his citizens was a God send to Donald Trump. He couldn’t have wished for a better opportunity to send $180 million worth of bombs, 60 to land on a small airstrip, but will go a long way to get his favorable numbers up. You will hear a lot of bold talk by Trump and his gang but don’t buy it. He’s done all he’s going to do. It did the trick. Next is trying to figure out how to end the first 100 days on a high note. TEN YEARS AGO-2007 Linda Warner named Record Newspapers’ 2007 Person of the Year. She was a sophomore in high school when she knew she wanted to be a teacher. It was quite a dream for a girl in a tiny East Texas town whose father delivered newspapers for a living. Through 45 years in education, she has worked with the philosophy that students and teachers deserve respect. She held onto the idea that learning should be fun and a lifelong goal for everyone. The Record Newspapers named Warner as “Person of the Year” for the special anniversary edition April 18, 2007 because of her dedication to her profession and the community. “It’s a privilege to honor an educator like Linda Warner,” said Roy Dunn, publisher of The Record. “She has spent her life working for students and teachers, and in turn, has improved the future for everyone.” Many of her students through the years have followed her path into education. Now, she’s ready to retire. She’s spent 35 years with the Little Cypress-Mauriceville school district and the last 25 years as the high school activities director. She seldom gets a moment of peace at school. Her small office, decorated with bears is a gathering place for teachers and students. Some need help, some simply want to say Hi.” “I’ll take care of it,” is one of her common phrases. “When she leaves, there’s going to be a big void,” said Tanyia Strickland Barnwell, a former student and longtime LC-M English teacher. Barnwell said Warner inspired her to become a teacher-coach because of the way she treated her stu-
dents. Barnwell played basketball and tennis under Warner’s coaching. “She always called us ‘ladies,’” Barnwell said. “She gave us a lot of respect, but was very firm like a mom.” Often she was at school by 6 a.m. and might not go home until 9 p.m. She attended Stephen F. Austin where she took as many hours as she could in the women’s physical education department. While at SFA, she met Larry Warner from Silsbee and they were married by the time she took her first teaching job. Adolph Hryhorchuk, who was athletic director in West Orange CSD, was working on a graduate degree at SFA when he met the Warner’s and offered them jobs. Linda Warner went to West Orange Middle School, her husband was at Lorena Oats. Through the years she has photographed and video-typed events at the school and helps preserve the memories. She made sure classes, returning for reunions have pictures of their high school days (Editor’s note: I wonder how the last 10 years have gone for the Warner’s. I hope it has been a great retirement. I’ll check with Tanyia.*****GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: James Hunter Beaty, 68, of Bridge City, died April 9. Service was Saturday, April 14. James was born in Orange, and had resided in Bridge City since 1991. He was a retired Major from the U.S. Army.. He is survived by his wife, Agnes Belew Beaty, son, Jamie Beaty, daughters Jennifer Elbert, Jessica Willingham and Julie Bone, two stepchildren, Deborah Hardin and Woody Cox, 11 grandchildren, two great grandchildren and brother Al Booth. ***** Roger Dale Landry, Sr. 61, of Orange, died April 10. Service was held Friday, April 13. Roger was a lifelong resident of Orange and retired journeyman for Local 502. He is survived by his wife, Eamlie Landry, sons, Allen, Bryan, Roger II, Faron and honorary son, Kenneth Mouton and 13 grandchildren***** Wayne Lawrence Granger, Sr, 70, of West Orange, died Wednesday, April 11. A Graveside Service was Saturday, April 14. He was a lifelong resident of the West Orange Community and a retired Tug Boat Captain and an avid fisherman. He is survived by his wife Bevelyn Granger of West Orange; sons and daughters, Wayne Lawrence Granger, Jr., Lawrence Wade Granger, Pam Fruge, Barbara Granger, and Sabrina Granger, stepsons Gary Duplantis, Chris Duplantis, Steve Duplantis, Tim Duplantis, eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren along with many nieces, nephews and cousins.***** Patrick Kyle Godwin, Jr., 23, of Bridge City, died Saturday, April 14. Funeral service was held Wednesday, April 18. Patrick was a carpenter finisher for George May Construction. He is survived by his parents, Kevin and Tracey Mott, Patrick and Bettinae Godwin, grandparents Harold and Mona Brunson and Willis H. “Bill”and Norma Godwin, great grandparents Herman and Clydelle Rudeseal, sisters Meagan Anne Godwin, Katelyn Mott, Kazmine Godwin and Elle Godwin.***** Donald Lee Hodgkinson, 63, of Orange, passed away April 15. Funeral services were Thursday, April 19. A life long resident of Orange, he graduated from Lutcher Stark High School in 1963. He owned and operated Music Plus, where he was known as the “the Music Man” for over 20 years. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Frances Hodgkinson; daughters, Dawn Hodgkinson Tramel and Donna Hodgkinson; grandson Patrick Tramel; brothers, L.J., Charles, and Jerry Hodgkinson; sisters, Shirley Alexander and Wanda Harris.***** Joyce Neumeyer Brown, 76, of Bridge City, died Sunday, April 15. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 18. She is survived by her husband Harold “Ben” Brown her mother Fern Bay Neumeyer, sister Peggy Wainwright, daughters Rebecca Norwood, Sandra LeBlanc, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. 40 YEARS AGO -1977 Blaine and Linda Brown became the parents of a new son. *****Grandma Vickers, mother of Emma Day, a resident of Hollywood St., in Bridge City, celebrates her birthday April 20. She’s just one great gal. *****Jo Amodeo and Janet Fontenot celebrated birthdays in the last few days. *****The Rev. W.W. Kennedy celebrates his 34th anniversary as pastor of Cove Baptist church. *****Former Orangeite Jim Hicks, owner of Hick’s Construction, died last week in Alabama. He and his wife Mel had many friends locally. *****Randolph McClelland, of Bridge City, died last Tuesday. His body was flown back to Arkansas, where he was born, for burial. He and Mrs. McClelland have two sons, Billy and Jack. *****Marc and Debbie Darby became the parents of Misty Michelle on April 7. *****Attorney Ronny Baxter, husband Warren, and sons, Don and Grey, return from a Colorado visit. She has purchased former Judge Bennett’s law office. *****Gene and Mary Maulsby celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. *****Tammy Guyote released from the hospital after an auto accident Easter weekend. She has both arms and a leg in a cast, and her mouth is wired shut. A friend, Joe Brody, also in the accident with Tammy, is still in serious condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital. *****New cheerleaders at Bridge City will be Nancy Gauthier, Kim Young, Tanya Hoffpauir, Tish Bratton, Sherri VanBreeman, Donna Poindexter, Tammy Poindexter and head cheerleader, Melissa Harmon. *****The Hughen School for Crippled Children is collecting Campbell soup labels to purchase visual aid equipment. If you wish to help with this project call Mary Stanton at 735-5762. *****Jessie Dupuis and James Rowe, burn victims are doing better but are still looking at extended stays in the hospital. Jessie is in Parkland in Dallas; James is at John Sealy in Galveston. *****Larry Ward and Bill Godwin, longtime educators and coaches, have purchased Fields Lumber Company in Bridge City. *****Bobby Smitherman has bought out his partner Jerry Pesson’s share of ownership in P.S. Tire and Supply. Jerry will open a new business at 800 Texas Ave. called Bridge City Recreation Vehicles. *****A new 1977 Buick Century, fully loaded, at Stephens Buick will set you back $4,999 plus TTL. *****James Henderson is president of Orange Bank, located at 302-5th. St. in Orange. *****The number one country song is, ‘It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better’ by Johnny Duncan. ‘She’s Got You’ by Loretta Lynn is number two. ‘Paper Rosie’ by Gene Watson is number three. A FEW HAPPENINGS Stump Weatherford and Dayle, the Mardi Gras King and Queen, celebrate their seventh anniversary Monday with a Galveston weekend. The King and Queen will make an appearance at the Follies. They enjoyed making the schools and nursing homes. Congrats and best wishes for many more.*****We are sorry to report that our friend of 65 years, Corky Harmon, who has been in a Beaumont hospital for 26 days, has been transferred to a Mid-County Hospital where they hope to build him up enough to start therapy to get his wheels strong enough to motivate. Corky has lost a lot of weight and has gotten weak in the legs. His family says he’s now on the upswing. We pray for his full recovery.******Capt. Dickie Colburn stopped by for a nice visit. Dickie is a very
popular Lake Sabine fishing guide. For several years now he has been publishing a weekly column in our papers that is very well received. One fisherman told me, “You can always bet on what Dickie tells you. He does it, not just make up a story about it.” I learned that Charles “Chachi” Owens, Dickie and Frank Beachamp signed at the same time to play for Texas. That wasn’t Dickie or Frank’s choice, they would have preferred going to Arkansas, but were pressured into playing football for Texas. Only Owens stayed with the Longhorns. He became a lawyer and for years he’s been in Washington in the Defense Department.*****Bill Hare stopped by and we had a nice visit about our days in Bryan/College Station. Bill marched all over the country with the Aggie band. He was the longtime store manager at Beall’s on MacArthur.*****Congrats to Ross and Nelda Burns on their 70th wedding anniversary. They were wed April 12, 1947, in Simpson, LA. That’s not a record but it’s a darn good average. That’s a normal life expectancy. Best wishes. May all your years be good ones. See announcement in this issue.*****With the hot weather and humidity on its way, the South winds will bring many “Skeeters.” They are already arriving. You can be mosquito free by calling Pestco. I’ve already called Donna and made arrangements for spraying. I won’t have to fight “Skeeter” bites all summer. It cost very little for a lot f benefit and outdoor pleasure. “****A few folks we known celebrating birthdays in the next few days. April 12: The Civil War started on this day in 1861 and ended June 22, 1865. Pretty Angie’s longtime husband, Don Breaux, celebrates another birthday today. Also BCISD nurse Jaclyn James Phillips, Amanda Toups, Dora Ogden and Roy Mazzagate III. This also would have been the birthday of our late friend Cal Broussard. Celebrities celebrating on this day are actors Trinitee Stokes, 10 and Jennifer Morrison, 37, rock singer Brendon Unie, 29.*****April 13: Lee’s bride Connie Angelle, who gave birth to some great athletes celebrates today as does longtime friends Jo Ann Collins, Bruce Peveto, Gene Bellard and Kaylin Abshire. Celebrating also are rapper Ty Dolla Sign, 31, Jessica Vanessa, 24, pop singer Liam Attridge, 17.*****April 14: Stephen Gault, Twin Lakes owner, celebrates today. Nurse Practicioner Reatha Bradberry also celebrates. I understand Reatha opened a clinic in Jasper. Joining them are Sam “Sambo” Carpenter, Jr., Coach Phillip Elmore and Tiffani Thompson. Celebrities celebrating today are drummer Ellington Ratliff, 23, actors Abigail Breslin, 20, Peter Capaldi, 58, and Chris Wood, 28.*****April 15: Linda Claybar celebrates today as does Patrick “Pat” Cook, Debbie Aarons and Shani Lawson. Joining them are actors Emma Watson, 26 and Cody Christian, 21.*****April 16: Today is Easter Sunday and celebrating on this day are Kirby Ridley Cruse, Judy Pittman, Betty Foreman and Marie Duett. Also celebrating are actors Liliana Mumy, 22, dancer Jan Eastwood, 23 and YouTube star Karlie Redd, 28.*****April 17: Pretty Marla Zoch, BCISD band member and Fred’s bride, celebrates a birthday today Janice Todora, Ronnie Haymon, Cheryl Puntes, Kaylie Byrd, Steve Evans and Natalie Miller. Also pop singers Victoria Beckham, 42 and Avi Kaplan, 27, “Family Member” stars Devan Key, 18 and Ryland Lynch, 19 *****April 18: Magan Waguespack, Grant Mott and Emily Gilson all have birthdays on this day. Joining them are reality star Kourtney Kardashian, 27, actor David Tennant, 45 and singer Nathan Sykes, 23.*****The Wednesday Lunch Bunch will dine at J.B.’s Barbeque this week and at Robert’s next week. Judge Carl Thibodeaux came off the golf course last week long enough to visit his friends. Everyone always welcome. CAJUN STOY OF THE WEEK Da large family of Naville Badeaux gathered to celebrate da old man’s 90th birtday. Badeaux him, all his life, has been a jokester. He pulled a lot of shenanigans on his grandkids but lately his mind was slipping wit old timers. His oldest grandson Nolton is a lot like Grandpaw Naville at playing jokes. Along wit some of da utta teenagers he put two Viagra tablets into Grandpaw’s drink at lunch. Soon after da old man excused himself saying he had to go to da bashroom him. Wen he returned his trousers were all wet. “Wat happen Nolton axe. “You got your pants all wet you.” “Well, Naville answer, “I don’t really know me. I had to go to da bashroom real bad so I took it out and started to pee but den I saw me dat it wasn’t mine so I put it back.” C’EST TOUT FIRSTS IN ORANGE COUNTY The first newspaper was published in 1870.***The first artesian water was discovered in 1902 or 1903.***The first logs to be delivered by rail came over the Orange and Northwestern in 1903.***The first express company to establish an office was the Wells Fargo Express.***The first shell used on the streets came from Conway Bayou in 1902.***The streets were first named in 1902.***The first telegraph and telephone company was the Southwest Company.***The first automobile owned in Orange was a Ford. “The Red Devil,” bought in New Orleans by Dr. E.W. Brown in 1902.***The first Notary Public to qualify in Orange was A.H. Reading.***John Burton was the first man to own and operate a cotton gin near Orange. He also owned and operated the first syrup mill, made by Daniel Harmon, and cut the first ditch that shortened the distance from Orange to the mouth of the Sabine by five miles, known as the ‘Cut Off.”***Orange had the first cold spell on record in 1821. It was so cold that Sabine Lake and even Galveston Bay were frozen hard enough for a bear to walk on.***John Harmon is supposed to have been the first white man in the county to obtain a Spanish grant of land.***The first section of the sewer system was laid on Green Avenue in 1902.***The first X-ray machine was installed in the office of Dr. S.W. Sholars in 1904.***Orange had its first telephone directory in 1910.***The first stockmen to introduce Brahma cattle in the county were John Turper and John C. Bland.***The Texas Company put its first filling station here in 1907. T.C. Ford was their agent.*****My time is up, thanks for yours. Please read us cover to cover and Easter shop our family of advertisers. Have a great Easter. 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Bethel Baptist Church offers free meals Bethel Baptist Church, located at 2906 Western Ave. in West Orange, is offering free meals each Wednesday from 5:00 pm. to 6:00 p.m. Bible Study for all ages will immediately follow dinner. For more information please contact Pastor Frank Young at 936-465-1203.
Mayhaw Berries Now Ripe The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the mayhaw trees at the chamber are full of ripening berries. They will continue to ripen for the next few weeks. The Chamber invites the community to help themselves to the ripe berries while they last. The trees are located next to the BC Chamber at 150 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City, TX. For more information, call 409-735-5671.
Al-Anon Meetings Al-Anon meetings are held on Thursday's at 7p.m. in the Library at St. Henry's Catholic Church Education building located at 475 W. Roundbunch Rd. Bridge City. For more information please contact Cindy at 749-9036 or Mike 718-0333.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Holy Week The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bridge City begins this year's HOLY WEEK with regularly scheduled services on Thursday, APRIL 13th, their Maundy Thursday Worship at 6:00 pm will include a celebration of the traditional Seder Meal (roasted turkey, green beans and rice pilaf ). Holy Communion will also be served. Friday, April 14th is Good Friday with a Worship service at 6:00 PM. Saturday, April 15th is the annual Easter Egg Hunt at 11:00 AM and Sunday, April 16th is Easter Sunday with 2 traditional worship services at 9:00 AM and10:10 AM and a contemporary worship service at 11:15 AM. Everyone is welcome to come celebrate Christ's sacrifice and triumph with GSLC this year. The church is located at 945 W. Roundbunch Rd. in Bridge City.
City of Orange Easter Egg Hunt The City of Orange will be hosting their annual Easter Egg Hunt. This event will be held on Friday, April 14 from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M. at the Riverfront Pavilion. There will be no charge to participate in this event. The Easter Egg Hunt will begin at 10 A.M. sharp and will include three age categories, 0 – 3, 4 – 6, and 7 – 8. There will be additional children’s activities such as a petting zoo, pictures with the Easter Bunny, balloons, and much more!
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Egg Hunt Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bridge City will host an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 15th starting at 11:00 a.m. at the church located at 945 W. Roundbunch. There will be games, handcrafts, door prizes with and Easter Egg Hunt to follow. All this fun for three different age groups up to age 12. Sandwiches, chips, cookies, and punch will be served.
Fraternal Order of Eagles New Hours The Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2523 will be changing their hours of operation effective the first week of April. They will be closed on Wednesdays, but open on Saturdays from now on. The location is 803 N. 28th Street in Orange. For more info contact them at 409886-7381.
Free Electronic Tax Service Jackson Community Center is offering Free Tax Assistance through Lamar University Community Tax Center now through April 18th. Open Monday thru Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and every other Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. at 520 W. Decatur Ave. in Orange. To schedule an appointment please call 409-779-
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Fraternal Order of Eagles Officers The Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2523 will be holding a meeting for nominations of Officers on April 20th. All Aeries members are asked to attend this meeting at 803 N. 28th Street in Orange. For more info contact them at 409-886-7381.
Adult Spelling Bee Greater Orange Area Literacy Service program in Orange is having their 18th annual Adult Spelling Bee fund raiser on Friday, April 21. Tickets are available for $15 each which includes lunch at 11:30 – 1:30. Lamar State College Orange will host the event in the Student gym. Spelling teams of three adults each will compete . The team members will study words to spell from the National Spelling Bee booklets. To sponsor a team there is a $350 entry fee. Deadline for registration is April 12. All proceeds will fund study materials for the three areas GOALS serves; Basic Reading, GED, and English for non English speakers. For more information call the office 409)8864311, Monday – Thursday from 10am-3pm, or email rhonda@goals–setx.com
Mauriceville Crawfish Festival The Mauriceville Crawfish Festival will be held April 21 thru 23rd at the Mauriceville Community Center. It is located at Hwy. 62 and Cohenour Road in Mauriceville. The date and times are April 21st from 5 to 11 p.m., April 22nd from 10 a.m. to midnight, April 23rd from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Old First Orange Baptist to host 5th Sunday Singing On April 30th, at 6:01 p.m., The Old First Orange Baptist Church located at 7925 I-10 East will present their 5th Sunday Singing. You don’t want to miss another great time of worship. If you or your group would like to be a part, please call the office at 409-745-1901. All are welcome to attend. North Early Learning Center accepting applications
tion will be at Faith United Methodist Church at 8608 MLK Jr. Drive in Orange.
Texas A&M AgriLife Collecting UPC Labels Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s H.O.P.E. Committee is collecting Market Basket Best Choice UPC Labels for our Youth Cooking Camp. We appreciate your support in saving the labels for us. The labels can be mailed or brought to our office, 11465a FM 1442 Orange. We are located inside the Orange County Convention & Expo Center. For questions, call the AgriLife office at 409-882-7010.
First Baptist Church Pre-k Registration for the fall 2017 semester beginning Sept 5,2017 is now in progress. Registration forms may be picked up Tuesday and Thursdays between 8am and 2pm in the Pre-K office. Registration fee is $75 and the monthly fee is $180. If you have questions please call. The phone number for Pre-K is 735-3583 or Mrs. Nelly at 735-5153.
Welcome Anytime Fitness You are cordially Invited to attend the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce’s Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Anytime Fitness which is located at 1145 Texas Ave., Suite A in Bridge City. The Ribbon cutting will be held on Thursday, April 20th 2017 at 8:30 AM.
Orange VFW 2775 to host garage sale Orange VFW Auxiliary Post 2775 will host a garage sale on April 22, 2017 from 7am until 2pm at the VFW Hall at 5303 North 16th Street in Orange...3 miles North of IH-10. Tables will rent for $10 per table.
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Vendors will be allowed to set up on Friday, April 21, 2017. The kitchen will be open from 9am until no longer busy. Drinks may be purchased at the bar. The doors will open at 6:30 am Saturday for VENDORS ONLY. Doors will open to public at 7am. Contact Mary Snapp at 409-697-0380 for reservations and information.
Orange County Historical Society to meet The Orange County Historical Society will have it’s second quarterly program on May 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room on the second floor of the Lamar Orange Library. The speaker will be local history writer Mike Louviere. Mike will talk about he German POW camp located on Orange during World War II. The public is invited to attend.
Bridge City Volunteer Fire & Rescue Tourney For the last 26 years, on Good Friday weekend, the members of the Bridge City Volunteer Fire & Rescue have held a fishing tournament for its members (past and present) and their families. As our department has grown, so has the tournament. After the tournament, we hold a fish fry for the participants as well as hand out door prizes and tournament prizes. Due to the increase in participants, we are asking for donations from local businesses. What we need help with is monetary donations or prizes. The monetary donations will be used to purchase prizes related to fishing and to also pay for the fish fry. If you would like to help make our fishing tournament a success, you can contact Chance Chatagnier, Don Breaux or Carroll
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Apps being sought at Early Learning Center Applications are now being accepted at North Early Learning Center for children living in Orange County who will be 3 or 4 years old on or before September 1, 2017. The center is located at 801 Cordrey in Orange and you may contact them at 409-882-5434. The center services Three & Four Year Olds, and offers Head Start, which is a Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities (PPCD) and also Pre-Kindergarten. You may pick up an enrollment application today between the hours of 8:00 am – 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm. Services include: Certified Teachers & Classroom Assistants in every classroom; Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum; Content Coordinator: Education, Health, Mental Health/Disabilities and Family & Community Partnership; ESL – English as a Second Language; Inclusion classrooms; On site Speech Therapist, Special Education Teacher, Physical and Occupational Therapy; Registered Nurse; Student cooking lab, playgrounds, sensory room, science lab, student library and gym; Enrichment Field Trips; Technology rich classrooms; Recognized classroom Volunteers & Foster Grandparents and Bus Transportation provided for children living in WOCCISD attendance area.
Annual Southern Gospel Concert for CASA CASA (Court appointed Special Advocates) of Orange is looking forward to the 2nd Annual Southern Gospel Concert to be held on April 29 with the concert to begin at 5:30 pm. The loca-
Saturday, April 22 (10am-3:30pm) Live Animal Displays • Games & Crafts • Face Painting Storytime in the Shade • Family-Friendly Activities Outpost Tours along Adams Bayou • Gift Basket Raffles Exhibitor Booths & Shopping Stations
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Happenings LeBlanc, at the Fire Station 409-735-2419.
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The acoustic duo known as Six String Mafia, featuring Orange-native Adam Caillavet, at left, and Lee Pelly, will make its much anticipated return to the stage with a performance at 8 p.m., Friday, April 14, at Mackenzie’s Pub in Beaumont for ages 21 and older. Admission is charged at the door. Photo by Tommy Mann Jr.
ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK
Local music venues hot as spring gets in full swing By Tommy Mann Jr. e Record Get out and enjoy what Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana have to offer, and that includes food, music and theater productions. Visit for more information on artists and venues and follow Local Music Guide on Facebook for daily listings and special announcements. Wednesday, April 12 Chester Daigle @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Blake Sticker @ Rikenjaks Justin Martindale @ Rush Lounge Rob Copeland @ Tradewinds Tavern Danny Dillon @ e West Bar and Grill ursday, April 13 Shane Barnhill @ Blue Mar-
tini Amanda Walker @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Chris Stacey @ e Grill Tin Pan Alley @ Larry’s French Market Sabine River Brass Band, Miss Mojo @ e Logon Cafe Joe Harmon and the Harmonics @ e Lone Wolf Alex Rozell @ Luke’s Icehouse Mid-County BB and Company @ Mackenzie’s Pub John Cessac @ Paul’s Seafood Bayou Sounds Trio @ Pine Tree Lodge JAG @ Rancho Grande Mike Krajicek @ Rikenjaks Shelbone @ e Rodair Roadhouse Zipties @ Rush Lounge Ryan Foret and Foret Tradition @ Sawdust Saloon David Lee Kaiser @ Tradewinds Tavern
Friday, April 14 Mark Chesnutt @ Golden Nugget Casino Micky and the Motorcars @ Jack Daniels Bar and Grill Dplay @ Blue Martini Linda Kaye and the Kool Katz @ e Boudain Hut Zach Gonzalez @ e Boudain Hut North Pulse Rate Zero @ e Center Stage Caylan Daughrity @ Dylan’s Amanda Walker @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Prime Time Band @ Gator Lounge Tony Faulk and Chaos @ Just One More Tavern High Street Band @ Larry’s French Market e Chee Weez @ e Lone Wolf Chris Stacey @ Luke’s Icehouse Mid-County Six String Mafia @ Mackenzie’s Pub ree-37 @ Madison’s Daniel omas Phipps @ Neches Brewing Company Wayne Cook @ New York Pizza and Pasta – Calder Ave. Toe Up @ Paradise Daiquiris – Moss Bluff Rob Copeland @ Pine Tree Lodge White Trash Superstar, Pig Charmer, Stone Blind @ e Red Room Brad Brinkley Band, Paul Gonsoulin @ Rikenjaks Chris Shearman @ e Rodair Roadhouse Allison Collins @ Rush Lounge Center Fire @ Rusty Nail John Cessac and Texas Outlaws @ Sawdust Saloon Pug Johnson @ irsty’s Saturday, April 15 “Once” @ Lutcher eater Harrison Swift @ Jack Daniels Bar and Grill Dplay @ Blue Martini Linda Kaye and the Kool Katz @ e Boudain Hut Curse and the Cure @ Brick and Barley Bayou Rush @ Café Del Rio My Beautiful Disaster @ e Capri Club Keith Kire @ Cecil’s Cajun Kitchen Uphurch @ e Center Stage
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The speaker for the next meeting on Wed., Apr. 12 - Johnny Trahan, Orange County Commissioner, will discuss the proposed Hospital District for Orange County. Wed., Apr. 19 - Dr. Elena Ivanova will speak on pieces of art at Museum of Art of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, incorporating various art stories written by Elena herself. Wed., Apr. 26 - Tressa Clarke of The Anayat House in Beaumont, a facility much like Ronald McDonald Houses, will explain all about the house for those with lovedones in a hospital. Wed., May 3 - Representative, Ronda Powell, explains purposes of the Orange literacy group, GOALS. Wed., May 10 Ashley Kreb, Extension Agent for Orange Co., discusses facts about gardening. Wed., May 17 - Retired Orange Co. Sheriff, Mike White will discuss life in law enforcement & currently. Wed., May 24 - Chester Moore will discuss his new endeavor, Kingdom Zoo, and his gift for sick, terminal students. Please arrive before 9:15 a.m., as we start each meeting at 9:30 a.m. with breakfast, then continue with speaker(s) at 10:15 a.m., finishing at 11 a.m. Speaker(s) & media receive complimentary meals.
TAMU Mothers’ Club scholarship Application e 2017 Orange County Texas A&M University Mothers’ Club scholarship application is available. For a copy of the application, contact the local high school counselor and/or scholarship coordinator. Applications are also available at https://orangecountymoms.aggienetwork.com/sc holarships/. For more information, contact Bridget Trawhon at (409) 882-4195 or btrawhon@gmail.com.
Lions Eye Bank Of Texas Golf Tournament The Golf Tournament will be Saturday May 6, 2017 at 8:00 a.m Shotgun start. At Sunset
From Page 5A Grove Country Club, Orange Texas. The Cost is $425 Per Foursome. Fee Includes : Buffet Breakfast, Lunch award banquet, Green fees/cart fees, individual tee gift, On Course competition to include, hole in one, Longest drive, closest to the pin and putting contest. Prizes awarded to the top three Teams. You can register yourself or your team by simple logging onto www.lionsgolftournament.org and clicking on the registration icon or contact Chris Gunstream at lionchris@gt.rr.com. Don't delay, field is limited to the first 144 players. Sign up your team TODAY!
Mother of the Year noms accepted Do you know a mom who deserves special recognition? Nominate her for Mother of the Year! In addition to receiving great gifts from local businesses, the Mother of the Year will be recognized at the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce’s Networking Coffee on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, participate in the Bridge City Christmas Light Parade as a dignitary and be recognized at the Bridge City Chamber’s Annual Banquet. The mother nominated must live or work within the Bridge City or Orangefield School District. For contest rules, go to www.bridgecitychamber.com or call the chamber at409-735-5671.
Father of the Year noms accepted Do you know a dad who deserves special recognition? Nominate him for Father of the Year! In addition to receiving great gifts from local businesses, the Father of the Year will be recognized at the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce’s Networking Coffee on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, participate in the Bridge City Christmas Light Parade as a dignitary and be recognized at the Bridge City Chamber’s Annual Banquet. The father nominated must live or work within the Bridge City or Orangefield School District. For contest rules, go to www.bridgecitychamber.com or call the chamber at 409-735-5671.
Deaths and Memorials
Jewell Marie Hill Borell, 85, Bridge City Jewell Marie Hill Borell, 85, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on April 5, 2017, at Pinehurst Nursing and Rehab in Orange. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, April 10, 2017, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Officiating will be Reverend Doug Shows JEWELL MARIE and Darrel Segura. HILL BORELL Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Born in Crowley, Louisiana, on March 31, 1932, Jewell was the daughter of Samuel and Florence Robideaux. She worked as a secretary for Gulf Oil for 10 years and was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Bridge City. Jewell was a member of a bowling league for several years and enjoyed fishing, doing yard work, and spending time outdoors. She was married to Mr. Roy E. Hill, Jr. for 54 wonderful years and after his passing she spent 3 happy years married to Mr. Gerald Borell. Jewell was a very devoted wife and mother and will be greatly missed by everyone who had the pleasure of knowing her. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Roy E. Hill; second husband, Gerald Borell; and her son, Michael Hill. She is survived by grandchildren, Justin Hill and wife Jill, Andrew Hill and fiancée Candice Halliburton; and Katy Hill Reid and husband Jeremy; great-grandchildren, Caden, Addison, and Rylee Hill and Avery and McKenzie Halliburton; daughter-in-law, Joanne Hill Hodges; and numerous nieces and nephews. Serving as pallbearers will be Andy Hill, Justin Hill, Marty Hodges, Wayne McCamey, Jeremy Reid, and Darrel Segura. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the American Heart Association at P.O. Box 15186 Austin, TX 78761 or to First Baptist Church in Bridge City at 200 W. Round Bunch Rd, Bridge City, TX 77611. e family would like to give a special thank you to the staff of Pinehurst Nursing and Rehab
and to Southeast Texas Hospice for the excellent care and compassion they exhibited while taking care of Mrs. Borell.
William Lee James, 85, Orange William Lee James, 85, of Orange, Texas, passed away on April 10, 2017. He was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on June 29, 1931. He attended omas Jefferson High School and went on to graduate from Texas A&M University as a 1st Lieutenant in the Army. During his time in the Army, he was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Labrador, Newfoundland and then Greenland. Upon leaving the Army, he went to work for Gulf Oil Corporation and was sent to Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela and later to Atlanta, Georgia. He retired from Gulf/Chevron in 1992, and later worked for Anderson Surveying and Mapping until 2017. During his youth, Bill entered the Boy Scouts and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. He remained active in Scouting as both Scout Master and Cub Scout Master, in Puerto la Cruz and in Bridge City. He was a member of the Lion’s Club; had a seat on the Bridge City Planning and Zoning Commission; and for 25 years served as a member of the Bridge City School Board. He designed and oversaw the construction of the St. Henry Catholic Church Rectory, and designed and developed housing subdivisions thought the Bridge City area. Bill was an avid duck hunter, belonged to the NRA and was a member of the Audubon Society. He was a collector of mineral specimens and semi-precious stones, and made unique jewelry and faceted gemstones. He belonged to the area Rose Society and grew over 200 hybrid roses. Bill leaves behind his wife, Kathryn; five children, Kathryn Conlin and husband Kevin, William and wife Barbara, Cynthia James, Elizabeth Walsh, Daniel James; and grandchildren, Brian James and wife Ruth and Morgan James. He also leaves behind a sister, Norma Fischer in Switzerland with husband Peter and their children Michael and Sabrina and four grandchildren. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with a Rosary at 6:00 p.m., Monday, April 17, 2017, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, at St. Henry Catholic Church with Father Steve Leger officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange.
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orn Oct. 1, 1909, Chester Holts, the son of Charlie and Elizabeth Holts of Jasper County, grew up to become the longest serving sheriff in Orange County. His mother died in 1918 during the flu epidemic leaving Chester and six other children, one as young as 18 months. Unable to cope with the situation, Charles let the children become scattered among relatives. One of the children, Charlie Taylor Holts, went to live with a Mr. Reeves only to drown a month later. Chester said, “We had a hard go of it. We scattered around and lived where we could. Sometimes we camped on the river or stayed with first one then another. Nobody had anything around those old sawmill towns and nobody could really afford to keep another kid in the house but then, Mr. Fatty Andrews took me in. His son Fred, who had left home, returned, and he and I decided to ‘hobo around,’ going to Michigan, down to Florida and back to Michigan.” It was in Pontiac Michigan that Chester met his wife Iva Carroll. She and her family had moved up north from Louisiana looking for work. He and his bride moved back to Mauriceville, Texas. He went to work in the shipyard and was later elected business agent. In 1946, Orange County Sheriff Dick Stanfield offered Chester a job as his deputy. “No one in my family had ever been involved in law enforcement or politics, except I was then serving on the Mauriceville School Board,” Holts said. About a year into the job, Sheriff Stanfield died of a heart attack. Commissioners Court appointed Chester to fill out the sheriff ’s tenure, which was one year and one day. After this time, he was then elected to his first twoyear term. He served as sheriff for 21 years, most in two-year terms. His first opponents were Hobson Meriwether and Jim Morgan. In later elections, he ran against Tom Cockrell, Shorty Landry and twice against Morris Collier. During that time, he dealt with some gruesome cases. The Paul LaFleur case is one that comes to mind. LaFleur, from Houston, got off the train in Orange, killed a boy in a car, raped the two girls and tied them to a fence post. Sheriff Holts personally posted $500 for information and learned LaFleur was in Sercey, Tennessee, up in the Bald Eagle Mountain, where he had assumed the alias of Ted Taylor. Learning someone was supposed to mail him some winter clothes, Sheriff Holts passing as an insurance salesman, hung around the post office in Sercey. When he couldn’t be there, he hired a man to take his place. The man arrested LaFleur, and Chester brought him back. He received a life sentence and a 99-year sentence. An Orange taxi driver was murdered by Lester Ray Brown. The Sheriff caught him and he received a life sentence. The case that sticks out most in my mind was the murder of a 4-year-old girl, whose body was hidden under some cardboard boxes in a shed in West Orange. The girl had been out riding her tricycle. Her parents had missed her and were already looking for her when the murderer called his sister and told her
Orange County Sheriff Chester Holt in his last year of office.
The Orange County Jail where Sheriff Holt lived with his family for 21 years. It was the only childhood home daughter Wanda ever knew. A few years ago it was torn down.
what he had done. The Sheriff received the call while he and Iva were riding down Highway 87 and 105. He luckily spotted the guy, arrested him on the spot, without a gun and brought him in where he pleaded guilty. These are only some of the dozens of cases that the Sheriff was personally involved in. Sheriff Holts was a quiet man, but when he spoke pertaining to law enforcement, people listened. He applied common sense knowledge to every situation. He had a small staff of deputies in which Roy Laughlin, of Vidor, was his chief deputy. Others were W.S. Wagner, Charlie Burch, Babe Whittman, Bill Dickerson, Bill Joyce, Bill Potter, Tucker Clayton, Bill McDanial, Larry Gunner, dispatcher and others. Sheriff Holts knew the criminal element. Each morning he assembled the night crew with the day shift over breakfast that cook Beulah prepared. He found out what went on during the night and gave instructions to the day deputies to bring in certain suspects. That was before having to give Miranda Rights. He would personally question the suspects; he knew the criminal element so well that he usually solved the case and got a confession. I once rode with him to Lake Charles when Sheriff Ham Reid, from Calcasieu Parish, had called and said they had a suspect in jail whom they knew had committed a crime but wouldn’t give a statement. Sheriff Holts, after visiting with the suspect for a few minutes, announced that he was ready to confess. We drove home, and he never said a word about it. He never wore a pistol, but when he slipped one on, you knew it was serious. The Sheriff loved owning dogs. He had some tracking dogs. He often made a deal with a prisoner to cut his jail time if he could elude the dogs. None ever did. I was foolish enough once to tell him I thought I could fool his dogs. We were at his camp called, ‘Bug’s Scuffle’ between Buna and Gist. That was a mistake. When they spotted me, I barely outran them. I though I would die from lack of oxygen. He always kept Beagle hounds for coon hunting. He had a dirt floor camp on Highway 12, next to the hunting club. I spent many winter nights there with him. We slept on Army cots, kept warm and cooked with a 55-gallon barrel, wood-fed heater. He loved to hear those hounds howl. Sheriff Holts was all business when it came to law enforcement, but he was a very compassionate, big-hearted
guy. I’ll never forget the tears running down his cheeks as he watched the reports on television of the shooting and death of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. The Holts family lived in the old County Jail and most of the time Mrs. Holts cooked for the prisoners. “The prisoners were no bother, they got fat on my corn bread, beans and meat,” she said. “When it rained, I put out pots to catch the drips. Sometimes when we would get up in the morning, the floor would be a puddle of water,” she added. The Sheriff had a $97,000 a year budget. Food for the prisoners cost $450 per month. The department had four cars and 12 employees, including seven deputies. If DPS brought in a prisoner at 2 a.m., the Sheriff had to get up to lock him up. The Holts had three children, Morgan Ray, who died March 19, 1989, at age 61, Nova Dee Strickland, who wrote a book about her dad and family, and Wanda Beth Reinent, who is assisted Nova with the book. There was a fourth child, Howard James, who died as a young child. Wanda was 10 months old when her family moved into the old jail building. She celebrated her first birthday, started school, graduated and was married while living there. She was raised in the jailhouse. It was the only home she had growing up and was where her roots were set. Old Polly, the parrot, was also raised in the jail. The bird was a gift to Wanda when she entered the second grade. Throughout all those years, the Sheriff had enjoyed tremendous popularity, being fortunate enough to have the continued support of both labor and management. All of that changed when the Firestone plant went on strike. It turned out to be a bad one. When someone tried to blow up a pipeline, which failed because the explosives were put under the pipe instead of on top, the Sheriff called for assistance. The pipe is still bent from that explosion. Every law enforcement officer available was called to help control the large crowd and make arrest of the overly rowdy. It got bad, really bad. All but one officer lent their help. Chester’s longtime friend, 30-year constable of Pct. 3, Buck Pattillo, never showed and that was by design. Consequently, the sheriff lost both sides of the strike argument. The labor unions and his friends in it, including business agent, Dewey ‘Teddy Bear’ Cox, fell out with him for his enforcement. Management blamed him for not doing enough and arresting whoever had set off the bomb. Bob Montange, along with
Nolton Brown, Tick Granger, H.D. Pate and others organized to run a candidate against him. They chose to back the only law enforcement officer who was unblemished by the strike. Chester never got over the fact that Pattillo, his friend of so many years, who had eaten at his table regularly, would take the opportunity to challenge him when he was coming out of such a bad ordeal. Over the years, the men mentioned have expressed to me, what a bad mistake it was to support Buck. He had little education but was well liked. He also was a native from a pioneer family and knew everyone from being in office for 30 years. The record shows Pattillo was not a very effective sheriff. Another important factor in the defeat of Holts had to do with Judge Eugene Hoyt. When the 163rd. District Court was created by Gov. John Connally, he appointed Gene, who had no judicial experience, as the first judge of the new court. Hoyt was a title lawyer who owned an abstract company. During the Firestone strike, his rulings favored labor, and he joined in to defeat Sheriff Holts. He named Martin Ardoin, a friend of Montagne and Brown, as Court Baliff. Ardoin later served as Pct. 3 Justice of the Peace and lived to be 100 years old. Friends of Holts recruited Fred Trimble, who had a law license but had never practiced in a courtroom and actually owned the casket company, to run against Hoyt. Holts and Hoyt worked harder to defeat each other than to get themselves elected. They were both successful. The incumbents both lost and were replaced. In a way, it all goes back to the Firestone strike. Sheriff Holts had eight months left of his tenure when he lost a close race to Pattillo. At the time, I owned the Gulf Coast Bail Bonding Company, the only one in the county. Over the years, Chester and I had done many things together. When Buck won, I knew the jig was up for me also. I gave the business to Cecil Scales, who was from the oil field and had known Buck and his family a lifetime. Chester never got over the race that he called a betrayal. Even during the election, he never showed the spirit that had made him the longest serving sheriff in Orange County. He used the remainder of his time in office to see
that no unsolved, major crimes would be left on the books when he departed. The slate was clean, and on Dec. 30 he and Iva moved out of the jail that had been their home for a third of their lives. Chester Holts enjoyed his final years despite developing heart trouble that took his life on Aug. 18, 1984, 16 years af-
ter leaving office. Mrs. Holts lived another 16 years and passed away May 26, 2000. The legend of this great sheriff grew with the years, and any old timer will tell you today he was the best that ever was. I’m proud he was my friend as our paths crossed Down Life’s Highway.
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High Mustangs up to No. 5 in polls, Cardinals snap tie School Bass Fishing Growing Dave Rogers
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Capt. Dickie Colburn
Bridge City Cardinal Luc Hollier dashes home to score as Orangefield Bobcat pitcher Ryon Stubblefield comes in to cover. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn
Friday’s clutch 6-5 win over Silsbee vaulted West Orange-Stark to No. 5 in the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association poll, one spot higher than the Tigers. Abilene Wylie, 20-1, is ranked No. 1, followed by Argyle (18-1), Robinson (17-2), Pleasant Groves (21-2) and 17-3 WO-S. K.J. Miller’s two-run double in the bottom of the sixth was the big shot for the Mustangs, canceling out a 5-4 Silsbee lead. Jack Dallas was the winning pitcher for WO-S, striking out seven, while Ryan Ragsdale picked up the save. Silsbee scored four times in the top of the second to open the scoring, but the Mustangs fought back for a 4-4 tie after getting a run in the second and three more in the fourth. The Tigers went up 5-4 in the top of the sixth.
The Mustangs improved to 5-0 in District 22-4A while Silsbee dropped to 4-1. WOS was supposed to open secondround play Tuesday at Little CypressMauriceville but that game was postponed by rain. The Mustangs are set to host Hamshire-Fannett Friday. BC baseball outlasts Orangefield 7-5 The Cardinals baseball team broke a 4-all tie with Orangefield Friday, April 7, with a three-run fifth inning and held on for a 7-5 win over the Bobcats. The result left both teams tied for third in 22-4A with records of 2-3. Mason Gonzales and Brett Fregia led Orangefield with two hits each while Caleb Dubois and Justyn Romero had two hits each for BC. Romero knocked in two runs to lead BC while Anthony Hoyland and Dylan Anthony each picked up RBIs for the
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ven before the police officer directed me off Simmons Drive and into the Public Boat launch parking area, it was evident that there were more trailered bass boats parked in the massive lot at one time than I had ever seen before. It was well-controlled chaos as no less than 476 teams, friends and relatives emptied their live wells, compared notes and made their way to the weigh-in tent. Orange and the Sabine River Park were hosting the fifth SETX High School Bass fishing tournament of the year and for every two-student team there was at least one additional adult serving as team captain. “Thus far,” said LCM team mentor, Nellie Miller, “providing enough volunteer captains has been the only bump in the road for what may well be the fastest growing team sport in southeast Texas high schools.” The entire area was awash in a sea of brightly colored fishing jerseys denoting not only sponsors, but each participating high school as well and I can assure you that every high school was well represented. The river event was a first for the association as most of the previous events have been hosted on Sam Rayburn. Unfortunately, the kids were greeted with high and extremely dirty water Saturday morning compliments of the flooding the weekend before. Catching keeper bass required a serious change of tactics, but even at that, 149 of the teams managed to weigh in at least one fish. That number may appear to be a little paltry to anyone unable to observe the total absence of water clarity currently on the river. Only a week before, the river had been in the best shape of the year and was churning out easy limits of bass. The bottom line is that these youngsters were forced to adapt and did it well! I was only able to corral a couple of the winning teams and for the most part, it appears that they ran to the Neches River or Taylor’s Bayou in hopes of finding slightly clearer water. The team of Cole Hebert and Will Broussard representing Hamshire Fannett High School apparently chose the best spot and the right technique as they posted an impressive weight of 16.92 pounds to win the first place check. Their five fish catch was anchored by a 5.76-pound bass that earned them big bass honors as well. Their big bass also proved to be the difference maker as the LCM team of Kameryn Henderson and Tyler Shearin finished a close second with 15.39 pounds anchored by a 4.04-pound big bass. They weren’t the only Orange County team to hold serve on their home waters as three other local teams finished in the Top Ten. The Orangefield teams of Brett and Faith Fregia finished seventh with 9.96-pounds while Abby Gautreaux and
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Jacob Goodman gets the win on the hill for the Bridge City Cardinals as they defeat the Orangefield Bobcats 7-5 in district action. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn
Orangefield Bobcat Kent Michael gets a hit against the Bridge City Cardinals in fierce district baseball on Friday. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn
Orangefield Bobcat Mason Gonzales tags third base outing Bridge City Cardinal Justyn Romero in Cardinal Field Friday. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn
Ryon Stubblefield delivers a pitch for the Orangefield Bobcats against the Bridge City Cardinals. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn
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Earl Thomas, not Sherman, star of Seahawks defense
KAZ’S KORNER JOE KAZMAR FOR THE RECORD
Almost every ESPN sports show on the tube or radio has a segment about Richard Sherman’s desire to leave the Seattle Seahawks, even though he has two years left on his present contract which is worth $11.431 million for 2017 and $11 million for 2018. Nine of the 11 defensive starters are under contract for the next two years. Sherman always seems to be the focal point of attention whether he is on the ďŹ eld or o. e 29-year-old four-time AllPro cornerback for the Seahawks appears to have convinced general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll that he is 100 per cent serious about leaving the team.
B o t h Schneider and Carroll have made it clear publicly that Sherman is available for trade, according to an article written by Sheil Kapadia for ESPN.com on Sunday. Apparently the Seahawks’ front oďŹƒce has gotten fed up Sherman’s sideline blowups last year that clearly didn’t set well with Carroll. Sherman got into it with defensive coordinator Kris Richard after the Seahawks blew a coverage and his teammates had to rally around him to calm him down. “On Week 15, Sherman questioned a decision to pass from the Los Angeles Rams’ one-yard line and went after Carroll and oensive coordinator Darrell
If it weren’t for West Orange-Stark graduate Earl Thomas, the Seattle Seahawks’ Richard Sherman wouldn’t look as good as he does in the defensive secondary. Bevell,� the article pointed out. He was referring to quarterback Russell Wilson’s game-ending interception in Super Bowl XLIX. Sherman, who has never missed an NFL game during his entire career at Seattle, has been an important player on defense during the Seahawks’ recent run of success. But the main reason Sherman makes so many good plays is because he knows if he misses a tackle or allows a big reception that his free safety is right there to back him up. And that free safety is none other than Orange native Earl omas III, who made All-State at West Orange-Stark High School, All-American at the
University of Texas and a fourtime All-Pro in the NFL. So if Sherman makes good on his talk about wanting out of Seattle and is traded, he won’t have Earl omas backing him up on his new team, telling him what the upcoming play will be and what direction it will be run. And he won’t be part of the NFL’s best defense for the past four seasons. Although Sherman gets most of the accolades for the Seahawks’ success on defense, Earl omas exists and thrives in anonymity, according to a recent article on the Seahawks’ website. “His (omas’) presence is regularly discussed, and though rarely ever seen, it is always felt.
ose who have encountered him or aligned alongside him are quick to laud what he brings to the ďŹ eld,â€? the article stated. “Most of the work omas does goes unseen because he lines up o the screen on regular broadcasts. When he executes his job as designed, the ball is unlikely to be thrown in his direction, so omas’ best plays don’t become highlights. But his best plays prevent the oense from getting their own highlights.â€? e article points out that between Weeks 1 to 11 this season, the Seahawks surrendered completions on just 2 of 12 attempts that traveled 16 or more yards deep over the middle of the ďŹ eld for a total of 53 yards.
After Earl missed Game 12 and was injured for the season in Game 13 against the Carolina Panthers, those numbers swelled to 5-of-10 for 206 yards with his replacement Steven Terrell at free safety. On the third play after they carried omas o the ďŹ eld with a broken bone in his leg, Carolina’s quarterback Cam Newton completed a 55-yard touchdown pass directly down the middle of the ďŹ eld on a third-and-17 situation. “It was the type of pass Newton would have never attempted with Earl on the ďŹ eld,â€? the article said. With omas out of the game, Seattle played a more passive coverage than the ‘Hawks would have otherwise. Earl may not be the biggest free safety in the NFL but one needs to be a plus athlete with the ďŹ eld so big and the receivers so talented to rely solely on athleticism. “omas’ acceleration and overall speed is unmatched across the league, but it’s his understanding of opposing offenses that accentuates his range. “omas is a unique player who is at the heart of everything the Seahawks have done over the past four seasons, when they have arguably been the most dominant defense in history,â€? the article concluded. As far as Sherman is concerned, if and when he leaves Seattle for some greener grass, he will realize that without Earl omas having his back, he will drop from being an All-Pro cornerback on the best defense in the NFL to being just another cornerback in a defense that he will have to take time to learn and understand. Good Luck Motor Mouth!!! KWICKIES‌e Houston
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Ashlyn Turley earned the ninth place check with 9.67-pounds. e Bridge City team of Tanner Wilson and Ethan Borque ďŹ nished eighth with 9.86-pounds. at’s right fellows‌‌a pair of young ladies bested 467 other teams! e championship event is set for the weekend of May 6 and 7 on Sam Rayburn. We are also only a couple of weeks shy of yet another Bob Sealy Big Bass Splash event on Sam Rayburn. at event is an absolute circus to ďŹ sh, but a single bite could make your year. Bob has successfully managed to put a price on inconvenience for amateur bass ďŹ shermen. e recent ooding up the country really slowed the bite in the river and the bayous. For the ďŹ rst time in a long time, prior to that, we were once again catching a few solid trout in the river. e redďŹ sh and ounder bite held up in spite of the catastrophic ooding over a two year time frame, but the trout all but disappeared. e wind has been the only culprit in Sabine Lake. It keeps the water a little bit on the dirty side and all but prevents ďŹ shing certain areas on any given day. Every time Mother Nature has given us a break, local anglers have managed to ďŹ nd pretty decent trout. e redďŹ sh are al-
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Hamshire-Fannett High School’s fishing team is on the hot seat after a recent competition. ready schooling in the open lake and while they have been a little oversized for the most part, they are still fun to catch! I haven’t talked with any one that has consistently caught ounder in the Game Reserve canals recently, but the ďŹ sh are there. As soon as we start seeing more schools of immature shad parading down the shoreline it will be game on!   Â
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Diamond Action Bobcats. Neither of the teams’ aces, Jacob Goodman for Bridge City, and Ryon StubbleďŹ eld for OrangeďŹ eld, was around at the end. Goodman struck out eight batters in 4.2 innings while StubbleďŹ eld managed only 2 Ks in 4.0 innings. e Cards scored two runs in the second and single markers in the third and fourth for a 4-0 lead. OrangeďŹ eld wiped that out with a four-run top of the ďŹ fth. Lady Bears put whipping on HF Jenna James struck out 10 batters in ďŹ ve innings and Little Cypress-Mauriceville’s softball team banged out 12 hits in a 152 win over Hamshire-Fannett, Friday, April 7. Orangefield softball blanks WOS Kaylee Ancelot allowed one hit and struck out ďŹ ve as OrangeďŹ eld took an 18-0 win over West Orange-Stark in three innings on Tuesday, April 4. e Lady Bobcats were led by Autumn Frost, who went 3 for 3
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with two doubles and a home run, good for six RBIs and three run scored. Tiany Ciancaglione went 4 for 4 and Kristin Broussard, Karlye Bramblett and Ancelot had two hits each. OrangeďŹ eld improved to 3-2 in district with the win, 12-9 overall. HF downs BC baseball 7-3 Hamshire-Fannett scored three runs in the first and third innings and took a 7-3 win over Bridge City Tuesdasy, April 4. Luc Hollier had two of BC’s eight hits. Two Longhorn pitchers scattered eight hits. HF led 6-1 after ďŹ ve, 7-1 heading into BC’s ďŹ nal at-bat. WOS strums Orangefield 12-2 A ďŹ ve-run ďŹ fth inning gave WOS a 12-2 win over OrangeďŹ eld Tuesday, April 4. Tre’ Bernard, Ryan Ragsdale and Jack Dallas each knocked in three WOS runs while Dallas, B.B. Tezeno and Bernard had two hits apiece.
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LC-M’s teams win big, Bridge City girls ‘team’ up for track title ORANGE COUNTY SPORTS DAVE ROGERS FOR THE RECORD
When it comes to rising to the top in spring sports, Little Cypress-Mauriceville has had a big last few days. Tuesday, the Bear boys and girls swept the District 22-4A golf tournament at Orange’s Sunset Grove Country Club. Last Thursday, the Bears boys track team won the district team title at Silsbee. The next day, LCM’s girls advanced to the finals of the Region III soccer tournament – one win away from the state tourney – by beating Bay City 32. Kourtney Baldwin scored the winning goal with 2:51 remaining in the second half. It was her second goal of the match. Saturday, Baldwin scored the only LC-M goal (on an assist by Kayla Nichols) as the Lady Bears fell to Jasper 2-1 to end the most successful season in program history with a 194-2 record. Jasper had beaten LCM 7-0 in their earlier 2017 meeting. At the district track meet, LCM distance runner Eli Peveto and hurdler Gage Spence were double winners as the Bears outpointed runnerup West Orange-Stark 168-127 for the boys championship. Silsbee, Orangefield and Bridge City finished third through fifth. Coach Jamie DeShazo’s Bridge City Lady Cardinals won the 22-4A girls team title, 162-160 over runnerup Hamshire-Fannett. And they did it without winning a single first place. “From the beginning of the year, we talked about trying to get at least three people to point in each event,”
DeShazo said. “That’s how you win a team championship. And we almost did that.” The Cardinals scored in all 17 events contested at Silsbee High School. “That’s pretty cool,” DeShazo said. “It really was a team championship. Everybody had to come together.” A total of 23 Bridge City girls entered the meet and 21 scored points, led by jumper Peyton Trapp, sprinter Rylee Ocegura and jumpers Reyna Owens and Alyssa Fukuda. Trapp scored 19 points with a second in the long jump, a third in the triple jump and a tie for third in the high jump. Ocegura scored 18 points with four third places (100 meters, 4x100, 4x200 and shot put), while Owens and Fukuda scored 16 points each. The Cardinals had five secondplace finishes, Trapp in the long jump, Fukuda in the triple and high jumps, Mackenzie Murdock in the 400 meters and the 4x400 relay team of Murdock, Mackenzie Martin, Carissa Slaughter and Alyssa Reza. Others who scored for BC were Malia Jones, Brittany Fonville, Kennedy Rasco, Carlee Dearing, Kirstee Ellerbee, Sasha Milstead, Macie Murty, Brooklin Sheffield, Halle Huckabee, Valerie Vargas, Jillian Wilson, Kimberly Ceja and Emily Rannols. Sixteen of them – those who finished in the top four in their event – will advance to the area meet April 19 at West Orange-Stark. ••• County Commissioner John Gothia, who’s been a part of every big fishing event held in Orange in recent years, said about 3,500 people attended last weekend’s high school fishing tourna-
Bass boats await their owners during the weigh-in ceremony at last Saturday’s high school fishing tournament on the Sabine River. More than 300 two-man teams entered and 276 returned to weigh fish. Photo by Dave Rogers ment at the Orange Boat Ramp. LCM’s team of Kameryn Henderson and Tyler Shearin were the top-finishing Orange County team, second only to a Hamshire-Fannett duo. While LCM had five of the top 50 highest-finishing teams, Orangefield had two of the top 10 and three of the top 50 and Bridge City five of the top 50. “We were extremely happy with the more than 300 teams registering and 276 that checked back in, which meant they had fish,” Gothia said. “We’re always happy for the ability to showcase our river system.”
••• The host with the most, LCM coach Bart Williams, saw both his school’s boys and girls golf team win 22-4A team titles at Orange’s Sunset Grove Country Club Tuesday. A heavy downpour after lunch caused play to be halted after nine holes on the final day. LCM’s Evan Toohey and Jack Tindell tied for the lowest 27-hole score of 120, while LCM teammate Trey Love was third, at 124. Blaze Montgomery of Bridge City finished fourth at 127.
Think outside shallow with topwater plugs
OUTDOORS WEEKLY CAPT. CHUCK UZZLE FOR THE RECORD
“That’s just stupid, that is just stupid” said my partner for the day Mike Mcbride, “I can’t believe you can get these fish to eat topwater plugs in 7 feet of water”. Our drift along the east shore line of Sabine had produced some very respectable fish that no wade fisherman could have ever reached. The pattern was foreign to “Mctrout” and he
made no bones about it, drifting in deep water and throwing topwater plugs was just too strange a concept for this shallow water angler extraordinaire. Now give my boy “Mctrout” a foot of water over a gin clear flat and he makes magic happen, the guy is a stud when it comes to chasing them in the skinny. Knowing all this made the chaos that much more en-
joyable for yours truly. March, April, and May are my favorite months for making long drifts over deep structure, the southeast winds allow anglers a chance to set up on a particular stretch of deep water and fish it with minimal boat noise. Sabine and Calcasieu are perfect places to drift deep, the trout cooperate and
the crowds are usually all bunched up in the shallows. It’s not uncommon to see 50 or 60 boats on a reef in Calcasieu, that’s just standard practice. The smart angler will fish the outside edge of the big crowds and use them to their advantage. All the noise produced by the boats will push trout off of shell and out into deeper water where they tend to gang up on the next piece of structure. Bink Grimes, his dad Danny, and
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LCM, Orangefield and HamshireFannett finished 1-2-3 among boys teams. LCM’s girls defeated runnerup Orangefield and third-place Bridge City. Silsbee’s Mackenzie Sears won the girls individual title at 151, with LCM’s Theresa Beckett next at 160, followed by Hamshire-Fannett’s Caroline Ogden at 161, Bridge City’s Eliska Suchardova at 163 and LCM’s Jessica McLain at 167. The top two teams and top two individuals advance to the Region III tournament April 24-25 at Raven’s Nest in Huntsville.
70th Wedding Anniversary
Ross and Nelda Burns celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary with a gathering of family and friends. The couple were married April 12, 1947 in Simpson, La.
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Seattle Seahawks safety and former West Orange-Stark standout is hosting a free football camp on June 23 and 24 at . e camp is available for kids aged 5 to 18 and will happen from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. both days. e deadline to register for
the camp is April 28 and registration forms can be found on the West Orange-Cove CISD website. Registration forms can be returned in person to many places including the WO-S athletics office, any WOCCISD campus and the LC-M athletics office.
trout one perfect April morning. Our drift allowed us several hundred yards of water in the 3 to 4 foot depth range with crowds on both sides of us. We had an alley of roughly a hundred 100 yards between the two big groups, just enough room to keep our success hidden from most of the spectators. On our initial pass through the alley Danny hooked the huge trout on a Top Dog and was successful in bringing her to the boat. The next couple of hours were filled with solid trout; one after another they crushed our offerings and stretched our string as we did everything we could to hide our good fortune from the fiberglass army that
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Astros completed their sevengame home stand to start the 2017 major league baseball season and finished with an acceptable 4-3 record. Immediately after beating the Kansas City Royals 6-5 in 12 innings Sunday, they boarded a plane for Seattle where they played a three-game series that began Monday. And after an off day tomorrow (ursday) they go down the Left Coast to Oakland for another three-game series. Going into Monday’s series, the Mariners had won only one game so far this season, beating Houston ursday after losing three straight at Minute Maid Park. And while on the subject of the Astros, two of their four victories last week were won in the 12th inning. ey’re bopping plenty of home runs, but can’t seem to deliver base hits with men in scoring position. eir starting pitchers are rock solid with an ERA of around 1.00, but two of their three losses came from the shaky bullpen. e Lamar baseball team salvaged one win in their threegame series against the University of New Orleans, whipping them soundly Sunday 9-1 after being shut out 2-0 Friday and 6-0 Saturday. e Cardinals had an impressive 11-1 victory over Baylor in Waco last week and played Grambling
From Page 2B surrounded us. The notion of throwing topwater plugs in areas that normally are reserved for sub surface offerings is backwards for most folks along the coast. Sure there are some times when fish are schooling and it’s just natural to throw a topwater, who could resist watching fish under the birds or a herd of surfacing redfish seek out and destroy a She Dog or a Super Spook. That same pattern normally reserved for summer months and schooling fish works well in the spring, especially on the upper coast. The largest trout I ever caught was in April while drifting 6 feet of water and throwing a She Dog, the huge fish weighed in at 11 pounds 1 ounce so you can understand why I am a
believer in this method. Conventional wisdom and history says you must attack big fish while wading and they have to be in shallow water, that’s all well and good but it’s not the gospel nor is it the whole truth. So far this spring we have seen the deeper areas around the flats we wade hold more fish some reason. Several times this year the big flat on the lake side of Stewt’s island was covered with waders who were struggling to figure the fish out while just a few hundred yards away anglers drifting a little deeper water with same plugs were doing a number on some better than average fish. In normal years these same areas off the flats are reserved for drifting live bait or plastics. I can’t tell you how many times during the spring
that we have big trout come up and strike at a cork while we drift live shad or chunk Mansfield Maulers. These fish are perfect topwater fish only they are in a different area than most anglers associate for the spring and they usually don’t have the pressure that the shallow fish have either. Don’t paint yourself into a corner this spring with the idea that your topwater plug won’t catch fish in deeper water; they produce well as long you are willing to try them out. Also don’t worry about a little chop on the water either because the fish don’t care; as a matter of fact it’s really preferable to have a little ripple on the water. The spring is tailor made for big fish, just remember they swim in the deep stuff too.
From Page 2B State last night (Tuesday). According to the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Texans have a real good chance of landing one of the three top quarterbacks available in the upcoming NFL draft with their No. 25 pick in the first round. Patrick Mahomes of Texas Tech, Clemson’s DeShaun Watson and Mitchell Trubiski of North Carolina appear to be the quarterbacks that will go in the first round. e teams that could use a quarterback will probably not be willing to squander their No. l pick and teams like Cleveland and San Francisco who are desperate don’t want to waste their first
pick on a quarterback either. e article believes that by the time the Texans’ are ready to make their No. 1 selection, one of the three quarterbacks will be available. Which one is still the $64,000 question? Congrats are in order for the Little Cypress-Mauriceville boys and the Bridge City girls’ track teams for taking first place in last week’s District 22-4A Track & Field championships held at Silsbee. e top four finishers in every event qualified for the Class 4A Area Round Track Meet which will take place next Wednesday at West Orange-Stark. JUST BETWEEN US…After
73 straight times of failing to win a major golf tournament— and having an excuse for each one—the 37-year old Sergio Garcia finally won one. He captured the Masters traditional green jacket, beating Justin Rose on the first sudden death hole after the two finished 72 holes deadlocked at 9-under par. I took a disliking to him when he belittled Tiger Woods on national television when Tiger was at the top of his game. He also always found something wrong with the golf course when he failed to win a major event. e best thing I enjoyed Sunday was Matt Kuchar hitting his hole-in-one on No. 16 and
Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd returned to Southwest Louisiana this past Saturday night (April 8, 2017) and delivered a rousing 90-minute rock show in front of a sold-out crowd at the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La. The band’s set including classic tunes such as “What’s Your Name?” “Gimme Three Steps,” “That Smell,” “Saturday Night Special,” “Simple Man,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Freebird.” Upcoming shows at the Golden Nugget include Southeast Texas-native Mark Chesnutt on Friday, April 14; the Little River Band on Friday, April 21; and rock icons Boston on Saturday, April 22. Photo By Tommy Mann Jr.
Music Tony Faulk and Chaos @ Clayboy’s BBQ (Groves) Snafu @ Dylan’s Amanda Walker @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Prime Time Band @ Gator Lounge Paul Gonsoulin @ e Grill Dustin Sonnier @ Honky Tonk Texas Pee Wee Bowen @ Larry’s French Market e Kadillacs @ e Lone Wolf Brad Brinkley @ Luke’s Icehouse Mid-County
From Page 6A Mid Life Crisis @ Mackenzie’s Pub Still Cruisin’ @ Madison’s Reed Planchard, Bayou Sounds @ Pine Tree Lodge Gyth Rigdon @ Quaker Steak and Lube Organic Radio, Alex Rozell @ Rikenjaks Tyler Dudley @ e Rodair Roadhouse Allison Collins @ Rush Lounge Texas Legacy @ Rusty Nail Brittany Pfantz Band @ Sloppy’s Downtown
Tony Faulk and Chaos @ Tammy’s e Fabulous Hellcats @ Texas Ave. Tavern Pig Charmer, Uncle Touchie and e Feel Goodz, Kaitlyn Dillon @ Texas Rose Saloon Trevor Batson and Ryan Gist @ irsty’s Mixx Fixxer @ Tiki Beach Bar and Grill Sunday, April 16 Angel Garcia @ Blue Martini Mike Buller @ e Boudain Hut Bryan Trahan @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Linda Kaye and the Kool Katz @ Jefferson County Singles Club Street Side Jazz Band @ Luna Bar and Grill Wayne Cook @ e Pompano Club e Jay Ecker Quartet, Joe and Tina @ Rikenjaks Orphan Annie @ Rush Lounge Monday, April 17 Stacy Bearden @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Rachael and Ian @ Rush Lounge Tyler Darby @ Tradewinds Tavern Tuesday, April 18 Sage Elmore @ e Boudain Hut North Caleb Williams @ Dylan’s Kevin Lambert @ Ember Grille and Wine Bar Pug Johnson and Tyler Darby @ Madison’s Matt and Katie @ Rush Lounge Jimmy Kaiser @ Tradewinds Tavern
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Jonathan Davis, Marine Biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife, recently talked to juniors and seniors in the classroom of one of his past Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School instructors, Woody Cox.Davis talked about the Gulf of Mexico, Sabine Lake fish, sharks, his career, travels and research. He also talked about sitting in the same chairs that they sit in and what it took to make his dream a reality.His research on sharks while working on a doctorate at the University of New Orleans, led to him being featured in Discovery Channel’s Shark Week a few years ago. While working on his degrees, he has literally studied sea life, especially sharks, at points all over the world.Jonathan and the interesting critters he encounters can be followed on Twitter @TexasSharks_JD.
Ms. Casey’s third grade class of Community Christian School had a ton of fun making edible soil models in Science. They used graham crackers for bedrock, pudding for subsoil, and crushed Oreos for topsoil. Of course they had to add a “worm” to represent organic material!
LCM pair 2nd in fishing tourney Kameryn Henderson and Tyler Shearin were rewarded for their local knowledge as the Little Cypress-Mauriceville duo finished second in Saturday’s high school fishing tournament on the Sabine River. Henderson and Shearin landed a limit of five bass that weighed in at a combined 15.39 pounds. That was second only to the 16.92 pounds landed by Hamshire-Fannett’s Cole Hebert and Will Broussard. It was the first tournament held outside Lake Sam Rayburn in the four-year history of the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association and the April 8 event based at the
Orange Boat Ramp drew entries from more than 270 twoman teams. While LCM had five of the top 50 highest-finishing teams, Orangefield had two of the top 10 and three of the top 50 and Bridge City five of the top 50. Other top 50 finishers for LCM included Justin James and Spencer Brister, 19th with 7.76 pounds; Jesse Doucette and Justin Brister, 25th at 7.70 pounds; Dakota Posey and Jack Burke, 43rd at 5.94 pounds; and Chance Dillon and Shawn McKay, 45th at 5.89. Orangefield’s top 50 finishers were Brett Fregia and Faith Fregia, 7th at 9.96 pounds;
Abby Gautreaux and Ashlyn Turley, ninth at 9.67 pounds; and Chaz Laird and Brooklyn Goldsmith, 41st at 6.50 pounds. Bridge City’s top 50 finishers were Tanner Wilson and Ethan Bourque, eighth at 9.86 pounds; Cayce Draper and Trace Moore, 30th at 6.83; Balei Slaughter and Lacey Pender, 32nd at 6.67; Jack Fontenot and Dyllan Branshaw, 46th at 6.13 pounds; and Riley Pipps and Ky Terrell, 47th at 5.62. SETXHSFA holds its Championship Weekend May 6-7 at Sam Rayburn, with activities based at the Umphrey Family Pavilion.
UIL academic meet leads to state Bridge City High School competed at the UIL Regional Academic Meet in Huntsville at Sam Houston State University on Friday and Saturday, April 78, 2017. e following are the results from this contest: in Calculator Applications, Brandon Curl placed 1st and Jacob Cunningham placed 2nd. e Calculator Applications team of Brandon Curl, Jacob Cunningham, Zach Dionne, and Kendall Gibson took 1st place team. e sponsor for Calculator
Applications is Jobie Hill.In Literary Criticism, Tabitha Blakeney placed 4th and Bree Cloud placed 6th. e Literary Criticism team of Tabitha Blakeney, Bree Cloud, and Alexys Erwin took 2nd place team. e sponsor for Literary Criticism is Emily Kosh. In Ready Writing, Fabian Rodriguez took 6th place. e sponsor for Ready Writing is Diane Grooters. In Spelling, Kevin Fontenot took 3rd place. e sponsor for Spelling is Kathie Dorman. In Current Events, Brianna
Cross took 5th place. In Persuasive Speaking, Ruby Sanders took 6th place. e sponsor for these events is Shannon King. In LD Debate, Ruby Sanders took 4th place. In Social Studies, Dane Piper took 6th place. e sponsor for these events is Don Miller. All students placing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and any first place teams will be advancing to the UIL State Academic Meet on Friday and Saturday, April 21-22, 2017 at the University of Texas in Austin.
Logan Blackmon was named the April Student of the Month by the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce. Pictured, from left, are Michael Hanneman, Billy Blackmon, Deanna Blackmon, Superintendent Dr. Stephen Patterson, Logan Blackmon, Principal Zach Quinn, Counselor Candi Patterson.
Blackmon honored by Chamber The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that the April Student of the Month for Orangefield High School is Logan Blackmon. Logan was presented his certificate and gift bag by Chamber Ambassador and owner of Whitetail Construction Services, Michael Hanneman at the April 11th coffee hosted by Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City. He received gift certificates and gifts from: Anytime Fitness Bridge City, The Classy Peacock, COS Printing, Bridge City Walmart, Wellspring Credit Union, Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City, Bridge City Bank, Sabine River Ford, Sabine Federal Credit Union, MCT Credit Union, Complete Staffing, and Neches Federal Credit Union. Logan is the son of Billy and Deana Blackmon. He has a GPA of 4.63 and is ranked 7 of 115. Logan’s awards and honors include: • Class Officer – 2016-2017 • National Honor Society • Highest Honor Award 2013-2016 • OHS “Big O” Awards – Geometry, English 3, Spanish, and Algebra 2 Logan’s clubs and organizations include: • OHS Golf Team • OHS Varsity Track • Spanish Club – Class representative 2017 • AP Calculus • AP Chemistry 2 • AP US History • Dual Credit History In community service, Logan has volunteered at Winfree Baptist Church, Liberty Baptist Church, the National Honor Society and the Ministerial Alliance and helped refurbish the Ministerial Alliance. Candi Patterson, Counselor, said, “Logan is a very wholesome, well-mannered young man. He has a wonderful set of personal values and deep humility. He is also talented academically. He will excel in any field of study because he has the ability to focus and to take his
work seriously. Logan also has good self-discipline and works well in a team. He is respected by staff and peers alike. He has a “never give up” spirit. He continually challenges himself in his choice of courses each year as well as in other school activities.” Mrs. Jenkins, AP Chemistry Teacher, said, “Over the past few years, it has been my pleasure to witness Logan transform
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into a respectful, responsible young man. Logan sets goals for himself and follows through until completion. I respect his intelligence and tenacity.” After graduation, Logan plans to attend college in the fall at Texas A & M University and will pursue a degree in biology. After receiving his bachelor’s, he plans to attend medical school to become a pediatric orthopedic surgeon.
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Four Things to Teach Your Children This Easter
Christina Fox Guest Contributor desiringGod.org
have because of Christ. Here are four key things to teach our children this Easter.
Spring is upon us. Flowers are beginning to bud, leaves are reappearing on trees, and birds are building their nests. Signs and decorations herald the arrival of our favorite season when we walk into local stores. Bags of plastic eggs and bunny-shaped confections line the shelves. While we Christians enjoy all the signs of spring, this season is special for us in another way. In a couple weeks, we’ll celebrate the most important holiday weekend of the year: our Lord’s death and resurrection. Beyond jellybeans and warm sunshine, we remember and rejoice in the new life that is ours because of Christ’s sacrifice for our sins and triumph over the grave. And we want our children to know this joy, too. We want our children to know that there is more to this time of year than chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps — so much more. Will you join me in trying to turn the blooming opportunities of this season into a way to teach our children more about Jesus? Let’s think toward making the most of this spring to show our kids all that they
1. The Story of Redemption Our family has what we call a “Resurrection Tree.” For the month leading up to Easter, we read through the story of redemption. We begin with creation and the Fall. We then go through God’s covenant promises in the Old Testament, as well as prophecies about the Messiah such as in Isaiah 53. We study Jesus’s birth, baptism, and ministry. During the final week, Holy Week, each day’s passage focuses on Jesus’s last days. For each story and passage we read, we hang an ornament on our “Resurrection Tree” that we’ve made to symbolize the passage we read. 2. The Importance of the Resurrection Jesus’s resurrection from the grave is at the heart of our faith. Paul wrote, If the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have
hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. (1 Corinthians 15:16–19) Go through this passage with your children and teach them how crucial the resurrection is to our salvation. Teach them that Christ rose from the grave because he was the perfect Son of God. The grave could not hold him. He conquered sin and death. Not only that, his resurrection assures our own future bodily resurrection. 3. Christ Is the Passover Lamb It is no coincidence that Jesus suffered and died during the Passover. Teach your children the significance of this. Read the story of the original Passover. Show them how the Passover in Exodus points to Jesus, and how because of Jesus we are freed from God’s righteous judgment. 4. Cross Truths Easter is also a great time to teach your children central themes such as substitutionary atonement, justification, imputation, and redemption. Discuss how Jesus perfectly obeyed his Father in all things. Teach your children that Jesus’s perfect life has been
credited to us in union with him by faith. In Christ, God now looks at us and sees Christ’s perfect life. Talk about the sacrifices made in the Old Testament and why they were not sufficient to atone for our sins. Discuss why Jesus was a perfect sacrifice for us at the cross and that it was sufficient for all time. Talk about what it means to redeem or buy back something. How does Jesus redeem us? Allegories can be a helpful aid in teaching these wonderful truths, including R.C. Sproul’s The Princes Poison Cup and The Priest With the Dirty Clothes, and of course, C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. As we teach our children about the cross, let us also remember those wonderful words from Aslan, that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward. For more from Desiring God on preparing for Easter, see the booklet by John Piper, Love to the Uttermost: Devotional Readings for Holy Week, available in softcover or free of charge in three electronic formats. Christina Fox (@christinarfox) writes for a number of Christian ministries and publications including True Woman, ERLC, and The Gospel Coalition. She is the author of A Heart Set Free: A Journey Through the Psalms of Lament. You can find her at www.christinafox.com and on Facebook.
You are always welcome at these Orange County churches.
Triangle Baptist Church 6446 Garrison at Hwy. 408 Orangefield 409-735-2661 Pastor: Bobby Oliver 409-659-5027 Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Sunday Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday Service 7 p.m. We are a KJV independent Baptist Church
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ORANGEFIELD 9788 F.M. 105 Orangefield 409.735.3113
Sun: Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship Service 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Wednesday evening serviceS: Youth and Children 6:30 p.m., Praise and Prayer 6:30 p.m., Choir practice 7:30 p.m. Pastor Cody Hogden Email: office@fbcof.com / Website: www.fbcof.com
Living Word Church Highway 87 & FM 1006 • Orange • 735-6659 Sunday Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wedensday evening 7 p.m. Pastor: G.K. Samual
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MCDONALD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH 104 Broad St. • West Orange • 883-3974 Sunday Bible Study 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Evening: Youth & Children 6 p.m. Adult Prayer Service 6:00 p.m. Pastor: Tommy Anthony
Minister of Music: Pam Nugent / Youth Minister: Brandon Swarers
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Faith United Methodist Church 8608 MLK• Orange • 886-1291 Pastor: Keith Tilley
Sunday Morning Grow Groups 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Nursery Provided. Youth 5:30 pm Youth Band 7 pm (www.faithorange.org)
Harvest Chapel 1305 Irving St. • West Orange • 882-0862 Sunday Worship 10 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Night Service 6 p.m. Wednesday Night Service: 6 p.m.
Pastor: Gerald Ratcliff
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Church of God in Christ 2800 Bob Hall Road • Orange • 886-4366 Pastor: Ernest B Lindsey
Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wed. Bible Study - 6 p.m. Worship 7:30 p.m. VIM Youth 6 p.m.
Intercessory Prayer Daily 9:00 a.m. www.slcogicorange.org
First United Methodist Church Orange 502 Sixth Street 886-7466 8:00 a.m. Traditional Worship in the Chapel 9:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship in the Praise Center 11:00 a.m. Traditional Worship in the Sanctuary Sunday School For All Ages 10:00 a.m.
Pastor: Rev. John Warren Director of Music and Fine Arts: Doug Rogers
St. Paul United Methodist Church
1155 W. Roundbunch • Bridge City • 409.735.5546 Sunday Morning Worship Experience: 8:30 a.m., Sunday school 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship 10:45 a.m. (Nursery provided). For middle and senior high youth 3:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Taize’ service for children 6:30 p.m. “Kids For Christ” Wednesday 6 p.m.-7 p.m. For information on pre-school enrollment 409-735-5546
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH
945 W. Roundbunch • Bridge City • 409-735-4573 Worship Services: Tradition 9 a.m., Sunday School 10:15 a.m., Contemporary Service 11 a.m., Monday ‘Compassionate Friends’ 6 p.m., Wednesday ‘Compassionate Friends’ 10 a.m., Thursday Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Pastor Paul Zoch 409-988-3003 - golutheran.org Our church family invites you to join us. We are a friendly, caring church of the future.
Orange First Church of the Nazarene 3810 MLK Drive, Orange
Lead Pastor Ray McDowell. Worship Ministries Director: Leslie Hicks, Youth Pastor Michael Pigg, Children’s Pastor Rebekah Spell. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Celebration Service 10:45 a.m. Home Group 6 p.m. Wednesday Service 7 p.m.
Wesley United Methodist Church
401 N. 37th St. Orange 409-886-7276
Pastor: Randy Branch Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m.
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TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH ORANGE 1819 16th Street • Orange • 886-1333
Pastor Gary Price, Worship Leader Dan Cruse Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Nursury Provided
First Baptist Church of Bridge City 200 W. Roundbunch • 735-3581
Interim Pastor Rev. Lynn Ashcroft Pastor Douglas Shows Sunday schedule: Bible study 9:15 a.m., Celebration service 10:30 a.m., Youth bible study, dicipleship classes 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Children’s activities.
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OF ORANGE COUNTY 673 FM 1078 • Orange • 409-718-0269 Bible Studies for Men and Women • Monday 6 p.m. Bible Studies for Co-Eds • Monday 6:30 p.m. Bible Studies for Women • Tuesday 10:30 a.m. Bible Studies & Youth Activities • Wed. 6:30 p.m.
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West Orange Christian Church
900 Lansing Street • West Orange • 882-0018 Sunday school 9:30 a.m. / Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m. Bible Study Sunday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. Pastor: Dr. C. W. Starr
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Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Administration for the Estate of VIOLA WATSON, Deceased, were issued on the APRIL 5, 2017, in Cause No. P17799, pending in the County Court at Law of Orange County, Texas, Probate Division to: RAYMOND LELEAUX. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: Tommy Gunn Attorney at Law 202 S. Border Street Orange, TX 77630
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COMMUNITY INFO Al-Anon meetings are held on Thursday's at 7p.m. in the Library at St. Henry's Catholic Church Education building located at 475 W. Roundbunch Rd. Bridge City. For more information please contact Cindy at 749-9036 or Mike 718-0333. The Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2523 will be changing their hours of operation effective the first week of April. They will be closed on Wednesdays, but open on Saturdays from now on. The location is 803 N. 28th Street in Orange. For more info contact them at 409-886-7381. Jackson Community Center is offering Free Tax Assistance through Lamar University Community Tax Center now through April 18th. Open Monday thru Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and every other Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. at 520 W. Decatur Ave. in Orange. For an appointment please call 409-779-1981. The Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2523 will be holding a meeting for nominations of Officers on April 20th. All Aeries members are asked to attend this meeting at 803 N. 28th Street in Orange. For more info contact them at 409-886-7381.
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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 the Monday next following the expiration of 20 days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgement may be taken against you.
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 the Monday next following the expiration of 20 days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgement may be taken against you.
The petition of Angela Taylor LeBleu, Petitioner, was filed in the COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2 of Orange County, Texas on MARCH 30, 2017, against Brandon Scott LeBleu, numbered 170285-D and entitled Angela Taylor LeBleu and Brandon Scott LeBleu. The suit requests Original Petition for Divorce.
The petition of Jaylin Smith Jackson, Petitioner, was filed in the COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2 of Orange County, Texas on APRIL 5, 2017, against Levi Blue Jackson, numbered 130551D and entitled Jaylin Smith Jackson and Levi Blue Jackson. The suit requests Petition to Modify Parent-Child Relationship.
The date and place of birth of the child/ren who is/are subject of the suit:
The date and place of birth of the child/ren who is/are subject of the suit:
Bentley Shane LeBleu November 17, 2011 Louisiana
Jaylee Jo Jackson September 26, 2010 Beaumont, TX Grayson Paul Jackson March 22, 2012 Beaumont, TX
The court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the child/ren’s interest which will be binding upon you, including the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a conservator with authority to consent to the child’s adoption. ISSUED AND GIVEN under my hand and seal of said Court at Orange, Texas, this April 4,, 2017.
VICKIE EDGERLY, District Clerk Orange County, Texas
The court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the child/ren’s interest which will be binding upon you, including the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a conservator with authority to consent to the child’s adoption. ISSUED AND GIVEN under my hand and seal of said Court at Orange, Texas, this April 6,, 2017.
VICKIE EDGERLY, District Clerk Orange County, Texas
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